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No, he just gave it up. Yeah, that was quick. You can see me now. Yeah, surprise. Not this evening. I just honestly didn't think about it this morning when I got dressed. So let's intro this thing. Let's do this. So guys, welcome to episode 75 of Splitting Hares. Got it right this week. We got a lot of stuff to talk about. We have some new segments on the show. So we have not only Justin Scott now doing the news, which should be fun and interesting. We haven't rehearsed this at all. It's going to be something. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. This may be the one and only time that we have. I might actually get fired tonight. Yeah, we'll see what happens. So we have Justin Scott doing the news. We have Dreia with Trending Tresses coming up later. Coming up real soon. We have Brian Hare doing the social media rundown. Yes, social media rundown. But you can turn down the headphone thing. Your headphone volume. There's a knob up above. It says phones. And we have Matt telling everybody how we work our systems. Yes. Do you see it up there? It's sorry, Amy Berry. It's up on the very top right. Is that is that working? OK, we're blowing Christina's ears out. Whoops. Sorry. You're going to go deaf. Aren't you glad that Justin's voice is the last one you heard? You know what? I was filming on. I was putting out a video about demand force. And so I had the headphones on. For some reason, I like them really loud. I don't know why. So we have. So if you haven't seen that video from demand force, it's a pretty cool one. I did one about customer surveys. Did you guys even know that those went out? The surveys? Surveys to our customers. They normally go out, right? Yeah, they go out every time somebody comes in. So it asks them. It's the longest way of their email. Yeah. So it asked them about their experience in the salon if they got booked in a timely matter, all this stuff. And we had 100% on every category for the last 30 days. So that was pretty cool. Nice. So we did that video, which was great. It's got a lot of traction on it. And then we did our live class this morning. I did a cutting class. So I think that went pretty well. It was. It was a good one. Yeah, I liked it. I think we went over graduation in a haircut and really just understanding over direction. So I think I'm glad you did that because just how I was taught in school and even the first couple of times that someone tried to explain graduation to me when I first got into haircutting, it was always vertical. And so it was always a crapshoot how it came out. And it wasn't until I took a class. Actually, it was DJ's class years ago that it was the first time I ever did it horizontally. And that was when it finally clicked with me about the shifting of the weight and doing all that. So I'm glad that you did it as you put that out there for people because I feel like it's easier to understand. It's easier to navigate what you're trying to do when you do it horizontally. Well, that was my thing. I actually took a DJ molding class when I worked for Paul Mitchell. And I was kind of the same way. It wasn't that even I didn't know that you could cut a graduation horizontally. It was more like I just didn't understand what the difference would be. And when I finally realized that when he explained that it wasn't that when you're holding it vertically, you're controlling all of the weight throughout there. And when you hold it horizontally, you're controlling the shape. So it was like, so what do you want to control most? And that was the big question. Do you want to control the weight of the haircut more than the shape? Because once you hold it vertically, it's harder to keep it consistent this way. But when you hold it horizontally, it's easy to keep it consistent this way. But it's harder to keep it this way. So that was a huge eye opener for me. Well, just funny story about doing the horizontal graduation. When I learned that, I went back to the salon and the first opportunity that I had to do it on somebody, they were doing this huge event at the salon. I forget the name of the website and I feel really bad. It was for moms that shave their heads for their kids who have cancer. So it was a really sweet thing. And this woman came in to have her head shaved and all this, and she also had a little daughter who wanted to be a part of it, but she wasn't going to let her shave her head because she was too young. It just wouldn't go over well. So she let her cut her hair really short. So it was long. And so she described to me, a bob, whatever. So I'm like, oh, this is perfect. I can try this out. It's a little girl. If they don't like it, it's a little girl. And the girl was sitting there and I was being so precise. Like you would have been so proud of me with the perfect parting and the perfect elevation and sectioning and I'm just killing it, killing this haircut. And as I finished the back, I mean, I spent a really long time. And as I finished the back, I look in the mirror and I realized the little girl was sitting like this. Oh, nice. With her head down like this. I was like, oh my God, you're kidding me. And I straighten your head up and my beautiful graduation just went, bleh. Nice. Well, I took my time once. Now I'm just gonna chop it off. There you go. You're done. You only get once. Okay, so it's kind of like when you do a men's cut and you spend so much damn time on the thing. And then all of a sudden they're like, yeah, I would like it just a little bit shorter. Can you go just a little shorter? Yeah. Can you re-tape everywhere? Can you re-tape everything? All right. Now you're getting globy. Go to hell. Now somebody's waiting on me. So yeah, so that's cool. So that's what we went over this morning. That it with, and Christine and I know you guys are having trouble with Dre as a camera, right? Dre and Justin. If you wiggle the HDMI cable, it should show up. Wiggle it. Yeah. I'm glad you said it. Just wiggle, just wiggle it a bit. Just a little bit, Dad. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Dad's wiggling a lot. I wiggle. He's officially jostling. I wiggle the cable, Georgia. Wiggle, cable. All right. Nothing. Oh, Dad. All right. Now that's that form. Well, just so we all know, instead of just wiggling it a little bit, he just pulled out and shoved it right back in. Yeah, I think. Okay. I think it's okay. I think we're just gonna have to do. No, I know, I know. Dad's muscles are distracting me. We just want everyone to be a part of what we got going on here. Christine just gave me the worst. Can you just flex for him real quick? That's all right, Dad, thanks. All right, so. NASA once said the wide shots are a little blurry. The wide shots blurry? Dad, can you focus that? Really? Can you flex a little more than that and just like? It's not blurry. Everyone's drinking. That's what it is. Hey, Dad, you broke the other camera. Try another one. Look what I did. Dad, just turn, you turn the, just like a regular camera. There you go. Here you go, man. They didn't want to sponsor us. Are we pretty again? What? Are we pretty again? Are we pretty? Is that better? It's always something. Yeah, right. Okay, cool. It's always there happening. Yeah, so let's go. I just want to, well, thank Millennium Systems International. Check them out. MillenniumSI.com, the Millennium experience is coming up in a couple months. So if you don't have tickets for that and you want to hang out there, you should get tickets and come to Scottsdale, Arizona. Also, demandforce.com slash free salon education. Like I said, check out that video that we just made. I keep making these videos showing you the benefits of demand force and what it's all about. Mizutani Scissors, you can get them on shopfse.com. Best scissors in the industry for sure, by far. MinervaBeauty.com. I can't wait until Orlando because so every show, Minerva's given me something to give away. So I think what we're going to do in Orlando is carry a camera around and give people the cutting stools that they've given us and then just film them having to carry them around the show and just show how awkward. Or we could sit them on it and just push them around the show. I love traveling traversing the whole salon in that. Okay, man, I actually have like a pure shenanigans idea. With this, how about we do like a pin the tail on the donkey contest to give away the Minerva chair? A pin the tail on the donkey? Yeah, first. Only if you get to be the donkey. They have a pin on the chair and we're spinning them and then they have to pin the tail. So obviously they're dizzy. So whoever gets the closest. Or I actually have a better idea because you know almost every hair show there's like three rows of the back alley. I got 12 shears for 10 bucks guys. You make a rally circuit and they have to race and the winner gets a chair and then you have to race on the chair. Exactly, they got to race them sitting. That could be fun. We might need permits for that. No, no, no, no, that's the fun part. And if they get kicked out, they get two. All right, cool. So we'll figure something out. Yeah, do you want to come back to the Orlando Show? Yeah, yeah, probably not. I mean, it probably is. Is it a one-time thing or is it? I'm going to the Orlando Show is Johnny E. Todd. You're going to go as like somebody else. Is that way those people get kicked out and we can still go back? OK. Problem solved. All right, great. Love the world that you live in. Yes. And then so and then thank you to Burkato Products. We've been using them, using their products and stuff. And now I