Coffee Time LIVE Podcast 9/8/2024

[Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] good morning and welcome back to the channel Grand Colombia and welcome to another coffee time live and it's a bit of a disaster but you know we're muddling through there's a reason it was a minute or so late we'll talk about that right now temperatur is about 78° little on the humid side for here uh we're going to have have a high of about 82 degrees a low of maybe 65 degrees and the Colombian Peso exchange rate is there 4174 Maybe 4176 by now okay and that's all good news some bad news I'm here alone today I'm here alone because I've been having I might be blowing you out I might have the volume too loud today kindly let me know um let me see if I looks like my levels are pretty high so as you know I kind of revamped the studio I pulled out a lot of old equipment that I had and I did a bunch of repairs I spent about two weeks on it and for the last couple weeks we've been struggling particularly with sound and Echoes and delays and all kinds of uh nightmarish things and the truth of it is I actually have to replace a couple things um I've got a a phantom power amp that's on the fritz it's in and out I've got a microphone that's not working very well I've got a mixer that it's hit or miss so it it's you know a lot of this is old stuff uh microphone and the phantom power that was from four or five years ago I had some issues I fixed it up it seemed like it was working but here we are you you know you it's difficult to put something together with a lot of mish mash parts so I had to break down and Order up a couple new items to put in so that things will function properly in the meantime I don't want to have anybody in the studio today because it's pretty chaotic I'm not even sure how long it's going to last be honest with you um you know it's like major heart surgery and I left all the instruments inside so you I don't know so if if you are ever going to contribute to this Channel and some of you do and I'm very grateful for it and some of you are very generous but if you ever were going to this would be the week um it's it's been an expensive uh month okay so let's see we got uh Ben Ben Lake good to be back welcome back my neighbor um Michael good morning how are you doing Juka greetings from Finland and thank you for your weekly contribution um I would say the the the alarm wakes me up except I'm already awake when you send that through uh Owen volume is okay still muffled sounding interesting all right um H I don't know what to say about that uh volume okay volume is good anybody else hearing it muffled maybe it's me I don't know uh but yeah I'm working with intermittent functioning equipment right now so I I think one of them I might have even caused trying to put things through it that were defective but it's you know what are you going to do um I got the chat up on the screen and if you notice I've got Rumble chat up there and I've got YouTube chat up there uh nobody on X yet nobody on Facebook but um all that seems to be working so some of it I'm getting dialed in all right uh where else um all right as some of you know through July and especially August through the month of August I put a ton of things on my myself I mean you have to think about what I've got going on I've set up a coffee export company um I set up coffee Time Tours which those require new websites um I've changed the studio around the equipment the repairs everything I was just whining about uh yes the sound is muffled all right let me see if I can improve something on the Fly here I don't know how that'll go but worth a shot um I've had barely time to breathe particularly in August I've been you know running out to the farms for the visits and the cooperative and all kinds of things and I've been putting in midnight to 4: for sleep and the rest the time it's been mostly on the go and here's a problem which Turtle so kindly pointed out my volume not muffled Rob Turtle yes sound is muffled all right let's let's duke it out uh Turtle kindly pointed out that I'm no longer a spring chicken and I'm trying to do things as if I were 35 years old and he's got a pretty good point and as a matter of fact I the end of this last week I felt my health started to crash again and and I don't want that to happen because I've been doing so well so I decided I'm going to have to take a step back and just slow the pace a little bit um I want to get the studio going and get it out of my hair because I've got a lot of the heavy lifting already done the coffee company I've run into a few obstacles I put together a video to explain exactly where I'm at with a coffee company and to give you a new deadline so that you knew exactly what was going on probably more than you need to know but I went into a lot of a fair amount of The Superficial details of what it takes to set this thing up Allin one take only one part that I had to stop and that I would have to cut out almost no editing involved I was really proud of myself this was yesterday morning so I go to I put it in the editing I'm going to add the intro I'm going to add the outro I'm going to cut that piece out and I hit the play and I've got severe echo echo echo echo echo three Echoes I have no idea where three Echoes are coming from there's only two mics and only one was on um but it was unusable I you know I tried to go through 45 minute long a one take because you know if you're really into something you're passionate you've been you know immersed in it for the for the last months you don't really need a lot of takes you know it's like in a