# What’s Actually Driving Jesse Ridgway If It Isn’t Just the Money?

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-06-11T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8915034
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The Psycho Series hit a billion views. The pregnancy announcement got seventeen million views on X alone. The outrage pays. But is the paycheck the engine, or is it something the paycheck can’t explain? Jesse Ridgway has been escalating for twenty years. Each stunt darker, each one pushing further into territory a normal person wouldn’t touch. That pattern — needing more extreme material to generate the same response — is what addiction looks like when the substance is other people’s attention. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott digs into the clinical difference between someone doing this for money and someone who needs four million people looking at them. She examines what happens when the dopamine feedback loop runs for two decades with no one pulling the plug, whether anyone in Jesse’s life can compete with what the audience gives him, and whether twenty years of reinforcement has locked this pattern in permanently. Can Jesse Ridgway stop? And if not, where does this go? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JesseRidgway #McJuggerNuggets #PsychoSeries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InfluencerExposed #Narcissism #StoryFire…

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