John Farah, my friend's father who is third in the world.
He was just a champion.
He was just so amazing with his craft.
I saw him as my mentor in my whole career.
He was my mentor.
Me and him just talk here.
I wouldn't even go see my friend at his place.
I would talk to his father and just talk here for hours.
I just came back from buying that chair.
That front chair that we have on this way.
That Cadillac chair.
I went all the way to Ajax.
I came back and I went to a museum and talked to him.
I was just like, hey Mr. Farah, look at this chair.
This is the chair that's going to be in front of the shop.
We're going to do the shades.
We're going to do the fades.
This is going to be like the stage chair.
I probably had 15, 10 minutes with him.
He was just showing him the pictures and stuff.
He was just like, that's great buddy.
You're going to do so well.
So we left off on that one.
I found out that was the last time I seen him.
He passed away a week later.
With that, I'm paying tribute to him.
His pictures on the wall.
I respected you for what you did.
You got me, you know, around that.
It helped me along the way.
And I put a plaque with his name on the chair.
This is a memory of John Farah.
My father was a carpenter. My brother's a mechanic.
We all worked with our hands, you know, being a barber.
So it came very easily to me and it's my life.
We like to create personalities with us because that's what we are.
It's a barber shop.
Personalities, you know, it's just people come here for the atmosphere.
And we're a part of it, you know what I mean?
Brian is a silent assassin.
The reason being is he's not a man of very many words.
But you put a clipper in that boy's hand and a razor in that boy's hand
and that guy will kill it.
I can say he's like one of the top baiters in the city.
He's more of a walker.
He doesn't talk to talk, he just walks the walk.
And that's a very respectful trait I have towards him.
I haven't told him that, but I respect him in that sense.
He's just good.
Anissa is a rock star because she is fearless.
She's very fearless.
I've actually witnessed her go out a couple of times and she's fearless.
Everybody has a story here.
Everybody has a story on how they became a part of mankind.
Every time people come in, there's stories to be shared.
There's a million stories.
Mine is just one of the hundreds of stories that's being put into this place.
I live my life through other people's stories.
I don't do much traveling, but I know enough about other places,
other cities and religions.
It gives me knowledge.
Fashion has taken itself to a whole new level.
Guys care about what they look like, what suits they wear, how they tie together.
It's not a burly lumberjack man anymore.
It's a whole new ball game, and luckily we tie into that.
It is an art form, it is a craft.
At this studio, it takes a while for someone to get behind the chair to work with people.
Like 45 minute haircuts and see you later, you know, it's more twit than just that.
We do head sheets and we follow the head sheets accordingly.
It's kind of like a football plan, like a strategy.
In our case, we'll do the haircut technically with advanced scissor techniques
and clipper techniques, create the shape, and then personalize it afterwards.
Anybody could come in and use texture shears.
There are shears that have teeth like this, and they create like a texture.
They just go in with that.
Here we don't believe in that.
We do all of the straight blade scissor techniques.
The shape holds a lot longer in a six to eight week time span.
A year ago, two days ago, I could probably speak for Noel,
and say we're probably the two most proudest business owners ever.
You don't see me with Mercedes or anything like that.
My dream goal is to buy a Batmobile.
That's like 20 years down the line.
I even told him I'd rock a cape when I'll be driving that thing.
We loved it so much and we still do love it.
I can see myself doing this till I'm like 80, man.
And that's it.
Everybody has their story, and everybody has their craft and how they become a part of this.
It's just people that come back and want to say,
hey Jason, what's up, man? How's life?
It's those relationships that you make with other people.
And when they leave for it, man, they feel like a million bucks.
And that's rewarding.
I bet you nine out of ten hairstylers would say,
that's the number one thing I love about this job,
is just making people feel that they're on top of the world.
Some cold eyes upon me, they stare at people all around me.
They're all in fear.
They don't seem to want me, but they wanted me
