Hello, serial productions listeners. This is Sarah Koenig, and I'm trying to keep my cool here, but we have got such a great show coming next week. I can hardly contain myself. Even the title fills me with vicarious pride.
It's called The Idiot. The host is M. Gessen, which might be surprised depending on your familiarity with their work. M is widely known for their writing about totalitarianism, terrorism, the erosion of human rights, but in this show, M investigates a more personal topic, their cousin, Alan.
It is a shocking family story about a terrible crime that is also very funny, because M is very funny. I love this show, and I hope you will too. The whole series, all five episodes are out March 26th, wherever you get your podcasts. Here's the trailer.
In theory, I knew that this kind of thing can happen in any family. Anyone's first cousin could be plotting murder. This is UC4735, and today is... Upstanding citizens are always turning out to be secret criminals.
They're working with Alan Gessen. And I wouldn't even call him an upstanding citizen. My clients are cartel level guys, they're all bad ass, and they're... There's one thing to know, there's a more permanent way to do it.
More than more different and another thing to understand. Alan, murder, me? It ended up being so much worse than I thought I knew. The price is limited to reasonable.
What the hell was Alan thinking? Can you just say that I'm limited to stuff? Yeah, yeah, I get it. From serial productions and The New York Times, I'm M Gessen, and this is the idiot.
Out March 26th, wherever you get your podcasts.