The fallout from Ahab's declaration that their whaling mission, stage directions, Hamlet, the Iron Crown of Lombardy facts, Napoleon, Sex Pistols, men's mental health, everything is trains, plundering interiors, railway history, Dickens, freedom, "both choo-choo and the rails", Starbuck's passivity, editors, Stubb's soliloquy (aka Live, Laugh, Stubb), Macbeth's Porter, Stubb's a cuck, poetic patheticness, Dad's Army, eight bells, melting pots, horny Mediterranean sailors, maritime capitalism, blacking up, racist caricatures, The Dark Knight Rises, Spanish vs Spaniard.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 37, 38, 39 and of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Sunset, Dusk, First Night-Watch and Midnight, Forecastle.

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