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Commodore class. That's Commodore's Mananan, Kinway, Tves, Two-gun Tony, Drunken-Dac, Redbeard, The Pirate Nopales,

Hefei, Matthew the Navigator, Bull, Vertagon, Jennings, Rum Gut, and Bootstraps Bailey.

And I'm pleased to welcome our two newest Commodores, Eric and Fell. The Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening.

I have a piece of advice for all of you. It's advice that I only follow sporadically at best, but it's good advice

nonetheless. We should all keep a journal or a diary. We should take the time to find a few minutes every day to sit down and

hand write your experiences. Keeping a journal is kind of meditative. It makes you pause and reflect.

And it also forces you to examine how you spend your time when you have to physically write down that you sat on the couch and played video

games for eight hours, you might change up your routine. Not that I've ever done that.

And who knows? One day, far in the future, someone might just find something in your journals

valuable enough to do a podcast about them.

I am eternally grateful to all of those pirates who wrote down their experiences.

William Dampier and Basil Ringroads, Alexander Exquimalin,

simultaneously though I'm frustrated at the scarce nature of those primary sources when talking about pirates.

It could be worse, I mean we could be dealing with medieval history and thank God we aren't, but pirates are generally not well known to be literate and forward thinking.

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