November 7, 2025 • 11 mins
From the super strange reason Burt Reynolds grew a mustache to why you need to invest in a mustache spoon, Will and Mango chat all things facial topiaries with their good pals Yves and Alex.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what, mango, what's that will? It's November, and you
know what that means?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
National Saxophone Day is coming off.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That is true, I've seen all the fun holidays coming up,
but that's not actually what I'm thinking. The percentage of
people sporting mustaches is about to rise significantly. That's your clue.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that's right, it's November.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I was looking at some of the history of November
and I thought the origin story from Adam Garone. He's
the chief mo bro as he's listed and the co
founder of the November Foundation. I thought it was pretty
funny as he talked about how the idea started. This
was back in two thousand and four. It all came
up over a few beers. And I don't know if
you've ever seen his Ted talk from twenty eleven, but
he explains it this way. He says, it was my brother,
(00:39):
me and a maid having a few and the conversation
turned to seventies fashion, how everything seems to be coming
back in style. And after a few more beers, we said,
what about the mustache? Why hasn't that comeback? Then one
more beer and it was whatever happened to the mustache?
And so The day ended with the challenge to bring
the mustache back. A year or so later, they decided
(01:00):
to let the Mustache Movement raise some money specifically for
men's health. This includes prostate and testicular cancer research, and
they've now raised more than half a billion dollars since then.
Half a billion dollars? Is that not incredible?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That is crazy? So is this the year you're gonna
rock like Freddie mercury mustache?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know, I'm thinking more of it like a William
Howard taft handlebar? Is gonna be my style this year?
Either way, Today feels like the right day to share
some of our favorite facts about mustaches. So let's get started. Hey,
(01:47):
their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will
Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend
Man Guesh hot ticketter, and on the other side of
the soundproof glass, somehow miraculously sporting the most incredible Wilford
Brimley wall Stash is our friend and producer Tristan McNeil.
How in the world do we not notice that you
grow in a mustache so impressive? And we're also joined
(02:09):
by two of our friends here in the house. Stuffworks family.
We've got Eves Jeff Coote. You guys recognize hers as
the one we acknowledge in the credits being responsible for
getting the show to your ears. She knows the magic
codes to make the show appear wherever you listen to
your podcast. So welcome Eves. Yeah, something like that, Thanks,
something like that. We've also got Alex Williams. He's on
the audio engineering team with Tristan, so I'm guessing he's
(02:31):
just as surprised as we are at that massive mustache.
But welcome Alex.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I am always surprised and impressed by Tristan mcneail.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The legend. All right, well let's get started. So now
neither of our guests have mustaches, but both claim to
know a ton about them, so we thought we would
give them a shot. You ready to kick us off?
Eves y, you get fact number one? Go for it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So, mustaches surprisingly have protective health benefit.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Really, yeah, they do.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So they block some of the effect of ultra violet
radiation from getting to your skin, lowering the risk for
skin cancer. So usually you know U v radiation that
gets to your skin can cause skin cancer because it
damages the DNA and your skin cells. And mustaches can
help a lot with that because they reduced the radiation
exposure to a mirror one third.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Wow. So if you could just have a mustache all
over your face, which is kind of like a beard,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think that's called
a mustache at that point, but.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That three inches you are super protected. That's that's impressive,
all right, Fact number one, good job Eaves. All right, Alex,
what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Grab show? Marx?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, what do you think of?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What do you think of for gratcho Mars?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I think it was like the glasses with the attached nose, yes,
and the attached mustache that you can just kind of
put on as a totally like for Halloween for instance,
Well didn't really have a mustache. Well what he sometimes
had a mustache, but that mustache is iconic.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
One was crease paint. No, it's a big smear of
grease paint. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Sometimes he would grow like a little thin mustache, but
then he would paint grease paint over it for his
when he was in character, when he was doing a performance.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Apparently when he was doing five vaudeville shows today, he
stopped using like like what you normally think of like
a little like glue on furry mustache because the glue
was wearing away his upper lip. He said, quote, it
was becoming progressively thinner, which is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The upper lip. That is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So when you say, yeah, the upper lip.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Okay, so when you say a Groucho Marx mustache, which
you really mean, is like two mustaches simultaneously existing, like
a real one and a grease paint one.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So I thought that was pretty interesting to remember that
from my costume.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Next.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, yes, all right, well done, All right, mango, you
got a first fact.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, definitely. So after a show on the Guinness Book,
I've been kind of obsessed with records, and you know,
as are my people. We talked about this on the show,
but no one seems to gain as much satisfaction out
of being in the Guinness Book as Indians, and so
it isn't that much of a surprise. But the person
with the longest mustache ever is this guy named ram
Singh Chalahan who sports a fourteen foot long mustache. Oh wow, yeah,
(05:08):
so so here's his quote, right quote. To me, the
mustache means everything. It is priceless and so maintenance on
his lipman is no small thing. He spends up to
two hours a day washing, cleaning, grooming, and brushing his stash,
and because it's so long, to avoid tripping on it,
he actually wraps it around his neck a few times.