conversation you're can just go with it and so I did well now I got to do the whole thing over again because I know a lot of you are interested what's going on a lot of you are interested in certain details about what's it take to accomplish certain things that navigate the bureaucracy all of that kind of stuff it was all in there I will do it again I'll have all the same information I just uh you know it'll it'll be different for me but um so the coffee business which I explained but some things of come up and I voluntarily opted to make it more complicated but in doing so I get to back off for about two months while other people proceed to do certain things and yeah leave you hanging you can export coffee with as little as an enma health certificate so if you do that it'll it'll export out of here it'll enter in the US because that's the only thing they require however there are particular certification proofs of your coffee and it's tedious cumbersome it's not cheap and a lot of exporters don't bother I opted to register with the Federation of coffee cafe the feder the Federation the cafe here in Colombia which governs part of the world but it's it's the entire uh oversight of the coffee business in Colombia and there's a million different rules depending on what you're doing and how you're doing it they have a big laboratory the laboratory is to create a bunch of new uh Innovations I I'll go into that in the video but with this coffee Federation not only you apply register your trademark go through all that kind of stuff with them but you send a sample of the first batch of coffee you're going to sell and they test it and they verify the origin chemically uh they verify the variety so if we say it's Geisha you have actual proof that's Geisha which I have learned that's a big problem um I bought Geisha in a number of places here in Colombia where they don't bother getting any certifications and several absolutely were not Geisha you know if you try Geisha it it's not like you're going to get some variation with any coffee but it's so far off the mark you you know that it's not so they're cheating they're lying um if you want to be recognized as high quality and it and the proof is there with the various certifications you know with a little um used ywan Valdez but the little guy with a with a hat and the the the mountain peaks that you'll see on some coffees you get that there's another that will uh verify the origin not only of Colombia but of the region that you're in in Colombia uh there's another one I won't go into all the detail again it'll be in the video but that's a process to do that now once you're done you go into an international registry and what was amazing to me was there's somewhere between 10 and 20,000 coffee farms in Colombia you can count on a couple hands how many of those are actually registered as I just described but your coffee name will be registered internationally you're eligible to go up for various uh International tastings and all of that because all the proof has already been done and so aside from all the nuts and bolts of just arranging the logistics and are you going to use a fulfillment center all that kind of craziness I've decided to do that because it it does two things the obvious what I just described but the second one is from this point until almost two months from now I won't have to focus on that I I have to look at the the Fulfillment aspect of it but that's it and I need to need to move some of these things aside and so you know that's what's going on very very busy but I'm I'm backing off a little bit I'm going to stop forcing these things trying to get them done uh sooner than may be possible some of these things you have to recognize that look you're in Colombia you you can't make things go faster than they're going to go just chill relax and let it take take its score course um let's see good morning from Niagara Falls good morning that's John good morning from Georgia Stephen how you doing Chad checking in from Austin hey how you doing when you get getting back down here um and John love Tim Horton's Coffee I can say yeah you get spoiled down here you know coffees that I liked back when I was in the United States if I were to drink them now I would find them highly mediocre um just you you do get spoiled the deeper you dig into it uh the more you experience and the varieties and understand where they came from and why they exist and all of that you get a greater and greater appreciation for it you know one of these days I'm going to end up being a coffee snob uh you are functioning in Colombia time well or lack of functioning yeah it it's it's August was hell it it really was and it's I'm not surprised that I started to break down and turtle was right I was working with a mentality of back in my work life plowing ahead with all of these projects it was nothing it was a walk in the park it's what I did it's what I did my entire life but I've been away from it for a decade and it and I've aged you know so all of those things count all those things matter yeah let me uh put those away uh can you still hear me I think think you can but I just want to be sure um B Nick oh I know who you are how you doing buend Senor Lauren saludos from Reno how how how is it there is it still hot as hell okay so am I done with the whining I think so I mentioned here I got two videos one is the coffee update that I just mentioned today maybe tomorrow warning I'll redo it I honestly I did it one time that I I I hate the thought of doing it again but there's there was a lot of good information and I know a lot of