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November 14, 2025 11 mins
Would you ever let a single coin toss determine the course of your life? In this episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama takes us on a wild ride through stories that will make you laugh, shake your head, and maybe question your own sense of adventure. From a bank robber who tried to deposit stolen cash into his jail commissary account, to a Halloween DUI in a prison uniform, Bama and Puma dive into the quirks of human behavior with their signature humor.

You’ll hear Puma’s personal tale of couch-hopping across Texas during an extended “spring break,” and the jaw-dropping moment Bama literally flipped a coin on Interstate 10 to choose between two job offers—Phoenix or Houston. Plus, the duo riffs on everything from renting the Christmas Story house in Cleveland, to North Dakota’s hilarious “Name the Snowplow” contest, and even a Bass Pro Shop brawl in Odessa that sparks Bama’s nostalgic look back at his roughneck roots.

If you love unpredictable stories, big laughs, and a dose of nostalgia, hit subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t forget to leave us a review and share this episode with a friend who loves a good ‘life-on-a-flip’ story!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody, Bama Brown with you and you need Maam
and Brown experience. When we came up with that all,
after all the research, everything we put into that Tama
Brown experience came out.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
On well, I think that's how the dice rolled or whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
But uh, say hello to the Puma, the big cat
who has a sports Cave which.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is live to night.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, so you are looking live.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
As Brett Musburger used to say, we are back live
on YouTube tonight at sports Cave Lives. How you find
us eight o'clock downbeat, eight o'clock sharp?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Really sharp is a loose.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Term there because we usually are going about eight oh
five ish or so because between the three of us,
one of us is never on time, and you can
probably guess which one it is majority of the time.
That would be unfortunately myself. But if you just need
the audio anywhere you get your podcast, just search for
the sports Cave with the biggest Puma.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Come hang out with us.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I'm gonna make you laugh. Let's start out with a
bone head. Uh, this is my new guy here. One Mason.
He robbed a bank in Alliance, Ohio in nine to twenty.
Am oh early riser right by ten twenty am he
had been arrested. Uh he robbed a bank of four
hundred dollars worth it. Yeah, good, big take The best

(01:21):
part about this he asked that the four hundred dollars
be put in his jail commissary account so he could
buy He wanted the They go, yeah, it doesn't work
like that. You don't get to keep what you stole,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, I thought you were going to tell me. He
requested it all in ones because he was heading to
the start wall at nine in the morning next.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Night as well. Yeah, now he's going to He's going
to the pokey Uh Saint Lucy, Florida. Let's see Jimmy,
uh something with a C. I can't even read my
number of my moan writing. He was arrested Halloween night
with a DUI and he was wearing a prison uniform.
Was this cons.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Appropriate, ironically appropriate?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah? The copsick pictures of him laughing every night.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I was about to say, I would imagine the cops
probably had a lot of fun with that one.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
An employee admitted on Reddit that they had stopped going
into the office for three months and nobody has noticed.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
What a hero, What a.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Anonymously he just said, and got a letter talking about
what a great job they've I think I.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Told you this story whenever I was in college. One
year I worked at a car dealership. I was a porter,
and one spring break came up and we a bunch
of my friends. We all took a trip down to
South Padre Island and a one week of spring break
turned into a three weeks of traveling across Texas, just

(02:53):
couch chopping with different friends. And it was a bit
like the old uh, you know, like the old Timothy
Leary bus, just traveling across the.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Country pretty much.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
And then, uh, about a month and a half later,
I walked back into the dealership as if nothing had happened.
No anybody, so they all looked at me, like what
the hell are you doing here.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I was like I'm back, Like what do you mean like?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
And they were like spring break was over a month ago,
like you told you were going to be gone. I
was like, oh yeah, no, no, it just it went
a little longer than expected, and they let you.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
They let you come back.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
They didn't have anybody that wanted to wash cars and
listened to used car salesman till the same jokes over
and over every day.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
So they were they were more than happy to welcome
me back.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh, let's see you can uh you can rent the
Christmas story House, uh for Thanksgiving or Christmas whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Uh. You can sleep in uh in Ralphie's bedroom. Where
did huh?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Where is it at?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Uh? You know what?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I forgot what town it was in. I did not
write it down. Of course, I guess, look up.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's right, Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Cleveland. Yeah, I should. That's why I didn't write it down.
I knew I had to remember.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
So in Cleveland, I remember that as soon as I
saw it.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's the lamp is so cool.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
They have the lamp. They have the whole dell. But
you can uh, they don't furnish the babe gun. You
got to bring it yourself.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
So they have the does the neighbor to do the bumpuses?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Have allus dogs running through the house.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
When that when that Asian guy chops the head off
at turkey or the goose?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Your brother? Yeah that and she screams, that's the funniest
I love that movie.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Movie still holds up.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
I'm happy they've started doing the twenty four hour Yeah,
you know screenings of it during Christmas.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
And Ralphie says fudge and then and then gives up
a buddy that gets whipped. I didn't even know what
he did.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, he's just got a bar of soap in his mouth,
like I had a I had a friend we were
watching that movie a couple of years ago, and I
immediately just didn't I didn't think anything about it. I
was like, oh, man, like that takes me back, Like
that sucks. When Ralphie's got the bar soaping and my wait,
you you really had to put a bar soap in

