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Cowboy coffee has always been about more than what’s in the cup. We’re digging into the history of cowboy coffee, what people get wrong about making it, and why coffee was such an important part of life around the chuck wagon. We also look back at the simple cowboy coffee video that reached more than 6.7 million people and became an unexpected part of our story. From cowboys and Arbuckles’ coffee to today’s coffee-shop culture, why do generations keep gathering around a cup of coffee? And what does the phrase “let’s have coffee” really mean?
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Kent Rollins
Cowboy Cooking, Cast Iron, Outdoor Cooking, Grilling, Dutch Oven Cooking
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0:00
What do you think that cowboy in the
0:03
1880s would have done when he had
0:06
ordered a cup at Starbucks and looked at
0:08
the menu?
0:09
>> First of all, he'd have passed out. You
0:11
know, I'll tell you the first time I
0:13
ever bought coffee at Starbucks. I'm
0:16
used to cafe coffee from home. 50 cents
0:19
get you a cup of coffee.
0:20
>> Oh. Oh, welcome to Starbucks.
0:22
>> And refills was free. Guy said, "Uh,
0:25
what do you need?" I said, "I just need
0:26
a cup of coffee." And he said, "What
0:29
size?"
0:30
>> Oh, no. He's giving you like the tall
0:32
grande venty.
0:33
>> Yeah. All them words.
0:38
[music]
0:41
Howdy. My name is Kent Rollins. I've
0:44
been a cowboy [music] and a chuck wagon
0:45
cook for over 30 years, cooking for
0:48
ranches all across America.
0:49
>> [music]
0:49
>> You might have seen me on the Food
0:51
Network or alongside my beautiful wife,
0:53
Shannon, on our YouTube show where we
0:55
share cowboy cooking from the trail, but
0:57
now we're going to take you behind the
0:59
scenes [music] to real campfire
1:01
conversations. Join us as we share
1:03
humor, cowboy wisdom, and stories
1:05
[music] full of history, heart, faith,
1:08
and of course, a little fire. So, grab
1:10
you a cup of coffee, pull up a chair,
1:12
and welcome to [music] the podcast.
1:19
Ken, before we begin this episode,
1:21
>> Yes, ma'am.
1:22
>> I have a little something to bring up to
1:23
our viewers. All right. Because I
1:25
noticed in I think it's been a a couple
1:28
episodes ago, I think it was our 7
1:29
million follower episode. So, before the
1:33
episode, I'm getting ready and I noticed
1:35
that one of my nails had popped off.
1:38
>> Oh, yes. Got some comments.
1:39
>> And I thought, it's no big deal. Like,
1:41
nobody will notice. Oh, no. There were
1:45
several comments. Oh, location, you look
1:47
great, but by the way, you've got a nail
1:48
missing. [laughter]
1:49
>> So, I just want to make a mention. You
1:51
guys are extremely
1:53
uh observant. Yes. On all of our things.
1:56
I thought it was just more like on our
1:58
cooking show, but no, you do it in
1:59
>> That is good. They keep us on our toes
2:01
>> in our podcast as well. So, anyway, just
2:03
a little shout out. Thank you all for
2:05
keeping me for my fashion faux and
2:08
keeping me in Phaua.
2:09
>> Yeah, keeping me in check.
2:10
>> What is a fauxpaw?
2:11
>> It's an a mistake. So, you have to show
2:13
up. See, I've got all my nails today.
2:15
[laughter]
2:15
>> I'll learn some.
2:16
>> Hey, but anyway. Okay, so this episode
2:18
we're talking about when we were
2:20
starting this EP this podcast venture.
2:23
Why did we call it Cowboy Coffee Hour?
2:26
And there's actually quite a bit bigger
2:28
story behind that. It's not just
2:30
something that like, hey, this sounds
2:32
good. Let's go with it. It's actually a
2:34
significant part of our brand and our
2:35
story, right?
2:36
>> Yes, ma'am. Uh, you know, we did you did
2:38
a put a short out not long ago with
2:42
making Creek Bank coffee in Montana and
2:44
it blowed people away, you know. Uh, but
2:47
it's coffee. It's been around forever,
2:52
>> you know. And, uh, I'm going to paint a
2:54
picture here in a little bit of what a
2:56
morning looks like on a ranch when we
2:58
get started.
2:59
>> But how many of you viewers out there
3:02
start your day off? you get up and you
3:04
think first place I'm headed coffee pot
3:07
>> coffee is so ingrained and so like in
3:10
this episode we're not only going to
3:12
just talk about the history of cowboy
3:13
coffee how it's impacted our lives the
3:16
one video that kind of changed
3:18
everything for us
3:20
>> and also what cowboy coffee culture and
3:24
coffee culture in general is now. So,
3:26
I'm I'm actually really excited about
3:28
this episode
3:29
>> and because it's something that's near
3:31
and dear to my heart anyway because I
3:32
love coffee, but to uh have a bunch of
3:36
cowboys look forward every morning, not
3:39
only to have another day that God has
3:41
given us, but they head straight to that
3:43
coffee pot. You know,
3:44
>> before we even get into it, this is
3:46
where I want to start.
3:47
>> All right.
3:48
>> How people are getting cowboy coffee
3:51
wrong.
3:52
>> Yes, ma'am.
3:52
>> Because you get a lot of this, right?
3:54
So, like you'll get a lot of comments
3:56
like, "Oh, I know cowboy coffee. It's
3:58
you take it in a sock, right?" Or like
4:00
what are all the different wrong ways?
4:02
>> Well, for years and years, people would
4:05
tell me, "Hey, I've had this cowboy
4:08
coffee and it's really got a bad rap to
4:10
start with because it's stout that
4:13
people think it's like pudding. When you
4:14
pour it in a cup, it'll break
4:16
something."
4:17
>> Wasn't like even in old westerns, the
4:18
whole the the thing was, oh, it's stout
4:21
enough to
4:22
>> float a horseshoe.
4:22
>> Yeah. Yeah.
4:23
>> Like that's not something that I want to
4:25
have.
4:25
>> No, I mean it's I want coffee to be
4:27
good. People would I'd be on a ranch
4:29
somewhere or some old-timer would come
4:31
up to me and say, "Yeah, we used to make
4:32
that coffee, you know." I said, "Well,
4:34
it's pretty good coffee." Uh,
4:37
>> you use a sock? I said, "What? A sock?"
4:40
I said, "I got some on my feet today."
