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Coltan Scrivner

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2167 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And I talk about in the book Dahmer saying that he was morbidly curious.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

He used the term.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

He was being interviewed and asked why he went back to look at a body or something.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

He said, because I was morbidly curious.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And he said, in all these movies, it's stories about this stuff, but I actually do it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And then I give the example of the Columbine shooters.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

They supposedly loved the game Doom and they loved Mortal Kombat.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

This is in the 90s when those are the violent games.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And so, of course, in both of those cases, people are like, aha.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

That's why Dahmer killed and ate people because he liked The Exorcist 3.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And that's why those kids shot up the school because they played Doom.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Along with 10 million other kids who didn't shoot up the school.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Exactly.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Along with every other kid in school.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

No.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

But we want answers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Again, that's an intuitive answer, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

But then you have to ask, well, what about every other kid that plays violent video games?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

And what about the evidence that shows that it's not related to aggression, which is pretty much all the evidence.