Episodios

  • WTF - Hawaiin Hallmark

    WTF - Hawaiin Hallmark
    Nov 25 2025
    The new episode of What The Frock opens with the familiar sound of two men who have seen enough of life to laugh at it without hesitation. Rabbi Dave is finally free of his shoulder sling. Friar Rod is back from Hawaii with a cold, a lighter wallet, and a renewed respect for the price of eating anything within sight of a beach. Together they settle into their chairs and start peeling back the strange layers of the week. The conversation moves from submarines and warm Pacific water to Bill Belichick’s new role as the country’s most unlikely reality figure. It turns out that a legendary coach, a very young girlfriend, and a loud podcaster can create more chaos than a blown coverage in the fourth quarter. From there the guys dig into the debate over unlawful orders, the burden placed on service members, and the political noise swirling around it all. It is sharp, funny, skeptical, and honest. In other words, it is What The Frock.
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    1 h
  • The Lgend of DB Cooper

    The Lgend of DB Cooper
    Nov 24 2025
    Thanksgiving Eve, 1971. While most Americans were carving turkeys or stuck in holiday traffic, a quiet man in a cheap suit and clip-on tie walked up to the Northwest Orient counter at Portland International Airport, paid twenty bucks cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle, and boarded Flight 305 like he belonged there. He gave his name as “Dan Cooper.” Nobody thought twice about it.
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    3 m
  • Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple

    Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple
    Nov 23 2025
    Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: John Milton’s Areopagitica, published on November 23, 1644, is the single most important prose defense of free speech ever written in the English language. Full stop. Nothing else comes close. Not Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration, not Mill’s On Liberty, not even Holmes’ Abrams dissent. Those are all brilliant, but they’re footnotes to Milton. Areopagitica is the headwaters.
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    3 m
  • The Proper Hecatombs

    The Proper Hecatombs
    Nov 23 2025
    Here is a **150-word introduction** specifically tailored **for the outline** you’re building, keeping the tone sharp, skeptical, poetic, and grounded in your frustration with Congress. No em dashes. Proper paragraphs. --- The story begins on the island of Pharos, where Menelaus sat stranded with treasure in his hull and no wind in his sails. He discovered the reason for his misery only when the old sea god revealed the truth. Menelaus had been so focused on gathering wealth that he forgot the sacrifice owed to the gods. His neglect trapped him. His arrogance stalled him. His failure of duty held him in place. That ancient lesson fits our moment with uncomfortable precision. While Menelaus wrestled for a way forward, our own leaders seem content to count their gold on the shore. Two modern politicians have enriched themselves while forgetting the tribute owed to the Republic and to the people who sent them to serve. Their actions reveal capriciousness, not duty. Today we will explore why this keeps happening and whether the nation still deserves better leadership.
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    30 m
  • The Most Beautiful Islands in the World

    The Most Beautiful Islands in the World
    Nov 22 2025
    I first learned about the Juan Fernández Islands from a documentary so spectacularly awful that it almost looped back around to brilliance. It was called Apocalypse Island, a kind of budget fever dream that promised ancient secrets, apocalyptic codes, and a stone monument that was supposed to point to the end of the world or something equally profound. The “history” in it was a wreck. The claims were laughable, the scholarship was nonexistent, and the tone landed somewhere between late night infomercial and campfire ghost story. As a historian it made my teeth hurt. But here is the problem. It was gorgeous. The cameras lingered on steep green mountains that rose straight out of the ocean, sea mist curling around basalt cliffs, clouds dragged low across knife edged ridges, and tiny boats nosing into emerald coves that looked like they had never heard of the twenty first century. For all the nonsense, the setting got under my skin. I walked away from that ridiculous program not convinced that the islands held prophetic secrets, but absolutely convinced that I wanted to go there one day. I wanted to see the real place, not the fantasy version. The Juan Fernández Islands do not need invented mysteries. Their actual history, and their fragile present, are more than enough.
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    3 m
  • Patrol Reportss - You Sank My Battleship!

    Patrol Reportss - You Sank My Battleship!
    Nov 21 2025
    The night air in the Formosa Strait felt like a lid pressed down on the sea. Clouds hung so low they nearly brushed the masthead light of anything tall enough to carry one. Rain drifted in and out as if the sky could not decide whether to spit or swallow. The water was rough, the wind stiff, and visibility sat so close to zero that even the best eyes in the Pacific Fleet would have been useless. It was the kind of place where battleships felt safe and submarines felt blind. The Japanese believed the strait offered shelter, with shallow water to limit diving, strong currents to confuse sonar, and the comfort of home waters after the chaos of Leyte Gulf. They had every reason to believe the night belonged to them.
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    4 m
  • Not More Illustrious for Public Services Than For Private Virtues

    Not More Illustrious for Public Services Than For Private Virtues
    Nov 21 2025
    Josiah Bartlett is one of those names that shows up on the Declaration of Independence, gets a nod in a textbook, then quietly disappears behind louder, flashier founders. That is a shame. If you trace his life from a muddy frontier village in New Hampshire to the floor of the Continental Congress, then on to the governor’s chair and the sickbed of half his colony, you find a man who was constantly doing the hard, unglamorous work that keeps a revolution from collapsing in on itself.
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    2 m
  • The Daughters of Liberty

    The Daughters of Liberty
    Nov 18 2025
    The story of the American Revolution usually unfolds with images of muskets, marches, and men debating the future of a continent. Yet the fight for liberty also lived in quieter rooms where spinning wheels hummed and tea went untouched. The Daughters of Liberty stepped into that space and turned ordinary domestic life into a political force that Parliament never saw coming. Their work pulled women into a struggle that claimed to speak for all Americans while giving them no formal voice. They answered this slight with resolve. They controlled the household purse, so they made the boycotts real. They spun cloth when British imports dried up. They brewed liberty tea from herbs and leaves. Some carried intelligence for Washington. Some fought. Many organized. All left a mark. Their efforts carried the Revolution forward. Their legacy reminds us that liberty depends on the courage of people who refuse to sit quietly while history unfolds around them.
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    4 m