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Episode 1: You Guys Like Tone?
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On the inaugural episode of 'Amplified Nonsense,' hosts Chris Benson of Benson Amps, Bryan Sours of Soursound Audio Works, and Charles Henry of Silktone Amplifiers, dive into the world of podcasting. From discussing the origins of their companies to sharing shocking (literally) stories about electrical safety while working on amps, the trio offers a mix of humor and practical advice. Producer Emily does her best to keep the conversation on track as they tackle listener questions about amp safety, joint Facebook accounts, and, of course, Nicolas Cage movies. Expect a blend of amp talk, relationship advice, and more.
If you'd like Bryan, Charles, and Chris to answer your question on an episode of Amplified Nonsense, call (513) 334-3803 and leave a voicemail.
Note for listeners: Unless you have experience working on high-voltage electronics, please do NOT attempt to work on your own amplifiers. Any discussion about working on amps should not be considered advice. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
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Founding of Benson Amps
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Welcome to Amplified Nonsense, a podcast that's loosely about amplifiers and firmly about friendship. First, we have mediocre bassist and wannabe microphone collector Chris Benson of Benson Amps.
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Chris started Benson Amps in Portland, Oregon in 2012 after years working as an amp tech across the Pacific Northwest. he's not scarfing nachos over the sink at midnight with his children, he's touring the world as an expert chapstick taste tester. Hi, Chris.
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hey Emily. I'm going to assume Charles wrote that. And thank you
Introducing Brian Sowers
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for reading it. Next, we have recovering drummer Brian Sowers, also based in Portland, whose company Soursound produces transformers for amps you've definitely heard, seen, and wanted, including Benson amps, Milkman amplifiers, and Silktone amplifiers.
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Hi, how's it going everybody? Speaking of Silk Tone amplifiers, Charles Henry rounds out our hosting group as the only host who doesn't live in Portland, Oregon. Charles got his start building high quality hi-fi systems before deciding he'd rather slum it with amp builders.
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Known for his bridge trolling, his self-made burnt lasagna pedal has been hailed as a modern classic in pedal circles.
Setting the Podcast's Tone
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How are you doing, Charles? Good. I'm pretty sure Emily wrote all of that.
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I didn't write a word. I did not. I wrote the first two sentences in most of these and Brian wrote the rest of it. I just really like the idea of someone who's paid to taste test chapstick.
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Yeah. What is that? Chris, when you do that, do you just put it on your lips and you taste it or do you like to eat it like straight from the stick? They really want you to do an immersive thing. So you start by just eating a little bit of it and then you put it all over your lips and then over your like chin and then you also try it on your nose sweet and you have to keep it on for 12 hours which is pretty weird and you put it on other people and ask them to kiss you there's no job like that okay that's that wouldn't be a real job that' but yeah're it's highly insulting to the saumier of chapstick over here nothing like cherry chapstick
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that's what That's what I
Meet the Producer
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hear. For the listeners, my name is Emily. i am not a host. I am producing this podcast. I'm the Roz, and i will be doing my best to keep these guys on track.
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Yay. ya Thanks, Emily. Thank you, Emily. You're so much more than the host. Thank you. Thank you. Pray for me, listeners. So we're doing a podcast finally. Yeah. That's what's Why would we subject ourselves to hosting a podcast?
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I think you're wondering why the hell anyone would want to listen. That's what I mean. i mean, we know why we're
Podcast Goals
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doing this. We're doing this to sell it and get sponsored and get paid, right?
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So you guys don't have to make amps and pedals and I can just like sit at home and watch Frasier reruns. Right. I just want to sit on the beach and be a podcast host and not not do the amp thing anymore. So obviously this is the next step.
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i I'm pretty bought into the AMP thing. I'm not going to lie. the reason I'm here is I want to see how how bad it is. And I feel like that's why people are tuning in to to to see what kind of train wreck this turns out to be. Because they know. So we're changing the name to train wreck fetishism. Is that what this is?
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Like people just want to just glorify the the car crash that they're about to experience? Yeah. This raging yeast infection of a podcast. That's what we'll call it.
