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The world's oldest first-time father was over 90 years old...

That surprising Father's Day fact kicked off another fun episode of The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and Best Friends!

On today's show:

👨 Father's Day Fun Fact or Fake Fact with Jineane Ford from Magic 101.7 and iTalk 106.7

🧠 Nerd News with Jineane, including a look at California's fault lines and the possibility of a Super El Niño

⚾ We give away Diamondbacks tickets for this weekend's games against the Minnesota Twins and put our winners, Ty and Kerrie, to the test with more Father's Day trivia

🎶 Country Climb Star of the Week Jessee Lee joins us to talk about her country climb, songwriting, life on the road, and the story behind her latest song, "Smoke When I'm Missing You"

A special thank you to Austin Burke and Shawn Burke from the Playlisted Podcast for sending us another outstanding Country Climb artist.

If you enjoyed today's episode, please follow the podcast, leave a review, and share it with a best friend.

For comedy show tickets, tour dates, and more, visit ChrisBennettComedy.com

Transcript

Oldest First-Time Dad Shocker

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The world's oldest first time father was over ninety years old.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Oh, I think that's true, but how's it? That is facts.

Welcome And What’s Coming Up

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That was a little snippet from Fun Fact Friday, Father's Day edition with Janine Ford. Hello, best friends, and welcome to another episode of The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and Best Friends. I am Chris Bennett, and we've got a fun show for you today. Janine Ford with Magic 1017 and iTalk News joins us for fun fact or fake fact, Father's Day edition plus nerd news. We also give away diamondback tickets for this weekend's games against the Minnesota Twins and put our winners to the test with a few Father's Day packs of their own. And of course, we'll meet this week's Country Climb Star of the Week, Jesse Lee, another great artist sent our way from Ostenberg and the playlisted podcast. We'll learn about her country climb, hear the story behind her latest song, Smoke When I'm Missing You, and find out what's next in her career. Thanks for listening. Let's get

Father’s Day Fun Fact Or Fake

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the show started. Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Janine, you there?

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yes, I am with my granddaughter Addie. How are you, Chris?

SPEAKER_04 1:11

Hey, I'm doing great. How are you and Addy doing this morning?

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Good. Yeah, we're doing great. We're happy it's Friday.

SPEAKER_04 1:17

Yeah, Friday.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Father's Day almost here.

SPEAKER_04 1:19

Are you ready for Father's Day? What are you guys doing for Father's Day?

SPEAKER_03 1:22

We're gonna make homemade ice cream and we're gonna make cookies for our for the dads.

SPEAKER_04 1:29

Oh, that sounds good.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

And grandpa and everybody, and we've already got some little gift bags going on.

SPEAKER_04 1:36

Ooh, I love it. I love it. I love it. Well, uh, in honor of Father's Day being this Sunday, how about we do a little fun fact or fake fact, Father's Day edition? You two ready?

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:48

All right. Uh fun fact or fake fact, the average dad spends nearly a year of his life looking for misplaced items.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I think it'd be two or three years, but I'll say true. What do you think, Addie?

SPEAKER_03 2:01

I say true.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

There you go. It is true. Yeah. Studies show uh or suggest that uh dads spend hundreds of hours each year searching for lost keys, wallets, remotes, phones, or other household items.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Well, I think the funniest thing that dads, and uh, I swear a lot of people recognize this, like my husband can look right in the fridge and he'll say, Hun, where's the blueberry jam? And it's like right in front of his face. I have to walk up and just point to it. That's so funny.

unknown 2:28

Yeah, it's so funny.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

Uh let's see. Um the average American spends over $150 on Father's Day gifts and celebrations.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

Hmm. Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

I think that's a little high, but I don't know. What do you think? I don't know because Yeah, I know. You haven't bought that many yet. I know.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

It is a fact, though. It is a fact.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Oh, we're behind.

