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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Fall Favorites & Feel-Good Stories on the Morning Brew
Fall has officially arrived at the Morning Brew, and we're celebrating with a special autumn-themed episode packed with heartwarming stories, country music updates, and the return of fan-favorite characters.
The changing seasons set the perfect backdrop for our fall edition of "This or That" where we discover preferences for apple crisp over pumpkin pie, caramel apples over candy apples, and the universal joy of stealing your partner's cozy hoodies when the temperature drops. These small moments of connection remind us why we love this time of year.
Our Taco Bout Something Good Tuesday delivers two powerful stories that might just restore your faith in humanity. First, we share how South Korean boxer Park Se-hoon traveled to Florida to personally hand over his controversial 1988 Olympic gold medal to Roy Jones Jr. after 35 years, saying through his son, "I had the medal, but it belongs to you." Then, we spotlight country star Jelly Roll's inspiring coaching of his son's flag football team, where his philosophy that "tigers don't lose, tigers learn" reminds us all that setbacks are just stepping stones to growth.
The country music world is buzzing with news that pop star Sabrina Carpenter will make her Grand Ole Opry debut, stirring conversations about tradition versus evolution in Nashville's most hallowed venue. Meanwhile, we welcome back our beloved "Paul from Beaumont," who's been missing from the show while attending truck driving school. His hilarious updates on "teaching the instructor" and his impressive 22-pound weight loss journey had us all cheering.
Join us for these stories and more, including our Hollywood Movie Connection with Jeff Reynolds calling in from the Catalina Film Institute to talk about their upcoming festival this weekend. Subscribe now to start your mornings with good news, great conversation, and the perfect blend of entertainment to kick-start your day!
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew, janine. You over there, I am, I am. How are you Good? How are you on this? Talk About Something Good, tuesday.
Speaker 2:Doing awesome, awesome. And yeah, I loved all that rain yesterday. Just wonderful so nice Dude.
Speaker 1:it is definitely fall, is in the air. Yeah, big time, big time, oh my gosh, it's sad to see summer go, but I do love the changing of the air. Yeah, big time. Oh, my gosh, it's sad to see summer go, but I do love the changing of the seasons. Quick reminder, janine you remember our best friend, tavis McCreary, out of Pinetop? Yes, 13-year-old, he's in the running for the Sports Illustrated Youth Athlete of the Year. He's in the semifinals. He's in 16th place. Only two days left.
Speaker 2:Ooh ooh, ooh, we need a vote, vote, vote so everyone.
Speaker 1:you get one free vote If you want to buy extra votes you can, and that goes towards the Bee Foundation for Cancer Research and why Not? You Foundation. So, youthathleteoftheyearorg Tavis McCreary, give him a vote today. Ah, be great, janine. How about we do a little this or that? Fall edition for the second day of fall, how about that?
Speaker 2:Let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, pumpkin pie or apple crisp. Ooh, apple crisp. Okay, you and I are on the same page on that one. I like it. Caramel apple or candy apple I don't really know what the difference is.
Speaker 2:Is there a difference? I know, I know caramel, I love caramel. Yeah, I love caramel.
Speaker 1:I love those Rocky Mountain. Did you ever have those Rocky Mountain candy apples at the mall?
Speaker 2:back, in the day. Oh yeah, those are so amazing. Oh, so good.
Speaker 1:Hayride or corn maze Hayride Flannel shirt or oversized sweater Flannel shirt or oversized sweater Flannel shirt. Do you steal your husband's hoodies or his sweaters to keep yourself warm?
Speaker 2:Hoodies, I do.
Speaker 1:Yes, I steal his hoodies a lot.
Speaker 2:I like that he doesn't wear flannel shirts. I love a guy in a flannel shirt. I just think that's like the old Marlboro man thing. But I love a cozy-looking flannel shirt on a guy, but he doesn't like flannel shirts.
Speaker 1:Come on, clint, let's get him a flannel shirt. All right, and last question Oktoberfest bratwurst or Thanksgiving turkey?
Speaker 2:Oh, Thanksgiving turkey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to go Thanksgiving, turkey especially. You probably spend it with your family.
Speaker 2:Oh, of course, yes, absolutely. I love Thanksgiving and all the trimmings and I have to make all grandma's favorites. We call grandma's stuffing my, my brother's, my brother's, literally through the biggest tantrum you've ever seen If I don't make their own flat stuffing for them to take home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, uh. Well, that was this or that fall edition with Janine. I feel like we all got to know her A little bit better. All right, janine, it is Taco Bout Something Good Tuesday. So how about I start with today's Taco Bout Something Good news story? Yeah, sounds good. I have two, I don't know which one to pick, one or two, two. Okay, there we go. This is in the sports world, and this one proves it's never too late to make things right. Do you remember the 1988 Seoul Olympics? No, not really.
