S2 Ep.042: Tattoos feat. Nava

About this episode

Jrad and guest Nava discuss various aspects of tattoos, including their history, cultural significance, and personal experiences.

While Steed is visiting his long lost son in Korea, friend of the show and tattoo owner Nava joins Jrad to talk everything tattoo in this week's Chubstep. The guys cover Jrad's infant glasses, putting on Chubstep at the tattoo parlor, the first tattoo on record 5000 years ago, the positive and negative connotation of tattoos, from peasants and criminals to royalty, tattoo fads from the 1700's to present day, having every inch of your body covered, Rasheed Wallace's tattoo legal battle, rotisserie chicken ink, crimes getting solved from body art, permanently coloring your eyes, Steed's tattoo bet that he still owes, and automated machine tattooing.

People in this episode

Host: Jrad

Guest: Nava

Topics covered

• tattoos
• body art
• history of tattoos
• tattoo culture
• tattoo trends
• tattoo controversies

Keywords

• tattoos
• tattoo history
• body art
• tattoo culture
• tattoo trends
• Rasheed Wallace
• tattoo parlor

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Korea

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