What The Frock?

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 that even mean. Killed, removed, sidelined, or simply wished away by the internet.We talk about why legacy media is barely touching these protests, how protest fatigue and narrative discomfort shape coverage, and why uncertainty makes editors nervous. We also dig into how social media now drives belief faster than facts, whether it is Iran, Minneapolis, or the latest viral video that may or may not be real.Along the way, we ask uncomfortable questions about suffrage, protest culture, ideological blindness, and what happens when emotion outruns evidence.This is not an episode about easy answers. It is about paying attention when the noise goes quiet, and asking why.Welcome to What the Frock.

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, some deliberately false. And meanwhile, much of the Western media seems oddly restrained, as if this story does not quite fit the categories it knows how to tell.Tonight, we are not here to sell certainty. We are here to ask why uncertainty is being handled so selectively. Why protests against a clerical regime struggle for oxygen. Why silence becomes policy when narratives collide with ideology.History teaches us this much. Revolutions do not always announce themselves politely. Sometimes they arrive half seen, badly explained, and remembered later with embarrassment by those who looked away.Here is the thing. When the noise goes quiet, that is often when you should lean in and listen hardest.

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 immediately proving that calendars cannot be trusted. From there, the conversation moves briskly into Venezuela, oil, China’s long game, and why people keep pretending any of this is new. We talk about slogans versus reality, power versus intention, and how history keeps tapping us on the shoulder while we scroll past it.Then things get personal. California policy, public health, tortillas, and the strange urge to fix human beings by statute all make an appearance. Scripture follows close behind, including Solomon, Ahab, Elijah, and the uncomfortable truth that wisdom does not always travel with good judgment.And finally, we confront the great modern gatekeeper. You may speak freely, but you may not broadcast without permission. All it takes is 100 followers. No loyalty oath required.Thoughtful, skeptical, occasionally irreverent, and entirely human, this is What The Frock doing what it does best. Pull up a chair. Click follow. History is watching.

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 Solomon might not have been the relationship role model people think.And finally, we confront the modern truth. In the digital age, speech is free, but broadcasting requires permission. All we need is 100 followers. That is it. History has survived worse odds.

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, apocalypse by algorithm, and replacement by software. Instead, what we got was confusion at scale, confidence without competence, and machines that talk very smoothly while being spectacularly wrong.In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod do what they do best. They poke, prod, laugh, and occasionally squint at the future while standing firmly in the present. They talk about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and the vast and fertile territory in between where most of the trouble still lives. There are stories, there is philosophy, there is champagne, and there is at least one reminder that tools have always been dangerous in the hands of people who stop thinking.So pour yourself something celebratory, or medicinal, or both. The year is ending. The world remains stubbornly intact. And for one more night, we ask the question that matters most.What the frock just happened?

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, apocalypse by algorithm, and replacement by software. Instead, what we got was confusion at scale, confidence without competence, and machines that talk very smoothly while being spectacularly wrong.In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod do what they do best. They poke, prod, laugh, and occasionally squint at the future while standing firmly in the present. They talk about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and the vast and fertile territory in between where most of the trouble still lives. There are stories, there is philosophy, there is champagne, and there is at least one reminder that tools have always been dangerous in the hands of people who stop thinking.So pour yourself something celebratory, or medicinal, or both. The year is ending. The world remains stubbornly intact. And for one more night, we ask the question that matters most.What the frock just happened?

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 away for its own good.There are no villains twirling mustaches here, just systems that learned how to stop asking questions and people who learned that silence pays. Along the way, the conversation wanders as it always does, through memory, media failure, moral risk, and the dangerous habit of confusing discomfort with wrongdoing. This is not about outrage for its own sake. It is about accountability, about trust, and about what happens when truth becomes too inconvenient to report.Pour a cup of coffee. Lean in. Some stories demand it.

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 Christmas” while Brits insist on “Happy Christmas,” turns into a full scale rummage through moral panic, class anxiety, bad history, and the peculiar Victorian talent for turning joy into a character flaw. Along the way, Dickens gets his due, Malthus gets side eyed, and the idea that suffering builds character gets dragged into the light where it does not age well.If you like your Christmas thoughtful, argumentative, slightly irreverent, and allergic to smug certainty, you are in the right place. Say it however you like. Just understand why some people were afraid of the word “merry.”

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, with skepticism, laughter, and a strong resistance to worshiping anything that requires a software update.Along the way, the conversation turns practical and uncomfortable. While people dream about perfect digital saviors and benevolent machine kings, real institutions struggle to follow their own rules. When governments cannot manage paperwork, and roads become more dangerous through bureaucratic indifference, the idea that code will save us starts to look like another golden calf with better lighting.This episode is funny, pointed, and unapologetically human. It asks hard questions, mocks easy answers, and reminds us that wisdom does not come preinstalled.

