Last Podcast On The Left - Episode 493: Blackbeard Part III - The Blackbeard Effect

Episode Date: May 21, 2022

As we reach the end of our three part series on Blackbeard, Edward Teach has officially earned his reputation as the most notorious pirate sailing the seven seas, and just as he considers retirement, he finds himself in one final bloody stand-off with Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

There's no place to escape to. This is the last talk on the left That's when the cannibalism started I have been masculine I went and saw the Bucks game with you. Oh, yeah, dude. I said the words all he's tossing that rock around Oh, he's dishing it out and he's giving it down. That's what I said when we were watching that be sucking it in the paint Look at him. He's charging and he's got his knees up and he's all full of herb and Viv If you listen to sports with the sexual mind, it's all gay. Of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, these balls are dribbling all over the court We're just I can't get over How masculine today is gonna be yeah, we're man

It's just so like ooh big boats and splashing and well, you're not saying it very masculine. No, it is We got the long beards with little ribbons in them and then we've got like big And in swollen Mortars of gunpowder cool these big globes Ceramic and shiny on the outside filled with ammo on the inside Well, you know what I say put a nipple on it. Welcome to the last podcast of the left everyone Hanging out with Henry. Yeah hanging out with Marcus. Hello today. We are on to Blackbeard part three I'm so masculine. I'm hot bunking while the dude's fucking in there, man

I know together like a goddamn Lego set. Oh, I love being in a little semen with you So when we last left Blackbeard, he had just successfully paralyzed the port of Charleston, South Carolina Escaping with hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold silver jewelry and treasure. I can't believe he I was just gonna say I can't believe he did that Terry shy and never mind In addition Blackbeard also gained what he'd been craving all along no variety There wasn't a single port in the Americas who hadn't heard at least a whisper of Blackbeard following the Charleston blockade And while his reputation would make raids easier for a time. It would also lead to his death I read a really good like thick-ass review of Blackbeard on the Smithsonian and they gave him four out of five flags

But in there the account it really kind of put into context how up until that point like the time he arrived at Charleston, South Carolina He had put in a bunch of time and probably had already taken about About 15 to 20 boats like I didn't realize truly the scope of the fear he had spread Before that time period where because then by the time he rolled in the Blackbeard effect Yeah, was already there like they were like he rolled in at the front of the harbor and they're all like oh That's that super masculine guy with that his best friend Them or so they're so frightening. They're hugging each other Well, he put the time in much like Malcolm Gladwell suggests also the Blackbeard effect

If you end up eating somebody's anus after a large night at sushi You might have the Blackbeard effect really good material. Thank you Now following Charleston Blackbeard returned to raiding other vessels But rarely had to use violence and in some cases simply chased down ships for directions on how to find more valuable prey I eat now that we've been in New York a week. I understand this thing again. We're a very very scary man So it's going. Hey, hey, hey, come here. Hey, where's the Starbucks? It's on every corner But yeah, there's something about that just getting seen the pirate flag go up like oh no, oh no, where's the beach?

In one case after Blackbeard had already captured and destroyed a ship called the Great Allen He chased down another ship called the New Division and simply asked the captain what he knew about shipping in the area And everyone knows that the New Division, um, that was that incredible dance band that happened after the lead singer of the former band And of course the Great Allen a ship you can recognize by its spectacles alone It's very nice. I appreciate you bringing a little bit of no of no dogs into this. Yes, the new division Absolutely on fire today. Yeah Blackbeard then let the captain go on his way Taking only a single member of the captain's crew who decided then and there that he wanted to trade his merchant sailor job For a pirate's life with Blackbeard. I want to be a big fun sailor with you boys

And that's where I'm just I'm ready to go But when Blackbeard did find a ship worth raiding that was a different story altogether on December 19th 1717 Blackbeard captured a sloop off Crab Island near Anguilla in the West Indies Or maybe it's Anguilla or maybe it's Anguilla. I have no fucking clue. No idea But we knew we do know it was a sloop From this ship Blackbeard took hogs cattle and books and held the crew captive for eight hours Wait a second. They got pigs on these boats. Of course. Oh, yeah. What do you mean? Of course That's how they eat. Yeah, dude. Are the pig sailors too? Oh my god. Do the pigs go and fix the the flag?

I know when you want the plank. They weren't Ha, man pigs are not pirates. First of all, they're no no They can't make the choice to break the rules of society. They are pigs. They don't know I would bring chickens Um, but if you listen to if you remember, I know two weeks ago is a long time for you It actually is but when we when the first the Bucaniás when they were going to the various islands the way they got to know they became known as the buccaneers Is because they would bring pigs with them to create little pig farms And that's where they the term buccaneers came from because it was them making them into pork jerky

You know, one of them was having sex with them pigs Well, the thing is about the pigs is that these people are stealing from merchant ships because boars are native to north america But pigs are not native to more north america. So these are people that are bringing pigs over to north america For the first time. I don't know. I've met a lot of boring people over in uk There we go. He's on fire. Yes. I am. I have a fever I just wasn't expecting pigs to be involved on the ships, but all right very good to know Well by the end of the capture the captain and crew were let go without incident But had fearsome news to report to anyone thinking about standing up to blackbeard

By this time blackbeard had three vessels two ships in a sloop and by the captured captain's estimate. There were no less than 300 pirates spread across blackbeard's fleet. No, he was fucking he had a big crew and that's what they were also saying that he Had more crew than a lot of the military boats that were out there. They were supposed to police him It was like the gang was bigger than the police and also the gang was nicer than the police Yeah, but the gang also wasn't as well trained as the police Because that's the thing is that they what we said last episode is that a navy could fire three shots To every to blackbeard's every two now the police also have pigs on their boats because wouldn't that be redundant?

Yes, yes Well furthermore blackbeard's flagship the queen ann's revenge held a menacing amount of firepower This ship had no less than 36 guns at the ready making it one of the largest warships in america pirate or navy But as far as blackbeard's crew went perhaps the most effective and infamous lieutenant was a former african chieftain Whose real name is lost to history But amongst pirates and legit seamen alike. He was known as black Caesar. Yeah, man He's fascinating and he was incredible in um that I watched this amazing documentary Uh, it was just called pirates

Um, and it was just Wow, it was Pirates, was it by any chance pirates triple x or oh, yes I thought that meant for the alcohol or was it this ain't pirates of the caribbean? No, I know that one. That's pornography Yeah, I watched was real and actually it was more of a found footage film and black Caesar is really heavily featured really I love gate pirates also lost to history. That'll be the first name of my son Lost to history kissle Well black Caesar had spent years

Escaping the clutches of slavers during his time as a chieftain to give a little bit of backstory on black Caesar I love this guy. This character. He's so interesting But greed was Caesar's Achilles heel He and 20 of his men were tricked into boarding a ship in africa that was said to contain treasure But when the men boarded the ship suddenly left the harbor and black Caesar and his men found themselves suddenly surrounded by pistol Toten slavers I'm getting too old for this shit horrible After setting sail for the west endies where black Caesar and his men were supposed to have been sold into slavery The ship was suddenly caught in the throes of a hurricane off the off the coast of florida. It's fucking guy. You freed him

