Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Caught Redheaded?
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Never told you protection of I Heeart Radio. Samantha, have
- 0:19Speaker 1: you ever wanted to dye your hair? Well, I didn't
- 0:22Speaker 1: necessarily want to dye my hair. I wanted my hair
- 0:24Speaker 1: to be different colors, if that makes sense. Like I
- 0:27Speaker 1: wished it was a different color. But I've never tried
- 0:29Speaker 1: or wanted to dyet just because I know of the
- 0:32Speaker 1: pain it is, and because I was so scared of
- 0:37Speaker 1: my Asian heritage, as in like I didn't want to
- 0:39Speaker 1: be Asian, that dyeing your hair was so Asian American
- 0:44Speaker 1: thing to do in my head. That didn't want to
- 0:46Speaker 1: be that stereotype, which is also a very big reflection
- 0:49Speaker 1: of my own self hate in my ethnicity. So yeah,
- 0:53Speaker 1: weird answer to that question. I mean, it's it can
- 0:58Speaker 1: be very complicated. I also wish my hair was a
- 1:01Speaker 1: different color. For a long time, I felt like my
- 1:03Speaker 1: hair was very boring and bland, and I wanted I
- 1:08Speaker 1: think I ran the gamut of like one time I
- 1:10Speaker 1: really wanted blonde hair and I got blonde highlights. One
- 1:13Speaker 1: time I I did die my hair black and it
- 1:16Speaker 1: was a disaster, and then one time I got red highlights,
- 1:22Speaker 1: So I've never professionally got my hair like completely died,
- 1:25Speaker 1: but I have done highlights, and I've definitely done like
- 1:27Speaker 1: cheap kind of temporary you know, bright blue or bright
- 1:31Speaker 1: pink or white. When I dressed as rogue one time,
- 1:35Speaker 1: that was also a disaster. But I wanted to bring
- 1:39Speaker 1: that up because today we are talking about red headed
- 1:44Speaker 1: women and this is actually a listener suggestion that we
- 1:47Speaker 1: got from Wendy, So thanks Wendy, and we wanted to
- 1:49Speaker 1: read their message. I've been reflecting on the fetishizing of
- 1:53Speaker 1: redheads and how it's impacted me as a woman my
- 1:55Speaker 1: whole life. I've had men tell me from as young
- 1:58Speaker 1: as six that my hair color would get me in
- 1:59Speaker 1: trouble and to watch out for boys. Women would automatically
- 2:02Speaker 1: either be threatened by the quote sexuality of my hair
- 2:06Speaker 1: and treat me with contempt. Around their significant other men
- 2:09Speaker 1: would ask us the carpet, match the drapes with a smirk,
- 2:11Speaker 1: or make comments about redheads having bad tempers. Redheads are
- 2:14Speaker 1: super freaking the bedroom always being treated as a price
- 2:17Speaker 1: to be one or something to be checked off a
- 2:19Speaker 1: bucket list. I can't tell you the amount of times
- 2:21Speaker 1: strangers have touched my hair in public or go out
- 2:24Speaker 1: of their way to say something about it, even going
- 2:26Speaker 1: as far as following me around the grocery store. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: resented my hair for all these reasons and have died
- 2:30Speaker 1: it in the past and was met with a lot
- 2:32Speaker 1: of pushback from other people, as if it was their
- 2:34Speaker 1: hair I died, not my own. Why would you do
- 2:37Speaker 1: that to your beautiful hair? It should be natural. I've
- 2:40Speaker 1: suffered from sexual abuse way too many times, and now
- 2:42Speaker 1: I wonder if that wouldn't have happened if I had
- 2:44Speaker 1: a different hair color. At the end of the day,
- 2:46Speaker 1: I wish I had regular hair so I can have
- 2:48Speaker 1: some peace from constantly being reminded that I'm the center
- 2:51Speaker 1: of someone else's fantasy. And yeah, there's a lot to
- 2:55Speaker 1: unpack there, and researching this episode, a lot of people,
- 2:58Speaker 1: in this case women, men who have red hair reported
- 3:02Speaker 1: very similar experiences. And one of my best friends, Katie,
- 3:06Speaker 1: who has been on this show, she has red hair. Um,
- 3:09Speaker 1: a very very red and very curly red hair, and
- 3:13Speaker 1: we've been friends since since we were about like eight
- 3:16Speaker 1: or nine. We've known each other longer than that, but um,
- 3:19Speaker 1: we didn't like each other at first, I did want
- 3:23Speaker 1: to be redheaded, mostly because of comic books, because there
- 3:27Speaker 1: are a lot of like beautiful, powerful redheads and comic books.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And I did get the red highlights. I don't know
- 3:34Speaker 1: that I pulled them off, and the person who gave
- 3:35Speaker 1: them to me, she made me walk outside and like
- 3:37Speaker 1: see what it looked like in the sunlight. To this day,
- 3:39Speaker 1: I don't know if that sound was a good sound
- 3:41Speaker 1: or bad sound that she made, but do you need
- 3:43Speaker 1: I did feel very weird, like I felt like a
- 3:45Speaker 1: faker in a way I didn't when I got blonde highlights.
- 3:48Speaker 1: And I wonder if it's because it's sort of more
- 3:50Speaker 1: acceptable or common to get blonde highlights. There's still judgment
- 3:53Speaker 1: that goes in there, for sure, but like red hair
- 3:56Speaker 1: is much rarer. I don't know. Oh, it was just bizarre.
- 4:01Speaker 1: It was kind of embarrassed by it, even then that
- 4:03Speaker 1: I was getting these red highlights. And we talked about
- 4:07Speaker 1: the power of red as a color in a past episode.
- 4:10Speaker 1: And I do think in entertainment it is either meant
- 4:12Speaker 1: to imply fiery, sexy or awkward, and not much in between,
- 4:17Speaker 1: especially for women. Although yeah, we're gonna be talking about
- 4:20Speaker 1: redheaded men and the stereotypes around that making someone redheaded
- 4:24Speaker 1: and media feels like a choice. To me, it feels
- 4:26Speaker 1: like you're trying to communicate something or you like going
- 4:29Speaker 1: back to the matrix. You know, the woman red it's
- 4:31Speaker 1: not red hair, but it was trying to communicate like
- 4:34Speaker 1: sexiness and it's eye catching and all that stuff. We've
- 4:37Speaker 1: also done episodes on the power, symbolism and sexualization of
- 4:41Speaker 1: hair on women, something churches often required to be covered
- 4:45Speaker 1: or tied back, associated with sex, infertility, and also, yeah,
- 4:48Speaker 1: just to be clear, there are stereotypes associated with all
- 4:51Speaker 1: hair colors, and past host Kristen and Caroline did an
- 4:54Speaker 1: episode looking into that, but today we aren't talking about redheads.
