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November 7, 2025 15 mins
Would you survive a zombie apocalypse in South Dakota? That’s just one of the wild questions Bama Brown and Puma tackle in this episode of The Bama Brown Experience—a fast-paced, hilarious, and surprisingly insightful ride through pop culture, personal stories, and pressing societal concerns.

From the absurdity of cat support payments in Turkey to the real fears Americans face today—like corrupt governments and water shortages in Texas—this episode blends humor with hard truths. Bama shares a jaw-dropping story about a former radio exec who claimed to “own” his name, while Puma breaks down why Michigan might be your best bet when the undead rise.

Key Highlights:
  • Zombie Survival Rankings: Which U.S. states are best equipped to handle a zombie outbreak—and why Alaska tops the list.
  • Cat Support Drama: A Turkish divorce leads to a $100/month cat support bill. Is feline alimony the future?
  • Texas Water Crisis: Bama and Puma get serious about the state’s water scarcity and the impact of tech expansion.
  • Tech Neck is Real: The duo explores the physical toll of being “terminally online.”
  • Murder & Mozzarella: A New Jersey cop skips investigating a double homicide to grab pizza—true story.
  • Taylor Sheridan’s Big Move: What his NBCUniversal deal means for the future of TV.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Bama Brown Experience. Thank you
for tuning in. Appreciate you thousands of your We're picking
up new ones every week, which is exciting for us
and my partner. They're also going on and listening to
your show Boomo over there, the Sports Cave podcast, which
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(00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
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with the biggest boma I had.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
H I had one of her big bosses.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'll leave his name out of it, but his initials
were JC because he liked to be compared to Jesus Christ.
That was and you know who I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
He thought, he thought very highly of himself and.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
He was a VP of the Clear Channels though. I
mean he was in fact that that big, that high up.
But he told me one time they were yelling at
me about something and he goes, fat, funny redneck guys.
Those are everwhere we go out on the street out here,
get like five of those, and we own the Bama name.
You don't own that name. I own that name. We
change you out, we pull you out, and pull one in.

(01:40):
Those idiots won't know the difference. And I was like, wow,
you got to work on your new Rotney speech.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
But yeah, you obviously that whole live and local aspect
of radio doesn't really seemed to matter a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now he was so high up, but you know about
a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Might have a good point about. There's a lot of
fat and funny rednecks out there.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm just imagining one day they're shuffling in and no,
this is the New Bama.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Braw New Bama right here, and our sales team ago, okay, everybody, okay,
so we own the name. I mean we own the
name fire. You put a dead other guy in there,
pull you up another guy in there, and these idiots
and never know the difference, Like you're talking about your audience.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, it's so cold.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, and they might not have I don't know. But
so here's a Turkish guy, his name is bug Rebe
bug Run and his wife e g or ezyg. This
sounds like rappers anyway, they got divorced things wood and
congeling over there in Turkey. And uh, he's having to
pay an additional one hundred dollars for cat support. He's

(02:50):
complaining about that. He didn't think that he She got
the cats, two of them. That's fifty bucks a month
for each one. And he goes, there's no webcats eating
fifty dollars a mile were heard of it?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Those cats are living the high life.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well heck, yeah, you know it's.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Bucks a month between the two of them.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I don't know. Here's the best states. If there's
a zombie apocalypse. You know you love the zombie stuff.
I'm a World War Z fan. You know they're making
they're making part two. I think somebody told me so
we should I don't, I don't know. Go see formula one.
That's a good movie. Brad Pitt movie is good. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just went on, Yeah, no zombies and that one.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
No zombies in that one. All right, here's your top
ten countries. Number ten was a tie with Oklahoma. Louisiana.
I'd rather be around zombies and.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I was about to say I and I think
I trust the wild ass Cajun Army of Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeahs.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Number nine was Mississippi. There's no rhyme or reason for this.
There's zombies, so I mean, it's just somebody made this up.
Number eight was Number eight was Michigan.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now one I can tell you why because per capita,
the only state that it bounces back year to year,
but the only state per capita that sends more kids
to the military than Texas is Michigan. Ah two of
the and and Michigan's got Michigan has some awesome, awesome

