May 28, 2025 • 15 mins
What happens when your eighth-grade report card resurfaces on live radio… decades later? In this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, and unapologetically raw episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama takes listeners on a wild ride through stories that are as outrageous as they are endearing. From Tom Cruise’s eternal action-hero ambitions to a Vietnam vet’s diabetes alarm mistaken for a phone call, this episode is a masterclass in storytelling, Southern charm, and the kind of humor that only comes with age and experience.
Bama reflects on his time with his old radio partner Rob, revealing behind-the-scenes antics, including how Rob hilariously (and successfully) got himself fired to cash in on a non-compete clause. You’ll also hear about Bama’s speech class insecurities, a legendary eighth-grade report card that labeled a war hero as handicapped, and the unforgettable moment that label came back to haunt him—on air.
The episode also dives into Bama’s outlaw driving days, including a run-in with a deputy who ended up buying his truck on the spot, and the infamous “Little Moe” wrecker that made it onto TV despite being completely illegal to drive.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts, leave a review if you laughed, and share this episode with someone who appreciates a good story told well!
Bama reflects on his time with his old radio partner Rob, revealing behind-the-scenes antics, including how Rob hilariously (and successfully) got himself fired to cash in on a non-compete clause. You’ll also hear about Bama’s speech class insecurities, a legendary eighth-grade report card that labeled a war hero as handicapped, and the unforgettable moment that label came back to haunt him—on air.
The episode also dives into Bama’s outlaw driving days, including a run-in with a deputy who ended up buying his truck on the spot, and the infamous “Little Moe” wrecker that made it onto TV despite being completely illegal to drive.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts, leave a review if you laughed, and share this episode with someone who appreciates a good story told well!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hey, folks, you're listening to the Man Brown Experience
on the iHeart Podcast network along with the Big Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Big Cats got Sports Caves down in San Antonio.
Tomorrow night show was Live with You, Is it not tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah? Tonight, Monday and Wednesday nights live on YouTube atwe Live.
But again, if you don't need the visual, if you
just prefer the audio medium, anywhere you get your podcast,
just search for the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I saw where Tom Cruise an interview.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Did you see that interview with him the other day
where he was talking about the latest Mission Impossible?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And he said, I will be doing movies, so I'm
one hundred.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He said, I'll do Mission Impossible and Top Gun as
long as people want to keep coming, I'll keep doing
them because it employs fifteen hundred people when I do
a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And when you think.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
About movie people and you know wherever they're shooting at
all those locations, you know everybody involved, and it adds
upteen hundred people. That's why they cost so much. But
I thought that was interesting that he was he was
still talking about, Hey, I'll do him forever.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I ain't never gonna get tired of him now.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Granted, I mean I don't think I want to see
eighty year old Tom Cruise playing Maverick or No, there's
some I don't need to see ninety year old Ethan
Hunt hanging off side of a Japanese bullet train. I
feel like there's gotta be some limitation to maybe maybe
he can he can move into more of a mentor
(01:30):
role for whoever replaces him.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
On those I could see, like his smoke coming from
the tape recorder and him going, him going, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What's good?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, like your buddy's at breakfast the other week where
it's Tom Cruise trying to figure out what that noise is.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's that happened, Puma. It was the funniest thing I got.
These old veterans I eat with. I love him to death,
Vietnam vets and different things. But one of them so
and in this one he's ninety two, but he's sitting
next to me. He's ninety two years old, still sharp,
both of them. But one of them's diabetes alarm was
going off and the other one was trying to answer
his phone, and the other guy goes, who is it?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And it was his diabetes.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know, I was going, good, God, I gotta get
around some I gotta get around some other people.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That is, that's going to be half the plot of
Mission Impossible nineteen by the time.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, when all these guys when they were young
would kick your ass and a heartbeat, they could easily
Like Gary Hall, my friend Gary Hall, Vietnam bet sergeant.
I restored his car for him. But he made a
huge mistake in showing me his report card from when
he was in the eighth grade. And the teacher had
wrote in this report card because his grandkids had found
(02:45):
that just given him a wrath of shit, and it
was Gary is slightly retarded. It is report So I
got on the radio, robbing me and I said, I
got to tell this story. And I said, the kids
found it. And turn turns out my friend was slightly retarded.
And Rob goes, well, I don't think he'd want that
(03:07):
known on the radio, And I said, well, I didn't
say his name. I didn't say Gary Hale from Dripping Springs. Well,
ben oh, I just did. Well, I'm using a code
name about anyway. But then he was somewhere doing some
of the veterans with the city.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That day, and uh. The guy goes, well, I don't
know if we can do that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, I understand you're slightly retorted, and he goes
what and the guy from the city goes, yeah, I
heard on the radio today, Maama said you're slightly retarded.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was in your report card. And Gary goes, that's
a mission.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The idea that something from my eighth grade report card
could be reported over the radio to an entire city
at this point in my life, that's a bit terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And I love to point out these are all great
people and were great soldiers and gave it all over
their country and they were just badasses. But now there's
one answer and his diabetic medicine deal.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But the what was great about?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I made the mistake of telling Rob my
partner or your partner twenty years on radio, and you're
much nicer than him boom by the way, Uh Rob,
I made a mistake telling Rob I had to go
to speech class when I was in like third grade
or second grade, one of those. And he goes speech class, Huh,
I go yeah, And he goes, what it was your esses?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And I go, what are you talking about? He goes,
you had to go, and I had to go because
of my esses So you're not alone.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I was right there with you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Then for the rest of the week, I was conscious
of my essays were messed up, you know. And he goes,
and he goes. Finally he told me, he goes, there's
nothing wrong with your essays. He let me worry about
it all the way on. He goes, I just guessed
s because that was the most common you know, he
was he had education when he was at University of Georgia,
you know, And he said, I was an education major,
(04:58):
so speech speech therapy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
This is was like ninety percent of it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And he goes, I just guessed and I and I
got the opportunity to freak Bam out for a week.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I was like, oh, man, is it you know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then he's gonna he's gonna let that go as
long as he can.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And then he was always like, you know, I would
say instead of Wednesday, I'd say Wednesday, So Wednesday we
was gonna be over. He goes, Wednesday, what's a Wednesday?
And I said, it's the middle of the week. Mass
He's like, no, you're not saying it right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's Wednesday. It's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Look, I'm sorry. I didn't grow up in the North.
I'm not like this. This is how we say it.
You know what I'm talking about. Just move on.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And I told him bite may and may right here,
the right here, and he was, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We had a lot of fun though he was. He
was a good partner, and we had a good time.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And then he married a rich woman and quit on me.
He come in and said, I've married a I've met
a rich woman. And I said, oh, because he'd been
divorced for a while and was raising and raised three boys,
the fantastic dad, but he never had time for himself
and come in and he said, I met a rich woman.
And I said, well, she's pretty, egoes, she's rich. Later
(06:12):
I said she nice. He goes, she's rich, and she
was neither pretty nor or nice, but she was rich
and good for him.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The point though, she's rich, Yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He'd been poor his whole life, especially with three boys,
so he was broke. But they all turned out to
be great, all three great men. And he he's hadn't
worked in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Lucky him. So if you ever wonder what happened to Rob.
That's what happened. If you're listening and want to know
what happened to Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He married a rich woman who wasn't very nice and pretty,
but again she's very rich. They live with the ocean
as their backyard where I can't remember where they live,
somewhere up northeast, but the ocean is in the yard.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's their beach front. That's kind of money. Yeah, of
course he has the yes dear, no dear. I mean
he got him in the lead trade off.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't know, Uh, I think uh, I think being
a dirt poor redneck probably probably suits me a little better.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, well he wanted to get you know, I'll tell
this because part of the show is I'll tell whatever
I want and you want to complain, complain out there.
