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Bonus: Nick And Ryan Drink Coffee...IRL! · Coffee People Podcast

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  Sliding into your screen is not just any coffee can, it's a
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  Rostar coffee can. You don't need thousands
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  personalized, just one in Rostar's design lab.
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  No design experience needed. Choose a pattern, add your logo
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  and text, or create something memorable.
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  With AI being made in the Midwest, you can expect it on
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  your doorstep in no time. Now that was smooth.
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  Testing. Testing.
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  Testing. Hey, Nick, hey, drinking coffee.
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  Drinking coffee. Cheers.
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  Oh, you know what? We can welcome people to Nick
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  and Ryan drink coffee in real life.
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  In person. In person or real life, same,
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  same thing. It's exciting to have a coffee
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  in person. I feel like I camera, but it
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  just feels very this space feels like it's not part of the show
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  floor. I feel important.
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  I would. Well, I was excited to welcome
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  you to this important coffee business meeting in the Coffee
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  Business Lounge, which you know is business because there are
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  these special outlets and lights and tables all over the place.
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  Yesterday, before I had access to this place, I sat on the
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  floor by a wall charging my laptop for a little while.
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  Yeah. You don't have to do that
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  anymore. Will this make every other
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  convention worse for you if you don't have access to the coffee
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  business lounge? I might just ride on the fact
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  that I did it once forever. It's like, well, Oh no, just
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  pretend like nothing happened. Yeah.
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  I mean my question is just will this having access to this
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  coffee business lounge ruin every other convention for you?
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  If you don't have accents obviously.
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  I think that from now on, anytime I walk past the lounge
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  and I don't have access, whoever's near me, I'm just
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  going to say I had AI was I was in one of those once.
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  Oh yeah, once. Once.
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  You'll live off that for years on your someday you'll have a
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  tombstand. You'll say he was once in the
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  coffee business lounge. That's like in the dash between
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  the dates, right? As long as I make it back to the
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  lounge before World of Coffee 2032.
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  You think you're going to be working in coffee in 2032?
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  I'd like to think so. I'll be drinking coffee in 2032.
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  Sure. Once again, hopefully.
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  Yeah, if we're lucky and we're not living underground like in
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  that Hulu show Paradise. We would have coffee if we lived
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  underground, or some synthesized version.
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  A tomo coffee will just supply us.
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  Once we live underground, it'll take over.
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  I don't know, maybe they'll get run out of town.
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  There's some people on the Internet that do not like them,
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  I've been told. Have you had it before?
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  Yeah, I. Think it's pretty good.
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  Yeah, it's interesting. They mix it with coffee now.
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  So now that we're having this important business meeting in
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  the coffee Business Lounge, I'm wondering what your first
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  impressions of Houston are not Houston SCA Expo Houston.
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  Well, my first impressions of Houston were last month because
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  I came here, went to a few of the shops for the inside videos,
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  which was fun. What was your second impression
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  of Houston? Second impression here, it's a
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  little bit sticky. Yeah, 67,000% humidity at all
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  times. Yeah, yeah.
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  But overall, I like it. Yeah, we're, we're, we stayed
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  pretty tight to the downtown area near Detroit, like the Expo
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  Center. And our walk has been nice,
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  pretty clean. We did walk past a a man in a
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  wheelchair who had himself pulled forwards into a corner.
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  And I think he was relieving himself in some way.
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  So that was a thing that happened.
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  But no, I I like it. There's been good restaurants.
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  The downtown is nice, like especially for around a
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  Convention Center. It's really well put together in
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  the parks I've noticed. Texas is kind of my first long
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  Texas experience with Fort Worth.
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  Austin here. They do parks really well.
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  Obviously like shade is important as the aforementioned
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  heat and humidity, but every city I've been to has just a
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  beautiful park and even outside this Convention Center, I don't
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  know that I've been to one with like a beautiful park out front.
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  Yeah, they have a pond out there.
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  Yeah. Another thing about Texas that
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  I've noticed is just the the pride, the number of Texas
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  shaped things, whether it be waffles or mailboxes or
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  anything, Everything that can have Texas on it has Texas on
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  it. Or the Texas flag.
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  There's always a Texas flag on everything.
