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July 11, 2025 14 mins
In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive headfirst into the absurd, the insightful, and the downright relatable. From the shocking rise of rat tourism in NYC to the shady underbelly of sanitation politics, Bama brings his signature wit and Texas charm to every topic.

But it’s not all laughs—this episode also delivers a powerful and empowering list: “10 Things Older Women Should Never Apologize For.” With humor and heart, Bama champions self-worth, joy, and unapologetic living, especially for the women who’ve lived, loved, and learned. Whether it’s needing rest, outgrowing relationships, or prioritizing joy, this list is a must-hear for anyone who’s tired of saying “sorry” for simply being themselves.

Memorable Moments:
  • Bama’s hilarious take on scam calls and the “gift card giveaway” red flags.
  • A touching (and comical) story about how one offhand wedding comment led to nine years of marriage.
  • The viral “dog gossip” video that perfectly captures passive-aggressive energy.
  • Bama’s surprising popularity with Hispanic women—and his heartfelt shoutout to them.
Subscribe now, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a reminder to live unapologetically. Because on The Bama Brown Experience, we’re all about keeping it real—and keeping it fun.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown, will you on the iHeart Podcast
Network to Bama Brown experience.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You know that because you're listening. Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thousands of you are appreciate that. More and more and more,
thousands are listening to the Sports Cave with Puma. Puma,
how you doing money Friday? We're about to get out
of here.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Huh oh man, I'm already I'm already living the weekend
lifestyle over here. Yeah, it's uh, I don't know if
it's many more thousands. I think we're I think we're
in a good battle for listenership here here in the
Great Lucky.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm very lucky to have Puma. I wouldn't have done this.
I have left terrestrial radio. I'm no longer on CAVED
after thirty eight years. Case and kave Itt and Z
went on two before that. But uh, I wouldn't have
done this podcast had it not been for Puma and
our boss.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
He said, I can get.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Him for you to produce Engineer Help. I mean the
whole enchilada, and I really I appreciate it so much.
I'm lucky to have a guy like this so well.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I mean, since you're embarrass me, let me just say,
you know, the opportunity to work alongside a Texas Radio
Hall of Famer, I couldn't turn that down whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welly, we're all hoping you get that job.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
But in the meantime, stick with me, you don't mind.
I appreciate it. We'll try to get through this.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The number one tour site, not making this up. The
number one tour site in New York City. The rats
in the alley Oh okay. People are signing up to
see the rats. And I'm not talking about mob rats,
although that would be a great you know, also a
great hey, shoot a rat, you know, but they are,
they're they're selling tours and it's a number one to

(01:39):
go to Alley's in New York City with a tour
guide and see these giant rats in the garbage. Hey,
I did that, Mayor if you know, if he hadn't
gone to jail, he should be embarrassed over that more
than him stealing.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Like, yeah, you know, when we went to New York City,
I thought I was prepared or you know, what to expect,
and then just the sheer amount of trash everywhere, you know,
waiting to be picked up, just stacked up.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, it did.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's not hard for me to understand why they have
so many rats. You know, it's like growing up in
the country, you leave your trash out and you're gonna
have you.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Have to you have to pay cash for them to
pick your garbage up in addition to your taxes. And no,
they don't have any managers in sanitation in New York
City because they can't take the pay cut because there's
so much graft from businesses that pay these guys to
pick up their trash. They go if you if you
don't pay them, they won't pick your trash up. And
after a day of running a business, it's it's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Here's what I thought this was interesting. After sixty years.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Us AID E USAID is shutting down, and all I
can say is, you think those people around the world
hated this before?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
What do you cut their money off?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I mean, it looks like it's really going to happen.
I don't know, I don't have any idea, but.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
It feels like it's one of those things that one
week it feels like it's gonna happen, and then there's
a court order and it feels like it's not gonna happen,
but then it ends up, you know, going to the
next court on appeal and then they get the Okay, okay,
yeah you can do that.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Tell me, I'm kind of just waiting for the final gavel.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Uh yeah on that, And that's when they should announce it.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
But they should also show who's fighting hardest for it,
because that's the guy getting the skim off the top
that always, and it doesn't. It's not just Democrats. This
Republican's getting a big old piece of that action too.
So don't ever, don't ever think you're he is.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, it's free money available. It's both parties diving in it.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's not aid.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, you're welcome. Let me just say it that way.
You're welcome. If you're scamming this thing. Uh. Here's the
top five signs you're being scammed as a matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Boom. Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
This is on the internet if you think, oh man,
I get I'm getting through here. Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And also on the phone.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
This is also the phone or in it just scammed
in general, all right, Top five Number five. They ask
for a gift card. They're not gonna, they're not gonna.
No police, no re told, No one is going to
uh ask for a gift card. If that's the number one.
Number five, Uh, number four. If they're lofts or calling

