Episodios

  • Tolling of the Boats - January

    Tolling of the Boats - January
    Jan 7 2026
    January does not announce itself gently in naval history. It arrives cold, dark, and already carrying the weight of decisions made months or years earlier. For the United States submarine force, January became a recurring point of reckoning, a month when machinery, weather, navigation, and war itself seemed to conspire against boats already stretched thin. The losses that occurred during January across multiple years of the Second World War were not part of a single battle or campaign. They were scattered in geography and cause, but unified by circumstance. They tell a story not of failure, but of exposure, of a service operating at the edge of what men and steel could endure.
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    9 m
  • DDH - He Has Burnt Our Cities

    DDH - He Has Burnt Our Cities
    Jan 6 2026
    This week on Dave Does History with Bill Mick, the Liberty 250 series moves from pamphlets and protests into something far less abstract. Fire. Shells. Families running inland with what they can carry. A royal governor ruling from the deck of a warship because the land beneath him has rejected his authority. History stops being theoretical and starts burning.
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    34 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635
    Jan 6 2026
    The USS Samuel Rayburn SSBN-635 entered the world quietly, as most serious things do, laid down in December 1962 while the Cuban Missile Crisis was still a fresh bruise on the national psyche. The men who authorized her construction did not need speeches or slogans to understand what they were building. They were responding to a moment when the margin for error had narrowed to the width of a human heartbeat. Submarines like Rayburn were conceived as insurance policies written in steel and uranium, meant never to be cashed, only to exist. She was commissioned on December 2, 1964 at Newport News, carrying the name of a Texas congressman who believed deeply in institutional endurance and disliked theatrical gestures. It was an oddly fitting namesake for a boat designed to remain unseen, unheard, and uncelebrated while doing the most consequential job imaginable.
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    6 m
  • WTF - Only (Need 100) Fans

    WTF - Only (Need 100) Fans
    Jan 4 2026
    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.
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    59 m
  • The Destroyer Killer

    The Destroyer Killer
    Jan 3 2026
    January 3, 1945 arrived quietly in Texas, but the news that settled over Dallas was anything but. The wire stories spoke with the cautious gravity of wartime language, careful not to say too much and yet saying enough. Commander Samuel David Dealey, one of the most successful submarine skippers in United States naval history, was missing in action. His boat, USS Harder, was overdue and presumed lost. For families who had learned to read between lines, that phrase carried the weight of finality. The Tyler Morning Telegraph ran the story beneath a headline that tried to balance pride and dread, calling Dealey a valiant hero of the Pacific while admitting what everyone already feared, that one of the war’s most aggressive and effective commanders had vanished into enemy waters and silence.
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    5 m
  • Pouring Out The Libations of HIstory

    Pouring Out The Libations of HIstory
    Jan 2 2026
    Today we are talking about something older than empires and more stubborn than forgetting. It is the simple act of remembering the people history does not bother to name. Long before textbooks and archives, people poured out libations. Wine, oil, water, a small offering tipped onto the ground to say someone lived, someone mattered, someone was not invisible. We tend to think of that as a strange ancient habit. But the question behind it never went away. Who will remember me. Who will pause long enough to say my name, or at least admit that I was here. History is very good at big stories. Wars, plagues, kings, and generals. It is far less interested in the ordinary people who carried the weight of those stories on their backs. Tonight, we are going to talk about that gap. About what history can do, what it cannot do, and why pouring out the libations of history still matters now.
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    5 m
  • WTF - AI Did NOT Destroy the World... This Year, Anyway

    WTF - AI Did NOT Destroy the World... This Year, Anyway
    Jan 1 2026
    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?
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    1 h y 2 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George C. Marshall SSBN-654

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George C. Marshall SSBN-654
    Dec 31 2025
    The USS George C. Marshall was never built to be admired. She was built to be trusted. Like her namesake, she existed for moments when patience mattered more than drama and restraint mattered more than applause. In the Cold War Navy, that was not a slogan. It was a job description.
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    8 m
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