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00:08.91
crimesofparis
Is like welcome to the get offset podcast. My name is Emily and we’re here today with the incomparable Meredith Coloma one of North America’s finest luthiers.
00:16.87
Joan of Heart
I’m Jona hard.
00:21.40
Meredith Coloma
Ah, hello.
00:26.57
crimesofparis
Up in Vancouver b c how are you doing.
00:27.72
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, I’m good good. It’s a chilly Canadian day.
00:32.84
crimesofparis
Is it at least dry because yesterday was disgustingly rainy in Seattle.
00:38.13
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, it was. It’s dry and it feels like it’s about to snow. So.
00:42.22
crimesofparis
Oh yeah, it’s snowed a little bit yesterday and then it got too warm like I kind of would have preferred the snow at that rate. No yeah I actually have little dogs on my shirt I don’t know what kind of dog they’re supposed to be but.
00:44.34
Joan of Heart
Um, most.
00:47.71
Meredith Coloma
Yeah I guess so the dogs would definitely like this now.
00:49.39
Joan of Heart
Um I hope yeah you know, um.
01:00.29
crimesofparis
Little dogs The shortest corduroy I don’t think I knew it was corduroy when I bought it. No they look kind of corgi-esque so they might be. They also kind of they also look kind of frenchy eque. Oh they got big pointy ears. You can’t really see how yeah big bat ears.
01:02.33
Meredith Coloma
Um, so ah.
01:03.12
Joan of Heart
Are they corgis.
01:11.39
Joan of Heart
Um, Corduroy tories okay are thick bunnies. Ah.
01:13.73
Meredith Coloma
The big bat ears.
01:19.70
crimesofparis
Ah, little stripes and a little tongue hanging out. It’s just a generic dog y’all? Ah, it’s like a yeah yeah yeah, the yeah I stock photo free of the day art. You know I don’t know.
01:23.69
Meredith Coloma
And the license free dog.
01:27.34
Joan of Heart
Is.
01:33.57
Meredith Coloma
No, but yeah.
01:36.90
crimesofparis
You’re familiar with 60 cycle humb and Ryan Burke but that’s ah another guitar channel and one of the things that blows my mind is that he drew the sasquatch you see on like literally everything I forget which one it says his either the one where the hand is like kind of like back like that or i.
01:45.74
Joan of Heart
Oh my god.
01:45.81
Meredith Coloma
Oh.
01:50.41
Joan of Heart
Oh well I didn’t know that? yeah.
01:53.51
crimesofparis
I can’t remember but there’s like a way that you can tell and I just forget which way but um, it’s been traced so many times but he basically sold it to eyestock photo. It became the most popular Sasquatch and um I saw it in a video game once ah it was called Kona and it took place in Canada.
01:59.32
Meredith Coloma
Oh my goodness.
02:02.81
Joan of Heart
Yep.
02:05.20
Meredith Coloma
Wow.
02:10.26
crimesofparis
And it’s like 1 of those games we kind of wander around is a free world and you I opened up like a closet and there’s like a poster of Sas watchtch I’m like pretty sure it’s rights. yeah yeah I know I know who originally drew that it’s been traced so many times it’s not real anymore.
02:12.26
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
02:18.26
Joan of Heart
Are.
02:20.12
Meredith Coloma
Ah I know that guy. Yeah.
02:26.32
Meredith Coloma
Here.
02:28.20
crimesofparis
But um, yeah, hope everybody’s doing well out there. Ah I’m trying to think everything is interesting happened already this week hopefully I have a demo out. But um I all know it’s Tuesday it’s Tuesday the.
02:38.90
Meredith Coloma
Ooh that’s exciting.
02:43.55
crimesofparis
Twenty Fourth for the calendar to see what day it is yes, yes, so ah, let’s talk about you a little bit meredith I actually have one of your guitars up here I’m trying to collect them all yeah I’m trying to collect them all from
02:45.56
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
02:46.80
Joan of Heart
That’s what the date will be then.
02:55.91
Meredith Coloma
Oh the lilac. Yeah.
03:00.35
Joan of Heart
Um, like Pokemon that’s awesome.
03:02.90
crimesofparis
All the great women lu yearss in Canada I don’t know how many more I’ve loved to go but I definitely have at least 1 other one going to happen. Definitely ah 1 of Nico’s Nicole Loen acts I’m go. Um.
03:05.70
Meredith Coloma
That’s awesome. Yeah.
03:12.23
Meredith Coloma
Nice which ones that oh of course yeah, it’s making some great telly style.
03:12.30
Joan of Heart
Nice.
03:22.37
crimesofparis
Yeah, I’m gonna ah she’s gonna make me one with a B vender and I’m really excited about it. Yeah I know it’s going to make it really expensive. Yeah be but be betterers. Yeah yeah.
03:24.16
Meredith Coloma
Oh nice, that’s awesome. So Nicole’s shop of course. Yeah, Nicole’s shop is like half a block from mine. So if yeah, if we need like.
03:25.65
Joan of Heart
Um. Nice.
03:31.50
Joan of Heart
Yeah, oh shit, just walk on and.
03:40.30
Meredith Coloma
Sometimes I’ll text her and be like oh yeah, do you have a fretboard I’ll trade you this one for this one? Ah so yeah.
03:47.56
crimesofparis
Ah, yeah, and ah she I guess the weekend last time I was up there with you to see you well I just happened to see I was and I didn’t go there specifically I wanted there to see Kathleen Edwards play music. Ah.
