December 15, 2025 • 19 mins
:Have you ever wondered how it feels to say goodbye to a beloved Austin institution that's been serving up classic Tex-Mex for four decades? In this heartfelt episode of The JB and Sandy Show, the crew kicks things off with sad news: the iconic South Congress location of El Mercado is closing its doors for good this Wednesday, December 17th – but don't worry, the Burnet Road spot lives on, and you can still grab their famous salsa at HEB! The team dives into Austin's ever-changing landscape, debating Torchy's vs. Taco Deli (you're one or the other, right?), sharing hilarious foil-eating mishaps, and reminiscing about classics like Matt's El Rancho and the "all-American taco." They also reflect on saying farewell to longtime spots like Catfish Parlor and ponder what's next for that prime SoCo real estate (condos, anyone?).Things heat up with the Story We Love: Austin City Council just greenlit Southwest Airlines' huge expansion at ABIA, bringing 2,000 new jobs with an jaw-dropping average salary of $180,000! Could this mean more direct flights, cheaper fares, and Austin-based pilots and crews? The gang breaks it all down.
Then, hop in the Wayback Machine as Sandy finally dives into the legendary Mad Men – four episodes in and already hooked on Don Draper's mysterious past (is he a deserter?!), the nonstop smoking and cocktails, pointy bras, and that shocking picnic litter scene. JB raves about rewatching it endlessly, while they marvel at the 1960s office antics and unforgettable characters like Christina Hendricks.Memorable moments include: "You're going to eat a little bit of foil" from Taco Deli tacos, tales of accidentally devouring In-N-Out wrapper paper, and laughs over vintage lingerie that looked like "the Egyptian pyramids." Cold weather debates, hot chocolate rants, and Pioneer Woman's shoutout to Austin's Trail of Lights round out this fun, nostalgic ride through Austin life and pop culture.Don't miss this mix of local heartbreak, big news, and binge-worthy TV talk – tune in now before El Mercado's final day slips away! Hit play, subscribe for more daily Austin vibes, leave us a review, and share with your fellow Texans who bleed breakfast tacos and Mad Men drama.
Then, hop in the Wayback Machine as Sandy finally dives into the legendary Mad Men – four episodes in and already hooked on Don Draper's mysterious past (is he a deserter?!), the nonstop smoking and cocktails, pointy bras, and that shocking picnic litter scene. JB raves about rewatching it endlessly, while they marvel at the 1960s office antics and unforgettable characters like Christina Hendricks.Memorable moments include: "You're going to eat a little bit of foil" from Taco Deli tacos, tales of accidentally devouring In-N-Out wrapper paper, and laughs over vintage lingerie that looked like "the Egyptian pyramids." Cold weather debates, hot chocolate rants, and Pioneer Woman's shoutout to Austin's Trail of Lights round out this fun, nostalgic ride through Austin life and pop culture.Don't miss this mix of local heartbreak, big news, and binge-worthy TV talk – tune in now before El Mercado's final day slips away! Hit play, subscribe for more daily Austin vibes, leave us a review, and share with your fellow Texans who bleed breakfast tacos and Mad Men drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's jump right into it. Kind of sad news. Another
restaurant closing on South Congress, and it's one that's been
in Austin forever. El Mercado.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
El Mercado, Yes, shutting her down, shutting her down.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The South Congress location has been there for forty years.
That one is shutting down. You have until Wednesday to
go and eat it that location. But it's not all
bad news because their Burnet Road location is going to
continue to operate.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, yes, we're not losing it completely.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And you can buy their salsa in grocery stores. I know,
I got AHV and it's good to have it home.
I'm sure that dirt was just worth too much money.
Oh yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
So it's a big footprint and it's going to be condos.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right if the IHOP can hold on to the twenty
eight million dollar piece of land downtown, why didn't couldn't
El Mercado hold on?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I go sell more tacos. Torchies took all the taco people.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah maybe so, right?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Was it JB that you said you're either a torchy
taco person or a taco deli person.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it's you.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Rarely does someone go, oh, I like them both just
the same people are one or the other.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, but those aren't restaurant tacos to me, you mean,
I'd like they're not. You go to El Mercado or
or Chewy's Mats or Harding Corona or anything of those places.
You get your regular old all American taco, get it
all American taco, you know. But those are fancy tacos
(01:31):
at torchies, you know, And and and the other one
I just mentioned. Taco Deli.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, I have a theory with with Taco Deli tacos.
