November 5, 2025 • 9 mins
Should you really climb that ladder, or is it time to call a pro? In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and his ever-entertaining co-host, Big Cat Puma from The Sports Cave, dive into the top five DIY remodeling skills every homeowner should master—or at least attempt without ending up in a viral ladder fail compilation.
From sheetrock dust disasters to caulking cracks that let bugs in, Bama shares practical tips, cautionary tales, and personal anecdotes that blend humor with hard-earned wisdom. Puma adds his own flair with stories of botched paint jobs and plumbing mishaps that remind us all: sometimes, hiring a professional is the real DIY win.
Biggest Puma, host of The Sports Cave, brings his signature energy and relatable stories to the mic. Known for mixing sports talk with real-life chaos, Puma’s insights on home improvement are as entertaining as they are enlightening.
Memorable Moments:
From sheetrock dust disasters to caulking cracks that let bugs in, Bama shares practical tips, cautionary tales, and personal anecdotes that blend humor with hard-earned wisdom. Puma adds his own flair with stories of botched paint jobs and plumbing mishaps that remind us all: sometimes, hiring a professional is the real DIY win.
Biggest Puma, host of The Sports Cave, brings his signature energy and relatable stories to the mic. Known for mixing sports talk with real-life chaos, Puma’s insights on home improvement are as entertaining as they are enlightening.
Memorable Moments:
- Bama’s advice: “If it clicks in your head for one second, ‘I could fall’—don’t do it.”
- The story of Norm Abrams from This Old House calling Bama for his birthday—and the epic blooper reel that never aired.
- The caulking tip that saved a kitchen from a bug invasion and made one husband the MVP of the neighborhood.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hello everyone, Bama bround with you on the Dama
Brown Experience. So we came out with that name all ourselves.
There was no focus group, there was no money spent. Uh.
The logo turned out pretty nice. That was I think
we gave a guy lunch or something that wing stopped
for that or there was some something we did that
we got that cool looking logo.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So I gave him a gift card. I'm sure apartment.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, go up there to the Harbor Freight with a
gift card. Nope, this is old. I'm sorry. This should
have been redeemed already. Seven my partner, you hear him laughing,
because he's always a lot of fun, the big Cat Puma.
He has the sports Cave. You guys are rocking it
over there with that Sports Cave podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh yeah, always good to be back with you, Bama.
We we have fun over on the sports Cave sometimes
self admittedly a little a little too much fun as
you might have, as you might have seen on the
stream last night. But yeah, anyway, you get your podcast,
just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Come hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All right, let's do five do it yourself remodeling skills
that you should have already.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, let's see how many.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I feel pretty confident you're gonna have all five of these.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I hope I have at least a majority of them.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh, I'm sure you do. And this is what they're saying,
is that these need to become If you don't have these,
you need to get these men and women. Again, everything
we do is you know, we're about fifty to fifty
break here on our listeners and viewers or whatever you
want to call it. But they it's about a fifty
to fifty. So men and women should have number one.
They should have sheet rock skills.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ok. And you can.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Easily download every one of these. There's only five here.
But you can do sheet rock. It is not that hard.
They'll sell you half sheets. Now here's the thing that
a lot of people don't know. Sheet rock. Dust will
go everywhere. So learn how to tint. They have those.
It's about three bucks for a nine twelve plastic. You
(02:01):
just make you some kind of tint. If you're gonna
do sheet rock, any kind of cutting out a hole
or fixing a hole, it will go everywhere. I mean,
in your computers and all that. So make yourself a
tint out of one but two's screwm together. Cover it
with that tint. Wear your mask. Always wear a mask.
You don't breathe in and shit and then patch a
hole and guess what they always have the spray acoustic spray.
(02:25):
It's over by the paint cans. Get a canno spray
on there. Believe me, you'll camouflage. It'll look fantastic. Number
four right, you can demo.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You can find the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You can find a good YouTube tutorial for taping and
floating in less than ten seconds easily, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And all that stuff's pre mix. You can get pre mixed,
you know, whatever you need for the sheet rock to
the what we call mud, you know, and just spread
it on.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Number four demo is fun, except for wiring and plumbing.
Do not do your own wiring and plumbing and demo
because you can easily electrocute yourself of wiring and plum
and once it leaks and you don't know it's leaking
till long after it's finished, and then you go, I
should have hired a plumber, I should have hired an
engineer or a not engineer but electrical person.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So those are two.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This is one of those skills that I feel like
my father could have probably should have learned sooner in life.
