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July 24, 2025 17 mins
🎧 In this wildly entertaining episode of The JB and Sandy Show, the crew dives into one of the most unexpected brand mashups ever—Tacovas teaming up with Chili’s to create “Booth Boots.” Yes, red boots inspired by restaurant seating. It’s weird, it’s random, and somehow… it works? From Austin’s restaurant scene to AI dream recorders, JB, Sandy, and Trisha cover it all:
  • The reinvention of Shady Grove as “A Little Shady” in Kyle, led by Rusty Zaxt, who worked his way up from busboy to partner.
  • The bizarre but brilliant Chili’s x Tacovas collab—and why JB is not sure he wants boots people have farted on.
  • A hilarious debate on dream-sharing etiquette and why Tricia’s family has banned it entirely.
  • The ethics of releasing Prince’s unreleased music—enough to drop an album every year for 100 years.
Notable Quotes:
  • “Do you really want boots knowing millions of people have farted on them?” — JB
  • “You’re not allowed to tell other people your dreams. Nobody cares.” — Trisha
  • “Prince would’ve wanted it that way… right?” — Sandy
Whether you’re here for the laughs, the local flavor, or the pop culture deep dives, this episode is packed with personality, nostalgia, and a few spicy takes.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the JB and Sandy Show podcast. You can
listen live every morning on one of three point one
in Austin or stream the show on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
And Austin Brand is teaming up with a company that
started in Dallas for something that's really, really random.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
We'll get to that in just a moment.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
But first let's talk about the reinvention of Shady Grove. Yeah,
it's called kind of Shady.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
It's called at Little Shady.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
So one of the co owners of Shady Grove a
guy named Rusty zaxt He Grove.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Yeah, oh you know him. Yeah, yeah, he's a good guy.
All right.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
So Shady Grove was on Barton Springs for about thirty years.
They closed down in twenty twenty. He is now reinventing
Shady Grove in Kyle off of eighteen twenty six with
the restaurant that is a spinoff of Shady Grove, and
it's called.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
A Little Shady, which I love that name.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, I would love to go there and try it.
One thing that's cool about Rusty Zax did you know
this JB? That he worked his way from busboy to
management partner at Shady Grove.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Oh, man, I didn't know that. That's cool.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Yeah, I think that's very cool. Well, a couple of
things come to mind. Hopefully they'll improve the food a
little bit. I think they were resting on the laurels
and tradition. They're a bit because the place sold itself,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
And Two, it's very smart to take these cool Austin
concepts and go out to the burbs. You know people,
you know, it's just Austin has gotten so unbelievably competitive
with this stuff. It's like like out where you guys live,
you can get everything now. Yeah, and you can drive
to it easily and park in your heart and go
inside and have and eat.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, we've got it.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
We've got a Chewie that you can actually get a
table app when you get there.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
And we got a Jack got a Jack Allen's that's
right up the street. I mean, we've got Cedar Park's
got it going on. And it's smart to go to
the Bourbons. If you were starting a business and opening
a restaurant, would you would you want to compete? There's
something about going on on Barton Springs Road that it
just the future out wa aside of the showies. It's

(02:16):
like everything's kind of cursed there. Yeah, the future of
it doesn't seem bright to me.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Now, especially with now that Baby Acapulco's is gone.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yep, you know whatever, I forget what's in that old
Austin Java space now?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
It just keeps flipping lose? Is there?

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Remeos went away. I don't know how Juliette's doing Green Mesquite.
We've updated you on because it was about to go
under entirely and then staff bought it and is keeping
it afloat.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Tom's Market just got sold. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
The first thing that comes to mind for that stretch
of bart and Springs is the difficulty if there's anything
going on at Zilker Park. I mean, lanes are shut down,
there's bare arcades. You know, you can't drive easily. Parking
is always the first thing that I'm like, oh God,
where are we going to park? Stressed about parking is
the first thing that comes to mind. I mean, it

(03:12):
was great when you can get into those places because
you're sitting in the iconic Chili's.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's difficult, it is, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I remember spending many Saturday afternoons on the patio at
Baba's with j Baker.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
I've never been more drunk in my life than I
was at Baba's.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Get dropped and watch the grackles soak their chips and the.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
Fountains and the fountain outside. That was an Austin pastime. Yeah,
they were crafty little birds. Yeah yeah, so uh.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
The other thing to talk about is the partnership between
to Covis Boots and Chili's.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now, yeah, you may not know this.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
To Covis the boots started in Austin, but Chili started
in Dallas, and so now they've got a new boot
for you that can be made out of the leather
of a ChIL booth.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
They're called booth boots.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, they're the red leather from a Chili's booth made
into boots. And then the stitching on the side of
the boot is like Chili's that the logo of Chili Pepper.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, they also have belts.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I think it's such a random pairing, But I think
because it is so random, I'm like, why do I
want a pair of those boots?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Now?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I thought that the KFC partnership with Crocs was crazy,
but that went nuts.

