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  • The Cone of Goodness

    The Cone of Goodness
    2025/12/15
    The ice cream cone is a small, crunchy piece of confidence. It is what a child chooses when a paper cup feels too ordinary and a bowl feels like homework. It is also, if we are being honest, an edible promise that you will handle your responsibilities. You will not spill. You will not drip down your wrist. You will not lose control of the situation in public. A cone is an optimistic contract between gravity and human dignity, signed in sugar and immediately challenged by summer heat.
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    6 分
  • Jesus 11.0

    Jesus 11.0
    2025/12/14
    This week on What the Frock, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander cheerfully into dangerous territory, the kind where theology, technology, and human incompetence all trip over the same loose cable. It starts with a simple question that should probably never be asked out loud before coffee. What if the Messiah returned as artificial intelligence. From there, things proceed exactly as you would expect, with skepticism, laughter, and a strong resistance to worshiping anything that requires a software update. Along the way, the conversation turns practical and uncomfortable. While people dream about perfect digital saviors and benevolent machine kings, real institutions struggle to follow their own rules. When governments cannot manage paperwork, and roads become more dangerous through bureaucratic indifference, the idea that code will save us starts to look like another golden calf with better lighting. This episode is funny, pointed, and unapologetically human. It asks hard questions, mocks easy answers, and reminds us that wisdom does not come preinstalled.
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    59 分
  • Kanadehon Chuhingura

    Kanadehon Chuhingura
    2025/12/14
    There is a particular corner of Japanese history where the past still feels alive. It is quiet, disciplined, and cold around the edges. Every December, when the year is wearing thin, people gather at a small temple in Tokyo. They burn incense and bow before a row of graves. These stones belong to men who are long dead, yet their story has managed to outlive entire dynasties and ideologies. The world calls them the Forty Seven Ronin. Japan calls them gishi, men of righteousness. Historians call them something else, something harder to pin down. They stand at the crossroads of fact and legend, a place where accuracy and imagination shake hands and agree not to fight about it. The story opens in the year 1701, in Edo Castle, where a lord lost his temper, a bureaucrat lost some skin, and the shogun lost all patience. That moment set in motion a tale of honor, grief, loyalty, and vengeance that refuses to fade away, no matter how many centuries drift past.
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    7 分
  • Nanking

    Nanking
    2025/12/13
    There are some stories that historians approach with a little more hesitation, not because the facts are unclear, but because they are so painfully clear. The Second Battle of Nanking and the massacre that followed sit in that uncomfortable space where human behavior sinks so low that even the Hitchhikers Guide would probably close itself and ask for a long vacation. Yet history does not give us that option. The events that unfolded in and around Nanking in December of 1937 were the result of choices made on battlefields, in political offices, and in the minds of men who believed that their cause lifted them above ordinary restraint. Those choices produced one of the worst episodes of violence in modern history. The story remains difficult, but difficulty is not an excuse for silence.
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    5 分
  • The Root & Branch Petition

    The Root & Branch Petition
    2025/12/12
    Nanking in 1937 is one of those moments when history forces us to look at the world without any comforting illusions. A capital city stood in the path of a modern army that believed its victory was inevitable and that its anger was justified. The result was a collapse that left civilians and soldiers trapped together inside a city that could not protect them. When the Japanese army entered Nanking, the violence that followed revealed how quickly human restraint can evaporate once leaders remove the rules that hold it in place. The stories that survive come from diaries, film reels, and the few people who stayed behind to shield as many lives as they could. Today we revisit Nanking not to reopen old wounds, but to understand how they were made. History does not offer comfort here. It offers clarity, and sometimes clarity is the only way forward.
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    6 分
  • Back Home Again in Indiana

    Back Home Again in Indiana
    2025/12/11
    Indiana entered the Union on a cold December day in 1816, but its story did not begin with the signing of a document in Washington. It began in the quiet rise of ancient mounds, in the footsteps of hunters along the White River, and in the long echo of cultures that shaped the land long before anyone called it a state. By the time Congress approved Indiana’s admission, the region had already lived through French traders, British ambitions, American expansion, and the fierce resolve of leaders like Tecumseh who understood what was at stake.
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    5 分
  • The Doctrinal Epitaph

    The Doctrinal Epitaph
    2025/12/10
    The loss of Force Z on December 10, 1941 stands as one of those moments when history shifts so sharply that everyone involved feels the ground tilt beneath them. Two British capital ships, proud and imposing in silhouette, sailed into a world that had already left them behind. They were sent out in the hope that tradition might still hold the line in the Pacific. Instead, they found a sky that had become the real battlefield and an enemy trained to fight on that field with ruthless precision. This story is not a simple tale of miscalculation or of one admiral’s flawed judgment. It is a story about an entire system that trusted old doctrines more than new realities. Prince of Wales and Repulse carried with them the weight of the Empire, the assumptions of an earlier age, and the belief that steel and armor could still intimidate an adversary. When they slipped beneath the water, that belief went with them. What follows is not a lecture on strategy. It is a walk through the final hours of ships that deserved better from the world that sent them out. Their fate reminds us how quickly history can rewrite its own rules.
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    6 分
  • What The Frock - The Musical

    What The Frock - The Musical
    2025/12/05
    For years Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod have filled the airwaves with commentary, complaints, odd theology, accidental wisdom, and a level of bewilderment that most philosophers would envy. The show has always lived at the intersection of humor and honesty, the place where ordinary life becomes absurd enough to laugh at and meaningful enough to talk about. Turning that into a musical seemed impossible. Naturally, that meant we had to do it. What The Frock: The Musical takes everything listeners have come to love and folds it into a story of destiny gone wrong, divine paperwork misplaced, ancient Goliard masters, and two mortals who never asked for a quest yet somehow ended up with one. It is a tale of broken cables, botched recordings, tiny miracles, and the belief that if you keep talking long enough, something true will eventually wander into the room. The songs carry the same spirit. They tease, they question, they sigh, they celebrate, and sometimes they reveal a little more heart than anyone intends. The podcast version of the musical gives listeners the chance to experience the show from the best seat in the house. It unfolds scene by scene with the same warmth, sarcasm, and cosmic side eye that shaped the original idea. You will hear Fortuna guiding the story with dramatic confidence. You will hear heavenly clerks creating more problems than they solve. You will hear medieval chanting, accidental heroism, and the first sparks of a destiny that was never meant to land on two men who can barely keep their microphones plugged in. Most of all, you will hear the heart of What The Frock. Two friends trying to understand the world, laughing at its nonsense, and offering listeners a place to stand while the universe wobbles. There is something beautiful in that work, even when it is wrapped in comedy and confusion. The curtain rises soon. The music begins. And the strange little show that should not exist steps proudly into the spotlight. Welcome to What The Frock: The Musical. Enjoy the chaos. Enjoy the songs. And thank you for being part of the story.
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    1 時間 12 分