July 10, 2025 • 6 mins
Is the pencil-thin mustache a bold fashion statement—or just a last resort for guys who can’t grow a real one?In this razor-sharp and laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the curious resurgence of the pencil-thin mustache. What starts as a casual observation quickly spirals into a hilarious, insightful, and occasionally absurd exploration of facial hair trends, generational grooming gaps, and the psychology behind the stache.The “Playboy Stash” vs. the “Porn Stash”
KT reads from a GQ article that dubs the pencil-thin look the “Playboy stash”—a sleeker, more curated evolution of the classic Tom Selleck broom.
As the lone female voice of reason, Krystina weighs in: “I’ve never liked the mustache. Mike knows to avoid it unless it’s for a bit.” Her honesty cuts through the fuzz.Whether you’re rocking a full beard, a baby face, or a barely-there stache, this episode is a hilarious and oddly insightful look at what your facial hair says about you. Come for the laughs, stay for the mustache metaphysics.
KT reads from a GQ article that dubs the pencil-thin look the “Playboy stash”—a sleeker, more curated evolution of the classic Tom Selleck broom.
As the lone female voice of reason, Krystina weighs in: “I’ve never liked the mustache. Mike knows to avoid it unless it’s for a bit.” Her honesty cuts through the fuzz.Whether you’re rocking a full beard, a baby face, or a barely-there stache, this episode is a hilarious and oddly insightful look at what your facial hair says about you. Come for the laughs, stay for the mustache metaphysics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But how about the best pizza joint in all of
the land. That's right, Readers of the Dallas Morning News
say Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas is the
best pizza in DFW. If you're a true fooding you
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voted best in DFW by readers of the Dallas Wear News,
(00:22):
mastered five different types of pizza, great craft beer selection,
TVs and there as far as the I can see,
I also got pasta that's exceptional, salads, you name it.
The food is exquisite, trust readers of the Dallas Morning News,
who say Andrews is the very best pizza in DFW.
Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen, All right, in the big finish,
what do you do when a cover song is your
(00:43):
biggest hit? If you're a band, what do you do
in that situation that's coming up in ten minutes? But
right now it's stop for this.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Give me that news Quickie right talked.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
About this a little bit before, probably about a month
or two ago. It's is an observation that I had
about how many pencil thin mustaches we're seeing on you
know what, I think, I would say, guys in their
twenties hipsters.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Mean maybe I don't even I don't even know if
it's like a hipster thing now, because I don't really
know what a hipster is anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's fair because there's a lot of country dudes doing it,
and that's not a hipster movie because it's accompanying a
mullet In a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
This feels like a popular thing.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And uh, I don't know, but this is you guys
grew up in the era of the porn stash. Oh yeah,
the Tom Sellick, the Burt Reynolds. Yeah, and we are
now in an era. Well, I come across an article
and this is the reason we're doing this. Guy, I
came across an article on this, and I don't know
why I clicked on it. It's from GQ, and it
(01:44):
was about what they're calling the playboy stash. So the
porn stash is your generation's era of the thick broom.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You keep he keeps.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Saying that, but he proudly proclaimed that his mustache because
everyone saw he has a mustache. He says, this is
my Ron Jeremy mustache. Yeah, as a tribute, right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Because he's an arcoleptica and he loves seventies point.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He supports everything that that guy ever got into.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't think so Eve been trying to get him
out of jail, right, you and Big Dick Hunter.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think he died.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh, I think I have a theory on all this,
but I'll.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Save it until you reveal your work. Well, so what's
going on in this article? Let's read you a couple
of things that it caught my eye. So if pop
culture's biggest names, from Benson Boone to Miles Teller have
embraced the same facial flare, a strip of hair that
extends from one corner of the upper lip to the other,
trimdon length to ensure that it doesn't extend onto the lip.
