Do Go On - Blackbeard the Pirate - Do Go On Mini

Episode Date: July 13, 2020

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Hey everyone, Jess here. We're just dropping into your feed a few days early to let you know that well you probably know by now that we have been doing a web series over the last few weeks over at Stupid Old Channel on YouTube and we've got one more episode coming out this week, this Friday. So we've been putting the audio coming out this week, this Friday. So we've been putting the audio versions into the feed because these stories still work just in audio form. But if you wanna see them with an amazing set and some great animations as well as our faces,

it's probably the third most important part. You can head over to Stupid Oj channel on YouTube and we've got, yeah, I think eight episodes up soon to be nine and we'd love to you know hear what you think of them because we've had a lot of fun making this web series and putting them out and hopefully we can do something again in the future. But for now please enjoy this audio version of the story of Blackbeard. audio version of the story of Blackbeard. Before Long John Silver, before Captain Jack Sparrow, and long before Captain Feather Sword, one pirate ruled the seas with an iron hook and a black beard.

That's right, it's a blackbeard, the pirate. So you actually had a black beard. I mean, that's the key bit of info already out. I would have held that back. Spoilers, hello and welcome. My name is Jess Perkins and I'm here with Dave Warnicki and Matt Stewart. Hello Jess. Hello Matt.

Thanks so much for having us here today. Well, Jo, thank you for joining me in my personal library. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right well that's that then. I'll read it. Oh okay. If only there was a book full of something to actually read. Finally I had some kind of pre-prepared story for you. Yeah. Oh well yes we'll all go home. Today I'm going to be talking about Blackbeard the Pirates. Oh. First of all, I did not know who I thought that was a myth.

Oh, that was a character. Yeah. Right. I'm children's story. Like you did just name three characters from children's stories at the start of the show. Captain Ferrisol is a character. I have said too much. Long John Silverson.

And then you've got, what was the other one? Captain Jack Sparrow. Right. I think Death is made up a name to have a third one. Yeah, I've got it. Yeah, I just like little birds so I thought I'm gonna name a pirate Sparrow. That's cute isn't it? That is cute. It's a little bird wearing a captain's hat Yeah, this is him. This is from the pirates. Oh look at me. I'm a pirate. Hello Yeah, look at that isn't that fun we're having already? I was wondering what that was for.

I wonder where this goes from here, because that's a great start. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've locked the comedy down for the episode. So now if we get some facts in here, that'll be really great. We'll have ticked all two boxes. Let's get into the info. So Blackbeard is one of the most famous pirates in history, but Little is known about his early life.

Or about whether he existed, of course he was. Yeah, well I wasn't sure. Even his real name is actually uncertain. Most people believe that his name was Edward Thatch, but even his surname is noted a bunch of different ways. Thatch. The most common is either Thatch or Teach. Ah.

Because a lot of the time pirates habitually used fake names. Right. While they were pirating, so they didn't tarnish the family name. Those who can't pirate teach. Exactly. It's one of the worst things.

Exactly, and those who can't teach. That's roofs. And those who can't do any of them, honestly, Darren, figure yourself out tonight. We've given you every opportunity. Your mother and I have worked tirelessly trying to get you a good education trying to give you opportunities And honestly mate, you just not giving it a go.

We've told you if you can't do anything else make a web series. Just do that. How hard could it be? If you change the name Dave to Darren in that situation. No? Could not help feel a little cold out there. That was not a thinly veiled intervention. It's working.

He's having a good outlook at himself right now. Look at him thinking about it. I'm trying to look at myself in the monitor. Yeah if you see Dave wonder his eyes wonder he's just looking at himself like a bird on a mirror. Oh yeah. Oh he's a pretty bird. Oh he's a pretty bird. Oh anyway so Pirates use fake names so we may not ever get solid confirmation of what his name is. So that's not what we're here for today. No, I definitely won't be giving you stone cold facts. You're doing that. You're going to give us two options, but every fact?