have a link on freesaloneducation.com. If you click it and you fill out the form, you guys can, somebody will reach out to you from Burkato and you can learn more about the products. Maybe they'll send you some free samples or something. So make sure you email from that. That's pretty much it. That's all I had on the rundown there. You're docket. Social. You want to talk about that? Yeah, kick off some social. Let's do it. All right, so actually I'm really happy and I just said, because most of the social that I pulled this week, actually that's a bold face lie. I apologize for lying to you. That half the social that I pulled this week is actually from our community page. Some people posted some good questions and stuff like that. And it just so happened there were two questions that I picked and the person who wrote those questions just signed on and said she's super happy to be here. Nice. So I know for a fact that we're answering her questions. Okay, cool. First off, I was actually just explaining to Matt, I think what we're going to start doing, because I picked somebody who had a decent little question, something I wanted to hit on, but they also posted a picture. I think in the future if you guys are down with this, maybe if you guys post some, like a picture with a question, because I noticed on our community page there's a lot of people that have, oh, apparently my little niece is watching. Everyone say hi to Ava. Hi Ava. Hi Ava. She's a year and a half. She doesn't know you said that. She loves me. She knows. No, she only knows Drea. Drea's the only one she pays attention to. That was nice to her. That was nice to them. So anyway, so in the future we're going to start doing as well as, you know, put a picture with the question. So for now I'm just going to have to talk about this one. Justice Boyer Cowlin put up, hello there, I have a toning question. I liked my daughter's hair yesterday at my school salon from a level four to an eight with well a blonde or 20 volume. I tried to tone it down with some shimmer lights but thought I'd have better results toning it with a color product. I looked for an eight, nine violet based at the store but all I could find was permanent colors so I'm stuck and hoping to get some help from you all. Okay, there's a couple of things that I wanted to hit on with this. The first, when you're at a level eight shimmer lights is not going to do the job because shimmering lights is violet based and that's any violet shampoo. Violet is made for just yellow. At level eight you're still dealing with orange so really there's, you're not going to get the look you're going for. End up with warmth and coolness in it because the areas that are lighter than eight are going to cool down and then it's just going to end up looking a little messy. So when you need to tone something at a level eight you do need to move into something color. Don't be scared. I did see some people that answered her. I hope she saw the answers that it's okay using permanent colors as toners. Usually we just use it with 10 volume on wet hair and then a permanent color becomes a toner. So everyone agree with that? Yeah. And there's, I mean, she's right. She got a pretty solid egg yokey orangey eight. So that you're going to need to actually tone. And I love Shakisha just put up here. How to say her. How to pronounce her name. Just in case. Just in case. I love that. Nice. Thank you. Because hers is the next question. Shakisha, as she put it in the block here. She said, and I think this is good to hit on because I think it's been a long time since we've answered this. We might have new people tuning in. She asked, where are you from and how long have you been in the industry? Matt, let's start with you. Okay. So I'm from Illinois. Pretty much the border of Illinois and Iowa. I've been doing hair for 11 years. Almost 11 years. It'll be 11 years this year. So 11 fantastic years. And they just keep getting better. They do. Yes. Justin, go. I'm from New Jersey. And I've been doing hair for about seven years now. And it's going on seven years. Right on. Well, I'm from PI. Wait. Sad you're next. I'm kidding. Well, I'm from Pennsylvania. And I've been doing hair for five years. I've been doing hair for about seven years now. Nice. I'm from all over. You pick it. I've lived there. I started doing hair officially seven, eight years ago. Has it only been that long? Yeah. I mean, I've been doing it unofficially, like... Forever. The wrong way in bathrooms and messing it up and then learning how to fix it for years. I've been doing hair since I was 13. Well, it all started, I think I was... I was 10 years old. I know. It started when I was 12, living in Maine, with a brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Because I needed it. Do you have any other colored bottles of hydrogen peroxide? Every... Yeah, probably. Hair dressers, like, store. I just wanted to... I started in the backyard with a pair of clippers. Yeah. I was in my garage and all the guys would come over and I would shave them. Like, we would do all different kind of colors and... We've heard all of that. Dude, I bet you we were in a band. Feel good about that? I feel good. And we all skateboarded. And I just thought I wanted to make money doing it. This is actually hard describing her life. Not making fun of us. Christina should have signed on as Johnny Eatall. That is the story. She should shave guys and ride skateboards. Yeah. Yeah. She should shave guys and ride skateboards. That was actually her band's name. All right. She should shave guys and ride skateboards. It was actually shaved dudes, but who's she? OK. All right, another one that I pulled from our community page, Zasha Campo says, I will learn how to do a nice fade and a men's haircut. Can anyone recommend any videos I can look up? Or Matt, can you... Or someone on the FSE team make a video? OK. So we got one. We have created some, yeah. We've created some videos. Justin did one. I did. But there will be more to come. There will be a lot more. Yeah. I don't know. Are they looking for that type of fade? Yeah, I guess it depends. I mean, we've done every type of fade. Not every type of fade. That's wrong. There was just a meme about Link in front of a horse kump and the shrimp versus fates. I don't know if you guys saw that. No, I didn't see that. There's a lot of fates. Oh, he said it. Just how he said it. There's a lot of fates. I like fates. Sitting on the bench by himself, there's a lot of fates. The high and tight. OK. My brother wants a shout out, by the way. Of course he does. He's in your family. Well, he looks into shout out, but brother does. He doesn't want his daughter getting the only shout out. He doesn't have a jeep anymore, so he doesn't get a shout out. OK, so do you want to, yeah, we're going to make, we're going to work on that. There will be more. Yeah. We've got one or two, but. If you would like to see certain types of them, again, like he said, post the photos of what you really were requesting that you want to see, because that's like saying, I want to see a long haircut. Right. Well, how long? How long is long? Right, I want a haircut with three layers. My hair's long. Did you see that picture online with the three layers? I love that photo. I don't know who put it up, but it was really funny because it was like literally three chunks of layers. I showed a client that, and I'm like, you really want three layers, and they're like, you know. We should blow it up and have it here. reference to for your class. Yeah, so when people come in and pick a haircut off the wall, we just said, oh, that one. Yeah. The number seven got right. They start doing their consultation, like, I don't want a bunch of layers, just like three. You're like, oh, wait, I have a picture of that. I got exactly what you want. We got a blind guy in the back that does it. I actually did this haircut. You're cool with this? Oh, man. All right, pressing on. OK. This is our second question for Shakisha. It's a color question. I wanted to hit on it because I wanted to. I want to, and I am. It says, how can you create a beige tone? This past weekend, I saw a client with beige gray, and she wanted to cool her and couldn't think of what makes beige in the first place to cancel it. You know exactly what to do. And that's why I wanted to hit it, because I think we all go about hitting beiges differently. Yeah. I thought that would be something cool to hit on, because beige is one of my favorite colors to do. OK. I love how creamy it is. Like, no. It's so creepy. No, like, OK. You just looked me right in the eye and said that. Straight through your soul. I totally know what you're. No, like, all right. No, it's not opaque. It's not translucent. It's just a nice color. I like it. I do. Like, me personally, I tend to do beige when it's a light color, like level nine, level 10. I like beige up there, because there's a couple of reasons. Then honestly, since we're chatting hairdresser to hairdresser, the number one reason that I like it so much is when somebody new comes to me and I have to add my blonde to whatever the hell somebody else was doing, beige is a really great eraser for sort of bringing whatever their old color is and with the new, because you can't ever really tell is it warm, is it cool. It just kind of rides that middle of the road. So what I do for that is I like to take, like, usually nothing lower than nine. I take, like, a level nine blue violet base and mix it equal parts with a yellow base. And so they sort of just cancel each other out at a really nice light level so that when you apply that to a pale yellow or a really, really pale yellow blonde, they just sort of create this cool, dimensional, beigey tone. So why wouldn't you just, if you're going to almost neutralize your toner, why wouldn't you just put a neutral over it? Because, especially with the color that we work with, our neutral, like that middle, like the N, it's not as neutral. It's not as, like, forced neutral. It's not versatile, which I think is the color he making. It's because when I mixed that blue violet with that yellow base, it really sort of still holds, depending on the light that it's in, it holds some of that coolness and some of that warmth, depending on the light that it goes under. Right. Rather than just picking a true, because a true neutral, I feel like it's just, it's not always a true neutral. I don't feel like our neutral line has equal parts, cool and warm to create the neutral. I think they just say this is neutral. I also think that it also depends on what you're overlaying it on top of. Like if you have pieces that are really like that white blonde in there, then yeah, you're going to need that yellow to fill it in a little bit more. Or if you are toning out a yellow tone, then maybe like I use a lot of, I love our NB bases with the ash base to make a beige. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I just get confused when you're looking at, like, let's say. Well, the NB's different than just the neutral though. Yeah, NB, like in our line, NB has a little bit more of a yellow. That's what I mix. I mix the BV and the NB and equal parts to get my beige. OK, OK. I thought you meant you were mixing like a G with a BV. No, no, I do BV and NB. OK. Yeah. Because it's that neutral, I forget what the second B is for. Then Brian and I do. NB is a, it's beige. Oh, they call it beige? Yeah. Well, it's a yellow base color is why I choose it. Right. Which makes sense. I mean, I guess if you had a guess that was, let's say she was lifted to kind of a yellow or tone and you use that BV but then add in an NB, you're still getting that beige kind of base to it. But then you're canceling out the yellow with the violet. But then you're still going to have a little bit of that strong blue base, which is going to help, or that beige kind of feel to it, to help cool it, but still keep the warmth in there a little bit, I guess. But it's a tricky thing, because it's like J.O. is saying, it depends on the level you're at and where you get them to. Apparently, Shakisha uses Palmatra color as well. OK. I recommend BV and NB, equal parts, have fun. So Brian, also spinning off of that to a different type of blonde that's not a typical one that we use? That a little closer. Get in there. To spin off of that and go into a different non-typical blonde, I have a client who just came in. You saw her today. She was talking to me that she loves strawberry blondes, but really referenced like the ginger. But she has naturally white hair. She has a band of dirty blonde hair, and then the rest of her hair is like level 10 blonde. So I'm thinking that this is going to be interesting when she comes in. I'm still trying to play around with different ideas as far as the formula for that. I don't know if you guys want to spin off on talking about strawberry blondes. Strawberry blonde, I think, is one of the scariest things that somebody can sit down and say they want. There's so many different ideas as to what strawberry blonde is. I mean, it's just a matter of are they looking for an actual blonde that has a pinkish hue, or are they just talking about being a nice coppery blonde? That's one of those things that I won't even proceed without them providing their own picture. Several photos. Like, I'm not looking up a picture for you. I need you to show me what strawberry blonde is to you because I've had way too many horror stories trying to create a strawberry blonde for somebody. Yeah. I mean, looking at her, I'm thinking that I'm going to need at least two formulas. One for her roots, and one for her. Oh, definitely. Oh, of course. Just because, like, if I put the same thing on her roots that I put on her blonde, it's hands down going to pull pink or red. Oh, yeah, you have so many underlying tones that you already have there from artificial pigments that you're not going to be able to move as much. She'll be the definition of hotness. Oh, god, yeah. Well, sometimes people's idea of strawberry blonde is just a warmer tone, blonde, that it's not really a red tone. It's just golden. Yeah. Cool. Delicious. Fantastic. All right, so. Good conversations. I love it. Good talk, guys. Good talk. Everyone. All right, so May Rose Harner, in reference to us moving the podcast to the nighttime, has said, no. That was funny. All right. Was there really that many? There was a lot. It said, don't do it at night. I work at night. You guys with coffee in the morning is the bombest way to start my day. But she was one of the biggest talkers this morning during our class. So I think it still works out for her. I think I like the new schedule because I think, first off, it's more relaxed at night with the show. And I think this show should be more relaxed and just conversation to get anywhere. And we get dinner. We get dinner. Feed us. Christina has made delicious dinners all three weeks. So good. And then the class is more serious. So what you were getting, I think, before was us being riled up at the end of the day. Everybody just kind of talking and crazy. Do you notice how quiet it was during the class this morning? Yeah, it was a good class. And I think it went really well. We had 45 people on live, which is awesome. So I think that that's the direction we want to move. More serious in the morning. And then at night, we have these conversations. We have fun. We get to sit down. We're going to tonight play a little free pong with the wheel spin. So we have a new game, which I'll explain later. So there's just a lot of fun stuff that we can do at night. And it's just easier to set it all up at night instead of trying to get it all set up in the morning and torn down before the guests come. All right. So I know I got to roll through mine so you guys can get to yours, too. Yeah. Another one that I have. I love reading something knowing that they're watching right now. So Amy Berry, hey, what's up in the chat room? She just winked at Justin. And then she also commented on our video last week. OMG, thank you so much for picking my picture. I almost didn't post it because the lighting made that shadow. Thank you, Drea, for your enthusiasm, LOL. Of course, Brain, spelled my name wrong. Amy. Pick the blonde winky face. Thank you for your nice comments. You're welcome. Justin, thank you. It means a lot coming from the Clipper Pro. Thad, thank you for agreeing with Justin. Smiley face, duh. Matt, thank you for picking my picture and for your comments. I've been working on improving my fading and always appreciate constructive criticism. So thank you. And Christina, thanks for the nice comment about my vacay pics. Wish I could have brought you all with me. Congrats to everyone. All the hair was beautifully done and congrats to Lorraine on the win. So it was really cool. I just love, I liked having that contest a lot. And you said tonight you're like, are we doing another March Madness thing? I was excited about that. I do want to do them again, but it's not something, it's hard to just throw that together because I have to create the entire flyer. Did you? I had to create. All right. Whoever, who's not watching everything? Well, they're getting drunk. No, they're not. All right, calm down. All right, so we're gonna do another March Madness tournament. The Amy Berry did awesome. And I think that's what I was trying to say is the lighting, I think, played a big part in that in her fade, but it looks really great. So I'm glad she liked it. She apologized for misspelling my name. So now we're good. All right, cool. We're back on, we're on good terms again. Your friends again? All right, is that what you didn't vote for? Okay. No, I'm almost done. One of the comments on the class that I did last week, Maria Flores said, Brian, I got the complimentary color on the color wheel. How do I translate into the colors we have in the salon? That's where you're gonna have to look in your color book. Yeah, I can't think of a single color line that doesn't have their own color map in the color book. If for some weird reason they don't, they will have it in some form of printed literature that comes with the color line that will explain to you, it'll have the color wheel, and then all of their colors and where they live on that so that you can figure out what the blue violet is, what the yellow is, what the green is, all that stuff. So it just takes the guesswork out for you. Right. And then we just had a really nice little love that I wanted to share from Kelsey Ray. Thank you so much for these videos as a hairdresser. These are priceless. 