BMMS 8-12-26

“Over 90% of them, they are insane,” one of the hosts says about people who pioneer unconventional approaches—like Jane Goodall sitting unarmed among gorillas when no one thought a woman could do that, or the guy who stepped off a boat to bring religion to an isolated island and was killed immediately. The point is that most bold, rule-breaking attempts fail, but the few that succeed become legendary.

This episode of the Big Mad Morning Show winds through several distinct threads—animal behavior and human nature, triathlon mechanics, a scam warning, local baseball, and a handful of true-crime news items—held together by the hosts’ conversational style and their recurring interest in how people (and animals) react under pressure, revert to instinct, and sometimes do things that seem insane until they work.

Animal instinct and human defaults