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Phil McKnight
The Know youw Gear Podcast 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. Hey everyone. Welcome to the Know youw Gear podcast. Episode 4, 420 on the 4th of July. Today is the 4th of July, which is a very special day. If you don't know it is the day before Amanda Coombs birthday and that's a very special day. So for those of you that want to give her a happy birthday, say happy birthday to her because she's gonna. Her birthday officially is tomorrow. But hey, you know what, we should just. We'll celebrate the whole weekend. Why not? That being said, Happy birthday to Amanda. And Also it's also 4th of July for the United States. So happy 4th of July to everybody whoever's out there having fun and enjoying a three day weekend. I hope you guys all got a three day weekend. Okay, we have a lot of subjects to talk about. We have a lot of things to talk about. And also what else? We had some early riser questions as well and let me grab one if we can real quick. And I thought I saw one early on. Oh, what have. What did I have? I had something to say set aside, but I don't think I have it now. I thought I grabbed it. I apologize. I'm gonna start the show off. We're starting off with a bang. Haha. Pun intended. Okay. Okay, so let's go to one of the ones I saw. This one came from a. This one came from a. I'll just go to a patron pool. Okay, so because I'm, I'm not seeing all the early rising ones right now and I'm sure it's just because my thing's updating. So I got a question from the patron side and it said that they wanted to know did Guitar center get upset when I did the BC rich guitar video that was not good. And the, the reason that question was asked is if you didn't see that video. I had asked Guitar center to. If they would help sponsor a video. Co sponsor a video by sending out a B.C. rich gunslinger, the new one that's now made in India. And take a look at it. And it was, it was an, it's a $900 guitar. So without tax, with tax, you're looking at a thousand dollars. Thousand dollars. And it didn't do so well on the video. If you guys saw that video, I would put it in the top five worst deep dives. You know, like for the results of how the guitar came. And so I think that's a. Well questioned the question. I think the way I take that question is what do I do when a company sponsors a video and the product is horrible? Well, I do the same thing I always do, just make the video. And in this case it's actually more of a relief. And here's why. When a company that maybe if like BC Rich sponsors video and said the guitar, you know, it's tough. Cause I'm basically, they're helping me make this video and the video is gonna be. It sucks but you gotta, you know, you persevere, you go through and I just do it. And what I've learned is, you know, if it's meant to be to work together after that, it's meant to be. If it's not, it's not. You know, I kind of have to explain every company that I essentially work for the audience. That's, that's the way it works. So that's the real boss and that's the way I gotta focus it. But in this case it's easy because Guitar center should be the one mad for sure. But at BC Rich, not at me. My attitude, and I'm sure hope Guitar Center's attitude too is they didn't make that guitar crappy. That guitar came out of the box. You could argue that Guitar center didn't do like a 55 point inspection like Sweetwater. It didn't pull out of the box, it didn't check those things and it didn't claim to do so. Like I said, if you guys remember the original, when I had a problem with the 55 point inspection years ago, before the revamp of the 55 point inspection which was made because of that video, my issue was that Sweetwater injected themselves in between me and the manufacturer. In other words, manufactured guitar shipped to the store, store shipped to me. And they decided that they would say hey, we're going to take them out of the box and check them and make sure they're right. And, and so when it doesn't get right and when it's not right, when it gets to you, I would be upset. Which like I was at Sweetwater. But I said in that video that if Sam Ash or Guitar center had, if I bought it from them, I wouldn't be upset because they didn't claim they checked the guitar before I got it. I think that it's great. As someone who obviously had to do that for a long time, you know, check guitars before people bought them as a store, I Think it's a great service to give the customer. However, it's not the retailer's job to make sure every product is satisfactory. Or right now it gets a little gray in the guitar area. But I mean, imagine if you will, Walmart had to pull every blender out of every box and check to make sure it worked. And it had the instruction manual. It's insanity. You're relying on the manufacturer to. To do the job right and get the product to the customer. The retailer's job is to add service with the sale. In other words, educating the customer and also add service after the sale when the manufacturer has obviously made a mistake. Like in B.C. rich in that particular case. Since the guitar was sent to me as a promotion, not promotion, but it was, what do you call it, a sponsor, right. I went ahead and did the video. However, if I was a customer and I had paid for that, I. I would have returned it with the 45 day guitar center return policy. And that's how Guitar center would have took care of me in that for instance or in that instance. So that is why Guitar center was not upset. Guitar center has had no qualms or issues. In fact, they have. What do you call it? They have worked with me on other videos. They have other videos planned to work with me, including. I've asked them, think about this. I've asked them to do the biggest, not exaggerating, review video I've ever done on the channel. Ever, ever, ever. I can't hype this video enough. The only way the hype will be bad is if it doesn't happen. And they have agreed to do it to help me do this, which is a big. It was a big ask for them, for me to ask them to do this for me. So I just thought I would, I thought I'd get that to you. But. But anyway, so back to the question. No, Guitar center did not email me. So did not, you know, they didn't reach out. They didn't say, hey, you know, I wish you wouldn't have done that video or hey, anything, nothing. And on that note, neither did BC Rich, which is the takeaway I always take away. Usually if I have a review that goes really bad, whether a company helps sponsor it or not, usually the company reaches out. I'll give you a good example. I mentioned last week that I had a video coming out this week that didn't come out. That video was about a guitar with a defect. My patron saw the guitar. However, as I wanted to, I sent out a communication to the company that made the instruments and said this is the defect I have found. And unlike Washburn who still hasn't ever responded to me in almost oh now a month and one week. I think I'm going to continue to always count every week from now on since Till Marshall or Till Washburn ever responds to my last couple of emails about what happened with the N4 guitar. Like I said, the retailer took care of me. I have no qualms. I just more of a humorous side you know, joke to go hey wouldn't it be funny to see if it's two years from now. It's been two years and three months and I still haven't heard from Washburn. Anyways, the company reached out I would say right away within 48 hours. So two days is very reasonable. Within two days reached out, asked if they could talk to me, let me know that they have come across the issue and now we're working together. I'll let you know what transpires from it all. So okay, so. So that's my long way of saying Guitar center did not get upset about the Beast Rich being defective because it's not their responsibility to make the guitar not defective. And everybody has mixed opinions of the Sweetwater 55 point inspection. And my point is is like I said, if I appreciate the Sweetwater does that maybe one day guitars and will do something like that too. But in the meantime they don't. So they wouldn't have known it was defective. Okay, so Doug says who owns Beast Rich these days? It's if I say his name incorrectly, please don't get mad at me. I believe it's Zoltan Bathory. And again I apologize if I'm mispronouncing it. Anyway, it's not. That's just the way I heard it. Somebody say it once and then that's the way it sticks in your head. I didn't read it and phonetically read it that way. Just someone said his name. So he is with five finger death punch. He is, I believe he is one of the owners of BC Rich. He might be the sole owner of BC Rich, but that is who owns BC Rich. And but anyways, okay, let's. Let's go on to another subject. Let's go on to some. You guys got a lot of 420 jokes. I figured it was going to be a 420J. It's 4:20 on the 4th of July. So of course you can light up a joint and then light a firecracker off that. That'd be about the that's about the thing to do for most of us that have states that have that legal. Let's look at Vimps 69. What's up Vimps? He says Happy Independence Day. Phil, I know you prefer Princeton. What are your thoughts on the deluxe reverb compared to the Princeton? I think the deluxe reverb sounds better. So I have a 65 deluxe reverb. So in reverend in reference here's where it gets a little strange for that and I'll give you the two sides of that. I have a 65 Deluxe Reverb and I have a Fender. When I say I have a Fender Princeton, I should point out I have three Fender Princetons. I have a. Well no, I'm down to two now. Sorry, I'm down to two because I kind of think of my Morgan Princeton copy as another Princeton. So what two Princetons? I have a 68 reissue Princeton and I have the 64 Princeton which is the hand wired version of the 65 essentially. So I have two Princetons and I have the 65 Deluxe. Given the fact that the 64 is hand wired and I didn't buy it new, I bought it used, but new it's got a $3,000 sticker price. I would, I would still argue that my 65 Deluxe sellen's better and my 65 Deluxe is just the standard production one than the 64 Princeton. Even that to my ears and to just what I like. However, I'd also point out that I like the 65 Deluxe which is really strange. More than the 64 hand wired Deluxe. I had a 64 hand wired Deluxe and I didn't get on with it. It was a little too bright and I think I could have got inside the chassis and snipped out the bright cap in there and I think that's like the fix for it. But I, you know, hey again is another $3,000 esque amp that once I do that I'm owning this thing whether I like it or not. And in the particular case I had, I got it, I did not get on with it and I, I was lucky enough to have bought it and be able to return it within 30 days. So I was like okay, I'm not going to keep this. And so I prefer my 65. However, the reason why I love Princeton so much is because I think that at low volumes they sound amazing. So I would argue that if I'm trying to play really really quiet, which a lot of times I'm trying to, I would pick my Princeton either 1 the 68 or the 64 over my deluxe reverb any day. And in fact I could. I don't know how I do it in a video, but I've done it for friends. Like, I can sit at Princeton next to the 65 in the room, plug a pedal in front of it, play it really both of them, real quiet and every. And they'll all go, oh, the Princeton sounds better than the 65. I'm like, yeah, I agree. Watch this and turn it up. I don't mean crank it. Just turn up to more of an average, you know, bedroom level for playing, you know, midday and stuff. And immediately like, oh, the 65 sounds so much better. I'm like, yes, the 65. The deluxe sounds better. The deluxe to me is not a loud amp when it's, you know, it can be quiet as a, as a platform for pedals, but it has to do with the 10 inch speaker, a lot of it. The Princeton has the 10 inch speaker, so