June 4, 2025

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PAUL BOOTH - The Dark Lord of Ink
Announced as Headliner of Monster Energy Tattoo X Inkcarceration

Legendary Tattoo Artist Paul Booth Inks a Coffee Pact
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Hi, you have done to censure for Wow crazy you

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Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe

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Man on W four c Y com. Wes Pond Beach

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is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the

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pipe Man.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here

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with our next guest, who I'm very excited about because

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he's going to be at one of my favorite festivals

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just because of a venue itself which kind of matches

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with him. So let's welcome to show. Paul Booth.

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All right, how you doing man? Thanks for having me. Hey.

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As soon as I saw the press release, I was like, man,

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I definitely have to do that interview because I go.

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I cover all the Danny Wimmer festivals. Ink is my

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favorite because of where it's at, you know. And it's

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funny because my youngest SDAR show always ask me every week, like, ah,

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you're excited to go to this festival? Because I do, Like,

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you know, I go on tour and do all the festivals.

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I'm like, I don't know if excited is the work,

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because it's a lot of fun, but if you do

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it every week, it is excited or proper word. But

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first time I did ink man, I was standing on

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that prison yard gone, I called her up. I'm like,

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now I'm excited. I'm in the prison yard of shaw Shank.

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That's cool.

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And so, you know, it's funny because I love how

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the press releases because you're the dark Lord and you're

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going to the dark Prison because it is really supposed

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to be haunted. Plus they have the haunted basement that

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they do with the blood. It's called Blood Prison, which

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is totally cool. But I wonder how many people that

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are scaring you when you're in the blood prison, you know,

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haunted house are really the ones haunting?

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Yeah? Right?

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Why I used to work in a haunted house for

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years and enjoyed scaring people thoroughly. I mean, that was

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my thing. I love scaring people.

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Well, I'm with you.

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When I go through a haunted house attraction, people sometimes

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recognize me and it's more like high fives rather than booze,

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you know.

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Right and me. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm

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like similar to you where I you know, I like

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the scaring people part that I'm always aware, right, So

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whenever I go in a haunted house, like I laugh

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when they try to scare me. Usually I'll like hide

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because I'll see where they are, Like I'm aware, opposed

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to most people, and I'll hide and try to scare

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them for fun.

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Oh no, it's the best.

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Yeah. So one year at INK, I had my helper.

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I'm like, here, we're going to film some tiktoks okay

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uh of the tour of the prison and there's like cool,

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you know, there's these cool places to kind of hide

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in there. Well, people are going through tour, So I

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would be hiding and have her filming and I would

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scare the shit out of people as they're going through

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the tour.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's the best. Right.

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So basically you're like, it's funny. It's like you're you're

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bigger than the music artist because you're like the headliner

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of Ink, but from the Ink part two parts. So

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most people probably know who you are, but a lot

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of people probably don't, so kind of give them your

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story of how you became like the dark lord of

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tattooing so to speak. And basically all my favorite bands

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have gotten tatted by you.

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Right on.

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Well, I'm tattooing thirty six years now, based out of

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New York. I have been traveling the world for most

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of that and tattooing and tattooed many rock bands, metal

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bands in particular, over the years. I think the first

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tour I went on was nineteen ninety four with Pantera,

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Sebultura and Biohazard.

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Nice, and that was my early days.

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And then I toured with bands over the years, a

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lot of metal bands, from slip Not to Slayer, you know.

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And now I'm older, I can't really live on a

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bus anymore, you know, those days are over.

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It's a lot, and especially doing as as well as

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you have, it's a grind.

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I hate to say I'm too old for that shit,

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you know, but maybe I'm not.

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I don't know. I haven't lived on a bus in

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So when it was oz Fest, it was cool because

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Ozzie would play every other day, so we.

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Got hotels all the time.

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Nice.

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But normally it's like you're living on the bus, you know,

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truck stop or shower kind of thing.

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It's a different type of life, right, yeah. Yeah, So

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what do you think in your opinion, cause all these

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artists like Slayer, like Slipnot and everybody to pick you

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to be their artist.

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Well, my work is very it's like the visual version

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of metal. I suppose you know, it's creepy, aggressive, dark monsters,

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which is what comes across and much of the music

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we listen to.

