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Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast
Plausibly Live is where history, politics, culture, and the day’s absurdities collide. Veteran submariner, historian, and longtime radio host Dave Bowman brings sharp analysis, dry humor, and an independent perspective to the stories everyone is discussing, along with a few they ought to be. No slogans, no party-line talking points, and no manufactured outrage. Just thoughtful conversation, historical context, and the occasional rabbit hole.
Episodes
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Tragedy of Speaker McCarthy
It’s been a very tough week. Between some health issues and the loss of a fellow SubVet, it’s been long and stressful. The Congress this week voted to remove…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - The Wake 98
In the early days of the Pacific War, the Japanese empire seized Wake Island from the United States. It was an epic battle, despite the inevitable outcome. An…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDiFi AI
Before I could get to the show I had planned for today, we received the word that Senator Diane Feinstein has passed away at the age of ninety. Certainly the…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastHe’s No Pericles… But Neither Are Any Of the Rest of Them…
Over the past few days, the whole world watched as the Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a known Nazi soldier. Or… at least they should have known…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - The Bill of Rights
This week in 1789, the 1st US Congress approved the first twelve amendments to the Constitution. These twelve amendments were the response to Anti-Federalist…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - With Slight Shades of Differences
In the debates over the ratification of the US Constitution, the Anti-Federalists often resorted to predictions of the worst case of the future. The understood…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Letter
Yesterday, the Mexican Government showed video that it says proves that aliens from UFO crashes are real. In Pennsylvania, elements of the US Government…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastHomeless Rainbow Unicorns
There are two burrs under my saddle this morning. First.. I’ve had it with YouTube. I’m sorry if you get your version of this show there, but something is…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Why Go To the Moon?
It’s one of those “myths” of history, that on September 12, 1962, then President John F. Kennedy stood in Rice Stadium in Houston and announced to a stunned…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Unimportant and The Important
I had a bunch of dental work yesterday, so sorry I wasn’t here to comment on the whole Bremerton JV football Coach situation. On the other hand, for the first…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - A Crying Baby
I am a Cold Warrior. I grew up in the heat of it, and for the final decade of it, I was directly involved. It was intense. It was personal, and it left me with…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDid You Hear The Question, Senator?
In the summer of 1787, the idea of term limits for Congress wasn’t seen as a necessity. So what changed between 1787 and 2023? were politicians in the early…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Return of Doctor X
It's a well known "Dave Diamond Fact" that I love Humphrey Bogart movies. I own about 30 of them on DVD and/or streaming, and on days when things seem…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastFlorida Challenge - DDH
The 14th amendments Section 3 prohibition against permanently holding office has NEVER been invoked successfully. Even when it was tried the first time, it…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastNew Wine
No… I did not watch the “debate.” That doesn’t mean that I don’t have an opinion about the results of the debate. On the one hand, I came to a realization that…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastCT - 14.3/45?
A few days ago, rod texted me and asked for my 'assessment" of an article found in The Atlantic (paywall), "The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastMask Mandates Redux
It seems like both a lifetime ago and at the same time, it seems like just yesterday. strange as it may seem, it was only four months ago that the final Mask…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Debates
Who’s ready for the Presidential Campaign Debate Season? Whoo-hoo!!!! Seriously, I long ago quit watching them because – and I say this with love – they are…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastLiberty Without Faith Is Dead
John Adams once said that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” Like so many of the Framers and Founders, he had a deep level of…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Greatest Mostly Peaceful Riot In DC Ever!
Now that a man from Florida has been indicted for everything except the Kennedy assassinations and the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping, we are able to get on with…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - The Last Raid
In the days following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was confusion and uncertainty in the upper echelons of the Imperial Japanese…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastYou Disagree with Me? THEN YOU ARE A FASCIST!!!!!!
A recent tweet by Rob Reiner… yes… “Meathead”… reminds me that somehow or another, the meaning of words, or at least the understanding of those words, has been…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - "Daran Habe Ich Gar Nicht Gedacht"
By now you know that either Barbie or Oppenheimer, or possibly both, are the greatest movies ever created in the history film. Already people are talking about…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastPardon Moi?
There is an old saying in the Civil Service: Never believe anything, until it has been officially denied. As the Biden Family crime story seems to be moving…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastI Won't Stop Talking Anyway
Teenagers, man… Last night Ben and I took a walk. He has become quite the young man. He is smart, energetic and he has a lot, and I mean a lot, of opinions…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastImpeachment Porn
As a general rule, I oppose the impeachment of elected officials (appointed officials are a different matter). The recent conventional thinking is that – in…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Punching Nazis In The Face
I am often bemused by so many wannabe tough people proclaiming on social media that they are here to “punch Nazi’s in the face!” More than once I have wondered…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Darkages
Over the weekend, Cami was asking me if I was worried about the future of the country. I mean… yes, I am. I also tend to take the Mickey Rivers approach to…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - *That* Guy...
