What’s the wildest thing your kid has ever brought to school? In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and the Big Puma dive headfirst into a whirlwind of hilarious headlines, parenting misadventures, and airline horror stories that will leave you shaking your head—and laughing out loud.
The show kicks off with a jaw-dropping story out of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where a young child brought jello shots to school for show-and-tell. Yes, really. That leads Bama and Puma down a rabbit hole of equally absurd parenting tales, including a Texas mom who unknowingly served alcoholic jello shots at a kid’s birthday party and another who took a group of 13-year-olds to Hooters—completely unaware of what it was.
From there, the duo shifts gears to rank the best and worst airlines in America, based on a national survey and their own unforgettable travel experiences. From being asked to switch seats mid-flight to “balance the plane,” to watching airline workers shrug off fuel leaks with a casual “F it, it’ll hold,” the stories are as outrageous as they are relatable.
Whether you’re a parent, a frequent flyer, or just someone who loves a good laugh, this episode is packed with stories that are too wild to make up. If this episode made you laugh, cringe, or question your next flight—subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
Don’t forget to leave a review, share it with a friend, and follow us for more weekly episodes full of real talk and ridiculous stories.
The show kicks off with a jaw-dropping story out of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where a young child brought jello shots to school for show-and-tell. Yes, really. That leads Bama and Puma down a rabbit hole of equally absurd parenting tales, including a Texas mom who unknowingly served alcoholic jello shots at a kid’s birthday party and another who took a group of 13-year-olds to Hooters—completely unaware of what it was.
From there, the duo shifts gears to rank the best and worst airlines in America, based on a national survey and their own unforgettable travel experiences. From being asked to switch seats mid-flight to “balance the plane,” to watching airline workers shrug off fuel leaks with a casual “F it, it’ll hold,” the stories are as outrageous as they are relatable.
Whether you’re a parent, a frequent flyer, or just someone who loves a good laugh, this episode is packed with stories that are too wild to make up. If this episode made you laugh, cringe, or question your next flight—subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
Don’t forget to leave a review, share it with a friend, and follow us for more weekly episodes full of real talk and ridiculous stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, Hi, I hope everybody's doing well, and welcome to
the Bama Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network. Give us ten minutes.
We'll try to make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Except yesterday it was a pretty sad show you talking
about plane crashes stuff. So we won't talk about plane
crad We'll talk about best and worst airlines today. How
about that Puma, my potting and crime here, the Big Puma,
the big Cat got the sports Cave there in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How do I get a hold of that show?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh, we make it easy on you. I like how.
I like how you're trying to make up for yesterday's
plane crash story now with actually no, here are the best,
best of the best when it comes to airline travel.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No, wherever you get your podcasts, just search for the
Sports Cave with Biggest Puma if you haven't, if you
missed the live stream last night, catch the audio version
out now wherever you get your podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Puma will not be talking about plane crashes. But in
that show. It's show. I thought this was interesting. In Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
a kid brought jello.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Shots to school for show and tell. He's a little kid.
I mean they still do it showing and he had.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I have so many questions. It reminds me of There
was the mom here in Texas a couple of weeks
ago that got busted for giving jello shots out at
a party. And she think she didn't make them. She
bought them from like Facebook marketplace, and she genuinely claims
she didn't realize that they had alcohol in them. She
(01:39):
thought they were just little shots of only jello for
her kid's birthday party.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We had that happen in Drippen Springs one time when
Alex was little.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A lady took uh.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All of the guys, like you know, it was a
birthday deal and asked her son, where do you want
to go have lunch?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And he said who? And so she took some black kids.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Some little thirteen fourteen year old kids to the Hooters
for a birthday party. And she said, I had no
idea what it was, you know, because parents has lost
their minds, you know. And this was before this was
before the neighbor's page you know that they had. I mean,
so they would have roasted her on that, but I
(02:24):
mean it was funny because Jamie said, I truly talked
to her you know, laughing about it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And she said she didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Know what a Hooters was. She never, you know, just
didn't know, and you can't imagine that. But she said,
we walked in there and there's these scantily cladded girls,
and she's the boys are just he said. She said,
all of a sudden, I'm the coolest mom in school,
but all the other moms are mad at me.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Funny how that works. Sometimes I forget how innocent other
people are. Right, Yeah, sometimes sometimes I get too hung
up on the fact that I know way too much
bad stuff. Lost my innocence so long ago. I still
forget there are people out there that genuinely don't know
what a Hooters is or don't know what jello shots are.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When my wife told me that story that my answer,
of course, was awesome, and that one the right answer.
