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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha and about some stuff

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Speaker 1: I never told you production by Heart Radio, and today

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Speaker 1: we are bringing back a classic on pirates, women and

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Speaker 1: Pirates because it's Woman's History Month and we were trying

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Speaker 1: to find some good history episodes. We actually Kristen and

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Speaker 1: Caroline did do a similar episode and way back past

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Speaker 1: host Kristen and Caroline and then Bridget and I did

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Speaker 1: one related so this is a popular topic.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and then friend of show Holly, yeah, we

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Speaker 2: did crimin Elia that that was a part of their book.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so yeah, and it is fascinating, it really is.

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Speaker 3: So please enjoy this classic episode.

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and all good with

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Speaker 1: stuff I've never told you.

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Speaker 3: Production of iHeartRadio are madies?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I said the G A Janny and are you

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Speaker 3: So Samantha and I have a beefy.

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Speaker 3: It ruined joke.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's like, well, today is not the day for this one,

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Speaker 4: But yes, I did put it in there, so hot there.

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Speaker 2: But if you've been listening to some of our recent

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Speaker 2: episodes that you know we've been a little over excited

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Speaker 2: about all of the badass where you have some of

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Speaker 2: the most notorious women in history, whether they're change makers, soldiers, spies, assassins,

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Speaker 2: or just all together badass women, and we've decided we

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Speaker 2: need to expand that to women pirates of history. Yes,

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Speaker 2: so I do have a question for you, Annie, Oh,

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Speaker 2: pirate related question, yes, because pirates have been pretty romanticized

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Speaker 2: in general. Do you have or either a fond memory

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Speaker 2: of a pirate character or one that you love or

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Speaker 2: have watched recently.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, this is actually kind of embarrassing, but I

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Speaker 1: suppose I'll admit it. So I was in high school

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Speaker 1: when Pirates of the Caribbean came out, and this was

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Speaker 1: the height of my emo face, which, as many of

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Speaker 1: you might know, involved Guideliner of course, and Johnny Depp

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Speaker 1: or very epic Guideliner in that movie. So I was

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Speaker 1: Will Turner Orlando Bloom's character. But the reason this is

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Speaker 1: so obviously for reasons now in our what's going on

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Speaker 1: with him modernly, but also at the time, I was

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Speaker 1: I can't remember why, but I had to write this

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Speaker 3: It's just because I had a crush on him.

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Speaker 4: Well, to be fair, you're not the only one.

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Speaker 2: Johnny Depp took the hearts of many, especially like my

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Speaker 2: generation when we saw him and What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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Speaker 2: Big Thing, Try Baby was one of my favorite movies.

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Speaker 4: So no shame, no shame in that.

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Speaker 2: But yes, of course there's a lot of things asterisk

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Speaker 2: to his name today, but we will imagine that every time.

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Speaker 4: I think of Pirates.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this has everything to do with the fact that

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Speaker 4: Is the stupid veggie tails.

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Speaker 2: The veggie the Pirates song, I'm the pirate that doesn't

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Speaker 4: I am a pirate? Did that do anything?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Everybody remember that in their head. I'm absolutely don't.

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Speaker 1: But I you know, I've seen still images of vet

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Speaker 2: So I worked at a church, local church that had

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Speaker 1: I think there's been a recent I know Margot Robbie's

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Speaker 1: And obviously, as we're talking about this, listeners, you're probably

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Speaker 2: I told you about the Gina Davis movie with Matthew Modine. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, you go back to it.

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Speaker 2: But I remember Cutthroat Island specifically because she was the

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Speaker 4: About did have their own movies, but we just I

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Speaker 3: Right, didn't become the cultural touchdown.

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Speaker 1: I bet that some of these were going to talk

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Speaker 1: Okay, So before we get into specific women, let's talk

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Speaker 3: A brief history, A very brief Yes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the Pirting World is much like most of our

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Speaker 4: Or the small things we know about them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's do a definition because we love definitions

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Speaker 4: Very nice little definition. Also record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I had a specific thing because I wanted

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Speaker 2: and according to the Egyptian records, it was when the

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Speaker 2: Lukon pirates raided Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: Of course, some of the most notable tales come from

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Speaker 1: The Golden Age was dated to be around the seventeenth

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Speaker 1: and early eighteenth centuries. There were thousands of pirates roaming

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Speaker 1: William Kidd, were roaming the sea during this period as well.

