May 6, 2025 • 20 mins
Chris Bennett reunites with old friends while counting down to his upcoming comedy show at Yuma State Prison. This episode blends nostalgia, prison prep, redneck wisdom, and one deeply emotional moment when Paul from Beaumont makes Chris cry — in under 15 seconds.
• Sandra "The Top Fandra" returns to the White Mountains after time in Oklahoma
• Chris prepares for his clean comedy show behind bars — just 10 days away
• Jineane highlights National Teachers Day & National Nurses Day
• Former defense attorney Kirk Nurmi gives Chris real (and slightly scary) advice about prison crowds
• Paul from Beaumont suggests prison tattoos and redneck Mother’s Day gifts
• Paul also attempts — and succeeds — in making Chris cry
• "Are You Smarter Than a Redneck?" music trivia edition
• Good news stories: a Parkinson's research breakthrough & a baby donkey with two moms
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and
the Morning Brew.
Good morning, it's the MorningBrew with Chris.
Who's this?
It's Sandra.
Good morning, best friend.
Holy moly, sandra, the top.
Sandra, a voice from the, avoice from the blast, a blast
(00:20):
from the past.
You lived here and you movedaway not too long ago.
What's been up to Moving?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
back.
Heck, yeah, we're in Choloright now.
We made our first tripyesterday, our first load.
Heck, oh man, yeah, we drove 19hours straight through.
It was like let's get there,get there, get there.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, you came from Oklahoma.
Yes, awesome, well, welcomecame from Oklahoma.
Yes, awesome, well, welcomeback to the White Mountains,
sandra.
It's been a while since you'vebeen on the Morning Brew.
If you had to tell a newlistener the most interesting or
entertaining fact about Sandrathe Top Fandra, what should we
know?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I love Jesus, I love dogs and I love coffee.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's a good trifecta.
So you guys are just movingtoday.
Well, we just took our firstload yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We probably got four loads to do around trip.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How's Casey doing?
He's doing great.
Lost 50 pounds, heck yeah.
What's your favorite thingabout Casey these days?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
He lets me have as many dogs as I want.
No, he's a hard worker, he's agood man, he loves the Lord and
he treats me like a princess.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And he's finally learned that saying no to you,
getting new dogs is just afruitless effort.
Right, that's right.
I mean he still dogs is just afruitless effort.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right, that's right.
I mean he still says no.
But I show up with him andafter a month of him being mad,
he ends up cuddling them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh, nice.
Well, Sandra, it's so good tohear from you.
I'm so glad you're going to beback here in the White Mountains
.
What was the thing you missedmost about the White Mountains?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Chris Bennett in the morning brew.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, dude, you know how to say all the right things,
sandra, you're the best.
Janine, are you over there?
Yes, I am.
How are you, chris?
Good, how are you doing on this?
Talk About Something GoodTuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, doing great.
And you know we're all focusedon Mother's Day this coming
Sunday.
But Chris, chris, we've got toremember today is National
Teachers Day and National NursesDay.
You know, usually thesenational days are just kind of
dumb, but these, these are bigones today.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yes, two pillars in our community.
Yeah, like I definitely want tobe where I am today without
some great teachers, and therewere a lot of times when I had
some great nurses take care ofme and nurse me back to health.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, yeah, they're detrimental, and I mean the most
important people, the teachersand the nurses to our future and
I mean they're huge, they'rehuge.
So please show yourappreciation to your great
teachers, and we have greatteachers up here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, and also Janine, thank you for the reminder.
Sunday is Mother's Day.
Yes, Sunday is Mother's day.
Yes, sunday is mother's day.
Forget that?
What?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
is the best gift I could get for my wife.
You think, oh, I don't know,I'm not gonna tell you what just
popped into my mind.
You're gonna die.
No, I won't say it.
No, I don't know why.
But right when you said that I,I my brain just went silence so
bad.
Why did that sounds so bad?
Why did I think that?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, because you work right next to me and you
hear how loud I am, so I'm surethat's what you would like I
wasn't thinking so much aboutyou, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I just yeah, no, yeah , that's fun.
That was weird how that justleaped into my brain.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, janine.
The countdown has begun.
10 days till Chris goes toprison.
I'm doing a comedy show withsome fellow comedian friends on
the 16th down in Yuma at theprison there and I'm nervous,
excited, and I understand you'vebeen to prison a few times in
(04:01):
your journalistic career.
What advice do you have for me?
