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043 Comfy Cuts · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler today. I want to talk about haircuts
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  Speaker 1: because I have one country that I like to get
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  Speaker 1: haircuts in and a whole bunch of countries I don't
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  Speaker 1: really care about getting haircuts in. It's fine, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: China has the best haircuts of any country I've been to.
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  Speaker 1: They're certainly the cheapest, or among the cheapest. Sometimes there's
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  Speaker 1: just an old man or woman with a chair on
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  Speaker 1: the side walk, and you sit down in the chair.
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  Speaker 1: They have one straight razor and they're really good with it,
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  Speaker 1: and they can cut pretty much whatever picture you give them.
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  Speaker 1: And that and I did that a lot. I did
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  Speaker 1: that a bunch of times. But that's not why I
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  Speaker 1: love Chinese haircuts. Although it is super fun to have
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  Speaker 1: a grandpa straight razoring away your hair and layering it
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  Speaker 1: and doing all this fancy stuff with just one simple
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  Speaker 1: razor and a chair on the sidewalk and a sign
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  Speaker 1: that reads five ren and B or something like that. China,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, is also the only country in which I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten a professional haircut and not been nicked accidentally at
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  Speaker 1: some point or another, especially those old people at the
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  Speaker 1: straight raizers. They are extremely skilled. But if I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: really really like the reallyiest, the hair wash that Chinese
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  Speaker 1: barbers give you first is why I like getting a
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  Speaker 1: haircut in China so much. It doesn't really stand on ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a luxurious spa wash or it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to take twenty minutes. There's a different twenty minute spa
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  Speaker 1: like procedure that I'll talk about in another episode, but
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  Speaker 1: this is about the haircuts. But they do give you
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  Speaker 1: a very thorough hair and scalp wash before they cut
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  Speaker 1: your hair. Usually, usually it's included in the two to
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  Speaker 1: three dollars price of the haircut. Sometimes it is one
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  Speaker 1: an extra dollar roughly. And when I say dollar, I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about US dollars, and when I say you on
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  Speaker 1: or Ren and B, I'm talking about the Chinese money.
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  Speaker 1: But whenever I say dollars, I'm talking about usd in
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  Speaker 1: these episodes. So what's so nice is that before you
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  Speaker 1: get your haircut, you kind of have an indication by
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  Speaker 1: how they wash your hair of how well they're going
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  Speaker 1: to take care of you. And they always take care
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  Speaker 1: of you. Well, it's just that the hair wash is
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  Speaker 1: that demonstration, that first step of you entering an establishment
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  Speaker 1: and knowing, Okay, these people are here to do a
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  Speaker 1: good job on my hair, because look how much they
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  Speaker 1: care about this preliminary step. So after you come in
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  Speaker 1: with a reference photo or talk to them about what
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  Speaker 1: you want for your haircut, they lay you down, put
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  Speaker 1: the hairdressing cloak over you, and they lay you next
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  Speaker 1: to these chairs with synks behind them, and then recline
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  Speaker 1: you until your head is half inside the specific head
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  Speaker 1: sync for that chair. For washing hair, they run warm
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  Speaker 1: water over your hair and tellsle your hair to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that every part of your hair is damp. And
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  Speaker 1: that's already pretty comfortable, like a pre massage before the massage.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually just a hair wash, but it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a massage to me. Then they lather your hair up
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  Speaker 1: with shampoo, massaging it in gently, and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden they'll break into a very forceful scrub, even
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  Speaker 1: using their nails. But they aren't, you know, violently scratching
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  Speaker 1: your scalp or anything. They're just scrubbing very deeply, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels fantastic. That's where it feels most like a
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  Speaker 1: deep hair wash and scalp massage to me. Already, when
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  Speaker 1: they're really forcefully washing my hair with the shampoo in
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  Speaker 1: It's very comfortable. They'll do it for a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that the soap has gotten every where
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  Speaker 1: down to the base of your hair and into your scalp,
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  Speaker 1: and that they're pulling out all the extra scalp skin
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  Speaker 1: and just really cleaning out your hair with that hair wash.
