April 8, 2026 • 20 mins
Never Closes, Never Forget & A Savage Ode to Baseball
The show kicks off with big news that instantly sparks emotion: Katz’s Delicatessen is officially coming back after 14 years away. 🥪 From late-night pastrami runs to “never closes” memories, JB, Sandy, and Tricia reminisce about what made Katz’s iconic—and why its return to the original West 6th Street location feels like reclaiming a piece of Austin’s soul. One memorable line says it all: “Say what you want—Mark Katz made that place.” 💛
Then things take a turn from heartwarming to hilariously heartbreaking. JB shares the tragic tale of his favorite childhood kite—a 25-foot rainbow silk beauty he cherished for decades… until it mysteriously vanished thanks to minimalist tendencies at home. 😭🪁 Sandy’s reaction? Equal parts empathy and laughter. Listener warning: this story will make you want to hug your nostalgia.
Need a pro tip? JB delivers his legendary Zilker Kite Festival hack—how to score free kites the day after the festival. 🪜🌬️ It’s absurd, brilliant, and peak Austin energy.
Sandy unveils his lightning-fast “Ode to Baseball”, written in a single song and performed with dramatic flair. Tight pants, overpriced hot dogs, cold beer, and a final line that brought the studio to its feet:
“It is April the 8th… and OU still sucks.” ⚾😈
The episode wraps with listener shout-outs, more Austin restaurant nostalgia (yes, Shady Grove fans—listen closely), a heads-up about a sneaky gas station scam 🚨⛽, and a candid, funny behind-the-scenes moment as Tricia opens up about life on the podcast “struggle bus.”
The show kicks off with big news that instantly sparks emotion: Katz’s Delicatessen is officially coming back after 14 years away. 🥪 From late-night pastrami runs to “never closes” memories, JB, Sandy, and Tricia reminisce about what made Katz’s iconic—and why its return to the original West 6th Street location feels like reclaiming a piece of Austin’s soul. One memorable line says it all: “Say what you want—Mark Katz made that place.” 💛
Then things take a turn from heartwarming to hilariously heartbreaking. JB shares the tragic tale of his favorite childhood kite—a 25-foot rainbow silk beauty he cherished for decades… until it mysteriously vanished thanks to minimalist tendencies at home. 😭🪁 Sandy’s reaction? Equal parts empathy and laughter. Listener warning: this story will make you want to hug your nostalgia.
Need a pro tip? JB delivers his legendary Zilker Kite Festival hack—how to score free kites the day after the festival. 🪜🌬️ It’s absurd, brilliant, and peak Austin energy.
Sandy unveils his lightning-fast “Ode to Baseball”, written in a single song and performed with dramatic flair. Tight pants, overpriced hot dogs, cold beer, and a final line that brought the studio to its feet:
“It is April the 8th… and OU still sucks.” ⚾😈
The episode wraps with listener shout-outs, more Austin restaurant nostalgia (yes, Shady Grove fans—listen closely), a heads-up about a sneaky gas station scam 🚨⛽, and a candid, funny behind-the-scenes moment as Tricia opens up about life on the podcast “struggle bus.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
An Austin restaurant gone for how many years?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's been gone for fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's coming back to this is going to tell you
about it in the story We Love in Just Moments
the JB and Sandy Show. We'd love to hear from you, guys.
Our number is eight four four three nine oh kavet.
That's three nine oh kb e t and don't forget that.
You can also stream the podcast version of the radio
show every day search JB and Sandy on the iHeartRadio app.
So it's a restaurant that's been gone for a number
(00:25):
of years that is coming back.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, it was originally in Austin for thirty three years.
I'm gonna seep ice can guess what it is. We
would go there after going down to sixth Street get
some late night bites.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh what, it's easy, what katsis? I was gonna say shit,
I was gonna I was first. I was going to
go and hopefully say Huts Huts.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Hamburg Shady Grove. Right, boy, that's sad to drive by that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that is sad.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's gone, right, But it was a twenty four hour
style diner. You'd go there after going out. They had
the best pastrami sandwiches ever.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
See.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Now, I've always debated was it that great or where
we just drunk? Start right?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was delicious. Their
fried pickles, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So what's your story with the reopening?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, it was real sad that they left. They've been
open in Houston for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But amazingly enough, the original owner, Mark Katz, has send
Barry Katz, who by the way, went high school.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With Austin Loil Forever, Soil.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Forever, he was able to buy the original location at
six oh one Way. Yes, at six oh one Rio
Grand in bankruptcy court Wes sixth Streets. Yes, it's coming
back to the original location. They're doing a huge two
and a half million dollar renovation. It's gonna be super
cool and as of right now, they're hoping it's going
to reopen in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I have no idea what the relationship between Barry and
Mark Katz is, but if I'm Barry, I'm going to
Dad and going Dad, we do the commercials right?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Please?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ye? I mean you gotta do that. I can't help
my got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And the big yellow Cadillac Outnick.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I mean that's what made I mean, you say
what you want. Mark Katz made that.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Joint, sure, and he was always working the room.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, he's glad hand. And she'd never give you anything
for free. No, never, not even the pickle.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Itells pictures on the wall. At some point, her name
is sandwich.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You name the JB and Sandy sandwich was at CATS's
Deli and it was a fried baloney sandwich because old
boss of bars had a tradition of when ratings came out,
when ratings were really good, he would go have a
fried baloney sandwich. So I went with him. Once we
told Mark why we were doing that, and he was like, boom,
no menu, no menu. JMI and Sandy fried baloney sandwich.