03:54.40
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:59.36
crimesofparis
And I had a lot of reasons to go but I seen Kathleen Edwards for the first time since like 2012 was one of them. Ah probably the bigger one and ah we got breakfast at yolk by the shop. It was pretty good. Yeah.
04:00.22
Joan of Heart
And.
04:04.87
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
04:13.35
Meredith Coloma
All right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s always a busy place. Um, my wife doesn’t like eggs so we never go there because it’s all eggs. But sometimes if I feel like being nice to my crew will go there but that’s that’s rare.
04:16.55
Joan of Heart
So these.
04:19.80
crimesofparis
Yeah, it is It is.
04:24.74
Joan of Heart
Ah, ah.
04:28.97
crimesofparis
Yeah.
04:30.43
Meredith Coloma
We will all go together to lunch they Um, they don’t really like people covered in sawdust there all the time so too trendy for that.
04:30.60
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah.
04:34.54
crimesofparis
No two. That’s rude.
04:36.11
Joan of Heart
You know that’s that’s that’s that’s probably not the fix things they were looking for to add to food take ready. Yeah.
04:42.14
Meredith Coloma
No, but I mean it’s that’s for sure. Yeah I mean it’s like trendy to be an Urban lumberjack until you actually are covered in sawdust and then it’s like no not welcome here.
04:44.86
crimesofparis
Um, it’s the guy. It’s got this gritty quality’s really earthy.
04:54.69
Joan of Heart
Um, yes, get out.
04:55.50
crimesofparis
You you get 1 of those fans that every time you leave the the the a big fan blowing downs every time you walk out the door just poofs it all off.
05:04.85
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, we haven’t I think it’s funny when people come to learn from us and they’re like covered and saw us and like does this happen every day. Yes, but we do air Compressor backs and I just thought it was like normal to do this and it’s like people think it’s the most hilarious thing ever.
05:06.62
Joan of Heart
Oh money.
05:16.20
crimesofparis
Oh Yeah. An air compress just like getting the sawdus blown off of you with it was it with an actual air compressor.
05:24.60
Meredith Coloma
But just dust everywhere. Yeah and all of my yeah yeah, you got to turn the the power of it down so that it’s not like blowing every like your eyeball out or something. Yeah, but it gets it gets pretty good.
05:28.31
Joan of Heart
Um, ah.
05:34.65
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah.
05:40.30
crimesofparis
Ah, it looked like a dog with his head out of the car. Yeah out the window.
05:41.66
Meredith Coloma
I would just fly out the window. Yeah.
05:44.40
Joan of Heart
Yeah, like you’re ah in a in a air air Aircraft and you’re hitting some serious gs.
05:50.19
crimesofparis
Oh yeah, see I did exactly 1 color run five k I did I was like this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever done and at the end they they have a like ah like a leaf blowers that they’ll use to get the the color pigments off of you.
05:50.52
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, yeah.
05:57.34
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, yeah.
06:04.54
Meredith Coloma
Um, ah who okay yeah, never thought about the pain. Yeah.
06:04.96
Joan of Heart
Push it.
06:06.86
crimesofparis
Doesn’t really stick. Yeah, yeah, you come out just kind of looking dirty. Yeah yeah, you just kind of end up looking dirty but um, how long have you been building guitars for the uninitiated.
06:13.16
Joan of Heart
Um.
06:23.64
Meredith Coloma
Ah, just over fifteen years now yeah so last year was my fourteenth and then coming up in April will be my fifteenth year so almost fifteen years yeah
06:27.42
crimesofparis
Wow.
06:36.55
crimesofparis
That’s amazing and you’ve been teaching for a lot of that haven’t you wow.
06:37.33
Joan of Heart
Um, and.
06:38.73
Meredith Coloma
You have been teaching for 7 years so that’s almost half.
06:44.26
Joan of Heart
How how how long have you ah run Coloma guitars. Okay, so yeah.
06:48.40
Meredith Coloma
Since 2013 so I did yeah I did 2 apprenticeships one was sadowski one with Michael Dunn for gypsy jazz guitars and then I worked for like Lar Bay and all the local artists or the local guitar builders. There was quite a bit.
06:58.63
crimesofparis
East.
07:06.90
Meredith Coloma
Like 150 luth years in Bc um and then started my own thing in 2013 oh my gosh didn’t even realize it who math. But yeah.
07:07.75
crimesofparis
Yeah. What do yeah, that’s cool. Yeah, yeah, that’s for sure. What do you think it is about Bc that there are so many really talented Lu Years
07:13.79
Joan of Heart
Awesome congrats on a 10 year anniversary yeah um
07:30.34
Meredith Coloma
Would it’s accessible here like we I think it’s like a $3000000000 industry I think last year it hit 4 but it’s one of the biggest exports bc specifically has ah engelmans spruce to ka spruce.
07:31.77
crimesofparis
Yeah, but.
07:39.91
Joan of Heart
Um, ah.
07:46.70
Meredith Coloma
Ah, black walnut english Walnut Alder Maple figured Maple Cedar so yeah we sell a lot of shingles and guitar tops. Yeah yeah, and.
07:51.79
Joan of Heart
Spruce is nice.
07:53.99
crimesofparis
Um, Wow Yeah, that’s a big ah logging ah industry. Yeah.
08:04.81
Meredith Coloma
The guitar stuff is all the off cuts. So it makes it quite easy to get really really nice stuff. Um, within you know, twenty miles of my house. But.
08:16.85
crimesofparis
Are the frays generally made and so those who don’t know and aren’t watching um Meredith has a guitar style called the freya and it’s shockingly affordable I was I was like I think he told me the price was like yes right now I’ll do it.
