Get Offset Episode 147: Just Change the Name

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[00:00:00] Andrew: welcome to the get offset podcast. My name is Andrew.

[00:00:22] Okay. And, uh, no, I’m not intoxicated yet. Um, so that was just me being, uh, exhausted. It’s been a week. My God.

[00:00:32] Emily: Yeah. Yeah. We’re actually recording this on a, on a Friday evening at my request. Um, thank you for being, being flexible. I

[00:00:41] Andrew: thank you for not being dead yet.

[00:00:43] Emily: Shut the fuck up. Oh, wow.

[00:00:51] Andrew: What can I say?

[00:00:53] Jesus? I mean, death is inevitable for everyone, Emily, but I just really grateful that it’s not here yet.

[00:00:59] Emily: You’re going to be so mad if you’re yourself. If I die

[00:01:07] Andrew: at a different zip code on a different city, like I don’t, I have zero agency in this. I haven’t seen you in months.

[00:01:14] Emily: You’re going to be so mad if I

[00:01:15] Andrew: die.

[00:01:16] Uh, yeah. For several reasons. Um, none of them related to what I just said though. None of them related what I just said.

[00:01:24] Emily: You’re going to be so mad just because of that comment. You’re gonna be like, I can’t believe I said that malaria

[00:01:31] Andrew: if she had died, but I’m thinking about it

[00:01:34] Emily: now. I feel guilty.

[00:01:38] To my friend who earlier that day had to, in the first time of the pandemic get a COVID test, how was it? That was easy.

[00:01:50] Andrew: Really? Did they go pretty far over your nose

[00:01:52] Emily: or? No, it was a self test and, um, it was just, uh, like three quarters of an interrupt nose. So I just kinda, I just stick it up a little bit in Sinatra and go around, around around 15, second hands.

[00:02:03] Good. Either nostril 15 seconds. But can I just tell you, okay. I think I’ve stepped back a bit to kind of explain what happened. So last week on the podcast, I said I was supposed to play a show on Saturday night, my first year of the pandemic. Um, but it was in question because, uh, some of the venue, um, in question, they had to have a COVID test.

[00:02:25] So the venue was closed while this employee was, or a few employees apparently were being tested for COVID and they all came back negative. So, um, Cool. We thought as a band, uh, they came back negative and it was great. We were excited. We practice Wednesday, uh, after practice, the, the guitarist wakes up, not feeling so great and all the night goes not feeling.

[00:02:52] It doesn’t feel so good on Thursday. He gets a COVID test as a responsible thing. Uh, Friday morning, the results come back, does the other responsible thing, which has to tell us. And, uh, he came, he has COVID. He has a breakthrough case of COVID. Uh, he says he feels mostly good. A low grade fever, chills, um, skills about 85%.

[00:03:14] Okay. So I’m, I’m glad that he doesn’t feel too bad too, too, too, too bad. Um, yes. Pfizer in April. Um, so

[00:03:24] Andrew: he’s told

[00:03:24] Emily: me I don’t care. Uh, so everyone he’s been around for the past two weeks. He’s the only person he knows who’s come down with them. And these symptoms. So, uh, so you know, everyone in the band got tested, we talked and the singer said, you know, well, we all got tested and came back with no negative results by tomorrow.

[00:03:45] Uh, we can still do some sort of altered show the drummer. And I said, um, well, the Delta variance incubation period is three to five days. So even if we did come back negative, if one of us ended up catching it, uh, we would all know those were kind of, uh, untrustworthy results. And it wouldn’t feel too good about playing that show.

[00:04:05] The singer said, ah, yes, I forgot about incubation periods, uh, canceled the show. Uh, everybody, I think did the right thing. I feel good about our decision, bad and angry about the circumstances. Um, I’m just, you know, I’m not, again, really not mad at the person who got sick, uh, heated. He did the responsible thing.

[00:04:32] The easy thing would have been to just pretend that he wasn’t sick got ahead with the show. That would have been the easy thing to do. Um, I’m really glad he told us I was supposed to see my niece on Sunday. I would have been really, really, really, really upset if I had gotten sick, had not known I was sick and had hung out with my niece, who I had not told, had not like his is not able to vaccinate because she’s too young.

[00:05:00] I got hurt. So, you know, priorities in life. Uh, what, what does it tell you though? Andrew?

[00:05:06] Andrew: I was going to say something actually really positive and not Starkey. Um, uh, that tells me is that my guesses, not as a doctor, but my guess is based on the info is if he didn’t have the vaccine, he’d be a lot more messed up.

[00:05:21] Yeah. Very compelling reason to get the factory Reggie.

[00:05:26] Emily: Yep. You’re right. And that he was, I mean, He was with a bunch of people the weekend before I can’t say anything. Cause I was like two weeks, two and a half weeks ago in Nashville with a bunch of people. And, uh, nobody that I know of in Nashville I was with got COVID.

[00:05:46] Yup. And, uh, he, I know a few of the people that he was with the previous week and he told me that none of them have symptoms and he was with them and you know, it was going to be a few days before. I mean, I’m getting tested again next week. Um, I’m assuming that my test tomorrow, because my test tomorrow comes back positive.

[00:06:10] I already, we had it. Uh, I mean, I, my results might come back as early as like I’ll probably come back. Sunday or Monday. Um, but man, like, so I just had to, I booked an appointment. I woke up, I started work, I got a text from the band was kind of working. It was going to ignore. I’m like, wait, if the singer is texting me this early, it’s probably important.

[00:06:36] Like, I kind of paused. I was like, wait, why is he texting me? I read it. I read it twice. I read it three times. I wrote a note to my husband on a piece of paper. Like I have to go get tested for COVID right now. And I’m like, oh, the whole pandemic. This is the first time I’ve I’ve had ticket tested. And I thought, I, I, cause it’s the first time I’ve been in contact with someone who has been sick since like there have been, since you’ve been able to be tested.

[00:07:12] Right. So, I mean, that says a lot about my experience during the pandemic, I think. Uh, but like, I, I, so I go, I get tested at up little pop-up clinic, uh, near green lake and oh my God, dude, it was really easy. See, it was a great experience that the person in front of me in line, like, uh, there’s this kid and the mom and the kid is just like, as sick as I’ve ever seen another human, like, just like, it was really gross to watch.

[00:07:41] The kid was like doing the swab nose and it was just like making the kids sneeze and I get it. It was, it was, uh, it’s itchy. It’s, you know, a tech calls, but he was sneezing. He was coughing. He was unwell. And, oh my goodness, this is very Mel well-meaning maybe the worst hayfever I’ve ever seen, but I kind of think that I have the worst hay fever I’ve ever seen.

[00:08:04] So. So this kid’s like, just not doing well. It’s pretty gross. It’s pretty obvious. The kid has some sort of like, this kid has some sort of cold thing. It’s another, yeah. They give us not COVID like, I don’t think that’s allergies. Yeah. It was disgusting. No matter what it was. Um, but uh, I can hear the texts telling the mom like, oh, she’d be ready.

[00:08:29] About 48 to 72 hours. So Sunday or Monday. And the mom says, oh, well, you know, he’s got camp on Monday and I’m just thinking, man, he does on Monday.

[00:08:44] Andrew: No, that tells me his momma just had to cancel brunch on

[00:08:46] Emily: Monday. I think. Yeah. Mama Casta canceled brunch on Sunday. Like mama should be getting a test because that’s nasty.

[00:08:54] Like, it’d be all emotion have been tested. Cause that like, even around that for a while now, and that’s nasty. I was like, I’m sorry, but I don’t think he does have cam.

[00:09:06] Andrew: Right. And then it very well might not be COVID. I mean, uh, as a parent myself, there’s the whole, like kids, when they’re under their kids just get sick.

[00:09:16] Like every two, three weeks that’s normal,

[00:09:19] Emily: that kid was sick. That kid was sick. He was, it was something that kids should not be around other children. It’s just, that’s all I’m saying.

