What’s the best part about getting older? You just stop giving a damn! That’s the question Bama Brown kicks off with in this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, and unexpectedly profound episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Joined by the ever-calm and quick-witted Big Puma, Bama dives into a hilarious and honest countdown of “10 Things Older People Love More Than They Used To”—from birdwatching and Pop-Tarts to the sweet sound of silence.
But this episode isn’t just about laughs. It’s a full-circle journey through Bama’s life, filled with outrageous stories, unexpected wisdom, and moments of genuine vulnerability. You’ll hear:
Don’t miss this ride through nostalgia, growth, and gut-busting humor. Subscribe now, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a laugh—or a reminder that it’s never too late to turn things around.
But this episode isn’t just about laughs. It’s a full-circle journey through Bama’s life, filled with outrageous stories, unexpected wisdom, and moments of genuine vulnerability. You’ll hear:
- How Bama accidentally ran a rogue auto shop out of his high school’s mechanics class.
- The $10,000 Corvette tire job that led to a heartfelt apology.
- A helicopter ride gone sideways (literally) thanks to some brutal honesty.
- A redemption arc decades in the making with the principal who almost expelled him—and later became his realtor.
Don’t miss this ride through nostalgia, growth, and gut-busting humor. Subscribe now, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a laugh—or a reminder that it’s never too late to turn things around.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi, everybody Bama Brown, within the Bama Brown Experience
and the iHeart Podcast. Thousands are listening, thank you very much.
And of course the reason that the eighties are listening
is the Big Puma, the Big Cat. You're live tonight
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He's married, ladies, hands off. Well, it's more of a
guideline and a real hard rule of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
rubbing is racing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It probably didn't even or something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Here's ten thing. Now, you're an old soul. That's what
I love about you. You're a young guy. You're not
even forty yet, are you? Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're closing in but not there yet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah. And see I'm sixty seven, so this is gonna
this kind of I like this list Ten things older
people love more than they used to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Number ten and they don't care. They don't They literally
don't give a shit if you like it or not,
and they're just gonna do it. So that's the best
part of my getting old. You don't care anymore. Number
ten hobbies. They love their hobbies.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm doing my model cars. I love model cars. Well,
I do the real cars too, but I'm more interested
in the models than I am the real ones anymore.
So the worst part is I don't have the skills
I shake, so everything looks real, you know, and I
can't see. It's got to be a great light for see.
I got to magnifying eye thing. I like building car models.
(01:39):
They may do some planes and ships here pretty soon.
Let's see Number nine. I couldn't I couldn't read if
it was parents or pop tarts. The parents are dead,
but god damn, I love pop tarts. I'm gonna say
that that was a pop tarts. So Number eight partying
(02:00):
going out and having a little party with some friends
at lunch or something, not you know, getting drunk calling
off table. I'm talking about having a lunch, having something
nice with some friends. I enjoy that a lot. Uh.
Number seven bird watching. I'm building some bird houses.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This is I'm a sucker for that one.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
This just came out your bird guy. I'm a bird guy.
I got a fence. I'm gonna put some bird houses on.
Uh So number six I had mentioned this one earlier.
Number six literally not giving a shit about anything. So
it's when you're talking to me politics, war, anything, I'm like,
don't care, don't know, don't care what else you got,
(02:39):
don't look at Facebook anymore, don't to watch any news.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Any news all a susspool.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah. Uh Number five, let's see real. Oh I love this.
Real personal conversations, not just crap, but I mean talking
about real stuff, real people, what's going on, you know,
if you're angry or if you're that seems a lot
of old people get angry about stuff, you know, and
they just they don't. I don't know. I find that
(03:08):
I'll have a conversation with some people. You and I
have some great conversations. But you're an old soul. You
get it. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't think there's anything there's few things more valuable
than an actual, honest, real conversation.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And what I like about you is you don't you
don't get I've never seen puma mad No Puma very
nothing get mad. He's so level and so peaceful and calm.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's just try to try to remain the stoic as
much as I can.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
He's Mayota, man, I'm telling you. Let's see. Uh, well,
handwriting is part of the problem. Uh, let's see. Oh
not making plans. That is awesome. When you don't make
any plans, you don't have to plan anything. Uh, you
don't care what day it is. You get Saturdays and
(03:52):
Fridays mixed up and it don't matter because you ain't
got to go anywhere. You ain't gonna be you mean.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Much more spontaneous schedule.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now, number three, I don't do this, they said, bed
by eleven. I stay up past eleven all time. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a night. I think I will
always be a nightd ol.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. And then number two, and this is a big
one for me. I love silence. Silence. That's wonderful, you
know what. One of them to me, one of the
funniest things ever on television is on Seinfeld when Putty
is sitting there. I love Puddy, you know, and he's
just sitting in the phone rings, you know. But I mean,
(04:32):
he's just sitting in his couch, not doing anything. He's
just sitting there. I thought he played his character so well,
and it was a sad I know his story. It
was a he was a comedian. It was a one
time shot and he thought about it. He said, I'm
gonna play this guy so weird and so over the
(04:54):
top that they're gonna they're and they loved him and
they went with it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was what launched him. What's a Patrick war Bone?
