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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When a group of broke college students start throwing lavish feasts, HBM host Jeff Emtman begins to wonder at the source of the food, initially assuming it was stolen. But he’s soon corrected. Confronted with the shocking amount of food waste in the local dumpsters, he quickly turns into a freegan dumpster diving evangelist, but is often thwarted by an angry employee of a local produce stand. An employee whose face is always hidden by a bright headlamp.

Content Note: Language and descriptions of violence.

These encounters rattle him, making it hard for him to separate reality from his recurring night terrors about the incidents. But, years later, and more than a hundred of miles away, he has an encounter in a chocolate dumpster which cures him of those nightmares.

Many thanks to Jesse Chappelle and Hallie Sloan, who helped in the research of this episode.

Producer: Jeff Emtman
Music: Serocell, August Friis, The Black Spot

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