[00:09:29] Andrew: Right. Right. I mean, I wouldn’t send them to camp that’s for sure. Um, I guess it depends on the camp, but, um, yeah,

[00:09:41] Emily: the camp, a leper colony.

[00:09:46] Yeah. I see. Necessary. Yeah. I know. Just like, uh, everyone knows, like I feel, I mean, it’s only been two days. I, I mostly feel sad. Uh, yeah. I

[00:10:00] Andrew: mostly feel sad, like a live show.

[00:10:04] Emily: For the first time since the pandemic, like probably like 500. Yeah.

[00:10:07] Andrew: Yeah. I mean, that’s, I really do feel sorry for you on that one. That one’s, that’s a heartbreaker.

[00:10:12] Emily: Sorry for me. So at this point, my next show will be at the end of the month with a Sunday crush of the Connor burn, uh, August 28th. So please come out, make me feel loved at that one. Uh, yeah. And then, and then Gerald, and I’ll be playing bass at a September on September 2nd with Jeff at the tractor Tavern.

[00:10:33] So that’s a bigger venue, a better venue. Um, so was all, all around were exciting, but no, just a bit of a, it’s a bummer.

[00:10:44] Andrew: Yeah, bummer is a good word for it. I think that’s just kind of the, the encapsulating word for a 2021 is

[00:10:53] Emily: if you want to see, like in a nutshell, how I kind of feel look at this thing that our patients,

[00:11:03] it makes me

[00:11:04] Andrew: so

[00:11:04] Emily: happy. It’s for those listening. It’s a, it’s a brown patch. The background is orange for Andrew. It’s a gray cat with one yellow eye and one blue eyes. The cats got a little blue lip tongue going out.

[00:11:20] Hey.

[00:11:23] And early in this episode, I’m going to thank our north Patrion supporter, which puts us only $5 away from our goal. I have not yet, given this person discord access on glass, you’re going to do that right now. Live I’ll do a live

[00:11:41] LA from Seattle, Washington.

[00:11:53] Nope. That same time.

[00:11:54] Andrew: Right? So borrowed a letter from my friend Jacob today. I didn’t tell him though. So if he finds out, I’ll never hear the end of

[00:12:02] Emily: it. Jacob ladder. Yep. Here is this person. We

[00:12:14] Andrew: told that joke at the office today and I, I got a very delayed, like the Jakarta, the, what is. Oh, kind of reaction is great.

[00:12:24] Yup. Korean

[00:12:26] Emily: brothers, sisters, all where the hell is this new patient on supporter? Uh, God, this is why is it so hard

[00:12:38] Andrew: boys and girls?

[00:12:42] Emily: Dean alligator.

[00:12:48] Andrew: I heard something else. Tire. I heard no, no Gallagher. And I’m like, what? Um, sorry.

[00:13:04] Tap, tap, tap. Tap. Is this, is this a space for me to fill with another joke or an animal? Is it the gym this morning. And, uh, my trainer said, okay, and we’re going to do like this explosive, specialized pushup motion, but I can’t, I can’t demonstrate that for you. I just got my tetanus shot kind of hurts. And I said, okay, that’s fine.

[00:13:23] But you know, I can’t do that either. And she’s like, wait, what, what are you talking about? And I said, I mean, I did get a tetanus shot and just feeling, feeling a bit rusty.

[00:13:35] All right. Where are we at with inviting our newest patron who was immediately regretted their decision after hearing that joke?

[00:13:42] Emily: I just invited Dean oliger. Thank you, Dean. If you would like to do this on Patrion and get access to our superstar. It’s not really a secret. It’s just like exclusive Patrion chat discord.

[00:13:56] Uh, you just need join us at the $5. Lovely. You get access to that discord, $10 level. You get aim or item of your choice and the $25 level, we write you a song, but all we need is one more, $5 Patrion supporter. And, uh, Andrew’s going to get cracking on that hard core. I don’t know, something version of

[00:14:18] Andrew: loud and with the and with screaming and maybe a breakdown, like I think there’s going to be a breakdown involved, but, um, I can’t promise a video for it, but I can definitely promise the audio.

[00:14:32] Yeah. Maybe a video in the future. Maybe that should be the $200 level. Uh, No. Yeah, no, I’m super excited about that. I’ve been listening to it obsessive. And so now I’ve got, I routinely have fruit salad by the wiggle suck in my head. As I’m trying to wrap my brain around, like how I want to do this and to him, how to do that, or do I do that?

[00:14:55] Can I even do both of those things in the same, like yeah. It’s kind of what my brain has been doing in the background.

[00:15:01] Emily: Just trying to figure it out,

[00:15:02] Andrew: try to figure it out, man.

[00:15:04] Emily: Figure it out. I just try to figure it, figure it out. Yup. Yup. I think you can figure it out. Uh, listeners and viewers, you can also get our merge, um, just on your own.

[00:15:18] If you go to get off at podcast.com/show, indeed we have, um, our, our most popular merchant item is our for BA’s sake line. We have, uh, hats and shirts, including tank tops, which I like normal t-shirts uh, and, uh, two style of hat. We have two hat styles.

[00:15:43] Andrew: I’m not bold enough for tank tops yet, but I, I I’m actually like starting to feel like a little bit better about like, I don’t want, like, I’m thinning out.

[00:15:53] You

[00:15:53] Emily: ask, I can tell I’m giving another six months. I we’re, I’m obviously I’m a little cold right now. Um, it’s a little chilly in Seattle, but uh, I mean, I haven’t boxed in a minute because of my knee, but uh, like I’m feeling more confident about my arms lately. I got more tone. I also just don’t care very much about what, how other people think that I look, I like how I look and my husband likes how I look.

[00:16:22] Andrew: I like how I look at my wife likes how it looks. So, yeah. Yeah.

[00:16:25] Emily: Those are the two opinions that matter in that order. Me Rick, me, Rick. Cool.

[00:16:33] Andrew: Yeah. Now I’ve got me, Melissa, and then Mike Adams and third. So.

[00:16:38] Emily: I know, I think Mike Adams probably likes how you look more than both you and Melissa combined, because he is just such a beautiful human.

[00:16:48] Andrew: So what’s new with you. What’s new with you. We’re just going to quickly exit that

[00:16:53] Emily: conversation. I know I made that weird. Well, I got this for my show and I need you to talk about it to the listeners.

[00:17:04] Andrew: Uh, as soon as you said that the, your picture on the stream literally just went pixelated. So I can’t. Oh, oh, it’s cactus lights.

[00:17:13] Wait, so, okay. I got this. Let me see if I can decipher what’s going on here through the pixels. So we’ve got, oh, there’s multiple colors on those

[00:17:21] Emily: connection. I’m sorry to say. It’s what your internet connection that,

[00:17:29] Andrew: but yeah, that happens. Uh, so it’s a black mask, but superimposed on the black, our character. Think it’s cacti. Cactus is, I don’t know. I’ve lost track of like my Roman, Roman and Greek plurals puree. Uh, so multiple cacti looked like saguaros with like a little red flower on top and then the CACs I light up and I’m seeing some flashing cacti.

[00:17:56] I’m seeing some solid color cacti that then changed colors, all different modes. Yeah. I looked at that. Is there one where like it gradients, there we go. In between the different colors. Yeah. And then I think that one’s just supposed to trigger my epilepsy, so yeah.

[00:18:14] Emily: Yeah. I bought that for the gig tomorrow.

[00:18:25] Andrew: Well, you’ve got another one soon for the same group.

[00:18:32] It’ll be there. It’ll be there. So anyways, I guess it makes it super timely for the episode that we launched last week. I go back and listen to it and, uh, yeah,

[00:18:43] Emily: well, and I’m mad at FedEx home because my guitar was supposed to be here. My, my baritone guitar was supposed to be here two days ago. Did he check the porch?

