The JB and Sandy Show

Would you let your coworkers secretly nominate you for a makeover show? After Sandy, JB, and Tricia trade notes on long marriages and parents who roast each other in private then turn into Ozzy and Harriet the second one walks in, Tricia's First Laugh lands on the early 2000s. Coworkers could sneak you onto What Not to Wear because you dressed horribly, and JB remembers Hot or Not, the site where...

Would you care if Cap Metro raised fares for the first time in a decade? Care Don't Care: Cap Metro bumps rides from $1.25 toward $1.50 and eventually $2, which still looks cheap next to Sandy's $110 surge Uber and a $200 minimum pedicab after Ohio State. Wedding trends for 2027 get a hard don't care, then a purse snatching in England ends with Batman, Mr. Fantastic, and Poison Ivy tackling the th...

What do a Longhorn jumbotron carrot, a rollerblade meetup, and a Rocky popcorn bucket have in common? The complete podcast-clean edition of The JB and Sandy Show for September 29, 2026. Sandy, JB, and Tricia cover First Laugh Strava guilt sandwiches and malt, Care Don't Care on the nicest place and a flood shark, Story We Love ACL Fest rain prep, Carrot Kid Preston Poe on the jumbotron and Ohio St...

Is ACL Fest about to become another Mud Bowl? Tricia wraps the Tuesday board: rain is lining up through the weekend, drains and gear covers are the staff plan, and Sandy flashes back to the 2009 Mud Bowl where flip-flops vanished into the muck after a Dust Bowl year left dirt rings around every nose. They recap Carrot Kid aka Big Red as a great guest, then land on Rocky's anniversary return to the...

Would you strap on skates for a JB and Sandy show challenge? JB spots a Lake Austin Boulevard rollerblade meetup packing the bike lane and the car lane, cowboy hats and all. Tricia dusts off push-cart races and shoot the duck from Playland Skate Center, Sandy recalls second place and cheaters cutting corners, and Tricia confesses she was bowler of the month at Austin Bowlarama (now a Trek shop wit...

Would you display a Rocky steps popcorn bucket right inside the front door? Tricia surprises Sandy with Rocky's fiftieth: limited theater collectibles, the iconic steps bucket, a November 7 through 11 big-screen return, and I Play Rocky on the twentieth. Sandy wants it next to Stretch Armstrong. They digress into the Livestrong Run for the Roses, organic kids joining the training montage, and Tric...

Who just bumped Steve Harvey off Tricia's mustache-boo throne? Elizabeth Holmes is headed for an Austin transitional center in 2027, which spins into jailhouse-baby talk, then Tricia opens the sacred boo spreadsheet. Sandy is bald boo until the stubble turns him into Randy. Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt chew boo, Ricky Gervais, disgraced Cuomo, Lester Holt, she-boo Kate Beckinsale, and new Voice judge Rile...

Why are two hundred fifty Starbucks stores closing, including three in Austin already? Story We Love: Loop 360 and Westlake, 71 and 290, and Cedar Park North Bell are gone for underperformance. Boss Christina once sold an out-of-towner on a hip local shop and walked them into Starbucks by accident. Influencers are outing the sugar bombs, a doctor calls it a candy store, and Sandy picks 7-Eleven ov...

What would you name a cemetery-mowing robot in Taylor, Texas? The city of Taylor rolled out autonomous lawn mowers and asked for names, so the table unloaded. Yard Vader, the Grassassin, Sir Cuts-a-Lot, the Trim Reaper, Lawn Ranger, Captain Clip, Weedy Gonzalez, Mowbi-Wan Kenobi, the Sodfather, Lawn Order, Mozilla, and the unprintable Grasshole. They promise never to grow up. If you love The JB an...

Would you pay $199 a month for ninety minutes of handyman time? Former Uber execs launched Casa, a subscription that digitizes your house, remembers paint colors and filter sizes, and bills extra at fifty an hour. JB smells subscription fatigue and Rocket Money irony. Sandy floats Air Tasker, where you post a job and set the price, including a seventy-five dollar headlight bulb swap. Perfect for a...

What do the Carrot Kid's parents actually think about the shirt rips? Preston Poe is back with the payoff: Mom and Dad love it, Dad even corrects Facebook strangers that he is from Frisco not New York. He is an acting major chasing comedy and joy, breaks down the double shirt-rip and Hulkamania build, and swears he will never big-time a fan for a photo. Sandy will see him at Ole Miss. If you love...

How does a Frisco theater kid become the Carrot Kid on the Longhorn jumbotron? Preston Poe joins JB and Sandy and walks through the origin story: Whataburger karaoke cam, Dancing Queen, sitting front row in the student section, and the Sam Houston shirt-rip dare when Arch Manning put up sixty. Ohio State week went nuclear with Netflix on campus, GameDay, Thunderstruck at the two-minute warning, an...

