But I do want you to stay for this panel because it's going to be amazing. It really speaks to the work that I've been most interested in in the last year or two and that is place-based investing, how to change neighborhoods, how to change communities by what our work is about. And I want to invite that panel to come onto the stage right now and let's get them moving so that we can get on to the next thing soon. But you really don't want to miss this panel. Good morning, everyone. So my name is Miliana Vajosevic and I'm a director with Impact Investments at Prudential. And by way of background, we've had an impact investing group at the firm for over 40 years and in that time we've made over $2 billion in impact investments to date across asset classes and impact, thank you. And we've invested across asset classes and impact strategies, everything ranging from revitalizing our headquarters city of Newark, New Jersey, to finding innovative ways to improve the ways in which we live, learn, and work. And one of the more recent initiatives that we launched is an ongoing $25 million commitment to support more inclusive venture capital models, which we assess based on an array of factors which include the diversity of the investment team, their support of entrepreneurs of color and female entrepreneurs, where they're making their investments and their support of inclusive business models that reflect an increasingly diverse population. And so the evolution of that work has been very organic. There was no wholesale shift in how we did our investments, but more a recognition that we had been doing this and supporting these types of fund managers and entrepreneurs for years. But as many of you know, as bullish as we are on the space, the stats do not necessarily tell a different story. So according to Project Diane, companies founded by Black women raise an average of $36,000 compared to $1.3 million raised by failed startups. And nearly 60% of venture capital activity flows through three tech hubs, Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. And so our hope this morning is to really have a robust discussion about how venture capital can align with our community and place-based investment strategies as well as supporting diversity outcomes. So I am so thrilled to be here with these panelists, all of whom are investors in our portfolio. And so I'll have them introduce themselves one by one, and then we'll kick off the discussion. Thanks, Miliana. My name is Dan Boorock. I'm a managing partner at New York Venture Partners. We're a place-based venture capital fund located in New York, New Jersey. Hi, my name is Stephen DeBerry. I run Bronze Investments. The Bronze Venture Fund invests out of Silicon Valley here. We invest against an east-side investment thesis, very much rooted in the community of East Palo Alto here in Silicon Valley. But the east-side thesis is really about the other side of the tracks. It could be East Palo Alto or East LA, East Philly, East St. Louis, New Orleans East. There's an east-side thing. We can talk about that a little bit more later. I'm the general partner of Impact America Fund. We are a tech-enabled, we invest in tech-enabled companies that are enhancing lives and underserved communities in America. We believe that there is existing infrastructure in America that technology has honestly overlooked. And so we're supporting entrepreneurs that have a nuanced understanding of those communities to scale technology-enabled businesses. Okay. Thanks for your patience. So in my role at Prudential, we wear many hats. And the title of this session is really Why Venture. So we're an impact investor. We're a large financial services firm. We have a philanthropic arm as well through our foundation. And in conversations that we've had with these funds as well as other potential investors, we've observed the fact which is everyone seems to be aligned with the mission, which is supporting the east-side thesis, supporting economic development in Newark and other cities, or supporting more diverse outcomes. But when you get to the point of investing in venture, there seems to be a bit of misalignment. And so I would ask the panel what their experience has been in terms of convincing people that venture is actually an aligned strategy to pursue these opportunities. Yeah. So I guess my mic's on. Great. What I'd say is if you think about the impact investing landscape and the amount of dollars allocated to impact investing, it's still mostly in the public markets. And then you start segmenting out the pie and you say, well, what's not in the public markets? Then it's mostly private equity, i.e. the main capital's world, the larger buyout sustainable place. So the percentage that actually goes to venture capital funds is really quite small. Not sure if that's because we're at a different maturity curve in the growth of impact investment or that people don't fundamentally believe that venture capital investing creates jobs. So I'm going to address that point. Newark Venture Partners, we're a place-based venture capital firm. Our idea is to find great seed and series A-stage companies that are based anywhere in the US and abroad and try and get them to do a physical tie-back to Newark, New Jersey. So why are we doing that? Well, one, we fundamentally believe that venture capital is a job-creating engine. You don't have to go any further than Mountain View and Google. Google created 72,000 jobs over the past 15 years. I was an early employee at Google. When I joined, I was the 400th person at the company. That was 2002. Fast-forward to today. And they've created those jobs not just in Mountain View, but 8,000 new jobs in New York and many other jobs internationally. So it's possible the venture capital done right, i.e. the right company, produces job creation. The second component of what we're doing is place-based investing. So why do that in a place where those jobs can actually have an impact? So whether it's Newark or Baltimore or Detroit or Oakland or East Palo Alto, all these other cities that really can benefit from it attaching the redeveloping urban core to the innovation economy. So those are the two things that we fundamentally believe exist. Venture capital does create jobs, and those jobs can be laser focused in communities that really need to benefit from technology job creation. Yeah, I agree with all of that. My logic around why venture is pretty simple, which is rooted in my experience with bronze, which started as a multi-asset class manager. So we were looking at all assets. And what I realized is, unless you are completely satisfied with the investment landscape as it exists today, then you have to do venture. Because otherwise, you're picking from the products that already exist. So if you want to see things that are new and you want to see things that are innovative, the asset class that drives that innovation is venture capital. Yeah, and I'll add just a little bit to that in that given the conversation of this conference around social and economic change to throw a stat out there when you look at the racial wealth gap stat here in the U.S., it's quite alarming. Black and Latinos have six and seven cents on the dollar to white wealth. And if you think about the demographic shift here in America to the year 2020 when half of the nation's children will be of ethnic or minority group by 2040, over 50% of this country will be people of color. So you have a majority population that has very little wealth, power, influence, and control of their economic destinies. So if you think about solutions, my role and while I chose venture capital, I'm an activist at heart and believe in social change with a finance background. But my reason for choosing venture capital is because we need to accelerate change. So how do we invest in technology enabled companies in our case that doesn't help the one or two businesses when you think about the case of a maven and helping independent hairstylists, but it's supporting 20 to 30 to 50,000 businesses at one time. So there's a way to do this by leveraging technology and the venture capital approach. I believe to accelerate the change that we need to really pay attention to and act on immediately. So I want to drill down a little deeper in this in terms of what your investor experience has been like and of the investors that you have to date. Why they've chosen to invest in you. I can see it's a range of options whether it's they believe the investment strategy. They see strategic value, their mission aligned. And so I'm curious to hear from some of you why folks have invested with you. Obviously, we are one of them. And then what you hope more investors will see in terms of the value proposition that you all provide. So maybe Steven, can we kick off with you? I think it'd be better for you to answer that. But I think in our case I think most good investment strategies have something to do with driving activity where most folks aren't looking. That's how you get different returns and hopefully better returns. And so our Eastside thesis, which is really looking at communities that have been designed