(02:43):
All right, the Cats.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
That's very nostalgic. If your new Austin I, that's pretty iconic.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's huge, it's huge. Yeah, I'll go. I loved it, man.
When I was single. That was the place too, didn't
you go on eat Christmas Day? Christmas Day at the bar? Yes,
a lot of hot Jewish girls coming up with JB
and Sandy. All right, stick around because you know the
Zilker Kite Festival is this weekend. Right weather permitting, we
(03:09):
do have like a seventy five chance of some thunderstorms
coming our way, but it's a perfect opportunity for JB
to share with us one his kite festival hack.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Free kites, yep, free kites.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And two a really sad story about a kite that
JB loves. You normally say a pet he loved. Nos
kite kite coming up? Stick with us. It's JB and
Sandy at ninety eight one k vet. I don't know
how many of you who are in the market for
a free kite. It's funny when you put it that way,
(03:41):
but if you are, JB's going to say how to
get one in just the second. It's the JB and
Sandy Show. Feel free to holler at his friends eight
four four three nine zero kV e T is the
phone number. Grab the podcast version of the show as well.
Search JB and Sandy on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Now which do what you want? You want to heart
the free kite hack or yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Start with the free kite hack and then tell us
about the kite you left.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Okay already for you and I haven't even heard my story.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It sounds like a curious George Buck. Okay, So if
you want a free kite, I love the kite fest,
iconic Austin event. Right go the day after, bring a
ladder the trees along. There's a line of trees right
along bart and Springs, yep, filled with kites.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Brilliant.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Bring your ladder the day.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
After, the coat processors. Yeah, pocket knife and just go there.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Kitees galore, pick one, you want, whatever you want. I'm
nice ones, cheap ones. They're just all in those trees.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There you go, there's your free kite hack. Fact.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Do you go down there and then you leave with
like twenty kites? I mean, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Then he said it's a stop on three six.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's a farmer's market next to.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
The jerky guy paches Fredericksburg peaches and then kites. There's
JB selling a Scotch.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Just for one way you got only and every year.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
All right, now, tell everybody about the sad, sad story
about the kite.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I just don't know why you love this story.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That was so jaded.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was a throwaway thing many years ago, and Sandy
loves this story. So I believe it was my eighth
birthday and typically growing up. You know, I don't want
to sound like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We were poor.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We weren't poor. We had whatever we needed, right, but
you didn't get a lot of luxuries. You know, your
birthdays would get like clothes, you know, it's things you needed, underwear, socks, yeah,
stuff like that. And so on my eighth birthday, this
was a gift for my dad and my stepmother. It
was this long, snake looking silk kite. It was rainbow
(05:51):
colored all the way through and it was probably twenty
twenty five feet long.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Big beautiful kite.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah in this nice I mean hand crafted wooden spool
of string with handles on it on both sides so
you could hold it with both hands like a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Did you ask for this or is that a surprise?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Total surprise. I loved it and I kept it forever.
You know, when I wasn't using it, I had it
hanging in my room, draped like a tapestry.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You could always see it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Love this thing, and I kind of had it rolled
up and I was going to keep it forever. And
my typical wife, if you don't, if she doesn't see
you touch or use something for six months or more,
she donates it. That's my wife, total minimalist. She gave
(06:41):
away my kite. I had kept this thing for forty years.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
How did she not know understand the importance.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
She just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And Sandy, all right, don't go anywhere. We still got
the ode of the day enough. If you'd like to
make a recommendation for the ode, Phil free something that
will motivate me, something that will inspire me to write
an ode, and I'll write it during one song. The
number to call eight four four three nine, Oh KVET.
