So since 2019 I have been making podcasts and one of the series
that I make is called Vancouver the Beautiful and Ugly.
Today it's about the good, the bad and the ugly of running a
platform. In 2025 S one of the most
groundbreaking books I have ever read was Marshall Goldsmith.
What got you here won't get you there.
It's a powerful book on self reflection.
Anyone that's at a crossroads in their journey, and I've been
through many of them, especially when I was involved in IT
startup culture. This was a highly recommended
and a must read book for people that are entrepreneurs are just.
If you're kind of stuck in a direction in your life, you're
putting out a lot of effort, but you feel like you're going
nowhere and this relates to self-awareness and cognitive.
Here are some relevant insights and quotes from.
We get positive reinforcement from our past successes and
think that type of validation is the predictive of great things
in the future. This aligns with the tendency
to. Repeat which one's work?
Even when it no longer serves. Recognizing this is crucial for
goals, accountability and change.
Successful people tend to resist change because they believe that
their past behaviours are the reason for their current
success. This quote encourages
questioning wherever your current behaviour are truly
beneficial for the next level of success.
So Goldsmith notes that people often believe I have succeeded,
I can succeed, I will succeed, I choose to succeed.
While these beliefs Dr. success, they can also blind you to the
need for behavioural change. The importance of feedback One
of the greatest obstacles to change is the absence of
feedback. Accepting honest feedback, even
when it's uncomfortable, can illuminate areas for growth.
Letting go of faulty behaviours. The higher you go, the more your
problems or behaviour. Often it's not a lack of skill
that holds people back, but habits like refusing to listen,
arrogance or the inability to adopt this book score message.
Encourage humility, listening, proactive self reflection as I
analyzed my journey of the Vancouver True crime and the
Dark mine detective. And now that I'm at a
crossroads, I kind of re read this book recently.
One thing I learnt from doing this platform, doing startups,
business development consulting in these arenas is the important
to embrace reinvention. Recognize that each phase of
your career will require new skills, new behavior.
And my next step is to really focus on some new areas as far
as the brand of Dark Mind Detective and the new podcast
that I'll be launching with Nash.
And you'll hear her at the end of this podcast and our very
first Epstein editorial. And this is going to represent
another new direction for myself.
And my next steps, the areas that I'm going to primarily be
putting my energy into, is course storytelling, podcasting,
writing a book, the Picton. Welcome to Picton Land workshops
and public speaking. It's important to think like
ACEO and shift your mindset from content creator to business
leader. I'm not just running a podcast
anymore. I'm building a brand with
multiple dimensions, so one of the things that I need to do
that's actually crucial, it's like absolutely necessary, is
shedding toxicity and negative energy in the Goldsmith book.
And like I said, I can't emphasize enough of the
importance of reading this book. I'll tell you the title of the
book again, Marshall Goldsmith. What got you here won't get you
there. So emotional detachments,
Goldsmith suggests, let go of the beliefs that you must
respond to every criticism, choose when to engage and when
to step away. As I get deeper into this
podcast, just just remember that that statement for a minute.
Hang on to that, OK? Curate your environment.
Surround yourself with people who challenge you in a
constructive rather than drag you down.
Expand your network to include mentors, public speakers,
publishing professionals who aligned with my goals.
I have surrounded myself with some amazing people.
Nash is a great addition to me. She holds me accountable.
She challenges my belief, but she doesn't nitpick.
She doesn't disagree with everything I I say either.
And we have amazing conversations almost each and
every day as we develop the new Cult of Personality podcast.
I like her critical thinking skills and she actually enhances
some of my blind spots. And then I'm helping her with
the technology side, you know, audio software, that kind of
sort of thing. So I think it's a it's a great
fit for me, especially as I'm in this new critical crossroads of
building a new direction, Create boundaries, consider limiting
social media engagement, focus on meaningful dialogue through
my podcast, my events and books where deeper conversations are
encouraged. So yeah, I'm going to get more
into this later, but yeah, think about that for a minute, right?
So this is a new mindset, adopting Feed Forward and set a
feedback. Goldsmith introduced a concept
called Feed Forward, asking others for advice how to improve
rather than seeking validation or criticism in the past.
Positive framework accelerates growth.
Letting go of unhelpful habits. Goldsmith highlights specific
behaviours that hold people back, such as needing to be
right, withholding information or refusal to delegate.
In my case, the habit of defending myself against every
against criticism is draining my energy without yielding results.
So I have to adopt radical acceptance, Understand that no
amount of effort will change certain perceptions.
Instead, focus on those who generally resonate with my
message. Delegate, collaborate.
I need to hire and collaborate with others to manage
administration tasks. Like help me with editing, maybe
help me with like editing on my books and things like that and
freeing my time for my higher level creative and strategic
work, right? You can't do everything, right?
Simple as that. You can't be everything.
Can't wear all the hats. And I've been wearing a lot of
different hats for the last six years, right?
It's a kind of a burnout cycle, right?
Be selective about projects. So I'm pretty good at that now,
but I think about 23, I was in so many directions.
I was doing so many collaborations, podcasts,
helping out with families, which, you know, of course, I
always want to do, taking on cases.
People would DM me calling the police on their behalf to
because of they were in some type of traumatic trauma
situation, helping them navigate through that, doing advocacy
stuff, missing persons and you're end up on a hamster wheel
and and you're not, you don't become effective to the things
that are important to you. And of course, if if someone kid
is missing, of course I'm going to post it.
If people need help, they can always reach out to me, right?
But I also had to say no to a lot of projects.
I was going in way too many directions and it was like your
head spinning, right? So the main things that I'm
going to be obviously the serial killers for the dark mind
detective, but we are going to get more into dark psychology
manipulation behavior, right? I also have to put that same
understanding into myself, my motivations, my triggers, my
blind spot. One of the things I'm going to
rigorously do is practice self reflection.
Schedule regular reflection sessions, journal what's
working, what's not. Ask, am I leading in a way that
reflects my values? Embrace lifelong learning.
Continuing, Continue expanding your expertise, not just in true
crime, but in public speaking, leadership and personal growth.