(04:20):
redneck culture like Midwest to hear.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I love hearing that. Number seven was Hawaii. I don't
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Because you're isolated on an island.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I would think that that's where the rest of them,
I think is because of isolation. Wyoming was number six.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Number five was North Dakota. Number four was Montana. Number
three was South Dakota. Number two was Maine.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, I wonder why does South Dakota get so much
more respect than North Dakota.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's different. I mean I couldn't find them on a
quote together.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, why is South Dakota.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
My buddy went to work in South Dakota for the
whole cup and he told me he came home, he quit.
He came home. He said, I had to open the door,
and he said I had to climb up in the snow,
but up through the door. And he said when I
finally got out, it was even with my roof. And

(05:17):
he said, I had to dig around to try to
find my truck. He had a big four wheel drive forward,
I mean big forward, with all of jacked up and everything.
He could never find his truck. And he said, as
soon as it melts, I'm leaving this part of the world.
He said, it wasn't just even cold, it was just nasty.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, that's just miserable.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I've always heard like North Dakota's view South Dakotas as
like the way Texas like country folk.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
View city folk.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh, Okay, that's where your cities are. North Dakota is
where your real wilderness people are.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
The only thing. I mean, I always wanted to go
to Mount Rushmore, and I think it's South Dakota, right,
I think. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's a bit underwhelming too.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
By the way, if you watch north By Northwest as
a blooper, I think I told whom about this. There's
a blooper in there where he gets ready to shoot
the girl. I'm not giving anything away because movie he's
seventy years old.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Or whatever, but I think you're safe.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
He's getting ready to shoot the girl in it, and
there's a kid there who covers his ears, and they
left it in the movie, so he looked for the blooper.
He's pretty easy to spot. He covers his ears because
he knows the gunshot's about to come. So that's pretty cool. Uh,
Maine was number two, don't know why, and then number
one Alaska. I'm assuming Alaska because of the you know

(06:31):
it's got you know, you know, as you said isolated.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Some of the best, like zo I guess those aren't
necessarily zombie like. Some of the best vampire movies and
shows and stuff have been set in Alaska or in
like snow. Yeah, where they have the twenty four hours
of Darkness and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I read a thing The rainiest town is the one
that had guys from the other ones of Vampire. What
the latest?

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, the team?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah whatever it is?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Hold on, I got the I got the roommate in
the room.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
What's the what's the teen book with the vampires and Twilight?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
That light Twilight is filmed in Washington State, in that
town that they film it in because it is the
rainiest town in the US, and that's why they picked Chuck.
So such some more movie trivia that you absolutely maybe
I'll win a beer with or something, But that's it. Uh,
let's see. Uh, Here's what Americans fear the most. I

(07:35):
thought this was an interesting list. Uh, and I'll just
go from ten to one. Number ten China and Venezuela.
Right now, this is the current list. There's thousands of
people what they fear, their their own personal fears.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Americans here drug imports, the China having all the supplies
for fentanyl, and then Venezuela shipping it up here.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, I think that they've been exposed on that big time.
Number nine, government getting your personal data Number eight with
the pollution around the world. Yeah, you thought that would
have been higher. Up. Pollution around the world would be
number eight. Number seven to Russia. They're just scared of
Russia general, okay. Number six the drinking water, are scared

(08:21):
about the drinking water out? Uh. Number five war with
America or with anybody in America. Number four cyber terrorism, yeah, fair, yeah.
Number three friends coming back and trying to redo friends. No,
I'm just that Jennifer or nobody. Okay, I'm just gonna

(08:45):
get ahead of it now, do not do free. It's
not one that funny. It was that she was smoking up.
Number three the United States and really worldwide financial collapse.
Let's see Number two loved ones getting sick, and number
one a corrupt government. So well, there's a lot of

(09:05):
real worry and a lot of those you know.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think, folks, I hate to break it to you,
but that number one, Yeah, that's not changing any time soon.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
And it is happening left and right unless we get
some kickback saying oh everything's great. Yeah, we're one of
those yeah, yeah, we're not that. We're not that big
for media yet where we get told paid to lie.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, I will say, there is something somewhat comforting
at least that Number two was still caring about loved
ones getting sick and not any of the other bs
that was number three through ten or all of those
are valid concerns, but it's at least good to see,
you know, number one, corrupt government right there with you,

