Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"

Update: 2020-11-17

Description

Prefacing this episode is Talia's prank call to the Trump Voter Fraud hotline.

This episode Talia talks to the lovely, gentle-voiced and brilliant Lili Loofbourow, a staff writer at Slate, about THE FIRST TIME WE ENCOUNTER SOME REAL LIFE WHALES in the book and the racially fraught introduction of Ahab's mysterious, hitherto hidden companions, Fedallah and his crew. The word "swart" recurs, as does our habit of reading monologues aloud.

Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.
Production by Ilana Weinstein.

Comments

In Channel

Chapters 55-57: "Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales; Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes; Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars."

2021-03-1001:10:23

Chapters 52-54: "The Albatross," "The Gam," "The Town-Ho's Story"

2021-01-2301:13:03

Chapters 50 & 51: "Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah" & "The Spirit-Spout"

2020-12-1051:14

Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"

2020-11-1701:08:30

Chapters 46 & 47: "Surmises" and "The Mat-Maker"

2020-11-0344:53

Chapter 45: "The Affidavit"

2020-10-1253:17

Chapters 43 & 44: "Hark!" and "The Chart"

2020-09-2851:35

Chapter 42: "The Whiteness of the Whale"

2020-09-2101:12:56

Chapter 41: "Moby Dick"

2020-09-0956:10

Chapter 40: "Midnight: Forecastle"

2020-08-2756:11

Chapters 37-39: "Sunset," "Dusk," "First Night-Watch"

2020-08-1401:04:42

Chapter 36: "The Quarter-Deck"

2020-07-3054:01

Chapter 35: "The Mast-Head"

2020-07-1459:20

Chapter 34: "The Cabin-Table"

2020-07-0801:07:53

Chapter 32: "The Specksnyder"

2020-06-2959:20

Chapter 32: "Cetology"

2020-06-1552:11

Chapters 29-31: "Enter Ahab, to him Stubb," "The Pipe," "Queen Mab"

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Chapter 28: "Ahab"

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Chapters 26 & 27: "Knights and Squires"

2020-05-2101:18:23

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Chapter 22!!

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Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"

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Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"

Talia Lavin

Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"