October 24, 2025 • 11 mins
Exactly how small is a small appliance? That’s the question that kicks off this hilariously insightful episode of The Bama Brown Experience, where Bama and his co-host, The Biggest Puma, dive into everything from electrical safety to insurance scams, international statue controversies, and heartwarming philanthropy.
This week’s episode is a rollercoaster of laughs, rants, and real talk. The duo starts with a timely PSA on what not to plug into your power strip—spoiler: your microwave and space heater are on the naughty list. From there, they spiral into a side-splitting discussion about Puma’s overloaded office outlet that rivals Chevy Chase’s Christmas lights.
Then it’s off to Dublin, where the Molly Malone statue’s “re-breasting” sparks a debate on human nature and public art. The laughs continue with a bonehead of the week: a fake insurance agent who duped customers with too-good-to-be-true rates. Bama shares his own frustrating experience with insurance claims, calling out the industry’s shady practices.
But it’s not all chaos—there’s heart too. The episode ends on a high note with the story of Edwin Castro, the $2 billion lottery winner who’s quietly spent $10 million helping Californians rebuild after devastating fires. “He needs to be Time Man of the Year,” Bama declares, reminding us that real generosity doesn’t need a spotlight.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good rant, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a dose of humor and humanity. New episodes drop every weekday—don’t miss the next wild ride!
This week’s episode is a rollercoaster of laughs, rants, and real talk. The duo starts with a timely PSA on what not to plug into your power strip—spoiler: your microwave and space heater are on the naughty list. From there, they spiral into a side-splitting discussion about Puma’s overloaded office outlet that rivals Chevy Chase’s Christmas lights.
Then it’s off to Dublin, where the Molly Malone statue’s “re-breasting” sparks a debate on human nature and public art. The laughs continue with a bonehead of the week: a fake insurance agent who duped customers with too-good-to-be-true rates. Bama shares his own frustrating experience with insurance claims, calling out the industry’s shady practices.
But it’s not all chaos—there’s heart too. The episode ends on a high note with the story of Edwin Castro, the $2 billion lottery winner who’s quietly spent $10 million helping Californians rebuild after devastating fires. “He needs to be Time Man of the Year,” Bama declares, reminding us that real generosity doesn’t need a spotlight.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good rant, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a dose of humor and humanity. New episodes drop every weekday—don’t miss the next wild ride!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everybody, Badman Brown. Will you from the Badman Brown
Experience and the iHeart Podcast Network thousands of year listen
and thank you all the new people tuning in along
with my partner, the Big Puma, The Big Caty is
the Sports Cave. Very popular sports podcast. It's you guys
talk about a lot of stuff, not just sports, but
a bunch of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh yeah, we get lost on so many random tangents,
but somehow still cover the staples of little NFL, little
college football preview we did last night as well, and
now we got NBA basketball to react to every night
as well. So if you need a little sports fix
in your life, go find any of our past episodes
(00:42):
anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah Puma played college basketball. They know what they're talking
about on that show. Here's things you shouldn't plug into
a power strip. You know, as we're getting closer to
cold weather and everybody's like, you know, go to powers
and then you see people's offices and stuff they use
the here's five things you shouldn't put in there to
a power strip. A small appliance, a refrigerator, even a
(01:06):
small refrigerator, a microwave, a space heater, you shouldn't plug
into a into a strip, any of each power strip
number five, any kind of medical device you shouldn't plug in,
and then for a bonus, another power strip. You shouldn't
run two in a row. That's not safe, they said, So,
I don't know why could be fire.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I guess we we strictly follow these guidelines and rules
because our house, you know, we're in a house that
was built from a Sears catalog in nineteen ten, and
so there's not a lot of electrical outlets in this thing,
and we run quite a bit of you know surge
like super you know, fire resistant surge protected power strips.
(01:53):
And I am still with following all of the rules
and guidelines. I am still hyper nervous. Anytime I had
something else, like when you said small appliance, my gut
instinct was like, exactly how small?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Like where's that line Puma's office? So that one out
it looks like the Christmas vacation with Chevy Chase, you
know where he's got buddy, That's what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've seen it, me and me and uh me and
my wife. The roommate. Both work from home most of
the time too, so she's got all of her you know,
big tech set up on one side of the room.
