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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Leave Him! Nancy Norton's Relationship Advice, Fire Restrictions & ChatGPT Marriage Drama
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Today's Morning Brew is packed with laughs, relationship drama, and important community updates!
Comedian Nancy Norton, headliner of this Saturday's Chris Bennett Comedy show at the Show Low Elks Lodge, joins us for Relationship Advice Thursday. She weighs in on whether a woman should end a four-year relationship over the way her boyfriend treats her puppy—and her answer is immediate!
Then, Fire Marshal JD Pepper from Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District stops by with an important update on the new Stage 2 fire restrictions now in effect and shares tips to help keep the White Mountains safe.
Plus, JD takes on former hotshot firefighter Ryan McKee in TV theme song trivia, Ryan gives his hilarious take on a marriage threatened by ChatGPT, and we give away comedy tickets courtesy of Comfort Fit Dentures.
Thanks for listening, best friends! If you enjoyed today's episode, please follow, leave a review, and share it with another best friend. And don't forget—Nancy Norton headlines this Saturday at the Show Low Elks Lodge! General admission tickets are available now at ChrisBennettComedy.com. Be nice to yourself, be nice to each other... and don't be a jerk!
Dog Drama Cold Open
SPEAKER_05This girl wants to know, would she be crazy to end a relationship over how her boyfriend treats her dog? What say you?
SPEAKER_01Leave him. Sorry. I should just have a recording of that.
SPEAKER_05That was stand-up comedian Nancy Norton, our headliner for this Saturday's comedy show at the Sholo Elks Lodge, given some very direct relationship advice. Hello, best friends. It is me, Chris Bennett, and we got a fun show planned for you today. Today, Nancy Norton helps us tackle a relationship dilemma that has everyone talking. Fire Marshal JD Pepper from the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District joins us with an important update on the new stage two fire restrictions now in effect in Navajo County and Apache County. Then things get competitive as JD takes on my buddy and former hotshot firefighter Ryan McKee in some TV theme song trivia. We also give away tickets to this Saturday's comedy show, courtesy of Comfort Fit Dentures, and Ryan sticks around to give us his own hilarious take on another relationship advice story involving Jat GPT. Thanks for listening, best friends. Let's get the show
Puppy Nipping And Boyfriend Anger
SPEAKER_05started. Chris Bennett and the morning brew. It is now time for a very special relationship advice with our headliner for our comedy show this Saturday at the Elks Lodge at 6 30. Nancy Norton. Nancy, you gave us some relationship advice last week, and the people wanted more. Are you ready for some relationship advice?
SPEAKER_01More, more, more.
SPEAKER_05Alright, here is today's story. I'm 21 and my boyfriend's 22. My boyfriend and I have been together for four years. And recently my parents gave me a black Labrador puppy as a graduation gift. She's only 14 weeks old, and like most puppies, she's still learning. Sometimes she gets excited and nips at people's legs or toes. But we're working on using positive reinforcement and training. The problem is, my boyfriend. Whenever the puppy gets excited around him, instead of calmly correcting her, he gets frustrated. He yells at her and sometimes lightly smacks her on the nose. I've repeatedly explained how I want her trained and why patience works better. But he doesn't seem interested in changing his approach. What bothers me most isn't just how he treats the puppy, it's what it might say about how he'll handle our future children when they make mistakes or act like kids.
SPEAKER_04Otherwise, he's been a great boyfriend. Would I be crazy to end a four-year relationship over how he treats my dog?
SPEAKER_02What say you?
SPEAKER_01Leave him. I should just have a recording of that. Get it over with. Listen, you're looking for a reason to leave. You got one, okay? Seriously though. Like if you're saying this is my dog, this is how I want my dog treated, I do not want it hit in any way. And they and he can't resist. But I do, I also do kind of understand, like if something's hurting you, because little puppy teeth are sharp. Okay. Let me have some empathy for the boyfriend for a second. I mean, those can be sharp on your toes, you know, and it's like a reflex, you know, like something like a bug biting you, you're like, get off of me, you know, like this hurts, you know. So it it's it's tricky. I'd like to I need again more information. Is he in pain? Does he have PTSD? I don't know. I'm just saying, but if it's like, oh, it's not a pain response, and it's just like this is how we treat dogs, I will say, leave him.
SPEAKER_05You're the best relationship advice expert we've ever had. Leave him.
