Two worlds bound by ink.

This week we sit down with Joey Hamilton and Big Ceeze Castaneda - Ink Master Show alumni, black & gray killers, and two men who've lived more life than most people could handle.

Joey went from 10 years in the Air Force - tattooing friends and PJs in the barracks - to inking celebrities and Vegas legends, building businesses, raising a family, and proving reality TV didn't define his career.

Big Ceeze's story runs a different road. East LA gang life. Abuse. Drugs. Jail. Homemade tattoo machines powered by duct-taped batteries. A near-death overdose. Then a Valentine's Day in 1998 that changed everything - faith, family, and a deliberate decision to break generational cycles.

We talk Ink Master chaos, gatekeeping in the tattoo world, the two sides of mentorship, celebrity stories, prison hustle days, and client moments so insane you won't believe they're real.

And then it gets wild.

Shop serial defecators. Convention disasters. Secret tattoos hidden in plain sight. Tinder horror stories. Clients passing out in ways you can't un-hear.

We also get into marriage, redemption, raising sons into men, and why pain is part of earning your ink.

Two artists. Two transformations. One wild ride.

This is Liberty Risk. Let's go.

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Ep. 48 • Ink, Blood, and Brotherhood • Joey Hamilton and Big Ceeze Castaneda