I need inspiration for an ode. I can write an
ode in a matter of minutes, but I need something
(07:19):
to inspire me. If you've got something you think will
inspire me and you want me to write an ode
to it, call eight four four three nine zero k
v e T.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
A couple suggestions that came in. I love how the
listeners are just dming me on socials.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So one that just came in because we were just
talking about the kite fest that's this weekend. Ruickly the
rain will subside enough, but ode to kites. Okay, see
this is he's a performance artist.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yae it hitch you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Another suggestion that came in. I feel like this will
connect with you. But with Artemis coming back, you ode
to the moon.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh that's pretty good. So we got kit. Let me
let's grab one call and see what they have and
see if it inspires me. China. Good morning. Did you
have a suggestion for today's Ode of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, all's about an ode to baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh I love that. I love it. Thank you very much. Okay,
I'm going to write the ode to baseball during this song,
so stick around. It's coming up next. Austin's All Time
Country Favorites ninety eight one. Cavett's JB and Sandy Morning Show. Hello,
I'm Sandy. This is JB. Hello, Tricia is here too.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And by the way, you know we are sitting right
here in the studio. We're you are live and ready
to take your phone call if you want to call us.
It's eight four four three nine. Oh kay Vett eight
four four three nine, oh KB e t My ode
is done.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Although I'm questioning my last line, questioning it, but I'm
gonna do it for the long Horns. I'm gonna do
the last line for the Longhorn if.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You just turned on your turned on your radio just
prior to the song threw out. A suggestion came from
a listener, and the suggestion was Ode to Baseball Sandy,
a speed poet, writes the entire poem during one song.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
One song, one song. It's all it takes. Are you
guys ready for me to perform the ode?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, Florida, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I mean sure, friends, I think JB and Tricia hate
the pretentiousness.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's just because you make us do all the things
you make us.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He pulls his quill out of his briefcase.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Brain and then he won't let us clap. We have
to snap.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Seriously thinking about a pencil than mustache. Ode to Baseball, Bye, Sandy,
May thank you baseball. Baseball where the pants are too
tight and the socks are too high, and sunflow, our
(10:00):
seeds launch like confetti nearby.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
A hot dog costs twelve bucks plus text and your pride,
but you know you'll buy two more by the end
of the nine inning ride. Extra. I love the Peanut Gallery. Hey,
(10:28):
Madam mada is all you were here except when the
fat guy next to you says, give me a cold beer.
It's cod beer, col beer, Coldbert.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Held the dome, America's pastime.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You notorious slow poke. Four hours of balls and strikes
just to strike out one bloke.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Oh blow British.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, a little little fancy there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Big finish here, big Finnish, big finish fin. This is
the one I was worried about. If you sweep a
double header, you've had some good luck. It is April
to eighth and oh you still sucks. Oh he still sucks.
Right today they suck. It's the Jamian Sandy Show. Thanks
(11:29):
for being with us, Oh ninety eight one k BG.
Good morning. We got a message from one of our listeners.
This came through Facebook. It says holemme scroll down. It's
it says I'm a long time listen. Is Judith McLaren.
By the way, I'm a longtime listener from way way back.
I loved the nostalgia this morning about Austin restaurants. Did
(11:50):
you hear what we were talking about is the reopening
of Katsu's Deli.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the same location, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Crazy, crazy crazy. I wonder if they're gonna put the
fake autographs up. Called Mark Katz out on that he
spelt Phil Rizzuto he felt spelt rizzutto wrong on one
of his fake autographs inside the Old Cats.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And every autograph was clearly used with the same marker.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, it was. It was not hard to figure out.
Judith goes on to say, did you hear that Shady
Grove is also returning. It's called Little Shady and is
going to open soon in Kyle.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Right, it's not quite open yet, right, right, right, right, yeah,
but it's common, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, and I mentioned this earlier this morning, But if
you have not driven down Barton Springs, when's the last
time you saw the old Shady Grovel in a minute?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
For me, it's sad.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It looks like images of Chernobyl. Oh, it's I mean,
the fence is falling down, it's overgrown with weeds, it's
graffiti everywhere, and it just used to be such a gorgeous, shaded,
vibrant place, you know, with live music. And remember how
they would show vintage films above the potty trailer.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, the potty trailer. I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
And it's just I don't know that I don't know
the death, you know, what's going to happen to that property.
But it's just such an iceore. Yeah, and you're you know,
all the tourists are going to Barton Springs and just
seeing that go. They gotta be.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Going what walking by it like on the way to
Zilker Park.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's embarrassing. It's been closed since twenty twenty. I don't
think anybody's touched it. No, since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Shady Grove is on my list of places in Austin
that you go for the vibe, not the food back
in the.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Day, right, kind of like the Oasis, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The same same thing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Right, you choke it down, you have a good drink.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Judy thing, Judy, thanks for hitting us out our Judith,
thank you very much for letting us know that that's
very cool. Again. Little shady is it a little shady
or little shady? Trisha?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
A little shady, A little shady opening in Kyle Off
sixteen twenty six this spring very soon?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All right, stay with us. More coming up, it's the
JB and Sandy Morning Show on ninety eight one k BAT.
