Party Stories and Final Reflections

Black Coffee This is the Kavoya Coffee Podcasting Network, coffee people talking to coffee people about coffee and things coffee adjacent. This episode of Straight Up is brought to you by Kavoya Coffee Specialty , where coffee is always a collaborative voyage. Welcome to episode three of Straight Up with Sam, Angela, and Lisa talking about life at Cavo ya and life in the coffee industry. This episode is a world of coffee wrap-up, the parties, the pizzas, the podcasts, and of course, most important , the people. Coffee people are the best people, if you hadn't heard. Oh, Sanja Lisa. Hey guys, welcome back to Straight Up. It is Lisa and Sam and Ange. We're back, back, back again. Whoop whoop. Yeah. Back in the studio. Girls are reunited. I know. You guys have been a long month. It has been a long month you you left me in Rhode Island for a little bit. It's totally fine. You had places to go, people to see. Um coffee to drink, um I which we should just dive right into. Obviously I did not get to go to World of Coffee this year. Um but so much happened. There were so many changes both at Caboya and at World of Coffee. So like hit me. Give me the highs and lows. Fill me in. Yeah. The highs and lows of the show. Your rose and thorns, if you will. Our peak and valley. Mm-hmm. There were so many. Just like peaks on peaks on peaks. Yeah. It was a humpy mountain. You were in um hilly no San Diego. Sunny sunny mountainous San Diego. Yes. Somewhat? Yeah, nothing but summits. Um shout out to my Instagram caption for the photo dump was Carmen San Diego. Cute. And I thought that was a really, really good call. I'm sure you're the only one who did it too. Yeah, I I didn't see anybody else, so it was an original experience. She's out of rich mouth . Oh my gosh. I guess like my one my one valley is just the pure exhaustion. Oh yeah. Yeah. Crazy. You're on your feet. Tired. You've talked to the same person about the same thing. Yes. And then at the end of every day you're like, I literally did three things. And my feet hurt and I'm hungry. Like, what is going on? Every time I'm like, oh, I forgot what concrete does to the knees. Honestly, the barista life really prepared me for that. True. I spent so many years working on cement floors. That that's not even the worst part for me. I actually wear like my leather mules with a heel like the whole time and you were rocking. Yeah I just whip around. I'm like , my fancy booths get like the extra support. Yeah. Shout out Thursday. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That was my low. That's but I had a lot of highs. And I'd have to say, like, maybe my high highlight of the week, like the biggest, biggest one, kind of started a little bit befor e World of Coffee. So Wednesday night, Fuzz Coffee hosted this latte art startup. Fuzz Coffee is awesome. Yes, they are. And my friend Bino came with me and we both competed and we just had so much fun. It felt like a very old school latte art throwdown, beers, tequila in the back, pizza. Um of course I got knocked out in the second round on the oat milk round. And guess who knocked me out? No. Oh. Maddie? No. But he was live texting me as I was there. He was like, Oh my god, you're throwing down all my friends. I wish you were here. Yes. Um literally the person who won. Oh. Always get taken out by the people who wins. The best way. This is like the third throwdown in a row where I got taken out in the oat milk round by the winner. I think that was a crazy out oat milk. I know. I want us to roll that back. Do they do oat milk and regular milk? Uh-huh. The first round was regular milk. Second round okay, and guess what this guy did? Also, shout out, shout out. His name is Victor Vu from Australia. Victor Vu. Literally, he was competing in the world of coffee latte art championship. That weekend. Oh, that's right. You want to know what he host me on? He did a raccoon. it felt I was so bummed because like I I put my thing down and it it was a really good pour. Like objectively speaking, everyone was like, whoa, oh my god, cool. Then he puts his down and I swear to God, like the whole town of San Diego is like I mean a raccoon is I've never even seen it. It was iconic. Like all night long he was doing the coolest stuff. He was doing like unicorns and angels . I'm not kidding. Well now next year you get to choose to like do a dolphin. You did some gorgeous latte art in my cortado here today. Thank you. I did my best. So did my very best So that was probably my biggest highlight. It was just the perfect way to like really start the week, you know. I was gonna say that's kind of the perfect kickoff like for world of coffee is like little old school. Mm-hmm. Bring her back. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Alright. My world of coffee low was probably just not enough time. There just like wasn't enough time to also explore San Diego. Like what a beautiful place. Yeah. Should have stayed longer, like Anstead. Mm-hmm. Um and my high . So my role was to podcast and par ty and meet customers obviously and so we were doing podcasting from the floor with Mike and my eye is Mike telling us how to use the new mics. I just decided this is my high when we were talking about it. And there's a difference between the studio mics and the on the floor mics and the directional uh directions were to I think it's funny you think that's gonna make it into the box. Oh no! Put it at the end. Make it that clip. Let her air. Yes. I'll say another hi so we can flip it in. It just goes to show how innocent I am. Exactly. You had no idea. Well, if we can't use that one, my other world of coffee high was that party. And we'll talk about it more, but that party was just rocking. Mm-hmm. We swooped in, we're live podcasting, saw a bunch of people that we knew, met a lot of new people . We got to have shifts greeting at the door. And I was so happy to do that because that's what I used to do when I worked in the art gallery. I was the door girl and and the employee that was doing it at our party had the same clicker that I had when I was in art school. And I was like, I swear I I have this exact clicker in my like, you know, keepsak box at my home. This is so cute. So that was a good high. I just love greeting people and saying, Yeah, come on in. And the vibes are always good. Oh, everyone's so excited when they're showing up. It's Friday night. Yeah. It was a good time. We had a line around the block. to know I feel I might have heard that in in the offline do briefs, but um that's good. That's cool. It was really cool. Yes. Thank you so much. Everybody came and stood in that line. Yes. Yeah. And hung out. Yeah. Well working. It was a brief line from what I remember. Yeah. Did anybody doing the greeting go out to the line? Like It was Jesse's shift. I didn't actually ask him. I feel like Jesse would. I know you 're very friendly. He was so excited to be there. Yeah. Yeah. It's just yeah, it's good. Do you remember doing that last year? Like hanging out by the door when people were coming in and just like even with the staff at the rodeo goat, that was fun. Yeah. It's so fun to be the first person. Yeah. The face of Kavoya, if you will. Totally. Well, we're all such wooers too. Oh my god. We love a good woo. So it makes sense that we like to do it. It does. I think um well I was a little late to my shift. Like you texted me yelling at me, like Andrew, are you coming? My wine glass was empty. Rachel came to relieve me of my duties and she's like, Do you want me to take over? And I was like, Well, yeah, I guess. Like I guess it's time for me to go. But I I didn't really want to. I was having such a good time. The other thing that we need to update you on is the very epic inaugural Cavoya Coffee Crawl. Yes. This was a major sip trip. Not little sip trip, major sip trip. Big, big little sip trip. Mm-hmm. Big little sip trip. Mm-hmm. Incredible. Yeah and this is your inaugural now like contribution to Cavo ya's world of coffee. Yes. It's gonna be on the programming for years. Incredible. Incredible. The beginning of an era. I was so excited to put this on. Shout out to my friend Mino for really helping me give it legs. And to everyone who like encouraged me, because there were a couple moments where I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna pull this off. I remember you coming to me, this would have been again right before I left, but being like, I wanna do this thing. And it's like yeah, you should totally do this thing. Yeah. Like of course. And I'm so I'm so glad that it worked out. It like really came together in the most beautiful, beautiful way. Um we had such a good mix of people. Um we almost capped it out, I think we had seventeen or eighteen people join, which is like massive um for the first one. And it was great because it was like everyone was uh within two degrees of separation from everyone. Totally. So it felt like the perfect little mixer of friends to like do a little coffee crawl. And we met up at Lofty. And it was so nice. They set up this huge long table outside for us. Um and so we all just kind of everyone piled in as they came. You know, it started at like nine or ten o'clock in the morning. They made us pourovers and this cute little um they call it like a cloud, I think. It's a cold brew with like really fluffy cream and vanilla and it was so delicious. They made us like cookies and it was really sweet. And then we ubered over to Torque Co ffee, uh, which was so much fun. That's where Lisa met up with us. I had to watch the market from the West Coast, so I joined that Torque and that was an incredible like display or teaching moment. Yeah. That you go into it. It was awesome. Yes. And he set up