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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
From Santa’s Call to Fire Drones: A Very Hot Episode
Santa Claus makes a surprise call to the Morning Brew, delivering the good news that host Chris isn't on the naughty list after all—though he's borderline due to his choice of energy drinks! This lighthearted opener sets the tone for an episode packed with humor, practical information, and unexpected insights from local heroes.
The show takes an entertaining turn with Producer Ryan hosting a game of "Sports Headline or Tinder Bio," challenging listeners to distinguish between athletic news headlines and dating app profiles. Following this, Ryan shares his post-divorce dating wisdom in a relationship advice segment, advising against a 22-year-old listener's marriage plans and suggesting hypnosis for the girlfriend's driving anxiety. The conversation sparks a fascinating difference of opinion when Timber Mesa Fire Department officials arrive in studio.
The highlight of the episode features Fire Marshal JD Pepper and Public Information Officer Trinity Savage from Timber Mesa Fire Department delivering critical community updates. They announce the lifting of fire restrictions across Navajo County beginning August 25th at 8 AM (except for White Mountain Apache Tribal lands), while emphasizing the continued need for responsible fire management. Perhaps most exciting is their reveal of a new drone program that recently helped locate a lightning-sparked wildfire near a residential area, demonstrating how modern technology is enhancing their firefighting capabilities. The visit concludes with a spirited "Friendly Fire Trivia" competition that tests the fire officials' knowledge while educating listeners on fire safety facts.
Whether you're planning weekend campfires now that restrictions are lifting, curious about how drones are revolutionizing emergency services, or simply enjoy hearing local experts share their knowledge with humor and heart, this episode delivers information you can use alongside plenty of laughs. Give it a listen, and remember to drown, stir, and feel your campfires before leaving them!
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Good morning, it's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this? Ho, ho, ho, Ho, ho, ho. Who's this? Is this Santa?
Speaker 2:It is Santa.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, santa, what are you doing calling the Morning Brew? How's your summer been going?
Speaker 2:It's going great. I'm going different places seeing people. They're excited. Oh, that's great. I just wanted to call and say I double-checked my list and you are not on the naughty list. Oh, thank goodness You're on the borderline because you know what you're doing. Too many energy drinks, not too many, just the wrong brand.
Speaker 1:At the parade I saw Santa. You were walking the parade and he points to me in front of everybody and says Chris, you're on the naughty list, but it's good to hear that I'm borderline. But I'll do my best to purchase the correct energy drinks, santa.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I give the reindeers that energy drinks and that helps them to fly.
Speaker 1:Oh, you give the reindeer Red Bulls, so they get wings. That's right. There you go. Well, maybe that's what I need to start doing. We are back with my best friend, emmy Award winning producer Ryan Say hi producer Ryan, hi producer Ryan. Producer Ryan produces a podcast called the Steffi Small Shows on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network and he also, as we know, is putting himself out there, maybe looking to date. But you do not do Tinder anymore, right?
Speaker 4:Absolutely not. Do not do the apps anymore. I like to just put myself out there in real life.
Speaker 1:The old-fashioned way.
Speaker 4:The old-fashioned way which is picking up on ladies at bars.
Speaker 1:So I came up with a game that's sports-related and Tinder-related. It's called Sports Head related and Tinder related. It's called Sports Headline or Tinder Bio. You let me know if this is a sports headline or a Tinder bio. You ready, I am so ready for this. All right, first one, I don't run unless I'm being chased.
Speaker 4:Ooh, I think it's a sports headline?
Speaker 1:I hope no, it is a Tinder bio. Oh no, sounds like a red flag and you love Red flag, you love him. He's a grinder who plays with grit.
Speaker 4:Okay, that better be a sports headline.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's definitely a sports headline. Just looking for someone to carb load with.
Speaker 4:Oh, a Tinder bio. Oh, Tinder bio Is it a Tinder bio.
Speaker 1:It is a Tinder bio Ding, ding, ding. Next one Fluent in sarcasm and bad decisions.
Speaker 4:Oh, definitely Tinder bio. I feel like I've read that one before.
Speaker 1:And last one we're taking it one game at a time.
Speaker 4:I think that's the sports headline.
Speaker 1:It would be a lot cooler if it was a Tinder bio. That was sports headline or Tinder bio. It is now time for relationship advice and today, given the relationship advice, is my best friend, producer Ryan. You ready for some juicy relationship advice? I'm very ready. Do you want to give the audience your credentials for giving relationship advice?
Speaker 4:I was with my ex-wife for 15 years, so I have some experience in the marriage department. However, I've been divorced for three years and, let's just say, done a little dating.
