Splitting hares the hairdresser's podcast starts now Featuring Matt Beck Christina Cavalcanti, Brian Hair, Brea Bolland, Thaddeus Bolland, and Scott Matt Beck from Free Salon Education comm here with splitting hairs episode 93 Wow 93 you know it's 90 was like another number after almost a hundred. Yes. Hello to everyone live Jose is here Anna Cyprian Teresa Teresa lots of peeps Andre Joe mama. So and once again my computer is paused on Rod Lobster Crabfest Trust me. I worked there. It's appropriate. Well, we got we got Brian hair. Hi Jaya Bolland Justin Scott not here Christina Cavalcanti and And at that Bolognized that can you turn my mic up just a little bit? Thanks, pal. How's that? That's great. All right, so if that stepped up his golfing game on Monday By the way, yeah 36 Strokes on the first hole. Hey, that's good. Most of the holes I shot under 10.  That's a spider hanging? Um, how long did it take us to play? Yeah, well It's a very short course and we took about four hours Was it 18? It was 18 holes. Yeah, but Brian. Yeah, that took us six hours last year Yeah Out there Looking for his ball the whole time But anyway, so we had so we had a good time this weekend Did you guys do anything anything fun? No, my best friend was in town. So we just kind of hung out now the town red right on I did the same. I hung out with my best friend. You just are you still recovering from the mud run? No, I'm done recovering. How long ago was that was that two weeks ago? It'll be three weeks over the Sunday time flies. So all right, cool. And we uh, so I had a good weekend too, Matt. You did I knew I knew you had a good weekend Yeah So, uh, so thank you to millennium systems international And demandforce.com slash free salon education minerva beauty.com Check out their awesome stations around this area here cutting tables Cutting tables and and the chairs that we're sitting in thank you to them for all of that And super silk get that right on freesaloneducation.com. You can check out the videos It's a new product that I'm promoting and working with on developing their education and website And you guys played along with that as well. So Check out those videos on super silk.us and you can order the product on freesaloneducation.com We also have some new stuff on the shop that's back. Let's not call it new. Let's say it's return. Guess who's back? So we have uh, we got a new shipment in of combs and clips and different things from ys park So those are available on freesaloneducation.com as well. Matt, would you say they can buy a comb and you can buy a comb Yeah, they can buy please everyone go buy a comb but we have so we have all kinds cool selection Do we have the teasing comb back the teasing comb? I have yeah, there is uh four of them That wasn't part of the first order, but we do have some available right now. Okay, cool. Because I need another one Okay, cool. I melted the last one. Uh, I melted the Comb part. How'd you do that? I don't know like it hit an iron or something and like to section the hair with It's like all melty and like sharp and that's weird. I thought that they were The rest of the combs are that sounds like a prison It's really sharp. I discovered that on sunday night. Yeah, can I get that? Yeah, so I'll have to check that out because first I I wouldn't think that and I uh, A comb like that would would have anything to do with the heat Well, I know these one resistant, but you can't put it in the middle of the flat iron and close it Yeah, these ones are good to 428 degrees Fahrenheit. What are you ironing with? 220 Celsius an exhaust pipe We're using a blowtorch. She's just wrapping the hair around the palm of the iron don't even get that No, they don't I maybe it who knows maybe you got a clamp down on there, but we'll figure it out Maybe I just got a dud. We'll take a look. Yeah, you got it. So you got the sy park codes I just yeah, I just want to say in uh in the chat room here We've got some of our european friends suggesting that we do episode 100 over there by them Yes, and they were coming visit us. Yeah, and I was like wait rather than just asking them to sponsor it Let's start a Kickstarter on that. We got seven episodes to try Hey guys, how bad do you want us to take this show to europe for one episode? Yeah, since our european friends seem to love us the most I would love you. You will bring you combs, right? Man, maybe we should come to combs and t-shirts We'll have a whole booth there and people want to know if you are going to be selling hats since We are i'm working on it, but they have to everyone, but jay is wearing one, but I can't oh my god There's a spider. He's hanging out. It's charlotte. Did you kill him? No, he's still alive.  He kills everything else. Okay. Well, so we are going to uh We may do hats. I if we do hats, they have to be you should do a bucket cooler on the top of it instead of in the front of it Yeah, well, we'll figure it out, but it's a possibility. We'll say I need to hat She's the only one right. I'm sure it does even Christina's got one. Yeah. I always wear a hat I like how the sip sip Christina has a sweet hat on right now sip refer to you as underscore steenie and not Christina Christina you want to trade hats? No, I love my hat. I love your hat, too I don't even know what your hat is. It's the fsc hat. Oh, I have them at home now So I have one of those All right, so we got a bunch of a bunch of stuff to talk about I guess we have draes tressies We got justins uh sharing some social um images news news and such And brian social media stuff and some questions that we got straight up off of uh everything insta instagram and uh some other stuff and that's how you will spin the wheel So if you have not gone on to instagram and posted a question now's the chan now's the chime Wait, did you put the instagram one up today? Yeah, I did but I did it like an hour ago. So gotcha So get on it now and you're gonna have a really good chance. Yeah. Yeah, so go check that out Um, all right, let's kick it off with the news with justin scott. Sure And now now I have some fantastic news of my own before getting all these amazing photos I found okay I decided to try a new app on my phone. I was like I see everybody like posting video apps Like let me try one. So I got one called insta shot. Okay. It looks like a little instagram logo in a red box And uh, it's a video editor. So I take this video with some haircut. I one of the hair cuts I did yesterday and yesterday was awesome It was like nothing but men's cuts. I got that app. I want to know how it is actually It's all it's awesome. So I didn't use it brian just jumped out of his seat. I'm like, oh good Talk about this. I have that app But I was waiting for somebody else to get it so they could tell me how to use it Um, so it's really cool because you can there's it's almost like youtube where they give you music To use or you can use music from your phone's library So if you have a phone with a ton of music on an ipod that works out really well, you can like clip it and So it's a really cool app. So I I post a video up and it's just Very simple looking at a haircut I did from the one side spinning around to another side and coming back And I hashtag usually every tool I use they use a wall clip or use a wall hashtag I use andis It actually went on and made it super nice comment You know saying, you know great job on the video haircut looks great They're going to use it actually at the end of next month for the back to school videos Yeah, I thought that was really cool. That put me on like cloud nine yesterday as I'm like finishing up my day I saw that Justin's so psyched and he sends me a text and he's like, oh, this is so cool And I text him back But for some reason because he doesn't have an iphone In my house, I don't have a phone signal. So it'll only send i messages So he didn't get my text back. So today's like, hey, did you get my message? Did you send me? I had something I was squealing like a little girl yesterday I was gonna say I got mine on snapchat. I was like, oh Nice, oh, that was that made me happy.  