to be on the social and economic margin, absolutely looks at places where I think it's non-obvious to most folks to search for value and capture. But given my lived experience and familiarity with these communities, I can see the value that's there. So I think that has something to do with it if I were to put words in your mouth. I think one thing I'd add to that is it also depends on where the pockets of capital are coming from. So I'll just, at New York Venture Partners, about 50% of our capital has come from five large corporations. And the rest has come from a couple foundations and then family offices. But what I've noticed going out to institutional investors is they don't know where to put the impact investing bucket of capital. Does it sit in a foundation? Does it sit in their traditional investment strategy? And if it does, are they convinced they're going to get similar returns to their other investments? And so finding the right pocket of capital, and I think we'd look to you folks to think about how you can be more open minded in terms of allocating capital to impact funds, especially the private funds that we run. I think it's important too to truly believe in the messaging of what we're delivering around impact being a competitive advantage, right? If you're treating your employees better, if you're treating your customers better, if you're providing some value add back to the community, then that, Matt, if you're investing in a company that does those things, then that company should have a competitive advantage and should be the winner long term. So I think as LPs or investors think about investing in impact investment funds, venture capital is a risky asset class. In some actuality, does having an impact mission-aligned focus within the company de-risk some of that earlier stage risk that would ordinarily be there because of the benefits that you get from the mission alignment? One of the things that I think is really, I think makes us all aligned is our place-based focus. So Prudential having been headquartered in Newark for the past over 140 years, you being in Newark, all of your work in East Palo Alto and all the work that you did before launching what's now Impact America. I think we have something which I call the cloud versus community conundrum, which is we talk a lot about minority-owned businesses and we seem to be conflating two concepts. You have the mom and pop deli on the corner in a city like Newark and then you have that soon to be tech behemoth. And they have very different implications in communities in terms of what their impact is. And so I would love to hear from you all if venture investing can have a community impact or community investments can attract venture capital dollars or if they are separate. Maybe Dan, we'll start with you. Yeah, well, it's a great question. Our thesis is underpinned on the work of Professor Moretti who's worked as a teacher professor at Stanford in Berkeley around the multiplier impact. So if you attract great companies that are growing quickly and creating jobs in the city, they're going to have a positive impact on the local economy. One software developer job creates between four and six service sector jobs in the community. So we're coming from a top-down approach where we think that attracting small companies to build up in urban cores is going to have a positive impact on the local community. We quite honestly haven't really given thought to investing within the community businesses. We kind of think the companies that are growing there from a technology perspective will hire locally. So I think it's an interesting sort of approach. We're coming from the top-down and the job creating component. I think it's important to do both, right? So the best answers tend to have multiple inputs. I think absolutely the leverage that you get with venture capital is important and that tends to lend itself to big companies. And the financial model of the venture capital business really relies on home runs to win. But I also think, Kishi, you talked about the venture capital process. I think there are ways of knowing, ways of seeing that come from doing venture capital that can be applied to companies that aren't necessarily slated to become billion-dollar companies.  Just as a side project, about four months ago a guy from down in the bayou in Louisiana reached out to me and asked me to help him with a shrimp business. And initially, I see several thousand deals in a year. So initially that was a clear no. I can't help you with shrimp. I'm in Silicon Valley. I'll try to be short on time. But the punchline is, I talked to this guy for several weeks. It turns out they're pulling 120 million pounds of shrimp out of this little community down in the bayou. And I helped him understand how to position the company. It turns out there's all these chemicals and shrimp, and he's not doing that. And so I helped set up this company called Naked Seafood, which is now in negotiation to be an exclusive supplier to Blue Apron, the big meal kit company that recently went public. So do I think Naked Seafood will be a billion-dollar company? Probably not. But the things that I've learned as a venture capitalist have absolutely been able to employ those and helping this entrepreneur build something that I think will be a well-generator like nothing that's ever been seen in his community down in the bayou in New Orleans. And building on that, what we're really excited about at Impact America Fund, we are seeing people who come from communities, when I say the communities, communities of color, lower income communities, and they figured out, including myself, how to navigate through these institutional and academic structures that are quite familiar to most of us in this room, but for them was tough culturally, right? But they figured that system out, and they're saying, hey, I see some flaws in this system. There aren't enough people that look like me in the system from the same economic background, the same racial background. And I have family members that are not a part of the system that are in the bayou trying to build the shrimp business. And hey, by the way, I understand a bit more. I have a bit more sophistication around business and finance and technology. How do I come back, and not only just help the one person in the bayou, but with technology in the case and what we're seeing, how do we scale a platform or business model using technology, not to get rid of the guy in the bayou that are farming the shrimp, but how do we do that nationally and potentially globally? And we know how to do that, and I know how to communicate with the shrimp farmer in the bayou, because he is my family member. He's the person I grew up with. So we're seeing this interesting situation happen where people from the community have gone through the system that are coming back out and saying, I know how to fix this problem, invest in me, and give me the opportunity to actually scale a solution. Great, so we're close to running up on time, so I'd like to ask the panelists one closing question for them to respond to. And for us to close some of these equity gaps in building more inclusive venture capital models, strategy is very much like yours. I'm curious to hear from each of you what you think would help grow the field, and the caveat is you can't say more investment, since that's a no-brainer. So I'll start with Keisha, and then we can move over. Grow the field. I am going to leverage what, if you all were here earlier, what Giselle said from the GEN, we know what the problems are. There are solutions to these problems, and we have to get to work. So I think us sort of getting over ourselves, and we're all very good at sort of talking about these issues and the rigor and thinking about it academically, it's like it's time to get to work. And if we all roll up our sleeves and do this work, I do think we'll see some immediate change happen very quickly. You know, my view is what would help both my business, venture capital in general, and also our general situation in this country in this moment is just friendship, y'all. We are talking about these communities that I bet I'm not going to do the show your hand thing, but if I listed a bunch of these East Side communities, I bet 95% of y'all have not been in them. And if you go, you may go through them, but you don't go to them.  I mean, you know, that kind of proximity will release financial value and also social cohesion. I'm going to go a little more retail. And what I'm going to suggest is that, you know, there's a halo effect, I think, that comes with impact investing at the venture capital stage of investing. And, you know, if we had more other venture capitals, more traditional venture capitals and more companies looking at where we're doing and bringing us deal flow and co-investing with us to sort of support our impact, that would go a long way. So the Sequoias and the Mayfields of the world, benchmarks of the world bring us your deal flow. Great. Well, please join me in thanking the panelists for a really robust discussion. It was really fascinating. Thank you all.


