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July 23, 2025 12 mins
Would you fly 14 hours every six weeks just to make a little extra cash? In this wildly entertaining episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive into the jaw-dropping story of Courtney El Rafe, a Swedish ICU nurse who commutes between Sweden and San Francisco for work. Her globe-trotting hustle sparks a hilarious and heartfelt conversation about dedication, burnout, and the lengths people go to for a better life.

From there, the duo takes listeners on a whirlwind tour of bizarre news—including a turtle allegedly starting a fire in London (or was it the dog?) and England’s newest tourist sensation: a bright green pigeon. These quirky tales set the stage for deeper reflections and laugh-out-loud moments.

The episode also features a countdown of the Top 10 Things Couples Fight About, with surprising entries like “tone of voice” topping the list and “sex” barely making the cut. Bama and Puma share personal anecdotes, marital misfires, and the comedic chaos of trying to communicate when both partners are still in “work mode.”

This episode is a perfect blend of absurdity, authenticity, and relatable humor. Whether you're in a long-distance relationship, navigating quirky arguments, or just need a laugh, Bama and Puma deliver a dose of real talk wrapped in comedy.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi everybody, Bama Brown Wi you on the iHeart Podcast Network,
Bama Brown Experience. Thank you for listening. We have thousands
of you listening today and we appreciate that. Along with
my partner in crime, the Big Cat Puma, Puma has
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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(00:43):
version anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the
Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I have a couple of great stories here. You know
you've had a commute. I've had a pretty good commute
before an hour, and I know you had one. It
was an hour one time. The furthest commute that I
heard about is Courtney l Rafe. Courtney lives in I'm
gonna try to pronounce this Conesse Sweden.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh all right now, it's my kenfolk.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's where she let. Yeah, that's your family there. She
lives in Sweden and every six weeks she flies to
San Francisco to do the extra money as an ICU
nurse in San Francisco. So every six weeks she flies
there and back home, lies there, back homes and she'll stay.
She'll stay three or four weeks, make some cash, and

(01:33):
then fly back a couple of weeks in Sweden back
to San Francisco. The flight can run eleven to fourteen hours.
She said, it just depends on the connection. But she goes,
you know, it's once you've done it in a while,
you're used to it. But she said, you make so
much money as an ICU nurse.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that's what I was about to ask, because she
I wonder if she's some kind of specialist or if
they just need ICU nurses so bad.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That I guess that's what it is. I don't know. Uh,
I've got several fantasies that started with a Swedish nurse.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, this also feels like a few of the movies
I've seen.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Speaking of movies, Sydney Sidney Sweeney. You know the movie
starts Sweeney. She was at the Jeff Bezos wedding. She started.
Jeff and her have started the lingerie line. Uh so
I'm assuming, even though the marriage just happened for Jeff,
I'm assuming this is next in line she will be. Uh.
By the way, the the Bezos and them are doing

(02:29):
the new Bond you know, they bought the Bond rides.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I was about to tell you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, shockingly, Sidney Sweeney is not the next Bond girl.
I just yeah, you just everybody assumed looking at her,
she's a bond girl. Blonde girl, but bond girl, not
blonde girl. What's a blonde girl too? Anyway? She uh,
And they don't even know who James Bond is gonna be,
he said. They the people I guess that are in

(02:54):
charge of the seven. They said they don't. There's no
plans on her being you know, so don't get all
don't get all worked up.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's why she was poling around with him, you and
me both when the business joint business ventures and also
what kind of businessman, how dumb would you have to
be to turn down a joint business opportunity to work
with Sydney Sweeney's lingerie line like that?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I mean, yeah, but itself, that's like, that's like another company.
I was just thinking about Krispy Kreme. They're eighty eight
years old. That's a good bar. That's a good bet
on a company making it. Krispy Kreme. You're just gonna
go yeah, yeah, I think they're gonna be okay, no
matter what's going on out there, pretty excited about this
was interesting. A fire in London apartment was started when

(03:43):
a turtle knocked over a lantern and set fire to
the apartment. Now, I can't imagine a turtle being that fast,
but there was also a dog there. Now they rescued
the dog and the turtle both are okay. But I
can promise you the dog talked, didn't eve into it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
He said, you know, how do how do they have
the scientific proof to be certain that it was the
turtle that did it and not the dog.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, everybody loves a dog, and nobody really I mean
the turtles.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I feel like the turtle. I feel like the turtle
got blamed forever. If the you know, if uh, you know,
a light was left on in the house, it was
the turtle's fault. If the turtle was left up, it
was the turtles turtle.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I heard the turtles getching if everybody and the
dog just over laughing, you know. But my friend I
didn't even think about this, but my friend sent me
a Facebook message. Uh, Julie that used to work with
me on on caved, I've had a thousand partners of
Julie K was there. She's in Florida now and she
stopped to get a turtle out of the road. She said,

(04:49):
you know, I'm trying to be a nice person, humanitarian,
and she said, I picked this turtle up pretty good side,
and she said, send him over in the grass about
getting the car. And a guy drove by and said,
get out of the road.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Bitch, Florida.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Come on, and she goes. Obviously he didn't know what
I was doing. He just you know, he was like,
I thought I was drunk or something. Good chance Julie
was drunk.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
But this is a random woman in Florida on.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
The side of the road. Get out of the road, bitch.
I mean, just Cali, who hells that at anybody? I mean,
come on, she goes, no good deed goes unpunished. One
more animal story. Uh, the number one tourist attraction in
this is in Northampton, England. Is a green pigeon. Somebody

