Disaster Coffee is BACK!!

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: December 2019, my family and I strewn across the couch watching home alone.

[00:00:25] [SPEAKER_00]: When I get a notification on my phone that the first bag of disaster coffee has been delivered to my mailbox.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Supply drop, our breakfast blend had arrived at the start of the company.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It was upon us just before Christmas.

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That led to a journey that turned into a mission and became our way of putting out the best coffee in the world for a good cause.

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Making money, creating our own sponsor for the Prepper Broadcasting Network when no one else would sponsor us.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And now it's bloomed in there's much more.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's bloomed into much more.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: What you're going to hear in the podcast that come is all kinds of stuff really.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to hear talk about the future of disaster coffee, the new ownership.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to hear about our new coffees that are set to hit the market.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And since the recording of the podcast two of them are already for sale, you can go to disastercuffie.com right now and get the black pumpkin.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You can go to disastercuffie.com and get f5 our new Ethiopian natural powerful powerful coffees.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Great for this time of year.

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Check them out.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You can hear from Phil, Ravale and Andrew Bova as we discuss how the three way ownership of disaster coffee came to be.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: How they stepped into the fold and it become partial owners of the business now.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And what we envision for the future, we got big plans folks.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: We got much more to deliver to you but listen to our conversation and we're back.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? So visit disastercuffie.com.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Well let's start with that.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's start with when I approached you guys about joining the business, becoming a part of the business in a big way.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was going to say that you know, third of the ownership between the three of us.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: What was the motivation?

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Was it the fact that it's damn good coffee that you had a matter of fact's blend already or was it something more than that?

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_02]: What?