Speaker 2:I watched it too late to make things right.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the?
Speaker 2:1988 Seoul Olympics. No, not really I watched it.
Speaker 1:I'm sure I covered it Well. There was a controversial boxing match. Park Se-hoon was awarded a controversial 3-2 boxing victory over American Roy Jones Jr and most viewers believed that Jones clearly won, and even the Olympic announcers called the decision rotten and rumors of bribe judges swirled for years. But the medal stayed with Park, a result he said Park said felt like a nightmare. So Jones went on to become one of boxing's all-time greats, but that missing Olympic gold always lingered. And now, 35 years later, janine Park sought peace, surprising Joan in his hometown of Pensacola, florida, and handed him the gold medals Aw yeah, saying through his son I had the medal, but it belongs to you, oh my gosh, oh, that was that's as you were reading the story.
Speaker 2:I remembered it. I'm like, yeah, oh, that's cool, that's very cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Jones was fighting back tears and it's just a powerful reminder that integrity lasts longer than any trophy, and it's never too late to make amends.
Speaker 2:That's too cool. Love that story Well.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you picked number two.
Speaker 2:Then, janine, I'm ready for your good news story, okay this one, and then you can you know you could play a Jelly Roll song after it. I just have to talk about Jelly Roll. I so love him. I don't know if you caught his thing at the Vatican oh my gosh singing a hard hallelujah. It was unbelievable, unbelievable at the Vatican. But aside from that, this one's great because Jelly Roll coaches his son's flag football team. Okay, and no one gives a motivational speech better than Jelly Roll.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:His son Noah's team just lost a flag football game. But Jelly had just the right words. After the kids he said hey, listen man, this is part of it, baby. You have good days, you have bad days, and you won't feel the good days unless you have the bad days. Okay, but above everything else, you have fun and you stick together. You are all winners. And the boys were yelling yes, sir, and it's super cool. You have to check it out. But, um, jelly, roll closed out with the philosophy we have from this day forward, the tigers don't lose. The tigers Learn. Tell your teammates, teammates. You love them and you're proud of them. And you're going to come back next week and kick somebody's booty. You know all that kind of stuff. And so, bunny, you know Bunny XO, his wife, she filmed the whole thing. She posted it on TikTok.
Speaker 2:Oh, man, she goes everyone needs a jelly roll. Pep talk there you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you gave me goosebumps. I'm ready to run through a wall, yeah.
Speaker 2:You need to. You really need to. I'm waiting for them to put a hard hallelujah on. He sings it with that one other guy and my brain is locking up. I can't think of his name, but oh my gosh, it's good it is so good, and he did it in front of the Vatican with all these backup singers. It was like unreal. Yeah, anyway, we'll have to check that out. Anyway, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, janine, thank you so much for spending some time with us on this. Talk About Something Good Tuesday and we'll check in with you tomorrow. Thank you, chris, love ya, bye, bye-bye. It is now time for some country music news. Here's some big headlines from Nashville this week.
Speaker 1:This week the grand old Opry was stirring up some conversation and some controversy after announcing that pop star that's right, pop star Sabrina Carpenter is going to make her Opry debut October 7th. Yeah, the Expresso singer, who's 26 years old, has seven albums and some major chart hits. Has seven albums and some major chart hits. But some fans have questioned why is the pop singer stepping into the famous Opry circle? And supporters point out that she's collaborated with Dolly Parton and the Opry, I guess, has always welcomed artists beyond the strict country lines, like they've had Paramore, steven Tyler, even Pharrell. But remember, these are just guest appearances, not Opry membership, so they're not giving her an Opry membership. She's just making a guest appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. So tradition and new sounds can still mix under the legendary roof. So that's pretty cool. And we don't play a whole lot of his music on our radio station. But I love this artist, tyler Childers I think that's how you pronounce his last name. He gave 20 fans the memory of a lifetime.
Speaker 1:After Shriners Hospital fundraiser, ten donors and their plus ones were secretly invited into a practice show at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Dited into a practice show at Rupp Arena in Lexington, and Childers played a full concert just for them and even handed each original donor $1,000 as a thank you. Two different stories, but both prove that country music keeps finding fresh ways to surprise and delight its fans. Pretty juicy country music news for you. Woo, that's my blood. Kapow boom. I said so, yee, yee, yee, yee. Holy moly, paul from Beaumont, everyone's favorite redneck, who has been missing from the morning brew because he's bettering himself, going back to school to become a better truck driver. It's so good to hear from you. Give us some feedback. What's going on?