Yeah, but during the voyage prior to the storm black Caesar had made friends with one of the white crew members So during the chaos the two new buddies loaded a long boat with supplies and ammunition and escaped making them the only survivors Oh my god, it's like the green book. We can all learn from them. They're gonna win an oska But why is it real? I guess that this is a question side stories lpotl a gmail.com If you're a historian and knows anything about this time period, I'd really want to know Why are there so many more instances or maybe it's because we're in this context of pirates being fucking nice to people Yeah, and and having compassion and doing these things where I know a lot of it was for selfish reasons It's all about what made you money and what helped you out in the end

But also like in the end it's like well it works You know, I'm gonna tell you if you do something nice for selfish reasons fine Just do something nice, but this guy wasn't a pirate. He was a slaver. Oh, yeah, I mean again. Yeah, he's worse Yeah Now a long boat was certainly larger than a row boat something more akin to the viking ships of your So it was indeed a viable means of aquatic transportation as such Caesar and his friend whose name has again been lost to time It's Jerry They began their pirate career almost immediately

From the shore they would pretend that their long boat was shipwrecked and flagged down passing ships But when the ships got close enough Caesar and his partner would attack. All right, Jerry. Listen to me, Rhett Yeah, you run around in a circle screaming Help help help And then I'll say hey Hey, as you can see we need some help Perfect perfect Working out of the Florida Keys this scam kept Caesar going for years

And while as we said many pirates did not bury their treasure Caesar and his friend did indeed bury much of their booty from this time period for safe keeping mostly on Elliott Key The thing about pirates man, is that like how do they remember where it is? Yeah X marks a spot, dude Yeah, but there's so many X's and then at some point I I saw a thing where they said that that The concept of the treasure map is also not real that there was never a map that they just kind of like I think it's this lump This lump like oh, that's where I buried Jerry number one

However, speaking of which the partnership between Caesar and his former slaver Desintegrated when the two got into a fight over a woman that had been captured in a raid every time and during a standard argument Settling pirate duel Caesar shot and killed his partner damn Which I also because we got a good response is about people talking about the the pistols at the time. They're incredibly inaccurate Yeah, so it usually did end in the swords But hey black Caesar at this time did end up putting a bullet in that guy's fucking skull. He must be so happy Yeah, he got one Unfettered Caesar then began gathering his own pirate crew and captured his own vessel

Setting up a base on a small island still called black Caesar rock in the Florida keys Where he supposedly had a harem of over a hundred women. That's too many honestly I Have my wife and even that just pleasuring one woman is it's a job and you had to really attach yourself I mean according to her she says it's almost impossible But that is a lot of ladies. I mean think about the food You had a hundred of them the charger plates and you know everything has to be so fancy. Oh, I understand what's going on It's supposedly a hundred women. Oh, I'm gonna say 20 at most

All right. Hey, we'll chamberlain rule will exaggerate a little bit and they were prisoners Yeah, let's let's also remember yet. They were not they did not choose to go to black Caesar rock Yeah, harem harem might not be the right word for that like it might just be like I don't know But what what's his name an aerial castro island? Well now that it's in that context. Yeah, it's not a margaritaville. They don't want to be there Well from there Caesar continued the pirate life for a full decade as a captain But finally joined up with blackbeard's forces aboard the queen and's revenge in either 1717 or 1718 Right near the end and black Caesar remained blackbeard's trusty lieutenant until it all fell apart

Now as far as how pirates found attacked and boarded ships They didn't just wander the seas hoping to come across a ship worth rating It's incredibly difficult to find another ship on the open seas. The Atlantic ocean is very large cheek. Wait, what? Usually pirates would stick to shipping bottlenecks or major trade routes where meeting a merchant ship was almost guaranteed There are also tails of ships and also like we have regular flights these days There would be regular like booty departure lines Where you like, you know where they would take the various it's the trade routes So you they know that a specific ship was almost like well, that's the one that holds all the sugar

There's some rhyme or reason to it. Yeah, and each of these pirates also had territory Like for example blackbeard's territory was huge. It ran from the Bahamas up to Delaware Wow And the whole thing ran in this like a regular circle that followed the wind patterns at sea and a pirate an experienced pirate knew how to exploit those wind patterns which ships would be where and When to meet them because it's like, you know, it's june So the wind is going to be blowing from a southeasterly direction that you know such and such You know usually looking at the past, you know enabled it. I don't know much. I don't know

But my I might just be making that up. But it sounds right. It sounds right. Yeah I was in palm springs and my google maps went down and I was lost for two Hours and the city's only like five miles wide. Well, that's amazing. Well, that's the other thing too Is that these guys were working they were navigating using something called dead reckoning Uh, where they didn't actually know for sure exactly where they were going It was a fair amount of guesswork And if they made like navigational errors would compound on each other like one would compound on the next compound of the next And before they knew it they would have no idea where they were

They would be hundreds of miles from where they actually thought they were like an aquatic kandana party. It's actually very symbolic Now once a pirate captain found a victim ship They made sure that it took as long as possible for the other captain to realize that a pirate ship was fast approaching In addition to the painted canvas and crowded deck strategies. We spoke of last week pirates also made great use of flag BASCULAR! Now a pirate would often use a literal false flag That's not a pirate ship folks. Definitely not. Yeah, this is a false flag These false flags would lure the ship into attack range Usually by flying the same flag that the other ship was flying to lure them into a false sense of security

If you're both flying, you know the union jack Then you're gonna stop and you're gonna say hello because that's when ships of similar flags would meet each other at sea They would stop. They would trade news. They would say, hey, I got a couple of pigs. You got a couple of cattle Yeah, they would do all that shit. It's because you have to take care of each other on the open ocean It's like you with your moof on lanyard when you see somebody else with a moof on lanyard And you kiss lanyards and you say, oh my god, what number are you? Oh, you're number two. I'm number three Most ufologists are actually highly contentious. Yeah, they were actually very difficult to go along with Not me. I'm one of the good ones much like the pirates. Yeah, then once the pirate ship was close enough to put up

Either a fight or a chase The pirate ship would lower the false flag and hoist either the black flag or the jolly roger skull and crossbows We got you. Gotcha. But at some point this doesn't happen very quickly. So they see the flag lower and be like, oh man You can't trust anybody out here Get the other damn flag. Come on. Come on unfold it Actually, the jolly roger. Do you know where jolly roger comes from? No, it's uh, it is comes from the french words for very red Yeah, jolly rouge, which became jolly roger. Did you know that alcatraz means hellicant? You know, you're off the show. I'm actually kicking you off the show

Who can nears means jerky meters? Then after the pirates hoisted their jolly roger or their black flag, they would bring out their speaking trumpet It's a fucking awesome, man. They call him on the phone Yeah, and yell demands at the other ship until the other ship decided to fight or give up call me now Now concerning flags a lot of information could be conveyed by just a single symbol And many pirates even had their own custom flags that conveyed the correct sense of menace to the other ship And to let the other ship know who they were dealing with a lot of pirates had for lack of a better word a brand Yeah, right where depending on who you were up against because it was captain veil

