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Ghosts, Grits & Good Laughs: Austin Burke Calls In & Food Trivia Chaos Ensues

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It’s a full plate of fun on The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett & Best Friends! 🍳

We kick things off with ticket giveaways to Chris Bennett Comedy Presents: The Best of Phoenix Stand-Up Comedy Showcase — happening Saturday, November 1st at the Show Low Elks Lodge — courtesy of Mountain Mobile Auto Glass & Tint! 🚘🎟️

Then the morning takes a surprise twist as Nashville recording artist Austin Burke and host of the Playlisted Podcast calls in to chat about supporting independent country artists and what it means to hear your song on the radio. 

Next up, Show Low’s own “Dave Ramsey” drops by for some CRAZY fun on National Crazy Day, and we dive into crazy headlines you won’t believe — including a mayo emergency, a psychic lawsuit, and a Taylor Swift traffic defense.

Just when you think it can’t get wilder, Paul from Beaumont calls in with a ghost story from his grandma’s ranch and a suspicion that his granddad’s spirit might be the prankster behind it. 👻 We wrap things up with a hilarious round of “Are You Smarter Than a Redneck: Food Edition” for National Food Day — and let’s just say, things got saucy. 🌭

It’s small-town laughter, local love, and big-time heart — with just enough weird to keep your coffee interesting. ☕🎧

🎧 Listen now, share with a friend, and get your tickets to the November 1st comedy show at ChrisBennettComedy.com

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SPEAKER_00:

From the Horn Auto Center Studios, Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Good morning. It's the Morning Brew with Chris. Who's this? Shady Hill. Shady Hill, where are you calling from today?

SPEAKER_03:

I'm calling from Honda.

SPEAKER_00:

Heck yeah. Well, Shady, are you uh trying to win two tickets to our comedy show Saturday, November 1st at the Elks Lodge compliments of Mountain Mobile Autoglass?

SPEAKER_03:

Sure.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, all you have to do is play a game and get two out of five right. That means you could fail the test. Today is baloney day, so we're gonna play a game called Fact or All Baloney. Uh, you just gotta get two out of five right. Sound good? Yes. All right. There's a town in Italy actually named Bologna. Is that a fact or is that baloney? That's baloney. No, that is a fact. What? Yeah, that is a fact. There is a town called balone in Italy. What about this one? Bologna is made from the same meat they use in hot dogs.

SPEAKER_03:

That's a fact.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, there we go. Oh, you just need one more correct one, and these tickets are your Shady Hill. The word baloney comes from the Latin term for mystery meat. Is that fact or baloney?

SPEAKER_03:

Uh I want to say fact.

SPEAKER_00:

No, that is baloney. That's alright. That's alright. Uh, you just need one more correct uh answer. Oscar Meyer once created a baloney scented face mask.

SPEAKER_03:

What the heck? That is baloney.

SPEAKER_00:

It is a fact. Oh my gosh. One more. Okay, you have one last question. You've gotten as many wrong as you can get. You just need one more right. Pick a number from five to ten. Seven. Seven, alright. Baloney slices were once used as frisbees in the 1950s. Is that fact or baloney?

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, shoot. I want to say that's baloney.

SPEAKER_00:

That's baloney. Oh! That was so good, dude. That was one of the most stressful games we played. You nailed it. You needed one. You had one last question. You had to get it right, and you got it right. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_03:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00:

Heck yeah, Shady Hill. You just won two tickets, compliments of our friends at Mountain Mobile, Autoglass, and Tint to our comedy show. Saturday, November 1st. The best of Phoenix stand-up comedy showcase at the Sholo Elks Lodge. The show starts at 6 30. Doors, Alberto's food truck, and the bar open up at 5 p.m. It is 21 and over. It's gonna be a great time. If you weren't as lucky as Shady Hill, get your tickets at Chris Bennett Comedy.com. Mountain Mobile Autoglass hooked you up in what radio station?

SPEAKER_03:

92.5.

SPEAKER_00:

You know it. Ooh! Thank you. Good morning. It's the morning brew with Chris. Who's this?

SPEAKER_01:

Hey, is this the best radio station in America? This is Austin Burke. Just making sure that I'm calling the right station.

SPEAKER_00:

You know it! Home of the most handsome radio DJ in America. Austin Burke, we just played your song Roots. Uh, it's so good to hear from you, and we're kind of just reflecting on the uh country climb uh segment we've been doing and uh playing our best of, and you were definitely on the top of the list. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01:

I'm great. I'm actually in Arizona right now, um at uh a little bagel place with my son, and life is good.