(05:30):
I know, it's like a scarf.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He could protect so many people from skin cancer. That's
really impressive. I was also wondering where you were going
with my people. I wasn't sure what that was gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, Delawareans, it's actually Indians.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Good job. Well, you're not going to be surprised by
my first fact, because, as you know, I've always been
a fan of Salvador Dolly's mustache, and I thought that
was a pretty funny quote. In nineteen fifty four, in
an interview, when he was asked whether his mustache was
intended to be a joke, Dolly actually responded by saying
it was the most serious part of his personality. He
even wrote a book about his mustache. It was called
(06:05):
Appropriately Dolly's Mustache, and it contains twenty eight black and
white photographs of Dolly with various phases of his mustache.
So it's important if you haven't checked this out before
you need you need to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There's a there's a crazy story from Esquire, I guess,
like a few years ago in the magazine. In the
editor's note, they talked about how these three editors were
an elevator with a guy with a handlebar mustache, and
after he got off, they decided together that the ironic
mustache was over.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It was just it was just a serious great Now
was the moment?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Nice? All right, So that's my Dolly fact. What do
you got, Eves?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So I have another Dolly fact?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh you do? It's worthy of two facts.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Also about his mustache Oka.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Surprisingly, yeah, I should hope, so saying that this is
about mustache.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah. So he died in eighty nine, but earlier this
year a woman came forward claiming that she was his daughter. OK.
So they exhumed his body to get DNA samples to
do that test. And when they exhumed his body, they
found that his amazing mustache was still intact.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No way.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know if the wax was still there or not,
but the hair was definitely still there. And the reason
for that is the keratin in your hair is pretty tough.
It can last for a lot of years, you know,
once you're in the grave. Then Balmber actually said that
it was a miracle, but it wasn't quite a miracle
because it's actually just science.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wonder how long that will last though, how much
longer it will take for hair to break down?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, you know, the oldest corpse ever found with hair
still attached on its body was nine thousand years old,
So wow, I mean, I don't know if Dolly's will
last that long.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
To digg him back up in nine thousand years and
see if there's still.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And what kind of stylish mustache tod that nine thousand
year old corpse, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It probably didn't happen. An we may have to create
our own name for it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's unbelievable. Nine thousand years. That's really impressive. All right,
good job, nice fact. They're eaves, all right, Alex, what
you got for your last fact?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, on the subject of corpses, you can kill yourself shaving.
Don't really shave very often. I probably will never again
after I learned this. So Henry David Threw's brother John,
who that he was very close with, died on New
Year's Day and he was shaving on.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
New Year's Day. Maybe it was part of his resolution.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Nicked his finger on his razor, got lockshaw and ended
up dying because of her illnesses related to that. So
Henry David Throw showed symptoms of lockshaw shortly after that,
despite being no medical reason. He didn't have a cut
or anything really, and it was thought that he was
just a psychosomatic reaction to his brother dying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Of Oh wow, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Okay, you guys ever heard of Lord Canovin. He is
the first man to die of the supposed King Tut's curse.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
He also died due to shaving. Yeah, so this is
if you weren't scared enough already. He had a mosquito
bite and he sliced it open while shaving, went septic
and he died because of that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This all just got really dark. But that's impressive, good disgusting.
