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No one in Los Angeles does just one

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thing. She's

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a model actress, he's a singer,

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songwriter, and almost everyone

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is a writer director. In

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l a lingo. They call these fancy titles multi

0:16

hyphen its, and of course they're

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mostly just talk. Few

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of these wild eyed dreamers ever make their mark

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in any of the things they claim to do, but

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not in this case. This

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is the story of one of LA's most intriguing

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and original multi hyphen its, a

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writer who in the nineties wrote

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a memorable novel about a sad loner

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who sets fires around Los Angeles because

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it turns him on sexually.

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Chapter one is about a fire, Chapter

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two is about a different fire, Chapter

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three, Chapter four, Chapter five, Fire

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Fire Fire. This

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book was not a great work of fiction, but

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if looked closer at the details of the different

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fires described in each chapter as

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investigators and prosecutors, eventually

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did you discovered

1:10

that this might not be a work of fiction

1:12

at all. This

1:15

book starts to look a lot like the

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real confessions of one of the most

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elusive and prolific arsonists

1:22

in American history. A

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brush fire burned twenty

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nine other fires left an eighteen

1:29

million dollar trail of ashes, southern

1:32

California was being deep to death with fires.

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Governor George Duke Majorn offered a fifty

1:37

dollar reward or the arrest of the arsonists.

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This Firebug left investigators

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so stumped that they started to wonder.

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I told him it's one of us. Everybody

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kind of just looks at me. This is

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the incendiary true story of

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the man who spent years lighting up

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Los Angeles more than anyone.

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We're going to get this guy, a master fire

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starter, the most ethic arsonist of

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the twentieth century, turned writer. I'm

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going to confess in a book what

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I've been doing for the past seven years, who inevitably

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became the worst was in a home improvement

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store where poor people died, including

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a child. A murderer too. I'm

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carry Antholis and this is Firebug,

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a new audio series coming soon

2:19

to Apple Podcasts or wherever you get

2:22

your podcasts. This guy's not gonna

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stop, you know, if firebugs don't stop,