But he once, he once he married her. Then we
had a we all had a non compete. It was
a six month non compete in radio, and he wanted
to get the non compete but also wanted to leave.
(07:34):
And it was it was a lot of money. I
mean it was thousands of thousands of dollars as he
had a big contract and so he was trying to
figure out a way to get fired and keep the
money and still get the money, you know. And uh
so the owner of this company, iHeart the guy, Bob
Pittman that invented MTV, invented America Online. That was his
(07:56):
other two inventions, besides a art. He comes into town
and we'd both work for him for years, so we'd
met him once, I think, you know. Anyway, he came
in I want to see the morning shows.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And so we're in a meeting. If I told you
the story this, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So, yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's totally true. I can tell it. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So we're sitting Pittman goes, I want to see everybody.
I want solid morning guys. So we all go in
there and we're sitting at a conference stable. And at
the time there were three Bobby and them, Bobby and
Bones was in Austin, but he'd already moved to Nashville,
so it was just in the sports guys and us
and one other show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
They were still doing their live you know, and he.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So he's talking giving us, you know, hey, y'all are
doing a great job and everything, and he said, now,
how can I help you? And he went to each person,
what can I do to help you. Well, I've been
around the you know, corporate America. Shit, I knew to
just say, oh, everything's great, mister Pitman, don't need anything.
So Rob didn't like our general manager at the time anyway.
(08:54):
And when god over got to Rob and Heather and
I were sitting there on one side, and Robin for
some reason was at the end to the table. I
don't know why, but Rob points to our manager, general
manager of the station and says, yeah, this guy doesn't listen.
Pittman goes, excuse me. I don't think anybody'd ever done
(09:15):
this in front of him before.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You know, completely shot his wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, And you could see the manager's face. I'm not
going to say his name, because he goes he couldn't
believe it. You know, He's like what, and Pittman go
excuse me, and he goes, yeah, this guy doesn't listen.
He doesn't listen to anything you tell him. Pittman looks
at that manager, who is no longer with the company,
by the way, he looks at the manager, and he goes,
(09:39):
you need to learn to listen.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
To Rob's side, you could feel the heat from across
the table. Heather looked at me. I was like, oh
my god. So the next.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Morning, next morning, the girl that worked for the general manager,
his assistant, came to me and said, you know, this
guy needs to see you after the show.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And I go, okay. So I go in there and he.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Goes choose and I said choose. What he said, choose
between partners. And I said, well, I guess, Heather, And
he goes, good choice, and like within ninety days, Rob
was gone, he got his check, he was gone. So
it worked he got his money. But it worked out.
I mean, that's exactly what he wanted to do. And
then it wasn't even a year. The other guy was
(10:28):
was gone, and I don't know if he listened or not.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I didn't have one conversation with him.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't think, you know, so win win for everyone
in ball.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, and then then we got a new general manager
and then went after that and one after that. I said,
that job eats them, eats them. This I thought this
was interesting. Puma, here's in France. You know, I'm not
the best driver. Pooma tell you you don't want to
ride around with me. I'm too busy looking around. But
when we do stuff, he's like, hey, look at the road,
(10:59):
Grandpa guy in France, he's been driving twenty eight years,
no license, no insurance and no inspection.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sicker, twenty eight years he's been driving.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He got his license suspended twenty eight years ago, and
he said, I still had to go, had ship to do,
so I get.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
My car drive.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Through French patriot.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, he'd never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
He'd never been you know, nobody had messed with him
for twenty eight years.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He drove without a license, inspection, anything, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So man, that one, that one cuts a little close
to the to the bone. I Uh, I got a
ticket last week for a registration that might have been
out by a few months or maybe even a year.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Peer out look at you out of all.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I'm just saying, look, I am a firm believer
that once, once I get the ticket, then I register
the car.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm not giving the government any more information, uh when
I when there's really not a pressing need for it. Now,
if you want to, if you want to pull me
over in a small town and give me a ticket
because you got nothing better to do, which is exactly
what happened, then all right, well then we'll take care
of it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But living in San Antonio, man, there you can you
can get away with a lot of illegality when it
comes to your motor vehicle over here.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
A lot of folks in San Antonio, they got good intentions,
They just you know, I just can't get around and
getting it registered. And then I got pulled over once
and I think I said why do you not have
an inspection sticker? And I said, well I would have
it passed, which was that was the wrong answer answer,
but probably the wrong. Yeah, you know, I told you
about how got pulled over and dripping, and the guy
(12:46):
for in one of my old trucks, oh yeah, ended
up buying it from me, ended up and ended up
buying it right there on the Spigeos.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Mansoult was a seventy model C ten and I had.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I did a lot of those seventy and sixty seven models.
