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Phil McKnight
The Know youw Gear Podcast. Today's episode of the Know youw Gear Podcast is brought to you by Patreon members. Thank you for making this possible. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Know youw Gear Podcast. We have a lot of stuff to cover today. A lot of subjects, a lot of cool things. Let me pull up that screen. Actually, uh, let's go to a subject that came in that was kind of interesting. Simon sent me this really interesting email, and he said, hey, Phil, did you hear about what happened with the mesa boogie mark 2C plus now? Interesting enough, if you guys don't know. Mesa Boogie came out with the Mark 2C+ reissue. And, you know, this has been interesting because it didn't go well, is my understanding. Okay. The. The. The launch, the rollout, and why that's worth talking about is because. Because it brought up a great subject that I really like to take a second and talk about. So let's go to Mason Boogie. I'm going to their. To. Here it is. So, first thing that came out promotionally about it that wasn't great was a lot of people were really not happy with the $3,600 price tag on. You know, I don't really have any input on that at all, considering this isn't something I would buy myself. I bought a Mesa boogie mark 5:25 mini head when they came out. I want to say it was like 2016 or 2015, maybe in 2014, probably 2014, and owned ever since. I love it. It's a great amp. You know, every once in a while, I get tired of it and put it away. So every once every couple years, I tell myself, I'm like, I'm gonna get rid of it. And I never get rid of it because I really like it. And on it, it has a 2C plus mode. So it has a 3 mode switch on. On. On it. In fact, check this out. Look at that. It's like a miracle. It's. There it is. So that's my actual mesa boogie mark 25 head with. In the three switches that give you the. The mark 2C plus or the. The. The heavier gain. And then there's our Mark, I think a Mark 4 or the Mark 5 tone or whatever. The Mark II C plus tone is definitely my favorite for going for the. The vintage tone. You know, vintage being Metallica sound. Get that older kind of 80s 90s heavy, heavy metal sound. Love that amp for that. So why does that. Why does that pertain to what's going on here with Simon? Simon says, hey, did I see the. I won't say the word, but it starts with sh and it ends with T. I know sometimes I'm. I curse and sometimes I don't. But I don't have the momentum in this particular sentence to do the cursing to make it make sense. So he said, did you see the shit show? I just say shit show. I'm sorry, it just takes too long to spell it. That happened. And I was like. Well, I saw that people didn't really like the, you know, the price too much. And then a couple of the demos were kind of weird in the idea that I saw them and there was really not what I would think the amp would sound like. Then I saw some feedback online that we thought was interesting. Was a lot of people were like, what's with the dad rock tones? Here's what's interesting. I thought, what's with the dad rock? Dad rock tone comments? The tones that I heard, dude, that was not. Look, I'm a dad rock guy. I'm a dad dad rock guy. Those were not dad rock tones. I just want to be very clear on this, okay? Dad rock tones are Metallica tones. By the way, Metallica is the age of most people's dads. So Metallica is a dad rock band. They were saying like, they were referring to dad rock is like older than that. I'm like, I don't know if that's really pertains. I guess maybe it's an all encompassing term, but to me it's like Chuck Berry and Metallica. And referring them both as dad rock seems really weird to me. But then it maybe because I'm a dad and I don't understand dad rock terms. But anyways, my point was, yeah, the tones were definitely like if I was. If I was. If the complaint was. If the complaint was that they weren't using modern sounds, that they were using like Metallica sounds, I'd be like, yeah, that's really old. And why would you go back that way? But they were actually using older than that. But I guess then what happens next is I saw a video on Sweetwater of some great channels. Ben Hiller is one. I love his channel. There was fluff and there was Kyle Bull. And I've met Kyle Bull at the. At the Sweetwater event. I bought an amp off Kyle Bull. I still have it. I bought a 100 watt PRS Archon hand wired off of him off. Off of Facebook. I saw he was selling one once and I bought it from him. So I still have it. Case, just in case it matters. But anyways, I guess I saw the video. They did some. They went in, they did a video with the Mark 2C, and I didn't think it sounded great, but I kind of knew what was happening when I saw the video. So the pushback was, why did it sound so bad? Why did they use dad rock tones? Why didn't they dial in good tones? Why does these three guys, who apparently know good tones use such crappy tones? And then the. The next part of the drama was, I guess Kyle Bull was on Facebook and some people are like, what's with that video? And he explained that they weren't told what the amp was. They just walk in the room. And then Sweetwater and the Gibson slash Mesa Boogie guys are like, mark 2C plus have at it, which is not really a have at it kind of amp. So, you know, second thing is, they were only given a few minutes to kind of figure out something and play it. And Kyle even said that he did dial in a tone after about five minutes, but they never use that in the clip. The point is, it got a lot of hate and they yanked the video down. Bad mistake. In my. In my opinion, Sweetwater in Mesa Boogie. Marshall, you should have. It's my opinion, for whatever it's worth, you should not only put the video back up, you should then fly those three out and actually let them do a proper video so that they don't get basically accused of. What they're being accused of now is basically making horrible tones with the amp. So for reference, I just want to point out that when I bought my Mark 525, I could not. I was my first Mark C to Mark series amplifier, even though it was the smallest one, was my first one. I could not get any good sounds out of it. I didn't know what I was doing. 2014, I had no idea. I never experienced this. It sounded like farts. I was actually very disappointed and very upset and sad. And then I've told the story a couple times in the past. And then I found, for the first time ever, this channel called Ola England. Way before, by the way, will it chug? He. He did a demonstration app and he even says in there, he's like, this is how you get the marked Mark series to sound good. And he did some stuff which I thought sounded like or looked like craziness and just the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Like, I remember just watching it to this day. He's like, take the bass zero, take the treble zero. Take the mid Range zero. And I was like, what is he doing? No, take the treble 10. That's what it was like. Take the treble 10 bass zero, mid range zero. Make the stupid EQ look like a V. I was like, this is all horrible. This man is insane. I don't like anything he's showing me. And then he played it and I thought, oh my God, if I can make my name sound like that, I'm going to fall in love. I went over to my amp, I did in those settings and oh my God, did that amp sound amazing. And that's why I think it's still having to this day, still have it to this day. So. So thank you again. I've thanked him three times publicly now. This is probably third or fourth time now. Ol Englund literally not only saved me from losing a fortune, you know, selling that amp off at a loss, but also for letting me understand the Mark series. The point that I have is this is why I hate YouTube content. That's reactionary. This whole idea that YouTubers or Gear channels should only spend five minutes or 10 minutes or a couple hours or a couple days with this, this hits personally to me. So, you know, I don't, I don't. I hate that this happened. Those guys. And I hate the fact that they took down the video Sweetwater. And I hate the whole drama. This. But I do want to use this for one reason, one reason to advance my agenda, which is when I interact with companies, they do not understand that I want to spend time gear. They don't understand. I don't know why I've been doing this for a long time. I average view a hundred thousand views on a review. I don't understand why I can't get any companies as a whole, you know, Yeah, I have a few that understand, but I wish I could get more companies understand. Like, I need a couple weeks with this. I don't want to make a video where I. I don't want to be a tour guide to a place I just showed up at. Hey, let me, let me give you a tour of this place. As I figure out where we go, right? I want to be able to say, look, this is where you go. I've been here for a while. Here's the best route. Here's the best places to eat. I want to be your tour tour guide on a piece of gear. I want to be able to say, this is what I found. I like about it. This is what I don't like about. Here's its shortcomings. Here's its benefits. The mesa mark 525. My main thing I still hate. I hate the fan in it. It's humming right now. It's driving me nuts. So. So, you know, that has a shortcoming, right? But I mean, but there's so many plus things about it. So basically, Simon, to. To go on. Yeah, I saw Unfold. I saw it. And I think it's a good illustration of why companies should let people who do this content type of content, let them have control of the content and let them do it. I do not believe. I. I don't know Fluff. Okay. I just don't know him. But I've seen a lot of his videos. But I've met and I know Ben Eller and I know Kyle Bull and I know those two guys. I. And I trust all three can do it as well. I'm just telling you from personal experience, I know those two guys. I know for a fact they could give. If I gave them a Mark II C in some time, they could. They can make a great video and show you what's great about it. They're, you know, Ben Eller is a masterful player and Kyle Bull has a love of high gain amps that is rival to none. He doesn't even use clean channels. Okay. He just uses the gain channels. So this is my. Like I said, hopefully Sweetwater will see this and hopefully they'll fly those guys out and do the. Fix the video and let Gibson and Mason boogie fix the video but also put the video back. I don't know why. It just don't, you know, it's not embarrassing. It just happened. Explain the situation and move on. The other thing is, I want to show you my mark 525 because it has a 2C plus and I mostly because I have to defend the dad rock thing. This thing for some reason, this dad rock things bugging the crap out of me. So today we're gonna do guitar of the week. But there's no guitar of the week. It's amp of the week. Amp of the week is my mark 525. As soon as I find a pick, the guitar I'm going to be using is my Keisel 10 miller headless guitar. So now I have the Mark 525 in the 2C plus mode. Here is the tone. Hold on. Let's turn that up for you guys. I am messing with you guys so much right now. So, you know, I had to do it. I have the volume at zero on my guitar. All right, ready? I'M just gonna play something. This is how Ola England showed me in a video and all of you, how to set up your Mark V25. I know it's not the Mark 2C plus, but it's got Mark 2C plus mode. Here's Mark 2C plus mode with a drum SA. That was very dad rock. Come on, dad rock, guys. I have to. Dad rockers unite. I know, man. You know what? I just love it so much. I know where a dad hat. I get all the dad comments all the time. Dad hats, dad rock, dad this. But I love that amp. I love the Mesa Boogie stuff. And like, I get it, man. Stuff happens, you know, But. But Simon, you weren't the only one. I got a lot of people, and a lot of people are really more focused on some kind of drama, you know, look, it was a bad rollout for the product release. There's a lot of conspiracy theories out there and some of them might be right. I have not tried a 2C plus. I have no idea. Some people are saying it has a feedback issue. Some people are saying it has other issues and they're trying to kind of COVID that up. I have no idea. I can only tell you what I've. I can tell you I like my mark 525 and 2C plus mode. And you could do that. So, yeah, we talked about the subject. Let's talk about Doug's version 2.0. Who said, hey, Phil, what are your thoughts on the USA MEPRS deals right now? Getting 20 to 30% off offers on new Core S2 SS. That's Silver sky models and. God, a 2024. I'm yelling for some reason. 