you won't be interested but that's easy you get into it and you say ah this isn't for me but I know a lot of people will be very interested in simply because of the kind of questions I get the other video is the car repair that I went through so I want to talk about that if you are interested in the accountant that I've Ed for several things now that have had really good success um send me an email write to me and um I'll send you his contact information I want to promote him um I probably should ask his permission first but I want to promote him because it was difficult to find someone that would work without blowing things out of proportion to justify a high fee and you you run into that a lot it's uh and and it's hard to know if they're being honest with you or not until you get to a certain point and you know enough to know but um that's a problem here this guy you can do everything with what's up you don't have to go to the office handles everything handled the coffee business he's the U accountant of record for the next year for the coffee business he handled when I got blown into the tax system you know because of all this you know he got me through the tax system don't owe anything um it was pretty painless I just had to send him all my bank records and a whole bunch of stuff but you know he took it from there I didn't even have to sign a form he handled everything and um you know so if you need one I'd be glad to recommend you one of the things was you really should have an accountant for a number of reasons um if you're going to do something like I'm doing with the coffee export business at least to begin because with an accountant there's things that'll be accepted that without an accountant might get rejected and they could the work product could be identical but it's just how they are you know we want it official so I checked with the ones that people had told me about several were in metagene and the prices I was getting for what I wanted done was around 10 million pesos that was nuts I me but people are paying it there was one in Bogata very similar so I get put on to this guy who's out in the countryside south of KAG check him out everything seems good he's been doing it for a long time talk to a a couple people that have used him so I contact him his fee is 1 million pesos But it includes the next year of whatever Services needed for that business like are you freaking serious that'll include the quarterly tax preparations all of that um and I didn't know everything that he was telling me but I had already done enough homework to know the things that he telling me those things that I knew about he was spot on and he didn't try to blow anything out of proportion as a matter of fact he bent over backwards to make it as easy as possible so I will recommend him uh if anybody ever ask me um what else we got here oh of course Visa help same one in Pera she's been awesome Turtle originally put me on to her um seven years ago I think and and she's just been she's been Flawless so U so there's that uh see hey John hey World um okay feel free to throw in some chats there Libby good morning I finally got on Rumble you be able to say hi uh to you all still in quka next month Florida yeah she goes back and forth quka and Florida in quka Florida she keeps wanting to go come to Colombia but she's always got obstacles usually have to do with her pets okay so this week um we had a bit of an issue with trucker strike so I'll talk about that first I want to go over a couple headlines uh let's see where are we let's see how we can make this work let me move this out of the way start to this screen think that'll work there we go it worked Armenia prepares for the transition of the Strategic public transport system that's a a lot of words but in reading through it they they basically they've reorganized and there's going to be other other items Beyond these red buses I but I couldn't get a photo of that so I'm unsure of that but this new organization that's going to be like an umbrella um what they're doing is they're replanning all of the bus routes so they essentially hit everywhere in Columbia right now you might have to walk five or six blocks to get to a a bus route um some places it probably even double that most places within a block or two but um because the bus routes run where the population is but they want to figure out a way to serve everybody and they claim that they've done it so it'll be interesting to see what comes about they've also created a new app that is not yet online they had one some years ago that worked really well and and they took it offline I I don't know why but it had the same features where you'll be able to see the bus that you're trying to catch in real time see it move you know the world's had this for 10 years but you know you'll be able to see on the map exactly where that bus is how far out it is you know if you're if there's a delay and you're wondering if that a bus is going to show up you'll be able to look and see they'll also have a better uh design for um information for what bus goes where because that's all that's been problematic it's like if you know you're good if you don't yeah you don't um it's been hit or miss okay um okay let's see what else we got here I think I turn that one off I turn it back on and then I go to here little cumbersome got to be an easier way okay Avenue Norte that's the one that runs parallel to bouar or cout in centenario you have three in the north and they all run parallel so you've got 19 and in the middle is bullyar it's also couty or 14 and then the one I used to