Episodios

  • Patrol Reports - Not The Caine

    Patrol Reports - Not The Caine
    Nov 11 2025
    In the film *The Caine Mutiny*, we are told that there has never been a mutiny aboard a United States Navy ship. That is true, at least by the letter of the law. But there have been moments that tested the courage, discipline, and endurance of those who serve beneath the waves. This is the story of one such moment. In November 1943, deep in the Makassar Strait, the crew of the submarine USS *Billfish* found themselves fighting not only the enemy above but fear within. Their commanding officer lost his nerve during a relentless sixteen-hour depth charge attack, leaving his men to face the unthinkable. For sixty years, the truth of what happened aboard *Billfish* remained buried in silence. Only decades later would the full story come to light, revealing not rebellion, but a different kind of bravery, born in the darkest depths of war.
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    14 m
  • The Wilmington Insurrection

    The Wilmington Insurrection
    Nov 10 2025
    The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was not an accident of mob violence or a moment of spontaneous fury. It was a plan, a deliberate and coordinated seizure of power, carried out in the clear light of day by men who believed that their race, and their race alone, had the right to rule. On November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, those men took up rifles and machine guns and overthrew a lawful, elected government of their own city. They murdered their fellow citizens, drove thousands from their homes, and installed themselves in power. It was the only successful coup d’état in the history of the United States, and for more than a century, the truth of what happened that day was buried beneath lies, fear, and the polite silence of those who benefited from it.
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    14 m
  • The Night the Militia Stood Their Ground

    The Night the Militia Stood Their Ground
    Nov 9 2025
    The first time you hear the name Fishdam Ford you might think it is a misprint, a sleepy bend of river that could not possibly matter to the great gears of the Revolution. That mistake is how men get ambushed. The place sits near the Broad River in the South Carolina backcountry, a patch of woods and water that, in November of 1780, held the difference between a militia that learned from its scars and a British raiding column that believed the old tricks would always work. In the early hours of November 9 the British tried to pounce on a sleeping camp. Instead they rode into a cold ring of firelight, where their silhouettes were as plain as church windows and the men they thought were snoring had already slid into the shadows with loaded muskets. Twenty minutes later the British line fell apart, their commander lay bleeding on the ground, and the militia that had been mocked as rabble stood grinning in the trees. If you are looking for the moment when the Southern war’s momentum shifted from red to homespun gray and butternut, you could do worse than to start here.
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    7 m
  • Once Upon a Time In Camelot…

    Once Upon a Time In Camelot…
    Nov 8 2025
    It was one of those moments in history when the nation’s pulse quickened, when politics felt less like policy and more like destiny. The year was 1960, and America stood at the threshold of a new decade, restless from recession, confident in its prosperity, but haunted by the long shadow of the Cold War. Out of that tension rose two men who would define a generation’s choice between continuity and change: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.
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    7 m
  • Dunmore's Proclamation

    Dunmore's Proclamation
    Nov 7 2025
    The year was 1775, and Virginia stood at the edge of a storm. In the calm before revolution turned to full war, one British governor, an imperious Scotsman named John Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, issued a decree that would send shockwaves through the colonies and echo across centuries. From the deck of a British warship anchored off Norfolk, Lord Dunmore declared martial law in the colony of Virginia. More explosively, he promised freedom to “all indentured servants, Negroes, or others, appertaining to Rebels,” who would bear arms for the King. It was November 7, 1775, and in one stroke of the pen, Dunmore transformed the struggle for American liberty into a crisis of freedom itself.
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    2 m
  • Patrol reports - Eyes on the Sky

    Patrol reports - Eyes on the Sky
    Nov 7 2025
    In the years after World War II, the U.S. Navy faced a new kind of threat. The kamikazes were gone, but the sky itself had become the enemy. Long before satellites and airborne warning planes, the Navy turned to an unlikely solution. It pulled its old fleet submarines out of mothballs and refitted them with radar, turning hunters of the deep into sentinels of the sky. These were the radar picket submarines, known by the mysterious designation SSR. They formed a short but fascinating chapter in Cold War history, watching for danger from beneath the waves. In this episode, we’ll explore how the program called Project Migraine transformed boats like USS Requin and USS Burrfish into the Navy’s earliest early-warning systems. It’s the story of ingenuity, frustration, and adaptation in an age when America’s eyes had to look not just across the seas, but far above them.
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    6 m
  • Into Harms Way

    Into Harms Way
    Oct 11 2025
    It was the night the U.S. Navy took back the darkness. On October 11, 1942, off Cape Esperance near Guadalcanal, Rear Admiral Norman Scott led a small task force into waters already littered with wreckage from earlier defeats. His orders were clear: protect the convoy, challenge the Japanese, and prove that America could fight—and win—at night. What followed was chaos and courage in equal measure. A radar misunderstanding opened the battle, unleashing a storm of gunfire that tore into the Japanese column. The destroyer Duncan charged alone. The cruiser Boise took a shell to her forward magazines and refused to die. By dawn, one Japanese heavy cruiser and two destroyers were gone, and the Americans had their first clean victory of the Pacific night war. It was brutal, it was costly, and it was exactly what the fleet needed. This is the Battle of Cape Esperance.
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    2 m
  • WTF - Slingn' It....

    WTF - Slingn' It....
    Oct 11 2025
    Welcome back to What The Frock, where faith meets foolishness and caffeine meets chaos. This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are running on fumes, sarcasm, and coffee strong enough to qualify as a controlled substance. Rod has just returned from a cybersecurity conference in Vegas, and Dave is preparing for shoulder surgery while trying to do everything left-handed. That includes making coffee, typing, and keeping his house from catching fire. Between time zone conspiracies, Columbus Day controversies, and the eternal mystery of CNN logic, the conversation spins wildly, as always, between the absurd and the oddly profound. Along the way, the boys mark five years of What The Frock, reflect on their ordination, thank their loyal supporters, and muse about faith, sports, and friendship. It is vintage Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod: distracted, hilarious, honest, and completely unfiltered. Tune in and frock on.
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    58 m