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May 20, 2025 10 mins
What’s the easiest money you’ve ever made—legally? That’s the question Bama Brown and Puma tackle in this laugh-out-loud, insight-packed episode of The Bama Brown Experience. From rebuilding carburetors to renting out your pool, this episode dives into the creative (and sometimes surprising) ways women—and really anyone—can earn extra cash without breaking the bank or their backs.

Bama shares a proud dad moment involving Emily in Paris that stuns his daughter and proves even a 67-year-old can drop a pop culture bomb. Puma, the Big Cat himself, chimes in with stories from the streets of San Antonio, including a pool party hack that’ll have you rethinking your next summer bash.

The duo breaks down five flexible, low-barrier side hustles—from pet sitting to freelance writing—and offers real-world examples, including mastering the lost art of carburetor rebuilding and a friend making serious coin managing social media from home. And don’t miss the legendary bar tab prank that left Bama both broke and impressed. It’s a masterclass in ego, timing, and the art of the practical joke.

If you laughed, learned, or just love a good hustle story, subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t forget to leave a review, share this episode with a friend, and remember: if you didn’t learn something today, at least you laughed.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown here from the Bama Brown Experience.
Thank you for joining us for the podcast. You got
ten minutes. We'll try to make you laugh or at
least tell you something you hadn't known the day before,
which if you can learn anything from the show, that's
that's really sad when I say it out loud like that. Okay,
let's move on. I got Puma with me. He's my cohort,

(00:23):
he's my wheelman, the whole thing. He actually produces this thing.
Puma the Big Cat has his own sports podcast that
is number one in San Antonio and really all over Texas.
So how do I hear that show?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Sir? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Anywhere you get your podcast, we make it super easy
on you.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
We prefer you use the old, the good old.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
iHeart app, but Spotify Apple anywhere you get them. Just
search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma coming up.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've got five jobs that women can do to make
extra money, and this isn't the sexiest thing. It'll make
sense now, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Think no, I bet I guess on the word the
first three.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Wait, four, No, this is not a see I didn't
even go there. I think that's more because I'm sixty
seven now instead of you know, thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I saw the fun on the football. I couldn't
help myself.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm glad. I'm here to set you up, all right.
I impressed my daughter.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
The other day.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
She's twenty nine years old, an attorney knows everything. But
I impressed her the other day. And this is how
I impressed her. You know, Pope Leo he got, you know,
flagged to be the guy. Now he's the Pope. But
I told my daughter I had heard this story that
the Emily in Paris TV series had to stop production

(01:41):
because of all the news helicopters flying over the Vatican.
So I guess they're filming in Italy or near the
Vatican and they had to do this to had stopped
because of the sound. And my daughter, I know, watches
a simile in Paris. She was so impressed that I
actually knew something from pop culture. She goes, man, you
may be I'm almost positive you're the only sixty seven

(02:03):
year old man on the planet going Emily in Paris,
or even no one, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I wondered, I wondered how you were going to be
able to achieve any level of any level of impressing her. Yeah,
busting out and Emily in Paris. Fun fact, that's pretty shocking.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's that put me.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
That put me way about, you know, because normally I'm like,
you know, in the movie American Graffiti, you didn't see her.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Head snap back?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Please? Sorry, no car think all right, here's what I
promised in Puma. Thought this was a good idea. Here
are five things that women can do that can make
them some extra money. Now, you know, guys can you know,
build stuff at night, and women can too. I'm not
saying that, but these are things that you could do
easily without having to invest in tools and all that.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Real quickly, on that note, I will give I need
to give my roommate so much credit because you mentioned
that guys can build stuff on the side.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
My roommate still.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Rebuilds old quadrajet carburetors on the side, no kidding. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
And so because she's learning lost art man.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Exactly, she's learning it to take it over from her
dad eventually.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
So you know, when they were new, they weren't all
that great, you know. And then and then as you
get older, you appreciate some of the quality of that stuff,
the new new stuff elderbrocks are terrible. You know, they've
all been balled by China. I'm built in China, so
they don't really I don't think there's a micrometer anywhere
in the country of China, and the ones they probably

(03:34):
make are junk, and.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
The ones if they do have probably not up to
in China.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, Number five, and this is no in particular order,
But they said pet sitting. There's a lot of you know,
when you're sitting at home tonight, you're not going to
the bars. You maybe you already have a pet, you know,
obviously got to check make sure that their pet fits
your pet. But there's a lot of people make a
lot of money pet sitting, especially app for it.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I think there is, Yeah, Yeah, because we saw, you know,
here living downtown San Antonio. Our neighborhood is changing rapidly
over the last three three years or so, and all
of a sudden, now we're seeing women with you know,
seven dogs on leashes walking through the neighborhood. And I

