What The Frock?
190 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★ - 3 ratingsIn 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 Christmas Glory... Hole
December 13, 2020 21:25 - 52 minutes - 120 MBWhile busy making sure that more than two thousand businesses in the Puget Sound area have been shuttered due to COVID, the local government in King County has some advice for us on how to practice safe COVID Sutra. It involves not staying at home, which it has advised us to do because, COVID, so as to make sure that the sex act is COVID safe. Which is just another reason to wonder what the heck is going on here? Rod has your final BEER of the WEEK, while Dave wanders down the HISTORICA...
Yippi-Ki-Yay...
December 06, 2020 21:10 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBEven more growing COVID-19 stupidity. In some places in Rod's home state, even walking is now considered an "unnecessary activity" and is thus banned by the powers that be. Meanwhile, Dave can still walk, but not by himself on a socially distanced treadmill at a now verboten gym. The mall, on the other hand, with its crowds and lines of people waiting to get into stores that are limited to six people inside them, is just fine and dandy to walk about inside. The monolith was not taken bac...
Penis Thumb
November 29, 2020 20:54 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBWe had a show planned. Really… we did. And then, the Right Reverend Rod, Friar Cook, and Laird of Oakdale decided to cook dinner. Having removed a portion of his thumb, he was left with an appendage that looks… well… phallic. And he won’t stop touching it. The BEER of the WEEK, which Rod was consuming both before and after the Turkey Tetrazzini Incident, is a Pandemic favorite. If Dave could stop giggling over Rod’s Penis Thumb, his HISTORICAL RABBIT HOLE of the WEEK would tell you a tal...
Neurotypical
November 22, 2020 21:12 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB"Dance Moms' is the second-worst show on television. That's not the point, which is that nobody on that show can be possibly be classified as "neurotypical." This is why when one of these children gets cast in a new movie made by another neuroatypical performer who clearly has issues, the woke crowd comes out of their collective panties to complain. What is different this time though, is quite refreshing. Much like a Churro flavored Stout, which is your BEER of the WEEK. Dave's HISTORICAL ...
Bananas... Or Else...
November 15, 2020 21:45 - 1 hour - 55 MBIt seems as though things have come full circle for Dave & Rod. We started with COVID lockdowns and now we are back to COVID lockdowns. This time though we have the added element of implied threats and government officials who seem hell bent on making certain that YOU comply while they themselves continue to act as if they don’t really care. The Right Reverend Rodbo, Laird of Oakdale, has your BEER of the WEEK, while Dave delves into the eMail bag to answer the question: Do you like ban...
The Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers
November 08, 2020 19:34 - 1 hour - 55 MBThe Right Reverend Rodbo, Larid of Oakdale, and Dr. Rabbi Colonel Dave gather to celebrate the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven. Dave, of course, is in a mood over Social Media and the listener who doesn't like his long-standing policy about validating other peoples existence. Meanwhile Rodbo, Laird of Oakdale, is taking his Bride of thirty-one years to Pismo, which meant Dave had to get up early to record. But at the end of the day, it won't stop Rod...
Sanhaim Blessings Upon Thee
November 01, 2020 21:33 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBIt's the scariest week of the year, as evidenced by the presence of ghosts, spirits, politicians and the end of the baseball season. In the middle of a COVID Super Spreader Yodeling contest, The Right Reverend Rodbo has your BEER of the WEEK. In ancient Athens, an early version of Survivor had the people voting off politicians and Dave is trying to go to the gym and not have to put up with the "Do You Even Lift, Bro?" bro's... On a scary episode of Sanhaim DNR, the boys are here to ...
The Invisible Yarmulke
October 25, 2020 21:51 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBOn this weeks episode of the Podcast formerly known as “Do Not Resuscitate,” the Right Reverend Rodbo and Dr. Rabbi Colonel Dave discover that there is more to this ordination thing than they thought at first glance. They now realize that they will have to deal with people who actually like the most disgusting substance on the planet, and that there are some people who still believe in the paranormal. Reverend Rodbo has your BEER of the WEEK, which is sour. Rabbi Dave’s Historical Ra...
The Pyschosexual Habits of Peruvian Barmaids
October 18, 2020 19:51 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBOn this episode of DO NOT RESUSCITATE, Rabbi Colonel Dave and The Right Reverend RodBo delve into the political and social issues surrounding the psychosexual habits of barmaids in Peru. Despite their theological differences, this deeply controversial subject is treated with the greatest possible respect by these two fine men of the cloth as they examine the impacts both socially and politically as the presumptive President-elect, Joe Biden, has promised that he will finally address this tra...
Better Than Ham
October 11, 2020 20:10 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBBoth the Right Reverend Rodbo and the recently re-frocked Rabbi Colonel Dave are here to bring you the word, which is both sacred and brought to you by the good folks in Islip, NY.