SPEAKER_04 2:55

We're by well, you know, I don't think money to uh is important.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

I think you know, making homemade gifts and cookies, I think that's well, and also that big survey earlier this week, all dads, every single thing had to do with spending time with their family. They wanted to spend time with their kids, just like Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

That's all they care about. Well, speaking of Mother's Day, dad factor, dad fiction, Americans spend more money on Father's Day gifts than on Mother's Day gifts.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

No.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

There you go. Yeah, that is fiction. Uh the the the the uh Mother's Day spending is typically much higher than Father's Day spending. And last question the world's oldest first-time father was over 90 years old.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Oh, I think that's true, but how sick? That is fact.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

Ugh, gross. That was fun fact or fake fact. Father's Day edition.

Nerd News Quakes El Niño Munchies

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It is now time for Nerd News with Janine. What you got for us today?

SPEAKER_02 3:59

Okay, this one could be a little scary, okay? Scientists are warning that key fault lines in Southern California are now under some of the highest stress levels in the last 1,000 years. Oh my gosh. Which means everyone is worried about a major earthquake. A new model shows pressure has been building for more than a hundred years along the San Andreas and the San Joaquin Faults. So there you go. They are in the critically loaded state, they call it. Oh my gosh. Between that and listening to the um, you know, the whole forecasts and stuff with this super El Nino that could be coming. We're in monsoon right now, but at the end of monsoon in fall, this we're going into an El Nino pattern instead of a niña. La Niña. And so El Nino is much stronger and it goes for 18 months. So we have some big snow snow. And then about 60% of those, that's like 100%. Um, it's brewing out in the uh that that is forecast that the El Nino. But a super El Nino, there's about 60% chance it could be a super, and and that could be rain and snow for 18 months. I mean, off and on, obviously. Uh that hasn't been seen in like a zillion years. I mean, but like 50, 80 years, something like that. You're hearing it's high up. But I'm gonna have a guest next week who might be talking to our meteorologist next week to kind of uh weed all that out. But in any case, it looks like we're gonna get a lot more than we usually get, which will fill up our lakes and everything else, our aquifer. It you know, it could be really nice, but we're gonna see hail and big stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04 5:36

It's super El Nino. It always makes me think of Chris Farley, that famous Chris Farley that skets about El Nino.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Oh, and here's the funny one, and I have to share with you a study from the University of Calgary found that cannabis expos exposure causes rats to eat even when they're already full. Or in other words, they get the munchies big time. Research has shown that this effect is driven by changes in your reward system. So there you go. Um, you know, we know about the munchies, you know.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Yeah, so if you if you see a rat with uh some with some Doritos, you know what's going on. Exactly. Exactly. Awesome. Well, you're the best, Janine. And uh Addie, I hope you too have a great weekend and happy Father's Day to the dads in your life and all those dads out there.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Yeah, and Chris, happy Father's Day to you. You're a great dad.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

You are awesome. Thank you, both. Alrighty. All right, love you.

SPEAKER_02 6:28

Bye-bye.

Diamondbacks Tickets And Dad Trivia

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Bye-bye. Love you too.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

We're spinning the wheel to see who is gonna win some Diamondback tickets. Uh, to uh I'll let them pick. Whoever's name gets picked on the wheel names gets uh either four tickets to Saturday or Sunday's game, Diamondbacks vs. Twins. We'll spin the wheel, and the winner is Ty, let's give him a call. Hello. Hello, is this Ty? This is Ty, this is Chris Bennett with Q Country 925. Your name was picked in the Wheel of Names, and you get your picked either four tickets to uh Saturday's D BAC game against the Minnesota Twins or four tickets to the Father's Day game, 1215 against the Twins. Which game you want? This is Saturday. Heck yeah, congratulations. And before I officially give you the tickets, let's have a little fun. It is Fun Fact Friday. We're gonna do some uh fun fact or fake fact. Uh Father's Day edition. Here we go. Fact or fiction. Father's Day is one of the busiest days of the year to collect phone uh for collect phone calls from kids. Thoughts. There you go. Heck yeah, yeah. It's Father's Day's a busy calling day, but not nearly what it was during the collect call era. Do do people even make collect calls anymore? Uh I don't think so. All right. Uh dad fact or dad fiction. More grilling occurs on Father's Day than on the 4th of July. Oh. Uh, that is actually fiction. That is fiction. Oh, I just I'll give it a shot. That's all right. That's all right. Dads are like more than that. Uh, and uh, let's see. Uh the word dad is one of the easiest words for babies to say. Fact. That is fact. Dad, dad, dad, dad. Congratulations. You won four tickets to the D-Bax. What station hooked you up? Two country, 92.5. You know it. All right, we're gonna spin the wheel again. This time to see who wins four tickets to Sunday's D-Bax game against the twins on Father's Day. Here we go. That was a close one. The winner is Carrie. Let's give her a call. Is this Carrie? Yes, this is Carrie. Carrie, congratulations! Your name was picked on the Wheel of Names. You won four tickets to the Diamondbacks game this Sunday, Father's Day against the Minnesota Twins. What do you think of that?