I think that dude was like he was known as like he'll kill you like one of them is like super super dangerous We'll get to that one in a second. He actually had a flag named after him I actually and I was incorrect captain Morgan was Henry Morgan the original privateer. It was that it was the rum man All right, well in blackbeard's case his flag showed a skeleton Toasting the devil and piercing a heart with a spear It's a little busy It's awesome. It's fucking sweet. It's cool. Well, how are you gonna tell from far away? What the fuck that is? You just go like well, there's a lot of detail on that

Fuck it's blackbeard. Oh, no But outside of blackbeard's custom made flag There were quite a few symbols that were universal to mariners in the 18th century While a skull and bones meant death a bleeding heart meant slow painful death. Do you mean in the midterms? I have 105 fever Sadly, I would think the bleeding heart would mean they're empathetic or sympathetic, but I guess that's not the case Okay, well even worse than that was a flag called the Edward Lowe named after the pirate we talked about last week Who made men eat their own roasted lips? I was literally gonna make a joke about how that's the ship where everyone can suck their own dick

The Edward Lowe was a red skeleton which meant torment with eventual death So every flag is worse than the last and the best flag is the skull and bones. Yes, that's the normal one That's where they just kill you or they act like they're just gonna just kill you But also I would love to find out how they don't know what that flag means Until they're all been tortured to death and it's like while they're getting tortured like that's with the flag I get that now You know, that is funny I guess the only way anyone would know that it meant torch with eventual death was if

One person was left alive to tell the tale and it just kind of spread They would do that often blackbeard a lot of times would go be like tell them what I've done Yeah, but blackbeard also didn't usually kill people. I know he's very smart Yeah, I really thought this was going to be the ship where you all suck your own dicks But I guess I'm just going to sit here with this thing on my asshole Yeah, I don't know why I stretch so much Actually, I'm going to kind of get to something kind of like the ship of the pirates who suck their own dicks Before we get to that an hourglass symbol that meant that time was running out to make a decision

Weapons meant that a fight was about to happen and a horned skeleton simply meant Satan It's up to interpretation. Like what do you think Satan means? I don't mean evil. You mean we evil. Perhaps the most interesting flag though was the nude pirate Look at the winky on that guy. Look at me. Hello That meant that the other ship was faced with a boatload of pirates who had no shame Which again was a message left up to interpretation as we fight and fight and fight and fight and fight It's like oh, shit. It's the goddamn pirates of pensance

But even if a ship chose to do battle which they rarely did They would be met with fearsome firepower even if the pirates manning the cannons Weren't always the most adept at warfare. I feel like that's almost makes you obviously not more dangerous But more difficult to approach like the idea of like well They can't hit us from here But they're just going to start shooting all of their guns and throwing shit up here as as soon as they are within reach Right. Well, they know how to use their guns. You know, they definitely do, but it's like maybe the best way to put it It's like if you have like a cartel gang versus an army

Like, you know, it's still going to be a rough fight Even if the cartel isn't trained like a military is like it's people are going to die definitely Absolutely. Well typical cannons on pirate ships these and it's funny. The cannons on pirate ships are called minions. Oh No Minions Minions fired four to 12 pound balls that had an effective range of a thousand yards That's if you were just looking to scare the other ship. That's the so-called warning shot Shot across the bowl

Yeah And if you wanted to bring down a mast or pierce the hull the range went down to 500 yards, which is still pretty damn far It's five foot like that's taken down a mast of 500 yards. That's scary But once the pirate ship got in a close range They would add grape shot also known as diced shot or lagrange Nice. And then of course, there's one guy harry who can jerk off. So goddamn fast. He'll come all over that ship And that's the best you stay on the boat while we do the rain. It's a moral victory Just watch over the stores of grain if you would and actually face away from it

A grape shot was fired from swivel guns. Those were three and a half foot mini cannons That discharged a mixture of musket balls Old nails and scrap iron that ripped men to shreds without damaging the other ship It's fucking sweet. I mean to fuck up the sails. Oh, yeah But the other ship would be fine and then it would fuck up all the people on the on the rim Oh, man, I don't want to die like that But if the other ship needed to be disabled pirates could use chain shot I thought that this was only in the movies. Yeah

No chain shot was comprised of two bowls linked together by a rod that would spin through the air With the purpose of knocking down the mast or cutting the rigging and if a man got caught a chain shot's path It was likely to cut him in half It's like rambo. Yeah, man. It's fucking sweet. And once the pirates got even closer to the other ship They'd bring out the granados Yeah, these are fucking gnarly. I can't even this idea of I would be very nervous. I used to get slammed Off of those those mickeys granados They were basically a combination of a grenade and a stick of dynamite

These were hollow cast iron spheres filled with gunpowder and plugged with biostopper Through which a salt peter fuse would be threaded within masculine Other granados were made other granados were made from glass and filled with scrap metal designed to ignite upon impact Kind of like it's like a combination of dynamite and malt off cocktail. Yeah, sweet and so on very unstable Unpleasant to be hit with yes, but no matter which granado was used the pirate would light the fuse throw the granado And watch as it exploded on the other ship's deck in a hail of iron shrapnel And that was Blackbeard's favorite I believe it once the pirate was ready to board though

The granados would be put away and a final round of grape shot would be fired to create more chaos And importantly a lot of smoke They also used smoke bombs at the time period which was they were filled with gunpowder and then extra sulfur Yeah, so they would throw these things onto the decks and it would create giant orange Fart clouds that you'd have to fight through like you would just Fucking kind of cool man. It's taking man It's just an extra sticky man

However, if the other ship was putting up a fight it was likely they also had swivel cannons Filled with grape shot. See grape shot was effective, but not at long range So if you fired it too soon, you wouldn't have time to load another round before the other ship fired theirs Fire years too late and the other ship has already shredded your crew So part of a pirate captain's instinct was knowing the precise moment to fire They did they described it as like you were essentially playing a game of chicken every single time and anybody who's tried to make a child Knows what that's all about. Absolutely. You got to get it in pump. Just right stop smoking weed for a week Fucking whatever. Yeah

Once pirates got close enough though and after the grape shot was over and done with it was time to board The pirates would toss over grappling hooks not just a swing aboard But to pull the vessel closer so more pirates could jump across. It's an easy answer. This is some Batman stuff The pirates would then swing and jump through the smoke created by the granados in the grape shot Screaming and yelling curses as loud as they could in a final attempt at intimidation Ass! Suck it motherfucking cunt. Ah, yes We've uh attacked the turret boat Hahaha

But if the other ship was set on a fight then the melee began Sweet, come on. Oh masculine. Vista cuffs. That's what we like. That's where we're dominant boys being boys The deck turned into a floating battlefield with muskets Blunderbusses single shot pistols swords axes and especially cutlasses being the weapons of choice Does anybody have a band-aid? It's like super mario brothers 3. Yeah Hey, what's up everyone? How you doing ben kissle here with Henry Zabrowski Yeah, it's me, man. Yeah, bro. Henry Zabrowski is smoking some of that sweet last podcast on the left, babe Go out there and purchase yourself some. I hope you enjoy it. We have sativa

