Get Offset Episode 153: Carving Out Time

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[00:00:00] Emily: Oh, we’re recording. Oh, sorry. I thought you wanted to get started and get it over with

[00:00:06] Andrew: let’s do that. All right.

[00:00:29] Emily: God, the way that it is, but welcome to the get offset podcast. My name is Emily

[00:00:37] Andrew: and my name is

[00:00:38] Emily: Andrew. And that was, that was a first that intro started real slow and love. And just like someone in panics would make an, a pulled pork, cranked it up at the end.

[00:00:53] Andrew: So the funny thing is, is it didn’t do that for me, so,

[00:00:56] Emily: oh, really normal on my end.

[00:01:00] It’s our burner burner that Dan, and

[00:01:07] I wonder how it’s going to S it’s probably gonna sound fine. So I’ve just embarrassed myself. No, one’s going to know what happened. The thing is, oh God, whatever.

[00:01:16] Andrew: No, the look of shame that was on my face is completely unrelated, but that’s all right.

[00:01:21] Emily: Okay. All

[00:01:22] Andrew: right. That was just me realizing I was hitting one of those things like.

[00:01:26] I want to keep the story short and then I just keep talking and then I didn’t even realize that you had started recording and I’m like, ah,

[00:01:32] Emily: yeah, yeah. I’m going back to over fess. We’re recording this October Fest weekend. It is the weekend of the October fests. Well, this is the weekend that October Fest are supposed to be some places polices will inevitably have their October fests in October.

[00:01:49] Andrew: Um,

[00:01:50] Emily: Uber. Yeah, it makes sense per the name, but not for the

[00:01:54] Andrew: tradition, right? Um, yep. No, I’m going to go later this afternoon to the one Fremont and very excited and joining the buddy. Uh, yeah, I’ve already, pre-purchased 10 tasting.

[00:02:07] Emily: I’m so sorry to tell you this, but I, um, had drinks last night with somebody who worked at the Oktoberfest and he offered me tasting tokens and Rick and I weren’t going to go because I have to write an article today.

[00:02:22] And, uh, so we said no, so I could’ve saved some money there.

[00:02:29] Andrew: It’s not that expensive to get in the door. Yes,

[00:02:32] Emily: it is. It’s it’s like 40 bucks.

[00:02:36] Andrew: But that’s with that, that comes with tasting tokens.

[00:02:39] Emily: Well, it would have been 25 to get in the door and then I could have given you the 10 tokens

[00:02:43] Andrew: fair that’s would have saved me 15 bucks.

[00:02:47] Emily: Yeah, no, it’s um, I went one year. It’s not, it’s fine.

[00:02:54] Andrew: I’m not expecting you to be like anything. Like what I experience when I was in Germany.

[00:02:58] Emily: Oh no, it’s not. And there’s nothing like what I experienced since Cincinnati it’s a beer tastes. Yep.

[00:03:06] Andrew: But I’ve always wondered to do one of those, like where all the breweries show up and like, that sounds really exciting.

[00:03:12] Um, yeah, like probably since before I was of drinking age, I was just fascinated with that. But, um, but yeah, it’s, it’s not going to be dramatic. I know that it’s at least it’s not going to Schrade that it, it, that it is like Leavenworth does, but

[00:03:29] Emily: I mean, it calls itself October bus.

[00:03:34] Andrew: That’s been torn apart and just hacked

[00:03:37] Emily: and that’s fine. Yeah. I mean, I remember living in Nashville and they tried to make their Oktoberfest like actually like an Oktoberfest and I respected it, but even then I was like, this ain’t the same. No, uh, since Cincinnati Oktoberfest, you know,

[00:03:52] Andrew: it’s like a, it’s like the whole like, mama, can we get X?

[00:03:56] And it’s like, I can go to Disney world. And he’s like, no, we got Disney world at home. Like the Disney world at home is like just downtown Disney.

[00:04:03] Emily: No. I got to say it’s fun, but

[00:04:07] Andrew: it’s not Disney

[00:04:08] Emily: world. No, no. It’s just the wish dot or it’s like the wish.com version of something, right? Like, uh, there’s. I will know.

[00:04:22] I’ve seen this meme so many times. It’s like Mel Gibson and then the mill gives some you have at home and it just looks. Or mail, it smelled chips in it’s Mel Gibson and nail chips. And that’s why I sent you a lot. And it’s just like some off-brand looking Mel Gibson type character.

[00:04:38] Andrew: Yeah. Right. I just, if it’s, if I go to sit down like at a beer garden, there’s not like eighties synth, polka and pop playing.

