September 26, 2025 • 8 mins
Can you really fire Santa Claus… on live TV? That’s the question Bama Brown tackles in this hilarious and heartfelt episode of The Bama Brown Experience, where holiday cheer collides with unexpected controversy. Joined by the ever-energetic Biggest Puma from The Sports Cave, the duo dives into a whirlwind of topics—from the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy and the World Cup landing in Austin, to the full-throttle chaos of football, baseball, basketball, and even hockey season. Sports fans, this one’s packed with energy!
But the real showstopper? Bama’s unforgettable story of being fired as Santa Claus during a live charity event. What starts as a festive moment turns into a legendary tale of misunderstood humor, live TV mishaps, and a Junior League president with zero tolerance for jolly jokes. “You’re firing Santa?!” Bama exclaims, turning a moment of embarrassment into radio gold.
Other highlights include:
But the real showstopper? Bama’s unforgettable story of being fired as Santa Claus during a live charity event. What starts as a festive moment turns into a legendary tale of misunderstood humor, live TV mishaps, and a Junior League president with zero tolerance for jolly jokes. “You’re firing Santa?!” Bama exclaims, turning a moment of embarrassment into radio gold.
Other highlights include:
- A bizarre divorce over baby naming in China
- A dramatic standoff involving an 88-year-old town Santa in California
- Nostalgic laughs over Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the most iconic pool scene in movie history
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, everybody, Bama Brown with you in the background experience
along with the big cat Puma in the sports cave.
Your guys show is rocking it because every sport that
ever was and you guys got we got the Olympics
coming up pretty soon. That's gonna be awesome too.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh yeah, no, I've got I forgot about the Olympics. Yeah,
what is it over in Italy? Winter Olympics? And then honestly,
before you realize it, you're gonna have a World Cup
soccer match in your backyard over there in Austin. I mean,
we're built gearing up for World Cup next summer, Olympics
this winter of course, right in the heart of football season.
(00:39):
That's that's gonna I promise you there no offense, Obamas.
It probably won't be a whole lot of Olympics talk
for the next couple of months because we got a
lot of football to talk about right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But football, we got baseball still happening, we got basketball,
we got it all going on.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And might you know, want to way up the list
higher than mo I'm ready for that hockey season to start.
My Dallas Car's got a new head coach. We'll see
how that goes. But yeah, any anywhere you get your podcasts,
just search for the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma
and of course live shows over on YouTube as well
(01:15):
YouTube dot Com at sports Cave Live. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's start out with a bonehead. There's a Chinese couple.
They filed for divorce because they couldn't agree on their
baby's name. That's awful.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean wow, makes me feel like they probably had
a trouble ringing on a lot of things. Yeah, other
stuff might have been the metaphorical straw that broke the
camel's back there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There's this happened in Petaluma, California. The town's now this
is sad. The town Santa there since nineteen fifty seven.
He's the Santa and the parade. He's This guy's eighty
eight years old. His name is Ron Shipley. He got
into a fight with his family and it turned into
(02:07):
a standoff. He pulled a gun and so Swat had
to come out and they're like, wait a minute, that's
that starts Sanna. You cannot shoot Santa. Swat had like
they just all had to stand out there and argue
for a little while. So he got tired and then
he had to go lay down, and so then they
walked in and got him and said, okay, but thank
(02:28):
god they didn't shoot their Sanna from the you know,
from the parade. You can't shoot Sannah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah. How I mean, how old was he? He must
have been full beard Sannah looking in his twenties. If
he has been doing it since.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
He nineteen fifty seven, he's eighty eight to a math there,
I don't even know what it would be, but yeah,
he was in his twenty early twenties probably.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, that's right, the lines up, early mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I uh, I'll tell you my Santa story. I got
fired when I was Santa. So we know we yeah,
so we did coach for kids for years and then
you know we raised over a million coats with Case
and Kaved. I'm very proud of that. It's probably my
you know, our listeners, all our staff are promotion. I
mean it's just me Jack Brown, cleaners in the junior league,
all of us. But I was, you know, I was
(03:17):
like the main guy begging for these coats and uh
and so and caveew twenty four. Let me throw that
in there. Mark Murray, my good friend Mark Murray, uh so,
but I d and Mark was on TV and I
was the radio guy, so between't do us anyway. So
I would dress up like Santa at handout day and
I would go down and I would hug all the kids,
(03:38):
and it was like the line was a four or
five hundred yards of kids and parents, you know. But
when I got there, the Junior League president this lady,
and they had a new one every year, and they
were usually pretty fun and that good sense as of humor,
except this one year, and I blame you. I'm blaming
Mark Murray for this. So I show up in my
Santa suit and they're doing the live shot cave. He
(04:00):
is doing the live shot, and so Marcus standing there
and he is he's just he's interviewing her. Or no,
there was another weather guy somebody else was interviewing her,
and he was standing to the side. And I got
there and he goes, go ahead and get in the shot.
You know, walk on, and you know it's a live shot.
So I walk on and I'm in my Santa suit
(04:24):
and so I walk up and thinking this lady had
a sense of humor, I put my arm around her
and they, oh, Santa said, And I said, you know,
I'm standing here. It's so I don't know what I
said there you being a good girl or a bad girl?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Him the look on this lady's face. And then of course,
once I had that going down that road, I said,
well I got a nail at home. Here's I said.
You know, Santa's only in town one night a week,
you know, so I'm laughing. Everybody's laughing TV Mark, so
(05:03):
totally true story. So I'm back now, I'm working the
line at the end, and they had the same promotion
girl every year was the same girl worked for promotion
for gave you and she kind of ram right of everything,
you know, And so as we got to the end,
she said, okay, you're gonna have to leave, and I
go what happened? And she said the president of the
(05:23):
junior league not happy with you. And then live TV
thing and I go, well, everybody was laughing. I obviously
it was a funny. And she goes, well, she ain't
laughing and you're fired. And I said, are you firing
Santa Claus? I said I can't. I'm in total I said,
(05:45):
you're really not firing Santa. I'm saying her and my
saying that you can't. You know, that's like the worst
thing anybody's ever done. I'm gonna tell everybody on the radio.
You fired Santa Claus. You know. So the next year,
you know, she called me and she goes, will you
come out as Santa? And I go, no, you fired me,
(06:06):
you can't. And I was done with it anyway. I
don't done it for fifteen years. I was already Yeah, okay, we're.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
A nice dismount. Nice for a dismount anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I'll never forget that woman's face. So when I go,
were you a good girl or a bad girl?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, that, uh it's better. I'll you know what, I'll
give you credit because I think you I've seen bad Santa.
I've seen Billy Bob.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh fair to him. Yeah, it's like nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That was nothing. I mean you never even referenced your
lap or anybody paid. Nothing that was harmless, completely harmless,
all in the name of the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Fast times at Ridgemont High. I remember in Santa sitting
there and at the food court and he goes, how
long do I got a friggin wait? But he didn't
say frigging It made lamb sure didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, that uh, I stand by it. First of all,
my parents showed me that movie whenever I was probably
ten years old. Like, I saw it way way way
too early. Out of all of those eighties teen movies.
I think it actually holds up so well.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I watched it a week ago. I swear to I
watched the whole movie a week ago and laughed.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Just once a month, probably just because it's still so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Joey he was great as Pagoa was so awesome. And
when she comes out, you know, when she comes out
of the pool, is still they do any kind of movie,
you know, movie like what is the number one scene
of all movies of all time? Her coming out of
that swimming pool? Man, that's numero uno.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's hard to it's hard to talk. It's hard.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I gotta go. I gotta we gotta go. I gotta
go watch it movie right now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I gotta go. You got all weekend? Thankfully?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, all right, everybody, thank you for listening this week.
We really appreciate it. Catch a Big Cat Show, Sports Cave.
You gotta hear it, you gotta love it, you gotta
live it.
Hi, everybody, Bama Brown with you in the background experience
along with the big cat Puma in the sports cave.
Your guys show is rocking it because every sport that
ever was and you guys got we got the Olympics
coming up pretty soon. That's gonna be awesome too.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh yeah, no, I've got I forgot about the Olympics. Yeah,
what is it over in Italy? Winter Olympics? And then honestly,
before you realize it, you're gonna have a World Cup
soccer match in your backyard over there in Austin. I mean,
we're built gearing up for World Cup next summer, Olympics
this winter of course, right in the heart of football season.
(00:39):
That's that's gonna I promise you there no offense, Obamas.
It probably won't be a whole lot of Olympics talk
for the next couple of months because we got a
lot of football to talk about right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But football, we got baseball still happening, we got basketball,
we got it all going on.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And might you know, want to way up the list
higher than mo I'm ready for that hockey season to start.
My Dallas Car's got a new head coach. We'll see
how that goes. But yeah, any anywhere you get your podcasts,
just search for the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma
and of course live shows over on YouTube as well
(01:15):
YouTube dot Com at sports Cave Live. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's start out with a bonehead. There's a Chinese couple.
They filed for divorce because they couldn't agree on their
baby's name. That's awful.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean wow, makes me feel like they probably had
a trouble ringing on a lot of things. Yeah, other
stuff might have been the metaphorical straw that broke the
camel's back there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There's this happened in Petaluma, California. The town's now this
is sad. The town Santa there since nineteen fifty seven.
