Get Offset Episode 163: Get This Not That, Holiday Edition

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[00:00:00] Emily: welcome to the get

[00:00:13] Andrew: offset podcast. My name is Andrew.

[00:00:16] Emily: My name is Emily and we survived Thanksgiving. Sorry. There was a pause and I just decided to fill

[00:00:22] Andrew: it. No, no, trust me that there is plenty of filling this weekend.

[00:00:28] Emily: It was filling, there was stuff and there was dressing. We call it dressing unless it’s inside of the Turkey and you should never put it inside of the Turkey unless you want to dry bird.

[00:00:37] Andrew: Yeah. And I, my family has always called it stuffing, even though it’s never been stuffed in the Turkey,

[00:00:46] Emily: the dressing ones

[00:00:47] Andrew: on the side, the handwritten recipe. Right. Uh, I’ve got a, like a scan of a handwritten copy from like four years ago. That’s just been in the family. That’s what I loosely based my stuffing slash dressing on every year.

[00:01:01] So I know that like, technically it should be called dressing, but we’ve just always called this stuffing and it feels very, like, I’m not willing to like, let go of whole aspects of my childhood being like, quite yet. So

[00:01:13] Emily: just, just the bulk of

[00:01:15] Andrew: them. Yep. So I’m just going to call it stuffing. If stove top can call it stovetop stuffing, I can call my family recipe stuffing.

[00:01:23] It

[00:01:23] Emily: doesn’t hurt. Nope, I suppose,

[00:01:27] Andrew: not that entirely. Why I upped my stuff and came this

[00:01:32] Emily: year,

[00:01:36] Andrew: learned

[00:01:36] Emily: MSG. Oh, well, Lauren, Lauren makes everything good

[00:01:40] Andrew: or does make everything good. And then I also made, um, last couple of years, I’ve just cheated and used chicken stock because I wasn’t the one making the Turkey as well. So I couldn’t use pan drippings. And I saw they had Turkey backs at QFC for like 60 cents.

[00:01:55] I’m like, yeah, I’m going to grab one of those in big stock, so, yup. Yup. Oh, it was a good Thanksgiving.

[00:02:05] Emily: Good. Yeah, ours was ours is pretty good too. I, um, I don’t know about you, but like we, we don’t eat or we don’t, we were, we weren’t advised to show up until like five. So, uh, and we also weren’t advised to bring anything except alcohol.

[00:02:21] So we had basically the whole day off, which was just phenomenal. Thank you so much, Laura, Linda, Bob for just giving me that deck. So, um, so I just, uh, in, in Treme fashion filmed a bunch of DevOps.

[00:02:40] Andrew: Nice.

[00:02:42] Emily: Yeah. So, um, I kept busy, but I needed it so badly. It felt good. It felt really good. Yeah. And then, you know, my niece was really cute and fun.

[00:02:55] She would miss the next day at the table and, um, I love. Her idea of a personal favor. Cause I’d be like, I consider it a personal favor. If you like eat the rest of your Turkey and her idea of a personal favor is will you play iPad games with me? I like, of course I will. I mean, I was probably going to have to do that anyway.

[00:03:22] It was pretty cute. So it was good. It was a good Thanksgiving. Um, and then black Friday, my basis came over and we assembled the Lego fender guitar. So yeah. It’s, I’m going to show you the amp first, but I guess I’ll go and go. Oh, reach, reach. It’s just like they’re, they’re attached via like cable right now, so right.

[00:03:53] So scare. No excellent navigated away from you on the screen there. I can navigate back. I created like five. Oh, there you are. I create. But the amp is especially impressive because yeah, I was going to unplug the guitar really quickly, but like there’s a back panel. Firstly, it’s kind of interesting. There is a speaker.

[00:04:23] You can take the top.

[00:04:27] Andrew: Oh snap. It’s got like a term board situation.

[00:04:31] Emily: Yeah. And then you can flip that up and see the tubes is a serial number. Either. The serial number is well, whatever it doesn’t matter.

[00:04:47] Andrew: I wonder if the serial number is unique to each unit, that’d be

[00:04:50] Emily: so sick. I don’t think it is, but yeah, there’s tubes.

[00:04:55] I can take off this piece here. You can actually see. See them. That’s so cool. Yeah. The attention to detail is pretty, pretty phenomenal in it. So I’m like, oh wow.

[00:05:11] Andrew: I kind of just expect you to be like a box

[00:05:14] Emily: I had to. And then when Isaac was putting it together, they were like, oh my God, I felt a little bad about it.

[00:05:23] Like, it wouldn’t have been even more cool because they told me that the day before they’d put together, um, what their dad and uncle, the home alone set. And they said that that came with like a battery to like do the Christmas lights. I’m like, how cool would it have been at this? Had a battery to turn on the Juul

[00:05:38] Andrew: light.

[00:05:38] Pretty cool.

[00:05:40] Emily: Yeah. That would have been, that would have been extra like that. Like not extra in a financial sense is extra and like, no, strictly, like,

[00:05:49] Andrew: I bet you could mind your new amp.

[00:05:54] Emily: No, I’m not that extra. I’m not that extra personal.

[00:05:59] Andrew: You just get a nine volt power supply, couple of a led and the right transistor to, or not transistors the right resistor, keep blowing it out. And,

[00:06:11] Emily: and then there’s the guitar. I did something wrong in the back there. It’s okay. Uh, yeah, I I’d already, I’ve already dropped this one, so it’s okay.

[00:06:24] It’s okay. I’m going to put this upstairs somewhere safe. I’m away from my amplifier that I bumped into multiple times a day. Um, but yeah, it’s, it’s really neat. This was quite a feat, too big. The strings were hard to dude and it takes, it takes some work to tighten them. I, people were saying that like, I think that you’d like, literally turn the.

[00:06:52] Here’s one, one pop as one pops up. If you were listening as you’re listening, I just made one pop off. Oh no, it hit me in the eye. Pop, pop, pop, boom. Uh, yeah, so, um, this was really fun. This is, it was a fun way to spend, we went live on Facebook. So a big thank you to Robert for super chatting us. That was a very nice, very generous, very generous, super chat.