It doesn't matter how slowly you open it, how careful
you are, how meticulous you are, You're gonna eat a
little bit of foil.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You're exactly right. Okay, it's not just right. It's so frustrating.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Something and the way they do it, the floy the
flower just tears to the foil.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Same way if you go to In and Out Burger,
you're gonna eat some paper.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh I hate paper. I ate paper.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And I took our daughter there one night and we
were eating it driving home and I was so hungry.
So it's dark in the car too, and I took
the outer paper off. But I was halfway through the
burger before I realized there was still an inner piece
of paper, and I'd eat in half of it. You
could see my teethmarks and what was left of it
didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So I was so hungry.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You're an animal, basically animal, what you're saying. So when
is Elmrcado shutting down?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Do you have the date for the Wednesday of the seventeenth?
This Wednesday is the last day for that location.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, So there's probably gonna be some regulars there
that are going to go say goodbye like we did
at the Catfish Parlor. Yeah, went away, And we weren't
even really regulars at the Catfish Parlor. We were just
kind of sad that it was going away.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Because it been there forever right on one eighth heree, Yeah, yeah,
we went for its last night.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh it was fun. It was cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, it was fun, and it was real tape tasty.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Real tasty. That's a moving place a moving company.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know, which is I guess to have a restaurant
that big. It was huge, Yeah, right, so they moved
up a moving place there. Now, do you guys enjoy
the cold weather over the weekend? Sunday temperatures in the
wind chills never got out of the thirties.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh so happy, Oh miserable, miserable.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Let me tell you this. Do not trust Alexa. Okay, because, uh,
yesterday morning, I got up and I was getting I
wanted to I was getting ready to go out to
the trail to go my watch. So I asked her
what the temperature was. She told me just fifty six,
So I dressed accordingly. It was forty six.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh did you shoot and just mishear her?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I don't think so. I think I heard her pretty right.
And anyway it was I was fine. I just it
was an hour outside and was out there, and the
wind is what makes it so cold.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's what's bad about it. Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Maybe it really was, but it's just the wind chills
that are making it feel colder than it is. That's
what the problem is. On Sunday, when chills run the thirties.
Maybe Trius is so weird. She loves the cold weather,
but she never went outside yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, because it's cold. You like the coziness with the
heat on. Maybe do y'all have a fireplace?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We do not. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, And I don't even I'm not even sure if
I went the heat. I mean, he's got to be
pretty cold to turn the heat on. We've got some
incredible heater that you will be in an oven in
the house like that. Yeah, but I like the knowing
it's cold and whin they outside and all overcast, and
then inside you have like sweats and a sweatshirt and
socks and blankets.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, thanks, I'm ready for it to be hot again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's gonna be seventy five on Thursday. I just find
it depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It's so weird. People are so different. You probably like
to bust out hot chocolate.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hot chocolate yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I didn't even want to just drink it because
I felt like.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I had to.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I just think there's something wrong with making hot chocolate
and the kirk cur I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It's just just just as chocolatey.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It doesn't seem right to it. Coming up on the show,
I started watching a television show. This is not a
new television show. It's a show that came out years ago,
and so I'm late to the party. But it's still
with streaming and everything you can, it's still kind of okay.
To talk about. And JB, you watched the entire thing
and I remember you loved it. So we'll get into
(05:36):
that a little bit later on. And Tricia's story we
Love is coming up next. What do you have?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Let's talk about the Austin City Council approving the Southwest
Airlines expansion into Abia.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh that knows happening.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh yeah, it's a huge expansion. And I have to
tell you all. The thing that jumps out at me
is the median salary that people who get hired to
work there are going to make I feel like, am
I jump ship?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
All right? Stay with us. The story we Love is next.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
One three one Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Streaming on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty station.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
One oh three point one. Chrisa's going to update this
on the Southwest Airlines expansion at the airport and she
says the amount of money that they're paying makes her
want to jump ship. That is just a moment away. Uh,
don't forget. The Trail of Lights is underway, and uh
the Pioneer Woman came out and put that on her
list of top Christmas light attractions in America. Yep, she
(06:35):
kid the who what's her real name? Read Drummond, Read Drummond.
She has a show's on the cooking She has.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A cooking show called The Pioneer Woman.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's on a food network. Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So you know a lot about her, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, I've been around. I know that you love her.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I love her everything I've tried. I'm a terrible cook,
and every one of her recipes that I've ever tried
has turned out great.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, and both of them. Tricia watches a lot of
cooking shows, but not much ends up on the kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Isn't it weird that I can't do it? But I
love watching it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It is strange the stories we love.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Last Thursday, the Austin City Council approved an economic development
agreement with Southwest Airlines in the Austin In Bergstrom International Airport. Basically,
they are going to be bringing roughly two thousand new
jobs into the city out to the airport.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Here's the part that is amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The average wage clocking in for each of these two
thousand new people hired is one hundred and eighty thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What is people going to be doing Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I know, I know absolutely they basically, if you'll recall,
we've always had Southwest Airlines flying out of Abia, but
then when the expansion started, they're like, yeah, no, we're
not going to stay. Apparently, now they've come to this agreement,
they're gonna have a huge footprint at Abia again. And
they're saying that it's going to develop about fifty one
(07:59):
hundred new low goal jobs indirectly through like construction, transportation, food,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well I wonder if that means we'll get more NonStop flights.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Right, This could be really good for traveling in and
out of Austin.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I was doing some research on this story trying to
figure out I was like, what is Dallas scaling down?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Not at all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Actually Dallas is still growing, but Southwest is looking at
it for a couple of reasons. One, Austin's now a
major city. Yeah, we weren't ten years ago, right, and
so they want more boots on the ground here. And
they didn't have any Austin based flight crews. Oh yeah,
that's true, So you always had to get back to
(08:41):
Dallas or Houston or something.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you were a crew member, you don't. They weren't
based here.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So starting and finishing crew here, I guess is a
big money savings for them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I don't know, but that's part of the reason too. Yeah,
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Like, oh, so you're talking about like the people who
work the flight tendants.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And the people that fly the airplane.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, they're there, they don't.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Some people call those pilot.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's what I was looking for, pilots. So they're gonna
be Austin based.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, they want they want more Austin based crew. That
makes it because that's an extra thing you're trying to get.
You ever been on Southwest and there's just people they're
they're their crew members, but they're not working. They're just
trying to get back to home base, right, gotcha after
a full day. And so that probably saves them a
lot of money in the long run. But to your
point at the beginning, Sandy, this might be good for
(09:37):
more flight options out of.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Austin direct flights. Yeah, cheap flights.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Right, because right now I know you can go Austin
to Denver on Southwest is not stop. I think everything
else it seems like you have to go through Dallas
love Field, Yeah, to get anywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you guys know that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, first of all, Southwest is operated in Austin for
nearly fifty years, but they are one the most popular
airlines for traveling in and out of Austin. They say
that estimates more than forty percent of passengers playing to
and from Austin use Southwest.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Woow, I didn't know that. I like it. I like it.
It's it's usually on time, independable, and cheaper.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And now they're going to reserve seats, right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Guy, that'll be interesting. That'll be so much less stressful.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, well, the jockeying for your seat, all right, that
is the story we love.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
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Speaker 1 (10:32):
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glad you did. All right, everybody, let's jump in the
Wayback Machine with Sandy. Okay, buckle your seatbelt, Tricia, Okay,
(11:40):
you're in the way Back Machine.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Your hands and legs in the car at all time.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
We're going to go back a little bit to a
TV show that was hugely popular. I don't even know
how many years ago, but it's been a while that
I just recently started watching and JB you love the show.
We'll get to that in a sec just a reminder
to grab the podcast version of the show. Search JB
and Sandy on iHeartRadio app. We'd love for you to
follow us on social media Instagram and TikTok at JB
(12:04):
Sandy at X. The show is mad Men.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I feel like AMC runs it all the time like
a marathons. I've been rewatching it all Okay, so I'm
watching it on Netflix. I think it's Netflix, one of
the streamings. I can binge it. I don't have to
sit to commercials either. I've seen it streaming on AMC
and I'm not streaming but running on AMC.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm not sent through the commercials to watch it. But
I just started watching it. Never got into it in
the beginning, and now I'm about four episodes into.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It at the beginning of season one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yes, season one.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh you haven't seen much yet? No, awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm still figuring out old Don Draper. There's something going
on with him. He's got a past life that he's
hiding or something going on, and I don't know what
it is, but they there's something that.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The swapped identity.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, so here's my guest, and don't tell me if
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You don't know any of the details of how this
sends or anything. No, No, that's kind of nice. You've
managed to stay away from knowing the series plotline.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, I have. But what I think is that Don Draper,
who is the John Hamm, the main character of it.
