55 Smith to the rescue Now in the whole of Beckley Village scarcely a soul under eighty years of age, unless it were of some child under eight tucked up in rosy slumber, failed to discuss within half an hour the miracle about Grace O'Glander, that word was first set afoot in the parish by a man of settled habits, and therefore of sure authority, for Thomas Kale had been put upon a horse, when the carrier's leg would not go up, in order to ride for his life to tell squire overshoot all that was come to pass. This Kale was a man of large wondering power, gifted moreover with a faith of ghosts, which often detracted from his comfort. He had seen his young mistress in a half-light only, when the household was called to look at her, and now he was ordered to a house where a lady had died not more than a few weeks back, between Beckley Barton and Shotover Grange, there are two places known to be haunted. The necessity for priming Thomas before he started had occurred unluckily to himself alone, already as he rode out of the yard a gate-post in a tree shone spectrally. He felt a necessity for priming himself, and prudent man as he was he saw no mischief in affording it. The carrier overshoot could not give him less than a guinea for his tidings, therefore, though pledged to the utmost not to speak, he took the very turn which the prudent crypts had shunned, and pulling up at the window of the dusty anvil, gave a shout for a hot gin and water. The anvil was ringing with hilarity that night, and its dust, if heavy sprinkling could allay it, was subsiding, for Beckley having played a cricket match with Ilsep, and beaten the dalesmen by ten wickets, as needs must be with five crypts holding Willow. An equally invincible resolve arose to out-eat the losers at the supper. Ilsep defeated but not disgraced, was well represented both in flesh and cash, and, as Mr. Kale called for his modest class, a generous feeling awoke in the breasts of several young men to pay for it, for the wickets had been pitched in a meadow of the squires, where Kale had plied scythe and roller. Thomas Kale saw that it would be a most uncanted and illiberal act to open his mouth for a negative only. He firmly restricted good feeling, however, to three good bumpers, and a bottomer, pledging himself on compulsion to call on his way back and manage the duplicate. But his heart was so good that before he rode off with a flout at all ghosts and goblins, he took an old crony by the name upon his smock, and told him where to go for a miracle. Now who should this be, that old Daddy Wakeling, that ancient and valued friend of Cripps, and one of the best men in Ellsfield Parish? Daddy was forced to spend much of his time outside his own parish, for the best of reasons, and a melancholy one. There was no public house inside of it. Here he was now, with his fine white locks and patriarchal countenance, propounding attest to our finest qualities, a touchstone of one's lofty confidence or low cynicism, whether the subject should now be pronounced more venerable or more tipsy. But old Daddy Wakeling would be the very last, when getting near the middle of his third gallon, to conceal from his friends any gratifying news, and erever Kale's horse's heels turn the corner, Daddy's wise old lips were wagging into the ear of a crony, and less than two minutes Phil Hiss had got the news, a council was held in the long room of the inn, and a march upon the squire's house and a serenade by every one who could scrape, blow, twang, or halloa, was the resolution of a moment. In the thick of the rout, as with good intent they approached the old-fashioned coach doors, which led to the front where they meant to be musical, a short-square fellow slipped out of the crowd and without observation went his way. His way was to a little hut of a stable, fastened only with a prong outside, but holding a nice young horse, who had finished his supper, but was not sleepy. He knaved as John Smith came in, for he felt quite inclined for a little exercise, and he knew the value of the saying he had heard, after supper trot a mile. Numbers Cripps was his owner, and in that shameful age of ownership which soon will be abolished, now that its prime key is gone, the key of holy wedlock, and the butcher had offered Mr. Smith a ride whenever he should happen to want one. The night was well up in the sky, and a track of summer daylight star swept, the dim remembrance of a brighter hour that hangs round a tree like a halo, was gone, and only little twinkles shone through bays of leafage against the tidal power of the moon, and the long immeasurable stretch of silence spread faint avenues of fear. Mr. John Smith was a very brave man, imagination never stirred the corpulence of his comfort, what he either saw or sifted out by his own process that he believed, and very little else, and so he rode through light and shade and the grain of the air which is neither, while the forest grew deeper with phantasm and the depth of night made way for him. Suddenly even he was startled, in a dark, narrow place where he kept a track and stuck his heels under his horse's belly, for fear of being taken sideways, something dashed by him with a pant and roar and fire flying out of it. Mr. Smith blessed his stars that he was not rolled over, as he very well might have been, for that which flew by him like a streak of meteor was a strong horse frantic. Smith turned round and his saddle and stared, but the runaway sped the faster as if he were rushing away from the forest with a pack of wolves behind him. The stirrups of his empty saddle struck fire, clashing under him, and his swift flight scarcely left a sound of breath or hoof to follow him. The devil is after him, said John Smith. I never saw a horse in such a state of mind. I may as well mark the spot where he came out. He is left as sure as I sit here, a tale to be told in the background. Without dismounting he broke off a branch of young white poplar and cast it so that by daylight he could find it, and then with a very uneasy mind he strode on to trace the rest of it. He was not by any means in Luke Sharpe's pay, as one or two persons had suspected. Neither was he even of his privy counsel, and yet he was bound hand and foot to him, partly by fealty of a conquered mind, and partly by sense of his brother Joe's complicity to subservience. John Smith, in his own way, was an honourable man, and money was no bribe to him. With quickened alarm he rode on at all speed towards the cottage of the swine-herd. Never in any way had he dealt with the sylvan schemes of Mr. Sharpe, or even from a distance watched them. It was long ere he had any clear suspicions, for his tall brother kept miles away from him, and seeking the remains of grace under the snow-drift he wrought out his duty with blind honesty. John Smith's nerves were of iron, and even the riderless horse had not scattered them, but though he rode on bravely still a cloud of gloom fell over him, it would make a sad difference to his life if anything had happened to Mr. Sharpe, for Smith had invested a little money under the lawyer's guidance, and knowing Luke Sharpe as he did he feared that evil had befallen him. Hence with dark misgiving, and a set resolve to face it, he lashed his horse on at a perilous rate, through the waddled ways of moonlight. The glance and glimpse of light and shade flew past him like a cataract, till suddenly even he was scared by the sound of his name in a sad, clear voice. He pulled up his horse and laid his hand on the butt of a pistol beneath his cape, till a woman came forth into the light and said, I was sure you would come, but too late. It is too late! Sinementa, show me! He answered very softly, knowing by her gesture that the mischief was at hand, as soon as he was off his horse and had made him fast by the bridle, she led him round some shadowy corners into a little dingle, as had no great trees to crowd it, and though it laid below a level of the wood around, the moon was high enough now to throw a broad gangway of light along it. The sides were fringed or jagged with darkness, cumbrous tree or mantled ivy jutting forth black elbows, but in the middle lay and spread fair swat of dewy emblemants, swept with brightness and garnished for a witsom dance of fairies. But now, instead of skip and music, sigh and sob and wailing noises of the human heart were heard. A fine young form of the Oxford build lay heavily girted with molehills, enfolded vainly in a velvet cloak, and vainly on every side adjured to open its eyes and come back again. It was not at all the fellow thus to be addressed in vain, if he only could have heard the living voices challenge him. His love of sport had been love of pluck, as it generally is with Englishmen, and all his dogs of different sizes must have taught him something, as mother now was pulling at him, in a storm of fear and hope. She felt that he could not be dead, because it would be so outrageous, and yet her feeble heart was fearful that such things had been before. Happily for herself she knew not what had happened to him, but took it for an accident of the woods, for the gypsy woman who alone had seen it had been too kind to tell the truth. Oh, Kit, Kit, now only look! The poor fond mother was going on. Only lift one eye, little darling, only move one little hand. His hands were a very considerable size.  Kit, Kit, oh my Kit, my own and ever only Kit, or Christopher, if you like it better, darling, here I have been for whole hours and hours, and not one word will you say to me. If ever I laughed at you, Kit, in my life you must have felt how proud I was. There is not anything in all the world or anybody to come near you, Kit. Only come, only be near me, instead of breaking all my heart like this. Worn out with misery she fell back, in cinementa with a short, quick sigh knelt down on the turf and supported her. Four times I have had to bear it, and every time worse than the time before, she said in her soft, clear tone to herself, but only to remind herself of the tenderness she was sure to show. And this was her only one, and grown up, her face still beautiful and lovely with the sad love in her eyes, the memory of the time when still there was somebody to live for, shone in the gentle light, now poured abundantly on all of them, all of who had lived and loved and suffered and now made shadows and moonshine. Not one had been down to the holy depths of sorrow as this woman had. Catching up now, cried John Smith, who never knew how his ideas were timed.  