4:42
"No, no, we put them coffee grounds in a
4:45
sock, tie it up, throw it in there." I
4:47
said, "Who wore the sock before you put
4:48
the coffee grounds in it?" And I
4:50
[clears throat] think technically that
4:51
is called hobo coffee
4:53
>> in a way. Yeah.
4:54
>> Right. And that was kind of more popular
4:56
in the Great Depression area if I'm if
4:58
I'm correct.
4:58
>> And uh a lot of people would put it in
5:00
like a just a little mesh sack that was
5:02
really fine that maybe you'd run a se
5:05
through or something like that just to
5:06
hold the grounds in there. And then
5:08
people would say, "Oh, no, no, Kent.
5:10
You're doing it all wrong. You got to
5:12
crack an egg and put in there."
5:13
>> I've heard a lot of the egg method. And
5:16
so what is that? Well, when your coffee
5:19
is done, you know, and you've boiled it
5:20
and you crack the egg and you put it in
5:22
there, eggs going to sink the bottom,
5:24
take all grounds with you. I like eggs
5:26
and coffee. I do. But I don't want them
5:29
together in the same deal.
5:30
>> Right.
5:31
>> If you make cowboy coffee, right, you
5:33
don't need a filter. You don't need a
5:35
sock. And your eggs can stay on the
5:37
plate.
5:37
>> I think that's what surprises people the
5:39
most is when you've made co cowboy
5:41
coffee or even when people are making it
5:43
at home, it's not bitter and stout. And
5:46
in fact, you say this a lot. The reason
5:48
is when you boil coffee that hard and
5:51
for about a five minute period, it's
5:54
reducing the acid. So a lot of people
5:55
who can't drink coffee because it upsets
5:58
their stomach are able to drink.
5:59
>> You break down the tannin in the bean
6:01
which gets rid of the acid. And a lot of
6:03
people say, "Well, you done burn it. You
6:04
know, you don't bother long. You burn
6:06
it." If you watch our videos or you
6:09
listen today, you're fixing to have
6:12
yourself the best cup of coffee in the
6:14
world. And without getting too technical
6:16
on the spec the step-by-step recipe
6:18
because we have that on our website and
6:20
we have videos on how to do it because
6:22
after this episode, I want you all to go
6:25
and make yourself
6:26
>> some cowboy coffee if you haven't. The
6:29
whole premise is you start with water.
6:31
You throw in the grounds. You boil it a
6:34
hard rolling boil 5 minutes. Let it set
6:37
for a second. The biggest trick is cold
6:40
water at the end. That settles all the
6:42
grounds. You've got a great cup. Yeah.
6:44
So, do you remember when did you make
6:46
your first batch of cowboy coffee?
6:48
>> I remember having my first taste of it
6:51
with an old fell down there south of
6:53
Hollis on the river named Bill Pagey was
6:55
a raccoon hound hunter. I mean, he
6:58
had more old hounds and you he always
7:00
want to start about 10 o'clock at night
7:02
then you hunt all night, you know.
7:04
>> So, you're going to need your coffee,
7:05
right?
7:06
>> Yeah. 10 or 11 years old, you know, and
7:07
you'd get down to river and he'd turn
7:09
all them dogs loose. He's always had
7:11
this old big folders can, you know, one
7:15
of them hold a gallon of coffee and he
7:18
had it had a hole in it. Had a little
7:20
snap and he had it on his belt. Carried
7:22
it.
7:23
>> Have coffee, we'll travel.
7:24
>> I didn't even know what it's for. You
7:26
know, we'd get out there and them dogs
7:27
strike a strike a scent, you know, and
7:29
they'd go to bay and way off out there
7:30
in the distance. He'd say, "Well, time
7:32
makes coffee." You know, he'd gather him
7:35
up some little old twigs, get him a fire
7:37
started. He had him a little water. He'd
7:40
pour in that coffee can, set it over on
7:42
that fire. When it got to boiling, he'd
7:44
reach in his pocket and he had a sack
7:45
full of coffee and he just dumped some
7:47
in his hand, pour it in there, dump some
7:48
more, pour it in that can, let it boil.
7:51
He'd put a green stick across top every
7:53
time. Keep from boiling over. What he
7:55
told me,
7:56
>> I've seen it work and I've seen it not
7:58
work. You know, so a lot of people say,
8:00
you know, you lay a wooden spoon over
8:02
something you're boiling, it won't boil
8:03
over.
8:04
>> Yeah.
8:04
>> Well, he used a green stick. Had to be
8:06
green. Couldn't be a dead one, you know.
8:08
And he'd boil that coffee and then he'd
8:10
take that green stick and he'd stir it
8:11
around there. And uh he had two little
8:14
old metal cups and he said, "Hair, you
8:17
need to have you some of this. Going to
8:18
be a long night." I don't know what
8:20
brand of coffee it was. I don't know how
8:22
long he'd carried it in his pocket, but
8:25
that stuff you could stay awake for
8:27
seven days drinking that. It was like
8:28
jet fuel. Oh, good. You know,
8:30
>> and he just loved it. And he didn't even
8:32
let it cool off. You know, I've seen
8:33
them oldtimes, them Brandon pins, get a
8:35
cup, just drank it right out of the pot
8:36
boiling, you know.
8:37
>> Yeah. burn your liver, your intestines,
8:39
your gallbladder, and everything else.
8:41
But they would tell me even when it was
8:43
hot, I didn't like to drink coffee when
8:45
it's hot, you know, hot weather.
8:47
>> Sure.
8:47
>> And they'd say, "Oh, it'll keep you
8:49
cooler." When you put something on the
8:52
inside of you that's same temperature as
8:54
the outside, you're going to be cooler.
8:55
>> Is that scientifically proven or is this
8:57
just like the old cowboy tale?
8:58
>> I I don't think it was true. I was
9:00
thinking I was trying to burn my tongue
9:01
while I was drinking coffee, but that
9:03
was my first taste of bold coffee, you
9:06
know. And that's more what I'd call more
9:09
just old hobo coffee without a sock. You
9:12
just got a tin can, put it on a fire,
9:14
you know. And we even did a video.
9:16
>> Well, that's interesting, too. You get a
9:17
lot of questions like, "Well, I don't
9:18
have an old coffee pot like we have at
9:20
the wagon." You don't need a coffee pot.
9:22
You can make this in any vessel you have
9:25
at home. We've done it in sauce pans,
9:27
old the old medal coffee cans. So, uh
9:31
that's not an excuse for not making your
9:33
coffee. And I and I grew up I really
9:36
didn't like coffee.
9:37
>> Yeah.