it's just easier to get that speaker, I guess, moving at a lower volume. The Princeton to me compresses. I don't know how to explain that. When you crank up amps, they have this kind of like compression sound to them. And at lower volumes, the Princeton to me has it even at low volumes. So I prefer the Princeton for quiet play at night. It's kind of my luxury practice amp is how I look at my Princeton. The two amps I play for practice without a, oh, I should say three. Okay. There's three amps that I practice with. And that's funny, ironically, they're in three different rooms. That kind of makes sense why I'm using those three. The Yamaha THR30. I absolutely love that I use one setting on it. I do not. I don't even have a clean and dirty channel or anything on it. I have one setting where if I run my volume up, it's a little distorted and run volume down, it's a little clean. Or if I run single coils into it, it's clean. I use that one in the shop that you guys see me filming the repair videos in. I have the Princeton in my like play area room, you know, where the room and like the bedroom kind of area where I play guitar. And then in here I have the Engel Steve Morris amp. And those, those three amps, I can play incredibly quiet and be totally happy with the sound I'm getting out of them. So. But if you made me pick one like one, the Princeton or the Deluxe, and said this is the only amp you can have. I would pick the Deluxe because I know it can, it can do anything and I don't have to worry about it. But and I have to tell you my Deluxe does not get played very much because I have the Princeton. It's been a, it's been this bad back and forth for years. George says does the Princeton with the 12 inch speaker sound as good at low volume? It kind of does. So you know I used to have a Princeton with a 12 inch speaker. One of their limited edition ratios. Now I have the Morgan PR12 which is Morgan amps. Joe Morgan who does Jordan Morgan amps has a hand wired amp. I have his amp. The PR12 has a 112 greenback selection in it. So yeah, it gets super quiet as well too. It can work fine. It's the 10 just helps. It's not an essential part of that. The main thing that makes the Princeton do well is the fact that it's 12 watts. And you know it just like I said, it just doesn't, it doesn't have that, that thing where you crank it and it just jumps the volume like crazy. It kind of rides up smooth. But, but, and if I ever had to just pick one amp forever by but I could have pedals like a pedal platform amp. It would probably be. If I only could pick one amp that I have for pedals. In other words like it's just a clean platform, clean platform for pedals. I would probably either pick my 65 Deluxe as my sole only amp. I mean not only like Fender amp, just only amp period. Or the, the Joe Morgan. Joe Morgan. Damn, why can't I say it Joe Morgan, the Morgan PR12 and just run pedals for it. And if I had to have one amp but I wasn't allowed to have pedals, it would be my Amplified Nation amp just because that does gain and kind of higher mid gain and then a clean and, and if I, and if it wasn't that it would definitely be the Engel Steve Morris amp. And and then keep in mind as I say all that still spending 90 of the time on my Kemper. Sean says the Marshall 1974 X that's a great amp. I love it. As you know I have one. I, I, I told Sweetwater that I wanted to do a video about one work. I worked out a deal and I have one. I have the 1974 X and I have the Marshall 2071. I have a lot of amps, way more amps than I ever need. Just not the amps you used to See, and a lot. Not a lot of amps compared to a lot of other, you know, channels now that have amps. I've really pared down a lot of the amps, and I have. And I guess the best way to put is. I have amps that are in my. I guess my personal collection. These are things that I just hold dear, and I love them. And then there are amps that are functional for the channel, like the Synergy amp and stuff like that, or maybe the Ampeg amp or the PV amp. You know, just amps that I can use to make videos, which makes sense. Luckily for me, I'd say the only amp that I have in my. I would say is my personal amp. You know, an amp I use personally a lot and make videos is the Inglesey Morris amp. Just because it's so. So it could, you know, it's just a great utility product. So it has a lot of downsides, but it works great. But I don't know. Okay, next. Next subject is. We have Christian, who says, hey, when you do a Guitar of the Week, can you play Happy Birthday for Amanda? I don't know how to play Happy Birthday, so I'll say, no, I'll. Nope. But I don't know. We'll do something for Guitar of the Week. Today's the first July series of Guitar of the Week, which I'm very excited. We're doing a special series of Guitar of the Week for the month of July. I'm happy to share with you guys. Later on, Christian also says, hey. Oh, no. He says, oh, he did it twice. Okay, thanks. Clan of Housecast says, hey, what do you think of the 2000s red faded Gibson V? Well, I don't think much about it. I like Gibson V's. I had one. It was a white one, and now Ralph has it. It was in my front room for the longest time. And I have one hangar in the front, I guess. Not the front room. The family room, you know, where you watch tv. In my family room, where we watch tv, I have. So on each side of tv, one side of the tv, I have a picture of Van Halen that's signed by Larry DiMarzio from a photo he took of the Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour, I believe. Right. And. And on the other side, I have a guitar that hangs there, and I change out the guitars from time to time. And I had a Gibson white V there that's basically just like the one you're talking about when it's painted white. And. And then Ralph goes, I'm gonna get a V. And I go, well, I. I got a smoking deal on that V. Like a smoking silly. Especially now in today's numbers. Smoking silly deal. Like you can't buy an epiphone for what I paid for that V. And it was in perfect condition. And I go, you could just have it for what I paid for it. So he took it. I want another Gibson V. I want a Gibson V. I don't know why I've been debating. The only reason I haven't bought a Gibson V is there's another V that's on my crosshairs that I've kind of given up on. It's been about a year and a half. I've been looking for one. And the other thing is, I'm thinking, I don't know why I haven't decided, but you'll know before the end of this month, I guarantee it. I've been debating back and forth and back and forth on selling my Gibson Red Firebird, that is really beautiful Firebird, and selling that and taking some of the money from that and buying myself a epiphone, Firebird and Epiphone V and just having an epiphone, Firebird and V set. And they will, you know, and be into them much less than, you know, just that Firebird. So I'm just thinking about that. So I'm just debating it. It's one of those things I keep saying when I do it, and then I pull out the Firebird and play it and then I go, no, I can't get rid of this thing. So awesome. But it's so nice. P says, karina, that is what I want. I want a Karina V. I've been working on figuring out how to get one that I want. And, you know, it's, you know. You know, it's funny. All these years, I have so many guitars and you're still going, well, I just need the one more guitar. Just one. One more guitar. Sin says, that Firebird is very nice. You will regret letting it go. You know, I. I'll tell you a funny thing. I did a video, and that's probably one of the worst videos I did in the. In the. In the hindsight of it. I did a video because I just love the title. The title was. Sometimes you're. You're sitting there when you make content, you get a title in your head, the title. Then, you know, you start thinking of how would that. You know, how would that video look and what would it be like in your head? And you're like, this is a great video. I'm going to do it. And I did a video like Guitars I regret getting rid of or something like that. And of course I had the title. I'm like, well, what are the guitars I got? I regret. And I, you know, I made a list of guitars that I honestly regretted getting rid of. And I did the video and I said, here is a list of guitars I regretted getting rid of. And I thought the discussion would be fun, like our Friday Fun podcast ideas where we discuss, you know, the things we do, guitar players. And I got so many people reaching out going, hey, I have one of those guitars and I can sell it to you. And hey, I can help you get one of those guitars back. And I, I think what the, the understanding is, the misunderstanding was when I let a guitar go, I very, very rarely want it back. It's. I know sometimes, like you've seen, I'm like, oh, I let go of a guitar, but I bought a new one. It's not because I so much regret that guitar being gone. I've just the thing about the other guitar I didn't like, I found one that didn't have that issue. Like, let's say perfect example is the N4 Paduk. I just bought one. I did have one about 15 years ago. I had an N4 Padauk that was 11 pounds. It was like 10 pounds, 8 ounces or something like that. So I guess not like 11, you know, not quite 11 pounds, but so having 18 pounds just was. It's not nicer because I found myself. It's not like, I don't hate, I don't hate heavy guitars. I just find that if you like, if you. I told you guys, if you have a light guitar and a heavy guitar sitting on two guitar stands, you tend to grab the light one every time. So I just noticed that. So, yeah, I won't. I. So if I get rid of it, I don't think I'll regret it. That's why. But I haven't got rid of it. So if I get to that point, I think I'll be fine. I'm just not there. Jay Aaron says, hey, I noticed there isn't much discussion about ESP guitars. Is there any particular reason why? Well, I've done, I've done a lot of. Well, I say a lot. I've done ESP, I've done E2, I've done Ltd guitar videos on the channel. Very few of them. And the irony of it is that what comes up a lot on this podcast is Things I've done in the past because people have seen videos and they're viewers of the channel and they're like, oh, you know, he did a PRS or he did a Parker or he did a Gibson. And those brands typically come up. I'm a huge fan of ESP Ltd and ESP for what I say. ESP Ltd and E2. I don't really like the E2 name. I've talked about this. I have my issues there, there are, you know, we've talked about that. But as a fan of ESP is the unobtained guitars. They're super crazy expensive, but they're beautiful. Ltd, I love them. I just don't. They're not a company that works with me. You know, I could talk about it now because the, the guy isn't there anymore. The guy who ran esp. I had a funny story. It happened once. So, um, another YouTube channel reached out to me and said, hey, I, I'm friends with the, the CEO of esp. And I'm like, oh, cool. And they go, they asked about you. And I go, they asked about me? I was super excited. You guys don't understand. I was super excited. I was like, oh, this is so great, right? Cause to me it's like, now I can make content. And, and he goes, yeah, he goes, he said he was recommended you by a couple companies he works with, you know, other, other brands. They said that Phil's like amazing or whatever and you know, they're hyping me up and you know, he gets views and you should work with him. And he goes, what do you think of them? And so the other YouTuber goes, I, I know him personally for years. He's a straight up guy. And you know, he is what he is in the videos. You know, he'll, you know, he's pretty honest and straightforward. You'll like that. Because ESPs, I guess they, they're not really into paying, you know, YouTubers and stuff. So it works out great. Cause it's like more of a, you know, know they'll loan you the, they'll loan you the expensive guitars and maybe let you keep the inexpensive ones. And he says, huh, nah, I'm okay