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wow oh Oh, I'm never telling you anything a again. true oh Oh, so much more than hope I love it. Oh, it's great.
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I thought you left. Yeah. So that was episode one. We'll see see you all next time. I mean, it's not going to get any better than that joke.
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Nothing gets better than that joke. We got a Costanza and go out on a high note. Thank you very much. Good night. I think it'd be good to talk about what can people expect with this podcast?
Podcast Topics Overview
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A lot more of what you just got. No, we'll talk about all kinds of stuff. I mean, we all love amps and probably won't talk about it that much because we already do all day. Answer some questions from people and each other.
00:04:39
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Talk about conspiracy theories and weird DIY projects. But mostly just talk about each other, I think. I'm going to just... take every opportunity to offer Brian Sauer as a job.
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So it's going to get awkward. It's got to warn you, but that's that's going to happen at least two times per episode. Full offers and everything. They're going to bounce all over the place. So it'll be like ah a random lotto system. You never know when you should accept. Oh, it's great. It's comfortable. It feels great. and It's an ego boost.
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I mean, who doesn't want to be owned, you know? um What job doing what exactly? Like holding your chapstick or... i so I smear it on his lips and around his beard. I just want him to be a concierge.
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Wait, you want me to deal with people? Oh. Yeah, actually I do.
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I think we had a topic for the show today, and I have a ah call. And for the folks who are listening, you can call 513-334-3803. You you can leave questions on the voicemail, and you might even get these three to answer them. So can we ah go on to the first question? I think we'll lead nicely into our topic. I can't wait.
Amp Safety Tips
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Hey, is it true that I'm less likely to get electrocuted while working on an amp if i keep one hand in my pocket? or am I confusing that with an Alanis Morissette song? on ah Wait, did Brian leave that? No, that's not me. No, that was left by Richard.
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Thanks for calling in, Richard. Wow. I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is getting fried by high voltage DC. Yeah, I think if you have one hand in your pocket, you're less likely to get electrocuted because...
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you have one hand in your pocket instead of inside the amp chassis, I would think. I've heard that before. i totally heard that back in the day. And I always thought it was just that. It's just you're less likely to to slip and nail something. But I think the the point of it was supposed to be that if...
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Like if you're right-handed and you're probing around with your right hand and you've got your left hand like on the chassis, stabilizing the chassis, the chassis is at ground potential. So if you nick something with your right hand, you effectively complete a circuit across your heart. And I believe that the back in the day, the adage, the that saying was specifically to avoid a path from, you know, wherever you would contact the cap or the plate on the power tube or whatever, you know, say with your right hand.
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avoid having a path that would cross your chest and cross and cross your heart and i mean for what it's worth actually have muscle damage over my heart from being electrocuted working on amps i've had to go to the hospital a couple times and when the weather changes or it gets super moist out or whatever you really put your heart into these things oh yeah yeah No, I've had a couple EKGs from from it. I've gotten hit by an amp and just had to go straight to the hospital and get an EKG. and Holy cow.
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Yeah. it's Did you have to or were you just freaking out so you went anyway? Well, I mean, I'm not the type of person that takes the greatest care of myself to begin with, especially at that time in my life. So I think I had to at the time. Yeah.
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But, you know, if you put both your hands, dude, um this is the trick, man. You put both your hands in your pockets. And use your mouth. And then you just won't get electrocuted. No, I know. Joke the side, I don't like to joke about safety stuff. It's, you will still get shocked if you're only using one hand, you can absolutely get shocked. But yeah, what Brian is saying, I think to answer Richard or question further is to avoid,
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fatal electrocution or anything really life-threatening yeah you don't want it to go from arm to arm or from leg to arm anything that crosses paths with your heart you can still very much get shocked and it will hurt like if you're using one hand and you touch in the wrong spot you don't want to touch anything charged with dc and also a ground point to complete the circuit keeping one hand in your pocket i don't know why i don't know I've heard that, but it's hard to work on stuff with one hand. Just don't just be careful. If you don't know what you're doing, don't work on a high voltage circuit.
