Welcome back to the peripheral. Today's episode's going to be a little different. I interview Dr.

Shiloh and Dr. Scott from the LA Not So Confidential Podcasts. I highly recommend you go check out

their podcast, but it's not their podcast that we talk about. They both are forensic

psychologists with focuses on sex offenders.

And I promise we don't go into any graphic detail about the offenders.

This is more about their journey, how they ended up there, their perceptions on true crime, law enforcement, and how they do self-care.

We spoke at length about a lot of different subjects, so I'm just going to get to the podcast.

You two need to introduce yourselves and your backgrounds, because I find it fascinating myself.

You want to start, Dr. Shiloh?

Sure.

I guess I call myself a forensic psychologist as the bigger umbrella, but I specialize as a law enforcement or police psychologist now.

Prior to all of that, I was really interested in law enforcement. I was born into a law enforcement

family. Must have hit the lottery or

something. You know, it was interesting to me. I think criminal justice was always something that

was obviously present, but also I found pretty fascinating. So I ended up in undergrad

majoring in criminal justice and psychology and really wanted to go to what's called the California Department of Justice.

So most states have their version of it.

It's it's like the FBI, if you will, of that state.

And I knew I didn't want to be a cop.

And I just wanted to go into investigations.

All you needed was a bachelor's degree to apply and be a special agent. And when I graduated, they were on this major, major hiring phrase in the entire state of California. So I really had to regroup and figure out something else because the months were taken by. And here I was working part-time at Starbucks.

And I also had a part-time job at my local police department as a police cadet. I was in charge

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