with what the YouTubers working with now. And then when he told me, I'm like, I think one, why did you tell me this? And two, I'm like, oh, that sucks. But he's not there anymore. So that's the main reason we don't probably do a whole lot of their guitars. I try to hit, I Can't say every brand, but I try to hit as many brands as I can. Um, the. You know, that's just how it goes. And I kind of feel like with this discussion, we should probably segue into something that. I have a question that I wasn't sure I was gonna bring up, but I. Unless it got super chatted or something. But it was sent to me so many times and I'll keep it brief, but it just. It's perfect for this discussion right now. Was everyone was asking about the Gear YouTube dying video. So apparently, if you haven't seen, there's a bunch of YouTube channels that have made a bunch of videos about how gear. I call it geartube. Geartube is dying. And you know, what do I think about that? And you know, I personally, since no one was asking me about it, I was like, I'm not gonna talk about it. Cause I don't really think it's productive. However. However, it definitely ties into this discussion because, you know, when I hear stuff like that, like you guys, I think about it. I've said this before. I'm on the wrong side of the fence for you guys. So me telling you about YouTube being good or bad is like asking a guitar manufacturer, what do you think of the state of the industry right now? And they're like, it's great. Everybody's buying guitars. You should too. You know, so of course I'm gonna be like, YouTube's great. You should. Everybody's watching YouTube and everybody loves it. However, I think I have a different take. So maybe the take and it ties into this ESP LTD question that I just got asked. So I wanna share something with you. Cause I was looking at that because I have. I have an interesting. My channel is definitely. When I say unique, I don't mean that it's uniquely different than the other channels in the content that I do. It's unique in the way that it works. And what I mean by that is I don't have a whole lot of peaks and valleys. So here's what I can tell you. In 2017. I don't remember the month, but you can actually go on my. You can find my stats. All my stuff is public. I can't stop it. Just like every other influencer channel can't stop their stuff from being public the very first month, which I think was in 2017, some month. I hit a million views for the month. I've hit a million views for the month every month since. Except for one month where I had. I got nine hundred and something thousand views. It was the only month, so look at that. So 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. In seven, almost eight years, I have hit a million views every single month or more. But a minimum million views a month, except for one month, and that's the month I got Covid, because I, I just didn't make content that month. I don't know why. Anyways, and so consistent, right? I don't have a whole lot of peaks of value. I don't have it. So, you know, if you look at my stats, I don't have a video. I don't have a month where I didn't go below a million, except for that one. And I don't have a month where I hit 3 million. I don't have that either. I think I only have one month ever hit 2 million. And that I think was in December of 2017. For all the wrong reasons, right? If that makes any sense. But anyways, so I stay consistent is what I want to say. And I really applaud you for that. I think the sense of community helps that. However, what I want to share with you guys, that helps you because I don't want to sit here and tell you guys about the YouTuber side. It doesn't matter to you. It doesn't matter what the algorithm is doing, doesn't matter any of that stuff. What does matter to a guitar community to you, because it matters to me is this. So I was looking at some stats and I thought, I thought instead of giving you some emotional opinions about the state of YouTube other than things I've said in the past, which is, you know, five years ago I didn't have to compete with the news on YouTube, so now I compete with the news, which is tough, right? And I have to compete with like kitty videos, like Pretty Kittens and then shark attack videos and then what other whatever, whatever horrible, scary thing the news can scare you with, right? And so that's why we know that's why clickbait titles came about. Because without some kind of sensationalized title, you are not going to make somebody jump on it right away. But I want to share with you this. If I look at my last, I want to share this with you. My. This is in the last. All this stuff is going to be within the last 60 days, because it worked out perfect. In the last 60 days, I've done four sponsored content videos and I've done four independent videos and I'm going to click on the data right now. So I can share with you. And my four sponsored videos, according to this are. Sorry, my four unsponsored. So these are the independent videos. These are the videos that I basically paid out of pocket to do. My four independent videos have 556,100 views, a half a million views. In the last two months. I've done a half a million views across four videos independently. That means with no corporate sponsors, no outside, no loans of any equipment, I did that independent. We did that here. You guys did that. We did it together. Patrons did that. Channel members did that. Subscribers did that. We did that. I haven't estimated because I keep track of everything. An estimated loss of $310.34. That means after I paid, not myself, just for the equipment that I've also sold. Now, except for one thing, and I'll get to that in a second, I have lost $310.34. That means I made four videos that got half a million views and I've lost $310. So I average about two to two and a half days per video. So I'd say two days. So we're going to say that's eight days work, which is a work week. So solid work week. I worked for a solid week and I lost $310. Now here's the thing I need to point out. I haven't lost the $310 yet. This is the depressing part. I will lose the $310 when I finally sell the last guitar of those four guitars. What I mean by that is I have to sell that guitar. I'm hoping to net about $500 from that guitar sale. And when I do that, then I'll be out$310.34. Okay, now don't. This isn't to. This isn't. Woe is me. This is to explain the difference in what you're seeing out there. Now, my four sponsored videos, how did those go? Well, those four sponsored videos have 200, and I gotta get back to the screen so I can tell you exact numbers. I apologize. Those four sponsored videos have a total of 204,800 views. So less than half. I got less than half the views in the same two months on those videos. Now, what did I make on those videos? I'm not going to tell you, but I will help you understand. If I made $0, I'm ahead $310 and 34 cents. So let's start there. Let's just start there. Okay? And by the way, when I say lost $310, I want you understand that's after YouTube paid me, after all the stuff that happens, you know, after I pay myself costs. So now that was a really interesting snapshot I took on the channel. If I take other snapshots on the channel, I could find other scenarios that are like it. I've even found ones where I've lost even more and made even more on the sponsored content. Brian says I made 17 million. No, I would say I'll give you, I'll give you a guesstimate because, you know, right. It's just a guess that I want to say. It's probably somewhere around, probably around $700, 680, $700 per video is what I made like net and you know, done. So let's just keep it easy. And that's reason why I want to tell you is not so much. I don't want to tell you because one, I don't like to talk about that particular side. That's my personal business. But also when you do sponsored content, it's not the same. So if I said I got like, if I told you I made $10,000 on four sponsored videos, you'd be like, that's insane. I'm like, yeah, but then the last four, I made $300. Like it's, it's all over the place. By the way, it's never been $10,000 for three videos. No, I love it. Please don't depress me, guys, with these $10,000 and all these high things. No, it's more like $3,000. It's like $700 a video. So what's that? So $2,700, $2,800, something like that, maybe. Okay, so the important part is this, is that when I watched a lot of these channels talk about this and I watch a lot of people pontificate what's happening on Guitar Tube out there. Geartube. I want you to understand there is the incentive that I have to make content that is not sponsored. So reason I brought it up with this particular question was that question was you noticed I don't talk about ESPLTD.com but the important part is this. I bought an ESP guitar. I bought two LTD guitars and I have posted them on this channel. I buy Gibson guitars, I post them on this channel. I buy Epiphone guitars, I post them on this channel. I buy Fender guitars, I post them on this channel. I buy Squire guitars, I post them on this channel. And then what I do, which I have a lot of moral struggle with is I take companies like Kiesel who doesn't pay me, but they'll send me a guitar. PRs who doesn't pay me, but they'll send me a guitar. Other companies who will pay to sponsor videos, I take the money that they gave me and I buy their competitors guitars and show them to you on this channel. So in essence, I have to wrestle with the fact that mentally, I'm always taking the companies who love and support what I do or at least willing to work with me. I take their money and I fund their competitors. Because I'll tell you why. Because one, I think the deep dives won't work if there isn't a broad scope of instruments that I go across. Why this week did I do a silver tone from 1960s? Because I thought, wow, how do you have a reference to whether or not a firefly is any good or not if the only thing you compare it to is an expensive guitar or another guitar like it on the market? What about comparing it to a guitar? What was an inexpensive guitar like the PVT 15? What was. What was an inexpensive guitar like in the eighties? What was it like in the sixties? What was it like in the nineties? Is things getting better? Are things getting worse? It's comparative. It's not an opinion anymore. It's not my opinion. It's just you guys can see how all guitars come across the same system. The system being me, which is taking, measuring, rubbing a sock on it, whatever the hell that is. At least you can watch these videos with a reference to say, hey, look, you know when he did Ikea caster, you know, that's how that performed. And when he did a Parker or a crazy expensive PRS artist guitar like the Herman Lee, you know, you have a comparative of to look at. And. And then maybe you can make some decisions from that. And that's why I find it was valuable. But. But there's also a part of me that believes does. I do believe this. I believe that there was a time when people made movies and it's gonna sound weird, and the stories were always the same when you. When you see a great movie. Okay, I'm gonna say Jaws for those that said Jaws was good. Last time I was talking about Jaws. When you see a great movie like Jaws, you know there's a story behind it that always seems to be really consistent. The consistent story is we were over budget, they wanted us to stop. It was time to quit, and we said, I'll give up my pay because I'll just take the back end. And then they become super rich because the, because the movie became super huge. And now when I see movies that are not so great, it's always the same story. Oh, they had a 20 million dollar advance to the person who made the movie and the other person got $10 million advance. And I'm like yeah, we paid out all this money up front and then they didn't make you a great movie. And so the. I kind of think with the YouTube channel maybe it's