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  • WTF - The 150-Year Question

    WTF - The 150-Year Question
    2026/06/07
    This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod tackle one of the most fascinating questions of the modern age: if medical science continues advancing at its current pace, how long should we expect to live, and would we even want to? What begins as a conversation about longevity quickly turns into a thoughtful exploration of purpose, legacy, aging, faith, technology, and the changing world around us. Along the way, the discussion moves from deeply personal reflections to broader questions about society, medicine, and what it means to live a meaningful life. The episode also ventures into some surprising territory. Dave shares a military story that raises questions about faith, identity, and tradition. The conversation examines how institutions adapt to a changing culture and why seemingly small policy decisions can spark unexpectedly passionate reactions. As always, there are detours. A discussion about sports fandom takes an unexpected historical turn, leading to one of Dave's favorite unsolved mysteries. There are stories from the Navy, reflections on family, observations about modern culture, and more than a few moments of humor that only What The Frock? could produce. The episode wraps up with a lighthearted debate that may permanently change the way you think about a famous science fiction film. Whether you come for the philosophy, the history, the theology, or the laughs, this week's conversation offers a little bit of everything. Join Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod for another wide-ranging journey through the ideas, stories, and questions that make life interesting. Just be prepared to leave with a few new things to think about.
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    56 分
  • Thoughts on Sportsball

    Thoughts on Sportsball
    2026/06/05
    Why are you a fan of the teams you love? It sounds like a simple question, but the answer may reveal more about America than sports. For generations, loyalty to a team was rooted in geography. You cheered for the local club because it represented your city, your neighborhood, and your community. The Dodgers belonged to Brooklyn. The Broncos belonged to Denver. The Mariners belonged to Seattle. But does that still hold true in the twenty-first century? In this episode of Plausibly Live, Dave Bowman explores the changing nature of sports fandom in an era of fantasy leagues, social media, corporate ownership, and constant mobility. Why do we support the teams we support? Is it where we live, where we grew up, the players we admire, or simply the stories that captured our imagination as children? Along the way, Dave dives into the growing controversy over taxpayer-funded stadiums, the ongoing battles involving franchises seeking new facilities, and whether fans should continue subsidizing billionaire owners. He also examines the fascinating ownership models used in Japanese baseball and Korean professional sports, asking whether America could ever adopt a similar approach. From the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field to the Denver Broncos, Philadelphia Flyers, and Seattle Mariners, this is a conversation about sports, identity, community, and what happens when the connection between a team and a place begins to fade. It is a thought-provoking look at sports history, stadium politics, Major League Baseball, and the future of fandom itself.
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    29 分
  • DDH - Ride, Rodney, Ride!

    DDH - Ride, Rodney, Ride!
    2026/06/02
    As Americans, we celebrate July 4, 1776, as Independence Day. We gather for fireworks, parades, and patriotic ceremonies, honoring the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yet many historians point to another date as the true moment the United States was born: July 2, 1776. In this episode of Liberty 250, we explore one of the most dramatic and overlooked stories of the American Revolution, the legendary ride of Caesar Rodney. As the Second Continental Congress debated Richard Henry Lee's Resolution for Independence, the vote hung in the balance. Pennsylvania was divided. South Carolina hesitated. New York abstained. Delaware stood deadlocked. Only one man could break that tie. Eighty miles away in Dover, Delaware, Caesar Rodney mounted his horse and rode through a violent summer storm toward Philadelphia. Suffering from illness and exhaustion, he pressed forward through mud, darkness, thunder, and rain to reach Independence Hall before the decisive vote. His arrival on July 2, 1776 helped secure Delaware's support for independence and paved the way for the unanimous approval of the Lee Resolution, the legal act that severed the American colonies from Great Britain. Join us as we examine the events leading to American independence, the debates of the Continental Congress, the role of John Adams, John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee, and Caesar Rodney, and why one remarkable overnight ride helped change the course of history. This is the story behind the Delaware Quarter, the birth of the United States, and the forgotten day that John Adams believed would be celebrated forever.
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    38 分
  • WTF - Pizza! Pizza!

    WTF - Pizza! Pizza!
    2026/05/31
    What happens when pizza, James Bond, Mikhail Gorbachev, artificial intelligence, Daylight Saving Time, Colorado hippies, and the color purple all collide in the same conversation? Welcome to another delightfully unhinged episode of What The Frock? This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod explore the fascinating concept known as the “Pizza Effect,” the strange cultural phenomenon where an idea, tradition, or belief leaves its original home, evolves somewhere else, and then returns to become accepted as authentic. It sounds ridiculous until you realize it explains everything from modern pizza to political narratives, social media outrage, and even international tourism. Along the way, our hosts discuss whether Italy really owns pizza, how a James Bond movie accidentally changed Mexican culture, why people seem willing to change their opinions overnight, and how the debate over Artificial Intelligence has reached even the mountains of Colorado. They also examine the curious relationship between AI technology, public perception, and the growing resistance to data centers across the American West. As if that were not enough, the conversation wanders into the mysteries of Daylight Saving Time, the science behind whether purple is a real color, and the philosophical question of whether reality itself exists outside our consciousness. If you enjoy current events commentary, cultural analysis, AI discussions, history podcasts, technology news, and the occasional pizza-fueled existential crisis, this episode is for you. Grab a slice, pull up a chair, and join Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod for an unforgettable journey through culture, perception, technology, and the wonderfully strange ways human beings convince themselves that things are true. Welcome to Pizza! Pizza!
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    55 分
  • DDH - An Appeal to Heaven