08:24.84
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
08:29.83
Meredith Coloma
But yeah, yes.
08:32.32
crimesofparis
I don’t want to wait for prices to go up the same thing happened when Leila quoted me ah her first price of guitar in like 2017 or 2018 i’s like oh yep I’ll put a deposit down today like oh that’s only to get more expensive.
08:39.66
Meredith Coloma
Yeah done. Yeah, yeah, yes, and that’s our more expensive line because we’re using Exotic Woods not as many local woods So that’s why it’s almost like a doubling.
08:40.94
Joan of Heart
I I The other one I think you do is the done vegan I think was the other part. Okay.
08:56.87
crimesofparis
Is the fray of mostly used with local. Ah that’s awesome.
09:00.20
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, so the frays are kind of we wanted to be as accessible as possible because a thousand bucks is still expensive for a lot of people. Um, and for us, it’s like if we’re saving money on the products we we may as well share that to other people.
09:00.31
Joan of Heart
Ah.
09:05.87
Joan of Heart
Um, of course. Yeah.
09:07.51
crimesofparis
Yeah.
09:18.56
Meredith Coloma
And bouti guitars are hard to come by in that one KUsd range me.
09:23.75
Joan of Heart
Um.
09:24.60
crimesofparis
Um, yeah, that’s that’s true and sometimes when you do find something in that range. You’re just really not sure what the quality is going to be like or how long it’s going to take I know a few I’ve heard of a few other builders I’ve I haven’t purchased anything through um.
09:31.10
Joan of Heart
And.
09:32.52
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, yeah.
09:40.93
crimesofparis
But sometimes with the small builders. You do kind of hear like yeah I got it. It took a really long time and it was like it’s like you know, better than ah, you know some squires Maybe some fenders but.
09:45.97
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
09:53.34
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, thank you? Ah, yeah, yeah, had to play it live. Yeah.
09:54.72
crimesofparis
No, this is a the phrase is a great guitar I Love playing it I think I gigged with it like the week I caught it and um, yeah I was like all this I was my last guitar gig coming up for a while so have to have to yeah.
10:06.37
Joan of Heart
Yeah I I’ve just been lurk I’ve just been lurking and stocking and obviously drooling over every time you post the phrase because especially the blue ones because I am partial to that color so that late that.
10:10.13
Meredith Coloma
That’s awesome. No, it’s so good to hear that.
10:14.95
crimesofparis
Okay, she see.
10:20.56
Meredith Coloma
Um, oh you like the blues. Oh yeah.
10:21.98
Joan of Heart
Yeah, so the lake placid 1 and like kind of like those kind of finishes. Yeah, like that one I just like I’m making painful noises and Carlos like what’s wrong and I was like you don’t ask, but.
10:32.12
crimesofparis
Ah I’m I’m I’m I’m thinking Carlos has an idea of why you’re wrong. Oh look at a computer. Yeah I have I have another guitar coming I actually ah.
10:32.36
Meredith Coloma
Ah, yeah, yeah, another guitar. Yeah sorry yeah.
10:36.73
Joan of Heart
Ah, yes, it probably does have an idea.
10:45.60
crimesofparis
Vender is sending me. It turns out one of the gold foiled dress masters. Yeah I mean it’s not a real goldfoil pickup. It’s just a mini humbucker with a little special pizzazz to it which I just think is’s very funny.
10:49.21
Joan of Heart
Nice I Look forward to seeing that.
10:50.61
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
11:02.60
crimesofparis
But ah, no I was surprised I reached out and they’re like oh yeah, sure, Well Okay, well you you you don’t ask you don’t receive. Yeah, you got to try sometimes you got to try and now so I got that coming I think I would be demoing something for.
11:06.50
Joan of Heart
Um, also.
11:07.33
Meredith Coloma
Um, that’s nice. Yeah.
11:09.60
Joan of Heart
Shoot your shot. Yep yeah.
11:20.18
crimesofparis
Pure Salem guitars and those are also fairly affordable. Um of guitars. Yeah so I’m excited I for I think it the el bruho that I’m getting no oh shoot which one is it I just got an email.
11:21.37
Joan of Heart
Um, nice.
11:22.49
Meredith Coloma
Um, who yes.
11:30.14
Joan of Heart
Oh nice, the El Brewho and the El Brewha look pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, there’s a brew. Ah, and there’s a brew hole. Yep I’ve looked at all their models. Yeah.
11:37.20
Meredith Coloma
Um I have them. Oh yeah, there’s 1
11:43.34
crimesofparis
Yeah, so Rick is sent me the bru ho career and career green. So that’s not for keeps I will be sending that one back? Um, just I’m not gonna vender I’ll take.
11:46.46
Joan of Heart
Um, okay, that was pretty nice.
11:58.00
Meredith Coloma
Yeah I Love the shade of pink on one of the guitars I saved it on my Insta I think it’s aruka. Yeah yeah, shell but more ready I guess.
11:58.11
crimesofparis
Like guitars for from.
12:01.30
Joan of Heart
Ah.
12:04.90
Joan of Heart
The Breuha Breuha think yeah, the broha has that pink. Ah yeah I like that one um turning was there another one that I remember Yeah, it’s like a show show. Pink is’s what I remember was oh that the other one that.
12:15.66
Meredith Coloma
Who who.
12:18.22
crimesofparis
Ah, be honest, they have really.
