November 28, 2025 • 11 mins
What’s the worst luck you’ve ever had? In this episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive into a whirlwind of jaw-dropping stories that will make you laugh, shake your head, and maybe question humanity’s decision-making skills.
From three thieves who accidentally break into a police training facility (while driving a stolen car!) to a carnival disaster involving a nine-year-old ride operator and a very drunk guest, this episode is packed with outrageous “bonehead” moments. But it’s not all laughs—Bama also takes us on a fascinating journey into the art world with the unbelievable story of the “Lost Leonardo” painting that went from $1,100 to a record-breaking $500 million auction sale.
Along the way, you’ll hear:
From three thieves who accidentally break into a police training facility (while driving a stolen car!) to a carnival disaster involving a nine-year-old ride operator and a very drunk guest, this episode is packed with outrageous “bonehead” moments. But it’s not all laughs—Bama also takes us on a fascinating journey into the art world with the unbelievable story of the “Lost Leonardo” painting that went from $1,100 to a record-breaking $500 million auction sale.
Along the way, you’ll hear:
- Why a nationwide Black Friday boycott might not be as practical as it sounds.
- The hilarious missteps of Russia’s first humanoid robot.
- A surprising Hello Kitty collaboration that sparked controversy.
- How PBS raised $600,000 with Bob Ross originals—and the shocking truth behind the Bob Ross brand.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi everybody, Bama Brown William the Bamba Brown Experience on
the Ihart Podcast Network. Thank you for joining us. We
appreciate it. Along with the Big Cat, my partner, mister Puma,
he has the Sports Cave very popular, in fact, the
most popular sports show in all of Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Say Hi Buddy, Well, Hi buddy. He follows directions perfectly, the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Best the best co host, Yuck Monkey ride along. You
can possibly find out absolutely if you missed last night's
live show, it's the only one we're doing this week,
so go get caught up on it. Anywhere you get
your podcast, just search for the Sports Cave with the
Biggest Puma. We're working light this week in account of
(00:48):
the holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, we're still gonna be We're still gonna have one Thursday.
So if you're looking looking bored and tired of watching TV,
that you know Puma's mentioning something. He is the best
I have been and my thirty eight almost thirty nine
years of radio in Austin, Texas, including the podcast, I
have been so lucky in having great partners. I to
the person, and I've had a lot of them. You know,
(01:11):
all of them went on to do better things.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Than me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I have been very lucky to have great partners. And
so when I got a chance, I had called Puma
and I said, I'm gonna do this podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Been a year now, we were a little over the year.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I think last week it was a year three hundred
and thirty some shows anyway, and he had agreed to
do this to pay off his gambling debts. So he's
almost there. A year'll be you'll be caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Never might might help get me into heaven, you know,
doing he didn't listen.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So they say there's going to be a nationwide boycott
for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Wet.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
They well, they just say they want small small business,
says pay cash, you know, go local, buy small business,
don't buy from the big stores. Uh, give the give
the little guy a chance. They said, don't even travel,
don't you know, don't even just stay home and shop
in your community.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
If you can. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't necessarily agree with that, but I do buy
a lot of stuff and have all my work done locally.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
About to say, I mean, there's a it feels like
there are there are lanes where I always go local
and then for you know, like where am I going
to buy a local?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Where am I going to buy a new TV for
Black Friday? Local? Right? Yeah? I mean that doesn't that
doesn't feel like there's just any options available.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, you got a best buy and that's about it.
You know, what do you what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There's then you can do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You Oh you want, I got a good bonehead for you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I have the best.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I had the best bonehead yesterday, but I have a
new best bonehead for the week. There's three of them,
three guys in Thurston County, Washington State. Uh, they were
driving around in a stolen car looking for you know,
some stuff that good start. They picked a building that
looked like it had like, you know, copper and stuff
they could steal, and they broke into it through the front.
(03:09):
That what they didn't know it was a police training facility.
Fifteen cops were in the back working on stuff and
getting working on their equipment and stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So all three of.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Them, by the way, had warrants out for them not
to mention in a stolen car.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, I mean, what better what better training exercise for
fifteen officers that have three three guys with warrants and
a stolen vehicle roll up to your training facility.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I just thought that. I mean, that's just bad luck.
This is all that is bad luck right there.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They say, you know, they say, some people, you know,
make their own luck. I feel like that's the case
of like those guys are making their own bad luck
and live with all the.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Bad decisions and the tattoos on the face and stuff,
like just a series of bad, bad decisions. Here's another
bad you want another way? I mean, I got bone
uts for the week. This happened in British Columbia. They
had a carnival ride up there, the Zipper. Well, we've
all ridden on the zipper. I mean it it gives
you your money's work, man, I mean it slings your around,
(04:25):
you know, it goes up. The operator there was helping
people in and out of the ride there the zipper,
to help them get in and get out, when his
son that worked with him activated the ride too early
and then knocked down a drunk woman. This woman was
trashed already and had been kicked out of the carnival
the night before for being too drunk. All right, so
(04:47):
you're too drunk to be a carnival. Think about that.
