Fireworks?

This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander bravely into the increasingly foggy borderlands between reality and whatever the internet has decided reality ought to be this week.Artificial intelligence is rewriting politics faster than anyone expected. Viral AI videos now spread through social media before fact-checkers have even located their reading glasses. Campaigns are learning that attention matters more than airtime, and somewhere along the way politics stopped being politics and became entertainment infrastructure with attack ads.But the conversation does not stop there.Why do human beings believe strange things in the first place? Why does astrology survive in an age of science? Is modern society replacing organized religion with personalized spirituality assembled from crystals, horoscopes, internet gurus, and emotionally supportive algorithms? And perhaps most unsettling of all, what happens when AI begins manufacturing not merely information, but meaning itself?Then, because civilization is incapable of discussing existential dread for too long without snacks and explosions, the show turns toward the Fourth of July and the growing trend of replacing fireworks with drone shows. Cleaner? Certainly. Safer? Probably. But are we losing something primal when rebellion itself becomes synchronized battery management?Along the way there are discussions about fake history, church sermons written by AI, robot garbage trucks, Memorial Day, tinnitus, moon water, and why the universe apparently refuses to text anyone back.In other words, a perfectly normal episode of What The Frock?.