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You have not been electrocuted nearly enough. Me? Yeah. Holy crap. yeah Dude, i was i was electrocuted one time working on an SVT. I was not in the best mind state already. It was very late at night after a bar shift at a studio i was working at, and I may have consumed some things that I shouldn't have. But ah when I got hit with that, I dropped a screw behind...
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and under the circuit board and i went to grab it without unplugging it from the wall because i was i know what i'm doing and when i was fishing it out where did i hit i hit it where there was active dc because the the wall switch was on and the amp switch was off but there's still voltage on it and it felt like someone cracked me in the back of the head with a frying pan it scared the out of me and um yeah i freaked out and attempted to go to the hospital, but um by the time I got there, I'd kind of calm down and reverse course. What amplifier wronged you, Chris?
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tell us Tell us more. The worst one i ever got, I was doing repair work, I think in like 2008, and I was working on this, ah I forget what model it was, it was like a super high wattage PV, had like 700 volts on the plate style, just like super...
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Super crispy. And someone had rewired 6550s that were going into that amp where the metal base of the tube is supposed to be at ground potential or thereabouts.
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And someone had wired that to, I believe they used it as a jumper for the screen or something like that. Like just totally wrong. yeah. so I reached into it and my palm was touching the chassis and then my fingers were touching that tube base, which should have been safe and just cooked my hand.
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Luckily, i I didn't have my hand in my pocket because I've literally never done that, but I wasn't touching the chassis with the other hand and it smelled like a pig roast.
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It was crazy. I didn't go to the hospital because I was pretty sure I was going to be fine, but this is back when I was working at Varelin, and ah Ben took me out to get tacos, so we didn't go to the hospital to see tacos. Richard, if you're listening at home, and we hope you are, tacos are what cures electrical electrical shocks. yeah I think the smell actually made him hungry.
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he said Let's go get some, ah go get some, some pastor. smells Hand smells like carnitas. I got another one. When I was working on developing the first Silk Tone app, was just farting around in my garage and kind of like Richard mentioned, like using one hand while the amp is live,
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i I was messing with the power supply just to kind of like AB b stuff like, Oh, does this sound better? Does this sound better? And I knew that don't touch it with two hands and I know where to touch and you know where it would be safe.
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And I slipped a little bit and touched the end of the capacitor and my other hand, even though it wasn't in the amp, I wasn't really thinking and I had it on the guitar strings. So,
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I completed the circuit through the guitar strings and through the amp, and it made me involuntarily throw my Jazzmaster at the amp and knock everything over. So that ah that sucked and also scared the crap out of me. So, yeah, it's very possible to, even if you know what you're doing, make dumb mistakes and potentially hurt yourself. So be very careful and don't ground yourself. I still do dumb shit every day.
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So what can you do to not ground yourself? And what does that mean? Well, it doesn't even necessarily have to be ground. It's just the completion of the circuit. That's more accurate. My bad. If you have the capacitor where Charles would have touched, you have a potential.
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And so anything that's at a lower potential. So even like shorting your hands across the high voltage node and a bias supply, you know, that's at negative voltage. Just anything that has a potential.
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And the reality is is that a lower potential voltage, you won't really feel. Put your thumb across a 9-volt battery. It doesn't shock you. But the bigger that potential is, the bigger that difference is.
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You're completing that circuit, the more you'll feel it. So in a tube amp, when you're working on high voltage with the tube amp, you could have 350 to 450 volts DC on the power supply end.
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And my, so one of my hands touched that and my other end, my other hand was on the guitar strings, which are referenced to ground, referenced to zero volts.
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So I had zero volts on one side, 400 on the other side, go through my body. And that's what caused like the big shock. there Any other stories or advice for people who are maybe thinking about doing some work on their amplifiers who don't want to die?
