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June 12, 2025 17 mins
What happens when your co-host falls asleep live on air… and you’ve got the mic? In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama is joined by the ever-charismatic and quick-witted Big Puma, a former college basketball player turned top-rated sports podcaster. Together, they dive into a whirlwind of hilarious radio memories, behind-the-scenes antics, and unexpected health tips that only Bama could deliver with such charm and irreverence.

From falling asleep mid-broadcast to pranking unsuspecting callers with tales of monkey hearts and FedEx misdeliveries, this episode is a masterclass in unscripted comedy and radio storytelling. Puma shares insights from his sports show The Sports Cave, revealing why authenticity and experience matter in sports commentary—and how working with legends like Mark Henry adds muscle to the mic.

Bama also reflects on his time with Iron Resurrection, teases a possible YouTube return, and dishes out some eyebrow-raising health facts from Harvard (spoiler: coffee and morning sex might just be the secret to longevity).

Whether you're a longtime fan or a first-time listener, this episode is packed with nostalgia, outrageous humor, and genuine heart. Don’t miss out—hit play now! If you laughed, learned, or just love a good story, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your favorite radio rebel.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown with the Bama Brown Experience on
the iHeart Podcast Network. Thank you for listening. Got some puma,
I got the big cat here. Now he's fit, he's
in shape. He was a college basketball player, so he
has the sports cave. So here's the thing that the
reason his worst show is number one is because he
actually played sports. He actually played college basketball. So when

(00:24):
he gets on here to start talking.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
About it, he did it. He knows what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's like he reminds me of Mike Harge, you know
that does the sports show on the Zone. You know,
Mike played professional baseball. So if I only listen to
a sports.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Guy, I one one that actually did it, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
And then he works by the way, Hart works with
Mark Henry and a lot of people may know Mark
Henry as the world's strongest man.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
In the whole world, eight billion people.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
A guy on on the Zone thirteen hundred am, and
they also have their podcast. He's the strongest man in
the world and he's a friend of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, that's a hell of a title to own. As
you said, you know, the eight billion people, and you
are crowned the world's strongest.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
You compare even to mention me in the same sentence as.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hard Harge was a absolute stud, crazy baseball crazy man.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah he made it to the show, the real show.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So yeah, no, he's got He's got way more skins
on the wall than I do. But if you need some,
you need a little college basketball analysis based on a
short stint at a D three university in Abalue.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Definitely your guy.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We got to work on your promotional operation.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
You're not the first person.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I think every manager I've ever had has said you
need to get a little better with the cell.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
So this is my best attempt at it.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You made it. You made it to college basketball. That's
more did By the way, your show's live tonight right.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Indeed, Yeah, tonight over on YouTube at sports Cave Live,
and then, of course, as always, all the audio versions
available wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Just search for Sports the Sports Cave with biggest puma.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I had about speaking to YouTube, I want to remind
everybody you know I was on seven seasons on Iron Resurrection,
a car show that was on Motor Train TV. You
know they're not filming any new ones, but Martin Brothers.
I saw Amanda yesterday. She and I did a lot
of shows together over the years. Uh. She told me
that there they have a YouTube channel for the Iron Resurrection.

(02:29):
I don't know if they could still call it Iron Resurrection.
I think it may just be Martin Brothers. But they've
got one hundred thousand viewers now on that on that show,
and she hasn't been on yet, And so I'm always
scolding her because I said, we're a black tank top.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Get on there.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
We'll have a million viewers, you know, because that was
just smoking hot and a sweetheart on top of everything else.
And Joe Joe of course, great fabricator. But all the
all the guys are on there. They're building stuff, building cars,
and so if you want to see Martin Brothers. Uh,
I think that's the name of it. But she hadn't
been on there. But that's why she and I were talking.
She said, we've had a lot of requests for you

