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Books Closed: Tattoos and the Internet Collide, Hosted by Andrew Stortz

006: Steve Byrne

Books Closed: Tattoos and the Internet Collide, Hosted by Andrew Stortz

Andrew Stortz

Comedy Interviews, Tattoos, Careers, Social Media, Comedy, Business, Tattoo, Tattoo Artist Interview, Artist, Tattoo Podcast, Arts, Interview, Visual Arts, Tattooing

5687 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Tattoo artist Steve Byrne (@steve_byrne_tattoo) talks about haunted hotels, freehand drawing insane tattoos directly on his customers, keeping family life separate from social media, and tattooing celebrities like Kesha.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of Books Closed.

0:05.0

This episode is sponsored by Tatsal.

0:15.0

This week we join you from Congress Street Tattoo in beautiful, sunny downtown P Smith, New Hampshire. Today, I am joined

0:23.5

by the man, the myth, the legend, the tallest human in tattooing, Steve Byrne. Thanks. It's true.

0:31.4

I am the tallest tattooer. Do you know any tattooers that are taller than you? No. Me either.

0:38.7

There's a couple who've had a bid.

0:41.3

They've had a clam.

0:42.8

But during a back-to-back with witnesses, I've always been the victor.

0:48.4

I know who I'm picking when it comes down to the all-star basketball tournament of tattooing.

0:53.8

You're joining us in Port Smith, the tattoo for the week,

0:57.0

and I heard that you're staying in a notoriously haunted hotel room.

1:01.5

Yeah, not just the most haunted hotel,

1:04.8

but actually the room with the most activity,

1:09.9

which I was saying to Kim yesterday.

1:13.8

I'm not really opposed to some sort of ghostly experience in my life.

1:18.5

I've never had one.

1:20.4

But I don't want it to be harmful or anything like that.

1:23.8

Let's just see.

1:25.0

I will say last night, and Kim's been asking me every day whether there's

1:30.3

been any kind of activity. I will say that I was having a shower. I looked at the wall of the

1:36.5

shower and it's like a tile. And you can, you know, if you look at anything for long enough with a

1:41.5

texture, you can see things in it. But there was a very mournful face appeared to me in the tile.

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