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Coffee People: Andrea Alba-von Buren & Olivier Alerte, Dean's Coffee · Coffee People Podcast

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  Welcome back to the coffee, people podcast for a very
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  special pop in episode with the team behind Dean's coffee a
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  pop-up, iced coffee stand. That has been serving Strikers
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  at the various Writers Guild Association picket lines
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  throughout Hollywood and l.a. at Large, I'm Ryan Walton.
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  podcast, Dean's, coffee is the brainchild of andreea all about
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  Van Buren and oliviera alert. They've been showing up.
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  To caffeinate the Striking TV, film and comedy writers of the
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  wga who've been on strike since May 1st.
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  I recommend wherever you are, you make sure that you have a
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  full cup of coffee, you're going to need it as we race through
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  this very special pop in, Pop Up episode of the coffee, people
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  podcast, featuring Dean's coffee, and I'm really excited
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  that you're here. But before we get started with
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  this kind of pop in, With Dean's coffee on coffee people podcast,
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  if you could, please introduce yourself.
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  So the audience can hear your voices and kind of identify who
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  is who So I'm Andrea I before Dean's coffee came around, I was
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  working as a writer's PA in a writers room back in January.
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  And after that job ended, I had a trip.
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  And then I was basically, unemployed ever since it was
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  really difficult to find any writers room, jobs back then
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  just because of the nature of what's happening right now with
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  writers, but also, because since the strike was, you know, kind
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  of looming over everything there.
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  The studios were not starting any writers room.
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  So I was very much on Lloyd, when things comfy was born.
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  My name is Olivier. I work as a non-union production
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  coordinator, I usually do award shows and reality TV.
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  So right up to basically want to strike started, I was doing that
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  and then took a Hiatus as you can see to help her out with the
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  company. Very cool.
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  And you both mentioned Andrea, you were working in a writers
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  room, you were working in television.
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  The people listening to this show, may not know what's going
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  on. The Writers Guild strike in
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  Hollywood, could you just do a quick?
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  What is this strike? What is the strike?
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  Why is it happening? And I don't need you to get into
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  all the details and politics of it but just who is striking?
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  And why is it affecting you now, of course.
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  So right now the doughy UGA. The Striking this is the union
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  for writers in Hollywood and basically all of the country
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  there's an East and a West Branch there's writers.
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  There's not only writers in television, there's obviously
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  feature writers and talk show, right?
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  Writers and awards show writers. So every writer is under that
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  Union. They had their contract is up,
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  was up in May with the Studio's, the a.m.
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  PT P, which is the unit. The whole group of all the
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  studios that working on Hollywood and they wanted to
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  negotiations and the writers had a lot of Demands that are there
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  to ensure that the writer as a career and as a job will remain
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  a job rather than just like it becoming a gig, which is what
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  the Studio's want, the negotiations fell through.
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  Now they're writers are have been on strike since May first I
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  believe and we're they're all striking to preserve the career
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  of the writer in Hollywood. Obviously there's a lot of
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  Demands and nuances to what is being requested and what is
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  being denied. But that's not what.
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  This is, not the space for that but there's a lot of information
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  and sweat around on though, you know, the wga website as well.
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  And I'm going to share some links on our newsletter and our
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  website to some of that information and to your Twitter
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  feed, so people can learn that on.
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  Our own. If they want to essentially what
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  I'm hearing just to kind of relay it back.
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  Is that the wga The Writers Guild is striking and because of
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  their strike you neither of you are working currently in that
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  field, either by choice or in solidarity.
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  And there's a whole group of people actors and all kinds of
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  people have been supporting this organization, which brings me to
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  what you are doing. Now, with Dean's coffee.
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  Which is a coffee pop up. That has been going around and
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  providing I see two people on the picket lines.
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  That's my understanding. Is that right?
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  What inspired this pop-up and you know how did you get
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  started? That is correct.
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  Beans. Coffee is very much a pop-up.
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  We do it out of my car's trunk and we have a table set up just
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  kind of like like receive customers and every day we go to
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  a different picket line, we just serve iced coffee at the picket
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  line is nowhere else. The way that this came up was we
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  were both very unemployed at the time.
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  I was looking I was applying for Outside of the industry because
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  like you mentioned because of the strike, there's no
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  Productions going on and there's no writers rooms.
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  So there's very hard to find a job right now and I wasn't
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  hearing back from any of these jobs.
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  So I was going through it, mentally emotionally, you know,
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  was feeling very financially insecure as well and a lot of
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  things happen for me to have this idea.
