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May 8, 2025 14 mins
Have you ever wondered what your employer really doesn’t want you to know? That’s just one of the provocative questions Bama Brown and co-host Puma tackle in this unfiltered, laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience.

From the opening moments, Bama sets the tone with his trademark irreverence, addressing listener complaints and sharing a risqué joke that’s sure to set the stage for a candid conversation. The episode quickly dives into wild real-life stories-like the infamous Chicago Brinks truck heist, where $300,000 spilled onto the streets and not a single dollar was returned. Bama’s own close encounter with a cash-filled bank truck (and an armed guard) brings the drama home, blending humor with genuine suspense.

But it’s not all laughs-this episode peels back the curtain on workplace secrets. Bama and Puma break down the top three things employers hope you’ll never discover, including:
  • Your legal right to attend jury duty without fear of losing your job.
  • The real role of HR (hint: it’s not to protect you).
  • The hidden value you bring to your company-and why they’ll never tell you.
Memorable moments abound, from Bama’s deadpan impersonation of a radio program director handling a “Karen” complaint, to the jaw-dropping tale of Civil War gold allegedly seized by the FBI. As Bama puts it, “God takes care of those that can’t take care of themselves,” but when it comes to government and corporate secrets, all bets are off.

If you love sharp wit, jaw-dropping stories, and honest talk about the things most people are afraid to say, this episode is for you. Whether you’re here for the humor, the workplace wisdom, or the conspiracy-laden tales, Bama Brown delivers it all-raw, real, and unfiltered.

This episode features the dynamic banter between Bama Brown and his co-host Puma, whose quick comebacks and relatable insights keep the conversation fresh and engaging. Together, they offer a unique blend of radio veteran perspective and modern skepticism, making every story hit home.

Don’t miss out - subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience now on the iHeart Podcast Network! If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review, share your favorite moment on social, and tell a friend. Your feedback keeps us on the air (and maybe out of trouble)!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi everybody, you're listening to the Maama Brown Experience
on the iHeart Podcast network. Got a couple of complaints
about the nasty joke yesterday that I told Yeah, I
was cool. Appreciate you contacting us, letting us know what
I hurt your and feelings or whatever. You want another one?
You want me to start out with one and.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Just just shoot my wheels off at the top of
the episode instead of this time, please.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
So warning adult content, no kid listen anyway. But there
was two hookers standing on the side of the street
and the cop car went by. So the car drive
by and one hooker looks at the other one and said,
you ever been picked up by the fuzz and and
the other one goes, no, I was swung by the
boobs once. Yeah, I don't care. Did you tell I

(00:55):
don't care anymore? Exactly? It was just one of these
apple get complaints. Would call me directly so I could
tell him directly what I think about a care and
calling him complaining.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You can, uh, we need to have a hot we
need to have a complaint line so we can hould
some audio.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wouldn't that wouldn't that be awesome? We got one on
the air one time, if you go on the air.
This lady called and she goes, i'd like to pigure
your program director, and I go, okay, hold on and waited,
oh yes, this is a program director. And she bought
it hook line and singer, and she goes, I don't
like Maamma Brown. He was nasty. And I said, well,

(01:36):
you know he's we get a special needs we get
a big text deduction for hiring him. We don't really
talk about that a lot. She bought it, believed it
word for word. She goes, well, that explains. That explains
a lot, and that's good for y'all to do that,
you know, thinking to appreciate it. You know, she couldn't
tell the difference. I was.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think that says more about you than it does.
The woman complain the fact.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think so. I think you're exactly right, because.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You it was so easily biable.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was good. I was good at it. I'd make
a good manager. I'd make a good program director. Man.
I couldn't program a VC armist. I was a radioization,
but this part I did. But anyway, Uh, but hey,
we've never been lessing second or third place in thirty
eight years. Something something must be. That's why I still
get to do it because I said a lot on

(02:25):
the absolutely well, you know, God takes care of those
that can't take care of themselves, all right, But that
the cop thing reminded me of the story I saw
this week in Chicago. Well that's a that's a wonderful city.
And in Chicago, you uh, they had a Brinx truck.
I don't know who to blame here on this deal.
A Brinks truck going through Chicago. The door fell open

(02:47):
and the money fell out the back in the street,
somewhere between fifty and one hundred, that's true story, between
fifty and one hundred people went after the cash. Sure
to guess how much cash it was. Do you want
to just take a good.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Brinks trucks seventy five eighty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Three hundred thousand dollars three hundred k in bags, you know,
in a Chicago Brinks truck fell out the back and
they got all the money. These hundred people, it just
went all over the street like in a movie, and
they all grabbing their cash. Not one person has turned
in any of the cat you know that story about

