🏈 Key Highlights:
- The Vandegrift High School football team’s playoff run and the bittersweet fate of the Longhorns.
- Sandy’s “side hustle” podcasting for Texas Tech’s Ken Hans.
- The great garage cleanout: “There was this giant mountain of Goodwill donations in the driveway… I just put packing blankets over this pile of junk and left it in the driveway overnight, which was very white trash.”
- The battle of the Shirley Temples: “You don’t want to be the couple that both are getting Shirley Temples?” “No, just because I did, just because I’m doing it.”
- A deep dive into Fredericksburg’s transformation into a top Christmas destination, complete with wine, parades, and impossible parking.
- “If you find a parking spot in Fredericksburg on a holiday weekend, be prepared to stay for a while as you can really suck all the good out of that parking place.”
- “It’s kind of the same reason why I couldn’t like Prince growing up because my sister liked it.”
- “Don’t forget, get your peaches while you’re there too.”
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Episode Transcript
Jamie and I met up it covered three to watch
football on Saturday, and I stayed a lot longer than.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I thought I was going to. And I'm gonna tell
you why in just a sec.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
But real quick, congratulations to vandergriff High School. They punch
their ticket to the state semifinals in football, So that's good.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
They're pretty consistently good for a number of years now, correct.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a that's a huge school too,
and they're they're doing well. It's just weird to talk
to Austin high school football in the state playoff time.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You don't talk about west Lake.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah, that is weird.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's an off year.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Let's not talk about playoffs anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's a little bit of a sensitive subject.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Longhorns don't make the cut to get in the endo
the playoffs, but they're going to play in the Citrus
Bowl on New Year's Eve, your New Year's Eve festivities.
They kick off at two o'clock against Michigan. So I
will say this though it is a bummer.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It would have been fun to see because they were
playing their best at the end of the season. But
you know, you're paying the dues for an early loss.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But when I and everybody's frustrated about the playoffs, everyone's
complaining about it. But when I look at it, I go,
any of those top four could win the whole thing.
So I think they've got that right. Those they all
get the first week off. It's exciting to walk. I'm
on the Tech bandwagon now. That was exciting to watch them.
They're great. I'm all over Texas Tech. I love them.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Is that who we're shifting to?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh this could be a house divide it. Our daughter
will for short bread for the aggies.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, she will, she will, and if if, if Tech
doesn't pull it off. This this Indiana story is pretty
exciting to get behind.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And that was a great game against Ohio State. The
other's so glad to see Ohio State lose. That's an
old Nebraska grudge, it's a Texas grudge. I went yeah,
and they were spitting and yeah, just really gross people there, disgusting,
Uh moving alog So JB and I since we're talking
(02:11):
about I was like, I had that I got to
get out of this house feeling on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
N Yeah, I just wanted to go do something right. Yeah,
I just want to sit around at home. So I
send JB a text. I'm like, hey, dude, I don't
know what you're doing. What you want to meet up
and watch the football games this afternoon? He's like sure,
So off to cover three we go and uh, right
there on Anderson and Mopaq you know what I'm talking about,
and sitting there for a while, and and it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Was kind of unusual that Tricia called because texted you first.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh that's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And normally when I'm out with friends and stuff, I
don't I don't hear from Tricia. But she then she called,
did I call you? I texted you the question about
the bag? That's what tipped you off?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She sent me a text with a picture of this
piece of luggage that I've had forever that said, hey,
I'm cleaning out the garage. Can I can I donate
this to Goodwill? And I'm like yes, And then I
go to JBS. So I ain't going home any time.
You know what that means. Yeah, Tricia is on a
(03:14):
mission right now to clean the garage and I don't
want to do that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So yeah, because when you left, I was like, where
you going? Like I'm gonna go meet JB and watch
the game because I don't think we're going to stay
for the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And I was like, all right.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
That was like I don't know one and still at
six o'clock you still weren't home. Yeah, and I'm cleaning.