12:20.49
Joan of Heart
The other one was pretty cool was I think was that the cherry bomb and they had that in some kind of like faded purple which is really it looks like an explorer basically but it looks really nice.
12:29.35
crimesofparis
Yeah, the bruw the bru ho is kind of like the RDBody vibe to it and I don’t I wouldn’t I’m not sure I mean it’s a little offset that’s ah it doesn’t feel particularly more offset than a strata caster. But um, it looks nice.
12:30.86
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
12:39.81
Joan of Heart
Um.
12:40.98
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
12:45.93
crimesofparis
And he will I know he desperately wanted to get me an offset. It’s got binding. It’s got to P ninety s it looks like stop tail I Yeah no really is how either in the phrase by default.
12:51.14
Meredith Coloma
Um I Love P ninety s yeah yeah.
12:56.80
Joan of Heart
Can’t.
13:01.71
Joan of Heart
Ah.
13:04.30
crimesofparis
Yeah, so Palmmerinian Red Olympic White I think I think the green is the nicest of the non-natural colors that’s on the bruho right now. So ah yeah, I’m excited. It’s a gibson scale length which that doesn’t really surprise me. Um.
13:13.41
Joan of Heart
See you that should be fine.
13:22.95
crimesofparis
But yeah, how much is this 14 Ah $1100 about Eleven hundred usd so that that’s again, really affordable. We’ll see.
13:27.39
Meredith Coloma
Well, that’s great.
13:29.44
Joan of Heart
Um.
13:35.32
crimesofparis
See it plays but you’re actually making a freya for a friend of ours but it’s a bass fraya have you done many of those.
13:35.42
Joan of Heart
Are many and.
13:40.44
Meredith Coloma
Yes, we’ve done about probably about 14 of them. We just don’t take pictures I don’t know why I keep reminding the guys because I’m so busy carving next that I forget they’ll take them up back to take pictures but because we’ve had to ship so many in the last. Like three months especially we’ve done like 50 something guitars. We’ve done over 150 at this point which is crazy um in like a year and a half yeah um we haven’t if we get like 1 picture of 1 black bass then we don’t take a picture of the rest just because it’s.
14:03.54
crimesofparis
Wow, That’s awesome. Yeah yeah.
14:04.92
Joan of Heart
Um, that’s awesome and it.
14:15.41
Joan of Heart
Representative. Yeah.
14:16.70
Meredith Coloma
You know there’s only it’s me Hank yeah and occasionally will um but he’s busy getting our property on an island. We just bought um, ready for to move from downtown bacouver to gabriola so it’s been crazy busy. Um.
14:17.40
crimesofparis
Ah.
14:33.70
crimesofparis
That’s awesome. But yeah I’m really excited I know hondo it’s at the basis for hondo felder I don’t think that’s a secret but ah if you haven’t subscribed to his channel check him out on Youtube he’s a good friend of ours and we he’s just the best.
14:33.42
Joan of Heart
Um, ah no, that’s wonderful.
14:34.49
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
14:39.50
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
14:43.58
Joan of Heart
He’s great. Definitely subscribe.
14:43.66
Meredith Coloma
Um, yes, super talented.
14:47.70
crimesofparis
So um, yeah I know he’s really, he’s really he was ah kind of hemming and hawing like I don’t know if they make a base version like you just ask man. Yeah, like they’re not go ahead. Yeah.
14:56.29
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, yeah, yeah, poor guy has had to wait a little longer for his but we got that sorted. We got that sorted. Yeah, that’s awesome.
14:57.58
Joan of Heart
Ah, just ask yeah who.
15:05.31
Joan of Heart
Um.
15:07.67
crimesofparis
He’s gonna be so excited I know I was ah yeah, so ah for those who are interested in getting a coloma guitar where should they go where they have.
15:20.79
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, you should go to Coloma Guitars Dot Com or ah Coloma Guitars Instagram and if they want to see me making them. They can go to coloma guitars Tick Tock and see that we actually make them by hand. Yeah.
15:23.27
Joan of Heart
May.
15:30.21
crimesofparis
Yeah I I love your Tiktok. It’s honestly one of my favorites and part of it is just like the audacity of certain types of people who are.
15:36.81
Joan of Heart
Yes I do too. Yep.
15:44.87
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
15:48.36
crimesofparis
Leave the comments and then your clapbacks are always just like well here watch me do the thing. Ah.
15:50.81
Joan of Heart
And yeah.
15:53.43
Meredith Coloma
That’s the thing and you know something that’s really aggravating is that Henry has been my apprentice for 3 years he now works for me. He doesn’t get the same comments that I do and he’s working out of the same shop he learned from me.
16:04.68
Joan of Heart
Well of course not.
16:05.81
crimesofparis
Course that.
16:10.65
Meredith Coloma
And he was like oh scrolling through my comments because I have to delete about 100 comments a day and some of them I respond to some of them I just don’t want them up there and people don’t realize like that I have to spend you know thirty forty minutes a day making sure that.
16:16.74
Joan of Heart
Um, ah fuck.
16:19.47
crimesofparis
Ah, yeah.
16:22.85
Joan of Heart
Um.
16:29.87
Meredith Coloma
If you’re scrolling through there’s nothing nasty. So oh those are all blocked but it’s more the like did you actually make that you know I don’t ah like this is my day job. This is what I do all the time.
16:31.88
crimesofparis
You know you you can if there are particular words and phrases. You can just forever remove those? Yeah yes yeah.
16:33.55
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah, ignorant.
16:38.24
Joan of Heart
Yeah. Um, speak.
