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From Behind Bars to Behind the Chair!
In Episode 40 of the Hustle & Heat Podcast, we sit down with Barber Rich for a powerful conversation about second chances, personal growth, and building a new future.
From time behind bars to making a name for himself in the barber industry, Rich’s story is one of resilience, determination, and transformation.
We dive into his journey, the lessons he’s learned along the way, and what it takes to turn your life around while pursuing your passion.
🔥 In this episode:
Life before becoming Barber Rich
Overcoming adversity and embracing second chances
Finding purpose through barbering
Building a career and personal brand
Lessons in perseverance, growth, and entrepreneurship
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0:00 That’s a barbecue truck. What was your specialty?
0:03 Uh, brisket always sold out.
0:05 How demanding of a job was that?
0:08 My brother. Yay.
0:12 I’m out here plotting. See, hey, see, see.
0:21 What’s up, guys, and welcome back to another episode of Hustle and Heat Podcast. My name is George, your host, and welcome to episode 40. Episode 40, we’re featuring Rich Mitchell from His and Hers Barbara and Beauty, located on El Jabin Road. They’re about four miles from here at Dove’s Barbecue. And without further ado, I’d like to welcome you on the show. Rich, thank you for coming on. It’s a pleasure to have you on. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do.
0:43 Thanks for having me here, brother. So uh yeah, we moved from Wisconsin uh last August. We opened up uh his and hers Barbara and Beauty on El Jabin about nine and a half months ago. Uh so yeah, I mean it’s definitely going pretty well.
0:56 Yeah. So um, Wisconsin, what brought you down here?
1:01 Uh well, came down here because my wife has fibromyalgia. Uh, we got connected with a barber shop that I really choose not to talk too much about. Um, I was there for a couple weeks. I had left. It wasn’t quite the shop that I wanted to be in at the at the time. Uh, so I went back home and I worked, saved some money, and came back and opened up uh his and hers on El Jabine.
1:25 So how’s his and hers going?
1:27 It’s crazy. Yeah? It’s busy.
1:30 I mean tell us a little bit about that place.
1:32 Uh it’s one of the things that we like to give back to the community. Uh, I’ve always been big on that. Back home in Wisconsin. I had four barbershops, big crews. Um I do free birthday haircuts. I like to give back to the vets, I love to get back to the fire, police departments, the whole community in general love to get back. Um, I just feel that my prices right now with everybody else’s don’t mix, and I get a little flack on that.
2:01 Like too much or too low?
2:02 I’m too low.
2:03 How low?
2:04 Uh for a man’s haircut, it’s 20. For a veteran, it’s 20. For a retiree, it’s 20. For a kid, it’s 20. Uh, but for your average man, it’s 20. With your beard, it’s 30 altogether with your haircut. Uh, and the thing is, is everybody can’t afford these crazy outrageous prices on haircuts. My price has been the same for 10 years since I’ve opened. Um, so it’s one of those things that I’m a community barber. I think about the community, what can you afford, the economy that we live in, uh, and that’s what I’m based off.
2:37 So let me ask you this at $30 a cut, are you still able to afford and pay your bills and still live a decent lifestyle as an owner?
2:44 Absolutely.
2:45 All right, so tell us tell us what separates you in that aspect. How is it that you’re able to do that while other barbers are charging $50, $60, $65 a cut?
2:54 Well, I’m bringing in more people. So I do about 30 to 35 heads a day.
2:59 Um 30 to 35 by yourself?
3:02 Yeah. So every 20 minutes I have you in there. I mean, you’re gonna get a fresh razor line beard, faded beard, however you want to do it, fresh cut. Uh, I was a competition barber back home, and my speed was pretty ideal. I’d do two heads in 15 minutes in competitions compared to everybody’s one. Um so I mean, it every barber’s different. It, you know, just because your speed, for me, I know what I’m doing, I know what my clippers can do, so it’s easy for me to knock a fresh cut out, foil shave it, do everything I gotta do and give a nice fade in 15 to 20 minutes, and attack the beard.
3:37 So, how long did it take you to go from how how fast were you when you first started cutting till now?
