The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 294 - Blackbeard (Live in Charlotte, NC)

Episode Date: September 26, 2017

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the famous pirate Blackbeard SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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yep language is supposed to be fun 1680 what's popping in 1680 or some time around then sure because this is when they were like that'll do that'll do that's fine that's close Edward Thatch was born in England of course no other some somewhere sure okay so around 1680 he was born somewhere yeah in England okay he was raised in in Bristol sure probably sure we're not sure right but with the 17th century the American colonies and with the 18 what was the vibe in 1699 they were like can you believe it I'm sure some guy was like why 2k man why 2k yeah there's definitely some guys but yeah the

boats are gonna sink you know the pitchforks are gonna turn against us at the soon as it strikes 1700 pitchforks will turn against us the pitchforks and hey they're gonna form a gang pitchforks and hey they're gonna form a gang yeah that's right yeah haven't you heard that yeah gonna form a gang yeah stock up on stew mate stock up on stew how am I gonna stock up on stew it just comes in a way you cook it apart and then we eat it I know it's gonna be tough in it yeah no one said it'd be easy but you know if we don't if you don't make stew the pitchforks win think about my I am thinking about it it's not it's not

great none of it makes sense you heard the new decree from Prince Prince the Prince I haven't no I said we're party like it's 1699 1700 so Bristol became a very important port due to Edward his travels he was probably raised in Bristol and is believed that he was raised in a very wealthy respectable family sure because the people who had that name in that city were had cash the people who had that name near that city around that time yeah right at some point near the end of the 17th century Edward arrived in the Caribbean working on a merchant or slave ship okay well it seemed like

most people around this time we hear this statement yeah favorite kind of slave ship is which one just you like slave ships no no I do not know I'm on record very clearly I'm anti those absolutely you don't know if I know no I thought you booked a slave ship cruise at Disney Disney Disney I think Jesus Christ I apologize I get I get Disney and slave mixed up all the time this keeps happening so then after he arrived in the Caribbean he started working as a privateer a privateer privateers were privately owned armed ships that were hired by governments during war and their mission was to

attack ships of the enemy okay so so Queen Anne of Britain allowed the ship Edwards on Edward was on to plunder French and Spanish ships during the war of Spanish succession and then they could keep everything they stole so they're basically you're basically just like a plunder ship yeah your plunder plunder ship but you but you're not plundering like someone's like I give you I give you total freedom to do that it's not going to be illegal just do it to the other guys so it's like black water on the water yeah that's that's what it says here okay black black water on the water there we go it's a special

ops yeah who pillage no and plunder go ahead by the wars and Edward had become an experienced sea robber and had some cash okay after the war privateering was ended that's what happened after wars but he decided to continue with his profession of taking just everything from other ships okay so he's didn't get the memo no let's keep going he got the man run he was like this is this is fun I like the thing where I just take people's but the war is over oh yes we don't care yeah we're still plundering we've gone rogue this isn't gone rogue so privateer Benjamin Hornigold had a crew of about 75 men Edward was one of them

and it's that's how you itch with a microphone it's weird actually I have a tick where I play the violin okay okay it keeps happening yep and the weirdest part is when I put a violin there it sounds like shit I don't know how to play it and the summer of 1713 Hornigold was based out of the ruined island of Nassau which I assume is ruined by war right I couldn't find out why maybe there maybe it was just partying maybe they're just fucking well I mean I think about 1699 man we ruined the island Hornigold see activities were documented by the governor of Bermuda at

the time and even were written about in newspapers in American colonies okay I should say the newspaper because there was only one oh right fair and balanced it was known it was called the Boston news letter not one word news letter wait that was the only paper yep okay so it's just a newsletter sure all right so they quite a paper I would price it down to write down a bunch of copies and mail them to people the newsletters here just says lettuce tomatoes list printed his list pirates back then were our version of terrorists they were basically obliterating society where they could killing raping plundering but

today we think they're super cool well when Halloween comes around just like and the kid doesn't have an idea just like in a hundred years people really how about that bin Laden they'll make a movie it make a movie about them where he fights ghosts or whatever yeah he's gonna be bin Laden he loves the new movie he just he he's obsessed they both are they're both obsessed and the Oscar goes to for bin Laden yes first of all I gotta thank Allah you are great and yes plus my agents at ICM you guys have been unbelievable throughout this whole thing Brad oh my god I must forgot Brad and I know some have been

lying who who who I'll stop that's when the orchestra plays harnagal chip continued its attacks on Spanish vessels after the war with no sign of slowing up they would hit them in the Florida Straits and at sugar plantations in eastern Cuba in just eight months the crew hauled in 13,175 pounds Jesus the average sailor at this time made 12 pounds a year oh my god so they were fucking killing it right yeah yeah it seems like a lot yeah that's a lot oh yeah for sure nine months later they had accrued 60,000 pounds which was more than the richest men in Britain made at the time okay so this is the

fucking job to have right aside from being on a boat and just and what it's just a bunch of bros on a boat it's not great oh yeah there's the downside for sure is blackbeard in a bad mood again hate when he's a bad mood they were originally called broboats broboats bro bro bro bro we're gonna get there we are lost we should a road in retrospect why do we grow in retrospect pretty soon they had driven the last of the authorities out of the Bahamas and traded their small ship for a large sloop okay so a sloop is a one has one mast that's a kind of ship sure I was gonna say sloops one right yeah so now

they could go all the way up to New England and in late 1715 the annual Spanish treasure fleet which was headed to Florida where the Spanish they tried to keep it but we were like yeah no okay so they had it at that time and then a hurricane hit okay I don't know if you guys know what a hurricane is but the ships were smashed a lot of the Spanish men killed and then gold was just fucking scattered everywhere along the coast which is now known as the treasure coast and this led to more pirates because the gold just yeah there's fucking gold all over the place it's a price just cruising and grabbing

gold right an ex-jamaican privateer named jane henry Jennings arrived in Nassau he had 87,000 pounds in Spanish treasure that he collected from the crash and just netting netting or I think it was just on the fucking beach and some you just pick it up like an old guy with a beat so that yeah that is what now motivates the metal detector people they're like did you hear 300 years ago think about it another spoon why is my wife hate me no so now these so-called lower classes started rolling into Nassau because there's fucking cash to be had right smugglers escape slaves prostitutes

and just guys looking for some action it became an island of huts and tents it was basically a tropical deadwood situation oh that sounds fun do you like deadwood the governor of Nassau said there were 1,000 pirates living there and just a hundred towns people that's a terrible how are you how are the hundred hanging in there I'm sure they're just getting the shit kicked out of them all the time yeah every day oh no good look down pirates pirates more pirates oh my god okay I guess fuck my wife again you're being really cool now I said there were prostitutes but the pirate life was mostly for men they're

