¶ Perfect Cup of Coffee Discussion
Hello and good morning .
Good morning one and all . It's a beautiful day , coffee's good , the view's good .
Everything's good . Okay , well , what's happening ? It's Saturday .
It's Saturday .
We got up early Very early , earlier than we would normally Very early .
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 . 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 . 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 .
Well , I think about it . We've got the perfect coffee .
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 .
Okay , well , we'll be expecting you any minute now .
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 .
Is the perfect cup of coffee different from the greatest cup of coffee in the world ?
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 .
So is that different from the ?
most perfect cup of coffee . The sign says so outside . As a matter of semantics , yes , oh , what's the difference ?
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 ?
for the coffee maker . Talk about coffee snobs and have you know ?
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 .
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 .
You heard my side , didn't you ? Why ? I've already looked and I can't find them .
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 .
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 . 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 . 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 .
Now we're on a mission . We have to find that coffee maker .
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 .
What else we got going on ? We've got the Grand Cam coming over today .
Absolutely .
We haven't seen him in over two weeks .
It's been two weeks . Yeah , that's right .
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 .
Yeah , he's going to have a great day . Yeah , is it ?
supposed to rain today .
I don't know .
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 ?
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 .
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 ?
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 .
Remember that ? Oh , that long time ago . Yeah , yeah .
And you're getting ready to go for surgery on something and you were all nervous .
Yes .
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 .
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 .
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 .
We watched the black panther last night . That was good . That was better than I thought it was gonna be .
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 .
But I recommend the movie for entertainment value as well , yes , absolutely , it was good they had some wild technology .
Yeah , absolutely , absolutely .
¶ Socialism and the Slow Trickle
All right , and the next one we watch is Doctor Strange .
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 ?
oh well , all kinds of stuff . We're already 12 minutes in though .
Well , I have one thing to say .
All right , what's your one thing to say ?
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 .
Yeah .
That's all I have to say , because if you look at it and you're honest about it , you can't .
But we're not dealing with regular-minded people .
I know it . I know it .
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 .
I know .
They don't care . They'd rather be ruled over by Harris than live freely under .
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 .
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 .
We've never had that trouble .
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 .
And when we're going to have to be , you know , fighting against our . We haven't had to fight against our government .
Right .
And that's what we're going to have to do , right .
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 .
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 . 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 .
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 .
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 .
Yeah , oh amen . That's scary , that's socialism .
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 .
Yeah .
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 .
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 ?
Lou .
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 .
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 ?
Can you ?
Yes , absolutely .
I don't know that I can you could , you could .
It's a .
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
¶ Grits
. Are those instant or slow cooked ?
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 .
Well , you know , I guess , yeah , I can tell the difference , because the instants seem like their granulars are smaller , whereas the slow cooked .
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 .
That'll make everything better .
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 .
Can you tell the difference ? There you go . All right , Thanks for listening y'all .
Go Dawgs .