Good morning, America, and welcome to the only show reckless enough to record live during a playoff-intensity hockey game before most of the country has located its coffee.

This week, we hit the microphones at dawn because somewhere in Milan, the schedule makers decided that U.S. versus Canada should be settled at an hour normally reserved for bakers and dairy cows. So yes, the game is on in the background. Yes, it’s chippy. And yes, you may hear spontaneous reactions that are either patriotic or deeply unhealthy. Possibly both.

From Olympic controversy and curling drama to tainted gold medals and athletic oversharing, we begin on the ice and then glide straight into the strange modern obsession with identification. Birth certificates. Real ID. The SAVE Act. Politicians who somehow travel internationally while claiming documents are impossible to find. If that sounds improbable, buckle up.

Then we detour through Seattle sports economics, millionaire taxes, the ghost of the SuperSonics, and why professional teams flee faster than common sense in an election year.

It’s hockey. It’s politics. It’s technology. It’s snow-covered New York streets and two forms of ID.

In other words, it’s another perfectly normal episode of What The Frock.

This week on What The Frock?, the world proves onceagain that it cannot be left unattended for five minutes.

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod lace up their skates and wade intoa week that includes American cricket triumph, Olympic scandal, auto-tunedhalftime theatrics, AI paranoia, and a voter ID debate that somehow manages tobe both deadly serious and deeply ridiculous. The United States T20 team pullsoff wins that have us technically sitting near the top of a brutal group, whichin sports terms means we are thrilled and cautiously bracing for reality at thesame time.

Meanwhile, the Winter Olympics serve up enough controversyto make even curling dramatic. A French judge’s scoring raises eyebrows.Canadian curlers are caught touching stones they absolutely should not betouching. Ice dancing becomes less about artistry and more about arithmetic. Itis sport, politics, and human nature sliding across the same sheet of ice.

From there, the conversation turns to the Superb Owlhalftime show, engineered music, and the uncomfortable question of what isactually real anymore in an age of AI everything. Add in a headline-dominatingkidnapping case and a spirited debate over identification laws, and you haveone beautifully bizarre episode.

Pour the coffee. This one gets weird fast.

This week on What the Frock?, the world shows up all at once, loudly, brightly, and with absolutely no regard for your attention span. Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take their usual seats at the intersection of faith, culture, and mild incredulity, only to discover that the universe has decided to pile on the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, T20 cricket, modern politics, and medical bureaucracy before breakfast.

It starts innocently enough with Olympic wonder, Italian mountains, music, and the simple joy of watching human beings do impossible things on snow. Then it veers, as it always does, into questions no one asked but everyone now has to live with, including how far elite athletes will go for a competitive edge and why you can never look at ski jumping the same way again.

Along the way there is laughter, skepticism, and a deeply personal detour through an emergency room experience that feels uncomfortably familiar in the modern age. Politics makes its entrance, spectacle does what spectacle always does, and cricket reminds us that hope is a fragile thing.

This is not a neat episode. It is not meant to be. It is a conversation for a crowded Sunday morning world, curious, amused, slightly appalled, and still willing to laugh. Welcome back.