Roiol sylwch. Prise. The First Minister's Members... Y First Minister's Members, law officers, distinguished guests. It is with great sorrow that we gather today to mourn the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. On behalf of all members of the Scottish Parliament, I would like to convey our sincere condolences to Your Majesty, to the Queen consort and to all members of the royal family. Not only leading our national mourning but grieving for a much-loved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The thoughts of this Parliament and the people of Scotland are with the royal family at this time of grief. Although we meet today at this time of sadness, this moment provides us with an opportunity to reflect on Her Majesty's remarkable life and, in particular, her bond with this Parliament. We are reminded of Her Majesty's commitment to and affection for this Parliament every time we sit. On our establishment in 1999, Her Majesty gifted the Parliament the beautiful mace which sits in the well of the chamber. The words inscribed on it, integrity, compassion, wisdom and justice have guided and inspired us and will continue to do so. Those values were clearly reflected throughout Her Majesty's life. Her Majesty described this Parliament as being rightly anchored in the history of Scotland and spoke of the grit, determination, humour and forthrightness of the people. Those were qualities that occupied a personal place in her own and family's affections. Generations of people here in Scotland reciprocated that affection. Although today is a day of sadness, of reflection and expression of our sincere sympathy, it is also a day to recognise and be thankful for Her Majesty's long reign, Her service to this country and Her friendship to this Parliament. For in Her we have indeed had a true friend and supporter. With us at every step, from our first opening ceremony in 1999 to the opening of each subsequent session and on our important anniversaries too, the pandemic meant that our opening ceremony last year was delayed from its usual summer date to October and Covid meant that precautions were in place, but Her Majesty was determined to join us and demonstrated the importance of her relationship with the Parliament and the people. We, 129 members, each invited a community representative, a local hero to be a guest at that ceremony in recognition of their selfless service to those in need during the pandemic. Her Majesty stopped and spoke with every single local hero waiting for her, asking about their contribution and thanking them sincerely for their efforts. Young and old from the length and breadth of Scotland, their delight and pride at receiving Her Majesty's time and interest was abundantly clear. A true demonstration of the time Queen Elizabeth invested in the relationship with this Parliament and the people. In my role representing the Parliament, I was privileged to enjoy two private audiences with Her Majesty following my appointment in 2021, and I very much valued her insight and her wise counsel. So while we mourn today with the royal family and with the people of Scotland and others far beyond, we also give thanks as a nation and as a Parliament for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Scots, for her extraordinary life and work. Before I invite the First Minister to move the motion of condolence, I would ask you to join me in two-minute silence and please stand as you are able. Today's business is consideration of a motion of condolence in the name of Nicola Sturgeon, and I now call on Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, to speak to and move the motion of condolence. Your Majesty's, Presiding Officer, members of Parliament, honoured guests. It is my solemn duty and my honour to move this motion of condolence on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. For people across our country, this is a time of profound sorrow. While the nation's grief is for our Queen, the royal families is for their beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Today, on behalf of the Parliament and people of Scotland, I offer my heartfelt condolences to Your Majesty's and to the Duke of Roxy, the Princess Royal, the earls of Inverness and Forfer, and to all members of Her Majesty's wider family. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, Arthur Balfour led tributes then in the House of Commons. He commented that the grief of the country was in part because they were marking the end of an epoch, the beginning of which stretches beyond the memory of any individual whom I am now addressing. Those words are just as true for us today. Most of us simply do not remember life without the Queen. When, as Princess Elizabeth gave a radio broadcast from South Africa on her 21st birthday, she was addressing an empire that still included India. When she became monarch, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister. In an ever-changing and often turbulent world, Her Majesty has been our constant. She has been the anchor of our nation. Her personal recollections are often intertwined with memories of her reign. I was nine years old when I first saw the Queen. She visited Irvine, my hometown, in July 1979, to open the Magnum Leisure Centre. I was one of hundreds lining the streets with my mum, and by luck we ended up close to her car as it passed by. Nine-year-old me was absolutely convinced I had caught her eye. That nine-year-old girl could not have imagined more than 35 years later being in the front passenger seat of another car, this time with the Queen at the wheel, driving through the Balmoral estate. In recent days, other leaders have shared stories from Balmoral of barbecues cooped by Prince Philip as the Queen laid the table. Those are memories I treasure too, special times in what was clearly their happy place. I did, however, experience one rather tense moment at Balmoral. My husband and I were with the Queen before dinner when the drawing room light started to flicker. To my great alarm, he was after all in the presence of Her Majesty, my husband suddenly lept up and darted across the room. Peter had spotted the cause of the flickering light. One of the Queen's young corgies, a beautiful pup called Sandy, was eating through a lamp switch. Thankfully, tragedy was averted and Sandy emerged unscathed, though not before a stern ticking off from his mistress. Just like all my predecessors as First Minister and all Prime Ministers, I deeply valued the time I spent alone with the Queen.  However, the memory that I cherish most is not from Balmoral or from audiences at Holyrood. It is from 2015 when the Queen opened the border railway. I spent the journey from Edinburgh to Tweedbank with just her and Prince Philip enjoying the recollections of times spent in Scotland. That would have been special on any day. It was also the day that the Queen became our longest reigning monarch, allowing me to observe closely how quietly reflective she was about that historic milestone made it so much more so. It was one of the great privileges of my life. What was obvious then and on every occasion she graced us with her presence was the Queen's genuine love of Scotland. Indeed, her first official visit was here in Scotland when she opened the Aberdeen sailors home in October 1944. In the decade since, the Queen has been intrinsic to the story of modern Scotland. From the opening of the 40s oil pipeline to the fourth bridge and later the Queensbury crossing, the border railway and the hosting of three Commonwealth games, she was present at so many of our iconic moments. She was also a true and steadfast friend of this Parliament. On the day we reconvened in 1999, she allowed the title Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Scots to be used. She also presented us with our treasured mace.  Even as her health declined, her Majesty inspired us with an unfaltering dedication to public service. In his address on Friday, the King recalled his mother's words on her 21st birthday. My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service. For 75 years, Queen Elizabeth more than fulfilled that vow. She performed her duties with dedication, wisdom and a profound sense of service. She set an exceptional example to all of us. Our nation is in mourning today for a Queen whose loss we have not yet begun to come to terms with. We are deeply honoured by the presence today of his Majesty, King Charles III and the Queen consort.  Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Scots, we are grateful for her life. May she now rest in peace. I now call on Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party. News from Balmoral on Thursday evening rocked us to the core. Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, was a constant presence in our lives throughout her 70-year reign. For many of us, it's difficult to imagine our country without her. The Queen seemed as permanent as the stones of Edinburgh Castle, a constant while her country around her changed. When Queen Elizabeth II became monarch, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and she was served in that role by 15 political leaders, offering them a wealth of wise counsel from her long experience. From the Queen who lived through the Great Depression and the Great Recession, the Second World War and the Second Gulf War, the length of the Queen's reign meant that she was an anchor to our history. Ensuring that whatever changes to our country and how we lived our lives, we retained an enduring link to the generations that had come before. She was a living reminder of the sacrifices made to build the country and the world that we live in today. What other leader could have reassured the nation in the darkest days of the Covid pandemic by drawing on their own memories of children being separated from families during the Blitz? Time and time again, Her Majesty gave us certainty, stability, joy and happiness when we needed it most. That's why the scenes that we saw on the final journey from Balmoral to Holyroop Palace yesterday surprised no one. From the heart of Aberdeenshire to our capital city, young and old came together to pay their respects. Scotland's unique tributes saw tractors and horses interspersed with members of the public who came in their tens of thousands to line the