Bit January 26, 2026 · 27:16 · 13 min
Intrusive thoughts, impulse control, and sympathy for criminals
A long riff on the random dark impulses everybody gets — putting a hand on a woodstove, road-rage revenge fantasies, high-fiving a stop sign — and the mental filter that keeps them from becoming action. The hosts argue that recognizing everyone fights off impulses should create sympathy rather than smugness toward people whose filter failed, noting some crimes are thirty minutes out of someone's whole life. Dan contributes his forty-years-married perspective and his sermon-time wandering thoughts.