I Am Not My Hair(cut) (ft. Wyatt Cenac & Antonio Johnson)

FANTI

Maximum Fun

Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We’re talking about one of the most important institutions in every community: The barbershop. Wyatt Cenac joins the show this week as guest host (or Tre'vell replacement?!), and brainstorms lots of new slogans for FANTI merch. Cenac also tells us about going to the cheapest barber shop in the greater Dallas area as a kid with his penny-pinching stepdad. Plus, they’ll get into why Black folk come to barbershops for the haircuts, but stay for the prostate exam. In addition, artist & author Antonio Johnson tells us about traveling the country visiting barbershops for his You Next project. Off topic: Hey listener, do you happen to know the person in charge of hiring at the black-owned grooming product company Bevel? We may know someone, a “name”, if you will, looking for a side hustle as a spokesperson. We can’t say who that person is, but have them email the pod.

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0:00.0	Hey there everybody welcome to fan tide the podcast for all those complex and
0:06.2	complicated conversations about the gray areas in our lives I'm
0:10.0	entertainment journalists and film critic journalists and all of those
0:12.4	wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful things.
0:14.5	Trevela Anderson. You're talking really fast today. I'm your favorite politics and pop culture journalist
0:19.3	Jared Hill. Coming up on the show, this idea came from our producer Laura. She stumbled upon this article about how barbers are being impacted by that they're Rona and people are seeing their barbers in you know ways that they're not seeing them in the ways that they normally do because of not
0:34.9	being able to go out into the world and being afraid.
0:36.8	So if they're even allowed to go out into some of these places, they're like going very
0:41.1	cautiously. All this made us both think about the relationship
0:45.2	that we have to our own hair but more specifically to our barber shops. So that is our
0:50.0	fan type for this week. We wanted to talk about being in the black barber shop and like the
0:54.3	weird feelings that come around that. So as always we'll have our dishonorable mentions.
0:58.7	But before we get into all of that this week we are joined by a very special guest co-host. You may know him from his
1:05.4	HBO series Problem areas or the Daily Show, comedian actor, producer, writer, everything man,
1:11.2	patching in from his own quarantine bunker of sorts Mr.
1:14.4	Wyatt's a snack thanks so much for joining us.
1:17.1	Thank you for having me and I appreciate that you're talking faster because I talk slow and so hopefully that'll balance out.
1:27.0	Well we're going to have to figure out timing with another person as well because a little
1:31.3	bit later on in the show we have journalist
1:32.6	Antonio Johnson who's traveled the country visiting Barbara Jobs for a new book
1:36.7	due out next year called you next he's going to be contributing to our fan tie at the
1:42.3	end so because we've got a lot going on in this episode we want to remix the structure here and we're going to start off with dishonorable mentions right here at the top.
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