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  • DDH - Standing Armies

    DDH - Standing Armies
    2026/03/03
    On this week’s segment of Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we take up one of the most overlooked, and most explosive, phrases in the Declaration of Independence: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” It is easy to skim past those words. It is much harder to understand why they burned. Why were the American colonists so deeply unsettled by the presence of British troops? Why did red coats in Boston streets feel less like protection and more like occupation? And why did Jefferson and the other founders see a standing army not simply as a policy disagreement, but as a direct threat to liberty itself? In this episode, we trace the fear of standing armies back through English history, from Charles I to James II, and show how those lessons shaped colonial resistance. We explore the debt of the Seven Years War, the Quartering Act, the Boston Massacre, and the constitutional compromises that followed independence. This is not just a story about muskets and marches. It is a story about power, memory, and the uneasy balance between security and freedom.
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    37 分
  • It's Never "What." It's ALWAYS "Who."

    It's Never "What." It's ALWAYS "Who."
    2026/03/01
    Welcome to What the Frock?, the podcast where current events meet common sense, and occasionally get audited by artificial intelligence. This week we cover a little light material, including presidential war powers, selective political outrage, international air defenses, and whether your emergency room visit secretly financed new hospital drapes. You know, the usual Sunday conversation. We begin with the War Powers Act of 1973 and the timeless American tradition of loving executive authority when your team holds it and denouncing it when the other team does. Somehow, every president questions the constitutionality of the law while also using it. It is a bipartisan magic trick. Then we shift to something even more unsettling: Dave’s ER bill. After a two-minute consultation and one warm blanket, the invoice arrived with the enthusiasm of a small mortgage. Enter ChatGPT, which calmly suggested strategy over outrage. The machines are not taking over the world yet, but they may be coming for hospital billing departments. We also touch on budget chaos in Washington State, a legislator who may have personally tested the DUI threshold debate, and why “it was bots” is the new political defense strategy. All that, plus music, sarcasm, and just enough skepticism to keep things interesting.
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    1 時間 5 分
  • The Cork Expedition - Old Mother Covington Part II)

    The Cork Expedition - Old Mother Covington Part II)
    2026/02/25
    Last time, we stood at Moore’s Creek Bridge and listened to Old Mother Covington speak. In three violent minutes, a Loyalist rising collapsed and Governor Josiah Martin’s promise of ten thousand men dissolved into smoke and swamp water. But that battle was only half the story. Three thousand miles away, in Cork, Ireland, the British Empire was assembling the force that was supposed to make Moore’s Creek irrelevant. Seven regiments. Artillery. Royal confidence. This was the hammer meant to fall in coordination with that uprising and split the colonies in half. On paper, it looked elegant. Cheap victory. Minimal commitment. Maximum effect. Instead, Cork became a lesson in delay, delusion, and the dangers of believing your own optimism. Recruiting faltered. Ships were scarce. Deadlines slipped from December to January to February. When the fleet finally sailed, it ran straight into the wrath of the Atlantic. Storms scattered the convoy. Transports sank. Soldiers drowned before they ever saw America. This episode is the other side of Moore’s Creek. The British side. The paper army. The missed signals. The pride that refused to turn back. Old Mother Covington did not win the war that morning. But Cork made sure Britain never had the chance.
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    18 分
  • DDH - Old Mother Covington

    DDH - Old Mother Covington
    2026/02/24
    We tend to remember the American Revolution as a clean fight. Patriots in homespun. Redcoats in formation. Muskets cracking across open fields. But that is not how it felt in North Carolina in 1776. Before there was Saratoga. Before there was Yorktown. Before Jefferson put ink to parchment and accused the king of stirring up “domestic insurrections among us,” there was a swamp. A narrow bridge. And neighbors marching against neighbors. Royal Governor Josiah Martin believed he could crush the rebellion from the inside. Ten thousand loyalists would rise. Seven thousand British troops would land. The Carolinas would fall. The Revolution would choke before it ever reached full flame. Instead, in the cold darkness before dawn on February 27, 1776, Highland Scots charged across a greased bridge shouting “King George and broadswords!” What followed lasted three minutes. Three minutes that shattered a royal strategy. Three minutes that hardened a colony. Three minutes that pushed North Carolina to become the first to authorize independence. This is the story of Moore’s Creek Bridge. This is the story behind the grievance. And this is why Old Mother Covington still echoes in the dark.
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    36 分
  • WTF - Miracle on Ice, But Show Your ID

