![]() Would you say a lot of the outside inspiration comes out in your work a lot? Does it influence it? Just trying to keep up, and trying to stay ahead. Just, y’know, surfing the internet, watching TV, you’ll see things that catch your eye – either aesthetically or y’know, even just seeing other cool brands that are doing cool stuff outside in like, LA, New York, all over the place. KC: We kind of draw inspiration from all over the place, everything that you see, and everything that we do – all the other people that we encounter: brands, companies alike, that we work with, uhm, everything’s really inspiration. What about inspirations outside of the Baitshop? This is gonna be it for me, man! Y’know, we’ve been involved with the skate industry for just- for a good amount of time as well, so, this is just, where it ends for me! GR: I dunno, for me, this is pretty much, -I’ve been doing this for …just over, 10 years, I think? And, uhm, yeah, I don’t really want to do anything else. KC: What got us where we are now? …Straight moxy. GR: Just like any relationship, there’s good times, and there’s bad times! KC: We have very complimenting skill sets, too. GR: He wanted to focus on his own brand, and we weren’t interested at all in working, for that – so, y’know, we knew that we were good at what we were doing and we just decided to start our own business from that. ![]() Because he was working with a lot of bands and clothing lines and that sort of thing, he just got tired of the client correspondence and working with all these small jobs. We, essentially, decided to step in and pick up the slack there, picked up a bunch of the clients who were being dropped in that transition, and that was sort-of the foundation for the work that we’re doing. We realized that that was, well, kind of a huge mistake. ![]() KC: Just like, custom work for other clients. And he (their friend) just became uninterested in continuing the print, the print side of things. GR: We used to work for a friend of ours, uhm, not too far from here, pretty much screen-printing and Ken was doing some design work as well. How did you two form the relationship you have now? At like 5’o clock – ‘oh hey is there anything in there?’ GR: No one does any work and you get a lot of friends, always coming over for a beer. KC: Whenever we have it, no one does any work. It is not a good idea to have a full keg fridge We have a keg-fridge there, it’s always empty. It was like, ‘yeah could you guys bring a keg?’ ‘yeah, for sure.’ So, we started getting kegs delivered, they were just dropping them off – after that we did VERY little work… KC: and then after that, it was like, ‘well, we do a lot of events… and we need beer….’ And after that we started getting kegs, all the time. They were just looking for… cool people, and companies to align themselves with – and yeah, we just got lucky, we had a meeting with them to talk about …merch I think? KC: -We basically just got lucky, at the time when they were starting to market PBR a lot more, I guess it was around the time when Sleeman took over the brand, uhm, in Canada. You know, uh- (that got them the sponsorship and collab.) That being said, this whole Pabst thing, how did you get that? GR: For PBR, so they brought cases, before the interview started! By the time the interview started we were just like… “yeeeaaahhh” KC: Well, it was our interview for Pabst. KC: I was sitting on the ramp with a beer… GR: Yeah, they were up here, and they were asking us from down there, but they were… KC: We were lucky, they were taking the video from… up top or something? ![]() You did that once too, downstairs with PBR ![]() Actually, it might have been from some past experience. You seem like you’ve done interviews before And that’s actually how ‘The Baitshop’ part came about. Y’know, after a point we were like ‘hey, maybe this is a good thing that we can add’ so… we developed that portion of the business as well. We started off as JUST a printshop, and then as we, uh, as we developed that part of the business, we got into the event-space part, because people started to see the space, we had the mini(ramp), and they wanted to get in it, and use it for parties and events, gallery shows. But at the same time, there was a lot of things that developed afterwards. KC: Like any business, you have to be, focused around that. Ken Chong: The motivation behind starting the baitshop was, first and foremost, MONEY. What was the motivation behind starting the Baitshop? Was the outcome a conscious choice from the start? ![]()
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