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  But basically, you know, first of all writers, love coffee.
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  I was a writer's PA and I had to get coffee for the writers every
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  single day. So I had, I was able to witness
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  firsthand Do you know how much they liked it and how useful it
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  is for them? There was a lot of hot coffee
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  that was going on, use at the picket lines and my thought was
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  like, oh well because writers love iced coffee more and then I
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  had a friend at a picket line. He left to go get coffee and
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  then because he had to physically leave to go get
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  coffee. He unfortunately got pulled over
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  by a cop because he did an illegal U-turn, and I felt so
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  bad that that happened. Just because he had to go get
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  coffee because there's no coffee that he wanted the picket line.
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  So then One day, we were like talking.
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  And I just randomly said, what are you be cool if someone sold
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  iced coffee at the picket lines and then Olivia heard that and
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  he told me, that's a genius idea.
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  And so, he started to look into it and he came home the next day
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  with an espresso machine that he had.
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  And so he was started to look into it, we started testing and
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  seeing if we could make the drinks and stuff, and then when
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  it seemed like, it was a doable thing, and he would not
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  necessarily break the bank, if we made enough money, to just
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  pay, We had a spent we were like, well let's give it a shot.
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  Just a little project to see how it panned out and we started and
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  it took off really quickly. And we have been doing that ever
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  since did either of you work in coffee at some point before this
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  or was this true? Like this is all new to you as
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  well. No no coffee experience at all.
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  This is all new to us. We like coffee but I don't have
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  any very least experience from before I have been learning on
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  this and I just I like to Say that I'm a fast learner.
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  I just kind of like jump into a research jumping to
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  experimenting practicing. And it'll, it took me maybe two
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  days to kind of like, learn the recipes.
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  And now, I can do all the drinks on the go without thinking too
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  much about it. Wow.
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  That is, that is fast and impressive.
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  I love the idea of this because I can see an entrepreneurial
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  hustle in it. Like you saw a need, you have
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  your own, need your living in Southern California.
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  It's not exactly the cheapest place to live.
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  I live in Southern California, my brother and I were just
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  talking yesterday about how housing occupies a little bit of
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  our day every single day. We think about the future of our
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  housing situation. So I'm very impressed that you
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  were able to pull this together so quickly.
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  What is the vibe? Like at your pop up when you
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  show up at a picket line? How have people been receiving
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  you you know, what is the experience been like for you?
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  So basically, every time we show up to a picot and we never get
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  tired of this phrase, but they always say thank you for being
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  here. Thank you so much for being
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  here, just that alone helps us get through the mornings because
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  we start early, we started will get to any location at like,
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  between maybe 7 a.m. 8 a.m. like, well, before the picketers
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  come. So getting that warm reception
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  every day. When we go to give out coffee,
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  it really helps us and People loved her dreams.
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  They always stop by. They don't have to stop by, but
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  they always stop by and say, oh my God, this was so delicious.
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  Thank you so much or it'll ask for another coffee drink.
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  I mean, it should check their caffeine level, but, you know,
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  don't here's judging. But yeah, it the reception has
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  just been so surprisingly, I don't know.
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  I can't put into words. It's, it's just so nice to see
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  people welcomed us. And not think that we're trying
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  to, you know, get something out of them.
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  Sure. Well I saw that you were doing
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  iced coffee drinks for dollars and then I noticed more
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  recently. You were having people sponsor a
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  day or sponsor a picket line event.
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  What is what is that about? I noticed, I mean some
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  relatively well-known, actresses, like uvula, go on
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  Longoria supported it one day. So how did that come about the
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  sponsorship? And what does that mean?
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  Is that just like other people buying coffee for the picketers?
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  Or is there something more to it than that?
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  That well, before we started, I think we did kind of like, think
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  like, oh, wouldn't it be nice if it became big enough that
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  someone would want to, like, just pay for coffees for people,
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  but we didn't like started play thinking like, oh, that's the
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  plan, that's the business plan. It was just like I would be nice
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  but the first day that we started it, I posted it on my
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  personal social media. I started the official Twitter
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  and Instagram account of the business and my boss from Gotham
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  Knights, which is a show that I was doing before this.
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  He saw it and he Me. And he said I would like to buy
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  100 coffees so because he said, I know how hard it is to start a
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  business. And so he just wanted to support
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  me and just he wanted to just spend most of my money so that I
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  we could just give the coffee for free.
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  And I was obviously very touch and very emotional about it, and
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  we're so grateful to him. And he did that immediately,
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  that was within the first hour, of course party.
