May 30, 2025 • 14 mins
In this thought-provoking and wildly entertaining episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and co-host Big Puma dive deep into the shifting tides of American culture—from the surprising 27% drop in drug overdose deaths to the unexpected return of the infamous Yugo in 2027. With their signature blend of humor, heart, and hard-earned wisdom, the duo tackles everything from fentanyl’s devastating grip to the generational shift toward cleaner living.
Bama opens up about personal losses to fentanyl, sharing raw and sobering reflections that hit close to home. Meanwhile, Puma offers a millennial’s take on why Gen Z might be trading in “sex, drugs, and rock & roll” for something a little more grounded.
But it’s not all heavy—there’s plenty of levity, too. From the absurdity of Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles racing at the Indy 500 to Bama’s hilarious recounting of juggling three jobs (and three salaries!) in West Texas, this episode is a rollercoaster of emotion and insight.
Don’t Miss Out! If you laughed, learned, or just love a good story, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a dose of real talk and radio gold. The Bama Brown Experience is just getting started—and you won’t want to miss what’s next.
Bama opens up about personal losses to fentanyl, sharing raw and sobering reflections that hit close to home. Meanwhile, Puma offers a millennial’s take on why Gen Z might be trading in “sex, drugs, and rock & roll” for something a little more grounded.
But it’s not all heavy—there’s plenty of levity, too. From the absurdity of Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles racing at the Indy 500 to Bama’s hilarious recounting of juggling three jobs (and three salaries!) in West Texas, this episode is a rollercoaster of emotion and insight.
Don’t Miss Out! If you laughed, learned, or just love a good story, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a dose of real talk and radio gold. The Bama Brown Experience is just getting started—and you won’t want to miss what’s next.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're listening to the Bam of Brown Experience on the
iHeart podcast Network. Thank you for listening. Thousands of you
art don't understand that, but hey, it's fine, we appreciate it.
My long. Well, maybe you're listening for Puma the Big Cat,
my partner and co host, has a sports Cave in
San Antonio, the number one sports show in all of
Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How you doing, Bud, Oh, I'm doing well. I certainly
would hope they are not tuning in for this. There's
only one Texas Radio Hall of.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Famer on this burn oh Gosh Brown experience.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But if you do want a little sports in your life,
you can hear me over here in San Antonio on
the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. Anywhere you get your podcasts,
just throw that in the search bar there.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I drew, by the way to win that award, I
drew the deer head and seeing it in and that's
was awarded the art scholarship and membership into the Radio
Hall of Fame. I was in twenty two to fifty
is what it cost me. How about I'm gonna start
out with some good news on a Friday. You want it? This?
I think this drug. It's a serious deal. But drug
(01:06):
overdose overdose deaths in the US is down by twenty
seven percent. Down twenty seven percent. That's that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do we have Do you have any suggestion of what
is leading the decline?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's from twenty twenty four. So before you start going love,
what say Trump? It has nothing to do with Trump.
It has nothing to do They just it's down and
nobody knows why. But everybody's celebrating. I'm certain, Uh there's
I mean, there's more dope coming in than ever. But
hopefully more and more people have heard, young people have
(01:45):
heard or know a friend who has died from an overdose.
I believe there's sixty thousand. Now that's more than that.
It's like ninety thousand people a year die from fetanohl
in the US, and everybody knows somebody, my nephew by
the way. Just it's horrible. Uh. I know, I know
two other people that died from fentanol. Uh. And so
(02:09):
they that's what they think. Part of it is is
these younger people are here hearing these things and learning
that man, once you touch it, you're done. You know,
it's it's your your hook for life. It's it's not
something that you can go, yeah, I'm gonna go kick
it at a clinic. It's apparently it's everything, and it's
just you're dead.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The miniature deeper talents than than most other substances.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know. The interesting thing about the younger generation.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh, you know, I'm a millennial and gen Z apparently
they drink way way less and they do drugs way
way less.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They also have way less. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They basically way less sex, drugs and rock and roll, which,
in the long run, it sounds sounds way less fun,
but it also is. Uh, it's probably probably a comforting
shift in dynamic the.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Least amount of drugs, Like it wouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Who wasn't you said, Uh, it was a famous athlete
and he said, I spent all my money or a musician.