(09:47):
brother Number two. Loved ones getting sick. That's all I
need to worry about, right.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I think big in what should move up is the
water situation here in Texas. I think that worries me
as much as anything. We don't have enough water, the
growth that we've had, and the governor, I'm gonna just
say it, sorry, governor, have it. But hoping it rains
is not a is not a real program. That's not
a real answer or solution. Well it's going to rain,

(10:12):
it'll rain and affix it. Yeah, that's not not with
the growth that you have and what's to be expected.
But you come.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Engineering the clouds to try to make it rain more
seems to not be a good idea.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You mentioned.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's not just the it's not just the public development
and the amount of people that are swelling our cities
and now our our even.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Our farm land, our ranch land.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
But it's also a lot of these uh you know,
like data centers that are being built in cities, smaller
cities because they want cheaper land. So they're building these
massive tech data centers and small towns. Well, the resources,
the number one resource those data centers require is water

(10:57):
and so towers exactly.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
So it's you got it mixed up.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
With fracking and you're talking about some major major water
lootion usage and standing around going yeah, we want the money.
I mean, yeah, we all want the money. But at
the same time, you got to have some kind of
planning place. I'm sure abbit's listening right now. He's like, yeah,
bust without references to seventy fifty year old movies, how

(11:24):
about another one for you? Or it makes me think
of Chinatown Go Paddle over Water and right, classic movie.
I mean that's absolutely water is water is gold. It
really is. I mean, it's it's cheaper to get gas
here than it is water now, so for if you're
mining for it is uh here's something that you might have.

(11:45):
I have it tech neck. You know what tech nec is.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh, I said, I'm dealing with it.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Excessive smartphone use where you hold your head forward for
long periods of time. It's an actual thing. It causes headaches.
You have all kinds of issues with you back. I
have it from looking down and going Not my fault, honey,
I didn't mean to. That's just.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
You. Remember when we did our New Year's resolutions at
the beginning of the year, I swore I would try
not to be as terminally online as I had.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Been last year.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
And I feel I still get technic now that I
know that's what we're calling it. I still got it
a few times this year, but way less this year
than last year.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
So small steps.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Sometime I've done. I've done a lot. I just yawned
in the middle of my own show. That's and don't
take it. It's not Puma, believe me. It's me. I've
been up a lot doing some stuff. Let's do it.
This is my new favorite cop, Sergeant Kevin Balaro of Pittstown,
New Jersey. H he's a murder investigation guy. He's a

(12:54):
he's an investigator for murder. Uh. He was called to
a murder scene, but before he got there, they have
him on video stopping and getting some money from the ATM.
Then he went by where the murder was kind of
looked around a little bit, okay, and then left and
went to a pizzeria. And then the next day two
bodies that they were looking for were six hundred feet

(13:16):
from the one and with laying there, so he didn't
do any investigation, and they had a crime scene sit
overnight with six hundred feet from where this one was. Now,
that sounds like that's pretty far away. It's not for
a murder scene. You need the canvas the entire area.
So he's in trouble. He's probably not gonna he's gonna

(13:37):
be back in a squad car now. I guess the only.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Thing I can hope for is that no offense to
chain pizzerias. But I would hope he at least went
to a local pizza shop and wasn't going to just
like Papa John's, Domino's Pizza Hut or something like. I
would hope it was the best pizza in town. And
that's why he had to get there as quick as possible.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Let me point out a New Jersey, uh investigator for murder.
He's that's hourly up there.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm sure probably keeps you pretty busy.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
He probably forgot, you know, I'm better eat well, I
got time before they have two more of these things.
I got to go check out anyway. Uh, Last, but
not least, Taylor Sheridan is inked a huge deal with
NBC Universal, five year deal with TV and movies. Now
that doesn't affect his deal with Paramount, so he's uh,
he's still got you know, land man, he's still got

(14:28):
all that.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Maybe NBC will make good television programs again.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
He needs to do something they really do. They're in trouble,
like a lot of them that uh, they've got it.
They've got to come up with quality programming. So in
order to in speaking of quality programming, that's hard for
us to say without living.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Another week of quality programming here. That's ironic to end
on now in poetically perfect.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Thank you folks for listening a oh week. We appreciate you.
We'll be back here next week, hopefully,
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