SPEAKER_06 0:11

Fuck it. Are we recording?

SPEAKER_05 0:12

We recorded. Where the fuck we started recording?

SPEAKER_04 0:14

When you was fucking with not giving me a lapel.

SPEAKER_05 0:17

Oh shit. I gave you a lapel.

SPEAKER_04 0:18

I know I didn't.

SPEAKER_05 0:19

Make sure all of these, because last time, I ain't gonna tell the secrets of the show. Cause last time motherfucking uh I did this. Uh it was a nice interview. We had to uh cause the batteries went dead.

SPEAKER_04 0:34

The zoom is running, it's got a full battery.

SPEAKER_05 0:36

Got a full battery? What about the camera? The lights are good.

SPEAKER_04 0:38

We got the battery. As long as you push the record button, we should be good.

SPEAKER_05 0:43

Hold on, let me get up a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Zimbi, you have to fuck it up. Zim Zem turn got the humble mud.

SPEAKER_05 0:54

We getting flagged for that. We getting flag for the M2.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

I never forgot to turn the phone off.

SPEAKER_05 1:06

Who still you you still got a ring? Why you still got a ringer? Why you just don't use the the regular ring? I'm talking to you. What'd you say? Why you just don't use the regular ring?

SPEAKER_04 1:16

The regular ring for what for the phone. Oh, because I hear that. I don't hear shit. Download the microphone's got the mouth. That's another. Mike, Mike is Mike is the truth.

SPEAKER_05 1:25

Yeah, he he handling that for real.

SPEAKER_04 1:27

Y'all like the new movie?

SPEAKER_05 1:28

Which one? I wasn't Michael. No. Oh, oh! You know what, man?

SPEAKER_03 1:34

I didn't see it.

SPEAKER_05 1:35

Did you see? Did you see Michael? Mitoff.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Michael Miteo.

SPEAKER_05 1:38

Mushroom?

SPEAKER_02 1:40

Mito. I heard Janet Jackson wasn't in it.

SPEAKER_05 1:43

No, she wasn't in it. You haven't seen it?

SPEAKER_02 1:44

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_05 1:45

Okay. Let's not have this conversation then. Because I'm I'm gonna swear your fucking opinion if you had this conversation.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

No. Okay. Still love you, Janet.

SPEAKER_05 1:54

The movie, the movie was good. Okay. But that part and much, much more. Little detail. You seen you seen it, right? I ain't seen it. You seen Michael? I didn't watch it. Okay, but don't listen to me. Let's this is not the podcast for that conversation, so fucking all right.

SPEAKER_04 2:10

Hey Mike, where are we at?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

We are at Stay Good Barbershop in our Daha Beach. What's going on, everybody?

SPEAKER_05 2:16

Yeah. Shit. It's time.

SPEAKER_04 2:18

Is it time?

SPEAKER_05 2:19

I think so. Fuck it. Y'all know how we do this. You seen me do this. You live ain't paying me noise. Yakini can ball.

SPEAKER_06 2:30

You understand? You feel me?

SPEAKER_05 2:46

This is YBZ the podcast. As always, like, share, and subscribe to the channel. We like a shout out to all the day ones. Uh anybody who's first time viewer, first time listener, yo, we appreciate it. Uh blah blah blah blah blah. I'm all over the motherfucking place, man. I'm all over the place. It's been a while since I did it like this. And it's been a while. I couldn't see. I think I didn't get to introduce a whole bunch of people. Normally it'll be it's your boy J, and then I'll introduce the guest, and then because that's what I've been doing lately. We got a full house today, y'all. What's my camera? Where the fuck I'm looking at, y'all. This is my camera right here. This is the big camera, right? Yes. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_04 3:25

That was lift.

SPEAKER_05 3:26

Hey, my bad. We all over the motherfucking place, man. Check me. We got one Mikey. Y'all know Mikey. We was here at Stay Good, you know what I'm saying? Barbara Extraordinary, you understand? Yeah. Come on, everybody.

SPEAKER_07 3:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:39

And back in the boom boom room. And I did this once before. We ain't gonna talk about that shit. But I'm glad to do it this time. Back in the boom boom room. We got the butcher. Yes, sir. I won't time for the butcher, and I saved this last guest because this is an interview that I've been wanting to do for so long. So long. And I've known this man for a very, very, very long time.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

Since he was running around just out of that.

SPEAKER_05 4:06

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 4:07

It is to me, pampa karashir.

SPEAKER_05 4:21

So check me. This man is very close to me. You know what I'm saying? He's fan bam. This interview, I'm gonna try to do it justice. We got other things we're gonna discuss too, but I want to give this man a proper uh introduction. He's a barber, he is a rapper out here in Okinawa, Japan. That's right. Uh a very good rapper. Very good rapper. Very good barber. He cuts my hair. You know what I'm saying? He cuts my son's hair. You know what I'm saying? I if I trust him to do all that, you feel me? He gotta be, you know what I'm saying? He gotta be one of them ones. We got one Lib in the building. Yes, sir. True.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

Yeah, I did those demos.

SPEAKER_05 5:01

L I B. One turn for Lib, you feel me? Hey, so let me get into it. I've been knowing you for so long, and I feel so embarrassed to ask you this right now. I think I might have asked you this before. I don't think I ever did, or maybe I did, I don't know. What what what what Lib mean?

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Really? Liberty Kara. Liberty. I actually didn't know that either.

SPEAKER_05 5:33

Explain a little bit more. Why that?

SPEAKER_03 5:43

Uh when he was trying to come up with a name. The Jibungaskina Wado.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Uh he liked the word liberty, and the time that he was trying to come up with a nickname, he was looking for something and he likes the name. Or likes the word liberty. So it's birthed from that. He wants to rap about liberty. That's like his theme. Freedom. L I B freedom. Get the freedom. Get freedom.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

No, no, Libaliwa.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

That's what that means, right? Liberty. The pursuit of getting freedom. Yes. That's right. Liberty Life Liberty Pursuit of Happiness. That's right. That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 6:18

You need to name your album that.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Did I ask you that? You asked me one time. Did I? Sai show. Plus one of the first times you guys had a conversation.

SPEAKER_05 6:30

Man, it's been so long ago. I'm so old.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

How long you guys known each other for? Fuck.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

He said, when you said when you asked him that time, yo, that's a that's a fire name. I like the way you said that. What? He was saying the first the first time we asked him about this name, he's like, oh no, I like that.

SPEAKER_05 6:46

Right. And and and again, I'm saying it, it that's that's fire, but we never got, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Did we get this deep about liberty?

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Ah, he's like liberty.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

He's like, you know, no, I like I like L I V.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

I like the man, I must have been drunk as fuck. Hey Lib, those moments are wonderful to remember. Yes. But that doesn't mean he's gonna remember.

