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November 25, 2025 13 mins
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen at a car auction? That’s just one of the wild questions sparked in this episode of The Bama Brown Experience, where Bam and Puma serve up a pre-Thanksgiving mix of music nostalgia, jaw-dropping stories, and laugh-out-loud life hacks. This week we dive into some incredible topics:
  • Music Legends: How Michael Jackson’s Thriller continues to dominate charts six decades later, and why the heirs of Monster Mash still rake in millions.
  • Rock History Revealed: The untold story behind the Kingsmen’s Louie Louie and its FBI investigation.
  • Industry Secrets: A candid conversation about the harsh realities of the music business with insights from the Bodine’s 40-year journey.
  • Unbelievable News: A Mercedes SUV with wooden brake pads—yes, really—and the bizarre lengths someone went to fake “Brembo” parts.
  • Life Hacks & Laughs: Bam’s unconventional tip for surviving a fight (spoiler: it involves throwing up), plus the award for NYC’s slowest bus—the Pokey Award.
Whether you’re here for the music trivia, the crazy stories, or just a good laugh before the holiday, this episode has something for everyone. Tune in now and join the conversation!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Maam Brown with you in the Vamma Brown Experience on
the iHeart Podcast Network along with Huma the Big Cat.
This will be your live show before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Correct, Yeah, it'll be our only one this week, so
come hop in hang out with us. Tag along over
on YouTube tonight eight o'clock Downbeat as normal. Just search
for Sports Cave Live. You should find us. And it's
actually so last week we crossed our one hundredth show
at US. Yeah, we did number one hundred, so we're

(00:35):
doing something right, I promise you.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I don't now.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Whether you'll enjoy the full two hour extravaganza. That I
can't promise, but I'm sure there's something in there you'll like.
Come hang out with us and then find them anywhere
you get your podcasts. If you just want the audio,
just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma, all
one hundred of them.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Are there, These guys that actually played the sports. They
are basketball players and everything, and so real athletes talking sports.
It's a fascinating show. And you guys, I mean, you
cover all kinds of sports. So if you're digging sports,
or if you don't, they can tell you what's going
on lately, you know, with the latest, so you sound
like you know what you're talking about. Michael Jackson is

(01:14):
the first artist to rank in the top ten in
six decades with Thriller. So that just got announced. I
guess it. I don't know what they base all that on.
I just saw that and I thought, man, that's worth
the that's worth the mentioning. You know, congrats to six decades,
six decades. You remember when Kenny Rodgers had fifty or

(01:35):
five decades with the fifty Years.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Number one, I think it was number one, so that
was pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
But Thriller was in the top ten for six decades
and still you want to throw it on at a party.
The kids know the dance, you know, you're, I mean,
everybody knows the Thriller dance well.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And it's also you know, you're it's going to be
every decade, just because around Halloween alone, people are gonna
it's gonna make it to the top ten every October
at least one of the years in a decade.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I read somewhere where the where the airs of Monster
Mash still get a million a year off of Monster.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
They deserve that because Monster Mash still holds up.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I have a I have a funny story.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
My friend that I was the older guy that that
I have breakfast with. He was from uh Seattle. He
lived in Seattle. He lived in Alaska, but I think
it was Seattle when he uh when they had Louis Louie,
the band that played Louis Louie, he was They were
his high school and it was the keyboardist for that band.

(02:42):
I can't remember that, the Kingsman something like that. Can't
you remember who was?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Anyway, the guy was a keyboardist. And remember when Louis
Louie came out the little rock History. They even got
investigated by the FBI because they were thinking they were
singing about drugs or they were slurring their words. And
what happened was the guy had a cold and the
keyboards told my friend Michael, he said they had the

