The Story "Of Beards and Men" and How They Define Masculinity in Culture
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Professor Christopher Oldstone-Moore makes the case that today’s bearded renaissance is part of a centuries-long cycle in which facial hairstyles have varied in response to changing ideals of masculinity.
Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)
Support the show: https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:49.1 | the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:53.8 | Up next, a story about beards. |
| 0:56.9 | They're all the rage these days. |
| 0:58.7 | Take a look around from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen. |
| 1:02.9 | Facial hair is everywhere. |
| 1:06.0 | Christopher Olst & Moore makes the case |
| 1:08.2 | that today's bearded renaissance |
| 1:10.1 | is part of a centuries-long cycle |
| 1:12.6 | in which facial hairstyles have varied in response to changing ideals of masculinity. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