very very very very very few women I can't even imagine pirates are hung out with pirates what I can't even imagine what the at that era being like a woman among like 60 dudes on a pirate ship like this is how far of a swim is it I mean it doesn't look that far you would have to be the toughest I mean there were there were female pirates but yet you'd have to be the toughest woman alive do that pirate life was homo social homo social one historian says there is quite a bit of sodomy going on what I'm saying is pirates fucked pirates right right there's a big fuck pirate ship is what right right we're all dating erg that's

where arg came from and it's your hook sorry I'm so turned on just wanted to pull your hair a little no I like it when you pull my hair but it's just I would you like me to put me pig leg in your butt arg no no no is the answer you're not a pirate why don't you come downstairs with me where we keep the big globe and booze see what happens you know the big globe and booze you're already thinking of the fanciest pirate ship ever perhaps it's taken from film anyway Edward was proving himself to be an able pirate and or social mean that based on like social circumstances you are homosexual yeah I

didn't know it doesn't what does it mean it's just it just mean a bunch of bros are together right so it's a bunch of bros and then sometimes one guy's like well just as bros want you be a lady bro but they're just they're they're qualifying they're qualifying it they're like it's not gay we were at sea I think that what happens on C stays on C it's water Vegas I don't think that's true what's that okay we'll do the comedy not helpful no I think I think I think it means like it's all dudes and I think that men's behavior changes right it's all dudes that's a yeah right but they're just like environment based over

I'm not talking about like a weekend out I'm talking about like yeah like if you camping with them at your body guys you're not like all right I'll suck your dick but if you're like if it's a bunch of dudes for a long time in a boat someone's like I gotta I gotta put this in somebody and then and then some guys like I don't care I'll do that and I'll cook and I'll and then and then you have a pirate hierarchy situation okay all right well that's cleared up so worst explanation anyone's ever given about anything but that's what I believe okay as long as as long as you believe it they didn't by the way they didn't have a guy that

cooked on these ships and they would have a bot they would have they have like a brick enclosed thing and if it got fucked up the ship would burn okay just they had it open fucking fire on a ship so that guy yeah yeah doughy crusts anyway Edward was proving himself to be an able pirate and or a lot of other pirates were dying either way he moved up in the ranks it helps and by 1716 he was Hornigold's lieutenant pirates died constantly or the huge death rate okay life on a boat is shit in the spring Edward was put in charge of his own ship under Hornigold so right so now he's working under Hornigold's got his own

ship sure it's an eight gun 90 man sloop in December they attacked a ship headed for Jamaica and took beef peas oysters and other food okay then they let the ship go and told the captain to let everyone in Kingston know what they had done oh shit okay so right because they wanted everyone to know that they were fucking badass and would take their oysters or that they're really hungry that and then everyone and I play they're hungry just so you guys know that's where where's the beef came from right sure where's the beef there's only one eyewitness description of Edward that's on record it was from a man that was

taken captive he described Edward as quote a tall spare man with a very black beard which he wore very long so every pirate right the name black beard was entered into official record in a report back beard to British one with the black beard it was entered into the official record in a report I'm changing my name a British I'll be black beard people aren't people aren't gonna like any of you we'd like to thank our guest the audience in August 1717 a ship no one knew rolled in to Nassau Harbor okay it had clearly been in a battle the captain stumbled out and he was dressed in a fine gown okay he was patched up with

bandages and spoke like a gentleman it's a weird setup I've been shot and I'm in my 90 hello I have something to tell everyone I sleep in a 90 and I've been stabbed repeatedly he seemed to have a little understanding of the sea he is what they called a landlubber okay basically he was just a guy from a farm right he didn't actually have any idea what he was doing right his name was steed bonnet he was 29 and from a rich Barbados sugar plantation family he built his own sloop and hired a crew of 126 men and then decided to be a pirate so he just went went to fantasy camp and then was like where are we daddy daddy

oh no arg he are go that felt good but the rest is bad my time Tom do this was not exactly common for rich guys with no exceed see experience and three kids at home to be a pirate right well I don't know when I'll be back because I don't know where I'm going bye kids but daddy's gonna lose an eye and a leg I love you guys I'll come back with a parrot okay we'll see how it goes I don't want to get out of myself pirates are mostly from the lower classes so this was super weird one letter said steed suffered from quote a disorder of the mind caused by this the discomforts he found in being married so he was

unhappily married discomforts in the mind a pirate historian at the time so wait he went to see just because he didn't like being married yeah he couldn't take it he was just like all right well honey I'm gonna go be a pirate for a little bit I'm sick of fighting about the door so I'm gonna go be a pirate I know that it squeaks but I'm gonna go be a fucking pirate and when I get back I think we'll be good to go I think what we need is seven months of me lost at sea and then I think of that I'll get rid of everything all right well I should roll whoo bye kids bye kids your mom's up bye kids a pirate historian at the time

wrote that steed was this is awkward driven to piracy by his wife Mary's nagging and dying but that okay whatever that is an amazing amazing move like it really just says when we used to like at least now we don't give a shit about marriage like at least now we're like I'd take a mulligan you had one it didn't work out get out of this but then you had to just be like well I'm gonna go hunt dragons and I don't know how long it'll be God I love you so after steed took off and his new pirate ship from Barbados where are we he went to Florida and attacked a Spanish warship which didn't go well and a third of his

crew were killed all right let's regroup those of us were still alive the ship was badly damaged so he goes to Nassau hoping the pirates would help him out and they did he's already at like the begging face yeah he's like hi can I be a pirate but they did they also took a ship away okay gave it gave it to Blackbeard to command okay so now Blackbeard Blackbeard has his first independent pirate command well steed just stayed on the ship in the in the captain's quarters if it's cool can I not go home I'll be like a half pirate huh what I'll do it I'll do what like nine to noon pirate and then the rest of the

day I'm just gonna be me I really see my wife's obsessed with this door that squeaks and it's like ridiculous you know it's like I'm not gonna replace the fucking thing you know so so I live on the sea now so Blackbeard headed out in the ship a couple weeks later steeds downstairs laying in the bed he had so many injuries he couldn't really move that well so so Blackbeard was all about the show he wore a silk sling over his shoulders on which there were quote three braces of pistols hanging in the holsters like bandoliers under his pirate hat he tied fuses that he lit when attacking a ship what he had like fire

