The Tragic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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November 20, 1820 - An American whaleboat is attacked and destroyed, ironically, by a whale. What happens next is a harrowing account of survival that would go on to inspire one of the great American novels. Go to http://hellofresh.com/SHIPHITSFAN16 and use code SHIPHITSFAN16 for 16 free meals across 7 boxes AND 3 free gifts! Go to http://betterhelp.com/shiphitsfan to get 10% off your first month! Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 https://twitter.com/briangaar Are you a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a rooster teeth production.
0:05.0	Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every
0:22.9	funeral I meet. And especially whenever my hypoes gets such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong
0:28.7	moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking
0:33.2	people's hats off. Then I accounted high time to get to see as soon as I can.
0:40.5	Brian, that was really good.
0:42.2	Wow, Brian, I didn't know you had it in you. Was that off the dome?
0:46.5	It's hard being back on land. B.G. Melville.
0:51.1	That's Moby Dick. You'll know why in a short time.
0:53.8	The salt in your veins. Nothing else compares.
0:57.4	The fat between your teeth because you're run out of food. I don't know how whaling works.
1:02.0	There are so many incredible quotes. Not even from, not from Moby Dick, but just from this, like, these guys in this ship.
1:10.0	Speaking of which, November 20th, 1820,
1:12.8	an American whale boat is attacked and destroyed, ironically, by a whale.
1:17.0	What happens next is a harrowing account of survival
1:19.4	that would go on to inspire one of the great American novels.
1:22.7	I'm Charlotte.
1:23.5	I'm Patrick.
1:24.4	I'm Brian.
1:25.6	Ahoy and welcome aboard Ship Hits the Fan,
1:28.1	a podcast about some of history's most notable uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas.
1:33.1	We're back.
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