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Sep 18
19m 29s

Pirates! (Talk Like a Pirate Day!)

Andrew & Polly
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Ahoy, matey! How cold are yer timbers?

Andrew & Polly ask some friends about the steps to talking like a pirate, sprinkled in with some historical pirate factoids and Andrew's dad shares buccaneer tales from Post Office Bay in the Galapagos Islands.

To learn more or to be on the show, visit earsnacks.org - and thanks for listening!

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