Ep. 235 • From Stand-Up Comic to Successful Barber w/ Garrick Dixon
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With 30 years of experience cutting hair, Entrepreneur & Barbertainer @thegarrickdixon has successfully blended his love of comedy with barbering. He shares his journey from corporate America to stand-up comic and actor, all while continuing to cut hair. He discusses combining comedy and cutting, as well as how to make your videos funnier.
This week's topics:
• Working a corporate job & cutting hair on the weekend
• Doing stand-up comedy and getting into TV
• Life on the road and the strain on family
• Combining comedy and the barbershop
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| 0:00.0 | Kids will change your life to wear it because I'm not the dad. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm the dad that's involved. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, and after, especially my first daughter was born, those road trips weren't as fun anymore. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. |
| 0:17.9 | This is Anthony Pauso's. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Jessica Warburton. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, this is Ryan Weidon. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:28.5 | In the news, the two California counties out of the total of 58 counties that kept the |
| 0:34.4 | mask mandate in place after the state removed it have changed their tune. |
| 0:39.6 | Santa Clara County removed the mandate on Wednesday, last Wednesday. |
| 0:44.2 | And then that left L.A. County. |
| 0:46.3 | The massively confusing attempt by L.A. County's health officer, Barbara Ferrer, |
| 0:51.5 | to get people to keep wearing masks was a giant failure. |
| 0:54.9 | This is the one that I made fun of in last week's intro. |
| 0:58.8 | It was a giant failure. |
| 0:59.9 | Not one person and one business that I entered last week understood the chart that she put out. |
| 1:04.9 | Trust me, I asked. |
| 1:06.7 | So she dropped it on Friday. |
| 1:09.9 | As of last Friday, L.A. County stopped requiring people to mask up at most |
| 1:15.2 | indoor settings. I say most because masks are still required at places like public transit, hospitals, |
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