(03:03):
and me both to get on there and start doing
the show again. So I may I may be doing
that YouTube thing with her well again.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Fun.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh, I always enjoyed it. It was so much fun
to do that deal.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I really had a great time with her and with
the Joe and Jason and his brother, all those guys
that did all the crew and the TV crews a
lot of fun to do. Everybody should everybody should get
on the reality TV.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
And figure out that it's not really reality. All right,
here's we were gonna do the show.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I was gonna do a couple of health things for
you because I'm okay healthy.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Puma was real healthy. He stays very healthy.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
But here's three things that I learned about. Let's see
fifty thousand women. These were all from different surveys and stuff.
Fifty thousand women tested by Harvard. They were tested for
thirty years. They've been testing them, and they found that
two point five five cups of coffee every morning.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Make the healthier. It helps you, it doesn't hurt. So
if you're drinking coffee in the morning. Now this is
ladies only. I don't know about guys.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
They didn't have any guy things said. If you're married,
especially the big fat DJ's sex every morning, it would
be awesome for your health as well.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Actually, the best thing you can do for your health Harvard.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know, all I can do is report to facts.
I can't. I don't have any influence on on you know.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, So they had two hundred and sixty eight couples
a completely different survey from a completely different disours. Two
hundred and sixty eight couples they followed and they found
out that kissing is unhealthy with your partner. They say,
certain partners, it's unhealthy to kiss, so just go straight

(04:53):
to the sex. Once again, I'm just reading the survey
with your fat DJ husband.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, I'm thinking of it. You know, as unfortunate as
it is. Me as a smoker, I would probably think
I would fall under the line of it's pretty unhealthy
to get a big, big long embrace kid.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, let's come to Marlborough Country Bay. Well, anyway, it's
like booming our scientists. All we can do is report
to facts.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
The ladies.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, take care of business at home, and businesses take
care of you. The last one if you the average
person gets the snooze alarm two point five times for
a total of eleven minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's on average, and they say, bad for you. It
makes you feel groggy when you get up and you
haven't you know when the alarm.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Goes off, make yourself get up and go and do
whatever whoever it is.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I would say, once again, crawl over there on.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Wake yourself up real good.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah. Yeah, that's what my wife calls the snoozee.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wake everyone in the neighborhood up.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Now that this one, I can this one I can
legitimately testify to because I I'm not a morning person
and I you know, I'm a night owl, so I
stay up late. So my mor my quote unquote morning
hours are like like you know, ten ten am is
my morning. So I, after being told many times and

(06:22):
reading many times, don't use the snooze alarm, just sleep
as much as you need and get up when you
get up. So I am full because I used and
I used to be a guy that would run the
snooze alarm for a full hour and just put it
every minute and just let it snooze five or six times.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
And yeah, yeah for my radio career thirty five years
till I, you know, started doing it from home. Uh
it's thirty eight years now, but thirty five years I
woke up every morning at four and drove in and
did the radio show live at the studio, and uh
I would I never even said on the lot, I
just wake up. It was weird after that many years

(07:03):
you know doing it. I just automatically woke up.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
So how many years out of all of those years,
can you count the number of times you were ever
late or overslept on one hand?

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Or was it?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was it? What?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I Actually? I never missed a show doing that. But
one time I fell asleep while we were on.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
The air, and that's even better.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh it was awesome. Rob, my partner.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
You know, Rob and I were together twenty something years,
and of course we just you know, we were like brothers.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It was just hilarious.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
But I was sitting there in my head now, and
I guess i'd been to the club all I or
whatever I was doing, but I was, and so Rob
he killed my headphones. So now I have my headphones on,
so it's dead silence in my headphones. And then he goes,
he brings up the microphone and he starts pulling the
song down. Well I can't hear any of this, you know,

(07:53):
and I am out, man, I'm sawing logs, and he goes,
Damna has sound asleep.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
He is completely sleep. He can't hear me.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
He's guys had one and he's he is out, and
he said, I'm going to bring his mic up and
he brings a micup, and the only thing I could
hear when he brought the micup was me snoring.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm going.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
And I'm sitting there and I wake I wake up
going and I'm surprising cuss, you know, because couldn't cuss
over there?

