Pura Coco

Danielle Keller 0:12

Welcome to People of Northwest Arkansas . I'm your co-host , danielle Keller , and we are so excited about our guests today .

Danielle Schaum 0:18

And I'm your co-host , Danielle Schaum . We are here to talk about a local R&B artist playing at Format Festival Pura Coco . Pura Coco's latest album is called Leaves and this song is Ladybug . I think that's my cue .

Coco 0:34

I don't want to waste . I don't want to waste more time . I think you're so divine . I think you're so divine . Well , you got me straight losing my mind .

Danielle Keller 0:51

Welcome Pura Coco to our show . We're super excited to have you here and that you're going to be joining us on People of Northwest Arkansas today . Since we are a podcast about people of Northwest Arkansas , let's talk a little bit about how you got here . How did you get to Northwest Arkansas ?

Coco 1:09

So I was born in New York and my mom has her sister and two brothers here and she just heard about how amazing it was , how many opportunities there were here and how great it was to raise a family here . So she moved us whenever I was about eight years old and I've been here ever since .

Danielle Schaum 1:27

Wow , that's awesome . That is awesome . So how long have you lived here ?

Coco 1:30

then that is a good question 23 minus 8 .

Danielle Schaum 1:37

That's awesome . Well , we're so glad that you're here . We want to just dig in . Tell us your story . What got you into music , making music ?

Coco 1:45

I will say , living in New York , there's especially in Uptown Manhattan , like right next to the Bronx we were in the Heights . There's music everywhere . There's Merengue , bachata , salsa , and it's everywhere that you walk because there's just people outside playing dominoes and blasting music because that's their way to escape the day . So that's initially how I started loving music and I first got into dancing because my mom loves to dance .

Danielle Schaum 2:10

Oh my gosh , you dance . That's amazing . Are you going to dance when you play it ? Format a little bit . We were wanting to .

Coco 2:16

We were wanting to , we just couldn't get the dancers in time . Okay , so it's on the list of things that we want to do .

Danielle Keller 2:23

Awesome , awesome , as you transitioned into music here in Northwest Arkansas and you started taking dance classes , and how did that lead further into your journey in music .

Coco 2:34

So I first started with just talent shows and the only thing I knew was like off of Disney Channel , so I really thought that it was going to be one winner .

Coco 2:43

So I was really nervous and I never wanted to do it and my mom was like , just do it for fun , who knows ? Yeah , and I was really scared that I wasn't going to win . And then I realized that it was actually just a talent show , like people were just showing their talents , and I continued doing it every single year , just wanted to better my stage presence , even went into like public speaking to better my stage presence . Then , finally , I started writing my own music whenever I joined the Latinx Theater Project , because I had tried making a song and it was about a breakup in middle school and it was heart-wrenching .

Danielle Keller 3:18

Of course it is , it's always heart-wrenching .

Coco 3:20

It feels so real and raw , yeah .

Danielle Schaum 3:22

Then you look back and you're like , wow , I can't believe I was upset about him or her .

Coco 3:27

Yeah , exactly , I had tried writing a song . It was actually pretty good . I even tried rapping in the middle . And how old were you ? I want to say I was like 14 or 15 . That's so awesome .

Danielle Schaum 3:39

Wow , that's really impressive that you're doing that at that age , expressing yourself like that .

Danielle Keller 3:43

Absolutely . I don't think I was doing that at 14 and 15 .

Danielle Schaum 3:46

No , I mean well , you guys doing at 14 . I probably wrote about it in my journal and like crossed out misses , whatever the name was , or absolutely yes , tried to date his friend or something I don't know 14 and 15 , I was pretty focused on sports in school . Oh , she was a good kid . Oh yeah , I did .

Danielle Keller 4:06

I played water polo and I was a swimmer also .

Danielle Schaum 4:09

Wait , you played water polo , I did .

Danielle Keller 4:11

I did Wait , so you know how to tread water . I know how to tread water properly . Yes , I do , daniel , how did I ? It's called the egg beater . I can show you I can teach you how to do this , please . Yeah , I know You're going to learn a lot of things about me , I guess , so I'm going to learn a lot about you through this process . I just ran across from you and we're learning a lot about cocoa .

Danielle Schaum 4:28

Oh yes , cocoa .

Danielle Keller 4:29

So you know how to tread water properly as well . No , I've been trying to learn ?

Coco 4:32

OK , well , I can definitely teach you .

