What’s In Your Cup: Cup of Change, Round-Up Giving for Trades Scholarships │ BardsFM

Bald Guy Brew Coffee: https://baldguybrew.com/

Episode 4253 │ October 18, 2026

Don Cox on Cup of Change: “We’re working with what’s in our hands: some sawhorses, plywood, a cage, and chickens.”

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson talks with Don Cox of Bald Guy Brew Coffee in Boone, North Carolina, two years after Hurricane Helene. Don shares Cup of Change, a new nonprofit he is starting to raise money for high school trades programs and scholarships, with round-up giving at checkout and a chicken poop bingo fundraiser. Scott recalls how Bards FM listeners helped the shop after the storm, and Don talks about roasting natural-process coffees by smell.

KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED

What is Cup of Change, and how will round-up giving help fund high school trades programs?

What is life like around Boone two years after Hurricane Helene?

What goes into roasting a natural-process coffee by smell, and why is the timing so tight?

ABOUT BARDSFM

BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,200 episodes and 51 million downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm

This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed.