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.

O'Sage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film,

Killers of the Flower Moon.

The movie's based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders,

when white men poured into Osage County and killed Osage people for their oil wealth.

I am Rachel Adams Heard, the host of Entrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media.

For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got

Osage land and wealth, and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest

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