2024 S2.5, 94 from Chicago Music Exchange for $1. No, $1500. Temporary deals or price corrections. Incoming temporary deals. This is so I. Literally. This is exactly what's going on. Exactly. So I'll just say it. I was talking to. I. There's no way I can tell you. And you know, I'm not going to say the name, but if you figure out who it was, you'll figure out I was talking to a very. A person today who owns a guitar company who sells direct to the public. And in that discussion, the one thing that is important that translates here was I was telling him that because he sells his guitars direct consumer, the market is instantaneous. Instantaneous to him. In other words, if. If the, you know, tomorrow people aren't buying guitars, he's going to know it. He's going to know it tomorrow. When the orders don't come in, however, the manufacturers that deal with dealers, their. Their reaction to the market is much slower, much less, because they're bigger boats, you know, bigger ships, bigger guitar companies, but also because the dealers are ordering in advance. The inventory is getting the dealers, and then the dealers will find out if the customers are buying, and then the customers don't buy. The dealers then start discounting. And as they discount, two things happen. One of two things. Either they don't pay their bills. In other words, they're not paying the manufacturers on time. Hopefully not just a little slow, but not at all. But they're not paying the manufacturers, and the manufacturers pick up on that real fast. Or they do pay the manufacturers, but they don't order as much because it's taking longer and they take a bath. You think these manufacturers are. These retailers are happy to sell you guitars for 20, 30% off with they have 30 to 35% margins on average. No. No one really wants to give up 70, 80% of their margin. However, I told you, as someone who's owned a store for 13 years, I told you, sometimes that's just how it works. Sometimes you give away everything to move a product, and sometimes you don't. It's not that you want to. It's a part of the business deal. But the point is to. Your question is, Chicago Music Exchange is giving you a deal because they have inventory and they want to move it. Sweetwater has inventory and they want to move it. Guitar center has inventory, they want to move it. Mom and Pops across the country, they all have inventory. They want to move it. I've been buying deals. I told you guys, I'm not super into pedals. I've bought more pedals in the last couple weeks than I've bought in the last couple years, because pedals are 30, 40, 50% off pedals. And I'm like, wow, this is. You know, I don't think it's going to be that way in a. In a. In a year. And again, you could talk about the economy, and that's fine, but that's not what we're talking about. I'm talking about what I think is happening with the guitar market, the musical instrument market. I think what we're seeing is the dealers are motivated to move the product. The manufacturers probably have not seen this yet, seen how hard it is to move these products right now, but it's been pretty tough. If they're not giving them away, they're not moving very well for the most part. So to Answer your question. Do I think this is a. They're going back to the old prices? No. In fact, all I've heard consist consistently from every manufacturer that I've talked to in the last six months is they all plan to raise prices in 2025 because they have to. It's not they hate us. It's not they hate you. It's not that they're gonna take all that money and they're gonna go onto an island and they, they need a special boat that holds their two Lamborghinis and gets them there. They're literally like, hey, I've been taking a beating for the last year like everybody else with inflation or the last couple years. And I just. The costs are getting to me and I gotta pass them out on. So I, I'm not here to earn anything crazy. So you guys know nothing. Like, man, it's going to double. I keep hearing, I would say 5%. I don't know why I was doing that math like that way. But about 5% to 6% price increases is what I think manufacturers are looking to do. It's not the crazy stuff that we're trying to pull when they're doing 20%, you know, 10 and 20 and even more percentage increases, which. But I think, I'm not saying rush out and buy gear now. I'm just saying I think the deals are now. And the deals will not go away until the inventory goes away. That's when it, that's when it'll slide off. So in other words, Those Paul Reesmith Core 20 custom cores, those S2s, those Silver sky models, those Fender American Strats and Tellies, those Gibson, you know, Les Paul's and sgs, the prices will firm back up as the inventory thins down. I just don't think they'll, they'll load the dealers back up. But more importantly, the dealers won't want it. They won't want to be loaded up like they were. So there'll be more. They'll. Right size their inventory is what people will say. Because a lot of the inventory they have now they did not want. This was when the boom was happening. It was like either order or don't get nothing. And they ordered because that's what the marching orders were from a lot of the manufacturers. You know, Gibson and Fender were both notoriously known for, like, if you don't order everything you need for the next year or two, and a lot of it, don't even expect any of it. And these dealers, they, they towed the line, especially the Big dealers that we know and trust online that we like, and they got the inventory. And I don't foresee them going to the January NAMM show and taking any crap from the manufacturers. I just can't imagine. They walk into 2025 NAMM and the manufacturers go, and here's what's going to happen. You're going to order twice as much as you did last year. They're going to be like, nah, I'm good. I don't need to be a dealer anymore. Or, no, this is what I'm going to order. I'm going to order what I can sell. So I would imagine that would adjust. That's just my guess. Again, it's just a guess, right? It's just a guess, but it's. It's a guess based on how this industry has performed in the last two decades. Two decades, say. I'm glad I'm not dealing with that side of the business right now. Okay, so what else? Phineas did a super chat for no reason, just to say, hey, he likes the channel. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. Amanda sent me something. Let's see what Amanda sent me. She sent me from mojo67 says, can you round over fretboard if it has binding? Absolutely. Sure. The video I have where I show you with a razor blade, how to basically roll the binding on a guitar. What, you can do that with plastic or wood? Of course wood, you can do that with anything. The technique does not change. But obviously, I would imagine, Think of, think about when you're scraping a fretboard with a razor blade, just think about this way, you know, harder wood is, you know, you're. It's, it's. It's going to be, you know, you're going to push a little bit, just a little teeny bit on the. I mean, very little on the blade. A piece of plastic, I would picture, like, picture no resistance. Right. It's almost the difference between. Imagine at some point if you were taking a butter knife and scraping something, scrape a side of a piece of two by four and then scrape a piece of butter right. At one point, you're gonna imagine you're gonna get a lot more of that butter off real quick than you will that 2x4. So that's how I would picture in your head. The plastic's gonna scrape real easy. And. But yeah, you can roll the edge of plastic. In fact, it's easier than wood and easier to shape, easier to do, but you will go through the material a little easier. So you just want to be A little apprehensive. And like I always say, if you could practice on something else, please, please do that. You don't want the first time to be the worst time. So I don't want to laugh. I'm just like, it's, it can go, it can go bad if you don't, if you don't go slow. Okay, we have Mr. S. No, wait, what are we, no, wrong one. We have Alex. Alex says, hey, I want to try your trade in method. Trade a few guitars down to one. It's, it's, is it deceiving to negotiate the price down before disclosing you want to trade? Disclosing. You want to trade. Oh, is that old, that's the old car. Car. Don't tell them you gotta trade till you get the price. Uh, you know what? I, I, I'm not gonna tell you. That's not a, that's a bad idea. Here's why I think Guitar center is very homogenized in a corporate landscape. Okay? So that's my experiences with Guitar Center. Sure, you know, employees can be good or bad. That's a factor in any business. But Guitar center as a whole, very homogenized. In other words, I don't think that they're going to for the most part make adjustments. Like if they know you're trading, they're going to not give you a deal. That being said, I don't know every mom and pop shop across the country and I can tell you some are more unscrupulous than others and some are really good and some are really not. And so you want to definitely go in with probably the attitude of, you know, whatever works best for you. I said, here's what I'll, I'll, I'll tell you that I said, Did I say it in the video? I don't know if I said it in the video or if I said it in the podcast, referring to the video, that I tend to not give any information for that reason when they ask. So for instance, I'm saying, like if you go to Guitar center, if you go to your mom pop, and they say, you say, hey, I want this guitar. I want this, you know, Parker Green guitar right here. What's your best price? And they say we can do 10% off. If they were to say before that. If I said, what's your best price? They go, are you doing trade or cash or credit? I like to say, I don't know yet. That's, that's a great, that's my tactic. Everybody's got a Tactic. I'm a nice person, so just being a jerk is not really. Although it's probably the most effective when trading, it's not my tactic because it's not. It doesn't align with my personality. I would be faking it and it would probably come across like I'm like, screw you, it's none of your business. I wouldn't really know how to do that. So I just say I haven't decided yet. I like to say I haven't decided yet about a lot of things. Will you be getting it today? I haven't decided yet because I feel like that's a great way of saying I'm not saying no and I'm not saying yes, you know, So I don't think there's anything wrong with going in and going, hey, I'd like to get the guitar. What's the best price that they say, hey, you know, same thing with. By the way, this has nothing to do with trades. This has to do with credit or cash. I choose when I do credit and I choose when I do cash differently all the time. And, and obviously if a retailer will give me a deal for cash, I always bring cash or I'll go get cash and get the discount because why not? But if they ask me a price and say, you know, yeah, we can give you a better price, you're doing cash credit. I go, I haven't decided yet. And then if they say oh well, we'll give you 10 off for cash but no discount for credit, I'll go get cash. But if they say oh, we can give you 10% off, I'll just run credit right then because I don't have to go get cash. So, so that's, that's what my suggestion But I always like to give a stay with to give them as little information as possible when you're doing a trade or doing any kind of negotiating. Let them give you the best, best deal. There's a saying that says whoever speaks first loses in