The JB and Sandy Show

Did festival crowds kill Zilker's Great Lawn, or does the grass just go dormant early? Story We Love: ACL setup closes the lawn, Tricia unpacks seventy-one million dollars back to Austin parks, the dormant-grass myth, Dillo Dirt, the Mud Bowl after the Dust Bowl, and why dropping Lake Austin from October twelfth through November thirtieth during F1 and football season has locals pushing LCRA to wa...

Would you care that Lenny Kravitz just got a Kenbassador doll with sculpted abs and leather pants? Care Don't Care: the second celebrity Ken ever sells out on Amazon, then the table digs into toothpaste-covered Barbies under the bed and Colorado's wildlife overpass cutting animal collisions by ninety-one percent. Smokey Bear can read the signs. Squirrels cannot. Sandy and JB both hit one in the sa...

Would you wait two years on principle rather than pay Amazon three ninety-nine? Tricia digs in on Guy Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare with Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson, checks the rental price for months, finally caves, then finds it free days later like Amazon HQ set off an alarm that said we got her. Same stubborn energy she once brought to The View and the little red viewing d...

Would you float a swan paddle boat just to watch art light up an ugly brick intake? Design Austin and the Trail Conservancy turn the Seaholm power plant intake into a free nighttime canvas called Water Works. JB and Sandy map paddle boards, Auditorium Shores, and the Pfluger bridge, then spiral into haunted-house vibes, old raves, Mike Judge's Idiocracy film set, and the private-school kid who sto...

Would you let your morning cohost call you Creepy Uncle Randy for five days straight? Sandy opens from the shadow of the Four Seasons dirt pile on the cliffside, then Tricia spots the grays at his hairline and the table launches into Archie Bunker vibes, the Randy stubble challenge, Walgreens wireframe glasses, clip-on ties, and short sleeves that make every serial killer look complete. If you lov...

Would you believe your old radio intern is about to turn fifty? Sandy wraps the morning with a Bevo Boulevard hello from the sister of 1997 intern South Park Steph, now fifty and working Amazon in Seattle, plus dog-agility corgi memories. Tricia's Things We Learned board hits Melissa's near-miss on Minute to Win It, Elon Musk's Austin-to-San Antonio underground tunnel pitch, JB's car-in-the-pod fa...

What do a targeted robin, Cool River cougar Thursdays, and HAM Day at H-E-B have in common? The complete podcast-clean edition of The JB and Sandy Show for September 22, 2026. Sandy, JB, and Tricia cover Cheez-Its and separate beds, Dr. Shaq the honorary FBI agent, Georgetown Square, celery color of the year and scratch salons, Musk's Austin-San Antonio tunnel, Melissa's Minute to Win It swing, Ne...

What food did a documentary or factory tour ruin for you forever? JB's childhood cheese trough tour kills sharp cheddar, a Slim Jim tip about bird beaks and talons ends the meat sticks, My Octopus Teacher wrecks sushi octopus while Sandy refuses to believe the relationship, and Tricia quit oysters the day she learned they are still alive. If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a revie...

Have you ever held out on a rental fee so long that the algorithm felt personal? Tricia waited two years for Guy Ritchie's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare to go free on Amazon, finally paid $3.99 out of principle fatigue, then watched it flip to free two days later. Sandy says Bezos sent a message. Bonus: her years-long red-dot war with The View. If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, lea...

How do you keep the live music capital healthy when rent and insurance keep climbing? HAM CEO Paul Scott joins for HAM Day Music Festival: twenty-one years of affordable care for working musicians, DJs, and teachers, a Meniere's disease save through the HEAR clinic, and a citywide map of over seven hundred musicians across hundreds of venues. Too late to be nervous. Just go hear some live music. I...

What was the best drink special of your life, and would TABC even allow it now? An Instagram Austinites meme launches Threadgills two-for-a-quarter Shiner, Omaha sneak-or-leak night that gave JB the scar over his eye, Cain and Abel magnums, Cool River cougar Thursdays, and callers Steve and Ashley with Dallas nightclub nostalgia plus free beer at a new Lakeway barbecue joint. If you love The JB an...

If the show took a long-shot phone call, who would you put on the line? Ask an Actual: JB wants someone brand new to Austin in the last sixty days, Tricia wants a SWAT team member because she loves a man in uniform, and Sandy wants an ex who actually did pay their way through school like the old line promised. No judgment, just a big swing. If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a rev...

Would you stay on Nextdoor after a targeted bird and a microwave backpack day? Sandy updates on stray dog Marty after the gut-health rehab, then grabs the wildest Nextdoor headlines: a North Austin robin that poops on the same car no matter where she parks, an Allendale kid who needs a broken microwave for anything-but-a-backpack day, and a Cedar Park truck theft where the guy is pretty sure the r...

Can you clear ten questions in sixty seconds when the tick in your ear is louder than the bright lights? Melissa from Smithville plays Minute to Win It for five hundred with football players, pencil erasers, Fort Worth Stockyards, Monopoly, a sneaky 1994 Super Bowl country trap, Big Ben, Mount Rushmore, and Neil Armstrong. Heck of a try, no win today, so tomorrow the cold hard cash jumps to five t...

Would you ride a two-hundred-mile-an-hour tunnel under dirt and concrete, or meet everyone at Buc-ee's aboveground? Story We Love: Elon Musk's Boring Company pitches Austin to San Antonio in under thirty minutes, JB believes it only because it is Elon, Tricia is out completely on underground tubes, and the table argues subway exits, parking-garage panic, and whether a hybrid Buc-ee's stop would ev...

Would you pay someone to scratch your back all over, or just legalize a little office pepper spray? Care Don't Care: Sherwin Williams 2027 color of the year is celery, which launches JB into seventies shag carpet and pillowy kitchen floors. Then Chinese wellness salons where plastic fingernails scratch you head to toe, lottery dreams of a full staff cook makeup back-scratcher Tesla robot, and the...

Can a hometown square come back so hard that cocktails-to-go feel like the 1940s? JB's Georgetown reunion lands at Dale's in Walburg, then Friday night on a square that used to be dead when he cooked there in high school. Now young families walk wine across the grass, the GTX Film Festival is stacking tickets, and cowboy Kirby finds out JB is on KVET with one perfect line: I knew we'd make a redne...

What would you do if seven-foot Shaq knocked on your door looking for bad guys? Story We Love: Kash Patel pins an honorary FBI special agent medal on Dr. Shaq at Quantico, and the hosts unpack his real reserve cop work, Walmart-affordable shoes after a mom called him out, Papa John's commercials with the investment, helping kids who cannot find clothes that fit, and the American Express decline th...

Would you hide the Cheez-Its from your own spouse, or just dole them out like a dorm RA? Sandy opens from the shadow of the 360 bridge with Minute to Win It climbing to five hundred, HAM Music Festival day all over Austin, and a later chat with HAM CEO Paul Scott. Then Tricia's first laugh lands on snack-loud subtitles, pantry bag raids, orange Cheez-It fingers, dorm-style fridge sides, and the be...

What happens when the dead hometown square you fled in the 80s comes roaring back? JB's Georgetown reunion weekend turns into a love letter to to-go cocktails on the square, young families with wine on the grass, the GTX Film Festival, and the cowboy classmate who did not know JB was on KVET until he promised they would make a redneck out of him. If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave...

Is the drone show the most important question on a Longhorn game day? Voice of the Longhorns Craig Way joins Sandy after she stumped him on AM 1300 about the drone show, then breaks down the choppy UTSA win, G6 versus Power Four intensity, why Texas will not show the full playbook, and what fans can expect on the first-ever trip to Knoxville. If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a r...