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Pirate Podcast

Hi everyone,

I have just created a podcast about pirates. First thing I want to note is that it is much longer than the 3 minute limit for the assignment. I have broken the podcast up and at 2.5 minutes I inserted a little break that lets you know that I reached the limit of the assignment, but I really wanted to include all the content that I recorded, so I also have allowed you to continue listening if you desire.

Basically, this podcast was a summary of a paper I wrote about pirates a number of years ago. I have always been really interested in 17th century pirates from a social and economic perspective. I find them to be fascinating and in a lot of ways I feel a ton of empathy for individuals who ended up becoming pirates. I have always said that this paper was the most thought provoking paper I have ever written and I was excited to revisit it. I hope you enjoy the content and I want you to remember that the assignment was only the first three minutes, but please feel free to listen to the whole podcast if you are enjoying it.

Please let me know if you are having trouble listening to this. Basically I just created a widget in Box and embedded it here. I think it works, but if not let me know.

 

Thanks for listening,
Nico



PS- here is the paper that I wrote and used to create this podcast (works cited is at the bottom):

 







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