In The Heart of the Sea: The Comedy of the Whaleship Essex
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- A tune written for our 11th grade English class, long before thhe big screen adaptation. Pretty, pretty dumb. Many an artistic liberty taken in the interest of rhyming.
Thanks to Nathaniel Philbrick for giving us his blessing.
Thanks to Michael Venable (Mixhael Vwenabke) for shooting.
Thanks to Lisa Bumbulucz (née Harsen) for putting up with us.
Guest appearance by Chelsi Jolly.
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imagine being the report after this lmao
Tess Bessette lol😂
Maybe every two were assigned a different book (lets hope so)
@@ramroom619 still tho
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Telling my kids this was Simon and Garfunkel
Sean Cappiello haha their style does have a hint of Simon and Garfunkel doesn’t it?
@@satsumasalanewt4007 Josh Turner is on the Simon and Garfunkel story now
THEY CALL ME BABY DRIVER
Wait, they aren't?
Satsuma Salanewt nn
Drake and Josh as intellectuals
Yes
Carson and Josh
HUG ME BROTHA
Happy to be the thousandth person to like this comment
Drake and Josh got nothing on these boys
"a minor setback" - goes to C minor
I just noticed that!
I know right. Genius
Yes! Don't you just love word painting?
They pulled a sneaky on us
Omg I just realized that. Great music joke on their part.
the fact that they pulled *cluster-problem* in school makes me so happy
ok your school is officially the coolest one on the planet
a couple of my teachers either just sent us to the principal's office or made us do some odd amount of push-ups. it was kinda extreme if you ask me
I never had any problem cursing in school. My Dutch teacher even showed us a vulgar comedy skit based on play on word jokes
Tad Cooper cool but the joke is better now the did it
what schools dont allow you to curse lol
And they got an F because this was in fact.... Algebra class.....
Only a minor setback
@@MrSchulta chase said to himself
@@magnusbell5410 If I can find teacher's ex, my grade will fix itself.
Sounds like a major problem to me
It's in B though
Guy: plays harmonica
People: you have achieved comedy
Guy: Plays spoons
People: you have achieved god level
Thank whoever fixed the recommendation algorithm.
This is gold.
holy shit, I found this video by mistake again, went down the comments to say something and saw this.
wtf so many likes over this.
ClumsyAmbivert strange
@@imkabochan ruclips.net/video/bPirvZzGFBE/видео.html
Amen to that
I'm an English teacher, and I would give that an easy 100- better than reading trash reports... hope my students don't read this.
Edit: I feel it necessary to clarify for those who fail to recognize this is written 'tongue-and-cheek'. I always gave my students creative outlets in the classroom. I was simply making light of the contrast between the creative excellence of this compared to the dry nature of a written report. I think teachers should always provide students with those opportunities. They should also help students learn how to write. Both are important.
Wtf Mr. Robinson....
I thought my report was good tho :(
@@user-mk5vj5bf3j oh, it was, and I totally read all of it :)
@@evanrobinson9807 you did ??? Fuuuu...
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
So in the 11th grade, these guys were writing clever comedic lyrics summarizing _Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex,_ complete with major and minor plot points, correct usage of nautical jargon, and understanding the story so well they could satirize it. When I was in the 11th grade, I occupied myself angling around trying to catch a glimpse of Mary Sue's shapely gams, deciphering the mysteries of the graffiti on a desk older than me, and calculating how many seconds until free period.
I mean, it's a summary. I feel like most people learned that in 2nd grade. Nonetheless, it's a great performance and difficult to make and pull off.
“Shapely Jams” did you go to school in the 1890s smh
@@cruzcontrol1303 Close! :) But don't knock it. A nice pair of gams to gaze at will get you through a really boring class.
Dude you write really well. Honestly.
@@tomvanlieshout524 Thank you!
Sheesh, that’s a lot of talent and creativity - and guts - for a couple of high school kids. Thanks for posting.
I wrote a song for a Spanish project last year for school, it was a song about beans.
And would have been really cool as well as earning respect!
"only a minor setback" plays a minor chord when they say minor
I love lyrical cues
Thay missed one thing. A MINOR setback PLAYS C MINOR
Word painting
@@h.c.49 Correction. Absolutely amazing word painting.
This is pure gold😂😂 idk how the other students keep such composure, I woulda been losing my mind watching these Simon & Garfunkel lookin muthafuckers 😂😂😂
oof
Wtf
Mothaproblems***
ha ha ha ...
most people aren't fucking children
“What’s your favorite song from The Other Favorites?”
*me as an intellectual*
This but unironically.