This is why you don't shave.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I very infrequently do, and I probably won't anymore. Yeah, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Good, good second fact, Mango, what's your last fact?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So this is a little lighter than Alex's fact here,
but there are, of course, like lots of types of
mustache paraphernalia. Out there for the mustache enthusiast. And and
you know their mustache combes, their mustache brushes, tonics, waxes.
But the best mustache gear I found online and Stacey
took me off on this was the mustache spoon. Now
have you guys heard of?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
This is not so?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The mustache spoon was apparently patented in eighteen sixty eight,
and it was carried around by Dandy's. And it's pretty clever.
It's basically like a spoon with a little guard on top.
It's like a half cover with a little hole in
it that you can sip out of. And the whole
point is to protect your elegant mustache curls from coming
in contact with hot souper foods. And all I know
(09:52):
is that if I was in the mustache spoon business,
I'd be marketing the heck out of it in November.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, seriously, that seems like a worthy product. It's been
since before nineteen hundred mm eighteen sixty eight. Okay, Well,
I feel like we can't have an episode on mustaches
without talking about Burt Reynolds, right, So I wanted to
find a fact about Burt Reynolds, And actually I was
curious why Burt Reynolds had grown a mustache in the
first place. But you might remember this from his book
(10:18):
called But Enough about Me. I'm sure we've all read
this before.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Of course I read it well, I read it for today.
For today.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, in preparation. Good, you're good at prepping for this.
So he actually says that he grew it to differentiate
himself from Marlon Brando. So apparently, earlier in his career,
without the mustache, he apparently looked like Brando and people
would follow him down the street thinking that he was
the Godfather. So he decided to grow a mustache, and
now you can't think of him without a mustache, right, ridiculous.
(10:46):
It is a very specific reason. So anyway, good job
on your first facts. I don't know, Mango, we have
to declare a winner at some point here. Do you
have any Do you have any thoughts on this?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I like that Dolly's miracle mustache should I feel like
that was the fact that it was most interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
That hair lasts that long, plus the fact these guys
both had great facts, but the fact that Eve's is
responsible for getting the show to people's ears and gets
her a bonus point. So Alex congratulations on second place,
and Eve's congratulations on taking home the trophy today.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm honored to have it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I reject you're I reject.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's the first time he's ever gotten contentious here in
the ptg room. So thank you guys for listening today.
We'll be back with a full length episode tomorrow
Guess what, mango, what's that will? It's November, and you
know what that means?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
National Saxophone Day is coming off.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That is true, I've seen all the fun holidays coming up,
but that's not actually what I'm thinking. The percentage of
people sporting mustaches is about to rise significantly. That's your clue.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that's right, it's November.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I was looking at some of the history of November
and I thought the origin story from Adam Garone. He's
the chief mo bro as he's listed and the co
founder of the November Foundation. I thought it was pretty
funny as he talked about how the idea started. This
was back in two thousand and four. It all came
up over a few beers. And I don't know if
you've ever seen his Ted talk from twenty eleven, but
he explains it this way. He says, it was my brother,
(00:39):
me and a maid having a few and the conversation
turned to seventies fashion, how everything seems to be coming
back in style. And after a few more beers, we said,
what about the mustache? Why hasn't that comeback? Then one
more beer and it was whatever happened to the mustache?
And so The day ended with the challenge to bring
the mustache back. A year or so later, they decided
(01:00):
to let the Mustache Movement raise some money specifically for
men's health. This includes prostate and testicular cancer research, and
they've now raised more than half a billion dollars since then.
Half a billion dollars? Is that not incredible?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That is crazy? So is this the year you're gonna
rock like Freddie mercury mustache?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know, I'm thinking more of it like a William
Howard taft handlebar? Is gonna be my style this year?
Either way, Today feels like the right day to share
some of our favorite facts about mustaches. So let's get started. Hey,
(01:47):
their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will
Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend
Man Guesh hot ticketter, and on the other side of
the soundproof glass, somehow miraculously sporting the most incredible Wilford
Brimley wall Stash is our friend and producer Tristan McNeil.
How in the world do we not notice that you
grow in a mustache so impressive? And we're also joined
(02:09):
by two of our friends here in the house. Stuffworks family.
