The Story Behind Brian’s 500 Year-Old Tattoo with Wassim Razzouk—27th Generation Tattoo Artist

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Wassim Razzouk’s name is on the oldest tattoo shop in the world. Located in the heart of Jerusalem, Razzouk Tattoo has been tattooing Christians and pilgrims for over 700 years—including Brian. In this fascinating conversation, Wassim and Brian talk about the history of Christian tattoos, what it’s like to carry a family legacy for 27-generations, and the challenges of being a Palestinian Christian living in the Holy Land.

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0:00.0	Dirt, do you have a tattoo?
0:01.9	I just have one little tiny one.
0:03.4	It's my wedding band.
0:04.5	But I would love to get more. I just got to get over to Jerusalem. Have you been over to Jerusalem? No, man. Never had. But I would love to get there. And get Rizuk to tattoo my arm. That would be awesome. Right. Resulte, you're first up to disinfect his arm. He's a very dirty individual. We call him dirt.
0:21.3	We call him dirt.
0:22.0	He's like, you can. That's why I call him dirt. We call him dirt. He's like,
0:22.7	you can't go through dirt, man. You've got to get fresh his skin.
0:26.3	Not an inch of grime.
0:27.6	Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:47.8	Man, I got a guy on here.
0:50.1	Sometimes I get people on the podcast who I've never met before, and that's fun. And then I have some people in the podcast who I've never met before, and that's fun.
0:54.2	And then I have some people in the podcast who I've met once before, and it was a significant moment.
0:59.7	That's the moment today.
1:02.2	I've got a guy who I spend some time with about, oh, gosh, 10 years ago maybe,
1:10.7	Wasim Razuk. What awesome. Oh, gosh. Ten years ago, maybe.
1:12.3	Wasim Razook.
1:15.3	What an awesome name.
1:18.9	Dirt, you have, like, loser names like yours, like Caleb Mathis.
1:19.2	Right.
1:21.1	Waseem Rizuke. Or Brian Tome.
1:23.3	That's, like, the biggest loser name, Tome.
1:25.4	But you got a good name like Rizuk.
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