The Escape Pods

This episode was a fun one to experience and put together. I had been seeing various Sea Shanty content pop up, starting with a Profs and Pints event in Baltimore, a Shanty night at my buddies club Phantom Power in Millersville, pa and figured I could marry them up into an episode.

Dr. Jessica Floyd works at CCBC, the same campus my wife runs the college book store at currently and she got her doctorate studying various things including English Pornographic Poetry and ending up on taking the same angle to study Sea Chanties. (Spelled with a C, for Doctor Floyds preferred spelling.)

We think of Sea Chanties as drinking fun songs along the lines of The Dropkick Murphys and such, but in an academic sense, a Sea Chanty is a very specific Nautical work song practiced aboard Merchant ships plying the Atlantic and Caribbean during the age of sail.

Dr. Jesssica is holding a Profs and Pints event on Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at SOS pickleball, 409 S. Spring St. in Baltimore, at 6pm. I plan on being there, you should as well!

In conjunction with that event, my buddy Gregg booked in a Shanty night at his club in Millersville, PA last Thursday featuring the Susquehanna Shantymen, a local shanty band, and My Druthers, a shanty band from Connecticut.

I’ve interspersed some songs from each as well as at the end, they all gathered on stage to do Leave Her Johnny. I also put in The Ogham Stones version of the Real Mckenzies “Mainland,” a favorite of mine. We saw them on Sunday after all of this for St. Paddys day weekend.

Dr. Jessica has two books, one is out already and the other is coming out in May of 2026.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Cabin-Boys-Milkmaids-and-Rough-Seas

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Sons-of-Neptune

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Intro Music by yours truly and Greg Young, available via The Incoherents. The Lean Years Volume 2, on Itunes.
Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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