Hello and welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve.

I am your host, Maureen Callahan, and we have another amazing show for you today.

This one is going to be a little bit of a longer discussion, and it's akin to what we did when we talked about borderline personality disorder and borderline mothers.

We received so much feedback from you guys, incredible feedback.

And you not only enjoyed it, but you really loved our guest, Sam Vaknen, Professor Sam, who is one of the most knowledgeable,

insightful, articulate people on this subject matter anywhere. Okay. And a lot of you sent in requests

asking for a further discussion. Could we cover difficult fathers or addict parents or toxic

siblings? We got a lot about toxic siblings. And so we really thought a lot about it here

at Teen Nerve and what really binds so many of these difficult interpersonal relationships, dynamics, seems to really be rooted in

narcissism. And so we asked Sam, who wrote a whole book, I'm sure he's written more than the one

that we are going to reference in our talk with him today,

but he's literally written the book on narcissism, on the different subsets of narcissism.

He's going to talk to us not just about overt narcissism, but the narcissist who is known as the

covert narcissist. This is a subset that the field has only really recently discovered and begun to understand.

I mean, Sam has it front to back. They're very difficult to spot, but once you see them,

you can't unsee them, and it will provide you with a level of armor that most will not have.

So first we're going to chat with Sam and then we're going to circle it all back to a little bit of a light

celeb roundup. This is a big one. We've got some big breaking news and your emails. We've got some new troublemaker artwork. It's coming in. There's so much

artwork, so much merch that you guys are sort of conceptualizing that you want. And we also have

a mini nerve tease for the ages. So let's get into it. Did you know that up until the 1990s, all chips and fries were

cooked in beef tallow? That was until big food companies made the switch to cheaper, highly

processed seed oils. And now those seed oils make up 20% of the average Americans daily calories.

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