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Speaker 1: No one in Los Angeles does just one thing. She's

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Speaker 1: a model actress, he's a singer, songwriter, and almost everyone

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Speaker 1: is a writer director. In l A lingo, they call

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Speaker 1: these fancy titles multi hyphen its, and of course they're

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Speaker 1: mostly just talk. Few of these wild eyed dreamers ever

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Speaker 1: make their mark in any of the things they claim

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Speaker 1: to do, but not in this case. This is the

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Speaker 1: story of one of l A's most intriguing and original

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Speaker 1: multi hyphen its, a writer who in the nineties wrote

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Speaker 1: a memorable novel about a sad loner who sets fires

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Speaker 1: around Los Angeles because it turns him on sexually. Chapter

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Speaker 1: one is about a fire, Chapter two is about a

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Speaker 1: different fire, Chapter three, Chapter four, Chapter five, Fire Fire Fire.

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Speaker 1: This book was not a great work of fiction, But

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Speaker 1: if you looked closer at the details of the different

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Speaker 1: fires described in each chapter as investigators and prosecutors, eventually

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Speaker 1: did you discovered that this might not be a work

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Speaker 1: of fiction at all. This book starts to look a

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Speaker 1: lot like the real confessions of one of the most

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Speaker 1: elusive and prolific arsonists in American history. A brush Fire

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Speaker 1: burned twenty nine other fires, left an eighteen million dollar

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Speaker 1: trail of ashes. Southern California was being deep to death

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Speaker 1: with fires. Governor George Duke Major offered a fifty dollar

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Speaker 1: reward or the arrest of the arsonists. This Firebug left

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Speaker 1: investigators so stumped that they started to wonder. I told

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Speaker 1: him it's one of us. Everybody kind of just looks

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Speaker 1: at me. This is the incendiary true story of the

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Speaker 1: man who spent years lighting up Los Angeles more than anyone.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get this guy, a master fire starter, the

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Speaker 1: Mostlympic arsonist of the twentieth century, turned writer. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to confess in a book what I've been doing for

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Speaker 1: the past seven years, who inevitably became the worst was

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Speaker 1: in a home improvement store where four people died, including

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Speaker 1: a child. A murderer too. I'm carry Antholis and this

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Speaker 1: is Firebug, a new audio series coming soon to Apple

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Speaker 1: Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This guy's not

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Speaker 1: gonna stop, you know, if firebugs don't stop,