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ElectroBOOM, the YouTuber who makes learning about electricity shockingly fun, joins us to break down how he built an enduring YouTube career. He gets real about the mistakes he's made, the comments that still sting, and what’s next on his entrepreneurial journey. Plus, he answers the question “Does it still hurt when you get shocked?”
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00:00The first video I made back in 2012, I was very happy with the reaction, but it was like 100,
00:05200 views. Somebody randomly saw my video on YouTube and shared it on this website called
00:10Reddit. After six years, perhaps, it was big enough to enable me to quit my day job and just
00:15continue doing YouTube. Hey everyone, I'm Dan Bova, writer and editor at entrepreneur.com,
00:25and welcome to another episode of How Success Happens, the show where I talk to electrifying
00:32people who provide a spark of inspiration to us all. Now, as you're about to learn, those were
00:40very clever puns that describe this week's guest, Medhi Sadagdar, the creator and host of the wildly
00:49entertaining and always dangerous YouTube show, ElectroBoom. On each episode of ElectroBoom,
00:57Medhi teaches viewers about a different aspect of electrical engineering, usually electrocuting
01:03himself in the process. ElectroBoom has over 8.5 million subscribers. Welcome, Medhi. So I'm sure
01:12you get this question a lot. Medhi, what's wrong with you? What's not wrong with me anyway? I
01:19like, I don't know, like any other crazy man, I like the explosions and the fun stuff that
01:25happens when you do experiments, you know? Yeah, yeah. So, well, tell us about your background,
01:30because you obviously didn't just start like touching live wires, like you seem to know what
01:35you're doing. Well, actually, that's how I started. I started touching live wires.
01:40I think I started doing that when I was very little, like 10, 12 years old was the first
01:46time I grabbed live wires. Oh, geez. It was pretty painful. I don't know why, but it didn't
01:52deter me from continuing on the same path. So, yeah, I guess, like, you know, when I was
02:00a child, I also received the gift of, you know, these electronic kits that you put together,
02:06solder components, and all of a sudden I was in love with electronics. So that's what I continued
02:12doing. Yeah. So, and then you, you know, just for the sake of, I'm not sure what we got good
02:20or
02:20didn't, do you want to just give a little bit of your background? Like, okay, so you're a kid who
02:26likes to play with wires. Great. What's the next step for you then?
02:32Well, I mean, afterwards, I went to university. I got my degrees in, like, electronics in bachelor
02:39of science, and then I received my master's degree in microelectronics. So I always loved
02:46electronics. I also did a ton of, you know, work for many years in electronics, designing boards and
02:53products and such. And at the same time, I loved making videos. So, you know, for family members,
02:59whenever they traveled, I filmed their travels and put it together for them. And when YouTube came
03:05along, I realized it's a good way to, you know, communicate with people, share my knowledge and
03:11interest in electronics, and at the same time, be funny, which helps, you know, to get the word out
03:20about the knowledge. Because knowledge alone sometimes can be boring, right?
03:23Yeah, right. Well, your show is anything but boring. What was that? What do you remember? Like,
03:32was there a moment that made you say, this could be a show? This is more than just me
03:39sending funny videos to my family?
03:41Yeah, exactly. That was the time, you know, the first video I made back in 2012, I just shared it
03:48with friends and family, you know, co-workers. And I was very happy with the reaction, but it was like
03:54100, 200 views. And I had like 10, 12 subscribers, which was my parents and, you know, family.
04:02So, you know, after six months of this being at that level, somebody randomly saw my video on YouTube
04:10and shared it on this website called Reddit. And there, it went viral. All of a sudden, I had a
04:16million
04:16views. And I got like a couple of thousand subscribers. And I realized that, hey, I can
04:21continue doing this and have fun with more viewers, you know. So, from that point forward,
04:27almost every month, I made videos. And it became gradually bigger over time. After six years,
04:33perhaps, it was big enough to enable me to quit my day job and just continue doing YouTube.
04:41Wow. So, what was that decision like? How did you, what did you weigh? Was it an easy decision to
04:49make? Or was it something that you were a little nerve wracked to like?
