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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris Bennett and the
Morning Brew.
Good morning, it's the MorningBrew with Chris.
Who's this?
It's Producer.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Heck.
Yeah, it is my best friend,producer Ryan, emmy Award
winning Producer Ryan, who nowlives in North Carolina.
How's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh, it's going great.
It's a beautiful morning outhere.
Just thought I'd call in andsay what's up, show Lo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What's up, show Lo,
it's so good to hear from you,
brian, and I have an excitingmonth.
Brian, I have such an eclecticgroup of shows this month.
Tomorrow I'm doing a show for ahomeowners association in Mesa.
The next day, on the secondFriday, I'm hosting the City of
Show Low's anniversary party,the Barbecue Throwdown at
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Frontier Field from 5 to 9.30.
And then later in the month,like mid-May, may 15th or 16th,
you got us a show at a prison inYuma and then I have a show in
Cottonwood the next day, andthen the end of the month I am
officiating my daughter'swedding.
So I'm performing at a prison,an HOA, and officiating my
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daughter's prison.
It's quite the.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I mean, you know and
people said you'd never make it
in this industry.
So look at you now baby.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Look at me now, baby.
So look at you now, baby.
Look at me now, baby.
I'm a little nervous for theshow, but I understand there's
been such a.
You know, a lot of theprisoners are so excited for the
show They've asked us to do notone but two shows.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, there's so many
prisoners that want to see the
show that they can't accommodateall of them in the showroom, so
they're asking us to do twocomedy shows for two groups.
Could be interesting.
I don't know, we'll see how itgoes.
I, you know my I have achildhood friend who's been in
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that prison for 28 years, right,and so I'm thinking he's not
going to get a lot of thereferences, I know, but it'll be
interesting, yeah it's.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I'm doing it for the
story, we are going to film it
and I'm hoping to create acomedy special called Chris Goes
to Prison, and maybe I shouldwear all black like Johnny Cash
or like I was thinking I wasthinking about wearing all black
like Johnny Cash, or like I wasthinking I was thinking about
wearing all black myself, justlike that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
yeah, uh, for the for
the Johnny Cash reference, but
uh, yeah, I don't know yeah,we'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's gonna be uh a
great story, no matter what, and
we have our friend LamarMitchell JR, who I've had uh up
here for shows.
He's gonna be to be joining us,and Lauren Rachel is going to
be joining us as well.
Did you call him Lamar?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mitchell JR instead
of Junior.
Yeah, I think that's what hegoes by.
Really I do.
That's interesting.
I've never heard that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, no, yeah, yeah,
ask him next time.
You see him.
I think he goes by LamarMitchell JR, even though he is a
junior, but I don't know.
Hey, you want to play a gamethis morning?
Sure For Noise Awareness Day,ryan, I'm going to play a couple
noises and you have to tell mewhat the noise is.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I am so ready I'm
going to kill this.
All right, first one here we go.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What's that?
I believe that's a pig.
That is your ex-girlfriend.
Oh hey, yo hey yo no, you areright, claudia what are you
doing on the phone?
All right, next one, next one,here we go.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
All right.
What's that?
Is that a?
I couldn't really hear it verywell, but is that a printer?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, no it is A
blender, blend it up, oh a
blender.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, blend.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It up on our protein
shake, because you know how much
.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I like my protein
shakes.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
All right, next one.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
What is it that would
be?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
a squeaky toy.
It is a rubber duck.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
How am I supposed to
know what kind of squeaky toy it
is?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's just what it
says, and that's also the sound
my tummy makes whenever somebodypokes in my belly.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
All right, and you
are a human squeaky toy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I am a human, uh
squeaky toy.
And last one, here we go allright, what's that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
that is the sound of
my career.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's right, that is
a toilet flushing.
That was noise awareness onNoise Awareness Day with
producer Ryan.
Thanks for calling in, buddy, Ilove you and I'm nervous and
excited for our prison show inYuma.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's going to be
interesting, no matter what,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All right, we have a
little bonus edition with
producer Ryan.
This is just for the podcast,too hot for the radio.
So I asked you about yourdating life.
Any fun dating stories inWilmington, north Carolina?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, so I've been
really striking out on the
dating apps.
You know, haven't been gettingany matches, haven't been
getting any matches and finallyI got a match.
Heck yeah, she's very attractive, but apparently I hadn't read
her profile when I, you know,swiped right.
I just I saw she was cute and Ijust swiped right.
I just I saw she was cute and Ijust swiped right.
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And then I went back after wematched and noticed that it's
actually a situation where she'smarried, but they're in an open
relationship.
Oh okay.