route. Because while monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, we know that the late Queen held Scotland close to her heart and we held her to ours. We feel the pain of her loss so strongly with our new king and the entire royal family today, as they grieve on a personal level. We join them in mourning as a nation. In her final speech to this chamber, the late Queen said that it is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than in Scotland. However, we can also see that the Queen shaped modern Scotland during her 70-year reign. We know that the bonds and ties to Scotland, developed and strengthened by the late monarch, will be continued by King Charles III. Usur became the first sovereign to exceed the throne while on Scottish soil in over 400 years. You have already served Scotland with great dedication as Duke of Rossie, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Carrack, Baron of Remfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince in Great Steward of Scotland. I know that people across the country will show you the same support and devotion as they did your late mother. Today, we do not just commemorate the reign of our Queen but also celebrate the life of a woman whom many in Scotland knew and loved, who dedicated her life to her country, to duty and to serving others. On behalf of the Scottish Conservatives, I am proud to support the motion of condolence today to thank Queen Elizabeth II for her long, loyal and dignified service and to offer our full support and loyalty to our new king. May her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, rest in glorious and eternal peace, and from all of us, sir, God save the king. I now call on Anna Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Your Majesty, I offer my sincerest condolences on the passing of your beloved mother, and my thoughts remain with you, the Queen's concert, your sons, grandchildren and all the royal family at this time of deep sadness. First and foremost, the Queen was a mother, and I cannot imagine the intense feeling of personal loss you are experiencing while fulfilling your devotion to public service as our king. I hope that it gives you and your family much comfort that we are all grieving the passing of someone who was so special, cherished and loved by us all. Her Majesty was a constant in our lives. Many saw her as family. Many saw their family in her. She reminded me of my own grandmother, her walk, her demeanor, even the way she held her handbag, but she also touched generations. I returned home on Thursday night to a crying six-year-old who said that he was sad because he will never get to meet the Queen. Queen Elizabeth II was also a constant reminder of the need for kindness and compassion in our society. So often in our politics, both today and throughout history, we focus on what divides us, but from the blitz to the pandemic, the Queen brought our nation together. She was the great unifier of our country. She brought joy at times of national pride. She brought comfort at times of national tragedy, and she brought light at our nation's darkest moments. We will never forget how her Majesty the Queen found the words during the pandemic to remind us all that we will meet our loved ones again. Words which were more poignant than ever following the passing of her husband, Prince Philip, your father, who now rests at peace with his beloved Lillibud. We know how much she loved Scotland and we loved her back. She reminded this Parliament that despite our political disagreements and arguments, all of us here are in service of the Scottish people, and her influence was felt far beyond these shores with the people of the Commonwealth and other nations united in grief at this time. Our world changed beyond recognition during her reign, but her dedication to duty, her integrity, her warmth and her service to others never wavered. In fact, politicians here and right around the world will look on endlessly. In 70 years of service as our head of state, she always seemed to say the right thing, do the right thing and at the right time. I am confident that as we enter a new era, we will cherish your Majesty's leadership and your wisdom, compassion, integrity and justice.  We wish you a long and happy reign. God save the king. I now call on Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Green Party. The experience of loss is universal. It comes into all of our lives. It is a reminder that the reality of human life is not rooted in status or in title, but in the connections we make, bonds of love and friendship of family and of service to one another. People of all views can respect this, whatever else we may disagree about. In this moment, as we mark the death of the Queen, I offer my party's sincere condolences to her son, to all of his family and to all those whose lives she touched. For many people, a monarch stands as a symbol of the country. If that is true, then this is a moment more than one of personal loss for those we stand with in their grief. It is also a time to reflect on the change that the Queen witnessed during such a long reign. When Princess Elizabeth of York became Queen Elizabeth II, the UK was still early in its recovery from a brutal world war and had begun laying the foundations of something extraordinary—a welfare state and a national health service to tackle the giant evils of the age. Nearly three decades of declining inequality followed. At the last coronation, the oath still referred to other countries as the possessions of an empire, and here at home human rights and equality were distant ideas, with racist discrimination remaining legal and people treated as criminals and outcasts because of their sexuality. Now we can look back and celebrate extraordinary progressive change, even as we must continue to defend what has been achieved. There are those for whom the long reign of Elizabeth II and indeed the institution of monarchy represent continuity, stability and permanence, but in truth the tide of progress cannot be halted. It feels slow as we live it day by day, but in time it is dramatic. Presiding Officer, as Charles III begins his reign, let us hope, indeed, redouble our determination that he will have the opportunity to witness change just as transformational and more. It is still needed. I now call on Alex Cole-Hamilton, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Presiding Officer, your Majesty's, we do not choose the life to which we are born and seldom do we shape the events that define our times. We can only hope to move through life with humility and close regard for those around us to conduct ourselves in the time that we are given with compassion, with kindness and with grace. The life of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, was a towering example of all those qualities manifest in a single human being. She always kept a special place for Scotland in her heart, as she in turn found ample room in ours. Her passing leaves a profound absence across our family of nations and these islands are united in our grief. Her Majesty came of age in the crucible of war, a period of gravest danger for our country. It fostered in her a deep commitment to reconciliation, to peace and a common understanding among nations, so evident in her commitment to the Commonwealth. It is why she told the listening world from Cape Town on the occasion of that 21st birthday broadcast that, while she was 6,000 miles away from the country of her birth, she was never far from home. Hence the grief that we feel today is shared across the world. From the blitz to the pandemic, through times of tempest and times of calm, sustained as always by the Duke of Edinburgh, her beloved strength and stay, she was the embodiment of constancy and forbearance in the face of remarkable change. She sat with presidents and hospital patients, key workers and veterans. She lept from helicopters and dined with bears. She earned the widespread affection that has been so visible in these days of mourning. In one Christmas broadcast, Her Majesty said that not all of us can do great things, but we can all do small things with great love. Your Majesty's measure of her example inspired so many of us to fulfil the promise of those words. On behalf of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, I express our deepest condolences to His Majesty the King, to the royal family and affirm our allegiance to both. God save the king. I now invite His Majesty the King to respond to the motion of condolence. First Minister, party leaders and members of the Scottish Parliament, I know that the Scottish Parliament and the people of Scotland share with me a profound sense of grief at the death of my beloved mother. Through all the years of her reign, the Queen, like so many generations of our family before her, found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its people a haven and a home. My mother felt as I do the greatest admiration for the Scottish people for their magnificent achievements and their indomitable spirit, and it was the greatest comfort for her to know in turn the true affection in which she was held. The knowledge of that deep and abiding bond must be to us a solace as we mourn the end of a life of incomparable service. If I might paraphrase the words of the great Robert Burns, my dear mother was the friend of man, the friend of truth, the friend of age, and guide of youth. Few hearts like hers with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. While still very young, the Queen pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the principles of constitutional government. As we now mark with gratitude a promise most faithfully fulfilled, I am determined with God's help and with yours to follow that inspiring example. The title of Duke of Rossie and the other Scottish titles, which I have had the honour to carry for so long, I now pass to my elder son William, who I know will be as proud as I have been to bear the symbols of this ancient kingdom. I take up my new duties with thankfulness for all that Scotland has given me, with resolve to seek always the welfare of our country and its people, and with whole-hearted trust in your goodwill and good counsel as we take forward that task together. Thank you, Your Majesty. I now close this meeting off the Parliament.


