May 14, 2025 • 18 mins
What happens when you mix the roar of a Harley with the echoes of Woodstock? In this riveting episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama Brown and his co-host Puma dive into a whirlwind of stories that span from the heart of small-town radio to the grand stages of iconic concerts.
- Harley Davidson's Identity Crisis: Bama shares his delight over Harley Davidson investors demanding the return of gasoline-powered bikes, emphasizing the irreplaceable roar of a Harley.
- Electric Vehicles Debate: The hosts discuss the pros and cons of electric motorcycles and cars, touching on the lack of sensory connection with electric vehicles.
- Top 10 Toughest Jobs: A humorous yet insightful rundown of the most challenging professions, with personal anecdotes from Bama and Puma.
- Concert Chronicles: From Lady Gaga's record-breaking concert in Rio to personal stories involving Santana at Woodstock and Brad Paisley at the Irwin Center, Bama recounts unforgettable moments in music history.
- Celebrity Encounters: Hilarious and heartwarming tales of Bama's interactions with stars like Kenny Chesney and Dirk Bentley, including a memorable on-air mishap with Chesney.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey, it's Mamma Brown on the Maama Brown Experience
along with Puma the Big Cat. He's got the Sports
Cave down there in San Antonio, very popular sports show.
I want to get that. What I do, buddy, we.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Make it easy, especially on Wednesday nights. We are back
live on YouTube tonight. Just search the Sports Cave with
the biggest Puma on YouTube. I think it's at Sports
Cave Live. I should probably know that a little better
than That's not a very good promotion there.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm counting on you with that, and and you, uh, yeah,
you think on your own show. But then I've had
people do that with me, and I go, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't just google it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You'll find it easy on your you're the phone person.
I don't. I don't even know, you know. I remember
one time we were on the air. Rob and I
were on the air and my phone rang right after
I got it, and we were we were live on air,
and I go, what is that noise? And we were
looking we were live cave it and he goes, I
don't know what is that. We thought it was a
(01:02):
fire alarm, you know, And I was like, is that
the fire alarm, and he goes, i'd be going. He goes, no,
that's a phone, and I go a phone, and then
I went it was my phone. What's running? I've never
heard it ring before, and I was like, that's mine.
And then of course I go oh, and that was
I go, well, I'm doing a little show. Let me
call you back later. And uh, you know, it's just
(01:24):
as small town radios. You ever heard, Uh, Harley investors,
I'm just gonna say this, this did my heart good.
The investors in Harley Davison have demanded management and Harley
Davison get rid of the electric Harley Davison. They said
that was a gutta go Harley. In fact, Harley actually
tried to They actually tried to the sound of a
(01:47):
Harley motorcycle. They tried to patent that and because Yamaha,
I think it was Yamaha had built one similar from them,
you know, and it sounded like Harley. And so they
weren't able to succeed in that lawsuit. But they said,
you know, part of the reason you have a Harley.
Whenever you hear Harley, you look, I don't care if
you're a grandma with you know, twenty grand kids. You
(02:09):
hear Harley, you go, oh, and you look because you
won't see what it is. That's that's that's when you've
got a good product. Anyway, you have an electric and
that's when you've just said, Okay, we give up and
you don't have to You don't have to do that anymore.
Those guys are gone. It's now it's back to gasoline,
So do that instead.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The idea of an electric motorcycle kind of sounds exhilarating
and terrifying at the same time. Having that instant torque
on a motor How would you not just throw the
thing out from underneath you every time?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Absolutely? Well, it's the same with the electric cars. I'm
not saying they're not faster. They're faster, but there's something
about it being electric and it just being I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Know, there's no sensation, there's no connection to the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It just it's just it's just fast.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There's no if you are driving an electric car or Tesla,
they're good looking cars. I don't like the trucks, but
I like old trucks. That's my deal, you know. But
but hey, there's room for everybody out here on the
big interstate. So do whatever you want to do, you
do you that's my I think that's the only reason
I'd be a good president was I'd be going, Hey,
whatever you're doing, as long as you don't hurt anybody,
(03:19):
just do you thing, you know, And if you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Don't hurt anybody and don't infringe on anybody else's rights,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Tell anybody else how to live. Then when you try
to shove an electric car down my throat, I'm gonna go,
you know what, No, I drive a thirty six Ford
Coop with a three fifty Chivy engine in it. That's
my car because I like old stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
If someone wants to just gift me a McLaren hybrid
supercar that's gas and electric, i'd be interested.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I would be open to that. And then you would
hear did you hear what happened to Bama? You know
what he did to that? He wrapped it around, you know,
because I mean, it takes all I can do to
just get this thirty six down the road without you know,
running into somebody. It's got straight axles still, but oh god,
oh yeah, it's good, but it's got to you know,
it's overdrive seven hundred dollars with a nine inch I'm
(04:08):
sitting there boring. Look, I can see Puma's eyes glazing
over right now. And he's a car guy, Mustang guy.