I should consider joining a speaker Bureau or taking
storytelling workshops. Visualizing your future
Goldsmith believes in setting clear goals, envisioning the
next chapter, a successful bookshop, a sold out workshop,
standing ovations at conference breakdown, actionable steps and
make it happen. So visualization is something
I've used for a long time, all the way back in the 90s, right?
So when I was involved in bodybuilding, weightlifting,
powerlifting, boxing, that sort of stuff, say I'm going to do a
£500 squat, right? I visualize myself walking up to
the rack. I visualize myself, how it feels
on the top of my back, right? But where my neck is, we're on
top of my trapezes, my traps. I visualize myself picking it
off the rack, feeling light, confident with that weight,
hearing the weights Jingle, jangle.
I step back, I squat down parallel to the ground and I
pushed myself up with ease, right?
I see myself doing it 10 times back on the rack, right?
So visualization was a big thing in sports sciences and
performance. So it's something I utilized for
a long time. When I study drama, same thing
again. I did some acting, some extra
work and stuff like that, and I'd always visualize myself
before I did it right and you see it in your mind's eye,
right? It's a great tool, something I
utilize for a long time, and I highly suggest it.
So my resilience has already brought me far.
I am a resilient person. Listen to my podcast, I hope you
hear that by shedding toxic interactions, which I'm going to
get into more in this podcast, adopting a feed forward mindset
and committing to continuous growth, I will position myself
for greater success. Goldsmith Coors lesson is true
leadership that requires both humility and courage, qualities
I hope I have demonstrated to owe an abundance.
I will focus on what matters most and my future I envision
will become my reality. So starting Vancouver True Crime
was a lifeline for me during one of the most traumatic periods of
my life. It gave me purpose, a voice and
a platform to amplify the voices of others.
I've been able to shed a light on stories that matter along the
way. I had the privilege of meeting
extraordinary people, individuals that I would never
cross path with if it wasn't for this platform.
What began as a project recorded on an iPhone 7 while taking my
kids out on a stroller ride around the neighborhood has
grown beyond anything I could ever imagine.
To all the good people, the dedicated supporters, appreciate
each and everyone of you. Your encouragement and belief in
this mission means the world to me.
I am credibly proud of what we built together.
Thank you for being a part of my journey moving forward.
I won't be creating much short form content anymore.
My posts will mainly focus on my work and my podcast.
All of my energy is going to go in building up my podcast now
that my podcast is back. Being a regular podcast and
expanding it on video channels like YouTube and Rumble,
Instagram has been an amazing audience growth.
At its peak I nearly had 50,000 followers, but after
transitioning from Vancouver True Crime to Dark Minded
Detective, I realize about 15 thousand of those followers were
highly toxic individuals and I blocked many while many others
chose to unfollow as my content shifted to a more focused and
intentional direction. I am no longer sorry I said that
funny. I am no longer prioritizing
short form contents, breaking news, or reactionary posts.
It's ironic how how many toxic people offered nothing of value
yet felt entitled to invoice their disapproval whenever I
shared a story they didn't like. Some would dramatically announce
that I'm getting my news outs where I'm unfollowing you as if
it was my personal responsibility to spoon feed
them updates. The same people would argue with
me constantly in favor of Trudeau's decision to block news
content on social media. And then they try to prove a
point by sending me a blocked news link.
The absurdity speaks for itself. I've had so many of these crazy
conversations and they're, they're always like, you know,
middle class, upper middle class ladies, right?
I I I don't get it. But it's always the same kind of
demographic. So let me be clear.
The media outlets in Canada receives hundreds of millions,
in some cases billions of dollars in taxpaying dollars.
But yet because of this news ban, we can't share updates
during emergencies like wildfires in crisis.
Most people under 40 get their news from social media, not
cable news. So attempting to justify
blocking news access is like arguing with a brick wall.
Like you. Yeah, you can't reach them.
It's just, it's like our arguing with like a, you know, a
religious zealot. The bigger issue that Canada,
especially cities like Vancouver, has been hijacked by
an insider crowd that thrives on government contracts.
It doesn't matter how disastrous their toxic policies are, as
long as they get paid, they keep the system intact.
So let's say that one more time. The bigger issue in Canada,
especially cities like Vancouver, the city has been
hijacked by an insider crowd that thrives on government
contracts. It doesn't matter how disastrous
or toxic these policies long, as long as they get paid.
As long as they get their check right via the taxpayer, right
through the middleman of the government.
Forget me, I might sound ranty but I need to get the shit off
my chest because I've been watching this for the last six
years. Please bear with me.
Take the Downtown Eastside for example.
After studying the area really intensely since 2019, hence my
first podcast, Vancouver the Beautiful and Ugly.
I see Clearly it's a dumping ground for the most
impoverished, the most vulnerable people.
You have predatory drug dealers, which I talked lots about on my
podcasts, right, a target vulnerable women, gangs that are
even more numerous, and a overstretched frontline officer
stuck on an insane hamster wheel.
There's the devastating fentanyl crisis, predators, numerous
serial killers. And then you have the so-called
poverty industry, the NGOs that profit from the misery funded by
the government as the problems keep getting worse year by year
by year by year. In some cases, I suspect the
same people benefiting from the drug trade are also benefiting
and profiting from NGO contracts.
They weaponized a very loud activist mob to shut down anyone
that speaks out. If you point out these failures,
you're labeled the enemy. Kind of like Scientology, right?
What do they say? I'm not fair game.
Fair game for distractors and heretics.
You're accused of spreading hate.
I've been on the receiving end of this, like any little thing.
I remember some guy who's a very good photographer, you know,
cool guy. He sent me this picture.
He was driving through Downtown Eastside and there was this big
bonfire. And this it, he was a, it was a
kind of a cool picture, but it's kind of scary.
There's big bonfire. So I posted it.
He gave me permission to post it.
And oh, how dare you. They're just trying to keep
warm. Like, OK, Lighting fires in the
city is actually not good, man, you know what I mean?
Like I think the Vancouver Fire Department in one year, I
believe it was 2024. Please don't quote me on this,
just top of my head. 70,000 fires, most of them arsons
because The Dirty secret that the activists don't want to tell
you about, but look it up for yourself.
