What The Frock?
190 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago -In the spirit of the Goliards, Rabbi Dave and Friar Cook bring you their irreverent and raucous views of the day.
So come, fill your mug and sing boisterously along and ask yourself the simple question: What the Frock?
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The Reign of Confusion
January 31, 2022 00:14 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBAfter a very confusing week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are back to tell you what they are confused about, including some people nobody has any idea who are trying to censor other people that everybody knows who is. Video games are dangerous and the US Navy has... well... an explanation(?) of an odd and confusing thing that also happened.
Waiting on the Tour de France
January 16, 2022 19:59 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThe Rabbi and the Friar are back to talk about Cyberwar and the idea that we are already in the opening phases of World War III. In July of 1914, most of Europe showed almost no concern over the exploding crises in Serbia, at least until the our de France was over. Then the proverbial schtuff his the rotating air movement device. Some Americans, far too many of them "Republicans" aren't just concerned about COVID, they are willing to full Stalin on us. Never go full Stalin... California h...
Happy Freaking New Year...
January 10, 2022 01:36 - 43 minutes - 15.1 MBIt's 2022. Sorry, but we thought that we were supposed to be dead, so we didn't plan much for this first show of the "Winter of Death!" Dave is feeling morose over the prospects of the new year. It's been a rarity in his long life, but to Dave, this seems like the perfect year to throw anther World War. Rod has some new equipment and some issues with idols and mannequins, while watching some of the nonsense over the "insurrection" has the boys saying "WTF?"
Birds Aren't Real
December 12, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour - 22.4 MBIt’s the 2021 finale for Friar Rod and Rabbi Dave. They talk trolls and birds (along with dinosaurs and Christians), and it’s that time of the year when they bring your their look at the latest Hallmark Holiday flicks! How much would you fork over to some “company’ to drop you off in the middle of some foreign country and leave you there? For fun? Once upon a time the Rabbi took one for the team and saw Sex and the City 2. The Peloton company is kinda wishing that they hadn’t seen it, but t...
Omnicraw
December 05, 2021 19:37 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBRabbi Dave has arisen from his muscle relaxer induced coma to share the hour with the Good Friar Rod as they ask questions about how the government is doing things, and why Trevor Noah is in some “hot water” for finally at least appearing to see the obvious answer in front of his not so funny face. Did you know that JaBiden is the worst treated by the media President in history? Delta Airlines had an… interesting(?) problem last week, and for reasons that nobody can seem to answer, Chris Cu...
Yippee-Ki-Hanukkah!
November 28, 2021 19:04 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBRabbi Dave is ready for Hanukkah, which begins tonight at sundown. Friar Rod is still convinced that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The onset of the next COVID panic has already begun. Let the lockdowns and mandates begin anew, over a variant that (a) probably is less virulent and (b) NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT ANYWAY! People are really touchy about bad Yelp reviews, but not as touchy as a Preacher who had a midnight rendezvous with a reptilian version of a long dead Persian Emperor. It’l...
Slap An Armadillo Day
November 21, 2021 20:05 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBBoth the Friar and the Rabbi are… experiencing the after effects of too much drink, song and social media. The Good Friar is in Twitter Jail, while the Rabbi is fascinated by an alien invasion of North Carolina. Bless their hearts… Some technical issues have the show time limited again, but the boys are still here to ask the question: What The Frock?
St. Brice's Day
November 14, 2021 19:43 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBRabbi Dave and Friar Cook recall the tragic events of St. Brice’s Day, when the invading Danish Vikings finally paid a terrible prices for… bathing. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsome, who cackled and exploded into bats, finally showed up after two weeks, at a wedding officiated by Nancy Pelosi. You cannot make this stuff up, folks. As you know, Dave HATES Disney. He always has. Why, you may ask? He explains just one of the reasons. The Nation is divided, but we don’t have the time to talk about it…
How You Dune?
November 07, 2021 19:54 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBThe new version of the 1965 Novel, Dune” is out, and while it is a massive improvement over the 1984 version, there are still a few people who are not happy about it. From our perspective, the focus on human interaction is particularly intriguing and there are more than a few applicable to our time ideas here. Millennial’s are upset because life, as it turns out, is not easy. Listeners are sending us texts, and things are getting weird at nuclear power plants…
My Friend the Witch Doctor
October 31, 2021 16:57 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBIt’s Halloween! If you believe in ghosts, or spirits or just spooky stuff in general, today is your day to celebrate all things weird and whacky. Rabbi Dave once had an encounter with a verified Witch Doctor in San Francisco. But it all turned out good. The Coronal Mass ejection came and went without much of a show after all. But tonight should be fun! DID is a thing, especially on Twitter. which is no big surprise, given the way that Western Cultures seem able to convince themselves to hav...