There were multiple times where the uh plumbing and electrical
thought we thought could be an inside job, but ended
up needing to be outsourced after mistakes were made unforsolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I can frame, I can trim, I can paint. I
can do a lot of things. Can't do patience off
it by myself. That's really hard. And wiring and plumbing.
I've always used somebody, and guess what, it's always been
smart on my part to do that. Now it's expensive,
don't get me wrong, but it's it's not expensive as
it is if you try to get it out to
get them repair it after you did it yourself. Number
(03:54):
three calking. If it's not closed, calck it now so
you can just you can cut that cal instrument. You
get a caking gun. But the end of a call
gun it goes from you have an eighth inch all
to three eight inch and you can fill anything with
three a's is a cock. I mean it's like and
it's done, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. I had a buddy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I had a buddy who had some bugs getting into
his kitchen. And his wife was driving him up the
wall and he was like, I don't know what to do.
I've had a a buget, I've had an exterminator come
out here. I've had all of these people and they
still get in. And I walked into his kitchen. His
countertop was starting to fall away from the wall from
(04:35):
that the house, and I literally I told him, like,
you see this big crack, you have this big space.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Uh, I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Bet that's probably where they're coming from. Just go get
some cock. Do it in an afternoon. You'll be happy
for years. And literally it was like the next month
didn't have a single sighting and he was MVP of
all the husbands in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Little job like a PI. Now, one thing to get
some tape and you can use that blue tape. But
here's a little tip for you. Tape off except where
you're gonna caalk, and then wipe it with a paper towel.
Then when you peel it, peel the tape off. You
don't have it everywhere, You have it right where it's
supposed to go. You know, wear a pair of gloves,
those orange gloves when you get from home depot and
smear it in the deal. You can use your finger
(05:20):
on it, but anything you can do to cover it
so you're not getting directly to your skin or you're
not getting it all over everything. That's a big one
everybody makes. And then uh number two, learn to paint
and learn when not to paint high up ladders. If
you're up on a scaffold, you probably should have hired somebody,
you know, because there's a real chance that you can
(05:40):
fall and get hurt really bad. So think of it
those ways, like I should do this, and if it
clicks in your head for one second, this is a
total remodeling thing. If it clicks in your head one time,
well I could fall or blank could happen, then don't
do it because it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and not only could you end up getting injured,
but I had a buddy, actually it's the same buddy
as the kitchen. His wife wanted their sighting painted a
different color than the rest of the house whenever they
alson we're doing some remodeling. So he got some scaffolding
out there. He got up there at the top, he
had all.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Of his paint. He's doing the painting and then he's.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Such a you know, such a douf as he ends
up kicking the paint sure scaffolding, it goes all over
the side of their house. So they've now got this
secondary color just dripping down the side of their house
that they had just bought. So yeah, sometimes just there
are certain know your limitabilities, absolutely limitation.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
If you need motivation, just google folks falling off the ladder.
There's you spend two hours watching people fall off the ladder.
This shouldn't have gone up there. You should not go.
Don't go up a ladder if you're fat. Beginning with you,
I don't go real high because I'm overweight and at
some point I lose my balance and I fall. Wisdom
And here's a noise you make when you fall. Get somebody,
(07:13):
Get somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You know what's funny is one year for my birthday,
Rob me said, my whole partner. He got Norm from
this old house to call me on my birthday. It
was the coolest thing. Had a book coming out, and
uh and Rob was laughing because we had Tim mcgrawl
on the day before, and I was like, yeah, whatever, Jim,
we're wrong. Norm Abrams. I was like, oh my god,
this was Sir Abrams. I don't even know what to do.
(07:38):
And he goes, it's the wood guy. Bamma gets all
worked up about. But what was awesome was I got
you know, I got it. We had a ten minute
interview on air, but I got a twenty minute interview
off air with Norm and he was as cool as
you could imagine. And I said, I said, you guys,
you just do everything perfect. He goes, we've never put
together a blooper real. We need to do one. He
(07:59):
said one time Tommy talked them into it. And if
you know the show, you know, Tommy's the other carpenter
that works with Norm, you know, and it kind of
replaced Norm after for so many years.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He said.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Tommy talked them into doing a second story side with
the gable and everything, with the sighting, with the windows
completely did it laying on the floor, and then he said,
we had six guys there to stand it up. And
he goes, we got it almost up and the wind
caught it. And he goes, all of us had two
by four's, you know, for bracing, and we were our
(08:31):
feet were sliding while we were trying to hold this
whole side of a house up because you've got the wind,
but you've got the weight then, you know. And he
said that thing blew and just went right over the
side and went in the siding and completely destroyed it.
