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32 I M PS E . O R G APK: Or surfing, or whatever your interests are. I moved here from New York, and there it's just a megalopolis, there's nowhere to escape humanity, really. So I really appreciate that about Los Angeles. The natural surroundings. NF: Having to live through the pandemic, it's probably the best place to be. MT: Yeah. NF: There are a few small blessings in that for sure. EM: To that point, what advice would you give sound editors who are trying to suddenly deal with working from home and hitting deadlines? How have you adjusted to that type of work? MT: I've been working from home for a while. It's really important that you have a solid library of your own and that you really know well. I mean, it takes years to know what's in your library and what things to avoid versus gems that you have. Otherwise, it's no different for me. It's just that there's a lack of work. APK: Yeah, it's pretty similar to what I experienced pre-pandemic. My wife is a picture editor and we both largely work from home. I would say that the biggest difference has been having my teenage daughter schooling from home these days. Just trying to be there for her as much as possible as she goes through this situation is important. It's really difficult for teenagers—I think they need other teenagers. More so than we need other people our age. That's been the biggest challenge, just trying to figure out how to grapple with having a teenager in isolation. I don't think I have the answers necessarily. But the pace during this pandemic has slowed to quite a degree. I usually feel like time is my biggest pressure, and when I have time to spare, it takes away all the pressure, and I feel like I can be that much more creatively engaged in whatever I'm working on, and that's been a bonus. That's aside from this tragic pandemic that we're all surrounded by. MT: I would go stir crazy and mental if I didn't have an outlet to redirect my energy toward. NF: Ask me in a month. We're wrapping Fargo now and I've been working all the way through. The first month I really enjoyed it, because I was so stressed out going from one show into another. Ask me a month from now if I still have my sanity, because I'll be sitting around for a while. APK: Yeah, I would also recommend making your home internet as high speed as possible. That's been my biggest hurdle when trying to deliver something to Matt. Usually it's fine, but sometimes my internet just won't cooperate and I will have something for Matt ready early in the day, but it gets to him by midnight sometimes. I'm like, sorry Matt, maybe I should just drop off the drive. But yeah, high- speed internet. NF: That's a thing too. At home, normally maybe your wife is working, or the kids are at school, and there's one person on the internet. Now you have three or four people at home on the internet all A tornado approaches the main characters during an intense shootout. Copyright 2020, FX Networks. All Rights Reserved.