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Hey guys,This is a special episode that has been on my desk for months to do and finally is here. With September 19th coming soon, we talk about "Talk Like A Pirate" day. We thought who better to be our expert than an expert pirate of the seas right now. We had to do this show via internet and yes, it is longer than our normal shows but trust me...well worth it!!!!Rob Brunner is a Canadian Lieutenant Commander of the Navy. He is also an expert on pirates as he writes a column in a pirate magazine called the Ècho des Mers out of Quebec, Canada. He also is part of the 1000 island pirates society that does re-enactments of the times. He always wanted to be a pirate but joined the navy instead. The drink we will be talking about today is called the Rum Runner cocktail which was based out of Florida at a bar called Holiday Isle Tiki Bar or today known as the Postcard Inn (speakeasy bar). The gentleman who created this cocktail is named John Ebert or “Tiki John” as he wanted to be referred to. This drink has two types of rum, Chambord, Banana Liqueur, some juices and can be blended or built in the glass. Check out our recipes on our recipe page: https://tikicentralcanada.ca/recipes/The story goes that after prohibition in USA that there was an issue with rum being a surplus in bars (yeah, no way)!! It seemed that if you wanted a bottle of whiskey as an example you had to buy a case of rum as well. This became an issue for this bar and Johnny got to it and created the drink. He named it rum runner after the famous chaps that would transport rum from the Caribbean islands to the American coastline during prohibition. They were called rum runners and the most famous one and who started it all was William "Real" McCoy. No, I didn't make that up. He started with a shipyard and a motor boat service. During Prohibition, he quickly found that bringing rum from the Caribbean islands to USA was profitable. In fact, he first journey made him a cool $15,000 (today equals $200,000). He soon would have a fleet of ships and realized as well the international waters coastline was the way to avoid the authorities. Curious about the fella, we listen in to our story of him..arrrr!!!For "Did you know?" segment: Rob runs us through some cool past and present terms of the navy and even pirates, you see!! This whole episode is covered in cool facts of the sea and the times of piracy.Some cool links for ya!!Rob's Learning the ropes of knots video (must see!!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=B4tn1porX-8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR39eNuJCH2aemOCbnDZJGp7bQhfh4zg3QU6tSLNWsWdstnfUoL80Qgn5oUThe pirate magazine homepage: https://fliphtml5.com/homepage/gybp?fbclid=IwAR0gefXAyFIRE6yS3n93secHViMAOpG01u4ntHxVJyM5XVF4ChMRzvmL8FMRob's previous navy page on our website: https://tikicentralcanada.ca/navy-terminology/Previous "Talk Like A Pirate" day episodes on our Episode page: https://tikicentralcanada.ca/episodes/YouTube video on William "Real" McCoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aoDosrEusSHOW CORRECTION: I feel bad...ops...Rum runners was not in the started in 40's and 50's but 30's...there you go I feel better now!!!