All right, hello everybody and welcome to the Cat and Cloud Coffee Podcast.

I'm Chris Baca sitting across the room from the handsome as ever Jared Truby.

I'm wearing a hat.

And we're going to do another little Q&A episode because we just recorded one and we had so much fun

and the questions

we're just rolling in on the Facebook check out my dog bangs hit me on the Facebook and um

Jared's getting them dialed up so here go Q&A session let's kick this beast off what's the first

question our first question we have like 10 questions from julia mayor who is going to be a guest soon here's our first question? Our first question, we have like 10 questions from Julia Mayer, who is going to be a guest soon. Here's our first question. What is it actually going to be like a 12-parter? But here we go. What is the most exciting thing to you boys about coffee right now? Right now? For me, it's being a barista again because I wasn't a barista for a really long time. That's not an

industry thing, I guess, but, um, I think that counts. Does it count? That's, that's who,

that's what you're excited about. Yeah, that's what I'm excited about. I'm excited about serving coffee

to people on the day to day. Thank you, Julia Mayer, for letting that happen. Two days a week. I'm at the French Press. Tuesday, Wednesday, guys. Come see me. This week you're on Thursday as well. Thursday, too. I'm working three days.

Yeah. Actually, if any of you all wanted to see us, it would have been too late by the time we dropped this episode.

You can count me in on a Tuesday, Wednesday regular. for me and again this is thanks to julian todd at the french press and castle for allowing us to but

it's really getting deep into roasting and pulling out sweetness and flavors and coffee

we did just send out our first cat and cloud shipment of coffee and thanks to all you who ordered it

and it's been very fun to develop coffee and learn about what happens inside that roaster.

Pretty excited.

So her follow-up was business side, sourcing side, science side, taste side.

Those are all those things, etc.

What are those things that are the most exciting?

So, Julie, I mean, the business side's always interesting, how people run their business, how they make it happen. It's always fun to see people get real, put numbers on, well, get numbers, use info from

numbers and turn themselves into a good and profitable business. And it's something that I learned

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