We've got Eves Jeff Coote. You guys recognize hers as
the one we acknowledge in the credits being responsible for
getting the show to your ears. She knows the magic
codes to make the show appear wherever you listen to
your podcast. So welcome Eves. Yeah, something like that, Thanks,
something like that. We've also got Alex Williams. He's on
the audio engineering team with Tristan, so I'm guessing he's
(02:31):
just as surprised as we are at that massive mustache.
But welcome Alex.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I am always surprised and impressed by Tristan mcneail.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The legend. All right, well let's get started. So now
neither of our guests have mustaches, but both claim to
know a ton about them, so we thought we would
give them a shot. You ready to kick us off?
Eves y, you get fact number one? Go for it.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So, mustaches surprisingly have protective health benefit.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Really, yeah, they do.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So they block some of the effect of ultra violet
radiation from getting to your skin, lowering the risk for
skin cancer. So usually you know U v radiation that
gets to your skin can cause skin cancer because it
damages the DNA and your skin cells. And mustaches can
help a lot with that because they reduced the radiation
exposure to a mirror one third.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Wow. So if you could just have a mustache all
over your face, which is kind of like a beard,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think that's called
a mustache at that point, but.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That three inches you are super protected. That's that's impressive,
all right, Fact number one, good job Eaves. All right, Alex,
what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Grab show? Marx?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, what do you think of?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What do you think of for gratcho Mars?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I think it was like the glasses with the attached nose, yes,
and the attached mustache that you can just kind of
put on as a totally like for Halloween for instance,
Well didn't really have a mustache. Well what he sometimes
had a mustache, but that mustache is iconic.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
One was crease paint. No, it's a big smear of
grease paint. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Sometimes he would grow like a little thin mustache, but
then he would paint grease paint over it for his
when he was in character, when he was doing a performance.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Apparently when he was doing five vaudeville shows today, he
stopped using like like what you normally think of like
a little like glue on furry mustache because the glue
was wearing away his upper lip. He said, quote, it
was becoming progressively thinner, which is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The upper lip. That is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So when you say, yeah, the upper lip.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Okay, so when you say a Groucho Marx mustache, which
you really mean, is like two mustaches simultaneously existing, like
a real one and a grease paint one.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So I thought that was pretty interesting to remember that
from my costume.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Next.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, yes, all right, well done, All right, mango, you
got a first fact.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, definitely. So after a show on the Guinness Book,
I've been kind of obsessed with records, and you know,
as are my people. We talked about this on the show,
but no one seems to gain as much satisfaction out
of being in the Guinness Book as Indians, and so
it isn't that much of a surprise. But the person
with the longest mustache ever is this guy named ram
Singh Chalahan who sports a fourteen foot long mustache. Oh wow, yeah,
(05:08):
so so here's his quote, right quote. To me, the
mustache means everything. It is priceless and so maintenance on
his lipman is no small thing. He spends up to
two hours a day washing, cleaning, grooming, and brushing his stash,
and because it's so long, to avoid tripping on it,
he actually wraps it around his neck a few times.
(05:30):
I know, it's like a scarf.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He could protect so many people from skin cancer. That's
really impressive. I was also wondering where you were going
with my people. I wasn't sure what that was gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, Delawareans, it's actually Indians.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Good job. Well, you're not going to be surprised by
my first fact, because, as you know, I've always been
a fan of Salvador Dolly's mustache, and I thought that
was a pretty funny quote. In nineteen fifty four, in
an interview, when he was asked whether his mustache was
intended to be a joke, Dolly actually responded by saying
it was the most serious part of his personality. He
even wrote a book about his mustache. It was called
(06:05):
Appropriately Dolly's Mustache, and it contains twenty eight black and
white photographs of Dolly with various phases of his mustache.
So it's important if you haven't checked this out before
you need you need to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There's a there's a crazy story from Esquire, I guess,
like a few years ago in the magazine. In the
editor's note, they talked about how these three editors were
an elevator with a guy with a handlebar mustache, and
after he got off, they decided together that the ironic
mustache was over.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It was just it was just a serious great Now
was the moment?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Nice? All right, So that's my Dolly fact. What do
you got, Eves?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So I have another Dolly fact?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh you do? It's worthy of two facts.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Also about his mustache Oka.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Surprisingly, yeah, I should hope, so saying that this is
about mustache.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah. So he died in eighty nine, but earlier this
year a woman came forward claiming that she was his daughter. OK.
