Historian Angus Konstam joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about pirates. Where did the stereotypical pirate accent come from? What did pirates do for fun? Why do we associate parrots and eyepatches with pirates? Who’s the most famous non-fictional pirate in history? Is Jack Sparrow real? Did pirates use sunscreen? Answers to these questions and many more await on Pirate Support.
0:00 Pirate Support
0:13 The pirate accent
1:01 Pirates: Why?
1:36 The Pirate Code
2:10 Pirate pleasures
2:50 Peg legs
3:12 No-no-notorious
3:53 Pirate democracy
4:54 Walk the plank/Peter Pan
5:41 He’s the pauper of the surf, the jester of Tortuga
6:30 Gay pirates
6:59 Privateer vs Pirate
8:12 A little rum and a classic film
8:38 Women were pirates
10:05 Beginning a life of piracy
10:40 SPF Arrrr
10:59 Have we found any treasure?
11:53 Pirate life expectancy
12:19 But why all the parrots
12:37 The beard sounds extremely memorable
13:04 Pirate wear
14:09 Pirate weaponry
15:21 Pirate ships
16:08 Pirates attacked slave ships
17:21 The skull and crossbones flag
17:53 When nature called
18:15 Where was home for a pirate?
19:03 Also, why all the eyepatches?
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Director: Anna O’Donohue
Director of Photography: Mateo Notsuke
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Angus Konstam
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White; Jasmine Breinburg
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Cameron Hall
Gaffer: Jake Newell
Sound Mixer: Michael Panayiotis
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@WashYourHands__
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 pm
how did pirates get and store drinking water and food?
@pickledpiss9522
November 19, 2024 at 7:33 pm
This man is Blackbeard reincarnated
@pickledpiss9522
November 19, 2024 at 7:33 pm
I think we’ve found the next Victor M. Sweeney
@gmonorail
November 19, 2024 at 7:35 pm
dude doesn’t come across very knowledgeable
@mythical_pizza
November 19, 2024 at 7:36 pm
I know blackbeards name is pronounced as both Teach and “Thatch” and I don’t really care which is the more correct one because saying it as he spelled it, Teach, just sounds SO stupid. It’s always thatch for me
@johndemeritt3460
November 19, 2024 at 7:38 pm
My wife reminds me that the BBC program _Time Team_ featured Dr. Phil Harding. He _always_ talks like a pirate!
As for parrots and pirates . . . when we lived in League City, Texas — a little south of Houston — parrots had gotten loose and established colonies in the high tension wire towers. We knew a woman who periodically transformed into a pirate. And whenever she did, there were parrots around.
Coincidence? _I think NOT!_
@kaikenjr
November 19, 2024 at 7:40 pm
What a pirates favorite fruit. Orrrrranges
@welhungyongmancitywok8189
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 pm
3:01 if you were lucky to get that job most peg legs were begging in the streets
@insidethepirateship
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 pm
i need a lot more of this guy talking about pirates
@Ryloe_Flores
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 pm
13:24 the grilla of the woods?
@General1Cal
November 19, 2024 at 7:51 pm
Just laughed and laughed and laughed when he busted out the tricorn lol. The statement afterwards.
@Retroxyl
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 pm
Now I really want to watch Pirates of the Carribean again and play Assassins Creed IV Black Flag. I really should do that.
@Bobbyboom413
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
I read a book when I was younger that said Pirates were much smarter than people realized. 99% of them were multilingual. If you couldn’t speak English, french, and Spanish, you were kind of screwed. Many knew dutch and Portuguese on top of that.
@Adam-M-
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 pm
Wait a minute…. I have his book! 😊
@hisham_hm
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 pm
“they stole them. much better”
guys, I’m starting to suspect he’s rooting for the pirates
@jasonpmp282
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 pm
The Mythbusters did an episode about the eye patch theory and there is some validation to it if I remember correctly.
@milfenthusiast1582
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 pm
STRAW HATS ARE PIRATE CANON
@ParkRegenerated
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 pm
absolutely love this
@davebooshty299
November 19, 2024 at 8:10 pm
6:15 Blackbeards hat too he has.
@oasntet
November 19, 2024 at 8:13 pm
I wonder how many privateers attacked whoever they felt like and then stuck enemy flags on the ships the brought back to port to sell. Even if somebody at port saw through the lie, they’d have a lot of incentive to stay quiet and get their cut…
@Mazzah96
November 19, 2024 at 8:17 pm
Now, we need a ninja support.
@EatPineappeals
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 pm
this guy sounds how he looks
@vb8801
November 19, 2024 at 8:20 pm
So are we just going to gloss over when he said most pirates were teenage boys or in their early 20s….? It explains sooooo much! Even why anyone would join a pirate crew after their ship was captured. Pirates were just hormonal, impulsive children with underdeveloped brains all along 😂
@sonicgoo1121
November 19, 2024 at 8:24 pm
“They stole them. Much better.” Well someone’s a bit of a scoundrel.