I think I want to I do want to get the Marcus Lawrence though. Why not all right?  Oh, here goes this nasty Here comes to Kobe you ready watch I'm in I form I form seven tight ends This dude blows.  Oh, there's no way Just no way like what's going on man Pick six.  I'm all set Let's go Jalen. That's what we pay you to do, baby. You just can't throw the you just cannot get rid of the ball, man Tog like are we doing anything right now? Oh line. Are we doing anything? I mean, dude, like we are just everybody's on the ground, dude Whole team is on the ground right now.  This blitz everybody dude. It's not no glitch. You just go in there and put a People in there. Yeah, dog. I'm dying. Just can't keep moving.  I just can't even stay still.  It's no way. He just took that throw like that. Oh my god, man What is going on over here, bro? Oh Dude, I can't believe that in this dude mixing it's just mixing my team like this. Is that that tough that little motion? Oh my zones are on 30. I swear they are. Oh my god. No wonder this is going down The one man nano. Oh good pressure. My pick cat again. Let's go man Fun ends on the thought that mother Scream Godie Godie No, that passes trash. I don't really use it that much, but it's good on drags, but I mess up much I'm I mess up just he's been doing that the whole game because I motion block that guy He takes the guy that manned up on me puts them in a purple zone So there's nobody on Devontae Smith He's just on a purple zone and he's done that every play for like the last 15 plays How are we bumping into that's what I want to know like how are we bumping in? Good hit, baby. Dude. Why I can what why is there nobody on this? Though I cannot cover and Joe Nixon Just know it as a touchdown Yeah Yo, this mother harm is it lord?  It ain't no way bro.     Come on dog. Oh, thank god, dude I know I had the team team. Give me that. Give me that.  Here's some wrinkles though. Yeah, some wrinkles. I might incorporate gg's gg's Yeah, some wrinkles that were kind of nice gg's bro. Did you just tell Good art But but the thing is the loop gives you time to make those reads for one second The shit he was doing you don't got to but I started realizing that it wasn't hard to block It wasn't a glitch blitz. He was just blitzing them. It's a difference All I had to do was max protect and I had time to do whatever I wanted


YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video We got another episode of NFL questions from Subscribers and I am just getting off or not just getting off work. I'm getting off work Early they had a little vacation time wanted to use it today. So that's what we're doing and It feels weird doing a video when I'm getting off working. I can actually see y'all can actually see me Y'all can actually see me cuz y'all know when I get off work. It's super dark So we riding around like we on a radio station, but anyway Team keeping clean this question from subscribers. This came from my boy Joe underscore flack underscore trust and his question was He hit me up on Twitter and he asked would Joe Flack go ever make a pro bow?  I'm engraving this.  If you just love football period Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel and turn your notifications on and also make sure you leave a like on a video too Leave a like on a video cuz like my guy Ryan mallet says it's completely free You can also follow on Twitter Instagram and snapchat all three are engraving vids now Will Joe flackle ever make a pro bow a lot of people say man flackle sucks He never puts up great numbers. He never puts up pro bow numbers Does he deserve to go to the pro bow and those are for usually for the pretty great quarterbacks We put up really good numbers day in day out Consistently it's flackle that type of guy. No, has he ever made it? Will he ever go to a pro bow? No, probably not. Has he ever made the pro bow? Yes Yes He most certainly has He actually turned it down though. Well actually first person First alternate alternate to go to the pro bowl because The person maybe he was taking Brady's place. I believe I forgot exactly whose place he was taking But I believe it was because maybe Brady had to go to the Super Bowl or something like that But something happened where Joe flackle was invited to go to the pro bow. He was in there But he was as an alternate. He wasn't a first Ballot pro bow or anything like that. He he wasn't voted for enough to make the initial team But somebody was even a playoff game or they just didn't want to participate I think it was Brady maybe with a Super Bowl or with a playoff game But they maybe they were just injured or something happened something happened some ways some shape some form somehow But flackle they told him hey, you're good.  So he turned it down. So the person who took his Other than the red-headed rifle and he don't and he don't So I forgot exactly what year that was but to see exactly what happened Y'all can look that up you can do some research on it I honestly forgot who the initial guy was but I do remember that Andy Dalton took his spot because flackle turned it down So they gave it to Andy Dalton. So flackle 2014. Okay, the year Steve Smith senior. Okay, so yeah Patriots did go to the Super Bowl that year But yeah, I remember Andy Dalton took his day. He took flackle boys and flackle turned it down So yes, he has made a pro bowl before well He could have went to a pro bowl before but he turned it down Will he make a pro bowl again? No, probably not. That's not flackle is not a pro bowl type of quarterback Pro Bowl type of quarterback usually got They are They usually have an excess amount of No, no, no, no, no, no, no, they usually have an excess amount of Touchdowns to interceptions where the touchdowns outweigh the interceptions by a lot or six Magnificent amount. That's not flackle. That's not his thing. That's not how he does it I mean, I wish that would be how he does it, but it's just not And that's Ravens fans. We used to it already. He doesn't put up Pro Bowl numbers. He's not a consistent quarterback like that That's just not his thing. So will he make one in the future? No, it ain't gonna happen He's older his style of play ain't gonna change his style of play I don't think he's going to improve if he played if he played every playoff I mean if you played every game like he was a playoff game. Oh, yeah He'd be in Pro Bowl every year every year without a doubt He would be in a pro bowl every single year, but he doesn't play the regular season games like their playoff games Why? Maybe because they're not playoff games. I don't know. But anyway, next question. Does Ronnie Stanley deserve to be in the Pro Bowl? well As a Raven fan. Yes as a football fan. Yes, too because Ronnie Stanley has established himself He's had a lot of pressure on him since he came in his six-year-old raw Pick and draft. I forgot what school he went to but either way He was asked to step into a starting role immediately immediately And he has held it down. He's been one not even one of the best rookie left tackle But he's been one of the best left tackles in the league period. So Ronnie Stanley does his thing He does his thing. So I think he definitely should be he is Pro Bowl worthy But me with the Pro Bowl it is more so it's a mix of a popularity contest and The numbers that you put in up more so a popularity contest Whoever the most popular quarter cuz you know it's it's by vote people vote to see who goes to the Pro Bowl Well, they want to be elected to go to the Pro Bowl and if you get the most votes, then you go but Ronnie Stanley is not a popular guy But yeah, he would be somebody that actually would deserve Alex said a lot of people doubted him saying we should we should have taken tons of and the Ravens were gonna take tons They were gonna take him. He was a lock right there, but Somebody put out that video of him where he was smoking through the the gas mask and he dropped Dolphin said, you know what you ain't gonna drop too far. We'll still pick you up But if not for that video, we would have Larry me tons of instead of Ronnie's Ronnie Stanley But I'm glad have you thing worked out because a lot of people were like, oh the Ravens ended up reaching for Ronnie Stanley He wasn't he wasn't a good six overall pick He's been he's been great for us. He has been great for us. I love Ronnie Stanley I love it. Love him. Love him. Love him. Love him. He has been great for us I have wanted us and the Ravens too. This is one thing we actually agreed about Ravens wanted to draft Jalen Ramsey Instead of before Ronnie Stanley, they wanted to trade up to draft Jalen Ramsey They wanted to trade up with the Cowboys, I believe But um, the Cowboys felt like the Ravens might be okie-dokie in them okie-dokie in them So the Ravens could get Ezekiel Elliott I'm glad we didn't get it Ezekiel Elliott because we would have went from One great running back situation with Ray Rice to his demise To another great running back situation and Ezekiel Elliott and then Not necessarily his demise, but just all this distraction all this just garbage We it would just been bad luck for us at running back position, but I'm glad that that didn't happen But if we would have got Jalen Ramsey, that would have been nice that would have been nice man That dude is a beast, but we always talk about this. We always revisit this every now and then what could have happened in the draft But it's all good man. 