That's uh. So I was thinking about these guys up
there that we're working for Harley are going to be
excited back in the factory, going all right, maybe we
get a chance to keep our jobs because sales for
those things electric ones went to nothing. Uh okay. So
(04:30):
I had a list of the toughest jobs out there.
In the top list, the top ten toughest jobs according
to I guess I'm not sure who's this according to uh?
I think it's an insurance company to put this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Out because, yeah, having the they're seeing the data of
people getting injured on the tip.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Exactly your former jobs is on this list.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, there is the DJ nowhere near there. We're not
I pulled my hair one time with my headphones and
it really hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's the radio DJ is a number eleven.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, that's it'd be us. Number ten was and I
thought it'd be higher as oil field workers.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There we go. There's the one I thought would be
on the list.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I thought to be number one, But it's not it's
number ten. Uh let's see. Nine is air traffic controller.
So it's not just danger, it's stress and all that
mixed in to it. You know, an air traffic controller
is a stressful job apparently, so, uh.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We can't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's why we can't, because that's why they're all retiring early.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, they got a shortage, man, I mean, come on,
and it apparently it's a serious situation. Number eight is farmer,
you know, of the chemicals, the stress of where we're
gonna eat or not before it's over with. Uh. Seven
is an astronaut. Now I thought that would be I
didn't think that would count. But because there's been a
(05:58):
few of those killed and there's not that many, so
I would think.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And it also, I mean it feels like like there
are thirty people a year that hold that job. Like
that that doesn't feel like oil field worker. There's thirty
thousand in in a single.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Texas county, you know, right, Harris County, Like it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Doesn't you're I think you're also counting Katy Perry. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, well, you know I think that's right there. That's
that shows you how difficult of a job it is.
Katy Perry was kissing ground as soon as she got back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
She looked good in that flight suit. And I'll leave it.
His das's creepy, I know, but I don't care. Uh
emt is number six. You're at the intersection, you got
you know, you're always gonna have people messed up, you're
trying to fix them.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Number five was police officer. Number four was a doctor.
Once again, I don't I don't know how that's dangerous
or guess the stress, you know, losing a patient. Maybe
number three military, I would have thought that would have
been higher up. The number one. Yeah, why is it?
That number two construction? So I guess there's a lot
of construction people getting injured or hurt or worry about
(07:08):
your job, you know, I don't know. But number one firefighter?
Firefighter was a number one job.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So it feels like there's were splitting hairs when you're
trying to compare, you know, army men compared to a
firefighter compared to a police officer.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Exactly, I don't know what's it. I don't know how
you would how how you would get which is worse
for not as word, because of stress, the.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Low pay uh wait, hold stress, low pay how was podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Or not on there?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're back to dj uh And then I saw this.
This was crazy. Lady Guy Guy, Did you see this?
Had a concert in Rio de Janeiro in two zero
point five million people paid to come to the concert.
Award two and a half me people paid to see
Lady Got Guy in concert. It beat the old record
(08:04):
that was Madonna.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, I remember the Madonna record Brazil shows out like
that because I think her record it was in Brazil
as well.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I think it's the same venue is where this happened.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But if you're one of the last one hundred thousand
people in the crowd, like you're so far you're not
even you might as well be from where I'm sitting
in San Antonio to where you're sitting and dripping.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, exactly, you're.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A million crowd. You're not hearing or seeing anything.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Where was I in San Antonio at the AT and
T deal and I was at the very last seat
to see I can't even remember who it was now,
but I watched an ant for about thirty minutes before
I figured out it wasn't a human. It was an ant,
you know, And I go, well, wait a minute, Oh,
there's a guy over there, you know, it was four
miles away. But it was a good show. I remember that,
But I thought that was a crazy I just couldn't
(08:54):
imagine two and a half million people in an event
like that and not have a a ride or war
or whatever. You know. But I guess when you're feeling
the music and feeling good, it's good, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, for the most part, I just I can't imagine
paying for a ticket to that show, unless unless you're
in the first like row or first section. Yeah, the price,
what are you you're gonna pay? With the way concert
prices are now, what are you gonna pay to be
at the back of two point five million people?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I mean, would you even hear it? Would you even
hear it? Sort of like Woodstock, you know. I had
a friend of mine that Greg Raley was a keyboardist
for Santana. He was one of the founding members of Santana.
And they showed up at Woodstock. They're eighteen years old,
him and Carlos, they're from San Francisco. They go and
he said, we're there like a couple of days before,
(09:48):
and he said, we go on stage and it's dark
and everything, and he said we look out and there's literally,
you know, a million people at Woodstock and he goes,
I's nervous as hell. Oh, I had no idea this
concert was as big. And he said it was just
really scary and and uh. But then the next day, man,
they were rock stars and and then they he went
(10:09):
on to form Journey. Uh and then they and then
he's eventually he's been ringo Stars. Keyboard is for the
All Star band. Yeah, he he he's quite a keyboarders.
He was at the house and I have my grandmother's
piano and I go, you want to jump on there
and hit a few keys for me? And he goes, yeah,
do that don't make me? He goes, okay, well you
(10:29):
sell me a Dodge truck here.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Dance monkey dance, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That was always her joke was we don't make uh,
we don't make each other do And I have the
same deal with I was with him this week. Uh,
Jimmy Vaughan, you know with Stevie Ray Vaughn's Uh Jimmy,
he's he's such a great guy. He's a car guy,
you know, and as old cars. Anyway, I put a
video on the cave at page you want to see
(10:55):
Jimmy and his uh his thirty nine board. But it
was always I'm like, man, I ain't to come out
here and get on your get on stage with you
and sing. I'm a pretty good singer. And he goes, yeah,
and of course he just did a concert where they're
Clapton the other day. But I want to get on
stage with Jimmy Vaughan because I think I could sing.
You know. He's like, it's amateur hour.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You know, and he's like at the gym show.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, He's like, yeah, people, people paying forty dollars a
ticket to have the DJ get up here and not
know the words to fuck.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Anything nothing else. Maybe you could just play a tambourine
or something.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Nothing, Yeah, you know, wood blocks.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Or like the Santana drummer at Woodstock. Just drop some
mescaline and let the music take over.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
All of a sudden, he looked over and halfway through
a song, All of a sudden, your shirtless, just rolling
on the ground playing tambourine at the mess peaking.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Every one of those acts were just heavily narcotics, I think,
and remember in Jimmy Hendrix played the National Anthem you know,
and it was this crazy yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
After the morning after because they were running so far
behind sky Yeah good morning, and started the set with
the national anthem, so so iconic.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I just always thought that was a great story, though,
he said. I mean, I was just scared. I was
scared of death after I saw this crowd going, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
God, crowd you've ever been in front of, like through
all of your radio appearances, stage announcements or anything.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Let's see, I did you know some pretty big some
pretty big concerts at the Irwin Center. I guess the biggest,
you know, in the Moody the New Moode Center. We
did the iHeart Festival last year and intro Kane Brown
and that's pretty because that was on movie theaters and
was you know, you could pay per view it and
all that. So I was it was the only time
I think I've ever been national one time. Brad Paisley.
(12:54):
You know, I was friends with Paisley named Dropper Deal,
but he and I were buddies. He was a songwriter
when we met, and and I said, man, that name Paisley,
that's not gonna work. Man. You're in country music. That's
that's it sounds like eighties gay to me, you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Know, this is me California.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And his comeback was awesome. He goes, yeah, your name's Bama,
and I go, that's what I'm saying. Listen to what
I went nowhere. You know in ten years. Do what
I'm telling you. I'm giving you a hint here. I'm
not making fun of anyway. We maintained that friendship for
years and years and years, which is awesome. I loved it.
And and but he he came to Austin with Dirks Bentley. Uh,
(13:33):
I have a cool Dirk story I can tell too. Anyway,
another name dropper deal. But uh so his uh but
his manager, his tour manager was from Austin, guy we knew.
