June 26, 2025 • 10 mins
In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and his co-host, the ever-charismatic Big Puma, dive headfirst into a whirlwind of bizarre headlines, personal anecdotes, and sharp-witted commentary that only they can deliver.
From a man harboring a massive alligator in a Virginia motel room to a woman being billed $4,500 for a $4.50 parking ticket, the duo unpacks the absurdity of modern life with their signature Southern charm and humor. Bama also shares a hilariously heated encounter at Barnes & Noble that turns into a lesson on customer service, privacy, and the power of public shaming.
Key Highlights:
Don’t miss out! Subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. If you laughed, learned, or just love a good gator story—leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!
From a man harboring a massive alligator in a Virginia motel room to a woman being billed $4,500 for a $4.50 parking ticket, the duo unpacks the absurdity of modern life with their signature Southern charm and humor. Bama also shares a hilariously heated encounter at Barnes & Noble that turns into a lesson on customer service, privacy, and the power of public shaming.
Key Highlights:
- A motel guest’s unexpected reptilian roommate.
- A parking garage fiasco that ends in public radio justice.
- Bama’s fiery face-off with a bookstore clerk over a loyalty program.
- Home design trends: the best and worst paint colors to sell your house.
- A nostalgic look at Sears catalog homes and the beauty of Texas porch living.
Don’t miss out! Subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. If you laughed, learned, or just love a good gator story—leave us a review and share the episode with a friend!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown wigin the iHeart Podcast Network. Thank
you for listening to the Bama Brown experience. Thousands are listening.
Appreciate it along with my partner in crime here, the
Big Puma, the Big Cat, and he's got the Sports
gay very popular podcast. Love plugging that thing for you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, sir, always appreciate it. Always good to be back
with you anywhere you get your podcasts. To prefer that
iHeart app But just search for the Sports Cave with
Biggest Puma. We try to make it easy for you.
Should be I think we got it good enough SEO
these days that it should pop right up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good. That's good. It's an awesome show. Of course to
Puma played basketball. He played college basketball. I knows what
he's talking about. You want some boneheads, A couple of boneheads.
I'm not doing them on air anymore, strictly doing them here.
So if you listen to Cavett for years, I was
on Cavett Do It in the Morning's doing boneheads and
I do them here now. I enjoyed that run, had
a good run thirty eight years. But now I'm doing
(00:57):
this along with Puma. I appreciate it. He's actually running everything.
I just got to sit here like a monkey. Let's
do a couple of the boneheads. There was in Huntington, Virginia.
Don't know the man's name. They called the police, who
came to the motel there. This was in the once
again Huntington, Virginia, knocked on the door. Out in the door.
(01:19):
He had a six foot, four hundred pound alligator in
the room with him. He was carrying it to a
zoo in North Carolina, and he didn't want to leave
in the car, he said, he brought it in the room.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, it's like, you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean, you don't want to leave your dog in
the car unattended. So I guess why would you leave
your alligator unattended?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, if you broke into that car, imagine which he did.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That would be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The bonehead you had the other week of the guy
that stole the car up having the cop in the
car with him.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, in the back was going through the car and
he drove off with the cop in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That was I'd rather have the cop in the backseat
of the car that I stole in an four hundred
pound alligator. You just looking in your rear view mirror
and that gator's laid across the back seat.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He said it was the guy had seen it in
the hallway of the Mota. He had it on a leash.
Believe it or not, this story is almost unbelievable, but
it's true. It's off of our deal there from the police.
Let's see, here's another one. Yettita Cave. I believe I'm
pronouncing her name correct. Let's see. She was at a
(02:28):
parking garage and she parked the car for two hours
four dollars or fifty cents, all right. They mailed her
a bill for forty five hundred dollars. Good and yeah,
and then seized her car. He locked it up and
took it because she hadn't paid the forty five hundred dollars.
So she called the place that came and got the cars.
(02:49):
Police couldn't get involved. They go, no, it's a private deal.