a little table outside because Torque is kind of small. I love that these are all outside, like very again San Diego. Oh it's so San Diego. Yeah. Of course. And the weather was perfect that day. I mean it went so well. And um yeah, so Andy set up this cute little table outside. And um he he brewed us this coffee as a cold brew. And what he did is he basically put in different things. So he made two different batches of it. One batch had like oh gosh, I can't even remember. Molasses? Like yeah, molasses and like some other stuff. And the other one w had a black currant. That's exactly what it was. Thank you. I remember it clear as day because it was wild. And what was really, really fun is depending on and he wasn't like mixing a ton in, it was just a little bit, but the whole point is when you're basically creating these kinds of drinks, um, you can create different sensory experiences. So adding in certain ingredients can bring out the trouble notes or the base notes of the coffee that you're drinking. Yuzu was in there too. Yeah, there was some Yuzu. Yes. Yeah. And I was really, really I mean I think both drinks are fantastic, but what was so fun is he made us split into two groups depending on which one we preferred. So it was just kind of a lot of activity. Right down the middle. It was interesting to see which side people preferred. I love an experiment like that. It was so cool. Yeah, his presentation was just amazing and so different from the first time. Yeah, like so you got like a little something different at each time. And that's just the first two. How many spots did you hit up? Four altogether. Nice. Yeah. So yeah, Yankee was great. Torque Coffee was great. He took us back into his little roaster room and uh from there we walked to Coffee and Tea Collective across a couple highways. Oh. But it was a straight show. I can't think of anybody better for that job, but perfect. Perfect perfect perfect. And it was uh just definitely in the heat of the day. We were all pretty well caffeinated at that point. Yeah. We did a nice little I think it was just a mile on the coffee and tea. But it was great 'cause we busted in those doors. It was like air conditioning was on. Hell yeah. They made us a candied cum qua espresso tonic. Delicious Delicious. So good. For the ASMR on that one. It sounds so good. It was great. I love an espresso tonic. Super refreshing. Yeah. Candied kumquat. Mm-hmm. It was exactly what we need to try. The kumquat. Did you try it? Girl, it was and the drink I know, but like did you chomp on it? Oh no, I didn't. No. Okay. No, I didn't just it just was in there. I didn't give it a chomp. And they make um Bino was informing me that they make all of their own syrups like from fruit. Yeah. He was like, it's just incredible. Mm-hmm. That was cool. Wow. So that was a nice thing. That sounds amazing. Refreshing spot. Um not really like a presentation or anything, but it was really fun because that was when all of us really started. I think mixing together and figuring out who's who. It sounds like it was just what you needed in that moment. Yes, it was. Yeah. It was just like a little bit of a free-for-all. Love it. Um then we went over to modern times. Yes. In their very new, not open to the public location. And exclusive? Uh-huh. Wow. It was just kitty corner from Coffee and Tea. So that was fantastic. And they're so sweet. They gave us a whole tour of their big barrels, big metal barrels doing uh uh what used to be beer and now they're doing cold brew. Yeah. So modern times started out as a brewery. Okay. They also do a lot of cold brew. Totally. So they're already using these huge uh beer tanks to brew all of their cold brew. Um and so now the space that they moved into it'll be just for coffee, no beer. But it used to be an old brewery. And so That's a pretty strong pipeline all the tanks to make cold brew. Hell yeah. It was very cool. They had all the draft coffees, just like you would if going to a brewery all set up there and we were all tasting them towards the end of it. It was awesome. It was fun. Yeah. And it was great because I think at that point we were all pretty tapped out. Yeah. Yeah. We were like toddlers running around, just like we none of us could shut up or sit still. We were promised a taco truck, so we were hungry. I was gonna say, was there food a part of any of We got little tasters of all the cold brews. Gabby Caroline, they're so sweet. And then we hopped right next door and went straight to beer. Perfect. There's no shortage of such things. It was beautiful outside. Yeah. Drinking a beer. It was great. You did a fantastic job. Thank you so much. It was great. So excited for next year. Me too. Shout out if um, you know, you're a Nola coffee roaster or coffee shop, you want to be part of the coffee crawl. I think that's the one of the cooler parts is that you get to, you