Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from FreeSalonEducation.com. I'm here with Gerard Scarpeci, right? That's right. Is that good? There's many ways to pronounce it, but that's my preferred. That was the correct way. There's a story behind it, as there is for everything. But do you want to tell me? Yes. Let's go. When my grandfather came to America, he wanted to be American. Came from Sicily. And in Italy, you would pronounce it scarpacci.  He wanted to be American. And he started pronouncing it scarpeci. OK. And that's just how my father did it. And that's how I've done it. And that's the story. That might just be how Midwest American I am, that I would just read it that way. Yeah. Well, yeah, because it's supposed to sound more American. But like, you know, if I'm in Italy or if I'm talking to Italians or people that, you know, really speak Italian, they usually would say scarpacci. And I don't correct them. But, you know, that's the story. Nice. All right, cool. So I'm really excited to be at a rojo first off, you know, in New York City. Or a rojo. Depending on how you want to pronounce it. Right. I never messed that one up. Or a rojo.  I'm from Iowa. So and I moved here 10 years ago to do hair, to start my hair career. So just first off, driving into the city is like just a crazy experience. And then trying to park. And then, you know, finding this place. But I'm here. I'm excited to be with you. You were one of my number one guys I wanted to sit down with. So I'm excited to be here. Well, great. I'm honored. Thank you. So I want to start off a couple of things. Obviously, I want to get into what you're all about, your background a little bit. But the thing that I liked most about you and what I look up to you for is that right from your hairbrain.me profile, which we're going to talk about hairbrain in a second, it says, I'm just a guy who's dedicated his life to the art and craft of hair. And along the way, had great mentors who shared their knowledge with me. And I'm just trying to do the same. Right. And it's not a crazy, fancy bio. It's straightforward. That's what happened with you. And that's what you want to do for people. And I think that that's excellent. And everything I ever hear about you is that you're the most giving hairdresser there is. So. Well, thank you. So tell me about just who was your mentor. Who are those people you're talking about, I guess, is my first question. You know, I mean, for me, I've had so many along the way. I started, you know, the very first salon I ever worked in was owned by a guy called Vince Smith, a Vince. He's down here in Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan. He had a great, successful little business. And he believed in education.  And he was a disciple of Sassoon. So he would incorporate Sassoon training into the salon training. He was my first real mentor. And I learned from him really the service side of the business and the communication side and whatever he had to offer technically. You know, what I quickly learned from him was that I loved Sassoon. Right.  The thing that I know most about you is that you're an educator. I don't know much about you as a stylist behind a chair, but you've educated a lot of people, right?  So why don't you tell me about what you do here and what your daily role is? Well, it's just kind of a continuation of the same story. You know, when I went to Sassoon right away, I was engulfed in an intense training program that was still, you know, really the predominant training program in the world at the time. And maybe the only one, I think that a lot of things have been added to the mix now. But around this is 1990, and that was still really the major focus. And right away, I was drawn to the strength of the company, which was education. So as soon as I finished my training program, I said, OK, now how do I become a teacher? And I always have had kind of the gift of GAB, which is kind of half the battle when you educate. So I just dove right in, you know, like a lot of these kids are doing here today. And I started training apprentices in the same program that I trained in. And then I was lucky. And you talk about mentors. Another one of my mentors was Stephen Moody. He would come to New York a few times a year. He was the vice president of Education North America at the time for Sassoon. He would come to New York to do the IBS show or to do a training at the salon. And I got to work with him. And he said to me, you know, I think you'd make a great full-time teacher. You know, Sassoon has an education department within it to run the academies, the cosmetology schools. And where's that at? I hear in America, it's based in Santa Monica. OK. And then in Europe, of course, it's based in London. And I was fortunate. You know, I'm now again here, a kid from Brooklyn. I'd never really even been on an airplane. And he gave me the opportunity. You know, they flew me out to California. And I got to work for a month. I thought, first, I never wanted to move to California. I thought, you know, New Yorker tried and true. After a month there, I never wanted to come back. I mean, there are a lot of great things in California, besides the sunshine and the things that the sunshine makes come from the earth. You know, it's a beautiful, wonderful place. And then I really fell in love with full-time teaching and met other mentors.  You know, when I started at Sassoon, one of my good friends, who's still my best friend, Julian Perlingiro, he was like a year or two ahead of me. And he was one of the people training me on the classic bob or the ladies' basic life. And Julian's from Philly, right? Julian's from Philly. And he works with Paul Mitchell and Angus. And he had already been down this route. And he had already moved to California. So now I have Stephen telling me, you should do it. Now I've got a buddy that I worked with out there already.  So I've been, from early on, I mean, at this point, I'd only been doing hair for about four years, maybe five at the most. And I was full-time educating because I was in this, you know, Sassoon Academy. And I did that basically for the next, you know, almost 10 years. So tell me about like, so I just think about me being four years into doing hair and going to California and never been on a plane. Like, tell me about your mindset. Like, that's the stuff that excites me because it's like, you just got shipped out there to work with Sassoon, just in California. I think, for me, if I would have been in Iowa and somebody sent me to California, just out of nowhere and I'd never been on a plane, I think I would be losing my mind. So what was your thought process when you were going out there? I mean, from a technical standpoint, I knew I probably wasn't prepared because I was still a young hairdresser. But, you know, I kind of have balls. So I wasn't really intimidated by, you know, the presentation aspect or I've never felt shy to get in front of groups. And I like a good challenge. I'm very competitive. I think, for me, like, I never really feel prepared, necessarily. But I mean, not, I guess, prepared is maybe the wrong word. But I think when you have the confidence and the call and you just go for something, I think that that's cool that you did that because I don't think four years into the business, a lot of people would just have the confidence to even try, let alone actually go to California.  Right, yeah. I did like a year working in a salon before that, getting real world experience. And then I went through a 16-month training program. So I did, I had that little bit of confidence. Plus, I just figured, you know, I can make it. I can make it happen. That's cool. So let me see. OK, so I saw a discussion. It's kind of been going through Facebook for some reason. And it's one of those discussions that you hear a lot. And it's talking about young stylists or people graduating from school. And they're going to salons. And they're leaving salons quickly because people are blaming it on they're not being taught the right way of the right thinking. I personally, I said last week on our podcast that it was, for me, I think it's more, we have to tell them about the journey and how hard it is and things that you've been through, that I've been working on going through, just the struggles that are actually in hard work, but then the reward that pays off at the end of it. What do you feel about that with when stylists graduate? It's a huge topic. I think in the past decade or so, I've noticed a big change. I mean, when I was a young hairdresser, and at that time so soon was the preeminent cosmetology school and perhaps the only branded cosmetology school, the message was it's a craft. It's going to take a long time. It's very hard. You're not going to make a lot of money at first. But if you dedicate yourself to it, perhaps you could be one of the lucky ones. But then I think what happened, and it's a natural progression, the product world, which is a multi-billion-dollar world, said, well, why don't we make our own hairdressers and let's open our own cosmetology schools and how are they going to be better? Well, they're going to be cleaner and fancier and they're going to look better. We're going to charge a lot more money. We're also going to tell them we're going to prepare you better.  No, not at all. They're right up, Paul Mitchell. They've done a lot to upgrade the cosmetology school, but the student coming out also has this higher expectation right off the bat, you know? And I think in those programs, they say, you know, you're going to pay more to come to this fabulous facility and we're going to prepare you better. But this is the difference. That can't happen because it's a craft. It doesn't matter how well you're taught in the first year, how clean the facility is. Within a year, you're barely scratching the surface. You know, it takes six, seven, eight years of great mentorship to start to become a master in this craft. So I think that's kind of the root of the problem. And I realized that many, many years ago. I also think it relates back to how much more informed and intelligent the young people are these days. You know, when I was 19, I didn't have the world that my fingertips to find out all the information and compare and say, well, this isn't good and that's good. And I think, you know, what we've done here at Orojo has tried to tap into that and say, instead of fighting this, let's give them as much of an objective plan as possible. So they come in knowing a lot more and we then bombard them with even more information, and a very structured program. And pretty much every kid that's here, and I call them kids, some of them aren't kids, but every kid that's here as an apprentice could pretty much on paper tell you right now when they expect to be on the floor. It's that structured.  