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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
Monster Trucks and Instagram Drama: Navigating Relationships in the Digital Age
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Chris Bennett delivers a dynamic Morning Brew show featuring an exclusive preview of the Monster Truck Night Road Tour with event director Tony Matarazzo, alongside relationship advice about social media transparency and entertaining ticket giveaways. The show balances high-energy event promotion with thoughtful relationship wisdom, connecting listeners to both entertainment opportunities and practical life advice.
• Monster Truck Night Road Tour coming to Deuce of Clubs Thunder Raceway this Friday and Saturday with three identical shows
• Event features five top-level monster trucks: Lone Wolf, Jurassic Attack, Rockwell Red, Kamikaze, and Velociraptor
• Expanded seating this year after last year's sold-out event, with freestyle motocross added to the lineup
• Behind-the-scenes insights from Tony Matarazzo on monster truck backflips, pre-show adrenaline, and the 30-person team needed to run the show
• Caller wins by correctly identifying "Muffin Masher" as the fake monster truck name
• Relationship advice for a listener whose girlfriend only posts pictures with him to "close friends" while keeping her ex visible
• Recommendation to recognize when someone is "leaving themselves open for other opportunities" rather than confronting or groveling
• Baseball ticket giveaway through fun "This or That: Ballpark Edition" game with caller David
Prison Comedy and Morning Show Intro
Speaker 1From the Horn Auto Center.
Speaker 2Studios, Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Good morning, it's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this?
Speaker 1Jan.
Speaker 2Jan the weatherman. Jan from Heber, I haven't heard from you in forever. I heard from you for the first time in a long time yesterday and you called to tell me that I messed up on my first segment of the show when I intro'd the show. I always tell people if they want to give me a call, they could call me. Did I mess up again today? Uh, yes, you did. No, oh my gosh, I did. Oh, what I gave comfort fit dentures number again correct? All right, no, the correct number to the studio. Jan, I don't know what's going on. I was off for a and it's taken me a little bit to get back into the swing of things.
Speaker 1I think you're in a time to stay in prison.
Speaker 2Yeah, my stay in prison really messed my brain up.
Speaker 1It affected you.
Speaker 2Yeah, 928-532-4144 is the number for the show, if you want to be a part of it. Like Jan. Jan, if I went back to prison to do another comedy show, would you want to come with? Sure, oh heck. Yeah, jan's a man of adventure, you're not afraid of prison. You ever been in prison? No, no, you ever perform in a prison.
Monster Truck Night Road Tour Preview
Speaker 2No, Alright well, we'll maybe check that off your bucket list. Well, jan, thanks for letting me know. I messed up. I'm a stupid idiot. Unfortunately, I'm not perfect. This weekend there is an exciting event happening here in the White Mountains. That's right, it is the Monster Truck Night Road Tour happening Friday and Saturday at the Deuce of Clubs, thunder Raceway, and on the phone to talk about it is the event director, tony Matarazzo. Thank you so much for joining us this morning, tony. You ready for Friday and Saturday?
Speaker 1Oh, I sure am. I'm very excited to be back in Show Low out at the racetrack this Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2Heck, yeah, there's three shows going on. You got a show at 7.30. On Friday Also, people can do a pit pass party, enjoying the pit party that goes from 6 to 7. And then Saturday you have two shows. You have one at 1.30 and one at 7.30. Is that right?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's right and all three performances are going to be exactly the same. So it's just a matter of what time is going to work for you and your family. All we do is reset things Again. Nothing is scripted in the event except the order of the event, so different things will occur, but basically the shows are exactly the same. That pit party it's kind of like the calm before the storm. A great opportunity. If you have a vip ticket or if you've added on that pit party pass to your general admission, come on out before the show. You get to get right down on that dirt track, right next to those giant monster trucks. All the drivers are out there, all the talent, because it's not just monster trucks, we're bringing freestyle motocross. So your motorcycle riders are going to be out there. It is a great opportunity to get to talk to them, ask them questions, get their autograph, take their picture, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2That happens right before each of those performances yeah, I've been uh uh to your events in the past. Last Last year was your first time here and this is the second year, and last year it was all sold out. But we've added more seats this year to accommodate more people, right?