This ear basely whole, being out to fetch the ghost of his life out. He hath God life in him. Don't tell me. His ears be like a shell, and no dead man's is. Wrap on the knob, Lord bless my heart, I'd sooner have fifty than one on the basket. What all on you are feared to heckle him? Oh, no, sir. Oh, no, sir," cried poor Mrs. Sharp as Tickus and another man fell away. I am not very strong, but I can help my child. Ma'am, you are a lady," said John Smith, that being his very highest crown of praise. But as for you, a d-set of cowards, go to the devil all of you. Now, ma'am, I will not trouble you except to follow after us. Sin you will clear the way in front. It comes more natural to her. And you, ma'am, so follow me as you please. And sorry I'm not to help you. A little shaking will do him a world of good. He was taking up kit, with a well-adjusted balance, while he spoke to her, and he wasted his breath in nothing, except in telling her to follow him. As the hind comes after the poor slain fawn, or the cow runs after the nettle cart where the white face of her calf weeps out, even so Mrs. Sharp, of her dress, thought nothing, though cut up like a carrot in the latest London style and trimmed with almost every flower nature ever saw, anyhow, after kit she went and knew not light from darkness. Mr. Smith sturdily managed to get on. He was thickly built and had well-set reins, and though poor kit was no feather-weight, his beard did not flag with him, then, setting the body of the lad on a mound, where the moon shone clearly upon his face, and the night air fanned him quietly, John Smith very calmly pulled out a bright weapon, and flourished it, and felt the edge. Oh, sir!  Sinny just lead her behind that bush, to either death or blood with him. Oh, no! I could never bear to be out of sight. If it really must be done, I will not shriek, I will not even sigh, only let me stay by his side. John Smith sighed to his sister-in-law who took the mother's trembling hands and turned her away for a moment. Now, fetch cold water! That vein must not be allowed to bleed too long, ma'am. It is a ticklish one to manage for a surgeon, even, and at present it is sulky. But it only wants a little air, and just the least little touch again. If you could just manage to go and say your prayers, ma'am, we could get on a long sight better. Oh, I never thought of that. How sinful of me! Kind good man, I implore of you. Not of me, ma'am, pray to God in heaven, unless you wish to see me run away, and if I do, he slips right off the hooks. She turned away, with her weak hands clasped, but whether she prayed or not never could she tell, but one thing she bore in mind as long as soul abode with it, and that was the leap of her heart when Smith shouted in a good, loud voice, All right. End of Chapter fifty-five. Chapter fifty-six of Cripps the Carrier, by Richard Dodridge Blackmore, this LibriVox recording is in a public domain. Chapter fifty-six. Fatal Accident to the Carrier. Now that little maid who, with such strength, alike of mind and body, had opened the paternal gate, and then bewailed her prowess, happened to be the especial favorite of her good ancestor. Therefore no sooner had the Carrier begun his eventful homeward course, as here to fore related, the netty, who loved a forest walk and felt rather dull without Zachary, took Peggy's fat red hand, and, after a good tea with Susanna, set forth for an evening stroll, to gather flowers and hear the birds sing. Almost before they had got well into the wooded places, Peggy shrank away from a black timber shed, partly overhung by trees. Peggy, not go there, Aunt Eddie, she said. Goose in there, a great white goose.  Hansard asked her, laughing, for still there was good sunset. Come and show me, I want to see a ghost. No, no, no! cried the child, pulling backward and struggling as hard as she had struggled with the gate.  Then, Peggy, stop here while I go and look. You won't be afraid to do that, will you? Running bravely up to the hole in the boards, Esther saw to her great amazement the form, perhaps the corpse, of a man. Stretched at length on the ground inside, it lay too much in the dark for the face to be seen, and a dress was so swaddled with netting, and earthy, that little could be made of it. A torn strip of cambrick, that once had been white, lay partly on the body and partly on the board. Esther caught it up, and she remembered having ironed something of this shape for somebody once, who was going to be examined. She knew where to look for the mark, and there she saw in small letters, T. Hardenow. Surprised as she was she did not lose her wits or courage as she used to do. She ran to the door of the shed, tried the padlock and finding it fastened, as she had feared, made haste to the grain-house, and seized a bunch of keys. Not one of them truly was born with the lock, but one was soon found to serve the turn, then Esther pushed back the creaking door, and timidly gazed round the shadowy shed. She was quite alone now, for her little niece with short sobs of terror had set off for home. When the light admitted by the open door, young Esther described a poor, miserable thing, helpless, still as a log and senseless, yet to her faithful heart the idle of her adoration. Gently, step by step, she stole to the prostrate form, and knelt down softly, and reverently touched it. She feared to seem to take advantage of a helpless moment, and yet a keen joy mixed with terror shone in the eagerness of her eyes. She is alive, I'm sure of that, she said to herself, and she pulled forth a pair of strong scissors which she always carried. He is alive, but very, very nearly dead. What wretches can have treated him like this? In two minutes Ardnell was free from every cord and throng of bondage. His lax arms fell at his sides, his legs, that had saved his life by kicking, slowly sank back to their native angles, like a lobster's claw untied, and his small and dismally empty stomach quivered almost invisibly. Oh, he is starving, or downright starved, cried Esther watching his white lips, which trembled with some glad memory of suction, and stiffened again to some Anglican dream. After all I have blamed other folk quite amiss. He hath corded himself away from his vitals to give way to his noble principles. But how could he lock himself in? The Lord must have sent a bad angel to tempt him, and then to turn the key on him. Before she had finished this reasoning process, the girl was halfway towards the cot of Ticcus, her heart outweighing her mind according to all true feminine proportions. She ran swiftly upon Susanna, sitting in the dusky kitchen, and pondering over a very slow fire the cookery of the children's supper. These good young children never failed to go to see the pigs fed, and down at the styes they all were at this moment, with no vitals come, and the pigs all squeaking, because the pig-master was not at home. This was most sad, and the children felt it, nevertheless they bore it, knowing that their own pot was warming, but they too might have squeaked if they had known that out of their own pot and Eddie was stealing half the meat and all the little cobs of jelly. It was as fine a pot of stuff as ever Susanna Cripps had made, where she did not hold at all with fattening the pigs and starving her own children, and she argued most justly while Esther all the while was ladling all the virtue out. Eddie had never been known to do anything violent or hay-handed, yet now, without entering into even the very shortest train of reasoning, a way she went swifter than any train, pairing in her right hand the best dresser jug, filled with the children's tid-bits of nurture, and in her left hand flourishing Susanna's own darling silver wedding-spoon. Mrs. Leviticus longed to rush and chase of her, but ere her slowly startled nerves could send a necessary tingle to her ruminating knees. The girl was out of sight, and for her vestige lingered not but a very provoking smell of soup. Now in so advanced a stage of the world's existence, and of this narrative, it is needful, judicious, or even becoming to describe spoonful by spoonful, however grateful, delicious in absorbing, the process of administering and receiving soup, to give and take, as said, by people of large experience in life, to be about the latest and most consummate lesson of humanity. Being even after that extreme of wisdom which teaches us to grin and bear it, but in the present trifling instance, two young people very soon began to be comparatively at home with the subject. The opening of the eyes, and all countries and creatures, is done a good deal later than the opening of the mouth, a latter being essential, the former quite a fortuitous proceeding. After six spoonfuls, as counted by Esther, hard now open both his eyes. After two or three more, he knew where he was, and when he had swallowed a dozen and a bonus, scarcely any of his wits were wanting. Still Esther, for fear of her relapse, went on, though her hand trembled dreadfully when he sat up, with his poor bones creaking sadly, and tried to be steady upon her arm, but was overbalanced by his weight of brain. Instead of shrieking or screaming, she took advantage of this opportunity, and his bony chin dropping afforded the first opening towards his interior. To boot up briefly, he quite came round, and after twenty spoonfuls vowed, with the concise rushing of the movement into the arms of common sense, that never could he fast again, and after thirty were absorbed and beginning to assimilate, he gazed at Esther's smiling eyes, and saw the clearest and truest solution of his postulates on celibacy. Esther dropped her eyes in terror, and made him drink the drags and bottom, with a covert zealous gulp, and as it happened this was wise. If any malignant persons charge him with having sold for a mess of potage, man's noblest birthright celibacy, let every such person be courted up at the longest possible date after breakfast, and the shortest before dinner, or rather, alas, before dinnertime, let him stay courted and rolling about in a hog-house, as long as role he can, which never would approach Mr. Hardenow's cycle. Let him, throughout his whole period, instead of eating, expect to be eaten, and then, with a wolf in his stomach, if he has one, let him loose his wits, if he has any, and then let a lovely girl come and free him, and feed him, and cry over him, and regard him, with his clothes at their very worst, and cakes of dirt in his eyes and mouth, as the imperial jove in some dictane cavern dormant, and then, as the light and new life flow back, and the power of his heart awakes, let there manifestly accrue thereto a better, gentler, and sweeter heart, timid even of its own pulse, and ashamed of its own veracity, and then, if he takes all this unmoved, why, let him be courted up again, and nobody come to deliver him. Esther only smiled and wept at her patient's ardent words and impassioned gratitude. She knew the between them was a great gulf fixed, and that the