October 6, 2025 • 10 mins
If you don’t change it… are you choosing it? That provocative question kicks off a deeply entertaining and surprisingly reflective episode of The Bama Brown Experience, where Bama and Big Cat (aka Sam from The Sports Cave) blend outrageous headlines with genuine wisdom. From a school administrator turned lawnmower hustler in Akron to a woman forging Lisa Marie Presley’s signature to sell Graceland, the bonehead stories are wild—but the real gems come from the heart.
This episode dives into 10 life-changing lines that listeners say transformed their perspectives. Bama and Big Cat unpack each one with humor, honesty, and a touch of philosophy. Whether it’s “Stop watering fake plants” or “Will this matter in 10 years?”, the duo explores how small shifts in thinking can lead to big changes in life.
While there’s no formal guest, Puma’s reflections—especially on generational gaps, streamer culture, and the importance of learning from everyone you meet—bring depth and relatability to the conversation. His take on balancing hard work with leisure is a standout moment.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good bonehead story, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a little perspective (and a good chuckle). Don’t forget to check out The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma for your weekly dose of sports talk!
This episode dives into 10 life-changing lines that listeners say transformed their perspectives. Bama and Big Cat unpack each one with humor, honesty, and a touch of philosophy. Whether it’s “Stop watering fake plants” or “Will this matter in 10 years?”, the duo explores how small shifts in thinking can lead to big changes in life.
While there’s no formal guest, Puma’s reflections—especially on generational gaps, streamer culture, and the importance of learning from everyone you meet—bring depth and relatability to the conversation. His take on balancing hard work with leisure is a standout moment.
If you laughed, learned, or just love a good bonehead story, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a little perspective (and a good chuckle). Don’t forget to check out The Sports Cave with Biggest Puma for your weekly dose of sports talk!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi, everybody Bama Brown within the Bend Brown experience,
along with my pot name crime. The Big Cat is
what we like to call him around here. Sam's's real name,
but he has the Sports Cave and everybody's loving the
sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, we're officially we are officially having some fun over
on the sports Cave now because we have you've hit
the point of the NFL season where you can kind
of start to see who's actually good, who's going to
be bad? What the good games are coming up on Sunday, Monday, Thursday.
So yeah, if you need a little sports in your life,
(00:39):
anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Very popular podcast. There's number one in the sports. You
want to start out with a bonehead?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh, absolutely they have.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now, this guy's supposed to be smart. He's a school administrator.
He's supposed to be intelligent. Stephen Keenan is his name.
He lives in Akron, Ohio. Now, Big Cat, he said,
you know nobody's really watching me that close. I'm going
to go ahead and work a deal with a vendor
(01:12):
for eleven lawnmowers for my school systems, and how I'm
the school administrator. I'm the head dog. Nobody's checking anything.
And then I don't really need eleven and I only
need six. I'll take five of them and sell them
on marketplace. Who would be the wiser? What turns out
the Akron police. They called him and said, hey, we're
(01:33):
interested in the lawnmowers. He says, you're got them in
my garage. The value of those is fourteen seven hundred dollars,
which makes it a felony. He of course, first thing
he did was resign as school administrator. And because you
can't be in prison and be school administrator at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So yeah, that probably he'd difficult to set a good
example for the children as you're you're fighting felony.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
At least he's not like one of one school principal.
At least this guy's from America. Still laughing, Yeah, illegalated,
and it moved up to principle. I started to say,
if he's that smart, let him stay, man, you know
why I run him out.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There's something It's like when when we were talking about
the guy that got busted, and then maybe instead of
throwing him in prison and throwing away.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The key, get him to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, let him hack man. You know something anyway? That
was pretty funny. Uh, but he's going away for a while.
All right, here's ten lines people say change their lives,
things that have been said to them they feel like
changed their lives. So I'm gonna go I'm gonna give
you all ten. Let's see number ten. Things don't change. Wait,
(02:46):
I'm gonna say it right, let's do it that way.
Things you don't change, you are choosing thing. If you
don't change it, that means you're choosing it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, that's uh, it's it's the active choice of not
changing is still an active choice.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Change what if it goes wrong? To what if it
goes well? See you know me, I'm that and I
guarantee you Big Catt'll tell you. Uh them was the
first one to go, oh this is gonna be is
gonna be bad, ain't gonna work. It's change from you
can feel what if it goes wrong? To what if
it goes well?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I guess a little optimism never hurt anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Absolutely. Uh, give me roses while I'm alive, not after them.