People who have a tendency to abuse meth when they're in the
state of psychosis, they love lighting fire cause a lot of
them have those torches to heat up their their meth and their
pipes. And then when they're bored they
go around lighting fires. I'm not making this up right,
but I'm bad for pointing it out. So the status quo in the
Downtown East Side has remained for the last 30 years, if not
worse if not worse, right? The same people in power will
likely stay here for another 30 year.
You want to predict the future, You study the past, right?
Benefiting from the corruption they help maintain The Latin
phrase cubono, who benefits sums it up perfectly right?
I no longer believe that Vancouver can return to a city I
grew up in. It's heartbreaking.
I have 100 years history in the city.
I've come to accept it. Worse, I see the same corrupt
patterns across Canada. Here's some food for thought.
The individuals profiting from the drug trade, money laundering
are prime targets for foreign interference.
Intelligent agencies worldwide undoubtedly know who are the
most compromised players are. They have all the information
and the all the intelligent gathering ability and they would
know the ones that are easy to corrupt further.
You know someone's already have their hand in the cookie jar.
What are you going to do? Offer them more cookies Are
going to say no, they don't care.
They care about the money. That's why nothing changes and
that's why everything keeps getting worse.
So the saying goes, right? Grow, survive, thrive, or stay
stagnant or wither on a vine. After deeply studying cases like
Robert Picton and many other serial killers I come to, I come
to a realization. Being on the receiving end of
relentless toxicity has toughened me up.
Absolutely. My skin has grown thick and I've
always been one to make lemonade out of lemons.
Moving forward, I'm diving deeper into the study of dark
psychology, manipulation, social engineering, and the digital mob
mentality. Trolls are losers.
There's not much you can do about them.
I block thousands. The obvious ones are easy to
deal with. It's like when someone is
blatantly trying to provoke a reaction.
It's like walking down the street and a mentally ill person
yells something obscene. You don't take it personal
because you understand their words don't hold any real
meaning. But then there's the subtle
ones, the people who act like a toxic relative at a family
dinner. They might make one snide my
remark, then another, and then by the end of the night you
explode, of course. And then they play victim
reactive abuse. So they poke you and poke you
and poke you and poke you for a reaction.
And finally, when you had enough and react to it, they play
victim right. Some people aren't outright
malicious, but they nitpick finding your vulnerabilities.
It's like they're searching for the sore spot and poking it.
Oh, I have so many people like that.
Again, it's it's really irritating.
What really baffles me is how much time these people spend
muttering others. I can't relate.
I'm too busy, I'm raising my kids, I'm managing my work, I'm
writing, I'm recording, I'm editing, I'm building multiple
platforms. I barely have time to listen to
other podcasts, let alone waste time nitpicking on someone
else's content, yet I've seen to been a magnet for those who do.
I've reached a breaking point and I it's exhausting to feel
like I can't even post stories without someone micromanaging my
content, questioning why I covered a certain topic or plot,
formed a a particular person, accusations fly, screenshots are
sent, and it's all just a bunch of fucking noise.
I think it's the nature of Instagram, unlike other
platforms. Nature.
Sorry. Instagram's interface amplifies
its toxicity. Comments and DMS are front and
center, making it impossible to avoid the negativity originally
too. And I do blame myself.
I do, you know that? What's the saying?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So originally I made myself very accessible to people because I
wanted to engage my community. And I'll be totally honest to
you, from zero to 5000 awesome people, I had the greatest
community. They, they knew me, they knew my
story. They they knew what I was about.
They're on the same page of there, there.
It was like a perfect fucking community. 5000 to 10 still
cool. Then I started getting the
activist because I have a big platform.
They got a monitor. What kind of content?
I'm saying you know the the police types, right?
You know, look for any little thing and then they make like a
a TikTok post about you. Then Cuba true crime is
problematic because he said this like I'm not even joking, right?
It's like fuck get a life loser. So I made myself accessible
because I wanted to engage my community.
I had some incredible conversations with people I
genuinely respect. But for every positive
interaction, there's a relentless stream of nonsense.
So I'm done with it. I'm unfortunately, I've changed
the name of a successful platform because of toxic
behaviour, right? I'm tired of it and I'm doing a
full fucking detox of this negativity, right?
And you got to understand this right?
When you spend your days researching the darkest aspects
of humanity, serial killers, child traffickers, people like
Jeffrey Dahmer, Marc de Troll, analyzing them with a forensic
precision takes a toll. And I do this to have meaningful
conversations with experts, forensic doctors, investigators.
My goal is to deliver something valuable, not just surface level
content. There are plenty of creators who
read Wikipedia articles while doing their makeup, and that's
fine for them. I'm not knocking their hustle,
but I'm striving for something deeper to get to the root of
society's darkest truth and shed light where it's most needed.
This platform has always been about understanding the worst of
humanity to make the world a little better place.
As I evolve, I'm taking back control.
No more noise, no more distraction.
It's time to thrive. This podcast traces a journey to
the shadow of true crime, systemic corruption, online
toxicity, cumulating in a strategic blueprint for
resilience and empowerment. Researching cases like Robert
Picton, Jeffrey Epstein exposes not just individuals who are
evil, but a system that enables it, institutional indifference,
complacency, and elite impunity. My revelations about Vancouver
Downtown Eastside, a microcosm of Exploitation, highlights how
marginalized groups are commodified by predators, NGOs
and bureaucrats alike. Predators versus policy makers,
Serial killers like Robert Picton and politicians causing
mass suffering. Unjust war.
Harmful policies operate on a spectrum of moral disengagement.
Both rely on dehumanization, gaslighting and systemic rot.
Online toxicity, trolls, cyber wolves exploit anonymity.
One of the things too, we're going to do in my new series,
Robert Greene the 48 laws of power repurpose as a tool for
self-defense. Cut off emotional vampires
transitioning to long form podcast called to personality
video essays and books to foster critical thinking and expose
corruption. Workshops and talks teaching
manipulation tactics, digital hygiene, systemic navigation to
arm others against exploitation. Community building, creating
spaces for like mind individuals to reclaim agency and push back
against societal collapse. The bigger fight Legacy over
noise, recognizing trolls are just ghosts with no real power.
Real power while silent supporters and nurses, veterans
and parents form a backbone of meaningful change.
Crossing the Rubicon. Reframing my trauma into a
curriculum, books, courses, talks.
Turn pain into protection for others by exposing how elite
predators and algorithms exploit human vulnerability.