leap across it seldom was a happy landing, and when poor Hardenow fell back, in the weak reaction of a heart more fit for pain and depression, she knelt at his side, and nursed and cheered him, less with the air of a courted maiden than of a careful handmaid. In the end, however, this feeling, like most of those which are adverse to our wishes, was prevailed upon to subside, and Esther, although the least revolutionary and longest established stock in England, that of the genuine Cripses, whose name originally no doubt, Chrysippus, indicates the possession of a golden horse. Eddie Crips, finding that the heart of her adored one had, in Splinter's opinion, a perilous fissure requiring change of climate, consented at last having no house of her own, to come down from the tilt and go to Africa. For Hardenow, as he grew older and able to regard mankind more largely, came out from many of the narrow ways, which, like the lanes of Beckley, satisfy their final cause by leading into one another. With the growth of his learning, his candor grew, and he strove to bind others by his own strap and buckle, as little as he offered to be bound by theirs. Therefore when two of his very best friends made a bona fide job of it, and being unable to think their thoughts out, got it done by deputy and sang to infallible happiness, Thomas Hardenow pulled up, and set his heels into the ground of common sense, like a horse at the brink of a quarry pit, and the field of reason rich and generous opened its gates again to him. Herein he cut no capers, as so many of the wilder spirits did, but made himself ready for some true work and solid advantage to his race, and so, before any university mission, or plough and Bible enterprise, Hardenow set forth to open a tract for commerce and civilization, and to fight the devil and slavery in the rich, rude heart of Africa. Besides his extraordinary gift of tongues, he had many other qualifications, the witness of his legs and stomach, his quiet style of listening to that, so that even a nigger need not be snubbed, his magnificent freedom from humor, an element fatal to stern convictions, and, last but not least, as he said to Eddie for a clenching argument, his wife's acquaintance with the carrying trade. Happy exile, how much better than home misery it is, but the house of crypts sent forth another member into banishment, with little choice or chance of much felicity on his part, as there are woes more strong than tears, so are their crimes beyond the lash. When the doings of Leviticus were brought to light, and shown to be unsuccessful, a council of crypts was held in his hog-house, and a stern degree passed to expatriate him. Ticcus was offered his fair say, and did his very best to defend himself, but the case from the first was hopeless. If he had wronged any other parish than Beckley, or even any other as well, there might have been some escape for him. Cruelty cowardice, treason high and low, perjury to his own elder brother, an eternal disgrace to his birthplace. There was not a word in the mouth of any one half bad enough to use to him. The carrier rose and said all he could say for the sake of the many children, but weighty with piety as he was, he could not stem the many fountain torrent of the cryptic wrath. The pigs of Leviticus were divided among all the nephews and nieces and cousins. Here ever a creditor got a hawk-rope or a flick-whip ready, and Ticcus himself, unhoused, unstied, unlardered and unsmocked, wandered forth with his business gone, like a geridine's swine-herd void of swine. For years and years a fine old hog farm was a haunt of rats and rabbits, never a grunt or squeak of porker ringing or rung eloquently, shook the fringe of ivied shade, or jarred the acorn in its cup, until a third sun arose and grew up to Zachary Cripps hereafter. All the neighborhood lay under a cloud of fear and sadness because of what Luke Sharp had done, not to others, but to himself. Luke Sharp, the greatest of all lawyers, so the affrighted woodman says, may and must alas be seen at certain moments of the forest moon rising on horseback from the black pool where his black life ended, aining the shore with a silent bound and galloping, with his arm held forth as straight as any signpost, to the nook of dark lane where he smote his son, and then to the ruined hut wherein he imprisoned the fair lady, and then to the rotting shed in which he courted and starved the great Oxford scholar. Further for the assertion of the law Luke Sharp is allowed by some evil power thus to revisit the glimpses of the moon, or whether he lies in silent blackness, ignorant of evil, sure it is that no one cares to stay beyond the fall of dusk in that part of the forest. But as soon as a lawyer's wife and son, by virtue of the popular mark, had found and quietly buried his disappointed corpse, they made the very best of a broken business as cheerfully as could be hoped for, each of them sighed very heavily at times, especially when they were almost certain of hearing again, round the corner or downstairs, a masterful and very memorable tread. Therefore, with what speed they might, they let their fine old cross-duck house, and fleeing all low courtesy, unpleasant remark and significant glance, took refuge under the quiet roof of Kitt's Aunt Peggy, near High Wycombe, where he had hoped to lodge and woo his timid forest angel. Here Kitt found tardy comfort, and recovered health quite rapidly by writing his own dirge in many admirable meters, till being at length made laureate of a strictly local paper, and a salary of nil per annum, and some quartz of ale to stand, he swung his cloak and lit his pipe in the style of better days, from those whom his father had wronged so deeply he would accept no help whatever, much as a desire to show their sense of his good behavior, and when the second best ambition of his life arrived by coach, that notable dog, Pablo, if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley or shot over in the black dog wrinkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed, as all through the October term she did, at the last of her finest Badgerer. In spite of all this obscenancy, three people were resolved to make him come round and be comfortable, settled and respectable. To this they brought him in the end, and made him give up fugitive pieces, sonnets, stanzas to a left-hand glove, and epitaphs on a cenotaph. The squire and rustle and grace could not compose their own snug happiness without providing that Kit should be less miserable than his poetry, so they married him to a banker's daughter, and, better still, put him in the bank itself. The loyalty of Mrs. Firmitage to her distinguished husband's memory was never disturbed by any knowledge of that fatal go-to-seal. Poor Mrs. Sharp, as she slowly recovered from the sad grief wrought by greed, more and more reverently cherished her great husband's high repute. She rejoined him in a better world, or at least she set forth to do so, without any knowledge of the blow he had given to her son's head and her own heart. Kit, like a man, concealed that outrage, and like a good son, listened to his departed father's praises. But in her heart the widow felt that some of these might be imperiled if that go-to-seal turned up. Long time she kept it in reserve as a thunderbolt for Joan Firmitage, a Pablo's arrival improved her feelings, and so did the banker's daughter. And finally, on Kit's wedding day, with a sigh and a prayer, she took advantage of a clear fire and a rapid draft, and the go-to-seal flew through the chimney-pot. As a lawyer's daughter she revered such things, in the same capacity she knew that now it could make no great practical difference, for Grace was quite sure of her good aunt's money. And again, as a widow and mother, she felt what a stain must be cast on the name she loved best, if this little document ever came to light, other than good fire-light. But why should Esther have no house of her own, as darkly hinted of, so as to almost compel her to descend from tilt to tent? The reason is not far to seek, and he who runs may read it, without running out of Beckley. Gryps the carrier now being past the middle milestone of man's life, and seeing every day more and more the gray hairs on his horse's tail, lowered his whip in a shady place, and let his reins go slackly, and pulled his crooked sixpence out, and could not see to read it, and yet the summer sun was bright in the top of the bushes over him. I veer I must, I see no way out of him, Zachary said to his lonely self. It is as good as gone already, her cannot stand out again at their celibacy, and none else understandeth the frying-ban. The Lord knows how I have fought against the woman's is, seeing all as I has seen, and better I might have done if I must come to it, many a time in the last ten year, better at least for the brown, white, and yellow, though the woman is brought might as shattered him again. After all, Mary might be a deal worse, though I have a felt some doubt concerning her of her tongue, but her hath a proper respect for me in a forty puns to Oxford bank, if her mother speaketh right of her, and the squire hath given me a new horse, to come on when so Dobbin beginneth to wear out, therefore his domestics hath first claim, though I'd sooner drive Dobbin than ten of them. What shall us do now? Whatever shall us do? Zachary Cripps pulled off his hat in a slow perspiration of suspense, for if he once made up his mind there would be no way out of it. He looked at his horse with a sad misgiving, both on his own account and Dobbin's. The marriage of the master might wrong the horse, and the horse might no more be the master's. Suddenly a bright idea struck him, a bar of sunshine through the shade. Thou shalt settle it, Dobbin! He cried leaning over and stroking his gingerly loins. It concernedeth thee most, or leased ways quite as much. Never hath any man hath a better horse. The will of the Lord takes the strength out of all of us, but he leaveth and addeth to the wisdom therein. Dobbin, thou zeus things as never man can tell of. Now, thou waggest thy tail to the right, I will, and so be to the left, I won't. Mind with thou doest now. Call upon thy wisdom, nag, and give thy master honestly the sense of thy discretion. With a settled mind and no disturbance he awaited a delivery of Dobbin's tail.  The result was the satisfaction of Mary's long and faithful love for him and the happy continuance in the woodland roads of the loyal race and unpretentious course of Cripps the Carrier. The End.