I started like two, just on a whim. I had
no idea I was going to do it, and I
did it until six o'clock and I was like, that
guy is staying out so.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
We doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
To come home and help looking for anything to do
besides coming.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Home because I went and did something else after you
and I parted ways.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
But at one point I did you go to like
Ikeia just to just to eyeball.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Stuff you hate doing.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Look, I did call and because it was too long
to text, and JB's in the background going, dude, just
get a hotel room if you need to.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Settle down, asking him to come home.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I was going to go to the Lakinka there at
Bowpack in Southwest Parkway room for the night.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Y'all were locked in at the cover three.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, we were, we were not.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I want and I wonder and then so on on Sundays,
I have a I have this side hustle where I
record a podcast for Kent Hans, the Chancellor Meretith at
Texas Tech, and I do it every Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I was like, you got all that stuff to
go to the Goodwill?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
We were super trashy because by the time I actually
got everything put back in, there was this giant mountain
of Goodwill donations in the driveway, and I was like,
there's no and Goodwill had closed. I was like, there's
no way I'm dragging this all back into the garage
to just drag it back out. So I just put
packing blankets over this pile of junk and left it
in the driveway overnight, which was very a white trash.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And I think she was going to good Will the
next day, and I was like, I need to stay
long on long enough afore the good Will.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Run, but not before you took something of yours back
out of the pile. Yep, they have some bag that
has been buried in the back of the garage for
seven years that I don't think you even remembered that
you had, so I put it in the pile.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You had to have looked under the packing blankets to
see it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
To pull stuff out no, JB. You'll appreciate this. It
was an equipment bag. You can never have too many
of those, like a big dothel yeah, for your gear,
for your stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I was like, oh, no, I need that. I
knew exactly where it was.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It had packing blankets in it, and it had this like,
I don't know, vase thing or something. The ceramic called
the picture a ceramic picture thing. And I took the
packing blinkets out and I put the picture on his
workbench and we're standing there and he's like, oh my god,
I haven't seen nothing like ten years the picture. And
I was like, that is why I put it in
the good will pile. You didn't even know you had
(06:00):
the bag.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I got out of cleaning the garage. But you
did a great job. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Just saving up for the next big project that I
will spring on you before you go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
By the way, I'll recommend the Hickory Burger at cover three.
It was very good.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh okay, I was.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I had one of those I was starving, you know
what I mean, and I it was and I got down.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I was like, well should I eat the plate too?
Because I was that hungry.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Tell him about the conversation we had about the Shirley
Temples before you left.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh god, Jabe, do you have something to say there
for me?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, no, So Triush just.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Like you're gonna go watch football and I'm like yeah,
and she goes, boy, it's gonna be what'd you say
something about Shirley Temples.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I said, you're gonna get gonna be ordering up some
Shirley Temples because Sandy doesn't drink.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
He hasn't drink and almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, I said, no, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I am actually switched over to the the Arnold Palmer
Lemonade Nice Teeth and she goes, really, I go, yeah,
you kind of hijacked my Shirley Temples.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
She goes, what.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I go, well, I mean, ever since you started ordering
Chirley Temples, I stopped ordering them because you started ordering it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
She goes, You're going to be the couple that both
are getting Shirley temples, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Just because I did, Just because I am doing it.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
He goes, it's kind of the same reason why I
couldn't like Prince growing up, because my sister liked it.