High-Voltage Safety Stories
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Does anyone die working on amps? I mean I've definitely gotten hurt. I've never heard of anyone actually dying from it, but I know it's definitely possible. haven't either. i know that you can. i know a lot of people say that it has happened and there's sure a lot of safety warnings around everything, but don't, you know, yeah I don't just assume you will die if you do something wrong. yeah maybe we need I don't want to put out any bad information here. and like you You should be afraid of those things if you don't know what you're doing. If you do know what you're doing, then then you do.
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Maybe we need a disclaimer here and just say, you know, not saying that you won't die. I'm not, I don't want tell anyone to work on a tube amp. Yeah. My guys that build amps here, like I don't, I don't let anyone plug stuff in and fart around with testing until they're very well trained. We're pretty careful around here.
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Chris, what's, what's the safety standards at Benson like? I think my guys use the one hand rule. I know people have been somewhat shocked, but it's probably nothing they would tell me about, frankly. But yeah, we we haven't had any ah any real problems with it.
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And i you know we people are definitely trained quite a bit before they... are actually bringing stuff to life in fact we usually only have about one person fully trained up who who does that um and they do it pretty much all day long so there's there's not a whole lot of uh risk there like it's not like someone gets a job and then the next week they're flipping amps on and testing yeah voltages and all that stuff My amps don't tend to hold much charge either.
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Like ah some amps, the caps will just sit there charged up even if it's not plugged in. But for whatever reason, mine don't. So it's very rarely does someone even get like a ah little charge moving stuff around.
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Well, like, and you know, when Charles talking about an SVT or I've definitely been hit by a high watt over the years, um you know, obviously that stuff is, has way higher, higher value filter caps in it, you know, much bigger of a reservoir in general.
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Though an SVT would have bleeders on the first node. So i don't know what was wrong with that ant, man. Oh, you said it was on. no it was on. It was plugged into the wall. I just, I touched It would just be me being stupid. Yeah. I just touched it behind the power switch. So putting a hand in your pocket, you know? Yeah. That won't save you if your other hand is stuffing, you know, just cramming down inside of the depths of an SVT.
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You would think that like not getting shocked is all we're thinking about at work all day long if you're not used to tube amps. But it's kind of second nature at this point for everyone involved. it's this kind of We're more concerned with like finding noise and making sure the tubes are operating correctly and making sure speakers aren't blown. like Getting shocked is like...
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by necessity, like way down on the list, even though we, we definitely do take it seriously and don't touch an amp unless you're comfortable with, uh, with high voltages. Yeah.
00:17:24
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We should probably just put that disclaimer, like in the actual show. Yeah. yeah mean Anyone that hurts themselves, it's their own fault, not ours. It'll be the new intro. Welcome to Amplified Nonsense.
00:17:35
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Don't touch an amp if you're not comfortable with high voltages. Why don't we just blanket it? Just say, don't touch an amp. Like, why aren't we out here advocating for people to just not do any of this?
00:17:46
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That's good job security, honestly. Yeah, seriously, right? yeah Don't do this. Hey, can you help me? No, cannot. Do you think I should? Nope.
00:17:57
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Do we have more questions? Yes, we have another question. i don't think it's related to safety or working on amps. Thank God. Yeah, Brian's answer is super boring. This question is from David Ishizaka.
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Hey, I know David. Hey, it's your good friend, David from the Timber Owls. I've got a question for all three, Charles, Brian, and Chris. You all run very successful businesses that kind of built upon...
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tone and having good tone. So my question is, how do you all balance having an ear for good tone with also having just gorgeous faces and just amazing personalities?
00:18:36
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And I guess more importantly, my actual question is, what's your favorite Nick Cage movie? Thanks a lot, y'all. Bye. Which one of us is going to say Con Air? I just assumed you all would.
00:18:47
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You know, I've never seen it. What? Yeah. Big Raising Arizona fan. Yeah. But face-off is the obvious answer. I mean, i don't like to be obvious, but... ah Face off.
00:19:01
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It says a lot about your personality.
00:19:06
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Best character ever. I haven't seen many of his new movies. I did see what's the one ah here. Here it is. What's the one with what's his face in it? With what's with Pedro Pascal? It's that one. Yes.
