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
Golf, Diversity, and the Nostalgia of Traditional Sports Etiquette
Golf's most prestigious tournament reveals something extraordinary about human behavior. At Augusta National, where the Masters unfolds each spring, strange rules create a pocket universe of civility that feels increasingly rare in modern life. Imagine placing your chair beside a green at dawn, wandering the course for hours, and returning to find everything exactly as you left it—untouched by thousands of passing strangers. No cell phones buzz, no cameras click, and nobody runs—under penalty of permanent banishment.
This weekend's tournament features Rory McIlroy's quest to join the ultra-exclusive club of Career Grand Slam winners—only five golfers in history have accomplished this feat. While discussing golf's traditions, we stumble upon a surprising revelation about 1970s television. Despite today's narratives suggesting entertainment lacked diversity until recently, a quick examination of 1975's TV lineup reveals shows like Sanford and Son, Chico and the Man, and others that featured minority leads and diverse casts. Have we collectively misremembered history to emphasize modern progress?
Speaking of recycled narratives, we share a laugh about Bernie Sanders' remarkably consistent message. For nearly sixty years, he's been warning about "the oligarchy," using virtually identical language across decades. As each new generation discovers his message, we wonder about the cyclical nature of political rhetoric and how some talking points never seem to evolve. The conversation wraps up with our question of the day: Which sporting event is absolute must-watch TV for you—the one where you prep all your snacks, check your remote batteries, and refuse to schedule anything else?
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Hello, good morning, happy Masters weekend. The last day of the Masters is today. I'm going to talk in my golf voice.
Speaker 2:Just kidding.
Speaker 1:Hello, good morning. Welcome to Brood Awakening.
Speaker 2:Good morning. The coffee is great and the conversation is lively Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So the Masters go.
Speaker 2:It is today, the last day, the final round, and it's looking like it's going to be a great one. The weather is going to be apparently awfully good, beautiful. No wind is the big thing. If that wind came up on that golf course that would be just brutal for those guys out there. For a lot of you people who don't know a whole lot about that golf course, if it dries out and it gets windy they can make it as hard as they want to, to the point where even those guys couldn't finish the golf course, much less the the regular amateur going out there to play.
Speaker 2:That you know, I've had a lot of people ask you know, what would you shoot if you went out there and played? And I, I, you know, I I can give them a number, but you know I would never really know. But a lot of the people that, oh you know, did you see him? He shot 78 that day. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I just look at him. I said you know you couldn't finish that golf course, because there are certain places on that golf course if they wanted to put the pins that you'd never finish the hole. That's how hard this golf course is and that's how good these guys are and it just shows really, really how good. Right now, uh, two guys are playing. I mean they're they're just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:But you know, the biggest thing about that golf tournament is the. You know it's an exclusive golf tournament. You don't just go buy a ticket and go to it. You have a ticket, you're on. You know you're on a list for tickets for years and years and years. You know if you put your name on there, you're never going to get a ticket. To get a ticket to the regular rounds, you have to know somebody to get it. To get a ticket to the regular rounds, you have to know somebody to get it. But the things about it is and this is one of the great things about it if you ever get to go to a round a Thursday through Friday round number one you do not take a cell phone, you do not take a camera, you are without. So you know you get a good eight hours to ten hours if you're out there without a cell phone. Do you think you can do it? But that's the first thing. And if you've ever watched the early parts where they open the gates to the to the ticket holders, you'll see they'll have their chairs and their backpacks and all, and they walk briskly. You do not run. Running is not allowed. If you run you get nabbed off the golf course and get your tickets taken from you and you're off the list. So you don't run. But you walk briskly and it looks like the Olympics as they're walking out to their places to get.
Speaker 2:And you go out and say, let's, you want to watch hole number 16. You take, and it's a seven o'clock in the morning, there's nobody playing 16. You run out, the walk as fast as you can, out to number 16. And you put your chair down. You put your stuff down and guess what? You are free to run the golf course, not run, run, walk.
Speaker 2:But you can go walk the golf course, not run, run, walk, but you can go walk the golf course and watch anybody play. And then, when it's time you want to go back to hole number 16, you go back. There's your chair, nobody's touched it, nobody's moved it, and that's your place for the day. Now that leads me to say can you imagine that at a regular golf tournament somewhere else, where now you, you know, they've got grandstands around and they're cheering and throwing beer and yeas, and you know, it's just what it's it's. It's a different world, I guess is the best way to put it, but it's something that I think we should all go back to a little decorum, a little bit of respect for other people and other things and all that stuff and respect for traditions and old time games. That's my take on it, and it's going to be a great day.
Speaker 1:So who's leading and who do you want to win?
Speaker 2:Well, bryson DeChambeau is the American that is in second place behind Rory McIlroy, northern Ireland. You know I'd like to pull for the American, but Bryson's not my favorite person. But Rory has backed the PGA Tour, which I think is a great thing, and he's also in line to win what we call what they call the Grand Slam. Masters Grand Slam he's not going to win it in a year, but it'll be the career Grand Slam where he wins all of the major championships. Master's Grand Slam he's not going to win it in a year, but it'll be the career Grand Slam where he wins all of the major championships.
Speaker 1:Kind of like an actor who gets the EGOT, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and I forgot what the T is for.
Speaker 2:Okay, sure, absolutely, but there aren't. There are only five people that have done that.
Speaker 1:Oh wow.
Speaker 2:So it would be a great thing. He would join people that current people know Tiger and Jack and Arnold Palmer and Gene Sarazin to win all five, and Gary Player no, gary Player hadn't done it. Who's the fifth? See, I don't even know the fifth. Anyway, there are only five people that have done it. He would become the sixth. So I think I've got to pull for Rory today.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I've got to do it.
