Caribbean
About Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north and also the west through Central America, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks.
On the show — 77 mentions total
According to the leading piracy historian Marcus Redeker, more people have worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise than there were ever actual pirates of the Caribbean. He reckons there were 4,000 total ever cumulative pirates.
from 548: No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 at 00:53:15 · read transcript
Other times Caribbean came up
Wow. In 1893. He was 19. He was in a schooner called the Black Pearl. He and his shipmate were going to retrieve gold from a sunken ship, which had sunk 20 years before. It's the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean. It's the same one. Yeah. So then they got shipwrecked. It was only two of them in this boat. They spent 11 weeks on a desert island eating raw penguin and drinking rain.
471: No Such Thing As A Toin Coss, 2023-03-24 · listen
That was, you know, I've been on some cruises. I've been an entertainer on some Caribbean cruises, and I don't know. I was on a cruise at the same time that the Carnival Triumph cruise ship, which ended up being the most ironically named cruise ship because it was not a party and it was a pure failure, where their electrics went out and they drifted at sea for five or six days and it almost immediately turned to anarchy.
163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
Which gets blamed for a lot of stuff being carried. I think it was from there that they thought it might have come because similarly, I think we talked before about how a lot of the sand in the Caribbean is blown over from the Sahara. There was this major coral disease in 1999, which killed off loads of Caribbean coral. It was a fungus called Aspergillus sidaui. It happened to coincide with all these dust storms in the Sahara.
577: No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 · listen
That's amazing. God, fish are real troublemakers, aren't they? On lobsters, which I believe this was about, so the Caribbean, so the thing that this was originally about, actually, was a Caribbean spiny lobster, which was a kind of rock lobster, but this is a kind of lobster that cues. A very British brand of lobster, but when they migrate, they form orderly single file cues. They migrate seasonally because they want to get away from cold water, and these, you know, these are the most precious lobsters on that coastline, and yeah, they cling to each other and form an orderly cue and move a single file.
216: No Such Thing As A Lobster War, 2018-05-11 · listen
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548: No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga put 6 places on the map.
- Lake Constance · Germany
- Lincoln Center · United States
- Fort Wayne · United States
- Emerald Beach · United States
- Swindon · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 14.5256, -75.8183