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Ink Tales and Transformations: Johnny Olsen on the Art of Tattooing and the Stories Behind the Skin
When the ink flows, so do the stories; this is exactly what you'll experience as Johnny Olsen from Adam Street Tattoo etches a scripture close to my heart, live on our podcast. In the midst of the gentle hum of his tattoo machine, we traverse his 15-year legacy, from the birth of Lincoln Tattoo alongside Colby and Jake Jordan, to the intricate waltz of managing a studio that pulses with creativity and client dreams to his creation of Adam's Street Tattoo.
Strap in for a ride through high school days filled with JROTC drills and football games, which somehow harmonize with today's tattoos and tunes. It's not all about the ink; my recent foray into reviving Bushnell's parks and rallying the community is a testament to the idea that we're all more than our day jobs. Johnny and I exchange views on translating client visions into permanent masterpieces, as well as our own escapes—arrow by arrow in archery, and cast by cast in fishing—revealing the people behind the tattoos.
To wrap it all up, Johnny takes us behind the scenes of tattoo cover-ups, where regretful ink becomes a renewed art form under his skillful hands. Delving into his favorite projects, including a whimsical award-winning piece, he breaks down the technique and gratification found in transforming someone's inked remorse into pride. We also tease an upcoming podcast episode with a compelling tale, proving that every person—and every tattoo—has a unique story waiting to be told.
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we are going to podcast, or attempt to podcast while this tattoo is happening. I'm kind of a big chicken, so we'll see how this goes. But, uh, we are currently in the studio of johnny olsen here at adam street tattoo in macomb. He'll be raffling off the uh, the tattoo or tattoos we haven't decided yet which is raffling off tomorrow, but there's at least $100 worth of tattoo work that's going to be going out, going to be on raffle tomorrow. We're going to do that between after, before the, before the fire dies, and before bury thy wicked place. We'll be giving away tattoos.
Speaker 1:So make sure you show up and buy yourself some tickets and give yourself a chance to come up here and get some dope uh tattoo work. So, ready to ready to rock, let's do the thing. Let's do the thing. So if you guys want to pop in with some questions or something for johnny or or uh just want to hang out with us for a while, we'll be. We'll be here for a bit. So, but, uh, yeah, met Johnny a few years back. Um, he's done some tattoo work for me in the past. So, uh, when it came time to find another person for a tattoo raffle, it wasn't too hard to find um how long you been tattooing johnny pretty close to 15 years 15 years, and how long do you think you did it before?
Speaker 1:like you really considered yourself pretty decent at it I don't know if I consider myself pretty decent you've got to be decent at it or you, or you wouldn't have your own shop well, I just always try to be better than my last one.
Speaker 2:There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1:But how does that start? So one day you're hanging out and you're like you know what I might want to do tattoos. What is the path for? Maybe not all people or some people, but what was your path to doing that?
Speaker 2:Funny enough and I'm going. I'm having stand up for me correct.
Speaker 2:Funny enough, I uh wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid a pilot, yeah and so I was always drawing pictures of airplanes and I was just obsessed with flight and I ended up not being able to be a pilot for the military because of my eyesight. So I kind of just chose a different route. But I had always had drawing and then I got my first tattoo and then I decided that's kind of where I wanted to go give it a shot, and that's what I've been doing for 15 years now yep, so I've chosen a scripture.
Speaker 1:that is a song that, um, it's in regards to parenting, but it has something to do with arrows, and anybody that knows me knows that if I could do something to represent my kids and and get a little archery in there with some scripture, then it's all good in my books. So so this is what we're going to do, and you've been a couple of different places in town by now. How long have you been here at this shop? You started your own thing here just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh. February was the start of our third year here. Before that I had the pleasure of helping to start lincoln tattoo with the wonderful colby colby's pretty infamous around here yeah yeah, so got the pleasure of working with him and jake jordan for a while and, uh, kind of got super busy, but I also like to to travel a lot and do things, so having my own studio just seemed like the natural step to go next to. So we're, uh, yeah, we're in our third year now third year here doing your own thing.
Speaker 1:Is there a lot more on like the business end of things that you never really considered, you know, or?
Speaker 2:um, yeah, I mean, I've had some previous experience, but I know, it's always you know.
