January 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Welcome to The Bama Brown Experience, where Bama Brown and the Big Puma bring you engaging and entertaining stories, all on the iHeart Podcast Network. In this episode, we dive into the fascinating tale of Roger Thibberville, a meteorologist who left behind a surprising $10 million fortune to a small town in France. Discover the mystery behind his wealth and the unexpected generosity that followed.
But that's not all! Bama and the Big Puma share heartwarming stories of anonymous donors who have made significant impacts on their community. From a secretive billionaire who funded a YMCA playground to countless acts of kindness that have changed lives, this episode is packed with inspiring anecdotes that will restore your faith in humanity.
Join us as we explore these incredible stories - whether you're a long-time listener or new to the show, this episode of The Bama Brown Experience is one you won't want to miss. Tune in now on iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts!
But that's not all! Bama and the Big Puma share heartwarming stories of anonymous donors who have made significant impacts on their community. From a secretive billionaire who funded a YMCA playground to countless acts of kindness that have changed lives, this episode is packed with inspiring anecdotes that will restore your faith in humanity.
Join us as we explore these incredible stories - whether you're a long-time listener or new to the show, this episode of The Bama Brown Experience is one you won't want to miss. Tune in now on iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi, You're listening to the Bama Brown Experience along with
the Big Puma on the iHeart podcast network Big Puma
Sports Cave out of San Antonio. You got thousands of listeners.
How do they get in on that?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, to join the ever expanding horde of audience we
seem to be rolling into. Now. It's anywhere you get
your podcasts, prefer iHeart. But understand if you use something
outside of our umbrella, just search the Sports Cave with
Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We got to change our names so that we can
get some of this inheritance. There's a guy that died said,
of course, ten million dollars was his what he had?
And he his name? Now, this is what's important. His
name is was I should say he was ninety one
years old? Is Roger Fiberville? Fibberville. I think I'm pronouncing
(00:53):
that correctly. Roger didn't have any kin, he had no heirs,
he had nobody. He was a meteorologist, which makes me go,
I don't know another meteorologist. It's got ten million dollars,
it's got ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, so we what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I want to look that up find out anyway, Yeah,
nobody leave the money to som Thiberbil, France. The city
got the ten million.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He lived up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He looked up on a town named Thibberbille, just like
his last name, and it was one in France. He'd
never been there, didn't know anybody there, but he left
the city the ten million dollars and said here, I
hope you can use this once again. Ninety one years old,
so I'm sure he I'm sure at this point in time,
there have been a numerous nephews and nieces and cousins
(01:45):
that have showed up going wait a minute, I'm my
name's Thiberbille before.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that's a lot of it's a lot of bagettes
you could buy with ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ten million dollars just when I saw it was a meteorologist.
I've tried to find out more about him, but there
wasn't anything. So I don't know if he's a TV
one or a radio or I know it wouldn't be
a radio guy making that kind of dough.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh god, no, maybe, I mean, maybe he was I
don't know TV in New York or Chicago, LA, somewhere.
Big Market had done it for three decades. It almost
sounds like he secretly won the lottery and didn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Maybe that was it, because you see those stories all
the time about people that had lots of lots of
dough and you know, and nobody knew it. You know,
they never even spend any And you know, if you
did the same job and you did six figures a year,
you know, it adds up quick. It would add up
if you didn't spend any of it or do anything
with it.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
See as much as I I would like to think
that I would be that person that you would never
know I'm rich, but at the same time, if you
have all that money, what fun is having all that
money if you're not doing anything with it?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So blow it and didn't go do some good stuff.
You know we've had that, sure. I remember we built
the YMCA. We built the playground on over there off
of one eighty three South. Why this was twenty years ago,
and and we went twenty four hours straight on the
air to try to raise money to build this playground.
(03:17):
I think we.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Needed like it fun.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, we needed like eighty grand to do this thing
because it was a pool and slides. I mean it
turned out beautiful. So we were at sixty and we
were probably twenty five grand short, and one of the
Dellionaires called. She said, I'm going to tell you something.
I don't want to hurt your feelings when I'm sick
of hearing. Yeah, yes, you'll start playing. If you'll start playing,
(03:41):
George Strait, all right, you check right now for twenty
five grand. And they got stock bonuses from Dell. You know,
they started with Dell whenever we're out of a you know,
out of one office over there. And it'd been with
them that long and and so I just finally asked
this lady, I said, what do you got? She said,
I got about fifty mill, you know that I made
(04:02):
working for Dell. And she'd retired and delionaire, you know,
she bought stock every chance she got, and then of
course it quadrupled and all that. Anyway, she wrote us
a check for twenty five gram. But her whole deal
was no one could know who I am. I don't
want anybody, you know, knowing that. And it was such
a great deal. And I was by there one day
(04:22):
when all the kids were swimming, and I thought to myself,
I wish you know, I never asked her name. The
guy from YMCA knew her name, you know, that ran
the fundraiser. But I always I said, I wish I
could have shot video of these kids having a ball
in this pool. I mean there must have been fifty
kids in their playing and these are kids that didn't,
you know, there was no pool in their backyard. Of
(04:42):
water hops about the best they could hope for. So
it was it was really cool and they were having
a blast, and I thought, man, this was if she
could see this, she would know she did some good,
you know. It just I think that would have been
awesome for her to see that. But that was just
I had several charity deals we did, you know, we
know a lot of charity things, and we'd have every
now and then it's one of these folks to show
(05:04):
up and they would go how much you need and
we'd go, we know, we need ten grand and they go, okay,
you got it, now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Keep going, you know, now, now keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, And they never wanted their name known. It's probably
happened to me over thirty seven years. I bet it's
happened a half dozen times where I had some really
wealthy person that you wouldn't know show up and help
us with you know, coaches for kids or something. You know,
just just and go look, go to the store and
buy everything you need and just put it on this account,
you know. And that's got it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's got to take it away from.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Me immediately because they know I will buy a hard yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, the quick to quick to with a photo op
and then we'll take it right back as quick as possible. Now,
that's gotta be. That's got to go down as one
of the most expensive song requests ever in American history.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was shut up and play George Strait and all right,
shit Jack, and I said, you got it, lady.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
In done almost.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Immediately, right or a wrong. I'll always be right into George,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So yeah, I think if I was, if I were
to you know, inherit some kind of large amount of
money like that or win the lottery, I think one
of the first things I would do, would you know,
probably be just try to spread it out to as
many small towns as possible. Yeah, like like you know,
(06:31):
like obviously Austin area, San Antonio area. You know, there's uh,
you know, the big cities usually find a way to
get by. Like I would, I would try to basically
draw like a little town about an hour outside of
every major city in Texas, and just see if we couldn't.
You know, they just a little extra twenty thirty grand
(06:56):
here and there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're a good guy. All all my money would go
to charity or Tiffany or Amber, whoever's dancing.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
At whoever's working the lunch shift on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I got you what you thought, Obama's gonna be nice? No, no, no,
that show is never gonna happen. I'm always gonna trash
it up at the inn. All right, you've been twisting
to the Bama Brown experience, along with the very nice
Big Puma and of course me on the iHeart Podcast network.
Tell everybody please
Hi, You're listening to the Bama Brown Experience along with
the Big Puma on the iHeart podcast network Big Puma
Sports Cave out of San Antonio. You got thousands of listeners.
How do they get in on that?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, to join the ever expanding horde of audience we
seem to be rolling into. Now. It's anywhere you get
your podcasts, prefer iHeart. But understand if you use something
outside of our umbrella, just search the Sports Cave with
Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We got to change our names so that we can
get some of this inheritance. There's a guy that died said,
of course, ten million dollars was his what he had?
And he his name? Now, this is what's important. His
name is was I should say he was ninety one
years old? Is Roger Fiberville? Fibberville. I think I'm pronouncing
(00:53):
that correctly. Roger didn't have any kin, he had no heirs,
he had nobody. He was a meteorologist, which makes me go,
I don't know another meteorologist. It's got ten million dollars,
it's got ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, so we what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I want to look that up find out anyway, Yeah,
nobody leave the money to som Thiberbil, France. The city
got the ten million.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He lived up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He looked up on a town named Thibberbille, just like
his last name, and it was one in France. He'd
never been there, didn't know anybody there, but he left
the city the ten million dollars and said here, I
hope you can use this once again. Ninety one years old,
so I'm sure he I'm sure at this point in time,
there have been a numerous nephews and nieces and cousins
(01:45):
that have showed up going wait a minute, I'm my
name's Thiberbille before.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, that's a lot of it's a lot of bagettes
you could buy with ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ten million dollars just when I saw it was a meteorologist.
I've tried to find out more about him, but there
wasn't anything. So I don't know if he's a TV
one or a radio or I know it wouldn't be
a radio guy making that kind of dough.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh god, no, maybe, I mean, maybe he was I
don't know TV in New York or Chicago, LA, somewhere.
Big Market had done it for three decades. It almost
sounds like he secretly won the lottery and didn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Maybe that was it, because you see those stories all
the time about people that had lots of lots of
dough and you know, and nobody knew it. You know,
they never even spend any And you know, if you
did the same job and you did six figures a year,
you know, it adds up quick. It would add up
if you didn't spend any of it or do anything
with it.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
See as much as I I would like to think
that I would be that person that you would never
know I'm rich, but at the same time, if you
have all that money, what fun is having all that
money if you're not doing anything with it?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So blow it and didn't go do some good stuff.
You know we've had that, sure. I remember we built
the YMCA. We built the playground on over there off
of one eighty three South. Why this was twenty years ago,
and and we went twenty four hours straight on the
air to try to raise money to build this playground.
(03:17):
I think we.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Needed like it fun.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, we needed like eighty grand to do this thing
because it was a pool and slides. I mean it
turned out beautiful. So we were at sixty and we
were probably twenty five grand short, and one of the
Dellionaires called. She said, I'm going to tell you something.
I don't want to hurt your feelings when I'm sick
of hearing. Yeah, yes, you'll start playing. If you'll start playing,
(03:41):
George Strait, all right, you check right now for twenty
five grand. And they got stock bonuses from Dell. You know,
they started with Dell whenever we're out of a you know,
out of one office over there. And it'd been with
them that long and and so I just finally asked
this lady, I said, what do you got? She said,
I got about fifty mill, you know that I made
(04:02):
working for Dell. And she'd retired and delionaire, you know,
she bought stock every chance she got, and then of
course it quadrupled and all that. Anyway, she wrote us
a check for twenty five gram. But her whole deal
was no one could know who I am. I don't
want anybody, you know, knowing that. And it was such
a great deal. And I was by there one day
(04:22):
when all the kids were swimming, and I thought to myself,
I wish you know, I never asked her name. The
guy from YMCA knew her name, you know, that ran
the fundraiser. But I always I said, I wish I
could have shot video of these kids having a ball
in this pool. I mean there must have been fifty
kids in their playing and these are kids that didn't,
you know, there was no pool in their backyard. Of
(04:42):
water hops about the best they could hope for. So
it was it was really cool and they were having
a blast, and I thought, man, this was if she
could see this, she would know she did some good,
you know. It just I think that would have been
awesome for her to see that. But that was just
I had several charity deals we did, you know, we
know a lot of charity things, and we'd have every
now and then it's one of these folks to show
(05:04):
up and they would go how much you need and
we'd go, we know, we need ten grand and they go, okay,
you got it, now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Keep going, you know, now, now keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, And they never wanted their name known. It's probably
happened to me over thirty seven years. I bet it's
happened a half dozen times where I had some really
wealthy person that you wouldn't know show up and help
us with you know, coaches for kids or something. You know,
just just and go look, go to the store and
buy everything you need and just put it on this account,
you know. And that's got it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's got to take it away from.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Me immediately because they know I will buy a hard yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, the quick to quick to with a photo op
and then we'll take it right back as quick as possible. Now,
that's gotta be. That's got to go down as one
of the most expensive song requests ever in American history.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was shut up and play George Strait and all right,
shit Jack, and I said, you got it, lady.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
In done almost.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Immediately, right or a wrong. I'll always be right into George,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So yeah, I think if I was, if I were
to you know, inherit some kind of large amount of
money like that or win the lottery, I think one
of the first things I would do, would you know,
probably be just try to spread it out to as
many small towns as possible. Yeah, like like you know,
(06:31):
like obviously Austin area, San Antonio area. You know, there's uh,
you know, the big cities usually find a way to
get by. Like I would, I would try to basically
draw like a little town about an hour outside of
every major city in Texas, and just see if we couldn't.
You know, they just a little extra twenty thirty grand
(06:56):
here and there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're a good guy. All all my money would go
to charity or Tiffany or Amber, whoever's dancing.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
At whoever's working the lunch shift on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I got you what you thought, Obama's gonna be nice? No, no, no,
that show is never gonna happen. I'm always gonna trash
it up at the inn. All right, you've been twisting
to the Bama Brown experience, along with the very nice
Big Puma and of course me on the iHeart Podcast network.
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