Brewing Debates: From Perfect Coffee to Politics and Culinary Delights

Ever wondered what truly differentiates the perfect cup of coffee from the best cup of coffee? Today, we embark on a flavorful journey, sharing our morning ritual with freshly roasted beans from our local roaster and our trusty Cuisinart coffee maker. We get into a lighthearted debate inspired by the movie "Elf," and tackle a listener's question about the absurdity of traveling with a full-size coffee maker. Plus, we ponder the necessity of stockpiling our beloved coffee makers just in case they disappear from the shelves. It's a fun and aromatic start to the day that coffee lovers won't want to miss.

Shifting from coffee to the complexities of modern politics, we discuss the rising tide of socialism and what it means for the future of free enterprise. We express our concerns about incremental policy changes and draw lessons from historical examples like Venezuela. The conversation also touches on the new Marvel movie, Doctor Strange, offering a bit of excitement amidst the political discourse. And for the foodies, we dive into the world of grits, comparing instant and slow-cooked varieties, and sharing tips to elevate their flavor. Whether you're here for the coffee, politics, or culinary insights, this episode promises a rich blend of topics to keep you engaged. Go Dawgs!

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Perfect Cup of Coffee Discussion

Speaker 1 0:15

Hello and good morning.

Speaker 2 0:18

Good morning one and all. It's a beautiful day, coffee's good, the view's good.

Speaker 1 0:25

Everything's good. Okay, well, what's happening? It's Saturday.

Speaker 2 0:31

It's Saturday.

Speaker 1 0:33

We got up early Very early, earlier than we would normally Very early.

Speaker 2 0:37

We usually project getting up around 6 or so on Saturdays and Sundays, which to most seems very, very early, but to us it's three extra hours of sleeping in yeah.

Speaker 2 0:50

But we got up at like 4.45, 4.50 or something like that it was 5 o'clock. I guess we'd had enough sleep, because sleep's for suckers anyway and we went in and started the coffee pot and you know, as I'm watching it brew this morning, I got to thinking, you know, we're fortunate because we've got a great coffee-making place that you know roasts their own beans and you know they do it fresh. I mean, they don't just, you know, get freeze-dried, you know vacuum-sealed stuff. They roast their own beans and we get it from them and we get it and we make it our own coffee. But I was looking at our coffee maker and, yeah, I was thinking about this we have the perfect coffee that we get with freshly roasted beans and then if you've ever done coffee in a pour through, you have to pour it through and you know you have to kind of drip your water at a constant speed to get the thing filled, so it seeps the coffee and does all that.

Speaker 2 1:57

Uh, we and we've had like three of these or maybe four of these coffee makers. It's a Cousinart, but it's just the simple, not heated bottom but a thermal container and the water, of course, you know, drips into it, but it drips, and it's a-type hopper that holds the coffee, not one of those rounded, flat ones, but it's a cone-type. That, I guess, allows the coffee to seep, but they engineered it so the water goes in there and it just goes to the perfect height of the cone, so it allows it to seep for the perfect amount of time, which makes us be the most fortunate people in the world to have the perfect cup of coffee oh wow, that's really saying, it's a statement and I thought about all of that in the matter of you know three minutes while I was watching it that's what you're gonna call us fortunate about is their coffee maker.

Speaker 1 2:57

Well, I think about it. We've got the perfect coffee.

Speaker 2 2:58

Is there a coffee maker? Well, think about it. We've got the perfect coffee. We've got the perfect coffee maker, we have the perfect coffee cups, we have the perfect place to drink the coffee. Okay, it's perfect, perfect. So you know, if you ever want a perfect cup of coffee, here's to where you get it.

Speaker 1 3:16

Okay, well, we'll be expecting you any minute now.

Speaker 2 3:20

Yeah, it's pretty good, but I was just thinking of you know, I guess as time goes by, we appreciate things more, and I just appreciate it as that thing was going on.

Speaker 1 3:30

Is the perfect cup of coffee different from the greatest cup of coffee in the world?

Speaker 2 3:35

Oh yeah, Absolutely so do you remember, I think it's an elf. I was going to say it's an elf. Is it an elf that he brings? His girl that he likes the world's best coffee, the world's greatest coffee. Yeah, this is the best coffee.

Speaker 1 3:49

So is that different from the?

Speaker 2 3:51

most perfect cup of coffee. The sign says so outside. As a matter of semantics, yes, oh, what's the difference?

