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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Back to the Future Laughs, Warm Wins & Small-Town Good Vibes | The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
It’s Talk About Something Good Tuesday on The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and Best Friends, where we celebrate kindness, community, and a good laugh or two!
We kick off the morning with our good friend Jineane Ford, sharing good news and a little motivation to keep the week rolling in the right direction. Then, Show Low’s own Dave Ramsey joins us for a hilarious “Boo or Cool: Back to the Future Day Edition”—hoverboards, self-lacing shoes, and all the future tech we wish we had (or maybe don’t!).
On National Share the Warmth Day, listener Ana from Show Low scores two free tickets—courtesy of ComfortFit Dentures—after playing our brand-new game “Warm or Weird.” We also check in with our favorite redneck philosopher Paul from Beaumont, and wrap up with a quick, heartfelt update from our Emmy-winning producer Ryan, reminding us that growth and gratitude go hand-in-hand.
It’s laughter, local love, and small-town energy at its best.
🎧 Grab your coffee, hit play, and start your day with a smile—because mornings are better with best friends.
From the Horn Auto Center Studios, Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Janine, you over there? Yes, I am. How are you? I'm doing great on this Tuesday morning. Hey, uh, you are my source of news and information. Otherwise, I just stick my head in the sound sand. It seems like yesterday there was a lot of uh outages like on websites and uh just the internet was acting funky. Do you know anything about that?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, they had a lot of outages. There were a pro problem with one of the bigger, bigger companies and Amazon and some a lot of these companies, they were struggling yesterday. And this and this goes to, I heard an expert was reading about it this morning and saw some somebody get interviewed this morning, that it's a good reminder that on all your important paperwork, like anything where you have a savings or you have a you know something like insurance forms or anything that's important, you do need to print those up and have hard copies. Everybody um couldn't get into some of their accounts, they couldn't, and that creates panic. You can imagine if you just can't get in and or or something shows, you know, you have say you have a savings bond or something, it just shows sorry, you your SOL. Maybe it vanished or whatever else. Right. You need to make sure you have all your hard copies of your super important things because it it uh there was that crash yesterday and it's been pretty bad. It's not all, it it's the one one provider that that went down. So and that's the thing is that uh Amazon and a lot of these were just kind of scrambling. So we have to be patient, let them catch it, and uh go from there.
SPEAKER_00:All right, awesome. Thank you. And then is there any local news uh we should know about?
SPEAKER_04:I think the one thing that um I'd love to see everybody just you know, the burly bear had that crash. You may have caught uh caught it on Instagram. If you look at their Instagram or Facebook pages, you're gonna see these reels of um a big SUV, and I think the people are fine. It was a couple that um ran into the all over the deer, you know, the statues of the deer, don't mean to laugh, and then into the corner of the burly bear, and a lot of damage. Uh and and uh people he was saying I noticed on on uh TikTok yesterday or whatever it was on that I caught that the owner said, people have been asking how can you help us? He said, just come in and maybe shop, you know. So again, the burly bear sustained some pretty good damage uh with this runaway SUV.
SPEAKER_00:So let's go show our support for them. And Janine, thanks for uh keeping me informed. All right, Janine, it's Tuesday, so it's time to talk about something good. You want me to share my good news stories first? Okay. All right, uh for I have a couple actually. Uh first up, tonight is the night for a little magic in the sky, Janine. There's gonna be a meteor shower. It's the Aranya meteor shower peaking tonight, and uh uh there is uh gonna be a moonless sky, which means no light pollution and just pure starlight. So you will see a lot of shooting stars.
SPEAKER_04:So make a lot of wishes.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, and uh now for a story that's gonna hit you right in the fields. It comes out of Texas. A high school volleyball team decided to give back to their biggest fan, the school c custodian, Mr. Abel Rodriguez. Uh Abel's the kind of guy who never misses a game, cheers on every student and stays late to help out, even waiting uh till one in the morning once for a ride home because he didn't have a car. Well, once the girls on the volleyball team found out they did something incredible, started to go fund me, raised$9,000, and with the help from a local Ford dealership and a state farm agency, they surprised him with a brand new car. And uh when they called him outside, he thought it was an emergency, but over a hundred people were there cheering his name, and he just broke down saying, I love you, I love you forever, guys. Now that's love and a Texas eyes heart.
SPEAKER_04:I like that. I like that a lot. That's sweet.
