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Brewsers #364- Eric and Courtnee with Vibes 2 Go Coffee · Brewsers

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rodie John, and today we talked to
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  Speaker 1: Eric and Courtney with Vibes to Go Coffee. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about how they got intoxes and I have them tell
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  Speaker 1: you all about it. So, without further ado, here is
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  Speaker 1: Eric and Courtney with Vibes to Go Coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to welcome the show, Eric and Courtney
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  Speaker 2: with Vibes to Go Coffee. How are y'all doing today?
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  Speaker 3: Doing good? John? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well? So for those listening kind of panished the
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  Speaker 2: word picture, where are you guys at? What's going on
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  Speaker 2: around you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So where midvand Texas.
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  Speaker 4: We're just sitting at home right now in our office
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Great, well, let's go all the way back in time.
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  Speaker 2: What is your earliest memory of coffee?
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  Speaker 4: So for me, I wasn't a huge coffee drinker to
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  Speaker 4: begin with, so I can tell you my earliest memory
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  Speaker 4: of white coffee, which was that was probably in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty three in the summer, both of our kids were
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  Speaker 4: at a camp in Austin. One was in a theater
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  Speaker 4: camp and one was in a basketball camp and we
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  Speaker 4: had some free time, so we ran to grab a coffee,
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  Speaker 4: and that shop happened to have white coffee, and I
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  Speaker 4: had never heard of it, so I gave it a shot,
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  Speaker 4: and honestly, I was just blown away.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe how smooth it was. There was no bitterness.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have to drown it with sugar or creamer
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. And then the caffeine hit me,
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  Speaker 4: and I swear I felt like I was buzzing all
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  Speaker 4: day long, and I never really had that big crash,
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  Speaker 4: So right then and there, that just kind of stuck
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  Speaker 4: with me.
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  Speaker 2: What about you, Courtney?
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  Speaker 5: So for me, I've.
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  Speaker 6: Always been a coffee drinker pretty much my whole life.
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  Speaker 6: My parents would brew pot of coffee every morning before
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  Speaker 6: work and everything. Right at the beginning of my seventh
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  Speaker 6: grade year, my parents finally decided that it would be
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  Speaker 6: fine for me to take a tumbler or a thermos
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  Speaker 6: of coffee to school with me every day, which was
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  Speaker 6: super exciting for me as a little seventh grader. But anyway,
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  Speaker 6: they would always buy fun flavors, you know, they would
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  Speaker 6: get like a blueberry or like a cinnamon or I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, like a coffee cake flavor, and they would
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  Speaker 6: come in these gold bags. I remember that, and it
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  Speaker 6: was just an experience every morning, and I enjoyed that
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  Speaker 6: for sure. But once I tried white coffee, like he
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  Speaker 6: said in twenty twenty three, it's kind of stolen my
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  Speaker 6: heart for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I prefer it now.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Well, for those who haven't had white coffee, kind
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  Speaker 2: of tell us what white coffee is.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So white coffee is really just about the So
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  Speaker 4: it's roasted at a lower temperature for a short amount
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  Speaker 4: of time, so it's gonna hold on a more caffeine,
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  Speaker 4: but it's going to be less bitter, less acidic, a
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  Speaker 4: lot easier on the stomach, and yeah, I mean just
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  Speaker 4: a lot smoother going down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, sorry, go for us.
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  Speaker 6: So our coffee for sure also has like a golden
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  Speaker 6: amber color to it, so it definitely looks more like
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  Speaker 6: tea than coffee. So we always get questions like, are
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  Speaker 6: you sure you're serving us coffee?
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  Speaker 2: Guess you're like, no, I'm jipping you. It's all tea, right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's not many I mean again, there's not
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  Speaker 2: many white coffee places out there, So you guys are
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  Speaker 2: obviously doing something very unique, and especially out in Midland,
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  Speaker 2: which I know obviously you're the whole city, and you
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  Speaker 2: know area over there is getting more attention now with
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  Speaker 2: the TV show land Man, but you know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: even really have that I know of. I mean there
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  Speaker 2: might be, but here in the df W are you.