That launched him into so many other roles. I mean, yeah,
dude from Family Guy, his Brock Samson on the Venture Brothers,
like he was able to turn. He's great as a
cartoon voice is just so funny naturally.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It like with him and the Lane Lane Go, we
gotta break up, okay, all right, all right, we're getting
back together, okayas whack so great. And the number one
of the ten things older people love more, they love
themselves more. So that's a great thing to do. You
(05:39):
love yourself more just like you are, are gonna change you,
forgive yourself for screw ups you've done. Everybody's messed up,
some more than others. But that's when I constantly of
finding myself going well, that Uh, yeah, I screwed that up.
I didn't. That's that's how that should went, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, but what are you gonna do? You just gotta
move on, keep looking forward.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You have to now if you can fix stuff, and
I've I've had one. I yelled at a car tire guy. Man,
I mean, he was wrong. They screwed up, and I
shouldn't yelled at him. And then I did yell at him,
but then it felt so bad. Went back and I
told him, I said, man, you know what, I shouldn't
have yelled at you. Hurt his feelings. He was a
(06:20):
listener too, I mean that's what. Yeah, I mean you
could just tell when somebody likes you as a listener.
You know. It's like, I can't believe it. This guy's
you know, never meet your hero or whatever. Deal.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, over, I said, you know, I said, I yelled
at you over tires, and I said, you shouldn't yell
at anybody over anything, especially tires.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I mean, what difference does it make. It's tires, you know.
So uh, but i'd had a bet and he was
pretty cool about it, and he was like, yeah, man,
I get it, we get but he goes, we're gonna
tires for I get yelled at every day. I was
about to.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Say he does probably have some of the thickest skin
of anybody, of any listener you could yell at. He
was probably best case scenario because.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nobody's ever happy, you know, nobody. You know, I'm doing
those tires for that corvette. I'm building for this customer
round of Regina. Five hundred dollars a tire. These Mitchellan.
They're Mitchellan high speed tires like are on the new Vets.
They're five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm sure they're nice. I'm sure they're worth it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But oh men, well it's cars going to go two
hundred mile an hour. So if he.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Wants to meet good tires.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, you're gonna want some some nice no recaps anyway.
The wheels though, are these so the back wheels, these
are twelve inch wide tires. It's a seventy seven VET
that I built, but it hasn't you know, the narrow
dury in and everything independent rear ends like a Formula
one cars, a high dollar car like you see on TV.
It's the same people and the same stuff we use
on the TV show. And uh uh so he Uh,
(07:48):
the rims on the back are twenties by they're twenty
by twelves, and the rims on the front are nineteen
by nine. They're fifteen hundred dollars. Rim, good rim. This
guy he's going to have eight thousand dollars of tires
and wheels, lug nuts, mountain balance, it'll be ten grand
put tires wheels in his car. And he didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So you better find a way to avoid any kind
of curve rash or anything on those.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, when we came out with when I say
we Bennie Boyd dodged. When they came out with the Viper,
we had one in the Temple dealership. I did all
their ads. I did all their advertising for Bennie for
since for thirty something years. You had to put down
(08:36):
a deposit to test drive the car of that. I
remember that was twenty five hundred dollars. And sure enough
a guy had a curb with one of the viper
wheel and tires and it took the whole twenty five
hundred dollars. Yeah, and it was yellow. I remember the
Viper was yellow. It was in Temple and people, would
you know, a couple of guys come out look at it.
(08:57):
So then this guy came comes by and he Isaac.
And then that afternoon his wife came into the dealership
and Bennie happened to be there and she can She said,
can I speak with you? And he said, yeah. You know,
Bennie's a great guy. He's not a car salesman. He's
a good guy. And him and his dad, but just
the boys are wonderful people. And so this wife says,
(09:18):
my husband has a roofing company. He's very wealthy. He's
on double secret probation on driving, and if he gets
one more ticket driving, he goes to prison a whole
not probation, I mean he's on probably he goes to Huntsville.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, he needs to get a Prius, not a viper.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah. And she said, would you give us her money
back on this on this viper? And Benny did it?
He said, I can't. I couldn't. He said, I say,
he goes. You're gonna call him, benn He said, I'm
not calling him. You're calling him.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Until you're handling that part.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You've got it too, We've taken it back. We're gonna
take it back. And the hold it was still and
make ready I think at the time, so wow, but
uh that was just like man alive what And you know,
a viper even been in Huntsville in a week, you know,
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, you're not. You're You're going to prison by the
before you even get home. You're getting arrested in that thing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I've ridden in one. They're they're amazing. I mean they are,
Oh they're something else. Uh uh. Tommy Shane Steiner is
a singer. Steiner Ranch Tommy Shane uh Uh, he had one.