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Oh, that's great. Perfect game.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

Heck yeah. Who are you gonna take with you? Um, take my family. Heck yeah. That's gonna be a fun, fun game. It's gonna be a great game. Uh, will you play a little uh dad fact or dad fiction with me before I officially give you these tickets? Oh, sure, no problem. All right, fun uh dad fact or dad fiction. Neckties are one of the most common Father's Day gifts.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Um fact.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

That is fact. There you go. I haven't gotten a necktie in a while, so we'll see. All right. The most common Father's Day meal is a backyard barbecue.

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Fact.

SPEAKER_04 9:35

That is fact. There you go. On Mother's Day, everyone usually goes out to eat, but on Father's Day, they're usually sitting on the grill and having some fun. All right.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

That's true.

SPEAKER_04 9:48

Uh, and last one, a group of fathers is officially called a dad pack. No, it's made up. I just made it up. But congratulations, best friend. You're going to the Diamondbacks game this Sunday. You got four tickets against the Minnesota Twins. What radio station hooked you up? Cue Q Country 925.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Yes.

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Yes.

Meet Country Climb Star Jesse Lee

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Chris Bennett's Country Climb, Star of the Week. And this week we got another amazing artist sent our way from Austin Burke and the playlist podcast. Today's artist is a Nashville recording artist and Texas touring favorite, known for her vintage country soul sound. She has shared the stage with artists like Daryl Worley, Kixbrooks, Radney Foster, and William Beckham. Performs more than 160 shows a year and has built a loyal fan base across Texas and beyond. Please welcome Jesse Lee.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Hello. Thank you so much for having me today.

SPEAKER_04 10:51

Before we get into your country climb, we like to have a little fun with some rapid fire ice breaker questions. You ready? I'm ready. What's something people are always surprised to learn about you?

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Um, that I was a nursing school dropout. I was going into the Navy to be um a Navy corpsman before I started doing music full-time.

SPEAKER_04 11:12

Oh wow. And then the bug just got a hold of you, and you're like, nope, music is is is my life. It's what I gotta pursue.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

It did, it did. I found myself like writing lyrics in my you know psychology class. I was like, I can't. I gotta, I gotta do music. This is the bug. It's bit me already.

SPEAKER_04 11:29

And so you grew up uh in Tennessee, moved to Texas as a teenager, and now you're back in Nashville. Which place has had the biggest influence on your music?

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Oh gosh, that's a hard question. Um uh Nashville has probably had the biggest impact on my songwriting, and Texas has probably had the biggest impact on my artistry, and um, you know, uh meeting meeting so many independent artists and learning about how to be an artist, a lot of that has come from Texas. So I guess probably a 50-50 blend of my music. I that's a hard choice to pick.

SPEAKER_04 12:03

And you have played over 160 shows a year. What's the weirdest or most memorable place you've ever performed?

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Oh gosh, there's been a lot of them. Um when when I got started playing music, uh, I was 20, full time, 1920 when I was full-time, and I would take any gig anywhere that they offered me. And um, have you heard of those Hot Works gyms, you know, where like they're the saunas that you work out in?

SPEAKER_03 12:28

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Um there was there was one that was opening around San Antonio, and um they asked me if I'd come play their grand opening of their Hotworks. So I had to sit up next to where all the weights were, and so people were coming in to look at if they wanted to work out there, and I was over there in the corner by the weights playing my guitar. So that was kind of weird.