You know, since we started a week ago here on
ninety eight one cave At after an eleven year hiatus
from our other radio station, we've got a lot of
questions that have come up from listeners through DMS or
or phone call stuff like that, and one of them
that kept coming up is, well, there'll be a podcast
(14:16):
version of the radio show. And the answer to that
is yes, yeah, and it's available on the iHeartRadio app.
You search JB and Sandy and you'll find it. It's
a it's a replay of the of the radio show
every morning, and we have an executive producer for that
show and it's it's Tricia.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I remember how excited you where to get that new
business card executive producer on it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, until I found out I do not get a
pay hike with that new title.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No, that's not no pay increase. So and this is
just so you know, this is kind of new to
Tricia the Ferry, this type of work. So how's it going.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm doing a struggle, Sandy doing a struggle. The first day,
I think I mentioned that, I feel like it took
me nineteen hours to do the podcast on the first day.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, because anything learning curve.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
A learning curve.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
When you were like you're going to be doing the podcast,
You're like, it's super easy. It's going to take you
like fifteen minutes, and I was like, all right, and
then you sat down with me and ninety seven steps
and three programs later. Yeah, I'm still taking notes, which
freaked me out. The first day I did it, I
struggled and I wanted to cry at the end of
the day. Second day went a little bit better, but
(15:30):
I'm still on the struggle bus with it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm still not used to it. I think I got
it on like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It'll get ruster. Let me ask you this, though, do
you have make it about me any appreciation? Found appreciation
for what I went through for a while doing that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And learning, Yeah, among many other things.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, along with other things.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I totally appreciate it. It's incredible. I was like, how
did you learn it to do it so quickly? And
You're like, I've been doing it for years. I feel
like I'm going to get faster at it. But I
have a very hard time with my brain with technical stuff.
I don't absorb it as fast as some people do.
And the amount of brain power, the amount of light bulbs.
(16:13):
Maybe that my brain is powering when I'm trying to
understand this stuff is It's painful. It's painful, how hard
my brain has to work for it. So can you
just sit down and do it?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
But what's funny is this is just putting together content
that's already made. You're not even I'm thinking about the
millions of people who've launched the podcast, everybody you know,
right right, This is why most people quit after about
three months, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's a lot of little things. You think, Yeah, it
really really is.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I mean, I'm getting better at it. I'm gonna do it.
Everybody clapped for me. You guys clapped for me yesterday
when I did it, which.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You'll be off the struggle bus soup, I promise or
coming up. All right, be careful next time you fill
up your gas tank. There's a scam out there, right
and wild. We're going to tell you about it a second.
But but before we do that, I want to remind
you that May second at the Moody Center is the
Iheartcountry Festival, and tickets are still available. You need to
get those. It's presented by Capital One. A great lineup,
(17:12):
a great time. Get your tickets at ticketmaster dot com.
So the price of gas has gone up, right, and
that brings out the scammers. So here's what you need
to be careful for the next time you pull up
to get to get gas.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Right, So, you get up to the gas station, you're
standing there, you're pumping your gas in your car. Some
nice person walks up to you and goes, you know,
it's kind of hot outside. Why don't you let me
pump your gas for you. I'll do it for you,
trying to be nice. So I feel like maybe older
little omemos and peeples might be targeted for this, and
they're like, thank you, get back in their car. The
(17:48):
guy pumping the gas will go all right, all done, Thanks,
You're good to go, and they mean while Pepoles is
thinking and drives away. Well, what they don't know is
right after they drive away, either the pumper pulls their
car up or their buddies pulled their cars up and
continue pumping gas.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
They never close out the correct.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They don't end this sale, so they're just filling it up,
I guess until the card shuts down.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Wow, right, that not nice.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, I feel like the person inside needs to pay attentions,
like they've got four hundred dollars worth of gas, right right? Yeah,
what's like, yeah, what's going on. Yeah, so be careful
of that the next time you fill up your tank, which, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Don't trust the nice people if that's a terrible thing today,
Just be careful.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Stick with us. We've got more coming up. Austin's All
time Country Favorites ninety eight one k bat It's the
JB and Sandy Morning Show. Thanks for being with us, friends.
We appreciate it. All of all of you that used
to listen to us, that found us over here. Thank
you all of you people that never listened to us
that found us here. We're glad you're here too.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Spread the word social post or something.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh, that'd be awesome. Yeah, it'd be great if you
tagged us as well at kvet f M on Instagram.