@ericbruzzone2644
November 19, 2024 at 8:25 pm
On female pirates 🏴☠️ it’s worth checking the life of pirate Qing, who had a fleet of one thousand vessels so strong that the emperor hired her instead of fighting her
@zacknicley8150
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 pm
A pirate walks into a bar and he’s got the ship’s wheel tied around his waist. The bartender said, doesn’t that bother you? The pirate said, Aye! It’s drivin’ me nuts!
@chrisd9610
November 20, 2024 at 3:51 pm
The Blunderbuss also known as a musketoon or espingole was often used and could be loaded with random metallic objects if there were no lead shot available.
@KellWhitlock
November 20, 2024 at 3:57 pm
15:25 You wouldn’t download a ship.
@godofrock
November 20, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Eye patches were because being a skilled seaman meant you were also a navigator and as navigator you had to look at the sun and take measurements. The dominant eye was used to get these measurements so naturally they damaged their eye and this also became a moneymaker as loosing an eye gave you a greater share or a medical pension of sorts.
@ineedinsulin
November 20, 2024 at 4:08 pm
This has convinced me that AC4 was super accurate to the pirate lore
@dalenaestellehunter9769
November 20, 2024 at 4:20 pm
I love the idea of pirates catching ships used to enslave Africans and re-fitting them to privateer other slave ships. Yo Ho!
@redoo11
November 20, 2024 at 4:22 pm
What a pleasant man, I’d love to listen to him more.
@rayne3344
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Put on the if you were just a regular pirate not a famous one or not a pirate anyone knew can you just get off the ship add a port and walk away with your money (or not) into the masses can you get away
@jagermaestro1
November 20, 2024 at 4:34 pm
An aggroed ignorant weeb even “asked” a question. Fun stuff.
@Godless-Being
November 20, 2024 at 4:43 pm
Please do Donald Trump answers the web’s most searched questions(minus the convictions)
@RunOfTheHind
November 20, 2024 at 4:47 pm
“Get tf outta here with your misogyny, there were plenty of female pirates…”. There weren’t and the ones there were got away with it while the male crew were hung. Misogyny, lol.
@TGV66
November 20, 2024 at 4:55 pm
1:40 they’re more like guidelines anyway!
@ericbradford7854
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Whalefan69
@cleanmikeandtheboys3165
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Pirate accent wasn’t invented, it’s just slurred drunken speech
@wootlesswocks
November 20, 2024 at 5:37 pm
Privateers! Legal pirates
@wootlesswocks
November 20, 2024 at 5:46 pm
I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold we’d fire no guns, shed no tears: now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s privateers. RIP Stan Rogers, a legend.
@mirthenary
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 pm
“The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules”
@GrinningNimbus
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Props to this video for the thumbnail being at the beginning of this video
@leahosullivan1057
November 20, 2024 at 6:11 pm
Hoping he’d mention grace o malley when talking about female pirates…
@marcotrejo3900
November 20, 2024 at 6:18 pm
10:51 THE ONE PIECE.
THE ONE PIECE IS REALLLL!!! 🏴☠️👒
@michelleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 pm
I married the son of a Somerset farmer and they really do speak like that
@littlefurnace
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 pm
LMAO “No way they spoke like that” bruh people in the West Country of England still talk like that right now 😂
@bmccAck
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Wait, you bring up famous pirates, and women at that, and you don’t mentioned Zheng Yi Sao!?
She was a legend; how many pirates commended that size of a fleet and gave the middle finger to not just the Chinese government, but the British too??
@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp
November 20, 2024 at 8:25 pm
Well they were definitely pirate movies before 59. Didn’t they talk that way too?
@ZorinZato
November 20, 2024 at 8:26 pm
Anyone who brings props to these is immediately cool in my book
@Morgil27
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 pm
So pirates actually did wear straw hats, eh? 😅
@mm-yt8sf
November 21, 2024 at 6:31 pm
if they just pooped at the front of the ship…did they keep toilet paper there too? how did they keep it dry? a little covered box? or was toilet paper a modern thing?
@MacNab23
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 pm
If you listen to the “original pronunciation” developed for Shakespeare plays, in part by David Crystal, it does sound surprisingly like what we would think of as ‘pirate talk’. And it is contemporary with the early days of British piracy.
@ximbabwe0228
November 21, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Davey Jones, Giant Squid!
@jamiegreenberg8476
November 21, 2024 at 6:38 pm
i need to know if hes seen the pirate code memes
@kwillow12
November 21, 2024 at 6:43 pm
Robert Louis Stevenson *Treasure Island*
@gaddiusgaddium9082
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 pm
0:30 Nah, it’s based on the Northern Irish accent, of the time. It was because the Irish were more likely to be privateers than other groups at the time. I’m sure Treasure Island has something to do with it, but there is an historic precedent.
