Episode Transcript: #1020 - Amy Alkon

Hey, good. Thanks for doing this man, appreciate it.

I'm glad to be here. How's things?

Well, outside of Vegas everything's good.

I know right, you have to say that.

I mean these things that happen that sort of just change the whole world, you gotta think

that's probably one of the reasons why these psychos do it in the first place, right?

So that everyone talks about them. It becomes their big fireworks 4th of July grand finale

before they leave.

Yeah, there was a very interesting post by a guy named Robert King on psychology today

and I guess he's doing research in this and he talked about it as a way for men to get

or chase status and that he saw two bumps. I think one was at 23 and one at 41 in terms

of the ages that people do this and it does tend to be men who have some kind of their

marriage breaks up, they lose their job in their 40s or the young men are just chasing

status. So it's at least some kind of explanation other than oh someone just went wild, they

just went crazy which is not helpful because it doesn't tell us really what we can do to

maybe prevent it or look at how do we look for these people who do this.

Yeah, well to prevent it you have to lock all men up.

I'm not for that.

That's the only way. I mean obviously not the only way but it's all men. That's a giant