You know, it's a private garage, so we're not going
to get involved in that. So she called the people.
They said, yeah, it's our print out mistake. You don't
know forty five hundred dollars you paid the four fifty.
I mean she had her ticket where she paid, you know,
when she went in and she was trying to get
her you know, come out, and he and the car
was gone ed. She said, uh, she called a radio
(03:12):
show there, and then they called the guy and put
him on live, even though you're not supposed to do.
They put him on live whatever town was in and
they embarrassed him and said, look, man, you got to pay.
And so she finally got her money. So look see
radio did good there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, That's what I was about to say.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I have long held the belief that we started to
deteriorate as a society when we stopped publicly shaming people.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, you got to be a shame.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You gotta shame a little bit. Sometimes you got to
shame people into doing the right thing. Unfortunately, it's just
the case.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I used to say, I'm gonna talk about you today.
What I say now is up to you and how
you handle this exactly right.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've got the power of the power of the people.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I remember going to Barnes and Noble. One time I'd
go and I'd get magazines at Barnes and Noble, I said,
like holding them magazine and the lady always goes, are
you part of our you know, club or you're one
of our you know, you know, value members. And I
go no, and I don't want to be thank you,
And she goes, well, you would have saved you know,
four dollars or something. I go, I know, but I
(04:15):
got hacked one time when I did one of these deals,
and it cost me nearly one thousand dollars to get
it cleared up. So I don't want to be on
your on your you know, mailing list and get junk
mail every hour. And she goes, well, I guess you
don't like saving money. Actually said that to me, and
I said. I came very close to letting her have it,
(04:35):
but then I, you know, because insulting me, now, you know,
And I said it now, I just wanted to come
in here and buy magazines at this door. That's all
I wanted to do. I didn't come in here to
get insulted. I didn't come in here to have you
pound on me like a door to door salesman. I
just wanted to buy these magazines with this money right
here and that I'm trying to pay you with. And
(04:57):
I said, these everyone magazines have got a deal in
there where I could just buy this and have it
delivered to my house, and then nobody will be working
in at Barnes and Noble anymore because there won't be one,
you know. I try to make my point, is it
you got very little left and this is not helping you.
And so I told this story on the air, and
(05:19):
next time I was in Barnes and Noble, she goes, well,
I know you're not a member, so it worked. She
must have got her ass tuned out, buddy, you're not
a member, you know, real And I didn't know who
she knew who I was, you know, but what she said,
I guess you don't like saving money and did it
with her head thing, you know, And I'm about to
(05:42):
just walk out of these magazines. Then then what do
we do? Then?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I don't I don't think you realize how I am
single handedly keeping you in business by buying the magazine.
Like there are so many other ways I could be
consuming this media.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Absolutely, but I just like going in there and looking
and buying a few car magazines, you know. But I
was spending fifty sixty bucks a month at the one
and now I'm anyway, she got reamed out. I'm glad too.
I'm glad she got it. Uh, if you're going to
sell your house blooming now, you will never sell yours.
I'm never gonna sell mine. But if you're trying to
sell your house, here's the top five colors it will
(06:18):
help you sell your house. They said, uh, this is inside.
Uh this, I've completely didn't. I haven't seen any of these.
Dark olive green for the kitchen. Number one shots.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's pretty popular, is it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I said, a lot on these, uh you know, the
the shows, and yeah, shows that I see, uh Steph
watching that seems to be seems to be a recurring color.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Navy blue on the bedrooms.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah don't.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They say, Uh, navy blue is really good for like
you're sleeping, like it's a good.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Time against the darker better.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, and blue is one of those.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So I always thought if it was bright colors that
was better. Dark gray for the living room that looks
kind of distinguished. I think, you know, with a white trim,
you know, it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And they said inside, the worst colors you can use
inside are daisy yellow or fire hydrant red. Both of
those colors are dated pretty bad, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I don't think, I mean, I don't think I would
want red red's just such a Satan's house.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Too. Yeah, that Satan lives here. I think the I
think you would.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Technically say, the outside of our house is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Is that yellow color?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
See ours is too, ours a Mediterranean style and that's
that light yellowish color like you see. You know you've
got Yours is an old style, real cool Victorian looking house,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, it's uh, it's it's I think it was nineteen
either nineteen ten or nineteen twelve build date.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But there's still you know, there's pieces of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wood that I found in the house that still have
the uh parent Bidyl lumber company stamp on it there
because the house was just bought out of a Sears catalog.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, take the how you take the blueprint to your
local lumber store, your local lumber yard, and the one
that this house was built with was the parent Bidal lumberyard.