That's that's a car that is white trash. Anyway, it
knocked her down. Now she was all right. She fell
completely out of the ride. She got up, guy helped
her get in. Everything's okay. By the way. They are
in trouble, however, because the son of the operator, the
(05:07):
guy operating the ride, actual operator, nine years old, the zipper.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
He's trying to learn the family business early. Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
British Columbia Police said, there's just a whole lot wrong
with this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It wasn't just one, wasn't just one over here. It
was all combination of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So look, I'm not gonna lie. Some of the redneck
rural carnivals I've been to in my life, there's times
where I've looked at the guy operating the ride and
I might prefer to have a nine year old in
control of things then the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That is good that you're making a great point. It
looks like background checks not big safety not first on
the checklist for some of this stuff. Absolutely, let's see,
I've got there's just so many people out there doing
so many crazy things. Let's do that. This was pretty
(06:02):
good a uh Russians. First, this is in Russia their
first robotic person, completely robotic person, uh, that they had invented,
and they put it. They came out with it for
the display to be introduced, and then it immediately fell down,
so right in front of everybody. It stumbled and fell
(06:24):
right there when they were going look how and I said, well,
that's real because I fall down all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So yeah, I was about to saying it's just programmed. Uh,
it's just programmed to truly mimic humans. That's a that's
a pretty bad product to roll out there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It'd be one thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's like it reminds me of when Elon was rolling
out the cyber trucks. It was like indestructible and he
hit the window and it just shattered.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They shattered.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Maybe not that one, but the rest of them are indestructible.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Absolutely. Yeah. Never a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Hell Kitty. Everybody know my daughter loved Hello Kitty. They
have a collaboration with a company and they came up
with a special soy sauce and someone pointed out, you
really shouldn't mention Asian food and cats.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah that, uh, look, some things some things I want
to defend against the stereotypes. But when I was at
Tarleton State University in Stevenville, Texas, there were two Chinese
food restaurants. There was the one that everybody went to
(07:37):
for generations of families, been there for decades.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was awesome, it was great food.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and then there was the one that literally got
busted serving cat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Like again, I I hate to just lean into the stereotype,
but when it happens in Stateonville, Texas, it's happening all over.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You know a lot of times when they call it
profile him, there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sometimes not always. Sometimes this is a good idea. You know,
the PBS stations around the country are struggling now because
they've got their money off. I don't agree, I don't disagree,
don't have nothing to do with it. But La PBS
station they had three original Bob Ross paintings and they
auctioned them all and they raised six hundred thousand dollars
(08:29):
I believe it. They said that's going to keep them
rolling for a while. They say a lot more of
the Bob Ross's are going to be auctioned off around
the country, the real ones. Now bear in mind the
company that bought that. If you ever want to see
a scam and happening that Bob Ross he got cheated
out of his own company by these people. And then
a guy walked into a room and there was ten
(08:50):
people painting Bob Ross paintings and signing them Bob Ross.
So bear that in mind. And if you're buying a
habit where you buy it original quote Bob Ross, make
sure that it is original. By the way, I watched
that documentary. I finally got to see it, The Missing Leonardo.
Have you watched that yet?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You need to watch That's tap me tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's it's the uh there was they call it the
Male Mona.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Lisa supposedly was.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I won't I want to give you the whole deal,
but because this is so many levels of this story,
but it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's the Missing Leonardo. Supposedly his last number thirty six,
his last painting. They say they've tried to trace the history.
They went back one hundred years, can't go back any
further than that. It was destroyed. I mean it was
like ruined in some manner and it looked really bad.
So they took it to a woman who is supposedly
(09:48):
the number one Leonardo expert in the world, and they said, hey,
we need this to be we want this to get fixed.
They supposedly paid eleven hundred dollars for this painting. So
she starts it not knowing it's a Leonardo picture painting,
and all of a sudden she sees some details in it,
and she goes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Wait a minute, this is a this is a real one.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
This is a real Leonardo. So then it became the
story of whether it was real or not, and then
might have been one of his students. They don't know,
but it's a really fascinating show. I will give you
I will give away one of the things. It ended
up selling it auction because I remember us talking about
it on the radio, and sold it auction for five
hundred million dollars btil, the largest auction item out there
(10:34):
in the history of auction items.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What do you say they paid for it to begin?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Eleven hundred dollars is what the original want and those
people had it painted well. Then they sold it for
eighty And then this guy sold it for one hundred
and thirty to this Russian oli guard who found out
he had made forty mission forty million in commission, and
so he threatened to kill him. I mean, the story
is this fascinating.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I'm in I.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Check it out, the Loss of Leonardo, and I think
you'll enjoy if you like art, or you just like auctions,
or you like any of that kind of stuff. But
it's just it's an unbelievable story that's on there. But
I remember us covering the Solderby's auction on the radio,
and they thought it would go for one hundred and
eighty million, and it ended up going for five hundred
(11:19):
million dollars, so five fifty. As a matter of fact,
the Solderby's made fifty million on the auction, right, of
course they got to get their cut absolutely. All right,
Well that's it for today. Thank you so much for
listening to us. We sure appreciate you.
