May 23, 2025 • 18 mins
In this high-octane episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama takes us on a wild ride—literally and figuratively. From tales of tearing through West Texas in a Ferrari 308 to the absurdity of job interview blunders, this episode is a turbocharged blend of nostalgia, humor, and hard-earned wisdom.
Bama reminisces about his days delivering drill bits in the oil fields, witnessing tire tests on Firestone’s legendary track, and pushing his own limits on a deserted 10-mile stretch in Crane County. You’ll hear about a Ferrari Testarossa with twin turbos, and the kind of stereo system that makes Ride of the Valkyries feel like a battle cry.
But it’s not all speed and horsepower—Bama and Big Puma also shift gears into career advice, sharing the top three phrases that will guarantee you don’t get hired. Spoiler: “My resume speaks for itself” is not the flex you think it is.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good story, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your fellow speed demons and job seekers!
Bama reminisces about his days delivering drill bits in the oil fields, witnessing tire tests on Firestone’s legendary track, and pushing his own limits on a deserted 10-mile stretch in Crane County. You’ll hear about a Ferrari Testarossa with twin turbos, and the kind of stereo system that makes Ride of the Valkyries feel like a battle cry.
But it’s not all speed and horsepower—Bama and Big Puma also shift gears into career advice, sharing the top three phrases that will guarantee you don’t get hired. Spoiler: “My resume speaks for itself” is not the flex you think it is.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good story, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your fellow speed demons and job seekers!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown and iHeart podcast and the network.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You've got The Obama Brown Experience.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Is what we called this show that took some real
creativity and a whole team of consultants.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To come up with.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
The Bama Brown Experience was basically ripped all. I don't
know somebody else's I think has it. I think there's
about ten of them. There's three hundred thousand podcasts on
the iHeart network and that's not a mate up number,
that's real.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Most of are crime dramas.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But one of the most popular podcasts is The Big
Cat Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The Big Puma and the Big.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Cat who has the Sports Cave out of San Antonio.
Very popular sports show and he's my producer. What a coincidence?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well funny how that works out?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You mentioned I think podcaster to the point where popular,
like pop music is now, every guitar riff has been
done before, every podcast is. We're recycling at this point.
But you speak about creativity. If you need your sports fix,
why don't you hop over just search for the Sports Cave.
How creative is that? The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
(01:04):
Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for it. There
in the bar and hop in join the crew.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Remember Monday and Wednesday nights are live, so you want
to go in and get on the live show. You
hear the latest stuff that's going on, and he does
a fantastic job. Always point out Puma played college basketball,
so he's not just talking about he actually did it
all right here. I thought this was interesting. I get
some of these crime crime wave things. We got to
think of a name for this part of the show
because I get a lot of criminals across here. Twenty
(01:32):
six year old guy. This happened in Salem, New Hampshire.
Seventy mile per hour speed limit on I ninety three,
one hundred and eighteen miles per hour. So I don't
have an actual car, usually can get the car.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Texas always puts out their list, and we always have
somebody in the one nineties. Every year there's somebody it's
over one hundred ninety miles an hour on our local highway.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Sane in a car if.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You're doing that down at the Texas Mile at at
the old military base, the old airstrip down there, Like
that's one thing. But yeah, granted, I mean there are
parts not that I would ever suggest it or admit
that I have ever gone or anything close to it.
Let the disclaimer point out there's a lot of parts
in West Texas where you can get some really good
(02:22):
straight line speed and can see any vehicle coming towards
you or in your rear view mirror, so you can
feel pretty safe. But still never would suggest doing that
on a public road, of course, not, of course not.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Firestone has a down by Fort Stockton.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you look it up on the map, you got
to go way to the left if you're looking it up.
The Firestone had a test track downner. It was probably
ten miles. But you would see occasionally I drove in
the old field out there. I drove delivered drill bits
and all kinds of stuff and sold on steel all kinds.
I had three jobs in that same territory for years.
But you would see five cars running nose to back
(03:00):
with no hub caps. And those were they were tire testing,
and they just be you know, like LTDs or some
big Ford car or a big Chevrolet car, but they
were testing their tires and it'd be five of them together.
