Brewed Awakening
Every Sunday morning, Carol and The Gent kick back in bed with coffee in hand and the week’s hottest headlines on their minds. Brewed Awakening is part pillow talk, part no-nonsense commentary—strong opinions served as fresh as the coffee, with zero sugarcoating. From sharp debates to playful banter (and maybe a little marital side-eye), they prove that the best conversations happen before you even get out of bed.
Brewed Awakening
Deep State Deception
Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join us for a morning meditation on the state of our nation and its institutions. As we sip our delicious French-Brazilian blend, we tackle one of the most frustrating aspects of modern governance: the ability of judges in obscure jurisdictions to obstruct presidential authority through injunctions and lawsuits.
The recent situation with Venezuelan gang members highlights a troubling pattern where organizations like the ACLU and Democracy Forward use legal tactics to impede border enforcement. But this isn't just about immigration policy - it reveals something deeper about our government's dysfunction. What many call the "deep state" is actually just the bureaucracy itself - an entrenched system resistant to meaningful change and reform.
We share personal anecdotes that illuminate the wasteful nature of government operations, from military-style assignments that prioritize procedure over purpose to the bizarre spectacle of government-funded organizations working to obstruct government functions. This bureaucratic morass can't be cleaned up in a single administration - it's a multi-generational project that requires persistence and vision.
Before wrapping up, we offer our thoughts on the unnecessarily disappointing ending of "Meet Joe Black" (pro tip: turn it off when Hopkins and Pitt walk over the hill) and share our excitement for March Madness, including predictions and bracket strategies. Are you filling out a bracket this year? Let us know who you're pulling for!
Wake up, it's time for the podcast! Happy Sunday!
Well, hello and good morning. Welcome everyone back to Brood Awakening.
Speaker 2:Good morning, and boy is the coffee good this morning.
Speaker 1:Very good. What are we having?
Speaker 2:We are having a combination. It's a French and Brazilian roast.
Speaker 1:Lovely.
Speaker 2:It's a combination of a dark and a Brazilian coffee that they make up, and it's fantastic don't forget, you gotta order some new yes, gotta order some. Yes, I'll do that on tuesday morning. They aren't open on monday okay I'll do that on tuesday morning but yes, looking forward to ordering some coffee and looking forward to enjoying this coffee while we.
Speaker 1:It's so good so it's uh sunday morning, uh, I don't know what time, it is A little after 7. We're watching the news. We did our New York Times puzzle, which we didn't get.
Speaker 2:No, it was a day. Sometimes they're unfair. You know, it's like words that begin with T and you got 12 words up there. And you're like all of them begin with T, but anyway, this was a fair puzzle and we just didn't get it. Sometimes we're smart, sometimes it doesn't work out, but we did survive the storms last night. Yes God bless all those people who had them. We had some that came close, but nothing real big and damaging in North Alabama, so we're very fortunate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I felt bad because we made the grand cam go home early, because I thought the storms were going to be horrible. They had me so scared. Normally I don't get scared, but for some reason this felt different. But thankfully, where we are, it did not formulate, but it did formulate elsewhere. So God bless those people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, when you've been through the outbreaks that we've been through and you've seen the damage that can be done, and the bad part about it is you know, I grew up where we had hurricanes and you knew they were coming and you could get out of the way. But you know, with a tornado you just tornado outbreaks, you just don't know yeah they're so random that you just don't know, and that's the whole.
Speaker 2:That's the worrisome part. You know, I don't care how great their scientific, you know measuring devices and wind devices and all that stuff Once one of those little puppies sets down by gosh, it's going to do what it wants to do. That's the scary part. But yeah, yeah, and they kept using words like supercells sets down by gosh, it's going to do what it wants to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the scary part, but yeah, that's yeah, and they kept using words like super cells, and when that happens, I'm like oh yeah, well, again, it's one of those things that they manufacture, so you'll watch their networks I guess you know, let's.
Speaker 2:That was such a great song that glenny put out on Dirty Laundry. Yes, let's keep them interested with all this kind of stuff, and that's what that is. Suck them in Anyway. Yes, we're drinking coffee and looking at the sun come up All right, yep.
Speaker 1:So what is on the big agenda? News-wise current events that would you like to talk about?
Speaker 2:Well, I noticed that and this is something that kind of sticks in my craw is when the president issues an order or there's a law to be followed or whatever, and these judges down the road you know in we'll call it Nahunta, georgia, or Simbad, california, or whatever you know rule. Oh, we got to file an injunction against Trump. You know he can't do that. What? Why not? He's the president. You can't tell the president what to do, and that sounds simplistic in the nature of it all, but basically that's kind of one of those things that how can these judges restrict what the president can do and not do?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think a lot of them go off by what celebrities say about he's a dictator. He just does what he wants to do. So when these judges come in and do pull crap like this, it does kind of make the left and liberals seem like he's a dictator. When he's not. He's doing, he's following laws. I mean he's. You know what I'm saying I do, absolutely I don't know why.
