Get Offset Episode 158: Spooky Squier Halloween

Episode Transcript

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[00:00:00] Emily: I don’t know why I’ll try again. It was like, I just did. I just,

[00:00:15] Andrew: oh man.

[00:00:17] Emily: Good morning.

[00:00:23] Andrew: Welcome to the, get off site podcast. My name is Andrew and

[00:00:27] Emily: my name is. And I just gave Andrew a nasty case of tinnitus.

[00:00:36] Andrew: I was not ready for that.

[00:00:38] Emily: Wasn’t ready. So sometimes, sometimes the files break in between recording sessions and I hit the intro and all, all we hear is static.

[00:00:55] Andrew: That’s my impression of static by the way, because

[00:01:01] that’s a much better impression of static.

[00:01:03] Emily: Today’s latte is salted caramel, not pumpkin spice

[00:01:10] Andrew: latte for that transition.

[00:01:13] Emily: You’re just trying to get away from the white noise to the, uh, I don’t know, white girl. I actually would have been more like white girl basic if it was the pumpkin spice again, it’s very simple.

[00:01:28] I never had a pumpkin spice latte until copper cow. It’s what I drank the coffee I drank, uh, sent me some, um, I do a subscription and they sent me a couple of pumpkin spice lattes. I’m like, that’s really nice. It’s really tastes really good. Yeah. The

[00:01:44] Andrew: flavors are all, they’re all there. They’re all good.

[00:01:47] Emily: There’s a sheet.

[00:01:51] Andrew: I mean, I haven’t had the one that you’re having,

[00:01:52] Emily: but a Starbucks.

[00:01:55] Andrew: No, but that also might be like the 300 milligrams or 300 grams of sugar. Uh, just like a quarter of it’s simple.

[00:02:05] Emily: Yeah, the copper cow, it’s like Vietnamese style lattes, which normally have a ton of sugar, but these, um, you can either use the coconut milk packets, which are like basically no sugar or, um, they have the simple milk and sugar in there, like a hundred calories per day.

[00:02:22] So interesting. So like way less, which is a simple over. So that’s mine my morning.

[00:02:32] Andrew: I mean the flavor profile for like pumpkin spices. This is just like, it makes sense that it would go well with coffee and they’re just great fall spices. It, it shames, I feel it’s a shame. There we go. That’s how I’m trying to phrase that.

[00:02:46] So shame that that’s been, become synonymous with something that’s taboo, or just generally like shat upon.

[00:02:53] Emily: Well, you know, it was really popular to just shit on things that white girls like. You know, my girls don’t always see themselves a ton of favors. Let’s be honest with ourselves, white girls.

[00:03:03] Andrew: I, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t give it that much.

[00:03:08] I wouldn’t lends the, uh, the oppression factor quite that much credibility there, but

[00:03:13] Emily: well, sometimes it’s unfair. It’s often unfair, but we can be pretty fucking obnoxious. We can be pretty obnoxious with things that we. It’s true, but it’s also very true that like, we’re not, we’re often not allowed to just like things innocuously, like boy bands, like just let people like things and don’t get so like, wait girls, like infinity scarves.

[00:03:49] Cardigans and pumpkin spice latte, is it? Yeah, we like being cozy. Just if you want to dislike us for like propping up other bad things in the world and dislike us for that. That’s fair. Give us a fair criticisms and let us have our, our what’s the word for it? What’s that? What’s that Nordic word for cozy?

[00:04:13] Let us have that. He can, yeah, let us have that. H I G G E, let us have that. Where that never heard pronounced let’s have that word. I’ve never heard pronounced.

[00:04:27] Andrew: I’m probably not pronouncing it with enough phlegm, but

[00:04:31] Emily: H T G E I H. Why should you eat?

[00:04:42] Who you were very close. Hooga let us have, um,

[00:04:51] Andrew: uh,

[00:04:55] Emily: yeah, sorry. Jason Mays just texted me. Yo, how do you like the blooper? He says

[00:05:02] Andrew: that’s a, that’s an excellent question to which there is an excellent answer.

[00:05:08] Emily: And how’s that Elvis Costello holding up. Great. I’m just like responding to this Exxon on the air. Good. Great. You learn? He will learn my answers exactly.

[00:05:21] Like 12 days later. Excellent.

[00:05:24] Andrew: What are, they’ve been doing a whole lot of like offset shoot outs. I wonder if he’s like low key. Could I steal that from you for like two weeks? Yeah,

[00:05:31] Emily: no, I ain’t shipping that. I ain’t shipping that to Atlanta, Georgia. Sorry, by the way, it’s like, I

[00:05:40] Andrew: wouldn’t blame him for.

[00:05:42] Emily: I mean, there has to be one closer than six, like 3000 miles away.

[00:05:47] Sure. Yeah,

[00:05:52] there has to be, to be the case. Ah, so what’s new with you, bud. Other than that, a terrifying costume.

[00:06:03] Andrew: Yeah, happy Halloween, little

[00:06:05] Emily: early. Hello. Andrew is wearing a scariest costume. I think he could possibly imagine wearing his guitar center shirt.

[00:06:12] Andrew: I’m pretty sure I’m posting.

[00:06:18] Oh, this is a throwback. I don’t think they wear these anymore. I think they’re, they’re a t-shirt regimen. So this is my button up with the guitar center logo, just plain black shirt with a white logo with. I have to wear a I’m pretty sure I’m wearing it the exact same way. I would have worn it on the sales floor, which is incredibly wrinkly.

[00:06:37] Emily: Okay.

