I’ve heard they have
gone as long as an hour
on previous seasons.
Sometimes when people
have been called down
and they can’t decide between the 3, I’ve seen it
take anywhere from it being a quick unanimous
vote to them arguing for 45
minutes. So the viewers
see a condensed version
of everything, and I think
because I tend to speak
up a lot when I think something is wrong, often times that will be the one thing that’s chosen, it looks
like all I have to say is argueing things, but I don’t like watching things I
don’t believe in get accepted because bad things happen when people don’t
speak up.
Do you find when you tattoo people now, because they watch the
show, they think they’re experts when they walk in?
No, I don’t think people that come to me pretend they are experts already, if
anything people on the internet that have opinions on tattooing and think it’s
really worth something because I think the show has given people… I think
it’s a good and bad thing we’re being judged on TV because we’re giving
people what quality tattooing should be, but we are also giving people an
opportunity to think they know everything but they don’t. Your artist is trained
to know what they’re talking about and it’s our job to educate the customer
instead of the other way around.
You and Ryan were tattooing about 5 years at the time of taping, did
that come up at all?
Nobody really questioned our skills for the amount of time we’ve been tattooing, if anything people gave us praise for that because we’ve done a lot
of good things in the little time and I think that made an impression. It could
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