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181 Bradley Williamson of Treasure Expeditions
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - March 12, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Bradley Williamson is the CEO of Treasure Expeditions and we dig into his parallel interests in treasure hunting and genetic engineering. In this episode: Great stories about Mel Fisher, Carl...
180 Capt James Hawk of the Krewe of the Scarlett Fortuna
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - March 05, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Capt James Hawk runs the Krewe of the Scarlett Fortuna, a nonprofit organization to promote reading among children. In this episode: Why reading is his pet cause The advice him mom gave him...
179 Jess Dobie of Switch Sails and Jenai Marek
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - February 26, 2019 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Jess Dobie is co-owner of Switch Sails in Brisbane, Australia. They specialize in sails for yachts and racing ships. They've also made sails for some of your favorite pirate films. We'll find o...
178 Marc Paquien - Treasure Island Board Game Creator
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - February 19, 2019 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Marc Paquien is the creator of the board game "Treasure Island". In the game, one player "hides" the treasure and the other players ask questions and make calculations to find it. Beyond that ...
177 Moonsun Kim of Whispers in the Wind
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - February 12, 2019 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Moonsun Kim is the creator of the pirate web comic "Whispers in the Wind". We travel to the outskirts of Paris to talk with Moonsun about her early art training, how she became obsessed with the...
176 Daniel Bjorkbacka aka Joe Blackheart of Pat Razket
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - February 05, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Daniel Bjorkbacka aka Joe Blackheart is the founder and banjo player of Sweden's Pat Razket. We dig into the band's background as a party and wedding band, the idea to become pirates, and th...
175 Ray Arnoult of Pirate Guitar Effects
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - January 29, 2019 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsComments or Questions? Email me at [email protected] or join us on Facebook or Twitter. Ray Arnoult is the owner of Pirate Guitar Effects out of New Orleans/Wichita. Guitars AND pirates? Yeah! We talk about growing up in New Orleans and how that affects a child's musical experien...
174 Dave Everitt of Red Rum
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - January 22, 2019 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThrow up the horns! Time for some UK pirate metal with Dave Everitt of Red Rum. We dig into the band's beginnings and how they settled on being pirates instead of Vikings. Plus Dave's early childhood in South Africa and his early singing experiences in classical music. Under The Crossbon...
173 Lydelle Joubert of StableSeas.org
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - January 15, 2019 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsLydelle Joubert is from StableSeas.org, an organization that researches and tracks modern piracy around the world. They act as an information resource for the maritime industry and create programs to combat piracy. We'll find out the difference between piracy, terrorism, and robbery. And we'l...
172 Erik Andersson of Stormfrun
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - January 08, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis week we trek out to Sweden to talk to Erik Andersson of Stormfrun about spreading pirate fandom in their home country, the decisions about which language to sing in, the Swedish Pirate Armada and more! Plus, I learn how to pronounce Stormfrun and then proceed to mispronounce it all over t...
171 Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate (1926)
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - January 01, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHappy 2019! For this first episode of the year I thought I'd try a little experimental episode. We're going to take a deep dive into 1926's The Black Pirate starring Douglas Fairbanks. It's a great movie all by itself. But digging into the film's background of breakthrough Technicolor use, ...
Dec 2018 Special with Anne Chambers on Grace O'Malley
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - December 25, 2018 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHappy end of 2018! We made it through and I hope you're taking some time to relax and appreciate the people around you. I super appreciate you supporting the show all this year. To celebrate the end of the year, this is a replay of 2018's most popular episode with Anne Chambers telling us al...
170 Michael Melzer author of The Patriot Pirate
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - December 18, 2018 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsCalifornia has one good pirate story, that of Hipolito Bouchard. And Michael Melzer is here to ruin that for us. Just kidding! His book "The Patriot Pirate" makes the case that Bouchard was a privateer more than pirate and was in it for the revolution more than the booty. This is a really f...
169 Jasper Rouwhorst creator of Crooked Waters
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - December 11, 2018 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsJasper Rouwhorst is one third of Craft Game Studio where he and his two partners have created Crooked Waters, a virtual reality pirate video game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. We dig into the challenges of designing for virtual reality including dealing with motion sickness and how to keep to ...
168 Charles Dean Beeker - Underwater Archaeologist and Shipwreck Conservationist
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - December 04, 2018 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsCharles Dean Beeker's official title is the Director of the Center of Underwater Science at the University of Indiana - Bloomington. But that word salad doesn't even begin to tell you about his real passion. Unlike other underwater archaeologists we've talked to, Charle's wants to leave the...
167 Hurricane Robb and Krimson Kat of Pyrates of the Coast
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - November 27, 2018 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHurricane Robb and Krimson Kat of Pyrates of the Coast are on the show today! We'll get some insight into the long long history of pirate fandom in the Seattle area and how they came to form their own crew. There's also some great stuff about running a pirate crew as a business vs a voluntee...