know, 'cause to your point about it's so busy when you're in these cities doing the show and stuff like that. This is just like a really cool opportunity to like try some local spots um and hang out and have a good like stress free low stakes time. Super low stakes. I mean all we're doing just jumping from spot to spot. Yeah. You get to try the best the best of everything. Yeah, everything was pre-selected and curated and it was just like, yeah. I was really nervous of whore. And then it just went so well. And like everyone had such a good time and it totally filled up my cuff. Yeah. I was like, oh cool. This is my favorite thing to do. Who I would want to curate that kind of experience. So next year. I can't wait to find out. I can't wait. Me too. So fun. Yeah. And I think like it was so cute because, you know, we're just waiting for this taco track to show up. It never really shows up. But like at this point, it's just me, Lisa, Brian, Jesse, and Bino. Yeah. And Josh . Our Josh? Our Josh. Oh. Yes. Yeah. So he was hanging out with them. Yeah. So you know, we're like, oh the coffee shock. Like it's just us. We're like, oh what is it? And never really got there. But we found this awesome hole in the wall taco spot down the street. Ravaging We ordered so much food. It was ridiculous. I loved that. It was perfect. So jealous. Yeah, it was just the best day. Yeah. And I think we were back in our hotel rooms at like five o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Getting ready to go to the show the next day. Yeah. Yeah. I mean Lisa, that was your first ever coffee crawl. I know, because coffee crawls, from what I understood talking to you, they're a tradition that happens at SCA World of Coffee. Well it's my tradition. But I usually do by myself. Oh you usually do this by yourself. But some other people do put them on. No? Well sometimes, yeah. Mark used to do coffee crawls except they would run. Yeah. That's what Mum told me. Yeah. They would he would plan a run and then what they would do is they would run to different coffee shops and slam espresso and keep running. Well I guess that's a good idea. It does make sense. What's kind of recently about espresso, the best pre-workout. Yeah, he does think that. It's kind of his brand. Yeah. So he's will do do it. And he told me that like this reminded because he came too and he told me it reminded him so much of what he used to do. And I was like, oh that's weird. It's like passing the torch. Yeah. Well it's kind of a callback to my Seattle days. Um you know a lot, of people in the coffee community in Seattle were transplants. And so we would all become friends with each other and if any group of us had a day off, we would go visit each other's coffee shops and we would do our own little coffee curls. That's sweet. As a way to just see what everyone's doing, what everyone's up to and like say hi to all of our friends who's working at a different spot. Which is probably like some of my favorite memories of living in Seattle is doing that with my friends. So this felt like that where it was like, Oh cool. Yeah. I met so many new people. Yeah. That's fun. I was gonna say I was following along. Yeah. So it was like I WCA folks and like cool. So it was so fun too is it was such a fantastic mix. It was like we had Mocha Joe and his wife Tiff, who was starting um like a really cool app platform. Mocha Joe. I was gonna say just on the most recent. Who I was introduced to by my cousin earlier that week. And he was like, Amy, have you told Ange about my coffee idea? And Amy was like, No, I haven't. And Joe's like, You're telling me that you have a cousin who works in the coffee industry and you haven't even tried to promote my new brand. And I was like, okay, Joe, let's talk. So he was fantastic. Um we had Danny Hobbs, who's like a he owns a coffee shop in Brazil. He was there. Yeah, we had IWCA folks. We had um Andres from West Trade. It was just such a fun little mix. It was great. Yeah. Nice. Round of applause. There we go. Perfect. So cool. So that that is everything leading up to the show itself. And now it's it's World of Coffee Day. New name. Kavo ya doesn't have a booth, which is new in and of itself. Um I think, you know, Mike, you started talking a little bit about like things that used to happen at the SCA shows and things like that. Like what, you know, I as we usher in this new world of coffee era around here, um, what are some like how is it different since like when you started? Well I I started in coffee in ninety eight but it was r at working for SEA and it was right after the uh the show. I think it was New Orleans in ninety-eight, so I missed that show. But uh so my first show was ninety nine uh Philadelphia and if I remember right uh we had seven thousand attendees wow. And this year we doubled that. I mean we were over fifteen thousand, more than doubled