- 4:58Speaker 1: There you go. So only about two percent of the
- 5:01Speaker 1: world's population have a red hair, about one forty million people,
- 5:05Speaker 1: although some surveys suggest that number might actually be a
- 5:08Speaker 1: lot lower. The highest percentage of redheads are in Scotland,
- 5:12Speaker 1: where they account for about of the population. Red hair
- 5:16Speaker 1: is the result of a genetic mutation. Both parents have
- 5:19Speaker 1: to be carrying a mutated MC one our gene, a
- 5:22Speaker 1: mutation that dates back to Asia between three to four
- 5:24Speaker 1: thousand years ago, or at least that has been the belief.
- 5:28Speaker 1: More recent research indicates up to eight genes could be
- 5:31Speaker 1: involved in this right. And while redheads exist worldwide, it
- 5:35Speaker 1: is more common in northern latitudes because it is an
- 5:38Speaker 1: adaptation to absorb more vitamin D with less sunlight. So yes,
- 5:43Speaker 1: redheads are typically fair skinned folks that do burn more
- 5:47Speaker 1: easily in sunlight and are more prone skin cancer because
- 5:51Speaker 1: of that. So that makes a lot of sense, but
- 5:53Speaker 1: not always, no, not always. Um, you can find red
- 5:56Speaker 1: hair pretty much anywhere. And also there's a lot of
- 5:58Speaker 1: conflicting studies about pain tolerance and redheads and also tolerance
- 6:03Speaker 1: to heat and cold. That's not really what we're talking
- 6:05Speaker 1: about today, but their research does exist if you're curious
- 6:08Speaker 1: and you want to look into it. Okay, So stereotypes,
- 6:11Speaker 1: there are all kinds of tropes and stereotypes around red hair.
- 6:13Speaker 1: That it means you're fiery, or you have a short temper,
- 6:15Speaker 1: that you've got the devil in you, that you're better
- 6:17Speaker 1: in bed, that you're temperamental and or crazy, and a
- 6:21Speaker 1: lot of articles about what it's like having red hair.
- 6:23Speaker 1: People wrote about some more things to what Wendy was
- 6:25Speaker 1: talking about, um asking you if that's your natural hair, color,
- 6:28Speaker 1: telling you to never diet, asking if the carpet matches
- 6:30Speaker 1: the drapes, saying firecrotch u redheaded step child, joking that
- 6:35Speaker 1: you have no soul, asking if it's true what they
- 6:37Speaker 1: say about redheads, asking where you're from, assuming you're irish.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Some of these stereotypes have a long history behind them,
- 6:43Speaker 1: especially when it comes to ideas around sexuality and witchcraft.
- 6:48Speaker 1: In ancient Egypt, redheads may have been believed to be
- 6:51Speaker 1: which is or evil. The ancient Greeks depicted two groups
- 6:55Speaker 1: that cause them trouble, the Scythians and three Seans, as violent, brutish,
- 6:58Speaker 1: and redheaded, the Celt's fault hard against the ancient room
- 7:02Speaker 1: and Empire's expansion north, and the ancient Romans depicted them
- 7:04Speaker 1: as redheads in their art and documents. The Bible's Judas
- 7:09Speaker 1: was often portrayed as a redhead as a way to
- 7:12Speaker 1: other him from the other dark haired apostles, and perhaps
- 7:16Speaker 1: as an anti Semitic touch, especially later, and this solidified
- 7:20Speaker 1: a connection between redheads and villains for a lot of folks,
- 7:23Speaker 1: especially this Judas thing, especially that Michelangelo's work at the
- 7:27Speaker 1: Sistine Chapel depict sinful Eve as a redhead. Mary Magdalen
- 7:31Speaker 1: was often depicted as a red head too, and some
- 7:33Speaker 1: think that's because of her sexual experience. One of the
- 7:37Speaker 1: oldest surviving Norse documents describes Thor as a redhead quick
- 7:40Speaker 1: to anger, as compared to his father, Odd was calm
- 7:43Speaker 1: and wise and blonde. As a part of these stereotypes,
- 7:47Speaker 1: some historical figures were depicted having red hair when they
- 7:50Speaker 1: actually didn't to kind of say like, oh, they were
- 7:52Speaker 1: fierce or angry or something like that. Yeah, And obviously
- 7:56Speaker 1: these stereotypes have had painful, deadly consequences. When the European
- 8:01Speaker 1: witch hunts reached their peak during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
- 8:04Speaker 1: many women were killed for suspected witchcraft just for being redheaded.
- 8:09Speaker 1: On top of that, like we discussed in our Power
- 8:11Speaker 1: of Red episode, red is often used to denote danger
- 8:14Speaker 1: or as of warning, So blood fire stop signs. All
- 8:17Speaker 1: of that. Yes, and a lot of redheads. And I
- 8:22Speaker 1: was researching this brought up a two thousand five South
- 8:24Speaker 1: Park episode called Ginger Kids, which I have seen this.
- 8:28Speaker 1: In this episode, Cartman gives a class presentation on gingers,
- 8:32Speaker 1: which he describes as pale skin, redheaded people, people he
- 8:34Speaker 1: believes are affected with ginger vitis. On top of that,
- 8:38Speaker 1: he thinks gingers are disgusting, unable to walk in sunlight,
- 8:41Speaker 1: and aren't human and have no souls. Cartman's friend Kyle,
- 8:44Speaker 1: attempts to prove him wrong, um Kyle's redhead No, don't
- 8:47Speaker 1: really see his hair um, and gives a counterpresentation and
- 8:50Speaker 1: pointing out that red hair is genetic, and goes to
- 8:52Speaker 1: visit a family with redheaded children born from parents who
- 8:55Speaker 1: carried the recessive gene but weren't red headed themselves. To
- 8:59Speaker 1: Kyle's suck, the parents share Cartman's views, and the dad
- 9:02Speaker 1: tells them that marrying an Asian woman is the one
- 9:04Speaker 1: way to make sure the gene doesn't get passed down.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Cartman doubles down, using the Bible and this holder just
- 9:10Speaker 1: thing to back up his claims and causing the school
- 9:12Speaker 1: at large to turn on redheads, deciding they need to
- 9:16Speaker 1: teach him a lesson. Kyle and stand die Cartman's hair
- 9:18Speaker 1: red without his knowledge, lightness, skin, and add freckle tatues,
- 9:21Speaker 1: callsing Cartman to believe he has a case of gingeridis.