It was like he said, it was like twenty something
thousand dollars. Yeah, he just broke into pieces. It was
(08:53):
all this, you know. But he said, we were holding
it and finally Tommy, let it go, go, let it go.
Just went over so and then he said, one down
the video canber who it was. But they had the plumbing,
the big black plumbing line in the ground, and it
was coming back up over his back every time he
was laying it forward. It was like coming back over
(09:15):
like a tail, like a tarantula on his back, you know.
He said, we did it. We had a blooper thing
one time. He said we should have showed it. But
he said, stuff that broke and fell and shortcuts. We
took things we screwed up. And he said it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That would have been great to see.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But when you see them, you think these guys never
miss up, you know, but they do.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They like everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
They're human, all right. So I'll just i'll get you know,
we got time. We want to get out of here.
What do we do? Yeah, we're done for the day.
Come back tomorrow. We'll do some moreris free stuff.
Well, hello everyone, Bama bround with you on the Dama
Brown Experience. So we came out with that name all ourselves.
There was no focus group, there was no money spent. Uh.
The logo turned out pretty nice. That was I think
we gave a guy lunch or something that wing stopped
for that or there was some something we did that
we got that cool looking logo.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So I gave him a gift card. I'm sure apartment.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, go up there to the Harbor Freight with a
gift card. Nope, this is old. I'm sorry. This should
have been redeemed already. Seven my partner, you hear him laughing,
because he's always a lot of fun, the big Cat Puma.
He has the sports Cave. You guys are rocking it
over there with that Sports Cave podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh yeah, always good to be back with you, Bama.
We we have fun over on the sports Cave sometimes
self admittedly a little a little too much fun as
you might have, as you might have seen on the
stream last night. But yeah, anyway, you get your podcast,
just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Come hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All right, let's do five do it yourself remodeling skills
that you should have already.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay, let's see how many.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I feel pretty confident you're gonna have all five of these.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I hope I have at least a majority of them.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh, I'm sure you do. And this is what they're saying,
is that these need to become If you don't have these,
you need to get these men and women. Again, everything
we do is you know, we're about fifty to fifty
break here on our listeners and viewers or whatever you
want to call it. But they it's about a fifty
to fifty. So men and women should have number one.
They should have sheet rock skills.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ok. And you can.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Easily download every one of these. There's only five here.
But you can do sheet rock. It is not that hard.
They'll sell you half sheets. Now here's the thing that
a lot of people don't know. Sheet rock. Dust will
go everywhere. So learn how to tint. They have those.
It's about three bucks for a nine twelve plastic. You
(02:01):
just make you some kind of tint. If you're gonna
do sheet rock, any kind of cutting out a hole
or fixing a hole, it will go everywhere. I mean,
in your computers and all that. So make yourself a
tint out of one but two's screwm together. Cover it
with that tint. Wear your mask. Always wear a mask.
You don't breathe in and shit and then patch a
hole and guess what they always have the spray acoustic spray.
(02:25):
It's over by the paint cans. Get a canno spray
on there. Believe me, you'll camouflage. It'll look fantastic. Number
four right, you can demo.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You can find the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You can find a good YouTube tutorial for taping and
floating in less than ten seconds easily, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And all that stuff's pre mix. You can get pre mixed,
you know, whatever you need for the sheet rock to
the what we call mud, you know, and just spread
it on.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Number four demo is fun, except for wiring and plumbing.
Do not do your own wiring and plumbing and demo
because you can easily electrocute yourself of wiring and plum
and once it leaks and you don't know it's leaking
till long after it's finished, and then you go, I
should have hired a plumber, I should have hired an
engineer or a not engineer but electrical person.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So those are two.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This is one of those skills that I feel like
my father could have probably should have learned sooner in life.
There were multiple times where the uh plumbing and electrical
thought we thought could be an inside job, but ended
up needing to be outsourced after mistakes were made unforsolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I can frame, I can trim, I can paint. I
can do a lot of things. Can't do patience off
it by myself. That's really hard. And wiring and plumbing.
I've always used somebody, and guess what, it's always been
smart on my part to do that. Now it's expensive,
don't get me wrong, but it's it's not expensive as
it is if you try to get it out to
get them repair it after you did it yourself. Number
(03:54):
three calking. If it's not closed, calck it now so
you can just you can cut that cal instrument. You
get a caking gun. But the end of a call
gun it goes from you have an eighth inch all
to three eight inch and you can fill anything with
three a's is a cock. I mean it's like and
it's done, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. I had a buddy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I had a buddy who had some bugs getting into
his kitchen. And his wife was driving him up the
wall and he was like, I don't know what to do.