And he said, hey, after we did the intro, then
they have their own introduction production, you know. And he said, uh,
he said, hey, come to that. Brad wants to see you.
So I went down and my buddy Ray Benson was there,
(13:54):
and the two of us and Brad stood down there
and laughed and laughed and laughed, had a great time.
And he goes and Bragg goes, so you got tickets
to the show, And I said, no, man, I had
to give him to a client, and I said, I
guess they had probably eight thousand at the old Erlin Center,
so that's a pretty big crowd. And and uh so
I come out and he said, sitting the soundboard, And
so I'm sitting in the soundboard and in the middle
(14:16):
of the show, he stops down and he plays acoustic
a couple of songs and he played Alabama song. Oh,
and he goes, he goes, I dedicated this. I don't
ever play this, but he said, I dedicated this with
a guy. Y'all listen to you every morning and this
was our P one audience, you know, for case. And
he said this, Bama Brown, you listened every morning and
got a huge cheer, which was great. Nobody booed that
(14:37):
I heard anyway, and then he goes, he goes, great, guys,
old friend of mine, love him, but y'all know he's
a complete emrod. So I insult me in front of
you know, eight thousand people, and so I booed, Yeah,
he goes, shut up, Bama. I've got the mic now,
so I can do whatever I want. So that was
pretty great. Yeah, that was pretty funny. And then my
(14:59):
Dirk Spinley story kind of new Dirks when he started
out and then he got big. And so I'm sitting
at home one day, this middle of the day watching
TV in my phone ring and I go hello, and
he goes, where the hell is this place? I mean,
that's the first thing he said. And I went, what
who is this? And he goes Bama and I go yeah.
He goes, it's Dirks and I go, what are you doing?
(15:21):
And he goes, You're on my phone next to bass player?
And he said that's how he's got you know. He
hit his feet doll bass or Bama and he said,
I had you. And he said, I'm up here trying
to find this studio up in these hills of Tennessee
and I don't know where his place is. So and
he said, let me call you back in a minute.
I was like, he ain't never gonna call back, but
he did, and when he found out, he called me
(15:42):
and we talked for twenty minutes. It was great to,
you know, meet those guys when they're young and coming.
And I had Kenny Chesney when he first started and
I made him. I pissed him off, I insulted him
and I did not I did not mean to. He
had just come out and he's not very tall, of course.
(16:04):
And so I had these chairs in the studio there Cavett,
and they're pretty hot up chairs. They're not like regular chairs,
are like studio bigger chairs like we sit in. And
so he came in and he introduced He said him
Kenny Chesney. And this was back when you know he
was I mean just literally starting. And I said, well,
(16:25):
good to meet you.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I said, hop up there, and it's what you say
to anybody when they come in and get in that chair.
You go, you go hop up there and let's do
an interview. And he goes, hop up Yeah, okay, short joke,
fat boy, because that was about three thirty then. So
we we really we immediately and he recognized that I
wouldn't have never said that, and we hit it off
(16:49):
and became we got to be really good friends. And
he did make a wish for me a couple of times,
a wish, a couple of wishes, and he was awesome,
we're doing that. It was a great. He was a
he's a good guy. But he never let me oh.
And I told him, I said, I never thought you'd
make it. And he reminds me of that every time.
I haven't seen him in a while, but he said,
(17:10):
he said one of these names dry, I'm just name
dropping living right, But this is it happened, you know,
And he's he reminds me every time that I told him, Yeah,
I don't you ain't gonna make it. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm sure every time he tells that story too, he
says that you were.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like, hey, why don't you hop up there, little buddy?
You want Yeah, I'm sure you get the microphone closer
to you.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do we need?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You need a booster seat?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm sure it had well. He first of all, he
never tells that story. Broger. Nobody knows who I am,
but he if he ever does, I'm sure it's been,
you know, totally changed to where I like grabbed his
leg and lifted him like a puppet or something. But
it was it was funny guy. We had a We
had a good time together over the years. And uh,
I have a picture if you ever go to if
(17:57):
you hear me advertise Cali Trin that I lost this
weight with Cali. Go to their website. It's Top of
the World, Top of the World dot com slash Bama,
and there's a picture of me and him standing together,
and they have it on their website. I'm three hundred
and thirty six pounds, and it looks he's looking at
me like I'm getting ready to eat him. He looks
like he does look like a puppet, like Jeff, what's
(18:19):
his face? With those wooden puppets, That's what they looked like.
