6 Ways To Streamline Your Revisions Process (So You Don’t Piss Off Your Clients Or Ruin Your Life)

Brian Hood (0:29)

Amazing gray sweatshirt, four-eyed co-host Chris Graham. He doesn't have his purple shirt on today, y'all. I'm so mad. How are you doing today, man?

Chris Graham (0:38)

It's underneath the hoodie. Let me interrupt you.

Brian Hood (0:40)

It's like Superman, you're like parting your sweatshirt, pulling it down, exposing your Superman logo underneath.

Chris Graham (0:46)

My oddly straight chest hair that's not curly on any level whatsoever.

Brian Hood (0:50)

Yeah, I've seen you wear the shirt off.

Chris Graham (0:52)

Evolution, Brian. It's an, I've adapted to our modern society by growing straight chest hair.

Brian Hood (0:58)

Yeah, I don't care what you're saying right now. I need to insert my story into this conversation right now. First of all.

Chris Graham (1:03)

Wait, wait, no, no, let me do this.

Brian Hood (1:06)

Okay.

Chris Graham (1:06)

Hey, Brian, how are you today?

Brian Hood (1:09)

See, I wasn't even gonna wait for that.

You were fast enough. Here's the deal.

I am not a gear slut. We've talked about this in the podcast. We haven't even had a gear slut alert, which I'll probably get in this conversation we're having right now. But my coffee roaster died last week. It was my birthday last Saturday. I'm now 33 years young, and I wanted to treat myself for my birthday since I had a dead coffee roaster. And so I did some math. I said, how much coffee roaster do I want to buy? And being the absolute nerd that I am, I came up with some statistics for you guys, just so you could have an idea of how my brain works and...

Chris Graham (1:47)

And before we hop into those, I think we should catch any of our new listeners up.

When Brian and I first launched this podcast, an enormous piece of our friendship revolved around coffee and coffee roasting. I'd started roasting coffee. I came down to hang out with Brian to meet him face to face for the first time, and I made you your first...

Brian Hood (2:07)

The best cup of coffee I'd ever had in my life, up to that point. I've made way better sense, but up to that point...

Chris Graham (2:12)

You take that back! You take that back!

Brian Hood (2:14)

No.

Chris Graham (2:14)

I'm sure you have. I'm sure you have. But yeah, it was like I roasted coffee, brought it down, made you a cup of AeroPressed coffee, and I remember watching you take a sip of it and watching your life change, Brian.

Brian Hood (2:26)

It's true. Okay, so I ordered a fresh roast SR500. That's the gear slot alert you heard right there. That's a piece of coffee gear. That's the one you use. That's the one you recommended it. I ordered it March 30th, 2018 It died November 11th. I'm sorry, November 14th, 2019 The lifespan was 594 days. The price was $179. I roasted 71 pounds of coffee, which I found out is like over 300 batches of coffee on that thing.

Yep, in 594 days.

Estimated amount per pound roasted is, I saved $11 per pound roasted compared to what I would pay for high quality coffee at the coffee shop next to my house. So total estimated savings, $782 minus the cost of this $179 coffee roaster. Net profit, $602.

How much did I spend on my coffee roaster, Chris?

Chris Graham (3:20)

$601.

Brian Hood (3:22)

$600 to the penny.

And so now I'm the happy owner of the Genie Cafe CBR 101 It can roast two to three times the amount of coffee per batch. It is a drum roaster, instead of an air roaster, it spins and roasts the coffee evenly.

Chris Graham (3:44)

Stop it. You're hurting me.

Brian Hood (3:45)

Yeah, I know. You can set it up to 485 degrees. You can set the time with a... It's just in every single way possible, it's better than the fresh roast, and I am a proud owner now. I did my first... Just so you know, I roasted my first batch yesterday when it came in. Amazing cup of coffee this morning. I can't even tell you. I'm so happy.

Chris Graham (4:02)

My fresh roast, the buttons are starting to not work every time, so that... I might be getting a new roaster soon. I might go for the fresh roast 800, but why are we talking about this on a business podcast?

Well, one, we love it, and we get to talk about stuff we love sometimes. And two, we've talked about this on earlier episodes of the podcast. When you're talking to somebody that you want to be friends with or you want to work with, it's not hard to make someone the best cup of coffee they've ever had because, news flash, coffee in America sucks.