live on centenario which is six well 19 was scheduled for the last 12 years to do this road Improvement but it turned out that the the the contracts had issues there were certain um auxiliary services that need to be done for the work to continue and it just kind of stayed in limbo well the new guy came in and said we got to get this thing moving he's claiming that they'll have this done mid October wouldn't be surprised this is something that should be a topic one of these days about road construction and I did a clip maybe a couple weeks ago um showing a road crew um it's not enough to do a video so it's just sitting there and I'll include it in something one of these days but here if you got 10 people on a on a road crew working on something you don't have nine people standing around watching the one guy shovel you got 10 people working yeah and so you know maybe they take a break for a minute to drink some cold water or something but they're they're out there they're working and road work goes amazingly fast if you're used to watching it get done in the United States where year after year after year when are they going to finish this damn thing well here it's a matter of now it'll be done in a month or two and they do so um this is good news because the congestion is getting bad all the these po poor Colombians somehow they' managed to come up with enough money to buy a crapload of cars and so the traffic congestion keeps growing all right so that's that headline let me uh if I can manage to do this a little quicker all right here's a headline don't really need to talk much about it but uh in circasia which is just North of me uh they just put in a new water tank a lot of infrastructure work is going on and it will benefit more than 25,000 inhabitants that's a good portion of the part of circasia that's nice it's nice to see a lot and there's actually a lot of them but I I don't want to brow beat you with uh a bunch of tedious tedious things here's another one though new housing for families living in highrisk conditions this is in Kaya this is all in CIO I went buy this the other day um in some of the the risky tin Shacks they're trying to pull people out of it they just built a housing project and they've given the keys to certain families that they you know classify as at risk so the it's not the Taj Mahal as you can see in the photo it's just your typical uh Stratus two or three brick building uh but it's got windows it's it's got doors it's got It's got a roof on it uh it's got electric and it's got plumbing and the you can just imagine the people are tickled pink now this isn't to rent this is they own it and they've got more planned like that so um pretty cool pretty cool and done with that and last thing before I get on with uh any kind of let's see who's there Well everybody's there so that's good um I will save you from those advertising campaigns that you know we played with a couple weeks ago yeah I think it was a couple weeks ago because I have learned more about them they pay squat unless you've got thousands of viewers watching a live stream I get between typically 50 and 100 um and so I can do the advertisement pick up maybe one or two dollars do a couple advertisements maybe three or four if I I hit the jackpot maybe $5 it's not that I'm scoffing at the $5 but the interruption of this and having you guys sit through it uh I don't know that it makes sense so maybe somewhere down the road but it probably isn't going to it probably isn't going to happen it at least for some time um last week we had Paula here and she said that she was going to the Coffee Park to this coffee Exposition that was going on I was going to try to go yesterday but I had to tr get this thing working for today I ended up spending all yesterday and from 4 o'clock until 7 o'clock this morning just to get it function to where we are so I couldn't go so she said that she would send a couple videos of it uh she sent me three I don't know what order there they were in I was in a bit of a rush this morning uh so maybe they're in order but I'm going to I'm going to show it to you uh some will find it interesting some won't I found it interesting and it's about three minutes long so here we go hey hello we are here Ino Cafe at Cafe and this is a um a areia that we have here in Armenia in Montenegro and it's about coffee handcrafts and other kind of things I'm going to show you some of the stand so you can see what's going on in this place I'm representative of different sectors of coffee and coffee products from the region and also typical products hand craftings and representative things from Colombia you see this a coffee Park this is a typical building I represent in um train station so more coffee these are products from the rural areas in Colombia things that a country person would need more coffee coffee brands and their products okay beautiful decorations or elements coffee and also some souvenirs bags and that is the entrance coming from another part of the [Music] park well this is just a view of the fair coffee fair Expo a cafe ah the transportation to go to the entrance of the park these are some Enterprises that are from the region as well from kindo institutes [Music] universities different companies Banks housing projects and these are the locations of the coffee Park this is the typical kindo houses well that part of the park are the places where people can come and look for food after going around the park okay and this is the last part of the fair coffee Fair okay let me show you these are the handcrafts from K so these are all the hand Crafters