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November 21, 2025 19 mins
Would you trust the government with your treasure map? That’s just one of the wild questions we tackle in this episode of The Bama Brown Experience—and trust us, it only gets crazier from there.

Join Bama Brown and Puma for ten minutes or so of unfiltered talk, sharp humor, and jaw-dropping stories that range from side hustles that can fatten your wallet this winter to a sheriff’s scandal that sounds straight out of a soap opera. Highlights include:
  • Top 5 Winter Side Hustles you can start today—TV mounting, holiday errands, and more.
  • A Home Alone 2 hotel package that’ll make you nostalgic (and maybe broke).
  • The bizarre tale of a grenade donation at Goodwill—yes, really.
  • A credible Bigfoot sighting in Pennsylvania that has hunters talking.
  • The shocking story of Civil War gold, a treasure map, and a government heist that’s now in court.
Plus, Bama shares personal gems—from demolition derby scars to wearing a $250,000 gold chain courtesy of legendary treasure hunter Mel Fisher. If you love absurdity and stories that make you say, “Wait, what?”, this episode is for you.

Subscribe now, leave us a review, and share this episode with a friend who loves a good laugh and a wild story!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, hey, folks, Bama Brown with you and the Bama
Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast network. We're over ten
thousand listeners and we appreciate that so much, really and truly,
I thank you. Of course, a lot of people. The
cost of TV now has risen, and you you know,
you're having to find alternatives, and that's why a free
show like this one is is awesome. No commercials in

(00:25):
the middle of it. You won't ever find out here
because nobody wants to buy this. We got the big
Cat Puma now his deals all sold out. You got
real client, real advertisers.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
No commercials though, still no commercials, We'll give you. We'll
give you two hours straight of some solid sports talk
with a little bit of absurdity sprinkled in.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Here and there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Anywhere anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the
Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Come hang out with me and the crew.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I had a guy ask me to day. He goes,
you're not on cavet anymore? And I said, well, I'm
not on He goes, no, No, I mean you're on
every break doing commercials. He said, that's just like a
radio thrifty nickel for you isn't it now? I go, yeah,
I got a few ads run out there.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
That's a good call.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
But when I sell somebody for you, you buy from
them because they're good people and I've been doing them
a long time, and I don't want to have to
go back to framan for a living at sixty eight
years old. Okay, you want to do that? Uh? Top five?
Do we plug your show? The biggest, the big Puma.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
We got my Uh we got my contractually obligated flog
out of the way.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Honor two. And it's kind of like having a sister
that want of contesters. You want brag, you know, you know,
my sister went to you know you tea ors I got.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was intrigues school. Uh here's a comparison. Just because
of the long hair. You could have said my brother,
but you went with sister.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
There. I noticed I was looking at your hair. Man,
he's got a great hair. I'm bald as it could be,
you know, and uh, I look like, honestly, God, I
looked like I'd have kids buried under my house. I
have that look with the glasses. Look at that puma.
He gave me the confirmation right there. I'm surprised the
sheriff hadn't come to our house already. Can we just

(02:07):
look under your house for a little bit, just for
a minute, you know, ook around. Hey, we brought our dog.
We let him run for a minute right under your house. Yeah,
that's what I let. But Puma, it looks like, Uh,
when I look at Puma, I go, that's an Almond
Brothers roadie. Right, there's got.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
To I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's that is one of the highest compliments I've received
him in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'll take you.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
You're welcome. Here's five winterside hustles you can do. Uh
sound like pretty uh just pretty common when you think
about it.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Number five TV mounting you can help mount those big TVs.
That's pretty good him. Fairly easy to do. I think.
Find the study.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
People getting new TVs right Friday or Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
That makes they stay.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Part of the money is made from going what do
you want to do with the old TV? And you
just take it with you and then you sell it
and uh a marketplace and you can get pretty big
money for a big screen. They are all flat screens
now still you know, uh dipping Yeah, exactly. Number four,
wait in line for people. You can just wait in
line at uh at various Uh you know gift places

(03:17):
number three, running holiday errands for somebody. I know somebody
that does that for like four different people, and they
work and make a lot of money doing that.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Part of my part time job.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I work for my buddy in Blanco that has a
street rod shop and I chase parts for him. And
now I do pretty well, you know, for doing that,
and it saves him, save him a huge amount of
money because he's charging to build people's cars, getting paid
to do what he does, not driving to the park
store back, which is what a simple thing like me
can do. Holiday lights and holiday holiday cleaning both. Oh god, yeah,