You said something scary isgoing to happen to me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, you know, I don't know that anything scary
is going to happen to you rightthen, okay, and there's some
protocol.
You know you'll get searched alittle bit and that kind of
stuff.
You know it'll just be makingsure you're not carrying
anything, you know shivs intothe prison or something.
No, but the other thing thathappened to me every time I
(04:27):
would go, you'd be in prison andyou'd be, I'd be doing
interviews of different peopleand things that were in prison,
and then also when people are indeath row, going there, and
it's the dreams and nightmaresyou have afterward.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, no yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's kind of weird you that like some of your guilt
will creep up in a dream andyou're just like being arrested
and you're being drug intoprison.
Yeah, you'll get a lot of thosedreams.
That's what I didn't likeafterward.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, my gosh and I have the most vivid and scary
dreams to begin with, do you?
Yeah, and I don't.
It's going to be a veryinteresting audience because,
like my friend who has a friendthat's been in there for 28
years, that guy has never livedwith a smartphone.
So, like some of my jokes, likeI don't know if they're going
(05:10):
to get the references becausethey've kind of been blocked
from the world, right.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, so it'll be, but I think I don't know.
I know, are you struggling withwhat comedy to use and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, not really.
My friend Ryan and I are goingto write this weekend and kind
of go over, because you have alot of rules to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, do you?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There's a lot of topics that you can't talk about
or they don't want you to talkabout and avoid.
So it's funny that I'm going toa prison to do super super
clean comedy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, yeah, very clean comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Exactly, yeah, so I'm looking forward to it.
Nervous about the show, and nowI'm nervous about the
nightmares.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It just bothered me.
I knew because I had to cover alot of that and I knew that I
would go to that.
And then I knew I'd have sometime where my brain would just
be yeah, it would just be.
You know nightmare.
But doing news period gave youa lot of nightmares.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, I could not do the news?
Absolutely not.
All right, janine, on this,talk about something good.
Tuesday, let's share some goodnews.
I'll go first Sound good, okay,yeah.
All right.
Today my good news comes fromOhio, where a longtime music
conductor is now back in frontof his orchestra thanks to a
breakthrough in Parkinson'streatment.
Ryan Laycock was diagnosed withParkinson's 11 years ago and
(06:28):
over time his tremors just madeit harder to lead the 100-piece
orchestra.
But recently doctors at theCleveland Clinic fitted him with
what's called an adaptive deepbrain stimulation.
It's kind of like a pacemakerfor the brain and this device
sends little electronic signalsto parts of the brain that
control movement.
And since the surgery, janine,his tremors have nearly
(06:50):
disappeared and he's now back toconducting again with
confidence.
And he says my symptoms areminimal compared to the way they
were and it's life changing.
And now, in his 47th yearconducting, he says he's
grateful for the technology andfor the chance to do what he
loves with steady hands and afull heart.
Pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Wow, that is an incredible story.
That is a good one, yeah whatdo you got I?
love that one.
I know mine's a little cutestory and we've heard this story
before, but I just love itbecause it involves animals,
cute animals.
Okay, a donkey born on a farmin Scotland ended up with two
moms and they have no idea whohis mom is.
Instead of one, see, twodonkeys gave birth at the very
(07:31):
same time.
Literally they had no clue.
It was like you know that theyhave them at nighttime mostly,
and sadly one of the babies wasstillborn, but no one knows
which donkey.
The one, the baby that was left, the little boy they don't know
which is his mom.
Both moms assumed it was theirsand they both have been caring
(07:52):
for him equally.
And the farmer keeps watching.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
He cannot tell so this little guy has two moms and
it's super cute.
Oh, I remember in the 80s therewas a TV show called my Two
Dads.
And this is kind of like aremake of that.
My Two Mom, donkeys, my Two Mom.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Donkeys.
I can think of a a remake ofthat.
There you go, my two momdonkeys, my two mom donkeys.
That's like I can think of ajoke too.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, An ASS joke yeah, yeah, right, that's so
funny.
Yeah, okay, awesome.
Well, that was some good newson Talk About Something Good
Tuesday.
I hope you have a great rest ofyour day, best friend.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You too, chris, have a good one, bye-.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Good morning.
It's the Morning Brew withChris.
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Good morning Chris Bennett, his best friend, kirk
Nermy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Holy moly, talk about another blast from the past.
We talked to Sandra, the TopFander this morning and we have
not had the opportunity to talkto our best friend and gritty
true crime correspondent, kirkNermy, as seen on Court TV.
