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  • 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
  • Devotion

    Devotion
    2025/12/04
    There are moments in military history when a decision is made so quickly and with such instinctive devotion that it feels almost otherworldly, as if a crack opened in the ordinary fabric of events and revealed what human beings can be at their very best. In the frozen chaos of the Chosin Reservoir, on a December afternoon in 1950, an unassuming pilot from Massachusetts made one of those decisions. The United States Navy had seen courage before. The world had, too. Yet what Tom Hudner chose to do defied not only common sense but every hard edged rule of survival that experienced pilots learn to follow...
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    7 分
  • A Revolution in Principle

    A Revolution in Principle
    2025/12/03
    The election of 1800 does not look like a revolution when you first glance at it. There are no barricades, no mobs storming palaces, and no generals turning their coats inside out in torchlit alleys. Yet Jefferson would later call it the Revolution of 1800, and for once a politician reached for a dramatic phrase that was not entirely inflated. What happened in that year was not a revolution of bullets but a revolution of temperament. It was the moment when the United States proved that power could shift peacefully in the face of anger and fear. Europe, still staggering from the shockwaves of the French Revolution, looked like a warning about what happened when tempers and theories ran ahead of constitutions. In contrast, the United States managed to change course with a kind of weary dignity. It was far from quiet, and it was hardly free of danger, but it worked. There is something impressive about a nation that nearly tears itself apart and then pretends that everything went fine because the furniture was not yet on fire.
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    6 分
  • DDH - Judges

    DDH - Judges
    2025/12/02
    Today’s episode looks at the grievance that turned the colonial court system into a warning sign that the imperial relationship was breaking apart. Dave takes listeners back to the moment when King George III decided that judges in Massachusetts would be paid directly from the royal treasury. On paper it looked like an administrative change. In real life it created the perfect storm that swept Chief Justice Peter Oliver out of public trust and into exile. From there the story widens to North Carolina, where the King’s refusal to approve a single provision in a judicial bill left the colony without a functioning court system for more than three years. Justice froze, debts piled up, and colonists learned that the Crown was willing to shut down their legal protections to make a point. Dave uses these two stories to explore a question that never goes away. Do people still believe their judges are truly independent.
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    1分未満
  • Sea Devil Sinks SS Hawaii Maru

    Sea Devil Sinks SS Hawaii Maru
    2025/12/02
    There are stories from the Pacific War that settle into the mind with a kind of heavy clarity. They do not shout. They do not demand. They simply sit there and remind us that the ocean has a long memory. Today we are stepping into one of those stories, the night when USS Sea Devil went hunting in the East China Sea and crossed paths with a former passenger liner that had become something far more tragic. Hawaii Maru began her life carrying travelers who dressed for dinner. By the winter of 1944 she was carrying soldiers, gasoline, ammunition, and the burden of a war that was already slipping away from Japan. What happened when Sea Devil found her was swift, violent, and final. It was also a moment that reveals the strange mix of skill, fear, and consequence that shaped submarine warfare.
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    6 分
  • The Natural

    The Natural
    2025/12/02
    Baseball tells stories that do not always stay on the field. Some of them travel across oceans, through stadiums filled with cheering crowds, and into the harsh silence of wartime. Today’s story is one of those. It begins with a seventeen year old pitcher who faced down Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig without a hint of fear, and it ends on a dark stretch of ocean where a transport ship never reached its destination. Eiji Sawamura lived a life shaped by talent, pride, and a world sliding toward conflict. His right arm carried the hopes of a nation, first on the pitcher’s mound and later on the battlefield. His rise, fall, and legacy reveal a Japan that was discovering professional baseball at the same time it was marching toward war. This episode looks at the extraordinary career and tragic death of the pitcher Japan still calls its lost ace.
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    4 分
  • The Worst Poetry in the Galaxy

    The Worst Poetry in the Galaxy
    2025/12/01
    Julia Ann Moore was the kind of poet who never set out to make people laugh, yet somehow managed to become a national sensation because her sincerity outpaced her technique. Born in rural Michigan with only a few years of schooling, she poured her heart into poems meant to comfort grieving families. Instead, her wandering rhythms and accidental humor turned her into a legend of literary misfires. Critics smiled, readers chuckled, and a clever publisher made sure the entire country knew her as the Sweet Singer of Michigan. Even Mark Twain took notice and modeled one of his most memorable comic characters on her style. This episode looks at the strange and very human story of a woman who tried her best to write poetry, stumbled in unforgettable ways, and somehow earned a place in American cultural history. Her work may be flawed, but her sincerity still echoes across the years.
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    4 分
  • WTF - Wicked

    WTF - Wicked
    2025/11/30
    Every now and then an episode comes along that captures the strange mood of the moment. It is the kind of morning when Friar Rod is drinking coffee that tastes like an IPA and Rabbi Dave is trying to decide if he is excited, depressed, or simply resigned to the state of the universe. That is where this episode begins. Rod has returned from Hawaii with a cold that behaves like an uninvited houseguest. Dave has survived a Thanksgiving that ended at a casino. Both hosts step into the show with the tired honesty of two men who know that life rarely behaves itself and rarely asks permission before making things weird. The world beyond their microphones is not much better. News of the Washington DC National Guard shooting hangs heavily over the conversation. The two of them refuse to swallow the simple explanations that the rest of the country seems eager to use. They ask harder questions about motive, ideology, and the way rage becomes a habit that people forget to question. Their discussion drifts into history, myth, and the uncomfortable truth that people repeat the same patterns because it feels easier than learning from them. Then the episode takes a turn toward the absurd. A tourist in England is arrested for a photo taken at an American gun range. The story raises concerns about speech, fear, and the quiet spread of rules that no one remembers agreeing to. After that the conversation moves to Wicked, both as a musical and as a cultural phenomenon. Rod and Dave explore the uneasy trend of turning villains into heroes and heroes into hollow symbols. It is funny, sharp, curious, and occasionally uncomfortable. In other words, it is exactly what listeners expect from What The Frock.
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    1 時間 5 分