[00:06:38] Andrew: Yeah. I think it was like mandatory, like help, frankly. Yeah. It was like helps fit, fit the vibe. You can’t look too clean there. Uh, uh, no, I, I was digging out some, uh, It was actually digging up my, a box of like for when I’m skinny, again, clothes that I really like in the back of my head, I just didn’t want to donate, but I probably should in the back of my head, I also like knew a few years ago.

[00:07:02] I should probably donate these, but I fit into a whole bunch of them now, which is super exciting. I’m kind of blown away. I really didn’t think I was going to get to. And going through the box and I, it did donate a couple of things like after not seeing something for like three years, I’m like, yeah. Uh, that does not remind me of happy times, but

[00:07:21] Emily: that can go guitar center shirt.

[00:07:22] Does

[00:07:23] Andrew: the guitar center shirt. It does. I am not going to feign a complete and utter dislike for guitar center. Cause that’s not at all true. I’ve some very fun memories call it rose colored glasses or whatever you want. But no, it was really good times. Good times. Good people made some good friends out of that.

[00:07:44] And, uh, it feels kind of nice to just put it on masquerade as guitar center employee. For, for a little bit for Halloween, I might actually wear this out for Halloween walking around. If I can find what I haven’t been able to find is, uh, Mike is her son, her name, badge, and I’ve got it in a box somewhere.

[00:08:03] Emily: What else would you need to really pull that together? Not would you need a clipboard? Would that really.

[00:08:10] Andrew: Uh, maybe if I got some gear card applications, just try to hand them, hand them out to people, get them to fill them out. Um, that would work, uh, or I could just like knock on the door and ask if people would like pro coverage for their candy.

[00:08:28] Emily: The kids will certainly appreciate that joke. Do you get trick-or-treaters?

[00:08:34] Andrew: Uh, not on my street. Not really. I think we set up Bola. Uh, and it was still mostly full, which means we didn’t even get like a teenager, like dope the bag.

[00:08:45] Emily: Yeah, we get exactly one. Wow. Yeah. The one across the street, she comes at exactly five.

[00:08:55] Aw. Yeah.

[00:08:59] Andrew: Uh, I may, I’m excited for this year. I think we’re going to probably end up doing something with.

[00:09:06] My kids old enough to have friends now. So we might have some of, some of their friends over, and I’m pretty excited about that. Old enough to have friends old enough to have friends. It’s so strange social life that I’m like completely not in the lupine. Great. They grow up so fast. No, so that’ll be good.

[00:09:27] So that’s, uh, let’s see here in terms of what’s new, I guess, fitting into clothes. I never thought I was. Um, that was kind of a nice discovery is nice to unpack a box. It’s been sitting in a garage for two, three years now. Uh, my other what’s new is I think at the time that this is, yeah, I think when this is this episode’s dropping, I’ll be on the other side of the country.

[00:09:54] Oh, calcium.

[00:10:00] Uh, , it’s a skinny scrawny,

[00:10:03] Emily: skinny. What do I know?

[00:10:07] Andrew: And yes, I’ll be out in the scans. I was close and I will be sticking out like a sore thumb with my lack of accent.

[00:10:18] Emily: Oh, you can fake it. Let’s hear it. Oh yeah. Sure.

[00:10:25] Andrew: Sure. Like, that’s just like kind of general Midwestern thing, but it’s like the way that they prep, like, if you were say I shouldn’t call it like ice cream cone, but like the way I can’t, I can’t articulate it quite the same way.

[00:10:38] Emily: You just gotta try. You just gotta give it a little, uh, in front of your mouth a little bit more.

[00:10:44] It’s pretty easy. It’s not that.

[00:10:47] Andrew: No. So I’m going to go hang out with my dad for the week. I think the plan is, uh, we’re gonna, uh,

[00:10:53] Emily: you know how I know you, weren’t an only child, how, because he obviously didn’t talk to yourself enough to really like do accents. I just talked to myself at the television screen a lot.

[00:11:07] I’m not even an only child. I was just younger than my brother by eight years. So.

[00:11:12] Andrew: Functionally the same function in a lot of ways.

[00:11:16] Emily: Yeah. I just would like watch television man, a blur. Isn’t a dashi.

[00:11:22] Andrew: So, so far in the itinerary for the, for the visit, I’ve got, we’re going to fix up an old table. Uh, probably just what gloom, clamps, uh, drink beer.

[00:11:34] We’re going to go shoot guns in somebody’s backyard because he’s got a friend with like 14 acres. And a small arsenal. I haven’t fired a weapon in like nine years. So that’s actually been kind of a throwback to my childhood and hiking and

[00:11:54] Emily: well, we got that here. Well, we got hiking here.

[00:11:59] Andrew: Yep. We do. Their version of a mountain is like, It’s not a mountain for all.

[00:12:07] Yeah. For all the, all the sky out there. If you know, rib mountain, um, I’m sorry. Mountain’s a strong term.

[00:12:17] Emily: It’s a optimistic.

[00:12:21] Andrew: Yes. Very. So no, it will be a good time. I think the plan is mostly just to chill and not do a whole lot. Nice. I think I’m going to, I think I’m going to be enjoying that. So recording is a little bit early, so I can kind of just disappear for a weekend.

[00:12:39] Turn my phone off. Kind of have tempt to just straight up, turn it off. Like the weekend of like, like Melissa has got my dad’s number. If she really needs to get ahold of me, she can just call him.

[00:12:51] Emily: Yeah. I don’t know how easy it is to just do the phone completely off thing when you have a kid.