And I think they crave structure because there's so much more intelligent or much more informed. Well, I think salons really need, because like the salons I was just with four hours before this, before us. And I think a lot of them, the challenges is they don't even have a Facebook, they don't have, they didn't know what HairBrand was. They don't know, like there's no inspiration anywhere. And I think if stylists wanna move forward and inspire themselves, you're talking about a training program doing six bobs, you know, six one lengths, whatever. Most, you're right, like most salons don't have that. But even if they do, the consistency of it is the challenge. And even me getting a tour today here at Arrojo was like, you know what, I really gotta, I gotta step up my training program. I haven't hired anybody in a year and a half because I have a four chair salon where we have quite a few stylists and it's a little bit different, but it's not different because I think we're always making ourselves different in our head, I guess. As I was going through the tour today, I was like, you know what, I'm not up to par exactly with where I should be training wise. And it takes coming to a place like this or just being inspired by something. And that's what I love about HairBrand and freesaloneducation.com. For me, it's a source of inspiration for people that aren't in New York City that can be inspired. So let's talk about, I'll get into the razor tip in a second, founders of HairBrand, who are they? Myself and Randy Taylor are the technical co-founders, who literally started it. And then all of our friends in the education world, first people that we invited were friends of ours at Aveda, friends of ours at Paul Mitchell, friends of ours at Sassoon, friends of ours at Arrojo. I've been fortunate in my career that after getting that kind of Sassoon pedigree, I've worked for a lot of companies. And in most of those companies, was able to connect well with the hairdressers, the key hairdressers. And then when we decided to do something, when we decided to create HairBrand, we just reached out to all of them and asked them to promote it in their classes and in their events.  I don't wanna exclude them, but it's their fault that they don't know about things like that. You know what I mean? It's not that hard to be informed. So maybe they don't necessarily belong there. And again, it sounds negative, but I don't mean to be that way. It's like, I want this to be a community of the most passionate people. And there's plenty of places for people to go and dabble and learn about a new shampoo or see a new collection. But the difference here is this, the people that belong are the contributors. And they're the ones that are sharing and discussing. So we only want people there that really feel like they can contribute to the community.  I don't wanna call it that anymore. So explain to me, I know exactly. So explain to me how I, what you say, what is your description of HairBrand? I mean, HairBrand is a platform for passionate hairdressers to connect with other passionate hairdressers. To share information, education, photos, inspiration to celebrate the craft. It's a platform, it's a place where you can go.  I mean, along the line, you know, I wasn't always made to feel great even at a place like Sassoon.    Right. And we also wanted a place where industry educators could stay connected.  So you mentioned before. I mean, I've been an industry educator for, you know, good part of 20 years. I would say the majority of people that I taught in those 20 years, especially maybe the first 15, wouldn't even know me if they saw me. Because, you know, you spend these two or three hours or three days connecting with them and hopefully helping them, but then there's no continued connection after that. And that was one of the reasons why it was Randy's idea. He's much more of a tech guy than I am. And we were doing these classes at Aveda and I wanted to like continue to follow up with the students and stay connected the way Lupe Vos has done with her hair color magic group. So that's another, you know. She's got over 1,000 people on that group. 1,500, you know. Unreal, it's awesome. Actively engaged, asking questions every day about color and formulation.  Right. And that's when, so when me and Thad both, we started with Hairbrain and that was really our inspiration for deciding to create videos. Because before, I mean, YouTube is an outlet. And yeah, we, we, It's not niche enough. I love YouTube because of the following that we've been able to create. But the fact is, Hairbrain, you put it on there. The people that watch it are hairstylists, you know. And YouTube, it could be anybody. But me and Thad just decided, you know what? We love cutting hair. Normally on Wednesday nights, we would go, you know, have a beer or something after work and talk about hair the whole time. So we're like, you know what, let's just film it. We had a crappy camera laying around. We were like, let's film it, edit it, put it together. I think I know how to do this. And so we put our first video on Hairbrain. And, you know, it got a little bit of a response. And it was like, you know what, let's just do this. Let's have fun with it. And then it evolved into, well, how do we organize it? And then Friislan Education came about. But it, but I love Hairbrain because it is the outlet for hairdressers to share anything. Well, it's a place to ship what you've created, you know. And I think that that's an important word because, you know, I hear from hundreds of people all the time about things that they're doing and creating, but they never ship them. They never, you know, it's always in the planning stages. And I think what you guys did is exactly the way that great things get created. You just do it. And then you put it out there and you keep making it better and better and better. You can't wait forever. So if you have a crappy camera and you've got a good idea, it's better than a crappy idea and a good camera. You know what I mean? And unfortunately, that's mostly what we end up seeing, you know, people, I've seen videos and collections that they've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. Nobody watches them. Nobody cares. Well, in this world, like I was talking to a company and they were telling me that, you know, we have this unbelievable collection for 2015. And I'm like, well, this world today, you got to put out content every other day. Otherwise, like you said. Hourly. Exactly. Otherwise, no one remembers who you are. You know, it was, it was cool. Like it's just, it's cool. Like we went to the New York care show and people, I've been working. I worked for Paul Mitchell for 10 years. And I would go to the New York show every year and no one would have a clue who I was. And then, you know, we put out videos on YouTube four or five times a week and we go to the New York show and we got people taking pictures.  You have to just go do it. Absolutely. All right, let's see what, my next question was what, what is the future of HairBrain? What are you guys trying to do? What's the, what do you guys call it?  What's this? What's that? I just felt kind of guilty or bad about the fact that I don't have a five year plan and we've never thought that way about HairBrain and I read something recently that has really cleared it up for me that I think was quite brilliant. And I was reading a Seth Guden blog and he mentioned, you know, that there's three kind of games you can play. There's a short game, a long game and an infinite game.   The long game, you know, you're willing to do it and stretch it out a little bit longer because you want a bigger payoff. And then there's the infinite game where the whole point is to just keep playing the game. And that's what HairBrain is. The whole point is to just keep playing and moving forward. You know, that's the big picture. You know, so we want to keep making the game more and more fun and adding things to it. So we've added obviously the awards this year. You guys were nominated for a HairBrain Video Award. Which was a great party by the way. It was a great party. And I think I really believe that it's going to become a very important recognition and an award and a center for hairdressers that are creating valuable content for other hairdressers. I think for true hairdressers, it will be the award. I know that it's your thing. So from my standpoint looking at it, it's the one award that I would work towards getting. You know, because I think that it comes from a totally different place. There's not a dollar sign behind it. There's a, you know, it's coming from people that every stylist that's on HairBrain looks up to. So I think that's really good. So, and then going off that, we've always done meetups and we're expanding those. You know, that's where the community actually can come together. Again, in a more party-like environment, seems to be something the hairdressers like to do. And we're doing these meetups at major events. But we also want to get into educational events, you know, not necessarily shows and circus-like kind of things. But, you know, when I was a young hairdresser, it's as soon as we used to have something called a teach-in. And, you know, it's pretty much more of a European term. But it was, you know, always held in the academy and people would come from all over. And there would be some presentations of models, but then it would be a much more technical. You'd walk away having learned something technical.  And give the people that participate in it a chance to make some money. You know, the independent educators or even educators that are affiliated with brands a chance to have a stake in something that's bigger than just their one name. Right. You know, and that's been another big part of Hairbrained is, you know, all these different, and they were all our friends and all people that we worked with.  So we want to pull everyone together to do events that, you know, cover different sectors of the industry and give something valuable to the people attending and the people that are participating, they should make money off of it. Right. Absolutely. I like that. And then, so, and, oh, the meetup. That's what I wanted. So the meetup is that from Mere Orlando, the next one. Yep. What day is that? You know? It's June 1st, Sunday, June 1st. So here's the story behind meetups.  I've been going to trade shows since I'm 19 years old and usually the most intriguing part is kind of what happens afterwards at the closest bar where all the hairdressers, the educators, the people that are working the show, attending the show, get together, talk about the vibe of the show, the things that they saw, the things, you know, the networking of what's happening in the industry. So, you know, just like many things, we decided, you know, about five years ago to try to attach hair brain to that, to brand it. So the Long Beach show is really the first place. And, you know, our largest membership is in California. Okay. And that's also where it just happens to be where the most hairdressers are. And I think that a lot of them are independent, so they need something to belong to. So we started five years ago doing meetups at the Long Beach show that the PBA puts on, the ISSA. And it was always an informal thing. So it was kind of like the old rave days where, you know, you would just send out a message and people would meet up. Right. And it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. This year we had, you know, 150 people turn up at a little tiny hotel bar and they had to put up a rope to keep out the other 100 people because they couldn't even come in to kind of hang out just to network and connect with like-minded people. So we've finally decided to take it to the next level to get a much larger space. So now in Orlando, at the premiere show, it's attached to the old Peabody hotel. Okay, that's cool. It's not called the Peabody anymore. They change it to the Hyatt. And they've got a beautiful big bar there.  