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Every Little Thing

Is My Cat Trying to Murder Me?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.64.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

While Flora’s out, we’re revisiting an old favorite — caller Megan’s cat has zero empathy and tries to trip her on the stairs. Could he be a psychopath? Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, and cat psychologist Eva Waiblinger help Megan assess if she's got a killer just a whisker's length away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Megan.

0:12.0

Megan comes to us with a concern about her roommate.

0:16.0

Well, my theory is that he might be a psychopath.

0:29.0

He is zero-entity. He likes to trip me on the stairs.

0:34.0

How long have you lived together?

0:37.0

Nearly five years now.

0:39.0

And have these signs been there since the beginning?

0:42.0

I mean, he's always been a, you know, poorly socially adapted creature.

0:49.0

And like, I reason to suspect my own judgment.

0:53.0

In what way?

0:55.0

Like, I've dated a lot of terrible people who show some pathological qualities.

1:02.0

Are you afraid?

1:04.0

I mean, he is smaller than me, so.

1:11.0

And he's big for a cat.

1:15.0

Oh, can you hear him in the background? He's meowing.

1:22.0

Megan, for a case like this, I think we'd have to make a house call.

1:26.0

Okay, I'd want to endeavor to stay alive until then.

1:34.0

How do we figure out if Megan's cat? What's his name?

1:37.0

He's a native pushkin.

1:39.0

How do we figure out if pushkin is a psychopath?

1:42.0

We needed advice and knew just who to call.

1:45.0

Hey.

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