Speaker 2 4:02

well, I mean, you know, you know you can grade a coffee out as being the first perfect coffee, but the best coffee, the best coffee, may be there, but you may be in a uh as we're watching the news a warren torn area of some part of the world, and it may be the best cup of coffee, but it's not perfect because you're not in a perfect place. Okay, all right, you know, and sometimes, like when we're traveling and we get coffee that has been sitting on a burner for 24 hours, right, but you really want a cup of coffee and you pour it and you drink it and it's really terrible. But you look at each other and go God, this is the best coffee ever. When it's actually terrible coffee, right, but that's the best coffee.

Speaker 1 4:53

So I have a question. Actually, it's not my question, it's Wilted Lily's question. Oh boy, we talked about one time, I guess, in our podcast about traveling and having our coffee maker. It's like a four-cup coffee maker.

Speaker 2 5:06

She wants to know how come we don't take a full-size coffee maker, because we don't have a carry bag big enough to take it. But I thought about that. I did when we were going over a couple times.

Speaker 1 5:18

You just break down and get a normal. That I did when we were going over. A couple times Did you break down and get a more normal size.

Speaker 2 5:21

I thought about trying to put the big thing in there and do that, but then I realized well, I can't get the coffee in there, just get a bigger bag. Get another piece of luggage? Yeah, just for the coffee maker. Why not Just?

Speaker 1 5:34

for the coffee maker. Talk about coffee snobs and have you know?

Speaker 2 5:37

have have you know the procession throwing, throwing flowers out and little rose petals out as we walk the coffee maker in oh yeah. Yeah, that would be good. All right, that's a thought. Yeah, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 5:53

We have thought about it, um you know, we should probably go ahead, should do it. Yeah, we should probably also go ahead and buy like three or four more of those coffee makers, because they'll probably stop making them. We need to buy more of them.

Speaker 2 6:07

You heard my side, didn't you? Why? I've already looked and I can't find them.

Speaker 1 6:13

Oh, no, yeah, oh, where do we get these last ones? Is it Target or Walmart? Oh do. Where do we get these last ones? At target? Or walmart, amazon, amazon, oh no yeah, oh no yeah oh, my whole world has been crushed.

Speaker 2 6:30

We did experiment I don't know if you remember, but I did experiment and get one that ground the beans yeah and did that and it was.

Speaker 2 6:38

And then I got another one that was the top didn't work. It worked but it didn't seal enough. And if you, you know, the coffee got cold and uh, you know they were, they were pretty brand look at me, they were pretty brand new coffee makers that I just threw out, like this is not, this is not any good, because they didn't make the perfect cup of coffee. And then I'd look at them and the way they did the brewing process and I was like that's not right. I tell you what and.

Speaker 2 7:18

I have read reviews about coffee makers too and, believe it or not, a lot of the reviews talk about the four and five cup mr coffee makers that say they pretty much brew the perfect cup of coffee. So don't discount the little guy, don't discount the little all right, we get it.

Speaker 1 7:44

Now we're on a mission. We have to find that coffee maker.

Speaker 2 7:46

Yeah, I've already picked up my phone. It I've got to put on my glasses now and start looking, because I thought about that and I was like maybe, just maybe somebody's got one out there, anyway, yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 7:59

What else we got going on? We've got the Grand Cam coming over today.

Speaker 2 8:02

Absolutely.

Speaker 1 8:03

We haven't seen him in over two weeks.

Speaker 2 8:06

It's been two weeks. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 8:08

Got him a big Hot Wheels pop-up tent with some tracks, got him a Hot Wheels carrying truck that the back extends off and it's a big racetrack Bunch of cars.

Speaker 2 8:23

Yeah, he's going to have a great day. Yeah, is it?

Speaker 1 8:26

supposed to rain today.

Speaker 2 8:28

I don't know.

Speaker 1 8:34

I haven't checked it out. It's not about if we're taking it to the park or if we're going to set up that pool or not. I haven't decided. Anyway, we're going to talk about something else. What else? What else? We got going on? What else?

Speaker 2 8:45

Oh, look at the weather, see what the weather's going to do I, else we got going on. What else? Oh, look at the weather. See what? I don't think we're supposed to have bad weather, but you know we you may have a late thunderstorm, like we did yesterday. We had a real good thunderstorm that came through yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 8:55

What is ketamine? Is it different than fentanyl? I don't know. They're through. They're flashing the matth, the Matthew Perry case, up on the TV and I'm just wondering what. I don't know what ketamine is, but I read a recent story that his and I heard it yesterday on the news too that he asked his assistant to shoot him up with a big one right before he died. How much you know they're arresting all of these people in association, which they probably should, but we also, you know I don't know when do we also hold the addict accountable?