the same way. Maybe if I keep investing into the channel, right? New equipment, new new cameras, new everything. Keep invest more guitars that are different than just otherwise. Look guys, I get it. It could be keys a week almost every week. Keezel would gladly send me a guitar every week. So would a lot of companies that just like they get along with me. But I just know like that's going to. That gets exhausting, right? I mean it's exhausting for everybody, right? And, and then, and then this is the important part to end with on this subject because there's going to be an argument it's going to come in this comments in any second now if I haven't already seen it. Yeah but if you don't do that, they won't watch. Well, if you're paying attention out there, my average views on a video is a hundred thousand views per video. That's my average. If you take my take videos and divide them up, that's what I average. It's almost doesn't mean every video I get gets a hundred thousand views. Last video I just did, it got 50,000 views. But it's an average. I don't need that. I only need about 10,000 views to get paid by a sponsor to make video content. So I could lose 90% of my views and still be valuable to a company. Because I don't think you guys understand the geartube world which is sponsored content pays way more than independent content to the point of a factor of 10. And that doesn't even make sense what I just said because I just explained to you I was negative on independent content content. So 10 times negative is still negative. I'm implying if I made $310, I made 10 times more if I did sponsored and also I don't need as many views right to do it which is a lot easier, you know, to, to deal with. But the other thing is is that you can see I think that's what hurts the gear to is that it's too easy to take the low hanging fruit which is the paid content every time. And I don't mean to disparage anybody who's doing, like I said, demo videos and all this stuff, paid content videos. Look, it's really hard to get a hundred thousand views. It does. It's not. There's no, there's no, you know, it's a seven day a week job to try to figure how to get content to move all the time. But I just wanted you guys to see it from my perspective. But not so much as like a lecturing you, lecturing you guys on it, but more explaining that this is what you see. I see it every time I go into my content. I can see, whenever I see low performing videos, I go, oh yeah, that was a sponsored video. The sponsored videos get the least amount of views because it feels more like a commercial when it was. I don't mean when a company agrees to work with me on an idea I have. I'm talking about when they like send you the new, here's the new pedal that does a thing and we show it and it's like, oh, it feels like a commercial. Right? Because I wouldn't have made it if they didn't send it. And you wouldn't have watched it if you weren't somewhat interested in what maybe my content. However, the thing that everybody misses is this. And this is the secret sauce. The conversion rates decline when the views get high. So if you think that If I get 10,000 views or any channel and they sell a hundred petals and when they get a hundred thousand they're gonna sell a thousand petals, you're absolutely wrong. I can tell you right now from experience, I guarantee this. I can even probably back it up with numbers if you wanted. But I'm not gonna do that today because I feel like this subject's too long. If a YouTuber gets 10,000 views and sells 100 petals and I get 100,000 views or any channel gets 100,000 views, most likely they might sell 200 petals. Maybe, maybe. And that's really not. I don't even believe that. I believe it's more like 150. The truth is the most extreme guitar buyers watch the content the most, which is what I do all the time. I just bought a tool watching another YouTube channel a week ago. And so what I'm trying to say is the companies don't really need big views and therefore the YouTubers don't really need big views. There's no money in big views. So when people, what people I think confuse is a lot of it is like, hey, they're not getting views like they used to on a channel. That's true. But also, I'm like, they're also better business people than they were 10 years ago, five years ago, and they know what works now. Same thing if they're selling any kind of lesson programs or anything like that. They converted it. The conversion is much better at lower views than it is at higher views. It's just a smart way to do business. And so it's just a business. So I'd almost say there is some channels that are not doing as well. That happens. That's everywhere. And there are some channels who are probably choosing not to do as well because it makes more sense to maybe take more sponsored content and do less independent. Makes more sense to focus on the sales aspect conversion versus the view conversion. Because like I said, no, no views that I've ever got has paid anything close to what sales can convert, too. So that's my take on it. But also why, you know, when I. I liked how it connected to the wise and their ESPs. Well, there is, and I try, by the way. And every time you guys bring that up, I bring in more guitars. So I just pulled in some guitars. I just bought some guitars, literally, that have not been on the channel in a long time or at all. I'm sorry. Evan says, can I buy bulk fret socks in merch store with kyg logo? You cannot. But if you ever need the nylon socks they sell on Amazon, they're called footies, sadly enough. This is funny. At least I'll give you some humor at the end of this. Ready? Some humor. Here's some humor. When I came up with the idea to take a nylon sock and rub it on a fret, that wasn't the first idea, as you can imagine. I didn't go, hey, she takes some women's under things. And okay. I was like, maybe a balloon. So I tried a balloon. I was like, maybe I was just thinking all kinds of piece of paper. I was like, rub a piece of paper on there. It wasn't working. I was like. I go, I just want to show what it feels like because it's so horrible when the frets are, you know, you guys know they're sticking out. And I go, okay. I finally. I go, I'm gonna do this. And I didn't ask Shawna to do it. I did it myself. I went to Target and I bought. I went into the women's area and I bought some leggings. I don't remember exactly what they cost. I just remember they were a lot. Like, 20 bucks. I thought it was 20 bucks. I think that's what it. And I got leggings anyways. And I was a little embarrassed, as you imagine. Even though I have a wife, I went and bought some stupid other things. I don't even remember what it was. Probably like a can of. You know, a can. You know, a can of green beans and a thing of orange juice or something. I don't know. I just got some stuff, like, to kind of make it look like I was running a husband errand or something. I buy these nylon socks. I come back, I go in the shop, I pull them out, and they're like, two long legs and this, like, pantyhose y thing. I cut off the piece, and I do it, and it works perfectly. And I go, this is ingenious. And I go, but at 20 bucks, this is gonna suck, because I go, this. I could barely get four pantyhose tests out of this. Whatever you want to call it. And I'm like, brian says, you mean hose. Look, I don't know what they're called. Right. They're women's leggings. I don't know. Like I said. So anyways, so I go, this isn't gonna work. And then I remembered. I remembered. I went in the kitchen. I remember. And I said, hey, Shawna, you know, one time you went to the shoe store, I was with you. And she's like, yeah. And I go, and you didn't have socks, and they gave you socks? And she's like, yeah, because she had, like, flip flops on. And she goes, you mean footies? And I'm like, what did you say? And I pull up my phone, I go, 40s. And of course, what comes up was this. So you guys know. Look. Hold on. Nylon. So obviously, I must have did a couple searches. There it is. And now we're sharing. These are disposable foot socks. Wow. When I started buying these, they were, like, 8 bucks, but it's 1:44, so. So, you know, to have a reference. I've gone through three to three boxes, for sure. I think I'm on my fourth box now, so quite a. Quite a few boxes. So I don't know. I don't know why. Yeah. Deja. Deja says, still wait. Waiting for that footies endorsement. Yeah. You know, that would be. I'd do it. Are you kidding? I would absolutely do it. You know, the. The ultimate get, the ultimate deal is to find something that doesn't compromise you know, the opinions. Right. So if I could get an endorsement that wouldn't compromise the opinions and have it on every video, that'd be great. Great. So that would be one. I'd be like, what do you guys care if I. Hey, get your footies. All right, let's. Let's go to another. Did I lose my whole screen? I did. Let me go back to it. Okay. As I look at my timeline. Okay. And let's see here. Amanda sent some questions. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna grab a couple of the ones Amanda sense, since I tend to get. This one came from Eric. Eric says. Hey, thoughts on car. Car amplifiers, C A, R, r. I've owned three. I loved all three. My favorite was the Mercury 8. That was the first one I got. I. It's not a regret. Do I regret getting rid of it? I don't regret it. I really liked it. Loved it. And then what happened was. I'll tell you what happened. The next one I got was. What was the next one I got? This one was the more Marshall vibe one. And then what happened was I got the opportunity to get a car head. And I can tell you exactly which head I got, because I can probably look it up on my reverb sales when I sold it. But I never had seen. Well, not never. I hadn't actually. I guess never. I never saw a. A. A car head. You know, always they were in combos. And this was a car head with reverb. And I was like, oh, this is. This is. This is the amp for me. Because at the time, I was stacking in racks, you know, if you guys remember, I had racks and racks of amps, and I did that, and then I got rid of it. Because what I learned about the racks for me is it was become. It comes a showpiece. You just. You just like. I'm not. I told you guys, I'm not plugging into a switcher and switching between 20amps. I'll just sit there and switch amps all day, you know, and not focus on what I care about, which is playing. So I sold it, and I'm just looking to see if I can quickly pull it up and share with you which one, what it was, and we'll see. I'll go one more page, One more page. The problem with my reverb store is I sold off about a hundred guitar pickups. When I did that, it really loaded up my page. So they looks like I've sold a gazillion things because I did in pickups. I don't see it one more page. Just because I feel like I keep thinking one more. Oh, okay. This might be it right around here. Because I feel. Yep, that's when I sold my two rock. Because I sold my two rock for my Amplified Nation amp and. Huh. I know I sold them around the same time, but. Oh, there it is. Okay, here's the one. I don't regret getting rid of it. This was it. This is the one I sold. This is my Mercury V16. So it was the V16 which was voiced. This one was really good. I really liked it. But for some reason, even though I've owned three, my favorite was my first one, which is the Mercury 8. So I think that was a 10 inch speaker, right? Something like that in a 8 inch. Eight watts may have been a 12 inch. It's really cool. Love cars. They're great, great amps. Super expensive. Obviously it's one of those things. If it's not great, there's a problem because they're freaking expensive. Okay, let's refresh this. This is making me nervous. We have. I don't even misery me, Misery me. That's my misery. Mrs. Mama Mama. Hey. All right. Says hey. Need packing tips to ship solid electrics from the US to Europe. Eight weeks in the container across