Welcome.

This is the first episode of the Books Closed podcast.

This episode is sponsored by Lucky Supply and River Valley Printing Co.

This is an idea that I've had for a little while and I started to put it together recently

and I realized the common thread on a lot of the videos I made were the fact that I was always

focused and fascinated with the way that the internet can blow up or sensationalize weird things. So I'm going to get a little deeper

into that and see what it is that is in fact doing. So today I'm joined by two fantastic gentlemen.

First, we've got my main man, Jason Scott, who is the owner of Hobo's tattoo, Congress Street Tattoo.

He's the king of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

And I've worked for him for the past four years.

And thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me.

And then who do we have next to Jason?

Introduce yourself, young man.

My name is Chad Kaplanar.

And where do you reside?

I live in Nashville, Tennessee.

All right.

Yay.

So we all do tattoos from time to time.

So I think we're going to talk about that a little bit.

And mostly we're going to focus on the way that social media and the internet has turned tattooing into a tie-dye colored bin of odd liquid.

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