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  Speaker 1: And they do it all day, so they never tangle
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  Speaker 1: your hair. There's never it's never painful. It always just
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  Speaker 1: feels like a very good deep clean. This wash slash
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  Speaker 1: mini massage is fantastic. It's one of my favorite experiences
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  Speaker 1: in life. Worth the extra dollar if you have to
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  Speaker 1: pay it instead of the two dollars you're already paying.
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  Speaker 1: And this is my favorite part of the haircut game.
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  Speaker 1: And I had no idea it was part of the
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  Speaker 1: haircut game in China. So let's break this up real quick.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about how I first discovered that
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  Speaker 1: washing your hair and getting this forceful, wild gentle scalp
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  Speaker 1: massage is part of the haircut game in China. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time. When I first moved to China, I
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  Speaker 1: lived outside of the city in a small town called
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  Speaker 1: bai Jiatuan, forty five minutes west on like a motor
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  Speaker 1: scooter of the city center. The approximate location of that
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  Speaker 1: town actually has a subway station now, so you can
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  Speaker 1: just go straight out to there. Oh, except they have
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the entire town, so there's no bai Jiatuan anymore. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: when I visited last year, I found that out just
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  Speaker 1: giant hills of broken brick and rubble where a town
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  Speaker 1: used to be, and apartment buildings and all sorts of things,
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  Speaker 1: just all broken stone and mortar and rebar. But ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago there were the center ring subway stations and
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  Speaker 1: a couple straight lines, and that's pretty much it. The
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  Speaker 1: subway system has expanded massively in the last decade in China.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, when I was there in my first year
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  Speaker 1: in China, that town, a forty five minute ride on
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  Speaker 1: a scooter outside of the city center was far enough
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  Speaker 1: away that I was, according to the people of the town,
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  Speaker 1: the second white person they had ever seen in real life.
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  Speaker 1: That's how consolidated these Chinese cities are and the tourist
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  Speaker 1: industry in China that you go for a twenty minute
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  Speaker 1: car ride outside of the city and nobody has seen
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  Speaker 1: a foreigner before, it's pretty wild. So that means that
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  Speaker 1: every time I left my apartment in that town, which
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  Speaker 1: was mostly to buy bows of the steamed buns for
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  Speaker 1: breakfast or lunch or dinner because I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: save money in the beginning, and the bowdso were huge,
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  Speaker 1: delicious steamed buns with pork inside and a soft bready outside,
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  Speaker 1: and the only cost ten cents, no, I guess like
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  Speaker 1: sixteen cents, but they cost basically nothing, and it was
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  Speaker 1: enough food for the day, a few of them. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I would walk around town to translate the Chinese characters,
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  Speaker 1: none of which I knew at all. I still had
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  Speaker 1: the one, two, three, e ar San Lance Lusa hongsa blue, green,
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  Speaker 1: red or yellow, whatever it was, I knew like three
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  Speaker 1: colors and three numbers. But every time I went out,
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  Speaker 1: every single person in the town was staring at me
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  Speaker 1: with frog eyes, like I had three arms and two noses.
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  Speaker 1: And it took months before people stopped staring at me. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it took months before some people stopped staring at me,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them the whole time I lived in Bijiautwine,
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  Speaker 1: which might have been a year, I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: long exactly every single time I left the apartment, they
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  Speaker 1: were staring at me, and it wasn't anything violent or aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like blatant, bald curiosity, like when you're
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  Speaker 1: walking behind a parent holding a baby over their shoulder
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  Speaker 1: and the baby's just staring at you, just boring their
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  Speaker 1: eyes into you. But it was really funny because every
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  Speaker 1: time I went inside my apartment, it seemed like the
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  Speaker 1: town forgot that anybody was there, and then as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I left, it was like everybody in town was
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  Speaker 1: jolted into the reality that there was a foreign interloper.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, I never felt like an actual interloper.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole time I lived there, everyone was as
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  Speaker 1: nice as they could be to someone who couldn't speak
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  Speaker 1: their language, and I never felt harassed in any way.
