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July 24, 2025 13 mins
In this heartwarming and hilarious episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive deep into the wild, wonderful, and sometimes downright ridiculous memories of growing up with their dads. From a five-year-old’s $3,000 Amazon shopping spree to a blowout on a bridge that ends with a kid in the lake, this episode is packed with laugh-out-loud moments and touching reflections.

Bama shares unforgettable stories about his late father — a man full of grit, wit, and unforgettable one-liners. Whether it’s a lawn chair mishap involving a pair of rogue testicles or a final fist raised in jest on his deathbed, Bama’s tales are as raw as they are real.

Puma joins in with his own tales of childhood rebellion, belt-wielding justice, and the universal truth that sometimes, Mom’s disappointment hurts more than Dad’s discipline.

Themes explored:
  • The bittersweet humor of aging and caregiving
  • The legacy of fatherhood and generational wisdom
  • The healing power of laughter through grief
Don’t miss this one. It’s a rollercoaster of emotion — from belly laughs to misty eyes — and a powerful reminder of the bonds that shape us. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a good laugh and a little perspective.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi everybody, Mama Brown with you on the Maamma
Brown Experiency.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
iHeart podcast Network. Three hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Podcasts on iHeart most of them crime and drama. We've
got about one hundred to have over a million listeners,
so lots of good stuff to listen to, and including
my friend and partner on a show. He also has
a the most popular sports show in all the Central Texas.
Puma the Big Cat has the sports Cave.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I buddy, hey, hey, good to be back with you, Bama.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
No.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I appreciate the always appreciate the.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Chance to plug it whenever, whenever you whenever you run
out of bonehead stories here and you need a little
sports fix, just certain anywhere you get your podcasts, just
search for the sports Cave with Biggest Puma.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember Puma played college basketball. Not only does he know
about it, he played it. So I always like a
sports show that had somebody actually did the thing. You know,
that's a that's a very important part of it. Uh,
listen you you want a bonehead, I got a great
bone This is so awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hit me.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
This lady was asleep and she heard some racket and
she woke up, went downstairs and her five year old
son had spent three thousand dollars on Amazon on toys.
Oh no, had her account, and he had another seven
hundred dollars in the cart and it included believe it
or not, he had thirty one items.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Seven ride on.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Cars, you know, like a little electric cars you could
ride on five years old on.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fleet he was, he was, this is my dream, this
is my kid here. I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So mom said, uh, you know, they're gonna let him
get out of They're gonna let her get out of
some of it. But some of it had shipped already,
you know, and they said, hey, the stuff that shipped
your that's yours, you know. So she said, he is
in some of that trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
So yeah, it's a it's a damn good thing that
we didn't have easy shipping and shopping.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh yeah, it's like Amazon back then.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Because my biggest one the time, I think I probably
spent the most money and got my ass with Accordingly, yep,
I pre placed an order with the swan Man.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Cookies.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
You know, we had mint chocolate chip ice cream family.
We had Bagel dog chicking hold on Blue.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I mean it was literally like I want to say
it was close to like three hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh my god. Oh and he loads a truck. It's yours, bud.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah yeah, and he brought out there. It's not going
back with him.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
No, you own it.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I cannot tell you. That was one of the moments
where my mom was more upset with me than my dad.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Was that and that that's when it hurt the most.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
When when she was mad at me, that that's when
I knew I had really screwed up.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I remember in talking to my brother this week, he
reminded me that he when my mom came home from
the beauty shop for some reason and he and I
turned the water hose on her. I don't remember the
story or why, but the whipping that you know, dad's off,
you know, dad's working twelve hour days, comes in on

