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Happy Hour #61: Bat, Bat Soda · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Stephan
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  Speaker 1: ever told you production of I High Radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another edition of Happy Hour. Today we are slipping
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  Speaker 1: on a newish drink, a non alcoholic but very caffeinated
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  Speaker 1: option here in Atlanta bat Bat Soda and meaning like
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  Speaker 1: bats B A T, B A T and any an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Just realizing that both of our can say something different
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  Speaker 1: because I have the black coffee soda and any you have.
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  Speaker 1: I have the Gore cola, very cute labels, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and all my cans says the drink bat Bat Soda
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  Speaker 1: was concocted in eighteen sixty six by Mrs Danielle Glasky
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  Speaker 1: and Atlanta native. In the beginning, Mrs Glaskey promoted her
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  Speaker 1: drink as a remedy for drowsiness and sold the syrup
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  Speaker 1: to local soda fountains and soon became phenomenally successful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: mine has a picture of a bat and it says
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  Speaker 1: more Gore, they said, dripping oozing with flavor never before
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  Speaker 1: seen her tasted a cola with hypnotic qualities featuring cherry
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  Speaker 1: vanilla coffee and a secret bleund of spices derived from
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  Speaker 1: our recipe found in a bat cave deep in the
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  Speaker 1: woods of Atlanta. I like that as always listeners, drink
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  Speaker 1: responsibly and uh, if you are choosing to drink something
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic or even caffeinated, drink responsibly. As in fact, I
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  Speaker 1: have not had coffee today because these two these have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of caffeine in them, a lot. So they
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  Speaker 1: wired me up. I'm gonna be like loopy and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of round So she was successful in her remedy
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  Speaker 1: for drowsy and so being responsible and not having my
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  Speaker 1: heart flutter away. This is my first thick. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: quickly open in mind because it is carbonated. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: smell that coffee nice and brew And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you live in Atlanta in and you happen too,
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  Speaker 1: one some day actually delivered to your doorstep like they
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  Speaker 1: hand deliver. I believe Danielle was the one that actually
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  Speaker 1: delivered to my place. Turns out I think she and
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  Speaker 1: I have mutual friends. So I was like, oh cool,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta so small, but yes, very coffee like mm hmmm,
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  Speaker 1: taking a sip. Oh, yes, yes, so I've had a
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  Speaker 1: carbonated coffee before. It's so unusual, it's like it's not
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  Speaker 1: it's delicious. Actually, the nice and Sweet has that coffee
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  Speaker 1: robust net of course, but at the same time it's
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  Speaker 1: shocking because it it is carbonated. But I really do
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this. Yeah, I do too. Um, it's pretty I
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  Speaker 1: find it pretty refreshing. It's hard to describe. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like the sparkling water of coffee, which is obviously because
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  Speaker 1: it's carbonated, but it's kind of got that light you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's the flavors there, but it's not overpowering. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's very well balanced. So you have the cola one
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  Speaker 1: is it? Does it still taste like coffee? Mm hmmm, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does still taste like coffee, but I think the
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  Speaker 1: it's probably not as robust. And I've had the one
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  Speaker 1: you have. You're drinking a lot. Shout out to my
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  Speaker 1: friend Barry, who was keeping me supplied and helping these
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  Speaker 1: episodes get made with this is definitely your idea. And
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  Speaker 1: also oh yeah, as in fact, when I was getting delivered,
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  Speaker 1: I told Danielle was like, so yeah, my co host
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  Speaker 1: drinks it all the time, and that's part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason why we're doing this episode. Yep. I always get
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  Speaker 1: a warning too. I drink a bat that let's go. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they really do impact in quite a bit it. I
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  Speaker 1: had to plan around did doing this because you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get way too ip for if you do your normal
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  Speaker 1: tube cups of coffee in the morning, and this can't
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  Speaker 1: can't be done because yes, I haven't had my coffee yet.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, I least make
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  Speaker 1: this a cocktail because she actually has done cocktails with
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  Speaker 1: this as well, so I know she did win with
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  Speaker 1: curosel and the I think the black coffee and apparently
