DankPods

Wade Nixonhttps://www.youtube.com/post/Ugz0wa3F0xJDdZYXboB4AaABCQhttps://www.youtube.com/post/UgzFpcO-2WlDmrPm3FZ4AaABCQ (born ), better known online as DankPods (among many other names), is an Australian YouTuber who does various things to his iPods and MP3 Players, including upgrading, repairing, creating, etc., as well as dabbling in audiophile technology such as headphones, stereos, and amplifiers.
==Breakthroughs==
DankPods uploaded his first video in September 2019. By the end of January 2020, he had gained over 40,000 subscribers in just one month. By the end of July in 2020, he amassed over 3,000,000 total views in a single month. On November 1st - 2021, Wade reached the 1 million subscriber milestone. His videos have helped the iPod community grow substantially in the past year. And due to his popularity, the prices of some iPods, such as the Classic, have gone up in price dramatically on sites like eBay and others.
==Personal life==
Wade is a drummer outside of his work on YouTube. He has a female Murray-Darling Carpet Python named Frank. Frank has been featured in many videos, and she often appears after the outro in a small tacked-on snippet. Her birthday is https://twitter.com/PodsDank/status/1228074928722731008. He used to be a music teacher at and for around six years, and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D-XR86C7xU&t=57shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guriBVXu6pM&t=188s
on July 19th 2023 Wade mentioned in a Drum Thing video that one of the reasons why people can't visit his warehouse to see his Drum collection was that he's dealing with privacy issues and people stalking him and as a result he had to put security fences up at the old and current warehouse. [6]
On December 31, 2023, he announced on his main channel's community page that he would close his Patreon and would no longer post weekly, aiming to post quicker videos more often. In this community post, he announced a permanent move to another site, Floatplane, as his "one stop shop for exclusive content (streams, Frank, secrets)."
He's once stated in a video that's hes an atheist and was brought up as an atheist.
== Channel origin ==
DankPods' earliest available channel, titled Dankmus, was created on April 16, 2016. Its primary focus is on remix videos using The Simpsons clips as samples. His interest in repairing iPods began by repairing and refurbishing broken units he purchased on eBay and selling them. This is where the name DankPods originated. He launched the DankPods YouTube channel on June 17, 2018, and uploaded his first video to the channel titled "I was given a free iPod, can it be fixed?" on September 29, 2019.
== Equipment== 
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*iMac (2007) — Stores his music, iTunes and sometimes used as a note reading device.
*iPad (4th gen) — Desk pad, sometimes used as a sound graph. Seen with an iconic green folio case
*iPad Pro 12.9 (4th gen) with Magic Keyboard— Seen in "The best $45 I've ever spent", used as an audio recording device
* iPhone 15 Pro Max — Phone and camera
* Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 - Phone
*iPod touch (7th gen) 256GB — Main iPod
*iPod Classic (5th gen 80GB w/ 256GB upgrade) — Back up iPod
*2021 MacBook Pro — Video editing computer
*Samsung 49" Super-Ultrawide Monitor - Video editing monitor
*12-inch MacBook with Butterfly Keyboard — Seen on "I found a nightmare.", used as a travel laptop
* Shure SM7B on a RODE PSA-1 boom arm— Microphone (Previously a Blue Yeti) Seen on “It’s called the… Sound Burger??” at 4:12
* Sennheiser HD 600 — Reference headphones
*Meze Empyrean Elite - General use headphones
*miniDSP HEARS — Headphone audio evaluator and recorder
*Various eBay softbox/umbrella lights — Lighting for videos
*EFM Toledo — Speaker for outputting audio from iPods and MP3 players
*Asus Eee PC - Used to install software needed to transfer files to MP3 players
* Chord Mojo 2The Chord Mojo 2. - YouTube - Used as a DAC and audio amplifier (previously an iFi iDSD Diablo, and before that, an original Chord Mojo)
* The Maraca Cracker 9000 - Custom gift from a fan for DankPods 1 million sub. special, which sole purpose is to blow up headphones. Extremely powerful. (confirmed "kill" on 300 Ohm headphones)
* The Duck - Motivational support
* Scarlet Fire - The song that is used to destroy headphones and earbuds
==Trivia== 
*His first iPod was a Mini that he bought off a friend for $50 with a bad battery.
*He prefers to use the iPods with the monochrome screens because they're easier to see in a wider range of lighting conditions and because he just uses iPods as music players.