Yeah, pretty much. Everything will be allegedly. You may have been a pirate or you may have been a diver, I don't know. You know, it's going to be in a beard model. So it's believed the Blackbeard was born in Bristol in the UK, around 1680-ish. Again, not fully sure. His father, Edward Senior, was a Mariner

who moved to the family to Jamaica, which at the time was a British colony. And recordkeeping wasn't amazing in Kingston at the time. So it's believed that Edward Jr. Blackbeard, married a woman and had a daughter named Elizabeth. And it's assumed that his wife died sometime before 1721, which is when they started keeping records in Kingston. And no wife was recorded.

So you're like, oh, she must have died sometime before that. That's quite a few years though, right? Hmm. Has he paraded? Time. Yeah, time is a few years. Oh, Mara. Yeah, tell you what, how to keep up with it all.

I just kept moving. So it's quite possible as well that he served as a as a privateer during Queen Anne's war, which was 1701 to 1714. So privateering is when governments, mostly in Europe, would hire private warships to further their own interests. So think of it like pirates for hire. First, the governments would approach the owner of heavily armed vessels and give them legal permission to attack or plunder enemy nations.

They'd be like, here, you work for me, go blow up those guys, thank you. I assume they talk like that. And they talk like, yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mate. I was wondering who Yaw was. Yaw over Yarndar. Yee.

Yaw. You got the crazy eyes down, I love it. Hey man. Oh god, you don't break that. Thank you. Oh yeah, I do. We may be. Wow.

Thank you. So yeah, if they are doing another one of those part movies. Maybe you could replace Jeffrey Rush. Yeah, that'd be great. You know? In the movie. In the movie. In the movie.

No, no, no. I want to be an imposter. Anyway, so they believe that Blackbeard went into privateering and like many others, he turned to piracy sometime after the war ended. Oh, feels like a good stepping stone. Yeah, totally. It's like a pirate apprenticeship. Yeah, you're a pirate here.

You can be a pirate. But you're like a legit pirate. Taken people's money is the thing to do. Looting and halooting and colluding is the way. Here would Captain Privateer, the pirate man, as to say. Keep it up. Yaaar. That was a sexy pirate.

I want to sub myself out. Yeah. But there's no one else here to sub in. Yeah, you can't just go. Do you want to sub myself out. But there's no one else here to sub in. Yeah, you can't just go quiet for a bit. Yeah, that's an option. Did you know that? Just have a little time out. I'll just get through the first page, maybe. I'd love to hear more about it.

And then, you know, when we get to like page three, we tap back in. I'm having a lot of swings. And you're hitting the floor. A lot of misses. I try to be as a board of here. And we can fix this in the edit right? Yeah, Evan can make you look good. Cut out all the shit I've said.

Leave in the gold. So yeah, edit me out. Please do go on. Thank you so much. I want to hear about how he went from a legal pirate to an illegal pirate. To a pirate pirate. So he joined the crew of Benjamin Horny Gold.

Oh, I'm not gonna talk, but thank you. Thank you for my attention. And at that time, at that time Horny Gold was the most feared pirate of the Caribbean. I mean, I love when people's names come from what they're into. That show, you're a that show. Smith, you're a blacksmith, horny gold. What's he doing with the gold? Well, he do, aren't you?

She's an honorable. Yeah, that's one thing about gold. It is a soft metal. Can mold it into. You can mold it into any shell. Oh. Any. It also conducts hate really well.

Oh, yeah. Friction. It's a fraction too much friction. Well, started on a little pub fire. That's why they called him pub fire. Red dick beard. Their earliest joint mission was in 1715 when a hurricane hit the coast of Florida and wrecked 11 ships, dumping a fleets worth of treasure into the ocean.

Like all these ships have been ruined, but all of their good stuff is now just strewn everywhere. I said he could have been a diver. Could have been a diver. So it's washing up on the shores of the coast and people are raiding the ship's wrecks and trying to recover whatever treasure they could.

So the governor of Jamaica commissioned thatch and horny gold to recover it for them. So he was like, go get that gold for me. Then my gold. I'm a governor. You go get it for me. I'm paraphrasing. Horny gold saw great potential in thatch or teach and soon promoted him to his own command. Thatch teacher, whatever your name is, you're there. You seem all right? You're there boy. What day is it today? Gold day. Treasure fetching day, sir.

So we gave him a ship basically. So with Hornigold in command of one and thatching command of the other, they could capture or corner more victims. And from 1716 to 1717, they were greatly feared by local merchants and sailors. I realize now that's one year, maybe not even. For a while, they were feared.