SPEAKER_04 12:49

We had some fun with some rapid fire questions, and now it's time to find out about your country climb.

Songwriting Advice And Early Gigs

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And your dad is a songwriter, famous songwriter, David Lee. What's some of the best songwriting advice he has ever given you?

SPEAKER_00 13:04

So I started writing songs when I was probably about nine years old. Um, but he he always, when I was growing up, when I was learning how to, you know, sing other people's music, he was always like, you need to hone who you are as your own artist because there's already a Dolly Pardon, there's already a Reba McIntyre, there's, you know, these people have already been done. So you've got to learn who you are and what you want to say that's gonna be different than what these other people have already said. So from a young age, um, I think that was some of the best advice was finding you, you know, instead of trying to chase somebody else. So I've um kind of found my my own lane of um of writing and of of singing. I try to be, you know, I think I'm a pretty unique artist because I've I blend a bunch of different genres together. And I don't think I would have chased that if it wouldn't have been for my dad pushing me to be that way.

SPEAKER_04 13:57

And you started out playing wineries, beer gardens, motorcycle clubs, hot uh hot exercise gyms and dive bars. Uh looking back, what did those early gigs teach you?

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Oh man, they taught me that you can build a fan base wherever you are, and never to judge a place that you walk into, because to me, any venue that you walk into, whether it's an amphitheater or if it's a dive bar stage, you know, I think all those people are the people that get you to the next place, and that there's no um there's nothing that's better than the other one. All of those people um that are in each of those venues are music lovers, and if they love what you do, you know, it's it it makes you um it it gives you your fan base. And so I I just was so thankful for whatever stage that I got to be on, you know.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

What has been the biggest challenge of your country climb so far?

SPEAKER_00 14:55

Um probably trying to figure out this new age way of doing like social media. Um that has been one of my biggest challenges because growing up it was always like, you know, write the best song that you can write, play shows, you know, build your fan base organically, and um, you know, the rest will follow. But with social media, um I'm not, you know, I'm I'm like an 85-year-old lady trapped in a you know 28-year-old body. So um I really struggle with the social media thing, but I'm finding my way. I'm finding how to make it still me, even though it's you know, maybe not natural. I'm trying to find what makes it natural for me. So I think that's probably been the hardest part for me so far is you know, the content thing.

SPEAKER_04 15:38

And then what would you say has been the biggest pinch me moment in your career so far?

SPEAKER_00 15:43

Um pinch me moment. Probably some of on I kind of uh fancy myself as, you know, both a songwriter and an artist. So there's been a lot of really cool songwriter moments for me, getting to play some really amazing shows with some hit songwriters like um Anthony Smith, who wrote Run for George Strait, um Moose Brown, who wrote Five O'Clock Somewhere, I've got to do some shows with him. Um there's been a bunch of hit songwriters that have really taken me in and and you know wrapped me up and um you know given me a lot of a lot of flowers and made me you know keep pushing in this crazy world that you know in in music, there's so many musicians. So just trying to find the people that champion you and that um you know try to help you get to the next place has been really amazing. And I've been able to find a lot of those um songwriters around Nashville. So it's been wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 16:38

Now it's one of my favorite parts of the Country Climb interview.

How A Smell Became A Song

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We get to hear one of your latest and greatest songs. You have a new album coming out, and this latest release is called Smoke When I'm Missing You. Tell us the story behind the song and how it came to be.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

So um this song kind of came. So I had um an ex-boyfriend of mine who he smoked Marlboro cigarettes, and I remember one day I was walking down the street and somebody had lit up a cigarette, and as I was walking by it, I kind of did a double take because I think I hadn't realized that I hadn't smelled that specific cigarette since we had broken up, and it made me think like, man, smells are a funny thing. Like when you smell something, it takes you back to different places of your life, whether it's, you know, a perfume or a candle, or in this case, you know, my little redneck self cigarette. And so um, anyways, I ended up sitting there on the back porch one day, and I was thinking about that whole um situation and and started writing it. And then um my my current boyfriend, Cameron Rinkel, I actually wrote that song with, and we were kind of talking about the whole situation, and he was, you know, talking about different clones that reminded him of his grandfather, and you know, so we were just um talking about memories and how sometimes, you know, just one thing can can flood your memory, you know, with with so many memories of a certain person. So um, yeah, that's kind of where it started from. And I'm a huge Lacey K Booth fan. I don't know if y'all if people have got to listen to her a lot, but she's awesome and she kind of has this ethereal country thing going on. So I was kind of trying to channel her actually when I was writing this, and um, yeah, it's been one of my most favorite songs I've got to be a part of writing.