I've got mine on this side, and I'm constantly worried
one of us is gonna end up.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Started electric a Christmas vacation running wide open. He dim
the lights in the neighborhood, Dublin, Ireland. This is pretty good.
The famous Molly Malone statue over there, uh, you know,
started in twenty twelve, a thing that one of the
(02:53):
uh it was a guard there. I guess he was,
you know, like a tour guide guard, you know. Quote card.
He If you've never seen the Molly Malone statue, it
has prominent breast, and so he rubbed the breast and
it has now become a tradition, so much so that
they've almost rubbed the breast off of the Molly Malone statue,
(03:14):
so they've had to they rebreasted it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
This is the one where she's pushing the little cart
right right. Yeah, that's on Reddit before.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They've rubbed this thing so much that they had to
redo it. And now they're saying that they've posted a
guard because they wanted to stop because apparently some guy
rubbing it too long. Yeah, yeah, a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
My favorite thing is anytime a picture of this gets posted,
there's always some militant feminists that's like, oh, yeah, see,
this is why men are the worst, and it's like, well, actually,
here's a list of twenty Greek statues that have the
genitals rubbed off as well. So it's kind of just
it's more of just humans are sexually right.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They're gonna put flowers. They're gonna put flowers.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Around it, So good luck.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I see I suggested two lips because I'd have
my two lips. Yeah, there it is, thank you very much.
I'm twelve. Okay, Uh, here's what you wanna. You wanna,
you wanna hitit. You're a bonehead always okay. Uh it's
I can't really pronounce the guy's name. Shakia Cureton, eight
(04:30):
lives in Union County, South Carolina. Was an incredible progressive
insurance agent. Uh. It was on the progressive website and
offered I mean everybody somehow offered incredibly low rates and
never really questioned your driving record. He would just give
you that insurance to get you set up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He's been arrested because It turns out he doesn't work
for Progressive Insurance or any insurance, and everything he sold
was fake. I mean, your website you got on their website.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Insurance is a Ponzi scheme to begin I kind of
like the fact that. I mean, I don't like the
fact that individuals were scammed out of their money, but
I do like the fact that a guy was able
to scam Progressive at least.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. Oh, you drove your car. Oh well, I'm sorry.
You're not covered. You're not supposed to drive it. You know,
it's just sitting and driving. Oh, your your house, you
you had some you had a helstorm at your house. Okay,
well we'll fix your house. We'll fix it. Canceled, You're
now canceled after we put a roof on your house.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There you go. You drove your You drove your suv
to the beach. Oh my goodness, you put it in
such danger of being flushed away with high tide. Premiums
are increasing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Never never touch it again, you know. So uh yeah,
there that that happened to me. Fence got knocked down.
Never had filed a claim. I said I'll do. It
wasn't with Progressive game. It was but I filed a claim.
You know, the guy goes, yeah, I give you thirteen
grand for this fence. It was about a thirty thousand
dollars fence. Blew it over. Is a tornado hit it actually?
(06:06):
And it pulled the post out of the ground. I
mean that's before out of the ground, with the concrete
still attacked. You know. Uh, he gave me thirteen grand
and impromptly the day after you're canceled. Yep, never had
filed acclaim ever. So you know, insurance biggest scam in
the world. Olive Garden's going to be closed for Thanksgiving
(06:29):
and Christmas. So your family there at Olive Garden except
the holidays?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Is that a new policy? I mean, how many kids
were going to eat Olive Garden on Christmas Day? I
guess I should went to Loubies.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
One Thanksgiving. We went to Loubies and it was really
good people there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That makes sense though, get a home, you know, a
nice homestock mill.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I love the Loubies. They closed them all down, but man,
I loved them.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
We were a big family that would you know randomly, uh,
you know, like Christmas night, go eat Chinese food because
it would be the only thing Chinese love. We would
do Mexican food Christmas Eve, and then traditional Christmas Launch,
and then Chinese food Christmas Dinner. And it was always
as a kid, I always thought this is the most
(07:19):
unstable holiday ever. But now as an adult, like I mean,
I still carry on the tradition.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Remember Ralfie, may you have sala you here a full hour?
