Racism, Mugshots, Infomercial Psychos, & salon secrets. Why Power Attracts Clowns
I Did His Hair… Now He’s Running for Congress
And Why Hairdressers Always Know the Truth First
If you’ve ever wondered why hairstylists seem to know everything before it hits the news, this episode of Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser is the proof.
Hair salons are confessionals.
They’re therapy offices with blow dryers.
And sometimes, they’re the first place you meet someone who will later become a full-blown public embarrassment.
In this episode, we tell a true story that sounds fake:
One of our former salon clients — yes, the ShamWow infomercial guy — is now running for Congress.
And honestly? None of us were surprised.
Hairdressers See the Red Flags Before Everyone Else
When you work behind the chair long enough, you develop a sixth sense.
You don’t just cut hair — you read people.
You hear:
How they talk about others
How they treat service workers
How quickly they escalate when attention slips
How casually they justify bad behavior
So when someone you once styled pops back up in the headlines with racist rants, arrests, political extremism, and a thirst for relevance, it doesn’t feel shocking.
It feels… familiar.
In this episode, we break down what it was like having this person in the salon years before the public meltdown. The energy. The ego. The chaos. The unearned confidence.
Hairdressers clock this stuff early.
From Infomercial Fame to Political Delusion
If you grew up watching late-night TV, you remember the ShamWow commercials. Loud. Aggressive. Impossible to ignore.
What people don’t remember — or maybe never knew — is what came after.
The arrests.
The violence.
The racism.
The attention-seeking spiral.
Now, somehow, that spiral has turned into a congressional run.
This episode doesn’t just roast the absurdity — it examines why people like this feel entitled to power, and how fading relevance often pushes people toward louder, uglier versions of themselves.
And again… hairdressers saw it coming.
The Salon Chair: Where People Tell on Themselves
The second half of this episode pivots to something every stylist understands immediately:
Clients who sit in your chair and start trash-talking other hairdressers in the salon.
If you’re not in the industry, here’s what you need to know:
That behavior is a massive red flag.
When a client bashes:
Another stylist
The salon owner
Their last hairdresser
Everyone except themselves
They’re not being “honest.”
They’re testing boundaries.
They’re seeing if you’ll join in.
They’re checking if you’re safe to manipulate.
They’re figuring out who they can turn against who.
And the moment you participate?
You lose credibility — with your coworkers and with yourself.
Why Hairdressers Shut That Down Fast
In the episode, we talk openly about:
Why trash-talking coworkers is a hard no
How clients use gossip to avoid accountability
Why people who talk shit about others will eventually talk shit about you
And how shutting it down instantly changes the power dynamic
This is professional ethics and survival.
Because salons have memories.
And reputations travel faster than blow dryers.
EEAT: Why This Perspective Matters
This podcast — and this blog — aren’t commentary from the sidelines.
They’re built on:
Experience: decades behind the chair
Expertise: real industry knowledge, not influencer hot takes
Authority: firsthand interactions with high-profile and deeply problematic people
Trust: saying what most stylists think but don’t always say out loud
Google rewards real experience, and this story is rooted in exactly that.
No speculation.
No internet pile-on.
Just lived reality from people who were there.
Why This Episode Is Going Viral
This episode is resonating because it sits at the intersection of:
Salon culture
Celebrity chaos
Political absurdity
Human behavior
It answers questions people secretly ask:
How did this person get here?
Why does power attract the worst personalities?
Why do hairdressers always seem to know the truth first?
Because we hear it — unfiltered — while holding scissors.
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00] God. I hate that girl. Who? You know that one girl, that bitch. I can't stand her. I don't know what it is about her. Everything just drives me fucking crazy. I mean, look at that bitch just sitting there eating chicken. I'm like, bitch, why you eating chicken?
I.
All right. You ready? You? Yeah.
Well that might be a [00:01:00] little bit of a hint on what we might be talking about today, but uh, welcome back to it all. New episode of Shit. I told my hairdresser, how you doing?
I am great. Wow.
so you guys have heard some of the stuff that we have talked about in the past, and we've talked about a lot of our clients that we've had and some that are newsworthy, some that are not. But, uh, oh God, what was the, we did an episode about Bill Clinton from one of my clients who was a high profile, uh, reporter.
Um, that was called the President of Epstein Island. We did that episode a couple of months back. We did one about Jillian, the girl who wrote that book, some girls about her time in a harem. And, and a lot of that stuff's coming up right now, uh, especially with, again, more Epstein stuff. Jesus Christ. I mean, this whole thing,
Yeah,
how connected this guy [00:02:00] was, is absolutely insane,
everyone has something. Uh. Somebody's name is on there. You know, it's like someone you know,
Yeah, well, they were.
who's nearby
They were talking about, uh, emails, going to the lawyers for Brett Kavanaugh, the, when they were going through and, uh, he was running for the Supreme Court Justice when they're confirming him to Congress. And one of the lawyers, I've actually done one of the lawyers' hair. And so you never know with the type of salons that we have worked in.
The people walking through the door and how they're connected throughout the world is absolutely insane. And then of course, I think it was what, last week, you send me a Time magazine clip or uh, a text and it was a whole article about one of your friends.
Um, he's not my friend.
You did his hair. And most [00:03:00] clients think that you're your friend after you get done doing their hair. You know what I mean? So he's your friend.
no,
come. A strange guy.
I don't think I have his number.
You,
don't even know his
you need to look hard.
all I know him as is Mr. Sham. Wow. So, he did those uh, for Sham. Wow. It
Yeah.
and everything. And, I, hi his hair for, I don't know, like a little while.
Yeah.
um, maybe he was living in Los Angeles.
I don't know why he was there at all. I, think he eventually moved to Florida or. Lived in Miami. don't remember he got in there,
Well, that's where he got in trouble and then he came back to California, I think to get away from all that because I remember him walking to the salon. You were going to and talking about, oh, his new commercial that he was doing and he thought you were talking about when, where he got arrested in Florida.
' So People nowadays have [00:04:00] no clue who this fucking guy is. And for some reason I kind wish they still didn't, but he's back in the fucking news.
know who he is. And if you have ever watched one of those infomercials and you, there was no way around it, you know, it's like you can't skip over things. This was on regular tv. he would
Before dvs before, now
Yeah,
have the apps.
like, um, how long were they, like minute almost. like in between shows and you were waiting on next show and you just get wrapped up watching this guy, you know?
Um,
Who's definitely on meth, or
I don't
it wasn't Red Bull, but the, well, the guy, the guy from Oxyclean had a heart attack from cocaine. Remember the Oxy?
Well, listen, that's a demanding job, you know? and how was the sham? Well,
So maybe it wasn't meth, but it was [00:05:00] definitely some type of stimulant. So if you get on YouTube and watch,
Hmm.
you're gonna see it. The guy is doing something. If it's 15, he's been shotgunning in Red Bulls. Maybe that's it. I kind of doubt it, you know? But maybe he's kind of zoom in and see if there's any white powder around this nose.
no one who acts like he does, does it naturally. Um, yeah. Um, so this, Shawa guy, um, uh, he is running for Congress. And
Yes.
representing Texas. So what does that mean? It means he is, uh, he's inherently racist, most likely. Um,
Oh yeah,
uh, something like he, oh, it was real bad.
it was bad.
as Jesus and he was, it was like a Middle Eastern Rachel Slur. Um,
Well, you might as well say it, you know what I mean? Because there's, I mean, it's just like he was calling these guys [00:06:00] camel jockeys. Who the fuck says anything like that? No, but who the fuck,
he
like seriously is he from the eighties or something? I mean, these are, these are terms my dad would use. He was born in 1928.
And right, and there's just no creativity in it either,
No.
it's, it's the most ordinary slur you could think of. So he was using that. But,
Have you, did you watch this other video about he has woke busters?
no, I've, I haven't watched that one. I. Saw that he's a woke buster. Um, he's against woke is,
Yes.
and, um, something about, the, woke church wants your kid's nuts
Yeah,
or something like that. I don't know what that means. I want, do
because he is preaching against people
woke
transitioning.
Oh, I see.
You know, he's preaching against that. Yeah, he's against that. He's, it's no matter, whatever, what was [00:07:00] said to the conservative people this year about how they should vote, he is taken to the next extreme. So he's being racist, he's being anti woke, he's being anti transgender.
He's just like anything that might sound hateful
hmm.
he embodies.
Because he is that, and let me just, uh, go out on a limb here and, take a guess of he's against Um, I'm gonna guess he was in Florida, when he was hiring hookers, maybe he got fooled.
Oh, oh,
doesn't that. Uh, but he was also sort of into it. He went with it anyway
I was gonna say, he might have been into it. You know what I mean?
I, I, I think that that's most likely what
He's probably given a couple of rusty trombones out there and probably enjoyed it,
Um,
because he's a sick [00:08:00] fucker. I mean,
yeah.
for you as the, don't know, the guy was arrested for beating the shit out of a hooker. You know, this prostitute was going to, I guess they were like, she bit his tongue.
I think, weren't they?
Well, she was, she bit his tongue and wouldn't let go.
That's right. That's right. That's right.
And so he, he, she would not let go and he had to punch her in the face so hard that she finally did let go. Now going back to what I was talking about, meth, alright?
Yeah.
this doesn't happen to normal people, alright? Normal people are not hiring prostitutes that they have to beat the shit out of to make them go of their tongue.
right.
you're on something. Unless you're both on something, you know? So
sort of. Mood altering drug.
you think
yeah,
Yeah. Mood altering. Yeah. I, if anything,
altering and
[00:09:00] altering. Exactly. So,
altering, you know? Um,
and normal guys who are not on drunk or on something, or not just going down and hiring prostitutes. Maybe they are, you know, I mean, but that's a different, that's a different issue.
he, um, that just makes him, even more eligible uh, US Congress, I think, is
Oh, he'll be welcome with open arms.
well, they all have something to talk about. Um, yeah. He's no stranger to drugs and prostitutes and. Racism, you know, so, just makes He's running for Congress in Texas for US Congress, you know.
So, um,
Oh,
Uh,
I mean.
I oh him, he was my last client year on New Year's Eve. I don't know if were working that day, but, um, I late. I, usually there's someone who lives out of town who comes in or New Year's or whatever, and, and [00:10:00] so, he was one, and, and so UD was all happy and everything, you know, he was goofy and. People knew who he was, you know, and,
All right.
and one was nervous about it.
You know, it's like if you saw big celebrity, people would act weird, but him,
Shame. Wow guy.
Hey, look at this.
Yeah.
guy, Hey, how you doing Sham? Well, got, you know,
Because he is a clown.
real name.
He's a clown.
yeah. So.
No, the guy, the guy is just the total clown and that's why it's like, this guy's now running for, you know, Congress. What the fuck? I'm actually watching the video as well though too of the, the woke busters. Um, and he's, they had, they bring on some guy dressed up like a woman, and then he shoots him in the face with like some liquid substance.
And I'm like, uh, hang on a second. You're so woke. But you're shooting someone who is, you know, in a dress, a guy in a dress, [00:11:00] and shooting him in the face with some white liquid that you have shooting out. I'm like, really?
Oh, it's a guy
Yeah.
dresses a woman. Oh,
Yeah. Yeah. And they had like someone walking over looking into a skirt to, you know, check for his, like, you know, his, something about like, I, I can't even, I don't even know.
know what
I, I, after I saw, after I saw the guy shooting him in the face with some white substance, I'm like, I checked out. I'm like, I'm done.
I can't finish watching the rest of this shit. I'm, I'm sure it's probably even worse.
this is a window into his life.
Yes. Yes.
video, he has all that and he is ashamed of it, that's why he will
Is he, or maybe is he, is he living out his own fantasy? You know what I mean? Either one, one or the other. But normally what I find is that when you go through and you hear these people who are preaching against homosexuality or transgender or drugs, they're the ones doing it the most.
They're the ones into it. Yeah. and, um, that's why I think that he is [00:12:00] so, um, he's against it. ' cause he gets fooled every time. So, so he has to handle this
Yeah,
and for all.
right. Yeah. I checked that woman for balls.
oh my, probably what he wants. He wants, uh, to pass a law that he goes around and checks everyone's. Genitals or something.
Yeah,
would dig that. actually, he's had dreams about this.
but I mean, he's in probably in one of the most conservative states in Texas, you know, where people like get off of. But here's the thing, you, I lived in Texas, and let me tell you, you are some horny motherfuckers out there. they had a pass a law saying you can only have six sex toys. How many do you need Texas?
I forgot about that. Yeah.
You're the one who sent it to me,
What did they
a new law saying you only own six sex toys number. You had to pass a [00:13:00] law saying like, Hey, tamp it down a little bit. You horny fuckers.
I wonder Why is, uh, the cutoff.
It's a round number. I don't know, an even number.
Five is, uh, oh. You could have one more, but That's,
That's where we draw the fucking line, man. Yeah,
Whoa. Seven.
You're crazy.
Dallas. When I lived in Dallas, let me tell you, it's probably, I lived in in a gay neighborhood and I had a very gay roommate. We had a lot of fun, you know what I mean? But,
oh, yeah. I heard, I heard the rumors.
but that was the thing. It's like majority of Texas is not like that. When you had to go through and pass law saying, Hey, he can't be a bunch of ran Randy Little fuckers. You know, there's, there seems to be a little bit of a problem over in Texas
think
that we don't know about.
Everyone in the world is like that. it's just that Texas, um, they don't like it. Uh, who knows? I don't understand [00:14:00] their laws. Not at all.