Speaker 1:I don't know how these federal laws judges are getting around this crap and saying you can't do that. Well, the one judge in this particular case with the gang Venezuelan gang members, where he turned the planes around the suits, the lawsuit was brought, the injunction whatever you want to call it was brought on by the ACLU and a new thing called Democracy Forward. Those are the things you need to look into.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. If you look at those, you'll see that they are basically, of course, left-wing lawyers that are most likely paid by NGOs, soros and all that are against democracy.
Speaker 2:They don't want that.
Speaker 2:They want that left-leaning crap that we're doing our best to fight.
Speaker 2:But here's the thing that gets me as the judges in these lower courts file these cases, trump had four years where he battled this and four years later he knows that they have to follow the law and they have to use the law to do all of the things that they're doing. And he is not and in my opinion, I don't think he is not going to do something that they haven't looked into and lawfully said okay, this is what we can do. Do it because they can't stop that, because it is legal. They're not going to just randomly go. You know, let's do this, let's do that to just randomly go. You know, let's do this, let's do that and have things be stopped because it's illegal for them to do them. That's one of the things that you know that the Trump administration did. Before they got to and before they enact or before he does any of this stuff, they've looked at it, they've covered all the bases and said, legally, do this and they can't stop it meanwhile, they're attempting to stop it through the legal judicial system.
Speaker 1:Somebody a long time ago opened my eyes to this. They said people can sue for anything. Even though some law, you know, you the law, even though you follow the law to the T, whatever some people say, well, you can't sue for that. Watch me.
Speaker 2:You can sue for anything.
Speaker 1:You can sue for. Whether you win or not is something else. It's all the way people interpret crap. People can sue for anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this is all this. You know, we all talk about, or we talk about the conspiracy theories and the deep state and the bureaucracy, and I've always contended that deep state and bureaucracy are one and the same. Yes, you know they are one and the same. It's not this dark, deep, mysterious thing that's underground, you know, working on things to destroy the government. The deep state is the bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is all these liberal judges that are out there filing, you know, file a lawsuit, file a lawsuit, file a lawsuit knowing that none of these are going to have any standing, but because of the way the law says it, standing, but because of the way the law says it, we're allowed to file a lawsuit for anything we want, no matter how stupid it is, and it all still and it slows everything down yes, and that's what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2:They're just trying to slow, slow it down, slow it down. I don't know why well, slow it down for slow it down, slow it down till hopefully we can get four years out of the way, get him out of the way and then we can go on with what we were doing. Whatever that is, you know, that's exactly.
Speaker 1:And it's all. It's exactly it. To me, it all stems from Trump derangement syndrome too. It is. That is a real thing. Yeah, they can't stand Trump, uh-uh.
Speaker 2:And they can't get over it.
Speaker 1:That's all part of it, but they can't stand. Why do they?
Speaker 2:want gang members here in America. That's a very good question, very good question. You know, even that is going to be detrimental to their system in the long term. But I don't think it's that, I don't think they have that quite in mind.
Speaker 1:I think it's the short term, that part of it. Short term for their long-term goals, that's true I get that, yeah, so I see that I don't know.
Speaker 2:Um, the first thing that has to be cleaned up is our government, our bureaucracy.
Speaker 1:God bless them Once that's you know.
Speaker 2:If you can ever get that taken care of, the rest of it will take care of itself.
Speaker 1:Is he still working on that? Is he still working on cleaning it?
Speaker 2:up. That'll be like I said, that won't be one administration.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:That's three and four administrations down the road, because you've got to get all those people out of there.
Speaker 2:You have to put government back in the hands of the people instead of the hands of the bureaucracy, and as long as these people are yelling and screaming. You know the president. They sent me an email that said I had to list five things I had to do. It's so traumatic. Oh my God, I'm traumatized. Give me a break. I'm traumatized me an email that said I had to list five things I had to do. It's so traumatic. Oh my god, I'm traumatized.
Speaker 2:Give me a break I'm traumatized but one of the things that enlightened me to this and I use the military as an example and I know the military is not like this in every way, shape and form but it was part of the enlightenment.
Speaker 2:You know, as I was working at one of the golf courses, I was at one time uh it was, we had just purchased it and we were kind of the golf courses. I was at one time we had just purchased it and we were kind of and I was running the thing from top to bottom basically, and I had a group of gentlemen that came in and they were eating hot dogs. And this is a very small operation, it's not this one where you get this big 19th hole and all this stuff. But I was working the counter, I was working the. You know, I was working the counter, I was working the starter, I was working inside. I was working outside and this one guy who was a, an army guy, came in and sat down. He had a hot dog and he had all the was he an officer or an enlisted?
Speaker 2:oh, he was, oh, yeah, oh and I'm surprised by that he was he was. He was probably as far along as he was a sergeant. He wasn't a high up.
Speaker 1:He wasn't a command sergeant. I'm still surprised by that.
Speaker 2:Whatever the, you know the.
Speaker 1:I know what you're going to say.
Speaker 2:He wasn't a sergeant major.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what the Army is.
