Hello, Serial Productions listeners. This is Sarah Koenig, and I am 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 Gesson, which might be a surprise 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, Em 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 twenty-sixth, 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.
Upstanding citizens are always turning out to be secret criminals. With Alan Gesson? And I wouldn't even call my cousin Alan. You know my clients are cartel level guys, they're all badasses. They're But it's one thing to know there is a more permanent way to do it. Is there? Yeah. More and more definite. And another thing to understand. It ended up being so much worse than I thought I knew. The price is eminently reasonable. Okay, so what it worse is.
And the New York Times. M M. Gesson, and this is the idiot. Wherever you get your podcasts.