Serial killing is like figure skating.

You either do something innovative before anyone else,

or you do it a million times.

Welcome to Yorong About the Show where we circle back to every serial killer

we've ever known and loved.

For the record, this was not my goal with this show.

I was like, Sarah, let's talk about Mr. Membrut history.

And I was like, okay, Michael, I respect the fact that most people don't automatically want to talk about serial killers.

And here we are because you enabled me.

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

I'm Sarah Marshall and I am a writer for the New Republic and Buzzfeed in the believer.

And also as of this episode, a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.

Yes, congratulations.

And today we're doing something a little bit different in that we're both obsessed with Halloween

and obsessed with killing.

And so today we thought we would talk about one of the first real slasher's serial killers

and then talk about three of the movies that he inspired.

And basically how the killer, the slasher, the serial killer, whatever

has been socially constructed throughout the years.

So we're mostly going to debunk Ed Gain.

And then we're going to not really debunk, but just sort of talk about how he shows up in different forms

and movies that we like.

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