This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. What's really interesting to me again and again throughout history is that when everything else around us seems to change, human nature never

does. So in this story there's genius and mediocrity, there's ambition, envy,

courage, cowardice, friendship and betrayal, so all of these, it's just

human nature both at its best and its worst. I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin,

Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom, and they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those stories

with details that have never been published.

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words. with details that have never been published.

Tenfold More Wicked Presents, Wicked Words,

is about the choices that writers make, good and bad.

It's a deep dive into the stories, behind the stories.

Author Candice Millard is one of my most favorite writers.

She knows how to unravel a story about lost history and adventure and betrayal.

Her latest book is called River of the Gods,

and it's a tale about two adventurers who want nothing more than infamy.

And we know that most of the time time those stories don't end well.

So let's start from the beginning of the story.

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