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A quick update about Detect or Die, a new TTRPG Ben wrote and Mark edited, that’s going to be available on Ben’s Itch Page HERE, and then the project page HERE starting August 25th...

No appendix today, but we have something else for you. We’ve started a new podcast, called Starboard Vineyard Tours! It's the same two overthinking goofballs talking about literatu...

This time around, we delve into one of the least rigorously defined musical genres, whalecore. From the classic of the genre, Mastodon’s Leviathan, to a period-accurate sea shanty ...

This episode is a real roller coaster ride, and by that, we mean that in it we experience (virtually) a literal roller coaster! We’re joined by Hannah Yoleau to discuss Hakugei, a ...

Here it is: The last episode of our coverage of Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning (2019). Due to technical issues, we actually had to re-record this whole thing, which o...

We’re back for round three of our review of Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning (2019). This time, your hosts (including eminent guests and friends of the podcast Danny (@...

We may have bitten off more blubber than we can chew here, but the crew of Whale Statements forges on with our review, and extensive discussion, of Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick: A Music...

We have returned from a long journey. Our skin is weathered by salt spray, our hair shaggy, our spirits subdued, but we bring an oily bounty to you, our listeners. We have drawn ou...

90s-est things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this podcast episode is the stoneless grave of Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick.In this episode, we’re j...

In this episode we cover Orson Welles’ various efforts to produce, direct, and star in Moby Dick, covering a radio play (1946), a metafictional theater production, Moby Dick - Rehe...

In this episode, we take a break from the talkies, with the 1926 silent film The Sea Beast. This adaptation of Moby Dick, starring John Barrymore, takes it to strangely conventiona...

This week, we watched The Whale God (1962), a gothic, black and white kaiju drama adaptation of a novel by the same name that adapted Moby Dick to the world of Japanese whaling in ...