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November 11, 2025 13 mins
You know what Elvis’s last words were? That question kicks off a wild ride through nostalgia, absurdity, and hard-earned wisdom in this episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Bama and Puma dive headfirst into everything from million-dollar bananas and gold-plated toilet seats to the unmistakable magic of Elvis Presley’s final performances.

This episode is a masterclass in storytelling, with Bama recounting his unforgettable experience seeing Elvis live in 1976—complete with capes, flashbulbs, and scarf-tossing theatrics. The conversation shifts gears into hilarious and biting commentary on modern art, workplace absurdities, and the unmistakable signs your company might be prepping for layoffs. Puma brings his signature dry wit and sports-savvy perspective, balancing Bama’s Southern charm with sharp observations and a few well-timed laughs.

Memorable Moments:
  • Bama’s impersonation of Elvis’s stage presence—“He waddled over to the right and held his pose for 30 seconds.”
  • The story of Vladimir and the $87,000 paycheck he’s not giving back.
  • Bama’s legendary 72-hour radio station switcheroo—from Z102 to K-VET without missing a beat.
  • A manager’s infamous quote: “We can change out funny rednecks like spark plugs.”
Whether you’re here for the laughs, the life lessons, or the behind-the-scenes radio tales, this episode delivers a full dose of Bama’s unfiltered charm. If you laughed, nodded, or just enjoyed the ride, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good story and a good laugh!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, everybody, Bama Brown, when you in the Bama Brown experience,
I'll just stay right now. I got a burp coming.
I don't know what's out here.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What an intro that.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's kind of like a well blowout. It could happen
at any time, so I'm trying to cap it. I'm
trying to keep it in anyway. Tay hid to Puma,
the big Cat with the sports You know, you know
this is a free show, Boom. You get what you
get here.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
You literally get what you pay for, and that is
absolutely nothing. Well, if you want more free entertainment of
the sports variety also probably includes a burp every now
and then.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
And you guys are live live tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, we are back live over on YouTube tonight eight
o'clock Downbeat.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Just search for Sports.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Cave live over there and then anywhere you get your podcast,
you can always get the audio version. Just search the
Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now they try and do a good show. They do
a good job. Buma does a good job here. He's
he's straddled with me in this thing. Nobody put a
gun to your head. You you know, he gets credit somehow,
I'm not sure how he's getting credit.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm getting I'm getting I feel like I'm getting credit
in heaven more than anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I think somewhere Jason's like Jason thinks of something. He
goes and get Puma break. He's in there Withbama. You know,
let's give him, give him that help him with the
give you tickets to that thing. Uh So here, I
love this. So I'm gonna start out with a bonehead.
The boneheads, we don't know their names, the boneheads of
the people. This artist that duct taped the banana, I
remember to the wall he was an artist. Okay, whoever

(01:38):
paid six point two million for that banana. He's got
a new thing going. He's got a gold plated toilet seat.
Weighs this guy two hundred and twenty three pounds. It's
eighteen carrot gold.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So the Bee's gonna auction it off. It starts attend me.
And so that's a that's his commode seat, his toilet seat.
Many I could see Elvis's toilet seat bringing you know,
some cash.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, I mean that's got some historic significance to it.
There's there's a large part of me that says, if
you have so much money that you're buying a duct tape,
banana or a golden toilet seat as quote unquote art.
You probably deserve to lose all that money at buying

(02:27):
stupid art like that.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You're getting hope that it's happening that way. You know
what Elvis's last words.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Were, Oh no, no, tell me.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, there's two jokes like this, Sonny red, I'm gonna
go take a ship. Yeah, okay, because Sonny and Rid
here's the other one. Horn.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, we could add a third one to it.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I feel so bad. Elvis is my grandmother's favorite artist.
I'm laughing, man, I know we're terrible people.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I saw him live. I saw him live in seventy
six year boy died. He came out. I never see
anything like it. It was in the Extor County Coliseum
and Odessa, Oh, I got no death of the story
coming up this week too. Anyway. Uh. He walks out
on stage and he and there was so many flash

(03:29):
bulbs back then. It was in flashbul cameras that it
was as if they turned the lights back on. It
was crazy. And he went over to the you know,
they're doing the two thousand and one Space Odyssey. Literally
get cold, chills as the greatest concert ever saw. And
he walks over to the left and he has a
cape on it and he doesn't and he holds his
position just like this with his hands out, you know, like,

