 So the convicted murderer Gypsy Rose Blanchard just got engaged in prison and it's something that we need to talk about and surprisingly there are some lessons that we can learn from this situation. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I like to do is pull different topics from pop culture or the news and try to see what lessons that we can learn from them. If you're new to that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So I did not know who Gypsy Rose Blanchard was. Some of you might not know who Gypsy Rose Blanchard was. Unless you're like somebody new and you just found my channel because of this video in that case subscribe, notification bell is turned on but anyways Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a convicted murderer. She murdered her mom and she just got engaged behind bars. She is serving another 10 years in prison for this murder. Some of you are like wait what? She murdered her mom. Like on the surface it's like that's terrible. Underneath the surface it's terrible too. Like murdering your mother is terrible. But this is a very fascinating story. It's something that my beautiful girlfriend Tristan told me about and I had no idea. How did I not know about this story? So my girlfriend Tristan and I we just started watching this show on Hulu called The Act and it is a series about this story. Alright and it is fascinating and crazy and I thought about doing videos on it. I might if you want me to let me know down in the comments below or just give this video a thumbs up so I know that you like this if you want me to talk about it. But anyways I'm going to give you the TLDR of this story. So Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mom Dee Dee they moved to a city and so basically the mother is somebody who is abusive, manipulative and she has her daughter and she's like manipulative. It is so hard to explain because it is one of the craziest stories I've ever heard. She has manipulated her daughter into believing that she has a wide range of illnesses. Like Gypsy Rose Blanchard has a feeding tube. Gypsy is also in a wheelchair. Her head is shaved. Her mother has made her believe that she has an allergy to sugar and like where we're at in the Hulu series like I'm not going to give a bunch of spoilers even though it's already kind of spoiled because we know what happened. Kind of like the Titanic you knew what was going to happen right. But anyways like Gypsy has a feeding tube. She's in a wheelchair. Everybody thinks that this is it like Dee Dee like submits Gypsy to get like prizes and everything. There's even a thing where like Gypsy's mom Dee Dee like has all her teeth removed and she gets fake teeth but her mom is like keeping her sick and over time Gypsy realizes that this is all fake and Gypsy is a young woman. Gypsy was like lied to about her age as well and she ends up meeting a guy online and talking about how she's like you know being held captive by her mom or whatever and she ends up meeting this guy and this hasn't happened in the series yet to my knowledge. Anyway she meets this guy, talked to him and she ends up convincing the guy to come out there and they murder her mother and then they run away together and didn't work out too well because they got caught. And I've thought about doing videos on this just from like a philosophical point of view like just this is a terrible situation all around. Like the mother started like beating her and the mother was very verbally and emotionally abusive as with most abusive relationships the mother it was a power dynamic right and the mother was like you know trying to isolate Gypsy from everybody else. I'm the only one you have. Keeping Gypsy medicated like it is an insane story. If you have Hulu watch the act it is absolutely bananas but anyways Gypsy's engaged now and people were like there were there have been interviews with Gypsy. There was a documentary about Gypsy and I didn't see that but I've seen some of the interviews and everything and basically Gypsy's like in prison for murder and in an interview she was like talking about how like she's much happier in prison and she's finally able to live a normal life and the reporter is like what a normal life you're in prison. But to Gypsy that is normal for her like that is more normal than like rolling around in a wheelchair because her mother is trying to keep her sick and eating out of a feeding tube and not having sugar like that's normal for her but anyways let's talk about her getting engaged so there's another show that I've been watching the season just ended my girlfriend's best friend got us into the show it's called love after lockup and oh my god like I want to do videos about how just we as a society we just love watching like trashy reality television I don't even know why I'm watching it like so love after lockup it's an entire series about people who meet prisoners who are in prison and then they try to like get married afterwards and spoiler alert like 99.9% of them did not work out and it is bananas like I'm sitting there and I'm like are you surprised like are you surprised like now don't get me wrong I'm a recovering drug addict and here's a big fact disclaimer I used to be an awful person the only thing that separates me from some other people is the fact that I didn't get caught so I'm not saying that don't give people a chance don't think that people can't change because I'm living proof that you can I used to be a complete piece of human garbage and now I'm a pretty decent guy so I'm not saying that you know nobody can be reformed but like there's there's one situation where