so like many people my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and I we watch the
new Ted Bundy film starring Zac Efron called extremely wicked chuckle reviled
something like that alright but as I was watching it I started thinking of the
show Dexter I know a lot of you were fans of that show as well and what I
wanted to talk about is comparing these two and kind of talk about the idea of
serial killers being addicted to killing
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finished the book alright it was called the wisdom of psychopaths I mentioned it
in a video the other day I know some of you picked it up it's a great book great
great great great great book anyways to start this video I want to discuss like
where does our fascination with serial killers come from like that's something
that like you know I've been fascinated with since you know I was younger as
well as cults and I think a lot of us are like why maybe I don't know but I
know I do I'm like why is this something that's interesting but anyways in that
book the wisdom of Psychopaths I'll link it again down in the description if you
want to check it out one possible explanation for this is when it comes to
Psychopaths and serial killers part of our fascination might be how seemingly
they walk among us right like when you look at Ted Bundy or you look at the
fictional character Dexter like these were just normal people seemingly normal
normal people and they were just around us and I believe that or even what the
book discussed is part of our survival instinct is that we
want to like know the enemy you know what I mean like it's kind of weird or
creepy that these people are just everyday people maybe not what we expect
them to look like or who we expect them to be and by learning and understanding
these types of people maybe we can better protect ourselves anyways I have
some other possible Ted Bundy film films but videos planned out because there are
some different topics that the book I just read definitely brought up but
anyways so I was I was watching this movie with Tristan and this this idea
for this video kind of came up when Ted Bundy escapes from prison and then he
goes on the killing spree the Chi Omega murders alright and I'm sitting there
and I'm thinking I'm like this dude let's do this is the second time he's
gotten out of prison and he he screws it up by going to murder a bunch of young
women right like why couldn't he control this why don't he go back home why
didn't he go to Canada why didn't he go to Mexico why why why why why right and
then the topic of addiction came up right and this is something that Dexter
throughout the series struggled with as well like this insatiable urge to kill
so by the way I'm not like some licensed therapist or psychologist but I am
somebody who struggled with addiction for almost a decade not addiction to
kill him addiction to drugs and alcohol I've been sober for almost seven years
it'll be seven years next month and I also worked at a drug and addiction drug
addiction treatment center for a little over three years so when I look at this
addiction can be kind of like some summed up as continuously doing some
kind of action despite negative consequences so whether it's drugs
alcohol food sex shopping you know spending money whatever it is right it
is continually doing something knowing that there's gonna be negative
consequences right like when it comes to drugs and alcohol
say for example an alcoholic right they know that they have to be to work in the
morning or they have a presentation in the morning or they have school in the
morning or they have a family function or even like going to a kids game or
whatever they know that they have some kind of responsibility or they know that
this is going to cause a problem in their life but they still drink or use
anyways so I look at this and I look at the strollers that Dexter had throughout
that series or even Ted Bundy and it's just like huh are these guys actually
addicted to killing so when it comes to Dexter one of the reasons I think a lot
of us rooted for Dexter was because he had that kind of that code right that
his his father taught him so Dexter he he had his Dark Passenger you know and I
think that's another reason why I enjoyed that show was because in
addiction we kind of separate ourselves from the actual disease and like that
kind of helps it kind of helps it realize that you know we are not our
addiction and same thing with any mental health issue you are not your mental
health issues you are not your depression you are not your anxiety
you're not this right but anyways Dexter when he got that urge he killed bad
people right but throughout Dexter and one of the reasons it was an interesting
shelf cipher but just being phenomenally written and all that stuff but when he
had to fulfill that urge it was it was pretty much bad people right but when we
look at Ted Bundy he had this urge and he was killing young innocent women
right so this is something that we can all kind of learn from with our own
addictions and our own vices and ask ourselves like why why do we need to to
fulfill this urge you know what I mean and Ted Bundy reminds me a lot of an
addict because he lied he manipulated he he could be very sweet charming things
like that to get what he wanted right he could even be you know very not
empathetic isn't the right word but he understood other people's emotions which
is actually a common trait of psychopathy in that
that I just mentioned psychopaths are actually better at spotting vulnerable
people like they did a bunch of scientific studies on this right but Ted
Bundy knew who to target so addicts in the real world they know who to look for
who's more likely to give them money who's more likely to be codependent who
is more likely to enable their behaviors you know what I mean so that's something
that Ted Bundy kind of did throughout his his killing spree right and then it
makes me wonder about Dexter too these traits of an addict he had and the
people in his life who had no idea there were some people who had some suspicions
about it but just kind of how they blended in and everything like that but
anyways anyways like I would love to know your thoughts on this topic like
what are your thoughts around addiction and the serial killers and how they
cannot you know hold back their urges to to do this like you know if you look at
other serial killers in the past like sometimes they go a long time without
killing and then they they do it again like what do you think that is alright
but anyways if you if you would like me to do more Ted Bundy videos let me know
down in the comments below I would love to hear your thoughts your topics
anything like that I have a few I have a few brewing up inside my head as well
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