May 16, 2025 • 11 mins
How do you build a relationship that lasts longer than a Model T? In this high-octane episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama and the Big Puma take listeners on a joyride through automotive history, unexpected trivia, and surprisingly heartfelt relationship advice. What starts as a deep dive into the origins of car manufacturing - from the first stolen car in 1905 to the surprising roots of REO Speedwagon - quickly shifts gears into a candid conversation about love, longevity, and the secrets to keeping relationships from stalling out.
Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a laugh - or a little relationship tune-up!
- The fascinating story behind the first car theft in St. Louis and why the thief deserves more fame than Bonnie and Clyde.
- How Ransom Eli Olds, the Dodge brothers, and Buick shaped the American auto industry—and what happened when they walked away.
- The surprising connection between REO Speedwagon and early car manufacturing.
- Bama’s four golden rules for relationship longevity, including a hilarious (and brutally honest) quote from his daughter: “You, sir, have no game.”
Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a laugh - or a little relationship tune-up!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, folks, Bama Brown here from Bama Brown Experience on
the iHeart podcast network along with the big boom of
the Big Cat, who has the Sports Cave the most
popular sports show in San Antonio and I think Austin.
Now it's grown that quick.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It feels like it feels like we got a little
momentum if you believe in that sort of thing. But again,
made it through another week here with you. So let
me get one more plug in. Anywhere you get your podcasts,
just search for the Sports Cave with the biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I saw this. I don't know even what I was doing.
I was looking at car stuff because that's what I'm doing.
Oh no way, yeah, shocking yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The first stolen car was in Saint Louis. That's a shock,
and it was stolen in nineteen oh five, though the
very first scar theft was nineteen oh five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How could you just run and catch up to it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And how would you steal it? I mean it wouldn't
be for one wire, I think, but they the actual
first car was in eighteen eighty six, and then the
first what they call the manufactured car, which in other words,
they made ten or twelve or whatever I think it
was actually thirteen was in eighteen ninety two. The Durist
(01:14):
Brothers they built, they built thirteen of them, and so
they consider them the first actual factory car manufacturer in Detroit.
You had Ransom Eli Olds Rio. In case you are
a band, you like the band Rio, That's where Rio
Speedwagon came from because Ransom Eli Olds Mobile Olds he
(01:38):
and he designed and built that first truck.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No idea, that's where the Rio came from.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Rio Speedwagon was the name of the truck, and that's
where they got it from. But it was Ransom Eli Oldsmill.
His name is Olds. And so that's a little bit
of trivia. And I'm so excited I actually told you
something you didn't know because usually it's way the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm I'm still stuck on Okay, granted, it's never good
to steal a car, hear me out, But if you're
gonna do it, you might as well be the first
to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Like, how do you not know that guy?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
How was that guy not more of a We know
Bonnie and Clyde, we know right all these different uh
you know car like we have gone in sixty second.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We've got movies about cars.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We not know this guy that started at all.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
There would be no gone in sixty seconds, Sir Bonnie
and Clyde without the guy that stole a car in
nineteen o five.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Maybe he didn't get caught. Maybe that's probably what I am.
He didn't get fair, fair, he didn't get caught. Uh,
you had a guy I love. The only reason I
mentioned in his name is because I love is his
first name, dumb bar, dumbbar Buick. He started the Buick
Motor Company in nineteen oh one. I hope this isn't.
