The Whale Pod

A chapter-by-chapter run-through of Herman Melville's 1851 epic about a big fish: Moby-Dick.

The Whale Pod is a arts podcast hosted by Leigh Jones & Peter Mitchell, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Leigh Jones & Peter Mitchell hosts The Whale Pod, a arts show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #25

  Episode 25 - Can you enjoy racist prose?

  Aug 20, 202648 min

  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, and it's not at all irritating, just adds to the nautical vibes. The great lost recording, "spark 'im oot", a fine joke worthy of music hall, the desperado philosophy, pissing on the Russian sun, breaking a woman's arm, the men's mental maelstrom, Melville's racism rears its ugly head again, Paul Gauguin, Cecil Rhodes, and a big old chat into whether or not one can enjoy racist prose. This episode is the discussion about chapters 49 and 50 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; The Hyena and Ahab's Boat and Crew - Fedallah. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social

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  Episode #24

  Episode 24 - There she blows!

  Aug 13, 202648 min

  A dog-eggs first sentence followed by a Melville masterclass, WHALE CHASE! Racism, WHALE CHASE! Reverie, WHALE CHASE! Plot twist! WHALE CHASE! Oh God, the racism, WHALE CHASE! This episode is the discussion about chapters 47 and 48 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; The Mat-Maker and The First Lowering. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social

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  Episode #23

  Episode 23 - The Affidavit

  Aug 6, 202643 min

  Happy birthday Melville, bronze whale bones, the whaling ports of Britain, the believability of The Salt Path , reading Marx, deconstructing fictional narrative, the gravitational mass of Moby-Dick , the whale ship Essex, George Pollard - an unlucky man, Melville's biography being more insane and fantastical than his writing, Captain DeWolf, an under-the-radar three-word Arnie quote, Lionel Wafer's Toast of London -ass name, "In conclusion, Moby-Dick is a book of contrasts...", the tyrant's precariousness, joyriding the ocean and ramraiding a whale, solving the Middle East. This episode is the discussion about chapters 45 and 46 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; The Affidavit and Surmises. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social

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  Episode #22

  Episode 22 - CARAMBA!

  Jul 30, 202642 min

  Twentieth century theatre, "CARAMBA!", cholos, the curse of knowledge, the best curse from Romania, stowaways, flavours of autism, normies, how to find a specific whale in the ocean, and the internal torment to which we are beholden. This episode is the discussion about chapters 42 and 43 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; Hark!, and The Chart. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social

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  Episode #21

  Episode 21 - The Whiteness of the Whale

  Jul 16, 202646 min

  Herman Melville at his most subtle, 'Spooge', the magnificence and terror of Whiteness, Treaty of Paris, the Iroquois Confederacy, the creation of Whiteness, racial superstructures, the albatross, Iron Maiden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lovecraft, albinism, annihilation, white light, semiotics, de Saussure, only geniuses take four years to do a three year course, men's mental health, The Confidence Man, Melville lives, dictators, industrialisation. This episode is the discussion about chapter 41 and of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; The Whiteness of the Whale. Follow us on social media... Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social

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