Well, they're a reign of terror ever finished. It's been three months, man. Yes. So they came across a man named Steed Bonnet in around 1717. You don't get that anymore. Steed Bonnet. Steed.

Steed. Was he a horse? Steed's a great character too. So he was a wealthy gentleman from Barbados. Sorry Matt, am I saying that right? Well I think the one you mean is there's Barbados. Hmm, Barbados, thank you. He had a larger state, he had family money, and he decided that he would quite like to be a pirate captain. So he ordered a ship to be built and he named it Revenge. Oh. And he fitted out the boat and made it seem like he was going to head off and be a pirate hunter.

You know, one of the good guys. He's like, I'm going to go catch all those naughty pirates, don't you worry. So as soon as you sit sail and he's out of sight of the port, he hoisted the black flag and starts looking for treasure. He's like, ah, I'm a little pirate. He's very good. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan.

He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan.

He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. back then, horny gold, fucked gold. So they

get to the steed ship arrives where horny gold and black bearer, the ship was battered and in a really bad way because it turns out they had encountered a fast superior pirate ship along their travels and steed 70 crew members basically begged black bear to take over because they were so sick of working for such a terrible pirate captain. But don't worry if you feel bad because the eccentric millionaire slash wannabe pirate stayed on board reading his books and walking around the deck and his dressing gown. That's the real captain.

Yeah, that's the way to live. You want to be a silent partner in a pirate ship, you know? None of the work, but some of the riches. Sounded a bit Hugh Hefnery. Yeah, I'm imagining him in like a smoking jacket. Yeah. Silky. Yeah.

Silky number. Just reading books. Flightly parted. The other part, it's like, well, captain. Can you put jocks on, I know you're just on holiday, but... We can see your peg leg mate. Yeah, watch it away. They get too eye patched and stuff.

They can't have to look at it anymore. The parents are like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, good on him, but. He demanded biblical, not true. I get tiny. Try to make a week in literally. You see it? Try to create a rep here. Come on, help me out. So Blackbeard's buddy, Horny Gold, made a point to only attack his old enemies. But the crew got sick of seeing all these British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing

by and not being able to attack them. Because he was like, no, no, I'm only going after my enemies. So at some point at the end of 1717, Hornigold was demoted and not long after he retired from the pirate life, he took one ship with him and he left Blackbeard with the revenge for a steed bonnet ship. On November 1717, he came across La Concorde, a large French slaving ship, and the two ships fired their cannons at each other. Pretty cool. Several of La Concorde's crew were killed,

and the captain was forced to surrender. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Dead. Blackbeard captured the ship, mounting 40 guns on it, and renaming it, Queen Anne's Revenge.

He mounted 40 guns on it. Maybe he's the one who should be called Hornied Cannon, eh? Oh, leave the guns alive, you pissed. Leave some for the rest of it. 40 of them. Oh my god, there's 50 men on the ship. He's like nah, uh uh, I'm like Captain here.

I'm not getting your floppy cannon seconds. Oh. So, why people were terrified of him? Yeah, it's a scary dude. If I owned a lot of sloppy cannon seconds. Oh. So, people were terrified of her. Yeah, it's a scary dude. We've found a lot of guns. So many guns. So, 17th of November, 17th, 17th of Wild as well. Just need to underline that.

I know. It's a lot of 17s. Too many. I'm not even. I'm not even. I'm not even. I'm not even. I'm not getting yours.

Sloppy cannon seconds. Sloppy cannon seconds. Sloppy cannon seconds. Sloppy cannon seconds. Sloppy cannon seconds. Sloppy cannon Crazy. I can't wait for that. I'm struggling too. And I got a powerful brain. So powerful. Yes, yes you do. Thank you.

Yes. Yes, you do have a powerful brain. Yes. For the men trying to tell you. Love the name Queen Anne's Revenge. Yeah. Don't know what it means by love it. That became his number one ship.

He was like, get out of here, normal revenge. Yes, yes. Quick revenge for me. Poor old revenge. Number four long, he had a fleet of three ships and 150 pirates. And this is where the name Blackbeard became feared on both sides of the Atlantic and throughout the Caribbean. By the way, let's take a moment as well to talk about his look and why he was so feared, right?