the ocean. They'll be in cases and gig bags, cardboard boxes. I don't know. I've never shipped them that. You know, I don't. I, I would double box everything. Every single thing I've shipped gets. Just if it makes it, it's like I don't know how it did it. It's like they're just trying to destroy it. I would double box everything in a case or not. Pack the hell out of it. The only advice I have for you is if you think you packed it enough, pack it a little bit more. It's just do not take any chances. And if anything, it makes you say second guess yourself, like that's good, but you're thinking just more and don't be stingy. You know, at this point, I shipped a guitar that was valuable to somebody two weeks ago. And I put it. I put it a box and I put it in a giant box. And the shipping added like $30 more than it already was just for the box being an extra like 5 inches longer and, and an inch deeper to put that box in. And I was like, nope, I'm doing it. You know, don't be cheap with the shipping at this point. You can't be cheap it's. If you're. If you have value, if you have valuable guitars, don't be cheap. Just. It's just. In fact, you know what? Can I show you guys something? Can I pause the show for a second? I'm going to play you an ad, and I'm going to grab something. Okay, here we go. If you're learning something or having a good time, don't forget, you can subscribe for free and help this channel, or for $10 a month, you can join me on Patreon for live clinics where you can ask questions every single week. Okay, I'm back. All right. So behind me, misery me, is an crazy expensive Herman Lee guitar that was in a gig bag. No, it's in a case. Sorry. It came in a case, and I told you guys. I asked Pierce if I could buy it. They agreed to let me buy the Herman Lee guitar because I'm. And I'm an idiot. Not because of buying the Herman Link guitar. Just because I'm buying stuff. It's crazy like that. But I didn't until I knew for sure, because I didn't want to fall in more love with it. I kind of wanted to. Out of sight, out of mind. I put it back in the case, back in the box. So once Shauna said yes, they're going to sell it to you. I'm like, cool. I'm gonna get out of the box. Here's the box. Here's a dude's footprint. Somebody stepped on this guitar. They stepped on it. I mean, that's right. That's nuts. So, yeah, put that there. You're gonna be seeing a box the rest of the show. I mean, that's not like they dropped. Could be they kicked it. It's not even the whole print, but you can see the back of the print, right? Somebody stepped on the Herman Lee. Think about this first. I want you to think about it. It was in a case, okay? But you right single boxed. So it's case in that box. It did not come to me double boxed. Obviously. That's the. The box the case was in. Could you imagine? Thank goodness Herman Lee smacks him and hits him and. Right. That's crazy. So I guess what I'm trying to say you is there picture. From now on, they're gonna step on your stuff and then prepare it for that. So there you go. I thought I'd share that with you. All right. This one's from Dan. Dan says, hey, is there a difference between a normal powered PA speaker and FRFR Cab Happy Maraca? Day. Happy birthday, Amanda. Oh, America. Ah, this is the George Bush America thing. America. Yeah, forever. He ruined that, right? It's America. I know. We all do it. America. It's like it's stuck in your head forever. Okay, so is there a difference? Technically? I don't know the absolute answer in the construction. They're very similar. They probably both have like a class D power amp. They're probably both. Unless the PA speaker has built in Eqing, which usually, you know, we're thinking no. I don't know. I would imagine a lot of the differences in the. Maybe the FRFR does not have a horn in it because a lot of PA speakers will have essentially a speaker and a horn. I have used PA speakers for my modelers and liked it as much as I have an frfr. So to me an FRFR cabinet is essentially a small one piece PA speaker. But I have used, I have used all three things. I've used PA speakers, I've used studio monitors, and I've used FRFR cabinets for my modelers and have found no dramatic difference in the sound quality that I was like, at any point did I say, oh, no, the FRFR is far, is far better than the others. It was just, you know, utility issues like the, you know, this, the, the studio speakers aren't portable, but. And the pa, you know, if you're not running through a pa, there's no reason to bring a whole pa. So Litvay says, hey, Phil, is Amanda's birthday always the day after Independence Day? Happy 4th and 5th, everyone. I would imagine so. Right. It's the 5th of July. I don't think it rotates. Yeah, the dates don't change. So she said yes. So she's always the day after Independence Day. Christian says, hey, Phil, if a famous guitarist asked you to tour with him and be their guitar tech, would you do it? No, no. You know, it's. It really comes down to. It really comes down to the. One of my favorite stories ever by far is Tim Pierce explaining how he became a studio musician. He's told it publicly many times. I've heard him say the story publicly and, and then me and him had a personal conversation about it and it was, it was more direct and less, less polished, you know, as you would when you're talking to a bigger group of people. And I could tell you the takeaway I got from that. So basically, if you don't know the temp here story, it went like this. He was like, obviously a masterful guitar player. He wants to play and he's like, I'm looking for gigs. And he goes, but I don't want to work nights and weekends. He's like, I want to. I don't want to, you know. You know, I don't want to be gone. I don't want to leave. I don't want to tour. I don't want to work nights, and I don't want to work weekends. And they said, well, then you're not going to be a guitar player. And he's like, well, I want to be a guitar player, but I don't want to work nights and weekends and tour. And so he figured out one day, he's like, well, what about studio guys? They probably work normal hours. And he's like, yeah, you work nights, but not every night, you know, and you don't work a weekend, but you don't work every weekend, so. And you don't travel that much. And so he did that for many years, as you know. And then eventually, when he got the demand he has, most people come to him now, like, you know, they go to his space station, as you. His. He calls it, basically, and he does their. You know, there's. Their tracks. I would say I'm kind of the same thing. Like, I. I didn't want to tour. Whether I'm a guitar player, a bass player, especially a bass player, I didn't want to tour as a guitar tech. I don't want to tour, and I don't want to work nights and weekends. Well, I work weekends, so not nights, because I work my. My workload. The way I work is seven days a week, but which I learned from Tim Pierce. Working seven days a week. Half days. I work a half day every single day, and then some days full days. But Tim Pierce taught me that a few years back, and it works perfectly. I was asking him about work, life, balance and getting stuff done, and he told me he works every single day. And it works for me. It's great. So same thing with me. I like this. I mean, this to me. So, you know, part of the appeal, what people don't understand is, you know, when I started this channel, which I started in 2017, what I understand when I say I started it before 2017, I was just throwing content out there. You hear this a lot from channels, like. And then I decided I'm gonna do this right, at some point, the demand for what you do gets high enough, there's a person waiting for you to make a video. So you're like, oh, well, the more videos I make, the more I'll get people to watch. And that's how it works. In 2017, when I decided to do this, one of the appeals to me the biggest appeal was I could spend time with my kids. Remember, I had spent for 13 years, I had worked six days a week open, close at the store. And so I got one, I got Sunday off. And sometimes I have to do stuff for the store too on Sundays, but I usually took Sunday off with the kids. And so I always left the store for. I've been to every one of my daughter's recitals. I went to see my. My son. If he did sports or if he did anything, I went and saw whatever they did. We took him to the movies. So I would have people cover me and I could leave for the store. But you gotta understand, like, I. All my memories and all my kids memories of me being in their vents is I was there, I showed up on time, and the second was over, I left. So, like, when they would go with Shawn and the grandparents to go out to eat, I left, you know, and Shawna had to work an insane amount of hours at the store. So to me, YouTube was all of a sudden like, I can spend time with my kids. So even though my kids were at the tail end of it, right? So in 2017, the last few years that you get with your kids, I got them because of YouTube. So a lot of people have a lot of opinions about this, you know, like, oh, you do it for a free guitar. You do it this. That was a huge focus for me. The idea that I could, if I could survive and be around music, which is what the store got me to be around. Being around guitars, being around music, I could do that, but then also have time with my kids. That was like a miracle. So I took the opportunity. In fact, I could almost argue, in fact, I will argue that if that wasn't the thing that came with YouTube, I would have never been insane enough to think YouTube was a thing. I'm not even sure YouTube's a thing now. I'm not even convinced it's a viable living at doing it for eight, nine years, however long I've been doing it, I don't even know. Anyways, you can understand. So. So that's the thing. So same thing with touring. Now my kids, of course they're out of the house. Would I do it? No, I don't want to tour. So I already have to travel too much. Now I'm traveling twice in the next 30 days. So the answer is no. And if you want to Change this the question to what if it was my favorite guitar player in the whole world? I still wouldn't do it. No, I like what I'm doing now. It feels good to me. I, I like it works. I like, I like figuring out how to teach somebody something. It's really cool if I can even. Even though I don't even know how I got that opportunity through all this mess. But doing it has been made me very happy. Seth says Happy 4th Phil recently migrated from pedal train to the holy boards and have some extra spaces on the board. Any fun toy pedals you would recommend to the fill to get to fill the gap. Funny with Phil with my name already have a delay tuner, gain and looper, etc. You know what I will tell you is, is you know we talk about prices going up all the time and the market and everything, but one thing I will tell you is the sales are real this weekend they are out selling the company. So. And pedals have been hurting. It's. Pedals are hurting, man. That's, that's where it's hurting the most. I think when I see it out there now, what I mean the most. But I'm like by category, pedals seem to be percentage wise hurting the most, which is pretty tough to say with amps because amps have been hurting for a long time. But so I would say, you know what I would use is this opportunity because here's what's probably going to happen. Okay. I want you to say and if you want to, if you want to hate me later, I'm okay, Seth. Okay. So Seth, thank you for the super chat. It was a huge super chat. I appreciate that. So for that I'm going to tell you something that it's a little me a little nervous for me to say because I could be wrong. And so I'll start it with I could be totally wrong. I'm going to give you my guess and here's my guess. Right now we're sitting in the eye of a, of a, of a storm, right? And that I is the fact that you have manufacturers, you have a this that we have a slowdown. So, so