Prison Tattoos with Larry Normile
Barely Famous
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4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Kail sits down with Larry Normile owner of Artistic Additions in Dover, Delaware for a conversation that starts with tattooing and turns into something so much bigger. Larry opens up about learning to tattoo as a teenager, how tattoo culture has changed over the years, and why he’s passionate about shifting the judgment people still carry around visible ink.
The heart of the episode is Larry’s groundbreaking work inside one of Delaware’s largest prisons, where he’s teaching inmates a real tattoo apprenticeship complete with education on hygiene, bloodborne pathogens, regulations, technique, business basics, testing, and documented hours. Larry breaks down what it takes to qualify, what the studio looks like behind the walls, and why the program is about more than tattooing it’s about rehabilitation, reentry, and giving people a path forward that actually sticks. Along the way, Larry shares his own story from foster care and juvenile detention to prison and ultimately rebuilding his life. It’s raw, hopeful, and a reminder that people are more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the shit show. |
| 0:02.9 | Things are going to get weird. |
| 0:04.0 | It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry. |
| 0:06.4 | And you're listening to Barely Famous. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous Podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm sitting with Larry who owns Artistic Editions in Dover, Delaware. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, thank you. |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.5 | So I want to talk about all of the things that you're doing in prison, but before we get there, you own a tattoo shop, artistic additions. |
| 0:36.3 | When did you open it? |
| 0:37.1 | Why did you open it? And how |
| 0:38.3 | did you get started in tattooing? That's crazy all of it. So to start with how I got into tattoo and actually a guy named Mark that I was friends with growing up when I first moved to Delaware, he's like first friend I ever met. His uncle was tattooed and it was like we'd go over his house and I was amazed. |
| 0:53.4 | Like, I just love the fact that he's over here tattooing, and I wanted to do it. |
| 0:57.1 | I always drew. was tattooed and it was like we'd go over his house and I was amazed like I just love the fact |
| 0:54.6 | that he's over here tattooed and I wanted to do it I always drew like that's how I would get |
| 0:59.1 | extra lunch money I would do like cards postcards and stuff and birthday cards and people giving |
| 1:03.5 | candy or money for it yeah as a kid so I was always fascinated with it and then Mark big Mark |
| 1:09.4 | would tattoo and I was like man man, I want to do it. |
| 1:11.4 | And then one day he just gave me a machine. I'm 14 years old, right? Mind you. And I'm out here just tattooing myself, tattooing people. I tattooed my hand at 14 years old. Yeah, that was a whole thing. So did you try doing it on pigskin first? No. Is that real? You got to figure I'm old around 46. So like then we didn't have we didn't have |
| 1:29.6 | Google. We didn't have anything yet. So there was no pigskin and nobody was showing you anything |
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