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  So he did that and we were able to give it away for free.
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  But then because that happened, I felt there were more
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  comfortable. Now saying, you know, posting
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  saying like, oh, you want to Monster.
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  I got some coffees like, that would be great.
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  That's never like a must for us. Like we will show up and sell
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  coffee on her own, if there's no sponsorship.
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  But, you know, we started to kind of promote that idea
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  because we started to see people interested in it.
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  And basically, what people do is we just charge for the coffee's
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  you just basically pay for x amount of coffees.
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  There's no other fees really, we don't charge for labor or
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  anything. Because as much as we're doing
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  this for our own sustainability, we're also doing it to help
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  writers. So, Here.
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  It's like make ourselves millionaires be doing this.
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  We just want to be able to support the Riders while also
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  helping us out paying rent and you know, pay bills and all that
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  stuff. So we just people just wait for
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  the coffees and then we show up and give away free coffee and if
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  we run out of the free coffees, then we start to sell the
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  coffee's for dollars each which people are happy to purchase.
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  Hey, cool, who is Dean so Dean Dean was my bad Hedgehog.
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  Well, we were deciding the name of the business and I was making
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  the love when I was like, I want the logo to have a mascot, like,
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  it has to have a concept. And I obviously, I had been was
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  my pet hedgehog. I have a photo of him on my desk
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  and I have a lunch of Hedgehog things because of him.
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  So I just look at him and I thought it would be cute to have
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  a hedgehog as a mascot because I don't feel like you see that
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  often. So I brought up to him and I
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  told him, why did I had truck, is the mascot.
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  And we just follow the Beans Coffee and on our off my bed
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  Hedgehog and he was on board right away.
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  So that's where the name. And the hell of of comes from
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  And so now, Hedgehog is the mascot of the entire company,
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  besides, social media, is there any other way, people are
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  engaging with you. How can people listening to this
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  find out? More find out where you are or
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  support you reach out to you. What's the best way for people
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  to do that? Definitely our Twitter account
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  and our Instagram account are the best ways.
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  And then, you can also find my personal Twitter linked on those
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  two places. We are Dean's underscore coffee
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  on Twitter and on Instagram, we are Dean's coffee on.
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  Score official on Instagram and then there's a bunch of Link's
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  there. There's information about the
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  sponsorships, the best way for people to support us is, you
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  know, following us and spreading the word is great.
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  Just for people to be aware about us and just we have a
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  wider reach and then if they have the means and they feel
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  inclined to, they can definitely reach out to us about sponsoring
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  a few coffees. You know, our minimum is just 50
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  copies which is 200 dollars if they want to just give a little
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  bit like we can arrange for that.
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  We Discuss. It just is just special the
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  minimum first to show up to specific picket, but if they
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  just want to be like I have had someone come over and be like
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  I'm gonna send you $100 for to like, give away some free
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  coffees right now, and will welcome that.
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  And so they will send the money and then we tell people, we have
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  some free coffees to give away right now.
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  So come get one. So those are some of the ways to
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  support us just following us. And but it right now especially
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  because I feel like right now is more about awareness because so
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  many people are so nice and so generous with her sponsorships,
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  we are blown away by it every single day.
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  Every time we have someone reach out to us to sponsor company,
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  you mentioned the picket line. You are, you're not in the same
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  place every day. So how do you decide where
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  you're going? Is that part of that deal or?
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  And how do I find out I want to iced coffee this morning and
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  support this endeavor? How do I find out where to go?
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  So every Sunday we post a schedule and so we'll say where
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  we're going to be each day. We also post the morning, Off.
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  So that people are reminded that where we are at the way that we
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  decide that when we started, we just see what special because
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  we're going on at the studios and we will be like, oh this big
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  good looks interesting or we like the theme of the picket so
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  we would show up to that one. Now we have we have we have so
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  much so many sponsorships that now, people will sponsor for a
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  specific bigoted. So that's how we decide where we
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  go. So, like, for example, next
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  week, I think we are almost fully sponsored of the neck, the
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  whole week. So they have already basically
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  made the choice for us because People will say is usually
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  though UGA captains do it. Wga coordinators or for example,
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  when Eva's company was sponsoring, they told us, we
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  want to sponsor coffee's for the Selena Pickett so then they tell
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  us where to go on, we show up and if we don't have any
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  sponsorship we just looked at the list and we make a decision
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  on where we want to go. Definitely on Instagram.
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  I will pin the schedule to my Instagram page and then on
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  Twitter every Sunday I posted and then we just remind people
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  every morning. What happens if the strike ends
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  tomorrow? Then what do we still do?
