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My name is Mark. 
I am a investigative journalist,

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podcaster, storyteller, and for 
the last six years I've been 

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running The Dark Mind Detective,
a podcast that I'm proud to say 

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have reached a global reach in 
the top 1.5%. 

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And this is my first podcast 
where I'm now going into a new 

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direction. 
I want to expand my audience to 

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a bigger, broader audience. 
Now, I'm very appreciative for 

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everything I learned in the last
six years, but I did learn some 

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pretty tough lessons. 
And I'm here in this episode to 

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kind of share my journey, the 
good, the bad, the ugly. 

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Hopefully as we move forward, 
you the listener can learn from 

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my trial and errors, things that
I've been through, and hopefully

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you can avoid them as well 
because there, there's a couple 

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of things, right? 
The there's a dark side to 

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social media. 
I'm here to talk about that as 

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well. 
There's a lot of benefits. 

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There's a lot of wonderful 
things about social. 

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I met some amazing people. 
Without my platform, without my 

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reach, I wouldn't have had the 
opportunity to talk to some 

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amazing people. 
I've talked to forensic doctors 

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about some of the cases I've 
researched. 

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I researched the some of the 
scariest, darkest cases in human

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history. 
I've researched over 150 serial 

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killers. 
I've researched over 1000 

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missing person cases. 
And I come from an area where 

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thousands of people go missing 
under very mysterious 

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circumstances. 
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live. 
It's a highest missing person 

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rates probably across United 
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definitely across my nation. 
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the national average. 
So I've been researching strange

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clusters of missing persons for 
for a long time, since about 

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2007. 
And as we get more deeper into 

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the series, I am going to do a 
breakdown of these clusters of 

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cases. 
I've researched cases in 

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Vancouver, BC, I've been 
researching cases in Chicago, 

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IL, and I've also been 
researching cases in Austin, TX,

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New York State and across Canada
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I also do a lot of work and 
research on missing indigenous 

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women. 
We in a province, there's a 

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place called Highway of Tears 
and a lot of strange, mysterious

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cases of that. 
And I'm down the road, I will be

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breaking down those cases, but 
primarily this new podcast, it's

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called Dark Realities and it's 
going to focus on different a 

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few different areas. 
It's going to go into serial 

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killer cases. 
I'm going to go abroad across, 

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but I'm going to look at them 
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We're going to look at things 
from a multifaceted angles. 

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We're not going to just look at 
what's already been reported and

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we're going to look at it from a
variety of angles, but I'm not 

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trying to create like a 
conspiratorial slant. 

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So together, as we break down 
these cases, we're going to look

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into what we know from an 
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rule out the practical aspects 
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especially some of the really 
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We're going to really breakdown 
what we know how and then rule 

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those things out before we get 
into the spookier stuff, right? 

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There are some amazing 
researchers out there and I'm 

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not, I'm not into the whole 
calling people out bullshit 

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shit. 
And there are some people who've

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done some amazing storytelling 
and they really break down these

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cases and they have me over the 
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I feel like I'm at a campfire 
because they're so good at 

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telling these stories and, and 
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convinced me that. 
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not all the time, they cherry 
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into these, to make the cases 
spookier than they have to be 

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when they're already are. 
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And one of the things that I 
have been doing for the last six

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years especially is I try my 
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families because at the end of 
the day, right when something 

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terrible happens to your son, 
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they go missing in a way that is
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In almost every case that I've 
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never been satisfied with the 
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And lot of times they get pretty
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investigators. 
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component to it, where the media
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with them and they talk really 
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And then they publish something 
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do with the conversation. 
And the families will talk to me

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and say, Hey, we told them this 
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And they never said that in the,
in the article is either very 

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soft boiled down like, or it's a
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And then they call back to the 
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got this wrong and that wrong. 
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like, oh, oh, did we? 
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Oh, so then there's that, right.
And I worked, I, I'm friends 

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with a lot of victims of 
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treated very rough, not by only,
not only by the system, but also

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by the media and also by the 
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Like I, you know, I have, I 
could tell you guys stories that

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would really upset you. 
So I really aim to do things 

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differently here, right? 
I come from a compassionate 

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place. 
First, these were real people. 