(04:24):
you telling you they're coming to arrest you, they don't
do that. They come and arrest you. They don't call
you and go, guess what we're gonna come by there.
If you don't square up with us, no.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
You got about you got about twenty minutes for you're
gonna be in handcuffs, so prepare.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Importantly, I don't think that's how they do it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Quarter according to my sheriff buddy there in Hayes County, Alito,
Sheriff Alito, that ain't the way it works.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
That's a direct quote. Number three.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Uh, if the number is new, it shows up as
a new number on your phone, you don't recognize it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Be cautious of that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And then they also said, uh, going back to the
law officer or a new number or a new person. Flirtatious,
if they're flirtatious at all, man or woman, that's a
that's a sign that you're about to get scammed. All right,
this is all you're gonna get scammed.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
You mean, all of those d ms I have from
attractive women in Asia, you mean they're trying to scam me.
They don't actually think I'm.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, I'll be the I'll be the I'll be the
bad guy here whom I looking the mirror and all
I can tell you, yeah, yeah, that's what I do.
I don't look in the mirror because it's it didn't
time has not been good, nunkleema. That's all I can say. Uh,
here you're talking about time. Number two was a limited
time offer. If you get anything is land, it's a

(05:46):
limited time offer.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Once again, too good to be true.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's too good to be true. And then the number one, uh,
the top five signs are being scammed. The number one
is the emergency. You got to get that thing done now,
grandsons and jail, any anything that it requires you to
immediately act without thinking about it. At the HGB and
dripping springs, lady was at the bank, and old lady's

(06:10):
at the bank there. It's at the front of the
grocery store. And uh, one of the clerks was walking
by and heard her saying, I got to get my
grandson out of jail. And she stopped, went over and
the teller it was just he said, I was just
about to put end to this, he said, your grandson's
in jail. Yes, he called and uh, they got him

(06:30):
for some check thing at college, and he didn't want
to call his mom and dad. Uh, and so he
called me. And I'm going to send him two thousand
dollars to get him out of jail. Total would have
took that woman's money.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Then what's worse A lot of times to get access
to their accounts and clean them out. Yeah, so there's
also that to think about. So hopefully that, uh, that
helps you out on that there you don't do that.
And then finally on a Friday, I thought this was
an awesome list and it's so sexist it's not even funny.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
But I have to do it because.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I like this, and we do have a lot of
women listeners, a lot of middle aged for now older
women listeners.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Love you love all y'all.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
By the way, whom I'm I'm very popular with Hispanic
women twenty five to fifty four years of age because
I'm warm and relatable.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
So mui bueno, senor senorita.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's the rico swafe.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah in Spanish, one oh one.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Bendejo that's what hey, I know that way ohre you
go anyway, Thank y'all for mutual gross's. I guess let
should say, all right, so these are ten things older
women shouldn't apologize for anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And if you know older women, they do this.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
This is this is a common you know, common thing.
Number ten appearance you don't have to for your parents.
I mean, you've lived a good, hard life. You've married
some you've married some loser, and he's the reason you're
drained of all your life, throwing some couple, a couple
of ungrateful little bastards, and that exactly.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Number nine alone time.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Never apologize for wanting to be alone see the answer below,
Because you want to be alone, we get it. Number
eight taking up space. Women apologize for Oh I'm sorry,
I'm here sitting there.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'm in the way.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're not in the way. You're beautiful, you're helpful. You're
what keeps this world from blowing each other up. I
always said, if we had a woman president, we had
all women presidence, we'd have some mean looks at each other,
and we have some gossip, but we wouldn't be killing
each other, you know.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, it would It would all be passive aggressive barbs.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Have you seen that video of the dog that whispers
and the other dogs here? Like there's two dogs in
the expression. That expression on that dog's face is.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Like, what what did you say? Look that up? You
will laugh out loud.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
It looks just like a human looks like a woman going.
One woman, God's about the other one and the other
one going, what you got to be kidding me? Uh?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Let's see. Number seven is needing rest? Oh you vodka?
I don't see it here.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think that's a given. Uh vodka? Uh number seven?
Vodka or needing rest. If you need to rest, you
get some rest. You don't need to apologize for that.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Uh. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Number six was not being everything, not having everything figured out.
That's a lot of women. Well I'm sorry, my wife,
I'm sorry. I don't know how to do no because
you've never done it before. You shouldn't have to eat.
I don't expect you to know. Well, men do expect
you to know everything. He's like, what was ill saying?
I won't ever have an affair on my wife because