[00:04:49] Um, it’s not authentic. I mean, that’s just every beer garden you go to Jeremy. It just that’s what they.

[00:04:56] Emily: Oh, in Cincinnati, the life polka band.

[00:04:59] Andrew: Nice. All right. All right. Well, that’s all like an

[00:05:02] Emily: actual, actual, actual tuba. Now I’ll be in Cincinnati, uh, October 7th through 12th. So we got to figure out how we’re going to hit.

[00:05:11] Uh, that weekend of recording.

[00:05:14] Andrew: Very fine. Well, a couple weeks after that, I’m going to be in a Wisconsin

[00:05:19] Emily: Skansen. Yeah. That’s going to be a Midwestern fall.

[00:05:23] Andrew: Yup. But I mean, it’s already fall here, so I hyped. Yeah. You

[00:05:28] Emily: look cold as hell. I’m wearing my, for those who aren’t watching, Andrew’s wearing a jacket and his string boy hat is actually quite, quite matching.

[00:05:39] It’s a cardigan. Alright. I’m also wearing a card again. Uh, people on the, the channel called us my groovy sweater. My Lebowski sweater is what I

[00:05:50] Andrew: call it. Um, I just call this like my comfy sweater. This is like the, I want to lounge at home, but I’m too proud to wear a hoodie kind of sweater, even though that’s not true.

[00:06:02] I wear hoodies all.

[00:06:04] Emily: Yeah, this is like, I want to wear something moderately nicer on like a client call or. But now it’s just all torn up and like kind of fraying at the edges. And I want to be honest, little stinky

[00:06:19] Andrew: getting that Seattle grunge flavor.

[00:06:22] Emily: I dunno. I don’t know how to wash this.

[00:06:27] Andrew: There it is.

[00:06:29] Emily: I don’t know what the care instructions are.

[00:06:32] There were no tags. You can see where the tags were torn

[00:06:35] Andrew: out. Is it the same care instructions is Levi’s. You’re not supposed to wash them. You’re supposed to put them in the freezer for like a couple hours every month. Yeah. But I

[00:06:45] Emily: was a word like that’s, that’s how that’s like the general raw denim care instruction.

[00:06:50] And that doesn’t really work. That’s what I’m a Gina Willie recommends too. And it’s just, it’s bullshit. It’s bullshit. It’s all bullshit.

[00:07:00] Andrew: It’s the sort of thing. I’m sure it doesn’t smell, but it’s still like, there’s almost enough like oil in that pair of denim jeans for the U S to invade. Oh, God, no amount of, until that gets washed.

[00:07:13] It’s just going to be that way for either just not going to help

[00:07:15] Emily: that. All right. Can I just talk about my what’s new? Can I just pivot?

[00:07:23] I got, oh, they’re a player plus national Telecaster and my demo is already up. It launched on launch day. Like it was supposed to.

[00:07:39] Andrew: What’s the official name for that color? Cause I just want to call it coral

[00:07:45] Emily: aged candy, apple red. Yeah.

[00:07:52] Andrew: That’s a nice color. I’m not going to lie. I like

[00:07:53] Emily: that. I like it. I like it a lot.

[00:07:55] And I really liked the national style Telecaster. I’ve never had one. Um, but you can get some more Strat tones, but uh, with the push pull pot. Has as three pickups. Yup. Um, just like a tele, just like a Stratocaster with a push pull pots in the one to position. You can still get that neck pickup so you can still get the neck in bridge.

[00:08:18] Um, there’s like a traditional Telecaster, so you’re not really losing anything.

[00:08:26] Andrew: Well, there you go. Yeah, it’s pretty.

[00:08:28] Emily: Yeah. It’s got a noiseless pickups, which I’m sure will be quite controversial. I think they kind of already are. People said that the first thing they would do would swap, swap out, then pick ups, having not played them at all, which is always a silly thing to say.

[00:08:42] I find, I find them quite responsive and I really liked them. I mean,

[00:08:48] Andrew: In terms of like public, like people just dislike a particular product from a manufacturer like, um, or guitar features like Gibson was the, the automatic tuners and for vendor, it was the noiseless pickups for whatever reason and threes, people just hated.

[00:09:02] And I don’t think people realize that they’ve just continued to improve them and that just leave it as is, or fender has re um, I should say, not Gibson, but.

[00:09:15] Emily: Yeah, I, I like, I liked them. I, I think they have, I think they really capture a good twing. I I’ve been playing, I’ve been playing this guitar all weekend.

