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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Ever wonder what really goes on at a small-town morning radio show?
The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and Best Friends is your daily dose of real callers, big laughs, and unforgettable characters straight from QCountry 925 in Show Low, Arizona.
The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Beanie Weenies, Prison Gigs, and Anniversary Wisdom
The Morning Brew with Chris delivers a lively mix of personal stories, games, and upcoming event announcements with regular callers Virgil the cowboy, Paul from Beaumont, and Jineane Ford.
• Virgil plays rapid-fire questions, revealing that eagles would be his natural alarm clock and beanie weenies are the best horseback riding snack
• A singles event gets awkward when someone ends up face-to-face with a past "friend zone"
• Chris discusses his upcoming comedy shows, including one inside a prison in Yuma
• Paul celebrates 35 years with Rhonda and crushes a country music trivia challenge
• Jineane shares her Mother's Day highlights, including a charity event and a surprise $400 casino win
• Plus: A motivational quote to start your week: “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
Good morning. It's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this?
Speaker 2:Hey, good morning, my friend.
Speaker 1:Heck, yeah, it's Virgil from Eager, everyone's favorite cowboy. How was your weekend, best friend?
Speaker 2:Oh, kind of like in the sad area.
Speaker 1:Right, you recently a friend of yours, a cowgirl, fellow cowgirl, passed away. You guys been dealing with that. I know that's got to be painful. So you guys didn't do anything this weekend. Yeah, we were busy.
Speaker 2:Oh really, how were you busy.
Speaker 1:What did you guys do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and tell all the ladies out there happy Mother's Day for me.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Did you do anything special for the mothers in your life for Mother's Day yesterday? I lost my mom a long time ago. Right, right, right. I'm so sorry to hear that so you didn't do a cookout or anything.
Speaker 2:No, I was all by myself.
Speaker 1:Oh well, that's too bad. How about we have a little fun? This morning? I ask you some random questions, for some rapid-fire questions with Virgil. What do you say? All right, go for it, all right. If you had to replace your alarm clock with the sound from nature, what would it be and why?
Speaker 2:Probably an eagle.
Speaker 1:Oh heck, yes, Time to wake up. It wouldn't be a horse, I would have thought it would be a horse. What's something you've done more times than any adult probably should?
Speaker 2:Ride a horse every day. Yeah, you too, all right.
Speaker 1:And what's the worst snack to eat? Well, one. Have you ever eaten while you're driving in your car? Like fast food or something, pizza Pizza, now on your horse. Do you ever eat while you're riding your horse? Yeah, but they're beanie weenies. Oh, they're beanie weenies and that's the best snack to eat while riding a horse. Yeah, and what would the worst snack be to eat while riding a horse? The grass, the grass, because that means you've fallen off the horse. Well, virgil, that was rapid fire questions with Virgil. Good morning, it's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this? This is Ryan McKee. Heck, yeah, producer. Ryan McKee, my best friend from Wilmington, north Carolina. Well, originally from Payson but currently living in Wilmington, we talked to you last week. You are single, looking to mingle. You've been divorced for two years. You haven't been having a good time on the dating apps. So you know you tried something on Friday night and I wanted to kind of get your feedback on how it went. What did you do Friday night?
Speaker 2:I went to my first single meet up Nice. Meeting people the old fashioned way, with booze and in person.
Speaker 1:Yes, no swiping left or right at this party.
Speaker 2:That's correct, or if you did, it would get awkward.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, how'd it go? Did you mingle? Did you find some ladies that maybe you're interested in?
Speaker 2:I mingled and I found a very nice lady. We really hit it off, lady. We really hit it off. And uh, she, uh, I well, she gave me her phone number and we were texting. And then she stopped texting for like a day and I was like, oh no, she's gonna. She ghosted me and I mean ghosting just hits different after you meet them in person, you know it's like oh, she shared breathing space with me and she still decided to ghost me, uh. But then she texted, uh, after a day and said, oh, I'm sorry, I'm bad at texting, and uh, then she came to my I had a going away party at my house last night with a bunch of comedians, because one of our friends is moving to atlanta. She came and met all my crazy comedian friends.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Sometimes that's good news, Sometimes that's bad news. What do you think she?
Speaker 2:thought I think it was a little bit of both. She got into kind of a little bit of an argument with one of the comedians over which is the best way to take a group photo.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that might be a red flag.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it might be a red flag, but you know what I do with red flags what Plow right through them. That's right.
Speaker 1:Beep, beep coming through. Beep, beep coming through. Yeah, you were telling us about the singles event that you went to this past Friday. It was interesting. You had told me off air who basically invited you to this singles event, who was coordinating it. Do you want to tell us that story?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I went on a date with this woman and I thought it went really well. And then she texted me and said I'm getting more friend vibes from you. And she texted me and said I'm getting more friend vibes from you and I was like, well, I was throwing out boyfriend vibes but I guess I got misinterpreted. And then she invited me to a singles event that she was promoting, which is. I was like did you just dump me to fill out your singles?
