POPULARITY
51 episodes with grampus
6 episodes with grampus
3 episodes with grampus
2 episodes with grampus
2 episodes with grampus
Gegen-Meuterei auf der Grampus! Arthur, der alte Jeck, verkleidet sich gruselig und bläst gemeinsam mit Augustus und Peters zum Angriff auf die Wannabe-Piraten unter dem ersten Maat. In einem klärenden Dialog können die beiden Fraktionen ihren Konflikt zivilisiert beilegen. Ha ha, als ob! Es werden Brustkörbe durchschossen, Schädel aufgebrochen und Hälse zerbissen. Nachdem unser Mitleidsempfinden schon ein bisschen unter der Brutalität der Pym-Gang gelitten hat, erleidet die Gruppe Schiffbruch und begegnet zuletzt sogar einem mega gruseligen Geisterschiff! Wir bemerken, dass wir uns spätestens jetzt auf der Grenze von Abenteuer und Horror befinden. Mal sehen, wie es weitergeht in Die Erzählung des Arthur Gordon Pym von Edgar Allan Poe. --- In der nächsten Folge geht es weiter mit den Kapiteln 11,12 und 13 von Die Erzählung des Arthur Gordon Pym von Edgar Allan Poe. Hier geht's zur digitalen, kostenlosen Version auf Deutsch: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/poe/pyms1/pyms1.html Und hier zum englischen Original: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51060/pg51060-images.html --- Unterstütz uns auf Steady für noch mehr Content abseits der Literatur
Meuterei, Mord, und dass man Papier zweiseitig beschreiben kann – davon handeln die Kapitel 3 bis 6 von Edgar Allan Poes Die Erzählung des Arthur Gordon Pym. Wir erfahren die Hintergründe von Augustus langer Abwesenheit und wie der Hund Tiger in den Frachtraum der Grampus gelangt ist. Nach einer Meuterei gegen Käpt'n Barnard (Wer heißt denn so?!) stehen sich die Gefolgschaft des Maats und die des Kochs verfeindet gegenüber. Wir sind gespannt, ob sich Arthur und sein Kumpel Augustus einer der Parteien anschließen werden. Oder hält das Schicksal einen anderen Ausweg für sie bereit? Wir wünschen euch wie immer viel Spaß mit der Folge! --- In der nächsten Folge geht es weiter mit den Kapiteln 7 bis 10 von Die Erzählung des Arthur Gordon Pym von Edgar Allan Poe. Hier geht's zur digitalen, kostenlosen Version auf Deutsch: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/poe/pyms1/pyms1.html Und hier zum englischen Original: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51060/pg51060-images.html --- Unterstütz uns auf Steady für noch mehr Content abseits der Literatur
The ancient Highclere Church watches over a sleepy village nestled in the rolling hills of Hampshire, England. Here, there exists a tale so bizarre that it seems ripped from a fevered dream. The location is famed for its Downton Abbey glamour but a legend persists which is whispered by locals over pints in dimly lit pubs. It's the story of a creature that defies reason: a porpoise-like beast that made its home not in the briny deep of the oceans, but in the gnarled branches of a yew tree. Yes, you heard that right—a whale in a tree. So join us today as we travel Within the Mists of England to discover the Grampus.Music:String Rhapsody by Cold CinemaMyst on the Moor by ZRKWitch by the Sea by Darren CurtisFacebook Fan Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/544933724571696Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withinthemistpodcast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@withinthemistpodcast1977 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The ancient Highclere Church watches over a sleepy village nestled in the rolling hills of Hampshire, England. Here, there exists a tale so bizarre that it seems ripped from a fevered dream. The location is famed for its Downton Abbey glamour but a legend persists which is whispered by locals over pints in dimly lit pubs. It's the story of a creature that defies reason: a porpoise-like beast that made its home not in the briny deep of the oceans, but in the gnarled branches of a yew tree. Yes, you heard that right—a whale in a tree. So join us today as we travel Within the Mists of England to discover the Grampus.Music:String Rhapsody by Cold CinemaMyst on the Moor by ZRKWitch by the Sea by Darren CurtisFacebook Fan Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/544933724571696Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withinthemistpodcast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@withinthemistpodcast1977 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Soccer: Nagoya Grampus Goalkeeper Daniel Schmidt Sidelined with Knee Injury
In this first episode of the mini series The Bermuda Triangle, Tessa dives in deep into the treacherous waters, discussing some events where watercraft went through the mysterious Bermuda Triangle and was never seen or heard from again. Tessa discusses the following: General Gates, USS Pickering, USS Wasp, USS Wildcat, Schooner Lynx, Schooner Hornet, Grampus, SS City of Glasgow, HMS Eurydice, HMS Atalanta, and Ellen Austin. While four watercraft did not have the amount of people on board, what we do know is in these events a confirmed 1,729 people vanished without a trace, and prematurely went to their watery graves. The actual number though is unknown and remains a mystery to this very day. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC PROVIDED BY: Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: North Wilkesboro, North Carolina Elkton, Maryland Liversedge, England Ozark, Alabama Jasonville, Indiana Mentor, Ohio COVER PHOTO: William Frederick Mitchell Public domain William Frederick Mitchell (c.1845-1914) - HMS 'Atalanta' - BHC4254 - Royal Museums Greenwich.jpg VOICE OVER, COURTESY OF:
In 15th and 16th century Scotland, in the highest courts of the land, you'd find esteemed poets hurling insults at each other. This was flyting, a sort of medieval equivalent of battle rap, and it was so popular at the time that the King himself wrote instructions for how to do it well. Writer and Scots language campaigner Ishbel McFarlane and historical linguist Joanna Kopaczyk explain the art of flyting, where an insult becomes slander, what's going on within the speech act of performative diss-trading, and what the legal consequences could be of being accused of witchcraft. Find out more about the episode and read the transcript at theallusionist.org/flyting. Content note: this episode contains brief references to historical capital and corporal punishments, and discussion of insults and slurs; there is also a derogatory term for sex workers, and category A and B swears. To help fund this independent podcast, take yourself to theallusionist.org/donate and become a member of the Allusioverse. You get regular livestreams with me and my collection of reference books, inside scoops into the making of this show, and watchalong parties - we're enjoying Merchant Ivory films, the current seasons of Great British Bake Off and the Canadian version, and Taskmaster featuring my brother Andy. Coming up, we've got Pride & Prejudice and Carol! And best of all, you get to bask in the company of your fellow Allusionauts in our delightful Discord community. This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with music and editorial assistance from Martin Austwick of palebirdmusic.com. Thanks to Y-Lynn Ong. Find @allusionistshow on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Xitter, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok, etc. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk about your product or thing on the show, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by:• Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online bailiwick. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.• Constant Wonder, the podcast that opens our eyes and ears to the nature around us and its, yes, constant wonders. Listen to Constant Wonder in your usual podcast-listening places.• Rocket Money, the personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions and monitors your spending. Go to rocketmoney.com/allusionist to save money and lower your outgoings.• LinkedIn Ads: convert your B2B audience into high quality leads. Get $100 credit on your next campaign at linkedin.com/allusionist.Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionistSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's bumper episode of the pod Jonny is joined by special guest (though we still think of him as part of the furniture) Sam Robson, to review that wet, wild and wooly Levain Cup final that saw Nagoya triumph on penalties over Niigata. It was also a seismic weekend in the J1 title race, and its advantage Kobe after the defending champions won on Friday night, with Hiroshima slipping up at home on Sunday to Kyoto, who themselves, like Shonan at FC Tokyo, practically sealed their safety. The guys chat about the ramifications at both ends of the table, round up all of the games, then look ahead to another national team squad selection, and the Matchday 36 slate.
Immerse yourself in the rich history and vibrant culture of Nagoya Grampus, Japan's beloved football club. Our latest podcast episode takes you on a journey from the team's origins within Toyota Motors Corporation to its rise as a J-League powerhouse. Discover the iconic red and white kit, the electric atmosphere created by the passionate supporters, and the legends who've graced the pitch. Don't miss out on this compelling story of tradition, dedication, and the beautiful game. Tune in now and experience the spirit of Nagoya Grampus!Dive into the heart of Japanese football with this week's episode of Just Football, where we embark on an exhilarating journey through the legacy of Nagoya Grampus. Here's a taste of what we've got lined up for you:The origins of Nagoya Grampus: From Toyota Motors to football fameThe club's rise to the J1 League and its iconic red and white kitAn in-depth look at the Nagoya Grampus badge, a symbol of spirit and historyThe electrifying atmosphere at Toyota Stadium, the home of Nagoya GrampusMeet the 'Rowdy Supporters' – the lifeblood of the club's passionate fanbaseExploring the playful nicknames and fierce regional rivalriesCelebrating legendary figures who've shaped the club's storied pastWhy Nagoya Grampus's commitment to attacking football makes them a must-watchWhether you're a seasoned supporter or new to the world of Nagoya Grampus, this episode is your ticket to understanding the club's profound impact on and off the pitch. So don your favourite kit – it's time to get clued in with Just Football!Stay Connected: Follow us on Twitter at @justfootballpod or email us at justfootballpod@gmail.com. Please share, download, and subscribe.Merch: Gear up with the latest Just Football Podcast merchandise on Redbubble and join the ranks of fans showcasing their pride.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode we discuss an adventurous arachnid with a powerful presence and a tender heart. Tangents include cookies, the films of George Lucas, and the parietal eye of some almost-lizards. Kelly's field notes and Amanda's artwork: https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/episodes/dr-m-grampus Arachnid poaching was mentioned in this podcast. Watch them dig in All Bugs Go To Kevin! Huge thanks to Bailey Russell for sharing their knowledge and passion for these bugs! Send us questions and suggestions! BugsNeedHeroes@gmail.com Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bugsneedheroes/ Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bugsneedheroes Join us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BugsNeedHeroes Hosted by Amanda Niday and Kelly Zimmerman with editing by Derek Conrad with assistance from Chelsey Bawden Created by Derek Conrad and Kelly Zimmerman. Character artwork by Amanda Niday. Music is Ladybug Castle by Rolemusic.
In this episode, I cover some freaky Cryptids, spirituality, Ufos
A crossword that's bound to tickle your fancy, a statement that will appear quite droll once you've heard the podcast / soused out the theme. Beyond the clues already mentioned on the podcast, we'd like to highlight 45D, Pain relief brand with an oxymoronic name, ICYHOT; the appearance of yet another French word in the grid (62D, the S of RSVP, SIL), a trend which at least one of us would like to see continue; and there's just something very grounded about 60D, Barber's shout, NEXT. This represents Peter A. Collins' 119th crossword, definitely a cause for celebration.
Offsides quizzpodd Spelarbussen rullar vidare ut i fotbollsvärlden Två nya resmål väntar när tävlingsledaren Karl »Kalle Kula« Andersson grillar chefredaktörerna Anders Bengtsson och Johan Orrenius. Till vilken klubb är vi på väg?