(03:09):
number one hit while they were in high school. And
he said he had a cold and it taken a
bunch of codeine.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And that's why he would slur in his words so bad.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Michael said, there wasn't any you know, they couldn't believe
they're being you know, checked out by the FBI all ever.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know, Oh, you know, they.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Just he said he was just high when it happened,
but he was high on medicine because he had the flu.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I don't think I ever want to hear a version
where he's not on codeine, like yeah, it would be
such a different song if he wasn't slurring at all
like that.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
There's I remember there was an album about the ten
versions of Louis Louis, you know, like what's her face?
The band you know it plays them, the college band
that plays them, and you know that are well known
for doing that came hero it is.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course, here's another.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I actually was at a wedding Saturday night and these
people they live in Dripping Springs and I've known them
a long time and played them on the radio. You
remember the Boatings. Remember that band, the Boatings. They live
in Dripping and their daughter went to school with my
daughter and it is crazy and uh, anyway, they were
uh his wife was at the at the uh you

(04:23):
know she's it's her and her husband, they're the Boatings.
And she was telling me we were talking about the
how scumbag music people are, you know, the industry people,
and she said, we had two and a half We
sold two and a half million albums, and we got
a check from Warner Brothers for eight thousand dollars because

(04:44):
they toured, you know, for she says, it's our fortieth anniversary.
And she said, I said, do you guys still tour
a lot? I don't, you know, I don't keep up
with I played them when they came out on ZE
one o two. I played them a lot because I
loved them. I didn't even know they were from Dripping
Springs till later, you know, and I was in country.
She said, We've got one hundred and twenty tour dates
book next year already. So they stayed. They stay busy, man,

(05:08):
you know. And so look, they had a couple of
really pretty big hits that that they were known for.
So nicest people in the world. And their daughter works
for the State Department. So that's pretty funny.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
What a small world that is.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
In that same class, okay, there was like three or
four hundred, and Kyle Chandler's daughter was also who's a
movie star. Now, she was in that class with Alex
They sat by each other. And so Kyle Chandler, the
movie actor and you know, was in Bloodline and he
was you know, the coach course from Friday Night Lights.

(05:42):
That's why they moved here. But they liked it here
so much, they stayed in Sydney. His daughter and Alex
were good friends. And in fact, he was in.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Argo.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know, he played like a State Department guy in
Arco Argo, and Alex was My daughter was at their
house and he had had an advanced copy and he said,
and Alex came home. She said that mister Kyle was
in there watching this movie and said, come here. Alex
watched this movie with me. So she sat and watched
the advance of Argo. Of course it was the Iranian houses,

(06:17):
so she didn't ever even didn't have.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Any idea what they were doing.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, well awesome, But he told her, he said, man,
I come across this kind of a jerk in his
don't minor detail.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
The movie's great, and that's all.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
I love the movie.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, so but anyway, I thought that but a small,
very small world, like you just said. There, Uh, here's
k K. Nunn and lemanon Missouri. She's accused of setting
up a fight between two teenagers.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh spectacular.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, at the school. The fight was recorded on you know,
mini phones as they do. She claims she was there
to make sure the fight was safe.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, I mean that's about the only defense you have
in that situation.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
She's on screen yelling kick his ass on screen. So yeah,
that's that didn't help the five thousand dollars bond right
now for k Nne, I wouldn't she's I don't know
if she's promoting those fights, or I don't know if
any of her kids were involved in or you know,
who knows, but that.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
It was like one of those situations where everyone says, uh,
I wish, I wish things were like the old days
where we could just line up fight and be over it,
you know, and the teachers would.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Let us fight. Yeah, I've heard. I heard that my
whole It's like, no, I don't think we're ever going
back to that way.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Nobody ever shot anybody after a fight. You had a fight,
you got over it, you know, and you stopped really
before you really hurt anybody. But here's a tip, and
I learned this from fighting. Uh, if you're getting beat up,
if you can get your finger down your throat and
throw up the fight was stop immediately, they will quit
kicking you, hitting you.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
They will give you plenty of distance.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh, And you think, oh, that's hard to It's a
lot easier to do than you think when you're getting
your ass kicked, to get your finger in your own throat.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
The first time you gave this advice.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
The first time I heard you, I laughed, But then
I also thought, yeah, I'm probably.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Does work.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you're like me, you got a lot of mouth,
but don't have a lot of you know, king back
it up.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
I got my ass kicked a lot. You know, I
used to have the bluff end.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
You know, my brother played football at Auburn, and so
everybody was scared of So that's where my mouth came from.
Because they are all scared, and my brother would beat
them up. And I was Actually I got into a
fight with a kid and was winning, and my brother
came along and grabbed my leg and pulled me off
the kid, and the kid kicked my ass. My brother
laughing holding my leg while I'm trying to fight. And