The goal is to dismantle complacency and rebuild a
society, a community rooted in the accountability, critical
thought, communal strength. Even in darkness, light attracts
light. The darkest truth isn't that
evil exists. It depends on our silence to
thrive. So since 2019, I immersed myself
in the world of true crime, producing podcasts that dwells
into some of humanity's most harrowing cases.
Working directly with grieving families during their darkest
moments have been both a privilege and heart wrenching
responsibility. These experience reveal the
stark contrast between the raw reality of tragedy and the
sensationalized narrative spun by mainstream media.
Time and again I've witnessed victims stories distorted, their
lies reduced to click bait headlines, while families
endured cruel scrutiny from audience who felt entitled to
dissect their pain to approach true crime differently.
Take Robert Picton's case for example.
I spent a year combing through thousands of articles only to
find identical narratives that parroted across outlet.
The reputation was robotic, devoid of depth until one
article stood out for its deliberate obscurity.
Running it through ChatGPT confirmed my suspicion.
The writing was injured near to confuse and control the story.
It made me question, why does a media, those in power, cling so
tightly to these crafted narratives?
Right Jesus. Vancouver's shifting landscape
from paradise to fractured reality.
Growing up in Vancouver during the 90s felt like living in a
hidden paradise, A city brimming with affordability, opportunity,
community. The 2000 tech boom brought
innovation, camaraderie. But 2011, the cracks began to
show. The Canuck riot wasn't just
about hockey. It felt like collective madness,
erupting symptoms of something deeper.
As Carl Jung might say, it mirrored the zeitgeist, an
undercurrent of frustration that swept even those with no history
of violence. By 2015, the city I love was
morphing into a sterile playground for the wealthy.
Mom and pop shops vanished, replaced by chains.
Gang violent surged, predators growing younger.
Random violence While the IN2020I grappled with a personal
loss, my wife passing away, the world in itself seemed to
unravel and morphed into a dystopian episode of the Black
Mirror. Then the rise and fall of my
platform, Vancouver True Crime declining local journalism.
I launched Vancouver True Crime to spotlight, overlook stories,
missing persons, unsold cases, stomach failures.
Platform grew quickly, but so did the dark underbelly.
Comments section devolved into a cesspool of cruelty, attacking
grieving families, doubting victims, harassing me over
trivialities, blocking trolls, disabling comments only feel
their outrage. My DMS overflowed with vituros,
even death threats when lunatic or a couple of them.
I know who they are. A couple of fucking lunatic
deranged morons docks my family by plastering posters of me and
my kids and my address all over the neighborhood.
Never forgot that mother fucker. Never will and it's still under
resolved. You thought you got away with
it. I think again, tip shits
shepherds. I think about it every single
day. And I shared a GoFundMe for a
woman brutally assaulted in her home.
Instead of empathy, trolls accuse me of fabricating a story
for profit. So this was early on.
This was about like when I was about the 10,000 Mark and a lady
I know who solid cool person, not a bullshitter said hey, who
is also a hairdresser sent Hey, this lady's a hairdresser.
She lives near a commercial Dr. 2 scumbags broke into her home,
beat the crap out of her and robbed her.
She's looking for a new place to stay and she has a go fund me No
problem. I put her pictures up.
Well, these idiots. Oh my God, Mark is making this
up to scam people. So, yeah, I, I, I used my death
of my wife, built a podcast and now I'm making up a woman got
beat up who needs an apartment so I can scam a, a couple $1000
with this. I did, you know, years or at
this point, my part, my platform was already a couple years old,
right? And, and like total lunatics.
And their big thing was I never heard about in the news.
That was their big thing, right? So and then there was one moron
who had a fake account with fake followers, a therapy dog in
every picture who was like the leader of the of the lynch mob
that was gonna out get me because I'm making this all up,
right? So yeah, it's you know, you
can't you can't argue with stupid, right?
The loudest voices often belong to the most unhinged.
I rebranded to the Dark Mind Detective, shifting focus to
psychological analysis and advocacy.
While I lost followers, I shed a lot of bullshit text, a lot of
bullshit toxicity. This experience mirrored
Vancouver's own duality. A society discontent festers
beneath the surface level civility, just like the Canuck
riot channeling up pent up rage in the chaos, online trolls
project unresolved trauma on two convenient targets.
So like I said, I was the first to know.
Do the Vancouver beautiful and ugly, the beautiful of Vancouver
the ugly of Vancouver. I see this pattern over and over
again. If you study fractals patterns,
right? Patterns of the universe, right?
What is what is above is so below, right?
You know, a micro macrocosm. So true crime isn't just about
solving mystery, it's a lens into humanity's darkest corner.
And Internet culture of cruelty all stems from a fractured
society. Understanding this, the why
behind the madness is where the healing begins.
For every Pebble of malice thrown in our shoes, resilience
reminds us to keep walking, to seek light even in the darkest
of minds. The psychology behind mob
mentality, wherever it's riots or online outrage over petty
issues, is a complex interplay of social, cognitive and
emotional forces. Let's break it down.
Through the lens of real world chaos, like the 2011 Vancouver
Canuck riot and digital vitriol, I experience the root of mob
mentality, individualization and amenity.
In crowds, physical or digital, individuals lose their sense of
self-awareness and accountability.
This de individualization strips away personal responsibility,
allowing people to act on impulses they normally suppress.
The real world example, during the Canuck riot, many
participants weren't habitual troublemakers.
The anonymity of the crowd and the shared adrenaline of US
versus them. Lowered inhibitions online
parallels trolls hiding or private accounts.
Sock puppet accounts feel shielded from consequences,
enabling cruelty that they never display face to face.
Like I said, most of them are just fucking cowards, right?
Emotion spreads rapidly in groups.
Fear, anger, excitement can escalate into collective
hysteria. Real world hockey loss became a
catalyst for pent up frustration.
Economic anxiety, societal alienation has been simmering
beneath Vancouver's glossy surface.
Petty grievances. Nitpicking a GoFundMe post
amplifies an outrage storm because negativity is
contagious. Algorithms reward engagement,
not nuance. People conform to group norms to
belong and mobs. This is often means adopting the
groups aggressive or destructive identity.
Real world rioters mirror the chaos around them, prioritizing
group cohesion over personal morality.