He's the Santa and the parade. He's This guy's eighty
eight years old. His name is Ron Shipley. He got
into a fight with his family and it turned into
(02:07):
a standoff. He pulled a gun and so Swat had
to come out and they're like, wait a minute, that's
that starts Sanna. You cannot shoot Santa. Swat had like
they just all had to stand out there and argue
for a little while. So he got tired and then
he had to go lay down, and so then they
walked in and got him and said, okay, but thank
(02:28):
god they didn't shoot their Sanna from the you know,
from the parade. You can't shoot Sannah.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah. How I mean, how old was he? He must
have been full beard Sannah looking in his twenties. If
he has been doing it since.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
He nineteen fifty seven, he's eighty eight to a math there,
I don't even know what it would be, but yeah,
he was in his twenty early twenties probably.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, that's right, the lines up, early mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I uh, I'll tell you my Santa story. I got
fired when I was Santa. So we know we yeah,
so we did coach for kids for years and then
you know we raised over a million coats with Case
and Kaved. I'm very proud of that. It's probably my
you know, our listeners, all our staff are promotion. I
mean it's just me Jack Brown, cleaners in the junior league,
all of us. But I was, you know, I was
(03:17):
like the main guy begging for these coats and uh
and so and caveew twenty four. Let me throw that
in there. Mark Murray, my good friend Mark Murray, uh so,
but I d and Mark was on TV and I
was the radio guy, so between't do us anyway. So
I would dress up like Santa at handout day and
I would go down and I would hug all the kids,
(03:38):
and it was like the line was a four or
five hundred yards of kids and parents, you know. But
when I got there, the Junior League president this lady,
and they had a new one every year, and they
were usually pretty fun and that good sense as of humor,
except this one year, and I blame you. I'm blaming
Mark Murray for this. So I show up in my
Santa suit and they're doing the live shot cave. He
(04:00):
is doing the live shot, and so Marcus standing there
and he is he's just he's interviewing her. Or no,
there was another weather guy somebody else was interviewing her,
and he was standing to the side. And I got
there and he goes, go ahead and get in the shot.
You know, walk on, and you know it's a live shot.
So I walk on and I'm in my Santa suit
(04:24):
and so I walk up and thinking this lady had
a sense of humor, I put my arm around her
and they, oh, Santa said, And I said, you know,
I'm standing here. It's so I don't know what I
said there you being a good girl or a bad girl?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Him the look on this lady's face. And then of course,
once I had that going down that road, I said,
well I got a nail at home. Here's I said.
You know, Santa's only in town one night a week,
you know, so I'm laughing. Everybody's laughing TV Mark, so
(05:03):
totally true story. So I'm back now, I'm working the
line at the end, and they had the same promotion
girl every year was the same girl worked for promotion
for gave you and she kind of ram right of everything,
you know, And so as we got to the end,
she said, okay, you're gonna have to leave, and I
go what happened? And she said the president of the
(05:23):
junior league not happy with you. And then live TV
thing and I go, well, everybody was laughing. I obviously
it was a funny. And she goes, well, she ain't
laughing and you're fired. And I said, are you firing
Santa Claus? I said I can't. I'm in total I said,
(05:45):
you're really not firing Santa. I'm saying her and my
saying that you can't. You know, that's like the worst
thing anybody's ever done. I'm gonna tell everybody on the radio.
You fired Santa Claus. You know. So the next year,
you know, she called me and she goes, will you
come out as Santa? And I go, no, you fired me,
(06:06):
you can't. And I was done with it anyway. I
don't done it for fifteen years. I was already Yeah, okay, we're.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
A nice dismount. Nice for a dismount anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I'll never forget that woman's face. So when I go,
were you a good girl or a bad girl?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, that, uh it's better. I'll you know what, I'll
give you credit because I think you I've seen bad Santa.
I've seen Billy Bob.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh fair to him. Yeah, it's like nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That was nothing. I mean you never even referenced your
lap or anybody paid. Nothing that was harmless, completely harmless,
all in the name of the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Fast times at Ridgemont High. I remember in Santa sitting
there and at the food court and he goes, how
long do I got a friggin wait? But he didn't
say frigging It made lamb sure didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, that uh, I stand by it. First of all,
my parents showed me that movie whenever I was probably
ten years old. Like, I saw it way way way
too early. Out of all of those eighties teen movies.
I think it actually holds up so well.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I watched it a week ago. I swear to I
watched the whole movie a week ago and laughed.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Just once a month, probably just because it's still so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Joey he was great as Pagoa was so awesome. And
when she comes out, you know, when she comes out
of the pool, is still they do any kind of movie,
you know, movie like what is the number one scene
of all movies of all time? Her coming out of
that swimming pool? Man, that's numero uno.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's hard to it's hard to talk. It's hard.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I gotta go. I gotta we gotta go. I gotta
go watch it movie right now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I gotta go. You got all weekend? Thankfully?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, all right, everybody, thank you for listening this week.
We really appreciate it. Catch a Big Cat Show, Sports Cave.
You gotta hear it, you gotta love it, you gotta
live it.
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