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How are you? Yeah. How's it going? Are we rolling?  Are you excited to be here? I am so excited and also Miss Manny Quinn is excited to be back. She got a cute color last time. She actually said that she's been loving the balayage and she said her day went really well and she's going on a second date.  That's a repeat customer Brad. Your first repeat Eric, congratulations. Miss Manny Quinn is back. Eric is about to do his first haircut ever in his entire life, right? Is that true? Right? Ever, yeah. Which is weird. Why have you never done a haircut? I'm trying to think. Yeah, no, I've literally never done a haircut. I love how we grew up in a salon and you and John have never cut your hair. Okay, the only haircuts I would do when I would like take the old mannequins and then just like cut them like really short with scissors and it would look crazy. So if you guys haven't seen our previous video where we taught Eric how to balayage highlight the same way we're about to do right now, which is he is in the room behind me. He is wearing an earpiece in his ear as one does and he is going to listen to my verbal instructions on how to give a haircut to Miss Manny Quinn. He has all the supplies he needs in front of him. However, I will not be able to help him in person. I will not be able to give him any real physical instructions. He will have to do everything sort of blindly by just following what I say. I'm very confident in my haircutting abilities, even though I've never done it. And I would also say I'm very nervous because I have no idea what I'm doing. Perfect. I love that. Greet your client.  How is life going? How's her boyfriend? Hey Miss Manny Quinn. How are you doing today?  She doesn't want coffee or tea. She actually wants a tequila soda. Okay. All right Miss Manny Quinn, it's coming right up. And she's caked. So I'm just going to say before we start, please don't cut yourself. Okay. Try not to cut past the second knuckle. I'm just going to put that out there, okay? That's an important rule because you can really slash yourself with these scissors. They're very sharp. Want to know what kind of haircut we're doing today, Eric? Is it a bob? Yeah. It is? I've always wanted to cut a bob, Brad. We're going to do a layered bob, Eric. A layered bob on Miss Manny Quinn for her second date with the guy or the woman if she wants. Does that mean anything to a layered bob?  Uh-huh. A ski slope. So like a short haircut, ski slope. Great. So a lot of you guys wanted me to do the color while telling Eric how to do the color from the last video. So this time, I'm going to show you how I would do the haircut in a pre-recorded video so I can show you guys what I'm actually trying to tell her to do and what Eric is actually doing, okay? Brad, I am excited. I don't even think they're going to need the version of you doing it because mine's just going to be a 10 out of 10. Okay. So let's start out by combing all the hair back away from her face. Okay. Okay. It's actually not that easy to comb through. I'm not going to lie. Brad, it's like, why is it so hard to comb through? Um, it's not. What did you wash Miss Manny Quinn with? The only the best of the best. That would be X-Monitor Project X Shampooing Conditioner. Oh, thank God. I was so worried you washed her hair with anything besides that. Please. What else would I use? What comb are you using? I am using the one that is evenly spaced the entire way through. Oh, okay. So use one that has smaller spacings and bigger spacing on one side. Put the end of the bigger side in the middle of her head in the front. So follow her nose up to the middle of her scalp. Do I pick her nose on the way up? Yes. I'm there. So you're then going to follow the middle part all the way down to the nape of her neck. Does it have to be like exact? Yeah. Yeah. Are you having difficulties with this? I am. Why is this harder than coloring, Eric, for you? I don't know. All right. Is it parted? Yeah. I would say it is. Two sides. Okay. So let's start on the right side.   You are going to take triangular sections. You're going to want to make one nice triangle. So two halves of a triangle at the nape of her neck. Does that make sense? No. So it's split in half, right? The top of the head is split in half. Okay. So you're going to go down to the nape of her neck. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And you're going to want to make one half of a triangle on one side and the other half on the other side so that you have one big triangle. You don't want to be using a lot of hair. I think this is harder than to explain than the color. Honestly, I thought the hair could have been much easier. I actually think it's harder. There's no real creative freedom here. It's a lot of precise measurement. Miss Manny Quinn, don't you worry. We're going to get it all sorted out for you. So you're going to be taking half a triangle cut out on each side of the head in order to form a one medium-sized triangle. Where does the triangle start? Okay. It started about an inch up from the nape of her neck. So where her hairline ends in the back. Okay. And then make a half on one side and the other half on the other side so that when you pull them both together, those two sections make one larger triangle. This is your guideline. So every section you pull after this is going to be guided by this piece that you're cutting right now. So whatever length you choose for this section guides the entire haircut. So no pressure. Okay. So basically the entire back of her neck is like in this triangle, right? Yeah. Wait. How short is this bob going to be? Maybe like a little below her chin. Here's the other complicated part. You're going to have both the scissors and the comb in one hand at the same time. Brad, if you could see me right now, I actually have the comb and the scissors in my right hand. Work. Yeah. I love that for you. Yep. Okay. So now take your left hand, hold the section out and then comb, starting at the root and work it to the bottom. And then your left hand, like doing the balayage is going to work as your anchor. Oh, damn.  Okay. So you're going to cut below your fingers, not above. Okay. I'm actually a little nervous for the cutting. Yes, me too. Please don't cut yourself. We need to finish this video today. Go right below her chin around there. Oh, damn. That's a lot. Yeah. Do you already cut? No, I haven't done it yet. Okay. So you've got the section taught.  All right. So you're going to place it under your thumb on the hand that you're holding the hair with. So the left hand. The comb? Yeah. You sort of change hands now with the comb. So the comb now goes into your left. Oh, yeah. Into your left hand underneath your thumb.  