 Comfortable we get this perfect. How's everybody doing? Welcome back to the in therapy podcast with mr. Reyes and Facts We're about to do episode three of the in therapy podcast and The amount of engagement that we're getting I think it's so cool to see you on the channel and I appreciate everybody That was the exact sound I was doing in my head no way connected Last week we reacted to the tat the new tattoo that one of the island boys got and Yeah They actually made a follow-up video of it. What yeah, they did no they didn't yeah, it's very simple I'ma show it to you the comment that the the guy who who tagged me in the in the new post it says Says otherwise my boy. He did a video on your scarface tattoo base artist in Arizona. I was like Don't pull me on blast bro But basically he replied to one of the comments that said that does not look like scarface LMAO that does not look like scarface Um Then what does it look like that scarface right there? It's scarface with the gun the smoke going up says red. It's got a money sign on the side. I Mean, it's pretty fire to me if you ask me my whole leg is gonna be portraits and stuff like that so Pretty hard tattoo and it was a free hand if you can't change it work with me He's working with it, you know, I mean he likes it like it's exactly what you said on the last podcast So you said maybe he likes it and he does and he does there you go. You gotta like it I mean it is for you. Mm-hmm. It's for nobody else So if you don't like it, that's where the problem is but he really likes it and he's gonna work with it But that leads us to This week's tattoo nightmare of the week a Lot of people tagged me on this video. I did not watch it this time. You didn't watch it. I didn't watch it Because I want to be surprised this time. The reason why I know it's Tragedy it's because a lot of people tagged me. I'm saying if you look at my my mentions and my tags It's that video over and over So I said I'm not gonna watch it because I feel like this is so you're trusting the people now I'm trusting the people when I was 18. I got my very first big tattoo I absolutely loved it so much that I let the artist have creative control over the second one and it came out like this Which I loved I had such a good time with him the first two times So they went back and I asked for this to be in the middle of it to connect the two He then comes back with this which is simply not this I was thinking that maybe I would just end up liking it And I let him put the stencil on and then his friend came in and they were talking for what seemed like an hour and in That time I realized that that is not what I wanted. So I told him like he comes back. I said, hey Can we change this? I don't really want this. This is not what I showed you. He got pissed at me and he went back to redraw it twice because he couldn't Do what I wanted and that's a very summarized version But I was literally almost in tears about how uncomfortable and awkward this experience was for me because I was trying to stand up for myself And he was just getting so mad in retrospect I should have left but I was young and trying to be nice I guess so we go through the whole tattoo and it comes out like this Which isn't exactly what I wanted still but it didn't look bad I was so embarrassed with how this came out and people kept telling me that it looked like a pineapple And I didn't even like pineapple. So I was like I have to get this covered up This girl that I used to work with worked at this tattoo shop and she said hey my friend can cover that no problem I was like sick. Let's do it I felt like the vibes were a little off when I went to go get the cover up and I don't know what it was to this day Maybe he was drunk or something But it came out like this. This is what it looks like now I absolutely hate it and he also stabbed me in the knee with a tattoo gun on accident And now it's so big and so dark and every time I look at it I just remember about how I couldn't stand up for myself back then and it's it just gives me bad vibes And I don't know what to do about it. I don't think I can cover it up lasers too expensive I just don't know what to do and it's really really been bugging my mind lately So if you have any suggestions on what to do leave them in the comments. I don't like color tattoos. Oh My god, wow crazy how we got this video right after this other video. Yes speaking up for yourself Wow Huge red flag that he got pissed and she also got stabbed with what is what is up with that? I guess it's like a lot more common than we think Damn, that sucks. Yeah, I mean the her first experience like she said she was young and Well, I mean her first tattoo she ended up really liking that's why she went with that person again Yeah, and trusted the artist to do another amazing tattoo on her And it looked very simple. I he could have just Guine an image on Pinterest or Google they have literally templates of the same tattoo that she wanted and just Copy pasted it, you know as an artist. I mean if that's not what you want to do, you know, don't do it either Mm-hmm if you know that that's not how it's gonna come out But I do feel like like the way she said it, you know, he got pissed, you know It was it's kind of like a reaction that it's a weird reaction You know, it's not when when somebody says he got pissed Like it's it's not a reaction that came out of nowhere that one day only Specifically with her, you know, it's it's more of a if he's able to react like that so quick after you made a comment That you don't like it that much. Yeah, and then you just Got mad then it's kind