Upstate Coffee Collective Podcast
By Upstate Coffee Collective
Upstate Coffee Collective PodcastApr 09, 2022
Eidolacast 2: Andrew Michael Wells Returns
It was great to check out what our boy, Andrew has been up to. We hope you enjoy this specially edited episode of the Upstate Coffee Collective Podcast.
Our first episode with Andrew is called "Exploring the Human Condition with Andrew Michael Wells".
Eidola Instagram: @Eidola
Dance Gavin Dance Instagram: @dancegavindance
https://riserecords.com
Street Brew 1: Ryan McNaughton
Dr. John Kittens (aka Ryan McNaughton let's us in on how his foray into the coffee world has been whilst he and Kevin run errands in the greater capital district. It's basically "Coffee People In Cars, Getting Coffee".
Two Years of Talking Coffee
* Audience collectively: "Awwwwww" *
Theology & Tabletop Games w/ Drew Cochran
Drew Cochran is a writer, former missionary, and longtime friend of Kevin's. He's created "Epic of Dreams" - an an amazing tabletop RPG you can play anywhere, without dice, character sheets, or even a table. The "Basilisk Edition" is the fully streamlined & edited edition that is currently being crowdfunded. Learn more at: https://www.flowcode.com/page/epicofdreams
Coffee Packaging & Conscious Consumerism - Home Brew Jan 2022
Matt & Kev sit down for the first podcast episode of 2022 after a hectic 2021 to talk coffee packaging, global consumer trends, and how to be a better consumer.
Gratitude & Mindfulness for 2022 w/ Matt
Let's get back to work. :)
Live to Serve w/ Bryce and Nicole Snyder
Wow! What an inspiring episode. Bryce and Nicole Snyder run a non-profit called Live2Serve (Instagram: @live2serve2live) that provides support to communities in the Dominican Republic through missions trips. Interested in donating time, money or resources? Find them on Instagram or email us at hello@upstatecoffeecollective.com so we can put you in touch!
Anotha Homebrew - Checking our MEDS, Riffing on Personal Choices, Next Guests for the Pod
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The Stacks Espresso Bar Autumn Market w/ Ron Grieco & Friends
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Matt Waddell: Runner's High Cannabis
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Odie Matthews Comes to Town
Odie Matthews is a Youtuber, photographer, and brand creator currently residing in Boston. They became one of our closest friends throughout the years simply through a shared love of video games, creating content, and traveling. Subscribe to their travel channel on YouTube and follow them on Insta!
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Jamming Out w/ Izvnvgi
Izvnvgi is a music composer, producer, and performer based out of San Diego, CA. His music melds Matt's love for lofi beats and Kevin's love for metal, and we all became friends REAL fast!
Go stream Izvnvgi everywhere, including Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4xcbtYWIKNisjwyEiPLZUa?si=Ae-F8yN9Q8C7PHPdxQdZkA&dl_branch=1
Ren's Instagram: @izvnvgi
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Biases and Cultural Moments - Homebrewing Essentials
Apologies for the missed weeks! Kevin and Matt have been working on lots of cool things this summer that took us away from the mics. But we're back with an every-other-Monday release schedule, starting with a catchup convo talking about overcoming palate bias when tasting coffee and the explosion of crypto into mainstream culture with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Enjoy!
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Highlight Roast VII - Sam Bender, Peaks Coffee Co
Be Your Own Rate of Rise w/ Ryan McNaughton
Ryan McNaughton joins us to tell us about how he just straight up YOLO'd into a roaster because he wanted to roast. What a boss move!
Ryan's Instagram: @drjohnkittens
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Alyssa Explains It All
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Alyssa Dion is our good friend and owner of Made With Love and Swearing (@_mwlas_), where she sells handcrafted & small batch skin care products such as bath salts, scrubs, and beard oils.
Check out her Etsy shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/WeAreMWLAS
Buy her All Day ADK Coffee Scrub: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1014195376/coconut-latte-exfoliating-coffee-soap?ref=shop_home_active_8
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Producer Interview - Shady & Elias Bayter, El Vergel Estates - HR#006
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Buy coffee from El Vergel Estates! The Bayter Family are at the forefront of coffee production in Colombia. That may sound hyperbolic, but it’s true. When their mother, Marta, took over ownership & operation of the El Vergel Estates in 2007 after their father passed away, she made sure that her sons would be ready to inherit the business when they came of age. In their late teens, Shady & Elias took on the responsibility of directing the farm’s coffee production and business relationships in consuming countries. Their elders and other members of their community insisted that the best way to make a living selling Colombian coffee was to grow commodity coffee in bulk and sell it at market value. The more volume, the better.
