James Harkin

the final frontier oh yeah yes indeed uh nasa apparently lubed its moonlanders that feels like a euphemism it does lube my moonlander it's around in some kind of game show isn't it

Yeah, but this is according to a book called Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell, and she says that they used it until the ban on whaling in 1986.

Right.

Well, I think they use their oil for buoyancy, right?

But the spermaceti ones have oils in the melon, which is in the front of their head.

And we don't know exactly what that's for, but I think there's an idea that it might be used to kind of get signals.

So like echolocation.

Yeah, echolocation.

I think that's the idea.

which is so cool in your face harpoonist eat it Ishmael is that the first line of Moby Dick eat it Ishmael it's Moby Dick from the Wales perspective yeah yeah

so Andy yeah we have established that you like crockery sure sandwich plate yeah you also like cutlery yeah so what do you think you would do with a mincing knife um is it a knife which has a mincing tool on the end so for mincing meat so is it like got a it's like got a grid of sharp metal on the end and I just shove it into the meat and that minces it

Not quite.

And remember, we're talking about whales.

Do they?

It pretty much is.

Oh, dear.

But not mince as in like... Mince just means chopping up smaller, right?

Yeah.

So if you were to get the blubber and you were to put it into the pot...

The smaller it is, the more surface area it has, the easier it is to melt down to turn into oil.