I spent all my money on on chicks and cars
and drugs and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I just pissed away.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't think that's too uncommon. And again, I there's
probably there's it's probably a saving grace that I haven't inherited.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The salary of a oh athlete to test those waters.
I don't think that would do well.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Been dead any year if I'd gotten any cash at all. Hey,
here's I bet you you're a car guy. I'm a
car guy. But did you know that the Hugo is
coming back? Hugo? I don't know how who's involved in
all that. I'm assuming, Uh it would be somebody's ball
a name and gonna try to bring it back. But
(04:01):
I don't know. But there was a picture of a
small car. I couldn't find any information. So we'll know
about it before twenty twenty seven anyway, that that baby's
coming out. By the way, speaking of cars, Indy Indianapolis,
five hundred, there are the six Oscar Mayer Wintermobiles will
be there and racing each other before the race. They're
got all six Winner mobiles are gonna are going to
(04:23):
compete with each other on the track, not in the
indie but just on the track.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Let's say that it sounds just like straight out of
Grand Tarismo, or like straight out of a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
They just said it was really a smart marketing ploy
because everybody knows that car, and everyoney's gonna be watching
that looking for that. By the way, that race for
the first time is sold out. Now that's three hundred
thousand seats, good lord, and then you have maybe two
hundred thousand in the infields. So they say there could
be there's so many you can't even count. It's something
(04:59):
like between four hundred and five hundred thousand people. Largest
sporting event they think in the in the world. You know,
of course there's some of those soccer games and some
of the Formula wond races do very very well. But
a half million people is a is a pretty big
sports event, right there.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah. I don't think you're I don't think you're getting
what is Austin.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think the over the course of you know, like
a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I think they get close to
half a million, But it's not you know, it's it's
one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand each day tops.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's not even halfway.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right, Yeah, So you you considered there's many people. They
they're up there for time trials or they're the money
that that brings in in Anneapolis. You remember the Grantedellies,
Andy Granatelly, this STP guy, you remember that name. You
may know STP. You may know the Granted L's if
you know any kind of races. Him and his brother
Andy Granelly and his brother. They were actually out of
(05:58):
Chicago and they built their Indy car, their very first one,
so this would be the late somewhere in the fifties,
late forties, early fifties. They built their own Indy car.
They drove it from Chicago ten Innapolis with one of
them in the seat and one of them hanging on
the side, just sitting on the side right, and they drove,
(06:19):
you know, he took turns. They drove it to Indianapolis,
they qualified for the race, They drove it to lunch
and drove it back. If you can imagine the technology
down with the Indy car, you know, they needed air
tunnel and all the air stuff that they do, you
know to check them and all the motive and these
guys driving it to work and then driving it to
(06:40):
lunch and then driving back and then racing in it.
I don't know how they did race wise. You know,
eventually he won with the with Mario there, but that
just cracked me up. But STP, basically by the way
ninety eight motorole there's nothing especially treated petroleum is what
STP stands for. But it's one of the greatest marketing
projects of all time. You didn't go anywhere, you didn't
(07:02):
see STP stickers on any everything. And they made a
fortune selling ninety weight all. They didn't have to really
do anything to another guy made a fortune. Elon Musk,
he's done fairly well. You're friends with him. I know
they're your old big buds.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The space stuff, I will give him that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, he's pretty well. He's got an AI computer, so
supercomputer in Boxtown, Tennessee, just outside of Memphis. And apparently
the smog and smoke from this unit, from this operation
is so bad that people can't hardly breathe in Memphis,
and they're complaining about it. And it's apparently in a
ratty part of Memphis, which is Memphis, the entire city.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I mean there's a lot of there's a lot
of our nation's history that you can trace back. There's
a reason industrial plants are built in certain parts of town,
maybe parts of town that you to be redlined, where
certain minorities were for.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It always is, yeah, always that way. Anyway, he's getting
a lot of he's getting a lot of heat over this,
and they're talking about it. You're gonna have to clean up.