No, it's absolutely ridiculous.
sense.
But I mean, where else would you find someone like the Sham Wow guy who, you know, obviously hits women? You know, that's very well documented. If you need to go through and take a look, look at the mugshots online. Whoa. Oh my God. He really went to town and she went to town on him too.
So it was definitely quite a night, you know, but we're better to go through and have someone run for, you know, Republican congress or, you know, in Texas. Not only that, he's, he's going up against the guy.
have him.
I don't think anybody would, but the guy who's,
there.
the guy whose seat he wants to go over, the guy's 86 years old.
So of course he found like the easiest target he could find. Because who the fuck's gonna vote for this guy
to the election, you know, so
not, probably cost him too much money. He, he needs people to back him up and who knows what means and put their money down to back [00:15:00] him up.
I actually wonder who's given him money. I, I didn't even look that up though. Um,
But this is someone, he's another attention seeker is what it really is. He needs. No one's paying attention anymore. So of course you have to be that person who's the most racist, who's the most misogynistic, you know, you, you have to be that guy to get back into this is what he does, to get back into the news so people know that he's still alive.
cause I mean, his parents probably don't own, you know, who his parents are still alive. His parents probably doesn't know if they, if he's still breathing or care.
No, I, I bet they changed their names and everything. You know,
Exactly. Yeah.
I mean, who knows why he was in Texas at all. The he was in Florida and maybe he had to leave It's even. Worse there, I think their laws.
Yeah.
Um, but Texas has a, that's a different world, you know? So they welcomed him. I bet.
honestly, I actually hope he wins. They
Why [00:16:00] they deserve it. Yeah.
that they get. Yep.
There you go.
And we are back. So one of the things that we do need to go through and talk about is how you, you ever had a client walk into the salon and start bashing another hairdresser that works there?
Yeah.
I fucking hate that. I don't know what it is. I talk about
you all the time. They're like, fuck I, Jason, Ted, my hair.
I was like, say no
more. Well, that's why I have you. I keep you around so you can fix up all my fuckups, you know? Yeah, yeah. But no, but so you have those clients that come inside the salon and they see one of the other persons that work there, and all of a sudden they just start bitching about them. And I'm like, whoa, hang on a second.
And they want you to join in. They want you to be part of this, you know? And I, I'm not like [00:17:00] that when I'm in, don't get me wrong. I love to talk shit. Yeah. I love to like,
I mean, so like, if it's someone I don't like, I'll just let it happen. I think. Um, I'm also worried about somebody hearing them and Yeah.
Um, so maybe I'll shut that down. Yeah, maybe I'll agree with them a little bit and, and then be like, yep, yep. And that's it. So you like hearing clients talk about other stylists or you don't like it? I
don't.
Oh, okay.
I don't, I personally, I don't, I've had people sit in my chair and they want to go through and start complaining about one of the girls who did, like I had, so I had a client come in, she was complaining about this one girl who did her daughter's color and how shit it was, and it wasn't any good.
I'm like, this girl does really good work.
Like you have to really size up who's saying that. You know, like if Right. They're just a shit talker and negative, maybe they're [00:18:00] just like that all around, you know? And that's just occupying their time at the moment.
Yeah.
Her giving somebody else a rest by talking shit about the stylist, I guess.
Um,
but then it started into like, you know, like, so what do you think? And I'm like, I think she does a really good work, you know, and if, if something went wrong, maybe you should go through and talk to her about it. I'm like, I can go and get her right now for you about that. Said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah. I'm like, no, she's right here. She should know this. I'm like, that's how we grow and how we learn. You know, if something did go wrong, but I also know her and she'd be more than happy to bring your daughter back inside the salon and correct anything that did go wrong.
She may be angling how to get her money back.
I think that's probably what it was, but I didn't. You want and you want, if that's what it is, just come out and fucking say it. Just come out and say it, you know? But I was like, hang on a second. Not only that, this girl was part owner of the salon, you know? So she has the ability to do that. Mm-hmm. [00:19:00] So what'd you think I did?
I went and got her.
You did?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I went and got her. How did that
go?
She was so, this client was so uncomfortable and I wanted to make sure that she felt that way.
Okay. Because I
did not want her sitting in my chair.
You didn't, didn't like it?
No. Because you didn't like her nine 10? No, I didn't like her because when, when something, some, someone does sit in my chair and they're like, Hey, I went somewhere like I, one of the other girls here cut my hair and I really didn't like it.