SPEAKER_05 7:19

I'm gonna give back to the the the other question. I think what? Like maybe how maybe out of like 11 years almost? Maybe 12 or 11, because because Justin started cutting my son's hair first, then Lib took over. So but Lib was around that whole time. So maybe 12. Maybe 12 years. Maybe maybe 11.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Over 10? Yeah. Over 10. Over 10 years. So I took a rib.

SPEAKER_05 7:55

Alright, so let's get into Lib the Rapper. Where did it where where how how did how did we get here? How did we start? How did we start?

SPEAKER_03 8:08

Uh no statua.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

My United Brother was always listening.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

So hip hop key there.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

When he was skating, he'd have his uh hip hop in his headphones, and then as he was listening, he would write down lyrics and then he would tell his skate friends about what he's what he's writing. Yeah, just just refined that initially, just writing down lyrics to the beat. Right, that's what I'm thinking as he's telling me. That's awesome. Just refined that.

SPEAKER_05 9:04

Right, when did you decide to take it seriously?

SPEAKER_02 9:23

So it got real for him when he had the opportunity to have a show. He's like, okay, if I don't practice, I gotta take this seriously, because if people are gonna pay tickets, you know, he has to take it seriously. So the first show is when he's like, okay, I have to take this seriously. Put work into it.

SPEAKER_05 9:38

So it got really real that first show. So right away you knew right then, because most people like kind of Sonosokite woke up.

SPEAKER_03 9:46

Show no maide uh kore hum money yarnito sold on it.

SPEAKER_04 9:52

Nah, I think he needs to do eight bars. Yeah. I think he needs to do eight bars right now.

SPEAKER_05 9:59

No, we gonna we gonna give we gonna give him a chance. We're gonna give him a chance. He's gonna rap, goddamn. You you gonna rap.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

But yeah, he's like uh if I if I'm gonna take this seriously, people are gonna pay money. I better t I better be serious about it. Right. Yeah, that's right. Respect for that. You don't want people to think of it as a joke.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

I'm I'm this this ain't on my book. I'm just finna. You I I think you I think you low-key famous out here.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

I don't know. You may you imagine this now.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

You imagine that.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Okay, he wants to I need to I need to try more, I need to I need to keep putting in work, I think. But definitely a local hero for sure.

SPEAKER_05 10:34

I'm about to say you you always have a show. Yeah, it's more the right way up theater than the show. You know what I'm saying? So I I just so okay. I and again, digging into what you are saying, because I want to uh kind of peel some layers. Rapping about rapping about liberty, right? Give me an example of that. What would like if if if if I was to you got a new single out right now, right? It's called a long walk, right? A long walk, right? Your verse on there.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

What if give me no tamini don't ribati donna ribati ni hanashi? I don't walk uh irona. I don't walk anything, anything. Liberty Naka, I don't walk any high territory, hate liberty, cara, hid it.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

So then it's no nanti know. So I was thinking about what to write down or what uh it's uh it's a bachelor, I'm a manzo kissing a mini.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Like the things that he experiences in a uh daily life thing, what what can he uh put into lyrics about how he can make his situation better? Everything he applies it to every everything in his life, from family to work to the people around him, what he's doing. Right. Just what anything that has to do with his life, if he can apply that to lyrics, he will he will make it that. Also, I have to do a little stitch real quick. I'm doing my best to translate. Doing fine, Mikey. I'll be right back. You're doing outstanding. If that's a stickler, I'm sorry in advance, but I'm doing my best.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

I'm over here critiquing you.

SPEAKER_05 12:43

You're good. And in the simple fact that he's talking to me, you know what I'm saying? And if I can understand what he's saying, so I'm my inner.

SPEAKER_07 12:54

Hey, you feel good?

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Wait a second.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Okay, sorry, but back to the music. But yeah, so from from from his from his life and everyday experiences, he applies what Liberty means to his lyrics and everything that he talks about is real life and from him.

SPEAKER_05 13:12

Got it.

SPEAKER_02 13:13

Actually, if if you don't mind me talking about that a little bit, I've always talked like we're in the studio, we're having fun. I always tell him when we're getting fucked up, like, bro, just make some bullshit song. A lot of these rappers make bullshit. Just make a bullshit song that people will like, like, and vibe with, you know, and then from that bullshit, people will look into your real stuff. He's like, no, real shit only. He got fucked up. I respect that. Yeah, that's right. That's right. You don't really care about the numbers that fame, you know.

SPEAKER_05 13:37

And you know what, man? That is a key component that's missing in hip hop right now. That's right. Stand that that's what standing on fucking business means. That's right. You feel me? That's what Lib doing. He's standing on business.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

They don't know. Home on all that.

SPEAKER_04 13:56

Hey, you got our support, bro.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Hell yeah. Standing on business.

SPEAKER_05 14:04

That's I mean, other than other than you know, that's the only reason I fought with him, because he he he he keeps it a buck all the time. He keep it a buck, yeah. Live it. What you see is what you fucking get. Live is live, man. So he he one of the coolest motherfuckers I know, goddamn. Shit. My son fucking adores his ass. My son loves him to death. You feel me? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

So firebars, fire cuts. Yeah, already, man.

SPEAKER_05 14:23

So shit. Let's get into the the the studio. All right, hold on. Let me let me I should have been open. Studio Hills. We gotta give him a second to chop up what that is. Yeah, yeah, Studio Hills. So let's let's talk about this studio.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Studio Hills, Studio Hills, none this time.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

This is the home?

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Studio Home Based Studio. How long you been?

SPEAKER_05 14:44

How long y'all when how long y'all had that studio up and going?

SPEAKER_02 14:49

It's it hasn't hit two years officially, hasn't hit two years. They've been in the studio a lot longer, but as far as calling it studio Hills, it's hasn't been two years. But that's the dungeon. That's right. Dungeon, dungeon. Dungeon, Mom Came.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

Mong.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Came show tonight. The chillin' came show though.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

Hey Mike, just twist your mic a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 15:20

This way.

SPEAKER_04 15:21

There you go.

SPEAKER_05 15:24

We we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna figure it out. Uh I so yeah, the dungeon, the man caves. Like, so I I need to come through there. I like a good studio. I ain't been in a studio in a long time.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

So tell you this. Please come through.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. Do one of these in there one of these days. I mean, hopefully, hopefully, man. Hopefully, it took us a while to get here. So, you know, hopefully we'll speed that next one up. You feel me?

SPEAKER_02 15:47

You need to sample your voice or something for a song. I would love to be on the song.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I would love to be on the motherfucker song. You feel me? You have an intro song for your podcast? We got one, Lib. Real.