SPEAKER_00:All right, Janine, I'm ready for your good news story on this talk about something good Tuesday.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, you took one of mine away, but that's okay. The meteor shower. That's all right. Yeah. I love a good meteor shower. Okay, um, a woman in California bought an old Scream mask. I love these special finds, you know, and she bought it at Goodwill, and she found out it was worth a lot more than she paid for it. Okay, you know, and you know that the Scream masks, the ghost face masks, right? They actually predate the movie. They came out five years before Scream hit the theaters. It turns out the mask she bought was from the first production run in 1991. She paid five dollars and it sold on eBay for$856. Kind of cool. Woo! I know you never know what you're gonna run across. Um, and then how's this for a work perk? Okay. A grandmother in North Carolina named Nora Huntley. She works at a gas station 40 miles east of Charlotte. And she was on a break when she decided to buy a lottery ticket, just one lottery ticket, and uh yeah,$200,000 she won. Yeah, she showed up at the lottery headquarters Wednesday to cash in and told officials that the money was really going to come in very handy for her. But that was kind of cool. So, yeah, it's two little good little tidbits and fun, fun days. I like it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, sweep. I love talking about good news.
SPEAKER_04:So we all like it. We hope everybody has a great, great day.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. Thanks so much, best friend. We love you.
SPEAKER_04:Love you too. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER_00:We are on the phone with Dave Ramsey from Show Low. How are you doing on this Tuesday, Dave?
SPEAKER_02:Doing good, except for my hand won't wake up.
SPEAKER_00:Well, your hand uh your hand fell asleep? Yeah. Oh, that's the worst. What uh that's a number bummer, right?
SPEAKER_01:Total.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I was wondering if you'd like to have some fun with me today with some boo or cool. Today is back to the future day. Uh, in back to the future, one of the days they went to in the future was October 21st, 2015. Boo or cool to Back to the Future Day. Cool. Oh, cool. Heck yeah. Well, I found some uh inventions, some futuristic inventions. Some things aren't inventions quite yet. And uh, I'm gonna have you say boo or cool to these futuristic inventions. You ready? Ready. What about the hoverboard? Cool, cool, yeah. Would you uh write a hoverboard?
SPEAKER_02:Oh heck no.
SPEAKER_00:Uh what about uh self-lacing Nike shoes?
SPEAKER_02:Boo.
SPEAKER_00:Really? You don't like self-lacing shoes? I buy slip-ons. Yeah, that was something uh in the movie, but Nike actually made them in 2016 and they're$400. Boo are cool, the$400 pairs of shoes.
SPEAKER_03:Totally boo.
SPEAKER_00:Uh what about uh smart toilets that analyze your health? Like they can scan the you know, the stuff. Boo. I wouldn't want a toilet talking back to me. But it would tell you if you're healthy or not. Still boo. All right. What about a fridge that orders groceries when you're low? Cool. Cool, and that's a real invention that exists. What about robot bartenders?
SPEAKER_02:Boo. I like person to person.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. Don't replace my people with robots, right? Right. All right, and last one, what about 3D printed houses?
SPEAKER_01:Boo.
SPEAKER_00:No, you wanted uh even if it was cheap and they can make it fast. You don't want a 3D printed house? No. No. All right. That was Boo or Cool back to the future edition with Dave. Uh, is your uh hand uh back to life yet, or is it still sleeping? I'm finally back. Heck yeah, sweet. Well, Dave, thanks for having fun with us. Say hi to all the doggies, and we'll talk to you soon. Good morning. It's the morning brew with Chris. Who's this? This is Anna. Anna, you are caller number one, calling to win two tickets, compliments of comfort fit dentures to our stand-up comedy show at the Sholo Elks Lodge Saturday, November 1st at 6 30. Sweet, yes. Yeah, yeah, sweet. All you have to do is play a game with me. I'll let you pick. Today is National Witch Hazel Day, so I have a game called Witch Witch Curse. Or uh today is also National Share the Warmth Day. So I have a game for that. Which one would you like to celebrate?
SPEAKER_03:I like Share the Warmth. That sounds great.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, all right, let's share the warmth with a game called Warm or Weird. I'm gonna give you a scenario. I'm gonna give you a scenario, and you tell me if that's warm or weird. Here we go. Okay. Uh bringing your coworker homemade soup for lunch.
SPEAKER_03:Um, kind of weird. Oh, really? You think that's weird? Unless they're sick. Unless they're sick and your best friends, I I I don't know. I would, you know, if they're if they're needing a little soup, then that would be warm.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Uh what about hugging your boss goodbye after a meeting? Kind of weird. It is kind of weird. Do you realize I've accidentally done that? I was I was meeting with someone that wanted to uh buy advertising. It was Brian Johnson Plumbing. And at the end of the meeting, I thought we had a really good uh meeting, and he went to open the door, but I thought he was coming to give me a hug, so I accidentally hugged him. So uh it is it is weird. All right. Uh, what about let your dog sleep under the covers with you? Warm or weird?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's a hard my husband would say weird, but I would be like, oh, that's warm. Yeah, that is warm.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. My wife says it's weird too. And uh last one, buying the car behind you a coffee at the drive-thru.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, very warm.
