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It's a cool night in late November here in Charleston and wearing hair on your face will
of course help you stay warm. But if you have hair on your face in this establishment on
this night, you may actually be considered a king...
Good evening everyone welcome to the Griffon English style pub here in downtown Charleston,
I am Rob Brennan. It's Movember first, Movember being a nationwide non-profit organization
that helps raise money and awareness towards men's health, testicular cancer, colon cancer,
and they do this by mustache growing, yes, mustache growing. It could be coming back
into 'vogue' and we had some crazy, weird wild 'staches if you will to check out tonight.
((( music plays )))
“It's a week, give me a week. I got more if you give me whole month.”
“I think it came out well.”
“Took me a while to grow it. But other than that it's great.”
The history of the mustache goes back ages. We think of icons such as Charlie Chaplin,
Burt Reynolds, and Wyatt Earp. The 'stache was the style during the Civil War as we see
with General Lew Wallace. But to find the origins of lettuce on the face you have to
go as far back as 300 B.C., and it's this Iranian horseman who gets the credit for the
world's first ever mustache, and over 2000 years later, it's still rocking!!!!
“I don't think it ever went away. But it's just like the evan flow of the population,
where they end up.”
“I like it. It is the natural accessory for a man.”
“The mustache is the best. It makes me look a little more distinguished, and when you
get a little bit older you need that.”
“You know my Dad's been rocking one since 1965, so I don't know. I feel like if I have
half as good a mustache as my Dad has then I'm doing a good job.”
He's got a mustache, do you approve?
:”I do, I think it's very sexy.”
You think it's sexy?
“Super sexy!”
A lot of the women tonight say they love it.
“Oh yeah! Definitely!
“Well it depends. It depends if it is a power mustache or a creepy mustache. There's
very different kinds.”
So what's the first thing that comes to your head?
“Just creepy. Absolutely creepy. And I hope I am living up to that name right now.”
“It's not creepy if you grow one for charity. And most of our wives and girlfriends have
been kind enough to let us get away with it for a month.
And that charity being the Movemeber Foundation, and I learned later in the night it's not
just nationwide but actually bigger.
“The Movember foundation is actually a world-wide organization. State-side they partner closely
with the Lance Armstrong foundation. The big thing with them is they are trying to make
light of the fact that most guys don't like to take care of themselves or we don't go
see the doctor unless something is broken.”
“Issues like testicular cancer and other kinds of cancers. You shouldn't shy away from
it but be proud and bring out your mustache and beard and be proud to talk about any kind
of male issues and raise some money and awareness.”
Is the mustache coming back you think?
“Tonight, the mustache is back.”
“I think they're making a comeback!”
“A decade ago it was the sideburns, this is the decade of the mustache, there is no
question about it.”
“I think it's making a comeback, I don't know how much of one or how long it will last,
it might be like swing music.”
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ONE...TWO...THREE....
THERE'S A MUSTACHE ON MY FACE
THERE'S A MUSTACHE ALL OVER THE PLACE... AWWW MUSTACHE!!!!
THERE'S A MUSTACHE ON MY FACE .. AWW MUSTACHE!!!
THERE'S A MUSTACHE ALL OVER THE PLACE....IT'S GETTING KIND OF HAIRY
In downtown Charleston, Rob Brennan reporting.