Sir Francis Drake

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall. He is also known for participating in the early English slaving voyages of his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, and John Lovell. Having started as a simple seaman, in 1588 he was part of the fight against the Spanish Armada as a vice-admiral.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to citation needed.
0:24.3	Podcast will choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're
0:29.1	experts.
0:30.1	This is the internet and that's how it works now. I'm Heath and I'll be the
0:33.6	captain for this one and I'm joined by three able-ish seaman with strong motility
0:41.5	for their 40s I would say Cecil, Noah and Tom.
0:45.0	Strongly, barking downward.
0:48.0	That's absolutely correct, yes.
0:50.0	Yeah, jokes on you.
0:52.0	All those extra tails make them faster, actually.
0:55.0	The key is not skipping balls day.
0:58.0	Never do.
1:03.2	All right. All right.
1:04.2	Cecil. What person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event?
1:08.3	Are we gonna be talking about today?
1:10.3	Sir Francis Drake.
1:12.2	I sure like the patrons.
1:14.0	Me too. I do too.
1:16.0	They're the best.
1:17.0	So what happened?
1:20.0	Exactly on this day, Cecil, with Francis Drake, unless the schedule gets moved around and you get
1:26.3	I know, right? It wasn't fucking gets moved, but if it doesn't get moved, 436 years ago today a captain in the English fleet ordered several boats covered
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