[00:07:24] And we, uh, highly recommend drinking mimosas while you put together like as an adult and makes you feel like a kid again, because it makes it harder.

[00:07:37] Yeah. As you spent your black Friday,

[00:07:42] Andrew: uh, I spent it not buying anything and just having friends over for Friendsgiving and smoked some brats, hung out and had a great time. It’s one of those like kind of expected people to be out by like seven or eight, just by the way that we had scheduled it. And then when, like the first couple left at nine, like, all right.

[00:08:00] Yeah, we did something. Right,

[00:08:02] Emily: right. You’re like, right.

[00:08:06] Andrew: Okay. We had people over like at three. Uh, no, it was really good. It was a really, really great time. Uh, it was strange in the sense that I invited three sets of friends that it all never met each other, but I’ve all known for years. I was like, wait, you’re the guy that Andrew talks about.

[00:08:26] So it was a really neat, really good time. I should probably get around to doing some sort of shopping,

[00:08:36] Emily: but yeah, I’ve done most of mine. I want to get, you know, something probably guitar related from my mom, which I’m sure we’ll talk about later, later, um, ’cause, you know, she’s been playing so much guitar lately.

[00:08:51] Um, I’ve already gotten something for my mom, my dad, my brother, my niece, my sister-in-law Rick’s pretty well taken care of. Oh my God. You don’t last, last week I was like, I got him an amp. He goes of washers. He bought no, he came down to hang out, like during last week’s premiere, like an eat dinner. Cause we were like eating.

[00:09:14] Cause I got takeout. He comes down just as I’m talking about the app and then I’m like, Hey, he doesn’t watch this. And they just looks at me like

[00:09:26] Andrew: cotton 4k.

[00:09:28] Emily: Good guy. Yeah. And then the amps showed up yesterday. So two days ago they showed up on Friday. Um, so the amps. Yes. I said amps because Andrew got one too.

[00:09:43] Andrew: Maybe might’ve, uh, might’ve gone for an early Christmas present for Moi and, or maybe late birthday present for myself. Both technically use birthday money for that then.

[00:09:56] Emily: Yeah. Hey, when you have a coupon, you have a coupon that covers the cart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we were playing, we got, I got on the fender rumble 100. It sounds good. I was worried. It wouldn’t feel like loud enough. It’s going to be plenty loud,

[00:10:17] Andrew: plenty loud.

[00:10:18] Emily: It’s going to be plenty of out. Plenty loud for the stages on which I play bass right now.

[00:10:24] And for the two bass gigs I’ve played, I’ve already, you know, mostly paid it off. I mean, it’s a good for Rick. It’s a good for Rick Nasser. It’s not for me. It’s not for me. It’s not for me. It’s for Rick. It’s for Rick. It’s for Rick, but also. I told them myself, Rick will, Rick will absolutely play that amp more, but I will borrow it to play out.

[00:10:47] Like, he’ll play it at home and then I’ll take it out. Cause I’m not going to play it at home. I’m going to play through my DEI stuff at home. Yeah. That’s how I roll. So what’s new with you other than you get other than this bass amp that is sitting at my feet, like a cat,

[00:11:09] Andrew: uh, let’s see here. What’s new with me is I’ve been putting up new listings on the Fox Cairo shop, like crazy this week.

[00:11:18] Emily: Yeah. And you want to talk about those or if you’re shown off like what the new product

[00:11:23] Andrew: is, uh, I think I’ve shown off the house behind me. It’s the new pod go topper. That

[00:11:28] Emily: those are really cool. I think they look really nice. Excited for them. Find over here. Yeah,

[00:11:41] I should have a demo of this this week, but yeah. Getting some colors on, that’ll be really exciting.

[00:11:48] Andrew: Oh, for sure. I’ve got your top sitting right over here. I’ll pro maybe deliver later today. Question mark.

[00:11:57] Emily: Uh, yeah. If the rest of what you, what w w well, I have something else for you for Christmas coming in.

[00:12:04] So while you know, you know what it is, right, right. The rest of your Christmas, present to yourself, I’m going to get you a gift too. Don’t worry. It’s just going to figure that one out yet.

[00:12:19] Andrew: We can talk about ideas for that later. Uh, no, but I’m just very excited to, uh, to, to have new listings in the shop.

[00:12:27] I’m excited to have a chance to. I’ve been planning out this way of like building out new listings in a way that doesn’t involve, uh, like 10 hours of listing, just because what I always historically done is like take, uh, physically design the top or physically make it then install it, which means ripping off an old top Ridge feels so wasteful.

[00:12:50] Um, I’ve had to toss a lot of toppers just in the name of getting new photos and, uh,

[00:12:58] Emily: green screening them. Like everybody else.

[00:13:01] Andrew: That’s what I’ve essentially started doing yet. The reason why I didn’t do it before is, uh, one, I, I’m not good at Photoshop at all, and into taking a design, but then texturing it and Photoshop is just an extra level of, I don’t know how to do that.

[00:13:18] So like I could like get, probably get the design. Relocate itself over, but, so I got somebody on fiber to essentially create a fancy clipping mask with a texture over the top of it. So pictures in the shop now should be, uh, really convincingly, real looking like I’ve compared like the side-by-side with the original photo.

[00:13:39] I took with an overlaying, the new artwork, and it’s just like slightly different. Um, the coloration is slightly different in the mock-up photo versus the real photo. Uh, but honestly then looking at it in real life that mock-up looks more real because my phone camera sucks.

[00:13:55] Emily: Yeah. I don’t know what even posting the Instagram, but is this the real pictures or are they the mockup?

[00:14:03] Uh, those are

[00:14:03] Andrew: mock-ups. Uh, the one I posted this morning, it was real because I don’t have a glow in the dark mock-up

[00:14:10] Emily: no, but like the ones, the past couple of days of the podcast, they looks great.

[00:14:14] Andrew: Yeah. No, I’m super excited and that meant. Got home for Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving. Um, cause we also did, I’ve done two different family, Thanksgiving dinners and a friends giving eaten a lot, but I got home family passed out, uh, uh, kiddo wanted to curl up in our own bed and like, that’s fine.

