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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Butt Dances, Dead Crow & the Shrinking Redneck
Comedy and community collide as Chris Bennett prepares for his milestone comedy headlining weekend at the prestigious Dead Crow Comedy Club in Wilmington, North Carolina. The excitement is palpable as Chris explains he'll be joining the ranks of comedy legends who have performed at this venue, promising his followers a steady stream of "butt dance" videos from various Wilmington landmarks. His friend Kirk Nurmi calls with a tongue-in-cheek warning that Chris might be "too handsome and funny" for North Carolina laws—a risk Chris seems willing to take for his art.
The heart of small-town America beats strongly when Brian from Pinedale calls with news about the Pinedale Chuckwagon Festival. This community gathering sold around 700 meals and completely sold out of pies, raising critical funds for the local volunteer fire department. Brian's exhausted but satisfied report reminds us of the power of community events and the hardworking volunteers behind them.
The show takes unexpected turns with Dave Ramsey's Motivational Monday segment, where Dave consistently prefers humorous quotes over traditional inspirational ones, ultimately selecting "My boss told me to have a good day, so I went home" as his weekly motivator. Meanwhile, Paul from Beaumont shares his weight loss journey as "the incredible shrinking redneck from Texas," facing his Dr Pepper addiction while confidently winning a George Strait trivia challenge. Throughout it all, Chris's genuine enthusiasm and rapport with callers creates a warm atmosphere that feels like catching up with friends.
Join Chris on his comedy adventure by following @ChrisBennettComedy on social media, and if you're near Wilmington this weekend, grab tickets to his shows at Dead Crow Comedy Club. From battleship butt dances to beach days with Producer Ryan, this journey promises to be as entertaining as it is milestone-marking.
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Good morning, it's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this?
Speaker 2:Well, good morning, Chris. It's your best friend, Kirk Nermy.
Speaker 1:Heck yeah, kirk Nermy, how's it going? Our gritty true crime correspondent How's it going? And actor and author and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going great, chris, and I'm calling today. Really, of all the roles you mentioned, my role is your gritty true crime correspondent, because I'm a little worried about you, chris. You know, all of us in the brew crew know that you're obviously incredibly handsome, right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows that right, that's universal Right and you're incredibly funny. You're a very gifted stand-up comedian and you're going international now. You're going to North Carolina right next weekend.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm actually going to leave. Tomorrow morning I'm heading to Wilmington because I'm going to go ahead and promote my shows and then Friday and Saturday this is my first time headlining in North Carolina, my first time headlining a major club in North Carolina called the Dead Crow Comedy Club. Some of the biggest names in comedy go through here. So I'm honored to be able to headline this Friday and Saturday Two shows 7 and 9.30. So I've got to take care of my voice.
Speaker 2:And now another big name coming through. But, Chris, have you checked the laws in North Carolina to ensure that you, someone as handsome and funny as you, is that legal? Because you know, I don't know the laws in North Carolina. You might want to check with an attorney.
Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe I should, because I'm going to be doing a lot of social media videos. I'm going to be posting to all my socials. I'm going to be doing butt dances all around Wilmington. So follow all my socials at Chris Bennett Comedy Chris Bennett and you can see if indeed I am too handsome for North Carolina.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't want to see you getting arrested during a butt dance video, although that could go viral, right, yeah, yeah, you know what that's a plus, I'd do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would sell some tickets for sure, so I'm super excited. Well, thanks so much for looking out for me, and I'll save your phone number for my one phone call.
Speaker 2:You bet buddy, you enjoy shaking those tight pants in North Carolina.
Speaker 1:Good morning. It's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this Good morning champion? Chris Bennett? Heck, yeah, it's Brian from Pinedale. How are you doing? You had a wild weekend with the Pinedale Chuckwagon Festival. How's your body holding up?
Speaker 4:Not real good. I'm recovering yet, so I called to thank you, janine Ford. We had a fabulous turnout. We had seven wagons show up, most of them all sold out of food. We had a good crowd. I want to thank all the sponsors that helped us with this and all the volunteers that helped put it together.
Speaker 1:Heck yeah. And you were able to raise some money for the Pinedale Volunteer Fire Department. You got it, Heck yeah. And then did you to raise some money for the Pinedale Volunteer Fire Department? You got it, Heck yeah. And then did you sell out of pies for the—.
Speaker 4:Yep, the pies completely sold out.
Speaker 1:They were gone oh man, so awesome, I'm so glad it was a great event. What was your favorite part? The favorite part, yep.
Speaker 4:Hmm, getting done with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's always my favorite part after I put on a big event, when it's over and everything went great and now you get to sit back and just relax a little.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they sold somewhere around 700 meals. I'm figuring out, oh dude, yeah, yes, so it was a big, big fundraiser for us and we need this every year. So you know, like I said, I can't thank everybody enough. It was huge success for us this year.
Speaker 1:Well, great Well, congratulations, Brian. Is there a song you want to hear this morning?