SPEAKER_05 15:59

Remember, I used to be an MC back in the day. So hey, mixtape, whatever, man. We can get it. Shit. Alright, Lib, let's let's get into the let's get into the the the barber side. Like I said, he is also a barber. Also, like I said, he would is uh uh a long walk out now. Lib's new single with it. Go ahead and plug it, man, because I don't want to fuck it up. You you know you you'll do it.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

So then DT one that's gutta no uh tomodachi the New York.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

He had a friend that went to New York originally.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

He's a DJ friend that went to New York to learn how to make beats. So he storied the it, went to New York.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Yeah, New York is like the hip mecha of hip hop. So he's friends went to New York to learn how to learn the origins of hip hop to do DJing better. To be a better MC. It was fun, but music video that's videos that he really enjoyed growing up with, he was seeing the places that were in the videos that he liked so much. Oh yeah, that's oh he cut it. Yeah, that's uh shout out he could mine. Um but yeah, no, so some like he went through an experience, somebody grabbed his phone and just threw it on the ground, just walking by, just snatched his shit.

SPEAKER_04 17:32

New York bag.

SPEAKER_05 17:33

Not like some New York shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

New York shit now. Why'd you do that? Because I'm an influencer.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

He has no money, now no pall. Now he ain't got no phone. Buying cheap pizza with dollar slices. He was out there. He would out there getting it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

New York can you do not?

SPEAKER_02 17:58

But he was still happy to just be in New York. And see, that's that's that shit right there.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

So it's love for the game. Got a call from his body.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

So even though he he got a call from New York to Okinawa, he's like, uh it's hard being here, but even though I'm, you know, it's hard, I I love being here, and it's it's a lot of fun while I'm here.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

You know, so even though he's going through this.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

So the pr the producer for Alone Walk is Hikaru. His DJ name is Hikaru Mind. That's right. Fire DJ, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

So that's a story.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

He has a dream of what he wants, and you know, it's he's by himself walking through the streets of New York, but you know, he his passion is there for the music, and he just was he had the feeling for it.

SPEAKER_03 18:56

And that's what the initial kumane darum.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

There's nobody, no friends, no family, it's just him walking through New York, and that's what a lone walk is the basis of it is true. Oh shit. Okay, so we got a concept or the song.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

It's a long walk or a lone walk?

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Alone.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

Word.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

Left okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

So it doesn't matter where you go, whether it's to go to Tokyo or like him going to the New York by yourself. Whatever you wherever you go, if it's by yourself, he's trying to relay a positive message that you can do that and still accomplish what you want to accomplish. Shit.

SPEAKER_05 19:36

You know what they say about New York, man. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. You understand me? New York, New York already, man. Alright, man, let's get into Lib the Baba. So when did how when did this when did this when did this start? When did you start cutting hair? How did you come in?

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Initially wanted to be a tattoo artist, right?

SPEAKER_03 20:01

I kinda gathered that.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

What what why why the shift? This is a funny one. Hi. When he was a senior in high school.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

So just to the mosquito border like mine.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

He was a skater everyday skating.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

So more test tomorrow than zero.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

He wasn't passing test, wasn't taking him. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

All right.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Well, like a a meeting with his parents, his mother, and his teachers. They would like, what are you gonna do after school? Like, what is what is your plan? Like have those meetings, you know. Right. He's like, I'm gonna be a tattoo artist.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

You told your mom and dad that tattoo artist. What they say?

SPEAKER_02 20:58

Just mom and teachers both just looked over at him, just disapproval. Like, shame on you. Shame on you.

SPEAKER_05 21:04

So the mom and mom and moms and teachers was like, hey, what what's going on with you?

SPEAKER_02 21:10

So so you can't do it. This is bad, this is not this is not a good move for you. Ah, so he's like, after all that ended, he had a friend who was also a barber and he went to the barber shop after the meeting ended. Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:36

So, he's like, That barber told him, he's like, Well, why don't you just be a barber instead?

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Like right after the school interview, he went to get a haircut.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

So then the barba shop on the mecha nanny magazine. He's reading the barber magazines and American style to kayak. So the style and you meet a chakata.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

The style that he wanted to achieve with through the tattooing barbers also have it. So life was style, I mean you can eat it and the lifestyle is also similar. But he fell in love with the culture pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

So, so that same friend actually told him you can come here as a part-time job to try it out.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

So he started working at that shop right after that. That's his original start.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

And now and from since that, since that point, he's been barbering the entire time.

SPEAKER_05 23:14

The whole time, man. Now that whole motherfucking story. Hey, that's hip-hop right there, man. That whole story is hip-hop. Real life. That's hip-hop right there. He fell in love with the culture and just dove headfirst into it and and didn't look back. You know what I'm saying? He was already halfway there with the tattoos. You know what I'm saying? Starts with a dream. For real.

SPEAKER_03 23:36

But he still wants to do tattoos. You still want to do it?

SPEAKER_05 23:38

I mean, shit, you young enough, man. So, alright. So, when did you know, when did you know, okay. I okay. You said when you want to be a barber. When did you know you were good?

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Ah, nice question. It's uh uh ebaba I'm good. What if I call it? If you can remember like a card or a customer, you know, Taishoa Mecha Japanese style mecha baba shopata. That shot that he was in is a very Japanese style shop. He did he worked there for two years. He's like after he stopped that after two years, he's like, I don't know if I still want to do this. Uh olderly figure for those that don't know what senpai is, but his senpai is his name is DDST. D uh DDS is a rapper that he trends over. I got a call from him.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

So you're a barber, right? So ask him on the phone.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

You should definitely start working there.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

I called them. So that's the shop he first met you at.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

So like after that he had that chance to go to the other shop, he was still at that you know, Japanese style, but he wanted he wanted more from it. So this is an opportunity for him to try to take it. So from there he started really cutting in that shop. So uh so everything he had seen up until that point, this new shop, the style was completely different than everything else he did.

SPEAKER_05 26:27

I was just about to say that had to be a huge flip from where you were at to go to over there and talking about meaman, right? Right, that's that that had to be night and day. Right, absolutely different. Yeah. So shit. Hey, I got oh, go ahead, Mama.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

He saw he saw like the doors kind of open up for him and he sees like where I can take this and I can take it different places and I could go worldwide with this just for cutting hair. That's right. Alright, man, you know I gotta ask the question because you're here.

SPEAKER_05 27:15

When when you first time you cut an American person's hair. White or black?

SPEAKER_02 27:26

First it was a white guy.

SPEAKER_05 27:27

Okay. Fuck that. When you got to the black guy. How did you were you nervous?

SPEAKER_03 27:34

Nah, this thought. Nah, he's not nervous.

SPEAKER_05 27:41

Fucking right, he wasn't fucking nervous. You goddamn right. He's a fucking G. That's right. You went in there and faded him up. You feel me? Cut to cut. Already. That's right. There's haircutters and there's barbers.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Already, already, already. When did y'all link? Say again. When did y'all link? I came back to Okinawa in 2022. Right. I got my opportunity from our boss. His name is Makoto. Shout out, Makoto. He had the barbershop called New Futembo Barbershop. And I had a bad run of luck with trying to get hired at a different place. He reached out to family. He was already a family friend. He was actually my father's barber.