that are from the region so they show the different things that they produce here we have uh coffee I know Sophia okay uh you say video quality for this segment's really bad yeah that's true um I play it any anyway because if I waited for Perfection I wouldn't be able to put half of the stuff up um it it it's just an issue you know she's there with a cell phone that's probably average in quality uh it was a little shaky who knows what quality cell phone she did it to show something that it's an annual event kind of a big thing uh particularly when it comes to coffee and um you know I thought about it and particularly since since is 3 minutes long but I figure what the hell you know 3 minutes for those that are interested you you have to kind of look past that this is uh you know we're all amateurs maybe I've been doing this for eight years but I've been doing it on a wing in a prayer as a lot of you know that have watched for a long time you know if you saw how some of this stuff is pieced together and uh you know my soldering iron gets a good workout you know we do the best we can I'm I'm constantly trying to improve uh right now going through what I'm going through it's it's a real slip from where I had gotten to but once I get everything ironed out it'll be an improvement on top of that I really want to have a situation where instead of me talking to you for an hour even if the topics are interesting and even if you aren if you're getting a lot of good information out of it I'm not the most exciting person in the world and you know the same same thing same person same voice Cadence the same ums and Oz I'd like to I'd like to break that up a little bit plus there are things to do here and it would be nice if I had somebody else that could kind of carry the load for a minute well I do things without having to stop or hold on and noticeably look down so I you know I want to have a co-host but more than that what I really want to do is if we get into a topic like this next one before before we go go for the day the trucker strike if you guys have something to contribute that you'll be able to come in I can be able to put you up on the screen you could say your piece there could be three four five of you and we could have a conversation about a particular topic I think that would be fun I think it would be interesting of course you know we have to make sure you you got to watch out for trolls and and that kind of thing but they can't just blindly come in I have to accept them so you know it's uh there are some safeguards but that's the direction I'm trying to go with this I'm trying to make it more interesting more entertaining and not only my voice every Sunday now you guys been a lot of you guys have been tuning in for years and so I I don't diminish that it's just that maybe it'll be refreshing for you too um and but when it comes to the co-host the they each I think I think they were each here and in both cases they were quite nervous uh maybe Dan a little more so so than Paula but they were both very nervous and they're also very distracted when your equipment's not working uh they were getting echoes in their earpiece so they had to kind of navigate around that it's very awkward it takes it takes a little while to iron those things out but once you do you find out somebody might have a lot to contribute and so you know I'm looking for people that can do that but and they need a little breathing room to kind of find their legs so you know try to understand uh you know what what I'm what we are all trying to trying to do here uh Owen uh video is okay not complaining I I know you weren't I you you're you letting me know and I appreciate it because I'm always asking you for that but you noticed it I noticed it and I wanted to explain so that you know people that aren't here all the time that only tune in maybe the first time or a few times understand what you know what's going on uh I'm just keeping you informed whenever I see an issue exactly and and and I want you to I invite that um so thank you uh video worthwhile looks fine on a small screen would degrade on a full screen it it was it was pretty bad um particularly every time she moved you you you really kind of lost the the image kind of lost the point of it all but um you know I talked to her how to do that she as far as I know she's never done what she did for me and I asked her to do that while she was there um there's a particular technique that would help improve that and so I'll let her know about that in case it ever comes up again it would be nice to have maybe instead of here in the studio out to one of these events and maybe even do it live you know it's like why don't you check in and give us a f minute report on what you're seeing and show us that hey back up a little bit show me that thing right there what's going on with that' be kind of cool so um that's that's what we're shooting for all right so trucker strike I don't know how many of you live here in Columbia um if you live here in Colombia you may or may not have been aware I wasn't until Turtle yet again he he's that voice on my shoulder I'm not sure which which side though but but he says do you have food in the stores well yeah I just came back from the supermarket and shelves are full why why do you ask he says because here in sakuro we don't have anything we're out it was a mad rush just like uh you know in the US before a snowstorm and everybody goes and buys all the bread and milk and toilet paper he said there's nothing here shelves are bare why what what what next going on and he said that did he tell me