3:45 Uh well, I started in prison, so in prison you get like 15 minutes on an inmate just to start cutting. Um, but my uh instructor he says time is money. You know, time is money, but you gotta be precise on what you’re doing. You can’t just rush somebody in and rush them out and take the money. You gotta give them a good cut. So in time, your speed will catch up to your knowledge, and then you’ll give a good haircut.
4:12 So, prison, how long have you been out?
4:14 I’ve been out now for about 12 years.
4:16 How long have you were you in?
4:18 Uh, 14 and a half years.
4:19 Mind if I ask why?
4:20 I did an arm robbery um when I was younger, by the age of 15. I was already in juvie prison for two years. I got out, I did a battery to staff in the group home that got me the two years in Juvie. Um, and then I got out for a few months and I did a strong arm robbery on a drug dealer. And then I did 10 months in county, came out for a month and did an arm robbery, and then I got 20 years.
4:48 So, what about prison? What what let me ask you this that whole experience you just said, uh what how what has that taught you in life? How has that changed you? Because obviously, you went from being in prison to now giving back to the community. Absolutely. Oh, absolutely. Tell us about that process from where you started, what you learned, what what things you made or changed in your life and implemented in your life, in your personal life, and in yourself, and you and your morals and qualities that has brought you to where you are today.
5:20 So it starts with uh like in prison, I was wild. I mean, I I mean I was nonstop action, uh fighting batteries, um 3Ds with the guards, going to the hole for disrespect, disobeying orders disruptive. I did about four and a half years in the hole. Uh Supermax, I did a battery, went to Supermax for a year, came back to the bay. Um my mother, she passed away, I’d say about two months before I came home. And already, I was already with my wife, my current wife now. Um so that was one of the things that woke me up on how she wanted me to be a better person, be a better man. And uh when I was creating action in prison, my mother had a stroke, and I felt like all the stress that I was causing her created the stroke. Um so when I saw her the way the condition that she was in with the droopy face, and I asked the fellas if I could lay back for a little bit, because you know I was gangbanging pretty good up in prison, um, to the point where I got permission to lay back, get my HSCD. I’ve never been to high school before. Um, so that allowed me to get my HSCD, further with the barber cosmetology program. I graduated from there, and I came home June 24th of 14 to my my current wife now, and yeah, we ended up building a beautiful family, got married, and had my son, and I knew life was gonna be different.
6:43 One kid.
6:44 I got two now.
6:45 Two.
6:45 Yeah. Uh I got a boy and Marley, 10 and 8.
6:48 Very nice, man.
6:49 Thank you.
6:50 Very nice. Congratulations. So, for people who might be watching who is living that lifestyle you used to live, what what can you say to them? What would you tell them? Well, everything. What would you tell yourself at that age of knowing what you know now?
7:02 Yeah, so I mean, I back home, I was going to prisons and speaking, I was going to schools and speaking. Uh, it’s just something that I feel a lot of people need to understand that everything comes from your decision making. Everything. Um, if you if you got a dream, don’t chase it. You gotta you gotta make the right choices to achieve where you need to be. Um, and that’s what I get what I tell people. I obtained a lot of things in my life owning a barbershop. Beautiful homes, trucks, doesn’t matter what it is. I mean, I felt like I was further ahead of a lot of people that never been locked up before because it’s all coming from a decision making. Business, my businesses, my decision making, and that. Um, so that’s what it comes down to is decision making. If you’re gonna take the high road or the low road and which way you want to go, who you want to hang out with. Me, it was I don’t hang out with nobody. I got my wife, my kids, I work, I go home to them, that’s my circle. And I keep it pretty tight.
7:56 That’s awesome. Have you ever thought about uh mentoring somebody?
8:01 Yeah, absolutely. Uh yeah.
8:03 Have you ever done it?
8:04 I’ve never really mentored anybody. I used to have a lot of clients that would get a hold of me and say, hey, you know, my son, he’s going through this. Can you talk with him? Oh, absolutely. You know, I’ll I’ll definitely spend time talk with him and try to get through to him. But at the end of the day, he’s got to make his own decision on who he wants to be and what he wants to do. So it’s pretty cool. I mean, I love I love looking back on that was uh that was the old me into another person and see if I can redirect them or life is too beautiful not to.
8:34 That’s awesome, man. That’s a good story.
8:36 I appreciate it, bro.
8:37 Jeffrey did tell me he had a nice story, man.
8:39 Oh, that’s my boy right there.
8:40 Yeah, he’s a good dude. He’s a nice man. He is. Um, so back to barbershop and your family and stuff like that. So your wife does the her part, you don’t do the his part, right? Correct, yep. Um what what are some things that you offer to people, or what are your like ideal customers? What do they look like?
8:57 Uh my ideal customers is everybody. Um, everybody that walks through the door is totally different. Everybody gets something different. You got your more casual cuts, scissor cuts, clip rubber comb cuts, and you got some guys that love their straight skin fade, straight line beards, and faded beards, and all the other stuff that you’d walk into a barber shop. I mean, I get the old guys, I get the babies, I get everybody. Um, but I want to I want to jump back on like um where where things took off or why I do what I do for the community and stuff like that. Um I felt like me taking from my community for so long, I’m in a position to give back to my community. And it’s like um me feeling better about myself as a better person compared to who I was back then, helping people and allowing myself to help people in any kind of way, financial, free haircuts, no matter what it is, it is good for myself as well. So, I mean, I’ve done Christmas in the barbershop for less fortunate families. I did uh party in the park with Richard’s barbershop. That was one of my shops back in uh Wisconsin. Um we’ve did free haircuts for veterans. I do that every every year. I do free birthday cuts because everybody can’t afford it, but I feel like everybody deserves to feel good on their birthday. Um, I mean, I do a lot of benefits. If somebody’s got cancer, if there’s a car accident, somebody that takes their own lives and something like that, self-inflicted, I don’t have nothing to do with that. Um it might sound a little harsh, but when you do things on your own and that’s a decision you chose to make, I don’t want no part of that. Uh it’s it’s the things that people can’t help that I love to help.
10:41 I respect that.
10:42 So that’s why I love giving back. It’s just who we are. It’s been that way for many, many years, and I’ll continue to do it. So the more I grow, and the more I got the community back, and we’re gonna do a ton for the community, give back. Well, we’ll do party in the parks where everybody come together and have a free day where you ain’t gotta pay for no food, you ain’t gotta pay for having fun with your family for the day. You just come out and have a beautiful time.
11:08 So, when’s your next event?
11:10 Uh, that I’m not sure of. Um, that I mean, we’re still building clients. I think we we built over 1,500, but some are snowbirds and some are living in the area. So, I mean, we’re still building that connection uh where everybody’s not backing you. I just had an event for a young lady from Northport, and um I mean I think we did okay, but it’s not what I’m used to doing back home in large numbers.
11:35 What are you doing Saturday? You got clients? You got appointments?
11:39 This coming Saturday? Oh yeah. Yeah, I’ll start about five in the morning and I’ll go to about two in the afternoon, and yeah, that’ll be that. Me and my son will be going to the Packer game uh Sunday.
11:51 Sunday? Yeah, we’ll be playing. Where are they playing? Tampa Bay. Oh, they’re playing Tampa Bay.
11:54 We’ll be playing, yeah. Yeah, they’re not doing the greatest, but yeah, I guess we’ll be going. We’ll be going.
12:00 Well, we’re throwing a fundraiser for breast cancer this Saturday, so that’s why I was asking if you want to come from 12 to 6.
12:06 Okay.
12:06 So if you wanted to come, I’m donating 10% of sales that day, and then we sell like raffle tickets, raffling things off uh from here till Saturday, if you could advertise that to your clients. Oh, absolutely. Appreciate that. It’s our third one.
12:19 That’s beautiful, brother. Yeah, you do a lot of amazing things, and I’m definitely proud of the man that you are, and I see you with your father, and what you do with everybody here, and it’s it’s really cool. And I’ve been watching you.
12:29 I appreciate that.
12:30 Absolutely.
12:31 Yeah, I really do. Um so all this stuff you’re talking about, I can tell makes you a little emotional. Um, you’re very passionate about that, and I love that. And um how can we help spread the word for you?
12:46 Uh I I guess what we’re the this podcast is an amazing invite, so I know I appreciate that as well. Um just to allow people to go on like his and hers Barbara and Beauty, just to see what we got going on, when we got something going on. I mean, on my what is that, my Facebook Barbara Rich. I mean, I definitely post everything on there, and uh people do pretty good with sharing that as well.
13:12 Yeah, we’ll we’ll we’ll do we’ll make sure we share it.
13:15 No, I appreciate it, brother.
13:16 Um, so what else can you tell us about Rich Mitchell?
13:22 Uh well we did have a barbecue truck. All right. Yeah, we had one back in Wisconsin. We were doing it really well. Uh that one was Mitchell Smoke and Barbecue.
13:30 That’s a pretty good name.
13:31 Yeah. So yeah, we had Mitchell Smoking Barbecue. We did really well, a lot of catering, uh, weddings, graduations, and we did all the fairs, we did all the big music.
13:41 How did you do that for?
13:43 We did that about five years. Okay. And then uh I didn’t want to haul it to Florida. So I ended up selling everything before we got out here.
13:51 Were you cutting hair at the same time?
13:52 Yeah, I would shut down in the summertime and I’d do barbecue in the summertime just because it was doing really, really well.
13:58 How many clients would be p***** at you?
14:00 Yeah, they understood though. They understood. I mean, yeah, my Wisconsin team, man, there’s I don’t know, it’s hard to explain my Wisconsin clients, man, because I had so many of them uh with with all the shops that I had. And beautiful, beautiful people I miss dearly. And I know if I go back or to visit or a surprise cutting week, I mean, I’m gonna have a lot of people to show up, and they’ve been none but great. Yeah, I’m grateful for them.
14:25 Do you ever miss it back home?
14:27 Yeah, yeah, hunting season’s going right now, and I was one of the biggest bull hunters uh out there, and uh, you know, I had the camouflage truck, I had the big bows, Matthews, and I just enjoy being in the tree stand. And I traded all that in to get a boat and get some fishing rods and try out Florida. So yeah, we’re yeah, we’re gonna figure that one out.
14:47 I never thought about their complete opposites, right?
14:50 Yeah, yeah. People say, well, why don’t you just go back and do some hunting? Well, it’s gonna be pretty selfish of me to spend two grand to go back to Wisconsin and bow hunt for a couple weeks and get a hundred pounds, two hundred pounds of meat and come back. It’s time I wasted with my family.
15:05 That’s true.
15:06 So I figure we can all get on the boat and have a good time with it.
15:10 That’s true. Um, that’s a barbecue truck. What was your specialty?
15:15 Uh brisket always sold out.
15:17 Yeah.
15:18 Always sold out brisket. Um, I mean, we do the nachos, brisket nachos, tacos, sandwiches, plates, yeah, everything. Well, I’m not gonna say that. We didn’t, we didn’t, the sides weren’t from scratch. No, just all the meat that was smoked and seasoned, and that’s all I did. I bought everything else from the the big truck stores, and they just bring in frozen cornbread and all that stuff. I didn’t have all the time in the world to to do that stuff.
15:42 So how demanding of a job was that?
15:46 My brother. Yeah, hey. I’m out here plotting. See, hey, see, see, well, the the the the thing is is with all the smoking, you know, I mean, all the late night smoking, uh getting up early, early mornings, checking temps, making sure fire’s still going, and burning your eyes when you open the lid and the smoke’s smacking. So I end up getting goggles and wearing goggles because my eyes would burn so bad. Um, but yeah, it was it was amazing. We did really, really well, and every everybody knew us, and so it was yeah, it worked out really well. Yeah, I enjoyed it. No, no, no. Um I think I I I fell out of love with it when it became a job. Yeah, but now that I can do it at the house, I I love it. I’m back in tune with it. Um, like we just moved into a house Friday.
16:40 Oh, yeah? You buy?
16:42 No, that’s I’ll I’ll always rent, I’ll never buy. There’s too much responsibility when it comes to buying a house. Um I’m I’m just yeah, I don’t want to do all that. So we rented a beautiful home, and my kids got somewhere they can lay their head and play and have fun. And so it’s yeah, I love it. It beats living in a camper for the past 15 months, and so yeah, we’re getting somewhere. Yeah, that’s good.