[00:18:54] And then it was supposed to be here today. And now it’s, it’s an Oregon still it’s home is bad. They’re the ones who continuously eat packages over my fence and lie about whether or not something was out for delivery. I finally, I actually told Sweetwater, I’m like, can you just stop using FedEx to, for Naomi things?

[00:19:17] And they’re like, yeah, we’ll just use ups instead. I’m like really like, yeah, people can make those requests. And I know Amazon will do the same. I’ve actually canceled. I had an ongoing subscription with a company and they kept using FedEx home. And it was so bad that I, uh, I canceled my subscription with a company because they kept, it was a food thing, like a meal thing.

[00:19:45] And they kept like, not delivering the thing. So the food would just be sitting in their warehouse for three days. And by the time they would get to me, it wouldn’t be like, not just not frozen anymore, it wouldn’t be cold anymore. And I like, you know, you recently, I did this food thing was so that I would use, like, there’d be less spoilage because it was one of those things where like, it’s perfectly measured out.

[00:20:05] But if I have to keep. Throwing the food away. It’s not resulting in less spoilage is resulting in more. So I said like, if you guys have, are going to keep using FedEx a shift to me, I can’t keep using you because obviously there’s this huge problem with FedEx in my area. Like we have a contract, we have to use FedEx.

[00:20:23] I’m like, well, then I don’t have a contract with you. So I buy

[00:20:28] Andrew: canceled. Um, no, although I will say I had a rough experience with USBs for a Fox Cairo fulfillment. I feel really bad. So someone ordered that lives in the Seattle area. Uh, and they’re, they’re very kind. They reached out and said, Hey, I live in the Seattle area.

[00:20:44] Could we just meet up for it? And I’m just looking at my schedule and I feel so bad because I would love to, but I just, there’s no way I could possibly swing that right now. Um, and so I was like, you know what? I’ll, I’ll go and ship it to you. I’m so sorry. I can’t make the app. And so he’d go in and ship it and I get a mess.

[00:21:02] It, uh, went to go like check in like five days later. This was a couple of weeks ago. So I’m actually blanking on who messaged who first but tracking had it updated. It was supposed to be three-day shipping in the Seattle area. So it should have been more or less next day had not arrived. I’m like, oh no.

[00:21:18] Oh no, no. And so like back and forth, like calling ups go, I actually went to my local USBs and said, Hey guys, where it go, where it go? And they’re like, oh, we can’t find it. Sorry. Uh, it might be lost. Sorry. So I sent the customer message. It said, Hey, you know what? This isn’t your fault at all. I’m just going to resend another one on Monday.

[00:21:40] I think this was like Saturday afternoon. And I kid you not an hour later, I get the notification that was delivered. It just went straight from, cannot find it to deliver. Well,

[00:21:55] it was like an hour away from like starting to make the full order over it. Um, so yeah, if that customer is listening to the show, thank you so much for being kind and patient and very understanding because I feel really bad about that. Um, yeah. I appreciate kind customers always.

[00:22:16] Emily: Yeah.

[00:22:20] I mean, I, I feel that, I think I told the story and, um, the discord server first, but, uh, last a while just like last week or so my credit card got stolen. Um, and I, I just made sure I had all my ducks in a row. It’s not my first rodeo with skull stolen credit cards, having a couple of times, like, not a lot of times, but like once or twice.

[00:22:46] So I just had like, okay, I know which purchases are not valid. And I caught up pretty quickly cause it was a weird purchase. And I called them like, Hey, and also it was like on a Friday night, I was a little high it’s illegal in Washington, state

[00:23:05] Andrew: legal it’s legal,

[00:23:08] Emily: Washington state. So I like already taken my edible and is already setting in.

[00:23:12] And I got like the notification like, oh, I better deal with this now, before it gets worse. So I like call I’m like, Hey, hi, how are you doing tonight? My crew, I just talking like, yeah. So, uh, there was some fraudulent purchases. I have them here. It’s only four. Uh, and

[00:23:32] Andrew: for an accurate representation of how you probably sounded when this uploads to YouTube, like at the session, just put it to half speed.

[00:23:40] Emily: Yeah. So I have four purchases. I have three samples club purchase for $45, which I assume were free Sam’s club purchased membership purchases, which is an odd and suspicious purchase in an of itself. However, the one that actually did get flagged as suspicious was a $10 purchase. And though I have purchased from the heat in this before, because I do love hot sauce.

[00:24:13] I did not purchase from the heatedness on this particular occasion. My head fear, my credit card has been stolen. Could you please help? And the lady on the other end was really nice and I was just talking to her and I was trying to be really polite. And she was just saying, yeah, did a great job. And you can tell like, as we’re going through, I’m just like, yeah, no, it’s cool happens.

[00:24:36] And as I’m going through. She started to giggle at me. And I realized guys, I think I might just be too cool and too chill. Like I think she knows I’m high. And I think what really sets her off was I, you know, I think at their discretion, they can like speed up how quickly they ship you, your new card. Like, I think they could choose whether or not they overnight it to you.

[00:25:02] Like, if you’re just like, they overnight it to you. And if you’re like a dream boat, they overnight it to you and you decided I was really cool. So she decided, and she’s like, normally we do a two day shipping, but for you for no extra charge, we’re going to do the overnight shipping for you. And I say, oh my God.

[00:25:24] And she’s

[00:25:29] like, she just could not stop. She was like,

[00:25:35] I was just thinking she

[00:25:36] Andrew: knows either she knows or she’s just like so naive. And like, after a day of dealing with all the angry, my credit card got stolen phone calls, she’s just like finally faith in humanity restored.

[00:25:49] Emily: Yeah. I know. Like she I’m, like, it’s never her fault with my car to get stolen. Like, by the time you call your card company, it’s not their fault that like you accidentally bought something from a sketchy website that looked legitimate, you know?

[00:26:07] Right, right. Like I know, I know exactly what the thing is. What makes me most mad is I know exactly what I’ve did. Like I’m not going to repeat it here, but I know exactly what I did that was wrong. And like, every time my car has gotten stolen, like of all times my car has gotten stolen. I’m like, I mean, like I suspected this was it.

[00:26:28] Or I spoke to it. That was it. For the first time ever. I’m like, oh, yep. That was it. That did it. Yep. That did it. Yup. But I just, I felt so stupid. The moment I did it, like I canceled the order, they canceled the order and they stole my credit card. Yup. Yup. And now they’re sending me all these texts from like banks.

[00:26:51] That, aren’t my thing. They’re just trying to guess, like every bank in the world, like you’re a and I finally texted give it up at them and then, and then they stopped.

[00:27:04] Andrew: Wow.

[00:27:07] Emily: I texted give it up at them and then I haven’t gotten another one. Well, yeah,

[00:27:17] Andrew: they’ll probably just try, start trying again, like three months after they presume you’ve forgotten.

[00:27:21] Yeah. So I,

[00:27:26] Emily: there we go. That’s not my story. I just thought that was a fun

[00:27:31] Andrew: one to tell it’s a great story. Um,

[00:27:34] Emily: I was, yeah,

[00:27:37] Andrew: no. So, uh, what’s new with me is, um, no, I haven’t ordered a buddy for my guitar build yet. Uh, but I think I actually might’ve accidentally and embarrassingly decided what I’m going to do for it.

[00:27:51] But if I decide that’s what it’s going to be, if I decide that I’ll, I’ll tell that story later, but I did order,

[00:28:00] Emily: sorry, oopsies. I just said woopsies. I’m so sorry.

[00:28:06] Andrew: I did order. So, so this guitar is not new. This is, I

[00:28:09] Emily: remember that guitar Washington.

[00:28:14] Andrew: All right. So this is my guitar dropsy and I was my Ivan is I actually, I never remember that I do this about every year or so as I’m like, wait, what’s the, what’s the, uh, What’s the model number on this.

[00:28:26] And I spent like an hour, like digging through the iPad, as

[00:28:29] Emily: I thought it was like a slash SIG.

