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May 29, 2025 16 mins
Ever wanted the perfect comeback for a meeting gone sideways? Or wondered what women really notice on a first date? Bama Brown and Puma are back with another unfiltered, laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience—and this one’s packed with stories, wisdom, and a few unexpected life lessons.

In this episode, Bama takes us on a nostalgic walk through his old Houston neighborhood, where he once lived near NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon. From spotting “Dream” in a golf cart to fielding questions from starstruck fans, Bama’s storytelling is as vivid as ever.

The duo dives into:
  • The top 3 most savage (yet classy) comebacks to use in meetings.
  • The shocking truth about how much we spend on streaming—and why 2025 might be the year of the great subscription purge.
  • The top 5 things women notice on a first date (spoiler: it’s not your teeth).
  • Why keeping your phone in your pocket might be the best dating advice you’ll ever hear.
Puma brings his signature wit and grounded perspective, sharing insights from small-town life, college basketball, and the corporate world. The chemistry between the two is undeniable, and their banter is both hilarious and heartfelt.

Whether you're here for the laughs, the life advice, or just to hear Bama roast himself and others with charm, this episode delivers. Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good laugh (or a better first date strategy).
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey and Nattie tell you you're listening to the
Mamon Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast network along with
the Big Booma, the Big Cat professional basketball player. You
were with the Houston Rockets. I think, weren't you then
you play for them?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Or who was it you that was with the Maybe
if you maybe, if you add half a foot to
my six foot four frame, I would have had a chance,
but I there was not. There was more of a
chance for me playing for the defunct Houston Arrows hockey
team over there than the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I think I knew I lived in Houston in a team.
I didn't know him, but he lived like two streets over.
We had our little shitty neighborhood and then his really
rich neighborhood. Him and Mattress Mack lived back to back
to each other in Houston, North Houston and uh anyway,
he had ad see his Mercedes. It had dream for
his license plate. But he would take a golf cart

(00:52):
and go up to the comedience store at the corner,
and his knees would stick out both sides of the
golf cart. It's hilarious see him in a golf cart.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's what I was about to say, like I I
mean again, you know, I'm Hakeem half a foot taller
than me.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I can't imagine, and you're tall, you're six three six four.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Four six four six six five ish U man, he's
ish there.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I mean, there's no golf cart.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm ever comfortable, and I can't imagine being seven feet tall.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
But he was. Uh, but he had is hilarious. He
had Ao on his gate. He had a gated house,
of course, and I would walk in that neighborhood at night.
That's where I would do my extras. I walked through
the neighborhood and well buy his house. And he had
a basketball goal behind the gate. I thought, well, if
you didn't know anybody early, that guy is really good
in basketball. If he just driving by, I never miss his.

(01:44):
But uh, and there was always.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know, he changed his name from Akeem to Hakim.
So if you're driving by and you just see Ao,
a lot of people wouldn't connect the fact that that's
Hakeem a loja on, yeah, not a Keem my lajaan
same dude you know from Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well it was funny because no matter I walked, I
walked every night, probably you know, say six nights a week.
It was in the real wooded and real quiet neighborhood.
You know, it was beautiful and the houses were beautiful
and uh, like I said, in our neighborhood next to
it was you know, meth labs and stuff. It was
actually pretty nice but fun. But at least once every

(02:24):
I must say, every two or three weeks, some smoking
hot girl would pull up beside me while I'm walking
because I look relatively safe, and they would go, where's
the Keems stay? Where's the Kem's house? And I would say,
it's down there, the AO on the gate. Because if
I don't know if a king wanted them to know
it or not, but I would have wanted them to know.

(02:47):
I think you were crazy looking at to go, yeah,
he don't live up here. Who told you that? But
every one of them were like, oh my god, that's
just you know models, And I.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Think you were doing him a solid day.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's not like it well like, and I was kind
of if there was two, I said, well let me,
I'll show you and let me get in and I'll
drive you down here. Well we'll go together. Keea eella,
what I say?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know me?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, let me you know on just you know, on
the action here, just one of your throwaways, if you wouldn't.
I saw this thing. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Ninety dollars a month is what the average person has
for subscriptions on TV. Ninety dollars a month pay for ten, twelve, fifteen.

