August 14, 2025 • 13 mins
In this nostalgic and wildly entertaining episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive deep into the unexpected intersections of pop culture, personal memories, and movie trivia that will leave you saying, “Wait, what?!”
From the surprising origins of Bama’s Texas Radio Hall of Fame induction—nominated by legendary Austin DJ Dale Dudley and seconded by none other than Dan Rather—to the jaw-dropping value of vintage Hot Wheels, this episode is packed with stories that blend humor, history, and heart.
Highlights include:
Tune in now and relive the magic of childhood collectibles and classic cinema. Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with fellow fans of film and nostalgia!
From the surprising origins of Bama’s Texas Radio Hall of Fame induction—nominated by legendary Austin DJ Dale Dudley and seconded by none other than Dan Rather—to the jaw-dropping value of vintage Hot Wheels, this episode is packed with stories that blend humor, history, and heart.
Highlights include:
- The rare Hot Wheels car that sold for $10,000—and the pink VW prototype worth $150,000.
- Harrison Ford’s journey from carpenter to movie star, including his $15 raise to join American Graffiti.
- Behind-the-scenes bloopers that made it into American Graffiti and Jaws.
- The real reason Indiana Jones fears snakes (hint: it involves Boy Scouts and merit badges).
Tune in now and relive the magic of childhood collectibles and classic cinema. Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with fellow fans of film and nostalgia!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hanging out to everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mama Brown with you on the Maamma Brown Experience iHeart
Podcast along with Puma the Big Cat, my co host.
Puma does great here on this show, very popular, and
he brought that audience to this show as well as
his own show, which is the most popular sports show
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Then it is the Sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
With Puma, and I just think this is awesome that
you're spending your time with me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I appreciate it, man.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh, of course, it's always good to get to hang
out with a Texas radio Hall of Famer like yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
No, please, Yeah, anytime, anytime you try to shine the
spotlight on me way too bright, I'm always going to
bring up the fact that only one of us is
a Hall of Famer in this industry.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's just it's such a fluke.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
My friend in competitor for thirty five something years here,
Dale Dudley from KALBJ, he nominated me. He's in that
thing and he nominated Now here's the thing about Dale Delly.
Deal Delly was there. He's a return now and he's
a real estate and now. But he was the most
famous radio DJ in Austin Texas had it was a
(01:08):
great competitor to compete against. Never could beat him because
he was, you know, he was so popular. But he
could have worked. He worked in every he could have
worked in every major market in the country. He's the
most talented guy in the world. And that's what was
exciting for me that a competitor like that nominated me
for the Hall of Fame. That's the one reason I
wouldn't brag about it. And the second guy to put
(01:31):
his vote in was Dan Rather.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And that meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He was a friend of mine and also retired, still
pretty sharp, believe it or not, eighty something years old.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But that was neat.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I had lunch with Dan Rather and he goes,
you know, me and me and Walter, we want out
of there since you're in there. And I said, oh yeah,
you want me to start giving you shit about Robert Redford.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Playing you in the movie. Talk about our artistic deal there.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You know they some artistic liberties were taken there.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You Redford playing you.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I mean, come on, you can certainly see it. Though
I don't know, we might.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We might be the most popular sports show that also
has a cat related title.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean we might well, there's that, Yeah, the big
sports show.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That has a big cat in the title. Now, anywhere
you get the podcast, just search for the sports Cave
with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're really watering that down. I thought this was cool.
This This guy found the hot wheels and his toys
that he had when he's a kid, and one of
them was an Oldsman bill sixty eight olds for forty
two hot wheels car a little car. He said, you know,
I bet that's worth something, and he put it online,
thinking I bet I could get two hundred bucks for
ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It was like super rare purple in color.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The purple ones are like for hot wheels, people are
like the most sought after, the most sought after, most
valuable hot wheels of all time is the pink Volkswagen
with the surfboards in it. It was a prototype and
this guy's dad worked for hot wheels, and he brought
it home and he gave it to his son, and
his son traded it all and a guy recently bought it.