And I always thought that was pretty cool when you'd
see them, you know, and I thought well, that job
would be that would be a boring, boring job West Texas.
(03:21):
First of all. Second of all, you know you're riding
in that car. You know they ain't gonna give you
no FM radio. It's gonna be stripped down.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You're not getting anything in there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just it sounds miserable to me, but I mean they
seem to always have somebody doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You talk about West Texas, Crane County, that's the there's
one town that's south of Odessa. There's one town. It's
not a city, it's a town in Crane County. It's Crane, Texas.
And they, uh, it was a I think Chevron was
their golf and Chevron was the main people in that
county's all.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, worl Wells.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But there was one road it was ten miles long
into Crane and at dusk it kind of sloped down.
There was no private or public roads tied to it
on either side, and had a big bard ditch on
either side, so you had plenty of room.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And I had a Ferrari three oh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Eight, like a magnum p Ilcohr and it was black
and had a blue interior.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It was beautiful. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it was a target. The top came out. I
think I had the top on it this time. So
I drove I lived in Houston, but I drove it
out of sea, buddy of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And so I come.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Around this curve that leads onto this ten mile road,
and I had an Alpine stereo, which was the most
badass stereo you could get at the time, with all
the spirits, and I had Right of the Valkyries on
there from Vogna, so turned it up as loud.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
As no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I come on a curve at about I was already
at about one hundred and ten, and I just put
it on the floor. A had brand new Pirelli's on
it at tires, I brand new high speed tires. And
it went to one four be fairly quick, and then
from one forty it finally stopped climbing at one forty six,
a little over one forty five. And I held it
there for five minutes, and man, it handled like it
(05:12):
was forty five. That was the most best car. And
it just like and it wasn't even a red line
it was. It was almost a yellow line. But it
just like had Italian engine singing man and uh it was.
That was the fastest ized ever by myself alone driving
driving that car, and it I mean it did it
(05:33):
just for five minutes and then there was crane you know,
that's feat drink came up pretty yeast. It was a
dusk and I could see if there were headlights coming
and there was no headlights, there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The only thing it could have got me would have
been a deer, you know. But I mean I risked.
I risk it that time, and it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Was and it's just you that's getting wiped out.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And well, yeah, I would never do it with traffic
or anywhere that uh. But that's what's cool about the
Texas Malere doom about they had a they have a
g T forty this year that went three hundred miles
per hour on on and I'm talking about they did
a little bit of work on it. I think it
may have put a turbo on it or something, but
it was already bone stock suspension in tires. And then
(06:15):
GT forty went three hundred. You can buy a car
cross at a dealership that goes three hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well that's uh. Those Hennessy boys from down around and
they're always bringing some new contraption they've been working on
that you can you can buy. You buy the base
model of whatever the car is, you take it to them,
they do all the upgrades, and all of a sudden
you have a you basically have a stock car that
(06:42):
you can buy it a dealership that can, like you said,
can go three hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's just when I'm sitting on two ninety, they're dwide
O kill, I'm going, yeah, that's what I need is
the three hundred miles per hour car. I can go
two feet at a time.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Sure, yeah, exactly, Yeah, just especially I'm thinking if you're
buying that in the Houston area, you're driving one of
these you know, Hennessy Vipers in Houston track, that's just clutch.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It turned out by the time you get back they
had uh uh when I had that Ferrari. The reason
I visited that too is that the they had a
Ferrari that was a fact at the time. Now this goes.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Back forty years. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
At the time this, they had a Ferrari Testarosa that
had twin turbos on it and the tag the tag
said w I d.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
OPN wide Open.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Was a personalized license plate I was having mine service
A few pump was three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And the guy had a lab coat.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
If you're buying a car of a place where guy's
got a lab coat on, you're you're about to get hosed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is just telling you right now anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But that that and he had gone two hundred and
he said, right now, the guy's doing about two ten
in this car. And that was out of Firestone on
the test track. They taking it out there, you know.
But and then aj Foryd drove a car out there,
uh and did some crazy two fifty or something.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I mean it was nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And once again, going back forty years, the technology was
not there that is now you know any of the
any of that well, I say that, you know, a
GT forty was built in nineteen sixty four, so I
mean you could you could get the technology back then,
but uh, those that those came with a four twenty
seven side oiler.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I mean it's you and.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
An engine and you know, basically a little bitty So
they did have that technology back then, but not where
you buy the street and turn the air conditioning on
and go two hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, you're not gonna be uh you're not gonna be
blaring van Halen. Yeah, in any of those as.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You're I was so badass done no no, none, no,
no no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That was that was I wasn't cool ever, but that
was one time. Maybe that was kind of cool. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I wanted you to have this because you know you
and I are always laughing about losing these jobs. Uh,
here's phrases to avoid in a job interview.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This is not a joke.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This is like they did a thing the top three
things that hiring people had heard, and they go, I
hear it all the time. Don't say it. I don't
want you don't even don't speak at all about this
number three, willing to take a step down. If you
go in and you say that, it's like you have
(09:22):
an electric loser flashes over your head. You know, even
if you are even if you need it, they say,
you never admit that you want and don't say I
want a challenge.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Just say I'm capable of doing the job. They said,
if they ask you about a program, a computer program,
go and my previous job. I didn't do that one,
but I did, and give them another program immediately that
they'll recognize that you are trained at. That's the one
(09:55):
time when you get to talk a little more than
just going yeah, I haven't been trained on that, say don't.
I was not trained on that one. But the one
that I have the most time on is you know,
brand X whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Number two. Uh, my previous company was very toxic. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You never whenever you say that, like why did you leave? Well,
it's pretty toxic. Okay, you were the toxic one. That's
why you left.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Immediately, you are associated.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
As being the one that calls all the shit. So
you don't ever say that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, no matter if it's true, like you could have.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You could have been leaving Harvey Weinstein run company the
most toxic job you've ever had. But don't don't lead
with that because the person's always going to assume, even
if even if you weren't fully to blame, you played
some role absolutely to the toxicity.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And remember they're not listening to some of the things
you're saying. They're listening to exactly what defines you. Remember
that you know, uh, you dressed for the job you want.
That's one of the most famous old saying number one
Puma and I could see a lot of people saying this,
my resume speaks for itself. They go, if ever there
(11:11):
was an asshole comment to me, my resume speaks for myself. Well,
what I see here says loser, So you know it's
I'm holding it up to my ear. Don't hire this guy.
So that's one to just say. They hear it all
the time. Our resume speaks for myself. Go into detail
if they ask you, don't wear them out with you know,
(11:33):
everything you did, but hit your high points. You're always
trying to hit your high points. But a lot of
times it's less you say is a better You know,
you just don't want to, you know, and we proved
that with this show every day.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well yeah, it kind of reminds me of like thinking
of a job interview, as you know, thinking of a
conversation with a cop that has you pulled over. Right,
you need to answer the questions. You need to be honest.
You need to tell them exactly who you are and
why you want and why you're going or doing whatever
(12:06):
you're doing right, But at the end of the day,
maybe the less you say is still in your better interest.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I've had people ask me all the time I've ever
been pulled over and then.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They recognize me.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I had a guy do that up on I
thirty five high Wood patrol pull me over and I
was in my Bennie Boyd truck with my dealer.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Tag on there.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And because that piece of action, and so he gets
he starts. You know, I shut my motor off, I
put my hands up, the window down. You know, have
your ID and your insurance ready to go if you
if you do those four things, yeah you might get
a ticket.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But also.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Everything that you can do to make that officer feel
more comfortable only will help you. And I'll certainly make
it go fast. I always say this, and I will
say this is a day I die. If you stay
in the car, keep your mouth shut exactly what you're
talking about, have your insurance, have no warrants out for you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If you've got a warrant. That's a big detail. Big detail.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But these guys get out and want to fight the
police because they don't want to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, nobody wants to go to jail.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But guess what, that's the rules has nothing to do
with color, It has nothing to do with anything other
than if you attack a police officer or if you
start with attitude. Guess what, it's gonna go badly. It
will every time. So have your hands on where the
wind is. Have your insurance, your license ready, have good insurance.
