hey how can i help you how are you sir good what do we got here got some burmese tattoo
books they're essentially books from burma they use as guide books to tattoo people what do they
call them here in the states flashbooks you walk into a tattoo shop and they got their
work displayed you walk up say i want that shark yeah that's what high school kids do
i'm here at the pawn shop today to sell my burmese tattoo books i have three books two
are hardcover they're made out of metal copper that's pounded one is made out of
natural materials and i'm hoping to sell the three books for five thousand dollars today
all right they're really cool in burma or myanmar as they call it now tattoos there were really big
they've been doing tattoos there's for over a thousand years it was just part of the culture
tattoos were mostly used for religious purposes and burma was mostly buddhist but one of the
main things was basically to identify what tribe you're we're from they had this plant-based paper
that's been around for a long time and this is the way they would make books that would be
one continuous piece like this they have all these different chemical makeups to make the ink
and they use some really weird things like gallbladders and stuff like that yeah and
then for the red i think they actually use like a natural source of mercury sulfide i mean yeah
they've been doing this forever i wouldn't get a tattoo because i prefer my art on the walls
but i guess they sort of came mainstream nowadays i kind of just look at it like this
typically i think people just get bored and want tattoos
so you're just basically saying that you got bored and got a gazillion tattoos
i have three tattoos you have more than three tattoos i have three tattoos how would you have
three tattoos because i see 20 right because all of this is one it's one tattoo and besides
you have a tattoo it's not a tattoo it's a dot it's a tattoo i don't have it but it's not okay
when i was 16 i was giving my buddy a tattoo and he kept on complaining and i kept on calling
him a wimp and he grabbed the needle out of my hand and rammed it in my arm but anyway back to
these things can we help the customer please sure please okay how much do you want for these things
five thousand that's a lot of money for stuff like this i've seen plenty of stuff like this
from burma go for a lot less i would probably give you a thousand dollars for the batch
would you be willing to go to 1100 nope i'll give you a thousand bucks
one thousand and one or a thousand bucks
i think i can do a thousand all right cool um you you want to go write them up leave
me over there you really overpaid for this dude no i don't think so
actually i think the tattoo ink has actually affected my son's brain i can't believe you
paid so much money for those i didn't pay so much we'll make money on these things i don't think
we will whatever i think i know what i'm doing i've been doing this since before you were born
what are those um these are very old tattoo books oh wow speaking of tattoos i'm actually
thinking about getting a new tattoo really all right i'll bite what what what's the tattoo
it's gonna be my favorite girl right here on my neck
the world to see that i'm in love you're talking about pinky aren't you yep what do you think you
know what they call tattoos on your neck what job stoppers i have a job i've been here for 17 years
neck face hands job stoppers i've got job stoppers i know and it's silly you shouldn't have them
you're just old dead i'm not old why don't you go get a tattoo first off i don't want a tattoo
if i was theoretically gonna get a tattoo it would probably be of me driving a sherman tank
because that was like the highlight of my life not you being bored me driving a sherman tank
oh my gosh
i know it's a pretty cool moment but no i'm not going to get a tattoo i'm just saying
theoretically if i got one do not get a tattoo on your neck i can do whatever i want it's my body
i say go for it man you can't fire me for it that would be discrimination that is not
discrimination yeah no it's not it actually is so i want to get a really good tattoo of pinkie
we got a little photo shoot to do i'm gonna go have her pose up a few different poses
bye grandpa you want to give her a kiss she doesn't want to give you a kiss either
you shouldn't encourage him why i'm thinking about getting that tattoo too
you get a tattoo of pinky no full back tattoo of the hawaiian punch guy
thanks for the inspiration you guys i went and got a nice little tattoo with my girl right here
really you didn't i did oh it came out good man i told you it's a job stopper you told him not to
get out on his neck you did say don't get it on my neck i told you that job stoppers are tattoos on
your neck face and hands yeah but i've worked here for 17 years probably gonna be my last job ever
look how good it looks you gotta admit it looks just like her
what is the most ridiculous thing to do you will regret it rick you told me a lot of things and i
rarely ever listen to bad advice eventually you have to grow up that would just be dumb
just ship that cory i can be eight years old my whole life if i want you know that's paint right
yeah i can tell it's not even swollen or red or anything i had a friend paint pinkie on me just
like you trigger your dad good job though your dad probably thinks it's real though he can't see
all right guarantees makes us real maybe he'll stay out of our hair for the rest of the day i'm
going to find him actually let's go find grandpa and annoy him pinky tell him i get it from my dad
you