Yeah. So, you know, they wouldn't give us the whole bar, unfortunately, because we really could have used it, but they gave us a large area for 125 people to have an open bar and to attend. And we reached out to brands that we feel are good for hairdressers. I mean, that's always been our kind of perhaps deciding point of who we work for.  So for us, it's, you know, we're not a media company. We're not just saying, okay, well, you have money for an ad and I've got some ad space, so we'll take your money. We're partnering.  Yeah. You know, we have a community that's creating valuable content and things that are good for hairdressers. Do you want to sponsor that? We don't actually need anything from them. We don't ask them to create content. I don't want a collection. Right. I've got 10,000 pictures every month. Yeah. So it's kind of the reverse way of thinking, do you want to sponsor that? You know, and that's what we said.  Do you guys want to sponsor it? And we were able to, you know, limit it to four brands plus the PBA, who are really the only association for hairdressers that work behind the scenes with advocacy and governmental issues. And I'm learning a lot more about it because, you know, like most hairdressers, I haven't been that aware of what goes on behind the scenes, but that's really the only governmental advocacy group. So, you know, the brands that'll be sponsoring us for this meetup, it's in association with PBA and then we're sponsored by Orojo, Aesthetica Magazine, Millennium Salon System and Hatori Hanzo Shears. And the idea was to have distinctly different brands from different sectors. So you've got a product and an education company in Orojo, a media company in Aesthetica, a tool company with Hatori Hanzo, and what's the fourth one again? Oh, and Millennium, of course. Of course, Millennium. You know, are really, someone that I'm really proud to be affiliated with because I think they've brought so much to the success of hairdressers through the systems that they've created. And I think John Harms is a very intelligent man who's got a lot to bring to the game. So Millennium has also involved that. That's why I always attach to that company because right away when you walk into the building, you know that it's not just software. And that's, so that's cool. I'm glad to see them on board with HairBrain as well. All right, so I have one thing. So we have a razor here. So since we're standing here, and I've tried to figure if that is my razor right there or no. So I have tried to figure out this thing, right with the finger and the hand. So why don't you walk me through this so that I can see how you hold the razor and just give me a little, a couple of tips, your two favorite tips with a razor. You can use that guy and all that. So, you know, essentially after I left Soon, you know, over 13 years ago, I've been razoring almost every day since then. And it's through trial and error and working around other, you know, razor cutters. I'm fortunate to work with, you know, 100 people that cut hair with a razor almost every day. Yeah, I saw a lot of razor cutting going on down there.  And it's a way to keep you safe and in helping shore precision. So, you know, number one, a lot of people when they razor, they'll hold the comb like this. So what happens is the blade is loose and it can kind of dangle around and you don't have quite as much precision with your combing. Okay. So what we figured out years ago was to lock with the index finger.  You put two fingers on the bottom and two fingers on the top. And you know, it feels a little bit different from scissor cutting and it is different, which is good because we want to feel different to create something different. Right. So to start to train the muscle memory, you have to teach yourself to rotate. Okay.  Now we work with, you know, specific type of comb with a wider side for sectioning and for visualizing and moving the hair around and then a very fine side for a very even, fine, definite tension. Okay. So then the mastery, the reason why you have to learn to do that so that you can take sections, rotate, comb very finely, grab the hair and then kind of master your stroke. So then you're pinching just with your... Yep. We call this part of the blade the shaft. Yeah. And it is literally a pinch. So you pinch the shaft. Okay. Not an X-rated thing, but just kind of use what it is. And then, you know, if you want to do a very closed or tight stroke, you kind of pull your fingers in so you can make small strokes. So you got to pinch. You got to see that finger is actually pinching right there. Oh, okay. And you close that in and then you can make very tight closed strokes. Okay. To make lines. If you kind of start to open the fingers and loosen it a little bit, you can make bigger, looser, more kind of free form strokes. Okay. We'll try. We'll be working on that. Is it comb? All right. So let me see. So lock. Lock, we're locking. Yep. Right? Yep. Like that. Now make the sandwich. It helps to put the pinky on the bottom for stability. On the bottom. Yeah. Like this. Exactly. So there's your sandwich. Yeah, this isn't gonna happen. Let's start to practice rotating. Yeah, you're almost there. Go. Go, keep going. All right, all right. And if you can do that a hundred times in a row. Yeah, yeah. You'll start to build the muscle memory. You got to keep that locked. Oh, yep. Yep, for safety. Next time we meet, people get very bored with this, but next time we meet, I will be flipping this around like you would not believe. Good. Good. So I've watched Nick on video. And I've tried, but just, you know, we have a video educational website, but you can't learn it all from video. So that was really cool. And you know, it's about pulling the blade far away from the guests, from the client, from your work. So you see, when you're like that, you see where the blade is. Yeah. People comb through the hair, it dangles. I mean, I was able to manage this for the first few years of razor cutting, but I never felt I had the same control or dexterity as I did with scissor cutting. Yeah. And then when we kind of evolved to the lock and load, everything fell into place. Yeah, I liked that. That's cool. Awesome. So a couple of questions from the fans out there. Okay. The Gerard Scarpeci fans. So with all the different razors, which do you prefer? The Feather Plie. I mean, these are both Feather Plies. Right. At the Erojo has our signature red color on it, which is, for those of you that don't know, Nick is a big fan of Manchester United. Okay. So, you know, he felt this. Is that what it is? Yeah, that's what the red is all about. So there's lots of red. It's all coming together. We're in the process right now of actually making another customized razor, which hopefully Hairbrained and Erojo will kind of team up on. Very cool. Those of you who've been razor cutting for a long time, remember the original Plie was a transparent plastic. It was like an orange, I still have one, but they were too brittle and most of them broke. So we're working with the Feather manufacturers to develop some different handles. We did a wood one. Yeah. It was pretty much identical to the one that Bumble did. And again, the problem with that was they would break. They're too brittle. So we've talked about adding, almost making it like a Bowie knife where it's got brass here and here. It's still wood, but with the brass. That's cool. I like that. So that was the problem. I mean, I had that great Bumble razor for two weeks and it fell on the floor and then the wood broke. And then I was never able to use it again. Okay. Well, very cool. And then, so what percentage of the time do you use a razor versus a shear? 50-50. Okay. You know, I mean, sometimes I incorporate them both together in a haircut. You know, in terms of education, I mean, I figured that out a long time ago. And so did Nick. I mean, I don't want to be competing with all the best scissor cutters in the world to get classes and, you know, competing with every single person that's left so soon. So over a decade ago, I figured out what's something different that not too many people are doing, but people seem interested in. And that's the razor. So the straight razor especially, unguarded straight razor, living dangerously and really doing amazing things to hair. So when it comes to education, I'd have to say, you know, probably 80% of the time I'm doing razor education, 20% of the time, classic scissor cutting education, you know, as people still want to learn the foundations of precision. I spent the whole day today teaching men's graduate. Yeah, that was cool. You had a full class today. And you said it was a four week program? Yeah, we do something here twice a year called boot camp where students come and live in New York for four weeks and they become completely immersed, you know, 40 plus hours a week, five days a week from nine to five for four weeks. And the first week is classic scissor cutting, then we go into color and texture, then they come back to classic men's cutting, then they do some editorial styling and occasion styling and then the last week is all razor. Cool. So it's been a good time. Well, I love the facility. It's cool. I like the layout of it and how everything it's just, you have everything you could ever want in this building. I mean, it's separated really well. So, you know, it's cool that Nick did that. And I got the background story of where the first part of the salon was and how it expanded. So. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, you know, a lot of people don't know.  He had a, you know, he had a big partnership uptown that didn't work out well for him and he didn't, he left with not much, $25,000. And he was able to rent a small space in the Aveda Institute around the block here, four chair space. And, you know, within 10 years had a $10 million a year brand. So $25,000 to $10 million. Now we can't say that TV didn't hurt, but how many hairdressers have been on TV that you don't hear about? And Nick's been off TV longer than he was on TV. Hasn't been on TV in, I don't know, six, seven years. So it's not, you know, it's not just about that. It's about creating a sustainable culture that's fueled by education, quality, dedication to the craft. And it's really not because when I, I didn't know Nick was on TV, but when I would go to the New York show, not even the presence because it was like he had his booth there, but it just, there was such a vibe of it was really just about cool hair, education, and just teaching people. And that was, I mean, just teaching people is always about. Yeah, and that, you know, for the professionals, obviously that's been crucial. And then for clients, you know, I mean, TV was obviously a way to get the name out. And also to get this out there, because Nick did literally hundreds of makeovers using a razor that, like I said, it was great for our education. Because again, nobody, they saw it and they didn't know how to do it.  