 All right, so my question to you both is, as a new stylist fresh into the business, I got a great opportunity assisting, which was great in the beginning. However, dynamics are shifting, stylists are leaving, and education is lacking. This would be a great opportunity to position myself for the staying power. However, without the solid training and education behind me to excel here in my career, I feel like I'll end up being super assistant. Okay, aka always the assistant, never the stylist. Yeah, he's actually tuning in right now. Cool. So, or at least there is a Jason that just says, Hey, Matt, I am here. So hopefully it's the same Jason that you just read off of. I'm assuming, but you know what they say about assuming. Okay, so do you want to go? Yeah, I'll go first. You know, my thought, okay, when I first read that this morning, I was actually a little grumpy, and it wasn't grumpy at Jason. I was actually grumpy at the people that are probably his mentors. Yeah, I feel like I feel like really, the problem is not necessarily mentors, but it's also a lot of times the the assistant or the apprentice. And I think it's not just our industry. I think it's our culture as a whole. And I think that we don't know how to mentor people. We also don't know how to become good assistants or listen to two people's advice. I think that just because you're a hairdresser and you own a salon doesn't mean you need to have an assistant. And if you want to be an assistant or apprentice for somebody, that you should actually look at their pedigree and see if they are good enough for you to assist under. It seems like everybody wants to apprentice because really, I feel like a lot of people do things completely to make themselves feel better about themselves that like they do it more out of, you know, if I have a lot of assistants that makes me gonna that's gonna make me look more successful. So it's more of a pride thing and not necessarily a passing along kind of thing. You see people open salons all the time and they have no business whatsoever opening salons and they would be a much better like sola, you know, sweet renter, which I think solas are great. I think that they definitely fulfill a need. And at first I hated the idea of them. And now I'm like, you know, you know, sometimes people should just go open a sola and not damage other people. And I kind of feel like if they promised you education, if they promised you all this kind of stuff and they're not delivering it and if they're not, if they don't really have a pedigree behind them, like if they're not, you know, somebody that you want to be like in the future, you know, you may want to look into going into, you know, apprenticing or being an apprentice for somebody else or assisting for somebody else or, you know, even, you know, going to a salon that will put you on the floor right away and then do your research. I mean, I did research. I grew up in the industry. Nobody apprenticed me. I mean, absolutely nobody. I think that I probably would have been the worst apprentice. I couldn't blow dry hair. I couldn't hold hair. I was kind of a, I was kind of a dick. And so nobody would take me under their wing. So I really had to watch videos. And I remember watching like Sassoon videos, like like for years. And I remember watching, you know, all the old Paul Mitchell videos. And then I just poured through videos. And it was trial and error. And I eventually became decent. So it might actually just be one of those where you, you go to like, you know, free salon education or what I hope to do and, and, you know, see if you can just get on the floor and then make up for what you don't have. It takes a little bit longer because it's like more of the school of hard knocks. So instead of going through like a four year college, you have to go to like a doctorate to get the same kind of, you know, thing. It's kind of the roundabout way of doing things. But I guess I'm rambling, but that's kind of, you know, my whole thought. No, I completely agree with you because I've always been so frustrated with what people call an assistant, what they make them do. Taking out the trash and washing heads all day does not teach you anything. You know, and I, I felt lucky because I did have, we talked about Sam Burns. You know, he, I think his lack of wanting to do some certain things like blow drying and all those things, I did all of it. So basically start to finish. I was either holding hair with him or blow drying for him. And he was standing there telling me what was wrong and what was right. And that to me, like, really, I think took my finishing skills to, you know, to where they were. And then from that point on, but like if you, a lot of salons have shampoo people, like if you're a shampoo person, that doesn't make you better at what you do. So I think you're right. I think that you need to, because like in our song, we don't have a system. Whether they like it or not, I think it makes you more attentive to your desk. And I found when you do have an assistant, it's usually you send the assistant to do the things you don't want to do. And then you sit on your ass and be lazy the whole time. So, you know, I never really been, I get that there's a time and place for assistance. But only if they're really helping you with the work that part. And if like, you know, you really need it. Yeah, exactly. But then hire them with that notion of this is your job. You're not here to, to learn and grow. You're here to shampoo because we need that. And I think that like with an apprentice, like there's like a balance. Like I think I don't think necessarily I think that would be like wrong to have them taking out the trash or doing the dishes and stuff like that. Right. But you can't like, I think I know that a lot of like, my peers that like through going through Kazatati school, working in other salons, they would see like the tattoo shows and they'd see the apprentices or the assistants and tattoo shows literally doing all the grunt work and stuff like that. And like, but what they don't see is that like, they're spending five hours drawing and the head tattoo artist or the owner of the shop is sitting there with them for hours. Exactly. Yeah. Working with them on drawing, working with them on breaking down machines and stuff like that. So like in the hair industry, you're like, yeah, we need the same thing. Like, they need to like, like pave their way forward. They have to like, do the grunt work that we've all done. But you all as the owner of the shop, like if you are the head stylist, like you were for me, like you sat down, you said, okay, this is how you do a blow dry. This is how I want blow dry is leaving my salon. Right. You also sat down with cutting, Tommy cutting stuff on those lines. So it's like what you guys are saying. Right. But well, there's also a difference between the two words. I mean, as you're talking, I'm thinking of the difference between assistant and apprentice and assistant is going to do my grunt work. Right. And apprentice is going to, I mean, I think of apprentice like, like, you know, and I'm a little bit of a geek, but like a Jedi, right? You know, and they stand next to me the entire time. And I had apprentices that, you know, I called them my human, my human hair clip, you know, because they would stand next to me and hold my sections for me because I didn't want to get wrinkles with a regular clip. And so they'd hold it and then they were able to cut hair just by watching, you know, and there's, there's the whole Sassoon, I know Sassoon has that whole program called the Vardar program, which Vardar means to watch. And that's really their like apprentice program. And I think it's amazing because, you know, you get through their Vardar program and you can cut that that style, you know, where if they were an assistant to so and so, maybe they have to go pick up your dry clean, right? You know, yeah.