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December 8, 2025 12 mins
What does it take to sneak your own painting into the Louvre—and fool art snobs into praising it? In this episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bam and Puma dive into a whirlwind of jaw-dropping stories that will leave you laughing, shaking your head, and questioning reality.

From a Portland man who robbed the same store 30 times (yes, thirty!) to pranksters who hung their own artwork next to the Mona Lisa, this episode is packed with outrageous headlines and sharp commentary. You’ll also hear:
  • The Shreveport Heist: Three women steal $1,000 worth of adult toys—what were they planning?
  • Mega-Church Fail: A viral TikTok exposes which churches actually step up when families need help.
  • DoorDash Data Breach: Why you might want to change your passwords right now.
  • Math Meltdown: UC San Diego freshmen test below middle-school math levels—what does that mean for tipping culture?
Along the way, expect Bam’s trademark humor, Puma’s quick takes, and plenty of “did-that-really-happen?” moments. Love what you hear? Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform, leave us a review, and share this episode with friends who love a good laugh and a wild story.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, Hi, everybody, Mama Brown with you along with the
big Cat, the Big Puma boy. There was some great
football last week. There's gonna be some great football this week.
I'm enjoying it this year, man, more than I ever have.
Puma wouldn't nowt tell everybody you guys are gonna be
live tonight or not.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Probably we'll be live tomorrow nights. You can catch up
on all of last week's episodes. Of course, anywhere you
get your podcast, just search for the sports Cave with
the Biggest Puma prefer you still use that iHeart app,
but trust me, I use Spotify quite a bit myself.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I understand wherever you get them.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
And then of course you can always find us live
on YouTube Tuesday Thursday nights. Normally these holidays are causing
some issues with our schedule, but uh over on YouTube
at sports Cave Live, come hang out with us, and.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Then Puma does. He does quite a few shifts for
the San Antonio I Heart stations, So he's a he's
everybody wants him. He's in big demand across the across
the state.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
And we're all over the place right now. Bama. I
don't like it. I'm creed and.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
See I'm like, he's mine. Girls, you can't have him.
He's all mine. I won't let him. We have a
lot of fun doing this little show that we have,
and we've got over ten thousand listening.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Now we appreciate that. A great year.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you'all so much, uh done. Not a lot of pressure,
not a lot of prep, just some fun. And if
you miss one, you really hadn't missed nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Don't worry. That's not exactly the way.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's not a great endorsement, I guess for my own bill,
but it's all right, you know. Okay, So let's start out.
You want to do a bonehead, let's kick it out.
What got Tim Jones? Tim robbed the plaid pantry there
in Portland. Now, Tim says, if you're gonna do something, let's,
you know, do it till you got it down, do
it till you got it right. He robbed it thirty times,

(01:59):
for a total thirty eight thousand dollars worth of tobacco,
lottery tickets, wine of course, and snacks. And sometimes, just
to break up the monotony of thirty times of robbing it,
he'd wear a curly wig just to they knew who

(02:19):
it was, but he'd wear a wig just to and
then they caught him and said, look, man, you gotta
you gotta quit.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, at some point. I mean, look, we would
have letting you get We would have let you get
away with twenty nine times. But once you hit thirty,
it's probably time to put we've got a problem. That
is typical Portland policing, right resolutely.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Twenty nine times.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You're fine, but that thirtieth time we gotta finally step in.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
God damn that Portland is just it's lost and they
won't ever get that back.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I just I don't get I don't get it at all.
But that's just me, all right. So Shreveport, the big city, Shreeport.
If you've ever been in with Shreeport's a shithole.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
And then coach go to Portland than Sreeveport.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, it's almost, which is worse. H Three women there
in Shreeport. They stole one thousand dollars worth of sex
toys from a Hollywood hustler store. Now I'm assuming they
didn't you know, they went for consumption, it was for sales,
but anyway, a thousand bucks worth. I don't know I've

(03:27):
ever been in one, and I'm sure what all that
would be is if it's by.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The Yeah, I would assume that it's diamond plated. You're
probably just buying in bulk to get to that, to
get to that amount. I wonder does does Louisiana have
a similar state law. I don't know if Texas still does,
but I believe we do. I think it's still on
the books. You're only each household in Texas has only

(03:53):
allowed a certain number of sex toys. I think the
number is like surprisingly low to I think it's like
six or seven.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't I don't know. I didn't know there was
a hoosi yeah, and how do you count?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
And what? Well, that'd be embarrassing when.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
The enforcement mechanism is probably not there.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Uh, you're in a jail sale and they go, what
are you in for? They go, oh, what of quise?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's yeah, it's still it is still absolutely alive. And
well it was declared unenforceable. Yes, oh wait, but the
current law is still there. It's a felony to own
six or more devices of sexually oriented obscene devices as

(04:37):
our law.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I remember the punchline and I got fifty bucks from
my thermos. Oh, Hey, this is gonna be my favorite story.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Of the week. I'm going to make you laugh. I
don't think you heard.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I don't think very many people heard about this.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Who hit me.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'm gonna call them pranksters because I love the term prankster.
They snuck in to the louver and they hung a
painting that they'd done themselves in the same room with.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, and all of the over educated elitists stand in
front of it for fifteen minutes talk discussing how it's
changing their life and perspective on society.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I love these stories.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Snook in a painting hooking on the wall in the
louver after they had the most famous robbery in the world,
is it?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, it feels like security some of the security.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Might need some Yeah, it might need to do some
auditing protocols there.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Go down the street to the to the Walmart there
or the Walmart and get one of those fat guys
and come back up there and stand just stand there
by the mona Lisa, I think.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean Walmart security on Black Friday has a
better track record than LOUI this.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, lou By the way, their password, everybody knows that's
the security password is louver.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
And another thing that jumped out of me, and my
wife had pointed this out. She goes, they're not too
worried about the Mona Lisa there because it's not really
the Mona Lisa, the mong Lisa. The real one is
hidden in a vault somewhere. You know you can't get
to it. So conspiracy yeah always Uh. Door dash has
got a big hack last week. So if you're on

