What The Frock?

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...

This episode starts with a simple question that turned out not to be simple at all. Why is the biggest story on our screens not the biggest story in the world. While Western headlines obsess over a single domestic incident, Iran is burning, protesting, and shouting into an information blackout. There are reports, whispers, and very loud claims that the Ayatollah has been “eliminated.” What does th...

Here is the introduction. There are moments in history when the loudest sound is silence. When something real is happening, dangerous, destabilizing, and profoundly human, yet the headlines barely whisper. Iran may be in one of those moments right now. Reports of widespread protests are filtering out, uneven, fragmented, hard to verify. Rumors are filling the gaps, some reckless, some hopeful, som...

Welcome to What The Frock , where history, theology, politics, and common sense all sit at the same table and politely argue over the chips. This episode is titled “Only (Need 100) Fans,” which sounds like a joke until you realize it is also a completely accurate description of how modern speech works in the algorithmic age. In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod ring in the new year by immedia...

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 sharp turn into scripture, wisdom, and why King Solo...

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. For twelve months we were promised doom by headline, apo...

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. For twelve months we were promised doom by headline, apo...

This episode of What the Frock? is not comfortable, and it is not meant to be. It is the kind of conversation that sits with you like cold air in a warm room and refuses to leave quietly. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod turn their attention to a story that should have been impossible to ignore and yet somehow was. A story of missing money, empty buildings, unanswered questions, and a public asked to look...

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 as a simple question, why Americans say “Merry Chri...

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 there, things proceed exactly as you would expect,...

Welcome to a very unusual episode of What The Frock. Today you are not just listening to a podcast. You are stepping into a full musical adventure that was never supposed to exist, yet somehow insisted on being born. What The Frock: The Musical takes the familiar world of Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod and lifts it onto a stage filled with cosmic mistakes, heavenly clerks, ancient Goliard lore, and the...

Every now and then an episode comes along that captures the strange mood of the moment. It is the kind of morning when Friar Rod is drinking coffee that tastes like an IPA and Rabbi Dave is trying to decide if he is excited, depressed, or simply resigned to the state of the universe. That is where this episode begins. Rod has returned from Hawaii with a cold that behaves like an uninvited housegue...

The new episode of What The Frock opens with the familiar sound of two men who have seen enough of life to laugh at it without hesitation. Rabbi Dave is finally free of his shoulder sling. Friar Rod is back from Hawaii with a cold, a lighter wallet, and a renewed respect for the price of eating anything within sight of a beach. Together they settle into their chairs and start peeling back the stra...

Welcome back to What The Frock , where Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod return from a short hiatus with more laughs, philosophy, and unexpected wisdom than ever. In this episode, the duo tackles the latest round of AI hysteria sparked by Matt Walsh’s claim that 25 million jobs are about to vanish. Rabbi Dave questions the panic, pointing out that technology has been reshaping jobs since the steam engine,...

Welcome back to What The Frock , where faith meets foolishness and caffeine meets chaos. This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are running on fumes, sarcasm, and coffee strong enough to qualify as a controlled substance. Rod has just returned from a cybersecurity conference in Vegas, and Dave is preparing for shoulder surgery while trying to do everything left-handed. That includes making coffee, ty...

Welcome to What The Frock? where reason and ridicule meet over coffee and common sense. This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod tackle three wildly different but strangely connected stories. It begins with the uproar over Netflix and its so-called “transgender agenda,” fueled by Elon Musk and a fifteen billion dollar hit to the company’s value. From there, they turn to Washington’s latest production,...

This week on What The Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod tackle the strange and noisy world of advertising. From podcasts to streaming services, from political campaigns to Super Bowl spectacles, they ask a simple question: is anyone actually paying attention? Dave reveals why he refuses to charge for ads on the show, noting that most listeners skip them anyway. The two debate which ads manage to g...

Welcome back to What the Frock? with Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod, where free speech meets the frying pan and gets served with a side of fries. In this episode, we saddle up and ride straight into the storm around Jimmy Kimmel’s firing — not because of ratings, but because he said something the network didn’t like. From there we take aim at the FCC, advertisers, and the strange new reality where a bad...

This week on What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod sit down to unpack one of the most chaotic stretches in recent memory. From shocking headlines to personal milestones, it has been a week that tested patience, faith, and the limits of common sense. Rabbi Dave reflects on his official retirement after 62 years, complete with lessons from Social Security and the VA, and more than a few surpris...

This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are pulling no punches. From a murder story ignored by mainstream media to viral “Karen” clips that light up the internet, they’re asking the hard question: who decides what matters? They dive headfirst into the world of AI, misinformation, and video fakery, wondering how long we can trust our eyes when machines can rewrite reality. Add in some sharp commentary...

This week on What The Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take on a world that seems determined to trip over its own absurdities. The conversation begins with NBC issuing a bizarre correction to a story on the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, where the network felt the real offense was not the act of violence itself but the pronoun used for the killer. That sparks a larger debate about affirmin...

In this episode of What the Frock , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod belly up to the breakfast table to dish out a hearty helping of truth behind the Cracker Barrel controversy sweeping social media. Did the CEO really say, “MAGA doesn’t have to eat here”? Spoiler alert—she didn’t. But that didn’t stop the viral outrage machine from firing up the griddle. The hosts unravel how a fake quote, amplified by c...

Politics has always been messy, but sometimes it crosses the line into fast food absurdity. In this week’s episode of What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod dig into one of the strangest courtroom stories of recent memory. It began with a Bill Maher joke about Donald Trump’s personal life, turned into a $150 million defamation lawsuit from Laura Loomer, and somehow ended with a claim that Marj...

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In this episode of What The Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod explore how smartphones, streaming media, and the nonstop news cycle are reshaping the way we think. They dive into the complexities of Russiagate, political disinformation, and the historical lessons of Cicero’s Cataline speeches, revealing how the “ends justify the means” mindset can threaten a republic. The discussion blends modern p...