(03:09):
The last I think it was three years ago, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars it was, and they considered
that still the most expensive paint Volkswagon bus with the
surfboards coming through the through the top of it.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, see that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I've got my I've still got my you know, three
generations worth of hot wheels collection from from me, my dad,
not oh and when he was a kid with his dad,
and same way with same three generations. I've also got
all of their baseball cards and my baseball cards. And
I was threatening one of these days to take both
(03:44):
of those collections to an actual expert to get some
you know some.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I've got the hot wheels guy here in Austin. You
need to come and yeah Bringham, because he helped me
with my collection. Somebody said, hot wheels, a lot of
people do that. I said, they've sold enough hot wheels
that if you put them in the end you could
go to the moon and back.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That doesn't that surprise me?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Is that? I mean, this is like B and something
hot wheels.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I mean, what year did hot wheels like? How execute?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I think it was sixty eight was when I started
getting mine when I was twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Holy crap, you nailed that perfectly. May May eighteenth, nineteen
sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, they had they had the red line.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They came out with what they call the Red Line,
the original ones, and I had one or two of those,
you know, parts of it left because I played with mine.
But my first real hot wheel set was a Snake
in Mongoose and the funny cars, and man, it was like, yeah,
those are And I actually had a pair of original
Snake in Mongoose up until a couple of years ago.
Guy came in and bought all my stuff. But I
(04:49):
actually had a one twenty four scale Army Navy Snake
in Mongoose set that were autographed and the guy gave
me three hundred bucks for those, and that was that
was a good leg It's.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Hard to say no to that. For some old toys.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, for some toys and just sitting.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So I talked about this yesterday with Boom and I
are both Harrison Ford fans, and I saw a thing
about American graffiti.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And I thought this was awesome. I thought I'd tell
you the story.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Harrison Ford was George Lucas's carpenter and this was Lucas's
really his first commercial success movie. He had THX eleven
thirty eight, which that was his first space movie that
was a space movie, and by the way the Yellow
Car and American Graffiti. That was his tag number. He
used that for the tag thx.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
One thirty eight. You'd have to really be looking for it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But Harrison Ford was his carpenter, just a coincidence. He
was building his house and he told Harrison Ford, he said,
I want you to be in this movie.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I got a part for you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And it didn't pay as much as what Harrison Ford
was making as a carpenter. He said no, yeah, he
told him no, all right, So he told George Lucas,
now I make more money as a carpenter. He upped
it fifteen dollars and he said, okay, I'll do it
for fifteen more bucks. So's this is in seventy two.
Got to remember that. So while they're filming it in Modesto, California,
(06:16):
where they filmed American Graffiti for seven hundred thousand dollars,
by the way, was a budget, Harrison Ford got in
a bar fight and the town of Modesto kicked the
entire crew, the movie everything out of the town. They
revoked their permit, so they had to go up to
another town in California and finish filming the movie. When
(06:38):
the cars were when they filmed the movie and they're
ever done with the cars. The yellow car, they tried
to get fifteen hundred dollars for it. Nobody would buy it.
It's now worth over me and the half dollars. It
still makes a deal. Harrison Ford.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
When you see the movie, they allude to it in.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Indiana and the Jones where he cracks a bull whip
as a kid and these cars is his lip he
had air sport has that scar on his lip. He
actually did that when he's trying to put a seatbelt
on it ran into a telephone bowl and oh wow,
in his work truck.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I just realized that one and.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Then one more thing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's pretty cool if you've seen a murder Gravdi or
if you had. And there's a scene where he has
Mackenzie Phillips riding in the yellow car with him as
and she's a kid, you know, is he like twelve?