17:08 As long as you’re progressing. Tell me a little bit about Father Father Rich. Man. What’s it like being a father? What what do you emp what what do you tell your kids? Like, what what do you like how do you coach them up? I guess you could say.
17:22 Uh the first thing I tell them is I love you, man. Um, I think that’s the biggest thing they need to hear. Uh, but my son, he was a big wrestler back home. He was a very good wrestler. Now he’s in baseball. We do a lot of basketball. I mean, we’re yeah, him and I together just always. Yeah. Yeah, even when even when he’s a s*******, you know what I mean? He’s that’s my boy, you know what I mean? Yeah. We all work. Yeah, he’s my world, my daughter. She’s amazing, she’s beautiful. Um, I’m really not a girl dad, and it it sucks.
17:59 Yeah, it’s hard.
18:00 I don’t know how to be a girl dad. It’s one of those things I like me and my son, we I mean, we click big time because we got things in common that playing sports and just watching sports and stuff like that. So it’s just one of them things that I just love being a dad, man. Any anytime my son or daughter got something going on, yeah, I’ll shut the whole barbershop down and I’m there. So that’s the cool thing about being a business owner is you can be there for your kids and set your schedule. And but I love it.
18:30 Good for you, man.
18:31 Are you a father?
18:31 Nah, yeah. Bro, get on it. God blesses me.
18:34 Yeah, get on it. Get on it. Yeah, my man uh Christian, he just became a father not that long ago, so that’s cool.
18:41 Yeah, he did.
18:42 That’s beautiful.
18:43 It is beautiful, man. It’s my my biggest goal in life is to be a father.
18:47 Yeah, you’re the number one goal. Once you achieve it, brother, I mean, your whole life is gonna change and everything changes. Your aspect of seeing things how you’ve seen it before, that that changes, and you want more, you wanna you wanna do more, and uh you want to work harder, you want to provide harder. We’ve never had much as a kid. I’ve never had much ever growing up. Yeah you know, my whole life’s pretty much been prison, and I’ve never been to a real water park until I came out of prison and went with my wife. I’ve never been to a real water park.
19:17 You like rides in like in music parks?
19:20 No, I’m too grown for that. I hate that s***. Yeah, my stomach ain’t gonna it’s not gonna handle that. Ruin my whole day.
19:29 You know, it gives me a big migraine.
19:31 Does it?
19:32 Yeah. Once I’m done, I get out of it.
19:35 It just makes me nauseous. Like it makes me nauseous, and I don’t know. They don’t have those in prison, so you can’t get used to being on them and your stomach’s not ready for it. Your body ain’t built for it.
19:45 Are you a religious man?
19:47 I’m not. No, I know a lot of people go to prisons and have some kind of a epiphany or something like that to become a religious person, and I’ve never found it. I’ve I’ve I’ve been through a lot of stuff. Um, in prison, I mean, I’ve been through a lot in there to I never had that epiphany. And I don’t I don’t go to church. I won’t disrespect the church, I won’t do any of that. Um, I get a lot of guys that come in the shop that, hey Rich, you know, you should come to church, you should come do this, and my man, it’s not in me yet. You know what I mean? If if that day comes where you’re open to it. I’m not I’m open to it if it happens naturally. But to be forced into something, I mean, that’s I’m not about that.
20:31 I can respect that.
20:32 Um yeah, and I don’t bang anybody that goes to church. I don’t care if you’re Muslim, I don’t care if you’re Christian. Hey, whatever makes you happy and peaceful, that’s all that matters to me. Um I just believe in working hard and providing hard for my family and uh doing right by the community and stuff like that. So yeah, hopefully uh nobody looks at me different because you know I don’t I never took that road, you know what I mean? Yeah, I don’t know but there might be if anybody does, then yeah, that’s our problem. There might be a day that something happens where I might see something where I’m like, yo, I’m sorry, you know what I mean? Yeah, uh, and yeah, I might go to church, I might pray, I might something. But I’ve never had that yet.
21:15 Yeah, the world is a funny place, man.
21:17 It is. Yeah. It’s a crazy place.
