Hello and welcome to this very special throwback edition of our fake history. Today I'm throwing you back to

season 4 in episode 90 how bad was Blackbeard part 2. I re-released Part 1 of this series a week ago with a brand new introduction.

So if you haven't heard that, you may want to go back and check out part one of the re-release before you dig into this one.

Now one of the reasons I've been re-reelacing these Blackbeard episodes is because it's summertime when these are coming out and

the pirate shows always make for good summer listening. I also like the idea

that comes up in this episode that Blackbeard was just a guy that had two really wild summers.

It's amazing how short Blackbeard's career as a pirate actually was. So with that in mind I want all my

O FH fans to go out there and have themselves a Blackbeard summer while there's

still time. Get your friends together,

commandeer a ship, and rob a small town for syphilis medication.

You'll never forget it. Now in revisiting this episode from 2019 I was reminded about that particular time in my life.

When this episode came out my wife and I had just recently welcomed our first child and a bit of that

chaos I think rubs off on this episode you might notice that the sound quality is slightly different on

part two of this Blackbeard series. That's because I had to record it at the school that I was working at at the time. So in 2019 I was still

working full time as a high school teacher. I had to record this podcast in a little closet at that school between invigilating

exams during our high school exam period. You'll notice that there's a bit more echo on my voice in this episode and if you're listening really close at one point you can hear some people talking in the hall

So as a result there's kind of a looseness, dare I say a sloppiness to this

episode that speaks to when it was made. Now hopefully that looseness doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment because these

blackbeard stories I think are some of the best I've ever explored on the show. But before we get into it, I should say there are some things that I do on this

recording that I would not do if I was recording it today. One, I play very fast and loose with the terms ships and boats. Generally speaking,

a ship is a large ocean-going vessel, whereas a boat is a smaller vessel used

for inland waters or a smaller vessel deployed by a ship may carry a number of boats.

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