16:48.56
Meredith Coloma
And I’m not going to clap back at everybody but I have I have the receipts if needed. But yeah, scrolling through sorry.
16:52.16
Joan of Heart
Yeah I thought I thought that one I thought that one I thought that one that was pretty funny. It was that whole sailing on the boat answering certains comments like where you had it was sailing number user, Whatever whether I make I thought that was great.
16:52.56
crimesofparis
Exhausting. Yeah no.
17:04.70
crimesofparis
Ah, but.
17:06.28
Meredith Coloma
Oh yeah, yeah I thought it was funny. It didn’t get as much attention because mostly people be like oh what? What? if you know you’re a was it the world misry or something. Um, but yeah, it’s yeah if I like.
17:13.30
Joan of Heart
Um, whatever. Yeah.
17:20.00
crimesofparis
Um, that’s not a thing.
17:21.96
Joan of Heart
Defending yourself isn’t yeah.
17:24.14
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, if I push back apparently I’m not I’m not allowed to but um, yeah Henry and will yeah I hate men and as yeah I hear.
17:29.30
crimesofparis
Yes, if we respond to mean comments from people who clearly just hate women then we just hate men and that’s just it does? Yes, oh yeah, obviously I can’t hate men I’m married to one. Ah, ah, you’re how fucking stupid it sounds. Yeah.
17:31.16
Joan of Heart
How dare you it of course me not me.
17:42.48
Meredith Coloma
It’s like my my shop is full of yeah six foot vikings and it’s like they they scroll through and they laugh at the comments. So it’s kind of funny. But yeah, looking through Henry’s and like reading his comments I’m like they’re so nice and supportive.
17:47.24
crimesofparis
Leaving.
17:49.27
Joan of Heart
Um.
17:58.48
Meredith Coloma
And then minor a little sketchier but that’s okay, it’s like that one person who is like oh I was thinking of building guitars. But I haven’t seen another woman do it. So it’s nice to you know that one message is worth the hundreds of thousands of myth.
18:00.53
Joan of Heart
Um, as mess up. Yeah, jealousy.
18:01.33
crimesofparis
Yeah, ever.
18:11.55
crimesofparis
Um.
18:12.73
Joan of Heart
No, it really is.
18:14.73
crimesofparis
Yeah, that’s how I feel that’s how I feel about like the channel a little bit like I didn’t really start doing demos for any other reason than somebody said there weren’t women doing them and like well fuck you I’ll make more I’ll just I’ll just try to make more people do them.
18:17.00
Meredith Coloma
Comments.
18:20.57
Joan of Heart
We.
18:26.97
Joan of Heart
Yeah, yeah.
18:27.20
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, yeah, and that’s exactly it and when I see those comments and other people pay other people’s pages like yours I’m always like I mean who like don’t say that about my friends.
18:33.78
crimesofparis
More women do love and and so I that.
18:34.13
Joan of Heart
Um.
18:42.28
Joan of Heart
Yeah, yes, ah you yes yes.
18:42.89
crimesofparis
Um, yeah, exactly I like I like commenting on the on the ones you respond and then I go back to the original comment I’m like Wow that was a pretty big L you took there. That’s one of my favorite things. Great job.
18:46.52
Meredith Coloma
Yes.
18:54.90
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, but it ain’t so bad.
18:57.10
Joan of Heart
Um.
18:59.73
crimesofparis
You just got ah annihilated. Yeah, but ah, you know it’s It’s just the truth and I remember reading years ago about this this man and woman they both kind of had the same job. They were together every day they’re both in customer service.
19:12.18
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
19:12.21
Joan of Heart
Now.
19:15.93
crimesofparis
And one day their email names actually accidentally get swapped somehow so he didn’t realize that he was everything he was sending had her name on it. He’s like why is everyone being so mean to me today and you realize it’s this is just her fucking life is like her every day is people second guessing her.
19:18.56
Meredith Coloma
Yes, yeah.
19:18.79
Joan of Heart
Yeah, and.
19:26.91
Meredith Coloma
Um, yes.
19:29.59
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
19:32.70
Joan of Heart
Um, how.
19:34.78
crimesofparis
Ah, wanted to talk to a man about something and just assuming that she didn’t have any expertise in the subject because of her just literally just her name which you know there are plenty of like ah there there are also names. That’s that now they’re more feminine but they’re still like men named Ashley.
19:44.84
Meredith Coloma
Yep.
19:50.83
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, yeah, yeah for even at the repair shops like I’ve I’ve run a lot of repair shops locally and my nickname is Morty like mort. It’s morty in the back if if someone’s just kind of being a jerk like Bill.
19:50.85
Joan of Heart
Yeah now.
19:53.69
crimesofparis
And ever know you know Charlie.
20:02.66
crimesofparis
Oh.
20:08.61
Meredith Coloma
You know they’re like oh yeah, we’ll talk to morty about it and they’ll run down. Ask me a question and run back up just because some customers are so weird about that. But yeah or I’ll get because I I wear a little bon and I’m like five feet tall barely five feet um so if I run up in my apron I I do look like a toddler so they’re like.
20:14.16
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah.
20:17.43
crimesofparis
Um, f.
20:22.56
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah.
20:23.13
crimesofparis
Ah.
20:28.13
Meredith Coloma
How long have you been doing this but I swear yeah long time exactly? Yeah um, but a lot of people do they because I put like will or Henry in a lot of my videos when they email.
20:28.62
Joan of Heart
Ah.
20:30.69
crimesofparis
Ah, ah, um, long enough man long enough that my name’s on the door any other questions. Ah.