Speaker 1:You know getting a handle on messages and orders and taxes and all that jazz, your own publicity and, and uh yeah, just building a following, which I'm sure you've built over several years with several different people do you have super lucky to be able to do something creative every day.
Speaker 2:That I love, and I've got clients that drive from all over the place sometimes a few hours to come and get some work done. That's awesome and of course, I love my local clientele as well.
Speaker 1:And you came up in Pekin, correct Pekin Illinois.
Speaker 2:Pekin is definitely where I went to school. I've got a lot of friends there.
Speaker 1:I have a lot of people that'll drive there or drive from there. Um, but yeah, that's where I started peaking high school. Yes, sir dragon. Yep, that's cool. What all did you do in high school?
Speaker 2:um, I did, uh, the jrotc for a little while and then, uh, I definitely loved playing football, yeah. Yeah, I had a little bit of getting in trouble here and there well, we all find a little bit of that in our time.
Speaker 1:Um, I'll see, uh, what else we got. Anybody's any questions? You can go ahead and pop on and we'll answer them as best we can here. Yeah, that's a tender spot. You awake, I'm awake. I'm here. How are things starting over?
Speaker 2:there, oh man, you either find me hanging out with my kids or tattooing. Usually, yeah yeah, I'm just riding the same old horse. Really, how about you? How's that treating you?
Speaker 1:Life is good man. I actually just got put on park board in Bushnell, so now I'm helping to try and get the park up to snuff and help them guys any way that I can. Actually, we're going to have a. There's a uh bracket challenge at Devon Raleigh, which is one of the sponsors of my uh, my production company that's putting on these shows. Um, he works for shelter insurance and he donated uh donated some money and stuff to help us get going and uh, he's also on that park board. So, um, we're going to bounce some ideas together and, uh, along with several other people that are on that board that have a lot of good ideas, and just try to make it best we can. You know, trying to get back to my hometown a little bit.
Speaker 2:Now does that include the golf course?
Speaker 1:No, golf course is not part of the park district in Bushnell, but I am a member of the golf course. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:How's the tattoo treating you?
Speaker 1:Tattoos not bad man. One thing I have heard about Johnny's work. I've been to a few different tattoo artists over the years and they all say the same thing about Johnny's work, because he's one of the more light-handed guys in the business. So not only do you get a sweet design, but he doesn't kill you while he's doing it. He just hits the tender spots sometimes so, but that's part of the job.
Speaker 2:You don't usually pick where they're going.
Speaker 1:Is that a tough part of the job Like someone has a vision that come in they say, hey, this is what I want here, this is what I want you to do, and in your head you you're thinking like there's no way this is gonna look good uh, when I first got into it and stuff.
Speaker 2:But you know, it's like you always want to please people and I wasn't sure how to find that balance in between the two. Like, hey, I don't think that's gonna look great right, hurting anybody's feelings, because there's always that customer's always right mentality.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, even when they're not. But over time I really have learned that if you just take the time to listen to what your client's trying to say, you can find a way to translate Because, like as an artist says, what you're supposed to be able to do is translate. Right, you know you're an interpreter and you're going to try to give them that idea. Listen to what they have to say. You know I wouldn't I wouldn't try to change the words if I was translating for somebody, so I try not to change the idea too much. There's always a medium, though, right.
Speaker 1:I'm trying not to squeeze my hand. I'm not having much luck. Yeah, I'm trying not to squeeze my hand. I'm not having much luck. You know, what's really cool about macomb area as well is like growing up there was that stigma about tattoos or people with tattoos and stuff, and so it seemed like for a lot of folks they would never go like near a tattoo shop or be around people that had a lot of tattoos and stuff, and so it seemed like for a lot of folks they would never go like near a tattoo shop or be around people that had a lot of tattoos and stuff. And I think that stigma has really changed a lot over the last several years. Ask Olson if he still does finger tattoos with the purchase of a sleeve.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:One finger per sleeve, so you better get both arms and legs done. You also travel a bit to do your tattoo work, don't you?
Speaker 2:I used to uh. Right before covid, I was traveling once or twice a month all over the country.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is that appointments or is that mostly the shows?