[00:12:57] Andrew: Yeah. But like the number of people, like the people who had really needed to get ahold of me also my dad’s phone number.

[00:13:04] Yeah. And the people that don’t need to get ahold of me. Don’t

[00:13:12] Emily: so I’m just going to, you’re just going to give me your dad’s phone number. Real.

[00:13:20] Andrew: I also think I’m going to elite, like my, my work stuff off my phone. Just like I’ll, re-install it. When I get back to the office, just delete all of it and just like, I have to disconnect for a week. I there’ll be one for me, especially going into the holidays or the winter months where the sun comes up at nine and goes down at three 30.

[00:13:39] It’ll be good.

[00:13:40] Emily: Sure.

[00:13:42] Andrew: So that’s what, that’s what my.

[00:13:46] Emily: Yeah. Yeah. So, um, I played, uh, the last Sunday crusher of the year, I guess, probably since, I guess I did that right after I got back from Cincinnati, actually, I just kind of forgot to do. Kind of busy episode. It was a busy episode, you know? Uh, yeah, we played it at, um, a place called drunky two-shoes and a white center in Seattle.

[00:14:09] And it was a lot of fun. It was an outdoor board, uh, patio, those heated and covered. And I got to do the pod go wireless. So I got to, uh, do my walking guitar solos for the first time in awhile. Um, that was really neat. Uh, our friend Sean Crawford came out, which I appreciated it a lot. The range on the pod go wireless is kind of bananas.

[00:14:38] Um, yeah, I was, uh, jokingly sound checked from like inside. The restaurant. I was like walking around with it a little bit. I soloed from on top of a table. I was like walking around the patio quite a bit. But when I was just kind of at home testing out the capabilities of wireless, I live in a townhouse before anybody gets up in arms about what I’m about to say, I, the unit on the first floor and I walked all the way up to the third floor and it was still.

[00:15:13] It was it’s bananas. It’s impressive range. So that was really fun. And I was glad to, uh, so Sunday crushes is going to spend the rest of the year, like writing and having, uh, some chill times. Um, I have a show coming up on the 30th though at the tractor Tavern. I’m going to be playing with, uh, Kim’s covers, uh, opening for Halloween.

[00:15:35] I think I’ve mentioned that a few times already, but yeah. So that’s coming up this weekend, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. So I’m excited. I’m glad we’re not actually recording. I guess we, I guess we will be recording the day after that.

[00:15:53] Andrew: Ooh. Yeah, well, we’ll need, uh, we’ll need an episode four for another. Yeah, November 2nd.

[00:16:00] And

[00:16:00] Emily: I’ll see how we’ll see how I, how, how, how awake I am

[00:16:06] Andrew: episode you just let them nails Emily and sunglasses. And

[00:16:13] Emily: after it would no voice after singing along to so many queen songs for Halloween. Yeah, my, hopefully my hair will be shorter too. Cause I’m going get a haircut like three days before the gig from the singer Apollo queen. Nice. Seattle is such a weird small city in a lot of ways. The, um, my, my, uh, the guy who cuts my hair is the singer from Polokwane.

[00:16:35] It’s not how I got the gig. It might be, I don’t know.

[00:16:41] Who knows why anybody gets asked to do anything?

[00:16:46] Andrew: Just an interconnected network of does it matter humans now that

[00:16:52] Emily: really, it doesn’t matter. Oh, I also got to use my led guitar strap at the Sunday crush gig, which was really fun. Oh, very cool. My rocket year led strap so big, thanks to Hailey from rocket for sending me that, uh, I think it was a big head, but who knows?

[00:17:11] No, it was fun. Yeah, the, we, the opening band was called DACEL exquisite, and they’ve only been together for like four or five months, but they sounded like they’d been together for a lot longer. So check them out. It was really good.

[00:17:23] Andrew: That’s really high praise actually. Yeah.

[00:17:28] Emily: Me praising a band. Wow.

[00:17:34] Andrew: Not what I wasn’t saying that it was uncommon. Have you I’m just saying that, like that particular bit of it like of praise is like, oh, that’s actually like really hard hitting. It’s pretty cool.

[00:17:47] Emily: Come on you. Shit. On every band I like,

[00:17:56] Andrew: yeah.

[00:17:57] Emily: Where’s the line.

[00:17:59] Andrew: Where is the lie and your defense, at least you’ve heard of the bands. I like, so, yeah.

[00:18:07] Emily: Uh, well that’s because you have basic

[00:18:13] Andrew: ouch. You start the episode with like defending basicness and

[00:18:18] Emily: no that’s actually, I don’t, I haven’t even heard of a lot of the bands that you like, like the, the, a lot of them just like the grunt grunge.

[00:18:29] Andrew: Uh, I think I’m not actually terribly surprised to hear that the pod go wireless range is really solid. I remember cause I imagine the technology is going to be similar to some of the other line six stuff, um, like the dedicated

[00:18:39] Emily: wireless, but like going through, like my house was built in 1998. So it’s not like some like really, really, really old houses that have really wonky wiring, but still it’s like kind of old sure.

[00:18:52] Going through three level, like three stories of.

[00:18:57] Andrew: Right. I just, the reason why I say that is back when I worked at guitar center, once upon a time in a galaxy, not so far away is if we, what was the line? Six spider 4, 5, 5, maybe if there’s the fives. I think that the version with the wireless unit that connected straight to the app, And I remember I plugged it, like if it was like, you know, we close at nine aims for the dead by seven 30 and I already did my cleaning for the night and just plug in into put a strap on a guitar, pulling the wireless unit and just kind of walk around the store, like kind of like Chuck out, a couple of things.