Online trolls bond over shared disdain, creating a toxic end
group invited by cynicism. Why Petty issues outshine real
world problems. Cognitive dissonance and
displacement. Confronting systemic issues.
Vancouver housing crisis. Gang violence requires
acknowledging uncomfortable truth.
Petty grievances are simpler targets.
Displacement, unresolved anger, economic despair, personal
trauma gets redirected towards smaller, safer targets.
A missing child story becomes a battleground for strangers to
project their frustration. This is one of the biggest
things that have pissed me off. I posted about a 14 year old
girl missing and the fucking idiots in the comment section
were arguing. Oh I don't think she's 14.
She's 30. I just talked to the parents.
She's 14. Here's a police report.
Oh no, she's not. No, she's not.
Like I'm serious, right? You know what I mean?
Like some of these fucking idiots I wish I could beat with
a fucking stick because it was my daughter missing at 14.
And I'm looking at the comments and these idiots are just want
to run their fucking stupid mouths, right?
Jesus goddamn Christ people. Moral licensing, fixation on
minor faults. Nitpicking podcast post.
Let's people feel righteous without addressing the harder
truth. The bystander effect in
communities facing serious issues.
Overdose, inequality. People often assume someone will
act Petty drama, however immediate and actionable.
Example, a neighborhood might ignore the fentanyl crisis but
erupt over a controversial mural.
It's easier to bait aesthetics oat than systemic failure, the
illusion of control. Petty issues are often a false
sense of agency. Arguing online about a GoFundMe
scam feels like I'm doing something Unlike tackling
institutional corruption or grief, Tribalism and
performance. Social media awards extremes
trolls perform for their tribes, seeking validation through
conflict. Example, your critics weren't
just attacking you, they were performing for their own
followers, reinforcing their identity as skeptics or truth
tellers. The constant exposure to trauma
true crime content can desensitize an audience, making
them crave drama over empathy. Meanwhile narcissistic traits
Dr. Some to be center of attentions and other tragedies.
What about my opinion? Oh, I've seen that so many
goddamn times. Absolutely.
You know you're talking about something serious and there's
some narsic lunatic trying to, you know, almost hijack the
post, right? The mob mentality thrives on
fear, fragmentation, and unmet needs.
The Canuck riot and online trolls are two sides of the same
coin. Both revel in a society
grappling with powerless. By understanding the psychology,
the deindivization, displacement, and try
performance, you can start to dismantle it.
My shift to the Dark Mind Detective mirrors this, focusing
on depth over noise and refusing to feed the chaos.
As Carl Jung warned, the pendulum of the mind alternates
between a sense and nonsense, between right and wrong.
The goal isn't to eliminate mobs, but to recognize the
unmeet needs driving them and build systems that address those
needs before they explode. For the past year, I've been
immersed and myself in the abyss of the Robert Picton case, a
journey that has tested my resolve, my humanity, my
understanding of justice. Combing through hundreds of
documents, legal transcript books have shifted through the
layers of obfuscation and different to confront the truth
so grotesque it defies comprehension.
This isn't just a story of a serial killer, it's a damning
indictment of a systemic failures and media complacency
and societal neglect. The Picton case is a labyrinth
of horrors, obscure by sensationalism, half truth.
Mainstream coverage has long parroted the same shallow
narrative, reducing victims as footnotes while fixating on the
macabre details. Even the most well-intentioned
books drowned critical insights and irrelevant information.
The exception, I think the best book, The Lonely Section of Hell
by Detective Lorimer Shiner, whose first can accounts cuts
through the noise with unflinching clarity.
His work is a rare beacon in the sea of distortion, grounded in
procedural reckoning and institutional incompetence.
Chilling reality of how marginalized women were failed
at every turn. Yet other than that book, no
Resources I Encounter fully connects the dots.
Who enabled us? Who looked the way?
The answers are buried in bureaucracy, cowardice, and a
society that devalues certain lives.
The toll of bearing witness. This research has exhausted a
visceral toll. Day spent pouring over up TOPS
report witness testimony has left me physically shattered.
Migraine, nausea, and once, inexplicably, a paralyzed right
arm. I'm not even kidding.
I meant one day. It's just like I couldn't move
my right arm. These moments I surface from
hours of writing, disoriented, only facing another kind of
stupidity. Pettiness on social media, the
absurdity of online harassment. Imagine hours of dissecting the
Picton's case. Depravity.
I log in to find a stranger enraged over a benign Instagram
story fits a surreal Karen seething over triviality,
weaponizing my DMS to chastise or threatening.
Explain yourself right. Explain my explaining myself.
I'm an investigating a serial killer.
Maybe dial it back was futile. Their entitlement was absolute.
This is social engineering in its rawest form.
Changing your behavior to avoid harassment.
Post less self censor. Let the trolls win.
The irony. While I grapple with these cases
exposing society's darkest failure, strangers a perversed
mirror of the indifference that allowed Picton's crimes to
persist. Picton Case isn't just about one
man. It's about a culture that
discards a vulnerable a media ecosystem that prioritize clicks
over content, a public that often ignores existential crisis
to bicker over nonsense. The same apathy that let Picton
operate for nearly years thrives today.
It's actually worse. So, moving forward, this journey
has hardened and humbled me. To those who've weaponized
pettiness, your noise is drowned out.
I will keep digging, writing, and advocating.
Not for clicks or for approval, because some truths cannot
remain buried. As Detective Shiner writes, the
dead don't speak, but they don't have to.
Their silence screams louder than any troll.
So since launching my podcast, Vancouver True Crime, I recently
shared my first episode, a deeply personal milestones After
a decade of dreaming about this podcast, I felt like driving the
first spike into a transcontinental railroad.
Raw, imperfect, but undoubtedly significant, Vancouver the the
Beautiful and Ugly explored the city's fractured the
unaffordable crisis, crime, addiction, and failed
leadership. Years later, those issues have
only metastasized, the city's even more unaffordable violence
and broken than ever, and a leadership that feels
increasingly out of touch. When my podcast exposed the the
chaos, the random, ER, stabbings, the policy failures,
it shatters the illusion to preserve the worldview.
Critics attack me because if you, if I am the problem, the
system isn't broken. It's all in my head.
