Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I am

wondering about the number one driver of human happiness across time and culture, meaningful connection to

others, and what I suspect is the interpersonal glue that holds us together over lifetimes.

Listening.

I'm also wondering why listening is so rare.

My thought partner is David Brooks.

You know him from the New York Times and PBS News Hour. I know him because we went to the same high school and we've done a few events together.

Because he's been spending the past few years researching and editing a book called How to Know a Person, he is

overflowing with inspiration and very pragmatic examples of how we might come

together more easily.

So join us for Kelly Corrigan Wonders. For the past three seasons have gone south we've covered one story per season. We tried to figure out who killed Margaret Kuhn.

Did you tell me I'm going to kill you? I said, well do it, bitch. Go ahead and do it.

We delved into the violent world of the Dixie mafia. I'm an outlaw and I was a thief. the

and violent world of the Dixie mafia. I'm an outlaw and I was a thief, but I'm far from being the psychotic nutcase that I've been made out to be.

And we tracked a serial killer in Laredo, Texas.

Just turn it around.

Please turn it around.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Now, gone south is back for a fourth season.

But this time, we're doing things a little differently.

So in Gone South season four, we'll be bringing you new stories every week, with no end in sight. I'm Jed Lipinski. Welcome back to

Gone South, an Odyssey original podcast. Listen and follow now on the free

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