SPEAKER_05 28:15

Right.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

And he's like, Well, hey, if your son's a barber, you should come here and check it out. And he was the manager of New Futembo barbershop. And I started working there in September of 22. Okay. That's right. Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. And made another family out of it. Got it, got you, got you, got you.

SPEAKER_05 28:30

Already, already, already.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

Makoto got ties, man. Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_05 28:33

Right? You understand? Shout out to Makoto.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

Hey, he's kind of the link of all the things. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_05 28:38

Makoto, you next, goddammit. Let's get the help. Makoto, you next, you know what I'm saying? Shit. Anyway, uh, butcher. It's been a minute, man. Help me segue over to the thing we need to talk about. The other thing we need the thing we definitely need to talk about. Oh, we go into that already? We, we, we, we, we, I'm, I'm gonna get back to Lib, but let's get, let's, we'll, since we're talking about the barber, we we're gonna get back to you, Lib. Because the interview is fucking outstanding, man. But let's, but since we talking to Mikey.

SPEAKER_04 29:07

Mikey, we got some questions for you.

SPEAKER_05 29:09

What's going on? Uh what you wanna know? Barbershop life over here.

SPEAKER_04 29:16

So you all talked before. You and Jay did this, you sat down.

SPEAKER_05 29:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:19

Uh the expansion, the the haircut now here, you got your own place now. Let's talk about let's talk about the benefits that uh you're moving towards for all your customers out here.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

So uh, okay. One, we have uh this is Stay Good Barbershop in Raha Beach, right? We made a new system that I feel like benefits the younger military guys and helps these guys get cost-effective haircuts. We implemented a subscription style customer. I'm fucking that up. We we developed a barber subscription for guys to pay once a month and get a certain amount of haircuts. So you do plan A, you get four haircuts a month. Plan B, you get two haircuts a month. Different military members, depending on what branch they're in.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

Yeah, that works for Marines. That's right. We gotta get it cut every week.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Marine gotta get it cut every week. The other branches they're a little bit loose with regulations, no disrespect. Just is what it is. But the um, yeah, so some people only need two a month, some people need four a month. But you know, we try to cater to everybody, anybody and everybody, and make it budget friendly for both families and single Marines. Yeah, I mean single military.

SPEAKER_04 30:19

That works out because if you got to get a haircut every weekend, man, and you know you're going out every payday to drink, that's right. You might come run short early. It's better midweek and that's right. Having your sergeant tell you you need to get your hair cut and you now have the money to do so.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

You know, as long as you, you know, I recommend to the guys, you know, subscribe after a payday. So after you get paid, the subscription comes out. You can come in and at least at a bare minimum, you know that you'll have your image taken care of. You don't have to stress about waiting at you know, other shops with long lines. You know, you can just come to Stay Good. We have an appointment-based system that's really nice. You pay, we'll send you a QR code through your email. We can add that QR code to your phone wallet. Every time you get done with your cut, we'll scan it, you're good to go. 4321, it'll reset at the end of the month. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

That's right. Oh, so you got a whole app system too.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

We yeah, that's right. That's awesome. It was uh very, very funny how that started, but it there's a there's a there is an app, yes. Good stuff. That's right. Good stuff.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

What do you what do you got coming up? I heard you was we were talking a little bit before. Uh you got something coming up uh round the bend, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:21

That's right. So we uh the people of Araha, the people of Chitan, we're trying to come together and create what we grew up with knowing. It's the Araha Beach Market here at Araha Beach in the what's the word you used earlier? The it's like the amphitheater. The amphitheater. The outdoor amphitheater. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big door amphitheater. That's uh there's an outdoor amphitheater here on Araha Beach, and the goal is to create just a flea market style event. We're gonna try and have artists come out, perform, DJs with music, just people selling knickknacks and food vendors, just people get together, community type event. You know, nothing crazy, no one's trying to, you know, if people can make a buck, that'd be great. But just something for the community to come together and you know put these phones down and talk to one another.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

All right, so so your targets, uh possible vendors and people to just join.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

Anybody and everybody. If honestly, if uh specifically if you're from Chitang and you're in this area, I would love to promote Chitang businesses. You know, Chiton's changing, Okinawa as a whole is changing altogether, but I'd like to help friends, family, and anybody else that is a part of this Okinan family to put themselves out there. I just want to give them an opportunity to do that. That's all.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

What when is it? When is it in October?

SPEAKER_02 32:27

October 17th. It's a Saturday. Nice. Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure it's the 17th. I should know there's some sort of thing.

SPEAKER_04 32:32

Yeah, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

We talked about it earlier.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

You just described this whole nice thing, but uh you shouldn't know the date. I shouldn't know the date. It's the 17th. It is the 17th, but it's the 17th. It's the 17th, y'all. I'll be fucking ready. Nah, it's the keep me going.

SPEAKER_04 32:46

I guess hey, and just to make sure all people know, if you if they're interested in being a vendor, where do they gotta go to talk to people?

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Uh you guys can hit me up on Instagram at Mikey Mustabi, M-U-S-U-B-I. Y'all would see that at the beginning of that. Um yeah, just hit me up on Instagram. Uh reach out. I won't put my phone number on here. But if you can find a way to see me or uh send me a message on Instagram through DMs, or if you want to just come to the shop and talk to me.

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Um come and get your hair cut. Talk to Mike about the thing.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Come chop it up. It's nothing serious. Come break bread. That's called fun bread. Come have fun. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Now are you doing that by yourself or you got other people helping?

SPEAKER_02 33:19

No, so the uh my senpai is the one that actually introduced us. We went to a bar to go drink, it's called Plus Bar. If you guys don't know what Plus Bar, it's in a Raha Beach down by the family mart down the street from us. Um Plus Bar has been around for almost a decade, I think, and he's a local, local hero to all of us. And their building is going to be torn down at the end of the year, and they won't be doing business for much longer. So if anybody wants to go out and enjoy a really nice time where they do live music, yeah, it's at sunset, that's right. And uh it's just a really nice place for us as friends, and you know, right after work to have a drink. Right. And we went in, and then just after talking, having a few drinks, he was like, Oh, by the way, I locked down the venue. I haven't done anything with it. You guys do what you want. Mikey, Mikey M stuff. Invite whoever you want to, do what you want with it. I just I just want to do something fun. So I mean, there there's probably gonna be other people also bringing people to the event, more the merrier. Uh shout out to Yuki. Shout out, shout out Yuki San. You're the man. That's right. Yuki San Whatash, no meanita no to you. Yukisan to chotahanashiste Nara. Okay. So, that's what's up, man.

SPEAKER_05 34:21

You, you, you, you a busy man.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

I'm trying to be too too big of a plate. I need to we we too busy.

