March 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Welcome to The Bama Brown Experience, your go-to podcast on the iHeart Podcast Network! Join Bama Brown and his co-host, the Big Puma, as they dive into a world of sports, parenting, and Southern charm.
In this episode, Bama Brown and the Big Puma share hilarious and heartwarming stories about their childhoods, negotiating with kids over food, and the power of sports to bridge cultural gaps. From tales of peanut butter toast made by loving grandmothers to the challenges of getting kids to eat their veggies, you'll find relatable anecdotes and practical advice.
Tune in for a mix of humor, nostalgia, and insightful discussions on how sports can unite people from different backgrounds. Whether you're a parent struggling with picky eaters or a sports enthusiast looking for engaging content, The Bama Brown Experience has something for everyone.
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In this episode, Bama Brown and the Big Puma share hilarious and heartwarming stories about their childhoods, negotiating with kids over food, and the power of sports to bridge cultural gaps. From tales of peanut butter toast made by loving grandmothers to the challenges of getting kids to eat their veggies, you'll find relatable anecdotes and practical advice.
Tune in for a mix of humor, nostalgia, and insightful discussions on how sports can unite people from different backgrounds. Whether you're a parent struggling with picky eaters or a sports enthusiast looking for engaging content, The Bama Brown Experience has something for everyone.
Don't miss out on this free and entertaining podcast that celebrates the joys and challenges of life in the South. Subscribe now and join the conversation!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey, you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience on
the iHeart Podcast Network along with my el HEFFI here
the Big Puma, Big Cat. How do we get that
sports cave doner in Santonio?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We make it super easy for you thanks to the
greatness that is iHeart. Anywhere you get your podcasts, we
prefer the iHeart app. But understand if you choose a
different path. Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for
the sports cave with Biggest.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Puma's he actually played basketball, college basketball. He's real. It's
emails what he's talking about. Unlike me. By the way, iHeart.
If you don't have that app, man, it's awesome. There's
three hundred thousand podcasts. Most of them I know. The
podcast guy runs that deal. He told me most of
them are crime and drama. So if that's your deal,
(00:49):
then you'll find one on the iHeart podcast Network. They've
got over one hundred to have at least a million viewers, listeners,
whatever you want to call it. I don't even know
what you call that, not us and then they yeah,
then they got the Vama Brown experience that you fell
on here. So Puma show is good though, And remember
this shit's free, So I don't like to be going.
(01:12):
I had to do that. No, nobody had to not
Like you got in the car and turn on radio
and that's all. Yeah, you got you got a choice.
Uh what is Southwest say? Thanks for choosing us? Uh
So if you're a mom and dad and you're just
tired of your kid eating McNuggets, but that's all he'll eat?
Is that was alex Man love the McNuggets. Other stuff
she kind of did, Okay, her mom was very smart
(01:33):
about how she fed her. But they the average person
in a year, think of this now, in a year,
they spend sixty seven hours negotiating in a year with
their kid on what they eat because they all want
to eat McNuggets. You know, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I firmly believe that I was as I don't have
kids on my own now, but as a kid myself,
I was a I was a hard negotiator when it came.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
When it came, oh me too, I was the worst.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But you know, there was no way you were gonna
get me to eat some kind of random castle roll
without me getting something out of it first.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I truly believe that that's why they invented the grandmother
because she'd let you do anything. Man. My me, mom
would let me do anything I wanted. Was I was
the baby. In fact, out of nine cousins, I was
the favorite. And she would come in there. My name
is greg, my real name is Greg, and she'd say, Greggy,
what do you want? And I go, I want some
(02:31):
peanut buttered toasts, ma'ama, And I want all of them
out of here. And she'd make me peanut butter toast.