Speaker 1:All right, that sounds like he's got the right credentials for our relationship advice expert today. Here's the story. My 22-year-old girlfriend is terrified of getting her driver's license, but it's my one condition to get married. Here's the deal Me and my girlfriend have been dating for two years and the one condition I have for getting married is that she gets her driver's license. She does not want to get it for some reason. She has anxiety and she will. She gets her driver's license. She does not want to get it for some reason. She has anxiety and she will not get her driver's license. And I've made it known that I won't leave her or do anything to upset her, but I will not propose unless she gets her driver's license. Am I being a jerk with this? I'm just looking for an outlook on this topic. What can I do? Should I marry her, even if she doesn't get her driver's license? What say you, ryan? Wait, how old did he say he was? He's 22. She's 22.
Speaker 4:Oh, don't get married Just based off the age alone. Oh yeah, you don't want to get married that early. I mean, I know it's worked out for you, but you had a divorce in the middle of it.
Speaker 1:Right right.
Speaker 4:And so that would be my advice on that. However, let's take the age out of it, and I would say that would definitely be a condition on my part. You don't want to be an Uber driver for the rest of your life just because she has a little anxiety. A little anxiety, come on, you can take care of that. There's medication for that, there's counseling, there's all kinds of things, you know, maybe hypnosis.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good idea. Check out the great relationship advice coming from Ryan. He says don't get married, you're too young, and take your girlfriend to go get some hypnosis so she gets rid of her anxiety and gets her driver's license. I am so excited to have some guests in studio. I'm no longer all by myself. I am joined by the Timber Mesa Fire Department. We have JD Pepper, the fire marshal with the Timber Mesa Fire Department, and Trinity Savage. What's your official title? Communications officer, Public information officer? Oh, public information officer, trinity Savage. We are going to talk some fire news, get some updates from the Timber Mesa Fire Department, but first we just finished that segment with my best friend, Ryan. We did relationship advice and jd, you have a different, uh, opinion. He says don't marry her. That's a red flag, and one.
Speaker 3:they're too young to get married so yeah, I mean the age thing, I mean based on experience, I I would, kind of I would, I would go along with the age thing.
Speaker 1:You'd say wait, don't get married young. Yeah, okay, that's your opinion. Not at 22. 22?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got married, I'm not saying that I wouldn't do it again, but I probably wouldn't do it again. No, I love my kids, but that's a young age to get married and you haven't experienced life to the extent that you probably need to. It creates problems, but to the extent that you probably need to, it creates problems, but but that's it. Now, just because she doesn't have a driver's license, I mean, if you love somebody and you are, and they love you back, I mean that's when you're already putting, like what do you call it? When you're putting something on them like you know, restrictions, right, yeah, oh, if you don't have a license, you restrictions. If you don't have a license, you don't get to marry me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you don't want to be an Uber driver. You don't have to be.
Speaker 3:There's plenty of Ubers around.
Speaker 1:What about you, trinity? Is it a deal breaker if they don't have a driver's license? For me, yes, probably Okay. For her but, not for JD, Not for JD interesting.
Speaker 3:I'm a hopeless romantic. He really is. I'm a warrior poet.
Speaker 1:And also an actor as well.
Speaker 3:I've been in a lot of movies, but I'm not an actor.
Speaker 1:I act all the time and we know him best as his role as fire marshal with the Timber Mesa Fire Department. So when we come back, we're going to get an update on fire restrictions. And how about a little Timber Mesa Fire Marshal Minute from JD Pepper what you got for us.
Speaker 3:Hey, tomorrow, friday, the 25th, 8 am, fire restrictions are being lifted here in Idaho County, except for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. They do stay in stage one. But yeah, those restrictions are going to be lifted so you can have your barbecues.
Speaker 4:You can have your little campfires.
Speaker 1:Your little like you could bring the fire yeah recreational, little recreational fires.
Speaker 3:So just again, we're still dry. Just make sure that don't leave it unattended. It means when you go to bed you're putting water on it, putting it out. So you, what was the Drown stir feel?
Speaker 1:Drown stir. Feel so just because the fire restrictions have been lifted, it does mean we get to make s'mores, but doesn't mean we get to be irresponsible.
Speaker 3:It's not a free-for-all Right. Yeah, you can make s'mores, you cannot have bonfires. Those are always illegal, by the way. Oh, really Okay, so no bonfires, unless no, I shouldn't say always illegal. Unless you have a special use permit, you can have. You know, I shouldn't say you can. You can apply to get a special use permit. It takes an inspection of the site and so on and so forth and you know that type of thing.
Speaker 1:Okay. Yeah no bonfires. So starting tomorrow 8 o'clock, all fire restrictions on the White Mountains have been lifted. Correct, Except for Apache.
Speaker 3:The White Mountain Apache track White Mountain.
Speaker 1:Apache.
Speaker 3:They stay in restriction year round, year round. All right, good, white Mountain Patch is trapped White.
