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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey, everybody, it's Bama Brown and the Bama Brown
Experience along with the Big Cat Big Puma, and he
does a sports cave out of San Antonio. Boys say,
Big Cat, how do we get a hold of that podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, first of all, it would be it would help
if I actually had all my equipment functioning properly. If
people could see behind the scenes the two of us troubleshooting,
they might understand why some of these episodes sound a
little wonky. But anywhere you get your podcast as long
as the equipment is working. I just searched for the
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sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And that what that means is Puma was in on
his tech stuff and I was sitting here going, I
don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, And when I am the when I am the
tech expert amongst the crew, we're in a bit of
a delay.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The whole thing was going, pull up, you're too low,
pull up, you're do So I just I love this story,
so I'll give you a warning ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
This is the a guy named Brian Steiner. He's works
in Philly Vision Care in Philadelphia. Uh, he's in Big
trouble because he's an optometrist there allegedly offering free eyeglasses
and waving fees in exchange for sexual acts. There at
the glass store.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was either drugs or sex.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean, do you think either one?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, Joyce as opportunist. Whatever you got for.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Me, I've got a coupon for one of the.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You know he left the paper trail. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now this reminds me of a joke, my first joke
of the week. My dad said, hey, if you don't
stop it, you'll go blind. And I go, Dad, I'm
over here.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Okay, okay, that one passes mustard the uh what was it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Uh? I had? It was always eat your carrots and
you won't go blind.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I always just imagined, well, if I eat a lot
of carrots, I can't get away.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I was always to eat my vegetable. So talent's out
there somewhere now me.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I had two coke bottle bottoms for glasses, man, I
was I went to Lenity glasses something like that. I
can't remember how that was.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Were you glasses from a young age? Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, third grade that's the time I figured figured out
how that worked.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, I was about to say, we could probably do
some biological backpacking here and figure out exactly the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It wasn't it wasn't that early. Well it was third grade,
but I was seventeen.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Hell, there you go, the fifth year, fifth year, and
third Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I drove the junior high Hey.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Where I'm from, not uncommon, Yeah, uncommon.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We had. We had a guy in Alabama that drove
to our junior high school ninth grade and he had
a fifty five Chevy but he, like I say, had
a full beard. He was about uh, he was about
twenty one, twenty two year old ninth grader there in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I still look back on some of those and think, like,
how were How were you allowed to play eighth grade
athletics when you should have been a sophomore?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What's going on there? Why are you being I can
tell you this. We had this, We had this. We
were in junior high there in Birmingham, south of Birmingham,
and the two hottest teachers, and I mean these two
teachers were both gorgeous. Joe Namath had dated both of
them at the University of Alabama, so he got around.
Joe Willie got around. So yeah, pretty crazy. I just thought,
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what a coincidence, and both of them of course beautiful,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean that checks out. I made eight in life.
Glasses are recent development over the six years. Yeah, I'll
tell you this is This is how you know it's bad.
A few years ago, I was playing video games and
I'm trying to, you know, in sports games. I'm trying
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to resign a guy to a fifty thousand dollars contract,
fifty thousand dollars a week. My wife is watching me play,
and she randomly asked me. She goes, why did you
just give that spare a half a million dollar contract?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I was like, no, I.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Zero, I've taken fifty thousand. She goes, honey, I think
you need glasses. And I had fought it. I had
fought it for years because they were going U. And
that was the finally the point where I drew the
line of like, okay, yeah, no, on my on my
fake U sports franchise games here, I can't be giving
guys bad contracts. I gotta get glasses. I got them,
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like damn near the next week.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Now that's for your reading. But you're all you're far
sided is good? You can see far without glasses.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is that for the most part.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, it feels like, uh, it feels like every time.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, I'm just by nature.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I am avoid the doctor kind of guy, even an
eye doctor. So you know, I get my checked like
once every two or three years.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And you were what you were thirty nine, You're thirty nine.
Last Thursday was your birthday, So happy birthday, by the way.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Thank you, thank you. Yeah, thirty nine last week.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And it feels like it feels like the stretch from
twenty six to thirty six. Yeah, I was way healthier
than the six to thirty nine. It feels like it's
we're really starting to fall apart these days. And I
know you don't want to hear that coming from a
thirty nine year old, but we are. We are crumbling,
crumbling infrastructure like Indiana right now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
There's the old saying, boy, if I'd known a going
to live this long, and it took much better care
of myself. And that's the truth. Man. I'm sixty seven.