SPEAKER_05 34:28

We did that interview. You you you you went across the water, came on back, we doing another one now. You a busy man.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

That's right. Yeah, we went to Italy for the Bologna World Hair Expo. That was amazing. Yeah, how was that? It was amazing, man. Italy's a beautiful country, a lot of rich history. The city of Bologna that we were in, we found out that's like the site of the first university ever. Okay. You know, a very old history, just like Okinawa. Um, being there just felt, you know, it's a different language, different people, different culture, but you still feel like you have that tie of just being human together. I don't know. It just felt powerful being there. Everybody we met, it was always a friendly conversation. If you had to pull out Google Translate, it didn't matter. You know, it was just it was great. I loved it.

SPEAKER_05 35:09

Hey, but you like how he he just done it real quick with everybody had to pull out a translator, that's all right. Oh, yeah, you know, it's okay, you know. United Nations at haircuts, man. Like they were over there. He would do he be doing big shit, man. I beat it. You be shit. Ain't no trying to. You be whenever you're flying to Europe to do something, you're doing something big, bro.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

One thing I want to do, I want to do business in Europe. It's 220 yen to the euro.

SPEAKER_04 35:31

Holy what?

SPEAKER_02 35:31

Wait, what? My Japanese bank account was gone after four days. I got ripped off by a taxi driver from day one. Oh my god, bro. He charged me a hundred euro for a 10 kilometer drive. God damn it. Yeah, it's just it's a crazy place. It's fun, it's great, but don't get got because it's easy.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

I'm too nice and you can be nice, just not too nice. Just got them.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

Just because they're old people don't mean they don't say what's up. It's Italy, right? Italy, yeah. Well, this was Amsterdam, actually. Oh, okay. And we had an eight-hour layover in Amsterdam. Had to go check out some coffee shops. We landed at four in the morning. I've all it's a bucket list thing for me. Exactly. So I had to go sightsee and walk around, you know, just see what's to be seen and drink some coffee. I mean, hey, nothing like a cup of coffee. Good coffee, Jake.

SPEAKER_05 36:23

Good coffee, great coffee, strong coffee, strong coffee. Strong coffee. Shout out to that Amsterdam coffee.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

Yeah, thank you, Amsterdam. I appreciate you guys. That was that was great. That was great. No, it was uh yeah, had a quick layover in Amsterdam, flew to Italy right after that, or hit the wheels run or hit the ground running, went straight to the expo. Um, you know, Doors Palmaid is one of our sponsors, and uh Doors Palmeade brought us out for the event. We had a shout out to the multi-day event. Shout out Yamamotosan, shout out Doors. We love Doors, one of the best Palmes that Japan has to offer, by the way. Um take my damn job. No, no, but yeah, we were we were there, we were very grateful. Um, you know, he even paid for my wife to come out. Um I instead of doing a round trip ticket for me, I just had him buy a one-way and it's like if you can buy my wife's ticket too. I actually paired my honeymoon at the end of the trip. So I got to take my wife out to Europe. We just did a Euro trip, got to see some old military friends of mine, went from Rome, Napoli, Bologna, kind of went to Venice a couple days. With an empty bank account because it got that was not so I got two banking.

SPEAKER_04 37:33

I'm playing, I'm playing, I'm playing.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Don't get me pay my taxes on your rest. Yeah, no, my um my Japanese bank account with all the image, that was gone like the first two, three days in Italy. It was gone. It was and that's just just regular food. Yeah, I got you. We went into this restaurant in Venice, tried to try to be all bougie, and I was like, I I'd like this pasta, I'd like this wine. I just didn't look at the menu. Right. We're kind of joking, like, how much how much do you think this is gonna be? And I was like, I I said like 60 euro. Wife said, no, it's gonna be like 7580. It was 160 euro. Yeah, bro. What is it? Kakuy Toki Yagata, like just oks on the minimum, just trying to be fancy for my wife. All right, we'll take this, this, this. Spinning the wine in the glass, trying to put the. Don't know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

What the hell are you doing? Pokey boy in Italy, don't know what I'm doing. Take your nose in there. That's right. It was uh what is this?

SPEAKER_05 38:36

You you got the experience, bro.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

It was a good time. No, I'm very great, very grateful. You know, we put in a lot of good work, and um, I'm glad to know that when you put in good work, that people want to take care of you, and that's how I was able to give my wife this experience, have an experience for myself, but also do good work for the people that you know put in work in doors. Oh, ready, man.

SPEAKER_05 38:51

That's right, that's right. Alrighty, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

Would be the goal to eventually get all these barbers to do these worldly events as well. You know, through same thing through doors earlier in the year, right after we had the podcast as well, we had the Osaka World Expo. Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. You cut up there, right? We we did, yeah. We had a booth, we were cutting. It was a two, two to three day event. Um, you know, I like doing all this, but you know, my my early years in my 20s, I was in the military, I'd traveled the world. I was already in Germany for a couple years, you know, I know how to navigate Europe, but for these other guys that are, you know, in Okinawa for their whole lives, I want them to get some, you know, I I want them to have more like worldly experiences. The reason why I love Okinawa so much is because I saw the world for what it is, saw my little facet of it, and it just really made me appreciate what Okinawa really is. And you know, if these young guys don't leave to know I don't they don't have to leave to know what they're missing, but it was a way for me to learn that lesson. And like Hikaru, you know, he was in New York, he don't right, Hikaru day okay. How long was he? I would how long he was there.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Three years.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

Yeah, but then just it was just a trip, yeah. So yeah, it was like yeah, like about a couple months. You know, he just he just went there to go experience it, learn, learn the hip-hop culture, like we were saying earlier. But you know, in that time, he really saw how special Okinawa was. He missed home so much. Some random guy on the road just snatched his phone, threw it on the street. Like that would never happen here ever. You know, so it's um, you know, but but through that experience and going and traveling and taking that alone walk to go chase his dreams, you know, he saw what Okinawa is and how special it is. And that's what I would like to give these younger guys. I would like leave to go to the next expo. I want, you know, we're doing an event in California. We just started UQ Barber Supply out of California. It's a Japanese barber supply company. We're gonna try and bring Japanese barber supply products to the world and bring international products back to Japan. Beautiful. And that is it's a multifaceted thing where we can help barbers kind of reach out and network with the people that you know we meet. But you know, if they just only want to cut hair, let's put them in touch with barber shops. If they want to start, you know, peddling barber products, you know, that would be a good way for them to get an additional income and stuff. I just want to do these things that you know I'm busting my ass like this to show these guys, like, oh well, if Mikey can try this, I can do this too. You know, I'm I'm I'm I'm doing it because it's fun, but it stresses me out a lot. I would rather just chill in a shop, relax, cut my clients, everyday people talk, you know, but I have to do this, you know, I'm kind of crazy. I need to hustle and make something happen. I need to always be moving to the next step. But I want these younger guys to to do that as well.