(03:11):
Friday and she hits him with that and the belt
just comes out and he's just like beating your ass
and you're going, no, miss dad, I'm not mister Johnson
like he's out in another world.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah take that, mister Johnson talking to me like that.
You know he would he could wail on you. Oh
my got that belt the.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Worst one I got from my old man. We were
working on a rent house and I we had been
working all day and I was done.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I was I was not going to do any more work,
and so I just I refused.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
I just sat down on the sidewalk outside of.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
The strike and I'm not moving.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I did.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I went on.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Strike absolutely, and my old go well, he uh he
gave me two options, Bama. He said, you can pick
the switch you want to get lilicks with right now
here at the rent house, or when we get back
to our house, it's gonna be twice as bad with
the paddle or and or belt.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
And uh man, you never want to you never want
to cut a short switch either. You need to get
a good one because if he cuts it, you're gonna
be as.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Worse as you could have originally gotten away with. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
No, I called his bluff and took twice the lickings.
When we got home.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I remember Dad had a Buick Wildcat big. His car was,
you know, fourteen feet wide. Now he's the biggest car ever.
Sells your life. And we had a blowout going across
a bridge. Oh damn, but it was a it was
a you know, it was don't how to explain it.
You know, the lake went up to it. It wasn't
the bridge park, but like there was a guardrail. We're
on the side of the road, four lane highways and

(04:45):
we're on side of the road, middle of the day,
hot and there was the guardrail and then a little
bit of a hill and then the shore and the water,
so you literally there was no beach or shore really,
it was just like straight down to the water then
the bridge further up. So he's had a blowout and
you know, he's having to change his tire on the
side of highway.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
He's got to spare, got the jack and.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
So I get out. I'm gonna be a big helper.
I don't know, six seven, I remember how old I was.
I remember specifically whateverened though. So the trunk leads up.
I'm standing there and he's, you know, cussing and having
to change his tire, and there's an umbrella laying in
the trunk, and so I pick up the umbrella and
he looks at me and he goes, don't open that umbrella.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
The trunk will.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Blow you out in the lake, you know, like you idiot,
you know.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
And of course stared straight at him. And opened the umbrella,
and he backhanded me across the face, and I stumbled
backwards over the guardrail and rolled down the hill into
the lake.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
So he was technically right that you would end up
in the lake, just a different method of getting there.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I wonder if he ever just when he's out. He
was in a he traveled around Georgia. I wonder when
he had a company car. I wondered.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I wondered if he ever just said, you know, I
could just keep driving, but I bet they look for
the car.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I bet I could just keep going, you know, and
never come back.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know, I wonder how far I can get.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yet, how far I could get without him calling the
police on me.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
You know, this is hard. You know, my real last
day was Thompson.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
This was literally he is. My real name's Thompson. And
he one time a guy and a tractor. The tractor
lost the wheel and went out in the road and
he hit this tractor on the country road.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
He had a wreck.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now it didn't hurt the guy. They thank god he's
you know, said that guy's bout the running the road
and he stopped. But he did hit the tractor and
the guy, the farmer's name was Thompson, My dad Thompson,
and the highway patrol was Thompson.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
All three of them were.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Thompson, you know, spelled the same. And he said the
report when he turned it in there like you're making
this ship up. He's like, no, no, I just those weird,
weird deals.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I remember roped out out there in the field.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And then when we were real little in Atlanta. Uh,
he had a Nova wagon with a four cylinder. It
was bronze, I remember because the buddy mine has one
now that's bronze Nova wagon and uh one station wagon.
And we were in front of the Atlanta State Penitentiary
in the road there in Atlanta, and a guy rear

(07:27):
ended us and it was such a happy car.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
He didn't even get out. Look, he just Tommy. Tommy
and I were both my brother and I were both
of the car. And he goes, you guys okay, and
we go yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, And he just kept he's waving to God going
and I remember asking him about that. I said I
remember that, Noah, and he goes, yeah, I had a
four cylinder, and I'll never forget to say. And he
goes that car wouldn't pull a sick horror out of bed.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So it's just that's my dad. That's what I had.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
When I'm stealing.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Them, that's an awesome thing. Wouldn't pull a ciga horror
out of bed.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's one of the best country idioms I've ever heard
in my life.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
He was a great guy. I missed him so much.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Golly, if you got your dad, call him today, no
matter what you're fighting. If you're fighting, you ain't mad
he did you pick up the phone call him. I
promise you he would love to hear from you, because
that was always all my weeks when I had my dad.
I lost him got fifteen years ago. But I would
call him and uh, I know the answered or something,
but I would call him and ask him anyway and

