What The Frock?

What if the machines do not destroy us because they are too smart, but because they follow bad instructions perfectly? This week on What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod start with sports, World Cup drama, penalty kicks, instant replay, and the strange modern belief that every human mistake can be fixed by one more camera angle. From VAR to NFL replay, the question becomes bigger than sports....

Sometimes the internet reminds us that it is both humanity's greatest achievement and its greatest mistake. This week, an innocent comment by a television reporter admitting she had no idea where Bosnia-Herzegovina was somehow exploded into an international controversy. There were apologies, outrage, arguments over geography, and even complaints that she apologized to Bosnia but forgot Herzegovina...

There are some weeks when the news cycle feels like a carefully organized sequence of important events. Then there are weeks like this one, where you find yourself discussing earthquake prophets, cricket, influencer narcissism, Elon Musk, and an apparent uprising of Wyoming deer all in the same conversation. Naturally, that became an episode of What The Frock? We started with one of the internet's...

Is Western civilization collapsing before our very eyes? This week on What The Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod examine the mounting evidence. FIFA has managed to anger soccer fans around the world just as the 2026 World Cup gets underway. Seattle is hosting a controversial Pride-themed match. The United States Men's National Team suddenly looks competent. And somehow, mandatory hydration bre...

This week on What The Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod tackle one of the most fascinating questions of the modern age: if medical science continues advancing at its current pace, how long should we expect to live , and would we even want to? What begins as a conversation about longevity quickly turnsinto a thoughtful exploration of purpose, legacy, aging, faith, technology, and the changing world...

What happens when pizza, James Bond, Mikhail Gorbachev,artificial intelligence, Daylight Saving Time, Colorado hippies, and the color purple all collide in the same conversation? Welcome to another delightfully unhinged episode of What The Frock? This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod explore the fascinating concept known as the “Pizza Effect,” the strange cultural phenomenon where an idea, tradition...

This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander bravely into the increasingly foggy borderlands between reality and whatever the internet has decided reality ought to be this week. Artificial intelligence is rewriting politics faster than anyone expected. Viral AI videos now spread through social media before fact-checkers have even located their reading glasses. Campaigns are learni...

This week on “ What The Frock? ”, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander into the Underworld of Homer and somehow emerge in modern America, surrounded by TikTok livestreamers, AI-generated summaries, driverless Waymo cars circling suburban cul-de-sacs, and a civilization increasingly obsessed with shadows instead of substance. The conversation begins with the internet outrage surrounding the casting rumo...

This week on What the Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod climbaboard a metaphorical trireme and sail straight into the stormy waters of myth, movies, technology, and modern madness. Somewhere between Homer’s Odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, UFO files, malfunctioning computers, and the increasinglyterrifying future of artificial intelligence, the pair attempt to answer a question humanity has apparentl...

In this episode of What the Frock , Rabbi Dave andFriar Rod take a hard look at a moment that should be simple to understand but is anything but. A presidential assassination attempt, multiple angles of video, and still more questions than answers. What happened is one thing. Whatwe are shown, and what we are not shown, is something else entirely. From there, the conversation opens up into somethi...

Breaking news, sharp questions, and a few moments that remind you this is still What the Frock? . In this episode, Dave and Rod react in real time to a shocking incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where a shooting at the Washington Hilton sent guests scrambling and left more questions than answers. As details unfold, they cut through the confusion, examining what is known, what is...

Pull up a chair, pour something strong, and prepare yourself, because this week’s episode does not ease you in gently. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod step into the arena swinging, chasing a trail of stories that feel disconnected at first glance but share a common thread once you look twice. Numbers that do not add up. Quotes that do not quite exist. Narratives that seem polished a little too clean. Wha...

PRODUCERS NOTE : Due to yet another technical glitch, the original posting of todays episode contained a good deal of Dave's ranting about the equipment which was not meant for broadcast. It's been fixed. Mea culpa . Sorry if it upset you. But... he's a sailor.. and let's face it... the computer deserved it. we apologize if you were offended and all the other boilerplate nonsense t...

Some mornings, you ease into the day. Other mornings, you find yourself asking serious theological questions about Easter… while simultaneously learning far more than you ever wanted to know about space toilets. This is one of those mornings. In this episode of What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take you on a ride that starts with Passover and Easter traditions, drifts into lunar mechanics...

There are conversations that stay neatly in their lane, andthen there are conversations that take a hard left turn somewhere around minute three and never quite come back. This episode of What the Frock? belongs firmly in the second category. We start in familiar territory, taking a look at the week’sheadlines and the strange dual reality of modern media. But before long, Friar Rod drops a questio...

There are stories that feel like they were carefully planned, neatly written, and politely delivered. And then there are stories like this one… which show up wearing sunglasses, kicking in the front door, and humming a tune aboutdessert. In this episode of What the Frock , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take you through the truly bizarre saga of Afroman, a police raid that found absolutely nothing, and...

On this week’s episode of What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod gather on the Ides of March to wrestle with one of the great mysteries of modern life. No, not the meaning of existence. Something far more perplexing. Why does everything suddenly feel just a little bit insane? The show kicks off with the latest political earthquake in Washington State, where a newly passed “millionaire’s tax” h...

Welcome to another episode of What the Frock? , where Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod once again attempt the impossible task of making sense of a world that seems determined not to make sense. This week’s conversation begins with a torpedo. Not metaphorically. An actual one. A Mark 48, fired in combat, setting off debate across the submarine world and raising a few questions about what really happened be...

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...

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 b...

This week on What The Frock? , the world proves onceagain that it cannot be left unattended for five minutes.   Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod lace up their skates and wade intoa week that includes American cricket triumph, Olympic scandal, auto-tunedhalftime theatrics, AI paranoia, and a voter ID debate that somehow manages tobe both deadly serious and deeply ridiculous. The United States T20 team pull...

This week on What the Frock? , the world shows up all at once, loudly, brightly, and with absolutely no regard for your attention span. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take their usual seats at the intersection of faith, culture, and mild incredulity, only to discover that the universe has decided to pile on the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, T20 cricket, modern politics, and medical bureaucracy before...

Language is a fragile thing. It carries memory, meaning, and moral weight, and when it breaks, it rarely breaks quietly. Two thousand years ago, Cicero warned that a republic does not collapse all at once. It hollows out first, word by word, until the language of virtue remains but the substance is gone. The buildings still stand. The speeches still sound familiar. But something essential has alre...

Welcome to What The Frock? , the show that starts with the weather and somehow ends up questioning the collapse of modern thought. In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod do what polite society pretends to hate and secretly loves. They make small talk. About cold snaps, fog, snow, Florida apologies, and why everyone asks how you are without wanting an answer. But do not be fooled. The weather is...

Welcome back to What the Frock? , the show where a rabbi, a friar, and a strong cup of coffee try to make sense of a world that has clearly skipped a few maintenance checks. In this episode, we start where all serious analysis begins, with football heartbreak and bad bets. From there, we wander, cheerfully and with intent, into the strange new marketplace where people no longer wager on games but...