(05:24):
your mouth as a coach. Yeah, yeah, that's real. They
they actually we used to.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Do that and it worked sort of, it worked for me.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Uh, there's a lottery over in England where you can
get a burial plot.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now you might want this. This is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, you have to you have to kick in thirty
five hundred dollars to get even in the lottery. But
if you get it, uh, and I suspect a little
more cash probably gets there. You can be buried next
to Oscar Wilde or Jim Morrison. Oh a lot of
people don't think Jim Morrison's even there.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know there's a lot of that.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
But part of the deal too is your family has
to take care of Jim Morrison's grave or this is
how they're getting this is why they're doing it because
they want everybody to And I'm telling you that Jim
Morrison grave gets all kinds of crap still to this day,
people leaving stuff and messing with it.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
And you know, and as much as I love as
much as I love the doors, I am my nerd
is about to show I would probably choose Oscar Wild
over you.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Really. Yeah, I just hey, this is just as impressive.
You know, I don't I'm either way.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know that that's a but thirty five hundred bucks,
I mean that's about what one cost anywhere, isn't it anymore?

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I want a Yeah, I think you're still it's you're
probably still getting a deal. What I'm thinking, Yeah, give me,
give me the give me the old portrait of Dorian Gray.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I think for the wind there.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, you got it.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Dakota is starting up their annual Name the Snowplow contest.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
This is always a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
The citizens get to name the snowplow for the season. Uh.
My favorite of all time was clear a patha.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
And I remember when sled Zeppelin won, so yeah, led Zeppelin,
that's pretty cool. So that's fun that the city gets
involved in that. And uh, now this is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Uh green Bay. You know, I'm a big fan of
green Bay Packers. They have the cheeseheads. Well, somebody made
a Philly cream cheese hat one of the Philly games
for the Eagles, and now you can buy the Philly
cream cheese hat. They guys make the cheese had actually
made that one. So I don't know if the they
saw it on TV, and they don't know if the
person got any kind of money for doing.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
It, but that's uh, that's what they did, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
So oh man, I'm trying to think of what of
what it would be for Poort cowboy fans.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
What are vomit?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know he is here, you know, with a star
on it. Godly, I'll leave you with this one. Then Odessa, Texas,
where I went to school, they had a they opened
a bass pro shop and there was a lot you
get in the bathroom and the brawl has now made
national you know. Okay, let me I'm gonna do. I'm

(08:23):
on do two things.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
The first thing that jumped out of me Odessa, Texas
in a bass Pro shop. There's not a lake within
four hours of Odessa, Texas, all right.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
I mean that was my first thought when I saw
the videos start being spread.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's like what are they thinking? Like, what do you say?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Nothing?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Not a body of water that you could anything, you
can wash your feet. The biggest one is San Angelo.
All right, So get a map and look at Odessa
and then look where San Angelo.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's where the lake was. That's where we went to
go to the lake.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
But it's literally a basin.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
So I lived in Odessa five four years and we
had that fight every Friday Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
That was not a brawl.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
That was not anything to I mean, nobody press charges.
Everybody had a brawl.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's Odessa.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was a it was a all town where the
workers lived.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Midland.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
If you watch Landman, Midland's where the money is. Odessa's
where all the trash lived. And that was us. And
I remember the Landman first season. If she got a Mercedes,
yeah I'd drive out of Midland. I wouldn't drive that
over in Odessa because, yeah, they'll take it away from you.
You know, well, they won't know what it is, but
it anyway, Odessa was a slow deatha as we used

(09:36):
to call it.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I went to high school there, Odessa High. I didn't
even go to the rich Permian Had, you know, the girls,
the good girls and the rich people, and then Middland
and Middland Lee had.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
They were where the really rich people were, and we
were the people at Roughneck.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And that's what I did. So I was about to.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Say being at the being at the the Odessa side
of Midland to begin with, but then at the poor school, you.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Know, it does. That's the lowest of the low out.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
There stuff suck.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
But you know what, I've.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Never I've never I don't think I've ever told this.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
When I left Odess, I had a job offer in
Phoenix and a job offer in Houston, and I actually
went down to ten Interstate ten. I got out and
I flipped a quarterer and went to Houston, and I
told Joe d Messina that she had had that song
out head to Carolina.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
And I told her that because I introd her in
concert and I told her the story. I said, I
actually did this.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
She goes, that seems very very wild that's that's very
not I would say, uh. She goes, what was her
word she used very unconscious to do that, you know,
like make your life on a flip. She goes, I
love the song. It made her a millionaire. But she said,
holy cow, that's it seems irresponsible.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That was the word share. I said, that'll be on
my graves.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Responsible.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Absolutely well, thank you folks for listening. We appreciate you.
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