So it's all kind of worked hand in hand. Well, I mean, it is everything's an evolution. And I think if there's a hairdresser out there looking to be inspired, I think just listening to you talk is definitely enough to get somebody going. One other question from somebody on Instagram says, this is a question I've been thinking about for a while.  And what can I do to become an artist? What are some great techniques? Well, I mean, you know, the first thing that comes to mind is you really don't. I mean, that just happens through, you know, I don't think you can focus on saying, how can I become an artist? I think you just have to immerse yourself in the craft first. You have to have references and you have to always be looking to create, you know, whether it's beauty, you know, I mean, the first part of my career I wasn't as interested in beauty. I wanted to try to, you know, create things that were striking or different or edgy or whatever the word is. And now the second half of my career, I'm less interested in that and more interested in, you know, how can I make this more beautiful? Whatever that means. So I think it's about who you hang around with. I think it's about being open to references, looking at art, but I don't think focusing on being an artist is necessarily the route to go down. I think it's just being open to doing the best you can do every day and learning from your mistakes. Copying, you know, that's like that old Picasso thing, you know, the best artists don't, what is it, they don't just copy, they steal, you know, if I see something that I think looks good, I try it and eventually you make it your own because if it's done with my hands, it's mine. I mean, I can't, you can't do my haircut for me. So I think by nature of what you're doing and the road that you're going on, you lead to be an artist. Awesome. Well, you heard it from the man himself. Let's, you don't want to plug anything. You got anything coming up besides the meetup?  And I think that, you know, you belong on Hairbrains and hopefully you're already there. And if you're not, come and check it out, you know? Yeah, it's cool. It's easy to set up a profile. Yeah. It's, you know, it's so you can share anything that you want. I love that you guys are always adding things like, I remember when my first video got featured on Hairbrain and it's just like such a good feeling. You know, it's being shared with the community of your peers and people there. That's ultimately the infinite game. There's always something to keep playing, playing it forward. You know, that's something that Nick has always said. And you know, I was just talking to him the other day about this infinite game because he always uses this saying play it forward, play it forward, which I believe comes from soccer or football. And I said, that's the kind of game that we want to be playing, you know? And if it's a, it doesn't have to be about yourself. So if I feature you, I've just played it. I've just pushed the ball forward. Right. I've just been pushing it forward and that's what it's about. Cool. And if people want to book you for education? They can get in touch with Loretta at arosionyc.com. Okay. You know, I do, I still do in salon education. My travel, you know, I don't do it as much as I used to. I used to make my whole career doing it, but you know, six to 10 times a year, I visit salons around the country and do hands-on education. All the major trade shows and events, but primarily the best thing to do would be to come to a Rojo NYC and take a class. You know, I tend to teach the majority of them along with the team here. And I think it's a great experience, like you said, to actually come someplace like this and realize, you know, what can I do to make that happen? Yeah. Yeah, I think the most, the biggest place that I look to try to inspire is people that can't be in areas like this and they're looking, sitting there looking for inspiration. They can't go to New York or they can't go to Chicago or whatever to see. Or they just, they can. I know, I know, I saw your face. I saw your face. I hate that. They can. I hate that. You, if you want success, you have to go out. I'm from Iowa, so I'm here. Well, you have to go out and get it. You know, I'm people, you know, a lot of hairdressers don't make a lot of money and they say it's where I live. It's where I live. And I say move. Yeah. You know what I mean? There's in every state in this country, you can charge over $100 for a haircut. Every single one, every state. It might not be the zip code you live in. You might have to drive two hours a day to get there if you don't want to move, but you can. Well, I live in a town of 3,500 people and I charge $100 for a haircut. There you go. So it can be done. There you go. And it works. So, Drard, thank you very much. It's a pleasure having you be a part of this. Having you at your place. Thank you for letting us come. Pleasure. I will see you. See you around.


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We caught a train! Where did the train catch us? Steel. That's what we got. It's not that heavy. We have them lined up a single file. It's just easier to get them tied down that way. Because up here we have them side by side, but I had to put boards across so that there was even pressure on both sides of both pallets, right? Otherwise you you don't want them to start sliding together or something in the center even though they're banded. There's some wood over there so it's just easier for the rest of the trailer. Loaded like this and we're ready to go. So this steel is going to Yildeshain, Manitoba. Yildeshain, Manitoba. Island of Oaks. Oh hey and yesterday I got my LEDs installed under here that I got from my mother-in-law for my birthday. I believe there's another one up there. And we got another one under there and another one on the passenger side there. And then this is the control here. I can change their colors. Look at this. The red, green, blue, white, orange, yellow, cyan, purple. Make a change. I have a party in here. So let's be able to sync it to music too. I'm not too sure how that works yet but I just I'm just gonna keep it on the blue. Came up on a convoy of oversized loads here. Got the tail truck not letting me get by so there must be a bridge or something coming. Road ahead is gonna need both lanes. He'll move into the right lane. Probably scouting the road up ahead letting the guys behind know when there's a narrow bridge coming. When they're gonna need both lanes so that they can block off traffic. I like working by myself. Ended up running with Brian for a little bit there. That was a lot of good friends to have someone to talk to right away. Rolled by myself too. You sort of have to have that quality to be a truck driver. Very often it's just you. Just rolling down the highway by yourself. Just you in the hum of the tires. Not too sure how far we're gonna make it. I have nine hours and 22 minutes of driving available to me today. I think we could probably make it pretty close to the Mesa maybe Balgoni or somewhere around. Not too sure. I'm gonna try to get this delivered tomorrow yet but I don't know if I can make it by the end of the day. Might have to be the following morning. This guy's spare tire cover on his camper says goodbye tension hello pension. Pension isn't really enough to live off of solely right. There so I can't really speak for it but from what I've heard I think after you like spend your entire life working in Canada paying taxes I think you get something like 1500 bucks a month which doesn't even cover half of a rent in a lot of places so the idea is that I guess you have your home paid off but homes are so unaffordable right now. I don't I don't want to make it sound like I'm complaining. What I'm trying to get at here is I think that pension needs to be adjusted a little bit a little bit higher. I think our seniors who have spent their whole lives working in this country deserve to have a pension that they can at least live off of you know. Maybe that blue truck off on the left he's parked so far on the shoulder oh he's running across the road here jaywalking. This truck's almost tipping over over there. Are you on a Timmy? Where are you going? He's walking over to Timms isn't he? People will do crazy things to go to Timms. Another pedestrian here walking right beside the lane of traffic come on bud I'd get on the gravel what are you doing right right on the lane of traffic and where's he going? There's nothing out this way. Ah some people you know some people that close to a lane of traffic first of all you've seen the rocks my tires pick up right there's nothing I can do about it they pick up rocks and as I'm driving sometimes they'll fling them out and they'll get caught by my fenders or mud flaps or sometimes they'll go flying out onto the shoulder and if you're walking down the shoulder right beside the road and one happens to let go right at the right time that thing's gonna smoke you in the head. I always think of worst-case scenario you know that's me conservative guy I'd like to you know stand back and just think of what could happen and try to prepare for it and stick with what's tried and true you know staying off the road as a pedestrian is the proven way to stay alive. Try and test it stay off the road the further off the road the better the higher your chances are of living longer the sketch won't scale coming up here according to my apps it's been open all day but it just closed about three minutes ago we'll see how accurate this app is I use the trucker path app and on there when you pass a scale it'll ask you if the scales open or closed and then you tell it that it's closed or open and then all the other drivers that use the same app can see your report that it's closed handy app I like it a lot it's well made so just around this corner is the scale lights if it's open they'll be flashing let's see how accurate this app is pretty accurate just by here it asks if it's open or closed you just tap a button and every other driver that uses it can see that it's closed them the more people that use the app the better it is and there's tons of people it's the most popular one as far as I know very popular the sketch at two we're gonna try to get down past Regina and even past Balcony maybe even into Manitoba maybe not it's getting kind of late we'll see take the entrance to the right on highway 16 east highway 7 west highway 14 west trans Canada highway and then turn left in 450 meters all right Karen you're gonna have to make up your mind I can't turn left on that many roads at the same time can I unless they're all the same road in 600 meters take the entrance to the right on highway 16 east highway 7 west highway 14 west trans Canada highway and then turn left in 450 meters trans Canada highway all right I'll bite if that many roads all in one because why build four different roads when you could just make four different roads one right make sense you don't need four roads you just need one just make them all the same one in 300 meters turn left on circle drive east highway 11 and then cake to the left in 1.4 kilometers now it's circle drive and highway one east not too heavy to go into the US they would not allow me on their drive tires right now are maxed out at 17,000 kgs for Canadian weights here in now on the prairies that's 37,500 pounds sitting on the back of my truck my steers have another 12,000 on them right now so just my truck