(13:33):
Have a Texas license. You gotta have that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And and if you aren't white, maybe avoid Hiko Texas
because there are still pockets. There are still there's a
few sundown cities.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
There's a few wink wink things you should try to avoid.
There's absolutely whom is making a great point. And and uh,
you know, and once again, I'm an old white redneck guy.
But that's I've had as many tickets I can think,
I'm very seldom have gotten away with anything because of
my color.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So I've just been saying it now. But this guy
said walking.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Up and he goes, Bamma, Brown, where are you going
so fast? And as many boy dodge, and I thought, man,
this is awesome. And I was guilty. I'm always guilty.
I was speeding. I was going to eighty on the
interstate and it was back then it was sixty five
or seventy.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And he's all the bit y'all did the other day.
And he's coming and I'm like laughing with him.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm laughing as hard as you're gonna laugh, like, oh,
you know, man, that was a great bit. Yeah, it
was a lot of fun, but I appreciate it. I'm going, dude,
this finally one time this works out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He takes a.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Step back, flips the ticket book and goes, you still
live out there at one twenty hardly that some bitch
wrote me a ticket after I had to talk to
him for ten minutes about the radio show and wrote
me a ticket.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Here was the beauty.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The beauty I was in a construction zone and didn't
even know it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Double the fine, oh no.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And then what was even worse is the judge was
Jan Braylan, who married Jamien Meet you know, and I'd
known Jan forever.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I walked in to pay this ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
She goes, Maamma, Browny, wait, like of this ticket and
construction zone congratulates four hundred and fifty dollars. This was
probably thirty something New Good or one hundred. I'd be
like a couple thousand now, But.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And the worst part I talked to this guy about
the radio show, which I just don't even enjoy that
at all. But that was to this day, I was
like after, you know, if I have to talk to
you about it, I shouldn't have to get the ticket.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Too, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I mean his demeanor changed from my best buddy to
I'm still a highway patrol that's correct.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, those those highway patrolmen I went to. I grew
up going to church with a highway patrolman. And Sunday
mornings he was he was a deacon, he was the
most godly man.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
He was.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You'd laugh with you, tell stories, teach Sunday school. But
Monday morning, if you were speeding on the way to school,
you were getting a ticket from the highway patrol the
side of him without hesitation.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, and that's his job. And then you and once again,
I always guilty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Every time. I was always guilty.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I've never been where I go, and even the times
where I actually there's a couple of times where I
wasn't speeding, and I well, I've had I've speeded everywhere,
so I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Say a word, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, but the best time I ever got pulled over
totally true.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I had a seventy model Chevy truck. Here they're dripping.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Springs and uh, it had no sticker. No back window.
It was a single cab, extended bed seventy truck.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
None of the lights worked, none of it had no tags,
didn't have a license plate, didn't have anything.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I was.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I took it over a buddy of mine. He needed
a truck to just in these yard move something. So
I drove her from my house because I was working.
I was in primer.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I didn't even. I wouldn't even.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I drove it over to my buddy's house and I
was coming back in dripping downtown, dripping, and Hayes County
Sheriff pulls me over and he walks up and he goes, family,
you cannot drive this piece of shit.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
On our road. Okay, I'm just going to tell you
right now.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And I mean it was rotted out, it was rusty,
it was bad looking. Point yeah, and uh, I said, man,
I just.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Had to go do one little deal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And he goes, what it is in good shape though,
I mean it's And I open the door and he's
looking at the floor and he goes, man, it's got
no cancers. I said, just right there on the bottom
of the doors where they all or the fenders. And
I said, that's an easy fix, but he bought it.
I was about that truck.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
He's looking words, man, have been looking for an old
truck like it? What do you?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And I think it was like fifteen hundred bucks. They're
ten grand now, but I know it's like fifteen hundreds.