(02:37):
Call it the playboy stash, the next evolution of the
porn stash, which to me, I think it makes you
look kind of whimpy if you're trying to go with
the playboy stash, nothing shows your dominance more than a
Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck porn stash to me, when you
got the pencil thin thing, I don't know that that's the.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Most you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, hold on, with a mustage, there's a left side,
there's a right side, there's a top, and there's a bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The bottom side.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
As long as you're not gonna let it extend over
your lip, that's always gonna be trimmed. What makes the
pencil thin mustache is when they cut off part of
the top of it. That's what makes I think, you
know what I'm saying, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What makes it super thin.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think there's also though, I think part of it
is genetic, and I think what happens when you have
a rash of porn stashes, or not porn stashes, but
pencil thin stashes, it's because people that normally don't let
themselves have mustaches because they can't grow a thick mustache
de side f it and they let it grow. In
(03:41):
other words, what happens, You're either gonna you're gonna have
the kind of facial hair. It same thing with beards. Yeah,
you're either gonna have the kind of facial hair where
you have a thick beard, or you're gonna have. Like
right now, mine's pretty patchy. It used to be a
thick beard. It's not a thick beard anymore. It's patchy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I can't even really grow it thick anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Just my life done changed.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And so I think what happens is whenever you have
suddenly all these pencil thin mustache is it's because people
that normally would just trim it because they can't grow
the Burt Reynolds stash. Like Burt Reynolds is incapable of
doing this pencil thin stash.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh he's dead, yep. That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
They talked to a famous barber, like, for example, John
McKay could never have a Burt Reynolds mustache.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Right, yeah, you follow me. Yeah, our audience is going
to get the John McKay reference. Former newsman Channel eight.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Ben gets it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh, so they talk to a former bar to a
I'm sorry, a famous barber in this article. Here's what
he said. It's a current trend for men, especially younger men,
to have a mustache. Gay men specifically have been a
large demographic for this trend. Why this facial hairstyle? Now though,
so they talked to him. He's like when somebody has
a mustache. It's very sexy. It's a certain level of
(04:52):
competence confidence and confidence is sexy. So if you see
someone out there with the mustache, are you thinking that's
a confident fella right there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I want to know what Christina thinks because sometimes, you know,
any of the three of us are capable of giving
the women's perspective. Really well, that's what we do, but
sometimes we actually go to her for it, And so
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's the mustache sometimes?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Thank you, Ben. I've never been a fan of the mustache,
and I know that's been the trend for like over
a year now, like that seems to be well, the
kids are doing his mustache is and I don't know.
I've never liked it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Mike knows to avoid the mustache unless he's doing it
for a bit because I cannot stand it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But think about what you guys are saying. The kids
are doing it. Yeah, the kids who don't have good
facial hair yet. Oh yeah, it happens over time. Like
you're not going to see a forty year old dude
that can grow a big, burly beard with a penciltan mustache.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He just ain't even in his repertoire.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
For a second, I thought about the Queen Movie and
how that you know, because that you see Freddy Mercury's
mustache or in that. But then I remember that movie
was about seven years ago, so I was like, oh, yeah, damn.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Freddie Mercury's mustah though looks like giant eyebrows.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I know, But I'm just saying like the idea
of having a mustache would be brought back because of that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But yeah, I think a lot of it's not match
this theory.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think a lot of people will be like, oh,
my mustache doesn't look good, so I'm going to cut
it because it looks all raspy, and then it's like,
oh that's in style. Oh I can actually grow that.
I'm going to do it. That's what I think is
the mystery.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All Right, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
There's pencil thin mustache talk coming up in just over
three minutes in the big finish. What do you do
if you're a band and a cover song is your
biggest hit. We'll have that discussion next
But how about the best pizza joint in all of
the land. That's right, Readers of the Dallas Morning News
say Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas is the
best pizza in DFW. If you're a true fooding you
want to try the best of the best, head on
out to Plano. There's only one location of Andrews, right
there in Preston and Plano Parkway. Andrews American Pizza Kitchen
voted best in DFW by readers of the Dallas Wear News,
(00:22):
mastered five different types of pizza, great craft beer selection,
TVs and there as far as the I can see,
I also got pasta that's exceptional, salads, you name it.
The food is exquisite, trust readers of the Dallas Morning News,
who say Andrews is the very best pizza in DFW.
Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen, All right, in the big finish,
what do you do when a cover song is your
(00:43):
biggest hit? If you're a band, what do you do
in that situation that's coming up in ten minutes? But
right now it's stop for this.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Give me that news Quickie right talked.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
About this a little bit before, probably about a month
or two ago. It's is an observation that I had
about how many pencil thin mustaches we're seeing on you
know what, I think, I would say, guys in their
twenties hipsters.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Mean maybe I don't even I don't even know if
it's like a hipster thing now, because I don't really
know what a hipster is anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's fair because there's a lot of country dudes doing it,
and that's not a hipster movie because it's accompanying a
mullet In a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
This feels like a popular thing.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And uh, I don't know, but this is you guys
grew up in the era of the porn stash. Oh yeah,
the Tom Sellick, the Burt Reynolds. Yeah, and we are
now in an era. Well, I come across an article
and this is the reason we're doing this. Guy, I
came across an article on this, and I don't know
why I clicked on it. It's from GQ, and it
(01:44):
was about what they're calling the playboy stash. So the
porn stash is your generation's era of the thick broom.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You keep he keeps.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Saying that, but he proudly proclaimed that his mustache because
everyone saw he has a mustache. He says, this is
my Ron Jeremy mustache. Yeah, as a tribute, right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Because he's an arcoleptica and he loves seventies point.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He supports everything that that guy ever got into.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't think so Eve been trying to get him
out of jail, right, you and Big Dick Hunter.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think he died.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh, I think I have a theory on all this,
but I'll.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Save it until you reveal your work. Well, so what's
going on in this article? Let's read you a couple
of things that it caught my eye. So if pop
culture's biggest names, from Benson Boone to Miles Teller have
embraced the same facial flare, a strip of hair that
extends from one corner of the upper lip to the other,
trimdon length to ensure that it doesn't extend onto the lip.