9:38
>> You know, but then I I sort of acquired
9:40
a taste for it later and uh I'd drink
9:43
some really good coffee and I'd get some
9:46
coffee that was bull that they leave it
9:48
on the fire too long just burn it.
9:50
>> Yes.
9:50
>> You know, and it get really bitter and
9:52
uh
9:53
>> but I've seen them old men in Brandon
9:55
Pins, they make a bunch of coffee.
9:57
>> You don't pour it out after the after it
9:59
gets low. They just add more grounds and
10:02
water to it. By the end of the day, it
10:03
was like pudding in honest.
10:06
>> This is why cowboy coffee gets the bad
10:08
reputation.
10:08
>> But when you make it right, I guarantee
10:11
you there's not a better cup of coffee
10:12
than I ever had.
10:13
>> Well, and maybe what that is what we saw
10:17
as a little gap or opportunity to share
10:21
with people. And that's kind of one of
10:24
the things that really kicked off maybe
10:27
our our brand or some of our videos
10:30
because it was 7 years ago
10:33
>> and this is the video that really
10:34
changed things and I looked it up. 7
10:36
years ago, 6.7 million views was your
10:41
first video on how to make cowboy
10:44
coffee. So why did you choose that
10:46
video? Well, I think first of all, I
10:49
wanted to show people how important it
10:51
was for cowboys to have it of a morning,
10:54
you know, and you had some great footage
10:56
in there, you know, of of what it's like
10:58
to be on that ranch early early in the
11:00
morning.
11:01
>> But I'd heard so many people say, you
11:03
know, I can't drink that stuff, you
11:05
know, it's not no good.
11:06
>> And I'm I have acid ingestion. I have
11:08
heartburn. You know, I don't drink
11:10
coffee. And I'm thinking, we need to
11:13
show people and prove to people that if
11:15
you make coffee right, you do it this
11:16
way, you can enjoy coffee the rest of
11:19
your life. You know, you're not going to
11:21
have acid ingestion or heartburn. It
11:23
really did more than I ever thought it
11:25
would because it exploded.
11:27
>> It did. And I think it was a great gap
11:30
where we're like, we this is just a
11:32
simple daily part of our lives and our
11:36
day
11:37
>> and you can do this at home. and it was
11:39
just a really easy how-to video. And I
11:42
think that's what people really like and
11:43
we found through YouTube. Um, it's a
11:45
great source for just looking at how to
11:49
and we just did an episode on how to fix
11:51
things and that was great. You know,
11:52
like how to tie a tie, how to make a cup
11:54
of coffee and a ton of people and
11:55
probably a lot of you listening now,
11:57
that's how you initially found us. Oh,
11:59
yes. Because I remember there was a a
12:01
gap in time where when people would come
12:03
up to you at the airport or just see you
12:05
out and like, "Hey, I found you from
12:07
your coffee video or you taught me how
12:09
to make cowboy coffee." And so that was
12:11
huge for us.
12:12
>> Oh, it was. And it's I mean, I grew up
12:15
where coffee shops were were a big deal,
12:18
you know.
12:18
>> And I'm not talking like Starbucks or
12:20
any of this. I'm talking about old cafes
12:23
and diners,
12:24
>> you know. I' we'd be ready to go
12:26
somewhere whether we was going hunting
12:28
with somebody or was fitting to go work
12:29
cattle and it's 5:00 in the morning and
12:32
you'd get in there and I don't know if
12:33
you've ever seen this but I bet some of
12:35
our older viewers have. I'd watch them
12:37
old men get a cup of coffee and they'd
12:38
bring it to you a cup on a saucer.
12:41
>> Yes. The old Yes.
12:43
>> And then they would pour the coffee in
12:45
the saucer.
12:46
>> Really?
12:46
>> Cuz it would cool faster and they'd
12:49
[snorts] drink it out of that saucer.
12:51
>> Oh, interesting. And I'm thinking that's
12:53
just causing more dishwashing,
12:54
[laughter] you know.
12:55
>> Yeah. But they didn't have to wash the
12:56
dishes.
12:57
>> But it was everybody looked forward to
13:00
it.
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Why do you think something so simple of
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how to make cowboy coffee resonated with
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millions of people?
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>> Well, I think it goes back to what we
14:43
got on that apron. Some of it you can't
14:44
[music] get full on fancy. People want
14:47
something that's easy, but also it's
14:50
reliable and it's got history and
14:54
>> it is something that people want to
14:57
gather around the table, share a cup of
14:59
coffee, whether you're camping or
15:00
whether you're out there on the porch,
15:02
no matter where you're at, when you can
15:04
have people sit down with you and you
15:06
can share a cup of black gold that's
15:07
made that way, it just brings people
15:09
together and just makes you have a
15:10
happier day.
15:11
>> It's almost like you're getting a little
15:13
cup of nostalgia. Yes. Isn't it? Well,
15:16
I've never put that in there, but I'm
15:17
gonna start. [laughter]
15:19
>> Maybe that's a new tagline for
15:21
>> some people creamer. No, get some
15:22
nostalgia and put in there. [laughter]
15:25
>> Um, speaking of the history, there is a
15:29
little bit of history that goes behind
15:31
cowboy coffee. Of course, now coffee has
15:33
been around for thousands of years and
15:35
it's been it's been in America before
15:38
cowboys were drinking it on the trail,
15:40
of course. But what was interesting is
15:42
that a lot of you may have heard of
15:45
Arbuckles coffee.
15:46
>> Oh, good coffee.
15:47
>> And that was kind of the original Trail
15:49
Coffee. So John and Charles Arbuckle.
15:52
Yep.
15:53
>> They created the first blend and it was
15:55
called Aerosa coffee. So prior to the
16:00
trail, coffee came with green beans and
16:04
you had to roast them
16:07
>> in a cast iron skillet before you could
16:09
do the whole coffee thing. And so that
16:11
was really hard for old Cookie on the
16:13
trail because you're like, I've got
16:14
other things to do. I've got to load the
16:16
wagon. I got to feed these cowboys. I
16:18
got to stay alive on the trail. So the
16:21
roasting the bean thing wasn't really
16:23
that feasible.
16:25
>> No.
16:25
>> So that's when these guys, the
16:26
Arbuckles, come up with we're going to
16:28
roast the beans, we're going to make the
16:30
coffee, we're going to ship it, and
16:32
we're going to keep it in somewhat a
16:34
sustain sustainable packaging.
16:37
And that's when it really became
16:40
popular.
16:40
>> Yeah. And there was something in that
16:42
coffee that they always stuck in there
16:44
that the cook loved.
