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?