And they pull up beside it and throw the girls
throw a water balloon at it, and they were supposed
to hit the car, and by accident they hit Mackenzie
Phillips in the face and it explodes and hear and
(07:34):
Paula Matt laugh so hard that Lucas left it in there.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He goes, now, we'll.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Never be able to recreate that that scene. So they
left that instead of her hit them hitting the car
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean, it nails her. It just blows it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Unfortunate for her, but probably better for the overall story.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Absolutely, So that was I thought that was some pretty
good stuff there about.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll lay some my one piece of Harrison Ford
trivia that I've always my entire life. So I grew
up in Boy Scouts, made it all the way to
Eagle Scout with my little brother, and my dad would
always tell us, don't be like Harrison Ford, don't quit
before you get your Eagle Scout. Harrison Ford made it
(08:16):
all the way to Life Scout the rink right before
Eagle Scout. And so that was my dad's joke all
the time, don't be like Ford, don't quit and get
let's get our let's get it done, let's get your
Eagle Scout badge. And in the Indiana Jones movie in
the Last Crusade, it shows him as the young version.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He's a Life Scout, He's got the Life.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Scout and no kidding exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And then even further when Harrison Ford was in Boy Scouts,
his favorite. He was a camp summer camp counselor, and
he taught the reptile management merit badge.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
He taught the merit about.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know, how to make.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Handel steakes and reptiles.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And that's why George Lucas made Indiana Jones afraid of
snakes because Harrison Ford as a kid in boy Scouts
that was his favorite merit badge.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
That's what he taught at summer camp.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And they're awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's pretty great, yuh. I mean, you know, we've talked
about this before. Harrison Ford probably had the biggest impact
on me as a kid of just all the day
and whether.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's on solo for whoever, huge to any of those.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
As I was growing up in the in the eighties
and nineties, that was it was. It was really hard
to find anybody that I thought was cooler than Harrison
Ford as a cabinet.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Absolutely and see when I saw him, he was he
was nobody. You know, he hadn't even been you know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He wasn't known at all in that the first Indiana
jonesen there. Later on Raiders, he Lucas said, if it
had not been for American Graffiti, he had never had
the money.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They did it for seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thousand, and he said, we're lucky we were able to
raise that. And he said, if we hadn't had that money,
we would have never been able to make Star Wars,
you know. And then he had done Jaws, you know before,
and they had a budget of Jaws that was just ridiculous.
He said, Uh, that was the part. That's why they
say you need a bigger boat. That became the same
because they didn't have enough money to buy a big
boat when they were filming and then they first started.
(10:18):
So it's I mean, there's it's just cool that they
are able to talk about stuff like that. When he
was he said with American Graffiti, he goes, I'm not
saying it's the most profitable movie of all time, but
he said, it's gonna be in the top five of
what it cost to make versus how much you generated
when you take Star Wars out of it, and then
when you add Star Wars back in, and that's what
(10:40):
funded it, you know. And I mean think of the stars,
Richard Dreyfus and oh yeah, I mean just you know,
on and on and on of the number of people
that were in that thing that went on and became
you know, famed Charles Martin Smith. I mean, oh, that
was another trivia thing at the very beginning of American Graffiti.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He said.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They had had Charles Martin Smith right into the to
the the Hamburger place on a scooter, you know, classic scooter,
and then he gets off of it, but he runs
it into the into a newspaper box or something. He
crashes it. He said, that really happened. He said, that
wasn't planning.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Charles wunt Smith was holding the throttle and ran into
the thing, you know, and they let he goes that.
You know, you can't recreate that.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
They gripped that. Just roll with it character. That's great,
that's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I don't know people like this movie trivia stuff or not,
but I like it.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
So we referenced the Jaws. You know, it was a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It might have even been last week we had the
anniversary of the thinking of the USS Indianapolis, which Quinn
told a great story of, you know, all of them
being surrounded by the sharks there.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It just it ate on them.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They had I saw in uh, somebody that were talking
about trivia pieces and pieces of movie memorabilia. But one
restaurant bar out in California, they still have one of
the fake sharks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
From the movie.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
They you know, they had several that they had made
and they and it hangs over the bar area and
you know when people sit under a table and drinking it.