[00:09:24] Um, I really liked the neck on it. I say it’s comparable to my American pro two series neck, which is like four or $500 more expensive, um, of a guitar it’s made in Mexico. But I mean, I know some people will fufu. Uh, $1,000 guitar made in Mexico just for that reason alone, but I don’t see any car. Wouldn’t be a thousand bucks.

[00:09:49] Andrew: I said, welcome to the economy. And then I regretted saying that because I could have said to quote bill Clinton, it’s the economy stupid.

[00:09:58] Emily: Okay. No, it has a, the rolled, um, Fred edges, which is really nice and locking tutors. Um, yeah, I think it’s over. A really handsome guitar, some really unique finishes. I like, and some I don’t, but some people really like those, um, like tequila, sunrise, things, those, uh, those fades.

[00:10:25] Horizontal or vertical

[00:10:26] Andrew: phase. You smell the rent. A Dean.

[00:10:30] Emily: Yeah. I didn’t, you know, that’s not my favorite look, but Hey, it works for somebody,

[00:10:35] Andrew: right. Hey look, I’m just glad that they’re putting more orange on guitars.

[00:10:39] Emily: I know you are. I liked Ryan. Burke’s green Strat.

[00:10:45] Andrew: I don’t actually know if I saw that

[00:10:47] Emily: one.

[00:10:47] Yeah. It’s like, I’m shiny. It’s like a. Not a big metal flake, but it’s a, a glittery darker green, and then like Yvette Young’s signature guitar. But, uh,

[00:11:04] Andrew: it was

[00:11:05] Emily: great. Yeah. This is like a slightly darker green and I really liked that. Yeah, I think he did. He told me he had originally wanted the Pearl white, but I don’t think it was going to be ready in time for launch.

[00:11:17] So

[00:11:18] Andrew: Pearl, it’s a great finish, although. Uh, Olympic white with a tort red tort is just so classic, but yeah.

[00:11:31] Emily: Yeah. But uh, now you can see behind me, I have my little family of Jazzmasters.

[00:11:38] Andrew: Indeed looks good.

[00:11:41] Emily: Feels good. And then my weird Mustang Bronco hybrid, right. I should put the offset tele up there instead of the, uh,

[00:11:52] Andrew: Mustangs, like I’m still part of the family.

[00:11:54] Come on guys.

[00:11:57] Emily: Just hanging out, just hanging out up here. Thanks

[00:12:00] Andrew: for noticing. We’ve all got seen dad come on.

[00:12:04] Emily: This Leo. Yeah. I’m just a part part of it. Yeah. I’m really happy. You already have so very happy with. Which is good, cause I’d only had it for a week, maybe about nine days. Was it the story of a girl?

[00:12:30] Andrew: It sounds like you’ve officially made it in life. That’s what that tells me. Um, uh, speaking of, uh, white whales in the sense of gear, that’s just difficult to pin down. What was that for a transition?

[00:12:48] Emily: Yeah. That’s help. Tell me what’s new for you, dude. What’s new in gear world for you.

[00:12:54] Andrew: Oh God. Um, I don’t want to tell this story.

[00:12:58] I’m so embarrassed. Um, no, I’m going to do it though.

[00:13:02] Emily: What

[00:13:02] Andrew: happened? I need to own my mistakes. Uh, so I, it has been continuing. Clean my office space and unpack it because I moved office spaces my house months ago. And it’s just been like a box at a time and I boxed a time. And then like I had everything in my office.

[00:13:23] It was like two thirds of the way through it. And then I took all the boxes out and then rearranged and rearranged like eight different times until I got the room layout to feel. Right. Uh, and now I’m just rearranging back into it kind of got to the point where like, if I’m going to unpack all these boxes, if I need to know that it’s going to stay.

[00:13:40] And so, and it was, I, I I’m happy with my room layout now. I don’t think it’s going to change and sorry. I brought the rest of my boxes in, and now I’m proud to say that like all of my boxes, like everything that’s left is in here. So I got a little bit on the couch, a little bit in front of the couch. It’s realistically another three or four hours of sorting.

[00:14:00] Emily: Congratulations.

[00:14:02] Andrew: Now in the process of that, I discovered something that, uh, I thought was. Lost and, or I thought I gave back to you. Wait, what, um, I, uh, the scary thing is I remember giving this back to you and apparently I didn’t. So I, I don’t know what that says about me. Maybe I need to like play more deal, go, or I don’t know.

[00:14:25] My memory is going bad, but crinkle, crinkle, crinkle. Hi. The silver lining is at least it’s found, but the not silver lining is I’m responsible for the missing OSI five. Did

[00:14:43] Emily: you have any idea how many places I looked for that?