Danielle Keller 4:34

Yeah , please do . This is the best thing ever I know so 14 , 15 , she's writing music and we were doing who Knows what . Up to no good , that's probably what I was doing . Why don't you tell us a little bit about your musical influences ? It's like who inspires you to write and who inspires you to make the type of music that you're making .

Coco 4:52

A lot of people ask me that and truthfully , I'm not really sure , but I know that a lot of it comes from like salsa . So definitely like Cela Cruz oh my gosh , I love her . I love her so much . Mark Anthony and a lot of just like stuff that I'm listening to right now is usually my influence , because I'm just inspired by music that I find every day or people that I know on a daily basis . So my brother has been really into house music and I've been listening to that . I've been listening to like Nikki , nicole and young Miko , which is like kind of like the modern Spanish music right now . So a lot of that , that's awesome .

Danielle Keller 5:28

I love it too . I wish every I wish our viewers could have seen your face when you were answering that question . I know how you're smiling . She's glowing right now in our studio and it's amazing .

Danielle Schaum 5:38

Yeah , I've listened to your album leaves a few times through and I love it . Ladybug is obviously your most popular . I loved how El Salvador gave us more of a sense of who you are or kind of where at least where you were at when you were writing it , and I think that's that seems to be a great song to connect you to your listeners or even just let someone who's getting to know you as an artist know more about who you are . Do you have a favorite song from that album ?

Coco 6:03

I don't think I could choose , but it would probably be El Salvador , it's so great , I think it would .

Danielle Schaum 6:09

Yeah , oh yeah , that's a great song , yeah .

Danielle Keller 6:11

What was some of your inspiration behind writing El Salvador ?

Coco 6:15

Honestly , I was just kind of trying to reconnect to who I was and who I grew up as , especially living in Arkansas and growing up in Arkansas . Whenever I go back to New York , I'm kind of envious because a lot of people that speak Spanish continue to speak Spanish , and here it's kind of like instilled in us that we have to learn English and there's not a lot of places where we're able to practice Spanish again , sure . So I felt like I was losing a part of myself and I was in that process of being at the University of Arkansas and then trying to relearn Spanish so that I could reconnect with my grandma .

Danielle Schaum 6:54

Oh , I love that . Yeah , be able to speak with her and keep that going . Keep , yeah , keep using that in your family . I love that . So , okay , you went to University of Arkansas I did . I saw on your Instagram and your TikTok that you went around to the University and asked students what they thought of the music that you were playing , that you were with an indie record label . I didn't tell them it was you , so how did that go it ?

Coco 7:33

went really well . We got a lot of great feedback . We even went into the music building and asked people specifically just to see if they would give us create bad feedback . Just to see You're really brave to do that .

Danielle Schaum 7:46

I love that you were open to receiving constructive criticism , hopefully , but it sounds like you got a lot of really great response yeah we did , and I'm really glad that we did it .

Coco 7:56

I want to do it again .

Danielle Schaum 7:57

Yeah , you're going to do it again , I think so you should absolutely do that ? Oh yeah , you really should you should do that in .

Danielle Keller 8:02

I mean , I'm just going to give you suggestions , apparently , and you know , Farmers Market .

Coco 8:07

Yes .

Danielle Keller 8:07

Or just even like a first Friday in Bentonville or first Thursday in Fayetteville . I think that there's so many great opportunities to reach other people in different generations and ask them what they think of it , but I grew with Danielle . That is definitely a brave thing to do .

Danielle Schaum 8:22

Really brave .

Danielle Keller 8:22

Really brave . But also what a great exercise for you as an artist and just even as a person growing in your craft , to go and seek out the opinions of others and in a way that they don't know , it's actually you . I think that that's creative , I think it's smart . It helps you grow as a person , it helps you grow as an artist , so that's really is really neat that you did that .

Danielle Schaum 8:44

Thank you and do you feel like ? You know , when you're writing music it's a very private experience , but then it's , on the flip side , very public after that . So you're going from this very private you know writing like poetry , music , lyrics , and then everyone hears it . So to put yourself out there , yeah , that's pretty awesome .

Danielle Keller 9:01

I love that . I look forward to seeing your next TikTok . And speaking of TikTok , there's the TikTok trend Girl dinner .

Coco 9:08

Girl dinner . Have you guys done the do it girl dinner ? Have you guys seen the girl maths , girl maths , girl maths . No , no , it's like they'll justify their spending . So if they buy a really nice dress they'll be like , well , I can resell it afterwards or I can switch it with a friend of mine . So really I'm helping the economy . That it's a great way to justify spending .

