John Douglas, the FBI Criminal Profiler and the inspiration for the hit Netflix

Mind Hunter and if you haven't seen Mind Hunter yet what are you doing

with your life? He has a book out called The Killer Across the Table and

it's unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original

mind hunter, John Douglas.

And right, and John, thank you so much for coming on chewing theiler, first of all.

It's an honor to have you here.

Well, thank you.

So you, as a profiler, years ago,

started thinking to yourself, man these guys might have something in common.

What was the first thing that clicked in your head that brought that to your attention?

Because you were the first to think of something like that.

Well, when I came back to the FBI Academy, I was only 32 years old and kind of like the character

portraying me in the show and I was in the in the military at four years there and had

seven years in the field as an agent a Haas negotiated a SWAT team member and a

couple of graduates. He hadn't done much before you came back to the FBI.

So I got back to the FBI, what you said.

I got back to Quantico.

What they were teaching, they were teaching a lot of war stories about offenders.

For example, like Charles Manson, they'd be talking about Charles Manson,

and all of a sudden the hand shoots up in the audience and say, wait, and I worked that case, you got your facts

wrong. So the concept was to, while doing called road schools you'd be out for two weeks

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