This is the first episode of A Show with Ze Frank that really made me grateful to see him doing it again. It was kind, tender, and taught me things I didn’t know.

The thing I didn’t know was about the work of Brené Brown, from whom Mr. Franks linked to two talks. (There’s a third on YouTube, but it’s video quality is low, and it largely overlaps with the other two.) Her work with shame, vulnerability, meaning, and “heartfulness” seems like it’s 80% of some very profound thing. (I can’t escape the feeling that she’s not fully completed a loop inside her own mind that would make it a complete profound thing.)