If you google Ralfie recipes. Ralfie is a great guy.
He used to come do my show all night, but
he would do that every day. It would make me
laugh hard. You too fat? You have salad? You here?
Four hour?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Chop the neck off the duck right there in front.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Of Remember that from Christmas Story, the mom classic. It's
great classic. Here's Edwin Castro. Uh. If you know I'm
gonna end it, I'm gonna tell you this one first.
I'm gonna give you one more boney and then a
nice story run in the week on a good story.
So I'll do this other one. Two Pennsylvania fortune tellers
(08:12):
have built two old women out of six hundred grand
telling them fake fortunes and that kind of in Pennsylvania.
And they've been caught and now they're not gonna have
much of the money. You're gonna get some of their
money back. But these two, their fortunes are easy to
tell because they're going to be in a dark Pennsylvania prison.
That just their life's not going to be so good.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm just imagining them running there the same racket from
inside the prison walls, like, oh, let me read your fortune.
It looks like you've still got twelve to fourteen years
in here.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Come here and rub these crystal balls and see what
you think. I'm going to tell you your future here?
This is yeah, yeah, this is crystal right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or yeah, are.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You gonna eat your pancas? No, I'll good one later.
All right, good story, nice story. He ended on Edwin.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Changed, Huh, I said for a change. Change, So with somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We're gonna leave it on up Edwin Castro. You might
recognize that name. He's the two billion dollar lottery winner.
You remember that guy. He just two billion dollars so far.
He hadn't had it that long. So far he has
spent ten million dollars in California on repairing people's homes
from the fires. And hey, good dude, in million so far,
(09:35):
he goes, well, it's he goes, I know it's a
drop in the bucket. I got a lot more to spend.
But he said, I'm gonna help some people. And he
said it's amazing how much just a little bit changes
their lives. And it doesn't sound like he cared if
he got two billion or not. So he's the perfect
winner to take that money and do something since Gavin
Newsom's not gonna do anything. There you go, there was
my dad. We took a nice story around, found a
(10:01):
way to make it tribal political, and it ended ending
this week.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's like we end every week now only appropriate.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm sorry I had to do it. That was the
good part that I was talking about Castro. Okay, okay,
that was the part that was bragging its gonna be good. No,
that is that's awesome that that mister Edwin Castro did that.
He needs I am he needs to be Times Man
in a year. How about that? That's the guys, because
(10:35):
he's he's done it, not like he solved the Middle
East processing over there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The never change, never change.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I just do that because I'm laughing. I have a
good time.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We're losing it over here. I must be. I must
be having some choppy connection or a delay because.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, not as fun over your house.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm losing. My gut is absolutely bursting right now.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, if you will give us a listen next week,
at some point he'll kill me. So that's what we're
listening for. Is here, Pum will go home and go
let me tell you something, some bitch.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Let's take bets on the day it happens.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Poom always getting, he always wins. We're going, well, you're
a convicted felon, you couldn't vote anyway. And I'm like, yeah, okay,
you win.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That way the high ground.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah,
Hey, everybody, Badman Brown. Will you from the Badman Brown
Experience and the iHeart Podcast Network thousands of year listen
and thank you all the new people tuning in along
with my partner, the Big Puma, The Big Caty is
the Sports Cave. Very popular sports podcast. It's you guys
talk about a lot of stuff, not just sports, but
a bunch of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh yeah, we get lost on so many random tangents,
but somehow still cover the staples of little NFL, little
college football preview we did last night as well, and
now we got NBA basketball to react to every night
as well. So if you need a little sports fix
in your life, go find any of our past episodes
(00:42):
anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah Puma played college basketball. They know what they're talking
about on that show. Here's things you shouldn't plug into
a power strip. You know, as we're getting closer to
cold weather and everybody's like, you know, go to powers
and then you see people's offices and stuff they use
the here's five things you shouldn't put in there to
a power strip. A small appliance, a refrigerator, even a
(01:06):
small refrigerator, a microwave, a space heater, you shouldn't plug
into a into a strip, any of each power strip
number five, any kind of medical device you shouldn't plug in,
and then for a bonus, another power strip. You shouldn't
run two in a row. That's not safe, they said, So,
I don't know why could be fire.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I guess we we strictly follow these guidelines and rules
because our house, you know, we're in a house that
was built from a Sears catalog in nineteen ten, and
so there's not a lot of electrical outlets in this thing,
and we run quite a bit of you know surge
like super you know, fire resistant surge protected power strips.
