Hello. Welcome to DailyShift for Thursday, February 4. It's minus 13. Feels like minus 18. This is not a weather podcast.
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Speaker 1:Be sure to use promo code daily ish during your checkout to get 10% off your first year of feed press usage. I know why I'm talking so fast because it's cold in my basement. It's extra cold today. You can just, sense in the house. It feels the windows feel cooler, the walls feel colder, and the basement definitely feels colder when it gets colder outside as it has the last couple days here.
Speaker 1:But, there's no butt actually. It's just cold. Cold butt. You know, was a good band actually. I've just sort of rediscovered a love for, I think, is the Beatles, a little band.
Speaker 1:You might have heard of them. And, yeah, I just went and requested their back catalog from the library. So hopefully, it's okay. Hope they stick around. We have a I we have some of their music like the a couple of the the those blue and red discs, double disc sets back when they used to be discs, '67 to '70 and '70 to '74 or whatever.
Speaker 1:And so now just and I used to listen to the the albums. My parents actually had a couple of their records on an LP or a player of record player, I think they called it. And, I would listen to those back in the day. But, yeah. It's, it's it's I still enjoy listening to music in album form as much as randomness and Spotify's and Apple Music and just play whatever you want is is great.
Speaker 1:I I'm a bit of a purist, guess, in terms of, especially albums that were created back when albums were a thing. Music nowadays is definitely the album as a concept is definitely less on, I think, artist minds when they create them. I'm sure it still is a bit for for bands, it's way more like single based and you just, you know, play whatever you want and then they know that you're just gonna make your own playlist, not necessarily stick to their album as a complete, thing. But I'm a bit of a purist that way. I like to hear all the songs sort of group together and figure out what they were trying to say and what was the mood when they recorded that set of songs, you know, over the year or two that they maybe put the album together and things like that.
Speaker 1:So or five if you're five years if you're a YouTube fan. But, yeah, it's pretty if you've never looked into Beatles history and like you've just heard of them as a band, it's interesting to look, you know, you can just read the Wikipedia page. This wasn't intended to be a whole Beatles thing. But, the Wikipedia page and just sort of read up on the band and some of the stuff that you may think you know about them. But, like, the fact just the fact, I guess, that they are only open open.
Speaker 1:They weren't a business. They were only around as a band for ten years, and then they put out the albums they did in that ten year period basically. And that's where all the like, everything the amount you hear about them, you think they were like this twenty five year band with, you know, albums every few years and stuff, but they're just very prolific and very, very active, very creative, and just like right time, right place for these four dudes to come together, and put some music. Come together. Get it?
Speaker 1:Anyways, that's all I have to say about that. Go listen to some Beatles. It's partly inspired by the the fact that we saw a Mexican Beatles cover band while we were in Mazatlan. And, they're really fun and interesting and good and and just made me wanna play music again more than anything. But, I digress.
Speaker 1:What I wanted to talk about, but maybe I'll I won't go into too deep because I went deeper on the Beatles than I was planning to, is how much time I waste preparing to do something like, say, recording an episode of a podcast that you do every day. I often will start writing out my notes and just, you know, preparing the the, documents in, the file in Logic to record and putting together some topics and putting together the the episode in the good stuff CMS, preparing all that stuff. And then I'm as I'm doing my topic, writing out some of my notes for the topics, in my document, you know, you get distracted by something, you let an email come in and distract you or somebody replies to you on Twitter or you go check, your Boom Beach game. And all of a sudden, you're like, what the heck am I doing? Ten minutes, fifteen minutes later, I was just preparing to do what was supposed to be a quick recording of a podcast episode that I know how to do.
Speaker 1:I've done a 155 of them. This is the hundred fifty sixth one. Should be quick and easy. But how much time I waste preparing? And and all of that kinda gets, in my mind anyways, gets kinda loop looped grouped under the umbrella of preparation even though 95% of it has nothing to do with actually preparing and actually working on the thing that I plan to sit down and do.
Speaker 1:And so this is just a bit of a public confessional and a slap my head kind of, wrist maybe is better, to remind myself to just shut up and do it. Stop getting distracted. Because it's the thing is it's not there's no, obviously, nobody as I've mentioned before, nobody's gonna be watching me and saying, hey, you've spent ten minutes now and you haven't really gotten any further down that task. I might get an email from a client after a few days of ignoring them, or if I don't get a podcast edited in time back to a client, they might be like, the next day would say something, and then I'm like, oh crap, I gotta really do that. That's the kind of like response, but nobody's gonna come to me at lunchtime and say, oh, did you finish that TPS report?
Speaker 1:It was due at, 12:00 for the GM or whoever. So these are my struggles as I shiver in the basement. Alright. That's the end of this podcast. Thank you for listening.
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