Hey listeners, I'm Eric Taylor and this is the hair game.

New Salon Republic openings, Escondido in San Diego County and Torrance in the South

Bay of LA, check salonrepublic.com for more information.

Also, craft lookbook, the big hair party were involved with every year in Hollywood will be Saturday and Sunday, July 13th, and 14th.

Tons of education with big names, hair-related carnival games, and installations. What are installations, you ask?

They're fun things. That's what they are. They're things that are created to be fun and make this event special. You're not going to want to miss it, I promise. Pre-sale tickets sold out in April. Regular tickets went on sale the first week in May. Go to my Instagram. The link for Craft Lookbook is in my profile on Instagram.

Now, the Pauleut giveaway. After the Iwatch we gave away last week, we're getting back to reality a bit.

This is 100 buckaroos to spend anywhere as long as it's on Amazon.com drum roll please donovan the winner is

trust your hairdresser trust your hairdresser DM me at letter taylor on, and I'll send it to you.

At the end of this episode, I'll tell you what we're going to be giving away next week and how you can win that.

Now to the episode with educator George Garcia.

So George Garcia, how are you, brother?

I'm good, men.

Yeah.

We're here in Vegas for the Redkin Symposiumosium and you were just telling me that it's been your ninth

That this is your ninth. Yes, this is my ninth on a main stage. I've been working with Redkin for 25 years now

I've been with the company since Canoga Park, which is when they were in L.A. You don't look that old. I know, right?

All the Redkin moisturizers all the conditions come down and just soothe my skin. No wrinkles. I love it. I love Botox is what I love. Oh, there you go. But yeah, no, it's been 25 years with the company and then, like I said, this is my ninth symposium on the main stage before I was like lead

assistant for a lot of the artists that I'm on stage with now like Chris Sorby and I was Sam's

lead for his very first symposium and so yeah just kind of evolved into and got the opportunity

for everybody listening Sam via yeah yeah and so but yeah it's been it's been a crazy ride it's

funny I was trying to in the model room, think of all the years I could, were easy. I just needed to know my first one, which was in 97. And then from that point on, it was like every two years, but I could not remember the name of half of them. I could only remember like four of them. And so I had to keep going, like,

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