Speaker 2:uh, I don't. Yeah, I don't talk about it a whole lot, but I'm was really fortunate. I got to work with Ray Hernandez and Chuck Jones and they do the Ink Masters conventions around the country. So I was fortunate enough to work with the Ink Masters for a while, also did a lot of shows for Villain Arts, won my first national award out of Baltimore.
Speaker 1:What was?
Speaker 2:that award for For a small color tattoo Small color yeah, that's cool man.
Speaker 1:There was about 1,500 artists there, so just winning an award was kind of yeah, just having your name in that, hat's pretty special.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's something I don't really talk about. All that I just try to, like I said, always be better than my last one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good, good habit to have, really for any hobby or habit or anything that you try and do. I was actually at the bow shop before I came here sighting in for a shoot sunday morning. So I'll talk about archery. I got somebody hooked a few years back shooting a bow. Now he's killed a few deer and, like I said, he's hooked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty cool. I learned a lot. We had some good times, some good shoots. It was fun. It's been a little while I bet it's been a good eight months since I've shot my bow, so maybe I'll have to get it back out here there you go, yep, asa season's ramping up and I'm getting ready to shoot a few.
Speaker 1:Get some water in me. Doesn't smell like water. Chad, it's water. This is legitimate business now. We'll save the. We'll save the St Paddy's Day shenanigans for tomorrow evening. I'm excited. Johnny Olsen is amazing at what he does. He done most of all my work and more to come. Brittany Fundle.
Speaker 2:Oh, thanks, britt. Always fun to have Brittany. She is an absolute tough as nails person. She does not move, flinch or anything. Yeah, I've tattooed her neck her collarbones. She just sits there.
Speaker 1:She's awesome to work with the most of clientele you work with pretty good about stuff like that, or is do you work with a lot of folks you have to remind like hey, sit, still I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm literally carving ink into your skin it's pretty easy to get excited about the tattoo situation and being having a little, you know, having a little bit of anxiety towards the situation. Not to mention your adrenaline gets going and your endorphins start kicking in, so you kind of you kind of lose that ability to sit completely still after a while, so you just kind of roll with it. There's a few times where you gotta be like, hey man, you know, relax a little bit, you got chilled bro.
Speaker 1:This is a new experience for me. I've never had anything done on the forearm, so everything I've got's upper arm right now, hoping to change that eventually. But you know priorities. I don't get to spend much money on tattoos nowadays. I've got too many hobbies and kids. You also play a lot of music in town, don't you?
Speaker 2:um, I've definitely been fortunate enough to play with a lot of different bands and stuff here locally.
Speaker 1:I like to do the open mics when I can get off work in time and yeah, let's see uh go up to the cafe and do some uh open mic stuff with like uh sean griffith and oh yes, sir, yeah uh, some of them fellas yeah, macomb square music.
Speaker 2:Adam does a great job um adam is another sponsor yeah square music up here.
Speaker 1:He puts on a little, puts on a little open mic and stuff. I need to be better about going up there.
Speaker 2:It's just a lot of great local talent and it's cool to see, because I felt like the music scene kind of slowed down a little bit and then now it's just starting to kind of pick back up more. So it's really nice.
Speaker 1:And you're getting a little bit of everything Like. We're getting good rock bands in the area, we're getting good country bands in the area and just trying to keep this metal thing going for a little while too.
Speaker 2:So it's nice to go back to having those, uh, old school vibes, because when I was, you know, just out of high school and stuff, going to metal shows is one of my favorite things to do and it's like they kind of disappeared around here.
Speaker 1:Yeah and you say that that, uh, you and arrow, um, that's kind of your.
Speaker 2:Your daddy time with with her is to go, and uh, go to metal shows and whatnot yeah, so we we kind of got to go to a few different shows together, but yeah, that's uh music, especially metal, is uh one thing that we love to do together. For sure. That and food music and food is our two things to go and do.
Speaker 1:There you go we're in and see you at the mall here. What was it? A few months back now, ran to you at the mall. It was before, um, that show with catch your breath. Uh, who else was under oath was at that show under oath? You agree, under oath was amazing, uh. And then they had, uh, ice nine kills put on a great show and then, um, oh, ronnie, ronnie radke's group falling in reverse.
