October 20, 2025 • 10 mins
What would you do if your grandson was getting beat up in prison? That’s the wild question that kicks off this unpredictable ride on The Bama Brown Experience.
In this episode, Bama and Puma dive headfirst into a whirlwind of outrageous headlines and hilarious hot takes—from a NASCAR shirt brawl at a dollar store in Charlotte to a grandfather who literally got himself arrested just to protect his grandson behind bars. You’ll also hear about a Michigan woman who almost ignored a call that led to a million-dollar lottery win at a Tigers game, and a rundown of America’s most generous tipping cities (spoiler: Denver’s generosity might be fueled by more than just kindness).
The duo also riff on elite universities, Pablo Escobar’s DIY prison resort, and the eternal optimism (or delusion?) of Dallas Cowboys fans. Puma even shares a personal story about his grandmother’s lottery luck—proving that sometimes, losers really do win. Puma’s storytelling and Bama’s off-the-cuff humor bring a rich, relatable energy that feels like sitting around with old friends—if your friends were hilarious, slightly unhinged, and obsessed with sports and scratch-offs.
Don’t miss this one—hit play now! If you laughed, cringed, or nodded along, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good laugh (or a reminder not to wear a NASCAR shirt to the dollar store).
In this episode, Bama and Puma dive headfirst into a whirlwind of outrageous headlines and hilarious hot takes—from a NASCAR shirt brawl at a dollar store in Charlotte to a grandfather who literally got himself arrested just to protect his grandson behind bars. You’ll also hear about a Michigan woman who almost ignored a call that led to a million-dollar lottery win at a Tigers game, and a rundown of America’s most generous tipping cities (spoiler: Denver’s generosity might be fueled by more than just kindness).
The duo also riff on elite universities, Pablo Escobar’s DIY prison resort, and the eternal optimism (or delusion?) of Dallas Cowboys fans. Puma even shares a personal story about his grandmother’s lottery luck—proving that sometimes, losers really do win. Puma’s storytelling and Bama’s off-the-cuff humor bring a rich, relatable energy that feels like sitting around with old friends—if your friends were hilarious, slightly unhinged, and obsessed with sports and scratch-offs.
Don’t miss this one—hit play now! If you laughed, cringed, or nodded along, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good laugh (or a reminder not to wear a NASCAR shirt to the dollar store).
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody, Bama Brown, WILLI and the Bama Brown Experience
on the iHeart Podcast Network. Thank you for visiting us
for ten minutes here and we'll try to make you
laugh or at least kill ten minutes together along with
my pot now the big Cat, mister Puma. Now, you
guys are live tonight or not? What am I doing?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hell, you know we are. We are watching. We're watching
Monday Night football tonight. Okay, we'll be back live tomorrow
night over on YouTube at sports Cave Live. But as always,
if you haven't caught up on all the episodes, they
are available in audio form anywhere you get your podcast.
Just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. Come
hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Miss one. You miss a lot. That's what they say,
because it's it's the most popular sports podcast in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, okay, it might be a stretch, but I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The promote at Bear County.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well I'll take that. I'll take.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Uh. You want to start out with a bonehead, always
like a money boney to start the week. Uh, here's
your white trash story of the week in Charlotte, North Carolina.
To speak, this is this described itself This is in Charlotte,
North Carolina. At the dollar store, a woman likeed another
woman's NASCAR shirt so much she said, you know what
(01:22):
I want that man. Fight broke out as she tried
to take it off of her back. Now she put
up a pretty good fight, but the woman, along with
help from her small child, was able to take the
shirt from the other woman in the dollar store. And
it's a NASCAR shirt, now, it's got to be I
don't know, it's got to be a Denny Hamling shirt
(01:42):
because he's that guy. No, I'm just kidding around a
few Hamblin fans or that's fine. Sixty wins he did great,
that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know. I was curious to see if we had
the detail on who it was. If it was some old,
you know, Earnhardt loyalists trying to rip a Gordon or
a Jimmy Johnson shirt off or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I don't I don't think it was. I'm still going
back to Denny when he wrecked his own employee, when
he pushed Bubba Wallace in the wall and Bubba Wallace said,
hey man, I'm just out there racing. You know, I'm
not trying to cause any trouble. He's my boss, So
what can I say?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You know, what do you do? What do you do
in that situation? You kind of just kind of just.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You own the car, you know, you gotta pay for it,
you gotta fix it. Anyway, he sixty wins. Pretty impressive
for that guy. Let's see you. Let's do another one
just because this is fun. Here's a sixty year old guy.
This was in a he was he went to visit
his grandson in prison. I don't have the town. I
think it was a foreign country, but he left out
(02:45):
the details of down. Anyway, he went to the prison
to visit his grandson who had his tooth knocked out
in fights in the prison. So the granddad, now this
is a granddad, man, this is this is granddaddy right here.
