This episode is sponsored by Mr. Flash Machine and Homestead Machinery.

Thank you for joining me again. I'm Andrew Stortz. This is another episode of Books Closed, Your Favorite Tattoo Podcast.

Now this week is a first for the show because it is the first time that I did a live episode,

and that's live in the sense that we had a live audience.

Last month at the Bay Area Tattoo Convention in San Francisco, I assembled a panel of fine

tattooers.

We filled a room with some people, and we got down to the

nitty gritty. And I hate to make excuses, but since this was the first live episode, you'll notice

some audio levels are imbalanced here and there. Some of us had some jitters. We weren't all on

our A game necessarily, but I think we settled into it, had a really fun conversation. And it was actually a very cool experience to do it in front of a live audience.

So hopefully this is something that we can do again in the future.

But without further ado, let's get to it.

Let's flash back to San Francisco at the Bay Area Tattoo Convention.

And it will be just like you were there.

Yeah. Yeah.

Gosh, more.

Well, once there's a camera involved, I've never done any shit like this before.

Henry said he was really, really nervous before you guys came in.

Totally.

Now, I'm totally fine.

I'm completely relaxed, everybody.

I'm very nervous, so if I sound it, I am.

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