10 years ago this kind of education would be something you would have to travel for and not mention pay for. I watched this whole thing while laying in bed and learned so much. Awesome. Thank you. So that's awesome. I mean, that's why we started this. Yeah, it's really, you know, it's what it's all about and it's cool that it's been able to develop into now companies starting to, you know, recognize what's happening and that's, you know, what it's all about. So, I just dropped the mic. Okay, that's social media madness. Social media madness is done. All right, cool. So, me and Justin Pig still standing there. Trending Tres' music today. Really? Yeah, you ready? You ready for this? I'm excited. Are we gonna go into, we'll do Trending Tres' what's that? I didn't get music. You jumped right in. I know. You didn't give him pause. He went for it. Your voice is like music, Brian. All right. I think this is clear who the favorite is. Trending Tres' So say, hi, my name is Dreia Bolland. Hi, my name is Dreia Bolland and this is Trending Tres' for freesaloneducation.com. You sound, she sounds like a 900 number operator. Wait, what are the Beiges real quick? Just say it in that voice. Wait, no. So, you were talking 1,900 creamy and delicious. Creamy Beiges. Okay, all right. So, your voice tonight sounds like that girl from, what's that show we watched? One Tree Hill, right? What? Or no, is it One Tree Hill? Who from One Tree Hill? She sounds like herself every, she sounds like her. She sounds exactly like Dreia. That's what she's called. No, I don't know, I mean. I forget the girl's name, but whatever. All right, so Trending Tres' So, Kim Kardashian has gone back to being brunette. Shocking. Apparently, her blonde was just for Paris Fashion Week and that's over, so she gets to go back to being a brunette. Well, somebody had said, I forget who it was that was telling me she went dark because she was going to Dubai. Armenia, no. I thought it was Dubai. And she didn't want to bring the blonde hair over there. Yeah. Okay. Because she'd be the only one. Okay. But she is Armenian, so it would make sense if that's where she was going. Yeah. And she didn't want to stand out? No. Because it was also like a culture thing. That's why she didn't want to go be blonde over there. But, so she's back to being brunette. I'm sure she's gonna have a booby thing in her head. Yeah, I was gonna say, like, look at the next photo. Like, that's a real cool thing to buy. But cultural thing too, I'm sure. I would, I think it's really. I don't say anything about boobs. What I think is really interesting though is like, since she's gone back to being dark, it's always in a ponytail. So clearly there's been a lot of breakage that she's not showing off right now. She's slicking it down with some hair straight. Exactly, exactly. On the other note, Khloe has gone blonde-er. Armenia. She said she's not going on the trip. She's like, I'm blonde. She's not going on the trip, she doesn't care. She's just going blonde. I like her blonde. I do. I'm not going on the trip, blonde here, don't care. You're going to Armenia, I'm going to blonde. Goodbye. Actually, I really like her blonde. I think it's really well done. And it looks like even her actual base is lighter too. It's not super dark like it usually is. So I thought that was fun. Yep. Liam Hemsworth has gone to a 90s haircut. He's going- I was just going to say, where did you pull this from? It's like Zach Morris. He's the Zach Morris at the Kids Choice Awards for Nickelodeon. Oh, is he really? Do we have anybody? No, like, that's just- She's making fun of him. I thought he was like playing as shit, like, yeah, never mind. No, they're not reviewing. No, they're not reviewing. Shit, sorry. It's not everything's about the slime. You can't see the hair when they get slimed, Thaddeus. That's why. There's the new fashion statement. I was excited about the next one. But I thought that was fun. So then we have some hairstyles from the I Heart Radio Awards. I really loved Adam Lambert's hair. I loved the shape of it. Like, I just thought it was really fun. He always has good hair. He's got a good claw. It's beautiful. Yeah, it looks good. I loved Britney Snow's messy braid. I love that it's falling out in the front. She's gorgeous. She is, and I gotta tell you, I'm really glad that she's still hanging on to some semblance of that pitch-perfect red. Yeah. Because she's normally like- White. Ridiculously bleached out like me. And I didn't know that, because the first time I had ever remembered seeing her was in pitch-perfect, and I loved her as a redhead so much that when I saw her normal, I was like, oh. So I'm glad that she's incorporating some blonde but still sorta hanging onto that strawberry. Yeah. A little bit. But I thought that was fun. Iggy Azaleas. I love the amount of texture in this. I just wish it was just a little bit bigger at the root. I like that it's not. Yeah, I was gonna say I like how subtle it is up top. I agree with Joya. It's flattens out her- Like, I feel like it just squares everything out. Because she's already square. Yeah. Looking, so it makes it even flatter. Yeah, I think a little bit. Like, I just think you needed a little bit more. More try it like this. It doesn't need to go all the way up to the root. Like, if it was just like half a circle more in that curl. It looks like she went to the hairdresser with an old picture of Taylor Swift and said, give me these. I loved those curls on this. She's so much prettier than Taylor Swift. I'll see. Taylor Swift's next. All right. She's so prettier. So much prettier. So much prettier. See, I love her hair here, though. I know. I love. I love the straighter across fringe. I like that there's a little bit more curl in it compared to her normal. She's been wearing it on the straighter side. And I like her with more curl in her hair. I like it with a little bit more move. Well, that's, I feel like if you're gonna do this length, Bob, I like it so much better with that little bit of undone texture. Yeah. And just straight. Right. She looks good. Cool. And then the Justin Bieber. Oh, yeah. Let me have Justin Bieber from the other night. Are we talking about him or his monkey? Wow. He looks like monkey guts. I'm really confused as to what's happening with his hair. Yeah. I'm not sure either. And honestly, besides the sides, I actually like his hair. I don't mind it. And a lot of people were even making fun of it that night on the thing. But the sides are weird. They're all jacked up. But the rest of it, I like the way that it kind of gets a little bit longer in the back. It could be my love for mullets. Of course she does the mullets. But I do like, I like... It reminds me of an old Brad Pitt. Like, you know. Yeah, I don't, yeah. And then it's nothing new. Like, it's not silly. No, it's not, yeah. Don't compare him to Brad Pitt. He'll hear about that somehow through the grapevine and he'll even better about it. No, I'm not comparing him. I mean that hair styles. Like, it's not like he's, this is nothing new. It's a transition style. It was what it needed to be for that night. It was conservative and respectable for adults. Yeah, but I was telling Christina the other night, when you look at marketing of things, I thought that this was like the most amazing plan ever because everyone was like, why would he go up there and get made fun of the whole entire time? But if you look at all the things that he's done horribly for like the last three or four years, he basically got up there, a bunch of people made fun of what he did so everyone starts to feel bad for him. That's just what a roast is. I know. No one made fun, like that. No, what I'm saying is it's a good thing. They made fun of him for what he did. People started to feel, they'll feel bad for him a little bit, right? Then he gets up there and so everything's out there that he's done wrong, right? And then at the end, he does this big apology thing. So he's apologizing in front of millions and millions of people for what he's done. He can't wait to move forward. He can't wait to make music again. It's fake. So it's a big marketing thing and that's what it turns out to be because otherwise there's no reason why he would get up there and be roasted just randomly. Because of the stuff that he did, it was so funny. That's why. See, I don't want to watch it. It was a great roast. I'm sorry. It was a great roast. Because he did some stupid stuff. Right. But like he's saying, he in one night just sort of owned up, apologized and got teased for it in one swoop. I understand what you're saying. Like it was a public publicity stunt for marketing for him to apologize and carry on and grow up and now it's in the past. I understand what you're saying, but I think a lot of the things that he did, I thought it was a great roast. Oh, it was great. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I don't want to see it because the roast that I have watched is almost as if they're coming out, but they're making fun of you because they like you. Kind of like how Justin and I make fun of each other. That's what roasts are, though. Well, you think I like you? Yeah, roasts are supposed to be. Like roasts are like. I don't like Justin Bieber, so I don't want it to be like, oh, hey, we're making fun of you because, hey, you're such a great guy. No, it's not. Let's make fun of all the stupid stuff you've done in your past. Why don't you like Justin Bieber? Like what is it about? So this is what I don't understand. When people are like, and it's fine, not everyone's going to like Justin Bieber, but why don't you like him? I can't pinpoint it. I don't like Taylor Swift. I don't like her. I don't know why. I just don't like her. I'm going to say, I don't like him. I'm going to jump ahead of this because of the point No, he's had so much potential. Because he's been in it since he was a kid. He's had so much potential, so much good crap. And he's done nothing but jack. Just I'm going to I'm not going to bleep myself. I calm down. But I mean, like you have all these other actors and actresses out there who just kind of get like side tracked and do all this good crap. And you don't hear about all the third world countries in a visit or donation to make your Justin Bieber driving his Lamborghini like a jerk off and egging people's houses. I'm going to use some. All right. Those are good reasons. I'm going to use one direction as bad. Because I hate some people. Remember like a couple of months ago to like maybe even a year ago, like we were talking about one direction. I'm like, I can't stand their music, but I bet you that they're cool dudes. Like I don't hate them because of like how their music is because like they're not out there like acting like little jerks. Right. Like I don't know. I get it. My whole point is I think people get really mad about people. Like that they haven't really done. I mean, no one's done anything. Like I just can't imagine saying I don't like someone just to say, unless they did something to you. And then we have like, there's been a lot of posts about like bullying and all that stuff in social media. I'm not saying this is bullying, but it's one of those things where I think we need to have like a little more like kind of I don't know what it is. You know what I mean? I'm bullying my hatred for Justin Bieber. I think just watching that it was a lot of people and you could see online like a lot of people just go crazy about whether they like him or don't like him or whatever. It just seems crazy. They're public figures. That's what the public does. That's what they are. That's like, this is nothing new. No, I know. I know. They're public figures and the public has opinions about them. It's true. I don't know. It's just sad. Like I can name some hairdressers in this industry that are public figures to this industry that we've all made comments about right now. We've never been supportive of everyone. Right. So it's easier said than done. I don't think you should bully anyone. That's taking it to a whole different level. But there's certain opinions that you have on public figures. Yeah, I'm not going to go out and write on a forum. Justin Bieber should do it. You're that guy. But at the same time, I don't think that he should be praised. I don't think he deserves the honor of being on a roast. I got you. OK. Moving on. So let's go to the next one. Because the next one is pretty funny. I think you have it on there. So we have the thing that BehindTheChair.com posts today. So I can put it on my feed. It's on my phone now. It's fine. We have it up there. So I thought this was getting added to Justin's news. Yeah, which one is this? Is this my news? Nope. I found it. It's mine. So we have a Robert Cromines. Oh, no, that. OK. BehindTheChair.com posts a picture of Robert Cromines next to. It is Captain Jack Sparrow. Right, which I'm sure he loved this. Breaking news. BehindTheChair reports breaking news. Paul Mitchell's Robert Cromines has just reported that he's leaving Paul Mitchell. He will be co-captaining the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow. Together, they will be coming out with a new product line called Deputy Dew and Robert Two, expect in salons this spring. Yeah. He just, like, as drunk as that captain, when he was giving that award out. Did you see that? What award? I saw the preview of him given the, I think it was to Millennium, but did you? I wish we could recap that. Oh, I didn't see that. I mean, I don't know, but he, oh my god. In your opinion? In my opinion, he was totally Captain Jack Sparrow. Well, I love how any time you hear Robert talk, he refers to himself as a pirate. That's true. He steals stuff from every single company, you know. That's in his business class, how he steals from Starbucks. Don't steal from one store. I think it's from KFC, as I forget the other company. His saying is, if you take from one person, it's stealing. If you take from many, it's research. Does that go with what? The same for shoplifting at a mall. Yeah. As long as you're researching all those DVDs. As long as you don't get caught at the first or the second store, can you use that logic? Robert Kroemian is totally right. All right, so do you have, so we have the news? We got the news. I want papers to file. This is Justin's news. Where's your cape? It seems like you're coming in to save the day. That's the news. Where's your superman cape? This is an official news bet. I picked this music. It's fantastic. What was that Will Smith? OK, OK. All right, all right, that's enough, that's enough. What's the news? The news, we have a couple things to talk about tonight. We'll start off with an easy one, a nice quick one. We've been doing a lot of talk about clippers and different types of clippers and different type of guards. And Andy's came out with different magnetic guards. And I had a lot of questions on the video I posted, people on my Instagram, like, where can I find the double magnet guards? Yeah. You can't anymore. They discontinued the double magnet plastic guards they had for the Master Series, because at first the double magnets came out just for the masters. But as they continued to make different models of adjustable clippers. Do you have one of those, Thad? Or any of them? Actually, mine are right over there, go grab them. So I just ordered the single magnet. Thad has a single magnet. We'll show you guys so that you can see what we're talking about. The new design, I'm not a fan of. I like the doubles better. But the single magnets fit on any type of the Andes, for the most part, that you need to put a guard on. Whereas this double-magneted ones were popping off because it wasn't sitting correctly where the screws were. So I called them today. They said it started with the US-1 model and up. So yeah. OK. That was our Andes news. Cool. So here they are. So I brought you one of the, oh, well, the magnet ones. And then the regular clip ones, so you have an example of both. So this would be a regular clip. Actually, you want to hold them up, Thad? Here, I'll hold it up. OK, you hold them up. That's like the regular plastic guard. And then this is the new magnetic one. All the magnetic ones are actually purple. So there's a magnet right here, obviously. It makes it easy for keeping them all together. Yeah, look at that. Yeah. And you can stick them on your station, so you don't lose them as well. Which works. They work great. They snap on. They're really tight on the clipper. So I just ordered some. I got them on eBay. I don't know really where you can get them. Thad, you got them where? I got them actually in Sally's. It's Sally's. Sally's is really good for that stuff. OK. Yeah, at the point in time when I was finding them, Sally's was the cheapest. Yeah. But like you, I always check not only. Amazon Prime does not carry them. Amazon Prime and eBay to find out where the best price is. All right, so cool. So those are really cool. That's our Andy's news. Also, to introduce me to this, there's a website out. It's just it's not anything you can log on to just yet. It's a Tabitha's website. It's called industryonline.com. And what it is, it's a lot of really nice inspirational things, kind of doing almost what we do, where she's trying to speak to the whole community of hairdressers as a whole. Yeah. And you can sign up to her website before it launches in June, I think it comes out. Yeah. And you'll be receiving emails, assuming if there's a login, you'll be giving login information. But it's just really cool because you can sign up either as a hair professional or as somebody, just a client. Yeah, they're going to do two different sides of the site. So that consumers can log on and also professionals. And they're going to do some education stuff on there as well. Which I think is really cool. But just what she has posted on there is really nice. And I backtracked a little bit to her Twitter account. And it's just really nice to see her talking. And I've watched her show. And I've never met her personally. But everybody who I've talked to who has had an interaction with her has never said anything negative about her. Right. So I mean? And she's super positive on anything she says, which is really nice to see it for a change. That you and Brian, I've known you guys and watched you guys work the most out of everybody in here. And you've always been so inspirational to me. Just how you talk about what you do, whether it's a video or personally talking to me, even before I worked here. And it's nice to see other people are just like that. If you go on the website, you can see everything she says. Yeah. It's going to be interesting to see what the website develops into and see what the future holds for that. So if you want to go on there, it's industry online, right? Industry IE. It's spelled with an IE and then online. And you can sign up there. All right. What else? I got two more topics, two more news things I found. I was trying to stay positive. One is we all talk about hair shows. Yep. That's good. Yeah. I hate the news. News is sort of pressing. I don't like to watch it. That's right. Bring the positive. In October of this year, there will be a 33rd annual alternative hair show. This is held in London every year. But what I found is really cool about this is everybody who goes to do their big on stage things aren't sponsoring by anybody. They all sponsor themselves. So they all pay for their tickets and everything. They're coming from all over Europe and they come here. But what I found really cool about this is they do it for a leukemia benefit. They do a whole fighting leukemia fundraiser for everybody who shows up. So I thought that was really cool. So if anybody out there in the world, I know you have people watching us all over the world, if you're out there over in Europe land, definitely check this out. Take some photos. If you're going there, let us know. We'll give you a shirt. You can wear our shirt over there. Justin's giving out shirts. I'm giving out shirts. She's giving out combs. I'll give you my shirt. I give out Bolly-Box. He gives out the Bolly-Box. But yeah, no, it's in October of this year. I want to go. And speaking of... I'll give out high fives. I'll go. Also speaking of Robert Cromings, if you look up, if you YouTube Robert Cromings at the alternative show, this was back when I first started doing hair, but he did a show there. And it's probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. Is it balloons? It's not balloons. It goes to clowns. Prior to balloons, he is dressed like a gigantic clown in it. But just the whole thing is really cool. So if you guys get a chance, YouTube that. And he's quite the performer. Is Phil Collins playing? Phil Collins? Well, I mean, the theme for this year seems really cool. It's called the Rural. He always does that. I could feel it in the air tonight. Oh, yeah. I never saw that. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That's before me. And then he cuts the balloons out. And they're like... Wait, can you do that on camera? She did. Can you go to the GoPro on that? All right, what's the last one? And the last one I had, which I found was really cool, as stylists in the industry itself, we all drink Starbucks. I've kind of censored my cup because they don't want to sponsor us. So big ask you to them. Monster turned us down for sponsorship. So Justin's anti-monster, except he still drinks it. Once in a blue moon. I'm a rock star. We're now working on Rockstar. It's been like two days of Rockstar. And then you've gone back. One day. OK. We have to go at them with the whole... You probably should bring up like... They want extreme athletes. They want extreme athletes. I'll extremely cut their hair. I know, but they'll extremely... If you can bring some numbers about stuff like that, they may then take something and consume it. Yeah, we need so much. You can't just ask them without giving a business plan for them. They won't, you know. We need to link below. Yeah, but I'm serious. You go to some more of a plan of action of what it will do. Well, I gave them some of our numbers of how many viewers we usually get, how many subscribers we have. You did? Yeah. Here's the thing. That was a good heat. They actually wrote back. So that was impressive. That was good. Well, now we have to get the last one and be like, you'll be the first one on board. And this, you know, we won't sign with anyone else. We'll sign with you. You're so damn good. And then get their handshake. Yeah, what you have to say is, Parasites like Starbucks and Red Bull. We want to change that. Yeah. We like Monster, right? That's right. But back to the Starbucks. OK. We went a little off track. Sorry about that. About a year ago, Starbucks openly said that they are supporting gay marriages, which is really cool. They are one of 300 businesses who signed a petition being for gay marriage in the United States. And I think it was maybe a Washington state that it originated from. But recently, the CEO actually made an announcement that kind of set certain groups back a little bit when he's just kind of announcing what's been going on in the past year. He said the first quarter after he announced it last year, they had very negative numbers because a lot of people protested them. And then somebody brought up the case of, well, what about your investors? This is a financial hardship for them. And the things he's saying is just really awesome for the fact that as somebody who's running one of the biggest coffee brands in the world, made a very bold statement and said, not every decision is an economic decision. Despite the fact that your statistics narrow in time, they provided the fact that they had a 38% shareholder return over the last year from a drop in a single year. Which is like, if you don't know that, like 38% return in a year is huge. So yeah, I mean, I think that is really cool. Cool as Starbucks. They say the employer of 200,000 people in their company want to employ diversity, all of kinds. But yeah, I thought that was something really cool that. Now, I have a question kind of going off. Was it April Fool's joke or are they really doing juices now? I just saw the. Did not read into juices. I just read into gay marriage. I just saw that they'll be juicing now. And you could add protein powder and. Well, they did. They did protein powder a while back. Well, no, I've just read this recently. But I'm saying like, there was a, I don't, they don't push it as much as they did. But I know back in the day, they did little like shots you could throw into. But it will be. Frappuccino's in crap. Like, you know, natural juices. You could add like kale. Like, yeah, it's, I just read that. I don't see why they would make that a joke. I don't know, because there were so many articles that were April Fool's articles. I read that there's an alligator in the Delaware River tonight. Oh, was that an April Fool's? Yes. I got home. I was psyched. I told hate him. And then I'm like, oh my gosh, I kept reading. I'm like, never mind. Well, because they just, I just told Chris that we would go tubing down the Delaware this summer. And then I saw that I was like. I had like Hayden's like jacket on. I'm ready to go look for this alligator. Well, Christina, so I get home and our son Hayden is like, he's like, Dad, did mom tell you about the alligator in the lake? I was like, what lake? He goes to the lake by the bridge. I'm like, no. He goes, April Fool's. It's not a lake. So into it. That's awesome. Yeah. Shakisha says this Starbucks in Cali. Jason Wigley and Andy Kay posted it. I'm sorry. Yeah, go ahead. No, Shakisha says that in California, Starbucks is already doing juice. Nice. Awesome. All right. OK, so it is right. Oh, good. It'll make it to the unhealthy side of the country soon. Yeah. It's working its way over. Yeah, I get that juice in four shots of espresso. That'd be awesome. It's way less calories, obviously. They're Frappuccinos and whatnot. But it will be probably their most per unit, ounce-wise, their most expensive drink there, I think. Oh, yeah. But I would just imagine what it's going to cost. I think it's like five bucks. Like our Starbucks, imagine where are they going to put that? I don't know. What room do they have to bring that stuff on? They'll make it work. They will make it work, and I can't wait. Get rid of food. Starbucks is probably the one. This food is horrible to just replace it with the juice. Yeah. The sandwiches and juice is all I need and salad. All right, so that anything else? And that concludes the news. So that was the first ever. That was successful. That was my first news segment. That was good. You did your research. Yeah. That was nice. Congrats. Thanks. All right, so we're going to do the freewheel. Yes. Now here's the game. I can't wait for this. Here's the game. People are getting prizes, and Drake is excited because she gets to spin the wheel. Yeah, so Drake, you can still spin, but here's what's going to happen. So we're going to call somebody that's emailed in. We can. What's going to happen is, actually, what we should do is I'm going to say you can call 844-FSE-LIVE. How are we letting them call? If they want to call. The winner. So if they call in, we'll take it. So 844-FSE-LIVE. I'm going to put that out there now. So call in whenever. Here's the game. So the game is they pick somebody, or over there, all of us in here, to throw the free pong balls. So every time you make a ball, there's three balls. Every time you make a ball, we spin the wheel for you. So if you make all three balls, you will win three prizes off the wheel. Wow. Fantastic. Everyone gets a freaking cup. No pressure. Wait, so you get a cup, and you get a cup, and you get a cup. Say that one more time. OK, so they get to pick anybody in the room to throw the balls. So you get three balls. Every time you make a ball, we spin the wheel for them. If you don't make any balls, we don't spin the wheel for them. Just so you know, that has never gotten more than one. Just as a wild card, because he's straight edge. So I'll give it one more second, because I know there's a delay on YouTube. Otherwise, I'll call, because we do have people. Let them know who it is. Just to give you guys. Come on, somebody call. I want to know. Wait, guys, listen. Just to give everyone who's listening some stats, Justin doesn't drink, so he's probably never played beer pong. That has never sound more than one ball. Just because your head doesn't mean you're good at it. I went four years at a college. She was on a four-year ride in college for beer pong. No, I'm just kidding. She was sponsored. I will say out of all the girls. You know how girls always get picked last for this kind of stuff? I was picked. I was picked. I was not picked. I hope I hooked this up right. That's probably the best stat of the day. OK, so here's what we're going to do, because. Oh, you don't play it? No, I have. Yeah, right? I love playing beer pong. I know some of your friends. I know who they are. So we have somebody in Virginia. So we're going to give Claire a call. Claire. Yeah. Come on down. Now, are we going to call somebody else if nobody wins? Hey, Chris. Chris, the first blue thing. Can you turn it down just a little bit and tell them that sound? I think that sounds better. So are we going to throw? Hello? Hello, is this Claire? Yes. Hey, Claire. Hi. Hi. It's off. Oh, my god. It's free salon education. How are you? Oh, my god, I'm so good. Holy