The Power of Strategy and Trickery

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There's a lot of deceit, which is neat. It's all about strategy and trickery as much as it is about your skill at doing anything. And like Jack is always like, Oh, you're telling me there's a boat out there. Well, we should go figure out what that boat's deal is. Sometimes when they get close, he's like, Okay, great, we're going to capture this boat.

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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