鯨豚是海洋生態系當中非常重要的指標生物，為了守護鯨豚的棲息環境，黑潮海洋文教基金會近年推出「海洋綠洲」計畫，要為東海岸的鯨豚留下一片海洋綠洲。為什麼要保育鯨豚？黑潮海洋文教基金會執行長林東良指出，因為鯨豚是海洋中的頂級掠食者，是評估海洋健康狀態的重要指標，牠們的健康就代表了海洋的健康。科學家更還發現鯨豚有一個重要功能，就是牠會擾動海水，協助海洋能量上下輸送；而且對許多浮游植物來說，鯨豚的排遺可是成長的養分。 部分鯨魚下潛海底攝食，在回到海面呼吸時，也一併將海底的礦物質等帶上海面，提供養分讓浮游植物增生並製造氧氣。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 鯨豚在海洋生態系中至關重要，而台灣的東部海域就是鯨豚的活動熱區。這裡不只是鯨豚棲息的地方、也是一些鯨豚遷徙路線經過之處。但鯨豚的生存已遭遇到人類活動的干擾，像是漁業行為、軍事演習、遊憩活動等，都會造成鯨豚生存的壓力。此外，海洋垃圾、重金屬與有毒物質汙染，以及氣候變遷，也是鯨豚普遍面臨的生存危機。 2020年，台東縣長濱鄉海岸出現1頭死亡藍鯨，為台灣首例藍鯨擱淺案例，其脖子纏著繩索，疑似因無法進食活活餓死。（照片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 林東良執行長表示，黑潮自2021年起展開為期三年的「海洋綠洲」計畫，最終希望就是在台灣東部鯨豚的重要棲息海域，劃設海洋保護區。這不僅能保護鯨豚的生存，也維護漁業資源與海洋生物多樣性。對外，黑潮將備妥相關科學調查資料，向國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）申請「海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地」（IMMAs） ；對內，黑潮攜手其他環境保育團體，共同倡議《海洋保育法》（以下簡稱《海保法》）草案三讀通過。 因為皮膚的特性，使得花紋海豚容易因玩耍、覓食或打鬥留下白色疤痕，也會因漁具纏繞、船隻螺旋槳撞擊而留下傷痕。（照片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 2019年，立法院三讀通過《海洋基本法》，明定政府要在兩年內完成基於生態系統為基礎的保育法令，但目前《海保法》草案仍等待立法院審議。現在的海洋保育工作散落在其他各項法規，如《野生動物保育法》、《漁業法》等，皆非本於海洋生態系統的保護政策，也讓海洋保育工作呈現多頭馬車的窘境。環境保育團體希望透過《海保法》的立法，建立完善的海洋保育工作制度與協調機制，促進永續的海洋未來。 黑潮海洋文教基金會自1998年起累積鯨豚目擊資料，分析得知花蓮海域5種常見的鯨豚為飛旋海豚（Stenella longirostris）、花紋海豚（Grampus griseus）、熱帶斑海豚（Stenella attenuata）、弗氏海豚（Lagenodelphis hosei）與真瓶鼻海豚（Tursiops truncatus）。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 為了蒐集整理申請成為IMMAs的資料 ，林東良執行長指出，海洋綠洲計畫包含常見鯨豚棲地利用調查、鯨豚目擊紀錄分析、Photo-ID個體辨識、繪製「花紋海豚傷疤圖鑑」、目視海漂垃圾調查等子計畫，已陸續進入資料彙整、階段成果公布階段。這些調查結果未來也將透過研討會或是期刊公布，並於彙整後，依分區公告時程向IUCN進行送件。若東部部分海域能獲IUCN通過為海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地，未來《海保法》三讀通過後，便能為進一步設立海洋保護區提供更有力的佐證。本集節目專訪黑潮海洋文教基金會執行長林東良，分享海洋綠洲計畫如何為世界的鯨豚，保留一片綠洲。 黑潮海洋文教基金會推出「海洋綠洲」計畫，進行東部海域鯨豚族群與棲地之資料蒐集與調查工作，彙整後將向國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）申請「海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地」（IMMAs）。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會）
鯨豚是海洋生態系當中非常重要的指標生物，為了守護鯨豚的棲息環境，黑潮海洋文教基金會近年推出「海洋綠洲」計畫，要為東海岸的鯨豚留下一片海洋綠洲。為什麼要保育鯨豚？黑潮海洋文教基金會執行長林東良指出，因為鯨豚是海洋中的頂級掠食者，是評估海洋健康狀態的重要指標，牠們的健康就代表了海洋的健康。科學家更還發現鯨豚有一個重要功能，就是牠會擾動海水，協助海洋能量上下輸送；而且對許多浮游植物來說，鯨豚的排遺可是成長的養分。 部分鯨魚下潛海底攝食，在回到海面呼吸時，也一併將海底的礦物質等帶上海面，提供養分讓浮游植物增生並製造氧氣。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 鯨豚在海洋生態系中至關重要，而台灣的東部海域就是鯨豚的活動熱區。這裡不只是鯨豚棲息的地方、也是一些鯨豚遷徙路線經過之處。但鯨豚的生存已遭遇到人類活動的干擾，像是漁業行為、軍事演習、遊憩活動等，都會造成鯨豚生存的壓力。此外，海洋垃圾、重金屬與有毒物質汙染，以及氣候變遷，也是鯨豚普遍面臨的生存危機。 2020年，台東縣長濱鄉海岸出現1頭死亡藍鯨，為台灣首例藍鯨擱淺案例，其脖子纏著繩索，疑似因無法進食活活餓死。（照片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 林東良執行長表示，黑潮自2021年起展開為期三年的「海洋綠洲」計畫，最終希望就是在台灣東部鯨豚的重要棲息海域，劃設海洋保護區。這不僅能保護鯨豚的生存，也維護漁業資源與海洋生物多樣性。對外，黑潮將備妥相關科學調查資料，向國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）申請「海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地」（IMMAs） ；對內，黑潮攜手其他環境保育團體，共同倡議《海洋保育法》（以下簡稱《海保法》）草案三讀通過。 因為皮膚的特性，使得花紋海豚容易因玩耍、覓食或打鬥留下白色疤痕，也會因漁具纏繞、船隻螺旋槳撞擊而留下傷痕。（照片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 2019年，立法院三讀通過《海洋基本法》，明定政府要在兩年內完成基於生態系統為基礎的保育法令，但目前《海保法》草案仍等待立法院審議。現在的海洋保育工作散落在其他各項法規，如《野生動物保育法》、《漁業法》等，皆非本於海洋生態系統的保護政策，也讓海洋保育工作呈現多頭馬車的窘境。環境保育團體希望透過《海保法》的立法，建立完善的海洋保育工作制度與協調機制，促進永續的海洋未來。 黑潮海洋文教基金會自1998年起累積鯨豚目擊資料，分析得知花蓮海域5種常見的鯨豚為飛旋海豚（Stenella longirostris）、花紋海豚（Grampus griseus）、熱帶斑海豚（Stenella attenuata）、弗氏海豚（Lagenodelphis hosei）與真瓶鼻海豚（Tursiops truncatus）。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會） 為了蒐集整理申請成為IMMAs的資料 ，林東良執行長指出，海洋綠洲計畫包含常見鯨豚棲地利用調查、鯨豚目擊紀錄分析、Photo-ID個體辨識、繪製「花紋海豚傷疤圖鑑」、目視海漂垃圾調查等子計畫，已陸續進入資料彙整、階段成果公布階段。這些調查結果未來也將透過研討會或是期刊公布，並於彙整後，依分區公告時程向IUCN進行送件。若東部部分海域能獲IUCN通過為海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地，未來《海保法》三讀通過後，便能為進一步設立海洋保護區提供更有力的佐證。本集節目專訪黑潮海洋文教基金會執行長林東良，分享海洋綠洲計畫如何為世界的鯨豚，保留一片綠洲。 黑潮海洋文教基金會推出「海洋綠洲」計畫，進行東部海域鯨豚族群與棲地之資料蒐集與調查工作，彙整後將向國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）申請「海洋哺乳動物重要棲息地」（IMMAs）。（圖片提供：黑潮海洋文教基金會）
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and mis-adventures befall Pym including shipwreck, mutiny and cannibalism. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify in later chapters, involving religious symbolism and the Hollow Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Last time we spoke about the battle of the Bismarck Sea. Though it was called a battle, what occurred at the Bismarck Sea was more of a catastrophic slaughter and a showcase of how the Japanese were no longer capable of performing offensives. The allies performed skip bombing and mast head bombing techniques against a convoy heading for Lae to deadly effect. 4 destroyers, 8 transports, 20 fighters were destroyed and nearly 3000 Japanese were killed. The allied pilots were ordered to give no mercy to the enemy and many reluctantly attacked the survivors of the shipwreck carnage. Their commanders justified the actions stating the men would have been landed and put right onto the front lines in New Guinea causing even more suffering. Yet as magnificent a victory as it was for the allies, it certainly was not the only one at this time for another major naval battle was occurring in the solomons This episode is the Battle of Blackett Strait Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945. Yet before we can jump back into the turbulent seas of the south Pacific we will talk a bit more about the theater of the Pacific War that goes far, often too forgotten, that of China. Its been quite sometime since we were last in China. Now stating the Second sino-Japanese war is complicated is an overstatement. To simplify it somewhat know this, there were 22 major engagements between the NRA and IJA during the war. One of these engagements is known as the Battle of West Hubei, which was one of four major battles that took place in Hubei. Now in July of 1938 the IJA Dai-Jyu-ichi gun “11th army” was formed under the Japanese central China area army. The purpose of such a formation was to conquer and occupy central provinces in China, specifically those between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The 11th army had played a crucial role during the battle of Wuhan and had seen quite a list of differing commanders. In December of 1942 Lt General Isamu Yokoyama took control of the 11th army and he set his sights on various targets. But before he could unleash his forces, Yokoyama was dealing with major sabotage operations against his main base. And these sabotage operations were not being performed by the NRA, no they were being performed by the CCP's New Fourth Army. Now the CCP had limited actions against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Although the press, such as the New York times had parroted some CCP propaganda insisting Mao and his forces were tying down 80 percent of Japanese forces in China, this is not at all true. The CCP did not have the means to do this, nor did they even want to. Mao Zedong himself was not an all-powerful leader at the offset of the Pacific War. The USSR favored his colleague, Wang Ming who was known as one of the 28 Bolsheviks, ie: moscow educated leaders. Mao referred to these people as “ the dogmatist faction”. Mao also had to deal with empiricist faction members such as the former party leader Zhou Enlai and other CCP military commanders such as Peng Dehuai and Chen Yi. In February of 1942 the CCP began the “rectification Movement” known as (Zhengfeng) and on February 1st Mao Zedong have a speech in Yanan calling for a study of the CCP's history and suggesting “the party not only needs democracy but needs centralization even more”. The roots of Zhengfeng indicate a Confucian philosophy emphasized the importance of ethical education “The cultivation of the person depends on rectifying the mind,” Confucius had instructed his followers”. Mao organized the Rectification Meetings expecting CCP members to indulge in self-criticism and confession. As you can imagine there were nefarious reasons for this. Mao alongside his close allie Kang SHen, the CCP's ruthless head of intelligence took charge of the Central General Study committee and began to get false confessions using psychological torture. Kang's methodology would define Mao's growing grip over the CCP and the future of it. Residents of Yanan would recount “the valleys and cave outside the town held victims of psychological bullying who produced screams and howls like wolves every night. Suicides occured often, one victim who survived swallowing glass was immediately forced to write self-criticism”. By 1943 the Rectification campaign had become a system of mass arrest, torture and execution. In essence it was a purge that carried on well into 1944 using false confessions from prisoners who were trying to save their own lives. It is estimated 10,000 CCP members, many of which were former inhabitants of KMT held areas were executed. Wang Ming, Mao's primary target at the time was spared, but he alongside the 28 Bolsheviks were forever sidelined, but hell better then being dead I guess? Meanwhile Zhou Enlai and the empiricists swung firmly behind Mao fearing for their lives. The Rectification movement was to be one of many themes played out by Mao Zedong. There was a cycle throughout his reign where intellectuals were invited to be open, then the party turned against them, they were destroyed by self-criticism, paraded as criminals, tortured until they revealed traitors real or not and executed. As Mao put it in August of 1943 “It is not good to correct too early or too late, Too early … the campaign cannot unfold properly; and too late … the damage [to torture victims] will be too profound.” One of the 28 Bolsheviks, Wang Shiwei who worked as a journalist for Liberation Daily wrote an article titled “Wild Lilies” in 1942, which criticized Mao Zedong for womanizing and enjoying too many luxuries. He spoke about how Mao took an ambulance sent as a gift by the Chinese New York Laundry workers to the CCP to carry wounded troops and instead used it as a private transport for himself as his 23 year old mistress, actress Jiang Qing. Mao would later marry her after leaving his third wife He Zizhen who he had 5 children with. Well Wang Shiwei was expelled from the CCP on Mao's orders in October 1942 having been found guilty of treason and would be executed in 1947 on Mao's orders. Anyways, enough sidelining about Mao, closer to the story at hand Mao had unleashed a propaganda campaign promoting the false image of the CCP's war effort against the Japanese. The KMT actually captured documents with orders from Mao which explained his thoughts on the war “The Sino-Japanese War affords our party an excellent opportunity for expansion. Our fixed policy should be 70 percent expansion, 20 percent dealing with the Kuomintang and 10 percent resisting Japan.” Between 1937-1940 the CCP grew its 8th army from 45,000 to 400,000. Meanwhile the 4th army increased from 15,000 to 100,000. The CCP's lionshare of war effort was aimed at the KMT but they did perform considerable actions against Japan. The Fourth Army was led by Commander Chen Yi and he had an irregular force known as the 15th brigade of the 5th division led by Commander Li Xiannian. Their arms and ammunition were self manufactured and though they had enough of them, the quality suffered heavily. Their main base was in Northern Jiangsu, but they also operated in central Jiangsu, northern and southern ANhui, northern Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. They were all over the place specifically to thwart any efforts of the NRA from encircling and destroying them. They also clashed with the NRA much more than they did with the Japanese. Despite that, the 5th division of Li Xiannians forces had fought tenaciously during the 1942 battle of the Dwarf Mountain. The CCP forces defeated the forces of Wang Jinwei and captured Mienyang in the process. This success however drew the 11th army in who carried out attacks from the north to drive the CCP out, but the CCP troops dug in and would not budge. Yokoyama sought to surprise the CCP menace by attacking their positions rear from Yueyang and Jingzhou. The idea was to grab the CCP's attention while his 58th division launched an attack against Mienyang. In early february the 40th and 13th divisions began to raise their activity at Yeuyang and Jingzhou to deceive the CCP into believing a major offensive was about to be made against Changsha, which had been the crux of the IJA for a long time. On February 15th the 40th crossed the Yangtze