Tattoo Budcast

🎃 IT'S HALLOWEEN WEEK AT THE TATTOO BUDCAST! 👻 And this year, the Buds are putting their artistic abilities (and friendship) to the ultimate test. Sanae and Jimmy Jam are painting each other's faces WITHOUT getting to see what the other is creating! Will they end up with spooky masterpieces or two faces that look like they lost a fight with a box of crayons? Only the final reveal will tell. Whil...

The Halloween episodes just keep getting scarier! 🎃👻 For our THIRD Halloween episode of the month, the buds are joined by Justin Tauch, tattoo artist and owner of Breakwater Tattoo in Long Beach! We kick things off with everyone's favorite guilty pleasure: TRASH FOOD! From chicken nuggets to Taco Bell, we share our go-to meals after a long day. Then we dive into the dos and don'ts of tipping aft...

FUNNY, TATTOOED ARMENIAN GIRL: Stand Up Comedian Mary Basmadjian aka Vartoush Tota | ep. 98 | 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON IS IN FULL SWING AT THE TATTOO BUDCAST! 👻 And what better way to celebrate than with the return of the man, the myth, the paranormal enthusiast himself, Johnny Vampotna, aka THE GHOST GUY! As always, things get a little weird when Johnny’s in session. The Buds dive into aliens, shapeshif...

It’s that time of year again… the Buds are back for another Halloween special, and the Dreamland Art Co. crew is joining us again. Because being scared is more fun when you can watch your friends embarrass themselves too.   We cover all things Halloween, from costumes that have absolutely no business being sexy to Ouija boards. Some things should stay in the spirit world. Others should stay out of...

WELCOME TO THE 100TH EPISODE OF THE TATTOO BUDCAST! 🎉 The Buds are celebrating 100 episodes the only way they know how… by kicking things off with something that genuinely has everyone questioning their sanity. Honestly, making it to 100 episodes might be the craziest part. And you can’t celebrate 100 episodes with just anybody, so the Buds brought in not one, but TWO very special guests: Buddy L...

This week on Tattoo Budcast, we sit down with Bear, host of the Beer With Bear Podcast, a show all about Psychobilly music and culture.   We met Bear after we casually announced that Psychobilly was dead on a previous episode and immediately got lit up in the comments. Turns out Psychobilly fans are very much alive, very passionate, and absolutely hate us. Bear reached out, had us on his show, and...

This week the Buds are sitting down with Armenian-American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and professional family-business exposer Mary Basmadjian! 🎙️ For the last 15 years, Mary has turned immigrant culture, dating, family trauma, mental health, and the beautifully unhinged Armenian experience into comedy. You might know her as the Funny Armenian Girl, or as Vartoush Tota, the leopard-print,...

This week on Tattoo Budcast, we sit down with Shaun Kama, better known as the “King of Halloween Tattoos.” Shaun is a tattooer, artist, musician, certified horror expert, and author of three books. He takes us back to the early ’90s and talks about breaking into tattooing at Mark Mahoney’s legendary Shamrock Social Club, sharing stories from a completely different era of the tattoo world. We also...

The Buds are keeping it in the family this week with a little Best Buds episode. No guests, no RoadBuds, just Sanae and Jimmy Jam catching up on life and whatever’s been taking up space in their brains lately. They get into the dumbest things they believed as kids, from childhood logic that almost made sense to the stuff they’re embarrassed they ever fell for. Then, because apparently getting olde...

Today the Buds are sitting down with the midnight ballerina vigilante who has set social media ablaze, the one and only DEADBEAT. She’s a rapper, musician, internet personality, and dancer who, after 10 years in the clubs, is pulling back the curtain on what really goes on in the world of stripping. We get into the good, the bad, and the dark side of the profession, what happened when Deadbeat sta...

Today the Buds have one of the best to ever do it in session. From Miami Ink, to NY Ink, to… the Budcast couch?! Luke Wessman is in the building. 🎙️ We sit down with a true tattoo legend and somehow kick things off by questioning one of mankind’s greatest achievements: the moon landing. Did we go? Did we not? Did Stanley Kubrick have something to do with it? Tinfoil hats are firmly ON. Then we bri...

This week the Buds have tattooer, shop owner, and all-around creator Raff the Creator in session. 🎙️ Raff’s shop, Creator Tattoo, isn’t your average street shop. Sure, they’re making tattoos inside, but out back? They’re throwing legitimate hardcore shows right in the backyard. And we’re not talking about somebody’s Bluetooth speaker next to a folding table. These are REAL shows. We get into how R...