Hi everybody, Bama Brown William the Bamba Brown Experience on
the Ihart Podcast Network. Thank you for joining us. We
appreciate it. Along with the Big Cat, my partner, mister Puma,
he has the Sports Cave very popular, in fact, the
most popular sports show in all of Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Say Hi Buddy, Well, Hi buddy. He follows directions perfectly, the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Best the best co host, Yuck Monkey ride along. You
can possibly find out absolutely if you missed last night's
live show, it's the only one we're doing this week,
so go get caught up on it. Anywhere you get
your podcast, just search for the Sports Cave with the
Biggest Puma. We're working light this week in account of
(00:48):
the holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, we're still gonna be We're still gonna have one Thursday.
So if you're looking looking bored and tired of watching TV,
that you know Puma's mentioning something. He is the best
I have been and my thirty eight almost thirty nine
years of radio in Austin, Texas, including the podcast, I
have been so lucky in having great partners. I to
the person, and I've had a lot of them. You know,
(01:11):
all of them went on to do better things.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Than me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I have been very lucky to have great partners. And
so when I got a chance, I had called Puma
and I said, I'm gonna do this podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Been a year now, we were a little over the year.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I think last week it was a year three hundred
and thirty some shows anyway, and he had agreed to
do this to pay off his gambling debts. So he's
almost there. A year'll be you'll be caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Never might might help get me into heaven, you know,
doing he didn't listen.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So they say there's going to be a nationwide boycott
for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Wet.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
They well, they just say they want small small business,
says pay cash, you know, go local, buy small business,
don't buy from the big stores. Uh, give the give
the little guy a chance. They said, don't even travel,
don't you know, don't even just stay home and shop
in your community.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
If you can. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't necessarily agree with that, but I do buy
a lot of stuff and have all my work done locally.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
About to say, I mean, there's a it feels like
there are there are lanes where I always go local
and then for you know, like where am I going
to buy a local?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Where am I going to buy a new TV for
Black Friday? Local? Right? Yeah? I mean that doesn't that
doesn't feel like there's just any options available.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, you got a best buy and that's about it.
You know, what do you what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There's then you can do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You Oh you want, I got a good bonehead for you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I have the best.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I had the best bonehead yesterday, but I have a
new best bonehead for the week. There's three of them,
three guys in Thurston County, Washington State. Uh, they were
driving around in a stolen car looking for you know,
some stuff that good start. They picked a building that
looked like it had like, you know, copper and stuff
they could steal, and they broke into it through the front.
(03:09):
That what they didn't know it was a police training facility.
Fifteen cops were in the back working on stuff and
getting working on their equipment and stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So all three of.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Them, by the way, had warrants out for them not
to mention in a stolen car.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, I mean, what better what better training exercise for
fifteen officers that have three three guys with warrants and
a stolen vehicle roll up to your training facility.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I just thought that. I mean, that's just bad luck.
This is all that is bad luck right there.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They say, you know, they say, some people, you know,
make their own luck. I feel like that's the case
of like those guys are making their own bad luck
and live with all the.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Bad decisions and the tattoos on the face and stuff,
like just a series of bad, bad decisions. Here's another
bad you want another way? I mean, I got bone
uts for the week. This happened in British Columbia. They
had a carnival ride up there, the Zipper. Well, we've
all ridden on the zipper. I mean it it gives
you your money's work, man, I mean it slings your around,
(04:25):
you know, it goes up. The operator there was helping
people in and out of the ride there the zipper,
to help them get in and get out, when his
son that worked with him activated the ride too early
and then knocked down a drunk woman. This woman was
trashed already and had been kicked out of the carnival
the night before for being too drunk. All right, so
(04:47):
you're too drunk to be a carnival. Think about that.