[00:14:33] It was like nine o’clock. They were completely out snoring. And I was like, all right, cool. And then I sat here at my desk and just cranked out a whole bunch of listings and just kind of cycling the artwork into the Photoshop template, creating the, the render for it, double checking and make sure it looks good.

[00:14:46] And then creating a listing was almost therapeutic in terms of how easy it was and sitting here, like after years of doing w doing it the way that I’ve been doing it going, oh my God, why haven’t I done this sooner?

[00:14:59] Emily: Yeah, yeah, no, sometimes you wonder that kind of thing. When, when you find a process that makes your life easier, the only thing you get mad about is like, why didn’t I do this?

[00:15:11] Yep. It’s like when I bought a theory Uber of last year, I look at this year and I’m just like, why didn’t I buy more of it? Sure.

[00:15:23] Andrew: So to that end, I want to borrow a couple of your volume pedals so I can get a good mock-up photos.

[00:15:30] Emily: We’re about to ask about some of my Ethereum, like no, no, no, no.

[00:15:37] Andrew: Uh, the mission volume pedal would be great. The Moyle volume pedal would be great. I have

[00:15:41] Emily: a mission volume pedal yet. I’m just getting Moyo. Is that the itty bitty one?

[00:15:48] The Eddie video

[00:15:49] Andrew: on, yeah. And then I think one of the other,

[00:15:52] Emily: I don’t know if that has a top that comes off,

[00:16:00] do you, you know, more about, than I do.

[00:16:04] Andrew: I don’t need to take the top off. I just need to take a picture of the whole pedal. Um,

[00:16:09] Emily: what I mean is I don’t, I don’t know if it is a non-adhesive wait. No, no. You made a topper for that. Nevermind. Dumb. Dumb. Yeah. No, I love that little thing. It’s perfect for pedal steel because it’s passive.

[00:16:24] Andrew: Right? Right. So, so those are the two that I want to borrow. Uh, and I, I also want to get my hands on a bloomery and

[00:16:33] Emily: then before, oh, I forgot you had that. Yeah. It’s old. I’m not sure it works.

[00:16:42] Andrew: Um, I probably also part of that, I’ve got, yeah, I’ve got those. I’ve got a boss somewhere back there that I need to do.

[00:16:54] But, yeah, no, I’m just kind of realizing, like, if I can just get, like, make a topper for it, get a good photo and then a relatively small amount of money on Fiverr. And I can have like listings ready to go and just start cranking things out. Yeah. So I’ve added like 30 listings in the last week, uh, which like doubled my shop size.

[00:17:16] I’ve got a lot more, um, I’ve just got to list. I’m kind of just slowly poking my way through I’m at the point where I’m having like actually skew my listings so I can keep track of them easier and

[00:17:29] Emily: yeah. Doing it super easy. I’ve got

[00:17:32] Andrew: a holiday right now. I’ve got a Google sheet. It’s just that like a Google spreadsheet.

[00:17:37] And I’ve just got like, what design do I have? Uh, and then what pedal is it for? And then my skew is just like, oh yeah, like Ernie ball volume pedal junior is like on a road C. And if I wanted like, the, it is well with my soul will be like on row eight. So it’d be like C H.

[00:17:55] Emily: There’s a system,

[00:17:58] Andrew: but figuring it out as I go, that’s been my week,

[00:18:02] Emily: my week was literally calendaring out my demo schedule and it is overwhelming to the end of the year.

[00:18:13] It is like everybody suddenly decided to, yeah. It’s like, everyone was like, oh, I have, you know, how we’ve been going, Emily all summer, all summer and fall.

[00:18:30] Andrew: Well, I mean, I’ve read a lot of, lot of companies are getting a sudden influx of income at the same time that they’re trying to figure out how they can spend it to roll out some of that, the taxability on it.

[00:18:42] Yeah. So. So,

[00:18:45] Emily: yeah, I’m not complaining. I’m very happy to have, um, the work and I’m very grateful. So thank you to everybody who is throwing, uh, demos my way. I have a lot coming, so, uh, stay tuned and I’m very excited. I’m very excited, including my what’s new. My, my favorite what’s new today is I’m the model cycles by electron.

[00:19:16] Yeah, this is a completely

[00:19:20] Andrew: out of my Elon Musk.

[00:19:23] Emily: Maybe, maybe. So I actually, I I’ve unplugged a guy had had headphones plugged into it, so I can’t really play it for you, but this basically has right now, I’m just kind of working through the manual. Cause I just, I literally just got it last night, but, uh, it’s one it’s so small.

[00:19:42] It’s really lightweight, but it feels kind of feels pretty robust. And I’ve been, uh, kind of working through, like, it comes with a bunch of, um, beats in an already in each of these track pads, like that’s bass snare. That’s like some Tom that, some other kind of percussion, that’s a sense, like a Monticello and that’s a chord sense.

[00:20:07] So you can, and then this is like different like pitches of the, of each of the things. So different pitches of a base, or you can actually play like a synth keyboard. Yeah. So we’re, so I’ve been going through and I’ve been, um, like muting the, kind of these three and going through kind of the different ones.

[00:20:34] I’m like, man, I could really like practice and like writing things. Cause I’ve been in a bit of a creative rut, to be honest, I just haven’t had like, sure. I don’t know what it is. It’s just been kind of like a hard lately. And I feel like this is really going to like push me out of that. Like even, even before, like, like I’ve never really made beats, so I don’t really know much about that, but it’s really neat.

[00:20:59] Um, and just having everything kind of lined up in 16th notes, I’m sorry, eighth notes on the bottom. There is really visual, more visual. So like, if I hit play, you can see it going through. You can literally see it going through everything and then it sh and then it lights up when like the bass is triggered in real time or when the snare.

[00:21:25] So you can see this one has a lot of snare and this one has a lot of that. Yeah. And then obviously I turned. These too often, I’ve set this one up for kind of a randomness. Like you can even set it up to like randomly trigger, like the scent things. So it doesn’t happen every time it could happen, like 30% of the time.

