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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Respect in the Workplace: When Your Lunch Keeps Disappearing
Workplace theft creates unexpected tensions in today's episode as we dive into a case that has our listeners talking! A frustrated office worker finally puts an end to their vanishing lunch problem by installing a personal mini-fridge with a lock—only to face backlash from colleagues who label them "weird and selfish." Judge Jineane Ford-King delivers a satisfying verdict that might surprise you, even suggesting the loudest critic might actually be the lunch thief! This case sparks fascinating questions about workplace boundaries, communal respect, and why some people feel entitled to others' belongings.
The studio comes alive when Alex and Omar from Aliberto's stop by to announce an exciting community event. If you've never experienced Loteria (Mexican bingo), you're missing out on a cultural treasure! Unlike traditional bingo, this lively game uses character cards and beans as markers for a uniquely engaging experience. We break down how it works and announce the impressive prize lineup for tomorrow's free event at Alberto's Wagon Wheel location, including restaurant gift cards, sports tickets, and a grand prize weekend getaway at Big Pine Cabins in Heber.
Things take a competitive turn when our favorite redneck caller Paul goes head-to-head with the Aliberto's team in our ocean-themed trivia challenge. Who knew Paul from Beaumont would know that a mantis shrimp can punch fast enough to break glass? The unexpected moments of knowledge and laughter remind us why community connections matter. Don't miss Loteria Night tomorrow from 6-7:30pm—come for the games, stay for the special menu items Alex is testing, and leave with fantastic prizes and new friends!
From the Horn Auto Center Studios. Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. All rise, it's now time for Am I? The Jerk Court. The Honorable Janine Ford presides. Janine, you ready Judge? Janine, sure sure.
Speaker 2:I like the sound of that, judge Janine, I know, I know.
Speaker 1:Judge, judy, eat your heart out. All right, janine, I'll read the story and then we'll get your verdict. Here we go. I work in a small office with about 10 people and we share a kitchen including one fridge. Over the past month, my lunch has been stolen over five times, not just random snacks, entire homemade meals I bring from home, gone without a trace. It's not just frustrating, it's expensive and messes up my day. I mentioned it a couple times in a group chat like hey, someone's taking my lunch, please stop. And everyone ignored it or sent vague messages like ugh, that stinks. Or some people are the worst. But no one took responsibility. So I bought a mini fridge, put it under my desk nothing fancy, just enough to hold my meal and drink, and I also put a lock on it just for extra peace of mind.
Speaker 1:Since then, no more stolen lunches. Well, last Friday one of my co-workers I call her Dana she confronted me during lunch and said it was weird and selfish that I had a personal fridge. She said it made me look paranoid and not part of the team. I said I was tired of my food being stolen and this was the only solution that worked. She said I should have brought stuff I wouldn't care about losing, like snacks or microwave meals, if I'm so worried. A couple of others have now made little comments like don't let him see your lunch. He might lock it up or we get it. You're special. I'm starting to feel like the weirdo in the office for just protecting my stuff. Am I the jerk for locking up my lunch? Instead of letting this keep happening, what say you?
Speaker 2:I don't think the person's a jerk. I mean the other people are reacting like oh you should keep your lunch in the community fridge. That's kind of odd. He just needs to kind of ignore them. I mean, I think it's obviously not making a big deal out of it. He just needs to ignore them. Right now I don't understand why they'd be so upset that he has a mini fridge. You know, after this happening, I mean they're just being very I don't know. And there's kind of sometimes there's this new wave of everyone should just share and if it's stolen, you know, bring stuff that doesn't matter to be stolen.
Speaker 2:That's just weird. Yeah, you have a thief in there, somebody really rude, and why not have a little mini fridge? But just don't say anything else. Keep it quiet and just laugh. If there's a few people say something, he's not a jerk.
Speaker 1:Right, I think you know. I think Dana, her friend or the lady she works with, she seems suspicious.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, I do too. I mean, I'm kind of like, oh, she's mad because she doesn't have a good meal to steal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what the heck yeah.
Speaker 2:Or put you know, like, load up the fridge with some salmonella samples. I don't know, I'm just saying, but it's just rotten to take somebody else's food Right and you know there's, I don't know, that's just that one that said that. Yeah, she's very odd.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she was stealing the lunches and I'd keep an eye out on her If she starts losing weight. We know she's been missing some lunches. So in the case of, am I the jerk for locking up the office fridge after someone kept stealing my lunch?
Speaker 2:Janine says Not the jerk, and it's his own fridge. He brought his own fridge in. I thought he was locking up everybody else's fridge at first, but he's not.
Speaker 1:He brought his own personal fridge and locked it up for extra measures. Yeah, all right, I agree with you, janine. Thanks so much for having fun with us and we hope you have a great rest of the day, you too, chris. Chris, have a good one, all right, bye, bye. I am so excited to have some studio guests today. That's right, it is Alex and Omar, with Alberto's official sponsors of the morning brew and Chris Bennett comedy, and we have a fun event happening tomorrow. We normally do the drive-thru game shows at the Alberto's, but we're doing something different tomorrow at the Albertoabertos in wagon wheel from 6 pm to 7 30 pm. What are we playing? Tell everyone loteria.