it. So I think the first one in nineteen eighty nine, I think if I remember right, uh they had three hundred people. Wow. And then ninety-two, uh, I just remember th there was sort of an explosion and everybody couldn't believe they had uh eighteen hundred people show up in nineteen ninety two. But the biggest difference for me is um and in um a not necessarily in a negative way, but just the sense of community was more uh for me it was more um present. Even when there were 7,000 people, you know, everybody went there and pretty much had the same experien ce. Like they had an opening night reception. Everybody went to the opening and re not everybody, but and you would run into everybody you expected to see. Now there's people there that I know they're there and I never see them. Totally. I mean I'll I'll talk to people later or throughout the year and they'll say, you weren't at WSC, were you? or FCA? And I say, yeah I was. And you just don't run into people like you used to. Like I I just there's this whole list of people that I always knew I would see uh and if I see 'em it's just just luck now. Or we plan to meet up. And you used to be able to do everything. You know, like everybody went to this, everybody went to that, every and uh there's just no way now that you can do everything. You have to really pick and choose how you're gonna spend your time and who you're gonna see. When the guilds started. You know, there was there was a presence, uh, you know, the roasters had their own sort of presence. The baristas had sort of own sort of presence and events and there was a roasters guild party at the beginning. And there was a barista guild party at the end and everybody went to the Sunday night barista guild party. Everybody went to the Roasters Guild Party. Um and the guilds don't exist anymore, which is uh which is a sad thing, I think, um, for the industry, but uh it is what it is. And and fortunately Connie at Rust Magazine is filling that gap a little bit with her summits. So yeah, the biggest difference is just the size and the sense of community has been uh watered down, I guess, in a way. So I I'm sure there's pockets. People go there and they have their their gang or their group or their people and they they get a sense of community from. But just as a as an industry whole, that's not happening, at least for me there, like it used to. And the Cavoya party was both my my peak and my valley. Yeah. I I loved the party, but um the party was so loud it overwhelmed our sound equipment Unfortunately, uh I w I turned the transcript into an interview uh blog with Jeff Taylor. Fortunately, we were able to get the transcript. Mm-hmm. But in a weird way, it's like a blessing because everyone was just so excited to see each other and talk to each other. Like there was no way we were gonna shut up. No, I saw I wrote in the intro to the to the blog is that fortunately everybody had a great time. Unfortunately they were having so much fun that it overwhelmed her Well I think that's the whole like e to the point of things being different and how we do it now too. It's like you gotta I think I said to Rob, like you gotta break a few eggs to uh make a cake or whatever. And it's like okay, well now, you know, I think we learned a lot, it sounds like, based on what I've been told. Um and how we do it next year can be a little bit different and people are still getting together, you learn, you do it different, you know, every time. Yeah, I feel like, you know, SCA roll out of coffee, it's so big and it's so overwhelming. And there's just so much going on. Like when I hear Mike, you and Rob and Mark talk about how it was back in the day, I kind of feel like with the show now it almost feels like there's been a little bit of like a loss of humanity or like a loss of community. Like even though you're saying you know, you can go in, you can find your pockets of people. But when you first step into those doors, you're just like completely overwhelmed. You have no idea where to start. But what was really, really fun for me is I sort of just was walking the floor and I ran into so many people that I haven't seen in literally forever. And I ran into people that I didn't even think I was going to see. And that was so much fun because it's like there's like this magic when you get to do that. It feels very serendipitous where it's like, oh my gosh, we are in the same place at the same time and we're bumping into each other. It's meant to be. It was meant me toant be to be boom. Yes. And then I also got to meet like so many new people this year that I otherwise would have never met or connected with. Um which was really, really great. And it was really fun too. I'd be like getting phone calls from like Jose Miguel in Mexico, like hey, I'm talking to this person. Can you come meet us right now? I think that you can help them out. And