[00:21:44] It’s a really cool, I’m like I’m having a lot of excitement with it, so yeah, that sounds super cool. Yeah. So big. Thanks. Sweetwater sent this to me. Yeah. Thanks. Sweet water. Thank you. Sweet water. Thanks Tyler. I’m really excited. I also think very big that I can’t actually physically pick up right now. I have the fader port eight for pre for PreSonus, which is just making my life a lot easier already.

[00:22:14] Yeah. I mean, I’m I used studio one to record. I don’t know why more people don’t. I think it’s fantastic. But, uh, the theater report is basically like. Can’t mix on the light. Just like I hate mixing just like on the computer, like on a screen. So just having like the fader port already is been super nice.

[00:22:39] It’s very, I like tactile things. Same. Yeah. So it’s really neat. It’s funny. Like if you click, if you click on something on the screen, like move up the volume, the, it has flying faders. Nice. I love that everybody loves flying theater. If it’s on my desk. It’s amazing so far. Um, yeah, so those are my two big what’s news other than the Lego.

[00:23:12] Yeah. I’m going to have a lot of what’s new stuff in December. I just, it’s just a lot. Awesome.

[00:23:19] Andrew: I’m uh, I’m fixing possibly for another what’s new, but we’ll see what the deals are because I honestly haven’t looked at deals at all, but, uh, the I’d love to get my hands on a Leal or lay, or I don’t know how to pronounce it.

[00:23:33] The Leh L E a volume pedal

[00:23:40] Emily: typically

[00:23:40] Andrew: goes for like 300, but wonderful. Sweetwater’s got a good deal on or something.

[00:23:45] Emily: Oh, those pretty things.

[00:23:51] Let’s

[00:23:52] Andrew: look it up. Sweet water. What are we

[00:23:55] Emily: at?

[00:24:09] Not today.

[00:24:10] Andrew: Not today. Sweetwater’s also the only retailer I’ve seen around. That’s got the, uh, the stereo version

[00:24:21] Emily: sounds so you can actually have your volume pedal later in your stereo boards signal chain. Yep.

[00:24:29] Andrew: Fantastic. I think could be super fun.

[00:24:32] Emily: Oh, it’ll be fun. Very fun. Uh, speaking of fun, remember how a few weeks ago I told everyone they should get on the Caroline guitar company email list because who knows what they had planned?

[00:24:48] Cause I sure didn’t but what did they have planned? They had a cream cheese. If it was called the chrom and they were doing.

[00:25:00] Andrew: Nice.

[00:25:02] Emily: So I’m really excited about that and that, uh, of course this week’s episode get offset podcast is sponsored by, um, Caroline guitar company, I guess. Uh, I’ve returned the favor.

[00:25:18] So I’m excited that should ship next week. So it sounds great. It sounds very angry. Uh, very intense. I would, I’m very curious about it on the, the base or the baritone. I’ve watched two little demos of it and they’re both just on six strings and I just kinda wanted to hear it on like a heavier instrument

[00:25:40] Andrew: so I could see being super sick.

[00:25:44] Emily: Yeah. Where’s seven string guitar

[00:25:49] Andrew: sludgy. I did get that name just sounds so primal

[00:25:55] Emily: crumb.

[00:26:00] So I’m really excited. I’m yeah, I’m excited. And that just reminds me that I need to change some diets on things. Uh, what did I do? What did I do? I changed some dates now. I need to figure some shit out. I have so many demos. I knew I had this scheduled. I had to start, um, an actual, like to do list calendar and holy moly.

[00:26:31] Oh, let’s put you on the ninth as already something on the night film.

[00:26:45] Andrew: I’m scared to look at my calendar. I know a couple of weeks ago I sat down and looked at my calendar with, uh, with Molson kind of plan things out like, oh, is there like, is there a free weekend? We can like go out of town. No, not until like middle of January, maybe

[00:27:01] Emily: there is the world is my life is poofter.

[00:27:07] Oof. Does all I can say about it?

[00:27:10] Andrew: Um, well there’s a van buyer and it’s

[00:27:16] draining me with my lifeblood.

[00:27:20] Emily: I got an argument. Somebody like Billy Corgan wrote all of Courtney loves songs and I’m like, you know, he openly takes credits for the parts of those songs on slavery skin that he did. Right. Because he’s obviously credited on some of them. So he was like, I wrote the record of celebrity skin.

[00:27:34] I’m like you think if he wrote more than he wouldn’t take more credit,

[00:27:42] I mean, he takes credit for shit. He didn’t write.

[00:27:49] Yeah. Like he, he, he, there, there are smashing pumpkins songs that are basically interpolations of other songs by bands that he took on tour. So, um, but whatever, you didn’t get them writing credit because you know, there there’s some things you just really can’t like, they’re like core progressions and stuff.

[00:28:12] Like it’s kinda hard and like,

[00:28:14] Andrew: yeah, you go back and forth for two chords and like, sure. It could be a deaf tone stone. It could be a smashing pumpkins song. Like, here’s the say,

[00:28:23] Emily: I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna name names, domain names.

[00:28:28] Andrew: Let’s talk about happy things because I’m not wearing this hat just for the fun of it.

[00:28:33] Black Friday,

[00:28:33] Emily: float is kind of fun. Well, it’s a guitarist really want for holidays, man. I, you know, I I’ve talked, I talk about this with friends a lot because you know, Especially with like family members and stuff. If you sometimes, especially once they don’t know you super duper, well, you express like a little bit of interest in something once and they kind of extrapolate it as being like your entire personality.

[00:29:01] And then you get guests based on that one thing for the rest of your life. I’m like, I have a friend who has a sock monkey and I do frankly, have to resist the urge to like, get her a sock monkey thing. Every time I see a sock monkey thing, I’m like, but she has, because she has a sock monkey. She already has it.

[00:29:18] Um, I like Snoopy. And so for very long time, I would just get a ton of Snoopy shit.

[00:29:28] Yeah. The thing is like, I do love the snippy. Yeah,

[00:29:39] but it’s not all I want and it’s the same with a guitarist. But the thing is like, unlike, I think sock monkey or on like Snoopy, like you’re a guitars. It doesn’t mean that you want a spatula that’s shaped like a guitar.