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I woke up and I was like, where are
we what are we doing? He goes, you're asleep, and
I go, well, we need to get rolling. And then
he said, no, you've been sound asleep for ten minutes
and I go, well, I think that's I was so
proud of this lie.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I said, I think that's more reflection on YouTube than me.
M another I was like.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, boring and put me to sleep. Man, you know
your conversation you have.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
If you're putting your partner to sleep, what are you
doing to the listener that's out there?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Absolutely, it was so funny. We had a lot of
fun together. I missed a guy he was. He was
a great guy.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
The only time we ever had anything close to that
was we were doing a post game show one time
and we had we were taking calls and one of
our callers had fallen asleep, so around the calls and
we burned three in a row and then pull up like,
all right, we got Mark on the north side. Mark
what he got and then he's we hear this, you know, yeah,

(09:17):
you know, very low. And so what we did we
just kept him on hold and the rest of the
show we would just pop him up every now and
then be like, nope, he's still asleep. And then we
started just blaring like Teicano music and death metal and
just all sorts of random stuff to see if we
could get any response.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
And then actually finally as he was just so happened
as he was finally waking up, it was as we
were just playing a medley. This is again very sophomoreic,
but a medley of just farts fart draw underneath him.
So it was making it sound like he was just
parting his sleep. Then he woke up kind of like you,
asking like what the hell am I?

Speaker 4 (09:58):
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Where am I? Yeah? Where are we? What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I had a buddy of mine they had a morning
show in California, and uh, I mean yeah, we had
all kind of stuff it but this always made me laugh.
They were trying to call a guy for an interview
and they got the number wrong, and this guy answered
and he lost his ship. I mean he started screaming
and cussing at him, and they named him mister Ballistic,

(10:24):
and so they would call him with that. And you see,
if you call somebody and start messing with him, you
got to by federal law, you got to tell him
your radio station.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
And so he wouldn't. They wouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
They would just call this guy and they would go
and he goes and he just mister. He would go
off on him and just scream at him. And he said,
we called that guy, never identified ourselves, played him on
the air. We'd get requests from mister ballistic and so
we call, okay, let's call him. And he said he
never let us down. They had him for like two years.

(11:00):
He never knew he was on the radio. It's some
old guy and they and just cussy. He said, we
would have to edit and he said, is this a
series that you know where they're tried to edit him
because they could play it back.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
But I just that always cracked me.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Now on our deal A Cavett, when I was I
had a midday morning show for a long time, years
and years ago, got twenty almost thirty years ago, and
it was me and and Kimberly, James and Kimberly and I.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
We had so much fun, but we did.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
We came on after Sam and Bob and we did
the midday morning show, and uh we had we had
five numbers there, so you had four numbers that were
local and then an eight hundred number. I don't know
if I ever told you, and people would dial of
eight hundred number and it would go straight through. So
it was always the wrong number. When it lit on
a contest, all five would go off. You knew it

(11:54):
was somebody trying to win, but it was just by
itself the told free number.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
At the end, you knew it was the wrong number.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
And we started just messing with people, and most of
them were Federal Express and uh so Kimberlee would answer, go.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, can I help you?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
And they would go, yeah, I'm checking on my package
and she go hold on please, And I'd come on
there and I'd go, I go, yeah, what what's your
order number? Ship number? I think I was, what's your
shipping number? And they'd give me a number and I
would go that landed, uh seven am this morning, and.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I can't pronounce it.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Ecuador, Signed by Pedro Roderriguez, I think, and it's dead silence,
which is go dead. And then they would go and
I go hello, They go are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
What?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I go yeah, no and and I and they
go I need that today. And I would go, well,
you're gonna take it up with Pedro. He's got it now,
you know, we're waiting on that part, you know, or whatever.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
And uh.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
And then we of course would say, you know, oh no,
your call of radio station in Austin say, and they
always laugh. We never had anybody got pissed. And then
one time we had I remember an engineer guy. Have
I told you these because I'll repeat. So some guy
was with a building system. I mean you could tell
it was some you know, tech bill. And he called

