Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty. This week, the history of race and hygiene in America.

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In this week, showers. So, past couple of weeks, people have been pretty harsh on celebrities online.

It's not as bad as when that imagined video came out last spring.

But it's close. The reason a group of celebrities have begun to say publicly that they don't shower that much.

I wash my armpits, my crotch daily, and nothing else ever.

You don't? Exactly.

As Ashton Kutcher, he and his wife, Miele Kunis, were on Dax Shepherd's podcast,

Armchair Expert, with Dax's wife, Kristen Bell.

On that show, Ashton talked about not showering that much.

Dax and Kristen, they are in the same boat.

I only have to, when either a smell is present or I'm in that stuff, the accoutrements of acting.

I don't know, it just happens whenever it happens, I guess.

The bottom line is mine could be better.

Some people are calling this shower gate. Jake Gyllenhaal, another famous white person,

he weighed in too.

Telling Vanity Fair in an interview that he finds baiting to be less necessary.

All these non-showering celebrities are white, and a lot of the people who feel some kind of way

about their lack of showering are people of color.

This isn't new, it even goes further back than the great leg washing debate of 2019.

Like, should you wash your legs in the shower or just not? Yes, that was a real debate.

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