What has been up with you?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Oh, just you know, doing my thing, doing my Court
TV and working on some otherprojects.
So yeah, nothing really new.
I was here doing my push-upsand hearing about your trip to
prison.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yes, Now you know a thing or two about prison.
You were a criminal defenseattorney and defended a lot of
people in prison, most famouslyJody Arias.
I'm going to a men's prison.
What advice do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, I was actually thinking, you know, because
you're kind of quite the mama'sboy, I thought, now that you're
almost 50, you can have a chanceto step out of your comfort
zone, pull a prank, the ultimateprank, on your parents.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, first, of all, before I find out what prank
you're talking about, let's getback to almost 50, kirk Nermy,
I'm 44.
I'm a ways away from 50.
Don't be lumping me into that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's been a rough 44, .
Chris, I think you're close.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So you know I'm scared spitless of my parents
and I care very much what theythink about me.
So what prank do you think Ishould play on them?
Call them collect from prison.
I wonder if I'm allowed to makeany calls from prison, but that
would be amazing, that would bethe best.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
This is a collect call from the Yuma State Prison
from Chris Bennett.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'll think about it.
That would be a good prank.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You won't do it, you don't got that gut, I won't do
it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Any advice for me?
Like performing for theseprisoners, we're doing a free
show.
It was so popular that we'rehaving two shows and I'm going
to film it for a comedy specialcalled Chris Goes to Prison a
clean comedy special.
What advice do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Wear pants and don't look anybody in the eye.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh, really, I love making eye contact, but that's
good, don't look anyone in theeye when I'm there.
Yeah, okay, all right, there wego.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Not that you want to stay there.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, I do not.
I do not want to stay there.
Indeed Kirk Nermy, so greathearing from you, best friend,
and if you want to come toprison with me, let me know.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
No thanks, I'm good.
I've visited enough jails andprison in my day.
I'll leave that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Awesome, and when can we?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
catch you on Court TV again Thursday night at 5
o'clock.
Now, on Closing Arguments withVinnie Paul, we'll be talking
about the Karen Reid trialthat's catching everyone's
attention across the nation.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's right, and you can follow Kirk Nermy on
Facebook at Kirk's what's yourTrue.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Crime Clubhouse, nermy's True Crime Clubhouse,
and Chris, if you wind up inprison, I'll pitch the story to
Court TV.
It could be great.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh yes, Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Give you some TV exposure.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I love it.
All right, no bad press,yee-yee, yee-yee.
Everyone's favorite redneckfrom Beaumont, texas it's Paul
from Beaumont.
We've been talking about it'sT-10 days till I go to prison.
Dude, you ought to get a prisontag.
Well, last night, at a Cinco deMayo party I was at, they had
stick-on tattoos at Rocky's andI put one on my neck.
(12:01):
So did you check?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
out my taco neck tattoo.
You need to get loaded up withthose when you go to prison.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, you've started playing music, and would you
ever go to a prison, maybe toperform for the prisoners as a
volunteer thing?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I mean maybe I mean, what are they going?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
to do.
Yeah, I don't know Like theyall have to be on their best
behavior and it's Are they goingto tell your friends I want to
go see that guy.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
No, All their friends are with them.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, that's a good point, and I'm worried that
you're not going to get some ofour references, but it's
definitely you know what?
It's definitely going to be agood story and that's why I'm
doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Yeah, exactly, it's going to be one of those things
you're going to carry with youthe rest of your days.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know it, today is National Teacher Day.
Paul, was there a teacher inyour life that sticks out in
your mind as having some of thebiggest impact on you?
No, no, really, you don't haveone teacher.
Mine was Mr Barker.
He was our theater, he did theplays at Seton High School and
(13:22):
he was also a theater teacher atASU and he was the one that
kind of helped introduce me totheater and introduced me to
comedy, and he definitely had apositive impact.
Coach Dixon, coach Dixon.
And what did Coach Dixon do?
Was he a high school coach?
What was he?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah, he was a high school coach.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And what was so great about him, Mr Barker?
He basically put me on the pathI'm on now as an entertainer.
What did your coach do?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I didn't say he was great.
I said, yeah, man, he wanted meto run and do all this other
stuff.
He said, hey, look, man, Iain't built for that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He convinced me I was.
This was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Paul, just a reminder Mother's Day is this Sunday.
Do you have all your planslined up?
What are you going to do forRhonda?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Oh, we're going to go over to Jesse's Saturday.
Maybe drink beer all night.
Do some biscuits and pork butts.