Speaker 4:Well, of course, let's go to Memphis instead of North Carolina.
Speaker 1:A midnight train to Memphis. Yeah, I'm heading to North Carolina, but you're heading to Memphis.
Speaker 4:All right. Thank you very much for everything. Really, you got it. I love you guys. All right, have a great week this week.
Speaker 1:You too. Bye, bye, bye On the phone. We have Show Lo's own Dave Ramsey for Boo or Cool. Motivational Monday Edition. Dave, I'm going to go ahead and read some motivational quotes. You tell me if they are boo or cool, and then we'll pick your favorite one for the week. Sound good, sounds good, all right. First one you can't make everyone happy. You're not coffee Cool. Oh really, what took you so long on that one?
Speaker 3:I had to think about it a little bit.
Speaker 1:All right. This one is from Mahatma Gandhi. He says the future depends on what you do today. Boo or cool.
Speaker 3:I'd have to say boo to that one.
Speaker 1:Really, I think that's great. Your future always depends on what you do today.
Speaker 3:No, it depends on how far ahead you look.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, alright. Next one my boss told me to have a good day so I went home. Cool, you like all the joke ones. You don't like any of the real ones. Here's another one. This is from Robert Collier. He says success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Boo or cool, cool, oh okay, I thought you were going to Efforts. Repeated day in and day out. Boo or cool, cool, oh okay, I thought you were going to say boo to that one. And let's see. Steven Wright said Monday is an awful way to spend one-seventh of your life. Cool, oh, my gosh. He likes all the joke ones. And our last one is from George Adair Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. Boo or cool.
Speaker 5:Boo.
Speaker 1:Why that's kind of good Like sometimes you have to overcome your fear to have success, or see you know what's on the other side. You have to go through fear to have success.
Speaker 3:No, but if you don't fear nothing, you don't have to worry about success.
Speaker 1:You have no fear.
Speaker 3:Nah, I don't worry about nothing. Fear don't fear nothing. You don't have to worry about success. You have no fear. Nah, I don't worry about nothing. Fear don't bother me.
Speaker 1:So what was your favorite motivational quote of the day? Number three, number three, I forget which one that was. Here we go. My boss told me to have a good day, so I went home. Yeah, that is this week's motivational quote of the day. That was Motivational Boo or Cool with Dave Ramsey. Dave, love you, best friend. Hope you have a great day.
Speaker 3:I hope you have a hell of a time in North Carolina. It's a beautiful place to be. Woo, that's my blood, because Paul from Beaumont said so. Woo-woo.
Speaker 1:Yee-yee, everyone's favorite redneck from Beaumont, texas. It's Paul from Beaumont. How was your redneck weekend?
Speaker 3:It was okay.
Speaker 1:No beer drinking. Why? Just okay? Oh, it was babysitting. Oh, oh, oh oh. But you don't ever change any of the diapers. That's just for your wife. Yeah, I'm not doing that. Do you have a redneck motivational quote for us on this Motivational Monday?
Speaker 3:Look, man, sometimes you just got to face your fears, man, deal with it. Heck, yeah, face them, man. Sometimes you just got to face your fears, man, deal with it. Heck yeah, face them, man. Face them head on.
Speaker 1:That's right, heck yeah.
Speaker 3:I did, I did. You know why I picked the beat, the incredible shrinking redneck from Beaumont, texas.
Speaker 1:Oh, why Tell us why you're going to be the incredible shrinking redneck from Texas? Because I took the poke this morning. Oh, he got the fat shot. Heck yeah, the Ozempic or whatever they're called.
Speaker 3:No, it's the other one.
Speaker 1:Oh, something like that yeah.
Speaker 3:The one with the Ozempic that you said they'd give you. It had quite a few side effects. I was like nah, and she told me about the other one. I was like, okay, yeah, I'll go ahead and take that one.
Speaker 1:Do you have to still eat healthy on this, or what are your rules? I'll let you send it.
Speaker 3:There's no diet, You're just going to eat less. But yeah, I got to stay clear of the Dr Pepper. I just need to.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't wait to follow you along on your weight loss journey. Speaking of your fat shot that you got today to try and lose some weight. So they did the first one, and so now you have to shoot yourself once a week.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bro. No, I'm not doing that, I'm going to Nanu.
Speaker 1:You're going to have your grandma. You're going to have Nanu? Do it, yeah, why not Rhonda, your wife?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know if I trust that you, but All right, paul, you might make a gesture, or rather might just make it hurt, just to make it hurt.
Speaker 1:All right, paul, we're going to find out who's smarter than a redneck. We're going to do some King of Country trivia. George Strait If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer. Here we go. Which branch of the armed services did George Strait? Oh, paul, go ahead. Army, is it Army? He's up 1-0. First to three what type of degree did Strait earn from Texas State University? Chris, agriculture Yay, there we go. Which character did Strait voice on the king of hill.
