A Limited Anthology Series

Rational Geographic - Human Predators, Scamerica, That's My Psychopath!

A 3-season, 9-episode limited anthology that explores human predatory behavior using three different genre formats:

Nature Documentary
Game Show
Sitcom

At its core, "Decoding Assholes" explores the brutal clash between two survival strategies:

"All for one, and one for all." (Empathy-based) AND "Every man for himself." (Predation-based)

The series invites viewers to ask: "How can you survive and thrive in a world where predators walk among us?" By the end, they will not only recognize predators faster but will be emotionally and intellectually equipped to resist them-and even laugh them out of power. The ultimate defense against manipulation isn't fear or anger-it's awareness, accountability, and

THE PREMISE

SERIES SIZZLE REEL

Decoding Assholes is a provocative, genre-bending limited series that explores how narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths manipulate their way into power — and how you can stop them.

Told across three seasons in three radically different formats (nature doc, game show, and sitcom), the show gives viewers the psychological tools to recognize abuse, resist it, and laugh predators out of power.

Genre: Docu-satire / Dark Comedy / Psychological Education
Structure: 3 Seasons, 3 Episodes Each (9 Total)
Frame Shifts:

• S1: Nature Documentary — Planet Earth meets Mindhunter
• S2: Game Show — Jeopardy! meets The Daily Show
• S3: Sitcom — All in the Family meets Arrested Development

We’re living through a wave of social manipulation — from cults to conmen to corrupt leaders. This show doesn’t just name the behavior. It teaches audiences how to fight it!

Teaser

SEASON 1

Human Predators

Framing Device: Nature documentary, a BBC-style deep dive into human predatory behavior.
Tone: Serious, investigative, dry irony
Arc: Exploration of human predator evolution, prey vulnerability, self-defense.

Focus: Childhood origins, environmental/genetic factors, basic tactics predators use.

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Scamerica

SEASON 2

Framing Device: Game show, a satirical Jeopardy-style contest about real-world fraud, deception, and power addiction.
Tone: Satirical, flashy, high-energy,satirical game show
Arc: Sociopathy exposed in business, religion, politics via absurd competition.

Focus: Sociopathy in business, religion, politics, and how it costs society

SEASON 3

that's my Psychopath

Framing Device: Sitcom, a cheesy laugh-track world where the human predator becomes the ultimate joke.
Tone: Absurd, cathartic, subversive
Arc: Ronald Grump’s manipulation fails against an informed, laughing world.

Focus: Dealing with predators by laughing at them, deflating the ego.

PRODUCER: Andrew Shepherd

Filmmaker, performer, and producer focused on emotional truth through satire and storytelling. Andrew’s passion is in finding the humanity inside dehumanizing systems—and weaponizing art as a form of resistance. Decoding Assholes is his latest act of creative defiance and cathartic healing.

Founder of Converging Perspectives, a production company known for Square Dance Caller and Campaign America!, Andrew has written and produced many video projects over the last 20 years. Andrew graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2005 and has being doing freelance projects that suit his interests of educating people on their own psychology, how they are being manipulated by modern society, and how to re-converge paradigms in a divided country.

Campaign America! was a comedy web-series embedding lessons on how politics manipulate us. Andrew is a founding member of Mind-University where he has specialized in teaching about cognitive biases, curiosity, truth-seeking, and mind-setting.

PRODUCER: Christian Shimer

Writer, creative strategist, and student of human nature, Christian’s background in psychology and systems thinking drives the sharp analysis at the heart of Decoding Assholes. This show is the culmination of a lifetime of observing patterns, surviving toxic systems, and believing that awareness is the ultimate defense.

Christian is co-author of "Human Predators" and "Watch Out!: A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Sociopaths, Psychopaths, and Narcissists" which teaches how to see and avoid abusive behavior, and were written in tandem with this docuseries. He is owner of Legacy Productions with 15 years producing fundraising videos based upon the fundamentals of fundraising. He is the author of "Secrets To Big Money Using Video: The Art Of The Video Case Statement".

As a former Cruise Director, radio personality, comedy writer, and video producer Christian has been a student of human behavior and psychology throughout his career. In 2014 he was briefly Executive In Charge of Production for a TV show called Angels In the Neighborhood, which never made it to air.