The human torch was tonight a bank loan.

I'm clear.

Okay, I'm clear.

You guys ready?

I'm ready.

Hi, and welcome to the Catin Cloud Coffee Podcast.

We're back with part three in our three-part series with every man espresso, Samuel Luantin,

who's going to be competing in the United States

Freeza Championships here in the near future.

He did very well, placing second at the United States Coffee Championship Qualifier recently,

and we were just happy to have them on the show.

If you haven't tuned in, check back on all of our episodes,

and if you need to email us anything fun and exciting, hit us info at cat and cloud.com. That's I-N-F-O and at cat-and-cloud.com. C-A-T-A-N-D-C-O-U-D dot com. All right, guys, let's get into this thing. We're going to take it out or we left it off. Do you know what that means? Because I do too. All right. Catch on the flip-flop. It's the best when it works. What would you, what kind of advice would you give to somebody who maybe doesn't, you know, you have that, you have the ability and the years of experience to say, you know, this is harder water. I think I just want a little more out of my coffee.

I'm to tighten it up, extend that, you know, tighten up the grind, do my thing. But it's like there's a lot of young kids out there who get up there and something happens and they want to just throw in the towel because it's an understandable feeling. You know, you like hit that stress. You're like, I'm screwed. It's over. you know, what kind of advice would you give them to, like, encourage them through that,

you know?

There will always be a point either in training or in competition, and usually both, at which

you feel that way, at which you're like, I don't have any idea what I'm doing. This didn't,

this thing that I did didn't work. Like I have already failed.

Like it's really, this is a disaster.

Oh no.

And at that point, as difficult as this can be,

it's super important to remember that you have done the work,

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