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July 17, 2025 15 mins
 “Is marrying your best friend really the secret to a lasting relationship?” In this heartwarming and hilarious episode of The JB and Sandy Show, the crew dives into the age-old question of whether your spouse should also be your best friend. Backed by a Harvard professor’s 25-year study on love, Tricia, JB, and Sandy unpack what it really means to build a lasting relationship—and why some couples thrive with a little space (and separate bedrooms). But don’t worry, it’s not all serious. The episode takes a wild turn into childhood memories, including:
  • Sandy’s unforgettable roly poly nose challenge
  • Marty’s fart-filled car contests
  • The horrors of hammerhead flatworms invading Texas lawns
  • And the universal truth: boys will do anything for no reason at all
“I didn’t marry my best friend—and I didn’t want to. I wanted someone else to bear that burden.” “We talked until we fell asleep… and then picked up the conversation the next morning.” Whether you’re in a long-term relationship, reminiscing about your childhood, or just here for the laughs, this episode delivers a perfect mix of real talk, ridiculous stories, and relatable moments.

👥 About the Hosts: JB and Sandy, joined by the always-hilarious Tricia, bring their signature blend of humor, honesty, and chemistry to every episode. From relationship advice to roly poly dares, they keep it real and keep you laughing.

🔥 Memorable Moments:
  • “Dropping flatworms in salt and vinegar? That’s nine-year-old Sandy’s dream.”
  • “I shoved 10 roly polys up my nose for a peek at a Playboy.”
  • “We’d run three doors down just to sit in a fart-filled car.”
📣  If this episode made you laugh, cringe, or nod in agreement, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your friends. The JB and Sandy Show is your go-to for real talk, big laughs, and Texas-sized storytelling. 
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Streaming on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one O three point one.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
We're taking the.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Week off, so we hope you enjoyed this from earlier
this year. CHRISA, what's the information on this that you
could there's something you can really pinpoint to marrying your
best friend if that's what you want to do. Why
you'd want to do that, I don't know, But what's there?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
One sign?

Speaker 4 (00:27):
A Harvard professor said, there's one sign that will let
you know if your relationship is going to last, and
that is yeah, okay, we're going straight into it. It's
a Harvard professor. He studied love for twenty five years.
I don't know what that means. I guess just relationships.
But he says that the one sign that your relationship
will last a lifetime is if your best friends.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, mister Harvard professor, you wasted your time.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
The people who on their wedding invitation it says today
I marry my best friend. Those are the ones who
will make it. Sandy, you and I will not make it.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, we've made it for seventeen years. But that's the key.
Then weird because I didn't marry my best friend. I
didn't want to marry my best friend. I think we're
all agree with JB. You didn't marry your best friend,
did you. Nope, No, we're not best friend.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I'm not. It's probably closer that she is my best friend.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
I'm definitely not her best friend.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I just don't have I just don't have any friends.
So she's the closest.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
To qualify, I guess, but no, I know because I don't.
I'm always surprised when people say that because a relationship girlfriend,
a girlfriend is so different than a guy could ever fulfill.
Would you agree, Tricia, Oh, yeah, definitely, there's there's a

(01:53):
there's a whole different level there.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So I in our case, you know, no, one of
the most one of the most attractive things for me.
There was a lot of attractive things when we first
started dating. But one thing that I remember that really
stands out is I was I really really liked the
fact that she had a group of longtime girlfriends, like
that she did things with that she made a point

(02:19):
to hang out with. I was like, I like that
because I don't want the responsibility of being this chick's
best friend.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I want.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I want someone else to bear the burden of being
Trisa's best friend.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I bear the burden. I wanted to be me. And
those studies have been out there that you know, like.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
You know, and I'm talking about just the typical male
female relationship. There's a lot of different avenues we could
go down with this. Did they say the guys need
their boys time to be happy. The girls definitely need
their girl time to be happy. I think that's that's important.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Tria goes to see her friends in Dallas and like, well,
they used to all live here.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
They just gather in Dallas and pact. You're doing that
in a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Right when she comes back or while she's there, she's
full of energy and just energized again to come back
to the You know, everyone's got the grind of being
a parent and work and bills and all the things.
So I think it's good to re energize. It's a
good thing.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well, and also, like the girls and I, we will
never run out of something to say to each other.
We'll be together for five days and we will talk
about all the things. One thing we could talk about
for four hours. If Sandy were my best friend. I'd
be with him for about an hour and a half
and I'd be like, well, all right, I guess we've

(03:40):
said all the things, and that'd be it. Chat time
would be over with Sandy Java.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Tricia's friend Sean is visiting. She lives in Vietnam. She's
from Austin but lives in Vietnam. And she was here
for two or three nights, and so Triciaan and I
sleep in separate bedrooms. In the room that Seawan was
in was right next door to mine. Those two sat
and talked. It got to the point where it's like,
oh my god, are these two ever going to stop talking?