16:46
>> What was that?
16:47
>> A peppermint stick.
16:48
>> Oh yeah.
16:49
>> And you cowboys soon found out. You know
16:52
what's cookie got up there? That looks
16:55
like a peppermint stick. [clears throat]
16:57
Then this is way against the law in
16:59
cowboy code. They would prowl through
17:01
that chuck box when he thought he might
17:03
be not be looking and see if they could
17:05
find that peppermint stick in that
17:06
coffee. When he didn't have to roast
17:08
them and it come roasted and he had an
17:10
old coffee grinder, probably an old
17:11
Parker, you know, and he'd grind the
17:13
beans every morning
17:15
>> and he cooked it the same way we did,
17:17
you know. So, when you talk about the
17:19
history of it, it started so many years
17:22
ago and people when they'd watch that
17:24
video or some of the other coffee videos
17:25
that we did, they'd say, "Well, this is
17:27
like Turkish coffee." And I'd say, "Boy,
17:30
I don't know." You know, I ain't never
17:31
had none of it. Uh or this is like a
17:33
French press, you know.
17:35
>> So, what's the the difference with a
17:36
French press or a percolator?
17:38
>> Yeah.
17:39
>> What What is
17:40
>> Well, with a percolator, your grounds is
17:42
all going in a strainer up at the top.
17:43
Oh, yeah.
17:44
>> And when it gets hot, the bowl comes up,
17:46
it overflows in the strainer, then drips
17:48
down.
17:49
>> Yeah.
17:49
>> And a French press is similar in that
17:51
way to where you got the hot water and
17:52
you're pressing the water through the
17:54
grounds.
17:54
>> In French press, you're not boiling it
17:56
in the coffee. It's just hot and then
17:57
it's seeping through. And then I mean
17:59
there's French press, there's pourovers,
18:02
you know, it's too complicated. Let's
18:04
just go back to cowboy coffee.
18:06
>> Coffee on the trail. It really was a
18:08
staple. It wasn't just a movie thing,
18:10
right?
18:11
>> And it it wasn't just at breakfast.
18:13
Coffee pot. Like I always told people,
18:16
they'd ask me, I say, "First thing on
18:18
fire, coffee pot. Last thing off fire
18:21
every day, coffee pot. You keep it
18:23
going." What a lot of times on ranch
18:24
we'll have two of them big old pots you
18:26
know and we would keep coffee going all
18:28
the time but I want to take them back
18:30
paint a picture of a morning a lot of
18:33
times mornings start at 2:00 get out of
18:35
that old bed roll slip your boots on and
18:38
you walk to work and the the commute is
18:41
pretty short sometimes about 50 yards
18:43
you know and I can always tell
18:46
what the weather is by the first three
18:48
or four steps if that old ground is
18:51
pretty soft and ain't making a sound.
18:53
You probably had a pretty good dew on
18:55
the ground.
18:55
>> Oh,
18:56
>> you ain't got no flashlight. You know
18:57
where you're going.
18:58
>> Yeah.
18:58
>> But if it's a little crunchy and things
19:01
is a little cold, might have a little
19:02
snow or a little sle on there, you know.
19:05
But I always love them mornings that
19:06
were quiet and I'd ease over that old
19:09
fire, start that old wood stove birth up
19:12
cuz I'd always draw up water night
19:13
before, put it in the pot, have it ready
19:15
to go, take an eye out of that old
19:18
stove, set it on straight heat. And so
19:21
you're taking apart of this top of the
19:23
stove, so it's just directly on the
19:25
fires coming out.
19:26
>> Yeah. And I mean, we'd stoke that old
19:29
box full and you'd you'd soon hear the
19:32
crackling of wood burning, you know, the
19:34
fire snapping and in a minute I could
19:36
see steam coming off that old coffee pot
19:38
cuz it might be 20°. Always let water
19:41
warm before I ever put the coffee in
19:43
there. you know, add the coffee to it
19:46
and then I get that first aroma of
19:49
coffee if there ain't no breeze sitting
19:51
under that fly just waiting and which
19:53
the fly the wagon is the big canvas tarp
19:56
that we pull over the top and when you
19:57
get it made and you slide it off the
19:59
side and let it cool a minute and you've
20:00
put the cold water in there and all the
20:02
grounds have settled to the bottom and I
20:04
get to enjoy what I call me and God's
20:06
time before anybody gets there. Mhm.
20:09
>> Pour me a cup of that coffee. That is
20:11
smooth. That is just right. And thank
20:13
God for what I get to see. And then I
20:15
hear it. The unzipping of TP doors. I
20:19
got a lantern lid. And you hear Spurs
20:22
jingle as they come towards camp. And
20:25
they'll say them words I love to hear.
20:27
Good morning, Ken. Where's the coffee
20:29
cups?
20:30
>> First thing they ask.
20:31
>> And they'll get them a cup of coffee.
20:33
And they'll gather and they'll talk
20:34
about the day or what's been happening.
20:37
But I learned through the years,
20:38
especially with a lot of them
20:40
old-timers, they'd dig through that old
20:42
wooden box that I used to have that's
20:43
full of coffee cups, and they might be
20:45
some from any diner in the world that
20:46
I'd ever been in, you know, and they'd
20:48
find a cup they like, and that was
20:50
theirs.
20:51
>> And they'd hang it a lot of times off
20:54
the fly of the wagon or they'd put it
20:56
hid somewhere close to the wagon. That's
20:58
the cup they wanted every day. You
21:01
didn't wash that cup.
21:02
>> Oh,
21:03
>> you might have rinsed it, but you never
21:05
washed it with soap. So they would keep
21:07
that cup the entire works.
21:08
>> Yeah. And a lot of them was even picky
21:10
with the forks that way.
21:11
>> I do remember that. They would sift
21:12
through our fork drawer and they had to
21:14
have their own
21:15
>> and they could find a three-prongong
21:16
fork. It was a treasure. But to see them
21:18
take that first drink of coffee in the
21:20
morning, you know, and they look over
21:23
there at you and they smile and they
21:24
said, "Good coffee, Kent. Thank you."
21:27
And it was the same every time, you
21:30
know.
21:30
>> So coffee just wasn't a way to start the
21:32
morning or a drink in the morning. It
21:34
was a ritual. Yes. And uh I never had
21:38
anybody complain. Was the coffee too
21:40
stout? Was the coffee too weak? You
21:42
know,
21:43
>> well, first of all, that is a rule on
21:44
the wagon. You never complain to the
21:46
cook.