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Going ahead and rage for beauty.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So basically, I know, I think I know I approached you James.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I know we James and I, you and I talked quite a bit about the coffee company and stuff like that.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't remember exactly the conversation that we are having but I know I pitch the idea of hey let's team up.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's see what you know basically hey disaster coffee.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: We love coffee being part of PBM being part of the network being part of.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_01]: The preparedness community disaster coffee fits right there with our values of the just the type, the type of.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Pairness because again it goes with like on current years thing of what's your zombie.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: We have all these different coffees that are multiple different zombies and so I just like that idea of that and so when James and I went back and forth on the idea and we're like hey this is kind of cool.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I was like well fills a coffee nerd bigger coffee nerd than I am and I feel like it's only right would only be right to include him.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And James that you are all in board with that too and so that's then I pitch the idea to I believe Phil about hey what do you think about doing this and yeah, so I don't know spend I don't have any months now.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_01]: A couple months at least three months or so of back and forth and figure stuff out.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean it's definitely been a full court press for the last few months to take down the website do a massive overhaul on it.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: For me to rip apart all James sales reports and everything and try to see where everything was because I mean like you know when the two of you all approached me like my history with coffee goes back to like being eight years old when I started drinking coffee.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh wow for me it isn't yet coffee for me is not a it's not a casual acquaintance it's more like mandatory you know a mandatory chemical to get me out of bed in the morning.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's also the reason why you know the idea like the idea of disaster coffee for me has always been synonymous with comfort like.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: You know I can remember working five hours week going school full time what I was still in college and coffee was a comfort to me because you know when you're working night shifts and you're working overnight and you're falling on falling asleep on your feet.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_02]: A cup of coffee can just put a little bit of wind in your sales get through the shift or when you're up late at night doing homework after you've already worked you know 20 hours.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_02]: That coffee can get you through and even a military deployments you know like coffee for me has been my ever present comfort in hard times.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And I see it the same way when we're talking about natural disasters or preparedness there's a reason we don't plan to run out of coffee if there's a hurricane or a tornado or a flood because.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Coffee is my comfort I like to have my comfort I like my wife to have her comfort so for me coffee goes hand in hand with any kind of preparedness because.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a comfort to me and you cannot put a price on comfort when you're having a bad day.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But as far as getting into disaster coffee like James I've always loved the mission statement I've always loved the fact that she'll try to cut loose some of the profits to go back to disaster preparedness disaster response I've always appreciated.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of like the tongue in cheek humor involved with naming some of these problems and and it like the whole the whole company everything about it from image to.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The way it's run just appealed to me so when the two of y'all came to me and said hey what do you think I was I was all in.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: At that point it was really just you know my heart was in it I just had to do the usual cold hearted business guy thing is look at okay what's the business doing where does it need to go what can I offer.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Which turned into me interrogating you about you know all the nerdy background business stuff but.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I need to three was well, but I feel like the three of us.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the three of us have come up with a good plan to move company forward. I think the three of us each offer something that the other two don't.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's that's the key for a partnership it's not for one person where all the hats is for each person to do with their really good ad and all for if your efforts contribute you know to work towards the common good.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you guys I hope you appreciate the fact that like one of my biggest goals this year was.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been over all things that I oversee was I want to ask for help and.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't know if this is the way it is for you guys but people are nice mostly who I deal with and they want to help.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't necessarily want them to help a lot of times because I know I'm busy they are you know to me so it's like.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I get what you're doing and I appreciate it but this year I really wanted to like get help like the way that a proper entrepreneur should you know what I mean.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And you guys are just you know you made that goal come true for me by joining forces with me and I really appreciate that because now we're going to be able to do so much more with this company than I was able to do solo.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's huge that's huge for me.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah well that you know that entrepreneurial spirit and that spirit of self reliance can be a double edge towards sometimes because.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You want to do it all by yourself you don't want to have to ask for help but you know like when I was when I was young and I was still like working through is an automatic.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I was like I'm a mechanic my dad my dad told me he said the difference between a good mechanic and a great mechanic and this told true for a lot of things.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_02]: A good mechanic can fix almost anything.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_02]: A great mechanic knows when he's in over his head and ask for help so that's the difference between good and great to me is when you know like hey I.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_02]: This is outside of my skill level I don't have this skill set I need a partner I need a you need a fellow sociopath in the yard to help me get through this.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's which like that's what you did it wasn't a it wasn't like throwing the white flag and mission failure it was a YouTube both no stuff I don't let's the three of us pull our resources.