Best Dave Bowman Podcasts (2026)

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WTF - Only (Need 100) Fans 58:33

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In this episode, we wander cheerfully from missed dates and misplaced years into Venezuela, oil, China’s long game, and why shouting slogans is not the same thing as understanding history. We detour through California’s latest attempt to fix humanity by statute, ask whether public health works better with consent than compulsion, and then take a sh…

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The Destroyer Killer 5:26

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January 3, 1945 arrived quietly in Texas, but the news that settled over Dallas was anything but. The wire stories spoke with the cautious gravity of wartime language, careful not to say too much and yet saying enough. Commander Samuel David Dealey, one of the most successful submarine skippers in United States naval history, was missing in action.…

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Pouring Out The Libations of HIstory 5:19

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Today we are talking about something older than empires and more stubborn than forgetting. It is the simple act of remembering the people history does not bother to name. Long before textbooks and archives, people poured out libations. Wine, oil, water, a small offering tipped onto the ground to say someone lived, someone mattered, someone was not …

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WTF - AI Did NOT Destroy the World... This Year, Anyway 1:02:00

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Good evening and welcome to the *What The Frock* New Year’s Eve special, an annual ritual in which we pause, take stock, raise a glass, and verify that the planet is still here. It is. We checked.Tonight’s episode is titled **AI Did NOT Destroy The World… This Year, Anyway…**, which is both a statement of fact and a quiet expression of surprise. Fo…

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Episode 256 Kerr County, TX Rescue Efforts (6 of 7) - USCG Crew, Pilot - Ian Hopper, Pilot - Blair Ogujiofor and Flight Mech - Seth Reeves 3:05:40

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast — the sixth of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025 — host Jason Quinn sits down with United States Coast Guard pilots Ian Hopper and Blair Ogujiofor, along with a separate interview featuring Flight Mechanic Seth Reeves. Together, they reflect…

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41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George C. Marshall SSBN-654 7:43

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The USS George C. Marshall was never built to be admired. She was built to be trusted. Like her namesake, she existed for moments when patience mattered more than drama and restraint mattered more than applause. In the Cold War Navy, that was not a slogan. It was a job description.By [email protected]

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The Architect of War and Peace 6:48

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George Catlett Marshall is one of those figures whose importance becomes clearer the longer one studies him and more puzzling the more one tries to summarize him neatly. He does not lend himself to slogans or cinematic shorthand. There is no single moment that captures him, no battlefield pose that defines his legacy. Instead there is a long accumu…

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The Fall of the Nagid 4:52

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Granada in the winter of 1066 was not supposed to end like this. If you had asked a court poet, a tax collector, or a Jewish merchant counting bolts of cloth in the souk, they would have told you that the age was precarious but workable, dangerous but dazzling. Al-Andalus still wore the reputation of refinement like a borrowed robe, a land where Ar…

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Nick's English Hut and Osteria Rago owner Gregg "Rags" Rago | S9E20 1:24:04

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Biz fries, IU games, and a history dating back to 1927, Nick's English Hut is the epitome of a Bloomington institution. Gregg "Rags" Rago started in the kitchen at 19 years old back in 1978 and has worked his way up through the ranks to his current role as owner of this beloved establishment. He catches us up on the history of the beloved fries, Os…

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The Dreadful Tale 5:27

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December 29, 1876, did not begin as a legend. It began as weather, the sort of Lake Erie weather that has always made honest people glance at the window and reconsider their plans. A blizzard rolled in with the hard confidence of something older than railroads, older than schedules, older than the idea that human beings can bargain with nature if t…

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WTF - Auld Lang Syne 54:28

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There are moments in the modern age when one must pause, stare into the middle distance, and ask a question of profound existential importance. Not questions like “Why are we here?” or “Is there life on other planets?” but the truly unsettling ones. Questions such as, “Why does my phone know what I want before I do?” and “When did Christmas become …

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41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN-624 5:52

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The USS Woodrow Wilson belonged to a generation of submarines that were never meant to be seen, remembered, or celebrated in the usual way. She was built to disappear, to wait, and to make catastrophe unnecessary by making it inevitable in theory. As a Lafayette-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, she formed part of the original “Forty-One for…

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The Smartest Man in the Room 5:48

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The first thing to understand about Woodrow Wilson is that he never stopped believing he was the smartest man in the room, and he never doubted that this was a public service. Wilson did not enter politics the way most politicians do, by compromise, instinct, or appetite for power. He entered it as a man convinced that history itself had been waiti…

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The Zwickau Prophets 6:12

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In the early winter of 1521, the Protestant Reformation faced a danger far more unsettling than popes or emperors. Its greatest threat came from men who claimed to speak for God directly. With Martin Luther in hiding and Wittenberg without its anchor, three radical preachers arrived from Zwickau insisting that Scripture was no longer enough. The Sp…

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The Decemberists 5:25

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The morning of December 26, 1825 (O.S.), opened in St. Petersburg the way Russian winter mornings often do, with cold that does not so much bite as settle in and refuse to leave. Senate Square lay hard and white under the sky, the Neva locked beneath ice thick enough to bear cannon and men, or so it seemed until it did not. By midmorning, roughly t…

