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 are 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 Gagni 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

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