Want to look extra fabulous for this new year? How about doing what our ancestors did and

slathering your face and hair with everything from ostrich eggs to pee to crocodile dung?

Or fixing overplucked eyebrows by gluing on mouse pelts.

I'm Patty Steele. Suffering for Beauty next on the backstory.

Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like easy listening, but for fiction. If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness and everyday life are all around you.

I'm Catherine Nikolai, and you might know me from the Bedtime Story Podcast, nothing much happens happens I'm an architect of Cozy and I invite

you to come spend some time where everyone is welcome and kindness is the default.

When you tune in you'll hear stories about bakeries and

walks in the woods, a favorite booth at the diner on a blustry autumn day. Cats and

dogs and rescued goats and donkeys.

Old houses, book shops, beaches where kites fly and pretty stones are found.

I have so many stories to tell you and they are all designed to help you feel good and feel connected to what is good in the world.

Listen, relax, enjoy.

Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much on the IHeart Radio app, Apple

Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

From Wall Street to Main Street and from Hollywood to Washington, the news is filled with decisions, turning points, deals, and collisions.

I'm Tim O'Brien, the senior executive editor for Bloomberg Opinion, and I'm your host for Crash Course a weekly

podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio every week on Crash Course I'll bring

listeners directly into the arenas where epic upheavals occur, and I'm going to explore the lessons we can learn

when creativity and ambition collide with competition and power.

Each Tuesday, I'll talk to Bloomberg reporters around the world as well as experts and big names in the news.

Together we'll explore business, political and social disruptions and what we can learn from them.

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