I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

Mothers and daughters, it's always a complicated relationship.

At that moment, I fell in love with heroin, like I spent so much of my life trying so hard not

to be like you. Oh my god, I don't want to do this right now. Join me for some raw and honest

conversations with my mom. This is Crums. It's a show about the things we settle for and the

bits on ourselves that make us who we are. Listen to Crums season two on the iHeart radio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Crash Course, a podcast about business, political and social disruption,

and what we can learn from it. I'm Tim O'Brien. Every week on Crash Course, I'm going to bring

listeners directly into the arenas where epic uppivils occur, and I'm going to explore the lessons

we can learn when creativity and ambition collide with competition and power. Listen to Crash Course

every Tuesday on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

If you haven't heard the loser line before, it works like this. Let's say a guy approaches you

while you're out at the club and uses this charming pick-up line on you.

Lex, excuse me, but you're hot, and well, I'm not, so maybe we could come together and make

average-looking babies? Whatever you do, don't let them see your eyes roll and discuss. Instead,

tell them that with a few major and a couple of minor plastic surgeries, you wouldn't mind giving

him a shot, and that's when you give him the digits to the loser line. So hopefully he leaves

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