He gave me a ride in it, and he scared
me a whole lot. I rode in a helicopter with
him too. He I was felt safer in the helicopter
and I did in the viper.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's what I was gonna ask. That was literally what
I was about to ask you.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And that was back when I was really I was really,
really fat, and we went to look at some I
had a developer buddy of mine and wanted to do
a project over in Beuda and it was it was landlocked,
couldn't see it from the road, it was a fence
and all that. But anyway, so I set up with
Tommy Shane. He needed hours anyway, so he showed up
a four seater, him and a guy you know, he
had a pilot with him, and then me and this
(11:01):
developer and we flew over the butta uh and and
checked or no, it was a bass drop when we're
a bass drop and checked out this property and we're
coming back and they decided to eat. So we went
to the barbecue place down in uh and uh uh
the county line down there by Driftwood, and we landed.
(11:23):
We landed out in the parking lot, you know, way
out and so we land, we go and we eat,
We get ready to leave, and we get in the
helicopter and any guy raises it up. We all got
headphones on, you know, with microphone. He goes up about
three or four feet and then starts backing up and
he's going to reverse, which was weird, you know, and
we're just right along and I didn't think anything. And
(11:45):
the developer guy asked, that's the guy. I wasn't telling
me that now was the guy? Why are you backing up?
And he said, well, honestly, Bama's a fat that I
got to get to run on this dealer. I won't
clear those trees. I swear to god, that's what he said,
that's brutal. I said, well, next time you show up,
won't you bring a helicopter with a good motor in
(12:06):
it or fill it up where you you know, make
get some power. Get a big helicopter showing up with
something that you've built in your garage.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, a little hop light.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah. I was like, come on, man, I did get
one of those, you know, one of them scorse keys
with the you know, the thing that could lift me
in the middle. Anyway, Uh, that hurt my feelings and
I never rode with him again totally. Uh. Here's a
twenty three year old store manager, all right right there,
twenty three year old store manager Dollar General store. Oh no, uh,
(12:36):
this is in Pennsylvania. I don't have a name. Uh.
They mbezzled twenty four thousand dollars from the Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They're on stouter taking up back to ty years and
a Dollar General. Everything's so cheap.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Dollar General everything dollars. Yeah. Like, I just thought, how
long did it take you to catch up that this
guy was stealing? You know? And when did he start?
If he's a twenty twenty three he's a twenty three
year old manager, So when did he when did you.
There's a lot of questions there. Uh, let's see, Reese's
(13:13):
Cups and Cinnabon got together and they have Cinnabon Reese's cups.
They're taking those Reese's cups and they're pouring the caramelal
the sauce all over it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So right there, diabetes drops right right there.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, just you should You should have a like a
medic alarm. You sell with that, you know in the package.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know it does sound good.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, this is interesting. I thought this was interesting. Well,
I all think all that shit's interesting, or I wouldn't
talk about it. Oh, you know, stupid things I say
on here, your smith poop was laughing at me. You're
you're live tonight on your on the sports.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Cap back on YouTube tonight eight o'clock over YouTube at
sports Cave Live. Come tag in hop in talk some
sports with us.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
A lot of ladies go to that. So if you're
looking for something to do, Uh, here's.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
More though, could always use just the record show.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I mean they're already working there. It's a strip club,
but that's fine that in our business. Uh is the
Puma on Center days. Come on, ladies, here's five things
to hold back in a new relationship. So if you
if you land one of these checks at this thing tonight,
here's five things. Hold back on these five things, all right.
Number five, your insecurities. Don't talk about your insecurities. Now,
(14:31):
that's not that's not good. Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You need to wait a few years for that, at
least a few years.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Uh. Number four heavy subject matter, and we're going to
put politics on that. Hold off on your politics a
little bit because you might not want to get so
heavy into any of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You're not helping your case at all, whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Now? Number three? Uh, any mental health issues? Well, I mean,
of course those will probably be spotted early on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I got to say, I would think those are probably
probably pretty easily identifiable if they're that bad.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Gess like Tommy TURRETTZ or something either so much you know, Okay,
I'm gonna go. I gotta go to the bathroom and
be right back. Let's see Number two. If you if
you're I can't readmoan him writing, let's see, well I
(15:28):
can't tell it too. Is a major life crisis. That's
what it is. Oh okay, I know what number two was.
That's number one. Major life crisis number two was, uh,
you you you hit the nitrous too quick. You accelerate
the relationship way too quick.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, okay, yeah, you want to avoid that. So that way,
there were you know, before I got married, there were
a few girls in college that it would be like,
you know, hang out with them for two weeks and
all of a sudden that you want to come out dinner.
My parents are in town, busy visiting me in college.
