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Hey, brother, the beard looks like it keeps you nice
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it does, I'm gonna shave it in a minute.
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So I feel like I feel,
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I feel pretty naked and cold without it.
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Well, it, it kind of reminded me,
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like I read something about a sweater made of human hair going
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viral, like beard hair or like,
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yeah, like, like like human hair,
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you know, like it's like a,
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a sweater like this.
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But imagine it having like human hair.
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Is that like weird or I mean,
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it's interesting. Would you wear it?
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I mean, we wear like other stuff made of fur and
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stuff. So it's kind of the same.
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It's interesting, right.
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I've never heard of such a thing,
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but we have Nicolas Rivero from the Washington Post here to give
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us the scoop on this human hair sweater.
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Thank you for having me.
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Hey, Nico. she saw me with a,
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a sweater made of human hair.
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So there's a start up out of the Netherlands that is working
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on making fabric for clothing could also be like for furniture or
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other kind of textiles out of human hair?
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Wow. And why are people trying to make,
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you know, sweaters or fabric out of human hair?
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The woman who started the start up,
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her name is Sophia Collar.
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And basically she was at the barbershop at the hair salon and
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she was looking at all of the hair that was getting swept
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away into the trash and thinking there's probably a way to use
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this this thing that we think of as waste in
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a way that is more sustainable than just sending it into a
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landfill or into a trash incinerator.
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I saw an estimate that it's something like 32 tons of human
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hair getting thrown out every day,
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like just in the US and Canada.
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So it's a lot of this stuff and if you could figure
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out something to do with it,
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you could avoid a lot of waste and potentially do something
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interesting with it.
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Like make clothing out of it.
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Interesting. Have you tried on one of these sweaters?
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I have not. So she's over there in the Netherlands.
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But I have seen pictures of some of the fabrics they've
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made and some of the clothes they've made out of it and
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it is freaky almost how normal they look like.
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This doesn't look like something very out of the ordinary.
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It looks like any other kind of piece of fabric made out
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of wool or cotton or something like this.
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she, she tells me it basically feels like wool.
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I mean, I feel like I've,
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you know, people recycling water bottles and it's like stuff that
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doesn't look like a water bottle.
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So I'm like, there's a water bottle in there,
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you know, or made out of water bottle was somehow decomposed
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So II, I can see that.
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it's not just like raw human hair.
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Like she, the whole innovation here is she's finding ways to
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process the hair and basically treat it with chemicals.
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So it changes a little bit the texture so that she can
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work with it. Like in a spinning,
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she can spin the thread and the,
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and they can dye any color and basically treat it like any
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other kind of thread.
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That's cool. And be honest.
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Do you think people actually go for these sweaters?
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I feel like right off the bat human hair sweaters.
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Do you think people are gonna be like,
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ah, what do you think it's a little more expensive to
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make this fabric anyway?
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Because she's just starting it out.
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she's doing a super small batches.
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So it's like more expensive than working with wool or cotton or
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polyester. So that's a barrier.
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But the way she's trying to deal with it is her first
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launch of clothing made out of this material is with this kind
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of high end fashion house where,
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you know, they're basically using this as a selling point to
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say, like if you want to be sustainable,
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if you want a really interesting piece of clothing that's also
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a conversation starter, then you can buy this and that's kind
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of a foothold to show,
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you know, kind of a proof of concept this could work
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and then just trying to expand it out from there.
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Oh, that's interesting.
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Well, I can't wait to see where it may go and
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to see other brands probably incorporate this new,
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you know, form of making fabric.
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That's awesome. And thank you so much.
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And where can we find you?
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Oh, yeah, I'm on Twitter at Nicolas F Rivera or
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I'm at the Washington Post.
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You can find me here writing about climate change solutions like sweaters
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made out of human hair and other things that are a little
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more normal. You said Nicholas foo,
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you're a fool. Yeah,
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exactly. My middle name is Fsia,
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but the whole thing didn't fit.
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So I just have to what?
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Oh, ok. I like that.
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That awesome cool Nicolas.
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Well, we'll keep an eye on this and hopefully next time
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we see you might be rocking the sweater yourself and you know
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we'll get your own va review.
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It's the next hot thing.
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Thank you, Nicholas.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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