When I got in it, I said, if you want it,
you want to just follow me home or what do
you want to do? And he said, let's take it
to my house. And we drove to his house and
he gave me a ride back in the chair car
and he bought that thing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I was like, okay, but I didn't get a ticket.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He made a little money off of it. I might have,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It was worth it not to have to pay the ticket.
So that's where my profit was. And I mean it
would have racked up everything wrong as far as no no, no,
even back window.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That was what was pitiful. I had taken the window. Well.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I hope you guys have a great week next week.
That's the iHeart Podcast Network, the Bama Brown Experience, and
we appreciate you listening and listen to Puma's show The
Sports Cave out of San Antonio to get both those shows.
Listen often and uh and give us some feedback sometime. Heck,
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Hey, folks, Bama Brown and iHeart podcast and the network.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You've got The Obama Brown Experience.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Is what we called this show that took some real
creativity and a whole team of consultants.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To come up with.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
The Bama Brown Experience was basically ripped all. I don't
know somebody else's I think has it. I think there's
about ten of them. There's three hundred thousand podcasts on
the iHeart network and that's not a mate up number,
that's real.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Most of are crime dramas.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But one of the most popular podcasts is The Big
Cat Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The Big Puma and the Big.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Cat who has the Sports Cave out of San Antonio.
Very popular sports show and he's my producer. What a coincidence?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well funny how that works out?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You mentioned I think podcaster to the point where popular,
like pop music is now, every guitar riff has been
done before, every podcast is. We're recycling at this point.
But you speak about creativity. If you need your sports fix,
why don't you hop over just search for the Sports Cave.
How creative is that? The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
(01:04):
Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for it. There
in the bar and hop in join the crew.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Remember Monday and Wednesday nights are live, so you want
to go in and get on the live show. You
hear the latest stuff that's going on, and he does
a fantastic job. Always point out Puma played college basketball,
so he's not just talking about he actually did it
all right here. I thought this was interesting. I get
some of these crime crime wave things. We got to
think of a name for this part of the show
because I get a lot of criminals across here. Twenty
(01:32):
six year old guy. This happened in Salem, New Hampshire.
Seventy mile per hour speed limit on I ninety three,
one hundred and eighteen miles per hour. So I don't
have an actual car, usually can get the car.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Texas always puts out their list, and we always have
somebody in the one nineties. Every year there's somebody it's
over one hundred ninety miles an hour on our local highway.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Sane in a car if.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You're doing that down at the Texas Mile at at
the old military base, the old airstrip down there, Like
that's one thing. But yeah, granted, I mean there are
parts not that I would ever suggest it or admit
that I have ever gone or anything close to it.
Let the disclaimer point out there's a lot of parts
in West Texas where you can get some really good
(02:22):
straight line speed and can see any vehicle coming towards
you or in your rear view mirror, so you can
feel pretty safe. But still never would suggest doing that
on a public road, of course, not, of course not.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Firestone has a down by Fort Stockton.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you look it up on the map, you got
to go way to the left if you're looking it up.
The Firestone had a test track downner. It was probably
ten miles. But you would see occasionally I drove in
the old field out there. I drove delivered drill bits
and all kinds of stuff and sold on steel all kinds.
I had three jobs in that same territory for years.
But you would see five cars running nose to back
(03:00):
with no hub caps. And those were they were tire testing,
and they just be you know, like LTDs or some
big Ford car or a big Chevrolet car, but they
were testing their tires and it'd be five of them together.
And I always thought that was pretty cool when you'd
see them, you know, and I thought well, that job
would be that would be a boring, boring job West Texas.
(03:21):
First of all. Second of all, you know you're riding
in that car. You know they ain't gonna give you
no FM radio. It's gonna be stripped down.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You're not getting anything in there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just it sounds miserable to me, but I mean they
seem to always have somebody doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You talk about West Texas, Crane County, that's the there's
one town that's south of Odessa. There's one town. It's
not a city, it's a town in Crane County. It's Crane, Texas.
And they, uh, it was a I think Chevron was
their golf and Chevron was the main people in that
county's all.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, worl Wells.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But there was one road it was ten miles long
into Crane and at dusk it kind of sloped down.