Oh, that sounds like a niceMother's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, maybe smoke some cream cheese.
Ooh, you going to get her agift or no?
I already did.
What was it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Or are you not allowed to say it.
Oh, it was all wrapped up inone for the whole month of May.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh nice, but it was delivered and she found it right
.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
No, no, no, no, no.
And she said she got emailedsomething saying what it was, so
I was like forget it.
Here you go, you don't ruin mysurprise.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And what was it?
Ipad, nice, good job.
All right, paul, let's play agame.
It seems like you're prettygood at getting gifts, but I'm
going to find out if a gift istoo redneck to give or if it's
respectable for a Mother's Daygift edition.
You ready Gas station flowersat 10 am on Mother's Day Redneck
(15:29):
or respectable.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
That's you forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You forgot about it.
So that's redneck.
Okay, how about a homemade cardwith glitter, macaroni and duct
tape?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah forsure that's respectable.
I think my wife would love that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright, how about breakfast inbed?
But it's beef jerky and amonster energy drink.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
That's pretty redneck-y there, rhonda wouldn't
want that?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't think.
So.
How about a Mother's DayFacebook post instead of a phone
call?
That's good, that's good.
What are you talking about?
My mom would be upset if Ididn't call her on Mother's Day.
I was like, well, didn't youcheck your Facebook?
I tagged you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, everybody's on Facebook so there you go.
You know what you just didn'ttell her?
You told the whole world.
You told everybody on Facebookto think about mama.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
How about a gift card to the feed store?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I mean, like man, that's a double-edged sword
there.
I mean, there's horses involved, so that might be a good one
that might be a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And last one, writing a country song about her and
performing it at karaoke.
Yeah, that'd be a good one.
That's redneck and respectable,right?
Yeah, that's great.
Depends on what you wrote.
All right, that was Redneck orRespectable.
Mother's Day Edition this is aspecial bonus segment, just for
the podcast with Paul from Boma.
(16:51):
I am officiating my daughter'swedding at the end of the month
and I am a big crier and I'mworried that I'm going to be
bubbling, a blubbering fool,through the whole thing.
So, paul, I want to play a gamewhere I kind of try to do the
first part of the ceremony withcrying and then you have 30
seconds to try and make me cry,and if you do it, you win, and
(17:15):
if I don't cry, I win.
Sound good, okay, all right,here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'rehere today for the union of two
beautiful, beautiful soulsMadison Bennett and Beckett
Ricks.
All right, I didn't cry.
That was a good start.
You almost You're fixing to.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You're fixing to.
You're fixing to.
Because you know, just pictureyour daughter there in a white
dress, holding this guy's hands,and you're looking at both of
them and you know, and you'reliterally giving your daughter
to another guy, and for life,for life.
(17:56):
Okay, you win, you win.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Gotcha, that was try to make Chris cry.
It is now time for.
Are you Smarter Than a Redneck?
Today, paul, it is NationalConcert Day.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
Man, it'd probably be.
I don't know.
If it would not have beenChristmas, it'd have been Sarah
Evans, but probably Van Halen in1984.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Holy moly.
So for National Concert Day,let's do some music.
Trivia country theme Soundsgood.
Yeah, all right.
Willie Nelson wrote On the Road, again on his forearm, a
hamburger wrapper, toilet paperor a barf bag.
Chris, I'm going to guess.
Barf bag.
There we go.
Yes, it is barf bag.
(18:48):
Who originally recorded GarthBrooks' 1991 hit the rolls?
Was it kenny rogers, dwightyocum, tanya tucker or reba
mcintyre?
Chris, I'm gonna guess it.
I could see reba rocking thethunder rolls.
Nope, it's not reba.
It's either tanya tucker,dwight yocum or kenny rogers.
(19:09):
Kenny rogers, is it kennyrogers?
No, it's not dwight yocum.
Tanya tucker, there we go.
Or Kenny Rogers.
Kenny Rogers, is it KennyRogers?
No, it's not.
Dwight Yoakam.
Tanya Tucker, there we go.
All right, I'm up 1-0,.
But this last question is wortha million points.
Pick a number from 14 to 20.
15.
18.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No, no, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, 18.
18.
Yeah, because that's when yourdaughter was, like, legally able
to say I get married at 12.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Paul's trying to make me cry.
All right, which singer wasonly 4'11"?
Was it George Jones?
Paul, you don't even want tolisten to the multiple choice.
Little Jimmy Dickens, littleJimmy Dickens, holy moly.
