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Who Did What Now

171. Captain Morgan - Pirate, Knight & Politician - Part II

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Welcome to the second half of the tale of the infamous Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, the Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccaneering Era in the Golden Age of Piracy, many tales and pirate adventures are based on the excursions by this fella from Wales. So during this piracy month, Henry Morgan, the King of Buccaneers...


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Hood and What Now, the history podcast that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and reader of books.

0:26.2

And this is part two, of two, the second half,

0:34.4

if you will, of the tale of Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum. Right. Speaking of the rum, I was told this week that it's technically not rum.

0:38.4

It's actually more like a bourbon because it's made with like mash or whatever.

0:42.7

I have to look that up because I didn't have time.

0:46.8

So I am going to look up this whole thing because I was like, is it not rum?

0:51.0

But like I used to do a joke actually about Captain Captain Morgan about Captain Jack Sparrow being like drinking it

0:58.2

and then catching so he's like like he catches the bottle brings it down jakes won the good at

1:05.6

with an outstretched arm and goes Captain Morgan I don't like the competition and then smashes it on the ground but yes to everyone

1:16.6

to everyone who was kind enough to contact me and let me know that there is a town called jamaica and

1:23.7

new york and that's where the sorting office, and that my post wasn't going to the

1:29.6

country of Jamaica. Thank you, thank you. Geography, clearly not my strong point. Nobody's coming

1:38.2

to me for geographic questions, right? Strangely good orientering, though, I can follow a map. Like, it's just

1:46.9

instructions, though, in it? Like, you're just following instructions on a map, really. This is a

1:51.9

river, this is a road. If you need, you know, you just recognize places and follow it,

1:57.2

like an IKEA, a instruction manual. Like, if you ever need anyone to help you build IKEA furniture, I know a gal.

2:04.6

It's me. I'm your gal.

2:06.6

If you're thinking, geez, this episode came out a way a bit early.

2:10.6

Yes, it did. There is nothing I hate more.

2:12.6

Well, no, there's many things I hate more.

2:14.6

Like, bigotry.

2:16.6

But I generally quite dislike having to wait for a part two of anything

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