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The End Of Coffee People 2025. Thank You. · Coffee People Podcast

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  None. Hey, good morning, everyone.
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  Thank you for being here on the Coffee People podcast presented
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  by Rostar Coffee Packaging found online at rostar.com.
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  I'm your host, Ryan Wolt, and I just want to have a cup of
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  coffee with you today. I hope you've got something
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  pleasant in your mug. I'm actually drinking this
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  Prismatic Brooks Winery collaboration Pinot Noir barrel
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  aged coffee. It's my first cup and it's, it's
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  wild. It is.
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  I mean, you can smell it from across the room when it's
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  brewing. And it's definitely a unique
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  flavor in my mouth that I am. I'm still trying to figure out
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  all the different things that I'm experiencing.
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  Prismatic is near my new home here in Oregon and we were
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  planning an end of season 15 episode featuring their roaster
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  and co-owner GM of their restaurant Kyle Layton of
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  Prismatic Coffee. We had a rousing chat last week
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  in person about his coffee journey, coffee packaging, why
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  hospitality is so damn important.
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  And I left that interview pumped up.
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  I was like, yeah, this is going to be a great end of the season.
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  And then I got home and learned that something went a bit wonky
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  with the microphones and it's going to take some tweaking to
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  make it all come together. And Kyle and I are going to get
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  back together this week and re record some some new stuff.
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  We're going to chat again. So it was a great reminder that
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  even though we have hundreds of episodes and we've been doing
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  this show now for five years, I still really am am just figuring
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  it out. Video is still new this year.
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  It was a big step for us. And getting overconfident is
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  never a great idea. So like many small businesses,
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  probably like you, I'm learning on the fly, making mistakes and
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  building on those and fixing them and getting better every,
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  every, every episode, every season, every time we meet
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  somebody new and do another interview.
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  So 2025, it was a big year. I can smell it.
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  You know, as I'm sitting here. I got to take a sip every now
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  and again. We took the show out of our home
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  podcasting studio and on the road.
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  We launched video, as I just mentioned.
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  We did on location shoots. We started at SCA Expo in
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  Houston. That was our first Test and then
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  did the free coffee tour up the coast of California and Oregon
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  and even Washington a little bit.
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  Nevada. I say the first free coffee tour
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  because it's not going to be the last.
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  More on that just a minute. We ended up our our travel year
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  at Rose Summit in Portland, which was a really great
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  opportunity to see the industry from a different side.
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  I just went as a, as a visitor and, and to learn.
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  My wife and I spent four months this year on the road.
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  So we were producing this show, recording it, you know, editing
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  it from the car. We finally settled up here in
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  the Pacific Northwest and I've spent most of my time trying to
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  figure out what box I put what thing in before everything was
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  packed away. Through that all, I've learned
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  that I need to continue learning and tweaking the podcast and the
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  Coffee People newsletter. I believe there's a lot of value
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  in sharing the stories of Coffee People.
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  We all fail and succeed in different ways, and being a
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  platform for our guests to be seen and heard is something that
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  I take a lot of great pride in. People can share their wisdom.
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  It's such a great gift. The production part can be a
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  grind, but the time that I spend with the guests on this show,
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  it's just a privilege I don't take for granted.
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  So thank you all for being here. Hearing their success stories
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  and failure stories and what motivates them is inspiring for
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  me and I hope for for you listen and watching Coffee people and
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  Coffee Smarter. I've got some notes here.
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  I'm going to scroll up a little bit has always been available
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  for free. That's not changing.
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  We've had great sponsors from the beginning.
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  Rostar has been our presenting sponsor for quite a while now.
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  It's become more of a collaboration than anything and
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  has really enabled us to to take on some of these new challenges.
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  I can't say enough about the back and forth between me and
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  their team, their support of our coffee roaster collaboration
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  products like yeah, no, yeah. Coffee with Relative or the fall
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  series we dropped with Coffee Cycle Roasting the Pinery and
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  and Maria Coffee, respectively. All those coffees are available
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  now, by the way, link in the show notes.
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  So we're on coffeepeoplepodcast.com.
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  The point being is thank you to Rostar for the support and for
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  helping us grow. We couldn't have done that.
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  We couldn't have continued to do that without it.
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  I also want to thank say a coffee source, Joe Benger of
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  Vorness Coffee and Maria Coffee, our ongoing friendships with
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  Chris at Coffee Cycle, all of the coffee Smarter experts
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  who've given their time to us, continue to uplift us and
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  inspire us, educate us, certainly appreciate you and
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  looking forward to spending more time with you this year.
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  There's also quite a few listeners who've been part of
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  our growth by signing up to follow the newsletter or the
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  podcast somewhere. Those of you who even pay for
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  for it, even though you don't have to, you let us share the
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  show with so many more people. It's a great feeling to know
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  that you find value in what we're doing.
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  I can't thank you enough. On that note, as a thank you to
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  you and any future supporters, we're adding some new supporter
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  tears to the Coffee People podcast newsletter so we can
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  give back a little bit more to you.
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  We tried to do that a while back and just didn't have the
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  logistics figured out, but I think we're there.
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  So we're going to be adding some some new things to show our
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  appreciation for paying subscribers.