(09:56):
she would have to plan it and then remind me
it was happening.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's true, true, Viya like that one.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Number five not immediately responding to text. Guess what. The
whole world doesn't reroolve around you. Women will get to
you when they when they want to, and they shouldn't
apologize for that.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Number four, Uh, not making let's see Oh, not reinventing themselves.
You know that all where you see those stories where
I'm gone out and I've written a book, I've done
you know, I'm doing all these things, reinvent myself. You
don't have to apologize for not doing that. You you're
fine just like you are. Believe me, you're doing You're
doing well.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Uh. No mandate to have to change.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Number three Uh, outgrowing relationships You should never uh because
sometimes things just changing. You just don't need, need, or
want to be around that person anymore. You know, you
just you outgrow that relationship. And that can happen.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Uh men and women as matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
But that's really don't apologize. Don't apologize that person because
guys don't do that. I was just like, yeah, if
you I'll see you later, you know whatever. Number two
never apologized for past choices. I'm going to send out
to my three ex wives and my current wife. Never
apologize for past choices. In the beginning, everything is eating,

(11:20):
romance and fun and you're, oh, he's so funny. After
a while, I understand I'm not that funny. I understand
that in a big way. I've had to explain really big.
You know, my first my first wedding happened because of
her sister's wedding. In my comment one comment, oh and
I got married younger sister got married before older sister did.

(11:41):
I'd been you know, coming around about two and a half,
three years or something like that, you know, just not
really committed. She was the maid of honor, and I said, well, hell,
that makes you the old maid of honor. Six months later.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
And it was nine years of pure joy.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Uh, I can tell.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Man, wow, wow, wow wow wow. Imagine how she.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Probably describes it, oh, glowingly yes.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Uh. Number one ten things older women shouldn't apologize for
prioritizing joy.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
You should have all.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
The joy in your life and you don't know anybody anything,
and you should enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
And I think that you know an older life as
kids are like, well why is she doing that?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Or you know, enjoy it?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
You don't nobody jack shit, you nobody nihing man, Just
live your life and enjoy it and don't worry that everybody.
Guess what, everybody's gonna be fine where they say they
are not or where they think they are not, They're
gonna be just fine whether you and just don't apologize
to them.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Just go and do it.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Just keep keep on keeping honest. As someone wants to.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Keep on trucking, man, just keep on trucking. That's all
you all you gotta do.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Well.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think that's a good one to get out on.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
We probably lost a large female audience doing that list,
But then again, I hope you appreciate it in the uh,
in the way it was done and why we did it,
because we do appreciate y'all so much.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
And they'll be back come Monday.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, they still got to laugh.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
And once again, I know the Hispanic ladies will be back,
warm and relatable.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Apparently apparently that's.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
An actual that was actually a survey that from the
focus group. Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. The
white women don't like me, so I don't know what's
going on there, just Hispanic women. I'm the guy. I'm
LFI who's what I am? But with the white ladies,

(13:47):
and that's by the way. That's all I've ever married.
So maybe I need to you know, yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
You need to follow your follow the data. Follow the focus.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Group south of the border, down Mexico Way, Texas. Down there,
well I named mahaad Felinas.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Why yeah, at the l a felina.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Relatable right there. Relatability right there, ladies.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
You're not lying, you just you speaking the truth. Hispanic
women do that, they get mean.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
No, if you mess up that girlfriend don't always want
that though.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, I had a couple of girlfriends. No way over Kaka,
That's what I was. Oh no, all right, let's get
out of here. Why don't wees
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