Tattoos.

Known for being art.

Famous for being skin.

Many people don't think much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why tattoos are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey, hey, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden.

Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of tattoos?

So I don't have any.

Me neither.

For some reason, the internet algorithm thinks that I'm really into getting a tattoo because I keep

getting things on like Reddit and Twitter where it's like either really creative tattoos

or tattoo cover-ups where someone gets a tattoo of

like a jiggly puff and regrets it and then covers it up with a big panther or something.

So I've been seeing a lot of tattoo content and it's not, I really don't think it's because I have a secret desire to get a tattoo.

I'm not afraid of needles, but I don't like pain.

And I regret so many decisions that I make that I don't want another one.

You don't want another decision hanging over you?

I don't want another decision, not a single other decision.

I'm happy to have no freedoms.

I also do not have tattoos.

I think I would get one.

And then my wife, when we had our first date, during the date, I was like, what are you up to the next few weeks?

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