Support Your Local Tattooer (SYLT)

About Support Your Local Tattooer (SYLT)

Support Your Local Tattooer is a tattoo podcast for artists, collectors and anyone who cares about tattoo culture. Hosted by Austin Spencer, the show brings honest conversations with tattooers, shop owners, and respected voices in the industry, covering tattoo history, apprenticeship stories, shop life, creative growth, tattoo business, and the real experiences shaping tattooing today. Through authentic storytelling and meaningful conversations, each episode is built to keep tattooers connected, informed and inspired. If you care about the culture, the craft, and the people behind the work, this is the podcast for you. New episodes every first Sunday of the month.

Publisher

Austin Spencer

Category

arts · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Jun 2024

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Is Cringe Crashing The Tattoo Artist Industry? The New Tattoo Attitude | Support Your Local Tattooer Ep. 28

   Tattooers ready to push through visibility anxiety, stay mentally healthy, and build a career on their own terms will find honest company here. Lettie Lynch, Crocodile Jackson, and Jonathan Penchoff join Austin Spencer for a live panel on creative cringe, finding your voice online, and why client praise can quietly stunt your growth. Austin shares how starting this podcast led to a Squire sponsorship. The four also dig into building thick skin, choosing people who actually support you, stay...

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Full-Time Artist or Full-Time Owner: Joey Hamilton on the Choice That Breaks You | Support Your Local Tattooer Ep. 27

   Tattoo shop owners juggling multiple locations will want to hear what Joey Hamilton learned running Revolt Tattoos across Las Vegas and Houston: you cannot be a full-time tattoo artist and a full-time business owner without something breaking. Hamilton won Ink Master Season 3, opened his first shop for $12,000, and now faces $250,000 to $500,000 build-outs per location, yet still tattoos six days a week. That contradiction is exactly what he unpacks here, including how casino shop culture tr...

3. 

   2 Aug 2026

   The Man Behind GREAT SEX STUDIOS ft. Blaze Ben Brooks | Support Your Local Tattooer Ep. 26

   Blaze Ben Brooks designed more than 150 tattoo business cards, branded Maverick, and illustrated Tom Petty's final album. This one is for any artist figuring out how to stay original. Austin sits down with illustrator, graphic designer, and painter Blaze Ben Brooks, the artist behind the Maverick Supply Co brand. They get into the business-card project that opened the entire tattoo world to Blaze, how designing for artists became a trade for most of his tattoo collection, and why he walks aw...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

32,188

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

19

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

31

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