Speaker 1:So falling in reverse has been arrow and i's band for years and years, okay, since she, since before she started junior high, around the junior high time yeah, and they've gone through a lot of different sound changes in their time too, from just like a glam rock type band into the rap metal thing that he's doing now. But uh, I like a lot of their stuff. If I know I know a lot of people are kind of turned off by by ronnie's personality, but uh, the music's music's good man that was my first time hearing ice.
Speaker 2:Nine kills, and they were incredible. Ice nine is amazing with what they do and that like we went there for falling in reverse, but I think I left there thinking that ice nine was probably my favorite of the night yeah, and their music is great but their shows are just amazing to watch.
Speaker 1:But then at the end of falling in reverse when they had the lasers and the fire and like I didn't say anything for 10 minutes after that show just because it was like sensory overload, just so much going on and anytime you take a breakdown and you play it again, but twice as slow. That that's when battle heads start to froth at the mouth a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can say. You can like or not dislike, ronnie, if you want to, but you can not deny that man's got a lot of talent.
Speaker 1:He's very, very creative. We all go through our times where we're uh less proud of ourselves than other times in life, but that's uh part of the ride. I guess, once again, if you're just popping in, we're doing this, uh, doing this tattoo here at Adams Street, tattoo in Macomb. Do a little podcast here. While he puts a little scripture on my arm here to honor my kids and my faith and whatnot, johnny will be raffling off a tattoo here tomorrow night to help us put this show on.
Speaker 2:So I've been thinking about that. Trav, we've got three bands, right, four bands, oh, we're not on four bands, all right. So I think that after the first band we could do a $50 gift certificate. Do a $50. One after the first band I think after the second band we could probably do a $50 do a 50 one after the second. Yeah okay and I think I think if you stick around to the fourth bands over with, I'll do another $50 gift certificate.
Speaker 2:That $50 really kind of gets you in the door. You obviously can win more than one. I try to be as reasonable about pricing and whatnot. If you want to get a small tattoo, we'll work with you. But I definitely want to try to throw some tattoo things out there and kind of lighten the load.
Speaker 1:If you only want a $100 tattoo, johnny will draw you up a hundred dollar tattoo and what he thinks is fair. And if you want something a little nicer, a little more elaborate, um he's, he'll draw you something up too and take a hundred dollars off of that, and I don't think that I've never had an issue paying saint patty's day.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll do, after the first, second and third bands, we'll do a 50 and then after if you stick around for the fourth band, we'll do 100. At the end of the night we'll make it a 250 we'll make it a 250 night for the.
Speaker 1:You know I got some irish blood and I'm feeling a lot, feeling the luck of the Irish tonight.
Speaker 2:So I'll share some of that luck. You know I've been really lucky to be a part of this town and what the town's given me, so we're going to make it a $250 tattoo giveaway night tomorrow $250 worth of tattoos.
Speaker 1:You heard it here first, folks, from the horse's mouth. I've been very fortunate to have very supportive, uh, sponsors and folks that want to help out and give back. And, um, you know, it all starts with with showing up and and and just being part of things. Uh, like I said I've in in past podcasts that I've done with some of the band members and stuff, I don't know how many people that we've turned, you know to, to heavy music just by having them show up to a show and be part of things. So I think I've I've had that experience a few times where it's just like I don't think I'm going to enjoy this kind of music, it's not really my thing. And then you like show up and some dude shredding on a banjo is like okay, I could get into this, cause he might not be plugged in with a bunch of distortion, but he's uh, he's definitely up there grinding, you know.
Speaker 2:It definitely happened to me with folk music. My buddy, noah, turned me on to folk music and it just just kind of hit me from the side, t-boned me, and I've been kind of hooked ever since yeah, it's got its place.
Speaker 1:Well, you think about it, it's all got its place. Casey Seals is watching. Welcome, casey. I'm sitting here with Johnny Olsen letting him carve ink into my flesh. He's doing a great, light-handed job, as usual. So, looking back, what are some of your favorite tattoos that you've done? You know, I know that you've done so many that it's probably hard to, but there's got to be one or two in your mind that you've done where you're like. Okay, that sticks out.
Speaker 2:I really enjoyed doing that one so when I, when I won that award in Baltimore.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask you which one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a really fun tattoo. The client was pretty awesome. He had a cool idea. Uh, we did this. It was an ache that had, uh like a red jumpsuit on and a big chain and a boom box. It was like it was just completely out of left field and I was like, well, let's just run with it. And then, you know, we both left that day with a trophy in our hands, so that was pretty cool I've seen a lot of the smaller pieces you've done.