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It's the curved sword the reason why pirates like that as opposed to just regular broadswords or just straight swords Was because cutlasses were light enough to jump from ship to ship with And small enough for the inevitable close quarters battle. They're also great for the theater. Yeah, they are But once the pirates boarded the bloody fight would continue until either surrender or death And to the victor with the spoils May I ask what are the pigs doing this whole time? They are screaming screaming Didn't have that in my 1817 big bingo card. I want to be a pirate now too. Oh one pig Blackbeard, however only fought one close quarters battle as far as we know prior to his last stand

Because blackbeard was better than any other pirate at knowing how to choose his victims How to approach them and most importantly How to intimidate them and the more I read about blackbeard the more I really began to see like because at first I was like we I had seen that as a general note about blackbeard He was a master strategist and I always kind of thought like sure or whatever like that can't be that Yeah, yeah, whatever and then you really start every historian says like all of the all of the data All of the other pirates and the enforcers at the time all had the same thing to say just being like he was The best quote-unquote field general of anybody else at the time period

He just was truly like a modern person born in that time period Which we've talked about on many of our history episodes where he just kind of saw through the nonsense in a way that was Very useful, especially because you have a bunch of other like essentially primitive morons and then all of a sudden He's he's the only one born with like a modern mind that knows how to like game the system I wish he was president during vietnam. I don't think we would have gotten into that war I still don't think that he should have been president Not during a deeply complicated like

Secretary state, let's put him as secretary. She showed restraint and like McNamara Yeah, yeah, or maybe yeah, let's just replace Kissinger with Blackbeard All what we need to do is we get our hooks and we raise the flag They're all like it's just how is this the proxy just Kissinger skin still alive by the way. Yeah, still alive. No justice But maybe because Blackbeard went for quantity over quality because Blackbeard never went for he never went for a fight He didn't know he could win He came up empty fairly often and would demand a token quote-unquote Donation of food and drink if the other ship had nothing worth stealing

they also have a common clause in the articles of piracy and on being on a pirate boat which is If you got a thousand bucks, whatever it was like a thousand pounds of whatever gold or whatever That's when you're allowed to finally leave like everyone's supposed to stay on that boat until you hit a certain level so Blackbeard will always kind of had that in mind too of like We'll just kind of keep these levels going because eventually we'll get enough to stop Yeah in a situation like this when the other boat had nothing The pirates would often give something back to the other ship to almost pretend like no piracy had been attempted at all And the two captains had instead merely just said hello. It's very hell's angels of them. Yeah, it is

Now from the description that I just gave piracy was obviously a dangerous job Even when you were just filling out the basic duties of being a pirate being on a boat is hard. Yeah It is but when it came to battling it out on the high seas pirates also had to contend with the british royal navy If you'll remember the british were doing everything they could to strangle the atlantic of the pirate scourge by 1718 even if their forces were worn thin and bounties on pirates were growing ever higher And so like his mentor benjamin hornigold before him Blackbeard saw that the retired pirates life might not be all that bad of an idea Well, yeah, black scissors telling them like it's being like, you know, I've been I fucked on an island for a year

We could do a lot of shit that we don't have to just do this. Absolutely So blackbeard formulated a plan to obtain one of those pardons in north carolina Where pirates weren't so looked down upon Accounting to the fact that north carolina was so underdeveloped at this time that it didn't have much to steal In fact, north carolina was even a bit pirate friendly because its people were more willing to buy stolen goods. I have a question Hmm. No one has pictures, right? Just shave your beard Because he wants to be notorious So he wants to come back if he just truly wanted to retire, right get yourself a crew cut

Usual suspects, you know, just pretend to be somebody else. He could have just done that kissle. I don't think he really wanted to retire Yeah, you're gonna find I just said it's a lot of talk. We all talk about this We all fantasize we're like one day we won't have any work to do and then all of a sudden I that's either when you walk to the end of a dock and blow your fucking brains out, right? Or you end up doing like you end up on alt-right television I don't know what else happens to you like you have to Never that's why never retire never even float the retire just say like i'm not working right now And then slowly die. No, it makes you endlessly depressed when you don't work

Even though when you're working you're endlessly depressed Oh, it's a great cycle the only problem that blackbeard had with retiring was what to do with his ship the queen Ends revenge because at this point like I mean the queen ends revenge was well over 100 feet It was a third of a football field belong was huge huge and it was riddled with guns It was obviously a pirate ship through and through. Hey, I have an idea though. Okay, listen captain What if we put a big of a salsa? We did a salsa station over here. Yes. All right All right, and then we go over here. We have the margarita machine Yes, we're a whole cascade different colors blue and yellow and red sweet. All right

We have in here in the middle. That's where the girdles go chocolate fountain You're right sweet. I have problems with lax black toes But that's fine with me. All right, and all and the pigs can be our waiters I'm I'm actually I want to go back to being a pirate. Okay Oh, but instead of just say like selling the queen's and queen ends revenge to another pirate Giving it away or just abandoning it blackbeard decided that if he couldn't have it No one could yeah, okay So blackbeard decided he would shipwreck the queen ends revenge at top sell inlet in north carolina

And just sort of leave it there Only thing was he didn't tell any of his crew except for his helmsman that this is what he was going to do He's gonna send a memo out on that one because there's some historians that could their conjecture is that Well, there's no way he would have purposely Shipwrecked the queen ends revenge because it was so Important to him especially anybody that was uh, you know as you could I think anybody that you know who has a boat like They could fuck it Yeah, if you'd like if you'd let them like that's why they're always named after a lady or just something

They're attracted to because they would literally fuck their boat, but that's why there is But blackbeard always knew what he was doing. Yeah, if I had a but I'd call it the SS oink oink Well on blackbeard's command the queen ends revenge leading blackbeard's other two ships Raced into the inlet and without warning veered starboard and ran aground with enough force to shatter the main mass This was not I do not blackbeard would not have done this Yeah, absolutely would not have done this at all unless he was doing it on purpose Okay, and upon trying to pull the queen ends revenge back to deeper waters blackbeard's other ship the adventure Damage the queen ends revenges keel and that's you kill a boat like damaging a boat's keel is like

Exploding someone's heart. It's done. Okay, but the adventure Also shipwrecked itself in the process. Fantastic. Well, all of this is really sliding out of my It really seems that way masculine He's skill the only ship left was the revenge which was at that time still being quote unquote captained by a poor old steed bonnet. Oh Shortly before his relationship with blackbeard soured and shortly before he was hanged for piracy in charleston I know now a little bit more about the show our flag means death um, it is obviously it seems to be very sweet relationship between blackbeard and steed bonnet and um

That's not how it ends. No, so I don't know if in this show they're going to talk about this But I don't know what was soured between them like it could have literally just been him Destroying his own boats in front of everybody and then marooning half the crew which he then did He'll left them on an island that could be part of that. Yeah, they didn't leave him on an island They were left on a beach in north caroline. Yeah, but they were you know, but still classically marooned You don't quite know how you're where the hell you're gonna go Yeah, it's not like you can take a bus to charlotte like it's 17 18, north caroline. It's just the wilderness. You're there It's still beautiful. It's myrtle beach, but you are not experiencing it with the the caddies and a little

No, but he I think it might have to do with blackbeard's hygiene You think when it comes down to it is like it's like it shows consideration That if you're going to because you don't think the fucking curtains match the drapes Maybe he's gone down there and he was he was like are you eating at the only backbeard someone on top? And he goes down and just and eventually steeds probably be like listen all of this is fun and games. Yes. We're dirty stinky bad boy But um, I'm gonna need you to snip it up a little bit. Yeah, sure could be do you think you had little ribbons on his pubic?