@scuffedharrypotter4733
November 21, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Honestly the visual of getting your ship attacked by men in beanies and plaid shorts is SO hilarious , didnt know they liked aeropostal fashion in the 1800s
@Retread268
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 pm
Mad I could not like this more than once. Great video.
@jamesrobin2857
November 21, 2024 at 7:07 pm
Another reasons pirates drank so much was that hard alcohol or wine was safer than water on board. It would contominate or hold diseases and their was a lot of diseases going on in those times.
@FlatThumb
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 pm
As a fellow pirate, I approve of this video. Two hooks up! 👍👍
@Matty80822
November 21, 2024 at 7:13 pm
This is so fun to know as a one piece fan. The whole warlords thing was rooted in history, i should have known lol
@nickmart9445
November 21, 2024 at 7:14 pm
love this guy, can he be my dad or uncle?
@ExtraTrstl
November 21, 2024 at 7:19 pm
One of my favorites! Great historical context!
@biffstrong1079
November 21, 2024 at 7:20 pm
There was a movie and TV show in the 50’s the Long John Silver show that got rerun on Saturday morning. I sort of think those accents were , oh here we are , Robert Newton.
@odynith9356
November 21, 2024 at 7:21 pm
I’m somewhat of a pirate myself. Watched 3 movies last weekend
@affingtones2570
November 21, 2024 at 7:23 pm
9:07
Thats Lucina’s Smash Ultimate render pose!
@redrizzla1989
November 21, 2024 at 7:29 pm
Actually, the west (and east) country accent is similar to how they’d have spoken in the 16/1700s across a lot of England.
So many English pirates would have sounded like that.
That accent has survived in the most rural parts to the east and west of the country.
@Clemenssnemelc
November 21, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aarrrrrrrr
@quitenerdy1
November 21, 2024 at 7:42 pm
This episode of wired was rated RRRRrrrr
@fortheloveofking
November 21, 2024 at 7:43 pm
The eye patch thing, you say there’s no evidence of that. Maybe so, it’s not like I have any. But it is something I was able to figure out all on my own when I was a little boy, whenever I’d have to get up in the night and turn on the bathroom light. If 10 year old me is smart enough to do something that seems perfectly natural to me, then I’m sure seaman who spend half their life below deck could figure that out too.
@l.h.2543
November 21, 2024 at 7:48 pm
The “pirate patch” was used to preserve dark vision in 1 eye when they went below deck. Flip up the patch and they could see in the dark boat. Without sunglasses it would take several minutes for eyes to readjust to the dark surroundings.
@RDSimonse
November 21, 2024 at 7:53 pm
Bit disappointing how stereotypically eurocentric his answers are. Like,l not even mentioning Zheng Yi Sao, arguably the most successful pirate ever when you consider size of fleet & how she and her fleet ended up, when talking about female pirates?
Or what about modern day piracy, like Somalian piracy and it’s root causes?
Why limit yourself to just the stuff that’s already well known in western societies instead of including those interesting stories?
@lilzachytwotimeabihh
November 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
Big back Tom Segura
@aMoneyYell
November 21, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Pirates sounded like modern day brits… you’re welcome
@joaquinvaleri7022
November 22, 2024 at 12:17 pm
I’m still don’t get it 😒
@moo_goo
November 22, 2024 at 12:25 pm
literally the outfit of a real pirate is younger shanks to an extent. thats neat.
seriously Goda
@slayer0235
November 22, 2024 at 12:36 pm
Fun fact: Blackbeard’s raid on Charleston was to get medicine for his crew, who were dying of scurvy. And the whole thing nearly went catastrophically wrong because the guy he sent as a messenger got distracted by bar hopping.
@bilbo100989
November 22, 2024 at 1:04 pm
Jack rackum looks like smee lol
@emidowdarrow
November 22, 2024 at 1:21 pm
It was my understanding that the pirate accent was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson. The dialect is written quite precisely. I would imagine that any actor could’ve read that and brought it to life on screen?
@johnsonken96
November 22, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Drinking rum wheile watching this, lol.
Yo-ho-hoo.
@Bunnidove
November 22, 2024 at 1:23 pm
@metatron please react
@vinnyv949
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 pm
Someone accusing the man of misogyny and declaring there were many female pirates….what a time we live in.
@timmorris82
November 22, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Don’t know why you’ve recommended this YouTube, but well played indeed.
@musikSkool
November 22, 2024 at 2:37 pm
The #1 most common form of piracy in the modern world is smuggling. Almost always drugs.
@dogwalker666
November 22, 2024 at 3:08 pm
It’s pure Hollywood!
@laeti8434
November 22, 2024 at 3:09 pm
CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow
@JohnSmith-il7jn
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 pm
There are certain isolated islands off the Outer Banks along the coast of North Carolina, where they still speak in the 18th century English dialect. More than likely Blackbeard the Pirate who was no stranger to those parts, spoke same.