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Washington's Crossing 4:51

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Every nation has a moment when the story almost ends. For the American Revolution, that moment came in December of 1776. The army was shrinking. The government was running. The public was tired. Even George Washington thought the game might be nearly up. What followed was not a miracle and not a legend. It was a gamble made by exhausted men in free…

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Patti Jo's owner Steve Washel | S9E19 49:51

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Comfort food for the soul, Patti Jo's offers up food just like your Gam Gam used to make. Owner Steve Washel fills us in on how he keeps prices so affordable, how many of the items use his mom's recipes, their free parking, and how quitting drinking led to him opening up his shop honoring his ninety-two year old mother. Join our Patreon for exclusi…

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The Leopoldville Coverup 4:53

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Christmas Eve, 1944. The war is supposed to be turning in the Allies’ favor. The lights of France are visible from the deck. Home feels close enough to imagine. Then a single torpedo reminds everyone that war does not care about calendars, carols, or confidence.Tonight on Dave Does History, we are telling the story of the SS Léopoldville, a troopsh…

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DDH - The Christmas Carol 52:28

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Every December we return to A Christmas Carol the way we return to familiar music. We know the notes. We know the ending. We know exactly how it is supposed to make us feel. And that is precisely the problem.In this episode of Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we pull the story back out of its comfortable holiday wrapping and look at what Dicken…

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Episode 255 Kerr County, TX Rescue Efforts (5 of 7) - with Travis County StarFlight’s Ryan Kelly and Katie White 1:05:33

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast — the fifth of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025 — host Jason Quinn sits down with two members of the Star Flight crew in Austin, Texas, recorded right from the heart of their operations. Pilot Ryan Kelly and Flight Nurse Katie White They sh…

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WTF - Merry Christmas, You Wankers 58:52

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Welcome to *What the Frock*, where the holiday cheer comes with footnotes and the goodwill is thoroughly cross examined. In this episode, Dave and Rod wander straight into Victorian England, a place absolutely convinced it had solved humanity, morality, and the correct volume at which joy should be expressed. Spoiler alert, it had not.What starts a…

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The Rebpublic of Fredonia 5:20

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On the morning of December 21, 1826, a flag went up over the Old Stone Fort at Nacogdoches. It was red over white, roughly made, stitched by hands more accustomed to frontier repairs than nation building. It did not rise to the sound of drums or cannon. It was hauled up on a wooden pole by men who looked over their shoulders as often as they looked…

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The Flying Tigers 4:52

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The image is familiar even if the story behind it is not. A fighter plane with shark teeth painted on its nose, a grin aimed straight at history. For decades that image has stood in for courage, swagger, and American defiance before Pearl Harbor. But the real story of the Flying Tigers is stranger, rougher, and far more human than the legend sugges…

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Valley Forge 4:11

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The winter encampment that Americans reflexively call “Valley Forge” has become a kind of historical shorthand, a single frozen tableau where virtue shivers nobly and emerges purified. That picture is comforting, and like most comforting pictures, it is incomplete. The army that staggered into Valley Forge in December 1777 had been forming, failing…

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The Last Ditch effort 4:23

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There are winters when history stands very still, almost as if the world is bracing for something it already knows it cannot avoid. The winter of 1860 felt like that. One can imagine the heavy December air in Washington settling over the capital like a thick blanket that even the most stubborn stove fires could not quite chase away. The legislators…

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Darn Good Soup founder Nels Boerner, and new owner Pat East | S9E18 1:01:49

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A beloved Bloomington icon resurrected, Darn Good Soup has been brought back at the Chocolate Moose, seven days a week, 11 am- 8 pm. The founder of Darn Good Soup, Nels Boerner, joins us alongside the new owner Pat East and we get to dive into what made DGS garner such a cult following, how Nels came up with the recipes, why it closed, and what the…

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Io Saturnalia! 6:22

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Rome was not a civilization that believed in accidents. It believed in structure, ritual, and the careful management of human behavior. When Romans celebrated Saturnalia each December, they were not indulging in a lapse of discipline. They were engaging in something older, stranger, and far more deliberate. Saturnalia was not a party that got out o…

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Episode 254 Kerr County, TX Rescue Efforts (4 of 7) - Crews from Texas Department of Public Safety (TX DPS) 1:06:51

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast — the fourth of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025 — host Jason Quinn joins six members of the Texas Department of Public Safety Aircraft Operations Division: Dustin Gardner, Rob Dorman, Tyason Chow, Dustin Ponce, Eric Herrera, and Brandon Pa…

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DDH - An Early Note on an American Melody 33:32

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This week on Dave Does History, we step backward before we move forward. Long before July of 1776, long before Jefferson put pen to parchment, there was another moment when ordinary people decided that silence was no longer an option. They wrote their grievances down and dared the system to listen.In this episode of Liberty 250, we travel to Englan…

