What The Frock

There are weeks when the news feels like a Greek tragedy, and weeks when it feels like a carnival barker hopped up on Red Bull and bad intent. This episode of What the Frock? lives squarely in the latter. Strap in. Keep your arms inside the Overton Window at all times.

It starts the way all modern confusion starts, with a news aggregator blinking like a slot machine, jackpot headlines screaming about a Minneapolis ICE shooting, stacked eight deep, like the editors were building a Jenga tower of outrage and hoping gravity would do the rest. Meanwhile, the actual tectonic plates of the world are grinding loudly somewhere offstage. Iran is on fire, the internet is dark, protests are rolling, rumors are flying faster than a TikTok conspiracy theorist with a ring light, and the Supreme Leader is allegedly “eliminated,” which is one of those words that sounds precise until you realize it means absolutely nothing.

And that is the point.

This episode is not about Minneapolis. Not really. It is about narrative dominance, media triage, and the uncanny ability of social media to decide what matters before anyone bothers to check if it is true. It is about why one story becomes the sun and everything else gets reduced to Pluto status, circling quietly until someone remembers it exists.

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod do not pretend to have a crystal ball. What they do have is a finely tuned allergy to coordinated moral theater. When the same people who were waving Hamas flags last week suddenly roll out identical posts declaring Hamas evil, eyebrows go up. When legacy media ignores protests that do not fit its philosophical priors, alarms go off. When AI cannot confirm whether a regime leader is alive, dead, or just having a very bad hair day, skepticism becomes the only adult in the room.

And then there is the algorithm. That invisible puppeteer deciding whether you see a grieving mother, a violent provocateur, or nothing at all. One event, ten realities, all filtered through who you follow and what makes you angry enough to keep scrolling. Fair and balanced never stood a chance.

The episode zigzags deliberately, because reality does. From Iran to Minneapolis to Seattle ferries falling apart like a Marxist infrastructure parable, to climate math that misses its target by nearly ten thousand percent, to alien comets that are definitely not alien comets unless you really need them to be. It is all connected by one uncomfortable question. How do you know what you are seeing is real?

The answer is not comforting. Cooler heads are required, but cooler heads do not trend. Emotional contagion spreads faster than facts, and outrage has better marketing. This episode does not offer easy answers. It offers something rarer. A refusal to play along.

If you are looking for affirmation, keep scrolling. If you are willing to laugh, wince, and maybe question the last thing you were absolutely sure about, welcome back. This is What the Frock?