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Listener discretion is advised. They begin to release their wildly conflicting accounts about what had occurred and they're hoping to save their lies because if they don't tell a convincing tale, they could be hanged.

And so this unleashes this great war over the truth. Here these men have waged the war

against the elements and now they're going to wage this war over the truth.

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, and the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show, 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 War 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. I love a tale set on the high seas. You can't beat a twisty story about an 18th century

mutiny and survival and then conflicting accounts.

Author David Grant has written about the epic harrowing saga of a ship and its crew in a book called The Wager, a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder.

Let's jump into the story of The Wage. mutiny and murder.

Let's jump into the story of the wager and what its mission was where we are in time. So in 1739, an imperial war had broken out between Great Britain and its imperial rival Spain

and the wager, the ship, had received orders to set sail with a squadron of several other warships on a secret mission

to try to capture a Spanish galleon filled with so much treasure was known as the prize of all the oceans. Believe it or not that was part of the mission.

I had a real whiff of piracy about it, even though it was a naval mission and it was part of the war. So that was the original order and kind of what begins this

misadventure in many ways.

So how many crewmen are we talking about and how many officers?

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