A bunch of the houses here in the neighborhood because
we've I got another buddy who has two houses on
the same lot and he remodeled them all and turned
(08:30):
them into it's a bar restaurant. O. Their houses here
from the same era as ires, and it's all of
them pretty much all of them were built from that
same lumberyard material.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's cool. See that. And I built this house that
we live in now, and uh I built the one
before and built my rent houses. But uh, you know,
I just I kind of made up my own design.
But I always did like that the I call it
Tuscany style, you know, like that Italian style. But I
don't know if people are still doing that anymore or not.
That may be old, you know, people don't like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I always did always, just like anything. I mean, it's
all cyclical.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean, it's all going to come back around and
go back out of style three more times before you
I never.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I love a Texas the Texas front porch style, the
ranch style. That was always my really I think my
favorite house. The three rental houses I built, you know,
I physically built them, and each one of them they're
on my property, so they face they face east and
there and I lined them up with the sun so
when the sun comes up and in about two o'clock
every day. Now they were going to have a porch
(09:43):
on the front, and they have a big deck on
the front, and but they go to shade between two
and three o'clock every day, so you could sit on
the front and be in the shade then, but you
have a view and it's eighty feet apart, so there's
no next to your neighbor. And it's just really nice.
But I didn't even know that. I got the walls
up and I realized, Man, I don't have to put
the front deck, you know, the porch top on, you know,
(10:06):
and it'll do exactly the same thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So yeah, that's a that's a nice it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It wasn't the opposite of that where you realized, yeah,
the build.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The back of the house gets really really.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hot, man, Yeah, I bet, I bet it does.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That sun bears down and there's no windows in the back.
It's just flat. But it's already its three years old,
and the paint's already fading on the back there on on,
on all three of them. Actually, you know, I can
just tell I'm gonna be repainting that back you're pretty
quick in the next year or so. All right. In fact,
I'll go and get on that right now. So you're
(10:44):
listening to the Vama Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast network,
we should appreciate it,
Hey, folks, Bama Brown wigin the iHeart Podcast Network. Thank
you for listening to the Bama Brown experience. Thousands are listening.
Appreciate it along with my partner in crime here, the
Big Puma, the Big Cat, and he's got the Sports
gay very popular podcast. Love plugging that thing for you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, sir, always appreciate it. Always good to be back
with you anywhere you get your podcasts. To prefer that
iHeart app But just search for the Sports Cave with
Biggest Puma. We try to make it easy for you.
Should be I think we got it good enough SEO
these days that it should pop right up.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good. That's good. It's an awesome show. Of course to
Puma played basketball. He played college basketball. I knows what
he's talking about. You want some boneheads, A couple of boneheads.
I'm not doing them on air anymore, strictly doing them here.
So if you listen to Cavett for years, I was
on Cavett Do It in the Morning's doing boneheads and
I do them here now. I enjoyed that run, had
a good run thirty eight years. But now I'm doing
(00:57):
this along with Puma. I appreciate it. He's actually running everything.
I just got to sit here like a monkey. Let's
do a couple of the boneheads. There was in Huntington, Virginia.
Don't know the man's name. They called the police, who
came to the motel there. This was in the once
again Huntington, Virginia, knocked on the door. Out in the door.
