Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Herodat Watnow, the History Podcast.

That's not your history class, with me, your host, Katie Charlewood, History Harlet, and reader of books.

So, I would like to preemptively apologize if at any point over the next few episodes you hear my laptop because it's

fucking noisy. It sounds like an airplane taking off. It is absolutely ridiculous. I have done everything. It's the fans.

It's a 10-year-old laptop. I've got to give up the ghost now. I've done the pressure air thing.

I've done the taking the back off and scrubbing it thing. There's not much else I can do.

I now need to replace the laptop. But of course, those are expensive,

so I am saving up, so you're going to have to bear with me for a few more episodes.

I mean, like, I did try and get a replacement laptop a few years ago. At the suggestion

of someone who allegedly knew what they were talking about.

Spoiler alert, they did not. And it was absolute bollocks. It just couldn't do anything, anything at

all. Like, I had episodes that I would be in the middle of the recording, and it would just shut down.

I would lose the audio file forever.

And I cried so much.

It caused me such issues.

But speaking of daylight robbery, we're doing a month on pirates.

This is pirate month.

And you may be thinking, why December of all times?

Listen, I wanted to talk about something that wasn't incredibly depressing, she says,

who's going to talk about just horrible things for the next few episodes. But like pirates,

you can kind of have a little bit of fun with piracy. I mean, anyone who had Napster or limewire knows.

What kind of pirate are you?

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