And he had a picture of it, and he goes,
it's it's the only they think it's the only remaining you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Know, I don't know what the word for it is,
you know, prop. I guess in the that they used
in their original Jaws.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, hell, look we were talking, you know the rosebud
sled Ors lightsaber.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
What the hell would that shark sell for?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
If that was the thing, you gotta wonder somebody would
love to have that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But the guy at the bar said, now, man, we're
famous for that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
When I take it, I don't blame him. That's that's
a good, you know, good marketing campaign.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Absolutely, well, that's the Bama Brown experience. We love movies,
movie trivia. We email us or Texas or however you
go on and get ahold of us and let us
know if if you ever have anything like that and
you want to talk about it, that We love that
kind of stuff, so thanks for listening.
Hanging out to everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mama Brown with you on the Maamma Brown Experience iHeart
Podcast along with Puma the Big Cat, my co host.
Puma does great here on this show, very popular, and
he brought that audience to this show as well as
his own show, which is the most popular sports show
in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Then it is the Sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
With Puma, and I just think this is awesome that
you're spending your time with me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I appreciate it, man.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh, of course, it's always good to get to hang
out with a Texas radio Hall of Famer like yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
No, please, Yeah, anytime, anytime you try to shine the
spotlight on me way too bright, I'm always going to
bring up the fact that only one of us is
a Hall of Famer in this industry.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's just it's such a fluke.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
My friend in competitor for thirty five something years here,
Dale Dudley from KALBJ, he nominated me. He's in that
thing and he nominated Now here's the thing about Dale Delly.
Deal Delly was there. He's a return now and he's
a real estate and now. But he was the most
famous radio DJ in Austin Texas had it was a
(01:08):
great competitor to compete against. Never could beat him because
he was, you know, he was so popular. But he
could have worked. He worked in every he could have
worked in every major market in the country. He's the
most talented guy in the world. And that's what was
exciting for me that a competitor like that nominated me
for the Hall of Fame. That's the one reason I
wouldn't brag about it. And the second guy to put
(01:31):
his vote in was Dan Rather.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And that meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He was a friend of mine and also retired, still
pretty sharp, believe it or not, eighty something years old.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But that was neat.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I had lunch with Dan Rather and he goes,
you know, me and me and Walter, we want out
of there since you're in there. And I said, oh yeah,
you want me to start giving you shit about Robert Redford.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Playing you in the movie. Talk about our artistic deal there.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You know they some artistic liberties were taken there.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You Redford playing you.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I mean, come on, you can certainly see it. Though
I don't know, we might.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We might be the most popular sports show that also
has a cat related title.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean we might well, there's that, Yeah, the big
sports show.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That has a big cat in the title. Now, anywhere
you get the podcast, just search for the sports Cave
with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're really watering that down. I thought this was cool.
This This guy found the hot wheels and his toys
that he had when he's a kid, and one of
them was an Oldsman bill sixty eight olds for forty
two hot wheels car a little car. He said, you know,
I bet that's worth something, and he put it online,
thinking I bet I could get two hundred bucks for
ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It was like super rare purple in color.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The purple ones are like for hot wheels, people are
like the most sought after, the most sought after, most
valuable hot wheels of all time is the pink Volkswagen
with the surfboards in it. It was a prototype and
this guy's dad worked for hot wheels, and he brought
it home and he gave it to his son, and
his son traded it all and a guy recently bought it.
(03:09):
The last I think it was three years ago, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars it was, and they considered
that still the most expensive paint Volkswagon bus with the
surfboards coming through the through the top of it.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, see that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I've got my I've still got my you know, three
generations worth of hot wheels collection from from me, my dad,
not oh and when he was a kid with his dad,
and same way with same three generations. I've also got
all of their baseball cards and my baseball cards. And
I was threatening one of these days to take both
(03:44):
of those collections to an actual expert to get some
you know some.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I've got the hot wheels guy here in Austin. You
need to come and yeah Bringham, because he helped me
with my collection. Somebody said, hot wheels, a lot of
people do that. I said, they've sold enough hot wheels
that if you put them in the end you could
go to the moon and back.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That doesn't that surprise me?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Is that? I mean, this is like B and something
hot wheels.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I mean, what year did hot wheels like? How execute?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I think it was sixty eight was when I started
getting mine when I was twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Holy crap, you nailed that perfectly. May May eighteenth, nineteen
sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, they had they had the red line.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They came out with what they call the Red Line,
the original ones, and I had one or two of those,
you know, parts of it left because I played with mine.
