Scissors in front of a pile of grey and black hair. Digital render by Jeff Emtman. Scissor model by sweedboy69 used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

*Rocky Villanueva in his Berlin apartment. Photo by Jeff Emtman.*

During a moment of personal turmoil, Rocky Villanueva gets an email from a long-time client. His client is in his final weeks of life, and is getting his last wishes taken care of. One of those wishes: to look like himself when he dies.

Rocky says that many hairdressers and barbers have similar experiences: helping their clients through the last stages of life and letting them look the way they want to look for a final time.

Rocky packs his haircutting tools and bikes across Berlin to spend an hour with his client, giving him a haircut and receiving advice on love and grief.

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Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: The Black Spot, Serocell, Phantom Fauna

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Season 10 of Here Be Monsters starts and host Jeff Emtman hallucinates his adolescence while working long hours. Scenes from middle school dances, dawn bus rides, the basement, and ( most crucially), a late-night raffle at a hardware store.

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Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: Serocell and The Black Spot

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