Why don't you come have dinner with us? And I
was like, well, let's just go back to how things
(16:08):
were a week ago, because last week is really exponentially.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Tapped the brakes.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, let's slow it down a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I was used a lot to piss off a lot
of dads, and that was used for that, and I
was fine to be used. That was cool with me.
I had the vice principal, mister Dunn. He's a good guy.
That I mean. It was iffy for me all through
high school. Senior year, it wasn't good. So I'm out
(16:38):
of high school and to meet this girl at the bank,
really smoking aw girl worked at the bank, and I'm
you know, I'm a roughneck in the oil field, you know,
And so I'm I'm trying to put my best moves
on her. And I finally go and she's reacting, and
I said, hey, uh, you know, you know, I want
to go out to dinner, you know, And she goes,
I like that. And then the next day or the
(16:59):
next time, I was back at the bank a couple
of days later, She's very cold, and I said, what
about our date? And she said, my dad told me
I couldn't go out with you. And I said, who
is your dad? And she goes, mister Dunn, the vice principal,
And I went, wow, that's yeah, that's probably a good idea.
(17:21):
He's right on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah. Actually, you know what, I agree with him. You
should listen to your dad more.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That was over eighteen of them. And I know he
whipped your ass and he would hit you hard in
high school. I can't imagine what he do to you.
He's a big old guy too.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And let me say this, he's a good dude. He
was forgiving. I had deserved me and everybody we deserved
everything he ever did to us. So sure, yep, I'm
giving him. And then this is a great story. I'm
gonna end up with this one. Our principal was mister Cavin,
a wonderful man. I love this guy. Z Odessa High seven,
nineteen seventy six. When I graduated, I didn't get a
(17:58):
GED I know a lot of yours in it, but
I didn't, which is just as good, by the way,
I'm a little bit defensive, but the GDS. But I went.
I went, and so mister Cavin was our principal. Well,
I had the auto mechanics class, and there was a
lot of those tools in the auto mechanics class that
I felt like would serve me better at my home
(18:21):
shop that I built. I had a little shop where
I was doing to raise cars and hot rods, and
so a lot of those tools. I thought, we're not
using these jacks, and say, up, plenty of jacks. I'm
gonna take some of his to my house, my shop.
Not stealing, borrowing, borrow, Yeah, And then you know, we
were always broke. And it was auto mechanics class. So
I started coming up with people that needed their car
(18:43):
fix and then I would charge them, and it wasn't
charging them much and it was all profit because all
the parts were free that we got. Uh. It turns
out that's like against the law, really big time.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It feels pretty illegal.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah. Well, I had become like a service writer in dealership.
Everybody was wordering for him, were all making money. Mister
Hoppey was phoning it in. He wasn't really paying close attention.
They were learning, everybody was learning, and we were working
on cars we were going to be The cars we
had in the shop were all junkers. And those guy
pushed out back because we had his new stuff coming in.
(19:17):
You know, there was stuff we'd be working on, and
so we're installing ergon we're doing I mean, and we're
making bang man, I mean, it's good. So I'm sitting
in those studies class and they knocked them. You know,
you're supposed to go down the office. So I go
down to the office and walk in and there sat
mister Hoppey the autumn cases. You're mister Cavin, the principal.
And my father was sitting there and they had all
(19:42):
this came to a head, and mister Kavin was buying groceries. Uh,
And a guy said, man, bamm, and those guys did
a great job on my car. And he goes, oh,
it's great to hear, and he goes. You know, I
was shocked. It was half the price of Bronco Chevrolet.
He said what he said, Yeah, he only charged me half.
It was fantastic. And mister Kevin said, okay. So I
(20:08):
had to issue everyone I could remember that we charged
and they were all refunded through the county actor. County
had to pay them because I'd already blown the money
on weed and Horod gone. So it was I don't
how much it was. It was enough to where mister
Cavin had this sheet with my expel on it. All
(20:28):
he had to do was sign it. And he said,
if I signed this the next day, you're out of here.
You're either in an army helmet or or hard hat
one of the other. All I gonna do is sign this.
And my dad was like, I give up, man, You
do whatever you think you need to do. So mister
Kevin said, I'm gonna give you one more chance to
(20:50):
bring all that shit back. Refund what you can. You
can pay me out and you know every month or something.
We worked it out long time ago. We worked it out.
So all right, I graduate high schoo roughnecking Milfield, got
a job selling drill bits, and then ended up in
the chemical division and die him, which is a dresser
industry company. Car had a house wife and uh uh
(21:15):
suit and tie every day. And mister I was gonna
sell my house, and mister Kevin had retired and he
became my realtor. Oh that's okay. So now here's where
this has a turn. Kevin wasn't getting the job done.
I mean there was the house is selling all around me.
