Director Josh Zeman on a Lonely Whale, Lonely People and the Search for 52 Blue Skaana with Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, Eco-Ethics & The Environment

Director Josh Zeman (@joshzeman)  on the quest for the loneliest whale in the world and shifting his focus from human mysteries to marine mysteries with his movie, The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52.  “Just when you think you’ve had too much devil-worshipping and serial killers, you go and you spend a day working on whales and everything’s okay again.”



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Show notes:

0:00 - intro

4:37 - There once was a film in Nantucket. . .

6:20 - Working on a whaling ship at age 14.

9:47 - “It was such a cool story that interconnected science and legend and naval stuff. It was such a fascinating journey.”

13:38 - “There’s a mystery here for us to solve.”

13:55 - The first time he saw a whale.

17:18 - Looking at loneliness and why this story became a phenomenon.

19:28 - Explaining the idea of 52 Hertz.

23:12 - Moving from true crime to the mystery of 52 Blue.

24:50 - Catching fire on Kickstarter

28:52 - “Just when you think you’ve had too much devil-worshipping and serial killers you go and you spend a day working on whales and everything’s okay again.”

29:33 - “Understand what your consumerism does.”