Podcasts that mention 📚 Moby Dick by Herman Melville

There's a book called Moby Dick I didn't read it Well that was your first mistake It's real culture number eight If you haven't read M dick That was your first mistake I hear it's an amazing book I've never read it Oh it's fabulous It's a it's really a thriller It's a thrill It's a page Turner but it's really about so much more than whale and that's all I'll say about that Who's my Moby Who is your dick Who's your Moby deck yeah Who's your M deck

The hosts discuss the phrase 'white whales' and explicitly mention the book 'Moby Dick', noting that one host hasn't read it while the other praises it as a thriller and page-turner.

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so there's definitely that there's you know i circle back to moby dick a lot um because we read it in a uh a really great english class i had in high school and i came in with an oppositional stance because i thought that the teacher was going to try to talk me into having all kinds of highfalutin ideas about allegory

Neal Stephenson mentions 'Moby Dick' as a book he often revisits, first read in high school.

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one of many failings is i've never gotten through moby dick or or any of melville's works so maybe can you comment on before we talk about dave or david foster wallace who i have gotten through

Lex Fridman mentions his failure to read Herman Melville's book "Moby Dick".

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What was the book? Moby dick

Barry Barish mentions this book as the one that discouraged him from becoming a novelist.

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so and and melville does the same thing in moby dick where he he thinks about will there ever come a time where we run out of whales

Sheldon Solomon mentions Melville's novel in the context of resource limits.

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and all of this [ __ ] um M dick dick you know listening to Zeppelin It's like I've never read that book So I've just [ __ ] read like one year I read like 20 of them everything from the count of mon Christo The Prince and the popper uh what else did I read Confederacy of Dunces like modern [ __ ] [ __ ] Mark Twain I read all of this [ __ ] didn't retain any of it I lik I like the the count of mon Christo the best Alexander dumal Dumas How the [ __ ] you say it and I uh I got like the 700 page book of it with the small print the one like the original or that's close to the original and those books are [ __ ] to get through cu the print was so small Moby Dick was like that too like he would be telling the story and then just one chapter would go off in a tangent and just talk about a certain type of whale and educate you

Bill mentions hearing about 'Moby Dick' (initially as 'M dick dick') and then later confirms reading it as part of his effort to read classic books, describing its structure and difficulty.

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Is there a way that when they read I don't know Moby Dick is their way It can there be like they turn the page and water squirts at them

The host mentions the classic novel 'Moby Dick' while discussing the trend of adding interactive elements to children's books, contrasting it with traditional reading.

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Walter Isaacson names "Moby Dick" as one of his favorite books.

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He is a Moby Dick afficionado and collects copies and versions of that and he said that is the best book of all time.

The host mentions a friend who is an aficionado of "Moby Dick" and considers it the best book.

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but Moby Dick barely sold in Herman Melville's Lifetime and only became this iconic work of literature over you know a century

Kyle Chayka uses Moby Dick by Herman Melville as an example of a work that gained popularity slowly over time, contrasting it with algorithmically promoted culture.

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it's the the hero or the protagonist doesn't learn from his mistakes and and and holds on Moby Dick is a tragedy because Ahab will not give up on this [ __ ] white

One of the speakers uses Moby Dick as an example of a tragedy where the protagonist doesn't learn from his mistakes.

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You're asked by your teacher, Professor, you know, what's Moby Dick about? You’ve skimmed the Cliff Notes or Spark Notes; whatever, man versus nature, right?

Megyn references 'Moby Dick' to illustrate a common scenario in education, suggesting that someone might only possess a cursory understanding of the material, which parallels her critique of Kamala Harris's perceived lack of depth in economics.

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I'm gonna go with Sun Also Rises and Moby Dick

Theo attempts to name a book by Ernest Hemingway during a game show segment, incorrectly attributing this book.

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