WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.088 - We're shooting a video trying 00:00:01.088 --> 00:00:02.411 out different hats and stuff, 00:00:02.411 --> 00:00:03.459 how do you think I look? 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:04.330 - Uh, it's a hat. 00:00:04.330 --> 00:00:05.222 - How do you think I look? 00:00:05.222 --> 00:00:06.163 (girl shrieks) 00:00:06.163 --> 00:00:08.646 (upbeat music) 00:00:08.646 --> 00:00:10.990 - Today the Try Guys are going bald, 00:00:10.990 --> 00:00:13.769 which is something that happens to most men. 00:00:13.769 --> 00:00:14.948 - [Voiceover] Alright, you guys ready to go bald? 00:00:14.948 --> 00:00:17.497 - I was born bald, I'm ready to be bald again. 00:00:17.497 --> 00:00:20.150 - Going bald for me, it's not a question of "if," 00:00:20.150 --> 00:00:21.688 it's probably a question of "when." 00:00:21.688 --> 00:00:22.988 Hair loss runs in my family, 00:00:22.988 --> 00:00:24.289 it is something that is happening to me. 00:00:24.289 --> 00:00:26.675 It's very common among Jewish men. 00:00:26.675 --> 00:00:29.119 I think that's why Jews started wearing yarmulkes, 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:30.806 to cover up their bald spot. 00:00:30.806 --> 00:00:33.031 There was a long time that I didn't care about my hair, 00:00:33.031 --> 00:00:34.389 and I didn't care about it 00:00:34.389 --> 00:00:36.375 until I realized I was losing it. 00:00:36.375 --> 00:00:38.174 I look back at photos, and like, it's going. 00:00:38.174 --> 00:00:40.148 So it's something I've been trying to combat, 00:00:40.148 --> 00:00:41.408 but it's also something I've been trying 00:00:41.408 --> 00:00:42.807 to come to terms with. 00:00:42.807 --> 00:00:44.513 It makes me feel bad. 00:00:44.513 --> 00:00:47.885 - I have a little bit of thinning starting here. 00:00:47.885 --> 00:00:50.543 I guess going bald crosses my mind every so often. 00:00:50.543 --> 00:00:54.061 I'm afraid that my head is an ugly lump of skin. 00:00:54.061 --> 00:00:57.068 I think my main concern is that I have this mole 00:00:57.068 --> 00:00:59.756 on the back of my head that you've never seen likely 00:00:59.756 --> 00:01:01.534 because I always make sure my hair 00:01:01.534 --> 00:01:03.883 is cut long enough to cover that mole. 00:01:03.883 --> 00:01:05.897 I don't care that much about my actual hair, 00:01:05.897 --> 00:01:07.527 but I do care about how I look. 00:01:07.527 --> 00:01:09.369 And being bald with a big mole on my head 00:01:09.369 --> 00:01:10.793 would change how I look. 00:01:10.793 --> 00:01:11.876 I'll be ugly. 00:01:12.905 --> 00:01:15.835 - My grandfather has lost a lot of his hair, 00:01:15.835 --> 00:01:18.389 so it's probably something that's in my future. 00:01:18.389 --> 00:01:21.095 To just jump straight to what I'm gonna 00:01:21.095 --> 00:01:24.072 look like 50 years from now, that's gonna be shocking. 00:01:24.072 --> 00:01:27.371 My fear today is that my wife is gonna think I'm hideous, 00:01:27.371 --> 00:01:29.525 because when you're in love with someone, 00:01:29.525 --> 00:01:31.777 like, "Oh, I'll love you no matter what you look like." 00:01:31.777 --> 00:01:33.908 But now we're gonna test that assumption. 00:01:33.908 --> 00:01:36.398 Will she still find me attractive? I don't know. 00:01:36.398 --> 00:01:38.372 - I think when people describe me physically, 00:01:38.372 --> 00:01:39.904 the first thing they say is hair. 00:01:39.904 --> 00:01:41.955 Second probably Asian, but first I'd say hair. 00:01:41.955 --> 00:01:44.586 When I was young, when I felt very unattractive, 00:01:44.586 --> 00:01:45.521 the one thing people always said to me 00:01:45.521 --> 00:01:46.782 was I had great hair. 00:01:46.782 --> 00:01:49.098 So, I kinda have this attachment to it. 00:01:49.098 --> 00:01:50.984 My hair is kinda like another appendage. 