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In this episode of Confetti Park, Katy Hobgood Ray interviews Ol\\u2019 Chumbucket, the co-creator of International Talk Like a Pirate Day\\xa0on September 19.\\xa0Chumbucket, also known as John Baur in certain circles, lives in New Orleans today (he has lived in many places including the Virgin Islands) and spends much of his time traveling the pirate festival circuit promoting his books and pirate culture.

Chrissie Warren: Pirate Hunter, is his latest. It\\u2019s a truly entertaining young adult book about a 13-year-old girl in colonial Virginia who disguises herself as a boy in order to sign onto a merchant ship. What drives her to such rash madness? She must rescue her father, who has been taken by terrible pirates. This book is a great ride!

Ol\\u2019 Chumbucket has co-authored \\xa0at least eight books about pirate culture with his buddy Cap\\u2019n Slappy (a.k.a Mark Summers, the co-creator of\\xa0Talk Like a Pirate Day), including A Li\\u2019l Pirate\\u2019s ABSeas, \\u201ca piratical romp through the alphabet with all that that implies. Sometimes rude, sometimes downright dangerous and subversive, but always fun and always funny.\\u201d

Kids in the Algiers Point neighborhood where Confetti Park is located were very lucky to have Ol\\u2019 Chumbucket come to the Hubbell Library. He and the\\xa0NOLA Pyrates Society sang sea shanties and shared pirate lore.\\xa0Katy recorded this interview with Chumbucket outside the library located near the river. (You can hear the wind! Sorry for the rumbles.)

Here she talks to him about the genesis of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and they uncover what it is that makes pirates so universally appealing.

Says Chumbucket:\\xa0\\u201cPirates, they\\u2019re an expression of freedom.\\xa0We always tell people it\\u2019s \\u2018Talk Like a Pirate Day\\u2019\\u2014not \\u2018Commit Felonies Like a Pirate Day.\\u2019 We\\u2019re not advocating you actually waylay a Spanish galleon.

But\\u2026 pirates were the freest people on earth. They lived by their own rules; they rejected convention. So when you go out and live your life for YOU instead of the rules that everybody else\\u2019s putting on you, the TV ads that tell you you have to smell like this, and the magazine ads that tell you you have to wear these shoes\\u2026 if you do what you want, because it\\u2019s what you want, then you\\u2019re living like a pirate.\\u201d

For more information about Ol\\u2019 Chumbucket, visit his websites https://baurlife.com/ and \\xa0http://talklikeapirate.com/.

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