I'm sure it is. In nineteen oh three, Ford it
(03:04):
started his manufacturing. Now he had tried several times before,
but two of his biggest guys that worked for him
that actually were a subcontractor that built all everything but
the tires for the Dodge brothers. And they started the
Ford Motor Company as investors with Ford, and then you know,
they went to the auto show. Dodge was they started
(03:25):
their own company and Dodge was doing fantastic. They went
to the auto show in France and got the Spanish
flu and came back and both of them died as
young guys. And then their wives sold the company to
Walter P. Chrysler for seventy something meion and it was
the largest industrial sale.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In US history at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So that there's a little more input.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Four years, how.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Many people realized that Buick and Oldsmobile both came before Ford.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh yeah, that'd be exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Because I had I think for most people, even if
if you know nothing about cars, you still think your
first thought is, well, it's the Ford model T. Yeah,
assembly line called like Ford was the first to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The uh, the the uh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Both Buick and Osmo Bill they left. I think the
old guy he did okay, he went in and started
building the trucks. After he got out of the car business,
Buick died broke in a motel somewhere. The Buick air
uh in Chevrolet asn't. He was a race car driver
in France and he didn't even want to be in
the car business, and he did it because of his
(04:35):
name and was kind of involved in it. But then
he he left, took his money, took some money and
it's with Thock money and left and when it became
Geral Motors and he left Chevrolet, he went back to
France and lived out his life. Just you know, playing
and messing around. So that's pretty I thought that was
pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad life at all.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
No, not at all, standing there and playing. Uh. Okay,
So this was interesting to me into this because of
the you know, how do you how do you get
in the relationship, make the relationship not about heat but
about longevity? Okay, how do you how do you tell
it's going to be longevity? You know, had like Chevrolet,
(05:15):
if he met somebody, how do you know there were
they're going to be the one? And I thought this
was interesting. They said, there's four things that you can do,
uh that keep it from becoming mundane. Let's say it
that way to keep the exciteming going. Number one, uh
por prioritizing kids and work over your spouse. Make your
(05:36):
spouse number one, no matter what, just make your spouse
number one man or a woman either one.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The easy way to do that is not have kids.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the strategy I've taken so far.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's one A I'm going to be I've got to
be for that too, that I think would probably fill in.
But no, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'm telling my I'm telling my wife like I'm sorry, darling.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I gotta go messer, I gotta go laugh with Bama
for another half an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This is the second one, all right, social media. Stay
off of social media. That's where most relationships now have
gone south, where they meet somebody that they used to
know or they need somebody new.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
MS.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, so you wanna you wanna avoid you want to
avoid that for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The thing is, though, if if my wife ever went
through my d MS on social media, all she would
see is middle aged dudes arguing about the cowboys with me,
like I'm not I'm not getting anything exotic. It's just
dudes that are pissed off about what I said about
the spurs.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You go to mine and which corvette was faster, and
my wife, Oh my god, oh my god, y'all just
you don't you know, to quote my daughter, you got
no game. I remember my daughter telling me that when
she watched my wife reject me one day and she
just happened to walk around and he goes, you, sir,
have no game. Forget that. Uh okay, here's a big one.
(07:13):
And I got a joke that goes, well this one.
You listen to your partner. We listen to our partner,
but you comprehend what your partner's telling you. Big difference
in listening and comprehend. The guy that I knew, he
had his nickname for his wife. He called her the
four horses, nag nag nagnet.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
How's that relationship going.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm glad my wife doesn't listen to his podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And the fourth and they say a very important one
is early on. Don't rush into the romance part, you know,
don't get caught up in the movie romancing. You got
to look for the long term. Is it gonna you know,
because after a couple of three weeks, after a month,
you know, remember the old adage, no matter how pretty
she is, somewhere somebody is sick of her shit. Don't
(08:08):
remember that. And it can be said for the guys.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, no, it's that that cuts both ways. That's ways woman,
that's that's somewhere. Every person you meet in life, someone
out there is tired of They're tired of their ship.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like absolutely, I'll let put my answer the hate mail
from this, so I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Though,
the best advice ever given on the radio on the
radio station was Askbama They used to do a segment
called the Askebama and I'd get these emails from people
that were having trouble. And this is the best advice
ever given on radio in the history of Marconi and
(08:45):
men in the radio ladies, take care of business at home.
Business will take care of you. That's that's it. That's
all you need to know. And just read into that
whatever you want to. But take care of business at
home pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Take care of you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I promise you. I promise you. You wanna you want his attention,
you want the stuff, you want everything?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah again, direct that hate mail to at Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, he'll he'll throw it. He'll just do. You get
the you'll get the thanks for listening. See our I
heartstore for gifts.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Here's a gift card.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The thing is, I love this over radio because I
say anything I want and you suckers came on board
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
All right, So you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Know you came after this, so you can't hate it.
You like go Away, but you can't hate it. There's
no program director to send an email to going I
can't believe he said that.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know you expected any better. That's on you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, there's no there's no promos out there going, oh
you want to have a whole good lad you're gonna
get something that you're gonna go. I can't believe he
said that ship on the radio right there. That's that's
not good. But that's what that's why America is great.
