UTC 210: The Pyrate Round

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UTC 210 Pyrate Round

 

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The Pyrate Round is a Youtube Channel and a Facebook page that shares pirate information for pirates.  This page was created by the super delightful Thomas and Delaney Anderson. The page includes information like a daily post on “This day in pirate history,” rum reviews and pirate history.

In this episode:

  • Thomas and Delaney share how they came up with the name for their pages
  • We talk about how they created their opening stop motion animation sequence
  • How they helped put a few rums on the map in their area

 

Under The Crossbones is a podcast all about pirate culture.  Your host Nick Hoffman (comedian and pirate) interviews the most interesting people in the pirate subculture: Actors, Authors, Historians, Musicians, Artists, Festival Founders, Clothing and Prop Designers, Treasure Hunters, Archaeologists, and more.

Our show is sponsored by:

 

 


Pirate Radio of the Treasure Coast – The best in pirate talk and music! Get to listenin’!  http://www.PirateRadioOfTheTreasureCoast.com

Important Websites:

The Pyrate Round
On Youtube find them under
#thepyrateround
Comments or Questions? Email me at nick@underthecrossbones.com

 

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UTC 209: Mike Tunez

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Mike Tunez

Mike Tunez is the lead game designer for Firelock Games.  Firelock Games has created a number of table top games with titles like: Blood and Plunder, Oak and Iron, and Scurvy Dice, all of which focus on game play involving buccaneers or pirates.  They also have created a new game called Blood and Valor which is set during WWI.  Mike had previously been on Under the Crossbones (episode 46).

In this episode:

  • Mike updates us on what’s new at Firelock Games
  • We tease a new kickstarter that is coming soon
  • Nick tells a delightful story about when his then 10 year old nephew got fired from a job at a pool snack bar in Kansas

 

Under The Crossbones is a podcast all about pirate culture.  Your host Nick Hoffman (comedian and pirate) interviews the most interesting people in the pirate subculture: Actors, Authors, Historians, Musicians, Artists, Festival Founders, Clothing and Prop Designers, Treasure Hunters, Archaeologists, and more.

Our show was previously sponsored by:


Pirate Radio of the Treasure Coast – The best in pirate talk and music! Get to listenin’!  http://www.PirateRadioOfTheTreasureCoast.com

Important Websites:

Firelock Games
Comments or Questions? Email me at nick@underthecrossbones.com

 

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UTC 208 Wayne Curtis

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Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in 10 Cocktails.  Wayne is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a columnist for the Daily Beast and Garden & Gun.  His stories have also run in the New York Times, American Scholar, Yankee, American Archeology, and on This American Life.

In this episode:

  • Wayne talks a bit about his travels connected with his job as a writer
  • Rums you can find and enjoy
  • We talk about Wayne’s other book, The Last Great Walk.
  • Nick mistakes Wayne for another Wayne Curtis and Wayne is terrible gracious about it

 

Our show was previously sponsored by:


Pirate Radio of the Treasure Coast – The best in pirate talk and music! Get to listenin’!  http://www.PirateRadioOfTheTreasureCoast.com

Important Websites:

Wayne Curtis
Information about the 2nd International Pirate Rendezvous in Germany that I spoke about on today’s show:
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