Loves god, I did them all before they got hot.
I have made a lot more money. But anyway, I
made money on them all. But he said, man, this
day he knew me, you know, and he goes, no inspection,
no tags, no back window in it, and he goes,
you're gonna you gotta get this.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You gotta get us done, and he goes, what it's
clean though, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And he got in sat behind the wheel. I said,
let's just drive it home. We drove it home and
you give me a ride back to my house and
police card. That was pretty cool. And then I had
a if you ever saw the Iron Resurrection show, I
have people from all over the country asked me about this.
I had my homemade record that was called Little Mo.
It was a Ranger pickup that had gotten rear ended
(13:35):
and just I mean assen just tore off of it and.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I pulled the beds the bed off of it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
One side was completely carved in, the other side was
in perfect shape, and there and dripping springs. They had
the drama class and they were doing they were doing
the scene were Wren dances, you know, in footloose and
they needed to pick up bed. So I gave him
that other half and they built a deal. So they
still use that pickup bed half of it. But I
built a homemade wreckord on that thing, and I lifted
(14:05):
motors and all kinds of stuff, and it was on
the TV show and I had people ask me about it.
But they had no license, no tags, no sticker, no
lights at all.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
They didn't even have a pickup bed. He just had
this a frame off the back of it to move
crap with. And a buddy of mine called and he said, Hey,
this thing's falling off my trailer over here and dripping
and he said, can you come over with a little Mo.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's in the backyard. I can't get anything back there
to it. And he said little Mo would fit in there,
and so I drove Little Mo over there to lift
it up. But as I'm going through dripping spring, my
buddy pulls up.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's DP. He's a Hay's County dipity on a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He pulls up and he goes, Bama, you cannot drive
this piece of shit on my road.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
This is illegal. And I was like, I'm heading over
here for an emergency. Get in front of me and
run the lights and siren, you know, and look official. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I helped those guys out a lot, and they've always
kind of looked the other way when it come to
that kind of stuff. So anyway, we've been rambling on
too long here. It's a Badma Brown experience. On the
iHeart Podcast Network
Well, hey, folks, you're listening to the Man Brown Experience
on the iHeart Podcast network along with the Big Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Big Cats got Sports Caves down in San Antonio.
Tomorrow night show was Live with You, Is it not tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah? Tonight, Monday and Wednesday nights live on YouTube atwe Live.
But again, if you don't need the visual, if you
just prefer the audio medium, anywhere you get your podcast,
just search for the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I saw where Tom Cruise an interview.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Did you see that interview with him the other day
where he was talking about the latest Mission Impossible?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And he said, I will be doing movies, so I'm
one hundred.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He said, I'll do Mission Impossible and Top Gun as
long as people want to keep coming, I'll keep doing
them because it employs fifteen hundred people when I do
a movie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And when you think.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
About movie people and you know wherever they're shooting at
all those locations, you know everybody involved, and it adds
upteen hundred people. That's why they cost so much. But
I thought that was interesting that he was he was
still talking about, Hey, I'll do him forever.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I ain't never gonna get tired of him now.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Granted, I mean I don't think I want to see
eighty year old Tom Cruise playing Maverick or No, there's
some I don't need to see ninety year old Ethan
Hunt hanging off side of a Japanese bullet train. I
feel like there's gotta be some limitation to maybe maybe
he can he can move into more of a mentor
(01:30):
role for whoever replaces him.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
On those I could see, like his smoke coming from
the tape recorder and him going, him going, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What's good?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, like your buddy's at breakfast the other week where
it's Tom Cruise trying to figure out what that noise is.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's that happened, Puma. It was the funniest thing I got.
