Monday, June 09, 2025

Whither Beards?

(it's my beard, yo)

Tonight's show is about beards. It occurred to me I had never done a show about beards despite sporting a beard for a good deal of my adult life. The main reason I have a beard is laziness. I hate shaving, I can't imagine shaving daily, & even when I did shave regularly, I never shaved daily. But there's another big reason for me to always be bearded: my wife doesn't like me clean-shaven. Laziness + pleasing the wife = a beard I need to remember to trim every few weeks.

But this summer my wife is going overseas for research & I thought, hey, I can shave my beard off for the first time in several years. Just to do it. To remind myself how funny-looking I am without it. To let my face breathe a little for a few days. & that made me think that beards would be a good theme for the show.

Now it shall come to pass. Self Help Radio's show about beards airs tonight on KBOO from midnight to 2am. That's on 90.7fm in Portland & everywhere at kboo dot fm.

You won't need a beard to enjoy it, but that might help.

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