Speaker 3:We're uh having a gold fashion loteria, which is basically mexican bingo.
Speaker 1:Instead of letters and numbers, it's uh, characters that are, I'll call, from a deck of cards, basically, and then people are trying to get patterns, get lines. It's just like bingo in that aspect, and this is a free event and we're giving away some amazing prizes. It goes from 6 to 7, 30 pm and winners of each game can win prizes like Alberto's gift cards right, also Streets on Main, which is a great restaurant in Snowflake Taylor that we'll be giving away some gift cards to, also Streets on Main, which is a great restaurant in Snowflake Taylor that we'll be giving away some gift cards to Also some Alberto swag, alberto swag.
Speaker 1:Q Country swag. Morning brew yeah, morning. We have brew crew bags, limited edition bags filled with some awesome swag for you. We have morning brew swag Q Country swag, alberto swag, it's going to be awesome. I also have D-back tickets to give away to this weekend's series against the Padres. It's the Father's Day weekend and the biggest giveaway the last game that we'll play, which will probably start around 7-15, 7-20, the winner of this Lotteria game will win the grand prize, which is what Alex.
Speaker 3:Big Pine Cabin Staycation. So there's cabins here in Heber Overguard cabin, jacuzzi out in the forest, a lot of great places to eat Walking distance. There's stables nearby. It's a real cool trip to get out of the lakeside show area. Go down to Heber, which has a lot to offer. Heber Overguard super cool place. I went out there. I stayed out there. A lot of things to offer. Heber Overguard super cool place. I went out there. I stayed out there. A lot of things to do, great places to go eat. Alberto's is there as well, right there in Heber.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the big pine cabins are amazing. If you win, you could use it as a staycation. Or maybe you have some annoying relatives that want to come visit you and you don't want them to stay at your house. Hey, guess what? I want a weekend stay. It's a two-night stay at Big Pine Cabins. It's Lotteria Night at Alberto's in Wagon Wheel tomorrow. It's free. Join us, it's going to be a good time. Yee-yee, yee-yee. It's everyone's favorite redneck from Beaumont, Texas. It's Paul from Beaumont, with your favorite Mexican restaurant crew in the White Mountains, aliberto's. We have Alex and Omar joining us and we're promoting our Lotteria night, which is Mexican bingo, tomorrow at the Wagon Wheel location from 6 to 7.30 pm. You ever play Lotteria? We got a scratch-off here in Texas on the lottery. Oh, a scratch-off version, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 4:I didn't know that's what that was. I didn't know that's what that meant though.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it's basically it's bingo, but instead of letters and numbers there's these like characters.
Speaker 1:Characters, figures. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun, and they have. So there's all these different characters. I never heard of Paul. I thought we'd play a game right now with you called Lotteria, or no. I'm going to give you four cards and these are Lotteria cards, except for one. One of them is fake and you've got to pick. Spot the fake Lotteria card. You ready, let's do this, all right. And then, alex and Omar, you guys help me with the pronunciation. You ready? Alright, here we go. El Corazon that's good, el Corazon, I'll give them all. And then you say which one's fake El Corazon, which means the heart, I said it, right. El Camaron how do you say Camaron? I said it, that's shrimp. El Cactus Did I say Cactus, correct? Yeah, el Cactus. Or El Diableto how do I say that? El Diableto, el Diableto, okay, which one is the fake Lotteria card?
Speaker 4:Well, what's the El Diableto? The last one, it's El Diablo. I sound like Elmer Fudd.
Speaker 1:It's El Diabolito.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what's that mean?
Speaker 1:It means the little devil.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm going to say, okay, I'm going to go with the little devil's fake.
Speaker 1:You're going to say that's fake. Alex and Omar, is that fake? That is a real Loteria card. If I called that out and you put are we using beans or bingo cards?
Speaker 3:You know, traditionally, and this is kind of like, you sit down with the family, with the Tias, they bring out the Loteria cards and you know there's never. There used to be little markers, like little plastic markers. Those always get lost. So you bring out the beans from the pantry and you those are like the markers, the beans and then you fill up the card, you take them off, you play the game. But yeah, we're going to be using beans. Have it that old, traditional, you know Hispanic way of playing it.
Speaker 4:Good thing I ain't digging We'll be using dipping tacos, my friend, it is now time for.
Speaker 1:Are you Smarter Than a Redneck? Today, paul, you have some different competition. You have Alex and Omar from Alberto's Real Fresh Mexican Food. Today is Jack Custode, the famous sea explorer, so we're going to see. I know who he is, I know who he is, so we will see who knows more about what's under the sea. If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer Team Alberto's versus Team Paul. Here we go. How many hearts does an octopus have? Is it Omar? Omar? Go ahead. Eight, is it eight? No, that's not.
Speaker 3:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's tentacles, no that is not correct, Paul. What's your guess? What are they? Do you want multiple choice?
Speaker 4:It's one I want multiple choice.