It just happens in the world internet. Yeah, so yeah, that was one of my I've made the mistake of lately going on and reading things from youtube. Oh my god. I feel great about myself I love it. How do you think I feel? Yeah job to do that. Yeah, I know, right? What else? Oh, we got a tank top today got a new one. Okay. What does it say? straight edge america usa Straight edge clothing line. I feel like it's fitting to you know, sit in this room with you guys All right, so yeah after that little plug we have some haircuts And this is segment because you'll explain the segment but It's really neat that we've been sharing people's photos from social media All I have to do is use the hashtag But it's cool because you send them to me every week so that I can load them up on the show And it's just neat to see like five pictures of just cool people that have been hashtagging And it's tough to pick like just five but at the same time Everybody's photos like I want to use some of them But I can't because they just post like four photos of the same image back to back to back and it kills it for I'm like, right just make it simple. Simple's clean The first one he was already on once but this haircut was just way too nice not to use it again And his client was smirking like he wanted to smile real big but didn't so I just I really wanted to use this one It was for uh, joe joe bad Really tight clean skin taper You know just you don't see very many of them looking that nice And again, the guess is really what's sold on me because like look look at the dude's face I want to smile all big right what I like about that is that it's a good It's a really good cut, but it's also a really good style Like it's done well the comb like you use good product for that. It's Good job all around. Yeah a second that the next one. Uh, I love her name Lollipop chainsaw hair This is just a fun color. I wanted to use like a couple weeks ago I just I took a screenshot of it and I didn't upload it on because it was one of the weeks where I had a ton of them But uh, I wanted to just put this one up as well It's just the color is so much fun. You don't really see a lot of green In the ombre world. Yeah, like pinks or purples or pastel colors But the green to that blue just looks it's just super fun. You know, it's nice I I I love all of the the multicolor Kind of like I don't know what they're even calling it, but the color melt color melts. Yeah Where it's like every color that is made by provanna is basically what it is It's like they make deviations of it's like back in the day. We had this girl. Um, who owned a Uh makeup shop down the street. She came in here Just crazy She was kind of crazy. She came in she put Every color of manic panic up on the table and she's like, I want all of them in my hair So and and that reminds you every time I see these pictures now It's like every single color which I really only love when it's braided braided because then it really makes it look cool Yeah, that's true But once you take it down, but I so it's kind of nice to see this is just done with, you know Green it looks like there's a little bit of blue tone to it Which could have a lot to do with the lighting or the lift or whatever, but I I do really love, um Very seamless. It's very nice. Very clean. Yeah, it's really cool. You could wear it Yeah, wherever you want. Yep. And I just like her name to lollipop chainsaw hair Yeah, yep. That is a pretty sweet name. No one had that one I don't even know why she did the underscores Didn't need it The next one is gonna go by uh, I love this hair by Dana Taylor This actually the side of the the one side of the head with shade don't want to show that but this just It just showed the color so well I love the transition of the really dark purple at the root to that really nice solid like silvery And it's so shiny. It is shiny. What is that product you think? bright light It's almost crunchy. Yeah, it might be like a gel. The shine. Yeah, I like It's the shine. Yeah, it's direct at root. It's a rusell. I love I love the tones though And I love how it feeds out at the end before they went through with the smoothing iron to put the curls in They put the rusell in just sealed everything in. Yeah, she did post a before photo of uh, the when she lightened it So she came in with like pretty light ends and they just looks like they just touched up the root But again, the after event was just super solid super clean. What were you saying, Dre? I was gonna say if you iron the spray wax into the hair. Yeah It has that look to it and I got to say one thing that I like about this as much as I do Love the ones like you're saying where it's a thousand different colors The good thing about this all being in that same color family is as she washes it It's not gonna get gross. Right like it'll all get lighter But it's gonna pretty much just stay in that kind of family of color Which is good because it's for someone with fantasy color giving her a little bit of longevity So that you know, she doesn't have to worry if She gets I don't know poop in her hair and have to wash it like What kind of lifestyle do you think she lives that's where you would a poop? I don't you never know. I know Hey, Yolo. It's been a long day. Okay She might have babies. Well moving on from the poop hair. We're gonna go to uh, jordan Jordan Cox hair jordan has been like well, this is what I wanted. Yeah, okay He he watched our show last week You know, he watches all of our episodes and he went on a kick where he took all of his instagram photos Took them down And then blurred the backgrounds of almost all of them nice and fell in love with the technique and he I even looked and everything just looked so Uniform and simple and clean. Yeah It it it showed his hair. I didn't realize he took them all down. I I did see him post about you Uh, and he was super excited about it. Yeah, yeah, it's very cool But what I loved about this one is that this is a skin taper with nothing but scissor recomb Oh, he did this this is scissor recomb He uses an edger just to clean up the line like clean up the neck area But all the way down to skin on the side. There's nothing with scissor recomb I haven't done one of those in like two and a half years This even inspired me to come in like two days after I saw this and tell matt and like I gotta get somebody in here. Who's gonna let me do this like I haven't done it in forever And I want to okay. I was actually um and I said that I had seen somebody do it. It was actually uh Sean and trust has been posting. Um, he's Just plain scissor fade. Uh, nothing else. So it's cool to see. I've seen a few different people posting these kind of pictures It's cool. It was just a lot of skill. Oh, yeah To be able to go right at the skin with your scissor. So, you know, he this this dude's putting out like really great work Yeah, like everything looks really nice And the last one is going to be by hair mentor Russell Yeah, this is he posted there's 20. I wanted to pick from over the past week He's been uploading like a lot of cool stuff But this one just like awesome like the transition to the red to that like, you know that dark dark super dark burgundy Almost black color. Yeah the cuts fun. Yeah, that's whole thing's fun. I mean, you know I bet that cut also looks cool when it's not spiked up. Yeah, like even down. I bet that just lays really cool. Yeah Just guessing just guessing because I haven't seen it like that I wonder if he I wonder if he has a picture like that and I'm making the little no We actually saw have a question from Megan Sullivan. What do you guys think about stylists putting watermarks on their pics? I think it's a great idea. I think it's a fantastic idea Yeah, we're now in a world where It's so easy to steal people's images and I think it's a great idea, but I've never done it every single Yeah, I'm just gonna say every single company now It's cool that they that they share photos and I I like sharing people's photos as well Um, but it's just so much better to have I know it doesn't make the image any better But I mean you want people to know who did that work The only thing that sucks is when they when when they plaster like Their name huge across the bottom of it and it takes away from the hair or they plaster like It didn't lay over the they do a hashtag up top They do the salon at the bottom the phone numbers in the corner So it's like the hair is this big instead of a huge. I don't even like the repost app I think the repost app is disgusting. Yeah, it just ruins it Yeah, so I'll take like a screenshot and then you definitely put in the credits But if you're gonna post your name on the picture, I think it's it looks so much better to just do it like Like jordan cox does. Yeah, it's real subtle. It looks like it goes with the image Ricky Hoover has a really nice one.  