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September 25, 2025 13 mins
Is it illegal if it’s awesome? That’s the question Bama Brown throws out as he dives into one of the wildest stories of the week—a Czech man dubbed The Phantom who spent six years outrunning police in a real Formula One car on public highways. From bizarre dating app disasters to catalytic converter capers, this episode of The Bama Brown Experience is a rollercoaster of outrageous headlines, hilarious commentary, and unexpected insights.

Bama is joined by co-host Biggest Puma who shares his experience as a former data analyst and reflects on the evolving job market, while also reminiscing about his days of climbing water towers for fun. Together, they unpack:
  • The legend of The Phantom and his McLaren-fueled highway escapades
  • A foot model’s nightmare date that ended with road rash and a police report
  • Why you should never try to outsmart a police dog—especially if you’re hiding pills and stolen car parts
  • The top 10 fastest-growing jobs of the next decade (spoiler: wind turbine techs and solar installers are in!)
  • A nostalgic yet sobering look at youthful fearlessness and how heights hit different after 30
If you laughed, cringed, or learned something new, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your crew. Tune in weekly for more boneheads, brilliance, and Bama-style banter.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey everybody, man m Brown, will you on the iHeart
podcast nip work, Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
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(00:40):
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
And you can get you live. And that's when it
is really, really fun. It's fun the whole time, not
just then. But all right, let's do you wanna start
with a bonehead? I love my Bonehead's twenty eight year
old Emery Circle in Ventura, Florida. Okay, so I'm gonna
read this. I'm trying to make sense of this. A
woman who is a foot model. She's a foot model.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
She went on a dating app and the guy that,
this emery guy, he wanted to smell her.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Feet, that's what he said.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, she said no, of course, and then he offered,
being a Romantica he is, he offered to buy her
some used sneakers. She still said no. Shocking she said no,
so he ran over her feet with his car.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Good God, that escalated quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
She had road rash on her feet, which he wanted
to see, but she would not. By then he was
in the back of a police car. So she will recover.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
But he doesn't sound like he has a lot of money.
But I would think she can sue for like career Sam.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, I mean she's a foot model, right, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I'm sure she's had some weird recruit I liked that
he was gonna buy her some U sneakers and she
still said no, I don't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
So, yeah, it didn't sound like this guy had It
didn't sound like he had much of a chance to
begin with.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I love this story.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I think maybe you heard about this too, because you
mentioned Formula One. They called him the Phantom over in
the Czech Republic. He had bought a used Formula one
car from a team, a real Formula one race car.
For six years he's been driving it wide open on
the Czech highways and they hadn't been able to catch him.
And they finally caught him there. They called him the Phantom,

(02:40):
and they've been trying. He's wearing a helmet and everything,
and he's driving this I mean it's not a new one,
but it's a like seven eight year old Formula one
card that.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Still all that ass. He's a fifty one year old guy.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I had not seen this story whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, they got him finally.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
He's in an old McLaren and oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
God, and they post he was posting his videos on
YouTube and and the police were like, you know, they
didn't see who he was and know who he was,
but they would call him the phantom six years and
got away with it and they finally got him. So
it was funny. I mean, I never drive again. They've
taken his license away. He's going to get some jail time,
but he's done driving, you know. They're gonna fix that.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
So man, all right, I again not to celebrate criminals,
but it's not like he was doing anything wrong, right,
Like we can all kind of agree driving buying a
Formula one guard and just driving it on the highways
kind of.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I think that's the awesomest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
But that's yeah, exactly. Yeah, the uh you know, prayers
are with him, or of thoughts and prayers.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Lord, yeah, it looks I was looking at some of
the footage just now, that's insane.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's insane. I mean, he's going two hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Don criminally illegal, blah blah blah, support throw him in jail, whatever,
But can't we all still agree that's pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Ass, that really badass. This is really right up there. Okay,
So here's a this is a tip for you. We
got another bonehead. I'm just loving this.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
If they bring out the police dog, you might be
able to fool a policeman or policewoman, but you're not
gonna You're not gonna fool the police dog. They're smart
and they have no dog in the fight. They just
they just want to fight. That's their job. Is Like,
give me a chance, a lot of times my friend
had won. It only spoke German because he would it

(04:40):
would only communicate with him. It was a German shepherd
and it only spoke German and uh and when you
yelled stop in English just made him bite harder.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh God.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Anyway, here's a police dog. This was in uh Realdale County,
North Carolina. Cody Spike Cody. He had twenty five.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Speed.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
He had twenty five pills of speed. But what was
really cool was eleven catalytic converters in the back of
the car. Now, he told the police officer, get this.
He said, well, ideal in precious metals and recycling. And
they let him go because he said.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
No ideal in them.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I've just been over on buying these cadillacic converters. So
they So that was on September third, okay, so September fifth.
The detective went to the building where he said he
was at and he was he that building was vacant
now and he wasn't in the recycling business. The only

(05:45):
recycling was he was selling the catalytic converters to people
on the street. And when they caught him to the
guy for that, they pulled him over September third had
already followed all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
So but the police.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Dog smelled the catalytic converters, didn't smell the pills smelled
the converters, and that's what alerted them in the second deal.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
I do feel bad now, I hadn't thought about it
that way, but I do feel bad for the absolute honest,
hard working man who is just running a metal scrap yard. Yeah,
I swear, I swear to God, officers. I literally this
is my job. I am not a crackhead that is
robbing taking these off of people's cars. This is literally