So he was tall, broad-shouldered, and wore his hair long and had a long black beard. It's like a dream boat. He does sound like a dream boat. I think terrifying about that. Okay, how about this? I could record him captain dreaming. Well, how about this?

During battle, he put lengths of a slow-burning fuse in his beard and in his hair so that it would kind of sputter and smoke. Wow, that is hot, quite literally. Literally, yeah. That's like he's just going to burn his face. Yeah, it was supposed to give him a demonic look. And he dressed the part two.

He wore either a fur cap or a wide hat, highly the boots and a long black coat. Oh, wow, he sounds like the undertaker of the wrestler. Yeah, or Neo from the combat movie. A perfect combination of those two characters. The most terrifying members. Neo. He's a real cool guy. He's at a red pill. He doesn't believe in all that bullshit on the internet anymore or whatever that thing was about. What a great message of the film. And he wrestles as well. On a pirate ship at all. On a pirate ship, and he fucks guns. This guy does it all, and he smokes out of his hair.

I would have called him gunfucker. I would have called him smokey hair, which is me. He also wore a modified sling that had six pistols on it, him to combat, so he's sling it like Red Bull. Always ready to have that. Call that, shoot him and then drop him too more. I love that. You don't need to be very drunk, though. That'd be honest. Back then, shoot him, then drop him too more. I love that. You don't very drop him.

You don't have to be honest. Back then it was like bang, bang. Well, these are useless. Bang, bang. That's still only six bullets. Yeah. But he used them well, all six bullets every time. Do you think he would just throw away things

he could fuck, though? Yeah. Come on, man. Oh, so you later. Love you. He also had his own distinctive flag. That's the dream. So it featured a white horned skeleton on a black background,

and the skeleton is holding a spear, pointing at a red heart. There are also blood drops near the heart, and the skeleton is holding a glass, making a toast to the devil. Maybe I'm making some toast. And that's all being fired out of a cannon. And if you zoom out even further, you can actually see there's the devil's friend Jimmy. That's if you zoom out, but if you zoom in,

it's also a mosaic made up of mostly pictures of people than this. Yeah, but they're skeleton. They're skeleton bird fingers. So it's actually pretty far. It's pretty scary. And then if you zoom way out even further, it's a bit of a

bit of a pictures of people in this. Yeah, but they're skeleton. They're skeleton bird fingers. So it's actually pretty far. It's pretty scary. And then if you zoom in, you might add even further. It actually is the number six, repeated two more times after that, which is actually the devilish number of all of them. Yeah, six. And then one more.

Oh yeah, good so. Yeah. But that description you read out does sound like someone is high trying to describe the flag that they want. And then it's got this. And it's a toast and there's a love heart. Either high or a top one. One of the two. Hard to know. A high top one.

And people see that fluttering in the breeze and they go, oh, look at that horn skull, clearly cheesing to the devil with those little bits of red blood. They dropped a blood. I reckon it dropped a blood. Okay. I reckon they dropped the blood. You should be scared of this guy. Yeah, they were right to be. He seemed Captain Blackweed were like it. So despite being a scary looking guy, he actually preferred not to resort to violence

unless absolutely necessary. Please, can we just have a conversation? Okay, he'd just use fear and intimidation to get them to surrender without a fight. I mean, he's a lover, not a fighter. It was probably actually that he was smart because if he violently attacked other ships, there'd be less loot for them and you mess up a perfectly good ship that you could add to your fleet. So why ruin a boat when I could just take the boat?

And then I've got free boat, you know? But there were exceptions to this rule as well. So some pirates had been hung in Boston around this time. So any ship from Boston, he would fuck it up. Oh, no. What's the point of that shit? All right guys, just get me nice and close behind this ship. All right, please stop.

He did say it was tall. Is he tall enough to fuck a whole shit? I think anything's possible if you can't mind to it and you're dick to it. Yeah We call the back of a boat Stern just back that stand right up real close little bump a grind with the Stun I call the butt. Yeah, both butt. It's actually real thick The bubble butt. Both both back then thick. It's like the bubble butt. Both back then I had real peachy bubble butts, and I love that.