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Yeah, so I've always.

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Been kind of that visual equivalent of metal. I'm not

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saying I'm the only equivalent, but I mean, like in

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my work is very metal conducive.

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I guess you could say.

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Yeah, that makes sense too. I saw on your website

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the tattoo art of the Dude that like basically all

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you did everything all the way down, and that said

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it all to me like that that was so metal,

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but it was like, see what I love about it too. Okay,

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so I kind of don't like when people, I might

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get some hate for this, but they just PLoP tattoos

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all over their body with no rhyme or reason.

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Bold kitch is the term for it.

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And look at that kitch. It's it's exactly what it is.

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It's getting little pieces next to each other. You know,

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I have eighteen tattoos.

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You know.

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That kind of approach, And you know, Barnum said it,

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there's an ass for every seat.

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You know, I love it, and there's gonna be people

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that prefer one big tattoo. It really depends on the individual, you.

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Know, and I do think it's art, but I also

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think the way you do it like is art. That

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that one dude, man, that was just one big piece

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of art to me, and it and it can be

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separate things, but when you do it the right way

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and put it together the right way, to me, that's

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why it's art. If you have one thing sitting there

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and that is totally not even related to the thing

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right next to it, it's like what made them think

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to put those two next to each other?

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Right?

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Yeah, It's a lot of times what it is is

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the client comes to the artist and says, I've got

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this space on my forearm, do your thing there, And

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like collectors nowadays give larger part to their body to

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different artists, but they give it to different artists as

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a collector like so and so did my forearms so

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and so did my biceps, so and so did my

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chest panel, so and so did this, did that, et cetera.

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That's common nowadays rather than the little.

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Ones, you know that makes sense to me form of kitch.

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I suppose.

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Collectors will do that. And then there's people that are

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dedicated to one artist that give you their entire body.

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You know that guy on my website you're talking about,

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I did his first tattoo at age fifty nine. Wow,

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and then he ended up with a body suit nine

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years later.

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That's wild. You know, you know why it's really wild.

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I'm fifty eight. I have no tattoos. All my kids,

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all my kids are fully tatted, right right right, I'm

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the one that isn't, and I'm fifty eight. So I

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kind of laughed when he said he got his first

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one at fifty nine.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, he still got a year.

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I know, right, I've kind of thought about. Okay, so

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my younger days, it was kind of also about you

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know how it was way back in the day, you know,

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certain jobs you couldn't get blah blah blah. I'm also

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a Jew, and so I always brought up, you're not

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supposed to be tatted if you're a Jew. But then

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I found out now that that kind is like a fallacy,

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you know. And then it's like I've thought about at times,

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and I've like, what would I really want, because like

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the tattoos I thought of getting when I was a teenager,

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I'm so happy I never got.

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Here's the thing though, man, The thing about tattoos is

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they become a part of you in the sense that

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it's one mark in your history.

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Yeah, this is what leads.

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To more tattoos, is that, like, you get a tattoo

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and at first, like you said, you know, I don't

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know what I could want to wear the rest of

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my life, any one thing. But here's the realities, it's

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not any one thing. It's like a journal to Yeah,

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your first tattoo represents some part of your life, and

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then your second tattoo covers something else that the first

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one didn't, you know, and then you end up telling

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the story on your skin and the illustrated man, you know,

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and and that's what ends up happening, and you end

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up loving all your tattoos because they represent different things.

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In your life.

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So there really is it's a fallacy to think that

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one tattoo is going to encompass everything you have to

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say that's.

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About Yeah, especially somebody like me, because like I always

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joke on my radio show to have I'm schizophrenic, because

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I have multiple facets of my personality that come out,

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you know, and it is all me. But they're all

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different parts of me and then very well it was

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interesting too. Okay, So a couple of years ago, I

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was walking in Bali and I was there for a

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few months, and I did run into this woman who

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did the stick tattooing, like the ritual stick yeah, original,

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and that I almost considered doing. I was like, I

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was so close, and then I kind of chickened out.

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What's your viewpoint on that compared to the type of

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tattooing that's done over here on in on the western

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side of the world.