Speaker 1:Was it chip cornell, dale or walt? I got no. I mean either chris, I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna say walt. Nope, it's either chip cornell or dale. Chip chip no, it's cornell. Okay, uh, next one, in which song does straight sing? That flush on your cheeks is more than the wine. Is it A Fire? I Can't Put Out. Paul, oh Paul.
Speaker 3:You look so good love.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you look so good. He's up to one. If he gets one more, he wins. Whose record did Straight break for largest indoor concert? Was it Rolling Stones, paul McCartney, grateful Dead or Bruce Springsteen? Chris, I'm going to say Bruce Springsteen, no, it's either the Rolling Stones, paul McCartney or the Grateful Dead Paul for the win. Holy moly, he looks so good at winning. Congratulations, Paul. You are smarter than a handsome radio DJ that's also headlining Dead Crow Comedy Club this weekend in Wilmington, north Carolina. I'm going to miss you, buddy, but follow me online. We'll be going live every morning from North Carolina, so hop on. You know I will buddy On Facebook Live. All right, buddy, drive safe and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3:Have a great time, buddy. Thanks, buddy, bye, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:Before we head out today, we're going to do a little special podcast only phone call. I checked in with producer Ryan, who I'm going to be staying with when I head out to North Carolina for my headlining weekend at Dead Crow Comedy Room this Friday and Saturday. Here we go. Hi, hey, best friend. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you Good? You busy? No, I'm good. How are you Good? You busy? No, I wanted to touch base with you. This is my last day on the show live. I'm going to be pre-recording the show and then doing little check-in segments from North Carolina, but everyone on the Facebook Live wanted to know what activities do we have planned? What are we going to do? What should I do in Wilmington, north Carolina? Well, we're going to go to the beach, yeah, so bring my brokini.
Speaker 5:Yeah, bring your brokini. We're going to go to the beach. We're going to shoot a butt dance video of you around different places in town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like all the historical monuments around town or all the big spots. Okay, I love it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we'll do that. We're going to eat some very good seafood. How do you feel about seafood?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I normally just eat cheeseburgers and sandwiches, but I'll try some seafood. All right, yeah, I'll expand my horizons and what else?
Speaker 5:We're going to do a very fun show on Wednesday night at a place called the Waterline Brewery, which is very fun and it's a very popular local show, and the booker is excited to have you on. I did a show with him on saturday, can't wait. And what else, I don't know. I mean, we're just gonna be working. We're gonna be working a lot too. You know, yep, yep, we're to be working a lot too.
Speaker 1:you know, yep, yep, we're going to be working, and twerking.
Speaker 5:I want to take a beach day on Thursday probably.
Speaker 1:Okay, awesome. Yeah, you know you think comedy's all fun and games, but it's a lot of hard work, a lot of butt dancing that you got to do.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and we'll do the open mic on Thursday night at the club Yep, and so people see that you're a headliner, but you're also humble.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, check out my PR guy Producer.
Speaker 2:Ryan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I can't wait.
Speaker 5:Here's the real question If I end up featuring for you on Friday night, which is still TBD, do we do the punishment A bit of the punishment, which?
Speaker 1:punishment? I don't know.
Speaker 5:Let me think about it. I have the electric nipple clamps.
Speaker 1:I have the electric nipple clamps so I'm headlining, so I don't know how I can recover from that.
Speaker 5:We'd have to do it in the middle of my set. We could always do it at the end of your set, yeah that's a good point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll think about it, man, I'm so excited. I can't wait to hang out with my best friend, producer Ryan, in his hometown, have him show me around and then to headline such a prestigious comedy club like Dead Crow where so many big names come through it is pretty surreal.
Speaker 5:You could also go to a very old mansion called the Bellamy Mansion Okay, called the Bellamy Mansion. That has the last remaining. This is kind of a bummer, but interesting historically. Has one of the last remaining standing slave quarters.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't want to do a butt dance there. No, no, no.
Speaker 5:Don't do a butt dance. I'm saying you might want to visit. If you want to visit a historic site, Maybe I should.
Speaker 1:But you know me, I just like to stay in my happy spot. Yeah, I don't like to remember any sad stuff. We have a battleship here, heck. Yeah, I got to do a butt dance at the battleship.
Speaker 5:I do a butt dance at the battleship.
Speaker 1:Or did anybody die at the battleship?
Speaker 5:I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of people died at the battleship.
Speaker 1:Well then, maybe I don't want to do a butt dance at the battleship We'll find places to butt dance.
Speaker 5:You could do a butt dance in front of the battleship from the other side of the river. I feel like that would be less Okay.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, awesome. Well, I can't wait, buddy. I got so much I got to do today. I'm leaving tomorrow morning, I'll send you my flight information and then I get in late, like 10 o'clock on Tuesday. Yeah, it's going to be a long day of travel, but I can't wait. I love you. Thanks so much for having fun with us this morning.
Speaker 5:I love you too.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, see you, best friend.