without the trailer right now is putting 60,000 pounds right yeah just about 60,000 pounds onto the pavement beneath me and my trailer it's a tandem max got about 15,500 kgs on it which is just over 34,000 pounds so I'm still well under my legal weights overall 7,500 pounds on this road for 112 kilometers comment section that if you listen to my videos on headphones it's oh yeah that's fun oh that's like a roller coaster now's my chance they got against beautiful music sounds of angels my truck right now is putting almost 50,000 pounds 37,500 on my drives 12,000 on 60 driver i'm not a mathematician so last night i made it to whitewoods to skash one it was just a long day of straight prairie driving as you saw not much to see unless you like that kind of thing i mean i do i like it but i feel like i'm boring you just showing you the same landscape over and over so sometimes we just skip over it if you want me to show it every time well you let me know down below in the comment section let me know if you love the prairies that much that trailer is full of all baby cows little calfs on their new home so i had to move one of these skids this skid right here is about 4,000 pounds this one's about 35,300 pounds i'd move one of these 4,000 pounds skids to the front because i had too much weight on my trailer fortunately there was a scale like right beside where i loaded so often shippers don't have scales and i know it's very expensive to have one or not everyone can have one but when you're loading up like max weights it's nice to have a scale nearby at least because i went and scaled i'm like oh oh trailers way over the trailer was like 2,000 pounds over like a thousand kgs over well i'm gonna have to change something i already had everything tied down and i was ready to go but i had to go back to the shipper go back into their yard they're unstrapped the last pallet and ask them if they can move that one to the front they put that one up on the step in front of the two that i had there i went and re-tied it down rescaled again found out that was good wasted some time but it's better than getting a fine right or a ticket the scales were all closed on the way back but like i was telling you they were open all day they just happened to close down just before i got there i think they may have just let me go on through but you never know when you're that close or even just a little bit over they'll pull you in for an inspection anyway just to find out see if you know what you're doing like this guy's right at his max right there or like maybe like a hundred pounds over not a big deal just a hundred pounds but they'll be like this guy know what he's doing or was that just a fluke i'll pull you in look at your logs see if you know what you're doing and everything but anyways that didn't happen and tomorrow is Thursday and i'm going to be delivering this load tomorrow and i have to hurry to get there so it's tomorrow already for me i'm going to end this vlog here and start tomorrow's vlog please if you don't mind go down below see if you're still subscribed or see if you are subscribed i really appreciate that it's free and come back tomorrow i release my videos at 4am central time now if there won't be a vlog release at 4am i'll let you know through all of my social media it's all linked down below in my description my primary social media is facebook and twitter and then i also have a threads that i just started i don't know where that's going to go but i figured i jump on see what happens to it anyways and so i got one of those link is down below i'll let you guys know on those platforms if it's not going to be up at 4am but other than that you should be able to expect a video there that's 4am central time here in north 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Good evening, everyone. My name is it's called Tresta. I am the city project manager for this project and I will be responsible for day-to-day operation of this project and Today's meeting is for a streetlight improvement at trail leg drive This project is about to go on construction construction will begin late next month and And the objective from today's meeting is number one to get any feedback from you all regarding the project number two if there is anything That we need to know Prior or during construction, please let us know and we will try to incorporate that in in in this project That being said the city project number for this project is one zero three three zero one and Kim Lee-Hon and associate is that it is a design engineer for this project and Jungle contractor for this project is been electric ink today's May 18 2022 It's about six or seven p.m The agenda for today's meeting is I'm gonna briefly talk about the project background give you project update Also talk about project schedule and funding at the end of the presentation We will take any questions or feedback you you may have regarding this project Before I start with the agenda item I like to introduce the project team to you all Today in the call we have let's say that the battle See the program manager for TPW capital delivery and we also have Jeff Allen. He's a Communication specialist for TPW capital delivery and it's called Arnold from from Kim Lee-Hon and associate He's the engineer of record for this project and amber from Kim Lee-Hon and associate City inspector for this project is Lepika Toliver. Unfortunately. He's not available today And a Drew Newton Should be here, but I don't see him from from the from the bin electric the project goal and purpose The goal of the project is to install a streetlight There it is I'm sorry I'm gonna repeat that again the project goal and purpose is to install the streetlight along the neighborhood Street to promote the safety and security This project also aligns with the city's strategic goal to make city city afford for the next nation's safest major city project limit and it's called The project order is on the trail leg drive from Cicamo school road in south and Ultramasable ever in North As you can see on the screen that the blue highlighted sex sex son is the project corridor and The project is scope is to install the streetlight along the project corridor at maximum of 200 feet apart and We are also upgrading the three existing streetlight, which is in the project corridor and replacing one existing streetlight the existing condition with Majority of the project corridor doesn't have any any streetlight as you can imagine during night. It was more Okay, it's gonna be really dark as you can see in the pictures on the screen on the left was taken at the trail leg drive looking south towards the Looking towards the Cicamo school. I believe this picture was taken By that short Trademark search and you can see there are no streetlights. That's the existing condition and the picture on the right was taken at the intersection of trail leg drive and President and the Kingwood Drive By that apartment complex. There are some some streetlight at that location However, as part of this project, we are going to upgrade those streetlights the proposed condition after the Projects complete that we are planning that we are proposing The streetlight which is going to arterial LED luminary streetlight, which is almost going to be 34 feet high The pole arms and fixture will be power-coded to black and House as they they will have a house side still to prevent the light transpassing The existing supply that you see on the right of the screen on the right side of the screen We are going to repend them to black and the fixture. We are going to upgrade that to LED This is the project exhibits. As you can see, this is a Cicamo school drive Which is part of the project limit and this is a trail leg drive and this is the Altameza Boulevard Which is the not not not end of the project Um the red blue and green symbol indicates the location of the of this of the new of the streetlight The red indicates the location approximate location of the new streetlight The blue indicates the location of existing streetlight Which we are going to repent it to black and and and upgrading the lumineer to LED and the green which is at the intersection of that By Kingwood Drive and the trail leg drive. Well, we the green indicates the replacing the existing with the new one Now from The corridor between the second more school and the Kingwood Drive You can see the streetlight at the boat in both side of the street However from the Kingwood Drive to the Altameza Boulevard The streetlight will be installed at the east east side of the street Between the back of curve and the sidewalk The project team also prepares some visualizations how it will look after after the project is complete. I'm gonna Go ahead and play this video as you As the video plays think that you are driving up not at the trail leg drive from Cicamo school As you can see in the video the streetlight out of the boat in of the both side of the street from Cicamo to that apartment complex Go back again to stop here. This is the intersection of Kingwood Drive and and and the trail leg drive as you see up to this point you This the streetlight were installed either side of the street from here on you should be Seeing the streetlight at the east side of the street between the back of curve and sidewalk I will go ahead and play it with you. This is the intersection of Altameza Boulevard and trail leg drive This is the north limit of the project limit. This concludes the visualization. Let me go to the next is in the Next is in a casual that the the construction is going to begin at Last week of June and and the contractor have 120 calendar days to complete that Complete the project which makes the substantial completion to be an October of 2022 This project is funded from 2018 bond fund Since the construction gonna begin I will I Please anticipate some delay during the construction while the lane are closed With I don't anticipate. We don't anticipate any street closer. However, the lane closer is anticipated For the installation of the street light and the installation of the foundation for the street light The contractor will be getting is to use permit from the from the city and traffic control will be in place to help the traffic I highly recommend for the road user to watch for the construction crew during construction And let us know if you if you have any concern or questions that pop up pops up during construction concludes the Presentation slides for their this project Before I take any questions. I like to Give my my and city inspector contact information again. My name is this called stress stuff My phone number is eight one seven three nine two seven two five four I will repeat that again. It's eight one seven three nine two seven two five four If you have any questions or feedback do either before or during construction, please give me up. Give me a call And you can also reach out to the city inspector who is lift cut Oliver and he's for number is nine seven two eight Zero two five two seven one. I'll repeat that against it nine seven two eight zero two five two seven one that being said We want to please unmute yourself and ask any question that you have regarding this project But if is there any any question that that came up on the chat box? No, there's nothing in chat at the moment If you are a calling