He goes down. He robs the store so he can
get arrested and put in the prison to help his
grandson fight the bad guys in prison.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh man, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do you remember, uh, what's granted?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The old the Daniel da Lewis movie about the IRA bombers,
the group of seven over there in the name of
the Father, that's basically.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, that's exactly what happens. The son and his friends
are wrongfully framed by the British government and so the
dad ends up getting thrown in prison so that he
can talk to his son and basically work through their
you know, their defense in front of the court, and
eventually they all got out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's pretty good. I like, h what was the Columbian
drug lord guy? He built his own prison. He said, yeah,
I'll build the prison, I'll be in it. Turns out
it wasn't near as prisony as they wanted it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was a bit of a five star resort for
old Poplobar down.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Somebody found a bunch of his money there the day,
I mean just the other day. Some guy found a
wall because he owned on thousands of properties there in Columbia,
and the guy knocked the wall out and there was
bags and bags of cash, and they looked it up
and Pablo used to own it. It looked like, let's see,
here is the top ten of most generous tipper towns.
(04:20):
So if you're if you're somebody working for tips, it
doesn't narrow down between restaurants, strip clubs or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But Vegas has got to be high on this.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, I was looking for Vegas and it's not on there.
So let me just start at the top. Work back
number ten Chicago, New York, Washington, Phoenix, number seven, Portland,
number six now Lee, Portland, and yeah, tipping and doing
what tip your dealer? Uh five? Houston, four, Miami, three, Seattle,
(04:54):
number two Austin, Texas. And number one is Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Everyone's high in Denver. They just can't do the math.
They're tipping two hundred percent. Yeah here, dude, here you
go one slot too far.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now you'll like this because you're you're a college educated guy.
You were you were turned away from what Yale? They
just they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It was a yeah, the Ivy League just said, uh,
someone of your prowess would just make everyone else look
so inferior. We we can't have you here at Dartmouth
trying that was it Dartmouth Austin Community College instead.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Community I was handed a hard hat and a paper
hat at the There wasn't even a tassel mood. He's
here you go, here's your hard hat. And I was
on the rig the next day. Here's the ten best universities. Uh,
through I don't know what they've rated them from but
they just say that, uh, the ten best universities this year,
(05:58):
according to I guess it's the Wall Street Journal says
number ten, Yale, number nine, USC Berkeley number eight. Now
this is in the world Imperial London, the Imperial University
in London seven, cal Tech six, Stanford five would be
Harvard Forrest Cambridge in the UK number three, Princeton number two,
(06:20):
MI I T. By the way, T doesn't answer their
letters no matter how many you send them. Tip were
you there? And number one is an Oxford in the UK.
Those are your top ten. If you did well in school,
you probably already knew that. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know, like, I know that Stanford or you know,
cal Berkeley are are big time institutions, but I never
think of them alongside Ivy League schools, like because I
think it's because I see them play football every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, and they're just you know, it's just no.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Way they There's no way Stanford or cal Berkeley is
nearly as close to Princeton or MI I T or
Harvard or any of the Like I've seen how bad
they are at defense. Like, there's no way that's one
of the best colleges.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In America. I only think they have good kickers because
they can do the you know, the the angles.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The geometry of the kid there.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's see. So this is cool. You want to our time?
We got time for one good story a time. Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By the way, sixty five percent of people think opposites
a tract for what that's worth. My my wife's in
that group because she's beautiful and professional and smart and wonderful,
and then there's opposite.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's funny how that works.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I've never seen. She did make us out of car
and that was a big one for us. That helped.
I had reliable transportation.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That helps. It goes a long way.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Here's this ended on this story. This was a good story.
Valerie Williams. Uh. She entered the Michigan Lottery and she
used their app a lot to win, you know, try
to win lottery stuff. And she gets a call from
the Michigan Lottery and like all of us, immediately thought
she was being scammed, and she almost didn't answer it.
(08:11):
So she finally did answer it and they said, hey, uh,
we got a chance for you to win, to spend
the prize wheel at the Tigers game. We're giving you
tickets to see the Detroit Tigers, and she went spun
the wheel and won a million dollars at the game. Yeah,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So that reminds me my My grandmother is a loyal
uh you know, scratcher scratch off player, and every time
they come out with the Dallas Cowboys scratch off ticket,
she she goes, well, she never she's never won anything
big from the actual I mean, I think she's won
like a one hundred bucks or something like that. But
(08:52):
you can through the lottery app, you submit, you know,
on the back of there, you you type the little
info in and you get put in the drawings like
this lady. It sounds like she was my grandma's one.