of like a how many times does he do that, you know? And and how intimidating that situation it can be, you know, he could have easily left, you know But maybe she had high hopes that the tattoo was gonna turn out super dope like the first one because she already She already had that good experience with that person. Yeah. Yeah, so it was kind of like I trust you And I'm sorry for making you upset. I'll let you do your thing because you know, I know you got me Dang Yeah, that is true. Yeah, you're actually right Understand that a little bit more and then she went on the to the second artist But at this point she was desperate So it's kind of like whatever you do as long as you take this off of my body and make it better, but then It kind of just backfire and she ended up with another bad tattoo Damn, and I feel for her. What would you recommend? I mean because it's so dark right? There's hope that she can definitely get it covered up My my mind automatically went to a lion a Huge you would have to cover up both Mandela. Yeah, everything got to go Everything the whole thing got to go a huge lion Where the mouth lands the nose area lands under the second Mandela or the lower portion That way the texture from the nose covers that Mandela and then as soon as where would the black net be kind of Be the net will be the ice will probably land right here Okay, the eyes the forehead and the mane from the lion We just cover up the rest of the Mandela and it would just be a nice fade out. It's insane Save your money up for a good cover up artist. Yes Well, wish you nothing but the best and I hope you find the right person to do this job Oh Thank you so much for tagging me in these videos. I really appreciate you We are gonna take a short break and when we come back we have our guest John Nelson joining us on this podcast today Oh All right, we're gonna jump into the segment of our meticulous guest that's gonna grow in you, babe It's what meticulous guest Because I want to call everybody on meticulous friend our meticulous friend. Yeah It's not supposed to make sense. No, I don't like it Okay, any other ideas other than a meticulous guest like for people who are gonna come on to the pad podcast We need a name for the segment. Uh-huh Yeah Kevin really really wants to make fetch happen, but I'm telling you it's not gonna happen our fetch guest. I Like that better what more than a meticulous guest. Yes, damn Okay, so our guest today his name like I mentioned in the last video John Nelson and He does a lot of skits with About you know Situations that we go through on a daily basis not daily basis that that tattoo artists go through You know and a lot of artists can relate to the skits that he makes, you know Yeah, what what what what is that? It's just shaving you man Is that gonna burn it's just to put the stencil on it's not gonna burn Don't move I'm putting it on All right, we're done Really, that's it. We're done Is this dude serious? He thinks we're done Fuck it. I'm gonna roll with this. I don't know if I'm gonna do this anyway. Yeah, we're done And you did great Damn Thank you so much, man like that. I didn't even hurt like I Guess I just sit pretty well You killed it. Anyway, that'll be five hundred dollars. I mean like I guess it was probably just like a little bit like a mental thing Man, you know like five hundred dollars But also he's a great artist. He he's style is so unique. It's like a Kind of like kind of like traditional realism Well, I wouldn't know how to call it because you're the artist here Oh, that one's so nice so nice and it's not all the way realistic But it's also not so simple like traditional and it also has a touch of like you know That's that's definitely got to be one of the questions we got to ask him Yeah Realistic traditional Oh, how you doing man, can you hear me? Hey, what's up? You guys hear me? All right Yeah, we can hear you crazy to uh be on a call with you, man I've been watching your socials. I've been watching all your videos and I'm like, man I wonder if I can talk to him. I have a lot of questions to ask you Yeah, hell yeah, man. Thanks for uh, thanks for driving me on I see you in your car Are you taking a are you running errands or something something actually? So I was in the shop and of course we lose wi-fi in the uh Like in the piercing room, but it's loud and crazy in there right now So I was like shit. Let me just run out to the car quick. Thank you. Thank you for taking that time, man Yeah, yeah, of course Damn, so my first my first question for you is What inspired you to start making this? This videos. Yeah, so you know what? Um The people were saying like to do it for a while. We kind of have this The shop where it's like open atmosphere. We're all talking to each other joking around Really just trying to make each other laugh and like being in a good mood all day And people are like, yo, you should make videos kind of about the jokes you guys tell or the stories and just see what happens Honestly, I was a little hesitant about it at first But I was like whatever let's try it and you know It was just kind of videos We would send back and forth to each other like, you know make a video shoot it to one of the boys You know they're laughing. We're like cool. That's a success. It started to gain some hype So we were like cool. Let's keep making them um And it got like everyone in the shop to do something together and have fun which was Probably the most valuable part of it to me, you know, yeah I mean the type of videos you make they're they're the topics. They're they're very sensitive But also you managed to kind