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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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CW: Discussion of suicide; please skip this episode if it's better for your mental health
After a long hiatus, Dr. Alan Smerbeck AKA Stormy Decisis is back to cover a topic we've been talking about discussing for a while. What does the research tell us is the responsible way to cover death by suicide? What kind of impact can the media have on the greater population if they get it wrong? And how many different ways did 13 Reasons Why completely screw up?
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0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 433 I'm Thomas Smith and |
0:22.2 | making a triumphant return is Dr. Stormy Decisis Alan Smirbeck himself. |
0:27.6 | How you doing? |
0:28.6 | I am Splendacular. |
0:31.0 | Good to hear it. |
0:31.9 | Yeah, it's you've been busy you've been working. We've missed you so early. We thought you know maybe you hated us but no you've just been really busy. I am |
0:39.7 | delighted to be back, but yeah, I mean it was personal. |
0:43.2 | So yeah, just let you know. |
0:45.6 | Sorry, okay, it was personal. |
0:46.9 | He told me off air that it wasn't, but I think he's saving the truth for the |
0:50.8 | listener. So yeah, yeah okay personal grievance. |
0:53.0 | Just let you know now it's um frankly it's your body odor. |
0:58.0 | It's really just the issue. |
0:59.0 | Wow, it's coming through that far. |
1:00.0 | I don't want to be in the same Zencaster room with you. |
1:04.0 | Oh, great to have you back. |
1:06.0 | I am looking forward to this. |
1:08.0 | This is one that we've kind of talked about you wanted to do for a while and I've said, |
1:12.0 | absolutely, because when this |
1:14.0 | show came out 13 reasons why was like 2017 I want to say it's been a while right |
1:20.0 | this seemed awful and I think you're here to tell us that science also maybe |
1:27.0 | concludes that this is awful. Yeah so we first talked about it in the patron |
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