SPEAKER_01I feel I I don't think anybody needs a relationship. Is that no? Okay, okay, okay. That's just me. It's just me, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It is, it's me. Oh, I yes, I I would like to see them both go into training and have, you know, I you know what they need again. You know, people get couples counseling. They need that the the dog is in puppy training, but you know what that who they really train are the people, right? We know this. I have a new puppy here. I just adopted when I was doing a fundraiser for for an animal rescue, and it got in my arms. I'm like, I have a puppy now. But you know, when you go to dog training, you're training, you're training the people, not the dog.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So all right, Nancy Norton's relationship advice for you. Leave them or go get puppy training. Thank you so much, Nancy, for having fun with us. And everyone, make sure you get your tickets to see Nancy Norton Headline, our comedy show, Chris Bennett Comedy, and Allaberto's presents stand-up comedy at the Show Lowell Clodge this Saturday, June 27th. It's 18 and over. Show starts at 6:30 p.m. Doors bar and Allaberto's food truck open up at 5 p.m. VIP seating is sold out, and general mission uh tickets are moving fast. We still have a few of those left. They are $25 and available at Chris Bennettcomedy.com. Looking forward to this weekend, Nancy.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be a blast.
SPEAKER_05And I'm uh excited to not be all by myself anymore.
Stage Two Fire Restrictions Start Now
SPEAKER_05I'm joined by JD Pepper, our fire marshal with the Timber Mesa Fire Department. And uh you got a little fire marshal minute for us today. What uh what updates do you have for us?
SPEAKER_00Yep. As of six o'clock this morning, we went into stage two fire restrictions, and that's all for Navajo County and for Apache County as well. Um look, uh, we're we're dry. Uh we had a little bit of rain yesterday, um, but we're gonna be drying out over the weekend. We've got a wind event, and we're really concerned about this wind uh coming up. Okay, so if you have if you have friends or or folks coming up here uh from from out of uh out of the area, please let them know there we are at stage two. We're we're posting this stuff up over all social media, um storefronts, all all kinds of stuff, you know, that to get the information out. What's allowed and and what is not allowed. Um so basically there's there's no fires. No fires allowed. Uh you can still use your your barbecue grills um as long as it's not um charcoal or wood, that type of thing. Uh you can uh there's no smoking outside. Um no shooting uh unless you're engaged in a lawful hunt, uh, which is not the good season right now. But no welding outside, no uh no no working outside on on non-manicured uh areas. When I say non-manicured areas, so think of a golf course or your nice green grass backyard or whatever. Anything outside of that, that because those are considered manicured. Anything outside of that, and that's a non-manicured area. So if you're running a lawmow over something, and I saw I saw a gentleman yesterday doing the doing this right on the side of the road, uh mowing down some real tall weeds. There's rocks and stuff underneath that. And if your your lawnmower blade uh sparks off that that rock, you know, those those sparks are upwards of a thousand degrees. So and that's just one little bitty spark, and that's all it takes. And people don't really understand that that that spark is over a thousand degrees. And so when it when it drops into the really dry grasses and stuff like that, it's it's gonna start a fire. Or uh it's going to sit and smolder until we get that wind that comes in over the weekend, you know, and then it's going to start, it's gonna kick up and it's gonna start a fire. Um we had a we had a fire uh three days ago over here in Watan Lakes. That was a that was a lightning strike that happened probably um several days before. And it was just in the snag of a tree, and then finally it just went through where the tree had fallen over, and the wind picked up and it blew those embers. Okay, so same thing happens when uh when you have a fire, okay, fire in a backyard. If anybody out there sees anybody in uh an Airbnb at a campground, a campsite, you're driving by, you see them having a campfire, uh, you see smoke, please call it in so that we can get on that right away instead of waiting two days later after everybody's gone home. And then, you know, we have a we have a fire right now. The crews are down um trying to put out that the flat fire down outside of Heber. So yeah, it's uh we're we're we're in that time right now. We gotta be extra uh extra vigilant.
SPEAKER_05All right, everyone. Let's do our part to keep our community safe. Thank you so much to all our firefighters, Timber Mesa Fire Department, for everything you guys do to keep us safe. And remember, stage two fire restrictions are
Wind, Sparks, And Reporting Fires
SPEAKER_05in effect now. And if you want more information on what that means, you could go to the Timber Mesa Fire Department's Facebook page. And if you have any questions, uh, who should they call?
SPEAKER_00You know what? You can call uh 311. You can call 311 for information. You can call 537-5100, you call the Navajo County Emergency Management's Office, you can call the Sheriff's Office. We are all you can call the Forest Service. We're all on the same page on this um stage two restriction for our area. So um Facebook as well as the web pages.
