Episodes

  • Ep. 24: Ride That Magilla
    Feb 4 2023

    It's time for another deep dive into non-OFMD pirate media! This time: Disney's "Treasure Island." Now infamous as one of the most expensive animated features of all time (and one of the costliest box office flops), this fusion of 19th-century adventure tale and futurist SF epic wowed Co-Captains Jenn and Lea. And not only because they are both deeply in love with Captain Amelia Smollett. Hop aboard! 

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    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Featured music: "Jim Saves the Crew" by James Newton Howard and "I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)" by John Rzeznik, both from the "Treasure Planet" soundtrack, produced by Chris Montan for Walt Disney. 

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show, including some about medical history? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers!  https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    59 mins
  • Ep. 23: Wrecking Our Ship
    Jan 27 2023

    We run down a bunch of sneak peeks, photo leaks and other tidbits from the OFMD cast and crew about the upcoming Season 2! Now that filming has finished, it's time to speculate and look ahead, from David Jenkins' provocative flag tweet to Vico's incendiary insta post. What are your hopes and predictions? Listen in and see if they match ours!

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    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show, including some about medical history? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers!  https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    56 mins
  • Ep. 22: Tatty Old Things
    Jan 17 2023

    It's a clip show! Jenn gathered up some outtakes, some of which you've never heard before, and also mined the archives to recall some of the fun bits and bobs from our early episodes, with a brand-new Wed Bed Behead and the longest-ever Bad Pirate Joke. 

    Connect with Scott Johnson on Twitter: @thinpartitions

    Connect with Sarah J. Vest on Twitter: @ominoustuna

    Connect with Evelyn Rogers on Twitter: @wow__then or on their website: https://www.evelynleerogers.com/

    Connect with Laura Sook Duncombe on Twitter: @lauraduncombe1 or on her website: https://laurasookduncombe.wordpress.com/

    Connect with Em Capettini on Twitter: @pollycocktail

    Connect with Tiarne Lambert on Twitter: @tattyoldthing 

    Connect with Ra Vincent on Twitter: @ra_vincent or on his website: https://www.ravincentworkshop.com/

    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show, including some about medical history? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    42 mins
  • Ep 21: Immoderate Use of Citrus
    Jan 10 2023

    It's a journey through illness and history as Jenn and Lea talk with epidemiologist Wes Martin and learn a lot about scurvy: What it is, how people get it, and why it's dangerous. (The teeth really do not go back in!) But we don't stop there: We'take a historical tour of the diseases and dangers of the Age of Piracy, many of which still afflict people today, thanks in no small part to imperialism, colonialism, environmental and economic racism and other systemic inequities. (Also, an important reminder: Hey, crew, wash your hands.)

    Connect with Wes Martin on Twitter: @weslungus

    Want to know more about public health today and how to help? Doctors without Frontiers / Medicins sans Frontieres 

    A great basic resource about public health: The World Health Organization

    In the United States? Check out the work and policy initiatives of the American Public Health Association

    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show, including some about medical history? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Ep. 20: A Professional Pirate
    Dec 28 2022

    We'll end the year with a side quest! Instead of our favorite pirate media, Co-captains Lea and Jenn take a deep dive off the plank to talk about a DIFFERENT pirate media: "Muppet Treasure Island," starring the absolutely luminous Tim Curry and a great cast of our favorite muppets (and some of our favorite humans). How did a 19th-century novel become a beloved children's movie with a frog captain, a pig femme fatale and the motleyest of motley crews? Very well, actually. We think this delight is the perfect cure for "Cabin Fever" (cue: AAAAHHH).

    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music. 

    "A Professional Pirate," "Love Led Us Here" and "Cabin Fever" were written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Soundtrack from Angel Records.

    Want books relevant to the show? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

     

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ep. 19: Terror Time
    Nov 1 2022

    It's our favorite month and our favorite holiday! Jenn and Lea celebrate Spooktober with a look at some Pirate Horror. From the not-so-scary ("Headless") to the engagingly creepy ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island") to the truly scary ("The Fog"), we compare and rate some ways to combine our love of pirates with our--well, Lea's--love of horror. Can YOU solve Jenn's decades-old spooky mystery? And finally, we have a seasonally appropriate bout of "Wed, Bed, Behead" with our Rocky Horror co-star. 

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    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    52 mins
  • Ep. 18: Pirates of Fortune
    Oct 18 2022

    Jenn and Lea talk with Ruth Hanson, the hilarious dynamo who's creating the upcoming pilot "Ladies of Fortune," a queer pirate drama centering on Anne Bonney and Mary Read. (Co-starring Damien Gerard as Ben Hornigold!) So how did we end up talking so much about Eddie Munson, Steddie fanfic and "Stranger Things"? And how did we talk so much about monster loving? This may be our most unhinged ever edition of "Wed, Bed, Behead"!

    The "Ladies of Fortune" website: https://www.ladiesoffortune.tv/

    Connect with Ruthie Hanson on Twitter: @ruthiewrites91

    Buy Ruthie's book "Railwalkers" on Amazon

    Buy some of Ruthie's other books on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/we-talked-about

    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Ep. 17: Live Show from Our Con Means Death
    Oct 12 2022

    It's our first live show! We couldn't find anyone to mug for a dinghy, so we couldn't get to Bristol in person for Our Con Means Death. Not to worry: The Con Crew set us up with a virtual platform. We take questions from Twitter and the live chat and argue about bad pirate jokes, cats vs. dogs and spend more time than you might expect talking about raccoons. 

    The Our Con Means Death website: https://ourconmeansdeath.com/

    Connect with the Our Con Means Death crew on Twitter: @GoodShipRevenge

    Connect with the Our Con Means Death crew on Instagram: @goodshiprevenge

    Learn more about the Con's chosen charity, Mermaids UK: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/

    Connect with us on Twitter: @PiracyGay

    Connect with Lea on Instagram: @leawhymua 

    Connect with Jenn on Instagram: @RJSpirko

    Intro voiceover by Steve Blodgett

    Wave sounds produced by Julius H, and our theme music is by John Sib. Available on Pixabay music.

    Want books relevant to the show? We have a Bookshop.org store: Buy online through our affiliate link and support the show, as well as local indie booksellers! https://bookshop.org/shop/gaypiracypod

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    57 mins