negotiations. I kind of feel like that's true. I kind of feel like you don't want to, you know, be the one running the conversation. You want to be reacting to it. I could agree with that statement. Grumpy. My guitar said for the tone jar and why not? I loved the best and worst video. Thanks. I think my favorite was the ingle Steve Morse amp. I need to find a way to get one. You know, I love doing those year end reviews. You know the summation. If you haven't watched it. I did the worst and the best gear. It's really the worst parts and the best parts of the gear that I did for the year. I really, really enjoy doing those. They are. They are one of the few things that I can say is definitely a product of love, because that video takes so stupid long to make. That video took two full days of editing, and I'm like, it's just me like this. I just sat here, I Talked for like 45 minutes, and I did the whole video, and then I just chopped in all. Edited in all the clips and all the little things, and by the time you're done, it's literally two full days. And, man, I just. But I loved every minute because it's. I agree with you. I. I like. There's something about a short version of all the videos, you know, for the year are the majority of them. So. Yeah, and the angle is, like, I said, is my favorite amp of the. Of the year. My favorite video review. And. And so, you know, I hope you guys understand, especially the ones that watch this, the podcast and stuff, and interact with me in a personal level like this. Hold on, I gotta go back to the. There it is. Like, why did I lose that screen? It's tough to say stuff like that. You gotta understand, like, the guys at Bad Cat are my friends, right? So they're my friends, and so I want them to be the best amp of the year. But, you know, and I want, you know, the. The other people to be the best amp of the year, and I want other people to be the best guitar year. So when I say best, it really is heartfelt because, trust me, it would be a lot easier to not say this is my favorite or least favorite because of the fact that, you know, I really like the Bad Cat amp, but I really preferred the Engel for. For. For this year. It's just. To me, it's more preferred. My knees hurt. Says, hey, Philip McKnight. Hey, that's me. Says, have you seen the Evil Dead pinball machine? I have not. It's new. I'll stop asking if you say yes or no. My buddy Sean has taken me and Shawna to a couple pinball arcades where you can drink and, like, have a beer. Like a bar. Like, it's a bar in an arcade. I've done a couple of those and I've had a great time, but I'm not a big video game person. I didn't get the bug. It just didn't. You know, for me, my video game of choice was playing guitar. It's. I really have very few interests that outside of guitar. In fact, all the interests I have that are outside of guitar are usually connected to health. Like, I go hiking because it's good for your health, and I go. I go paddleboarding because it's good for your health. Like, my wife wants me to do all these things that are good for your health. And, like, I do these things with her, and they're great to be together and do those things. But if you notice almost everything I tell you, we ride bikes because it's good for our health. Literally, if I do anything besides play guitar, it's just attached to somehow. It's supposed to make me a healthier person, so I can't say no. Like, I. She's like, hey, we should go hiking. I'm like, all right, so we'll go hiking. Because I can't say no. Because I'm like, yeah, I need to get my fat ass up and go hiking. So that's my only other interests besides guitar are connected to health. I think there's no exceptions to that. I'm like thinking in my head right now, I can't think a single one. I collect no other things. I do know other things. Like, if you like guitar and you hang out with me, it's kind of fun. But if you don't really like guitar, most my friends who like guitar, they can only take so much. And then after a while, you can just tell they're burnt out. They're like, okay, man, seriously, can we give music and guitar rest? Is there other things we could talk about? Stand up comedy and movies? Maybe. But I don't really consider those hobbies as just stuff to do with your your time sometimes. Maybe. Comedy is probably the second biggest thing I'm into besides guitar. Phil's trip feels F E E L S. Phil's trip says, oh, thank you for this huge super chat that was really kind to you. Says, hey, Phil, I love the show on a guitar with a humbucker. Single, single pickups. Can I use coil split bridge with the middle single coil to cancel home? Absolutely. Sure. But middle coil with the neck coil? Yes. So how you would accomplish that is with two things. So first of all, you. Instead of. So normally, if a single single pickup guitar, three single coils, you would have a standard wound pickup and then a reverse wound middle pickup. In other words, the start and finish are flipped. Right. So it starts at the end and finishes at the beginning Compared to the other pickups with a reversed magnet. In other words, it would have a north instead of a South or vice versa. And then so in other words, on a three single coil guitar, you would have the bridge and neck pickup be identical in the start and finish of the wire and identical in the north or south of the magnet that's in them. And then in your middle would be reversed. In your situation, what you would do is you would just make sure that the humbucker is positioned so that it's, so that the coil that's closest to the middle when you go to it, you coil split that, that is the reverse wound pickup. So. Absolutely. So as long as the, so your humbucker as long as this coil that you're tapping on the humbucker, or splitting, I should say not tapping, splitting is a reverse wound, reverse polarity magnet. Then in that position of, of the single split humbucker and the middle, you are going to be hum canceling. And then when you go to the neck and middle, you wouldn't be helm canceling because both pickups would be the same polarity on the magnet and the same, the same start and finish on the coil. I hope, hope that makes sense. But that's exactly how you do it. I don't know why you would want to do that. But you know, hey, you know what? There's probably, you got a reason. I don't know, there's some sound you're going after. I mean, vintage Strats don't have. Original vintage Strats don't have a, a position four and five hum canceling. So a lot of players did just kind of made the switch kind of hover in between those two. And so your, you know, your position, your hunt neck and metal middle wasn't hum canceling. You can absolutely do it and that's how you would do it. And I'm sure you can find the wiring diagram for that very easily because somebody's done it for sure. T Jose said, what's my Mount Rushmore of stand ups? Oh, gosh. You know, I hate stuff like this. It's not because it's hard, it's impossible because like if you, if I pick four comedian, you know, comedians that are amazing, I'm picking 40 that are amazing to not be on that list. And it's, it's, it's not a cop out, it's just, it's true. I, but I, I mean there are some for me that are just iconic. So here are, these are not my. Who I think the best comedians ever. I'd like to do the Mount Rushmore, the four comedians who changed my life first is George Carlin. Not only because he was prolific and amazing, he's literally. I went and saw him the night before I shipped out to basic training. So it's a great memory. My mother and her best friend took me out to dinner at a place called Buddy's in. In Tucson, Arizona that I think has since closed, unfortunately. And we had Oyster Rockefeller and then we went and saw George Carlin. And then the next day my happy ass was on a bus to Phoenix, Arizona and then on a plane to. To Kentucky. So it's a memorable moment for sure. It wasn't even his best stand up. So, you know, I thought he was a little. Not that funny and a little crass. Extra crass that night, but still memorable. But he's just so integral into my personality in my life. Next comedian is going to be one that a lot of people won't know. It's Richard Jenny. Richard Jenny was. He passed away unfortunately. But he was a comedian that when I was young I just. He was one of the first comedian I started watching with my mom, you know, so like my mom and I, you know, if you have. My mom and I were really close. But what's crazy about that is when you're really close to a parent, there are things that you love to do. Like movies you like to watch with your parents. Most of the time it's always like Disney movies or stuff like that. You know, you can't watch a lot of inappropriate comedy with your parents. It's a weird vibe. He was just really funny and I just. My mom would laugh and I would laugh and that was a great memory. And I just think he was amazing. For sure. Just amazing. So plus, you know, I cannot laugh when I hear. And when I. And not hear Gordon Lightfoot. I hear Gordon Lightfoot, I laugh. Richard Jenny, if you. No one understands that reference. I'm sure if you Google Gordon Lieffoot sink of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Richard Jenny. A wave hit the boat and they all died like rats. They lay there with their lungs filled with water. I can't say the other line because we're trying to stake the PG13 and it's PG14. For sure. For sure. And get a stand. I'm as I do this you guys are gonna like. I see all the ones you're taking, you know. Right. You know, Gabriel Iglesias, Colin Quinn. For sure. Who else? You know, I. I want to talk about Mount Rushmore. Right. But remember, we're not saying the greatest comics. We're just saying the ones that changed my life forever. The four. And I feel like this is too much about. Not about guitar, but we'll try to finish out the last two. Who the. Richard Pryor. To me, it's like Richard Pryor and George Carlin, to me are like James Brown and the Beatles. Like, you can tell. Like, if you meet somebody of a certain age, they either like Rich, they either like James Brown or like the Beatles. Like, you can just almost tell. Like, for me, for my generation, it's probably like, you know, for lack of a better explanation, but it's like Motley Crue or MC Hammer. I know I'm not put in the same league as that. What I'm saying is, like, I could tell who you were in high school and who you hung out with by whether or not you're going to say a rap, a rapper, or a rock band. Like, that was just a thing. And to me, it's like James Brown. The Beatles were like that. You could tell, like, where they grew up, socially, how, you know, where they were in the country and all that stuff. And then to me, it's like, same thing with comedians like Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Like, those two, like, y'all, for sure. So we got three. Who else I'm gonna give it to? Can I give it to a newer person? I. I mean, Bill Burr feels like a token one to give because he's great, but I'm gonna go with Mitch Hedberg because I'm so. You know, one thing I will tell you about is if you're gonna. If I'm reason, I. My criteria, without even saying to you guys for this was not only were they influential in my life, but I'm trying to tell you that I quote these guys the most. So it's. It's gonna be George Carlin, it's going to be Richard. Jenny, it's going to be Richard Pryor, and it's going to be Mitch Hedberg. And. And sadly enough, I probably quote Mitch Hedberg the most. I don't know why I said sadly enough. Probably because unfortunately, Richard Jennie, Richard Pryor, all four of them passed. Boy, talk about an unfunny ending to a funny conversation, right? It's like there's the irony in that all four of them are gone, right? Am I right about Richard Pryor? Somebody tell me if that's right. I kind of feel like I kind of. I mean, I thought. Yeah, so it's crazy. All right. By the way, almost every single. Oh, norm. Oh, Norm MacDonald. Oh, my God. See, this is. I'm saying this Is too tough. It's too tough. They're just too amazing. And I've seen most of them live. Think about