The Whale Pod

Episode 17 - The Mast-Head

Thirty-five chapters in, and we've seen no whales, but we're about to learn a lot about looking for whales. Also, the all-important question: plop or splat? This episode is the discussion about chapter 35 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Mast-Head. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod [https://instagram.com/whale__pod] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social]

Episode 16 - The Cabin-Table

Professional blunders, WhaleTok, the Dutch language is not real, discipline, Power, "who's the captain?", flattened hierarchies, the Titanic sinks, give us a break, becoming one with The Force, Manuel from Fawlty Towers, Shakespearean comedy, the sound of rain in the background, men's mental health, Charles Dickens was a racist. This episode is the discussion about chapters 33 and 34 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Specksynder, and The Cabin-Table. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod [https://instagram.com/whale__pod] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social]

Episode 15 - Cetology

One of the most maligned chapters of Moby-Dick is the litany of whales and Ishmael's taxonomy thereof. Is it that bad? This episode is the discussion about chapter 32 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Cetology. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod [https://instagram.com/whale__pod] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social]

Episode 14 - Ahab

Whale news, endorsing baleen whales, whale cocktails, David's crack, the Grand Tour, "...or Ishmael, rather...", finally clapping eyes on Ahab (who then does nothing), fighting the elements, modular man, warmer weather, Virgil's Georgics, Ahab speaks, Ahab threatens, Ahab hoys his pipe overboard, chewing your ear off with dream chat. This episode is the discussion about chapters 28, 29, 30 and 31 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Ahab, Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb, The Pipe and Queen Mab. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod [https://instagram.com/whale__pod] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social]

Episode 13 - Knights and Squires

The litany of sailors, rationing danger, enraged and mighty men, Columbo, Dick Van Dyke, Mission: Impossible, whale-based erotica, Protestantism (again), John Bunyan, Don Quixote, Andrew Jackson pioneering ethnic cleansing, euphemism, Lyndon's Johnson, Norman Rockwell, prison, NPCs, don't worry worry, short man syndrome, fate, the racialised exotic, adventure literature, Ahasuerus and Morgan McSweeney, Anacharsis Cloots. This episode is the discussion about chapters 26 and 27 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; both are called Knights and Squires. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod [https://instagram.com/whale__pod] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social]