They don't bring flowers on my grave, man, But do
it while I'm alive. You know I can appreciate it.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's a great uh.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Rolling Stones and town Van's ant cover right there, dead roses.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It is socially acceptable to We'll make sure it's right
to have an unexpressed thought?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Or the boy couldn't we all? Could we all learn
from that?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
One? That that? How? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I love that it is socially acceptable two Uh to
have an unexpressed thought?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But how will people know?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How will people know what I think and feel about
every single thing, from my breakfast to my politics? How
I need everyone to know at all times how I feel?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
There was remember the easy a movie where the guy
the teacher goes, he goes, Uh, I don't get you
kids with this? Facebook had a slurpy at seven eleven?
Best day ever? Why would you would you?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Who needed that?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who was that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how does that make your life better by alerting
me that you enjoyed a slurpy today?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I've got a I've got a hat on and it
kept hitting the microphone, so I have to take it off.
It was booking bo.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Number six was let's see no Number seven? Lets learn
from your screw ups? Ain't that the truth? We could
all do that one once again. This is ten lines
that people say has changed your lives. Number six, Uh,
stop watering the fake plants. I don't know what that means.
You're gonna have to explain you understand that one. I
(05:21):
mean philosophical.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I was about to say, let me let me
put my so crates. Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, I am a college graduate, that's correct. I would
have played basketball, so I kind of handle any I mean, oh.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, they they actually they actually let you get
away with quite a bit when it comes to academics.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It was harder in high school.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, I would assume that means stop putting your effort
into things that aren't going to grow. You know, it's
not gonna you're tiring to happen into things that aren't
going to get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I thought that's what it meant, but I wasn't sure.
Number five. Work is an opportunity to do something hard,
and that's good. You know you work, you work hard.
It's a chance to be successful and a chance to
know what it's really like to work hard. Let's see
spent years making the same mistakes, so stop doing that again.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Pretty self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
If you're going to go a.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Decade making all the same decisions that end up being
bad and maybe change them.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
When I read number three, I've been saying it for
a week now. Will this matter in ten years?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they're great, that's awesome, you'll agree.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's that one sounds so simple.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And it is, but it's I feel like our social
perspective has been warped by how fast things move now,
So like just stopping and reminding yourself, is this going
to matter in ten years, in five years and six months?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
If the answer is no, then stop stressing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It really ties to number two, which is no one's
ever said I wish I would have worked more on
their deathbed.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You know, look, I know I have been. I have been.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I like to toe the line between having a a
good work ethic and enjoying my leisure time. I feel
like that you got to find that balance because yet,
like the other one, like you gotta work, you gotta
work hard. That's it's an opportunity to work hard to
learn something to like. But also you can't work yourself
(07:33):
to the bone. You gotta find that goldie box zone exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And you go places and do things and have a
good time and in your family, so you want to
be with everyone. Here's number one. Everyone you meet knows
something you don't. So no matter how dumb or goofy
you think somebody is, they probably are an expert and
something to you don't know anything about.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So and I think that can even be you know,
the roommate and I've been talking about trying to relate
to younger people and our jobs and just not understanding
some of the you know, like streamer culture and all
of this. But it's it's kind of like that, like
you meet someone younger than you, you might think, okay,
(08:19):
what they know is stupid, but at the same time,
they know something you don't know, and absolutely it's okay
to not be interested in what they're interested in, but
to still try to learn it or still learn something
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's why I like to talk to different people, new
people and find out and just ask them a lot
of questions and see what they do and what they
know about. And it's amazing how many people you meet
like that. They are just fascinating, but you didn't know
it because you didn't really ask, you know, how.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Would you know unless you're seeking it out or asking yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I saw where Camp Mystic is announced they're going to
be reopening next year, so that's and then some of
the family is not happy about But I think that's
I think that's good they do it. I think they
get it open and go back to normal as much
as you can. Never going to be normal, but you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's where you know it's I think I agree with you,
while also completely agreeing and understanding with some of the
family that are against it. I mean, I can't imagine
the emotion of seeing that place open up and just
continue business as usual like nothing happened. That would be incredibly,
(09:29):
incredibly difficult I would imagine to to emotionally go through.