Speaker 2 9:41

I know Matthew's dead now, but Ketamine is a disassociative anesthetic used medically for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. It is also used as a treatment for depression and pain management, goodness. So basically it does. It's kind of like you remember when you went to surgery and they pumped you in that little happy juice and you went from oh my God to hoo-hoo yeah.

Speaker 1 10:16

Remember that? Oh, that long time ago. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 10:21

And you're getting ready to go for surgery on something and you were all nervous.

Speaker 1 10:26

Yes.

Speaker 2 10:26

Then you just went from nervous to it's a great happy to be here it's a similar type of drug yes and it's a pre. You know that they said pre-anesthesia type stuff that yeah, that that doesn't help depression. That just masks it well, you know that's my god.

Speaker 1 10:48

No wonder you have to keep pumping that in your body to stay like that. I would not want to stay like that it's not about helping people anymore.

Speaker 2 10:56

It's about you know something else. I you know. Look at all these people that are crazy. We don't, we don't help them anymore, we just help them along yeah, that's a good way to put it crazy I had to take a sip of my coffee because it was really good really really good. All right, but yeah, we got the grand cam coming and we're looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 11:24

We watched the black panther last night. That was good. That was better than I thought it was gonna be.

Socialism and the Slow Trickle

Speaker 2 11:29

Yeah it was good movie yes very interesting. Yes, it had some things in it that, uh, if you look at from the, from a, instead of looking at just a movie perspective for entertainment, you know what they were trying a little social issues they were trying to throw in there that were very, you know, interesting when you look at them from an open-minded standpoint.

Speaker 1 11:57

But I recommend the movie for entertainment value as well, yes, absolutely, it was good they had some wild technology.

Speaker 2 12:04

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 1 12:09

All right, and the next one we watch is Doctor Strange.

Speaker 2 12:12

And I have no idea what that's about or who it is or what it is or anything. I'll look forward to it, but it's part of the Marvel series and that's what they're saying the next one is, so we'll watch it, but, yeah, I have no idea what that one's about, so, look forward, looking forward to it to see what that's all about. Yeah, what else? What else, on a serious note, do we have going on in the world today?

Speaker 1 12:42

oh well, all kinds of stuff. We're already 12 minutes in though.

Speaker 2 12:47

Well, I have one thing to say.

Speaker 1 12:48

All right, what's your one thing to say?

Speaker 2 12:53

Go out and seriously look at the issues of the day Mm-hmm and look at the policies of the people that are running for president Mm-hmm. And if you can seriously say that Harris and Wacko are what's his name, walls Walls are a better candidate for president than Trump and his running mate, then there's seriously something wrong with you. Yeah, that's all something wrong with you.

Speaker 1 13:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:29

That's all I have to say, because if you look at it and you're honest about it, you can't.

Speaker 1 13:38

But we're not dealing with regular-minded people.

Speaker 2 13:42

I know it. I know it.

Speaker 1 13:43

We're dealing with Trump derangement syndrome. Out there, they will vote for a paper towel over Trump. Yeah, I know, they don't care.

Speaker 2 13:52

I know.

Speaker 1 13:53

They don't care. They'd rather be ruled over by Harris than live freely under.

Speaker 2 14:02

Trump, it's scary. And you know one of the best things somebody said today was you know, as we head further and further into socialism, is that it's very easy to vote your way into socialism, but once you're there, you've got to shoot your way out. And that's not just the people who didn't vote for socialism, that's the people who voted for socialism trying to get out of it too, If you vote for it. You're going to have to shoot your way out of it and it's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 14:34

And that's not easy to do. It's not going to happen because people are. We, as Americans. We've not had that trouble in a very long time.

Speaker 2 14:42

We've never had that trouble.

Speaker 1 14:44

Well, yeah, I know, the only war we've had here is like the Civil War and the Revolutionary War on our own ground, Right and that's you know. It's not going to happen.

Speaker 2 14:54

And when we're going to have to be, you know, fighting against our. We haven't had to fight against our government.

Speaker 1 15:00

Right.

Speaker 2 15:01

And that's what we're going to have to do, right.

Speaker 1 15:08

And that's what we're going to have to do, right, and that's just. We're going to have to fight against our government.