That's what I would do. Okay. Well, he had ribbons everywhere else If I could make my bush hair thicker I would because it's actually incredibly thin and wire Well, we have the curse of the red bush, which means you can see right through it masculine Mine's too thick which is weird because I have the hair nowhere else It's just I'm like a sater from the waist down. I'm proud of you though. Thank you. I love it. That's weird um, but Well as we're as I'm about to get into like I don't know if blackbeard and steed bonnet ever really had like that close of a relationship I can't

believe that No, they're my favorite ship That's called that's what their kids call. Yeah, is that right relationship? Yeah Well, blackbeard knew that the royal pardon concerning pirate crime only applied to offenses committed before january of 1718 And blackbeard had committed plenty of crime since then But it's not like there was surveillance footage out on the high seas So blackbeard thought that he could maybe fudge it although he knew there was a chance his story wouldn't hold an over six foot tall Obvious pirate. It's blackbeard. It's literally the person that if you imagine a pirate

It's blackbeard. I'm just imagining him being like, oh, I think it's time for me to go legit Yeah, all I gotta do is just somehow not be me All right, I get into tap dancing Oh, I invented the milkshake. That's fantastic So to test the pardon waters blackbeard made steed bonnet go first Even though steed could have been hanged for the same pirate crimes for which blackbeard was trying to get pardoned No, you go first. No, no, I don't want no, you do. I would be steed You told me how much you love north carolina

And I say go get a crack at her and tell me how it is But as it turned out the royal governor of north carolina Charles Eden was all too happy to grant a pardon because Charles Eden He had some dealings with pirates here and there. This is where it really gets into politics There's some politics to go on because Charles Eden That that little area where they went was the pirates all showed up and they didn't know whether or not they were gonna get the pardon But he saw two things. He's like number one. He's like, okay But it was this they it was something like 20 people were in this town and they had no protection

It's called bath town. Yes. Oh, no protection from the royal like army or any of that kind of shit So he's like any of that shit, but like like no attachment from the motherland, right? And so he's like, okay, listen, there's a hundred guys with guns If I actually allow them to come and hang out they can protect us They can actually they'll literally come in and They triple our population like they make it so like they can build houses. They can farm. They can do all these things It's like what you need, especially in sim city 2000 I mean hell they're better than black water. At least they're building stuff not just destroying lives. They're not political

They're not building stuff. They're a bunch of stinking fucking pirates Whoa, all of a sudden somebody who smells can't build something But uh, yeah, no, it would be a uh, uh, liability. Yes, they're pirates. Yeah, I would love to have pirates working on my house. You wouldn't Well steed bonnet, he decided then and there to take the part And because he under the conditions of the pardon, he would become a legal privateer Under contract with the dutch fantastic But much to steed bonnet's detriment blackbeard had plans within plans. He always does While bonnet was gone blackbeard looted bonnet ship and blackbeard invited his entire crew of 300 men to drink their way through

All of the liquor that could be salvaged from the queen ann's revenge and the adventure This is why they're not a useful force within a structured town What do you mean? Because they are truly like why we know them to be as they are pirates are a chaotic Group. Yeah, don't trust a skinny chef. Don't trust a short basketball player and don't shut up. Don't trust a pirate contractor Well, I mean, I would say I'm gonna say don't trust someone who works in scrushion. That's sober No, oh my god. Jesus christ. People working at my house right now. They're getting hammered and doing it all the time Kissle has a really he truly has an interesting relationship with his super. Yeah. Yeah, that's my landscaper

That's that I mean landscaping is one thing but man I do I mean Well, actually when I used to do construction all the guy all the drywall guys were on meth like all the time That knows I trust yeah Yeah, three. Yeah, did drywall a whole fucking juvenile detention center in three days Welcome to texas. Yep. That was a fun the the summer of 2000 Right, we could build a high school. Yeah, let's throw out all these fucking soiled baby cradles. Yeah, and they also watched really fucking awful Hardcore pornography on the lunch break whatever gets the work done. First time I ever saw the blooming onion while eating a fucking turkey sandwich

Oh my goodness Oh, I would just eat the blooming onion over the turkey sandwich. No, you know what a blooming onion is. Oh, yeah Do you know what a blooming onion is? I'm currently sitting on one. I'm just gonna look it up I'm gonna put an incognito the blooming onion It's If you just do blooming onion, okay, this is urban dictionary It's a it's when a male female sticks her fist up a broads vagina. It says opens their hand and gives the finger a wiggle No, that's not it. No, what I what I saw was a woman who could prolapse her own anus to where it actually turned inside out

I think that the blooming onion is being shadow banned. It really is It's all blooming onions and then somehow onion stuck in there Well, I don't know if it's officially called the blooming onion. That's just what me and my buddy called it. Spiritually I know what it is. Purple rose something like that. Yeah, the old the fun cushion whatever you want to call it Well back to the back to the beach back to black. Thank you Once the pirates were all drunk enough to not notice what was going on Blackbeard in about 20 or 30 of his most trusted men loaded up in a small sloop and abandoned the rest of the crew to their fates All right, we've by body to the morons. Wow

Now once bonnet came back to find that blackbeard had robbed him. He forgot all about his pardon and swore revenge I will have my revenge Along with 80 other pirates who were also a bit perturbed about being left on a beach in north caroline Yeah, so these pirates swore vengeance upon blackbeard and renamed their ship from the revenge to the royal james Which is somewhat of a puzzling choice seeing how their entire mission was now quite literally revenge Yeah, I don't seem to be now. I feel like that could have been a discussion on the thing where they're all like But we're already called the ravine Yeah, you're like, but the royal james is a fun neutral

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But steed bonnet would not cross paths with blackbeard again Oh, after the pirate crew had a stern conversation with their quote-unquote captain The hunt for blackbeard was abandoned and bonnet returned to piracy if ever so briefly I feel like it's I think that they realized like who they were going to go try to get revenge on Who's blackbeard? Yeah, I think they sobered up. Yeah, and they're like, oh pop. He's like a good at pirate Yeah, you're really good at it. Yeah, and steed love you Yeah, your energy, right your enthusiasm. You just aren't like the guy he made you I'm saying steed again Captain steed just not to speaking out of pocket here

Blackbeard just let you wear a hat for like two years. Yeah, right, right It's kind of like when John Starks picked on Michael Jordan and yes, I do support John Starks But at the same time you just don't want to anger Michael no no no no because then he takes it personally takes it personally Well after capturing a few ships shortly after parting ways with blackbeard and sustaining damage in the process Steed bonnet and his crew sailed into cape fear to repair their ship And it was there that bonnet's career as a pirate came to a bloody end not in a beautiful place like cape fear Yeah, like we talked about last episode. He was captured. He begged for his life his