[00:14:49] Andrew: I am frustrated cause I looked in every single one of these boxes. I missed it by like, it was in a box of paperwork that that was nothing but paperwork and was like the only one I didn’t like tear inside out.

[00:15:02] Emily: Did I thought I had lost my damn mind. Like I was like, how, how is this the only pedal I can’t find, I thought I had. Loaned it to someone I put up like a post on Facebook, like, Hey, entirety of Seattle guitar, community. I’ve I loaned you a guitar pedal lately. Cause that’s something I do. And just literally forget that I do.

[00:15:25] Is it an OSI five? I need it back. Oh my God. It’s okay. I had another octave pedal that I could use for that summary and pickup demo, but I’m really glad that it’s found. I don’t want you to feel bad. It’s just, it’s pretty funny. I laugh when you sent me that message at like six in the morning. I saw it in the first

[00:15:50] Andrew: midnight because

[00:15:51] Emily: I saw it at six in the morning.

[00:15:52] And then I went,

[00:15:55] Andrew: it was like past my bedtime. It was just one of those, like I’m unpacking and I’m just like, go, go, go. Um, and I was actually looking for something else. That’s also really important that I can’t find that I thought was in the stack. Uh, and I found it and I just kind of sat there like five minutes in my chair.

[00:16:11] I’ll reenact. It was just like,

[00:16:17] Do I send a message now, do I wait to the podcast? Do I just drive it at midnight right now and drop it on her porch? Like what.

[00:16:31] Emily: Reef the fuck out to me. And like, like just have like a weird of bode notification that there’s somebody on my front porch just like dropping something on my bread wall container. Like God,

[00:16:45] Andrew: what I thought about doing which the funnier version. I think that I. I almost did. And I opted to not because it was late, but I was going to wrap it up in an Amazon package and just like retape it and just Chuck it in the morning because it’s a boss battle.

[00:17:06] It’s not gonna break dreadful, but that was a lot of that. Would’ve been a lot of work for, not a lot of payoff. So

[00:17:15] Emily: that actually would have been really funny.

[00:17:21] Andrew: Oh, wait. No, I should always. I, you know, I should have done that and taking the label off so that you couldn’t tell who, who had borrowed it and returned it. And just let you wonder who, who had ended up having it for weeks,

[00:17:39] Emily: dude, that would have been so funny. That’s funny. I like that. Imagine just something getting chucked over my phone again again. Oh, my God. Cool.

[00:17:52] Andrew: So I guess, uh, for unrelated reasons, I’m going to need to be, Hey, a FedEx driver for Halloween, you know,

[00:18:00] Emily: Rick has like the uniform. No, it wouldn’t be you. Sorry, nothing.

[00:18:09] That man has fits me fair. Oh, he does have a lot of FedEx hats, including vintage ones.

[00:18:19] Andrew: That’s a baller move. Not going to lie. Yeah. Vintage hats are pretty red. We have a lot

[00:18:25] Emily: of vintage chats. Oh boy. That would have been great, man. Nothing’s nothing has been checked over the fence this week. So it’s been like one week since something’s been hurled over my fence.

[00:18:44] Um, that’s a, a pedal into demo. Um, that I just need to make the, the moment for by hillbilly. Good. That it’s a fuzz and there’s two octaves down to

[00:19:01] Andrew: that sounds doomy. It’s

[00:19:02] Emily: very doomy. I can’t wait to do them on it because nobody does them. Like I do them. Did they do

[00:19:12] Andrew: doom doom? Hard times article I just saw, um, which if you’re not familiar with hard times as a satire site and, uh, the headline more or less read like states where weed is legalized, it shows like the first year we just legalized in the state, uh, do metal bands, uh, new to middle pans increased by the 125% or something.

[00:19:37] Oh my God.

[00:19:41] It’s one of those, like it, at what point is that tire no longer satire, you know,

[00:19:47] Emily: when it’s well, all satire should have a little bit of truth in it, right? Yes. So I don’t know, man.

[00:19:57] Andrew: I’ve just lost the ability to differentiate.

[00:19:59] Emily: Yeah, that’s true. Well, this week’s episode, they get outset set podcast is sponsored by Caroline gets hard company.

[00:20:08] Based out of South Carolina, they have a lot of great pedals in including the summer. Sol is a chorus and by Bronto, it is one of the secret sauce pedals on my band. Sunday crushes. During our song. Good boy. In particular, I really love hitting, uh, the special switch on that one. That max is out the rate and depth during the chorus to go down

[00:20:35] and that is this very technical term for that. And I hope that sponsors spot sells you on the somersault. It is my personal favorite chorus pedal and. Chorus is one of my favorite effects. So that says something, frankly, that’s that ain’t nothing, right? Nothing,

[00:20:59] Andrew: Caroline car insurance be prepared for when havoc comes your way.