[00:28:32] Andrew: No, no. So I had slash SIG pickups in at 1.0, right. Uh, from Seymour Duncan. So anyways, so this guy’s got a hot rod humbucker set in it right now and they sound okay, but they’re a little muddy for tight metal type sounds.

[00:28:47] Um, it’s a great set of pickups. I’ve had them for

[00:28:52] Emily: what are they

[00:28:53] Andrew: hot rodder humbucker set by Sam or Dunkin. Seymour done. Good. Yeah. So that’s, what’s loaded in here right now. Uh, they’re great for certain things. Uh, they’re not my cup of tea for why I want this guitar to be right now though. And, um, so there’s that.

[00:29:10] And so I’ve had a set of pickups picked out for a while that I want to put in this guitar. I just haven’t ordered them for, I think I’ve decided that what I wanted like a year and a half ago, Just one of those not super high priority, but I’m like, okay, well the stars stars are aligning here. One, I want to be able to record some heavy stuff for the wiggles cover.

[00:29:29] So, um, I should be reimbursable the podcast, right. Uh, too, I’ve

[00:29:36] Emily: already decided, yeah, we got some, some, some caches and,

[00:29:42] Andrew: uh, I’ve decided what I wanted a while ago and then three, um, that particular pickups at one on sale. And the reason for that is I I’m going to go out and I’ll let me, right. I’m going to assume a couple of things here.

[00:29:57] So Lambert tones can tell me if I’m wrong here, but I did order set of that.

[00:30:04] Emily: Stay on the

[00:30:05] Andrew: mic. I ordered a set of Lambert tones grinders with, and I got the, uh, the set that doesn’t have the screws on it. So it’s just the, the blank face plate on it, which I think looks. Oh,

[00:30:20] Emily: I do. I like, I agree. I like that look, but I don’t know. I don’t know if it affects the sound at all, but I think it’s a great look.

[00:30:31] I truly do.

[00:30:32] Andrew: I think for some guitars that have worked, some of them would wouldn’t I think for this one, it absolutely would. Uh, and so I’m super excited about that and part of the reason. And so my understanding here ever so loosely, I haven’t confirmed this with Curtis. Um, my loose understanding is Curtis has been going through some medical stuff recently.

[00:30:51] And so for everyone, just outside of this, uh, general thoughts, prayers, vibes, uh, incense burning, all of the above, uh, Curtis is going through a rough time right now and we should all send our love and support. Yes.

[00:31:03] Emily: And I just love the Curtis. He’s a, he’s a real one.

[00:31:06] Andrew: He’s a real one. And definitely going through some stuff right now.

[00:31:09] So, uh, with that, I want to say, I saw somewhere. And I don’t know if this is, if I’m just remembering something it’s been that sort of week where like, I can’t remember where I read anything or if I even read it like the

[00:31:24] Emily: longest fucking week of my life,

[00:31:27] Andrew: anyways, Lambert tones ran a sale. And I think there, uh, if I remember this correctly, there’ll be running a couple different sales, uh, just to try and get a cat.

[00:31:37] What, why didn’t you

[00:31:37] Emily: tell me the run of the sale?

[00:31:42] Andrew: I put it in the group for the, for the discord server yesterday. That’s okay. So they did a limited sale for a limited number of humbucker sets a hundred

[00:31:53] Emily: dollars off. Actually, I don’t, I don’t have fair, many humbucker guitar sweats.

[00:31:57] Andrew: Uh, yeah. So a hundred dollars off for a $300 set.

[00:32:00] So that’s like 30 something percent off. Um, I mean 33% if we’re going to whole numbers, but

[00:32:06] Emily: I accidentally muted the gear talk channel in our group. I meant to mute it for like an hour the other day. And I muted it completely

[00:32:14] Andrew: well. Um, well, there you have it. So I ordered the set and, uh, excited to get that in, get that loaded into this guitar.

[00:32:23] And I get some, uh, heavy duty riffs going and I would like to think, and maybe I’m just wrong, but either way, I mean, the money is going towards Curtis’s company. I’d like to think that that’s a small way, small thing that I can do to support him and what he’s going through right now. So put communities for, right?

[00:32:44] Emily: Yeah. I don’t know what you meant to say or what you said, but yes, I’m sorry. My brain is more not work good

[00:32:55] Andrew: anyways. Uh, so that’s the, the app. Um, very exciting. Heck

[00:33:03] Emily: yeah. Heck when my second COVID test comes back negative, we need to have our barbecue off. We should invite Sean because we’d need to hang out with Sean Crawford.

[00:33:16] Andrew: Sure. I mean, I’ve got enough backyard space. Oh yeah. Jason. No, I got lunch with, okay. That was for

[00:33:24] Emily: see Jason tomorrow. And I’m so sad because I was supposed to see Jason at the giraffe show and now I’m quarantining and I hope I get to see Jason before he leaves the Pacific Northwest. I sound really whiny.

[00:33:38] I think

[00:33:39] Andrew: if you don’t mask out doors and distance, I think you’d be all right.

[00:33:44] Emily: I know he’s he’s in, he’s in town for a while. I know. Yeah. Let me see what he said. He gave me some sort of like general like vibe of, uh, how long he was going to be around. But,

[00:34:03] Andrew: um, well, so for those of you, wonder who, who we’re talking about, that patriotic

[00:34:07] Emily: supporters,

[00:34:08] Andrew: Jason.

[00:34:10] Jason is, uh, has been long time supporter of the show from pretty early on, on one of

[00:34:14] Emily: the originals. Yeah. Don’t try to cats. Oh, G oh

[00:34:18] Andrew: GJ. No. Yeah. So Jason’s, Jason’s been great. He’s, uh, he’s offered, he’s actually helped me out a little bit on Fox Cairo as well. Um,

[00:34:27] Emily: you mix, he makes good, uh, pick guards. He’s gonna make a pick guard for that’s great.

[00:34:32] It’s

[00:34:32] Andrew: just an all around super helpful, super nice, super friendly guy. He’s very active in the discord server, great person to be friends with. I got the, uh, I had the pleasure of having lunch with him today and it was a really great time. It’s one of those, like, I like kind of looked at my watch, like, oh, I gotta get back to work shoot.

[00:34:47] And they looked at my plate and like I had three bites while we were sitting. Cause I was just having such a good conversation. Uh, we got lunch at, uh, by tongue, so typeface. Nice. Good food. Okay, great. I got red Curry over brown rice. Cause I’m trying to go for more complex carbs if I’m going to have carbs.

[00:35:10] Emily: Yeah, no, I’ve been, um, an even healthier as well. I had spaghetti squash with, uh, since, since this morning, uh, Rick’s been, we’ve been wearing masks in the house and I think he’s going to be hanging out on the guest bed. And also he’s insisting on cooking. Cause I was like with three, spent three hours around somebody who had COVID right.

[00:35:38] So he made, he actually cooked a perfect dinner. He made on spaghetti squash with Turkey. Bolonaise holy mother, you, you pour your Glen. Karen was a lot more whiskey than we did.

[00:35:54] Andrew: So for context, I, I, I came into the podcast with two different drinks, um, when I was finishing up my scotch ale from dinner, and

[00:36:04] Emily: then I also, I love that kind of glass style. It’s the glass side that looks like a can with just the top shaved off.

[00:36:13] Andrew: Yeah. Th this, this glass plastic pug pug plastic pub is a great local, a tap house and an indoor mini golf.

[00:36:23] So we have a couple of the glasses I’m actually lifetime member. Uh, and so Scott gel and following up with a little bit of Ardbeg UDL, scotch, which is phenomenal. And when I say a little bit, I poured a little bit more of a nice hair down. I’m like, well, I’m only drinking two nights a week. And while that’s not like an excuse for me, like to binge, I having a little bit of extra scotch is not necessary.

[00:36:47] Emily: A shot and a beer is a pretty normal drink combination. Yep.

[00:36:53] Andrew: And especially if it’s got, and then scotch, I mean, match made in heaven. So

[00:37:00] Emily: cheers.