(01:53):
And I am still with following all of the rules
and guidelines. I am still hyper nervous. Anytime I had
something else, like when you said small appliance, my gut
instinct was like, exactly how small?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Like where's that line Puma's office? So that one out
it looks like the Christmas vacation with Chevy Chase, you
know where he's got buddy, That's what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've seen it, me and me and uh me and
my wife. The roommate. Both work from home most of
the time too, so she's got all of her you know,
big tech set up on one side of the room.
I've got mine on this side, and I'm constantly worried
one of us is gonna end up.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Started electric a Christmas vacation running wide open. He dim
the lights in the neighborhood, Dublin, Ireland. This is pretty good.
The famous Molly Malone statue over there, uh, you know,
started in twenty twelve, a thing that one of the
(02:53):
uh it was a guard there. I guess he was,
you know, like a tour guide guard, you know. Quote card.
He If you've never seen the Molly Malone statue, it
has prominent breast, and so he rubbed the breast and
it has now become a tradition, so much so that
they've almost rubbed the breast off of the Molly Malone statue,
(03:14):
so they've had to they rebreasted it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
This is the one where she's pushing the little cart
right right. Yeah, that's on Reddit before.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They've rubbed this thing so much that they had to
redo it. And now they're saying that they've posted a
guard because they wanted to stop because apparently some guy
rubbing it too long. Yeah, yeah, a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
My favorite thing is anytime a picture of this gets posted,
there's always some militant feminists that's like, oh, yeah, see,
this is why men are the worst, and it's like, well, actually,
here's a list of twenty Greek statues that have the
genitals rubbed off as well. So it's kind of just
it's more of just humans are sexually right.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They're gonna put flowers. They're gonna put flowers.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Around it, So good luck.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I see I suggested two lips because I'd have
my two lips. Yeah, there it is, thank you very much.
I'm twelve. Okay, Uh, here's what you wanna. You wanna,
you wanna hitit. You're a bonehead always okay. Uh it's
I can't really pronounce the guy's name. Shakia Cureton, eight
(04:30):
lives in Union County, South Carolina. Was an incredible progressive
insurance agent. Uh. It was on the progressive website and
offered I mean everybody somehow offered incredibly low rates and
never really questioned your driving record. He would just give
you that insurance to get you set up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He's been arrested because It turns out he doesn't work
for Progressive Insurance or any insurance, and everything he sold
was fake. I mean, your website you got on their website.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Insurance is a Ponzi scheme to begin I kind of
like the fact that. I mean, I don't like the
fact that individuals were scammed out of their money, but
I do like the fact that a guy was able
to scam Progressive at least.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. Oh, you drove your car. Oh well, I'm sorry.
You're not covered. You're not supposed to drive it. You know,
it's just sitting and driving. Oh, your your house, you
you had some you had a helstorm at your house. Okay,
well we'll fix your house. We'll fix it. Canceled, You're
now canceled after we put a roof on your house.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There you go. You drove your You drove your suv
to the beach. Oh my goodness, you put it in
such danger of being flushed away with high tide. Premiums
are increasing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Never never touch it again, you know. So uh yeah,
there that that happened to me. Fence got knocked down.
Never had filed a claim. I said I'll do. It
wasn't with Progressive game. It was but I filed a claim.
You know, the guy goes, yeah, I give you thirteen
grand for this fence. It was about a thirty thousand
dollars fence. Blew it over. Is a tornado hit it actually?