Speaker 1:It's one, two, three or five. How many hearts? I'm going to say one, no, you're both wrong. Three, I'm going to say three, Three, well, do you get to answer too? I feel like Alberto's if he answers.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, hey, I don't know for real. I don't know for real, I don't want to make my favorite Mexican restaurant man.
Speaker 1:All right. Next question what is the largest mammal in the ocean? Is it A the great white shark, b the sperm? Well, d or C the blue whale, or D giant squid Paul.
Speaker 4:Paul, go ahead the sperm whale?
Speaker 1:It is not sperm whale. It's not. It's either great white shark, blue whale or giant squid. Team Alberto's. Alex, do you want to guess? Blue whale, Is it the blue whale? They are up 1-0. Nice, Real fresh Mexican0. Real Fresh Mexican food. Okay, Next question, and this will determine who the winner is. It's worth a million points. If Paul gets it right, he will upset you and win. All right, here we go. What ocean creature can punch fast enough to break glass? Is it the moray eel, the giant squid, the mantis shrimp or a starfish? Paul, go ahead.
Speaker 4:The mantis shrimp. How did you know that? Yeah, how did you?
Speaker 1:know that it's a shrimp, isn't that?
Speaker 4:crazy. Yeah, I watched, like Howdy Peterson and all them, and they stuck their fingers like in the thing with the shrimp to get it on the pain index, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:What idiot. Well, paul, congratulations, you are smarter than Alberto's today.
Speaker 4:But you know what? I might be smarter, but I dang sure can't cook as good as him.
Speaker 1:No, you can't. We wish you could make it tomorrow for Lotteria Night at the Albertos in Wagon Wheel. It's a free event. Alright, we have a bonus edition of Lotteria, or Nope? With Paul from Beaumont, everyone's favorite redneck, we are going to be at Albertos tomorrow. I'll be hosting Lotteria from 6 pm to 7.30 pm at the Albertos in Wagon Wheel. It's a free event and we have great prizes to give away. It's like bingo, but instead of letters and numbers, there's these characters that are on the card. So, paul, I'm going to read four characters and you've got to tell me which one is not on a Lotteria card. You ready? Okay, let's do it. Alright, here we go. La Luna. Should I tell them what?
Speaker 4:it means in Spanish. That means like moon, or something huh.
Speaker 1:Oh good, there we go. Yeah yeah, it means moon El Arbol. Do you know what that means? Did?
Speaker 4:I say it right.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm lost. That's the tree.
Speaker 4:El.
Speaker 1:Arbol El Sombrero. Oh A sombrero. Oh yeah, that's real, that's a hat. Or la television, which is the television? Which one of those is not a Lotteria card?
Speaker 4:Dang man.
Speaker 1:The TV? What the TV? You think that's the fake Lotteria card. I'm thinking I don't know. He doesn't sound confident. You have three seconds to lock in your answer Three.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm locking it in. You ain't going to mess me up. There we go, Boom boom, boom.
Speaker 1:You were right, La television is a fake Lotteria card. But La Luna, el Arbol and El Sombrero are real Is El Sombrero on there. Well, according to ChatGPT and the internet, hey, it is on the Texas lottery.
Speaker 4:That is on the.
Speaker 1:Texas lottery card. It's there Well, paul. Thanks so much for having fun with us today and hopefully we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 4:Drive safe, absolutely. Hey, y'all go down there and see my boys down there in Alberto's, if y'all want that good Mexican food he did.
Speaker 1:I have been hanging out this morning with Alex and Omar over at Alberto's best friends. It has been a fun morning. I am so excited for tomorrow night Everyone, 6 pm to 7.30 pm at Alberto's. In Wagon Wheel, I'll be hosting La Toria. It's Mexican bingo, just like bingo, but without the letters and the numbers. So I guess that's not just like bingo, but it's characters instead of numbers, and then all the other you know, getting patterns, and that is all the same. Instead of blotters we're going to use beans. That's like the OG way to play Lotteria, and you guys will have some great food. Also, alex said he's going to be making up some items that aren't on the menu, kind of to test it out and see if people can food taste for them, see if there's any new items that should make the menu.
Speaker 3:I'm treating you guys. It'll be worth coming out. It'll be a lot of fun. Try different things and we'll make you feel at home. Mi casa su casa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's great prizes we're giving away, like Alberto's swag, Alberto's gift cards, gift cards to Streets on Main Restaurant and Snowflake Q Country swag morning brew crew bags. We also have tickets to the D-backs games this Friday, Saturday and Sunday against the San Diego Padres. Father Day weekend what a better gift to give dad than some tickets you won at Lotteria? And then, of course, the grand prize that will be given away on our last game of Lotteria around 7-15 is going to be a staycation at the Big Pine Cabins in Heber, right, Heck, yes, Big Pine Cabins in Heber. It's going to be a weekend stay. It's going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait for it, and you just want people to come hang out and have a good time.
Speaker 3:Have a good time. Come hang out. You know there's not much things to do here on a Thursday evening, yeah, and it's free. Come on out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on out, hang out with Q Country the Morning Brew myself, chris Bennett, omar Alex and the whole Alberto crew for La Toria tomorrow from 6 p.