[00:37:03] Andrew: I’m gonna, I’m gonna ask a dumb question. What’s in a Tom Collins, a gin drink. So

[00:37:09] Emily: I had, um, my, uh, lavender infused Jen. And so, uh, at band practice the other night, uh, this is the keyboard player makes, uh, she grows dries and rolls her own joints. And she usually puts them in plastic tubes and then sells them, I guess.

[00:37:29] I don’t know, but, um, she did not want to wait for the tubes to come in. So she just decided to be the joint ferry and, uh, she brought the practice and then she made some offhand comment about. Asking if the drummer had to kill in the house either now I’m like, oh, I’ll just put a tequila order or I’ll put a drizzly order and I’ll get us.

[00:37:49] Um, um, she had mentioned Malecki margarita. I’ll just go cut water, uh, tequila, uh, one of our Caritas. So you can get some cut water Margarita’s and I figured I would give her like an approximate for like whatever she gave me, like in value, just like, cause I’m a Midwesterner and I can’t just let somebody give me something without me giving them the same back, but they meet the minimum on drizzly.

[00:38:15] Um, I to add something so that I’m like, I want to get everyone with Amanda Topo, Chico, a whole leader of Tupper Chico, and I still couldn’t meet the minimum, which was a very low minimum. Everything was very cheap from the store on there. So I ordered two Tom Collins mixers, but Tom Collins is basically Jen lemon juice and simple syrup and club soda.

[00:38:35] Andrew: Oh. So it’s like a whiskey sour, but then swap with gin and then over Soto. Or top of soda water.

[00:38:46] Emily: Sure. Interesting. I had a whiskey sour. I’ve had Tom Collins a lot, but I don’t usually do whiskey I’m mixed drinks very much. Uh, in the summer I do with whiskey mixed drinks in the winter. More like I’ll do like, um, uh, uh, toddies, a lot of tardies.

[00:39:08] Um, but yeah, and I’ll make a Tom’s Collins at home a lot because so, so few ingredients. Right, right. But I did, I used the last of our, um, our current batch and we still have a lot of lavender and we’re going to make more lavender infused Jen. So we picked the lavender from my little, um, lavender basket outside and, uh, infuse it with just some, some Kirkland, Jenn, and, uh, let that infuse overnight, which is, uh, we, we kind of grinded up with some sugar.

[00:39:43] Mix it in a, in, um, a Mason jar. And, uh, then we, uh, filter it into, um, one of those half, half. Um, what’s the thing that you put the beer in growler? Yeah, half growler. Yeah,

[00:40:04] Andrew: like a 32 ounce,

[00:40:06] Emily: 32 ounce growler, I think is the term when it’s a, can

[00:40:14] a crowler is a can

[00:40:17] Andrew: Howler

[00:40:19] Emily: Howler. I heard that term, but I believe that term exists. If you are convinced it exists.

[00:40:27] Andrew: I I’m convinced that it exists now. I’m questioning everything. I don’t know. I haven’t drank out a lot in the last year and a

[00:40:35] Emily: half, needless to say, half growler being a Howler. Would make sense.

[00:40:44] I’m seeing them called a howlers. I’m also seeing them called bullets bombers bombers 22 ounce, um, baby growlers, half growlers, 32 ounce growlers and growl lats. So I’ve definitely Googled it and immediately saw the word Howler. So I’m going to go ahead and say that’s acceptable. I have

[00:41:08] Andrew: not lost my marbles.

[00:41:09] I haven’t taken melatonin for sleep lately. And I’ve had a couple of wacky dreams. No, with melatonin. No, like I had a dream last night, but it was like on a late night hike to like a random cabin location on the coast of Australia and then got attacked by dingoes. And then just ended up like staying the night with some random strangers and ended up being like best friends with them.

[00:41:32] They treat me like family is really strange.

[00:41:36] Emily: It was like,

[00:41:38] Andrew: no, no, it was just like one of those like random stranger off the side of the road, then like I just got along famously with them. It was really, really strange. And I think they were having, I don’t know, then I woke up, went to the gym. So should we talk about our

[00:41:54] Emily: topic?

[00:41:55] We had a topic. We do have a topic. Just get to the topic. Just get to the topic episode, the gas that’s podcast. Spawn Kaz.

[00:42:09] Andrew: Hey, sorry. What was that about? My Glencairn glass being a little too far.

[00:42:15] Emily: Andrew, may I talk to you privately? Yeah, I’m so tired and sad.

[00:42:26] I’m so tired. Uh, no. Um, this week’s episode of the get offset podcast is sponsored by Caroline guitar company. Um, they make guitar effects, pedals. Um, my personal favorite truly is the somersault. It is essentially a chorus slash VI Brado pedal. It lives on my main, pedalboard the one I use with my main band Sunday crush.

[00:42:59] I love that pedal. I currently have on my desk randomly, actually three others, Caroline pedals. I have the Hawaiian pizza FAS. I have the blues overdrive, which started as a joke and became real, just like the wine pizza. Actually. There’s a trend there. And then I have the Icarus preamp overdrive. Oh God, that’s on.

[00:43:22] I should have turned that off. Uh, yeah, that’d be a great title.

[00:43:26] Andrew: Great pedals and great

[00:43:28] Emily: people too. And Philippe and I are, uh, cooking up some fun stuff. Not that are not, that does not involve pedals

[00:43:36] Andrew: cooking. You say,

[00:43:39] Emily: well, somebody’s cooking up something, but we’re kind of passive, passively involved in it.

[00:43:46] Andrew: Um, well, I don’t have an elegant transition to our topic after that. Um,

[00:43:52] Emily: usually that’s my job, but I forgot what the topic is.

[00:43:56] Andrew: Uh, so I don’t have an elegant transition. I’m just going to jump right into it. Uh, there’s been a topic that’s been brought to the forefront of the gear industry in the last week or so I think it was earlier this week.

[00:44:09] Um, and it was because Lawler pickups made a post and their post was, um, lengthy and well-written, uh, I’m going to condense it very crudely. Uh, it was an announced that they’re changing the name of a popular set of their pickups. Uh, and the set of pickups was originally that they had named it black, black face, and black faces a reference to the fender amps from, uh, the mid sixties.

[00:44:36] Um, so like 1965, it was like the classic black face here. Uh, and that’s, it’s a term within the gear community that’s been used. Understood. It just, that’s a fender blackface, amp. We all know what that is. We just understand that that’s what we’re referring to. And while they’re sick came out and said, Hey, you know what?

[00:44:52] We’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. And we don’t think that this is really appropriate. And whereas we understand that no one inside the community means this maliciously, maybe people outside of the community or in the edges of the community, you might hear that and be like, what? Uh, and the follow-up to that, um, is even people in the community might not be particularly comfortable with that.

[00:45:13] And understandably so,

[00:45:15] Emily: or like, I mean, that let’s be real. It’s a little niche, like even within the community, like you hear those terms, but you don’t always know what they mean.

[00:45:29] Andrew: Yeah. It’s it’s I remember like hearing someone refer to like, excuse me. Um, I think when I was working at guitar centers, when I heard it for the first time and I was like, oh, okay.

[00:45:40] And I kinda just like moved on, accepted it for the term that it wasn’t. And since that I admit, like, I I’ve had like kind of a growing, like, do I want to say something about it? Like, is this gonna, and um, yeah, like I I’ve been uncomfortable with it for awhile, but I admittedly haven’t had the, the, uh,

[00:46:01] Emily: chutzpah,

[00:46:02] Andrew: the sure.

[00:46:06] I haven’t had the pizazz, the, the, the, the, the desire to like really step out that little bit further about, Hey guys, are we really okay with this? Uh, With that said I wanted, I mean, that’s really betraying how I feel that I don’t think I was ever terribly comfortable with use of, uh, black faces, a term with fender amps and then brown face is another one.

[00:46:25] Um, for fender answers, well, for a different era, it was never really particularly happy with the usage of those two terms. And I shamefully admit that I just didn’t say anything about that. And so I thought that said huge. Thank you to Lawler for being the one, one of the ones who’d be like, Hey guys, uh, uh, no, we’re, we’re done.

[00:46:47] Emily: Yeah. I think that just the response has made it kind of clear that with like a lot of things. Cause I think last week we talked about how, in terms of venues saying you have to be like vaccinate and wear a mask. Like just nobody really wanted to be the first. And then when someone was the first, a lot of people jumped on board, I think with.

[00:47:06] Nobody wants to be the first. And now that Lawler has been the first they’ve gone and, you know, a largely warm support. I mean, don’t, don’t read the guitar world comments, obviously. Um, I think, I think other brands and people follow suit. I mean, Steve salvage from the whole, our friend, Steve, uh, selves from the hold steady, our friend, Mike Adams, pushing for making my guitar bar has similar thoughts.

[00:47:31] Andrew: And I believe they’d already changed their terminology. They they’d

[00:47:35] Emily: been calling them, uh, plates instead of face. So brown plate

[00:47:38] Andrew: black plate, because it’s literally the plate I would grab my aunt. It’s literally like the control plate right at the front.

[00:47:44] Emily: Right. And I will be honest in that though. I had heard the term face.

[00:47:52] I just hadn’t really thought about it. I’m not an amp guy per se, like amps are not like my forte, so it’s not like terminology. I’d been around a lot. Um, and I’m kind of embarrassed to say I hadn’t given it as much thought as I should have. And so when I saw all or announced that I, my thought was, oh yeah, of course.

[00:48:20] Yeah, sure. Yeah. That was I. Yes, obviously. And like college coming by the year is I feel like significantly less confusing. Sure. I feel like that, that, that, that exudes more clarity. Um, just in general, I think that’s obviously the plate color is a visual indicator. Um, but as far as guitars and musicians are concerned, um, your number of gear is an extremely common way to, um, You know, uh, uh, Quan qualify something.

[00:49:04] So I don’t think it should not be controversial for the guitar gear community to change something from being black plates or face to the year, because we talk about guitar gear by year, uh, frequently. And we talk about color a lot. Yes, sure. We talk about, um, boss pedals by their, um, What’s the color delegation with in silver shows?

[00:49:37] Yes,

[00:49:38] Andrew: no, I mean, I think, I think color’s fairy. Think, I

[00:49:41] Emily: actually think it is typically fair, but I mean, blackface does have that unfortunate and unintended racial connotation and that’s unintended is unfortunate. And though it’s not on purpose, we cannot pretend that does not have that just discomfort. And really literally what’s the harm in changing it.

[00:50:06] Andrew: Oh, there’s no harm. Uh, other than just people sitting in the, the cab of their truck that they don’t use for hauling anything with sunglasses on taking a selfie and ranting. Uh, yeah, no, I mean, I don’t think

[00:50:22] Emily: there’s any harm we know who does that, Andrew?

[00:50:26] Andrew: Uh, I’m pretty sure middle-class fancy makes fun of them frequently.

[00:50:32] I actually, I think I’m okay with like brown plate black plate. And I think it’s okay to refer to like a particular area because we’re in this particular instance, we’re not talking like one standout year. I mean, 65 has been like the, the black plate hallmark of like, this is like the holy grail year for that.

[00:50:47] But there’s multiple years there. Same with silver face, a silver plate, uh, brown plate. Um, then there’s the blinds, the tweeds. I mean, there’s, there’s a range, there’s a couple of different areas. And then when we talk about like, with vendors, kinda like pre CBS era, CBS era, um, Gibsons, we’re talking like, is it new Orleans era?

[00:51:06] I mean, there’s, there’s like areas in like groupings of years as well. It’s also very common in terms of notating the origins of a particular piece of gear, giving it a ballpark. So I think it’s fair. The, the one wondering that I have and one that I probably shouldn’t be doing live on the air, but I’m going to do anyways.

[00:51:26] I would like to assume that that wasn’t ever a racially charged thing with the way that that phrase was used with amps. But I, I, there’s also that part of me, that’s like been surprised at a number of things there’s, as I’ve continued to learn and be educated on things, uh, outside of the scope of what I would have, what I’ve learned in my experiences as a, as a white guy is I want to know more.

[00:51:56] Emily: Why did somebody start calling it that

[00:51:59] Andrew: it was the first one to start calling out? When did it start? Did that start getting popular? And was that just kind of a careless it’s a blackface amp. I don’t

[00:52:09] Emily: know. Yeah. Like, oh, like with somebody like, oh, like Al Jolson more black blackface in the jazz scene, like that kind of thing, or it wasn’t, or it was like the face of the amp is black.

[00:52:19] So we’re going to call it black because the face yeah. That’s a fair question. I mean, that is legitimately a fair question because you know, there is like the, the, there is like, like the, the, the, the question about a lot of word origins, like there are a lot of word origins that there’s some, some word origins that are like, they’re, they’re urban legends about whether or not they’re like bad.

[00:52:45] Like there’s the, there’s the urban legend. Like the, the rule of thumb is that you can only beat your wife with like a stick that was the width of your thumb. That’s not actually true, but there are other examples that are true, that are equally horrifying. Right. So, um, I get that concern and I appreciate it.

[00:53:06] Andrew: I don’t think I’ve seen anybody like actual look into it. I’d be curious if the folks at fender no. It within like their own internal Lorne history. If they’ve got a definitive answer to that, I really don’t know. What I do know is while I am wondering that out loud, I am fairly confident that that’s not an issue within fender currently.

[00:53:28] And by no means is that like, I’m not going to call that out as like a fenders, a whole bunch of races. Like, I really don’t think that’s the case. Um, I would be curious to see if fender has like followed in like kind of giving their 2 cents on it. Um, and, or, and or if is going to start changing their terminology to black panel brown panel, um, for reading,

[00:53:51] Emily: that’s a great question.

[00:53:52] As the word blackface appears 52 times on the vendor website.

[00:54:00] Andrew: I think it would be really neat to see fender kind of pivot on that and say, Hey guys, we’re going to actually piggyback on this and agree. That’s probably time for us to change this. And we’re going to go through and change the way that our marketing refers to this era of amplifiers.

[00:54:14] Yeah. So I mean, black

[00:54:17] Emily: plate now.

[00:54:22] Andrew: No, if someone defender is listening, I mean, we’d love for you to, uh, to, to pitch that upwards and, uh, put that in front of whatever marketing marketing executive you need to, to make that, make that happen. Get buy off on that

[00:54:36] Emily: is trademark the word black face.

[00:54:39] Andrew: Interesting.

[00:54:42] Emily: Yeah.

[00:54:45] Andrew: Interesting. I mean,

[00:54:48] Emily: well, well actually there’s a train. Symbol next to one of the appearances. So I’m actually not

[00:54:56] Andrew: sure about that. T M or is it the R with the circle?

[00:55:00] Emily: This Tim. Cause I know where the circle is a copyright. Don’t talk to me about copyright law.

[00:55:09] Andrew: Well, the are the circles for registered trademark, I thought.

[00:55:11] And the TM is just for trademark. We don’t have to have it registered to claim it is that you’re just saying, Hey, we’re just going to act like it is a trademark

[00:55:21] Emily: one. That’s registered indeed. Um, let’s see,

[00:55:27] Andrew: uh, either way, like regardless of whether or not they’ve put like the money into getting it registered and claimed, uh, I, I don’t, they, it doesn’t cost that much to get a registered trademark.

[00:55:40] Emily: How much does it cost

[00:55:41] Andrew: and true. Depends on who your lawyer is and what they do.

[00:55:45] But because it does go through the patent office. I mean, you could do it yourself, but that’s a lot of time and energy when you could just hire someone to do it for you. But I mean, no more than a couple of grand to register a trademark is kind of the ballpark figure. I’m aware of

[00:55:59] Emily: vintage black face electronic sound for pickup guitar and bases de Jasmine for the Lawler actually owns the trademark for vintage blackface.