Like signed Cowboys jerseys, Cowboys tickets, like all kinds of
extra prizes just from submitting her losers. She never wins
(09:12):
anything on the scratch offs, but always seems to win
when she's thrown into the hopper with all the rest
of the losers.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I remember when they gave those to Dak Prescott and
he dropped them. Remember, I'll say, I'm sorry, Cowboys, guys,
get around. That's the Cowboys. I want to print that shirt.
I want to sell that shirt, Dallas Cowboys. I'm sure
it'll turn around. We're only halfways.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would wear that shirt proudly. I would wear because
that is that pretty much sums up my like I am.
Depending on the day, I am either an absolute nihilist
towards the Cowboys or I'm like, well, look, it can't
get any worse, right, level of optimism.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's so bad.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I mean, surely it can't get worse.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It'll get better, right, it'll be fine. What could happen?
I mean, nobody's planning, you know, a trip anyway. You know,
we used to do coats for kids, and we had
to actually go on there and go quit bringing the
cowboys and coats down. We can't take anymore. We're full
of the kids won't take them, they won't wear them
if we give them to them, even if they're freezing,
you know. So it was on that note, Oh he's
(10:24):
Puma's man, Now he's the Cowboys man. All right, we'll
see you all the morn
Hi, everybody, Bama Brown, WILLI and the Bama Brown Experience
on the iHeart Podcast Network. Thank you for visiting us
for ten minutes here and we'll try to make you
laugh or at least kill ten minutes together along with
my pot now the big Cat, mister Puma. Now, you
guys are live tonight or not? What am I doing?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hell, you know we are. We are watching. We're watching
Monday Night football tonight. Okay, we'll be back live tomorrow
night over on YouTube at sports Cave Live. But as always,
if you haven't caught up on all the episodes, they
are available in audio form anywhere you get your podcast.
Just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. Come
hang out with us.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Miss one. You miss a lot. That's what they say,
because it's it's the most popular sports podcast in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, okay, it might be a stretch, but I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The promote at Bear County.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well I'll take that. I'll take.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Uh. You want to start out with a bonehead, always
like a money boney to start the week. Uh, here's
your white trash story of the week in Charlotte, North Carolina.
To speak, this is this described itself This is in Charlotte,
North Carolina. At the dollar store, a woman likeed another
woman's NASCAR shirt so much she said, you know what
(01:22):
I want that man. Fight broke out as she tried
to take it off of her back. Now she put
up a pretty good fight, but the woman, along with
help from her small child, was able to take the
shirt from the other woman in the dollar store. And
it's a NASCAR shirt, now, it's got to be I
don't know, it's got to be a Denny Hamling shirt
(01:42):
because he's that guy. No, I'm just kidding around a
few Hamblin fans or that's fine. Sixty wins he did great,
that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know. I was curious to see if we had
the detail on who it was. If it was some old,
you know, Earnhardt loyalists trying to rip a Gordon or
a Jimmy Johnson shirt off or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I don't I don't think it was. I'm still going
back to Denny when he wrecked his own employee, when
he pushed Bubba Wallace in the wall and Bubba Wallace said,
hey man, I'm just out there racing. You know, I'm
not trying to cause any trouble. He's my boss, So
what can I say?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You know, what do you do? What do you do
in that situation? You kind of just kind of just.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You own the car, you know, you gotta pay for it,
you gotta fix it. Anyway, he sixty wins. Pretty impressive
for that guy. Let's see you. Let's do another one
just because this is fun. Here's a sixty year old guy.
This was in a he was he went to visit
his grandson in prison. I don't have the town. I
think it was a foreign country, but he left out
(02:45):
the details of down. Anyway, he went to the prison
to visit his grandson who had his tooth knocked out
in fights in the prison. So the granddad, now this
is a granddad, man, this is this is granddaddy right here.
He goes down. He robs the store so he can
get arrested and put in the prison to help his
grandson fight the bad guys in prison.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh man, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do you remember, uh, what's granted?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The old the Daniel da Lewis movie about the IRA bombers,
the group of seven over there in the name of
the Father, that's basically.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, that's exactly what happens. The son and his friends
are wrongfully framed by the British government and so the
dad ends up getting thrown in prison so that he
can talk to his son and basically work through their
you know, their defense in front of the court, and
eventually they all got out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's pretty good. I like, h what was the Columbian
drug lord guy? He built his own prison. He said, yeah,
I'll build the prison, I'll be in it. Turns out
it wasn't near as prisony as they wanted it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was a bit of a five star resort for
old Poplobar down.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Somebody found a bunch of his money there the day,
I mean just the other day. Some guy found a
wall because he owned on thousands of properties there in Columbia,
and the guy knocked the wall out and there was
bags and bags of cash, and they looked it up
and Pablo used to own it. It looked like, let's see,
here is the top ten of most generous tipper towns.