Speaker 1That's right. The promoter of the racetrack has expanded the seating, added about a thousand seats. We've gone to three performances. We're expecting a great crowd. We had a great turnout and because of that we have really brought the heat with the monster truck. The five top-level monster trucks of the industry will be running out there. We've got Lone Wolf, jurassic Attack, rockwell Red Kamikaze and Velociraptor all coming to compete in the monster truck competition. And then, like I said, we we've added freestyle motocross to this event. It'll be breaking up that monster truck action where they are jumping through the air doing crazy tricks.
Tony's Rapid-Fire Questions
Speaker 2Uh, just non-stop entertainment for you and the family this weekend get your tickets today at monster truck tourcom if you want a event to kick off the summer festivities with the family. This is going to be an event that the kids are going to be talking about the whole summer. You don't want to miss it. I thought we would do some rapid-fire questions with you. Tony. You ready? I hope so. All right, what's louder the trucks or the crowd?
Speaker 1Definitely the trucks. It's the loudest that you can feel in your chest with those 15 to 1600 horsepower engines.
Speaker 2What's the craziest stunt you've seen at one of your shows?
Speaker 1Definitely a monster truck backflip. It is a rare feat. It does a lot of damage to a truck even if it pulls it off. So a monster truck backflip is insane.
Speaker 2Have you ever had to jump in and help fix a truck mid-show?
Speaker 1You know I absolutely have, and that's another great thing. You know monster trucks are out there to compete against each other. They definitely want to compete against each other at their highest level and all running. So when a truck breaks it is all teams, all hands on deck. If that's what it takes to fix the truck, to get back out there, because they want to beat you at their best.
Speaker 2What's your adrenaline level 10 minutes before showtime?
Speaker 1Absolutely insane. The entire team calls it beast mode.
Speaker 2How many people does it take to run this show smoothly?
Speaker 1You know, you'll see about a dozen on site, but it takes about 30 all before to start a show. You know we started four or five months ahead of time working on it, getting all the local businesses to help us out your cars, your equipment, all that stuff. In a town like this it takes everybody to be a part of it. So there's an entire team working behind the scenes to even get it to the point that you'll see there on Friday and Saturday night.
Speaker 2And last question what's your go-to pump-up song before a big weekend like this?
Speaker 1So for me, I always start off with handclap because we're trying to get the crowd ready for the excitement that they're about to experience. Until they start to see it, they're just kind of waiting. So we usually start off with handclap. It's a three minute song. It also cues the truck that they have three minutes to go to be strapped in and ready to go, because once a monster truck driver is in his truck, unless there's an incident, he never gets out of the truck, so that he's always ready to go and ready to be on, called on to run what if they have to go to the bathroom?
Ticket Giveaway: Spot the Fake Truck
Speaker 2they don't. Uh guys, you got to check out the Nitro, the Monster Truck, nitro Tour. Good morning, it's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this? This is Brandy Brandy from Snowflake, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, heck yeah.
Speaker 2Brandy, are you calling to try and win four tickets and some pit passes to the Monster Truck Nitro Tour Friday night at Deuce of Club's Thunder Raceway? Yeah, we're excited, heck, yeah. Well, here's how you win. I'm not going to make it so easy. I'm going to give you names of four monster trucks. One of them is fake. If you spot the fake one, the tickets are yours. If you don't, I'm going to take the next caller, fair.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2All right, here we go. Gravedigger El Toro Local, the Bone Crusher and the Muffin Masher.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm going to say the Muffin Masher.
Speaker 2You're saying the Muffin Masher is the fake monster truck name. That's what they called me in high school, though it is. Muffin Masher is the fake Monster Truck name. That's what they called me in high school, though it is Muffin Masher, brandi, heck, yeah, congratulations. You just won four tickets to the Monster Truck Nitro Tour Friday night at 730 at Deuce of Club's Thunder Raceway. You also got four pit passes as well to the event. What station hooked you up?
Speaker 192.5.
Speaker 2You know it. Janine, are you over there?
Speaker 3Yes, I am.
Speaker 2Happy Thursday morning, best friend.
Speaker 3Happy Thursday morning to you.
Speaker 2You know what that means it's time for Relationship. Yeah, All right, I'll read the story and when we come back we'll get your advice you ready.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 2All right, I'll read the story and when we come back we'll get your advice you ready? Yes, all right. Hello, so I've noticed that my girlfriend of seven months we're in a serious, committed relationship is very active on Instagram and has 94 posts with hundreds of followers, including her ex, but when she posts stories of us or pics with me in it, it's only shared with close friends. On her birthday, she posted a lot of pictures and videos publicly, except for the picture of me and her, which was very PG, which she only posted to close friends. When I asked her about it, she said it's not something that I do. She also said it's not something she's done in her previous relationships either. Also said it's not something she's done in her previous relationships either.