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The Cone of Goodness 6:17

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The ice cream cone is a small, crunchy piece of confidence. It is what a child chooses when a paper cup feels too ordinary and a bowl feels like homework. It is also, if we are being honest, an edible promise that you will handle your responsibilities. You will not spill. You will not drip down your wrist. You will not lose control of the situation…

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Jesus 11.0 58:34

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This week on What the Frock, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander cheerfully into dangerous territory, the kind where theology, technology, and human incompetence all trip over the same loose cable. It starts with a simple question that should probably never be asked out loud before coffee. What if the Messiah returned as artificial intelligence. From t…

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Kanadehon Chuhingura 6:53

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There is a particular corner of Japanese history where the past still feels alive. It is quiet, disciplined, and cold around the edges. Every December, when the year is wearing thin, people gather at a small temple in Tokyo. They burn incense and bow before a row of graves. These stones belong to men who are long dead, yet their story has managed t…

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Nanking 4:58

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There are some stories that historians approach with a little more hesitation, not because the facts are unclear, but because they are so painfully clear. The Second Battle of Nanking and the massacre that followed sit in that uncomfortable space where human behavior sinks so low that even the Hitchhikers Guide would probably close itself and ask f…

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Episode 253 Kerr County, TX Rescue Efforts (3 of 7) - Bryan Winchell and Cliff Patrick Task Force 1 Helicopter SAR Technician 1:31:21

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast — the third of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025 — host Jason Quinn sits down with seasoned helicopter search and rescue technicians Bryan Winchell and Cliff Patrick from Texas Task Force One. Winchell and Patrick share their firsthand accou…

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The Root & Branch Petition 5:41

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Nanking in 1937 is one of those moments when history forces us to look at the world without any comforting illusions. A capital city stood in the path of a modern army that believed its victory was inevitable and that its anger was justified. The result was a collapse that left civilians and soldiers trapped together inside a city that could not pr…

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Back Home Again in Indiana 5:24

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Indiana entered the Union on a cold December day in 1816, but its story did not begin with the signing of a document in Washington. It began in the quiet rise of ancient mounds, in the footsteps of hunters along the White River, and in the long echo of cultures that shaped the land long before anyone called it a state. By the time Congress approved…

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The Doctrinal Epitaph 6:10

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The loss of Force Z on December 10, 1941 stands as one of those moments when history shifts so sharply that everyone involved feels the ground tilt beneath them. Two British capital ships, proud and imposing in silhouette, sailed into a world that had already left them behind. They were sent out in the hope that tradition might still hold the line …

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Morgenstern Books, owner Jenna Bowman, with Marketing Director Jenn Christy | S9E17 1:12:22

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Indiana's largest independent bookstore, Morgenstern Books is a revival of a beloved local bookstore from the 90s. Owner Jenna Bowman joins us with Marketing Director Jenn Christy and they fill us in on all of their awesome events, cafe offerings, and what else you can expect to find when you visit. We also dive into Jenna's background and Jenn's i…

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Episode 252 Kerr County, TX Rescue Efforts (2 of 7) - DJ Walker: Texas Task Force 1, Joint Air Ground Coordination Team 1:03:38

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast — the second of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025 — host Jason Quinn dives into the world of emergency response coordination with DJ Walker, a seasoned rescue captain out of Austin, Texas. Walker shares his experiences managing the Joint Air…

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What The Frock - The Musical 1:12:14

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For years Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod have filled the airwaves with commentary, complaints, odd theology, accidental wisdom, and a level of bewilderment that most philosophers would envy. The show has always lived at the intersection of humor and honesty, the place where ordinary life becomes absurd enough to laugh at and meaningful enough to talk abo…

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Devotion 7:27

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There are moments in military history when a decision is made so quickly and with such instinctive devotion that it feels almost otherworldly, as if a crack opened in the ordinary fabric of events and revealed what human beings can be at their very best. In the frozen chaos of the Chosin Reservoir, on a December afternoon in 1950, an unassuming pil…

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A Revolution in Principle 5:52

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The election of 1800 does not look like a revolution when you first glance at it. There are no barricades, no mobs storming palaces, and no generals turning their coats inside out in torchlit alleys. Yet Jefferson would later call it the Revolution of 1800, and for once a politician reached for a dramatic phrase that was not entirely inflated. What…

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DDH - Judges

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Today’s episode looks at the grievance that turned the colonial court system into a warning sign that the imperial relationship was breaking apart. Dave takes listeners back to the moment when King George III decided that judges in Massachusetts would be paid directly from the royal treasury. On paper it looked like an administrative change. In rea…

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Episode 251 Kerr County, TX, Rescue Efforts (1 of 7) - Mark Moody San Antonio Fire Department and Task Force 1 Boat Rescue Team 1:03:35

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In this episode of The Real ResQ Podcast—the first of seven episodes highlighting the rescue efforts during the Kerr County, Texas Floods of July 4th, 2025—host Jason Quinn sits down with Mark Moody, a Lieutenant with the San Antonio Fire Department and Squad Leader for Texas Task Force One. Recording from his home in the heart of Texas, Moody shar…