The Raines Facebook
October 24, 2021 18:17 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBThe COVID madness continues. It's hard to believe that we are even dumber after eighteen months of this nonsense, but... we are... even dumber... A big part of the problem continues to be Social Media, especially Facebook, which has now produced a second "whistleblower" to bolster it's desire to regulate the industry. Of course, more and more people are now finding ways to Raines Sandwich the Social Media Giant, because that's what real Americans do. And what we have done for generations. ...
Oktoberfest
October 17, 2021 18:41 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBIn the year of our Lord 1810, a celebration was held to commemorate the marriage of a beautiful and beloved princess to an absolute jerk of a Prince who would go on to become King. Eventually the people got rid of the ruler, but they kept the celebration. Which serves to remind us that our expectations of our leaders are - more often than not - misplaced and subject to great disappointment. Speaking of expecting our people to act rationally, did you know that you cannot wear white after La...
Crab Rangoon's
October 10, 2021 19:29 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBRabbi Dave remains unconvinced that the "religious exemption" argument is a valid, especially for government football coaches for mediocre programs. Friar Jedi Cook on the other hand, believes that the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccines is a valid religious exemption, although it's unclear as to what religions (if any) actually hold that position. Then again, Dave is of the stated belief that the USS Connecticut was grabbed by a Kraken. It makes as much sense as anything else. Crab Ra...
Day by Day
October 03, 2021 19:30 - 56 minutes - 52 MBRabbi Dave is joined by the newly minted Jedi Knight Rod who recently joined the Church of the Jedi to ask a few questions, which is what goliards do. Were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by an air burst weapon, ala Tunguska? A recent scientific paper says that it happened just that way. But don't just follow that science quite so fast! No one ever expects the Ninjas. Especially in the middle of the night on a Special Forces base in California. And in the great tradition of the ...
The Grand Inquisitor
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBRabbi Dave and Friar Rod gather again to talk about the issues of the day. Sure… it’s not the “weekend,” but who really cares? One of the more amazing effects of the way we live today is how information that displeases us is treated. You might think that this is something new, but it’s really not. Even Dostoyevsky spent a lot of pages telling a long involved poem about it… We’re all going to die, but at least we’re not on Jupiter. Do you lean Jedi over Sith? That’s because you are a sexi...
Absurd Arguments (In Pirate)
September 19, 2021 18:19 - 53 minutes - 49 MBRabbi Dave replaced his computer this week, so of course the sound inputs aren't working correctly... the absurdity of the "Religious Exemption" to the vaccine mandate is pretty obvious when you think about it, even to a Christian Scientist (which is NOT a Scientologist). The best argument for an exemptions is to just be a politician! It's a "Talk Like a Pirate day" episode of What the Frock!
How To Murder Your Husband
September 12, 2021 18:41 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBWhen it's November in his soul, Rabbi Dave gets morose. Friar Rod provides some therapy and counseling, because that's what Frockmen do...
King Louis' Dirty Derriere
September 05, 2021 20:50 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBOn the morning after the Ludi Romani, Rabbi Dave is feeling a bit under the weather. Unusually, Good Friar Cook is feeling just fine. The Internet is rapidly becoming a place of censorship and idea control by using the magic phrase, "content moderation..." Rabbi Dave has a set of questions that are guaranteed to get a "COVID-19 Informational" box slapped on the post by Facebook. The poet e.e. cummings is in the news and Dave HATES one particular patriotic song and the reason involves the F...
Slated To Be An Historic Show
August 29, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBSixteen years ago was a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest, where Rabbi Dave is. Today is also a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest. And once again it is slated to be an historic day in a southern hellhole. Harvard has decided to stop even pretending that they believe in God, while Lester Holt has decided to not ask relevant questions about saving lives. Eating hot dogs is bad for you, Christo is dead, but that isn't stopping him from creating art for you to enjoy. And the Vice Pr...