    DDH - An Appeal to Heaven
    2026/05/26
    The old pine tree flag has suddenly become controversial again, which tells us less about the American Revolution than it does about how badly modern Americans have forgotten their own history. In this episode, we trace the true origins of the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, from the towering white pines of colonial New England to the decks of George Washington’s improvised navy during the first desperate months of the Revolution. Along the way, we uncover the deeper meaning behind the flag’s famous motto, borrowed directly from John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government. “An Appeal to Heaven” was never a slogan of casual rebellion. It was a grave philosophical declaration that a people had exhausted every earthly avenue for justice and believed they now answered directly to a higher moral law. We also explore how the pine tree itself became a symbol of resistance after the British Crown attempted to seize New England’s forests for the Royal Navy, sparking riots, resentment, and eventually revolution. Most importantly, we examine how historical symbols are redefined in modern political battles by people who often know very little about the actual history behind them. Because once a nation forgets the meaning of its own symbols, it becomes dangerously easy for someone else to redefine them.
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    39 分
  • WTF - Fireworks?

    WTF - Fireworks?
    2026/05/24
    This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander bravely into the increasingly foggy borderlands between reality and whatever the internet has decided reality ought to be this week. Artificial intelligence is rewriting politics faster than anyone expected. Viral AI videos now spread through social media before fact-checkers have even located their reading glasses. Campaigns are learning that attention matters more than airtime, and somewhere along the way politics stopped being politics and became entertainment infrastructure with attack ads. But the conversation does not stop there. Why do human beings believe strange things in the first place? Why does astrology survive in an age of science? Is modern society replacing organized religion with personalized spirituality assembled from crystals, horoscopes, internet gurus, and emotionally supportive algorithms? And perhaps most unsettling of all, what happens when AI begins manufacturing not merely information, but meaning itself? Then, because civilization is incapable of discussing existential dread for too long without snacks and explosions, the show turns toward the Fourth of July and the growing trend of replacing fireworks with drone shows. Cleaner? Certainly. Safer? Probably. But are we losing something primal when rebellion itself becomes synchronized battery management? Along the way there are discussions about fake history, church sermons written by AI, robot garbage trucks, Memorial Day, tinnitus, moon water, and why the universe apparently refuses to text anyone back. In other words, a perfectly normal episode of What The Frock?.
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Liberty 250 - The Music(al) Part 2

    Liberty 250 - The Music(al) Part 2
    2026/05/20
    Two hundred and fifty years ago, a handful of farmers, merchants, lawyers, preachers, smugglers, and stubborn troublemakers looked at the most powerful empire on earth and quietly began asking a dangerous question: what if government exists to serve the people, instead of the people existing to serve government? That question changed the world. But the road to independence did not begin with muskets at Lexington or signatures in Philadelphia. It began much earlier, in taverns thick with argument, in sermons warning about liberty and tyranny, in newspapers filled with outrage, and in ordinary people slowly realizing they no longer thought of themselves the same way. Piece by piece. Law by law. Grievance by grievance. This series is not just about battles or famous names. It is about ideas. About standing armies in city streets. About taxes and consent. About kings, crowds, mobs, Parliament, pamphlets, and the eternal struggle between power and liberty. It is about human beings trying to decide whether freedom is worth the cost that always comes with it. And because history is never just dates on a page, we are telling this story through music. Songs that sound like the Revolution felt, hopeful, angry, frightened, defiant, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always human. This is Liberty 250. The road to July 4th, 1776. And the story of how Americans learned to think like Americans. Yankee Doodle Standing in Our Streets Evacuation Day George's Concurrence Oh, Canada... Rome to Home The Word Safety & Happiness It's Not Us, It's you The Ghost of Cylon Ride, Rodney, Ride! The Greatest Sentence ever Written (Finale)
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    1 時間 10 分
  • DDH - By Your Command

    DDH - By Your Command
    2026/05/19
    On September 17, 1978, millions of Americans sat down to watch a brand-new science fiction series called Battlestar Galactica. They expected spaceships, laser battles, strange planets, and chrome-plated robots marching under the chilling phrase, “By your command.” What they probably did not expect was that buried beneath the music, helmets, and Vipers was one of the oldest political warnings in human history. This episode of Dave Does History follows a thread stretching from the Acropolis of ancient Athens to the Roman Senate, from the writings of Plato and Aristotle to the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence. Long before the Cylons appeared on television screens, the Greeks and Romans had already spent centuries wrestling with a terrifying question: how does a free society lose itself to tyranny? The story begins with Cylon of Athens, an ambitious Olympic champion who attempted to seize power in 632 BCE. It moves through the rise and fall of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the Roman hatred of kings, and the Founding Fathers’ belief that King George III had become a tyrant in the ancient sense of the word. Because the American Revolution was never simply about taxes. It was about a fear as old as civilization itself: that free people, if careless enough, eventually wake up one morning and realize they are no longer free.
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    38 分