This is an audio commentary of the article ‘NZ’s next top barista - following Matt Ross’ road to the NZ Barista champs’ and has been pulled together by NotebookLM - a Google AI product.

It’s used this article as a basis for an incredible conversation that sounds like a real discussion between two people - but it’s all AI. So they’ve used their learning to expand on some stuff that I haven’t. It’s pretty wild

As it’s AI, they mucked up one detail - they say this is Matt’s 3rd champs, and exclaim ‘third time’s a charm’ - but this is Matt’s 4th champs.

That aside, this is a fun way to get into this article and hear more about Matt and the NZ Barista Champs. I’ll continue to explore tools like this to help make The Magic Roast as accessible to as many people as I can.

Check out the article for even more information on Matt Ross:

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