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and I could see like the glimmer in your guys eyes with disaster coffee for years now you know what I mean the you with the bunker beans fill I mean you spearheaded that and turn that into a thing I didn't even know it was going to become before you were a part of the company.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And and Andrew you've had always been pushing to create these new coffees you've been on the on on the backside of things talking about getting a sunk or Andy coffee going.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope and you guys you know the matter of fact is one of the best of it that French rose is one of the best coffees we have period so it's it's all you're always linger in there in my mind like you know what what's the next thing to do these guys I think might be the next thing to do so it was cool to see it all come come together.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah I agree and it I'm glad that it's finally coming together after just the you know like a few months of.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say rebranding but a few months of on the website down bounce ideas up with you guys what do we want to do for logos what do you want to you know what what all do we want to do.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And just trying to take the the company to the next step and making it a better coffee company then I mean it's already a great coffee company because like I the coffee tastes great I just finished the bad I just finished the bag of the dark humor and I just opened up a bag of pandemic.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_01]: So that was actually what was in my cup this morning and so yeah just I you know what can we do more so you know more okay so different coffee so we got I think.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: We have three new coffees in the works right now not including the one that I'm trying to work with on corandion and we're actually expanding into tea.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want a couple flavors of tea so we're just got to get those that stuff finalized as far as labels and stuff like that.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And so and then merch you know we've teamed up with Southern Gales merch that helps with the matter facts and raising values podcast we teamed up with them to do some merch now.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm working on getting some mugs made by them to hopefully have a proper camp but hopefully we can get I know it's been kind of short notice I'm hoping they can we can finalize everything and then they can get me the mugs before.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I leave on the 25th but still though having that idea of having merch I mean merch is something that can definitely push I like I told you guys multiple times I think is.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Like the the brand imaging is I is key and I love the disaster coffee look I love the parachute with the coffee mug and.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I want that to be known worldwide that when people see even if it's just the parachute with the coffee mug I want people to think disaster coffee.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And and that kind of goes into our future plans of wanting to be able to drop ship a pallet I think that's not a pallet coffee but if a crap ton of coffee to a disaster zone of whether it's with bear independent when he takes you know grindstone ministries.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_01]: When they when they go into a disaster if we can supply them with coffee if we can supply other things with coffee I mean that's on our radar like what we would like to do.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I know and it's right now it might not be something that we can do but I think we can get there and so I'm hoping we can you know do like then you know between the three of us having some promotional stuff I have ideas of like some little mini commercials that I'd like to maybe we can knock them out during prepper camp I think that'd be fun to try to work on but yeah I mean I think between the three.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: With our powers combined you know we are captain planet.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah we need power rings yeah I think I can make that happen.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: You know so I think things with this with the company so I'm kind of curious it's going to be fun it's something more that I just want to get into and it's another hobby that sparks my interest so.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and with you talking about the new products are coming online like what I really want to because I'm apparently the the day I'm the home road home coffee roasting nerd in the bunch.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And like I at this point I for those I've taken bunker beans and I for those of them everything from like literally what they call white coffee which is incredibly light all the way to.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically looking like it crawled at a hell like.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: On the verge of burnt and I burnt a couple of batches trying to figure out where the limitations are but like what I really want to do is I want to try to encourage the customers out there.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: To not think of bunker beans as I buy a couple of bags I stick in a bucket and I leave it there until the apocalypse.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: But to really consider the fact that like much like most things in preparedness this you have to we have to roast the coffee to be able to consume it.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Coffee roasting is a skill set if you don't practice it a little here and there you're never going to get good at it and you're going to wind up from personal experience burning a whole bunch of beans trying to figure out how.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So I would like to see if I can convert some of those bunker beans customers into people that roast their own coffee at home it is not rock and surgery.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean I've got to set up that.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You know it's the side burner on a gas grill in a $50 pot and off a Amazon and it.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: It makes perfectly respectable coffee I drank every day I've been hate say James but like I haven't bought a bag of ground coffee from disaster in over a year.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I buy bunker beans every time I need them and I've got three bags that back there on the shelf behind me and I just keep on bulking up but.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: You know to me like coffee roasting it's.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a way to make the absolute fresh coffee you can get at home for folders price.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It is a way to practice that skills that you're going to need if you ever want to turn those bunker beans into something drinkable and it's a fun hobby.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean just something to you know it doesn't take it's not a huge time investment it's not huge money investment it just takes time and willingness to learn how to do it.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm hoping that if I start to make content and if I start to rise in articles we can find some place to host the website.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we can get people to look at bunker beans is something more than just stick it it stick it in a mile our bag in the garage and forget about it.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Well but the two is I really I go on off of that one of the things we talked about was educational content and that's the one thing that we do have a little we do have a little bit of a thing on the bottom of the page.

