president s son. i watched the united states attorney tell a roomful of senior fbi and senior leads that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. that was my redline. that s stunning testimony. if that testimony is truthful, then it means merrick garland, joe biden s attorney general, committed multiple felonies. he should be impeached and the department of justice should appoint a special counsel to investigate prosecuting him for lying under oath and obstruction of justice. jesse: we couldn t agree more. senator ted cruz, thank you very much. thank you and congrats on the 8:00 hour, big deal. jesse: thank you very much. i appreciate that, senator. coming up, sex robots, castaways, seven dwarves. remember the pain? cancelled plans? the worry? that was then. and look at me now. you ll never truly forget migraine.
outbreaks, naval battles. you can read them, but i also did something foolish which is i made my own journey to wager island to understand what the castaways had gone through. tell me, david, this does sound so much like lord of the flies. i m wondering if golding was inspired by this story. even the island itself is what i imagined in my mind when i was reading lord of the flies how it looks and going up. and it actually, you look at it, and there are a couple of moments, dramatic scenes near the end where it looks like it could have happened on that island. very much so. i don t know about lord of the flies but this story influenced so many people. it influenced ruso and voltaire. it influenced charles darwin who carried a copy of one of these narratives on the beagle with him.
wager. this british naval ship set off in 1740 on a secret mission with a squadron to try to capture a spanish galleon filled with treasure, but it wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of patagonia where the crew and officers slowly descending into a real life lord of the flies. there were mutinies and murder and even cannibalism. but the thing that is most striking is that some of the castaways made it back to england where they were summoned to face a court-martial for their crimes. they release an account of what happened which unleashed this war over the truth. there were competing narratives and allegations of fake news. that s timely. you see pictures of the island they crashed on. tell us about the research that went into this. how did you discover this narrative and these conflicting tales? i first came across an 18th century account by a midshipman who was 16 years old. he would later become the grandfather of the poet lord byron, whose poetry was influenced by wh
officers slowly descending into a real life lord of the flies. there were mutinies and murder and even cannibalism. but the thing that is most striking is that some of the castaways made it back to england where they were summoned to face a court-martial for their crimes. they release an account of what happened which unleashed this war over the truth. there were competing narratives and allegations of fake news. that s timely. you see pictures of the island they crashed on. tell us about the research that went into this. how did you discover this narrative and these conflicting tales? i first came across an 18th century account by a midshipman who was 16 years old. he would later become the grandfather of the poet lord byron, whose poetry was influenced by what he called my
grand dad s narrative. what is amazing is are the surprising trove of first-hand documents you can find in archives that somehow survived tidal waves, typhoons, scurvy outbreaks, naval battles. you can read them, but i also did something foolish which is i made my own journey to wager island to understand what the castaways had gone through. tell me, david, this does sound so much like lord of the flies. i m wondering if golding was inspired by this story. even the island itself is what i imagined in my mind when i was reading lord of the flies how it looks and going up. and it actually, you look at it, and there are a couple of moments, dramatic scenes near the end where it looks like it could have happened on that island. very much so. i don t know about lord of the