How did you know that?
Because he's little man, jimmyDickens, was Holy moly.
How did you know that?
Because he's little man, jimmyDickens, was 4'11" and Paul from
(19:58):
Beaumont is smarter than a veryhandsome radio DJ.
Thanks for having fun with usthis morning, paul, and we'll
talk to you later All right, dj,you go home and think about
this wedding all day.
All right, buddy, talk to youlater.
Bye, bye-bye.
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and
the Morning Brew.
Good morning, it's the MorningBrew with Chris.
Who's this?
It's Sandra.
Good morning, best friend.
Holy moly, sandra, the top.
Sandra, a voice from the, avoice from the blast, a blast
(00:20):
from the past.
You lived here and you movedaway not too long ago.
What's been up to Moving?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
back.
Heck, yeah, we're in Choloright now.
We made our first tripyesterday, our first load.
Heck, oh man, yeah, we drove 19hours straight through.
It was like let's get there,get there, get there.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, you came from Oklahoma.
Yes, awesome, well, welcomecame from Oklahoma.
Yes, awesome, well, welcomeback to the White Mountains,
sandra.
It's been a while since you'vebeen on the Morning Brew.
If you had to tell a newlistener the most interesting or
entertaining fact about Sandrathe Top Fandra, what should we
know?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I love Jesus, I love dogs and I love coffee.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's a good trifecta.
So you guys are just movingtoday.
Well, we just took our firstload yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We probably got four loads to do around trip.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How's Casey doing?
He's doing great.
Lost 50 pounds, heck yeah.
What's your favorite thingabout Casey these days?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
He lets me have as many dogs as I want.
No, he's a hard worker, he's agood man, he loves the Lord and
he treats me like a princess.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And he's finally learned that saying no to you,
getting new dogs is just afruitless effort.
Right, that's right.
I mean he still dogs is just afruitless effort.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right, that's right.
I mean he still says no.
But I show up with him andafter a month of him being mad,
he ends up cuddling them.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh, nice.
Well, Sandra, it's so good tohear from you.
I'm so glad you're going to beback here in the White Mountains
.
What was the thing you missedmost about the White Mountains?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Chris Bennett in the morning brew.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, dude, you know how to say all the right things,
sandra, you're the best.
Janine, are you over there?
Yes, I am.
How are you, chris?
Good, how are you doing on this?
Talk About Something GoodTuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, doing great.
And you know we're all focusedon Mother's Day this coming
Sunday.
But Chris, chris, we've got toremember today is National
Teachers Day and National NursesDay.
You know, usually thesenational days are just kind of
dumb, but these, these are bigones today.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yes, two pillars in our community.
Yeah, like I definitely want tobe where I am today without
some great teachers, and therewere a lot of times when I had
some great nurses take care ofme and nurse me back to health.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, yeah, they're detrimental, and I mean the most
important people, the teachersand the nurses to our future and
I mean they're huge, they'rehuge.
So please show yourappreciation to your great
teachers, and we have greatteachers up here.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, and also Janine, thank you for the reminder.
Sunday is Mother's Day.
Yes, Sunday is Mother's day.
Yes, sunday is mother's day.
Forget that?
What?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
is the best gift I could get for my wife.
You think, oh, I don't know,I'm not gonna tell you what just
popped into my mind.
You're gonna die.
No, I won't say it.
No, I don't know why.
But right when you said that I,I my brain just went silence so
bad.
Why did that sounds so bad?
Why did I think that?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, because you work right next to me and you
hear how loud I am, so I'm surethat's what you would like I
wasn't thinking so much aboutyou, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I just yeah, no, yeah , that's fun.
That was weird how that justleaped into my brain.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, janine.
The countdown has begun.
10 days till Chris goes toprison.
I'm doing a comedy show withsome fellow comedian friends on
the 16th down in Yuma at theprison there and I'm nervous,
excited, and I understand you'vebeen to prison a few times in
(04:01):
your journalistic career.
What advice do you have for me?
You said something scary isgoing to happen to me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, you know, I don't know that anything scary
is going to happen to you rightthen, okay, and there's some
protocol.
You know you'll get searched alittle bit and that kind of
stuff.
You know it'll just be makingsure you're not carrying
anything, you know shivs intothe prison or something.
No, but the other thing thathappened to me every time I
(04:27):
would go, you'd be in prison andyou'd be, I'd be doing
interviews of different peopleand things that were in prison,
and then also when people are indeath row, going there, and
it's the dreams and nightmaresyou have afterward.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh, no yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's kind of weird you that like some of your guilt
will creep up in a dream andyou're just like being arrested
and you're being drug intoprison.