(21:35):
This is lazy. I ever, wasn't showing my house near enough,
you know. And so I called his office and I
said from my office, and I said, I'm gonna be
at my house in thirty minutes. I need you to
be there. And I stood in my front yard and
I mean I started gnawing that ass, and and it
just puma. We both realized what was happening here. It's
(21:58):
like if it hadn't been for him, I would not
have this house, this job. I'd have been killed in
Angola or wherever it was. Everyone will send this, you know,
and uh or killed on a rig. I ended up
a rig. But I didn't have to say anyway. I
told him, I sitting now, you you get you gave
me my life back, so you take your time on
this house. Everything's cool, and he was grinning, you know,
(22:21):
because he knew I realized that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, full circle moment.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That's all true, true story, completely all right. That's the
Man of Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network
Well, hi, everybody Bama Brown, within the Bama Brown Experience
and the iHeart Podcast. Thousands are listening, thank you very much.
And of course the reason that the eighties are listening
is the Big Puma, the Big Cat. You're live tonight
with the Sports Cave. Are you not sure?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Just look for YouTube at sports Cave Live again. Still
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Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He's married, ladies, hands off. Well, it's more of a
guideline and a real hard rule of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
rubbing is racing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It probably didn't even or something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Here's ten thing. Now, you're an old soul. That's what
I love about you. You're a young guy. You're not
even forty yet, are you? Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're closing in but not there yet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah. And see I'm sixty seven, so this is gonna
this kind of I like this list Ten things older
people love more than they used to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Number ten and they don't care. They don't They literally
don't give a shit if you like it or not,
and they're just gonna do it. So that's the best
part of my getting old. You don't care anymore. Number
ten hobbies. They love their hobbies.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm doing my model cars. I love model cars. Well,
I do the real cars too, but I'm more interested
in the models than I am the real ones anymore.
So the worst part is I don't have the skills
I shake, so everything looks real, you know, and I
can't see. It's got to be a great light for see.
I got to magnifying eye thing. I like building car models.
(01:39):
They may do some planes and ships here pretty soon.
Let's see Number nine. I couldn't I couldn't read if
it was parents or pop tarts. The parents are dead,
but god damn, I love pop tarts. I'm gonna say
that that was a pop tarts. So Number eight partying
(02:00):
going out and having a little party with some friends
at lunch or something, not you know, getting drunk calling
off table. I'm talking about having a lunch, having something
nice with some friends. I enjoy that a lot. Uh.
Number seven bird watching. I'm building some bird houses.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This is I'm a sucker for that one.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
This just came out your bird guy. I'm a bird guy.
I got a fence. I'm gonna put some bird houses on.
Uh So number six I had mentioned this one earlier.
Number six literally not giving a shit about anything. So
it's when you're talking to me politics, war, anything, I'm like,
don't care, don't know, don't care what else you got,
(02:39):
don't look at Facebook anymore, don't to watch any news.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Any news all a susspool.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah. Uh Number five, let's see real. Oh I love this.
Real personal conversations, not just crap, but I mean talking
about real stuff, real people, what's going on, you know,
if you're angry or if you're that seems a lot
of old people get angry about stuff, you know, and
they just they don't. I don't know. I find that
(03:08):
I'll have a conversation with some people. You and I
have some great conversations. But you're an old soul. You
get it. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't think there's anything there's few things more valuable
than an actual, honest, real conversation.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And what I like about you is you don't you
don't get I've never seen puma mad No Puma very
nothing get mad. He's so level and so peaceful and calm.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's just try to try to remain the stoic as
much as I can.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
He's Mayota, man, I'm telling you. Let's see. Uh, well,
handwriting is part of the problem. Uh, let's see. Oh
not making plans. That is awesome. When you don't make
any plans, you don't have to plan anything. Uh, you
don't care what day it is. You get Saturdays and
(03:52):
Fridays mixed up and it don't matter because you ain't
got to go anywhere. You ain't gonna be you mean.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Much more spontaneous schedule.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now, number three, I don't do this, they said, bed
by eleven. I stay up past eleven all time. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a night. I think I will
always be a nightd ol.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. And then number two, and this is a big
one for me. I love silence. Silence. That's wonderful, you
know what. One of them to me, one of the
funniest things ever on television is on Seinfeld when Putty
is sitting there. I love Puddy, you know, and he's
just sitting in the phone rings, you know. But I mean,
(04:32):
he's just sitting in his couch, not doing anything. He's
just sitting there. I thought he played his character so well,
and it was a sad I know his story. It
was a he was a comedian. It was a one
time shot and he thought about it. He said, I'm
gonna play this guy so weird and so over the
(04:54):
top that they're gonna they're and they loved him and
they went with it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was what launched him. What's a Patrick war Bone?
That launched him into so many other roles. I mean, yeah,
dude from Family Guy, his Brock Samson on the Venture Brothers,
like he was able to turn. He's great as a
cartoon voice is just so funny naturally.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It like with him and the Lane Lane Go, we
gotta break up, okay, all right, all right, we're getting
back together, okayas whack so great. And the number one
of the ten things older people love more, they love
themselves more. So that's a great thing to do. You
(05:39):
love yourself more just like you are, are gonna change you,
forgive yourself for screw ups you've done. Everybody's messed up,
some more than others. But that's when I constantly of
finding myself going well, that Uh, yeah, I screwed that up.
I didn't. That's that's how that should went, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, but what are you gonna do? You just gotta
move on, keep looking forward.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You have to now if you can fix stuff, and
I've I've had one. I yelled at a car tire guy. Man,
I mean, he was wrong. They screwed up, and I
shouldn't yelled at him. And then I did yell at him,
but then it felt so bad. Went back and I
told him, I said, man, you know what, I shouldn't
have yelled at you. Hurt his feelings. He was a
(06:20):
listener too, I mean that's what. Yeah, I mean you
could just tell when somebody likes you as a listener.
You know. It's like, I can't believe it. This guy's
you know, never meet your hero or whatever. Deal.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, over, I said, you know, I said, I yelled
at you over tires, and I said, you shouldn't yell
at anybody over anything, especially tires.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I mean, what difference does it make. It's tires, you know.
So uh, but i'd had a bet and he was
pretty cool about it, and he was like, yeah, man,
I get it, we get but he goes, we're gonna
tires for I get yelled at every day. I was
about to.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Say he does probably have some of the thickest skin
of anybody, of any listener you could yell at. He
was probably best case scenario because.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nobody's ever happy, you know, nobody. You know, I'm doing
those tires for that corvette. I'm building for this customer
round of Regina. Five hundred dollars a tire. These Mitchellan.
They're Mitchellan high speed tires like are on the new Vets.
They're five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm sure they're nice. I'm sure they're worth it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But oh men, well it's cars going to go two
hundred mile an hour. So if he.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Wants to meet good tires.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, you're gonna want some some nice no recaps anyway.
The wheels though, are these so the back wheels, these
are twelve inch wide tires. It's a seventy seven VET
that I built, but it hasn't you know, the narrow
dury in and everything independent rear ends like a Formula
one cars, a high dollar car like you see on TV.
It's the same people and the same stuff we use
on the TV show. And uh uh so he Uh,
(07:48):
the rims on the back are twenties by they're twenty
by twelves, and the rims on the front are nineteen
by nine. They're fifteen hundred dollars. Rim, good rim. This
guy he's going to have eight thousand dollars of tires
and wheels, lug nuts, mountain balance, it'll be ten grand
put tires wheels in his car. And he didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So you better find a way to avoid any kind
of curve rash or anything on those.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, when we came out with when I say
we Bennie Boyd dodged. When they came out with the Viper,
we had one in the Temple dealership. I did all
their ads. I did all their advertising for Bennie for
since for thirty something years. You had to put down
(08:36):
a deposit to test drive the car of that. I
remember that was twenty five hundred dollars. And sure enough
a guy had a curb with one of the viper
wheel and tires and it took the whole twenty five
hundred dollars. Yeah, and it was yellow. I remember the
Viper was yellow. It was in Temple and people, would
you know, a couple of guys come out look at it.
(08:57):
So then this guy came comes by and he Isaac.
And then that afternoon his wife came into the dealership
and Bennie happened to be there and she can She said,
can I speak with you? And he said, yeah. You know,
Bennie's a great guy. He's not a car salesman. He's
a good guy. And him and his dad, but just
the boys are wonderful people. And so this wife says,
(09:18):
my husband has a roofing company. He's very wealthy. He's
on double secret probation on driving, and if he gets
one more ticket driving, he goes to prison a whole
not probation, I mean he's on probably he goes to Huntsville.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, he needs to get a Prius, not a viper.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah. And she said, would you give us her money
back on this on this viper? And Benny did it?
He said, I can't. I couldn't. He said, I say,
he goes. You're gonna call him, benn He said, I'm
not calling him. You're calling him.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Until you're handling that part.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You've got it too, We've taken it back. We're gonna
take it back. And the hold it was still and
make ready I think at the time, so wow, but
uh that was just like man alive what And you know,
a viper even been in Huntsville in a week, you know,
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, you're not. You're You're going to prison by the
before you even get home. You're getting arrested in that thing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I've ridden in one. They're they're amazing. I mean they are,
Oh they're something else. Uh uh. Tommy Shane Steiner is
a singer. Steiner Ranch Tommy Shane uh Uh, he had one.
He gave me a ride in it, and he scared
me a whole lot. I rode in a helicopter with
him too. He I was felt safer in the helicopter
and I did in the viper.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's what I was gonna ask. That was literally what
I was about to ask you.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And that was back when I was really I was really,
really fat, and we went to look at some I
had a developer buddy of mine and wanted to do
a project over in Beuda and it was it was landlocked,
couldn't see it from the road, it was a fence
and all that. But anyway, so I set up with
Tommy Shane. He needed hours anyway, so he showed up
a four seater, him and a guy you know, he
had a pilot with him, and then me and this
(11:01):
developer and we flew over the butta uh and and
checked or no, it was a bass drop when we're
a bass drop and checked out this property and we're
coming back and they decided to eat. So we went
to the barbecue place down in uh and uh uh
the county line down there by Driftwood, and we landed.