@woodennecktie
November 22, 2024 at 4:03 pm
you must have done a lot of research , like Karl May
@jonaslarsson8359
November 22, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Wired – pls d13 un minecraft
@mcgoo721
November 22, 2024 at 4:25 pm
It’s hanged though
@martinphilip8998
November 22, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Wallace Beery should get the credit for the accent. Better yet, credit RLS who tried to phonetically capture the West Country accent. Likely many languages spoken considering the recruitment process.
@inigopanatv
November 22, 2024 at 5:30 pm
nobody asked if they used the poopdeck
@JamesHere-ou9xp
November 22, 2024 at 6:06 pm
English West Country accent. Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Wessex.
@mudbutt42
November 22, 2024 at 6:12 pm
If I would have known how many commercials I was gonna have to watch to get through this video I never would have started. YouTube is practically unwatchable.
@gelraldoldo5152
November 22, 2024 at 6:58 pm
Not surprising in the least the two female pirates go unpunished whilst the men are executed
@marshallvorwaerts
November 22, 2024 at 7:05 pm
The greatest pirate ever was Hayreddin Barbarossa Pasha.
@gelraldoldo5152
November 22, 2024 at 7:09 pm
I’m sure the pirates sold a few of the slaves, props depended on how convenient it was, i.e any buyers within a reasonable sailing distance.
@caseyczarnomski8054
November 22, 2024 at 7:55 pm
17:23 The Jolly Roger and other pirate flags have their origins rooted in the Knights Templar and Freemasons navy hundreds of years previous.
@BubbleGumzKorner
November 22, 2024 at 8:01 pm
Those aren’t shorts, looks like boxers?
@Parawingdelta2
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 am
Why would a pirate need a patch over an eye that was damaged or poked out? Were pirates worried about their appearance?
I suspect the ‘patcb’ was more a protective ‘surround’ (not a patch) around the remaining eye where the vision in one eye was lost.
@defdaz
November 23, 2024 at 7:17 am
No way they spoke like that? They still do! Just take a trip to Bristol! 🙂
@mark6302
November 23, 2024 at 7:46 am
arrr
@PyrettaBlaze
November 23, 2024 at 9:30 am
What about Chen I Sao, Rachel Wall, and the infamous Grace O’Malley? How do you exclude these extraordinary women?! These women all had much more experience. Furthermore, Sao and O’Malley commanded their own vessels and had fleets. They were not just some captain’s lover (though Sao started out as one), they were fierce leaders. It is pretty sad that the greatest of female pirates were excluded to keep the lie that “women weren’t really pirates.”
@bairnonessie
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 am
2nd question, you didn’t immediately answer “because they arrrrr” = rest of the interview becomes instantly implausible.
@88amona
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 am
👍
@chasleask8533
November 23, 2024 at 11:45 am
Eric Morecambe turbo charged the Newton impersonators . Before that it wasn’t a thing .
@mr.coolmug3181
November 23, 2024 at 11:54 am
Dr Hook is my favourite pirate 😉
@andini7478
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 pm
omg one piece is real!!
@SakakiDash
November 23, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Democracy is not the strongest take control 😛
@Glare108
November 23, 2024 at 12:47 pm
Friggin in the riggin
@ChonmageXIV
November 23, 2024 at 1:14 pm
Mary Reed died in prison and Bonnie’s fate is unknown. Usually that does not mean she was spirited away and lived happily ever after. I wouldn’t say they “got away with it”.
@Raz.C
November 23, 2024 at 1:15 pm
Not true about pirate longevity, either!
Nations frequently offered pirate amnesties, during which time many pirates accepted said amnesties. Some of those would eventually return to pirating, either to be caught and hanged, or to accept another amnesty later. There’s a brand of rum called Captain Morgan. It’s named for the pirate, Captain Morgan, who left the pirating life to become the Governor of Jamaica in later life!
@rusenakman
November 23, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I born in a fisherman village. When you take a step in a boat, you suddenly start talking like a pirate LOL
@toddkurzbard
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 pm
AHHRRR BEJABBERS PIECES OF EIGHT WALK THE PLANK ME HEARTY I’LL KEELHAUL YA, YA SCURVY DOG FIFTEEN MEN ON A DEAD MAN’S CHEST, YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM FEEL THE LASH OF ME CAT ‘O NINE TAILS, YE LANDLUBBER AAAHHHRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
@tamarafaber7783
November 23, 2024 at 2:20 pm
And Anne & Mary are both in Assasins Creed Black Flag with the same fate!!! Love that this was them!!
@keithbyrne1
November 23, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Irish
@theweastwumbologist
November 23, 2024 at 3:09 pm
Did anyone else audibly gasp at what pirates actually wore? Lol. It’s not giving what we thought at all
@michaeltaylor8835
November 23, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Pirates live in somalis now
@michaeltaylor8835
November 23, 2024 at 5:17 pm
The Pirate Code. aaarr
@krulwurld1791
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 pm
I was in a hospital ward with an elderly fisherman with a thick Irish accent. His conversation was littered with Arrrr! And his visitors were the same.
