2016 went out with a BANG!!! What a great first year for the podcast and all the great new people I have met because of it! With the few weeks I have taken off from producing episodes I had some time to reflect upon the year I had and try and find new ways to make better shows for the listeners. I hope 2017 finds many new beards and mustaches enjoying all these new episodes that I am excited to get out to the hairy faced people!!!

I recently got together with some members of my beard club, Beards of The Old Northwest, and talked about some things we are were looking at for the year 2017. I was joined by newly mustached Jessie Chapple, freestyle wizard Eric Zatchock, and new mustache to the scene Jason Yarina. We discussed our styles and talked about their records for competing last year. Jessie told us about his switch from a full beard to just a styled mustache and the pains that he has had with dealing with it. Eric briefly talked about the Beards Behind Bars competition that we have planned this summer and also about his favorite boobs in movies. Jason shared how he became involved in the competition scene and how great he did his first year competing with his excellent handlebar mustache. There was much excitement and anticipation for this upcoming year in competitive bearding! I did fail on one thing this episode-I forgot to take a picture of the four of us for the episode art. Worst of all, I never got a shot of Jessie and myself together. Since Jason hasn't done an episode I chose this time to use the picture I took of him, myself, and Rocky. Rocky only appears yelling in the background on this episode! Look for him on future episodes!

While I was talking to the boys we were briefly joined by Doug White, president of the BOTONW Rock Creek Chapter. He wanted to share with everyone about an event they were hosting on January 28th to help raise awareness of the Beatitude House of Ashtabula County and raise some funds and collect some much needed items on the list below. The event will be at the Jefferson Lanes Bowling Alley in Jefferson Ohio and more info about the event can be found HERE. We hope you can make it out that night but if not please check into the Beatitude House website for more information on their organization and possibly help out in some way!

www.beatitudehouse.com

Beards Behinds Bars -July 1st

Ohio State Reformatory

Canadian Redneck Beard

NUCKFEST II THE SECOND ANNUAL ONTARIO BEARD AND MUSTACHE CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017 World Beard and Moustache Championships

Beards For Beasts

Hello Bully

Mid-Atlantic Beard & ‘Stache Championships VI

BOTONW Rock Creek Chapter

Beatitude House

Beards, Bowling, and Beatitude House

In this election year of 2016, our country faces one of the worst political showdowns in the history of America. Each candidate seems to only be fueling a fire of rage from their opponent and doing nothing but throwing punches and accusations at each other. The media seems like it only wants to be the ringleader of this 2 person circus and only focus on what these two clowns are wanting to do to our country. Our great country seems to almost be at it's darkest hour, hope is bleak, faith in government wavers, and trust is all but gone. Empty promises fill the air leaving many of us scared to make a choice in our future and the future of our children. Within a few weeks the landscape of nation will be completely different and a new president will be crowned. Within a few months the changes will go into effect, lives to be changed forever. There may only be one hope that glimmers far off in the distance with a boot on his head...

This is probably the most politically charged discussion I have ever had even though the discussion was mostly about beards. I sat down with Vermin Supreme, presidential candidate, and talked beards, beard competitions, and his ideas for utilizing beards to stop hunger in America. Vermin also flipped the interview on me and started interviewing me back for his project that he has in development, Vermin Supremes BeardWorld…more info to come soon. We tried to keep the politics to a minimum and this interview was all over the place, a definite hoot!!! We touched on a few of his campaign platforms and I tried to help him come up with a few more! Sit back and enjoy this episode, there will be MANY laughs had!

a little a-boot Vermin…

Vermin Supreme is a bearded , boot hat wearing presidential candidate. The self proclaimed Friendly Fascist, promises a free pony for every American, a fully funded time travel research program, zombie preparedness initiatives for a new American Republic and the Mandatory Toothbrush Act.

-He has been running for the office of presidency since 1992 and ran for mayor of Baltimore in 1987 and has run for pretty much every political party that is out there

-Supreme campaigned in the Washington, DC Presidential primary in 2004*

-Supreme campaigned in the New Hampshire Republican primary in 2008*

-December 19, 2011: He participated in the "Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum", at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and "glitterbombed" fellow candidate Randall Terry*

-Campaigned as a Democrat in the 2012 U.S. presidential election*

-August 25, 2012: Supreme announced his new political party, the Free Pony Party, and that he has chosen fellow fringe opponent Jimmy McMillan as his running mate. Conversely, McMillan stated he was still running for president on his own Rent Is Too Damn High platform, and that Supreme would be McMillan's running mate.*

-Supreme is attempting another presidential run in 2016*

*taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

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BEARDING MAN

EPISODE 4-EMILY DARN NEAR KILLED HIM

WHO IS VERMIN SUPREME-MOVIE

iPONY-blueprint for a new America

Vermin on Twitter

Vermin on Facebook

Vermin Supreme's BeardWorld

Pulpo Beard Oils

Waffen Der Whiskerr Oil

Brutal Beard Oils

Groomed Gorilla

Black Beard Co.

music from:

Ben Levin

Chris Donley

This film is almost ready for release, We started a campaign to gather finishing funds. http://igg.me/at/votejesus/x/126227 . Please donate and spread the word.

In competition with Donald Trump for most ridiculous candidate, Vermin Supreme has run for president every year for more than two decades. He's on the Democratic ballot in New Hampshire's primary and promises time travel research. See more at http://www.newsy.com/ Follow Newsy: http://www.twitter.com/NewsyVideos Sources: Newsy, Getty Images