We got to get out of here though. Angie is
getting ready to come in next. But Tricia likes to
wrap things up a little bit with some of the
things that we learned. We found it, we learned them,
We did some good learning.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We got some good news today that Katz's Deli is
coming back after fourteen years of being gone to its
original location on West sixth Streets. Six closes excited for that.
We heard from our friend Cheezburger Brock. Yeah, pretty much
cheezburger experts, he is.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And he gave us a couple of recommendations for good cheeseburgers.
One was an oyster.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Bar, Bill's Oyster Bar.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, who'd have thought that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Right, I looked on the menu.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They got some good stuff there too, but he said
that burger's delicious. And another one he said, I do
D A I I'm sorry, d I A.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
D U E on Manor near Haymaker.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, all right, Chrisian.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You're not at that age respect things out now, are you. Well?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
No, but she didn't really jump into people's brains. JB
had a lot of information for us today, of course.
First of all, you told us about your almost disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, it's I almost killed somebody's long story, A long story.
The short version of it is my bike crack on
top of my truck was completely loose. I just happened
to check it this morning. Yeah, it was just resting
on top.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Could have flown off right off.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, that would have been bad, and you did because
the kite festival is coming up on Saturday, obviously, depending
on whether But you told us about your kite hat.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Free kites go the day after the kite fest with
a ladder the pocket knife. They're all in the trees.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Pocket knife for a pair of scissors. Cut them out
of there. So that those are the things we.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Learned, some of the things we learned today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Have a great day everyone. Angie is in next. We'll
do it again tomorrow morning. Have a great day, see
you tomorrow. Bye.
An Austin restaurant gone for how many years?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's been gone for fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's coming back to this is going to tell you
about it in the story We Love in Just Moments
the JB and Sandy Show. We'd love to hear from you, guys.
Our number is eight four four three nine oh kavet.
That's three nine oh kb e t and don't forget that.
You can also stream the podcast version of the radio
show every day search JB and Sandy on the iHeartRadio app.
So it's a restaurant that's been gone for a number
(00:25):
of years that is coming back.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, it was originally in Austin for thirty three years.
I'm gonna seep ice can guess what it is. We
would go there after going down to sixth Street get
some late night bites.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh what, it's easy, what katsis? I was gonna say shit,
I was gonna I was first. I was going to
go and hopefully say Huts Huts.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Hamburg Shady Grove. Right, boy, that's sad to drive by that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that is sad.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's gone, right, But it was a twenty four hour
style diner. You'd go there after going out. They had
the best pastrami sandwiches ever.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
See.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Now, I've always debated was it that great or where
we just drunk? Start right?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was delicious. Their
fried pickles, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So what's your story with the reopening?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, it was real sad that they left. They've been
open in Houston for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But amazingly enough, the original owner, Mark Katz, has send
Barry Katz, who by the way, went high school.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With Austin Loil Forever, Soil.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Forever, he was able to buy the original location at
six oh one Way. Yes, at six oh one Rio
Grand in bankruptcy court Wes sixth Streets. Yes, it's coming
back to the original location. They're doing a huge two
and a half million dollar renovation. It's gonna be super
cool and as of right now, they're hoping it's going
to reopen in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I have no idea what the relationship between Barry and
Mark Katz is, but if I'm Barry, I'm going to
Dad and going Dad, we do the commercials right?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Please?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ye? I mean you gotta do that. I can't help
my got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And the big yellow Cadillac Outnick.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I mean that's what made I mean, you say
what you want. Mark Katz made that.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Joint, sure, and he was always working the room.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, he's glad hand. And she'd never give you anything
for free. No, never, not even the pickle.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Itells pictures on the wall. At some point, her name
is sandwich.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You name the JB and Sandy sandwich was at CATS's
Deli and it was a fried baloney sandwich because old
boss of bars had a tradition of when ratings came out,
when ratings were really good, he would go have a
fried baloney sandwich. So I went with him. Once we
told Mark why we were doing that, and he was like, boom,
no menu, no menu. JMI and Sandy fried baloney sandwich.
(02:43):
All right, the Cats.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
That's very nostalgic. If your new Austin I, that's pretty iconic.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's huge, it's huge. Yeah, I'll go. I loved it, man.
When I was single. That was the place too, didn't
you go on eat Christmas Day? Christmas Day at the bar? Yes,
a lot of hot Jewish girls coming up with JB
and Sandy. All right, stick around because you know the
Zilker Kite Festival is this weekend. Right weather permitting, we
(03:09):
do have like a seventy five chance of some thunderstorms
coming our way, but it's a perfect opportunity for JB
to share with us one his kite festival hack.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Free kites, yep, free kites.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And two a really sad story about a kite that
JB loves. You normally say a pet he loved. Nos
kite kite coming up? Stick with us. It's JB and
Sandy at ninety eight one k vet. I don't know
how many of you who are in the market for
a free kite. It's funny when you put it that way,
(03:41):
but if you are, JB's going to say how to
get one in just the second. It's the JB and
Sandy Show. Feel free to holler at his friends eight
four four three nine zero kV e T is the
phone number. Grab the podcast version of the show as well.