Oh, no, it's just Andrew Yeah, so it's find find a creative way to do it I would say I don't even love the way guy tang does it and you know guy tang Obviously is good at what he does, but he always writes He's smart because he writes it right along the hair So like you can't crop it out like if you put it along the bottom Even a repost app type thing you could crop that out and use it for yourself again He puts it right along the hair, which is cool And it's his signature thing. So, you know, I get it, but um, I like when it's real subtle or just I would say I didn't look at Look at what barbers are doing more than stylists because barbers keep it nice and clean and classy when they put it up there It seems where stylists, like I said are just putting their names across the huge bottom of the photo They got four photos of the same angle like mirrored. So well, and that's where we talk about gerard scarpezi from a hair brained I took his instagram class and he said to use an app called word swag Uh, which is one of the coolest apps I've ever used. It's tried that Yeah, it's it's download it right now the best way to write on top of a picture I'm gonna do it too. Yeah, so we're all doing it. Everybody watching word swag downloaded. I believe it's a free app If it is it's 99 cents. I don't know but I think it's free. I think of four dollars and it's four dollars Is it really? Yeah. Oh, well, there you go four dollars with more in-app purchases Well, maybe I should uh ask for money from them, but they uh, but yeah, so it's a it even if it's four dollars I'm telling you it's a really cool app and you'll use it a lot. There's a free one There you go. All right, what does your look like? I don't think I have it because I'm in the android marketplace Right here word swag. It's like, you know, I don't even have that. There's a german one. That's free Dawson's like Well, I would pay for it's four dollars guys It's not like four dollars every day or four dollars a year or four dollars every picture It's four dollars with more in-app pictures It's four dollars for the rest of your life With free updates, it'll be okay. But I yeah, it's a really cool app and I like it. So use it if you want. It doesn't matter I'm right. Oh, sorry. Justin. Uh word swag is not for android users. Oh, that's fine. I don't want it anyway I don't All right. Yeah, I need to start taking better after pictures My problem is that like by the time I go to get one my next plan is always here. Yeah, so I don't want to be like We're having a photo shoot. You just okay. I'm gonna know what I'll just take it to the chair Bye. Oh, I forget completely Megan's had before pictures and that's it. I was gonna say Claudia was so good at that Megan Sullivan and I are in the same android boat. So whatever do you guys? Yeah, Claudia would go take them for us Well, maybe there's an android something like it Claudia was great because she would do the before picture and Here for us. Yeah, we could go mix up color or do our thing and she's snapping away and Then she makes it all pretty together and it looks great And claudia is like I think it's good Especially if you're like an older stylist find somebody young that loves taking pictures or you see their pictures and you like them They probably know how to get the right angle on all of that as well. So um, but all the angles. Yeah What else we got? That's it. That's it for that done for the news. All right, cool. Um Moving on let's go to trending tresses because I want um, I want to build up these questions I mean, we actually have had quite a few But uh, we'll keep you have a little bit more time if you want to post a question So trending tresses Get the 411 on celebrity hair changes Here's trending tresses with draia bowland All right so We're dancing for you. Justin's not busy like magic mic up in here touching my computer. I didn't touch it I just poked at her tongue. All right. So first off. We have Uh kim kardashian has chopped off her hair and has her new pregnancy haircut Why are they letting her spawn again, which she's pregnant again? Yeah, why is that allowed? Because it's called I took out my extensions. I don't even see a difference Who's that girl we talked about last week? She has the same short haircut Did anybody watch jimmy kimwell the other night about the kardashian thing? No, so he talks about news Stations and and this whole bit happens where it's like Like everyone's the same so Everybody's beginning line to the kardashian being pregnant thing again was the exact same entry line to the story What was it? I forget, but it was like seriously. I know I know they said it's 16 You just fatted that up so bad. They said it 60 times and it reminded me of This is the only reason i'm saying it it reminded me of like the beauty industry like when one hairdresser posts like this Like gaitan posts a this beautiful picture of a balayage and then all of a sudden it's like modern salon Image, you know american salon behind a chair like they all just start posting. It's all everybody's posting the same Cat at a back window like let me in uh, but it just reminded me of that. So it was funny So is his name gonna be south? Yes, they they've already said because it what's his first kid's name north north north, right? Yeah, so they said It's gonna be a turf south by south South by southwest. Yeah There was options Is this confirmed I don't know. I I only know what I know and I don't know much Was this wikipedia confirmed? But they they were saying that was part of the bit Uh, so I get all my facts from jimmy chemo. So, okay, take take it as you want that makes them fun facts, right? All right, but not necessarily We can talk about this now. It's dry as time guys. Let's go. Come on. All right seen it I don't see a difference. All right now. There's there's a little difference. It's like a couple inches, but I think one piece that's missing. I don't know people are talking about it and it's I'm just putting it on the dresses That's all I have to say about that style. All right um Then we have a ton of pink hair coming up Kara dev Devoning who is she she is uh model What? Oh delvin delvin. Okay. She's a model and she just came out with a movie consultant. You get a credit Yes, this is we got to have the young ones. Thank you car. We need kids around Oh, yeah, our niece is in the building carly.  Yeah, or behind that gift that a hug gift that a hug the salons collective hugs that there we go There's carly comfortable. She's hanging with us. She's here to tell us who these famous people are right? You don't know Okay, so No, she's uh a model and she just came out with a movie. Okay, but so is your hair pink for the movie or is she just No, she uh, it's debatable as to whether or not it's a wig. It's not confirmed yet Okay, this image looks like axl rose had a child with a care bear and that came out But uh second Ellen. She just wanted that fun. She's just being miley. I'm going wig on that one I could say wig. Yeah, I'm thinking it's a wig as well above the bandana. It looks a little wiggish And I know me some faker well, and it's just a very Of the the bandana. It's kind of yeah She is Is she how did you not know that brian? What's suicide? Well, I don't care about suicide squad. I thought I don't either. It's okay You don't care about suicide squad. No, I know you don't brian. I mean, I'm gonna see it, but Okay Thanks, thank you again youngin Kids these days knowing all the facts. All right. She's gonna take your spot on the show. Um on other things Nah, all right. All right. The next one is uh, georgia may jagger Also has pink hair, but she has some blues and some purples and some greens in there. She wanted that dimension. Um I wish she had just gone with one color on this one. This is where I wish that I know I wish they'd done everything. Yeah, just do the whole thing. I I don't understand why I kind of want to do it, but I kind of don't think you don't really subtly do mermay. Yeah It looks like I have hair chalk in for a very long period of time. It does kind of look like feathers feather extensions Can we bring that back? Brian did you work here during feather extensions? No Wait, let me tell you about the feathers They just took them from fishermen. Yeah, they were making them anyway My feathers weren't real they used to be used for fishing larks and then all the fishermen got upset because they Could sell them for more for the heritage. I heard they ran out of chickens and then they started taking them from fishermen.  We'll just get we'll get these All right, so we're gonna get feather extensions. Yeah, got it. Okay, but you should have seen wait back in the feather extension day My hair I was totally rocking like the Like the haircut that I had before I chopped all my hair off and then I stuck in these feathers that were like twice as long And it's like four of them. It was great. It's like I had a bird just hidden in my hair God, I hope they come back and my hair was chartreuse at the time to make it even more hideous. Nice. All right Do you have a picture of this? Can it be your new default picture? Oh, I have some somewhere. All right. Can't be your new default picture. Okay for the website So while we stay in the pink family, can we go to the last pink picture christina? That's a wig And it's uh margot robbie.  