Conundrums
August 22, 2021 18:30 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBTRIGGER WARNING: Adult Language Stop us if you've heard this one before... masks are back and better than ever! Apparently OnlyFans has tired of making gobs and gobs of money. It's either that or there is something more nefarious afoot. Mad Scientists are growing brains in Petri dishes and Woke culture is turning everything to... well... you know...
Sex Crabs
August 15, 2021 18:56 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAfter an unexpected week off, Rabbi Dave headed for the hills, while Friar Rod was busy donating platelets and trying to keep his daughter out of jail. The boys return just in time for another useless mask mandate, which has them a bit on edge. football, bit American and European, is underway, and it was NOT a good start to the season and another useless start for the American version. Meanwhile, Hermit crabs are getting frisky and State Patrol Officers are trying to explain what they misse...
What The Funk?
August 01, 2021 19:35 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBThe Olympics are all the rage these days. But viewership is way down. Is it because of the "woke" culture or are there some other factors at play here? The Delta death variant is now upon us. This time around, we are being told that masks are the ONLY thing that can possibly save humanity from complete and utter destruction. Ashton Kutcher has webbed feet. Webbed and stinky feet. But at least he still has his balls, unlike Florida man...
AstroNOT
July 25, 2021 19:55 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBRabbi Dave and friar Cook are back from their three week sabbatical! It was quite the road trip for Dave, but at least NASA and the FAA didn't change the rules on his mission right before he blasted off. Facebook doesn't seem to know anything about gardening, but really who's surprised? And there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why you don't understand what JaBiden had to say about... something...
Sabbaticals
June 27, 2021 20:35 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBIt's hot. Seriously... Seattle is melting and it's taking the bridges with it. Meanwhile, have you gotten your F-15 or nuclear weapons yet? Like an air conditioner you might want to avoid the rush and get it today! The COVID Merry Go round of Stupidity continues to spin, this time the NCAA manages to screw up which is really no big surprise. They'll just blame COVID protocols! If you're looking for a good time, you might want to visit the Redneck Rave. Or maybe a Home Depot exorcism? ...
Father's Day (For Real This Time)
June 20, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB“Plausible deniability” is the goal of the day as it turns out that Friar Cook not only is a potential domestic terrorist, but appears to already be on more than one “list” for those organizations tasked with rooting out the extremists. Meanwhile, it is Father’s Day, this time for real! Rabbi Dave has his cinnamon rolls and is living the good life today, but is sans clothing really the way to go today? Follow the Science says that left turns should be verboten! Hunter Biden has a new care...
The President's Big Stick
June 13, 2021 19:14 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBIt is definitely NOT Father’s Day, but that doesn’t make what is being said by the Presidents, the Mayor of Seattle or some (we assume) chick on Tik Tok make anymore sense…
Dong Copter
June 06, 2021 23:19 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBTime Travel gives Rabbi Dave headaches. Even if you could go back just one year, what could you actually change? In Arizona, a political attack will have you saying WTF? It turns out that the Colonial Pipeline security system was pretty much the same as the one President Skroob has on his luggage. And June 6th is an important day. Not only is if the anniversary of D-Day, but it's is also the sixtieth wedding anniversary for Dave's parents, an event that could be an interesting trip for a ...
Rasputinauci
May 30, 2021 18:17 - 55 minutes - 51 MBIn the early part of the 20th Century, there was a great opportunity to change things for the better. Instead, one man saw a chance to gain personal power and prestige and in the process, he brought destruction and devastation while unleashing the worst mass killer in the history of humanity. Lessons were not learned, and today an eighty-year old geriatric doctor hold sway over what happens to millions of people pretty much all of whom think that he should have retired back in the 1980s. ...
Darwin Awards
May 23, 2021 20:59 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBAfter a couple of weeks of deafness, Dave can finally hear again. Also, we no longer have to wear facemasks. Maybe. The cancelling of dead white guys who contributed to society and science continues, as now even Charles Darwin finds himself on the chopping block for being a racists, sexist, misogynist who shouldn't be remembered for anything else. The Good Friar and the Rabbi are here to help you step up your dating game!
Pipelines
May 16, 2021 20:46 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBRabbi Dave finally got his second shot. It led to a strange week... The Colonial Pipeline attack has the Facebook Experts crawling out to inform us that would have handled it better and quicker than was done. Of course, the Good Friar actually happens to be an expert IT security professional, and he will remind us of of a few things that the Keyboard warriors seem to have overlooked. On the Bay Area freeways the CHiPs discovered a self driving car that wasn't supposed to be doing that; whil...
