from syracuse, new york, please welcome michael barbour. hi, michael. nice to meet you. >> hi. w are you? >> pirate, huh? what do you know about him? >> well, it's more of a family legend than anything else, but there was a simon barbour, who was a privateer in halifax, nova scotia, on the privateer the revenge-- >> what does that mean, being a privateer? >> you're kind of a professional pirate, but you're working for the government, you know, so-- >> oh, i didn't know the government had pirates. >> yeah, so the canadian government said, "take all the american ships you want, and