[00:56:18] Andrew: Wow. I kind of love there’s the one coming on saying we’re done with this, then it fender has any sort of trademark or IP around that. I don’t think it’d be much different for them to in and move on.

[00:56:36] Emily: I don’t know why that kind of makes me laugh at someone at Lawler has vintage black face as there. Jeez. I don’t.

[00:56:50] I mean, I wouldn’t, so fender doesn’t have it as a registered trademark.

[00:56:55] Andrew: All the more reason lead the chain, Lee Lee help lead the charge in that is kind of what if someone from Fender’s listening? I mean, I see this as a no brainer and fenders

[00:57:09] Emily: position. Nobody wants to trademark silver face dibs, nothing for brown face.

[00:57:19] Andrew: I mean the black plate era was by, I think by far is like the holy grail quote, unquote of like that, that vintage fender sound. Um,

[00:57:30] Emily: well, black plates trademark in 2019 for components for audio devices receiving tubes, vacuum tubes, reverberation unit. By Douglas McAllister for tube amp doctor in Germany.

[00:57:51] Interesting. So someone’s maybe all or wanted to change it to black plate, but it was already trademarked close enough, but not like, this is obviously not that’s right. Maybe they felt so close. So they change it to 64, which is you can’t, I don’t know if you can trademark a year like that.

[00:58:14] Andrew: Maybe it’s not necessarily just a year and just more of a number that goes with the trademark.

[00:58:19] All kinds of the alphabet soup can put together for it. Yeah.

[00:58:22] Emily: Black plates trademark 9 64. Yeah.

[00:58:25] Andrew: It’s not like fender had a trademark of blackface anyway. So they’re not relying on that IP claim.

[00:58:30] Emily: I mean, that’s, that’d be, that’s going to be honest. That’s not a great thing, trademark, not a great. American history or to trademark

[00:58:42] Andrew: American history.

[00:58:43] Now, like I recognize that like a lot of people feel like that this is been just like a, this is how we talk about amps and it’s not meant maliciously whatsoever. Like I agree with you. I’m just saying, I don’t think anybody had malice in their hearts. It just more of one of those, like now that we’ve all a chance to think this through a little bit more.

[00:59:00] It’s like, well, yeah, there’s really no reason to not update

[00:59:04] Emily: that of data. Yeah. I mean, it’s just like, sometimes you just got to update things to kind of get with the times and you have to, it’s fine. Nothing’s changing. Nothing’s changing about how the pickups are. I mean, it’s just the name on the back.

[00:59:20] Like what’s written in like white on the back of the pickup is changing. What’s called the website is changing and nothing else is changing. And if you’re that mad about what something is called and you need to, re-evaluate some stuff.

[00:59:36] Andrew: Therapy, um, healthy. And I’m not even meaning that sarcastically.

[00:59:41] That’s just a legitimate, like, no, like you should see someone about that. Um,

[00:59:46] Emily: yeah, that’s just like, it’s not okay. Like if you’re that upset about something that’s really so minor, it’s like, I’m more okay with somebody getting like that upset about changing the formula of Coca-Cola that seems more justified.

[01:00:06] Then like changing the name of Coca Cola.

[01:00:10] Andrew: Are they going to put cocaine back in it? Cause then I’m not going to

[01:00:12] Emily: complain. And they just changed the formula every once in a while so they can change it back and then he’ll be like, oh yes, this is what’s the original. Yes. Oh yes. This is just pump it directly into my veins.

[01:00:24] Right.

[01:00:30] Andrew: Yup. Yup. Yup, yup. Yup. So anyways, um, thank you Lawler for, for leading the charge in that. And I’ve seen other content creators kind of jump in and, uh, and that 2 cents I saw Mike Adams just posted a video on it. Go watch that ignores

[01:00:46] Emily: west neighbors.

[01:00:48] Andrew: I feel so good to say, uh, our

[01:00:52] Emily: neighbors, our neighbors.

[01:00:55] You’re

[01:00:55] Andrew: you’re uh, yeah, I mean, it’s good to see other content creators jumping in on this. It was great to see the comment section on that with all the positive comments on the Instagram post. I didn’t want to not say anything though. Cause I think this is worth something like every content grader in this, in this industry, I think should be saying something about it.

[01:01:14] And I just wanted to be one more voice.

[01:01:17] Emily: I’m sorry.

[01:01:20] Andrew: I understand that from a, from a content exclusivity, want to try to drive more traffic to our channel?

[01:01:27] Emily: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What did I do wrong? No, it’s just like, it’s just like, I don’t want to even say it, but like when the whole thing was about like the, the, this video contains paid for motion thing and then that whole thing where like every content creator should, should, should be very clear when it was sent to the, for free.

[01:01:53] There was that conversation. It was just ended up being mayor for every single content creator. When we’re even when you were buying something. Did you hit send this for free? Did you get paid? You can’t be trusted. Like, damn then don’t wash my shit. If you don’t trust me, I don’t care.

[01:02:13] Andrew: Stop voting for people cause they all get paid to tell you things.

[01:02:17] Emily: Um, um, but speaking of content creation, did you see that my cloud titty guitar video got, has 8,200 views? No, I

[01:02:27] Andrew: didn’t see that. That’s amazing.

[01:02:31] Emily: It’s at 8,279 views, 134 comments. The most controversial thing I’ve ever done in my life is refinished. This guitar.

[01:02:43] Andrew: That’s amazing. I feel like of all the things that you do, like I couldn’t pick any one thing that we’ve done the show that’s like more controversial, but I’m also kind of like.

[01:02:56] It’s just getting your guitar refinished, but people have strong opinions. And

[01:03:00] Emily: I think I kind of get, cause it’s, cause it’s so ridiculous. I’m sure like somebody kind of people kind of are like, I wish that the person who would buy this would like want it for what it is, but I’m like, man, most popular city in the world to buy a guitar has to be Nashville.

[01:03:17] Like it has to be one of the most popular cities in the world. Like go there for the explicit purpose of buying guitar. Right, right.

[01:03:25] Andrew: One guitar bring home. That’s your souvenir.

[01:03:29] Emily: And Carter vintage is one of the most trafficked guitar shops in Nashville. If not the whole world, this one was sitting on that floor for three year.

[01:03:41] Andrew: Maybe they assumed it wasn’t for sale. It’s kind of like when you go into like a restaurant and there’s something on the wall that’s like just for,

[01:03:47] Emily: and it was on there and it was on the website. I, I talked to two people who were like, It has been there for so long. You can get that for a song. And I don’t know if I got for like their definition of a song, but like I definitely got it for less than cheap.

[01:04:07] Nope. A B a Parsons V vendor H cheap. That is true. Like it’s, it’s, it’s more, it’s more to get a, B bender installed new. I paid for that guitar is all I’m saying, like, I got a great deal on that guitar. I really got a great deal on that guitar. I bought that guitar for the hardware. Did you see, did you watch the video?

[01:04:33] I did about, like, I think I don’t actually, I don’t think I posted it, but I sent this to Sean from Bergen street. Cause I might have, I might do some upgrade wiring, the pickups aren’t actually soldered together. They’re not like soldered to any, they’re not soldered to the twisted out or something they’re twisted on.

[01:04:55] And there’s little calf that kind of like shoved it into,

[01:04:59] Andrew: ah,

[01:05:01] Emily: no, I’m not kidding. They’re just kinda like shoved into a cap then. Like the one, like one of the two things it’s like actually started together and like taped and it’s like kind of haphazardly taped together. It’s like the biggest, like coldest bulb of solder I’ve ever seen.

[01:05:18] Like, I can’t believe this was far worse. Like you were taking part a guitar and you’re like, this works.

[01:05:26] Andrew: I have done that before I look at my solder legis left in the cabinet.

