What The Frock?

The world will end today or in six months . There is bad news because of this: it means that we will have to go through another Presidential election. We will also tell you the good news because of it! A   recent article from a history site he follows has Dave contemplating more of the issues we face as a society. The big question is how do we overcome the "Lost Cause" Mythology that permeate...

There was a rumor floating about the bowels of the interwebs that the Hells Angels AND the Mongols were both on their way up I-5 to "take care of" the CHAZ. Like so many things on the interwebs it turned out to be a white rabbit hole that went nowhere. That said, there is still a lot more to unpack about the CHAZ, or CHOP, as they prefer to be called. Is there an actual "solution" to the CHAZ? If...

The boys are looking for ways to survive the ongoing stress created by the Coronavirus pandemic. While Rod is used to staying home, Dave's family is most definitely not and they want to go to their favorite place to go out to eat. Which locally is still closed, but a hundred miles away, it's open. Albeit in the most  COVID-19 way possible. Meanwhile, Sir Isaac Newton may have found the preven...

Diamond & Rod are joined by    Bill Mick from WMMB-AM in Melbourne, Florida, where American just launched her first astronauts into space from US soil is almost a decade. Bill generally has a front-row seat for launches and as a long time Floridian, he also knows Florida Man personally. He is also a former Police Officer, so as D&R come back to Earth, the discussion turns to the...

Did you know that the US Government values a human life at $10 Million ? So in the time of COVID, the argument goes, your freedom is worth $10 Million? Or have we gone so far afield of where we should have gone that there’s really no way to put a value on our lives anymore? The models were off, but models (except for Cindy Crawford) are pretty much ALWAYS wrong, but it’s looking more and more like...

After a really rough day, the boys sit down and ponder if a short film by Kevin James is truly representative of the world to come, post-COVID?  Around the country people are being arrested - yes, arrested - for not complying with orders to stay inside. Perhaps the boys can look for some inspiration from somebody who has been through all of this kind of thing before? Luckily, there is just su...

As the pandemic mutates from actually being about a virus into mere virtue signaling, Karen would like to see your manager... Dave is watching real, live baseball, just not  MLB baseball, while Rod has gone to seek Valhalla.

In the ongoing debate over what is speech and what is propaganda, it is the humble McRib Sandwich, a tangy BBQ  flavored hunk of more or less meat that reminds us that not all conspiracy theories are equal... Ellul's discussion of Propaganda as referenced by Dave The   Weird History of the McRib Story they talk about The   Kentucky Derby Triple Crown Showdown

The lesson of the greatest   American Western film ever made is that the legend is more important than the actual facts about what happened. Of course, this whole idea of moral pandemic has been studied before. In 1973 an English (nationality, not discipline) professor by the name of Cohen came up with the five characteristics of moral panics . Pretty much all of them are familiar to us and t...

As #Coronafest2020 drags on, it is starting to wear on folks and their idea of how far the government can go in exercising "emergency powers." It really all depends on exactly what constitutes "an emergency." When you stop to think about it, the whole thing is a little bit unsettling. But when we go back in history to  Dave's binge-watching list for this week, we find that once upon a time, p...

Dave’s Coronafest2020 Mask is not very functional, but it looks cool. Meanwhile, religious services are becoming a form of pushing back against the Stay-at-Home restrictions, including the return of the Bundy, Jr., who wants Jesus to punish you because you don’t believe what he believes. In Mississippi, the Lobsterbacks are writing tickets to people sitting in their cars with the windows rolled up...

#Cornoafest2020 continues with Dave having reached rock bottom in his television viewing. Meanwhile, the nation-state of California, led by the exploding Bat of a Governor, is reduced to arresting people for paddleboarding. In the ocean. If form follows function, it could be a 7th amendment issue. But only if you remember that before you pay the fine. At least one person listens to DNR and has sen...

Is sticking to your Stay-at-Home routine not getting you enough exercise? Lucky for you, there’s an app for that! Don’t worry about who is making the app. How are Dave and Rod holding up after yet another week of Social Distance and Stay-at-Home-ing? For Dave, there is at least one massive positive from all this, and it’s not having to deal with the VA via teleconferencing. For Rod, it’s muscle re...

It’s been a bit over a week, Diamond and Rod are here to check in after all that time of Social Distancing. The news continues to get weird, from who the networks are putting on the TV as “expert commentators” to the celebrity tweets. Even the web articles seem to come and go as the narrative shifts. At the end of the day, who do you trust and to whom do you listen? It seems that binge-watching sh...

Diamond & Rod Talk Tech, Culture, Current Events, News, Drinks, Sports, Humor, History or whatever strikes their fancy, all while enjoying an adult beverage or two. Or three. If they pass out, DO NOT RESUSCITATE! Episode One: Bitch, This is Modesto! If pretty much everybody, even the cast of Saturday Night Live , gets that the reaction to the Coronavirus is blown far out of proportion to reali...