(03:34):
Sixty one percent of the people interviewed this year said
this year, twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, they're going
to cancel a bunch of those. They just said, I
don't watch any of that other stuff, and they said,
it's ridiculous. I have all these subscriptions and I don't
watch these shows. Don't even know what most of these
shows are, but they.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know, a lot of the like when we cut
the cord, obviously it was to you know, move away
from a cable bill.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, we got YouTube TV.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well now I think our YouTube TV is ninety bucks
on its own now, yeah, that's crazy. Then you add
all the Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Paramount, Amazon, all of those
on top of.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
The YouTube TV.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I think we're probably paying just as much as we
did before for our cable.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, absolutely, I think it's more and more. Yeah, more,
we watched several shows, but not I mean right now
I'm watching If anybody cares, well, if you're listening, you
probably anyway watching Mobland, which is awesome. I love Mobland,
Pierce Brosnan. It's the English mob you know, hit.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Tom Hardy's in that too.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Tom Hardy is so good in that. And then there's
the blonde girl that was from down Nebby who's just
smoking hot, Missus Baits, so I like her this, Miss
Baits is my favorite on that show. Okay, this was
interesting and it we'll finish up with this because I
had told this, always wanted something like this to have
and being a meeting and when somebody says something stupid,

(05:06):
this is the three best number one comebacks to people.
Oh okay, inner stupid. So use these in meetings wherever
you can.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I would imagine your smart mouth. You could have written
this list off of your.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
This is if you really want to sound, you really
want to get somebody without just going shut up, got
the hell up? You just say this. Number three, well,
that really makes a lot of sense when you don't
think about it.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's about as backhanded as you can get, right right there.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Number two was let's normalize keeping some thoughts to ourselves.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, in other words, shut the help, shut the hell up. Yeah,
everything you say, it makes all of us done.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
The second, Yeah, it doesn't need to come out of
your pie hole just because you thought. See that's what
I would say. And that sounds like he's just some
red and eggs. These are how you intelligently put somebody down.
Number one was And I love this. What a strange
thing to say out loud.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, I've actually I've heard something very very similar. You know,
my my wife here in the house. She works in
the corporate world in corporate America for a big company,
and some of the things I hear, some of the
things I hear on like the calls she's on the day,

(06:34):
there was something it was very similar. They were talking
about a big event they have coming up, and someone
on the call I don't think they realized how like
rude it came across. Oh no, said something along the
lines of, well, I don't know why we would do that.
It was like someone had just laid out It was like, yeah,

(06:54):
but I don't I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I don't know why we would ever do that.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it was just like, good lord, that's a good
lamb though I had.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
My old boss told me one time I did I
said something and he goes, did you come up with
that all by yourself? It was that kind of stupid,
and I go, I had to have help, that's all
I could come back with you.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I say, yeah, then you just the best one I
ever got.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
The best one I ever got on like was on
the air and was with rob Mo partner who was
the University of Georgia and I mean debate team. It
had a brea in intelligence, really really smart and was
responsible for our show doing so well for so many years.
He never got any of the credit because I made
sure that I got all the credit, which is important.

(07:40):
But uh, one of the things that I'll never forget
was he was giving me a wrath of shit about
my education. I barely got that. Odessa high and they
get you know, you get a move the tassel on
Friday night and then Saturday you're wearing a hard hat
on an roll rig. I mean, that's just that's just
that's the way the procedure, Odessa. And especially if you

(08:01):
don't have college money or you know, and you're going, well,
I hope there's a wars I'll get drafted. That's how
bad Odessa was anyway. Uh I just was it Blake,
Blake what was his last name? The comedian was so funny.
He said, I'm I was in I'm from I'm from
Georgia and I was in Vietnam, and I have flashbacks
of Georgia when I was in Vietna. That was pretty bad.

(08:25):
I don't even know what I was talking about now,
I doesn't forgot, oh, Rob. And Rob was just giving
me crap about Odessa high barely getting out and how
he had gone to the University of Georgia. And then
I went, you know, we have the same job and
have the same salary. You know that, right, I mean,
let's not sink in a little bit there. He told me.

(08:46):
Later he goes, it's like you kicked a chair out
from under me. One. I didn't get him very often.
He usually was able to get me pretty good. But
we had a great twenty year your relationship, good fun Radio,
all my partners Radio, we were great, and I've I
ended up with the best one in the world right

(09:07):
there with Puma.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, and you don't have to worry about matching. You
don't have to worry about trying to keep up education
wise here because my my little hometown of less than
three thousand people, it was a struggle to get us all.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
All one hundred and seven of us through through high school.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well you play college basketball. That right there, you got
the you know, somebody paid for your school and that's important,
more important than anything. So all right, well I thought
that was I thought that was pretty good, pretty good
stuff there. I wanted to I wanted one more deal.
I wanted to tell you about. This is the top
top five things that women notice on a first date.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh okay, A couple of guesses, yeah, good or bad? Teeth, height,
and color of buys. I bet one of those three
is probably on there.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
You're you're all physical top the top five. It's not
in there because maybe this is a list of desperate
girls or something. I don't know. It's you know, I.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Think the desperate ones are probably looking for the things
I listed.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, you're right about that. This is all emotional type stuff.
So number number five your social awareness and mannerisms. Now
that's just you know, if you're if you're I guess
that means you eat with the right fork and you don't,
you know, throw food and the floor or whatever. That's
what I'm assuming that your mouth closed. Yeah, that would