And growing up with Chinese parents is a little bit like growing up in China. But there's government censorship, there's self-censorship, and then not only that, there's ancient cultural censorship. That's triple-layered censorship that America has zero exposure to any of these layers. Do you know the difference between the way China does it versus the way the American does it? China, first of all, what they're doing is like showing science experiments. They're showing innovation. They're showing kids accomplishing great athletic goals. And it's motivating people to do good things and improve themselves. Americans always wanted to make the silliest, easiest content and get the most amount of attention for it. Do not even try to play around that America really wants educational material. That's not how it works. Jackass, Jerry Springer, MTV. I mean, pretty much... Pretty money, boo-boo, milk boys. I mean, the list goes on and on. The Kardashians.


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Featuring Matt Beck, Christina Cavalcanti, Brian Hare, and Carly Wareheim to today's episode is powered by MinervaBeauty.com. What's up guys? Welcome to episode two, Splitting Hares, the free salon education.com podcast powered by MinervaBeauty.com. Thank you everyone that is listening to the show. We actually had a good amount of listens and watches. I love that. I wonder how many of them weren't mine. Yeah. Good point. So, yeah, so I was actually really surprised and it was nice to see some people in the comments saying, you know, it's nice to have you guys back doing the show again, missed the Wednesday nights and all that. So, so again, we're live here every Friday taping the show. So if you guys want to join us live and be a part of the free wheel and all of that, you can do that. If you can't join us live on a Friday, which we understand. You can also comment in the YouTube video or any platform you're watching this show on. Just comment that you want to spin the wheel and maybe we'll pick you as well for it just so that everybody has a chance and you don't have to be on here live with us all the time. So just a hair in my mouth recap from last week, we talked about the Dyson supersonic R. This doesn't even mean it's because Brian's hair is shedding because he hasn't washed it since for like three weeks is apparently, I mean, it's almost two months. All right. So the Dyson supersonic R, right? Oh, yeah. We talked about that last week. The the thing with it was the price tag was the big thing, right? The big kind of standoff part of it, but everything else looked kind of cool. Did you sign up on the list? No. Is there a list? Yeah. Cause I was, I don't even remember how I found it, but I signed up cause it's not really like on their website, but I signed up to be told when it's for sale so that I can go ahead and buy it. Okay. I just figured they'd post about it when it was, but it's professional only. So, right? That's true. That's true for everyone. I, you know, I'm still questionable about it a little bit cause it is expensive. I mean, I'll probably get it to do a review of it or something. Hopefully they'll send one, but the, but the problem with it is obviously the price tag. So I put on Instagram threads, a poll and just asked if as a salon professional, would are you going to buy it? Yeah.  Which I thought was kind of, kind of high, but I'm also not surprised. Well, I wonder like of that, who just doesn't get into Dyson at all? Like are these people that enjoy Dyson products? But don't want to spend that? Or is it people like Carly that are just anti Dyson? Yep. Yeah. We'll have to see, but, but yeah, I'm, I'm gonna start a Kickstarter. Let's do that. So last week, we kind of left the show if you're, if you're already this attached to the show. Yeah. We left a major. We already have quite a few in the chat. Okay. Jersey, Wisconsin, Philly. Love that. Yeah. Philippines. Okay. Yep. We're going global. And Susan says, dude, you're killing me with this when you're doing clients like that we're having the show. Oh, I know. It's the worst. Spend that wheel just like old time. I just put the video on for you and your clients and like we'll entertain them for you. You don't even have to talk. It's killing us. Just trying to do it before we do clients, you know. And Carly Fernando says had a pro Dyson blow dryer. Not a fan. Yeah. You've got a fan. I'm not. He's actually here. He's in the chat from Philly too. Oh, all right. It's in the water, I guess. Yeah. Or the water. It's in the water. It's in the water. If you're so into the show and you've been waiting on baited breath since last week. We have Brian's wine story. But before that we have a... Why it was inspired. Yeah. It was inspired by this story. So we'll roll the video and you guys can see what we're going to talk about. And we can read it. Yeah. For the audio medium. If you didn't see this, it is somebody on an airplane who is clearly not respecting the person behind them. They have thrown their very fake hair over the back of the seat and is keeping it there. And the person who's having to look at this hair and her face is exacting revenge by putting gum in the ends of the hair. They are continuously trying to move it and you'll see the woman just keeps flopping it back in her face. Just very disrespectfully. So she gets nail clippers and is nipping the ends of it off. At one point she takes a lollipop and puts it in her hair. It's a lot of revenge. Okay. But I get it. I'd be very annoyed. And I'm less upset by it because this is clearly like wefts of fake hair that will come out. Yeah. But... I think the whole video is fake. I think the whole video is fake too. Yeah. I actually watched it the second time. So Brian sent it to me and I watched it and I had that reaction of like, wow, I can't believe this is happening. And then I watched it again and I'm like, these two are friends. Absolutely. They're dressed exactly the same. And she keeps whipping it. Yeah. Like it's so extreme. Yep. Like what do you... Do you think it's fake, Brian? Or do you... I... Whether... It's fake or... Yeah. That's actually me in the front there. You got me. So I don't wash my hair. There's a lollipop back there. No, I... Yeah. Whether this is real or not, this kind of thing does happen. It does, yeah. So more than just what this video inspires, just that level of revenge just makes me happy to watch. Yeah. Because I like seeing people who are disrespectful get their comeuppance. And it took... In the real world. It took three people to really make this video, right? The girl flipping her hair back, the other girl, and then the girl behind her in a row. So like these are like... But look at how much money they had to spend to make it. Your tickets are not cheap. Like this... They deserve the views on this one. Oh yeah, for sure. It's like $10,000 video. Yeah. Between the hair and the plane seats. Yeah, it's funny. All right, so... So that inspired Matt. And it just keeps going, but that's why we brought up Brian's plane story, which is kind of crazy just to set it up real quick. And then he can obviously tell the story. But we were sitting... Was it me, you, and Hayden sitting in one room? Yeah, we had... Two hair convention. Or was it Vegas? It was Vegas. Okay, it was Vegas show. Okay. And we had brought our son along with us. And we brought the staff. So Brian was... We were in a row, me, you, and Hayden. And Brian was across the other row with... In the middle. No, no, no. I was up against the window. Yeah, I remember. I was against the window. And there were two... No, it was a couple that were... Okay, you had the window seat and then... Okay, and then there was a couple, the middle and the aisle seat. Okay, and then go ahead. They look like they clearly had just gone to Vegas to get married by an Elvis impersonator real quick. No, they did not. They were in all whites. She was. She looked nice.  You're exhausted. So the plane takes off. I'm comfy in my little seat. I'm in my little airplane red wine because I like the taste of vinegar.   It basically exploded somehow. I defied physics all over this woman next to me in all white. So it's just, it's mayhem for a moment. So you would have thought I'd throw an asset on her. Well, freaking out. They run to the bathroom. I'm looking at Matt and Christina like, what do I do? I am horrified.  I'm looking over at him like, what? And I'm like, Christina, help me. What do I do? There's wine everywhere. And thank God, like, Christina's the best traveler because she's got like the Mary Poppins bag of whatever you may need. So she's just got this endless supply of wet wipes. Yeah. So I'm trying to clean this woman's entire space. Wipe her lap. Before she got up, you didn't know what to do. Oh my God. It was awful.  And thank God for me. It's a great traveler. And Brian's over there like, my child should be sitting next to me. And like the worst part of it all for me, like I felt so bad. You did. I put myself in time out. I didn't even ask for the stylus back to my Nintendo DS because I was like, I don't deserve to play video games right now. I'm punishing myself. And I just kept apologizing to the woman and she never said it's okay. That was the worst. I must have said I'm sorry a thousand times and she just goes, okay. And she never said it's okay. Never forgave me. I still carry that. How long was left on the ride? This is like a half hour into a six hour flight. Oh my gosh. He couldn't play his game. He couldn't enjoy it. And the flight attendant comes back and obviously he's coddling this woman because she's milking it. And he's like, can I get you anything? And then he looks to me, can I get you anything? Maybe white wine this time. And I'm like, all right. You know what I don't need? You know what he don't need right now? I get it. I feel bad enough. And I hope she never wore white on a plane again. Let that be a lesson. Yeah. Don't wear white on a plane. I agree. Because when I listen, when I use those wet wipes on that seat, the color that that wet wipe came up, the red wine was the least of her problems. Yeah. That was... Yeah. So that's what happens when you fly with me. So yeah. And just to be clear, I wasn't laughing. I don't think. Yes. You and Christina were... I wasn't laughing. I felt awful for you. I felt bad for the woman. And then I felt bad for you. It was written all over your face. Like, you were... You felt really... Even if I wanted to laugh. Out of respect for what was happening. Okay. Okay. I love how you guys remember this. Everyone was laughing at me. And she did. She did not take it well and ruined everyone's mood in that row. Because we all wanted to just kind of laugh and move on.  