21:20 It’s crazy.
21:21 Yeah, yeah, it’s a it’s a crazy place, but it’s beautiful at the same time, you know what I mean? It is um I don’t know. I I I feel like I’m always busy, bro. Even even to go to church or go anywhere I want to, I’m always busy working in the barbershop 11 hour days and spending time with my kids, and then it’s bedtime, and you wake up and you do it again. Yeah, mentally I always get worn out.
21:44 So, what do you do?
21:46 I I go through it. You know, you gotta go through it. Um, what can you do about it? The only thing you’re gonna do is start receding on what you’re doing, and and you can’t. You already built a lifestyle and you gotta keep it moving.
21:58 And so, would you say you built like a stay? Stamina for it?
22:01 Um, I had the stamina uh maybe maybe 10 years ago. I mean, yeah, I mean, I was doing 12 hour days, and yeah, I mean, that was good. Then I had my son, then I’m I had a nine of us in a barbershop, and my wife says, Well, why don’t you start taking time off? You gotta you got a team in there that’s that’s working. I said, yo, I’m I’m just built different. I don’t I love to work. I I gotta provide. Uh but once I had my son, I started doing 10 hours. But once I came here, yo, I gotta I’m a new face here. So I gotta be here. I gotta I gotta take whoever wants to come in. Um I was working eight to six, and people that get off at five couldn’t get in at the time all the time, so I bumped it up to seven. So now I work eight to seven.
22:52 Are you planning on bringing another barber?
22:55 See, my shop is so small that it’s comfortable for myself. And in the back room is my wife, where she’s got all her lady stuff back there for coloring and the highlights and all that stuff back there. But she she brought up maybe we should bring in another woman. Like when she’s not there, that she could be in the back, or we could bring in another barber and put him in the back by her stuff. Um, yeah, because I mean I’m like beyond busy, where to the point where I got people trying to walk in and I stopped taking walk-ins because I’m so busy and I only got a three-man seat. Um, I don’t know. So I was looking at another barber shop. There was somebody in front of me on the shop. They didn’t tell me that at the time, but then they said, hey, you know, this coffee place is in front of you. Now they want it, now that you’re interested in it. So uh we backed off it and we got a house. And yeah, no, it is what it is. We’ll stay where we’re at for a while and no big rush.
23:57 All right. How old are you?
24:00 Uh I’m 44.
24:02 What’s your what where do you see yourself when you’re 50?
24:06 When I’m 50, uh living in the same house, probably doing the same thing. By then, I mean I should be having a lot done for the community and stuff like that. I mean, I just gotta get to know people, get to know businesses. Um that’s what it comes down to when you want to start doing stuff for the community. You gotta you gotta have a backing. If you ain’t got a backing, I mean you really can’t do much. So when I do back to school free haircuts and stuff like that, it’s just me um knocking all these kids out. But I’m used to having a whole team to do it. But I don’t know. I’ve I’m in a beautiful spot right now.
24:44 That’s good, man. I like how grateful you are.
24:47 Oh, I’m very grateful. Uh that’s it.
24:49 That’s a good thing. That’s a good trait to have.
24:51 Yeah, no, I mean, I got beautiful people in my life that I’ve met since I’ve been in Florida. Um, other business owners, they’ve they’ve been amazing with me, and life is just too beautiful, man, to abuse it. So, whatever you got, you just hold on to it, and good people, you keep them around you, and that’s great.
25:09 You miss Aaron Rodgers?
25:12 No, not at all. No, I don’t miss Aaron Rodgers at all. He was a pre he was a pre Madonna, but we had him, we had him when he was.
25:19 You got you a ring.
25:20 We had him with, yeah, but he was still a pre Madonna. Uh yeah, so yeah, right. Right. So yeah, no, he uh I’m I’m glad he we he got out of there. I think I got more butthurt when we lost um he went to the uh Miami. He’s their quarterback, right? I don’t know why I’m having a brain fog. Yep. Yeah, Willis was uh I wanted to keep him over love.
25:51 Really?
25:52 Yeah, like every time he stepped in, man, he was he was on point. Love, you really don’t show too much emotion to the game, and he’s not fired up like that. But yeah, he’s he’s accurate when he wants to be, but the old line’s trash right now, and no matter what, it’s Green Bay. Well, yeah, we’ll be uh we’ll be sitting in the bleachers this weekend.
26:12 Yeah, you excited?
26:14 I mean, I’m uh I’m excited for my son to enjoy it.
26:17 He ever been to a game?
26:18 He yeah, he’s been to Lambo. He’s been to Lambeau a few times.
26:22 So he’s a Packers fan too?
26:24 Yeah, that’s awesome. Yeah, if he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be going to no game. He wouldn’t be going to no games, especially if it was a Bear fan. So you Bear fans out there. Yeah. Yeah, they did. They got a big win.
26:41 What’s his name? The backup for Hertz.
26:43 Yeah. Yeah, they played good last night. Good for them. I don’t ever really want to see them win. A loss to them is like a win for me. So but yeah, my buddy Jeff and his family, they’re all Bear fans. So, I mean, I got a lot of good people that are Bear fans. Their team just sucks. Yeah, Green Bay owns them.
27:07 Yeah. Green Bay does own them.
27:09 Yeah, they do. No, I love I love sports, man. It brings people together.
27:12 But I think so too.
27:14 At the same time, man, especially them Philly fans, man.
27:18 Yeah, they’re uh You’re telling me I’m a skins fan.
27:20 Oof. Yeah, my buddy Donnie, he’s a skins fan. He doesn’t call it Commanders, he calls it Redskins.
27:26 Yeah, me too.
27:27 He will not, he won’t go down on that level.
27:29 Nah, we gotta go back.
27:32 Yeah, so yeah, he’s a yeah, he’s a he’s a big Washington fan.
27:36 Yeah, I’m from Maryland, so I grew up 20 minutes outside of DC.
27:41 He’s surprised you weren’t a Baltimore uh Baltimore fan.
27:44 My brother is. My brother became a Baltimore fan. He said the one year uh the Lions went 1-15, they they won against the Redskins. And he said, if the Redskins lose this game, I’m switching to the Ravens. And they lost. The only win the Lions had that year. I forgot what year it was. And he switched, he’s been around. At least he’s seen the Super Bowl since.
28:07 Sure.
28:07 I haven’t seen s***.
28:09 Yeah, so I don’t know. I’ll I’ll never switch up. Me neither. Does it matter if they become the Detroit team or Cleveland team? Or I mean, I don’t know. We saw them at their best. I mean, they’re gonna have their days. I mean, they’re playing good right now. They just won. Yeah, so good for them.
28:28 Yeah, man.
28:29 All right, Mr. Rich. We’re gonna wrap this up. Is there anything you’d like to say? Maybe shoot your address or anything you want to say to the fans.
28:38 Well, I appreciate everybody uh taking the time to watch the video. Um, if anybody ever wants to come check out the barbershop, you can look at Barbara Rich on Facebook or his and hers, Barbara and Beauty, send a message. I can send you a booking link. Um, yeah, I would love to meet you, take care of you, and probably build good friendship off of that. So, clients that I have now, dude, we have such an amazing time. Yeah, yeah, dude. We sing so much in the barbershop.
29:03 And I love singing.
29:05 Hell yeah, bro. I love singing. I don’t know. If country comes on, Bruno Mars, don’t matter, whatever’s on the radio, and yeah, I mean the radio will be up loud and we’ll be singing like crazy, and people be laughing, and yeah, that’s what the shop’s all about. And everybody that comes through there’s gonna get a hug, man. So if you don’t want a hug, don’t come to the shop. Yeah, because you’re gonna get a hug. You know, you don’t know what I’m going through that day, and I don’t know what you’re going through that day, but that’s cool. It’s always nice to come together and get a nice hug, man.
29:32 I like that. It’s really nice getting to know you. Um, I hope we can get to know each other more a little bit in the future. And um, thank you for coming on. And for you guys watching, please go see him. He’s a stand up dude, and he’s doing great things for the community. So if you guys like this uh video, please like, comment, and subscribe. We’ll see you in on 41. Thank you, George.
29:50 Appreciate you, brother. Christian, thank you.
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