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Trigger warning.
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This episode contains discussion about death and abuse.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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There is cycle people.
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There is an associate.
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There is a cycle pick.
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There is an associate.
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Before we get into the nitty-and-gritty.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Split Screen.
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My name is Kyle Clark.
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And I'm Angelica Clark.
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And this is a podcast where we do deep dives in the minds and lives of horror movie villains, suspense thrillers, and true crime stories.
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And I am a licensed clinical therapist, and I will be essentially diagnosing the main character or characters of whatever movie, TV show, or book we are discussing.
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And ladies and gentlemen, let me paint you a picture.
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Alright.
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It's 2 a.m.
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on the LA Freeway.
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While the city sleeps, a subculture of freelance camera crews known as stringers race through red lights, monitoring emergency radio frequencies.
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Their goal?
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To film violent crashes, home invasions, and shootings, selling the raw footage to local television stations before the sun.
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Enter Lewis Bloom.
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Unemployed, petty thief, and self-taught through online business jargon, Lou stumbles onto an accident scene and sees a business opportunity.
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He trades a stolen bicycle for a cheap camcorder and a radio scanner.
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He learns the golden rule of local news broadcasting.
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If it bleeds, it leads.
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Today, we will be discussing Dan Gilroy's 2014 psychological thriller, Nightcrawler.
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So this is before we get into the nitty and gritty.
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I think this is one of Jake Gyllenhaal's best performances.
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The way that he portrays this character is it's it's almost terrifying.
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But what did you think about it?
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Well, I agree with you.
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Um, with the sentiment with Jake.
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If you notice, though, a lot of he plays a lot of the same character in a lot of his movies.
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Yeah.
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And he does it great.
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Like he does it so well that it's almost like it's hard to tell where the character stops and where Jake starts.
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Um I thought it was a great movie.
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I love Jake Dylan Hall.
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And I'll watch pretty much anything with Jake Dylan Hall.
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We watched it, should we watch it twice in one week?
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Yep.
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And I'm really glad I watched it that second time because there are things I picked up on that I did not pick up on the first time, but I really like the movie.
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I thought it was a great movie.
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Yeah, it's it's like it really kind of puts certain things into perspective for you when it comes to the media that you're watching.
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Right.
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So like we don't we don't really see what's happening in the background.
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We don't get an opportunity to know how things are being traded or information is being given and if it's disinformation or if it's truth.
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Jake Gyllenhaal or Lou gives us a really good kind of example as not only what kind of person it would take to do a job like this, I mean, you're essentially selling videos and images of horrific things to television stations to scare the general public.
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Yeah.
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And it takes a special kind of person to do that.
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Lou, in a lot of ways, though, is extreme.
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Very much so.
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What do we what do we know about Lou?
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We throughout the film we we see him kind of develop from this nobody trying to panhandle basically like metal, like pothole covers and a couple of other things to seeing this accident, stealing a bike, talking this bike up.
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Like you can when he's when he's trying to sell this bike to this person in the pawn shop, it's he has that seller's mentality.
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Like, and that's like I think that's kind of what Dan's kind of approach to the the way this character was supposed to be was every car salesman you've ever known.
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Yeah, I can sell you anything, and a person that can do that, it takes a special type of brain.
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It reminds me of Jordan Belfort, where he's like, sell me this pen.
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Like that is like Jake Jelangle's character.
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And if you haven't seen the movie, Jake is this guy who ends up basically becoming a freelance photographer and records these accidents and stuff and starts staging them to get a better picture of what he's recording so that he can get more money.
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And then he hires some homeless guy off the street to give him a job, saying he's a big TV news company, even though he's just him, just to
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have somebody to help him.
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And then at the very end, he ends up screwing this guy over and the guy gets killed, you know.
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The entire movie I'm trying to figure out.
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The first time I watched it, I'm trying to figure out I'm like, like, who is this guy?
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Like what what is he?
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Where did he come from?
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Like, why is he so obsessed all of a sudden with this one concept?
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And I think it's just the obsession with money and fame and being I wouldn't even say fame, I would say recognition.
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Like he likes to see his name.
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Like, I don't know if you've noticed, but there are times when throughout the movie where people are like, oh, who do this?