SPEAKER_04 41:19

Yeah, that's it. Feed the minds.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

I mean, we we got we got that from the first go around, man. We we we know you we know you was all about the the the the generation behind you and and you know giving them an opportunity and stuff like that. What's up?

SPEAKER_04 41:31

You got any questions yet?

SPEAKER_05 41:32

Who wait, what question? You got any questions yet? Do I get no what for him? For any for either for me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not done with Liv. I'm not done with Libya. I I wanted I Mikey was on the live. Mikey was on the and I wanted to keep him going.

SPEAKER_04 41:48

You see the face, you know what you know what I'm waiting for. I get my intro. I get I get I get to I get to hit it. All right, Mikey, I got a tough question for you.

SPEAKER_05 42:02

Okay, Mikey. Okay, check it out. I'm gonna get nervous. I'm gonna get nervous. I'm gonna get nervous. It's something you always wanted. It's something you always want. So when we end the show, we're gonna end this show on a pod question. We're gonna pod for a little bit before like a teeny tiny second. Because I want Mikey to do this. Because I honestly be that last part. I think I told you before, and I'm gonna tell you right now, that last part. You should be. We I honestly want to hear hear you outside of whatever we're talking about. Okay. Now, all right, remember what we're talking about? Yes, okay, yeah. I got you. Yeah, we're talking about both things. Yeah. Be careful. Okay. Okay, I got you. Let's just say it's getting recorded. For real. Too easy. All right. Very fancy way of saying.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Are you okay with being recorded with this next question we're gonna ask you?

SPEAKER_05 42:48

Yeah, for real, for real. Alright, so we're gonna get back to that. Live, uh, the barber thing, the the rapper thing, you you, this this me giving you your flowers. Alright, you're a fucking hustler, bro. You know what I'm saying? And I you fan of bam, love you to death. You understand? Love you to fucking death. You you're a hustler's hustler. Is whenever I see young Japanese cats, if they're not moving like you, I don't pay them no attention. They're not moving like you, cause because I always say this about Japanese folks since I've been out here. Once they fucking once they see it, that's where they're going. You know what I'm saying? Through hell and motherfucking high water. Funny story. Back in the day, Club Dragons, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Oh, she's not talking, Club Dragons.

SPEAKER_05 43:52

Right? Boom, check it, right? Japanese dude, right? Every motherfucking day, I I get in there, I get ready to go through my set. Japanese dude. He comes. He can't dance to save his motherfucking life, but he's in there practicing steps every time it's closed open. No, right, he probably don't know before his time, but I can't wait. He was no good. No good. The whole time. All the whole years I was working there never got good. You know what I'm saying? But he just did it. You know what I'm saying? He just did it. Over and over and over and over and over. That was his fake. You feel me? So that's why I I like the dedication that the Japanese people put in to whatever craft they choose. You know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

Even if they're not naturally talented at it, they still have to do it.

SPEAKER_05 45:09

So I I respect, I respect the fuck out of it. So I respect you. You know what I'm saying? I respect you. I love you like a motherfucking brother. You know what I'm saying? Like a little brother. And and I appreciate the fact that you, you know, thank you for this for the chance to interview you, man. For real. And uh so before we get to these this next question, go ahead and let me get let me get them bars. Hey, I want a hot. Let me get them happy.

SPEAKER_04 45:36

I want a hot eight live. Hot live.

SPEAKER_05 45:39

I'm moving the mic out the way, so go ahead. I because I can't understand none of it, but yeah, but go ahead and hand your bit. Whatever you got. You ain't gotta translate. This for his people, right? This is his people. This is his people. Go ahead. You know your camera, your camera right there.

SPEAKER_03 45:53

Give the people what they want. Yeah. Uh yeah? Yeah. Let's go. Shabedi Sigita Sakeo Nundayoro Soredemo Subitejanai Atama Naka. Yeah. Or any tochalapuno sarebonaru hodo giganto fukasauro enaka. Yeah. O kugama sayoko naraban kamashta oreno dosh dop city. F the em wazuto e teru k E S stadio Hirzua B S T. Yeah, Ariato Damas. L I B studio Hills.

SPEAKER_05 46:28

Already. I don't know what it's fire. I I don't know what he said, but I felt it. It gets to get the people going. I felt it though. Like, God damn. For real. He grabbed that mic. I'm like, okay, I I hold on, man. Hold on, man. But he's talking about peace, though. So keep keep keep the pistols, put the pistols down. You know what I'm saying? Hot fire. Stop that shit, but captions are gonna be great later. For real. No, I ain't capturing that shit. I can't wait to read them though to see what they say, though. Alright, Butcher, go ahead and turn them loose. Oh, here we go, Mikey.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

Well we got Mikey. We're finna pod for a second. We're gonna pod. And this is a very important part because this touches your heart.

SPEAKER_02 47:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 47:14

This is gonna go right into where you feel good.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

Alright, here we go.

SPEAKER_04 47:18

I want you to look in that camera and pretend this is a Netflix special. Go ahead. Where they sit you down and they ask you, what's it like for customers to not show up for their app? What? Oh man. What happened? Would you ask him one more time? I said, what's it like to have customers not show up for their approach? A no-show?

SPEAKER_02 47:38

Your mom's a hoe.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

Your breaths stink. You probably got problems that aren't problems. Can I keep up with it? Does that happen often?

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Happened this morning.

SPEAKER_01 47:50

Oh shit. Go ahead, man.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

You know what the worst thing is? We open up at 10 o'clock. I love showing up right at 9.59 like I always do. And then I wait 10.01, 10.02, okay. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 48:01

Motherfucker don't show up. Is that one of the is that a number one uh peeve of a pet peeve of a few?

SPEAKER_02 48:06

A pet peeve is when I'm eating down the street at a restaurant and someone comes and bothers me while I'm eating. Right.

SPEAKER_01 48:11

I need to get in. I don't have time. I can't look online.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

And then I'm like, okay, I take my headphones out. Right. I book you. And then I see on your Instagram story that you had an Araha Beach party, but you don't show up for your haircut. Oh, she can't. And it's an hour and a half haircut, so you took four hours.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

Like you, when you see this, you don't know who I'm talking about. I hope she sees this. Oh, hope you see this. Cut the sheet. I got I got I hate that shit. Wasted my time, wasted my money. I gotta bitch about it on Instagram.

SPEAKER_04 48:40

I gotta ask, I gotta ask a follow-on.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

Damn.

SPEAKER_04 48:42

I gotta ask a follower. Mikey, I gotta ask a follow-up. So, so hold on, Jay. Hold on, Jay. Hold on. Fuck you when you're fucking up. You better bring your ass over here.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

Fuck your moms. Moms raised a hoe. Bitch.

unknown 48:57

Sorry. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 48:59

Hey, Jay! Professionally, professional. Jenny, come back, Jay, come back. Cause I gotta follow on. We gotta keep going. I'm just lucky I don't charge you for not showing up. That's why I'm talking so much shit. We gotta charge you. Jay, we gotta keep going. I gotta ask the follow-up.