Speaker 2:He wasn't the highest ranking sergeant that you could get to, but he was. Anyway, he just made this mess everywhere. And this is one of these places where you know you clean up your stuff and you throw it away, because there are only a couple of tables and you don't just leave them. And you know I'm sitting there running around. He just left this mess in one of his places. How are you going to clean that up? He says no, they've got people to do that and you going to clean that up.
Speaker 1:He says no, they've got people to do that and I was like I expect that out of an officer but not an enlisted person.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised, yeah, and but that got me to thinking in that same regard. You know what is my assignment today? Your assignment is to dig that hole and then fill it back in. Okay, so I go dig the hole and I fill it back in, and it takes me an hour and I go to my commanding officer and say what the hell are you doing? I dug the hole and I filled it back in.
Speaker 2:You didn't pay attention to detail. What was your assignment today Was to dig the hole and to fill it in for the day. So I transfer that to our government and all the bureaucracy and all the waste that goes on up there, and that's part of that deep state bureaucracy that has to be cleaned out and that can't be cleaned out in a month, a year, four years. It's going to take a few years, just like cleaning up these liberal judges who file for anything willy-nilly, you know, just to block what the executive branch is entitled to do. And that's the whole thing about this podcast today is getting rid of that deep state, which are these judges that file willy-nilly, and getting rid of these organizations that are paid to do nothing but and probably paid with government money funded by the government to stop the government. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:I hate to say this, but I don't think it's ever going to be cleaned out completely. Because you get rid of one, two more is going to step in, even from the right side.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You're going to have people because they get power, they get some money, they get some ego. They're tripping over there. Oh, look at me.
Speaker 2:They get government money and that's hopefully where a lot of this waste stops. And you know you can't take them all down at once, but you start taking them down one at a time and that's where we are, hopefully. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What else do you got?
Speaker 1:Well, we watched a movie last night, a three-hour movie I've seen it before and I don't remember being this draggy slow called Meet Joe Black.
Speaker 2:We could have taken a three-hour tour on the USS Minnow.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed it but I didn't realize it was so slow and draggy, but it was still good. The message was good. I liked it. I enjoyed the Sir Anthony Hopkins in it and Brad Pitt. There were some comical scenes in there.
Speaker 2:I usually fall asleep during movies like this, but I stayed awake for the whole thing and I really did. It was a three-hour movie, but I really did enjoy the movie all the way up to the last four minutes. If they'd have stopped the movie at three hours or two hours and 52 minutes yes, two hours and 52 minutes If they'd have stopped it at two hours and 52 minutes, I would have turned away and said that was a really good movie. Yeah, but they let it run four more minutes, which turned the movie into crap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:I agree, more minutes, which turned the movie into crap. Yeah, I agree and I agree. Oh, that, just that. That was if you, if you, if you, if you do watch it, let me give you a heads up. If you do watch it and you see hopkins and brad pitt walk up over the hill, turn it off, turn it off and just go, okay, because I mean I, I'm handing, I'm handing uh, carol over here, a kleenex, because I know she's getting ready to cry. I'm over there, you know she doesn't see me, but I'm pinching my leg so I don't um and uh, you know, and that was. And then they went on. It was like I reached over. I took the napkin away from her and said you don't need that now Because it was just, they ruined it, yeah, Just like you said, when you see Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt walk over the hill, turn it off.
Speaker 2:Turn it off, Just say that's enough, that's enough. We don't need to see anymore.
Speaker 1:All right, we need to move on to the question of the day. We're going to end this early. We're at 15, 16 minutes already, so, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Question of the day is from the Gent Question of the day is and it's that time of year are you going to revel and participate in March Madness this year and if so, why?
Speaker 1:does it seem not so hyped up this year? Normally every year it's all years March Madness, march Madness, march Madness.
Speaker 2:It seems more this year for me for some reason, and I told you why Because this year the SEC's got they're going to have like 12 or 13 teams that make it. Now, of course, I'm still and this is another episode that we could go through with this. You know why do we have 87,000 teams participating in March Madness when we know there's only a possibility of maybe four or five that are going to win?
Speaker 1:Well, that's the whole point of it, though it's the whole point of March Madness.
Speaker 2:It's you see again.
Speaker 1:The madness of it all, it's the money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the money and, like I said, that's for a whole other episode.
Speaker 1:Don't get me started on that, Okay. Well, can I ask this though? Yeah, who are you pulling for? Who do you think is going to win it all?
Speaker 2:I think that Duke probably has the best chance of winning it if Cooper Flagg can get over his injury. Okay, that's who I would think. Of course I'm pulling for Georgia if they get in, but they have no chance of winning. I'll pull for an SEC team other than Florida. All right, any SEC other than Florida. I do have my rankings as far as who I can pull for in the SEC.
Speaker 1:Are you going to fill out a bracket but?
Speaker 2:I will not pull for Florida.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I hope they lose in the first round. Now, of course, if they get to the finals and they're playing somebody, I'll pull for them, because they're an SEC team, but it'd be very difficult.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you going to fill out a bracket? Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Well, all right, then that's it.
Speaker 2:I'll go back to that year that I picked a perfect bracket but I didn't enter the contest.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, Sure care, all right.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs.