Episode 137: Whaling
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr
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Episode description
Ahoy, listeners! This week we've got some gnarly, morbid, punk rock shit for you people: the 19th century Whaling Industry in the United States! We don't know what sounds worse: killing the whale, harvesting the whale's body, or getting hopelessly lost at sea trying to bring the whale back to Nantucket or wherever. This, like almost all other things happening in 1849, was a bad idea. A dead whale or a stove boat, Horror Honeys!
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