That was, well, you're no work, You're no better dad
than any of those like, hey, come on.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Man, it's more voice. Pick another, pick another answer.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, it's not so stupid, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Here's the best and worst airlines, according to the survey
they took its National Survey. Best airline Number three was
Hawaiian Airline.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't think you can testify.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm gonna say this, everybody's going if you're going to Hawaii,
you're gonna be in a good mood.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So everything's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No matter what happens, You're gonna go, ah, everything's great
because I'm going to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You know, it's hard to have a bad customer service
experience when you're hyped out. I will say this. When
we flew to Hawaii, I got really, really, really tired
of hearing the mainly white airline crew tell me mahalow
and speak of Hawaiian to me the whole time is like, look, brother,
(04:12):
like me, do you man de man? I know you're
not fluent, and yeah, come on talking normally. Yeah, I
quit trying to I don't need a lay. I don't
need any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We got out there and one time went to Honolulu
for a week, me and my wife and my daughter,
and somebody was saying mahala and I answered with kimona
and that's a dragon. That was stupid because I thought
that was a word of like kimona.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And they have this bewildered look on their face, like.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, what is he? What is he?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
An idiot? It said, Kimona, why would you say Dragon?
Why would you do that? Because you're stupid?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Alaska An Airline was number two.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, I doing well, doing everything right. We're up
in the When we flew to Seattle, we on Alaskan
air and it's similar to Hawaiian like. There is an
absolute noticeable elevated experience compared to your normal domestic fare.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And in the number one nationwide. Southwest really was rated
number one. I every time I've flown south well, expectations
are low. You know, you see where you are, you
fly the plane. If you're sober enough, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If the door doesn't fly off mid flight, well then
you get the thumbs up. That's a solid rating that no.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Expectations are low, nobody, nobody's hassling you and just whatever.
Now the worst airlines here we go. Number three Jet Blue. Yeah,
I've only been on Jet Blue once. I was not impressed,
But I was less impressed when I was on number
two Spirit Airline.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Was that's not a good airline.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm surprised Spirit is number two. I figured it was
a lock for the worst one.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They almost tied with Front Tierron Tier was number man.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Where's the old Uh, my old man used to call it.
Remember uh taka t a k A. I think they're
out of business now, but my old man used to
call them take a Chance Airline. And I think that's
why they're out of business now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I flew one time into Mobile and uh it was
a two two engine, you know, and Buddy Holly planes,
you know, and and uh, I was not not comfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I remember I walked up.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You walked on the tarmac, you know, you wasn't you
weren't going down a tunnel to get on yet you
go down some stairs and walk out on the tarmac.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And this was, uh it must have been Houston to Mobile.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And it was like six of us and I had
my suitcase and the guy goes, yeah, I just throw
it anywhere there in that back deal there. Yeah, And
so got on and there was two pilots pile of
copy of that you could you know, they were right
in front of you. And I'll never forget because I
was about three hundred and thirty pounds. He made me
move to the other side of the plane. Swear to god,
(07:05):
I had to get up. He said, hey, I need
you to hop over on this side. And the balance
the plane out, and I was like, if it's if
y'all are running, it's that close. I mean, I know
I'm a fat ass, but come on, man, that's you know,
top or off, and let's you know, the.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
World fattest man shouldn't be able to affect the trajectory
of any airplane, that type.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Of any type of transportation bus.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The only time I've ever genuinely been a little worried
on an airplane was when I flew when I visited
my little brother when he was a missionary in China,
and we flew Chinese domestic airline from like from Beijing
to Guangzhou. And first of all, it's a free role.