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  Yes, that's kind of cool. I mean it.
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  We do that in Wisconsin, but it's cheese.
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  It's not our flag. We have cheese on everything I
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  feel like. We have a cheese sticker,
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  wearing a cowboy hat and our trade show which we've been
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  handing out. Speaking of trade shows, the
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  business part of this is Rostar is up for an award on my like
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  lanyard, which I think I lost. I hope not.
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  What's it's best new product, but for what?
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  Yeah, for our design lab, which is a a software which you might
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  have played on a little bit before, allows super short run
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  bags, removes the need for a graphic designer a little bit if
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  you have a. As a former graphic designer
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  though. It doesn't remove the need
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  hurtful people who doesn't, who don't have current reach or
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  don't have a designer but have a vision of what they want and
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  need 50 to 100 bags. Let's kind of get empty their
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  brain onto a coffee bag using like simple simplified tools on
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  our site. See it come to life with 3D
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  right away. It's generally cool.
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  Some of those bags that were designed on there I saw at the
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  booth today. I mean, they look, they're
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  legit. And I was talking to a graphic
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  designer. I don't mean to give you too
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  much of a hard time that I that I respect and, and trust.
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  And we were talking specifically about the Rostar Design Lab and
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  what a great tool it is to introduce people to the concept
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  of packaging design and help them get through ideas and grow.
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  And at some point they get to a point where they're like, we
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  need thousands and 10,000 bags and we need someone else with
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  eyes on, you know, they know what a graphic designer is going
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  to do and they're going to value that work to some extent.
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  That was kind of his take away. Is that Charles from Tekwani?
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  It's. Charles from Tekwani.
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  Charles from Tekwani, we love you.
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  He's a good dude. No, I like, I don't think that
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  anyone who's currently using a graphic designer is going to
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  fire the graphic designer to go to design lab.
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  That's not what it is. It's it's just bringing like
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  the, the custom bags a little bit more within reach for people
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  that are starting up. Yeah, that's been.
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  Great. I had something else in my
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  notes. So it's best new design award,
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  Best best new product for a design award.
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  Do we have any? Oh, I said we like I'm part of
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  Rostar. Sorry, guys, I don't mean to
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  imply that we're this, you know, on the same level here.
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  Does do any of Rostar's customers have bags in the
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  packaging design contest this year?
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  Yes. I think you guys sponsor your
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  last year, I don't remember if you.
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  Didn't. Yeah, yeah, we're a sponsor of
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  the packaging design awards again, which is feels very
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  fitting. Yeah.
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  Yeah. 787 Coffee. You talked to Brandon.
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  Yeah, I talked to Brandon today. Yeah, their their bag that he
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  actually designed. He he didn't tell you that.
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  He did not tell. Me.
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  He designed it. He was very, he knew.
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  I mean, he talked me through it, but he didn't actually tell me
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  that. Yeah.
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  The booming sound is the band getting ready to play outside
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  this window, so we'll be calling it here in a minute to enjoy
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  some more coffee. Yeah.
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  So 787 is nominated. I think they're announcing
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  tomorrow the winners of that. Nice.
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  Good to see. I like it.
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  This morning I, I I missed you at the five Ki.
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  Ran a 5K here in the lounge because once I got in I didn't
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  want to leave because I was afraid they wouldn't let me
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  back. So I just did laps until, you
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  know, the whole thing opened up. Most people think I went back to
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  my hotel last night. I stayed here last night because
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  I lost. Is that what the cot over in the
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  corner is for? I just curled up underneath the
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  concession table over there. The The Coffee 5K was really
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  cool. It was, it was hosted by 3 Keys
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  Coffee and World of Coffee runners.
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  It was a pretty casual like kind of conversation level pace.
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  And I was running with this, this girl who was really nice.
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  We had a brief moment that was cool.
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  We were going underneath a bunch of bridges and the view was just
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  insane. And so we talked a little bit on
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  the run. And then it wasn't until well
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  after we had gotten done that I realized I have emailed with
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  her. Oh, dozens of times.
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  Her name is Kate from Snake River Roasting.
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  And I was, I was her main contact at Roast Star for about
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  a year and a half. And it just, she was a perfect
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  stranger until well after. It was crazy.