And I was like, that's a weird something that you
need to untangle because I am not your sister.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
No you're not. But it's still it's a stupid thing
I do.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was kind of my thing for a while. My
funny you know, I always liked the look of the
bartender's face when I order Shirley Temples.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Sandy, it was the Shirley Temples were Sandy's thing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, and Tricia came out and kind of hijacked. Now
that's all right, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
All right, owned the Shirley Temple kind.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Of sort of do don't forget that. You can stream
the podcast version of this show every single day search
TV and Sandy on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up next,
we're going to talk about a central Texas town that
has been dubbed what the top.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Fifty one of the top fifty Christmas destinations in the
United States by HDTV. They know a thing or two
about this, all right, that's next, one O three one
Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey, it's Sandy. Can you believe it? The holidays are
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All right, I've got a real quick question. This is
kind of embarrassing because I should know this. Tricia, did
(10:07):
you decorate our house for Christmas over the weekend? No?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Okay, I was busy cleaning out the garage, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I was just wondering. I mean off, and I don't
know about you. JB.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Patricia could decorate the house and I won't notice it
for three or.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Four look around with his eyes. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, frustrating, But one central Texas town is one of
the top fifty Christmas towns in America, as decided by HDTV,
and that town is Yep.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
It's like stepping into a Hallmark movie. And that is
the land of Fredericksburg.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That was going to be my first guess.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yes, that was my first guest too, before I found
out who it was. Top fifty best Christmas Destinations in
the United States, Top Christmas destination in Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I would think Johnson City would be up there too.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh, I'm sure it probably is up there on the list.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I'm just saying Fredericksburg comes in at number one for
all of their holiday traditions and decorations and the parades and.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Stuff that go on.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
And I think a lot of little little Hallmark type
movies to get filmed there just because of the way
it looks.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It just has so many more of those like chotchkey shops. Yeah,
you know, just poking around.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, but you would think that most of the cities
would be in cold climates, like where it actually snows,
where you could actually get a white Christmas.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
What are some of the other cities I'm looking for
the list right here prepared nop.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
They're just talking about they're giving the spotlight to Fredericksburg
right now.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fredericksburg was just blown up.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It's too It was already chaotic before we became the
whole wine thing happened. It was already just going there
for shopping and poking around. And now you throw in
this wine explosion. I mean, if you're at Austin and
you have not made the road trip to Fredericksburg and
back in the last decade, you won't even believe what
(11:56):
you see.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it's mind blowing. How much because of the wineries? Yes?
And is it good wine? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Now they import a lot of the grapes. They make
some of their own, typically those wineries, but they'll also
buy a lot of contract grapes from California or wherever
and make some stuff here, or they do a blend
of what they have with that to kind of make it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But there's good stuff. Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It used to just be like all we could do
in Texas was like sweet white wines stuff like that.
But nah, it's legit.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Don't forget get your peaches while you're there too.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, I was there last i don't know, two three
years ago, and it was right around Christmas time and
it was so cute and Christmas y, but oh my gosh,
if you're there on a weekend, you will be hard
pressed to find a parking place like it is so
over run with tourists and people on the weekends, especially
(12:57):
for the holiday markets and the parades and floats and
stuff like that. But if you find one, be prepared
to stay for a while so you can really suck
all the good out of that parking place.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Do you have any plans to go there over this holiday?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I don't think so, not this year.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't either. Did you find any of those other
cities that were named and I didn't look. You just
told me you were looking.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
No, I was looking, and then I said, no, they're
only focusing on Fredericksburg in this article.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
There's gotta be I mean, when I think of quaint
Christmasy city, I picture in the northeast, you know, maybe Maine, Vermont.
I'm picturing Colorado mountaintowns. Some of those towns are just
look like they're straight out of a postcard. All but yeah,
especially the Colorado ones. Yeah, and they always have snow.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I know that Johnson City has to be up there
because of their incredible downtown lights or around the tree.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You and Landry went to them when you're right, Sandy, right.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Totally by mistake.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But yeah, it's we just wandered into Johnson City, which
is a long story, but yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Just I found the list. You want to know where
they are? Sure?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Kennebug Port, Maine, Durango, Colorado. Uh, Frankenmuth, Michigan, Okay, Uh, Salving, California,
Saint Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's kind of surprising.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't think of like a Christmas town at all
of any part of Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
To your point, Gee, Woodstock, Vermont. Just that just sounds
like a Christmas town, right, Breckenridge, Colorado again to your point.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And Alexandria, Virginia, San Antonio did make the list in
the top twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I was looking for the top Chris, the top Texas towns.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, I thought I was just looking for all the
all the towns.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, the entire Johnson City is on the list.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
The entire down Scout Downtown square has more than one
hundred thousand lights in it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Is that a lot?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's a lot?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I know any context, I don't know if that's a
lot of a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
How many we have on our house?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, good a million I have known.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Nacadochus is another one that they said is great. Cleburn
in Cleeborn, Texas. You can go to the whist Stop Christmas.
I like the word clee burn again.
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