[00:19:37] Tuck, tuck, a couple of tags, chug a couple things. Yeah. Just have it like basically on insane.

[00:19:43] Emily: No latency. Oh yeah. It’s it was like really cool.

[00:19:48] Andrew: And that I would do that at the location in Seattle. Rest in peace. It’s a fairly, it was a fairly spread out location. Like I could get like into the acoustic room and stuff, like, and still be heard.

[00:19:59] Yeah. So if the technology is at all similar to what they’re now putting inside the, the go that’s. Yeah. That’s pretty top-notch and I I’m impressed.

[00:20:10] Emily: Yeah, it was cool. I really, I liked the sounds and, you know, uh, setting it up was as easy as it was setting up yours, I look, someone commented on, um, I think it was.

[00:20:22] I think we already covered it, but like when someone comments on the video of it like paid promotion goodbye, I was like, okay, well this was a gift. So thanks for watching.

[00:20:38] Andrew: Yeah. It makes me wonder how those people feel about like walking into an actual guitar store and talking to somebody who’s making commission.

[00:20:46] You imagine walking into like, it’s hard and they’re like, so what are your thoughts on this? And they’re like, they start talking like, no, no, no paid promotion.

[00:20:52] Emily: Yeah. Well,

[00:21:01] I just don’t think there are a lot of opinions out there that are just completely unbiased.

[00:21:06] Andrew: And I don’t think there are any ever nothing happens.

[00:21:11] Emily: No. Cause you might be, you’re probably biased by like what you already have or where you’ve played. Like there’s just. We all have biases.

[00:21:20] Andrew: Oh, it’s so funny to me when I, I see like in a Facebook guitar community.

[00:21:25] So I was like, can someone recommend an overdrive to me? And every what everybody recommends is what they already have.

[00:21:31] Emily: Yeah. Well, it’s the data experience with it. Like sure. You can’t, you can’t recommend something that you’ve been like, it’s weird to recommend something you’ve never played. Like how can you even recommend that?

[00:21:42] How can you recommend a car you’ve never driven. How oh, oh yeah. You know, I’ve never driven a Tesla, but I really recommend Tesla

[00:21:50] Andrew: never driven a Tesla, but like that box steering wheels just off, like why would anyone. Yeah.

[00:21:56] Emily: Okay. Yeah, dude. I’ve like, I’ve never played a Schecter, but they look like shit.

[00:22:01] Like no, shut up. What do you know? What do you know?

[00:22:06] Andrew: The little Schechter strats aren’t bad. It was like the Nick Johns. I forget the name, like Nick Johnson or something like that. Signatures as style. ’cause I get surf green with a maple neck. I remember that one playing really, really well. Well,

[00:22:18] Emily: exactly.

[00:22:19] Like how can you say, how can you just like make a blanket statement about something with that you have no experience with

[00:22:25] Andrew: like, although probably the most nightmarish guitar we ever had it for a trading at guitar center was a sinister gate signature model that had so much fretboard cheese on it. It was horrifying.

[00:22:41] Emily: Clean your guitars when you trade your strings friends, just,

[00:22:45] Andrew: I don’t, I don’t think they is. You say that I don’t think they broke that rule. That’s the other part

[00:22:51] Emily: of it? Change your things, friends,

[00:22:53] Andrew: change your streams. I remember them bringing that. I think we knocked off like 50 bucks. Cause we were like, we, we, we can’t give you that other $50 to now we have to go pay the guitar tech to clean this up and swap out the strings.

[00:23:05] Emily: That’s nasty. That’s nasty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was

[00:23:14] Andrew: a Petri dish, but anyways, I mean the point being like, I still think it’s funny though, that people just recommend what they already have without having it. It’s absolutely biased, but it’s also funny because it’s people aren’t willing to acknowledge that there’s things that they haven’t tried yet.

[00:23:33] That fight.

[00:23:35] Emily: Yeah.

[00:23:37] Andrew: So it feels almost useless to try and put out the, Hey, what do you guys recommend into some of those groups? Sometimes, because I’m like, okay, that’s not actually giving me helpful information that you’re just telling me what you own. Yeah.

[00:23:48] Emily: But like what he, like, what, I don’t know. I, what are you wanting to do?

[00:23:58] No, I have no idea. Recommend things that they haven’t been.

[00:24:01] Andrew: No. I mean, I don’t think there’s a better option. I just think it’s funny. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:24:09] Emily: What’s the world’s best delay pedal, the delayed and foster Wallace.

[00:24:14] Andrew: The one I

[00:24:15] Emily: own the why I think it’s the labor. I think it’s the delay of in foster Wallace, that bookworm effects. Cause I it’s the one I play the most.

[00:24:26] Andrew: I would have to say it’s the.

[00:24:29] Emily: Oh, that one’s great. I love that one. Also. I also love the speed tripper.

[00:24:34] It was about, well, the last time I checked, there was some left by Rick by wreck.

[00:24:40] Andrew: He said,

[00:24:43] Emily: he’s gone.

[00:24:47] He’s going to go. We’re making soup. So he’s going to buy an immersion blender. Yes. Like everybody wants to know what we’re cooking. We’re cooking a bowl of Fox.

[00:25:01] Focus. I think I’m saying that right. It’s a Greek lentil soup. I’m not saying that, right.

[00:25:09] Andrew: I don’t know. I’m not Greek, but is this going to be like a schedule 2.0, saying something heinously wrong for years?

[00:25:21] Emily: Um, fuck.