Fucking his his execution was stayed seven times because I forgot to mention. He also represented himself. Oh, yeah In the trial so it was like seven times. My client is a genius. He's an incredible dresser He's only half the pirate blackbeard was which is why you should only get half the punch Yep But at the very same time that bonnet was battling it out with the british Blackbeard was partying his face off with the cruel captain charles vane in a small pirate haven blackbeard had created On oakra coke island. Yeah, man. This is cool. It's like again This is the type of shit that shows that all the movies are real man little pirates hanging out. Yeah

Yeah, blackbeard like they ran into charles vane on the ocean. He's like, I just fucking abandoned everybody We're gonna go have a fucking party What I want to hear. Yeah, it is a little bit fun Yeah Well, eventually blackbeard did go into bath town to speak with governor eden And eventually blackbeard convinced eden that he was a changed man who wanted nothing more than to turn over a new leaf All I want to be is not a pirate anymore. I don't want to take a woman. I take a woman rape

Put her up on the top of the stocks I'm sorry, mr. Mr. Beard. Um, you're doing a horrible job of representing yourself. It seems like you're still not over the pirate lifestyle I don't know Say that you don't want to kill anybody. I don't want to So governor eden granted the pardon and blackbeard attempted to set himself up as a legit member of the community In bath town there. He reportedly took a wife although reports on blackbeard's married life are Conflicting. Yeah, I cannot imagine that was a great situation for any woman to be in some say the blackbeard married a 16 year old girl Some say that he had 14 wives

That was a rumor Yeah, and some say that he would invite his former shipmates into town to have sex with his wife while he watched and that made him a Real captain. I think it's just safe to say he took love advice To literally from Ted Nugent But regardless blackbeard's life as Edward teach of bath town only lasted two months before he returned to piracy Of a sort the way here's how I could explain this to you Let's say that blackbeard is the michael jordan of pirates. Sure best of the best. He retires He gets bored. What does he do? He goes in place for the wizards

Well, he also played baseball for a little while. He also played baseball and that was his marriage all of a sudden He's like, you know, I like baseball. I'm fine at it. But I'm the best at being basketball But he only played baseball because he was going to get busted for his inner gambling on the in the NBA It's kind of a myth Yeah, no bad See blackbeard had taken the same legal privateering deal that bonnet was supposed to take And governor eden had actually given blackbeard a sloop as a part of the royal pardon Which blackbeard named the adventure his second ship of that name and then you feel like the governor will be like, well

I'm not my thing. All right, you um, he's british I know but it has to come from somewhere This is actually it has to come from somewhere. It sounds right to me. Listen now. Uh, okay. Now, so you're not a pirate anymore Absolutely not But I gave you a boat and um, you like named it the same name As your former pirate ship urge just for the nostalgia I told you very interesting. Everybody could tell it seems like blackbeard just sort of got bored but also wanted to hold on to His life in bath town

Or this could have been a part of a larger plan He might have thought like maybe I can pass myself off as a legitimate businessman While also being a criminal or it might have been a plan where he's like, I'm just gonna pretend like I'm a legitimate businessman But I'm still gonna be a pirate There's there's so many layers to it because you know, I feel like there's an ounce of each one of that that is true Or it's more like if you've ever seen the movie my blue heaven Yeah, when it comes to them all in the witness relocation when they're all getting the they're all eaten and shit I think it's that too where you're just like

I hate how this chair doesn't move. I'm used to standing and yelling Yeah, well, that's the thing it seems like when people come back for more all their stories of war are that they hated it But then when they're at home, they're like, I gotta go back to war It's scary because it's I guess it's just something you get used to it's very difficult to live in the new in new life Yeah, like it's very difficult You have that survival instinct that like just never goes away and it can make living a life Pure health for both you and the and it makes life difficult for the people around you And that makes and that gives you guilt and you're like, well if I go back to war then at least I won't have that guilt and then

Yeah, it's like you're not black beard anymore. No one's shivering in fear at the sight of you You have to go to the grocery store You have to enjoy the grocery store. Well to that end black beard returned to raiding ships But tried to lie about where he got the goods he was selling to use a term more suited to the mob Black beard tried saying that all this stuff that he was suddenly selling just fell off the truck It fell off the truck Yeah, they got to start putting better Locks and doors on trucks trucks in his first and only attempt at this scam

Blackbeard attacked two french merchant ships sailing together one ship man, but empty of cargo the other man But full of cocoa and sugar Blackbeard made the crew of the cocoa ship moved to the empty one and blackbeard's crew made off with both the cargo And the ship back to bathtub. Oh my god. If they run them into each other really quick. They have nestly quick Once there blackbeard told the governor that he just found an abandoned ship full of cocoa and sugar Unmanned in the middle of the sea just sitting on a boat like it's just like full of cocoa sugar But like you wouldn't believe it. They just left this out there Hey, that's crazy. So I was just doing my duty

As a god damn lawful citizen of north carolina. How was that? Just make sure i'm sitting here. How is this a crime? Well, if blackbeard had been telling the truth then legally the ship would have been his wait Because according to abnormality law finders keepers. That's real sense. Yeah, that's actual logic If you find an abandon ship on sea at the in this time period if you found an abandon ship then it was legally yours I feel like this should happen today You see those bait cars that they always have finders keepers losers weepers if you leave your car open With the door open and the keys in the ignition. It's my car. We do have that

What possession is nine tenths of the law like that thing? Yeah, it is you're you're correct That's why the squatters laws they is really bad for people who manipulate them when the people can show up and take your home That's netflix document the series the necklace documentary series world's worst roommate was one of the most harrowing things I have seen in a long fucking time Someone can just go into your apartment while you're not there and if they're long enough it is very difficult to get it back And even though it doesn't seem like this would help when blackbeard went to charles eden to tell this story As his witnesses he brought four of his pirates All of these guys can swear that I found this boat. What do you think terrible Steve?