21:46
>> Yeah. But there's I'm sure there's been
21:48
times that I'd have noted it. You know,
21:50
I mean, you see somebody pour a cup of
21:52
coffee and if they just take one drink,
21:54
pour it out, you didn't do your job,
21:55
>> right?
21:56
>> But when you come back and you get two,
21:57
three cups of coffee, you know you did
21:59
something right. Would you say that is
22:01
maybe a number one sign of a good chuck
22:04
wagon cook is the best coffee or like
22:06
how
22:07
>> well that's where you're going to start
22:08
first
22:09
morning.
22:10
>> It's a good test, right?
22:11
>> Yeah. And uh you know old man on the
22:13
ranch told me one time, anybody can
22:15
frame me and bowl coffee, you know, but
22:17
if you can't fix coffee right, you done
22:20
started out behind, you know, and it's
22:22
going to get worse from there on out.
22:24
You have a great story about a
22:27
particular gentleman every morning and
22:30
his cup of coffee.
22:31
>> Oh, brother Daniel. Uh we was down there
22:35
in Paladur Canyon and it was after
22:37
>> in Texas, right?
22:38
>> Yeah. And it was after Thanksgiving. It
22:40
was cold and set up on Sunday evening
22:43
always fixed supper that night. We'd
22:45
have steak and everybody there 10 11
22:47
hands down. Everybody had tepee and
22:49
everybody had dogs, you know, and it's
22:50
tied to the tepee's and everywhere else
22:52
in the world and everybody had eat
22:55
supper and I run them out of camp about
22:57
7:45 8:00 cuz I'm f to go to bed.
23:01
Everybody had left and I'd never met
23:03
brother before and um he come back over
23:06
and he said, "Excuse me, Kent." He said,
23:09
"Uh, I got one of them thermos bottles."
23:12
He said, "Uh, you reckon I could uh put
23:15
some coffee in there?" So I wouldn't
23:18
wake you up in the morning cuz I I'm
23:20
going to need I usually get up about two
23:22
and I I don't want to come over here and
23:23
wake you up. I said, "Brother, that pot
23:26
is got some in it. Just leave me a cup
23:29
cuz a lot of times I would keep some
23:31
leftover coffee to worry. All it had to
23:33
do is warm up and I could have a cup
23:34
while the other was making."
23:36
>> Oh yeah. Okay.
23:36
>> Well, he gets his thermos bottle and he
23:38
gets over and he says, "Do you mind if I
23:40
get here at the chuck box lid and pour
23:41
that cuz that's sacred ground. No cowboy
23:44
gets by there, you And I said, "You just
23:45
help yourself, brother." Well, he's
23:47
standing there and he said, "You ain't
23:48
got no sugar, do you? I know I ain't
23:50
supposed to ask, but I sure do like some
23:52
sugar, Mike, off him." I said, "Yeah, I
23:54
drug out one of them big old cream cans
23:56
that's full of sugar, you know." And I
23:58
seen it ain't a spoon. He's dipping it
24:01
out. He's dipping it out with a half a
24:02
cup. And he pours a half cup of sugar in
24:05
there and then another half cup of sugar
24:07
in there. And he goes pouring that
24:08
coffee in there. And I said, "Hey,
24:09
brother, leave me some of that coffee.
24:12
Don't get it all." Well, he goes over to
24:14
his teepee and like I say when I saying
24:16
when I'm at the wagon by myself, I got
24:18
to have God time in the morning, just me
24:21
and that fire and a cup of coffee.
24:23
>> Well, I ain't no more than got up, lit
24:26
me a lantern just so I could get things
24:27
to go and and I like to sit in the dark
24:30
>> and I don't need to be bothered, you
24:32
know.
24:33
>> Well, you've always said this is the fa
24:35
your favorite part of the day because
24:36
you're up before anyone has had time to
24:38
ruin it.
24:39
>> Yeah. And uh I hear a teepee unzip, you
24:43
know, and uh then I hear some spurs
24:47
jangling. So I just reach over and turn
24:49
the lantern off
24:50
>> cuz you want your time.
24:51
>> Yeah. And uh I hear them them spurs
24:55
getting further away. Hear tepee zip
24:58
back down, you know. And I get my cup of
25:00
coffee and I'm sitting there drinking
25:01
it. I'm f to pour me another cup. So I
25:03
turn the lantern up just a little. And
25:06
when the lantern light gets to going, I
25:08
hear the TP door unzip, you know, and
25:10
I'm thinking, I know what's going on
25:12
now. This is brother, you know. So, it
25:15
gets about halfway over and I turn it
25:16
off again. And he walks back to his TP.
25:19
Well, this is like from 2 to 2:30 in the
25:22
morning.
25:23
About 3:15, this had went on about 40
25:26
different times. I finally just cranked
25:29
that lantern wide open, you know, and
25:31
here old brother comes in there and he
25:34
said, "You having lantern trouble?" And
25:36
I said, "Not bad." He said, "I can fix
25:38
that for you where it'll stay lit." And
25:40
I said, "No, brother. We're all right."
25:42
But he'd drink coffee at noon. He'd
25:45
drink coffee at night. You know, me in
25:48
the winter time, I could drink coffee in
25:50
the morning, maybe some coffee at lunch,
25:52
but I never did drink it at night time.
25:54
You know, unless I was going to make a
25:55
hot totty with it. Well, here's the
25:57
funny thing. So, we aren't living like
26:01
the 1800s and cowboys anymore. A lot of
26:04
people are not cowboys at home. So, it's
26:06
not like we're not getting up and over
26:09
the campfire and boiling coffee, but
26:12
>> coffee is still so culturally important
26:16
to us now and how it's evolved.
26:19
>> So, I've got some statistics here which
26:20
kind of blowed my mind. Twothirds of
26:23
American adults drink coffee every day,
26:25
making it more popular than tea, juice,
26:28
bottled water.
26:31
>> That's over 220 million people consuming
26:34
an estimated, get this, 500 million cups
26:38
a day. And the average person is
26:41
drinking like three cups a day. That's a
26:43
lot of coffee, guys.
26:44
>> If we could get all them people that's
26:46
drinking coffee to watch the Cowboy
26:47
coffee video or tune in to the podcast,
26:50
it'd be a good deal. So
26:51
>> get a cup.
26:52
>> Get [laughter]
26:54
>> coffee is a culture, right? But what's
26:57
interesting is, okay, and you'd
26:58
mentioned this a little bit.