Okay. Let's see what you didn't like about it. You know? And not only that, normally the other person sees them sitting in your chair 'cause they're probably in like the week before. Yeah. And so they wanna go through and talk to you about it, and that's fine. So you would go through and you would check everything out?
Um, I'd cut the hair I like, and if, if I, I'd say like, if you wanna talk to the owner and get your money back from the other one, the other person that did your hair, you know, I would go through and do something like that if you feel comfortable doing that, or I can do that for you, you know, but we want you to be happy, you know, and then [00:20:00] afterwards, after I go through and fix the haircut or make her happy, from that point, if the other person comes over to me, I'll tell 'em exactly what happened.
I would want someone to tell me, you know, so that way I could correct something that I maybe did wrong, you know? Yeah. If, if it was that case, you know? Um, but that's normally how it is. Or they won't even tell you who did it. Even if they went some to someone else inside the salon, they just say, yeah, I just wasn't really happy with the work I got done last time.
And they'd be more than happy to just pay for another haircut. No problem.
Right? Yeah. And they have a history. It's like, you could look it up. If you wanted, you know, it's like they didn't wanna say, I wanna move on. Yeah, we wanna move fine forward. And I look back at the bad haircut,
nothing wrong with that.
But when you're coming in and you're wanting to start up a shit storm with me to go through and talk shit about someone else and sell the salon and say how crap they really are, you know, I'm [00:21:00] not gonna play that game with you. Even if I don't like the person, I might listen to you. For a little bit, but.
There's other people around that can hear the conversation that's happening. That's,
that's what I would worry about most. And so somebody wants to talk shit. I really size them up first. You know, it's like if they're the type who just angry and, and likes to trash everyone, I'll usually shut it down. Um.
But, um, if they're normally a nice person or just like worried about him finding out, it's like, oh, I didn't like it, it was her. Okay. And whispering maybe, you know.
Okay. Fair enough. Like what we were talking about earlier. Yeah. Maybe. Well,
yeah. Yeah.
Nothing wrong with that. Just like, Hey, you know what?
They're like, Hey, you wanna know what I saw this with a person did like, fine, let's fix it. Do you want like, you know, is there anything I can like assist you with? Like, do you want your money back for the service that was done? If it was done within like the past two weeks? You know what I mean? [00:22:00] Sometimes it's a yes or sometimes it's a no.
Well, let's talk to the owner about it. Get the owner involved and they can go through and make that decision with you. You know, but if I'm sitting there and I am bitching with them about other people inside the salon, it makes me look worse. You know? And I can't say that I haven't been guilty of it because I have, and I've done it.
I know. You have fucking backfired on me. Exactly. And it never, it's not a good thing to do. And I'm, I'm putting it out there. I've done it. You know what I mean? And it's just, you
just need to out, and then you learn your lesson getting
burned out. Yeah.
When you hear somebody talking shit about someone else who worked in the salon, you're like, Hey.
Susan, she hated your haircut. Yeah. What do you think of that? Yeah. Just make it make a huge spectacle out of the whole thing. Yeah. It'll never happen again. Exactly. [00:23:00]
But I mean, you'll, I mean, I've made myself, I've been the dick that's done it, you know what I mean? And it's just like, it, it, yeah. It's not a good look.
It, you know, it doesn't look good on you. That's for sure. You know, so, but I ha I've been guilty of it. Who the fuck hasn't been guilty of that? You know, everyone likes a good little shit. Talk every now and again, you know, but just be careful with going through and doing that. But if you wanna tell me a story, man, I got, I'm all ears, you know what I mean?
But if you wanna talk about someone that I work with, don't fucking do it. Don't do it in my chair. Especially if I like them, you know? Sure. Read the fucking room as well though too. If I'm kind of sitting there going like, right, I'm looking a little confused, or I'm looking a little dismayed as you're kind of telling me your story, calm the fuck down and chill out.
Right. You know? Mm-hmm. And don't just, some people will just kind of double down and they'll say, you can tell they're just searching for something that you might agree with with them. [00:24:00] So I'm like, ah, I'm not gonna go down that road because I've been down that road. They're just negative. Exactly.
People all around.
And now it is time for shit. Ology. Textile. Get your voter registration ready because we have an offer. Vincent Shlomi, you can't refuse. We're talking about the sham Wow guy running for us Congress. Maybe you're wondering what makes him qualified to hold office. Well, you got a few qualifications that you might wanna look into.
He's a white male, racist. Christian nationalist, misogynistic, and homophobic. He has a criminal record and addiction to hookers. What is a hooker addiction and what do you do about it? Well, you run for public office in the great state of Texas. And with that, stay shitty. See you [00:25:00] next Tuesday in the voting booth.
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