Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech and it is story time you guys now those of you who follow my

personal account over on Twitter which is at John Strickland it's J-O-N-Strickland, if you're morbidly curious.

Those of you who do follow me, you might know that I was eagerly anticipating the delivery of a Squire

Classic 60s vibe Stratocaster an electric guitar and you know I've done episodes about electric guitars I've talked

about them a lot and I thought I really want one of these it would be really nice

to have one this would have been my first six string electric guitar and I figured since you know I'm

working from home now it would be good to pick up a new skill to keep my mind sharp and occupied and you know to help me get into a sort of meditative state to help manage anxiety.

By the way, anxiety is a real pain in the butt and I recommend anyone who has anxiety to look into ways to manage

it in a really healthy manner because that stuff's no joke and it's obviously getting more challenging to deal with that.

Anyway, back to my story.

I had been thinking about getting a guitar,

and I wanted it to be a decent guitar,

you know, something I would actually want to pick up and play. I didn't want to buy

something super cheap and then find out I didn't like the feel of it or how it sounded,

because that would discourage me from playing it.

I would just set it down and never pick it up again.

But on the other hand, I also didn't want to go crazy

and buy some sort of, you know, super expensive guitar because guitars can get real expensive,

y'all. I mean, what if I didn't like playing guitar just because I didn't like it, right?

What if I decided that I didn't enjoy playing?

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