Speaker 1:event with more people.
Speaker 2:How funny would it be if everybody that was there is someone she friends with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be so considerate of her to break up with you, but then have a backup plan ready for you to go.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Well, I want to play a game with you, ryan, to kind of find out what your type is, because maybe we have some listeners out there that might know somebody that might be a good match for you. So we're going to do date, ditch or deal breaker. All right, I'm going to give you a scenario and you tell me if you would date him, ditch him, or if that's a hard pass. He's out. Deal breaker you ready, I'm ready. She has six cats and they all sleep in the bed. That's a deal breaker. Me too, I'm allergic to cats, but you just don't like cats.
Speaker 2:I just don't like cats, especially if she has six cats, even if they don't sleep in bed with her. That's a deal breaker. That's got to be a smelly house.
Speaker 1:Next one. She live streams your dinner date on TikTok.
Speaker 2:You know what that's a good story. That's not a deal breaker. Um, you know what that's a good story.
Speaker 1:That's not a deal breaker. Oh, so that's a date. You would date him or you would not ideal, but you'd give it a shot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, Her job is a professional clown and she wears the full makeup 24-7. That's a deal breaker, I don't know you like good stories. I would at least go on the first date with her and maybe get her to oh.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah, you know, maybe I would go on the first date with her for this little good story. It would depend. Not to be rude, but it would depend how attractive she is under that makeup.
Speaker 1:And last one her license plate says man-eater yeah definitely I would go on the date oh that is date. No problem, he is in. You have a busy week and we both have an exciting show this Friday. Tomorrow you are doing a roast battle. Explain what that is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's where you go up against another comedian and just tell roast jokes about them and it gets pretty heated, Pretty heated.
Speaker 1:I've done it once and it gets pretty heated, Pretty heated. I've done it once and I got my butt kicked. Pretty bad, I'm not good at being mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've done it once too and got my butt kicked. This is my redemption.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yeah, I'm not good at being mean, but people are really really good at being mean to me, yeah, and then you're flying out to Arizona. You have a show in uh, camp verde. At which casino?
Speaker 2:cliff castle, casino cliff castle casino anybody's listening from the cam verde area.
Speaker 1:Hit me up, yeah come on out, and that's at seven on thursday, that's right heck yeah. And then friday, the countdown has begun. Chris and ryan are going to prison for not one, but two comedy shows in Yuma at their prison. There you ready.
Speaker 2:No, but I guess I'll have to be ready soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. Well, I don't know that. I'm telling myself that because I like to be positive, but it's definitely the first time doing a show in a prison. Do you think we need to make the same announcements we make at comedy clubs, like make sure you turn your cell phones off or unvibrate?
Speaker 2:No, none of them have cell phones. Oh, they don't. And we can't. We don't say table talk, keep the table talk to a minimum, because there'll be no tables in there. There'll be no, there'll be the soberest audience we've ever performed for heck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be a story, uh, to tell for sure. Uh, I'll be back monday and we'll recap that show, but I can't wait for it. And uh, remember, if you're gonna be near camp verde on thursday, go check out producer ryan and good luck at your roast battle, best friend. Thank you very much. Yee-yee, yee-yee, everyone's favorite redneck Paul from Beaumont, texas. How are you doing on this Monday morning? Did you listen to Ryan?
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, what a nice way to give somebody the L.
Speaker 1:I know that is so sweet and considerate. It would be cool if she gave him like a parting gift bag too or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Hold on just a second. Hold on just a second. Hold on just a second, okay, oh come on, this guy got my box.
Speaker 2:You saw right there, buddy, I appreciate it. Have a go, have a good week. Who's that this week? You got, you got brought me my box. Oh, nice, um, okay. Now we get back to the show.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, and we're, and we're back. Did you have a good mother's day? Yeah, I'm good, good, and then today is a special day as well. What's uh? What's today? Oh, it's me and ron this 35th anniversary 35th anniversary and what's, uh your favorite thing about your wife?
Speaker 2:and she likes she lets me be, you know, she lets me be me man Sometimes, sometimes, you know, sometimes it's wife. No, you really don't need to do that, but I do it anyway, it's okay.
Speaker 1:What are you guys going to do tonight for your anniversary? I don't know. I ain't thought that far ahead. Man, oh man, holy moly, wait until the last minute. That's how I roll. Do you remember what you're? I'm spontaneous, he's spontaneous. Where did you and Rhonda get married? At her parents' church. Do you remember what the first song you guys danced to? I don't think we danced to a song. You didn't dance to a song.