The Bayter brothers saw things differently, especially once they got their hands on a cup of specialty coffee. Now, after more than 10 years in the business and 400 hectares of farm land in their possession, they are boasting the exceptional fermentation processes that create the gorgeous cup we are experiencing right now in the Guava Banana. This process took more than two years (and many, many pounds of lost coffee) of trial and error to perfect… and they’re still iterating on every harvest with one goal in mind: to create the best cup of coffee in Colombia (then the world!).
Ron Grieco - Highlight Roast #006: Guava Banana
Ron is our spiritual coffee godparent. Years before the Upstate Coffee Collective would prompt him to express his love for coffee in our Highlight Roast Series, Ron was dreaming up his ultimate café experience and spreading coffee education with his cohorts in the Capital Region Coffee Collective. Ron is a Coffee industry veteran and mentor. Part owner, Director of Coffee, Educator, and occasional barista of Stacks Espresso Bar in Albany, Ron is constantly flexing his coffee knowhow to the benefit of those around him.
Ron’s philosophy is simple: Care about people, and put your effort into that care. Over the years he’s matured as an individual, a business owner, and a coffee enthusiast, and the lesson he has imparted on us the most is to put people first.
Ron met Shady and Elias while he was literally IN SEARCH OF this very coffee! In fact, one could say that Ron, Shady, and Elias’ passions were manifestly united by this year’s first Highlight Roast.
This Wednesday, We're Being Featured On The Shop Table Podcast!
The Shop Table (@theshoptable) is created by Marc Cunningham as a collaborative social media brand that creates a space on the internet to connect over coffee. Like sitting at the table with your favorite peeps in a coffee shop, only online! We're the featured roaster for his brand in the month of June, and we just finished up being interviewed on his show, available on Wednesday 6/9.
From Brick & Mortar to E-Commerce w/ Ben from Process Coffee & Rad Stuff
Ben (we never got his last name but I kinda like it better?) is the creator of Process Coffee & Rad Stuff (process.coffee), a curated online store full of featured coffee & a small selection of brewing gear. Ben helped create a coffee shop called Guilt Trip Coffee that is quite well-known in the coffee scene, and he's now moved his entrepreneurial spirit from a brick & mortar shop to an online webstore! From his site:
"I'm Ben. A coffee professional and lover of rad stuff. Based in Belfast NI, and rocking a wife and 2 kids 😎 They make me suuuuper happy! I have been working in coffee for a while now. It's the best. The last 3 years have been spent as a co founder and project/general manager at a shop called Guilt Trip. I have also spent this time meeting, collaborating and creating with some of the raddest people I know.
With Process I want to connect people to this beautiful world of coffee, and tell stories as I work with brands and the people behind them. Everyone has a story to tell right?! And in the coffee world the stories are usually pretty interesting. On this new platform I want to offer a place of connection, a hub for collaboration and a destination for your higher level coffee experience. To help do this I have intentionally curated a supply of products that I think are awesome and rep worthy. It aint much, but I want this to all make sense. These are only the brands and products that I use, rate super highly, and love to shout about! I hope you're into them. Selling them also puts food on the table soooo that's kinda neat too"
Find Ben on Insta: @pr_cess
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We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
I can appreciate it, but I don't have to like it
Title says it all. Back to regularly scheduled programming next week. Thanks for listening!
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We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
The Internet is Noisy, How Do You Find the Quiet? - Homebrewing Essentials
After a two-week break, we're back with fresh energy and lots of cool ideas.
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We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Leaving the Coffee Industry w/ Katt Schott-Mancini
Katt is a former barista, coffee educator, roaster, and certified La Marzocco technician. She has recently exited the coffee industry in search of a better work-life balance, better financial stability, and more empowerment. We talk about why we're seeing many people in the service industry move on to other jobs and what it all might mean in the context of unionization, social justice, and the dismantling of the worst parts of capitalism.
Katt on Insta: @kattsnott
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We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
"CBD? NBD!" w/ Iris Rogers of Homestead Hemp 1787
Happy 4/20!! Iris Rogers is an entrepreneur in the hemp industry who inherited her eight-generation family farm after leaving the modeling industry for "greener pastures" - get it? Sigh. She is currently BLOWING UP on Tik Tok over a mysterious series of videos where she is searching for her great-grandfather's missing farm land deed. It's full of clues, twists, and turns and is highly entertaining. Clearly this is what the people of the internet are craving right now, and we are here for it.
Visit homesteadhemp1787.com to stock up on CBD oils, bath bombs, and skincare products!
Follow them on the gram: @homesteadhemp1787
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We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
"I'm probably going to get fired from Stacks after this episode" - Nick Rovazzini
In this unruly episode, Nick Rovazzini (@nickrovo) comes back on the podcast to execute a prank that he and Kevin have been planning since Podcast Episode 10. Nick talks to us about the recent success of his streetwear company, "Prey for Us", emo culture, some bad café customer experiences, and the next coffee superlative he's cancelling: "Banger".
Brewing Better Coffee At Home w/ Alexander Mills
Wow! One of our favorite coffee people joined us for a wide-ranging conversation about community, sensory language, fatherhood, and the lesser-known burdens of garnering a giant following: not being able to realistically connect in a genuine way with every single person in that community.
Read Alexander's Coffee Blog and learn about his Coffee Club here: alexandermills.ca
Follow him on Instagram: @alexander.mills
He's got some sick YouTube game as well!
Follow us on Insta: @upstatecoffeecollective
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
From Cup to Seed w/ Kat Melheim
Kat Melheim (@coffeepeoplezine) is creating a coffee-table-worthy magazine series about coffee people, made for all people. COFFEE PEOPLE ZINE is a collection of artistic expression from inside the coffee community. Kat is a coffee person herself - but she also comes from a background in social work and strives to cultivate meaningful connections with her community and the communities she travels to. We catch up with Kat after her 9-week adventure to Hawai’i, where she lived and worked on a coffee farm learning how to graft coffee trees. Now that she’s back in MN, she has some new perspective on the supply chain that she shares with us. Go subscribe to her zine at coffeepeople.org!
Kat’s Personal IG: @coffeekathryn
Coffee People Zine IG: @coffeepeoplezine
Roster's Apprentice IG: @roasters.apprentice
Kat's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CoffeeKat
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Bringing Troy to Life w/ Felicity Jones of Superior Merchandise Co.
Felicity Jones (@missfelic) is owner and brand director of Superior Merchandise Co., a specialty coffee and curated retail shop in Troy, NY. She also owns our favorite specialty coffee company, called Touchy Coffee. A graphic designer by trade, she turned her vision for curated design, eclectic shopping, and community gathering into something she and her partner could call their own. Her entrepreneurial story involves blood, sweat, and tears; we are thrilled to get to hear it and share it!
Shop Touchy Coffee: touchycoffee.com
Shop Superior Merchandise Co.: https://www.superiormerchandise.co/
Socials: @superior_merch @touchy.coffee
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Neo-Pronouns, Coffee Rehydration, and Fave Brewing Techniques - Homebrew Essentials
An easy-to-digest intro to gender neutral pronouns: https://www.queerpgh.com/lets-learn-gender-neutral-pronouns/
Rehydration Testing Kit: https://phoenixcoffee.com/shop/esperanza-guatemala-ef633
Our boy Marc Cunningham brewing on the AP: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFhHbkhXaD/
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Lover Boy w/ The Kid Kung Fu & Steve Rumizen
Be the first to be grab Highlight Roast #006 before they sell out! Head to upstatecoffeecollective.com/newsletter and submit your email.
The Kid Kung Fu is an up and coming hip hop artist who just dropped a dope record called "Lover Boy". Go listen to Lover Boy on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your music!
Other Links:
Steve's SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/gentletoast
Colorado Functional Coffee Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peakstatecoffee/peak-state-functional-coffee
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Getting Roasted by Our Roaster w/ Nick Furnia
Nick Furnia is the owner & roaster at Knockabout Coffee Roasters, and he's also our roaster! We have him back on this week to catch up, talk about what's new in his world, and we get some insights into building a business as a sole proprietor, combatting burnout with creative expression, and his roasting process.