Speaker 1:I've seen some of the sleeves you've done.
Speaker 2:Um are you also known for doing like full chest, full back type stuff too my more favorite pieces are my full chest and back pieces that I've gotten to do. Um, I really love to do black and gray animal work. Uh, you know, not just like the lions and stuff, right, like any kind of black and gray animal you know. Um, I don't know there's. There's some big religious pieces that I've done that were really fun. Um, every time I do something meaningful for somebody there you go kind of commemorate a loss or remember somebody.
Speaker 2:You know, those are really probably my favorite ones well, you've you've become part of the experience.
Speaker 1:So it's like you know, now this person's gonna remember me forever because I was able to do that for him.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's pretty cool or tattoos that I can do to cover scars.
Speaker 1:Those are really cool too, you know yeah, change that experience for people and some confidence I know that, uh, no, tattoo artist is a huge fan of doing like cover-up work, but if you see a bad tattoo, are you just like, dude, I can't wait to cover that thing up, or is it like all right, let's do this?
Speaker 2:so I feel like I probably, man, it might be a bit obtuse to say I do one a week, uh, but it wouldn't be crazy to say that I do at least three cover-ups a month and I don't mind doing them whatsoever. So don't have any fear of bringing me your cover-up work to do. I've got a lot of experience in it. I do quite a few of them and I I mean some of them can be tedious, but there's very few that I've said.
Speaker 1:Well, we can't work with that so very few meaning you've done it before yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So like there's a I mean even solid black tribal I've covered up. So like really we can, we can fix some messes if you, if you got some stuff that needs repaired or changed or covered or that dude or chick that you tattooed to your yeah yeah, we to your neck that now.
Speaker 1:Uh, you wish you hadn't put there. You've done a coverup for me, though. The very first tattoo I got was like a patriotic flag with a skull and whatnot, and, uh, it was done at a location that was very low budget, uh, but you know, it was my first tattoo and I was proud of it, so I rocked it until I got, um, some more work done on the other side, and after I got that work done, I was just like okay, even even my sister, jess, is like okay, we got to do something with that other tattoo. It's driving me nuts, and if you know anything about my sister, she's covered in tattoos as well. So, um, it just was driving everybody.
Speaker 1:Johnny, jess, a lot of my friends who have tat work. They'd be like, yeah, show me that again. Okay, don't show me that anymore. And so you took the time, though, to like actually draw out the lines. You want to explain that process a little bit, cause I I never heard of that or knew about that, but when you do a coverup, you like to draw lines and and get your spacing right, your gapping, so you just kind of want to.
Speaker 2:I try to work different directions from where the tattoo is. You know, like, um, draw your away, your eye away from that tattoo and like when you say cover-up, it's kind of it doesn't fully encompass what's going on there in the process, cause a lot of stuff you're hiding. Or you know, like, I'll take this shape and like separate it from the tattoo. We also try to include it in the new tattoos. That it makes things more readable, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, it's just because that pigment disappears. So you're you're kind of molding it, You're working with what's there, you know Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, it's not like drawing on a piece of paper. It's flat. If you tape it down, it's not going to move, yada, yada, but like when you're when, when you're tattooing, when you're tattooing someone's body like you gotta take into account their, their muscle structure and the curvature of their, of their limbs and whatnot okay.
Speaker 2:So yeah, you were talking more like flow and ape type yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so like, yeah, like, uh, you know, even with this. So this is kind of more of a linear design. But if I was drawing like a more picturesque design, I would definitely try to have like a more of an s curve shape instead of because we're we're not linear creatures. You know, we're not built like squares and we're not even the same on each side. If you cut a.
Speaker 1:No two people are the same, it seems like, and we'd look quite odd if we were Cookie cutter. It'd make your job a lot easier.
Speaker 2:I suppose, yeah, as far as lining tattoos up, oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:What are you doing? Well, doing well, I gotta tattoo a bunch of clones today. I'll just say that johnny is uh capable of tattooing any person of any race, in any color. So one of my favorite stories actually was uh, he was telling me one day he had some dude walk in. He goes, dude, tattoo on me, some clapping hands that was a fun one. That was a fun one what he bet was the hand, like the prayer hands. But the dude walked in say, hey, man, put some clapping hands on me.
