This is just a distraction.

Yeah, yeah, that's just a distraction.

What's actually happening is that there is a death cult down in South America who is using a bird that is made from a woman who is bringing a pearl that will drop it into a, and it's just this whole, like he plays with it and he has that one scene where Swamp Thing goes to the JLA watchtower And you're kind of like, okay, I kind of get what's going on here.

But he works completely outside of it.

He hijacks Crisis on Infinite Earths.

It's one of the greatest, biggest crossovers of all time.

And he hijacks it and he makes it his own.

many Magic the Gathering tournaments did you oversee?

Well, Last Pods, numbers are doing well.

Yeah, but there's going to be these long...

It's going to be one of those long-term effects of the Trump administration.

Because there's going to be...

There's no going back.

Literally thousands.

There are going to be...

So, God.

[tense music]

Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.

Hello from the sewers in New York City, which swallow up these delicacies when they're washed away by the sweeper trucks.

Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of New York City, from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed in the dried blood that has settled into these cracks.

In the year 1977, New York City was caught in the grip of a killer.

He was smart, ruthless, and deadly.

Nobody could stop him, and his name was John Hood.

John Hood, if you don't mind, I have a final epilogue for you.

Thank you.

A load from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.

A load from the sewers of New York City, which swallow up these delicacies when they're washed away by the sweep of trucks.

A load from the cracks in the sidewalks of New York City.

from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed into dried blood to settle into these cracks.

In the year 1977, New York City was caught in the grip of a killer.

He was smart, ruthless, and deadly.

You think maybe he's kindred?

So nobody notices that something's up with you, and you arrive at the headquarters at the clubhouse of the Hells Angels.

All right, boys, we fucking talked about this.

We talked about this.

We talked about what would f- fucking happen when I get to this fucking point.

So we just need something right fucking now.

I need something right fucking now.

I'm-

God will lead me to him." "John, what do you think?"

is harder.

Yes.

There we go.

Cocaine's a little harder than acid.

Sure.

I'll take an acid as well.

But yeah, did a lot of cocaine in New York City in the late 2000s.

You ain't the top guy.

What's up?

Come on back here, boy.

I'm going to teach you a thing way back we learned down here on the Bowery when things was pretty fucking rough.

You think it's rough now? Nah.

I'm not worried about it.

I can handle myself.

I bet you can.

this?

The Bloodbath 77 Intro.

Hello from the gutters in New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.

Hello from the sewers in New York City, which swallow up these delicacies when they're washed away by the sweep of trucks.

Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks in New York City, from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed into dried blood to settle into these cracks.

In the year 1977, New York City was caught in the grip of a killer.

He was smart, ruthless, and deadly.

Nobody could stop him.

Am I going to see something interesting?

That's what this was.

Yeah.

To see it so naked.And to see it said so bluntly that we know that these wealthy people...

Like, 'cause we, you see with DuPonts and, you know, and other families, like, they weren't the only one, of course, but, you know, we could see the consequences of their actions.

We can see what happened because of the decisions they made.

But with the Epstein files, I think what is really getting to us, you know, when you, when you just look at this stuff, like, when, when you look at the stu- like, stuff like this, like, this is the, the thing that has an effect on the lives of every single person listening right now.

And to hear it, you know, and it's not a TV show, it's not a movie.

I mean, they need to pay for this stuff somehow, you know? So crypto being a part of it, uh, I mean, crypto's, it's almost essential, uh, to, you know, the-

It's a good announcement.

It's a good...

It's good news.

Uh, first of all, let's just go ahead and get it out of the way and say what we all want- I know what everyone wants to hear: if you don't want anything to change, it won't.

So-

... which is fucking amazing, uh, 'cause the thing is about the Netflix deal is that it's gonna enable us to do so much more cool shit here at the network.

We're gonna be able to do new video streaming, uh, shows.

Sure.

But when you kinda flipside that to the number of serial killers who murdered in the name of God or in the name of Jesus, that number skyrockets.

It's dozens upon dozens upon do- Gary Ridgway, you know, like the, the Green River Killer.

Some of this stuff does come partly from projection and it does come partly from we know that the world is fucked up, we know that the world is chaotic, and especially like now, once this does hit a moral panic, if it does hit a moral panic, the very same people that are causing all of the chaos in this world right now are the very same people that are gonna be calling for stricter laws, that are gonna be calling for people to be arrested.

They're gonna be calling for investigations.

Uh, those people, I think, are just gonna make things far worse, um, just because they... (sighs) It's just how they do it.

But then I also think, like, maybe you can achieve that in real life just as easily, like pre-internet too.

Oh, yeah.

Do nothing.

It's really nice to have that.

But if you do want a little bit of a change, uh, from now on, if you get a Stitcher Plus premium subscription, you can get the episode a week early.

For example, if you wanna listen to both Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow Part iiv and our annual March Madness: The Serial Killers this Friday, you can do that.

But if you wanna just wait until next week when the March Madness: The Serial Killers is gonna come out anyway for free on the feed, then you can wait for that.

So it's absolutely, 100% totally up to you.

Um, you know, it doesn't change anything about, uh, Side Stories.

Not to mention more talent.