that. All right. We're gonna go on another subject because it's a guitar channel. We'll start and know your comedy channel and we'll go. We'll do that. We'll start as a sub channel. I'm. I'm okay. If you guys want to do that, I'll seriously do it. Jeremy says, hey Phil. I was fortunate enough to snag a set of Northern lights on Black Friday. I want to put them in a Godin Go Dan. Go Dan. Go Go. Go Dan. You know, so you know it's Go Dan. I always read it Godin and so it changes me. Even though I know it's Godan Godin radium. But it is hss. What should I do with the middle pickup and coil split? You could leave the middle coil pickup in there. Depends on how much you use it. That's a good, good pickup. They would work well with those two pickups and then it would be fine. If not, you can reach out to us and we can make you a single coil pickup for that guitar. That's an easy thing to do too. Or you know, like an SSL SS L1 by Seymour Duncan would work well with it. Well. And so would DiMargio's version of single coil pickup. I forgot what he calls his but same thing any really to me those. Those pickups don't become the dominant sound. That's why I'm saying you're. You're never going to really play the middle position too much is my guess. Not with one single coil. You're going to play positions the two and four where you get the blend of the two. And those Northern lights will take over, so to speak as the tone wise they'll. They'll be the dominant part of the sound. Not because of the pickups themselves, but just the position of them. So that middle pickup is only going to be part of the sound. So I don't know if I would even replace it. You might not have to. But like I said, any average pickup would do. But like I said, if we wound you a copperhead without the base plate, it would be the same. The only thing is I'd be selling you just a. Basically a basic vintage wire, vintage wound single coils that you can pretty much get from anybody as well too. But thank you for getting those, by the way. Boy. Yeah. I told everybody that it would take a week. And then me and Shawna were Like, we're gonna get this done before Monday. So we spent the whole weekend doing it. It was a. That was a fun week. We did that. That's all we did for an entire Saturday and Sunday was get your guys's pickups out. And we got every single pickup out by Monday. I was really proud of us for doing that because then we took Monday and had a good time. It was nice. We took the Monday off instead of the. The Saturday or Sunday. Fox and the Hound says, speaking of cables, is it okay to use regular guitar cable out of a Modeler or tonx into an frfr or do you need a speaker cable? You do not need a speaker cable if you're not running powered signal through it. That's the simplest, easy way to remember that is if the thing you're sending to is powering itself. You do not need a speaker cable. So an FRFR will have its own internal power and it's powering its own speaker. It just needs a signal. That's the best way to remember it for going forward. You don't use a guitar cable if you're powering something like a speaker. And you don't need a speaker cable if you're not powering something. It's just about. It's just. And that's really the major difference between the two and how they function. Not how they're designed, but how they function is do you need to send power through it or just signal audible signal? So no, in your case, it sounds like you're just going to have audible signal. So you do not need a speaker cable. Luke Luken says, hey, Phil, I have bad arthritis. Ever hear of a zag or guitar supposed to be made for guys like me? The Zagutar we've talked about in the past. They are a interesting group of cats, man. I did a video. I'm gonna get in trouble. This video. Think of this. Last time I talked about them on a podcast, they tried to shut down that podcast. They failed, but they tried. They community striked me for saying I dox them because I talked about them, which took. Took a couple days, but that got pulled off. They didn't hurt my channel, by the way. The YouTube didn't cut my channel down for it because I. I have such. They grade you. YouTube, grade you as a content creator. And my grade is obviously an A because I've never done anything purposely harmful to anyone, you know, verbally. And then. And then they. They made up, I don't know, 20 fake accounts. I. So, you know, they don't know that because they're probably older guys and they probably don't know how the Internet works. They didn't know. I could figure out the. We figured it out. We, we. It was very easy to figure out they were all fake accounts that they were just creating and they put all these comments on that video. So I'm just telling you that, that. So I'm not telling you that for any other reason than if they do it this time, we're going to do the same thing we did last time. It took us like 20, 30 minutes to remove all their weird stuff. So to answer your question, I'll say what I said last time. Zag guitars. I've worked on some. They play great. You know, they. They're a basic guitar with a good setup. I don't know much about them. They are very vague. They've reached out to me to do a review. So, you know, I responded to them with not only would I do a review for free, no free product. I will also pay to fly to their shop and do a and sign an NDA that says that I won't put out anything to you guys that they don't approve first. I will fly my own money, hotel, everything. And I would love to do a tour of their shop, facility or anything and see their factory because they. It seems to imply they're made in usa. So I'd like to see that. If they're not made in the usa, I don't care. But it never really states clearly where they are. And this is where I was getting trouble because people will literally attack me from both angles. Someone will say it clearly doesn't say. It clearly says they're made in usa. Phil, you're missing it. And it doesn't clearly say that. And then some people say it clearly doesn't say and I'm missing it. I am confused because you are confused. Anyways, I don't want to paint them as bad. I don't know much about them. I would love to do videos for them for that reason. They never responded. My guess is they really didn't like that. It's not contingent that I have to see their facility. Do the review. I will gladly do a review for them for free. No product. I will do a deep dive and then I could give you an honest assessment of their guitar. That's all I can tell you, buddy. But from that, here's the good news, Luke. You can buy a really good acoustic from a ton of brands like Yamaha is a high quality brand that I feel really good about recommending and you can get it professionally set up for you to play really good. My favorite thing about zagger, my favorite thing is that they're marketing the term easy play as a way to explain what a setup does by basically have a guitar set up really, really well. And the action's low, you play longer. They. That's not a con. That's a great way to explain what they're doing. I give them accolades. It's ingenious, right? If I set up your guitar, it is absolutely. But not using their trademark word, easy play, but it is easy play. Right? Like it's a great way of saying it. So. But you can get easy play that on any guitar by any decent tech or luthier. If you buy from Sweetwater and have the guitar professionally set up, it would. It would probably most likely come like how they're doing it set up and really nice. There you go. But if you end up going zagre, because I get it. If you feel confident and you like the brand, I think you should do that. The only thing I will tell you is I wouldn't. I saw their strings and they seem pretty expensive. And it seems like a lot of marketing jargon. Those I wasn't too excited about. So I don't know if I'd buy into the string thing. But I can tell you this. If you buy a Zagger, especially some of their lower price ones, I've not heard anything bad. But the higher price ones, like I said, they only concern me because I feel like they're pretty expensive if they're not made in USA for what they're getting for them. But. So that's still probably gonna get me in trouble. But hey, you know what, Luke? You're worth it. Hopefully that's some information that helps you. Robert says. Oh, Robert wants to know if. Have I demoed the EVH guitar from Firefly? No. My guess is if that guitar was to make it on my channel, it would take all of one full day or the first 10,000 views. That video before the cease and desist got to George at Firefly. So I don't know if he even still. Is he still making that? We gotta look. Oh, my goodness. So for those that five. So you guys know, I'll tell you about it now because this will end up off the radar. But as a. If I do a video, you know, It'll get like 30, 40,000 views and then it'll get on the. On their radar. I don't know where we would find it. Baritone bass? Nope. Acoustic Try this. Nope. So you're probably talking about this one. So this is one. So they make a Music man copy right here. He was making. So you guys know he was making like a Frankenstein Strat copy with a roasted neck. That was pretty decent for 200 bucks. It was crazy. So this one's 219 and yeah, that's definitely a music. This would be a Music Man. This is a Music man infringement. But it. It's a little. It's different than the Music Man. That's definitely. This headstocks trademarked. So you know the. The two on four, that's a trademark of Music man is if that's the EVH one you're talking about. I haven't seen that one, but I saw the one where he actually paints the str. Oh my goodness, look at that. That's a. That's a copyright infringement. That's copyright infringement. Trademark. I'm sorry, why am I saying copyright? That's trademark infringement right there. These guys, I always tell you if this is all right, double next baritone acoustic. That's the only ones I'm seeing. So he's not making the one that I'm thinking of anymore, which is. He was making an actual Frankenstein guitar. That was crazy. It was especially crazy. Good for the price. Like it was. It was really good if you wanted one. But that stuff was obviously trademarked. If either he either got smart and stopped or he got a cease and desist. Look at this. He's got a double neck for 339. That's pretty crazy. But to answer your question, I've played the EVH Frankenstein. I've not played this one. If you're talking about this one, let's go into this. This topic was. We want to talk about was earlier last year. We talked about this Reverb announced the guitar sales breakdown. Best selling guitars of 2024. Let's pull this up a little bit. We'll go into this. It's not exciting this year. So these are the best selling Guitars of 2024 list. This is the overall best selling. We'll go number one. We'll go from number one down was the Fender player Telecaster. Now, well this. This kind of falls in line with last year and the year before where Telecasters are out signing Stratocasters. That is definitely what I see when I look out there. I'm seeing more Telecasters out there than Strats. Then number two is Stratocaster. What's interesting is Silver Sky SE went from. I think was number one last year. Went to number three. That's not what's interesting to me. What's interesting me is like, okay, so the SE Silver sky is number three. And then the Silver sky itself is on here, right? It's on here as well. Yeah. Number eight is the Silver sky itself. And what's interesting about that is, is everybody missed it. I saw some people discussing a couple things, and here's what they missed. That doesn't make sense. I'm not saying the information is incorrect. I'm saying if you think about it from our plat. Our. Our way of looking at it, the guitar community. Telecasters are the number one selling guitar for Fender, and Strat is number two. Telecasters are definitely more popular than they've been in years and years with also the indie crowd, the country music crowd, the math rock crowd. I mean, the Telecaster market has been a growing market. So a lot of players playing