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  Speaker 1: it's like a good holiday favorite, which I don't have that,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't have that option to make it. But
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  Speaker 1: I decided I was going to just make it coffee
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  Speaker 1: esque and do the Irish cream in mine. Nice. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like I'm eating a coffee ice cream or
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  Speaker 1: drinking a coffee ice cream kind of so, but the
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  Speaker 1: taste is really delightful. I do enjoy that. It's definitely
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  Speaker 1: still like I think I had a whole can of
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  Speaker 1: it before, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: see it. I see white people because I definitely only
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  Speaker 1: drink one cup of coffee and it's still half of
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  Speaker 1: what this is and in the can feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: so much more in this can. But yeah, I I
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  Speaker 1: think was it the cinnamon roll episode. There was an
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  Speaker 1: episode where I made a cinnamon roll, which again is
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  Speaker 1: a cocktail that Samantha makes this sort of like coffee
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  Speaker 1: hot chocolate situation with whiskey and other things. But I
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  Speaker 1: read it once with this and it was pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty nice. This is nice. Yeah, And so going back
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  Speaker 1: to we didn't talk a little bit about the coffee world,
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  Speaker 1: Danielle Glasky has been a part of the coffee community
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  Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, and she is actually a veteran of
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  Speaker 1: the coffee industry. Uh. And I will say as you
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned Samantha, Atlanta does feel kind of small.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes people love that bat like I think I had.
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  Speaker 1: I was just walking around with a sticker or something
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  Speaker 1: with it, and people were like, oh, yeah, I love
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  Speaker 1: that bad like people the log in the in the like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the design is really smart and I want a hoodie
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  Speaker 1: I think or something. I was like, I want one
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  Speaker 1: of those. Those are fun, yes, but like to that.
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  Speaker 1: And Danielle Glasky has been featured in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: articles and on websites around roundabouts the internet, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but like local Atlanta websites, and in one article here's
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  Speaker 1: a quote. Bat Bat Soda is a beverage company offering
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  Speaker 1: naturally caffeinated sodas. The founder, Danielle Glaski, is a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year coffee veteran from Atlanta. Bat Bat skulls to create
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  Speaker 1: a refreshing, sparkling iced coffee drink. Each flavor compliments the
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  Speaker 1: selected single origin coffee's profile. Every batch is hot brewd
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  Speaker 1: to extract the full spectrum of coffee flavor, then chilled
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  Speaker 1: and lightly sweetened with organic cane sugar. Finally, the carbonation
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  Speaker 1: lifts the palette and creates a chuggable, ever presant beverage.
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  Speaker 1: Our first flavor available in cans is black Coffee Soda
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  Speaker 1: and we look forward to releasing Goura Cola Root of
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  Speaker 1: All Evil and others in the future. They make for
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  Speaker 1: excellent non alcoholic options at bars and restaurants, easy pickups
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  Speaker 1: for cafes, and unique mixers for Tale program. I think
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  Speaker 1: she Uh worked in UH, one of the local favorite
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  Speaker 1: spiller coffee here in Atlanta, and from what I gathered,
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  Speaker 1: I really would like to know, and and I should
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  Speaker 1: have done this before, but we were trying to quickly
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  Speaker 1: record this, ask her how she even thought of this
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  Speaker 1: and why she decided that this needs to be sold
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  Speaker 1: and needs to be a product, because it you kind
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  Speaker 1: of think of things like that, especially with the phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: of like the soda stream. I know that you now
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  Speaker 1: have the fancy version where you can make everything a
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  Speaker 1: bubble drink, including liquors and such, which my partner when
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  Speaker 1: we got Hours, really wanted to do that with Hours
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  Speaker 1: and even with us going no, you can't, you can't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: quickly learned. But this was before that point in time
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  Speaker 1: when like for me, especially like realizing this should be
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  Speaker 1: a thing. Oh my god. So I am really fascinated
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  Speaker 1: about how she came about this um and from their
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  Speaker 1: own site that bat soda dot com, they say, we
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  Speaker 1: sought to combine our favorite beverage with refreshing element carbonation,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't love carbonation. What came was the vision
