Hello and welcome to the Cat in Cloud Coffee Podcast.

This is Chris Baca, and I am not sitting with Jared Truby, but he is on the other side of the U.S.,

and by other side I mean up in Portland, but he is on the other side of the U.S. And by other side, I mean up in Portland.

But he is sitting next to Sarah Allen and Ken Olson, the editor, co-founder and publisher

respectively of the fabulous Burista magazine.

What's up, guys?

What's up?

Thanks for having us.

Dude, thank you for having us. Thank you for having Jared and Charles over at BMHQ.

And thanks for the Portland Trailblazers game last night.

You're welcome for the overtime win.

Yeah, I'm sure Damien Lillard gives all the credit to you.

It's a good luck charm. Oh, 41? Yeah, he was hot. That's not bad. It's not. He's good at the basketballing. He's good at the balling. I heard he was pro. Is that true? Straight out of Weaver State. Straight out of Weaver State. Yeah, fun fact, my mom graduated from Weber State. Also, she's good at the

balling. She definitely balls so hard. That could be taken in a million different weird ways.

Only good ways. Only good ways. It's only ball in college. So, guys, this could go in a thousand different directions, but I want to steer this thing right off the bat.

We've all known each other for a really long time, and we're all, like, really good friends.

So this could easily turn into casual conversation, but I just want to get kicking if you guys are down with that.

And I want to, I want to hear about

the inception of Burista Magazine. I know that it's been around since 2005, I think, was the first

year. Am I correct about that? Yep. How did that start? How do you end up, A, starting a magazine,

and B, starting a magazine about specialty coffee because at

the time this specialty coffee wasn't really a household name it wasn't a buzzword like it is today talk

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