(11:23):
We landed out in the parking lot, you know, way
out and so we land, we go and we eat,
We get ready to leave, and we get in the
helicopter and any guy raises it up. We all got
headphones on, you know, with microphone. He goes up about
three or four feet and then starts backing up and
he's going to reverse, which was weird, you know, and
we're just right along and I didn't think anything. And
(11:45):
the developer guy asked, that's the guy. I wasn't telling
me that now was the guy? Why are you backing up?
And he said, well, honestly, Bama's a fat that I
got to get to run on this dealer. I won't
clear those trees. I swear to god, that's what he said,
that's brutal. I said, well, next time you show up,
won't you bring a helicopter with a good motor in
(12:06):
it or fill it up where you you know, make
get some power. Get a big helicopter showing up with
something that you've built in your garage.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, a little hop light.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah. I was like, come on, man, I did get
one of those, you know, one of them scorse keys
with the you know, the thing that could lift me
in the middle. Anyway, Uh, that hurt my feelings and
I never rode with him again totally. Uh. Here's a
twenty three year old store manager, all right right there,
twenty three year old store manager Dollar General store. Oh no, uh,
(12:36):
this is in Pennsylvania. I don't have a name. Uh.
They mbezzled twenty four thousand dollars from the Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
They're on stouter taking up back to ty years and
a Dollar General. Everything's so cheap.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Dollar General everything dollars. Yeah. Like, I just thought, how
long did it take you to catch up that this
guy was stealing? You know? And when did he start?
If he's a twenty twenty three he's a twenty three
year old manager, So when did he when did you.
There's a lot of questions there. Uh, let's see, Reese's
(13:13):
Cups and Cinnabon got together and they have Cinnabon Reese's cups.
They're taking those Reese's cups and they're pouring the caramelal
the sauce all over it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So right there, diabetes drops right right there.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, just you should You should have a like a
medic alarm. You sell with that, you know in the package.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know it does sound good.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, this is interesting. I thought this was interesting. Well,
I all think all that shit's interesting, or I wouldn't
talk about it. Oh, you know, stupid things I say
on here, your smith poop was laughing at me. You're
you're live tonight on your on the sports.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Cap back on YouTube tonight eight o'clock over YouTube at
sports Cave Live. Come tag in hop in talk some
sports with us.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
A lot of ladies go to that. So if you're
looking for something to do, Uh, here's.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
More though, could always use just the record show.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I mean they're already working there. It's a strip club,
but that's fine that in our business. Uh is the
Puma on Center days. Come on, ladies, here's five things
to hold back in a new relationship. So if you
if you land one of these checks at this thing tonight,
here's five things. Hold back on these five things, all right.
Number five, your insecurities. Don't talk about your insecurities. Now,
(14:31):
that's not that's not good. Don't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You need to wait a few years for that, at
least a few years.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Uh. Number four heavy subject matter, and we're going to
put politics on that. Hold off on your politics a
little bit because you might not want to get so
heavy into any of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You're not helping your case at all, whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Now? Number three? Uh, any mental health issues? Well, I mean,
of course those will probably be spotted early on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I got to say, I would think those are probably
probably pretty easily identifiable if they're that bad.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Gess like Tommy TURRETTZ or something either so much you know, Okay,
I'm gonna go. I gotta go to the bathroom and
be right back. Let's see Number two. If you if
you're I can't readmoan him writing, let's see, well I
(15:28):
can't tell it too. Is a major life crisis. That's
what it is. Oh okay, I know what number two was.
That's number one. Major life crisis number two was, uh,
you you you hit the nitrous too quick. You accelerate
the relationship way too quick.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, okay, yeah, you want to avoid that. So that way,
there were you know, before I got married, there were
a few girls in college that it would be like,
you know, hang out with them for two weeks and
all of a sudden that you want to come out dinner.
My parents are in town, busy visiting me in college.
Why don't you come have dinner with us? And I
was like, well, let's just go back to how things
(16:08):
were a week ago, because last week is really exponentially.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Tapped the brakes.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, let's slow it down a little bit now.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I was used a lot to piss off a lot
of dads, and that was used for that, and I
was fine to be used. That was cool with me.
I had the vice principal, mister Dunn. He's a good guy.