(03:50):
and he gives everybody a chance to take their pictures.
Then he will I'm going to use the word waddle
because that I'm fat I waddle. He waddles over to
the right stay right part of the stage, and he
holds his pose for thirty seconds, you know, so everybody
get their picture. I mean, it's just like you know.
And he walks to the middle and he sits there
and holds it and then he goes you see right

(04:12):
or you know, and he starts he acts like he
scrums a guitar. And there's a guy whose job, his
entire job is to throw scarfs around Elvis's neck so
Elvis could hand them the girls. And now it was
just amazing. What a life, what a guy he lived
it man, I mean, and his voice, so I know,

(04:33):
maybe even it was electronically maybe, but still, man, his
voice was absolutely amazing. And he sang the last song
he had come out besides My Way was hurt. Remember
the song hurt. I'm so hurt and he sings it
and it is this incredible and he goes, y'all want
me to do that again, and everybody cheers, and he

(04:56):
sings it twice. It's the same exact same way he
ails it. Man, it was great. I don't I was
stunned how great he was.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, as much as I as much as I have
given my grandmother, my lovely grandmother. Hell, she's such an
Elvis fan. She has an animatronic Elvis that is from
the shoulders up.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh my god, it's motion.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Activated, so like you'll just be walking through her house
and if you walk past it, he starts to do the.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Whole is the thing head. That voice is undeniable. I'll
give you that.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I got the h the movie poster Speedway and spin Out.
I got Speedway framed in our little TV room in there.
It's I just those movies I saw him when I
was growing up. It was crazy. Those movies were so bad,
and they were so bad, but then they're so good too,
you know. But he's just wow. I mean, he's crazy. Uh,

(05:52):
here's a I'm not gonna call this guy or a bonehead.
It's Vladimir the right rochet cock off something Russia. I
don't know what it is. It Vladimir So. Vladimir works
at a factory there in Russia with thirty four other employees,
and his paycheck had everybody's money eighty seven thousand dollars.

(06:13):
They put it all on one check, gave it to him.
He has no plans to return it, he said, no,
I'm done, man, I'm out. You know how long it
takes in Russia to collect eighty seven grand I'm not
giving it back, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, if I was him, I'd already be on a
train to Western Europe and just go.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
They're not gonna let you. They do things different over
there and not gonna let you keep that money. They'll
just come and kill you and take it back, you.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Know, they'll.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
There's an easy way and there's the other way of
how they're going to get that money back.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
The easy way is you give it to them.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
The other way is you end up magically falling off
a building, right, I just tend to happen over there.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
That happens a lot. I ain't. Here's how to tell
if your company is getting ready for layoffs. It's three
easy ones, and they seem pretty common. But you know
what I've seen all three before. When they have a
slowdown in the hiring and postings of the hiring, you
know you can walk in there. You'll have a bulletin
board on your business if it's a big company like iHeart.

(07:12):
And when they slow down not having any postings, you
go oh oh. Number two when they send out memos
that go, we need to be more efficient. If you
receive one of those memos, you better get your affairs
in order because you're about to be pushed off a building.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, like, yeah, go ahead and efficiently update that resume.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I know why you were laughing because I said, roch
your cock off. I I didn't even figure out why
you were laughing. I wrote that when I wrote this
story of Vladimir, I just I couldn't pronounce this guy's name,
so I wrote down rot your kock off.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I'm glad you have now said it three times for
the full explanation.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know, if if you have a complaint, go ahead
and write it down and it's put pigeon. Yeah, it'll
I'll send it to us. We'll respond accordingly. Uh oh. Also,
a reduction in hours, that's the last one. If you
get a reduction in hours. You're going to get a

(08:16):
real reduction in hours coming up. Uh these are these
are I mean I've seen all three of these and
didn't recognize them as potential. When I got laid off
with clear Channel, oh god, twenty five years ago, I
was It's funny because I ended up at Cavett and
then got when they clear Channel bought cavette case, I

(08:38):
was back on and they gave me all my time
for Vaca's and stuff. I get six weeks of Vaca's
like I'd ever needed, you know. But I was at
Z one o two, the Bow and Bama show, and uh,
our contract wasn't going to be renewed, and I landed
this job the Cavett. Bob Cole, my friend called me
and Stan let me out of my condries and is

