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Hello! My name is Samar Mirghani; author of “Delightful Complex”, and my aim through this podcast series is to gather the remaining members of my tribe. Those who seek warm vibes and genuine smiles. Those who found their freedom in saying “NO”. We are the ones who want it all, and end up with nothing. We do everything we can to outwit the feeling of regret, yet regret has found a home in us. We have finally come to realize that if anything deserves a second chance it would be “our offered time and efforts” rather than wasting our youth in a shallow relationship leading to nowhere ...

We screw up life at our leisure, for your listening pleasure. Looking back at our lives from the drug, sex and rock 'n roll days to fatherhood, there isn't a topic we won't talk about.

Democracy depends on a free press, a government for the people, a just legal system and separate-but-free church. Yet, we have a corrupt U.S. president, a partisan Supreme Court, a power-hungry white evangelical bloc and a lazy press - which is revealing just how much our American values are being sold out. With a lot of informative guests and a few F-bombs, co-hosts Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann and Brad Raley are going to change that.

The beauty industry - which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty - has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and bio-identical hormones, all promoted as cures for getting old. Acclaimed BusinessWeek science reporter Arlene Weintraub takes us inside this world, from the marketing departments of huge pharmaceutical companies to the backroom of your local pharmacy to celebrity enthusiasts like Oprah.