Danielle Schaum 9:33

Yeah , absolutely . Oh , that should be my favorite . Yeah , yeah , absolutely .

Danielle Keller 9:39

So we need to know , though , what is your girl dinner ?

Danielle Schaum 9:44

You have one right now . I love Popeyes .

Coco 9:47

All right .

Danielle Schaum 9:48

So I usually are regular spicy .

Coco 9:50

Me too . It's so good . I love the spicy , so I usually get some Popeyes , just the chicken itself , and then at home I'll have like whatever it is , like salad or you being great sore , you know it's kind of a balance , right ? Oh , those two ?

Danielle Keller 10:05

Yeah , you had that's a girl dinner . That is an absolutely great girl dinner . Yeah , mine's so lame . What's yours ? Kraft macaroni and cheese .

Coco 10:13

Nice . Do you add anything ?

Danielle Schaum 10:14

special yeah , do you ?

Danielle Keller 10:16

know , I will actually add in a little bit of cheese , sometimes some Parmesan cheese , things like that I have like hot sauce .

Danielle Schaum 10:22

I want to make it like hot sauce . Oh my gosh .

Danielle Keller 10:24

We used to dip our macaroni cheese into ketchup . When I was a kid .

Danielle Schaum 10:27

Wait , wait . Is that so gross , like my six year old .

Danielle Keller 10:31

I mean , I was probably six when we did it .

Coco 10:34

Oh , no , literally it's , it's disturbing .

Danielle Keller 11:08

So , coco , would you put ketchup on macaroni and cheese ? No , please say no , please say no , I would not ever do it again but definitely it was a thing . My mom used to cut up hot dogs also and put that in our macaroni and cheese and I would like pick them out . I'd be like mom , just like you need your protein and so it's got nutrients .

Danielle Schaum 11:26

They enrich everything . Now , yeah , at least it wasn't spam yeah that's true .

Danielle Keller 11:30

I still never tried it . Ok , so , speaking of food , because food is so great and you are from El Salvador , you must tell us , you must tell us where is the best place to get papuza in North of Sarcansla .

Danielle Schaum 11:41

Where do we go ?

Danielle Keller 11:42

Oh no , this is am I putting you on the spot ?

Coco 11:45

Yeah , because what if another papuza is like what ?

Danielle Keller 11:48

They're going to be like no , she's wrong .

Coco 11:50

You can do like top three if you want to , so yeah you know , I'll say the favorite place and then if somebody else reaches out I'll be like , all right , let me try your pupusas . So there we go , there we go yeah partnership going , but so far from what I've tried . There's a buseria in Springdale , I don't . I think it's called the dispensary , like the dispensary Latina . Ok , all right .

Danielle Schaum 12:14

Yeah , ok , all right , I'm putting that on my list .

Danielle Keller 12:16

I know it is on my list . So I used to work for John Brown University and I one of the students that I worked with that was one of my student leaders

Music, Culture, Collaboration in Northwest Arkansas

Danielle Keller 12:24

. He grew up in El Salvador and was from El Salvador , and so he would always tell me the . I think it was like a lot of papuza , it's over by , it's in Rogers and it's by oh my goodness , it's by Aldi , and I don't know that one .

Coco 12:37

Yes , ok , ok , that one as well .

Danielle Keller 12:39

You have . Ok , coco proves that one as well . All right , I'm going to do that .

Danielle Schaum 12:43

I love it . She signed off on it , yes absolutely .

Danielle Keller 12:47

I think that's great .

Danielle Keller 12:48

And one thing I do have to say I really was super excited when I learned about your song , el Salvador , and the student that I worked with , who I just connected with in so many ways , and he used to tell me stories about growing up in El Salvador and it was just such a beautiful friendship and I still keep in touch with him and he's moved back home after college and I'm super excited to tell him about meeting you and connecting .

Danielle Keller 13:11

He is obsessed with music and he's going to become one of your biggest fans , I'm sure of it , and so I think it just was really exciting to hear your song and just connect your song back to somebody that I know personally who has told me stories of growing up and just , I think sometimes in the sponsor , reflecting on growing up in America versus growing up in a different place and then coming here and then the the different cultures that are here , and I moved here from California and I've experienced some culture differences here in Northwest Arkansas , but I'm loving that there's that there's a growing like , there's growth , there's growth happening just culturally dynamically , and so I just applaud you for being a part of that and just thank you for bringing your music and keeping some of your music here and performing it and having a voice and saying you know you're not just talking about breaking up with boys , you're talking about something that is a part of who you are , to the core of who you are , and that's a beautiful thing .