00:19:18
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You were telling me to watch it. Unbearable um likeness of being. Something of big massive talent. matt Yeah. The unbearable weight of massive talent released in 2022. Yeah. That one was great. I did like that one.
00:19:34
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What a title. It is really good. Yeah. I mean, Raising Arizona is the clear and obvious winner. and Yeah. Raising Arizona is the the the one. Yeah. I really like The Rock.
00:19:45
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Yeah, really? Yeah, The Rock rules. Like the actor or the Nick Cage movie? with The Nick Cage movie. Yeah. I mean, the actor's pretty cool, too. He's pretty sweet.
00:19:57
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But The Rock, man. emily what is Emily, which one did you say? Oh, Kick-Ass. Oh, yeah. The superhero one. He's in that movie? He's in that? Yeah. trying to remember who he is in that. It's Big Daddy. Emily, you just stumped you you just stumped a bunch of old men.
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He is Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss, Frank D'Amico, his son, Red Mess, has trained his 11-year-old daughter to become a ruthless vigilante named Hit Girl. Yeah, remember that movie.
00:20:29
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It was pretty cool. I'm still sticking with Raising Arizona. That's a great, great pick. <unk>t there a Wasn't there a tone, a tonal aspect to this question? Yeah, you guys like tone?
00:20:40
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Yeah, it's okay. Let me read back. I can read back the question. How do you balance having an ear for good tone with also having just gorgeous faces and just amazing personalities? you that part again?
00:20:54
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Gorgeous faces and amazing personalities. One more time? No. No. oh That'll be the new intro. The... Is there a question in this? Yeah, I'm like... Just talk about your skincare routine. I don't know. yeah I got a funny story.
00:21:14
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Do it. Good. So my son Leo really wants me to take him to the barber, which I think is... I think that's BS. Because I have cut my own hair for decades and decades. Yeah.
00:21:27
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And I said, you don't have to go to a barber. I'll cut your hair. I do a pretty good job. Don't you think my hair looks good? And he started laughing at me.
00:21:39
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Did you break out the flowbie and teach him what's what? It sucks while it cuts. I don't think I'm ever going to be able to cut that kid's hair. He surpassed me in the grooming department already.
00:21:52
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this This might sound like I'm poking fun at you, but I'm not. But did he actually say barbershop? Was he like, hey, dad, I want to go to a barbershop? Yeah. Like actual barbershop. So he wants the barbershop experience. He wants an old guy to like put, you know, aftershave on him, you know, clean him up with a straight razor.
00:22:12
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Yeah, we we were taking him to this like, you know, just like corporate super cuts or something like that. And he was like, I want a relationship with my barber. Like, I want the same guy what every time who knows exactly what I want.
00:22:29
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And I'm just like, who where did you come from? The last thing I wanted was a relationship with a barber. He's going to be shocked when he gets his haircut and it's finished and nobody put chapstick on him.
00:22:41
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Oh. Dad, they didn't even put trash on me before they cut my hair. But he has a personal relationship with the guy, so it's fine. ah Also, is he saying that he doesn't have a personal relationship with you? Like, man, that's kind of rude.
00:22:57
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it it It is rude. Thank you. yeah seriously. I'm going to tell you that you said so.
00:23:04
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Don't you like my hair? Your amps sound real good, dad. ah Amazing. Well, we have one more question.
Joint Facebook Account Question
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this is a relationship question.
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and once again, those listening, you can find the call-in number in the show up show notes. It is And last question Hi, yeah, so I have a question.
00:23:31
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um So I have a partner, and she's awesome. I love her to death, but she's asking for the big commitment, and that commitment is ah joint Facebook account.
00:23:45
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I kind of think that's cringe, but don't know what to tell her. So what's your take on it? What the fuck is Facebook? Hell no. Hell no.
00:23:58
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but Absolutely not. Yeah, divorce or marriage. Losing your individuality will ruin your relationship. Absolutely not. I'd link bank accounts before social media. I actually think a joint Facebook account is like the step before divorce.
00:24:16
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In my experience. My future ex-social media partner. I've never seen that end well.
