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July 31, 2025 12 mins
In this wildly entertaining episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama dives headfirst into the strange, the nostalgic, and the downright hilarious. From jaw-dropping movie prop auctions to the hidden value of old ticket stubs, this episode is a treasure trove of stories that’ll make you laugh, think, and maybe even check your attic for forgotten collectibles.

Key Highlights:
  • The legendary Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane sells for a staggering $14 million—second only to Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
  • A complete ticket to Michael Jordan’s rookie game nets a lucky fan $425,000. (Yes, really.)
  • Bama shares his own brush with Hollywood: owning the Chevelle from John Wick—and flipping it for a tidy profit.
  • A hilarious breakdown of red flags during job interviews—because “wearing many hats” usually means wearing them all… for minimum wage.
  • Bonehead Chronicles: From a fake DNA test scam to a fire truck joyride gone wrong, these stories are as outrageous as they are true.
  • And yes, there’s even a swingers festival in the UK that’s too loud for the neighbors—and too funny for Bama to ignore.
Whether you're here for the laughs, the life lessons, or just Bama’s signature storytelling, this episode delivers. Don’t miss it! Subscribe now, leave us a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a laugh—or a reminder to keep their old concert tickets. You never know what they might be worth!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
I love to start out with this. This is I
love movie trivia. You know, I once owned the car
was in the John Wick movie The Chevelle, which I
always like to point out they made a die cast
of the Chevelle. They didn't make one of the Mustang,
so that was you know, the movie was about the Mustang,
but everybody liked the Chevelle. And that's the only movie prop.
Well I've had two of those, but that it was

(01:17):
a cool prop, and I sold it, made a little
money on it. So the Sled from Citizen Kane Rosebud
sold last week. The actual one from the movie. Now,
there were three they used for the movie props, but
they threw them away except the director. Just an ironic
story here, director Joe Dante, who directed it, He was

(01:42):
on the RKO lot in nineteen eighty four and was
looking for something in the props room and there sat
Rosebud and he and he grabbed it because he said, yeah,
that movie put me out, you know, made me what
it was. So he took it anyway. It sold last
week for teen million dollars. What second highest price paid

(02:05):
for a movie prop.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Okay, the irony in this is not lost on me.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
He's he's a rich old man with no friends on
his deathbed and all he wants is his childhood sled.
Some rich man out there just paid fourteen million dollars
for that sled and on his death bed, he's gonna
have no friends. He's going to be an old rich
man with like that. Surely the irony was not lost

(02:34):
on the guy that actually bought it.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It was not at all. They that was what everybody
was talking about. Is he wished he knew somebody that
had fourteen million a piss away on a sled.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Exactly. That's insane.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
God that that's the second highest. You probably know this question. Yeah,
what's the highest, all right, of all time? The ruby
slippers from was revised one time by the way stolen item.
It brought in twenty eight million, so it's number one
to this. Another item that sold the bullwhip from Indiana

(03:13):
Jones from Raiders Indies Bullwhip five hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh that's a che in comparison.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, and I think that's just as cool to me.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Good investment sleep.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
The slippers are the sled. Uh, this is pretty cool.
It's not a movie deal. But a guy had h
He graduated school and to celebrate, he and his best
friend bought a pair of tickets to go see the
Chicago Bulls and the rookie game for Michael Jordan Oh's
first game. So his buddy didn't show up, and so

(03:50):
he put the ticket his buddy's ticket. He kept it.
They tore his and too. Of course, he kept the
thing into Wow, put it in his memory box. So
he's he's just monking around. He's on the internet looking
around different stuff, and something popped up and a torn ticket.
It sold for two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
for that game just recently. So he contacted him and

(04:13):
he got four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for
his complete Michael Jordan ticket.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Good for him, man, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I we're still yeah, my wife and I we have
a we have a ticket box of anything we any convert,
any sporting that we still you know, like nowadays you
have to pay, you know, because they want you to
do all the tickets on your phone. But if you'll
go to the actual box office usually they'll still print
you an old school ticket.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
You just got to pay like a printing fee.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Or we always try to still always try to get
cause you never know.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You may never know what will be.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Maybe we've got some gold in there in thirty forty years.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'll tell you this I bought John Wick before it
took off. I paid twenty grand and he cost me
one thousand. Ship it. I sold him for thirty three thousand,
So it's only that's only money I ever made on
a car. You know.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Over here in San Antonio, we've got Wemby's first game Wemby,
you know, Victor Weinbana, Victor Banyama's first game with the Spurs.
We've got ticket stubs from it. So it's awesome to
be as awesome as he's supposed to be at twenty.
You know, after he retires, maybe that'll be worth a
little something.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
You never know, I mean, you just really don't know
what could be what people want in those days. Anyway,
I thought that was all interesting stuff. If you're looking
to get hired on here's a red flag for the company,
you know. Okay, so they're always looking at you, judging
you while you're in there getting a job interview.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Turn the tables on them.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, this is so, here's the five ways. You know. Uh,
when the guy says we're looking for the best of
the best, but the pay is low, it's gonna be
not a good job. Yeah, you're always gonna be low paid.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
So those things don't match up. That's absolute.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
And when they tell you there's great opportunity for big pay,
that's bullshit. They're never going to give you big pay field.
If they get you a low dollar, they're going to
keep you there.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
You're locked in.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
If they say and these are all kind of quote stuff,
you'll be wearing many hats. Okay, that goes back a
low pay. You're not going to get paid for jobs
you're going to be doing. So nobody's making you take
this job. Just walk out, walk away because these are
not This is when you're wearing many hats. You can
have a lot of responsibility earnt it, but pay is
not going to be going with it. You know. Yeah,