And that's a tourney. And my nine cousins, two of
them are no longer with us, Rest in peace of
close family. Wonderful. I'm still close with all of them
that are still with us. I love them all. And
(02:51):
they they were gonna drown me at some point. They
talked about it. They thought we could drown. And but Jeanie,
my cousin, Jeanie, she was next in line. I was
the youngest. She was next in line, and she felt
like she'd rad him out because she liked telling everybody
you know so, But I had.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I would have gotten away with that in the longer.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Longer, I don't know. Either's a I have my cousin
Keith Norton, Keith played baseball at the University of Alabama,
and he is a recruiter for the University of Alabama.
So sometimes he comes to Austin and we have a
dinner where he's recruiting somebody for University Alabama to play baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Might seem more often now with UT and the SEC.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's that's what I was. I'm hoping that we'll
get to see more love him now. His sister, his
oldest sister, uh was actually was very famous, very wealthy. Uh.
She started a magazine called Southern Lady. Phyllis my cousin,
Phillis Hoffman. She married a guy named Hoffman, Phillis Hoffman,
(03:50):
and she had her own company, her own publishing company,
Hoffman Media, and they had Southern Lady. They had a
bunch of just crossed itch magazines. I mean she did
all these and uh, she did books, she did she
was friends with When she she passed away a couple
of years ago, I did not get to go. It
(04:11):
was kind of a after COVID thing and didn't get
to go. But uh, she uh, she had several famous
people Southern Ladies there, you know that that she had
done their books and stuff. Uh, who's the one that was, uh,
the one that was always on court TV. The uh,
the girl, the Southern girl was always the blonde lady
(04:31):
that did court TV.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Uh. Yeah, she was at the funeral and also they
were friends and then she was friends that she did
uh uh what's her name is the cookbook? I can't
think of that other Southern ladies cookbook that the famous
lady that caught for saying the inn word at that time.
Remember that she was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Put put the three sticks of butter and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Pouladine. Yeah, Pauladine, she was. She said Pauladine's book. Knew
Pauladine real well, and and she gave Palodeen.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know now now that I hadn't thought about Pauladeine
and years, and like you know, that's as much as
our society has shifted later. Oh god, yeah, you could
think Pauladeen would be on the comeback tour these days.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You would think. But I don't think you recover from
that when you just go, yeah, I did it, and
so's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's uh, it's interesting. I'm not even gonna go down
that rabbit hole, but it is interesting to hear everybody go, oh,
I can't believe it, and I would said, yeah, I
heard you say that a dozen times. You know, we
were lucky in being kids from Alabama. We were whom
I know you back as a we because of sports
we played with a lot of black players, became great friends.
So we I think that helped us because all cousins
(05:47):
and uncles were all, you know, especially where I'm from,
as just redneck as they could be. And then as
you get out and you start meeting people, you go,
I wonder what my uncle was. He might've been the
one who was the idiot, not this. You know, you
start realizing, oh man, we may have been on the
wrong side of that whole deal. Well there's been to it.
We were, you know, but anyway you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Get you realize the ignorance just from lack of experience,
you know, like great equalizer, you know, having uh you
know obviously in my hometown majority white and hispanic. Yeah,
and when I played, uh, you know, basketball, my my
first roommate was a black dude from Austin, Well Leander
(06:31):
did good old good buddy Curtis Jones. There it was
I will never forget when you know, my grandpa, not
just out of lack of experience of just not like
he had only ever been around redneck. So then when
you know, he meets my college roommate and you know,
I'm I'm introducing him, and then about an hour later,
(06:54):
I see them still locked in conversation. It turns out
they're sitting there talking about you know, son of a
gun stew and eating all of the poor cuts of
meat and everything. And it's like, look, I told you all,
it's really no different. There's not a whole lot of
difference here. But you know, sports is that, uh, you know,
the the the power of a locker room, even when
(07:15):
you know, not just race. You know, even with political differences,
when you're in the locker room or when you're all
wearing the same uniform, it doesn't matter who the guy
next to you voted for, what color he is, or
what religion he is, or any of that. Sports, Uh,
take all of that out of the equation and make
about teamwork and winning.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
We were lucky that that we all got to do
that early on in our lives and we're able to,
you know, put put the other part away. It'll and
go man alive. But you know, when you're growing up,
you're just your environments what you are, you know, and
that's that's. Hey, you can explain a lot of things,
you know. And a buddy of mine that I was
talking to you about it one time and he'd gotten
(07:56):
beat up because he got all a's because he wanted
to be a man, you know. I mean that's if
they were yelling at him whether or beat him up
because he got all a's. And he's like, man, you know,
it's just it's your environment which you're around. So he
turned out to be a great, great man by the way,
uh by him when we go all down and asks
so depressing everything, but trying to talk about these kids eating.