Search JB and Sandy on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Now which do what you want? You want to heart
the free kite hack or yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Start with the free kite hack and then tell us
about the kite you left.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Okay already for you and I haven't even heard my story.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It sounds like a curious George Buck. Okay, So if
you want a free kite, I love the kite fest,
iconic Austin event. Right go the day after, bring a
ladder the trees along. There's a line of trees right
along bart and Springs, yep, filled with kites.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Brilliant.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Bring your ladder the day.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
After, the coat processors. Yeah, pocket knife and just go there.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Kitees galore, pick one, you want, whatever you want. I'm
nice ones, cheap ones. They're just all in those trees.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There you go, there's your free kite hack. Fact.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Do you go down there and then you leave with
like twenty kites? I mean, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Then he said it's a stop on three six.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's a farmer's market next to.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
The jerky guy paches Fredericksburg peaches and then kites. There's
JB selling a Scotch.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Just for one way you got only and every year.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
All right, now, tell everybody about the sad, sad story
about the kite.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I just don't know why you love this story.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That was so jaded.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was a throwaway thing many years ago, and Sandy
loves this story. So I believe it was my eighth
birthday and typically growing up. You know, I don't want
to sound like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We were poor.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We weren't poor. We had whatever we needed, right, but
you didn't get a lot of luxuries. You know, your
birthdays would get like clothes, you know, it's things you needed, underwear, socks, yeah,
stuff like that. And so on my eighth birthday, this
was a gift for my dad and my stepmother. It
was this long, snake looking silk kite. It was rainbow
(05:51):
colored all the way through and it was probably twenty
twenty five feet long.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Big beautiful kite.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah in this nice I mean hand crafted wooden spool
of string with handles on it on both sides so
you could hold it with both hands like a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Did you ask for this or is that a surprise?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Total surprise. I loved it and I kept it forever.
You know, when I wasn't using it, I had it
hanging in my room, draped like a tapestry.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You could always see it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Love this thing, and I kind of had it rolled
up and I was going to keep it forever. And
my typical wife, if you don't, if she doesn't see
you touch or use something for six months or more,
she donates it. That's my wife, total minimalist. She gave
(06:41):
away my kite. I had kept this thing for forty years.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
How did she not know understand the importance.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
She just doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And Sandy, all right, don't go anywhere. We still got
the ode of the day enough. If you'd like to
make a recommendation for the ode, Phil free something that
will motivate me, something that will inspire me to write
an ode, and I'll write it during one song. The
number to call eight four four three nine, Oh KVET.
I need inspiration for an ode. I can write an
ode in a matter of minutes, but I need something
(07:19):
to inspire me. If you've got something you think will
inspire me and you want me to write an ode
to it, call eight four four three nine zero k
v e T.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
A couple suggestions that came in. I love how the
listeners are just dming me on socials.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So one that just came in because we were just
talking about the kite fest that's this weekend. Ruickly the
rain will subside enough, but ode to kites. Okay, see
this is he's a performance artist.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yae it hitch you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Another suggestion that came in. I feel like this will
connect with you. But with Artemis coming back, you ode
to the moon.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh that's pretty good. So we got kit. Let me
let's grab one call and see what they have and
see if it inspires me. China. Good morning. Did you
have a suggestion for today's Ode of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, all's about an ode to baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh I love that. I love it. Thank you very much. Okay,
I'm going to write the ode to baseball during this song,
so stick around. It's coming up next. Austin's All Time
Country Favorites ninety eight one. Cavett's JB and Sandy Morning Show. Hello,
I'm Sandy. This is JB. Hello, Tricia is here too.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And by the way, you know we are sitting right
here in the studio. We're you are live and ready
to take your phone call if you want to call us.
It's eight four four three nine. Oh kay Vett eight
four four three nine, oh KB e t My ode
is done.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Although I'm questioning my last line, questioning it, but I'm
gonna do it for the long Horns. I'm gonna do
the last line for the Longhorn if.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You just turned on your turned on your radio just
prior to the song threw out. A suggestion came from
a listener, and the suggestion was Ode to Baseball Sandy,
a speed poet, writes the entire poem during one song.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
One song, one song. It's all it takes. Are you
guys ready for me to perform the ode?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, Florida, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I mean sure, friends, I think JB and Tricia hate
the pretentiousness.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's just because you make us do all the things
you make us.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He pulls his quill out of his briefcase.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Brain and then he won't let us clap. We have
to snap.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Seriously thinking about a pencil than mustache. Ode to Baseball, Bye, Sandy,
May thank you baseball. Baseball where the pants are too
tight and the socks are too high, and sunflow, our
(10:00):
seeds launch like confetti nearby.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
A hot dog costs twelve bucks plus text and your pride,
but you know you'll buy two more by the end
of the nine inning ride. Extra. I love the Peanut Gallery. Hey,
(10:28):
Madam mada is all you were here except when the
fat guy next to you says, give me a cold beer.
