WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: TechStuff Gets Tattooed and Pierced 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.760 Welcome to text Stuff, a production from my Heart Radio. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.320 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.200 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.160 and I love all things tech and it is time 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.720 for another classic episode of tech Stuff. This one originally 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.320 published on August twenty six, two thirteen. It is titled 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.840 tech Stuff Gets Tattooed and Pierced. Now I'm only one 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.000 of those things. But between the time we recorded that 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.639 show and now, I got another tattoo, So I've got multiple. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.519 But yeah, let's go back and listen to this classic 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.360 episode about tattoos and piercings. Speaking of regular old tattoos, 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.839 in the interest of full disclosure, I've got two of them, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.640 so I can actually talk about the physical experience of 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.280 receiving a tattoo as well as the actual science and 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.040 technology that goes into producing a tattoo. Well, I have 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.480 zero tattoos while we're while we're talking about it, but 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.280 my ears are pierced. Does that Does that help? That 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.839 that's body modification. I'm actually also interests of all disclosure, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.720 debating getting a new ear pierced. Just just one, just one, 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.720 just one. I don't know that's going to happen too, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.240 because I keep thinking I might be too old for that. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.080 So let's talk about tattoos. That's a good starting point, right, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.840 I Mean, ear piercing is probably the lowest on the 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.040 scale because it's the most socially accepted form of body 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.280 modification in our culture. You know, it's one in the 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.680 in the United States that ear piercing is. That's that's 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.720 pretty pretty pretty beign. Yeah, very common. So it's no 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.160 one would blink an eye really, depending upon the type 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.040 of piercing. I mean, there are more extreme piercings that 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.520 that some people would look at and go, wow, that's 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.919 pretty extreme, but it's still kind of on the theme. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.760 And yeah, at least as far as our society is concerned. Right, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.360 But tattoos. Tattoos are one of those things that we 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.480 have a lot of information about about how they happen. Yeah, um, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.520 and they are getting more common. According to a Harris 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.640 Pole of American adults have one, um, including thirty eight 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.440 percent of people between the ages of thirty and thirty nine. Yeah. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.800 I fall into that category. Yeah, you know, and I'm 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.760 actually I'm always thinking about what my next one's going 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.040 to be By the way, there's a common saying that 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.760 tattoos are addictive that is kind of well, it's not 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.640 physiologically true, but psychologically it is kind of true because 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.760 after you take the plunge the first time, you think, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.919 I kind of want more. So clearly, when we're talking 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.040 about tattoos in this podcast, we're really going to be 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.120 focusing on the way that modern tattoos happened. But it, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.160 you know, it behooves us to talk about tattooing has 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:44.639 a pretty long history. Yeah. Recent documentation from the Siberian 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.799 Times reported that some of the permafrost preserved uh, like 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.600 like ice princesses and stuff like that, have shown um 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.160 from you know, fifth century BC have shown tattoos much 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.320 like modern ones that particular articles strangely enough to link 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:06.399 out to any scholarly institutions or or reporting sorain of salt. Yeah, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.760 but still well yeah, and then there have been reports 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.160 of you know, tattoos being found on ancient Egyptian mummies 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.600 from about two thousand BC. Uh. And then of course 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.120 the word tattoo we get from a Tahitian word which 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.960 essentially means to mark, which makes sense, and that that 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.400 word started to appear in English writing right around the 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.239 time that old James Cook was exploring the South Pacific, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:38.480 so about seventeen sixty nine. Now, tattoos are all done 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.320 in essentially the same way, which involves piercing the skin 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.080 and inserting some mak. But the tattoo machine is a 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.200 little more recent. That comes to us from the late 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.760 eighteen hundreds, so late nineteenth century, and that was a 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.800 improvement by one Samuel O'Reilly on a machine patented by 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.200 Thomas Edison. Yes, Thomas Essen's machine was not meant to tattoo. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.480 It was meant to engrave metal, and it was meant 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.200 to create stencils, and it was called an electric pen, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.680 also known as the autographic printer, and that was something 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.520 that was invented right around eight or so. But what 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.120 O'Reilly said was, you know, I'm a tattoo artist. He 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.480 actually had been a tattoo artist in New York. He 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.880 was an Irish immigrant came to New York sometime in 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.760 the eighteen seventies, set up shop, saw the electric pin 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.160 by Thomas Edison. And it's interesting because that device that 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.680 Thomas Essen made never really became popular for what it 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.520 was designed to do. There were other technologies that came 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.160 along shortly thereafter that made it more or less obsolete. Right, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.839 And also you know, for for for hand engraving. Yeah, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.200 it's a lot um more efficient to in machine engrave 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.680 than it is to handingring. Right. So o'reiley takes a 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.159 look at this and says, wait a minute, though, this 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.400 thing that maybe isn't so great for what it was 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.159 meant to do might do something else if I just 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.279 make a few modifications. Yeah, if I just changed the 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.280 tube system to to accommodate inc and um uh, modified 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.599 the oscillating unit to drive a needle rather than a Yeah, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.680 I suppose it was a needle to begin with, right, right, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.640 but there's a different style needle like the needles that 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.599 was in the electric pin. You would not want to 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.800 touch your skin because it was enormous. It was huge 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.320 and a little bit scary. It was, yes, certainly, and 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.880 it's funny if you want to actually take a look 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.600 at the patent. The patent was issued on December eight. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.880 Because it's on the patent application, you can actually look 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.760 up patents for free online. Google has a very good 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.880 patent searching. This one comes right up if you do 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.280 a patent searching Google. Uh. It's patent number four six 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.560 for eight oh one and the name of it is 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.159 tattooing machine. Both yes, both both that and Edison's machine. Um. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.960 The patents for them still exist. In The illustrations are 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.920 very fancy and pretty. Yes, and I've seen some really 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.120 slap dash patent tellstration my day, but these are top notch. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.320 There's some there's some ones for some particularly high tech 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.960 gadgets that when you look at them, you think it 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.279 was someone drunk when they drew this, And it just 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.520 shows that, you know, engineers and artists don't always combine 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.680 into one person right at anything rate. So you look 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.720 at this pattern, it's very interesting it It does have 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.520 that ink reservoir and it's got the ability to channel 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.440 inc down to this needle. The needle, by the way, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.360 is solid. It's not like a hollow needle or anything, right. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.760 I think the idea is that the needle is contained 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.400 within a small chamber that holds the ink, and then 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.400 when the needle pushes down out through that chamber, it 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.240 takes takes a drop off then right, and it pierces 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.720 the skin and deposits the ink underneath. Specifically in the dermist, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.000 because you're going underneath the epidermis, which which sheds and 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.400 cycles so frequently that if you put it in the epidermis, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.240 it would stick around for not very long at all, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.400 certainly not a lifetime like if you have if you 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.920 have ever had either, you know, well, temporary tattoo will 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.800 just wash off eventually. But if you were to get 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.120 like a henna tattoo, something that stains the skin, then 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.520 you know that eventually that skin, no matter how careful 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.120 you are, that design is gonna go away because you 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.320 will shed that skin. You know that skin will end 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.960 up flaking off of you. It becomes dust. Actually, that's 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.880 what a lot of the dust in our world is. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.960 It's skin scale. Yeah, I mean a lot of the 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.520 dust that you encounter on a day to day basis. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.480 That's pretty much from your body, happy thought anyway. So, yeah, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.880 the tattoo is permanent because it is actually staining the dermists, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.800 as you said, not the epidermists. So we were actually 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.160 looking at a tattoo through the epidermists. Think of the 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.000 epidermist is kind of like a window, and the dermist 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:34.160 is where you're actually seeing the design imprinted and your 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.560 typical tattoo needle according to our article on how stuff 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.040 works dot com, there's you know how tattoos work? We 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.760 actually have this article. Uh, the needle can move between 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.400 fifty and three thousand times per minute. Now that's actually 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.600 the same frequency as the electric pen that Thomas Edison created. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.119 So I suspect that most needles probably move significantly faster 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.280 than fifty times per minute, because that would be um, well, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.520 you'd have essentially one us once a second, So think 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.400 about that one one to one THO you'd be like, oh, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.840 oh stop it. I I suppose, depending upon the type 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.200 of work being done. Yes, I am not a tattooed professional. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:15.800 That would be a really interesting question to ask a 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.960 tattooed professional. Outlining versus shading is very different. I can 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.800 save you from experience both on the performance end. Not 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.040 I can't say that from experience, but from the recipient. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.800 And I sure as heck can tell you there's a 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.640 world of difference in the pain levels that you experience 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:36.480 from outlining versus shading. Um. Now, it's also interesting you 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.080 know your your experience of pain will depend upon several things, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.079 like your own threshold of pain. Obviously, mind's a pretty high. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.800 But it also depends on where you get the tattoo. Now, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.760 there's certain surfaces where you know it's nice and fleshy 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.840 and you're not gonna you might feel like kind of 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.920 a buzzing sensation and maybe some tingling, but it's not 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.599 terribly painful. And then there are other areas where it 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.920 feels like someone's really pinching you pretty hard, or may 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.840 be getting like a bit of a bee sting. I've 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.480 heard that anything close to it close to the bond. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.560 I've got one on my left shoulder blade, and anytime 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.000 it got to the point where it was close to 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:14.319 the actual bone was significantly more painful than the rest 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.559 of the tattoo. And I've also got one on my 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.800 left arm, and anything on the inside of the arm 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.520 was more painful than the outside. But yeah, so you've 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.080 got with your basic tattoo gun, your tattoo machine. You've 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.600 got the the unit that the tattoo artist holds in 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.720 his or her hand, which has a tube that houses 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.400 the needle. It's got the ink uh the ink chamber 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.000 or a little ink thing will will actually screw into it, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.040 and then there's usually a foot pedal control that controls 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.600 the depth of the needle so that the tattoo artists 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.640 can be very precise when actually putting the tattoo onto 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.080 your skin. It'll be more or less a millimeter, depending 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.360 on you know, and where it is. Yeah, but about 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.079 a millimeters is that's that's a pretty good estimation. And 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:07.280 it's the machine itself is is brilliantly simple. It's based 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.120 on or. It's kind of similar to what a sewing 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.600 machine is. If that metaphor doesn't totally skip you up completely, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.640 I'm actually perfectly fine with that. Yeah, but I guess 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.520 it's because I've had a couple of tattoos and needles 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.480 don't typically bother me. But I do understand there are 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.640 people who have real psychological issues with anything that has 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.080 to do with needles with needles. Totally understand that. But 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.160 but so so the gun. The gun contains a circuit 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.480 that runs through an electromagnet, and that circuit is opened 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.240 and closed via the vibrations of a spring loaded a 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:43.720 read or uh panel um and and those vibrations are 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.280 controlled by a weight like a pendulum that's placed along 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:52.319 that that flaunched interesting um and now the vibrations are 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.920 caused by cycling power through the electromagnet, so they have 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.560 the fluctuating electric magnetic field and that going to start 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.520 causing some vibration, and the read is connected at the 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.680 top um uh to to the to the base of 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.480 the needle, and therefore the vibrations of it pushed the 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.800 needle up and down. And it makes it very very 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.000 simple to use. Very I mean, the the cycle is 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.880 is self perpetuating until you cut off the electricity supply 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:25.439 entirely and you have a simple reciprocating motion that yeah, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.640 it's it is so really the the complexity here comes 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.160 in the actual execution of making a tattoo, and that's 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.559 where the artistry and skill really comes in. Because operating 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.840 the machinery is pretty simple. It's the handling it properly 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.560 and making sure you're doing not only a wonderful artistic job, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.679 but that you're doing it safely right, and the safety 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.800 issue is one of those One of the things that 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.360 I do know very very well about tattoo parlors is 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.720 that if it does not smell like a hospital, like 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.560 a really good clean hospital, gone get out. Yeah, because yeah, 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.200 so so for any of you guys out there who 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.440 are considering tattoos. Uh, you know, make sure you do 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.080 your research check and it makes certain that all the 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.679 different whatever tattoo parlor you're looking at, is on the 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.920 up and up, that they follow very strict uh sterilization processes, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.960 that they are very careful to have one use items 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.360 and then they discard them and they don't ever use 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:26.280 them again. Some some parts of the tattoo machine are reusable, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.760 and that's perfectly fine, and we'll talk about those which 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.080 even those you make sure they have, like an autoclave 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.760 clave they are they are sterilizing their equipment because you 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.040 want to heat things to either two or two hundred 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.040 and seventy degrees depending on the pressure and the time 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.160 length that you're using. Yeah, and we'll talk a little 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.319 bit about the autoclave specifically in just a second to 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.360 kind of explain what that is for those of you 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.480 who don't know. But the whole purpose here is to 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.760 kill off any kind of bacteria or other organism that 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.520 could cause infection or disease. And because like we said, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.680 you're what a tattoo is is a you know, a 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.240 whole bunch of little punctures in your skin. Punctures can 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.920 get infected it's it's an open wound. Yeah, yeah, any 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.280 kind of heels up right. But yeah, any kind of 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.200 wound has the potential to get infected. So it's very 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:14.000 important that you find a place that is reputable and clean. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.559 Hey guys, it's Jonathan from twenty twenty. While you're getting 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.680 inked and pierced and everything, we're gonna take a quick break, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:31.480 but we'll be right back. So the basic parts of 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.280 this tattoo that you've got, the sterilized needle and those 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.720 are one use. That's that should just every time you 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.600 go to a tattoo parlor, if you're getting a tattoo, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.920 the needles they have should be one use needles and 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.840 sterilized packets that they should open right in front in 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.600 front of you, right before they start their work. Right. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.240 Those packets should remain sealed until they're ready to do work. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.120 So they open it up and they put in the 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.120 needle into the machine which has already been cleaned in 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.400 the autoclave. And I'll get to that in a second. Uh. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.479 Other things that need to be single use include ink, ink, cups, gloves, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.520 All of this kind of stuff needs to be one 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.560 use in sterile packaging to minimize the risk of any 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.800 kind of contamination. So make sure. And it's perfectly fine 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:19.600 to ask questions any reputable tattoo artists because it shows 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.680 that you have done your research and that you're serious 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.840 about it. And again, if they're reputable, they'll have no 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.880 problem answering your questions being able to show you what 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.000 what is they do to stay? I think if you 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.520 a grief about it, get out of here and don't 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.320 don't go there, go somewhere else. Um. So UH. The 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.160 autoclave is actually think of it as like a machine 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.320 that generates lots of heat, pressure, and steam. Those are 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.400 essentially the three components there, and it's often used in 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:52.080 Autoclaves are used in medical facilities to clean medical uh equipment. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.040 So you the way it works as you would put 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.560 stuff in a little pouch, each one with each piece 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.440 of the equipment would get its own little pouch. UH. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.760 This equipment would be things like the needle bar and 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.960 the tube of the machine. So these would be the 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.880 bits that would be used again and again they go 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.640 into their little pounches. Each pouch has a little indicator 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.040 strip on the outside for when everything is has been 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.600 heated to the correct temperature. That indicates yeah, exactly. It 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.240 says essentially that that sticker changes color and it tells 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.280 you what's not sticker. But the indicator changes color and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.320 it tells you everything in here is dead you and so. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.120 Uh but yeah, like you said, it can heat depending 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.880 upon the settings. The general rule of thumb is two 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.120 or fifty degrees fahrenheight or a hundred twenty one degrees 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.640 celsius for ten pounds of pressure for thirty minutes, or 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.040 to seventy degrees fahrenheit or one two celsius at fifteen 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.240 pounds of pressure for fifteen minutes. Uh. That is the 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.720 standard upberating procedure. The tattoo parlors should be following one 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.880 of those two with its autoclave. And uh, there you go. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:16:00.080 That is your standard approach to sterilize the reu do 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.760 bowl equipment. So remember ask those questions, make sure you know, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.440 you do your research, and uh and if everything's on 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.640 the up and up, then enjoy your painful experience. It's 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.480 really not that bad, depending up on where you get it, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.080 and how big the tattoo is, and and and your 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.200 personal tolerance and the skill of the of the artists. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.240 I had an incredible tattoo artists who did both. The 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.400 same guy did both my tattoos, and uh, and he 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.320 was just he was not only really skilled at creating 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.320 beautiful designs, he also really minimized all the discomfort. I 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.960 mean there was some, especially around the shoulder blade area, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.760 but it was it was nothing too intense. Like, it 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.960 was nothing more intense than you know, a minor beasting. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.160 So assuming you're not allergic to bees and you've experienced 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.200 a beasting and it wasn't a big deal, that's pretty 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.160 much the worst it got for me personally. Right, I 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:57.800 happened to be allergic to be for you compared compared 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.720 to a beasting, and you'd say I would die, That's 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.480 not what I mean. Other fun questions to ask your 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.720 tattoo artists are what kind of inks they use? Um, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.160 Just as an interesting note, sometimes inks contain metallic pigments, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.600 and um, if you ever have to go in for 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.639 an m R I after getting a tattoo with the 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.600 metallic pigment, it's not gonna fly out of your body 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.400 magneto style or anything like that. Yeah, and uh, it's 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.480 also good just to make sure that you know if 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.960 you have any known allergies. That's obviously something else you 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.960 need to discuss because there's a possibility that either the 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.679 