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Well, I think it's really a matter of what suits

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you the individual. I mean, some people want the moment

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to be captured. Like stick tattooing is about the the

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moment and about the experience specific right, as opposed to

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just getting tattooed, you know. Uh so you know that's

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a situation where it's more about that history and and

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and that representation, you know, more so than the idea itself.

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Like when you go to a woman like that, you're

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getting whatever she really wants to do or how how

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she wants to do what you're looking for. It's not

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so much about the result, it's about the process.

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Yeah, that makes sense. And then what's your viewpoints, and like,

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I'm one of those people I ask you the questions

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that I think the listeners are asking, especially if they're

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people like me, to kind of convert their way of

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thinking type of thing, because it is, I do have

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a different way of thinking now than I did thirty

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years ago about tattoos because we live in a different

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society now. And it's funny. I just had a discussion

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with my brother, and I don't know, he said something

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about somebody with a tattoo. I'm like, well, everybody's got

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tattoos nowadays. He's like, well, maybe who you hang out with,

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but I never see anybody with tattoos. I'm like, then

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you're fucking blind. Because it's like I was in high school.

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The metal heads and the punks got tattooed. The jocks

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didn't get tattooed, the preppies didn't get tattooed, and all

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those other but they're all the ones getting tattooed, you know,

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because it is kind of mainstream and everybody's kind of

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doing it, you know. And then there's a type of ink.

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I'm very into natural health, and you know, of course,

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there's philosophies of thought that someone the inks can cause

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problems to some of your organs. And then there's like

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somebody near me here that uses U. I think it's

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like a food coloring or something. It's totally organic, he said.

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You know, he did one of my daughter's tattoos, a

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couple of my daughter's tattoos, and that's why I brought

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her there because he had this like organic like it's

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not bad for you type of ink or what have you.

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So you've been doing this a long time. What's your

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philosophies on different types of inks and how you made

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different from other artists in that respect.

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Well, here's the thing about tattoo ink is for it

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to be permanent in your body, the body has to

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consider it a threat. If it's not a threat, if

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it's too homogeneous and too too healthy, your body won't

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consider it a threat and it'll disappear.

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Yeah, blend.

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And so you know, there's a fine line between a

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threat and dangerous. You know, like ink is not dangerous

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and there's no proven studies about tattoo ink being dangerous

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for your health. Uh, it's talked about because that fine

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line I talk about it being like, you know, it

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has to be threatening for your body to protect itself

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and trap it in your skin. Right, So it's a

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matter of like just what kind of threat it is.

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I mean, it's a minimal threat, but it's not a threat,

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you know what I mean. I don't explain that, but

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that makes sense, you know. Now it's a matter or

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really you know, there's there's heavy metals in in ink,

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you know, like I can't I'm not an authority on

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what's in them. As far as red, sometimes is causes

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an allergic reaction for some people. It's rare, but certain

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colors can cause reactions. H if you tend to be

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allergic to things, you would do a test patch to

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make sure you're not allergic to it.

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That would be the power method. You know.

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Yeah, most people, like one in one hundred thousand people

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or whatever it may be, have an allergic reaction to

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certain inks. But generally it's not a problem. You know,

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your body's pretty good at being resilient things. It'll trap

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it in your skin and you'll be fine.

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And what is your opinion of like colored ink opposed

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to just black and white? Because I think if i'd

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want a tattoo, i'd want it colored like I color

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my hair too, So I just that would be my personality.

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But what as a professional, what is your opinion of

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the difference.

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Huh, Well, color work I don't think lasts as long.

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It doesn't stay vibrant.

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Yeah, when it loses its vibrants, it's not as impactful.

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I don't get me wrong.

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There's some incredible color work out there, but rightly, a

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lot of the times it has to have contrast to

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stand the edge of the stand time. You know, to

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look good in ten years, there needs to be contrast

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in the image. It needs to be big enough to

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get old and look good.

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Black work.

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I think has a better age process than color work does.

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Black work looks better for a longer period of time.

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It's one of the reasons I'm so intrigued by it,

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you know.

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And speaking of black work, what's your opinion on the

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new trend now of just blacking out all your tattoos.

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I think it was invented by people who don't know

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how to do cover ups.

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Ah, that makes sense.

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You know.

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We used to joke back in the day about blackouts.