So so we can show. I think those lives have
been put on the line so we can do this show.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I don't understand how podcaster it wasn't in our list
a couple of days ago of most dangerous jobs.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly, thank you, thank you. I mean you know what
danger were in just just from cholesterol, what we food
we eat while we're in the radio station.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You know, it's not my fault.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They keep bringing free food and oh I'm already I
can't stop myself.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh I was having the same conversation with my buddy
that has Rudy's Barbecue a location near you. All Right,
that's enough, we gotta we gotta go away. I get
out of here. I think enoughs enough. On the iHeart
podcast that worked the Mam and Brown experience, you're listen
Hey, folks, Bama Brown here from Bama Brown Experience on
the iHeart podcast network along with the big boom of
the Big Cat, who has the Sports Cave the most
popular sports show in San Antonio and I think Austin.
Now it's grown that quick.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It feels like it feels like we got a little
momentum if you believe in that sort of thing. But again,
made it through another week here with you. So let
me get one more plug in. Anywhere you get your podcasts,
just search for the Sports Cave with the biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I saw this. I don't know even what I was doing.
I was looking at car stuff because that's what I'm doing.
Oh no way, yeah, shocking yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The first stolen car was in Saint Louis. That's a shock,
and it was stolen in nineteen oh five, though the
very first scar theft was nineteen oh five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How could you just run and catch up to it?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And how would you steal it? I mean it wouldn't
be for one wire, I think, but they the actual
first car was in eighteen eighty six, and then the
first what they call the manufactured car, which in other words,
they made ten or twelve or whatever I think it
was actually thirteen was in eighteen ninety two. The Durist
(01:14):
Brothers they built, they built thirteen of them, and so
they consider them the first actual factory car manufacturer in Detroit.
You had Ransom Eli Olds Rio. In case you are
a band, you like the band Rio, That's where Rio
Speedwagon came from because Ransom Eli Olds Mobile Olds he
(01:38):
and he designed and built that first truck.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
No idea, that's where the Rio came from.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Rio Speedwagon was the name of the truck, and that's
where they got it from. But it was Ransom Eli Oldsmill.
His name is Olds. And so that's a little bit
of trivia. And I'm so excited I actually told you
something you didn't know because usually it's way the other
way around.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm I'm still stuck on Okay, granted, it's never good
to steal a car, hear me out, But if you're
gonna do it, you might as well be the first
to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Like, how do you not know that guy?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
How was that guy not more of a We know
Bonnie and Clyde, we know right all these different uh
you know car like we have gone in sixty second.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We've got movies about cars.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We not know this guy that started at all.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
There would be no gone in sixty seconds, Sir Bonnie
and Clyde without the guy that stole a car in
nineteen o five.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Maybe he didn't get caught. Maybe that's probably what I am.
He didn't get fair, fair, he didn't get caught. Uh,
you had a guy I love. The only reason I
mentioned in his name is because I love is his
first name, dumb bar, dumbbar Buick. He started the Buick
Motor Company in nineteen oh one. I hope this isn't.
I'm sure it is. In nineteen oh three, Ford it
(03:04):
started his manufacturing. Now he had tried several times before,
but two of his biggest guys that worked for him
that actually were a subcontractor that built all everything but
the tires for the Dodge brothers. And they started the
Ford Motor Company as investors with Ford, and then you know,
they went to the auto show. Dodge was they started
(03:25):
their own company and Dodge was doing fantastic. They went
to the auto show in France and got the Spanish
flu and came back and both of them died as
young guys. And then their wives sold the company to
Walter P. Chrysler for seventy something meion and it was
the largest industrial sale.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In US history at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So that there's a little more input.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Four years, how.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Many people realized that Buick and Oldsmobile both came before Ford.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh yeah, that'd be exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Because I had I think for most people, even if
if you know nothing about cars, you still think your
first thought is, well, it's the Ford model T. Yeah,
assembly line called like Ford was the first to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The uh, the the uh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Both Buick and Osmo Bill they left. I think the
old guy he did okay, he went in and started
building the trucks. After he got out of the car business,
Buick died broke in a motel somewhere. The Buick air
uh in Chevrolet asn't. He was a race car driver
in France and he didn't even want to be in
the car business, and he did it because of his
(04:35):
name and was kind of involved in it. But then
he he left, took his money, took some money and
it's with Thock money and left and when it became
Geral Motors and he left Chevrolet, he went back to
France and lived out his life. Just you know, playing
and messing around. So that's pretty I thought that was
pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad life at all.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
No, not at all, standing there and playing. Uh. Okay,
So this was interesting to me into this because of
the you know, how do you how do you get
in the relationship, make the relationship not about heat but
about longevity? Okay, how do you how do you tell
it's going to be longevity? You know, had like Chevrolet,
(05:15):
if he met somebody, how do you know there were
they're going to be the one? And I thought this
was interesting. They said, there's four things that you can do,
uh that keep it from becoming mundane. Let's say it
that way to keep the exciteming going. Number one, uh
por prioritizing kids and work over your spouse. Make your
(05:36):
spouse number one, no matter what, just make your spouse
number one man or a woman either one.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The easy way to do that is not have kids.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's the strategy I've taken so far.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's one A I'm going to be I've got to
be for that too, that I think would probably fill in.