Telecasters. Okay, that makes sense. But it doesn't make sense is that PRS came out last year with two Telecasters. The Miles Kennedy one and then the production one. Right. The NF53 or whatever it is. Why didn't that rate. Why didn't that rate up there with the Silver Sky? So in the PRS realm, the Strat shape is actually outselling their teleshape, which is against what we see in the norms with Fenders. So that. That was weird. So that tells you that John Mayer must be really the. The focus point of that. Of the. Of the Strat, in other words. I guess my point to that is this. In the Fender world, I guess tellies are outselling Strats, and that makes sense in that world. But in the PRS world, John Mayer is outselling Miles Kennedy and then F53, because it would make sense that they would gravitate. They would have more telly players than strap players because that's the norm with the other brands as well. So it just tells you that John Muir is really the. The catalyst for that. The. The popularity of the sales. That's, again, just my. You know, we're pontificating here. Right. Okay, let's go back then. Things that I thought were interesting overall, of course, it's all the same culprits. Right? The PRSS se Dave Grissom was no shock to see. That was a hot seller because it did really well. Other things I noticed with this list, which I always take notice too, is that, you know, a lot of these guitars were heavily promoted by influencers, social media, tiktokers, you name it. So that obviously Factors in. Then we go to the used. This is the best selling used guitars. This is actually more interesting. So now the PRSSE Silver sky is number one. That is important because that means we were reselling those things. So a lot of people bought them last year. It was number one last year, I think in new. But now it's number one in use. So that tells you a lot of people didn't hang on to them is I guess, you know again this is just. We're just looking at some very generic data. It's hard to really come to any really conclusions. But it beat out the Player Stratocaster and the Telecaster. And again, here's what's weird on here in the used form, more Strats selling than Tellies because that also means that not only people bought them, but also people got rid of them. So more people getting rid of Strats than Tellies could be kind of gained from that. Then the American Professional 2 Series. Then we have the Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s. Then the PRS Silver Sky. So again John Mayer heavily in that. It's got to really tell you how much PRS is making in volume of Silver Skies. When I did a tour of their factory in 2018, it was like nothing but Silver skies everywhere we went. I took so many pictures I could not believe. Like the whole factory looked like just John Muir went in there personally and like vomited Silver Skies over the entire building. It was so crazy. And to see. And I always think back. You know what's interesting about the success of the Silver sky is that I was, I was newish to YouTube when the silver sky dropped when it hit and the hate. That was my first experience with mass troll hate for something like I would mention it on a podcast or I would talk and it would just literally. Oh man, it was so. Everybody's like so stupid. It's just a Strat. It's so stupid. Two years design. It's so stupid. And it taught me everything I know. I told this to Marty Schwartz once. I said it taught me everything I need to know about the Internet. No one knows anything because everyone said it was the dumbest thing I ever heard of. And literally it is on every top selling report since then. Which tells you. I think it tells you a lot. Doesn't it tell you a lot? Tells me a lot. Tells me nobody knows anything. What's interesting too. Esp Ltd Eclipse 1000 on the list is really cool. That's a really cool guitar. I. I don't see anything here that shocks me. To my core, no guitars that I saw pop out on the use list. That makes me, you know, crazy. One thing I do want to point out that was really cool and the Reverb guys were really cool. They reached out to me I think a year ago to tell me this I thought was cool. If you see here it says key takeaways as here. When looking at just sales of electric guitars in used condition the SE Silver sky does top the list. It appears that high volume of the last years is now resulting in the guitar trading hands quite often on the secondary market. So really cool. Anyways, it says, you know, customers were more price conscious this year. So in other words they noticed that a trend in lower priced guitars selling more so than higher price guitars. One thing that, that, that they're focusing on is the transactions. So in other words, you know they can be, you know the same guitar can sell over and over again. So that. Remember when you were talking used. That can really throw things off because they could say, you know, a guitar sold they sold 300 of one sku of guitar. But it could be in that 100. It could been 50 guitars technically all sold twice. Does that make sense? Like it's changing hands? I guess the best way to put it. So nothing really there. We talked about it. I talk about it because we talked about it last couple years. But I really thought this year was the least interesting data. Nothing, nothing was shocking considering the last couple years. The shocking thing was the Silver Sky. That's just how old had doesn't really mean anything. So I don't know. All right, any thoughts? I'm looking at what you guys have to say about that. Any insights? Lee says I wonder if Brad Paisley hooked up with PRS for a telly. I wonder how that would go. I think that would go well. You know, I think Brad paisley with PRs and making a tele guitar would definitely go over well. He's well respected. Rel liked when he went from Crook to, to Fender. I think some people are excited about that. But I don't think people were super excited because Crook was like kind of a boutique brand and it made you know, his guitars more obtainable. But I don't know, you know, it's one of those things. I also brings up another thought which is I wonder if a Strat is so much more. I don't say homogenous. I'm going to say easier to just anyone have a great Strat? I mean think about this when you think of Strats. So here's a thought. Let's roll this for a second. When we think of Strats and great Strats, we can think of a lot of brands. I mean, of course the Fender Strat's a great guitar, but also I would say the Charvel is a great Strat. I mean, it's a super Strat, but it's a Strat now. Now, of course, now owned by Fender, but still, it's still a different entity, it's a different brand. So you think of good Strats, you're thinking of Fender, you think of Charvel. Now, who else do you think of Fender wise? Well, now you think of Silver Sky. So PRS has got it too. Who else? Sir? Sir has some great Strat style guitars, for sure. Ibanez, of course, are again, modern Strats, but strats, you know, ESP has a modern strat. You know, the Schecter C1 essentially is a Strat, just with an arch top and a set. Next. So in other words, what I'm trying to get at is that Strats have seemed to be across the, across the board with a ton of brands. Yamaha Pacifica is great. Thank you. Grimace79. You know, I think of the Yamaha Pacifica as a Strat style guitar, albeit they get, you know, kind of like they're getting pushed away from the standard look of it. There's a lot of Strats out there that we accept. Tom Anderson, gnl, perfect example. Now, when we think Tellies, when you think Telecasters, I mean, Right, okay, we'll give gnl, but that's essentially just a Fender Telecaster. Again. I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's a little removed, but not very much. When we think Telecasters, when you think Telecasters, I don't think sir makes Telecasters, but it's not as known as their Strat styles guitars. I mean, yeah, you know, it's funny, Johnny 4:4:40 said Music Man. Strats, right. Music man even has this kind of a Stratty take on things. But, but when you think about it, the Telecaster market seems like a harder market to take from Fender than it seems because the amount of tellies like Schecter makes a Telecaster, the pt, which is named after, after Pete Townsend. But I mean, even then it's not, it's not a main thing for them. I never thought about this before. The Telecaster is a technically, maybe it's a harder guitar to take that market from them. Interesting. I never thought about it that way. I, I, But I mean, Like I said, it's very easy to think of. Like, if you told me I couldn't have a Fender Strat, I'd have to another brand. I could name 10 brands that'd be like, yeah, I'm okay with that. Like, I like my keys all. I like a Sir, I like a Tom Anderson. I like it. You know, like I said, I just keep going down all these other Strat guitars. But a Telecaster, that list is a much shorter list. Yeah, somebody says Nash. Yeah. Nash is known for both Strats and Tellies. But again, you know, but not like, say we're talking about somebody well known. It's weird. I don't know. I really do feel. It's something I never thought about that the telly market is a much harder market to dominate from Fender, where Strats seem to be so easy. And I wonder if that's just because the 80s market was so huge with the, with the Shredders and the Super Strats. The Super Strat there was. There really isn't a super telly. Think about this. Even Charvel made a Telecaster super Telly. And it, you know, it was never that big. For those that love it, take no offense, but you know, dealers, I remember when Charvel reissued the Made in USA Strats and Tellies and dealers like me, we. We had a part out the tellies to sell them. Just sellies. The tellies just did not sell very well compared to the Strats. A lot of them, you know, the. The necks, we would take the necks off and throw them on reverb. All kinds of dealers were doing it and throwing the bodies and parts and just park parts, parting them out because they weren't selling at the level of the buy in. That was required to keep the momentum going as the Strat style. So I think that's probably why PRS's telly didn't do as great as they probably hoped, is because it's just not a market that's as easy to take as a Strat. Interesting. Could be. Like I said, it's just a thought. We can ponder it. Mike says, hey, my Christmas present to me is a Beat Buddy pedal. It makes playing so much fun and helps improve timing. What, are you familiar with it? I'm familiar with the very first beat, but Buddy, they make a Beat Buddy Micro, I believe. Is that what it's called? Beatbody Mini. Let's take it out. Look, I don't use one. Yeah, they make the Beatbody Mini 2. That one I always thought was Interesting. Let's go here. Let's share with everybody so we know what we're talking about. This is it. This is the beat buddy. $378. Oh yeah, look at the mini is only 149. There's probably a lot of different, a lot of differences between the two, but still that's a pretty good price difference. I have tried the Beat Buddy before. I liked, was cool. I liked it a lot. I just. You know what it is. For my applications I have set up, I have studio speakers. Like to me, if you're going to try to stick all to a guitar rig, that's a great way to go. But for someone like me, where I'm like, I can literally, you know, pull up, you know, they pull up drums instantaneously right here. And I have it all go through a studio monitor stuff and it's just really easy for me to do. But I would say if I go if Beat Buddy would be what I would do if I was going to go just, you know, a guitar rig setup for the most part. But I don't know, not super familiar with it. Mike says, what about Digitech Trio? Or he said the Digitech Trio plus sounds pretty cool. I did a video on the Digitech Trio, I believe a long time ago and you know, that one was cool because you know what it is? It's like now I'm going to say it then. I didn't really know how to articulate it this way. I would say that Digitech Trio is more like a Apple product compared to a Windows product to Beat Buddy. In