This one is my favorite but unfortunately they will no longer perform it. Apparently, Carson strongly objects to it 😕. I had an opportunity to tell Carson that this song truly showed what geniuses they were even at such a young age. He shyly thanked me. He is very humble young man.
BTW, they made an A on it.
minor setback that I didn't see this til now.
parkerthefrost This is an underrated comment 😂
agreed
Indeed
I wanna applaud the teacher for allowing this.
I had an English teacher in high school who had the entire class divide into production teams and each group would make a movie parody of a subset of the books we'd read in her class. My group decided to take characters from the main books, put them in a high school class, and have them make a movie parody of the books they'd read in their class, except instead of being mainstays of American and English literature, their books were our history textbook, the third Harry Potter, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The only word that adequately describes this movie is "disasterpiece." It's a 17-minute nonsensical clusterfuck full of side plots that don't go anywhere, jokes that explicitly make no sense, and one scene that features Harry, Ron, and Hermione urgently strategizing on how to prevent the Very Hungry Caterpillar from eating the US Constitution. At one point, it cuts to a commercial for a Shamwow-for-language for the specific purpose of fulfilling an assignment requirement for using vocabulary terms immediately before a climactic, and gratuitously violent, fight scene between the protagonists' production team and a rival production team that kind of appeared out of nowhere, but also justified their existence by referring to a deceptively minor plot point from a couple of scenes before, which is the one time in the entire movie the script veers dangerously close to "trying to be actually good." But my favorite joke in the movie is the absolute mockery that is made of eyewear continuity. The "teacher" character takes off his glasses every time the camera cuts to him, but is never seen putting them on, while Huckleberry Finn has a pair of shades mysteriously appear on his face between two adjacent shots of him, and neither is ever acknowledged or explained.
We got the only A+ across all of that teacher's classes and she liked it so much she kept a copy on DVD to show every time she did that assignment in the future. And it is also on my channel.
I gotchu 1k
To anyone wondering, they made an A. I met them in Seattle tonight and asked them after their excellent set with Reina and Tony.
It deserves an A+ with that amount of talent! I can right anything for the life of me
Stop the cap
That was awesome! I'm an English teacher and my students will from now on have the option to do all of their future assignments as a song instead. Thank you for the inspiration. :D
more teachers should do that
the trick my best teachers did was to never define what the project had to be, just the content that needed to be covered. You'll get plenty of powerpoints and posters, but the creatives will always do something like this.
Hey I’m really curious, do any of your students say your last name or are you just know commonly as “Mr. F”.
Have you implemented this option?
My English teacher makes us write summaries for the plays we read and gives us the option to rap it so long as we can find someone who can beatbox. Needless to say, almost everyone in my school knows how to beatbox and we have beatboxing tournaments in the gym during lunch.
So this is why all teachers wanted us to sing our presentations all of a sudden..
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Lmao indeed, they did that at your school too huh?
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The spoon solo after the cannibalism verse was comedic gold. I can’t believe the class didn’t go wild for that.
The spoon solo in the middle of the cannibalism part really made the whole thing
While you sounded great (especially for 11th graders!), I can’t help but feel you missed a glorious opportunity: to play this in the key of...Sea.
I’ll show myself out...
oh you poor thing
Can you BE Sharper with your subtle pun. 👌
The joke would've been great if performed NATURALly
After saying that you should wash your mouth with a barre of soap
deedeebtw I’m sure it was only an accidental.
This is one of the best things I've ever seen, whether it's the writing, the music, the performance, or the comedy.
Damn. These guys beat us all to Sea Shanties by a solid 11 years.
Well... This isn't really a sea shanty, so...
And pirates beat everyone by a few centuries
If they didn't get an A+ for this, I'm sueing the teacher.
everytime they set "only a minor setback" my ears feel so blessed
"Only a minor setback" uses C minor chord (sea minor).
Genius.
Josh: *plays three notes on harmonica*
The class: *laughter*
They’re just not used to the instrument
It might be dumb but every couple of months or so I have an uncontrollable urge to hear it again!
Lol... Not dumb. Me too!
After RUclips reminded me of it today, I just had to watch it one more time.
I also watch it every so often . It just cheers me up, it’s so pure!
Lyrics if anyone is wondering:
(Disclaimer: I'm getting the lyrics directly from listening to the video so there will probably be some inaccuracies and words or phrases I misheard but this is the best I can do)
[1st Verse]
Well the Essex, she was a lucky ship, a-captained by George Pollard
But when she left port for a journey of sorts, she never could have reckoned one fowler
She was a whaling ship about 85 feet, with a crew that numbered 20
She was headed on around to The Offshore Ground, a whaling land of plenty
Four days in just past Cape Cod, they were faced with an oncoming gale
They tried to turn around, but they got knocked down because they never shorted sail
[Chorus]
"Only a minor setback," Pollard said to Chase
"And if we press on through, we'll be right back in the race"
[2nd Verse]
Later on off the South American coast, the watch shouted "thar she blows!"
