The JB and Sandy Show

What kind of toy comes in an adult Happy Meal? Friday on The JB and Sandy Show opens with a very loud swallow, vest season and Tricia's mortician shoelace joke. Story We Love says goodbye to Austin's digital Whataburger, Stephen Presley breaks down Kelly Clarkson's toy store feud and the I Play Rocky premiere, and Care Don't Care digs into Tricia's lotto side hustle and the food trends of 2027. P....

If you win the lotto, why can't you just hand your buddy a million bucks? JB, Sandy and Tricia close out the week with Things We Learned. Catherine tried so hard on Minute to Win It and couldn't get there, so the pot grows to $400 for Monday, and the crew explains why it's a different game when the lights are on and the clock is ticking. Then the children's book Mrs. Runkle Takes a Poo hits its fi...

Why does it take a year and a half to build a good habit and about six months to lose it? JB checks in on Sandy's big reboot. Before the show came back on the air April 1st, Sandy had cut out sugar, was taking long morning walks, cold plunging, and had dropped more than 30 pounds. Then the new gig started and all of it went out the window. His comeback week is not going well, unless you count the...

How many sumo matches can you fit into one night when every bout is over in seconds? Sandy ran into his buddy Pat, who made him promise to tell everybody who listens to 98.1 KVET that he went to the sumo matches last weekend and said it was incredible. It turns out it's a touring league, they ran about 30 matches because they're over so fast, and the best part was watching the little guys manhandl...

Do you already know everything you need to know about Muhammad Ali? Sandy feels that way about the Unabomber and OJ, but Amazon Prime's new biopic series The Greatest has him hooked anyway. Will Smith already nailed Ali once. This time it is a series, not one film, and Sandy wants people to remember how politically significant Ali was: he gave up the heavyweight championship for what he believed i...

Did Riley Green take credit for Ella Langley, or did the internet invent a feud? Stephen Presley from ThunderPop TV and Talking to Dead Celebrities joins with the latest. Riley mentioned Ella on The Voice while recruiting a contestant, Ella looked annoyed online, and romance rumors followed. JB thinks it got blown out of proportion. Then P Diddy ran out of baby oil, got beat up by Jamaican drug lo...

When do you stop driving your 17-year-old to the concert? Tricia is spiraling about their daughter and a friend driving from Cedar Park to the Moody Center, parking, and walking in alone for Phoebe Bridgers. Sandy says the last thing those girls want is mommy dropping them off. JB remembers unreliable cars to Frank Erwin Center shows, and everyone agrees parents are more protective of daughters. B...

Can Texas stop Ja'Den Barr and the Florida run game after that Cotton Bowl nightmare? Cameron Parker from AM 1300 The Zone joins JB and Sandy ahead of Florida at DKR. Three weeks ago Florida looked like a contender; then Missouri and South Carolina happened. Texas is coming off what may be the worst loss of the Sarkisian era, stuck in neutral on offense, and still beating itself with turnovers. Pr...

Is the pickleball gold rush already over? In this Story We Love, a major indoor pickleball franchise files for bankruptcy and shuts most of its courts. Austin somehow has 70 to 100 venues. JB never bought a racket. The problem: everybody wants to play after 5 p.m., the country-club model is missing, and big footprints cost too much. Lakeway tennis moms are quietly celebrating, and Sandy suggests t...

Got a free Sunday morning and a cause worth walking for? Sandy and JB still have room on their Livestrong Run for the Roses teams. You can register day of, use code iHeart26 online, or just donate if you cannot walk. Livestrong was born in Austin, is hitting 30 years, and helps from the moment someone hears the word cancer through every step after. Sandy and Tricia lost three friends to cancer in...

Should a kids' book teach a moral, or just make them laugh about poo? JB, Sandy and Tricia decide this is the weekend they finally write Mrs. Runkle Takes a Poo. It all goes back to Omaha stockyards, a north wind, and a neighbor with a hairy mole who was not kind. Sandy wants life lessons about smells. JB wants Scooby-Doo mystery kids on e-bikes sniffing out dead rabbits until they find Mrs. Runkl...

What kind of toy comes in an adult Happy Meal? Longtime friend of the show Brock Purse, cheeseburger connoisseur, drops the latest trends: lettuce is vanishing from burger joints from Austin to Birmingham, smash burgers are giving way to meaty juicy diner burgers, and a new Smash N Saw just opened on 620 behind Barry Creek. Then adult Happy Meals at Hank's, Holiday and Hillsdale Farmacy. Brock wan...