of get the point across without anybody really getting butter about it I'm I'm pretty sure some people get a little sensitive but for the most part when I was watching your videos and the The interactions you were having on the comments. They're very positive and everybody have a has a good laugh So have you have you've been overwhelmed with the kind of feedback that you're that you're getting from your videos um in the beginning maybe Really just in terms of like hey, I don't want this to like hurt the guys in the shop, you know, yeah And like I want this to be a helpful like positive funny thing It is like my sense of humor like it's dry. It's Close to that line and you have to like be careful. Um Don't you know and like when you when you play around in that like sarcasm Kind of rough style of joking like you're just going to cross the line with some people sometimes Has it affected Your career in any way as far as like your clients coming in and feeling a little hesitant or maybe a little intimidated thinking that they're probably going to get inspired and make a video about them That's a good question I've gotten all ranges so um I've had people like stop by the shop just to say what's up. That's been happening like more often than it used to I've had people Come in and maybe feel like a little intimidated based on like the characters will do and stuff Um, I've even had people requests like yo when I get tattooed by you. Can you be mean to me? And like everything I've seen in person at the shop like it's all love which is Super cool. And like one thing that I'm like stoked about is Adrienne and cam Adrienne was my apprentice cams my current apprentice like they're getting a lot of For me like the hardest thing the beginning was like building my clientele and it's helping them do that So that's just so cool to see, you know, that's awesome Speaking of your tattoos though What would you call your style because we were talking about it a little bit and we were seeing um It's kind of like in the mix of very traditional and then realistic at the same time We were having a debate out here, man. We were like, what are you specializing? Yeah, I don't know That's a good question I like the realism a lot or close people have been like hey, I want more of like a neo Dark feel um, and I've always been into like the creepy artwork uh So I'm like cool. I'll just like do some realism and throw some lines on it and like we'll call it neo And they're like, all right, whatever It definitely makes you stand out I was watching your your tattoos and I'm like, you know You can tell your tattoos apart from a lot of people that specialize and kind of like the style that you do But it makes you stand out because you put a little twist to it And you can definitely tell the part, you know, which tattoos you do Congratulations. I'm blowing up first of all Um, what what's next? Actually, I'm opening another shop. Um, that'll hopefully be open In the next six months. Um, and we're merging The uh the tattoo world with like the med spa world So it'll be a tattoo shop that has like Botox fillers. No job tattoo removal Yeah, so it should be pretty cool. It'll be called a model citizen Um, and hopefully will be open by the end of the year. So that's I would say that's what's next That's exciting. Congratulations We have to go get a facial and a tattoo at the same day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's all body mods, right? My experience with the bigger shop is is definitely smaller than or is definitely different than like a smaller shop Do you have a preference you like working with a lot of guys or you prefer smaller? I like I like an open four plan where I can see everyone and Because I mean we everybody gets along so we tell stories. We tell just like, you know We're similar to your environment and uh a lot of the guys here. Everybody's mostly Hispanic So we just blast Mexican music all day long And I think a lot of my clients a lot of my clients are from out of state So when they come here, they're looking for that experience hanging out and Uh getting closer to like 9 p.m. We start getting weird weird conversations. You know, I mean Please describe what you mean by weird After darking it's weird The last topic I remember that it was pretty weird it was hard to get out of it because everybody was intrigued Was about uh One of the artists he had a client That he is a nurse practitioner All right, so Yeah, you know, we just had a patient that he um He went to the bathroom because he was constipated And he just dropped a nine pound ducky In the toilet I'd be like, you know, we have to weigh that World record breaking And it just we probably had like a 30-minute conversation about poop. You're right. You're right. That does get weird Yeah, that was that was a p.m Listen, listen, I get and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way man Like you come in the shop Just talking whatever comes up and like whether you're artist client You feel like you can jump in on the conversation like I love And I understand like when you get tired and late like the top is get weird, you know You roll with it. I mean the other A few months back like we were getting obsessed with this thing with like Talking about how everyone has a number, right? Like um, like in terms of dollar values And like just asking everyone in the shop, you know, and the apprentices always have to participate like, okay I'm gonna be here answer this question, you know um You know like would like how much money would it take for you to like do this or that or whatever And then you know, it gets