What The Frock

This week’s episode of What The Frock? begins not with a bang, but a eulogy.

Rabbi Dave, wearing the weight of grief like an old, fraying tallit, sits down alone behind the mic to tell listeners something he never wanted to say: Friar Rod is dead.

At least, that’s what AI told him.

With solemnity and sincere sorrow, Rabbi Dave begins to share his memories of Rod — how they met, how the show came to be, how much Rod meant to him both on the mic and off. It’s heartfelt. It’s raw. It’s radio at its most personal.

Turns out, he’s not dead. Not even mostly. Just digitally misidentified by an overeager AI program that confused our beloved Friar with a long-deceased British actor of the same name.

What follows is one of the most surreal, hilarious, and utterly What The Frock? moments ever aired. The eulogy becomes a reunion. The tears give way to jabs about IPA beer, eulogies pre-written, and the perils of trusting AI for anything more serious than choosing toppings on a pizza.

But the episode doesn’t stop there. Rod and Dave dive into the failure of AI submarine research (seriously, it thought the USS Pike was in two places at once), a tsunami scare, dubious medical supplement advice, and even the absurdity of Major League Baseball scheduling a game during peak thunderstorm season in Bristol.

And yes, for those keeping track: Rod is still not dead.

This episode is unlike any other. It’s part emotional gut-punch, part Monty Python sketch, part technological cautionary tale — and entirely on brand for two ordained misfits broadcasting from opposite ends of reason.

If you’ve ever laughed at death, screamed at AI, or been grateful for the second chance to tell a friend you love them — this is your episode.

Raise a pint (just not an IPA), and join Rabbi Dave and the not-so-late Friar Rod for this week’s What The Frock?

Because in the age of artificial intelligence, you can’t believe everything you read… especially your own obituary.