And that's the thing with electric cars and electric maybe
you're electric cars, but if you see where the where
the coal and you see where you know, let's coal
is one thing, but you see where all this lithium
is mined, and then the pollution from the plants that
(08:27):
operate these electric cars and to make petroleum makes every
piece of electric cars. I you know, I don't know
how it's going to work out.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And what is it now? It's like forty of our
entire state's power grid is running these uh like a
blockchain mining Yeah yeah, I mean it's all and they
eat they.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Eat energy like no y. Yeah. So if you have
something in the cloud, and believe me, there's something running
it that's costing a lot of money. And by the way,
we're the ones paying for it. Now, I thought this
was interesting. I don't have a lot today, but I
thought these different things were. The average employee, they say,
and I don't know how many people they asked, I'm average,
(09:13):
POOMA was pretty exceptional, but I'm pretty much definition of it.
Average employee will change jobs seven times in a lifetime.
Fifty seven percent say for more pay, work life balance.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Jobs not change like professions.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I was reading I read it a little closer,
and it could be both. They said, you know, they
just averaged it out because if you left your company
and went to another company, you may take a different position,
but you also could take the same position. But they
said that the fifty I think it was fifty six percent,
was that it was more pay, and then work life
(09:52):
work slash life balance was forty two percent. So people
got tired of just grinding all day long, wanted a
little And that's how I gotten radio thirty eight years ago.
I didn't won't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, I was about to say, I'm thinking I might
have already if you go all the way back and
count like lifeguard whenever I was in high school, I.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Think I've probably already hit my seven different career.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I had seven within three years of graduating high school.
You know, the whole field. I'd rough neck or I'd
move rigs and selling drill bits and just on and
steel and did all these things, and and uh, you know,
it was not good at any of them. But but
then I got into radio, and turns out I was
full of shit as a Christmas goose. And that's what
(10:39):
you had to have here, That's that's what you that
was the talent you had to have is be full
of shit, and buddy I am. I mean it's coming
out my ears still going.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I can see it right now on stream. It's not
a pretty sight. Still going strong.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Never been good at it, but then been consistent. And
that's a lot of it is just showing up. You know,
eight years of doing radio in Austin, Texas and I
never even talked about it. I helped sell radio when
Thriller came out, so forty something years ago. I was
selling radio for a friend of mine with along with
my other job. Because they I was in Odessa and
(11:14):
you couldn't get people to do sales jobs. They would
not move to West Texas, and so I had a job.
But in mind he had a radio station, and then
they needed advertisers from like Fort Stockton, you know, West Texas,
all those little towns they wanted them to advertise. So
and then I also worked for a guy coming down
(11:37):
to Amaillo that did they supplied groceries, and so I
would go and then I was also selling drill bits
and sell.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Seven jobs simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And I had one company car and three salaries. And
I'd go into Fort Stockton and i'd go over there
to the mobile home dealer, and I'd ride his radio
ads and get everything all ready. And I'd go to
the grocery store and I would like to check his
you know, say pray go he needed a shelf of
prey Go and make sure it's all stack and everything.
I'd order his Prego order whatever. Grocers we had fifty
(12:10):
something brands, and I helped make sure these independent type
groceris not big HV chains. So I'd fill all that
out and i'd go out to the little rigs it
was out there and check their drill bits and get those.
I was. I was making a ship ton of money
and three jobs and and uh and then eventually I
just wanted out of Odessa so bad. I gave them
all up, you know, and just had one job for
(12:32):
a long time, which was weird to me.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, yeah, what did you It almost feels like
you had you would have to have three jobs in
Odessa just to keep you busy doing something.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Absolutely, I mean, it was. We used to call it
slow DEATHA. It was. It was. It was the worst, uh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So old timer sipping coffee at the diner, this slow DEATHA.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Everybody's like, hey, man, are you enjoying land Man, I said,
enjoy and I lived it. There's nothing good about land
Man except for Billy Ball. But that everything you see
on there, I go, yeah, that's not the way it happened.