Oh, she's the one that's in she's in suicide squad. Yeah Oh, she uh Yeah, she looks a lot better there She's in a wig with sunglasses and a hat on you can barely see her The pinks are very similar to to carry and uh, cara and margot. Um So this is fun.  That's a cool hat I know I like that now that I like hats. I want it. Maybe that's what I'll do. I'll put our logo like right In the brim in the brim with the sticker that the guys can't take off. Yeah, that was a fail But I got on the brim. I went to the wrong guy. It's on the brim. Yeah, mine doesn't fit me It's backwards too. Yeah If you look at it If you're looking at me, you're not looking at me. So then when you're wearing your hat correctly, you know what website you go to Sorry about it. All right, cool. All right, and then we have one more and that's amanda safreid And she has uh chopped off her hair. She did chop it like that's a significant chop I tell you I went and saw a ted too and the whole time i'm staring at her hair I'm like for somebody famous that is way too long and boring of virgin hair Yeah, I mean it's like straight up untouched perfect level blonde to do Such amazing things with and in that whole movie that's I it just kept distracting me so much. I'm like No, it's a perfect level to do something Like even like just like this slightest bit of highlighting would just make it like crazy even here like it's a chop It looks like she but it looks extremely like Unexciting length I mean because I mean that's yes It looks shiny and beautiful and colored in that left picture But i'm telling you when you watch that movie her hair looks like completely long virgin boring hair the whole time I just wanted to like curl it or color. It does look like in the second picture. She got some highlights though Good I feel like i'm just impressed that her hair was that long and that Healthy looking at the bottom. I know and it's like not layered. I don't even understand how you you do that She's like out of the box barbie It's like she was a kid and never got her haircut Or that okay. All right. Can I pause real quick? Yeah, I just got told by andre that if you have androids Fonto p-h-o-n-t-o is a good. Oh, yeah Nobody has androids. Uh, well me and one of our viewers does christin use her mic for the first time So you and one of nobody that's fine. They had fonto. I think fonto for iphone's too That's what I used to use when I did mine like the one picture that I did a watermark on That sounds like the go-go. Oh, thank you. The one who knows more than everybody else has the android. I just want to say that The youth of the show. Okay And that's it for trending dresses. All right, cool. Thank you, draia. You're welcome. Fantastic. Good job, draia. Sorry for ruining that for you Um, all right, so we have my buzzer back. We have a ton of questions that happen But uh, so brian, why don't we get in do what you wanted to do? Do what you're gonna do and then Uh, then we'll that's fine because I'll just like one or two and then we'll go into that All right, that go I never let that do it What's happening on fse social media fse social media submit your questions to brian hair on our facebook community Or by using the hashtag free salon education Yeah Dot com. Oh, can we put that in there? I just know that's like 300 more dolls christin and amy both love their android Just want to say thanks guys All right, all right, uh focused on brian right now So first things first just as proof that it's not we don't just read the good stuff I wanted to go off of a comment from the video that you put up of mine this past week the quick tips that I did Uh, and before I get defensive, I figure I can open this up for discussion. Let's open it Uh, they said it was the one where I did So this is how it goes when it's time for quick tips I was literally almost done working on my guests when I said to matt I was like So I just discovered that I really like doing balayage this way, you know, it's kind of cool I've changed the sectioning and here's the reason for it and he's like Well, hold on. Let me get a camera But it's not like he's just pulling his phone out of his pocket He's got to find the camera and the microphone and all the while her color's processing So I kind of have to keep going like I can't just stop So by the time we got around to filming it there wasn't a whole lot left And the whole thing with the whole minute and half of it thing Was that I've discovered I really like taking vertical sections when I do balayage right now And angling it sort of diagonal back. So that way I get great coverage whether the hair is pulled back or down That was the whole thing are you giving excuses for why your video didn't last long enough? No, no You're confused. Oh, what's going on right now? So in the video I had run out of sections along the side And so I had to use a section on the top Now what tripped me up when I was in beauty school? Is it bothered me that vertical sectioning going across the top of the head looks like horizontal? Right Is that just how I was taught in beauty school? Is that like actually industry vertical goes that way did I comment on this to them? No, I didn't comment back. No, probably because I wrote the time I wrote a book probably because you didn't have service when you tried to post it So it's still sitting on your phone Yeah, so I wrote a book and then I probably deleted it because then I try to let myself calm down a minute But well, thanks for getting my back. So the comment was looked like horizontal sections in your hand Not vertical not one of the finer moments of videos exactly and two people liked them.  So here's the deal. So here's the deal though They're saying it looks like you're holding horizontal. You're holding the hair right here like this, right? That is not horizontal Right because vertical goes all the way around the head. Yeah, so it goes this way So it just depends it's all verbiage and it doesn't matter like the whole point is you're holding it However, you're holding it So it's just it's just funny like people just like to tear apart a word If that's the worst, that's the worst they have to say Before I got like Ignoring about it.  Yeah, that goes. Yeah, sucker. I I agreed with you I I think that that I that is vertical in my in my book But I mean, is it really that big of a deal? It's I don't know But apparently I I put a black mark on our reputation for saying that according to not your finest moment brine hair That that minutes and a half tip All right, uh, and then, you know, we got lots of love. I just wanted to get that out of the way first Our are always wonderful people. James Delman appreciated the shout out last week Saying he also loves Phil because we had a great time with Phil last week Really liked him. He was really nice like before the show. I know For one reason or another we can all agree that it's always really nice to meet someone who has found some level of Notoriety in the business and he's not a dick. Yeah. Yeah, it's always a pleasant Yeah, right Christina It's very hard, uh, all right, and then this one I because I Very seldom do I talk to hairdressers that all agree on this So I figured it would just be kind of fun to throw this into the lion's den and then just watch back Uh, somebody asked on I think it was our page. I don't I found it online somewhere Uh, if I need 30 volume developer and I only have 10 20 and 40. What should I do? I was like, well, because I I haven't heard so many different and people get like pick it up vertically Pick up the bottle vertically Turn it horizontally and that makes it And you've got 30 So you need to do is get that developer out of the bottle Well, because the one that I always get the obviously the the number one question is always How do I properly make 20 because that's always the one that runs out first And I've heard everything from it's okay to mix 10 and 30 to the best way to do it is to take equal parts 30 and or 40 and water Was one of the big ways that I'd heard that I'm like, it's absolutely no way because it has to be distilled Otherwise it's not going to equally cut it so and this is the thing like The best way is to not run out of 30 volume If you run out of 30 volume, you do what you have to do By the way, we ran out of 20 volume This is actually an in-house question Yeah, no one wrote that I was just trying to bring it up so we could Then everybody just that was possibly the funniest thing you've ever said that yeah, good job, dad. All right now throw your hands up and walk out Drop the mic said no, he can drop his mic. All right What did you say? So In my opinion like I would cut it I would cut if I needed 30 and I was out I would cut 40 with 20 a little bit and just you know It's close enough until I run and grab some more 30 like unless if you notice the hair I'm not saying it's exactly 30 volume. It's just not 30 enough. It's 30. It's all right. Whatever.  