Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast
Summary: Join comedian and pirate Nick Hoffman as he explores the history and pop culture of pirates. Deep dive interviews with the most interesting people in the pirate community who bring the history and stories to life. Actors, treasure hunters, musicians, historians, and more. From Blackbeard to Black Sails, Jack Sparrow to Jack Rackham... Under The Crossbones is loaded with colorful characters who will take you away from your day to day and drag you happily out to sea.
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Podcasts:
Richard Rasner aka Damashi D'Gascoigne is the head of Clan Darksail out of Southern California. We'll dig into the group's origins and the breadth of gigs they do from private parties to high end film work like "Master and Commander".
Samuel Marquis is a prolific historical fiction writer and the author of Blackbeard: The Birth of America. A great historical fiction novel about Blackbeard that really takes you into Blackbeard's head and onto the deck of the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Jordan Wiley is the author of "Citadel: The True Story of One Man’s War Against the Pirates of Somalia" and an expert in Maritime Security and Somali piracy.
Anne Chambers is the world's leading expert on Ireland's Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley.
Anthony Cummins aka Captain Tonz makes the claim that he's a real pirate. We'll unpack his definition of what a real pirate is versus what the rest of us might think.
Its a 2-fer today! Sophia Cancelli and Ces Erdman are from the Cape Fear Parrot Sanctuary. Pirates and parrots finally united!
A bit of an experimental episode this week when I asked on the UTC Facebook page "Any pirates in SLO?" and Randy Moore and Brandon Harrison of the Northstar Penguins leapt to the challenge. :)
Bill Furney is the author of Black Hearts White Bones, a fiction story about what might have happened to Anne Bonny and Mary Read after they "plead their bellies" at their trials for piracy.
Keith Martin is a librarian at the National Institute of Standards and Technology here in the U.S.A. And you're probably wondering what the heck that has to do with pirates.There's a great story in here about how pirates thwarted the early attempts and using the metric system in the US.
Jenai Marek is the author of The Dangerous Voyage of Gup the Sailor. Gup is a young boy from a Privateer family who finds himself on his own, commanding a crew, and wondering if he'll be pirate or privateer.
Arnon Shorr is the writer and director of a short film called The Pirate Captain Toledano. The first(?) film about Jewish pirates!
Ted Shred is the owner of Pirates For Hire and Double Dog Dare Events where he produces over-the-top events for any group that needs something crazy to happen to knock them out of real life.
Scarlett Dearheart is the owner of Dearheart's Doodads. She sells handmade clothing and accessories for discerning pirates, both lady and man. Even more than her own business, Scarlett is doing some great community building among pirates with the Tortuga Trading Consortium and A Pirate's Like For Me on Facebook.
Eric Nelson is the writer/director of the 2006 film "Pirates of the Great Salt Lake". He brought along Kirby Heyborne aka "Captain Kirk" to tell us the story of how their quirky little pirate film got made back when the whole Pirates of the Caribbean thing was heating up.
Marcus Rediker is the author of Villains of All Nations. It's a fascinating look at the golden age of piracy through the lens of pirates as freedom fighters.