Pick up some coffee from him at: knockaboutcoffee.com
Intagram: instagram.com/drink.knockabout
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :) Go grab some at upstatecoffeecollective.com/shop
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tXriruhZMFkuihWlTAF9L?si=Fa2BnSzPQK6OklV5IeFJPQ: Go get your jam on!
Clubhouse, Milk In Your Gesha, and 2021 Highlight Roasts - Homebrew Season 2 Begins!
Grab you some fancy Colombian Gesha and more from Touchy Coffee at https://touchycoffee.com - milk optional (please no)
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Intermittent Fasting Or Intermittent Chipotle-ing? w/ Melissa Barney
Melissa Barney is a personal trainer and a Legionnaire for 1stPhorm. She has been a good friend of ours for many, many years, and having her on this podcast was an absolute blast! Enjoy this long conversation full of laughter & insights about travel, fitness, life, and finding happiness.
Instagram: @Melissa.barney
Facebook Private Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/235390491007917/
1stphorm Link: www.1stphorm.com/melissabarn
Mytransphormation App Link: www.mytransphormationstartstoday.com/melissabarn
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Collaboration Over Competition w/ Kenny Baker of Ethnos Coffee Roasters
Kenny Baker is the owner and operator of Ethnos Coffee Roasters out of Memphis, TN. After gaining significant exposure through his collaboration with cxffeeblack's Guji Mane project, Kenny's side hustle turned into a full time gig as he worked tirelessly to keep up with demand. Ethnos' offerings go far beyond their multiple collabs, though, and we dig into how Kenny structures his roasting company, their values, and how he views the concept of collaboration over competition within the craft coffee realm.
Pick up some of their coffee here.
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our 2021 Jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
A Conversation About Film, Comedy, Tiddies and Pens w/ Victoria Diana
Victoria Diana is a stand-up comedian, a writer, and a filmmaker in Upstate NY. In 2020 she won a $40,000 grant from the Central New York Short Film Competition, an arts-funded initiative by Empire State Development and sponsored by the CNY Arts/Innovation Group. She used that money to fund her short film called "Devour".
According to the article on oswego.edu:
[Victoria] Diana’s “Devour” is a drama following former lovers on different trajectories in ia chef who is about to close for the night at his struggling, once successful, restaurant, when an old flame shows up at his door,' Diana said. 'She is now a rising actress, who traveled up to Syracuse from NYC, in search of a familiar comfort.' Two of her friends, Kristin Noriega and Kevin Miner, presented Diana with the concept and which she immediately found exciting. “I love food, and the relationships people have with it. I also wanted to explore nostalgia, and the rose-colored tint it gives our memories,” Diana said. “For ‘Devour,’ I challenged myself by writing a drama (my comfort zone is comedy); but for fun, I went dialogue-crazy.”
Find Victoria doing bits on Tik Tok, reposting them on Instagram, and shit-posting on Facebook.
"You Can't Do Coffee Alone" - A Conversation w/ Carlos Sims Jr. of Happy Home Coffee Roasters
Oh man!! This might have been our favorite conversation yet. Carlos Sims Jr. is the owner & operator of Happy Home Coffee Roasters based out of Fenton, MI (soon to be Hilo, Hawai'i!). Happy Home is a family-centric, faith-centric, black-owned coffee roasting business whose mission is to "Cultivate Joy and Belonging". We talk about Carlos' journey from the hospitality industry, to the cafe scene, to taking the dive into his own business venture while being a husband and a father of three! All you need to know about our friend Carlos: When I asked him what he had to compromise on when launching the business (sleep, time with family, tight budget), he said "NO COMPROMISES." He puts his family and his faith before everything.
From their website:
Coffee can be used to provide Joy and Belonging. That’s why we named our company Happy Home. When you brew a cup of our coffee, our hope is that it would help you cultivate joy and belonging wherever you are. Whether you are brewing our coffee as you cook a family breakfast over the holidays, or you have brewed a pour over and are experiencing the diverse flavors that coffee has to offer, we hope that our coffee makes wherever you call home, happy.
Our personal fave of their offerings is a sweet Las Lajas Natural. Grab some here.