[00:21:06] Emily: Ah, man. So this week I w this weekend, this weekend, like I’ve really had to. I had the pleasure of prioritizing a lot of guitar practice. And I, man, it’s very weird doing a lot of demos because you have to spend a lot of time like learning pedals. And then with the copywriting, I have to spend a lot of time like learning about whatever I’m writing.

[00:21:41] Uh, sometimes that’s guitar related, especially if I’m writing about. Pickups, which is something that I do or I am. So just something that I do or turntables, which is something that I do. And, uh, it’s kind of, it kind of takes away from the amount of finite time that I have to like learn new songs. So I am playing a show on, oh, I should look up the date of that show.

[00:22:09] I’m I should, I should see if it’s sold out track or however. Hollow queen I’m playing guitar is Kim’s covers, um, opening for Hala queen on that’s a queen cover band on, oh my God. Where is the date? Why

[00:22:41] Andrew: is. It sounds like you’ll be having a good time.

[00:22:45] Emily: October 30th on Saturday, October 30th. Oh, fun. Oh my gosh.

[00:22:50] You’re actually still tickets available. This show sells out every year. So if you are in Seattle, consider going. Wow. Okay. So, um, we’re doing that. That’s very exciting. He carry, I carry all the cats in here. Um, So consider going out, but I’m learning some songs that I’ve actually some I’m surprised. I’ve never learned some I’ve never heard.

[00:23:19] Uh, I don’t want to like, like spoil any of the setlist really, but, uh, I have a surprise and kind of a shame to say I somehow got away with never learning don’t fear. The Reaper. Really? Yeah. Did you, have you learned that one?

[00:23:37] Andrew: I learned how to, uh, I learned how to play it in high school and I don’t remember it anymore.

[00:23:43] I’m trying to think. So I’m in the same boat now.

[00:23:46] Emily: I mean, it’s not like hard to learn the gist of it.

[00:23:50] Andrew: Right. And it’s just like,

[00:23:55] Emily: there’s a lot of counting.

[00:23:59] Andrew: It’s just like eighth note arpeggiation more or less.

[00:24:11] Emily: Yeah,

[00:24:12] Andrew: just like a ton of modulation on that sound too. It’s great. Sound.

[00:24:30] Emily: And then the, uh, then the, like just it’s the counting that I really just need to get down. Like I need to listen to that song like a thousand times.

[00:24:45] yeah. And then sometimes you watch a tutorial. Why is this guy trying to tell me to do the harder of the things for like that triple that the guy in the tutorial was telling me to go on the B string six, nine, and move to the east string. Okay.

[00:25:10] I’m like, why aren’t you just having me go 10 on the G string

[00:25:18] yes. So it will be easier. I don’t care if the band played it in some other way, particularly just give me the easier way to do it. Damn it. Yeah, and I’m learning, um, some other songs that I’ve never heard. So it’s really exciting. Um, but like trying to make time to actually learn music, even if it means like maybe recording a little bit less video content this week, uh, is really exciting.

[00:25:45] And it makes me remember why, why I do this. Why I play guitar is to play guitar and not to Dick around with pedals, which seems obvious, but sometimes isn’t, doesn’t feel so. Ah, yes. You know what I mean? Um, yeah. And it’s important to play, to play, to play sometimes and, uh, for fun and, and I’ve, I’ve learned some other just like random ass songs, like I’ve I got, I have a weird guitar that I don’t really want to spoil it.

[00:26:21] But I sat down and I learned like Ricky Martins live in LA Vida loca on it. Cause I’d watched his behind the music paramount plus, cause I grew up watching that show and I sat down, I’ve watched a couple episodes with Rick and we watched his, and it was just. Like unintentionally funny. And he seems like a really sweet, wonderful human being like, no, no shade, Turkey.

[00:26:50] And I’m like, damn, that song does Bob, like, like you can’t really like, that’s a fun song. Um, it’s got a lot of energy. It has a really funny guitar part. So, uh, I sat down and I learned it and it’s got bears having guitar in it. And Paul McCartney’s guitar player plays guitar on it. Um, Uh, cause I’m like, is that a baritone?