Okay. Okay. I just cut all the way across. Oh, I didn't even tell you to cut it yet. I know. I got nervous. It started. Eric. I didn't even tell you to go. She already looks really good. Okay. Usually you don't cut an entire section that large with one swipe. Okay. Wait. And I don't go past one knuckle. Your first knuckle. You only have one knuckle. No, you have two. Oh. So like the major knuckle. The first one. Oh, the little tiny, the little baby knuckle. Finger bends. Okay. I'm just going to even it out a little bit. Okay. It is even as hell. Actually, Brad, on a second thought, it's really not that even. I'm Rick. Okay. Please make it as even as possible. This is your guide for the rest of the haircut. All right. No. Is her head tilted still? Oh, sh**. Oh, my God. Which way is this supposed to be tilted? Slightly forward. Yes, it is. So now that that's even, right? Hello? Yeah. I need some reassurance here. It is even as hell. All right. What do I do now? Now we're going to work on the other side. And you're going to take a small piece from the side you just did and carry it onto the other side and use it as your guide to cut the other side the exact same length. Cut small pieces at a time and keep using your guide as you travel around the head. Oh, my God. I almost just cut my finger. Please don't cut past your first knuckle, Eric. You hear me? He's yelling.  Okay. Don't cut past your first knuckle. Yes.  Yes. You work with very small sections at a time or else it gets uneven and weird. All right. I think it looks really sassy and fun. I am making sure that everything is nice and wet then scissoring it with my left set of fingers. Uh-huh. Damn, this is hard to do. This is way past my first knuckle. Eric, stop doing that. I don't understand. But like if I'm holding it and scissoring it, that means I do like a centimeter. Yeah. It's like a half an inch. It's like not a lot. No, it's not. All right. So I'm going to check my work now. So what you do is you pull both sides down at the same time. The left and the right side with both of your pointer fingers and your thumbs. See if they're both the same length. They should end at the same time out of your fingers. I just said it. What happened? What happened? Well, I was checking your pieces, the scissors. We're kind of pointed towards where the hair is in a bun and I kind of cut a little bit. How did you do that? I have no idea. All right. So it looks visually like it's all one length in the back right now, right? Yes. Okay. Perfect. Okay. So now that we have our guide, this is going to guide the entire rest of your haircut. We're going to now take another section out on the, let's do the right side. Sure. So you're following that exact same half triangle and you're just taking out another like half an inch of hair. I feel so bad about the piece of hair. Was it bad? No. You really can't tell. Okay. All right. You good? I am. Nothing. Continue. Okay. So now let's work on one side at a time and let's cut small sections at a time. So you are going to use your prior cut to guide you like I keep saying. Okay. Next section. So you're combing the guide that you just cut and the new section at the same time altogether. All right. I just did a really nice cut. Yeah. How's your guide? It's really good. It's guiding you? I would say I feel like I'm very guided. Okay. So perfect. You're going to keep using that guide and you're going to cut across the hair until you get to the last piece and just make it all even. Just take your time, please. Wow. Yo, Miss Manny Quinn is feeling really good. She's healthy. She's healthy. I'm getting rid of those split ends. Snip, snip, snip. And coming in for the final cut of the new section. Done. Perfect. Now check if those are even on both sides the same process before. They're roughly the same if I go at different speeds. All right. Does it look visually even? Yeah. I'm feeling so good. Ready for the next step. It's a thrilling step. It really is. Okay. We're going to do the exact same thing again. So where would you say this next section is? Is it kind of like beginning to be including the front hairs yet? Yeah. Yeah. It's going like behind your ear kind of? Yeah. No, above her ear. Above her ear. Okay. Cool. So it's still diagonal though, right? Yeah. All right. Let's continue that. Take that next section out. Cut it again using your guide. Let me know if you have any questions. Are your sections nice? My sections are so nice. Oh, you didn't hear that. And who? You need to follow whichever section you're working on, stand directly in front of that section. So you're constantly moving your body around the head. Okay. Maybe that's what I'm missing. Yeah. If you were to stand behind the head and cut every section in that same position you're standing in, the hair would be short in the back and longer in the front. What we're doing here is making a line all the way around her head that's symmetrical. Right. So you're going to follow each section, stand right in front of it and cut the piece of hair. It's really hard. I'm combing it down and I'm scissoring behind it, going right to where the, my guide reaches the other pieces. Uh-huh. And I am only cutting to my second knuckle. Perfect. Even cut yourself yet. I'm very happy about that. No. Is it looking good? It's looking so fine. Hold on. My guide is telling me differently. Is it looking even? Looking nice? Ready. This is going to be a, this is like a textbook cut right here. Hold on. You can kind of tilt the head slightly to one side now and make sure it's just not like toppling back or forward. So your next section will probably be like a diagonal forward towards like the middle of her eyebrow. What are we seeing? We're not seeing much honestly. What do you mean? I am taking another piece of this section. It is approximately where, like I would say the end of her eyebrow. Okay. Cool. I can see my guide. Yep. My guide, baby. Okay. I'm not going to go past the second knuckle. Correcto. Wow. Now I'm feeling really confident. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to lie. My guide just kind of jumped up a little bit. Why? I don't know Brad. Eric. Is the head still tilted to one side to the side? No. She's like tilted forward a little bit. Oh. Okay. See that's not what you want to do. What? Because now when you put her head up, it's going to be shorter in the front. Oh. Why would it make more sense? Why would it make more sense to tilt it to the side? Because then when you tilt it back, it's going to be shorter on the side. No, it won't. First of all, you're tilting it very slightly to the side just so you have a good view. But what will happen is the top layer, will it overextend over the other layers just the hair when you tilt it back up forward? All right. So we're just going to do a little correction, a cutting correction. Oh, God. It's a lot shorter in the front. What are you doing? Yeah. My guide's all kind of screwed up. Okay. I would say that that last section I just did was probably the best section I've done. You're getting better? What are you, Brad? Why? It's really f***ed up. You have to listen, Eric. No, it's not that bad, Brad. Communication is key. No, Brad, actually it's really even. What are you saying at this point? I don't even know. I don't even. It's not even. So, Miss Manny Quinn, what's going on in your life? Nothing. Yo, Brad, I'm not going to lie. She's really quiet today. By the way, Eric, Miss Manny Quinn has our daughter's dance recital in 20 minutes. Wait.  Yes. And so she's f***ed out of here in 15 minutes with a blow-dry. Is she going to yell at me? Yes. Miss Manny Quinn, I'm working on. I'm working on it. She's looking pretty Bob-like, Brad. And where exactly is the length? Approximately an inch underneath her chin. Okay, cool. So should I make these ones a little longer, like a 90s cut? No. We want just a nice, chopped bob. Oh my God, this one's really close to my hand. Snip, snip, snip. It's pretty good. Oh. Now, once you go that side, you're going to repeat the entire process on the other side. Miss Manny Quinn, you're going to meet on time for your dance recital tonight. Keep going, Eric. You got this. Miss Manny Quinn is going to tilt this way. Oh. Where did this little piece come from? What is that? Hey, Brad. What? It's a little f***ed up in the back. I want this to look good, Eric. Me? Brad, this has my name on it. I'm just not really trusting my guide. I don't trust you or your guide. So... So what kind of dance is your daughter into? Oh, hip-hop? She does jazz. I've always wanted to do tap dance myself. She only does jazz, Eric.  All right, Brad, I am on the last section. Okay. I'm not going to lie. I think my thumb is too big for these scissors. It's a large thumb, Eric. Yep. And we have the last section coming up here. I'm going to start calling her Bob because she has such a nice bob. How does it look visually? Very appealing. Yeah? Yeah. Hey, Brad, this whole, like, you know, start at the top and, like, make sure your hands, like, go all the way down. That's kind of useless to me. I'm not going to lie. Oh, good. But I think she looks good. So it's all cut? Yeah. Okay. So now we're just going to do some light layering. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Part the hair down the center again. Wet it. All right. Brad, I have to tell her, right? She probably fell asleep by now. Oh, she's definitely broke up from all the water in her face. Okay. Ms. Mandy, come we're going to do some light layering. Okay. So you're going to take pie slices. Pie slices. Does that make sense? Not at all. Do you know what the apex of a head is? No. It's the high point of the head. So if you lay the comb on the top of the head, you'll see where the highest point is. Got it. Okay. So pretend that's the middle of the pie. And so you're making slices all around that. Pie. I got a piece of pie back here. Okay. So you're combing it out 90 degrees away, and you're holding it vertically with your, with your pointer and your index finger. And your index finger. My, I thought I was bleeding, but I'm not. Get your fingers in there and clamp it down with your fingers. Okay. It's not really the bottom pieces, right? And so you're going to hold it vertically. So your, your elbow should be in the air. Oh, it's way up there, Brad. All right. You're going to cut upwards on that vertical. Okay. The length of the hair is the stuff that dropped. Yeah. Now you're just creating a bevel in the hair. So your first cut should be your guide, right? I'm going in. I'm just going to do it. Okay. But your first cut is not, not past your knuckle. Okay. You're cutting a little piece at a time and you can comb it back out again and use that same guide and cut again. Oh. No, I think I'm doing this right. I can't wait to see what this turns out like. If you kind of like prop up the hair a little bit, like move it around, you should be able to see like layer it. Oh, yeah. I guess. Okay. That's fine. All right. Now you're going to take those same small pie slices out of the entire head. And so you can actually use now a small part of the previous pie section you, you cut and bring it to the next section and follow that guide. All right, Brad, you're going to walk me through that again because it seems like I remember it, but I don't really know. So. All right. So you comb it out. Comb it out to 90 degrees. Yeah. Your elbows in the air. You're holding it out vertically from the head. Okay. Okay. And then you're cutting upwards. Okay. But the guide is nowhere to be found. Oh. Find your guide, Eric. Yeah. I don't know if this is coming out the right way. How, how much have you already cut? I'm like at the front now.  These are large sections. So normally you would kind of travel. What? Nothing, Brad. Keep going. I'm listening. All right. So typically I would kind of travel around the head making a sort of rounded layering, but you don't got time for that. You aren't going to understand what I'm saying anyway. So we're just going to kind of do like a one step 90 degree layer and just give her some kind of a harsh layering. I was also going to tell you to over direct back when you get to the ear, but you kind of already went over the ear apparently, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to have like a chunk missing now. How did you know? Because I'm a hairstylist right now. See how like behind the ear, Eric, the hairline goes way up? Yeah. If you don't over direct and add a little bit of length there, you'll never have the same length as you do in the back. Okay. All right. So when you get to the ear on the other side, make sure you over direct slightly back, which means you're pulling the section 90 degree from the head and then kind of pulling it backward towards her neck. Did you finish the other side? Oh yeah, I finished the first side. Yeah. So we're just going to have a few layers in the back here and we're just going to take the length off that. Look at that nice layer. Brad. What? I'm pretty sure that the layers are going to really screw me over and we're just going to go snip, snip and you can see some nice layers in the hair. Yeah. The layers are looking good. Yes. I think. All right. And they have, she has layers going all the way around, Brad. Oh, she's done? Yeah. Well, that's it. Do I blow it out? So you blow dry it with a round brush? Yes, Manny Quinn. We're going to blow dry you out right now.  Okay. First steps first, I'm going to put a little gliderade in her hair, obviously. Right? You have to put a gliderade. You have to. So I'm going to leave you to this though.  Okay. Good luck and don't. I'm going to do a little bit of thinning. All right, Brad. I'm ready. You ready? Yeah. All right. I'm going to come see you. Brad, it's like good, right? Don't make fun of me too hard because I tried really, really hard. She looks like the candy factory movie. What's the movie? Willy Wonka. She looks like Willy Wonka. I tried to get her to finish like Anna Wintour. It goes in. That's a nice one. Really? Why is the back so much longer? Let's sit down. Let's talk about this. First of all, if it ends right here, the front ends up here. I know. I thought the longer pieces were in the front. What is that? Brad, let's just say the haircutting is a lot more technical than the coloring. You meant she does better on the coloring. Okay. Also these layers. I think you missed a few pieces there. Okay. That was really hard.  She's never coming back. So I think where you kind of went wrong, Eric, is the head tilting, I'm guessing. You tilted the head too far to one side. I didn't understand the head tilting. I'm not going to lie. And in the layering, you just missed pieces. You didn't over-direct. Wait, wait, Brad. You didn't over-direct. What is over-directing? This would be not over-directing. This is fully... Because it's not in the head. This is over-directing back. So when you let it go, it has extra length.  This mannequin, I'm so sorry. It'll grow back. Brad, give me a grade. So I'm going to have to give you... C. I'll take a C. I'll take a C. I feel like this is actually almost up to par with some kids in hair school. So... Coloring is much easier, and hair cutting is so much harder. So you'd be more of a colorist. I'd be on hundo-pia colorist. All right. So we have a giveaway going on right now. An X-Mondo giveaway. Really? What are we giving away?  And it ends on September 22nd. So if you guys would like to win a Mondo makeover, all you got to do is show your love for X-Mondo. Definitely follow us on X-Mondo. Harass me on Instagram. And just show how much you want it, how much you deserve it. Post something in hashtag X-Mondo, hashtag Mondo makeovers. And you'll be entered to possibly win a Mondo makeover. I'll be posting the winner on my Instagram as of September 22nd. And just to be very clear, I will not be doing the Mondo makeover. So your hair will look significantly better than this. I will be doing it. Make sure you follow Eric on Instagram at ericmono underscore. Follow me, bramonoysi, and follow my friend X-MondoHair on Instagram. And also, check out our new channel. It's called Brad & Eric. Woo! If you like us together, which some of you, for some reason do, then go on that channel and check out our videos. You see what we go for. There's something that we've been through. And I think that's all. Check out the new shampoo conditioner at x-mondohair.com. It's called Project X. And it's our everyday shampoo conditioner. And it's stunning. And thank you guys so much for watching today.  And I will see you all next time. Peace!


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