These old veterans I eat with. I love him to death,
Vietnam vets and different things. But one of them so
and in this one he's ninety two, but he's sitting
next to me. He's ninety two years old, still sharp,
both of them. But one of them's diabetes alarm was
going off and the other one was trying to answer
his phone, and the other guy goes, who is it?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And it was his diabetes.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know, I was going, good, God, I gotta get
around some I gotta get around some other people.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That is, that's going to be half the plot of
Mission Impossible nineteen by the time.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, when all these guys when they were young
would kick your ass and a heartbeat, they could easily
Like Gary Hall, my friend Gary Hall, Vietnam bet sergeant.
I restored his car for him. But he made a
huge mistake in showing me his report card from when
he was in the eighth grade. And the teacher had
wrote in this report card because his grandkids had found
(02:45):
that just given him a wrath of shit, and it
was Gary is slightly retarded. It is report So I
got on the radio, robbing me and I said, I
got to tell this story. And I said, the kids
found it. And turn turns out my friend was slightly retarded.
And Rob goes, well, I don't think he'd want that
(03:07):
known on the radio, And I said, well, I didn't
say his name. I didn't say Gary Hale from Dripping Springs. Well,
ben oh, I just did. Well, I'm using a code
name about anyway. But then he was somewhere doing some
of the veterans with the city.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That day, and uh. The guy goes, well, I don't
know if we can do that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, I understand you're slightly retorted, and he goes
what and the guy from the city goes, yeah, I
heard on the radio today, Maama said you're slightly retarded.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was in your report card. And Gary goes, that's
a mission.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The idea that something from my eighth grade report card
could be reported over the radio to an entire city
at this point in my life, that's a bit terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And I love to point out these are all great
people and were great soldiers and gave it all over
their country and they were just badasses. But now there's
one answer and his diabetic medicine deal.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But the what was great about?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I made the mistake of telling Rob my
partner or your partner twenty years on radio, and you're
much nicer than him boom by the way, Uh Rob,
I made a mistake telling Rob I had to go
to speech class when I was in like third grade
or second grade, one of those. And he goes speech class, Huh,
I go yeah, And he goes, what it was your esses?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And I go, what are you talking about? He goes,
you had to go, and I had to go because
of my esses So you're not alone.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I was right there with you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Then for the rest of the week, I was conscious
of my essays were messed up, you know. And he goes,
and he goes. Finally he told me, he goes, there's
nothing wrong with your essays. He let me worry about
it all the way on. He goes, I just guessed
s because that was the most common you know, he
was he had education when he was at University of Georgia,
you know, And he said, I was an education major,
(04:58):
so speech speech therapy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
This is was like ninety percent of it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And he goes, I just guessed and I and I
got the opportunity to freak Bam out for a week.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I was like, oh, man, is it you know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then he's gonna he's gonna let that go as
long as he can.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And then he was always like, you know, I would
say instead of Wednesday, I'd say Wednesday, So Wednesday we
was gonna be over. He goes, Wednesday, what's a Wednesday?
And I said, it's the middle of the week. Mass
He's like, no, you're not saying it right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's Wednesday. It's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Look, I'm sorry. I didn't grow up in the North.
I'm not like this. This is how we say it.
You know what I'm talking about. Just move on.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And I told him bite may and may right here,
the right here, and he was, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We had a lot of fun though he was. He
was a good partner, and we had a good time.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And then he married a rich woman and quit on me.