Danielle Schaum 14:08

Anyway , I'm going to stop talking so that we can hear more about you because , anyway , no , I love that you're keeping the music here , for now at least , and you mentioned you were from New York City , so I love that the area is really growing and there's so many people we were talking about before 30 people move here a day , wow , and so that's gone up , I know . And so I love that the area is becoming more diverse , just enriched in arts and culture , and so I kind of want to hear what you think about the area . You know where you see the future of music in Northwest Dark and Saw .

Coco 14:43

I feel like there's a lot of division because it's just now starting to grow and a lot of people don't know where things are starting or where things are happening . So what I hope for it to be is that we're all collaborating and we're all working towards the same goal , and I think that we're on that path . So I just love working with others and I think that that's essential for any artist to grow is learning from other artists .

Danielle Schaum 15:09

Who would you want to collaborate with next ? Do you have anyone in mind , or have you already ? We're doing a lot of collaborations so far . So you're working on an album . Another album , yes , that's exciting . Can you tell us anything about it yet , or is it top secret ?

Coco 15:23

No , we talked about it on District 3 as well . One of my favorite songs off of it is called so Sad , or we Ain't Gotta Be so Sad , and basically one of my good friends who's he saw me perform and then afterwards he came up to me . He's like Coco breathe and I wasn't using like my full diaphragm to sing which I'm working on , I'm working on , but I realized you know that I wasn't using my full diaphragm , that it was okay just to breathe and be present . And after that I was like , wow , you know you're right . So in the song I say I've been counting stars , walking on the grass , learning how to breathe and having me a blast . I love that you're grounding .

Danielle Schaum 16:03

I love it too . Yes , okay , so I also teach yoga , and so . I always teach my students to ground and to be present , because that's the hardest thing . Like I have to remind myself to be present .

Danielle Keller 16:14

Yes .

Danielle Schaum 16:15

And my kids , because we're always thinking about what's next and sometimes we miss out on enjoying like the present moment , which can be so beautiful , even if you know you . Just whatever emotion that that is . I love that . I cannot wait to hear that song . It sounds so good . That's gonna be so awesome , yes , okay . So I saw on TikTok that you did a Billie Eilish cover and if I didn't ask you my daughter loves

Discussion on Music, Artists, and Collaboration

Danielle Schaum 16:38

Billie Eilish , she's nine If I didn't ask you to sing something I don't know , the Barbie music , the Barbie movie song , that's my request .

Danielle Schaum 16:46

She would be upset if I didn't at least ask you if you could give us a little cover . Okay , only if you're comfortable with it .

Coco 16:53

I have not warmed up . Also , I've been obsessed with the Ken song , the I'm just Ken .

Danielle Schaum 16:59

Yes , One of the best parts in the whole movie . Can you feel the ?

Danielle Keller 17:02

energy . Yes , I definitely add a . Barbie birthday party this summer .

Coco 17:06

Really .

Danielle Keller 17:06

Yes , absolutely . My husband had a shirt on that said I'm just Ken .

Danielle Schaum 17:11

We love the Barbie movie ? Yes , we do , and even though Ken was the bad guy , I still think Ryan Gosling is great .

Danielle Keller 17:17

I mean , was he really , really the ? Bad guy , he just really loved horses . All he could do was beach , though , yeah , it is , all he could do was beach . That's okay . Ultimately , he found some purpose , and he found out that he was Ken enough , ken enough , ken enough , ken enough .

Coco 17:34

I don't know .

Danielle Keller 17:34

I don't know how we pronounce that .

Coco 17:35

I don't either , but he's enough .

Danielle Schaum 17:37

He is enough . Yeah , we're all enough . We are all enough . Yes , do you have any advice for aspiring musicians in the area , let's say , middle school , high school , trying to figure out how to write music and just get into the industry ? Yeah , absolutely .

Coco 17:51

I would kind of like what I said before is just connect with other artists , because if you don't know something , somebody else will . So , whether it's about how to find different beats or how to find a producer , or how to even make music or how to write a song , there's definitely a lot of resources that we have online , but it's not the same as just meeting somebody and talking to them . Sure , absolutely .

