July 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Wait… you're telling me writing a check without money is illegal? That’s just the beginning of the wild ride in this episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Bama dives headfirst into a hilarious and heartfelt conversation that spans everything from AI in college classrooms to the unexpected life lessons learned at “hot check school.” Joined by the ever-entertaining crew from The Sports Cave, this episode is packed with laughs, surprises, and a few moments of genuine reflection.
Key Highlights:
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Key Highlights:
- AI in Academia: Did you know 92% of college students are using AI for their work—and professors are grading with it too? Bama and Puma weigh in with their signature humor and insight.
- Bad Check Chronicles: Bama shares the unforgettable story of how a $20 pizza check turned into a criminal record—and a crash course in adulting.
- Secrets of Successful Couples: From morning hugs to coffee gestures, Bama hilariously evaluates his own relationship habits against expert advice.
- Stress Relief, Bama-Style: Learn about the “voodoo technique” and other breathing hacks—plus Puma’s own THC-inspired tension relief methods.
- Bonehead of the Week: Meet John Winslow, the meth-fueled tourist train thief of Key West, who might’ve actually improved the tour experience.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey and Nattie, do you have Mamma Brown and
the Bama Around Experience and the iHeart Podcast Network along
with the Big Cat Big Puma has a Sports Cave.
Everybody going crazy as a sports cave man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, we you know, come Fridays, we've had We've had
our taste of sports all week and Friday we like
to sit back and try to debate and argue who
Won the Internet. So we got a new episode of
Who Won the Internet coming out today with the Sports
Cave featuring the Roommate. So if you aren't caught up
(00:33):
on the shows earlier this week. Always available on YouTube
at Sports Cave Live or wherever you get your podcast,
just search the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I always like to point out Puma and his
partner they both played sports, so they know what they're
talking about. They actually get it. So this is going
to scare you those This scared me. Ninety two percent
of college students are using AI to do some of
their work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh buddy, that doesn't I'm shocked that's not closer to
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now, this is the part I was gonna scare you with.
The professors are using AI to grade them exactly. I
had no idea that was going on. I mean, I
could see the kids doing, you know, turning in some
remedial work, you know. But hold on, I've got to
use some of my geometry just a second, you know.
Or there's I mean, there's so much they taught you,
(01:26):
you know, balance a check book, not a clue. But
those days are gone. Yeah. I learned that at the
hot check school when I was ordered to go there.
So I learned how to write one after that, and
I was like, hiding it check. That's that's I never
heard of that. The guy goes, what's when you're write
a check you ain't got the money in the bank.
I go, oh, is that again?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hold on, you're telling me that. You're telling me I
shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's on. I have a criminal record, and that's on
my criminal record for writing. But here, this is the deal.
The guy was like, he wouldn't even listen to me.
You go, I go. I was moving my account. I
moved South Austin from North Austin, so I was moving
my checking account and they didn't have a bang. It
wasn't like a bank overy corner back then. In Austin,
and I shut one account down and moved the account
(02:10):
and my money over to this bank in the South.
And I had one check to a pizza plan and
I'd moved my address, had my forwarding address. It didn't
make it, you know. So they just turned me into
the police, you know. And uh, it was Conan's Pizza.
I don't don't blame them. I love Conyan's pizza. I
(02:32):
could eat Coneas Pizza right now. But it's not their
fault that I can't do checkbook right, you know. But
it was like twenty dollars got me arrested. Well, I
didn't get arrested. The guy called and he goes, hey,
you got a bad check. You got them take care
of and you got to go to check school. And
I don't even know. I don't even know there was
such a thing. But I learned a lot in check school,
(02:54):
which is what I should have learned of goddamn high school.
It set about the perriculum, theories and the ship that
I won't ever use. At sixty seven years old, I
can back up half the crap that I learned in
high school I never used, and half of it that
I needed. Maybe the teacher didn't know. And I'm not
blaming the teachers. I'm just saying, you know, when you
do those, hey you got the ged tail or whatever
(03:17):
that test is coming out of. They see you got
to study for that, because that's gonna determine. I was like, yeah,
they're just gonna give me a hard at anyway, and
they did. All right, here's four things that successful couples
do every morning.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh god, let's see how many of you. Let's see
if I have anything that makes the list here?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
All right? Number four kiss or hug every morning, kiss.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Or no, no, not none yet.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Number three a few minutes together, just sitting and talking
that I'm blowing and going, all right, successful couples here,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Don't get We don't get up at the same time though.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, he kind of. That's gonna have an effect. Yeah,
I'll give you that. Number two do loving gestures like
making them a cup of coffee. Once again, this is
what they do, not saying I've done any of these.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
My lovely roommate brought me coffee this morning as I
was there. You go fill asleep in bed at about
a quarter till eleven. But we have different schedules and
she passes the kind gesture part number one.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Thing number one, noomron say hello every morning. Just start
out with a hello that acknowledges your other half that
you are a real person. And you don't just grunt
at him. You go hello, baby. You know that one.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, there you go go full Conway Twitty on him.
Hello darling.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
There was a It was a guy sold vacuums door
to door and he knock on the door and the
lady answers the door and she says, wow, you look
just like Conway Twitty. And he said, well, thank you,
and they try to sell her a vacuum and didn't
sell it. So he goes next next door, knock on door.
Wow you just like Conway Twitty and he says, yeah,
(05:05):
thank you for selling vacuums. Now don't want to vacuum.
So he goes to the third door and she's just
got out of the shower and got a towel wrapped
around her and she opens the door and she shocked
because she thinks it's Conway. She goes, drops a towel
totally naked, goes, oh my god, like Conway Twitty. And
he goes, hello, darling, it's lame. But but I'll tell
(05:28):
it so well.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He's not worried about selling vacuums at that point. Let's
put it that way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I could do it. I'll bet it all right. So
here are the two things for stress release. These are
stress release exercises, physical exercises to get rid oftention in
your life. Okay, you're ready for this because we're about
to wrap this up. I just we had a crazy week.
So number two is actual tension release is what they
(06:00):
call it is whether you you breathe calmly, you breathe
out calmly. No, okay, you breathe in calmly, and want
to make sure you get this right. You breathe in calmly,
but you breathe out big and then you tense your
body up. And they say, when you do that, and
when you breathe in again, all there's a vibration when
(06:21):
you do that, and all of it goes a lot
of that tension goes out doing that. And then number we.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Will realize how important breathing, like proper breathing techniques are
because of that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's basically what these are. But the number one they
call it the voo technique. Now you may know this
because you're you've done all kinds of technique. Cool. Yeah,
the voo technique. You take a deep breath in and
then when you breathe out, you make a voo sound
the entire time you're breathing out, You breathe out hard,
you breathe in hard, and then when you're breathing out
(06:54):
and they say the vibration calms you, helps take the
stress attention out. That's what you try and do get
rid of attention. I had this other thing I do
to get rid of attention, but I was about again.
I think I mentioned earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I hope that the state legislature doesn't take away my
THHD tension releasing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This. This show has taken a turn. It's always I.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Think the the Conway Twitty vacuum salesman a good That's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A good start for it, wasn't it. Yeah, that's all art,
that's all Okay. I'm gonna end it on a good story.
How about this is my please? This is maybe my
favorite bonehead for the week. Member. I'm not on the
radio in KVE anymore so the boneheads I'm doing here.
So if you want to hear boneheads, you gotta do
this shitty little show if you want to hear uh,
John Winslow. July fourth was John's birthday, and John lives
(07:53):
down in Key West, Florida. John he picked up a
bad habit a couple of years ago. Meth van fetamines
is thing, and so I don't know if he's smoking
him taking them or whatever, but he decided, you know what,
I've been taking his conk tour train around Key West.
It's a tourist thing. I've been taking this for a
long time, and I believe I can do a better
job than the conductor does. So he stole the conk
(08:16):
train with people on it. He didn't wait till it
was empty. He got it well, focus on and he's
given the tour and several people felt like he did
a better job. But he's on myth So you know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
God, I was about to say all of these shitty
tours I've ever been on. When you're on like the
double decker bus, or like drive around Shreveport so see
historical streetpur or wherever in these terrible towns, Or when
I went to Branson, Missouri with my grandparents, I can
imagine the tour guide would have been ten times more
(08:53):
entertaining if he had been high off his ass on me,
because I do not actually a job where I think
meth could be a performance enhancer and not the safety issues.
If he was also driving the bus, maybe then I'm
not so comfortable.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But you know, one time, uh, when we had the
big boss in from New York for iHeart and he
was he was, he was, he was new. I knew
him though from when he was you know, he's coming
up through the ranks and I actually knew this guy
pretty good. So there's three hundred employees back then, you know,
(09:31):
it was clear channel even back then. And so he's
talking to the room about insurance policies and things with
the insurance. You know that he had changed. And I
put my hand up and he goes, he goes, yeah, bamma,
because he knew, you know, I was gonna do something
was coming.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I said, do you anticipate any type of manual drug testing,
any type of drug testing in the future, And he's
you know, and everybody's like chuckling. They didn't know what
I knew. Anybody goes, well, I wasn't. But since you
brought it up, and I said, because I'm going to
need a couple of weeks to study, you know, for
(10:10):
some drug tests.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Make sure I make sure I am studied up for
the big test.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I just I told all the jocks, I said,
I get twenty dollars from my pee. So because I
have to I was having to do anyway, you know,
and or you know my past. But anyway, oh that's
going in on it. Get out of here on that.
So y'all have a great weekend and we'll see you
back here Monday with the Bamma Browns.
Well, hey and Nattie, do you have Mamma Brown and
the Bama Around Experience and the iHeart Podcast Network along
with the Big Cat Big Puma has a Sports Cave.
Everybody going crazy as a sports cave man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, we you know, come Fridays, we've had We've had
our taste of sports all week and Friday we like
to sit back and try to debate and argue who
Won the Internet. So we got a new episode of
Who Won the Internet coming out today with the Sports
Cave featuring the Roommate. So if you aren't caught up
(00:33):
on the shows earlier this week. Always available on YouTube
at Sports Cave Live or wherever you get your podcast,
just search the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I always like to point out Puma and his
partner they both played sports, so they know what they're
talking about. They actually get it. So this is going
to scare you those This scared me. Ninety two percent
of college students are using AI to do some of
their work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh buddy, that doesn't I'm shocked that's not closer to
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now, this is the part I was gonna scare you with.
The professors are using AI to grade them exactly. I
had no idea that was going on. I mean, I
could see the kids doing, you know, turning in some
remedial work, you know. But hold on, I've got to
use some of my geometry just a second, you know.
Or there's I mean, there's so much they taught you,
(01:26):
you know, balance a check book, not a clue. But
those days are gone. Yeah. I learned that at the
hot check school when I was ordered to go there.
So I learned how to write one after that, and
I was like, hiding it check. That's that's I never
heard of that. The guy goes, what's when you're write
a check you ain't got the money in the bank.
I go, oh, is that again?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hold on, you're telling me that. You're telling me I
shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's on. I have a criminal record, and that's on
my criminal record for writing. But here, this is the deal.
The guy was like, he wouldn't even listen to me.
You go, I go. I was moving my account. I
moved South Austin from North Austin, so I was moving
my checking account and they didn't have a bang. It
wasn't like a bank overy corner back then. In Austin,
and I shut one account down and moved the account
(02:10):
and my money over to this bank in the South.
And I had one check to a pizza plan and
I'd moved my address, had my forwarding address. It didn't
make it, you know. So they just turned me into
the police, you know. And uh, it was Conan's Pizza.
I don't don't blame them. I love Conyan's pizza. I
(02:32):
could eat Coneas Pizza right now. But it's not their
fault that I can't do checkbook right, you know. But
it was like twenty dollars got me arrested. Well, I
didn't get arrested. The guy called and he goes, hey,
you got a bad check. You got them take care
of and you got to go to check school. And
I don't even know. I don't even know there was
such a thing. But I learned a lot in check school,
(02:54):
which is what I should have learned of goddamn high school.
It set about the perriculum, theories and the ship that
I won't ever use. At sixty seven years old, I
can back up half the crap that I learned in
high school I never used, and half of it that
I needed. Maybe the teacher didn't know. And I'm not
blaming the teachers. I'm just saying, you know, when you
do those, hey you got the ged tail or whatever
(03:17):
that test is coming out of. They see you got
to study for that, because that's gonna determine. I was like, yeah,
they're just gonna give me a hard at anyway, and
they did. All right, here's four things that successful couples
do every morning.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh god, let's see how many of you. Let's see
if I have anything that makes the list here?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
All right? Number four kiss or hug every morning, kiss.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Or no, no, not none yet.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Number three a few minutes together, just sitting and talking
that I'm blowing and going, all right, successful couples here,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Don't get We don't get up at the same time though.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, he kind of. That's gonna have an effect. Yeah,
I'll give you that. Number two do loving gestures like
making them a cup of coffee. Once again, this is
what they do, not saying I've done any of these.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
My lovely roommate brought me coffee this morning as I
was there. You go fill asleep in bed at about
a quarter till eleven. But we have different schedules and
she passes the kind gesture part number one.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Thing number one, noomron say hello every morning. Just start
out with a hello that acknowledges your other half that
you are a real person. And you don't just grunt
at him. You go hello, baby. You know that one.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, there you go go full Conway Twitty on him.
Hello darling.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
There was a It was a guy sold vacuums door
to door and he knock on the door and the
lady answers the door and she says, wow, you look
just like Conway Twitty. And he said, well, thank you,
and they try to sell her a vacuum and didn't
sell it. So he goes next next door, knock on door.
Wow you just like Conway Twitty and he says, yeah,
(05:05):
thank you for selling vacuums. Now don't want to vacuum.
So he goes to the third door and she's just
got out of the shower and got a towel wrapped
around her and she opens the door and she shocked
because she thinks it's Conway. She goes, drops a towel
totally naked, goes, oh my god, like Conway Twitty. And
he goes, hello, darling, it's lame. But but I'll tell
(05:28):
it so well.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He's not worried about selling vacuums at that point. Let's
put it that way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I could do it. I'll bet it all right. So
here are the two things for stress release. These are
stress release exercises, physical exercises to get rid oftention in
your life. Okay, you're ready for this because we're about
to wrap this up. I just we had a crazy week.
So number two is actual tension release is what they
(06:00):
call it is whether you you breathe calmly, you breathe
out calmly. No, okay, you breathe in calmly, and want
to make sure you get this right. You breathe in calmly,
but you breathe out big and then you tense your
body up. And they say, when you do that, and
when you breathe in again, all there's a vibration when
(06:21):
you do that, and all of it goes a lot
of that tension goes out doing that. And then number we.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Will realize how important breathing, like proper breathing techniques are
because of that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That's basically what these are. But the number one they
call it the voo technique. Now you may know this
because you're you've done all kinds of technique. Cool. Yeah,
the voo technique. You take a deep breath in and
then when you breathe out, you make a voo sound
the entire time you're breathing out, You breathe out hard,
you breathe in hard, and then when you're breathing out
(06:54):
and they say the vibration calms you, helps take the
stress attention out. That's what you try and do get
rid of attention. I had this other thing I do
to get rid of attention, but I was about again.
I think I mentioned earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I hope that the state legislature doesn't take away my
THHD tension releasing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This. This show has taken a turn. It's always I.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Think the the Conway Twitty vacuum salesman a good That's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A good start for it, wasn't it. Yeah, that's all art,
that's all Okay. I'm gonna end it on a good story.
How about this is my please? This is maybe my
favorite bonehead for the week. Member. I'm not on the
radio in KVE anymore so the boneheads I'm doing here.
So if you want to hear boneheads, you gotta do
this shitty little show if you want to hear uh,
John Winslow. July fourth was John's birthday, and John lives
(07:53):
down in Key West, Florida. John he picked up a
bad habit a couple of years ago. Meth van fetamines
is thing, and so I don't know if he's smoking
him taking them or whatever, but he decided, you know what,
I've been taking his conk tour train around Key West.
It's a tourist thing. I've been taking this for a
long time, and I believe I can do a better
job than the conductor does. So he stole the conk
(08:16):
train with people on it. He didn't wait till it
was empty. He got it well, focus on and he's
given the tour and several people felt like he did
a better job. But he's on myth So you know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
God, I was about to say all of these shitty
tours I've ever been on. When you're on like the
double decker bus, or like drive around Shreveport so see
historical streetpur or wherever in these terrible towns, Or when
I went to Branson, Missouri with my grandparents, I can
imagine the tour guide would have been ten times more
(08:53):
entertaining if he had been high off his ass on me,
because I do not actually a job where I think
meth could be a performance enhancer and not the safety issues.
If he was also driving the bus, maybe then I'm
not so comfortable.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But you know, one time, uh, when we had the
big boss in from New York for iHeart and he
was he was, he was, he was new. I knew
him though from when he was you know, he's coming
up through the ranks and I actually knew this guy
pretty good. So there's three hundred employees back then, you know,
(09:31):
it was clear channel even back then. And so he's
talking to the room about insurance policies and things with
the insurance. You know that he had changed. And I
put my hand up and he goes, he goes, yeah, bamma,
because he knew, you know, I was gonna do something
was coming.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I said, do you anticipate any type of manual drug testing,
any type of drug testing in the future, And he's
you know, and everybody's like chuckling. They didn't know what
I knew. Anybody goes, well, I wasn't. But since you
brought it up, and I said, because I'm going to
need a couple of weeks to study, you know, for
(10:10):
some drug tests.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Make sure I make sure I am studied up for
the big test.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I just I told all the jocks, I said,
I get twenty dollars from my pee. So because I
have to I was having to do anyway, you know,
and or you know my past. But anyway, oh that's
going in on it. Get out of here on that.
So y'all have a great weekend and we'll see you
back here Monday with the Bamma Browns.
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