They say truth is stranger than fiction—and in this week’s episode of What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod double down on that proverb with a delightfully unfiltered journey through lost weeks, digital artistry, and bat-wielding baseball conspiracies. Spoiler alert: it’s weird, it’s witty, and it’s wildly on-brand.
Right out of the gate, Rabbi Dave shares the trials of a kidney stone sneak attack that derailed his week—and his 10,000-step streak—with the kind of painful precision and gallows humor that only a man pacing 14,000 steps through agony can conjure. And while he’s fending off both pain and ER bills, Friar Rod checks in from Flowery Branch, Georgia, armed with a borrowed gaming headset and a good-natured chuckle.
The boys riff on government tech gaffes, including the juicy Signal app leak involving some less-than-savvy staffers and one overly eager Atlantic editor. They float the “Canary Trap” theory with all the skepticism and glee of two men who’ve read a Cold War thriller or ten—and perhaps written a few in their heads.
But it’s not all cloak-and-dagger. No, no. The episode dives headfirst into the anime-scented chaos of AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style art, with Rabbi Dave gleefully confessing his late arrival to the anime party and both hosts debating whether AI is destroying creativity—or just helping it wear better shoes. Spoiler: they use it, love it, and laugh at the Luddites who don’t.
Speaking of visuals: let’s talk about the Chesapeake Baysox’s… unfortunate… new alternate identity as the “Oyster Catchers.” Their new logo? It looks alarmingly like female anatomy, and Rabbi Dave isn’t buying the “we didn’t notice” defense. Let’s just say the team’s attempt at philanthropic cover (complete with a cervical cancer charity tie-in) only deepens the hilarity—and the suspicion.
Finally, it’s baseball season, and Rabbi Dave is already in midseason despair. The Mariners are floundering, the Yankees are inventing physics-defying torpedo bats, and the minor leagues are running wild with asparagus mascots and anatomically ambiguous logos.
This is an episode where kidney stones meet AI ethics, government leaks meet baseball geeks, and through it all, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod manage to say what everyone’s thinking… out loud, with a wink and a groan.
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