(03:27):
And then the person turned into cash and was received
an award. No, not in Chicago, baby, there's grabbing that
cash and running and that's just amazing. First of all,
Larry locked the truck locked.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
To check the latch, you know, an inside job to
begin with that. A Brinks truck door just randomly flies
open and cash.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
It does smell a little bit, doesn't it. There is
a little bit. Yeah, I don't know what what. And
they were in the bags, so I'm sure some people
grabbed up the bags. They were probably standing there waiting,
So I think you're right there, Colombo is probably an
inside job. You know. One time when I was in
I was in South Austin and Bank of America was
in an office building over there, and uh, I had

(04:13):
switched my cameus south the moving to dripping, I guess
it was, and I switched my minor league little account.
I had like twelve dollars in a bank, but I
switched it over to this Bank of America. And I
got out of my car and it's weird. It's a
square building, like every building square, but it had a
parking lot. The parking lot was kind of on the backside.

(04:34):
And I'd never been in this bank, so I park
and I get out, and I'm trying to figure out
where the front door is to get in this place.
It was kind of on the side hidden, wasn't in
the front, and this thing looked the same. It was
a four story building and it looks the same or
three story. I guess it is, Hell, let me do you?
I don't even know. But I got out of my
car and I'm walking to the building and I get
almost to the building. Now I'm looking up and looking

(04:56):
for signs and I don't even realize, and there's a
bank truck sitting there with the back doors open and
no one around, and I'm within I'm gonna say, I'm
within six feet of this truck with the doors open.
I have yet to notice the truck. Now, that's how
dumb am I A Because I'm busy going looking and

(05:16):
it has like an under parking thing there, and I go,
where the hell is this open? You know, where's the
door to this place? And I look in the and
about the time I realized the bank truck doors are
open and no one's around, there's a dozen bags sitting there,
full bags of cash. And this guard I'm not Kenny Puma.

(05:37):
This guard comes around the back of the door swung open,
and it scares the shit out of him that I'm
standing there that close. I mean, it looks like I'm
getting ready to grab those bags. He goes, can I
help you, sir? And it startled me and him, but
it scared him. It scared him. And I mean all

(05:58):
this happened within an in and I went I said,
where is the front door to this place? And he goes,
it's around the side over here, sir, it's around the
you know. And he's stepped now in front of the
money and it's on the side. It's on the side, sir.
But I promise you he had his hand on his
pistol the whole time. He was getting ready to shoot
me dead. And I'm standing there ignorant, I mean literally

(06:21):
six feet from these bags of cash, had no idea,
you know, wasn't even paying attention. You know.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
The best part about it is that you genuinely are
asking where the front door is. But that also would
be the kind of question if someone was about to
grab those bags of cash and rut.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, that's what you'd make up.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I'm just I'm trying to find the front door.
I don't know how to get into the building. And
then he's like, okay, sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Sure, And nobody is going to believe that that you
know that I'm too dumb. But I was looking past it.
I swear the whole time I'm looking past it, I'm going,
where is this place?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
What? Would they design a bit and then make it?
And there was no signs anywhere that I saw. I mean,
like this way to the front door, idiot, you know,
don't get behind the cash truck, you know. But I
was looking past it, didn't see it. I was right
on it. And uh, I guess I'm lucky that the
guy didn't, uh, you didn't shoot me in the head
right there in the in the head. I saw this

(07:20):
other thing, and I wanted to say, and see what
you thought about this. This was employers. They did a
survey of employers things. The top three things they didn't
want their employees to know. Hmm, okay, all right, so
this was interesting to me and I and I wrote
them down. The number three one. I want to make

(07:41):
sure get them all. Uh. The number three one jury
duty is there's no way they can keep you from
going to jury duty. You won't get fired you won't
get in trouble if you get a jury duty summons,
you're allowed to go without any effect to your job whatsoever.
And he and they said, you'd be amazed how many
people bluff their employees into going. You need to get

(08:04):
out of that. We can't afford not heavy here, you know.
And so if you get dry duty on a trial
could take a week or two. Uh my mother was
on one for like two weeks one time, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
So ask what's the longest you've ever had to do it.
I've only ever had to do it where it was
like back to back days. And thank goodness, that was
the longest that was ever.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Got a long time ago. I did one. I was
there about about three or four hours, and I've been
in criminals since then.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
So yeah, now I don't have to worry about in.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Front of a jury. Yeah, I'm like forever.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The only problem with that is when an employer says,
you know, skip drury duty, we need you, and then
if you actually go to it and defy them, well
then it starts the process of okay, well now if
they fire you, now you've got to get a labor lawyer.
You got to do them back and they know you're
not going to go through all of that atactic.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
And that leads us to number two that they want.
They wouldn't dare let employees know. The HR is not
for the employees, it's to protect the employer.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
One that when I the first time I learned that
in my career, it was it was like someone that
had just dumped a lifetime worth of knowledge on me
all at once. It just completely changed the way I
thought about actually like being a part of that of