Yeah, you'll get a lot of thosedreams.
That's what I didn't likeafterward.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, my gosh and I have the most vivid and scary
dreams to begin with, do you?
Yeah, and I don't.
It's going to be a veryinteresting audience because,
like my friend who has a friendthat's been in there for 28
years, that guy has never livedwith a smartphone.
So, like some of my jokes, likeI don't know if they're going
(05:10):
to get the references becausethey've kind of been blocked
from the world, right.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, so it'll be, but I think I don't know.
I know, are you struggling withwhat comedy to use and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, not really.
My friend Ryan and I are goingto write this weekend and kind
of go over, because you have alot of rules to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, do you?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There's a lot of topics that you can't talk about
or they don't want you to talkabout and avoid.
So it's funny that I'm going toa prison to do super super
clean comedy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, yeah, very clean comedy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Exactly, yeah, so I'm looking forward to it.
Nervous about the show, and nowI'm nervous about the
nightmares.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It just bothered me.
I knew because I had to cover alot of that and I knew that I
would go to that.
And then I knew I'd have sometime where my brain would just
be yeah, it would just be.
You know nightmare.
But doing news period gave youa lot of nightmares.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, I could not do the news?
Absolutely not.
All right, janine, on this,talk about something good.
Tuesday, let's share some goodnews.
I'll go first Sound good, okay,yeah.
All right.
Today my good news comes fromOhio, where a longtime music
conductor is now back in frontof his orchestra thanks to a
breakthrough in Parkinson'streatment.
Ryan Laycock was diagnosed withParkinson's 11 years ago and
(06:28):
over time his tremors just madeit harder to lead the 100-piece
orchestra.
But recently doctors at theCleveland Clinic fitted him with
what's called an adaptive deepbrain stimulation.
It's kind of like a pacemakerfor the brain and this device
sends little electronic signalsto parts of the brain that
control movement.
And since the surgery, janine,his tremors have nearly
(06:50):
disappeared and he's now back toconducting again with
confidence.
And he says my symptoms areminimal compared to the way they
were and it's life changing.
And now, in his 47th yearconducting, he says he's
grateful for the technology andfor the chance to do what he
loves with steady hands and afull heart.
Pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Wow, that is an incredible story.
That is a good one, yeah whatdo you got I?
love that one.
I know mine's a little cutestory and we've heard this story
before, but I just love itbecause it involves animals,
cute animals.
Okay, a donkey born on a farmin Scotland ended up with two
moms and they have no idea whohis mom is.
Instead of one, see, twodonkeys gave birth at the very
(07:31):
same time.
Literally they had no clue.
It was like you know that theyhave them at nighttime mostly,
and sadly one of the babies wasstillborn, but no one knows
which donkey.
The one, the baby that was left, the little boy they don't know
which is his mom.
Both moms assumed it was theirsand they both have been caring
(07:52):
for him equally.
And the farmer keeps watching.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
He cannot tell so this little guy has two moms and
it's super cute.
Oh, I remember in the 80s therewas a TV show called my Two
Dads.
And this is kind of like aremake of that.
My Two Mom, donkeys, my Two Mom.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Donkeys.
I can think of a a remake ofthat.
There you go, my two momdonkeys, my two mom donkeys.
That's like I can think of ajoke too.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, An ASS joke yeah, yeah, right, that's so
funny.
Yeah, okay, awesome.
Well, that was some good newson Talk About Something Good
Tuesday.
I hope you have a great rest ofyour day, best friend.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You too, chris, have a good one, bye-.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Good morning.
It's the Morning Brew withChris.
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Good morning Chris Bennett, his best friend, kirk
Nermy.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Holy moly, talk about another blast from the past.
We talked to Sandra, the TopFander this morning and we have
not had the opportunity to talkto our best friend and gritty
true crime correspondent, kirkNermy, as seen on Court TV.
What has been up with you?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Oh, just you know, doing my thing, doing my Court
TV and working on some otherprojects.
So yeah, nothing really new.
I was here doing my push-upsand hearing about your trip to
prison.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yes, Now you know a thing or two about prison.
You were a criminal defenseattorney and defended a lot of
people in prison, most famouslyJody Arias.
I'm going to a men's prison.
What advice do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, I was actually thinking, you know, because
you're kind of quite the mama'sboy, I thought, now that you're
almost 50, you can have a chanceto step out of your comfort
zone, pull a prank, the ultimateprank, on your parents.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, first, of all, before I find out what prank
you're talking about, let's getback to almost 50, kirk Nermy,
I'm 44.
I'm a ways away from 50.
Don't be lumping me into that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's been a rough 44, .
Chris, I think you're close.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So you know I'm scared spitless of my parents
and I care very much what theythink about me.
So what prank do you think Ishould play on them?
Call them collect from prison.
I wonder if I'm allowed to makeany calls from prison, but that
would be amazing, that would bethe best.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
This is a collect call from the Yuma State Prison
from Chris Bennett.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'll think about it.
That would be a good prank.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You won't do it, you don't got that gut, I won't do
it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Any advice for me?
Like performing for theseprisoners, we're doing a free
show.
It was so popular that we'rehaving two shows and I'm going
to film it for a comedy specialcalled Chris Goes to Prison a
clean comedy special.
What advice do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Wear pants and don't look anybody in the eye.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh, really, I love making eye contact, but that's
good, don't look anyone in theeye when I'm there.
Yeah, okay, all right, there wego.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Not that you want to stay there.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, I do not.
I do not want to stay there.
Indeed Kirk Nermy, so greathearing from you, best friend,
and if you want to come toprison with me, let me know.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
No thanks, I'm good.
I've visited enough jails andprison in my day.
I'll leave that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Awesome, and when can we?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
catch you on Court TV again Thursday night at 5
o'clock.
Now, on Closing Arguments withVinnie Paul, we'll be talking
about the Karen Reid trialthat's catching everyone's
attention across the nation.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's right, and you can follow Kirk Nermy on
Facebook at Kirk's what's yourTrue.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Crime Clubhouse, nermy's True Crime Clubhouse,
and Chris, if you wind up inprison, I'll pitch the story to
Court TV.
It could be great.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh yes, Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Give you some TV exposure.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I love it.
All right, no bad press,yee-yee, yee-yee.
Everyone's favorite redneckfrom Beaumont, texas it's Paul
from Beaumont.
We've been talking about it'sT-10 days till I go to prison.
Dude, you ought to get a prisontag.
Well, last night, at a Cinco deMayo party I was at, they had
stick-on tattoos at Rocky's andI put one on my neck.
(12:01):
So did you check?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
out my taco neck tattoo.
You need to get loaded up withthose when you go to prison.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, you've started playing music, and would you
ever go to a prison, maybe toperform for the prisoners as a
volunteer thing?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I mean maybe I mean, what are they going?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
to do.
Yeah, I don't know Like theyall have to be on their best
behavior and it's Are they goingto tell your friends I want to
go see that guy.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
No, All their friends are with them.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, that's a good point, and I'm worried that
you're not going to get some ofour references, but it's
definitely you know what?
It's definitely going to be agood story and that's why I'm
doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Yeah, exactly, it's going to be one of those things
you're going to carry with youthe rest of your days.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know it, today is National Teacher Day.
Paul, was there a teacher inyour life that sticks out in
your mind as having some of thebiggest impact on you?
No, no, really, you don't haveone teacher.
Mine was Mr Barker.
He was our theater, he did theplays at Seton High School and
(13:22):
he was also a theater teacher atASU and he was the one that
kind of helped introduce me totheater and introduced me to
comedy, and he definitely had apositive impact.
Coach Dixon, coach Dixon.
And what did Coach Dixon do?
Was he a high school coach?
What was he?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah, he was a high school coach.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And what was so great about him, Mr Barker?
He basically put me on the pathI'm on now as an entertainer.
What did your coach do?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I didn't say he was great.
I said, yeah, man, he wanted meto run and do all this other
stuff.
He said, hey, look, man, Iain't built for that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He convinced me I was.
This was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Paul, just a reminder Mother's Day is this Sunday.
Do you have all your planslined up?
What are you going to do forRhonda?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Oh, we're going to go over to Jesse's Saturday.
Maybe drink beer all night.
Do some biscuits and pork butts.
Oh, that sounds like a niceMother's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, maybe smoke some cream cheese.
Ooh, you going to get her agift or no?
I already did.
What was it?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Or are you not allowed to say it.
Oh, it was all wrapped up inone for the whole month of May.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh nice, but it was delivered and she found it right
.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
No, no, no, no, no.
And she said she got emailedsomething saying what it was, so
I was like forget it.
Here you go, you don't ruin mysurprise.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And what was it?