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  Speaker 1: for naturally caffeinated soft drinks utilizing the natural flavors derived
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  Speaker 1: from real fruit and spices with organic cane sugar. Are
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  Speaker 1: hot brewed and flash chilled coffees capture a complete flavor
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  Speaker 1: profile of our selected coffees. Our coffee choices are specific
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  Speaker 1: to each flavor profile designed to compliment or enhance the
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  Speaker 1: flavor of each soda. So yeah, like they are very
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  Speaker 1: thoughtful in what they do. Um, the pictures are hilarious
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  Speaker 1: because they are They're obviously very cool kids from Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: that I'm like, you know, have mutuals. I'm like, yeah, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: y'all are two gold for me. I don't think y'a
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  Speaker 1: would invite me to your circle. It's okay, it's okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you have me always you And I'm very proud to
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  Speaker 1: say this. But also like she has been a part
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  Speaker 1: of the coffee industry, and I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: friends who are part of the coffee industry, and it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see the backgrounds of these types of organizations
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  Speaker 1: and these types of companies because we know things are happening.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe Anny Smithy has done episodes on women
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  Speaker 1: in the coffee industry before, and honestly, the coffee industry
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  Speaker 1: does have a bit of a dark history, and no surprise,
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  Speaker 1: women have not been welcomed with open arms in the
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  Speaker 1: industry even until this day. You know, there's also a
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  Speaker 1: lot of constant conversation and debate about sustainability and overall
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  Speaker 1: consumer responsibility. With products like coffee. I know we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about fair trade and um equal pay, as well
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  Speaker 1: as who's getting what money, how is it being grown.
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  Speaker 1: So many things that we needs to be considered. And
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  Speaker 1: it comes to women in the industry around the world,
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  Speaker 1: the numbers are really hippalling. The production of coffee is
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  Speaker 1: provided by women, and only twenty of those coffee farms
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  Speaker 1: are female operated. Um again, and the number of women
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  Speaker 1: who are the ones to have ownership or making profit
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  Speaker 1: is pretty lacking, as in fact, women are less likely
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  Speaker 1: to be able to access financial assistance and assets to
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  Speaker 1: be able to produce and market their their crops. Even
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  Speaker 1: though there's so many, like the chart for it was incredible,
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  Speaker 1: the amount of women that's that's in the actual industry
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  Speaker 1: of the growth is astronomical, Like there's so many it
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  Speaker 1: almost it seems like it's Tintoe two men. But then
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to those who actually get profits and ownerships,
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  Speaker 1: is like, of course men over women. Yeah. Another part
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  Speaker 1: of this that we have in an episode before, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been meaning to bring it back for a while
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  Speaker 1: as a classic, so perhaps we'll do that soon is
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  Speaker 1: what's going on within the industry when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: things like Barrista's, women do make up the majority of
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  Speaker 1: RUSS and it's not surprising to see that there continues
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  Speaker 1: to be conversations within establishments like Starbucks, who yeahs one
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  Speaker 1: of the highest sales of coffee about their treatment of
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  Speaker 1: workers and all the fun union busting tactics that we've
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  Speaker 1: seen that has we've seen from this company that's made
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  Speaker 1: like gargantuan profits in the last several years and just
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  Speaker 1: in general had a huge impact on the coffee industry.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something I do I want to come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about because coffee, coffee houses and coffee culture
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  Speaker 1: is fascinating. And you know, for a long time, women
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  Speaker 1: weren't even allowed in coffee houses. That was kind of
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  Speaker 1: because it was they were places so alcohol but anyway, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's just kind of like there can be
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  Speaker 1: I think this is changing. But for a long time
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  Speaker 1: there was this real like dude bro snobbery coffee culture
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  Speaker 1: that was like, these women don't know what real coffee is.
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  Speaker 1: So when it comes to being behind the counter and
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  Speaker 1: service stuff as Boris does, I've seen them being mainly
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  Speaker 1: women unless you're talking about independent and or specific companies.