Yeah. What are you going to do? Live and learn. Wear black. I should have been filming it. Oh, yeah. Oh, we could be viral. Back in the day. Yeah, it would have been. Yeah. All right. So we got a couple of things to talk about today. I do think... I don't know if I want to skip this heartbreak. Can lead to hair loss thing. Then let's not. Well, no. Actually, I wonder if I want to. Oh. I think I want to. Okay. If we get to it, we'll get to it. Yeah. I think it's pretty self-explanatory about stress though. Yeah, they just... Yeah, they talk about stress and... It's really the ultimate... Stress and hormones lead to hair loss. Exactly. Yeah, that's done. Yeah, but... Get a therapist. And then it's like, it can take eight months for it to come back. And it's more about probably self-care than anything and what you're ingesting. Not really just rubbing vitamin E oil on your scalp. Like, you know, so. Right. Get a therapist. Yeah. That's the moral of the story. It'll help you cope with things. It does actually say, yeah. They do talk about that.  Well, it's like we tell people all the time, like, hair, skin and nails are just a outward reflection of what's going on inside the body. Yeah. Which is 100% true because I was drinking like lots of martinis and like, and I'm still, I still have martinis. I was gonna say, but you mean like this morning? That's so past tense. And, but I would also watch them down with gummy bears too, which is another thing that I would also do. And I, I have this eye thing. And I think it's all from that. What? No, I'm being serious though. You believe it too. Who saw this going that way? Oh, I totally do. But you're like, I just didn't see it going there. I have this eye thing. Well, no, it's like. People don't know you need to know about your eye thing. People, I don't care. What's your eye thing? Does it come out? It just sounds gross. No, it's like, well, I don't know. Like eczema or something. No, it might be psoriasis. Or psoriasis. You literally drank yourself to psoriasis. Yeah. Yeah, I did that. No, honestly in all seriousness, like you do have like an eczema or like an inflammation of skin. Yeah, like on my eyelid. But I can tell you, I think you'd look hot in an eye patch. So you know what? Just keep living. Well, I'm on my way. Keep living hard. I mean, I've always been. If you need it. Can you borrow someone's eye patch? Not when you don't want it back. Yeah, you don't want it back. I think it depends on what's behind it. Not when you have an eye thing. Yeah. Don't give that back. Oh, man. All right. So we're going to auction off Matt's eye patch. So it's going to be on the wheel next week. I actually, I just think it's stress. It's heartbreak. It's heartbreak. It's heartbreak. Back to the article, though. What I do find interesting is, you know, with when you, when you're stressed, you have like higher levels of cortisol. So what's interesting is that I think cortisol can like hinder the stages of hair growth in one of the stages. But also women with higher cortisol have excessive hair growth. Yeah. So it's just interesting that it could have. That is a, yeah. Have to do with both. I wish I was smarter to go on with that point. Well, maybe it has to do with estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, maybe. I don't know, but. I can let you guys know in the future because I actually, that is something I'll be going like to the doctor to talk about like my cortisol levels because I swear that I have like issues with that. So. My God. It's just going to be like, we're going to share all our medical stuff. Yes. Yeah. So. No, but if they have to do with hair. Yeah. Like my, cause I, I mean, my hair, I feel like, like how you're saying Christina, like I, my hair has grown a lot. I feel like in the past year, I would say a lot more than I feel like it usually does. So. Huh. We'll see. Lucky. You know. Cause you're young. Except for my bangs. Cause you're young. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. No, but just like to put to find it, like I noticed what they were talking about in this article that we're not talking about was you're talking about intelligent effluvium. We talk about that a lot since COVID because that is also something that happens when you're sick. Like if you have an excessive fever, blah, blah, blah, and like it's always been the case, it became more of a conversation after like COVID. Cause it was something that everyone in the world went through because a lot of people experienced hair loss after any prolonged high fever sickness, which also people were upping their vitamin D, which also has a direct effect of your hair to growth. So it's all, it's interesting when you start, like this article, this could go on to be a whole, it's not just really heartbreak, weight loss, it's the stress and your hormones and it's a whole segment. Yeah, for sure. We should do, we should talk about this article sometime. Yeah. It's not today. Let's move on to more important things, like, you know, Patrick Malone. Yeah, yeah, of course. It's funny cause that, that was so interesting what you just said, which was great. And in my head. Well, the people around me are, are so smart. Are so smart. And I'm like, in my head, I'm like, what's going to get people to watch this? And I'm like, we got to get to the Patrick Malone thing, but. That's our fan base. That was way better. That was way better. And I think people are going to like that more, but let's talk about. Let's see. Patrick Malone's, yeah. You guys, we'll put a, we'll put a poll up. Pull up, see who had, what was your favorite segment? Before we move on, Roller Girl from Las Vegas said, Matt, allergic to sulfates, what's the question mark regarding the eye thing? So maybe. That's a good question. So I've been working hand in hand with formulate. To like, I talked to him because he was saying, you know, and we're like making adjustments in my formulation or whatever. And then, so I'm not sure yet. We also thought maybe it was a reaction to actual tea tree oil. Really? Yeah.  Yeah. No, but tea tree. So this is the thing. Formulate uses 100% net like real stuff, right? Yeah. Most companies don't use 100% natural. Like it's just some kind of like they just throw it in there. Right. Almost every company is like that because it's expensive. Right. So, but some people can have a sensitivity to actual tea tree oil. So that could be possibly cause I was using a tea tree oil based shampoo. We're just going to point fingers at everything that isn't martinis and gummy bears. That's what I'm saying. But martinis and gummy bears. He's like, have you changed anything? And I'm like, no, but I'm pretty consistent with this one. Anyways, so. I put a different juice in my martini this week. That to me is like what I love like working with like formulate is like, I can literally talk to a chemist and be like, is it this and we can take sulfates out. We can take this out and we can just keep working to figure out what it is. You know what I mean? That is cool. But so far, you know, the gummy bears are gone, but the martinis are still there. So I don't bring them back. All right. So Patrick Mahomes has a kind of signature haircut, which apparently he did say he let it grow out and the people of Texas Tech loved it. That's where he played college. He also had a buzz cut in high school, which we have a picture of. He had that through high school. And then, you know, I have a sensitivity to that. I'm just kidding. I know you do. Triggered. And so in high school, he had that buzz cut. And then he went to college and him and his buddy had like a bet to like see who could grow their hair out. Of course, you know, the longest and he said he won. And it's kind of, it became his signature look. Oh, he won. Yeah. And now into the NFL. He's been wearing this Mohawk haircut in the headband, but he went on the Pat McAfee show and said he's going to be changing his hairstyle. Okay. So let's not talk about the athleticism. Let's talk about that big brain underneath that hair that you still have. Happy you didn't cut it. Hey, good news. Good move. Hey, it's gone. This also, you know, I promise y'all. It's gone. I almost did it today and this came on today with it. But I'm doing, I got to do something. I would have been devastated. It's kind of fun that I, do you guys feel like, and I know the whole Taylor Swift thing and all that, whatever into football. But back in the day, I felt like everything was very segmented and like fans of different things were all like put into categories very strongly. You know what I'm saying? And now I feel like we're just talking like we're talking about football players, hairstyles and we're talking, you know, like music, like everything's just kind of. Yeah. I mean, I think with what the different social media platforms has have done is it's made all of it so much more accessible. Yeah. Back when we were kids, the only people who knew what hairstyles they had were the people that sat down and watched the games. Yeah. Right. And now everyone knows because it's everywhere on everything. So everyone gets to weigh in whether they watch football or not. Yeah. So it becomes more of a conversation. You know, more people get involved to your point. Yes. So kind of interesting. Do you have any thoughts about his haircut? Do you like it? Yeah. Tell the truth. I mean, I just, you know, I'm just not a fan of Patrick in general, but. Okay. You know. I think his hair is cute. Yeah. It's all right. You know. Yeah, I like it. I didn't necessarily see Mohawk when I looked at it. I was like, oh, that's a Mohawk. I was reading what he said for like changing for his daughter. I'm a little confused by that. I got a three-year-old at home. I can't just keep the Mohawk going. At least change it up a little bit. That was the other part. Why? He says, he says he's going to be a father, right? Yeah, he is a father. No, he is a father. Yeah. So he's saying like being a father and having the Mohawk, he just kind of wants to change it up, which I actually. You can be a father with a Mohawk. You can for sure. But I do understand as you get older, because I think about those things too. Like as I, the way I dress or whatever, like it's not even as much about me. Oh, we should have brought pictures of before we had Aiden. Yeah. And took them up. Yeah. Like the way that I would dress. Stay tuned next week.  Would you say you feel the need to conform, fill a role? Not conform, but also feel, feel more grown up. You know what I mean? 100%. So he might not feel, he might feel like that's his child phase. I can.  It's come into the NFL. He does like it, but maybe he's feeling like he just wants to try something different, which is kind of cool. Yeah. Like, oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was just gonna say, like I can relate to that. I feel like we changed Brandon's life.  