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He's like, it's me, it's Lou Boom, Lou Bloom, you know, and like it's me, I'm over here, you know, or like whenever he tries to talk into the camera, thinking they can hear him and they're like, they can't hear you.
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Yeah, he's very egotistical.
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Very much so.
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Speaking of egotistical, let's just jump right into the DSM, shall we?
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Let's do it.
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This one was very easy for me.
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It was very cut and dry.
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Um, so I have talked about this a couple of times, probably quite a few.
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I mean, this is what, episode 14, and probably at least 50% of the people we've talked about have some sort of personality disorder.
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Yep.
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There is one specific personality disorder that just jumps out at you almost immediately with this guy, and that is antisocial personality disorder.
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I've talked about it before, I'll touch on it again.
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Whenever people hear the term antisocial, they assume that that means they don't like talking to people or that they like to isolate, they like to be by themselves.
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Like the number of times that I have been with a client or a patient who is antisocial, and you tell them you're antisocial, they're like, no, I love people.
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You know, I wouldn't say I'm antisocial, I just don't like being around people.
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Like, it's not the same thing.
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Why it's called antisocial personality disorder, I'm not really sure.
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Because a lot of these people with antisocial personality disorder are very cunning.
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They're very charming.
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They they are manipulative, they like to be around people because the
more people they are around, the more people they have to manipulate and to hurt.
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And you, as a listener, to kind of give you a very well-known name to base that description off of, it's very Ted Bundy-esque.
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Ted Bundy, yes.
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But Ted Bundy was also a narcissist.
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Yes, but he was charming.
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He was cunning.
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He thought he was the smartest person in the room.
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And he act, I mean, I believe his IQ was at least a hundred and I thought it was like one sixty.
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But also John Wayne Gacy.
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That one, yeah.
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He's a yeah, very much antisocial.
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Um, and I would almost put if you if you're com like talking about people with antisocial personality disorder, I would almost put John Wayne Gacy higher on that because he's just straight antisocial.
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Or ooh, Dennis Rader.
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Otherwise known as the BTK killer.
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Yeah, our very own.
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In Wichititty, Kansas.
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Yes.
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Um, but just to kind of give you an idea, so again, I've talked about this before.
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Antisocial personality disorder comes from a cluster of personality disorders.
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There's cluster A, there's cluster B, and then there's cluster C.
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Cluster B, you have antisocial, narcissistic personality disorder, you have histrionic personality disorder, and then you have borderline personality disorder.
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But most of the time, people can have traits of each one.
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So I really wish there was a general because there is a diagnosis called general personality disorder, which pretty much just says like hey, or like an other specified personality disorder, like they have a personality disorder, we just don't know which one.
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But they need to, like, if if it was up to me, they could write a letter to the APA, you know, I'm gonna write a letter.
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Um, then I would almost want to add a cluster B personality disorder diagnosis into the DSM because a lot of times they have traits, all of them, and it's really hard to distinguish between one or the other.
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Just to give you an idea of what antisocial personality disorder, otherwise known as F60.2, if you want to go with an F code, or if you're going with the ICD code, it's 301.7.
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A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15, as indicated by three or more of the following.
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Disclaimer, this video, well, just kidding, not this video, this movie starts with Jake Gyllenhaal's character as a full-grown adult.
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Okay, so again, wording counts.
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So technically, I can't diagnose him with antisocial personality disorder because I don't know how he was prior to age 15.
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I can make him a guess, I can I can make assumptions based on his behavior in the movie, but that is a big big thing is the age.
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Like you have to be at least 15 to be able to get this, but I'll get into that some more.
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Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
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Well, let's see here.
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First, what 30 seconds of the movie, he beats up a security guard and takes his watch.
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Yeah, and then he goes and tries to finagle stolen goods out of his car.
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And then he steals a bike.
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Yeah.
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Tries to sell this bike.
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And then he also moves a dead body to stage a crime scene to look better for the camera.
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So I think that's probably that probably hits that first one.
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Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
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That's what the entire movie is.
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Yeah.
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He's just conning people to get money.
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I mean, even at the very end, he tells his partner, who's been there with him since day one, like, hey, if you go stand outside where this shooting is definitely going to occur, I promise you'll be safe, and I promise that you'll get half of the money that is going to be given to us.