late in the night and like people start pulling out money Like I put your money where your mouth is or whatever it is um But I think at the time We were asking cam how much money it would cost him for him to leave his girlfriend, right? So like look these are the top of the set up And uh, and I think we I think as a shop we offered him 3000 cash, right? and uh This might have been a little bit longer ago and he was like, uh, so Yo, because that's a lot of money is an apprentice, you know Oh, yeah, thanks, bro He ended up turning it down like a gentleman Um Leaving the money and then unfortunately two weeks later his girl broke up with him, dude. Oh You got y'all jinxed it Obviously we had to remind him about the money that he could have made, you know, obviously Yeah, obviously But like things like that will just come up all the time and like I'm just dying. We're all laughing It's just it's just a good time. He took it like a champ, you know onto the next or whatever He has now no girlfriend and down 3000 Yeah, it happens sometimes Yeah, man, well, thank you so much for joining us man. I really appreciate it means a lot that you took the time to Talk to us and uh, tell us all your stories and how you guys started, you know, that's that's amazing Yeah, of course, man. Thank you again for having me on it's pleasure me and both of you Hopefully we can do this again sometime Of course. Yeah, do you have a youtube channel or is it on the on the making? You know, I don't yet. We've been talking about possibly making one Um, I mean if we do, you know, we'll launch something we've been working on some new kind of content styles Okay, which would kind of move into like longer videos So we'll see where that go actually right when I hop up here. We'll go shoot some new stuff. So You know, so hopefully be up soon. Yeah Yeah, well go ahead and uh Tell us tell the audience anything that you want them to know about you and then your socials and just anything promote yourself Yeah, so, you know, john elson tattoos at a borrowed time tattoos for lauderdale the uh the instagram is john elson tattoos Style unknown, you know Tiktoks also john elson tattoos along with the facebook. It's all the same Awesome, of course, man. Well, thank you so much and you're more than welcome to uh come to arizona as well You have a home here. I really appreciate that guys and thank you for your time I want to say thank you so much to john elson for joining us on this podcast Uh, it means a lot to us that he took the time to To step outside of the shop for a little bit to have this uh interview with us I think he's super chill and super cool. It was uh, it was a real pleasure to have you on the the podcast and meet you so, uh, if any of you want to uh, follow his journey and uh You know follow his work and his videos that he makes follow him on instagram Tiktok and hopefully soon he's gonna be making a youtube channel I'm gonna put the link on the description. So make sure to follow him and uh, yeah We're gonna go to a quick commercial break and we're gonna come back and answer a few emails We are back and ready to start answering a few emails. Today. We are only gonna be choosing one Person we got a couple emails to follow up with from our the previous client So we're just gonna choose one more to get them on the books. Yes So we already set one, uh, one of the clients up. He's all ready to go Um, we've got the dates. We've got the meeting times and everything. So We'll be seeing you soon. Mr. John Carlo. Yes on wednesday We're gonna have a quick little breakfast consultation get his design ready to go and thursday friday We are going in on the full project from shoulder to shoulder for chess plates This week is this week All right, and then uh Following up on your other client. Um, he is deciding to do both pieces All right, and then one of the clients unfortunately, um, how How you said that since we don't put too far off He was looking forward to booking into next year. Oh, yeah So, um, he won't be able to book that be On the books on the books, so Um Um, we're gonna have to send him back his deposit and then hopefully maybe next year he can He can uh reserve a spot. Okay. Once again All right, so the next person is looking for a cover up Um with the hint of color I'm looking to do a big crow with whatever recommendations you might have to add to it I'm gonna decline Crows definitely They they're too dark. All right. So the next one is a cover up as well Looking for true gray Looking for more of a pirate theme. I know it'll be a lot of black and gray So that should make it easier. Uh, to be honest, I am open to any ideas And let you just go at it. So this is the piece to cover up Holy cow, it's dark Oh That is tough Yeah, I'm gonna decline It looks extremely dark and Uh, yeah, I definitely I would definitely say laser is your best choice because There's not a there's not a concept out there. That's gonna cover that up Next one is a cover up as well. It's true gray They want it in the inner form looking to cover up I've seen your work on instagram and youtube and think you're the only person that can help me I've been trying to book an appointment with you for the past year And I hope I get to book an appointment this time. No pressure. No pressure Let me see okay Okay, pretty simple. What did he say the concept? Oh Okay That's tight. Mm-hmm. That's super dope In egyptian school, I knew you were gonna like it. I'll take it. Yeah, I'll take it. Wow Damn, we didn't have to go through a lot of them this time Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you guys next week. Peace