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Speaker 2: Right, But we're not talking about them, of course not.

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Speaker 2: We are talking about the famed women of the sea.

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Speaker 2: And the list was bigger than I thought, so we

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Speaker 4: So let's get started.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with Sayita Alhara. Her name translated to

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Speaker 1: lady who was free and independent. I like that. Saita

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Speaker 1: it was said she would not travel to him to

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Speaker 1: Of course, this leads up to her being the last

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Speaker 2: Right and as we have another queen for our famous pirate,

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Speaker 2: Queen Tetua of Illyria, who was one of the earliest

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Speaker 4: From the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 2: She was known for her fierce stance against any and

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Speaker 2: her reign, her pirates dominated the Adriatic Sea, quote terrorizing

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Speaker 2: Tetua was eventually forced to surrender. Of course, again, not

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Speaker 2: like tragic. A Roman tragedy, right, tragedy. It's like a

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Speaker 1: queen or perhaps chieftain, but this time from Ireland. Grace

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Speaker 1: O'Malley or I'm going to attempt Gaelic name here, Gronya

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Speaker 1: ni moya I hope I got something.

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Speaker 3: Close to what it is.

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Speaker 1: She was born in County Mayo around fifteen thirty to

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Speaker 1: the elected Chieftain Dudara O'Malley of Umhall Kingdom. She had

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Speaker 1: her pirrating career. Just imagining that conversation with your parents,

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Speaker 1: like what do you do?

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Speaker 3: Pirate?

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Speaker 4: I'm proud?

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Speaker 3: IM sure? Yeah, I bet.

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Speaker 1: She was a fierce pirate and was not hesitant in

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Speaker 1: getting revenge and vengeance against her enemies. That also sounds

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Speaker 1: like a common theme throughout these stories. And even immediately

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Speaker 1: after giving birth to her son Tibbot. She rallied her

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Speaker 1: She was also named O'Malley, the Chieftain of Mayo. She

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Speaker 1: and her legacy is still told. Obviously, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: Yes, And then we wanted to move on to Rachel Wall,

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Speaker 2: who is an American and not so much royalty, but

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Speaker 4: Other ships and rob it.

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Speaker 2: Overall, they are said to have robbed at least twelve

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Speaker 4: Oh they were pretty fierce.

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Speaker 2: However, that following year, George drowned in a storm and

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Speaker 2: well as she would get repeatedly arrested for theft. Eventually,

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Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, she stole a woman's bonnet. That's how they

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to one of the best nicknamed pirates,

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Speaker 1: Back from the Dead Red.

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Speaker 3: She's excellent.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I love it excellent.

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Speaker 1: Also known as Jaccatte du laing Dulaia was born in

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Speaker 1: At twenty six, she and her crew took over a

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Speaker 1: This is one of those entries who some argue that

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Speaker 1: But there are those who argue she had a child

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Speaker 1: who also became a pirate and a fear swordsman. You

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Speaker 1: know mystery's history. As I like to say, yes, the

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Speaker 4: I love the nickname so much.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty much why she's here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 3: We we had to.

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Speaker 1: We do have a few more for you listeners, but

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Speaker 1: first we have one more quick break forward from our sponsor,

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Speaker 1: and we're back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sponsor, and we're back with our next pirate, Qingshi,

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Speaker 2: and a quick shout out to listener Kelly who brought

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Speaker 2: the poem written about her, which by they we're going

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Speaker 2: to do a little read for you. So ching Shi

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Speaker 2: was originally known with Shi Zengu, who married a notorious

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Speaker 2: made up of three hundred chips and head up to

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Speaker 2: possibly forty thousand men. Now, she Changshi, was a prostitute

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Speaker 2: in a brothel in Canton, where she met E and

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Speaker 2: and they continued their reign of power, growing the fleet

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Speaker 2: her control. She definitely made sure that they followed her

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Speaker 2: So apparently she had a pretty intensive list of things

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Speaker 4: And they sure did.