(13:15):
and he said, yeah, I needed and I can't believe okay,
And I get on there and go hello, and he goes, yeah,
I'm assembling such and such. It was so technical that
I barely could figure out and not built a lot
of shit, but I could barely figure out that it
was a some kind of structural deal.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I went, no, no, no, you ain't got to
do that.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Just go down home depot and get some two by
four's and shove up, just kind of like wedge them
up in there and that'll hold it. And this guy goes,
excuse me, and I go, yeah, just get some two
by four you know what two by four you know
on this shove it up on there getting back two
or three and he don't have to go back. Make yeah,
and just shove up, you know, like shim's yeah, I

(13:53):
think that's what to do. And he goes, well, no,
you I don't think you understand.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I go, who called who? Who's the expert? And who's
the idiot.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
On the phone that just insulted me? One He's like,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
I go on, I don't know. Now I'm gonna answer
you or not, you know?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
And and if I do answer you, am I going
to tell you the truth or just mess with you?

Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know?

Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then I told him who we were. But the
all time.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Best was a lady called and she wanted to know
she was on the list for an artificial heart.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm not saying. Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
If when they called us, we didn't have to identify
we were radio station. If we called you, we had
to identify. But if you called us, we didn't have to,
and so Kimberly said, yes, old lady.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
She said, I'm trying to find out I'm on the
list for artificial heart.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
And I wanted to or no, not artificial heart or
replacement heart, you know. Uh, And she said I wanted
to see, you know, if there's any progress. And of
course Kimberly's like, hold on, please, and she goes, there's
no way. Week I go, no, we were.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Going to play it back anyway. We played them back.
So I said, we will truth the audience if the
scooch will otherwise. So I come on there and I
go hello, and she said yeah. I said, yeah, what
what were you looking for?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Her? She said, I'm on the list, you know. I
went through the thing and for a heart, and I've
got you know, I've got like a note pad of
looking at papers, you know, and I go, uh, let's see. No,
I've got two testicles and an eyeball. Do you do
you need testicles or an eyeball? And she started giggling

(15:33):
and she said, uh. She said no, no, I don't
need any of either of those. And I said, I
don't really know anything about the eyeball, what color it is.
I mean you could have a blue eye and brown eye.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I don't know. And I said, I don't I'll have
to check on that. No, I don't need an eyeball.
And I said, hold on a minute. I just remember something.
I said. I go, I got a monkey heart. Could
you do? Could you use a monkey heart?

Speaker 1 (15:55):
And I said, I don't know if it makes you
do anything weird or not. I got a monkey heart
and I said it's half off. If you've got a coupon,
I can do free shipping. And of course by then
she had figured out I've got some idiot asshole messing.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
With me, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
And I said, I say hello to Austin, Texas, and
you know you're a good Sportland. She was laughing really
and she goes, and I'll never forget this. She goes,
I haven't laughed in about six months. Man, I really
appreciate this, you know, I said, good, because we're gonna
play this back.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Tell everybody you love me and that you don't hate me,
and and.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
You listen to Bama Brown every morning on cave.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, it was. That was great. She was like in
Seattle or somewhere it was this awesome.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
So that was a lot of commercial jingle the you
know big Arts, Hearts and Parts by Heart half all.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Get you a monkey hard half off with a coupon,
get your whole punched, and then your third eyeball is
free or something like it. Anyway you listen to Bama
Brown podcast experience. Here is what we call it, the
band Around Experience along with the Big Puma on the
iHeart Podcast Network.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thank you,
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