That's probably how it is now. But back and when
I did it, there wouldn't they didn't care that I
had a crew, wouldn't take me to the hospital when
I got hurt one time because they didn't want to
(13:18):
lose their safety gloves. They got free gloves if nobody
got hurt, and they well, you can just rub some
dirt on it, you'll be fine. I'm like, it's broken.
My leg is broken, you know, just walk it off, walk,
rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine. Come on, whissy.
And I'm like, hey man, but you're sitting around going, well,
(13:40):
there'll be a warsing. I can get out of here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
We'll find someone to bomb. Just give it time, give
it time.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You'll enjoy. You'll find something you can do. You'll enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But this radio thing, it turned out to work pretty well.
So you're listening to the Bam and Brown Experience such
as it is on the iHeart podcast network along with
the Big Puma. Thanks for listening all week
You're listening to the Bam of Brown Experience on the
iHeart podcast Network. Thank you for listening. Thousands of you
art don't understand that, but hey, it's fine, we appreciate it.
My long. Well, maybe you're listening for Puma the Big Cat,
my partner and co host, has a sports Cave in
San Antonio, the number one sports show in all of
Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How you doing, Bud, Oh, I'm doing well. I certainly
would hope they are not tuning in for this. There's
only one Texas Radio Hall of.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Famer on this burn oh Gosh Brown experience.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But if you do want a little sports in your life,
you can hear me over here in San Antonio on
the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. Anywhere you get your podcasts,
just throw that in the search bar there.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I drew, by the way to win that award, I
drew the deer head and seeing it in and that's
was awarded the art scholarship and membership into the Radio
Hall of Fame. I was in twenty two to fifty
is what it cost me. How about I'm gonna start
out with some good news on a Friday. You want it? This?
I think this drug. It's a serious deal. But drug
(01:06):
overdose overdose deaths in the US is down by twenty
seven percent. Down twenty seven percent. That's that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do we have Do you have any suggestion of what
is leading the decline?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's from twenty twenty four. So before you start going love,
what say Trump? It has nothing to do with Trump.
It has nothing to do They just it's down and
nobody knows why. But everybody's celebrating. I'm certain, Uh there's
I mean, there's more dope coming in than ever. But
hopefully more and more people have heard, young people have
(01:45):
heard or know a friend who has died from an overdose.
I believe there's sixty thousand. Now that's more than that.
It's like ninety thousand people a year die from fetanohl
in the US, and everybody knows somebody, my nephew by
the way. Just it's horrible. Uh. I know, I know
two other people that died from fentanol. Uh. And so
(02:09):
they that's what they think. Part of it is is
these younger people are here hearing these things and learning
that man, once you touch it, you're done. You know,
it's it's your your hook for life. It's it's not
something that you can go, yeah, I'm gonna go kick
it at a clinic. It's apparently it's everything, and it's
just you're dead.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The miniature deeper talents than than most other substances.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know. The interesting thing about the younger generation.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh, you know, I'm a millennial and gen Z apparently
they drink way way less and they do drugs way
way less.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
They also have way less. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They basically way less sex, drugs and rock and roll, which,
in the long run, it sounds sounds way less fun,
but it also is. Uh, it's probably probably a comforting
shift in dynamic the.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Least amount of drugs, Like it wouldn't be that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Who wasn't you said, Uh, it was a famous athlete
and he said, I spent all my money or a musician.
I spent all my money on on chicks and cars
and drugs and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I just pissed away.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I don't think that's too uncommon. And again, I there's
probably there's it's probably a saving grace that I haven't inherited.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The salary of a oh athlete to test those waters.
