Honest Tattooer Podcast

Are Tattooers Cringe? with Fabian

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano sit down with Matt Buck  and guest Fabian, a New York tattooer of 13 years with a graffiti bac

When Do You Feel Like a “Real” Tattooer with Amanda Malia and Jacob Satterlee

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, hosts Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano talk with guest tattooer/shop owner Amanda Malia and her apprentice Jacob Satterly. They

Will Biotech, Robots & AI Shape Tattooing’s Future with Joe Capobainco

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, and guests Joe Capobianco, Ermis and Matt Buck discuss who will shape tattooing’s future as outs

Looking At Your Tattoos 10 Years Later with Lalo Yunda

Send us Fan Mail This week we take a look at an instagram post that shows Michelle DiDonato Quinones' tattoos fresh vs healed as we learn what works and what doesn&

What Makes a Tattooer Hireable with Aaron Davis

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, and guest Aaron Davis (Atlanta-based tattooer specializing in Afro-Americana, tattooing 7+ years) discuss what makes a tattooer

Fineline Tattooing with Joe Redding

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano sit down with special guest Joe Redding (@coyoteeyes), a fine line and black-and-gray micro realism tattooer who apprenticed i

Coming to America with Eoghann McGregor

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattoo Podcast, Jon Mesa and  Matt Truiano welcome guest tattooer Eoghann McGregor, a Scottish artist now working in  New York, who has be

Neo-Pre-Eckelism with Russ Abbott

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano  welcome guest Russ Abbott back to the Honest Tattooer podcast and discuss his major fitness changes, how improved health impacts

Heads Up! with Michael L.

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa, Matt Truiano, Gabe (“G Money”), and guests Michael L. and Matt Buck play Heads Up Tattoo artist edition hosted by Vega to identify tattoo-rela

Shop Managing with Bunnie Lebowski

Send us Fan Mail Jon Mesa and Matt Truiano talk with special guest Bunny about her path through tattoo culture from the early 1990s to New York City. Bunny recalls getti

What Keeps A Tattooer Going For Hours with David Martinez and Dat

Send us Fan Mail The Honest Tattooer podcast welcomes  guests David and Dat discussing their backgrounds, preferred styles, and the realities of long back-to-back tattoo

West Coast Tats In Jersey with Ses

Send us Fan Mail The hosts interview Ses about how tattooing was harder to enter in the early ’90s without the internet, leading him to start underground as a “scratcher

Solving Your Problems with Pony Lawson

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon, Matt, Ermes, and Pony read listener letters about common tattoo shop problems: shops favoring artists with big soci

The Corporate Takeover with Pony Lawson

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Tooling Around with Joshua Bowers

Send us Fan Mail We back guest Joshua Bowers about a year after his last appearance, this time with show-and-tell including the Steel Driver rotary that emulates a coil

Painting With Blood with Vincent Castiglia

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, tattooer and fine artist Vincent Castiglia explains how he began using blood as a medium, describing its unique kinetic energy

A Couple Of Funny Guys with Phil Luck and Stevie Wells

Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome guests Stevie “Crazy Stevie” Wells and Phil Luck. They discuss the overhead of large shops, a global slowdown in tattooing, and how

Everything Happens for a Reason with Jeremy Schad

Send us Fan Mail On the Honest Tattooer Podcast, we talk with special guest Jeremy Schad from Syracuse, New York, who started tattooing in 2019 during COVID through an i

Talking About Art with Matt Buck

Send us Fan Mail The hosts celebrate Matt Buck’s birthday and apprenticeship “graduation day,” reflecting on his years tattooing and how his perspective changed after re

American Tattooing To The Roots with Zach Grimm

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