04:52No, you know, I'm not young anymore. I can't risk my life on, you know, new ventures that easily. I
05:01have a
05:01wife and child. So, you know, like over six years of gradual growth, it came to a point where I
05:09realized that I'm making enough money, same as my day job. I'm making the same amount of money as my
05:15day job. I still had both incomes. I quit my day job. So, I lost that income. But still, I
05:23knew that
05:23I was able to, you know, live on just the YouTube income and continue doing that. And from that point
05:28forward, it just grew forward anyways. So, it wasn't a big risk on my part. It was, you know,
05:36calculated, let's say. Not that I do much calculation, but.
05:40Well, well, you know, it's a long, you've been making videos for a long time, which means
05:45that's a lot of content. Can you talk us through like your ideation process? Do you have
05:52pages and pages of notes of videos you want to do? Are you making it up on the fly? Like,
05:57what's your process like? Well, it's kind of both. What I have is, what I do, I don't have
06:04a notebook or anything, but for every new interesting idea that I might encounter, I create
06:11a new folder under my active videos. So, I create a folder so that I can go back in there
06:18and perhaps create a script file, put more links into the file, more, you know, put my thoughts
06:26into it. But most of the time, they're just empty folders, which are, which have the name
06:31of the idea that I like to work on. So, I, there might be a hundred folders so far. I
06:39keep
06:39looking at them and all of them look boring to me, you know, because when I, when I want to
06:45make
06:45a video, I want it to be interesting to me too. I like, it is very hard to do something
06:51that you
06:52don't enjoy at the time. You know, I feel like I'm dragging my feet through it. Yeah, right.
06:59Well, that, that, that's a thing too. Like, for example, I realized that sometimes I, like,
07:05sometimes I don't have any ideas and I just tell myself, ah, let's just do one of these folders.
07:11And when I start doing it, I realized like, I'm just working on the idea. It becomes more
07:17interesting. So, a lot of times I tell myself, don't just sit around, just start doing things
07:22and, you know, things become more interesting and you just do it. Well, because I know having
07:26spoken to different people and we've all seen, you know, whatever show on YouTube, it, it's off to
07:35a great start and then the person just, you know, burns out. They can't keep up with the pace of
07:41it.
07:41So, how do you, how do you manage that? Obviously, you've got all these folders you just mentioned,
07:45but how do you pace yourself to prevent yourself from burning out? Yeah, like,
07:52like I said, one of the things I do is that I don't do it until I feel like I
07:56like to do it.
07:59So, it's never a chore when I do it. It's fun. I'm just putting it together. Because like,
08:04I'm the type of person who likes to, you know, tinker, put things together, create new things,
08:09have interesting ideas and work on it, right? But I see during the day job when your employee,
08:16sorry, your employer is someone else, you don't care much. They just tell you what to do.
08:22You're happy about doing a good job, creating a new product, right? But when it is your own product,
08:29it's different. You, you, you like to be excited about it, right? So, what I do is every time I
08:37make a video, I do something that I'm excited about and I don't really push myself. Like I see a
08:43lot of
08:43other YouTubers that make weekly videos or daily videos that I don't even think about, but
08:51I strive for two videos a month. Sometimes I make one. Sometimes I realize that it's dragging a little
08:59bit longer than I want. I keep telling myself, it's okay, let it drag on. I like, I'm making money
09:05off YouTube. My life doesn't shatter right away. So, let's let it just drag on a little bit until you
09:12have a good result to post, right? So, I don't push myself to a deadline and I do things that
09:20excite me. So, that way, I think I can keep doing it forever, really.
09:24Yeah. No, that's, well, that's an awesome attitude and an awesome process. Can you also talk about,
09:31like, in the YouTube of it all, how those longer videos, you know, maybe have helped you
09:39to gain that audience and making the algorithm happy and all that kind of stuff?