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  Speaker 1: And when I did develop conversational skills, all of the
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  Speaker 1: conversations were very friendly. But my own ineptitude and the
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming amount of attention I received when I walked outside
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  Speaker 1: it kept me from visiting the barber because I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty worried about going in there giving them the wrong
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  Speaker 1: description of what I wanted, asking for the wrong amount
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  Speaker 1: of money, giving them the wrong amount of money, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing what services they provided because there was a huge
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  Speaker 1: price list. But I was like, well, what else do
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  Speaker 1: you have on a list except for cut hair? And
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  Speaker 1: at that point I barely even knew how to use
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  Speaker 1: the dictionary I had, so there was just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confusion, and I was kind of intimidated about going
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  Speaker 1: into a fairly specific business like a barber shop to
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  Speaker 1: ask for a haircut. So every day I would buy
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  Speaker 1: vegetables or meat or bows whatever from the market, and
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  Speaker 1: I would cast furtive glances at the barber shop, kind
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  Speaker 1: of psyching myself up, like you're gonna get that haircut
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  Speaker 1: one day. And then eventually my hair was just too long,
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  Speaker 1: and I started preparing for going into the shop in
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  Speaker 1: real life instead of in my head. So I prepped beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: I had a bunch of pictures of Tom Cruise with
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  Speaker 1: shaggy hair from Mission Impossible Too, which is what I
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  Speaker 1: was looking for, since we look basically identical. No, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted my hair shorter, but I still wanted some shag,
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  Speaker 1: some length and flare, So I had a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of pictures of him on my phone for reference for
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  Speaker 1: the barber's sake, and then I studied the word for
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  Speaker 1: a haircut like a hundred times, leafa cut hair, and
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  Speaker 1: I just kept saying that word lee fa lefa, except
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: back then I was probably just saying leifa or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, some completely pronunciation and the wrong tones and everything,
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  Speaker 1: because I hadn't even developed my tone recognition yet. Robot question,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: i'msure angry. In that earlier episode I mentioned so I
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  Speaker 1: had no consistency over tones or pronunciation of Chinese at all.
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  Speaker 1: But I listened to the pronunciation of lefa like a
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  Speaker 1: hundred times, and I said it poorly one hundred times.
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  Speaker 1: I checked the sign above the shop. I matched it
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  Speaker 1: with the squiggles I had no way of understanding yet
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  Speaker 1: on my phone dictionary. And then I just kept practicing
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  Speaker 1: leif alif alifa. And then I was convinced that is
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  Speaker 1: a barber shop. That's the word for haircut. If you
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  Speaker 1: just go in there and say haircut enough times, they'll
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  Speaker 1: probably give you a haircut. It might not look like
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  Speaker 1: what you want, but that's a place to start. So
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: one day I swore under my breath multiple times, stepped
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  Speaker 1: out of the apartment building and into the bright sun,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately curious stares of everyone in the village. Oh
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  Speaker 1: he's still here. And it was like being purp walked
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  Speaker 1: in front of an audience, except I was purp walking myself.
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  Speaker 1: And the barbershop was really close to my apartment, but
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  Speaker 1: down an alley that's like ten meters long, not super long,
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  Speaker 1: but like I said, it felt like I'm being walked
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  Speaker 1: between prison cells and everyone's staring at me. What's gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen to this guy? And I just got closer and
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  Speaker 1: closer to the barber shop, and a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: were standing outside and the rest inside. You could see
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  Speaker 1: through the windows. Now everyone's looking at me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: clearly heading for the barber shop, and they're all discussing like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is he doing? And then I'm there
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  Speaker 1: standing in front of someone, face to face, and I
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  Speaker 1: have to figure out what to say. So I have
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  Speaker 1: a terrible conversation in Chinese about the haircut I wanted,
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  Speaker 1: which I studied some of these words, so it was haircut,
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  Speaker 1: haircut long, not short, not short, short, long, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That was basically what I was saying to these guys,
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  Speaker 1: except you can imagine in the accent I was doing,
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  Speaker 1: it was much more likerkit horkuit laying lang no shirt
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  Speaker 1: lang like something like that. But after they were very
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  Speaker 1: patient with me for uh, I don't know what seemed
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  Speaker 1: like forever, but was probably five minutes. They understood what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted. I showed them the picture and I think
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  Speaker 1: I even said, like, is this haircut? And they said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is haircut. And after I showed them the pictures
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  Speaker 1: and we had established they were going to get me
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  Speaker 1: a haircut, they swept open their arms and gestured me inside.
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  Speaker 1: I checked the price again beforehand. It was something like
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  Speaker 1: ten un maybe eight un so a solid buck fifty
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  Speaker 1: or buck seventy five. And I was guided over to
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  Speaker 1: a chair. Now I had gotten plenty of haircuts in
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  Speaker 1: the US before, and they put you in the chair,
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  Speaker 1: put the cloak on, start cutting your hair. So I
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  Speaker 1: was like, here we go, ready for it. And then
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  Speaker 1: the chair falls backward. He kicks a lever and it
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  Speaker 1: just swings reclines backward pretty quickly, but for the last
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  Speaker 1: few inches kind of slows down. And then now I'm
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  Speaker 1: lying down looking at the ceiling. Why am I looking
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: at the ceiling? And I was very confused, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know how to ask them what was happening or
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  Speaker 1: why I was looking at the ceiling. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they were telling me because they were all talking, but
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: I had no idea what was going on. And then
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  Speaker 1: water turns on and I was like, oh, are they
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  Speaker 1: going to wash my hair? Also, I've never enjoyed such decadence.
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  Speaker 1: And then they started rinsing my hair, and then they
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  Speaker 1: started lathering and doing the scalp massage and cleaning my hair,
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  Speaker 1: and my brain froze at how comfortable it was. As
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  Speaker 1: described above, it was a nervonic experience. Just rinse, lather, scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse, towel,
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  Speaker 1: unreclined towel, and the whole thing was this blur. But
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  Speaker 1: the entire time they were washing my hair, I was
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  Speaker 1: in a state of bliss. I was so happy. That
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  Speaker 1: was definitely the first scalp massage I had ever experienced,
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  Speaker 1: And afterward my hair felt maybe the cleanest it had
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  Speaker 1: ever felt. It was undoubtedly washed to a degree that
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't taken the time to dedicate to my hair before.
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  Speaker 1: And I also just felt energized and rejuvenated after such
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  Speaker 1: a thorough cleansing and massage. So yeah, rinse, lather, scrub
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  Speaker 1: rint scrub rints, towel unreclined, towel air dry, and now
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  Speaker 1: they are ready to cut my hair. With my hair
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  Speaker 1: in a state of angelic flow. I don't even care
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  Speaker 1: about the haircut at this point. I don't care about
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  Speaker 1: the haircut at all. All I want is to pay
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  Speaker 1: them for more hair washing. And the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: haircut was me wondering how I could just pay them
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  Speaker 1: money to wash my hair for a longer period of time.
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  Speaker 1: And I was thinking, like, how often does my haircut
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  Speaker 1: oily enough for a hair wash? I was like, basically
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  Speaker 1: every day. You jog a lot anyway, so you could
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  Speaker 1: do this like pretty often. The problem was I had
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  Speaker 1: to figure out all those words and ask them how
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But that is how I found out
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  Speaker 1: about this hair washing experience in China that is very
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  Speaker 1: much like a massage, and thus was born my love
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  Speaker 1: of Chinese haircuts. And I get haircuts in other countries occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: but it's always utilitarian. It's always the haircuts in other
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  Speaker 1: countries always seem to deal with just the hair, whereas
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  Speaker 1: in China the haircut seem to consider the scalp as
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  Speaker 1: well as part of the haircut. Which is a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting distinction that I would never have noticed if I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: had not gotten this haircut in China. Like when they
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: talk about hair tofa fa, it means hair to is
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: head tofa, so it's head hair. But I think that
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  Speaker 1: indicates that they're including the head part, the scalp itself
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  Speaker 1: as part of your hair, which of course it is.