Ipad, nice, good job.
All right, paul, let's play agame.
It seems like you're prettygood at getting gifts, but I'm
going to find out if a gift istoo redneck to give or if it's
respectable for a Mother's Daygift edition.
You ready Gas station flowersat 10 am on Mother's Day Redneck
(15:29):
or respectable.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
That's you forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You forgot about it.
So that's redneck.
Okay, how about a homemade cardwith glitter, macaroni and duct
tape?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah forsure that's respectable.
I think my wife would love that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright, how about breakfast inbed?
But it's beef jerky and amonster energy drink.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
That's pretty redneck-y there, rhonda wouldn't
want that?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't think.
So.
How about a Mother's DayFacebook post instead of a phone
call?
That's good, that's good.
What are you talking about?
My mom would be upset if Ididn't call her on Mother's Day.
I was like, well, didn't youcheck your Facebook?
I tagged you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, everybody's on Facebook so there you go.
You know what you just didn'ttell her?
You told the whole world.
You told everybody on Facebookto think about mama.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
How about a gift card to the feed store?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I mean, like man, that's a double-edged sword
there.
I mean, there's horses involved, so that might be a good one
that might be a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And last one, writing a country song about her and
performing it at karaoke.
Yeah, that'd be a good one.
That's redneck and respectable,right?
Yeah, that's great.
Depends on what you wrote.
All right, that was Redneck orRespectable.
Mother's Day Edition this is aspecial bonus segment, just for
the podcast with Paul from Boma.
(16:51):
I am officiating my daughter'swedding at the end of the month
and I am a big crier and I'mworried that I'm going to be
bubbling, a blubbering fool,through the whole thing.
So, paul, I want to play a gamewhere I kind of try to do the
first part of the ceremony withcrying and then you have 30
seconds to try and make me cry,and if you do it, you win, and
(17:15):
if I don't cry, I win.
Sound good, okay, all right,here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'rehere today for the union of two
beautiful, beautiful soulsMadison Bennett and Beckett
Ricks.
All right, I didn't cry.
That was a good start.
You almost You're fixing to.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You're fixing to.
You're fixing to.
Because you know, just pictureyour daughter there in a white
dress, holding this guy's hands,and you're looking at both of
them and you know, and you'reliterally giving your daughter
to another guy, and for life,for life.
(17:56):
Okay, you win, you win.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Gotcha, that was try to make Chris cry.
It is now time for.
Are you Smarter Than a Redneck?
Today, paul, it is NationalConcert Day.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
Man, it'd probably be.
I don't know.
If it would not have beenChristmas, it'd have been Sarah
Evans, but probably Van Halen in1984.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Holy moly.
So for National Concert Day,let's do some music.
Trivia country theme Soundsgood.
Yeah, all right.
Willie Nelson wrote On the Road, again on his forearm, a
hamburger wrapper, toilet paperor a barf bag.
Chris, I'm going to guess.
Barf bag.
There we go.
Yes, it is barf bag.
(18:48):
Who originally recorded GarthBrooks' 1991 hit the rolls?
Was it kenny rogers, dwightyocum, tanya tucker or reba
mcintyre?
Chris, I'm gonna guess it.
I could see reba rocking thethunder rolls.
Nope, it's not reba.
It's either tanya tucker,dwight yocum or kenny rogers.
(19:09):
Kenny rogers, is it kennyrogers?
No, it's not dwight yocum.
Tanya tucker, there we go.
Or Kenny Rogers.
Kenny Rogers, is it KennyRogers?
No, it's not.
Dwight Yoakam.
Tanya Tucker, there we go.
All right, I'm up 1-0,.
But this last question is wortha million points.
Pick a number from 14 to 20.
15.
18.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No, no, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, 18.
18.
Yeah, because that's when yourdaughter was, like, legally able
to say I get married at 12.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Paul's trying to make me cry.
All right, which singer wasonly 4'11"?
Was it George Jones?
Paul, you don't even want tolisten to the multiple choice.
Little Jimmy Dickens, littleJimmy Dickens, holy moly.
How did you know that?
Because he's little man, jimmyDickens, was Holy moly.
How did you know that?
Because he's little man, jimmyDickens, was 4'11" and Paul from
(19:58):
Beaumont is smarter than a veryhandsome radio DJ.
Thanks for having fun with usthis morning, paul, and we'll
talk to you later All right, dj,you go home and think about
this wedding all day.
All right, buddy, talk to youlater.
Bye, bye-bye.
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