crap. All right, Claire. Claire. Oh, my god. You can say crap. It's OK. Oh, bro. Oh, my god. Whoa. Did you just plug in the matrix? Yeah. People are calling in. Oh, people are calling in. OK, so Claire, you're the lucky one. So we have a new game. OK, are you ready? Oh, my gosh. Yes. So here's what we're going to do. So you get to pick someone in the room to throw. We're going to play free pong, so beer pong, basically. So you're going to pick somebody to throw three balls. Now, every time they make a ball, we spin the wheel for you. So you have a chance to win three prizes. OK? OK. Oh, you also have a chance to win zero prizes. So you need to. That's exciting. So you can either pick Christina, Thad, Brian, Drea, Justin, or Matt. So can you talk to our sponsors about this? I'm going with Brian. Brian, all right. All right, Brian's your favorite. Oh, my god. Oh, wow. No offense, y'all, but I love his color. I know. He's great. All right. And she said y'all. So all right. Which is my people. We have an overhead camera to show Brian throwing these balls in. You wanted to hit that thumb ball. Hey, Thad, can you put the wheel up so that we can? I saw you walking away. All right, so you have a chance to win three prizes. OK. Let's see what happens. It's up here, up above the lights. Brian, that won't, like, at all. That's OK. At least we can see him throw. All right, Brian. So Brian's about to throw. So here we go. So let's, are you ready, Brian? Do you need a warm-up? Don't mess up, Brian. She said don't mess up. She said don't mess up. All right, here we go. First ball's going. Nothing. Nothing. Ah, Brian. Oh, Brian. Ah, man. OK. Oh, we made one. All right, so spin the wheel, Drea. Should we wait until he wins? Go on, Drea. Get something good for me. See what we got. Jeez, Drea's breaking the wheel. All right, your prize is? You get a comb. You get a comb. All right. You get a comb. You get a comb. Everybody gets a comb. Free comb. OK. All right, you got one more ball here. Let's see, Brian. Brian's throwing. And it's in. And he got it. All right. Good choice on Brian. All right. Spin in the wheel, spin in the wheel, and you win a t-shirt. And a t-shirt. Yay. All right. So all you have to do is email me your t-shirt size. And I have your address and everything. So email that to me. And then we'll send you out the comb and a t-shirt. Great, great. I love you guys. I watch you all the time. Thank you so much, and congratulations. Thank you. Are you guys done, Han? OK, bye. Bye. All right, we'll see you. Bye. OK, bye. I should have asked her. Brian's like, let me talk to you some more. You love going to chat with her. It's my one fan. Oh, you have multiple fans. You've got a bow tie. But Brian's like, this isn't fair. I wanted to talk. I didn't want to play. Hey, I was just glad I got two out of three. Even Meatloaf says that's not fair. That was good. Best reference that's not fair. That was good. So. Oh, he was talking about. Oh, my gosh. So we have coming up, the show's not going to stop, but we're going to go. We have John Harms, an interview from ISSE with John Harms, so that'll be coming up in a minute. Is there anything else we need to talk about? No, I just want to reiterate again, in case you only watched part of it, post pictures with questions. Because next week, I want to start doing a picture, too, with the questions from the hit and up social. Yeah, so we can pull the pictures up on there. Yeah, and if there's anything news-wise that you guys see, I mean, we check the community, especially the day that we film. If there's news that you want Justin to talk about or anything that you want to make sure Jaya didn't miss. Yes, please send me some news. We're a community. And the community that Brian's talking about, we have a community on Facebook. So we have a Facebook group that's Free Salon Education. You can look it up. Or you can go to freesaloneducation.com and click Community. It'll take you right there. And you just ask to be a part of it, and then we'll accept you. And then you can chat amongst everybody that follows Free Salon Education. We will accept you. Sounds like a cult. We will accept you here, drink from the cups. Yes. And be sure to get your tickets to Orlando and the experience so that way you can come check us out, see what we're up to, and say hello. And if you want to get tickets for the rest of us, and possibly get some, like, t-shirts. We'll do a Kickstarter. Yeah, we'll do it. And for the rest of the team. Nice. Yeah. So and then we have, next week, our FSC live is Drea. Drea. Yes. I'm excited about that one. I know. Oh, you are? I'm usually really excited about it, but I mean, it's just, I'm usually, I'm always excited about doing it, but it gets a subject that I don't do that often. OK. Yeah, so Drea is going to do. Long hair styling. Don't mess this up. More of a formal style. More formal styling. Yeah, so we're going to do formal styling with Drea next Wednesday morning. And then we'll be back with the podcast Wednesday night. Do you want to do a man up do? I'm not doing a man up do on you. And then. You told me I was going to. That reminds me. Yeah. Since I'm a social guy, somebody posted at the beginning of this, how do you feel about man buns? Yup. Yeah, Brian loves man buns. I support them fully. Yes. Anybody tries to cut mine off and kill you. Brian likes all kinds of man buns. Yup. So, all right, so follow Brian and his man buns at. I'm just cut it. I'm going. At hair style, H-A-I-R-E, follow Drea. Drea day, two, two, eight, nine. I am Justin Scott. Thad. Thad Bologna. Thad Bolognaist. Christina. Thad Bolognaist. At underscore Stiney. And at Free Salon Education, you can follow us on there. Make sure you share with your friends this podcast. I hope you guys had fun with us. We'll be back next week with more fun things. We have John Harms' interview coming up right now. And for that, and we'll see you guys on the next show. Hey, guys, this is Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com here at the Millennium Systems International booth at ISSE in Long Beach, California. I'm sitting here with the man himself. Hey, man. So there's a few things I want to talk to you about. I've got to talk to you quite a bit. But I want to go over some things that we've been doing with speak up events. And then you have the conference coming up so people can learn about that. Sure. And one of my favorite things last year was people were coming up that follow our. And they couldn't wait to meet us there. So I'm hoping we can get more of those followers to come this year. And you're also here with your daughter. Yeah, Brittany. Brittany's here. So it's a whole family event. Your wife was hiding off camera. Of course. So let's start off. We just did speak up Miami. The thing I loved about speak up Miami was every time I see you, we're usually at a bigger conference, even the experience. And you're really busy, you have a lot of stuff going on. This time I felt like you did your class and then I did my class. And it was really cool to see them side by side. And we took a lot of inspiration even from that trip. But when you came up with the idea for speak up or when the idea came up, what was the reasoning behind it and what's your goal with it? Yeah. I give my a lot of credit. They pushed me to do some of these things. They say, wait, we're going where? We're going to Miami? We're going to San Francisco? But it's a really intimate event. So it's 60 to 100 people. But then what we do is I go on and I talk about the what, talk about the goals and the things that they should be tracking. And then you go up and you really do the real salon world, how you do it in the salon. And I remember that I was enjoying it so much in Miami that I literally was like, oh, man, Matt's almost done. I mean, I really had a great time. And actually afterwards when we asked everybody what they thought of it, you saw the applause. And it's just for us, it's important to keep being that company that's educational, not just software. And I think that's what makes a difference about us is going around to all these big cities but having intimate events where people can go and learn. Yeah. And it's been like, I always say that the Millennium family is just such a cool, you have a great culture and just the people that work there are so awesome. But not only that, and I know you guys do the education as well, but your software is, you can't compare it to anything else. And that's the truth because I use it in my salon. And we were just talking last night, right when we landed from the plane, we were talking to Randy from Hair Brand. We were talking about all the reports. There's like over, how many reports are in Millennium? Over 450. 