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so my name is Zach I run the YouTube channel called jerry-rigged everything and I just passed a quarter million subscribers so I figured it was high time that I do a Q&A to answer any questions that people might have I did initiate the Q&A on Twitter so if you're not following me over there head over there follow me and then you can ask some questions for the next Q&A and whenever I decide to do that the most popular question that I seem to get on YouTube and Twitter is this one what smartphone do you use as your daily driver so I've tried out a lot of different phones and my current favorite is the Samsung I have the Galaxy s7 edge that I use as my daily driver I'm not a huge fan of the edge feature to be honest with you I prefer a flat screen phone like the note 5 that one was fantastic I did just buy the note 7 to use as my daily driver as well I bought a second one not the one that I'm using in my test so we'll see how that goes so I actually get a surprising number of questions about this as well what color is your hair and can you show us a photo of you with hair so this is a picture of me with hair this should be interesting I'm at a construction site and then here is another picture of me with hairs is after I wrecked my truck that's a story for another time so is this the type of hair that you pictured me with let me know what you think down in the comments but like I always say you can't grow hair and brains at the same time is that right dad that's exactly right great minds think alike so why did you make your first video so this happened about four years ago had a really old Jeep that broke down and I'd never really worked on cars a whole lot at this point and I went to a shop to ask him how much it was to fixed they wanted $1,000 for it and I was like there's no way this cheat doesn't even worth $1,000 so I jumped on Google YouTube and watched some videos on how to fix it and I found one that had the exact same problem that my Jeep did and I ended up fixing it for 80 bucks instead of a thousand so I messaged the guy who made the video and I was like you know thank you so much for helping me out like why do you make videos and so the channel that I watched was Brian's mobile one so check him out he is free awesome but he responded back and he said the reason that he makes videos is to decrease world suck to make the world a better place and I thought that was the coolest thing and so you know putting that in in addition to the fact that you can make money with YouTube with the little ads that play in front of the videos I was like that is my dream job right there so I started doing YouTube about four years ago and it kind of just took off after that had about 2000 subscribers my first year after making videos and now we're sitting just over a quarter million so uh hard work and perseverance pays off do you do meetups I have done some conferences in the past not like meetups specifically but I was in Ireland with Casey nice tat what's inside shonduras and so we hung out with some fans up there and actually in October I will be in LA here in the United States and I'll be doing another conference called vid summit I'll put a link for that information down in the video description if you're interested in that yeah so if you're anywhere in California come out and hang out with us advids summit there's gonna be a bunch of other big youtubers there as well do you have a job other than YouTube right now I do not YouTube is my main thing it actually takes a surprising amount of time to make youtube videos like a teardown you know like with the HTC 10 that probably took eight hours to film the video tear it down edit the video do the voice-over and everything so it really is a full-time job with full-time hours I actually get a lot of this question as well what is your favorite phone of the year durability wise and which phone is your worst so if I had to pick I'm actually planning on making a video about the durability of all the phones in 2016 at the end I keep all of my phones that I do the durability tests on and if I had to pick one right now you know in the middle of the year I think the HTC ten is really rocking it as far as durability goes and then the worst phone durability wise you know the me five was surprising the way that it broke and then as far as like just you know poor quality of the phone not to dig on an LG g5 or anything but that one you know when they claim that the phone is metal and it's not it has a thick layer of plastic or primer around surface that was pretty disappointing so those are probably my two least favorite phones do you plan on expanding your chain up to more than just smartphones actually I've been thinking about this a lot lately I love doing repair videos on smartphones and durability tests but it was actually really fun to go up to my grandpa's cabin and film that video about me getting rid of the mice problem so in the future I would definitely like to do more videos like that where it's like a bigger project and I compile it down in just a short little interesting video so be on the lookout for some more of those how do you know how to tear down a new smartphone do you read instructions online or do you proceed by guesses it's actually a little bit of both if I'm the first person ever to make a repair video on a particular smartphone I'm going in totally blind there's no guides or anything manufacturers actually don't like it when you get inside to repair your own smartphones they kind of lose money from it plus there aren't very many channels on YouTube that are doing teardown videos on cell phones it's pretty much just me and I fix it and then a couple other smaller channels here and there you know they do a pretty good job but usually I'm going in blind but if you think about it it's not that big of a deal just because with the iPhone 5 the 5s the 5c the 6 the 6s all of those have the same basic design so if you've opened up the 5 you already know what to expect in the 6s and the same thing with the Samsung's you know with the Samsung Galaxy s6 the s7 the note 5 the note 7 those are all the same basic design as well so I kind of have a basic idea of what to expect when I get inside so I'm not too shocked so how do you handle allegations against you like the Nexus 6p and now Corning Gorilla Glass 5 so this is actually a good question I am NOT a person that loves confrontation so my favorite videos to make are my repair videos where I you know there's a positive outcome I'm showing people how to save money and fix their own stuff that's what I really like to do what shocked me a lot was the stream amount of hate that I got for that first Nexus 6p video I understand that my presentation was a little bit extreme in that video so I ended up buying a second phone and doing a second test on it just to explain myself a little bit better and that one went over a lot you know smoother than the first one did but just like the unrealistic amount of hate for I got from the first one you know people saying that I faked the test that I was a liar you know to go kill myself like that's nobody enjoys that stuff with Gorilla Glass 5 is not that big of a deal you know scratching is a very minor deal compared to the severe if damaged at the Nexus 6p ad and I have no hard feelings towards the no 7 at all I actually bought a second no 7 to use as my daily driver I think Samsung is a fantastic company and Corning has done a great job with their glass you know shadow resistance is still a fantastic attribute even if you do lose a little bit with the scratch resistance have you ever injured yourself while filming a durability test or teardown video not that I can remember I mean I do use a razor blade and a lot of my you know tear downs and stuff which probably isn't the smartest tool to use but the time the only time I can remember stabbing myself is in one of my wood carving videos where I was carving out a ball in cage wood project and I think towards the end of that video you can see some blood if you watch close enough it might have been edited out during the time lapse I'm not sure but I definitely did cut my finger during that the scar you see on my hand and most of my videos is actually when I was 8 years old working on a woodworking project now is way before I started you know YouTube so that scars from a long time ago do tipper glass screen protectors help in case your phone drops if so how much I love tempered glass screen protectors they're a little bit harder to install when you have a curved screen like the galaxy note 7 or the s7 edge but the tempered glass really does add a layer of protection it's kind of like body armor you know if you're going paintballing and you have a plastic shield over your chest and you get hit with the paintball you almost don't feel it because that impact is spread out over more area same thing with the tempered glass screen protector if you drop your screen and it hits a rock or something the impact is spread out over more area than just your glass screen of your phone it has that shield in front of it so tempered glass is definitely the way to go if you get a screen protector with the curved screens it's probably better to get one that wraps around the edge of the curve just so you can get that little bit of padding around the edges of it as well who is your favorite YouTube tech channel now this question is actually pretty hard to answer because there are so many awesome YouTube tech channels out there I would have to say that my favorite channels are the ones who teach how to do something you know instructional videos or do-it-yourself videos or you know showing how a project is done I went to college and I graduated from college but one thing I hated was going to college that I was paying for and my professors would pull up a YouTube video that they got for free to teach us what they were be teaching us and it's like you know why am i paying for this when I can just watch you do on my own you know anytime that I need to learn something how to edit a video on Adobe Premiere or Photoshop and having a tutorial online is just so helpful so those are the channels that I love the most the instructional do it yourself for free videos if you have any more questions leave them down in the comments below I do answer questions quite often in the comments after I post a video I'm usually around for an hour to just kind of responding and making sure that everything is going smoothly and all the questions have been answered thank you so much for watching and subscribing I could not be doing all of these videos without you guys my subscribers coming back so often and watching every video that I make you guys are awesome I post most my behind-the-scenes stuff on Instagram and Twitter those are where I'm most active I do a little bit on snapchat as well so make sure you follow me on those and thanks for watching hope see you around so here's another question actually get a surprising amount of