Speaker 8 (04:27):
People miss people went crazy. I missed that one. What
was that one? Oh, this was a few years ago.
KFC and post Malone was the big part of that. Yeah,
partnered with Crocs and they made these what do.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
They call the things you stick in your shoes, the gibbets,
the gibbets that and they smelled like Kentucky fried chicken.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
They were like chicken leg gibbets.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, and people went crazy for it.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
So wow, you know, I don't necessarily think that I
want a pair of booth boots, but heck, there's a
lot of people that might.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Do you really want a pair of boots knowing that
millions of people have farted on them?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
There?

Speaker 5 (05:01):
On the leather, Oh, they're going for about let's see.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Oh, I don't know. Actually that was a different base.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
I think around three hundred and fifty bucks, and the
booth belts are going for about seventy five dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Is the Chili's booth leather really of high quality or something?

Speaker 6 (05:18):
Right?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
A Vinyl?

Speaker 4 (05:20):
It's more I think a Vinyl.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
I think it's just the just the partnership that they're
not iconic brands.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
They're not using the actual booth it's just a gimmick, right, yeah, right,
But it's gonna be d like the booths.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, Chilie.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
They're saying, no place our guests would rather enjoy a
triple dipper or a frozen margarita than a red Chili's
booth wearing our chess.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Chili's keeps coming up lately. I told you how I
offered to take my daughter to Chili's. She lives two
blocks from one, and she kind of shot that down.
But why is why does Chili's keep coming up.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
All of a sudden Because they're marketing the hell out
of it. They're making a yeah, and the kids, young
kids will love it.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
You know what speak I thought of marketing. Yesterday I
saw a trail of five promotional vehicles going in a
row down Congress that were Mick Ultra.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Mick Ultra.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
Has been around a long time and they've been pushing it,
pushing it for fifteen twenty years, and it just felt
like it was never going to take off. Now I
can't seem to get away from it, like it is
caught on. I think it's because it's the low calorie,
low card beer. Yeah right, And they had a different
shape can. Yeah, I told you last weekend I went

(06:37):
to the Taylor Rodeo that was like that was the
go to beer for the whole rodeo.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Is that when it did everyone leave bud Light during
that catastrophe and then switch.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Over to Mickel because of that mark that marketing blunder. Yeah,
but I'm Miller. I know they hadn't didn't have Miller
Light there too, But I just I've just seen it
explode as the go to beer. But it's got to
be the low carb calorie thing just really sunk in
our generation didn't care.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Now you were kind of considered considered a whist if
you drink the.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Yeah, but I mean this younger general, they're used to
drinking out of skinny cans and yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
That reminds me. I saw someone I don't know what
these are. What is a celsius? Is that that's an
energy drink? Oh okay, it's not an alcohol drink.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, it's an.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Energy drink with with uh what is it? It has like
small traces of cyanide in it.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Just a little government will put this much into it.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Wow, my daughter the reason I know my daughter likes
it and take it with a grain of salt. I
find things on Instagram to tell you, you know. There, I
follow a lot of this is good for you, this
is bad for you kind of people, right right, So
take it with a grain of salt.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
You do your own.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
You decide if cyanid's bad for you or not.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
All. To stay with my five hour energy shots.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Or don't do them at all.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I quit doing those. I used to live on those
five hour energies. Those are bad for you. Really.

Speaker 9 (08:18):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one oh three point one, streaming on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Whether you like it or not, artificial intelligence is here
to stay.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's not going anywhere. It's just going to get bigger
and bigger and bigger. And now there's a new company
out there that can take your dreams and turn it
into a video. So what you do is you have
your dream, I guess you wake up, you speak into
the recorder. It then produces the video of your dream
for you. Okay, Now that could be good or bad, right.

(08:54):
I never seem to remember my dreams rarely.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
I remember them for just a fleeting moment and then
if you don't jot it down.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
It just disappears really quick.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Right now, I can tell you who is going to
be the number one customer for this new AI dream video, Gizmotron. Yeah,
twelve to fourteen year old boys. That is well, we
drive the market for this. They are going to be

(09:25):
asking for these for Christmas, for their birthdays. Yes, and
you know what's going into that. I'm just telling you.
That's just saying. It's it's a gimmick. They I'll catch
on to you it's doing. Yeah, I don't I don't
know it.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
I remember kind of hearing something about this and I
assumed it was like electronically connected to your brain. We're coming,
you know, there's things like neurolink coming out and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Yeah, but if it's like you just I don't know,
if you're describing it and then doing it, what's the
difference between just putting your thoughts into.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
An AI prompt right right right, it's the kind of
same thing, right.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, this is just about your book voice recorder, I guess,
And I don't know, but have ever JB.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Do you know the rule?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
We have a rule at our house about your dreams,
and that rule is you're not allowed to tell other
people your dreams. You can't go Hey, I had the
weirdest dream last night. Nope, you're not allowed.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Nobody, nobody cares.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Your dream is never as interesting to anybody else as
it is.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
To you, right, Like, even like Landry will start with like, Nope,
no one, no one cares. It's boring, and the stories
are so.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Long and weird and random.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, it's just we're not allowed to do that. So
so share your dreams. We're such a great family. Don't
share your dreams with them. That's funny.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
Well, my wife is, and I think this is fairly common.
If if in a dream I'm doing something inappropriate or
shoving around.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
She wakes up mad at me. It's hard for her
to shake that for the day.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh, I know that feeling.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I have felt that wrath to talk about getting the
cold shouldered or something that had nothing to do with
nothing right.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Wow, my, I think that was probably the last time
I told you about a dream I had, And it's
been a few years. Sometimes I still bring it up
because I feel like I'm still kind of mad about it.
I just dreamt that Sandy was having an affair and
he left me, and it was a la Carrey. I
am telling people about my dream for a girl named
Wendy who lived in San Antonio, Like it was that specific,