[00:29:54] Andrew: It doesn’t mean you weren’t shaped like a Strat,

[00:29:57] Emily: the novelty things I think need to stop.

[00:30:05] Andrew: I’m inclined to agree. They at least

[00:30:07] Emily: need to slow down like one or two novelty things. Occasionally is like, I think

[00:30:15] Andrew: given a pick punch, like two or three times

[00:30:19] Emily: high school,

[00:30:23] Andrew: I’m not even sure if I donated last one, if I just throw it away or, you know, I might actually have it around.

[00:30:29] Emily: My, um, my, my best friend in college, her mom had a pick punch and like was like super stoked for it.

[00:30:36] And I remember we’re like, oh, that’s kinda cool. And then we use it for like, these are the words. I just want a real, I just want a real guitar pick.

[00:30:43] Andrew: And then, but like, by the time you do the math, I’m like, oh yeah, you’ve paid $20 for a pig punch. How many pigs do you have to make before you’ve like made back your money, assuming that you’re not paying for materials for the pigs.

[00:30:55] Emily: Yeah. And like, I feel like the, one of the most important things about a guitar pick is the edge. Like w like I like, like, I really like this pig. I got what, where’s this? I have a, I have a guitar pick from Martin that they gave me, and I really like it. And it has like different edges. And that’s really cool.

[00:31:21] The sky, like you can’t make that from a pig punch. And then I have these Ernie ball prodigy picks I’ve just in love with, oh my God. That doesn’t even make the pick size that I like, like, I love these Ernie ball prodigy picks. Sure. Yeah. And they have these beveled edges and that’s kind of like the, I think the most important part of like that’s the most central element.

[00:31:47] Yeah. Because that, just that otherwise I think you’re just getting like a really shitty sound, frankly, I guess, hard to get past that. So instead of getting, and let’s say this, instead of getting that guitar, the pic punch, get them like a. Um, the Ernie ball prodigy has like a set of like different types of picks.

[00:32:13] They, they have a mix and match, um, pick set. So instead of getting a guitarist to pick punch, which makes them shitty guitar picks, get them like I’m an assortment of pigs. Don’t do it. Oh my God. You just made a paper guitar pick.

[00:32:31] Andrew: Yeah. It’s the, uh, the 0.1 millimeter where to go. I lost it already.

[00:32:38] Emily: You’re not going to find that about bottom of your laundry

[00:32:41] Andrew: machine.

[00:32:41] That is the quickest I’ve ever lost a pic and that’s

[00:32:45] Emily: bright pink. Yeah. Yeah. So the pig punch get the guitarist and assortment of various kinds of guitar picks. So that get the guitar she love can experiment, uh, outside of their comfort zone, which is something they might or might not do on their own with their own.

[00:33:06] ’cause I think that’s kind of in a central part of gift giving, like what can you get somebody that they probably weren’t going to buy themselves?

[00:33:14] Andrew: Yep. Which is hard with guitar stuff though. Cause not, everybody’s got like a $300 budget for their loved ones.

[00:33:22] Emily: That’s why I liked the guitar pick idea because guitar picks aren’t that expensive, but it’s still not something that you’re really going to necessarily experiment with guitar pick types on your own.

[00:33:32] Andrew: Right. That’s sort of guitar tech packs, I think are really great idea. If nothing else, that’s just kind of fun to have an experience of sitting down with a handful of picks and just kind of going through the

[00:33:41] Emily: mall. Yeah. And if you don’t like some of them then, oh, well,

[00:33:47] Andrew: so that’s a pretty easy stocking stuffer.

[00:33:49] I’m a fan of that. I’m trying to think of things that aren’t Fox Cairo toppers.

[00:33:56] Emily: We talk about other gifts. We don’t like the spatula, the cutting board. Oh my gosh.

[00:34:04] The cutting, oh God, the minute, like the, like the desk toys. Like I don’t like, I, I mean, I have Funko pops, but I think those are fun. I mean, I do think they’re fun. Like everybody has their own kind of desk toy that they like. So I can’t really speak to that. Like I don’t get it. I just think that, I just think that the desk is hard as look kind of cheap.

[00:34:28] I’ve just never seen one that was convincing. And I almost think that the more realistic, like a desk toy is like stupid or it is like, there’s some like weird, realistic, like prince figuring that you can buy. And I just think it is unholy. I hate it so much.

[00:34:45] Andrew: I see the appeal for some folks. I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna yuck on it.

[00:34:49] I’m just going to say that it’s not for everybody. And, uh, before he come by your loved one, expect them to put it on their desk proudly. Maybe find a creative way to feel that one out, because,

[00:35:01] Emily: well, do they have other things like that? Isn’t they like? And what moral?

[00:35:07] Andrew: Right. Like I like Funko pop. I’ve got a couple of them kicking around.

[00:35:10] Like I wouldn’t hate getting a phone call, pop of guitar player. I’ve got shelf space over my desk. Like I do display some of my items that that would be the worst thing. I’m not likely to do it.

[00:35:21] Emily: Um, another thing to consider with any type of gift like that is if you get like somebody, a Funko pop or a desk guitar per year, and you do this over the course of like 10 years, like I say, it’s a lot, like at what point in like, collecting like a toy, is it just like overwhelming quickly?

[00:35:42] Very it’s like, I always wondered how my dad had so many hats and he’s like, oh, you know, you get, you get one or two hats a year. You know, you get one at the ballpark, you get one football stadium, you get one of the hockey arena. Next thing you know, You know, four years later you had 12 hats. And then now I look at my hat collection.

[00:36:01] I’m like, shit.

[00:36:04] Andrew: Yeah. I was looking for my Santa hat this morning and, uh, yeah, it was like, oh yeah, I’ll just go check my hat and door in the back of my head. I’m like, how do you have an entire drawer for hats? How do you have an entire drawer for hats?

[00:36:16] Emily: How do you hire drawer for hats? I have, um, hat storage.

[00:36:23] It’s like a, like bands that you hang over the back of a door it’s full. We just need to get rid of some, like, as in some ways I som I mean like most right, I’m getting really not very, um, what’s the word for like the opposite of like, like I’m just not caring. Like I just like get out, get out of my life, get out of my life, get out of my life.

