Ching Shih: The World’s Most Powerful Pirate Queen

Lindsay and Madison discuss the most fearsome female pirate of all time - Ching Shih - as well as how she invented the prenup, that seducing your adopted son can have far-reaching benefits (even if it toes the line of being squicky), and that we love listener stories. 
Information pulled from the following sources:

2019 ThoughtCo. article by Kallie Szczepanski

2019 History Daily article

2018 Ancient Origins article by user MR Reese

2012 Today I Found Out article by Daven Hiskey

The Way of the Pirates

Rejected Princesses website

Wikipedia

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