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Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

We talked about the invention of coffee filters and the Molita Company this week. Yes.

Some of which got dark in a way I was not anticipating when I started this. No. Sorry. But you don't want to ignore that stuff because it's important. It's an important part of the story. So we got to acknowledge it. I have a number of notes. But first I want to start with the conversational. I know you are a coffee drinker. I'm a coffee hound, as I said it, the first thing. And I know we both have cut back on what we used to

drink. I used to drink so much coffee. All day long. All day. I drank coffee all day. And then after work,

this was when I was just out of college. When I was in college, I would drink coffee all day.

Yeah.

And then at like 1 o'clock in the morning, we would go to Waffle House.

And I would have some Waffle House coffee at 1 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah.

Come back to my dorm room and be able to go to sleep after that.

I don't understand how this worked for me because then, after graduating from college,

I would drink coffee at work all day, and then after work, I had a coffee shop that I hung out at all the time,

and I would drink more coffee at the coffee shop.

Yeah.

And then I decided that I was drinking too much coffee and that I should

cut back. And it was, this was like something I was challenging myself to do, thinking it was

going to be a limited amount of time that I was going to cut back to just a couple cups of

coffee in the morning. And it ruined my ability to have caffeine later in the day. Yeah.

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