There was no private or public roads tied to it
on either side, and had a big bard ditch on
either side, so you had plenty of room.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And I had a Ferrari three oh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Eight, like a magnum p Ilcohr and it was black
and had a blue interior.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It was beautiful. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it was a target. The top came out. I
think I had the top on it this time. So
I drove I lived in Houston, but I drove it
out of sea, buddy of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And so I come.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Around this curve that leads onto this ten mile road,
and I had an Alpine stereo, which was the most
badass stereo you could get at the time, with all
the spirits, and I had Right of the Valkyries on
there from Vogna, so turned it up as loud.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
As no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I come on a curve at about I was already
at about one hundred and ten, and I just put
it on the floor. A had brand new Pirelli's on
it at tires, I brand new high speed tires. And
it went to one four be fairly quick, and then
from one forty it finally stopped climbing at one forty six,
a little over one forty five. And I held it
there for five minutes, and man, it handled like it
(05:12):
was forty five. That was the most best car. And
it just like and it wasn't even a red line
it was. It was almost a yellow line. But it
just like had Italian engine singing man and uh it was.
That was the fastest ized ever by myself alone driving
driving that car, and it I mean it did it
(05:33):
just for five minutes and then there was crane you know,
that's feat drink came up pretty yeast. It was a
dusk and I could see if there were headlights coming
and there was no headlights, there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The only thing it could have got me would have
been a deer, you know. But I mean I risked.
I risk it that time, and it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Was and it's just you that's getting wiped out.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And well, yeah, I would never do it with traffic
or anywhere that uh. But that's what's cool about the
Texas Malere doom about they had a they have a
g T forty this year that went three hundred miles
per hour on on and I'm talking about they did
a little bit of work on it. I think it
may have put a turbo on it or something, but
it was already bone stock suspension in tires. And then
(06:15):
GT forty went three hundred. You can buy a car
cross at a dealership that goes three hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well that's uh. Those Hennessy boys from down around and
they're always bringing some new contraption they've been working on
that you can you can buy. You buy the base
model of whatever the car is, you take it to them,
they do all the upgrades, and all of a sudden
you have a you basically have a stock car that
(06:42):
you can buy it a dealership that can, like you said,
can go three hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's just when I'm sitting on two ninety, they're dwide
O kill, I'm going, yeah, that's what I need is
the three hundred miles per hour car. I can go
two feet at a time.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Sure, yeah, exactly, Yeah, just especially I'm thinking if you're
buying that in the Houston area, you're driving one of
these you know, Hennessy Vipers in Houston track, that's just clutch.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It turned out by the time you get back they
had uh uh when I had that Ferrari. The reason
I visited that too is that the they had a
Ferrari that was a fact at the time. Now this goes.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Back forty years. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
At the time this, they had a Ferrari Testarosa that
had twin turbos on it and the tag the tag
said w I d.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
OPN wide Open.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Was a personalized license plate I was having mine service
A few pump was three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And the guy had a lab coat.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
If you're buying a car of a place where guy's
got a lab coat on, you're you're about to get hosed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is just telling you right now anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But that that and he had gone two hundred and
he said, right now, the guy's doing about two ten
in this car. And that was out of Firestone on
the test track. They taking it out there, you know.