(03:53):
that makes some good coin. Uh let's do some boneheads
if you want to. I'm going to call her own head,
but I do love this idea. Jennifer Lawrence, mm bonehead
if you know what I mean. Uh. She has a
secret TikTok account so she can fight with strangers.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's like the Uh it's like Kevin Durant with his
secret absolutely well it used.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
To be secret. Now he just because he doesn't care anymore.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Same with Jennifer Lawrence. It won't take long and then
it's it's over with. Uh. Here's a New York City
Plaza hotel. Uh they're doing a home alone two package. Uh,
this is pretty awesome. Uh. You get a limo ride. Uh,
you get a large or the extra large cheese pizza,
you get the ice cream, everything that Kevin bought while

(04:45):
he was at the plaza, you know. Uh, tours of
the park, the Central Park, tours all over New York
to all of the.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Stuff by a guy with a snowshovel.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Get a little bit. I'm thinking there's somebody act possibility there.
I don't know, Uh, seventeen forty nine dollars. And of
course you get a single room in the applaza, which
is that's I think that's not much more than what
they normally charge.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
What I was.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
About to say, I wonder how much of us. I
wonder what the nightly room cost is versus that total,
because I would assume if you've got the money, that's
probably probably crazy of a price.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I think that'd be pretty pretty awesome. You know, it
was great, man. I don't know if Trump comes and
says helo or not. Well, yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
About to say, do you get the Trump cameo, Yeah, well,
or do you have to pay extra to get that?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
He wanted to be in home alone too, so he
told him, I'll let's use the hotel if you let
me get in the movie. That should tell you a
lot about your president. He's still your president. Just always
like to say that to these people so much.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I like how you you think there's there's a large
chunk of this listenership that is left.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I have a friend of mine and I I'm just
gonna say hi to him without saying his name. He's
black and he's listing. I just want to say he
lo so there.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Man, there strong.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I told somebody the other day that I was in
a demolition derby one time for charity, okay, and I
got and I got crashed, and I had a raw
place on my shoulder from my seat belt. And I said,
when your name's Bama Brown and you've got a scar
from a from a demolition derby, that's a redneck white

(06:36):
trash as it gets, buddy, there ain't much more you
can say than that brown from Alabama with a with
a with a tatto, with not a tattoo, but a
wound from a demolition derby star right there right there.
So to have a to have a brother listening. And he's,
by the way, he's the greatest, sweetest guy in the world.

(06:57):
So I wanted to say hi to him. He he's
I didn't want say his name. They want embarrassed him.
Thanks for listening. Man. We have some fun. He likes
to laugh. He's a good laugher man. That's all we got. James.
You're gonna like James. Uh, I'm gonna do some bone
as there. James dives divese, I think pronouncing it. James
getting a divorce after twenty seven years. He's the sheriff there,

(07:21):
Carroll County sheriff, which is where Baltimore, Maryland is located. Uh,
James and his divorce, it came out. He has been
catting around up there in Carroll County. He has slept
with you ready, every single local attorney, every single state's attorney.

(07:45):
Oh female, now let's give don't want embarrass James. Sure,
Oh women, okay? Uh. Two candidates for office that were
filling his in hire staff. Imagine it's probably swollen.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I had to do the jokes, get it, and so
to speak.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
I made myself laugh because of his sixth grade. They
gave me a radio show. You believe that shit? Yeah
he did. Somebody said there's an idea. There's a good
idea anyway, Uh, James getting a divorce. Now in all
of this, he's probably gonna lose his job, but you're
gonna go to jail. There's nothing illegal from any of this.
They say he hasn't. He didn't do anything that would

(08:32):
persuade these lawyers to you know, drop. They can't find
any It's hard to say they can't find any wrongdoing.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I mean, there's no direct evidence that he was getting
preferential treatment through the system.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
For Yeah, I guess he's done nothing wrong. But basically
James has boned everybody in that county that could be,
you know, and from what some of the pictures they posted,
not all that picky James is.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So yeah, I was wondering.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I mean, if you're if you're able to pull off
an operation like this, you yourself got to be at least
decent looking.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, I would think. And then somebody can't keep their
mouth shut. I mean when you work on volume like
I remember, you know, hit didn't quit it. I guess
he went and put several more or so one one. Yeah,
that's all you need. One in all rat they didn't
do I don't uh a four bedroom apartment less. I'm

