Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the actual beginnings of Moby-Dick: the Etymology and Extracts sections. These are extremely interesting and not to be skipped or glossed over.

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Nota Bene: The discerning listener may detect that Tristan's audio sounds like he recorded it on his toaster. Somehow, Tristan did indeed select his toaster instead of his mic as the input audio for this recording. Because Episode 0 and Episode 2 were recorded back to back, this lower-quality audio will recur in Episode 2. Tristan, our foremost audiophile, has deeply offended the podcasting divinities through his arrogance and persnicketiness and has had to endure editing four episodes in which his audio is the only lousy audio in penance. Starting with our Episode 3: The Spouter-Inn Part I, his audio will start sounding good.