(04:23):
just like that she's making a little extra money.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, and it's relatively pretty easy. I don't know if
you do one or like you say, seven, I guess
that becomes a real.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Job, but taking up for a purse.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
But along those same lines, Number four was rent your
car or rent your pool. If you've got a pool
at your house, you know, and you're there, you could
rent just the pool part to people. And there's once
again I think what you said, there's a site for that.
There's an app you can.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
We've used that site before of having We threw a
poll party for a friend's birthday last year and just
literally found a you know, one of these nicer mansions
here in Alamo Heights that had a pool.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
And we just how much how much did it cost?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Man?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I want to say it was like it was about
the price of like an airbnb. It was about like
one hundred, one hundred and twenty bucks something like that.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
And we split it, you know, yeah till seven ways.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
So it was twenty bucks a person to cover the
burnt That wasn't bad at all.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Uh. The same with your car. Now, there's some issues
there with the insurance and you know, somebody driving your
car and WREXIT, that's a whole nother you know thing.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
The issues with a guy renting somebody somebody in Houston
and driving it to commit a terrorist attack in New Orleans.
That was through one of those car rental yeah, and
private car rental services.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
And just the attorney fees from that, trying to prove
you didn't really you weren't really involved in to you
with it, right, Okay, if you're a if you're a manager,
uh and you're you could do some project management. You
could contact local it could be even government even. I mean,
but you contact local company and say, look, I have
experienced with brand x media or whatever it is, and

(06:17):
then you hire on as a as a consultant or
project manager with that. So that's pretty good. That's a
pretty good way to make some cash. And you could
do it percentage wise off that project. You know, this
is the one project.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
But if you can convince someone to make you a
consultant for anything, that is easy.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Some of the easiest money you can get.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Absolutely. Number two was freelance writing. I don't really understand
what that is. I was kind of hoping you'd know
what that meant. They didn't really give any details on that.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
A lot of these, I mean, there's a lot of
you know, like independent blogs or or you know, culture
zines that are you know, here we have the what
is ours called the San Antonio current, Like I think
they're always taking you know, freelance people or offering freelance
jobs of like do you do you eat? Do you

(07:11):
go out and eat at restaurants all the time? Become
a freelance food writer?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know? Few for us?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well, that makes sense. And then number one was kind
of along those lines, was you could do it was
a kind of a consulting but slash social media person
that handles the social media for various clients. I have
a good friend of mine and does that. She makes
a ton man and she never leaves a house. She
goes and visits a couple of companies. She has like three,

(07:40):
I think one's a hospital that she actually does her
social media and you know, she's intelligent and make sure
that you know it doesn't come across as dumb or anything,
but you know, she works really hard at at getting
their message out, whatever that message may be. But she
makes some pretty good coin doing that, working from the
house and setting her own hour by.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
The way, you know, yeah, that's I mean, there's the
flexibility of uh creating your own schedule. You know we uh,
the wife and I used to work for the same
PR firm.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here in town.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
And still now that we're you know, that was a
decade ago. There's still a couple of restaurants that we,
you know, consult on their social media. We don't run,
we're not doing all of the posting, but when they
have a big event or when they're looking to really specific,
uh promote something specific, then uh, yeah we get called in.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
We don't we don't take payment from them, but.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
We have, uh, we have the value of unlimited infinite
bar tabs.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
So hey, we weren't planning to spend that much.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, you guys have come three nights in a row.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
We uh really expect this to be this kind of investment.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
That reminds me of one of the best practical jokes
I ever had played on man. I don't know a man.
I told you this when we were doing a remote
at the bar. We just to do all these bar remotes,
you know, win this remote. And I don't drink, so
just because we were in bars all the time, and
for the first three years I lived here, I drank
it all. There was none left that Austin had to
close one night because I drank every bit of alcohol

(09:16):
in the in the city anyway, So I'm at this
bar and this guy comes over to me and he goes, hey, man,
he goes, my buddy's a bartender here, and he just
there's he's the biggest Bama Brown fan in the world.
And he said, I told him I knew you would
Jesus give him away, like we're buds in the culture.
And I waved the guy. And then at the end
of the remote oh noo. Hours later, the guy goes, uh, yeah,

(09:40):
you want to take care of you all this guy
And I go, what guy, And he goes, you're sales
assistant and I go, I don't know what you're talking about.
And he goes, yeah, the guy you waved at me,
he was okay for the bar tab it's seventy five dollars,
that's son of a bitch had and I wave, yeah,
he's good, give him whatever he wants. He ran up
a seventy five dollars bar to have in two hours

(10:01):
with really that hard to do, but I said, you
know what, the station will be honored to pay that
because that is an awesome, practical joke that worked very
very I mean, he had to put some research into it.
He had to know who I was and knew that
my ego was shallow enough that I simply would just
wave as somebody go yeah, yeah, I'm I'm Bama.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah that's good star. Yeah what credit to do there?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
And Ballzy really Ballsy, I mean I was proud of him.
I was, man, that's awesome deal. I'm honored to pay it.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
So you just got to respect the hustle.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
You just got to respect the hustle. If you don't
learn anything. You try to learn something from every show,
and today it's if you just got to learn to
respect the hustle, which we've been doing at for thirty
eight years on this Bama Brown Experience on Gay d
Or Well, I guess we're not on cave that we're
on the podcast for hour.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's what it is.
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