*"The ShrekPod Pro", which would later become a channel 'mascot', is a Frankenstein iPod Video made out of a ruined batch of spare parts which got destroyed by eBay's global shipping program. As such, the ShrekPod Pro has motherboard issues and a damaged LCD. In a later video, the ShrekPod Pro hard drive was replaced with an M.2 SSD. The ShrekPod Pro broke after DankPods attempted to use it as an internal HDD, install Windows 10 on it and attempted to download DOOM Eternal. The ShrekPod Pro corrupted in the middle of the night and will no longer restore, even after replacing the drive.
*"The DankPod Max" is a 7th gen iPod Classic which has 2TB of storage, using an iFlash Quad Board and four 512GB Samsung Evo Plus MicroSD cards.
* "Geir's iPod " is a 4th gen iPod Classic which has a lot of music on it and is in Norwegian. It was put together using two broken iPods. This was the main mascot of the channel until the ShrekPod arrived.
*He received his 100,000 subscriber YouTube play button code in December 2020. By that time, his subscriber count had already quintupled to around 500,000.
*He absolutely despises opening up the 6th and 7th generation iPod Classics as their design makes the process of opening them incredibly difficult and dangerous.
*He has a Discord server but is not in it due to previous fan interactions on the r/iPod Discord server. However, the admins on the server have stated that he thinks this is the right place for something like this.
*He has 2 older brothers, with the younger of his older brothers being named Reese, and a sister named Emma
*Of which his oldest brother being a volunteer firefighter
*He is a fan of the NFL Cleveland Browns, and jokingly said they were great in 2017.
*He's of Polish and Russian decent, saying that his great grandparents were Russian and Polish and has joked that it's the reason why he's into some Polish cars and why he got Tony which is a 1991 FSM Polski Fiat 126P
==Quotes==
*"Let's do this nana selling on Gumtree style."
*"Oh no, my duck!"
*"Someone's been in here."
*"Can you believe no one bought this?"
*"I brought the freakish ears on a stand."
*"Huh-Duh-Six-Hunge-O's by ol' mate Senny.” (HD600s by ol' mate Sennheiser)
*"The Beans!” (Galaxy Buds Live)
*"AAAs!"
*"Na-no."
*"Dirty buds."
*"Head-P-Honies."
*"Watch out, we're arming the nugget."
*"We're bringin' out the EeePeeCee!"
*"Haitch Pea" (Hewlett-Packard products)
*"Oh, get in there."
*"The biggest companies make the worst crap."
* "If you think ___, you're wrong and owe me an apology." 
*"Mark of the beast!"
*"Bring out ya deads!"
*"Oh, my PKCell..."
*"Can't wait to smell those/yell into that."
*"Dollarydoos/Freedombux/Freedom Eagles"
*"It’s like an MP3 player or something."
*"They sound like kids percussion."
*"This is how you know you're thinning out the soup a bit too much."
*"Power on. Bluetooth Mode. Auxiliary Mode."
*"Don't ask me how I know this!"
*"We're goin' to the old Cashies today!"
*"Get on down to Cashies, mate, if you wanna buy the same thing twice."
*"Oh, dingus!"
*"Ah, it bit me!"
*"Only us patrons will know about that."
*"You can pull it apart like an orange!"
* "We're arming the nugget!"
*"Mate."
*"Not my boys!” (PKCELL batteries)
*"So like, this one time...” (said at the start of every story he invents when testing microphones)
*"We'll get to the nugget in a bit..."
*"Oh, my eggs and sausages!"
*"It's got more features than a modern iPhone." (said when an electronic device has a headphone jack. 'iPhone' was replaced 'flagship phone' in newer videos, as more and more smartphone manufacturers removed the headphone jack from their flagships.)
*"It's like some stupid jerk made these popular again." (said in jest; Wade acknowledging his responsibility for making iPods surge in price)
*"The Smasnug flip-flop" (In the Glasstron video)
*"TONY" (said during Garbage Time videos when he's gets mad at his little 1991 FSM Polski Fiat 126P)
*"GOOBER" (in the cheapest car in Australia video)
*"Donkey Van" (the name he calls any van that he sees thats either rare or beaten up including his own 2003 Mitsubishi Express, that he named The Donkey van due to how beaten up and abused it was when he bought it from a used car dealership that didn't want to sell it to him as it was their parts and part delivering van)
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