SPEAKER_00:

Heck yeah, you how are you? I'm doing awesome. You uh you gotta be busy with all your music, and you got two under two right now.

SPEAKER_01:

I do, I do, yeah. Things are busy, but uh it's it's a lot of fun, and I just wanted to call in. I know we're kind of reflecting on all the the last few months of all the artists, and um yeah, I just want to take a quick second and and sh tell you personally how much it means to not only me, but how much it means to these artists. A lot of them are hearing their song on the radio for the first time, and you know it's it's just a really special moment. You you don't realize how special it is in what you're doing. I know you do it just out of the kindness of your heart, but y uh artists hope you're giving them the push they need to keep going, and and a lot of them just kind of need that. And uh I I just wanted to thank you for from the bottom of my heart for for you and and Q Country 9825 for everything you guys are doing.

SPEAKER_00:

We appreciate it so much, and it's just it's an honor to be uh part of something so cool and helping independent artists. Everyone, make sure you check out uh Austin's podcast where we get these artists from, playlisted podcast. And uh, Austin, do you uh do you have a Country Climb artist song request uh you think we should play next?

SPEAKER_01:

Oof, I do. Uh I man, that's kind of tough because then people are gonna think I have favorites, but this guy's just working so hard. He uh did you did you play Cole yet?

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, we have not played Cole Bradford. I definitely he's on my list. He was uh he was our second one.

SPEAKER_01:

So Cole has been working his butt off, and um he is just one of the best dudes. He has a young daughter, and he'll put his daughter to bed and come to the show and perform. And you know, a lot of times you just like to you like to support people that are working their tail off. So Cole Bradford's my pick, uh, and he's he's just gonna be a star.

SPEAKER_00:

Heck yeah. I love it. I love all our country climb artists. This is Cole Bradford with his song Move On to Austin. Thank you so much, and uh enjoy your bagel and your time with your son.

SPEAKER_01:

Thanks so much, Chris. You're the best.

SPEAKER_00:

On the phone, we have my best friend Dave Ramsey from Showlo Star Aboo or Cool. How are you doing today? Okay, good to meet anything uh exciting at your home with uh your dogs or your stray cats or any of them causing you problems?

SPEAKER_03:

Doggy been begging already.

SPEAKER_00:

Today is National Crazy Day. And uh so I was wondering if you'd play a game with me where I uh find some crazy news headlines. I'll read three. One of them is a real crazy headline, and the two other are fake. You have to spot the real one. Does that sound like fun?

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, here we go. First question. Here's three headlines. Florida man steals neighbors' peacock, claimed it seduced his chickens. Woman calls 911 because her sandwich didn't have enough mayonnaise, or man tries to rob bank using his birth certificate as ID. Which one's the real one?

SPEAKER_03:

Number three.

SPEAKER_00:

No, a woman called 911 over lack of mayo. Can you believe that? That's a pig. A boo or cool the mayonnaise. Cool. Okay. Uh, next one. Man builds homemade roller coaster in his backyard to skip traffic. A couple was arrested for stealing a crispy cream truck, said they were called by the glaze. Or man blames car crash on too much Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_03:

Number two.

SPEAKER_00:

No, the the uh correct headline was Man blames crash on too much Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, boo or cool. Totally boo. You don't like her at all? Not at all. And you don't uh admire what she's done, like you know, just global domination and how successful she is. That that that doesn't do anything for you.

SPEAKER_03:

No, not impressed one bit.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, and last group of headlines. Tell me which one is the real headline. A goat breaks into police car, eats paperwork. He was promoted to chief of staff. A man calls cops on himself after realizing he was the wanted man on Facebook, or woman sues psychic for not predicting her husband would cheat.

SPEAKER_03:

Number one.

SPEAKER_00:

No, dude, you were 0 for three today. Uh, woman sues psychic for not predicting uh an affair. Have you ever been to a psychic? No. No boo or cool to psychics. Boo. Boo. Awesome. Well, Dave, thanks for having fun with us today on the morning brew. I hope you have a great weekend, best friend.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you too.

SPEAKER_00:

Have a good one. You too. Bye.

SPEAKER_03:

Bye.