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  Speaker 1: And I won't mention any of the smaller companies that
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  Speaker 1: are very particular in their branding, you see more of
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  Speaker 1: the dude bros. So that what we've talked about, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's typically when I think of those types of coffee people,
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  Speaker 1: I think of the uh lumber sexual dudes that we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about as a stereotype. And I know you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, because if there was ever a
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  Speaker 1: moment with the mustachioed dude kind of wavy, long, longer
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  Speaker 1: hair with a button up shirt, yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about in the world of coffee. Of course, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is why I want to celebrate what
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  Speaker 1: Danielle has doing, because not only has she taken the
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  Speaker 1: coffee what she knows so well and has created something
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  Speaker 1: different and refreshing which is amazing and innovative, and it's
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  Speaker 1: actually making a business from it. I love that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: coming back to talk about, yeah, what about the coffee
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  Speaker 1: industry because it can be harmful to women, and it
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  Speaker 1: has been harmful to women. It has left women behind.
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  Speaker 1: When we talk about the growth and agriculture of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: we have killed off literal communities by taking advantage and
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  Speaker 1: taking away their crops. So that's a whole bit conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that the majority of those workers or
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  Speaker 1: those suppliers are women. That means we were coming after
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  Speaker 1: women and taking their livelihoods. So we really have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about why this does hurt women and how we
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  Speaker 1: need to try to correct the But also, yeah, as
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at within the US, like Starbucks has slowly
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  Speaker 1: coming together with different companies or different stores throughout the
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  Speaker 1: country trying to become a part of a union, and
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  Speaker 1: the tactics at Starbucks who tries to play the good
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  Speaker 1: guys with like we've raised your salary or your your
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  Speaker 1: your this, and we've raised your benefits. Oh, look, we
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  Speaker 1: always try to care for our people, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen that with their reaction to unionizing it.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've been kind of confused, as you know, any
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  Speaker 1: you and I've talked about unions before. Obviously this is
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  Speaker 1: something that has affected us when we talk about what
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  Speaker 1: we see with women in the community that some are
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  Speaker 1: being recognized and some are being fired for trying to unionize.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, how is that? How is
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  Speaker 1: that possible? I guess it has everybody do with franchising
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  Speaker 1: as a whole different conversation, and as in fact, when
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  Speaker 1: we did our conversation about unionizing and women, a majority
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  Speaker 1: of the people who were the leaders within Starbucks unions
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  Speaker 1: were young women or non binary folks who are really
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  Speaker 1: making a difference and really pushing and calling for that
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  Speaker 1: because they've been kind of the makeup. As we said,
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  Speaker 1: like I think about sixty seven of the baristas as
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  Speaker 1: of were women. So you know that typically when we
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  Speaker 1: see that kind of numbers, that means it is women dominated.
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  Speaker 1: And essentially we've been told they are either essential workers
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  Speaker 1: at one point and then to low skill at another, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, making coffee is hard. Making coffee is hard.
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of put it out there. It's hard and
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  Speaker 1: it's a skill, which is why I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: craft we got. Really it gets really intense. That world
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  Speaker 1: gets really intense. An I've been to a few cupings.
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  Speaker 1: It gets intense. Yeah I am not good at it,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think this is stuff like that that
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  Speaker 1: we want to talk about but always love to see
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  Speaker 1: when a woman comes on top and Danielle is doing
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  Speaker 1: a hard thing and making incredible drinks. And it's been
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  Speaker 1: around for a little while, as you could tell by
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  Speaker 1: the previous article that any read this is at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and they have made gore Cola. They're making other
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  Speaker 1: things that they made holiday additions to things which I
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  Speaker 1: need to look out for, like they're they're doing it
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  Speaker 1: and I love it. Yes, me too, So cheers to that.
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  Speaker 1: Cheers Yes, keeping us energized. Danielle, thank you and cheers
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  Speaker 1: to you listeners, um as ohs. We would love any
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  Speaker 1: suggestions for people we should talk about something a drink
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  Speaker 1: we should talk about on here um and you can
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