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Lauren doesn't like her name because she thinks "Lauren" sounds like a dumb girl's name. She's not that (dumb). She programs events at Wild Detectives and sometimes throws kids out of her classes at SMU for being inattentive. Zac and Tim talk with her about Dallas authors and Zeke Elliott and Boogotti Kasino and so much more. FIVE STARS iTUNES!

Harry is a longtime friend of D Magazine. A couple months ago, he published his seventh thriller, which is titled "The Devil's Country" (Thomas & Mercer). In this episode of EarBurner, he talks about holding a day job, writing fiction, and how many people he has killed (a list of people that one day, hopefully, will include our own Tim Rogers).

Daniel Vaughn got his magazine start at D Magazine. Let's not dwell on that. Now he's the most powerful meat voice in the state. Texas Monthly just published its list of the 50 best barbecue joints in the state. We talk about how he did it and why Pecan Lodge slipped in the ranking.

Rodney remembers his father becoming semi-famous by calling in to The Ticket while shirtless and picking him up from elementary school. It's something. Now the dude does multimedia storytelling about the part of Dallas most overlooked by white people like Tim and Zac. Five stars!

Nini Nguyen fled Vietnam for Thailand when she was 5. After living in a refugee camp for years, Nguyen made her way to Dallas when she was 12. Her first job: bagging groceries at Albertson’s. How she went from those humble beginnings to styling Rihanna is a tale you gotta hear.

Miguel Solis, when he was 27, was the youngest trustee ever elected to the DISD board of trustees, and he got a master's degree from Harvard. If that sounds boring, what if I told you that he's married to a physician-athlete superhero, that he knows more about A Tribe Called Quest than you do, and that he has a good argument for why you should pay more taxes to make Dallas an even better place? Give us five stars in iTunes or we will kill you. Thanks.

Chris Muldoon just happens to be Tim's cousin. He also recently returned to America after working as a medic at the South Pole. So, you know. He has stories. We got him to tell some of them — including why the South Pole has so much glitter — and no one was punched in the throat.

The host of KERA 90.1's "Think" talks about the statewide expansion of her interview show, her dyscalculia, and the one time she kinda sorta swore on the air. After you've listened to this podcast and come to realize that it is the best podcast you've ever heard, consider throwing EarBurner some stars on iTunes. 

Regina Merson founded the Reina Rebelde makeup line. Before she got into makeup, Merson was a bankruptcy attorney in Dallas. Before that, she was escaping kidnappers in Bangkok. Before THAT, she was developing her obsession with the power of beauty while watching her mom get dressed for the disco. We talked with Merson about her taste for tequila, heading into the jungles of Mexico for eyeliner inspiration, and how to know when the time is right for a new Plan A, no matter what your friends say.

A while back, Holland wrote a funny story for D Magazine about leaving her 3-year-old son alone in a movie theater — briefly — so that she could buy him a hotdog. Predictably, Facebook decided she was a bad mom. We talked with Holland about that experience, about developing a writer's thick skin, and about her breast milk consulting firm.

Here's the story about her kid: https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2017/february/yes-i-left-my-child-alone-in-a-movie-theatre/

Facebook wasn't thrilled: https://www.facebook.com/DMagazineOnline/posts/10154592600214678 

And here was Holland's response to those "mommy shamers": https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/02/a-note-to-the-great-mommy-shamers-of-north-texas/