That's that's a car that is white trash. Anyway, it
knocked her down. Now she was all right. She fell
completely out of the ride. She got up, guy helped
her get in. Everything's okay. By the way. They are
in trouble, however, because the son of the operator, the
(05:07):
guy operating the ride, actual operator, nine years old, the zipper.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
He's trying to learn the family business early. Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
British Columbia Police said, there's just a whole lot wrong
with this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It wasn't just one, wasn't just one over here. It
was all combination of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So look, I'm not gonna lie. Some of the redneck
rural carnivals I've been to in my life, there's times
where I've looked at the guy operating the ride and
I might prefer to have a nine year old in
control of things then the guy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That is good that you're making a great point. It
looks like background checks not big safety not first on
the checklist for some of this stuff. Absolutely, let's see,
I've got there's just so many people out there doing
so many crazy things. Let's do that. This was pretty
(06:02):
good a uh Russians. First, this is in Russia their
first robotic person, completely robotic person, uh, that they had invented,
and they put it. They came out with it for
the display to be introduced, and then it immediately fell down,
so right in front of everybody. It stumbled and fell
(06:24):
right there when they were going look how and I said, well,
that's real because I fall down all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So yeah, I was about to saying it's just programmed. Uh,
it's just programmed to truly mimic humans. That's a that's
a pretty bad product to roll out there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It'd be one thing.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's like it reminds me of when Elon was rolling
out the cyber trucks. It was like indestructible and he
hit the window and it just shattered.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They shattered.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Maybe not that one, but the rest of them are indestructible.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Absolutely. Yeah. Never a good look.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Hell Kitty. Everybody know my daughter loved Hello Kitty. They
have a collaboration with a company and they came up
with a special soy sauce and someone pointed out, you
really shouldn't mention Asian food and cats.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah that, uh, look, some things some things I want
to defend against the stereotypes. But when I was at
Tarleton State University in Stevenville, Texas, there were two Chinese
food restaurants. There was the one that everybody went to
(07:37):
for generations of families, been there for decades.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was awesome, it was great food.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and then there was the one that literally got
busted serving cat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Like again, I I hate to just lean into the stereotype,
but when it happens in Stateonville, Texas, it's happening all over.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You know a lot of times when they call it
profile him, there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sometimes not always. Sometimes this is a good idea. You know,
the PBS stations around the country are struggling now because
they've got their money off. I don't agree, I don't disagree,
don't have nothing to do with it. But La PBS
station they had three original Bob Ross paintings and they
auctioned them all and they raised six hundred thousand dollars
(08:29):
I believe it. They said that's going to keep them
rolling for a while. They say a lot more of
the Bob Ross's are going to be auctioned off around
the country, the real ones. Now bear in mind the
company that bought that. If you ever want to see
a scam and happening that Bob Ross he got cheated
out of his own company by these people. And then
a guy walked into a room and there was ten
(08:50):
people painting Bob Ross paintings and signing them Bob Ross.
So bear that in mind. And if you're buying a
habit where you buy it original quote Bob Ross, make
sure that it is original. By the way, I watched
that documentary. I finally got to see it, The Missing Leonardo.
Have you watched that yet?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You need to watch That's tap me tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's it's the uh there was they call it the
Male Mona.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Lisa supposedly was.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I won't I want to give you the whole deal,
but because this is so many levels of this story,
but it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's the Missing Leonardo. Supposedly his last number thirty six,
his last painting. They say they've tried to trace the history.
They went back one hundred years, can't go back any
further than that. It was destroyed. I mean it was
like ruined in some manner and it looked really bad.
So they took it to a woman who is supposedly
(09:48):
the number one Leonardo expert in the world, and they said, hey,
we need this to be we want this to get fixed.
They supposedly paid eleven hundred dollars for this painting. So
she starts it not knowing it's a Leonardo picture painting,
and all of a sudden she sees some details in it,
and she goes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Wait a minute, this is a this is a real one.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
This is a real Leonardo. So then it became the
story of whether it was real or not, and then
might have been one of his students. They don't know,
but it's a really fascinating show. I will give you
I will give away one of the things. It ended
up selling it auction because I remember us talking about
it on the radio, and sold it auction for five
hundred million dollars btil, the largest auction item out there
(10:34):
in the history of auction items.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What do you say they paid for it to begin?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Eleven hundred dollars is what the original want and those
people had it painted well. Then they sold it for
eighty And then this guy sold it for one hundred
and thirty to this Russian oli guard who found out
he had made forty mission forty million in commission, and
so he threatened to kill him. I mean, the story
is this fascinating.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I'm in I.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Check it out, the Loss of Leonardo, and I think
you'll enjoy if you like art, or you just like auctions,
or you like any of that kind of stuff. But
it's just it's an unbelievable story that's on there. But
I remember us covering the Solderby's auction on the radio,
and they thought it would go for one hundred and
eighty million, and it ended up going for five hundred
(11:19):
million dollars, so five fifty. As a matter of fact,
the Solderby's made fifty million on the auction, right, of
course they got to get their cut absolutely. All right,
Well that's it for today. Thank you so much for
listening to us. We sure appreciate you.
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