I'm standing there holding him, you know. And that was
the heaviest there was three thirty six. If you can,
I'm one. I'm one ninety eight. I weighed this morning.
I was having to weight. I was one ninety eight,
So got that weight a month ago. Yeah, that's a
that's a that's a lot of weight, man, a lot
(18:39):
of way. All right, well man, we went too long here.
It's the Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network
Well, hey, it's Mamma Brown on the Maama Brown Experience
along with Puma the Big Cat. He's got the Sports
Cave down there in San Antonio, very popular sports show.
I want to get that. What I do, buddy, we.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Make it easy, especially on Wednesday nights. We are back
live on YouTube tonight. Just search the Sports Cave with
the biggest Puma on YouTube. I think it's at Sports
Cave Live. I should probably know that a little better
than That's not a very good promotion there.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm counting on you with that, and and you, uh, yeah,
you think on your own show. But then I've had
people do that with me, and I go, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't just google it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You'll find it easy on your you're the phone person.
I don't. I don't even know, you know. I remember
one time we were on the air. Rob and I
were on the air and my phone rang right after
I got it, and we were we were live on air,
and I go, what is that noise? And we were
looking we were live cave it and he goes, I
don't know what is that. We thought it was a
(01:02):
fire alarm, you know, And I was like, is that
the fire alarm, and he goes, i'd be going. He goes, no,
that's a phone, and I go a phone, and then
I went it was my phone. What's running? I've never
heard it ring before, and I was like, that's mine.
And then of course I go oh, and that was
I go, well, I'm doing a little show. Let me
call you back later. And uh, you know, it's just
(01:24):
as small town radios. You ever heard, Uh, Harley investors,
I'm just gonna say this, this did my heart good.
The investors in Harley Davison have demanded management and Harley
Davison get rid of the electric Harley Davison. They said
that was a gutta go Harley. In fact, Harley actually
tried to They actually tried to the sound of a
(01:47):
Harley motorcycle. They tried to patent that and because Yamaha,
I think it was Yamaha had built one similar from them,
you know, and it sounded like Harley. And so they
weren't able to succeed in that lawsuit. But they said,
you know, part of the reason you have a Harley.
Whenever you hear Harley, you look, I don't care if
you're a grandma with you know, twenty grand kids. You
(02:09):
hear Harley, you go, oh, and you look because you
won't see what it is. That's that's that's when you've
got a good product. Anyway, you have an electric and
that's when you've just said, Okay, we give up and
you don't have to You don't have to do that anymore.
Those guys are gone. It's now it's back to gasoline,
So do that instead.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The idea of an electric motorcycle kind of sounds exhilarating
and terrifying at the same time. Having that instant torque
on a motor How would you not just throw the
thing out from underneath you every time?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Absolutely? Well, it's the same with the electric cars. I'm
not saying they're not faster. They're faster, but there's something
about it being electric and it just being I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Know, there's no sensation, there's no connection to the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It just it's just it's just fast.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There's no if you are driving an electric car or Tesla,
they're good looking cars. I don't like the trucks, but
I like old trucks. That's my deal, you know. But
but hey, there's room for everybody out here on the
big interstate. So do whatever you want to do, you
do you that's my I think that's the only reason
I'd be a good president was I'd be going, Hey,
whatever you're doing, as long as you don't hurt anybody,
(03:19):
just do you thing, you know, And if you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Don't hurt anybody and don't infringe on anybody else's rights,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Tell anybody else how to live. Then when you try
to shove an electric car down my throat, I'm gonna go,
you know what, No, I drive a thirty six Ford
Coop with a three fifty Chivy engine in it. That's
my car because I like old stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
If someone wants to just gift me a McLaren hybrid
supercar that's gas and electric, i'd be interested.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I would be open to that. And then you would
hear did you hear what happened to Bama? You know
what he did to that? He wrapped it around, you know,
because I mean, it takes all I can do to
just get this thirty six down the road without you know,
running into somebody. It's got straight axles still, but oh god,
oh yeah, it's good, but it's got to you know,
it's overdrive seven hundred dollars with a nine inch I'm
(04:08):
sitting there boring. Look, I can see Puma's eyes glazing
over right now. And he's a car guy, Mustang guy.
