Ep 253: Irish Pirates
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David Flora
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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| 0:16.0 | Drinking, looting, sailing, drinking, frightened, coralson, which is drinking and sexy times. |
| 0:38.0 | Now look, you may be thinking, hey, that sounds like a pirate of the Caribbean. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, no, yes, it is, but it's also a pirate of the Emerald Isle. |
| 0:50.0 | Sure, when you think of pirates, you might think of Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl. |
| 0:56.0 | Or perhaps Captain James Hook, bad form, Peter bad form. |
| 1:02.0 | Maybe Blackbeard's scourge of a Carolinas are the clean and transparent. |
| 1:09.0 | But they all have a certain flavor to them. |
| 1:13.0 | A little, is Jenna say British quality? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, what if I told you? |
| 1:21.0 | Britain can lay claim to some very famous pirates, but a real thorn in the side of King and Country came from those wildlings in the West. |
| 1:31.0 | The Irish. |
| 1:33.0 | Now don't tell me, it's surprising that Drinking, frightened, coralson, given the British hell, isn't a recipe for an Irish good time. |
| 1:43.0 | It's true that the Caribbean and North, the Nafra, because Barbary coasts get all the glory when it comes to pirate tales and swashbuckling stories. |
| 1:55.0 | But turns out old hibernia has its fair share of daring's due that tend to fly under the radar of conventional historical points of interest. |
| 2:06.0 | From lost ships that reappear years later, an early reminence of a pirate's code to badass ladies who tame the seas and would not even bow to the Queen of England herself. |
| 2:19.0 | The island of hair deserves to take its rightful place in the history as a proper, piratical port. |
| 2:28.0 | Grab the Jamison, like me, the Guinness, like me, and your stoutest chalet. |
| 2:36.0 | You're set in sale with Irish pirates and myths, the season 10 opener of glory photos. |
| 2:50.0 | Get to it! |
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