Brandon, um, he for as long as I've known him has buzzed his hair for like, he would do it every two weeks religiously. And I kept saying, like, why don't you grow it out and see what we can do? And I feel like it changed his life. Now he looks like a grownup. That and he had a lot. He has a lot of callix. I don't want to call him out on it or anything, but. But I'm gonna. But I think it makes it interesting because he was like, I have all these callix. So he would buzz his head because he just hated those callix. But when you start to talk to somebody, and this is like for you guys out there, when you're talking to your clients, I told him how great his callix are. You know what I mean? Because they create this texture. And it actually has this one that kind of pops in the front. And it kind of caters to having a little bit longer hair. He just never had somebody that was like, use this product. Right. Try this way of like blow drying it real quick. Like he just didn't have that. So he hated his hair. Yeah. And I think he got, you know, made fun of it a little bit for it. So like growing up because he didn't have that. Um, you know, somebody saying that you can use this product and whatever. So, um, yeah, I was going to say that like just being comfortable, not really conforming your comfortable the way you are.  Yeah, I can rock a mohawk. But I think maybe you just mature different, you know, different years going through the years. But like Brandon, he more probably was more comfortable than the hairdresser or stylist or barber knew what to do. Right. And now look at him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. He's got some style to it. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Um, and then the other thing I thought was interesting about this is that he said he was worried about losing his head and shoulders, um, sponsorship, you know, or maybe not losing it, but definitely that it could affect it because he's got this, you know, head of hair. Like he doesn't have other sponsors. He's like on every other commercial. Yeah. Like how much haircut can I have and still get your money? Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see what haircut he goes with. Um, and let, let us know in the, uh, in the comments if you guys like his hair, if you could care less, whatever. We just want to hear your opinions about that as well. Today's episode is sponsored by Mevo, the salon and spa software that stands out from the crowd. 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And then we can come up with our own list because I kept seeing, I saw one person's list and I don't know if I fully agree with it. I don't want to just bring their list on. So I thought it'd be more fun.  I know I'm going to start with one because my biggest offender of this is going to watch this and she's going to know. Look right into that. Yeah. Look right. When you take your sunglasses that have nose pieces and push them back into your hair and then don't know why you've got breakage around your face. That's why stop pushing nose piece glasses into your hair. I feel attacked. I came in this morning like that. I was thinking, who did I just see like that? It was Carly when I walked in here this morning. And Carly was like, why won't my bangs grow? No, she just cut them up. She literally just said why won't my bangs grow. Guilty. And what's like, it's fine. If you've got the glasses where it's like all one piece, that's fine. You push those back, use it as a headband. But like aviators, you know what I'm talking about? Like the little separate nose pads that, like Carly's things right here. When you push those up into your hair, it's going to grab. And then when you just pull them out, guess what comes out with it? Yeah. Like when they get everyone, they do that like pull and they're like, yeah, that little extra is like, your bangs ripping out. One at a time. Yeah. All right. That was an interesting one. There's mine. You see, and that's what I'm saying. That wasn't on the list. But it's a huge problem. And it is those little things that people don't realize that they're doing. Right. That are really causing like little, little damage. If they're doing it every day? Every day. Several times a day. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Follow that. That's it. Do you ever almost say something and then? No. Okay. I just say it. All right. Good. I'll learn from you. All right. What do you have? Yeah. I think pulling your hair back when it's wet, tying it in a tight, and sleeping that way. Yeah. Don't do that. Cause that creates your breakage around here. I was so bad when I had my hair along the first time I would tell people not to do that. And then I did it and discovered why I tell people not to do that. And just yesterday I was telling a client, like they just don't understand. Like when your hair is wet, it's got more elasticity. So if you stretch it beyond where it should be as it dries, it breaks. Yep. And then you end up, I can clock people when they're in my chair when they do it.   So we're on to everyone. We might not say anything. Oh, I'm gonna. That's the difference. They keep doing it though. Oh yeah. They won't stop. Oh yeah. People have all these vices and they don't stop. No, what helps is shame. That's not something. Yeah. Good call. Good call. Do you have a mat? All of mine. I've learned from you. So if you want to say any. Nice answer. No, you can say. No, I'm serious. Are you real? Oh. Too hot. Too hot with the hot tools. Oh yeah. You know, not using heat protecting. I do think this is one thing that I definitely believe is that blow drying your hair is actually not a good thing at all.  So I think personally if you have chemically treated hair, bleached hair, perm, a smoothing treatment, and you're blow drying with a every day with a really crappy blow dryer, it's no good. And then also I think if you're overusing any, I'm not going to say name brand, like the brands, but if you're overusing anything that adds in a lot of proteins and keratins and in there, it softens your, like your hair so much that I feel like if you're going to use a hot tool, your hairs, you're ultimately trying to help or fix your damaged hair. But it's not working. But it's hurting you in the long run. I really do believe that. Well, to kind of go off of that, another big one that I try to shame my people into understanding is overwashing. Like the analogy that I love, listen, that's why I don't wash my hair. No, but the analogy that I love, especially for people with long hair, is if you take your favorite t-shirt and you wash it a hundred times, even on the gentlest, softest cycle after a hundred washes, it's still going to be completely broken down. And that's just a hundred washes. That's washing your hair once every three to four days for one year. Yeah. So if you've got hair that's long down your back, like that's years old. That is hundreds and hundreds of washes that will eventually just wear and tear on the hair. So if you are one of those people that insists you have to wash it every single day, but then don't understand why you can't get past a certain length, like, that's where that conversation comes in. Because I do think that that is something that leads to breaking down the integrity of the hair. Okay. Even good stuff. Yeah. The best stuff on earth. Yeah. That's a big conversation I've had with formulae is that the big things in hair products that really cause a lot of damage. Like people are so freaked out by silicones and different things. There's a lot of benefits to a lot of these ingredients. But oils are really not good. They soften your hair so much. But you're saying, isn't there different things in oils, whether they penetrate or they coat? Yeah. So then you have to just know what it is and how you're using them. When you're using them in the process. Silicones coat. So like when you want really healthy looking hair, silicones are great because they do coat and make your hair look perfect and polished. There are different levels to silicones. There are some really crappy ones or ones that you use on your car tires. And then there's ones and sometimes they get real close to that car tire silicone in certain brands. So you got to be careful. You want to make sure you're using a brand that is using high quality ingredients, but not everything is just bad. You got to understand it a little more and we'll get more into that because I think that's a way bigger conversation. I actually like to have a formulate guy on here would be fun. So I want to talk to you guys about formulate. Customized formulas, freshly dispensed may just for you. So I wanted to announce that I'm thrilled to be a part of the formulate journey. This technology will revolutionize the way that stylists and clients interact. Formulate is all about individualized products that evolve with feedback. Customer shampoo, conditioner, serum, all those different things. All those needs are constantly changing. So at formulate, we are empowering professionals to take control of their client's hair like never before. Formulates fusion of chemistry and innovation is a game changer.  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Oh my God. Really? Get me. Women, I want to know what the women think out there. Wow. Women paying more for haircuts than men. How do you feel about it? Who's going to feel good about it? We'll get back into it. There's a lot of different things to it. There's a lot to it. There's a lot of nuance. How do I word that for people to answer it? No, just like that. Just like that. And then we all get into it. And then everyone, it's a conversation. Like on average a women's haircuts three times more than men. I think you're right though. Everyone's not going to. I mean, most people are not going to be okay with that. But why? I guess is get a little bit in depth with your answer so that we can look through it. And I want to bring up your guys's conversations on the show as well. Because Louie even said gendering haircuts is 2024. My Lord. That ain't it. So that's a whole other way to go. But what's the solution? Yeah. And I also have thoughts on that too because of posting haircuts on YouTube and stuff. It's really hard not to label them because people are searching still. And so it's hard. Yeah. It's a really, really long topic. Conversation. Yeah. Okay. Cool. So we can get into it. All right. So next week. So many different avenues. Yeah. Next week we're going to get deep into that. And then who do we want to spin the wheel? If you want to spin the wheel, Brian's getting into position. First person to say they want to spin. I thought you did it. Oh, oh, oh. So what we're going to do for, yeah, for next week is comment on the video and let me know if you want to spin and we'll put you into spin. So the first person when? The comment right now. Oh, okay. Is going to spin the wheel. On the wheel, we have Minerva Beauty. They're giving away a Theragun. It's not necessarily this one, but they have a Theragun. And this thing is great for those long days in the salon when you want to just get home and, you know, work out the kinks. We also have Mevo, too, on the wheel. Mevo is doing conferences all over. Tracy gets to spin. All right, cool. Small conferences all over the country. We're giving away tickets to that. Formulate is giving away free formulation, custom formulation for you guys. And then we have a bunch of different scissors and things from our shop, shopfse.com. So it's Tracy, right? You said? Tracy. Yep. All right, Tracy, we're going to spin it and let's see what you want. Wisconsin, I think. Yep. I forgot to load up the applause. I was going to say we need wheel music. I'll put it. It'll be in the TriRazor. All right. All right. Congrats, Tracy. You want a TriRazor. So all you have to do is email info at freesaloneducation.com and just put in the subject, say, wheel winner and then your address, phone number, obviously your full name. And then we will get that out to you. 