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friends wonderful your voice is coming through wonderful so do you edit this at all or is it just free form

it's a little free form basically we give it to give it to. And then there's, at some point in the conversation, there seems like to be like this natural start, which is like, okay. But we usually keep a little of the dumb banter in because I think that's fun. I think it's a good start. It shows character. Yeah, I was going to use that exact same word. It was to say, it shows character of the people that are, the people that are there. Yeah. That's like the one thing, um, if I'm to, like, keep anything through the social media or the, oh, yeah. The podcast or the, whatever it is, just keep the character. Keep the character. Yeah. Or else you're just like every other asshole out there. You're like, what am I doing, dude? I'm just one of many. You're one of many, but the truth is you're very special. That's what I'm saying. Just know that you can express yourself in a special way. Oh my God. You're in the zone already. This is about to be the longest conversation we've ever had. This is going to be sick. I was thinking before I came to, I was just like, oh, okay, I'm going to talk to Braden and Joel. And then I was like, I don't think I've ever talked to Joel for more than like five seconds. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then when we sat down, I think we had like one, our longest conversation was probably at the maw that one time. Probably. And I was like, we could probably talk for a while. Either there or at the counter like verve like years ago. I remember I was at the counter. Talking about resting. I was like, so what kind of grinders are you guys going on here? Who's this coffee guy? This guy's fucking nerd. I was like, what kind of grinders are you guys going on here? Who's this coffee guy?

This guy's fucking nerd.

I was like, what kind of grinders are best used mobile?

Our best used mobile.

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