- 9:24Speaker 1: A trip to the doctor ends with the doctor suggesting
- 9:27Speaker 1: to Cartman's mother that he be quote put down when
- 9:30Speaker 1: the mocking of his hair and skin it pushes him
- 9:31Speaker 1: too far. He creates the Gingers separatist movement and calls
- 9:34Speaker 1: on other red has to join him to fight persecution
- 9:37Speaker 1: and to become the master race. Cartman persuades the other
- 9:41Speaker 1: Ginger kids that they need to kill all non Gingers,
- 9:44Speaker 1: so they capture the town's non Ginger people and prepare
- 9:46Speaker 1: to sacrifice them, starting with Kyle, who is what Cartman
- 9:49Speaker 1: calls a day walker or a half red head. Kyle
- 9:51Speaker 1: reveals to Cartman that Cartman is in fact not a Ginger,
- 9:54Speaker 1: that it was a prank all along. Cartman, now concerned
- 9:57Speaker 1: for his own safety, declares that the Gingers need to
- 10:00Speaker 1: of in harmony with non Gingers. As you can probably
- 10:03Speaker 1: tell from the description, the episode caused some controversy, even
- 10:07Speaker 1: leading to the creation of National Kick of Ginger Day
- 10:10Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, and a handful of students
- 10:12Speaker 1: were assaulted, and in Canada it was investigated as a
- 10:15Speaker 1: hate crime. Yeah. Apparently, Soft Park creators Matt Stone and
- 10:19Speaker 1: Trey Parker were partially inspired to do this episode after
- 10:22Speaker 1: they saw billboard in England with a picture of a
- 10:24Speaker 1: redheaded woman that read only you can prevent ginger. Parker
- 10:29Speaker 1: also apparently broke up with a woman with red hair
- 10:31Speaker 1: because he didn't want redheaded children, and married an Asian
- 10:34Speaker 1: woman in part to make sure that he didn't have
- 10:36Speaker 1: any redheaded children. That's gross all around. Okay, studies have
- 10:41Speaker 1: found that redheaded children do experience low self esteem and
- 10:44Speaker 1: feelings of being the center of attention based on their hair. Yes, so, um,
- 10:50Speaker 1: let's talk about some fetishizing, sexualizing, and some troopes. So
- 10:55Speaker 1: when I was researching this, the first Google suggestion I
- 10:58Speaker 1: got was facts about redheads bed. Some European studies have
- 11:02Speaker 1: found that redheaded women have more sex than blonder, brown
- 11:04Speaker 1: haired women on average on an average week. But a
- 11:06Speaker 1: lot of stuff I found online was treating having sex
- 11:09Speaker 1: with a redheaded woman as a notch on your belt,
- 11:11Speaker 1: like a conquest of markoff, like Wendy was describing at
- 11:14Speaker 1: the top, especially a redhead with blue eyes, which is
- 11:17Speaker 1: apparently the rarest combination. And yeah, this fiery redhead trope
- 11:21Speaker 1: is everywhere. You've got Ginger from Gilligan's Island, you've got
- 11:25Speaker 1: Lily Potter and Jenny Weasley, and then on the other side,
- 11:28Speaker 1: of that, you have Fred and George representing the kind
- 11:30Speaker 1: of male redheaded clown stereotype, which we're gonna talk about
- 11:33Speaker 1: in a second. Um, And yeah, so much. In comics,
- 11:35Speaker 1: it's got Scarlet Witch, Mary, Jane Parker, Jean Gray, Natasha
- 11:37Speaker 1: Room and Off, Poison Ivy, Jessica Rabbit, Joan Harris, Slash
- 11:41Speaker 1: Holloway from Madman, Gemma Doyle, Rowena from Supernatural, Sarah c.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Willow from Buffy. So some of this is like the
- 11:49Speaker 1: witch stereotype as well. Lucile Ball, Pippi's longstocking, Annie and
- 11:54Speaker 1: Green Gables, Meridith from Brave. Um, there's a whole scene
- 11:57Speaker 1: where her mother covers her hair but a curl exclusive
- 12:00Speaker 1: it's symbolizing her untamable, wild, fiery, rebellious nature. And then
- 12:05Speaker 1: there's this quote from The Show Girls that girl wears
- 12:07Speaker 1: floor Kapris like her him is still attack but she's
- 12:09Speaker 1: such a slut in such a big way, a huge way.
- 12:11Speaker 1: She used to do this thing where she would literally
- 12:12Speaker 1: just rip the condom off of redhead. Seriously, I know redheads, right,
- 12:17Speaker 1: And yeah, we talked about that too, And like, what
- 12:19Speaker 1: was that movie season Surrounded and Share, which is of
- 12:23Speaker 1: Eastwick yes, we're in a lot of material like this.