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They had loved ones, these 
people, they didn't want to be 

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victims. 
So then it comes to the other 

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aspect of what's important in my
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And I'm really big believer in 
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And I use dark psychology as a 
umbrella term because quite 

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frankly, for the last little 
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narcissist, narcissist. 
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narcissist, but I think that 
narcissism brush gets painted 

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too broadly. 
So I instead I say dark 

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psychology. 
Dark psychology is manipulative,

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toxic behavior that's used 
against you or used against a 

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person to facilitate either 
criminal behavior, abuse, or 

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trauma. 
Over the last six years, I have 

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worked with so many people that 
been on the receiving end of it.

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And quite frankly, I've been on 
the receiving end of it it as 

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well. 
I really have. 

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I want to not only for myself, 
but hopefully for you, the 

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listener, because I want to give
you tools and Shields against 

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this type of behavior. 
Because in my experience and my 

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research, every victim starts 
off as being manipulated, get 

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into a relationship. 
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always good at first, but then, 
you know, something turns around

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and maybe they're not like 
abusive, like a like smack you 

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or hit you, but they're, you 
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cold. 
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of hot and cold, pulling levers,
pulling strings, parrot and 

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stick. 
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behavior and the abuse gets 
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And when people who are 
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that are good at this, like we 
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engineering, manipulation, even 
mind control stuff that cults 

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use, right. 
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everything is on a spectrum on 
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It's subtle. 
It's it's you can't quite place 

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it. 
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right, oh, they have something 
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Oh, it's all in your head. 
I've met a lot of people. 

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I have also a corporate sales 
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And before that I did 
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Before that I worked in 
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I've been around all kinds of 
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I also worked in the nightclub 
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to a whole spectrum of 
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But universally, these toxic 
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Sometimes they're applied 
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coercive, and sometimes they're 
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And there's people that are very
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So I mean too. 
So I want to give you guys 

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tools. 
This is not a podcast. 

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It's going to be about this fire
housing you with morbid and 

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terrible facts and gore and 
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And trust me, my head is full of
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From the cases I I've witnessed 
and, and +2, I have some pretty 

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amazing confidential sources. 
I have sources that have been in

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the highest realms of organized 
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I've talked to some people off 
the record about the darkest 

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stuff, stuff that goes on the 
dark web, human trafficking, 

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even stuff like red rooms and 
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Oh no, red rooms don't exist. 
Yes, they do. 

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They do. 
They do. 

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And I'm going to tell you a 
quick story about a story that 

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kind of got me on this journey a
long time ago and really opened 

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my eyes to this horror that is 
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that we are facing. 
Back in 2000, I went to school. 

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I went to school for programming
computer skills and, you know, 

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learn all the different graphic 
design programs and I even took 

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a desktop printing program to 
learn how to, you know, make 

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stuff like, you know, and it can
print shops and posters and 

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magazines. 
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back end stuff like program back
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JavaScript and HTML and that 
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Classes at night because I was a
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from the club scene and I wanted
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So I want a new skill. 
So I decided this whole Internet

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thing seems to be blowing up. 
And so I started taking these 

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courses. 
So I met this guy, he became a 

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roommate of mine and he was also
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computers, like science courses 
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direction. 
I was doing more front end 

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development. 
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development, right, servers, 
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And one day I'm drinking with 
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I don't know him very well, 
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And I lived in this big dupe. 
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it had 4 units in this one big 
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The part that I lived in had 
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So to help out with, you know, 
school and stuff, I rented out 

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two of the bedrooms and I lived 
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You get the ideas, right? 
So we had two other roommates, 

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so this guy had one. 
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having some beers and stuff, 
yucking it up. 

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And then he looks at me and 
goes, hey, I want to show you 

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something, right? 
And I was like, OK. 

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And he pulls up his computer, 
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We go up to his back when there 
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were around, but everyone had 
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So we go, I go in his room, 
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And he fires up the desktop. 
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and he goes to some kind of 
message board. 

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And then he pulls up some 
folders and on his computer. 

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And he showed me some of the 
most horrific pictures I have 

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ever seen. 
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what what was on them because, 
you know, again, I'm putting 

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this on YouTube and Rumble. 
I don't want to get docs with 

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community guideline strikes as 
I'm just starting to roll out my

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stuff. 
But it was horrifying. 