so I was just like all weekend kind of running around the floor, like doing these little side quests. Like everybody is kinda kinda like grow and that everybody's all in one place and can but it was kind of fun because I feel like um not having the booth and this context of Road of Coffee being so large, but then having our party and Lisa and I being able to do some podcasting, it felt like those human touch points that I was able to have Yeah. You could spend time with them without we've I've experienced the booth and I've experienced like lines of people that want to get a word in with a cavoia person, sales rep, whoever. And so this time you are a tiny bit more anonymous and floating. You get to have more natural conversations. Yeah, you get to like really spend as much time as you want with someone without feeling this pressure of like, gotta go, gotta go. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or a literal line. Yeah. Or like last year people would be just hang yeah, just hanging out to talk to anybody. Yeah. Yeah. Or you know, sitting with us. And yeah. It is different. A little more organic. Without the booth. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I still feel like we gravitated towards the roasters village. Just because that's like that's the community. Yeah. Like Mike was saying. I think if we've got to be somewhere, that's one of the cooler places. That's where I think I saw most of my people. Totally. That's where the customers are. My favorite booth was the Bruista bo booth foroth design, if I could give an award. It was a whole booth built out of milk crates. And it was so chic and so cool. And I was like, how'd y'all build this? Yeah. If you were there, they were the famous uh claw machine. Mm-hmm. That was a good thing. Nobody wins the claw machine. They're so hard. That's so cool. I didn't say you always kind of come back though, like I am brief. I don't know . The best week of my life. True. Yes. Two and a half weeks. But close enough. It does. Catch me in Cali. Get a girl back to her roots. Brand new. Can't take me out of there. Uh no, the Barisa one was really fun. And it was just like it felt like um uh like a fun house almost. Like going in through the crates and like a maze with the with the milk crate. People do crazy stuff. Any final thoughts? World of coffee? Mm. The energy was really good this year. I think it's because it was in San Diego. And this is my formal petition to ask that we do it in San Diego every year from here on out It was kind of like walking around do ck. Do ck? Do Lok? Do Lok. Dock from Shrek. Just like the relation of where everyone was staying to the convention center. Yeah. Nice streets, markets out all day. I wish it was more centrally located. I think that's the the why it will never Okay. Next petition. Colorado. Oh, that's interesting. Take us Torado. They got a convention center. Oh yeah. In Denver baby. I was good. Bring it to Providence. Education space has to be the right size. True. So a lot of buildings don't have enough education space, even if you can . I'll tell you what I'm blathering about. I've got information, man. Okay. So we have a new soundboard as uh we may or may not already know. I don't know what's gonna get into the uh the eventual recording. But with that signals this time at least it is time for the uh trivia. Yes. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna play some coffee commercials. Okay. And at the end it's about forty five seconds of coffee commercials. And at the end uh uh you guys have to tell me uh what brand is being advertised in what decade. Okay. This is a group activity. Oh, it's group activity. And you should feel free to comment, make any editorial comments on the commercials content. Okay. Okay, you ready? Okay, I'm into it. Don't serve your awful coffee with my steaks . Steaks. How can such a pretty wife make such bad coffee? Your coffee just doesn't taste any good. Honey, happiness is a vacation. Away from your coffee. Forget the coffee, Marge. It's never very good. Marge? Oh no. What's wrong? Well it's your coffee again. The death sergeant at the station makes better coffee than this. You did one thing for me. Try to do something about your coffee. Just a decent cup of coffee. I'm serious, honey. Your coffee's undrinkable. Harsh. Well, so's your coffee. You know, the girls down at the office make better coffee on their hot plate. No. This has to be the sixties. Fifties maybe. I'm getting mad. You know what? Let me just say really quick. This is why society at large think that males are better. Barista . Okay. This exact commercial brand. I have so much rage, and it's like yes, people always think like, oh, the man hipsterns want to make better coffee. And it's like, it's not true. I need to demantle the this opinion is. And now I know where it all comes from. Yeah. So this is one brand