- 12:26Speaker 1: There is like the blonde, the brunette in the Redhead,
- 12:29Speaker 1: and I was thinking of like kind of counter examples
- 12:32Speaker 1: because I was thinking about Sex in the City Samantha,
- 12:35Speaker 1: and I'm like, she doesn't really seem to fit this trope,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and then she has to temper though she does. So
- 12:42Speaker 1: I feel like there's so double whammy because yeah, you
- 12:44Speaker 1: have those characters that could be really fine, but then
- 12:47Speaker 1: you also see as the childhood innocence. Weirdly enough, because
- 12:50Speaker 1: Annie green Gables and Annie and people long Stocking were
- 12:54Speaker 1: endearing young mischievous children and curious children, but not necessarily
- 12:59Speaker 1: they were nothing sexual about them, So I think it's
- 13:02Speaker 1: and they one did have a really fiery temper, the
- 13:05Speaker 1: other two didn't. So it's kind of like, and I've
- 13:07Speaker 1: seen that as those two trips with like you see
- 13:09Speaker 1: it as young children, immature children, which can be bad
- 13:12Speaker 1: for men. I'm sure we're gonna talk about that, but
- 13:14Speaker 1: that kind of level too. Yeah, Yeah, it kind of
- 13:18Speaker 1: goes back to what I was saying, where it feels
- 13:20Speaker 1: like a choice, and the choice seems to be that
- 13:22Speaker 1: you are you've got fire in you, which I suppose
- 13:27Speaker 1: makes sense with the color, but is kind of troublesome,
- 13:29Speaker 1: problematic when that's all you see. But yeah, so. Meanwhile,
- 13:33Speaker 1: for dudes, the redhead trip usually means clownish, goofy, weak, ugly,
- 13:37Speaker 1: and or awkward. Right, so, redhead Tom Robbins wrote in
- 13:41Speaker 1: a n g Q essay quote, the harsh truth is
- 13:45Speaker 1: most red haired men look like blondes who spoiled from
- 13:48Speaker 1: lack of refrigeration. They look like brown haired men who've
- 13:51Speaker 1: been composted. Yet that same pigment that on a man
- 13:54Speaker 1: can resemble leaf mold or young yard rust a woman
- 13:57Speaker 1: wears like a tiara of rubies. A nineteen seventy eight
- 14:03Speaker 1: study into stereotypes around hair color found that men preferred blondes,
- 14:07Speaker 1: while women preferred dark haired men and reported disliking redheads.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Here is a quote. Researchers used an interview approach to
- 14:15Speaker 1: discover the cause of hostility towards redheads. Participants generally believed
- 14:19Speaker 1: that redheads were known for their flaring tempers. Furthermore, other
- 14:22Speaker 1: stereotypes of redheads included clown, weird, and wimpy men. Generally,
- 14:27Speaker 1: people perceive individuals with brown hair as normal. Interestingly, people
- 14:31Speaker 1: perceived brunette women as more competent and intelligent than blondes
- 14:35Speaker 1: and redheads. Yeah, and I'm assuming the study was very
- 14:38Speaker 1: white and obviously very heteronormative and h there are a
- 14:41Speaker 1: lot of tones of discrimination involved when it comes to
- 14:44Speaker 1: prejudices against Irish folks often associated with red hair. But
- 14:48Speaker 1: that is a bigger conversation than the one we are
- 14:50Speaker 1: having today. I just know. I read a bunch of
- 14:51Speaker 1: stuff about that, and another study using the same photo
- 14:56Speaker 1: of a woman but with different color hair, found that
- 14:59Speaker 1: blondes would consist judged as having less intelligence and redheads
- 15:02Speaker 1: consistently described as temperamental. Yes, and some have argued that
- 15:06Speaker 1: the reason for this difference between the hyper sexualized, fiery,
- 15:10Speaker 1: red headed woman and the emasculated redheaded man has to
- 15:13Speaker 1: do with our societal fears around around both of those things,
- 15:17Speaker 1: around women's sexuality and men being effeminine in any way,
- 15:22Speaker 1: that it's a way of mothering whiteness and projecting onto them.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Depending on where you are, the term ginger maybe used
- 15:28Speaker 1: as an insult. Sometimes people call this gingerism, and there
- 15:31Speaker 1: have been a lot of debates had around that also.
- 15:35Speaker 1: That is outside the scope of this episode. But just
- 15:37Speaker 1: to say that does exist. For the most part, redheads
- 15:41Speaker 1: seemed to go through stages of relationships with their hair color,
- 15:44Speaker 1: starting usually with feeling special and then feeling ridiculed, feeling
- 15:48Speaker 1: sexualized or de sexualized, and then acceptance and kind of
- 15:52Speaker 1: a love of of their hair. But we wanted to
- 15:55Speaker 1: talk to a source. Um one of my very best friends,
- 15:58Speaker 1: Katie also known as Redheaded Katie, and some of my
- 16:01Speaker 1: circles that differentiate between the Katies in my life because
- 16:04Speaker 1: I have known her for a very long time. I
- 16:07Speaker 1: have several Katies in your life. I do have several
- 16:09Speaker 1: Katies in my life, and it gets very confusing. And yeah,
- 16:12Speaker 1: I have been with Katie for a long time as
- 16:17Speaker 1: in terms of like friendships, and we've gone into a
- 16:19Speaker 1: lot of like she's come to family reunions with me, Um,
- 16:22Speaker 1: we've traveled together, and so I've seen a lot of
- 16:24Speaker 1: this play out. But we wanted to talk to her.
- 16:27Speaker 1: So here is a quick interview with Katie. Katie, it's
- 16:44Speaker 1: so good to see you again, Addie. It's so good
- 16:47Speaker 1: to see you. It's been so long. It has been
- 16:50Speaker 1: it feels like it has been, yes, because you were
- 16:52Speaker 1: on the show a while back to talk about pandemic dating,
- 16:56Speaker 1: and we had a great conversation, and now we wanted
- 16:58Speaker 1: to bring you back about your experience being a redhead
- 17:03Speaker 1: and particularly redheaded woman, dear, because this was a topic
- 17:07Speaker 1: that a listener requested and she had a lot of
- 17:09Speaker 1: her own thoughts and not so great experiences perhaps that
- 17:14Speaker 1: she shared with us, and I've been researching it and
- 17:17Speaker 1: we thought we would ask you because you are a
- 17:21Speaker 1: redheaded woman, I am yes, yes, And as I said
- 17:26Speaker 1: earlier in this episode, that's often how I differentiate you,
- 17:29Speaker 1: because I have a lot of Katie's in my life.
- 17:31Speaker 1: I will call you redheaded Katie. So if you could
- 17:34Speaker 1: just tell us how your experience has been, especially if
- 17:38Speaker 1: it's changed over the years, of like how being redheaded
- 17:42Speaker 1: impacted you as a child and then as you moved
- 17:44Speaker 1: into adulthood, if there's been any changes at all, Well,
- 17:47Speaker 1: it definitely affected me as a child, And when you
- 17:51Speaker 1: told me you were doing a red headed episode, I
- 17:52Speaker 1: was trying to think about this a lot. Like as
- 17:54Speaker 1: a kid, I definitely felt defined by red hair as
- 18:00Speaker 1: a child because it was the first thing people would
- 18:03Speaker 1: say when they saw me. That's one of my earliest
- 18:05Speaker 1: memories as people being like, oh, red hair, curly red hair. Oh,
- 18:09Speaker 1: you know, and I kind of learned to associate that
- 18:13Speaker 1: with myself, if that makes any sense. So when I
- 18:15Speaker 1: picture myself in my head, it was just like a
- 18:17Speaker 1: big ball of red hair, and like that was the
- 18:20Speaker 1: thing kids tease me about growing up, and that was
- 18:24Speaker 1: also the thing. It was just the first thing people noticed.