    WTF - Miracle on Ice, But Show Your ID
    2026/02/22
    Good morning, America, and welcome to the only show reckless enough to record live during a playoff-intensity hockey game before most of the country has located its coffee. This week, we hit the microphones at dawn because somewhere in Milan, the schedule makers decided that U.S. versus Canada should be settled at an hour normally reserved for bakers and dairy cows. So yes, the game is on in the background. Yes, it’s chippy. And yes, you may hear spontaneous reactions that are either patriotic or deeply unhealthy. Possibly both. From Olympic controversy and curling drama to tainted gold medals and athletic oversharing, we begin on the ice and then glide straight into the strange modern obsession with identification. Birth certificates. Real ID. The SAVE Act. Politicians who somehow travel internationally while claiming documents are impossible to find. If that sounds improbable, buckle up. Then we detour through Seattle sports economics, millionaire taxes, the ghost of the SuperSonics, and why professional teams flee faster than common sense in an election year. It’s hockey. It’s politics. It’s technology. It’s snow-covered New York streets and two forms of ID. In other words, it’s another perfectly normal episode of What The Frock.
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    1 時間
  • Delivering Democracy

    Delivering Democracy
    2026/02/20
    Before there was a telegraph wire humming across the plains, before railroads stitched steel across the continent, before the internet convinced us that information travels at the speed of light, there was a rider on a muddy road with a leather satchel and a republic in his saddlebag. In this episode, we are talking about the Postal Act of 1792. It sounds bureaucratic. It sounds dry. It sounds like something best left to archivists and footnotes. But here is the truth. This law built the nervous system of the United States. It answered a question that haunted the Founders after the Revolution: how do you keep a large republic from drifting apart? Washington signed it. Madison believed in it. Franklin helped lay the groundwork for it. And Congress embedded within it a bold idea that still shapes us today. Information should circulate freely. News should be affordable. Private correspondence should be protected. The government should connect its people, not spy on them. This was not about delivering parcels. It was about delivering democracy. So settle in. We are going to follow the post roads from Maine to Georgia, out to the frontier, and into the beating heart of a young nation trying to hold itself together.
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    1分未満
  • DDH - Roll the Guns!

    DDH - Roll the Guns!
    2026/02/17
    We love to talk about the giants of the American Revolution. Washington in command. Jefferson at his desk. Adams on his feet. But revolutions are not won by speeches alone. They are won by men who move iron in the dark. This week on Dave Does History, we step back into the winter of 1775 and meet a 25 year old Boston bookseller who understood something most armies still struggle to grasp. Strategy means nothing without logistics. Henry Knox had no formal military education. He left school at nine. He taught himself Greek, Latin, and the science of artillery by candlelight in his bookstore. When George Washington needed cannons to break the British grip on Boston, Knox offered a solution that sounded almost insane. Drag sixty tons of artillery three hundred miles through snow, mountains, and frozen rivers. What followed was one of the most daring logistical feats in American history, a “noble train of artillery” that changed the course of the war without firing a single decisive shot. In this episode, we explore how Knox’s grit, engineering mind, and relentless execution helped force the British out of Boston and prove that the Revolution was more than rhetoric.
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    36 分
  • WTF - Fingering the Stone

    WTF - Fingering the Stone
    2026/02/15
    This week on What The Frock?, the world proves once again that it cannot be left unattended for five minutes. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod lace up their skates and wade into a week that includes American cricket triumph, Olympic scandal, auto-tuned halftime theatrics, AI paranoia, and a voter ID debate that somehow manages to be both deadly serious and deeply ridiculous. The United States T20 team pulls off wins that have us technically sitting near the top of a brutal group, which in sports terms means we are thrilled and cautiously bracing for reality at the same time. Meanwhile, the Winter Olympics serve up enough controversy to make even curling dramatic. A French judge’s scoring raises eyebrows. Canadian curlers are caught touching stones they absolutely should not be touching. Ice dancing becomes less about artistry and more about arithmetic. It is sport, politics, and human nature sliding across the same sheet of ice. From there, the conversation turns to the Superb Owl halftime show, engineered music, and the uncomfortable question of what is actually real anymore in an age of AI everything. Add in a headline-dominating kidnapping case and a spirited debate over identification laws, and you have one beautifully bizarre episode. Pour the coffee. This one gets weird fast.
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    57 分