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?
Thank you to Osprey Publishing for kind permission to use several of their images in this video. You can discover more in these great books:
Pirates 1660-1730: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirates-16601730-9781855327061/
Pirate: The Golden Age: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirate-9781849084970/
The Pirate Menace: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirate-menace-9781472857736/
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
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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They wore straw hats? That’s immensely disappointing to me, how can you be a pirate without the tricorn hat?
You’d think they’d at least steal some drip in the raids
there was a chenese female pirate if i not wrong she has 1700 ship under her
Most successful pirate in history
So you’re saying Bartholomew Roberts was a………real life Butt-Pirate?
“Pirate Support” just makes me think you call them for pirate business, like “Now ye be sure you tied both ends before keelhauling?”
Was keelhauling a real thing? Sounds like one of the most brutal punishments even.
Yes it was. It wasn’t a punishment strictly reserved for pirates and it wasn’t always done to fatally injure or kill the victim. But it was brutal and horrible
probably only the heatstroke pirates crossing the ecuator spoke like that 😀
Black Beard it’s portrayed so good in the video game, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, including many other pirates
No quisiera decir que el inglés no sea poético pero prefiero mil veces (no por ser mi lengua materna y patria) la versión en español de “Letter of Mark” es decir: “Patente de Corso” derivativo de “corsario”, (que alguien por favor me corrija si estoy equivocado) que llegó a las costas ibéricas del francés y este a su vez tomado del Latín.
did you say….. Straw Hat?????????
Aaagh we done did spake like dat me hearties !
We need a part 2 with Angus
A lot of these videos seem to be about western culture and history- like the folklore one was mainly western- which is very interesting but I’d love to hear more about other countries.
So they wore straw hats and shorts hmm… and they start off on rowboats and build up to bigger ships listen I know one piece isn’t super realistic but like come on
16:43 or they sell them. They weren’t all humanitarian.
18:15 yo ho yo ho tis a pirates life for me 🏴☠️ 🦜 ☠️
BuT ThEY dID iT In OnEpIeCe
“Often, West Africa, the coastal communities were the ones who had actually gone out as slave hunters and sold you into slavery”
Can you repeat that? People asking for reparations for slavery didn’t hear you.
Pirate code 😂 Fmd watch another movie
Jesus Christ, I can’t watch anything nowadays without the word “misogyny” being used.
I read that pirates were also hired by english monarchs to attack only spanish ships, but you say they attacked whomever