Speaker 2 15:11

It's going to have to become real, real, real real bad, and even then we're going to collapse, I think, before anything happens. That's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 15:16

That's the trouble that Trump ran into in his first presidency is that all those bureaucrats are so embedded that it was very difficult for him to get anything done. Yeah, you know, it was kind of like the water flowing down the river and all the bureaucrats are all the dams that they have created, and so for him to get that water flowing he had to go try to get clear out a dam, clear out a dam, clear out a dam, clear out of dam of these bureaucrats that have been installed, not elected, installed in these positions that he can't get rid of. So he's like all right, I opened up the dam, let it flow. What do you mean? We have another dam down there to open up. Let's go open up that dam. What do you mean? People not giving paperwork, people not, you know, I'll just stall this, do whatever, but you know that's that's the thing that we're fighting and that's what. That's why they're so against him, because it's going to upset their, their heart they're.

Speaker 1 16:20

Yes, I understand that, but what I'm saying is we are slowly, without realizing it, being turned into socialism. It's such a slow trickle because you know, you and I haven't been affected and a lot of people haven't been affected, but it's still happening, yeah, and it's gonna. It's just a slow, slow, incremental type thing and it probably won't happen in our lifetime we're already living in a social state. But when you think of that, you think of countries like venezuela. Well, no, I mean, we haven't already.

Speaker 2 16:54

We haven't gone, so bad we haven't gone full scale. No, we still have a free. Free enterprise, right, you know, but as soon as well. You know all the government regulations that are being put on every time the government regulation is put on. That's socialism. Yes, and, as you know, trump went in and said for every regulation we do, we're going to get rid of 12. Yeah, or 10 or 12 or whatever it was, and they didn't like that. You know you have to regulate. And what is Kamala saying? We're going to price control.

Speaker 1 17:29

Yeah, oh amen. That's scary, that's socialism.

Speaker 2 17:32

Yes, it is you know who was the last one to do that? I think it was Nixon. And how'd that work out? Not too good, Right you? Know, so you know we're already, you know we've already got Social Security and we've already got, you know they're already trying to socialize the health care system, which Obama Almost got all the way through, but not quite. You know, and if you know anything about the health care system as what it was and what it is now, it sucks now. It absolutely sucks now.

Speaker 1 18:07

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:08

But you know that's a step toward socialism. Like you're saying, little by little, a little, every little regulation, every little thing's being turned over. That way.

Speaker 1 18:19

We got to go, we got to move on. It's 18 minutes. We got a question of the day. What about Mary Lou? What about Mary?

Speaker 2 18:24

Lou.

Speaker 1 18:25

What's Mary Lou? Mary Lou Retton? No, well, we won't get into that. I told you about that, all right. Well, that's another story for another time. We We've got to get to the question of the day, all right, here's the question of the day from the jet.

Speaker 2 18:38

Okay, this question of the day is Southerners can tell the difference and most people should be able to tell the difference. So here it comes. Can you tell the difference, when you're eating grits, between slow-cooked and instant grits?

Speaker 1 18:56

Can you?

Speaker 2 18:57

Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1 18:59

I don't know that I can you could, you could.

Speaker 2 19:02

It's a.

Speaker 1 19:03

There's a cream there's a creaminess and a better texture to slow cooked than there is the grits that we get from when we're in tunica. Are those instant or slow cooked?

Speaker 2 19:12

those are. Those are probably slow cooked but the ones you fix are instant, which are really really good well, you know, I guess, yeah, they probably can tell the difference because the instance those are probably slow cooked, but the ones you fix are instant, which are really really good.

Speaker 1 19:22

Well, you know, I guess, yeah, I can tell the difference, because the instants seem like their granulars are smaller, whereas the slow cooked.

Speaker 2 19:29

they're bigger, bigger and puffier. Yeah, and the reason ours are good is because you know I cook them, you know, and I don't use water. I use usually heavy cream or half and half.

Speaker 1 19:41

That'll make everything better.

Speaker 2 19:43

And that kind of makes them a little bit better. Yeah, but like if you do a slow cooked grits with half water, half heavy cream and slow cook them like that and then add a little, depending on the type of cheese you like, add a little cheese in there and stir them up and all that stuff, they're really good. But that's the question, slow cooked or instant.

Speaker 1 20:11

Can you tell the difference? There you go. All right, Thanks for listening y'all.

Speaker 2 20:14

Go Dawgs.