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  Dean's coffee, do we go back to work somewhere else?
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  What's the plan? We've definitely talked about
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  this a few times like if it ends tomorrow, I know a few people
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  have already reached out saying, oh, when we get back to, you
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  know, our regular jobs at the studios, like we would love to
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  have you guys come over and do like a wrap gift after our show
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  ends and stuff like that. So they're still interested us.
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  We haven't really come up with Solid, you know, plan for these
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  coffee after, but we have started a conversation.
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  I'm assuming and I'll just expand that a little bit further
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  that you had other career plans. You were pursuing a career in
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  writing and in television and film, whatever you're doing.
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  So I assumed it was just over six weeks that hasn't gone away.
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  So there has to be some conflicting emotion about about
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  what you're doing now, 100%, I want to be a writer and I very
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  much still want to be a writer and go back to the writers room.
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  So for me, I love what we're doing right now.
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  But for me at least threatened to, At This Moment Like This.
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  The strike ends tomorrow. It's going to be like, okay, I'm
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  going back to being in a writers room and stuff.
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  But Beans Coffee doesn't mean the things coffee ends.
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  It would like, I think we would still remain alive even as a
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  side hustle thing or like, an event thing that we can do
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  during the weekends or every once in a while.
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  If we will have talked about the fact that, oh, you know,
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  projects and like shows. And so then if we find ourselves
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  unemployed at the same time, and that can be like, moment be
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  like, okay, let's do this coffee while we find the Job kind of
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  thing. Whether or not these Guffey gets
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  because I feel like right now, Beans Coffee is doing great at
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  the picket lines. I don't know that that
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  translates to real life success. After the strikeout, I'm
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  imagining some sort of like, like a hedgehog light that could
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  shine in the sky when you're both unemployed.
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  So you know we're going back to Dean's part of the ISP Union.
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  So if definitely next year there's a naiad cstrike.
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  We're like these coffees coming out about man.
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  When this is all over and you have time for yourself, you go
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  out. You buy a cup of coffee for
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  yourself at a local coffee shop. What do you order?
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  I am a chocolate girl. So every time I go to a coffee
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  shop, I always order some kind of mocha whatever chocolate
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  drink. They have to offer coffee wise,
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  that's my go-to for myself, it would have to be a cold brew,
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  just black hole, Brew or an iced macchiato latte with oat milk.
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  Both good choices especially for the summer.
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  Forgetting about coffee for a second in thinking about your
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  your future careers. If you could say, when the
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  strike is over, I get my dream job.
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  What was it that you were working towards?
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  Well, I wasn't writers PA. So I was, I was, I was my first
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  writers room, so that was already for me and little bit,
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  like, living the dream. Even the writers be is not the
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  bear the most glamorous job but just being in the room felt
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  really great. My next step was I just wanted
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  to be a writer's assistant and just do kind of like you know
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  I'm all for like paying my dues and climbing the ladder you know
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  if I got staff tomorrow I would also be happy about that but I'm
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  more than happy to do my assistant days because there's
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  so much to learn just from those positions and just being able to
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  witness the magic that happens in a writers room.
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  Long-term I do I would like to reassure Runner someday, you
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  know, make my own shows, bring all those stories to life.
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  What about You for myself. I always wanted to be a line
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  producer. So I've been trying to work
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  towards that by hopping off different shows and going into
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  like reality television or like award shows or maybe one day
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  scripted. So yeah I would really like to
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  line produce one day and I feel like gradually climbing that
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  ladder getting a lot of life experience as we go on to and
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  yeah and just I'm just I'm happy where I'm at right now.
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  I'm having routines coffee, but when we get back, Do our regular
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  lives. Eventually hopefully sooner
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  rather than later. Yeah, I'll just keep working
• 20:10
  towards that. I hope sooner for you as well.
• 20:13
  Six weeks already. Feels like a really long time
• 20:16
  for a strike to me. It's it's feels like the
• 20:18
  pressures building. We got to get something done.
• 20:20
  Yeah, what did I miss today? Is there anything that you
• 20:23
  wanted? People out there to know about
• 20:25
  Dean's coffee or about yourselves, or anything else
• 20:27
  that we should share? You're going to miss anything?
• 20:30
  You were absolutely wonderful. What I wanted to take the
• 20:33
  opportunity just to feature We're not the only people doing
• 20:37
  something nice for picketers. There's other people have been
• 20:41
  doing a lot of efforts out there to help.
• 20:42
  And I just wanted to highlight a couple of them because there's a
• 20:46
  someone called, yes, Moors and she has a pizza fun.
• 20:48
  So people that have the means they sent her money and she uses
• 20:52
  that money to buy pizzas for the picketers.
• 20:54
  And that has been the launch of many picketers at many picket
• 20:56
  lines, we have seen it first firsthand.
• 20:59
  So if anyone wanted to like, help her out with that, or
• 21:01
  volunteer to take Peaks, as to the picket lines, her Twitter is
• 21:04
  chest Moors. And then there's someone else
• 21:07
  called Joelle garfinkel, and she runs the green envelope grocery
• 21:10
  Aid, which they gave away grocery, gift cards to writers
• 21:15
  and support staff in need, they have given away so many gift
• 21:18
  cards already. So that's something that's
• 21:20
  another initiative that's going on these writers and support
• 21:24
  staff are taking, you know, so much time out of their day and
• 21:27
  so much effort but just to help others.
• 21:30
  So joelle's, Twitter is Miss Joelle Garf if anyone wants to
• 21:34
  check her out and so those are two initiatives that people
• 21:36
  could support as well as ours but we don't benefit from any of
• 21:40
  those things but those are people that we also see on the
• 21:42
  picket lines helping out and it's been so gratifying to see
• 21:46
  everyone kind of come together and like the brighter Community
• 21:48
  just help each other out, including people who are not
• 21:50
  even on strike like the support staff and all day.
• 21:53
  I got see members and all this tag after and DJ members who are
• 21:57
  out there in solidarity with the writer, well, I commend you for
• 22:01
  taking on the challenge and for getting it together, so fast as
• 22:05
  someone who's worked on a lot. Startups.
• 22:06
  And a lot of businesses that always takes way longer than you
• 22:08
  think. And you guys just said, no,
• 22:10
  we're doing it. We start.
• 22:12
  I'm going to get an espresso machine.
• 22:13
  We're starting tomorrow. Congratulations to you both.
• 22:16
  Thank you for taking the time to be on this show and I'm going to
• 22:20
  share all those links. And we'll see how we can support
• 22:23
  as best as we can. Thank you so much Ryan for
• 22:26
  having us over. Okay, to recap d.
• 22:35
  Dean is a hedgehog and I love the pop it.
• 22:39
  I pop into people's homes all the time for a surprise visit
• 22:42
  generally people, I know but as long as I show up with a coffee
• 22:46
  or six pack, I'm often welcomed with open arms Olivia and
• 22:50
  andreea faced a big question. What do we do now?
• 22:54
  The wga strike has been impacting Hollywood's expansive
• 22:57
  employment base. Well beyond, just the writers.
• 23:01
  Having experienced the demand for iced coffee.
• 23:03
  In the writers room, firsthand andreea pitched, an idea to
• 23:07
  oliviere and Dean's coffee was Off to the Races.
• 23:11
  I really appreciate the entrepreneurial hustle.
• 23:13
  This Duo is putting forth with this coffee effort.
• 23:16
  They had a need, they saw a need and within days, they were
• 23:19
  filling it. I for one hope that Dean's
• 23:21
  coffee, survives Beyond this current moment.
• 23:24
  Even when the founders become blind producers and showrunners
• 23:28
  the most important, takeaway from the episode, is that the
• 23:30
  right I love Beans Coffee and there's a real sense of
• 23:33
  community. On the picket line Dean's coffee
• 23:36
  and the added efforts of other, local pop-ups and Outsiders
• 23:39
  sending their love and support have sustained not to mention
• 23:43
  caffeinated. The picketers.
• 23:45
  If you're interested in sponsoring some coffees for a
• 23:47
  morning picket line, you can reach out to Dean's coffee
• 23:50
  directly on Twitter, where they are Dean's underscore coffee, or
• 23:53
  on Instagram where they are. Dean's, coffee underscore
• 23:56
  official, or just click the links in this podcast.
• 23:59
  Show notes that we've Also shared on roast westcoast.com
• 24:04
  andreea, send me the links for Just morse's.
• 24:06
  Pizza fund and Joelle Garfunkel's green envelope.
• 24:09
  Grocery Aid, effort to support the writers in need who are
• 24:11
  currently out of work. You'll find those links on roast
• 24:14
  westcoast.com as well. Thank you for everyone listening
• 24:18
  and popping into the show today. All that info will be shared on
• 24:21
  the aforementioned roast westcoast.com along with a link
• 24:25
  to the wga website to learn why the writers are on strike.
• 24:29
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