(06:06):
And it pulled the post out of the ground. I
mean that's before out of the ground, with the concrete
still attacked. You know. Uh, he gave me thirteen grand
and impromptly the day after you're canceled. Yep, never had
filed acclaim ever. So you know, insurance biggest scam in
the world. Olive Garden's going to be closed for Thanksgiving
(06:29):
and Christmas. So your family there at Olive Garden except
the holidays?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Is that a new policy? I mean, how many kids
were going to eat Olive Garden on Christmas Day? I
guess I should went to Loubies.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
One Thanksgiving. We went to Loubies and it was really
good people there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That makes sense though, get a home, you know, a
nice homestock mill.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I love the Loubies. They closed them all down, but man,
I loved them.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
We were a big family that would you know randomly, uh,
you know, like Christmas night, go eat Chinese food because
it would be the only thing Chinese love. We would
do Mexican food Christmas Eve, and then traditional Christmas Launch,
and then Chinese food Christmas Dinner. And it was always
as a kid, I always thought this is the most
(07:19):
unstable holiday ever. But now as an adult, like I mean,
I still carry on the tradition.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Remember Ralfie, may you have sala you here a full hour?
If you google Ralfie recipes. Ralfie is a great guy.
He used to come do my show all night, but
he would do that every day. It would make me
laugh hard. You too fat? You have salad? You here?
Four hour?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Chop the neck off the duck right there in front.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Of Remember that from Christmas Story, the mom classic. It's
great classic. Here's Edwin Castro. Uh. If you know I'm
gonna end it, I'm gonna tell you this one first.
I'm gonna give you one more boney and then a
nice story run in the week on a good story.
So I'll do this other one. Two Pennsylvania fortune tellers
(08:12):
have built two old women out of six hundred grand
telling them fake fortunes and that kind of in Pennsylvania.
And they've been caught and now they're not gonna have
much of the money. You're gonna get some of their
money back. But these two, their fortunes are easy to
tell because they're going to be in a dark Pennsylvania prison.
That just their life's not going to be so good.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm just imagining them running there the same racket from
inside the prison walls, like, oh, let me read your fortune.
It looks like you've still got twelve to fourteen years
in here.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Come here and rub these crystal balls and see what
you think. I'm going to tell you your future here?
This is yeah, yeah, this is crystal right?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or yeah, are.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You gonna eat your pancas? No, I'll good one later.
All right, good story, nice story. He ended on Edwin.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Changed, Huh, I said for a change. Change, So with somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We're gonna leave it on up Edwin Castro. You might
recognize that name. He's the two billion dollar lottery winner.
You remember that guy. He just two billion dollars so far.
He hadn't had it that long. So far he has
spent ten million dollars in California on repairing people's homes
from the fires. And hey, good dude, in million so far,
(09:35):
he goes, well, it's he goes, I know it's a
drop in the bucket. I got a lot more to spend.
But he said, I'm gonna help some people. And he
said it's amazing how much just a little bit changes
their lives. And it doesn't sound like he cared if
he got two billion or not. So he's the perfect
winner to take that money and do something since Gavin
Newsom's not gonna do anything. There you go, there was
my dad. We took a nice story around, found a
(10:01):
way to make it tribal political, and it ended ending
this week.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's like we end every week now only appropriate.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm sorry I had to do it. That was the
good part that I was talking about Castro. Okay, okay,
that was the part that was bragging its gonna be good. No,
that is that's awesome that that mister Edwin Castro did that.
He needs I am he needs to be Times Man
in a year. How about that? That's the guys, because
(10:35):
he's he's done it, not like he solved the Middle
East processing over there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The never change, never change.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I just do that because I'm laughing. I have a
good time.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We're losing it over here. I must be. I must
be having some choppy connection or a delay because.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, not as fun over your house.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm losing. My gut is absolutely bursting right now.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, if you will give us a listen next week,
at some point he'll kill me. So that's what we're
listening for. Is here, Pum will go home and go
let me tell you something, some bitch.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Let's take bets on the day it happens.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Poom always getting, he always wins. We're going, well, you're
a convicted felon, you couldn't vote anyway. And I'm like, yeah, okay,
you win.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That way the high ground.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah,
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