What happens when Godzilla shows up at a Formula 1 race? Stephen Presley from ThunderPop TV is back with Godzilla coming to the ATX. The Haas F1 team is teaming up with the studio behind Godzilla to promote the Godzilla Minus One sequel with a monster-themed car, and Tricia, a huge Godzilla fan, finally has a reason to go to F1. Then a man who pretended to play for the San Francisco 49ers to scam...

How many millimeters are in a centimeter? Are you sure? Catherine from New Braunfels plays JB and Sandy's Minute to Win It for $375, with questions six, seven and eight already in hand. The clock runs through strikeouts, female horses, s'mores, Finding Nemo and the Call of the Wild, but the Kemah boardwalk and the $50 bill trip her up, and one metric question seals it. She sounds so sad afterward...

What if the burger joint you love was owned by the people working the counter? In this Story We Love, Tricia shares how P. Terry's landed in the national spotlight. Patrick and Kathy Terry started with one store, now have 37, and plan to sell their equity over time to an employee ownership trust to help workers buy homes, send kids to college and retire with dignity. Sandy says P. Terry's took the...

Would you play the big jackpot or sneak in on the games nobody is watching? In Care Don't Care, Tricia opens the books on her lotto side business. With Powerball and Mega Millions past a billion combined, she swoops in on the lesser jackpots, and Sandy wonders what world his wife lives in. She loves Bigfoot, Godzilla and lotto, man. Then Whole Foods predicts the food trends of 2027, from Japanese...

Did anybody have Kelly Clarkson feuding with a toy store on their bingo card? Stephen Presley from ThunderPop TV and the Talking to Dead Celebrities podcast joins JB, Sandy and Tricia. Kelly tried to buy a mechanical singing bird named Molly that wasn't for sale, the shop owner turned out to be a beloved children's book author, and now the bird costs $15 million. Stephen says the store is winning...

Can a kiosk ever replace a breakfast on a bun after a long night out? In this Story We Love, Tricia reports that one of Whataburger's most futuristic experiments has come to an end in Austin. The drive-through only digital kitchen on Bee Caves Road, where you ordered ahead or punched it into a kiosk, closed after about three years. JB and Sandy remember what used to sit on that corner, and Sandy h...

Have you ever heard yourself swallow on the radio? It's Friday, the cool weather finally rolled into Austin, and the semi popular JB and Sandy Show opens with a very loud swallow, Longhorns game day plans and a fall fashion confession. Sandy is all about a Longhorn vest, with or without a hoodie, and whoever invented the thumb holes in hoodie sleeves deserves to be handsomely rewarded. Then Tricia...

Is Austin still where young people go to retire, or did the slacker mentality finally clock out? Thursday on The JB and Sandy Show opens with Austin slackers and young people retiring, then Story We Love takes on Kelly Clarkson's toy store feud and Big Frank Franklin. Care Don't Care covers AI researchers taking up smoking, paper airplanes caught in a mouth, and teal pumpkins for allergy-friendly...

What do you do when your childhood sitcom stars are gone and you are the last to find out? Thursday's Things We Learned wraps The JB and Sandy Show with the good news first: Muni is saved, hooray, so where does the energy go next? Peter Pan? Or the Barton Springs salamander chiming in with save sexy scissors? Then Sandy discovers both Laverne and Shirley have passed, Penny Marshall in 2018 and Cin...

When did your parents stop calling the babysitter? Sandy says one of the best parts of parenthood is the day you no longer need a sitter. JB was home alone by eight. Tricia was babysitting newborn cousins at ten while the grown-ups hit the honky-tonk, and her uncle ended up in the bathtub with the shower curtain. She babysat for Tarrytown attorneys well into her late twenties, and Sandy once asked...

What does Austin do now that the coyote caught the roadrunner? Muni looks saved, and the crew compares it to the end of a war. The plan still needs the November 19 council vote: the city runs the golf course while UT keeps the land, so no more fights every six months. Then Sandy says the unpopular thing. He doesn't golf, and with Zilker packed with big events, he kind of wishes it were an open par...

Should you need a special license for a car that does 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds? In this Story We Love, Elon Musk is set to reveal the long-awaited Tesla Roadster in Waco, nine years after promising it would lift off the ground. JB explains what a roadster actually is, and he says most people aren't ready for cars this fast. Then Sandy outs Tricia: she hits the ramp onto 360 doing 85 in her Ford Expl...

Did you know Penny Marshall is gone? Milwaukee leading the Dodgers in the NLCS feels like 1935 to Sandy, and all he can picture is Laverne sitting behind home plate. Tricia had no idea Penny Marshall had passed, and it turns out this happens a lot. She found out about Johnny Carson recently too. So JB and Sandy hold a celebrity obituaries segment, Laverne and Shirley edition, with Cindy Williams,...