other words, I thought that Digitech was like more. It was easier to use because it had less inter. Less things you could do with it. It's how I remember it. I could, you know, people could disagree, but I. That's how I kind of recall it was Digitech real was pretty easy to get going and running, you know, so kind of like an iPad. It's just. You turn it on, you just your next thing you know, you're on the Internet, you know, kind of thing really easy. But. But you know, I don't know. Kirk. Kirger. Kurger. Kirger Bing. Kirger. Boy, that's really messing with me phonetically. Kirger Bing says, do you have any experience with eight string or with solar eight string guitars? No, I've never played a solar eight string. I. I'm not an eight string guy. I like sevens. It's like eight just is like it's too much. Now we've, now we've gone too Far. I just can't do eight. I tried, I wanted to. I picked up a couple 8 strings. I played a bossy 8 string. I played an Ibanez 8 string and probably a Schecter 8 string and probably another one. And there's a part of me is like, I can do it. I can do seven, I can do eight. I just can't. It's like. It's weird how that one, this one more just made it just ah, just too too much going on too, too much for me to devote my time to. So I would love to because then I could do a review of one on the channel. But no, can't. Can't play it. So. But what's cool is probably we'll do a. A deep dive in 8 string in 20, 25 and just have a guest come on and do the audio play. Because we do the. We're gonna do more guest drop ins. Let's see, we have Al. Al says, just an old guy, he says, okay, used, used your trade idea. Traded two Epiphone Les Paul's and a $50 gift card for a 91 USA Strat. Also asked for 10% and got it paid cash. 150. Good. I'm glad it worked out. Like that's the whole point, right? I wanted to do. When I do content, that's like the whole point is not to get you to like do what I'm doing, but kind of like this is, you know, this is how I do it. Maybe you can learn from something for that. Like not how, you know, how would you apply it? Where's your imagination? You know, I think, I think that's why I made a point in that video. And I'm glad. Thank you so much Al for saying that you asked for the discount. You know, one of the things I didn't like about the video I did with Guitar center is I didn't ask for a discount. And that's why I made a point to say in the video I didn't ask for a discount on purpose. I just feel like that was too much. I was really so. You know, the guys at that, at the Guitar center in Tempe were fantastic. They were super great. The kid, I said, again, I apologize. The guy, Sean, who, who took care of me was super nice and I think he was fine and he was holding his own and he was doing great. There was no issues. It's my issues. And I'm like. I said, I'm just a little. I didn't want to. I didn't want him to feel like he had to do something he wouldn't do. And then my concern was, like I said was, what if he. What if he gives me a discount? But he only gave it to me because, you know, he knows I'm filming or he knows, you know, that there's something going on. And then you guys say, I go. And they'll never give me a discount. So that's why I didn't do it. But I made sure to mention I'm glad it worked out for you. Always ask for a discount. I always tell everybody, just ask. It's not. It's not offensive to ask somebody, hey, can you do a better deal? Can you do this? And that's a good trade, dude. To me, two epiphones. Again, everybody's gonna be different. Me, two epiphones for one USA Strat. That's a legacy guitar. You know, Ephphones are great, but USA Strat's a timeless thing to have. Pretty cool. Rudy says, hey, Phil, I was impressed with the synergy sin 50amp you did a demo on. Would you recommend. Still recommend it. Pros and cons. So I did the summation of it. By the way, thank you so much for the super chat. I did the summation of it at the end of the year in review. So if you didn't see that, Rudy, check it out. It's right at the end of the video. You don't have to sit through the whole thing. It's 35 minutes long. Just go right to the end and I kind of go over it. It's a great amplifier. It's literally going to be the amp. I can't imagine. It's not. It's not what I use for the next two to three years, pretty much for all the YouTube videos. So if you haven't figured out now, you should probably know that for the YouTube content, for the Deep Dive videos, I'm pretty much only using the Synergy amp or an inexpensive amp. So if it's not like the Line 6 catalyst or the Yamaha THR30, if it's not like a, hey, I need an amp that's 300 or 500, because I'm playing an inexpensive guitar, it's going to be the Synergy amp forever. It's too easy, it's too practical, it sounds great, the record, it records great. And I don't get any pushback from the. The Internet saying, you know, why did you play this shred guitar through a Fender I. Or why did you play this, you know, Fender type guitar through A, you know, a high gain amp. Now I can go, okay, I'm going to run through these kind of, you know, this is Saldano amp, this is the Friedman amp, this is the Fender amp. So I love it, love it for that. Practically speaking, it's what I'm going to be using for everything. Now personally, I like the amp, but it's not. Variety of amps isn't really what I'm after for me personally. So for me personally, I'll play my Amplified Nation. Personally, I'll play my Engel C Morris and I'll play my Princeton. Those are my three, you know, amps that I'm constantly in rotation of. Princeton. Just quiet at night. It's great. I love it. The angle for the higher gain and the, and, and the, and just having a good clean tone and then the amp findation for the, just the, the amazing. Just having that moment with an amp, it's so great. But yeah, love the Synergy stuff. I'm hoping they're supposed to be coming out with synergy 20 watt head and I believe it'll probably launch next year. That's my belief. And if I would love to try to get my hands on one, if I cannot get my hands on one for like get, you know, from them, I will, I will buy one and do a video of it because I, I think it'll be cool. It only holds one module, but one module is two channels and then the amp itself has a clean channel. So it's a three channel amp. So it'll be really cool. Mr. S. What's up, Mr. S? He says, I bought your Hollow Flash hard Tail. She said, HT prototype a few months ago. I'm selling the Holo Flash with a trim at a local store called Moe's M O Z E Guitar La Mesa. Oh, it's in La Mesa, San Diego. I was like, it's called La Mesa for a release price. If you'd mention it, I'd appreciate it. I mentioned it right now. So you guys know if you go to. You could probably Google. Let's take a look. Can we google Moe's Guitar M O Z? I want to make sure you understand it's M O Z E, not M O S E. Moe's Guitars in San Diego. Yep, here it is. Go to it. They got a web page. Look, you guys can go to their web page and you can check things out. Is it in there? Is it listed? It's not listed yet. At least not here. But maybe it is deeper. So, so check out that if you're interested in that guitar. So. So to make sure everybody's clear, it's not. He's not selling my prototype guitar. He bought my prototype. He's selling the production guitar he got. So just let you know that it's a, it's a Floyd, not a hardtail. He got a hardtail because he, he wanted a hardtail, not a Floyd. So. But I will let them know. Mr. S Global TV 123 says do you know of a drop in. Do you know of drop in locking tuners for my Squire Stratosonic or will I be forced to drill holes? You're not forced to drill holes. You have two choices for your drop in tuners. Three choices for your drop in tuners. I am not looking at your squier Stratosonic so I cannot tell you by looking at the tuners. But there is every form of tuner locking key out there. So whatever your tuners are, you can find the locking version of them. You can do that. However, if you can't find them, your two options are hip shots, right. With what's called the ump plate. Let's take a look at hipshot tuners. They are highly desirable tuners. Tuners. You can get them at Stumac. You can get them or you can get them on their own website. I think. Direct to consumer. Let's take a look at direct to consumer. This is what it looks like. You can see here I'm pointing at probably basically your guitar. They come with a plate. The only thing you have to do is make sure that you're buying the right size. These are 10 millimeter posts, so you want to check. You might have 9 millimeter posts. That's why you want to check because then you'll have to ream the holes and to put these through. But you, if you can find the right hole size, you don't have to worry about drilling holes or anything. These plates, these ump plates hide everything and these connect on there. It's a non marring modification which means after you modify the guitar you can put it back to exactly stock and no one will be there wiser. Unless of course you have to read the whole. So check to make sure you know the size diameter. The other option out there is ratio tuners. I know it seems like I was going for dramatic effect, but I'm really just drinking some water. So. Graphtec ratio tuners we'll just put up on Stumac. Like I said, you can always go to Stumac and then find the information you can choose to buy from them or just go, you know, and apparently it's not coming up. Let's go back to me. That now comes up. Okay, here it is. These also have a version of a plate. See, these come with these plates. These are going to be, hey, 10% off if you buy. These are going to be like satin finished aluminum plates. They're. They don't look super great. And then if you want fancier ones, you can buy chrome black or our, you know, chrome or black plates to match better. I never do it. They look fine the way they are. But these adapter plates will pretty much fit any situation. Those are three ways you can change those tuners. You can find the direct replacement tuners. You can get the ump plates and the hip shots, or you can go to graphtec ratio tuners and get their adapter plates. Either way, those adapter plates will allow you to add tuners to your guitar without having to drill holes. This came from Tony says, hey, Phil, what do you think of Sweetwater's gear exchange? Okay, we'll get into that. I put up one of my strats for sale yesterday, hoping on using a gift card. Sorry, buddy, I gotta drink some water and read. So why don't I just read this? And then I'll says, I put up one of my strats for sale yesterday, hoping on using the gift card method to extract all money, no fees. So, Tony, I did a video of the gear exchange detailing the process. I sold some gear on gear exchange. I bought some gear on a gear exchange. That was a video that Sweetwater asked me to do. They asked me to. To do a video. I also then hung out with Andy, who's running gear exchange. I still believe he's still running gear exchange and hung out. We had coffee at Starbucks and we talked for hours about gear exchange. And here is my thoughts. They have not changed since my initial review of gear exchange, which is. I think it's a cool idea. The problems are they don't have the customer base that reverb has and they don't have the inventory base that reverb has. So it's essentially a less great reverb inventory with a less great reverb Reverb customer base. That's where it stands. They know that. Excuse me? They know that and they're. They know they have to grow it. It's just really tough. The no fees. So what he's talking about, so you guys know, is if you choose, which is what I did choose the gift card to Sweetwater there's no fees. So you sell your gear and you get no fees. I mean, that's great. I love the no fees. It's one of those things where it's like, I would rather sell my gear and not have to give anybody any pieces of money so I can retain as much of the recouping of what I get for my gear myself. But I would really, really be curious to see how fast it takes you to sell that Strat because that's the