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Here we are making the same beta function as a function of beta form phase. If we are changing the beta form phase, how the beta function maximum value of beta function changes in the photo cell and this is minimum value of the beta function which occurs at the symmetry point, how it changes with the variation in beta form phase means again if I plot the photo cell here figure, so red figure shows the beta value here and blue plot shows the beta values of this point. So, how this is the beta max here and here is the beta max, now you can see here in the near 76 degree, this is nearly 76 degree, you have minima in this curve means minimum value of beta function occurs if you have 76 degree phase advance in the photo cell, so preferable phase advance for keeping the vacuum chamber aperture minimum is 76 degree in the case of the photo cell. Now, this is the example of periodic solution of a photo cell, this is the schematic shown here, continuous same cells are repeated and this is the plot of beta functions, so if we choose the matched solution means a periodic values of beta and alpha, then this kind of nicely variation in the beta functions shown, now you can see here this beta value of this at this location of the beta function is same as the value of this location and it is again the same here means values of beta functions are repeated. Instead of this, if you choose some initial beta and alpha other than this value, then periodic solution will not be there and some other solution will be there and this will look like this, now you can see that maximum value of beta is also varying here, so beam sizes will not be smooth in this case and they will vary, how these two solutions can be used practically we will see. Suppose at a location we are plotting the ellipse in the phase plane, at certain location say s is equal to s1, optical parameters are gamma 1, alpha 1 and beta 1 and the invariant of motion say it is emittance, so this gives you an ellipse here like this and you can see this particular point is the injection point of the accelerator, injection point of the accelerator means a beam of charged particle will be injected in this accelerator at this location. Now, suppose a previous accelerator from which we are getting the beam to inject in that sense the beam suppose this is the accelerator orbit here in which we want to inject the beam and there is a transport line by which beam is coming inside this accelerator. So, this transport line will also have its certain alpha beta depending on the magnetic arrangement and this optics circular optics of the synchrotron will also have alpha beta here this is the s is equal to s1 which we have chosen and here we are seeing that our risk parameters are hiding the value alpha 1 beta 1 gamma 1. These risk parameters are the periodic solution for the synchrotron optics. Now, suppose the transport line also have the solution in which at the end point of transport line alpha beta gamma has the same value as of this line I have all these values alpha beta gamma then we have both the accelerators or beam or accelerator has the matching. In this case suppose this is the beam which is coming this is the spread of the beam in the phase space if same alpha beta gamma here is at the end of the transport line we get such kind of ellipse of the beam in this sensor. So, accelerator optics produces this ellipse and beam is coming in this ellipse via transport line. So, both are matched. So, this shows that this beam will nicely follow the periodic solution of beta function which we obtained which we have shown the upper photograph of beta functions. Now, suppose this alpha beta gamma at the end of transport line do not match with the values of these alpha beta gamma of the synchrotron. Then transport line will send the beam with different orientation this is again I am plotting here in another this is the ellipse drawn by alpha 1 beta 1 gamma 1 parameters at the injection point of the synchrotron. And now suppose transport line sends the beam with different alpha beta gamma means ellipse of that beam will be misoriented with respect to this ellipse means beam will come like this. Now, after some point this particle will follow the contour of these optics now because this is in the synchrotron and these optics will be in these optics this will follow this ellipse this particle will follow this ellipse. So, after some time you can see that ellipse may be like this and ellipse may be like this. So, at a certain location also means in this case on each turn you will see beam has the same ellipse because we have a periodic solution. And in this case after each turn the ellipse of the beam has been rotated means on each turn when passing the beam through s is equal to s 1 at that location we are not getting the fixed beam size. Instead we are getting the beam size variation. So, Mishma's solution gives you the beam size variation in each turn while the periodic solution gives you a same fixed beam size at a particular location. Suppose we are looking now at this location beam size may have different values but that will remain fixed in each turn in the case of matched solution. And in case of the mismatched solution even at a certain location beam size will not remain fixed on each turn. So, this is the problem with mismatched solution. So, always we have to find out a periodic solution and we try to match the beam ellipse with the optic ellipse. So, we have a matched beam inside the accelerator. So, this kind of example was called mismatched solution and this is the matched solution. So, far we talked about only the particles which are having the same momentum as of the design moment. But in practice we have a bunch of the particles means many particles are there and each particle may have slightly deviated momentum than the design moment. How the motion of these particles which have deviated momentum can be analyzed is now. Now, consider three part this is a dipole magnet. This is a dipole magnet and this is the design trajectory which is plotted here and design momentum is p0. Means this design trajectory is designed considering the momentum as p0. Now, this is the design path through this bending magnet. Suppose on this path initially two more particles are coming. One particle is having momentum higher than p0. So, definitely this dipole magnet will bend less or you can say radius of curvature will be larger for this higher momentum particle. So, it will be deviated from the design path and it will go like this. If a particle has momentum less than p0 then it will bend more or radius of curvature will be smaller and this will go like this. So, initially all the particles were going together but as it passes through the dipole magnet the dipole magnet disperses the particles according to their movement. It is just like the prism does for the white light. In white light we have different energy for different waves or colors and each color is separated by the prism. Similarly, each momentum is separated by the dipole magnet. How this we can relate we have formulation r0 is equal to p0 by QB. Radius of curvature of a particle having momentum p0 charge Q and is passing through the magnetic field B. So, this is the radius of curvature r0. Now, if instead of p0 we have p0 plus delta. So, new radius of curvature will be r and you can take p0 out.  This delta is equal to delta P by P means fractional deviation in the moment. This is denoted by delta. So, for a particle which has fractional momentum deviation of delta the radius of curvature will be r0 1 plus delta. So, for a positive delta P positive delta P means momentum higher than the design one r will be increased and for a negative delta P means a particle which is having momentum lesser than the design momentum r will be increased. How far the trajectory of a momentum particle is away from the design path? This is quantified by a new parameter which is known as dispersion. Now, you can see that at this location the central path is the design path. So, at this location this is the deviation in the path. At this location this may be the deviation for this. At this location this is the deviation. At this location this is the deviation means deviation is varying with s means this deviation is a function of s. See delta x as a function of s and it is proportional to delta. We have seen that r is equal to r0 1 plus delta and this r is producing this deviation. So, this deviation will be linear in delta and this quantity which is relating this deviation with this delta is known as dispersion. Similarly, if we take the derivative delta x prime means what is the angle here with respect to design trajectory or angle here with respect to design trajectory that is delta x prime that is derivative of the D multiplied by momentum offset. This delta P by P fractional changing momentum is also known as momentum offset and the particle which is on the correct momentum or the design momentum is known as on momentum particle and the particle which is away from the design momentum is known as off momentum particle. Now, suppose these particles travels downstream to this optics. So, these trajectories will look like this they will go in this direction this will go in this direction. These are dispersing away from the design orbit. So, we want to focus it. So, we have a focal quadrupole which can focus it. So, these particles will come. Now, again you can see this deviation has been reduced downstream to this quadrupole means quadrupole can be used to change or modify the value of dispersion. So, whenever a dipole will be there dispersion will be generated and using these quadrupole magnets the values of dispersion can be modified. Consider initially dispersion is 0 in the optics. 