Abby Normal
May 09, 2021 19:15 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAs we slowly seem to approach the end(?) of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it has the boys wondering what exactly does "normal" actually mean? Will it be a return to the same problems we had before the pandemic so rudely interrupted them? Will Governors realize that the fastest way to lose re-election is to cross their own constituency? Popsicles are great! Maybe not fifty-one cases of them, but still... And do you suffer from or know someone who suffers from PSD? Rabbi Dave is here with the help ...
Better Than Sex
May 03, 2021 00:26 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBDave and Rod are becoming concerned that there is a reason that the media is ignoring the Biden gaffes, but not trying to cover them up. It's almost like they want us talking about them which is very unlike the media under previous Presidents. Meanwhile, life aboard a submarine is nothing like what it says in the article about what life aboard a submarine is like. And apparently people are confused by the concept of "meat." It's really hard to believe, after the debacle that was the Super...
Booncherd Boonrad
April 26, 2021 00:29 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBThe English Language has certain rules of grammar, which are pretty much universally ignored, especially in cases where heads are being lopped off. There is some film awards show tonight, but more important things are afoot. A one hundred year plus mystery is finally solved, while the news breaks that the Government IS in fact, spying on us. Just not the part of government you’d expect.
The Most Common Side Effects
April 11, 2021 20:15 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBThe Rabbi & The Good Friar take a look at the most common side effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine, which Rod has gotten, but Dave has not. The shot, not the side effect. Meanwhile, in an attempt to offend pretty much everybody, the guys talk about a woman in Colorado, who happens to be an affirmed and ordained minister (just like the guys!) who has a... well... a different approach to getting peoples attention that is outside the norm generally accepted for preachers. Is she wrong? Of course n...
King Tut
April 05, 2021 00:33 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBIt's the day that we celebrate the long and complicated human tradition of a belief in resurrection. Yesterday in Cairo, twenty-two mummies of New Kingdom Pharaohs and Queens were paraded through town as they were moved to a brand new museum prepared just for them. They are a reminder of how long humans have believed in or hoped for an afterlife. Friar Cook has a reminder about the necessity of locking down your internet security. And in the WTF segment, we have a special request to retu...
Coffeegasms
March 28, 2021 19:01 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBWhy do we do things that we know are bad for us? Like skydiving, smoking, hooking up for sex with serial killers, or ordering delivery food without a vibrating dildo? ‘Cause we’re just a bunch of cis-gendered pansexuals? Which, thanks to the Social Media dopamine, we felt the need to tell you about…
Terrance Trent D'Arby
March 21, 2021 21:26 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBBack in June of 1987, almost forty years ago, in case you weren't feeling old already, a fellow by the name of Terrance Trent D'Arby released his first solo album, which he then described as "the most important album since Sgt Peppers." He was of course, over exaggerating, but on purpose because he wanted to make a point. Then he died and to this day nobody really understands whatever point he was trying to make. We aren't likely to figure it out because, as he said, "Sometimes you just hav...
The Unforgivable Sin
March 14, 2021 22:51 - 53 minutes - 49 MBIn the religion of Wokeness, there are no forgivable sins. In the world of Rabbi Dave, there is at least one unforgivable sin – calling him on the cell phone, especially after 10pm. But for those who have dared to offend the woke god , there is seemingly no way out, except for repeated pacification offerings that don’t really do anything except calm the god down for a short while, until the next great offense comes along to rekindle the outrage from the same people who are snarfing down jun...
Logan's Run
March 07, 2021 21:19 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWhat started as a discussion over the Twitter Profile of a Congressional candidate in North Carolina, led to a long and winding road for the Good Friar and the Rabbi. From the concept of “free will” leading to the idea of the “Social Gospel” which in turn leads to perceived existential threats drove economic interests that seemingly had little to nothing in common with religious interests to unite to oppose common threats. And developed into the religious-political entities that for the pas...
Mazel tov, Bitches!
March 01, 2021 00:36 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAs every true goliard knows, the greatest threat to what we do is those in power getting rid of those who dare to say “No,” to them. It happened in 1933, and it happened again – at least in threat – this past week when a Congresswoman decided that nobody should be telling her that the rules mean she cannot just do whatever she wants. Like most tyrants, she reacted as one would expect. The Good Friar Cook has some guidelines for us on how to Zoom, almost none of which Rabbi Dave follows. An...
