What The Frock

In the unlikely event that you have just tuned your improbability drive to “maximum North American sports outrage,” welcome aboard.

This week’s episode of What The Frock opens not with a polite clearing of the throat, but with a curling stone skidding recklessly across the moral ice of civilization. On February 22, which some people remember as Washington’s Birthday and others remember as “that day Canada annoyed us before sunrise,” Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod fire up the microphones at an hour normally reserved for dairy farmers and insomniac owls.

Why so early? Because somewhere in Milan, Olympic officials scheduled a U.S.–Canada hockey showdown at a time that makes perfect sense if you live in Italy and absolutely no sense if you possess an American alarm clock. The result is a bleary-eyed, playoff-intensity broadcast where geopolitical grievances, caffeine levels, and live sports collide in real time.

But this is not merely about hockey. Oh no. That would be far too simple for a show titled What The Frock.

The episode spirals—gracefully, chaotically, magnificently—through Olympic controversies, “alleged” cheating in curling, tainted medals, and athletes making post-race confessions that would make a PR agent weep . There are scandals involving credit cards, relationship drama, and the sort of public oversharing that makes you grateful your most embarrassing moments were not broadcast internationally.

Then, like a philosopher-king with a digital Casio watch, Rabbi Dave pivots from Olympic absurdity to civic exasperation. The conversation barrels into voter ID debates, the SAVE Act, Real ID requirements, and the baffling gymnastics of politicians who apparently can travel internationally while claiming birth certificates are mythical artifacts hidden beneath the lost city of Atlantis . If you have ever wondered how public policy, common sense, and snow shovels intersect, this episode provides… answers. Or at least very energetic questions.

And because no discussion is complete without a side quest, the duo detours through Seattle sports economics, millionaire tax proposals, the ghost of the SuperSonics, and the peculiar fragility of professional franchises in a world where teams relocate faster than your favorite streaming show gets canceled.

Just when you think the improbability field cannot stretch any further, Colorado legislators wander into the operating system universe with a proposal that would require age verification at the OS level. Yes, your computer may soon need to know your birthday before it lets you open a browser, assuming the open source community does not simply laugh and download around it.

Throughout it all, the hockey game rages in the background. Fights break out. The score tightens. Stress levels climb. The third period looms like destiny itself.

What emerges is an episode that feels less like a tidy podcast and more like a live transmission from the edge of sports, politics, technology, and sleep deprivation. It is part commentary, part therapy session, part caffeinated symposium on modern absurdity.

In short, it is What The Frock in its purest form: two friends, two mics, one hockey game, and an entire civilization behaving strangely.

Bring your towel. And two forms of ID.