Hi, everybody. Welcome to Coffee Talk. Hope you're off to a great morning so far. It is just a

reminder today that no matter how much you plan and how much you put forward and how much you're

trying to make sure that everything's totally under control, that you can control,

there's always something that comes up a little unexpected. And so I'm actually at an office nearby

my children's school. It is an amazing jewelry studio, working jewelry studio, where you're actually

seeing jewelry made right here in Austin, Texas. It's called Liz James Designs. And my friend,

Jamie, who is the mother and the entrepreneur

behind Liz James Designs, is allowing me to use this office because I need a quiet place to work.

And it's very difficult to find a quiet place to work and to broadcast. It's always a problem.

And just as we were getting on air,

suddenly there's some hammering that's happening upstairs. If you hear it, I want to know.

Because one of the reasons why we stopped doing our coffee talk segments, really, which happened

during the pandemic, I used to jump on Instagram lives. And I used to look like a crazy person, just waking up, grab a cup of coffee, talk to you about the news. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that some of the subject matter, especially during the pandemic, just felt like it needed a little bit more of a serious delivery than the craziness of my household and kids running around. Some of that was great because it added some levity to the news, but sometimes it didn't feel appropriate. But also it's having all these issues with Instagram. We would save the video and then the audio wouldn't match or the video wouldn't save so no one could watch it later. And so I've been constantly looking for a way to deliver news to you better. And so I'm using a program called Streamyard. It allows me to broadcast live over YouTube. It allows me to share different things with you live as well. The quality is better. The sound is better. But you see no matter how much you try to control, there's always something unexpected that takes place. So right now, right now we have silence. But if it gets bad, I'll get up and we'll walk to a different part of the studio and you guys can check it out, which would also be a lot of fun. It's great to see everyone, Barbara Cambria. Thank you so much. Amy. Hi, as well. Amy's a member of our team. So today what we're going to do is just sort of take a deep breath. This is a time to grab a cup of coffee and talk a little bit about the news cycle this

week.

As I mentioned, we spent a lot of time on Monday, and appropriately so, talking about marking

September 11th, the worst terrorist attacks in American history that have changed the course

of world events.

I was actually very struck, and I'm curious what your thoughts are on this about how much

content I saw from news organizations and just everybody else that had nothing to do

with the anniversary of 9-11.

There were some news programs that in the past, they'd be running live

the events from, you know, the Pentagon, from Ground Zero, from at times the White House.

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