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually I wouldn't mind making like having a full page dedicated to different video whatever it is but having a place not just a coffee company but somewhere where people can come here can that they go to the disaster coffee website and they are interested in in.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: So having the ability to come to our website and eventually I like I would like it to see it get once we do more experimenting and be nice to actually have maybe some product that we can find either local made that we can put on the website or whatever but having that ability to where we can sit there and say okay here's a website or here's a video of fill.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay this is these are the projects you need right from Amazon here you go this is what you want if you want something a little bit more this is what you can get and eventually build it up to where it can go from just beginner intro to hate you need these just to get started to alright this is a little bit more advanced but here you go.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: to making to do your coffee and so having that ability to have that educational content I think is also huge and I hope that helps people out in the longer range especially not just disaster relief or disaster something happens your power goes out and you want coffee and you're like well crap I can't.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: what having the ability to show different ways of roasting coffee different ways of grinding coffee different ways of then brewing the coffee I mean there's ton of different ways of doing the coffee so having all that in one spot so people can come and see it is I think is great and that kind of throws it out there with the the proper camp if anybody's listening to this and you're going to proper camp.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_01]: keep keep I guess in tune but there might be a classroom to that build is going to be doing for showing off doing that so.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: not to put it on the spot but that with educational start so.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah I mean if you're coming up proper camp come come see us and hopefully we'll talk about possibly the class or something so.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah it won't be one of like this sanction proper camp classes it'll probably be the disaster coffee booth but that's what we've discussed is I'm going to bring my home roasting setup and.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_02]: see if I can wrangle some might from the audience to be my assistant because if I try to do and talk at the same time one or the other is going to stop.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: my eight my ADHD is really good at doing one thing really really you know really impressively at a time not doing two things equally.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_01]: well what I'm hoping to do too is just have I mean you had so the idea is to have you doing you know maybe around noon or so each all three days having.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_01]: to do like a small little class or a small something just to get somebody interested and hopefully get people interested in doing this up to the home roasting but.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to bring I'm going to bring some of my own book her beans and I mean while we're sitting there talking to public talking to whoever.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I might actually I might kind of throw in and try to see if I can't roast you know hey I want a cup of coffee and just maybe roast something up and see what happens and.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean but that's the thing though is like the educational side of this is really to what kind of got me interested in doing this because when we when we first did the website and then fill had the he has a video of doing some roasting already.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that was one key thing that we kind of all agreed on agreed on was educational content so hopefully you know more that to come to.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: So but I mean if anybody if you have any ideas of what you'd like to see as far as education content or whatever let us know and we'll definitely try to make a happen.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So why don't we go over some of the new stuff and then you guys give me sort of your thoughts on it or anything along those lines because I'm sure that people listening want to know.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what's coming that's new.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And it looks like what what will hit first and hopefully we'll hit by Monday the ninth will be two coffees.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: One was a recommendation from you Bobo you really enjoyed the Ethiopian horror which sounds so fancy.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And we we call the Ethiopian horror are F five and created a great label for it.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: People are going to dig it people are going to appreciate it in a according to you man this thing hits like a freight train right.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah I mean I don't know.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it maybe it was the fact that I made the entire sample pack and the one small pot of coffee is what it did but just.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah hit hard and honestly like in that I didn't even drink the whole thing I mean I drink the whole pot basically over time, but yeah I mean the first couple coffee like it hit hard it was good taste a great.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually trying to look up the.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_00]: What the oh don't work well when I tasted it the strangest part of it to me and I like strange coffees for sure but the strangest part of it for me was sort of and I didn't realize it was Barry Barry is one of the wreck you know one of the one of the flavor prolifer profiles what I got more which is basically a Barry was almost like a tomatoy.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But you really I mean I don't think I've ever tasted that in a coffee before and it was it's just it's reminded me the first time I drank our category six which was a single origin from Sumatra and it was that same kind of like I don't know if I've ever had a coffee taste like this before.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_02]: It was definitely like that.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So question because I wasn't intimately involved with that coffee was that that in the Ethiopian was that a light roast.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So the the Ethiopian as a medium to light.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, oh light roast I mean light roast generally have more caffeine.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah but James for you and for the listeners I think what you're tasting when you said you tasted tomato it was probably the acidity and that's going to be characteristic of a medium light roast.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's what it is that could have been yeah spoke it's a MMR roast.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to kill the audience with it right now but like I will I will put out some content at some point where I talk about like the variances and roasting and what that does because with anyone individual being profile whether it's a mixer or a single origin.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_02]: How darkly you roast it has an enormous effect on the flavor and you will you will do things like you'll taste oh this tastes kind of tomatoy even those it's the acidity hitting like the back.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Your tongue or you'll get more into like the smokey bitterness if you dark roast it so that's I'm not going to be the call for nerd on this episode but like if that just jumped as soon as you said to me to we jump down to that make.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no I'm sorry it so it is it's the Ethiopian hardhars on medium roast but it's very honey and chocolate is the profile on it.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_01]: So but I mean being a medium roast though it does hit pretty hard and so when James and I were kind of going back and forth on names it was just we settled on f5 just because I mean it was it hit hard I mean I my heart I could feel.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_01]: The acting it I feel like I mean my my heart rate escalated so yeah it was it was good I really.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed it so.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a path one for sure yeah so you said the Brazilian.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah the Brazilian I like the Brazilian a lot man that's that's a great region for coffee that that south of somebody calling me.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not feels number.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: No random person calling calling in probably.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway yeah the Brazilian was great the idea for the name was great with the Brazilian I really dug that if you want to unveil that Andrew because that was kind of your baby.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Monthslide was is the Brazilian coffee title and I at first I at first we were I was thinking months lied I had months lied settled for the name of the Ethiopian but I don't know f5 just seen more fitting with the Ethiopian how just how hard it hit and then obviously.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Natural disasters the f5 tornadoes I mean the largest tornado on the on the scale so the way it hits and how powerful this but yeah months lied just yeah the you know it's just one of those things where I mean if you want to go to graphic with it.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: You know the what coffee does the human body and what what makes.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_01]: But let's slide I mean it's a profile on is a smooth cup with a cocoa no it's a medium roast.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_01]: But to me it just was smooth.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It was it like to me it was like you know obviously mudslides if you watch them they're kind of elegant away the way when if you watch them you know kind of take out trees and stuff and how it happens it's pretty crazy nature.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's pretty elegant to if you watch it and then just Brazil we kind of decided to stick because there were some months lied so that happened in Brazil.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And obviously they happened worldwide but it was kind of fitting to but yeah no though I just like the idea for some reason I mean when you when I were talking like f5 popped up.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_01]: And then and then the mudslides like the way they kind of were like hey this you know good idea and everything so yeah those are the two the two titles of the two new coffee flavors we have one more.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah we're doing a seasonal number another season also now we have.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got our fourth July coffee it's one of our seasonals we've got a Christmas coffee the Christmas hook of course to match the book.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And now we've got our Halloween club we bent the need of pumpkin spice let's call it what it is.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got it.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_02]: We've got it.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Well here's the thing though that I'm interested in.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't really occur to me until after we were far down the path so it's not like I was like oh I figured it all out.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: We're calling it the black pumpkin and it is a pumpkin-spiced coffee but it's just the coffee.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And in my head when I think of pumpkin-spiced things I think of whipped cream and foam and you know powder on top.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So fundamentally I guess what it's gonna I guess what's within it is probably the pumpkin spice just black coffee.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So because I don't drink a lot of flavor coffees I don't know what tonne about flavored black coffees like I'll drink a crazy Starbucks sugar cookie latte with my wife at Christmas time.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I like that but I don't drink a lot of flavor coffees but the pumpkin spice seems to be like something that I would want to work with this time of year because of the fact that like I said it's not a it's not a 1100 calorie drink.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's still just coffee with spices and I don't know it's it's not something I thought I'd ever do until I really wrap my head around the fact that it's you know we're dealing with something that isn't it isn't a what do you call it you know like a frappe still just still just a couple black coffee.

