Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox, and welcome to the fifth season of With Friends Like These.

And yes, there are more seasons than years, just like America's Next Top Model.

And much like your other Beloved Reality shows, we are changing things around the edges

to keep it fresh.

It's still the same show.

We're just adding elements to keep you interested.

Like celebrity-chopped or Ink Master rivals.

Last time around, we explored the concept of what brought with friends like these into being.

The impulse to convert our friends like these.

This time, we're looking at another idea buried in that saying with friends like these

who need enemies.

Good intentions.

We're going to look at where the impulse to help people comes from and why it so often goes wrong.

Much as in the last edition, we'll look at this from every angle we can.

Neuroscientists who can tell us where altruism comes from in the brain and psychologists

on why some people are more heroic than others.

We'll talk about white saviors and failed philanthropies,

and we might tell you some stories behind some of the goals and projects that you believed

be good, but in fact, are not good.

We're kicking off with a talk about the brain science behind our impulse to do good.

Leo Christoff Moore is a post-doctrite fellow at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University

of Southern California.

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