OPEN THREAD conversation-starter: Will you be listening in on Howard Schultz's "Conversation with America" next week?

Howard Schultz wants to end partisan gridlock in Washington! (It's a PR stunt, says one pundit.) Do customers bring this up? Do you care? Discuss this or anything else Starbucks-related -- maybe this PSL story written by a former SBUX barista -- in the OPEN THREAD....