Eric and Dave are back!

Eric's knee adventures are... well.. not over, but all your prayers, and all of Dave's thoughts, have done a lot of good!

Best Holiday on the boat? Easy! It was Thanksgiving. The food was great and the Fire Control System could be put into "Auto" so more plates of delicious food could be loaded up.

Whatever you do, DO NOT FRY YOUR TURKEY!!!!!

November 22nd, 1963, was a seminal day in American history. Every American alive that day can tell you about their own experience of it, and even those born long after can – and do – discuss and debate it.

For myself, November 22nd represented a trajectory change in my own future and passions. The day led directly to my own career behind a microphone, which continues to this day. for others it represents a moment of beginning to form opinions about how and why things work the way that they do behind the monolithic walls of a bureaucratic government that seems more interested in our acquiescence than our scrutiny of this event.

What we might not understand, however, is that what we are doing is debating and discussing history as it was meant to be done…

After a rough start to the day – or in Friar Rod’s case, a continuation of the previous evening – the boys are pleased that Congress is finally addressing the most serious issue facing our nation today – Taylor Swift Tickets!

The World Cup begins today. Until a couple of days ago nobody actually cared. But now, Qatar has decided that unless you happen to be a wealthy oil sheik, you cannot have a beer at the games. The director of FIFA has made it clear that this makes him feel like a… Woman???

And Rabbi Dave got an eMail with the solution to his problem with leg cramps!

By the middle of November, speeches were being made and response were being written. James Wilson’s speech in Pennsylvania had caused a great stir, and Cato’s letter was still starting debates in New York. But not everybody was in agreement with Cato’s concerns.

As we have seen Cæsar was rather snarky in his idea that Cato should just shut up and go along with the Constitution, lest the “American Fabius” be compelled to shove tit down his throat. Another federalist writer took deep exception to Cato’s arguments in favor of the Montesquieuian view of the size of republics.

As you know Montesquieu was adamant that in order to be successful, republics had to be small. Very small. Like half the size of the City of New York in those days. To say that it was an Article of Faith among the Anti-Federalists that the proposed national government would fail simple on the grounds that it was too physically large, would be an understatement.

As we have also said, the Federalists seemed to lack a basic understanding of human – and particularly American – nature. when Americus – an ardent Federalist – put pen to paper to respond to Cato, he made it clear that nobody could possibly take Montesquieu and his irrefragable axiom seriously…

Back in August when we left the story, the US Navy had just suffered its worst ever blue water defeat. More than a thousand Allied sailors were dead. Four Heavy Cruisers had been lost, with a fifth disabled. The Navy, along with the American public, had been stunned by the loss, less than a year after the disaster at Pearl Harbor.

Just three months later, on the night of November 13/14, 1942, the Navy once again was shocked when a Japanese submarine torpedoed one of the heavily damaged survivors of yet another pitched night battle off of Guadalcanal, the USS Juneau. Of her crew of six hundred and seventy-three men,. a mere ten survived after spending eight days afloat on life rafts and flotsam. Americans mourned as five of the dead turned out to be the five Sullivan Brothers of Waterloo, Iowa. They were serving together and remain one of the two cases that led the US Military to adopt a policy of not allowing siblings to serve together in war time.

On the evening of November 14, 1942, it would have been easy to be demoralized. The Marines on Guadalcanal were hanging on by a thread. The nightly bombardment by the Japanese Heavy Cruisers and now Battleships was taking a heavy toll. The Navy seemed powerless to stop it and now it had suffered yet another tragic defeat.

As the clock approached midnight on November 14, 1942, another Japanese navy force, led by the battleship Kirishima, headed into Iron Bottom Sound to pound the Marines on Guadalcanal into submission. This time, unknown to the Japanese, came to the fight the last desperate defense the Navy had to offer.

This time, USS Washington was coming…

Welcome to Day Six of the 2022 Midterm elections! It turns out that there is a scientific reason, if not a theological one, that the Neanderthal’s didn’t survive. It has to do with who was loving who.

Rabbi Dave told you six months ago that there would be no “Red Tsunami.” The question is why did so many people believe that there would be? Was it the as simple as the polls were “wrong?” Or is there an issue with the quality of candidates? And what if the real conspiracy about election counting was in the 60’s through the 80’s, not now?

Despite the long week of more or less bad news (including more threats by the Russians to nuke) there is at least one good story this week. It will make you say “WTF?”

And it’s the best time of year for Dave. His favorite holiday snackage is now available!

In our modern society, you will often hear the cry, "What happened? How did things come to this?"

I never expected to find an answer to that question.

A few weeks back I decided to delve into the Anti-Federalists and their arguments against the Constitution. What inspired their thinking and debates?

Little did I know where the whole thing would take me. So I was a little surprised when I landed on a road on an April day walking along with two older gentlemen who were not ready to go gently into that good night...

Happy Election Day! Although it is a midterm election, which are every bit as important as the Presidential Elections, we're going to take a look at the Top 5 Most Heated Presidential Elections in the history of our country.

Dave joins you to talk about the latest update on Eric's knee replacement surgery and follow on issues, as well as his own Dental misadventures.

Thank the gods that it is almost over... for now... What is it? why... It's THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER!!!!!!

It's not, but that isn't stopping Chelsea Handler from once again exposing herself to convince you that it IS the most important election ever AND that Daylight Savings Time is a MEGA MAGA Republican conspiracy to keep you from voting.

The simple and unarguable FACT is that this is not only NOT the most important election ever, there are a lot of reasons to believe that literally NOTHING will change whichever way it goes.

The Supreme Court has decided to wade into the Section 230 waters. Ultimately it's about WHO gets to decide what speech is allowed and not allowed on the interwebs.

The Trashtros cheated to win another World Series, while the World Corn Hole Championships suffered their own cheating scandal.

All that and more on this weeks episode of "What The Frock?"