09:45Well, actually, for a long time, I was making videos. I didn't know that you could, like,
09:50if you made longer videos, you would make more money. I hadn't made that. I didn't use Google,
09:56I guess, because I was seeing, like, back in the day, at some point of time, actually,
10:01in YouTube, you could see where people place their ads in their videos. Like, you would see,
10:07like, a yellow dot on the timeline of the video and say, okay, the ad is there.
10:14And for me, I was only able to put one ad at the beginning of the video. And I was
10:19thinking to
10:19myself, why couldn't I do that? But I never bothered to search until someday I searched and
10:23realized if you made, like, back then, if you made more than 10 minutes of a video, then you would
10:29be
10:29able to put more ads, mid-roll ads or at the end of the video. So I forced myself to
10:37make longer videos.
10:39Before doing this, actually, when I was making shorter, I was trying to make more fun short videos
10:47that now YouTube is actually switching back to that version.
10:52So YouTube forced us to make longer version videos, and now they are promoting shorts. That's another
10:57problem. But beside that, I was making short videos. I tried not to put too much technical
11:03information in my videos. And I had a website on the side, electroboom.com, that I tried to,
11:11like, for people that were more interested in technical side of it, I was creating, like,
11:16a serious type of analysis of what I was talking about and the circuits and things of that sort.
11:23So people would watch my videos, and if they were interested in more details, they would go to my
11:26website. But then I decided to make longer videos, and then I kept some of the technical stuff in my
11:33videos. So they were longer, and then it helped me to, you know, gain, like, earn more money off YouTube.
11:41So that helps. That always helps. So we've, for the not 8.5 million subscribers who may be listening
11:50to this, you know, the first video I ever watched was you making the electric guitar,
11:58which was quite, quite amazing to watch. Can you describe that video, just so people understand what
12:07we're talking about here? Well, that video starts with me trying to make an electrical, electric
12:14guitar. And obviously, I didn't know how to make an electric guitar. So I made it off, the strings are
12:20made of wires that I plug into live voltages. And when I try to play them, I get shocked.
12:27But the point of that was to, you know, hook people so I could talk about how you can get
12:32electrocuted,
12:32and, you know, provide some safety information around that.
12:38So when you do something like that, because in the video, for people who haven't seen it, I definitely
12:43recommend watching it. I mean, you, you like fly out of your chair when you hit the string.
12:50There's no denying that you just got whapped. Do you have like, you know,
12:56a emergency technician standing by?
13:02No, well, the thing is that like, I actually, I am generally very afraid of getting electrocuted.
13:10It's very painful to me, perhaps more than some other people. I see some people get shocked by,
13:16you know, static charges and stuff, and they tolerate it much easier than I do. So it doesn't
13:24make me happy to get electrocuted at all. So in my videos, I try to script them. And
13:33some, some things I can take, like, for example, static discharges, although they are painful,
13:38I can take them. The thing is that when I make a video, I try to be convincing to the
13:44audience,
13:44right? So that, you know, it is more funny to them than, like, it is more of a surprise to
13:51the
13:51viewers when I get shocked, rather than, you know, so what happens is that like, if I try to shock
13:57myself, and I typically script them and be safe about it, so nothing happens to me, right?
14:05But if I expect something will happen to me, I can't keep a straight face. And that's a problem.
14:14So I'm going to touch something, I know it's going to blow up or something. And I go,
14:19I cringe, and you know, so then people realize that I know what's going to happen. And you know,
14:26it loses its effect. So I try not to shock myself, so that I can keep a straight face and,
14:34you know,
14:35just act shocked. And the acting part is another problem, too. You have to be a good actor to be
14:41able to, you know, convince people that you are actually shocked.
14:45Now, you mentioned your wife and daughter, do you tell them in advance what you're up to?
14:51And do they ever say, do not do that?
14:55No, I don't keep them informed for their own sanity, you know. I don't want them to, you know,
15:04be afraid every day about my health. Perhaps they see it afterwards. Hey, what happened to you?
15:10Oh, it's okay. I just lost some skin and stuff. It'll grow back. It's fine.
15:15I want to, I was going to ask you if it's something you get used to, but you just answered.