166 Eric Jay Dolin author of Black Flags Blue Waters
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - November 20, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsFor Thanksgiving week here in the US, we've got a great talk about how American pirates affected the course of US history with Eric Jay Dolin, author of "Black Flags, Blue Waters". Some fascinating stuff here about American pirates taking down Muslim ships well before the Barbary wars and the ...
165 PJ Dolan of Secret Spot Escape Rooms
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - November 13, 2018 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsPJ Dolan is the owner and designer of Secret Spot Escape Rooms in San Diego, CA. This pirate-themed escape room sounds like a must-visit if you're headed that way. We dig into how he learned the chops of designing escape rooms and other themed attractions even though he had no previous experi...
164 Ferdinando Menezes and Gareth Noble of Pirate's Grog Rum
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - November 06, 2018 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsGareth Noble and Ferdinando Menezes run Pirate's Grog Rum. We'll find out how they got the deal to distribute a small rum company from Roatan and how they're making it bigger than ever. Always interesting to hear the methods behind a company's personal rum, even for teetotalers like me. :) ...
163 Shawn Cowles of Treasure Quest and Mike and Dan of Swashbuckler's Ball
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - October 30, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsShawn Cowles is a long time treasure hunter who started with Mel Fisher's organization diving the Atocha. Since then he's branched off on his own including hosting the Discover Channel show Treasure Quest. We'll dig into Shawn's origin story, find out the harrowing tale of one particular dive...
162 Captain Alex Piccolo of Pirate Theater
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - October 23, 2018 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsCaptain Alex Piccolo is the host of Pirate Theater, a new YouTube series for people who want to bone up on their pirate stuff. We'll dig into Alex's background with theater, film, Ren Faires, and Rocky Horror. And we'll talk about what happens when he lays out a fact that turns out to be wron...
161 Michael Scott Moore author of The Desert and The Sea
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - October 16, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsMichael Scott Moore was held captive by Somali pirates for 977. His new book, The Desert and The Sea, tells the story of what that was like. In our talk we dig into what he did to keep his mental state stable through the ordeal, what it was like coming back, and what the aftermath of that typ...
160 Joshua London, author of Victory In Tripoli
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - October 09, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWe're headed for North Africa this week to talk Barbary Pirates with Joshua London, author of Victory In Tripoli. He'll take us through the basic timeline of these events that happened soon after the American Revolution and how the Barbary pirates forced America's hand into creating a navy. ...
159 Jess Seevers of Bluefoot Pirate Adventures
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - October 02, 2018 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsJess Seevers is the Jill-of-all-trades at Bluefoot Pirate Adventures where they take families out on the waters of Florida and show them a piratey good time. But what happens when the weather turns nasty? We'll find out. And Jess takes us into her previous career for some fun stories. Ever ...
158 Clay 'Talderoy' Clement
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - September 18, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsClay 'Talderoy' Clement is that pirate that all the west coast pirates know, even if they're not sure they've ever met him. The Pirates Charles even wrote a song about him. He's also the owner of Studio City Tattoo, a pirate themed tattoo shop in Hollywood, and one of the organizers of Pirate ...
157 Daniel "Rover" Singer of Quartmaster and SR Staley
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - September 11, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDaniel "Rover" Singer is one of the leaders of pirate vocal group Quartermaster. He's also a former Disney Imagineer and current playwright and Lewis Carroll buff. We dig into all that and more in this wide ranging discussion of his laundry list of careers most of us only dream of. Yep, even...
156 Christy Alan of Tybee Island Pirate Festival
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - September 04, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsChristy Alan is the Entertainment Director (and then some) for the Tybee Island Pirate Festival on Tybee Island, GA. We dig into what's happening at this year's fest Oct 4-7, 2018. And we'll find out about Christy's performance background and how she got involved with the festival. And th...
155 Shanna Lovette of Tea and Strumpets
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - August 28, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsShanna Lovette is the leader and songwriter of Tea and Strumpets. They're a relatively new group, but rising fast on the Pirate and Ren Faire scenes. Somewhere between vocal group and musical theater, they've got a load of great original bawdy songs and choreography. We dig into why Shanna g...
154 Robert Kurson and Rich Manic
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - August 21, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsI'm so excited to bring you this show today! Robert Kurson is the author of "Pirate Hunters" a great book about John Chatterton and John Mattera finding a real pirate ship wreck - The Golden Fleece. His latest book, "Rocket Men" is about the Apollo 8 mission, NASA's first manned space flight to...
153 Bruce Ellis of Pirates of the Pacific Festival
Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast - August 14, 2018 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsBruce Ellis aka Captain Curry and his partner Mike Moran aka Captain Squishee are the motor behind the Pirates of the Pacific Festival in Brookings, OR. Bruce is on the show today to tell us all about the festival and how it came to be. Plus his adventures around the US, his experience runni...
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