I'm just making it all up.
But history shows that change only comes when the messenger
refused to be silent. As Carl Jung warned, people will
do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their
own soul. Keep driving the spikes and I
will. What I've come to understand
through researching figures like Robert Picton, Epstein and the
shadowy networks that shield them, this is society's darkest
crimes. They're not anomalies.
They're symptoms of a system engineer to protect power,
exploit vulnerability, numb the public into complacency, the
cycle of corruption, the psychological blueprint, the
useful idiot politician. Young idealistic leaders enter
politics believing they can change the system, but the
system change them. It's not.
This isn't accidental. It's by design.
Dark psychology institutions weaponize gradual normalization.
Small compromise, softening the policy to secure donor backing
erode moral boundaries. Overtime, politicians
rationalize betrayal as pragmatism.
A leader who once vowed to tackle homelessness quietly
approves a luxury condo project after private dinners with
developers. These softball interviews aren't
incompetence, it's strategic complicity.
Media outlets to posture as watchdogs while avoiding any
real accountability by occasionally exposing minor
scandals. They create the illusion of
integrity, feeding, freeing, freeing them to ignore systemic
crimes, IE the Epstein client list, public role, divide,
distract, disenpower. The elites thrive on societal
fractures, homelessness, addiction.
Rivalries aren't just failures, it they are tools, Dark
psychology, learned helplessness.
When people feel overwhelmed by crisis, unaffordable cities,
opioid deaths, they retreat into petty conflicts, cultural war
debates. This redirects way rage.
This redirects rage from the power structures.
Divide and conquer tactics. By inflaming tensions, urban
versus rural, woke versus anti woke, the ruling class ensures
no unified opposition forms. Dividing the populace is easier
to manipulate. The Vancouver downtown's east
side is a microchrism of societal collapse.
The Vancouver downtown east side isn't.
But it isn't an accident. It's a profit driven ecosystem.
Exploitation, psychology, addicts and homelessness are
treated as commodities. NGO secure grants to manage
poverty, not to solve it. Predators, pimps, traffickers,
corrupt officials profit from despair.
The system knowingly fails. Please ignore open air drug
markets. Politicians fund half measures.
This is an incompetence. It's calculated neglect.
Keeping the crisis visible but contained justifies expanding
bureaucratic control and budgets.
Why is no one held accountable? Evil 2 Point O Evil as a
bureaucratic indifference has evolved.
Today's corruption is algorithmic diffusion of
responsibility. No single villain signs off of
destroying a city. Instead, thousands of small,
morally neutral acts. A zoning permit here lacks
informant policy. There compounds into
catastrophe. Leaders hide behind jargon,
stakeholder engagement, equity frameworks to avoid taking
actions, And when scandals erupt, they feign ignorance or
blame. Complexity, the Stockholm
syndrome of the masses. The public increasingly
identifies with its abusers. Example defending a politician
who betrays their promises. But her opponent is worse.
They rationalize unlivable cities.
That's how capitalism works. Dark psychology, cognitive
dissonance reduction. Admitting the system is is
rigged is too painful, so people cling to the myth of progress.
At least we're not the USA. Team Canada elbows up the call
to awareness. What I'm sensing the unshakable
dread that Canada and the West is entering a controlled
decline. It's not paranoia, it's pattern
recognition. The same forces allowed Picton
to prey on marginalized women for decades are now scaling
nationally. Foreign interference ignored by
the media. Substance abuse policy designed
to create lifelong dependence, not healing.
The media class that amplifies distraction.
Celebrity gossip. Outrage bait, The very hard
truth. The take away?
This isn't about fixing the system, it's about understanding
it. Corruption isn't a bug, it's an
operating system. But awareness is a first step to
resistance. You have seen with Picton, the
sunlight can disinfect, but only if we dare to shine it in the
darkest corners. Even if the world does call you
a conspiracy theorist and the call to personality podcast I
will be Co hosting with Nash, we're going to cut through the
partisan noise and expose the shadows of networks, the
unelected elites who wield real power.
This isn't about left or right. It's both pulling back the
curtain on individuals and dynasty that is operating the
dark far from public scrutiny. Think of it as a forensic audit
of power names like Epstein, the Trudeau's, and other legacy
families that reappear like sinister threads in a global
tapestry of exploitation. Why do these elite gravitate
towards harming the vulnerable, especially children, treating
human lives as commodities? Why does the media rarely name
them The dehumanization. Moral disagreement.
Powerful predators like Epstein's don't see people, they
see assets. Their mindset requires
dehumanization. Psychological process where
victims are stripped of individuality and reduced to
objects. Moral disagreement.
Elites rationalize atrocity. Everyone does it.
Or displace blame. They chose this life they allow
them to exploit without grief, without guilt.
Example, Epstein's Leota Express wasn't just a plane, it was a
ritual of dominance, reinforcing his belief that rules don't
apply to him. Members are groomed to normalize
deviants, often through gradual escalation.
Step one, small compromise. Attend a party, no question out.
Step 2. Social bonding.
Through shared secrets, we protect our own.
Step 3. Full indoctrination.
This is how the world works. By the time they are trafficking
children, they're too entangled to escape. 3 The weaponization
of distraction. Elites rely on strategic
divisions to keep the public docile.
While we fight over vaccine vaccines, pronouns and partisan
theatrics, they loot institution and exploit crisis.
Example. Trudeau's progressive branding
distracts from his family ties to shadowy network the Clinton
Foundation. The WE Charity scandals.
Why the 48 Law of Power terrifies the system When I
first shared lessons from Robbers green the 48 Laws of
power on Tik Toks, critics accused me of teaching
manipulation. They missed the point.
This book isn't a manual for predators.
It's a armor for prey. Lesson 1 Never outshine the
masters elite uses to crush dissent.
Law 13 When asking for help, appeal the self-interest.
This explains why politicians serve donors, not voters.
Law 25 Recreate Recreate yourself a survival skill in an
era where algorithms and elites want you trapped in an outdated
identities. The backlash proved my thesis.
Those in power fear and inform public calling a book dangerous
as a tactic to keep you ignorance, compliance and
divided. Our mission, The call to
personality isn't just a podcast, it's a counter attack
with each episode naming the nameless track the dynasty, the
fixers, Epstein's enablers who evade accountability to decode,
decode the manipulators using Robert Greene's law, the 40 laws
of power to teach the listeners how to spot coercion.