But my first real hot wheel set was a Snake
in Mongoose and the funny cars, and man, it was like, yeah,
those are And I actually had a pair of original
Snake in Mongoose up until a couple of years ago.
Guy came in and bought all my stuff. But I
(04:49):
actually had a one twenty four scale Army Navy Snake
in Mongoose set that were autographed and the guy gave
me three hundred bucks for those, and that was that
was a good leg It's.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Hard to say no to that. For some old toys.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, for some toys and just sitting.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So I talked about this yesterday with Boom and I
are both Harrison Ford fans, and I saw a thing
about American graffiti.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And I thought this was awesome. I thought I'd tell
you the story.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Harrison Ford was George Lucas's carpenter and this was Lucas's
really his first commercial success movie. He had THX eleven
thirty eight, which that was his first space movie that
was a space movie, and by the way the Yellow
Car and American Graffiti. That was his tag number. He
used that for the tag thx.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
One thirty eight. You'd have to really be looking for it.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But Harrison Ford was his carpenter, just a coincidence. He
was building his house and he told Harrison Ford, he said,
I want you to be in this movie.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I got a part for you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And it didn't pay as much as what Harrison Ford
was making as a carpenter. He said no, yeah, he
told him no, all right, So he told George Lucas,
now I make more money as a carpenter. He upped
it fifteen dollars and he said, okay, I'll do it
for fifteen more bucks. So's this is in seventy two.
Got to remember that. So while they're filming it in Modesto, California,
(06:16):
where they filmed American Graffiti for seven hundred thousand dollars,
by the way, was a budget, Harrison Ford got in
a bar fight and the town of Modesto kicked the
entire crew, the movie everything out of the town. They
revoked their permit, so they had to go up to
another town in California and finish filming the movie. When
(06:38):
the cars were when they filmed the movie and they're
ever done with the cars. The yellow car, they tried
to get fifteen hundred dollars for it. Nobody would buy it.
It's now worth over me and the half dollars. It
still makes a deal. Harrison Ford.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
When you see the movie, they allude to it in.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Indiana and the Jones where he cracks a bull whip
as a kid and these cars is his lip he
had air sport has that scar on his lip. He
actually did that when he's trying to put a seatbelt
on it ran into a telephone bowl and oh wow,
in his work truck.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I just realized that one and.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Then one more thing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's pretty cool if you've seen a murder Gravdi or
if you had. And there's a scene where he has
Mackenzie Phillips riding in the yellow car with him as
and she's a kid, you know, is he like twelve?