(09:29):
changing it as we speak. A four bedroom apartment in
London right now is the highest priced apartment in the
world eight hundred thousand dollars per month. Now, London's expensive.
That's a point that beats some New York prices and
beats pretty much London's the most expensive city in the world.
I understand. So damn, that's that's great.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Four bedroom.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
You said four bedroom.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're paying two hundred thousand dollars a month per bedroom.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah. You look at you in that math man.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
You that one was easy, don't really. I was still going,
all right, carry you the two.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Well, that's why Puma counts the cash for the show
here after he's paid in cash. Is like a band show.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Keep the keep the government out of those cash payments.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Baby, Have we got time to do a couple more?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh? Yeah, it's Friday.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's Friday. Fort Piers, Florida. Somebody made a donation there
at the Goodwill ben Uh, there's a good Will and
Fort the Piers. They threw a grenade in there. Yeah,
the pen was still in it. Thank god. Bomb squad
was called. Uh uh they they take those and detonate it.
And it did detonate, but uh they said they didn't

(10:40):
know how old it was. And somebody threw a grenade
in the damn ben at the good Will. I mean,
that's just you.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Know, I've seen I've seen my wife throw some random
ship in those bends, and I think to myself, what
in the hell is anyone ever going to do with
what you just pay? But never once has it crossed
my mind that there might be someone putting a grenade.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Now one time, would you think, Yeah, imagine the guy
that that emptied it and found it. But he you know,
he's on probation, probably already, you know, and he's like, oh,
they're gonna blame me for this. You know, not that
everybody at Goodwills on probation, but a bunch of you
are that. Mine was, by the way, when I was

(11:25):
on probation. Mine was the you know, yeah, that's I hope.
Mine was the the the building supply store that we
helped get going the uh where they turn in the
old materials and and and you sell them, you know,
and then it goes to the homeless. Is good good,
A good piece of business here. Uh. Target has ordered

(11:46):
their employees to smile more. Imagine my last dad, Target
would be and I really give you the grin you're
looking for.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I don't, you know, Like I think about it
all the time, Like what you go to Chip and
you know you're going to get a certain level of
hospitality and friendly compared to some other fast food places.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I never I've never uh what was that? There was
one of those that they insulted you when you and
it was one of the most popular eating places.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
We've got one right here on the Riverwalk.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
It was on the Riverwalk exactly. And you order and
insult it and I mean, you've got to be thick skin, buddy,
and and uh, they did a great job with that.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
They do some verbal assault.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's the appropriately titled dix Last Last Resort.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yes, I love it. They had a bucket where you
sew your beer in. They're right as I remember, there
was a bucket. I stumbled out of there one night
and found out that the river walks only like three
feet deep. It's not that deep. It's really not.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Imagine when you're six' four and you realize it's not that.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Deep you're up to your.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Knees, yeah played basketball is.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
About.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
It before we get out of. HERE i gotta do
this one for, you, buddy BECAUSE i know this is
a big with. You uh bigfoot sighting in Central. Pennsylvania. Uh,
now this guy is a hunter and they say he
brought legitimously to this thing he was. On it was
near eighty he, Said i've been hunting my whole. Life

(13:19):
it wasn't a. Bear it was not a, bear he,
said it was a. Bigfoot it was a, big, hairy
gorilla looking. GUY i, Wrote rosie McDonald or you know
WHAT i.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Mean he just couldn't help, it sailed.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Myself, sometimes well you get. Him ye can't get the,
light you can't get the room dark.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
ENOUGH i do love when when it's someone that actually
has credibility that makes a claim like, This, yeah because
you know when someone that looks like me says they've seen.
Aliens immediately it's, like, Okay i'm, sure, Buddy i'm. Sure
off the lay off the substances and you'll stop seeing.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Aliens but didn't they probe?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
You they always probe. You it's always in the, country.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
You, know in the country all the way there's a
lot of probing done in the.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Country apparently it never lands In New York city In
Times square where everybody goes. There it's, real you.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Know how that.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Happens but when it's a dentist or a doctor on
the counting trip and see, something it helps the credibility
of the rest of. Us and SO i always like
to see when you see the headline very credible report
of bigfoot, sighting it's, like.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's like somebody told me we would never see aliens
because the way this planet. Is they had locked the
spaceship as they drive By. Earth you, know it's like
we're The we're the shitty neighborhood in the in the.
Galaxy you.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Know.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Uh this reminded me When Central. PENNSLVANIA i think that's
where this. Happened did you see the story of The
Civil war gold in the box car Of Civil? War oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah and and the guy had a map and he
went called the. Government they went up and dug and
found a little of it and it was. Real The