So It'll be okay. It's like your three clock. I wouldn't get three. I wouldn't go mixing water and anything because I'm not a chemist I don't know how that works, but I guarantee 20 volume and 40 volume or a little bit better better Yeah, some days. It'll be 18 volume some days. They'll be 22. Yeah fair enough Um, all right, and then the last one that I wanted to hit on because I know at one point or another Several of us have gone through this Somebody said how do you guys cope with quitting your second job to devote your entire life? I'm freaking out over here because I know I'll be fine because I have an awesome clientele I'm just super anal about money and I feel helpless when I'm not in control Any tips would help thanks in advance I know I just I remember that like when I went through that Because I was serving at the time which is great money for like the lower hours but I wanted to To work more in the salon and it was I mean it was scary and it's something that I know for me. I was absolutely terrified to do because to give up guaranteed money for Future money was hard. Yeah, but I'm really glad I did it because once I Once I jumped into that and really I don't know it gave me that that To make sure that that got my 100 focus all the time because now This is how I'm going to make my money. So there's no more. It's that Um It's like either you want a job or a career too. I think that's like a big difference sometimes Well, and I was going to say and if you want a career as serving there's nothing wrong with that But if you want to career at something you really have to kind of All different outlets of it make money by doing it You and Christina both uh would know this better than I don't I think most of us I don't remember your job histories, but uh when you're a server When you're a server or bartender, it's harder to switch to a different job Because you're so you you do make good money And it's doing that. Yeah, it is cash. Yeah, you make a lot of money I remember the reason I got through the beginning of my hair career was because christina was a bartender So, uh, she was bringing home, you know Great cash every night. So it was like I never had one of those jobs. So I didn't I served a pizza hut.  So when I moved out here I was working hourly for about the same amount of money So I didn't I didn't jump from a job where I was bringing home a hundred two hundred three hundred dollars cash a night To then trying to go full-time doing hair, but I do believe that yeah, or four hundred dollars a night, but I do believe You have to focus on what you want to grow and Like even like with me behind the chair. I knew I had freesong education. I had all this stuff My mindset wasn't wasn't as much behind the chair. I couldn't be focused on it four days a week Get a girlfriend at bartends I got one, but I couldn't so I couldn't be focused at bartends. You are It's a new change. Wow. I've it's been two days. I don't know what happened. Where was that in the news? It all started when he started wearing hats.  Yeah, and You got to put your focus where you want your future to be Unless she wants both jobs to do that then Well, I mean she's I think the impression that I got from it was that she's looking to get rid of that second job to focus, but she's just nervous to To make that and I get that we're just straight hustle and do everything There you go tricks on the corner. All right, so let's switch to instagram Okay, how do you want to do this? You want to read some do you want to So I just want to roll. I'm gonna grab a couple of these.  So brine. How can you make thin hair appear full? Uh, make sure that you're using I mean be smart about it If it's like long hair on a female make sure that it's stuff that's for thickening stay away from stuff that's for smoothing Uh, if it's on a man Have it be more matte finish stuff. Nothing with shine. Yeah on dry hair finish. Yeah I also like Load dry the hair on a guy with like a fine tooth come so that way separates the hair a little bit Good call dad. I think you do a pretty solid consultation. What kind of questions should you ask a new client with a color consultation? Color consultation definitely go over tones as far as like whether they like to see warm tones cool tones How light they're looking to go like what's too light? What's too dark?  Okay, anybody else want anything to that? Yeah, uh, if their hair is naturally that color Not if they've naturally colored it back to the original It's pigmented prior or not because that's you have to clarify. Okay. Is this your natural color? Yeah, why did it lift orange at the bottom? Well, I colored it back to my natural after I lightened it four times and used some box color on it You have that's the one I think thing that you see people overlook more than anything else is not You asking that When they're trying to lift I would also like to say that making sure they have a maintenance plan.  Also, if they have a picture what it is they like about that picture Awesome. I'm a big fan of asking what you don't like Yeah, that's a good one to make sure What do you not like that's what you're getting five minutes late. Boom No, just because like my definition of warmth Like I don't want warm colors, but I really love this gold. Like, all right, that's fine Like I don't expect them to know color theory So I'd rather just be like, what do you not want to see? Yeah, because I want to make sure it's gold I'm like, all right Yeah, anything that you can get out of the way before you do the service Like any questions comments like any information you can give them or get from them Is always great because it's easier to explain it before you do it Then oh that happened because of this. Yeah, exactly. You're a little bit more believing when you tell them that this could happen Before you do it. All right, cool rapid fire Why is sunlight the preferred open air lightener to you guys as opposed to others such as free lights or blonde studio? Because I haven't tried the others. Yeah, I don't know I don't know I like it more than others that I've used just because the consistency The fact that it does not swell a single bit.  Um Every salon should have a base price to it. We start at 15 per application So Anytime we any serving them out. Yeah, $15 more for each time. Yeah, so if we use four bowls of color That's $60. Yeah. Yeah, okay You looked at me like I had to answer but you didn't ask nope when it comes to Salon social media who should be in charge the owner of the stylist or everyone everyone Everyone should be in charge But they should all have a common ground of what they should be in charge of like I post my photos I know what hashtags I want to use They should all be understanding that if it's going to be seen by the public keep it publicly safe. Okay Um So smart is there anything you can do if hair color pulls too dark That's it and what's good is I open my mouth just in time for that so it's gonna look great. You open up the Uh, if it pulls too dark I mean if it's something that's like fixable with the clarifying shampoo, I mean I've done that before Yeah, if it's like a color correction kind of scenario, then You didn't ask enough questions or they lied to you. What are you doing all day today? Like yolo for dinner We're cutting all this off. Did you bring your pillow and sleeping bag? Okay, which quick books is better for an independent stylist making less than $3,000 a month I personally think quick books online Is good because it's 30 bucks, but you could buy I mean quick books is quick books So I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that As much as just doing it. Um I think that's almost all of them How to decide what education is best to take anybody All of it Well, I think you got to like take like an honest look at you like yourself and then go based off of what you feel like What's our an honest look Don't lie to yourself. Don't take a line lying to yourself You can't take a look at the funhouse mirrors and evaluate yourself I mean honestly take classes that that are going to help you grow because you know that taking a A class on updoos for me isn't something that's going to make me like I want to go back into an updo It's going to make me feel like can I I probably should yeah, but I won't I was going to say go with the educator that you find most attractive There you go You'll probably pay the closest attention There you go. Say or to them. All right on that note. Okay. All right, how do you deal? How do you watch he's gonna turn red right now? How do you deal with an unprofessional boss? What you quit and find a new one Yeah, that's hard. You're not fighting that battle because it's their place got so quiet Except for me You get quiet.  