Speaker 1:And we're going to be rooting for them and listening to them and watching on our phones, because we have a birthday party to go to today. Yes, the. Grand Cam's turning three.
Speaker 2:We're going to have to do something about that. We're going to have to move his birthday a month, because I think last year was the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yep, it was.
Speaker 2:Of course you know, cam's mom has no idea that there's a golf tournament on when they do this. I've already told our son there will be two TVs on and both of them will have the Masters on. So you know, know, but we'll go enjoy the, enjoy the party he'll. He only turns three once. Yeah, so we'll, we'll go and have a great time watching that yeah absolutely so in other areas of discussion.
Speaker 1:Uh, you brought up. I don't know why you brought it up, but I guess. Guess you were scrolling through Facebook and you came upon a post about 1975 TV shows. Yeah, I did and you asked me what all did they have in common? And I think I was able to tell you right away, wasn't I? Or maybe not, Anyway.
Speaker 2:I think it was your second guess. Okay, but you were close.
Speaker 1:I forgot what my first guess was.
Speaker 2:I can't remember either, but I think it was your second, because I was like no, but you're close. You know, we hear all this.
Speaker 1:I think it was like good clean, something like that.
Speaker 2:Yes, you said good, clean entertainment, which it was, but there was something else about it. You know, as I was looking at the lineup, we hear, you know, all this talk about how there weren't any ethnic programs, not enough people of color doing TV shows. Diversity there wasn't diversity in programming and all this stuff read them off. It was like every other show add one was had ethnic diversity or minority groups minority groups starring.
Speaker 2:You know there was sanford and son chico and the man police woman which is yeah, which is you're not racial, but it's, you know, it's not a man show.
Speaker 1:It's a woman show there were two others.
Speaker 2:One of them was about a black man and a jewish man. You know that were doing something and apparently it was a show that mbc had on for a couple of years, or mbc was it a comedy.
Speaker 1:You can't remember the name of it.
Speaker 2:I can't remember offhand, but then there was another one, there were two others, but they were all very diverse ethnically and this was in 1975. So it just kind of made me think, well, is this a manufactured thing that they talk about, that there weren't any ethnic shows, shows that had a lot of ethnicity to them, or not? Is this manufactured? Is this what people are wanting to believe? If you read it, then it's true.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So we're going to read that there wasn't a lot of diversity back in the 1970s, but there actually was.
Speaker 1:A lot of it. I remember we've been watching older movies, even oh yeah. And there's all kinds of diversity in the movies back from the eighties.
Speaker 2:Well, so don't give me that crap. Yep, there was. So again, it's one of those things you know. If you don't investigate it, you're going to believe what you know, just going to believe what you say, what people say, I mean, just look at the Eddie Murphy movies that were out back then and Richard Pryor was popular, so don't give me anything about.
Speaker 1:there wasn't any diverse anything back then.
Speaker 2:shut up yeah, yeah, you know how come. Blazing saddles hasn't been oh my gosh and thrown off the way even I feel uncomfortable with that one. Oh it's, but it's a. You know, the and that's the big thing about that part that movie is that they're using those words and not as a cut down to the black people or to the Chinese, but to show how awful and ridiculous this is. To show how ridiculous the white people were using these and how you know people don't use those words.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, they're showing ribs on TV, but that was so you, but that was so funny, but you know why haven't they gone after blazing saddles, yeah, so anyway, those are a couple of things that just kind of popped up on my radar for the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the other thing I remember now is how long have we been fighting the oligarchy?
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, yes, Bernieernie sandals so funny. Yeah, I saw a little meme on one of the social media sites of from, you know, whenever bernie was a lad I say a lad, a young person in congress or wherever the hell he is, senate, whatever, whatever, I think it was a 1970-something thing where you know, how about we fight the oligarchy? It was like a 1970-something. I was like what? So for 60 years he's been fighting. You know, this is the oligarchy, it's coming, this is it Oligarchy. And now he's found AOC to partner with him to fight the oligarchy. Oh Lord, and people still, you know he's got a new every year. I guess it's kind of.
Speaker 1:A new generation comes up. You've got to fight the oligarchy.
Speaker 2:You've got to fight the oligarchy. So you know, maybe we'll all get behind him and you know there won't be any more oligarchy and we can just go back to our regular old government.
Speaker 1:I wonder if there's a website called theoligarchycom.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I don't know, but yeah All right?
Speaker 1:well, we've got to get up and get moving. We're late putting this out and I need some breakfast.
Speaker 2:That means, yeah, I was going to say it's not, we're late and everything. That means I've got to get up and cook breakfast.
Speaker 1:It's just. I'm hungry, that's what that means they're showing ribs on the morning show.
Speaker 2:We're not having ribs this morning we're going to have one egg, small curd and a piece of watermelon.
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:Maybe we'll tell you about breakfast next week.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, we need a question of the day. Oh yeah, all right. The gent has the question of the day.
Speaker 2:All right. The question of the day today is and this goes along with Masters weekend what sporting event is mandatory? Watching for you, where you schedule nothing, you get all the food prepped, you get all the beverages prepped, you make sure your remote control has batteries and you sit down and you watch.
Speaker 1:That's a good one. I like that. There it is. Yours would be the masters, but although we're going to the birthday party or football, you like football well, this one's the masters would be it, but yeah, there is an overriding thing here, so georgia football but we only could pick one.
Speaker 2:Okay, so all right that would be it.
Speaker 1:That's it all right, gotta go. Thanks for listening go dogs.