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there's so much beauty in life and there's so much adventure I've always been in love with that fact that you can wake up every day and every one of those days is a chance that you get to change your life into anything you want it to be my name is Eric Gordon and I own karabiner coffee I do this because I want to share that love and that passion with everybody I meet life is so much more than just money and stuff it's about connecting and being in amazing places and sharing those places with each other there have been so many challenges to overcome since starting karabiner coffee it is impossible to list them all I've gone through everything from being refused to be permitted in different cities and states to having pipes in the van bursts having things blow up in the van it's just been kind of a non-stop gauntlet of things that you have to deal with but really that's what it's all about anyways I think everybody that starts a business has to go through those growing pains and get those hard times out of the way well every dirt bag climber wants a VW van it's just it's a fact and so when I decided that I wanted to start care being a coffee I knew that that's exactly what I wanted to do was start it out of a fan only one of these vans you get you're part of this greater community that is always helping each other out find your line is a saying that I've been living my life by ever since I started karabiner coffee and it really just has to do with waking up every day and making every day great and making your own and doing things that get you outside and make you happy whatever that is and I feel like it's just a great reminder everyday that you can make life into whatever you want it to be and you can find your line through anything for me carabiner coffee is really about getting great coffee into the hands of everybody who loves to chase adventure coffee is such an amazing way to bring the outdoor community together and to be able to inspire one another we all come from different places and have different stories to tell and what I wanted to do with karabiner coffee is hear as many of those stories as possible whether you run to me making coffee out of the van or I'm shipping coffee right to your door I'm honored to be able to connect with all of the customers and be able to inspire everybody to get out there and do something they love to do every single day you this is Gareth he's your local hiney Ephraim down at the bakery pies he wants to feed you on the goal of the most delicious and satisfies you've ever tasted and all he needs to do it as a food truck fortunately Gareth already has a truck but it needs a lot of money to get it out on the road so he can bring basic Kiwi heights to the fine people of New York City now we're not talking about every pair and we're not talking about pumpkin pie either we're talking about a cue delicacy the classic meat pie and there are vegetarian pies to the pie is the perfect all in one meal ah supermodels love them children love them musicians love them vegetarians love them newlyweds love them really really set people love them people all over Brooklyn love them the play is basically the National Fruit of New Zealand New Zealanders are pretty amazing at a lot of things there especially good at making these delicious pastry packets of soulful savory goodness mmm pies using his top secret recipe Gareth has been making his Kiwi classics and selling them from her sweet cafe in Brooklyn Gareth was a first cousin to open a pawn shop so it seems only right there he should be the first person to put pies on wheels no pies on wheels not wheels on pies let's look at the facts people who eat pies a 75% more attractive 63% more intelligent 88% more hilarious 92% was satisfied and a whopping 137 percent heavier but wait the pie truck will also bring you the best coffee you've ever tasted all made in the traditional New Zealand style that's right folks flat wise delicious pie lovers please help Gareth get these tasty treats on the road so he can bring the pies directly to you hi I'm Nick Bollinger and I'm Lori Bollinger and we love coffee but even more than coffee we love people so we wanted to figure out a way to combine the two and create a place that not only has great coffee it has great community as well hey guys are you doing a place that's warm and inviting encouraged and sometimes even challenging a place where you feel like you're with your best friend we also want to make a difference in the world around us and do things like partnering with a coffee roaster that essentially turns this into this the world around us or organizing your team to help pick up trash in the city we're joining in the fight to stop human trafficking here at Oklahoma and if all that wasn't enough we want to be mobile because if I would want to be confined to just one place so we bought a bill collector bus you want to convert it into a mobile coffee shop and that's my wrong Kickstarter because even though we already have a double-decker bus and a guy to convert the bus we still don't have the money to pay him so we've set a goal to raise $30,000 in 30 days and that will give us enough money to cover all the renovation costs and set us on the road to serving great friends great coffee buy this Thanksgiving if you want to find out more about what it is we're doing you can check out the other videos on our Kickstarter page and if you want to be a much-needed donor you can do that there as well we're Junction Coffee thank you so much for helping make this dream a reality thanks for watching currently I'm talking to a lot of local Roasters I'm cupping I'm tasting different things that they have to offer basically what I'm looking for is something that a is not something you see everywhere and coffee shops in the Bay Area and be something that is made here and made by really passionate thoughtful Coffee Roasters oh I should talk about where it came from - I originally started this thing with my buddies Sean hit my Cronin and Neal McCumber they help me look for months cruise Craigslist and ultimately we found this old PG&E truck in Concord we bought it brought it back to Shawn's studio and gutted all the welding and the shelving and everything out of there it was really thick and gross and messy and you know we had the dirtiest fingernails and it was just perfect you know and that was really exciting so we're really close we've basically done all the hard stuff we've got the van we've got most of the appliances and we have the amazingly talented Adam hatch finishing out the interior we still need a generator we still need to pay off the wiring and the plumbing we still need to get inspections as taxis there's lots of unforeseen costs and then of course there's the milk and the coffee then basically what I need Kickstarter for is to just give us an extra push across the finish line we're nearly there I think people can taste care you know recognize when something's been really carefully thought through and carefully presented and did with a lot of intention you can learn how to pull a good shot you can learn how to steam good milk in the end it's just hearing about it and respecting it serving it with hot butts how I communicate what I love and what I do to the world and that's going to be Eureka I'm not a coffee Oh time to run up and y1 hi my name is Sean and I'm introducing the atomic cafe a mobile coffee truck bringing you better living through coffee the best quality and high octane copy beverages we offer a straight expresso lattes cappuccinos espresso based drinks frappes for smoothies you name it we have it you're going to love it to the front of the plantation your for every country at the atomic cafe we've done the research to bring you the very best delicious organic very coffee bean our truck is equipped with a PFC lira to group compact expresso machine for the best espresso extraction unlevel coffee truck we actually had it shipped over from from Italy we also have a Blendtec encounter blender for all the preppies proof smoothies imagine premium coffee beverages with the ability to exit brigham to you parks the Beach Art Walk special events places that you know just kind of hard to get to that don't even have coffee that's something we offer that's something we can perceive you swoop in for the happiness coffee for everyone the possibilities are endless the name Tama Cafe is more or less from the whole late fifties early sixties space-age design language anything the tale thing I love it that's something I I love and I want to share with everyone and bring back some life to the original time at Cafe vivace today in downtown LA I give a graphic designer for most my life after working same company for 15 years I got laid off and rather than just go back into the home graphics think the coffee thing just stuck out but something I really want to share with people I want to make the very best coffee and bring it to you and this is what I want to do this is where my heart is at right now coffee for you and the best way to go about it is a mobile coffee truck it all leads up to this point where I'm more or less invested all my savings in this in this coffee truck this mobile coffee truck I have the right track down the right plans for the truck all the equipment the right builders everything is almost done along with my savings I need some help getting this business off the ground there are still some unforeseen costs such as final inspection permits insurance I need to get a car rap for a band that's going to you know represent the whole thing with omniupdate also the copy all the supplies I need I want to try to do some alternative sweeteners the list goes on Coffee is pretty much been my life since the early 90s of the whole coffeehouse revival with the spoken word and poetry reading for the corporate coffee craze - right now 2015 where I have the vision of crafting the very best copy and bringing to you that's what I tell my cafe is all about you you