(08:55):
when word got out that my brother wouldn't protect me,
people we're coming from other counties to.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, I had it coming to that about.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Spectacular.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Here is my favorite story of the week.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
This is a guy bought a used Mercedes SUV at
an auction. Uh, it wouldn't stop so good. He took
it in to get the uh, to get the brakes fixed.
And the brake pads were made out of wood that
had been painted black.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
How does that pass inspection? How does that?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
But they don't check for an auction. It's like there
you go.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
They say that, you know, obviously would brake pads not
near as expensive as the real ones. But somebody'd actually
wrote brimbo on the brake pads to maake out. Whoever
when they traded it in, So that's uh anyway, Uh,
the owner, the former owner, even though I went to
auction everything, the former owner could be he could be

(09:57):
libel for it. So they're looking, you know, how would
he know? I mean, he's the one that was responsible
for these wood pads.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Getting put on there.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
So yeah, I feel like there's there's probably it's probably
not hard to trace back some accountability here too. A
guy that sold it at auction with what I just
saw a picture of it. The car and driver had
the story like why would you drawing brimbo or writing
brimbo it's a wooden plant.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
You're you're just trying to sell it. I guess I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hey, this is some pretty good news now that you're fit,
you've always stayed pretty fit. But if you're taking a
Zimpic or Manjarro or w Goovi, they say that they've
been out long enough. Now takers have seen drastic reductions
in colon cancer, as much as maybe fifty percent. So

(10:53):
what great news. I mean there was always this all
you're gonna get sick from taking it, but you're more
likely to get colon cancer and you are anything.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So that's I'll take it, you know. I mean I
didn't take it, but I would.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Uh yeah, all of those all of those new weight
like I am still it's it's like, uh, it's like vaping,
Like when everyone started switching to vaping, and I was like, uh,
if you're smoking something that plugs into the same charger
that your your cell phone does. I'm not a doctor,

(11:25):
I'm not a scientist, but I do I do think
that's probably a bad sign in terms of long term implications.
I kind of feel the same way about these fat
these weight loss drugs, Like I R I'm still curious
to see what the long term studies are.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
What were the cookies that came out when we were
eating those cookies and they were they had a name
like healthy Cookies or I came what it.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Was, and they didn't have anything healthy.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
They were just they just put that name on it
and they sold a zillion of them. But when we
actually look like they were as bad as a chips ahoy.
You know just I mean chips ahoy. They're freaking good, man,
I'm telling you.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah, there's the reason they're good because they're so bad
for you. Yeah, they're so good.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
But if you're in a bad mood and nothing fixes
it like dipping a chips a hoy and some milk
and you just lay back and go, Yeah, the world's problems,
aren't they bad?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
How's ther time? We're good? You want one more?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
You want one more?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
All right?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is in New York. I thought this was pretty good.
In New York.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
They have a group that gives awards for the slow
buses in New York City.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
They call it the Pokey Award. Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
It goes to a crosstown bus there in Manhattan. M
forty two is the number. It averages five miles per hour.
Oh my, gil waiting on people going slow traffic, so
you literally could walk faster than this bus ride, you know,
so just save money.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Good exercise.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, why would you get on a bus that's really
not going anywhere?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
So that's pretty good advice.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
That's comically slow.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
That great and they have a name for it in
an award, the Poky Award, So well deserved. Yeah, well deserved.
All right, thanks for listening, everybody. Oh you're live tonight,
aren't you.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
We are.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, we'll be live for the only time this week,
eight o'clock tonight. Come hang out with us over on
YouTube at sports Cave Live.
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