Hey, everyone, Sebastian here. Just wanted to let you know that I will once again be participating in this year's Intelligent Speech Conference.

Deception, lies, fakery, fraudulence, and forgery is what they have on the docket for Intelligent Speech 2025.

So, obviously, I've got to be there. For those that don't know,

intelligent speech is an online conference that highlights the best in history podcasting.

Intelligence Speech 2025 deception will be taking place on the 8th of February 2025.

So if you want tickets, go to intelligent speech online.com right now and get yourself to the conference.

Hello. Hello and welcome to this throwback episode of Our Fake History.

This week we are throwing you back to episode number 47,

Who was the Queen of the pirates? This is a fun one.

Listening back to this one, I realized that I don't really make anthology episodes like this much anymore. This used to be a really big part of the show. I would look at a bunch of

different historical myths and then quickly weigh in on whether or not we should believe them.

As the show has evolved and I've had more time to do research into these topics, I found

myself diving deeper into each of the topics that I explore. So rarely will I just skim past a few

kind of interesting tales and put them together in an episode like this. For instance, in this

episode, I get into the lore surrounding the Irish woman, Grace O'Malley. Now, she is a fascinating

figure, the kind of person I could easily make a series

of episodes on now. And there's a part of me that's a little sad I didn't save Grace O'Malley

for a more in-depth series. But there's another part of me that likes how brisk and light

this episode feels. So you folks tell me,

what do you like? A kind of breezy anthology series or something a little bit more deep.

Or maybe a little of both. We can have it all. We can have it all on our fake history.

I should also mention that the final figure I look at in this episode,

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