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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry and Cult Leader is a podcast about the creepy stuff.

So let's get to it.

Quick note, last I heard all pre-orders will be shipping out this week. Some of the suppliers were based out of Texas, so it had to be shipped from Texas to California for printing.

And my little team up in the Bay area let me know that everything will be shipped out this week. So that's super exciting.

In other news, I watched a few really good things this weekend that I want to tell you guys about one being a bander snatch and I know this got kind of mixed reviews, but I loved it.

It's a part of Black Mirror, which if you haven't seen the show Black Mirror each episode is like a different thing. It's kind of like Twilight Zone, but a little more mind-fuck-y.

And anyways, basically what they did was they made an interactive movie, which it's on Netflix and you kind of pick what the main character does throughout the movie and it leads you to I think there's a total of five different possible endings, but it's really interesting.

I appreciate personally all of the effort that must have gone into like not only writing the film, but filming all of those alternate scenes.

And I don't know, that's cool. So I recommend watching it. If you haven't, it's fun. Also, I took a deep dive into Reddit afterwards. I'm not giving away any spoilers, but I noticed that the symbol they used throughout the film is the same one from the Black Mirror episode White Bear.

So if you haven't seen that, watch that. That's a good episode to start with. And it's one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. So anyways, I'm really interested to hear what you guys thought about it.

And here's my segue. If you've seen the text of Chance on Massacre, Psycho, Silence of the Lams, probably a lot more. You probably cross pass with a character that was loosely based off of the story of a man named Ed Gain.

So Night Story is about Ed Gain. And it's one of the stories that I find like equal parts interesting and gross. It's one of those ones where you're like, okay, stop talking, but also tell me more, which pretty much describes my personal relationship with True Crime.

I'm like always so fascinated by the atrocities and like the worst something is the more I'm like, don't tell me, but like, okay, tell me, but why did you tell me that? It's like, oh my god, this is awful.

And I'm sure a lot of you guys feel that way too. And again, I think it's just natural. The human mind wants wants to know. I know that Ed Gain has been like the basis of characters for like a ton of different things.

But once you hear this story, it, I don't know, a part of it made me feel for him.

Which is generally the case. I feel like so many of the people that I talk about are people that had really hard lives.

And it, it makes that a little bit more not understandable in the sense of like why they did what they did. But you can see that these were people who acted out of a place of frustration a lot of the time.

A lot of these people experienced a ton of abuse and it's definitely not an excuse for what they did and what their actions were. But I think it helps to kind of like paint a picture of how their path kind of came to be the path that they went down.

He grew up in a pretty weird environment. So he was born on August 27th 1906 to parents George and Augusta Gain in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.

He also had an older brother named Henry. Hey, and the two of them grew up in again, kind of like a chaotic household. It definitely wasn't like the most loving environment. Their dad George was kind of a dick.

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