Speaker 2:It took me a minute to figure out what he was trying to ask me for. Yeah, we can do that, hell, yeah, yeah. Going back to like, as far as skin tones and stuff, um, it doesn't really matter. I've worked with all varieties of skin tones. The only ones I don't like are the sunburned skin tones. Those are the only ones we don't work.
Speaker 1:Why would anybody want a tattoo over a sunburn you?
Speaker 2:know some people will go through the weekend and you know, go and hang out and have fun and then not even realize they forget they have a tattoo appointment small burn can cause a big problem when it comes to tattoos, so that's the only kind of skill.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, and that's good of you because you could cause that person more problems. You know, potentially because you've got to go through. What kind of training does the state make you go through to? To have a shop, you gotta have your blood-borne pathogens and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of artists choose to also be trained or first aid. I'm trained to first aid cpr just you know. If I have any kind of issues during tattoos, sometimes people get themselves worked up or CPR Just you know, if I have any kind of issues during tattoos, sometimes people will get themselves worked up or don't eat. You know, we will occasionally have people that will pass out for a short period of time. I've had a few clients that have had seizures in the chairs and just kind of want to make sure you know what's going on.
Speaker 1:Make sure you're prepared for each situation. Absolutely Well. It looks like we're about 40 minutes into this dude and you're about three quarters of the way there.
Speaker 2:It's tax season, man, I don't do a whole lot besides hang out with the kiddos and sit in this chair and tattoo. I'm in the groove. These days until about June, I pretty much wake up ready to tattoo. Yeah, these days until about June, I pretty much wake up ready to tattoo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get the kids to school and it's time to sit down and tap folks up. And you've got social media as well. You've got Instagram and you've got Facebook. Is it Adam Street street tattoo on?
Speaker 2:yes, sir uh, the best way to book with me is to go to adam street tattoo and shoot me a message from the facebook there so go to facebook messenger.
Speaker 1:Uh, shoot, shoot, johnny, an idea of what you're looking for. And uh, you know he's usually pretty good about. Okay, if you want this, it'll take this long and it'll cost you this much. I'll just say, folks, tattoos are just like anything else in this world you get what you pay for, because you know everybody goes through that learning phase. But some people seem like they don't get out of that learning face. I've seen some pretty wrecked tattoos. I've had a pretty wrecked tattoo, so of course you're not thinking about it at the time. You're young and stupid and you're just you're proud of it. So so check in over here see what he's got going on. Hey, jonathan, what's up? He's been dubbed the. He's shaped like the thumb from Spy Kids. That was the joke on their podcast coming along, getting there, getting there.
Speaker 2:How long your podcast usually?
Speaker 1:uh, it depends what's going on, who I'm talking to. If it's just seth and I kind of keeping up with things, we'll do a 30, 40 minute. But if I got a group of guys and we're kind of bsing and you know, shooting, shooting, whatever, then, um, we can go an hour, hour and a half sometimes. I just did a podcast with a local gentleman that I'm going to put out after the show, um, but he came here, born and raised in Kenya and then came here to attend school and has made a life for himself here. So be looking out for that, because that was a really cool podcast. Was just his coming to America story and what it's like in his neck of the world, compared to coming here and not going to give it out. But stay tuned for that one Cause trying to get back to some of the stories, cause I really enjoy doing podcasts revolved around stories and getting to meet people and, uh, it's a lot of fun, man, we all share a whole lot in common.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of fun, man, we all share a whole lot in common. Jonathan's gonna find the pick of the. Uh, the thumb dude from spy kids. What does tattoos feel like? Well, it's kind of like going to the dentist. What is it? Well, what is it that kiba gooding says he's like a little more than a pinch, but a little less than having to pay your taxes each year?