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean we got I mean I'm sure we got people who like this pumpkin spice so let's learn about it actually I'm gonna see what to make you that has to say.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: about the actual uh because I'm sure it's I'm sure it's a mix.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a medium roast.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they're already.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah it's a medium roast and then just has flavor coffee all natural flavoring I don't know exactly what more they might have on their website but.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I feel a and that's another thing too is kind of like want wanting to go is to make you all has been really good to us they've got some really great coffee notes golf coffee flavors that seems like they're always trying to expand their coffee that they provide to us.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean down the road I wouldn't mind looking around and pairing with another company like stay with the make you love but try to pair with another one if possible.

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean eventually like I would I have dreams of wanting to get big enough to where we start you know roasting our own coffee that'd be awesome but what's way way way way down the road but no it's over the pumpkin spice which so pumpkin spice and the pumpkin spice and the Ethiopian blend will be the two at launch.

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Brazil the Brazilian blend the Brazilian coffee actually will probably be shortly after and then obviously the coffee that we decided because I don't know we've.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Barol big fans of on corandy and I really it's been talked about for ever since we started this conversation really we're like James I mean you were all on I mean before station started actually like you were all about doing a.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Last proper camp really we're all great ideas are born.

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah right when we really started talking about it.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah no exactly so I so I know I got the I know he had a sample pack delivered to him the other day.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to touch a base with them figure out what flavor he liked and what kind of go off of there but hopefully by prepper camp will have his flavor.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm ready to go and hopefully maybe I can try to get some a bag or two to bring with me but yeah so.

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And then tea we've found it by I believe it's Mr Jordan there.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_01]: She's been pounding you for a long time on doing and so we actually settled on two teas one of them is a Earl Grey tea and then another one as a Jasmine tea which do we want to say the name of the Jasmine tea on on here.

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I already said it on the podcast a couple days ago because I was having some in the morning and it is phenomenal man I mean that Jasmine tea is outrageous.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah it's good it's kind of funny that you had it in the morning since it's more it's kind of.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But so the Jasmine tea we are naming we're kind of going to different route with the the teas.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_01]: We want to still stick with kind of like disasters but we're thinking maybe maybe like man made disasters possibly but the one that we settled with the Jasmine tea is EMP.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I just because it knocks your butt out so.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's out from those Jasmine blossoms but yeah I used to drink tea long before I drank coffee.

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't believe it but there was a time when I wouldn't at touch coffee I wouldn't touch it I wouldn't take a free coffee off you.

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But kids had an effect and before then I used to drink tea.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to fancy myself a china town tracking Philadelphia boy who drank tea like he got in the restaurants there and this one.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_00]: This one is a standout man well and I shouldn't be surprised because the coffee's a standout so of course they have to imagine with the tea Earl Grey's one of my favorite I haven't tried it yet.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to offer the Earl Grey to I can't even imagine you know how good that's going to be that could that could divide my coffee drinking into some tea drinking because I did be honest I what I like most about tea this is so homosexual but what I like most about tea is like the the accoutre man you know what I mean like I like the cool tea pots and I like the tea cups and I like the.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe we'll have a tea party one day boys.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm I mean I probably brings like my tea stuff to a proper camp and just try to.

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Boyle some water and I mean the the the tea is loose leaf.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So they do not offer it in bags as of right now but that's something other that's something on the website also that we're trying to figure out is how to offer so basically if you come to the website our goal is to.

