Welcome to the One Life Plan Chance podcast. I'm your host Toby Morse. Today I have a very very very special guest, a good friend of mine for over 20 years.

He's a tattoo artist. He's a father, he's a husband, he's a photographer, and he's super handsome.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast,

Mr. Juan Puente.

What's up, Toby?

All right, bud.

Doing good after that lunch.

Yeah, it was good lunch, right?

I took my man, Juan, to crossroads to get the burger today and

loved it. Little vegan life going on here in Los Angeles. We'll see what happens.

So before we get to the man, the myth, the legend Juan Puente, who the world has come to love,

I like to take it back to the roots and the history of you and your upbringing and growing up.

And were you born in California?

No, actually I was in California, but.

No, actually I was born in Mexico.

Oh shit, learned something every day.

Yeah, I don't know if you heard this story.

I found out last year.

Oh, yeah, this is the amazing story.

That I was adopted, which is like the complete most ridiculous thing. You know, finding out at 48 years old, yeah, you're adopted. But it didn't really affect me. Like everybody asked if I was okay, but more than anything, it was just, you know, my parents actually went through some crazy steps just to get me. Yeah. You know what I mean?

So when I found out it was, it was conversation on the phone, this and that, and then it really all hit me at once

because I just come through my mom's whole house.

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