He come in and said, I've married a I've met
a rich woman. And I said, oh, because he'd been
divorced for a while and was raising and raised three boys,
the fantastic dad, but he never had time for himself
and come in and he said, I met a rich woman.
And I said, well, she's pretty, egoes, she's rich. Later
(06:12):
I said she nice. He goes, she's rich, and she
was neither pretty nor or nice, but she was rich
and good for him.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The point though, she's rich, Yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He'd been poor his whole life, especially with three boys,
so he was broke. But they all turned out to
be great, all three great men. And he he's hadn't
worked in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Lucky him. So if you ever wonder what happened to Rob.
That's what happened. If you're listening and want to know
what happened to Rob.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
He married a rich woman who wasn't very nice and pretty,
but again she's very rich. They live with the ocean
as their backyard where I can't remember where they live,
somewhere up northeast, but the ocean is in the yard.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's their beach front. That's kind of money. Yeah, of
course he has the yes dear, no dear. I mean
he got him in the lead trade off.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't know, Uh, I think uh, I think being
a dirt poor redneck probably probably suits me a little better.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, well he wanted to get you know, I'll tell
this because part of the show is I'll tell whatever
I want and you want to complain, complain out there.
But he once, he once he married her. Then we
had a we all had a non compete. It was
a six month non compete in radio, and he wanted
to get the non compete but also wanted to leave.
(07:34):
And it was it was a lot of money. I
mean it was thousands of thousands of dollars as he
had a big contract and so he was trying to
figure out a way to get fired and keep the
money and still get the money, you know. And uh
so the owner of this company, iHeart the guy, Bob
Pittman that invented MTV, invented America Online. That was his
(07:56):
other two inventions, besides a art. He comes into town
and we'd both work for him for years, so we'd
met him once, I think, you know. Anyway, he came
in I want to see the morning shows.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And so we're in a meeting. If I told you
the story this, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So, yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's totally true. I can tell it. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So we're sitting Pittman goes, I want to see everybody.
I want solid morning guys. So we all go in
there and we're sitting at a conference stable. And at
the time there were three Bobby and them, Bobby and
Bones was in Austin, but he'd already moved to Nashville,
so it was just in the sports guys and us
and one other show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
They were still doing their live you know, and he.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So he's talking giving us, you know, hey, y'all are
doing a great job and everything, and he said, now,
how can I help you? And he went to each person,
what can I do to help you. Well, I've been
around the you know, corporate America. Shit, I knew to
just say, oh, everything's great, mister Pitman, don't need anything.
So Rob didn't like our general manager at the time anyway.
(08:54):
And when god over got to Rob and Heather and
I were sitting there on one side, and Robin for
some reason was at the end to the table. I
don't know why, but Rob points to our manager, general
manager of the station and says, yeah, this guy doesn't listen.
Pittman goes, excuse me. I don't think anybody'd ever done
(09:15):
this in front of him before.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You know, completely shot his wheel.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, And you could see the manager's face. I'm not
going to say his name, because he goes he couldn't
believe it. You know, He's like what, and Pittman go
excuse me, and he goes, yeah, this guy doesn't listen.
He doesn't listen to anything you tell him. Pittman looks
at that manager, who is no longer with the company,
by the way, he looks at the manager, and he goes,
(09:39):
you need to learn to listen.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
To Rob's side, you could feel the heat from across
the table. Heather looked at me. I was like, oh
my god. So the next.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Morning, next morning, the girl that worked for the general manager,
his assistant, came to me and said, you know, this
guy needs to see you after the show.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And I go, okay. So I go in there and he.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Goes choose and I said choose. What he said, choose
between partners. And I said, well, I guess, Heather, And
he goes, good choice, and like within ninety days, Rob
was gone, he got his check, he was gone. So
it worked he got his money. But it worked out.