Yeah, just checking I'm looking at their faces unprofessional boss because I've had a real a couple of really bad ones in the past. I think You're not there wait till it passes. Yeah, I'm not there anymore. You're good.  What are you thinking about unprofessional like coming up to you while you're doing hair and like I'm saying something like you know The whole thing that they teach you in beauty school where you're not coming in talking to your guests about going out and getting crazy wasted and all that Boss that comes up and talks about how they were getting crazy wasted and doing drugs all weekend and I'm like Wow, this is Absolutely. That's like good. That was one of those situations. Like I couldn't even talk to that boss about it. Like I just had to Make sure that you step up the professionalism when they walk away.  Unfortunately, I think that that's more common in this business than not but Um, yeah, just uh, just be professional Yeah, you know, and that's all you can do and if you don't feel like if that's stunting you Uh, from growing in the business then find somewhere else then come work for Matt Um, then tell him you're moving to california How to know when it's time to leave your current salon and tips to finding a permanent salon home Again, i'm gonna say tell us tell someone this is from the same tell someone you look up to that you're gonna move to california And you'll have a great salon to work at I would say research the salons that you're looking for And when you're going on interviews make sure that you actually interview the salon just as much as they are interviewing you Find a really attractive boss Because you'll probably respect them Okay, this is the last one. Okay. Um, what do you all like to do to stay inspired and focused? We all know that this is a very difficult Thing, I mean it's different things for different but it is different. So what would be like for you? I don't know. There are times where I I just have to I don't know. I'd like like when you start getting in that it's always so different I you know, I there are certain things that just inspire me in general You know different types of art different types of music my movie types Fashion whatever it is. It's a constant search for something new that inspires you I can't always go back to the same inspiration Because you know where where my headspace is right now is going to be affected differently than You know, whatever would affect it six months from now. Yeah I think this industry just from running this place with all of the different stylists that I've come in contact with I think the key is to keep things different and changing Because they get bored. Yeah certain employees get a little bit like Uh, it's the same old thing. You know, I think that's why a lot of people like this business is because it's you're always doing something Yeah, you're always learning. There's never I know that's what I like Most about it. So um, yeah, I would agree with that. I think that's that's really how you keep a salon Uh Alarm-wise. Yeah, personally individually. I don't I can't speak for like how you personally stay but I think that's I personally look at Like tradition I look at what has been continuing for so long and how can I Keep up with that like what That is going to be consistent now pairwise that I can be fantastic at that's still going to be wanted in A couple years that's not going to fall by the way side Like I want to learn it all but I try to see these guys who've been in the game for so long More barbers than anything else at this point where I'm looking at but I mean I look at the haircuts there Do I want to I want to make mine as clean as theirs?  There's actually only two more. So I feel like if I might as well Yeah, we'll do it. That would be really rude. There's two thumbs down right there So we're going to answer one of them So, uh, best way to build a clientele when you're just starting out a little bit before get attractive clients Be really cute Make sure you're at a salon that you really want to be for the long haul and be patient. Yeah. Yeah I think that was something that Matt I've we talked about it probably 80 episodes ago something that you said to me years ago before even thought about Was If you're gonna move Understand that that you need to look at it as the last one you're gonna work Because otherwise why the hell you going there? Like you're just gonna waste time.  Yeah, I mean there's see what's good for that location You know, I I remember Being in different places. I've tried different things. I always you hit up servers. That's always a good one servers and bartenders There's gonna be some somewhere and they see a lot more people in a day than you do So, yeah teachers is another one that's been it really benefited me in the past And then tips on preparing for the salon world. I think is the same thing Just focus on the education that we talked about before Find somebody that inspires you and follow them until they don't inspire you anymore and move to the next person You know and research your tools. Don't just go out and buy whatever is in the flashiest boxer. That's true Made into a bracelet good call that and And just be patient and find a salon that you that really uh inspires you to be there and last one uh interview tips For the salon world. I'm looking for assistant positions. What should I come prepared with? If you're looking to assist, I think You just got to show them That you you're there to learn Look going to like a really nice hoity-toity salon Don't dress like Just appropriately look appropriate for the job that you want. Yeah as cheesy as that is no offense It's true and especially in you know the beauty industry right like where it's about appearance here. So Yeah, and then come to work and wear hats. Yeah I would up I would also say make sure that the salon you're interviewing for Has a position available for you after you're done school or When you're done assisting because you don't want to put an invest time into a salon that isn't going to invest time in you You're called right find an attractive boss That works in an attractive building with an attractive salon furniture. Okay, russell maze. I'm so hair mentor still going last question I think this is it. Okay. This is it. We're cutting you off What skills should a new stylist focus on when starting their career? We talked about that social marketing Uh and or client interaction. I think that that's kind of cool. It's a little bit different twist on that question But from social marketing as a young stylist and from client interaction. I think client interaction is education That's what I found treating your guests as the center of your world and educating them on their hair What they like what they don't like how they can do it at home what tools to use what products to use In focusing on them, you know like talking to so-and-so next you We can jump into conversations one thing but like focus on your guest Yeah, even if your guest doesn't want to talk just try to keep quiet work on their hair So you're not focusing on working at the stylist next to you Yeah, and you'll have even those quiet guests that you clearly can't read We'll come back to you more times than not because you were just doing their hair You weren't doing their hair while you were having three conversations. Yeah, but I think that's a huge I mean, that's what I've seen here more than anywhere else like I I've interacted with guests the same way But in this town more than any other town I've seen people more responsive to The education we give them. Yeah, so yeah, I think we have that pretty strong here and because we're so small Um, I think our guests get into conversations with everyone Which is kind of cool, but there are sometimes that quiet guest that's just sitting there And and that's a good tip to just Even though they're not man I thought you were gonna say because we're small like they know about our education So they