Speaker 4 (04:07):
So then we got tired, we went to sleep, and
we woke up the next morning and continued talking. He's like,
I went to sleep listening to your voices, and I
woke up listening to your voices.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
It's unbelievable how much talking they do. Guys.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're like, eh, we're all squared away in the first
ten minutes or so, I know, what.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you guys do on guys' weekend? Can we just
hang out silently? Hang out? Yeah, and watch whatever's on TV? Yeah,
watch what's on TV? Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Tell JB about your Sandy used to make fund me
for my girls' weekends with the going to the spa
and laying in bed together and watching movies and going
to dinner. Sandy, tell JB how you think you've slowly
now understand why a girl's weekend can be better than
a guy's weekend. After you had yours with Marlin.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't remember you he goes to Dallas.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
You'll remember when I start talking about it, to have
a weekend with this Marlin. And you did all the
girl things. Y'all went to dinner, then y'all went to
a movie together. Then you came back and you floated
in the pool, then you went inside and you watch TV. Yeah,
you did all the things such a tricks do, just
with less words. And you were like, I think I
understand the girl's weekend now.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, it was pretty great all this since I quit
drinking though, because before it was you're what I mean,
you do all those things?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
We were too busy. Y'all got massages too, right.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, I believe so, Yeah, that was a total chick weekend.
You're right, and you right, but I don't think I mean,
there's probably someone appalled right now saying well, I'm married
my best friend, my best friend.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
You know, it's funny because I've been we just had
our twenty seventh anniversary, and I do get asked, you
know about long, you know, longevity of the marriage. I
was telling you guys yesterday how my daughters thinks it's
weird that our parents are still together. Yeah, but it's abnormal.
And I do get asked, and like when I tell
people when they're earlier in their relationship, like how do

(06:00):
you know? How do you know it's the one? And
one of the things I'll tell them is do you
look forward to seeing them every day? Like, so it's
been twenty seven years marriage. I look forward to seeing
her every day. I can't wait till she comes home.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Right now.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
If you pull up to the house and see their
car and go, ugh, maybe probably not the one, you
know what I mean, You're just like, it's just this
little barometer before you go down the path of marriage,
like you should you should look forward to seeing them
all the time and checking in with them, and and

(06:36):
you know, and if you wance like are dying for
space from them, that's probably not good.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's not the one. But I think that for me anyway,
I don't. I don't. I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I won't say I don't look forward to seeing a Tricia,
but I don't dread it.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
True love tale is old as time. But I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, I really that, Like I was dated girls and
stuff for a while that I just kind of dreaded,
like you know.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah, the dread comes later in marriage, when it's a
couple's date and you're crazy about one of them, you're yeah,
a lot.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
I will say though, that Sandy and I from the
beginning of our relationship, like at least it seemed like
when we were no parent no, no kids, childless, like
one of us was gone every weekend. I was gone
to see a friend, or he was gone to see
a friend, Like it was one of those absence makes
the heart grow fonder kind of relationships. And even now

(07:36):
he'll be like, when are you gonna go see your friends?
It's been a while since you've gone to see your girlfriends.
And I'm like, don't you want to go visit your parents?
And oh, baha for a week or so, Like we
still need a little time away from each other.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Everybody does.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
I think, how did you do JB when you spent
the summers working in Colorado?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Was that? How did you handle it? I didn't. I
didn't love it. That's it was too long to be gone. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
For for five years it was being gone a month,
and then they had brought back the women's tour. I
was doing a Tour de France podcast, but we would
do it from Colorado, and then I was gone six weeks.
That's a long time. I did not enjoy it. I'm
not doing that anymore, and I'm real I'd be leaving.
I'd be leaving now, you know, to get out there

(08:26):
for the tour to start and all that and be
gone for six weeks.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Uh huh. Didn't I like it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
A lot of people are like, wow, I'd love to
have six weeks in Colorado, but you're working down to
dusk right.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, in a way, in a way from my wife
and daughter for just too long.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's way too long. I get it. I get it.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
So well, congratulations all of you out there that that
married your best friends.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
We're taking the week off, so we hope you enjoyed this.
From earlier, this year. All right, thanks, thanks for being
with us. It's the JB and Sandy Show. My name
is Sandy, this is JB. Tricia's here too.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hi everybody, and away we go.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Give us a follow on TikTok at JB Sandy at
X same thing on Instagram. Tricia, You're about to be
horrified with what I'm about to tell you. Okay, it's
not it's not here yet. But up in North Texas
they had a bunch of heavy rain and it flushed
out the foot long hammerhead flatworms.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Us foot long boo.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
They are an invasive specie that sneaks into gardens and
long lawns. Their hammerhead shape makes them pretty easy to spot,
but they ooze a neurotoxin that can irritate human skin
and sickened pets. Anything that oozes gross. If you do
see someone in see one in Austin, Central Texas, they say,

(09:55):
wear gloves. Never cut them, all right, Instead, drop them
into a salt and vinegar mix, or freeze them for
two days before tossing them out.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Oh that Sandy, that's right at nine year old Sandy's
alleyne and freezing them.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Dude, Let's torture them for a while.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
The things we did to insects as a child, I mean,
I'm surprised they didn't ship me off somewhere to like
make sure I wasn't a future cereal killer.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
We did some hot stuff, man like, I.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Think everybody did you guys, jabe this a dude thing.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't think girls did this. Maybe I know where
you're gonna say, magnifying glass, magnifying glass on slude.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh yeah, absolutely? How about this one? Airplane glue on ants?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
You guys don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I didn't do that. You guys didn't do that one. No, No,
that was that was fun. You just airplane blued ants.
Oh yeah, I mean and I, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's funny because now, as an adult, I will take
the time to free and most insects into the wild
and give them another chance.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't squish anymore. Like if I see something out
on my walk, I just let them go.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
I squished and smeared lightning bugs.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
As an adult, you're still a killer.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
No, as a kid, I'll kill it.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'll kill a nasty spider.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
We used to do that too, catch lightning bugs and
you pull the little light off their tail and you
could put it on your body like glowing jewelry.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
You guys are all happy about it. A tea on
my shirt and lightning bug guts. I was disgusting.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
So we we did all these weird things with insects.
My cousins. Who's my cousin's three or four years older
than I am. I was young. I was like ten,
and he had a neighbor. This was in Tucson, Arizona,
in the middle of summer. It was kind of hot,
little bit and we didn't have a water bottle like
every other kid does today. And so he had this

(11:58):
other kid. His name was Marty, and Marty was like fifteen,
and we did some weird stuff. So Marty Marty two
stories about him. He dared me to see if I
could shove ten roly pulleys up my nose.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
And as it was like a double dog there.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Then to do it.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
There was no way I understand, had to do it.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
Was there a prize involved if you pulled this off?
Probably not just a double dog there.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I think he was gonna let me look at his playboy.
I think I can't remember. So we gathered up. Here's
the problem with the roly polly. They roll up right there,
need to go up the nose. Problem is when they
got the nose right.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
So we were very cautious.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
I got them all up there, and then we got
and then count made sure we counted all of them
that came out that we had that came out. Yeah, yeah,
that might be some kind of world record. I'm not sure,
but it might be. With another story about Marty, which
is pretty funny. So Marty was like fifteen and he
his parents for some reason, bought him a car before

(13:17):
he had a driver's license. Right, he couldn't even drive
the car, just sat in the driveway. So we would
go and sit in the car and Tucson in the
middle of summer, sit in that car and Marty would
we would have a contest. Marty would fart and we
would see who was staying in there in the long
dist time.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh again for the thousandth time. Thank God that God
gave me a daughter and not his son.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh those were great times. I have a feeling Marty's
still in his car.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Was playing with probably still there in Tucson or that
here he's telling stories to his buddies about this dumb
kid that he tricked him. The shoven rolling Pulley's up
his nose. Oh, how fun. I had thought old Marty.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
In a long time.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
What's his name? I don't remember his last night. I
was going to look him up. No, I do not
remember Marty's last name.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
But now that I can, maybe I think Marty got
sent off to a boy's home somewhere.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, man, yeah, maybe things haven't changed that much. I
remember when my daughter was like maybe middle school, and
we were at a restaurant, a patio restaurant, and this
acquaintance of hers, this young kid that somebody said, I'll
give you ten bucks if you lick all those hands
off the table.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
And he did it.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
So you know, yeah, we haven't changed much, hey, dudes
or dudes. Man, we do dumb stuff for the dumbest
creature on earth between the age of like twelve and thirty, for.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
No reward, no anything, for the roly poly noosed trick.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
No. I got to say I did it, you know.
Then I got to sit in his car.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Part It was funny because Marty'd be like, oh, I
got one, and we could be three doors down and
we'd run run to the car as fast as because.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
All post they're disgusting.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
We'd get in the car and just wait when it happened.
I won several times. I'm not surprised by that.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Welcome to the show, everybody, But you didn't think you'd
hear those kinds of stories this morning, right.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one o three point one, streaming on the iHeartRadio app.
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