I don't think that would do well.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Been dead any year if I'd gotten any cash at all. Hey,
here's I bet you you're a car guy. I'm a
car guy. But did you know that the Hugo is
coming back? Hugo? I don't know how who's involved in
all that. I'm assuming, Uh it would be somebody's ball
a name and gonna try to bring it back. But
(04:01):
I don't know. But there was a picture of a
small car. I couldn't find any information. So we'll know
about it before twenty twenty seven anyway, that that baby's
coming out. By the way, speaking of cars, Indy Indianapolis,
five hundred, there are the six Oscar Mayer Wintermobiles will
be there and racing each other before the race. They're
got all six Winner mobiles are gonna are going to
(04:23):
compete with each other on the track, not in the
indie but just on the track.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Let's say that it sounds just like straight out of
Grand Tarismo, or like straight out of a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
They just said it was really a smart marketing ploy
because everybody knows that car, and everyoney's gonna be watching
that looking for that. By the way, that race for
the first time is sold out. Now that's three hundred
thousand seats, good lord, and then you have maybe two
hundred thousand in the infields. So they say there could
be there's so many you can't even count. It's something
(04:59):
like between four hundred and five hundred thousand people. Largest
sporting event they think in the in the world. You know,
of course there's some of those soccer games and some
of the Formula wond races do very very well. But
a half million people is a is a pretty big
sports event, right there.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah. I don't think you're I don't think you're getting
what is Austin.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think the over the course of you know, like
a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I think they get close to
half a million, But it's not you know, it's it's
one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand each day tops.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's not even halfway.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right, Yeah, So you you considered there's many people. They
they're up there for time trials or they're the money
that that brings in in Anneapolis. You remember the Grantedellies,
Andy Granatelly, this STP guy, you remember that name. You
may know STP. You may know the Granted L's if
you know any kind of races. Him and his brother
Andy Granelly and his brother. They were actually out of
(05:58):
Chicago and they built their Indy car, their very first one,
so this would be the late somewhere in the fifties,
late forties, early fifties. They built their own Indy car.
They drove it from Chicago ten Innapolis with one of
them in the seat and one of them hanging on
the side, just sitting on the side right, and they drove,
(06:19):
you know, he took turns. They drove it to Indianapolis,
they qualified for the race, They drove it to lunch
and drove it back. If you can imagine the technology
down with the Indy car, you know, they needed air
tunnel and all the air stuff that they do, you
know to check them and all the motive and these
guys driving it to work and then driving it to
(06:40):
lunch and then driving back and then racing in it.
I don't know how they did race wise. You know,
eventually he won with the with Mario there, but that
just cracked me up. But STP, basically by the way
ninety eight motorole there's nothing especially treated petroleum is what
STP stands for. But it's one of the greatest marketing
projects of all time. You didn't go anywhere, you didn't
(07:02):
see STP stickers on any everything. And they made a
fortune selling ninety weight all. They didn't have to really
do anything to another guy made a fortune. Elon Musk,
he's done fairly well. You're friends with him. I know
they're your old big buds.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The space stuff, I will give him that.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, he's pretty well. He's got an AI computer, so
supercomputer in Boxtown, Tennessee, just outside of Memphis. And apparently
the smog and smoke from this unit, from this operation
is so bad that people can't hardly breathe in Memphis,
and they're complaining about it. And it's apparently in a
ratty part of Memphis, which is Memphis, the entire city.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I mean there's a lot of there's a lot
of our nation's history that you can trace back. There's
a reason industrial plants are built in certain parts of town,
maybe parts of town that you to be redlined, where
certain minorities were for.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It always is, yeah, always that way. Anyway, he's getting
a lot of he's getting a lot of heat over this,
and they're talking about it. You're gonna have to clean up.
And that's the thing with electric cars and electric maybe
you're electric cars, but if you see where the where
the coal and you see where you know, let's coal
is one thing, but you see where all this lithium
is mined, and then the pollution from the plants that
(08:27):
operate these electric cars and to make petroleum makes every
piece of electric cars. I you know, I don't know
how it's going to work out.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And what is it now? It's like forty of our
entire state's power grid is running these uh like a
blockchain mining Yeah yeah, I mean it's all and they
eat they.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Eat energy like no y. Yeah. So if you have
something in the cloud, and believe me, there's something running
it that's costing a lot of money. And by the way,
we're the ones paying for it. Now, I thought this
was interesting. I don't have a lot today, but I
thought these different things were. The average employee, they say,
and I don't know how many people they asked, I'm average,
(09:13):
POOMA was pretty exceptional, but I'm pretty much definition of it.
