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April 22, 2025 10 mins
Join Bama Brown and his co-host, the Big Puma, in this hilariously engaging episode of The Bama Brown Experience. Bama kicks things off with a quirky story about a cat smuggling ring in Russia, sparking a lively discussion about the bizarre world of illegal pet trade.
  • Cat Smuggling in Russia: Bama shares a jaw-dropping story about a busted cat smuggling ring, leading to a humorous debate on the logistics and absurdity of smuggling house cats.
  • Ferret Legging Contest: Discover the bizarre tradition of ferret legging, where participants compete to keep ferrets in their pants the longest. Bama and Puma's reactions and commentary on this peculiar contest are sure to leave you in stitches.
  • Travel Tips: Bama offers practical advice on the best days to book flights, backed by insights from a seasoned traveler. Learn how to save money on your next trip with these insider tips.
Don't miss out on this episode filled with laughter, unexpected stories, and practical tips. Subscribe to The Bama Brown Experience on the iHeart Podcast Network, leave a review, and share the episode with your friends. Tune in now for a wild ride with Bama and Puma!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hello folks, it's Bama Brown with a Bama Brown
experience on the iHeart Podcast Network.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thousands of your listening.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
We sure appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I had.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
A guy asked me earlier today if I had retired
from Kavett, and I have not retired. I do the
bonehead on the shows with Wayne and Tate, and I'm
going to do that for quite a while because that
was always our most fun thing we did.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
And then when if then, when I do leave kaved
I'll do them on this podcast, so you'll still get
them if you come here, and in Wayne and Tail
continue to do them as well. They believe me, there's
enough stupid people breaking the law out there.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We got plenty to go around, you know. I think that.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I think that's the most popular radio bit in the US.
The people are so stupid.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
In fact, I'll mention you one run right now. Oh
and I didn't.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I didn't introduce my partner because I got no manners
at all. The Big Cat Puma has the Sports Cave
and San Antonio. He's producer of my show and then
I produce his shows, So it's kind of we're helping
each other out off.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes, I appreciate you having me along for another one
of these you mentioned, the Boneheads. The Boneheads are also
available here on the same channel you get this podcast.
We try to make it easy on you, but if
you're looking for a little sports talk, you can always
just search for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma. Catch
me and the crew over here talking sports and whatnot,

(01:23):
and Nate.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
They all actually played sports, so that's one of the
things I like about it. They talk about it, they
did it, so they know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Here was the first I just saw this story. A
cat smuggling ring in Russia has been busted up. And
I don't know how you get into the cat smuggling.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, my daughter or dad.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
We got these two cats, Dad, Dad, they're rescue cats.
And I said, honey, all cats are rescue cats.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Every cat. Nobody goes, hey, let's go and get some cats.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
But apparently in Russia they go and get them and
they're illegal to I don't know why they're smuggling, but
they're smuggling cats around Russia and it's big business. I mean,
I got four that come up here just because of
the food. We set out for the other one, you know, so.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, I'm not sure what your feral cats are going
to bring on the Russian market. My first thought was
the uh, you know you have serval or you know
the African cats that are yeah, yeah, technically illegal, but
if you get them in I think you can keep
them in certains like I think Texas you can have one. Yeah,

(02:28):
Ezekiel Elliott's dad in Ohio turned one loose.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
One time and right I remember that. Yeah, that turned
into a thing.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
And exotic cats on you know, a Russian black market,
but just normal.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
This was house cats, like regular house cats. They were
somebody And why are they being smuggled? Why are they
I mean, I'm telling you you just you leave the
door and want to be in your house. That's why
dripping Spring sexes is. I can tell you that Otta
I could start smuggling out and never have to look
for one.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
They just show up. It's like I'm like a cat Looby's.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
When I put the food outside of this one, It's
like I look out there and there's a different one.
There's an orange wood coming up right now. I've never
seen in my life. And I mean it's not like
he's struggling. It looks like he's doing okay. This is
just he's stopping by, you know, for some for some food,
like a snack or something.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, he's getting a lenner or a brunch from you.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
He's coming back. He's like, this is like a ausips
or something for him.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know, this is his alsips burrito. Uahalping by your house.
It sounds like you need to contact one of your
Russian oligarch friends because you're sitting on a gold mine.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, I got didn't and I don't know what kind
of you know, they don't have any money in Russia.
I only the trade of wood chips or something, as
I remember. That's anyway. I don't want to get into
all that because that brings up some bad memories. But
also now, this is something somebody asked me about and
I thought this was interesting, and I talked to a
guy about it.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
What is the best day to book a flight?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you want to save my you want to make
sure you get on there, you know. So according to
my buddy, this guy's pretty much an expert, travels everywhere,
travels for work. Uh, Tuesday is the best day to
book flights Tuesday and that now, this is for Uh,
this is for domestic flights. He said, if you know

