Why We Turn to Conspiracies After Tragedy? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott Explains
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this final segment, the Hidden Killers Live team unpacks the psychological pull of conspiracy theories following the Charlie Kirk assassination. Shavaun Scott explains why the human brain craves certainty after chaos, and how conspiracy thinking offers both a sense of control and emotional escape. Tony Brueski and his co-hosts reflect on the hopelessness many feel in today’s polarized climate, the erosion of problem-solving in leadership, and the psychological cost of living in constant fear. The episode closes with the FBI’s press conference, revealing new investigative details — but the focus remains on the psychology of coping, control, and collective anxiety when violence shatters the national psyche.
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| 0:00.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:02.3 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:17.4 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel |
| 0:21.3 | good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:25.6 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:07.2 | Naturally, when anything like this occurs, you're going to start hearing it and we're already starting to hear it. |
| 1:15.6 | The word conspiracy. |
| 1:17.6 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:18.6 | And I'm not jumping on the bandwagon of this, but we're already starting to see that. |
| 1:26.6 | Let's talk a little bit about that in a 10,000 foot overview when it comes to, you know, |
| 1:34.0 | major events like this that seem to change history in some way, shape, or form. |
| 1:47.3 | Why do we go down the road of conspiracy? |
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