(10:38):
be a good one there. You don't, you know, cusse
or say racist ship to people or whatever you're not.
We shouldn't do that anyway anytime anyway, especially though with
somebody you're or not the final date. Quit doing that
by yourself, all right?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, I guess you do whatever you want. By compatibility
was number four? If you're compatible with her? Uh? Now
what does that evolve? I don't know if for me
it is well, I still haven't understood years questions.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I just I just crossed my fingers and.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Surely it couldn't have been my looks. I don't know.
But in fact, I don't want to delve anymore into that.
Let's just leave it alone.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Number three talking about past relationships. Now, they said this
is a big You don't want a dog your ex
even though she deserves it. And I don't know her,
but she deserves it.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, there's nothing to gain from that. There's that because
she's sitting there thinking this is how he's going to
talk about me, because she's already thinking about the courtship,
the marriage, and the divorce all on that first date.
She's played the whole thing out in her head. Yeah,
she's already thinking about you talking bad about her to
the next girl.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
You're you're already on your way out, and you didn't
even you know, you don't even know. It's just the
way it is. But Puma's right, man, absolutely right. Number two,
boundaries being respected. Now, I was trying to figure out
what that is. Boundaries. Would that be getting too close, hugging, yeah, physical,
too quick.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Or would be my guess, especially since it's on a
first date, I would think that would be a maybe
you went in for that, prefer a little more than
that kiss at the end of the date, right, Yeah, But.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
A lot of my buddies was like, hey, take a shot,
you never know.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Well again, you miss every shot you don't take.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Absolutely, thank you very much. By the way, Puma's wife
is not in the room at this point, so that's
why we're talking. Neither's mine, so we can Yeah, and
finally asking questions, This is number one. Asking questions, but
listening to the answers, not just going through that. They

(12:56):
can tell when you're just going, oh, what do you
do your favorite you know movie? But you know, and
then you just glaze over thinking about the game. She's
there there may test you later. You want to be
on top of that, you know, once again gauging on
how desperate they are. I mean, if they're really hurting,
then you might have a you might not have to
do any of that, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's to say, it feels like you probably
get what you pay for there if the amount of
effort you put in is probably going to be somewhat
related to the quality of companion you find this.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I think whom you are wise beyond your years, or
I wished I had to talk to you before. Well
it worked out good for me this time, but the
times before.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
And the number one overall everything keep your phone in
your pocket unless you're a surgeon. That was that's what
they said, unless you're a surgeon.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Cannot be overstated. The amount of you know, the you know,
my wife and I when we go out here in
the neighborhood or downtown here in San Antonio. The amount
of what looks like dates not married couples, where both
people are just sitting there on their phone.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
What are you even doing?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Why are you there? You need to be in the
moment your living.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Room by yourself and do that.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Why is why are you even on a date in
public if you're just going to be on your phones
the whole time.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I think that's true, friends, or any of that. I
don't take my phone, keep it in the car just
in case I have an emergency. But I got to worry.
I don't even want to be on the phone, and
I don't care what's going on in the world. That's
one of the things if I were to give any
advice to anyone right now, just don't look at the news,
Just leave it alone and go. You voted, You're done.

(14:47):
That's all you can do is vote. You can't you know,
I wish I.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Could follow that advice.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I can't help, but I've got a quad box of
cable news going.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
And that's kind of your job though you're supposed to have.
We're supposed to stay on stuff. But you know, I
had this conversation with our boss eight years ago and
I said, look, nobody's you know, oh, something's happening in
the Ukraine. We better find out Bama's take on it.
You know, nobody, not once has that ever been said

(15:15):
by anybody, you know it the same with John Cornyn's
in town. I better find out what Bama and him
talked about. Now I'll point them out. I'm friends with
John Corny. I'm real good friends with him. I have
his phone number and he has mine. My daughter actually
worked for him one time. About her, I told her,
I said, you need to work for Corning for a week,

(15:36):
and you need to work for dogget for a week.
You can see both sides, see how screwed up both
sides are. And she did and uh and she said, Dad,
she wouldn't even do dogg it. She didn't even go
do the Democrat one. Just Republican was enough to scare
her out of politics forever.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
She said, I probably got her fixed.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
She said, my god, people are horrible. I said, yeah,
they are, and they you know, they're they're trying to
just just keep a lid on it. You know, I
guess is the best of what's it? Anyway? Enough of that.
It's Sabama Brown experience on the iHeart podcast Network. We
appreciate you listening
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