Instagram: @happyhomecoffeeroasters
Upstate Meets Downstate w/ Joe Silva of Cup of Joe Coffee
Upstate Meets Downstate! We get down with our new homie Joe from Long Island and talk about his new mobile coffee company, cleverly named "Cup of Joe Coffee". Joe does pop-ups and farmers markets all over the island, sells roasted coffee on his website, and is a giant advocate for approachability in coffee, as well as the importance of community. From his website:
Here at Cup of Joe Coffee, we value quality and accessibility as your neighborhood pop-up cafe. We offer the ease and convenience of mobility with a minimalist aesthetic. Our focus to simply provide you with a good cup of coffee means we pay close attention to where our beans are sourced and how they are roasted. We only offer fresh, organic roasted beans that are made ready for you to enjoy.
Go check him out on Insta: @cupofjoecoffeeco
Or on his website: https://cupofjoecoffeecompany.com/
Listeners of this podcast can save 10% on a bag of All Day ADK, our flagship coffee, by using the code PODCAST at checkout :)
We've begun cataloging our jams on this Spotify playlist. Go get your jam on!
Managing, Accepting, and Utilizing Failure w/ Devon Seegers
Our most frequent return guest joins us virtually to talk about "failing forward", and what it means to be humble in the age of the internet, where everyone is an expert and disinformation is everywhere.
Devon on Insta: @devonseegers
Where We're Headed: 2021 & Beyond
Happy New Year! Matt & Kev spend an hour reviewing our 2020 and what we want to do this year with the Collective.
Matt's blog on this topic: https://www.upstatecoffeecollective.com/blog/where-are-we-headed
Matt on the Gram: @mattypfeif
Kev on the Gram: @kevin_probably_
Matt's Jam: Everyone Everywhere
Kev's Jam: Phoebe Bridgers
At the Shop Table w/ Marc Cunningham
Marc Cunningham is the host of "The Shop Table", a podcast formerly known as "Pass the Brew", where he and his guests talk about their passions in and out of the coffee world. From the podcast's description:
This Podcast started out as a way for me to talk about coffee and sports with people who didnt roll their eyes when I got too in depth about it. But as these things often do, it has evolved! Pass the Brew is a podcast that brings people involved in coffee together to talk about life, coffee, and what ever else may interest them. Sometimes thats sports, sometimes its lego, sometimes its Star Wars. Coffee is about community, and that is the aim of this podcast, to bring people together in community to have conversations. I hope that you enjoy these as much as I do!
The Fellow Ode, Boston Specialty, and Remote Learning w/ Nick Rollo
Shop Coffee: upstatecoffeecollective.com/shop
Nick Rollo (@lilmanmud1) is a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He's currently studying Performance Arts and Music Education via remote learning during this crazy year. He's also an avid coffee enthusiast and kindly offered to bring over his brand new Fellow Ode Grinder so we could review it together and make some coffee with it. We talk brewing, music, self care, and coffee processes. I think you'll enjoy two local lads talking life, coffee, and more. Happy Monday!
Lifting Veterans One Rep at a Time w/ Dom Franco of LFTVET
Dom Franco started a clothing branch called LFTVET to create a community and a conversation around the mental health challenges that come with being a Veteran.
From their website at lftvet.com:
"LFTVET’s goal is to help Lift Veterans with PTSD, by showcasing how lifting can help combat PTSD, depression & anxiety. Through lifting and camaraderie, we can help fight the battle within. By hosting fundraisers nationwide, we hope to help raise money for Veteran Non-Profits that place Veterans into gyms."
Veteran Crisis Hotline: 800-273-8255 & Press 1
The Pfeifer Love Story w/ Mackenzie Pfeifer
Mackenzie Pfeifer aka Pfeifwife is the lady that make's Matt one lucky dude! Matt and Kenz sit down for this special one-on-one episode to talk about their marriage, Kenzie's new podcast called "Married with Cocktails", and teaching during the Coronavirus Pandemic. We hope this intimate conversation gives you some warm fuzzies and inspires you to have a nice cozy convo with your loved ones as well.