(02:37):
Call it the playboy stash, the next evolution of the
porn stash, which to me, I think it makes you
look kind of whimpy if you're trying to go with
the playboy stash, nothing shows your dominance more than a
Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck porn stash to me, when you
got the pencil thin thing, I don't know that that's the.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Most you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, hold on, with a mustage, there's a left side,
there's a right side, there's a top, and there's a bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The bottom side.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
As long as you're not gonna let it extend over
your lip, that's always gonna be trimmed. What makes the
pencil thin mustache is when they cut off part of
the top of it. That's what makes I think, you
know what I'm saying, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What makes it super thin.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think there's also though, I think part of it
is genetic, and I think what happens when you have
a rash of porn stashes, or not porn stashes, but
pencil thin stashes, it's because people that normally don't let
themselves have mustaches because they can't grow a thick mustache
de side f it and they let it grow. In
(03:41):
other words, what happens, You're either gonna you're gonna have
the kind of facial hair. It same thing with beards. Yeah,
you're either gonna have the kind of facial hair where
you have a thick beard, or you're gonna have. Like
right now, mine's pretty patchy. It used to be a
thick beard. It's not a thick beard anymore. It's patchy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I can't even really grow it thick anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Just my life done changed.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And so I think what happens is whenever you have
suddenly all these pencil thin mustache is it's because people
that normally would just trim it because they can't grow
the Burt Reynolds stash. Like Burt Reynolds is incapable of
doing this pencil thin stash.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh he's dead, yep. That's why.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
They talked to a famous barber, like, for example, John
McKay could never have a Burt Reynolds mustache.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Right, yeah, you follow me. Yeah, our audience is going
to get the John McKay reference. Former newsman Channel eight.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Ben gets it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh, so they talk to a former bar to a
I'm sorry, a famous barber in this article. Here's what
he said. It's a current trend for men, especially younger men,
to have a mustache. Gay men specifically have been a
large demographic for this trend. Why this facial hairstyle? Now though,
so they talked to him. He's like when somebody has
a mustache. It's very sexy. It's a certain level of
(04:52):
competence confidence and confidence is sexy. So if you see
someone out there with the mustache, are you thinking that's
a confident fella right there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I want to know what Christina thinks because sometimes, you know,
any of the three of us are capable of giving
the women's perspective. Really well, that's what we do, but
sometimes we actually go to her for it, And so
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's the mustache sometimes?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Thank you, Ben. I've never been a fan of the mustache,
and I know that's been the trend for like over
a year now, like that seems to be well, the
kids are doing his mustache is and I don't know.
I've never liked it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't. I'm not a fan.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Mike knows to avoid the mustache unless he's doing it
for a bit because I cannot stand it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But think about what you guys are saying. The kids
are doing it. Yeah, the kids who don't have good
facial hair yet. Oh yeah, it happens over time. Like
you're not going to see a forty year old dude
that can grow a big, burly beard with a penciltan mustache.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He just ain't even in his repertoire.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
For a second, I thought about the Queen Movie and
how that you know, because that you see Freddy Mercury's
mustache or in that. But then I remember that movie
was about seven years ago, so I was like, oh, yeah, damn.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Freddie Mercury's mustah though looks like giant eyebrows.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I know, But I'm just saying like the idea
of having a mustache would be brought back because of that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But yeah, I think a lot of it's not match
this theory.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think a lot of people will be like, oh,
my mustache doesn't look good, so I'm going to cut
it because it looks all raspy, and then it's like,
oh that's in style. Oh I can actually grow that.
I'm going to do it. That's what I think is
the mystery.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All Right, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
There's pencil thin mustache talk coming up in just over
three minutes in the big finish. What do you do
if you're a band and a cover song is your
biggest hit. We'll have that discussion next
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