Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.

Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

That's our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Hello, I am here and in the room for one.

He's sitting in a chair. We're all here together. Yes, they call me Ben Bullen for tax purposes. And that's Mr. Noel Brown. Did you do your taxes? What's that? You've done your taxes? Is this a legal inquiry? Yes, it is. So we are also, we are going to you live-ish. I don. I don't care. I did do my taxes. Get black bags. See if I care. I was just trying to help you up. All right. Did you do your taxes? Nope. All right. I do my taxes in case we were wandering. I do them in January. You good boy. We have a fourth person joining us today.

Who is definitely doings, a longtime brother in arms.

Also, a co-creator of stuff they don't want you to know.

Fellow ridiculous historians, let's welcome the one and only Mr. Matt Frederick.

Hey, everybody.

Matt, the voice, Frederick. Matt, the voice, Frederick.

Matt, the private, privateer, saving private Ryan's private, privateers.

Oh, quick TMI.

Matt, the Charles Bain of our podcast.

No, that's wrong.

Hey, hey, hey.

That's a different one.

As you can tell, folks, because we're talking about being good boys and paying our taxes,

we're leading into being good boys and paying our taxes,

we're leading into an exploration that we couldn't imagine occurring in a better environment.

We are going to talk about some of history's most ridiculous, obscure, and strange pirates,

and we're doing it in the former home of Caribbean piracy.

It's true. It's a little, it's a little different than it once was.

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