20:35.66
Joan of Heart
Yeah, and name.
20:48.10
Meredith Coloma
Or if they like called they’re like oh no can I talk to like the owner of the business I’m like yeah I’m I’m Miss Coloma like that’s my name. Yeah, yeah for sure.
20:55.83
crimesofparis
Yes, Coloma. that’s that’s that’s that’s mine that’s that’s from from from me I didn’t just name name the company after myself to have somebody else do everything like what is this newdy suits. Ah.
20:56.31
Joan of Heart
Ah, me was.
21:05.20
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
21:07.30
Joan of Heart
Yeah, no yeah I mean even like in selling selling gear or whatever like I don’t use my actual like feminine form of my name I usually use like Joe or whatever and I’ve noticed the different treatment is if I have a dude name or if I have Joan or.
21:11.26
crimesofparis
Submit itself.
21:20.89
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, yeah.
21:26.43
Joan of Heart
Whatever iteration of my name it is. There’s like 1 will haggle and one will be like okay bro cool. Yeah yep, yeah.
21:32.99
Meredith Coloma
Um, yes, exactly that’s it’s sad, but it’s smart. It’s what you got to do. But.
21:33.54
crimesofparis
Yeah I did the same thing on my reverb. It’s It’s a man’s name now. Ah this is.
21:43.69
Joan of Heart
I’ll I’ll code talk it.
21:46.34
crimesofparis
Which is funny because I think that men actually some certain men especially like video games think that ah like people lie about being women in games to be have people go easier on I’ve I I’ve heard I’ve heard of that happening. Yeah no.
21:57.50
Joan of Heart
No, it’s the opposite. Yeah, like anytime oh I used to play Wow Yeah, like anybody finds out, you’re a woman playing like an online game. You will get fucking harassed. So it’s just like I’m gonna talk in a low voice. Yes, my name is.
21:59.73
Meredith Coloma
Ah, really I think my wife’s actually playing Wow right now. So but yeah.
22:15.36
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, a modulate area.
22:16.31
Joan of Heart
Leave. Ah, yeah, yeah, what’s your favorite scary movie. Ah.
22:17.44
crimesofparis
Yeah, just get a voice changer. Yeah, you just sat constantly sound like you’re in the shadows in an episode of unsolved the trees but dude ah but ah, well not.
22:27.30
Meredith Coloma
Hello. Ah, but.
22:33.70
crimesofparis
Change the subject too much. But if you are listening to this podcast please ah like comment subscribe watch if you’re watching it obviously subscribe on Youtube please we’re also on Spotify if you leave a review on Itunes that’s hugely helpful as well. Love it when you do that? Love it when you comment.
22:50.80
Joan of Heart
Um, please please.
22:51.87
Meredith Coloma
Um.
22:52.62
crimesofparis
Ring the bell icon I have demos hopefully I’ll I actually I’m not even gonna make a promise on what demo I’m coming out this week because I I don’t know man I have 1 coming on Thursday for sure so stay tuned for that Joe’s already seen it and um.
22:59.63
Meredith Coloma
Um, but the.
23:05.56
Joan of Heart
Yeah I enjoyed it. The art is amazing on that pedal. Please Oh it’s its so amazing I Love it. Love it so much he is.
23:10.64
crimesofparis
There It is amazing I’m going to hold up the art because it’s it’s like it’s not like it’s already out but they just have been. It’s called the bread oath. It is a pigeon. It’s a pigeon and it’s crown is made out of bread Tat bread ties.
23:11.90
Meredith Coloma
Um.
23:16.99
Meredith Coloma
So cool set a pigeon.
23:26.52
Meredith Coloma
Um, amazing. It’s so cute.
23:28.68
Joan of Heart
It’s amazing. The art that’s like that when it comes to like me and like animating like pedals or whatever. It’s stuff like that like I don’t care who makes it is the art and how it sounds is what I like that’s what Greg gravitates to that’s amazing.
23:40.71
crimesofparis
Um, yeah, and this one’s by a ground control audio and they’re based out of Canada look animals.
23:41.43
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, ah ground control. Oh yeah I know them so this is Spinelli. She’s been playing with my sock for last like 10 minutes oh no you can’t give that side of yourself.
23:49.73
Joan of Heart
Um, ah.
23:54.90
Joan of Heart
Um, nice spinelli. Oh Gi Ah, and only cats cat.
23:56.93
crimesofparis
Oh yeah, we we need the charge extra for that all I as it’s ok, ah.
23:59.10
Meredith Coloma
Know both of our cats are shoulder cats. So They just ah. This is what do you doing? want to say hi.
24:09.44
Joan of Heart
Oh so cute. Hi Baby least Spinelli. Ah um, up now if yeah, some keys are going to be stepped on.
24:14.63
crimesofparis
I oh by oh yeah, Meredith just left the call mid mid podcast. Yeah yeah.
24:17.70
Meredith Coloma
There We go all right? Yeah like you can’t go. Ah.
24:24.48
Meredith Coloma
All right, you’ve got tape on yourself. Oh yeah, so we have 2 cats and 2 dogs. It’s a zoo here but spinele.
24:24.83
Joan of Heart
I need be oh she adorable all right now I know you and now I know you have a cats so you’ll be getting cat memes from me if nice.
24:33.26
crimesofparis
To help.
24:38.30
crimesofparis
Yeah, ah, ah we also have a Patreon at patreon.com/getoffset and if you join at the $5 level or above you get access to our exclusive discord server and I also might add you on pokemon go if you have that because why not.
