Deadly Beard

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For one sixteenth century Austrian mayor, a long, luscious beard was both his claim to fame – and the cause of his downfall.

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0:00.0	Hey, Johanna.
0:02.3	Hello, Amanda.
0:03.8	Random question, but have you ever been to the Iowa State Fair?
0:07.9	I have not.
0:09.6	I really would like to go one day.
0:11.8	I am a big fan of state and county fairs in general.
0:15.9	I would love to go.
0:17.1	Yes, me too, especially to just, you know, eat through all of the, like, fried everything, all of the different food booths.
0:25.8	I want to see some butter sculptures.
0:28.0	Yes.
0:28.3	Sign me up.
0:29.2	Absolutely.
0:30.1	And the reason I ask about this is because I recently learned that at the Iowa State Fair, they have a lot of beard growing contests.
0:39.1	Like facial hair?
0:41.2	Yes.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:42.0	Okay.
0:42.6	So some, then there's a bunch of different categories.
0:45.4	I think there's like a manicured mustache category.
0:48.4	There's a most historical beard category.
0:51.9	But the one that I was most intrigued by and most, I guess, impressed by was just
0:56.1	straight up longest beard. So the person with the longest beard wins. Man, I just have to say,
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