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But in reality, I'm gonna let you die because I don't want to pay you.
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And the way that he says things, like whenever he told his partner, I could hurt you physically.
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He says it so calmly, or like whenever he's talking to his girlfriend, whatever the hell she is, some lady he works with that he ends up sleeping with for money, I don't know, um, pretty much tells her, like, you know, do you still want to have your business right?
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You still want this TV news show to just take off and run.
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Well, you're gonna need me, but in order for you to keep me, you're gonna have to sleep with me.
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But he says it so calmly and asn't like makes it seem like it's to their benefit.
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Yeah, it's it's very spooky how he does that.
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And his on-screen performance portraying that type of situation is it I mean, it can give you goosebumps.
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Yeah.
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So that's already two, and we need three out of seven.
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So we still have five more to read, and he's already hit two of those.
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Um impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
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That one speaks for itself.
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I don't think he plans well, I think he does plan some things, but I think a lot of times he doesn't plan anything.
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He just goes with it.
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Just goes with the flow.
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Yeah, I think you're right.
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Irritability and aggressiveness as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
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That one, not so much, not in the movie anyway.
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Um, he can be verbally aggressive for sure, but it's weird because his verbal aggression again is so calm.
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It's like whenever that guy's trying to recruit him to his team, and he's just like, What I wanna do is I wanna grab you by the ears and I want to scream that I'm not interested.
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He says it so calmly.
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But instead, I'm gonna go home and do some accounting.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's that's spooky.
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It's yeah.
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Um, reckless disregard for safety of self and others.
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Obviously, that's a big one.
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He does not give two shits who gets hurt or what happens or who he hurts or what, you know, if anyone dies, as long as he gets his paycheck at the end of the day, he does not care.
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Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
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This one is kind of just assumed because he starts the movie with obviously not being able to hold down a job and needing to do odd jobs to be able to pay his bills.
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And number seven, lucky number seven, lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another person.
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He does a lot of this.
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Like especially at the end when his partner dies.
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He in his partner's moments of literal death, he starts to make his partner question his own decisions.
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Yeah, and even like, you know, I had no choice.
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You took my bargaining chip power away from me.
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And you would have done it again, right?
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You know, and his dying words were, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Like he's so manipulative to other people that he almost makes it seem like it was their idea or like they are the reason that these bad things are happening to them.
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Like whenever the guy from the other news company gets, you know, whenever he destroys their van by cutting the brakes, and the guy's on a gurney, he doesn't say anything to him, but he just looks at him almost like you did this to yourself.
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Well, yeah, and then Bill Paxton's character looks at him like I know you did it.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So it has to meet three out of seven of those.
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We've got like five for sure.
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And plus the individual has to be at least 18 years old, which we know he's at least 18.
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He's what in his 20s, maybe 30s.
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This part, so this is the one I'm talking about with the age thing.
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There has to be evidence of a conduct disorder prior to age 15.
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Obviously, we don't have that proof, but I I almost guarantee you, if this man were to walk into my office, I was doing an intake, I asked about history, like legal history, his childhood, things like that, I can almost bet he would tell me a lifetime of petty crime or a lifetime of hurting other people, or not listening, not really caring about other people.
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So just in case anybody is curious what a conduct disorder is, flipping in my DSM really quick.
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A re So this is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others, a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which basic rights of others or major age-appropriate social societal norms and or rules are violated, as manifested by the presence of at least three of the following 15 criteria in the last year.
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So these are people who, um, you know, they're teenagers essentially, young teenagers, maybe preteens or younger, that are often bullies to people.
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They're the ones that you see bullying other people or being mean to animals or being mean to people that were smaller than them, being mean to teachers, being mean to their parents.
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Um, they initiate the physical fights, they use a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to somebody else.
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They also destroy property, they steal, they lie, they broke it into someone's house, they violate rules.
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So, like breaking curfew or constantly getting arrested for this or for that.
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Um, they are
truant from school, it causes impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
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And then, and then here, this is what's interesting.
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At the very bottom of conduct disorder, the category C criteria, it says if the individual is 18 years or older, criteria are not met for antisocial personality disorder.
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So technically, without knowing his background, I could diagnose him with a conduct disorder.
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Being over the age of 18.
