Speaker 1: Guess what, Mango will. It's November, and you know what
Speaker 1: that means? National Saxophone Days coming off. That is true,
Speaker 1: I've seen all the fun holidays coming up, but that's
Speaker 1: not actually what I'm thinking. The percentage of people sporting
Speaker 1: mustaches is about to rise significantly. That's your clue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, it's November. Yeah. I was looking at some
Speaker 1: of the history of November and I thought the origin
Speaker 1: story from Adam Garron. He's the chief mo bro as
Speaker 1: he's listed and the co founder of the November Foundation.
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty funny as as he talked
Speaker 1: about how the idea started. This was back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four. It all came up over a few beers.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've ever seen his Ted
Speaker 1: talk from two thousand and eleven, but he explains it
Speaker 1: this way. He says, it was my brother, me and
Speaker 1: a maid having a few and the conversation turned to
Speaker 1: seventies fashion, how everything seems to be coming back in style.
Speaker 1: And after a few more beers, we said, what about
Speaker 1: the mustache? Why hasn't that come back? Then one more
Speaker 1: beer and it was whatever happened to the mustache? And
Speaker 1: so the day ended with the challenge to bring the
Speaker 1: mustache back. A year or so later, they decided to
Speaker 1: let the Mustache Movement raise some money specifically for men's health.
Speaker 1: This includes prostate and testicular cancer research, and they've now
Speaker 1: raised more than half a billion dollars since then. Half
Speaker 1: a billion dollars? Is that not incredible? That is crazy?
Speaker 1: So is this the year you're gonna rock like a
Speaker 1: Freddie Mercury mustache? You know, I'm thinking more of it
Speaker 1: like a William Howard Taft handlebar is gonna be my
Speaker 1: style this year. But either way, today feels like the
Speaker 1: right day to share some of our favorite facts about mustaches.
Speaker 1: So let's get started. Either podcast listeners, welcome to Part
Speaker 1: Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined
Speaker 1: by my good friend Man Gush Ticketer And on the
Speaker 1: other side of the soundproof glass, somehow miraculously sporting the
Speaker 1: most incredible Wilford Brimley wall Stash is our friend and
Speaker 1: producer Tristan McNeil. How in the world have we not
Speaker 1: noticed that mustache? So impressive? And we're also joined by
Speaker 1: two of our friends here in the house, Stuff Works Family.
Speaker 1: We've got Eve's Jeff Cote. You guys recognize hers as
Speaker 1: the one we acknowledge in the credits being responsible for
Speaker 1: getting the show to your ears. She knows the magic
Speaker 1: codes to make the show appear wherever you listen to
Speaker 1: your podcast. So welcome Eves. Yeah, something like that, something
Speaker 1: like that. We've also got Alex Williams. He's on the
Speaker 1: audio engineering team with Tristan, so I'm guessing he's just
Speaker 1: as surprised as we are at that massive mustache. But
Speaker 1: welcome Alex. I am always surprised and impressed by Tristan McNeil,
Speaker 1: the legend. All right, well let's get started. So not now,
Speaker 1: neither of our guests have mustaches, but both claim to
Speaker 1: know a ton about them, so we we thought we
Speaker 1: would give them a shot. You ready to kick us off, Eves?
Speaker 1: You get fact number one, Go for it. So mustaches
Speaker 1: um surprisingly have protective health benefit. Really, yeah they do.
Speaker 1: So they blow some of the effective ultra violet radiation
Speaker 1: from getting to your skin, lowering the risk for skin cancer.
Speaker 1: So usually you know, you be. Radiation that gets to
Speaker 1: your skin can call skin cancer because it damages the
Speaker 1: DNA and your skin. Sales and mustaches can help a
Speaker 1: lot with that because they reduced the radiation exposure to
Speaker 1: a mirror one third. Wow. So if you could just
Speaker 1: have a mustache all over your face, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like a beard, I guess yeah. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's called a mustache at that point,
Speaker 1: but that three inches you are super protected. That's a
Speaker 1: that's impressive, alright, fact number one. Good job Eaves. All right, Alex,
Speaker 1: what you got for us? Grab show marks? Okay, what
Speaker 1: do you think of? What do you think of for
Speaker 1: grad show marks? I think it was like the glasses
Speaker 1: with the attached nose, yes, and the attached mustache that
Speaker 1: you can just kind of put on as a totally
Speaker 1: like for Halloween for instance, Well didn't really have a mustache. Well,
Speaker 1: he sometimes had a mustache, but that mustache is iconic.
