Why hello. Hi it is Sydney. It is Sydney. We're back. Took a couple weeks off if you didn't notice. This is like when you come back and you're like a little embarrassed because you haven't been around for a while.

That's how I'm feeling right now.

Don't worry.

I have reasons and excuses that this episode is kind of around.

It's a lot to do with coffee if you know what I'm talking about.

And so yeah, I'm going to share with you the very long journey that this coffee process has been but first let's catch up for a minute

what's been happening how are you how's your day going yeah what are you drinking I'm

having a black walnut old-fashioned, says my father, before I came up here

to record the podcast that my dad was like, let me make you the drink that you have for the

episode today. And so I told him he could and instead of just typical

red wine which I'm also loving this Robert Mandavi wine side note Robert Mandavi is like I mean if you go to any target you'll see Robert Mandavi is like I mean if you go to any target you'll see Robert

Mandavi wine I've been drinking it for an eternity and then they reached out

this month and they were like hey we have this new bourbon barrel-aged cabernet.

And if you don't know, cabernet is like my drink.

So I was like, absolutely, please sign me up.

And so we partnered on wine.

Anyways, that's my dream.

I got L.L. Bean and Robert Mandabi in one month.

I don't know what I did to deserve this.

Maybe it's all of this stress from the coffee,

which we'll get into.

But having a hell of a month when it comes to partnerships,

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