What The Frock?

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? is a society podcast hosted by Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod, with 301 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod hosts What The Frock?, a society show with 301 episodes published.

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  Episode #260927

  Who Holds the Accountable Accountable?

  Sep 27, 20261h 2mS2026

  Who holds the people with authority accountable? That question runs through this week’s What the Frock? , as Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander into the increasingly blurry territory where authority, influence, money, ideology, and responsibility collide. It begins in the pulpit. When a priest declares that God is transgender and suggests that the resurrected Jesus may have “transitioned,” is that legitimate theological interpretation, or has doctrine become whatever the person standing behind the microphone says it is? More importantly, when religious authority makes extraordinary claims, who inside the institution is supposed to challenge them? From there, the same question moves into the world of media and commentary. Candace Owens has spent months raising explosive questions surrounding Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, and the people around them. But what happens when “I’m just asking questions” runs into the legal discovery process, where questions can suddenly require evidence and both sides get to ask them? Then comes artificial intelligence, where accountability becomes even harder to locate. Is access to powerful AI becoming a question of economic inequality? Should government regulate it? Can the companies building it be trusted to regulate themselves? And when billions of dollars, enormous computing resources, political influence, and government regulation begin intersecting, perhaps the oldest advice remains the most useful: Follow the money. From theology to conspiracy theories to artificial intelligence, Dave and Rod ask what happens when everybody wants authority, but nobody particularly wants to answer for how they use it. It’s What the Frock? One rabbi. One friar. Absolutely no supervision. #WhatTheFrock #Accountability #CandaceOwens #TurningPointUSA #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Theology #Religion #FreeSpeech #Media #RabbiDave #FriarRod

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  Episode #260920

  Does God Care Who Wins a Football Game?

  Sep 20, 202657 minS2026

  After Ole Miss defeats LSU, quarterback Trinidad Chamblisscredits prayer, preparation, and God’s will for the victory. Rabbi Dave has heard enough. If God chose the winner, what does that say about the losing team? Why does God receive public credit after victories but rarely appear in the losing locker room? That postgame interview launches Rabbi Dave and Friar Rodinto a larger argument about the way human beings claim divine authority for their own ambitions. From football fields to European battlefields, victors have always been tempted to declare that God stood with them. Faith in God’s will is one thing. Claiming to know that a touchdown, election, or warexpresses that will is something far more dangerous. The conversation then turns to another modern article offaith: the approaching artificial-intelligence apocalypse. Bernie Sanders calls AI more dangerous than nuclear weapons, while frightened students avoid learning the technology that will shape their careers. Dave and Rod consider whether the panic is justified, whether regulation will protect the public or merely entrench the largest technology companies, and why anyone who genuinely fears AI should first learn how it works. Finally, Britain proposes state-directed “pre-bunking” programs, approved news sources, and official databases of supposedly false narratives. Who decides what counts as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, or merely dissent? Once government claims the authority to determine truth in advance, Orwell’s Ministry of Truth stops looking likesatire.It is a conversation about faith, fear, power, football, andthe persistent human desire to place God’s signature on our own conclusions.Along the way there is Caribbean cricket, Lane Kiffin, artificial ludicrous intelligence, Monty Python, and the forgotten birthday that arrived twelve days early. #WhatTheFrock #GodsWill #FaithAndSports#ArtificialIntelligence #FreeSpeech #Misinformation #RabbiDave #FriarRod

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  Episode #260913

  Chef Boyardee Saves Civilization

  Sep 13, 202655 minS2026

  Artificial intelligence may eventually destroy humanity,although at the moment it still struggles with fingers, factual citations, and the occasional straightforward instruction. That has not discouraged a growing class of researchers, former researchers, professional alarm-ringers, and extremely online prophets from warning that the machines could become smarter than their creators sometime next year. Conveniently, next year is always close enough to frighten investors but far enough away to avoid an immediate audit. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod consider the latest prediction fromformer Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who believes that self-improving AI could escape meaningful human control. The concern is serious, even if the evidence remains less cooperative than the headlines. Today’s systems canrecognize patterns, exploit poorly designed safeguards, and produce nonsense with remarkable confidence. In fairness, humanity pioneered that last capability centuries ago. The deeper question is not whether a computer can think likea person. It is whether people will surrender judgment to systems they barely understand. That becomes especially uncomfortable when the discussion moves from research laboratories to courtrooms. After the Lindsay Clancy mistrial,the public treatment of a holdout juror raises troubling questions about racial assumptions, media conduct, jury intimidation, and whether anyone will willingly serve again once journalists begin examining jurors as though they were congressional nominees. An AI jury is proposed, because apparently the solution to distrusting human judgment is placing our liberty in the hands of software written by humans. Nature, meanwhile, has developed its own weapons program. Anewly documented Amazonian spider builds a spring-loaded silk ballista capable of launching ants at roughly 140 times the force of gravity. The spiders are advancing, the computers are plotting, and Chef Boyardee remains humanity’s final line of defense. Fortunately, Dave has stockpiled the lasagna. This maynot save civilization, but civilization has made worse preparations. #WhatTheFrock #ArtificialIntelligence #AIDoom #Anthropic#JacobCoxon #JurySystem #MediaBias #FreeSpeech #BallistaSpider #ChefBoyardee#RabbiDave #FriarRod #Podcast #DryHumor

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  Episode #260906

  Correct the Map? What The Frock Is Wrong With It?

  Sep 6, 202654 minS2026

  A map is supposed to help you find your way. Unfortunately, the latest attempt to “Correct the Map” may tell us more about modern politics than it does about geography. In this episode of What the Frock? , Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod examine the campaign against the Mercator projection, the familiar world map that makes Greenland look enormous, stretches Antarctica toward infinity, and leaves Africa appearing smaller than it really is. The distortion is genuine, but it is hardly a sinister plot. Gerardus Mercator designed his map in 1569 to preserve compass bearings for navigation, not to flatter countries that did not yet exist or insult continents sitting comfortably along the equator. That raises the question at the center of the conversation: What exactly are we correcting? From there, the discussion turns toward our habit of declaring something a problem, identifying a villain, and demanding a solution that may have little connection to the original facts. That pattern leads Dave and Rod into the public reaction surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial, where social media experts transformed a complicated criminal case into a battleground over victimhood, mental illness, justice, and blame. The navigational hazards continue with hikers who used artificial intelligence to plan a climb of Mount Shasta, only to discover that Google Gemini is no substitute for preparation, experience, spare batteries, or an actual map. The episode eventually wanders into AI hallucinations, microwave omelet makers, Ryan Reynolds’ peculiar recollection of the “brutal” 1980s, MTV, Christopher Walken, improperly sized Navy shoes, and the long-awaited arrival of What the Frock? stickers. It is a longer episode, because the listeners have spoken. The destination may be uncertain, but Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod remain confidently off course. Welcome to a thoroughly Mercator edition of What the Frock? #WhatTheFrock #MercatorProjection #CorrectTheMap #MapDistortion #UnitedNations #ArtificialIntelligence #Podcast

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  Episode #260830

  Hormonal

  Aug 30, 202636 minS2026

  There are bad arguments, and then there are bad arguments whose consequences stretch far beyond the case in whichthey were made. The defense of Lindsay Clancy, accused of murdering her three young children, raises precisely that kind of problem. If postpartum hormonesand psychiatric distress can diminish criminal responsibility, where does compassion end and accountability begin? More importantly, what happens when the reasoning offered to excuse one woman is applied to women everywhere? That is the uncomfortable territory Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod enter in this episode of What the Frock? The conversation is deliberately provocative because the implications are difficult to ignore. An argument intended to protect a particular defendant may also revive assumptions women spent generations overcoming: that hormones makethem unreliable, emotionally unstable, or unsuitable for positions involving judgment, authority, and public safety. Once biology becomes a defense against responsibility, it can just as easily become a justification for discrimination. From there, the discussion moves into the wider theater of political absurdity. Canada is outraged by President Trump’s effort to rename Lake Ontario, apparently discovering a newfound reverence for historical names after years of renaming streets, universities, public buildings, and civic landmarks. Threats involving Canadian electricity and the continuing trade dispute only add another layer to a quarrel in which symbolism frequently seems more important than practical consequences. Along the way, there is Facebook Marketplace at two in the morning, an unexpectedly complicated English muffin, questionable Canadian political geography, and the usual effort to determine whether society has lost its mind or merely misplaced it temporarily. This is the “Hormonal Edition” of What the Frock? , a shorter episode built around one persistent question: when we create an excuse for behavior we would otherwise condemn, are weprepared to live with that excuse when it is applied everywhere else? #WhatTheFrock #PoliticalCommentary #CurrentEvents #LindsayClancy #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalResponsibility #GenderDoubleStandards

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