[00:27:12] And I look it up. Is that a baritone or is that has seven streets? Cause there’ll be it’s, it’d be hilarious. There were seven string guitar. Let’s be real. Uh, that was a baritone guitar. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. So I sat down and learned that one. How about some other random ass song? Oh yeah. Maybe I probably didn’t just sat down and learned a bunch of baritone guitar country.

[00:27:34] Country-level. To be honest, this has been, it’s just really fun to just kind of set aside and make that time, like on my lunch break or whatever, to just pick some rants and kind of random, like almost like guitar roulette to just find a tutorial on YouTube showing that I probably wouldn’t otherwise normally learn maybe a song.

[00:27:55] I didn’t really like as a kid because it was too poppy or whatever, and just kind of go outside of my normal. Sean rhe preferences and learn that because if that’s something that I can then take into what I, what I do, whether that’s demos or playing with other people, um, I feel like that’s beneficial.

[00:28:17] Like would certainly get me out of ruts. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I feel bad talking about this, but I know you are kind of in the opposite sort of.

[00:28:28] Andrew: Uh, yeah, no, in terms of the opposite sort of, right. So I’ve kind of reached a point where like my poor, like ADHD brain is going haywire these days. Um, but I’m getting, I’m getting a solid handle on it and feeling a lot better about it now.

[00:28:45] And so something that I started doing it, my day job, uh, for, for task management is the. Simple thing of the plane is literally writing down on a post-it note what, what it is you’re doing. And then it goes up on a whiteboard and the whiteboard split up into sections. Um, is this in queue? Is this what I’m actively working on?

[00:29:04] Is this waiting for review? Is this done or is it on hold? And so I’ve put a white board on the wall in my office at home and I’ve got, don’t have that many sections. It’s not that big of whiteboard, but I just have a Q and a actively working on slash. Uh, section. And so I sat down two days ago and I just filled up the board with post-it notes and then spent the day putting a Denton in some, I’ve got a color coordinated, like, is this personal?

[00:29:33] Is this pocket cut row? Is this like it just kind of breaking that all up? Yeah. So my goal here is get ahead of all of that. There’s just a list of stuff that falls into the category of. That’s a combination of, yes, it’s a lot, but it’s also manageable if I manage my time. Well, and it’s amazing how quickly time disappears when like a five minute described, grab water break turns into a 20 minutes.

[00:29:55] Rolling Instagram break. And. Uh, it just adds up so fast. So I’m trying to, trying to focus and just literally grab only one at a time. So that way, like I can just put the blinders on it. This is the only thing I’m working on. I’m not feeling overwhelmed by the rest of the task list. So that’s kind of, I tried that Friday.

[00:30:14] I got so much done and I’m going to continue to do that. Um, my current work schedule just, uh, for my day job flipped a bit and I think. It actually works out where I’ve had a lot more time to work on things at home and the way that it shakes out. So I’m pretty happy about it. And I’m expecting to, my goal is get through the rest of this list.

[00:30:36] I don’t have like active things hanging over my head that I know could be done. And then from there I can renegotiate my time management into a, this is time for work and this is time for play and. The way that the office is set up now is so much more intuitive playing. Like I am so like picking up the guitar, just like for five minutes at a time and just toying around with them.

[00:30:57] It’s just not dedicated. Like I’ve had an hour to sit down and have fun.

[00:31:01] Emily: Yeah. You know, I have to dedicate the time to sit down and, and learn the songs, especially because it is, um, for me, a part of. I, I can’t really say work work, but it is like a commitment that I’ve made to other people, uh, to learn these songs.

[00:31:20] So it’s not quite. Dick around hobby. It is quite more like a

[00:31:27] Andrew: commitment, commitment, hobby. Yep. Totally different. I’m just playing for myself. I don’t have a show coming up that I need to make sure that I am all prepped for. I just have the, I need to scratch my creative itch. And right now my creative edge is getting through that stinking list

[00:31:42] Emily: that you can do that without do.

[00:31:44] Have fun without, um, feeling guilty after.

[00:31:49] Andrew: Right. So naturally, um, I’m going to Oktoberfest this afternoon instead of working on my to-do list. But

[00:31:55] Emily: yeah, but I mean, you gotta, you gotta do that. Cause like Rick and I, like when we saw our friend last night and part of us was like, oh God, we’re gonna have to like stay up so late.

[00:32:04] Cause he wasn’t even getting off until 10 30. Yeah. So we made a reservation at, um, Um, this kind of speakeasy and Fremont nearby for like 10 30, 10 45, which was fun. Um, and we were like, oh God, we’re going to be, so we just like played LA noir, that video game points where like, we just, we just got it.