[00:25:31] It says Greek lentil soup or F a K E S and Greek pronounced F a H hyphen K a T S. How would you pronounce that? Bacchus?

[00:25:51] And then there’s one that says modern Greek, and then it has a bunch of Greek letters after it. I’m like, that’s not helpful. How do I, oh, here YouTube.

[00:26:05] That’s not it. Now does this fakes that’s just as fakes.

[00:26:13] Andrew: Well, enjoy your lentil soup. I will.

[00:26:20] I mean, I don’t care what it’s called, ultimately it’s all great to me

[00:26:23] Emily: that I care. I’m going to figure this shit out right now.

[00:26:30] Andrew: Oh no. What have I done? What have I started? Nothing. Speaking of soup, like objects, uh, I’ve discovered

[00:26:43] Emily: I, what have I

[00:26:44] Andrew: done? I just, I made a mistake. So I’ve been trying with drinking significantly less than only on weekends.

[00:26:54] So the last few months I’ve kind of come to the realization that like, if I’m gonna make myself something that weekend, I want it to like something that is a little bit more special than just like grabbing a beer out of the fridge. Not that it’s anything wrong with beer, just, I don’t know that just change my mindset.

[00:27:08] So like, I want to make myself some nicer car. And so I’ve been running around like some groany variations and just toying around things. And I, I found a, in the process, I’m like, oh yeah, that’s right. Like gins kind of nice. And I haven’t tried enough gender over the years, so I’ve got a bottle of big, genuine of trying to figure out a couple of different recipes I can do with it.

[00:27:29] Emily: Is it the regular or is it the dry? It’s the dry, the Costco, isn’t it?

[00:27:36] Andrew: Yeah. Yeah, no. So it looks like London, dry gins for cocktail mixing just solid. And I found a recipe that I wanted to try and it had, so it was gin sweet vermouth Cointreau and the one thing that I didn’t already have was for Nate Bronca.

[00:27:57] So I went and got a bottle for neighborhood. And I came home and I made the cocktail last night and I took one sip and I went, ah, and somehow in the back of my mind, I thought from Nate Bronco was something else entirely. Oh. And I learned, um, it’s like herbaceous, minty and liquor liquor.

[00:28:27] Like I see how it could work. I think that the ratio, the recipe that I got was just a bad ratio. Cause it’s just way too overpowering for the whole drink. Like I just tasted like that with like, like a completely overpowered the gin, which

[00:28:40] Emily: yeah, very better

[00:28:43] Andrew: bitters fine. I can live with bitter. It was like the licorice Listerine thing and like licorice and minster, two things that I have a love, hate relationship with and has to be very situated.

[00:28:53] So anyways, now I’ve got a bottle of, for Nebraska. I don’t know what to do with, but I’m sure I’ll find some other recipes that I’ll give a

[00:29:00] Emily: try. Uh, I think people drink it with Jack and Coke. Sometimes. I want to say I’ve heard it with, yeah,

[00:29:09] Andrew: that’d be, it was almost like menthol alley, which I, I’m not diametrically opposed to, but let’s see.

[00:29:20] Anyways, there’s only

[00:29:22] Emily: three cocktails on their website with it. Oh my gosh. Oh, okay. I see it with a sugar lime, ginger beer. And I don’t see the alcohol part other than it.

[00:29:35] Andrew: Well, I mean, I think it was like 39% on its own.

[00:29:39] Emily: Um, so yeah, this is, it is the only alcohol in one of these cocktails and that sounds viable.

[00:29:46] It’s like four, four and a half parts of it. And then two parts sugar, two parts, lime, and then top of ginger beer. That sounds fine.

[00:29:57] There’s a, there’s a tech talk that I like, and they’re taking a little break, but it’s called, um, should it be prohibited or something like that, where they, they make prohibition era cocktails and they decide should still be prohibited and all these products in your cocktails, what they have in common is it’s just like almost all liquor is very, very strong cocktails and they are all by.

[00:30:20] And at least two women, they just drink. I’m sorry if I mis-gendering them, these two people, they drank them and, uh, they’re just like hilarious.

[00:30:30] Every once in a while, one of them is like, that’s all right, but they’re like nasty, nasty now.

[00:30:40] Andrew: Well, Hey, with that said, if anybody wants to send me some recipes of what they like for Nate Bronco with, uh, this would be a great opportunity for you to join our Patrion discord channel. So we can chat about these things.

[00:30:52] Cause we do have

[00:30:54] Emily: a liquor. Do you

[00:30:57] Andrew: think we call it booze?

[00:30:58] Emily: We do

[00:30:59] Andrew: call it this, but which also ends up being our coffee channel at the same time, because why not?

[00:31:04] Emily: For Nate Coke. That’s what it is. So yeah, maybe just some Coke. Oh, there they make us there’s a Sazerac I like a SASA rack.

[00:31:12] Andrew: I could see that working with rye.

[00:31:14] Right. Would, it was just so overpowering. It was only half an ounce in that whole cocktail. It was just so overpowering. I almost wonder like you get used

[00:31:21] Emily: to, oh, there’s one with ice cream

[00:31:26] Andrew: as messaging, Mark Johnson about it. And he’s like, have you thought about just dialing it back? Like just a bar spoon.

[00:31:33] Oh, yeah. That’s not a bad idea. Okay. Rein that in a bit.

[00:31:40] I see the potential. I really do see the potential. I just need to figure out, like wrap my brain around that whole profile and how strong it is and how it would play nice with other. In the same glass,

[00:31:53] Emily: so was said,

[00:31:56] Andrew: but yeah, I did not finish that cocktail. I feel bad, but, uh, I mentioned the point I, at this point in my life, if it doesn’t taste good, I’m just going to pour it.