SPEAKER_05 49:10

Are you allowed to do it? Wait, fuck it, go ahead, man.

SPEAKER_04 49:13

It's after hours. Mikey, I got you. Mikey, I gotta ask the follow-on to that.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

Alright, excuse me, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 49:17

So, here we go. Of all the people that didn't show up and they know showed on you, do they come back to get their haircut?

SPEAKER_02 49:25

Listen, I I I tag a lot of people. Good ass question. The people that no show on me, I tag them on IG. Those rants that you see me post, I tag them on Instagram and I swe I minimize it. They see it. Of course they come in. You know, there's different excuses. If you're cool and you can you're the one in the wrong. I'm gonna talk shit.

SPEAKER_05 49:43

Even after the post they pull up?

SPEAKER_02 49:44

Oh yeah, definitely. I'm that good, baby.

SPEAKER_05 49:47

You need this cut.

SPEAKER_01 49:48

You need this cut.

SPEAKER_05 49:49

You need this cut.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

That's not humble at all.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

I shouldn't be able to. I'd say it's 50-50. Real real answer, jokes aside, uh if you can be humble and know that you made a mistake, if you come in and say, hey, I fucked up, I that happens a lot. It's most of the time.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

I know when I do it, I feel bad. And and my barber right there. So my barber right there. I feel bad. I think when I be late. When I be late, I hunt me, you know what I'm saying? Go in the sign.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. You know, I mean, all jokes aside, people, it happens, life happens. I just if you call me a minute before, right? I can't show up. I don't care. Um if I'm waiting and I could take a walk in, right? That's when I'm gonna get I'm gonna get sad. But I'm booked out weeks. I'm booked out a month right now. That's what I'm saying. You're booked out. That's right. But I mean, try not to be too mad about it. I mean, I joke and talk a lot of shit, a lot of shit.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

What you gotta say? I hear a follow-up. Go ahead. Here we go, here we go. Go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 50:56

Here we go. Go ahead. You opened the door. Yeah, go ahead, let's keep it going. Alright, so so what is the best excuse you've ever heard for a no-show? Who came back and came and said, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05 51:09

Shit, Lib, you go ahead and answer two if you got one. Yeah, Lib, you too.

SPEAKER_02 51:12

No show shit no kyaksang. Excuse. Excuse. Yeah. Ichibang.

SPEAKER_05 51:26

I mean, what what okay. What what is it? What are some of them? Give me top five. What could you fucking say to your barber? Is honestly this it happens enough. I mean, other than work and home. My cat ate my bank card. I mean, shit. I I don't know. Many excuses, because like he said, he dead ass. I agree with him. You need that cut, my nigga.

unknown 51:48

You feel me?

SPEAKER_02 51:49

I mean, if you want a good one, you want to good quality. I mean, if you apologize, I really I'm not I'm not a mean person. I'm talking mad shit, but it some people don't want to.

SPEAKER_05 51:58

Let's keep it up.

SPEAKER_02 51:58

Let's keep it a buck. Oh, actually, I do have an answer for you. Wait, wait, wait. I do have an answer. Okay. Actually, okay, okay, okay. I was still working at New Fatemma. Uh-huh. He didn't show up. Right. It's fine. Right. I was walking into a rest uh a restaurant, sushiro. I saw him walking out, and I looked at my wife, and I said, Hey, that's a guy that didn't show up. He's the guy that does this, this, and this. I don't want to tell I don't want him. You probably know who it is, but anyway. Said something to her, and I looked back, not even two seconds, three seconds. He was gone.

unknown 52:30

Oh, he dipped.

SPEAKER_01 52:31

He dipped.

SPEAKER_02 52:32

Oh, he's seen your ass.

SPEAKER_01 52:34

Fuck did he go?

SPEAKER_02 52:35

He was all the way on the left. He I knew he saw me, beamlined it. Let's get out of the way.

SPEAKER_05 52:40

Did he have a cut?

SPEAKER_02 52:42

No, it wasn't good if it was if he did have one. Bro, you I didn't recognize that. I was just the audacity. Because I'm I'm a pretty nice guy when it comes to that. You know, I do talk a lot of shit. People know that I talk a lot of shit. If you follow my Instagram, you definitely know it's all in good faith, very good fun. But yeah, I never saw him again after that. Yeah, it was just, but we're in close circles, too. Like he'd we're around the same people a lot, and I would see him around. He would just kind of avoid me.

SPEAKER_05 53:05

That is awkward. It's like, just come on. Now you gotta cut off half of his friend circle because you probably gave him a bad cut.

SPEAKER_02 53:11

That's why he didn't show up on me. Maybe that you know that's I'll I'll say it's it was me. It was my fault. Okay, you know, that's right. Not they go to humblest.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

You come up with one lib, they go to humble Marakangay did it. Yeah, I know. Ichivam Shiroino, uh, go man net.

SPEAKER_01 53:28

He doesn't have any bad clients. You know bad, you don't have a bad client? Except for Jay. Except for Jay.

SPEAKER_05 53:33

Except for Jay. I think I'm a bad client. I think I'm a terrible client. Jay, like I be over five minutes. What did I set that out here? I think I'm a bad client, man. Because I come late all the motherfucking time. Or I come, and I'm saying, especially when he was at Newfootema, like I can walk that motherfucker and I still be five minutes late. But then Lib, my dude. So I'm like, Lib smoking. So I'm gonna walk like a cigarette that's he's smoking a cigarette. I'm gonna be there in a second, man. And I text him, hey Lib, I'm gonna write around the corner. I think Lib be like, hurry up, motherfucker. I got another.

SPEAKER_02 54:01

But you bring drinks though, like you come with drinks and you bring stuff for the other barbers and stuff. It's not like, bro, it's all love. That's that's that's that's not a problem at all.

SPEAKER_05 54:07

Man, I feel bad. Can't get a pass. I feel bad. I be feeling bad, man. I feel like a bad customer. And now that y'all are saying that there are such things as bad customers, I know there's such a thing.

SPEAKER_02 54:17

There's some funky stories, bro. We got some weird, weird, weird people. Uh you got anything you want to tell? I mean, how much how much shit am I allowed to talk about? Y'all want to do that? You allow to do a pod talk.

SPEAKER_04 54:27

You allow to say whatever you want.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

This is a pod. I've had some like stolen valor people in my chair, bro. Oh, what? Wait, what? This is my craziest thing.

SPEAKER_04 54:35

People said I was a military member and never brought up.