user, there are a couple and you were muted because of some background noise You can hit star six to unmute Just in case you have any questions, so you know how to unmute yourself. Is it possible to review the slides? Sure, which slide do you want to see? I just wondered again. I downloaded them or look at them on the time here at home Yeah, we can we can provide that to you Is there any way you can put your contact information on the chat box, please? Chat Okay Don't stop and you can you can send that privately to either myself or it's go If you don't want to put it out there publicly or you can email It's go okay I'll just email it's go and And ask for those Thank you Thank you. Any other questions or any feedback and again as I said we are about to start destruction and and and My goal is to minimize any impact But there will be some I yield it to the road with the user either either the road user or the sidewalk user But my goal is to minimize as much as possible I know you said how it would be ended but Is do we also have an idea of the cost of the project? Yes I Too I don't have the exact number right in front in front of you right right now um Is there any way you can send me an email and then I can provide you the exact information How much was the construction versus versus what was the total total cost for the project? I don't I don't have top of my head right now. I don't remember but I can find out any Yeah, I do know that yeah, but I don't I don't remember right now If you don't mind sending me sending me an email and I can provide that to you sure Is there any other questions? Or feedback that it looks like I don't I it looks like there is there is no more questions or any any feedback If that's the case again our team would like to thank you all for taking time to attend this community engagement meeting And that being said we'd like to we will close this meeting and thank you everyone for joining Thank you very much


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I felt like it was a really, really good, fun weekend. I feel like so many people struggle with social anxiety and I actually didn't realize what it was. I actually never struggled with it until this year. I always thought social anxiety was where you were out in public and you're at an event and you just like don't feel good and you feel anxious. And that's obviously a part of social anxiety, but for me, how I struggle with social anxiety is like an hour before we're going out, whether it's like to dinner or whether it's to a club or a party. I have a pit in my stomach and feel like kind of nauseous and sick and anxious and it's for no reason. I was sitting there with my friends and I was like, I feel so bad right now and I don't really have a reason to feel bad. Like I wasn't worried about anyone. I wasn't worried about seeing anyone. I wasn't worried about anything. I didn't have a bad day. You know, I didn't have a reason to feel so like sick to my stomach. And so that's the sort of social anxiety that I deal with. And I think also maybe it was more delayed for me in my life. I think a lot of people probably struggle with that.  I don't know if it has to do with my job or things that have happened in the past. I don't really know. I don't really know what it's about. But I was struggling with that a little bit this weekend but then once I was out and obviously like once you have a drink that like kind of goes away which isn't necessarily always a good thing. Like, you know, but other than that, it was a great weekend. But anyways, today I have a meeting at three. It's a pretty important meeting. And then Tommy and I wanted to go surfing. I know he wants to go fishing. I'm gonna make Tommy lunch right now. I have two ads to film.  This is the room I've spent the most time in. So it's just kind of crazy like with camera equipment, gifting products. We also get a lot of these which are fabric swatches and samples of dyes that I like or I don't like or fabric quality that I like or I don't like. I'm gonna make a whole video about this but we are switching the fabric in all of our garments. We're building on a core collection for Dairy Boy. A core collection that will hopefully always be on the site with just a really high quality perfect material and it has taken years, literally to find the perfect fabric that doesn't shrink all that. So we're working really hard on this project camo and then our core collection. So you guys will hopefully see that soon. And then our next product we're launching is our PJs. But anyways, I definitely need some office organization. So, but I'm going to- I don't wanna steal you away. I'm gonna go make Tommy lunch. Can you start the bacon? Um, it's out. It's ready to go. You can't even make- I don't trust myself. I'm going to make Tommy and I dinner. This is just a really easy meatball recipe. I was going to just do like a music voiceover for this but I thought I would just like talk you guys through it a little bit because it's just so easy. Just organized the office. We got a new shelf from Restoration Hardware. But we're just gonna probably make dinner and watch a movie and go to bed. But I'm really excited about these meatballs.  Okay, I just pulled my eggs and my meat out of the fridge. So I'm just gonna take a big bowl and I eyeball all of this which is not super helpful. I know, but I feel like you guys can eyeball it too. Even if you're not the best cook, I think this is a recipe that you can eyeball. I can guess for you guys what I think each thing is measurement wise, but I don't know. Okay, for the meat, this is ground beef. I'm going to use half, a little more than half of the ground beef and I'll save this to make like hamburgers this week or something. And then I'm gonna add half of ground pork. Not everyone makes their meatballs with ground pork, but I think it makes it taste more like a restaurant meatball because oftentimes restaurants are using multiple different meats in it, whether that's veal, pork, ground beef. So I'm just gonna start mixing this together with my hands, which some people might find gross. I don't really mind raw meat that much. This is the only part I'm gonna mix with my hands until I make the meatballs. I'm gonna wash my hands and then add the other stuff. You do this all day long. My pants are gonna fall down. Three, two, one. Oh, okay. Okay, sometimes I put an onion in the meatballs, but I'm actually not going to put the onion in tonight. The only thing that I have about onions being in meatballs is I'm not gonna let them sit for long enough tonight that the onion on the inside would really cook. Like it would still be like a little crunchy. But if you cook meatballs for like hours throughout the whole day and it's like a whole traditional Italian meatball situation, I would think onions would be good. And the same reason why I'm gonna use garlic powder, a ton of garlic powder, very important. And then I'm gonna do fresh herbs and dry herbs. I feel like they serve kind of different purposes. A ton of Italian seasoning, which is just like a blend of a bunch of different herbs. I'm going to throw, I'm gonna put like a half a cup of cheese in the mixture. Then I'm gonna do two eggs. I feel like my head is always cut off in my cooking videos. Two eggs. And then I would say a little less than half a cup of breadcrumbs. I like doing plain breadcrumbs. That's like, I sometimes do seasoned if I have them, but I kind of like to season it on its own. Like I add the seasonings. So I do plain for this. Cause I season the meatballs like pretty heavily on my own. So it's like half a cup of plain breadcrumbs. I'll add more if I feel like I need it. Some salt and pepper, obviously. And then I'm gonna do a splash of milk. And then I'm gonna put just like two large things of basil. I'm gonna put basil in the sauce. So for the fresh herbs, it's going to be majority parsley, just a little bit of basil. And you want to chop this up really finely cause you don't want like huge things of fresh herbs in your meatballs. At least I don't want those craving meatballs. I used to eat meatballs so much in New York. The sew house, if you're ever at the sew house, they have really good meatballs. And I feel like I was always ordering meatballs when I was out in New York. Okay, that's pretty good on the fresh herbs. I will show you guys what this bowl looks like. All right, here's the mixture. I'm going to mix it up. And then I will show you guys the next step. You don't want to over stir. Obviously you want to mix everything up but you want the meatballs to be kind of like airy still. So make sure you're not over stirring the mixture. Next I'm just going to put some olive oil into my pan and I'm going to cook the meatballs on all the sides. Allow them to cook and then add the sauce for them to cook even further. I'm going to do it two at a time because it's pretty big and I want them to have space and room to cook. I'm actually going to do three but I will have one more that I'm cooking and I'm just going to move them around as they cook. Sushi butt, sushi butt, sushi butt, say it. Sushi butt, sushi butt. Okay, what is sushi butt? And he was like, oh, the dad and the girl was like, oh, where are you taking her to dinner? And he was like, Matu in LA. And the guy's like, what is that, is it sushi? Yeah, yeah, it's a really good sushi spot. And he's like, oh, gotta watch out. I don't want to get the sushi butt. He's like, sushi butt. What is sushi butt? What in the world? Sushi butt. So now we always just sushi butt. But what is it? No, it's not a real thing.  I know, that's what I'm thinking. That's why it's funny. Sushi butt. Tommy and I are going to watch, what's it called? 19. 23. I say a different date every night. I'm like, 1942. Is that a show? No, I'm pretty sure that's a tequila. 1942. I've been spending too much time in Miami. 1942, I also said 1978. Yeah, what is that? I don't know. So we're gonna watch 1923. What do you think of the show so far? I think it's good, but I don't think it's better than Yellowstone. Yeah, you gotta watch the first one. First one's really good too. What's the first one, 19? I think it's 1883, no, 1883, yeah. I think that's it. It's like how the Dutton's got. The land? The land, it's really cool. Well, it's actually the journey of how they got there. Really cool. We're in bed pretty early, which is nice. Is it? It's like nine. Ice cream. You want ice cream? Do you want ice cream? You scream. For ice cream? Do you want ice cream? You don't really. But I'll get you some ice cream though. Yay! Will you give me the coffee? The coffee?  Just wait. Tommy brought me my coffee. The best coffee ice cream in the world. The best ice cream brand in the whole world. They're strawberry, they're vanilla bean, you know the drill. He goes, Tommy goes, I don't want ice cream. You got my mango sorbet. It's not ice cream. But now I want the mango sorbet. Give me the mango sorbet. What mango sorbet? Exactly. You're gonna crack it. I already cracked it, I think. Woo! The best sorbet brand, Talenti. I think everyone knows that though, like the mango Talenti. Sorry, I feel like. Tommy was like, I'm not eating ice cream, and then he was like, it's okay. I'm not eating ice cream. Eating sorbet. I think people think sorbet is healthier. Olay! That is divine. Ooh! Give it to me.  