Amanda Lehan-Canto

I felt bad, but I had a great time.

You're like, I was singing sea shanties.

But yeah, there's an incredible book I read last year.

It's not Pirates, but it's called The Wager.

And it's a true story about how back in the 1700s, England was sending basically like a...

They hired pirates.

They weren't pirates, but they were sent to go and basically rob Spanish galleons because they were against Spain.

And they were like, we got a bunch of Spanish galleons on the Pacific side of South America.

We want to sneak these boats over there to go steal gold from them.

I think it's something along those lines, but one of their boats shipwrecks at the bottom of South America, and they get stranded on an island down there, and nobody in the world knows about them because it was a secret.

And so they were stuck for months on this stranded island, and there's a mutiny, and eventually multiple different parties try to escape, and they—

survivors from it are found.

One is found on the western side of South America.

A couple others were found on the eastern side.

Months later, they had been out at sea.

It's a crazy story.

And this is all in like the 1700s.

Just nuts.

I'm... I'm...

Low-key obsessed with shipwrecks.