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  Speaker 2: There's not really any white coffee places that I can
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  Speaker 2: think of, So you guys are definitely one of one
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  Speaker 2: in that area, I bet absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And that was one of the things that I noticed
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  Speaker 4: early on, that there was a big gap in that market,
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  Speaker 4: and I really just couldn't believe that more people.
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  Speaker 3: Weren't talking about it and more people weren't.
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  Speaker 4: Serving it, And I just felt like it was a
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  Speaker 4: good opportunity and I didn't want to just serve white coffee.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to build an entire brand around wha coffee
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  Speaker 4: because I felt like it was more of an elegant,
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  Speaker 4: classy version of coffee and it wasn't presumed that way,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought that we could present it that way.
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  Speaker 2: So I read that you you know, you started Vibes
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  Speaker 2: to Go as a family business. What I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: tried this before, and you kind of told the story
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  Speaker 2: about how did how did the family business of Vibes
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  Speaker 2: to Go start because it didn't start with just coffee.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, it definitely didn't.
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  Speaker 4: So I was a teacher and a coach for I mean,
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  Speaker 4: fourteen years, and that was kind of my identity. I
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  Speaker 4: loved competing and preparing and building a team up and
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  Speaker 4: going to battle and.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. And I got out of that.
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  Speaker 4: So we could move to Midland and have some more
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  Speaker 4: opportunities for the family. And during that time, it was
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  Speaker 4: shortly after I had tried white coffee, but I kind
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  Speaker 4: of just got the entrepreneurship bug. I wanted to build
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  Speaker 4: something else because I didn't have a team anymore, and
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  Speaker 4: I really got obsessed with Airbnbs and I just started
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  Speaker 4: going down that path and I researched everything I could,
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  Speaker 4: and that's kind of where the name came from.
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  Speaker 3: So I came up with the name Vibes to Go.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that we could just build a whole esthetic
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  Speaker 4: around this Art Deco Gatsby kind of theme and have
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  Speaker 4: Airbnbs all over the country. So I was dreaming big,
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  Speaker 4: but we weren't quite prepared financially to make those moves
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  Speaker 4: just yet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the housing market is definitely interesting. Let alone if
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  Speaker 2: you want to do airbnbs. And then obviously, I mean
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  Speaker 2: every city seems to have some situation where there's always
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  Speaker 2: some bad apples when it comes to the airbnbs or
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  Speaker 2: the shirt terminals, and so there's so many cities that
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  Speaker 2: are kind of not having bands but restrictions like you
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  Speaker 2: can only do it in certain areas, and so I
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  Speaker 2: mean that was definitely something that ordered your situation too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, those roadboks were all over because we
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do it in cities, and we wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do it in cities where we'd like to travel, so
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  Speaker 4: we could, you know, go and stay in those airbas
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  Speaker 4: you know, a two for one deal.
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  Speaker 3: But it just didn't work out that way.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think I spent a year just researching
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  Speaker 4: the market and you know, trying to make moves and
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  Speaker 4: just realizing that it was going.
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  Speaker 3: To be kind of tough.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think it was August twenty four that
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  Speaker 4: I lost my dad to dementia. And at that point
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  Speaker 4: he was only he was only seventy, and it just
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  Speaker 4: kind of scared me and he wasn't able to leave
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  Speaker 4: just a whole lot behind, and I didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: be in that same position. I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that I left something for my boys, and I wanted
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  Speaker 4: them to be a part of it, something that they
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  Speaker 4: could be proud of. And so we just kind of
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  Speaker 4: sat down and started discussing some things that we could
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  Speaker 4: do as a family.
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  Speaker 3: And we knew that our schedules were full.
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  Speaker 4: You know, boys were teenagers, so they're all over the place,
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  Speaker 4: and so we kind of landed on Amazon just selling
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  Speaker 4: online because we thought it would be a little bit
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  Speaker 4: hands off. We could do it on the weekends. We
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  Speaker 4: just didn't have a product yet, so we talked about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, going to garage sales and then reselling that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And then once we kind of landed on the Amazon idea,
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  Speaker 4: I just that day, I think I watched like a
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  Speaker 4: five hour video on have a list things on Amazon,
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  Speaker 4: what to sell, what products are good, stay away from
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  Speaker 4: these products.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things.