(15:06):
Union army loaded a train a box car from got story,
right and it went Through pennsylvania and they unloaded it
and buried it because they were this The confederate cavalry
was about to overcome, him and so they buried the.
Gold and the guy had a. Map he found a
treasure map or somebody gave to. Him, anyway it was,

(15:28):
real and he took. It he called the federal government
and he told. Him he, said you, Know i've got this.
MAP i THINK i know it's. Real and they, said,
yeah we'll meet AND i tell you. What we'll dig it,
up you, know and then we give you a you,
know FIFTY pd partnership and it's in court right. Now
you need to look us. Up so this they're going

(15:49):
to court this year. Over but last, year, uh they went,
in they let, him they started digging it, up and
they told this, guy y'all have to stay here down.
Below you can't go up because it's a government, site
you know. Whatever and they went up there and they
came back and, said, yeah there wasn't anything. There that
night the government went up, there dug it up and stole.

(16:11):
It and they've got several neighbors that heard them doing
it all night long and trucks running up and. Down
they have witnesses that saw the trucks and they and
the thing about the government like. That they have to document.
Everything so there there's there's the lawyer for these guys,
said you, know we went in, there we trusted the.

(16:32):
Government they stole our. Money we won our, half and
they are actually it's they've got some judges listening to, them,
going you know this is wrong and we're gonna we're
gonna catch who did, this and uh it's it's, real you.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Know, YEAH i don't know who's more at, fault the
government for stealing it or some uh. Treasurer, yeah well
both that fault.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
There you, KNOW i wonder about. That do you just
go out and get it on your? Own and then
they you, KNOW i was A my good friend was Mel.
Fisher you ever hear that? Name meil found The, choka you,
know The spanish. Galleon he would come by every year
and do my. Show he wrote a book and he came.
By but every year he'd come out and have displays
of the. Gold he had A i believe it was

(17:21):
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars gold chain necklace
THAT i would wear while we did the. Interview he'd come,
in he put it around my neck And i'd wear
this court OF mei and all the heavy gold chain
like mister t H and we would talk about the
choka and how he found it and what he went
through the, government Like spain suit, Him florida suit, him

(17:46):
THE us government suited. Him they were all fighting for
this gold and he's the one that found it and
he had he had to spend millions and loft fees
trying to keep from having to pay, it and he.
Won eventually nobody Got he got it. ALL i think
it was thirty. Million, yeah but he lost his son
in a diving. Accident oh of, course would you know

(18:07):
go on to, say, Man i'd give it all back
in an instant to get my son, back you. Know
but but he would come in with gold bars and
stuff and show all that stuff to, me and then
he have a display and he always had security details with,
him you, know well armed. Guys you know that was
for the radio, people not for the general. Public, yeah,
uh the.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Station it's so crazy to think about that era of
like maritime travel being actually, real you, know like the
actually you, know having the gold bars and finding the,
cannons and you, know thinking about it as anything other
than a movie.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Or a or a lesson history.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Class like actually having some of those old gold bars
from the, fifteenth, sixteenth seventeenth.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Century you, know It's Oak. Island they they first season
they got caught fake and some of the treasure they had,
planted and that whole story is, true but they didn't
have enough, stuff so they planted some stuff they got
caught that people forgave. Them they started their thirteenth season
a couple of weeks, ago AND i watched about twenty
minutes AND i, Go i'm not going down this rabbit.

(19:15):
Hole got when you show me the, treasure Then i'll believe.
It so thank you for spending the week with. Us
hopefully you did ten thousand of you have and we appreciate.
That and we'll see you next week on The Bama Brown.
Experience
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