Yeah, blackbeard was just sitting around and we saw this. Oh the boat was so lonely. It was crying We had to occupy make it a real hard on me to give you that pardon But since eden presumably didn't want to lose face after he had pardoned the most famous pirate in the world And because eden got a tidy share of both the cocoa and the sugar under local law He knows how to do you just pay the big well. Yeah. Well. Yeah, that's the thing is that if you find that ship Then you take it to like the nearest British authority and you say like hey I found this ship and then the locals get they get like a cut like the local government gets a cut of what you found Wow, so eden gave in and chose to believe blackbeard's story

And with the plan complete blackbeard took his profits and threw a beach picnic And it's a very specific beach picnic to pirates. It's called a banyan They had specific names for parties. That's how often they party Did they have little flags and flair and stuff like that little banners that they have fun today? I think it was just a bunch of 20 year olds getting drunk on a beach. Yeah, man. They're too masculine Nice and captain vane rejoin the blackbeard's crew for the beach party. All right, and they partied for a fucking week A full week However, not all royal governors in america were as easily swayed by blackbeard as charles eden

Particularly piracy was most hated by a virginia governor alexander spottswood who was rich enough to regularly lose money from piracy I am absolutely sick of all of these pirats coming over here stealing my No, those are my slaves They're mine and I we took them ourselves and it was difficult He has such a family history of stds. They had to name him spotswood No, no you Furthermore spotswood was a man who considered himself of high moral fiber. Oh, yeah

All right King a king's man through and through who would have nothing to do with the lowly characters of bath town Which he called a nest of vipers Slippery snakes doing their horrible little deeds Smelly and parting banyan Mr. Spotswood your favorite pig is here to have sex with thank you. Oh my god I love you bernadette I love you since the moment I bred you

Now blackbeard had planned to sell the French ship he'd stolen But after spotswood stated that he intended to prove that blackbeard had pirated the ship away Blackbeard just burned it. Oh, yeah claiming that he'd done so because it was leaky Again super mafia shit. It's very very mafia But he spotswood, you know is interesting too said during this whole time period and of course He had this massive hard-on about piracy. He was also being investigated by his entire like mini government For appropriating funds. It's the same Same shit that is happening now where he is he's so mad about all these people making the free money off of his enterprise

Meanwhile, he's making free money off his own fucking after you're gonna say this politicians a hypocrite Yeah, and not only that but it's also the distraction thing where it's like no no no Yeah, we can't pay attention all these scandals. We got pirates Like how dare you ask me about all of these like little things these small rules that I've done has a bit Okay Well burning the ship did absolutely nothing to throw spotswood off the trail and spotswood decided He was simply just gonna give the order to capture or kill blackbeard using the royal navy whether he had proof or not Yeah

So through a network of informants spotswood discovered that blackbeard had his real pirate base at okra coke island So the royal british navy was sent to take him down using two ships the jane and the ranger This it goes against all like systems of protocol because at the time you're supposed to be like I'm attacking you I know you allow yourself to be attacked. Ah, very good. That is begin attacking sequence once and they're supposed to be So they decided to go like fuck it. We're gonna go raid them right now We're gonna go kill them while they're all fucking asleep. Okay, but they did have a little conversation Right beforehand, but they didn't like send a letter being like Hey, we're coming for you. You're supposed to do all this fucking official shit. Yeah, let them know

Yeah, I mean this is when you know warfare is kind of transitioning from the time where armies would say like All right, we're gonna meet in this field at this time And then we're gonna all you know just fucking run at each other and hit each other with swords and axes until You know one of us gets up and see that you're not late this time france Because last time you were 15 minutes late and it really threw us off it was all off. Okay Now blackbeard had become a little lazy since the pardon and since he was just kind of half pirate at this point And since he'd burned the French ship. He didn't think anyone was coming for him Therefore no lookout parties were watching the sea on the day of the royal British navy showed up

And no alarms went off when captain Maynard saw the adventure and gave chase And it is the story it is so interesting how this is a story as old as time It's how most mafia leaders are whacked too. It's that thing where they fight It's like it's that thing you can't relax because if they come for you Like as soon as your back is turned as soon as you tell everybody you're going to therapy They know you're weak. It's just so stressful now on that day The adventure only had a skeleton crew of 25 men aboard half of what they'd normally have Because the rest of the crew they just had a day in bath town like yeah, we're going to bath town

Don't it would be back later. Yeah, we're getting taffy. Oh very nice But in the 20 minutes between spotting captain Maynard sloops and the sloops arrival Blackbeard had plenty of time to prepare for a fight. The adventure was maneuvered so that her starboard swivel guns Loaded with grape shot were facing the enemy all while blackbeard sailed toward okra coke island. That's his base Okay, see blackbeard knew the waters and knew the beaches of okra coke So he hoped that if he drew in the british sloops, they might wreck themselves on the unknown dangers below smart It's a good strategy However, this was a time as Henry said of gentlemanly warfare

So before the battle officially begun blackbeard and captain Maynard Hailed each other and engaged in a fair amount of dick wagging beforehand. You know, it's interesting about Because they would they'd yell at each other but of all of the accounts of blackbeard This is actually one of the most accurate because all of the soldiers amongst the the actual like royal soldiers They attested that all of these things happened and because now the only thing we really know about pirates I will be talking about how before like the pirate tears and the buccaneers they used to keep journals So that's how we knew how they operated but pirates didn't keep journals because they view that as evidence

And the only thing we knew about pirates came from logs and jails and and legal proceedings and all the kind of shit That's how we find out all these details But this actually comes from witnesses that were there that day That then will corroborate the final hours of blackbeard's life that end up being some of the most exciting pirate action possible Well blackbeard began by yelling quote damn you for villains. Who are you and from whence do you come? Into that captain maynard cheekily replied that no matter what they were they obviously were not pirates So no we obviously are pirates

So blackbeard bid captain maynard to come aboard his ship so that he might see who he was In response captain maynard said I cannot spare my boat But I will come aboard you as soon as I can with my sloop After that there was no going back From what captain maynard remembered blackbeard quote drink damnation to me and my own man Whom he'd still decowardly puppies saying he would neither give nor take quarter Oh my god, I'm gonna strangle this man It soon became obvious that this was going to be a battle to the death

And just as captain maynard was preparing his men for the fight to come Okay, put on your sassers and everybody's a tea and come on. Let's go. I wasn't really hungry Blackbeard opened fire with grapeshot filled with nails and old pieces of iron killing six british sailors Instantly and wounding ten on captain maynard ship the jain A third of maynard's forces were gone a commander had been killed And it seemed as if just one more attack would have made blackbeard the victor But at that moment blackbeard's plan of sailing towards his home base backfired The plan was successful in part in that it had caused the other royal ship the ranger to run aground

But in the heat of battle either a navigational error or the sheer recoil force of blackbeard's guns Caused the adventure to run aground as well. No That shit, but think about that man is that you could fire so many guns it moves your fucking boat You're on your boat. It's all moving and that's where one of the things where I was looking at the pirates handbook Where the that that was a constant problem too is that your attack would cause your attack base to move That's why you got to get a bunch of guys eating beans offset the guns part on the other end So the jane third of its crew is gone They're trying to figure out what's happening on deck over there and the ranger is you know, it's not shipwrecked

It's just run aground. Okay So both the ranger and the adventure are trying to get back on the water like they're throwing shit off the boat They're trying to raise their ship back up against so they can get in the deeper waters They're trying to race out so they can get back to the fight the adventure made it first So it set its sights back on the jane because it figured hey, that's where the captain is We can go finish this now. We can get take care of the jane and we can get the fuck out of here And blackbeard figured hey grape shots taking care of them Let's go do it. Let's hit him

But he soon discovered that Maynard was far more clever than he appeared. Yes, my mother and father were bothered and sister I am a new man. Oh, isn't that nice Maynard had kept the majority of his crew below deck This is a very adjunct court type of strategy. He was hoping to draw the pirates on board his ship Oh So blackbeard took the bait he'd sailed over to the jane threw a bunch of granados onto the deck And then yelled quote They're all knocked on the head except three or four and therefore let's jump on board And cut them to pieces sounds like a great idea boss