head yeah fuses were hanging down he let's spark him up and go let's go boy all right hurry guys we got like just like we did a rehearsal just like rehearsal 40 seconds come on guys go hold on okay and wait and go go go go go hello look out motherfuckers so he would be surrounded by a halo of smoke and fire crazy he looked quote more frightful than a fury from hell and around him stood all of his angry men with the muskets and primitive hand grenades primitive hand grenades yes primitive hand grenades there there were two kinds shitty and shittier I can't imagine yeah so one was a hollowed out cannonball with

black powder inside with a circular hole what they would put a bamboo tube in and then they would light the bamboo tube and then throw that bad boy it's just the other one was that one doesn't sound very good does it it sounds terrible especially with the idea that they have fuses because the Blackbeard has been his head yeah I mean we use bamboo Blackbeard took all the fuses he's just he's obsessed with this new look he really wants the whole thing to kind of spread around the whoa Dave are you answering excellent answer that she says I meant to turn it on vibrate I meant to turn it off okay all right and we're

back to this way that was awkward you guys turn off your phones yeah disrespectful it really is so the other the other kind of hand grenade was a bottle filled with gunpowder with quote shot slugs and pieces of leather iron in with a quick match at the end of it that presently ran into the bottle with the powder so it was just a match so the first one's better and it sounds awful and the second one is like not I mean you're probably done a lot of guys that did that yeah that was that was it yeah yeah like you cocked and then you're dead help that's it I can't throw those anymore they're not good can we get one

of your fuses Blackbeard no it's my look what do you guys think of the new sort of like corn road look do you guys like how that looks or you guys did you guys feel the other one more or how did everyone feel about the two looks before we fight I mean we're gonna obviously fight I'm just saying like it springs I thought I might just change it up yeah I'm just I mean I just like haven't fused hair very homosocial in here desired effect just seeing Blackbeard and his men became enough for ships to just give up without a shot turn around look at that fucker no he's on fire over the first three weeks of October 1717

Blackbeard terrorized Chesapeake Bay Philadelphia and New York Harbor he never stayed in one location for more than two days during this trip he captured at least 15 ships and almost overnight became a pirate sensation oh that was a magazine right yeah it's like tiger beat pull out of this pirate sensation the centerfold logo blackbeard what do you like what does it mean you like guess who's thinking of getting rid of his fuse hair I mean I don't know it's Blackbeard ten questions for Blackbeard yeah what do you think of parrots I love parrots but I hate the stereotype

are we being it is there a train what is that it's a train is it underground or is it above ground train well hopefully it's not underground is it like is like we're in the underground is it like an amtrak or is it like a city light rail situation cargo okay a lot of trains it sounds like that's cool so this fucker is gonna go by for like an hour just a big-ass cargo train we're good without you talking we could all go out and attack any I didn't even notice we could go in the pirate attack it to people pirate attack do people pirate attack trains anymore they should

definitely start I mean you could see that happening in New York City yeah alright guys so the queue train has been taken over by pirates cars two through nine are being plundered right now just ask everyone to remain calm stand clear of the opening doors do not leave the opening doors again then let them plunder guys let them plunder fish the plunder make eye contact next stop Union Station hey guys train five has blackbeard on there and his heads on fire and we just want to let everyone know that's okay don't give money to panhandlers but let him plunder so it's slightly annoying I didn't know this I

didn't know there's gonna be a train here no one told me there might be a train I didn't get that so a captain cod whose merchant ship was taken over on October 12th said steed bonnet was walking around the deck in his night shirt and still on the night shirts and still just like we're in football jerseys we still not well he's still not well and he's just walking around in a night yeah while the fights going on why did he keep going he would rather die than go home to his wife yeah he does not like Mary that's fine I got a night shirt I'm bleeding out it'll take a few months I just hate Karen I just she is

the worst she won't shut up about the fucking door no gauze get him out of here let me go like a man in his nighty Lord every day more captains came into Philadelphia and New York with no cargo and horrible stories of blackbeard one said he had demanded a dime blackbeard had demanded a diamond ring from a woman passenger and when she refused he cut off her finger oh my god well he got the ring give up the ring I mean who gives a shit yeah his heads on although great great fucking story you know what I mean but people like what happened to your finger blackbeard cut it off because I said no I had a beautiful ring on it

arc now I've just got Jerry Garcia hand he would throw he would throw he would throw you some car goes he would just throw into the sea and for four ships to run aground by cutting loose their anchors or cutting down their mass he kind of a dick yeah he's a pirate there and turns out they're not cool we are dicks that's what they had a big sign out front that said just so you knew people think it's a the skull and bones but they didn't have that they just had a big sign that says we are dicks oh no blackbeards here they're dicks oh no he took an entire cargo of indentured servants okay although the way things

worked out on the sea with pirates many of the indentured servants would rather be pirates and join them anyway that's a better life right yeah then going to fucking work for Mary and she's like fix the door God it was Karen yeah well her actual name is Mary but he changed it to Karen for comedy but it's Mary so fuck off either way as I said pirates died a lot so they always needed new pirates so sometimes they just had to take them so they would just take over ship and then you you had to be a pirate from that on like now you're a pirate you're like oh

fuck all right I guess all right thank you more and the more ships pirates attack the more they can add to their numbers a merchant a merchant in Philadelphia wrote quote if speedy care and not be taken they will become form but formidable and they know our government can make no defense okay so basically the pirates can do whatever the fuck they want right no one can stop them right it's a cool train right it is a cool train yeah you mean they're on a cool train I agree by the time the military was alerted to blackbeard's run of terror he had taken off and was headed back to Nassau okay his flotilla was now his flotilla and

now he has a flotilla it's his it's his ship the revenge and now he has two sloops so he's got three ships he's fucking cruising with and that's called a flotilla well once I think once you have more than a couple you got a fucking flotilla sure just otherwise very casually dropped it in there like I'd be like oh he had three he had three well you all had one mast a flotilla I think is is not three it's just a bunch it's more than two sure but still at least three is a flotilla sure right but still I figured you would have had some sort of idea about a flotilla with the light bench I already am working with you

think flotilla I'm gonna be like so he had more than two okay all right well he had a flotilla good to know flotilla is my favorite rapper yeah but it's it's not flotilla it's flotilla obviously it's FLO apostrophe God please let someday there be a rapper named flotilla all I ask it's all I want he's just got three guys he's just got three hype guys backup ships give it up for the backup ship these are my sloops play one man let me do my fucking set list let me do my set list come on I'm gonna start with cutting off her finger on November 17 17 his flotilla came across a French slave ship called