If your fitness app still cheers friends who never quit, what does your phone say about you? Tricia's First Laugh lands on getting back in shape after the routine falls apart, and Sandy owns the over-50 slip when workouts vanish for 90 days. JB maps Strava as social media for sweat, where if it is not on Strava it never happened, and the real sting is still getting Tom's workout alerts six months...

Would you believe the nicest place in America still has a cobbler handing out shoes? Care Don't Care: Tricia crowns Liverpool, New York for volunteerism and a cobbler who donated more than 300,000 pairs of shoes, while Sandy realizes he used to live in that Syracuse suburb. Holiday mail deadlines get a hard don't care in favor of Amazon, then Surf City, New Jersey serves a shark cruising flooded s...

How do you keep Zilker from turning into a swimming pool the week before ACL Fest? Story We Love: flood threats land Wednesday through Friday with inches of rain aimed at Austin and even more across the Hill Country, and ACL is already clearing drains, pre-positioning gear, and racing setup so trucks are not chewing up the grass when the sky opens. Sandy and JB revisit the mud bowl year, the Dillo...

He became a Longhorns legend by accident, then turned one viral moment into a campus-wide following, a Netflix feature, and a real shot at acting. Preston Poe—better known as the Carrot Kid and Big Red—shares how a 30-second karaoke-cam moment at a Texas football game changed everything, and why he’s determined not to let viral fame define his future. It all began with ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” Pres...

What do a gluten Nature Valley bar, a two-year grounding, and a Kota Land capybara have in common? The complete podcast-clean edition of The JB and Sandy Show for September 28, 2026. Sandy, JB, and Tricia cover First Laugh Nature Valley crumbs and extra pickle, Care Don't Care on Dolly Halloween costumes and Fortnite grandma records, Longhorns surviving Tennessee, Story We Love Lake Austin drawdow...

How long were you grounded as a kid, and did you actually serve the whole sentence? Tricia closes the Monday board with a new Book of Records entry: Joey was grounded for two years at 15 after sneaking out with her boyfriend, and she still tells her own kids about it. JB and his daughter hit Kota Land's official Saturday opening, where a petting-zoo capybara (world's largest living rodent, Labrado...

Will you walk, run, or chase an edible medal on October 18?JB and Sandy need you on Sandy Stampede or JB's Bat Pack for the Livestrong Run for the Roses. Sign up at 981kvet.com slash Sandy or slash JB, grab the medal, debate chocolate medals vs bananas, and support an Austin tradition JB has been with since Livestrong started in 1996.If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a review, an...

Are you still in the market for new friends after 40?Sandy swears he is set, Tricia wants him social, and MySpace quantity turns into few good friends. Then a weekend retreat produces Rich and Tracy from Spring, and Sandy cannot stop asking if Rich is there yet. Austin growth memory lane hits Kirby Lane, Balcones, Lakeline Mall, Dirty Sixth, and Tricia's birthday at Odd Duck on South Lamar with a...

Are the Longhorns really going to be good when they start playing well? Craig Way, voice of the Longhorns, joins after the Tennessee win. Penalties everywhere, a defense that had not allowed an offensive touchdown in ten quarters, Greg Davis good-bye-week vs goodbye-week, and getting guys healthy before Oklahoma. Tricia asks about President Trump in the building and Secret Service cutting comms, K...

Would you stare straight down on Circuit Breaker before the drop? Story We Love: Kota Land finally soft-opened at COTA. JB took his adrenaline-junkie daughter for world-class coasters, Circuit Breaker lining cars to tilt and drop, and Palindrome looping out and back. Littles get a safari Jeep, a live gator you can pet, and a capybara that looks like a giant hamster and might be bigger than a Lab....

How much does a three-day ACL wristband cost when Austin already wore you out? After a Longhorns bye before OU, Austin City Limits kicks off at Zilker and Sandy says living here is exhausting and expensive if you actually do the things. Tricia's daughter paid about $450 for a week-two three-day pass, Sleep at the Wheel still opens like superstition, and rain is in the forecast. If you love The JB...

Would you refuse lettuce on the best burger in Alabama? Sandy plugs the podcast stream, the table still cannot get over sister Chris and rub-a-dub-dub, and they need to track down funny Burnet listener Dixie after France. Then Cheeseburger Brock texts from Alabama with a no-lettuce champion burger while JB's wife calls her Odd Duck burger the best ever. After Kacey Musgraves' Dolly tribute guts, M...

What is the longest grounded sentence you actually served as a kid? JB and Sandy open the Amazing Book of Records hunting the longest grounding that stuck. JB owns a Coppertone bikini-bottom month that got cut short for good behavior, Tricia was Miss Perfect, and then the phones light up. Barry did a whole school year after Blue Bonnet Palace, then Joey drops a two-year sentence for sneaking out w...