Rob Delaney
@robdelaney.bsky.social
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
1. This was so fun to make I almost threw up every day. 2. This is the trailer on YouTube if that’s how you’ve chosen to live your life: youtu.be/IZYZaRWwYR4?... 3. I’d be super grateful to anyone who reposted the post above. 4. Have any Qs about it for me? I’ll endeavor to answer! 5. Get in!🚣🏾♀️
Exploring Moby-Dick With Rob Delaney and Hester Blum
YouTube video by Exploring The Greats
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Saw ALIENS for first time today. As good or better than ALIEN. Loved the “steadicam guns”; what a Cameron touch. Struck by how beautiful Lance Henriksen is in it. And I still suffer from Sigourney Weaver fever.
whoa apparently the President is shackled to his bed in a dedicated diarrhea WARD?
Did somebody say it’s Herman Melville’s 207th birthday today? Yes, I did! Crazy to think that right now millions of people around the world are celebrating by listening to the first episode of our podcast about Moby-Dick. What a world! exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
Once again asking where the advocacy groups and think tanks are on this because elected officials are not going to get there on their own.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoChaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
Yes & yes! I listened to first ep on Apple Podcasts today. 🐳 exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
Kevidently@kevidently.bsky.social · 5d agoSome silly technical questions: if I subscribe, do I get an audio-only version to listen on runs, and will this be playable in my regular podcast player?
Does anyone else remember a small chain in the southeast called Grocery Realm? Or was I in one of those extended comas where you live several decades and "wake up" with a permanent epistemological wound? Their slogan was "Great savings await, for those who dare"
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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Great Q! Each ep covers a few chapters. We read some bits aloud but it is mostly discussion about the themes/history/humor/minutia/hot romance in and around the book.
Susan Gardner@susangardner.bsky.social · 5d agoDo you actually read the whole thing aloud or just talk about it? Or do you just discuss a couple of pchapters per week so we can read along with you?
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
1. @deadline.com with massive Hollywood bombshell for nerds here. 2. That’s @hesterblum.bsky.social on the left, not Tim Blake Nelson. 🐳📚❤️ deadline.com/2026/07/rob-...
Rob Delaney & Tim Blake Nelson Explore The Greats In Video Podcast
Rob Delaney, co-creator and star of Catastrophe, is a huge fan of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
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With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today
RFK Jr: After you’ve braised the dog assholes in chlorine for a few minutes you jump up and down on them to make them tender Tristan Tate: I hate women www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. hosting a new cooking show with celebrity chefs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.
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Exploring Moby-Dick launches TOMORROW with me and my celebrity friend @robdelaney.bsky.social, who missed his calling as the greatest Melvillean of a generation! exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
Exploring Moby-Dick — A Herman Melville Podcast & Book Club
Join Professor Hester Blum and actor-writer Rob Delaney as they navigate Moby-Dick, the both devastating and hilarious journey of men at odds with the sea and themselves. Together they explore the cha...
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’
How a propaganda goof by Richard Nixon’s administration midwifed an urban legend that scarred American foreign policy and domestic politics for a generation.
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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 7d agoAll the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
Ben Wikler's new book is very good. Even if you already know this stuff, hearing how someone with immense communications and organizing skills explains it to an informed audience is grounding. www.thriftbooks.com/w/this-is-th...
This Is The Plan: How to End America's... book by Ben Wikler
Buy a cheap copy of This Is The Plan: How to End America's... book by Ben Wikler. If you are looking at the spiraling crisis of American politics in the Trump era and wondering how the hell we get out...
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