00:24:26
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I've never seen that. Is that a thing? Yes. Are you serious? That's a thing? ah completely thought that this guy's take on the big commitment was going to be like buying a guitar amp together.
00:24:40
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You know, like, sh like, you know, we're splitting, we're splitting a vintage AC 30 or something like that. I totally.
00:24:47
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and I just thought we had a purpose here and that people wanted our expertise, but, um, yeah, yeah I love it. This is my favorite question that I, uh, I would prefer more relationship questions to dive into and really examine, but I did not know.
00:25:06
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a joint social media thing was a thing. I didn't know people still use Facebook, one. and ah But yeah don't that yeah, don't do that.
00:25:18
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there are There are two reasons people may have a joint Facebook account. The number one being one of them cheated. Yep. Oh. Oh. So they don't you don't get a private inbox anymore. Oh. oh And the other is like grandparent aged folks who like, they don't want to figure out two accounts. They just make one together. So if you slide into someone's DMS, it's more of a DP thing.
00:25:44
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Depends on what you mean by yeah hey Okay. But that, okay. you're But you, okay. So your, your example, your first example just corroborates exactly what Chris just said.
00:25:56
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One step away from divorce. I mean, like, okay. If, if like, if someone cheats and like you stick around, And like you work through it, which i mean, props, if great. Yeah, like as part of the like reconciliation or the the fix is to have a joint Facebook account.
00:26:12
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That's so weird. That would be so low on the list too. Like, oh, if we're going to keep this thing going, I absolutely have to have a joint Facebook account. Like what?
00:26:23
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Yeah, it seems like a symptom, not a not like an adventure. A joint Facebook account seems like a symptom of a larger problem. Right. Even if it's totally above board and it's just a very sweet thing, very innocent thing, the optics are that y'all are having real issues.
00:26:44
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Also, have you heard of TikTok or... Instagram. What are the new ones? I'm just kidding. I don't i don't know any of them. Hey, would y'all start a start a facebook joint Facebook account with me?
00:26:59
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Yes. Absolutely. I would. hundred percent 100%. Yeah. but That's it. We're on the way out. and Divorce. Next thing you know, you're going to be renewing your vows in Maui. Oh,
00:27:13
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I got to confess that I keep seeing Brian Sowers someone I can add as a friend on Facebook. And you haven't yet. And I keep saying, be... i'd be I just like don't even like using this website.
00:27:26
Speaker
okay ah It would be sort of like a prank if I added Brian. Actually, I reactivated it recently because I've been shopping for a used pickup truck, which if we want to talk about used pickup truck prices, oh my God, I got another hour in me on that. but I'm just saying I respect Brian too much to start a Facebook account with or to ah friend him on Facebook.
00:27:48
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But you would start one with me. Yeah, 100%. And you would still respect me during this process. Yes.
00:27:57
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You just want it's my feed. i friend he I'd friend you just as just to send you even more memes and stuff. Man, my Transformers are already in your guise as amps. What more do you want from me?
00:28:12
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a Commitment. that's That is a commitment. It's a very personal, very close commitment to each other. It's tonal commitment. I could see how it would get weird if, you know, you took my job offer.
00:28:27
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Because then it would be like an employer-employee kind of joint Facebook account. Right. So then I would email everybody in the company, hey, y'all, this is what Chris looks at on Facebook.
00:28:39
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And then it's nothing but like pictures of different vintage chapsticks and something funnier than that, you know? Hire Brian to be head of efficiency. I would be your social media director.
00:28:51
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Lord. would shut down all social media and just say, I'm not doing this. Direct it straight into the garbage. Thank you for listening to the first ever episode of Amplified Nonsense.
00:29:04
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Our goal is to release a new episode every other week. So please subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. If you have a question for Brian, Charles and Chris about amps, pop culture or relationships, please call 3 3 4 3 8 0 3 and leave a voicemail. If you enjoyed this episode of amplified nonsense, please leave a rating and review wherever you listen.
00:29:26
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Thanks again. And please check out episodes two and three, which are also live. We'll see you soon.