26:59
>> So we don't just have boiled coffee
27:01
anymore. No,
27:02
>> we have drip. We have French press. We
27:04
have lattes. We have pourovers. We have
27:07
frappuccinos.
27:09
>> Whoa.
27:09
>> What do you think that cowboy in the
27:13
1880s would have done when he had
27:15
ordered a cup at Starbucks and looked at
27:18
the menu? [laughter]
27:19
First of all, he'd have passed out. You
27:21
know, I'll tell you the first time I
27:23
ever bought coffee at Starbucks.
27:27
>> Mhm. It
27:28
>> was right after 9/11. I'd had to go up
27:29
in Canada and do some stuff and I was
27:31
coming back through there and they'd
27:33
search your boots, your socks,
27:34
everything you had, dump your suitcases
27:36
out, you know, and I was needing a cup
27:37
of coffee cuz morning had it started for
27:38
me at 3 back over in British Columbia.
27:41
And I go up there to Starbucks and I'm
27:43
used to cafe coffee from home,
27:46
>> just a black coffee. 50 cents get you a
27:48
cup of coffee.
27:49
>> Oh. Oh, welcome to Starbucks.
27:51
>> And refills was free,
27:54
>> you know, for as long as you sit in
27:55
there. Well, there was this gal in front
27:58
of me and she got some coffee and I
28:00
walked up her and I said, "U, what do
28:03
you need?" I said, "I just need a cup of
28:05
coffee." And he said, "What size?"
28:09
>> Oh.
28:09
>> And he said I said, "What size you got?"
28:12
>> Oh, no. He's giving you like the tall
28:14
grande venti.
28:16
>> Yeah. all them words.
28:19
And I looked at him, you know, this in
28:21
Seattle. And I looked at him and I said,
28:23
"Do you just have it that comes in a
28:25
coffee cup?" [laughter]
28:27
And he said, "Here's our cups." I said,
28:29
"You don't have cuz I ain't drank coffee
28:32
styrofoam cup. Never drank no coffee
28:33
like that. You know, it always been in a
28:35
coffee cup."
28:36
>> Oh my word.
28:38
>> And he put this little cup out there and
28:39
he said, "That'll be $4."
28:43
>> Which is cheap now.
28:44
>> Yeah. And I looked at him and I said,
28:47
"Is that like I got a lifetime supply? I
28:49
can come back anytime I want." He said,
28:51
"That's $4 a cup."
28:52
>> Well, hey, you got a heck of a deal
28:55
because I don't think you can get out of
28:56
Starbucks for less than $8 a cup now.
28:58
But now, hey, to be fair,
29:00
>> I go to Starbucks.
29:01
>> You do like
29:02
>> not their coffee.
29:02
>> Let me give you Kent his coffee or not
29:04
for his like regular coffee, but he gets
29:07
a grande caramel ribbon crunch
29:10
frappuccino. Extra caramel. Extra
29:12
crunch.
29:12
>> Yeah. It's sort of like summertime. I
29:14
mean, it's like a
29:15
>> It's a dessert at that point. It's not
29:17
coffee.
29:18
>> Yeah. And it's good. Cool you off.
29:19
>> Do you think we've improved coffee or
29:21
have we just lost our minds?
29:23
>> Well, I don't know how many You go to
29:25
the store now and you go to the coffee
29:26
aisle. Hey, 97,000 different brands of
29:30
coffee, you know.
29:32
>> And I I grew up drinking coffee. There
29:34
was two brands of coffee you had in your
29:36
house. Maxwell House and Fultures.
29:38
>> Yeah.
29:39
If people go back and watch that Teddy
29:41
Roosevelt hash video we did and he got
29:45
to meet Mr. Maxwell, Maxwell had a
29:47
slogan and he says good to the last
29:49
drop. You know where he got it? From
29:51
Teddy Roosevelt.
29:52
>> Oh, really?
29:52
>> Cuz he said this coffee is good to the
29:54
very last drop. And that's where it
29:56
started.
29:57
>> Oh.
29:57
>> But now you go to the store and there's
29:59
coffee that's hazelnut coffee flavored
30:01
with this that there another.
30:03
>> I mean it's good. And then when you get
30:04
in the in the winter, in the fall, they
30:07
go to throw in pumpkins, watermelon,
30:09
coffee, whatever you can put in it, you
30:10
know. So, I'm really thinking it's like
30:13
cooking on a grill or a Trager or
30:16
anything else that brings people
30:18
together, brings people outside. So, if
30:21
people are having to drink fufu coffee
30:23
[laughter]
30:24
to get together with other people,
30:26
that's fine. It's it's doing its job
30:29
bringing people together,
30:30
>> which is a great point because
30:33
>> what? The fufu coffee.
30:34
>> Well, no. The drink has changed.
30:36
>> Yeah.
30:37
>> But the ritual hasn't.
30:39
>> No, ma'am.
30:39
>> So, think about this. People always say,
30:43
"Hey, come over for a cup of coffee.
30:45
Let's grab some coffee." You have coffee
30:47
after after church. There's coffee at
30:49
the diner. There's coffee around the
30:51
campfire. So, here's my question.
30:55
Why is coffee so different from other
30:58
drinks? Because you don't see a friend
31:01
and say like, "Hey, let's get together
31:02
for some soda, you know? Why why is it
31:07
coffee that we gravitate to?"
31:09
>> I think you go back through history and
31:11
you look at it. First of all, fire
31:13
brought people together for light and
31:15
warmth.
31:16
>> Oh.
31:16
>> And then there was one caveman that was
31:18
smarter than the rest of them and he
31:19
said, "Let's quit eating this stuff raw
31:21
and throw it on fire."
31:22
>> Okay. And uh then I don't know who
31:24
brought the first coffee cup out there.
31:27
People have gathered together around
31:29
fires and tables and had coffee and
31:33
discussions.
31:35
There's so much of that that is lost
31:37
today. People gather at a table. They
31:40
may have cup of coffee, but what have
31:43
they got in their hand worse than the
31:44
coffee? A phone. M
31:47
>> and we did we did a podcast about tuning
31:50
out getting back to what it's about. But
31:52
I think it goes about together people
31:55
together like you said but it's a it's
31:59
been a ritual
32:01
>> for a long time.
32:01
>> It's almost like an invitation, right?
32:03
It's like, hey, we're Yeah. coffee is
32:06
just kind of the excuse, but really the
32:09
underlying invitation is I want to spend
32:11
time with you. I want to sit. Let's
32:14
visit.
32:15
>> Yeah. And maybe we could have a slice of
32:17
pie to go with it.