SPEAKER_04 18:25

Heck yeah, well, I can't wait to play it right now on Cute Country925. This is Jessie Lee, and this is her latest release, Smoke When I'm Missing You. That

New Album Tease And Where To Follow

SPEAKER_04 18:46

is Jesse Lee, and that is her latest song, Smoke When I'm Missing You on Cute Country 925. I love that song, and that is part of your latest album that's uh supposed to come out this summer, right? The Wickedest Witch of West Texas. Uh what uh yeah, that I love that title. Uh what's the uh story behind that title?

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Well, the the title kind of just came to me randomly. I don't know why. I don't know if it was all the wicked stuff going on a couple, you know, last year, a couple years ago. Um, but um I'm a huge Jim Croce fan, and so for some reason that title kept going back and forth in my mind, and I thought, you know, one of my favorite Jim Croce songs is Bad Bad Leroy Brown, and I kind of wanted to write a female version of that song. So the song um is kind of like a female Bad Bad Leroy Brown of this kind of crazy lady that you know is from West Texas that um flies into this bar and kind of causes all these issues with this other woman. So um it's kind of a storytelling song, but the whole record itself is um kind of tailored to this wickedest witch of West Texas idea. Um it has a lot of the Texas influence that I had since I was here and kind of has a little um dusty, soulful sound to it. So I'm excited for everyone to hear it. It's gonna be a lot different than the EP that I have out of currently that I put out a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_04 20:13

If people are just meeting you for the first time, just hearing Jesse Lee, what are two songs of yours you think they should check out today?

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Um Dive Bar Superstar, that was the title track of my first EP, and I do have a music video app for that that we shot at the first bar um that I used to play at in Texas when I was like 19, 20. Um it's actually it's shut down since then, but we did a really awesome music video to it that I was really proud of. And um, so that one, and then there's a song called You're Gonna Be Your Mama that I had so much fun writing. I actually wrote it with my dad, David Lee. And um, so I think both of those songs are are two good ones that'll kind of show you my style of writing and kind of what I do.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

And how can people uh follow you and support you going forward?

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Um my website is jessile.com, J-E-S-S-E-E-L-E-E. I've got two E's on Jesse, and um that has all my show dates and those that links most of my social media, but you know, Instagram's Jesse Lee Official, um, Facebook's Jesse Lee Music, and yeah, I'm on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, all that good stuff. So yeah, give it a follow, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Heck yeah, give her a follow. This has been Jesse Lee. Thanks so much for joining us as this week's Country Climb Star of the Week.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

All right,

Final Thanks Winners And What’s Next

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best friends. That's gonna do it for another episode of the Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and Best Friends. Thanks again to our Country Climb star of the week, Jesse Lee, for joining us. Be sure to give her a follow on social media and check out her latest song, Smoke When I'm Missing You. Congratulations to Ty and Carrie on winning diamondback tickets for this weekend's game against the Minnesota Twins. And thanks to Janine Ford for uh stopping by for some fun fact or fake fact and nerd news. And don't forget Chris Bennett Comedy in Allabertos presents our stand-up comedy show with headliner Nancy Norton on Saturday, June 27th at the Show Low Elks Lodge. For more information or uh or to get tickets, visit Chris Bennett Comedy.com. If you enjoyed today's show, please give us a follow, leave a review, and share it with another best friend who you think would enjoy our morning show shenanigans. We'll be back Monday with another episode of the Morning Brew. But until then, I'm Chris Bennett, reminding you to be nice to yourself, be nice to others, and don't be jerk. Bye.