Speaker 1:Mountain Patch. They stay in restriction year-round, year-round. All right, good news. But remember everyone, we still have to be fire-wise and fire-safe. So let's do our part to keep our community safe and keep Timber Mesa Fire Department nice and bored as possible. You guys are busy, we don't need to make you any busier, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, correct, we don't want to come out and have to put your house out. It's just not something that we like to do.
Speaker 1:And we recently learned that, starting tomorrow at 8 o'clock, the fire restrictions are going to be lifted up here. But you guys have an exciting new program you want to talk about.
Speaker 3:Tell us a little bit about this new drone program you've got going on. So everybody knows that drones are, know, drones are just this, this big thing. And so we we had one um at at the office and I said you know what? Uh, I have a new uh fire inspector investigator.
Speaker 3:Um, it's, it's, uh, it's our prevention captain, captain Lucas guy, and I went to him and I said, hey, let's, why don't we put this drone up? Let's, let's, let's, make this a let's make this a real thing, because I think it could be beneficial for us to find fires that wildland, urban interface fires or fires that start around our area. And, yeah, so we registered it with the FAA. Lucas is now a registered pilot, the bird's got a transponder on it. I mean, it's all equipped and two weeks ago it kind of proved its worth, really, in my opinion, we actually used it over Memorial Day weekend as well, really, to help us spot those folks that were up in our area and having fires during restrictions. So the drone was the eye in the sky and got it in the middle of the night, got some of those folks. Unfortunately for them, the Show Low Police Department issued court summons.
Speaker 3:Oh, no In other words, citations for them, right? So, yeah, so, and then two weeks ago that we had a lightning strike that occurred and the drone, we put it up and we were able. Now I should say I'm going to give props to the US Forest Service.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:Because the lady up in the smoke tower at Springer Mountain is absolutely amazing. She's been doing this and she saw the little puff of white smoke, got us started. We put the drone up and we were able to locate this fire in a canyon one-half mile west of the Ranchero Trailer Park over here.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, so close.
Speaker 3:Yes, very close, right so, and a little squall of a storm had kind of come in and we started blowing. You know the wind was blowing and when that happens that's going to spread that fire pretty quick in the grasses, but the drone was able to find that fire. We were able to find that fire. We were able to triangulate and get resources down to the fire and get it out.
Speaker 1:So, so awesome Using technology to keep us even safer here and helping fight fires with these drones, and a big shout out to our National Forest Service.
Speaker 3:Oh, absolutely, she's wonderful. Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1:Heck, yeah, well, cool things happening at the Timber Mesa Fire Department. And before I let you guys go, we're going to play a little game. We're going to see who's smarter JD Pepper or Trinity Savage with the Timber Mesa Fire Department, with some friendly fire trivia. If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer. First question what color is the center of a flame? J, jd, yes, white.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:J. Are we just using initials now?
Speaker 3:Well, what type of a flame? There's different things burning.
Speaker 1:Multiple choice Red, blue, orange or yellow.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go blue.
Speaker 1:It is blue. Ding ding, ding, ding, ding ding. Although he kind of cheated a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he said J and then you got to talk about it and then get the multiple choice, so I feel like that shouldn't count, all right.
Speaker 1:He's up 1-0. It's first one to three. Which animal is the mascot for wildfire?
Speaker 3:prevention Trinity.
Speaker 1:Dalmatian. Dalmatian no. Finish the question which animal is the mascot for wildfire prevention? Tony the Tiger, smokey, bear, smokey.
Speaker 2:Bear JD Smokey.
Speaker 1:Smokey, he's up 2-0. Oh Trinity, this is not going.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking Fire Station.
Speaker 1:Dalmatian. In what year did Smokey the Bear debut? Was it 1920, 1944? Jd, I don't know 1955 or 1967?.
Speaker 3:It was 1927.
Speaker 1:No 19 1967.
Speaker 3:It was 1927. No, you don't get 100 guesses, otherwise I should have got the other one when I said Smokey the Bear.
Speaker 1:Which one is it? So, Trinity, it's either 1944 or 1955 or 1967. 1944. 1944. You got it. There we go. You keep cheating. I don't want to hear it. He's one right answer away from winning this. I know which tool is used to dig fire lines during wildfires. Is it A McLeod, B Pickaxe, C Rake or D Hoseplow, JD McLeod? It is McLeod. Holy moly Way to go.
Speaker 3:I always call him a McCluskey for some reason, I don't know why. Well, we have a Pulaski and then we have the McCloud. I'm not a wildfire guy, I'm a wildland firefighter. I've done it. I was in the Army for too long, so it's kind of like being in the Army.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, that was Friendly Fire Trivia with the Timber. Mesa Fire Department.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for coming in and having fun, best friends.