(04:20):
you're going to be flying in about sixty days, get
about sixty days out, book on a Tuesday. You'll get
the cheapest rate as much as it could be as
much as one hundred dollars less than if you wait
two weeks before.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I mean, so if you fly a lot, that's some
that's some.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Bucksh International flights, he said, Dude, ninety days out. And
he said, if you're flying international, you're probably planning ninety
days out. He said, make your you know, make your
ticket by then once again on Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
On Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Still, yeah, that still seems to be the best day,
smartest day to do that. So uh And like I said,
this guy flies a lot, and I've heard that before,
but I mean I had him confirment because he's one
of he's going to be one of those guys like
remember the movie Up with George Clooney.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's going to get.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
A pair of gold Wings in his lifetime for flying
you know, ten million miles or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
It's crazy amount that he's on a plane.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Are you a I think I already know the answer
to this, but are you a take an airplane or
plane a road trip.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh, I'm an airplane guy. I can do airplanes. And
this is weird because you think I'd be freaked out.
I saw the Delta crash happen. I was at the
I was at DFW and saw that jet hit the
ground and blow up into a fireball. So you think
I would have you know, that'd be it for me
and flying, But you know what it's not.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I would much rather fly.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I fly really well and really easy because I'm kind
of laid back. I'm not you know, I'm not thirty
anymore with things to do. I'm sixty seven going.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I got all day. You know, I'm that guy.
If they offered three hundred dollars, I'd take it and
wait at the airport.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, half way through the bloody marry, you're ready
to just take a nap anyway.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Whatever you want to do, however you want to do it.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You know, in whatever room of this cabin, mine is
less fear and just I love a good road trip.
Like if I'm giving the choice, I'm if we're planning
a trip to Arizona to watch you know, spring training baseball, Yeah,
would much rather prefer do the road trip than hop

(06:22):
on a plane just for the experience of it having it.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I haven't I haven't been on a road trip in
a long, long time, so I don't know how i'd
feel about it. I bet you know, I'm kind of
like what you're saying. It might be fun to do,
you know, and just look and if you're not once again, key,
you're not in a you know, you ain't got to
be back of work Monday.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, yeah, this is obviously obligations completely removed.
Because you know, the roommate, she travels. This last month,
she was in three different cities three straight weeks in
a row, So she travels a lot. And I think
I think her flying, you know, with some of these
incidents we've had in the air lately, I think, yeah,

(07:02):
she's been a little more worried, concerned, fearful of flying,
but not to the extent. She had one event in
New Orleans and almost thought about driving it, you know,
from San Antonio to New Orleans, but still hopped on
a plane.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if she would, I will furniture a cat to
fly to Russia. I can give her several cats, not
risky kit. What do they call them when they have
the cat with them in the plane.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
The uh, it's an emotional support I got a bunch
of emotional support cats I need to ship to Russia,
so she won't be the worst animal to have as
a emotional support animal. I think I'd rather have like
some of these crazy people that have, you know, ferrets.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Or a posse on. There's something insane.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I think even I think an emotional support ferret would
do a better job than a cat.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Would You know?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
In the old days, there was a ferret contest. I
bet you don't know this, and you're probably thinking I'm
making this up, but there was ferret contests. They would
tie the bottom of their pants. This is years ago, okay,
so like in the I don't know when, eighteen hundreds,
and they would put a ferret down their pants and
the person that could last the longest with the ferret
down their pants won the contest. Now you can look

(08:16):
this up. I'm not making this, however, I don't know
if this was in a bar in Ireland. You know
some of my relatives probably, But anything that's in the
pants and is real, it is called.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
You're describing something called ferret legging. Yeah, and dates back
to Yorkshire, England.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
See you look there's a there's the trust. I didn't
even get the words out of my mouth. I mean
it hadn't even cleared the microphone, and Puma was like, yeah,
he's full of shit and this isn't really good.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
It is, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
So I was waiting to see, uh, see where the
story ended, because I didn't know if this was our
our discut that show.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
If this was actually you'd be happy to know.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
The last ferret legging event held in the US was
in Richmond, Virginia in nine.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
So, oh my god, that's not It.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Might be time to bring it back.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
On COVID.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's O nine man. I mean, I know it had
slowed down then, but it hadn't been never that slow. Well,
I'm just scared what a ferret would man, don't use it,
but I don't want.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I don't want to lose it though.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, so they were it would be a bunch, so
I was reading it was a bunch of coal miners
that would just get wasted at the pub.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, and then they would get each other. Who could
keep affair? What the hell is going on?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
You know?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
If you did, though, you'd have the all time storytopper
when somebody, yeah, I fell off a ladder and hurt
my leg.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh you did, did you well? I had a ferret
my pants and bit my Johnson.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
What do you think of that? That's that would win
any I got hurt.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Con No, the.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Biggest one upper in the world. It has nothing to say.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Back to that now, not at all.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
You go, you put away, you'd want to know if
you put a ferret in your pants. Because not a
lot of people know about this. I'm sure that somewhere
there's a whore radio DJ going come on out Saturday
night there Big John's. We're gonna have the fair legging Gondess.
You know there's some DJ doing that.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I guarantee.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Speaking of DJ whores, that does it for us.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's the Bama Brown experience right here on the iHeart
podcast Network.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you for listening.
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