just talk about and I was gonna say no, it's probably because of all the Recording equipment and all the cameras that hang well. Yeah, that doesn't that helps. Yeah But one science is education Like one thing that I I like about here that I've noticed and I don't think anybody can disagree is There's always one of us That's educating their guests like talking whether it's the product or the technique or something like that And it kind of reminds the rest of us Yeah, I've talked about this yet with them and so it's sort of it just kind of like keeps going and we keep that Choreolus effect going you guys are all kind of like hair nerds in your own way too. Like I heard you guys earlier talking about um the the new Mirror product or whatever like and breaking it down why it looked like that and So I think that that's like a whole different environment than some salons have Oh, yeah, some salons, you know, you just come in you do your work and and that is what it is Same bottle of mousse same bottle of hair spraying every single person We're always trying something new and trying to evolve You know as a group and that that's different and that's you guys should try to do that in your salon as well It's just make sure that you're especially as a new stylist asking lots of questions and figuring it out And again attach yourself to that person that it's willing to answer those questions and talk with you about it Wait, you want to know what this is up? I think it was like for a new stylist, right? Yeah, is that one of the greatest pieces of advice that I got early on in my career And I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again is every single person Especially if you're a new stylist every single person that's in your chair Is there because they left somebody else's yeah, and it's your job to find out why and fix that problem No, and it you'd be surprised like I think it's a very regional thing why people move around It's going to be different everywhere you go And nine times out of ten. It's really easy things to fix Yeah, you know their stylists stop listening to them when they said they wanted something new Their stylist started treating them like a number and not a guest anymore stuff That's super easy to fix and that's a great way to build Fast yep very cool. I think that was a good rapid fire question. It was not rapid fire That was a lot of questions though. So that wasn't bad. It could have been longer Um my golf game. All right dad. We need the the wheel up here. Let me move some of these clips The wheel please some of these clips and all right on the wheel I'll and then I'll say who I'm looking to see if I have anything actually wait before you say the wheel Uh, can I just make a disclaimer the free t-shirt is rusell tonight? The what rusell. Oh, okay t-shirt is rusell. Okay, so we have a collection of rusell products from uh Motique in san francisco who also carries misetani scissors. They're giving out a uh rusell kit so Um, we have so rustle is going to be spinning. Are they getting pink rusell rustle? Well, pink's on back order. There's blue now too. So we're I know We're getting it. Whoa draya. Wow. I'm down So all right, so rusell maize is spinning. So hair mentor. Uh, thank you for the question He's got a salon. So I think it'd be cool for all these prizes. So um, and uh, lucky night Why what else did he do? Oh, he was on the thing too. Well, yeah Awesome job rusell. All right, so you're having the best week ever three months free of mevo possibly We have minervabeauty.com. We have uh, sunlight's balayage amika Uh, well super silk. I want a t-shirt this balay box is my bae.  So here we go right Wait, did you say good spin? She was ready. She was. She got back several times. Where we at? What are they getting? Balay box Where's the tunes? It's my favorite dad. You have one job.  I'm moving back. Dad back Thanks, dad. I was excited. That's gonna be our exit music Okay Okay Carly get over there. You're doing sound sound We're moving carly from maryland to do some sound work. Here's your summer job You have a license to hair by the way. All right. So uh, that wraps up episode 93 I think it kicked out feeling good. You guys have seven episodes to get this kickstarter going. Should we keep doing this show Europe? Yeah, we should just start the towel and I'm thinking about quitting at 99 We're quitting now We're quitting forever at 99. We're just gonna burn the shop down for all the products.  Yeah, make george kistanza All right guys. Thank you so much for watching. Follow brian hair at hairstyle on everything everything Drayday 2289 I am justin scott Christina kevalkenti I am Christina That bowlin. That's not your name. I am that bowlin That's not my name. I love that song Carly, what's your I wonder how many episodes they're gonna do this after I say in my instagram name. I don't know follow What is it? Carly kevalkenti underscore or something underscore Nobody creepy can follow her though I will find you. You will have you don't need to put carly on the internet myself Yeah, your doorstep. I know baseball. Carly are the only two with the kevalkanis in the family. I know All right. So Christina kevalkenti was taken Follow really? Yeah, somebody really? It was me somebody in brazil. Of course. It was brazil. Yeah, you know where the avocados grow I actually Brian I actually took that name. That's my secondary instagram account. He's the fake Christina All right. I was the tomic garden follow us On everything at freeslaw education. Check out the shop shop fse We got the new combs and clips and stuff. Do you have any all organized not anymore? Do you have a thing or no? No interview today. We have interviews next week those interviews that we had at the millennium experience Who should we have? I have different interviews. I have an interview with uh, michelle from demand force Let me ask you this. Who shouldn't we have I have rena? I don't like what don't you like? Yeah What don't who don't you want to hear? That's who we're gonna put on Whoa, it just got so cool Just got so weird. All right. It's time for bed. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you Right here on splitting hairs Watch splitting hairs the hairdressers podcast live every wednesday night at 7 30 p.m. Eastern standard time or as close as we can get it


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Hey y'all, it is June 9th and we're in Waco, Texas. We are right by the silos and we're gonna take you guys inside for like a quick peek because we are finally going to Austin, which is our last and final destination of this road trip. It's been, yeah, it feels like it's been a week but it literally has only been like three days. So yeah, like you said, it's been a long one. So we're gonna take you guys inside and see what it looks like because we've never been there but we are a big fan of the show Fixer Upper. So I'm excited. It's closed today though. So we can't get full access. Like all the shops, right? But you can still go in like this. I think that's gates so we can look over. We'll show you what this is again. All right, let's go. So unfortunately the Magnolia area was closed and it is closed on Sundays apparently. We didn't really know that but now we do. And there was like a church service going on and like that was like the only entrance and it was like kind of like behind the stage. So like everyone was facing that entrance if that makes sense. So it was kind of awkward to just like walk in the middle of it. So we couldn't really get that much footage for you guys, unfortunately. I was really sad because I just wanted to like go in and like kind of see everything from the inside. Like I didn't really care if like the stores were closed but we couldn't do it. So we'll definitely take a road trip to- We need to go back. We look kind of nice. Yeah. The downtown area looked nice too. We are currently in Round Rock, Texas. It's about 40 minutes from Austin. No, it's like 20. We're going to South Austin for Airbnb. It's where you drove through it. So we're not that far away really. I guess you're right. Yeah. So this is our first impression of Austin ever. Literally we'd never been. I've never been to our sunglasses on if you're wondering. Yeah, Ryan couldn't find his sunglasses for so many times. We'll be able to leave in Rossville. No, they should be packed somewhere in that U-Haul or somewhere in here. I don't know where they'll be. Yeah. I've been to Alpine then. Yeah. So. I still have my cards when I know that. But this will be our first ever seen the skyline going through it. Doing anything. I mean, I don't know what to expect honestly. Nice