Average employee will change jobs seven times in a lifetime.
Fifty seven percent say for more pay, work life balance.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Jobs not change like professions.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I was reading I read it a little closer,
and it could be both. They said, you know, they
just averaged it out because if you left your company
and went to another company, you may take a different position,
but you also could take the same position. But they
said that the fifty I think it was fifty six percent,
was that it was more pay, and then work life
(09:52):
work slash life balance was forty two percent. So people
got tired of just grinding all day long, wanted a
little And that's how I gotten radio thirty eight years ago.
I didn't won't work anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, I was about to say, I'm thinking I might
have already if you go all the way back and
count like lifeguard whenever I was in high school, I.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Think I've probably already hit my seven different career.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I had seven within three years of graduating high school.
You know, the whole field. I'd rough neck or I'd
move rigs and selling drill bits and just on and
steel and did all these things, and and uh, you know,
it was not good at any of them. But but
then I got into radio, and turns out I was
full of shit as a Christmas goose. And that's what
(10:39):
you had to have here, That's that's what you that
was the talent you had to have is be full
of shit, and buddy I am. I mean it's coming
out my ears still going.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I can see it right now on stream. It's not
a pretty sight. Still going strong.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Never been good at it, but then been consistent. And
that's a lot of it is just showing up. You know,
eight years of doing radio in Austin, Texas and I
never even talked about it. I helped sell radio when
Thriller came out, so forty something years ago. I was
selling radio for a friend of mine with along with
my other job. Because they I was in Odessa and
(11:14):
you couldn't get people to do sales jobs. They would
not move to West Texas, and so I had a job.
But in mind he had a radio station, and then
they needed advertisers from like Fort Stockton, you know, West Texas,
all those little towns they wanted them to advertise. So
and then I also worked for a guy coming down
(11:37):
to Amaillo that did they supplied groceries, and so I
would go and then I was also selling drill bits
and sell.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Seven jobs simultaneously.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And I had one company car and three salaries. And
I'd go into Fort Stockton and i'd go over there
to the mobile home dealer, and I'd ride his radio
ads and get everything all ready. And I'd go to
the grocery store and I would like to check his
you know, say pray go he needed a shelf of
prey Go and make sure it's all stack and everything.
I'd order his Prego order whatever. Grocers we had fifty
(12:10):
something brands, and I helped make sure these independent type
groceris not big HV chains. So I'd fill all that
out and i'd go out to the little rigs it
was out there and check their drill bits and get those.
I was. I was making a ship ton of money
and three jobs and and uh and then eventually I
just wanted out of Odessa so bad. I gave them
all up, you know, and just had one job for
(12:32):
a long time, which was weird to me.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, yeah, what did you It almost feels like
you had you would have to have three jobs in
Odessa just to keep you busy doing something.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Absolutely, I mean, it was. We used to call it
slow DEATHA. It was. It was. It was the worst, uh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So old timer sipping coffee at the diner, this slow DEATHA.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Everybody's like, hey, man, are you enjoying land Man, I said,
enjoy and I lived it. There's nothing good about land
Man except for Billy Ball. But that everything you see
on there, I go, yeah, that's not the way it happened.
That's probably how it is now. But back and when
I did it, there wouldn't they didn't care that I
had a crew, wouldn't take me to the hospital when
I got hurt one time because they didn't want to
(13:18):
lose their safety gloves. They got free gloves if nobody
got hurt, and they well, you can just rub some
dirt on it, you'll be fine. I'm like, it's broken.
My leg is broken, you know, just walk it off, walk,
rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine. Come on, whissy.
And I'm like, hey man, but you're sitting around going, well,
(13:40):
there'll be a warsing. I can get out of here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
We'll find someone to bomb. Just give it time, give
it time.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You'll enjoy. You'll find something you can do. You'll enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But this radio thing, it turned out to work pretty well.
So you're listening to the Bam and Brown Experience such
as it is on the iHeart podcast network along with
the Big Puma. Thanks for listening all week
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