24:40.88
Joan of Heart
Yeah, that was a drive.
24:52.63
Meredith Coloma
Um, oh my goodness.
24:54.70
Joan of Heart
Ah, nice.
24:56.50
crimesofparis
Why not pokemon go yeah might one of my Christmas presence to my husband was to play pokemon go with him and I’ve gotten way too into it. But.
24:59.88
Joan of Heart
Yeah, yeah, look more. Ah.
25:06.94
Meredith Coloma
Um, I had to stop because I got so obsessed with going to the craziest places both Hannah and I have like addictive personality. So if we start a game we can’t stop. Yeah yeah.
25:12.87
Joan of Heart
Ah.
25:15.75
Joan of Heart
Oh no, the like yeah it’s like oh look a dark alley but wait there is There is a a special pokemon down there. Yes, let’s go. But no, you shouldn’t go down there. But no, we must. We must get this one I don’t know.
25:15.92
crimesofparis
Um, oh yeah, for sure. That’s yeah I will. Ah.
25:22.38
Meredith Coloma
Yeah.
25:29.59
Meredith Coloma
Ah, yeah, oh wow.
25:31.89
Joan of Heart
Um, it’s going to spawn here again come on. Ah yeah, one. Oh no, yeah when I rigidly.
25:32.64
crimesofparis
I All know a wild magic Carp just appeared gonna just yeah exciting. There’s a magmore outside all the pokemon outside my house right now are orange but a.
25:45.59
Meredith Coloma
Oh really.
25:49.62
Joan of Heart
But I originally played this I think it was like when it first came out I know they’ve made improvements because that’s what you’ve told me Emily but like for a while it was like you’d go outside and we’re like oh look another ran has and hi guy. Yeah that that that’s.
26:01.76
crimesofparis
Ratta that I have I have not caught very many breathta thats but ah now it’s it’s but I wish I can’t I can’t do I can’t evolve them.
26:02.14
Meredith Coloma
Ah, yeah.
26:07.62
Joan of Heart
Yeah, my regent. Yes.
26:09.00
Meredith Coloma
Like 400 of them. Yeah here they would have like pizza parties outside in certain areas and it would just be like twenty four seven people because we’re right by the seawall. Um, so it’s.
26:22.52
crimesofparis
Oh yeah, yeah.
26:22.85
Joan of Heart
Um, ah.
26:25.44
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, it’s dense with a lot of good pokemon.
26:27.52
Joan of Heart
Nice.
26:29.82
crimesofparis
Yes, we live within spinning distance of a pokey stop. Ah so yeah, it’s a it’s a problem. It’s funny though I dig it I have I have fun and that’s kind of what matters is having having fun.
26:32.81
Meredith Coloma
Oh.
26:36.71
Joan of Heart
Um.
26:42.88
Joan of Heart
Um.
26:43.48
Meredith Coloma
For sure. No.
26:46.79
crimesofparis
Yeah, ah we also have meral set podcast dot com slash shop and that’s ah, that’s the lesson of mypiels. Ah, yeah, there are super chats if you are watching this if you’re watching the premiere on Tuesday at four 0 p m pacific time.
26:49.52
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, get your gear.
26:55.47
Joan of Heart
Well, there is also ah the super chats it helps the channel. We really appreciate that? yeah.
27:03.74
Joan of Heart
7 yeah.
27:05.58
crimesofparis
Ah, then you can super chat a seven eastern time you can super chat us and we will say thank you no fresher. Um, so who else is excited about the new boy genius record yes sad girls everywhere.
27:10.70
Joan of Heart
Thank you.
27:25.49
crimesofparis
Rejoice ah you know I 1 thing I think is it’s not like funny ha ha but just like funny like wow what a coincidence is I think we all remember that when Phoebe Bridges smashed a guitar on Saturday night live David Crosby very famously like tweeted that it was stupid or something like that and she just.
27:25.90
Meredith Coloma
But ah yay.
27:26.80
Joan of Heart
Ah, rejoice. Yeah, like.
27:43.16
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, but here.
27:45.35
crimesofparis
Responded by calling him a little bit and probably ratioed him like that reply was quite quite popular. Um, so they had this the rolling stone story got to be the top pit thing story on rolling stone’s website for all of 2 hours because then David Crosby died which.
28:02.34
Joan of Heart
Um, wait one all he shit she? yeah but you she took him out without dry. Yeah.
28:04.13
Meredith Coloma
Oh my goodness. Ah yeah, he he won there. Ah.
28:04.46
crimesofparis
Rest in peace David Crosby but like that kind of for that. He ratioed her this time man.
28:13.81
crimesofparis
Um, like ah now he was like I can’t stand the thought of Phoebe Bridgers being the number 1 store onrolling stone dot com what can I just stop rest and peace David Crosby obviously a legend obviously a legend but.
28:20.50
Joan of Heart
Um, more I P all I p we’re so wrong is we have to.
28:25.34
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, I’m sorry yeah no I know but it’s still funny.
28:32.58
crimesofparis
That was so wrong, but like come on you got to find the humor and this dark humor but dark humor. My parents got to meet David Crosby backstage at a crossbusels nash show once and they said he was really nice I think he seemed to he I think he really liked.
28:36.96
Joan of Heart
Yeah, dark humor is Appreciated. No.
28:49.35
Meredith Coloma
That’s nice.
28:51.75
crimesofparis
Fans and being liked by fans for the most part he could also be a pretty crotchty guy apparently though, um, but yeah.