[00:36:51] Andrew: Uh,

[00:36:53] Emily: Yeah, I’m just getting, I’m just becoming the anti hoarder, um, hoarder, phobia. I w I wasn’t going to use the word horde, cause I don’t really like talking about words like hoarding, um, and not being gentle about it. Not being sincere, I’m trying to, not to be sentimental about them. Right. So, you know, I want to, you know, I’m going to keep the, like the game warm baseball hat that I bought, because I liked that baseball player, you know, but like the hats I got for free at like timber or whatever, I’m probably gonna get into those.

[00:37:37] Yep. Have a back to the, um, like the cutting boards, the guitar sheet, cutting boards that aren’t even good cutting boards because it’s such awkward shapes. Where are you going to cut on those?

[00:37:49] Andrew: If you’re going to get a good cutting board that’s guitar related there. What’s the name of the company. There’s a company that’s related to Taylor guitars.

[00:37:57] It’s like their owners or something started on the side, but taking like high quality, like leftover chunks of wood from the tailor factoring, turning them into cutting boards. It might be cool. I might be misremembering some of that, but that sounds right in the back of my head. And here, I’m actually going to fact check myself here.

[00:38:16] Emily: Well, one of our Patrion supporters, Jason made me a cutting board. I love it. I used to have my guitar pedal. I need to find it first. Um, I know Dan Dolan who made my flat board. He made cutting boards for awhile, Dolan, customs. I’m not sure if he’s still doing work. I feel like a lot. Oh yeah. Nolan customer.

[00:38:43] Andrew: No, I did mention to, uh, my mom last night, cause I was getting, pulling the primary box. Uh, like, you know, I don’t have like a good cutting board with like deep grooves for catching a

[00:38:59] Emily: oh, CA catching the juices. Yeah. Those are, those are usually plastic boards.

[00:39:03] Andrew: Yeah. I’ve just got cheap plastic boards with the Silicon on the sides. Like, they’re great for like cutting veggies and food prep, but actually carving and stuff. I don’t have a good board for that.

[00:39:11] Emily: Yeah. I have a couple plastic boards I want, I want to know what’d you say?

[00:39:19] Andrew: Oh, I just want a big Mongo board now. So Stella cologne is named the company. It says more than a cutting board. Stella flown was inspired by our passion for quality kitchen tools and desire to build a socially responsible business around ethically sourced, west African Ebony wood, our kitchen work products combined sending segregated, yada yada, our I’ve been, he comes from the small owned by our sister company, Taylor guitar.

[00:39:47] Emily: Nice. So that is actually a cool gift to get guitarists because it’s related to guitars. It’s not, but not so directly hit you over the head related to times.

[00:40:00] Andrew: And I’m looking at the boards that they’ve got here. Like just the Ebony wood figuring is gorgeous. They’re doing like a figure top with like a plain Ebony bottom.

[00:40:10] Nice. Um, that’s cool. Comes with a non-slip mat. Yeah,

[00:40:22] that’s pretty dang cool. That was cool. I just thought I’m not seeing the Woodruff’s and it just looks all right. Oh, there’s the gurus. There we go.

[00:40:33] Emily: Yup.

[00:40:34] Andrew: Yeah. Large boards feature juice group to prevent messes during food prep. Heck yeah.

[00:40:45] Emily: Another one. I see a lot that I’m just like I can’t vibe with is, uh, it’s a key chain that then it’s like an input Jack, and then you hang your keys up by putting them in a key chain holder that’s looks like a guitar amp. And I just think it’s, it’s screams midlife crisis. And I

[00:41:08] Andrew: can’t, I actually hate that.

[00:41:10] One thing that would bother me is like, I, I you’re then committing all of your key chains to that.

[00:41:19] Emily: Yeah. That’s the thing that’s. That is exactly the thing though.

[00:41:23] Andrew: Uh, we get to our front entryway way. We’ve got, it’s like an Ikea picture bookshelf. And so it’s like the. It’s just got like a bar in front, like a bar in front to help pull the books in.

[00:41:38] So we just flip that upside down, put some S hooks on that. And now I can just, I can put as many Essex as I need or take them off as I need and just hang my keys off of that key is masks, whatever the front door, and then we’ve got, um, and then since we flip the whole thing upside down now put like our boxes of masks, like disposable masks on top.

[00:41:56] Emily: Oh, okay. So we just bought, we just bought, um, a unit that has a bunch of hooks on it, um, to hang jackets and masks. And then it has like, um, a little shelf and I can put my, my beanies and other hats and things on there.

[00:42:19] But yeah. So I just think like, I that’s that’s cause that’s, that has kind of a thing, like you do have to commit. Like a household to using the system. Right?

[00:42:29] Andrew: So like, if it’s like a bachelor pad, like that’s probably pretty sick, but I couldn’t see myself doing for the family.

[00:42:37] Emily: I think a better gift would be, um, either the thing is I don’t love the guitar pick holders.

[00:42:49] I just have never liked them. I find them to be kind of bulky for some reason. I just throw guitar picks in my pocket or I keep them on my board. Um, but what I love is I love earplugs. So I love like always having my ear plugs on me and those I don’t throw on my pocket. So I think a great gift would be, um, custom or reasonable earplugs for a guitarist and a key chain holder for those.

[00:43:16] Yep. That’s what I think would be a great gift, like a high fidelity type of earplug. Um, ultimate ears has you can, if you go to the audiologist and get a mold done, um, I know you can get like really great, um, basically flat frequency response earplugs. So it’s not going to sound like ass. Like it’s not going to block out the music.

[00:43:39] It’s just going to sound like the music, but less I th yeah, I think that would be a great gift for a guitarist instead of, um, the Marshall key chain, because you shouldn’t even care about

[00:43:51] Andrew: their health and wellbeing.

[00:43:54] Emily: Yeah. I mean, even like any kind of flat response where usable at your plugs, like, Eargasm my thing is the one that keeps advertising everywhere.

[00:44:01] I can’t speak to those, but you can, if you Google flat, like what your face dude, Like, if you Google re usable high fidelity, your plugs and those often come Wes, or you can have grade two, um, the key chain holder for those. So highly, highly recommend your health so important.

