The Lies We Tell Ourselves & When Emotion Beats Judgement
About this episode
The episode discusses a concert experience and delves into the complexities of emotional rationalization in a controversial relationship involving a school administrator and a student.
Three quarters of the table went to see Teddy Swims at CMAC. Kevin did not get hungover. He never gets hungover. He would like that on the record. Bill talked to a woman walking into the concert. He was just chatting. Jameson was there. Nothing happened. The concert recap runs through Teddy Swims, Chris Stapleton, whether George Strait has ever written a song, Laura's mom spending three weeks on a sailboat with a man she is not romantically interested in, and Kevin peeing exactly once the entire night. One pee. Four hour concert. He held it like a champion. Then Bill brings a story. Amanda Katz, 55 years old, school administrator in Roswell Georgia, charged with repeated sexual contact with a 16 year old student. Between Christmas and Valentine's Day she and this kid exchanged 19,585 texts. That is somewhere between 100 and 400 texts a day. Mark looked her up. She looks like a regular person. Bill's question is not about the crime. It is about what story someone is telling themselves to get there. We can rationalize almost anything when emotion gets stronger than judgment. The kid's family was invited to Valentine's Day dinner. She had a Jaguar. Nobody runs to Buffalo. That…
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