@Dragoux
November 23, 2024 at 6:44 pm
The One Piece is REAL
@kehmisst
November 23, 2024 at 7:25 pm
7:46
@SMorales851
November 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
I didn’t even know about the “pirate accent”! That trope doesn’t exist in spanish
@RosesTeaAndASD
November 23, 2024 at 8:23 pm
I was expecting to hear about Limewire, but I enjoyed this video regardless😂
@fingolfyn
November 24, 2024 at 6:02 am
“Why there are no Pirates in Kansas?”
“Because Kansas is a land locked state?”
“They all moved to Arrr-Kansas^^”
🤪
@theflyingwhale5778
November 24, 2024 at 6:51 am
guys i think he’s an actual pirate
@florete2310
November 24, 2024 at 8:39 am
Wait, … there’re people out there who believe that wearing an eyepatch could save you an eye and / or improve your night vision?? Jesus, … people know nothing these days. Does anybody read a book every once in a while? This makes me sad…
@michellegodwin6567
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 am
In discussion of female pirates, what about Zheng Yi Sao? I want to hear about her.
@mirrrstery
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 am
Yeah I’m 3 seconds in and I love him already
@galeksrus
November 24, 2024 at 9:13 am
17:24 Stede Bonnett mentioned!
@metheus108
November 24, 2024 at 9:22 am
I feel like the Caribbean patois is probably the closest we will get to hearing the working language of the pirates of that age. A mishmash of communication between the different languages of the colonies converted to mostly a kind of trade English.
@despairmale
November 24, 2024 at 9:51 am
This guy looks like Joaquin Phoenix if he put on a few pounds
@josephbloggss7286
November 24, 2024 at 9:55 am
Check out Grace O’ Malley
@theofficial2020Sound
November 24, 2024 at 10:42 am
Why did the pirate go see the scary movie?
Because it was rated R 😭
@shozab2935
November 24, 2024 at 10:48 am
but did they vibe on keygen music?
@some-replies
November 24, 2024 at 11:22 am
YAAAR HAAAR
@freddie6307
November 24, 2024 at 11:57 am
this is a great video!!! thank you for inviting this guy on, i learned so much!
also yall need to chill lol this guy clearly specializes in western/caribbean piracy and that’s still valid and informative. this is quite common in academia- people focus their studies on certain regions, just like how non-western historians might focus their studies on non-western cultures. other people specialize in other areas of history. instead of getting mad about this guy not mentioning your favorite pirate when his expertise focuses on an entirely different geographic scope, maybe watch a video about non-western pirates or ask WIRED if they can invite other pirate experts on here. some of yall seem incapable of enjoying anything if it fails to meet your arbitrary line in the sand.
@cornishmaid9138
November 24, 2024 at 11:58 am
As a Cornish person, where pirates flourished, I can tell you that accent is truly how we spoke.
@michaelroszell8156
November 24, 2024 at 12:06 pm
Were there pirates in Canada? Great lakes and St. Lawrence?
@lilliodhe5enraptured
November 24, 2024 at 12:08 pm
Gracie O’Malley, Ireland’s pirate queen.
@Sneften
November 24, 2024 at 12:31 pm
0:51 this is how i thought Irish sounded when i was a toddler.
@cambs0181
November 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
There’s no way anybody talked like that back then? Go to Bristol nowadays.
@jaltersmusic
November 24, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Love this series…but ads every 60 seconds?! You can do better than this. It’s a terrible experience.
@DarthContinent
November 24, 2024 at 2:16 pm
It’ll be tragic if someday in the distant future somebody who embraced generational stupidity today will come back, see this, and say “that never happened, just like the Holocaust”. 🏴☠
@aimzzz9382
November 24, 2024 at 4:22 pm
We need more of this guy ! He’s great !!
@bysscanna
November 24, 2024 at 5:17 pm
did anyone else when they were like 7 have an obsession with ancient egypt or pirates
@thugwood4434
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 pm
Sailors (not just pirates) used to wear eyepatches because their eyes were damaged by repeatedly staring at the sun whilst using a sextant for navigation. No need to bullsh*t about going in to darkened rooms!
@Polisciandfries
November 24, 2024 at 6:33 pm
I love these videos so much!! They always have fabulous experts, like this man who is so lovely!
@SpectreRose
November 24, 2024 at 8:05 pm
To Angus Konstam: There was a pirate treasure that was found on board the wreckage of the Whydah, which had gold & silver coins and jewels. It was an impressive discovery in the vicinity of Cape Cod back in the 80s.
@fancifuldevices
November 25, 2024 at 12:23 am
How’d they bathe?
@hayberdasher8625
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 am
finally some support for my pirate technical issues
@VitalPolymath
November 25, 2024 at 2:02 am
Assumptions
@TOM7952
November 25, 2024 at 2:43 am
Why does it keep zooming in and out? terribly edited
@craggsknot
November 25, 2024 at 5:16 am
i too love sailing the seas of 1337x
@finalascent
November 25, 2024 at 5:34 am
11:20 – I was under the impression that pirates were also happy to loot a capture ship for naval stores – ropes, sailcloth, tar/pitch, etc. Also were looking for navigational charts of places they didn’t already have one for, or better/more current ones.