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and by the spring of 1718, he had several ships and close to 700 men when they arrived in Nassau to divvy up their plunder. So are they stealing little riches from the ship but also basically enslaving their ships? You can't, yeah, it sort of seems like you'd have a battle between two ships and whoever won those like my ship now.

Oh, playing for pinks. Can't, yeah. Pink. Rift pink. That's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen come out of your face. Like someone like that doesn't say playing for pinks. Well, I mean, it was referencing a musical to be fair.

Ha ha ha! Good point. You're the one who hates musicals. I was actually referencing Fast and the Furious. Oh, sorry. So he's got all these ships and heaps of crew members, and he gained a reputation and another nickname as well. The Great Devil. Oh. I like that. He realized that he could use this reputation for his own gain. So in April of 1718, he sailed north to Charleston, then a thriving English colony.

And he set up right outside the Charleston harbour, capturing any ships that tried to enter or leave the harbour. Please tell me that this is the story of how the Charleston dance was created. I wish. Try to get everyone's attention. Brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, brum, br on the shelf. It feels like a pretty obvious way to think I found it. At a cafe. Should you at least turn it on a bookcase. So where books live. Right up there on the old shelf. Don't look too close. Should you not be quoting the author then? No. So in April.

At a copy right. Thank God. So they're set up around the harbour. And he was taking, so every time they would sort of capture a ship, he would take the passengers hostage. He would take them prisoner. And the people in Charleston were terrified, because they'd heard of Black Beards reputation, and they were scared, that he was so close. And he was taking their people prisoner. So he sent messengers to the town, demanding a ransom

for his prisoners. He's a ransom, a well-stocked medicine chest. Oh. He's like, give me some medicine and I'll leave. Gotta be of a soft fright. Yeah, you guys got a million. I'll go some thousanders or I'll be a little... Can I have some goals?

It's cruel, like... Can you ask for the medicine and money? Because I'm not sick, but I need money. It's just like, doesn't that just telegraph to the town? Hey, by the way, why not doing so well? If you were gonna try and take us, now's probably the time. Half the crew of Bedridden.

We've all got the flu. So the people of Charleston were like, oh, yeah, okay, sure. So they send them a medicine chest and blackboard left after about a week. That was it. You didn't know who had anybody. Seems like a widow. You said that story by saying he took advantage

of his fearsome reputation. Yeah, because they were scared of him. He wasn't a particularly scary person. Look at the past for whatever he wanted. But he just ate a medicine. Like it. Love it. I love it. I love it.

I love it. I love it. I love it. But then though, like a well-stocked medicine chest though was like, oh man, that was like wow. I've seen the best laches in town. Yeah, yeah, only the best. That was truly racing for pigs. So after a busy year, Blackbeard decided to take a little break from piracy and on the 13th of June, he grounded the ship, the revenge, and one of his smaller ships off the coast of North Carolina.

He left the revenge there and transferred all the loot to a fourth and last ship of his fleet, marooning most of his men on an island that was visible from the mainland. So he took off with some of his stuff. Do you leave them some leeches? Yeah, they had, like, they were fine. Castede Bonnet ended up rescuing the marooned men

and set off in search of Blackbeard, but never found him. So he'd like, steed had sort of left and that he was coming back and he came back and found all the men on an island. He was like, okay, well I'll pick you up and then they're like, let's go get him and they never found him. It doesn't seem like he was that hard to find but they were bad pirates. Yes, he's really bad. Did you said North Carolina? Yeah. Actually, I know there's a little off topic that reminds me of this great factor I heard about recently.

You know Michael Jordan, the basketball. Oh yeah. So he grew up in North Carolina and he played for their college team. And he was very good for them, right? And he wore like their like blue uniform obviously. And then when he got picked up by the Chicago Bulls. Oh wow.

He still wore those blue shorts while he played for the Bulls with his red Chicago Bulls shorts over the top. But because he was playing with two pairs of shorts, the second pair had to be bigger, which started a fashion and basketball, of basketballs wearing bigger bag-year shorts. That's fascinating.

All started in North Carolina. All because of his superstition. Yeah. Wow. Isn't that fascinating? You never heard that before. No. And it's a good fact.

Thank you. Did Blackbeard wear bag of your shorts? We can only assume yes. Well, later, Blackbeard was one of many pirates who was granted a King's pardon by Charles Eden, the governor of North Carolina. So that's basically where parrots were like, like, away you, like, they're all their crimes and stuff were pardoned.