SPEAKER_05Good morning. It's the morning brew with Chris. Who's this? It's Ryan McKee. Oh, JD Pepper, my best friend JD Pepper with the uh Timber Mesa Fire Department. He's our fire marshal. He's in studio with me right now, Ryan. Ryan's my friend, went to Payson, Arizona, uh graduated, he was a Longhorn, 1997. And uh you were actually a uh a hotshot. You were a wildland firefighter, right?
SPEAKER_06I was for two years, tasting hotshots.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, were you ever in like any uh uh firefighter uh calendar spreads, or did the ladies go crazy over you being a firefighter?
SPEAKER_06I will say I was the fittest I had ever been in my life. And I had gone back to a college reunion during that, uh-huh, and man, all the ladies that didn't like me before, I had my pick of the litter. It was awesome. Even though I constantly smelled like a Marlboro red. How many showers I took, I always smell like smoke. Uh, they were into me.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well heck yeah. I'm telling you, all our firefighters are heroes, but especially, you know, I appreciate uh our wildland fighters.
SPEAKER_06They are definitely and it's weird because like they were so surprised I was a firefighter. They're like, you're a firefighter? I'm like, I don't know if that's a compliment or burn on me.
Fire Marshal Vs Hotshot Trivia
SPEAKER_05It is now time for Are You Smarter Than a Fire Marshal with JD Pepper and also my best friend Ryan McKee, who was a uh a wildland firefighter for two years. Hotshot. Uh today is uh color TV day. So I thought we would do uh a little fun game called Name This TV Theme Show. If you know the answer, say your name. That's your buzzer. Are you two ready? Are you playing music? Name this TV theme show? Yeah, or theme song. Theme song. Theme song, okay. Theme song. Here we go.
SPEAKER_03Uh, JD. JD. Golden Girls. Dude! He knows his Golden Girls.
SPEAKER_06My wife would totally be laughing. I just didn't want to answer and sound weird. Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER_05All right. How about how about this one? What TV show is this theme song from? Ryan. Ryan. Full House. You know it. Ding ding ding. Cut it out. You didn't watch much Full House there, JD Pepper?
SPEAKER_00No, I don't think I watched an episode. All right. Well, I watched Golden Girls.
SPEAKER_05All right, how about this one?
SPEAKER_00Uh, okay. It's one or two. JD.
SPEAKER_05JD?
SPEAKER_00Yes, it is. So I was going. It's either it's either MASH. I was either MASH or Magnum P.I. is where I was going, but it didn't start off with the music, so I'm like, oh, it's gotta be.
SPEAKER_05All right, Ryan, if you don't get this next one right, it is over. If you get it right, it goes to overtime. Here we go.
SPEAKER_06I did I didn't know MASH, but I got a rash.
SPEAKER_00Cheers. JD.
SPEAKER_03The JD, heck yes! JD smoked you this morning there.
SPEAKER_06You know what? I feel like he has an unfair advantage being in the studio. I don't hear very well, so it's hard for me to get those.
SPEAKER_00I have to wear hearing aids from the VA.
SPEAKER_05So he has to Ryan, Ryan spent uh $6,000 on some speakers recently. AKA, what do you call them? Hearing aids. Yeah, he got hearing aids too. Hear speakers, baby. Awesome. Ryan, thanks so much for having fun with us today. Congratulations, JD. And uh we'll talk to you soon, Ryan. Bye. Bye.
ChatGPT Ring Removal Marriage Crisis
SPEAKER_05It is now time for a bonus relationship advice with my best friend, Ryan McKee. I thought, who better to help us with some relationship advice today than Ryan? What makes you qualified to be today's relationship advice expert?
SPEAKER_06Boom. I'm divorced. Boom. I've had multiple failed relationships since my divorce. Boom. I dated in Caston, so I know what it's like to date in a small town. I didn't do it successfully, but I can tell you what not to do.
SPEAKER_05There you go. All right. You passed the test. Here's today's story. Uh 32-year-old female and her 33-year-old male husband. Here we go. I've been married for four years, and the last few months have been rough. We've even talked about divorce because of trust issues. Yeah. But recently things seemed to be getting better. We were laughing again, going on dates, and I truly believed we were rebuilding our marriage. Then I opened our shared chat GPT account, edit a document. As I was closing the app, I noticed a conversation titled Remove Wedding Ring. I clicked it, found a photo of my husband that I had taken during a special birthday dinner I planned for us. He admitted he used AI to remove his wedding ring because he was thinking about creating a dating profile. He says he never actually made the account because he felt guilty and stopped. Now I'm heartbroken. I don't think he cheated, but while I was trying to save our marriage, he was preparing to move on. Am I overreacting or is this enough to end my marriage? What is your advice?