(08:19):
I remember Alex loved mac and cheese. That was one
of her that's a kid food. But you combine it.
This guy's you know, it took to survey. He said,
combine it something good. He goes, it's okay, Quit feeling guilty,
quit feeling like you're a bad mother or dad. Combining
with something that's good for him, you know, and don't
tell them what it is. Just make him think that's
(08:40):
part of the mac and cheese. Just get him think
that's part of the McNuggets. It is like, you know,
this is the new McNuggets with the broccoli. You know, yeah,
they don't know any different. Then once I hate it,
they go, man, that's good, you know yeah, no, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, these aren't French fries. These are asparagus fries. It's
exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You'll love them, yeah, he said, he said, it's okay
to trick kids, like because it's you're doing it. In
the end, they'll figure out this is actually pretty good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You know. The biggest, the biggest trick I think my
mom ever pulled when it came to food. Like this
was telling me we were eating, you know, tater tots
for dinner. I was like, oh, sign me up, you
uh and serves me this tater tot castle roll. That's
all kinds of other crdit it's got tater tots in it,
(09:25):
so it's good.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah. As a kid, it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Anything that had more than two ingredients, like mac and cheese. Yeah,
you had an ingredient, all hell breaks loose. I'm out.
So like theater tots and cheese perfect whatever else you're
putting in there. Oh no, we're gonna have We're gonna
have a negotiation period.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And it would it would be it would be you know, Sam, Uh,
you know the Rangers play in thirty minutes. If you
eat three bites of this, uh, you know, we can
watch the game and then it's I'd eat two and
be like, all right, guys, that's the most I can
give you can I at least get like maybe three
or four innings for this. I don't have to watch
(10:08):
the full game, but give me a parcel credit.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Sixty seven hours a year you're negotiating with your kid
to eat, just to get them to eat. That's a
lot of time, but that's that's on average. So don't
feel bad. The guys that do not feel bad. You
do whatever you got to do to get them to eat,
and then you'll the payoff will be later when they've
got a diverse appetite and luckily you're able to give
them other than just some government cheese or something. To
(10:33):
be glad that you're you're not in that situation. So
you're listening to the Bam and Brown Experience on the
iHeart podcast Network. Thank you,
Well, hey, you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience on
the iHeart Podcast Network along with my el HEFFI here
the Big Puma, Big Cat. How do we get that
sports cave doner in Santonio?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We make it super easy for you thanks to the
greatness that is iHeart. Anywhere you get your podcasts, we
prefer the iHeart app. But understand if you choose a
different path. Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for
the sports cave with Biggest.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Puma's he actually played basketball, college basketball. He's real. It's
emails what he's talking about. Unlike me. By the way, iHeart.
If you don't have that app, man, it's awesome. There's
three hundred thousand podcasts. Most of them I know. The
podcast guy runs that deal. He told me most of
them are crime and drama. So if that's your deal,
(00:49):
then you'll find one on the iHeart podcast Network. They've
got over one hundred to have at least a million viewers, listeners,
whatever you want to call it. I don't even know
what you call that, not us and then they yeah,
then they got the Vama Brown experience that you fell
on here. So Puma show is good though, And remember
this shit's free, So I don't like to be going.
(01:12):
I had to do that. No, nobody had to not
Like you got in the car and turn on radio
and that's all. Yeah, you got you got a choice.
Uh what is Southwest say? Thanks for choosing us? Uh
So if you're a mom and dad and you're just
tired of your kid eating McNuggets, but that's all he'll eat?