[00:44:32] Andrew: Yep. Agreed. 1000%. Yeah.

[00:44:37] Emily: Don’t do phone friends.

[00:44:39] Don’t let friends settle for foam earplugs at concerts. Yeah. Also don’t really use those. That’s disgusting. You want an ear infection? Oh,

[00:44:49] Andrew: possum. Possum. When you’re done get rid of, I just like them. Cause they’re orange that, yeah.

[00:44:56] Emily: I bet you could get orange reusable earplugs.

[00:44:59] Andrew: Yeah. That’s not a bad idea.

[00:45:00] Let’s see here. I’m just kind of like looking around the room, thinking like, what

[00:45:03] Emily: else.

[00:45:09] Andrew: Uh, strap walks, I think, is it, if you don’t already have strap walks, um, you have to know you, like, you would have to know a little bit more about what you’ve got going on for your loved one, but if they don’t have strap locks on, it gets harder. Uh, you got a couple of different options, but that’s a super easy for the most part can do that installation by yourself at home.

[00:45:31] Emily: Easiest one. Is this more red ones? He’s a little, all these little rubber washers. Yeah. Easy, easy, easy peasy. Um, what about like

[00:45:47] Andrew: a subscription for like strings could be good

[00:45:55] Emily: do subscriptions. I think they do

[00:45:58] Andrew: pretty sure they do

[00:45:59] Emily: subscribe. Gift card, the string subscriptions. Now, um, if you know what strings they use, it’s always helpful or just like a nicer set of strings, just like, cause people aren’t always going to buy themselves a nice string. So I think getting, like, looking to see what kind of strings they use, if you have a pair of digital calipers, go to their tower, measure their lightest gauge string, then measure their heaviest gauge string.

[00:46:29] And I guess I’m sure Joyce easy. Oh, sorry.

[00:46:38] Andrew: I’m not seeing where

[00:46:40] Emily: I don’t know if they do. Um, I think utility pedals are always kind of fun because you know, that’s another thing. People aren’t always going to buy themselves. Old blood noise always has like really affordable utility pedals, like their expression slider.

[00:46:56] Their expression ramper those are really fun things. And I think that people just aren’t always going to buy themselves like the utility stuff. Um, and speaking of that, like the Ernie ball volt is an affordable, uh, power supply, power supplies. Aren’t fun to buy, but the Ernie ball volt, I think I saw it for like a hundred bucks and you can stack them.

[00:47:17] So like, if you need more, they’re really easy to just like add onto, right. I like

[00:47:23] Andrew: mine string joy does have a subscription service, found it nice. Starting at $11 90 cents per month. Choose your frequency. Cancel any time.

[00:47:35] Emily: Oh, that’s affordable. Yup.

[00:47:40] Andrew: So if I, I think that actually wouldn’t be a terrible idea.

[00:47:45] It’s like, Hey, if you don’t like buying strings for yourself, cause it’s always the sexiest thing. Like, Hey, here’s this prescription for the next year as a Christmas present. Yeah, that could be really neat

[00:47:56] Emily: way better than the jelly of the month club.

[00:48:01] Andrew: Yeah, I

[00:48:03] Emily: did you see that, that like ice cream cake Turkey? My sister-in-law got Thanksgiving from Baskin-Robbins. No. Okay.

[00:48:11] Andrew: Dude, wait, no, you have to send me a picture right. This moment.

[00:48:15] Emily: It did not look like the picture. It did not. Uh, I’ll just send you, I’ll send you the quick talk. I’ll you one better. Oh my God.

[00:48:37] And just so you know, for the, what it’s supposed to look like, I used an actual sound of an actual Turkey and for what it did look like I used a sound of a human mimicking, a Turkey.

[00:48:50] Can you play with the audio?

[00:49:03] Uh, from Baskin-Robbins and it’s the Thanksgiving thing it was supposed to look like.

[00:49:18] And here’s what it does look like.

[00:49:26] Damn nailed it. Version of a Thanksgiving Turkey. It looks like it never even made it to the oven. And most fulfilling these stereotypes, the hallway people go see them. Good. I, it looks like it got dropped. Isn’t the hedges, the way I scream was all this table, the whole legs and my hair. Oh my God. I can’t wait to eat it.

[00:49:52] My brother that on Facebook, my husband’s college and saved the next for me. I love my husband.

[00:49:59] Andrew: The only redeeming like possibility there’s if they’d snuck in like a plastic wishbone.

[00:50:04] Emily: Oh my God. God, that would have been such a choking hazard.

[00:50:12] Yeah.

[00:50:15] Andrew: That is a that’s horrifying. Yep. That definitely looks like that was a Turkey at someone forgot to defrost.

[00:50:26] Emily: Uh, no, it doesn’t. So just for those who are listening and, uh, I’ll post I’ll try to remember to post pictures and it, um, it was supposed to have like a caramel glaze. It was supposed to look like an actual like Turkey, and instead it just looks Hawaii. It looks like it’s uncuffed. It looks uncooked. Like I’m cooked chicken and it’s like little legs.

[00:50:47] They’re just like straight up. It’s amazing. It tasted great. Really did, but it looks so, so horrible. It was amazing. Truly amazing. I think Baskin-Robbins was asking for a lot from their, from their franchises on that one.

[00:51:08] Andrew: No, they’ve got 31 flavors and that didn’t look like a single one of them, so

[00:51:14] Emily: that’s okay.

[00:51:16] Andrew: All right. I can’t hold it anymore. So gratuitous self-promotion here at.

[00:51:24] Fox Cairo sells very affordable

[00:51:27] Emily: topper.

[00:51:30] Andrew: They’re affordable. I try to keep the prices low and, you know, for easy stocking stuffer, that would be, uh, that, that wouldn’t be a

[00:51:38] Emily: bad way to go. Yeah, that would be a really easy way to go. They have a volume pedal, if a pod go and expression paddle, um, you can work with Andrews injures artists that you can work with are predetermined designs.

[00:51:54] I’m a big fan of the jazzy snazzy snazzy.