(01:19):
He had a six foot, four hundred pound alligator in
the room with him. He was carrying it to a
zoo in North Carolina, and he didn't want to leave
in the car, he said, he brought it in the room.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, it's like, you don't.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean, you don't want to leave your dog in
the car unattended. So I guess why would you leave
your alligator unattended?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, if you broke into that car, imagine which he did.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That would be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The bonehead you had the other week of the guy
that stole the car up having the cop in the
car with him.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, in the back was going through the car and
he drove off with the cop in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That was I'd rather have the cop in the backseat
of the car that I stole in an four hundred
pound alligator. You just looking in your rear view mirror
and that gator's laid across the back seat.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He said it was the guy had seen it in
the hallway of the Mota. He had it on a leash.
Believe it or not, this story is almost unbelievable, but
it's true. It's off of our deal there from the police.
Let's see, here's another one. Yettita Cave. I believe I'm
pronouncing her name correct. Let's see. She was at a
(02:28):
parking garage and she parked the car for two hours
four dollars or fifty cents, all right. They mailed her
a bill for forty five hundred dollars. Good and yeah,
and then seized her car. He locked it up and
took it because she hadn't paid the forty five hundred dollars.
So she called the place that came and got the cars.
(02:49):
Police couldn't get involved. They go, no, it's a private deal.
You know, it's a private garage, so we're not going
to get involved in that. So she called the people.
They said, yeah, it's our print out mistake. You don't
know forty five hundred dollars you paid the four fifty.
I mean she had her ticket where she paid, you know,
when she went in and she was trying to get
her you know, come out, and he and the car
was gone ed. She said, uh, she called a radio
(03:12):
show there, and then they called the guy and put
him on live, even though you're not supposed to do.
They put him on live whatever town was in and
they embarrassed him and said, look, man, you got to pay.
And so she finally got her money. So look see
radio did good there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, That's what I was about to say.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I have long held the belief that we started to
deteriorate as a society when we stopped publicly shaming people.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, you got to be a shame.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You gotta shame a little bit. Sometimes you got to
shame people into doing the right thing. Unfortunately, it's just
the case.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I used to say, I'm gonna talk about you today.
What I say now is up to you and how
you handle this exactly right.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've got the power of the power of the people.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I remember going to Barnes and Noble. One time I'd
go and I'd get magazines at Barnes and Noble, I said,
like holding them magazine and the lady always goes, are
you part of our you know, club or you're one
of our you know, you know, value members. And I
go no, and I don't want to be thank you,
And she goes, well, you would have saved you know,
four dollars or something. I go, I know, but I
(04:15):
got hacked one time when I did one of these deals,
and it cost me nearly one thousand dollars to get
it cleared up. So I don't want to be on
your on your you know, mailing list and get junk
mail every hour. And she goes, well, I guess you
don't like saving money. Actually said that to me, and
I said. I came very close to letting her have it,
(04:35):
but then I, you know, because insulting me, now, you know,
And I said it now, I just wanted to come
in here and buy magazines at this door. That's all
I wanted to do. I didn't come in here to
get insulted. I didn't come in here to have you
pound on me like a door to door salesman. I
just wanted to buy these magazines with this money right
here and that I'm trying to pay you with. And
(04:57):
I said, these everyone magazines have got a deal in
there where I could just buy this and have it
delivered to my house, and then nobody will be working
in at Barnes and Noble anymore because there won't be one,
you know. I try to make my point, is it
you got very little left and this is not helping you.
And so I told this story on the air, and
(05:19):
next time I was in Barnes and Noble, she goes, well,
I know you're not a member, so it worked. She
must have got her ass tuned out, buddy, you're not
a member, you know, real And I didn't know who
she knew who I was, you know, but what she said,
I guess you don't like saving money and did it
with her head thing, you know, And I'm about to
(05:42):
just walk out of these magazines. Then then what do
we do? Then?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I don't I don't think you realize how I am
single handedly keeping you in business by buying the magazine.
