Ahoy! And welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. Are all you mateys ready to get curious with us this week?

If you stick around with us for just a few minutes, there are enough interesting facts in this episode to fill up a treasure chest.

All right, Scaliwag,

Olivia. Let's get things started. I-I-I, Captain. Double mail bag. Double mail bag.

Hi, my name is Connor. I am five years old and I live in Arkansas. I love listening to Curious Kid Podcast because I love to learn. We mostly listen in the car when we are going on trips to visit family. My favorite episodes are the ones on Bigfoot and aliens. I was wondering if you could do a podcast on pirates. I'm curious about pirates because I love playing with pirates. I have lots of pirate Legos. Thanks so much for reading my email from

Connor of Arkansas. Hi, my name is Paul. I am eight years old and I'm from Washington, D.C. I was wondering if you could do a podcast on at least one of these things. Hunters, the Great Depression, pirates, or how you make baskets. I really like the podcast. I think my favorite episode was the one about rats from Paul of Washington, D.C.

Well, shiver me timbers. Those are great messages we got from listeners by email and on Instagram.

We are going to learn all about pirates this week for Buck O'Connor and Buck O'Powall.

There is a lot to learn about pirates, and there may even be some things we think we know about pirates that aren't really true.

In a few minutes, we are going to learn about a lot of the things that come to mind when we think about pirates that aren't really

true. We did something similar in episode 59, curious about Thanksgiving, that came out

almost three years ago. In that episode, we learned so much about the holiday, and we even discovered

that there are some things we think about Thanksgiving, like the fact

that Turkey was part of the first Thanksgiving meal, that probably aren't true. Let's get our

pirate learning started with our question of the week. The question of the week is, why did lots of

pirates wear an eye patch?

I'll give you a hint. It's not because they were all missing an eye.

The eye patch is part of the outfit people imagine when they think of pirates.

I always figured, like many other people, that the eye patch covered up an eye that was damaged

or even missing because the pirate was

injured in battle. It turns out that the eye patch serves another purpose that I wasn't even

aware of until we started doing research for this episode. Can you guess why lots of pirates

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