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_01]: If you buy some little loose leaf tea if you're first time buying or not familiar with loosely again having some educational content on there possibly about it or.

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Or and under some of the merchant stuff is maybe having some mugs available like the are the tea cups or the tea that you know how to brew them the cages that you can get and stuff like that it'd be nice stop shop.

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one stop shop so you buy the tea and then because that's a thing is like I've never I drank some tea in the past but I mean but it's mostly just tea bags so loosely was very different for me.

[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I like the taste a lot better of loosely than the tea bags.

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But the idea that you know I had to go online and do some do some searching around and yeah I found some stuff that I liked but having the idea that if we can get something that is.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like the idea of like that Amazon yeah it's great but everything is China so I would really like to try to if I.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You know one of us three can find somebody local to where we can make some custom team logs or something like that I think that would be really cool so.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I know future goals is kind of like what we want but yeah so the Earl Grey name is still pending trying to figure out what we want to do with that but that's a good morning blend.

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_01]: It I've had that in the morning quite a few times and it definitely kick starts today it's it's good.

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and we've got several other tea opportunities so probably keep growing the tea inventory they got a chai they got a thing to get a straight up green tea if I'm not mistaken.

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The Jasmine is mixed with green tea and it's it's done really well so tons of stuff man it's just you know we got we we've got the team now and you know it's just just the grind you know the daily grind from here on out.

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But yet it's going to be it's going to be sweet there's no doubt about it and I really appreciate you guys.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Jumping on board this thing with me because I just don't know you know I have no idea how far disaster coffee can go if I have it my way.

[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_00]: We will be parachuting a pallet of coffee into a disaster area. I mean that would that would be a milestone for me is to be able to see one of these hurricanes ripped through the community and the way that we do our part is to.

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know kick one of these things out of a small by plane with a parachute attached to it people go look there's a disaster coffee and hand it out by you know emergency management or whatever.

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so we have for sure no big plans so I mean the biggest thing is to stick around hopefully we can.

[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah keep moving forward and just keep growing the company because I would definitely like to see disaster coffee grow to something bigger than what we're doing now.

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean obviously everything has to start somewhere. I mean if you look at every coffee company they've all started somewhere. I mean every company has but the coffee companies and I just want us to do something different than just so coffee and a t-shirt.

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_01]: So I definitely that's why I'm I'm wrong bored with especially the disaster relief is let's if I would love to get to the point where we can provide coffee.

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot to first responders and stuff so.

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_02]: It was fair in mind apple apple started in garage.

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So and now we're doing a 40% of pockets worldwide.

[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess what I'm saying is like I've no doubt we'll get there because we have I feel like we have the right team place we have the will and the vision and it really at this point it really is just you know I feel like we have the product line we just have to educate our customer base and explain to them.

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Why throw your dollars into this hat instead of one of a quite a few other hats that they could.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But I think I think once we can get like once sip of that coffee into their mouth that's it. We don't have we don't have to sell them anything is just here.

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah agreed and you know you don't even got to get it in their mouth you get it in the mailbox and it's that that was one of the first things it blew me away when I was tasting coffee from various roasters to figure out what I was going to do a disaster coffee went to mechulous coffee came.

[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I smelled it on my way to the box and then I opened it up and I said oh it broke.

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought the packaging broke.

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like this company ain't going to do good because their package must be shit and then I opened it up and I said oh this is just insane oh oh and here's another I'll rep mention this many times before but it's worth mentioning.

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I put the coffee in the top of the cupboard next to some open almonds. So I just got it didn't even open it put it up there next to the almonds the almonds tasted like coffee.

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The next day or a couple days after whatever it was the sliced almonds had been purfumed with the coffee that's how strong this stuff is.

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy that the smell on it but that's what makes it so damn good I guess.

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah agree.

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: All right gentlemen everybody feel good.

[00:37:21] Yeah.

[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay yeah like I said I'm looking forward to prep or camp I'm looking forward to seeing you know how a cap of audience responds to you know a couple classes on how to roast coffee how they respond to the new products that are coming out.

[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just I'm looking forward to it man. I think the next couple of months is going to be going to be a lot of bootleather smack in the pavement but I look forward to it.

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You and me both man and I really appreciate you guys it's a it's a big deal you know what I mean we're taking the next step with a business that was started right here.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And now it becomes a part of your life and that's you know that's what life is all about that's the things that you remember so September 9th folks this will drop at least on my end before then so September 9th go to disaster coffee dot com check out the new website and dig in.