river and began to attack Zhuhezhen, Jianli County and Hubei. Meanwhile the 13th division advanced east sneaking over the Yangtze river from Shashi and marched through a gap between the CCP positions in Jiangnan. The Chinese defenders were taken by complete surprise and it would be the 87th army garrison who would be first hit. The defenders were taking heavy losses and had to pull back to Mienyang. Soon the 40th and 13th divisions were closing in on Fengkow and Fuchang as the CCP resisted their advances killing 354 and wounded 890 Japanese. The final phase of the operation saw the 58th division begin a march south upon Mienyang, enjoying aerial support in the form of the 44th air regiment. The CCP's fortified positions were obliterating and the defenders were forced to disperse and escape before encirclements could be made. Many would manage to avoid capture by disguising themselves as civilians, but this only prompted Yokoyama to enact intense search and pursuit actions lasting into late march. The CCP leader Wang Haishan along with countless CCP troops were captured by these means. What was the battle of west hubei resulted in a mixed victory for either side. Many in the allied camp reported the Chinese had achieved a major strategic victory. However they paid a heavier price than the Japanese, it is estimated the CHinese had nearly 24,000 dead and 18,000 wounded while the Japanese had 25,000 casualties. Alongside this Historian Barbara Tuchmen states “the Japanese withdrew without pursuit from what appeared to have been a training and foraging offensive to collect rice and river shipping”. Thus it perhaps should be better called a tactical draw between the two forces. Japan had just lost 4 destroyers, 8 transports and the lives of 3000 or so men. These figures did not even count the numerous sailors and irreplaceable pilots lost. The battle of the Bismarck Sea was strategically a defeat for Japan, second only to that of Coral Sea and it confirmed their inability to control the air in the region and ensured the continued isolation of their forces in New Guinea. In many ways New Guinea was facing the same fate that had befallen Guadalcanal. The Japanese logistics simply could not stretch that far and the allies were strangling their enemy the same way siege warfare had been done since ancient times. Japanese commanders would never again send transports or capital ships into the waters off Papua. From this point on the garrisons on New Guinea would only receive meager supplies brought via submarine or barges, completely inadequate to the task. Thousands of Japanese troops manning the defenses at Lae and Salamaua would basically be left on their own to face a growing allied advance. General Douglas MacArthur went on the recond to say “the battle of the Bismarck Sea was a decisive aerial engagement of the war and marked the end of the Japanese offensive in the Southwest Pacific”. For those Japanese survivors who did manage to land on friendly territory after the slaughter, they were finished as combatants. Lieutenant Masamichi Kitamoto observed survivors coming ashore at Tuluvu on the west of New Britain and had this to say “Their eyes were glassy and deeply sunk into their faces. All were jittery … as if they were seeing a horrible dream … a pitiful scene of a vanquished and defeated army.” Despite the amazing victory, MacArthur's forces could not capitalize on the success and perform a major offensive against Lae. The major reason for this was MacArthur lacked amphibious forces to support the overland march through New Guinea. Since mid 1943 MacArthur's forces had been advancing up the northern coast of New Guinea while a amphibious force was in the making. Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey took command of what would become the 7th amphibious force on january 10th of 1943. Barbey had immediately hit it off with MacArthur in a similar fashion to how General Kenney had hit it off with MacArthur. However Barbey had pretty much nothing to work with. There were no amphibious training facilities, therefore one of his first actions was to establish some at Toobul Bay near the mouth of the Brisbane river and point Stephens. Meanwhile MacArthur requested small craft and transports, as aside from his command everyone else was receiving such equipment en masse, obviously because Europe and the central pacific had been priorities. As Australian and American troops began to arrive to MacArthurs command he began to demand they train to debark from larger ships down cargo nets onto smaller craft. But Barbey did not have any attack transports (APA), which were key for these types of operations. The first Landing ship tanks (LST)s and Landing craft Tanks (LCT)s would not arrive until mid January. Until he received these he began training up the Landing craft infantry (LCI) by tossing nets over cliffs to replicate the debarkation from large ships. By march 15th of 1943 Admiral King signed off that the Southwest Pacific force was to be the 7th fleet, under the command of Admiral Arthur Carpender. This did not go over well with MacArthur who believed quote “much like his predecessor, Vice Admiral Leary, Carpenter seemed to be working more for the Navy rather than MacArthur”. All was not well in the court of camelot. PT Boats of the MacArthur fleet would once in awhile engage an enemy submarine, but they usually got away with ease. Bad weather, large coral reefs made it sort of a nightmare for the smaller ships and PT boats were very fragile, striking just a log could knock them out. But they were enough to scare the Japanese from using too many barges and thus were sort of a fleet in being. The PT boats would have something of a surface monopoly in the Solomon sea for 6 months, constantly looking for action and finding none. Admiral Carpender encouraged their use in his command as they had shown their effectiveness during the battle of the Bismarck Sea. Now back over in Rabaul, Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka remained in command of naval forces at Rabaul and had the responsibility for the defense of the central solomons. He knew he could not expect much help from the combined fleet and definitely nothing from the Army so he set about strengthening the air defenses at Rabaul and rapidly tried to develop airfields at Munda and Vila-Stanmore. Alongside this he performed a survey of Santa Isabel island incase it could also provide an additional strip. With over 200 fighters and bombers under his thumb he hoped to hold the Central Solomons with air power alone, but he would be horribly overwhelmed. Against his command, Admiral Fitch had some 316 aircraft of various types on Guadalcanal and the Cactus air force could easily be reinforced from a pool of 200 more aircraft from Espiritu Santo and New Caledonia. And here we have another decisive advantage coming to the allies, that in technology. New aircraft were coming to the Pacific such as the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair which were significantly more advanced than the Zero fighter in terms of speed, armament, ceiling and rate of climb, the key parameters for a good fighter. The Hellcat was the next generation for carrier fighters and the Corsair was a gull-winged fighter bomber issued to marine fighters on Guadalcanal. Just for you tech geeks, the Hellcat was a very large aircraft for its type, weighing 1200 pounds unloaded, powered by a 2000 horsepower Pratt & Whitney engine that could climb 3500ft per minute. It held a flying range of 1000 miles, had a cockpit slickly faired into the fuselage and heavily armored. It carried 6 electrically charged .50 caliber guns and twice the ammunition to its predecessor the Wildcat. While the Wildcat lagged behind the Zero, the Hellcat outdid her in speed and dive. As Bill Davis said upon first encountering a Hellcat “the plan was a monster. From the moment I started the engine I was thrilled and amazed, there was a thunderous backfire as flames shot out of the exhaust pipe. A sailor with a fire extinguisher moved toward the plane, but the engine quickly caught and the flames disappeared as the engine started to purr with a mighty roar. I could feel the power through the throttle as well as my ears and every quaking fiber of my body”. In contrast, the Japanese continued to employ the same types of aircraft knowing full well their weaknesses and knowing full well the Americans were developing new models to counter them. The only advantage the Japanese still enjoyed was their airstrips laid out all over the South Pacific, with Munda base being a particularly important one to allow bombers from Rabaul or Bougainville to stop and refuel for striking missions. Munda's airfield was attacked countless times by naval and aerial bombardment which filled her up with holes, but just as fast as they were maid her Japanese construction crews filled the craters with crushed coral and in a matter of minutes or hours the strip was made operational again. As Admiral Ainsworth said “The fact is inescapable that the Japs have gone right ahead and built two airfields in spite of constant bombing by aircraft and two bombardments by surface vessels. We may destroy large quantities of gasoline and stores, and we may render these fields unusable at critical times, but the only real answer is to take the fields away from them.” Regardless of the lack of success neutralizing the airstrip for good, Admiral Halsey had his eye on Munda from the offset of finding out the Japanese had begun constructing an airfield upon it. Halsey saw it as a very valuable new site offering terrain suitable for a large bomber field. In order to invade it simply needed to be pounded to dust and if Aerial bombarding was not enough to do the job he was willing to navally bombard it to hell if he must. The Japanese had become emboldened by the increasing failures of the allies to hit their airfields at Munda and Vila-Stanmore and allowed cargo and troopships to make runs between them and Rabaul more frequently. Thus far only piecemeal attacks had been made against either outpost, but Hasley was planning to send a larger force with considerably larger firepower. On february 27th, Halsey appointed Rear Admiral Aaron Merrill's Task Force 68 to smash Munda and Vila-Stanmore. Task force 68 consisted of 3 light cruisers: Montpelier, Cleveland and Denver and 7 destroyers: Waller, Cony, Conway, Fletcher, Radford, Nicholas and O'Bannon. Merrill divided his force into two groups, the first group of 4 destroyers led by Captain Robert Briscoe would hit Munda, while the rest led by Merrill himself would hit Vila-Stanmore. On March 4th Merrill departed Espíritu Santo heading for the new allied base at the Russell islands. Merrill intended to use the same tactics employed during the last two bombardment attempts back in January. Navigation was to be by SG Radar, gunfire to be continuous after the first ranging salvos were fired and he would use all ships in a column formation to fire simultaneously to limit the time period of time they had to stay in the enemy waters. By the afternoon of March 5th, Merrills force left the Russells en route to their departure point just 7 miles north of Daisen island. During the night the 4 destroyers detached to go hit Munda while Merrills group continued en course towards the Kula Gulf, believing they would manage to do so undetected. However that night the IJN destroyers Murasame and Minegumo were bringing supplies from their base at Vila to Kolombangara. These 2 ships were part of the 2nd fleets Destroyer squadron 4 under the command of Captain Masao Tachibana. They had taken their route through the Vella Gulf and Blackett Strait and were going to return to the Shortland Islands via the shorter route through the Kula Gulf. The Japanese destroyers were discovered by American aerial reconnaissance prompting Admiral Merrill to engage. The Americans estimated the Japanese destroyers were going to reach Blackett strait at about 11:30, while Merrill's schedule called for him to make a course change to enter Kula Gulf by 12:17. The distance from the mouth of Kula Gulf to the eastern entrance of Blackett strait was around 20 miles thus it seemed to Merrill to be senseless to change his plans and