(08:00):
You're just a ticket gets you on the plane. You
figure the rest out from there. Found it like the
plane you were talking about yesterday, all stripped down for
make ready. It was all crazy all and the only
thing that made it better was as my anxiety and
nerves started to skyrocket. Uh, you were still allowed to
(08:24):
smoke on the plane, so at least I'm sitting there here,
I'm just this thing. It feels like it's just barely
staying in the air, and I'm just I'm about to
land in the in the highland, the hinterlands of of
southeast China, and this is this is how it ends.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I remember one time I'm sitting there and it was
a guy on the ground and he was up under
watching something dripped.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He was watching it drip. That's concerning with his you know,
he's guy's head set on.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
He's had on, you know, and and he's you can
see him talking to somebody in the headset and the
guy and the guy walks over and they're both standing
there and they're watching it dripped together.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And then you could read his lips and he went
And I wasn't the only one. The guy in front
of me, he stood up and looked around.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
He said, you saw that, right, And I go, yeah, hello, hello,
what these guys?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was like, we're not on the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And then it'll be fine. I'll hold, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And as my old as my dad used to say,
it'll ride, ride.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And tack it up. It'll hold.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Anytime anybody says the words, I ought to hold it know,
something's potential of coming loose. I'll never forget that though.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It he just it is fine.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You know that chances from massive catastrophe are skyrocket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I bet that's what's been said every time when a
plane's falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You know there's some guy back there going how all night.
You know it'll fly work, don't worry about it, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's the Bevan Brown experience on the iHeart podcast Network.
Well, Hi, I hope everybody's doing well, and welcome to
the Bama Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network. Give us ten minutes.
We'll try to make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Except yesterday it was a pretty sad show you talking
about plane crashes stuff. So we won't talk about plane
crad We'll talk about best and worst airlines today. How
about that Puma, my potting and crime here, the Big Puma,
the big Cat got the sports Cave there in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How do I get a hold of that show?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh, we make it easy on you. I like how.
I like how you're trying to make up for yesterday's
plane crash story now with actually no, here are the best,
best of the best when it comes to airline travel.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No, wherever you get your podcasts, just search for the
Sports Cave with Biggest Puma if you haven't, if you
missed the live stream last night, catch the audio version
out now wherever you get your podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Puma will not be talking about plane crashes. But in
that show. It's show. I thought this was interesting. In Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
a kid brought jello.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Shots to school for show and tell. He's a little kid.
I mean they still do it showing and he had.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I have so many questions. It reminds me of There
was the mom here in Texas a couple of weeks
ago that got busted for giving jello shots out at
a party. And she think she didn't make them. She
bought them from like Facebook marketplace, and she genuinely claims
she didn't realize that they had alcohol in them. She
(01:39):
thought they were just little shots of only jello for
her kid's birthday party.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We had that happen in Drippen Springs one time when
Alex was little.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A lady took uh.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All of the guys, like you know, it was a
birthday deal and asked her son, where do you want
to go have lunch?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And he said who? And so she took some black kids.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Some little thirteen fourteen year old kids to the Hooters
for a birthday party. And she said, I had no
idea what it was, you know, because parents has lost
their minds, you know. And this was before this was
before the neighbor's page you know that they had. I mean,
so they would have roasted her on that, but I
(02:24):
mean it was funny because Jamie said, I truly talked
to her you know, laughing about it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And she said she didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Know what a Hooters was. She never, you know, just
didn't know, and you can't imagine that. But she said,
we walked in there and there's these scantily cladded girls,
and she's the boys are just he said. She said,
all of a sudden, I'm the coolest mom in school,
but all the other moms are mad at me.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Funny how that works. Sometimes I forget how innocent other
people are. Right, Yeah, sometimes sometimes I get too hung
up on the fact that I know way too much
bad stuff. Lost my innocence so long ago. I still
forget there are people out there that genuinely don't know
what a Hooters is or don't know what jello shots are.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When my wife told me that story that my answer,
of course, was awesome, and that one the right answer.
That was, well, you're no work, You're no better dad
than any of those like, hey, come on.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Man, it's more voice. Pick another, pick another answer.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, it's not so stupid, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Here's the best and worst airlines, according to the survey
they took its National Survey. Best airline Number three was
Hawaiian Airline.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't think you can testify.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm gonna say this, everybody's going if you're going to Hawaii,
you're gonna be in a good mood.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So everything's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No matter what happens, You're gonna go, ah, everything's great
because I'm going to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You know, it's hard to have a bad customer service
experience when you're hyped out. I will say this. When
we flew to Hawaii, I got really, really, really tired
of hearing the mainly white airline crew tell me mahalow
and speak of Hawaiian to me the whole time is like, look, brother,
(04:12):
like me, do you man de man? I know you're
not fluent, and yeah, come on talking normally. Yeah, I
quit trying to I don't need a lay. I don't
need any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We got out there and one time went to Honolulu
for a week, me and my wife and my daughter,
and somebody was saying mahala and I answered with kimona
and that's a dragon. That was stupid because I thought
that was a word of like kimona.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And they have this bewildered look on their face, like.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, what is he? What is he?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
An idiot? It said, Kimona, why would you say Dragon?