Speaker 3:Oh man, look, let me tell you something, man. This instructor's learning all kinds of stuff this week. This guy's learning all kinds of stuff this week.
Speaker 1:This guy's learning all kinds of stuff. The instructor's learning stuff or you're learning stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, he is, he's your teaching.
Speaker 3:I got him on point. I got him on point.
Speaker 1:So how many more days of school until we get you back?
Speaker 3:Oh, I should take my test tomorrow afternoon and then hopefully I'll be back at work Friday.
Speaker 1:Heck, yeah, all right, sweet and how are you feeling about the test?
Speaker 3:Hopefully RD will be up in his truck and, yeah, we'll be back to normal.
Speaker 1:Oh man Good, Because I've missed you. Give us an update on your weight loss journey. Any more weight loss? Anything crazy or funny happen in your life that we need to know about?
Speaker 2:Man let's see, I'm about 255 now, dang.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to start off at 277. You started out at what? 277. And you're now 257? 255. 255, 22 pounds, and how long? A little over a month and a half, I guess. Oh my gosh, and Rhonda's still the one giving you the shot.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well tomorrow, I'll go up to the doctor's office. Let them give it to me. I'll take my test until one. Awesome, yeah, I'll go. My test until one Awesome, yeah, I'll go up there.
Speaker 1:Well, crazy man, congratulations on the weight loss and I hope you keep kicking butt in school and you pass that test tomorrow and we can be back to normal.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on bro, come on, Come on man. Hey, I hope you're funny at your next comedy show.
Speaker 1:Okay, come on man. Come on man, are you? Do you have to go, or can we find out if we're smarter than a redneck?
Speaker 3:Hey Dave, you ready for me to teach you some more stuff? Okay, give me, okay. Yeah, just a second. Yeah, I'm going to teach you some more stuff. Yeah, just a second. Yeah, I'm basically going to teach you some more stuff.
Speaker 1:You're not supposed to be teaching the teacher stuff. They're supposed to be teaching you stuff.
Speaker 3:Dude, the second day here the director asked me if I wanted a job.
Speaker 1:No, I'm good, Paul. It's so good to hear from you. We've missed you, buddy, and we'll talk to you soon. All right will do. All right, see you, bye-bye. We'll talk to you soon. Alright will do. We are on the phone with our Hollywood Movie Connection. It is our best friend, jeff Reynolds, with Jeff Reynolds Productions, live from the Catalina Film Festival. What are you doing there?
Speaker 3:Hello, best friend. This is actually coming up this weekend Catalina Film Institute. They're putting on a film festival. They help youth and emerging filmmakers and artists. Beautiful organization by owners Jenna Vasquez, ron Trupa pleasure of being on the pitch panel and listen to a bunch of pitches of some pretty intense movies representing all of us here. You know, in Arizona, jeff Reynolds Productions everything we're doing here but also Sunset Artists, the newest division out of Sunset Entertainment, out of Warner Brothers, and we're ready to rock and roll Nice. So this sounds amazing and so you're going to be sitting at a table and we're ready to rock and roll, nice.
Speaker 1:So this sounds amazing, and so you're going to be sitting at a table and people are going to be pitching movie ideas to you on Friday.
Speaker 3:They are, and it gets exhausting, yeah Well, how about?
Speaker 1:can I pitch a couple movie ideas to you and you tell me yay or nay? Absolutely All right. How about Jurassic Bark?
Speaker 3:Nay, nay nay.
Speaker 1:Jurassic Bark? No, come on, dude, it's a story about a dog that turns into a dinosaur. What about Caffeine Cowboys? Nay, nay, nay, oh, gosh, dang it. Let me see if I could find one that he would like. How about the Attack of the Killer Roombas? Done, there we go, done.
Speaker 3:It's either a pool cleaner or a Roomba baby Dude it's this generation's jaws.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. I get it, man, sweet. Well, jeff Reynolds, thanks so much for calling in telling us about the amazing film festival that you guys got going on, and I hope you hear some good pitches I know you will and I'm excited for the attack of the killer Roombas to be coming to a movie theater near you.
Speaker 3:Hey, don't forget, 16th through the 19th of October, jolo Film Festival. It's going to be off the hook this year, next month. 16th through the 19th of October, jolo Film Festival. It's going to be off the hook this year, next month, 16th through the 19th. There you go, jolo Film Festival everyone.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, heck, yeah, well sweet, we love you, jeff Reynolds, have a great day, best friend. Bye, friends, bye.