15:20No, you never get used to it. No, actually, you get more scared as time goes by.
15:25Imagine I, I, you know, everyone, as you said, you get static electricity shocks,
15:30and every once in a while, you know, you're changing a light bulb or something.
15:35But I remember doing the Tough Mudder obstacle course, and they have this one obstacle called
15:43electroshock therapy. There's wires hanging down, and they say, one of these wires has 10,000 volts
15:50in it, and then the others are fine. So I ran through it, and I was like, oh, I think
15:57they were
15:58messing with us. Of course there's not like a live wire in this thing. I felt fine. So I ran
16:03back,
16:03and I ran through it again, and bap, like, knocked me. Shut you right in the face.
16:11Was not pleasant. So when I watch your videos, I'm like, why is this man choosing this?
16:18I mean, as long as I can keep people's attention. So, you know, I try to drag people in with
16:24the
16:25stuff that happens, and perhaps subconsciously teach them some safety stuff, or, you know,
16:31technical stuff about electronics, and some people get inspired by the information and
16:36may want to continue being an engineer or something. Yeah. So a big part of YouTube and
16:43all kinds of social media is, you know, you build an audience. People love it. They like it. They put
16:53comments and talk to enough creators, and people say, never read the comments. Have you experienced
17:01that? I mean, looking at the comments, it seems like your fans are fans of yours, which is nice.
17:07Yeah. But have you learned how to, you know, take the good and the bad and not get too
17:14thrown by any comments you don't like? Right. Well, at the beginning, I believe,
17:20I was more affected by the comments. It's after 13 years, you don't get affected by the comments. But at
17:26the beginning, I would see a very good comment, wow, this was a very good video, and it would lift
17:32me to
17:33heavens. And then the next video, oh, this guy is an idiot. I would go immediately down. Like,
17:41but at some point, I realized that, you know, first of all, you don't have to get affected by
17:49these comments much, not very, not even the good ones, the bad ones, for sure. But the good ones,
17:55even, you know, you have to be reasonable about it. You, you don't want to just be happy with whatever
18:01that makes you happy. You have to be, you know, you know, you have to know your people. And my
18:07comments over time, at the beginning, they were a little bit worse too. But over time, people became
18:12nicer and nicer in the comments. And if there is any bad comments, usually the other comments will
18:19stop them. So I don't have to worry about it. So there are some people that leave bad comments just
18:26for the sake of leaving bad comments. They don't bother me at all, as much as they want to bother
18:33me or get a reaction out of me. It doesn't bother me. There are some people that I realize that
18:40are not
18:41good people that leave bad comments, and they try to, you know, mess with the, you know, create rage
18:48between the comments. I stop them. Sometimes I block them if I see that there are just bad people trying
18:54to
18:54rage bait or something. Nowadays, nothing bothers me except the comments that are actually right about
19:00something that I did wrong in my video. And they are right, basically. So there is some criticism
19:07that is correct. Yeah, I get bothered by that. But yeah. So what I do is that typically when they
19:14are
19:15correct, I pin the comment or like the comment and heart it, bring it up in the comments. So people
19:20see
19:20that that's the correct one. And I answer to the comment, oh, you're right. So people can, you know,
19:27know that in my video, I made a mistake. But other than that, nothing else bothers me.
19:31I like to be right in my videos, you know? Yeah, that's great. So a couple of episodes back,
19:39I spoke with a man named Smokin' Ed, and he is responsible for making the Guinness Book World Record
19:47hottest pepper and makes pepper sauce. And he said everywhere he goes, he gets recognized and
19:54people are pulling hot sauce out of their pockets and they want to have a slurp of hot sauce with
20:01them. Sometimes they come up to him in the bathroom and ask for his autograph. So I'm wondering, do you
20:08have those kinds of fan interactions or people like asking, hey, can I tase you? What's that like?
20:15Well, fortunately, nobody appeared with a taser in hand trying to tase me. But yeah, no, I see my fans
20:20in the streets or in the events and such. And they are very nice people. They usually like a fan
20:26of my
20:26videos and they want to take a picture or say hi. And it's always a nice interaction seeing people in
20:33the
20:33streets or in the events. So I know that I'm not just a virtual person. People actually exist outside
20:39the YouTube. And when I see them, it feels like I know them already. They are my audience.