And a rite too, they had the beast harpooned, and the blood and oil did flow
Their eyes looked rabid as they tore apart the flesh, and laid it out to dry
Not a-one of them frowned as they boiled it down, and smoked furled up to the sky
[3rd Verse]
They finally sailed to The Offshore Ground, and they thought they were in luck
Thought there was no doubt when they saw spout it would soon become a clusterf... problem
Chase had returned to repair his stroud, while the other boat stayed on the hunt
His eyes grew wide as the gazed port side, and was met with a whales full brunt
When Pollard pulled up in his own little launch he could see that Chase was pail
(Spoken)
He asked, "my God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?"
To which Chase responed:
(Sung)
"We've been stoved by a whale"
[Chorus]
"Only a minor setback," Pollard said to Chase
"And if we press on through, we'll be right back in the race"
[4th Verse]
So they gathered up some water and so hardtack too, but they didn't wanna leave the wreck
Pollard said "no," Matthew Joy said "yes," so they all said "what the heck"
As for just which way to sail, none of them could agree
But it was decided for the best not to sail to the west, the ultimate irony
[5th Verse]
They tried to sail west but they wind brew bad so they drifted and sailed to the south
Soon thing turned dire they began to perspire, and their tongue shriveled up in their mouth
[Chorus]
"Only a minor setback," Pollard croaked to Chase
"And if we can just find an island we'll be right back in the race"
[6th Verse]
No sooner had those words escaped his mouth that they heard a weak "land ho!"
There were smiles all around at the island they found, and they pulled the boats into a cove
And just a few days it was no surprise when Pollard said "seems to me."
That the food's run low so we'll have to go, and they set back out to sea
Joy grew ill as the storm came up that couldn't be placated
He was hangin by a thread and soon his was dead, and the boats got separated
[Chorus]
"Only a minor setback," Chase said to himself
As he and his crew nurse their deteriorating health
[Spoken Verse]
Now this is the point in the book when things really began to go south for the crew of the Essex, both literally and metaphorically. On Chase's boat their rations were cut to 1.5 ounces of hardtack a day, which of course was half of half of their original rations--which in the first place wasn't enough to sustain the life of an adult man. But it was much better than the situation on Hendrick's and Pollard's boat, where they had run out of food entirely. As they sat around and stared at each other in the hot sun, they began to dream of more imaginative ways to curve their hunger.
[7th Verse]
The first man died and they jumped on him with much ferocity
They cut off his head then his feet and his hands and tossed them into the sea
Then they went for the liver and the heart, for you know they taste the best
With their [ravenous?] paws and their ravenous jaw, as they greedily tore the rest
[8th Verse]
By the time they were sighted by a whaling ship, there were but five men left
They were sucking on bones, spoke only in moans with dignity devoided breath
[Chorus]
"Only a minor setback," the crewmen said to Chase
"And if we get back to Nantucket we'll be right back in the race"
I think it's 'what followed' in an accent instead of 'one fowler' in the forst verse but other than that seems good
Thank you for these lyrics.
You are a scholar and a saint, thank you!
You're the man !
Thank you for the lyrics!🥰
the harmony on minor setback is really nice
Jesus Christ the dudes hand to the right must've been on fire after barring chords pretty much the whole song
barre chords aren't that tiring though
Barre chords are pretty difficult
Ikr!
@@ashuri599 I've been playing guitar for 12 years and full songs of barre chords still make my hands cramp a little.
@@ashuri599 even with decent string tension it still gets tiring if you don't hold an open shape once in a while
Why did I get reccomended this for no reason?
And why am I standing up and applauding like a mad lad
A ridiculous amount of talent from these kids. The songwriting talents they possess are way beyond their years. I'd love to see where these kids are now.
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It’s crazy that they’re on tour together these days
the fact that this song is actually good is amazing
they turned a legit book report into a song
Coming back to this legendary video now that sea shanties are trending
Now you have to do an entire album of history ballads. I'll buy it.
Very different genre, but you should listen to sabaton.
Had I been in the same class ... and secretly learning to play guitar ... I would have gone home and sold it.
Everyone fell in love with them after this, I swear.
This is the kind of thing that RUclips was made for.
How is this not on the main channel?! Deserves as wide as audience as possible. Inspired!
I’m a senior English teacher, looking up ways to teach this book. Literally grinned at this from beginning to end! So proud of you guys!!!
All jokes aside, that was not just well written, but executed incredibly!