But when I was thirty one or two, I got
RK surgery. I was one of the first people they
did RK surgery for, and so I could see, I
could see without glasses and then I just started getting
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reading glasses a few years ago. But once again it
I'm sure something causes vision blur, almost positive something did.
But also I weld a lot, you know, and that
didn't help anything.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I was always well, that certainly is a detriment to
your long term eyesight, I would think, right.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Because they didn't have the auto dark, you know, you'd
start getting ready of weld and I don't know how
many times I hit ARC before I was ready to
ready to head the mask down, you know, I could see.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I used to watch my grandpa weld with the mask
up and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And why even put the masks? Why even have it? Ration?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
At that point, I watched a guy do a you know,
I thought I could weld, okay, and I could, I
was good enough, but I watched I thought I was
a welder. I watched the real welder. There was a
friend of mine's dad was a pipeline welder in Odessa,
and he would sit on a pipeline on his knees
and run two leads at the same time around the
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pipe without even looking. He couldn't even see the bottom
of the pipe, and his son My friend was the
welder's helper, and he just hit the welds with the
grinder just to make, you know, just to say he
did something. But these welds didn't need grinding. And this
guy was old, Paul, he was amazing. And I was
looking at these wells and they were just dimes. I
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mean it was a row of dime, but from both sides.
And he didn't even look and I said, I said,
good god, how's he able to do that? And the
guy goes, well, he started welding when he's fourteen in
a navy welding yard, you know. So this guy was
probably at the time, and he said, he's welded his
whole life, you know. And then he get up. He'd
walk down thirty feet of pipe back down on his knees,
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you know, and then you look and he's got a
mile piped to weld.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that's that's all muscle memory at that point.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's like, uh, you know, that's like a like a
painter still able to you know, hold the same thirty
years fifty years later. Like that you mentioned, you know,
the row of dimes on there there. There absolutely is
an artwork to a lot of things that like, you know,
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growing up, I remember my grandpa would look at you know,
when we would go look, you know, maybe a car
that he was wanting to buy, or something that had
been fabricated, or uh, you know a redneck trailer that
had been you know, turned in from the back of
a you know, bed of a pickup truck or something
like that. He would walk around like he was a
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sophebes auctioneer, you know, just grading this thing. You know, great,
but yeah, and uh it feels like, you know, not
to be old timer hour, but uh that's those are
the things that we are losing daily.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Absolutely. Hey, I does all that welding and everything. Now.
I had my friend of another friend of mine, he
was a navy welder. He welded on submarines and the
Navy taught him how. And he said his education was
over a million dollars that he had been you know,
trained to the weld in on a submarine.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But he welded race cars and he and I was
teasing him. I go, I go, you want me to
get that grinder out and kind of clean those up
because they were perfect? And he goes, what's a what's
a grinder.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't. Yeah, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Like, okay, you win. Anyway, we'll talk more trades in
the week. We got other trades we're really talking about.
So be sure listen to once again the sports Cave.
You got Puma, Big Puma there, the big cat he is.
You guys are talking about basketball now, you're talking about
and you played college basketball, so you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Know a little bit about what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And we got the we got the Final four here
in San Antonio and in almost less than a month now,
So yeah, I got who are you?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Who are you seeing winning the whole deal? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You know, off the top of my head, it's you know,
I'm I'm a I'm a Duke fan from childhood. Uh,
you know, slapping the court, defense, Wojoe running the point.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Uh. Duke is they have they have the guy who's
gonna be the number one pick in the NBA draft, right.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But usually, you know, Duke's a young team, and usually
the young teams are the ones that end up struggling
in the tournament. I you know, right in our backyard,
I would really be shocked if Houston is not playing
in the four minimum Uh. And potentially it looks like
this might be the year they have a national championship team.
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They play amazing defense. Uh and when it comes to
the tournament, if you you don't have to score, if
you can stop the other team from scoring.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
There, well, there you have it. Put all your money
on that. You heard it from the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Don't don't put your house on it, because I don't
need you to come track me down.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
But what good I would say? That's if you If
I had to pick one team, I like Houston.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, we're going with you. You've been listening to
the Bamma Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast network.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Thank you,