@haplesshominid2810
November 25, 2024 at 6:14 am
You made the poor bugger answer a misogyny troll 😆 hilarious
@Super.Dario.daVibediver
November 25, 2024 at 7:08 am
Arrrrre ye comin’tah de reali’sation ǒv de level ǒv societal sway n’say-so daht Disney häs plagued our waters’wit fer years??!
@vincentbarbes7672
November 25, 2024 at 7:22 am
10:50 THE ONE PIECE IS REAL
@soccerchamp0511
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 am
Thank you, Mr Konstam! Great video. However, I am kind of surprised you didn’t mention music and dancing as pirate pastimes. I thought these were common for seamen of all sorts because they provided entertainment and exercise in a confined space.
@foreveryoungarts4657
November 25, 2024 at 9:38 am
Grace OMalley? The Irish Pitate Queen? No?
@mikaelac4345
November 25, 2024 at 10:26 am
Oda really did his research
@mikaelac4345
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 am
10.54 Straw hat priates
@rileyallison3907
November 25, 2024 at 10:56 am
Any of you fine gentlemen heard of Ammon Hillman
@seandelaney4421
November 25, 2024 at 11:51 am
Great vid! In the thumbnail nail you ought to wear the hat
@aritzneo
November 25, 2024 at 12:13 pm
IMHO when the “female pirates” question appeared, I expected the “expert” to speak about Zheng Shi. I say “expert” because their knowledge seems confined to the caribbean pirate concept
@user-gd2jv4in7k
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Most of the crews were irish and dwunk, ofc they spoke like that😮😂😂😂😂😂
@pvp216
November 25, 2024 at 2:28 pm
bring him back this dude is chill af
@Nemesisofmore
November 25, 2024 at 2:55 pm
the “misoginy” comment hahahahahhahahahaha pointing and laughing
@Grogritark
November 25, 2024 at 3:17 pm
For anybody who is a fan of pirates I would thoroughly suggest watching the TV show Black Sails. It’s a big budget action series that acts as a prequel to Treasure Island with Michael Bay directing. The story is fantastic, the sea battles are epic and the soundtrack is mesmerising. Genuinely one of the best series I have ever come across, and criminally underrated. Think Pirates of the Caribbean if it was an 18 and had a run time of 40 hours!
@toastyskyshroom
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 pm
I didn’t know those swivel guns were real I thought they were hollywood fiction
@ristridin_photography
November 25, 2024 at 5:06 pm
My all time favourite pirate is the German pirate Klaus Störtebeker. He was one of the Likedeeler, which translated means “same sharer” due to every one on noard getting the same percentage of the things they stole.
@raitoiro
November 25, 2024 at 6:11 pm
9:54 Women and getting away easy at trial, truly an iconic duo for the ages.
@Super-J10
November 25, 2024 at 7:39 pm
Just ask Mr Crabs…….
@angelsartandgaming
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 pm
3:21 so that’s who both Edward Newgate and Marshall D. Teach are named after! Because they go by Whitebeard and Blackbeard respectively.
@ShapesWithoutColors
November 25, 2024 at 8:58 pm
I’m guessing pirates pissed off the front of the ship because it would be too easy to fall off the back.
@LlamaComma
November 25, 2024 at 9:03 pm
I could listen to Angus for hours; I want to know everything there is about pirates now!
@almondcro
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 pm
this channel scratch a very specific spot in my brain
@andrewgoss7260
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 am
this guy definitely knows where the treasure is buried….
@GoldShoreRecords
November 26, 2024 at 4:30 am
totally missed the why are pirates called pirates joke… BECAUSE THEY ARRRRRRRRR
@crapparc
November 26, 2024 at 6:20 am
Now this man looks like an Angus.
@ghostbustthat
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 am
Lots of old theories that Captain Kidd also buried treasure on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, but none of the many theories about that weird place have been proven. Super interesting obsessed treasure hunt.
@scottthomas8721
November 26, 2024 at 7:58 am
Even the rugby team in Cornwall are called the Cornish pirates 👍
@mmcfreds
November 26, 2024 at 8:28 am
Make a video with this guy talking to Victor Sweeney, Funeral Director, and have them talk about funeral practices in the Caribbean.
@drummats6933
November 26, 2024 at 9:05 am
Amazing video but cant believe there wasnt a single question about sea shanties! Oh well guess we’ll need part 2😊
@KanadianKing
November 26, 2024 at 9:22 am
Jamaicas’ Port Royal was a very large pirate hub in the Western Hemisphere. If you hear Jamaicans speak, you can hear how many pirates would have talked back when. Jamaicans lay heavily on their R’s. They don’t say Orange, they say ARRRnge.