That's uh. So I was thinking about these guys up
there that we're working for Harley are going to be
excited back in the factory, going all right, maybe we
get a chance to keep our jobs because sales for
those things electric ones went to nothing. Uh okay. So
(04:30):
I had a list of the toughest jobs out there.
In the top list, the top ten toughest jobs according
to I guess I'm not sure who's this according to uh?
I think it's an insurance company to put this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Out because, yeah, having the they're seeing the data of
people getting injured on the tip.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Exactly your former jobs is on this list.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, there is the DJ nowhere near there. We're not
I pulled my hair one time with my headphones and
it really hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's the radio DJ is a number eleven.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, that's it'd be us. Number ten was and I
thought it'd be higher as oil field workers.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There we go. There's the one I thought would be
on the list.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I thought to be number one, But it's not it's
number ten. Uh let's see. Nine is air traffic controller.
So it's not just danger, it's stress and all that
mixed in to it. You know, an air traffic controller
is a stressful job apparently, so, uh.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We can't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's why we can't, because that's why they're all retiring early.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, they got a shortage, man, I mean, come on,
and it apparently it's a serious situation. Number eight is farmer,
you know, of the chemicals, the stress of where we're
gonna eat or not before it's over with. Uh. Seven
is an astronaut. Now I thought that would be I
didn't think that would count. But because there's been a
(05:58):
few of those killed and there's not that many, so
I would think.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And it also, I mean it feels like like there
are thirty people a year that hold that job. Like
that that doesn't feel like oil field worker. There's thirty
thousand in in a single.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Texas county, you know, right, Harris County, Like it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Doesn't you're I think you're also counting Katy Perry. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, well, you know I think that's right there. That's
that shows you how difficult of a job it is.
Katy Perry was kissing ground as soon as she got back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
She looked good in that flight suit. And I'll leave it.
His das's creepy, I know, but I don't care. Uh
emt is number six. You're at the intersection, you got
you know, you're always gonna have people messed up, you're
trying to fix them.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Number five was police officer. Number four was a doctor.
Once again, I don't I don't know how that's dangerous
or guess the stress, you know, losing a patient. Maybe
number three military, I would have thought that would have
been higher up. The number one. Yeah, why is it?
That number two construction? So I guess there's a lot
of construction people getting injured or hurt or worry about
(07:08):
your job, you know, I don't know. But number one firefighter?
Firefighter was a number one job.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So it feels like there's were splitting hairs when you're
trying to compare, you know, army men compared to a
firefighter compared to a police officer.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Exactly, I don't know what's it. I don't know how
you would how how you would get which is worse
for not as word, because of stress, the.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Low pay uh wait, hold stress, low pay how was podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Or not on there?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're back to dj uh And then I saw this.
This was crazy. Lady Guy Guy, Did you see this?
Had a concert in Rio de Janeiro in two zero
point five million people paid to come to the concert.
Award two and a half me people paid to see
Lady Got Guy in concert. It beat the old record
(08:04):
that was Madonna.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, I remember the Madonna record Brazil shows out like
that because I think her record it was in Brazil
as well.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I think it's the same venue is where this happened.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But if you're one of the last one hundred thousand
people in the crowd, like you're so far you're not
even you might as well be from where I'm sitting
in San Antonio to where you're sitting and dripping.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, exactly, you're.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A million crowd. You're not hearing or seeing anything.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Where was I in San Antonio at the AT and
T deal and I was at the very last seat
to see I can't even remember who it was now,
but I watched an ant for about thirty minutes before
I figured out it wasn't a human. It was an ant,
you know, And I go, well, wait a minute, Oh,
there's a guy over there, you know, it was four
miles away. But it was a good show. I remember that,
But I thought that was a crazy I just couldn't
(08:54):
imagine two and a half million people in an event
like that and not have a a ride or war
or whatever. You know. But I guess when you're feeling
the music and feeling good, it's good, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, for the most part, I just I can't imagine
paying for a ticket to that show, unless unless you're
in the first like row or first section. Yeah, the price,
what are you you're gonna pay? With the way concert
prices are now, what are you gonna pay to be
at the back of two point five million people?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I mean, would you even hear it? Would you even
hear it? Sort of like Woodstock, you know. I had
a friend of mine that Greg Raley was a keyboardist
for Santana. He was one of the founding members of Santana.
