Haha, you can thank my editor for that. During the first round of feedback I was like “dude can you cut that it’s so awkward” and he sent me a 3 paragraph essay on why we should keep it, lol.
Haha yup, that and the Stomp riff were beastly to pull off!
Ha, yep, otherwise known as the “thumb plucking technique Josh tells B2B students not to do” technique. 
I could do a whole boring video on thumb plucking! Nice way to get a really mellow fleshy tone for slower/quieter stuff… good way to pluck two notes simultaneously spread across the strings (like the octaves in Billie Jean)… works well for thumb n fingers arpeggiating like guitar players do.
And the great thing about the ‘technique’ is there’s really nothing to it, just pluck with your thumb and mess around. Much easier than slapping. 
Would love to! Part of my secret agenda with the If you could only listen to 3 genres? thread was to gauge what people might be most interested in for future Riffs vids.
Still no takers! I’ll give it a couple weeks though lol.