For those catching up, The Sermon is covered in episode 5 of The Whale Pod.
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For those catching up, The Sermon is covered in episode 5 of The Whale Pod.
🐳 EPISODE 6 🐳
Over only 14 pages of Moby-Dick, this episode covers Karl Marx, Louis Theroux, performative reading, ritual and meaning, Peter the Great's Wikipedia page, Modernity, nicking fags and more.
Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Working our way through Moby-Dick with this podcast.
There are lots of biblical references.
One day @pdkmitchell.bsky.social and I might take them seriously.
Not today though.
There are five episodes of The Whale Pod out already for your consumption.
In the latest episode we come across three lads who sound like they're on a night out on the Bigg Market.
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This book is full of subtext.
I joke you not, I read a section of the sermon at my unitarian grandfather's funeral
Here at The Whale Pod we've been contemplating the meaning of the parable of Jonah, a man who was so anxious not to do his homework he got swallowed and then vomited up by a massive fish. There are loads of pictures of this, because it's completely mental
Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
sorry for the level to which I might make moby dick a part of my personality I'm really having a great time
My weekly piss about with @pdkmitchell.bsky.social is here for your ears.
🐳 EPISODE 5 🐳
An episode about one of Moby-Dick's most famous set pieces, the sermon.
We touch on: Pinky and The Brain, God living out his terminal wishes, and what the book of Jonah is about.
Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Listen to the latest episode, all about THE SERMON in Moby-Dick, for free on Patreon (or wherever you get your podcasts).
THE WHALE POD episode 5: THE SERMON
me reading five chapters of moby dick
🐳 EPISODE 5 🐳
An episode about one of Moby-Dick's most famous set pieces, the sermon.
We touch on: Pinky and The Brain, God living out his terminal wishes, and what the book of Jonah is about.
Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.
🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod
Fun fact: Orson Welles was 45 when he filmed that.
Leaning over to my wife when she starts Moby-Dick and helpfully saying "That's Ishmael" when Ishmael says "Call me Ishmael."
Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustration
the illustrations entered the public domain in 2025, so there are no copyright restrictions anymore. They also said they’re excited to see the results of my maki-e work—I'm so happy!
The challenge is that there are so many other themes I want to explore, too😅
Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustration
I reached out to the Plattsburgh State Art Museum to ask about using Rockwell Kent’s Moby-Dick illustrations for a fountain pen project.
They replied with wonderful news:
New episode out tomorrow.
It's all about this chapter...
That bit in The Simpsons when he goes "Say it, Frenchy!"
Getting ready to record more episodes tomorrow.
Whale fact big!
wow!
It's all fish, baby.
There's no way.
Thank you so much!
Just been catching up with this - I CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND. Don't think you'd need to have read Moby-Dick to enjoy it (I've only just started it), there's all sorts comes up. It's good!
Best bit in ch.3 that they didn't mention: description of the deceitfully tapered tumblers as "footpads' goblets"
Let us flay a whale and use its oil to provide a little light for this weekend...
