James Kimmel Jr. (revenge and forgiveness expert)

Episode overview

James Kimmel Jr. (The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction) is a lecturer at Yale University on forgiveness and revenge. James joins the Armchair Expert to discuss plotting his revenge against the other Jimmy Kimmel for months, wanting to grow up to become a farmer until he was bullied because of it, and how eerily close he came to an irreparable act of violence to even a score. James and Dax talk about becoming an attorney to get revenge legally and professionally, how justice-seeking blesses all manner of disastrous human impulses, and finding himself addicted to revenge. James explains by studying forgiveness he learned that any method of finding peace works, why people who are victimized have a powerful rumination on being heard, and roleplaying a functional process of litigation resolution.

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1. 0:00Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. Experts on expert. I'm Dak Shepard. I'm joined by Lily Padman. Hi.
2. 1:10:52these murder suicides are often without manifesto not a ton of pre-planning.
3. 2:23:19very historic familial pride thing. That's like you're up against that. Yeah. It's a lot. It