increase their speed, he did not think they could catch them in time. Thus he opted to simply carry out his original bombardment plan before the Munda group did their which would raise the alarm for the nearby Japanese vessels in the strait. But After Captain Tachibana delivered his supplies he had chosen to take the shorter route back through the Kula Gulf which would fatefully shove him into Merrills position. Just after midnight, Merrills 3 light cruisers were swinging into Kula Gulf while his destroyers detached to perform an advance sweep of the Gulf. Meanwhile the two Japanese destroyers were coming in from the opposite direction along the east coast of Kolombangara when at 12:53, the radar aboard Montpelier detached them northeast of Sasamboki Island. The ships all began to converge on the contact as they tracked the enemy, training their guns on the enemy. Now Radar controlled gunnery was still new to the US Navy and thus the first barrage tended to target the nearest and same target. This was actually a tactical deficiency that had given the IJN an advantage on multiple occasions. At a minute after 1am, the Montpelier broke the silence of the night and opened fire with her main batteries, followed by the Cleveland and Denver. The cruisers 6 inch guns were firing at a round of 11,000 yards battering her. Their fire was concentrated upon the Murasame and their radar controlled gunnery successfully straddled the destroyer. In just 5 minutes a salvo hit caused a large explosion on the Murasame with large fires erupting across her deck. While this was going on the Waller launched a volley of 5 torpedoes and scored a hit on the Murasame causing a tremendous explosion breaking her in two as she quickly sank. Apparently the explosion from the torpedo hit was heard by Briscoes force around 25 miles away over at Munda. Merrill then directed fire upon the Minegumo as it tried to keep a northerly course while returning fire. After charging north for 4 miles under intense fire the Minegumo came to a stop suffering from heavy damage. The American destroyers tried to get into position to fire torpedoes, but by the time they did the Minegumo was sinking. Merrills cruisers likewise had begun firing starshells over the Blackett Strait and the illumination indicating there were no more enemy vessels. Merrill force began their bombardment of Vila-Stanmore at 1:25 targeting supply dumps, runways, bivouacs and the various aircraft they could see on the ground. Using aid from their aerial reconnaissance they were able to score many hits on emplacements such as shelter tents, barracks, ammunition dumps, grounded planes and such. It was very successful causing a lot of damage and they knocked out the shore batteries that tried to respond. By 1:40 Merrill ordered a withdrawal through the North Georgia Sound. 174 IJN personnel had been killed, of which 128 were aboard the Murasame. There was two submarines the USS Grayback and Grampus that had been assigned to support Merrills force and the Grampus would never return from her voyage. It is possible during the battle one of the IJN destroyers sunk her, but her wreckage has never been found. At the same time the battle was occurring, Captain Robert Briscoe's group proceeded unmolested to to their bombardment point. At 1:04 they group began to hear and saw the firing flashes from the battle and alongside this unidentified aircraft were coming over Rendova island prompting their caution. Nonetheless by 1:39 they began their bombardment striking the center of the landing strip. By 1:50 the bombardment ceased and they made their withdrawal. Although the airstrips were repaired quite easily, the loss of 2 destroyers in a fast fashion was a bad omen for the Japanese. During March of 1943 allied bombers would make sporadic attacks on the Japanese airfields over Ballalae, Kahili, Shortland Island and Munda. Alongside this allied photo reconnaissance got a good picture of Japanese movements between all their bases and this soon revealed a new Seaplane base being built off southern Bougainville prompted a dawn fighter attack on the 28th. Led by Captain Lanphier of the 70th fighter squadron, 6 P-38's destroyed 8 Japanese seaplanes. Every month brought the Japanese more losses, whether it be shipping, men or materials they simply could not afford, while the American production capabilities were only growing bigger. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Japanese had a mixed success in central China and a rather small, but terribly loss in the Solomons. They simply could not afford any more losses, for each one was drawing them ever closer to losing the war.
As we edge closer to the start of the new J1 season, we wrap up our third week of previews by discussing Nagoya and Hiroshima. Grampus are first cab off the rank in this episode: After an underwhelming first season in charge for Kenta Hasegawa, a lot hinges on loanee Kasper Junker's performance, fitness and attitude - could his goals spur Nagoya up the table, or will he clash with Hasegawa as he did with his former boss at Urawa (to 34:00)? Then Sanfrecce look to kick on after a stirring rise up the table under Michael Skibbe. With a seemingly settled, deep and versatile squad, can Hiroshima swat aside talk of regression and be genuine title contenders this season?
ATTENTION! COMBATS, Petit Poisson deviendra Podcast (PPDP) et NOMEN ne sont plus diffusés ici dans ce podcast, mais chacun dans leur canal. Pour retrouver les prochains numéros et découvrir tous les anciens, il suffit de chercher ces titres dans votre appli d'écoute et de vous abonner. Profitez-en pour nous laisser des étoiles et un avis, grand merci ! ________ Olivier Gasselin est journaliste. Il est le rédacteur en chef adjoint de Mon Quotidien et de l'Actu, les journaux pour les enfants et les ados. Dans ce dernier épisode, Olivier nous parle notamment du Dauphin de Risso. Ce grand dauphin est facilement reconnaissable: Le corps de adultes est zébré de cicatrices blanches, preuve de leur interactions sociales tendres mais "rugueuses". Ces cicatrices sont très utiles pour les identifier. Il n'a pas de rostre (bec), et une grosse tête ronde, avec une rainure sur le devant. Grampus griseus, de son petit nom scientifique, ne possède pas de dents sur la mâchoire supérieure, comme le Cachalot . Photo ©Stefano Bellamo ________ NB: Tous ces podcasts sont natifs et indépendants, réalisés par une équipe de bénévoles. Notre but est de faire connaître et de mieux inciter à protéger le Vivant. Vous pouvez nous faire un don sur Helloasso (ou sur Tipeee) ou adhérer à l'asso BSG ? Vous pouvez aussi nous aider sans dépenser un sou en installant le moteur de recherche solidaire Lilo. Merci ! Si vous appréciez nos programmes, si vous les trouvez pédagos et utiles, partagez nos liens et abonnez-vous ! Profitez-en pour nous laisser des étoiles et un avis, ce qui nous rend plus visibles. Grand merci ! Nous cherchons des partenaires. Contactez-nous: contact@baleinesousgravillon.com Last but not least, jetez un œil à notre compte Instagram qui présente les plus époustouflantes images d'un photographe animalier chaque semaine, sans oublier notre site,et notre chaîne Youtube.
The gang watch holiday horror Krampus from 2015 directed by Michael Dougherty, and discuss when they each stopped believing in holiday fictional characters as children.
The hat is coming around...
Its cup action all the way on this week's pod, beginning with Nagoya's 2-0 win over Cerezo Osaka in Saturday's Levain Cup final (to 11:45), while we also look back at last Wednesday's Emperor's Cup quarters (to 22:00), before previewing upcoming top flight fixtures and the start of our Player of the Season series for all 20 J1 clubs.
Sweetie M's Sloths Under Sea With Me They Sus Anna Mae O'Hagan Uniquely sloths
" Richard Parker - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Partway through the book, the crew of a ship called Grampus finds themselves with a busted boat and no food or water. They manage to catch a tortoise and strip off its shell, but eventually, in order to survive, the crew draws straws to figure out which of them will be sacrificed to provide meat for everyone else. The death straw goes to a former mutineer named Richard Parker, who is promptly stabbed to death; his head, hands and feet thrown overboard (you can read the whole grisly thing here). This keeps the floating Donner Party alive a little bit longer, but the two remaining crew members are still on the brink of death when they're finally rescued." Richard Parker, who had reached the age of 17 by the time he became the victim of cannibalism at sea." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theysusannamaeohagan/support
Welcome to episode 14 of Unknown International!! Buckle up as this week we have an epic episode that is a little longer than usual, as we dive into the stories, theories and potential science of the Bermuda Triangle! We also talk about that classic tree dolphin.. The Grampus! Safe listening!
Hvorfor er det bra å ha en krevende trener? Er det vanskeligere for spillere å være tålmodige i dagens fotball? Hvorfor gidder ikke lagkameratene å feire seriegull? Har han noensinne tapt en hodeduell, og hva skjedde egentlig med de 30 kassene med pils som var premien etter Norges seier i Carlsberg Cup? Ukas gjest har Wikipediaside på 45 eller 46 språk! Det er én mindre enn Jo Nesbø, noe som er helt i Norgestoppen! When We Were Kings-fansen vil nok være enige i at han er “Norges Jamie Vardy”, fordi han var en såkalt "late bloomer", samt en av Norges mest dødelige avsluttere. Men hva gjorde han egentlig før han fylte 25 år da? Han er en tidligere skihopper, politistudent i permisjon, selvutnevnt detektiv, Elvis-fan, deler klubbhistorie med Gary Lineker og Arsène Wenger og har spilt bedriftsfotball for Toyota! Apropos Toyota, ukas gjest gikk heller aldri i stykker. Her snakker vi kilometerstand! Han er tidenes eldste norske landslagsspiller, tidenes eldste toppscorer i Eliteserien og Europa og tidenes eldste målscorer i en europeisk klubbturnering! Han har toppscorerpris, fair play-pris, seriegull, cupgull og Kniksenpris, og har vunnet hjerter på flere kontinenter. Vi sier velkommen til Skotfoss-, RBK-, Grampus-, Shimizu- og ikke minst ODDs-legende; Frodesan, Frode 4000 og Skiens store sønn, Frode Johnsen. Send oss en e-post med ris, ros eller tips, da vel: heiafotball@nrk.no. Vi er også på Twitter @p3heiafotball. Heia Fotball, hilsen Sven, Tete og Nettsjef Lars ❤️
It's our 1st visit to Asia as we complete Top Trumps card number 15 and get inside Nagoya Grampus of Japan. We also find out some very disturbing news and one of our panelists and a Dolphin......Hmmm!
No delays! Episode 03 of The Law Lair is here for your listening pleasure. Joining me in the lab this week is SONY Orchard and Cigar Talk's own Naji Grampus as we touch base on the trends in the industry during COVID! Closing out with me is A Cool Ass Black Woman and one of my favorite Californian's Ashley Glaspie as we recap my wild L.A. trip. On the docket music wise, I give you all an update on the latest releases from Nas, Yung Bleu, Vic Mensa, Skip Marley, The LOX, Jaden Smith, Troy Ave, & more! @CHADLAW (INSTAGRAM) CHAD_LAW (TWITTER) CHAD LAW 100 (FACEBOOK) $CL100 (CashApp) Salute to our folks over at Chummy's Edibles, LegUSy Brand Clothing, Melanin Mafia Clothing, Masters Of The Road Billboard Services, and more! Thank you to @ThemeMusicJosh for the production used in this weeks episode! https://linktr.ee/CHADLAW100 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chadlaw100/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chadlaw100/support
Top flight leaders Kawasaki tasted defeat in the league for the first time this season at Nagoya on Sunday - what did Grampus do to nullify The Frontale Express, and what lessons can the rest of the league take away? Part 1 of this episode covers Grampus' big win, plus Cerezo Osaka bouncing back from their Wednesday night beat down at Todoroki and FC Tokyo taking care of business at home against bottom club Shonan (to 43:22). In Part 2 we review the other five games, including Atsuto Uchida's farewell, a new contender for J1 Goal of the Season, and the defending champs perhaps beginning to click in to gear.