SPEAKER_02 54:37

No, he said, he said, I used to be a green beret. I'm like, oh, no way. I was in the army six years, you know? Just under six, but you're a green beret. My brother-in-law was a green bray, right? He's a green bray. So I know a little bit about them. Right. And this dude, he's like, yeah, I was a medic in the army. I'm like, oh, cool. He's like, I was Green Bray. So the the code for that is 18 Delta. So I was like, oh, so you're a Delta, huh? He's like, no, man, Delta Forces, those are the real real deal. I'm just a regular Green Bray. I'm like, huh? What the fuck are you talking about?

unknown 55:06

Like that.

SPEAKER_02 55:06

You don't you don't you don't know your own MLS code? I'm like, oh, okay, like what language do you speak? He's like, see, that's the time. I I didn't need a language when I went in. They just needed bodies. I'm like, what? Like, when did you join?

SPEAKER_05 55:17

Like, this dude sounded like a whole whole fucking 80s movie.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

I could go in, I could talk about him. That's a whole separate podcast about this guy. You actually, you got y'all, y'all know who it is. Who actually? You know who it is. Um I won't say the name, but he has a business where he rips off people on Okinawa. Okay. And he's been put on the ban list and all that shit. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

If you watching this, you know, hey, you gotta You don't want to say let him go. Hey, hey, we can cut that. We can we can talk about you more. You need some help. All right, let's I wouldn't talk about being a green berry on an island full of green berries. That's what I'm saying. That's uh, you know, I mean, hey, it was funny to me, but some other people might not think that's funny.

SPEAKER_05 56:00

Do do you feel when customers do stuff like that, that they gotta they gotta like why they do you feel they're trying to impress you?

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Uh, you know, that's a good question. I don't I try not to think why. It just more of, you know, they probably got something going on and it's not what I want to think about. Like you, that's that's you. That's not what I want to. I got my own things to worry about and what you got going on with your life is, you know, if it's if it's in that category, I just try to stay away from that. You know, I'll talk some shit about it, but there's multiple people. That one specific person, there's multiple people that are I've had I've been talking about him to a client, and then people in waiting in the lobby or waiting but the lobby. There are the people on the chair, like, wait, this guy?

SPEAKER_01 56:38

And then someone down there, hey, I know that guy. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 56:41

But you sound like separate stories stories galore about that.

SPEAKER_02 56:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's really fucking nuts.

SPEAKER_05 56:48

Wait a minute. I think I lost y'all gotta tell me after the when we cut the cameras off. What are you talking about? I wouldn't know who I who we were talking about or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 56:57

I tried to know who it is. Before I before I got married, I was trying to my wife knows the story. So I was trying to talk to this girl at a restaurant. Finally, you know, I was put in work for like a week, you know, bringing drinks, bringing chocolate, and finally got her information, got her Instagram, and she saw my page, and he was a clip on my page at the time, and she's the whole face, whole composure changed. Oh, because you knew him. Well, she knew about it.

SPEAKER_04 57:16

I immediately think you're connected.

SPEAKER_02 57:18

And she was like, Are you friends with it? I'm like, Well, no, he's just a client that made a video that tagged me in it. Like, it's you know, I know a lot of people from the shop, and she's like, Mikey, that's that's the guy that me and my husband got a divorce, or me and my fiance had to break up because of him. Because he got my husband kicked out of the or my my fiance kicked out of the military and we had to break up.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

I feel like, do I know who we're talking about? You know exactly who it is.

SPEAKER_04 57:42

Do I know who we're talking about?

SPEAKER_02 57:43

You want to hush fuck on it.

SPEAKER_04 57:44

You've been here long enough to know who it is, but you may not know.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

It's uh by Sotsi Tetanashto. Hey y'all, y'all know who we're talking about?

SPEAKER_05 57:52

Like they know. They don't know they don't respond to you. You look long enough. Yeah, the camera go talk back. Right. Somebody goes, No, I because he's telling it, he's telling a detailed story, and and and and and and thank you for leaving, because you know, you could have just blasted, buddy. But don't do that.

SPEAKER_02 58:06

No, he don't need no more attention than what he's already got, man. I pray for you and you need help, but hey, bro, you damn. That's this is bad. Oh, that's to answer your question. That's probably the most goofiest client, but he's not a you know. I will say this, I will say this. When when somebody else in the shop checked him, yeah, like it was very obvious, like, oh my, oh shit, this is some ten and intensity. I felt the tension between these guys. He called me the next day. He's like, hey man, sorry, I actually moved, I gotta find a new barber, I gotta, I'm I'm moving up north. Your shop's a little bit out of the way. Thank you for all you do. And at that point, I'm like, yeah, yeah, whatever you say, man, it's all good. But right. Like after seeing somebody else talk to him directly, that's when it was like, oh, this guy is actually as bad as people say he is, you know. But it's uh, you know, that that that probably probably takes the cake as like the most far out customer of that.

SPEAKER_05 58:55

Oh side of the no-show thing, but yeah, it's so I is if every if anybody's listen watching this episode and puts that together, don't put it in the comments. Just take me directly. All right, man. Uh butcher, we good. Well, we had no time. He just is I I he just out of it. And you got every right. This is your business. And if they fucking yada yada yada, if they're if they're not as as nice as you want them to be or whatever, man, do what you gotta do.

SPEAKER_02 59:26

I I'll I'll say it in closing. If you cannot make an appointment, just call. Don't text. We are not gonna respond on Instagram. I have that in the bio. We do not respond to DMs. We are too busy to respond on social media. But if you need something, you can call. Just call us and let us know you're not coming. Right. Like, but you know, I'm talking shit. Sorry. Uh your mom's not a hoe, okay? It's probably but you know, it's but your grandma. Yeah. Fuck your grandma, bitch. No, no, I'm sorry. It's um no, it's just please don't do that. You know, we we we value our time and uh people want to sit in the chair. People want to sit in the chair, people want to talk to us. So when you do stuff like that, it uh it takes away from us, takes food off my plate, and uh please don't do that. That's all that's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:07

All right, man. We're gonna wrap it up here. I bubbled this shit earlier on in the episode. I'm way more calm now because we I was excited. Uh, one time for clutch. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Clutch, you feel me? Hell of a run. Hell of a run. Hell of a motherfucking run. Hell of a run. Yo, shout out to DJ Sergio, great interview. Uh shout out to A1, appreciate the interview. Shout out to DJ Big Mag, thank you for the interview. Yo, one time for stay good. One Mikey, one lib. Thank you, Lib. One three.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

I get those. Thank you. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:42

You know what I'm saying? One Mikey, one lib. A1 one.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:47

I didn't even cut you off. A1 Washington is the photo guy? Oh that guy's cool as fuck. Right, cool as fuck, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:52

You know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:55

I see, I see, I told you. A1's all right, man. A1's fucking alright, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:59

That guy's that he's a good dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:00

A one's fucking alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:02

Anyway, let me do it again.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

Say my sense, say my sense, say my sense.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:07

This is your boy, Jay. One Mikey, one lib, one butcher. We had stay good. Y'all be easy. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:15

Slay my son. Yep.

unknown 1:01:18

Fantastic.