First, an acknowledgement of a milestone.

This episode marks our return to regularly producing totally new death, sex, and money episodes from our new home at Slate.

We celebrated our revival with a live show that we shared with you early last month,

and then we've been revisiting some of our favorite episodes to remind

you why we love making this show. And now we are back, baby. Now, one thing I want to note

during this transition, I've been asked by a lot of you how the show is going to change

at our new home at Slate. The biggest change you'll notice, we're now dropping episodes on Tuesdays, no longer on

Wednesdays.

But otherwise, as we relaunch at Slate, we're going to keep doing what we do, which is to

say bring you interviews from all sorts of people, famous and not famous, about the parts

of life that can make us feel

bewildered, alone, and just generally not talked about openly enough. And our show, we try to be

precise about our differences without dismissing them. There are some things, though, that we all

share. Experts say we're born with a few

primary emotions, joy, fear, sadness, disgust, and anger. That's it. Secondary emotions like guilt,

shame, pride, and empathy, those come from interacting with others, what we're taught, and how

sensitive we are to external feedback. But this new episode today, it got me thinking about

how off my assumptions can be about people's emotional responses. Patrick Gagney was

diagnosed as a sociopath in her early 20s. She describes

the experience as having an emotional learning disability. And through our conversation, I thought

about my relationship to shame, about how a life without shame could feel beautifully liberating,

but also how shame and guilt can be... how a life without shame could feel beautifully liberating,

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