But and then aj Foryd drove a car out there,
uh and did some crazy two fifty or something.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I mean it was nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And once again, going back forty years, the technology was
not there that is now you know any of the
any of that well, I say that, you know, a
GT forty was built in nineteen sixty four, so I
mean you could you could get the technology back then,
but uh, those that those came with a four twenty
seven side oiler.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I mean it's you and.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
An engine and you know, basically a little bitty So
they did have that technology back then, but not where
you buy the street and turn the air conditioning on
and go two hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, you're not gonna be uh you're not gonna be
blaring van Halen. Yeah, in any of those as.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You're I was so badass done no no, none, no,
no no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That was that was I wasn't cool ever, but that
was one time. Maybe that was kind of cool. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I wanted you to have this because you know you
and I are always laughing about losing these jobs. Uh,
here's phrases to avoid in a job interview.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This is not a joke.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
This is like they did a thing the top three
things that hiring people had heard, and they go, I
hear it all the time. Don't say it. I don't
want you don't even don't speak at all about this
number three, willing to take a step down. If you
go in and you say that, it's like you have
(09:22):
an electric loser flashes over your head. You know, even
if you are even if you need it, they say,
you never admit that you want and don't say I
want a challenge.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Don't do that either.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Just say I'm capable of doing the job. They said,
if they ask you about a program, a computer program,
go and my previous job. I didn't do that one,
but I did, and give them another program immediately that
they'll recognize that you are trained at. That's the one
(09:55):
time when you get to talk a little more than
just going yeah, I haven't been trained on that, say don't.
I was not trained on that one. But the one
that I have the most time on is you know,
brand X whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Number two. Uh, my previous company was very toxic. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You never whenever you say that, like why did you leave? Well,
it's pretty toxic. Okay, you were the toxic one. That's
why you left.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Immediately, you are associated.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
As being the one that calls all the shit. So
you don't ever say that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, no matter if it's true, like you could have.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You could have been leaving Harvey Weinstein run company the
most toxic job you've ever had. But don't don't lead
with that because the person's always going to assume, even
if even if you weren't fully to blame, you played
some role absolutely to the toxicity.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And remember they're not listening to some of the things
you're saying. They're listening to exactly what defines you. Remember
that you know, uh, you dressed for the job you want.
That's one of the most famous old saying number one
Puma and I could see a lot of people saying this,
my resume speaks for itself. They go, if ever there
(11:11):
was an asshole comment to me, my resume speaks for myself. Well,
what I see here says loser, So you know it's
I'm holding it up to my ear. Don't hire this guy.
So that's one to just say. They hear it all
the time. Our resume speaks for myself. Go into detail
if they ask you, don't wear them out with you know,
(11:33):
everything you did, but hit your high points. You're always
trying to hit your high points. But a lot of
times it's less you say is a better You know,
you just don't want to, you know, and we proved
that with this show every day.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well yeah, it kind of reminds me of like thinking
of a job interview, as you know, thinking of a
conversation with a cop that has you pulled over. Right,
you need to answer the questions. You need to be honest.
You need to tell them exactly who you are and
why you want and why you're going or doing whatever
(12:06):
you're doing right, But at the end of the day,
maybe the less you say is still in your better interest.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I've had people ask me all the time I've ever
been pulled over and then.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They recognize me.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I had a guy do that up on I
thirty five high Wood patrol pull me over and I
was in my Bennie Boyd truck with my dealer.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Tag on there.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And because that piece of action, and so he gets
he starts. You know, I shut my motor off, I
put my hands up, the window down. You know, have
your ID and your insurance ready to go if you
if you do those four things, yeah you might get
a ticket.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But also.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Everything that you can do to make that officer feel
more comfortable only will help you. And I'll certainly make
it go fast. I always say this, and I will
say this is a day I die. If you stay
in the car, keep your mouth shut exactly what you're
talking about, have your insurance, have no warrants out for you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If you've got a warrant. That's a big detail. Big detail.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But these guys get out and want to fight the
police because they don't want to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, nobody wants to go to jail.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But guess what, that's the rules has nothing to do
with color, It has nothing to do with anything other
than if you attack a police officer or if you
start with attitude. Guess what, it's gonna go badly. It
will every time. So have your hands on where the
wind is. Have your insurance, your license ready, have good insurance.
(13:33):
Have a Texas license. You gotta have that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And and if you aren't white, maybe avoid Hiko Texas
because there are still pockets. There are still there's a
few sundown cities.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
There's a few wink wink things you should try to avoid.
There's absolutely whom is making a great point. And and uh,
you know, and once again, I'm an old white redneck guy.
But that's I've had as many tickets I can think,
I'm very seldom have gotten away with anything because of
my color.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So I've just been saying it now. But this guy
said walking.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Up and he goes, Bamma, Brown, where are you going
so fast? And as many boy dodge, and I thought, man,
this is awesome. And I was guilty. I'm always guilty.