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There wasn't blackout work back then. It was cool, like, hey,

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I'll tattoo a suitcase. Right now they're doing it as

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a trend, so I don't know what to say about it.

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It can look cool if it's done right, like if

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the ends and edges of it have some art to them,

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But just blacking out your old work seems to me.

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Like kind of a cop out.

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It's because you've got all this work that you don't

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like that you can't do anything with the reason you

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can't do anything with it is because a lot of

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the kids don't know how to do cover ups and

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can't do it.

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So hence invented black Now.

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That makes a lot of sense. I like that answer.

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So how did it feel when you found out you

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would be headlining the Incarceration tattooing?

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Oh, I'm excited. I'm very excited.

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I I feel like the tattoo equivalent of the bands,

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you know, which is nice because it's supposed to be that, right. Yeah,

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I mean in general, not just me, but I mean

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the tattooing should get the same kind of exposure as

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the band's. Uh So I'm happy to see that happening.

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You know, it's a lot of hard work, Like I

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think people don't realize a how much hard work it

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is for you to do tats, especially like you know,

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sleeves and a big one, but also the artistic ability.

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It's not I don't think just anybody can tattoo. It's

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just like anybody can't just make graphic art or a

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painting or what have you. So that says a lot too,

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right yeah, absolutely absolutely, And your specialty is kind of

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like the macabre and the dark and spiritual type of stuff, right,

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absolutely absolutely. What's the face? What's your favorite story of

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a tattoo that you did?

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Oh boy, well there were these two girls, but that

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would be the one.

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Yeah, I don't I don't even need you to fill

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in those blanks.

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It was a long time ago.

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There you go. And so let's talk about your coffee too, like,

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thank god, because we need some good coffee at incarceration.

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I think Devil's packed.

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I'm very proud of it's awesome. I wouldn't put my

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name on it if it wasn't good.

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You know.

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That's how I am with my brand, my name. I

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don't like to attach my name to something that sucks. Really,

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I put a lot of heart and effort into what

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I do. I want what I attached my name to

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to be the same. And when Concept Cafes approached me

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to do a coffee. I said, sure, let's do it,

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but it's got to be something i'll drink, you know.

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So we went back and forth with samples and tests

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and came up with a Sue Machrin blend that comes

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from this volcanic mountain where the area is plagued by

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natural disaster all the time.

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Wow.

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I thought, Wow, that's perfect. Let's call a devil's pact,

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you know. And then it came to life and it's

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a really good coffee on its own, whether my name's

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attached to it or not. So I'm happy to be

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a part of it.

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And how for coffee drinkers, how would you describe your

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coffee to entice them to know that, Yeah, that tastes good.

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I want to try that coffee, dark, rich, roast.

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Nice, very rich, very very you know, I don't know

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the right terms. I love coffee, but I'm not in

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the terminology what you consider a connoisseur.

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I just know what I like, you know, And I

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think it's a great concept that it has to be

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something you like, Like I don't get that sometimes, you know,

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whatever you make, or even being a musician, like there's

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musicians playing music that they don't even like I know,

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and it's like, I don't get that at all. I

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don't get the press people. When I go to these

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festivals and there's press people at a festival that don't

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like metal, I'm like, why would you be here? I

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get requests for interviews from a lot of people outside

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of metal or punk or rock. I'm like, sorry, if

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I don't like the music, I can't do the interview.

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My job is to promote it. And if I don't

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like it, how can I promote it?

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Yeah?

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Right right, listen, excuse me, but I'm supposed to have

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another interview.

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Oh sorry, Like, well, I don't know what I should

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do here?

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All right, then it's all good. While you tell all

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your contact information, how people can reach out to you,

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get your merch, check you out all that good stuff,

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and then we'll let you go to the other interview.

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All right, Okay, let's see. You can reach me. You

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can check out my art at pollbooth art dot com.

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You can check out my merch and my coffee and

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everything else at pullboothbrand dot com.

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Uh.

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If you want to get tattooed, you can email me

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at last, writes tattoo Ri tes tattoo at gmail dot com.

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That's everything all right.

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Well, I look forward to seeing you at incarceration brother,

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and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank thanks for having me.

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You got it brother from here.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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w for CUI Radio.