Right. Because often I think if you got caught for that kind of parrots, they would hang you, right? Yeah. So I don't know how you qualify for a King's pardon, but he was given one. They're so terrified of you that they hope that they're... Oh yeah, maybe you were tired now. Or you just quietly have robbed them. Or the other way round, because Charles Eden, the governor, was a bit of a crook. And he secretly had made a deal with Blackbeard, and they realized that working together,

they could steal far more than they could alone. So Blackbeard and his men lived in a nearby inlet on Okrakoke Island. Okrakoke. Fair Okrakoke. How I miss their golden shores. Okrakoke. Yeah. So you now.

Beautiful, isn't it? Fun setting. Those golden shores. The water Actually, now. Beautiful, isn't it? Fun setting. Those golden shores. Hmm. The water glistening. Oh, stop it. Take me back. Oh, Cricouc.

You saucy bitch. Bossy bitch. I didn't want to use those words. I'd like to. You are a saucy bitch. So they just sort of settled this little inlet and they would occasionally sail back and forth attacking passing ships.

It was a very cruisey lifestyle for a while. I'm doing the chalster. If anyone crosses this line, if you get no way, it's not our fault. Yeah. Got you. Yeah. Sorry.

I'm just gonna shoot this cannon at this line of you. If you sail into the cannon line, that's not on me. Is that my fault? That's actually steal your treasure and sell it at a market for a lot of money. That's not on me. That is on you. That's on you.

I'm just doing it. I'm just grabbing whatever's here. If your ship sails into my reach and I happen to pull off, what I imagine is like a sort of a little cabinet chest. I was wondering who you're pulling off then. Well, what kind of chest? Let's find out.

It doesn't matter. It was a different time back then. People did pretty questionable things like stealing others' treasure. Why don't they get around with these big cabins of treasure? It's exactly what they did because he and his shipmates provided the town with cash, black market goods, and manpower. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, in the nude. There was a guy called Charles Vane, who was the leader of the Pirates Who Decline to King's Pardon. So they were like, they were the real bad.

So thanks for the nice things. Yeah, it's like, I want your pardon, a pirate life for me. So on, no. Accepting the pardon. You can still accept it and then continue to do bad crimes, right? So stopping you from... Yeah, it feels like you'd take the part and fresh start. Yeah, fresh start.

And then if you want to keep doing crimes, you just don't... I guess so. So no, but like, you know, that's compromising your ethics. Yeah, so as you see more like a badass if you're like, no. Don't want it. Keep it. Every man has his price. True.

But yeah, maybe it's like, you know, when John Lennon sent back the, the nauthood, if that's like, you know, when John Lennon sent back the the nauthood if that's the thing that happened. It's like that. I think you can draw a very, very close parallel between those two events. So, Charles Vane. He visited Blackbeard and tried to get him to come and join him to reclaim the Caribbean as a lawless pirate kingdom. He was like, come back to the dark side.

Oh, that, that, that, they always have one of those people in films. So if you join me, we'll rule the galaxy forever. I'm talking about Star Wars. That's the only film I'm talking about. But, but, but, but, but, but, but who coined thanks no thanks. I don't know, sorry not sorry, has Blackbeard. Did he also come back? Wow, what a guy. So many of our current vernacular is actually because of Blackbeard, sorry I'm thinking

Shakespeare. Yeah, no, it's Blackbeard was actually the first one to say, Drayne the main fame, as when his mate Charles Baines was having a piss off the side of the boat. Wow, that's true. They've faced that we all use every single day, even now. Yeah, can we wrap this all up? I've got to go drain the mate. But Dave, all good things must come to an end.

What's going to happen now? Something you always say. Local merchants were fed up with Blackbeard and his crew operating in the area and they complained to a different governor. Alexander Spotswood. Spotswood was like, er, governor, Eden's a bit of a dick, let's get rid of Blackbeard. Let's get rid of both of them. What's what sounds like a nerd? He's a bit of a knack.

So he hired a bunch of men from the English warships that were docked and put them under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard. And in November of 1718, Maynard and his men went looking for black beards. Not to have a chat to him either, they're gonna like. Have a chat to him. Bang bang, you know. What are you gonna do?

