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Action, and welcome back to starting nine, Carl here in Chicago, my heavily bearded partner in crime,

Jake Gary at it in Texas. It's thick, we talked a little bit pre-show, you go, there's not that much product in it.

So, like, how much product is?

Well, there's really nothing in it.

No, like, if I put kind of lotion on my ashiobos in the morning, I'll rub like what's left in the beard,

but I didn't do that this morning.

So, it's just natural, it's probably from the natural light coming in, it's making it look,

making it look the way it does.

Yeah, I'm going to grow out for a while.

I don't have, we don't have hair, so I'm going to take advantage of the beard.

The tactic you describe is what I often do with my bald head, lotions, ointments, moisture,

anything that I can whisk away on the body, and then it just goes right to the scalp.

Yeah, and it's something you got to worry about too, when you're bald, you got to put sunscreen on your head.

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