[00:32:27] Cause I was like, I want us to play more video games. What? Like, just instead of like watching TV, cause it’s like, it’s like active. We can do together. Instead of just like trash talk and reality show contestants. Um, but we were playing some like competitive stuff or like some like puzzle stuff, man. I was kind of frustrated with the puzzle stuff.

[00:32:44] We were playing 39 days Tamar’s and just like, I think our con I bought some kind of cheap controllers and I was really getting frustrated with them and then we were playing and that was kind of making the puzzles hard and like the lack of instructions in 39 days tomorrow’s was making me upset. And then, uh, we were playing jeopardy against each other, and I got really mad at that.

[00:33:08] The key just really lucked out on a couple of the categories against me. And it made me really upset. Like he’s from Missouri and one of the two, the categories and double jeopardy where like St. Louis and then football. I’m like, I don’t know shit about those things. And so I kind of bummed about that. Uh, and then, um, we started playing and I’m like, what is like, we both like, kind of true crime.

[00:33:33] So I’m like, well, let’s just get LA Nawara. We can be the detective and we can kind of play on like,

[00:33:39] Andrew: it’s a teamwork thing, not a pitted against each other.

[00:33:42] Emily: Yeah, that game’s pretty problematic. It’s like, it’s like, you know, you can tell when it kind of shoehorned in some, like cover your ass stuff. Cause there was like, there was one time, like one point where you’re interrogating someone and there’s like some antisemitism and then you kind of have to like play bad cop to like get the guy to admit he killed the guy because the other guy was being antisemitic against them.

[00:34:09] And then the main guy says, I respect your ability to believe in whatever you want, but you can’t kill people like that. And you can tell that was just so Shu hard and to like, you’re like, oh my God, this is so bad. Oh,

[00:34:24] Andrew: geez.

[00:34:27] Emily: Well, it was from like 2017 and like,

[00:34:32] Andrew: yeah. Oh, at least like I’ve got, there’s a childhood game that I played growing up and I revisited it in the last year or so.

[00:34:40] And I was horrified to realize how gob stopping racist that was. Um,

[00:34:46] Emily: oh yeah, I guess it’s the,

[00:34:48] Andrew: but that was from like 2001 or 2002 and it was just very xenophobe. Oh, geez. It was a war game.

[00:34:56] Emily: Oh, I’m sorry. This was I’m sorry. This is from 2011 for PlayStation three and Xbox 360, 2011 from Microsoft. When does in 2017 for Nintendo switch.

[00:35:07] So it was actually quite older.

[00:35:09] Andrew: Okay. So that’s a little better, but still not great.

[00:35:14] Emily: It also has like a, just a shit ton of people from mad men in it, which is I liked mad men.

[00:35:22] Sorry, go ahead. I’m sorry for

[00:35:23] Andrew: interrupting. Oh, no. I was just tagging on something similar. There’s also a game that I played as a kid that I realized is that adult was very, very, very, very, very, very racist and, uh, yeah. Um, which it makes sense in the context of it being. US-based war game in a post nine 11 world made like 2002, 2003.

[00:35:48] So of course it’s going to be incredibly, is that a phobic Islamophobic, but I didn’t really register that as a kid. So yeah, that was commanding conquer. Um,

[00:36:04] Emily: that was like war games,

[00:36:06] Andrew: right? So like age of empires, but slightly different. Age of empires much better on that

[00:36:13] Emily: level. Yeah. Which, which, which, um, I wasn’t there, like one of those war games where it turns out that you were like the Nazis or something.

[00:36:21] Andrew: No idea. Okay. I don’t do first person shooter games. Um, which rules out most war games. I just do real time strategy and re re any more these days. It’s just age of empires. Um, oh, that reminds me there’s something I was going to talk about.

[00:36:40] Emily: Oh, okay.

[00:36:42] Andrew: Just on the same subject in terms of like being socially aware and realizing that I was not at one point in time is I filled that I pulled out my old Nalgene from college and fill it with water, take, um, to, uh, the sports field yesterday for, for something.

[00:36:58] And I was just sipping out. My wife looked at me and, um, Melissa says, ah, You might want to cover that sticker up and like what sticker? And I look at it and I realize it’s a sticker that I put on my analogy when I was in college in like 2012, 2013, before this would have been intentionally charged. So I really believed that it was when did the sticker is made.

[00:37:21] It was incredibly innocent. Uh, but it’s a sticker that says everyone matters.

[00:37:28] Emily: Yeah. I mean, back in college, that’s very different. Okay. That’s, that’s not all lives matter.

[00:37:37] Andrew: Not exactly the same thing, but it’s just like, it hit that, that tinge of like,

[00:37:41] Emily: that could be the understand that can be perceived the wrong way.