SPEAKER_00:

It is now time for Chris's country buzz. Finding out what's the buzz in country music. First, we're gonna start with Megan Moroney, who is proving that heartbreak makes for great art and terrible ex-boyfriends. That's right. The Tennessee Orange singer admits her new single that just came out, Beautiful Things, might be inspired by an old flame, but she's not naming names because as she put it, they're all blocked. She also uh that her song Tennessee Orange was supposedly written around uh about Morgan Wall and mmm, juicy. Meanwhile, Bunny XO jelly rolls ride or die, a clapback at a fan who judged her for staying with them after his past affair. Bunny says rebuilding takes strength, not weakness, and she's saving the full story for her upcoming memoir, Stripped Down. And finally, Kenny Chesney and Dirk Spentley are teaming up for ESPN's College Game Day live in Nashville this weekend, proving that even Football Saturday sounds better with a little twing. That's today's country bud. Woo! And that's Bob Vlog! Yay! Yay yee, Paul from Beaumont, man. We've been waiting for your call all morning long. You didn't quite make the radio show. What's uh what's up? What's uh the news in Paul's world?

SPEAKER_02:

Man, I had an early day today, but hey, look, my name went to uh went to the ranch with with with Brandon and my grandkid cars and opening weekend again. I'm saying there's a house, right? I'm there the first night. Last night was a second knife. I plug my phone in, I roll over, the warm goes off. No doors open. I love it unlocked. I ain't my grandpa's jacket. Your grandpa's jacket, what?

SPEAKER_00:

I think my grandpa is jacking with you. Oh, cuz your grandpa, he he recently passed away uh what a couple months ago? Yeah, yeah. And but you always before he passed away, you always thought your nanu's house was haunted. Yeah. Now I know with you. So so a ghost moved something? Um, I don't know what moved other than the alarm going off. Oh, oh, so you think that uh a ghost is is messing with your alarm?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I think granddad, I think granddad is is playing with me.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, ghosts uh frighten me. So do you have to spend the night there again tonight?

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, it just hit me. It is coming up on Halloween. I don't even think about holiday. Holy crap. Yeah, I gotta stay there again. And then again, I got my pistol with me, though.

SPEAKER_00:

That's not gonna do anything against a ghost.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, she ain't gonna have a hole or two.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, uh, Paul, before we end the show today, you want to do a little Are You Smarter Than a Redneck? Yeah, let's do this. All right, it is now time for Are You Smarter Than a Redneck? Today is National Food Day, Paul. Food day. Food day. So I so I thought we would do some food trivia. If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer. Are you ready? Let's do it. All right, first question. What food was the first to be eaten in space? Was it beef jerky, applesauce, or spam? Paul. Paul. I'm saying applesauce. It is applesauce. Holy moly, how'd you know that? Just to guess applesauce. Appleshop, pork chops, and applesauce.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, pork chops and applesauce.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, next question. What U.S. state is the top producer of spam? Is it Texas, Minnesota, or Alabama? A what? A what? Spam. S-P-A-M. Spam, the fake ham, or ham, spam. What were they again? What U.S. state is top producer of spam? Texas, Minnesota, or Alabama? I'm a Paul. Paul. I definitely saw this from Alabama. That's what I would say. Is it Alabama? No, it is not Alabama. I'm going to say Texas. Nope, not Texas. Correct answer? Minnesota. Home of cold winters and hot dishes. All right. Yeah, that's nice. Which vegetable used to be known as a love apple? Is it tomato, cucumber, or eggplant? Chris, I'm going to say tomato. There we go. We're tied at one apiece. This last question will determine who the winner is. Here we go. What food did Elvis Presley famously love so much he flew a jet just to get one sandwich? Paul.

SPEAKER_02:

Peanut butter and banana sandwich.

SPEAKER_00:

Boom. Holy moly. He's a hunkah hunk of burning love. You just forgot to add the bacon. He liked to have some bacon on there as well. Oh. Bacon. I like bacon. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon. Mmm, that actually sounds good.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know about that combo. I don't know about that compound.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. It sounds kind of tasty. I'll have to try it. He is the king, so he must.

SPEAKER_02:

He was fat.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I'm all shook up because I lost to Paul from Beaumont. I'm not smarter than a redneck. But Paul, we hope you have a great weekend. And uh we'll talk to you next week.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I'll let you know how the rest of the weekend goes in that place.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yeah. Be safe against those ghosts.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, got you, buddy. All right. Well, have a good weekend. Y'all have a good one.

SPEAKER_00:

You too.

SPEAKER_02:

Bye.

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