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Welcome to the Cat and Cloud Coffee Podcast. This issue is going to be insane off the charts. In the membrane. Me and Jay are here like always. But we are sitting with Scott Rayo. Hey, Scott. Hey, Scott. Hey, great. So Scott has four writings on coffee. coffee. If you don't know who Scott is, just do yourself a favor and go to that old Google

machine and plug in some Google words. Google Mash. has four writings on coffee. If you don't know who Scott is, just do yourself a favor and go to that old

Google machine and plug in some Google words. Google Mash. But Scott wrote the professional

barista's handbook, which is all about espresso being a barista. There's another one he wrote called

Everything But Espresso, which deals with manual brewing methods. You wrote the Coffee Roaster's

companion, which is about roasting. Probably like the, I don't know, it's like the quintessential roasting book of our time, I think. Yeah. And what was the other one? It's an e-book called Everything, I mean, it's everything. Espresso extraction, measurement, and mastery. She's, measurements and mastery. Mostly about using a refractometer and sort of dialing into that and some more advanced techniques. Super geeky stuff. Super geeky stuff. If you like the geeky stuff, you love Scott. It was, it was pretty soft, man. Science. You're getting soft on me. I was going to call Matt and be like, dude, what's up with Rayo? I'm worried about him. Yeah, he's kind of off the geeky cliff. He's falling off. Well, dude, welcome. Thank you. I think this is one that a lot of people are going to listen to. You're such an enigma. Let's set the stage here. Everybody wants to know who is Scott Rayo.

Yeah.

Also, you have a blog,

Where is Scott Rayo?

It's true. Where is Scottrail.com. Those are actually both questions people want to know all the time. People actually want to know who and where all the time. They want to know the Ws. One of my first questions to them is like, okay, where are you coming from and where are you going and what's the plan to get there?

Every day I wake up. Every day I wake up and I think those things.

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