However, to get a date with thewife, you have to go through
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the husband first.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So you basically have
to do a pre-interview with the
husband and then you tell himwhere you want to take her on a
date and he approves it.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Something like that.
So what happened was, you know,I was chatting with the woman
and she's like okay, I'm readyto go on a date with you, but
you have to set it up through myhusband.
She gave me his information totext with him and he was like
you sound cool?
I was like, are we now bestfriends?
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Because this guy was awesome?
We were just chatting it uplike two old pals and uh, he was
like okay, you want to date mywife?
Uh, sounds good, but first weneed to uh go out, all three of
us together oh my god there's,see if there's vibes, see if
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there's vibes.
And so we met up at like alittle brewery here in
Wilmington called Pony-saurus oh, that's awesome, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm not drinking thesedays.
I had an old Diet Coke, oh heckyeah.
And they were throwing back thebrewskis and I thought we had a
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nice time.
We sat and chatted for an hourand a half, chatted about all
kinds of different things, andthen we all gave each other hugs
at the end and said, okay, well, I'll hear from you soon.
And then I opened the datingapp the next morning and noticed
she had unconnected with me,she had unmasked with me, and I
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messaged the husband, I saidwhat happened and he goes oh,
she didn't think there was.
He thought you were nice, butshe didn't think there was any
vibe.
So I had to hear from the guythat I didn't connect.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And then did you ask
him well, can you and I still be
friends?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I didn't.
I felt awkward about it becausehe didn't say like, hey, you
and I should go get a drink orsomething like that.
I just felt weird about it andkind of walked away with my tail
between my legs.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I just felt weird
about it and kind of walked away
with my tail between my legs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well, there's plenty
of other married couple fish in
the sea.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's what I'm
hoping for.
Liz Walburn on the Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Live says I feel like
you just missed being
trafficked.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know if a lot
of traffickers are looking for
a 46 year old single man with achihuahua.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Maybe Alright.
Well, dude, thanks so much forsharing that story with us, ryan
, and love you, buddy.
We'll talk to you later.
Alright, later Woo, and that'smy blog Because Paul from
Beaumont said so.
Woo Woo, heck.
Yeah, it's everyone's favoriteredneck from Beaumont, texas.
Paul from Beaumont, how are youholding up buddy?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm doing good.
I just want to say thanks toeverybody that's sitting there
condolences and prayers.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I felt y'all, thank
y'all.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, we love you,
buddy.
It was your grandpa, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So what are you doing now?
Do you have the week off?
Are you heading home?
You sound like you're driving.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, I went back to
work today.
I'm going to work today.
It's morning Takeoff.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Friday Heck, yeah,
sounds good.
Today is National Honesty Day.
On a scale of 1 to 10, howimportant is honesty to you?
Ten, ten, that's right.
I thought we would play a funlittle game.
Country edition two truths anda lie.
I'm going to name a countryartist and you have to tell me
which one is the lie.
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You ready, let's do this?
All right, luke Combs he playedfootball in college before
switching to music.
That's true.
You're saying that's true.
Okay, his debut album, hisdebut.
Are you going to let me finish?
Go ahead, let me read thechoices.
His debut album, this One's Foryou, went three times platinum
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and he proposed to his wife,nicole, in a kitchen.
What is the lie?
Oh, my God.
Proposed to his wife, nicole,in a kitchen.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
What is the lie?
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Proposed to his wife
in a kitchen or played football.
That is the lie.
That is the lie.
He played rugby, not football.
Interesting, he's a big boy.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I didn't even think
he played rugby.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He just did rugby
athletics.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
All right.
Next one, reba McIntyre.
She was discovered singing thenational anthem at a rodeo.
She has her own line ofclothing and home goods and her
first number one single wasFancy.
Which one is the lie?
That is her number, her firstnumber one single.
Although Fancy is iconic, itwas not her first number one.
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And last one, a little DollyParton for you.
She turned down a nomination tothe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
She once entered a Dolly Partonlookalike contest and lost.
Or she was born in Dollywood,tennessee, born in Dollywood,
tennessee.
That is the lie.
That Dollywood didn't existwhen she was born.
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It's her own invention.
But that's hilarious.
That she once entered a DollyParton lookalike contest and
lost.
Yeah, I think that was atGillies too.
Oh really.
Oh, they're in Texas.
Oh, you think Today is NationalBugs Bunny Day.
So we're going to do a littleBugs Bunny trivia to see who is
smarter.
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Your name is your buzzer.
Here we go.
What is the first appearance,early version of Bugs Bunny?
Was it Porky's Hair Hunt?