- 18:26Speaker 1: So it's definitely how I defined myself for a very
- 18:29Speaker 1: long time. And then, you know, becoming a teenager, I
- 18:34Speaker 1: think it became more sexualized of you know, I got
- 18:39Speaker 1: the question to do the carpet match the drapes? You know,
- 18:43Speaker 1: got that question a lot, which was just horrifying back then,
- 18:46Speaker 1: and now as an adult, I'd say it definitely I
- 18:50Speaker 1: still get the stereotypes, you know, people assuming things that
- 18:56Speaker 1: I have a temper, or that I'm why old in
- 19:00Speaker 1: bed or so. Yeah, i'd say that it's definitely painted
- 19:05Speaker 1: my experience throughout my entire life. Yeah. And I've known
- 19:10Speaker 1: you for quite a while as we as we talked about,
- 19:13Speaker 1: and I've seen these things and these comments people have
- 19:18Speaker 1: given you, And that's something else that a lot of
- 19:22Speaker 1: interviews and articles and listeners have written in about. It's
- 19:25Speaker 1: kind of like people feeling really comfortable to make comments
- 19:30Speaker 1: about your hair, assumptions about your hair, or touch your hair,
- 19:36Speaker 1: or like telling you not to dyet or like asking
- 19:39Speaker 1: you if you did diet if it's your natural hair. Absolutely,
- 19:43Speaker 1: and I've had hair people refused to dye my hair.
- 19:46Speaker 1: I feel like, really, yeah, we're not going to do it,
- 19:49Speaker 1: just straight up refused, which is nice because it'll be like,
- 19:51Speaker 1: it's such a pretty color, We're not going to press
- 19:53Speaker 1: that up for you. And I appreciate that, But sometimes
- 19:56Speaker 1: I'm just like, you know, dye my damn hair right, right,
- 20:01Speaker 1: because that's like I can't imagine that happening in too
- 20:04Speaker 1: many other cases. If you want to dye your hair
- 20:08Speaker 1: somebody being like no, no, no, not because it was
- 20:11Speaker 1: like me when I wanted to dye my hair like black,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and they're like, you're gonna have to go through several
- 20:16Speaker 1: steps if it's advice, like that would look terrible on you.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I think at one point I wanted to diet like
- 20:23Speaker 1: blue with white tips. You know, she might have saved
- 20:29Speaker 1: me there. Yes, So you did mention some of the
- 20:33Speaker 1: stereotypes that you've gotten of, like you know, feeling are
- 20:37Speaker 1: people saying stuff like fiery and then people assuming you're
- 20:41Speaker 1: wild in bed. When I was researching this, those are
- 20:44Speaker 1: two the very first things that came up when Google
- 20:47Speaker 1: was like did you mean this, and it was things
- 20:50Speaker 1: like yeah, wire it had so angry or wire right,
- 20:56Speaker 1: had so wild in bed? Or how to sleep at
- 21:01Speaker 1: the right head, basically like conquests. Oh god, Yeah, I mean,
- 21:05Speaker 1: is that something you've ever experienced, like feeling really sexualized
- 21:08Speaker 1: or getting this unwanted sexual attention. Absolutely, especially as a
- 21:13Speaker 1: teenager when I wasn't comfortable with my sexuality yet and
- 21:18Speaker 1: I was still in that very vulnerable stage. That's when
- 21:21Speaker 1: I feel like I was sexualized most, which is in
- 21:25Speaker 1: retrospect really disgusting. Um, but yeah, that's when people felt,
- 21:32Speaker 1: I guess most open to just ask me any type
- 21:36Speaker 1: of question or assume anything. But yeah, I mean I
- 21:39Speaker 1: get that all the time, the whole until you have
- 21:42Speaker 1: a temper, you know, and right are you wild? And
- 21:46Speaker 1: I'm just like, man, I'm a person, I don't know,
- 21:51Speaker 1: but yeah, I definitely have felt I mean, even now
- 21:55Speaker 1: being on tender and Bumble, It's still the thing that
- 22:00Speaker 1: I get the most comments on is oh, I love
- 22:01Speaker 1: your red hair. I love your red hair, and I
- 22:05Speaker 1: don't mind that, Like I don't want to sound spoiled
- 22:09Speaker 1: or like I don't like those compliments, because I definitely do.
- 22:13Speaker 1: It's just at some point it's felt like my hair
- 22:17Speaker 1: has become the focal point of my entire being, you
- 22:20Speaker 1: know what I mean? Right, going back to that defining you,
- 22:24Speaker 1: but that especially, I mean I relate to that, especially
- 22:27Speaker 1: as a child, because that was the thing people always
- 22:31Speaker 1: called out. So I kind of just I kind of
- 22:34Speaker 1: just became red hair. Like I often think about who
- 22:36Speaker 1: would I be without it? I think I would be
- 22:39Speaker 1: completely different. I really do. Yeah, that's interesting because especially
- 22:45Speaker 1: like you were talking about, and I think a lot
- 22:46Speaker 1: of people when I was researching this talked about something
- 22:49Speaker 1: similar when they were a child, especially of getting like
- 22:52Speaker 1: teased by kids but being told by adults like oh
- 22:56Speaker 1: it's so beautiful. Yeah. Absolutely, kids are mean kids. They
- 23:01Speaker 1: called they called me big fat, freckle faced in first
- 23:04Speaker 1: grade terrible. I remember one of my quote unquote friends
- 23:10Speaker 1: got the whole class to chant it at me, and
- 23:11Speaker 1: I started crying. That's awful. I wish I had been there,
- 23:18Speaker 1: even though I don't think we were friends. You probably,
- 23:25Speaker 1: but I mean, kids can be cruel. So yeah, and
- 23:29Speaker 1: then now now I think I feel it more as
- 23:33Speaker 1: a conquest. I also definitely feel like this weird expectation
- 23:38Speaker 1: of I have to live up to this idea that
- 23:40Speaker 1: I'm wild in bed, and it's like I'm not a
- 23:43Speaker 1: cold fish. But what if what if I don't meet
- 23:47Speaker 1: those expectations, like I'm going up against this super version
- 23:52Speaker 1: of myself? Mm hmmm mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that's a
- 23:57Speaker 1: good point. And it's especially if if I don't. I
- 24:02Speaker 1: don't have like any numbers or anything to back this up.