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But in order for him to be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, he needs all the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, plus he needs proof of a conduct disorder.
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So that would mean like this man could come in here and tell me all these things that he's done as a kid, but if he was never arrested for it, there's no record of it, then technically there's no proof.
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In short, I absolutely think that he would meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder, but for sure conduct disorder, because I don't have that conduct disorder piece in antisocial personality disorder, but I almost feel like he probably was a problem child.
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Why does that criteria have to be set like that?
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Why can a person not develop this type of disorder later on in life?
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So historically, we always thought that, and I say we as in the psychological community, we have always been told or learned that a lot of personality disorders um stem from trauma.
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Personality is formed in the frontal lobe of the brain.
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And trauma often, especially if it's physical, um, like let's say someone gets hit in the head, obviously that's, you know, gonna physically impact their brain, but any sort of trauma that a person has affects the frontal lobe of their brain because that is the part that is personality, that's the part that's emotion.
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Um, pretty much just makes a person who they are.
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Um, so for years we're like, you know, if someone has trauma, like for example, back in my intake days, it was really hard for me to diagnose somebody with borderline personality disorder if they've had significant childhood trauma.
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Because a lot of the same symptoms that show up in PTSD show up in borderline personality disorder.
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So it was really difficult for me.
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I would either, I would usually do one or the other.
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You know, if they have no trauma history, they're probably borderline.
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If they have trauma history, they're probably they probably have PTSD.
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However, research has shown more recently, like I took a whole two-day training on cluster B personality disorders.
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It was probably the most interesting training I've ever taken.
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Which sounds super lame.
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I know I sound like a weirdo because I like training, but and it's actually more genetic.
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Really?
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Yes, like they are saying not necessarily like someone who has antisocial personality disorder has a kid that's gonna have antisocial personality disorder, but personality disorders in general are typically now being seen more genetic factor.
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That's uh that's pretty crazy to think about.
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So that would be why it doesn't show up later in life.
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Because, I mean, if you think about it, you are born with your personality embedded, right?
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So, you know, you st whenever a we have three kids, we can kind of see when their personality starts to form.
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Yeah.
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When they're very young.
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It's usually within the first few months of life, their personality starts to form.
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It's because it is.
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Their personality is forming, and so that's why, unless like a kid, so if if you have a kid that's like torturing animals, Animals or is a bully or whatever.
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And that continues into adulthood, personality disorder.
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But if you have a kid that's torturing animals or he's bullying and there's something going on at home, could be trauma, could be depression, could be just a mood disorder.
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But if it's a personality disorder, like a true personality disorder, they were born with it.
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It's not something that's developed over time.
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Some people might disagree, but the science says that that is how personality disorders are made, is at birth.
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So you kind of know.
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I mean, an example would be Jeff Dahmer's parents.
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They knew he was off.
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They knew he was weird.
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They knew he had a weird hobby, but they chalked it up to a weird hobby.
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Had they had more knowledge of mental health back then, they probably could have caught that personality disorder in Jeff Dahmer way earlier than his adulthood.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, like I said, even in the uh last episode, it's you know a lot of these situations were just victims of the time.
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Another thing that's really interesting is out of the four, out of the four
diagnoses or cluster B personality disorders, there is two, there are two of them that you that can be treated about 25 or about 25% of the time.
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Um, and that is borderline personality disorder.
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No, borderline personality disorder can be treated about 50% of the time.
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Narcissistic and histrionic can be treated about 25% of the time.
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Antisocial personality disorder cannot be treated at all.
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That is the one diagnosis that a clinician can give somebody that is not treatable.
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So if someone is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, okay, can't do anything about it.
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Like, and even in my line of work, I work at a local community mental health center.
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And we see anybody from anxiety to schizophrenia, you know, anybody from, you know, homeless and poor to people who have high income.
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We see anybody because we're a community mental health center.
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But if someone comes to intake and is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, that pretty much eliminates them from being able to get any services because it's not treatable.
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That's just crazy to think about.
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Well, I mean, if you think about it, someone with antisocial personality disorder does not have the ability to feel empathy.
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They can't feel what other people are feeling, they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
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Like something in their brain isn't is not connected, so they feel like they are perfectly justified in all of their actions.
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Like the number of antisocial people I have seen is like true antisocial, is scary.