Television series, motor parkor judge's court?
Chris, I'm going to say Porky'sHair Hunt.
All right, I am correct.
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
The cartoon was released in 1938and features Bugs Bunny as a
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secondary character.
All right.
Next question Bugs Bunny wascreated by whom?
Is it Ben Hardaway, cal Dalton,prototype, tex Avery, official
or all of the above?
Paul, paul, go ahead.
Tex Avery, tex Avery, I'm goingto say all of the above.
Correct answer, all of theabove, holy moly.
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He was initially created by BenHardaway and Cal Dalton as a
prototype, and then later, texAvery developed the official
version of Bugs Bunny.
Therefore, all threeindividuals played a role in the
creation of Bugs Bunny.
I am up two to zero.
This last question is worth amillion.
If you get itugs Bunny.
I am up two to zero.
This last question is worth amillion.
If you get it right, you canwin.
Here we go.
What is the nationality of BugsBunny?
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Is it American, british, germanor Japanese?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Paul, American man
American.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That's what I think
and that is the correct answer.
Bugs Bunny is proud to be anAmerican and you are smarter
than a very handsome radio DJ.
That's what's up, Doc.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's right, buddy.
That's what's up.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, all right,
buddy, have a great day.
All right, you silly rabbit,see you.
You silly rabbit, talk to youtomorrow.
Bye, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Let's check in with
our best friend, janine Ford,
over at our sister stationsMagic 1017 and Italk 1067.
Janine, are you over there?
Yes, I am.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Heck yeah, happy hump
day, last day of the month.
That's right, oh gosh, april isover.
Any exciting news in your neckof the woods?
Well, I can finally tell you mybig exciting story of kind of
like the year.
Okay, it's been a secretbecause not everybody knew so I
couldn't tell.
Okay, this is what happened.
This is it in a nutshell.
We go down the day before Easterto my son Cody and his wife
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Kennedy's house.
Right, we're sitting therehaving Gatorades and in the
middle of the table there's alittle stack of scratcher cards
and I know they don't reallygamble, but I'm kind of like
going God, you got scratchercards there.
And he goes yeah, dad got themfor us.
And he goes Mom, I won $70 onone of those things.
He said we still have a fewmore Scratch won and he was
super cool about it.
So I scratched it and threegold bars.
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And then I go to scratch theprice and it says we're having a
baby.
And so, yeah, baby, but that'snot the biggest shock.
Okay, the next day is Easter,the entire family is standing
around the table and he says tome mom, no one else knows his
brother Austin, and Karina, hissweetheart, nobody knows my
brother's there.
Tons of people, okay, lots offamily and friends.
And so I give the Mom at the end, say please bless the baby
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that's about to come into ourfamily.
I get to the end of the prayer,I say please bless this baby
that's going to enter our familyin about six months, and the
parents, cody and Kennedy, andeverybody erupts.
I can barely say amen, right.
So then there's a funny look onmy other son's face and his
friend says oh, maybe Austin andRena are pregnant.
And we all laugh.
(15:16):
You know, I said you guysaren't pregnant too.
And then he kind of says underhis breath well, yeah, mom, we
are too.
And nobody knew.
Both the brothers didn't know.
They scream Cody picks Austinup.
I mean it's like crazy, andthey're due the same time.
Chris, the first children, mytwo boys, their first babies,
are due the same week.
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First week in December, oh mygosh, I know, oh man, oh, my
gosh, I mean my first grandkids,and I'm getting two first week
in December.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh, my gosh, holy
moly, congratulations.
That is such exciting news.
Are you ready to be a grandma?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh yes, Because see,
Clint has adorable grandchildren
he's been sharing with me.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We have five.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So I play with them
and love them and they're
awesome kids.
But this is going to be supercool.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So now we're going to
have seven Full house, holy
moly, that's great news, bestfriend, congratulations, super
excited.
Yeah, do you feel like doing alittle?
Am I the jerk court today?
Yes, yes, all right, all riseand welcome to.
Am I the Jerk Court?
The Honorable Janine Fordpresides.
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You got your robe and wig on.
Oh, yeah, all right, the whitepowder wig, yeah, oh wonderful.
Okay, here's today's story andwhen we come back we'll get your
ruling.
So today at work we had alittle fiesta themed lunch event
.
While I was in line, I openedmy Nest app and saw a bird
that's been visiting my houseevery day.
I laughed and said out loudthis bird comes to visit me
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every day out of nowhere.
A coworker who's made pregnancyjokes before walked up, rubbed
my belly and said maybe it'sbecause you've got a baby bird
on the way.
Oh my gosh.