00:01:50.984 --> 00:01:54.374 Kinda like the boobs of my head, so eyes down here. 00:01:54.374 --> 00:01:58.188 I just have very specific features that look really stern. 00:01:58.188 --> 00:02:01.370 My personality is softened by the way my hair is presented. 00:02:01.370 --> 00:02:03.912 I feel like without my hair, I'm not gonna be me. 00:02:03.912 --> 00:02:06.329 (rock music) 00:02:25.628 --> 00:02:26.849 - Today what I'm interested to see 00:02:26.849 --> 00:02:28.707 is what would I actually look like when I'm bald. 00:02:28.707 --> 00:02:30.172 Maybe it's not so bad. 00:02:30.172 --> 00:02:32.922 - Let's do this: three, two, one. 00:02:33.893 --> 00:02:36.087 (laughs) 00:02:36.087 --> 00:02:37.498 What a nightmare. 00:02:37.498 --> 00:02:40.087 Oh wow, that is one ugly fella. 00:02:40.087 --> 00:02:42.310 It's not as bad as I thought it would be, 00:02:42.310 --> 00:02:44.266 it's a lot smoother than I thought. 00:02:44.266 --> 00:02:46.183 Woah, that's a feeling. 00:02:48.334 --> 00:02:49.553 That mole is big. 00:02:49.553 --> 00:02:50.760 (growls) 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:53.401 Well, that's sort of how I fear my mole to appear. 00:02:53.401 --> 00:02:55.589 My ears are so much more prominent. 00:02:55.589 --> 00:02:57.645 If it's not one insecurity, it's another. 00:02:57.645 --> 00:02:59.282 - Alright, I'm ready. 00:02:59.282 --> 00:03:01.500 Holy shit. (chuckles) 00:03:01.500 --> 00:03:04.167 Oh no, I don't like that at all. 00:03:05.349 --> 00:03:06.614 It looks like a different person. 00:03:06.614 --> 00:03:08.013 I've never seen myself without hair. 00:03:08.013 --> 00:03:10.492 This just isn't me; it doesn't feel like my personality. 00:03:10.492 --> 00:03:11.325 I'm astounded. 00:03:11.325 --> 00:03:13.296 I've never been this floored by a transformation. 00:03:13.296 --> 00:03:15.200 I look like every martial arts character, 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:17.701 like I'm gonna kill somebody. 00:03:17.701 --> 00:03:18.627 Okay, I'm done. 00:03:18.627 --> 00:03:20.767 - So my father has kind of more of like around the side. 00:03:20.767 --> 00:03:23.920 I'm gonna try and get as close to that today as we can. 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:26.917 The hope is a sexy Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel type. 00:03:26.917 --> 00:03:29.874 I'd probably look more like a baby turtle. 00:03:29.874 --> 00:03:32.431 Let's meet future Zach. 00:03:32.431 --> 00:03:33.264 Oh, no. 00:03:37.708 --> 00:03:39.467 Oh man, I look like Dr. Phil 00:03:39.467 --> 00:03:41.632 and the kid from Jerry Maguire had a baby. 00:03:41.632 --> 00:03:45.156 There are no words for how much I dislike this. 00:03:45.156 --> 00:03:48.481 This is a real hit to my confidence, guys. 00:03:48.481 --> 00:03:51.907 How can I look like this and confidently talk to people? 00:03:51.907 --> 00:03:54.612 I'm really pretty speechless. 00:03:54.612 --> 00:03:55.854 I'm pretty stunned. 00:03:55.854 --> 00:03:56.835 Fuck. 00:03:56.835 --> 00:03:58.292 - Confidence is sexy right? 00:03:58.292 --> 00:04:00.812 So if I'm gonna rock the Friar Tuck haircut, 00:04:00.812 --> 00:04:03.987 then you can call me Friar Fuck. 00:04:03.987 --> 00:04:07.404 One, two, three (yells). 