New guitar is safe.

What is up plugging in for you today, folks, is Mrs. Smith.

You have never met a guitar player quite like Mrs. Smith.

Silver-haired, jewelry rattling. New York City socialite and guitar shredder.

Mrs. Smith got her to start busking. You know, portable amp on the streets of New York,

paying some dues.

And since then, she not only has been seen playing guitar and literally walking on water

in a Gucci commercial, well, an extended commercial, really more of a short film,

she has also challenged one of the most famous and powerful guitar shredders in the history of heavy metal to a live on stage guitar competition of sorts.

And it happened. He accepted. We're going to hear how that went.

Speaking of heavy metal, Mrs. Smith survived a traumatic ordeal

in the Northern European metal scene,

but she is able to talk about it

and kind of relate what happened

and talk about any redemptions and silver lining from that,

although the story does have quite literally

a very fiery conclusion.

We'll get to that. Also, this episode should really put to rest any rumors. I mean, there haven't been a ton of them, but there's been a

couple rumors out there floating, that Mrs. Smith is actually Steve Vai in disguise, that he was

masking his fame to sort of live out some sort of experimental alter ego. Well, as you're going to find out, those were just rumors.

Interesting topic, though.

One reason that myth may have started is because Mrs. Smith's main instrument is an

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