la concorde they're out in the open sea big-ass ship weighs 250 tons and was as big as most British Navy frigates it could hold 40 cannons but things were not great on the ship 16 of the crew had died since they left Africa which I don't feel that bad about nope I hope it would be more yeah but so almost all the rest had quote scurvy and bloody flocks bloody flocks is that an English phrase that's just a fuck off your bloody flocks it's a fancy sea wave saying horrible diarrhea ah Jesus let's stick with flux so if you're dead you're lucky essentially yeah thank you do you have diapers because if you ever if the word

bloody is ever described it means anything to do with your ass it's a bummer literally David particularly if you're on a Disney cruise ship what's wrong with Mickey his head's off oh and the buffet oh and the slave ship your oh ands are pretty great oh and oh and the slave ship had last left most of their cannons behind so they could make room for more slaves I mean you well such a pickle but you have to you have to be like God oh what are we glad your idiots I'm sorry people get caught up in it no more cannons we'll be fine the French captain immediately surrendered when he saw a black beard in his ship

he was sorry so take everything we surrendered that's what we do we surrendered to a buoy yesterday but to be fair he was moving back and forth we did not know his next move and to assume they were it took us 12 hours before we realized it was just a buoy but besides it might be buoy beard but and then actually two weeks ago we let a dolphin be the captain for a while we saw he was a very formidable absolutely huge crazy opponent large eyes large eyes big hole in his fucking head the whole thing it was he died because you know is any water and yeah we just have blood and stool it's like he's not gonna be okay

anyways the honor is ours the honor is ours we are so happy love to see the globe and liquor room if hmm yeah what's up this is flotilla I gotta do I'm coming out called blood and stool with the new single high seas so the French captain surrenders right when he sees black beard and now black beard has a kick-ass ship it's huge can carry a lot of cannons and the big deck allows all of his pirates just jump on the other ship really easily my god so they sailed to a secret cove and turned her into a pirate ship they decorated her up or whatever you do they did like a pit my ride and he was like don't tell me till

it's ready I want to be surprised oh my god a billiard table foolhardy but still quite attractive a pirate ship was one of the few places in America where a slave could free himself a lot of pirates at the time are from Africa there were said to be as many as 70 in blackbeard's crew there's one written account of a group of slaves escaping from one of the islands in the Caribbean and quickly rowing to a pirate ship that was offshore which they joined so you it's awesome yeah yeah let's fuck them up yeah pirates are happy to have them because they knew they could count on former slaves to be very committed and

to fight to the end because the other option was slavery and usually the way it worked is they would split the you know the plunder they would right divvy it up yeah so why wouldn't you get involved yeah so what why wouldn't you get involved in that system train it's a big train but in the case of this French slave ship there were a ton of slaves and not enough room for them so of the 455 slaves all but 61 were put onto a small sloop with the French captain which sailed to martinique and they were sold no one knows why some were picked and some were made to go but now you know at least 60 some odd dudes sure

there's still a lot I imagine the kids and ladies they weren't like you we'll take that kid there were weren't really kid pirates that's something I learned well by the way my script kid pirate I'm doing baby pirate a baby pirates terrible kid pirate way better she's seven and a half he's incorrigible he doesn't get it he can't even raise the sale oh but when it's crunch time yeah he actually learns from the crew and he digs deep and they overcome adversity and they work it out and he's kid pirate huh and then he dies of diarrhea he dies no he yeah no he dies at nine that's the midpoint it's the midpoint yeah it's

not a good movie it's not a good movie no beard they call him so now he has his big ass ship and blackbeard went ape shit through the lesser and tillies okay he set fire to part of Guadalupe town burned a fleet of merchant vessels right in front of a British fort and forced the governor of Leeward Island to flee in terror is there is there some sort of end game with that like is he I mean are they taking all the things off the ship or is he literally I mean they're taking some stuff but he's also just like fuck it yeah it's a good time you burn some ships you you do it in front of the British fort you flipping them off your

heads on fire tack a town it's all fucking in good fun yeah no nobody gets hurt as they left and headed to St. Croix they came across an English sloop and just burned it for the hell of it so when blackbeard's crew got to Puerto Rico they found out things had changed King George the first had decreed any pirate who would surrender to a British governor by September 17 18 would be pardoned for all of his pirate crimes and could keep his plunder that's interesting because it's the opposite of how we handle these things now right like there is maybe something I was doing like a yeah pirates no but like you

know like like like saying terrorism or things like that like if we went to terrorism we were like I know he blew up the World Trade Center but you know everything's forgiven if you just say you'll be cool like that now that I'm hearing a pitch back hey how did that buyback go everyone's dead so now that's that that's a few months off before they so you get a few more months yeah they can still plunder whatever so have a little fun before you go back and deal with the door so now they have to get out a geofree card if they want it cruise around 400 but blackbeard's not done and off they went there were rumors

he went hunting the HMS adventure which was the biggest ship in the Royal Navy sure Spanish merchants kept saying and they had seen a quote great devil near Cuba okay I mean again he let his head on fire often right around this point steed you remember steed yeah fancy yep fancy pants fancy 90 and blackbeard separated they went they went the separate ways and I'm my guess is steed was a little bit more upset than blackbeard it was like right go and he's like it's just that I have to now I said go look at you you're mad you're mad you're mad you're upset I can tell how you you eat your emotions that's what you

do blackbeard you eat them go okay all right I'll stay god to someone stab him god I'll stay still don't I'll stay still don't I'll stay I hate home I hate home I hate home how do you make a doorknob squeaky steed sailed into the western Caribbean where he took on a 400 ton merchant vessel Jesus Christ it's a big one yeah these are getting really big the ship got away and now his pirate crew thought steed was a shitcap that's so great so that beard so so now he has like spin right he's like well look at him next time yeah you guys come on how about take two so when they came across blackbeard again they bumped into him

again out in the ocean steed's entire crew deserted him for blackbeard hey me and some of the art not so fast we were thinking some of the guys and I could maybe come back hey beard so blackbeard put someone else in charge of the revenge and steed was now made a guess on Queen Anne's revenge but how so he had his boat taken away yeah and now he's hanging in there well they didn't they were I mean they I guess they still like the guy or whatever he's not sounds like a bit of a pet project that yeah he's not great he's a even though he left his wife provide something see singing anything there's no indication that he

provides anything he's just like an unpaid intern is like cool kind of what kind of stew oh cool yeah he's not great oh nice sword is that new the same sword I thought is new I was like is that a new sort but you said it wasn't cool hey do you ever get scared when you climb all the way up there that you'll fall I would be like so freaked out that's so cool you guys all sleeping or should we want to do one more maybe some more yeah sleep all right I'm down to sleep no rum maybe one more rum no more rums yeah let's sleep yeah so much fun here though right am I the only one who gets a little stoned when I drink the

water out here so cool I don't want to be a pirate you ruined pirate oh man I love the way you say that your voice I mean I'm like whoa this guy's the real deal okay oh man we should make handshakes up arc hook shakes oh man I'm just having fun I'm just spitballing so whatever I'm just glad to be here honestly it's like so my kids are 30 you tell you that it's our 30 so Steve told some of the crew members he was over being a pirate and wanted to live in exile in Spain or Portugal this dude is he's done with his family yeah he's over he's on his family but he also

doesn't want to be a pirate you know but everything sucks I want to go to exile what about Portugal leave me alone in Portugal I like Ronaldo so so what Blackbeard did at this point was sail to Honduras and anchored his ships so he's got a ship anchored there and ships would come up Spanish or British or whatever and I guess it was customer something but the officers would row over to say hi hey because he took down all his pirate stuff the dick banner and all that stuff and so they would just cruise over to say hi and then he'd capture them all and that's that's how he caught ships for a while so nobody's

gossiping nobody's like oh if you do that he gets you hey no don't say hey to him don't say hey oh they're waving hey so they do this for a while and then he sailed for Vera Cruz Blackbeard's crew at this point have become ravaged by tropical diseases so he figured this was the easiest way to go okay so beyond a pirate ship was pretty much about always being wet right you're always wet well on a lot comes with that yeah so you don't want to be permanently wet as a human no your skin open you're not supposed to be right unless you are water so when they're you know big waves whatever water would come in below

decks even when the ship was batten down most ships leaked in rough seas some water still got into the hatches and gun ports when everything was closed the lower decks would be a wash in water during a storm there are no towels or drying rooms so men would just sleep in their wet clothes shoes were not great because there's no way to dry them so pirates were usually barefoot this is great right dream there were no bathrooms as we talked about before on a previous episode there's a hole in the rope but if you were up in the mast you just piss over the side so that would just land on the deck and then go below

so the below there was a pissy water and it just reeked like fucking death so they lived in a toilet so you would and if there's a storm you close all the you close everything up but it just be like being at an outhouse it had been in though Jesus let's say wet Sun for a few years like it's a it's a piss water situation so anyway and steed was still like better this way if conditions improved clothes they would hang their clothes up on lines on the deck that's fine new drying the rigging and I'll walk around let's all get naked a dry huh it's steed if the catheter didn't allow that they would just have to wear

their clothes until they dried but in a place like Honduras with high humidity everyone was constantly wet even you know because it's just humid even if it's raining or not and if they were near shore that meant tons of mosquitoes and also since the lower decks were always wet and sloshing around mosquitoes would breathe there breathe there and mosquitoes that's good from malaria diseases yeah they do that's fun though also tons of tons of vermin on the ship how close are we to the end of this part are we nearing it or there's vermin mosquitoes there's aquatic vermin rats and mice were a massive problem

especially when they were near land most ships had mice and rats that ran around below decks with impunity sometimes what did they do they were like boy we made a bad call getting on this fucking thing remember land no me either I'm a rat same I don't remember land all right I don't remember anything I'm a rat hi I'm steed it's me I'm not even a rat I just wanted someone to talk to I just think it's so cool you eat cheese like that your tail's amazing dude it's awesome the pirates don't let me talk to him anymore so I live down here with the rats where I'm king who wants to get my pocket who wants to get

in all my pockets who wants to get in the small pocket in front mmm god someone kill me deedy rending sometimes rats were caught and eaten as an alternative to the tough salt beef or pork rations as far as like the meats that they're bringing out with them who salted salted to the point of yes so it can't rot and it won't I mean that they had they do that is actually one thing that's functioning what salted meat yeah that they're like over salting their meat like it's still good yeah I mean they're just trying to survive I mean I think you'd eat anything at that

but it's not like there's a lot of food options no but I mean there you don't get sick from eating that meat I mean you probably did but you're eating rat my guess is that it's not the greatest I mean if you're eating rat yeah if you're like that sounds good for a change up shit's not going well it's not like you're at a wedding it's a fucking bummer I'll do the fish what the fish the rat rat I do my wife is doing the rat and I'm doing the fish okay and then we're both doing the shumtart dessert so okay some salted fish and yep just really salted everything so have some salt okay so here all so parts of the

Atlantic ate the same foods as normal sailors because they would steal it from them right your day it's good but they would get more out of it hopefully they would also get better food mariners on merchant ships are in the Navy were given small amounts of really shitty food in a normal week five non pirate sailors might share four or five pounds of salted beef so they'd be given that for the week or five pounds of bread that would be what they'd be given to eat some believe the lack of food is why many sailors became pirates right they were hungry yeah those guys have oysters pirate John Phillips ranted

and raved about the merchant John Wingfield claiming that he starved as men so pirates were always looking for food on ships anyway the ships near Honduras didn't have gold mostly just wood and molasses so even though black bearded sees a bunch of ships they didn't have much to show for it this did not make the crew happy uh-oh many a pirate ship mutiny happened happened because they weren't scoring booty that's a flotilla song also scoring booty yes corn booty then things got even worse when they ran out of rum oh yeah no rum is the great equalize yeah you got a rum black beard noted in his

journal quote a journal yeah well what a cutie pie who knew I had a righted journal go you didn't go through my journal did you very cloudy today feeling a little glum wouldn't mind some rum writing poetry yeah I think so he wrote his journal a damned confusion amongst us rogues a plotton and great talk of separation he writes like a pirate yeah rogues a plotton rogues rogues finish it arg rogues a plotton anyway be our be but he was able to guys are being the worst today they all are laughing at me and say I don't know what I'm doing it's like whatever I absolutely do signed

a black beard why do I sign everyone at the devil of the sea but a ship came along and they attacked it it just happened to have rum just in time to hold off the mute oh that's like methadone right yeah this get it in them get it floating methadone clinic black beard then headed north for where the Spanish fleet had sunk off the coast that time they dove for gold there sure then in May he decided to step it up again and blockaded the entrance to Charleston's harbor for six days he captured every single vessel that was coming or going almost all the cargoes he seized were shit a lot of tar and rice

hey good news who wants tar hmm we've got time boys we're back let's put it on the side a little and put it fix the roof fix the roof yeah let's fix the roof with the tar and we'll put a little on the side oh no let's tar and rice Jerry oh god are in rice it's not as funny it's pretty it's funny it's still funny so then he started grabbing passengers and demanding ransom from Charleston that's getting sad yeah after six days they had made only two thousand pounds and gotten a bag of medical treatments which pirates had demanded this was obviously a big need on a pirate ship from all the fighting they had they had to treat