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It was absolutely horrifying. 
The pictures was of a young 

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woman and the pictures were 
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professional photography. 
Very clear, very crisp, very 

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good lighting. 
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there was no AI, there was no 
really good graphic design 

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programs. 
And it was shocking because I've

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never seen anything like this. 
And remember, this was back in 

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2000. 
I've never seen anything like 

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that. 
And I, and I honestly, I just 

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felt, I felt nauseous because 
I've never ever seen anything 

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like, I haven't even heard of 
anything like this. 

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And he seemed like the look on 
his face, he became very 

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animated and his eyes just 
looked fucking crazy. 

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And I'm just looking at him in a
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And then he starts showing me 
all these message boards, you 

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know, where men can gather and 
do this kind of stuff and 

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countries that have like the 
most lenient laws and were, you 

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know, and all the tricks of how 
to do it and get away with it 

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and this horrible. 
And I was shocked and I felt 

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sick and I, and it felt like I 
instantly sobered up and I 

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couldn't talk for about 10 
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And then finally I just said to 
him, I said, dude, you got to 

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move out. 
You got to move out. 

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Because now I'm thinking this 
guy's into this stuff here with 

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my girlfriend in this place. 
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there was another woman living 
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I'm like, this guy's a creep. 
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creep. 
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the Internet, so people back 
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facilitating the most darkest 
horrific crimes predators. 

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investigation on this. 
So my aim for the series is 1 

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inform you. 
We'll talk about historic cases.

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We'll, we'll get into the dark 
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going to use mainstream forensic
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spooky stuff. 
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you how to avoid becoming a 
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We all can be manipulated. 
We all can be played. 

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There are some good people out 
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out there. 
There are people out there that 

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want to do you harm, like the 
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this kind of like been on the 
receiving end of a lot of bad 

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behavior. 
So again, my platform, this was 

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I what I was all about. 
I'm not about controversy. 

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I'm not about trying to get 
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kind of stuff. 
My platform that I built on 

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Instagram exploded. 
I had different platforms before

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I had a fitness 1. 
I had mindset and motivation and

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that kind of thing. 
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platform back to mode 2019 and 
it just went kaboom. 

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I, I, I was getting 1000 
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I had about 50,000. 
But the thing was it, it just 

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that the toxic people I would 
deal with like this, people that

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would really make me sick. 
I did a case about a woman. 

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Her friend reached out to me and
this woman was from Australia 

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and she was murdered in front of
her son in a very awful domestic

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violence. 
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Scroll down, you can find it 
like a really heartbreaking 

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case. 
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I'm interviewing her friend. 
Her friend's talking about her 

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life. 
What a great person this was and

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it brought out the creeps like 
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blocking people. 
They were like just saying the 

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most awful stuff. 
And when I would get mad, Oh, 

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you're a snowflake. 
No, I'm not a snowflake. 

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This is someone's mother. 
This child saw saw her. 

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So there's a dark side brought 
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So I got tired of it. 
I got tired of like these 

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weirdos, so I decided to become 
the dark blind detective where I

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look at things in a very more 
forensic, more of a deep dive 

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analytical way. 
You know, into my credit, I 

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built a great following from 
that. 

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I've interviewed many like 
forensic doctors about the cases

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entertainment. 
These are tragedies. 

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So I'm kind of creating new 
ground rules now, right? 

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Because I have to preserve my 
health, right? 

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I can't deal with the Karens, 
the, you know, the people that 

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just want to scold me because, 
oh, I posted this and I posted 

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that. 
And to fairness, after my wife 

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died in 2020, I was in kind of 
deep trauma. 

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So I would kind of make myself 
available to lots of people. 

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You know, I'd answer every DM 
and there's a lot of people that

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when you come to familiar with 
you, they just see you're, they 

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just get, it's just too easy for
them just to be unpleasant and 

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be kind of shitty. 
So I'm building myself 

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boundaries more as I move 
forward and build more of a 

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bigger platform. 
And one of the things I'm going 

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to really deep dive back into 
is, is books that have helped me

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through the year. 
So one of the books I'm really 

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going to get into is a 48 Laws 
of Power. 

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I read this book first in 2000. 
I went to chapters. 

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I used to read a lot and I still
do. 

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But back then I would try to 
force myself to read a book. 

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A week went into chapters and I 
saw this book and it really 

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stood out. 
It was orange and royal blue and

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it had these gold letterings of 
48 laws of power. 

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And the words power horizontally
down was unlike any book I've 

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ever read. 
It was like it combined history.

