All Episodes

A Fat Knight and a King: Henry IV Part 2 and Falstaff

Who Started English History? Venerable Bede Speaks.

Reading My Way to England

From the Mississippi to Macondo: Huckleberry Finn and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Reading As A Superpower

Kings and Princes: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One

Let's Go! Season Three Kick-Off

I Get Knocked Down...and I Get Up Again. Week 17: The Golden Ass [REPLAY]

Born in the U.S.A. Week 39: A Handful of 19th Century American Writers [REPLAY]

Everything's going to be okay. Week 25 (2): Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradiso [REPLAY]

Fate Up Against Your Will. Week 26: Shakespeare's Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear [REPLAY]

CtB Replay: Wouldn't It Be Good (To Live in Their World?). Week 30: Cervantes' Don Quixote and Moliére's Tartuffe [REPLAY]

Right Here, Right Now. Looking Back at Season 2–and Ahead to Season 3!

Once in a Lifetime. Week 52: Stories about Humans with Didion, Butler, Wallace and O'Brien

Welcome to the Machine. Week 51: Brave New World

Freeze Frame. Week 50: Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, and José Ortega y Gassett

C’est Si Bon. Week 49: Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and René Girard

Strange Magic. Week 48: Kafka, Borges, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wide Open Fiction. Week 47: The American Short Story

Is it all in your head? Week 46: Sigmund Freud

Can You Write Light? Week 45: Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

But is it ART? Week 44: James Joyce and Samuel Beckett

Change Is Gonna Come. Week 43: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B DuBois

No Flowers, Please. Week 42: Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil and Gustave Flaubert's Trois Contes

Still Life with Feeling. Week 41: Henry James' Spoils of Poynton and Marcel Proust's Swann's Way

Reach Out and Touch Faith. Week 40: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Frederich Nietzsche

Born in the U.S.A. Week 39: A Handful of 19th Century American Writers

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. Bonus! Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Two Logical Guys. Week 38: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

You Can’t Hurry Love. Week 37: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

You Say You Want a Revolution? Week 36: The U.S. Constitution, The Communist Manifesto, and A Vindication of the Rights of Women

When Poetry is the New Sensation. Week 35: Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and the Romantic Poets

Bizarre Love Triangle. Week 34: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther

Under Pressure. Week 33: Descartes' Discourse on the Method, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Spinoza's Ethics.

Cultivate Your Garden. Week 32: Rousseau's Confessions and Voltaire's Candide

When Reason Became Unreasonable. Week 31: Machievelli's The Prince and Rousseau's The Social Contract

Wouldn't It Be Good (To Live in Their World?). Week 30: Cervantes' Don Quixote and Moliére's Tartuffe

True Colors, Renaissance Artists. Week 29: Vasari's Lives of the Artists and Cellini's Autobiography

A Smooth Criminal, and a Great King. Week 28: Shakespeare's Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2) and Othello

Fools for Love. Week 27: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest

Fate Up Against Your Will. Week 26: Shakespeare's Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear

Everything's going to be okay. Week 25 (2): Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradiso

Learning to Fly. Week 25 (1): Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio

Brothers in Arms. Week 24: Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno

The Halftime Report: What I've Learned About How to Read Classics (so far)

What is Love? Week 23: Abelard and Heloise, and Troubadour Poetry

I Ran (So Far Away). Week 22: Sundiata and The Mwindo Epic

Avalon. Week 21: Canterbury Tales and Le Morte D'Arthur

Running up that Hill (to God). Week 20: The Confessions of St. Augustine

Eye of the Tiger, Heart of a Monk. Week 19: The Bhagavad Gita and the Rule of St. Benedict

Rock the Casbah. Week 18: The Arabian Nights

I Get Knocked Down...and I Get Up Again. Week 17: The Golden Ass

Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting. Week 16: Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu

Don't Dream It's Over. Week 15: Boethius and The Consolation of Philosophy

Rome Where You Want To. Week 14: Ovid, Virgil, and More Roman Poets

People are People, Faithful and Infidel. Week 13: The Koran and Rumi's Poems

Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Week 12: Lives of the Caesars

Let It Be. Episode 11: The Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus

I Can See Clearly Now. Week 10: The Bible

It's the End of the World as We Know It. Week 9: Aeschylus, Eurpides, and Sophocles

How to Weigh a Heart. Week 8: The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Monster Inside of You. Week 7: The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Dhammapada

Are You a Lover or a Fighter? Week 6: Plato and Herodotus

To Be a Friend, Read Aristotle. Week 5: Nicomachaen Ethics and Poetics.

True Faith. Week 4: Confucius and The Analects

Talk Talk...with Jack! Week 3: Homer's Odyssey

Don't Stop Believin'. Week 2: Getting Started with The Odyssey

Don't Fear the Reaper. Week 1: Plato's Republic and The Last Days of Socrates

Crack The Book Trailer

How To Buy A Boat (And Why You Need A Broker) [REPLAY]

The Secrets of Cooking on a Private Yacht with Vanessa Verster [REPLAY]

Our Intrepid Captain’s Story: Part 1 [REPLAY]

A New Adventure - What’s Next For The Podcast…

5 Lessons From The Odyssey For Modern-Day Adventurers

Our Best and Worst Moments of 2024 - And Goal Setting for 2025

'Twas The Day After Christmas On The High Seas…

Our 3 Must-Try Holiday Drinks to Impress Your Guests

The 2 Best Ways to Unlock the Secrets of Your Next Destination

Fall 2024 Review: Our Top Trips

Taking On America’s 6000-Mile ‘Great Loop’ with Ali Hasell

Behind the Scenes Of A Luxury Boat Show

60 Days At Sea - The Realities of Yacht Deliveries

3 Life-Changing Lessons (+ YOUR Questions Answered!)

Abide Finally Returns Home

A Day In The Life Of A Yacht Crew

How The Journey Came to a Halt in Newport

Abide’s Icy Escape From The Shipyard

Transforming A Boat Into A Home with a Yacht Interior Designer

Back On The Water: Dark Days and Delays

The Secrets of Cooking on a Private Yacht with Vanessa Verster

Behind The Refit: Life’s Challenges

Decking The Hull: Refitting Abide Over a Cold Maine Winter

Building a Shipyard From The Ground Up with JB Turner

How We Made Abide Beautiful Again

How To Buy A Boat (And Why You Need A Broker)

What Went On In The Shed…

Uncovering The Turbulent History of Abide

A Frosty Reception - Our Intrepid Captain’s Story: Part 2

Our Intrepid Captain’s Story: Part 1

Setting Sail Into The Unknown