Towards Thee I Roll: Four Friends Read Moby-Dick

Ahoy! We're back to talk about this book again! Big surprise! Let's just get right into it – this is a pretty big moment! We finally get the title card drop in chapter 41, Moby Dick , and what can only be described as Footnote City, in chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale . Other talking points include, but are not limited to: God Modes of transformation in Breath of the Wild and Tears o...

We're all Team Ahab this episode. We get a little weird, a little playful, a little poetic, some might even call it... theatrical – it's Towards Thee I Roll . After Dark. This is a fun one, the first After Dark of the Towards Thee era. More in spirit than in reality (it was 4pm for Latt, early evening at best), but the energy was there! 'But what makes an episode After Dark?' I hea...

Have you ever wondered why they call them tube socks? Have you been listening to us talk about Moby Dick and thought ‘hmm, I wonder what they think about the whaling industry’? Well, good news. In this, episode 9 of critically-acclaimed podcast Towards Thee I Roll , we finally take a stance – to build more pipelines. But for whales! We also talk about Tim Horton’s, soil triangles, how being alone...

It’s finally time. In this episode, we find out what a whale is. We also have a long in-depth discussion about why this chapter exists, the nature of describing things, if things are more or less terrifying if defined, and also another chapter in the book that Herman didn’t even spell right. We (and by “we” I just mean Matthew and Lattner) also talked more about Tal Bachman and his hit 1999 song “...

Happy New Year from the Towards Thee crew! It's been a while since we last recorded an episode – you might have noticed by some less-than-timely references to The Witch Queen and Elden Ring 'just having come out', the last two were recorded back in April 2022. But we're back in full force to meet back up with our old friends aboard the Pequod, make some new ones, and officially kickstart The Year...

Wow two episodes in a month? Look at us! (Editor Note: That's not true its December now.) This week we go aboard a ship! We go to a party and hate on colonialism? Maybe? While also being bound within it's constraints? But we do definitely hate on Yale and Harvard. We pick up some DVDs from a Lyft driver. We talk about Fortnite. We make fun of our friend Colin. We oil up a monarch. AND we read all...

We're all here and back to talking about the adventures of good ol' Ishmael and Queequeg; it's like we never left, even! Tune in for some tips and tricks on kicking down a door, recommendations for the best natural healthy face wash for men, and hear us talk about religion (deluxe) (from the vault), Herman’s sibling drama, prophecy, pet snakes, what clam chowder and WWI have in common, and what Hi...

We're back! And just in time for our powerful friends Ishmael and Queequeg to finally make it to Nantucket where we meet the radiant Pequod for the first time and discuss the conceptual possibility space that is chowder. Tune in as we discuss birds that could pick up a toddler and become you; our favourite place to go to the beach—New York City; Ethan Hawke's breakout hit First Reformed ; The Mupp...

We're back from The Game Zone having overcome the Audacity Curse to get our first good glimpse at the life of Queequeg and the developing relationship between our two best buds. Talking points include chrononormativity, formalist defamiliarisation, the symbolism of the wheelbarrow, flightless birds and Microsoft Flight Simulator , Presbyterianism, the hot drama of Melville and Hawthorne's breakup,...

After Ishmael's first, dreadful night in New Bedford, we wake to a new day at the Spouter Inn and stare longingly at our friend Queequeg before going on a walk through the city and discovering a whale-themed chapel. Join us as we discuss childhood trauma, 2012 hit Beez in the Trap , colonialism and Herman's disdain for commerce and Vermont, making up fake island nations, having a breakdown in a ch...

Welcome to the first episode of Towards Thee I Roll , a podcast where four friends read Moby Dick together and contemplate life at sea. This week, we're setting off with a quick introduction of our past experience with the book before diving into its first three chapters. Follow along as we meet Ishmael, stumble on some ashtrays, and get pranked by a guy named Peter Coffin. Our talking points incl...