(06:27):
what I do for a living.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Is this is what I do. I buy them and
of course get the address and everything. And if they're
selling ten, that's a thief, so they only do one
at a time.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
This guy's a thief.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
My buddy owned a scrapyard, Steve Rees, and you see
him every now and then on on Iron Resurrection with me.
Oh yeah, he my best friend nast in forty years
and uh he has scrapyard salvage yard. And the sheriffs
came to him, and in fact I think he went
to them.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
There was a guy bringing in a lot of copper,
so he was stealing air conditioning copper.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
And they put the camera up the video and why
he was being paid, and they put a playmate calendar
topless calendar next to it, And so your senior picture
didn't turn out as well as I mean, this guy
looking right at the camera.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
The whole time they're giving him the money. I mean,
he was just that's genius.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Up with that, they go, this is what we do,
you know, And so that way we get everybody looking up,
you know.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh, and it also gets them, I mean they can
they technically are getting paid with taxpayer money to buy
a Playboy.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's kind of fun too, right there.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, here's the ten fastest growing jobs in the
next ten years. This is according to I don't know
who somebody, but when I get these things, they're you know,
out of fortune or one of these you know deals
that does these surveys.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
PO might actually have a chance of being on this list.
We joke all the time.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
All right, so I got this and average pay all right,
so over the next ten years, this is the ten
fastest growing You've got to figure AI and a lot
of that, so it's eliminating a lot of jobs all right,
including our jobs, I mean anyway. Number ten physician one
hundred and thirty three thousand a year. This is a
yearly pay. A research analyst ninety one thousand.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Hey, that was that was a job I used to
hold At one point in my life. I was a
data research analyst for ad agency.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I hope you can get that back.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Actuary I don't even know what an actuary is. Pays
one twenty five. What's an actuary?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't feel like I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
But why it sounds like can I say it this way?
That sounds like one of those jobs those people had
that lost it. Charlie Kirk, I saw a lot of
actuaries and a lot of you know, management, you know,
and you go, is that a real job?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
You know?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
But there the people that calculate insurance risks and premium. Okay,
what the actuary is, man.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It pays one twenty five, that's what.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's what Edward Norton is in fight club. He's an
actual that's right job. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, the fight club is wow, there is any fight club? No, exactly.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Physical therapist was number seven at sixty five thousand. Uh
here's number six. Health services manager. Yeah, you don't look well,
better go home. That's one hundred and seventeen thousand.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Not bad.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Information security. I can't read my own writing. The information
security analyst. There's a lot of analysts are Yeah, one
twenty four a year. Data scientist won twelve. Nurse one
hundred and twenty nine thousand. So if you're there's a
nursing shortage nationwide, you can live anywhere you want, move

(09:51):
anywhere you want. One twenty nine a year.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Physician was number ten on this list.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, but the nurse was number three because the nurse
do all the work.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, and what was the average pay of the physician
versus thirty three, So you're almost making as much as
the doctor. Just be the nurse.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Just go be a And if you watch a pit,
you know the nurse is doing all the work here.
That pit's an awesome show.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I hadn't watch that.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I've watched the whole season. A solar installer.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's it. These are the next ten years.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
This is a ten growing it's number two, uh fifty
one a year though that's not much crawl on the
houses and stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
But I would assume maybe the room for growth. We
got to get we got to get conservatives back on
the solar and renewable energy because there is so much
potential here. And I mean even Elon building all the
solar fields to power all of his stuff, like it.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Why aren't they are the the parking areas, they all
should be solar Were you parking the shade?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
They all should be solar panels. I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Grow them on every roof and every down to the Roofsungle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
And then number one is the wind turbine guys. Six,
So you need to be you need to be doing that.
And there's every tall building should have wind turbines at
the top of it. I don't understand why they don't.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
See I'm not terrified of heights. I enjoy heights, but uh,
I only like them if I'm like jumping off of them,
like I look like bungee jumping or jumping off the
cliff into a river or a lake or something. I
I've seen that picture of the two windmill, the turbine
guys that were that were stranded up there as there

(11:34):
was the fire and.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Just they had nowhere to go. They were done that.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
For the rest of my life. Well, I will never
go up at the top of a wind turbine ever.
My wife's from Lubbock, and every time we drive up
there and see the the wind, the turbines on the
on the mesa up there on the plateau, and I
think about that picture every single time. I don't think.
I don't think I could get up there.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I I you know, I worked in the there when
I was a kid, Roughneck and in the hall field,
and I worked up one hundred and thirty feet up,
you know, and it never phased me at all when
I was a kid. But then as I got older,
you know, it started at heights bother me apparently.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
And I'm claustrophobic too.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
But when I was a kid, man, I just when
I was a kid, you had a counterweight for the
to climb up and down, and I would just kick
out and hold on with my hands and slide down
the ladder it, you know, as fast as I could.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
And then, you know, like an idiot.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
And so we climbed the water tower every weekend and
all no hesitation, thinking about anything. And then I remember
we when I when we came back, when we went
back to my hometown a couple of years I was
like a junior in college and we had all come back.
We were all twenty one years old at that point,

(12:47):
so we could, you know, we could buy our own beer.
We didn't have to have someone's older brother uncle buy
it for us. And we had bought a bunch of beer,
and we were going to go to the water tower
like we had in high school. And I remember we
got a out halfway up that thing and one of
my buddies literally it was like, guys, I'm not doing this.
He bailed and we went up there and sitting up

(13:08):
there for like five minutes, and very very quickly all
of us were like, yeah, we don't need we don't
need to be doing this anymow not at all.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
And that's you got smarter when you went to school.
Thank God. All right, that's it for us today. I
appreciate you guys listening catch booming them. Y'all are probably
live tonight.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
You think throw the throw the Thursday night football game
on mute the sound listen to us coming out awesome
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