Episode 10: Ahab Could Fix Her – He Could Make Her Worse (After Dark)

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 hear you asking. Lattner had this to say:

Hi Gamers, this episode is a kinda chaotic one (as opposed to our other episodes, which are normal episodes of a podcast that is hosted by normal people. All very normal). This is partly Herm’s fault as he decided to write very fun theatrical chapters. I don’t want our adoration of the chapters to be overshadowed by us clowning around.

The chaos is also the fault of Karlis, for recording an episode at like 1am. It is also the fault of Baseball, for existing as a sport.

Thanks Latt! Yeah, it's mostly just a combination of a late recording time (for some of us) manifesting into an energy, one that makes us clown around a little more than usual. It's a concentrated form of clowning this time, though; a tight 75 minutes of only our best material.

Maybe 'clown' is the wrong word; maybe it makes us better, lets us tap into some deeper insights, revelations otherwise held captive by the sun, like how Ahab is actually really babygirl Kendall Roy-coded and how Scooby Doo is a hack we don't associate with. You be the judge!*

Here's Latt again, with some other talking points:

• soil in ohio
• paradise lost
• Bella Twilight/Ahab fanfic
• how the sun works
• moby dick
• Baseball
• Peanuts (the cartoon not the edible legume)

Notice that Moby Dick is there, you can't say we don't talk about the book as that would be lying. And thanks for sneaking in this little factoid about peanuts being a legume – we don't discuss that in the episode, but don't be surprised if it comes up in episode 12.

Happy listening, as always!

Chapters covered: 37. Sunset to 40. Midnight, Forecastle.

Quote of the Week: “…Flask, alas! was a butterless man!”

Links and Notes:

• Our theme music is by Josie Brechner. Find more of her work at ⁠josiebrechner.com⁠ and ⁠visager.bandcamp.com⁠.
• Find the podcast on Cohost at ⁠cohost.org/mobydick⁠ or ⁠@TowardsThee⁠ on Twitter. And thanks to our followers for bearing with our increasingly cryptic posting that only makes sense weeks later.
• CALL US at (510) 764-DICK [3425‬] if you've got any questions you'd like us to read on the air (or go to ⁠anchor.fm/towardsthee/message⁠)!
• You can also send us questions the boring way at ⁠ej.uz/ttir⁠.

🗣: Dibbs (I'll update this when MLB.tv adds social functionality), Karlis (karlislog on Letterboxd), Lattner (anlattner on Letterboxd), and Matthew (⁠@mrfb⁠).

* This only makes sense if you're listening on Spotify, but there's a Q&A question there about what you think about the After Dark energy; or you can tell us via any of the means listed above.