So they exhumed his body to get DNA samples to
do that test. And when they exhumed his body, they
found that his amazing mustache was still intact.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No way.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know if the wax was still there or not,
but the hair was definitely still there. And the reason
for that is the keratin in your hair is pretty tough.
It can last for a lot of years, you know,
once you're in the grave. Then Balmber actually said that
it was a miracle, but it wasn't quite a miracle
because it's actually just science.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wonder how long that will last though, how much
longer it will take for hair to break down?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, you know, the oldest corpse ever found with hair
still attached on its body was nine thousand years old,
So wow, I mean, I don't know if Dolly's will
last that long.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
To digg him back up in nine thousand years and
see if there's still.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And what kind of stylish mustache tod that nine thousand
year old corpse, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
It probably didn't happen. An we may have to create
our own name for it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's unbelievable. Nine thousand years. That's really impressive. All right,
good job, nice fact. They're eaves, all right, Alex, what
you got for your last fact?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, on the subject of corpses, you can kill yourself shaving.
Don't really shave very often. I probably will never again
after I learned this. So Henry David Threw's brother John,
who that he was very close with, died on New
Year's Day and he was shaving on.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
New Year's Day. Maybe it was part of his resolution.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Nicked his finger on his razor, got lockshaw and ended
up dying because of her illnesses related to that. So
Henry David Throw showed symptoms of lockshaw shortly after that,
despite being no medical reason. He didn't have a cut
or anything really, and it was thought that he was
just a psychosomatic reaction to his brother dying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Of Oh wow, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Okay, you guys ever heard of Lord Canovin. He is
the first man to die of the supposed King Tut's curse.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
He also died due to shaving. Yeah, so this is
if you weren't scared enough already. He had a mosquito
bite and he sliced it open while shaving, went septic
and he died because of that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This all just got really dark. But that's impressive, good disgusting.
This is why you don't shave.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I very infrequently do, and I probably won't anymore. Yeah, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Good, good second fact, Mango, what's your last fact?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So this is a little lighter than Alex's fact here,
but there are, of course, like lots of types of
mustache paraphernalia. Out there for the mustache enthusiast. And and
you know their mustache combes, their mustache brushes, tonics, waxes.
But the best mustache gear I found online and Stacey
took me off on this was the mustache spoon. Now
have you guys heard of?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
This is not so?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The mustache spoon was apparently patented in eighteen sixty eight,
and it was carried around by Dandy's. And it's pretty clever.
It's basically like a spoon with a little guard on top.
It's like a half cover with a little hole in
it that you can sip out of. And the whole
point is to protect your elegant mustache curls from coming
in contact with hot souper foods. And all I know
(09:52):
is that if I was in the mustache spoon business,
I'd be marketing the heck out of it in November.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, seriously, that seems like a worthy product. It's been
since before nineteen hundred mm eighteen sixty eight. Okay, Well,
I feel like we can't have an episode on mustaches
without talking about Burt Reynolds, right, So I wanted to
find a fact about Burt Reynolds, And actually I was
curious why Burt Reynolds had grown a mustache in the
first place. But you might remember this from his book
(10:18):
called But Enough about Me. I'm sure we've all read
this before.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Of course I read it well, I read it for today.
For today.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, in preparation. Good, you're good at prepping for this.
So he actually says that he grew it to differentiate
himself from Marlon Brando. So apparently, earlier in his career,
without the mustache, he apparently looked like Brando and people
would follow him down the street thinking that he was
the Godfather. So he decided to grow a mustache, and
now you can't think of him without a mustache, right, ridiculous.
(10:46):
It is a very specific reason. So anyway, good job
on your first facts. I don't know, Mango, we have
to declare a winner at some point here. Do you
have any Do you have any thoughts on this?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I like that Dolly's miracle mustache should I feel like
that was the fact that it was most interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
That hair lasts that long, plus the fact these guys
both had great facts, but the fact that Eve's is
responsible for getting the show to people's ears and gets
her a bonus point. So Alex congratulations on second place,
and Eve's congratulations on taking home the trophy today.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm honored to have it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I reject you're I reject.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's the first time he's ever gotten contentious here in
the ptg room. So thank you guys for listening today.
We'll be back with a full length episode tomorrow
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