And after thrown across their grappling hooks blackbeard and ten other pirates swung themselves over thinking they're in for an easy fight But they were met with captain Maynard calling his full armed force from below deck and were instantly outnumbered Let's let's go boys. Dun dun dun Now as we Now as we said blackbeard was basically a walking armory at all times And while his men immediately started using cutlasses hatchets knives and clubs Blackbeard drew pistol after pistol and fired at the british before throwing each one away But in the chaos blackbeard was shot himself

By one of his own men And that had to hurt man those things hit those old bullets hit you and flatten like Oh, that was his first wound But he kept fighting After the guns were empty blackbeard drew his cutlass and crossed swords with maynard captain to captain This is where movies come from is the testimony of from this ship. It's literally every pirate movie you've ever seen is based on this day Maynard made the first thrust but hit blackbeard's cartridge box and it bent maynard swords That's awesome blackbeard counterattacked and maynard fell to the deck

He then grabbed his pistol and fired and hit blackbeard. Yes, but blackbeard kept coming So maynard drew another pistol and hit blackbeard again who kept coming. It's really starting to hurt. Yeah Would imagine a little rast mutant. Yeah But at the same time the british crew was slowly but surely driving back blackbeard's pirates because the pirates were greatly outnumbered And once one of maynard's men saw the blackbeard was advancing upon captain maynard Just as blackbeard was raising his cutlass The other sailor swung the sword and buried it in blackbeard's neck. Oh, yes It's just a flash wound

But even still blackbeard did not go down and swung his sword wildly while blood sprayed out of his neck wound And after shooting him again after which he still did not go down Maynard decided to end it himself He raised his sword Took a swing and finished the job. His man had started blackbeard's head fell to the deck and rolled away Leaving the surviving pirates without a captain. I'll be back It also makes them all go into fucking disarray because the dude that's supposed to tell them everything that they do was because like What we've learned about pirates the fight goes out of them and what we also know about pirates is that

They technically hold elections and vote for every single action the ship takes But the captain actually has full total control only when they are in battle Yeah, so that's when soon as he's gone, and then it's all like oh fuck. Yeah, what do we do? I mean, it was just like when we got Saddam and the whole war ended I remember that only three days. Yeah three days so easy by the end of it 10 pirates including blackbeard were killed during the battle and 10 of Maynard's crew was killed as well As far as black Caesar went we know that he tried igniting the gunpowder stores on the adventure in a last-ditch suicide attack But he was stopped at the last second straight up red dead redemption. Wow. He was arrested

But there are no records as to whether he was hanged with the rest of the pirates Or if he was sold into slavery like most black pirates and he was of such a He was at a certain level because he was with blackbeard that I actually wonder If he he might have gotten away. He might have because no no he definitely went on or he died that day No, he went on trial. He was definitely okay, then we don't know if he went on trial We definitely know he was arrested though. We just don't know what happened after he was arrested Concerning the fate of blackbeard's head though It was kept as proof of victory and as a final humiliation

Captain Maynard hung it from the front of his ship off the bow sprit as a warning to other pirates And as a trophy for a battle one think of that there's this fucking British warship and that you know that big piece of wood that comes off of the front Blackbeard's head is swinging from it. I got a good picture of it. That is so cool That's fucking like I was watching this. Oh, it's fucking sweet. Yeah, it's unknown what happened to the head ultimately But some reports claim that Maynard handed it over to Virginian authorities who hung it from a pole on Hampton road for some years after Others say that blackbeard's skull was incorporated into the bottom of a silver punch bowl

Yeah, which oddly enough was called the punch bowl was called the infant, but I don't know why If you guys start naming anything the infant It's time for punch and cookies a little too british for me a little jimmy savilish. I bet you at the jimmy buffett's house Oh, don't even bring my Buffet into it music might be horrible. No, this margaritaville is our great. He's the closest we have to a pirate Uh, I don't know about that. Yeah, that's true. I think the closest we have to a pirate are Pirates who still exist. I'm the captain. Yeah, I'm the captain now. Yeah. Well, he has parrot heads or his audience Yeah, yeah

But no matter where his skull ended up the fact remains that blackbeard will most likely remain the most infamous pirate in history Not because he was so cruel or violent, but because he was just so goddamn good at being larger than life Man, I absolutely love this story. It was awesome again The reason why I find blackbeard specifically so fascinating is that like Rasputin like certainly certain people in history He had a long view. Yeah, he really wanted to be written about and he wanted this he wanted people to view him as something special and and There's some about that like people who like can stand stand the test of time and all the shit turned out to be real Mm-hmm, you know

Rasputin absolutely 1718 to 2022 people are still talking about this man blackbeard. Yeah, man That's incredible. Well, what a great story guys. That was fascinating It was good times to be on the high seas But not actually on the high seas because the last time I went on a fishing boat in new york My face swelled up because I was allergic to a fish and I got seasick. Wow So this is better than that. We would die. Yeah anytime before 1965 Yeah, we'd all be dead

Which which fit was it the fish that you were allergic to or the mercury that was in the fish something I was allergic to my face puffed up. I was with my girlfriend at the time. I looked like jason vorhees Do you think there's anything wrong with my face? But anyway, well, thank you all so much for listening Um, let's see. We want to talk about we got last comic book on the left that it's coming out very soon Uh, you guys we I know that the books just arrived. Yeah, warehouse. So people start getting here soon I want to say thank you so much for everybody that it's like we were going to do a show here at beacon Marcus got the fucking long covet. Yeah, I'm not I'm not infectious. I

That's about it just got it we are taking our home seriously Yeah, yeah, I just can't um, I can do a podcast with you know, all that but I just can't perform for three hours I want to say thank you to all we honestly got so many nice notes and shit. Thank you very much for all your support I've ever been fucking awesome. Uh, you guys are obviously we have truly the best listeners in the world You guys are so sweet and thanks for listening to all the shows and then we will see you all in Nashville Oh, yeah, I mean, so yeah June 18th. We got the fucking big old jamboree. That's gonna be really fun Everybody is gonna fucking be there. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Um, and Yeah, is that it? That's about it. Yeah, I think so

I'm gonna take care of myself and just get back to it. We're gonna get you back up in there I'm gonna punch you pumpy full hgh like slide slow. That would be fun. That's next that'd be fun Honestly, please And you all take care of yourselves out there be safe and be nice to each other kind Because it's a brutal time out there. It is. Uh, all right, everyone hail yourselves. Hail Satan. Helgeen Hail me I forgot to put my shirt back on though. I know the whole show I forgot that you it wasn't until the end of the show that you know, I just you really got distracted again

It's so much hair. It's a lot of hair. It's the hair. It's not the rest that distract me. It's the hair You see this. Yeah, it's the shoulder hair that is sticks out to the side. Am I supposed to do something about that? You're looking like Stephen King when he turned into a plant. Yeah But it's hair. It's a crypt. Yeah Or creep show creep show. Yeah, we'll look into it. This show is made possible by listeners like you Thanks to our ad sponsors You can support our shows by supporting them for more shows like the one you just listened to go to last podcast network.com