or did I look it up maybe I looked it up but I I discovered that there was a trucker strike what was interesting is that same day I had to drive to deal to work up the contract for the coffee processing and some of the things I chase after it's about an hour drive as I'm driving down through the south of armania gas station after gas station had lines that I hadn't seen since 1974 two three blocks long lines lined up at the gas station to get gas and I go what the heck is going on so uh I get out but I'm almost to Kaya and there's a gas station out in the country but it's a big gas station and over on my left I take a look and there's no line there's one or two people there getting gas no problem okay so um I go do my thing I come back and at some point I realized trucker strike I don't remember the timeline but I figur oh it one of the people that was supposed to be at that meeting had to to call in uh as a as a voice call because he was in pareda and because he couldn't buy gasoline he didn't dare take the chance so he had to stay there um so I had half a tank and I figured well there's no line there I don't know what's going on but so let me let me fill it up so I filled up the car and drove back into Armenia coming back in I'm seeing lines again and it turns out there was a trucker strike now here is the basic the basic deal on the trucker strike and if you're in Colombia and you want to argue with me feel free to shoot in your comment be more fun if I get you online but I don't know if we can do that today probably would crash everything but understand that some years ago the petroleum industry was completely privately owned at some point I think it was in the 80s there was um an absorption it's not it's not strictly controlled by the government but you can almost call it a government entity and it's worked out fairly well for everybody involved up until this point now one of the things that they set up was that this is oil compy coming out of the ground of Colombia and this wasn't on private land this is on Colombian people's land can it's like a think of the national park who owns that the people own it so part of provision was that in exchange for them withdrawing the oil from Colombia that people would have you could could say I I hate this word but subsidize prices for gasoline products I don't like the word because if this is something of theirs you're not giving them something you are making them whole out of this agreement so it was their portion it was their cut of this agreement the uh Oil Company they're making their profits everything is great and good then Along Comes this new Pres and you know first thing he did was require cut back on production and you know you've seen it all try to do it here everything starts to collapse and and the uh you know the inflation was really bad at that time it it moderated once they turned the SP it back on a little bit but he wants more power and more control and one of the things that he he wants to do is not only put more things under his thumb for control but the more money he can raise in taxes the more power that's going to give him and so what he wants to do is withdraw the subsidies or actually it's more like install tax on diesel fuel for truckers now as Citizens we've already gone through of a period of every single month there was an increase in gasoline and it's gone up substantially from a year and a half ago it's double the price but individuals just kind of let it pass but here's the truckers who who live on a wing in a prayer as it is and all of a sudden they're getting substantial increases in diesel fuel because we're removing subsidies as though it were some sort of welfare plan but if you go back back and look at what that agreement was the you can hardly call it a welfare plan you would you would really to make it fair you'd have to go back and redo the entire agreement which means you pull the government out of it and then the government's not going to get squat anyway but tangent so the truckers were pretty Furious about it because with all the inflation with everything that's been going on adding substantial amount to their diesel fuel means that every load they're going to break even or lose money so they said the hell with this and they said we're not gonna we're not going to run our trucks for a while now bogat got hit the worst to send a message because this president's from Bogata so they essentially blockaded the city and some other cities they they had trucks at the entrance it made it difficult to get through but it it made itself known because if you you know your trucks aren't running then you're not bringing food deliveries you're not bringing gasoline deliveries to the pump and it was only a matter of a a day or two when it started to break down in areas like where turtle lives he's on one of those main arteries and so they had the actual roadblocks we didn't get the roadblocks we just were getting late deliveries um so everything was still in our stores plus this is C it's we have so much Gran here that that even if trucks didn't come we'd still have food another nice thing about living here because the population wouldn't overwhelm that food supply but he was in a potentially serious situation and so I looked it up I read on it I got kind of pissed off about you know the some of the terminology that was being it made it sound like the government is doing out welfare payments when we all know that government actually owns nothing it all comes from other people but it was the next day I saw this press release and somebody's arms got to be sore from patting