I mean, that's exactly what he wanted to do. And
then it wasn't even a year. The other guy was
(10:28):
was gone, and I don't know if he listened or not.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I didn't have one conversation with him.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't think, you know, so win win for everyone
in ball.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, and then then we got a new general manager
and then went after that and one after that. I said,
that job eats them, eats them. This I thought this
was interesting. Puma, here's in France. You know, I'm not
the best driver. Pooma tell you you don't want to
ride around with me. I'm too busy looking around. But
when we do stuff, he's like, hey, look at the road,
(10:59):
Grandpa guy in France, he's been driving twenty eight years,
no license, no insurance and no inspection.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sicker, twenty eight years he's been driving.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He got his license suspended twenty eight years ago, and
he said, I still had to go, had ship to do,
so I get.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
My car drive.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Through French patriot.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, he'd never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
He'd never been you know, nobody had messed with him
for twenty eight years.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He drove without a license, inspection, anything, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So man, that one, that one cuts a little close
to the to the bone. I Uh, I got a
ticket last week for a registration that might have been
out by a few months or maybe even a year.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Peer out look at you out of all.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I'm just saying, look, I am a firm believer
that once, once I get the ticket, then I register
the car.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm not giving the government any more information, uh when
I when there's really not a pressing need for it. Now,
if you want to, if you want to pull me
over in a small town and give me a ticket
because you got nothing better to do, which is exactly
what happened, then all right, well then we'll take care
of it.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But living in San Antonio, man, there you can you
can get away with a lot of illegality when it
comes to your motor vehicle over here.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
A lot of folks in San Antonio, they got good intentions,
They just you know, I just can't get around and
getting it registered. And then I got pulled over once
and I think I said why do you not have
an inspection sticker? And I said, well I would have
it passed, which was that was the wrong answer answer,
but probably the wrong. Yeah, you know, I told you
about how got pulled over and dripping, and the guy
(12:46):
for in one of my old trucks, oh yeah, ended
up buying it from me, ended up and ended up
buying it right there on the Spigeos.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Mansoult was a seventy model C ten and I had.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I did a lot of those seventy and sixty seven models.
Loves god, I did them all before they got hot.
I have made a lot more money. But anyway, I
made money on them all. But he said, man, this
day he knew me, you know, and he goes, no inspection,
no tags, no back window in it, and he goes,
you're gonna you gotta get this.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You gotta get us done, and he goes, what it's
clean though, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And he got in sat behind the wheel. I said,
let's just drive it home. We drove it home and
you give me a ride back to my house and
police card. That was pretty cool. And then I had
a if you ever saw the Iron Resurrection show, I
have people from all over the country asked me about this.
I had my homemade record that was called Little Mo.
It was a Ranger pickup that had gotten rear ended
(13:35):
and just I mean assen just tore off of it and.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I pulled the beds the bed off of it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
One side was completely carved in, the other side was
in perfect shape, and there and dripping springs. They had
the drama class and they were doing they were doing
the scene were Wren dances, you know, in footloose and
they needed to pick up bed. So I gave him
that other half and they built a deal. So they
still use that pickup bed half of it. But I
built a homemade wreckord on that thing, and I lifted
(14:05):
motors and all kinds of stuff, and it was on
the TV show and I had people ask me about it.
But they had no license, no tags, no sticker, no
lights at all.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
They didn't even have a pickup bed. He just had
this a frame off the back of it to move
crap with. And a buddy of mine called and he said, Hey,
this thing's falling off my trailer over here and dripping
and he said, can you come over with a little Mo.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's in the backyard. I can't get anything back there
to it. And he said little Mo would fit in there,
and so I drove Little Mo over there to lift
it up. But as I'm going through dripping spring, my
buddy pulls up.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's DP. He's a Hay's County dipity on a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He pulls up and he goes, Bama, you cannot drive
this piece of shit on my road.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
This is illegal. And I was like, I'm heading over
here for an emergency. Get in front of me and
run the lights and siren, you know, and look official. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I helped those guys out a lot, and they've always
kind of looked the other way when it come to
that kind of stuff. So anyway, we've been rambling on
too long here. It's a Badma Brown experience. On the
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