Again, just a random guy on the internet so don't take my opinion too seriously.
I think it is just personal opinion, it's a gut reaction opinion of someone. In your lessons, Brian: you seem like a genuinely nice guy, I don't get any of that douche-like vibe from you like I do with this dude. It's just personal preference, he seems, to me, to talk down to people who don't know as much as him, no doubt he would be the nice guy to you and Syn, because you guys are well known and are greatly knowledgeable, but with some random plebe like me? Nope.