28:52.22
Joan of Heart
Of course like.
28:53.90
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah, so does.
29:01.13
Meredith Coloma
The stories I know have been the crotchety side but those are also people working in stressful environments. So.
29:03.89
Joan of Heart
Um, now yeah.
29:11.10
crimesofparis
Yeah, that’s true though he did someone did make a quite a nice ah portrait of him in the past year and he was really mean about it and everyone even his fans were like why are you being so mean this was a really nice thing somebody did and it’s actually quite a nice little.
29:19.39
Joan of Heart
Um, of.
29:22.89
Meredith Coloma
Um.
29:23.71
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah.
29:26.40
crimesofparis
Portrait that looks exactly like you. But yeah, so I again I just thought that was funny but um, yeah, boy genius they had an ep a few years ago which I didn’t realize that they they made that ep because they were already all 3 of them going on a tour together.
29:43.73
Meredith Coloma
Um, oh I didn’t know that either.
29:44.25
crimesofparis
I Had no idea I thought it was the other way around I thought they were just friends decided to make a thing and tour together and apparently it was kind of like the opposite from how it was written about the the rolling stone article but like man what a way to promote a tour though. Yeah.
29:44.30
Joan of Heart
Yep.
29:59.30
Meredith Coloma
Pretty good way.
30:01.30
Joan of Heart
That’s awesome.
30:03.80
crimesofparis
It’s a pretty good way I mean I went to I went to that show was really excited. Um I like Lucy Dacas and Julia Baker for a few years I hadn’t really heard of the Phoebe Bridges at that point I was like oh my she she’s really a damn. Yeah, they’re both. They’re all 3 of them are so talented and it’s just like.
30:12.54
Joan of Heart
Yeah I saw Lucy last year and she was amazing. Wonderful! Yes, that’s like a super like you know like a super super team like it’s amazing like them working together. Oh so good.
30:12.55
Meredith Coloma
Bebe. Yeah.
30:22.42
crimesofparis
Damn.
30:25.49
Meredith Coloma
Yeah, spinning.
30:27.58
crimesofparis
all teeth yeah ah all 3 of them can write songs with lyrics that will just make you cry just absolutely devastating emotionally just emotional damage after emotional damage.
30:31.76
Joan of Heart
To devastate you? Yeah yes, oh you’ve got a parrot if she’s parenting. Yeah, it’s a parroting right.
30:35.42
Meredith Coloma
I Ah we’re trying to talk about music and she’s just like this is about me I’m so sorry. But.
30:45.30
crimesofparis
Yes, the cat and no, it’s cool. It’s great I mean one of my one of my earliest demos is for the Harley Benton take on a princes mad catt guitar ah, and.
30:49.56
Joan of Heart
Yeah, ah cat. But and.
30:50.44
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
30:58.66
Joan of Heart
Her.
31:00.70
Meredith Coloma
Um, oh.
31:01.80
crimesofparis
I’m just like sitting on the sofa that used to be in my office and I’m filming and the carry just perfectly pops in and just jumps into the frame and that’s like oh man, that’s a great. We can’t edit that out I just stopped and looked Yeah I think that happened in a few videos back when I had the um sofa in the office in wood row.
31:03.39
Meredith Coloma
Yeah. Yeah.
31:09.32
Joan of Heart
Ah, you know and.
31:21.17
Joan of Heart
Know Yeah I agree is Showmaker way. Yep.
31:21.40
crimesofparis
Like fill my demos on that. But this is a better backdrop. Yeah, a little bit better. A little bit better. Um, ah we we like cats we we like this used to be partially a cat podcast Andrew and I would joke.
31:26.21
Meredith Coloma
It’s just there. She’s like just off frame Here. I.
31:41.50
crimesofparis
Way back when no more but still really, she fits. She’s small. Wow dang.
31:41.66
Joan of Heart
Um, yeah, got to guess cats say.
31:44.19
Meredith Coloma
She likes ah going inside acoustic guitars spin. This is oh yeah, she’s tiny. She’s only like £6 yeah
31:52.58
Joan of Heart
Cats are liquids. Yeah, they’ll they’ll go into anything so they’re they’re liquids where that.
31:55.85
Meredith Coloma
The I think I do was like a tailor GS mini to try and find it. Yeah yeah, it hit small guitar for a small cat.
31:57.68
crimesofparis
You have pictures of her getting stuck in ah ah, being in an an acoustic guitars or.
32:04.81
crimesofparis
Who dang here’s have a small guitar there. Yeah Nick yeah and Taylor just couldn’t make them fasts enough for a long time.
32:14.39
Meredith Coloma
I Love the little Gs Minis they’re great.
32:17.61
Joan of Heart
Oh nice.
32:19.18
Meredith Coloma
Um, yeah.
32:21.85
crimesofparis
I Don’t know if they’re still like really backordered or not but I know they were during the height of the pandemic.
32:27.64
Meredith Coloma
Yeah I think I I got one because I did like the tailor repair course or whatever and if you watch all the videos you get 1 I’m not sure if I’m supposed to share that info or not but it’s like through through a store if you run a store. Um.
32:35.27
crimesofparis
Oh oh? well no yeah.
32:44.56
Meredith Coloma
And then I like it so much that I bought another so that says some.
32:46.99
crimesofparis
Nice isn’t that funny how we do that though. We’re like oh I need I need 2 of these. Yeah unfortunately meredith is frozen.
32:53.52
Joan of Heart
Um, yep, 2
32:59.91
Joan of Heart
Oh no I’ll blame thatch.