- 24:04Speaker 1: But of people saying, you know, I feel fetishized or
- 24:07Speaker 1: it does become like it's just a conquest. Where do
- 24:09Speaker 1: you just just want to mark this off? Okay, I've
- 24:13Speaker 1: had sex with the wild Redhead and that's not That
- 24:18Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure. That's not a great way
- 24:19Speaker 1: to feel. It's really not great. I have kind of
- 24:24Speaker 1: a random question for you. Have you have you seen
- 24:29Speaker 1: or ever encountered the whole South Park episode about Ginger Vitus. Yeah,
- 24:37Speaker 1: it's been a long time, but yeah I remember that one. Yeah,
- 24:41Speaker 1: because a lot of people wrote in about how that
- 24:43Speaker 1: impacted them as a kid, like people shouting, you know,
- 24:46Speaker 1: you have no soul or oh yeah, and I still
- 24:51Speaker 1: get that. I still get that like a pickup line
- 24:54Speaker 1: of well, are you gonna take my soul? Or I know,
- 24:58Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh, man, come on, give me something
- 25:01Speaker 1: better to work with. But yeah, that's definitely And I
- 25:06Speaker 1: think as a kid, it was probably worse because I
- 25:08Speaker 1: wasn't allowed to watch South Park, so I didn't even
- 25:11Speaker 1: I didn't know what it was referencing or anything. It
- 25:14Speaker 1: was just suddenly people were saying that to me, and
- 25:18Speaker 1: you know, like each freckle on my body is a
- 25:20Speaker 1: soul that I've stolen. And yeah, and that's That's another
- 25:28Speaker 1: thing I was thinking about, is I feel like in
- 25:31Speaker 1: our media there's a dichotomy of the sexy, fiery redhead
- 25:36Speaker 1: who's usually a woman or a lady's yeah, the very
- 25:41Speaker 1: awkward clown who is the dude who's like de sexualized
- 25:46Speaker 1: on the opposite end. Yes, And then it's odd how
- 25:52Speaker 1: common it is, because I feel like when you in
- 25:54Speaker 1: our entertainment, at least, when you make someone redheaded, it
- 25:56Speaker 1: is a choice, like you are communicating, oh, she is fery,
- 26:01Speaker 1: or with the dude, oh he's funny and has trouble,
- 26:04Speaker 1: like awkward getting I'm going to add one more layer
- 26:10Speaker 1: to that and say, there are a lot of redheaded
- 26:12Speaker 1: villains too, a lot of redheaded stepchildren. I mean, I
- 26:19Speaker 1: think of Disney movies, the bad character is always the
- 26:22Speaker 1: red head. Yeah, the evil character, the annoying, like mean
- 26:28Speaker 1: bully character. Think about it. There's a lot there is.
- 26:34Speaker 1: I was also thinking about there's a lot of if
- 26:37Speaker 1: you just think about comics, there's a lot of like
- 26:41Speaker 1: redhead comics superheroes. For like the small percentage of redheads
- 26:48Speaker 1: that they were in the population, they were very represented,
- 26:52Speaker 1: and they have great bodies as well. What is that about?
- 26:55Speaker 1: Of course, of course they do. But did that when
- 27:00Speaker 1: it when you're growing up, and like even now, when
- 27:02Speaker 1: you see somebody has red hair, like man or woman,
- 27:05Speaker 1: do you have kind of like any knee jerk reactions
- 27:08Speaker 1: or thoughts. I mean, well, this is my personal joke,
- 27:13Speaker 1: but whenever I see another redhead, I I say to myself,
- 27:15Speaker 1: I gotta fight him. I gotta I gotta fight him.
- 27:18Speaker 1: I gotta fight that, right, especially if it's a lady,
- 27:20Speaker 1: I gotta fighter No, I don't really, but yeah, it
- 27:24Speaker 1: is kind of indeed jerk reaction of just oh, it's
- 27:27Speaker 1: terrible but my immediate inclination is to be like another redhead,
- 27:33Speaker 1: and that's terrible. I don't really know why. Um, I
- 27:38Speaker 1: guess because you know, you get so used to being
- 27:42Speaker 1: singled out for it that you see another one and
- 27:44Speaker 1: it's like a weird competition almost ginger boys. And I'm
- 28:02Speaker 1: allowed to say ginger because I am a redhead. Because
- 28:06Speaker 1: my brother is a redhead, I think, and I grew
- 28:08Speaker 1: up with him, and because we had a very contentious relationship,
- 28:11Speaker 1: I tend to not be attracted to redheaded men, and
- 28:15Speaker 1: that I made a vow with myself a long time
- 28:17Speaker 1: ago that I would never marry or procreate with a
- 28:21Speaker 1: red headed man, which, knock on wood, everything I've said
- 28:24Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do, I've done, so it could very
- 28:26Speaker 1: well happen. But I definitely feel like a knee jerk.
- 28:33Speaker 1: I just no, just there's nothing there when I see
- 28:38Speaker 1: a redheaded guy, right, And that is something else I
- 28:42Speaker 1: kind of wanted to wrap up this whole conversation with
- 28:45Speaker 1: because you also have curly hair, yes, and I have.
- 28:53Speaker 1: You know, it's not it's not un normal. Normal is
- 28:57Speaker 1: not a word of it, but I'm using it to
- 29:01Speaker 1: I want to like change your hair, are are do
- 29:03Speaker 1: different things with your hair. I think a lot of
- 29:05Speaker 1: us go through that stage where I wanted curly hair.
- 29:07Speaker 1: At one point, I wanted to red hair, at one point,
- 29:09Speaker 1: I wanted to dye my hair all kinds of colors um.
- 29:12Speaker 1: And I've seen that in you as well, and a
- 29:14Speaker 1: lot of people I've I've researched about, which sounds so
- 29:17Speaker 1: weird because you're my friend and I keep talking about
- 29:18Speaker 1: all this research I've done, But I have said that
- 29:21Speaker 1: they kind of went through stages of, you know, being
- 29:25Speaker 1: the kid who had this sort of being defined by it,
- 29:29Speaker 1: and then getting older and if you're a woman, being
- 29:31Speaker 1: sexualized by it, and then because of that, like wanting
- 29:35Speaker 1: to change your hair for some reason or feeling like
- 29:38Speaker 1: some kind of resentment around it, and then coming around
- 29:41Speaker 1: to you know, accepting it. And I don't know if
- 29:45Speaker 1: you've had a similar journey. I just know that, like recently,
- 29:48Speaker 1: you've gone with curly hair, and I'm just curious if
- 29:53Speaker 1: any of that resonates with you, if you've had a
- 29:55Speaker 1: similar kind of experience. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean for
- 29:59Speaker 1: a long time, especially i'd probably say high school, I
- 30:03Speaker 1: really hated my hair and I hated its curliness. I
- 30:06Speaker 1: hated it's freeziness. But I didn't know how to style it,
- 30:09Speaker 1: and my mom didn't know how to style it, so
- 30:11Speaker 1: I just always put it up in this really awkward
- 30:12Speaker 1: ponytail with my really awkward glasses. Like it was a
- 30:16Speaker 1: whole nerdy food going on school. Quite the pair. But yeah,
- 30:27Speaker 1: I definitely I straightened my hair all the time. I
- 30:32Speaker 1: straightened it every day if I could. I hated the
- 30:36Speaker 1: curl and it took a long I mean it was
- 30:40Speaker 1: only recently. It was only really quarantine is when I
- 30:44Speaker 1: made the decision, Okay, I am not going to straighten
- 30:46Speaker 1: my hair anymore, because you know, then it was the
- 30:50Speaker 1: ugly phase was easier to hide because we were all inside.
- 30:54Speaker 1: But it definitely went through an adjustment ugly phase for sure.
- 30:57Speaker 1: But yeah, I definitely had to have like a reckoning
- 31:01Speaker 1: with my hair and just come to terms with it
- 31:04Speaker 1: being curly in red and embrace it a little bit.
- 31:07Speaker 1: And I think I have Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's
- 31:13Speaker 1: only taken thirty two years, you know, to like my hair.
- 31:18Speaker 1: But it kind of sucks, you know, because still I
- 31:20Speaker 1: feel so defined by my hair that if it doesn't
- 31:24Speaker 1: look good and I mean this is everyone. I'm not
- 31:28Speaker 1: the only one who's like, if my hair doesn't look good,
- 31:30Speaker 1: look great, you know. But there's definitely a lot, a
- 31:34Speaker 1: lot of confidence and vanity and self worth tied into
- 31:40Speaker 1: my hair. Yeah, maybe more so than others. I can't
- 31:43Speaker 1: say that for sure, but maybe. Yeah. I mean that
- 31:46Speaker 1: makes sense to me because if if it is, you're
- 31:49Speaker 1: defining trait in a lot of ways of when people
- 31:52Speaker 1: see you, that's what they comment on, then it does
- 31:55Speaker 1: feel like a really a big attention getter. Yeah. Yeah,
- 32:00Speaker 1: it's just is it a bad thing? Is that a
- 32:02Speaker 1: bad thing to have your hair be? You're defining quality?
- 32:05Speaker 1: Like I feel like if you really go deep down
- 32:09Speaker 1: into it, yes, I would say so too. I mean
- 32:15Speaker 1: a lot of people were saying that, like and kind
- 32:17Speaker 1: of what you said earlier. You know, I'm just a person.
- 32:20Speaker 1: We have these stereotypes about all kinds of hair colors,
- 32:22Speaker 1: like whether it's the dumb blonde stereotype or fornets. It's
- 32:27Speaker 1: usually like frudes but competent um. And there's you know,
- 32:32Speaker 1: varying levels of harmfulness at these stereotypes. But at the
- 32:34Speaker 1: end of the day, there's still stereotypes, And like we
- 32:37Speaker 1: are people, and hair color doesn't really right right. I
- 32:44Speaker 1: don't think redheads are actually angrier, and I don't think
- 32:48Speaker 1: they're actually more wild. And then we need to sell
- 32:53Speaker 1: Google that we need to get Google in the case. Ye,
- 32:57Speaker 1: and let me tell you how to sleep with the redhead.
- 32:59Speaker 1: I can tell you have a good sense of humor,
- 33:02Speaker 1: make some jokes, you know, don't do any of the
- 33:05Speaker 1: crappy pickup lines, and whatever you do, don't ask about
- 33:09Speaker 1: the carpet. And if you're going to say anything, just
- 33:13Speaker 1: just say you like the hair. Don't make it a
- 33:16Speaker 1: big thing. I think that's excellent advice. And I think
- 33:21Speaker 1: I think you could probably put that advice to everyone,
- 33:25Speaker 1: like I can't. It's wild to me that people feel
- 33:28Speaker 1: comfortable asking about that, Like why would you ask about
- 33:30Speaker 1: someone's pubic air? I don't know. I know, especially in
- 33:34Speaker 1: high school when I was like, you know, horrified by
- 33:37Speaker 1: body hair and I didn't know what to do with it,
- 33:40Speaker 1: and then some guy coming up to me and ask
- 33:43Speaker 1: me that. I was just like like what do I
- 33:46Speaker 1: say here? Conversation killing? And now now I'm just like
- 33:52Speaker 1: I just look at him, like really, how old are you?
- 33:56Speaker 1: How old are you? And what am I doing here?
- 33:58Speaker 1: And how do I get out of this? Goodbye? Goodbye
- 34:04Speaker 1: sor yeah, I mean there's just a lot to unpack
- 34:09Speaker 1: unpacked with that, because I can see how that would
- 34:12Speaker 1: turn into for me a kind of a negative association
- 34:16Speaker 1: and feeling this is getting me attention I don't want
- 34:19Speaker 1: and having that turn inwards. And I did go through
- 34:23Speaker 1: that stage too, for sure, internalized it and tried to
- 34:29Speaker 1: make myself smaller or you know, more mousey to not
- 34:33Speaker 1: get that kind of attention, kind of a combat which
- 34:37Speaker 1: that was. That was the only attention back then I
- 34:40Speaker 1: was getting because I was so awkward and nerdy that
- 34:46Speaker 1: the only like sexualized attention I was getting was people
- 34:50Speaker 1: asking about the carpet and the drapes, always that terminology
- 34:55Speaker 1: as well, always, So it was just very I don't know.
- 35:00Speaker 1: It made me feel very torn and I probably had
- 35:03Speaker 1: to work through some weird issues because of that, for sure.
- 35:08Speaker 1: For sure. Well, I was gonna ask, do you have
- 35:13Speaker 1: a favorite, uh like fictional character that has red hair? Oh? Um,
- 35:21Speaker 1: of course I'm blanking on every fictional character now, I'm
- 35:27Speaker 1: sure I do. I there's name some red headed characters
- 35:31Speaker 1: for me. All I can think of is Blossom from
- 35:33Speaker 1: the Powerpuff Girls, and she was not my favorite power
- 35:35Speaker 1: puff girl. Who is your favorite power puff Girl? I
- 35:38Speaker 1: really liked Bubbles, Okay, Buttercup was okay, Like I like
- 35:46Speaker 1: that she was tough, But I guess I liked Bubbles.