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  Speaker 1: The hair root is inside there, But most countries think
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  Speaker 1: of it as what I would consider just hair. So
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  Speaker 1: in most countries, when you're getting a haircut, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: your hair cut, whereas in China, when you get a haircut,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting a treatment for your scalp and the hair
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  Speaker 1: coming out of it as a holistic unit, a holistic treatment.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a different feel than I get in many
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  Speaker 1: other countries, any other country that I've been to. And
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  Speaker 1: you can pay for hair wash as you know in
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  Speaker 1: other countries and stuff. It's just that in China the
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  Speaker 1: whole haircut experience is thought of holistically instead of we
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  Speaker 1: have a separate treatment for your scalp, that's your skin,
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  Speaker 1: we have a separate treatment for your hair. No, the
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  Speaker 1: hair and the scalp are connected. That's the part of
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  Speaker 1: this I find so culturally interesting. The holistic perspective that
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  Speaker 1: Chinese culture extends to so many aspects of life that
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  Speaker 1: I would never have considered before. I thought of my
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  Speaker 1: hair as just the hair that was sitting on top
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  Speaker 1: of my head, no connection, just some dead cells on
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  Speaker 1: the top of my head. Basically, you can buy just
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the hair washes in China, just the same way you
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: can buy a haircut. You can actually buy those holistic
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  Speaker 1: hair washes. But I didn't know that at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and my communication skills weren't good enough. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: to ask for that because I didn't consider that you
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  Speaker 1: could only get a hair wash, because that seems so
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  Speaker 1: frivolous to my Western sensibilities, although it's obviously a very
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  Speaker 1: important integral thing to your holistic health. So it makes
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  Speaker 1: perfect sense in China that they offer hair washes in
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  Speaker 1: addition to haircuts. It's as normal to get just the
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  Speaker 1: hair wash as it is to just get the hair cut.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas I feel like in the countries i'm visiting the
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  Speaker 1: one I'm from, the hair wash is almost always seen
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  Speaker 1: as a bit more of a luxury rather than a
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  Speaker 1: utilitarian And like I said, it's three dollar dollars four
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  Speaker 1: dollars for the entire experience two dollars for just the
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  Speaker 1: hair wash. You're not exactly breaking the bank. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a luxury experience that I cannot recommend enough. It's
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  Speaker 1: just so enjoyable and you're sparkling clean afterward, or your
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  Speaker 1: hair is. If I'm not in China, I don't go
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to barber's much. I'll try it once in a new country,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: but if the experience is, like I said, non holistic,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: it's just yeah, we cut your hair to the length
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  Speaker 1: you want. That's something I can do anyway myself, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to spend the time going to the
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  Speaker 1: barbers when I could go to the market or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, climb a mountain. So I don't go to
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  Speaker 1: barber's much in other countries, but when I am in China,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I exclusively go to barber's and sometimes just get the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: hair wash from a professional rather than doing it myself,
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  Speaker 1: because it's basically like a mini massage and cleans for
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  Speaker 1: more than a fair price by you know, stylists for
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: life Hashtex stylists for Life. So that is how I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: found out about these hair washes the first time. And
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  Speaker 1: after that, like I said, I just wasn't paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to anything. They cut my hair. It looked fine. I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: didn't care because I had discovered a new exultant pleasure
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  Speaker 1: in life to get a hair wash in China. And
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: speaking of that massage, there's actually a full scalp and
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  Speaker 1: face massage, but that really needs its own episode, because
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  Speaker 1: as nice as this hair wash is, it only lasts
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  Speaker 1: five minutes maybe and is a real scrub a duve
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  Speaker 1: just scrubbing the whole time, whereas the Toliau, this facial
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  Speaker 1: and scalp massage I'm talking about, is a full twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five minute massage of the face and scalp and
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  Speaker 1: gray guggly mowgli. Do I feel like I'm walking on
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  Speaker 1: sunshine after one of those? They're really interesting too, because
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten a few of them, I'll say ten, because
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't find out about the Toliau late on the
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  Speaker 1: full scalp and face massage, so I didn't have opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get a lot of them. But every time I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: get them, they're different. They'll use a different liniment. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they don't use an oil. There's just a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different methods that go into the full scalp and
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  Speaker 1: face massage the toliau so I will talk about that
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  Speaker 1: in another episode. I hope if you have the chance
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  Speaker 1: to visit China, which you should, very fascinating country. The
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  Speaker 1: people are great, that you take the time out of
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  Speaker 1: your schedule to get a haircut and most especially to
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  Speaker 1: get that hair wash and experience this joy for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You can talk to me on the Lemmy
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: or Reddit communities can also email me a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a Rambler at gmail dot com. I will catch you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on the next one. Oh and tell me about the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: haircuts in your country if you have an interesting story
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  Speaker 1: to share. I travel to country is based on whimsy,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: so if the hair washes and cuts are great in
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  Speaker 1: your country, that's a good enough reason for me to
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  Speaker 1: come visit