[00:32:06] Emily: That’s always been my rule with alcohol since I started drinking was if I don’t enjoy the flavor, I’m not going to drink it. Yup. Yep. That works. That’s, that’s the safe thing to do. So I feel like it’s a dangerous place if you’re drinking something that you don’t like the taste of.

[00:32:24] Andrew: Yep. So I poured it and I opted to crack a old cold, reliable beer from the fridge.

[00:32:30] Instead, while I did some food prep,

[00:32:34] Emily: this week’s podcast is sponsored by for Nate, for Dave Blanca, Brian. Okay. Bronco. It’s Felipe sponsored by the Caroline guitar

[00:32:49] Andrew: company. It’s going to say I pay way too much for that bottle, for it to have been a sponsored

[00:32:57] Emily: bipedal is from the Caroline guitar company. They will wreak havoc on your board if you want them to, because there’s a switch that you can choose. To engage when you want the habit. It’s optional. Unlike if you pour too much, Fornay Bronca into your cocktail, they just have it on your palette and that’s it.

[00:33:21] That’s it. But.

[00:33:26] Yeah, you’re done. Dump it down the sink. That’s your only option. No, no

[00:33:36] pauses spots are getting weirder and weirder.

[00:33:41] Andrew: Felipe’s kind of birds. And he’s like, he’s either like increasing, like what are these guys doing? And the other part of it was like, oh, this is good. I like this. I hope that all, let them down. Whatever. You’re Fred.

[00:33:54] Emily: Don’t let them down.

[00:33:56] Andrew: So don’t let don’t let me down by letting down Felipe go buy something.

[00:34:02] There we go. That that’s the critical part of shame that we need to have in our ed sponsorships. No shame, no shame. Just, just do it. It’s that time of the year pedals honestly, make for great stocking stuffers, just really the size and form factor,

[00:34:18] Emily: especially if your stockings a little stretch.

[00:34:21] Andrew: If you have loved one who plays guitar and or anything else that would appreciate the pedal, like since stocking stuffers, Tanya bass.

[00:34:32] And honestly, Caroline does

[00:34:34] Emily: sounds great on bass.

[00:34:36] Andrew: Caroline does not charge as much as I believe that they should be true. So with that in mind, honestly, honestly, guide that’s that’s in the realm of stocking stuffer prices for a lot of people,

[00:34:48] Emily: just get your loved one, a somersault for Christmas, and that are going to be like, how did you know me this?

[00:34:54] Well, I love you so much. This is the best. It’s like

[00:35:00] Andrew: such a really, I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like Caroline pedals. I genuinely mean that I’m not being paid to say that, like, I really need.

[00:35:08] Emily: There’s a reason because I made with love and attention to detail.

[00:35:15] Yeah. And you open the bag and they have little special message on them. Great, great. Low risk gift and high reward. Exactly. Do it. Do it. Happy holidays. One of my favorite scenes from Christmas vacation is when they’re, uh, Clark Griswold is, there’s like the line of guys. And they’re like, he’s like, I was like, kiss my ass because my ass kiss his ass.

[00:35:50] Happy Hanukkah. No, no, I don’t know what reminded me then.

[00:35:56] Andrew: No idea. But speaking of the holidays, the holiday that matters is this.

[00:36:04] Emily: Halloween spooky Halloween.

[00:36:08] Andrew: Hello, ween. And what do we do on Halloween?

[00:36:14] Emily: Dress up,

[00:36:15] Andrew: dress up, make candy.

[00:36:18] Emily: We have a good time. Oh, I see. You’re making a

[00:36:20] Andrew: transition. Yes. I’m making a very belabored, uh, and.

[00:36:25] Impossibly awkward transition, but we’re getting there. So with dressing up, what else can we dress up and alter in ways that are aesthetically and or otherwise? Please?

[00:36:40] Emily: Affordable guitars,

[00:36:41] Andrew: affordable guitars. There we go. All right. We’re back on track affordable guitars for this Halloween episode, I thought it could be kind of cool to talk about ways that we could dress our guitars up w things that we could do to modify them and, uh, in the spirit of Halloween, but really just in the spirit of like tone and enjoying things.

[00:36:59] And, yeah.

[00:37:01] Emily: So talk about them. Talk about

[00:37:04] Andrew: the Genesis of this idea is I saw an article. Uh, about the guitar player from Genesis playing bullet stress on

[00:37:12] Emily: stage. What’s the guitar player from Genesis, his name?

[00:37:15] Andrew: Uh, I don’t remember off the top of my head. I really should know this. There

[00:37:21] Emily: we go. Uh, you’re the one who likes ProgRock.

[00:37:25] Andrew: Uh, I like. Thank you. Mike Rutherford has been playing bullet stress on stage. And so his guitar tech gave an interview and it was talking about like, yeah, like, sure. Sometimes you do some of the modifications that sometimes you just plays them out of the box and he likes it that way and it’s like, oh, trip out.

[00:37:48] And so if that’s not motivation, Start small, just start with a square and then build up from there. I don’t know it is. And so the guitar tech talks about a couple of different things that they’ll do sometimes is, uh, when they’re playing on stage with the big screens behind them, he’ll swap out pickups for, for the noiseless not because Mike wants it that way, just because from a guitar tech perspective, you need to cut down the noise.