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  Speaker 4: That this guy really talked about was a passion product,
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  Speaker 4: which is you know, something that you're passionate about that
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  Speaker 4: you can really put a brand on and go after.
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  Speaker 4: And I knew that I didn't have a product that
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  Speaker 4: matched that just yet. But I also knew that I
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  Speaker 4: had a name, and I had already gotten my LLC,
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  Speaker 4: because as soon as my dad died, I freaked out,
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  Speaker 4: and so I wanted to do everything I could right away.
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  Speaker 4: So I got my LLC, I got a bank account.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't know what I was going to do
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  Speaker 4: with it just yet. So then when the Amazon idea came,
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  Speaker 4: I think I just kept researching it, and I mean
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't a month after that conversation. We were driving
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  Speaker 4: back from Austin and it was one of our kids' birthdays,
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  Speaker 4: and it just it hit me. White Coffee, and I
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  Speaker 4: remember the experience that I had with it, and I
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  Speaker 4: thought that we could share that experience with others. And
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  Speaker 4: then when I started looking on Amazon, there wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: whole lot of competitors, and so I just thought that
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  Speaker 4: we could position ourselves in a spot that we could
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  Speaker 4: actually compete with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that so much. Especially, I'm so sorry
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  Speaker 2: for your loss with your dad. I mean, there's so
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  Speaker 2: many people that are battling, you know, family members who
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  Speaker 2: are having dementia or situations like that, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: easy for obviously anybody because it's a slow deteriorating and
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  Speaker 2: it's not Yeah, it's ugly to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: It was a rough go, but it's one of those
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  Speaker 4: things that there's always something good that's going to come
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  Speaker 4: from it. And that made me realize life is a
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  Speaker 4: lot shorter than what you think, so you might as
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  Speaker 4: well start moving now.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I love what you said about wanting to
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  Speaker 2: leave something behind, especially for your kids like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was really important. I just.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't learn a whole lot of financial literacy or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that, and I definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't know anything about business.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I was a teacher coach, you know, so I had
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  Speaker 3: to educate myself first.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought that if we could teach our boys
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  Speaker 4: some of this stuff, investing in wroth and you know,
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  Speaker 4: just financial literacy, that they'd be better off in the future.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the big deal, right.
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  Speaker 2: How were they? How are they enjoying the business? Are
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  Speaker 2: they Are they hands on? Are they part of it
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  Speaker 2: as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: They are so, Like I said, I mean, it started
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  Speaker 4: with an Amazon plan and Courtney said, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if we're gonna do this, don't you think that people
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  Speaker 4: should taste it? Maybe we should go to go to
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  Speaker 4: markets and sample the stuff. And then that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: when we really started making the drinks, and that's when
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  Speaker 4: the boys got involved because they could help with the market,
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  Speaker 4: serve and take orders, just do little odd jobs.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Neither one of them had a job before knew had
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  Speaker 4: a budget money, so we thought that we could just
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  Speaker 4: kind of kill all these birds in wine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you definitely need to learn that early because
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  Speaker 2: if you I think kids definitely need to have a job,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at least fifteen sixteen if you can, And
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  Speaker 2: like you said, you need to learn to make your
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  Speaker 2: own money. And like you talked about that, financial literacy
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  Speaker 2: is not something they really teach in school as much
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  Speaker 2: as they genuinely should. And the teap the sooner you
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  Speaker 2: teach your kids, the better.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I wish there was more classes, you know
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  Speaker 4: for financial literacy number one, but just insurance, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just live. Yes, I mean these as an eighteen year old,
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  Speaker 4: you got in the world and people start talking about
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  Speaker 4: insurance and investments and your head spins, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because none of it makes sense until you're actually having
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  Speaker 2: to deal with it and you're like, oh, well this sucks.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so when you guys started hitting the markets and everything,
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  Speaker 2: how what was the kind of feedback back or also
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  Speaker 2: like where did you cause your drink? Mean, you look
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  Speaker 2: fantastic and I love that you guys have the signature
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  Speaker 2: drinks and then you kind of mix it up when
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  Speaker 2: whatever the seasons, where did y'all kind of decide what
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  Speaker 2: that made me was going to kind of look like?
