How Did You Meet Your Mentor In Tattooing? - BEN KARNOFSKY - Unite & Win - Ep.18

value that is more difficult to replicate. You can't just burn a record on

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I don't know, I'm sure and I like it. You know, when I was a kid. I sit down and I open the CD and I read the lyrics and I read everything and I'm like, well, how cool would it be if it was three times bigger and you had a bigger picture on there? So yeah, vinyl is great to collect. I like it. vinyl I can justify spending money on vinyl, yeah I mean even if you're not listening it's cool wall art you know yeah I like it but I don't know it just feels valuable it's interesting that that's how it's become the physical environment. popular again, that's great, that's a good change, I saw it.

I went to FY at the mall and they had vinyl there and everything was like new, like Ladell Ray and whatever, and I like those records like 50 bucks, yeah, oh totally, some of them were like some of them not even rare like some Elton John greatest hits BL blah blah like you can go to the thrift store and get one like yeah totally the price is crazy yeah I mean you can go to Walmart and buy vinyl. oh, I saw at Barnes && Noble the same kind of stuff, really very expensive, yeah, yeah, I don't know, I think it's for people who don't really listen to the records, although it's like, it's like they get it. and I set it up and it's like it's his thing, it's a Hot Wheel, yeah, yeah, an expensive one, yeah, you with tuning forks, yeah, I really do, yeah, are you good?

I'd like to do a kickflip. I don't have one right now, but I definitely bought a wooden one. There's a place in Sanana that sells like it's a very small shop, but outside of it they have a whole skate park like a fingerboard skate park which in no way, yeah, I've never had. in the park, but I bought oh yes, there are a lot of people there. I bought like a sidewalk uhhuh, it probably cost like $60 damn dude. I'll make you a sidewalk. I know it was the heat of the moment. What do you know, yeah, I bought a new board like a shooting board that goes in

your

pocket yeah, that's crazy, they sell it.

I don't want to say RW is real, but they make it, they sell it, they also sell big stuff, um, I don't remember, that seems like a missed opportunity. like a fashion it's like a fashion store um I think they're just sold like candy like fun and funky candy and like weird boards and like yeah like fanny packs and stuff that's cool yeah I've never been good with my fingers Bo thing bu in In third grade I had a fingerboard skateboard store in my backpack and I bought here is my cheat code. I'd buy the fretboard it would come with, like the spare truck, the wheels, whatever, and then I'd buy the pirate, which is the Same thing, it's just not a cool graphic.

I would spray paint it around whatever it was and then I had this little case that held everything in my backpack and I would sell it to you, okay, it would be let's say a dollar for a deck of cards, right, oh, you're like? one stop SK shop yeah and oneop skate shop yeah but you could but you could do your Tight because I might like another brand's wheels but you can you can not mix them so for 25 cents a wheel You're like me, I want an I. I feel a little happy. I want some green and red, you know what I mean, and then the weird different colored hardware, but you can put it on the legit Tech Deck board, so I split it up.

I figured out how to make it something profitable as far as it would be, I think it was a dollar a board, 25 cents a wheel and like 50 cents a truck, and a full deck might cost what it would cost, but I accumulated enough stuff that was mixed and matched that I could sell you half of the mixed ones with the good ones so I can keep my habit and buy more damn scammer, yeah, yeah, when was that third grade, third grade, yeah? I also sold, friend, I also sold candy. I remember I have a funny story about poop, so there was some kind of fruit roll-ups, but they're Airhead brand and they're like Airhead sour fruit roll-ups and I think they are. like red and blue or something like that, yeah, and my mom we went to Costco and they sold like the big box a box of 30 or 50 of them.

I don't remember how much it was, but I worked it out to where if I sold them for 25 cents each and then I would double the cost, like allow me to buy a second box, yeah, and my mom, I think my mom stole this from me, like she told me that I could hurry, so I had a full backpack. of candy and I sold enough so I could buy a box for myself and then I was able to do it again and then I have a box for sale, a box for myself and then I make a profit to buy it like a three times margin type of I figured it out damn be and um, so one day I felt rich on top of the world and I ate a whole box 30 of these things maybe 50 but I say 30 because I'm a humble man and um on an empty stomach oh my God, it painted me, yeah, I don't like sweets anymore, man, so I ate the whole thing and um, I remember I pooped the next day and my poop was like half red and half blue wow, yeah and then the next day it was like, let's say , half red, quarter brown tip blue and the next day you know half red half blue half brown and then you know and then you know progressively day three you know you just put a little bit of color in the container and That's crazy yeah , it was hectic, there was a lot of red, die 40, dude, right, that's why I'm like that, yeah, that's how I got into the Spectrum.

It's true, it's from that, yes, that experience. Damn, hectic, yeah, um, yeah, but I never had it. oh, do you remember? Have you ever made those keychains, those little LANs? Oh, yeah, yeah, those ones with the plastic, yeah, rope, yeah, it's like the four, like the one above, yeah, yeah, did you ever, oh, the spinning guy, was he crazy? I'm going to ask: do you ever do the four where you're making two ropes on two ropes on two people making them thick, yeah, like 12 different colors? Have you ever sold those guys? I just made some missed opportunities, right, I guess I was.

It's not because of my hustle, 25 cents an inch, I swear and I like it, and the parents thought it was cute, so like the teacher bought me one because I'm the only kid trying to sell one for five dollars, man, I'm there weaving. Dude, yeah, knitting Wayne, they say oh, yeah, yeah, Wayne will be knitting there today, yeah, buddy, you want, you want a keychain, come to me, I'm telling you it was my thing that day, smart, I don't know, you're a genius, so maybe. we should weave this podcast to a conclusion, just call this, call this, rrap, a nice cord on that cord, yeah, this was easy, right, it wasn't fun, I mean, well, no, this wasn't fun, It was, I'm saying it. no, um, you didn't seem nervous like you anticipated, no, it was good, yeah, yeah, you're a good host, no, yeah, you made me coffee, go on, tell me more, uh, your house is great, hey, yeah, buddy , I had to thank you. for coming to hang out with me I had to hound you hard about this uh no I wasn't I was sick and I wanted to come but I was nervous yeah but now that I'm here you're a talker you could do it and now it's done you're a podcaster, yeah I'm going to Joe Rogan next week oh yeah he heard I was doing this so damn he saw the microphone.

Okay, yeah, this guy is using the insurance, yeah, whatever it is. SM B for Benny, yeah, makes it sound good to me, did you like all the nicknames for him that Cole and I gave you? Yes, those were crazy. Were you here when you were doing that? No, but I sent him screenshots of the ones I was sending you. Yeah, it was like 10. Yeah, he's fast with that too, you too, yeah, we both have that, we both got that gift, the gift, no, I'm not that fast, I waited, no, I'll think of something like an hour later, like it's good, look, you're, but you.

You are smarter with your words, you let yourself spout less regrettable statements, I let it fly, friend, yes, yes, you are a careful connoisseur of your craft, some might say, does that sound stupid?, yes, that sounds stupid. I'm not going. to say that no, say it, I say it out loud, say it out loud, yeah, edit it later, right