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Speaker 2: And she was so powerful she became a huge problem

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Speaker 2: she could surrender but would only kneel in reference to

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna kneel for this.

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Speaker 2: I'll kneel out of respect because you're going to marry

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Speaker 2: her dead husband, Ching Powell. So she then was able

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Speaker 2: nine in our sleep. But because she was the reason

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Speaker 2: we wanted to do a dramatic reading of a poem

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Speaker 2: that was actually the reference from our listener, Kelly, thank You,

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Speaker 2: which is The Fragrant Maiden is China's Must Wanted, which

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Speaker 2: was written in twenty eighteen by Kay Ming Chang.

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Speaker 4: So if they ever hear this, I'm so sorry if

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Speaker 4: we butchered it, do our best.

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Speaker 2: So fragrant maiden is China's must wanted, this country's least

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Speaker 2: wanted girls and ghost gods. I wasn't born cannonbald out

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Speaker 2: my country, my sore, my loyal leash.

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Speaker 1: You aren't the first to say you want me on

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Speaker 1: I've got to have you. Have you like a river.

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Speaker 1: I have no memory of being named. I flood anonymous,

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Speaker 1: I rinse canton like my rice. Bulb that I am.

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Speaker 1: I bark into a tree.

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Speaker 2: You can't a country wants me like a man wants

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Speaker 2: sprays a meadow with milk, gross heads of cabbage clients.

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Speaker 2: Brothel mothers beat me with brooms, whip me with my

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Speaker 1: I belt a sea song. I sacked my body to

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Speaker 1: steal it back. Listen to my masked moan as it

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Speaker 1: makes a wind to marry I sail home to you, China.

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Speaker 1: Hear the short shark with teeth and eat you out

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Speaker 1: to sea. I stroke my sword, I fingercomb your beach clean.

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Speaker 1: I split like the sea.

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Speaker 2: I'm room enough for every man to drown inside me

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Speaker 2: to China. Say you want me, I'll come with a

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Speaker 2: fleet to follow you. Oh oh, yes, I'm coming. I'm coming.

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Speaker 2: I'm coming for you. So good, so good. And I

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Speaker 2: really hope we did that justice because it was a

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Speaker 2: beautiful poem. Yes, and reading it is a little more difficult.

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Speaker 1: Yes, It's been a long time since I've dipped into

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's an excellent, excellent poem. We did want

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Speaker 1: to include some honorable mentions for Anne Bonnie and Mary Reid.

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Speaker 1: Any of you who are familiar with the world of

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Speaker 3: Like, why didn't they talk about them?

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Speaker 1: It's because Bridget and I did an episode a while

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Speaker 1: back on women who dressed as men to get what

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Speaker 1: Virgitte and I asked like, who should play them in

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Speaker 1: an HBO adaption? And I still will randomly get tweets

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Speaker 1: about who, and Tessa Thompson is almost always one of them,

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Speaker 1: so yes, you can check out that episod for more.

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Speaker 1: But certainly they had fascinating histories. Also, Sadie the Goat,

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Speaker 1: who was an American pirate in the nineteenth century. Sadie

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Speaker 1: Ferrell got her nickname for her infamous style of mugging

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Speaker 1: headbutting them in the stomach like a goat. She and

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Speaker 2: Right, and just to go back to an Bonnie and

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Speaker 2: Mary Reid, although if you'll go back to listen, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're both part of the Calico Jack's crew and they

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Speaker 2: were known for their impressive fighting skills, out doing some

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Speaker 4: So they're pretty good. And they also were not hanged

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Speaker 2: Of the crew were because they were able to say

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Speaker 4: Of escape that fate. Although Mary Reid I do believe.

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Speaker 2: Ended up dying in prison. Yeah, nonetheless, But yeah, so

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Speaker 1: We always got to right, we can never stop, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for sending us that poem and putting

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