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  Yeah, it's, well, one of the things here is you end up
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  talking to people just accidentally, and you don't
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  realize how connected everything is.
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  Yeah, I haven't noticed our. All of my emails that I sent
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  have a picture of my face and then at the end.
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  And I have found myself at a big disadvantage sometimes when
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  someone walks up and knows me because I've emailed them and
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  they don't have a name tag on and they immediately recognize
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  me and start talking and haven't introduced themselves yet
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  because it feels. Like feel like they know you.
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  Yeah, I think that everybody should have a picture of it.
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  It makes it so nice to just have a face already.
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  But there is something about when there's like a little bit
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  of mystery to them and then. Yeah, you can imagine whatever
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  you want. Yeah, I like a little anonymity,
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  which is hard in what I'm doing. Yesterday, I got a phone call in
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  the afternoon, and I was sitting in the press room, which has
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  windows so people can look into the press room here at the Expo.
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  And I was talking to someone. I got a phone call, and the
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  person I was chatting with said, you need to answer that.
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  So I pulled it out and looked at it, and I said, yes, I do.
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  And I answered it. And it was Fabian from APIs
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  Coffee. And I said, Fabian, like, how
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  are you? And he goes and he goes.
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  He goes, hey, I'm outside the press room looking at you.
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  And I looked up and there he was.
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  And so he waved him in. And I thought, what if I would
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  have just looked at my phone and then put it back in my pocket?
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  What a jerk I would have been, because he was standing right
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  there looking at me. And anyway, but I wouldn't have
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  necessarily known it was him because I've only seen him
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  virtually until yesterday and I didn't realize he was so tall.
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  Yeah. He's a big.
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  Dude he does jiu jitsu too. Yeah, uh, which I do not.
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  I also don't run. I didn't run around the lounge.
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  I ran once in like the late 90s and that was it over it.
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  From something or to something? Sure.
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  Uh, Nick, I'm almost done with coffee.
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  Anything else that we should share today?
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  I wish I had more trends and things to share from the show so
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  far, but it's been busy. You can barely navigate the
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  floor out there. There are a lot of people.
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  One thing I can share is that the attendees are out.
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  It's a lot of a lot of people. Are they up?
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  Do we know that I'm? Curious to see the numbers but
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  it does feel like it. I think the number to beat from
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  last year was 17,000 people walking.
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  I went upstairs yesterday with those big round windows and
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  looked out and there's a railing so you can't lean all the way
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  forwards and with the the place you're standing you can't see
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  from from wall to wall the the whole show.
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  Floor Well, that was my question was if there are more people
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  because to me it's felt less chaotic walking around.
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  But I think the space is just bigger too than Chicago's SEA
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  Expo. I like saying SEA Expo because I
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  know this is the last time it's called Expo and it feels like
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  part of something. I also find it hysterical that
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  we came into this coffee business lounge to have an
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  important coffee business meeting and a cup of coffee and
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  there's literally a live band testing out their base on the
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  other side of the window. This is a great place for a
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  podcast. Unbelievable.
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  Nick, thanks for having a cup of coffee it.
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  Was fun. It's good to do it in person.
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  Now let's do it again, Nick. Sorry Nick, thanks for drinking
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  coffee with me. Does Nick and Ryan drink coffee?
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  That's the name of the show, I think.
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  It is, and I think we even do a little.
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  There's a that's like the opening card.
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  Oh, isn't it? Sure, I did that.
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  Pretty sure I made that. Signing out for my important
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  business meeting. Sliding into your screen is not
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  just any coffee bag, it's a rostar coffee bag.
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  No mean thousands personalize, just 25 in Ghostar's design lab.
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  No design experience needed. Choose a pattern, add your logo
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  and text, or create something memorable.
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  With AI being made in the Midwest, you can expect it on
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  your doorstep in no time. Now that was smooth.
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  REO Speedwagon out there or something?
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  I hope it comes through how how ridiculous it.
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  Is, oh, wait, is it actually this band?
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  Robert Robert Randolph and the Dip?
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  I know the Dip. They're amazing.
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  The dip. Yeah, they're like on my
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  playlist. See if I can steal some of the
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  dip off YouTube.