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April 28, 2025 14 mins
Dive into this captivating episode of The Bama Brown Experience where Bama Brown and his co-host, The Big Puma, unravel a series of fascinating stories that blend sports, movies, and unexpected encounters.

In this episode, Bama Brown shares an intriguing story about meeting a former minor league baseball player whose family played pivotal roles in the making of the movie Moneyball. Discover how this chance meeting led to revelations about Brad Pitt's dedication to his roles and the behind-the-scenes efforts to bring authenticity to the film.

The Big Puma, a die-hard Texas Rangers fan, joins the conversation, bringing his unique perspective on baseball and sharing his excitement for the current sports season. Together, they discuss the intersection of sports and entertainment, highlighting memorable moments and personal anecdotes.
  • Unexpected Encounter: Bama Brown's chance meeting with a former minor league player who reveals his family's involvement in Moneyball.
  • Hollywood Insights: Discover how Brad Pitt prepared for his role in Moneyball and the connections between the player's family and the film's production.
  • Personal Anecdotes: Bama Brown's humorous story about his car's appearance in The Tree of Life and his co-host's passion for baseball.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're listening to the Maama Brown Experience on the iHeart
Podcast network along with My My home Boy, My Homie,
The Big Puma, the Big Cat as a Sports Cave
in San Antonio. That's a great, great podcast. Everybody's loving
that you. You are in the middle of baseball right now?
Or what are you guys talking about on your podcast?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
But yeah, it is, you know, I'm I think I'm
one of the rare older souls that still counts baseball
as my favorite sport. So right now it's my favorite
time of year. We got NBA and NHL playoffs, just
had the NFL Draft, and now it's an entire summer
of baseball. So yeah, if you it's not all baseball.

(00:47):
So if baseball is not your top sport, definitely still
come check it out anywhere you get your podcast, prefer
the iHeart app, but we'll let you slide if you're
on something else, just search for the Sports Cave with
Biggest Poom in fact.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
As your what is your baseball?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Teams are back live on YouTube tonight as well, right
at sports Cave Live.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Uh diehard Ranger fan.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ranger fans of course, North Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, so this happened to me the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Uh I was at the cafe and Dripping Springs there
where I lived, and a guy uh I was there
in my car and it was later in the morning,
so there wasn't a lot of people there, and it
was a guy had a big van, uh and uh
I don't remember any of the names, Okay, so I'll
just tay up front. But this is pretty cool. He
had a van was Mercedes Vans and it had like

(01:37):
an orange and a checkered flag dtail on the side
on the back. And so he was sitting in the
van when I walked out. He'd eating breakfast in there,
and I watched him walk out, and then I walked
out and it was parking next to meeting. So I said, Hey,
what is your logo? And he said, well, I'm doing
a mobile car wash. And he said I got half
the logo done and the waiting for the other part

(01:58):
to come in. So he just moved here from Florida
to Drip of Springs. Had lived in California and then
moved to Florida. Said Florida has become too expensively around
the Miami area, and he said, so I moved to
dripping springs. I never did understand what the dripping springs
angle was why I moved there. There was a lot
going on. Nicest guy, nicest guy in the world. But

(02:20):
this is crazy, This is a crazy story. So we
start talking, you know, I'll talk to anybody, and we're talking,
and I don't even know how we got off on baseball.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
But I said I had told.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Him about round Rock, you know, And he said, well,
he goes my dad played for the Rangers. He said,
I played at University of Miami in baseball. And he said,
then I went some minorly a couple of years of
minor league with the Phillies. And he said, but my
dad played with with the Rangers and was really good

(02:57):
friends with Nolan. And I said, well, I know Red Nolan,
you know, because I helped them marketing, you know, when
we were here and we were talking and I said,
I just I said, you know, my favorite. It's not
it's not my actually my favorite, but it's one of
my five. I said, I love moneyball. And he said
my granddad and my dad and I were all involved

(03:19):
in moneyball. He said, my granddad was a scout and
he's one of the scouts in the scout scene with
Brad Pitt and he said, he said, those are.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
All his friends that are old baseball scouts.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
They wanted to really do the movie, right, I said,
my dad taught Brad Pitt about baseball and how to
sound like you know about baseball. And he said, and
I trained the three actors that were those main three
actors for the Baseball And he said, I've got scenes
rumming the dugout and I'm doing all guys.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Crazy? That is small. That is a small, small world.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So small world. But he said his dad and Brad
were really good friends. They were eating eat together all
the time. And he said, I said, well, my favorite,
my favorite scene of the whole movie is when they're
all those all those guys are trying to figure out
the recruits are they'll know the name, you know, they're
just I just thought it was a great, great scene,