And they showed up at Woodstock. They're eighteen years old,
him and Carlos, they're from San Francisco. They go and
he said, we're there like a couple of days before,
(09:48):
and he said, we go on stage and it's dark
and everything, and he said we look out and there's literally,
you know, a million people at Woodstock and he goes,
I's nervous as hell. Oh, I had no idea this
concert was as big. And he said it was just
really scary and and uh. But then the next day, man,
they were rock stars and and then they he went
(10:09):
on to form Journey. Uh and then they and then
he's eventually he's been ringo Stars. Keyboard is for the
All Star band. Yeah, he he he's quite a keyboarders.
He was at the house and I have my grandmother's
piano and I go, you want to jump on there
and hit a few keys for me? And he goes, yeah,
do that don't make me? He goes, okay, well you
(10:29):
sell me a Dodge truck here.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Dance monkey dance, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That was always her joke was we don't make uh,
we don't make each other do And I have the
same deal with I was with him this week. Uh,
Jimmy Vaughan, you know with Stevie Ray Vaughn's Uh Jimmy,
he's he's such a great guy. He's a car guy,
you know, and as old cars. Anyway, I put a
video on the cave at page you want to see
(10:55):
Jimmy and his uh his thirty nine board. But it
was always I'm like, man, I ain't to come out
here and get on your get on stage with you
and sing. I'm a pretty good singer. And he goes, yeah,
and of course he just did a concert where they're
Clapton the other day. But I want to get on
stage with Jimmy Vaughan because I think I could sing.
You know. He's like, it's amateur hour.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You know, and he's like at the gym show.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, He's like, yeah, people, people paying forty dollars a
ticket to have the DJ get up here and not
know the words to fuck.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Anything nothing else. Maybe you could just play a tambourine
or something.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Nothing, Yeah, you know, wood blocks.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Or like the Santana drummer at Woodstock. Just drop some
mescaline and let the music take over.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
All of a sudden, he looked over and halfway through
a song, All of a sudden, your shirtless, just rolling
on the ground playing tambourine at the mess peaking.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Every one of those acts were just heavily narcotics, I think,
and remember in Jimmy Hendrix played the National Anthem you know,
and it was this crazy yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
After the morning after because they were running so far
behind sky Yeah good morning, and started the set with
the national anthem, so so iconic.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I just always thought that was a great story, though,
he said. I mean, I was just scared. I was
scared of death after I saw this crowd going, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
God, crowd you've ever been in front of, like through
all of your radio appearances, stage announcements or anything.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Let's see, I did you know some pretty big some
pretty big concerts at the Irwin Center. I guess the biggest,
you know, in the Moody the New Moode Center. We
did the iHeart Festival last year and intro Kane Brown
and that's pretty because that was on movie theaters and
was you know, you could pay per view it and
all that. So I was it was the only time
I think I've ever been national one time. Brad Paisley.
(12:54):
You know, I was friends with Paisley named Dropper Deal,
but he and I were buddies. He was a songwriter
when we met, and and I said, man, that name Paisley,
that's not gonna work. Man. You're in country music. That's
that's it sounds like eighties gay to me, you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Know, this is me California.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And his comeback was awesome. He goes, yeah, your name's Bama,
and I go, that's what I'm saying. Listen to what
I went nowhere. You know in ten years. Do what
I'm telling you. I'm giving you a hint here. I'm
not making fun of anyway. We maintained that friendship for
years and years and years, which is awesome. I loved it.
And and but he he came to Austin with Dirks Bentley. Uh,
(13:33):
I have a cool Dirk story I can tell too. Anyway,
another name dropper deal. But uh so his uh but
his manager, his tour manager was from Austin, guy we knew.
And he said, hey, after we did the intro, then
they have their own introduction production, you know. And he said, uh,
he said, hey, come to that. Brad wants to see you.
So I went down and my buddy Ray Benson was there,
(13:54):
and the two of us and Brad stood down there
and laughed and laughed and laughed, had a great time.
