Hey everybody, this is The Hair Game. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Eric and I'm back from Austin.

I really, really enjoy going to Texas, especially Austin. And I tend to find myself saying y'all a lot

when I'm there and then when I come back for just a couple days. So if I say y'all during this intro or the outro, just know that there's

some residual influence there. However, I am from Dallas originally, so I am licensed to use the

word y'all at will. So a good thing for you to know. This episode was an interview that I did with your day off podcast

done by heritistry two guys named Corey and Tony out of Maryland they chased me down for a while

and we finally got it done they interviewed me about the early days of salonry public so i hope you

find that interesting my audio was a little bit off not sure what happened there but hope you like

the interview welcome to your day off my name's cori and of course i'm sitting next to my budd

what's up to him what's up brother how you doing man bro Today is crazy. We have an incredible guest today. I have admittedly stalked him for the last

couple months trying to get together with him, and I'm super excited to have him on the show

today. Yeah, he's definitely what I want to be when I grow young.

Exactly. That guy there, man. So all the way from Los Angeles, we have Eric Taylor.

For those of you that don't know, Mr. Taylor.

He is the, I guess, the president, CEO, creator, owner of Salon Republic, which is the largest studio salon space in the country.

Mr. Eric Taylor, welcome to your day off. Hi, Corey. Hi, Tony. How are you guys? What's up, buddy? Great, bro. How you doing, man? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. It's kind of a cloudy morning. You guys got me up early this morning with your East Coast time. So bear with me if I'm a little sleepy.

You have your coffee.

No, I have not.

I didn't have time to get coffee.

You want to be here so early.

Oh, no, man.

We're too cops saying we could have done a little later.

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