- 35:50Speaker 1: I mean, Blossom was just so she was kind of bossy. Yeah,
- 35:55Speaker 1: well that's an interesting thing too, is I feel like
- 35:57Speaker 1: I'm in a lot of media we consume there's always
- 36:00Speaker 1: like the blonde, the brunette, the redheads, sometimes the personal
- 36:06Speaker 1: black hair, and they do have kind of these stereotypes
- 36:10Speaker 1: that we associate with I find very funny. But Bubbles
- 36:14Speaker 1: is kind of a great example of like the ditzy blond.
- 36:17Speaker 1: But I mean, I love Bob, but that's just another
- 36:20Speaker 1: example of that. Oh it even works more into the stereotype,
- 36:25Speaker 1: doesn't And Buttercup is really tough with her black hair.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Examples of redheads being kind of the bossy of that
- 36:39Speaker 1: like hair dynamic, because I was thinking of some that
- 36:42Speaker 1: don't necessarily fit the trope, but they almost always have
- 36:45Speaker 1: like a temperament, like a temperamental or fiery or something
- 36:51Speaker 1: something defined by that quality for sure. Yes, yes, I
- 36:55Speaker 1: really can't think of any other redheads. This is driving
- 36:57Speaker 1: me crazy. Well I could, I can list a fee.
- 37:00Speaker 1: But you like to eat a green Gables going up?
- 37:02Speaker 1: Didn't you anna green Gables? I My mom read that
- 37:06Speaker 1: to me growing up. So it's like a kind of
- 37:08Speaker 1: a nostalgia thing. But I was never like I never
- 37:13Speaker 1: really related to her or felt a kin chip with Anne. Unfortunately,
- 37:19Speaker 1: she was very dreamy. She like she was such a dreamer.
- 37:23Speaker 1: I don't know, child, how dare you? Well, there's a
- 37:32Speaker 1: bunch of like comic book characters, as I said, you
- 37:35Speaker 1: got your casp characters in Harry Potter. Uh, a bunch
- 37:40Speaker 1: of witches. A bunch of witches have red hair. That's
- 37:42Speaker 1: another trope, the red hair. Um, that one makes sense
- 37:48Speaker 1: to me. It seems about right. Well, that's okay. I
- 37:54Speaker 1: was just checking if there was one that you were like, ah, this,
- 37:58Speaker 1: this character. Didn't Kim Possible have red hair? I never
- 38:03Speaker 1: watched Kim Possible. But this is going off the rails.
- 38:09Speaker 1: She was supposed to be kind of bad, so maybe
- 38:11Speaker 1: her like that. How about I Got you? I Got
- 38:15Speaker 1: you Sortia from Willow movie. That's a good one. That's
- 38:22Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. Maybe like
- 38:29Speaker 1: two people that will get that. Yeah, two people will
- 38:34Speaker 1: get that one. And then you named a character I'm
- 38:36Speaker 1: a show you've never seen, but all right, cool, I'm
- 38:39Speaker 1: great at this. Yes. Now. The thing is is I
- 38:42Speaker 1: looked up before because looking up costumes for Dragon Con,
- 38:46Speaker 1: I just googled like redheaded characters and there there's like
- 38:51Speaker 1: a whole list. What's the one I always get Jessica Rabbit. Yeah,
- 38:55Speaker 1: I always get Jessica Rabbit. Every single guy I've ever
- 38:58Speaker 1: talked to Jessica Rabbit when you ask for costume suggestions, yes,
- 39:05Speaker 1: or just talking about Halloween or anything of that sort.
- 39:10Speaker 1: Will you be just a rabbit? Were you ever just
- 39:12Speaker 1: a rabbit? Yeah? And she's super sexualized for she was
- 39:19Speaker 1: an awakening for a lot of people. I think that
- 39:23Speaker 1: movie terrified me, so I haven't seen it since. But
- 39:25Speaker 1: oh it's horrifying. One of the most horrifying movies. It's
- 39:29Speaker 1: up there with Watership Down. I'm never going to watch again.
- 39:32Speaker 1: That's also a huge That is a cartoon, British cartoon
- 39:37Speaker 1: from the seventies listeners and it is terrifying, horrifying. Nine
- 39:41Speaker 1: years but yes, well that's pretty telling to I do
- 39:47Speaker 1: have one more thing I want to say that kind
- 39:50Speaker 1: of pain. In my experience as a redhead is dad
- 39:54Speaker 1: did not do me any of My dad's a redhead
- 39:56Speaker 1: as well, and he did not do any favors and
- 39:58Speaker 1: telling me when I was very very young, and you
- 40:00Speaker 1: know this, I've told you this, he told me that
- 40:03Speaker 1: all redheads were aliens, are part alien. And I believed
- 40:09Speaker 1: that for an embarrassing amount of time because he was like,
- 40:15Speaker 1: redheads are weird, Katie, We're a weird but and I
- 40:21Speaker 1: really like it. Definitely painted how I looked at other
- 40:26Speaker 1: redheads too. I still have a little bit of ingrained
- 40:30Speaker 1: in me of when I see other people being like,
- 40:33Speaker 1: I know you're weird, I know you're weird. Is in
- 40:37Speaker 1: there alien or something? He probably didn't do me any
- 40:41Speaker 1: favors with that. Yeah, but here we are here, We
- 40:45Speaker 1: are here. We are on a podcast working through issues. Yep,
- 40:50Speaker 1: like we do free therapy, man, free therapy. That's what
- 40:53Speaker 1: I'm here for. That's what we're all here for. That's
- 40:56Speaker 1: why I'm your friend. The only reason for well perfect,
- 41:00Speaker 1: We're not in the fame or you seeing each other
- 41:03Speaker 1: then like good friends do. Yes, Well, thank you so
- 41:08Speaker 1: much for for dropping by. You're welcome anytime. No, thank
- 41:12Speaker 1: you for having me. I can't wait to see you again.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Yeah me, me too. Annie is always good talking to you.
- 41:19Speaker 1: So that brings us to the end of our interview
- 41:21Speaker 1: portion of this show. Um, we would love to hear
- 41:25Speaker 1: from any any listeners who have experiences with red hair
- 41:30Speaker 1: or any hair color at all. Really, we always hearing
- 41:33Speaker 1: from you. You can email us at stuff Media, mom
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