(08:36):
just you know, and get his take on, Hey, well,
how should I handle this or what should I do?
You know, and I mean it, you know, into my fifties,
I kind of knew what was happening anyway, but I
would ask him, you know, because I just loved talking
to him, you know, and uh he could give me
advice and stuff. And then huh he when he got
old and got sick, he uh he had a stroke,

(08:58):
and he came. I could tell two stories, and you
have to tell you have to laugh because otherwise you cry.
This is these are two stories about my dad after
he had a stroke. You couldn't understand him. And so
I had him. I brought him here to Dripping Springs,
back to Austin, you know, Dripping Springs.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Where we live.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
And uh, my mom had dementia. So that was a
whole nother party. But he he was you couldn't understand him.
But my brother and I were. My brother came and
so we I had a walk I got a walk
in shower, so we were gonna. Tommy said, let's put
him in the launch. I had a lawnchair out on
the deck. Let's put him in his lawnchair. There's a
metal lawnchair, a nice one, and wash him, you know,

(09:41):
give him a you know, shower bath, you know. And
so he's sitting there and he goes hmm, and I go, I.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Can't what you know. And then Tommy goes, what what
do you saying, Dad?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And he goes, Now, I hadn't understood a word this
guy said in the last two weeks. Now he literally
could not unders stand of word, and Tommy looked down
and in the slats of this chair, my dad's testicles
had slipped through and were hanging, I mean, and he
Tommy said, oh my god. And so I got around.

(10:19):
I put my arms around it because he couldn't walk.
He's in a wheelchairs. I'm picking him up and Tommy's
pushing his balls back up through the thing, you know.
And we got him back up and through a towel.
Then we thought about, oh, we ought to put a
towel in.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
We might want to cover those slits.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
And we put this towel in the chair and I
eas him back down and he goes as clear as
you could say it, he went, come on, guys, man's
never been more dissupported than.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Two sons in their fish. You know. It's just now.
I felt so bad when I looked and saw that.
I was like, oh my god. You know, both of us.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh, we we were laughing about that on phone call yesterday,
my brother and I was the other one was when
I finally got him over here to this home not
too far from our house. He was in the elderly
care center and he got He only only lived a
couple of weeks, but he was there, and there was
this woman in a gurney next to him. And this

(11:30):
woman was gray. I mean she was She wasn't fleshstone,
she wasn't black.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
She was gray.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
And the man with her goes, well, your color is good.
And I looked at my dad. My dad went he
shook his head and no, he's like her color ain't good.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
You know, every day, every.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Day I would go to see, if you know, I
go down and sit with him, and I'd lean in
and I'd go, well, your color is good, look at me.
And in the last day, the day died, he was
laying there and I mean you could tell it was
it was time. And I leaned in and I went, well,
your color is good. And he made a He was
laying there and he made a fist. If I could

(12:15):
get up and put one on you, man, you know, yeah,
those are the kind of things you got to think
about with stuff like that. Are you are you will
truly your heart will be broken. So he was a
great guy. I loved him to death.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
So awesome story.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Isn't that great? He was saying, Peter, I think that's
what he was saying. We don't know, but man, I
mean they.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Were they weren't just barely. I mean they were a
hand out. It was like you pulled it. It was terrible.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm hating to be so so, you know, describing it,
but I mean that just adds to how bad it was.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
You know, come on, guys, this is.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Clear absolutely disappointed.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Man. I'm missy busy him so much.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
All right, that's a good one to get out on
the hanging testicle story.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
There you go.
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