Episode 17 - The Mast-Head

Episode 19 - From Sunset to Midnight

The fallout from Ahab's declaration that their whaling mission, stage directions, Hamlet, the Iron Crown of Lombardy facts, Napoleon, Sex Pistols, men's mental health, everything is trains, plundering interiors, railway history, Dickens, freedom, "both choo-choo and the rails", Starbuck's passivity, editors, Stubb's soliloquy (aka Live, Laugh, Stubb), Macbeth's Porter, Stubb's a cuck, poetic patheticness, Dad's Army, eight bells, melting pots, horny Mediterranean sailors, maritime capitalism, blacking up, racist caricatures, The Dark Knight Rises, Spanish vs Spaniard. This episode is the discussion about chapters 37, 38, 39 and of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Sunset, Dusk, First Night-Watch and Midnight, Forecastle. 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 18 - The Quarter-Deck

"Art not game for Moby Dick?!" One of the big Ahab chapters. The aul' fella fully exploding into the story. Recording in a heatwave, Shakespeare, philosophy rears its ugly head, paranoia, prophecies of fascism, an ounce of gold, blasphemy, killing whales for money not blood, grog, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and more. This episode is the discussion about chapter 36 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Quarter-Deck. 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 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]