Subscribe to Married with Cocktails and learn more at: marriedwithcocktails.com
Follow the ladies on Insta: @marriedcocktails
Follow Kenz on Insta: @kcenzie
Coffee Roasting Startups: Breaking the Rules w/ Attaboy Roasters
Keren and her husband, Zach, started Attaboy Roasters in Los Angeles, Ca. only a few months ago. Attaboy aims to forge its own path by making craft coffee fun and inviting, using whimsical characters that belong in a comic book (we have dibs on the first copies when that happens) and creative, curious names for their coffees like "Psycho Kitty" and "Lucky Dojo", even if the coffees are single-origin.
From their website:
We are small batch coffee roasters based out of L.A. striving to bring you hip, fun, and delicious coffee straight to your door in an effort to make your life more chill in the midst of all the stress!
Pick up some coffee at: attaboyroasters.com
Instagram: @attaboyroasters
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"Comedians Are So Sad" w/ R&B Singer Natalie Carr
Natalie Carr (@nataliecarrmusic) is an up-and-coming American R&B singer-songwriter from North Carolina. Not only is she warm, welcoming, and down-to-earth in conversation, but she also has that fiery energy and soul needed to be something special in the music industry. We talk about the songwriting process, the double-edged sword that is the internet, the wonderful state of Connecticut (where both she and Matt happened to grow up) and her newly released singles. Find more of her on Spotify (or equivalent listening source) and on Youtube where she records acoustic sessions, "quick-writes", and covers. We're super stoked to have made a new friend and we can't wait to see what's next for her. Cheers, NattyDaddy!
From her bio:
"Based in Charlotte, by way [of] Stamford, Connecticut, Carr has an abundance of music influences. Considering herself a crossover artist, influences range from R&B, pop, indie, and even country music. While many may compare her to Halsey, Kehlani, or maybe even a "female Post Malone," many find themselves enthralled with her writing, and the way resonates with their day-to-day."
Home Brewing Essentials: Coffee Cereal and Kanye West 2020
We've begun to realize that "Home Brewing Essentials" are really just fun, un-focused episodes where we catch up on stuff, talk about current events, and loosely talk about coffee. In this episode, we cover Kanye's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, check in with each other, and then Nick (@ndz_upcc) joins us and we discover that Dunkin has partnered with cereal maker Post to create a Dunkin breakfast cereal. You bet your ass we grabbed it from the store and tried it live on air! I'm still recovering from the nausea.
Our Jams This Week:
Matt: Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall
Nick: Fleetwood Mac
Kevin: Natalie Carr
Pineapple Jalapeño Pizza w/ Kieran Mangels
What's better than hanging with your bud and ordering some 'za? Doing it with live mics! Kieran Mangels (@kieranmangels) is our good friend and Media Lead for the Upstate Coffee Collective. All those gorg product shots? Kieran. That brew guide? Our boy KM. Event documenting? You bet he's there!
Kieran is as talented as they come and an absolute scream to shoot the shit with. Kieran and Matt cover politics, the photography industry, Kieran's background, and they even order a pizza on the air and fuck it up ROYALLY! This is a great pod to just hang back and listen to some funny convo. We hope you enjoy!
The Snooze Button is Your Enemy w/ Ben Carlini
Ben Carlini (@carlini.fitness) is a fitness and nutrition coach who very recently opened his own gym in the Capital Region! Ben, Kevin, and Matt have known each other for many years and it was a hell of a good time catching up and talking about:
- Fitness, both physical and mental
- Intermittent Fasting
- Training around injury
- Building strong habits
Find him on Facebook: facebook.com/carlinifitness
Find him on Insta: instagram.com/carlini.fitness
Our Jams:
Ben: Boys of Fall
Matt: Boys Like Girls
Kevin: Boyz II Men
(Sensing a theme here?)
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Flow States, Productivity, and Deep Work w/ Devon Seegers
In this episode, we welcome back our first return guest, Devon Seegers (@devonseegers), who is a Music Producer and a "Flow Coach", helping entrepreneurs dial in their work processes, automate their lead generation, and set themselves up for success. We talk with him about his favorite tactics and tools for increasing productivity and entering that elusive "flow state".
Connect with Devon on Instagram or set up a consultation here: https://linktr.ee/devonseegers
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Our Jams:
Matt: Pink Floyd - The Wall
Kevin: Season 7 of DISSECT: Breaking down Childish Gambino's Because the Internet
Devon: I'm Sorry by Swell