20:45For some reason, I feel related to them. So it's good. Wow. A family of 8.5 million.
20:52Yeah. Yeah. So you spoke a bit about, you know, the cadence of the content and staying engaged with
21:03it and not making it feel like a chore. Right. Or any other tips that you could give to aspiring
21:09YouTubers, whether they're doing comedy or an informational or whatever they happen to be
21:15doing. Right. Just about sustaining something and growing something in a way that, you know,
21:21in a year from now, they're not pulling their hair out of their head.
21:25I think I say to everyone, just do something that you enjoy. Don't try to mimic someone else just
21:34because they are successful, for example, in what they're doing. But at the same time,
21:39you don't enjoy doing the same thing. Like, for example, I see a lot of other YouTubers who gain
21:45success in different ways. A lot of people are good at, you know, hiring work, you know,
21:52giving work to other people. I'm not good at it. I tend to do everything myself. I'm pretty much alone
21:57in whatever I do. But I see other people that easily find good people that help them around.
22:05They create a bigger team and they spend a ton of money, you know, creating these studios and such,
22:10and it helps them become successful as well. And I don't recommend it to everyone. It's for the people
22:19who can handle managing a bunch of people and have the money to spend creating, you know,
22:26if anyone wants to, well, for engineering, if you want to become an engineer, find something you love
22:32and study it, you become an engineer. That's fine. That's a, you know, a routine way of doing it. But
22:39for
22:40you are trying to create something, trying to connect to people, you know, you want your audience to be
22:46happy about what you see. So that's a different thing to do. You need to come up with your own
22:52style,
22:53with your own personality, a character that people can connect to. And that's a much harder thing to do.
22:59It's more of an art than, you know, science, right? And just do you. Just be yourself, right? You can,
23:12what I do is that I watch a lot of other people's videos as well. And I learn from them
23:17the technical
23:17side of it to, you know, how to edit something in or how to make some boring subject interesting with,
23:26you know, some type of joke or some type of editing or, you know, the technical stuff that can
23:32make your videos better in general, but the personality and the, you know, connection and
23:39especially the content itself, the story you put together that, you know, people watch and connect
23:44to. That's the most important part. So yeah, like I, you have to love it. You know, you have to,
23:51you know,
23:51enjoy doing it and don't push yourself to, uh, you know, burn out for sure. And
23:59I would recommend people do it gradually, you know, young people don't really have a life. So
24:04they probably have more free time to throw at it and become successful quicker, perhaps.
24:10But for someone older, like myself, I like to do it gradually without pushing myself too hard,
24:17without stressing myself, my life form and such to, you know, get to a point where I'm comfortable.
24:23Right. So, yeah, that's great. Great, great advice. So what, what is your, um, you know, beyond, uh,
24:32YouTube, have you, uh, are you expanding outside of the YouTube sphere? Are you, what, what are some
24:38of the ways that you're expanding your brand? Well, I, uh, there are different ways to do it. Like,
24:45for example, I had mergers, like a shirts I put together at some point, but I stopped that for
24:50now. I don't know. Like I see a lot of, uh, other YouTubers, for example, that the merch side of
24:57the
24:57things becomes very successful for them. And, uh, you know, for example, Hacksmith is one of the, um,
25:04the Linus tech tips, you know, these people put quality products together. And I like to do that
25:11at some point, but I haven't done it. I am working on it though. For my videos, I do make
25:17some circuits,
25:19make things that might be interesting to my viewers. For example, once I made this, uh, firefly
25:25lantern. So the firefly lantern, uh, you know, has some flying objects in a lantern type. You know,
25:34I was trying to make it like a fairytale type of lantern that you put fireflies in a jar and
25:41you,
25:41it glows around you. So I made that out of electronics and for things like that,
25:48that I make something for my videos. I was thinking if I put them as a kit that I can
25:53sell
25:54and people can put it together and learn about the electronics, you know, measure a few things,
26:01understand the, how the circuits work. And at the same time, have a final, some sort of product
26:07that they can actually use. It would be nice. The merch I had before this were just stuff printed
26:12on shirts, which I was wondering why people even buy that. I assume people only bought it to support
26:19me, which I thank them for it. But I, when I sell something to people, I really want it to
26:25be valuable
26:26and people get something out of it as well. So I'm working on putting kids together based on my
26:32videos. So people can learn from it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would imagine like,
26:37do schools reach out to you as, as you've ever been asked to like, you know, talk to kids?
26:43Uh, I have been, uh, yeah, I have been asked to, although I have been at the same time trying
26:49to avoid
26:50them because, uh, for some reason, uh, talking to live audience is very nerve wracking to me.
26:59That's the good thing about YouTube, which like, uh, you don't have that anxiety anymore.
27:04You just talk to a camera. Although when I started talking to a camera was very hard to,
27:09I had anxiety. I was scared of my wife hearing me in the next room.
27:15I got past that fortunately. So I'm okay with the camera, but still, uh, like for me to prepare
27:21something and present it in front of live audiences is nerve wracking, especially, you know, how my
27:26videos are, I do something and things happen in the video, things blow up or accidents happen.
27:32I get to edit it and I get to repeat it until it's good for a video. But when you
27:38are doing it
27:38in front of live audience, you, you need to make sure it goes right the first time.
27:44Otherwise, that's great. Oh, that's, that's interesting. And I'm sure that will be
27:51comforting to some people because, you know, you see someone who's as energetic and outgoing on
27:57YouTube as you are. You just assume this is the most confident person on earth that could walk
28:02into any room. Uh, so that's, uh, that's, that's a nice peek behind the curtain there. Um, so we get
28:10read, uh, listener questions and, uh, someone wrote in an interesting question. Curious to hear your
28:17answer. The question is, I'm a big comic book reader and wondering if there's any chance that
28:24your experiments could result in a superpower like the supervillain Electro and Spider-Man.
28:30Any thoughts on that? Well, I'm like, if you expose yourself to too much electronics,
28:38the only superpower you get is death.
28:43So yeah, I don't think you'll get any superpowers. You may, if you survive, you may lose some nerves
28:50here and there, but, uh, otherwise, no. Well, I mean, if, if there's anyone in the world that has been
28:57exposed to electronics more than anyone else, it would be me and I haven't gained anything yet.
29:03So sorry about that. Okay. Great. Excellent. All right. Well, let, let's move. Uh, we got,
29:10we got three questions in the speed round. Let's get to the speed round. What do you say?
29:14Sure. Let's do it. Okay. So first question is what is a habit that you are happy to have
29:21and one that you wish you could ditch? A habit that I'm happy to have a habit. Do I have
29:30a habit?
29:32I tend to eat food. What habits do I have? Well, I mean, one of the habits I guess is
29:39watching
29:41technical videos like science videos on YouTube. I think that's the very good way for me to keep,
29:46you know, informed about, uh, all the new technologies and things that are happening.
29:52Like, you know, I'm one of those guys that are not really comfortable reading. I rather watch,
29:59you know, how they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Uh, that, that really helps me out. Like
30:05when
30:05I watch a video, I learn a ton from it rather than reading. I fall asleep right away. So I'm
30:10happy with
30:10that. Uh, habits I, uh, like to ditch would be, you know, not scrolling too much on TikTok and
30:19Instagram. I'm watching these random videos. You know, I fall into that rabbit hole and I realize
30:25that I passed two hours and I'm still. Yeah. Yeah. I like to ditch that one. Yeah. If you find
30:33a way,
30:34let me know. Is there anything, uh, I imagine you get some fed some interesting things by the
30:40algorithm. Is there anything you'd like to request the algorithm to stop sending you videos of?
30:46I suppose that algorithm sends you stuff that you are kind of interested in.