multiple commercials. Oh thank god. I was like how are we supposed to keep track? This is like ten different commercials. This is one brand. This brand hates lemon. So what's a woman hating brand? I mean to name a couple. Um of them. It definitely sounded like it was like the fifties. Sixties. Yes. That would be a little bit more fifties. Like it was like a housewife type of thing. Their girls at the office make better coffee in the rest. Yeah. But we'll give women were allowed to work. So that place is in the fifties . I would agree fifties or sixties. It's definitely madmen area, right? Yeah. Yeah. Um think about too, like one of the radio hit the average home, right? These are probably radio ads, I assume. Oh, I definitely thought that's T V ads. They're all TV, so that's another element, right? Yeah. If these are all v T V commercials. Harry Truman Doris Day, red China. I'm trying to sing the Billy Dole to get me there . I'm gonna say sixties is the decade. Yeah. So we feel good about the sixties. Yes. I would put that there. Okay. And so then what big brands were alive? I mean was Folgers? Folgers is what 's the house? And Folgers is such like a man's man coffee. Like I'm a man drink fowl. Fold house? That's the co that's the cookie brand. That's the cookie uh Maxwell House. Maxwell House. I mean it's got a man's name in it. It sure does. I I'm inclined to say Folgers. Me too. Should we just go for it? Folgers in the sixties? Okay., yeah Folgers is correct, but it was it was the fifties. Fifties. You guys are a little bit off in your timelines. Radio is forties. Like I think I love Lucy first aired in I think fifty three No, that's so listen, madmen. All right, well at least we got the brand right. Yeah. Was there only the one? Yeah, that was it. Yeah, I know usually there's more. That was a good one, Mike. I liked that was great. I like the commercials, uh, the ad yeah angle that we've been taking. Me too. I liked that question. That was a good discussion. All right, we're outro Okay, normally we do a belly laugh. Yeah. Oh Sam, you might have a belly laugh from your baby. Oh yes. My baby belly laugh is that my baby belly laughs. Which has been really , really, really . You need to get this on audio for now. I know. I might have one on my phone. It's more of a gurgling like giggle right now. She like reenact it. She likes almost snorting, but as a baby. Like actually, yeah. She is I mean, babies are just pugs. That's a big don't even get me smiling. But no, it's the cutest thing. She literally she like she wakes up smiling and so then it's like hello and she's like hee hee hee hee hey she is so your child. It's crazy. I just I don't know, she's the perfect baby. It's you heard it here first. So she laughs and that makes me so happy. It's the best ever. Makes it all the best. And we didn't formally announce, but you have a return to work day. I do. Yes. Um today is May seventh and I will be back on June first. So I'll be able to participate a little more fully in all of these things. Um Yeah. It's been so cool watching you from them all. Yeah. It's been incredible. It's been really fun. Yeah. The weather's getting nice, so I had to come back to work. So I know. It's come back to February babies. I was gonna honestly begin of summer the summer vacation. That's all right. I've had a pretty I've more than my ver American fair share of time off. So it'll be good to come back. Um and she'll be around. Cool. So instead of our belly lasts, we're gonna outro with our best party moments from local coffee. Yes. Yes. We haven't talked a whole lot about the party yet. No, and we were supposed to. Like we have. I know. We didn't mean to. There's more. The whole time I never saw Lisa. No. It was like we arrived together and then we left together. Yeah. But like that whole middle part, I don't know what you were doing. Well they always taught me in like the art party world is like don't talk to people you know. Right. Yeah. You can talk to them whenever you want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even so what were you doing the whole night? Like like I said I was a star greeter and I was helping with the podcast a little bit at the beginning and just talking yapping literally just yapping drinking wine and yapping best my favorite conversation from the party was I finally got to connect in real life with Maris from Onyx in Washington. And it was so great to finally meet her because we email all the time. And we had a very, very cool, interesting conversation about women in coffee roles that are more operational and more admin and more databased. And we just connected like Avatar. It was just so cool to hear her experience. And she was so interested in hearing how I got into this job and it was just incredible. And so I love seeing her and Maddie whenever we're at World of Coffee because those are my girls. Shout