you know there's a guy Clint and he starts dating a woman in prison she gets out he just like gives her all of his money and then like they get married after a day she ends up relapsing on crack disappears with his money his rental car which he owes like $20,000 on she gets arrested multiple times and then like she gets out and he's like hey I still love you let's be together what right there's there's another guy who was dating a woman in there and he he went broke to giving her all of his money to feed her addiction while she was in prison that didn't work out is that a surprise there's a woman who dated this guy in there they got out they were gonna get married and the guy was just not changed at all and he like had like aggression issues because for a lot of people especially like in addiction recovery a lot of it's the lifestyle that people have a problem giving up and I'll say this the whole prison system is an absolute joke all right so much of the prison system is not about rehabilitation it is about punishment and that is just scientifically proven not to work like we need to rehabilitate people so anyways that's why I think when a lot of people get out of prison it's an issue so when we look at Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the fact that she got engaged somebody is engaged to her somebody asked this woman to marry her like the whole time I was watching Love After Lockup like those of you who know me I'm always trying to like analyze people and trying to get inside their mind and say what led them to this decision like what was this why did they do this what like with over 7 billion people on this planet what made them say you know what I'm going to find somebody in prison okay and yeah there was another woman from Love After Lockup who found a guy and got engaged to him but the guy's still married to his baby's mama and it just turned into a hot mess and I'm sorry that show is just like I was watching I'm like what is happening but like I kept wanting to watch pretty crazy but anyways like what what makes put somebody want to do this what makes somebody say you know what I'm gonna find this person and like we see this a lot just like not even with like prison relationships like how many of us how many of us seek at somebody who is quote-unquote broken like a lot of this has to do with co-dependence right we're looking for someone broken because they need us they want us they need you know we want to be able to fix them nobody else understands them or nobody understands me so we'll be together I always said this to my clients when I was working in the treatment center because one of the things about like addiction is you're not supposed to date for your first year it's a highly highly suggested tip because like I always said this like winning the history of humanity has it ever been a good idea to take two glasses break them and then scoop them together and say oh this is gonna work right so I see that happening a lot people think that you take two broken people you put them together and it's gonna equal a good relationship this often isn't the case so when I talk about anything like when it comes to relationships like both people need to be at a place where they're doing well so like Gypsy Rose Blanchard like getting engaged I'm like is she fixed is she better like what has she shown to show that she has worked on herself and everything like that but the thing is like we're not talking about her just acting a little kooky or even getting arrested on a drug crime like this is murder like she murdered her mother all right now again if you want me to do a video about like kind of like the philosophical ideas behind this because I've seen some people argue that it was justified murder which I disagree with but I can talk about that in another video if you want me to but like I think another aspect of this because you know there's a new movie coming out about Ted Bundy a lot of people were attracted to Ted Bundy a serial killer a serial killer who brutally murdered young women I think part of it is too a lot of people try to find a partner based on status right like how many times have you tried to date a woman or a man based on their status based on their popularity based on their money right so I like doing videos about this like analyzing us as a society and just like kind of bring to light that a lot of us like we have these like really weird ideas and logic just seems to completely fly out the window like there are so many men and women on this planet what is making us want to go to these relationships that have a very high probability of not working out like I am not a pessimist by any stretch of the imagination but I think that I really try to use like logic and ration when it comes to like decisions that I'm making you know what I mean so what is the likelihood that these relationships are gonna work out what are the chances you know what I mean like my like emotions aside like that that intense feeling of love aside because a lot of us need to realize that we cannot keep making decisions based on our emotions because that gets us in trouble like what is the likelihood of this working out you know what I mean but anyways anyways let me know what you think of Gypsy Rose Blanchard getting engaged if you're watching the act let me know your thoughts on that below if you want me to make more videos about the Gypsy Rose Blanchard story let me know down in the comments as well all right but anyways that's all I got for this video if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if 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