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?"

Look, I said this the other day on Bill Mick’s Show, I am a free speech advocate. In point of fact, I am a free speech radical. I personally do not believe that there should be ANY limits on speech. The absolute answer to bad speech is more good speech. A bad argument should be countered by a good argument, not censorship.

But… and you know what that means… there is some speech that is so offensive, so outrageous, so abusive that it outrages certain members of the society. The calls quickly come for silencing of that speech, and they become loud and because of the nature of the speech, they are generally unopposed.

And when those calls come, the slippery slope gets steeper. Should we censor some speech simply because it crosses a sanctified cultural ideal and we don’t like it? Especially when that speech is so outrageous, so offensive, so… wrong… that it simply must be punished?

If you happen to have Netflix, there is an interesting documentary series called "How To Become a Tyrant," which I give a pretty good rating to overall. The only drawback is that it relies entirely on a modern era understanding of who is a tyrant and how they obtained that position. There are some really applicable lessons in this show, and they're not wrong about these men who became tyrants, but it lacks the historical long view.

The American of the late 1780's had a specific understanding of what tyrannies are, and what kind of person manages to become a tyrant. Our own Declaration of Independence has a rather strange thing to say about a tyrant which seems counter-intuitive at first. Of course a tyrant is not fit to rule over a free people. And outside of the thirteen American Colonies, George III is not only not called or seen as a tyrant, but is beloved and held in high esteem for being a man who held his peoples best interest at heart.

What made us see him differently? Were we correct about him? And what about today?

One November 1, 1765, the Stamp Act, passed by Parliament and given assent by King George III, took effect in Colonial America. For most Americans of that day, it was an intolerable action that violated the basic principle of "No taxation without representation."

Americans really weren't as upset by the tax as they were about the the control over it. They were being compelled by Britain to pay for a war - in the mind of most Americans - for which they had already paid in numerous ways.

In Britain, the tax was seen as being implemented in the "easiest and least objectionable way," which was, of course, a big part of the problem. It seemed that Parliament had more or less forgotten why there were colonies in America to begin with. It wasn't because British loved anglophiles had braved the stormy Atlantic ocean to show their love and devotion to the Crown.

For all of that though... there is actually a even bigger issue with the Stamp Act Tax and it was one that would be repeated by Americans themselves in later years. All of those "papers" that required the Stamp to be affixed included newspapers and broadsides as well as pamphlets. If those did not have the stamp attached, they were impounded and destroyed by the Colonial Royal Governments.

Anybody else see a problem with that?

Rabbi Dave is having a tough time of things. Some of you... and you know who you are... have hurt his feelings. Meanwhile the Vice President of the United States has a weird sexual inclination. And she's willing to openly discuss it, while cackling and clearly thinking about pushing the old guy off the stage. The Paul Pelosi story is weird. I think that we can all agree on that, even if you actually believe that some random undocumented Canadian nudist broke in and just whacked him with a hammer without any reason whatsoever.

Meanwhile, Friar Rod's bird is finally free! Twitter is now a fully owned subsidiary of Elon Musk who is busy firing a bunch of Data Engineers.

Halloween is bringing out the attention whores, including one who is entertaining dead people, while Russia is having major problems with its entertainment industry, specifically comedy. Which might be an opening for Rabbi Dave?

And while the airlines are going to make the seats even smaller, a discussion ensues as to exactly and specifically why Dave hates to fly.

All this week on What the Frock?, your fashion industry podcast leader!

From time immemorial, elections have been a mess. There has been "ritualized bribery" to outright rigging of them, elections have always been a fiasco.  And, of course, they are still rigged today. Just not the way you are being told that they are rigged.

Meanwhile, we need to figured out what to do about it, if anything even can be done. The lessons of history are NOT encouraging...

At 2:30am on October 25, 1944, USS Tang, one of the highest scoring US Submarines in the war, launched the final torpedo of her patrol. After attacking a convoy all through the previous evening, she was hoping to finish off one last ship before turning for home with a broom lashed to her periscopes.

The real horror of war is how many things can go wrong. Usually with deadly consequences. As that last torpedo sped away from Tang, it held in its circuits and parts, flaws that had not yet been overcome, even as it had been rushed into production. As it cleared the tube of the vaunted Balao Class submarine, things immediately began to go wrong. The crew, led by one of the greatest submarine commanders ever, knew what to do and leapt into instant action.

Would it be enough to save their ship from the threat of a rogue weapon?

Are you easily offended (or don't like Monty Python)? Then you most definitely do not want to listen to the most offensive and sacrilegious episode ever of What the Frock... which was definitely - no doubt about it - not recorded on an Saturday evening, but rather a usual Sunday morning even though the boys are drinking really early on a Sunday morning, not a Saturday night.