bullet holes burns and gashes and they got sick they had both mild and chronic ailments the biggest sicknesses were syphilis scurvy sure and the bloody flux which we've heard about was horrible diarrhea yep thank you syphilis was treated with a urethral syringe what was that like back then now the idea of that is crazy what was that quote oh my god it's the thing we put in the cannonballs to make them grenades you put it down there in a wizard blows inside of it a device with a small angled nozzle used to inject mercury into the male urethra oh my god are you okay I mean it's hard to not think of mercury

going down your dick why because of what you said I and who is administer like who's do what is it minister doctor well that's a good question I don't know if they bear it to themselves or if oh I would absolutely go for myself over a friend on that ship no I got it I got it this is not a picture oh fuck wait oh shit that's it that's actually it this is the actual one holy that was on his ship that part went in people's dicks talk about wanting to be first in line for something I'm like boarding group four I'm upset but this one's a little bent this one's a little bent yeah look probably like most of the dicks it

exited see this one's a little crooked oh my god oh my god the thing is is the you know they found it recently and it still works oh bummer care that's the new health color pan right that's the new idea like now here's my this is one of my things I don't like anything going on my urethra you've always said that you are on record and you've always like my main rule it's on my writer in back like everyone the clubs all know nothing in the urethra yeah and that and that's small shit you don't want urethra but this is like bigger than urethra dude it looks like the start of a Viking horn it's a

tusk and then you shot poison and then they fucking jam mercury in it yeah good hold mercury all right this is gonna be the worst thing that's ever happened to you ready open up let's do her oh my god all right that's my dick yeah who's next who else needs some mercury through their dick come on guys we found a bag of medicine how's life not they thought mercury killed killed syphilis oh they killed penises and yeah they also had on board quote a Kleister pump to administer enemas for quick absorption oh fuck me what is going on there's a fucking party in holes party boat oh my god so and this is

all happening on the boat yeah yeah yeah yeah it's I tell you what is this the line for animals my hand of God it is so hard to give a buddy a urethral syringe shot when the boat's a fucking rocket yeah I mean when the boats are rocking mercury's in the cocking you got to use the buddy system for that do my ass I'll get your pee hole at 69 it come on let's go grab it time is money I'm grabbing it but I keep getting the heart on because the ship's moving so I'm getting hard to just put it in my ass this feels very homosocial of course it does it's condition-based we've gone over this we're not gay we're on sea and

there is a tool that is believed to have been used for bloodletting and brass screws for tourniquets during for you know like amputation operations which is brings us how big is this bag which I've got tourniquet screws which brings us to peg legs oh no this is gonna be brutal it was literally a thing because of amputations so peg legs were real that's not something that someone made up they would get their shit shot off or fucked up that have you amputated and they would literally just put a stick on there well we've ruined the stools but the guys are walking that really is that that's what that is certainly one of

like that is one of those things that it probably just seemed normal because around you people were getting syringes jammed in their dicks and asses and you were like what'll do you give me a chair leg I'm running again look at me and it wasn't just from getting shot by enemies sometimes each other captain Charles Johnson wrote that Blackbeard shot at a member of his crew and accidentally hit his lieutenant Israel hands in the knee when hands asked Blackbeard hands got hit in the knee yeah not the hands when hands asked Blackbeard why he had shot at the crewman Blackbeard said quote if he did

not know and then kill one of them they would forget who he was but basically kill him so they know your name shitty yeah basically shitty talk so I shot him so he would remember me that's how people remembered him back then wait I'm seeing the downside to Blackbeard certainly also I patches were a thing because so many guys would lose eyes so I patches were a real thing that's from Apple and and some pirates did keep parrots as pets so okay the parrot though the parrots are real the eye patches are real the peg legs are real the only thing that I found that wasn't real was walking the plank walking plank is not a real

thing oh that's a bummer yeah isn't that a bummer it is a bummer because they would just fucking throw them over they wouldn't be like all right you gotta walk off fucking high seas drama oh let's watch them walk now that I think back if you're okay so wait your option if you walk the plank since it is totally invented are to either die or die yeah right okay so Hollywood if they were like walk the plank why ain't be like oh I'm just gonna jump off the side I don't need to walk that's not dramatic no it's not dramatic no walk out there slowly and be conflicted that plays well that tests great also some pirates wore earrings not

as fashion but because they believed earrings prevented sea sickness by applying pressure on the ear lobes well which is now true right people wear a patch back here right isn't that a thing so they were pirates actually onto something well they're on a lot of stuff mm-hmm so so anyway they they do this blockade it wasn't said Charleston and you know not a lot of money got some medical stuff so now Blackbeer needs like they should be celebrating the medical finds a little bit more than the money yeah I mean if yeah I mean except for the experience of going through the actual the butt dick thing yeah the butt

uh button dick shoots now he needed somewhere to hide out so he headed for the not very populated North Carolina that's where we are yeah yeah yeah that's interesting on June 3rd 1718 Blackbeard took his fleet into top sale inlet hey I know it's my favorite inlet well there's a very small town called fish town sure sure fish town it's now no it was underwater right yeah it was like yeah it was run by fish right the mayor was a house it was Atlantis essentially what are they saying the co-fissioner is from there yes that's right the commissioners from there the town the fish town is now known as Buford okay

better Beaufort you've got to be fucking kidding oh boy oh boy both really don't do this don't do this fucking animals don't do this it's actually for this you know what from now on just call it fish town yeah you're happy the revenge revenge is the ship and the two little sloops went first and Blackbeard brought Queen Anne's revenge in last but it was too big and he ran at a ground okay the other ships tried to pull Queen Anne's revenge loose but they ended up sinking one of the sloops okay so Blackbeard then sent steed remember steed and how could I forget my man steed rapper I can't believe he's still

hanging around yeah yeah yeah we sent he sent him off in charge of the revenge like Sean Spicer he's a little he's a little spicery yeah hey guys I threw my back out trying to pull it off the shore I just want to be loved so he puts steed in in charge of the revenge and sends him off with just to get the shit out of there right he's like you get that ship out here before we get fucked sure Blackbeard then got in the last loop and left dozens of his crew on the sand bank and took off that's cool with his favorite crewman that's cool quote 40 white men and 60 black guys that's how many took okay and all the plunder okay

one man who was being held captive was left on the bank and said quote it was generally believed that Blackbeard ran his vessel of ground on purpose to get rid of the riff raff but that's probably not true because there's no way he would have done that with his favorite ship he just he was just trying to get through the shallow area so steed after Blackbeard took off steed came back and picked up a bunch of this stranded men and then he and blackbeard's coming back he said he'd be back he and Blackbeard steed and Blackbeard would not see each other again steed was still mad about that time he had his ship taken

away steed then 20 years ago no what no this is all happening in fucking months okay steed then gave himself a pirate name oh Dave oh Dave give me give me give me remember remember it's steed yeah captain Thomas it's so bad comey captain Tommy boy he's like Thomas I'm a fierce pirate I'll be known as Tom call me Tom beard nor captain Thomas nor Tommy nor CT CT he then changed the revenge's name oh Dave more to the Royal James oh Jesus Christ worst naming pirate ever yeah from the revenge the Royal James and we all wear nineties and I'm captain Thomas yes you know I had a wife I'm out of my

tits Queen Anne's revenge was actually found in 1996 the ship right where it where it went to ground the man who found it said it looked like the ship had been run aground on accident was steed still there hey my zombie my wife my name is zombie John comey zombie team on board was the Pewter syringe for injecting mercury into the still there they didn't take that nobody grabbed that pride I know leave that leave that leave that leave that leave that leave that even if we need it let's not use it so now Blackbeard is just on a small sloop and he went to the tiny hamlet of Bath a day sail away the settlement was

just ten years old with a couple dozen homes and about a hundred people and this was basically the capital of North Carolina at the time the governor lived there his name was Charles Eden he was a wealthy nobleman who had been given a pretty shitty area to watch over North Carolina was no prize it was very impoverished with low-lying forests and tea colored creeks and lots of swamps sounds awesome they were they were about 20,000 colonists spread around who had almost no money and were vastly outnumbered by Native Americans who six years before had killed almost everyone in Bath okay it's a shit place

to be on history so Blackbeard rolls in and asked for that part and that they had talked about sure right and and he says hey is that still good all the shit I've been doing that's like a wash is he is he within the time frame though yeah I believe so he is I don't know I didn't I thought he was coming in like a year later like boy I want 10,000 on this scratch off no it's September no I believe he is within because it's September and this is right around September okay so the settlement's ten years old right there's about a hundred people there not a great not a great place I said like now and so Blackbeard

asked for this pardon which would include what he had just done in Charleston sure and for Bath the pirates coming in wasn't the worst thing that ever happened first they didn't have a lot of people and these guys would double the size of the town and and they could fight they were fighters which would be very helpful with the whole Native Americans yeah when they're like there's no sides you're like why did we bring them they could shoot mercury out of their dick oh that's right I forgot they had the mercury lightning gentlemen ready the cannons mercury balls go so Ian granted all the pirates a pardon and then gave

them legal title to the sloop that they'd come with that was not not theirs okay the pirates then renounced piracy forever internet to internet also okay and blackbeard settled down I'm gonna shave it they they built on lighting my head on fire that was my 20s it was crazy back then the pirates built homes and started living a decent life blackbeard married a local girl oh boy all as well but what they were actually doing the whole time here we go here we go but what they were actually doing the whole heading down the waterway in a sloop to brown ships that were going up and down the eastern seaboard they're

living like sitcom lives yeah well they all right good night honey I'll turn it yeah okay let's go pirating again throw rocks at my window and yars ready to pirate again double secret pirates don't tell my wife I told her I quit she's on and on about this fucking door that won't stop so they set up camp on an island where they would divvy up their plunder when they got it and it's sort of like Halloween candy when you're a kid right yeah that's exactly what it is dish it in all right one peanut butter cup for you two tootsie rolls because that's not as good as a peanut butter cup so they would divvy it up and then

the pirates that all go sell it to the people in bath and the people were totally cool with this because the pirate prices were lower than the British prices for the ships that so we are the same so we are totally the same yeah well but I like my iPhone you know I mean sure so blackbeard started small taking goods and liquor then in August they took out yeah so it's August so it's before September which was the day so so he's clean with the part okay yeah he's in the finish line then in August they took the sloop out to see way out to see looking for foreign vessels because those crews would not

be able to identify them and on August 24th they captured the Rose and Mel Tony Soprano a little bit right he's like give it up the life and he's like I got the itch yeah I got two two French ships they terrorized the Frenchmen but they did not harm them they tied up the five crew crewmen and searched the Rose then they grabbed 180 barrels of sugar and hundreds of bags of cocoa they then put the crew the biggest cake ever happy birthday blackbeard oh you guys are you fucking serious oh come on it's bigger than me ship oh gosh you guys are unbelievable why won't the candles go you got trick candles you just are very

I don't have a good day I really am so they put the crew on the other ship and told them to scram and then they brought back the ship the rose and melv to their camp and his crew unloaded the goods and he took a small boat to bath to give authorities there they're cut sure of sweet meat sugar loaf sugar chocolate and some really cool boxes I you know I feel like sorry last one I mean technically they were at the end the thing I read they were called magical looking boxes magical looking boxes which is such a great thing to be bringing to the colonies we've got food and sugar and chocolate and look magical

looking boxes we we've thought about it a lot done but we want to see what's in the magical box okay it's something to put in your dick it's huge no we hit a whammy the other box was full of gold the other box is full of my fingernails it was a long trip I guess I'm glad I got the nothing box fingernails you can trade in for magic beans good bye they had a magic box all right yep I do like the idea like it is better to me when you're getting bribed with food yeah like to me I'm like I'm a little more okay with food bribing well back then food like they were all they

fucking starved it yeah I'll do it for beef I will do it as opposed to now when these knuckleheads in Congress I still say that to my wife I'll do it for beef all right that's what you're gonna call your new album I thought hothead September 15th Blackbeard Blackbeard got to Beth around midnight that night he went to the Chief Justice and Custom Collectors house where he spent the night he told the Chief Justice he had found the Rose abandoned at sea and the next day crazy right it's so weird that I'm no longer a part of the game and I just find boats and here I am back in it's so weird I'm a boat finder don't

look at my journal I'm very candid so the governor the next day granted him rights to the ship sure why not a large parcel of sugar also happened to make its way into the Chief Justice's barn under a pile of hay oh but some people in Bath were not down with this and had been sending information north to Virginia okay about what's happening now steed oh no what he's now known as captain Thomas right was actually doing some pretty decent pirate I'm sure now he's out there actually being a decent well we'll never forget when he couldn't when there was no wind and it wasn't catching the sail so he put his nighty

up there and they actually started moving what a story so the governor of South Carolina had had it with steed's pirating and he put it bounty on his head and sent several teams to capture him and he was captured and sentenced to death okay but I mean I think it says a lot about how there's no details in between yeah well they were they were boring yeah but he was just like oh damn it take me they're like well that was a very climactic but actually put a bit he put up a decent fight but he got caught yeah throw your nighties at him while awaiting his execution steed wrote to the governor of South Carolina and he

