I had some stuff on the war to talk about, but late last night, for the first time in my lifetime, something happened to my family that we always joked about and certainly knew about, but finally touched down in our world.

Long ago, Scott Adams write one of the best management books I ever read. In that book, he introduced me to one of the rules I have lived by ever since. I suppose that now I can’t even say that because it makes me… “racist?” Or does it? The Adams Rule may give us some guidance…

Good day, hosers! Rabbi Dave has returned from his voyage across the mighty Pacific Ocean! While he was gone, things changed… Dilbert got canceled, Project Veritas got rid of James O’Keefe, and even James Bond got rewritten to make him less… James Bond…

Turns out Coke and Pepsi are good for something’s, while telling people that we orbit the sun will get you thrown in jail.

All that and more today on What The Frock?

NOTE: No video today. I screwed up the recording. Sorry.

So... couple of things that I need to clear up. The name of the show is "Plausibly Live." For those of you who might not get that, it means that the show is conducted and recorded live. But there is no giant red light and buzzer that alerts me when somebody pushes play on their device and then I run upstairs to the studio and start talking. I write shows sometimes days in advance, and whenever I can, I record them as early as possible. So... well... now you know...

Putin gave a speech yesterday in which he took on a number of issues including the West's perversions. China is having major internal issues (according to reports). Where is this all headed?

On February 21, 1945, the newly upgraded aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was supporting the landings on Iwo Jima. The night before she was detached with a small escort to bomb Japanese forces on Chichi Jima. The next day is overcast with very low cloud cover.

Out of the low clouds screamed six Japanese planes, who manage to hit the Sara's forward end, causing heavy damage and killing one hundred and twenty-three of her sailors. Another one hundred and ninety-two are injured.

Sara will survive the attack, but she will never serve in combat again. She is converted into a training Carrier, and then into a transport for operation Magic Carpet at the end of the war. She was then determined to be obsolete and surplus.

On 25 July, 1946 she was sunk during Test Baker of Operation crossroads, the first large scale test of the atomic bombs effects against naval vessels.

Of those one-hundred and twenty three men killed on February 21, 1945, sixty-four could not be recovered and were sealed in the ship as she traveled back to Bremerton for repairs. There, they are removed, but cannot be identified. They are interred in one of the saddest and yet most honored places in the Pacific Northwest, Ivy Green Cemetery.

Happy Washington’s Birthday!

Yes… that is the “real” name of today’s holiday, but thanks to slick marketing and lack of civic virtue, we somehow or another have converted this into a day when the USPS, which is NOT a federal agency, gets the day off.

We talk Presidents, good and bad…

A recent article has the Good Friar and the Rabbi discussing whether or not a sermon, written entirely by AI, can have any “soul,” whatever that means. Of course it dredges out the past for Dave and it turns out that he has no empathy. For anybody.

K.K. Rowling gets an apology, but it has a weird vibe to it. The military is shooting down balloons, but they ain’t West Taiwanese.

And in the audience participation segment, we have an HR nightmare of a set up…

It IS February 17th.

I actually had a person yell at me today because he was certain that today is February 18th, and he is expecting me to do something for him on the 18th. But… for the record it is not the 18th.

February 17th, 1600ce, was the day that the Government authorities took a man from a prison cell, clamped a vice on his tongue, and then took him to be burned alive at the stake.

His crime?

Not adhering to and openly questioning the narrative.

Sound… oddly familiar to anybody?

I’m late to the party on the Superb Owl, that said, why does anybody take anybody talking about Superb Owl Commercials seriously? The days of the commercials being “the show” are long gone, thanks to parity, officiating and the inundation of advertising we now see everywhere.

Look, people say weird and dare I say, controversial things, on social media. Just because I am friends with somebody – including you – doesn’t mean that I am in lock-step agreement with everything you say. Also, the fact that I do not take to my social media to ridicule and/or condemn you for your nonsensical post comes from my faith in which we are taught not to say everything that comes to mind.

Look, nothing happens in a vacuum.

Whether it’s a Papal Bull that results in the eradication of cats that seems to lead to millions of human deaths, or a grain shortage in the middle of a violent revolution that leads to a Economist and Reverend watching what is going on and coming up with what will become one of the most impactful theories in human history…

Last week I was wondering out loud about the whole fentanyl situation. Luckily, one of my compatriots from the US Navy Submarine Force is involved with a Florida non-profit that aims to educate people about the dangers of fentanyl.

Today I am joined by Judd Spitzer, who is the Co-Chair and Technical Director for the Blue Plaid Society. We talk the story of fentanyl and what each of us needs to know and can do to protect our children.

NOTE: Judd refers to Fentanyl as more powerful that oxycodone. He meant to say morphine.