¡Salud!
February 22, 2021 03:41 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBIrony, thy name is What The Frock? After a power outage induced recording delay and a mid-show internet dropout, Friar Cook and Rabbi Dave talk a Texas sized power related fiasco, coffee, Davido’s Tequila (If You Can Still See, It’s NOT Davido’s!) and the cultural appropriate of labels by social media influencers who are not Mexican nationals…
Lupercalia
February 15, 2021 00:07 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBIt's Lupercalia! For those of you still stuck in the 21st Century, that's the pagan Rome celebration of whipping women and then "romancing" them for an entire year that was later replaced by Valentine's Day, which is, of course, a celebration of a creepy old dude getting his head cut off after he professed his love for a formerly blind jail-keepers daughter! Seriously. Also Coyotes from both Florida and Silverdale are involved because it wouldn't be Lupercalia without them!
Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (Or Not...)
February 07, 2021 22:35 - 56 minutes - 76.9 MBThe MOST important thing to keep in mind right now - above all else - is that no matter what you've been told or what you believe, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever, that they are better than you. And they know it. Which is why if you did what they did, you'd go to jail, but they get to brush off 60 Minutes and keep on trucking...
Les Règles Sont Pour Toi, Pas Pour Moi
January 31, 2021 21:59 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBIt's been a good week for Goliards! Unless you happen to be a robin hood type, then maybe not so much? Our States are beginning to enter Phase II, but once again, the rules make absolutely Zero sense. Arbitrary lines seem to more about who voted for a Governor than any actual scientific data about the virus. At least one large equity fund is preparing to buy your data. So.. you PAID somebody to test your DNA, and now that data will be purchased by a giant company which has announced that ...
KEEP MY. NAME OUT OF YOUR THIN. MOUTH.
January 24, 2021 21:16 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBThe freedom to criticize opera is one of the most fundamental rights we have in this country. What you do not have the freedom to do is to sing along. They (the Opera people) hate that. The Internet of Stuff has taken over our lives... and now our afterlives. And in what should become the most epic opera since "A True Daughter of the Party," Helen Hywater and Caroline Nesbitt have created the most incredibly entertaining argument in the history of broccoli casserole...
The Discovery of the Antarctic Circle
January 17, 2021 21:11 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBIn 1773, Captain James Cook, who is NOT related to the Friar, "discovered" the Antarctic Circle. That goes to show that having a good Media Packaging system is really the critical element. And of course, no matter what happens this week in the nations green zone of a capitol, the media package is what will matter to most people...
Festum Asinorum
January 10, 2021 20:50 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBIt's time for the Feast of the Ass! Which, by the by, is NOT the title of a porn flick. It was a service once mocked by the Goliards for its absurdity and silliness. Which one could argue has a very obvious modern parallel on full display for everybody to go all "He Haw" about...
The Goliards
January 04, 2021 01:32 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBOnce, long ago, there were certain men of faith who followed the legendary Bishop Golias. They were renegade clerics. Men of no fixed abode, they are noted more as gamblers and tipplers than as poets or scholars. Their satire was almost universally directed against the most powerful political entity of the day, the Church. In 1277a.d., they were forever banned from chanting in the service, and later they would be removed from the privileges of the clergy. Their songs of love and drinking...
USS Christmas
December 27, 2020 20:39 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBOn the final episode ever of Do Not resuscitate, Dave & Rod have been officially reprimanded by Facebook. Why? Because COVID-19, that's why! Which could be the reason that so many people are at least trying out new Social Media platforms. Or not. Dave is wondering why people hate him. more specifically why they felt the need to ruin his turkey sandwich with their Christmas Greeting cards? Over the course of 2020, Rod has been binging Hallmark movies but now, we have the additional b...
There'll Be Scary Ghost Stories
December 20, 2020 22:11 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBYou might think that Andy Williams was singing about 2020, but he wasn't per se. There was no way he could have foreseen the scary stuff from this year, which has culminated in actual, real-life arguments over whether or not having a Doctorate Degree is worthy enough or not. Meanwhile, politicians are being triggered by TV commercials during meaningless basketball games that they forced their family to watch, and since it's still 2020, they have to tell you about it. H.P. Lovecraft drew ...