Friday, June 19, 2026
Brock welcomes Brent, his wife Stephanie, and Julie, the director of LifeWise Academy Bentonville, into the studio for a full morning of laughs, faith, coffee, and community conversation.
The show kicks off with the trending thread: What is an automatic green flag when you visit someone’s home? Answers include a clean toilet, fresh hand towels in the bathroom, happy pets, healthy plants, books on the shelf, coasters, family photos, a clean smell when you walk in, and being offered coffee almost immediately. Of course, that leads to plenty of talk about dog smells, cats being suspicious, kids’ toys everywhere, Nespresso guests drinking too much expensive coffee, and Brock’s son still trying to drink bathwater.
The main spotlight of the episode is LifeWise Academy, a Bible-based character education program now getting started in Bentonville. Julie and Brent explain that LifeWise gives public school students the opportunity to learn Biblical truth and character traits like integrity, respect, compassion, and perseverance during release time. The program is parent-approved, privately funded, and held off school property. They also talk about the need for volunteers, donations, prayer, parent sign-ups, and help spreading the word since schools cannot directly promote the program.
The crew also gets into plenty of classic Brock in the Morning randomness, including $2,200 augmented reality glasses, a Florida man who carjacked a woman and then stole a Chick-fil-A waffle fry, teens riding e-bikes through Walmart, windy lake days, robocalls, beer in space, Sting versus Sting, malaria’s meaning, and the smell of boys’ bedrooms.
In the 7 AM Challenge, Stephanie and Julie take on Brent in a round of The Feud, guessing excuses people might use to get out of a speeding ticket. The ladies pull out the win with answers like family emergency, going to the hospital, running late for work, needing the bathroom, and not realizing the speed limit.
The episode also covers Juneteenth, Father’s Day, what dads really want, New Kids on the Block nostalgia, Toy Story 5, coffee shop debates, Cometeer and Onyx, whether any alcohol is actually healthy, and the difference between hot coffee people and iced coffee people.
Happy news includes cousins coming to town, birthday celebrations, NICU nurses creating a coloring book to help siblings understand babies in intensive care, an artist painting portraits of the doctors who saved his life, and a 91-year-old grandmother seeing never-before-seen footage of her 1955 wedding.
It is a funny, faith-filled, community-centered episode with great guest chemistry, meaningful conversation about LifeWise Academy, and plenty of classic Brock chaos along the way.