(06:26):
door dash, they say nobody breached, you know, actual security,
but sure, you know they always say that. You know,
I wait for one of these guys come out and
go got it. I change all my crap because we
got hit. We got hit hard. Change every password you got,
change the louver.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
If ye change. Yeah, just said they'll never suspect it.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's like it's like when Nate Newton got busted for
smuggling weed and then the very next week got busted
again for smuggling weed. He's like, well, they caught me
the first time. I didn't think they would ever suspect
me doing it a second time.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Like, you've already used Loube for.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
The password once, they'll never suspect it if you just
use it again.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, Cluso wouldn't even come up with that.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
But that's right.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Some of the best movies Cluso movies were great. Man.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Hold uh, here's a TikToker that called forty different churches
with a fake baby crying in the background. I saw
this story asking for baby formula, and said, not only
did very few responded, nearly nobody.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
None of these churches responded.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
So I think I was looking at the story and it.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
At first, of course, my cynical nihilist nature immediately wanted
to stoke holes.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
In the whole story.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
But the more I looked into it, it wasn't like
the community churches she was contacting were the ones that
were offering help, right. She was specifically going against all
these you know like Joel ostein mega titles.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah on the money houses, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
We can't do ship for you, you know, figure it
out on your own. But the local, the actual churches
doing the Lord's work, were willing to help. It was
the mega churches that are all for profit absolutely like
counting out, we have nothing for you, move along.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's just it's just if ever, there was something they
ought to jump in the middle of, but that's you know, Okay, Uh,
let's see.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
They did a survey at the University of California there
in San Diego. The freshman class. They just they they
tested the freshman class and they had a below middle
school level of math skills.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh no, that's.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Just that's just frightening with what they're Just graduate them
and get them out of here.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
That's their that's their deal. You know.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'll tell you who it's frightening for.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's frightening for the hospitality industry because those people can't
do math to leave a tip. That's the livelihood of
a low spunk of our society losing wages because people
can't do middle school math anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's pitiful. It's pitiful. This story reminds me though. I'll
tell you this story and then we get out of here.
My brother, did I tell you that. When I went
and saw my brother in Florida, hadn't seen a long time.
He used to be a principal. It was a high
school coach, a great coach.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Played at Alburn.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Brother did as a great coach and they won state
several times. But they gave him a job. He actually
ran the school, the high school.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
That was okay, it was a prison there in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Basically, it was pre prison for a lot of these
bad guys. And he said, they sent in I don't know,
did I tell you this story?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh, I don't want to tell. My brother was telling
me about a student he had.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
He said, he goes, this kid I had was a genius,
but he was a gang banger. And he said, which
most of them were? You know, Tommy took a lot
of guns, all of kids in this school. But he
but they were scared to tell me because he was
a starting noseman. And then he could bench. He still
could bench three hundred pounds I think now, and he's seventy.
But back then he bench, his bench was his bench

(10:08):
was four seventy and his deadlift was seven forty. How
he is, Yeah, he is a hoss anyway, he'll ever
all scared be scared of him.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
And he was mean on't up everything else.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
But so they sent these computers to his school, brand new,
whole bunch of computers in boxes. And they untook him
by the boxes and set them up, and they pushed
a button. And this one kid, this one gangbanger, he
comes on. He goes, hey us, welcome to the prison.

(10:38):
It was a video of him on the computer.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh that's spectacular.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
So he Tommy called San Jose to go, look, we
can't figure out how to get this off of these computers.
Is all it does is goes back to the same kid.
And these boxes hadn't even been open, and so they
had to fly a guy from San Jose down to
try to get these computers cleared, and he couldn't clean
them up. So they brought the kid in and he said,

(11:05):
how did you do this? He said, oh, I just
hacked it, you know. And so it turns out he's
a kid genius, but I mean he was a gang banger. Anyway,
Tommy had to uh finally force him. Line he did it,
but he forced the kid, and the kid told him
how to get it off of there. And the guy
from San Jose said, what are you going to do
with this kid? And Tommy goes, well, he's going to

(11:25):
be in the penitentiary. There ain't no doubt about that,
you know.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
He goes, well, let me take him back to San
Jose with me. He said, this kid's a genius man.
He needs to be out there working in San Jose
and the computer labs and tell him what we could
do with him, And in the meantime he robbed the
store and you know ended up.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I told Tommy, I said, I think that'd be a
cool movie. He goes, Yeah, if you can leave out
the part where he robs the store, you know, and
at the end where you know they put the words
up theory, you know, Tyrone went on to invent. But
Tyrone went on to the seven eleven, you know. So
it's a happy ending.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Hollywood's good at leaving out some of those important details
to make a feel good story.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I think you have a script. I think someone needs
to get working on the script there.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
That'd be a good one, would it.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
So anyway, I thought that was a great story. Sept
For of course, the ending.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Is not good.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Again minor detail.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, but we know bad endings here at this show.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
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