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And it's almost like this when you're talking to them, you almost know.
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Like, I'm gonna give a shout out.
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Me and my fellow coworker, her name's Mary.
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I miss working with her.
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She's an intake clinician, she's also a clinical psychologist.
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Her and I both have the exact same reaction whenever we're in the room with someone who's antisocial and we know they're antisocial.
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It's almost like you feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
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Like, you know, when a dog is scared and the hairs on the back of its neck stand up?
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Have you ever seen that?
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Oh, yeah.
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That's what it feels like being in the room with someone who's antisocial.
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So they have this way of even like changing the room, changing the vibe of the room, or the aura, if you will, of the room.
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Like those if if you if I had a choice between being in the room with someone who's antisocial and being in the room with someone who is a someone who's highly, highly schizophrenic and very paranoid and delusional and not on their medication, I would choose to be in the room with that person.
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Because chances are that person's probably not gonna hurt me unless they feel like I'm a danger to them.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Whereas someone who has ASPD they'll hurt me just to get out of the door because I'm in their way.
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Or just because they feel like it.
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Yeah, those people are scary.
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So this kind of goes back to what I talked about during the last um, I think it was either the episode, no, it wasn't last episode, the episode before, with kind of comparing um sociopathy and psychopathy.
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They're both the same, they're both under the ASPD umbrella.
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And people who have traits of both of those things more than likely are antisocial.
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Even though it historically it used to be people would link uh sociopath to being antisocial or a psychopath being antisocial, but in reality it's both.
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And that is on our Instagram as well, if you want to take a look at that.
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I thought that was a really cool infographic from a couple episodes ago, or maybe it was last episode.
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I don't know, everything's running together, but no, Mr.
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Lou is very much a black and white case of antisocial personality disorder.
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He's a spooky person.
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Yeah, but what a it definitely was a great film, though.
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It was it was definitely a ride, and I really hope that that's not a hundred percent accurate, you know what I mean?
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Like that's not like I mean it obviously it was a fictional film, but we we see so much media now with every device that's can connect to the internet.
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You can see something on media, and it is driving the world, and it's very spooky how easy it is to just follow suit and believe everything you see.
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Yeah.
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I also want to throw in a little fun fact.
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Um, doing the research on this movie, I've and I've done this research a couple, we've both done this research on like the link of IQ of like the full-scale IQ and um mental health, like personality disorders and stuff.
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And I would think that someone
who is antisocial would have a higher IQ because their ability to think only logically and without emotion.
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Because you know, as humans, if we think with emotion, typically we're not thinking logically.
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Like we can do both, but it's very it's hard to think both at the same time.
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So someone with ASPD doesn't have that emotional factor.
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So you would think that's all they do is just think logically, especially like one thing we talked about with Lou, we even thought maybe he's autistic because of like just all this random knowledge and these random facts that he has, just that he just pulls out of nowhere as if he just read about it.
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And he's very bright, he's very articulate, um, just very cognitively there.
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But actually, they say that people with um antisocial have a lower IQ.
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Typically, they're on the lower end of the spectrum, so maybe he's the outlier.
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Maybe it's really interesting.
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I think there was a website that I we saw in one of our first episodes where we looked up the IQs of serial killers, and maybe that'll be something I post on the Instagram if anyone's curious.
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Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
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But like always, um, where can you reach us at?
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Instagram.
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You can also email us at splitscreenict at yahoo.com.
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And don't forget to go follow the Patreon at splitscreenict.com.
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Okay.
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:38.720
And all of our podcast episodes should be on pretty much all platforms.
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Um Spotify for sure, BuzzSprout is where we, you know, use what we use to basically put the episodes out.
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Um so I think Apple's the only one we're still having issues with.
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So if you have Apple and that's how you like to listen, just bear with us while we try and figure out the kinks of that, just because Apple is wonky and doesn't like to do anything.
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But yes, please, please, please um tell your friends and you can find us pretty much on any podcast platform.
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.720
And I just realized that I misspoke.
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That was patreon.com slash split screen ICT.
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Good to know.
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We probably would have taken you to a dirty website or something by accident.
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Who knows?
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Maybe you get already whittle.
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Who knows?
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All right, everybody.
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Thank you.
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Have a good night.