[00:51:59] Andrew: I last year I had a customer ask if they were like, Hey, I would like to be able to gift a custom to my, uh, partner. I custom topper because I don’t know what they want art wise. And I was able to work with them, get like, put together a coupon for them to unwrap on Christmas morning and yeah.

[00:52:22] That’s not a bad idea for a, if I may say so myself this morning

[00:52:29] Emily: walking around,

[00:52:33] I think you should offer my pod go as a signature Pago signature pod go topper. The Emily Harris signature, Cincinnati pod go topper. It’s a possibility

[00:52:54] Andrew: I don’t rule it out.

[00:52:57] Emily: Um, what do you want for Christmas?

[00:53:01] Andrew: Uh, what do I know? It’s funny. Cause my mom literally just texted me the same thing and I don’t have a good answer.

[00:53:08] Uh, no, my thing this year is like, I feel like I’ve got so much stuff. Uh, I’m trying to figure out what I want in terms of experiences.

[00:53:21] So try to figure out like, like a restaurant gift card. Like it’s just something like that, but I’m not entirely sure what I want. That’s in the realm of guitar stuff this year. I mean, the Le Lele volume pedal.

[00:53:36] Emily: Um,

[00:53:40] Andrew: I don’t have a good answer. I kind of want a whole bunch of those EBS flat plugs.

[00:53:48] Emily: I want a professional organizer

[00:53:52] Andrew: like to hire someone

[00:53:55] Emily: yeah. Really badly.

[00:53:59] Andrew: Yeah. That makes sense.

[00:54:01] Emily: And I want, yeah, that’s a big thing I want, I just want a professional organizer to come in, give us some suggestions on like improving our, cause the thing is like Rick and I are just so busy and.

[00:54:17] I’m pretty committed to like hiring someone. Okay. So let’s, I, I know this is sounded like an awful thing to say, but like, I don’t want to spend my free time cleaning my house. Yep. I want to pay someone to clean my house, at least parts of it and

[00:54:44] Andrew: what my boss has a, has a cleaning service.

[00:54:48] Emily: Yeah. So that’s kind of, but first we need to like have organization.

[00:54:54] We need to organize a little bit. And um, I want like, we’ve kind of reached out to someone and she responded and they responded and now they’ve ghosted us. Like they were like, oh yeah, sure. How’s the week of the six, seven. And we’re like, great. And what day? Okay. Are you available that week? And then they just, this old responding.

[00:55:20] So,

[00:55:21] Andrew: Hm. Imagine getting a text back. Sorry, I got mixed up with my schedule. Uh, is this still work?

[00:55:26] Emily: Yeah, I need to, um, organization

[00:55:30] Andrew: skills on display. Okay.

[00:55:32] Emily: Well, I’m really excited at the idea of it, but it’s mostly like our main living area, like on my, this, like, they’re not gonna touch my office. My office is honestly not that bad.

[00:55:42] I kind of what I need to do. I have some pretty concrete ideas, but it’s like the main living area that was kind of a mass. Like I know I need to do in like the bedroom has just been over my shoulder the whole time.

[00:55:56] Andrew: Oops. I didn’t even notice

[00:55:59] Emily: either. I’ve just probably been playing with it the whole time too.

[00:56:03] Andrew: Look so tacky. I mean, why would you ever let that cable hang over your shoulder?

[00:56:08] Emily: So just like someone talked to us about. Organizational systems and like just getting rid of stuff. Um, yeah, we’re just so busy. We’re so tired. You know, I think it’s like, I like all the work that I do and I don’t want to stop doing any of it.

[00:56:25] So

[00:56:28] Andrew: I don’t want to spend time doing dishes either. There’s some,

[00:56:31] Emily: no dishes. I don’t care. I’ll do dishes. We’ll do dishes. It’s like, whatever. I don’t want to sweep my baseboards dust, my TV vacuum mop. I don’t want to mop.

[00:56:49] Andrew: I’ve never dusted my TV because I don’t have a TV.

[00:56:58] Got him.

[00:57:00] Emily: You did. I’m going to give you that one. Well, on that.

[00:57:04] Andrew: Oh, it reminds me, I’ve discovered the most horrifying thing. Uh, in terms of like things I’ve never thought to clean in my house.

[00:57:11] Emily: No, don’t say the back of your toilet, please. Just don’t sit back.

[00:57:15] Andrew: I know how to do that. Uh, no, it’s worse. It’s uh,

[00:57:20] Emily: please don’t say between your oven, please don’t get between your

[00:57:23] Andrew: oven radiators, like on the, like the, like the baseboard radiators that like pumps the hot water through, for heating in the house.

[00:57:31] And I took a leaf blower and blew them out. And the amount of just dust bunnies, it just erupted into the air, like immediately, like, oh, I can’t read this.

[00:57:48] Emily: Yeah, no, I don’t like it.

[00:57:51] Andrew: Yep. Uh, the rooms that I did in have stayed a lot warmer since though I’ll tell you what, I bet you all that dust. And there was really hampering the ability to warm up

[00:58:00] Emily: and all I got

[00:58:04] there. All I got.

[00:58:07] Andrew: Um, so yeah, I did that. The other horrifying thing that it cleaned out was a tub of cool whip and yeah, just try to keep the place nice. That

[00:58:16] Emily: wa you cleaned out that tub of course, work with your mouth is what he’s not reminding everybody of as he cleaned out that tub of cool whip with his mouth.

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[00:59:21] Emily: Uh, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba. I forget anything.

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[00:59:41] Andrew: cherries on top so much

[00:59:43] Emily: the cherries and I’m not,

[00:59:50] he wants to kill me.

[00:59:52] Andrew: No, I want, it’s not for you. It’s for the listener. Who’s going to use the affiliate links. They get the cherry.

[00:59:58] Emily: If you. You can have my cherry. Yeah. Oh no.

[01:00:04] Andrew: Ah, we’re going to move on. Thank you for listening to the shift sale. What just happened? Um, thank you for watching. I hope to dear God, thank you for understanding.

[01:00:21] Emily: My name is Emily and my name

[01:00:23] Andrew: is Andrew goodbye.