people are not buying, okay? We're just talking guitar communities, okay? You don't want to care about the car market and shoes and all this stuff. I'm just talking about food and stuff. I'm talking about guitars. So you have a market. They've slowed down. We've slowed down buying stuff and they want to maintain sales obviously because as I told you, a lot of companies grew during the boom. And they don't want to let people go. They don't want to shrink. They don't want to do that. So we have a unique opportunity. And this is from hours of discussion with at least a dozen companies in the last two, three months. Okay. That don't know each other. So you understand. You know, I was talking to Music Man Guitars this week, one of the companies, and that came up. And one of the things came up was like, they. My comment when I'm like, I'm like the guy who's dating all the girls, I'm the guy who's interacting with all the companies, and I'm like, wow, they. That story is familiar to this story. That story is not like the story. What I'm telling you is there's a lot of familiar themes and a lot of the stories that are being discussed right now in the. In the guitar community of manufacturing, which is they don't want to slow down, right? They want to keep pushing the product. And they. Because they. One, they have product they got to sell. Two, they have employees want to keep going. They want to keep things going. And there's price increases hitting them left and right. Okay. Which has been consistent for the last six years. But it's just, you know, obviously there's new things now. We got the tariffs and all that other stuff. So there's. And there's uncertainty as there's been for the last six years. And what I think is going to happen is, is they're going to. To give us the deals now. So you're going to see the 20% off, the 30% off, whatever that is, the legit deals. And then you're going to see once inventory lines go and they replenish with more expensive inventory. And they either have to finally either adjust their employee levels or. Which is horrible to say, or adjust their business model, prices will come back, they'll come up, they're going to go higher. I don't think it'll be come down to where they were. I think they're going to go higher. So if you're paying $200 for a pedal, you're going to pay 225. And right now they're offering you a pedal for 150. So what I'm saying is right now is a good time to. If there's a piece of gear you need or want. Need is really a silly thing to say in this world. But I want. I'm not talking about just buying and don't buy stuff like to invest that's just stupid as hell. I'm going to buy a pedal and then a year I'll sell it for more. Like don't think like that. What I'm saying is if you've been thinking about getting something, maybe take that chance and get that thing now, if it's a good deal and you truly want it, because I don't think it's going to stick. And the caveat to that is even though there's an avalanche of used gear out there and even though the market's slowing, people are still buying. So again, it'll still attrition. In other words, people are still buying at a rate to where even if people go, oh, these prices will keep going down. I'm like, nope, at some time the inventory does level to the, to the demand, right? But right now I think we're low demand and high inventory. I don't know why I'm doing this way. High inventory with low demand and then I think eventually it'll hit like this again. And I don't know. That's my theory. So I would say go out there and look at those sales this weekend. And by the way, I think there'll be more sales for another weekend or two or whatever. You know, there's still gonna be sales. I'm not talking about like when I'm saying this, I'm not telling you the eye of the storm is like a week. This might go on till fourth quarter maybe that's when they'll resettle and restuff. There's a, there's a lot of companies also saying the same things and those things that are, they're getting deliveries in August. A lot of companies seem to have a lot of deliveries coming in August and those deliveries seem to all be more expensive. So I would, I would anticipate seeing product come pricing come up September, which is when people start, want to get in the mood to buy again. So fourth quarter. So it'll be fourth quarter desires with higher prices is a theory. Now keep in mind the thing that can jack that up from my whole, you know, this whole theory is if demand keeps dropping because if demand keeps dropping, it won't matter that you know it. The product has to move. So that's just my, my two cents. A united effect says, hey Phil, I started changing strings on a headless with hipshot hardware and the low E jammed up won't. Won't tune up to pitch any fix that you know of. So you're talking about when the ball end gets stuck in there. Yeah, It's a big pain in the ass. It's a bridge of pain in the ass. That's the downfall. Headless guitars. It's like they come with the same situation. A Floyd Rose does a. I mean they're not nearly as problematic as Floyds can be sometimes, but if you have the hip shot bridge, I would suggest getting the new hip shot saddles. I don't know if you have the keysel one or just a hip shot from other brand. But I think even though the saddles were for Keisel, I think you can contact hipshot or just get the keys ons and use it on your hipshot bridge. Once you get that fixed, it's, it's, it's amazing. Right? Just go with that. But, but to get it out of there, I don't know. I usually just. I've had the same problem. I've had a fish amount. I have these really tiny, tiny, tiny needle nose pliers that lets me get into things. So I don't know if you have something like that. I can just tell you this. If it's jammed in there, it's going to come out. If it doesn't come out, you have to take the bridge off. It's a big pain in the ass, but it should come out. You're just gonna have to work it out. You just like kind of massage it out. I've had. The good news is I've had them stick in there too. It's one of the things I hate. That's why I leave it alone. Luckily, I've only changed all my headless guitars. I've changed the strings maybe one time each because it's like once I do it, I go, okay, that's gonna stay on there for a while. And that's fine for me. Clan house cat says, hey, of course the shark has rubber teeth. 10 by 10 movie. Yes, it does. And Richie says, hey, carpal tunnel surgery on your fret hand. Anyone? How is your recovery? I don't know. Has anyone had carpal tunnel surgery on their fretting hand? And how was the recovery on that? Let us know. Right? I'm really curious. I have not had any. I've never had a surgery at all. I don't think one of those things. Like I don't. I don't think so. I mean, I guess the answer is no. If I can't, if I don't, if I can't remember. Okay, let's see. How weird is this? I have a super chat here, but not on the other side. Let me Refresh this screen. Sometimes they get trapped up. Just checking my timeline. Make sure this is from nick says Happy 4th. Happy 4th from the UK. Thank you, I appreciate that. It says use, use early 2000 USA Strat or a mid 2010s road worn made Mexico Strat. I have a 90s made Mexico Strat. I think the road worn would be cool and different. So my 2 cents on that is as someone who really likes the road worn Strats, except for I did not get on with those seven a quarter inch radius fretboards. Now, I don't know because I don't remember if they ever did a series of road horns after that that didn't have the seven or seven and a quarter inch radius fretboards. Every road worn Strat that I worked on or played, I really enjoyed it. I loved everything about it to the point where like you're at. Where I'm like, man, I could definitely have this instead of my USA Strat. But every single one, I just couldn't get the action. I couldn't get the seven quarter to feel the way I want it to feel. I said this before when the John Mayer Strat came out. The John Mayer Strat, the John May Silver sky, don't confuse that. You get your trademarks, you know. Confused. The John May Silver Sky. When it came out into a seven quarter, I said, I think in that video as well, which is when seven and a quarter inch radius fretboards, when they're perfect, you know, life is great and the guitar says are great. They're some of the best feeling necks I've ever played. But when they're not, when anything's, they're just horrible. They're just. Just feels like the high E to me. It feels like a cheese slicer. It feels right. It's like, hey, because you got to keep the high so high so it doesn't fret out when you bend up. So that's what I would consider. Make sure that the road one you're looking at doesn't have the seven and a quarter inch radius. And if it does, you need to make sure that you like that before you go that route. That's the only difference other than that, you know. And if that's a factor for you, go with the early 2000s strat. Okay, let's see what Amanda sent us. She sent us. Wait, I don't know. I don't understand the question. Okay. It says, okay, this one's from Mike. Says, hey, Happy Independence Day. Would you ever consider reviewing the PRS SE NF3. Uh, did I not do that? I just bought one. Do I not have that? I. I have to admit a lot of you guys ask questions. You're like, hey, would you ever try out this guitar? And I'm like, I did that. I think it's because you gotta understand the way the algorithms work. Algorithms. The way it all works is you don't always get notified everything so you know, you not everything so. But the way we do it is if you type in my name in YouTube Philip McKnight and what you want, it doesn't matter if the title is that or not. It will come up. So according to this, I have not done a PRS NF3. I would have swore I did. Hold on a second. Wait. Nope. I don't know how I didn't do that. So for some reason I didn't. They didn't send me one. Usually pursue me. Everything it's. And then. But there was a time when, you know, again, they just don't. They don't hit me up. I will tell you this. So let's answer your question. Says we'll consider it NF3 really like it. I've never. Then if I haven't had a video of it, then I've never. I don't remember seeing the NF3 as the SE. What I can tell you is if you're thinking about getting a PRS NF3 is I would not buy one till Wednesday. In fact, if you're thinking about getting a PRSS SE out there, there's great deals this weekend. And if you really, really want one and it's the one you want and you don't think there's another appear SSC that doesn't exist yet that you might want, I would say buy that on the deal. But if you're thinking you're. You're. I wait till Wednesday. And when I say Wednesday, I mean Tuesday. I'd wait till Tuesday. I'm just. Yeah. Susan says I'm pretty sure Phil did the guitar. I'm pretty sure I did too. But we could have took it down. Who knows? I don't know. I wouldn't take very many videos down. But maybe we took it down. I thought I remember doing that guitar. Let's see. I kind of feel like, well, here. You know what I can do? Oh, it came out four months ago. I had not done any PRS videos. Oh, no. This is one year ago in F3. Hmm. Let's do this while we're here and we have a moment. Let Me try this if you don't mind. While I also remind you that if you're thinking about getting an se, I would wait to see if something comes out new and exciting on Tuesday. Okay, so it came out in the last year. So it'd be last year that it came out. So we're talking 2024. So let me peruse the 2024s. So in 2024, starting January, I did the PRS 2408 Core. That was in January. And then next PRS I did was the PRS S2 set in custom 24. And then I did the PRS 2408 S2. And the next PRS I did was. Drumroll, please. No, I did not do that guitar. I did not do that guitar. So otherwise it would come up. Because like I said, the way we have the video is tagged up. If you type in what you want in my name, it