It's cod beer, col beer, Coldbert.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Held the dome, America's pastime.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You notorious slow poke. Four hours of balls and strikes
just to strike out one bloke.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Oh blow British.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, a little little fancy there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Big finish here, big Finnish, big finish fin. This is
the one I was worried about. If you sweep a
double header, you've had some good luck. It is April
to eighth and oh you still sucks. Oh he still sucks.
Right today they suck. It's the Jamian Sandy Show. Thanks
(11:29):
for being with us, Oh ninety eight one k BG.
Good morning. We got a message from one of our listeners.
This came through Facebook. It says holemme scroll down. It's
it says I'm a long time listen. Is Judith McLaren.
By the way, I'm a longtime listener from way way back.
I loved the nostalgia this morning about Austin restaurants. Did
(11:50):
you hear what we were talking about is the reopening
of Katsu's Deli.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the same location, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Crazy, crazy crazy. I wonder if they're gonna put the
fake autographs up. Called Mark Katz out on that he
spelt Phil Rizzuto he felt spelt rizzutto wrong on one
of his fake autographs inside the Old Cats.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And every autograph was clearly used with the same marker.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, it was. It was not hard to figure out.
Judith goes on to say, did you hear that Shady
Grove is also returning. It's called Little Shady and is
going to open soon in Kyle.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Right, it's not quite open yet, right, right, right, right, yeah,
but it's common, which is cool.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, and I mentioned this earlier this morning, But if
you have not driven down Barton Springs, when's the last
time you saw the old Shady Grovel in a minute?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
For me, it's sad.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It looks like images of Chernobyl. Oh, it's I mean,
the fence is falling down, it's overgrown with weeds, it's
graffiti everywhere, and it just used to be such a gorgeous, shaded,
vibrant place, you know, with live music. And remember how
they would show vintage films above the potty trailer.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, the potty trailer. I forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
And it's just I don't know that I don't know
the death, you know, what's going to happen to that property.
But it's just such an iceore. Yeah, and you're you know,
all the tourists are going to Barton Springs and just
seeing that go. They gotta be.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Going what walking by it like on the way to
Zilker Park.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's embarrassing. It's been closed since twenty twenty. I don't
think anybody's touched it. No, since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Shady Grove is on my list of places in Austin
that you go for the vibe, not the food back
in the.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Day, right, kind of like the Oasis, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
The same same thing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Right, you choke it down, you have a good drink.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Judy thing, Judy, thanks for hitting us out our Judith,
thank you very much for letting us know that that's
very cool. Again. Little shady is it a little shady
or little shady? Trisha?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
A little shady, A little shady opening in Kyle Off
sixteen twenty six this spring very soon?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All right, stay with us. More coming up, it's the
JB and Sandy Morning Show on ninety eight one k BAT.
You know, since we started a week ago here on
ninety eight one cave At after an eleven year hiatus
from our other radio station, we've got a lot of
questions that have come up from listeners through DMS or
or phone call stuff like that, and one of them
that kept coming up is, well, there'll be a podcast
(14:16):
version of the radio show. And the answer to that
is yes, yeah, and it's available on the iHeartRadio app.
You search JB and Sandy and you'll find it. It's
a it's a replay of the of the radio show
every morning, and we have an executive producer for that
show and it's it's Tricia.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I remember how excited you where to get that new
business card executive producer on it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, until I found out I do not get a
pay hike with that new title.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No, that's not no pay increase. So and this is
just so you know, this is kind of new to
Tricia the Ferry, this type of work. So how's it going.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm doing a struggle, Sandy doing a struggle. The first day,
I think I mentioned that, I feel like it took
me nineteen hours to do the podcast on the first day.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, because anything learning curve.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
A learning curve.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
When you were like you're going to be doing the podcast,
You're like, it's super easy. It's going to take you
like fifteen minutes, and I was like, all right, and
then you sat down with me and ninety seven steps
and three programs later. Yeah, I'm still taking notes, which
freaked me out. The first day I did it, I
struggled and I wanted to cry at the end of
the day. Second day went a little bit better, but
(15:30):
I'm still on the struggle bus with it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm still not used to it. I think I got
it on like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It'll get ruster. Let me ask you this, though, do
you have make it about me any appreciation? Found appreciation
for what I went through for a while doing that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And learning, Yeah, among many other things.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, along with other things.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I totally appreciate it. It's incredible. I was like, how
did you learn it to do it so quickly? And
You're like, I've been doing it for years. I feel
like I'm going to get faster at it. But I
have a very hard time with my brain with technical stuff.
