Mike Duven
George Michael "Mike" Duven, known as WHAMbarber, is a Salt Lake City barber and owner of God Shave the Queen, a barbershop serving the city's LGBTQ+ community, and a recurring guest on the X-Men podcast Graymalkin Lane.
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PODCASTS
Oct 5, 2026
Mike DuvenGUEST
After our pleasant vacation at Cassidy Keep, it will be good to get into action once more.
7 MINS LATER
Mike DuvenGUEST
I must return to the fight, but as Magneto said, my mutant form is steel, and that puts me at the mercy.
Mike DuvenGUEST
In my human form, I'm safe, but useless to my fellow X-Men, which leaves me no choice.
Chad AndersonHOST
[Irish accent] "Hooters or torches, hey to her to here to here." [laughs] It's just-
Mike DuvenGUEST
No, he's just getting into big brother mode, protecting his friends, sticking up for them, picking fights with Wolverine and getting thrown into a wall.
ChadHOST
[laughs]
Mike DuvenGUEST
And I will say there is that whole school of thought of the people most focused on trying to take away f- people's rights are sometimes involved in that said, you know, kind of community.
Mike DuvenGUEST
And so all of the very Republican, anti-LGBTQIA+ stuff that gets put together and you have things revealed about their actual queer, you know, like, kind of past or queer f-... future.
Mike DuvenGUEST
I, so I feel like it's a very real thing that the people having these conversations are sometimes very much involved, whether they are publicly or privately talking about it, into that community.
13 MINS LATER
ChadHOST
[laughs]