SPEAKER_00:Very warm. Heck yeah. That was warm or weird on this national share the warmth day. And uh, we're gonna share the warmth with you. You just won two tickets. Compliments of Comfort Fit Dentures, you'll feel comfortable always to our comedy show November 1st at the Solo Elks Lodge. If uh you weren't as lucky as Anna from Sho Lo, you could get your tickets at Chris Bennettcomedy.com. What station hooked you up, Anna? Um, what did you say? Sorry. What station hooked you up?
SPEAKER_03:Uh 90 where I am. 92.5. There we go. Again, she nailed it. Woo! That's Bob Lod!
SPEAKER_00:Bob Beaumont says so! Yay yee! Everyone's favorite redneck from Beaumont, Texas. It's Paul from Beaumont. What's up, buddy?
SPEAKER_01:I just sit in this pipe yard, man.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, uh, you know, I have the uh show I'm producing up here November 1st at the Solo Elks Lodge. But before that, next week, on Tuesday, I'm gonna be at Desert Ridge Improv. Wednesday, I'm gonna be in Chandler at Mic Drop, and then uh Thursday, I'm gonna be at Stir Crazy in Glendale, part of the show's called Dead Comedian Show. And uh we're all doing acts from Dead Comedians, and I'm doing Robin Williams. I got the suspenders, buddy. Oh no, that's not a buzz. I got the suspenders, and uh I'm feeling pretty good and uh pretty locked in. Uh and I'm gonna shave my beard for it. When do you think I should shave my beard?
SPEAKER_01:The day of.
SPEAKER_00:The day I know. I'm thinking I'm gonna have fun with it and like shave it off like in phases. Like maybe one day I'll do a goatee, one day I'll do a Fu Manchu, and one day I'll do a uh uh a mustache.
SPEAKER_01:You need you need to do a Mary Leech.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, well I can't grow uh I can't grow my mustache out like that uh in such a short amount of time. His mustache is uh things that legends are made of. So uh but uh yeah. You're just gonna you're just gonna be Mark from or of Robin Williams. So I'm doing like the 1977 Robin Williams. He was on the great American laugh off, and and so it's gonna be kind of the morkish type uh stand-up of his. So I'm excited to do that. And I'm thinking of maybe when we do the show November 1st, maybe I just host it as Robin Williams. What do you think of that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, is that boo or cool? You can do what you want to do. Oh, of course. I could do what I want to do. I just want it to be good. Well, uh, Paul, you feeling smart this morning?
SPEAKER_01:I'm hoping so, man. I'm hoping so.
SPEAKER_00:All right. It is now time for Are You Smarter Than a Redneck? Today, Paul, is Reptile Awareness Day. Do you like reptiles?
SPEAKER_01:Uh, dead ones.
SPEAKER_00:Dead ones? Well, I thought we would do some uh uh reptile awareness trivia. If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer. Are you ready?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:All right, what's the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? A, the shape of their snout, B, the number of their teeth, or C, one says see later, the other says in a while. Oh Paul. Oh, the snout. Is it the shape of the snout? It is. He's up one zero. Next question: Which reptile can live the longest? Is it a tortoise? B, iguana, or C, Komodo dragon, Chris. Oh I'm gonna say tortoise. It is tortoise. We're tied at one apiece. What's a group of snakes called? Is it A, a knot, B, a slither, C, a nope?
unknown:Oh.
SPEAKER_00:A knot? It is a knot. Holy moly, you are smart. You know you're reptiles. You're one uh answer, you're one correct answer away from winning. What's the largest reptile on earth? Is it the saltwater crocodile, the anaconda, my or my ex at Golden Corral?
SPEAKER_01:Bah saltwater crocodile?
SPEAKER_00:It is the saltwater crocodile. That is one smart redneck. Have you ever wrestled an alligator or been to one of those places?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they got one here in Balmai. Oh, yeah. They used to have yeah, they had TV shows.
SPEAKER_00:And you uh and you've been there. Is it pretty cool? I mean, it's okay. There's a bunch of alligators. Well, that was Are You Smarter Than a Redneck? Paul, thanks for calling in and having fun with this today. We love you, best friend. All right, buddy. Y'all have a great day. See ya bye. On the phone, we have producer Emmy Award winning Ryan McKee on the phone from Wilmington, North Carolina. Good morning, best friend. Hello, White Mountains area. Yeah, so on the Facebook Live, Ryan, uh, they have been asking the past two days, they wanted a Ryan update. And I was gonna try and get them one yesterday. We didn't get one. And then uh today they've all just been asking, like, hey, we want a Ryan update. And I'm like, what questions do you have for them? So do you want to hear kind of what people are wanting to know about you?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, first I'm gonna say I'm flattered. Love all you up there, cannot wait to see you on December 20th. Uh, gonna be a great time at Rockies. So, yeah, let's hear the questions.