So the new podcast, The call to personality.
The podcast is a call to weaponizing awareness by
exposing how elites, predators, and algorithms exploit human
vulnerability. My goal is to dismantle
complacency and rebuild a society.
Rooted accountability, critical thought, communal strength, and
the journey from podcast host to advocate proves that even in the
darkness, light attracts light. The darkest truth isn't the evil
exists, it is that it depends on our silence to thrive.
Break the silence. Thank you for all your support,
and thank you for those who are eager for the new path and the
new direction of the Dark Mind Detective and now the Cult of
Personality. Here we are.
It is happening. It is real.
It is official. It's it's a thing.
It is a thing. Everybody come one come all
welcome. Welcome to the very first
edition of the Epstein editorial.
This is going to be a regular and a reoccurring segment on
Mark and I's podcast, just because Jeffrey Epstein is one
of those topics that you know, just never goes away.
It never goes away. It never goes away.
It is here, it is with us and it is probably one of the most
prominent and most profound and most talked about and most
sought after details and stories that exists probably in the
last. Well, I mean, there are there
are people who have been invested in this story for
decades, but it has become mostly mainstream within the
course of the last, I would say five years or so.
It didn't come on my radar until about 2021. 2021 is when Jeffrey
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell came on my radar.
And it came in my radar over over social media, over
Instagram. It was, it was a post about did
he really hang himself? And I was just like, why is
anybody questioning whether a guy actually hung himself?
Yes, in 2021, I, I still was of that position as to why anybody
would ever question that. I'm no longer of that position
today, Needless to say as to why something like that would be
questioned. So it just, it caught my
attention and it caught my intrigue.
And so of course start looking into who is this guy?
Who is, who is this random guy? Why do people care who this guy
is? And in, in doing that and in
digging into those, those details, Oh my, Oh my.
Right. I think that's a pretty
acceptable phrase when it comes to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein
and the story and fundamentally what they did.
Oh my, Oh my, indeed. And then came the news that
there was going to be court documents that were released of
a girl by the name of Virginia Roberts.
And it was a case against Ghislaine Maxwell.
And I was just like, OK, this is my moment.
This is my opportunity. Let's let's do this shit.
Let's do this. Let's dive deep into these court
documents. Let's really and truly
understand what all of this is about and how this all came to
be from, you know, a, a victim's perspective and what she went
through. And, you know, maybe we'll find
out some more details of the inner workings as to how all of
this actually happened and actually came to be.
So I set out with a group, a group of women.
And when those first documents were released and we had a group
chat and I was going through the court documents and I was
referencing pages of things that were of relevance, mostly of
people's names that were being dropped.
Oh my God, this person's on this page.
Oh my God. Diana's nanny, Who's Les Wexner?
Yes, yes. At that point in time, I had no
idea who Les Wexner was. Shout out to KB for giving me
the insight on to who Les Wexner was.
I fully know who he is now, but at the time I had no idea
whatsoever. I had no idea, and I can admit
that. I can admit that.
So there I was, going through all of the court documents and
after doing so, continuing to do more research, continuing to do
more deep dives. Got my hands on the black book,
got my hands on the flight logs, got my hands on a a lot of
things, got my hands on the power of attorney, got my hands
on you. You name it.
I, I spent that entire whole year after those documents were
first released just really and truly deep diving into this and
what it was and what it entailed.
And then there was the next big drop in 2023.
And I spent a month, yes, a month going through every single
page of those court documents, which which were again, a part
of the Virginia Roberts, Elaine Maxwell case.
And I posted them to my stories. And it's very much what kind of
made me known and what made me become popular.
I mean that's not the correct word.
I mean I only have about 1400 ish followers on a given day.
I'm not saying I'm an influencer or a Candace Owens or a Ian
Carroll or a Joe Rogan by any stretch of the means.
But by doing what I did do, my followers grew by over 1000 in a
month. By doing what I did, I became
connected to a lot of people who have become influential to what
I am still doing today. Through my work on Epstein, I
got connected to Mark. So it's something that I do take
a lot of pride in and it's something that, you know, I, I,
I take a lot of pride in. I don't know what I don't know
what else to say about that. I do.
And, you know, being known for doing that deep dive into
Jeffrey Epstein and everything that I have posted about with
Jeffrey Epstein, it was the Virginia Roberts court documents
that really helped me and really kick started everything for me.
And so there's a reason. There is a reason why I'm
talking about this, and there is a reason why I'm going into this
detail and telling this story. And that reason is this.
So obviously over the course of the last several weeks, there
has been several talk and chatter and excitement and then
frustration over the quote UN quote, release of the Epstein
documents, the release of the list and everything else and the
entire frustration that has been going along with that.
And I too have had frustration with it.
Like just just be honest. Not it's not difficult, it's not
hard. Just be honest.
And so with people's frustrations, there has been
backlash against Virginia Roberts.
And as I have been seeing this, I'm just like, wait, what?
What's what's happening right now?
Why? Why is this happening?
Where is this coming from? And so the backlash is is multi
sided and multifaceted. So one part of the backlash is
saying, well, why didn't she do more?
She had the opportunity to expose everybody and she didn't.
She took her money and she ran. That's one side of the backlash.
The other side of the backlash is she wasn't even really a
minor. She was, she was 17.
She didn't fit under a minor under Florida statute law.
So why was she even whining and crying about everything?
So, yeah, so because these comments have been coming out
and because these comments have been prominent, I felt the need
to speak out and I felt the need to maybe clarify things.
Not that I feel the need to defend her, not I don't know her
personally. I've never met her.
I've never spoken to her, but just based upon what I have read
and based upon what I know, what is being said about her and how
she is in some ways being thrown under the bus is so completely
wrong and so completely improper.
And ridiculous that I felt the need to speak about it and I
felt the need to address it. So first let's address the she
had the opportunity to, you know, air all The Dirty laundry.
She had the opportunity to do so and she just took her money and
she ran. So let's address that first.
So first of all, yes, yes, she did end up taking financial
payouts from Ghilane, Prince Andrew, and I believe Jeffrey
Epstein as well. Yes, my based upon my
understanding of things she did, she did take payouts.