Danielle Schaum 18:14

I'm really excited because Format Festival is coming up . I have Friday tickets . You're performing Friday on the roads , road stage yes , at 3.30? .

Coco 18:24

Yes .

Danielle Schaum 18:25

I'll be there . Awesome . My kids are getting out of school straight to the babysitter and I'm going to be rocking out until my friends meet up with me later . I can't wait . So you have to wave to me okay .

Danielle Keller 18:38

Wave at Danielle .

Danielle Schaum 18:40

So You're performing Friday . Are you attending any of the other days to see any other artists ? I hope so . Yeah , we will see . Who would you most like ?

Coco 18:50

to see . I really want to see Lil Simms . Okay , yes , simms song . You know I love that song , the one that starts with the trumpet . So , yes , she's such a great rapper .

Danielle Schaum 19:04

Oh , I heard a clip of her song and I was like , okay , that's on my list now too . Yes , it's going to be so fun . I'm really excited for poolside . You like poolside ? Yes , I always play poolside in my yoga classes . It's just , they've got a good cadence . Good , just good music . And then LCD sound system . He's going to be no one knows LCD in the studio . All right , you know Brock . Okay , brock knows what's up . And then Alanis Morissette I can't wait . I wonder what it's like performing songs about a breakup from like how many years ago was that ?

Danielle Keller 19:36

Oh , probably like 30 , 40 years ago , wow .

Danielle Schaum 19:39

And then Modest Mouse . We've got Modest Mouse , leon Bridges , I would love to see him . Take Me to the River is like one of my favorite . You love that song too . Yes , such a good song .

Danielle Keller 19:50

Can you tell who is more of a music person in this room ?

Danielle Schaum 19:54

Okay , so Not me . I know that you have the influence on Salsa and Menengue , but one of your songs in your album reminded me of Portis Head a little bit . Do you know Portis Head ? I don't . Okay , I'm going to send it to you after the show .

Brock Short 20:07

It's .

Danielle Schaum 20:08

R&B , soul , and it's definitely something you know , their music , something you put on your date night , and so one of your songs , come on over , is definitely on my date night soundtrack because it's she knows I'm like this song is awesome , so it's all made . I'm going to send it to you . Please send it to me . Yeah , so it reminded me of Portis Head . I'll send you Portis Head . You'll love it . It's also from ancient times .

Danielle Keller 20:32

I do like music . Please understand that . Okay , who's ?

Danielle Schaum 20:35

your favorite artist ? I'm terribly .

Danielle Keller 20:37

I'm terrible at remembering artist names . For some reason .

Danielle Schaum 20:40

And that's okay .

Danielle Keller 20:41

You're favorite is Michael Jackson right , but I'm also terrible at remembering just people's names in general , so I guess that ?

Danielle Schaum 20:46

Oh no , I remember everything .

Danielle Keller 20:47

That's just a problem I have . I can remember their entire life story , but then it comes to their name and I feel like I'm drawing blanks . So that is a that is a dilemma I deal with every day .

Danielle Schaum 20:58

Do you remember ?

Danielle Keller 20:58

the far side . I do remember the far side , okay .

Danielle Schaum 21:01

Okay , I can give you a little .

Danielle Keller 21:02

I mean , I do like a lot of like 90s music , because that was the era when music mattered the most to me as a teenager , when we partied High school parties . Yeah , we listened to a lot of Steve Miller bands on the swim team . I know like random , right .

Danielle Keller 21:19

What about Jimmy Buffett RIP . I know Jimmy Buffett . My swim coach , who was also my water public coach , was also our chemistry teacher and on our chemistry tests when they were multiple choice , always there was a choice Jimmy Buffett . Jimmy Buffett was always a choice for the answer . I know he was obsessed . So it's kind of interesting , random and we are getting off topic .

Danielle Schaum 21:39

We want to know where our Tell our listeners where they can find you , your social and anything else you want to share .

Coco 21:46

Yeah , my socials are Budakoko , that's P-U-R-A-C-O-C-O , but on platforms it's two O's at the very end , so C-O-C-O , extra O . And yeah , all my music is on , I think , on all streaming platforms , except for SoundCloud , which I should probably put it on there just so that people can listen to it , have it everywhere , might as well .

Danielle Keller 22:07

I think that's a good idea . Okay , since we are a podcast about Northwest Arkansas , our last question for you is what is your favorite thing about Northwest ?