Speaker 2I've suggested that I didn't feel comfortable about how only pictures with me in it weren't public, and she doesn't seem like she wants to Again. I really don't care if she posts about me, but going out of her way to post stories which is temporary with me to close friends only just doesn't sit right with me, especially when she has her ex on there. Oh my gosh, and I've raised being uncomfortable about that in the past too. How do I go about confronting her, and is it worth it To do it again at this point? Would really appreciate your take on the situation. What do you say? What's your advice?
Speaker 3I think he's kind of confronted her already and he kind of has the message that she's kind of leaving herself open for other opportunities Is what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1You know, overall.
Speaker 3But the thing is I don't like to beat somebody. They're dating, they're just dating Seven months, or whatever. Don't like to be beating somebody over the head with something I don't know. If I was him, I'd just use the information and know that she's leaving herself open to other opportunities. She's not putting him out there as a serious other right Right.
Speaker 3So it sounds to me like he's more into her than she's into him, quite frankly, and he just needs to use this information and maybe back off the relationship a little bit. You know, don't put so much, don't invest so much in this relationship and don't be, you know, stalking her on Instagram or anything else, but use this information because she is leaving herself open to a better relationship is what she's doing.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's crazy that she still has pictures with her ex on her public board, but none with this new dude.
Speaker 3Yeah, none with him.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 3Exactly so. That's the thing is that he needs to use this information, maybe distance himself a little bit with her. You know, I don't know. It's one of those iffy things I don't like to. I'm not going to chase down and stalk somebody and tell them you know, I don't like the stuff of you know guy, you're doing this on your Instagram and all that kind of stuff. You know, I would rather move on and break up with the person. That's what I would do. All right, so I just think that's me. You know how I am with my tennis shoes.
Speaker 2Yeah, get those running shoes.
Speaker 3Because if he's, you know, if she's embarrassed of him, she thinks she can do better than say, ok, hey, I love you, we got along great, it's been fun. Maybe you want to look for somebody else, but you're kind of not talking about. You know where you get your ex, but not me on there. But you know, maybe we just part ways for a while you know All right.
Speaker 2Another relationship advice brought to you by New Balance Running Shoes. Janine says get those shoes on, but don't grovel.
Speaker 3I hate groveling. Yes, that's yucky. Don't grovel, I hate groveling.
Speaker 2I think I'm probably a groveler.
Speaker 3Are you a groveler? Don't grovel.
Speaker 2That's a turn off. Don't grovel, alright. Janine says just move on, buddy, she's not into you, let her chase you.
Baseball Tickets: This or That Game
Speaker 3Oh yeah, Play hard to get there you go.
Speaker 2Alright, janine, we love you. Hope you have a great day. Best friend, love you too. Thanks, chris. Bye-bye, good morning. It's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this David Rowe? David Rowe, calling to win four tickets to Friday's game against the Washington Nationals. We're going to play a little game called this or that Ballpark Edition. You ready? Yeah, just answer as honestly as possible Hot dog with mustard or nachos with mystery cheese? Hot dog with mustard? All right, you and I are opposite there. I'm the nachos with mystery cheese. How about getting hit with a T-shirt from the T-shirt cannon, or getting hit with a rogue peanut from Upper Deck? I would say rogue peanut from the Upper Deck, dude you and I are on opposite pages.
Speaker 2I'll take a t-shirt from a t-shirt cannon any day. Would you rather this or that? One free hot dog every inning or one giant pretzel bigger than your head?
Speaker 1I'm one free hot dog every inning. I'm a hot dog guy.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, finally, you and I agree on something, David this or that, watching the game from the nosebleeds with three snacks, or front row seats next to a guy who yells at every pitch.
Speaker 1Front row seats, next to a guy that yells at every pitch Me too.
Speaker 2And last one unlimited churros for life at every game, or one guaranteed home run ball caught per season. That's a tough one. I'll go Churros, me too, holy moly. I do love a good old Churro. That was this or that ballpark edition with David Rowe from Heber. You just won four tickets, best friend, to check out the Diamondbacks. Take on the Washington Nationals on Friday night. What station hooked you up?
Speaker 1U-Country 92.5. You know it.