They're gonna have a real hard word. Oh. Yeah. Why do we stop fucking our ship? Yeah. Seriously, it's a piece of shit. Or else we'll have to. Or else our ship? Seriously, it's a big story. Or our ship will fuck you.

Alright, get the ship up nice and close. We've got new technology. I put a dick on the side of my ship. I don't know, fuck you with us. We've got one extra main sail now. And that's going up your... So they go looking for him and they found him. Oh, these people actually were over there.

Yeah, they found him. Exactly where he'd been living for a while. This is Blackbeard Island. Yeah, down the last place you looked. His house has a little letterbox out the front. Was it Blackbeard? It's got a... They're like...

No, I don't know, this is him. So many of Blackbeards crew were ashore. So when the two English ships approached Blackbeard Open Fire, killing several of the British mariners and forcing one of the two ships, the Ranger to bail on the battle. So now it's one on one. The other ship, the Jane. Come on.

The Jane. The Jane. You could be anything. Be more menacing, the Jane. So it's Sinan's revenge versus Jane. Jane. You could be anything. Be more menacing, the Jane. So it's Sinans Revenge vs. Jane. Jane. What's up? Evil Jane.

This is cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's bleeding from her eyes, Jane. Yeah. Oh, Jane's going to kill ya. Jane's got a butt on fire.

Yeah, butt on fire, Jane. Yeah. Bow. I'm worried. Well, that just sounds like diarrhea. Just call it, yeah. Well, you're not, oh yeah, actually, that's scary. You want to see, you want to just sweep through the whole boat very quickly. Jane the drain vein. Jane the drain vein. You're going to drain vein. You're going to drain vein. You did, well done. So the other ship, the Jane,

closed in looking, looking basically empty to blackbeard and his crew who figured they were in for an easy fight. They were like, easy, we outnumber them. Man, I'm man, it's one on one. He'll call Prath. Easy, peasy. I worry. But then Maynard's men suddenly emerged from below the deck, shouting and firing their pistols. In the air.

Pfff. Like shoot at them. They went up in the air. Okay? That's gravity. They hadn't discovered gravity yet. So, the battle was on. But they went up in the air. Okay? That's gravity. They hadn't discovered gravity yet. So the battle was on.

The two crews, Maynard shot Blackbeard twice, but he kept fighting. Maynard later reported that Blackbeard had been shot no fewer than five times and had received at least 20 serious sword cuts. Is he still refusing to fight at this point? No, we can talk about that. They're full on fighting at this point. Yeah, he was actually played by a 50 cent. So that makes sense.

So, you still get Richard Dottryne. That's right. That is true as well. Yeah. It's actually a link for better than I was. But in the final moments, just as Blackbeard was about to kill Maynard, even though he'd already been shot five times and cut at least 20, another soldier rushed in and cut Blackbeard across the neck. Did he cut the beard? Yeah, the beard was...

That's right. ...trend. ...trend. ...the beard was trimmed. It was a devastating moment. Oh, that's the worst. But with one more blow, Black Beard's head was no longer attached to his body. To his beard.

Oh, look what you've done. Come on! I took ages to grow that. Forever. I've got little bits of fizzling stuff in there. Oh, no, yeah, now I've got to have a buddy. Little peach fluff for a few months, huh? Because we're really focusing on the beard.

So, man's just being decapitated. Decapitated. Yeah. So his beard is still attached to his face. Oh thank god. But the face is just on the ground. Oh. Yes.

That is so nice. I'm just sitting with the beard. So weird. Well Dave's a bearded man. Thank you. We'll see you in on that. Come on. I need this.

Don't do it. Alright. He relates. He's more of a bearded you take money as a headed man? You'd be okay with your head being cut off as long as your beard was in touch. You take my beard off, I'm no longer hot. Take my beard, take my life, Dave O'Lay says. I'm fine, I'd shave tomorrow.

Someone gave me some money. No one gave me money. Why don't I why anyone would, but if someone gave me money, I would shave off one. No one thinks if he was a bearded man. No, I mean. Well, I'm not a bearded man. I'm a man with a bearded. You are inherently a trinsic. Bearded man.