00:04:10.425 --> 00:04:11.258 Oh no. 00:04:12.564 --> 00:04:15.897 (dramatic choral music) 00:04:19.010 --> 00:04:20.177 Oh, I hate it. 00:04:22.145 --> 00:04:23.353 Oh, isn't that sad? 00:04:23.353 --> 00:04:25.228 Why do I just feel awful about myself 00:04:25.228 --> 00:04:27.126 just 'cause my hair changed? 00:04:27.126 --> 00:04:29.854 Oh, I don't want to be friends with myself. 00:04:29.854 --> 00:04:31.154 Check out the back. 00:04:31.154 --> 00:04:31.987 Ooh, sexy. 00:04:34.672 --> 00:04:37.720 She's not going to like this; she's gonna be horrified. 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:41.894 What if actually lose my hair and then she divorces me 00:04:41.894 --> 00:04:43.664 'cause she thinks I'm ugly? 00:04:43.664 --> 00:04:47.124 I'm being silly, but also somewhat serious. 00:04:47.124 --> 00:04:49.765 I just want to crawl into bed and not wake up. 00:04:49.765 --> 00:04:52.970 - As much as guys like to act like they don't care 00:04:52.970 --> 00:04:54.038 about how their hair looks, 00:04:54.038 --> 00:04:56.685 I think every guy really, truly, deeply cares 00:04:56.685 --> 00:04:58.223 about what their hair looks like. 00:04:58.223 --> 00:05:00.789 It's way more deep than we allow ourselves 00:05:00.789 --> 00:05:03.291 to admit as a society, especially as men. 00:05:03.291 --> 00:05:04.945 We're stepping into a lot of different shoes here, 00:05:04.945 --> 00:05:06.402 not only into male insecurity, 00:05:06.402 --> 00:05:08.063 but there's a lot of people out there 00:05:08.063 --> 00:05:10.251 when it comes to cancer, alopecia 00:05:10.251 --> 00:05:13.119 who can't control the fact that they are losing hair. 00:05:13.119 --> 00:05:15.853 I'm interested to see how people will react. 00:05:15.853 --> 00:05:17.207 - I'm not looking forward 00:05:17.207 --> 00:05:20.601 to what everyone else is gonna think and say about this. 00:05:20.601 --> 00:05:21.855 - We're going to the office to see 00:05:21.855 --> 00:05:23.446 how people like how I look. 00:05:23.446 --> 00:05:25.890 - I think it's kinda getting used to it. 00:05:25.890 --> 00:05:26.723 - Alright, I'm going to go 00:05:26.723 --> 00:05:28.067 show some friends what I look like. 00:05:28.067 --> 00:05:29.984 - You've done some things in your day, 00:05:29.984 --> 00:05:33.651 this is not one of them you should be doing. 00:05:34.535 --> 00:05:38.431 - Do you think some people look okay as bald men? 00:05:38.431 --> 00:05:39.736 - Is this like divorce for a week? 00:05:39.736 --> 00:05:41.370 No one can pull this off. 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:42.874 (girl yells) 00:05:42.874 --> 00:05:44.116 - What do you think? 00:05:44.116 --> 00:05:45.956 - I think that was my honest opinion. 00:05:45.956 --> 00:05:48.377 - Woah, look at you without hair. 00:05:48.377 --> 00:05:50.246 - Dream come true right here. 00:05:50.246 --> 00:05:51.079 - What's the dream? 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:55.134 - I secretly pray that your hair falls out, every day. 00:05:55.134 --> 00:05:57.717 This is just bad for everybody. 00:06:00.712 --> 00:06:03.516 - I was really looking forward to my coworkers helping me, 00:06:03.516 --> 00:06:05.954 telling me that it was okay to be balding, 00:06:05.954 --> 00:06:07.249 that I'm still beautiful. 00:06:07.249 --> 00:06:08.752 And so far, that has not happened. 00:06:08.752 --> 00:06:10.639 The opposite has happened; I feel awful. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.926 - I look like a bald Thomas Jefferson. 00:06:12.926 --> 00:06:15.370 - Fact is, I don't give a fuck what people think. 00:06:15.370 --> 00:06:18.528 If this is how I look, don't deserve me at my worst, 00:06:18.528 --> 00:06:20.095 can't handle me at my best. 00:06:20.095 --> 00:06:22.673 - The more I see it, the less I'm as upset 00:06:22.673 --> 00:06:25.273 by all of us honestly. 00:06:25.273 --> 00:06:27.601 - You look really good, you look so good. 00:06:27.601 --> 00:06:29.680 - I think I look really mean. 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.078 - Yeah, of course. 00:06:31.078 --> 00:06:33.243 - This is amazing. How do you feel? 00:06:33.243 --> 00:06:34.854 - Actually, now that I'm walking around more, 00:06:34.854 --> 00:06:36.160 I kind of enjoy it. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.883 - You look dope. Why does he look cool still? 00:06:38.883 --> 00:06:41.635 I thought that hair was like 90% of it, but it's not. 00:06:41.635 --> 00:06:42.468 - What do you think? 00:06:42.468 --> 00:06:44.107 - I think you have a really good shaped head. 00:06:44.107 --> 00:06:44.940 - Yeah? 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:45.773 - That was the thing I was worried about 00:06:45.773 --> 00:06:46.673 when I was going bald. 00:06:46.673 --> 00:06:48.612 - Yeah, it's like, what if my head's ugly? 00:06:48.612 --> 00:06:50.127 - Absolutely. 00:06:50.127 --> 00:06:54.368 - (Laughs) This is the best image. 00:06:54.368 --> 00:06:56.244 - We all look adorable. 00:06:56.244 --> 00:06:59.012 - Honestly, yours looks regal and dignified. 00:06:59.012 --> 00:07:00.336 - You're the first person to complement me. 00:07:00.336 --> 00:07:01.169 - Oh really? 00:07:01.169 --> 00:07:02.345 - When did you go bald? 00:07:02.345 --> 00:07:03.529 - I started going bald when I was 21. 00:07:03.529 --> 00:07:04.362 - 21? 00:07:04.362 --> 00:07:05.195 - Yeah, it threw me off. 00:07:05.195 --> 00:07:06.100 - But you look great. 00:07:06.100 --> 00:07:06.948 - Well thank you. 00:07:06.948 --> 00:07:08.944 - I have no problem; this looks fine. 00:07:08.944 --> 00:07:11.081 I just don't know how I feel about the ponytail. 00:07:11.081 --> 00:07:12.869 - Now that I know that my head 00:07:12.869 --> 00:07:14.570 doesn't have any lumps or anything. 00:07:14.570 --> 00:07:16.329 I would get a lot of haircuts, like very tight. 00:07:16.329 --> 00:07:17.182 - This works for you; 00:07:17.182 --> 00:07:19.574 if you have to shave your head, you're gonna be... 00:07:19.574 --> 00:07:20.967 - [Keith] I'm gonna be okay? 00:07:20.967 --> 00:07:23.395 - Even if people are shocked, I don't give a fuck. 00:07:23.395 --> 00:07:24.486 - Yeah, just own it. 00:07:24.486 --> 00:07:27.395 - You've been so confident throughout this whole thing. 00:07:27.395 --> 00:07:29.676 - I don't know how everybody else is gonna feel about it. 00:07:29.676 --> 00:07:31.423 - When did you see it? 00:07:31.423 --> 00:07:32.503 - So early. 00:07:32.503 --> 00:07:34.517 So I'm back at home, and I'm going 00:07:34.517 --> 00:07:37.434 to surprise Ariel with my new look. 00:07:39.283 --> 00:07:42.482 - So I'm standing on a street corner as cars go by 00:07:42.482 --> 00:07:44.908 to see if anybody gives me a second look. 00:07:44.908 --> 00:07:46.000 - I guess without hair I don't really need 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.172 to deal with this section. 00:07:47.172 --> 00:07:50.115 I can go to what's most important, bam. 00:07:50.115 --> 00:07:51.114 - Giving myself a hair cut, 00:07:51.114 --> 00:07:52.600 kind of putting control back in my hands, 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.347 we're gonna see if people react to me little better. 00:07:54.347 --> 00:07:56.837 I feel like I look like a respectable dad. 00:07:56.837 --> 00:07:57.720 - You look so happy. 