32:18
>> Hey, that's that's something right there
32:20
>> because there's there's so many a lot of
32:22
ranches out on a lot of them old-timers.
32:24
Like for dessert, maybe I made like a a
32:27
pie and they'd say, "Cookie, you reckon
32:30
you got some more coffee?" Coffee wasn't
32:32
just for breakfast. Coffee was with
32:34
dessert. We use coffee to cook with. We
32:37
use coffee for a lot of things. Coffee
32:40
grounds is good for earthworms. It's an
32:42
exfoliant that you can use on your face
32:44
to scrub with. Uh it makes a great
32:47
seasoning. Coffee is one of the most
32:49
versatile ingredients that I think I've
32:51
ever run across in my life that has so
32:53
many uses and can do so much for you.
32:55
>> I want to introduce you to a theory that
32:58
I'm guessing you haven't heard of. It's
33:00
called the third place theory. Have you
33:02
heard of this?
33:03
>> I was at a lot of rodeos one time where
33:05
I thought I should have been first and I
33:06
was third.
33:08
>> No, this is different. And I bet a lot
33:09
of you at home have not heard of this
33:12
too. Okay, so it's the third place
33:14
theory. Your first place is home. Your
33:16
second place is work. And your third
33:19
place is where you informally gather
33:22
with other people. So that's going to be
33:24
like cafes, diners, barber shops,
33:26
churches, pubs, things like that. So,
33:30
coffee shops have really maybe become
33:34
America's most recognizable modern
33:37
>> third place. Would you agree?
33:39
>> I would agree.
33:40
>> Now, here's my next question.
33:41
>> Yes, ma'am.
33:42
>> Were you and your kind of the cowboy
33:45
ahead of your time? Was the chuck wagon
33:48
actually the cowboys third place before
33:51
anybody even had a name for that?
33:54
>> Well, first we're going to move it up to
33:56
first place. Oh,
33:57
>> okay. Home. Yeah, because the chuck
34:00
wagon was home back then to to so many
34:03
for a certain amount of time.
34:05
>> So, here's what's crazy and I just I
34:07
just realized this. [laughter]
34:09
>> The the chuck wagon was first, second,
34:11
and third.
34:12
>> Yes, ma'am.
34:12
>> It was your home. It was your work and
34:15
where you gathered.
34:16
>> Yeah. Because old Cookie had a job way
34:19
back then, and that was to feed two
34:21
meals a day.
34:22
>> And I guarantee you, every day there was
34:25
one thing on the menu that never
34:26
changed, and that was coffee. Mhm.
34:28
>> And he kept it going all the time. But
34:31
it's always been a focal point, I think,
34:33
when you look around. And me being
34:35
raised rural, maybe I look at it more
34:37
than you might from city dwelling
34:38
places, but they go to coffee shops,
34:40
too.
34:41
>> Always look for that spot when I'm
34:43
driving through some little old town,
34:44
some little old diner.
34:45
>> If they is a lot of instate tags that's
34:48
parked there, old pickups that are beat
34:50
up, you know,
34:51
>> you know, it's a good spot.
34:52
>> Yeah. You go there and get some coffee,
34:54
get over there in the corner and just
34:55
sit down. I guarantee you within five
34:58
minutes you're going to have new friends
34:59
and new family because then people love
35:02
to visit. That's what it's about. First
35:04
of all, they're going to look at you
35:05
like, "How'd you find this place?" You
35:07
know, but it's I think it's something we
35:09
need to get back to and that's simpler
35:11
times and have that first place, second
35:13
place, and third place. And they can all
35:15
be in the same place. They can be your
35:19
home.
35:19
>> It's a different century, but it's the
35:21
same need. It's it's sustenance. But
35:24
that comes from like at the chuck wagon,
35:26
you got to have a place to eat. You got
35:28
to survive that way. But also, there's a
35:31
need of survival with community and
35:33
gathering, right?
35:34
>> Yeah. It's it's more than just having
35:36
the cup of coffee. It's to get people
35:38
gathered around you and listen, take
35:42
time to hear people, you know, turn
35:45
stuff off and let's get back to what?
35:46
Like, hey, well, I I didn't know you
35:49
fell and broke your leg. I seen you on
35:51
them crutches. What happened to you? you
35:52
know, you should have come by the house.
35:54
I'd have fixed you up with some duct
35:55
tape. And uh but it's classic to me.
36:00
It's something that I I don't think will
36:02
ever fade away because it's etched in so
36:05
many people's minds and memories. If
36:08
y'all look back to your childhood or
36:10
even go back to where you knew some of
36:12
the old-timers, it was always
36:15
sitting around a table or at a coffee
36:17
shop or at a wagon or he was out camping
36:20
and there was a coffee pot and there was
36:22
coffee.
36:22
>> It's really interesting because the
36:24
question, hey, let's get together and
36:26
have a cup of coffee. That really isn't
36:28
the question.
36:29
>> No,
36:30
>> it's hey, I've missed you. Yeah.
36:31
>> Let's visit. Let's catch up. I want to
36:34
spend time with you. I think maybe
36:36
that's what coffee is actually saying.
36:39
>> Yes, ma'am.
36:40
>> It's not just a drink. And I think
36:41
that's what is unique about coffee. You
36:44
don't get that with water or tea or
36:46
juice. That's why it's the most popular
36:48
drink because it's got such a bigger
36:50
message than I'm thirsty.
36:52
>> Yeah. But an old man told me this one
36:55
time and then I heard my mother say it
36:56
too. You know why coffee is such a
36:58
welcome thing in the morning? You get
37:01
two benefits from it. It warms you, but
37:04
it warms your heart also so you can warm
37:07
others. That's why coffee is served hot.
37:10
It's going to warm you up.
37:11
>> Oh.
37:12
>> But when you get warmed up, what
37:14
happens? You feel comfortable.
37:16
>> Mhm.
37:16
>> And when you're comfortable, you want to
37:18
visit. You want to open up to people,
37:21
you know. So comfortable coffee and
37:24
nostalgia. And I think that's maybe now
37:27
why people can realize why Cowboy Coffee
37:31
Hour, why we gave it that name, why
37:35
that's so important, and why it's on
37:36
brand for us. Because we're not just
37:38
sitting here having a cup of coffee. We
37:41
want to sit down with you all. We want
37:43
to spend time with you. We want to
37:45
invite you into our lives. We want to
37:46
hear about your lives through your
37:48
comments and what's going on. And so
37:50
that's why cowboy coffee hour has such a
37:53
bigger meaning and a bigger message that
37:55
I hope that you have all been aware of
37:58
and that you feel comfortable with and
38:00
that this is a place for us all to
38:02
gather and visit together.