Where does the beard finish and where does the man start? Okay so black beard's been beheaded. Bearded. Oh my God. It's all he's got. Oh. Yes. Yep.

Jellis C's not a beautiful color. I knew you're not a beautiful color on you. Not a beautiful one. I felt awful to say. Jellis is not a beautiful color on you. What are beautiful colors on you, Matt? List of them. Blue and white stripes.

Jess Brown hair. Jess face skin color. Yeah, actually, I've copyrighted this hair color. Yeah, it's called Jess Brown. You'll never see it on anybody else. Except my brother. That's just genetics. I can't get him to change.

You've tried to sue him. I shaved his head. All right. I chopped his head off. I chopped his head off. That'll teach him. So Blackbeard, did you recover from this injury? He did not. Oh, dear. He did not.

So with their leader dead, the rest of Blackbeard's crew were pretty quick to surrender. So I'm like, I don't want to. So Blackbeard's body was thrown into the ocean and Maynard returned victorious to Virginia with Blackbeard's head proudly displayed on the front of the ship. Because he also would not be... That's where the dick was. He'd also want the beard attached because otherwise people would be like, look, I've killed it and they're like, who's that? That's to do. That's just to do with that beard. You otherwise people, he'd be like, look, I've killed him and they're like, who's that? That's to do. That's just a dude without a beard.

You're just bragging you kill the dude, you psycho. Oh, you killed Blackbeard. Cool. They're glowing fake beard. Now, sure, Maynard was hailed as a hero and would forever be known as the man who would kill Blackbeard, even if he didn't do it himself. But the legend of Blackbeard only grew more after his death, unlike the beard that stopped growing because he was dead. I think hair grows a little bit after you die, is that not true?

Maybe it is, I don't know. I'm just trying to fucking wrap this up. Sikki, your fucking beard chat. There's a bank of the unicorn. Oh, for fuck's sake. And they had one album that was called, who's gonna cut out hair once we're gone? Which is good fun. That's a so cute. That's so cute. Um, men who had sailed with him automatically found positions of honor and authority on any

other pirate vessel they joined. It was like so good for your resume. Oh, wow. I don't even make Donaldson to young. Yeah. So they would like wander up to any other pirate and be like, yeah, I went to Blackbird and I put it in my captain. My Lord.

Is that why you only worked the drive three, but okay, oh. I'll probably be a captain. Blackbeard's legend grew with every retelling of his story. According to some stories, his headless body swam around Maynard's ship several times after it was thrown into the water, following the last battle. Like a headless chook. Yes, but we had been reminded of it was just the head was swimming around after. Floating, I think is what it's called. I think it I think that I think it would float. No, it was actually

Swimming that's why it's fun Yes, it's a little run free stuff. Yeah, it had big ears That's why it grew such a long beard. Yeah, just tracked for these big ears He combed it up and around his head, whatever it is, firing a butt at the top. They'll look into it. Black beard, I'm telling you.

Black beard is still some 300 years later. The quintessential pirate. There were people who were better pirates than he was, taking more ships and looting more treasure. But none had his personality and image. And many of them are all, but forgotten today, but not our boy Blackbeard. And a fun fact, the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge was discovered in 1996, and many of the relics found there

on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum. And despite little solid evidence, legends persist of Blackbeard's buried treasure and people still search for it. I love it. Love it. So, this is basically my way of asking you guys if we can please go on a treasure hunt. Yes.

Can we buy a metal detector? Don't we already have like three of them? Yeah, sorry, can we get another metal detector? Yes. We should get three more so that we can all go one in each hand. Jewel. Jewel metal detector. Spread it out around the park, find some treasure.

Yeah, it would be really good. I had a taxi driver recently who, that's what he does and he has a YouTube channel he says. We should find him. Wow. I think, yeah, it's definitely the calling card of a guy who's got everything together. And it'll soon be our colleague. We list him as hell.

I've made an expression for this. I have a web series. I actually think we're going to put him on our flag. Yeah. Little drops of blood. Yeah. Driving taxi with two. Little to take this out of the window.

Yeah. That's bad ass. The drain. Can we actually get a flag like that? Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much. That's it for Blackbeard The Pirate. And this web series is a spin off of our podcast, Do Go On, with over 200 episodes to listen to.

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