247 Ink Magazine (August/September) 2017 Issue#16 | Page 229

People don’t realize artists can be away for 2 months and the show doesn’t pay anywhere near what you normally make during a week and some people have been $10,000. In debt when they get off the show. We are a single income household and my wife is a stay at home wife and homeschool teacher so I had to make sure I could afford to be away for up to that amount of time and pay the bills and still have something put away in case something happens. We went back and forth about it and eventually she said it was a great opportunity and I should go for it. Great opportunity but a lot to think about if you have a family. It’s definitely awesome and at first you’re like there’s too many people onstage, how are people gonna see us individually? (laughs) In the early promos they showed you guys a lot, Allisin and Jessy, and Babiery and Jhon a lot so you guys did ok on the commercials. Yea, the promos and videos from the network where we were talking about our tattoo collections. It was cool I got profiled with the phrase I hijacked from a guy in Miami with the tattoos are an expression of what your mind is thinking. So that got played a lot which I was happy about. 227