ink itself could contain something that you are allergic to, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.159 which could be a problem, or that some of the 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.240 other materials, like they're supposed to the whole process before 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:42.080 they tattoo you, they have to uh clean and shape, right, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.959 So any anything like that, you just want to make 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.560 sure that you're not going to come into contact some 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.880 with something that's going to give you a bad reaction. Yes, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.880 And I had one other kind of cool thing. Well, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.240 first of all, if you're feeling in a goofy mood, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:54.960 we do have a we do have a fake article 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.280 and how stuff Works about tattoos, uh, one of our 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.639 few so we we haven't done it every year, but 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.240 occasionally how stupp Works has made an April Fool's article 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.320 on how stuff works, and we have one about how 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.199 animated tattoos work, which is all about electronic tattoos that 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.560 are it's like electronic devices, right right. The story goes that, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.200 And there's an actual patent for a subdermal l c 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.480 D screen out there that exists in the real world 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.840 that has never nothing ever really came of it, I think, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.199 but but but but yeah, the article talks about a 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.840 little subdermal l c D that's connected to a little 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.920 magnetic battery and a small controller, and so that you 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.040 would be able to have a tattoo that would actually 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.520 be like showing video and stuff, or have an animation 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.440 on it that we could run in a loop. Now, 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.160 there are obviously some some barriers to that, the big 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.280 one being that the body tends to not like stuff 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.320 introduced to it. And we're going to talk more about 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:52.800 that when we get into the second half, and we 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.160 start talking about some interesting implants that there are dangers 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.320 of a body rejecting certain materials, and you can't really 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.760 predict which ones it's going to reject, which ones it's not. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.040 There's some that have a lower percentage of rejection, and 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.160 even people's immune systems work differently, right, So it's kind 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.199 of a tass and it can change depending upon your 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.919 activity level too. I mean, if you get a if 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.840 you get an implant in an area that gets a 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:19.119 lot of like a lot of agitation, then that can 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.800 increase the odds of a rejection that kind of thing. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.840 But we'll get into that in the second half. However, 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:29.159 there is a different kind of animated tattoo. It's not 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.239 really The tattoo itself is not animated, so it's a 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.160 misnomer really, But there was a guy who goes by 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.800 the handle the tattoo handle of Carl K A R L. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.080 Each of those letters is capitalized with a period after it. 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.679 Sure like you. But Carl in Paris, uh American as 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.399 far as I can tell, or maybe maybe Canadian North American. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.560 At any rate, he's a tattoo artist working in Paris, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.439 created what he calls the first animated tattoo, and I 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.119 even have a date for you June sixteen eleven. The 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.600 first animated tattoo not really an animated tattoo. It's a 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.159 tattoo that has what was it like a flipbook? Yeah, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.159 he actually got forty guys and tattooed to stick figure 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.119 on each of them doing something slightly different than how 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.359 to run in a circle. And then no, it's not 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.919 that would also be awesome. I don't know where you 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.920 could be able to convince forty guys to do that. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.520 I am sure that you could, though I've seen a 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.240 lot of crazy tattoos out there. Know what it was 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.159 was a QR code. So you had a guy have 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.800 a tattoo with a QR code incorporated in it. Now 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.680 QR codes for those of you who don't remember, haven't 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.840 seen one in a while. Um, they were big for 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.919 a little bit, but then they kind of like they 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.720 kind of fell out of favor. That don't see it 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.359 was a marketing gimmick. I mean, I feel like it 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.160 was overpromoted as the problem. It was a fine technology, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.880 but but the way that that WiFi wound up happening, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.120 I don't think that it was as necessary as people 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.440 thought that it was going. And there's a lot a 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.439 lot more work and image recognition like things that like, 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.640 there's a there's a lot more work now where software 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.400 can recognize things without there having to be some sort 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.160 of established pattern. Rare, but essentially it's it is kind 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.520 of like the next generation of the bar code. It 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.199 was those those blocky pictures you've ever if you've ever 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.160 seen them, they're they're a square that have a little 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:19.760 black except it's all block it's all hard edges but 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.320 pixelated R shack test. Yeah, there you go exactly. And 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.320 so this was incorporated in the tattoo and in fact, 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.000 they didn't know if it was gonna work while they're 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.160 this guy is getting tattooed and they have no idea 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.119