But no, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'm telling my I'm telling my wife like I'm sorry, darling.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I gotta go messer, I gotta go laugh with Bama
for another half an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
This is the second one, all right, social media. Stay
off of social media. That's where most relationships now have
gone south, where they meet somebody that they used to
know or they need somebody new.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
MS.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, so you wanna you wanna avoid you want to
avoid that for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The thing is, though, if if my wife ever went
through my d MS on social media, all she would
see is middle aged dudes arguing about the cowboys with me,
like I'm not I'm not getting anything exotic. It's just
dudes that are pissed off about what I said about
the spurs.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You go to mine and which corvette was faster, and
my wife, Oh my god, oh my god, y'all just
you don't you know, to quote my daughter, you got
no game. I remember my daughter telling me that when
she watched my wife reject me one day and she
just happened to walk around and he goes, you, sir,
have no game. Forget that. Uh okay, here's a big one.
(07:13):
And I got a joke that goes, well this one.
You listen to your partner. We listen to our partner,
but you comprehend what your partner's telling you. Big difference
in listening and comprehend. The guy that I knew, he
had his nickname for his wife. He called her the
four horses, nag nag nagnet.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
How's that relationship going.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm glad my wife doesn't listen to his podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And the fourth and they say a very important one
is early on. Don't rush into the romance part, you know,
don't get caught up in the movie romancing. You got
to look for the long term. Is it gonna you know,
because after a couple of three weeks, after a month,
you know, remember the old adage, no matter how pretty
she is, somewhere somebody is sick of her shit. Don't
(08:08):
remember that. And it can be said for the guys.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, no, it's that that cuts both ways. That's ways woman,
that's that's somewhere. Every person you meet in life, someone
out there is tired of They're tired of their ship.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like absolutely, I'll let put my answer the hate mail
from this, so I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Though,
the best advice ever given on the radio on the
radio station was Askbama They used to do a segment
called the Askebama and I'd get these emails from people
that were having trouble. And this is the best advice
ever given on radio in the history of Marconi and
(08:45):
men in the radio ladies, take care of business at home.
Business will take care of you. That's that's it. That's
all you need to know. And just read into that
whatever you want to. But take care of business at
home pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Take care of you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I promise you. I promise you. You wanna you want his attention,
you want the stuff, you want everything?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah again, direct that hate mail to at Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, he'll he'll throw it. He'll just do. You get
the you'll get the thanks for listening. See our I
heartstore for gifts.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Here's a gift card.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The thing is, I love this over radio because I
say anything I want and you suckers came on board
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
All right, So you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Know you came after this, so you can't hate it.
You like go Away, but you can't hate it. There's
no program director to send an email to going I
can't believe he said that.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know you expected any better. That's on you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, there's no there's no promos out there going, oh
you want to have a whole good lad you're gonna
get something that you're gonna go. I can't believe he
said that ship on the radio right there. That's that's
not good. But that's what that's why America is great.
So so we can show. I think those lives have
been put on the line so we can do this show.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I don't understand how podcaster it wasn't in our list
a couple of days ago of most dangerous jobs.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly, thank you, thank you. I mean you know what
danger were in just just from cholesterol, what we food
we eat while we're in the radio station.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You know, it's not my fault.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They keep bringing free food and oh I'm already I
can't stop myself.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh I was having the same conversation with my buddy
that has Rudy's Barbecue a location near you. All Right,
that's enough, we gotta we gotta go away. I get
out of here. I think enoughs enough. On the iHeart
podcast that worked the Mam and Brown experience, you're listen
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