What The Frock?

It is definitely NOT Father’s Day, but that doesn’t make what is being said by the Presidents, the Mayor of Seattle or some (we assume) chick on Tik Tok make anymore sense…

Time Travel gives  Rabbi Dave headaches. Even if you could go back just one year, what could you actually change? In Arizona, a political attack will have you saying WTF? It turns out that the Colonial Pipeline security system was pretty much the same as the one President Skroob has on his luggage. And June 6th is an important day. Not only is if the anniversary of D-Day, but it's is also the...

In the early part of the 20th  Century, there was a great opportunity to change things for the better. Instead, one man saw a chance to gain personal power and prestige and in the process, he brought destruction and devastation while unleashing the worst mass killer in the history of humanity. Lessons were not learned, and today an eighty-year old geriatric doctor hold sway over what happens...

After a couple of  weeks of deafness, Dave can finally hear again. Also, we no longer have to wear  facemasks. Maybe. The cancelling of  dead white guys who contributed to society and science continues, as now even  Charles Darwin finds himself on the chopping block for being a racists, sexist,  misogynist who shouldn't be remembered for anything else. The Good Friar and &...

Rabbi Dave finally got his second shot. It led to a strange week... The Colonial Pipeline attack has the Facebook Experts crawling out to inform us that would have handled it better and quicker than was done. Of course, the Good Friar actually happens to be an expert IT security professional, and he will remind us of of a few things that the Keyboard warriors seem to have overlooked. On the Bay Ar...

As we slowly seem to approach the end(?) of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it has the boys wondering what exactly does "normal" actually mean? Will it be a return to the same problems we  had before the pandemic so rudely interrupted them? Will Governors realize that the fastest way to lose re-election is to cross their own constituency? Popsicles are great! Maybe not fifty-one cases of them, but sti...

Dave and Rod are  becoming concerned that there is a reason that the media is ignoring the Biden gaffes, but not trying to cover them up. It's almost like they want us talking about them which is very unlike the media under previous Presidents. Meanwhile, life aboard a submarine is nothing like what it says in the article about what life aboard a submarine is like. And apparently people are c...

The English Language has certain rules of grammar, which are pretty much universally ignored, especially in cases where heads are being lopped off. There is some film awards show tonight, but more important things are afoot. A one hundred year plus mystery is finally solved, while the news breaks that the Government IS in fact, spying on us. Just not the part of government you’d expect.

The Rabbi & The Good Friar take a look at the most common side effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine, which Rod has gotten, but Dave has not. The shot, not the side effect. Meanwhile, in an attempt to offend pretty much everybody, the guys talk about a woman in Colorado, who happens to be an affirmed and ordained minister (just like the  guys!) who has a... well... a different approach to gettin...

It's the day that  we celebrate the long and complicated human tradition of a belief in  resurrection. Yesterday in Cairo, twenty-two mummies of New Kingdom Pharaohs and Queens were paraded through town as they were moved to a brand new museum prepared just for them. They are a reminder of how long humans have believed in or hoped for an afterlife. Friar Cook has a  reminder about t...

Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Like skydiving, smoking, hooking up for sex with serial killers, or ordering delivery food without a vibrating dildo ? ‘Cause we’re just a bunch of cis-gendered pansexuals ? Which, thanks to the Social Media dopamine, we felt the need to tell you about…

Back in June of 1987, almost forty years ago, in case you weren't feeling old already, a fellow by the name of Terrance Trent D'Arby released his first solo album, which he then described as "the most important album since Sgt Peppers." He was of course, over exaggerating, but on purpose because he wanted to make a point. Then he died and to this day nobody really understands whatever point he was...

In the religion of Wokeness, there are no forgivable sins. In the world of Rabbi Dave, there is at least one unforgivable sin – calling him on the cell phone, especially after 10pm. But for those who have dared to offend the woke god , there is seemingly no way out, except for repeated pacification offerings that don’t really do anything except calm the god down for a short while, until the next g...

What started as a discussion over the Twitter Profile of a Congressional candidate in North Carolina, led to a long and winding road for the Good Friar and the Rabbi. From the concept of “free will” leading to the idea of the “Social Gospel” which in turn leads to perceived existential threats drove economic interests that seemingly had little to nothing in common with religious interests to unite...

As every true goliard knows, the greatest threat to what we do is those in power getting rid of those who dare to say “No,” to them. It happened in 1933, and it happened again – at least in threat – this past week when a Congresswoman decided that nobody should be telling her that the rules mean she cannot just do whatever she wants. Like most tyrants, she reacted as one would expect. The Good Fri...

Irony, thy name is What The Frock? After a power outage induced recording delay and a mid-show internet dropout, Friar Cook and Rabbi Dave talk a Texas sized power related fiasco, coffee, Davido’s Tequila (If You Can Still See, It’s NOT Davido’s!) and the cultural appropriate of labels by social media influencers who are not Mexican nationals…

It's Lupercalia! For those of you still stuck in the 21st Century, that's the pagan Rome celebration of whipping women and then "romancing" them for an entire year that was later replaced by Valentine's Day, which is, of course, a celebration of a creepy old dude getting his head cut off after he professed his love for a formerly blind jail-keepers daughter! Seriously. Also Coyotes from both Flori...

The MOST important thing to keep in mind right now - above all else - is that no matter what you've been told or what you believe, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever, that they are better than you. And they know it. Which is why if you did what they did, you'd go to jail, but they get to brush off 60 Minutes and keep on trucking...

It's been a good week for Goliards! Unless you happen to be a robin hood type, then maybe not so much? Our States are beginning to enter Phase II, but once again, the rules make absolutely Zero sense. Arbitrary lines seem to more about who voted for a Governor than any actual scientific data about the virus. At least one large  equity fund is preparing to buy your data. So.. you PAID somebody...

The freedom to criticize opera is one of the most fundamental rights we have in this country. What you do not have the freedom to do is to sing along. They (the Opera people) hate that. The Internet of Stuff   has taken over our lives ... and   now our afterlives . And in what should become the most epic opera since " A  True Daughter of the Party ," Helen Hywater and Caroline Nesbi...

In 1773, Captain James Cook, who is NOT related to the Friar, "discovered" the Antarctic Circle. That goes to show that having a good Media Packaging system is really the  critical element. And of course, no matter what happens this week in the nations green zone of a capitol, the media package is what will matter to most people...

It's time for the  Feast of the Ass! Which, by the by,  is NOT the title of a porn flick. It was a service once mocked by the Goliards for its absurdity and silliness. Which one could argue has a very obvious modern parallel on full display for everybody to go all "He Haw"  about...

Once, long ago, there were certain men of faith who followed the legendary Bishop Golias. They  were renegade clerics. Men of no fixed abode, they are noted more as gamblers and tipplers than as poets or scholars. Their satire was almost universally directed against the most powerful political entity of the day, the Church. In 1277a.d., they were forever banned from chanting in the service, a...

On the final  episode ever of Do Not resuscitate, Dave & Rod have been officially reprimanded  by Facebook. Why? Because COVID-19, that's why! Which could be the reason that so  many people are at least trying out new Social Media platforms. Or not. Dave is wondering  why people hate him. more specifically why they felt the need to ruin his turkey  sandwich with their...

You might think that Andy  Williams was singing about 2020, but he wasn't per se. There was no way he could have foreseen the scary stuff from this year, which has culminated in actual,  real-life arguments over whether or not having a Doctorate Degree is worthy enough or not.  Meanwhile, politicians are being triggered by TV commercials during meaningless basketball games that they...