And he goes and Bragg goes, so you got tickets
to the show, And I said, no, man, I had
to give him to a client, and I said, I
guess they had probably eight thousand at the old Erlin Center,
so that's a pretty big crowd. And and uh so
I come out and he said, sitting the soundboard, And
so I'm sitting in the soundboard and in the middle
(14:16):
of the show, he stops down and he plays acoustic
a couple of songs and he played Alabama song. Oh,
and he goes, he goes, I dedicated this. I don't
ever play this, but he said, I dedicated this with
a guy. Y'all listen to you every morning and this
was our P one audience, you know, for case. And
he said this, Bama Brown, you listened every morning and
got a huge cheer, which was great. Nobody booed that
(14:37):
I heard anyway, and then he goes, he goes, great, guys,
old friend of mine, love him, but y'all know he's
a complete emrod. So I insult me in front of
you know, eight thousand people, and so I booed, Yeah,
he goes, shut up, Bama. I've got the mic now,
so I can do whatever I want. So that was
pretty great. Yeah, that was pretty funny. And then my
(14:59):
Dirk Spinley story kind of new Dirks when he started
out and then he got big. And so I'm sitting
at home one day, this middle of the day watching
TV in my phone ring and I go hello, and
he goes, where the hell is this place? I mean,
that's the first thing he said. And I went, what
who is this? And he goes Bama and I go yeah.
He goes, it's Dirks and I go, what are you doing?
(15:21):
And he goes, You're on my phone next to bass player?
And he said that's how he's got you know. He
hit his feet doll bass or Bama and he said,
I had you. And he said, I'm up here trying
to find this studio up in these hills of Tennessee
and I don't know where his place is. So and
he said, let me call you back in a minute.
I was like, he ain't never gonna call back, but
he did, and when he found out, he called me
(15:42):
and we talked for twenty minutes. It was great to,
you know, meet those guys when they're young and coming.
And I had Kenny Chesney when he first started and
I made him. I pissed him off, I insulted him
and I did not I did not mean to. He
had just come out and he's not very tall, of course.
(16:04):
And so I had these chairs in the studio there Cavett,
and they're pretty hot up chairs. They're not like regular chairs,
are like studio bigger chairs like we sit in. And
so he came in and he introduced He said him
Kenny Chesney. And this was back when you know he
was I mean just literally starting. And I said, well,
(16:25):
good to meet you.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I said, hop up there, and it's what you say
to anybody when they come in and get in that chair.
You go, you go hop up there and let's do
an interview. And he goes, hop up Yeah, okay, short joke,
fat boy, because that was about three thirty then. So
we we really we immediately and he recognized that I
wouldn't have never said that, and we hit it off
(16:49):
and became we got to be really good friends. And
he did make a wish for me a couple of times,
a wish, a couple of wishes, and he was awesome,
we're doing that. It was a great. He was a
he's a good guy. But he never let me oh.
And I told him, I said, I never thought you'd
make it. And he reminds me of that every time.
I haven't seen him in a while, but he said,
(17:10):
he said one of these names dry, I'm just name
dropping living right, But this is it happened, you know,
And he's he reminds me every time that I told him, Yeah,
I don't you ain't gonna make it. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm sure every time he tells that story too, he
says that you were.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like, hey, why don't you hop up there, little buddy?
You want Yeah, I'm sure you get the microphone closer
to you.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do we need?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You need a booster seat?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm sure it had well. He first of all, he
never tells that story. Broger. Nobody knows who I am,
but he if he ever does, I'm sure it's been,
you know, totally changed to where I like grabbed his
leg and lifted him like a puppet or something. But
it was it was funny guy. We had a We
had a good time together over the years. And uh,
I have a picture if you ever go to if
(17:57):
you hear me advertise Cali Trin that I lost this
weight with Cali. Go to their website. It's Top of
the World, Top of the World dot com slash Bama,
and there's a picture of me and him standing together,
and they have it on their website. I'm three hundred
and thirty six pounds, and it looks he's looking at
me like I'm getting ready to eat him. He looks
like he does look like a puppet, like Jeff, what's
(18:19):
his face? With those wooden puppets, That's what they looked like.
I'm standing there holding him, you know. And that was
the heaviest there was three thirty six. If you can,
I'm one. I'm one ninety eight. I weighed this morning.
I was having to weight. I was one ninety eight,
So got that weight a month ago. Yeah, that's a
that's a that's a lot of weight, man, a lot
(18:39):
of way. All right, well man, we went too long here.
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