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Cat & Cloud Podcast

Coffee: By and for the Black Community | Cxffeeblack

Cat & Cloud Podcast

Cat & Cloud

Education

4.8727 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Alex sits down with Bartholomew Jones of Cxffeeblack to learn about his rad venture in coffee, culture, music, and apparel! We chat on everything from the colonization of coffee and current problems with “direct trade,” to being a good neighbor in your cafe’s community, to understanding the true roots and identity of coffee culture...such good stuff. Thank you, Bartholomew! Coffee! catandcloud.com/products/subscription Our Guest! Cxffeeblack on the web: http://cxffeeblack.com Cxffeeblack Subscription: bit.ly/3kYrzHo Resources! Cxffeeblack Podcast: apple.co/2KywGBJ For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, and the Rest of Y’all Too: bit.ly/35WwowS The Coffee Enthusiast: http://tcecoffee.com/ Boycott Coffee: http://boycottcoffee.com/ Ethnos Coffee: http://ethnos.coffee Milan Credle Music: http://milancredlemusic.com/ Brown Girl Lettering: http://browngirllettering.com/ Melanin Essentials: http://melaninessentials.com/ Your Host! Alex on the gram: instagram.com/marsemallow Alex’s email: alex@catandcloud.com Sponsors! Steeped Coffee: bit.ly/steepedpackets If you love it here a rating and review on iTunes or your podcast player of choice would mean the world to us. If reviewing sounds annoying, sharing with someone you care about also takes us to happy-town and allows us to help more people. We appreciate you.

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0:00.0

The Cat and Cloud podcast is sponsored by Steeped Coffee. Steeped Coffee is a new brewing method

0:05.3

that combines specialty craft coffee into a single serving bag. You don't need a machine. You don't

0:11.6

have to make a mess no matter where you are. All you have to do is add hot water. Each steep

0:17.8

pack is individually sealed in nitrogen flush so so it stays fresh, and it's

0:21.6

got this special immersion filter. And the filter is ultrasonic sealed, which means it's sealed together

0:27.2

with no glue, no staples, so there's no weird stuff floating around in your coffee.

0:32.6

Steeped is a benefit B Corp. They ethically source all their coffee. Their packaging is fully compostable,

0:38.4

and they believe that business should be done without compromise. You can get your hands on steeped

0:44.1

coffee at steeped coffee.com. That's s T-E-E-E-D-D coffee.com, asking your local retail stores to

0:53.0

start carrying steeped or having your favorite

0:55.3

roaster reach out and get in touch. If you happen to be in Santa Cruz, come on by any of

1:00.5

the Cat and Cloud locations. We have it there for you. Basically, they're just doing their

1:06.0

best to change the coffee industry and make your life more convenient with their pre-portioned

1:10.4

pre-ground innovation.

1:12.2

So tell all your friends. What's up, y'all? Welcome to the Cat and Cloud podcast. My name's

1:18.4

Alex. If you don't know me, I am one of the employee owners here at Cat and Cloud and also run

1:22.5

our marketing and partner program departments. I've been in Cat in Cloud since we opened our first retail store back in 2016.

1:30.7

So it's been about four years.

1:32.7

So unless you've been living under a rock, you know that America's been undergoing

1:37.4

sort of a racial reckoning, as a lot of people are calling it.

1:40.9

And we at Catin Cloud have been trying to educate ourselves to just better understand

1:46.2

how we fit into all of this stuff one area in which we're looking to be more inclusive is on

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