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 stubborn determination of two men who absolutely refuse to quit.This musical follows the journey from their chaotic beginnings to the moment they discover that destiny has plans for them. It is a story shaped by sarcasm, friendship, odd miracles, and the entirely unreasonable belief that a podcast can save a movement that has been banned more than once. You will hear new songs, new characters, and a narrator who might understand destiny or might simply be guessing with confidence.Settle in and enjoy this strange, heartfelt, ridiculous tale. What The Frock: The Musical begins now.

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 houseguest. Dave has survived a Thanksgiving that ended at a casino. Both hosts step into the show with the tired honesty of two men who know that life rarely behaves itself and rarely asks permission before making things weird.The world beyond their microphones is not much better. News of the Washington DC National Guard shooting hangs heavily over the conversation. The two of them refuse to swallow the simple explanations that the rest of the country seems eager to use. They ask harder questions about motive, ideology, and the way rage becomes a habit that people forget to question. Their discussion drifts into history, myth, and the uncomfortable truth that people repeat the same patterns because it feels easier than learning from them.Then the episode takes a turn toward the absurd. A tourist in England is arrested for a photo taken at an American gun range. The story raises concerns about speech, fear, and the quiet spread of rules that no one remembers agreeing to. After that the conversation moves to Wicked, both as a musical and as a cultural phenomenon. Rod and Dave explore the uneasy trend of turning villains into heroes and heroes into hollow symbols.It is funny, sharp, curious, and occasionally uncomfortable. In other words, it is exactly what listeners expect from What The Frock.

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 strange layers of the week.The conversation moves from submarines and warm Pacific water to Bill Belichick’s new role as the country’s most unlikely reality figure. It turns out that a legendary coach, a very young girlfriend, and a loud podcaster can create more chaos than a blown coverage in the fourth quarter. From there the guys dig into the debate over unlawful orders, the burden placed on service members, and the political noise swirling around it all.It is sharp, funny, skeptical, and honest. In other words, it is What The Frock.

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, while Friar Rod reminds us that adaptation is part of human progress.Their conversation stretches from the invention of Whiteout to the rise of AI-generated music, and whether creativity can ever really be “lost.” Between the jokes, the history lessons, and Dave’s recovery stories from shoulder surgery, the two manage to make deep ideas feel like pub talk.This week’s message is simple: change is nothing new, fear is overrated, and laughter is still the best kind of human intelligence.

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, typing, and keeping his house from catching fire.Between time zone conspiracies, Columbus Day controversies, and the eternal mystery of CNN logic, the conversation spins wildly, as always, between the absurd and the oddly profound. Along the way, the boys mark five years of What The Frock, reflect on their ordination, thank their loyal supporters, and muse about faith, sports, and friendship.It is vintage Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod: distracted, hilarious, honest, and completely unfiltered. Tune in and frock on.

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, the government shutdown that nobody seems to have noticed.Finally, things take a turn for the wild when Dave tells the story of a man in Missouri who was mauled by a bear after sending his family pictures of it. The lesson? The chances of being eaten by a bear are low, but never zero. Join the conversation, laugh at the absurd, and maybe keep your distance from both Netflix and the nearest campground.Listen now at whatthefrock.org

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 grab an audience and why live reads still work when flashy commercials fail. Political ads come under fire too, especially when campaigns rely on recycled stock photos that fool no one.The conversation expands into bigger questions about media spin, government power, and whether we can still trust the voices shouting for our attention. There is laughter, skepticism, and a touch of nostalgia as they wrap up with sequels, comedy classics, and Dave’s upcoming shoulder surgery.

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 punchline can cost you a career. Along the trail, we swap stories of Johnny Carson and Don Rickles, gripe about McDonald’s kiosks and stolen Dr. Pepper money, and even tip our hats to those glorious creamsicle Buccaneers uniforms. It’s cowboy satire with a Mark Russell twist, sharp as a spur and twice as funny. Pour yourself some campfire coffee, settle in, and join us for another unfiltered ride through America’s cultural rodeo.

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 surprises about how government bureaucracy can actually work. But the week turned dark with the shooting of Charlie Kirk, sparking outrage, debate, and disturbing reactions across social media. Dave and Rod confront the hypocrisy, the celebrations of violence, and the ongoing battles over free speech.It is not all heavy, though. The episode also includes a night of live music, strong drinks, and a run-in with debit card fraud. Tune in for honesty, humor, and a dose of perspective.

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 on TikTok trends, the circus of New Year’s resolutions, and Dave’s very personal kidney stone saga, and you’ve got an episode that is equal parts skeptical, hilarious, and painfully true.Give it a listen—you’ll laugh, you’ll groan, and you might just start looking at the headlines a little differently.

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 affirming care, mental illness, and the ways our culture apologizes for delusion while ignoring reality.From there the show veers into the strange realm of internet stupidity. A Polish CEO steals a signed tennis cap from a child, teachers film political rants on TikTok, and Coldplay fans destroy their own sponsors. Through it all, Dave and Rod bring their mix of sharp humor, blunt honesty, and historical perspective. If you want satire with substance, this episode delivers.