@willjeremy
November 26, 2024 at 9:52 am
10:50 Straw Hat Luffy Origins
@katiecow13
November 26, 2024 at 10:40 am
More pirates!!!!❤❤
@mrmotarium
November 26, 2024 at 11:28 am
Oh man I was just waiting for him to put the tricorne on!!! :))) fits him so perfectly.
@aftermathist
November 26, 2024 at 11:54 am
how didnt you guys ask Tortuga ?!
@FrankExchangeofViews.
November 26, 2024 at 12:14 pm
Julius Caesar was famously captured by pirates and ransomed. He came back the next year and crucified them
@micley2440
November 26, 2024 at 12:16 pm
Pretty sure pirates were.just speaking English, not pirate.
@CLaw-tb5gg
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 pm
I always wondered why nobody mentioned that the “pirate accent” is basically just a West Country accent. I suppose it’s not very well known in the US. I would like to see the reaction of an American rocking up in Yeovil or somewhere for the first time and wondering why everyone talks like pirates.
@sresnick2
November 26, 2024 at 12:51 pm
To err is human. To arrrr is pirate.
@maxtaylor3745
November 26, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Ok but (Somerset boy here) this example to my ears sounds more like Northern Irish than West Country?
@fly89
November 26, 2024 at 1:45 pm
but JD was so cute with that accent 😂😂😋😂😂
@bethysboutique
November 26, 2024 at 2:04 pm
I could listen to this guy narrate 1000 audiobooks
@p-hawk1956
November 26, 2024 at 3:07 pm
1:02 “Because they Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” 🏴☠
@senoirmongoose5605
November 26, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Not a single mention of Gráinne Mhaol are you serious 😂
@theone5576
November 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm
alot of pirates are teenager and 20s, meaning it is teenager delinquency?
@meatmobile
November 26, 2024 at 9:50 pm
Captions are wrong. He says cooks, not kooks.
@goatlord7310
November 26, 2024 at 10:20 pm
I really like the series “Black Flag”. Every pirate portrays a different accent based on the background of their character, which is exactly how it would have been. Ex british military who became pirates would have british accents, spanish pirates would have spanish accents etc etc.
@MrC-55
November 26, 2024 at 10:39 pm
They wore whatever clothes they had, so if they captured a Spanish ship, you had Spanish sailors in their uniform. Etc. so it was a great varied look.
@RealPumpkinJay
November 27, 2024 at 12:11 am
Blackbeard definitely hits the spot for an infamous notorious name….
@bi_swamp_thing
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 am
Love the idea of pleading pregnant lmaooo
@davinasquirrel7672
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 am
Those days of sail were quite the dog-eaat-dog (or rather, ship-take-ship), everyone was doing it, including other countries governments, not just war time. Ships changed ‘nationalities’ quite often. The infamous slaver The Zong was a previously captured Dutch ship. I know that one of my ancestor’s ships (HEIC) was captured by the French, then recaptured a few years later. All the merchant ships had cannon onboard for this very reason, and they used to travel in groups of several ships for this very reason. Then you get into the Royal Navy with their ‘recruitment process’ of press gangs.
@dmhq-administration
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 am
Pirate’s are people! They have their own voices! 🤔🙄😒🤷🏻♀️
@andrewbenner6349
November 27, 2024 at 3:39 am
11:50 Then what was the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo based on?
@DarkLink606
November 27, 2024 at 4:24 am
Trivia: Maersk-Alabama, hijacked in 2009, was the first American ship attacked by pirates in 200 years.
@lindsaygoodwin3140
November 27, 2024 at 5:34 am
How did this man talk about Pirates for 20 minutes and never mentioned Zheng Yi Sao?!? She was the most successful pirate captain of all time. He COMPLETELY downplayed female pirates, only mentioning the two most famous European ones. This is such a sad recount. I’m not a pirate expert, but I could do a much better job explaining this than he did.
@samrizzardi2213
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 am
Just finished reading Peter Pan, and I’m surprised at just how few pirate stereotypes are shown in Captain Hook, at least when compared to Long John Silver. He presumably speaks with a high register accent (if his backstory is to be believed), doesn’t have a parrot, doesn’t drink or gamble, and is always immaculately dressed.
@meonyouztubecom
November 27, 2024 at 6:32 am
I read it as “historian answers Private Questions” and was still clicking
@ivoferin8176
November 27, 2024 at 7:16 am
Fun fact… Madeira wine still exists today… Its a licorous wine, much like Porto wine. Both very exquisite.
@underthecoveragent1653
November 27, 2024 at 9:18 am
Imagine if theres a question like “is steamunlocked safe???”
@roman_tyrant
November 27, 2024 at 12:20 pm
Pirates protecting democracy better than any nation in history is metal.
@jamesleavy883
November 27, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Now a pirate has to file a report with HR when somebody’s after their booty
@jonobacon
November 27, 2024 at 12:48 pm
“I will take 2 mins and check out this pirate video between meetings.”