Complaints With Dad
October 04, 2020 20:27 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBAfter six plus months to "15 Days to Flatten the Curve," it's pretty clear that the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic have been more far reaching than originally expected. Then again, it's 2020, so of course, they are. Rodbo has your BEER of the WEEK, while Dave's BINGE is a surprising Return to Tomorrow. Being as it's 2020, would anybody really be surprised by cursing parrots or a bunch of mummies? Of course, in a hundred years, we'll look back on this and think to ourselves, "Why ...
There's A Knack to Learning to Fly
September 27, 2020 20:19 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBDave decided to try to learn to fly. It went about as well as one could expect when he failed to stick the landing. It's also Yom Kippur, Judaism's favorite celebration of joy and happiness and everything we have ever done wrong, even the things the things we don't know we did wrong. The BEER of the WEEK isn't a Beer, but it is quite delicious. Dave's Historical Rabbit Hole gets to the bottom of why Modesto, CA has a motto that is not the one for which the people of Modesto actuall...
The Woke AI
September 20, 2020 20:22 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn the event that you did not already know, the boys are celebrating the Most Important Week in history today. The week followed what was obviously a very Merry Christmas… What, if anything, is the difference between being “woke” and being a person of faith? There are an uncomfortable numbers of similarities between being in a a faith system and being “woke” politically speaking. It’s actually becoming harder top tell the difference as “wokeness” becomes more and more a religion. Rod ...
Agent Provocateur
September 13, 2020 15:55 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWith Rodbo away on a TOP SECRET mission, Tim Preuss, who says that he hates the ACLU, steps into the weekly conversation. And we take a look at the recent setto over the acceptance of Nick Sandman, yes that guy, at a college of which you most likely have never heard in a place that is beautiful, but apparently full of secret agents looking to provoke things. RodBo did leave us with his BEER of the WEEK, and Dave tried really hard to Binge-watch TV, any TV this week, while Tim doesn’t even ...
The Airplane! Offense
September 06, 2020 20:30 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBForty years ago, a film changed the way we watch movies. Well... not really, but it did make us laugh. And we mean we laughed so hard we wet our pants and had to hold the popcorn bucket in front of our pants when we left the theater. Now along comes a couple of Gen Xers who have decided that brilliant film was "sexist, racist" and don't forget about the naked breasts, of which there were two and only for a second. The real problem is that they don't understand why it's funny. Mostly beca...
Baseball Joe
August 30, 2020 20:50 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBDave has had an epiphany. It turns out, thanks to a cutting edge TV ad, that he has learned that it is entirely Trump’s fault that baseball has been eviscerated. Thank the baseball gods, Joe Biden, “Baseball Joe,” is GOING TO BRING IT BACK!!!!! Which is pretty much all that is keeping Dave sane right now, because everything, even breathing, has now been labeled “racist.” Because you are listening to a white cis-gendered podcast, you too, are a racist. After Dave ventured down the Historica...
The Geometry of COVID-19
August 23, 2020 21:35 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBSome pandemics have lasted as much as two hundred and thirty-eight years. It is beginning to feel like we've been that long - and more - already. It's getting to Dave, and to Cami who has a problem with the Geometry of COVID-19. Never eat more anything that is almost as big as you. If you do, you will probably die or at least have a bad case of indigestion...
The Cattle of Ra
August 17, 2020 02:11 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBIt’s really hot. Seriously hot. Despite that heat, Dave & Rod are still here with your weekly look at what’s going on, even if they can’t decide on a new name for the show. After months of pretending to go to school online, are students really learning anything? On The BINGE, Rod is introducing his young, innocent child to a tale of Superheroes being creepy and destructive. Dave is back to his old habits watching history and travel shows. This leads us to the HISTORICAL RABBIT HOLE of the ...
Robust
August 09, 2020 20:31 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBIn Minsk today, there is a Presidential election going on. You didn’t know that? The current President is an “authoritarian style leader.” Or, if you prefer, a totalitarian dictator. His opponent is the wife of a jailed YouTube sensation. which explains why the whole place is shut down today. It also raises some questions about what would happen here if the election in November doesn’t go the way some people want it to go? Rodbo’s BEER of the WEEK is best defined as “robust.” Dave heads dow...
Gut! (That's German for "Good!")
August 04, 2020 02:17 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBWe’re late, but we’re here! Dave has a terrible secret about towels that will finally come to light. If he can get down the stairs that is. Rod has been confined to the couch with his bride to watch the most terrible and hideous show on television. Luckily, he has a great BEER of the WEEK. Dave heads down a Rabbit Hole that started when he watched a movie he’d never seen before. It ended with the splat of David Hasselhoff singing with Men Jeong. Microsoft is trying to buy Tik Tok, which ...