Speaker 1:yeah, I think that's a fair comparison located here at adam street and macomb, right off the campus of our beloved Western Illinois University. Go Leathernecks, I'm a big sissy. I never watch them do it because I know that I'll flinch or I'll tense up. So having a podcast kind of makes it a little nice because I can stay over here and check out who's popping on and pay attention to what's recording here on the computer and try to make the best of it. So but, like I've said, I've, uh I've had a few different tattoos here done by Johnny. So I don't feel like I'm putting anybody out by uh, bring it a bit to do the, do the raffle, because my money's literally where my mouth is. This guy's tattooed me. So I'm uh excited to have him um hand out some gift certificates here tomorrow night.
Speaker 1:Wonder if Jonathan found the picture? Nope, we're doing some arrows. So if you're at the show tomorrow and you're interested in getting some tat work done, definitely look up Johnny. He'll be at the show tomorrow. And you're interested in getting some tat work done, definitely look up Johnny, he'll be at the show, he'll be around. He responds well to someone buying him a beer and asking him about a tattoo. But, like you said earlier, if you're interested in getting some work done from him, hit him up on Adam Street. Tattoo on Facebook is the easiest way on Messenger. He's also got an Instagram so you can check out some stuff there too if you're more of an Insta folk. But this is what he does. This is what he does when he's not chasing kids or playing music up at open mic night, or we could do some fishing too, don't you? Oh, I love to fish. Yeah, does a lot of fishing out there. I saw some pictures of you, sean griffith, out at the river a few times oh, you got me on a cold one this year cold one.
Speaker 1:What were you guys fishing for that day? Uh, saw guy walleye walleye sawyer yeah it's like winter's the best time to catch them too, because the really cold water freezes out a lot of the algae and stuff and you don't taste near as much of the fishy taste, if that's not your thing.
Speaker 2:So you don't have to ever worry about the taste of the shiny boys cooking them I have not had his fish yet. I bet it's for you well I've ruined everybody else's fish for you.
Speaker 1:I'm not a big fish eater. There's only a handful of people I can. I can eat it and I'll have to hit him up sometime and see if if I can get on that list.
Speaker 2:I'm a big fan of eating striped bass lately. That's a. It's a good, hearty one, doesn't? They don't really stop moving and uh, they don't have that fishy flavor, really like that gamey fish right did a uh pheasant hunt this year.
Speaker 1:We came home with several bags of pheasant and uh started making some like uh, alfredo and stuff out of the like alfredo, and noodles out of the pheasant breast meat and stuff like that. It's pretty good. It's a little rich but, uh, you learn how to do it and tame it down with some wine and stuff while you're cooking it. It's really good. Never had pheasant.
Speaker 2:It's like a gamey or chicken Cooked a lot of duck.
Speaker 1:Sufficient amount of duck. I haven't had a lot of duck. I never was big into waterfowl though. George DeHaro, Thanks for popping on. Man Looks like a tattoo that's all handled do a little bit of touch-up also. He's really good about. Uh, you know if, if you do a larger tattoo, you'll probably do it in sessions, correct?
Speaker 2:It kind of depends on the tolerance and the budget. I don't mind breaking stuff up, you know, uh, you, you know whether your pain tolerance be low or your, your funds be low, I don't mind. Schedule yeah, I don't mind doing multiple sessions If you can sit and knock it all out. Like Brittany, like we were talking about earlier, I wouldn't do a tap out session with that girl. She'd fall asleep.
Speaker 1:Not to mention, uh, if you have some spots, maybe that dried out or something. He's really good about doing some touch-ups. I know on the one cross I had done by him, uh, it was just black. You know black and gray type stuff. But yeah, you like to use some whites and stuff to make it pop in certain areas and um, yeah sure.
Speaker 1:Just like that. That's what she looks like. Let me get this thing going here. Rotate your phone, it says. So that's what she looks like. I like it. Dude. Another grade, a effort here by Johnny Olson Adam street tattoo.
Speaker 2:Thank you Appreciate it.
Speaker 1:So we'll get some pictures taken and we'll get some stuff posted here. I'm really excited to see everybody tomorrow night at the show. Johnny's going to be there. He's going to be showing off some of his artwork and, uh, given some, given some tattoos away. So make sure you're buying up some raffle tickets and if you don't win a raffle ticket, still give him a call and book something, because that's what he does. So, all right, thanks for tuning in. Guys Appreciate it. Thanks for having me in dude. Um, we will catch up again here soon and, uh, hope to see everybody at mean green tomorrow night. Have a good one see ya.
