The Whale Pod
@thewhale1851.bsky.social
A podcast about a book about a man who really hates a fish. https://patreon.com/thewhalepod
No new episode this week, but there is this amazing sperm whale news.
Watch: Sailor couple survives after whale destroyed their ship
Jeremy and Gemma Cooper were 500 miles off the coast of New Zealand when their yacht, the Tai Tam, collided with a sperm whale.
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Could you imagine being a Welsh speaker with a Moby-Dick podcast? Fishguard was where they filmed the New Bedford scenes, and the town is celebrating the film's 70th anniversary this weekend with a screening.
Dathlu 70 mlynedd ers i Hollywood ymweld ag Abergwaun
Mae tref Abergwaun yn dathlu 70 mlynedd ers i un o ffilmiau mwyaf Hollywood ar y pryd, Moby Dick, gael ei ffilmio yno.
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Exclusive audio of @leighsus.bsky.social, who reads the news on the wireless, being too civilised to say the word "hentai"
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · 6d ago🐳 EPISODE 30 🐳 An important message for American listeners! But also a great discussion about what whales eat and the sociology and reproduction of knowledge.
Look, guys. It's a simple choice. You can either use your phone to save photos of your loved ones, or download episodes of our podcast.
matthewcr@matthewcr.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is not a complaint (more an observation) but the episode file sizes are kind of huge
🐳 EPISODE 30 🐳 An important message for American listeners! But also a great discussion about what whales eat and the sociology and reproduction of knowledge.
Imagine showing the sea your naked body and a pod of 40 distressed whales surfaces later that day.
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
🐳 EPISODE 29 🐳 Part two of our look at Herman Melville's dive into art history in Moby-Dick. We fall in love with a French painter who gets milkshake ducked pretty quickly! Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode 29 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 2) | The Whale Pod
It's part two of our look at Herman Melville's art history of whales. Thomas Beale's dwarf whales, Melville Marginalia, the whole internet l
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The Moby Dick bot is listening to our most recent episodes. A two-parter about Herman Melville diving into art history.
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w agoEnglish and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale
When my sister was heavily pregnant she told the family chat she felt like a South London icon. When prompted to elaborate, she followed it with a picture of this walrus.
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · 2w agoHave you ever wanted to stick a bike pump up a walrus? The Horniman Museum holds the specimen you need. Hunted in the 1870s and overstuffed by a bemused Victorian taxidermist, it was displayed at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886 where Queen Victoria fell in love with it.
I'm easily pleased and I think this here is a very good joke, actually
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · 3w ago🐳 EPISODE 28 🐳 This week we start a two part dive into Herman Melville's art history writing. Also this sort of stupidity. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐋 patreon.com/thewhalepod
Have you ever wanted to stick a bike pump up a walrus? The Horniman Museum holds the specimen you need. Hunted in the 1870s and overstuffed by a bemused Victorian taxidermist, it was displayed at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886 where Queen Victoria fell in love with it.
In the latest episode of my Moby-Dick podcast, we talk about Herman Melville talking about Jeremy Bentham's stuffed corpse.
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · 2w agoJeremy Bentham's stuffed and dressed skeleton welcoming people to UCL, and his mummified head which is very much not welcoming anybody to anything unless they have crossed the river Styx.
So excited to slip one of my favourite gags of all time into a discussion about depictions of whales and catch Pete off guard. What other podcast is doing this?!
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · 3w ago🐳 EPISODE 28 🐳 This week we start a two part dive into Herman Melville's art history writing. Also this sort of stupidity. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐋 patreon.com/thewhalepod
🐳 EPISODE 28 🐳 This week we start a two part dive into Herman Melville's art history writing. Also this sort of stupidity. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐋 patreon.com/thewhalepod
I texted my kid the chair portrait of Melville's father for reasons and this was their response:
🐳 EPISODE 27 🐳 Ishmael does his after dinner speech, plenty of "your mum jokes" and a hope for nesting dolls of racist crews. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod
Hugely enjoying how regularly and enthusiastically @thewhale1851.bsky.social are talking about getting a gam.
🐳 EPISODE 26 🐳 We discuss the anxiety dream of chasing the spirit-spout of night, and there's a real-life genuine cat fight in this episode. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. patreon.com/thewhalepod
This was immense fun to record, not only because it's a humdinger of a chapter, but also because my cats had a massive fight midway through
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · last mo.🐳 EPISODE 26 🐳 We discuss the anxiety dream of chasing the spirit-spout of night, and there's a real-life genuine cat fight in this episode. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. patreon.com/thewhalepod
Okay look I am firmly on the side of "Moby-Dick contains multitudes and can be read a hundred different ways" but I can't see how you could read it and conclude that the message is that whales aren't so scary after all. 🐋 www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Moby Dick: The 19th-Century novel that challenged our fear of the 'monstrous' whale
Now 175 years old, US author Herman Melville's classic is the ultimate tale of man v whale – but in fact, it questions why humans have been so terrified of these great sea creatures.
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🐳 EPISODE 26 🐳 We discuss the anxiety dream of chasing the spirit-spout of night, and there's a real-life genuine cat fight in this episode. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. patreon.com/thewhalepod
🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.
Episode 25 - Can you enjoy racist prose? | The Whale Pod
There's a baby seagull squeaking in the background all the way through this episode, that's how good the microphones we use are these days,
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If you want to listen to an idiot who's never read a book (me) talk to an expert in postcolonialism (@pdkmitchell.bsky.social) about a paragraph of racist prose in Moby-Dick then get your lugs round this. We're not indulging in apologia (obvs), but how do you engage with a 200-year-old racist text?
The Whale Pod@thewhale1851.bsky.social · last mo.🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.
🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.
Episode 25 - Can you enjoy racist prose? | The Whale Pod
There's a baby seagull squeaking in the background all the way through this episode, that's how good the microphones we use are these days,
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