16mins later all I am thinking about are pirates.
@BiggHoss
November 27, 2024 at 1:21 pm
If there were no piratea there would be no US Navy or Marine Corps. We’re great at bodying pirate nations
@ladonmccabe
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 pm
How common were devil fruit users amongst pirates?
@badATchaos
November 27, 2024 at 1:32 pm
Kinda sad he didn’t mention the pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao. Probably one of the most successful pirates period.
@DoubleDDeacon
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 pm
Funny, the one woman claimed misogyny and he immediately tells her there weren’t that many examples of female pirates, and two of the examples he gives were women who used pregnancy as an excuse to escape the same crimes men committed. Lmfao
@PronounsR4Pussys
November 27, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Recently watched all the PotC series and Geoffrey Rush plays Hector Barbossa to the t with all that pirate flair.
@alexanderaugustus
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Nice questions and answers!
@Rezorrand
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 pm
So much sensible no-nonsense info in one video, thank you Angus!
@S7Vmv
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 pm
6:55 woke nonsense as expected. 100% not true
@alexanderwinegarden2801
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 pm
How would you know?
@CP3oh322
November 27, 2024 at 9:18 pm
17:45 That flag on the bottom right means something …. something akin to …. death?
@NightWink129
November 27, 2024 at 9:22 pm
7:30 The government literally made a game out of pirating at the expense of its own citizens. Of course.
Cheers to the education system for letting me think til I graduated that pirates were completely fabricated by Disney. At the same time, I was taught that humans JUST popped into existance 10,000 years ago and that Columbus was the first to discover North America. 🙄
@_banja
November 27, 2024 at 10:03 pm
I appreciate that they put the thumbnail question at the beginning instead of hidden halfway through
@unlimitedrabbit
November 27, 2024 at 11:52 pm
The zoom ins and zoom outs are annoying and offer nothing. Otherwise, a fine video.
@ImShaman
November 28, 2024 at 1:40 am
at 9:00 why did he not bring up Zheng Yi Sao? in two years she had 600 ships and over 40,000 people in her fleets not sure why he never brought her up
@b0b16
November 28, 2024 at 2:22 am
This guy pirates
@zackmedina1245
November 28, 2024 at 3:36 am
Haven’t been to the bottom of the comments but in all the pirate lore i consumed as a child marooning was a much mentioned lot of bad pirates
@sheleshspringsteen6595
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 am
my biggest take away is that One Piece has done an amazing job with their research and representation 🤣
@rossbooth4635
November 28, 2024 at 3:43 am
This guy is probably an amazing uncle.
@MrSlevin22
November 28, 2024 at 4:37 am
I would really like to see this guy review “black sails”
@ranica47
November 28, 2024 at 4:48 am
No mention of Gráinne O’ Malley/Ní Mháille pirate Queen of Ireland in the 16th century? Known as Gráinne Mhaol (bald Gráinne) because, as a girl, she’d shaved her head to pass as a boy and get to sail. She led a fleet of ships off the west coast of Ireland and was feared and respected. She met Queen Elizabeth I and was treated with, shall we say, amused respect. Lived a long life and was never captured.
@procrastinator99
November 28, 2024 at 5:24 am
“Pirate Support” sounds like I’m waging a sea battle against the Crown, and just got reinforcements.
@SennaAugustus
November 28, 2024 at 7:17 am
And since the 1900’s, pirate flags are flown on submarines.
@BryceCathey-zw6sp
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 am
15:10 sea of thieves flashback
@kumakhan22
November 28, 2024 at 8:50 am
The old D&D standard of naval combat: dropped your sword? grab a belaying pin!!
@HarryRedders
November 28, 2024 at 12:44 pm
Just Google “Josie Gibson” – the Pirate accent is still around 🙂
@pieterpennings9371
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Pirates had better politics than we do now
@_NicBP
November 28, 2024 at 2:18 pm
Hanged, not hung when referring to the past tense of hang, in the execution context.
@TimTacTV
November 28, 2024 at 3:05 pm
Dude says “hung” a lot. This is incorrect, it’s “hanged.” Makes him seem pretty uneducated to not know the proper term.
@leow3696
November 28, 2024 at 3:29 pm
I could listen to this man talk all day.
@doink3259
November 28, 2024 at 5:09 pm
What do you call a disagreement between two pirates?
An, “AHRRRG-ument!”
I’ll see myself out.
@doink3259
November 28, 2024 at 5:09 pm
I’m sorry. 😭
@anthonyruby2668
November 28, 2024 at 5:25 pm
Also, in Treasure Island, didn’t the pirates bury the treasure cause they had to hide it temporarily?
@AMVmushroom
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Seems more like a movie fan than a historian lol
@TheDissident77
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Bwhahah I love how the claim that there were many female pirates, then he says there were few, names two, tells about their exploits but when the chips were down they resorted to their feminine ability to be pregnant to NOT be treated like the male pirates. Guess they practiced convenient feminism back then too