I feel that our school system is broken and we're not setting hairstylists up for success.

Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad.

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Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor.

It's week eight-ish of coronavirus bizazaar-o-land. Many states are

beginning to open with safety protocols in place. Salon owners and beauty professionals have

been pushing back against their politicians pretty much across the country because it appears

like a vast majority believe that we can operate safely in this environment.

A salon owner in Dallas opened against the moratorium there and she got shut down. She got sighted.

She went to court. She refused to apologize. The judge sentenced her to seven days in prison and it looks like the state's attorney general

and many other people came out and said she is not going to jail.

So that's happened.

We've had a Northern California salon owner open basically saying, look, I can do this

safely. I have a life to live and I

have bills to pay and this is unfair and irrational what you're doing so I'm

opening anyway this seems to be happening around but it is happening right as

a lot of states are opening and those states that are opening, many hairdressers are doing house calls.

Manicurists are doing house calls. People are doing house calls. They seem fed up at this point.

California is still closed frustratingly. I am working closely with the city of L.A., L.A. Mayor Garcetti's office to educate them on the

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