Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast. Today is Thursday October 18th, otherwise known as

No Beard Day. Bad Day for Woodworkers.

Yeah, what do you think the percentage of clean-shaven wood workers, especially in content?

It says pretty low, right?

It is pretty low, yeah.

I'm going to go...

Especially if you compare it to the general population, 100%.

You think it's 100%?

I say 7.9%.

Unbearded.

Yeah, I think your guess is a little high there, Mike,

even though I know that's not what you meant when you said 100%

Thanks for clarifying. Yeah. Yeah it's funny how that kind of goes with the genre although that's probably true across quite I mean I think in general just facial hair is having a moment

Overall the lumberjack aesthetic has gone down it stays strong in the woodworking community, but I also see it fading away a little bit

I think people will naturally be stubbly because it's the path of least resistance and so as long as it's culturally acceptable.

Yeah, the way I see the trend is it sort of peaked with the sort of lumber sexual kind of thing where people are really into kind of the hipster lumberjack look.

But I think it's something that will kind of stick around as,

it's like the same way like the tech industry made dressing really casual at work kind of a cool thing.

Yeah. And it sort of reached its peak of the sort of hoody days, but that's declined, but a lot of that legacy has sort of stayed as a permanent trend.

So I think it's way into main.

Right, so I think it might be true because it's also casual clothes are more comfortable and shaving every day kind of sucks.

So I think I think it'll be as like a more common thing but maybe we already reached peaked or we peaked in terms of beardness.

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