057 - Leo Zulueta

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The legendary king of tribal tattooing, Leo Zulueta, was tricked into becoming a tattooer by Ed Hardy. Is there another tattooer with an origin story as crazy as that?!

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0:00.0	I mean, tribal tattoos look better on skin than traditional tattoos.
0:04.0	I'll go on record saying that.
0:06.0	Oh.
0:08.0	Uh-oh.
0:10.0	I even, when I got this sleeve from Leo, right?
0:13.0	Um, he covered a few things.
0:16.0	Uh, but I remember when I looked in the mirror after he had finished it,
0:20.0	I was like, oh, I look cleaner.
0:22.6	You know, aesthetically, I have, you know, I look actually, you know, more refined.
0:28.9	So what do you think about tattoos like this?
0:30.8	I love them.
0:32.0	What do you love about them?
0:33.6	I think they're bold.
0:35.4	I think they're strong, but they're graceful too.
0:39.3	Oh, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.
0:41.3	What about lower back tattoos like the same thing?
0:44.3	I think I said that on my mom. You see her mom's lower back a lot?
0:48.3	Yep.
0:49.3	Oh, you mean my tattoo?
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	I have a similar one.
0:53.3	Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what do you think about Mike Tyson's tattoo? I mean, I one. Yeah. Yeah.
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