Episode 369: Captain Phillips and the Maersk Alabama Hijacking

Sinisterhood

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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You may recognize him from the famous line in his biopic - “I’m the captain now,” but there was more to this merchant mariner’s story than what Hollywood depicted. Failed sabotage attempts. Savage beatings. And a lot of chocolate Pop-Tarts. This week’s episode is Captain Phillips and the Maersk Alabama Hijacking.

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0:00.0	You may recognize him from the famous line in his biopic, I'm the Captain Now, but there was more to this merchant mariner's story than when Hollywood depicted.
0:08.1	Failed sabotage attempts, savage beatings, and a lot of chocolate pop-tarts.
0:12.4	This week's episode is Captain Phillips and the Mariske Alabama hijacking.
0:29.6	Up in the night, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder or who wants you dead. It could be a ghost, a demon or worse, perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.
0:36.6	It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd witch's curse. It's hopeless.
0:37.8	You're doomed.
0:38.4	You'd call a priest if you could.
0:40.5	You'd rather just listen to who.
0:44.1	Sinisterhood.
0:51.7	I'm going to kill you.
0:53.6	Well, we're back on solid ground.
0:55.5	We've returned.
0:56.5	Back on solid ground.
0:58.0	What of time, man.
0:59.5	Thank you to everybody who came out to Crime Wave at sea.
1:02.7	It was so much fun.
1:04.5	Oh, man.
1:05.4	From the second we stepped on the ship to the second we stepped off, I had a good time.
1:28.3	There's no, I mean, it says something that I was like, I don't think I want to do a cruise ship ever. And then now I'm on algorithms and getting like videos of people and their cruises now. And I'm like, no, no, I only want to go on Crime Wave. You don't understand internet. But thank you to everybody who came and who hung out with us and talked to us and just met us and shared your stories. And it was so much fun. That was exactly what we signed
1:32.2	up for is that we wanted to go on vacation with you. And that is what we got to do. And to the whole
1:37.3	staff at in real life events, IRL, they were phenomenal. The whole, all the rest of the creators,
1:42.7	especially Henry and Ed, who let us jump on side stories with them.
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