SPEAKER_06I mean, unequivocally end it. Not because he was already thinking of moving on, because he's too dumb to know not to do that on your shared chat GPT. You don't want to be with a dumb guy.
SPEAKER_05So the price? Yeah. Yeah, I never thought of it like that, I guess.
SPEAKER_06Also, I love that they gave me the idea for my dating profile. I'm gonna go on ChatGPT. Add a bunch of expensive jewelry to my photos. Oh, let ladies know I'm really rolling in it. Like a big old chain, like little Wayne, you know?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Heck yeah. Chat GPT ruined her relationship, but it could start a relationship for you.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, exactly. There you go. Let's see.
SPEAKER_05Our Facebook Live, our uh best friend Rakendra said she should ask Chat GPT.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's good. Yeah. ChatGPT should end it. And then just leave it for him to find.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. Like, should I end my marriage over my husband removing his wedding?
SPEAKER_06Or even better, how to end my marriage. Make the decision, then ask ChatGPT how to break it to him and then just leave it open on the computer.
SPEAKER_05Our friend Teresa says she's overreacting and that it's not uh worth breaking up. No, come on.
SPEAKER_06You don't want to stay with a dumb guy.
SPEAKER_05Producer Ryan's advice don't stay with a dumb guy. Uh, you are the best, best friend. Hope you have a great rest of your day.
SPEAKER_06You too. Bye.
SPEAKER_05Bye. Good
Comedy Tickets And Theme Song Game
SPEAKER_05morning. It's the morning brew with Chris. Who's this? It's Aspen. Aspen, where are you from? Taylor. Taylor, heck yeah. Congratulations. You just won four VIP tickets to our comedy show this Saturday at the Elks Lodge at 6 30. Compliments of Comfort Fit Dentures. You'll feel comfortable always. Uh, you win the tickets, but how about we still have uh a little fun? You want to play a game with me? Yes. Okay. Uh today is color TV Day, so I thought uh we would play another round of guess this television theme song. All right. Uh here we go. You watch a lot of TV? Yeah. And you're you're young. How old are you? Uh 21. 21? I don't know. Like, do your TV shows even have theme songs these days? Not really. Yeah, all right. Here we go. Tell me what TV show is this? Here we go. Do you know? It's my favorite TV show. The boss is Michael Scott. Any guesses? It takes it takes the what? There you go. Ding ding ding. Do you ever watch The Office?
SPEAKER_00I have, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Alright, here's this one. And all these theme songs are probably before you were even born. Here we go. Here's another one. Alright, what TV show's that from? I do not know. Ah, friends, you ever watch that one? I haven't, no. All right, let's try this one. Maybe, maybe you know this one.
SPEAKER_03Sesame day.
SPEAKER_05All right, any guesses? No, that was Sesame Street. You don't know Sesame Street?
SPEAKER_00No, I probably should. You know, I got a cognition, so.
SPEAKER_05Oh man, you're making me feel old. Well, Aspen, congratulations. You won four VIP tickets to our comedy show this Saturday night at the Show Low Elks Lodge. Show starts at 6 30 p.m. Doors bar, Alberto's food truck open up at 5 p.m. It's 18 and over. If you weren't as lucky as Aspen, VIP tickets are sold out, but general mission tickets are $25 at Chris Bennett Comedy.com. What station hooked you up? Uh 92 5. You know it.
Final Thanks And Sign-Off
SPEAKER_05Well, that's gonna do it for another episode of The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett and best friends. Thanks again to Nancy Norton for joining us with some relationship advice. And thanks to Fire Marshal JD Pepper from the Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District for helping keep our community informed and safe. Congratulations to our comedy ticket winner, Aspen from Snowflake. And uh don't forget Nancy Norton headlines this Saturday at the Show Low Elks Lodge. Chris Bennett Comedy and Albertos presents stand-up comedy at the Show Low Elks Lodge. General Mission tickets are still available for $25 at Chris Bennett Comedy.com. And if you enjoyed today's episode, please like, give us a review, and share with another friend you think might enjoy our morning show shenanigans. Until next time, I'm Chris Bennett reminding you to be nice to yourself, be nice to others, and don't be a jerk.