Speaker 1: One was grease paint, a big smear of grease paint. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he would grow like a little thin mustache, but
Speaker 1: then he would paint grease paint over it for his
Speaker 1: when he was in character, when he was doing a performance.
Speaker 1: Apparently when he was doing five vaudeville shows a day,
Speaker 1: he stopped using like like what you normally think of
Speaker 1: like a little like glue on furry mustache. Because the
Speaker 1: glue was wearing away his upper lip, he said, quote,
Speaker 1: it was becoming progressively thinner, which is disgusting. The upper
Speaker 1: lip that his. So when you s yeah, the upper lip. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when you say a grout show Mark's mustache, what
Speaker 1: you really mean is like two mustaches simultaneously existing, like
Speaker 1: a real one and a grease paint one. So I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty interesting to remember that from my costume.
Speaker 1: Next Yes, all right, well done, alright, mango, you got
Speaker 1: a first fact. Yeah, definitely. So after our show in
Speaker 1: the Guinness Book, I've been kind of obsessed with records
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, as are my people. We talked
Speaker 1: about this on the show, but no one seems to
Speaker 1: gain as much satisfaction out of being in the Guinness
Speaker 1: Book as Indians, and so it isn't that much of
Speaker 1: a surprise. But the person with the longest mustache ever
Speaker 1: is this guy named ram Singh Chowhan, who sports a
Speaker 1: fourteen foot long mustache. Yeah. So so here's this quote
Speaker 1: right quote. To me, the mustache means everything. It is
Speaker 1: priceless and so maintenance on his lipman is no small thing.
Speaker 1: He spends up to two hours a day washing, cleaning, grooming,
Speaker 1: and brushing his stash. And because it's so long, to
Speaker 1: avoid tripping on it, he actually wraps it around his
Speaker 1: neck a few times. I know, it's like a scarf.
Speaker 1: He could, he could protect so many people from skin cancer.
Speaker 1: That's really impressive. I was also wondering where you were
Speaker 1: going with my people. I wasn't sure what that was
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, it's actually Indians job. Well, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be surprised by my first fact, because as
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a fan of Salvador Dolly's mustache,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was a pretty funny quote. In
Speaker 1: nineteen four in an interview, when he was asked whether
Speaker 1: his mustache was intended to be a joke, Dolly actually
Speaker 1: responded by saying it was the most serious part of
Speaker 1: his personality. He even wrote a book about his mustache.
Speaker 1: It was called Appropriately Dolly's Mustache, and it contains twenty
Speaker 1: eight black and white photographs of Dolly with various phases
Speaker 1: of his mustache. So it's important if you haven't checked
Speaker 1: this out before you need it, you need to see it.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a crazy story from Esquire I guess
Speaker 1: like a few years ago in the magazine, in the
Speaker 1: editor's note, they talked about how these three editors were
Speaker 1: an elevator with a guy with them handled our mustache,
Speaker 1: and after he got off, they decided together that the
Speaker 1: ironic mustache was over. It was. It was just a
Speaker 1: serious great Now was the moment? Wow? Nice? All right?
Speaker 1: So that's my dolly fact. What you got, Eaves, So
Speaker 1: I have another Dolly fact. It's worthy of two facts.
Speaker 1: Also about his mustache, I should hope, so saying this
Speaker 1: is about mustache. Um. So he died in eighty nine,
Speaker 1: but earlier this year a woman came forward claiming that
Speaker 1: she was his daughter. Okay, So they exhumed his body
Speaker 1: to get DNA samples to do that test. And when
Speaker 1: they exhumed his body, they found that his amazing mustache
Speaker 1: was still intact. No, I don't know if the wax
Speaker 1: was still there or not, but the hair was definitely
Speaker 1: still there. Um. And the reason for that is the
Speaker 1: keraton in your hair is pretty tough. It can last
Speaker 1: for a lot of years, you know, once you're in
Speaker 1: the grave. Then Bomber actually said that it was a miracle,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't quite a miracle because it's actually just science.
Speaker 1: I wonder how long that will last though, how much
Speaker 1: longer will take for hair to break down? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the oldest corpse ever found with hair still attached on
Speaker 1: its body was nine thousand years old, So I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if dollies will last that long. To
Speaker 1: digging back up in nine thousand years and see if
Speaker 1: there's still what kind of stylish mustache to that nine
Speaker 1: mural corps? I don't know. It probably didn't happen. Name.
