The Whale Pod

We learn how to cut into a whale.Health and safety gone mad, hoverboards, Melville's "libidinal charge", shark skin, eating your own entrails, a fabric of evil (x100000), the hierarchy of savagery, spiralising the whale, singing shanties, George Orwell, photos of whales being cut in.This episode is the discussion about chapters 66 and 67 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Shark Massacre and Cutting In.Follow us on social media...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

As the famous Vera Lynn song goes, "Whale meat again", or whatever she said.David Icke, The Rest is Whale Meat, swapping tenses mid-sentence, aesthetic pleasures, whale bum as a treat, "the universality of sharkiness", a "decent" burial, a sermon for a shark, whale steak, sea-beef, "esquimaux", guess the whale, The Temple of Doom, delicious brains, Romanian creier pane, Pete's disgusting palate, Naked Lunch.This episode is the discussion about chapters 64 and 65 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Stubb's Supper and The Whale as a Dish.Follow us on social media...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

An entire podcast episode from just three pages of Moby-Dick? You'd better believe it.How do you make killing a whale more efficient? Give the labourers the luxury of free time! Melville suggests efficiency improvements for the capitalist machine in a way that Marx himself would probably describe. The inherent conflict, the dialectic, oh my!Digressions, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, meta-jokes about meta-jokes, the crotch is a notch.This episode is the discussion about chapters 62 and 63 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Dart and The Crotch.Follow us on social media...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

The best chapter ever, making ropes, flow state, critical ice, Mazeppa, MARXIST ANALYSIS, false consciousness, Charlie Chaplin, proto-Modernism, Andrew Marvell, the Terror surrounds us, Stubb kills a whale (spoilers), the slow considered surfacing of a whale, repetition, accretion, concept albums versus 7 inch singles, "cool as a cucumber", wetting the line, a horrible wallow, "Red men", the primal savage, body horror, eyeing corpses, penny dreadfuls.This episode is the discussion about chapters 60 and 61 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Line and Stubb Kills a Whale.Follow us on social media...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

What do whales eat? Brit and squid, of course.Whales stranding in Northumberland after seeing naked Geordies, brit, seafaring Brits, baleen whales, Melville doing a Melville, dog-fish, Welsh animal names, the greatest long sentence in the book, fact-checking Melville, vengeful God, the carrot and stick of faith, Squid the cat (RIP), spoiler alert, a vast pulpy mass, the sociology of knowledge, folk-science versus science-science, Italo Calvino, semiotics, Norwegians in favour of Krakens and mermaids, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Anglophiles, phrenology, teuthology, Archie the squid, from unknown horrors to known horrors.This episode is the discussion about chapters 58 and 59 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Brit and Squid.Follow us on social media...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.socialInstagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod