August 11, 2025 • 11 mins
In this wildly entertaining episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and Puma dive into a whirlwind of stories that span from top U.S. tourist attractions to unexpected wildlife encounters—and even a moment of brutally honest life advice at a truck stop.
The episode kicks off with a countdown of the top 10 tourist destinations in the U.S., featuring surprising entries like the Stetson Mansion and Sun Studio in Memphis. Bama shares a fascinating anecdote about Carl Perkins, whose talent once rivaled Elvis—until fate intervened. Puma adds depth with reflections on sports legends whose careers were tragically cut short, drawing a poignant parallel between fame and fragility.
But the real gems come from Bama’s personal stories: a python in a New Hampshire toilet, a black snake in a bedroom, and a water moccasin booted off a trail by a fearless New Jersey transplant. These tales are equal parts hilarious and hair-raising.
The episode crescendos with a laugh-out-loud moment at a Love’s Truck Stop, where a chance encounter with a biker leads to a piece of advice Bama won’t soon forget. It’s raw, it’s real, and it’s exactly the kind of unfiltered humor that makes this show a must-listen.
Tune in for laughs, surprises, and stories you’ll be retelling for days. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good laugh or a dose of unexpected wisdom.
The episode kicks off with a countdown of the top 10 tourist destinations in the U.S., featuring surprising entries like the Stetson Mansion and Sun Studio in Memphis. Bama shares a fascinating anecdote about Carl Perkins, whose talent once rivaled Elvis—until fate intervened. Puma adds depth with reflections on sports legends whose careers were tragically cut short, drawing a poignant parallel between fame and fragility.
But the real gems come from Bama’s personal stories: a python in a New Hampshire toilet, a black snake in a bedroom, and a water moccasin booted off a trail by a fearless New Jersey transplant. These tales are equal parts hilarious and hair-raising.
The episode crescendos with a laugh-out-loud moment at a Love’s Truck Stop, where a chance encounter with a biker leads to a piece of advice Bama won’t soon forget. It’s raw, it’s real, and it’s exactly the kind of unfiltered humor that makes this show a must-listen.
Tune in for laughs, surprises, and stories you’ll be retelling for days. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a good laugh or a dose of unexpected wisdom.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well hi everybody, Maama Brown, will you and the Obama
Brown Experience Art podcast Network, thank you for spending about
ten minutes with us. And when I say us, me
and Puma, the big cat who has the Sports Cave
which is live. Deny, your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is live, sir Yes, sir as always good to be
back with you for another week here in the Bama
Brown Experience. But if you need a little sports fix,
we are live again Monday and Wednesday nights, eight o'clock
over on YouTube. I just searched for a sports Cave
live and that should take you right to us if
you just need the audio version. Trust me, I understand.
(00:40):
Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He Last week we did the top five tourist attractions
in the world, and then I looked up the top
ten in the US tourist attractions.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So love it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's kind of I was shocked at a couple of them.
This is according to travel Velocity or somebody. I don't
know who it is actually, but you know, and so
it's rounded rounded up there. Nothing really considered perfect numbers,
but I think it's pretty accurate. Uh. Number ten Alcatraz
still very very popular. Uh. Number nine is the met
(01:18):
there in New York. Uh, he hadn't been to the Metropolitan.
It's a big deal. Uh. Number eight is the World
War Two Air Museum that's up in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Have you been to that. I've always wanted I've always
wanted to go to that. I've been through there, but
I've never Number seven Brooklyn Bridge. People still like to
go tour the Booklyn. I mean, these are these are
places to have actual tours, and they people are actually
going there to see it. So Bridge is number seven. Uh.
Number six the Coral Reef in Florida, and a lot
(01:52):
of people love to die of that thing. Uh. This one.
I didn't know anything about this one, and probably you do.
I don't. Number five is the Stetson Mansion in Florida.
Oh yeah, yeah, what is that? I don't know what
that is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's the old it's the I'm pretty sure it's the
actual you know, Stetson family. It's just their fortune mansion,
their old plantation home there.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, all right, I didn't know that, all right. Number
four Central Park, Uh, and there several times. Number three
this is crazy Sun Studio in Memphis. Oh okay, people
go back and go see where Elvis and uh, there
was a buddy of mine went that told me that
heat out of the four, you know, there was Elvis
and there was uh Johnny, Uh god, dang, I can't
(02:41):
even think of their names now. Uh the guy on
the piano, Jerry Lee, was uh uh but Carl Perkins,
he outshined Elvis. He outshined everybody. And he then was
in a car wreck. And they said if he hadn't
had the car wreck, he'd been he'd been the Elvis,
Jerry Lee all of it combined. So you know, a
(03:03):
pretty pretty big deal there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, those are always the worst stories when you hear
you know, you hear it, you see it all the
time and put her you know, sports too, when a
guy ends up having a terrible injury, or you know,
there was a Florida Marlins pitcher like seven eight years ago,
gotten a boat wreck when he was twenty one, but
he was already breaking records that hadn't been touched in
(03:27):
over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Isn't that crazy? Carlos is r ip. There was somebody, Yeah,
there there was a guy. What a waste, I mean,
what an absolute waste of just a major talent. I
saw a thing the other day because I see baseball
stuff all the time and I laugh about it, but
there was one where the guy hit a foul ball
(03:48):
and he hit a fan. An old older lady had
heard her, not seriously, but she They took her out
on a stretcher, and so they went back to playing
ball and he hit another foul ball and it hit
her while she was on the stretcher.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, I mean to back laugh, but yeah, that's what
are the odds? What are the chances?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean something straight out of an old you know,
Leslie nilsennked gun or something very real quick on that
on the Stetson mansion. Absolutely, it's it's the Stetson hat
family fortunately.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Deal.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah about like you know, uh Hurst Castle that they
have in California. It's basically like a southern Hurts Castle.
It's an old Gilded Age mansion.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And see I figured that Hurts Cancel would be on there,
and it's not on there. Yeah that was. It's in
the top I don't know what, but in the top ten.
I didn't know. Number two Empire State Building been there
checks and number one top this is the top tourist
attractions in the US. Number one. NASA still still a
big one there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So in Florida, so three NASA cracked the top five list.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That yeah, of nash Or International. You're right, but last
week it did. H saw this in New Hampshire. Lady
went to her bathroom, walked in there. Uh she looked
in the commode and there was a five foot python
had crawled out of the commode into the floor of
her bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, somebody's pet got loose.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It is a good thing she was in the bathroom.
I know, for me, move over stairs, snake. I gotta.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That was a that was a valid concern. I mean,
I wasn't worried about pythons or her you know, Boa
constrictors coming through the pipes. But as a kid, you know,
living out in the country, there were all kinds of
stories of people, you know, having snakes coming up through
their tanks, up through their pipes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I remember there was a there was a girl that
I worked with and when I walked by her desk,
you could just tell that she was like wired almost
and she's not normally like that. And I go, are
you okay? And she goes, I was getting dressed, I'm
walking around. It's a nice house, I mean, like regular
nice house. She said. I come around the bed and
(06:03):
there was a five foot black snake on the floor
of my house, just crawling. I would assume that's what
it was. And she said, she said, man, you know
she was still stood from it. I don't blame her,
not one bit.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Those you know, like a rat snake, not only can
it get you six feet seven feet long, but if
it's recently eaten, it looks way more intimidating. Yeah, it
looks massive, and yeah, those things are harmless.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It looks like a watermoks. And you know, I'll tell
the story that he will get out of her die.
This was a funny story. There was a listener I
had when I was on A guy he listened all
the time, and he was from New Jersey. Had this
great New Jersey accident. But he worked for Austin Parks
and wreck at the park. They're in the in Zilker
in Austin, and I used to walk the running trail
(06:59):
down there and it was right by the lake. And
sure enough, the biggest watermarks in your senior life was
laying out sunning in the middle of the walk path,
and I mean people were just like, you know, freaking out,
and and I had my phone and I called him
and he said, man, I'm down here in the park.
I said, there's a water mosk in laying in the
middle of the of the walk path. He's going to
(07:20):
bite a dog, girl, a kid, or you know. And
so he said, okay, I be here in the mountain,
know where we are. So stood around there about five
minutes and here he came walking up, just the nicest guy.
I never felt like the biggest woos like with this.
I'm standing there and he walks up and he goes, hey, man,
what have you been doing? And while he's saying that,
he kicks this watermarks like a soccer ball out back
(07:45):
into the into the lake, into the river. I mean,
it's just like he never never even looked, never skipped
to beat, just kicked it. He had his big o
boots and I guess, you know, but he kicked it
out there and it was just like a soccer shot.
And he went out in the water and this snake
was like, what the hell was that for you?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But yeah, I was just minding my own business. I'm
proud of him as a as a New Jersey native.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, that's right. You got a Southern redneck in him.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Wife.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You guys ain't scared. He was not scared together, but
he was. So he was looking at me and talking
to me while he did that. I never forgot that.
I never felt like a bigger wooss except one other time.
All Right, I'm gonna tell this. I'm gonna tell this,
and I'm gonna tell you now. It has a nasty
word in it, but it hits the story and it's
(08:32):
very funny. So I'm gonna tell this. And if you
you're if you're offended, go ahead and go now. You
can go ahead and leave now. Of course you're not
gonna because you want to hear the story the most
the most woods I ever felt. As I said, I
told you the story about the love truck stop with
the guy with the motorcycle, I don't think so. Okay.
(08:53):
So there's a there's a guy. He's got this drag bike.
And I'm gonna say this because this adds to the story.
He was like a six to three black football player
looking guy, you big built guy, you know, and he
had this drag bike on a trailer filling up at
the Loves truck stop and I'm standing there putting gas
(09:14):
in my you know, Chevvy, Oldsmobile or whatever, you know,
wife car, you know, and he I go, man, that's
a badass drag. Like he goes, thanks, Man, we're talking,
you know, and he says really really fast. And I
just couldn't imagine a guy that big riding you know,
big motorcycle. But you know he was. He looked more
like he was alignman, you know. But anyway, and I said,
(09:38):
I said, man, I like those Indians. I'd love to
have a new Indian. And he said, he said, you
should get one. And right then, Jamie, my wife was
coming out of the truck stop, and I pointed at
her and I said, she won't let me have one.
All right, here's where it comes. But I'm going to
do it word for word because it's he goes, man,
you need to find yo, Dick. Tell me he's wrong.
(10:05):
I never felt like, well, I know where it is
and that person she's all nervous. I never in my
life felt more like what it was. And this guy
is so right, you know. There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I like, I like the idea that you are not
the only person that he's given life changing advice to, like.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That, at least I ride. I drive a holl rode
every day. I don't ride a motorcycle, but I think
I could have one if I wanted. But she lets
me drive it. Oh, listen to that, she lets me
driving away. Wow. Anyway, that was it. Apparently I laughed
really hard, and he really wasn't laughing that hard. He
(10:46):
was giving me, giving me life advice.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's like, I'm trying to tell you, man, you gotta
you gotta make some.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I hope everybody heard that is more. I thought that
was funny more than they're offended. And if you're offended,
I'm sorry, but that's what you get with the Bama
Brown experience. So he thanks for listening. We appreciate it.
Well hi everybody, Maama Brown, will you and the Obama
Brown Experience Art podcast Network, thank you for spending about
ten minutes with us. And when I say us, me
and Puma, the big cat who has the Sports Cave
which is live. Deny, your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is live, sir Yes, sir as always good to be
back with you for another week here in the Bama
Brown Experience. But if you need a little sports fix,
we are live again Monday and Wednesday nights, eight o'clock
over on YouTube. I just searched for a sports Cave
live and that should take you right to us if
you just need the audio version. Trust me, I understand.
(00:40):
Anywhere you get your podcast, just search for the Sports
Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He Last week we did the top five tourist attractions
in the world, and then I looked up the top
ten in the US tourist attractions.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So love it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's kind of I was shocked at a couple of them.
This is according to travel Velocity or somebody. I don't
know who it is actually, but you know, and so
it's rounded rounded up there. Nothing really considered perfect numbers,
but I think it's pretty accurate. Uh. Number ten Alcatraz
still very very popular. Uh. Number nine is the met
(01:18):
there in New York. Uh, he hadn't been to the Metropolitan.
It's a big deal. Uh. Number eight is the World
War Two Air Museum that's up in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Have you been to that. I've always wanted I've always
wanted to go to that. I've been through there, but
I've never Number seven Brooklyn Bridge. People still like to
go tour the Booklyn. I mean, these are these are
places to have actual tours, and they people are actually
going there to see it. So Bridge is number seven. Uh.
Number six the Coral Reef in Florida, and a lot
(01:52):
of people love to die of that thing. Uh. This one.
I didn't know anything about this one, and probably you do.
I don't. Number five is the Stetson Mansion in Florida.
Oh yeah, yeah, what is that? I don't know what
that is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's the old it's the I'm pretty sure it's the
actual you know, Stetson family. It's just their fortune mansion,
their old plantation home there.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, all right, I didn't know that, all right. Number
four Central Park, Uh, and there several times. Number three
this is crazy Sun Studio in Memphis. Oh okay, people
go back and go see where Elvis and uh, there
was a buddy of mine went that told me that
heat out of the four, you know, there was Elvis
and there was uh Johnny, Uh god, dang, I can't
(02:41):
even think of their names now. Uh the guy on
the piano, Jerry Lee, was uh uh but Carl Perkins,
he outshined Elvis. He outshined everybody. And he then was
in a car wreck. And they said if he hadn't
had the car wreck, he'd been he'd been the Elvis,
Jerry Lee all of it combined. So you know, a
(03:03):
pretty pretty big deal there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, those are always the worst stories when you hear
you know, you hear it, you see it all the
time and put her you know, sports too, when a
guy ends up having a terrible injury, or you know,
there was a Florida Marlins pitcher like seven eight years ago,
gotten a boat wreck when he was twenty one, but
he was already breaking records that hadn't been touched in
(03:27):
over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Isn't that crazy? Carlos is r ip. There was somebody, Yeah,
there there was a guy. What a waste, I mean,
what an absolute waste of just a major talent. I
saw a thing the other day because I see baseball
stuff all the time and I laugh about it, but
there was one where the guy hit a foul ball
(03:48):
and he hit a fan. An old older lady had
heard her, not seriously, but she They took her out
on a stretcher, and so they went back to playing
ball and he hit another foul ball and it hit
her while she was on the stretcher.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, I mean to back laugh, but yeah, that's what
are the odds? What are the chances?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean something straight out of an old you know,
Leslie nilsennked gun or something very real quick on that
on the Stetson mansion. Absolutely, it's it's the Stetson hat
family fortunately.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Deal.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah about like you know, uh Hurst Castle that they
have in California. It's basically like a southern Hurts Castle.
It's an old Gilded Age mansion.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And see I figured that Hurts Cancel would be on there,
and it's not on there. Yeah that was. It's in
the top I don't know what, but in the top ten.
I didn't know. Number two Empire State Building been there
checks and number one top this is the top tourist
attractions in the US. Number one. NASA still still a
big one there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So in Florida, so three NASA cracked the top five list.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That yeah, of nash Or International. You're right, but last
week it did. H saw this in New Hampshire. Lady
went to her bathroom, walked in there. Uh she looked
in the commode and there was a five foot python
had crawled out of the commode into the floor of
her bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, somebody's pet got loose.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It is a good thing she was in the bathroom.
I know, for me, move over stairs, snake. I gotta.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That was a that was a valid concern. I mean,
I wasn't worried about pythons or her you know, Boa
constrictors coming through the pipes. But as a kid, you know,
living out in the country, there were all kinds of
stories of people, you know, having snakes coming up through
their tanks, up through their pipes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I remember there was a there was a girl that
I worked with and when I walked by her desk,
you could just tell that she was like wired almost
and she's not normally like that. And I go, are
you okay? And she goes, I was getting dressed, I'm
walking around. It's a nice house, I mean, like regular
nice house. She said. I come around the bed and
(06:03):
there was a five foot black snake on the floor
of my house, just crawling. I would assume that's what
it was. And she said, she said, man, you know
she was still stood from it. I don't blame her,
not one bit.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Those you know, like a rat snake, not only can
it get you six feet seven feet long, but if
it's recently eaten, it looks way more intimidating. Yeah, it
looks massive, and yeah, those things are harmless.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It looks like a watermoks. And you know, I'll tell
the story that he will get out of her die.
This was a funny story. There was a listener I
had when I was on A guy he listened all
the time, and he was from New Jersey. Had this
great New Jersey accident. But he worked for Austin Parks
and wreck at the park. They're in the in Zilker
in Austin, and I used to walk the running trail
(06:59):
down there and it was right by the lake. And
sure enough, the biggest watermarks in your senior life was
laying out sunning in the middle of the walk path,
and I mean people were just like, you know, freaking out,
and and I had my phone and I called him
and he said, man, I'm down here in the park.
I said, there's a water mosk in laying in the
middle of the of the walk path. He's going to
(07:20):
bite a dog, girl, a kid, or you know. And
so he said, okay, I be here in the mountain,
know where we are. So stood around there about five
minutes and here he came walking up, just the nicest guy.
I never felt like the biggest woos like with this.
I'm standing there and he walks up and he goes, hey, man,
what have you been doing? And while he's saying that,
he kicks this watermarks like a soccer ball out back
(07:45):
into the into the lake, into the river. I mean,
it's just like he never never even looked, never skipped
to beat, just kicked it. He had his big o
boots and I guess, you know, but he kicked it
out there and it was just like a soccer shot.
And he went out in the water and this snake
was like, what the hell was that for you?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But yeah, I was just minding my own business. I'm
proud of him as a as a New Jersey native.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, that's right. You got a Southern redneck in him.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Wife.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You guys ain't scared. He was not scared together, but
he was. So he was looking at me and talking
to me while he did that. I never forgot that.
I never felt like a bigger wooss except one other time.
All Right, I'm gonna tell this. I'm gonna tell this,
and I'm gonna tell you now. It has a nasty
word in it, but it hits the story and it's
(08:32):
very funny. So I'm gonna tell this. And if you
you're if you're offended, go ahead and go now. You
can go ahead and leave now. Of course you're not
gonna because you want to hear the story the most
the most woods I ever felt. As I said, I
told you the story about the love truck stop with
the guy with the motorcycle, I don't think so. Okay.
(08:53):
So there's a there's a guy. He's got this drag bike.
And I'm gonna say this because this adds to the story.
He was like a six to three black football player
looking guy, you big built guy, you know, and he
had this drag bike on a trailer filling up at
the Loves truck stop and I'm standing there putting gas
(09:14):
in my you know, Chevvy, Oldsmobile or whatever, you know,
wife car, you know, and he I go, man, that's
a badass drag. Like he goes, thanks, Man, we're talking,
you know, and he says really really fast. And I
just couldn't imagine a guy that big riding you know,
big motorcycle. But you know he was. He looked more
like he was alignman, you know. But anyway, and I said,
(09:38):
I said, man, I like those Indians. I'd love to
have a new Indian. And he said, he said, you
should get one. And right then, Jamie, my wife was
coming out of the truck stop, and I pointed at
her and I said, she won't let me have one.
All right, here's where it comes. But I'm going to
do it word for word because it's he goes, man,
you need to find yo, Dick. Tell me he's wrong.
(10:05):
I never felt like, well, I know where it is
and that person she's all nervous. I never in my
life felt more like what it was. And this guy
is so right, you know. There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I like, I like the idea that you are not
the only person that he's given life changing advice to, like.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That, at least I ride. I drive a holl rode
every day. I don't ride a motorcycle, but I think
I could have one if I wanted. But she lets
me drive it. Oh, listen to that, she lets me
driving away. Wow. Anyway, that was it. Apparently I laughed
really hard, and he really wasn't laughing that hard. He
(10:46):
was giving me, giving me life advice.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's like, I'm trying to tell you, man, you gotta
you gotta make some.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I hope everybody heard that is more. I thought that
was funny more than they're offended. And if you're offended,
I'm sorry, but that's what you get with the Bama
Brown experience. So he thanks for listening. We appreciate it.
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