Why would you do that? Because you're stupid?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Alaska An Airline was number two.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, I doing well, doing everything right. We're up
in the When we flew to Seattle, we on Alaskan
air and it's similar to Hawaiian like. There is an
absolute noticeable elevated experience compared to your normal domestic fare.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And in the number one nationwide. Southwest really was rated
number one. I every time I've flown south well, expectations
are low. You know, you see where you are, you
fly the plane. If you're sober enough, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
If the door doesn't fly off mid flight, well then
you get the thumbs up. That's a solid rating that no.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Expectations are low, nobody, nobody's hassling you and just whatever.
Now the worst airlines here we go. Number three Jet Blue. Yeah,
I've only been on Jet Blue once. I was not impressed,
But I was less impressed when I was on number
two Spirit Airline.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Was that's not a good airline.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm surprised Spirit is number two. I figured it was
a lock for the worst one.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They almost tied with Front Tierron Tier was number man.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Where's the old Uh, my old man used to call it.
Remember uh taka t a k A. I think they're
out of business now, but my old man used to
call them take a Chance Airline. And I think that's
why they're out of business now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I flew one time into Mobile and uh it was
a two two engine, you know, and Buddy Holly planes,
you know, and and uh, I was not not comfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I remember I walked up.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You walked on the tarmac, you know, you wasn't you
weren't going down a tunnel to get on yet you
go down some stairs and walk out on the tarmac.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And this was, uh it must have been Houston to Mobile.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And it was like six of us and I had
my suitcase and the guy goes, yeah, I just throw
it anywhere there in that back deal there. Yeah, And
so got on and there was two pilots pile of
copy of that you could you know, they were right
in front of you. And I'll never forget because I
was about three hundred and thirty pounds. He made me
move to the other side of the plane. Swear to god,
(07:05):
I had to get up. He said, hey, I need
you to hop over on this side. And the balance
the plane out, and I was like, if it's if
y'all are running, it's that close. I mean, I know
I'm a fat ass, but come on, man, that's you know,
top or off, and let's you know, the.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
World fattest man shouldn't be able to affect the trajectory
of any airplane, that type.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Of any type of transportation bus.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The only time I've ever genuinely been a little worried
on an airplane was when I flew when I visited
my little brother when he was a missionary in China,
and we flew Chinese domestic airline from like from Beijing
to Guangzhou. And first of all, it's a free role.
(08:00):
You're just a ticket gets you on the plane. You
figure the rest out from there. Found it like the
plane you were talking about yesterday, all stripped down for
make ready. It was all crazy all and the only
thing that made it better was as my anxiety and
nerves started to skyrocket. Uh, you were still allowed to
(08:24):
smoke on the plane, so at least I'm sitting there here,
I'm just this thing. It feels like it's just barely
staying in the air, and I'm just I'm about to
land in the in the highland, the hinterlands of of
southeast China, and this is this is how it ends.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I remember one time I'm sitting there and it was
a guy on the ground and he was up under
watching something dripped.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He was watching it drip. That's concerning with his you know,
he's guy's head set on.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
He's had on, you know, and and he's you can
see him talking to somebody in the headset and the
guy and the guy walks over and they're both standing
there and they're watching it dripped together.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And then you could read his lips and he went
And I wasn't the only one. The guy in front
of me, he stood up and looked around.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
He said, you saw that, right, And I go, yeah, hello, hello,
what these guys?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was like, we're not on the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And then it'll be fine. I'll hold, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And as my old as my dad used to say,
it'll ride, ride.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And tack it up. It'll hold.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Anytime anybody says the words, I ought to hold it know,
something's potential of coming loose. I'll never forget that though.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It he just it is fine.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You know that chances from massive catastrophe are skyrocket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I bet that's what's been said every time when a
plane's falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You know there's some guy back there going how all night.
You know it'll fly work, don't worry about it, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That's the Bevan Brown experience on the iHeart podcast Network.
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