(05:40):
has died of pigeon green and caught it died of green,
bright green, and they've let it out and people from
all over are coming and taking pictures of it. So
you can look at that online. Just okay, green pigeon
from England.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I'm looking at it now. Yeah, like it looks like,
uh looks like it's like food coloring green.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Like, yeah, they said it was fake. It wasn't a
natural green parrot or whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It must be pretty boring in Northampton and you gotta think, yeah,
is the tourist attraction.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's just like that's along the lines of sending a
pizza to a fake apartment or something. You know, it's
like where's the big comedy payoff? You know, you're not
there to see the guy you know open the door
and go, yeah, I didn't order a pizza, although I
don't know a single person wouldn't go yeah, I'm I'm glad.
Did I pay you or not? You know, i'd take
the pizza anytime.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's always the question, like uh, oh it's already paid for, right,
And then when they say yes, he say okay, thanks
woop shut the door.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
If you had a guy come to my door and
you know this about me, Puma. If you had a
guy come to my door and he had a swastika
carved in his head and he was holding a hatchet,
but he was holding a pizza, I'd open the door.
I go. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
At least let me hear him out.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I mean, if it was death, you know it
was holding that. That's the thing he holds with the
hood on, you know, yeah, he he with a pizza.
Come on in, man, you know, let's.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Play a game of chess. Yeah what I know?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
You my soul?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Your soul? Yeah, okay, well.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You're getting short chains, no, no tip it all. Here's
ten things couples fight about. Let's get this out of
our system. Now, h I'm gonna shock you with this.
I am gonna I'm gonna blow your socks off. The
top ten list. I always start at the bottom and
go up number ten.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Six.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I figured it'd be number one. It's number ten. Now,
this is a big survey some college you did so
who knows, but uh, number nine. How they argue like
how much yelling and stuff goes on? You know you
yelled the first one yells loses the argument. Okay, yeah,
let's see Number eight, health or lifestyle. Okay, one of
them's fat and the other one's just trying to get

(08:01):
in so they can find somebody new.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know, it was on the couch all day.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah. This is ten things couples fight about, according to
the survey. Number seven life decisions. I would assume that's
where you live or where you work, or how you live. Yeah,
something like that. Number six time together. Now, this one
is women who were according to the thing, I say, man,
this but women that don't get their husband enough, you know.

(08:28):
And I can't imagine, Well, if they didn't put Jamie
in that survey, she would ye find him something to do,
you know.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
So yeah, I keep trying to make it. I keep
trying to get him to take up golf just on
five hours every weekend.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
I've gotten to where I'm watching this the people buying
the Bahamas houses, and I go, and I've seen it
so much, I go, oh, I hate this couple. I
hate this one.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
You know, you've hit a new level.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I know the people that are on the show. Now
it's my wife's like, shut up anyway.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Family relations relatives Number five they fight over there. Yeah,
that's a big one. Number four chores. Who's doing what?
You know? And uh, it was funny because I did
pull this one on my wife. I paid for it,
but she's filling up the water bottle and I don't know.
I said, here, I'll put these in here. And she goes, oh,
well thanks a lot, like you know, like you think

(09:25):
you've done so, thanking the water bottles and putting them
in the little fridge you know, under the under the island.
And I was I didn't mean anything. I was just like,
let me know, let me help you here. And I said, okay,
well you go out and haul in forty pound bags
of salt that I have to go to home depot
and buy the eight at a time, and then you
can put them in. How about that. Let's do it that.
You know, it depends on where you're standing at the time.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know, we want to be tit for tat about it,
but let's go full equality.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And then she said, okay, well then you can wear
the same underwear for two weeks in a row. And
I said, I don't want nothing. I don't no trouble.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's where I have. I have the ultimate trump card there. Well, Hi,
jokes on you. I'm rolling free down there every day.
So yeah, I don't even need underwear.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
My boys they need to breathe, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm a fan of restriction.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, yeah, it gives me a headache. Remember that joke.
Oh yeah, you can't wear size thirty two short to
cut off your blood spot give you a ache, so
to speak. We've already we just do punchlines. Now we
didn't do the whole joke.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Number three is I can't read it. I don't know
what it is. Something style, I don't know. I don't
know what it is, all right, Sorry, I can't read
myone writing. Number two was money. I figured out it'd
be number one. Money was number two.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Some money where the one and two there?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, sex was ten. If you hadn't been paying attention,
he's probably gone on there anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
And then number one was tone of voice, which means
when I think it goes back to when you're fighting,
or when you answer, or just you know you want to,
not you don't want to, You don't want to answer
like you're you know, smart and off.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
So I'll tell you the tone of voice. One hits
pretty close to home because with what you and I
do here, you know, we're getting all you know, radio voice,
podcasting voice. And then what my wife does is, you know,
work for a fortune two hundred company where she's leading
corporate meetings. And right I think also she'll get done
with work and she's still speaking corporate jargon. I'll get

(11:31):
done with work and I'll still act like I'm broadcasting
a show to nobody. And so the two of us
are trying to have a conversation, both still in work languages,
and that that's usually when the most explosive fights end
up happening.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know what, this is so awesome that both Puma
and I have wives who were successful enough that we
didn't have to go get real jobs. We get to
do this. I mean, it's it is a great country,
and I truly believe, and we're both proof that Jesus
takes care of those it can't take care of them.
And that's a good one to get out on. Right there,
I think we'll see you later.
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