out. Yeah. It was great. It was really cool. I just love having those types of conversations with people that are in similar roles. Because you know, in sales, you guys get to have sales conversations, you get to have marketing conversations. It's nice you get you're around more people like that, but I feel like operational stuff sometimes is a smaller percentage of of women. So totally. Yeah, especially female in operations. Exactly. Yeah. So it was incredible. And she has an the coolest back tattoo I've ever seen. Shout out Mares. Cool. It was awesome. Oh. Which I would never have known because I only seen her LinkedIn photos. It's a pretty good thing. That's the best. Yeah. Cool girls. Lots of cool girls at our party. Love. I agree. Like some of my standout moments from our party where we need cool girls. Um I finally got to meet Janine from J and P Coffee. Oh. And it was so fun because you know, Martel from Sepia Coffee Project in Detroit, who I love and adore, he came. He brought his friend, I forgot her name, but I do have her on Instagram. She is so cool. She is like a coffee researcher, so she does research and she's doing research um on like coffee communities and it was just so cool to talk to her and hear her perspective on the work that she's doing and how she got into coffee, right? 'Cause she's not like a coffee nerd or something, you know, she's coming at it from such a different viewpoint. Coffee communities in the US or grow coffee growing communities. Producer communities. Cool. Yeah. They're really cool. She's like a writer and so it's like I'm obsessed with you. So I was talking to them. And then this cute woman pops up and she's like talking. She like knows Martel and and everyone like they're just talking and then we were like, Oh, like hey like I'm Angela and she's like I'm Janine and I was like Janine from J M P She's like, Yeah And I was like Oh my God. Like I've always wanted to meet you. This is so cool. Um, so I was stoked to meet her. I think my favorite part of every party is like I love hearing people's stories. Oh yeah. So I got to meet a couple new people, new coffee coffee companies. One is like Sip and Co. They're based out of Philly. I had an absolute blast getting to know them, two brothers. Um, and then I I met uh Silas and Corbin from Coma Copy Roasters in St. Louis, Missouri, and I just like had the funnest time. We recorded them on the floor. Yeah. They were so funny. I love the name Silas by the way. Yes. Weeds. Anybody remember? Weeds? Yes. Mm-hmm. So it was like wonderful to just connect with new people that I've never met before and like spend so much time and like really learn people's stories. Um but I'll say like my favorite part of the party. You know, there was a crew of us that were there after the party had ended. Like the people hosting us were like it's really time for you guys And it was like, yeah, it was me, Lisa, Charlie, Jesse, Ryan, Todd, Elizabeth, Amy, from Al Zahar. Um who used to work here. We all kind of huddled in together and we're like starving. So we went to uh what was it called? Prince Street Pizza. Yeah. Which there's a counterpart in New York City. I was gonna say Prince Street in New York Yes. Famously. So fun. We like look , we like stood in this huge long line. Half the people were like, It's worth the wait. The other half the people were like, Why are you exhausted? Like we had all had such a good time and you're just like in this pizza line to like grab a slice and there was just something about that. Or it's just like the cavoyer The funniest part is that coworkers were friends, not a single one of us wanted to eat with each other. We got our pizza and ran straight back to our hotel really. That is intimacy, though. Yeah, it is. It's like Charlie got his. He's like, okay, I hope you guys have a great night. I'm going. Yeah, yeah. Amy was like, I'm going to my Uber. Yes. I literally ate my piece of pizza on the way back to the hotel because I didn't want to waste time eating it. I wanted to go straight to bed. And then I had my second slice for breakfast the next day. Oh, that's such a smart move. I should have done that. What was I thinking?m so So you' up to speed our whole week. Shout out to Roast, by the way. Yeah. Um, who helps us put on that party. Um Connie is an angel and I'm sad that I've been the same without um choosing card with those guys. Um until next time. Until next time. Bye. You've been listening to Straight Up, hosted by Sam Subsky, Angela Greenagen, and Lisa Collins. Straight Up is part of the Kavoya Coffee Podcasting Network where the executive producer is me, Mike Ferguson. Our theme music for this episode is You and Me with Coffee by RKB Music. If you've enjoyed this or any show on the Cavoya Coffee Podcasting Network, please do all the things. Like, rate, subscribe follow tell your friends right now I'll wait