But at the same time, you got there's got to
be some resilience and for and moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Got to move forward always, you know, absolutely, I just
I think that's good and I understand them not being
happy though, But you want a bonehead. Won't finish the
day with a bonehead. Lisa Finley, this is awesome. She
tried to forge Lisa Marie's signature sale Graceland. Oh God,
(10:03):
and there was a contract on it, so foreigner was
believing it and then somebody said, yeah, that's at Lisa Marie.
That's she wouldn't do that. She wouldn't sell.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Very sad.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Lisa Finley gets fifty seven months in jail for that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Feels like you should set your sights a little lower,
try to sell your neighbor's house.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, like Graceland.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's not Nolan Carr. Some you know, start small, but
to go for Graceland. But the fact that somebody thought, well,
I guess she's really selling it to me. I'm going
to buy Graceland some foreigner you know who knows better.
All Right, that's a that's a lot to be learned
in today's show. Don't be stupid and those other ten
things
Well, hi, everybody Bama Brown within the Bend Brown experience,
along with my pot name crime. The Big Cat is
what we like to call him around here. Sam's's real name,
but he has the Sports Cave and everybody's loving the
sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, we're officially we are officially having some fun over
on the sports Cave now because we have you've hit
the point of the NFL season where you can kind
of start to see who's actually good, who's going to
be bad? What the good games are coming up on Sunday, Monday, Thursday.
So yeah, if you need a little sports in your life,
(00:39):
anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Very popular podcast. There's number one in the sports. You
want to start out with a bonehead?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh, absolutely they have.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now, this guy's supposed to be smart. He's a school administrator.
He's supposed to be intelligent. Stephen Keenan is his name.
He lives in Akron, Ohio. Now, Big Cat, he said,
you know nobody's really watching me that close. I'm going
to go ahead and work a deal with a vendor
(01:12):
for eleven lawnmowers for my school systems, and how I'm
the school administrator. I'm the head dog. Nobody's checking anything.
And then I don't really need eleven and I only
need six. I'll take five of them and sell them
on marketplace. Who would be the wiser? What turns out
the Akron police. They called him and said, hey, we're
(01:33):
interested in the lawnmowers. He says, you're got them in
my garage. The value of those is fourteen seven hundred dollars,
which makes it a felony. He of course, first thing
he did was resign as school administrator. And because you
can't be in prison and be school administrator at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So yeah, that probably he'd difficult to set a good
example for the children as you're you're fighting felony.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
At least he's not like one of one school principal.
At least this guy's from America. Still laughing, Yeah, illegalated,
and it moved up to principle. I started to say,
if he's that smart, let him stay, man, you know
why I run him out.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There's something It's like when when we were talking about
the guy that got busted, and then maybe instead of
throwing him in prison and throwing away.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The key, get him to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, let him hack man. You know something anyway? That
was pretty funny. Uh, but he's going away for a while.
All right, here's ten lines people say change their lives,
things that have been said to them they feel like
changed their lives. So I'm gonna go I'm gonna give
you all ten. Let's see number ten. Things don't change. Wait,
(02:46):
I'm gonna say it right, let's do it that way.
Things you don't change, you are choosing thing. If you
don't change it, that means you're choosing it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, that's uh, it's it's the active choice of not
changing is still an active choice.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Change what if it goes wrong? To what if it
goes well? See you know me, I'm that and I
guarantee you Big Catt'll tell you. Uh them was the
first one to go, oh this is gonna be is
gonna be bad, ain't gonna work. It's change from you
can feel what if it goes wrong? To what if
it goes well?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I guess a little optimism never hurt anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Absolutely. Uh, give me roses while I'm alive, not after them.
They don't bring flowers on my grave, man, But do
it while I'm alive. You know I can appreciate it.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's a great uh.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Rolling Stones and town Van's ant cover right there, dead roses.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It is socially acceptable to We'll make sure it's right
to have an unexpressed thought?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Or the boy couldn't we all? Could we all learn
from that?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
One? That that? How? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I love that it is socially acceptable two Uh to
have an unexpressed thought?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But how will people know?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How will people know what I think and feel about
every single thing, from my breakfast to my politics? How
I need everyone to know at all times how I feel?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
There was remember the easy a movie where the guy
the teacher goes, he goes, Uh, I don't get you
kids with this? Facebook had a slurpy at seven eleven?