Speaker 1: We may have to create our own name for it.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Nine thousand years. That's really impressive. Alright, good job,
Speaker 1: nice fact Theoris. All right, Alex, what you got for
Speaker 1: your last fact? Well, on the subject of corpses, you
Speaker 1: can kill yourself shaving. I don't really shave very often,
Speaker 1: and I probably will never again after I learned this.
Speaker 1: So Henry David Throw's brother John, who that he was
Speaker 1: very close with, died on New Year's Day, and he
Speaker 1: was shaving on New Year's Day. Maybe it was part
Speaker 1: of his resolution. Nicked his finger on his razor, got
Speaker 1: lockjaw and ended up dying because of illness. Is related
Speaker 1: to that. So Henry David Threw showed symptoms of lockshaw
Speaker 1: shortly after that, despite being no medical reason. He didn't
Speaker 1: have a cut or anything, and it was thought that
Speaker 1: he was just a psycho semantic reaction to his brother
Speaker 1: dying of Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Okay, you guys ever
Speaker 1: heard of Lord Canavan. He is the first man to
Speaker 1: die of the supposed King Tut's curse. Okay. He also
Speaker 1: died due to shaving. Yeah, so this is if you
Speaker 1: weren't scared enough already. He had a mosquito bite and
Speaker 1: he sliced it open while shaving, went septic and he
Speaker 1: died because of that. This all just got really dark.
Speaker 1: But that's impressive, good, disgusting. This is why you don't shave.
Speaker 1: I very infrequently do and I probably won't anymore. Yeah, yeah, right, good, good.
Speaker 1: Second fact, mango, what's your last fact? So this is
Speaker 1: a little lighter than Alex's fact here, But there, of course,
Speaker 1: like lots of types of mustache paraphernalia out there for
Speaker 1: the mustache enthusiast then, and you know their mustache combs,
Speaker 1: their mustache brushes, tonics, waxes. But the best mustache gear
Speaker 1: I found online and Stacy took me off on. This
Speaker 1: was the mustache spoon. Now have you guys heard of that?
Speaker 1: So the mustache spoon was apparently patented in eighteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight and it was carried around by Dandy's. And it's
Speaker 1: pretty clever. It's basically like a spoon with a little
Speaker 1: guard on top. It's like a half cover with little
Speaker 1: hole in it that you can sip out of. And
Speaker 1: the whole point is to protect your elegant mustache curls
Speaker 1: from coming in contact with hot super foods. And all
Speaker 1: I know is that if I was in the mustache
Speaker 1: spoon business, I'd be marketing the heck out of it
Speaker 1: in November. Yeah, seriously, that seems like a worthy product.
Speaker 1: It's been rounds since before. Okay, Well, I feel like
Speaker 1: we can't have an episode on mustaches without talking about
Speaker 1: Burt Reynolds, right, So I've wanted to find a fact
Speaker 1: about Burt Reynolds. And actually I was curious why Burt
Speaker 1: Reynolds had grown a mustache in the first place. But
Speaker 1: you might remember this from his book called But Enough
Speaker 1: about Me. I'm sure we've all read this before. Of
Speaker 1: course I read it. I read it for Today for Today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in preparation. Good, You're good at prepping for this. So
Speaker 1: so he actually says that he grew it to differentiate
Speaker 1: himself from Marlon Brando. So apparently, earlier in his career,
Speaker 1: without the mustache, he apparently looked like Brando and people
Speaker 1: would follow him down the street thinking that he was
Speaker 1: the Godfather. So he decided to grow a mustache, and
Speaker 1: and and now you can't think of him without a mustache. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It is a very specific reason. So, so anyway, good
Speaker 1: job on your first facts. I don't know, Mango. We
Speaker 1: we have to declare a winner at some point here.
Speaker 1: Do you have any do you have any thoughts on this? Uh?
Speaker 1: I like that Dolly's miracle mustache. Shoot. I feel like
Speaker 1: that was the fact that it was most interesting and
Speaker 1: hair last that long, plus the fact these guys both
Speaker 1: had great facts. But the fact that Eaves is responsible
Speaker 1: for getting the show to people's ears that gets her
Speaker 1: a bonus point. So Alex, congratulations on second place, and
Speaker 1: he's congratulations on taking home the trophy today. I'm honored
Speaker 1: to have it. I reject your reject the first time
Speaker 1: he's ever gotten contentious here in the ptg room, So
Speaker 1: thank you. Guys for listening today. We'll be back with
Speaker 1: a full length episode tomorrow m