problem. There's not a lot of people going there for, for gear. It's going to keep growing because as Sweetwater puts time behind it, they obviously have links on their websites. But that's the negative. That's it. Other than that, I think it's great. It's the negative. When I did the Guitar center video, somebody was like, hey, how come you didn't mention gear exchange? I'm like, I did a video gear exchange. I always love it. People always telling me stuff like, hey, why don't you do this? I'm like, I already did that. Why don't you go look for it? But in your case, like I said, I, I, I, let me know in the next couple weeks how it goes for you. I had a great experience, but like I said, I was very aware of the fact that there wasn't as many customers, which means you might get less for your stuff because you have to discount it to get it move because there's not as many people hitting the product and looking at it. Frank says he can't seem to sell crap on Gear Exchange. Yeah, that is the, like I said, that's the downfall. Gear Exchange, that's just it, it's just harder. There's, like I said, there's less customers buying because there's less customers listing. It'll take a, it's a look. Reverb's pretty huge. Like, we all know what the problems of Reverb. We've talked about it. But I mean they got the market, that's for sure. They own it. And my other problem is gear exchange. Gear exchange. Which is why I, I look, I have my, my, my thoughts on Guitar Center. Good and bad or public? You guys can watch tons of my podcast. Nothing's changed in how I feel feel about Guitar center publicly, good or bad. My whole thought on the trading stuff at Guitar center is not that it's a great idea. It's just in this market it's an option, you know, so some people can consider it. But aggravation wise, it's a Lot less aggravation than trying to sell stuff online, but you get a lot less money for it. So like I said, if the other thing I was going to tell you is. Oh, you know what, Tony, this is the other thing too, that might help if you put your stuff on gear exchange, put it on reverb as well. Even if you mark it up a little bit to cover the fees. I just. I just, you know, just be. I would do both. That's the benefit is you can do both. Grimace, 79, says, Phil, I think Guitar center ripped you on the trades. Well, Grimace, my question is how much did I pay for those trades? No one asked. Everybody just gives a theory. I like everybody's theory. Look, Grimace, you're not wrong, but no one asked. I mean, I was into those trades for $236. That's what I was into those for. So, you know, whatever. And so. And on a side note, I'm not gonna. I'm not saying you're wrong because really, you just. We don't know, you know, you don't know. It's right. Wrong. But. But they have not sold those guitars yet. They're still there. I was when I was there last, which was a few days ago. They still have the guitar sitting on the wall, so they haven't flipped them yet, which is not great. That video has 215,000 views. And although those people aren't all local, it'll be. It's crazy to think that those guitars didn't flip because a lot of people got to see those guitars. Like I said, I set up those guitars so they should play fine. The other thing is the Squire. Just Grimace, you know, for the information, because it's just more about giving information. Not. I'm not arguing with you, because I'm not arguing that you're wrong. I'm just giving you information so you have. We can all have the same information. That Harley Benton. I bought that Harley Benton and it had been sitting on a wall for forever at. For $200 and couldn't sell it. 200. So they gave me 150 for a guitar that couldn't sell for $200 in a music store. And then they gave me 180 for a squire that couldn't sell in a music store for $200. So they might sell it because they have a bigger audience. There are more people coming in that store. But those two guitars, I was absolutely in shock that they gave me 150 on the best I ever thought I would get on that Harley Benton was 100 bucks. It was just shocking. So, you know, I was shocked by that. The Squire was a little heavy too. I thought maybe 150 on the square. I was hoping to get 150 on the squire. They tag it for three and give me 150. So when they gave me 180, I thought that was pretty good too. The up phone, yeah, they were super light on that. But at 171, like I said, the best they would give me is 225. And, and it just depends on again, what you're. That's the whole point of videos like that. It's to value what you value the most. Some people will value the dollars more. In other words, it's important to get back all the money they put in those guitars. But some people value their time more. There was no situation where I was gonna put those guitars on Craigslist and meet people in the parking lots of places and sell those guitars. It's not something I do. It's, it's, it's not something I have time to do anymore. So that wasn't an angle for me. So if I had those guitars to get rid of, I would just reach out to, you know, my viewership and, and my friends and I'd sell them that way. But trade was about convenience. But yeah, I don't know. Again, it's, it's, again, it's, it's what, it's what your value point. I have videos the other way too. You can watch videos where I'm like, this is how I would sell and ship those things. But no one, I just want to point out, no one asked me what I had into the guitars. I thought that was an interesting thing. So I traded for those guitars and the stuff I traded I was into for $236. So that's how I did it. That's how I did that trade. I traded some stuff for that stuff for $206. I traded that stuff and 500 and I got the telly and the telly I have. I was here the other day in this room when I did the Patron hang. It's in the other room now. I don't know if I'll keep it long term or not, but so, you know, I already got a half a dozen people trying to buy it off me, which I thought was funny. Like, they're like, hey, for a thousand bucks, I'll buy it from you. I'm like, oh, I don't know, I probably won't sell it anytime soon. Oh, God, Robert. Oh, Robert, you're bringing up the past. Robert says, hey, what happened to your smiley face guitar pedal? Oh, man, that was a horrible, horrible. So here's what. So, so you guys don't know what that is. That video is not up anymore. I took it down. So what happened was there was a company, I don't even remember the name of the company, something. It was long. They sent me a pedal. I did a video. That video did well. They sold a ton of pedals. Life was great. Then they said, we're making another pedal. I go, cool. And it was called the Self Esteem boost pedal. What a great name. Somebody steal that name and make another one. Self esteem. Self esteem. And it was a smiley face like the Walmart happy face, right? The have a nice day happy face with two like jazz hand, Mickey Mouse jazz hands going like this. And I think it's tongue out or something like that. And I don't know if it was one knob or two knobs, but it was a boost pedal. And it was my absolute, to this day, my absolute favorite boost pedal ever in boost pedal history. Right? I even sent a picture of the insides. I'll tell you, actually, I shouldn't tell the story out of order because it's going to sound horrible of what I'm telling you guys. So let me tell you the story in order. They send the pedal. It's $99. It's called the Self Esteem boost. It's to this day my favorite boost pedal of all time. Of all time. No questions asked. I loved it. I used to run it in my Freedman amp. I do the video and the comment section was great. It was like, phil, I just ordered one. A couple comments later, I just ordered one. Next one like, no. And then next, like an hour goes by, there's 20 comments. Another comment's like, ah, they're on back order. I'm putting on a back order. Another one's a back order. I don't know how long it took. It was a couple hours. And then the con. I saw the first comment that said they said they're no longer making them and they're closing. And I'm like, what? And I thought, that guy's just a jerk. And then it's like 10 minutes later, somebody says, yeah, the owner says they're no longer making these pedal and they're closing. So I reach out, I emailed them. They basically said that they got so many orders from the video that if that's. If they sat there and made all those pedals, they'd make no money because they just. There's no money in that pedal because it's like $100 pedal. I didn't know then now. So, you know, I piss companies off all the time because we ask them questions that they don't like, which is like, well, how many can you make? And we need to know, like, you know, how, you know, we. We devote time. We need to know what you can do and what you can't do, and we need to know what your limits are and how accessible is and how fast is the back order list get. But at the time we didn't know. So apparently these guys, they stopped making it and never made it since. And I think they closed. I don't even think they make any pedals at all anymore. And you know, they had sent pedals out to many YouTubers before me, and so I didn't think of anything, but I took a picture of the insides and sent it to Lawrence Petros. And I was like, you should make this pedal. And he was, he said, I think he sent me back a text. He's like, that's like the inside. It looks like the circuit of a. I think he said it looked like a circuit of a sound gear, Ibanez base. Like they copied that or something. I'm like, I don't care. It sounds amazing. And then he wasn't interested. And. And then I was so bummed out, I sold it. I took it to a local music store. When I traded a bunch of pedals, I just got rid of it because I'm like, oh, and boy, I am. I love that pedal so much. I don't know why I got rid of it. I hate getting, I hated it. I hate getting rid of it. But I got rid of it because I was like, oh, no one can have these. Why should I have one? I can't use it in videos. See, back then I used to think like that, like, oh, if I can't use it in a video, you know, then what good is it? And now I would have known, like, I'll just keep it and you guys won't know about it. I'll just play it, you know, because there's nothing to buy for you guys. But that's what happened. That pedal, the self esteem boost pedal, Great name, great pedal, horrible story, you know, I got lots of those. You guys talk about old guitar, you know, store stories. I got lots of horrible YouTuber gone wrong video stories because, you know, this is the wild west. You know, I try to explain this to my friends all the time. Like, you know, people literally left from the east coast of the country to the west coast country. There was no roads. They had no idea what happens here. Is it freezing? Is it hot? Right? There's no satellites. There's no, like, by the way, this is desert and this is green and this is rainy and this is dry and there's, you know. So same thing with YouTube. For a while, like nobody. There was no map for any of this. You would just interact with people. You would meet a company and interact with them and then things would go weird and then you go. That was weird. And a lot of it's because I. You just didn't know what to ask and what not to ask. So. But there you go. Yeah. Thanks for that, Robert. Just kidding. You know what? That it was a great pedal. Somebody says, call Josh, I don't have the pedal anymore. You know what it was, I should have. Trust me, I regret all of it. So it's out there somewhere. Somebody owns a pedal that. It's blue. It's got a white Habane or yellow Havanese day face on it basically with a. With a. I think it's like smiling with its tongue out and two jazz hands and it says Self Esteem Pedal Boost. Pedal Self Esteem Boost is the name of the pedal you have that I'll buy it back from 200 bucks. Don't be crazy. Don't be greedy. I know you didn't pay that, but I'll pay $200 for it and. And then I will find somebody to copy it if anyone knows. I don't even remember the name of that company. I just remember that I'll look it up. I can probably find the name