Best day ever? Why would you would you?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Who needed that?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who was that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how does that make your life better by alerting
me that you enjoyed a slurpy today?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I've got a I've got a hat on and it
kept hitting the microphone, so I have to take it off.
It was booking bo.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Number six was let's see no Number seven? Lets learn
from your screw ups? Ain't that the truth? We could
all do that one once again. This is ten lines
that people say has changed your lives. Number six, Uh,
stop watering the fake plants. I don't know what that means.
You're gonna have to explain you understand that one. I
(05:21):
mean philosophical.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I was about to say, let me let me
put my so crates. Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, I am a college graduate, that's correct. I would
have played basketball, so I kind of handle any I mean, oh.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, they they actually they actually let you get
away with quite a bit when it comes to academics.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It was harder in high school.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, I would assume that means stop putting your effort
into things that aren't going to grow. You know, it's
not gonna you're tiring to happen into things that aren't
going to get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I thought that's what it meant, but I wasn't sure.
Number five. Work is an opportunity to do something hard,
and that's good. You know you work, you work hard.
It's a chance to be successful and a chance to
know what it's really like to work hard. Let's see
spent years making the same mistakes, so stop doing that again.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Pretty self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
If you're going to go a.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Decade making all the same decisions that end up being
bad and maybe change them.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
When I read number three, I've been saying it for
a week now. Will this matter in ten years?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they're great, that's awesome, you'll agree.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's that one sounds so simple.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And it is, but it's I feel like our social
perspective has been warped by how fast things move now,
So like just stopping and reminding yourself, is this going
to matter in ten years, in five years and six months?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
If the answer is no, then stop stressing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It really ties to number two, which is no one's
ever said I wish I would have worked more on
their deathbed.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You know, look, I know I have been. I have been.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I like to toe the line between having a a
good work ethic and enjoying my leisure time. I feel
like that you got to find that balance because yet,
like the other one, like you gotta work, you gotta
work hard. That's it's an opportunity to work hard to
learn something to like. But also you can't work yourself
(07:33):
to the bone. You gotta find that goldie box zone exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And you go places and do things and have a
good time and in your family, so you want to
be with everyone. Here's number one. Everyone you meet knows
something you don't. So no matter how dumb or goofy
you think somebody is, they probably are an expert and
something to you don't know anything about.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So and I think that can even be you know,
the roommate and I've been talking about trying to relate
to younger people and our jobs and just not understanding
some of the you know, like streamer culture and all
of this. But it's it's kind of like that, like
you meet someone younger than you, you might think, okay,
(08:19):
what they know is stupid, but at the same time,
they know something you don't know, and absolutely it's okay
to not be interested in what they're interested in, but
to still try to learn it or still learn something
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's why I like to talk to different people, new
people and find out and just ask them a lot
of questions and see what they do and what they
know about. And it's amazing how many people you meet
like that. They are just fascinating, but you didn't know
it because you didn't really ask, you know, how.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Would you know unless you're seeking it out or asking yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I saw where Camp Mystic is announced they're going to
be reopening next year, so that's and then some of
the family is not happy about But I think that's
I think that's good they do it. I think they
get it open and go back to normal as much
as you can. Never going to be normal, but you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's where you know it's I think I agree with you,
while also completely agreeing and understanding with some of the
family that are against it. I mean, I can't imagine
the emotion of seeing that place open up and just
continue business as usual like nothing happened. That would be incredibly,
(09:29):
incredibly difficult I would imagine to to emotionally go through.
But at the same time, you got there's got to
be some resilience and for and moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Got to move forward always, you know, absolutely, I just
I think that's good and I understand them not being
happy though, But you want a bonehead. Won't finish the
day with a bonehead. Lisa Finley, this is awesome. She
tried to forge Lisa Marie's signature sale Graceland. Oh God,
(10:03):
and there was a contract on it, so foreigner was
believing it and then somebody said, yeah, that's at Lisa Marie.
That's she wouldn't do that. She wouldn't sell.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Very sad.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Lisa Finley gets fifty seven months in jail for that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Feels like you should set your sights a little lower,
try to sell your neighbor's house.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, like Graceland.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's not Nolan Carr. Some you know, start small, but
to go for Graceland. But the fact that somebody thought, well,
I guess she's really selling it to me. I'm going
to buy Graceland some foreigner you know who knows better.
All Right, that's a that's a lot to be learned
in today's show. Don't be stupid and those other ten
things
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