himself on the back about how they negotiated this that the other thing and you know respect the rights of such and such and it was all just FL but it was all it was all crap um I don't know how this is going to end up it was it was some half measures guy doesn't tend to honor his agreements anyway so I I I I don't know that we're done with this but outside of gas line for handful of people that didn't expect this to happen and all of a sudden panicked and ran to the gas station um I wouldn't have noticed otherwise so there's that we got here my girlfriend and colleag War made a stock up on the supermarket but we saw no shortages as far as I could tell yeah a lot of what was going on was just like in the US you know storm's coming in 3 days and what happens you know they if you live in the in the north particularly in the Northeast New England area you know we got an ice storm coming the shelves are they're just cleared off locusts run through I think covid was kind of the same thing they always hit up toilet paper first you know it's like they they held it for all these months but now that I'm going to be locked in the house I'm going to take full advantage and have lots of toilet paper on hand I I don't I I don't quite get it but it was it was the same it was the same effect here that was going on all right uh let's see Hugo I love when you interview other people yeah I I actually I like it I prefer it the the the issue is getting people to want to do it um getting people to want to co-host getting people to come on here I've I've previously before I set this up I sent out a number of invitations here inviting you guys to come on and talk about whatever topic you want to talk about um I send you a link you just go on the internet you click on the link and you set your cell phone up so that it's uh this way not this way you set it up and you put it on Prop it on a shelf or something so that it's eye Lev so it's kind of like this this and we're good to go nobody crickets not one I don't know how many times I've asked that but I would say at least three four five times in the last handful of months um so you know getting an interview it's that's an issue too um Edward as a true American I stocked up on toilet paper um I okay you all know because I've told you a million times now I've told you so many things I've never told anybody before but I don't know I what do I got to lose I'm almost 71 now next month so yeah I got to Keel over any day so you know that I grew up dirt poor there was a couple years in my life literally child and Raised by Wolves I mean there's no adult around I had take care of myself I had to hunt and I all all that kind of stuff you already know that well the rest of my life I've had this tendency and I find myself doing it here that whenever I have any extra money it goes into toilet paper to go up on the shelf or toothpaste or uh maybe canned goods or stuff I can stuff in the freezer I always get extras so that if something happen I'm good for a week or two or so on on basic things and maybe a month or so on on things like toilet paper and toothpaste you know so I've done that my entire life I've always needed a lot more storage space because I just do that it's because when you grow up in that situation you treasure having those things and you do everything you can to make sure that uh you will keep having those things so um you know so I I get it it's just I never have to run and do that because I do it every every week month whenever I go shopping okay any any other comments I think we're about out of time today um girl oh um one person wrote in the the turtle I'm assuming to help with that that little girl um let me put my I met some colombianas here who speak English well I plan to do some recorded interviews sure that'd be cool I I've done some um I did several um three or four University Cal uh English students in the past it's just they they're few and far between they're they're difficult to to nail down um let me let's see here we go so there's my email if you want to send me an email I can put you in contact with Turtle if you want to give him a give him a hand and um let's see and something else here media oh yeah my QR code that's uh been playing around putting different on different websites because I had to have a QR code for the for the coffee bag so I come up with this one you might want to take a look it's got um my regular website it's Got U the coffee website it's got the coffee Time Tours it's got a bunch of things if you click on this it comes up on your phone this this little app with these links on it anyway um last call for any uh comments any chats and after the last call give it a minute or two we'll sign off for the day oh oh oh it's football Sunday buffo bills are playing I think they're playing five or 10 minutes whatever whatever time it is um I don't have my clock set up here so no matter what go bills all right don't see any other comments thank you all um if you're of a mind please contribute I I definitely need it this month uh I had to go out of pocket and that pocket's getting kind of dry because I've had to cover all these other things so um if you do very grateful and some of you already do all right so we'll end it here thank you very much for tuning in I've got new equipment that's supposed to come be coming in on the 13th if so hopefully hopefully I'll get past all this walking on eggshell stuff and I'll be curious to see how this turned out I I'll replay it when I'm done I'm I'm guessing it probably came out pretty decent but enough of that I'll see you next week ciao [Music]