begged for clemency and promised to have his legs and arms cut off as assurance that he would never be a pirate again who I'll be a fucking stump okay I'll be how could you can't have a pirate stump can you so I'll just be a stump and I'll be like hi how are you and you know and I don't know how this plays out but if you know that if he was a stump he'd still be like take me with you black beard wear me on a be your wear me wear me on your front like a baby I've got eyes I'll do anything just hammer me up there I'll do anything please I'll just slosh about the deck so so what do you say if you're the governor you're like

well your offers crazy yeah here's the thing it made people feel really sorry for him particularly the women of South Carolina oh I know he killed people and stuff but he wants his arms and legs cut off he's so sweet the sweet guy was that his play well his execution then was delayed seven times okay in Virginia Lieutenant Governor Spotswood had been hearing about the black beard bath situation for months he'd even send spies down to keep tabs on black beard and he'd been hearing from merchants who black beard had been robbing but the taking of the rose of the ship was a bit too much Spotswood had no authority to

send anyone into another colony but he didn't give two shits he did what he wanted pirate he did he did what he wanted legislatures in Virginia were trying to throw Spotswood out of office for making power grabs building a lavish governor's palace with tax money and also giving himself 85,000 acres of land Christ I mean it's a different time as far as land goes but still that's fucked it's not much different than a day no so Spotswood contacted a couple of naval frigates who were more than up for some pirate killing the captain's launch an invasion of North Carolina they invaded North Carolina well there

they're at this point they're totally separate right there's nothing it's not like stage-to-state it's literally a different place you can't go there right yeah and do this so one force went on horseback down a bath the other sent 60 men on two small sloops which arrived at blackbeards camp five days later and they hid out nearby and then they attacked the next morning okay black Beards Pirates had been partying all night oh boy and we're still drunk or super hungover he is kind of like Captain Morgan oh yeah all they do is get shit face that was all their whole fucking day I really do yeah I get I understand

just being like let's just drink all the time yeah fuck this they would have been totally fucked if the Virginians hadn't run their sloop a ground damn it here we come fuckers and I just picture steed as the captain keep going by the time they got the sloop loose blackbeard had his sloop on the attack coming around broadside the pirates killed and injured many of the Virginian force blackbeard then headed for open water but he didn't make it far a musket ball cut through a rope holding up a sail and it dropped they lost speed the second Virginia sloop then caught up to blackbeard's vessel and pulled alongside

but it didn't go well the pirates fired their muskets and through hand grenades 21 of the Virginian force were killed or wounded almost instantly Jesus blackbeard then figured it was over and he pulled alongside to take control and he jumped he was the first one over to jump over and the first thing he said was oops because as soon as he was on board the captain and a bunch of the insured soldiers rushed out of the hole then started fighting why you go first why would you why is the captain bad ass he's fucking you're like all right I'll meet you over there oh glad I went last oh dear diary so they're

fighting hand-to-hand the captain and blackbeard ended up facing off with swords like a shitty movie swords I'm sorry it's another one of those ass words strong W Dave so it really is like a movie the two of them come down yeah it was like a shitty ending of a movie words Swartz do you call Nick Nick Swartzson I do call him Swartzson okay sorry you guys you guys should have an ass speech impediment when you're a child Dave we're sorry aren't we we're sorry sorry Dave no you're not no you're not I'll see you online tonight you're not blackbeard's men that were beaten blackbeard himself was shot five times

he also had quote 20 dismal cuts in several parts of his body the second sloop then pulled up and I guess we ran ashore what you guys do it looks like all the fun's over they bought brought back to Virginia 14 prisoners and had blackbeard's head strung up on the front of the ship so he's like I'm king of the world but with a head right blackbeard's body was thrown into and try this Pamlico right well that one that one you actually did the way it's spelled all right all right all right no s is Pamlico soon sound his head was given as a trophy to Spotswood and he put it on a tall pole in Hampton roads at a place

that today is called blackbeard's point so he put his head on a pike which is which was really blackbeard's point cool yeah Israel hands remember him steed and 15 others were taken to Williamsburg Virginia to stand trial a nutsteed sorry Israel hands and 15 others taking to Williamsburg in exchange for a pardon hands testified against Governor Eden and other officials in Bath so so he hands who had his leg shut off he went snitch right Governor Eden was officially cleared of any wrong doing even though he'd clearly been doing wrong while he's free legally his public

reputation was screwed and he died from yellow fever a few months later okay while he ended blackbeard it turned out not to have been a good move for Spotswood to invade North Carolina and he was deposed okay Israel hands was returned to London where he died a beggar put something in my last name a shilling hands a reach a reach steed bonnet was a eventually hanged at White Point Garden in Charlestown on December 10th 1718 a plaque commemorating commemorating bonnet stands near Bonnets Creek in Southport North Carolina where he made his last stand I'm not sure if this happened to steed but at the time I was

pretty common to display the bodies of pirates on the water's edge to warn other pirates so in America you'd cruise up and they just be a body hanging there right oh it's a cool town cool you guys they've got a winch I made of dudes nice cool digs so blackbeard's like run as a pirate was super fucking short right what was it like so he if he died in I think it was November 1917 no 1970 sorry that's quite a run so he he was a lieutenant in in the middle of 1716 so it was like two years it was two years he's like a two years a run though huh packed in the head shut up and then and then these guys these guys killed

them good no actually you were you guys were his friends the other guy killed them see yeah bad call so you guys are friends with the terrorist it's awkward and what anarchists you think they're anarchists and are there are more terror there are more terrorists and anarchists it is crazy because that is a guy whose name I know and yet shockingly no jack shit about did many you guys know his story you know this story no you don't some people do most people don't most of it most of it when you start with 1690 blackbeard it's like well I don't know this but most of the shit written about him is a fiction

like the fact that he lit his head on fire like a firecracker now that was real that's good well that's the craziest part to me he sounds like a villain in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie isn't you can say it either way I'm pretty sure that's an either or it absolutely isn't either or Caribbean or Caribbean that's an either or say we're not you're not gonna fucking lay claim to one of those that's a Caribbean I got beans in my hair go there see what they fucking call it they're not like welcome to the Caribbean I don't care you know I don't keep I know how you feel you're gonna call the the Caribbean

I don't give a shit welcome to the Caribbean that you're okay with um so we're gonna do a drum circle now yeah absolutely just smoke a group blunt little little tiller by the way float till is here Saturday thank you very much for coming out we appreciate it guys truly so thank you so much wow stand the fuck up no I'm just kidding thank you