(09:00):
a Bama go to the Cavett and everybody was cool
with And so Friday we're at Z one o two
during the morning show and a guy comes in at
the end of the show or producer or program director,
and he goes, Okay, that's it. He collaps, that's it, man,
You're done. All right? Cool and he comes back in
about thirty minutes. I'm like boxing my shit up, you know,

(09:21):
And he goes, hey, I got a remote at Apple
Dodge tomorrow and I don't have anybody who can do it.
And I said, well, I reckon, after five years, I
can give Old Clear Channel a free remote. That's fine.
You don't have to end my check had already been
cutting everything, you know, And I said, I'll do it,
don't even worry about it. So I go to Apple
Dodge on the motor my own everybody Aboutma Brown, and
come on out and see me watching midget wrestle and

(09:42):
have a snow cone or whatever, you know. And so
that was on Friday, knock on Wood. I started on
Cavet on Monday, which was Memorial Day. And so I'm
on the air. I mean, I told you this, I
don't know. This is how I knew my career was over.
I'm on the air and I was doing a midday
morning show. So Sam and Bob were in the mornings,
and they wanted to try to develop that midday to

(10:04):
a show where they could sell advertising, obviously, and this
I'm on the air my first break, and I go, Hi, everybody,
I'm Bama Brown. I used to be at another station.
Now I'm here at CAVED. I'm glad that Penny Reeves
had just left. Penny set me up for two weeks. Hey,
you're gonna love this guy. Penny had a lot of
input in me getting the job. Love her forever anyway,

(10:26):
And a guy opens the door and he goes, you
need to move your truck. While I was live in
my first break on CAVED, you need to move your truck.
It was my morning day. I go, okay, well y'all
heard him. I gotta go move my truck. I'll be
back and we'll have some country hits with some people
that are maybe still alive. I don't know. And so
you know, we did that. So in about an hour,

(10:47):
maybe two hours, this programmed no promotion girl comes in
there and she says, hey, uh, we've got to remote
over to Apple Dodge and we don't let anybody can
do it. Now. I was there on Saturday, Sunday went
by Monday. I go over to Apple Dodge as cavet
and so I'm there doing the break. Hi everybody, Madma Brown,

(11:09):
and I first one I did it. I said, hey, folks,
Mamma Brown was Z one on two. Ah, Kyvet, you
know I messed up because the habit. Sure, and this,
but I'll never forget. The sales manager come out and
he looking at me and I'm in a Cavet shirt
and I'd been in the Z one on two shirt.
He goes, weren't you with Z one on two Friday?
And I go yeah, and he goes, you work for

(11:30):
Cavet Now I go yeah, yeah, he goes, cut youell
a worse in the corpus.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Hey, he's not wrong, No, not wrong.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Glad to have the gig too, my brother. And that
was that was probably thirty years ago when I was on.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
That is spectacular, seventy two hours.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, never missed an air shift in thirty eight years.
Knocking on the wood ever, I done. Guess it matters
now I'm retired now, so I don't guess.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Now. You're just gonna put the matter podcast recording session.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
And this is you know, this is here, give it,
give him something to do. We still keep him from
going somewhere else, which I think a couple of them
wish that would happen, and they could use it. They
could use a ratings drop.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
And difference is the enemy.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
You're gonna have, gonna have the lovers and the haters.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
No more more haters and lovers. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Possibly.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I had a manager I won't say his name. He goes, fat,
funny rednecks. Those are We can go out here in
the street, find five of those, and we own the
Bama name, so we could change them out just like
a spark plug or a you know, a air filter,
and they don't know the difference.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's my favorite line of all of the work.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
You're doing this with you for almost a full year now,
the story of the manager saying, fat.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Funny red knock and we can get those anywhere now
in the street. There's probably four or five right out here.
We just go out and get one, bring them in,
call them Bama, and I'll never get He goes, he's idiot.
Listeners wouldn't know the difference. I said, that was that guy.
That's how he thought. I don't know what he does now.
I don't know if he's even still alive, but he
I told him, I said, you got to work on
your new Rockney speeches. Man, that you're not a motivator.

(13:12):
You know what a jerk? That guy was. A jerk.
I had several levels jerks. So all right, folks, thanks
for listening. To us, I'm sorry I've turned into a
wine session there then
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