comes up. So a lot of times you just didn't missed it. But I always tell people if you type in my name in the in the search and what the product is, it'll usually pull it 99% of time. Okay, Eric Walter Smith says, hey, have you ever played the Black Star St. James amplifiers? I did. I played one in a guitar center once loved was one of those things kind of what happened was I checked it out, I dug it and I kind of put it on my radar. But then, you know, I didn't see the opportunity later so. Okay, let's. Let's go to another one. Okay, this is one from Gary Brady says are solid state amps moving in front of tube amps? You mean like sales wise? Well, they solid stamps always outsell tube amps just because inexpensive amps tend to be solid state amps and they're always going to out sell by volume. You know, amps and guitars and pedals all sell by price point like everything probably in life. So. But. But anyways was gonna say the. The important part is, is that I don't know what I'm trying to say. I don't know. I think, I think I'm trying to say that they outsell tube amps. But it's like if you mean coming ahead of them or moving ahead from in front of them and like being desired by players, I would say no modeling technology in the price points. In higher end price points. I think modeling technology is outpacing tube amps and lower price points. Solid stadiums always win as is what I think for sure. Okay, well this one's a good one. We get a lot. This is Jedi Master J. Jedi Master says, hey, does. This is from Amanda by. Wait, all these are from Amanda Pulled says, does. Does leaving your guitars hanging on the wall damage the noise neck or wear off the finish at all? If you have a wall hanger that is not. Is not. Does not. I'm trying to think best. How do I put that? If your wall hanger is not rated, I guess is the best way to put it for nitrocellulose finish, like on what's on Gibsons and now new PRSs and vintage fenders and stuff like that. It could lacquer burn or could have hurt the damage the finish that way. The string swings. I have never had a problem. I've heard a couple people say they have a problem. Gibson is now selling a stand with the string swing hanger on it and saying it will be. It is okay for nitro. So that's the only issue. I've never had a problem from a guitar hanging on the wall ever. I've never had like a, you know, whatever, you know, a damage or, you know, any negative effect whatsoever. And. And that's from having them in my store for years and years and years and then having them here for years and years. I've just never had an issue. I've never. There's no. No moment where we're like, wow, too bad it was on the hanger. Never had that. And. And I've never had a nitro burn on any guitar that I've ever sold or guitar that I've ever owned with, with. With the string swings. So I highly recommend string swing. There's a lot of choices out there, and I'm sure a lot of them are good. I only use string swing. I'm not paid by string swing. I have no sponsorship deal with them, and I just like them. It's what I used. And funny, funny thing to mention is these string swing hangers are now all officially 20 years old. Now, when I say all, not all, damn it. See? Damn it. Because I'm just thinking about going, no, I think we had some ones from 2007 mixed in. No, I think we're good. I think on this wall. No, these are all from 2000. No, most of these are from 2007. It's the other room, 2005. So most. So here's the good news. J. Jedi Master. All these hangers, I have been using them since 2005 and 2007, and all of these were in my first store, then ripped out of the walls. All they were unscrewed, put in the new store in 2007, and then they were there until 2017. And then now they've been on these walls since then. So I have. And if you guys have been watching this channel, I've moved them a bunch of times too. They are just. And they're just as new as the day I started. That's my recommendation. I can't imagine I'm ever gonna need to replace them. All right. Jason wants to know if the Katana 100 sounds good at bedroom levels as well as gigging. Yes, absolutely. You can do both? Sure. I had the Katana 100 and it was fine. I prefer the 50 just because it's smaller footprint and I don't need the bigger, you know, volume and all that stuff. But yeah, no, the 100 wouldn't be fine because it's got the. It's got the power soaking thing and it's, you know, so you can get quiet at any volume. Yeah, there's no problem there. So let's see. Okay. Okay. Sean Brooks says, hey, do you think the Silver sky has moved into the Les Paul zone of signature guitars, I. E. Most people who buy it don't care about the artist. Well, you know, it's a good, good tie into a question. One of the early Rise questions, which I grabbed but didn't send. It's not posted here. Somebody was asking about. They were looking at their first signature guitar. I apologize, I don't have your name. Looking at your first signature. Buying a signature artist guitar. And they want to know what are my thoughts on that work? Because there was a lot of people saying how, like, they don't buy signature guitars. And they were saying, is that just because, like, what is that? Why do people. Some people don't like signature guitars. Well, part of it is because, like I said, they weren't. There wasn't signature guitars for a long, long time. They didn't really exist. I mean, yeah, we had Les Paul's, but for the most part we didn't have a whole lot of signature guitars for a long period of time because, you know, a lot of. Lot of artists didn't have a lot of signature guitars. And then essentially a lot of players would like, hey, that's a poser if you're playing somebody else's guitar. I think one of the downfalls of signature guitars for me, when I first started playing and I was looking at signature guitars was, you know, if you. I don't play like Nuno Betancourt, of course, and I don't play like Eddie Van Halen. I don't play like Steve. I don't play like those players. Those are virtuos so style players and I don't play like that. And so you get that guitar and then that's what people think, you know, like, oh, like he's going to play Van Halen stuff, he's going to play amazing and he's going to play yngwie stuff. You know, if you're on engvase track, I think at this point, and I don't think those are kind of gone, I don't. I think some people still have hanging hang ups on that. But I think the hang up on that is just the same as the hang up on relic. If you don't like relic guitars, if you don't like, you know, fancy wood top guitars, you just. This is a preference of the this point. I don't think there's actually real factual basis into not liking a signature guitar. The only negative of a signature guitar I can think of is that usually, you know, it's more expensive because you're paying an artist a royalty, you know, for helping design it or put, you know, market it. Both. But back to the John mirror guitar. I think I always thought this. When it comes to Paul Rude Smith, their reputation was built on quality. That's how it worked. That's why the SES are doing so well. Look, a lot of companies make guitars in quartec factory. Cortex Factory is a very nice factory, but doesn't mean every guitar that comes out of the cortex factory with a brand name on it is all respected equally, right? PRS built a reputation for building guitar good guitars. All this, this, this, this, the funny notes, you know, Dennis Dr. Guitars, stuff like that, that's all funny. It's great. We love doing that. Who doesn't like ragging on people with money, right? It's this, it's fun, right? And then one day, here's the thing about that. You think a dentist or a doctor is like, man, they make fun of me because I have nice guitars and a nice car and a nice house and a nice life. Like no, no, that's what's great. You get to rag on people who are doing well and those people tend to take it well because they're doing well. They're like, enjoy your Cheetos and McDonald's. I'm gonna go out and have a dinner, you know, Right? Like. So my point is, is that all those are true about prs. But PRS built its reputation on Quality. That's different than Fender and Gibson. They didn't build their reputations that way. They built their reputations other ways. They built it with, you know, obviously history and music, you know, Right. Rock stars playing it, blues players playing a jazz, you know, country, you know, God, think about that. Just everybody you can think of, every genre you can think of is, is a Fender is a Gibson and stuff. Lineage, history. And then PRS was like quality. It's just like a brand that was like quality. And, and, and so when John Mayer interacted and did the Silver sky. Because if you think about this, look, I, I can tell you John Mayer, when he was with Fender, the, the Strats that came through the store was obviously that metallic green one. Remember, there was like an army green. I forgot the name of the colors. Please bear with me, but it's army green. Look at this olive green that I have now. But it was metallic John Muir one. We had those, we had the, this one with the stripe down the side. Remember the one that had a racing stripe, John Muir one. Then I guess we had. Did we have a sunburst one? We had all the John Muir Strats in the store. Could never sell them. They sold okay. That was not a hot selling artist guitar in Strats, I can tell you. I had all the Strats, all the artist Strats in the store over the years. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck always sold well. Eric Johnson always sold well because they're unique. The Jeff Beck neck is a really different, unique U shaped neck and had noiseless pickups and it just played great. The Eric Johnson same thing. It's a 50 strat, but with a 12 inch radius fretboard. And it just played great and the pickup sounded great. And so artists, certain artists outsold other artists for sure. Right. When it comes to Strats. Yngwie, I told you guys never could sell the Yngwie Strats. It's nothing against the artist. It's just, I'm just telling you who sold and who didn't. So if you would have told me, like, oh, John Mayer was the hottest selling Fender artist there was. And then he went to prs. You're like, oh, that, that's math. That makes sense. But that's not how that worked. Same thing I would say with John Petrucci. With Ibanez, he was not the Steve look on Ibanez. It was Steve Vai. Like Paul Gilbert, Joe Satroni, Steve Vai. They all sell guitars. Absolutely. You know, insert your artist There's a ton of them. Like I like noodles, right? Noodles from. From Offspring. You know, tons of great players play Ibanez. But Steve, I, you know, he's the Babe Ruth of Ibanez. Like he's. Ibanez is the house that Ruth built, that VY built, right? That's where Ibanez is. And same with Petrucci. He did well with Ibanez, but he was not going to ever be Ruth. He's not Babe Ruth. And when he went to Music man, bam, he's. He's the Babe Ruth Music man guitars is the house that John Petrucci built. And for some reason John Mayer did the same thing with Purest. He left Fender and where he was just another artist with all these other artists. And that I could honestly say if I going back looking at all the guitars we put on the wall, John Mayer's never outsold any other guitar. Specifically they did well. But I would say I would definitely give it. I think he even did better than Clapton selling wise. But I definitely think not the hottest selling artist guitar for sure. Especially if it wasn't one of the unique colors that got discontinued and stuff like that. So he did well, but it was not what it was when he went to ps and why do I think that? I think it's because I think the same thing with Petrucci with Music man, you know, it's the. It's a perfect marriage, right? If you think about it, it's. And maybe vi the same thing. Because you could say about the Japanese made Ibanez gems and stuff. You have a person