If you're wondering what this podcast is like, this is a bit where we talk about Herman Melville's farts.

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🐳 THE WHALE POD 🐳

The first episode of our silly little podcast about a book about a fish is out now.

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It's not a lie when I say I've never read a work of fiction.

I wanted to fix that by reading the biggest book I could find.

And because I'm a man it's impossible to do something without it being a podcast.

The first episode is out now 🐳🐳🐳

🐳 EPISODE 1 🐳

A brand new podcast about a book about a fish is out now.

@leighsus.bsky.social (who's never read a book) and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social (who's read loads) discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, chapter-by-chapter.

Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm launching a new podcast tomorrow and I'm really excited about it.

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Heaved up onto the cultural tideline amid the digital surf, like a rusty nugget of ambergris straight from a sperm whale's bum

The first episode of The Whale Pod is delivered ashore tomorrow.

A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick' with @leighsus.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social.

Follow for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts...
🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

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The Whale Pod debuts tomorrow

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CLR James, writing while detained as an illegal immigrant on Ellis Island in 1952

And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow

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The thing about Moby-Dick is that all of American modernity is prefigured in it. The Civil War, Jim Crow, civil rights, BLM? In Moby-Dick. The Manhattan Project, the cold war? Yep, Moby-Dick. Trump, the battle of Minneapolis, the Epstein files? Baby you'd better believe that shit is in Moby-Dick

The Whale Pod can confirm that William McGonagall's poem about The Famous Tay Whale is neither as good nor as long as 'Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale' by Herman Melville

Hello. This is The Whale Pod: a podcast where a Welshman and a Geordie read Herman Melville's leviathanic 1851 opus 'Moby-Dick' and try to work out what it's all about. Featuring capitalism, empire, race, gender, sex, God, money, fascism, violence, obsession, America, and absolutely loads of whales