Starbucks thing. I've only been to Houston, Texas that I remember. So driving through Texas is like very different from what I saw in Houston because Houston obviously is a big city. And we're going through like random cities. We're going through like farm towns. Yeah. We literally just saw a freaking bull. Yeah. A freaking bull. It was like actually the coolest thing ever. I was like, wait, is that not gated? Cause you know, sometimes the gates just don't really. It's like wire so you can't like really see it. Like I was like, why is that just roaming around? That's like what I thought at first. We will keep you updated on our first impressions. This is the traffic. This is like. What? Close as bad traffic. We're sitting in traffic at one o'clock on a Sunday. In Round Rock. Not even in Austin. But yeah, like I said, 32 minutes. The thing that sucks about driving like with a U-Haul cause we're pretty much caravaning this whole trip. There's no reason to drive ahead just because we're like meeting up at every stop, you know? So it's been so slow. Literally last night, there wasn't even traffic or anything but the U-Haul can really only go like 60 miles per hour or something like that. Yeah, it's like 30 of us are going around but the big semis come. Yeah. Just shake it all around the road, it's just hard. Yeah, so we're going like 60 miles per hour and it literally adds on so many minutes to our drive. I swear the first time we, what was our first stop? Why can't I remember this? Do you say that? Oh yeah, we stopped in Nola and I swear it took us like nine hours. With like stops and everything but we didn't even stop for that long. I don't know. It's just going so slow. We're almost there. And I'm like the type of person that like barely ever stops during road trips and drives like a straight shot. So very different but yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do. We're 60 minutes away from our Airbnb. We are passing by like UT's campus, right? Oh yeah. And we're like under this show. Okay. We're definitely under this little thing. And I was telling Ryan that like before all this it was, it looked like LA a little bit. I don't know. There's just a couple of similarities that I see. I'm excited. I don't know, I'm getting nervous. Me too. I hope you love it. Okay, we're still under this thing. We've been here for like more than 10 minutes, probably 15. Yeah. Oh my God. Is this what Austin traffic is? Because I don't know. Am I gonna have to turn around? There's something like happening on the bridge. I don't know what's going on, but something sketchy. It's nice. Let's get started. So we just passed by downtown for the first time. It was really pretty. We just saw like the little river or the lake or whatever it was. Serious question guys, if you guys are from Austin or Texas, I know food trucks are a big thing here. How does one eat at a food truck in this weather? I can never eat hot food when I'm hot. So like I'm very intrigued by that. I don't know, comment down below how the hell you do it, but I guess we'll find out soon or later. It's really hot. It just looks hot. So we stopped at our Airbnb and put all of our stuff there, but now we are at South Congress or, wait, Lamar? South Congress, I think. This is South Lamar or? Something like that. We're eating at TLC. So that is our first food stop in Texas.


My grandfather was a Kiowa veteran, served in World War II, and I've always aspired to be like him. I've always aspired his way about how he treated people, and I think his discipline, the hard work that he performed when I was young, kind of ingrained in my mind the kind of person I wanted to be, and he was a veteran, so he's proud. He was proud to serve in World War II, so that always stayed with me. I come from a long line of service members, so I had my grandmother's father fought in World War II, my granddad was in Korea, and I have three uncles that went to Vietnam, one Desert Storm, one Desert Shield, so I come from a long line of military people, and like I said, I come from a very patriotic family. It's always been something I've wanted to do, restoring the military, ever since I was a kid. I did four years active duty, and then I've done 13 years in the Guard, but I immediately jumped right in and was willing to do whatever the Guard needed me to do. There have been numerous Native Americans who've served in the Oklahoma National Guard. I know a lot of my relatives from our Kiowa Black Legons, they served in World War II with the 45th Infantry Division and also in Korea. Knowing that there are a lot of Americans that have served in the 45th Infantry Division and the Oklahoma National Guard, it only makes me feel like that's serving a purpose in our communities. Indians want to be a part of it and know that they're taking care of their people. My grandma would say, hey, your grandpa's birth was part of the 45th, and as a kid I would say that, okay, that's cool, that's cool, and I'd see his dog tags. Once I came into the Guard and understood what the 45th was, I realized, and you know, he's passed away, my grandparents passed away, but I still have his patch and dog tags from back then. Through the course of history, American Indians have always had warriors, people that were protectors of their families, their homes, their land even. There's something about American Indians, they have that ingrained in their genes. They place a high priority on taking care of people who can't take care of others, and I think that's something in our Native American culture we hold our veterans in high regard. Our Kiowa tribe has always been a very war-like tribe, and our Kiowa veterans have found a way to adapt using the United States military service now to serve a purpose within our community. We have a word in my language that says kattai, and that means a person who is a protector of all people, people who can't fight for themselves. And I think that translates into our United States military culture, especially the guard because we're all civilians during the day. We go to, you know, our daily jobs, on the weekends we do our weekend drills, but I feel like the Oklahoma National Guardsman knows what it's like to take care of people and try to do for others, and I think that correlates with our American Indian philosophy of what it is to be a warrior. We hold the military in high respect, so anything that the military needs me to do, I'm willing to do that. I'm willing to give the military everything I have. If you're a member of the guard, you are already a member of a tribe, because the similarities are parallel to each other. You may not be blood related to each other just like any tribal member, but you're going to become family. You learn each other's strengths and each other's weaknesses, and I think especially on deployments or even AT, you understand that leaning on each other becomes a part of your survival. It's exactly the same as being in the tribe. I'm just proud to be an American Indian serving the military. Per capita, American Indians serve the most amongst all other race and ethnicities in the United States. You know, after everything that has been, all the policies that have been implemented on American Indian cultures and communities, we're still here and we still have viable cultures alive, but we are able to blend and tie those cultures together to where we are now a soldier in the United States Army and able to tie that to our, bring our American Indian culture along with us, makes us a better person and makes us look with new perspective on things, and I think that's what American Indians bring to the guard. They bring that warrior aspect, that warrior perspective that may have been taught in their own communities and to the guard. That's what I'm proud of.


Damian Lillard up first, tweeting about what he just saw, saying that Kyrie's the most skilled MF ever. Bruh. Bruh. Bruh. You guys agree? Yeah, I agree. I think he's the most fun. Like, when you watch him play, it's insane that he can move and do those things with the basketball in his hand. We all know how well he can handle the basketball and dribble and how it's poetry and motion. They always hear that term when you're talking about Kyrie Irving. He's so smooth. He gets to his spots. He can shoot. He can score. He's got a good string. So he is definitely respected from players and hoopers that know the game because he's just impossible to guard and he is just dead nice. The degree of difficulty that he makes things look so easy. Whether he's finishing at the rim, dribbling through defenses, to get to one of those tough finishes, one of the most skilled of all time.