All right. Yeah, let's watch the show. That's a good shortage, yeah. By the way, we still have no bedroom furniture. What do you mean, we got the bed. But we're working on it. We need a dresser. I would still be sleeping on the floor if it weren't for Paige. That's true. We are gonna go to the mall and get a few things from Crate & Barrel that we just don't have at the house, and I need to run to Sephora. I don't have a car right now in Florida. I rented a car for a week, and then I returned it, because I think that we're getting a new one maybe tomorrow. So Tommy's car pulling me around. And then Tommy has, he had training this morning, and then he's going back to work out one more time. And I'm just gonna work and hang out. He just got done with my calls for the day, I think. I might have one more call, actually.  They were kind of falling off, so once one goes, I have some glumons that I've been wanting to try that aren't the gel acts. So I'm gonna give those a try. So I just went to Sephora, and I got so much stuff. I've actually never gotten a bag this big. Like, this is when you know you have, also the woman at the checkout was like, ah, holiday shopping, and it's fun to do a haul for you guys. Okay, I'm gonna start with skincare. So quick skincare update. I feel like I never talk about skincare on my YouTube. I am using right now pretty much only bare face. I don't know if you guys have heard of it before. This is not an ad. I really, really love their products. I feel like it's been keeping me very hydrated. I wanna do a full skincare video, but before I put on makeup, especially while I'm in Florida and I'm pretty tan, I really love the Tata Harbour Dewy Skin Cream. Before I put on tinted moisturizers, I feel like it just makes me glow a lot. I do not use this as a moisturizer before bed, or even in the morning. I literally just use this under makeup. And then I got some of these vitamin E face masks. I love these face masks, and they're not too expensive. Yeah, just really love these. I always get them when I'm there. And then I got the Tata Harbour Rice Wash. I really like this stuff. Some of you guys might know this about me, but I wash my face with a Dove bar of soap. Although I'm on spiral-actane for my acne, like for my hormonal acne, I don't get sits. And I felt like when I was using too many products, and I was using too many face washes and too many facial scrubs and like an insane amount of products, that's when I was breaking out a lot. I literally keep it so simple with my skincare routine. I literally use a Dove bar soap in my bare-faced moisturizer, sometimes a serum, and that's literally it. Sometimes I'll do a face mask before I do makeup, but I can have a really basic skincare routine. But since being in Florida, I feel like my skin has been more dry. And every other climate, for the most part, like the beauty bar by Dove works really well for me, but I've been feeling a little more dry. So I'm still gonna use the Dove bar in the shower. Just like, it makes me feel so clean. But I am gonna start using this for removing my makeup in hopes that my skin is feeling a little less dry. Next, I got two perfumes. I am a funny one when it comes to perfume. I get asked a lot about what perfume I wear. And I never really talk about perfumes I wear. I feel like I did a favorites video like years ago where I talked about perfumes that I wear. So I like a really clean, honestly not super feminine, not super sweet smell besides rose and peony. And it's really hard to find a good rose. I actually really love the Rose by LaLabo. I think it's like rose 31.  But I really like that one, love that one.  So that's a wrap with that one.  Like smells will quite literally transport me back in time. And we're not trying to do that. So unfortunately, RIP to the LaLabo Rose scent. Then the Dipteek Rose scent is really nice, but it's not really for me, but it is really nice. Like I love it when I smell it on other people. So it's really hard for me to find perfumes that I actually really like. And I was in the checkout line and I saw this Joe Malone peony blush suede wood sage and sea salt. And I was like, I'm just gonna smell it. And guys, I love the smell of peonies. There was this one old peony perfume that my grandmother used to wear and I don't think they make it anymore. And it was just like floral, but not too girly. This smells very mature. I tend to like like more mature smells, like one that you might smell on like a grandmother. I know that like doesn't sound appealing, but like to me that does like a very like a mature more musky smell. And this peony blush sage by Joe Malone is just so good. And I'm so glad that I smelled this. I also love getting testers before I buy a whole bottle. This is just like perfect. And I'm so excited about it. I think it's like mature and it's pretty. It's like a little bit feminine and florally, but it's not too sweet. I'm really bad at describing scents. I really wanna make a scent for Dairy Boys. And then this wood sage and sea salt is like really, really good. I think this would be better for a man, but mixing these two would be really nice and I'm really glad it came in a set. Only probably gonna end up getting a big bottle in both of these. And I've actually never bought a perfume before from Joe Malone. I know that they were doing like big campaigns with like so be a Richie, I think, but yeah. And then I got the Glossier U. I've been wearing this perfume for probably like five years. I really love how this perfume smells different on everyone. It's a really clean, amazing, amazing scent. There's literally like no scent like this. I highly recommend going to Sephora and smelling it. It's really good. It's reliable. It doesn't make me feel nauseous. A lot of perfumes make me feel like literally physically ill.  Okay, now moving into makeup. I bought a ton of stuff today from Hourglass. I love Hourglass's product. Something that I do that I've actually never talked about, like I definitely need to make a makeup tutorial. But I will use two tinted moisturizer colors and I will contour with tinted moisturizer. So this is my skin shade. This is a nine in Hourglass and this is a 12.  I want to just like feel like I have a fresh face.  So I bought the Hourglass Veil Skin Tint. These are totally worth the hype. They're really amazing. They're really hydrating. They have good coverage. They don't feel sticky or tacky. And then I bought their concealer. I have their concealer already. It was a little bit too light. And I got the shade Stepia in five and then I got their mineral primer. I'm not a big primer person in general. I don't really wear primers, but I did want to try this. Something that's really important is using products that work well together, whether it's water-based, silicone-based, if you mix different things, it can really mess up the texture of your makeup. And my goal a lot of the week when I'm not doing full-blends for my makeup to like sit well all day and look natural. So using a good moisturizer primer, especially for the dewy or makeup looks I think is really important. So I wanted to give this a try. And then I bought the Hourglass Foundation Stick in Chestnut for a contour. I wanted to try this for contour. I've seen people do that, but I wanted to give it a try. I've never tried their foundation stick. So I'm excited to try this. Next, I got a few things from Makeup Forever. So my friend was using this this weekend and I was like, what is that? You guys know I love my Graph-Topian palette, which is like a full makeup professional makeup artist. I kid that it's all these different shades because I like mixing and matching shades depending on my tan, depending on the look. And Makeup Forever kind of did like their version of that. And I really love Makeup Forever in general. Here it is, really pretty. It's like a whole palette full of different colors for contouring and highlighting. I'm really excited to try this. And then I got the Patrick Tau Eyebrow Pencil. I love what Patrick Tau is doing. I feel like he's very passionate about what he does in hardworking. I love supporting brands like that. So I got a few Patrick Tau products. I got his eyebrow, like spoolie thing that goes with, it's like this soap brow vibe. Next I got Hot Gossip by Charlotte Tilbury. This is like a classic. I've had this before. And then I got Love Trap, which I've never gotten before. It's just like a pinkier color. I wear a lot of pink lips. And then I got another Always Caffeine by Makeup Forever. This is just like a really good staple. Then I got another one of these Patrick Tau palettes. I actually have one in the bathroom right now, but I dropped it and then two of the pans broke. And I really use all of the colors. So I wanted to get another one. Then I got a new Cosas Foundation. So I wear the Cosas Foundation when I'm doing full glam look. So I got this shade. And it's a little bit warmer. I had the Neutral Olive shade. And this is a Medium Warm. So I'm excited about this one. I'm curious if I'm gonna like this shade better. They're like pretty similar shades. This one's just like a little bit warmer. And then I got this at the checkout, like the little like checkout section. I really wanted to try this because it's a pillow talk, mini collagen, like lip lipstick thing, like lip gloss. And I really like pillow talk in general. Oh, that's really nice. And then the other thing that I got dropped into buying at the checkout was these mini Cosas, like their best seller lipsticks.  And I like having mini lipsticks to keep in my car. Okay, that is all for my Sephora haul. Oh wait, I got the Dyson Straightener. Really wanted to try this straightener. I've heard amazing, amazing things about this straightener. So I'll have to do like a whole review video for you guys on this. Apparently you can straighten your hair from wet to dry with this. Do you guys remember those wet to dry straighteners in high school that would like literally sear your hair off? That's what I thought about when they said that it was a wet to dry. But we'll see, I'm really excited. Dyson is obviously known for a brand that is really science-driven and prevents hair damage. So I trust them. So I'm really excited about this new Dyson straightener. Let me know if you guys have tried it too. Okay, I'm gonna put all this makeup away and then I'm gonna make myself a late lunch. And then I might bake something because it's raining and I don't have much more work to do today. And I have a bunch of old bananas. So I think I'm gonna bake banana muffins. Okay, here's everything we got from Crate and Barrel. We got these pasta dishes. They're like basically like plates, small plates with sides for pasta. Got a few more of these bowls that we already had and then some wine glasses. And then I just got this for coarse salt. I have so many of them because I've been making a lot of banana pudding which I need to share with you guys. I haven't shared it at all on any of my social media. Basically what happened was is I made some banana pudding. Some of Tommy's friends came over and then Riley his friend was like obsessed with it. So I made some for them when they came back over then they took it all anyway. So I've been making like a ton of banana pudding. So I got a ton of bananas and I didn't use all of them. So here we are.


