What The Frock? is a weekly podcast featuring Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod discussing current events, politics, culture, religion, history, media, and the absurdities of modern life. With humor, insight, and a willingness to question conventional wisdom, they tackle the stories shaping our world from Jewish and Christian perspectives. Part talk radio, part commentary, part theological food fight. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod discuss current events, politics, culture, religion, history, media, and the absurdities of modern life. A mix of commentary, humor, faith, and skepticism.
What The Frock?
Claim This Podcastby Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod
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What The Frock? is a weekly podcast featuring Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod discussing current events, politics, culture, religion, history, media, and the absurdities of modern life. With humor, insight, and a willingness to question conventional wisdom, they tackle the stories shaping our world from Jewish and Christian perspectives. Part talk radio, part commentary, part theological food fight. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod discuss current events, politics, culture, religion, history, media, and the absurdities of modern life. A mix of commentary, humor, faith, and skepticism.
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Recent Episodes
July 5, 2026
I... I've Seen This Movie Before
<p>What if the machines do not destroy us because they are too smart, but because they follow bad instructions perfectly?</p><p>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. Are we improving the game, or slowly draining the life out of it?</p><p>Then comes AI, HAL 9000, Elon Musk, Google, truth, bias, and the unsettling possibility that we have already seen this movie before. If artificial intelligence is trained to value ideology over reality, what happens when it becomes powerful enough to enforce the lie? Along the way, there is Bosnia, Germany, Taylor Swift, books, bad technology, and the eternal warning every Dave Bowman knows by heart:</p><p>“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”</p><p> #WhatTheFrock #RabbiDave #FriarRod #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SpaceOdyssey #HAL9000 #WorldCup #Soccer #Sports #ReplayReview #HumanNature #Technology #HistoryRepeats #Leadership #Truth #CriticalThinking #PopCulture #TaylorSwift #Podcast</p><p><br /></p>
June 28, 2026
Bosnian Kung Fu | What The Frock
<p>Sometimes the internet reminds us that it is both humanity's greatest achievement and its greatest mistake.</p><p>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. Naturally, we decided the only sensible response was to make the situation even worse by inventing a list of "true facts" about Bosnia-Herzegovina. If you've ever wondered about emergency accordions, suspicious pigeons, or coffee strong enough to remember your childhood, you've come to the right place.</p><p>Of course, once we start down a rabbit trail, there is rarely any turning back.</p><p>This episode also tackles the continuing Caitlin Clark saga, the future of the WNBA, and whether an NBA franchise might eventually decide that putting fans in the seats is a pretty good business model. We wander into the surprisingly fascinating history of Carl Douglas's 1974 hit "Kung Fu Fighting," discover why there has only been one famous song about martial arts for the last fifty years, and explain why that oversight has now been corrected.</p><p>Along the way, Dave unveils his latest Hallmark Christmas movie pitch, inspired by one of the strangest real news stories of the year. It is equal parts romance, political satire, Christmas movie cliché, and "how in the world did we get here?"</p><p>We'll wrap things up with Washington state's ever-climbing gas prices, why Idaho gas stations are suddenly doing a booming business, and whatever else happened to wander into our field of view.</p><p>As always, there was no script, no roadmap, and very little adult supervision. Just two friends chasing whatever caught their attention.</p><p>Welcome to What The Frock?</p><p><br /></p><p>#WhatTheFrock #WorldCup2026 #USMNT #BosniaHerzegovina #Soccer #Football #CaitlinClark #WNBA #KungFuFighting #CarlDouglas #HallmarkMovies #PoliticalSatire #CurrentEvents #PopCulture #ComedyPodcast #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Satire #Humor #Bosnia #BalkanHistory #WashingtonState #GasPrices #SocialMedia #RabbiDave #FriarRod #DaveBowman #CommonSense #NewsCommentary #Comedy</p>
June 21, 2026
Chai if by Land... Tea if by Sea | What the Frock
<p>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.</p><p>Naturally, that became an episode of What The Frock?</p><p>We started with one of the internet's favorite hobbies: predicting the end of the world. Depending on which social media account you follow, California is either perfectly fine or about fifteen minutes away from sliding into the Pacific Ocean. Every few months somebody discovers a prophecy, a prediction, a chart, or a mysterious warning that promises catastrophe is just around the corner. Human beings have been predicting disasters since the beginning of recorded history. The internet simply lets them do it faster.</p><p>From there we wandered into a subject that seems to explain a surprising amount of modern behavior: Main Character Syndrome.</p><p>You know the type. The person filming themselves while blocking traffic. The influencer convinced everyone around them exists as supporting cast. The activist who somehow turns every issue, every event, and every headline into a story about themselves. Somewhere along the line social media convinced a lot of people that life is not something you live. It is something you perform.</p><p>The conversation eventually found its way to politics because, frankly, everything eventually does. We looked at the strange spectacle of anti-Musk protests, political celebrations, and the increasingly common habit of defining yourself entirely by who you oppose. There is a difference between having convictions and turning politics into your entire personality. America seems to be having trouble remembering that distinction.</p><p>Sports provided a welcome break from all of that.</p><p>We spent some time talking soccer, international competition, and the continuing effort to explain cricket to Americans. The more cricket I watch, the more I understand why the rest of the world is obsessed with it. The more I try to explain it, the less certain I am that I understand it myself.</p><p>Then came one of my favorite stories of the week.</p><p>Apparently there are reports out of Wyoming suggesting that deer are becoming a little more aggressive toward hunters. Whether this represents an actual wildlife counteroffensive or simply another strange internet headline remains unclear. Either way, it raised an important philosophical question: at what point does the hunted decide it has had enough?</p><p>We wrapped up with a discussion that somehow became more serious than expected. What exactly is the difference between tea and chai? As it turns out, the answer says quite a bit about language, culture, and the strange ways words travel around the world.</p><p>In other words, it was a perfectly normal episode of What The Frock?</p><p>Well, normal for us anyway.</p><p>Join Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod for another hour of headlines, humor, observations, arguments, and the occasional reminder that reality remains far more creative than anything Hollywood could write.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>#WhatTheFrock #RabbiDave #FriarRod #PodcastLife #CurrentEvents #CultureCommentary #MainCharacterSyndrome #ElonMusk #CricketUSA #SoccerTalk #InternetCulture #EarthquakeWarning #TeaVsChai #PoliticalHumor #Satire #SocialMediaCulture #CommonSense #HumorPodcast #RealityIsWeirderThanFiction #NewsAndViews</p><p><br /></p>
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