I felt immediately a wave ofrage Like why are we still doing
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this in 2025?
So I snapped and said don't bewishing that kind of bad luck on
me.
She looked shocked and even myboss gave me a weird look like I
was the one out of line.
But seriously, why are we stilldoing this in 2025?
I didn't ask to be touched.
I'm not pregnant and I don'tthink that kind of comment is
cute or funny.
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So now I'm asking am I the jerkfor reacting this way?
Janine, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, I think she's
overreacting a little bit yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, people think
I'm pregnant all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Exactly, and you know
, I don't know, I think it's a
little overreaction.
I mean, I don't think theco-worker was meaning anything
by it.
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's
not a good idea to touch
anyone's belly and it is badpractice to ever assume a lady
is pregnant, right?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yes, yeah, I agree,
and maybe you don't touch, you
know, you could do a little airrub on the belly, you know, four
inches out and say the samething.
But you know, maybe, but thatmassive, dramatic overreaction,
you know I don't know, I don'tknow, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So in the case of, am
I the jerk for yelling at my
coworker who said I might bepregnant?
You rule.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I don't think she's a
jerk, I don't know, I just
maybe, maybe, maybe you're ajerk.
But also here's another side tothis is if that person I would
like to know is if I saw apicture if she was a little bit
heavy, like she has a littlepooch, a little stomach.
It would be much, much morerude.
I don't know, I don't know.
I just I'm kind of it of I'mtorn on this one, but I don't.
I think she overreacted.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, so you're going
to say she is the jerk.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
A little bit.
Yeah, okay, don't overreact,just chill, and it's always
better to just handle it, sloughit off.
If you're irritated, just say,hey, that wasn't so cool, right.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Come on, don't take
things too seriously.
All right, janine Rules, youare kind of the jerk.
There you go.
All right, janine, you're thebest.
Thanks for having fun and again, congratulations, thank you and
have a great day.
You too.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Good morning.
It's the Morning Brew withChris.
Who's this?
Good morning my friend Heckyeah, it's everyone's favorite
cowboy out of Eager Arizona,virgil the Cowboy.
How are you guys doing on thishump day?
We are?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
really busy.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We're cleaning up the
milk that they left behind.
Yeah, so you were having acookout yesterday in honor of
your cowgirl friend, whorecently passed away.
And how was the cookout?
Did it get a little wild?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Oh, we had more
people come than we thought
would come.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
There was hundreds
and hundreds of people here.
How many?
Over a hundred, Holy moly man.
Everyone came to pay theirrespects and have a good time at
the cookout.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, we even had a
dance going on.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh nice, what type of
dance, Like country line
dancing slow dancing.
Yeah, country western.
Yeah, yeah.
Have you ever done the Macarena?
No, I don't even know how todance.
You didn't dance at all.
I just walk around.
Oh nice Heck.
Yeah, you know how to dance.
You didn't dance at all, I justwalk around.
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Oh nice heck.
Yeah, you walk around and yoube mysterious.
Yeah, yeah.
Um.
Well, is there a song you guyswant to hear this morning?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
yeah, they wanted to
hear that.
Uh cowgirl rides away.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I don't know who
sings that, but oh, yes, uh, I
think you're talking about johnparty.
Ain't always the cowboy thatrides away, or is it George
Strait the cowboy rides away?
No, I think the other one, theJohn Party.
All right, hey how about whenwe come back?
Today is National Honesty Dayand I was wondering if you want
to play a little two truths anda lie with me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right, how about
you give me two truths and a lie
about yourself and I try andspot the lie?
How does that sound?
All right?
All right, go ahead, give metwo truths and a lie about
Virgil.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I take care of my
people and I walk over them and
the lie is I'm a mean person.
I'm a mean boss.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You're not supposed
to tell me what the lie is.
I'm supposed to spot it.
But you take care of people,you love people, and the lie is
you're a mean boss.
Are you a super nice boss?
Why should someone want to workfor you?
Because they like the way Iboss them around.
All right, I'll give you twotruths and a lie about me, and
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you've got to guess which one'sthe lie.
You ready, all right?
All right, this month I amdoing a comedy show at a prison
in Yuma Maximum Security Prisonin Yuma.
I am officiating my daughter'swedding and I am also doing a
comedy burlesque show.
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Which one is the lie?
Virgil, the last one?
Ah, you are right, it is thelast one, although I have done a
burlesque comedy show and itwas a lot of fun.
Well, virgil, thanks for havingfun with us today on this
National Honesty Day.
I hope you have a great rest ofyour day and hopefully we'll
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talk to you tomorrow.
Later, my friend, later, buddyBye.