Climb inside your Grampus or Elder Whale, we got a doozy of a sea-trip ahead of us. We watch Blue Submarine No. 6! Twitter: https://twitter.com/areweebthereyet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areweebthereyet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areweebthereyet Thank you: Camille Ruley for our Artwork Louie Zong for our Themesong "stories" https://louiezong.bandcamp.com Find out more at http://areweebthereyet.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Hip-Hop is a huge contributor to the African American community. Director of Urban Strategy at The Orchard, Naji Grampus, plays a huge role in building artists and their talents. Grampus has his own talk show on the Rap Radar platform formally known as “Cigar Talk”. We talk about the art of interviewing, The Roc Nation Brunch, and music.
Naji Grampus is a music industry executive and media personality. Currently, he hosts the interview series "Cigar Talk" on rapradar.com. Hip-hop music and culture has a major role in Naji's sense of identity and that is one of the focal points of discussion in this interview. Naji also discusses the importance of networking, gives props to the mentors he has had in his rise up the ladder, and shares the most important life lesson he's ever learned.
DC Beer's Richard speaks with John Ustleton, Cofounder of New Columbia Distillery, and Alex Laufer, Head Distiller and Cofounder of One Eight Distilling, to talk about distilling spirits using local DC beers.Made in DC, for the Love of DCNew Columbia and One Eight are located in Ivy City, a small neighborhood in Northeast DC that is also home to DC breweries Atlas Brew Works and The Public Option. They take pride in their city and focus on providing local clientele with a broad range of spirits offerings. New Columbia opened its doors in Ivy City in 2011 as the first of several distilleries to begin operations in DC over the past decade. Its main product line consists of eight gins, all produced under the “Green Hat Gin” label. The Green Hat moniker is a tribute to George Cassiday, a Prohibition-era bootlegger who operated in the Cannon Office Building (House of Representatives) from 1920 until he was arrested in 1925. Soon after his arrest, Cassiday restarted operations in the Russell Office Building (Senate) for another five years until 1930. His signature green felt hat earned him the nickname “The Man in the Green Hat.”One Eight's name is also a tribute to DC, as it refers to Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution, which (among other things) establishes a National Capital District for the United States. One Eight set up shop in Ivy City soon after New Columbia opened. Its core lineup includes a selection of vodka, gin, rye, and bourbon.Distilling Spirits using DC BrewsDistillation from beer is just like any other distillation process: heating a liquid until the alcohol evaporates, and then cooling the vapor to condense it into a distillate. In essence, beer-distilled spirits are highly concentrated forms of beer. These drinks usually end up with a sweet component from malts and a floral profile from hops. John began distilling beer a few years ago when his friends at DC Brau offered him a leftover keg with which to experiment. Since then, John and his coworkers at New Columbia have made several iterations of spirits distilled from beer, each time improving their craft. One current offering is Eau de Brau, a whiskey-like spirit made from DC Brau beer (technically speaking, spirits distilled from finished beers cannot be labeled as whiskeys).Alex gave Richard a tasting of three spirits from One Eight. First, the Spirit of Grampus is distilled from Hellbender Brewing Company's Grampus (a nut brown ale) and aged for a bit less than two years in a charred new oak barrel. Next, the Spirit of the Stone is distilled from DC Brau's Stone of Arbroath (a scotch ale) and aged for two years in an ex-bourbon barrel that was previously used to age a DC Brau porter beer. Lastly, Hopcreek is a traditional rye whiskey infused with Chinook and Cascade hops and aged in an oak barrel for six months. Visiting New Columbia and One-Eight in Ivy CityAlthough distilling spirits from beer is not (yet) in high demand, New Columbia and One Eight plan to continue to experiment with these distillations when they have time and space to do so.To try out their beer-distilled spirits (and all of their other offerings), check out their visitor schedules below: New Columbia is open on Saturday from 1PM - 8PM and Sunday from 2PM - 6PM. It has indoor and outdoor seating and often offers food truck service. One Eight is open on Saturday from 1PM - 10PM and Sunday from 1PM - 7PM. It also offers pop-up food options. You can catch up on all the DC Beer Show episodes here, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, the DC Beer Weekly Pour.
On this episode of the HEY NOW PODCAST we got a chance to kick it with the creator of one of the hottest shows out right now which is "Cigar Talk" he goes by the name of Naji Grampus and who is also Director, Urban Strategy, North America at The Orchard. Naji journey's is one that I admire because of the obstacles that was thrown at him. He could of easily folded, he could of easily gave up but if he had he would of never been able to go on tour with Nipsey, he would of never got the chance to intern at Roc Nation let alone get that chance to learn from OG Juan. But most importantly he would of never encounter that car ride with Emory Jones that really set the blaze for him to continue to push through. It's a journey that reminds me. When one door closes... Just continue to knock the others down!!!! So again Thank you Naji for sharing your journey. The good and the bad. HEY NOW
The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday! GEORGIA STALKS: (GEORGIA, USA)In the summer of 1951, an amateur aviator had a terrifying mid-air collision with an unidentified flying object, but as alarming as this airborne accident was; far and away the most memorable aspect of this all too close encounter were the manifestly mechanical pilots who managed to navigate their aerodynamically challenged vehicle out of the Georgia skies into the annals of ufological lore. CARMEL WALKING SQUID: (OHIO, USA) In the winter of 2014, a married couple driving near their Ohio home had an all but head on collision with one of the most anatomically inexplicable creatures that has ever been reported. Episode Reference Links:GEORGIA STALKS: (GEORGIA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us CARMEL WALKING SQUID: (OHIO, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
During a trip in the early morning of 1974, a Japanese truck driver had a face-to-inhuman-face encounter with a bizarre apparently cybernetic being who requested his help with a unique physiological problem. What made this already surreal situation even more inexplicable was the fact that this creature claimed to be a contingent of a group of extraterrestrial refugees who had found sanctuary on planet Earth. Episode Reference Links:FACELESS FIEND OF TENGU: (JAPAN) http://www.cryptopia.us Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 2005, villagers living in a rural Thailand farming community claimed to have had a close encounter with a small, spectral, red-eyed entity, which eyewitness claim was eerily unbound by the laws of gravity or physics. Episode Reference Links:GHOSTLY SCARECROW OF CHIANG RAI: (THAILAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/12/scarecrow-of-chiang-rai-thailand/ Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store:Use promo code “HELLOR SPACE” for 30% off https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code “HAMMERPANTS” for 20% off your order https://www.etsy.com/listing/663397103/3d-printed-giant-space-brains-of-palos Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the Christmas season of 1979, a British housewife had an encounter with a trio of flying, fairy-like entities that almost certainly remains the weirdest account on record at West Bromwich Police Station. Episode Reference Links:SPACE FAIRIES: (ENGLAND) http://cryptopia.us Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store:Use promo code “HELLOR SPACE” for 30% off https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code “HAMMERPANTS” for 20% off your order https://www.etsy.com/listing/663397103/3d-printed-giant-space-brains-of-palos Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the waning days of the summer of 1964, a bow hunter got separated from his party and became lost in a vast track of Northern California forest… but as nerve wracking as the prospect of spending the night alone with only a bow and a few arrows for protection must have been, it would be nothing compared to the unrelenting carousel of terror that would confront him on his night long vigil. Episode Reference Links:CISCO GROVE ENTITIES: (CALIFORNIA, USA) https://www.cryptopia.us/ 3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code “HAMMERPANTS” for 20% off your order https://www.etsy.com/listing/663397103/3d-printed-giant-space-brains-of-palos Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
On an autumn evening in 1965, a group of British youths were cruising the town when one of them had a terrifying encounter with a fiery fiend that would leave him scarred for life. Episode Reference Links:FELIXSTOWE FIRE DEMON: (ENGLAND) https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/10/felixstowe-fire-demon-england/ 3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code “HAMMERPANTS” for 20% off your order https://www.etsy.com/listing/663397103/3d-printed-giant-space-brains-of-palos Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday! Sugar Bundle Not long after the turn of the 20th Century two armed guards had a brief but terrifying encounter with an entity of unknown origin that possessed a bizarre defense mechanism, which seems like it might have been culled straight from a classic sci-fi comic… were it not for the fact that the event occurred a full 18 years before the invention of the modern comic book. Gargantuan GlobulousIn the autumn of 1965, three Argentinean school children had a strange encounter with a huge, rotund monstrosity that is quite unlike anything that has ever been reported in the history of cryptozoology. Episode Reference Links:SUGAR BUNDLE: (CUBA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/sugar-bundle-cuba/ GARGANTUAN GLOBULOUS: (ARGENTINA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/05/giant-globule-argentina/ 3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code “HAMMERPANTS” for 20% off your order https://www.etsy.com/listing/663397103/3d-printed-giant-space-brains-of-palos Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
While this flying, ape-faced monstrosity may share the same moniker as the affectionate, yellow plumed character adored by millions on Sesame Street, anyone who encountered this abomination in the late 1970s will tell you that this creature is anything but lovable. Episode Reference Links:TEXAS BIG BIRD: (TEXAS)https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/big-bird-texas-usa/ !!CYBER MONDAY SALE!! Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Surveyhttps://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
According to the files of Project Blue Book, a young, immigrant miner had an all too close encounter with a trio of colossal, cycloptic, insectoid creatures whose appearance and secret message were so disturbing that the eyewitness passed out from sheer terror. Episode Reference Links:GARSON INVADERS: (CANADA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/garson-invaders-canada/ Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the spring of 1973, two children had a run in with an inexplicable clown-like entity that eerily beckoned to them from beneath a bridge and managed to lead them into what some have speculated was an alternate dimension. Episode Reference Links:SAM THE SANDOWN GHOST CLOWN: (ENGLAND)http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/ Bridge To Magonia https://bridgetomagonia.wordpress.com Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut 3D Printed Penguins From Space https://www.etsy.com/listing/638995262/3d-printed-penguins-from-space Art Print “Dump Cat” band poster https://www.etsy.com/listing/649936189/art-print-dump-cat-band-poster Cryptic Comic https://crypticcomics.tumblr.com Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This crimson-eyed, crab-clawed, owl-like entity is was first seen haunting the chapel near a wood shrouded church that had been erected in the middle ages and is said to have haunted the young women of the Cornwall area for over 4 decades. Episode Reference Links:OWLMAN OF CORNWALL: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/12/owlman-of-cornwall-england/ Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut 3D Printed Penguins From Space https://www.etsy.com/listing/638995262/3d-printed-penguins-from-space Art Print “Dump Cat” band poster https://www.etsy.com/listing/649936189/art-print-dump-cat-band-poster Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
Happy Halloween! This week we are exploring the darker side of everyone's favorite hairy hominid. Episode Reference Links:PARACON AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE - 2015https://www.amazon.com/Paracon-Australia-Magazine-Rob-Morphy/dp/0987452754 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the mid-70s a Japanese farmer was awoken from a deep sleep by a pounding on his front door. Little could he have anticipated that this unwelcome visitor would be an inexplicable entity hell bent on taking him off world… nor could he have imagined that his alarming experience would permanently alter his brain chemistry. Episode Reference Links:KITAMI ABDUCTORS: (JAPAN)http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/kitami-abductors-japan/ Listener Survey https://survey.libsyn.com/cryptonaut Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Into The Portal Podcast Pumpkin Carving Contest https://twitter.com/IntoThePortal1/status/1053153091921436673 Cryptonaut Podcast “The Hits” Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/marcstorrs/playlist/2AilvKnzvK65aPVgAZuO0U?si=ZQ0iOe2lTX-HECS-7UdXYA Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This now legendary creature first came into the public consciousness in the late 1970s, when, over the course of just over 24-hours, no less than six eyewitnesses claimed to have encounters with this bizarre, quasi-humanoid life form. Episode Reference Links:DOVER DEMON: (MASSACHUSETTS, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/03/dover-demon-massachusetts-usa/ LOREN COLEMAN INTERVIEW http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/01/loren-coleman-interview/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
During the late 1990's a rural Venezuelan family endured a months long reign of terror at the hands of a vengeful witch who assumed the form of a diabolical winged chimera in order to torment not only the man who betrayed her, but his family as well. Episode Reference Links:VENGEFUL BRUJA OF RUBIO: (VENEZUELA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/10/vengeful-bruja-of-rubio-venezuela/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702 Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1977 a young man from Washington State had a run-in with a quartet of handy capable creatures that may well be some of the strangest extraterrestrial beings ever reported. Episode Reference Links:CYCLOPTIC ALIENS OF HARRAH: (WASHINGTON, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/10/cycloptic-aliens-of-harrah-washington-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday! Bremerton Monstrosity In a coastal naval port city just after WWII, a young woman had a terrifying encounter with a huge denizen of the deep… but not in the water… in her own basement. Flipper On a lonely stretch of rustic road in central Mexico, a teenage slingshot hunter had had a face-to-face encounter with a hulking, quasi-humanoid entity that, quite frankly, should not exist… one which, according to the eyewitness, seemed to be attempting to communicate. Episode Reference Links:BREMERTON MONSTROSITY: (WASHINGTON, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/09/bremerton-monstrosity-washington-usa/ FLIPPER: (MEXICO) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2016/05/flipper-mexico/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In what has to be considered one of the most unsettling cases in the history of ufology, an unsuspecting Bolivian shepherdess was tending to her flocks of sheep and llama when she had a terrifyingly violent encounter with an entity of unknown origin that would leave her literally scarred her for life. Episode Reference Links:POTOSI SHEEP SLAYER: (BOLIVIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/09/potosi-sheep-slayer-bolivia/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
At the dawn of the 20th century three people claimed to have had a pair of harrowing run-ins with a hulking, horned, albino beast, which some scientifically minded people have proposed was a lost subterranean species, while others insist that this demonic entity likely crawled its way up from the bowels of hell itself. Episode Reference Links:COPENHAGEN DEVIL (NEW YORK, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/05/copenhagen-devil-new-york-usa/ Watertown Paranormal Vortex https://roadtrippers.com/us/watertown-ny/attractions/watertown-paranormal-vortex Don't Get Lost In the Thompson Park Vortex https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2016/08/01/dont-get-lost-in-the-thompson-park-vortex/ Multiverse Maidens interview with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Youtube https://youtu.be/5AaMLaFz1bs Anchor.FM https://anchor.fm/multiverse-maidens3/episodes/Multiverse-Maidens-Interview-the-Cryptonauts-1-e25a1e/a-a552s8 Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In what may be the most bizarre mass extra-terrestrial encounter ever reported, dozens of eyewitnesses claimed that in the autumn of 1989, a trio of three eyed aliens — along with their mechanical companion — landed and attacked a group of teens in a Russian park. Episode Reference Links:VORONEZH ALIENS: (RUSSIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/voronezh-aliens-russia/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
During the 1960's, no less six eyewitnesses claimed to have had encounters with a floating, ghostly, blob-like creature that was so intimidating two armed men fled from it in mortal terror. Episode Reference Links:KINDERHOOK BLOB: (NEW YORK, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/kinderhook-blob-new-york-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This bizarre, foliage smothered synthesis of plant and animal cast an ominous shadow over a stretch of east Florida beach throughout its decade long reign of terror… and to this day debates rage as to whether or not this leafy fiend's origin is biological or the result of an ancient curse. Episode Reference Links:MOSS MAN: (FLORIDA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/11107/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the autumn of 1980, four individuals had a terrifying encounter with a half-man, half-feline monstrosity, which some believe may be the result of an exceedingly rare genetic mutation, while others insist the entity is of a decidedly more mystical origin. Episode Reference Links:COMING SOON http://www.cryptopia.us Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
The Ohio River and its many tributaries are a hotbed of odd (and often dangerous) cryptid activity, but one of the weirdest creatures ever to have emerged from their gloomy depths has got to be the hulking, gray-skinned, quasi-cephalopod, which at least five terrified eyewitness claimed to have encountered during the bitter winter of 1959. Episode Reference Links:INDESCRIBABLE OCTO-MAN: (KENTUCKY – OHIO, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/indescribable-octo-man-kentucky-ohio-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
Legends of mysterious mass disappearances have cropped up across the globe, but without a doubt, one of the most infamous incidents of mass disappearance in North American history concerns the whereabouts of the over 30 men, women and children who allegedly vanished without a trace from an Inuit fishing village in the first half of the 20th Century. Episode Reference Links:Village of the Dead: The Anjikuni Mystery https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/07/village-of-the-dead-the-anjikuni-mystery/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
First brought to international attention in the early 1970s following a vicious attack on a pair of unsuspecting teens, this scaly, amphibious humanoid is reputed to be ferociously territorial when trespassers veer too close to the murky depths of Canadian lake it calls home. Episode Reference Links:THETIS LAKE MONSTER: (CANADA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/thetis-lake-monster-canada/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
While walking down a dark stretch of rural road, a pair of teenage girls had a terrifying run-in with a peculiar pack of creatures, which, quite simply, should not exist. Episode Reference Links:STUMPS: (OREGON, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2016/06/stumps-oregon-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the summer of 1972, a group of Japanese middle-schoolers had an experience that can only be called “Spielberg-ian”, when, over the course of nearly a month, they had a series of encounters with a small, silver UFO, which they managed to not only photograph, but actually capture... repeatedly. Episode Reference Links:The Bizarre Case of the Kera UFO Encountershttps://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/07/the-bizarre-case-of-the-kera-ufo-encounters/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1955, a group of Californian children ranging in age from four to fifteen years had one of the longest, most frightening and out-and-out bizarre encounters with a group of unknown entities ever chronicled. Episode Reference Links:CASA BLANCA ENTITIES: (CALIFORNIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/07/casa-blanca-entities-california/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This week the guys answer questions from listeners! Not much monster talk but someone stole a bag of hot dogs at a pirate party. Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1978, on a desolate stretch of road housing some of Great Britain's most top secret nuclear facilities, a young service engineer had a terrifying, and potentially lethal, encounter with a bizarre, humanoid entity of unknown origin. Episode Reference Links:SILVER MAN: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/silver-man-england/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the summer of '55, on a lonely stretch of road in rural Georgia, a young forestry worker was pursued and viciously mauled by a terrifying humanoid creature. Episode Reference Links:GREY GHOST OF KINCHAFOONEE: (GEORGIA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/06/grey-ghost-of-kinchafoonee-georgia-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the winter of 1975, two grade-school boys had a shocking face to face confrontation with a pair of small, wrinkled, triple fanged ufonauts. Episode Reference Links:FANGED HUMANOIDS OF KOFU: (JAPAN) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/11/fanged-humanoids-of-kofu-japan/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Podcast Promo: Somewhere in the Skies https://www.somewhereintheskies.com Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1924 a small child had an encounter with hostile, robotic, plant-like extraterrestrials which, allegedly, resulted in the destruction of a school science building in Florida. Episode Reference Links:ROBO-FLOWERS: (FLORIDA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/03/robo-flowers-florida-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Podcast Promo: Our Strange Skies https://audioboom.com/channels/4938828 Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In the wilds of Washington State, adjacent to the Yakima Firing Range near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, is a bizarre geographic anomaly that was said to bear strange and arcane attributes. An impossibly deep pit that locals had come to believe may well be a gateway to another dimension… or hell itself. Episode Reference Links:Mel Waters and the Devil's Holes http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/08/mel-waters-and-the-devils-holes/ Devil's Hole Tumor Seal: (Nevada, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/devils-hole-tumor-seal-nevada-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Podcast Promo: Graveyard Tales http://www.graveyardpodcast.com Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This peculiar, pyramidal, mechanical crab-clawed monstrosity seems to have been stalking a pair of young British brothers for reasons that remain unknown to this day. Episode Reference Links: POOLE PYRAMID: (ENGLAND http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2016/07/poole-pyramid-england/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1974 a Wisconsin farmer had an inexplicable encounter with a clearly terrified, cow-like, humanoid entity that appeared to be sealed inside of a floating, semi-illuminated bullet-shaped chamber. Episode Reference Links: BOSAK HUMANOID: (WISCONSIN, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/05/bosak-humanoid-wisconsin-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Podcast Promo: The Pine Barrens Institute http://www.pinebarrensinstitute.com Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
On December 20, 1958 two friends were attacked by a group of bizarre, hostile alien creatures. After barely escaping with their lives the two would later go on to recount this disturbing tale. Episode Reference Links:TERRIBLE FLYING JELLY BAGS aka DOMSTEN BLOBS: (SWEDEN) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/05/terrible-flying-jelly-bags-sweden/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Podcast Promo: Into the Portal Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-portal/id1335393049 Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1986, a NASA employee had a horrifying encounter with a winged, jet-black, malevolent monstrosity… an encounter that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Episode Reference Links:NASA GARGOYLE: (TEXAS, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/01/nasa-gargoyle-texas-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
BONUS EPISODE! This week Rob regales us with tales of his close encounters in the field of cryptozoology! From South Africa to Louisiana and eventually MTV, get all your dirty Hollywood money together.. we're looking for monsters! Episode Reference Links: MAMLAMBO: (SOUTH AFRICA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/11/mamlambo-south-africa/ INKANYAMBA: (SOUTH AFRICA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2009/12/inkanyamba-south-africa/ Honey Island Swamp Monster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Island_Swamp_monster American Monsters Pilot https://youtu.be/pgkfL6OHIgI Salt City Horror Fest: http://saltcityhorrorfest.com Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
These bizarre leering beings have been seen in conjunction with UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters and even North America's most infamous paranormal manifestation… the Mothman of West Virginia. Episode Reference Links: GRINNING MAN: (WORLDWIDE) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/grinning-man-worldwide/ Salt City Horror Fest: http://saltcityhorrorfest.com Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subscription! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 2004 a Mexican police officer had a run in with a horrifying hag like entity that would be but the first in a series of encounters with these supernatural fiends! Episode Reference Links: FLYING FIENDS OF MEXICO CITY: (MEXICO) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/04/flying-fiends-of-mexico-city-mexico/ Salt City Horror Fest: http://saltcityhorrorfest.com Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
We know that this episode came out after the holidays, but Grampus is always watching! Thomas is a busy busy boy during this holiday season so we have our producer Tyler "Wolfman" Church filling in for him and he brought an old friend of his. 2017 has been a year of some naughty people – this week we learn all about who is going to punish them. We play a game of Naughty or Nice and hear a shocking tail. wink Suggested Talking Points: Grampus. Rob did a bad job/Tyler get's fired. Krampus, you DAWWWG!. Krampus' Secret Stuff. Naughty or Nice. An Erotic Tail. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
In 1973 the search for a missing child would take a turn for the terrifying by an encounter with a 7-foot tall, shadow shrouded nonhuman entity. Episode Reference Links: EL VERDE ENTITY:(PUERTO RICO, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/04/el-verde-entitypuerto-rico-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast Monsters Among Us Beyond Episode 3 with special guest Marc Storrs https://www.patreon.com/monstersamonguspodcast/posts Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In October of 1973 the police chief of Falkville, Alabama Jeff Greenhaw investigated a reported UFO landing and got much more than he bargained for! What would follow would be one of the most bizarre cases of an alien encounter to come out of the American South. Episode Reference Links: FALKVILLE METAL MAN (ALABAMA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/03/metal-man-of-falkville-alabama-usa/ Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast:Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In 1974 a huge, bipedal, green-skinned monstrosity terrorized the Mill Race Park in Indiana. Several people came forward to report their encounter which would lead to what some consider to be the biggest “monster hunt” in the history of the United States. Episode Reference Links: MILL RACE MONSTER: (INDIANA, USA)http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/03/mill-race-monster-indiana-usa/ Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
On August 17, 1971 Peter Rodriguez and John Hodges claim to have been abducted by a pair of large, blue, brains. These bizarre alien creature bring a dire warning to all mankind. Was a worldwide catastrophe avoided? Episode Reference Links: GIANT SPACE BRAINS OF PALOS VERDES: (CALIFORNIA, USA)http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/01/giant-space-brains-of-palos-verdes-california-usa/ Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
The conclusion of the Annabelle saga wraps up with the fate of Lou, Donna, Angie and some unfortunate souls who crossed this maniacal doll. Was this demonic possession, diabolical manipulation or a misunderstood haunting? Episode Reference Links: Ed and Lorraine Warren Occult Museumhttp://www.warrens.net/occult-museum-tours/ Annabelle: The True Story of a Demonic Doll http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/annabelle-the-true-story-of-a-demonic-doll/ Rob Morphy article on Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/author/rmorphy/ Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
The true story of the possessed doll that terrorized two female nursing students and their friend in 1970. Episode Reference Links: Annabelle: The True Story of a Demonic Doll http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/annabelle-the-true-story-of-a-demonic-doll/ Rob Morphy article on Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/author/rmorphy/ Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
In July of 1968 a bow hunter by the name of Jennings Frederick had a run with a bizarre, plasma craving, vegetative monstrosity. Enter Vegetable Man. Episode Reference Links: VEGETABLE MAN: (WEST VIRGINIA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2016/07/vegetable-man-west-virginia-usa/ Monster Among Us Pateron https://www.patreon.com/monstersamonguspodcast The Pine Barrens Institute http://www.pinebarrensinstitute.com Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
Nestled atop a lonely mesa in the stark, arid wilds not far from Battle Mountain, Nevada, four amateur pilots would have an all too close encounter with a pair of bizarre bio-luminescent beasts so terrifying that the eyewitnesses refused to speak about the incident for nearly four decades. Episode Reference Links: GARGANTUAN GLIDERS: (NEVADA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/gargantuan-gliders-nevada-usa/ Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code “GRAMPUS” at checkout to get 20% off your first monthly box! Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This bizarre tree dwelling, porpoise-like creature was said to have terrified villagers who treaded too close to the rural English churchyard where it made its home. Episode Reference Links: GRAMPUS: (ENGLAND)http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/grampus-england/ Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram
This week on StoryWeb: Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Tim Kamer. Here is a book whose fortunes have gone down and up, down and maybe up again. When Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick was published in 1851, much (if not most) of the reading public began to suspect that he had gone insane. The popular author of best-selling travel books seemed to have gone off the deep end (as it were). Dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose friendship had inspired Melville throughout the writing of the novel, Moby-Dick sold only about 3,200 copies during Melville’s lifetime. To Melville’s way of thinking – and to subsequent generations of American literary scholars in the 20th century – he had found his true calling with the psychologically and philosophically complex Moby-Dick. The year 1919 saw the centennial of Melville’s birth, igniting the “Melville Revival.” In the 1920s and following, Melville became an established part of the literary “canon,” and it seemed that his literary genius was finally getting the acclaim it deserved. But in later decades of the 20th century, long, ponderous, 19th-century novels lost their appeal. No one (fortunately) read James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans anymore, and while some people claimed to have read Moby-Dick, it was more likely that most of them had not actually read the tome. I have read, studied, and taught Moby-Dick several times – and my estimation of it deepens and grows every time I do. By no means is every part of the novel a page turner (parts of the long, drawn-out quest to find and kill the infamous white whale could serve as an insomnia aid). By no means is it all narrative, all story (the cetology chapters come to mind). And by absolutely no means is it clear what Melville wants us to think about this loose and baggy monster of a book. But there is so very much about the book that is amazing, even breath-taking. First, there are the marvelous opening chapters, in which Ishmael (for so he tells us to call him) goes to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to look for employment on a whaling ship, work Melville himself had done for some years (hence the popularity of his South Sea travel books). The third chapter – “The Spouter Inn” – tells of his night spent with the cannibal Queequeg. To my mind, these chapters represent the best storytelling in the book. Second, there is Melville’s literally encyclopedic knowledge of whales and the study of whales (cetology). While many readers are tempted to skim (or even skip) the cetology chapters so they can “get back to the story,” Melville includes meaty, essential material here, as well as in the justly famous chapter titled “The Whiteness of the Whale.” In short, you’ll learn a lot about whales from reading this book, though at a slower pace than you might fancy. A third fascinating facet of Moby-Dick is the exposé it offers of the whale oil industry, which is quite akin to the oil industry today. Melville describes the dangerous working conditions, shows the greed of the captains of industry, not just Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of Moby-Dick but the greed of the entire industry. Directed by Ric Burns, the PBS series Into the Deep: America, Whaling, and the World provides careful insight into the largest global industry of the 19th century. The series’ biography of Melville shows how skillfully Melville washed the gum from his readers’ eyes as to what was going on in this destructive industry. Another good, basic overview of the whaling industry can be found at the Awesome Stories website. And you might also find it fun to explore the New Bedford Whaling Museum website, including information about the museum’s Melville-related workshop, tours, and lecture. Need another reason to read Moby-Dick? Read it as a postmodern novel! Yes, you heard that right. Though modernist scholars loved it back in the 1920s, ‘30s, ’40, and ‘50s, it’s more a postmodern novel than it is a modern one. It blends genres, defies rules, goes all “meta” on us, as when Ishmael tries to interpret the painting in the New Bedford bar. But it’s “The Doubloon” chapter near the end of the novel that shows us the pre-postmodern tricks Melville was up to. Pip, the black cabin boy, has gone mad, having fallen overboard and been rescued from the depths of the ocean. Though he has physically survived his near-drowning, he has been changed forever mentally. But in Chapter 99, “The Doubloon,” Melville shows us that Pip does make some sense if you know how to listen to him. Ahab has nailed a golden doubloon to the ship’s mast. It’s worth a fortune. The first man to spot Moby-Dick can have the coin. In this chapter, Ahab, Starbuck, Stubb, Flask, and other characters walk up to the doubloon, give their explanations of what the coin’s engraving means, and walk away. The explanations range from the astrological to the very practical (the coin is worth $16, which would buy 960 cigars). But it is Pip, who in his topsy-turvy mental state, truly sees what is going on. “I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look,” he says. “I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look.” In other words, we all have a piece of the truth, and we all try to make sense of the world from our particular vantage point. This subjectivity is a hallmark of the postmodern enterprise. Now of course, Melville wasn’t a postmodernist. After all, Moby-Dick precedes the postmodern movement by more than a century. But maybe Melville was that far ahead of his contemporaries. Maybe he could see and embrace radical subjectivity – and maybe that it is a key reason why American readers thought Melville, like Pip, had lost his mind. When you look at Moby-Dick from all these angles, it’s hard not to appreciate and applaud Melville for his stunning achievement. Yes, the novel is hard to read. Yes, it’s long and dense. And yes, some of its lengthier passages are boring. But taken in its totality, it is a masterwork. Though Melville was immensely popular at the beginning of his writing career with the publication of several travelogues, he ultimately fell into utter obscurity. Deeply disappointed over the failure of American readers to embrace his more complex work, Melville quit writing by the end of the 1850s and spent the rest of his life working as a customs inspector in Manhattan. By 1876, all of his books were out of print, and near the end of his life, a New York newspaper – located just a few blocks from Melville’s residence – speculated about whether the now-minor figure in American literature was still alive! When Melville died in 1891, he was working on a new story, Billy Budd: Sailor. It would not be published until 1924. In all, Melville earned just over $10,000 for his writing during his lifetime. There’s so much more to say about Melville, about Moby-Dick, and about his other novels and short stories – but I’ll leave it there for now. Suffice it to say that Moby-Dick rewards careful reading. It’s not for the faint of heart or for those who like their fiction to be short and sweet. In fact, if you work up the courage to dive into this leviathan of a book, you may find it helpful to have Robert A. diCurcio’s chapter-by-chapter companion reader at your side. Titled “Nantucket’s Tried-Out Moby-Dick,” it’s available for free online. The novel itself is also available for free online, but for this hefty volume, you might be better off with a hard copy. Multiple editions are available, but I like the Modern Library edition. Finally, if you want to learn more about Melville’s life, check out Andrew Delbanco’s biography, Melville: His World and Work, or Hershel Parker’s famous two-volume biography. And when you have the time, indulge yourself in the rare treat of listening to more than 140 individuals as they read the novel’s 135 chapters and the epilogue. Titled “The Moby-Dick Big Read,” the project features such luminaries as Mary Oliver, Sir David Attenborough, Tony Kushner, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Each reading is accompanied by an original work of art that illustrates the chapter. What a great way to experience this American epic! Visit thestoryweb.com/mobydick for links to all these resources. Listen now as I read Chapter 3, “The Spouter Inn.” The chapter describes Ishmael’s attempts to understand the inn’s inscrutable painting and relates the tale of Ishmael and Queequeg’s night together in the inn. You can follow along with Chapter 3 at Project Gutenberg. Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild, might not be altogether unwarranted. But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.—It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It's a blasted heath.—It's a Hyperborean winter scene.—It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself? In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads. The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower. You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement. Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed. Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump. Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way—cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round—you enter the public room. A still duskier place is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old craft's cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world's remotest nooks. Projecting from the further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den—the bar—a rude attempt at a right whale's head. Be that how it may, there stands the vast arched bone of the whale's jaw, so wide, a coach might almost drive beneath it. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. Though true cylinders without—within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets. Fill to this mark, and your charge is but a penny; to this a penny more; and so on to the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling. Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander. I sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with a room, received for answer that his house was full—not a bed unoccupied. "But avast," he added, tapping his forehead, "you haint no objections to sharing a harpooneer's blanket, have ye? I s'pose you are goin' a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that sort of thing." I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket. "I thought so. All right; take a seat. Supper?—you want supper? Supper'll be ready directly." I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs. He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought. At last some four or five of us were summoned to our meal in an adjoining room. It was cold as Iceland—no fire at all—the landlord said he couldn't afford it. Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet. We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. But the fare was of the most substantial kind—not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner. "My boy," said the landlord, "you'll have the nightmare to a dead sartainty." "Landlord," I whispered, "that aint the harpooneer is it?" "Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, "the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don't—he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes 'em rare." "The devil he does," says I. "Where is that harpooneer? Is he here?" "He'll be here afore long," was the answer. I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this "dark complexioned" harpooneer. At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into bed before I did. Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the evening as a looker on. Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees." A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from their boat, and this was the first house they entered. No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth—the bar—when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round. One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island. The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously. I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest. This man interested me at once; and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I will here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea. In a few minutes, however, he was missed by his shipmates, and being, it seems, for some reason a huge favourite with them, they raised a cry of "Bulkington! Bulkington! where's Bulkington?" and darted out of the house in pursuit of him. It was now about nine o'clock, and the room seeming almost supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate myself upon a little plan that had occurred to me just previous to the entrance of the seamen. No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore. To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin. The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest. I began to twitch all over. Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight—how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming? "Landlord! I've changed my mind about that harpooneer.—I shan't sleep with him. I'll try the bench here." "Just as you please; I'm sorry I can't spare ye a tablecloth for a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here"—feeling of the knots and notches. "But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane there in the bar—wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough." So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape. The shavings flew right and left; till at last the plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot. The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank. So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study. I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair. But it was a foot too narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher than the planed one—so there was no yoking them. I then placed the first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall, leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in. But I soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night. The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldn't I steal a march on him—bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be wakened by the most violent knockings? It seemed no bad idea; but upon second thoughts I dismissed it. For who could tell but what the next morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down! Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer. Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping in before long. I'll have a good look at him then, and perhaps we may become jolly good bedfellows after all—there's no telling. But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer. "Landlord!" said I, "what sort of a chap is he—does he always keep such late hours?" It was now hard upon twelve o'clock. The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension. "No," he answered, "generally he's an early bird—airley to bed and airley to rise—yes, he's the bird what catches the worm. But to-night he went out a peddling, you see, and I don't see what on airth keeps him so late, unless, may be, he can't sell his head." "Can't sell his head?