Speaker 2:No man, no man, it was Pentecostal church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Well, you didn't have like what's a reception after the wedding?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a reception, but I don't think they do all that. They don't do all that.
Speaker 1:But no.
Speaker 2:Dj, no dancing, no, no no, oh my goodness, that place is like Footloose.
Speaker 1:In honor of Paul from Beaumont and Rhonda's anniversary today, 35 years, we're going to play a game called Real Gift or Fake Anniversary Gift. Do you know what the gift is for the 35th anniversary? It was an iPad. No, the official anniversary gift is coral or jade. Okay, okay. Yeah, coral if you're beachy and jade if you're bougie. So which one would you get for Rhonda?
Speaker 1:She'd have to get the bougie stuff. The bougie stuff. All right, I'm going to tell you the anniversary gift and you tell me if it's real or fake. For the first anniversary, the gift is paper.
Speaker 2:Fake.
Speaker 1:No, it's real. You're supposed to get your spouse paper or something paper for your first anniversary, which is weird because that was 34 years ago. Nothing says forever, like something that's flammable. All right, yeah, the fifth anniversary. They're saying the gift is wood. Is that real or fake Wood? No, that's fake, huh, no, that's real, dude, you're not doing good at this one. For the 10th anniversary, they say the gift is tin or aluminum.
Speaker 2:No man, Unless it's a beer can.
Speaker 1:It is real. Yeah, that would be a great anniversary gift for you and for a 20th anniversary gift. It's a chainsaw.
Speaker 2:No, that's a birthday gift.
Speaker 1:That's right. That was real or fake. You know what the 50th anniversary is gold. Is that real or fake?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's real.
Speaker 1:That's real, and if you make it that far, you deserve a medal. Literally. Yeah, paul, I thought today for Are you Smarter Than a Redneck? We would do country music trivia. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? I'm ready. Where was Shania Twain born Ontario, georgia, texas or Tennessee? Paul Paul, ontario? Yeah, you're right. Gosh, dang it All right. Next question which Dolly Parton song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart? Not once, but twice. Was it Paul, paul? Go ahead. I always love you. I will always love you. Gosh, dang it.
Speaker 2:This redneck's on fire this might not know my anniversary gift, but I sure as heck know my country music all right and last question, worth a million points, if I get it right, I can get the steal.
Speaker 1:What pseudonym did Hank Williams use to record a number of gospel songs? Paul oh.
Speaker 2:Hank Bo Seafish.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me hear the answer Mark the Vagabond, john the Gypsy, paul the Rover or Luke the Drifter Paul Paul? Okay, I know the Drifter Paul Paul. Okay, I know now. No, you are. I get first John the Gypsy. No, what do you say Paul? Paul. What do you say Luke the Drifter? Luke the Drifter, holy moly, that's one smart redneck. On his anniversary, buddy Congratulations, and I hope you and Rhonda have fun today. We're going to have All right, bye-bye. Bye-bye, janine, you over there, yes.
Speaker 3:I am.
Speaker 1:Happy Monday morning. You have a good Mother's Day.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, the best Mother's Day I did. The Festival of the Baskets had a blast. I won a little basket too, but it was so fun and they raised such good money. It was great for White Mountain Helping Hands. Then Sunday, I mean, I had the beautiful food layout and the spread at the Festival of the Baskets. Then we did the big Mother's Day brunch and we had family, grandkids, just everything for Mother's Day. I was overloaded with flowers. It was crazy, just really sweet in those wonderful chocolates and all kinds of fun stuff and, yeah, just a great day. It was awesome. And we went to that Mother's Day brunch up at Honda and here's a funny thing I walked by just this one machine. I put just a little bit of money in it and it won $400 right there, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:So I cashed it out and walked out the door.
Speaker 1:That's how I roll, Heck yeah, that's a good Mother's Day present.
Speaker 3:Because I don't like to gamble.
Speaker 1:So on that. It is Monday and I thought we would get everyone motivated with some motivational quotes. I'll read some and then you pick the motivational quote for the week Perfect.
Speaker 3:You ready, here we go. Yes, I am.
Speaker 1:William Butler. Yeats said Do not wait till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. William James says Act as if what you do makes a difference it does. Here's another one, jerome. Jerome says act as if what you do makes a difference it does. Here's another one. Jerome says I like work. It fascinates me. I could sit and look at it for hours. Yeah, here's another funny one Monday, the day I bravely put on real pants and leave the house. That's a good one. And last one, chris Grosser says opportunities a good one. And last one. Chris Grosser says opportunities don't happen. You create them.
Speaker 3:Oh, let's do the last one.
Speaker 1:Yes, I like that. That's a good one, all of them are good.
Speaker 3:I like the funny ones too. They were good ones.
Speaker 1:Opportunities don't happen. You create them. That is your motivational quote for the week. Yeah, I hope you have a.