[01:05:34] Emily: It’s just like rattling around in there. Like you just shake it. Like she took

[01:05:40] Andrew: solder iron burn

[01:05:42] Emily: marks. I am like, there are pieces missing from like the input Jack.

[01:05:47] This GMLs have really weird, like really weird input jacks. Like I’m a little worried about putting it back together, but, uh, yeah, man, it has a weird guitar. It was, that’s a weird, fucking weird, uh, yeah, so like I

[01:06:06] Andrew: took the thing. It’s weird though.

[01:06:10] Emily: How, oh, how’s it getting lost? I’m going to make it less weird.

[01:06:15] Yeah. It’s like, I didn’t think that thing could get more weird when I was taking it apart and somehow it did. I don’t know why I thought it would be less weird on the inside.

[01:06:29] Andrew: If someone went through that much effort to finish it, the way that it was finished. You would think they’d go through like the extra 10 minutes of like making sure the insides look decent.

[01:06:39] It

[01:06:39] Emily: doesn’t take that long to just solder it. It probably took longer to make sure those caps got on it. Like actually then it would take into like, sorry, like I don’t,

[01:06:53] Andrew: this just makes me wonder, like, who did this? Like, can we interview them? I want to know.

[01:06:59] Emily: I want to meet this human so badly.

[01:07:02] Andrew: I want like imagining like a late middle age electrician that

[01:07:10] Emily: electrician, the shit, dude.

[01:07:16] Andrew: No,

[01:07:18] Emily: no, no. They would have Saturday. This was not, this was not somebody with a soldering iron. This is not. Yeah. No, this is not, electrician is not a, this is not general contractor that anyone should hire. Maybe it wasn’t general contractor. Maybe it was, it was the guy who detailed my car, who only charged me 250 bucks cash.

[01:07:42] Did he, did he did the job? He certainly did. The job definitely charged me like 400 times less than like the other lowest quote did the job. Deadly went out of business a year later. I love that guy. So sassy went out of business

[01:08:01] Andrew: or he just finished laundering all his money.

[01:08:04] Emily: You know, I don’t care what business.

[01:08:07] Listen here. What he did, he saved me $750 when I was 22 years old. I love him.

[01:08:24] Andrew: Fair enough. Uh, I mean, if that’s where your standards are.

[01:08:27] Emily: Um, well, I was 22. Yeah. $750. Save was my standard. That was my standard. When I was 22 years old. What were your standards when you were 22 paying a thousand dollars to paint four panels on your car or paying $250 to paint four panels on your car?

[01:08:45] Andrew: Um, you’re assuming I had that much because I was married with it with a small child between two

[01:08:51] Emily: salaries. No. Yeah. I barely had $250. I sure shit didn’t have a thousand.

[01:09:04] Andrew: Fair enough.

[01:09:05] Emily: Fair enough. Why do you think I ran a blog in Nashville called Nashville for free.com? It’s not because I made money. It’s not because I had money it’s because I did not. I wanted to know what was free. So I started a blog about free stuff and figured out what was free.

[01:09:31] Cause when you start a blog about free things and your city people send you tips about free things in your city, it’s pretty.

[01:09:38] Andrew: And now we just have a really sketchy Craigslist, free it ad section

[01:09:44] Emily: that always existed. And that was actually, um, a recurring, um, thing on the, uh, national free.com. My friend Michelle would do, uh, every once in a while.

[01:09:56] Just a whole list of the funniest free. So

[01:10:01] Andrew: that was definitely a sort of thing. Like, cause I went to college in LA, we, me and my buddy, he was,

[01:10:10] I mean, I’m sure you already know where this is going. We just go through like the free listings. And it was just combination of like, oh, let’s just STIG. And the next we be like, oh actually I kind of want that. Hey, are you too drunk to drive right now? Let’s go. And that was pretty much that, that was like a Thursday night.

[01:10:27] In a

[01:10:27] Emily: nutshell, Seattle, we have the buy nothing group. So there’s, wasn’t really as much need of it here. I haven’t

[01:10:33] Andrew: touched Craigslist since I haven’t even looked at Craigslist since I bought my base, which is over here. Cause that was a Craigslist buy. That was the last time I’ve even like looked at Craigslist.

[01:10:46] Emily: What did your Jennings do that? It’s in the corner this week?

[01:10:50] Andrew: Absolutely. I think I just wanted to see if you would notice.

[01:10:54] Emily: I did.

[01:10:57] Andrew: This is week five, that I’ve been doing this with various

[01:10:59] Emily: guitars. Now you’ve been doing this for a long time. You just don’t do it. Okay.

[01:11:07] Andrew: I’m totally kidding. I have not taken a break.

[01:11:09] Um, for, I did take a break. I, uh, this is the first week back doing it.

[01:11:13] Emily: Oh, okay.

[01:11:16] Andrew: But there’s a part of me that kind of hopes that somebody just wait, wait, what paused it. And like, what’s are the thumbnails. And last five weeks, what I like tricking people. It’s what I do. Yeah,

[01:11:33] I do. It’s entertaining. What can I say is,

[01:11:36] Emily: uh, it is, is it,

[01:11:42] Andrew: well, I don’t have anything else really to add to the subject matter at hand, other than wondering now, like, should we reach out to offender and say, Hey guys, notice.

[01:11:56] Emily: I’m sure. They’ve noticed, dude,

[01:12:00] Andrew: that’s all dance hall.

[01:12:02] Emily: Do you want to, to Andy, Andy Mooney, we’ll do her podcast again.

[01:12:11] I don’t know. They might give us a quote.

[01:12:15] Andrew: They’re pretty good with that. I mean, they did, uh, they, they gave me some really great material for the, uh, for the article that I wrote with Matt Dunn for ultimate guitar, some really great interview material.

[01:12:27] Emily: Oh no, they’re so great with quotes. Like sincerely, they are very, very generous with that.

[01:12:34] I think they do a lot of things. Great. Um, yeah. So all I can say is, um, now my next show is, uh, August 8th at Connor burn, wear a mask and get Vaxxed deltas, no joke. Um, I’ll be. Uh, again, Mike guitars was with a group of people the other weekend, and he’s the only one that got sick, uh, that we know of. Um, I don’t have my results back, so please everybody hope I don’t get sick

[01:13:07] Andrew: indeed.

[01:13:08] Oh, also on that note, um, if someone tries to tell you something about the ligament variant, it’s a trap, don’t fall for it. It’s just one massive joke.

[01:13:27] I’m actually trying to help people now, like before a minute ago, I was trying to see people now I’m actually trying to help you save you from the, from deception.

[01:13:35] Emily: Are you talking about Lambda?

[01:13:37] Andrew: No Ligia. Okay. So this is a really dumb thing. When I was in middle school, it was like really popular. So you know what I’m talking about?

[01:13:47] Yeah.

[01:13:48] Emily: No, I don’t, I don’t like super duper care. I know that land does the next letter in the Greek alphabet as a variable. I did see, I did see revenge of the nerds and I do know they, they all pledged the land, the land, the land was because it was the only fraternity that didn’t require a picture. And also that movie is, did not age well.

[01:14:10] So I don’t recommend watching it, ah,

[01:14:17] Andrew: pertinent information. If someone says, have you heard of the Sigma variant? Don’t, don’t fall for it. Don’t even just stare at them and blink, and then they’ll be like, are you fine? You know, even if you don’t know, and if you would like to know do so at your own risk NSFW, but check it out if you so desire.

[01:14:32] And with that, thank you for listening.

[01:14:39] Emily: Thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. Thanks for trying to understand this guy.

[01:14:45] Andrew: Thank you for gracefully understanding.

[01:14:48] Emily: Um, Emily, I don’t, um, I try real hard and

[01:14:54] Andrew: I’m Andrew,

[01:14:56] Emily: uh, vote, vote, vote on who you think makes the better barbecue.

[01:15:02] Andrew: Oh, all right.

[01:15:05] Emily: Bye. Bye.