All right, guys, welcome to the Cat in Cloud Coffee Podcast.

I'm Chris Baca sitting here with Mr. Lightblue himself, Jared Truby.

Light Blue.

And this is part two of a three-part series with Julia Mayer, owner of The French Press and Castle Coffee Roasters in lovely Santa Barbara.

Mayor for Mayor.

Mayor for Mayor.

Watch out for that campaign in the maybe not so distant future.

Who knows?

All right.

So, Julia, you were in Santa Cruz, working coffee, you've been working in coffee forever.

You moved to Santa Barbara.

You're like, I'm going to take the plunge and get crazy.

You start my own business.

You open a coffee shop.

Right.

Right.

On State Street, in a cute little place, which is the main drag here in Santa Barbara.

Yeah, it was 2009.

The bottom had sort of fallen out on the economy, so we got a steel on our rent, and so that actually

made it possible that we could open in such a crazy part of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is

well known for being an expensive place, but it's also where I grew up, and I always knew

that I would want to open a space here, especially because Santa Barbara's a funny place. It's also where I grew up, and I always knew that I would want to open a space here,

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