[00:37:46] Andrew: And I don’t want to have to sit there, like explain, oh no, no, no. I’m not like, I don’t want to, no,

[00:37:52] Emily: that’s not. This is much older than that.

[00:37:56] Andrew: I think I’m just going to cover it up instead of trying to appeal it. Cause it’s been on there for better part of a decade. Yeah. Yeah. But cheers to growth and improvement and uh, moving, moving on in life and becoming a better person.

[00:38:10] Emily: Yeah. That’s important. That’s important.

[00:38:15] Andrew: Sure. It was embarrassing though.

[00:38:19] Emily: Yeah. I mean, I can see why it would be, you can see why it would be dude, apparently a get off had hit a thousand subscribers on Tik TOK, which means we can do Tik TOK live things. Now

[00:38:31] Andrew: that’s exciting. Yeah. I still don’t have a tick talk.

[00:38:34] Should I?

[00:38:35] Emily: Uh, there’s some fun stuff on there. I’m like, I’m like kind of myth on it, but, uh, I know some of our, some of our, uh, friends are really excited about it for us and I’m just kind of like, oh, they want us to do the lives. I’m like, I guess we should, I guess I’ll try it, try it out. But I just don’t.

[00:39:04] Okay.

[00:39:07] Andrew: So I met I as someone who hasn’t done short form video content. I imagine that. So difficult. My experience with video editing, um, in albeit very limited, so much a the shorter something is the harder it is to do kind of similar to how, like when I was in college, trying to do it, this is a PowerPoint presentation, super easy for me to get a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation doing a five minute PowerPoint presentation to cover the same materials.

[00:39:36] So much more difficult. And when you’re doing short form, You’re not necessarily adding all that detail, but you still need to condense a storyline down into like a, like a ten second. This is a compelling storyline. And I just, I imagine that would be so draining to keep up with, I can’t imagine being a tick-tock creator.

[00:39:55] Emily: Yeah. I mean, I think people just tell shorter stories. Um, little snippets, little show entails. Um, like I pull little bits and pieces out of demos sometimes. We’re just going to talk about something for like a minute, you know, uh, it’s harder to tell a short story as you know, it takes practice. Um,

[00:40:21] Andrew: but I’ll take it.

[00:40:23] Emily: I mean, you said it literally, it’s like literally the first thing you said in this episode,

[00:40:28] Andrew: it’s the it’s it just makes Tik TOK, the antithesis of storytelling. You.

[00:40:33] Emily: Yeah. So, I mean, there’s just, everyone tells things differently. So, I mean, I don’t know. Oh, I guess the only thing that happened to me this week though, was I saw Katie Kirby and Tacoma.

[00:40:46] Oh yeah. I opted against going to the Seattle show because it was on Thursday. I very early morning.

[00:40:54] Andrew: That would be the adult responsible thing to do.

[00:40:56] Emily: Yeah. But driving all the way at Tacoma was. Yeah, it was a fight. That was a life choice I made. Uh, no, it was really good. She was great. Waxahachie was very good.

[00:41:06] Yeah. Well, very cool. Yeah. I gave her band, uh, a guitar pedal, the swamp, which pedals that eat the rich. That was a swamp witches take on the distortion. Plus I just been clearing some stuff out, felt like it was time. Let that one fly the coop. And, uh, they seemed really excited by it. Good. Who doesn’t want to peddle this?

[00:41:29] Call it, eat the rich, right, right. So yeah. So they’re tourists continuing. So if you have the chance to catch a Katy Kirby and that Bandha, he shot y’all Shania. So

[00:41:41] Andrew: we’ll coolest the beans,

[00:41:43] Emily: the coolest of beans. Yes.

[00:41:47] Andrew: Well, I’m going to go do some dishes

[00:41:49] Emily: before eight.

[00:41:53] Andrew: Yeah, dang it is. But I promised it to do some dishes and help with clean up before I disappear for an afternoon.

[00:42:03] Emily: All right. Uh, everyone out there, please check us out on patrion.com/get offset. We are so close to our next goal. Uh, we have merchandise@podcast.com slash shop, please like comment, subscribe, please review and rate on iTunes.

[00:42:18] The next goal,

[00:42:19] Andrew: by the way, is that a, is a, is that wiggles cover is sitting right there on my board. That is on my list of things to do

[00:42:27] Emily: I everyone out there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Thanks for understanding until next time. My name is Emily and my name

[00:42:34] Andrew: is Andrew.

[00:42:35] Emily: Get by.