This episode of This American Life serves as a promotional and narrative introduction to The Idiot, a new five-part true crime podcast from Serial Productions and The New York Times, reported and narrated by M. Gessen. The story centers on Gessen’s cousin, Alan Gessen, a flamboyant
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