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  Speaker 4: So that was I knew once she said something about
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  Speaker 4: the sampling of drinks, and then once we got coffee
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  Speaker 4: in and she started playing with it.
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  Speaker 3: I knew when she was because I've seen.
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  Speaker 4: Her with all the boys like birthday parties and invitations,
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  Speaker 4: and she does themes and she was a teacher too,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, she did choir in elementary and so.
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  Speaker 3: She loves that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I knew when she got her hands on that
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  Speaker 4: she would run with it. So I'll let her talk
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  Speaker 4: about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: So when we first started doing tastings, we that's all
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  Speaker 6: that they were going to be is to show people
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  Speaker 6: that it was easily accessible to drink in your home.
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  Speaker 6: So we kind of went to the grocery store and
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  Speaker 6: just picked up some of those grocery store creamers that
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  Speaker 6: we enjoyed and we thought paired well, so like a
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  Speaker 6: vanilla or a carmel or like a you know those
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  Speaker 6: coffee make twigs or something along those lines. Is what
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  Speaker 6: we did our very first tasting with and that was
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  Speaker 6: actually at the company that helped us design our logo.
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  Speaker 6: It's called Design Factory Marketing here in Midland, and it
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  Speaker 6: was a big hit. Like just even with we kind
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  Speaker 6: of not really watered down the creamers, but we added
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  Speaker 6: a little more milk so it wasn't so overpowering in sweetness,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and so that they could taste the coffee.
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  Speaker 6: But I worked really hard to make sure that the
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  Speaker 6: flavors pushed the coffee, the nutty flavor of the coffee
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  Speaker 6: for more. So essentially our core four drinks are like
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  Speaker 6: our original favorites have stemmed kind of from that original
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  Speaker 6: first tasting. So we have like a cinnamon crunch cake
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  Speaker 6: which has natural cinnamon and milk. I mean, that's it
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  Speaker 6: because it pairs really nicely with that coffee. And then
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  Speaker 6: the sauted caramel cookie is kind of pulling that TwixT
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  Speaker 6: flavor and that's actually our best seller. But that original menu,
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  Speaker 6: we just wanted it.
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  Speaker 7: To look sleek and elegant, and I don't know, like
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  Speaker 7: looked at a wine menu and that's why we put
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  Speaker 7: the six point five, you know, we wanted to be
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  Speaker 7: real classy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's where.
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  Speaker 6: Our original menu came from. Now, once we started getting
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  Speaker 6: into markets and like seeing all of the other things
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  Speaker 6: that other people had to offer, as far as food
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  Speaker 6: and other things like that, I just started getting some
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  Speaker 6: ideas like, well it, you know, the do Buy chocolate
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  Speaker 6: stuff is really popular right now, Like maybe we can
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  Speaker 6: make a do Buy chocolate white coffee. And actually it
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  Speaker 6: was a pretty big hit in our first summer and people.
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  Speaker 5: Really like that.
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  Speaker 6: We had a we have a s'morest flavor that we
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  Speaker 6: keep having to bring back over and over because people
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  Speaker 6: love it, and we roast a marshmallow on top too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really cool stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I'm enjoy getting to curate those menus, and we try
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  Speaker 6: to do stuff seasonally. But also we are partnered with
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  Speaker 6: our local community theater, and whenever we partner with them
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  Speaker 6: for a show, I'll draw up some drinks that kind
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  Speaker 6: of favor the show and then I'll do a menu
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  Speaker 6: that goes along with the show as well.
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  Speaker 5: So it's fun. I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it really gets to you get to scratch
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  Speaker 2: that creativity, which.
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  Speaker 5: As well definitely. I really enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so you kind of touched on it. But like
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  Speaker 2: when you're when you're starting a brand in a business,
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  Speaker 2: you got to think of the name, you got to
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  Speaker 2: think of the logo, you got to think of all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff that people kind of, you know, don't think
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  Speaker 2: about how did all that stuff kind of come together.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was, like I said, that was early on,
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  Speaker 4: and that came with the Airbnb idea to begin with.