who we respect as a player and they come together with a brand that we respect for quality. And we think, well, it's gotta be good, right? I mean, what are the odds? You know, it's not like either one of their reputations are tattered. It's a perfect non. Like it's not like. It's not like this artist leveled up this brand. There's a little bit of that or this brand level up this artist. It's just a perfect like. Yeah, that makes sense. John Mayer and prs. And I think that's why the Silver sky. So to ask your question, is it like at the level Les Paul is? No, I don't think you're actually asking me that. Let's see. Signature guitars. But most people who buy it don't care about the artist. I guess that's what you're saying. It's not that it level sells at the level because it's not. Not even in the same realm. You gotta understand, no one is in the realm of Gibson and Fender. They're just all by themselves, okay? I mean, we. Music man PRs. Sir Keisel, Tom Anderson, those. All those brands differently, of course, than each other. CHL Heritage. None of them are in the Fender level. None of them are in the Gibson level of volume of sales. It's just those two companies are in a much different world. Okay, much. But do. The question he's getting at, Sean's really asking is like, do I believe that. That the Silver Skies hit the level of Les Paul where we don't look at it as like a signature guitar, we just buy it because what it is? I think so. I think that's a good way of looking at it, Sean. I think that makes sense. I could see that logic, you know, 60 cycle Steve says it's like Slash with Gibson. Well, the. The thing about Slash and Gibson is, well, first of all, Slash. So on a side note, Slash saves Gibson. Right? That's how that works, right? Because you go to the late 80s, Gibson was about to file bankruptcy. That's like not even a. You know, they were just not doing well. Neither was Fender, but Gibson was doing really bad. And that's because, you know, everybody was buying Super Strats. You gotta understand, Eddie Van Halen came out and he's like, hey, everybody, I got a can of spray paint and some guitar parts and I can make a guitar. And everybody's like, you. You can what? I mean, think about that. You know, think about. Think about any other platform, right? Think about any other platform. Imagine. Imagine if you will, and this probably exists. So I'm probably giving you an analogy that probably something exists. Imagine you're riding these expensive bikes, right? Like, you know, back in the day, these, you know, in this BMX racing and stuff, these bicycles and stuff. You're riding these really expensive custom bicycles or, you know, these bikes. And then some kid shows up and he's just got a rat rod equivalent of a bicycle that's all thrown together from Walmart parts. And he Craylon spray paints it, you know, red, white and black. And then he becomes the best bicyclist, you know, BMX racer or whatever you call it. That's what Eddie Van Halen did. He's like, hey, you. You. Like, I. Every. Everyone else, they're like playing junk, hoping to be a rock star one day so you can get that amazing guitar. And this is Rockstar is like, I got the junk guitar you guys got. Look at mine. I don't I didn't. It's not even properly put together a fixed right. And that, that, that's really, if you think about it, that, that is the anti. Gibson is the Frankenstein Strat. It's the everything that PRS and Gibson holds dear. The Frankenstraat is a finger too. It's the. Oh, you think, you know, a set neck with, you know. Oh, and what would the finish matters? You say, oh, well, how does Krylon spray paint sound? Right? Like, I mean, oh, the pickups need to be the exact right amount of wines. Scatter wound. You said by. By, you know, right. Oh, I don't even know what pickup I shoved in there last week. I was drinking, right? Like it just, it, it, it just. It puts a finger to the face of everything and then that goes on. And then of course the thing that Eddie Van Halen brought was you. I have a unique looking instrument though. And then that makes a whole generation immediately go, oh well, if you want to be the next Van Halen, you better have a guitar guitar that's uniquely yours. So Steve I is like, okay, I'll. I'll have a guitar that looks like it came from a swatch factory like the watches or like Saved by the Bell. And then you know, you know, and instead of every artist there like that, right? And Paul Gilbert's like, I'm gonna have paint pink f holes on my guitars or whatever and they're all gonna do something unique and different. And. And then Slash, he comes out and he's back to just like, I'm gonna play a standard Les Paul. Except for, keep in mind, he doesn't play a real Les Paul. He has a fake. Everybody knows the Slash stories. He's playing a Chris Derek guitar, which is a fake Gibson. That's the irony of Gibson is that slashes, Slashes, admittedly to this day, favored Les Paul out of his entire collection is a fake Gibson Les Paul. It's Chris dared. So that's the irony. I mean, if you think about it this way, it's kind of like, you know, it would be. I'm trying to think of like the. It'd be like if Steve I was playing a Chips. And that's probably too extreme. It'd be like Steve I's playing a fake Ibanez, right, that just. They put Ivan is on there. But anyways, so. So my point is, is that I think Slash did save Gibson for sure because he brought that, that concept back that you could do that again. And then also I think John Meer Silver Skies are Not at the level yet that we look at. Les Paul's is not really being a signature guitar, just a guitar. But it will be. It's definitely their hot guitar. Let's. Let's be clear. I said this 2018. Okay, you have to go to. Oh, you know what? So I don't have to guess. And it's into the show. Just let me. Let me fact check myself, if you guys don't mind. Let me go on here. Like I said, go to search on YouTube. Let me. I did a video with a YouTube channel named Marty Schwartz. He's. He. He was. He was starting to come up back in the day. I think he might make it. And anyways, just kidding. I did this video with him. Is it still up? Oh, all the other videos are up. But at least I can look at the videos and see what it was. Okay, so it was easy. So I found the video. And so it's five years ago when we did the video. So five years ago. Okay, so that tells you when the Silver sky came out. That can't be five years ago. Let me open this up. Come on. Where's the date that just says five years ago? Oh, November. Oh, November 5, 2019. Okay, so in November 2019, I did some videos with Marty Schwartz in San Diego. And one of the videos we did was a giveaway for a Silver sky guitar. And I had just recently came back from the PRS factory. And at the PRS factory, there was just tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of Silver Sky. In fact, it looked like PRs should legally have to change his name to, you know, PRJMs. Right? Like, it has to be the Paul Reed John Mayer Smith, you know, because I mean, it was like every guitar in the factory was a Silver Sky. Stacks of Silver sky body Silver Sky. I was like, this is insane. This is insane. I. I took tons of pictures. I was like, I. I'll have to pull them. I'm showing to you guys. It was. It was nuts. And the funny part was somebody casually at PRs mentioned to me, like, yeah, the Silver sky is now officially our second highest selling guitar after the Custom 24. Number three was, I guess the 594. Okay, so in sales. So I didn't really file that in any folders specifically in my head. But you know, fast forward. I'm doing a video with Marty Schwartz on his channel and we're talking about the Silver sky and doing the giveaway. And I said, oh, it's like the. It's like the note they've sold more. This is the Silver sky is like their number one selling guitar now. Like, it's like the thing. And after the video came out, Sheen, who's at prs not anymore, she retired. But she calls me and she says, hey, Phil, just let you know. You know, hey, no, no pre shoes. But you said the Silver sky is like the number one selling guitar, but it's really the custom 24 and the John Muir second. And I said, okay, okay, hear me out. Silver sky is the second, your second highest selling guitar. She's like, yeah, and your first. First selling guitar started in 1985. And the John May is like 2018 or whatever. I go, I think the John May is your number one selling guitar. She's like, no, by sells. It's the custom 24. I'm like, you understand what I'm saying? And she's like, I get what you're saying, but you understand it's like, officially the custom 24 ounce has more sold than John Mayer. And I'm like, right? And we went back and forth, and I go, I understand. I'm. I'm ready to. I'm ready to agree with you. Except for we got to acknowledge that John Mayer became number two. You. You took 30 years. He's. He just came right up against your guitar that's selling for 30 years. I think the Silver sky is going to be. Yeah, I think it's going to be the thing just like the Steve I gems, pretty much. Like I said, Ibin is his thing, and I think the Prodrucci thing is pretty much Music Man's thing for the big, big, big part of it. That's just my. My thought. I don't know. That's my thoughts. Okay, we're gonna button this show up. I want to thank Amanda for hanging out with us, even though she should be preparing for her birthday extravaganza. You're all invited, so. I'm just kidding. I want to say happy birthday to Amanda and. And thank her. I want to thank all the moderators, obviously, every week for taking care of you guys and taking care of the channel, but also for Amanda, because like I said, it's. It's. I know. It's. I'm sure she's got better things to do than watch us all watch me talk about boring stuff and watch you guys interact with it. So thank her for doing that and thank all the moderators for also keeping the flow and everything going. And I want to thank you guys all hanging out. I know it's a holiday weekend. I don't do holiday weekends. So that's why I'm always like, you guys are always like, I wonder if he's doing a show. I always do the shows. I don't take the holidays off. Like I said, my logic is, I told you earlier, I work every day at least a half a day. So it's like either I work the whole morning until the midday or I took that. So tomorrow I'm working and then Sunday I'm working too, but I don't work the whole day. So it's like I get the half day is off. It just, in my world, it keeps things moving and it doesn't make me exhausted. Instead of putting in like 50 hours in five days, I can just spread it out. So. But to the rest of you, enjoy your holidays. I will be enjoying some holiday time tomorrow afternoon. I will be taking some time off and hanging out and doing some stuff. And look forward. Next week is two deep dives, but more importantly, one of them is on Tuesday and it rhymes with smear messages, so it's exciting. Oh, my face is so funny. Okay, so it's an exciting new model, or is it. Or is it an exciting. A more affordable version of an existing model? I don't know. I mean, I do, but I'm not telling until Tuesday. All right, that's. So prepare for that. I think you'll enjoy it. And to everyone else, tomorrow we'll. We do the. We do the clinic for everybody who's a patron member. $10 and up. There's a clinic tomorrow, so you guys please join 11am and for all the top tier patrons, we're doing the hang tomorrow with coffee. And the bonus podcast is next Saturday for all the $5 tier. So thank all of you guys for that. And I'm sorry, I read some comments and anyways, and enjoy your holiday weekend and happy 4th of July and happy birthday to Amanda. All right, guys, and thanks for your time and know your gear. If you're learning something or having a good time, don't forget, you can subscribe for free and help this channel or for $10 a month, you can join me on Patreon for live clinics where you can ask questions every single.