Retired British teacher, here..... If students of mine had turned in a homework assignment like this I would have been delighted.... Play to your talents in life.... they did exactly what was asked of them, but in a way few will ever forget seeing or hearing. Two exceptionally talented individuals. Loved it, thanks.
English teacher: Good Job. 97%. Well done.
Who would imagine Josh started this sea shanty craze.
Pro-tip... “Fustercluck is totally acceptable in class”. Thanks for that mighty tale boys! 🙌🏻
This tune is now stuck in my head.
I was looking for good sea shanties & this is the best thing I possibly could have found.
I keep coming back to this. This is nothing short of a masterpiece.
This genuinely makes me me well up in tears every time I rewatch it. The talent and energy bursting from these two… They went entirely out of their way and put in 300% of the effort required just to fulfill their passions for an instant in front of their peers… and they were given the leeway to do it. That’s what education is all about. They were given room to be themselves within a constructive context. Feels like a scene from a movie I wanna watch. Dead Poets Society type shit.
Dumb??? This is adorable. I hope you guys got an A+.
and just a few years earlier, Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride was written about the very same ship The Essex
I can’t believe that they have a band together now. What a start to a band
May the friendship of you two last centuries..
If I were your teacher back then, I could exempt you guys from joining my class and focus on composing song about the class for your final exam. 😂
These fellas have been at it for a long time!!
Talented!
I will always come back and watch this.
Probably one of the most creative and entertaining book reports I've ever seen.
There are certain school projects when I decided to use my creativity. But this here.. this is a masterpiece
I'm impressed by the vocal harmonies.
I've watched this an embarrassing number of times today. It's simply too delightful. 💗
Incredible imagination and talent. These kids will go far in life. Also very impressed that this clearly looks like a public district school (as opposed to a private school) well done all around. Huge education success.
They were living the time of their lives! I wish there was a way to know when you are in the good old days before you are already past them.
The song reminds me of the whole story in less than 6 mins.. great work!
holy crap you guys are good. love it.
The Harmonize so well with their voices
Alright, this is so cool watching where the musical genius came from... And also the comedy stylings of Carson. I can just imagine that he is hilarious when it's just you two guys together, is that the way he really is or not? Buddy
How do you get this cool and smooth as a high school teenager. Me and everyone I knew as a teenager was an embarrassing awkward mess.
every few months i come across this video again and i am impressed every time
watch this everytime it shows up in my feed
LOVE that early 'Smothers Brothers' comic vibe.
Two of the most talented on RUclips.
Amazing. So glad this was recorded.
I just can't get enough of coming here
Imagine being in the same year or class as these legends
How can you guys NOT think this is still a classic!!
11th grade in America looks calm. In the uk I spent the whole year tearing my hair out about a huge set of exams
Now I can’t speak for 11th grade, because I quit public school during my 8th, but I’d be willing to bet UK and US classrooms look almost identical in how it’s conducted.
I would love to see the two of you do another recording of this. It's so unbelievably clever.
Is there anything you can't do? You play just about every stringed instrument imaginable, plus harmonica and spoons, and now comedy as well. Gotta love it!
You guys get a standing ovation from me.
easy harmony by these guys. impressive.
Did not expect to find myself here. Late night browsing sleep procrastination. Impressed by the harmonica skills
You guys were good right from the beginning. You make getting up in front of people look soooo easy.
I just had to come back to this masterpiece after watching Caitlin Doughty's video on "The Real Moby Dick Was So Much Worse." I kept thinking 'just a minor setback...' after every new piece of information she brought up.
Greatest song ever. I hope this is on the set list.
I don't know how I've ended up here but I'm glad I did. That was a fantastic performance. Get it on Spotify!
And some years later THE OTHER FAVORITES became famous musicians and sound in Spain's national Radio3 (country program TomaDiez) with the Ballad of John McCrae! Congrats and well done!
Legendary now.
I'm really impressed. Great song.
idk how this doesn’t have at least 5M views with how much it gets recommended to me
As ever you guys are fantastic!! Josh, is nothing you can't play? Guitar for sure, banjo for sure, mandolin for sure (anything with strings) but now harmonica and spoons no less? You are a star!!!
What a plucky delight! I am humbled by this kids brilliance. Him, and his pool of talented friends are constantly impressing me with their virtuoso and love for all of the selections they choose.
they're ahead of their time.
I have just recently been through my first breakup, and today was one of the rough days. I was searching the internet for something to take away the pain for a bit and this did the trick! For that I wanted to say, thank you gentlemen.
The harmonies are awesome!
So glad this was randomly recommended to me-this is gold
These kids deserve a medal
I'd sign up for that class LOL. So creative and fun! Two talented guys with a life-long friendship.