The Will of Zeus

Welcome back, Frock Nation! This week’s episode of What the Frock?, titled “The Will of Zeus”, might just be the most gloriously grumpy, divinely questionable, and politically perplexing one yet.

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod return from their brief (and mucinex-soaked) hiatus with a fire in their bellies and sinuses full of snark. After spending the last episode confidently predicting that rent control in Washington was dead and that there was absolutely no chance an American would be elected Pope, our favorite clerics now humbly (and hilariously) eat crow. With a side of communion wafers, naturally.

Rabbi Dave opens with righteous indignation over Washington State’s eleventh-hour rent control bill—revived like Lazarus with a legal sleight of hand worthy of the Vatican itself. Meanwhile, Friar Rod offers up California’s economic follies as a case study in how not to govern. Then, the main event: the surprise election of an American Pope. A White Sox fan. From Chicago. Possibly Peruvian. Definitely conservative on doctrine, but vocally anti-Trump. In other words, a theological Rorschach test.

The Holy Spirit gets dragged into the discussion, much to Dave’s chagrin, who suggests, perhaps, that divine inspiration is less a celestial whisper and more a dice roll behind closed doors. Rod plays the foil, insisting on divine providence even in flawed vessels—like conclaves and cable news segments.

But the absurdity does not stop there.

This week’s “WTF Segment” dives into the strange tale of a road-rage victim returning from the dead (via AI) to deliver a victim impact statement in court. It’s part spiritual closure, part Black Mirror, and all WTF. Oh, and there’s also a mother blindsided by $4,000 worth of Dum Dums ordered by her son in a bid to start his own carnival empire. Because of course there is.

If you are in the mood for a heady cocktail of papal politics, American dysfunction, theological sarcasm, and a dash of AI ethics, this episode is your Sunday sermon.

So pour the coffee, light a candle to Zeus (or maybe just Alexa), and press play on the latest episode of What the Frock?, available wherever podcasts are excommunicated.