However, let's go into a little bit more detail as to what
exactly she took payouts on. And so let's start with the case
of her versus Ghilane. So the case of her versus
Ghilane was not her suing Ghilane for what Ghilane did to
her or what she went through. It was not about her being
trafficked. It was not about the the sexual
grievances. And I'm using that word loosely
that she went through that is not what the case was.
And it's very easy to look this up.
It's very easy to confirm and research this for yourself.
The the case is still widely available.
I personally use courtlistener.com if you want to
look it up for yourself. So the the case of Virginia
versus Ghilane was actually a civil suit.
Most specifically, it was a suit based upon libel and slander,
because Ghilane was saying to media and saying to everybody
that Virginia Roberts was a liar and she was this and she was
making up stories and she's just looking for 15 minutes of fame.
And so as a result, Virginia Roberts was, at one point in
time, was getting raked over the coals in the media.
She was being stalked. She couldn't go anywhere without
paparazzi following her and trying to interview her and
people construing her words. She gave an interview and the
interview just completely did not even correctly quote her
like it like she it was, it was bad for a very long period of
time. So to get it to stop, she sued
Ghilane for libel and slander, Saying that you're saying that
I'm lying, you're saying that I'm uncredible, you're saying
that I'm this horrible person and I'm not.
So I want you to stop and I want you to be found guilty of libel
and slander. That was the whole premise of
her case against Guilin. OK, so now when you sue someone
over libel and slander, the honest is on you to prove that
they libeled and slandered you. OK, so essentially the honest
was on Virginia to to prove that when Ghilane said that she was
lying, that it was actually Ghilane who was lying.
So therefore, Virginia Roberts had to prove that what happened
to her was factual and real and it actually really happened.
That was the reason why of everything that was in those
court documents, that's the reason why the flight logs were
centred around Virginia. That's the reason why all of the
the couple of the other girls that were their testimonies were
included. They were all surrounded around
the time that Virginia was there and in the circle, the the
housekeepers and the the gardeners and the chefs that
what they were all questioned. They were all questioned around
the time that Virginia was there, that she was in the
circle because it was on her to prove that everything that she
said happened to her, happens to her.
OK, Is everybody understanding? That is everybody you know in
the in the know or understanding.
So that was that was the point of all of it.
That was the entire and total point of the court documents.
And it was Ghilane who eventually came forward and
said, OK, you know what, let's just stop this.
Let's just make this go away. I'll pay you a certain amount of
money and we can just stop. So because of the fact that it
was Ghilane who offered her the the payout, that's essentially
probing that Ghilane wanted it to end.
If it was the other way around, then yes, it would be
questionable. But because Ghilane did it, it's
more so to the negative of Ghilane that she put the offer
forward rather than Virginia. And again, this case was not
about what was done to her. It was about her proving that
she told the truth. So because Ghilane said I'll pay
you X amount of dollars to put this aside, I'll stop talking
about you, you stop talking about me, and we move on with
our lives and she took the money.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with her taking the money in
this particular circumstance because it essentially ended the
you're a liar. No, I'm not.
You're a liar. No, I'm not.
You're a liar. It essentially ended that.
It ended that she took the money.
Neither one of them can talk about could could talk about
each other anymore and they moved on.
There's nothing wrong, inappropriate, or negative about
that whatsoever. This case was not the
opportunity for her to take them all down.
That's not what it was, and that would never have been possible
even to do in this case. OK, so now we get to the whole
she wasn't really a minor, so therefore can't really hold all
of the the sexual things against them to her because she wasn't a
minor due to Florida statute laws.
OK, that's yeah, that's that's what some people are are
wanting, are wanting to say and wanting to put forward.
And to those people I say this. You do not need to be below the
age of consent in any given state, province or country to be
lured, groomed, coerced, manipulated, victimized,
trafficked, sexually assaulted, and in fear of your life and
your livelihood. Virginia Roberts is a victim of
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilane Maxwell.
That is something that is irrefutable.
That is something that is documented.
That is something that is known, and to say otherwise is
ignorant. Virginia Roberts is 1 of 200
known victims. Now, I'm not saying that all the
200 individuals are known. I am saying that we know that
there are at least 200, and the reason why I can say that is
because just a few weeks ago, Jane Doe 200 filed her lawsuit
against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
And yes, it is being said that the majority of these girls were
over the age of 18, primarily over the age of 20.
Yes, this is factual. This is true, but their ages
don't make them any less victims.
They are still victims who had horrible things done to them,
who were a part of and saw horrible things, who were a part
of a network that is all-encompassing and all
consuming and they need to be believed.
More than one girl has been discredited and I'm not going to
name names. I'm sure everybody has at least
one or two that they feel are not credible or not believable
for various different reasons. But that doesn't take away from
the fact that it is documented that these girls were a part of
it and that it is well known what Jeffrey Epstein and
Ghislaine Maxwell were doing. So how can they be considered
not to be victims when they were a part of something?
That clearly was not right and not proper and something that
was clearly illegal. People need to stop and take a
moment and really think about that and really consider that.
And you know, in saying that they were a part of a network
that was all-encompassing and all consuming.
That network is the real story. It is the real story of who they
were, who being Jeffrey Epstein and Gillian Maxwell, who they
were, what they did, what their plan was, what their intentions
were, what they ultimately wanted to achieve.
It is that network. That is what is most important,
not a list of names, but the network.
And it's the network that Mark and I will be discussing and
talking about moving forward with all of you with the Epstein
editorial. The.
If you're not called to tell
you, I wouldn't be here. I want to drive you through the
night down the hills. I want to tell you something you
don't want to hear. I'm going to show you where it
starts, but a little fear. There's something inside you.
It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, boy.
Oh, that you're still the same. There's something inside you.
It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, boy.
Oh, that you're still the same. I'm giving you a night go to
tell you I want to be up. I want to drive you through the
night down the hills. I want to tell you something you
don't want to hear. I'm going to show you where it
starts, but I love you. There's something inside you.
It's hard to explain. They talking about you boy, but
you're still the same. There's something inside you.
It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, boy,
but you're still the same. There's something inside you.
It's hard to explain.
They're talking about you,
they're talking about you, but you're still the same.
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