I was speeding. I was going to eighty on the
interstate and it was back then it was sixty five
or seventy.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And he's all the bit y'all did the other day.
And he's coming and I'm like laughing with him.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm laughing as hard as you're gonna laugh, like, oh,
you know, man, that was a great bit. Yeah, it
was a lot of fun, but I appreciate it. I'm going, dude,
this finally one time this works out.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
He takes a.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Step back, flips the ticket book and goes, you still
live out there at one twenty hardly that some bitch
wrote me a ticket after I had to talk to
him for ten minutes about the radio show and wrote
me a ticket.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Here was the beauty.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The beauty I was in a construction zone and didn't
even know it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Double the fine, oh no.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And then what was even worse is the judge was
Jan Braylan, who married Jamien Meet you know, and I'd
known Jan forever.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I walked in to pay this ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
She goes, Maamma, Browny, wait, like of this ticket and
construction zone congratulates four hundred and fifty dollars. This was
probably thirty something New Good or one hundred. I'd be
like a couple thousand now, But.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I was about to say.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And the worst part I talked to this guy about
the radio show, which I just don't even enjoy that
at all. But that was to this day, I was
like after, you know, if I have to talk to
you about it, I shouldn't have to get the ticket.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Too, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I mean his demeanor changed from my best buddy to
I'm still a highway patrol that's correct.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, those those highway patrolmen I went to. I grew
up going to church with a highway patrolman. And Sunday
mornings he was he was a deacon, he was the
most godly man.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
He was.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You'd laugh with you, tell stories, teach Sunday school. But
Monday morning, if you were speeding on the way to school,
you were getting a ticket from the highway patrol the
side of him without hesitation.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, and that's his job. And then you and once again,
I always guilty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Every time. I was always guilty.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I've never been where I go, and even the times
where I actually there's a couple of times where I
wasn't speeding, and I well, I've had I've speeded everywhere,
so I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Say a word, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, but the best time I ever got pulled over
totally true.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I had a seventy model Chevy truck. Here they're dripping.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Springs and uh, it had no sticker. No back window.
It was a single cab, extended bed seventy truck.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
None of the lights worked, none of it had no tags,
didn't have a license plate, didn't have anything.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I was.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I took it over a buddy of mine. He needed
a truck to just in these yard move something. So
I drove her from my house because I was working.
I was in primer.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I didn't even. I wouldn't even.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I drove it over to my buddy's house and I
was coming back in dripping downtown, dripping, and Hayes County
Sheriff pulls me over and he walks up and he goes, family,
you cannot drive this piece of shit.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
On our road. Okay, I'm just going to tell you
right now.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And I mean it was rotted out, it was rusty,
it was bad looking. Point yeah, and uh, I said, man,
I just.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Had to go do one little deal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And he goes, what it is in good shape though,
I mean it's And I open the door and he's
looking at the floor and he goes, man, it's got
no cancers. I said, just right there on the bottom
of the doors where they all or the fenders. And
I said, that's an easy fix, but he bought it.
I was about that truck.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
He's looking words, man, have been looking for an old
truck like it? What do you?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And I think it was like fifteen hundred bucks. They're
ten grand now, but I know it's like fifteen hundreds.
When I got in it, I said, if you want it,
you want to just follow me home or what do
you want to do? And he said, let's take it
to my house. And we drove to his house and
he gave me a ride back in the chair car
and he bought that thing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I was like, okay, but I didn't get a ticket.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He made a little money off of it. I might have,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It was worth it not to have to pay the ticket.
So that's where my profit was. And I mean it
would have racked up everything wrong as far as no no, no,
even back window.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That was what was pitiful. I had taken the window. Well.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I hope you guys have a great week next week.
That's the iHeart Podcast Network, the Bama Brown Experience, and
we appreciate you listening and listen to Puma's show The
Sports Cave out of San Antonio to get both those shows.
Listen often and uh and give us some feedback sometime. Heck,
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