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We're just gonna go straight into the hard knockdown. Let's not even mess around. That wouldn't have killed When your whole team loves volleyball, let's go All right, what's the mix up though? There is no mix up baby. That's the mix up. Oh How's it going everybody?  All right, let's just skip the intros We don't need to see the whole fusion just the just the initial part should be fine Oh my my TN got clipped With that it is if that isn't just the perfect descriptor of how this game is gonna go Then I don't know what is All right, so we got him in the quarter now Okay, that's important to remember oh And I miss the air dash so go tanks just stands up beautiful. You love to see that one happen All right. Oh and the down heavy 16 is gonna be very oppressive here. I you can almost just feel it in the air overhead from 16.  Oh Man, I got I got a down heavy after that. That's super dash option is too real I'm glad the down heavy didn't go off To say the the least there and we out of there boys Respect my mix-ups what the Come on. Where's the go tanks hitbox? I've come to know and love the hair's got to make contact with something We're out of there and exchange for piccolo. Oh, I'm just throwing out the light hitbox It's not working out for me. No tagging though. So go tanks is gonna get that five frames Okay, we're over here now There we go dragon rush gets us back in the fight. We do have it more than enough far So I'll just go for the sliding here. Oh And I just sent out my energy ball to not too great for us here. We're probably gonna get yep Tech down. Oh We don't get the tech either. So we're at where a huge disadvantage now piccolo is out of the picture And it's up to go tanks and TN to make up for the lack of him Something which I don't think they're going to do very well Okay, that's fine. Ah the TN assist to back it up too scary. All right, there we go All right, get that hard knock down in you right back to the ground This is really sad watching this knowing that piccolo is usually in this cutscene. Haha.  We are in the Halloween theme All right, so injured 16 is down. That's a little boost to the confidence that I can appreciate Maybe we just got to keep using it again TN gets snuffed Wow, how did that clip me low? I could have sworn I blocked it level one. He's gonna have to call out TN here He does and that's a knockout. That's fine though We do have a full health TN with sparking level three So we're not completely out of it just yet We're close. Okay. We didn't get the clip we were hoping for there There we go. We owe you text that to All right, Super Dash doesn't doesn't work there There we go get the sliding in them Down heavy doesn't go off. Oh big yikes. Okay, none doesn't do the Standard bread and butter stuff. That's fine. We still have sparking here. All right, we're just gonna This might be more oppressive, but oh No way that was good. I'll give it up. I'll give it up Do me a favor and uh, huh? There we go. Nice and easy with it.   Hurry Chatsu, where are you going? Okay behind the back a little something not too fancy with it. Okay Why I'm not blocking low again. Oh that time she switched to a high a reset that didn't need to happen But it did I should have been ready level three. All right We'll use this level three is a little cool down close games Nothing to get too anxious about you know, we can still get out there improve ourselves Hopefully we don't lose piccolo too early this next game And also if we can I want to be making moves to get rid of 16 as soon as possible because clearly he's posing a huge start to me All right, let's see if we can't get out there get this done Wow, that's not what That was supposed to be a tag I always I always struggle when I try to tag into try to move up and You know assert my dominance there because it always ends up being a tag instead of an assist. Ah Tried to reflect there. That's gonna result in the death of TN Super early actually. Nope because remember we got to remember TNs here. Oh Wow What am I not? How am I not blocking? Hello? What was I doing filing my taxes? All right, so we've been left. Oh God, I get get that kick in the face. Oh, I don't know why he's clicking buttons right there sliding knockdown just for the There we go. We like to see that happen. I Don't know if we could have gotten away with no meter spent on that sliding I wasn't a prepared to risk it obviously But 16 is back in the game now. So that's super frightening. Oh, we got to get that If we can we do have to punish that. Oh, I'm expecting a heavy into a super dash I don't even think he's super dash, but we'll take that sliding bait out the reflect no reflect Whoop.  I always forget he can do that in the air Please miss. Oh, I always forget he can do that. You never see that. Okay. Good stuff big lag though I don't think the super animation supposed to take that long normally Wow, how is that not a clash there? All right, beautiful beautiful stuff go tanks. That's what I like to see. Let's get it done Oh, yes Little go tanks coming out strong with a good performance here Uh, we're just gonna go straight into the hard knockdown. Let's not even mess around that wouldn't have killed Oh when your whole team loves volleyball, let's go All right, what's the mix up though There is no mix up baby. That's the mix up. Oh You'll love to see that happen That's just oh no clash again. Where have I seen that before riot games Uh, if you get that joke, let me know Okay, a little bit of defense goes up. What what are you doing with that awful grab?  You play 18. Yeah Another bait on the reflect there. Hopefully he stops doing that soon so I can go back to uh Focusing I keep dropping that online.   I I appreciate it. I can appreciate a good dragon rush every now and again All right, drop me off to be back tech. No, we do not we switch out. No, we don't have a meter yet Oh, no another dragon rush. All right, we adjust I don't know if anybody else does this.  They just have to readjust All right guard cancel. That's a big punish. Oh never mind misses the window That's us getting out of the corner for practically free here Uh, but we do not get the sliding Oh and our low doesn't come out before his I thought that would be an easy steal of a low, but nope Now we're getting the full android 18 combo Into the hard knockdown too. This might be where we blow sparking. I know it'll be an early one, but The momentum is key in this game. So Just gonna go ahead and pop this Okay How about how about take this big volleyball?  We are pretty much dead though when you consider he has a TM No tn usage.  Oh Such a stressful place to be against 18. I just don't know the defense against that All right, but that uh pretty much fine.  That's what I like to see piccolo bring home the money for your boy Okay, still a long cry away from being a good situation for us, but And my confidence has been shattered immensely We're not living this. Oh My confidence though. No respect for a man's confidence. Okay Now it's up to now. It's this is a solo tn effort here. So we're gonna back up overhead them We have no choice but to switch in tn Just to maintain some semblance of pressure Um, we just don't get the role we were hoping for there we go That's what we want to see and miss it on the tech There we go. We chased down tn Didn't get the block right Chow tzu big damage. Maybe It is that is the huge damage. We want to see chow tzu. Thank you so much for giving your life for the cause Uh, it was a pleasure playing with you Okay, we get behind him on that grab effort Uh, we're just gonna go for the chase down here Not really too fruitful There we go. We hit him on the heavy I was about to do chow tzu that would have been sad Nice tn takes the win You didn't expect to see that happen or at least I didn't but tn does make the comeback We want to see we're up to one in the set right now. Hopefully this continues into the third and final game uh If not, I will cry Looking for a super dash here. I didn't get what I wanted It's like christmas again all over again All right, knock him down.  Is there something I don't know about you in the corner that you want to explain to me? Oh, we're we're out of there just pure just I did this because we got the bar and I like playing with piccolo No, get the heavy out picco get the let out bro top 10 mario party minigames all time All right, we're getting extended here Oh, and the heavy doesn't come out again That time was supposed to be a down heavy, but now I'm just mad that I didn't get my normal heavy off We get overheaded. That's fine, but we don't get the guard cancel either Oh, now I'm thinking about popping sparking. All right, finally we get what we want to see Uh and just get an easy switch out there. So that means that we don't have to Take any drastic measures chow tsu maybe for the knockout. It's gonna be a stretch Oh, it's too much of a stretch. All right, bait the tag There is no fruitful baits on that day, but we will take the knockout. That's for sure Hahaha, bait the tag just sit there in anticipation Okay, okay. I respect you for that Chatsy is dead. That is something we have to keep in mind Unfortunately, all right chase him down with the piccolo Oh, he just stood up and mediumed me I thought we would have a little more respect for each other. Will he go all the way? He doesn't I will bro. I will if you won't then I will let's see if I can do this All right, will this hit?  Come on. I know it's a big burst. Oh, no We miss him by a little No down heavy comes out.  Hold on with that little bit of health you got left Goodbye Can I Oh Can I see some salutes and chat for tn? May he rest in peace Ah No piccolo.  Come on. This could be the end This could be the end i'm looking for Nice piccolo takes a big knock out here We're coming down to the final stretch. Will we be able to overcome Celsius's android 18 in the final match? We get go tanks in We're gonna make him respect our mix-ups here No, no, we miss. Oh, no, I didn't mean to click dragon rush Oh, yes, we take the win team volleyball wins again Ah, just like state nationals state nationals Just like the volleyball pro championships. We've come out on top boys Thank you so much for watching this ranked video If you enjoyed it make sure to go down into the comments and let me know what your favorite moment was While you're down there if you like these videos and you want to see more from the channel Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe And hey, if you like other fighting game content or just more dragon ball fighter stuff There should be some videos on your screen. Make sure to give those a watch Other than that i'm dato doya. I'll see you in the next video