And they pull up beside it and throw the girls
throw a water balloon at it, and they were supposed
to hit the car, and by accident they hit Mackenzie
Phillips in the face and it explodes and hear and
(07:34):
Paula Matt laugh so hard that Lucas left it in there.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
He goes, now, we'll.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Never be able to recreate that that scene. So they
left that instead of her hit them hitting the car
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean, it nails her. It just blows it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Unfortunate for her, but probably better for the overall story.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Absolutely, So that was I thought that was some pretty
good stuff there about.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll lay some my one piece of Harrison Ford
trivia that I've always my entire life. So I grew
up in Boy Scouts, made it all the way to
Eagle Scout with my little brother, and my dad would
always tell us, don't be like Harrison Ford, don't quit
before you get your Eagle Scout. Harrison Ford made it
(08:16):
all the way to Life Scout the rink right before
Eagle Scout. And so that was my dad's joke all
the time, don't be like Ford, don't quit and get
let's get our let's get it done, let's get your
Eagle Scout badge. And in the Indiana Jones movie in
the Last Crusade, it shows him as the young version.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He's a Life Scout, He's got the Life.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Scout and no kidding exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And then even further when Harrison Ford was in Boy Scouts,
his favorite. He was a camp summer camp counselor, and
he taught the reptile management merit badge.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
He taught the merit about.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know, how to make.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Handel steakes and reptiles.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And that's why George Lucas made Indiana Jones afraid of
snakes because Harrison Ford as a kid in boy Scouts
that was his favorite merit badge.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
That's what he taught at summer camp.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And they're awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's pretty great, yuh. I mean, you know, we've talked
about this before. Harrison Ford probably had the biggest impact
on me as a kid of just all the day
and whether.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's on solo for whoever, huge to any of those.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
As I was growing up in the in the eighties
and nineties, that was it was. It was really hard
to find anybody that I thought was cooler than Harrison
Ford as a cabinet.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Absolutely and see when I saw him, he was he
was nobody. You know, he hadn't even been you know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He wasn't known at all in that the first Indiana
jonesen there. Later on Raiders, he Lucas said, if it
had not been for American Graffiti, he had never had
the money.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They did it for seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thousand, and he said, we're lucky we were able to
raise that. And he said, if we hadn't had that money,
we would have never been able to make Star Wars,
you know. And then he had done Jaws, you know before,
and they had a budget of Jaws that was just ridiculous.
He said, Uh, that was the part. That's why they
say you need a bigger boat. That became the same
because they didn't have enough money to buy a big
boat when they were filming and then they first started.
(10:18):
So it's I mean, there's it's just cool that they
are able to talk about stuff like that. When he
was he said with American Graffiti, he goes, I'm not
saying it's the most profitable movie of all time, but
he said, it's gonna be in the top five of
what it cost to make versus how much you generated
when you take Star Wars out of it, and then
when you add Star Wars back in, and that's what
(10:40):
funded it, you know. And I mean think of the stars,
Richard Dreyfus and oh yeah, I mean just you know,
on and on and on of the number of people
that were in that thing that went on and became
you know, famed Charles Martin Smith. I mean, oh, that
was another trivia thing at the very beginning of American Graffiti.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He said.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They had had Charles Martin Smith right into the to
the the Hamburger place on a scooter, you know, classic scooter,
and then he gets off of it, but he runs
it into the into a newspaper box or something. He
crashes it. He said, that really happened. He said, that
wasn't planning.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Charles wunt Smith was holding the throttle and ran into
the thing, you know, and they let he goes that.
You know, you can't recreate that.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
They gripped that. Just roll with it character. That's great,
that's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I don't know people like this movie trivia stuff or not,
but I like it.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
So we referenced the Jaws. You know, it was a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It might have even been last week we had the
anniversary of the thinking of the USS Indianapolis, which Quinn
told a great story of, you know, all of them
being surrounded by the sharks there.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It just it ate on them.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They had I saw in uh, somebody that were talking
about trivia pieces and pieces of movie memorabilia. But one
restaurant bar out in California, they still have one of
the fake sharks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
From the movie.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
They you know, they had several that they had made
and they and it hangs over the bar area and
you know when people sit under a table and drinking it.
And he had a picture of it, and he goes,
it's it's the only they think it's the only remaining you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Know, I don't know what the word for it is,
you know, prop. I guess in the that they used
in their original Jaws.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, hell, look we were talking, you know the rosebud
sled Ors lightsaber.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
What the hell would that shark sell for?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
If that was the thing, you gotta wonder somebody would
love to have that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But the guy at the bar said, now, man, we're
famous for that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
When I take it, I don't blame him. That's that's
a good, you know, good marketing campaign.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Absolutely, well, that's the Bama Brown experience. We love movies,
movie trivia. We email us or Texas or however you
go on and get ahold of us and let us
know if if you ever have anything like that and
you want to talk about it, that We love that
kind of stuff, so thanks for listening.
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