[00:38:13] Uh, outside of that,

[00:38:14] Emily: uh, I like the noiseless pickups personally. I have them in the. They’ve come out of the hurt Strat. I live in the hearse dry. I think they’re great. I played those with Sunday crush and I have them in the player plus series telling, I think, I think I sound really good personally.

[00:38:30] Andrew: They’re also long

[00:38:32] Emily: way. They’re also really high, really high output. No one comment on the video about the app, really,

[00:38:41] Andrew: uh, replacing the tuners. Uh, just re slotting the nut, very common. That’s a super easy one that you can learn how to do on your own. There’s plenty of tutorials out there. It’s actually not that hard to do.

[00:38:56] Emily: Yeah. And for buying like a sub $400 guitar, taking it to a tech for a setup that would do a lot of those things, it’s still way less expensive than buying a $1,400 guitar.

[00:39:08] Andrew: Right. And so, yeah, I don’t know. I thought that was a good Halloween discussion.

[00:39:17] Emily: Yeah. So, I mean, I’ve dressed up a lot of guitars. A lot of people know, I mean, I have this one behind me, this Frankin Stein of a guitar.

[00:39:29] It’s probably my most dressed up guitar by a lot. I mean, this thing started as a body and a neck from the Tacoma guitar show. Maybe not the best example of starting with a cheap guitar. But, um, uh, I think this might be my best example of starting with the chief guitar.

[00:39:54] Andrew: Oh, I know that one. Yeah.

[00:39:57] Emily: It looks familiar. My star caster. So this. Is the guitar started at all on the channel. And I didn’t even do a lot of the stuff that he talks about doing. I didn’t, I, this has the stock pickups that they’re a little grimy. I took off the pick guard so I could, uh, swap out the wiring more easily, but mostly I’ve just adjusted the hell out of the wiring things to gun street wiring.

[00:40:21] I added a Duesenberg, uh, less trim too. And, um, I actually, I do have, I do have pickups. I want to swap out on this one eventually, but, uh, I mean, yeah, it’s probably not as far as like, like if you have like a Strat or tele as a Squire, you can do a lot more, more easily just because like there’s more aftermarket parts and stuff, but I mean, you could still do a whole hell of a lot.

[00:40:54] With this kind of thing, but, um, yeah, I have, uh, my, my supersonic, I sought out the pickups and wiring on that. Um, my Jazzmaster, my also tell you, I should say I had a big speed of that. I added a Lala royalty pickup in the neck. Uh, I upgraded the wiring to a. Uh, for a forest switch. So I’ve series and the fourth position series switching in the fourth position instead of parallel, instead of just parallel, I should say, uh, I love, I love doing that kind of thing.

[00:41:36] It’s just fun. And then I have some guitars. I am going to keep completely stocked because they’re, they’re the more expensive the guitar. The more likely I am to keep it stock, frankly. But like, and you know, you can achieve guitar and you, you learn on it and you learn about the things. And that’s what, that’s what I love doing.

[00:41:56] You get a cheap guitar, you learn how to do the wild stuff on it, because if you muck it up, Bolwell who cares,

[00:42:07] Andrew: Hey, there’s definitely an element of who cares. There’s also the element of honestly, and I think the sentiment is pulled from that, that interview. With Mike’s guitar. Tech is things have come a very long way for entry-level guitars.

[00:42:22] And entry-level today is not the same thing as entry level 10, 15, 20 years ago. And I guess I bring that up in an attempt to dash this pervasive notion that more expensive is more better because that’s not entirely true. And the flexibility that you get. With having something that’s not quite as expensive out of the box in that freedom, then modify it.

[00:42:48] So your own liking, I think works really, really well for a lot more players than do it. And I think I just encourage people, get yourself a project guitar. That’s Halloween, dress it up, make it your own, have some fun with it, make it a replica of something else. But with your own twist,

[00:43:07] I worked on a project with a buddy in college. We did a Franken Strat copy. I mean, that was. Uh, that was a good example of taking a cheap bullet Stratton and dressing it up. So I mean, some of the things you can do.

[00:43:20] Emily: Yeah. Um, I mean, as far as the Squires go, um, like I was, I’m always kind of in, of when I get a classic vibe series at the paranormal series and maybe like the weird things are like, Rutherford’s uh, texts, which swaps out the pickups.

[00:43:40] I don’t always, they’re not always like what I would want, so yeah. Maybe I’ll switch those out or the wiring or, um, the tuning machines. Yeah. Maybe like the stuff that you might want maybe want, um, the. Uh, you want what you want. So, um, but like when I got like the contemporary series, I’m like this, these are great.

[00:44:05] These are great for what they are the neck. If the neck is good, if the body is good, lightweight, well-constructed everything else is gravy, frankly. And you. You want all those things to be great and nice. Um, you know, it kind of stunk that the baritone Cabernet to tele bear time for the paranormal series at the output, Jack.

[00:44:29] Wasn’t great. But these, these, these electro sockets are so cheap and easy to replace on Amazon. And you know, this is a better, this is better than what they would have put in in any way. No tuning machines. Yeah. Yeah. Those are like 50 bucks. I can kind of suck to replace a nut. It’s going to take a little bit of work.

[00:44:54] It’s cool to learn how to do that on your own. You can look at it as an opportunity. Yeah, it sucks. It sucks if you have to do that.

[00:45:01] Andrew: Right. And if you’re the sort of person that’s looking to get something that just plays well, like out of the box, I mean, that’s fine. You’re also probably the person that buys your entire costume from, from a spirit store without getting creative at all.

[00:45:12] So, you know, there is that and. Yeah, it’s Halloween. Make it your own. Have some fun. It’s like cosplay, but for tone, sort of

[00:45:28] Emily: pause, play for tone.