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  Speaker 4: And then I remember me and Courty you just sitting
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  Speaker 4: on the couch one night, you know, after the whole
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  Speaker 4: after we decided we were going to do the coffee
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  Speaker 4: on Amazon. Then it was you know, finally roasters and
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  Speaker 4: then design your packaging and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: And so, like I said, I had an idea of how.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted the logo to look, and I knew that
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  Speaker 4: she was artistic enough that she can kind of sketch
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  Speaker 4: some things out to at least get us to a
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  Speaker 4: starting point. And so we sat there for a while
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  Speaker 4: and it was actually a lot of fun. I could
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  Speaker 4: tell her I really like this, like can we change this?
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  Speaker 4: And she was able to really hone in on that,
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  Speaker 4: and then she took what she had and used some
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  Speaker 4: friendly AI tools and that kind of honed everything. You
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  Speaker 4: can't do anything anymore in business without AI, so you
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  Speaker 4: might as well accept it. So once we kind of
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  Speaker 4: got an idea of really what we wanted, then we
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  Speaker 4: took it to the design factory and after a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks we kind of locked down a true logo
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  Speaker 4: and then we tried We went and trademarked that and
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  Speaker 4: then designed our packaging and just kind of went from there.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, the rest was history.
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  Speaker 2: How did the astronaut become kind of your mascots?
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  Speaker 6: That is at Okay, So we have some friends at
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  Speaker 6: do you want the ownA?
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  Speaker 5: Do you want training out here in Midland?
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  Speaker 2: Nice?
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really cool.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: But they invited us to come and pop up outside
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: of their training facility just for while they were open,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: you know, just a few hours and uh Lauren, one
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: of the co owners, she walked out to get a
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: coffee and she just was talking about our astronaut and
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: how much she liked it and asked if he had
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: a name, and we were like no, like, we just
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: kind of put him out here because he matches all
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: of our stuff and he's a vibe, you know, it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: kind of cool, and she goes, well, maybe you should
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: name him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Victor, you know, like vibing with Victor.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: And oh man, it just stuck forever and people take
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: pictures with him, and he's become our little mascot over time,
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: and people love seeing him on menus and just different stuff.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: And he actually started arm and tool here and we
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: just didn't have enough on our display tables.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: We thought it was a little bit empty, and so
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: on the way out the door, Hey just grabbed the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: astronaut and he just seemed to fit.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: And it's been with us ever since.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Now, our youngest son did break our first Victor. We're Victory.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: The first Victor died, so we had to replace hands.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: We've got a new Victor now and so he's doing well.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I feel like you need to get a full on
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: costume now at this point. Yeah, not as well, right, Yeah, Well,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: since he broke it, he's got to he's also got
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: to wear it, especially in summertime. He's got to sweat
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: it out.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, a spy sign, Yeah, great, that'd be great.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, as I mentioned, like you know, obviously,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: land Man has really brought more attention to the Midland
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: area and for those who don't know, the Midland Odessa
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: area is smack dab in the middle of Texas and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: is very big and the oil scene and that there
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: is a lot of money in that area. What has
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you know, what has that whole situation been like with
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: more attention now becoming to Midland.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Well, it's crazy.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I mean you mentioned land Man and we've already talked
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: about d One a little bit. And so our friends
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: there that run that, So we had our kids, you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: training there, and he's friends with the guy that kind
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: of runs Free Rain Coffee, Oh, Paul Anderson. So he
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: put us in touch and so I've talked to Paul
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: a couple of times because eventually we'd like to get
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: into grocery stores and stuff like that, and that's where
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: they are.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So it's just funny that you mentioned that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: So we've had a couple of conversations that haven't been
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: real in depth, but I know that he started out
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: fairly small, and I think they got a roastery out
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: in San Angelo and they kind of took off with
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: the Landman and stuff.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Free Rein is uh, that's rips from Yellowstone.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Right, Yellowstone. I'm sorry, Yeah, you're good.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I mean it's all a Taylor Sheridan, New York.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was Yellowstone.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah okay, I thought it was. I was like, wait
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a minute, he had the coffee and I know he's
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: got bourbon as well.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, land Man is It's definitely big
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: around here.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Oh I imagine.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: The oil scene too, like draws in a lot of
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: people that aren't from here, you.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Know, like they're just come and go.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they stay here for a couple of weeks and