of the company in my emails and stuff because they had a really long name and I remember thinking their name was a horrible name for a company because it was like four or five words. It was just a lot of words. But. But yeah, 200 bucks. Anyone that knows where that pedal is and I'll. And we'll. We'll see if we can get it replicated and then I'll get it and it won't be as good as I remembered. And then you guys will not buy it. But you know what? I would just like to have it back. The somebody asked me. Wait, hold on. Marty says, what happened to your Tone King amp? I got rid of almost all my amps, buddy. As not is synergy. So because of synergy, you understand Synergy is. This is boutique amps. Boutique amps is Tone King. So I have a Tone King module. I have all those modules. So when I got the Synergy amp, anything that I could get. I have not got rid of my Freedman amp. I will. I have two Friedman's left. I will most likely keep the small box 50. But just for the. To own it. It's like, you know, I don't want it to rot, but I. But my twin sister, that'll go. Because I have a Synergy twin sister module. I. Look, I'm not here to say the synergy stuff is as good as the real thing, but it's so damn close. I just don't care. I'm getting rid of my Kemper because again, I have the synergy. It does the same thing. It's like redundant, man. I only have so much room to play with here. So amps I have. I got rid of a ton of amps and I have. And the amps that I currently. A lot of the amps I currently have are just. Because I just don't have the boxes to ship them. So there's no reason to list them for sale. So like I have a super O amp that's a black magic head. That's great. I love it. But again, I just don't need it because again, the Synergy sucks up a lot of that stuff. The bad cat through a. A long way of saying. I'm gonna keep a very short way of saying, I don't think synergy and bad cat will ever come together and make a module, but I would love it if they did. But. So that's one reason why I haven't let the bad cap go. Because I can't get that as a Synergy module. But at this point, if I can get a Synergy module, that's either. I got rid of my Dr. Z. It's gone as well too. That's gone. So again. And I know I have an angle module on my Synergy, which is why my Fireball 25 will eventually go. But the. The Engel Steve Morris Ant will not go anywhere because it's so practically functional. And what it does, it's not the sound. The sound is great. It's just the functionality. Like I. If you watch my year review, you'll see what I'm talking about. So again, it. It's. That's what happened to that. So again, you just. Because you can't own it all, man. This is. I don't have this. I don't have the room or the money or the comfort. Bruce says, Hey, 30 inch scale guitar. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if what that question is. 30 inch scale guitar. Why are you talking about the baritone guitar that we did a video that was. I just. We just did that to do a video. I bought one and did a video with it. So it's again, that gets flipped. Anything we buy just for videos, we flip it to put. Make more videos. Because videos are expensive to make. This gear, this gear gets. These videos get expensive fast when it comes to gear. And they get expensive facts with the stuff you don't see. So you just kind of minimize it. Anything else before we go? Before I tap out? Antique rocker says, why do you seem to be missing my Super Chat? I don't know. Let me go look, see if I can find it. Let me refresh because I literally don't see it. I see a banana bread. Hold on. Antique rocker. Oh, you know why? Because. Thank you, Antique rocker. Because I was missing two at the beginning. So it's just. It's just you were so early. You were the very first Super Chat. So that's why it didn't. It was. I didn't start deep enough. Thank you for pointing that out. Antique rocker says, hey, I'm setting up running a PA for a high school age guitar recital. High school guitar recital with a variety of acoustic guitars. I have an LR bags DI and a boss 8010 for connections. Any suggestions to limit setting changes? No, See that again, that's out of my see, and that's sad. You wait all this time and then I just don't even have a great answer for you. That is not, you know, I know like everybody else, I know how to set up basic stuff or PAs and stuff. But it's not like, again, it's not like dissecting guitars for me. My only suggestions are, you know, anything that you can mute cables and not have them unplug the cables from the main sources. That's kind of nice. But I mean, I kind of feel like I want to give you a great answer. I shall have one. It's just, it's not my. So I don't know. Make sure they're all in tune. Make sure they all use tuners. That's about it. Vim69 says, hey, Phil, I really like the best of the year guitar video stocking stuff. Oh, the best of the year stocking stuffer video. This has been a great year for gear. Thanks for all you do in the community. You know what's funny is the stocking stuffer video. So if you guys didn't see, I did a Stocking stuffer video on Instagram. And if you're a patron, even if you're a free patron, you got that video. Because free patrons get anything I post on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, all that stuff. So if you don't want to do social media, I totally understand. I could barely stomach it myself. If you, if you subscribe for free, you, you can do a free trial for seven days of the $5. That's not what I'm talking about. There's a tab on Patreon. There's a link down below. It's 100% free. I'll never charge you, I'll never ask you for a credit card. There's never anything like that. If you do that, you are absolutely supporting the channel still. So thank you for that. But also that what you get in benefit is everything that I post to social media. You'll see that, you'll see immediately when I post something to YouTube, whether you get notified by YouTube or not. You'll see that because I'll notify you through that. And also I do post short content to YouTube, but I specifically tell YouTube to not send it to any of my subscribers. And you'll get that as well. Not a link. You'll just, I put it on there as well. And for those that may be going, scratching your head going, that sounds weird. Let me just tell it to you this way, okay? Short content is. Man, sometimes it's so much easier if I can curse because I can just. I don't have to filter. It'd be nice. All right. Short content is. I told you, I have no attention span for short content. Social media, it brings the weirdest comments. It's the weirdest thing. So. But it's highly effective in getting new subscribers and getting your brand out there. So what happens is when I post short content, I tend to do what everyone does that's successful with short content, which is put clickbait and stupid stuff. Stupid stuff. That's. That's clickbaity, right? Okay, some of it's though it's interesting, but most of it's crap. And if I post it and it notifies you, my subscribers, you guys, my community, the people I trust, and I like, you guys say things like, this was dumb and why did you post this? And then I get 3 million views, by the way, my last six shorts got. Have collectively 4 million views in the last two weeks. So I'm like, I don't want to hear from you guys telling me you don't like it. It's not for you, it's for all the other people out there on the Internet that's never seen or heard of this channel. It's an, it's a way, it's a way to get it in front of somebody because so short content's easy to share. So we specifically say don't send it to you guys. I had a guy, by the way, cracking me up the other day. This is a few, this is a week ago. He, he took the time to message me personally to say, I don't, I don't know why, but I keep getting all these videos from you and I'm not subscribed to you. And I had to respond with yeah, you're getting them because you're not subscribed to me, because I'm sending it to. Anyone who's not subscribed to me is to be notified or to be sent off. So anyways, that stuff, some of it's interesting, you'll get seen, you'll see that. And then also if I, whatever I post on my second channel, the film Ignite 2 channel, you also get notified of that. So that's one way to see that stuff if you care. And like I said, it just comes in a feed and it's easy. You can click on it if you're not and don't click it on if you don't. It's just an option. And so the stocking stuffer videos on there and the stocking stuff video was cool because it was like I highlight some really cool things that not only are cool things to put in somebody's stocking, but also features that you can get for free with those things. So there's my, that okay, Dougal Dog says YouTube shorts are the future of mankind. You know what 30 second entertainment. I'll explain it to you and then we'll end on that note because a lot of you guys will come up with otherwise. I know the, the comment sections will be full of half cocked wrong theories. So let me explain to somebody to you from someone who does it professionally at a level that, you know, I can get 4 million views three couple weeks. I mean, in fact, all my short content in the last two weeks have collectively have like 7,8 million views collectively across the platforms. So let me put it to you in a way that probably makes more sense. One of the benefits of short form content on these platforms is there's way more commercials. So on YouTube to have more than one commercial in a video, you have to have eight minutes. So you understand the bar is 60 seconds for a short or less or a full video, and then a full video over eight minutes. If it's not over eight minutes. Essentially it's all just one commercial, one ad presented. Okay. The longer it is, the more ads now. So that's great. But imagine if a video has, imagine a video has eight minutes, eight minutes long, and they put what, three commercials in it? Two commercials. Well, what about if you're watching eight one minute videos? Well, probably every two videos you're getting a commercial every three videos. So they can get more commercials in. And heaven Forbid you're watching 1630 second videos, right? Shorts, more ads. So. But that sounds bad. It is, but it's really bad for me because. And people like me that make content, the, the, the platforms, the social media platforms all make more money and the content creators make less if they do short. So you can see their motivation is do short firm. So they push short form hard and they don't push the longer form. So that's why you have to learn to balance it. That's just one way you do that stuff, if that helps. And that also explains if you guys are curious and since you hung out to the end, I'll give you a little snapshot. A lot of you guys will say, man, this podcast has a lot of commercials this week. By the way, when you say that, YouTube inserts the commercials into this podcast. And when you say that, that means the podcast is doing well. It means not in views, but in engagement. The more people that watch me talk for the two hours more intently, the more commercials they shove in front of it. So as aggravating as commercials are, if it makes you feel any better, which you probably won't, just know that not only am I making more money because there's more commercials, know that the show did better because more people are engaged with it. And if you guys don't enjoy the show as much, they don't put as many commercials. Just little Fun Facts of YouTube. So. Ah, there you go. That's what, that's your YouTube lesson for the day. As always, I want to thank you guys so much for hanging out, talking guitars, comics, I don't know what we talk about other stuff. Stuff. And anyways, I just want to thank you guys until next week. I'll see you guys next week. And man, again, thank you for your time and know your gear. Know your gear. Today's episode of the Know youw Gear podcast is brought to you by Patreon Members Channel members and viewers who like and subscribe. Thank you for making this possible? The Know youw Gear.