Is that was alex Man love the McNuggets. Other stuff
she kind of did, Okay, her mom was very smart
(01:33):
about how she fed her. But they the average person
in a year, think of this now, in a year,
they spend sixty seven hours negotiating in a year with
their kid on what they eat because they all want
to eat McNuggets. You know, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I firmly believe that I was as I don't have
kids on my own now, but as a kid myself,
I was a I was a hard negotiator when it came.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
When it came, oh me too, I was the worst.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But you know, there was no way you were gonna
get me to eat some kind of random castle roll
without me getting something out of it first.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I truly believe that that's why they invented the grandmother
because she'd let you do anything. Man. My me, mom
would let me do anything I wanted. Was I was
the baby. In fact, out of nine cousins, I was
the favorite. And she would come in there. My name
is greg, my real name is Greg, and she'd say, Greggy,
what do you want? And I go, I want some
(02:31):
peanut buttered toasts, ma'ama, And I want all of them
out of here. And she'd make me peanut butter toast.
And that's a tourney. And my nine cousins, two of
them are no longer with us, Rest in peace of
close family. Wonderful. I'm still close with all of them
that are still with us. I love them all. And
(02:51):
they they were gonna drown me at some point. They
talked about it. They thought we could drown. And but Jeanie,
my cousin, Jeanie, she was next in line. I was
the youngest. She was next in line, and she felt
like she'd rad him out because she liked telling everybody
you know so, But I had.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I would have gotten away with that in the longer.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Longer, I don't know. Either's a I have my cousin
Keith Norton, Keith played baseball at the University of Alabama,
and he is a recruiter for the University of Alabama.
So sometimes he comes to Austin and we have a
dinner where he's recruiting somebody for University Alabama to play baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Might seem more often now with UT and the SEC.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's that's what I was. I'm hoping that we'll
get to see more love him now. His sister, his
oldest sister, uh was actually was very famous, very wealthy. Uh.
She started a magazine called Southern Lady. Phyllis my cousin,
Phillis Hoffman. She married a guy named Hoffman, Phillis Hoffman,
(03:50):
and she had her own company, her own publishing company,
Hoffman Media, and they had Southern Lady. They had a
bunch of just crossed itch magazines. I mean she did
all these and uh, she did books, she did she
was friends with When she she passed away a couple
of years ago, I did not get to go. It
(04:11):
was kind of a after COVID thing and didn't get
to go. But uh, she uh, she had several famous
people Southern Ladies there, you know that that she had
done their books and stuff. Uh, who's the one that was, uh,
the one that was always on court TV. The uh,
the girl, the Southern girl was always the blonde lady
(04:31):
that did court TV.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Uh. Yeah, she was at the funeral and also they
were friends and then she was friends that she did
uh uh what's her name is the cookbook? I can't
think of that other Southern ladies cookbook that the famous
lady that caught for saying the inn word at that time.
Remember that she was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Put put the three sticks of butter and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Pouladine. Yeah, Pauladine, she was. She said Pauladine's book. Knew
Pauladine real well, and and she gave Palodeen.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know now now that I hadn't thought about Pauladeine
and years, and like you know, that's as much as
our society has shifted later. Oh god, yeah, you could
think Pauladeen would be on the comeback tour these days.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You would think. But I don't think you recover from
that when you just go, yeah, I did it, and
so's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's uh, it's interesting. I'm not even gonna go down
that rabbit hole, but it is interesting to hear everybody go, oh,
I can't believe it, and I would said, yeah, I
heard you say that a dozen times. You know, we
were lucky in being kids from Alabama. We were whom
I know you back as a we because of sports
we played with a lot of black players, became great friends.
So we I think that helped us because all cousins
(05:47):
and uncles were all, you know, especially where I'm from,
as just redneck as they could be. And then as
you get out and you start meeting people, you go,
I wonder what my uncle was. He might've been the
one who was the idiot, not this. You know, you
start realizing, oh man, we may have been on the
wrong side of that whole deal. Well there's been to it.
