Bonus Episode - Jason Carpenter, Human Hunter: The Revenge

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Jason Carpenter, host of Dead Rabbit Radio, returns to a story he started in a previous bonus episode: his past as a self-described “human hunter.” In this segment, recorded for a season finale that ran too long, Carpenter details the tactics and philosophy behind a campaign of psychological and material harassment he waged against a man named “Brooke” in his late teens and early twenties. The episode is a confessional monologue, framed as a series of “high jinx” from decades ago, and it functions as a case study in how a person can rationalize sustained, low-grade criminality as righteous vigilante justice.

The central mechanism Carpenter describes is a deliberate strategy of plausible deniability. When a friend or acquaintance came to him with a grievance, he would deliver a speech that served as both a contract and a threat. He would tell the person that a “series of unfortunate events” would befall their target, that Carpenter would cause some of them but not all, and that the client would never know which events were his doing. This served two purposes: it prevented the client from feeling guilty (since they could never be sure what Carpenter had actually done), and it protected Carpenter from being exposed if the client later reconciled with the target. “I’ve watched that happen multiple times,” he sa