Coco 22:14

Arkansas . My favorite thing about Northwest Arkansas is the opportunities . I mean there's . There's an endless amount of opportunities here , with the people that are coming in , with the companies that are coming in and the companies that have already been here , the people that have already been here . There's just like an endless amount of things that are possible , especially because we're just now starting to grow .

Danielle Schaum 22:35

I love that . I feel the same . Even though it's a small area , it still feels like there's a lot of opportunity and everyone likes to collaborate Like even in competitive spaces , don't you feel ? Most people want to collaborate together , and that's what I love about the area .

Danielle Keller 22:49

I absolutely agree . I think that there's a lot of collaboration . I think it continues to grow . I think something that I see just from kind of an art and media standpoint , is you're seeing not only collaboration with musicians collaborating with each other , but you're seeing musicians collaborate with filmmakers and you're seeing artists fine art artists or painters who are collaborating with filmmakers or with musicians , and so there's just a like cross collaboration that's happening . Business owners are starting to put murals up on the sides of their walls outside and utilizing local artists for that , and I think that there's something beautiful about collaboration within a certain genre or a certain medium of art or or even business or music , whatever it is . There's something beautiful about collaboration there . But then when the collaboration grows and and it goes beyond what you might be doing , so for me , like collaborating with a musician for film is like a beautiful thing and makes me so excited . I love musicals . I like have a desire to write another musical one day . You wrote a music . Wait , yeah , my senior film was a musical .

Danielle Schaum 23:59

We're learning a lot about you . I know you are learning a lot about me .

Danielle Keller 24:02

If this is a not an interview with me , this is an interview with Coco .

Danielle Keller 24:06

Yes , but I , my senior thesis film was a musical called the Hope Test and it is about a young woman who finds these journals of her grandmother and her grandmother had a first love and she reads these journals . Yeah , she reads these journals and it was during like World War II when grandma fell in love with this man and they were into like swing , dancing and music and things like that . And so then the the film goes and it basically transpires into telling that story of the grandmother and her first love . And I used music from random musicals and so I never got to do anything with the film . I didn't get to enter it into film festivals because I used copyrighted music , but it was my dream to write music for that and it just didn't come . It just we were students , we were college students , we couldn't make it happen . But it is my dream to make a musical one day with original music , and it'd be a story that inspires people . So maybe , coco , we can collaborate .

Danielle Schaum 25:06

Yeah , coco , we're just gonna collaborate with her on all the things . Yes , I love it . Okay , so you can find Coco at Format Festival Friday , september 22nd at 3 30 . I will be there , so come find me and say hello . Is there anything ?

Danielle Keller 25:22

else that you would love our listeners to know about you , that we could share , about your story and who you are .

Coco 25:29

Right right now I'm working with Lovemore Records , which is the CEO of that is Raquel Thompson , which she's actually , I think , one year younger than I am , wow yeah , young entrepreneurs I love it , yeah . So I'm really excited to be working with them and we have a great team , so hopefully we can get some music out pretty soon .

Danielle Schaum 25:50

We can't wait to hear it . I'm really excited . I need more . I need more . Thank you for coming on the show , coco . We really enjoyed having you . Thank you for having me , absolutely Thank you . Can't wait to see you at Format .

Coco 26:01

Yes , absolutely , I'm excited .

Danielle Keller 26:02

That was such a fun episode and now we're going to do a toast from our local sponsor , Third Space Coffee .

Danielle Schaum 26:08

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Danielle Keller 26:31

Yeah , it's a really awesome place . There's a patio . You can hang out just in the nature of the Ozarks and also work there . We've worked there before . We have . Yeah , it's pretty great . Third Space bakes gluten-free , vegan and all-natural baked goods . Every day they proudly serve kwa pa ogapa roasted coffee on indigenous kwa pa land . It's coffee that you can't find anywhere else in Northwest Arkansas , kind of like traditional cafe cubano . All right , so cheers from Third Space at Best Friends Cheers . Oh , and today we're drinking mokasha , which is a medium roast and means dark medicine water in the kwa pa language , which I think is really awesome , so cool and really neat that they have something that no other coffee shop here in Northwest Arkansas has . So check them out . Third Space Coffee Bentonville at the Best Friends .

Danielle Schaum 27:21

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Brock Short 27:50

People of Northwest Arkansas with the two Danielle's produced by me . Brock Short of Civil Republic Productions . Please rate , review and like us on any podcast platform where you listen . For more information about today's guests and the show , please check the show notes . Thanks for listening .