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Hello. Welcome back. I haven't been here in a couple weeks, and for that, I apologize.

I'm Andrew Stortz,

and I will be your fearless leader yet again today on this episode 33 of books closed.

And I thought it was appropriate after taking a couple weeks off to talk to people who do things

outside of tattooing. Like myself, I do this podcast, and it takes up a lot of my time and energy and thoughts,

and I enjoy it, but it can be hard to balance everything, tattooing full-time, and all that stuff.

You know, you know how it goes, or maybe you don't.

So anyway, this week, I talked to

Alex Cass, who was responsible for the Instagram page, Tattoo Gear for Sale. And I've actually

had a handful of people requesting that I talked to him over the time I've been doing this

podcast. And I was always trying to think think how would a Instagram page that is geared

towards reselling and trading tattoo equipment? How is that interesting for a podcast? Well,

it is because Alex is an interesting guy. So first we'll start off talking to Alex about his

experience running that page and And then after that,

we talked to tattooer, Zach Scheinbaum, who is responsible for Afterlife Press. And he has made

amazing books, two amazing volumes through Afterlife Press that we will talk to Zach about later on in

the show.

So make sure you stay tuned in for that.

And let's get into my conversation with Alex Cass.

Alex, are you there, pal?

Yes, sir, I am.

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