(04:13):
you know.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
The table and the clashing of the new ideas of
where they was going with the old school guys. It's like, look,
I watched him play three three months last year. He's
got nothing and then being you know, some guy that's
going to be an all star.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
He was talking about old man Justice, and he said
he'll be lucky to hit his weight coming somewhere exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know, I'll give Brad Pitt a lot of credit
because I don't think you know, when you think of
actors that fully transform into the roles, you're thinking of
like Daniel day Lewis or some kind of really art school, classical,
traditional actor. But when Brad Pitt goes into something like that,

(05:00):
I mean, it doesn't surprise me that he actually has
baseball guys tell them how, you know, how he should
play it.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
He's doing.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
The next movie he's in, or one of the next
ones is the Formula one movie he's doing, right, Yeah,
literally all of last season in Formula One, they had
a car out there on the track during practice laps
doing all of the filming, so bred it was actually driving.
I think they said he topped out around like one
hundred and sixty miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
But still still many say that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I saw some of the out takes. There's really good
stuff you know that he was doing. I just he's
he's one of my favorite.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
When he was here, he did that Terrence Malick movie
over in Smithville.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, the Tree of Life.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Movie.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was so funny because I think I told you
that my car was in that movie.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I bought it.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Did I tell you this story where I had a
car in that movie?

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I don't think. I don't think that one. Yeah, I
didn't realize that one.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
In multiple movies.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I've had multiple car cars and car movies. One
story I can't tell you, but I can tell you
this one, so you know, I had wanted to don't
forget I remember my Brad Pitt's story in a minute.
Another one. But I had this buddy of mine that
he furnished the cars for a lot of old movies
around for years. He had old cars, he sold them,

(06:22):
you know, And they had a lot over there in
Smithfield as you're going in, you know, past bass Drop
in this middle, that's his lot on the left there.
And he lost most of his cars in the fire
and bass Drop. I mean he was insured, but he
lost about seventy cars. Anyway, before that happened, he had
a forty seven Chevy Coup that was all original and
it was I mean it was a barn fine type beater,

(06:43):
but it ran and drove, and I bought it from
him and got a good deal on it, and it
was in it was in that movie, the Terrence Malick,
a Tree of Life movie. And so I buy this
car and I drove with the cafe and around, dripping.
Back then there wasn't much travia. You could drive an
old car like that around and uh, but I didn't
see the movie at the theater.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It came on HBO or whatever, and so I'm sitting
there watching it and Jamie hated this, because my wife
Jamie hated his cars.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Is the ugliest car ever.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And she's walking through and about that time, I said,
the scenes about to happen, I think were my cars
in the movie.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And she walks in.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
So Brad Pitt takes his two sons. They go over
and they're going to feed a poor black family, you know,
it's like Thanksgiving or something. And they go into this
yard and there my car is with the hood up,
sitting like it's junk.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Out, broken down.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, and my wife was my wife doesn't cuss, and
she goes, she looks at me and she goes, even
in your movie, your car is a.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Piece of shit.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
And I had the paperwork for it, but but in
mind he wanted it and he bought it. I drove it,
you know, I drive my a year and then I
saw him but he So anyway, while they were filming
that back then, it was it was, uh we had
Rob and me were on cavet along with Julie Kate. No,
I guess we were case. Maybe then might have been
we were case. Yeah, we were case one on one.

(08:11):
So it was uh, Rob Bama and Julie or Julie
Robin badmam. However we had it ed. So Julie's in
love with Brad Pitt. I'm in love with Brad Pitt.
I'm gonna go meet Brad Pitt. So one morning during
the show, she drove over to Smithville too, because he
had heard where they were filming. And she pulls up
in the street over there, what's morning? And she's hot,

(08:32):
Mike that we put a mic on her, you.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Know, uh, content over everything.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, I think actually she was calling in. Was the
deal seem like?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, she was phoning in and talking on her phone.
And so she found where they were filming at this house,
an old house, and she's there wasn't a lot of
people around, and the guy said she talked to some
guy and he's on with us, and he goes, he goes, uh, yeah,
he ought to be here. We're waiting on him, you know,
and we're set up ready for him. He should come
along any man it And she's going to profess her