38:03
>> Yes. And a question I get a lot though
38:05
is if I make coffee, I have so much I
38:10
don't know what to do with it.
38:12
>> Let it cool. Pour it in a mason jar.
38:15
Pour it in a pitcher. Put it in ice box.
38:18
break it out the next morning. You can
38:19
either reheat it over the fire, slap it
38:22
in one of them electrical microwaves,
38:24
you know, and you got coffee. It's never
38:26
just to pour out.
38:27
>> The other big question we get too is
38:29
does the grind matter? And you've said
38:31
that like a a coarse
38:33
>> coarser ground grind does better in
38:37
>> I think it makes better coffee like
38:38
that. You know, I've used all kinds, but
38:40
I really think you're going to get the
38:42
most flavor that way.
38:44
>> And does brand matter? I I'm not going
38:46
to push brands on nobody for coffee. If
38:49
you're drinking coffee you like at home
38:51
and you think it's really really good
38:52
and you got it in a percolator or you
38:54
got it in a curig, is that what you call
38:56
them things
38:57
>> or French press, try it bold and see.
39:03
>> You might even want to change. I mean, I
39:05
I love a dark roast to really boil
39:07
coffee, you know? I think it's even
39:09
better. But experiment. Don't Don't be
39:13
afraid. And you don't have to make five
39:15
gallons of coffee or two gallons. You
39:17
can make it in a sauce pot. We got it
39:18
broke down. It's a four of a cup of
39:20
coffee for a quart of water. Ain't that
39:22
right?
39:22
>> Yes. So four of a cup of grounds per one
39:25
quart of water.
39:26
>> Yeah. You You can make it. See what you
39:28
think, you know.
39:30
>> Put some caramel in there. Put a little
39:32
cream. We don't care.
39:33
>> As an old man once said in my world,
39:35
it'll put hair on your chest when you
39:37
cook it right, you know. Uh but if I
39:40
could tell people one thing about coffee
39:42
is go somewhere whether it's in your
39:46
house or it's outside. Have a cup of
39:48
coffee and just
39:51
be thankful. Just find that peace that
39:55
you need because I do it every morning.
39:58
I get me a cup of coffee and I have that
40:01
moment of peace. I have that God time
40:03
that I need to get the day started. And
40:07
to me, it don't get no better than that.
40:09
People would ask me say, "Well, if you
40:11
could do anything in the world or you go
40:12
on vacation, what would you do?" I said,
40:15
"If I could get cup of coffee for me and
40:18
Shen and sit on the front porch with
40:20
three dogs, that's a vacation."
40:23
Cuz I'm living the good life every day.
40:26
And it started where? Cowboy coffee.
40:29
>> I want to leave people with just one big
40:32
tip from you. And this would be the tip
40:35
like in the actual coffee making
40:37
process, whether this is just a tip you
40:39
have or maybe the top question you give.
40:42
What is your biggest tip for making
40:45
cowboy coffee successful?
40:47
>> Have good water first.
40:49
>> Good water.
40:50
>> Good water makes all the difference in
40:51
the world.
40:52
>> So, are you then suggesting maybe we
40:54
don't use tap? Do we have to use like
40:56
filtered bottled water? Well, if your
40:58
tap water's good. I mean, some of some
41:01
of the best water I've had either come
41:03
out of a creek or was on the Lumis Ranch
41:05
up there at Circle L coming out of that
41:07
windmill
41:08
>> in Nebraska. Yeah. Okay. Interesting.
41:10
Good tip.
41:10
>> Cuz uh and then don't hurry it. Let the
41:14
water warm before you ever put the
41:15
coffee in there. Let it come to a good
41:18
rolling boil. If you need to set a
41:19
stopwatch, you go ahead. You know, I
41:22
know how long it takes me to go from one
41:24
side of camp to the other and back and
41:25
forth and do something else. that it's
41:27
just right. And stir it when you put
41:30
them grounds in there. It'll keep it
41:31
from boiling over quite so bad. And if
41:34
you ain't watching it, I guarantee you
41:35
one thing, it will boil over.
41:37
>> Well, y'all got more than one tip. You
41:39
got some bonus ones. So, that was
41:41
>> And don't wash the inside of that coffee
41:44
pot with soap. Coffee pots have to be
41:47
seasoned.
41:48
>> That's a big Yes. Just
41:49
>> not with oil. Making coffee and coffee
41:51
and coffee.
41:52
>> Just hot water, rinse it out, and it's
41:55
ready to go for the next time. Yeah. And
41:57
another question I'd like to tell them
41:59
about cuz I got this this morning off
42:00
YouTube. I don't know where to find one
42:02
of them big coffee pots. You know, I
42:05
found them at antique stores, sometimes
42:08
eBay, something like that, estate sales.
42:10
But be careful. Sometimes folks think
42:12
they got gold lining and they want too
42:14
much for them. If you can get one of
42:16
them great biggin like I got from $50 to
42:18
$70, you're in pretty good shape.
42:20
>> Well, thank you, Kent, for all of your
42:23
tips.
42:23
>> Oh my gosh. I mean, but we want to thank
42:26
you all so much for um joining us. I
42:30
hope that you felt comfortable. I hope
42:33
that if if you had a cup of coffee with
42:35
you or maybe you had juice or water,
42:37
that is fine, too. But you're always
42:40
welcome in our camp.
42:41
>> Yeah.
42:42
>> This is a place that uh we we want to
42:44
spend the time with each other, talk
42:47
about things that matter, talk about
42:49
faith, talk about community, and that's
42:51
where you'll find it here [music] at
42:52
Catholic Coffee Hour. And remember, buy
42:55
your neighbor a cup of coffee. You get a
42:57
chance, there's something good in the
42:58
world. But as always, and it is with
43:01
great pride, honor, and privilege that I
43:04
tip my hat to all our servicemen and
43:05
women and all the veterans that have
43:07
kept that old flag of flying over camp.
43:08
No matter where we be, we commend you
43:11
all. We do. And lift you up in prayer
43:13
daily. Go over and get your cup of
43:14
coffee. Come on. Come on back. Sit down.
43:16
I got something I want to tell you. Now,
43:19
to me, this is very important. You are
43:23
not fans, you are family. And family
43:26
takes care of each other. So lift each
43:28
other up in prayer. Be [music] safe. God
43:31
bless you each and everyone. And we'll
43:34
see you next week down the podcast
43:35
trailer.
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