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It’s our 200th podcast, and we celebrate by exploring the very best of the best from throughout the years! Rock, metal, shanties… it’s all here! Thanks so much for all the years of support

1. Pirates R Us – KYAR Pirate Radio (3:55)
2. Purple Heart – Pirates by Night (4:24)
3. Pirate Jenny – A Pirates Life Is Peaceful (1:58) [read more »]

See, this is what’s wrong with this world – rum is a drink for ALL seasons. Brilliant in the winter, extraordinary in the summer, flirtatious in the spring, and tauntingly seductive but with a sophisticated dignity in the fall. Still, an 85% increase in sales is great news for the industry. Check the full story:

As mercury dips, rum sales rise

Henry Martin and the Pirates inc. have seen fit to tout the benefits of Island Federal Credit Union – in musical prose, no less. Check it out and then get ready to transfer your life’s savings to a more piratey banking alternative!

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1. Pirates R Us – KYAR Pirate Radio (3:55)
2. Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew – Divide The Plunder (3:02)
3. Blackfeet Peet – A Crew Once More (2:48) [read more »]

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So in all my years of Bilgemunky.com, I’ve never reviewed a pirate app. I guess that’s largely because, until recently, I didn’t own a phone smart enough to handle such things. My phone was ok for making phone calls, was mil-spec rated for dust and vibration resistance, and could handle about 23 seconds of submergence in what I’d love to claim was rum, but was actually some sort of knockoff cool aid. Did I say 23 seconds? Cuz 24 seconds means it’s time to buy a new iPhone, as I recently learned. [read more »]

If a Jack Sparrow look-alike gets peppersprayed in the woods, does it count as pirate news? I suppose by the same standard that I consider it pirate news every time some jackass does something stupid with a bottle of Bacardi onhand, then yes. Yes, it does.

‘Jack Sparrow’ Pepper-sprayed By ‘Catwoman’ In Los Angeles Movie Character Brawl

OK, so it was in LA, not the woods, but it’s still pretty damned funny. Thanks to Mooncusser Jim and Captain Shinbones for sending this my way.

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Bilgemunky fights a cough with ferocity while spinning the greatest pirate tunes on the planet.

1. Pirates R Us – KYAR Pirate Radio (3:55)
2. Guy-Roger Duvert – And a Bottle of Rum (2:24)
3. Jollyship The Whiz Bang – Party Island (2:59) [read more »]

Pirates Legends of the Gulf Coast, has just opened in Jean Laffite’s old stomping grounds, Galveston Texas. Personally, I love Galveston and for a number of years made it an annual trip. The one thing it always lacked, though, was a decent pirate museum. But as you can tell from this article, that problem has now been remedied:

New interactive pirate museum opens in Galveston

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Tired of drinking rum the old fashioned way (straight from the bottle with the smell of burning ships in the air)? Of course not – yer a bloody pirate! But even a bloody pirate can enjoy mixing things up once in a while - figuratively AND literal. With his first book, Kahuna Kevin introduced us to a wide assortment of original rum-based cocktails. 40 concoctions of varying complexity featuring a large number of our favorite rums. And now, with Why is the Rum Gone? Volume 2, Kahuna brings us another 52 masterpieces suited to all sorts of skill-levels and tastes.

That last point can’t be emphasized enough. There was a time that I thought rum-drinkers fell into one of only two camps – [read more »]

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Speaking strictly from the perspectives of myth and legend, Blackbeard just might be history’s perfect pirate. He was big, mean, dramatic… he fought like a demon and died like a folk (anti)hero. And what’s more, the man mixed gunpowder in his rum. I mean, seriously – this is the sort of thing that Hollywood makes up and then historians nerdily remind us that, “you know, pirates didn’t actually do this, or do that…” But Blackbeard did. He was the real deal, and this is why now and forever, there should always be a rum or two bearing his name.

Blackbeard Spiced Rum has risen to the challenge of bearing Teach’s title, but does it live up? In the bottle, its classy and striking, with a black lable and stylized artwork of the man himself. The rum inside is a basic brownish amber, and upon opening you’re instantly greeted with a surprisingly robust vanilla aroma. [read more »]