My name is Mark Vissente. I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker. I'm most known as the director of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, and as one of the next-team whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The VAL. Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults. I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over, waking up, and

knowing how to spot them.

And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

My mission is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts.

From personal to family, to group to societal, it's all the same pattern at every scale.

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things.

So there might be some blasphemy.

One or two sacred cows might get knocked over, and there'll likely be some foul language.

You never quite know what you're going to get, because it really does depend on what the

fuck is on my mind.

Hey, everybody, today's guest is someone you may have seen online.

He goes by the nameless narcissist.

His real name is Jacob Skidmore.

And he's one of the few people out there who talks openly about living with NPD.

So Jacob, thanks for being here and for being willing to chat.

Oh, thank you for having me.

It's flattering.

For being willing to let me get into your brain as much as I possibly can.

I mean, that's what I mean, that's what I do. I mean, I will say it's my primary goal given

that, you know, my entire purpose in doing this was, oh, I felt misunderstood by a lot.

I mean, I pathologically feel misunderstood, but representation and media and everything.

It's like, come on, I'm not, I'm not that.

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