Bioluminescent National Park Pit Toilets
July 26, 2020 21:06 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBThe worst job in the entire world would be the guy who has to clean out the pit toilets in a National Park (or anywhere else, for that matter). Specifically, Yosemite National Park, where the tourons from "Asia" (being typical Americans we are unable to make a distinction), are pooping out the COVID into the pit toilets in the park. The numbers seem meaningless, but that is not going to stop Jay "Zero" Inslee from inflicting Lockdown 2.0 on Washington State. Meanwhile, there are some thi...
Epstein's Metal Memes
July 20, 2020 00:26 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBMore threats of more lockdowns lead to even less thinking on the part of people on Social Media. this is evidenced by the proliferation of Epstein/Obama memes, at least one of which is so wrong that you would literally have to have to be dumber than cabbage to believe it. Which is why it got posted more than once over the week. Dave apologizes for being forced by other people to do something offensive a mere forty-seven years ago, and also did not win the Medal of Honor, although he is free...
Æthelred the Podcast
July 13, 2020 00:32 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBIn honor of Ben's tenth birthday, Dave violates his #1 Rule abut the getting into the Sharks Houses... Rod doesn't speak French, or southern. we know this because his BEER of the WEEK is a southern delicacy from Mississippi. Should Teenagers be able to "pre-register" to vote? As Ben is now ten years old, this might be an issue sooner rather than later. For Rod, it was an issue this past week as he took one of his kids to get a driver's permit. Three strong competitors vie for the Patri...
Rabbit Holes. Deep Rabbit Holes...
July 06, 2020 00:19 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBAfter a very busy Independence Day week, the boys are back. Rod's daughter got married. The President's speech has generated a flurry of responses from both sides, but one, in particular, had Dave chasing it down a very, very, very, weird rabbit hole. We have actually reached the point where a porn star's swimsuit is a bigger political storm than the actual politicians. Meanwhile, it's still true that it isn't "what" is said, but rather "who" says it." We forgot to award the Patrick Kreb...
Doomscrolling
June 28, 2020 20:59 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBIs the protest formerly known as CHAZ about to get "Red Pilled?" How do we even have a clue as to what to believe about what is going on? If we keep on "Doomscrolling" we end up driving ourselves crazy trying to figure out what is going on in the glorious Peoples Demokratick Repulick of #CHOP, or anywhere else for that matter. Facebook Memes are another part of the problem. Just because a given meme says that somebody you don't know and that you have never met said something that you like...
Who Built The Pyramids?
June 22, 2020 00:08 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBThe world will end today or in six months. There is bad news because of this: it means that we will have to go through another Presidential election. We will also tell you the good news because of it! A recent article from a history site he follows has Dave contemplating more of the issues we face as a society. The big question is how do we overcome the "Lost Cause" Mythology that permeates the discussion? Rod has your Beer of the Week but The Binge, a mainstay segment of the COVID lockd...
The Patrick Krebbs Memorial Listener of the Week Award
June 14, 2020 22:31 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBThere was a rumor floating about the bowels of the interwebs that the Hells Angels AND the Mongols were both on their way up I-5 to "take care of" the CHAZ. Like so many things on the interwebs it turned out to be a white rabbit hole that went nowhere. That said, there is still a lot more to unpack about the CHAZ, or CHOP, as they prefer to be called. Is there an actual "solution" to the CHAZ? If there is, what might it look like? Or does it even matter? The Beer of the Week is not the on...
Brought To you By ToLo's - Now Available OTC in Full Prescription Strength!
June 09, 2020 03:39 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThe boys are looking for ways to survive the ongoing stress created by the Coronavirus pandemic. While Rod is used to staying home, Dave's family is most definitely not and they want to go to their favorite place to go out to eat. Which locally is still closed, but a hundred miles away, it's open. Albeit in the most COVID-19 way possible. Meanwhile, Sir Isaac Newton may have found the preventative medicine that we all need to protect ourselves. Yes... even while he was discovering gravity A...
Well... That Escalated Quickly...
May 31, 2020 20:05 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBDiamond & Rod are joined by Bill Mick from WMMB-AM in Melbourne, Florida, where American just launched her first astronauts into space from US soil is almost a decade. Bill generally has a front-row seat for launches and as a long time Floridian, he also knows Florida Man personally. He is also a former Police Officer, so as D&R come back to Earth, the discussion turns to the riots across the country over the death of a black man at the hands of a white cop in Minneapolis, MN. The discuss...
$10 Million
May 25, 2020 14:47 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBDid you know that the US Government values a human life at $10 Million? So in the time of COVID, the argument goes, your freedom is worth $10 Million? Or have we gone so far afield of where we should have gone that there’s really no way to put a value on our lives anymore? The models were off, but models (except for Cindy Crawford) are pretty much ALWAYS wrong, but it’s looking more and more like the ones used to eviscerate the economy were as wrong as six rabbits*. Nobody seems to have the...
