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Speaker 1: Everyone loves a good story, and since you're listening, chances

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Speaker 1: are you're also fond of pirates. From sailing the high

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Speaker 1: seas and buried treasure to swilling rum and singing shanties,

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Speaker 1: pirates have come to represent a lot about the human spirit.

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Speaker 1: Through the centuries, we've fallen in love with adventure, danger

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Speaker 1: and exploration. Honestly, we never tire of hearing about pirate life.

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Speaker 1: In Sweden, for example, there's a story that's been handed

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Speaker 1: down from generation to generation, and like other pirate tales

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Speaker 1: the world over, people love it so much they don't

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Speaker 1: care whether it's true or not. The story goes that

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Speaker 1: back in the fifth century, there was once a mighty

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Speaker 1: Scandinavian king with a lovely daughter, young Princess a Wilda's

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Speaker 1: beauty was such that her father, King Sanartis, locked her

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Speaker 1: to ensure that no ordinary man could easily scale the tow,

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Speaker 1: or he surrounded it with deadly snakes and traps. While

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Speaker 1: were also promised to men they'd never met. They dressed

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Speaker 1: Enamored with a Wilda and her crew, the men voted

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Speaker 1: her to be their new leader, knowing that her father

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Speaker 1: and her crew earned a fierce reputation raiding many merchant

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Speaker 1: ships on the Scandinavian seas, and like all pirates, they

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Speaker 1: soon had a bounty on their heads. The King of

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Speaker 1: Denmark placed his son alf in charge of the navy

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Speaker 1: quickly located them, and a great battle ensued. While his

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Speaker 1: The prince instantly recognized the princess and dropped to one

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Speaker 1: knee to propose, which she accepted. Of course, the battle

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Speaker 1: A message was sent to King Sanartis, who was also

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Speaker 1: And while our fictional introduction story is the stuff worthy

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Speaker 1: different sort of journey, a historical adventure into the most

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Speaker 1: legendary real life rogues of the seas. I'm Aaron Mackey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome two pirates. Piracy has been around for about

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Speaker 1: as long as there have been oceans to sail. But

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Speaker 1: not every pirate belonged to bands of renegades who pillaged

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Speaker 1: and plundered. Some had a softer title. Governments employed privateers,

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Speaker 1: men who raided and harassed ships belonging to a competing power.

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Speaker 1: And if you're thinking it's the same thing, it was.

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Speaker 1: Governments on the receiving end didn't differentiate between the two.

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Speaker 1: Piracy government sanctioned or otherwise remained an act of war.

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Speaker 1: And there was no more tumultuous time than the Golden

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Speaker 1: Age of piracy, which started in the late seventeenth century.

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Speaker 1: And the rise in piracy began with what might be

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of english men of his time, Henry

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Speaker 1: Eventually he moved working aboard the Charles the Second, a

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Speaker 1: Every took control as captain and set a course for

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Speaker 1: Every split the wealth equally among his men. Pirating, as

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Speaker 1: Henry Every is only one of a few pirates to

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Speaker 1: Edward Teach had come from a comfortable family, or so

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Speaker 1: in the British Navy. During the Queen Ann's War, the

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Speaker 1: Henry Jennings, Woods Rogers, and Charles Vane. But more on

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Speaker 1: the two acquired additional ships, one of which was entrusted

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Speaker 1: Edward Teach set out to perfect the art of piracy.

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Speaker 1: He grew his beard even longer, giving him a wilder appearance,

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Speaker 1: he kept not one, but three pistols. Now referred to

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Speaker 1: It said that he looked like the devil himself, and

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Speaker 1: the French slave ship the lack Concord appeared on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: The two fifty tons ship had a strong, oaken hull

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Speaker 1: marauding ways forever. The deal attempted to weaken or disband

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Speaker 1: The deal, coupled with Nassau's new governor, Woods Rogers, put

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Speaker 1: so the Queen Anne's revenge set out once more. It

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Speaker 1: this time one he shared with his trusted quartermaster, William Howard.

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Speaker 1: It was time to give up the pirate life, well

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Speaker 1: governor Charles Eden, Charismatic as always, they negotiated a deal,

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Speaker 1: orders to leave the ship and its valuables alone. When

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Speaker 1: the news reached England, the king declared Kid a pirate.

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Speaker 1: Once a servant of the Crown, now the king's naval

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Speaker 1: commanders were on the search for the adventure. Though the

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Speaker 1: Crown had begun to offer clemency to pirates, Kid learned

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Speaker 1: the offer didn't extend to him, so he abandoned the

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Speaker 1: hoping to find protection with Governor Belmont, who had financed

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Speaker 1: his privateering endeavors. Along the way, he stopped at Gardner's

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Speaker 1: Island to stash a small treasure, but not for the

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Speaker 1: stereotypical reasons. Kid was arrested in six He told Belmont

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Speaker 1: where he'd hidden the treasure, hoping to exchange it for

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Speaker 1: implicated as well. A year later, Kid was sent to

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Speaker 1: England and put on trial for piracy and murder. On

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Speaker 1: May eighth, sev one, the court sentenced him to hang.

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Speaker 1: After his death, they tarred his body, wrapped it in chains,

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Speaker 1: and placed the corpse in a steel cage, where it

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Speaker 1: remained on display for years. Throughout time. The worth of

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Speaker 1: his treasure and the location have changed. Whatever its value

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Speaker 1: and precise location was, will never know. Belmont dug up

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Speaker 1: the treasure and offered some or all of it to

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Speaker 1: the British courts to be used as evidence against William Kidd.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to legends, Sometimes the hunter became the hunted,

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Speaker 1: and the more we learn about Pirates, the more buried treasure.

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Speaker 1: Will find. Pirates was executive produced by Aaron Manky and

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Speaker 1: narrated by Aaron Manky and Alexandra Steid. Writing for this

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Speaker 1: season was provided by Michelle Mudo, with research by Alexandra

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Speaker 1: Steed and Sam Alberty. Production assistance was provided by Josh Than,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Funk, Alex Williams, and Matt Frederick. To learn more

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