(04:20):
So if you're if you're somebody working for tips, it
doesn't narrow down between restaurants, strip clubs or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But Vegas has got to be high on this.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, I was looking for Vegas and it's not on there.
So let me just start at the top. Work back
number ten Chicago, New York, Washington, Phoenix, number seven, Portland,
number six now Lee, Portland, and yeah, tipping and doing
what tip your dealer? Uh five? Houston, four, Miami, three, Seattle,
(04:54):
number two Austin, Texas. And number one is Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Everyone's high in Denver. They just can't do the math.
They're tipping two hundred percent. Yeah here, dude, here you
go one slot too far.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now you'll like this because you're you're a college educated guy.
You were you were turned away from what Yale? They
just they couldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It was a yeah, the Ivy League just said, uh,
someone of your prowess would just make everyone else look
so inferior. We we can't have you here at Dartmouth
trying that was it Dartmouth Austin Community College instead.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Community I was handed a hard hat and a paper
hat at the There wasn't even a tassel mood. He's
here you go, here's your hard hat. And I was
on the rig the next day. Here's the ten best universities. Uh,
through I don't know what they've rated them from but
they just say that, uh, the ten best universities this year,
(05:58):
according to I guess it's the Wall Street Journal says
number ten, Yale, number nine, USC Berkeley number eight. Now
this is in the world Imperial London, the Imperial University
in London seven, cal Tech six, Stanford five would be
Harvard Forrest Cambridge in the UK number three, Princeton number two,
(06:20):
MI I T. By the way, T doesn't answer their
letters no matter how many you send them. Tip were
you there? And number one is an Oxford in the UK.
Those are your top ten. If you did well in school,
you probably already knew that. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know, like, I know that Stanford or you know,
cal Berkeley are are big time institutions, but I never
think of them alongside Ivy League schools, like because I
think it's because I see them play football every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, and they're just you know, it's just no.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Way they There's no way Stanford or cal Berkeley is
nearly as close to Princeton or MI I T or
Harvard or any of the Like I've seen how bad
they are at defense. Like, there's no way that's one
of the best colleges.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In America. I only think they have good kickers because
they can do the you know, the the angles.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
The geometry of the kid there.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's see. So this is cool. You want to our time?
We got time for one good story a time. Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By the way, sixty five percent of people think opposites
a tract for what that's worth. My my wife's in
that group because she's beautiful and professional and smart and wonderful,
and then there's opposite.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's funny how that works.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I've never seen. She did make us out of car
and that was a big one for us. That helped.
I had reliable transportation.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That helps. It goes a long way.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Here's this ended on this story. This was a good story.
Valerie Williams. Uh. She entered the Michigan Lottery and she
used their app a lot to win, you know, try
to win lottery stuff. And she gets a call from
the Michigan Lottery and like all of us, immediately thought
she was being scammed, and she almost didn't answer it.
(08:11):
So she finally did answer it and they said, hey, uh,
we got a chance for you to win, to spend
the prize wheel at the Tigers game. We're giving you
tickets to see the Detroit Tigers, and she went spun
the wheel and won a million dollars at the game. Yeah,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So that reminds me my My grandmother is a loyal
uh you know, scratcher scratch off player, and every time
they come out with the Dallas Cowboys scratch off ticket,
she she goes, well, she never she's never won anything
big from the actual I mean, I think she's won
like a one hundred bucks or something like that. But
(08:52):
you can through the lottery app, you submit, you know,
on the back of there, you you type the little
info in and you get put in the drawings like
this lady. It sounds like she was my grandma's one.
Like signed Cowboys jerseys, Cowboys tickets, like all kinds of
extra prizes just from submitting her losers. She never wins
(09:12):
anything on the scratch offs, but always seems to win
when she's thrown into the hopper with all the rest
of the losers.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I remember when they gave those to Dak Prescott and
he dropped them. Remember, I'll say, I'm sorry, Cowboys, guys,
get around. That's the Cowboys. I want to print that shirt.
I want to sell that shirt, Dallas Cowboys. I'm sure
it'll turn around. We're only halfways.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would wear that shirt proudly. I would wear because
that is that pretty much sums up my like I am.
Depending on the day, I am either an absolute nihilist
towards the Cowboys or I'm like, well, look, it can't
get any worse, right, level of optimism.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's so bad.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I mean, surely it can't get worse.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It'll get better, right, it'll be fine. What could happen?
I mean, nobody's planning, you know, a trip anyway. You know,
we used to do coats for kids, and we had
to actually go on there and go quit bringing the
cowboys and coats down. We can't take anymore. We're full
of the kids won't take them, they won't wear them
if we give them to them, even if they're freezing,
you know. So it was on that note, Oh he's
(10:24):
Puma's man, Now he's the Cowboys man. All right, we'll
see you all the morn
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