We were, you know, but anyway you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Get you realize the ignorance just from lack of experience,
you know, like great equalizer, you know, having uh you
know obviously in my hometown majority white and hispanic. Yeah,
and when I played, uh, you know, basketball, my my
first roommate was a black dude from Austin, Well Leander
(06:31):
did good old good buddy Curtis Jones. There it was
I will never forget when you know, my grandpa, not
just out of lack of experience of just not like
he had only ever been around redneck. So then when
you know, he meets my college roommate and you know,
I'm I'm introducing him, and then about an hour later,
(06:54):
I see them still locked in conversation. It turns out
they're sitting there talking about you know, son of a
gun stew and eating all of the poor cuts of
meat and everything. And it's like, look, I told you all,
it's really no different. There's not a whole lot of
difference here. But you know, sports is that, uh, you know,
the the the power of a locker room, even when
(07:15):
you know, not just race. You know, even with political differences,
when you're in the locker room or when you're all
wearing the same uniform, it doesn't matter who the guy
next to you voted for, what color he is, or
what religion he is, or any of that. Sports, Uh,
take all of that out of the equation and make
about teamwork and winning.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
We were lucky that that we all got to do
that early on in our lives and we're able to,
you know, put put the other part away. It'll and
go man alive. But you know, when you're growing up,
you're just your environments what you are, you know, and
that's that's. Hey, you can explain a lot of things,
you know. And a buddy of mine that I was
talking to you about it one time and he'd gotten
(07:56):
beat up because he got all a's because he wanted
to be a man, you know. I mean that's if
they were yelling at him whether or beat him up
because he got all a's. And he's like, man, you know,
it's just it's your environment which you're around. So he
turned out to be a great, great man by the way,
uh by him when we go all down and asks
so depressing everything, but trying to talk about these kids eating.
(08:19):
I remember Alex loved mac and cheese. That was one
of her that's a kid food. But you combine it.
This guy's you know, it took to survey. He said,
combine it something good. He goes, it's okay, Quit feeling guilty,
quit feeling like you're a bad mother or dad. Combining
with something that's good for him, you know, and don't
tell them what it is. Just make him think that's
(08:40):
part of the mac and cheese. Just get him think
that's part of the McNuggets. It is like, you know,
this is the new McNuggets with the broccoli. You know, yeah,
they don't know any different. Then once I hate it,
they go, man, that's good, you know yeah, no, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, these aren't French fries. These are asparagus fries. It's
exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You'll love them, yeah, he said, he said, it's okay
to trick kids, like because it's you're doing it. In
the end, they'll figure out this is actually pretty good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You know. The biggest, the biggest trick I think my
mom ever pulled when it came to food. Like this
was telling me we were eating, you know, tater tots
for dinner. I was like, oh, sign me up, you
uh and serves me this tater tot castle roll. That's
all kinds of other crdit it's got tater tots in it,
(09:25):
so it's good.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah. As a kid, it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Anything that had more than two ingredients, like mac and cheese. Yeah,
you had an ingredient, all hell breaks loose. I'm out.
So like theater tots and cheese perfect whatever else you're
putting in there. Oh no, we're gonna have We're gonna
have a negotiation period.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And it would it would be it would be you know, Sam, Uh,
you know the Rangers play in thirty minutes. If you
eat three bites of this, uh, you know, we can
watch the game and then it's I'd eat two and
be like, all right, guys, that's the most I can
give you can I at least get like maybe three
or four innings for this. I don't have to watch
(10:08):
the full game, but give me a parcel credit.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Sixty seven hours a year you're negotiating with your kid
to eat, just to get them to eat. That's a
lot of time, but that's that's on average. So don't
feel bad. The guys that do not feel bad. You
do whatever you got to do to get them to eat,
and then you'll the payoff will be later when they've
got a diverse appetite and luckily you're able to give
them other than just some government cheese or something. To
(10:33):
be glad that you're you're not in that situation. So
you're listening to the Bam and Brown Experience on the
iHeart podcast Network. Thank you,
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