Tom's Beard

After leaving CNET, Tom Merritt decided to grow a beard, partially as a throwback to Conan O'Brien. Much like Justin's beard, Tom's beard developed a following and even became self-aware enough to tweet. However, UNLIKE Justin's beard, Tom has never shaved his beard off entirely, only trimmed it.

In NSFW #26, Justin pitched a video of Tom's beard set to "Relax" as the next new Rick Roll. Brian immediately tried to compare Tom to Radiohead's Thom Yorke. Both of them ended up getting booed by the chat room.

Oddly enough, the album art for Tech News Today features a clean-shaven Tom as opposed to bearded Tom. Tom has yet to appear on Tech News Today without a beard.