The Epic Inconveniencing of Samuel Peyps
May 17, 2020 21:12 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBAfter a really rough day, the boys sit down and ponder if a short film by Kevin James is truly representative of the world to come, post-COVID? Around the country people are being arrested - yes, arrested - for not complying with orders to stay inside. Perhaps the boys can look for some inspiration from somebody who has been through all of this kind of thing before? Luckily, there is just such a man. He is (or was) one Samuel Peyps (Peeps), MP (Castle Rising) and the Chief Secretary to the...
Can I Speak to a Manager?
May 11, 2020 02:55 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAs the pandemic mutates from actually being about a virus into mere virtue signaling, Karen would like to see your manager... Dave is watching real, live baseball, just not MLB baseball, while Rod has gone to seek Valhalla.
The McRib Truthers
May 04, 2020 05:27 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBIn the ongoing debate over what is speech and what is propaganda, it is the humble McRib Sandwich, a tangy BBQ flavored hunk of more or less meat that reminds us that not all conspiracy theories are equal... Ellul's discussion of Propaganda as referenced by Dave The Weird History of the McRib Story they talk about The Kentucky Derby Triple Crown Showdown
At Least Liberty Valance Was Wearing a Mask & Maintaining Proper Social Distancing
April 26, 2020 20:16 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBThe lesson of the greatest American Western film ever made is that the legend is more important than the actual facts about what happened. Of course, this whole idea of moral pandemic has been studied before. In 1973 an English (nationality, not discipline) professor by the name of Cohen came up with the five characteristics of moral panics. Pretty much all of them are familiar to us and to the Karen's of the world who want you to know that if you don't do things as they wish, they will use...
COVIDGATE
April 19, 2020 01:18 - 1 hour - 58 MBAs #Coronafest2020 drags on, it is starting to wear on folks and their idea of how far the government can go in exercising "emergency powers." It really all depends on exactly what constitutes "an emergency." When you stop to think about it, the whole thing is a little bit unsettling. But when we go back in history to Dave's binge-watching list for this week, we find that once upon a time, people on both sides were willing - and eager - to set aside Constitutional precepts in order to get ...
Masks
April 12, 2020 02:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDave’s Coronafest2020 Mask is not very functional, but it looks cool. Meanwhile, religious services are becoming a form of pushing back against the Stay-at-Home restrictions, including the return of the Bundy, Jr., who wants Jesus to punish you because you don’t believe what he believes. In Mississippi, the Lobsterbacks are writing tickets to people sitting in their cars with the windows rolled up at religious services. As the government turns to technology to track the virus, how far are ...
The Axe Throwing Championships
April 06, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB#Cornoafest2020 continues with Dave having reached rock bottom in his television viewing. Meanwhile, the nation-state of California, led by the exploding Bat of a Governor, is reduced to arresting people for paddleboarding. In the ocean. If form follows function, it could be a 7th amendment issue. But only if you remember that before you pay the fine. At least one person listens to DNR and has sent the boys his Binge-Watching List. They rate it, and perhaps unsurprisingly, know little to no...
There's An App For That
March 31, 2020 03:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBIs sticking to your Stay-at-Home routine not getting you enough exercise? Lucky for you, there’s an app for that! Don’t worry about who is making the app. How are Dave and Rod holding up after yet another week of Social Distance and Stay-at-Home-ing? For Dave, there is at least one massive positive from all this, and it’s not having to deal with the VA via teleconferencing. For Rod, it’s muscle relaxers and being ignored by teenagers. For all of that, whether the reaction to the Coronavirus...
Live from Tooting Common
March 17, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBIt’s been a bit over a week, Diamond and Rod are here to check in after all that time of Social Distancing. The news continues to get weird, from who the networks are putting on the TV as “expert commentators” to the celebrity tweets. Even the web articles seem to come and go as the narrative shifts. At the end of the day, who do you trust and to whom do you listen? It seems that binge-watching shows is a thing that everybody is doing. Diamond and Rod are no exception, although their lists...
Bitch, This Is Modesto!
March 11, 2020 03:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBDiamond & Rod Talk Tech, Culture, Current Events, News, Drinks, Sports, Humor, History or whatever strikes their fancy, all while enjoying an adult beverage or two. Or three. If they pass out, DO NOT RESUSCITATE! Episode One: Bitch, This is Modesto! If pretty much everybody, even the cast of Saturday Night Live, gets that the reaction to the Coronavirus is blown far out of proportion to reality, why does the overblown reaction continue? Is it psychological? Or moral? Is it every Alex Jones...