450 reports, it's about, you could find out any little aspect about your salon that you want or you can find anything you need in one report. So that's what I like about it. And we were talking about Mevo and the reports that are coming in Mevo and all that stuff. So you have, speak up or not speak up but the Millennium experience coming up, what's gonna be the big thing there? Like what's happening? Millennium experience, I mean, it's a great combination of education, fun and software education. People go there think that they're just gonna learn about software and it's really probably only 25% of what the conference is. It's got a track, it's got an owner, manager track, a front desk track. We bring in people like yourselves that educates on not only the hair aspect, pulling in the key metrics that you should be tracking. So for us it's, we always make it better than the year before and every year it seems to get harder and harder. But I think this year we're gonna unveil some more stuff with Mevo that's gonna really blow people away. And actually Brittany's gonna be there performing. Yeah, this is my first experience. Completely, right? Completely. So have you ever, so you're gonna, you have something, a secret. I have a secret. But you are gonna be there. And so there could be something really cool. So if you guys wanna see that, you should come. Exactly. And so, but you've never been to this conference. I have never been to the experience but I am jealous every single time because I see pictures and I always am so upset that I could not go. Okay, and this is another question I have for you. So growing up with this man, what was that like? It was actually really funny because he was always on his computer when he came home and I used to always mess with all his coding and he would always get mad at me when I was little. And I used to always wonder how he did like all those letters and they were so confusing. And I always thought that I was pretty cool that he could do that. So growing up with him, just watching him do that stuff was really fascinating but watching him grow from something so little to something so big was pretty cool. She used to help test it too. Just get on there and go into the register and ring things up and try to break it. So yeah, she's a great tester. What I'm gonna say, and I was going to, I just did, I was gonna wait. I'm not gonna wait. So I, American Salon, interviewed to put me in their young Americans category for March. And I did, I was going through all these questions and it came to like the mentors section. And I was thinking about it. I was thinking about all the people that I've looked up to and mentors that I've had in the past and these big hairdresser icon people. And then you meet them and you just, something happens when you meet somebody that's like you look up to and you just, it goes away, like cause you learn more about them and maybe they're not the person that they are on stage and all this stuff. So I was thinking of the question and I put you. I think that I just look up to what you've done, what you've built, the family that you have. You know, I think it takes a lot and I've already learned in a little bit of time I've been doing this. You talk about being on the computer all the time. I'm sure my son says the same thing. And you know, it's just, it's one of those things where I look up to the fact that you started in, you started listening to hairdressers, you built this company, you've just grown so much. And I really look up to you as a person and as a software company. So, you know. That's pretty amazing. That means a lot to me. You know, and it just goes to show like, you know, a hard work and just believing in something that you're doing and still loving it. I've been doing it 27 years. I still love it. I still love building software. Even though I don't code like I used to, at least I'm involved in architecture still. And it's pretty special. But, and then seeing somebody like you and seeing the future of the industry gives me a lot of hope too that we've come a long way. Yeah. And just the fact like you look at right now you didn't have to be here. You were, you know, with your family. You brought the family here. They're all happy and they're just here. You know, like that's me. I think is what stressful business is. And so I, on doing that and allowing somebody like me to just be here. Oh, creating things. You know, so you've supported me a lot. I appreciate it. And I'm looking forward to the future of millennium and Mevo and everything that's happening. I want to talk about Mevo and gamification real quick. Yeah, sure. Is this the coolest, there is. So a few years ago, when we were writing Mevo, I said that, you know, one of the shortcomings in the industry was always the right brain stylist to care about numbers. Right. And the number one thing that would come back to us from managers and owners is how do I motivate my staff? And so we came up with client loyalty systems and ways to motivate clients to change behaviors and buy more retail or pre-book. But we really didn't have anything to motivate stylists or the staff. So I started studying and got certified in something called gamification. And so what it does is take the concept of gaming why people like going on social media and playing Farmville and collecting tokens and charms and all these things. And we incorporated all that into Mevo. So now you can set goals for your staff and you can actually, they can get badges along the way each month if they hit a certain retail number and collect their badges. They earn virtual currency that they can then turn in to the owner for, you know, movie tickets or dinner with the boss, you know, stuff like that. And later boards, so I want to change the conversation in the break room. So you can put up a screen and then your leaderboards will just combine show average ticket and the ranking of every staff member pre-booking percentage. And we've shown that to several salons and we showed it at our conference two years in a row and both times we got standing ovations because people realize that we're really listening and understand the industry enough to finally come up with a way to motivate the staff in a way that's never been done before. I just think about like my staff being there and just being able to look on a screen and seeing, and the gamification is not like a, it's not a graph, like, I mean, it is kind of but it's, but it's very visual. Like everything looks like an RPM gauge or they love about Mevo because it's not, it's not just, you know, like lines on a chart or numbers, it's visual. Yeah, Mevo's the first time that we actually employed a technical graphic artist to design every single screen along with a technical person like myself. So when you look at the screens, it's got that right brain artsy view and what stimulates a hairstyles, but at the same time, the left brain stuff to make sure that it's meaningful data and that it makes sense. So I definitely think that that's some of the secret sauce of what we did with Mevo, we did with Millennium or anything else that's going on out there right now. Well, and it also pushed the lawn owners to stop focusing on the dollar amount and to start focusing on the individual stylist on a minute-by-minute basis. Instead of, you know, looking at the end of the week, you know, this person brought in 2000, this person brought in 1000, so I like the one that brought in 2000 more, not knowing that the one that brought in 1000 in two years is going to blow them away, you know, because of the growth that they're going through. So I think Mevo and Millennium in general, just once people learn that those smaller numbers, the daily numbers are more important than the monthly or quarterly numbers, I think they're going to, that's going to be a big difference. Yeah, and even with the gamification, as soon as they hit their retail goal or they hit their halfway goal for the month, they'd instantly send something to their cell phone. So their smartphone is getting this information all day long and they can go on to my Mevo and actually check their numbers. So it's changing where, you know, people aren't waiting for a report to get printed out, they're involved and they're in the game all day long and I like to think of it as a game. You know, you walk in and your goal is $700 for the day, you know that you're at $350, so you need to figure out how I can get from here to there in the next eight hours. Yeah, and this is what you have to do. You have to have this average ticket, you have to have this many guests, like they break down all those little numbers. Yeah, it's exciting, it's been a great project and we're really proud of it and it's really the only web application or cloud application, in my opinion, that functions the right way for the beauty industry, that allows them to jump in and out of screens and be in the middle of a booking and appointment and look up someone's client formula or punch somebody in and out. So it's made to fit the way the industry works in a way that I think is pretty special. Well, thank you for sitting down and what are you guys gonna do now? Are you gonna do anything fun? I think I'm gonna go around and she's gonna spend money and I'm just gonna carry bags, that's what I typically do. Last time we saw you, actually me and my fiance were at the Martino's big charity event and you were spending money then, too. Yeah, she was. How was the cooking, you had a cooking class with, wasn't that it? Cake Boss, yeah, we haven't done any yet because I moved out to California and I haven't been back to Jersey but I'm sure as soon as I'm back in Jersey we'll figure it out. She's the character on Nickelodeon Flopsy and the Flopsy around Peter Rabbit. Oh, really? So the Cake Boss did make her a big Flopsy and Mopsy cake that was pretty cool for Nickelodeon. It was really cool. It was for my 12th or 13th birthday and just having that there was like, it made the entire birthday. That's awesome. Anything else wasn't as good as that. Well, good luck with everything you're doing. Thank you so much. I know you are living in LA and you're pursuing your dreams, so it's awesome. And John, thank you again. Thanks. Good luck with everything. I'll see you soon at something, I'm sure. Always, always, thank you, Matt. Yeah, thank you guys so much for watching. Again, thank you to Millennium Systems International. Check them out, millenniumsi.com and we will see you guys on the next video. Thanks.