(11:35):
and he still to this day will bring Wendy up.
I guess I'll go live with Wendy. Yeah, come on,
I why don't you get Wendy to do that? I'm
not going to Apparently she was smoking hot and had
a really cool place. Yeah, her place was way cooler
than ours. That was really one of the things I
was most angry about. But some of them can really
stick with you.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah they can. So I wonder Wendy's up.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
I don't care what Wendy's up to? Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Coming up next? This is kind of interesting. It's kind
of a should they or shouldn't they about some music,
some unreleased music from Prince. Wait till you hear what
they say? How much unreleased unpublished music Prince left behind?
How many years worth they have? Will tell you? Coming
up on Austin's eighty station one oh three point one

(12:21):
and streaming on iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Austin's eighties station one o three point one.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
It's as Austin as it gets.

Speaker 9 (12:29):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one O three point one.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
This is kind of hard to believe.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
How many years of unpublished music Prince left behind. We'll
tell you in just a second. Thanks for being with us.
It's the JV and Sandy Show. I'm Sandy and this
is JB. Hello, Trish's here too.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
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Thanks to all you guys that are are grabbing it
on the daily. We do appreciate it, they say, And
I don't know who they is, maybe people that have
accesses to Princess of State or whatever. But he left

(13:12):
behind enough music to put out music for one hundred years.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
We release an album every year for one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh my gosh, that's insane to think if it's true.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean, we knew, yeah, we knew.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
He was a genius multi instrumental instrumentalist. He could play anything,
and he was very protective of his music. I mean
very and very anti label. He wanted to control everything
and he had that and I don't know if it
was self motivated or he learned it from someone. But
he was that way early on, early early on. But man,

(13:48):
would he want that? That's pretty remarkable? What's in that library?

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well?

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah, if you take some great producers and let him
dig into that and people would eat that up up,
Yeah they would.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I mean he recorded it for a reason. You know
there's something there. There's something there, right.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Could it also have been you know, he had his
own studio in his house. Could it just have been
him messing around? Like are you U saying these are
like full on ready for release or is it just
him screwing around with an idea that like he probably would.
I feel like I saw an interview that he'd like,
lay some stuff down.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
I'm not cool enough to say that term lay some stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
He would just record, right and then maybe go back
and revisit it later and tweak it and you know,
kind of ping around.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I wonder if it's like actual full on songs.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
It just made me think of JB.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
You know how guys like our age I call it
just just farting around, Like he'd be in the garage,
just kind of fiddling around doing stuff. We're in the garage.
Prints was in the studio recording music and stuff. You know,
we're out there arranging the screwdrivers on work manch and
he was recording music.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Playing eight instruments at one time, right, But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's I think they should put some of it out,
you know, like he makes that decision.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Again, he was super protective of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
But all you have to say after someone passes away,
like in this case, all you have to say is
Prince would have wanted it.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
That That's what he would have wanted to share.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is what Prince would have wanted. He wanted the
world to hear his music. So let's put it out
there and make some money off of it while he's dead,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, I don't know. It could be bad too.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Right, he might, you know, turn over in his grave
if we really if some of that music was released,
if he didn't deem it, you know, good enough to
be out in the public.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
I thought it was awkward that the Beatles song that
they released, what was that two years ago? Why John
Lennon was working on and didn't finish. They finished it.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Didn't really catch on.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
It was an okay song, but it's like it was
just okay, And it's just to me. If your Beatles
an attic, maybe you have a different opinion. But I
thought that was a little strange, you know, because I'm like, well,
well they're an odd one because they released so much
in like four years, everything made went got printed.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Basically.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Did you hear the one that their sons put out
a couple of weeks ago, the sons of McCartney and Lennon,
Lennon and Ringo's son. Maybe yeah, yeah, they put George
Harrison's son, George Harrison's son maybe. I can't remember which
one it was, but man, it was they all got
together and cut a.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Song and it was like it was weird.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was like, okay, but I don't know if you've
got that much music, And like you, I think that's
a great point, JB.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You get a bunch of really good producers and.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Let him produce it.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
And stay true to what Prince's sound and stuff was
all about.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Why not put it out there.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
There's only one person for that job, Morris Day, You're right.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
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