SPEAKER_00:Heck yeah. All right, uh, so uh uh Kirk Nermi wanted to know what you and your 21-year-old roommate Joey have been up to. Uh also if you're upset that Joey has a girlfriend and is not spending as much time at home or with you. Uh let's see. Um uh let's see. Uh Brooke wanted to know if you've had any dates and if Joey's girlfriend or if Joey's girlfriend's mom is single.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so I can uh I I can I can give you a couple of quick anecdotes about this. So uh Joey and his girlfriend are going strong. It was his girlfriend's birthday the other night, and he's so cute, he wanted to show me all the presents he got her. Uh-huh. And and and he and he wanted to also let me know like which order he was gonna give her the presents in, you know, to to for the the the best the best uh whatever build of pension in the in the gift giving process. Right. He got her a huge stuffed animal. Mm-hmm. Ding. That's a 21-year-old thing to do. And he goes, it's because she loves stuffed animals, right? I go, alright. And then he shows me some earrings he got her, which is sweet, but they're very much like earrings a 21-year-old guy would pick out for his girl. You know what I mean? Probably some nice cubic zirconium. Uh-huh. Probably cost around the$40 range, I'm gonna guess. Alright. And uh then he goes, okay. And then this is what I'm gonna give her last. It's the funny gift. I was like, alright. He pulls out the first t-shirt that he bought for her, and it says, you can't spell autism without you and I. Oh my gosh. And I go, is she is she autistic? And he goes, No, but she acts like it. And we have a joke about it. No, that is not a good gift. No, and then I go, and then and then I go, what's the second t-shirt? And he goes, Oh, okay, this one's even better. And he pulls it out and he goes, it says, Autism is my superpower.
SPEAKER_00:For his girlfriend?
SPEAKER_02:And I go, uh, are you sure she's not autistic? Because that would explain the uh her her loving stuffed animals so much. Because I've I've watched Love on the Spectrum and there's a lot of stuffed animals in that show, so that's a good point.
SPEAKER_00:And uh any updates on uh you and your love life that you want to share with uh random strangers in the White Mountains?
SPEAKER_02:Sure. Well, I will say to answer that question, no, Joey's girlfriend's mom is not single. He did meet her parents recently, and he said that her her girlfriend's mom is from the Philippines, and she just kept saying to him, Oh, your your hair is so long. Sorry for my offensive uh Philippine accent there. But that's how he told it to me. And as for me, you know what? I'm uh no dates. I'm seeing a woman who lives in Boston now. Oh, heck yes!
SPEAKER_00:You're settling down a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a long distance relationship, but uh that's okay. Um I need a little space to work on myself, as uh my therapist and my sponsor says. And everybody who knows me. So uh it's good. It's things are things are going well. She teaches at Harvard. So whatever.
SPEAKER_00:Holy moly, you are dating someone from Harvard.
SPEAKER_02:I know. She's uh smart in the classroom and dumb in love life.
SPEAKER_00:She knows I mean. Well, producer Ryan, thank you so much for uh giving us a little update into your life. We miss you. And uh, I got my calendar marked for December 18th or December 20th here in the White Mountains. He's gonna be headlining Chris Bennett Comedy Presents stand-up comedy at Rocky's Cocktail Lounge with headliner Ryan McKee. We love you, best friend.
SPEAKER_02:I love you. And actually, the 20th will mark my 11 months of sobriety. So love to celebrate that in a bar.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, we go. All right, we love you, best friend. See you later.
SPEAKER_02:Love you too. Bye.
SPEAKER_00:Uh good morning. It's the morning brew with Chris. Who's this?
SPEAKER_02:Good morning, my friend.
SPEAKER_00:It's Virgil the Cowboy. Virgil, I'm literally just getting ready to sign off on the uh the show. The radio show uh is over. Uh what uh what were you hoping I could do uh do you for? One of the boys' birthday today. That's a good story. That's good. Uh what uh which uh cowboy's uh uh birthday is it?
SPEAKER_01:Ralphie. Ralphie, happy birthday. His name is Ralph, but I call him Ralphie. Happy birthday, dear Ralphie. You hear that? Happy birthday to you.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, how was that?
SPEAKER_03:He's all embarrassed over here.
SPEAKER_00:Well, Ralphie, happy birthday to you. It is time for me to head out, but uh uh I'll play uh I'll play a song for uh for Ralphie. How's that sound? All right, all right. We love you, Virgil. Hopefully we'll talk to you tomorrow. Yep, you be safe. All right, you too. Bye bye.