0 dispersion means all the particles if we collect different particles according to their momentum means we can select the particles having the momentum p0. We can select the particles having the momentum p1. We can select the particles having the momentum p2 and all these particles centroid are on the design trajectory. Then we see that there is no dispersion means all the particles are having same centroid and they are exhibiting betaton oscillations around the same orbit. Then we say dispersion is 0 means orbit is not differentiated according to the moment. So, if now we can learn something about that suppose a particle is having initially x is equal to 0 x prime is equal to 0 and delta is equal to 0 means this particle due to x is equal to 0 and x prime is 0 means it is on the design path. Design path itself shows the origin means it defines the origin of our coordinate system. So, design path always has 0 0 coordinates and there is no momentum offset means this particle is having exactly the design momentum then it will move definitely on the design path nicely. It will not exhibit any kind of betaton oscillation it will follow nicely the design path actually the path of this particle will define the coordinate system. Now any one of these either x or x prime becomes non-zero or both both can be not 0. Still we have no momentum offset means correct momentum but non vanishing initial condition in x or x prime. This particle will exhibit betaton oscillation which we have seen and this around the design orbit around the design orbit and the displacement at any location of this particle from the design orbit will be given by this formulation. This is invariant of the motion this is beta at that location where we want to find out the displacement and this is the phase advance of betaton oscillations. So, this will give you the displacement of this particle with respect to design orbit. Now suppose again a particle is going on the design orbit particle is going on the design orbit means x is equal to 0 x prime 0 but this time its momentum is wrong means it is not having the momentum exactly as the design one rather than it has certain tilt of p until the dispersion occurs it will nicely follow the design orbit. However as the dipole magnet comes in the path of this particle it will deviate from the design orbit and now the position of this particle with respect to design trajectory will be defined by the dispersion at that location dispersion is also a function of s. So, now displacement of this particle with respect to design orbit will be dispersion multiplied by delta p by p. Now if I have considered a particle which is having all non vanishing condition means it is neither initially on the design orbit and also had wrong movement. So, now it will exhibit betaton oscillation because of this non vanishing nature condition and because of this it will follow a dispersive orbit means this kind of particle will exhibit betaton oscillations around the dispersive orbit not around the design orbit means center of betaton oscillation for this particle will not be on design orbit rather than its center of oscillation will be on that orbit which is decided by this dispersion into delta p by p. So, displacement of this particle total displacement of this particle from the design orbit will be betaton oscillation part plus d delta. At a certain location say s is equal to s 1 this d is fixed and on each turn the location or displacement of this particle will change according to betaton oscillation that is why its center has become d delta for the oscillation. Now we can see in phase plane initially x is equal to 0 x prime is equal to 0 and delta is equal to 0 this defines the origin of this our coordinate system this is the design orbit initially non vanishing x and x prime however delta is still 0 this kind of particle makes an ellipse after turn betaton and this ellipse is d 2 betaton oscillations. Now we consider the third case where initial conditions were vanishing x is equal to 0 x prime 0 and delta was not 0. So, it will pass through some deviation from the design orbit this is the deviation this deviation is d delta prime and this deviation is d delta means in x the deviation is due to dispersion multiplied by delta p by p and in x prime deviation is due to d prime sorry this will be d prime delta is fixed because we are studying only the magnetic optics and magnet does not change the energy of the particles so delta will remain fixed. When we will study about the rf cavity particles motion through the rf cavity then delta will change and now consider the last case where x is also not 0 x prime is also not 0 and delta is also not 0. Then the ellipse of this particle due to betaton oscillation will be around this central point this is the central point and around which betaton oscillation is taking place. This increase in beam size occurs only when dispersion is non-zero at deprecation if dispersion is 0 all the particles are exhibiting betaton oscillation around the design orbit and beam size does not depend on the momentum set. Now as for individual particle we have x is equal to x beta and beta from part is this and this is due to dispersion so for beam we have to calculate the rms values of it this is for a single particle for collection of the particles we have to obtain the rms values of this so this will give you the beam size so beam size will be this is the rms value of the first quantity that is the betaton part that is admittance rms admittance multiplied by beta at that location and this point is due to dispersion and momentum offset. Now suppose initially there is no dispersion and its derivative is also zero so all the particles irrespective of their momentum are exhibiting betaton oscillations around the design so this is the case and these particle passes through some optics and exits from that optics and during exiting of from that optics again dispersion and its derivative but inside that optics there were dipole magnets so in that case dispersion was also not zero and dispersion prime also worked means at the entry of this optics dispersion is zero and dispersion prime is also zero and this optics has been arranged in a fashion so that on exit d is also zero and d prime also zero means there is a special arrangement of the magnets to achieve this condition if d is zero at this point and d prime is also zero means derivative is also zero then there will be no dispersion downstream to this because we are considering only linear dynamics so first order derivative is zero it is sufficient to tell us in nonlinear dynamics we have to make sure that second derivative is also zero but that is beyond the scope of this course so in this course we are restricting ourselves in the linear transverse beam dynamics so if d is zero here and d prime is also zero here then downstream to this point there will be no dispersion so such a special arrangement of this optics or arrangement of the magnets by which this optics has been made which offers again dispersion zero and its derivative also zero is known as acrobat means initially dispersion is zero and its derivative is zero and on exit the arrangement of magnet gives a dispersion and its derivatives so this kind of optics is known as an acrobat and this is a very useful arrangement of magnets in making the synchrotron optics and various kind of transverse planes now you can see that once dispersion has been generated using the dipole magnet water pole magnet can also modify the dispersion but there is a problem it cannot make dispersion zero and its derivative zero at both simultaneously either you can make dispersion zero or its derivatives not simultaneously by the particle so for making the acrobat we need another dipole also so only quadrupole cannot make the acrobat why i am saying this statement we can see now suppose this is a dipole magnet i am plotting this axis is s and this is dispersion i am plotting dispersion with this direction vertical direction so initially there is no dispersion so this zero then dipole occurs so dispersion will increase and again here is the drift space so dispersion will go like this now suppose we put a quadrupole at this location so it will it can focus the beam so beam focusing means all the particles which have deviated momentum will also focus so dispersion will be reduced but after some point when dispersion becomes zero again dispersion will grow because derivative has not been vanished now if we put another quadrupole here and try to vanish the dispersion derivative it is not possible why not possible because dispersion is passing through the center of the particle at the center of the quadrupole will be zero so this cannot modify the dispersion or quadrupole cannot modify or change the value of dispersion if dispersion is zero inside the quadrupole so you cannot make dispersion and its derivative simultaneously zero only using quadrupole magnets so for making an acrobat you need more than one dipole magnet we see it suppose this is the dipole and this is the dispersion generated by the dipole so at exit d is equal to d1 and d prime is d1 prime and this is the second dipole magnet after which we want again dispersion zero and its derivative zero means we want this if this condition is met then this optics will be an acrobatom now after this point how the dispersion will go like this it will go like this so when it will enter inside this dipole magnet there is no chance that I know exit d is equal to zero and d prime is zero because it will increase further by this dipole magnet so if this is zero here what should be the initial condition here for d and d prime so this dipole makes a chromatic condition at the exit so if this is the condition means these values of dispersion and d1 prime are there then a chromate can be built so for bringing this value here we can use the quadrupole so now quadrupole magnet changes the direction of d and it brings a particular value of d and d prime at the entry of the dipole magnet and then dipole magnet makes d and d prime both so after exiting this optics there is no dispersion and it's there so this is known as a chromate because this a chromate has been built using two dipole magnets it is known as double band acrobatom we can use three dipole magnets to make the acrobatom then this is known as triple band acrobatom and more than three dipole magnets if we are making the acrobatom then it is known as multi band chromate so we stop here this lecture and again the references are same in the next lecture we will see chromaticity in the synchro form and we will introduce one new magnet which is known as sextopole magnet