Fighter. Drag Queen. Painter. Tattooer... and now Author?! 🎙️ This week the Buds are sitting down with Diego Garijo, a man who's lived enough lives for three people... and then decided to write a book about it. From fighting in the cage to painting, tattooing, performing in drag, and now becoming an author, Diego proves that creativity doesn't have to fit in one box. We dive into the stories that...

The Buds are back from a month on the road, and they didn't come home alone. Fresh off convention season, we're joined by two ROADBUDS: returning favorite Frank Allan, the official kooky neighbor of the pod, and fellow tattooer Chris de Armas. This episode starts off the rails... and somehow gets even further away from them. We call an actual doctor to settle one of life's greatest mysteries: wher...

The Tattoo Buds are still on the road! 🚐🎙️ This week we're coming to you from the Northern Arizona Tattoo Fest, where we sit down with award-winning tattoo artist Lindsay Dorman. Lindsay's parents recognized her artistic talent when she was just 3 years old, enrolling her in art lessons that would eventually lead her to a career in tattooing. Although she's classically trained, Lindsay firmly bel...

This week we’ve got a ROADBUDS episode coming to you straight from the Northern Arizona Tattoo Fest in Prescott, Arizona! 🎙️ We’re sitting down with the one and only Stevie Randallyn, better known as The One-Handed Tattooer. Stevie has been tattooing for nearly two decades, building a reputation for incredible American traditional and blackwork tattoos. But her story goes far beyond tattooing. Aft...

Today the Buds are sitting down with drummer, stand-up comedian, and former Kill Tony drummer, Joel Jimenez. 🎙️🥁 We dive into the surprising similarities between tattooing and comedy, why bombing and bad tattoos have more in common than you’d think, and what it takes to get on stage in front of thousands. Joel reminisces about one of the biggest sets of his career and tells us what it was like pr...

On today’s episode, it’s just the Buds. No guest. No adults in the room. Just two friends catching up and seeing where the conversation crashes. Jimmy Jam takes a last-minute trip to Las Vegas to catch No Doubt at the Sphere, while Sanae discovers her newest hyper-fixation… improv. She took a class at the world-renowned Groundlings, and somehow became even more obnoxious than before. We support gr...

The Buds are back, and this time we've got a returning Bud in the building: Robert Gray, co-owner of La Luna Art Collective in Orange, California. But Rob didn't come alone. He brought fellow tattooer and Bud Karina Badillo, so you're getting two tattooers for the price of one. We kick things off with an important moral debate: Is stealing actually wrong if it's from a big store... and you really,...

Today we have the one and only… well, “he’s just a guy,” according to him… Tim Hendricks. We’re sitting down with the tattooers’ tattooer himself to talk about his lifelong love of the craft and why being old school doesn’t mean you have to be old-fashioned in your attitude. You can respect tradition, protect the craft, and still be a genuinely kind human. Imagine that. Tim talks about gatekeeping...

On today’s episode, we’ve got a real living legend in the building. From the X Games to the stage and straight onto the Tattoo Budcast couch, Rick Thorne is in session, and he’s bringing the goods. We get into positive mental attitude and the long road that brought him there. Rick opens up about the highs, the lows, and how he learned to turn bitter into better. We talk BMX, life lessons, and his...

Today we got two Buds for the price of one 🎙️🔥   We’re welcoming back Pokey Wolf along with his work husband and co-owner of Pacific Tattoo, Mick Barrett.   We’re catching back up with Pokey while learning how Mick got his start in tattooing, and how a brief five-year prison sentence pulled him away from traditional tattooing… only to lead him right back to his first love: American traditional.  ...

Today… Pride showed up a little early 🌈🎙️ And ushering it in is our official li-GAY-son, Yesi Concepcion. Yesi is back in session and still ripping incredible tattoos while teaching the Buds a thing or two. We get into lesbian lore, Subarus, U-Hauls, and why Katy Perry was basically the ultimate wingman for early 2000s lesbians. Yesi also builds her official Gay Mount Rushmore, educates the painf...

Today we’ve got the voice behind that legendary “dirty reggae” sound 🎙️🔥 The one and only Jesse Wagner of The Aggrolites is in session, and trust us… his lore goes WAY deeper than music. Did you know Jesse was a child performer? Because we’ve got the receipts, and he shares stories about who he performed for long before the reggae days. We also get into poop cruises, his childhood obsession with...

This week on the Tattoo Budcast, we’ve got two heavy hitters in the building… and trust us, these girls are absolutely NOT “hear me outs” because they require ZERO explanation 😭🎙️   We’re hanging with Brooke and Nikie, two large-scale neo-traditional legends who are somehow just as hilarious as they are talented.   We get into reality TV, create our own Real Housewives-style taglines, and talk ab...