Welcome to What The Frock, where history, theology, politics, and common sense all sit at the same table and politely argue over the chips. This episode is titled “Only (Need 100) Fans,” which sounds like a joke until you realize it is also a completely accurate description of how modern speech works in the algorithmic age.

In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod ring in the new year by immediately proving that calendars cannot be trusted. From there, the conversation moves briskly into Venezuela, oil, China’s long game, and why people keep pretending any of this is new. We talk about slogans versus reality, power versus intention, and how history keeps tapping us on the shoulder while we scroll past it.

Then things get personal. California policy, public health, tortillas, and the strange urge to fix human beings by statute all make an appearance. Scripture follows close behind, including Solomon, Ahab, Elijah, and the uncomfortable truth that wisdom does not always travel with good judgment.

And finally, we confront the great modern gatekeeper. You may speak freely, but you may not broadcast without permission. All it takes is 100 followers. No loyalty oath required.

Thoughtful, skeptical, occasionally irreverent, and entirely human, this is What The Frock doing what it does best. Pull up a chair. Click follow. History is watching.

In this episode, we wander cheerfully from missed dates and misplaced years into Venezuela, oil, China’s long game, and why shouting slogans is not the same thing as understanding history. We detour through California’s latest attempt to fix humanity by statute, ask whether public health works better with consent than compulsion, and then take a sharp turn into scripture, wisdom, and why King Solomon might not have been the relationship role model people think.

And finally, we confront the modern truth. In the digital age, speech is free, but broadcasting requires permission. All we need is 100 followers. That is it. History has survived worse odds.

Good evening and welcome to the What The Frock New Year’s Eve special, an annual ritual in which we pause, take stock, raise a glass, and verify that the planet is still here. It is. We checked.

Tonight’s episode is titled AI Did NOT Destroy The World… This Year, Anyway…, which is both a statement of fact and a quiet expression of surprise. For twelve months we were promised doom by headline, apocalypse by algorithm, and replacement by software. Instead, what we got was confusion at scale, confidence without competence, and machines that talk very smoothly while being spectacularly wrong.

In this episode, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod do what they do best. They poke, prod, laugh, and occasionally squint at the future while standing firmly in the present. They talk about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and the vast and fertile territory in between where most of the trouble still lives. There are stories, there is philosophy, there is champagne, and there is at least one reminder that tools have always been dangerous in the hands of people who stop thinking.

So pour yourself something celebratory, or medicinal, or both. The year is ending. The world remains stubbornly intact. And for one more night, we ask the question that matters most.

What the frock just happened?