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  New episodes that are exclusive, coffee discounts, even some free
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  coffee giveaways throughout the year.
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  Just little things to let you know that.
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  Yeah, we know you're there and thank you.
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  If you're already a paid supporter, you'll get an e-mail
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  with some more details about this soon.
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  And if you're a future supporter, you're getting in at
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  the right time. So thank you to you too.
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  So what's coming now for the Coffee People podcast in 2026?
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  Besides that newsletter expansion, we're going to
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  continue to interview people, interview guests and grow our
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  efforts in the video version of the show.
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  Can actually use your help with that.
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  The Coffee People podcast on YouTube needs about 400 more
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  subscribers to become like a potential revenue generating
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  place, which helps us expand and share and learn and, and get
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  this show out to even more people for free.
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  All I need from you is that you subscribe.
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  So that type of bonus income really helps us out.
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  If you're on YouTube and willing, please follow the links
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  down below. That's like the first time I've
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  done that, like where I've pointed out something that isn't
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  really there in my life, but you're going to see on the
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  screen. We're doing a lot more coffee
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  inspired artwork. You'll see that on our Instagram
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  and social media, and we're definitely hitting the road.
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  I'm anticipating that we're going to reconnect with our
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  coffee friends at Coffee Fests in Vents in New York, Chicago,
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  Los Angeles, possibly Dallas late in the year.
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  We've got a big week planned at SCA World of Coffee in in San
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  Diego. For me, it's a big opportunity
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  to go to the place I called home for more than a decade, the
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  place where I first kind of fell in love with specialty coffee.
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  So we're going to be hosting a Coffee Smarter live event at
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  Coffee Cycle in Ocean Beach that double S as a thank you to the
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  San Diego coffee industry, San Diego coffee community.
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  Just a thank you for embracing me and what was originally
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  called Roast West Coast. Stay tuned for details on that.
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  But anticipate a live show, recording, some music, some
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  snacks, a little happy hour, you know, all kinds of fun stuff.
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  Maybe some tacos. We're also supporting a, say, a
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  Coffee Source's annual coffee roasting competition, which is
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  going to culminate with an event on the Saturday of the World of
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  Coffee Expo. Details on that will be shared
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  soon on how you can participate as a roaster or attend the event
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  in in April. And finally, we're going out
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  into the world to try to meet every single person who has ever
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  listened to this show with new additions of the free coffee
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  tour. If you're a Coffee Roaster Cafe
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  just a coffee aficionado who wants to host this podcast,
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  please reach out. We don't need much, just a table
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  and someone willing to to chat, maybe share some coffee wisdom.
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  OK, this coffee almost done. Going to need a refresher here
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  soon. And I don't want to leave
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  without sharing something that I'll call a little bit of a
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  Coffee Smarter segment that I'll 90% credit to recently passed
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  coffee legend Bill Kennedy, CEO of the San Franciscan Roasters,
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  and 10% to our little hat on at the end.
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  Bill said that in order to make it, you need to make sure that
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  you believe in what you're doing, that you have grit,
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  perseverance and endurance. And I'd just add to that by
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  saying it's really helped me to have other people who believe in
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  me too. Others who picked me up offered
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  help when I needed it, other people who've heard my ideas and
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  help me shape or enhance them, and others who knowingly or
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  unintentionally picked me up and inspired me when I needed it.
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  You know the perseverance and endurance part.
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  That can be tough, especially when you know you're working and
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  you're not sure anyone's and seeing it or or hearing it.
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  And I certainly think of of Bill every time I kind of put that in
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  my head and and push forward to do another show.
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  Refrigerator just kicked out, which just feels perfect.
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  So whatever you're doing in the world of coffee, grit,
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  perseverance, endurance, be willing to be open with others.
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  Open yourself to the other coffee people come into your
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  life and and just celebrate that you get to do this thing in this
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  great industry. So now that all that is out of
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  the way, I need a cup, another cup of this damn good coffee
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  from Prismatics. Stay tuned for that episode
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  featuring Kyle Layton from Prismatic Coffee Roasters.
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  Please be forgiving of the audio.
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  That's on me and I'll leave you with this.
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  This show, the Coffee People podcast season 15 is part of the
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  Roast West Coast Coffee Network. In this episode is was has been
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  written, produced, researched and recorded by me.
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  Ryan Walt, thank you, thank you, thank you for listening to us
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  share the stories of coffee people.
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  Always tip your baristas and be sure to drink with coffee.
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  The. Airplane.
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  I never know how much gets picked up by this microphone.
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  It's like people don't even care that I'm recording this.
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  Hey, good morning. I'm Ryan Wolt, the host of the
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  Coffee People podcast. I also write books.
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  I wrote this one, Eli and Jane, about two characters travelling
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  across the country in opposite directions, run into each other,
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  have to decide if they want to keep on going together down the
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  road. I followed it up with Future Eli
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  and Jane and close it out with Tomorrow Eli and Jane.
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  I had to get this story out for some reason.
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  These books are available now. I sell them online.
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  You can find them on Amazon or barnesandnoble.com or wherever
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  you like to shop. Although it really helps me if
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  you buy them from me and I can promise you they go great with a
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  cup of coffee. Cheers.
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  Happy holidays, thanks for checking it out.