What The Frock

The new year has arrived, which means the universe has once again rebooted itself without reading the release notes. Calendars have changed their minds, clocks are lying, and somewhere between December 31 and January 1 everyone briefly forgets how numbers work. Into this confusion strides What The Frock, returning for 2026 with an episode that answers the most pressing question of our age: why does modern civilization grind to a halt unless exactly 100 people click a button.

The episode is titled “Only (Need 100) Fans,” which sounds like a documentary about niche medieval windmill enthusiasts but is in fact a painfully accurate description of how the internet now functions. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod open the year the way sensible people do, by admitting they have no idea what day it is and immediately proving it. Retirement, it turns out, does not make time disappear. It simply removes the guardrails and lets it wander off into the woods .

From there, the conversation accelerates briskly into geopolitics, which is exactly what you want when you are still digesting holiday leftovers. Venezuela, oil, China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Monroe Doctrine are all unpacked with the cheerful bluntness of two men who have seen enough history to distrust slogans entirely. The phrase “it’s all about oil” is examined, dismantled, reassembled, and then handed back with instructions attached. If you were hoping for comfort, this is not the episode. If you were hoping for clarity, pull up a chair.

California then makes its traditional appearance, waving a brand new law and asking everyone to please stop asking questions. The discussion of mandatory folic acid in corn masa flour becomes a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of public health, biology, culture, and the dangerous assumption that all humans come with the same instruction manual. Dave pokes holes in the logic, Rod quietly points out the unintended consequences, and together they manage to make nutrition policy both understandable and faintly alarming.

Just when the listener begins to suspect that the show has become a policy seminar, it veers sharply into scripture. Favorite books of the Bible are discussed, wisdom is debated, and King Solomon’s resume is quietly questioned on practical grounds involving household management. Dave’s defense of Ahab as the most relatable man in scripture is less a theological argument than a reminder that history is full of deeply flawed people who somehow keep getting second chances. Bears are summoned. Baldness is weaponized. It is religion as it should be, complicated, human, and slightly unsettling.

Finally, the episode reveals its true purpose. Technology has spoken. Platforms have decreed. No livestream shall pass unless the sacred number is reached. One hundred followers. Not devotion. Not belief. Just a click. Thus begins the great What The Frock pledge drive, fueled by sarcasm, mild threats involving bears, and the tantalizing non promise of an OnlyFans account that absolutely should not exist.

This episode is not tidy. It does not behave. It wanders cheerfully from world affairs to tortilla chips to ancient kings and back again, stopping only to glare suspiciously at authority along the way. It is exactly what What The Frock has always been, a conversation between two people who refuse to pretend the world is simple and invite you to laugh while figuring it out anyway.

All they need is 100 fans. History suggests that should be the easy part.