Everybody knows *that* guy. You know.. the one who has to keep asking weird questions or making absurd pronouncements when the meeting is wrapping up and…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastPolitically Correct Erectile Dysfunction
Remember when the joke was actually a joke and everybody knew that it was a joke and even if you didn’t like the joke you still understood that it was a joke…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDeath Becomes Us
I freely admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to the news. In fact, before I read any article, I check the “About” section of the articles host site. far…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastMonomaniacal Fervor
Every now and then, I have one of those… moments when I think to myself, “Is that really what I mean when I say that thing? Many anthropologists and…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Delawhere?
In the context of “the United States,” what exactly is a “State?” Today, it seems obvious to us, but remember that in 1776 there were “States” that shared…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastGreat-Great-Greats and Beyond
It is an inarguable FACT that none in the United states has owned a slave since 1868. As of today, that was one hundred and fifty-five years ago, or, in other…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastA More Perfect Union
My voice is completely and totally gone. Barely a whisper right now... But I am learning to use... AI!!!!!
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Hanging By a Prayer
A few weeks ago, I asked the question, exactly which Framers’ values and principles should we “be getting back to?” As the Convention lurched into the sixth…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastA Seat On A Rocket Ship
I grew up with Star Trek as my inspiration for… well… pretty much everything. Yesterday I even got into a discussion about the ways that Star Trek has inspired…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastBuffalo Alice Exit 314
Not that long ago, I was driving across North Dakota on I-94. At Mile 314, there is an exit sign that caught my attention. I don’t really know why. It just…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastNew Ways of Making The Same Old Mistakes
The founder of OceanGate is on record as having said that he did not want to hire a bunch of “fifty-year old white guys” because we are “not inspirational.” He…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Hamilton! (The Part the Musical Left Out)
Perhaps the best known Framer/Founder these days is Alexander Hamilton. But, as the case may be, not for the reasons for which he would have liked to had…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Last Day of Slavery
If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Summer of 1860
There came a time when the political system was unable to deal with the pressures brought on it by the political differences which divided the nation. By April…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastFeeling... Blue???
What is “blue?” Now… before you answer that question, think for a moment about it. Ask yourself, what if there was no “blue?” And if there was no “blue,” what…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - By Compact or Force
As the summer begins to warm the streets of Philadelphia, the temperatures inside the State House begin to rise. While most believe that the convention…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastTouching History
For me, history is highly tactile. I connect when my hands can feel and touch the things about which I have studied and learned. A few weeks ago, I was able to…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - The 14th President of The United States
The Virginian’s introduce their plan for a new National Government, which officially shocks the Convention since they believed (officially) that they were…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH- The Spin Doctors
The Convention finally gets underway. First things first, rules have to be established and agreed upon. Then the business of reforming the Government can get…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - John Dickinson Saves Delaware
To say that General Washington was angry would have been the understatement of the century. He was as close to losing his legendary cool as he had been since…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastSocial Caring?
Why is there a Page 6? Why is the high speed car chase of Harry and Megan through the streets of Manhattan a news story? Why do “social media influencers” even…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastNot For Sale
Over the past few months, in increasing desperate sounding letters, eMails and phone calls, my mortgage company has been begging me to re-fi my house. Or… even…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastJ Edgar Redux?
Look, I get it. we should all be pissed off. Left, right, center. What we learned this week is that J Edgar Hoover was alive and well in the one institution…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - All Roads Lead to Philadelphia
One of the things that I have wanted to do for some time is a complete revision of the Convention Episodes of Constitution Thursday. This summer, except for…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Fires of Moloch
A recent tweet about the ancient deity Moloch by a conservative Talk Show Host has lit up some folks (get it?). In essence he tweeted that the white liberal…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastThe Lesson of Zelda
At 0530 this morning I was reawakened by my Ben, who wanted to know how soon we could go to GameStop. At 0530. Sometimes things are pretty important, even if…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastIf You Can look Into the Seeds of Time...
Yesterday on Bill Mick Live we talked about the Astor Place riots and the impact that the love of Shakespeare in America of the 19th Century had on the nation…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair
Once upon a time, NYC was the leader in American dislike for the British. What you gotta understand is that Great Britain and the US were almost thinking about…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastWhat a Drag!
The US Navy announced this week that it had… appointed?… a “digital ambassador” to help with lagging recruiting. The controversy comes in the fact that this…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH - ¡Cinco de Mayo!
For what seems to be basically an American drinking festival, Cinco de Mayo has become “a lightening rod for controversy*.” A few years ago in California…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastCultural Lysenkoism
The whole concept of forced, or compelled assimilation is one that is repetitive through history. Whether you’re talking about the Jews and the attempts to…
Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show PodcastDDH- Operation Vengeance
Admiral Irosuku Yamamoto, the leader of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was reputed to have once said that he personally would dictate the peace terms to the…