—What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?" getting into a towering rage. "Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?" "That's precisely it," said the landlord, "and I told him he couldn't sell it here, the market's overstocked." "With what?" shouted I. "With heads to be sure; ain't there too many heads in the world?" "I tell you what it is, landlord," said I quite calmly, "you'd better stop spinning that yarn to me—I'm not green." "May be not," taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, "but I rayther guess you'll be done brown if that ere harpooneer hears you a slanderin' his head." "I'll break it for him," said I, now flying into a passion again at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's. "It's broke a'ready," said he. "Broke," said I—"broke, do you mean?" "Sartain, and that's the very reason he can't sell it, I guess." "Landlord," said I, going up to him as cool as Mt. Hecla in a snow-storm—"landlord, stop whittling. You and I must understand one another, and that too without delay. I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer. And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow—a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree. I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him. And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution." "Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath, "that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. But be easy, be easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin' you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of 'balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin' human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin' out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all the airth like a string of inions." This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me—but at the same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such a cannibal business as selling the heads of dead idolators? "Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man." "He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder. "But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes—it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced. There's plenty of room for two to kick about in that bed; it's an almighty big bed that. Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm. Arter that, Sal said it wouldn't do. Come along here, I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way. But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday—you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere—come along then; do come; won't ye come?" I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast. "There," said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table; "there, make yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye." I turned round from eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared. Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed. Though none of the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well. I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale. Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large seaman's bag, containing the harpooneer's wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk. Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed. But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy and thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious harpooneer had been wearing it of a rainy day. I went up in it to a bit of glass stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my life. I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink in the neck. I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. After thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking. I then took off my coat, and thought a little more in my shirt sleeves. But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven. Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery, there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep for a long time. At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door. Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room. I was all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time while employed in unlacing the bag's mouth. This accomplished, however, he turned round—when, good heavens! what a sight! Such a face! It was of a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with large blackish looking squares. Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible bedfellow; he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is, just from the surgeon. But at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks. They were stains of some sort or other. At first I knew not what to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the squares of tattooing. To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one. However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin. Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all. But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly thing enough—and crammed it down into the bag. He now took off his hat—a new beaver hat—when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise. There was no hair on his head—none to speak of at least—nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull. Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner. Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension. Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him. Meanwhile, he continued the business of undressing, and at last showed his chest and arms. As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms. It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to think of it. A peddler of heads too—perhaps the heads of his own brothers. He might take a fancy to mine—heavens! look at that tomahawk! But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen. Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be. For now the savage goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons. The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol. I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but ill at ease meantime—to see what was next to follow. First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite offer of it to the little negro. But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips. All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock. All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound. But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one. Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me. Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my meaning. "Who-e debel you?"—he at last said—"you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e." And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark. "Landlord, for God's sake, Peter Coffin!" shouted I. "Landlord! Watch! Coffin! Angels! save me!" "Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!" again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire. But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him. "Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again, "Queequeg here wouldn't harm a hair of your head." "Stop your grinning," shouted I, "and why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?" "I thought ye know'd it;—didn't I tell ye, he was a peddlin' heads around town?—but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look here—you sabbee me, I sabbee—you this man sleepe you—you sabbee?" "Me sabbee plenty"—grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and sitting up in bed. "You gettee in," he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. "Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me. It's dangerous. Besides, I ain't insured." This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely motioned me to get into bed—rolling over to one side as much as to say—"I won't touch a leg of ye." "Good night, landlord," said I, "you may go." I turned in, and never slept better in my life.
Lindsay gets attacked by cardboard, Dustin neglects his smartphone, and Nicole loves Gravity. Featured music by Hippo Campus
Tip para o jogo do Nagoya Vs Cerezo Osaka a realizar-se a 24-08-2013 pelas 11:00
Tip para o jogo do Nagoya Vs Cerezo Osaka a realizar-se a 24-08-2013 pelas 11:00
Late? What do you mean, late? We've been here for ages, honest! (Okay, it's a fair cop - but better late than never, eh?) Once again the Geek Syndicate Network presents our annual array of panel games and silly banter. The First Lady of Scrolls starts things off with her version of Just A Minute, in which the contestants struggle to speak on a given topic without deviation, hesitation or repetition. Clover's subjects range from grumpy dragons to horny time-travellers, while the clock ticks ever downwards. You can practically hear the sweat. Next up is newcomer Tim Swann with Pointless, in which the contestants vie to find the most obscure but accurate answers. For folk unfamiliar with the quiz show, think Family Fortunes in reverse. Under the microscope are Firefly, Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star Wars. but what everybody really wants to know is how did Tim managed to split his brain in two? We follow up with chameleonic truths and outrageous lies as Dion chairs the classic game of Call My Bluff. Each contestant presents three definitions of a word or phrase related to film, tv, radio, book, comic, or game. Their opponents must ask them questions and try to work out the facts from the fibs. Technical difficulties hit us at this point, but we've preserved most of the show. Finally, Matt Farr (the otherwise genial Grampus) dons his alter-ego as Lord Alan Sidious, weeding out the wastrels in his sour-faced search for the next Sith Apprentice. The contestants each take on the role of a villain from anywhere in space and time, pitching their plans for domination to Lord Alan. Who will impress the Enterprising Emperor and who will be summarily executed? We lost Mr Ambler's game of Geeking Talk to gremlins, but two hours ought to be enough for you all. So, grab some nibbles, pop your party hat on and help us drain the last dregs of Christmas spirit as Dissecting Scrolls Solves Christmas! [Musical snatches come from Eddie Reader's album The Songs Of Robert Burns. I think she's fab. You should buy all her stuff.] Stay In Touch. You can follow most of the contestants on Twitter under the following monikers @thegrampus @Dion_Scrolls @Phlambler @tetrarchangel What do Points make? Prizes! Sadly, we have no faith in our scoring systems, so the decision is YOURS. Tell us who you think THE WINNER is. You have until the end of January to get your votes in as to who is the Overall Winner. For impartiality, e-mail scrolls@hotmail.co.uk with the subject heading 'Dissecting Scrolls Champion.' Tell us who you think deserves the bragging rights, and why. A voter will be chosen at random to win a prize. Deadline is 11:59 GMT Jan 31st 2013.
Dustin is betrayed by delicious pizza, Lindsay goes to Almost Acoustic Xmas, and Nicole has an odd elevator encounter. Featured music by Portage
This time it's an all Northern trio as the pest from the west Kehaar is joined by old sparing partner Grampus and Empress of the Earphones Stacey Whittle. Fangs for downloading because we're getting into the sweaty and saline world of the social science in Vampire Fiction. On the way there: Boffin' with Buffy Homo-Erotica with Anne Rice and the Lost Boys Feral antics in True Blood and others Frustration with Laura K Hamilton Deviance with Dresden Debonair Dracula and dirty fingernailed peasant vampires. Off kilter takes like 'I am Legend' and 'Let the right one in.' And many more sundry genre Vampires are looked at in a frank and jovial look at the subject. Stacey Whittle 's podcast small press, big mouth is available on the Geeksyndicate network, the megacast avilable on the Everythign Comes back to 2000ad itunes feed and the supporting blogs are http://smallpressbigmouth.blogspot.com/ and http://2000ad.wordpress.com/ The Geeksyndicate discussion boards are here http://www.facebook.com/#!/board.php?uid=133321786702708 and details of the Dissecting Worlds Synposium on 6 August, Manchester, UK here http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122188391190426 Read Kehaar and other collaorators stories here http://cutthroatcreeks.wordpress.com/ and Matt's book reviews here http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/category/features/tolkien-gestures/
Dissecting Worlds turns it's attention to the world of Computer Games and in particular Mass Effect (thanks Wedgedoc for the suggestion.) On the way they discuss the many influences and parallels on Spectres namely James Bond, Wild West Marshals, the operative from Serenity, the Jedi amongst others with nods to Dredd, The Wire, X-files and Mancuso FBI. See the blood boil and the rapiers get drawn at in a sidetrack into Roger Moores period as 007! Wonder at the parallels to the Citadel Council of the UN Secuirty Council pernament members & the Congress System. Gape at the consideration of Computer Games as fiction anyway and how their world building differs from books, flms, comics and between gaming genres. Feedback on the forums for perference but failing that email dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk or twitter @clarkythecruel (kehaar) or matt @the Grampus. Oh the book mentioned is Keeper of Corn, Binder of Bone found here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Binder-Bone-Keeper-Corn/dp/B003ZHVH6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283379704&sr=1-1 "
Wrapping up their premier series on Empires the disagreeing duo of Kehaar and Grampus sit back relax and muse over Empires in genre fiction in general. Why do evil Empires get reeled out so often? What alternatives are there? What about ravenous space locusts? Skipping as they do into Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The Wire, 2300 and much much more. Don't forget details here of the Comic Forum Project here:http://www.thecomicforums.com/forum2//inde...howtopic=166930 Feedback at w.gsforums.co.uk or twogeekswithnonamepodcast@yahoo.co.uk
'This time the Trans-Penine Duo of Kehaar and Grampus look at Corporate Empires in geek fiction - mainly focusing on Weyland-Yutani from the Aliens Franchaise but also looking at such things as RDA (Avatar), Lunar Industries (Moon) as well as Pirates of the Carribbean, Jennifer Government, Lexcorp and others. We also look at such real world examples of self governing corporate colonies as the East India Company, Cecil Rhodes and International Africa Association. We then look at the narrative role these Empires perform and what treatment the Corprorate Empire could undergo in the future. There may be some spoilers. Enjoy
'This week Kehaar and Grampus wrestle with the slow kid in the Babylon 5 class - the Earth Alliance. With particular attention to the Earth-Minbar War and the Clark Civil War they buffet between topics including space colonisation, first contact and relative scales of unpleasantness in war. We apologise for delays in recording due to 'When Babies Attack' events. No damn shirt collars disappeared or went to Zah'um in the making of this episode. Now get the hell listenng our podcast! An ISN special report confirms Kehaar is doing the Liverpool Half Marathon if you want you can sponsor him hear http://www.justgiving.com/Andrew-Clark1 TWGNN is also willing to sponsor a Comic Forum project - details on the Geeksyndicate forum an executivue summary below from Bluemeanie: "Ok, short version - if we get enough teams to warrant doing it, we were after short comic stories of up to 10 pages max. The theme at the moment is just nerd-life, but this might change if the forum gets fixed and people can actually give feedback.Deadline wise, were talking end of September which should be enough for even the laziest to get 3 or 4 pages together. Then it all gets put in a book, thrown up in Indyplanet and any and all proceeds go to the Hero Initiative.In the past these have just been a bit of fun and only shift copies to people who have something in there, but its still a bit of fun and good practice." Interested wrIters or artists get in touch with Blue Meanie at ecbt2000AD@yahoo.co.uk or on the forums Comments on the episode n the forms or twogeekswithnonamepodcast@yahoo.co.uk"
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