30:50I should stop showing interest in bad stuff, you know, and, you know,
30:55perhaps keep it to educational stuff. I don't care about chat videos or, you know,
31:00uh, people doing pranks on each other and that kind of junk. Uh, if, but I, I really like the
31:07short videos of, you know, nuggets of information that people provide. Like for example, Hank Green,
31:14uh, he analyzes and provides some good information on the web, uh, you know, and other YouTubers like,
31:21um, science and technical YouTubers like myself that provide something that is interesting or actually
31:26those videos that quickly show you, if you in Photoshop, you want to edit a picture and turn it,
31:31uh, uh, to the way you want, they just show you a, like a hot key that you can do
31:38it. And
31:38those things are really helpful. But other than that, everything else is just, you know, cats dancing.
31:45I don't want to watch that.
31:48Um, so an interesting question for you. We always ask people, how do you unplug? How do you
31:55turn your brain off? So, uh, as someone who is professionally plugged into things,
32:02how do you, uh, how do you wind down? How do you turn off your brain?
32:07Wind down. I don't think I turn on my brains to wind. It's always off.
32:14But yeah, no, like, uh, if, if like a project is very, you know, uh,
32:20uh, taking, uh, away my attention from everything else around me, typically
32:27I'm stuck on it until my family comes along and I have to, I'm forced to discontinue
32:35my, uh, anything I have, like, for example, when your daughter comes to you or when your wife comes
32:39to you and asks you to do something and stuff right away, you have to shut down everything else you
32:44have
32:44and pay attention to them. And that's the very good. So I guess your, my advice to you is to
32:49have
32:50a family. So it disconnects you from all the other problems that you had to work on and right away
32:59you have to switch to, you know, yeah, that's great attention to them. Uh, and then finally,
33:04if you have to pick a body part to get tased, which body part do you pick? Which would be
33:10the least
33:11painful? I would go with the palm of my foot because it has the thickest skin. It can resist against
33:19the,
33:20you know, uh, high voltages and, you know, generate the least amount of current. And the most painful
33:28areas are typically the thinnest skin. So more electricity can go through, although it depends
33:36on how you're shocking yourself. Well, don't shock yourself. Okay. But if you were in the situation
33:42that you might get shocked, for example, with 120 volts or 240 volts, sometimes if the skin is thick
33:50enough, you don't even feel them. But if the skin is thin enough, uh, you can get burned even.
33:57Oh, but that's, I'm talking about the low voltages for high voltage. It will always find a way. It
34:04doesn't matter how much skin you have. It will break your skin and go through you. And so avoid high
34:09voltage at all costs. Okay. I think that's great advice. Uh, a great, uh, end note for this conversation.
34:19Uh, so I want to thank you so much, uh, for talking to us, sharing your, sharing your story,
34:25sharing, uh, your tips for YouTube and for surviving your YouTube channel. Uh,
34:30I tried. Um, so where, what's the best, uh, you know, electro boom, what, what's the best way for
34:39people to follow what you're up to? Well, I mean, just type electro boom. You will find me somewhere.
34:45I'm on Instagram and I'm on my YouTube for sure. And then, uh, I have another channel that I don't
34:52post on. It's called meditation. My first name, I was trying to, you know, make videos to, you know,
35:00if things that are not related to technology or electronics, I would post them there, but
35:05I'm getting lazy on that a little bit, but besides that, just type electro boom on Google,
35:10you'll find me one way or the other. That's a great, that's a great name, by the way. Uh,
35:15how did you stumble on that? Which one, the electro boom or the meditation? Well,
35:21originally my channel's name was my first and last name, Mehdi Sadakdar, which was pretty hard for a
35:27lot of people to pronounce. And some, somebody in the comments said, Hey, maybe you should pick a
35:32name that is easier to remember. So I thought that was a good idea. I thought to myself,
35:37uh, what should I do? What do I do? I do electronics and they explode. So electro boom,
35:43let's just put them together. And yeah, electro boom was born, I guess.
35:48That's great. That's fantastic. Well, thank you so much. As I said,
35:52thank you for the content and thank you for surviving.
35:55Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for having me on your show.
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