D-Actually Challenge. D-Actually Challenge.

Hey guys, it's Kayla. Candace isn't able to join us today but we are all still so

directionally challenged. We thought we'd have it all figured out by the time we were in our

30s, but surprise! We don't and that is okay. Well today I've got a few words for you.

Let's see if you can guess what our episode's about. Treasure maps, chests of gold, jewels,

parrots, making your enemies walk the plank. Yep, that's right you guys. Today our episode is about

pirates. You heard me of pirates and I have to ask you something. When I just said pirates,

what images came to mind? It's probably something similar to Captain Hook from Peter Pan or something

of the like, but my point being most images that we consider when we think of pirates are, I don't

know, white and male. It's funny I was at Disneyland the other day with my little girl and I really

wanted to take her on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. It's been one of my favorites since I was little.

It was closed and I was so disappointed. I just wanted to show Poppy this iconic ride from my childhood

that I've always loved so many times. But then I got to thinking, well wait a minute, as I'm researching

for this episode, what is that telling her? Because I mean all the women are in dresses with big

feather hats and they're bucksome and they're running from these pirates and I don't that's not

something I want to teach her. That's not something a signal that I want to show my daughter.

Well that's where today's guest comes in. Today we're going to sit and talk to Lee Lewis. She's

the author of pirate queens, Dauntless women who dared to rule the high seas. Her book proves that

women have been making their mark in all aspects of history. Even on the high seas, legends and

movies give us the impression that pirates were mainly male, but Lee along with several other historians

are writing this wrong. She's written so many books for kids along with political and adult humor

and she's also on the board of society for children's books of writers and illustrators. She's

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