# What's In Your Cup: Freedom, Coffee, Calling & Kingdom Math with Don Cox │ BardsFM

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Published: 2026-07-12T21:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.bards.fm/e/whats-in-your-cup-freedom-coffee-calling-kingdom-math-with-don-cox-%e2%94%82-bardsfm/
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Episode 4180 │ July 12, 2026 You know it's a calling when the math doesn't math but the Kingdom math is always positive — and you can't imagine doing anything else. WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS Scott Kesterson and Don Cox — founder of Bald Guy Brew in Boone, North Carolina, missionary, hand-roaster, and one of the most honest small business voices in the BardsFM orbit — sit down for the first time in weeks and find the same thread running through everything: the supply chain squeeze hitting specialty coffee from Ethiopia to Charleston to the Appalachian mountains is not random, the Freedom Gas stations in New Jersey are not generosity, and the corporate rot that produces someone buying moldy warehouse coffee and selling it as a finished product is the same moral collapse that turned the 250th anniversary into an ego showcase instead of a covenant renewal. The conversation moves from the Boston Tea Party as a $1.8 million act of ideological defiance against the East India Company's monopoly, to British FIFA travelers falling in love with southern small towns and reminding Americans what they are walking past every day, to the customer review Don read aloud — your employees look people in the eye and hold real conversations, something most people their age can't do, and you do it because you serve a King. The episode closes on the same John 6 thread running through the week's Vincit episodes — the boy's lunch, Andrew's math, Jesus's math, and what it means to give what you have to the One whose math runs differently than ours. KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED What does the global supply chain doing to specialty coffee — Ethiopian beans stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, freight costs doubling, mold being sold as a finished product — reveal about the coordinated squeeze on small indepe…

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