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: they go back where they live, and you know, it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: just a back and forth thing. This isn't their home location.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: They just come out here to work and stay here
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: where they work and.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: They take off, which, honestly, I feel like for the
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: market scene where we pop up is probably very helpful.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Most markets that we're in and.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Get to pop up at are fairly busy, and I
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: mean we have our regulars, but there's always new faces
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, it's also good because they can they enjoy
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: your coffee and then they could take it with them
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: and then whenever they're or wherever they're going, people are like, oh,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: where'd you get this coffee at? Especially white coffee. Like again,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: people haven't seen it very much.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Right exactly.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean that's our goal was just try
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: to try to get it out there. I know that
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: we can't compete with traditional coffee, and that's that's never
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: been our goal. Our goal is more to help people
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: discover that there's another way to drink coffee. It doesn't
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: have to be bitter, it doesn't have to be harsh,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: you don't have to drown it with all kinds of
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: sugar and creamer.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: There is another way to drink it. There's another option
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't know about. Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Starbucks is definitely ruined a lot of the way
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: people do drink and kind of perceive coffee, and they
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: definitely like, I mean, they're straight up coffee is not great.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: So you know, I guess no offense to Starbucks, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: you guys are doing fantastic on your own, so you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: don't need my recommendation. But I love that there are
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: so many more smaller coffee you know, alternatives really, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that's exactly what it is, and we need more of those.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so many. I mean, the coffee field in general,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: it's just so saturated. There's so many, and I say saturated,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: but I don't mean that in a bad way, because
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: there's so many to choose from and all bring a
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: certain element to it that's interesting. So we love trying
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: different coffee. I've come around a little bit on traditional coffee,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: and I just really like supporting these small businesses because
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I know how hard it is.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: I think another cool thing about our coffee that people
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: might not realize or know is I mean we said
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: before it looks like a tea, but it can kind
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: of play like a tea as well. So when you
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: pour it in your bug, if you want to just
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: add a little honey and cinnamon to it, Yeah, it's
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: smooth and it's so good. It's like almost like a
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: nuttier tea. But you're also getting that caffeine, which is
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: really nice. And I've never been a black coffee drinker.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: I always have to have the fruit free drinks, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: But I can drink our coffee like that and be
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: totally fine.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I can drink just a shot of espresso and it's.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Enjoyable, Like it's not giving me like a weird taste
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: in my mouth afterwards or anything.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: So that's very nice.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so now that you guys have been in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the you guys are genuinely in the coffee industry, what
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: is something that you guys learned that you had no
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: idea about when it came to the coffee.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: For me, because we don't roast our own coffee, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: relationship with your roaster is the.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Most important thing. Yes. I mean, if you don't have
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: a good relationship where they.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Are are willing to communicate with you quickly, it really
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: puts a strain, especially on something like Amazon where you're
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: trying to get orders out and you need their help
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: for pickups and things like that, and you need you
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: need a quick response, and we just didn't get that
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: for a while. So we've been through two roasters. Now
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: we're on our third roaster, and this guy is fantastic.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: We've been to his roasty multiple times, we've gone through testing,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: we've had a hand in making our own roast and
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: our own coffee, and so we're really excited about where
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: we are with this roster and.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: What the future looks like.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, tell us about who your roaster is.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: So we just switched, and I mean you're gonna be
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the first to know because nobody really knows. We just
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: we just switched to twelve get Coffee here locally. Hunter
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Day is the owner, and this guy knows his stuff
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and he takes it very serious.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: It's a science to him, and he doesn't know anything.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: He didn't know anything about white coffee and never roasted
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: white coffee. So we really got to work together to
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: come up with a flavor that we wanted and really
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: nail down.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: That profile that makes it ext exclusive. Two vibes to go.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love that you both are kind of,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you know, figuring out a better roaster than what you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: had before, and then they're trying to figure out how
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to do white coffee as well. So it's learning process
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: for everybody.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, And you know he's he's so good with his
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: traditional coffee. And what's so great about him is he
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: he doesn't want our product.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: To be subpar.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: He wants he wants to live up to the expectation,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: and I mean, I can't ask for any more than
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: that from our roaster.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: So Courtney, what did you think you've learned the most
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: now that you're actually in the industry.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: So my side of it is completely different since I'm
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: running you know, shop operations and menu creation and things
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: As a teacher, I did, I.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Guess, dabble in using Canva, but it was in the
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: most basic ways.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, let me just take a park point or you
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: know whatever.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: But I I've learned so much in how to use
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: some of the AI tools to my advantage.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: And I know it's going to ruffle some people's feathers,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: you know, but it's just how it is, you know.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I have gotten to where I can sketch out my
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: idea and take a picture of it and send it
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: into AI and it'll just you know, make it a
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: little fancier. Or I can you know, get an image
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: or of Victor dressed in a costume or you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: something silly like that. But it's really helped expand my
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: creativity even more. And I feel like I've gotten to
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: do more than I've ever dreamed of doing creatively in
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: this past year, than I've ever gotten to do in
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: my life. And it's been so fun. And I've learned,
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: you know, just using Canva, just little tricks here and
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: there and how to do it a little quicker, or
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: just creating menus and stuff like that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: So it's really fun.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: That makes sense.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, AI is a tool, and at the end of
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the day, that's what people should be using it for.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, like you said, you're kind of already coming
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: up with the idea. You're not just throwing it in
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: there like do this.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: You're just you're basically.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, clean this up because I have a rough idea,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: but I obviously not be able to do all of
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: it the way I can make it better.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you can't. You can't fight AI. It's gonna
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: be here. I mean, it's gonna take over the next
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: five ten years, and you're gonna be behind if you
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: don't use it. So it's it's great for spreadsheets and formulas.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's really a lifesaver and it saves
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: a lot of time.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: It's almost like a business partner, like you can either
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: choose to build a relationship with it or fight against it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: But I feel like building that relationship with it is
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: going to be better for everyone in the long term.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So right, Yeah, I mean, obviously I think we have
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: way too many AI companies. I think they all for
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the most parting together and doing Yeah, I'm not a
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: fan of the the centers that they're the data centers
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: because you're gonna have a water shortage as it is. Obviously,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: we all know the grid in Texas sucks electricity wise anyway,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: so we need more of it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: We saw what happens when we do that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Also it's people are talking about wanting Texas to be
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: their own country. I think we need to get our
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: electricity straight first and then we.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Can talk about that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Let's let's start with that.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Also, I don't want to passport to go to Oklahoma.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say that, right of course.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean you're working with your family. Obviously, you
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: two are married and working together. Is there a safe
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: word that you'll have to use to kind of say
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: separate work from you know you time or how does
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that or you still trying to figure out that process.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: It's honestly, I think we compliment each other really well.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Our skill sets really do compliment each other.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And I stay out of her lane and I think
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: she stays out of my lane. And I think that's
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: best for both of us. And I think we understood
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: that from the beginning. But it does, it does get
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: a little hard. I mean, it gets very stressful, you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: and it's what's nice though, is we have the same
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: goal in mind in the end, you know, in coaching,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: most of them have the same goal of mine, but
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: not all of them. And now I know that Courtney
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: is right there with me, and she's got the same
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: vision that I do. And so we try to make
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: time like Thursday is our night that we go on
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: date night. We discuss business first and then we shut
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: it down and we try to enjoy ourselves because we
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: really get maybe one or.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Two days a week that we can actually do that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: So I think that's really really important and that keeps
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: us grounded.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Definitely agree.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean a little peak behind the curtain. It
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: is Thursday.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: What's Thursday night?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: What does daylight look like for you guys tonight?