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It combined life lessons that 
provided examples. 

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Yeah. 
Truly amazing book. 

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And I used to review, make 
myself read it every year kind 

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of because these are the tools 
that people use universal. 

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And I've seen it, I've seen it 
in every aspect. 

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I've seen it on the construction
site, I've seen it in the 

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nightclubs, I've seen it in the 
boardrooms, I've seen it in the 

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stock broker boiler rooms. 
These are the tools. 

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They're universal, right? 
There's a Romans would say 

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nothing new under the sun like 
these. 

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These rules are really ancient 
tricks of humanity of how to 

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have power over people. 
Book acted as my shield and I'm 

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going to review it again because
I need it again because man, 

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I've been through a lot of 
bullshit six years and I don't 

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want to go through it anymore. 
And the biggest bullshit I've 

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got was accepting people in my 
inner circle. 

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So then they can abuse you and 
abuse is very subtle and there's

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there's punch you out abuse or 
there's a shitty cutting remarks

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or scolding like people don't 
know you well, don't have the 

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right to scold you about your 
their thought process. 

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They don't like I don't 
understand, like I and I've 

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never done this where someone 
posts, you know, a story and I 

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used to post news because I 
wanted to share, you know, 

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breaking news stories doesn't 
mean I agree. 

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What happened in the news? 
News is like, Oh, look what 

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happened today. 
And then I get the Karens. 

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Oh, why are you talking about 
this and that? 

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But they never say it like that.
First they insult you. 

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They it's always like the first 
line. 

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It's an insult and you're just 
supposed to take it, right? 

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But but what I'm saying that 
happening once or twice, 

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whatever, you're going to meet 
shitty people. 

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But when you get a constant 
barrage, they're like pebbles in

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your shoe, right? 
They become quite unpleasant. 

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And then over time, it's like 
I'm doing all this war people 

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and tragedy and you want a 
nitpick, right? 

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So no more nitpicks, right? 
And this is what I mean. 

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But the, the laws of the four, 
eight laws of power, it becomes 

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your shield to all types of 
manipulation, even someone, even

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allowing someone to subtly 
nitpick you make snide remarks, 

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make comments about you. 
It's disrespectful and they're 

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trying to exert a certain level 
of power over you. 

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And then there's a government. 
The government is very different

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now than when I was raised. 
The government wants you 

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powerless because the more 
power, the less power you have, 

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the less you can stand up for 
yourself. 

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So again, to recap this, what 
this podcast is about the 

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program, the program's about 
conditioning, mind control, dark

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psychology. 
And then how are these 

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principles? 
These techniques are used in the

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most awful circumstances by 
predators and evil people that 

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truly want to do you harm. 
And also this podcast is about 

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empowerment, how to have a 
shield, how to create 

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boundaries, how to have no more 
room for nitpickers, you know, 

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shit talkers, people that try to
undermine you, the people that 

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are pretend that they're your 
friend, but they're jealous of 

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you. 
And, and like I said, I went 

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through a real like crazy roller
coaster ride in the last six 

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years of this platform. 
I came out on the other side 

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tougher, more determined, more 
focused. 

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But there's times where it 
really did affect my mental 

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health, where I'm in the deep, 
darkest weeds of some of the 

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most grotesque, darkest deprived
cases that the government 

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essentially covered up or just 
really softballed it to make. 

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It's being like, oh, too bad 
serial killers exist. 

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Nothing we can do about it, 
where we're just like, what the 

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next target? 
And then there's going to write 

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like some little softball 
article. 

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Oh, too bad, Mark shouldn't have
been out late that night, right?

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So there's like this weirdness 
in our society that I don't 

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like. 
I really don't like it. 

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I want to be understanding of 
what is happening to us, right? 

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Why are we always pushed in 
these little directions and keep

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pushed and pushed and pushed 
until it's like you don't 

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recognize where you are anymore?
So I want to bring back mental 

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sovereignty, the ability to 
critical think. 

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And by doing this, we're going 
to apply this to some of these 

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really baffling cases. 
Like I said, missing men cases 

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have have troubled me for a long
time because there's a lot of of

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them and they're very strange. 
I study cases that are that are 

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very upsetting. 
They're the missing indigenous 

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women and they are hugely 
widespread, not talked about. 

