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What The Frock?

Dave Bowman and Roderick Cook

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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00:52:25

The Superb Owlympics

What The Frock? ·

2022/02/13

Friar Cook and Rabbi Dave take a look at the Winter Olympic Games, which nobody seems to be watching (except for Mrs. Friar). The weird thing is that 75% of the West Taiwanese Ice Hockey team, which is only in the games because of a rule that says the host country get an automatic bid, is in fact, not actually, technically, per se, West Taiwanese... Meanwhile, the cancelling crazies continue, this time their target is the singer Adele, who is proud to be a woman. NASA has released some rather

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00:54:25

San Juan De La Vega (ka-BOOM!!!!)

What The Frock? ·

2022/02/06

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are back to talk about some really exciting news - the Good Friar is a Grandfather! Dave has been waiting several weeks for the calendar to turn to February so as to be able to celebrate one of the greatest Goliard festivals ever conceived. It is held every February in a little place called San Juan de la Vega in Mexico and it is now in the top 5 on Dave's bucket list...

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00:56:52

The Reign of Confusion

What The Frock? ·

2022/01/31

After 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.

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00:59:17

Waiting on the Tour de France

What The Frock? ·

2022/01/16

The 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 has gone bat

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00:43:53

Happy Freaking New Year...

What The Frock? ·

2022/01/10

It'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?"

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01:05:19

Birds Aren't Real

What The Frock? ·

2021/12/12

It’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 they want

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00:56:38

Omnicraw

What The Frock? ·

2021/12/05

Rabbi 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 Cuomo still

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00:50:00

Yippee-Ki-Hanukkah!

What The Frock? ·

2021/11/28

Rabbi 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’ll all make

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00:43:03

Slap An Armadillo Day

What The Frock? ·

2021/11/21

Both 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?

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00:45:56

St. Brice's Day

What The Frock? ·

2021/11/14

Rabbi 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…

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00:55:22

How You Dune?

What The Frock? ·

2021/11/07

The 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, isnot easy. Listeners are sending us texts, and things are getting weird at nuclear power plants…

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00:59:43

My Friend the Witch Doctor

What The Frock? ·

2021/10/31

It’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 have bad

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01:01:02

The Raines Facebook

What The Frock? ·

2021/10/24

The 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. Sugar

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00:55:50

Oktoberfest

What The Frock? ·

2021/10/17

In 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 Labor Day

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01:01:35

Crab Rangoon's

What The Frock? ·

2021/10/10

Rabbi 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 Rangoon's are

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00:56:48

Day by Day

What The Frock? ·

2021/10/03

Rabbi 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 "White

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00:49:22

The Grand Inquisitor

What The Frock? ·

2021/09/28

Rabbi 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 sexist, and and

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00:53:30

Absurd Arguments (In Pirate)

What The Frock? ·

2021/09/19

Rabbi 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!

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00:52:59

How To Murder Your Husband

What The Frock? ·

2021/09/12

When it's November in his soul, Rabbi Dave gets morose. Friar Rod provides some therapy and counseling, because that's what Frockmen do...

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00:59:29

King Louis' Dirty Derriere

What The Frock? ·

2021/09/05

On 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 French King

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