July 22, 2025 • 10 mins
In this unforgettable episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Big Puma dive headfirst into a whirlwind of outrageous stories, heartfelt nostalgia, and unapologetic humor. From a bizarre teddy bear made of faux human skin that sparked panic in Victorville, California, to a jaw-dropping tale of a father in India stealing his son’s fiancée—this episode is packed with bonehead moments that will leave you laughing, cringing, and maybe even reminiscing about your own youthful misadventures.
Bama shares personal stories from his hot rod days, including a close call with a highway patrol car and the time he tried to lie his way out of skipping a race for a frat party. He also takes listeners on a sentimental journey back to his first home in Odessa, reflecting on the simplicity of life when a $200 mortgage felt like a mountain.
Bama’s storytelling brings in colorful characters from his past—like his beloved friend Jose Brown, whose reflections on race and radio add depth and humor to the conversation. And of course, a nod to the late Jerry Springer, whose legendary wit and self-awareness are celebrated with one of the best punchlines ever delivered: “I’d go to the bank.”
Memorable Moments:
Bama shares personal stories from his hot rod days, including a close call with a highway patrol car and the time he tried to lie his way out of skipping a race for a frat party. He also takes listeners on a sentimental journey back to his first home in Odessa, reflecting on the simplicity of life when a $200 mortgage felt like a mountain.
Bama’s storytelling brings in colorful characters from his past—like his beloved friend Jose Brown, whose reflections on race and radio add depth and humor to the conversation. And of course, a nod to the late Jerry Springer, whose legendary wit and self-awareness are celebrated with one of the best punchlines ever delivered: “I’d go to the bank.”
Memorable Moments:
- The human-skin teddy bear scare and its horror movie origins.
- A father in India marrying his son’s fiancée and stealing the family savings.
- A nostalgic look at Bama’s first house and the cost of living in the good ol’ days.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey everybody Bama Brown from the Bama Brown Experience
on the iHeart podcast network along with the Big Cat
booming out Bumah, you've got the sportsk podcast. Uh, you
don't have any apologies to do. I have to apologize
to lesbians throughout the listening area. Uh on Scott, I
didn't know how any so thank you for listening. Sorry,
(00:23):
I offended a couple of you yesterday. Apologies. Apparently it
was when I said I'm a lesbian That's what made.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Him made Apparently is that where you lost? Is that
where you lost the crowd, the.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Support, the emails. That seemed to be that where all
the emails pointed to when I offended them.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So I have to apologize.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I think if you were, if you were forced to,
we would have to start the show with an apology
about four out of the five days every week.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So no, I and I get comfortable shoes older, I get,
you know, the harder is on my feet. So I
probably just made it worse just now. So let's move
on for that. Uh, let's talk about Uh, let's do some. Uh,
let's do some. You remember on the radio when I
used to do boneheads before I did the Bonehead yesterday.
So this happened in Victorville, California. A guy who's been
(01:15):
arrested now he left a teddy bear outside of a
comedian store there that looked like it was made out
of human skin. You know, of course, freaking freaking everybody out.
Now it turns out this is really kind of the
cool part of the story. There's a teddy bear that
you can buy that's built and made by horror prop
(01:37):
maker Robert Kelly who makes them for movies and TVs
and stuff, and it does look like human skin. I mean,
he does horror movie stuff and he sells them. You know,
you can buy it online fromhim. I guess look up
Robert Kelly prop maker or something like that. Anyway, but
the guy that left it out there for some reason,
now he's been arrested. I don't know what the point
(01:58):
was why he was arrested. Didn't have the whole story,
but uh, anyway, it wasn't real skin. It looks it's
amazingly looks like it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So yeah, that sounds I mean, that sounds like the
kind of high school prank we would have pulled off.
This absolutely skin human skin teddy bear outside of the
easy Marty or something.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The mannequin arm hanging out of the trunk, and that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Was a real popular one there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We did, all of us did that crap just to
mess with old people. And and you know, I think
you know some stuff we did. It was pretty funny.
I did a wheelie one time a hot ride downtown
and nearly hit a WE patrol car.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
All fun. Yeah, he took it lightly.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh yeah, that wasn't expensive. Uh, but they didn't they
didn't seize the car back then. They just wrote you
a big old ticket you know. So uh. And then
two weeks later that body shop I ran, I had
to fix his car and so he was expecting a
pretty big discount. He had a wreck and his personal car,
so I fixed it for him. It's a good guy actually,
and he kind of was cool letting me, letting me
go because I was on the main drag on this
(03:04):
and put that baby right on her on a rear bumper.
Nearly that car was it was a race car that
I drove. Yeah. In fact, if you go to my
Facebook page Bama Brown on Facebook, that there's a picture
of me with it on the trailer. It's a Vaga
wagon built by my race car buddy Don Hardy, and uh,
I drove it on the street, but it's on the trailer.
(03:25):
I'm going to Lobock to go race. And back then
I was living at home, uh and uh, and I
raced all over Texas of that car. And uh. But
I was going to Lubbock and my best friends are
in school up there, and so I started going up there.
But I was going to frat parties and I wasn't
even going out to the track. But my girlfriend was like, hey,
where's you one Saturday night. I go, oh yeah, let
(03:49):
me and I gave her a hundred bucks. And I mean,
weren't living together, it was pretty close. And then she
started checking the fuel and she said, she said, because
she had to run abgas and this, I had to
go to the airport and fill up and then put
some other stuff in it, you know. And uh she said, uh,
because you couldn't buy racing gas like from a pump
back then. You had to get a gas at the
airport to count of airport. Anyway, so she checked it
(04:11):
and she said, hell you, thanks for I said, oh yeah,
I filled up at the track. And you know, just
I mean, as you start trying to lie your way
out of it. She's like, my friends are at the
fat party the other night. I know exactly what you
did even and then you know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, you're just giggling deeper and deeper. One shovel load
at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She said, I'll get even with you. I'll marry you,
and boy did she Boy man, that'll teach me. By
the way. Uh, I'm gonna be posting it on the
Cavet pay. I still posted a lot of crap on
the Cavet page. The uh there we were, no Dessa
not too long ago. Seend my buddy Rooster McConaughey, Matthew's
(04:50):
oldest brothers, good friends, and a guy named Butch. I
went to high school with gir old buddies. They're they're
out there and we go and spend the day with them.
But we drove over where my first house was and
it still looks pretty good. Anyway. I took a video
of it, and it's gonna be on the Cavet I'll
put it up tomorrow in the Cavet page. So if
you get a chance, go check out the cave NFM page.
(05:11):
Uh ninety one iHeart or whatever it is, and uh,
there'll be that. I'm gonna post a video of that house.
It was, Uh it was. I believe it was nine
hundred square feet and it was, and it still looks
just like it did. The little neighborhood has stayed pretty good. Uh.
And so this is forty something years ago. And uh,
(05:32):
uh you mean to.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Tell me gentrification hasn't hit Odessa yet.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I hadn't hit there that Everything around it looked pretty
like I remembered, you know. And uh and I remember
I poured the driveway wide and there's a junk motorcycle
in the driveway, so that could have been there when
I left. I say that in the video, but the
way because I had a lot of jump back then too.
But it was a nice little neighborhood. But I remember
when I bought it, that house it was nine hundre
square feet, three better than two bad just you know,
(05:57):
there's zero lot line. It was thirty thousand dollars. It
was two hundred dollars a month, and I was going,
good God, that's gonna come every month. How am I
gonna pay two dollars?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Am I ever gonna survive?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah? You know, because I was making eight dollars an
hour roughneck and you know you could. You could make
a dollar an hour second groceries at the grocery store.
I did that in high school. But then when I
started roughnecking on a wall rig, it paid. It paid
eight dollars an hour, seven dollars eight dollars an hour
to roughneck. And uh. And so at the end of
the month, man, I mean time you made that two
(06:31):
hundred and you made your hundred dollars car payment and
groceries are one hundred dollars. It was left of five
hundred bucks the last a month. And you were going,
how am I gonna make it? And then I was
working nights and painting cars on a part times and
everything make extra cash. And then uh, and then I
got a divorce and the life started over again. It
was wonderful. All right, Well, that was a great trip
(06:51):
down memory lane. Anyway, Let's do one more. Uh, let's
do one more bonehead before we get out of here.
We got this is in India about the international bonehead.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Favorites, especially India, because you never know what kind of
wild ass is coming next.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, now, this this is my kind of story. This
is a white trash and I guess an India had
been India trash. You know, I don't want to say
something wrong here, but people are white trash around the world.
Let's just say it that way. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. My
old friend Jose Brown, who was black, and we used
to laugh about being on the radio. Okay that twin
(07:29):
brothers from different mothers. Jose used to say. He used
to tell me, he said that that whole cracker thing.
He said that Never that didn't really take off, did
I said, yeah, that didn't hurt anybody's feelings calling him
a cracker. I said, if you want to get somebody,
call him white trash or trailer trash. That that for
white people. That's I mean, that's your inWORD for white people.
And it's really not that bad either. There's nothing worse
(07:51):
than the inwards. So that you know, uh, he would say, Okay, okay,
white trash. I don't remember that, so yeah, I'll use that.
That's kind of Jose Brown is my true good brother
and I miss him, but he's still alive. But he's
just he's retired now. I guess I am too, come
think of it. But anyway, all right, so this happened
in India and this is this guy his son asked
(08:17):
his seventeen year old Ayisha. I can't pronounce her last name,
but I had to a bunch of owls. He asked
her to marry him. They were going to get married,
and Dad went over to meet her and kind of
go over. Apparently over there he helps with the wedding somehow,
and so he went over what to do with the wedding,
and he liked her so much that he married her.
He took his son's daughter, her future wife brother and
(08:43):
took her and went away and left her. He was
already married by the way, and he took the family
savings with him with his seventeen year old son's fiance.
So that's b that's his white trash. As Jerry Springers
against right.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
There say that is an absolute that is Phil the
stage with all parties involved on a great episode of Springer.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It makes me, I wonder if she had much of
a say in that eround.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That was another part of it, that it was an
arranged deal and so she went with too Dad. I
guess it means his son was really ugly. You talk
about Springer. Jerry used to do my show when he
would come into town. He would Yeah, he was so
much fun. He would come in, uh and I mean
he knew it was all just you know, he wrote
a check to a prostitute. I mean I would always
(09:31):
give him about that, and he of course teach me
about my criminal record. He goes, yeah, we're gonna run yours,
but we're gonna put more paper in the machine because
it's gonna print out. But my favorite joke that he
ever did with me, and I loved, I loved him,
rested peace Jerry. But I mean he knew what the
deal was. But he said, I said, Jerry, every show
ends up with the girl pulling her top up and
(09:54):
then the bald guy, the police guy used to be
the police guy, the big guy. He would have to
he would have to run in there and break up,
you know, a fight would break up. And I said,
this guy would go here, and this guy would go
I said, where would you go when all that happened?
And he goes, I'd go to the bank line right,
(10:16):
that's the best line ever. Yeah, I'd go to the bank.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
God rests call an absolute icon and legend.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That he was a great guy. I really, I mean,
he knew what a scam he had running. And those
of us that do have good scams. We know what,
don't you don't. We're not fooling anybody from yeah, me, Clinton,
all of us. You know, there's a bunch of us.
So you know, hey, you do you You vote anyway
you want. As long as I get the cash at
the end, that's all that matters. So all right, that's
(10:46):
enough to get out on right there. I think we've
done enough damage today
Well, hey everybody Bama Brown from the Bama Brown Experience
on the iHeart podcast network along with the Big Cat
booming out Bumah, you've got the sportsk podcast. Uh, you
don't have any apologies to do. I have to apologize
to lesbians throughout the listening area. Uh on Scott, I
didn't know how any so thank you for listening. Sorry,
(00:23):
I offended a couple of you yesterday. Apologies. Apparently it
was when I said I'm a lesbian That's what made.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Him made Apparently is that where you lost? Is that
where you lost the crowd, the.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Support, the emails. That seemed to be that where all
the emails pointed to when I offended them.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So I have to apologize.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I think if you were, if you were forced to,
we would have to start the show with an apology
about four out of the five days every week.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So no, I and I get comfortable shoes older, I get,
you know, the harder is on my feet. So I
probably just made it worse just now. So let's move
on for that. Uh, let's talk about Uh, let's do some. Uh,
let's do some. You remember on the radio when I
used to do boneheads before I did the Bonehead yesterday.
So this happened in Victorville, California. A guy who's been
(01:15):
arrested now he left a teddy bear outside of a
comedian store there that looked like it was made out
of human skin. You know, of course, freaking freaking everybody out.
Now it turns out this is really kind of the
cool part of the story. There's a teddy bear that
you can buy that's built and made by horror prop
(01:37):
maker Robert Kelly who makes them for movies and TVs
and stuff, and it does look like human skin. I mean,
he does horror movie stuff and he sells them. You know,
you can buy it online fromhim. I guess look up
Robert Kelly prop maker or something like that. Anyway, but
the guy that left it out there for some reason,
now he's been arrested. I don't know what the point
(01:58):
was why he was arrested. Didn't have the whole story,
but uh, anyway, it wasn't real skin. It looks it's
amazingly looks like it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So yeah, that sounds I mean, that sounds like the
kind of high school prank we would have pulled off.
This absolutely skin human skin teddy bear outside of the
easy Marty or something.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The mannequin arm hanging out of the trunk, and that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Was a real popular one there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We did, all of us did that crap just to
mess with old people. And and you know, I think
you know some stuff we did. It was pretty funny.
I did a wheelie one time a hot ride downtown
and nearly hit a WE patrol car.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
All fun. Yeah, he took it lightly.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh yeah, that wasn't expensive. Uh, but they didn't they
didn't seize the car back then. They just wrote you
a big old ticket you know. So uh. And then
two weeks later that body shop I ran, I had
to fix his car and so he was expecting a
pretty big discount. He had a wreck and his personal car,
so I fixed it for him. It's a good guy actually,
and he kind of was cool letting me, letting me
go because I was on the main drag on this
(03:04):
and put that baby right on her on a rear bumper.
Nearly that car was it was a race car that
I drove. Yeah. In fact, if you go to my
Facebook page Bama Brown on Facebook, that there's a picture
of me with it on the trailer. It's a Vaga
wagon built by my race car buddy Don Hardy, and uh,
I drove it on the street, but it's on the trailer.
(03:25):
I'm going to Lobock to go race. And back then
I was living at home, uh and uh, and I
raced all over Texas of that car. And uh. But
I was going to Lubbock and my best friends are
in school up there, and so I started going up there.
But I was going to frat parties and I wasn't
even going out to the track. But my girlfriend was like, hey,
where's you one Saturday night. I go, oh yeah, let
(03:49):
me and I gave her a hundred bucks. And I mean,
weren't living together, it was pretty close. And then she
started checking the fuel and she said, she said, because
she had to run abgas and this, I had to
go to the airport and fill up and then put
some other stuff in it, you know. And uh she said, uh,
because you couldn't buy racing gas like from a pump
back then. You had to get a gas at the
airport to count of airport. Anyway, so she checked it
(04:11):
and she said, hell you, thanks for I said, oh yeah,
I filled up at the track. And you know, just
I mean, as you start trying to lie your way
out of it. She's like, my friends are at the
fat party the other night. I know exactly what you
did even and then you know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, you're just giggling deeper and deeper. One shovel load
at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She said, I'll get even with you. I'll marry you,
and boy did she Boy man, that'll teach me. By
the way. Uh, I'm gonna be posting it on the
Cavet pay. I still posted a lot of crap on
the Cavet page. The uh there we were, no Dessa
not too long ago. Seend my buddy Rooster McConaughey, Matthew's
(04:50):
oldest brothers, good friends, and a guy named Butch. I
went to high school with gir old buddies. They're they're
out there and we go and spend the day with them.
But we drove over where my first house was and
it still looks pretty good. Anyway. I took a video
of it, and it's gonna be on the Cavet I'll
put it up tomorrow in the Cavet page. So if
you get a chance, go check out the cave NFM page.
(05:11):
Uh ninety one iHeart or whatever it is, and uh,
there'll be that. I'm gonna post a video of that house.
It was, Uh it was. I believe it was nine
hundred square feet and it was, and it still looks
just like it did. The little neighborhood has stayed pretty good. Uh.
And so this is forty something years ago. And uh,
(05:32):
uh you mean to.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Tell me gentrification hasn't hit Odessa yet.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I hadn't hit there that Everything around it looked pretty
like I remembered, you know. And uh and I remember
I poured the driveway wide and there's a junk motorcycle
in the driveway, so that could have been there when
I left. I say that in the video, but the
way because I had a lot of jump back then too.
But it was a nice little neighborhood. But I remember
when I bought it, that house it was nine hundre
square feet, three better than two bad just you know,
(05:57):
there's zero lot line. It was thirty thousand dollars. It
was two hundred dollars a month, and I was going,
good God, that's gonna come every month. How am I
gonna pay two dollars?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Am I ever gonna survive?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah? You know, because I was making eight dollars an
hour roughneck and you know you could. You could make
a dollar an hour second groceries at the grocery store.
I did that in high school. But then when I
started roughnecking on a wall rig, it paid. It paid
eight dollars an hour, seven dollars eight dollars an hour
to roughneck. And uh. And so at the end of
the month, man, I mean time you made that two
(06:31):
hundred and you made your hundred dollars car payment and
groceries are one hundred dollars. It was left of five
hundred bucks the last a month. And you were going,
how am I gonna make it? And then I was
working nights and painting cars on a part times and
everything make extra cash. And then uh, and then I
got a divorce and the life started over again. It
was wonderful. All right, Well, that was a great trip
(06:51):
down memory lane. Anyway, Let's do one more. Uh, let's
do one more bonehead before we get out of here.
We got this is in India about the international bonehead.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Favorites, especially India, because you never know what kind of
wild ass is coming next.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, now, this this is my kind of story. This
is a white trash and I guess an India had
been India trash. You know, I don't want to say
something wrong here, but people are white trash around the world.
Let's just say it that way. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. My
old friend Jose Brown, who was black, and we used
to laugh about being on the radio. Okay that twin
(07:29):
brothers from different mothers. Jose used to say. He used
to tell me, he said that that whole cracker thing.
He said that Never that didn't really take off, did
I said, yeah, that didn't hurt anybody's feelings calling him
a cracker. I said, if you want to get somebody,
call him white trash or trailer trash. That that for
white people. That's I mean, that's your inWORD for white people.
And it's really not that bad either. There's nothing worse
(07:51):
than the inwards. So that you know, uh, he would say, Okay, okay,
white trash. I don't remember that, so yeah, I'll use that.
That's kind of Jose Brown is my true good brother
and I miss him, but he's still alive. But he's
just he's retired now. I guess I am too, come
think of it. But anyway, all right, so this happened
in India and this is this guy his son asked
(08:17):
his seventeen year old Ayisha. I can't pronounce her last name,
but I had to a bunch of owls. He asked
her to marry him. They were going to get married,
and Dad went over to meet her and kind of
go over. Apparently over there he helps with the wedding somehow,
and so he went over what to do with the wedding,
and he liked her so much that he married her.
He took his son's daughter, her future wife brother and
(08:43):
took her and went away and left her. He was
already married by the way, and he took the family
savings with him with his seventeen year old son's fiance.
So that's b that's his white trash. As Jerry Springers
against right.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
There say that is an absolute that is Phil the
stage with all parties involved on a great episode of Springer.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It makes me, I wonder if she had much of
a say in that eround.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That was another part of it, that it was an
arranged deal and so she went with too Dad. I
guess it means his son was really ugly. You talk
about Springer. Jerry used to do my show when he
would come into town. He would Yeah, he was so
much fun. He would come in, uh and I mean
he knew it was all just you know, he wrote
a check to a prostitute. I mean I would always
(09:31):
give him about that, and he of course teach me
about my criminal record. He goes, yeah, we're gonna run yours,
but we're gonna put more paper in the machine because
it's gonna print out. But my favorite joke that he
ever did with me, and I loved, I loved him,
rested peace Jerry. But I mean he knew what the
deal was. But he said, I said, Jerry, every show
ends up with the girl pulling her top up and
(09:54):
then the bald guy, the police guy used to be
the police guy, the big guy. He would have to
he would have to run in there and break up,
you know, a fight would break up. And I said,
this guy would go here, and this guy would go
I said, where would you go when all that happened?
And he goes, I'd go to the bank line right,
(10:16):
that's the best line ever. Yeah, I'd go to the bank.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
God rests call an absolute icon and legend.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That he was a great guy. I really, I mean,
he knew what a scam he had running. And those
of us that do have good scams. We know what,
don't you don't. We're not fooling anybody from yeah, me, Clinton,
all of us. You know, there's a bunch of us.
So you know, hey, you do you You vote anyway
you want. As long as I get the cash at
the end, that's all that matters. So all right, that's
(10:46):
enough to get out on right there. I think we've
done enough damage today
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