(09:02):
love man, you know, and Julie beautiful, So I mean
she had a shot I thing and so uh uh.
But she goes to the house next door and it's
this old woman and she knocks on the door and hello,
I'm Julian from the Case Morning crew and I will
come in. And this lady lets her in and they're
talking and she says, well, they've been filming, you know,
for a week or two, and with if he's seen

(09:23):
Brad Pitt and she said, I haven't seen him. I
know he was up there, but there's been several guys
and uh And I said, Julie Doude put her on
with us. And so the woman gets on the phone
and I go, I go listen. I said, that woman,
girls is kleptomaniac and he's in your house and she'll
steal everything. She'll steal everything you got, so watch And

(09:47):
I said, don't let on that I'm telling you and say, oh,
that's nice.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
And she goes, oh, that's nice, and this is going
on the air here, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
And also.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
And I said, watch watch your stuff, you know, like
if you got some valuables, hold on, you'll put him
in your purse or something.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
While she's there.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Anyway, so she goes back out and we ran it
all delay.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
So Julie didn't hear this till she's on the way home.
But he she was like, you so bitch. Anyways, uh uh.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So she comes back outside, she goes, Okay, well, I
guess he's not coming.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm gonna go away and leave. And then the movie
guy called us.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
It was there that you know, had the number for
the show guy we knew from before, and he said
she made the turn and then he made the turn
the other street on the motorcycle and just pulled up.
He had like, literally nothing to do. He could have
talked to her and met her everything.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
It was. She was so mad.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I was about to say, I'm sure she I'm sure
she still thinks about that morning.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Absolutely she could have she should have what is it
could have should have?

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Would you know, you know, hung in there. But that
was that was a great That was a great time.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I but I watched a movie and you know,
I'm just not a Terrence Maley huge fan. I mean,
it was too much. You know, you gotta have motorcycle
chasing boobs. If you're gonna hold me for movie, you
better you better come out of the gate with that.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Enough cleavage and explosions.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Thank you, hold you for a ford you.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Did you see the comedian that's talking about how shitty
the movies are, say, Locked Up Weinstein and all those
really good movies.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Guys, there's a trade off for just.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
And then people mood. I was like, oh my god,
that's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
A little worse art, but have a maybe h less
use of society. It might be a good trade off.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
That just that made me laugh really hard. I was
looking at his stories and stuff. You can rent an
old guy in Japan for and I don't know what
all you can get him to do.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
I need some kind of interstitial or something to go.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
For you can You can rent him an old guy
in Japan for seven dollars an hour. And they say
a lot of people, and a lot of people are
doing it, and they say a lot of them just
want to talk to him because we're lonely, or maybe
that they get advice, you know, because he's lived along guys,
old guys.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, there's a bunch of him.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Last week when we were talking about all of the
you know, chat chat bots, the chat bots, and the
most common use for them is loneliness, just right to
talk to.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
So exactly, maybe.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Instead of turning all of our human secrets over to
the robots, we just start renting old men to have.
Instead of talking to a chat bot, just talk to
some old Japanese guy about life.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I eat breakfast with the veterans. You know, most of
them are Vietnam.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
There's one that was blockade from uh Cuba, blockade guy,
but most of them are Vietnam. Anyway, I'm not gonna
pay seven dollars an hour here old guys. How about
their medical issues?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
All?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I mean, every conversation is where something's been cut off
of them and I'm like, hey, ain't doing then, neal.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
So there, if you every every Texan of any age,
any walk of life, any creed, any race, anything, every
Texan needs to have at least one memory where they
sit at a random diner and talk to a stranger,
an old Texas old timer they've never met in their
life right, talk talk for an hour and hear the stories.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
You'd be amazed what you could learn and what you'd
hear about history and stuff. And you know, you were
talking about robots. They opened the robot convenience store in California.
Totally robotic run convenience store.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
No people. Guy says, they don't get sick, they don't complain.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
You can't rob them, you know, because you can scare
them because the robot and you bring your products up,
you set it down in the thing it. You know,
you tell them what you need and I guess they
put them in the thing and then you take them
and go.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
I haven't I don't know where it is in California.
And they just started doing it.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
But I thought that was an interesting, interesting turn of
events with robots taking.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Over more and more every day.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right, Well, thank you for listening to the Bam
and Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast Network.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
We appreciate it.
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