(09:35):
said company, Like, oh, HR, I thought I thought y'all
were my guiding light to help you out.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're not God. No, And everything that you say in
HR is reported all the way to the top, and
you get a big mark in your file if you're
you know, so think hard before you demand. You know,
somebody talks nasty two years or anything like that, Just
know that that goes in a record somewhere, and the

(10:01):
other bosses are gonna go when you call around to
try to find another job somewhere, there's a star by
your name. I promise you it's And that's one thing
employers did not want anyone to know. Then the number
one you know what the number one thing is, guess
about money.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
With the knowing co workers pay.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
They said, knowing your co workers pay not a big deal.
Could care less, they said, knowing how much you make
the company? How much money you How am I trying
to say this? What your value is to the company.
They don't want you to know that because you demand
more money of course you know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I mean it's like it's like the famous line from
the wire, Like the guy that invented uh McDonald's nuggets. Uh,
they didn't want him to know how much money they
were they were gonna make off of his idea. You
just stay down in the basement and come up with
another idea.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's big job. They will line steal. It goes all
the way to did you see the guy? Uh? And
I just found out about this. I try to keep
up with all this stuff. But uh, the guy up
in Pennsylvania that had found the Civil War gold, he
had he had searched for this forever. He can google this.

(11:15):
This is a crazy story. You can google this story.
He Uh, he had come he figured out where he
thought the Civil War gold. Uh there was. They were
trying to move some some uh. I think it was
the Union was moving against Pennsylvanian b Union. They were
moving gold on a train and somehow I got off

(11:35):
the train and they had to bury it and they
were being overrun by Confederates or something like that, so
they buried the gold. Uh. And this guy figured out
from maps he'd been working on forever and he figured
out where it was, and he went to the FBI
and he said, I want to you know, I want

(11:56):
to I want to cut of this, but I know
where it is. And he worked this whole thing out
with the FBI and they told him, okay, we're gonna
bring a crew in and they did a seismic deal.
Sure enough, the seismic showed a section on the ground
where this stuff was and it was it was almost
two hundred to three hundred million dollars in gold, real gold.

(12:19):
So they uh so they get with him and they say, okay,
we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and authorize digging on
this and this is but this is an FBI thing.
You can't come up there. You can park by it
and we'll come down and get you, you know, when
when we get the gold. So he's sitting there in
his truck with his buddy and they dig till four
o'clock in the afternoon, and they come down and they go, well,

(12:42):
we hadn't found anything yet. So then the FBI, according
to witnesses, they're supposed to stop and then start back
in the morning. So they dig all night long. Witnesses
that lived near there heard trucks and tractors running all
night long, and then a witness saw bank trucks leaving
the location during the night. And then the next day

(13:05):
they get there when they're supposed to get their nine am,
they go back up, they dig a little bit or
they hear the noises, then they come and get them,
show them this big old pit that couldn't have been
done in that length of time, and said, yeah, there
was no gold here, so you don't get anything. And
they stole the goddamn government stole the US government stole

(13:25):
this three hundred million dollars in gold. FB I did it?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Wait, I'm sorry. So are you saying we shouldn't trust
the feds?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh, you shouldn't trust federal government at all? You really
shouldn't trust the FBI for god's ake. Oh God, no,
Look what they've done in the last four years. Those
guys have pulled ever scam in the world. Uh, they've
done in the last forty Jesus Christ. It just enough
to make a bit of their resume. It just made

(13:53):
me sick to see the story. Anyway, the latest deal
was in March, and they have sued the FBI and
they're you know, and it's and they're looking I mean,
actually it looks like it could go to court. Uh,
with all these witnesses and all these people this guy's pursuing,
he's got some real uh he's got some real lawyers
involved in it, and they're gonna they're gonna find out

(14:13):
because you know, Comy and all these guys are all
just dishonest, and they're gonna catch them. I hope they
catch them and put them in prison over it. That No,
who don't tell them? Who got the go on that? Yeah? Yeah,
that never doesn't really happen, but it should. It should.
They have no integrity at all. Anyway, I thought you would.
I thought you would think that was an interesting story
there with that. Yeah. Listening to the Bammer Brown Experience

(14:37):
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