I don't absorb it as fast as some people do.
And the amount of brain power, the amount of light bulbs.
(16:13):
Maybe that my brain is powering when I'm trying to
understand this stuff is It's painful. It's painful, how hard
my brain has to work for it. So can you
just sit down and do it?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
But what's funny is this is just putting together content
that's already made. You're not even I'm thinking about the
millions of people who've launched the podcast, everybody you know,
right right, This is why most people quit after about
three months, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's a lot of little things. You think, Yeah, it
really really is.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I mean, I'm getting better at it. I'm gonna do it.
Everybody clapped for me. You guys clapped for me yesterday
when I did it, which.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You'll be off the struggle bus soup, I promise or
coming up. All right, be careful next time you fill
up your gas tank. There's a scam out there, right
and wild. We're going to tell you about it a second.
But but before we do that, I want to remind
you that May second at the Moody Center is the
Iheartcountry Festival, and tickets are still available. You need to
get those. It's presented by Capital One. A great lineup,
(17:12):
a great time. Get your tickets at ticketmaster dot com.
So the price of gas has gone up, right, and
that brings out the scammers. So here's what you need
to be careful for the next time you pull up
to get to get gas.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Right, So, you get up to the gas station, you're
standing there, you're pumping your gas in your car. Some
nice person walks up to you and goes, you know,
it's kind of hot outside. Why don't you let me
pump your gas for you. I'll do it for you,
trying to be nice. So I feel like maybe older
little omemos and peeples might be targeted for this, and
they're like, thank you, get back in their car. The
(17:48):
guy pumping the gas will go all right, all done, Thanks,
You're good to go, and they mean while Pepoles is
thinking and drives away. Well, what they don't know is
right after they drive away, either the pumper pulls their
car up or their buddies pulled their cars up and
continue pumping gas.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
They never close out the correct.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
They don't end this sale, so they're just filling it up,
I guess until the card shuts down.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Wow, right, that not nice.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, I feel like the person inside needs to pay attentions,
like they've got four hundred dollars worth of gas, right right? Yeah,
what's like, yeah, what's going on. Yeah, so be careful
of that the next time you fill up your tank, which, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Don't trust the nice people if that's a terrible thing today,
Just be careful.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Stick with us. We've got more coming up. Austin's All
time Country Favorites ninety eight one k bat It's the
JB and Sandy Morning Show. Thanks for being with us, friends.
We appreciate it. All of all of you that used
to listen to us, that found us over here. Thank
you all of you people that never listened to us
that found us here. We're glad you're here too.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Spread the word social post or something.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh, that'd be awesome. Yeah, it'd be great if you
tagged us as well at kvet f M on Instagram.
We got to get out of here though. Angie is
getting ready to come in next. But Tricia likes to
wrap things up a little bit with some of the
things that we learned. We found it, we learned them,
We did some good learning.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We got some good news today that Katz's Deli is
coming back after fourteen years of being gone to its
original location on West sixth Streets. Six closes excited for that.
We heard from our friend Cheezburger Brock. Yeah, pretty much
cheezburger experts, he is.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And he gave us a couple of recommendations for good cheeseburgers.
One was an oyster.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Bar, Bill's Oyster Bar.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, who'd have thought that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Right, I looked on the menu.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
They got some good stuff there too, but he said
that burger's delicious. And another one he said, I do
D A I I'm sorry, d I A.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
D U E on Manor near Haymaker.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, all right, Chrisian.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You're not at that age respect things out now, are you. Well?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
No, but she didn't really jump into people's brains. JB
had a lot of information for us today, of course.
First of all, you told us about your almost disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, it's I almost killed somebody's long story, A long story.
The short version of it is my bike crack on
top of my truck was completely loose. I just happened
to check it this morning. Yeah, it was just resting
on top.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Could have flown off right off.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, that would have been bad, and you did because
the kite festival is coming up on Saturday, obviously, depending
on whether But you told us about your kite hat.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Free kites go the day after the kite fest with
a ladder the pocket knife. They're all in the trees.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Pocket knife for a pair of scissors. Cut them out
of there. So that those are the things we.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Learned, some of the things we learned today.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Have a great day everyone. Angie is in next. We'll
do it again tomorrow morning. Have a great day, see
you tomorrow. Bye.
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