Have you ever looked back at an old… let’s call them a chapter… and thought, with a full-body shudder, “why on earth did I ever find that smouldering skip-fire attractive?”

Well, welcome to Season Two of A Cnt’s Guide to Peace, in which I present my perfectly serious, entirely “academic” thesis: that many of our worst dating decisions aren’t personal failings at all, but the result of outdated biological software still running in the background -much like the world’s most useless antivirus program that insists on updating itself at precisely the wrong moment.

In this noble pursuit, I bring you famous case studies to support my argument that both men and women still respond to ancient internal coding. Women, for instance, have inherited a delightful ancestral alarm system designed for survival in an era when “remaining unmarried” was essentially a polite euphemism for “good luck with the wolves.” Men, meanwhile, have their own outdated firmware convincing them that female submission is not only expected but somehow their birthright-an evolutionary hangover roughly as useful as a floppy disk in 2026.

You may be familiar with the infamous tale of “Dirty John,” who terrorised Debra Newell and eventually attempted to kill her daughter -an extreme example of how these primitive instincts can go catastrophically haywire when applied in modern society. In this episode, I explain precisely how my theory slots into this disastrous saga, like a puzzle piece no one asked for but suddenly makes dreadful sense.

And who knows -perhaps it might shed some light on your own perplexing romantic history. Aren’t you just a bit curious to discover whether it wasn’t “poor judgement” after all, but merely your internal software throwing an error message from the Palaeolithic? Season Two of @acntsguidetopeace premieres TOMORROW , friday January 23!

You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Podbean, or wherever you indulge your free therapy! #podcast #acntsguidetopeace #sober #painter #fitness #truecrime #dirtyjohn

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Date de publication : 24/1/2026 à 14:09:18