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Awful. 
Is this to say they make the 

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perfect victims for these 
predators because they get away 

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with it and they continue to get
away with it over and over and 

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over again. 
And then these missing men cases

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are even more baffling because 
they're the complete opposite of

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a lot of the women cases because
these boys are just like normal 

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kids, going to school, hanging 
out with their friends, going to

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college. 
They disappear off the face of 

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the earth. 
And some of the cases I've 

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researched, they disappear out 
of their bedroom. 

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They were last seen going up in 
their bedroom saying goodnight, 

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mom, see you in the morning. 
Can you make pancakes for 

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breakfast and never be seen 
again. 

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I really want to have a real 
examination of these cases, the 

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clusters throughout North 
America. 

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And like I said, we're going to 
use check off the list of all of

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the, you know, conventional 
possibilities of these cases. 

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So I've been thinking a lot 
about this. 

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Like, for example, there's these
strange cases like out in the 

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woods, for example. 
Again, I live in an area where 

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it's heavily wooded. 
Lots of people go missing. 

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Sometimes people go missing 
because an animal right again, 

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or they slip and fall. 
Some are treacherous path 

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because I grew up in the 
wilderness and did a lot of 

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camping and I know a lot of 
people that do search and 

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rescue. 
Search and rescue people are 

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usually know their area very 
well and they know the spots 

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were that are problematic and 
troubling. 

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And The thing is, the difference
between when you're out in the 

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wilderness, you have a backpack,
you have, you know, a lot of 

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times you're wearing hiking 
boots, so you're heavy. 

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So it makes clear footprints 
when you're walking on a trail. 

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So if someone attacks you, let's
say, let's say you know, some 

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crazy person living out in the 
woods, there's going to you're 

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going to see the scruff marks, 
you're going to see the the 

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event happening. 
Animals, It's messy. 

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It's bloody. 
A Big Bear. 

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Oh yeah, you're going to know 
that. 

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And not at times in these areas.
There's one way in and one way 

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out. 
So we're going to rule those 

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things out first before we get 
to the spooky stuff, right? 

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And there's some strange stuff 
out there. 

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There really is. 
I truly believe life is stranger

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than fiction. 
Then on the other side of it, 

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someone goes missing in the 
urban area, which to me is a 

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little more frightening because 
it's like this, right? 

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Say you're a woman, good looking
woman who keeps in really good 

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shape and you know you're 
wearing your athletic year and 

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you jog the same path every day.
Every day at that same time, 3 

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o'clock. 
You go to a park or on a running

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trail, you have your headphones 
in, you get to your car, maybe 

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do a little stretching before 
you get in. 

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You don't notice there's a dude 
in a van who's been watching you

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the last three days. 
Or let's say you are an 

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attractive young man, right? 
And you work that, say at a 

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coffee barista. 
Every day at 10:00, you know 

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you're doing your closing shift.
You throw your the garbage away 

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in the dark back alley knowing 
there's some creeper stalker 

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who's been waiting for you, 
who's been watching you for the 

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last 5-6 months. 
And you only know that, right? 

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Because I'm saying there are 
some creeps out there. 

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I've experienced creeps. 
And in this podcast we're going 

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to, I'm going to share a lot of 
my own personal experiences. 

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So hopefully you can learn from 
the things that I've been 

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through. 
So again, welcome to the program

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where we shed light on the 
darkest realities. 

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I want to thank you for 
listening for the first one. 

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Please join me on Spotify and 
iTunes where I can talk about 

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these cases a little bit more 
detail because again, this 

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specific talk that I'm doing in 
this one is going to be for 

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YouTube and Rumble. 
And I don't want to get off on 

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the bat. 
So this censorship it's it's 

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hard to understand what you can 
say or can say. 

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And I don't really want to talk 
like a a toddler and say Pew Pew

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and I'm alive. 
I want to talk to you guys like 

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you're adults, right? 
So thank you so much for tuning 

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in. 
We're going to come back here. 

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Hopefully you'll come back and 
join me again tomorrow because 

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I'm going to be doing this five 
days a week. 

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Each conversation is going to be
between half an hour to an hour 

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each day. 
And we're going to keep building

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on to these cases as as we go 
farther and farther and deeper 

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into these darker cases. 
So again, my name is Mark. 

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I am an investigative 
journalist, storyteller, deep 

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dive researcher of serial 
killers, predators and dark 

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psychology.