That I mean. It was iffy for me all through
high school. Senior year, it wasn't good. So I'm out
(16:38):
of high school and to meet this girl at the bank,
really smoking aw girl worked at the bank, and I'm
you know, I'm a roughneck in the oil field, you know,
And so I'm I'm trying to put my best moves
on her. And I finally go and she's reacting, and
I said, hey, uh, you know, you know, I want
to go out to dinner, you know, And she goes,
I like that. And then the next day or the
(16:59):
next time, I was back at the bank a couple
of days later, She's very cold, and I said, what
about our date? And she said, my dad told me
I couldn't go out with you. And I said, who
is your dad? And she goes, mister Dunn, the vice principal,
And I went, wow, that's yeah, that's probably a good idea.
(17:21):
He's right on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah. Actually, you know what, I agree with him. You
should listen to your dad more.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That was over eighteen of them. And I know he
whipped your ass and he would hit you hard in
high school. I can't imagine what he do to you.
He's a big old guy too.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And let me say this, he's a good dude. He
was forgiving. I had deserved me and everybody we deserved
everything he ever did to us. So sure, yep, I'm
giving him. And then this is a great story. I'm
gonna end up with this one. Our principal was mister Cavin,
a wonderful man. I love this guy. Z Odessa High seven,
nineteen seventy six. When I graduated, I didn't get a
(17:58):
GED I know a lot of yours in it, but
I didn't, which is just as good, by the way,
I'm a little bit defensive, but the GDS. But I went.
I went, and so mister Cavin was our principal. Well,
I had the auto mechanics class, and there was a
lot of those tools in the auto mechanics class that
I felt like would serve me better at my home
(18:21):
shop that I built. I had a little shop where
I was doing to raise cars and hot rods, and
so a lot of those tools. I thought, we're not
using these jacks, and say, up, plenty of jacks. I'm
gonna take some of his to my house, my shop.
Not stealing, borrowing, borrow, Yeah, And then you know, we
were always broke. And it was auto mechanics class. So
I started coming up with people that needed their car
(18:43):
fix and then I would charge them, and it wasn't
charging them much and it was all profit because all
the parts were free that we got. Uh. It turns
out that's like against the law, really big time.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It feels pretty illegal.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah. Well, I had become like a service writer in dealership.
Everybody was wordering for him, were all making money. Mister
Hoppey was phoning it in. He wasn't really paying close attention.
They were learning, everybody was learning, and we were working
on cars we were going to be The cars we
had in the shop were all junkers. And those guy
pushed out back because we had his new stuff coming in.
(19:17):
You know, there was stuff we'd be working on, and
so we're installing ergon we're doing I mean, and we're
making bang man, I mean, it's good. So I'm sitting
in those studies class and they knocked them. You know,
you're supposed to go down the office. So I go
down to the office and walk in and there sat
mister Hoppey the autumn cases. You're mister Cavin, the principal.
And my father was sitting there and they had all
(19:42):
this came to a head, and mister Kavin was buying groceries. Uh,
And a guy said, man, bamm, and those guys did
a great job on my car. And he goes, oh,
it's great to hear, and he goes. You know, I
was shocked. It was half the price of Bronco Chevrolet.
He said what he said, Yeah, he only charged me half.
It was fantastic. And mister Kevin said, okay. So I
(20:08):
had to issue everyone I could remember that we charged
and they were all refunded through the county actor. County
had to pay them because I'd already blown the money
on weed and Horod gone. So it was I don't
how much it was. It was enough to where mister
Cavin had this sheet with my expel on it. All
(20:28):
he had to do was sign it. And he said,
if I signed this the next day, you're out of here.
You're either in an army helmet or or hard hat
one of the other. All I gonna do is sign this.
And my dad was like, I give up, man, You
do whatever you think you need to do. So mister
Kevin said, I'm gonna give you one more chance to
(20:50):
bring all that shit back. Refund what you can. You
can pay me out and you know every month or something.
We worked it out long time ago. We worked it out.
So all right, I graduate high schoo roughnecking Milfield, got
a job selling drill bits, and then ended up in
the chemical division and die him, which is a dresser
industry company. Car had a house wife and uh uh
(21:15):
suit and tie every day. And mister I was gonna
sell my house, and mister Kevin had retired and he
became my realtor. Oh that's okay. So now here's where
this has a turn. Kevin wasn't getting the job done.
I mean there was the house is selling all around me.
(21:35):
This is lazy. I ever, wasn't showing my house near enough,
you know. And so I called his office and I
said from my office, and I said, I'm gonna be
at my house in thirty minutes. I need you to
be there. And I stood in my front yard and
I mean I started gnawing that ass, and and it
just puma. We both realized what was happening here. It's
(21:58):
like if it hadn't been for him, I would not
have this house, this job. I'd have been killed in
Angola or wherever it was. Everyone will send this, you know,
and uh or killed on a rig. I ended up
a rig. But I didn't have to say anyway. I
told him, I sitting now, you you get you gave
me my life back, so you take your time on
this house. Everything's cool, and he was grinning, you know,
(22:21):
because he knew I realized that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, full circle moment.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That's all true, true story, completely all right. That's the
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