Like there are so many other ways I could be
consuming this media.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Absolutely, but I just like going in there and looking
and buying a few car magazines, you know. But I
was spending fifty sixty bucks a month at the one
and now I'm anyway, she got reamed out. I'm glad too.
I'm glad she got it. Uh, if you're going to
sell your house blooming now, you will never sell yours.
I'm never gonna sell mine. But if you're trying to
sell your house, here's the top five colors it will
(06:18):
help you sell your house. They said, uh, this is inside.
Uh this, I've completely didn't. I haven't seen any of these.
Dark olive green for the kitchen. Number one shots.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's pretty popular, is it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I said, a lot on these, uh you know, the
the shows, and yeah, shows that I see, uh Steph
watching that seems to be seems to be a recurring color.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Navy blue on the bedrooms.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah don't.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They say, Uh, navy blue is really good for like
you're sleeping, like it's a good.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Time against the darker better.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, and blue is one of those.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So I always thought if it was bright colors that
was better. Dark gray for the living room that looks
kind of distinguished. I think, you know, with a white trim,
you know, it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And they said inside, the worst colors you can use
inside are daisy yellow or fire hydrant red. Both of
those colors are dated pretty bad, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I don't think, I mean, I don't think I would
want red red's just such a Satan's house.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Too. Yeah, that Satan lives here. I think the I
think you would.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Technically say, the outside of our house is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Is that yellow color?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
See ours is too, ours a Mediterranean style and that's
that light yellowish color like you see. You know you've
got Yours is an old style, real cool Victorian looking house,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, it's uh, it's it's I think it was nineteen
either nineteen ten or nineteen twelve build date.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But there's still you know, there's pieces of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Wood that I found in the house that still have
the uh parent Bidyl lumber company stamp on it there
because the house was just bought out of a Sears catalog.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, take the how you take the blueprint to your
local lumber store, your local lumber yard, and the one
that this house was built with was the parent Bidal lumberyard.
A bunch of the houses here in the neighborhood because
we've I got another buddy who has two houses on
the same lot and he remodeled them all and turned
(08:30):
them into it's a bar restaurant. O. Their houses here
from the same era as ires, and it's all of
them pretty much all of them were built from that
same lumberyard material.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's cool. See that. And I built this house that
we live in now, and uh I built the one
before and built my rent houses. But uh, you know,
I just I kind of made up my own design.
But I always did like that the I call it
Tuscany style, you know, like that Italian style. But I
don't know if people are still doing that anymore or not.
That may be old, you know, people don't like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I always did always, just like anything. I mean, it's
all cyclical.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean, it's all going to come back around and
go back out of style three more times before you
I never.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I love a Texas the Texas front porch style, the
ranch style. That was always my really I think my
favorite house. The three rental houses I built, you know,
I physically built them, and each one of them they're
on my property, so they face they face east and
there and I lined them up with the sun so
when the sun comes up and in about two o'clock
every day. Now they were going to have a porch
(09:43):
on the front, and they have a big deck on
the front, and but they go to shade between two
and three o'clock every day, so you could sit on
the front and be in the shade then, but you
have a view and it's eighty feet apart, so there's
no next to your neighbor. And it's just really nice.
But I didn't even know that. I got the walls
up and I realized, Man, I don't have to put
the front deck, you know, the porch top on, you know,
(10:06):
and it'll do exactly the same thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So yeah, that's a that's a nice it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It wasn't the opposite of that where you realized, yeah,
the build.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The back of the house gets really really.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hot, man, Yeah, I bet, I bet it does.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That sun bears down and there's no windows in the back.
It's just flat. But it's already its three years old,
and the paint's already fading on the back there on on,
on all three of them. Actually, you know, I can
just tell I'm gonna be repainting that back you're pretty
quick in the next year or so. All right. In fact,
I'll go and get on that right now. So you're
(10:44):
listening to the Vama Brown Experience on the iHeart podcast network,
we should appreciate it,
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