So our conversation started around the sweater. I sent you an article that I had

found about an organization trying to make garments out of human hair. What

did you think when you first saw the article? I was like, come on. Why? Because it's

gross. Who's gonna buy a sweater made out of human hair? It's just not socially

viable. It should be said that that is like extremely you. Like that is the kind

of thing you would write about. Yeah, I'm Margot Boyer Dry. I write in a bunch

of forms and venues. Margot is being modest. She writes for like the New York

Times and New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and places like that. So

part of my thing is I publish a newsletter called Laura Mipsum. It for the most

part just kind of skewers the culture of capitalism and all the things that we

try to do to get each other to buy things in partake. Anyway, so I had sent you

this article about a company making textiles from human hair. You know, right in

the nexus of our mutual interest. What? The argument that they why? Why? Their

argument is that humans are responsible for the climate crisis. We are

responsible for the solution. The solution that they are focused on is using

human hair, removing it from the waste stream and repurposing it for garments.

That touches on one million progressive points. Animal mistreatment is one.

Wiring farming animals when we could just use this material from the waste

stream that humans already produce. To harvest hair, we don't need to

negate any soil. We don't pull it any water. We don't use any toxic chemicals to

process hair with the natural material. I reach out to them to just kind of be

like, are you serious? And they're so, so serious. We use locally available

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