00:07:57.720 --> 00:07:58.834 - This is like a cool dad. 00:07:58.834 --> 00:08:00.947 - Kind of like the dad from "Honey, We Shrunk the Kids." 00:08:00.947 --> 00:08:01.986 (Coworkers agree) 00:08:01.986 --> 00:08:04.311 - You look like a director of a big time movie. 00:08:04.311 --> 00:08:07.089 - Oh, you cut the sides? 00:08:07.089 --> 00:08:09.138 - You've always had a really cute, boyish face, 00:08:09.138 --> 00:08:10.578 that doesn't change. 00:08:10.578 --> 00:08:11.663 - It looks a lot better. 00:08:11.663 --> 00:08:12.496 - Yeah, it looks so much better. 00:08:12.496 --> 00:08:13.916 - You heard it here first, totally fuckable, 00:08:13.916 --> 00:08:16.040 I look great like this. 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:17.602 - The checkout clerk actually recognized me 00:08:17.602 --> 00:08:19.134 even without my hair. 00:08:19.134 --> 00:08:20.754 Do you actually think this looks attractive? 00:08:20.754 --> 00:08:21.805 - [Clerk] Very sexy. 00:08:21.805 --> 00:08:24.260 - Oh, very sexy. Oh man. 00:08:24.260 --> 00:08:26.437 - Nobody seems to be giving two shits 00:08:26.437 --> 00:08:28.016 about what I look like. 00:08:28.016 --> 00:08:29.212 It's not that big a deal, 00:08:29.212 --> 00:08:32.103 or I'm so ugly they can't even look at me. 00:08:32.103 --> 00:08:35.046 - My neighbors might think I'm a person trying to break in. 00:08:35.046 --> 00:08:36.046 - Oh my god. 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:39.972 It looks so real. 00:08:39.972 --> 00:08:41.563 - [Ned] So do you think you would still love me 00:08:41.563 --> 00:08:43.757 if I started losing my hair like this? 00:08:43.757 --> 00:08:46.079 - I would love you no matter what. 00:08:46.079 --> 00:08:47.640 Would you love me if I started losing my hair? 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:49.390 - [Ned] I would, yes. 00:08:52.192 --> 00:08:54.525 (rap music) 00:08:55.971 --> 00:08:56.804 - What do you think, Ariel? 00:08:56.804 --> 00:08:59.554 - [Ariel] I think you look great. 00:09:01.149 --> 00:09:02.484 - [Ariel] Yeah. 00:09:02.484 --> 00:09:04.817 (rap music) 00:09:23.016 --> 00:09:25.419 - As I adopted a more confident attitude, 00:09:25.419 --> 00:09:28.502 it became easier to own my hairstyle. 00:09:29.494 --> 00:09:31.178 And the people that know you best 00:09:31.178 --> 00:09:33.552 are the people that are gonna care the least. 00:09:33.552 --> 00:09:35.439 - People fixate on their negatives 00:09:35.439 --> 00:09:37.720 and they get downtrodden by it, 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.572 but I think if you look at your negatives 00:09:39.572 --> 00:09:42.561 and think of a way to find positivity. 00:09:42.561 --> 00:09:43.746 You can't choose what happens to you, 00:09:43.746 --> 00:09:45.023 but you can choose what you do. 00:09:45.023 --> 00:09:46.323 - My biggest takeaway is that 00:09:46.323 --> 00:09:47.705 my hair doesn't make up my identity. 00:09:47.705 --> 00:09:50.450 Bald, full head of hair, whatever you are: 00:09:50.450 --> 00:09:52.006 just fucking like yourself 00:09:52.006 --> 00:09:53.655 and fuck anyone else who says otherwise. 00:09:53.655 --> 00:09:55.913 - When we started this video by talking about how for men, 00:09:55.913 --> 00:09:57.178 and for me in particular, 00:09:57.178 --> 00:09:59.582 this is probably my biggest concern. 00:09:59.582 --> 00:10:01.346 I've seen what that might look like, 00:10:01.346 --> 00:10:03.057 and it's really not that scary. 00:10:03.057 --> 00:10:05.098 - You're not mad at dad. 00:10:05.098 --> 00:10:08.329 (Everyone laughs) 00:10:08.329 --> 00:10:11.906 - I see how it is, so you like bald but not balding. 00:10:11.906 --> 00:10:13.489 - That's how it is?