[00:45:34] What?

[00:45:38] I guess that’s more if you’re doing.

[00:45:41] Andrew: If you, if that’s, if you’re doing like replicated guitar, I suppose. Uh, so as far as guitar pedals it’s been running through the back of my head is like, if you’re concerned about being for your buck. Yeah. I think my hot take here is. If you had to put together a rig for like under a thousand bucks, it’s our ant pedals and whatnot.

[00:46:03] You’re better off sinking a little bit, like getting a cheaper Squire and like beefing that up and then going, she’d run the pedal end of things, because there’s plenty of really solid, affordable pedals out there that are, that are still made in the U S and. You can get a whole lot of sounds out of you don’t necessarily need like you’re 28 pedal rig.

[00:46:24] And

[00:46:24] Emily: what do you mean by affordable pedals? Because that’s going to vary a lot by person. Like, like, I think a lot of people think about affordable pedals by like what Ryan Burke does for the affordable ward, which is like sub 50 bucks.

[00:46:36] Andrew: Like I’m not thinking some 50 bucks, I’m thinking around a hundred, $150 mark.

[00:46:41] Emily: You’re thinking about like, um, TC. Uh, or like

[00:46:46] Andrew: even like take a boutique builder, like, uh, uh, I guess I’m not even sure if I could consider Earthquaker boutique just from a size perspective, but yeah, historically boutique and might as well be just

[00:46:58] Emily: a hundred dollars options for really cool clothes.

[00:47:01] Andrew: Plums is a great $99 option.

[00:47:03] That sounds better than pretty much every other tube screamer on the planet. And it doesn’t get much better than that. In terms of just like bang for buck, kind of working your way through having that in the guitar giving, if you give your signal chain something good to work with, you’re going to have really great results.

[00:47:19] And if you just have like, just get an out of the box, uh, $800 something. Yeah.

[00:47:28] Emily: Also, yeah. I mean, you can also look at something again, like the pod go that will scratch a lot of bitches for not a lot of money. Yep. I like Squires and afford cheaper guitars that are still well-built. I know we talked about Squire a lot, but like her, they are just frankly kind of killing it. I know people will say, oh, they send you a lot of stuff and yeah, they do.

[00:47:55] Andrew: You also buy a

[00:47:55] Emily: lot of their stuff. I do. Yeah. I mean, I bought the, both of those contemporary guitarist. I demoed, um, I bought the baritone. Um, they sent me the supersonic. Um, they sent me the cycle and last year they sent me more of the fenders than anything just cause I’m not like going to pay for those.

[00:48:18] Uh,

[00:48:20] Andrew: but yeah.

[00:48:21] Emily: Yeah. So I, I tend to buy the, the Squires just because, you know, I can, uh, so thank you to our Patriots and thank you to people who watch on YouTube because that’s where some of that money goes. Um, but. The thing is like, they are kind of killing it. And that’s why I think I spend more of that money there.

[00:48:43] Um, try to just hard to argue with it really is. Um, and then like other brands just aren’t willing to pay, like, I don’t know, glary tried to send me a guitar and I was like, I don’t want it. Cause I know it sucks. Like I’ve seen enough videos of other people with the bill quality issues and like, I know, kind of what I’m going to say about it.

[00:49:05] Like, yeah, I don’t really want this guitar in my life. So I had to try to have a conversation with them about like, I don’t really want to keep this guitar probably. So they just, weren’t really interested in working with me,

[00:49:20] Andrew: could have given it to a

[00:49:22] Emily: kid, you know, no, I’m not going to have a kid have a bad first experience with a guitar.

[00:49:27] You know, I’ll throw it off a bridge,

[00:49:31] Andrew: but which bridge. If you had to pick a bridge in the Seattle area to throw a guitar, what would it be? The

[00:49:37] Emily: 99 Barbara, the Aurora bridge, obviously the troll bridge. Yeah. Yeah, the tallest one now that’s that’s too populated.

[00:49:49] Andrew: It might actually

[00:49:51] Emily: hurt somebody. Oh, I would get arrested for that one.

[00:49:58] That’d be littering.

[00:50:01] Andrew: Only if you didn’t pick it up, like, oh no, I accidentally dropped it. I’m so sorry. You guys

[00:50:06] Emily: accidentally

[00:50:08] Andrew: while the camera was rolling. Whoops. Was that

[00:50:11] Emily: just throw it off my third floor, maybe go to my, my neighbors have like, actually like roof access. Just throw it on to eighth and nah, nah.

[00:50:25] Nah, nothing like that. No. Uh, I got no ideas.

[00:50:31] Andrew: I mean, you could throw it off of the 90 floating bridge, but, uh, that probably wouldn’t make the splash.

[00:50:41] Emily: I actually got rid of the drum effect and I thought it would come back and it never came back. Oh, our marrow.

[00:50:52] Andrew: Happy Halloween. That’s what I have to say. Happy Halloween. Hope you’re inspired. Hope this is the push that some of our listeners need to just go for it,

[00:51:01] Emily: do it. You can, you know, you can use our sweet water affiliate links and we’ll get a little middle of the month. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, either Sweetwater river affiliate links though.

[00:51:12] I also highly recommend buying locally.

[00:51:15] Andrew: I do recommend buying local mind, seriously buy local. We’ve got the affiliate links, links. If you don’t have access to a quality local shop, uh, we would appreciate using that. But if you do have access to a quality local shop, please don’t worry about the whatever percentage that the show gets for it.

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