Gavin Newsom

What I come to realize is that when people think that they're dating this AI companion, they're actually dating the companies that create this.

You know Roald Dahl, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG.

But did you know he was also a spy?

Was this before he wrote his stories?

It must have been.

Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roald Dahl, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life.

You probably won't believe it either.

How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?

And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids?

The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote.

Greg Gillespie and Michael Marincini.

And when you endeavored, I mean, what's this?

You said it was a 10-year process from the idea and storyboarding.

Remember him?

He had 13 months to go in his presidency.

And I said, we're doing the American Revolution.

And I knew it would take that.

No one was talking semi-quincentennial.

No one was talking 250th.

About halfway through, I thought, man, if we accelerate, we could be at the 250th of Lexington and Concord.