The Importance of Understanding the Ship's Geography

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I struggled personally with kind of maintaining the geography of the ship in my head. And that might be, there's probably a number of reasons for that. Brian was so familiar with them from reading so much stuff that he's just like, I can tell you the difference between all these things. He's not super interested in bringing you along. But if you don't know the terminology, it's not his fault and it'snot his job to teach you that.

Flog the jib and shiver me timbers, it's time to set sail with the first of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels Master and Commander. It's equal parts ship jargon, ship action, and shipmen (aka sailors) pondering themes of isolation and authority. Plus, we get to the bottom of who exactly is the master and who is the commander.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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