(06:32):
you're still going to be struggling.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Unless you're trying to get your foot in the door
in an industry, uh, where you're willing to do a
few different hats worth of work to try to get
a foothold. If it's just a normal everyday office job
or something, No, you're paying me for exactly what the
job is and nothing else.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, that's exactly right. The uh here's one Uh. They
tell you that the job is a real challenge if
you want to challenge, and that means they are screwed
up from top to bottom, and you're gonna have all
kinds of bottoms, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
And they're at least, you know, to their credit, they're
at least letting you know how bad things are.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
They also a lot of times will equate that with
job security, because nobody wants the damn job after you
find out how screwed up the company is. Uh how
number two in the longer number two a big one location.
Uh if they uh tell you their location that you're
going to get is obscure or a long way off.

(07:33):
Once they got you with that whole bullshit about oh
we're gonna move once you move on, you come into
the main Now you don't come into the main office ever.
Again they get you in the middle of nowhere. You're
gonna be in the middle of nowhere. Uh. And then, uh,
the reviews are not good if you if you look
them up online as you should, and they don't have
any good reviews and they have a lot of turnover. Uh,

(07:57):
you're you're why look for trouble. Many too many jobs
out there that you can get good jobs.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know, Yeah, you said it right there.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
If there's if there's a constant turnover, that's a bad sign.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Absolutely. Oh you want a bonehead, here's let's see Chelsea Miller.
This happened in the UK. She had a baby and Sheldon.
She demanded that the Sheldon was a dad, and turns
out Sheldon was the dad. The Sheldon. He said, I

(08:32):
want a DNA test, So they said, you got it.
We'll do a DNA test. If they agree to it immediately.
That means it kids yours by the.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Way, Yeah, that's a pretty bad way.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
But he was going to be hit with one hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars in child support. He'd already
accrued it. So he said, instead of giving them one
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, I'll give the DNA
test guy twenty five thousand dollars. And guess what, he
wasn't a dad anymore. He's twitched the DNA. Now where

(09:03):
the plan fell apart is he didn't pay the twenty
five thousand.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, look, one way or another, you're paying out the ass.
You might as roll with the least amount.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
He doesn't keep his word to a woman that he's
sleeping with. And then the guy the DNA things they
can believe in him. I'm sorry, cash up fronts her.
You're gonna need to do that now.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
So honor among thieves there.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
All right, let's do one more bonehead. Let's haven't never Washington.
Larry stole the fire truck because he wanted to hear
the lights and sire and drive a fire truck. Lifelong ambition.
He couldn't get on with the fire department, and then
he hit fourteen parked cars with fire truck.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, I mean, I would assume if you've never driven
one of those, that's probably pretty hard to drive.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, and he's got a souring on. It's their fault
that they parked in the road because he's has got
an emergency going on.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
He's yeah, and look, childhood dream. It's a lifelong ambition
to drive one.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Of the They're still looking for him, they haven't found him.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Just buy grand Theft auto. You can do it all
day if you want.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
To just earn Atlanta plane. There's so much you can
learn on the internet that you don't really have to
know how to do. Do you do? You play on
the internet.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Hell, that's how we uh.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
How they learned to fly those planes back in two
thousand and one, good old Microsoft flight simulator.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm gonna leave you one more thought. I better get
this last one in. It's not a bonehead. I'll let
you do your own joke. There uh the swinger thon
there in the UK. It's the biggest annual swingers festival.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
I'm sorry, what city was that in the UK?

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Just I'm not sure, yes, you look it up there.
Neighbors complained about noise, the loud moaning at the uh
the fest their annual swingers Fest loud moaning.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
So look, if you're the neighbors, just take a vacation
that weekend, you know what, or.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Hell, go to it. Knock on the door, go I'm
in free right and they're like, yeah, come on, man,
hit the buffet. Everybody that's complaining about Nutty Brown over
the years or any venue like that, go knock on
the door and go, I am going to cause you
so much shit unless you let me go to the
shows free and just don't be greedy about it and

(11:34):
just pick you know the boss or you know something
you want to see. I want to go free. I
want good tickets. They will give you good tickets to
a show if you'll just shut up.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
You know, I'm in open, open the negotiation, and see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, you don't have to start all that environmental groving,
cheek warbler and all that crap. You know, just just
say hey, hey, I just want some tickets.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
This reminds me of the Newdest Colony in Pennsylvania that
was having the bowling Night.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
We remember that.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm still laughing about that.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
And they had balls in the name of the thing.
It's just like, you're not even trying.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, absolutely, gutter ball.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
That was our touchline. Everybody do your own gutter ball.
All right, we're gonna get out of here on that one.
We're back tomorrow. It ain't gonna be any better. So
it was his warm yet
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