Consider this, folks. You remember the movie E.T.? You remember the moment on the screen when some candy was handed by the boy to the extraterrestrial? What was that candy? How do you know that? There was about five seconds or less on that screen where that took place. The sale of Reese's pieces went through the roof.

What you saw influenced behavior.

Now, if that occurs from five seconds on the screen,

what effect does the Texas chainsaw massacre have on young people who happen to be vulnerable to that?

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Ain't nobody safe.

Happy Halloween, everybody. Consider this a bit of a treat episode here. This is a bonus outside the normal episodes I usually do. So if you're new to the show, I am a former fundamentalist who sheds light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpits to the pews. Typically, this is cases of abuse, generally sexual abuse within fundamentalist conservative Christian circles and sometimes

stems into financial mismanagement and abuse and other, you know, high control religious

tactics that are incredibly harmful. And then sometimes there's episodes like this one

that are just totally unexpected. I think it was like a week and a half ago that this even came

into my mind as an idea. So this is a kind of last minute episode that I was like,

huh, this would be an interesting one to kind of point out as an odd curiosity.

But the way that this all happened, and I wrote it down so I can remember the timeline of events,

it's very weird the way this played out.

So I'm a huge horror fan.

I love, and to be very clear, not a big true crime fan.

I'm a big fictional horror fan. So I love me a good slasher movie. I love, you know, I just love

the horror genre and all its different flavors. If you're watching this right now, let me know if you

two are a horror fan and drop the name of your favorite horror movie in the comments. But I am a

massive horror fan. And when I saw the trailer for Ryan Murphy's series Monster, the Ed Gein

story, I was really intrigued. It looked really good, at least from the trailer. And then I started

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