I've had a a buget, I've had an exterminator come
out here. I've had all of these people and they
still get in. And I walked into his kitchen. His
countertop was starting to fall away from the wall from
(04:35):
that the house, and I literally I told him, like,
you see this big crack, you have this big space.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Uh, I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Bet that's probably where they're coming from. Just go get
some cock. Do it in an afternoon. You'll be happy
for years. And literally it was like the next month
didn't have a single sighting and he was MVP of
all the husbands in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Little job like a PI. Now, one thing to get
some tape and you can use that blue tape. But
here's a little tip for you. Tape off except where
you're gonna caalk, and then wipe it with a paper towel.
Then when you peel it, peel the tape off. You
don't have it everywhere, You have it right where it's
supposed to go. You know, wear a pair of gloves,
those orange gloves when you get from home depot and
smear it in the deal. You can use your finger
(05:20):
on it, but anything you can do to cover it
so you're not getting directly to your skin or you're
not getting it all over everything. That's a big one
everybody makes. And then uh number two, learn to paint
and learn when not to paint high up ladders. If
you're up on a scaffold, you probably should have hired somebody,
you know, because there's a real chance that you can
(05:40):
fall and get hurt really bad. So think of it
those ways, like I should do this, and if it
clicks in your head for one second, this is a
total remodeling thing. If it clicks in your head one time,
well I could fall or blank could happen, then don't
do it because it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and not only could you end up getting injured,
but I had a buddy, actually it's the same buddy
as the kitchen. His wife wanted their sighting painted a
different color than the rest of the house whenever they
alson we're doing some remodeling. So he got some scaffolding
out there. He got up there at the top, he
had all.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Of his paint. He's doing the painting and then he's.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Such a you know, such a douf as he ends
up kicking the paint sure scaffolding, it goes all over
the side of their house. So they've now got this
secondary color just dripping down the side of their house
that they had just bought. So yeah, sometimes just there
are certain know your limitabilities, absolutely limitation.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
If you need motivation, just google folks falling off the ladder.
There's you spend two hours watching people fall off the ladder.
This shouldn't have gone up there. You should not go.
Don't go up a ladder if you're fat. Beginning with you,
I don't go real high because I'm overweight and at
some point I lose my balance and I fall. Wisdom
And here's a noise you make when you fall. Get somebody,
(07:13):
Get somebody.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You know what's funny is one year for my birthday,
Rob me said, my whole partner. He got Norm from
this old house to call me on my birthday. It
was the coolest thing. Had a book coming out, and
uh and Rob was laughing because we had Tim mcgrawl
on the day before, and I was like, yeah, whatever, Jim,
we're wrong. Norm Abrams. I was like, oh my god,
this was Sir Abrams. I don't even know what to do.
(07:38):
And he goes, it's the wood guy. Bamma gets all
worked up about. But what was awesome was I got
you know, I got it. We had a ten minute
interview on air, but I got a twenty minute interview
off air with Norm and he was as cool as
you could imagine. And I said, I said, you guys,
you just do everything perfect. He goes, we've never put
together a blooper real. We need to do one. He
(07:59):
said one time Tommy talked them into it. And if
you know the show, you know, Tommy's the other carpenter
that works with Norm, you know, and it kind of
replaced Norm after for so many years.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He said.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Tommy talked them into doing a second story side with
the gable and everything, with the sighting, with the windows
completely did it laying on the floor, and then he said,
we had six guys there to stand it up. And
he goes, we got it almost up and the wind
caught it. And he goes, all of us had two
by four's, you know, for bracing, and we were our
(08:31):
feet were sliding while we were trying to hold this
whole side of a house up because you've got the wind,
but you've got the weight then, you know. And he
said that thing blew and just went right over the
side and went in the siding and completely destroyed it.
It was like he said, it was like twenty something
thousand dollars. Yeah, he just broke into pieces. It was
(08:53):
all this, you know. But he said, we were holding
it and finally Tommy, let it go, go, let it go.
Just went over so and then he said, one down
the video canber who it was. But they had the plumbing,
the big black plumbing line in the ground, and it
was coming back up over his back every time he
was laying it forward. It was like coming back over
(09:15):
like a tail, like a tarantula on his back, you know.
He said, we did it. We had a blooper thing
one time. He said we should have showed it. But
he said, stuff that broke and fell and shortcuts. We
took things we screwed up. And he said it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That would have been great to see.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But when you see them, you think these guys never
miss up, you know, but they do.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They like everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
They're human, all right. So I'll just i'll get you know,
we got time. We want to get out of here.
What do we do? Yeah, we're done for the day.
Come back tomorrow. We'll do some moreris free stuff.
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