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Well, Corny has she actually has a voice lesson right
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: after this, so she she teaches a voice on the side.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: So she's a phenomenal singer. She won't say it herself,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: but I'll say it for But we usually have a
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: couple of different spots that we go to and we
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: have some dinner and a couple of drinks and we
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: come home.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Usually it's at early night, you know, nine ten o'clock.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: We're old now these days, so so we shut it
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: down pretty early.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. There's you know, there's so
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: many studies that show that that sleep is more almost
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: more important than anything else. So there's nothing wrong with
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the turning in early.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. Yeah.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Well I have a segment. Shall I call it the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: five counts? Just five random questions? Okay, all right? Number one,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: what is your song? What song do you car karaoke to?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Your Corny's probably got one hundred of them.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Right now.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: I have a new one by Hailey Williams, who's the
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: lead singer of Farymore, called Aarachute on rep in my Car,
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: and I just I love that song a lot.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: But I just love her.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I've been listening to a paramore since I was in
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: what is it junior high, high school.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Something crazy, as long as I've known you.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that's what that's mine.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: I don't I mean, I'm not a big singer, but yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's there's a lot of different music that
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: I listened to.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's very little music that I dislike, so
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think I have anything specific, but
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I mellow music. I don't want anything real hard crazy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: You know in indie rock pop is good for me.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Keep it chill.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: There we go. Number two, if you were a pro
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: wrestler or MMA fighter, what would your name be?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Oh? Boy, you go, Oh that was tough man, so hard.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know that's that? Yeah, that's a tough one. Well,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: it wasn't prepared for that one, John.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: That's why they're random. Well, imagine as a coach, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: you know, as an athlete, you had something maybe a
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: nickname or something that you or whatever the.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Kids called you. I mean, I guess just MVP.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, Uh yeah, I don't know what do you got?
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: My parents for whatever reason, I don't really know the reason,
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: but they used to call me rowdy because my maiden
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: name was Rowy, So probably rowdy something, rowdy diva.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Hey, I like that.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's a drink in the horizon with that.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Number three, who is your first celebrity crush?
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Sobrity crush? I think probably the one that I remember them.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I was just gotta be Britney Spears, I mean, just
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: yea perfect.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Number four, Who or what inspires you?
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: I just like the hero story, you know, I just
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I like to I like to hear people struggle and
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: how they came through that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: You know, I listen to podcasts too.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, a story like a David Goggins,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: you know, something like that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's fantastic. People like that will always
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: motivate me.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: I think for me, I just something inspiring to me
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: has always been music. And I know that doesn't have
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: anything to do with coffee, but it doesn't have to
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: anything surrounding that is very inspiring to me, or any
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: type of music that kind of like reaches into your
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: soul and says whatever you can't say, right, that helps
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: inspire me to do a lot of things or maybe
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  Speaker 6: say what I can't say.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's great because yeah, they're putting into words that
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  Speaker 2: you never maybe thought it to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then number five, what would you tell your seventeen
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  Speaker 2: year old.
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  Speaker 3: Self enjoy failure?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that turns because you're going to learn a heck
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  Speaker 4: of a lot more from your failures than you ever
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  Speaker 4: will success. So embrace it and understand that every time
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  Speaker 4: you fail that brings you that much closer to your success.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I probably told myself that you probably think you
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  Speaker 6: know what you're going to do, but you really don't.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's the beauty of life in general,
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  Speaker 6: is that you never know, like what doors are going
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  Speaker 6: to open and what doors are going to close. And
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  Speaker 6: just because it's on the career path that you thought
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  Speaker 6: you were going to have, Like if that door closes
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  Speaker 6: and you open a new one to something else like
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  Speaker 6: this coffee, that doesn't necessarily mean that you've failed, Like
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  Speaker 6: you're still growing and doing awesome stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: No, I love both those Now. If people want to
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  Speaker 2: find out more about y'all, obviously visit you guys out
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  Speaker 2: in Midland, follow you guys online, support you in any
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  Speaker 2: way how can they do so?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, of course, follow us on Instagram. That's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where all of our information is. We've got
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  Speaker 4: a listing on Amazon, We've got links from Instagram, we've
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  Speaker 3: Check that out. But but really just the Amazon support.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, reviews helped so.
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  Speaker 4: Much on Amazon, and we can't ever get enough positive reviews.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Thank you'all so much for this. I've
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  Speaker 2: loved this and again thank you for the for the
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  Speaker 2: bag of coffee. I will have it tomorrow morning. I
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  Speaker 2: will let you know what I think and yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to have it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, good deal. Thank you, John. I appreciate you having
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  Speaker 3: us song.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you so much. We appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. To Eric and Courtney from Vibes
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  Speaker 2: I just finished my bag that they sent me. Again,
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  Speaker 2: it is absolutely delicious. I'm definitely gonna get some more
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