I think that he's a deserter from the military, and
because there's hints to it, like they showed as a
purple heart, they showed a guy on the train that
knew him from the army. Right then they showed a
(13:41):
long lost brother showed up and talked to him and
he's like, that's not me, that's not me. So I'm
just I'm wondering what's going on with with Don Draper
because there's a lot there. He's a dirty dog.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Dirty like sexy dirty.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh, he's got girls and all over.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yes, I can't, I can't remember, you know, the chronology
and when things happen in the first four or five episodes.
But have you seen him do an ad pitch like
at work? He's so good?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen him do like for
Bethlehem Steel.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, one Lucky strikes becomes a big one.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's like in the first episode. Yes, they got all
the regulation from the health Department. Yeah, kind of change
their ads and.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Series is so good, I'm rewatching a bunch of it
whenever it's on. It's like I do that with Uh,
there's a few series. Why am I going blank on
the main tailor sharedan thing?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh? Oh Yellowstone, Yellowstone.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If Yellowstone's on episode, like, it's so weird, You'll just
watch one after another, even though I've already seen him,
mad men, I could watch again and again. You always
pick up something different. And the isn't it amazing? The
the sets and the decor and the attire and the
smoky everything. Yeah, there's they're porn of cocktail every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. And the smoking. It's been unbelievable in the office, yeah, anywhere,
they'll smoke anywhere, back when you could. I did have
a flashback though, because they showed Don Draper laying in
bed with his shirt off smoking a cigarette. Reminded me
of my childhood dad. My dad smoking a cigarette in bed.
(15:24):
It was He has since quit, but still it's uh,
it's wild. And then the one guy makes seventy five
bucks a week, you know what I mean, Just the
context of the time, late nineteen fifties.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Trying to live in New York.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, yeah, and just the way they treated women. Yeah,
I mean I got to talk to someone that came
up in that eras was it really like that? Because
I mean, you're just a bad person the way, I mean,
really crude jokes around their female coworker. Right, it was
like I can't imagine that today. But I'm hooked on it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You got seven seasons commitment, Trosh. I know that's a
big commitment. I feel like you can't to sit down
and have a little talk with yourself, like can I
do it?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah? Because I was going back and forth between that
and rewatching Game of Thrones and I just can't do
Game of Thrones again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, that's that's a different kind of commitment.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But you know there's a prequel coming out for Game
of Thrones, right JB. No, Yeah, there's a prequel. It's
called The King of the Seven Kingdoms I think, and
it's set a century before Season one of Game of
Thrones timeframe.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Loved Game of Thrones, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Now I feel like I need to rewatch Game of
Thrones to be ready for the prequel.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But man, oh, how great would it be if they're
one hundred years before Game of Thrones. If there's another
short stature, like it's a hereditary thing to get at
a short stature.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I don't know. Maybe they gotta do that. Are they
going to be dirtier one hundred years before?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How they could be?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How could they possibly be their yer than they were
in regular Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They really set the table in episode one of the
Game of Thrones with Lanister and his sister.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Was it okay?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Back to mad Man? I just popped in my head.
Wasn't there a scene in the first four or five
episodes where they went and had a family picnic?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Is a string of bell?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And so they have a family picnic and then they
just get up and just shake off the picnic blanket
and leave all the litter there. There's a lot of
that type of right. There's so many little touches like
that where you're just going, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And then is Christina Hendricks in it at the season one?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes she is, but but here's the thing, she's too
too skinny in season like Skinning Earth Again, it wasn't
I mean, I like Christina, you know what?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean yeah, I mean I think you would watch
series just to watch her.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes, yeah, but I hope say that in front of
your wife right here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
She knows that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I totally know.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But I'm hoping is the season carry on, there's more
of her because right now it's just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Now, there's more of her down the roads shared all right.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
She's a strong character.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And I'll tell you they've come a long way in
lingerie over the years too.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Back then, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Some of the pointing stuff was kind of hot back then. Yeah,
real pointy, real well pointing. Don Draper's wife laid down
in bed and it was like she had Mount Everest
on each side.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
They were like the Egyptian Pyramid, That's what they were like. Yeah,
they're very perky. Yeah, I hope that comes back. You
know what I'm gonna get for Christmas. I'm gonna get
you a vintage Brazier.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh I don't know if that's necessary.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know, so point they're very very pointing.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Anyway, thanks for getting on the way back machine with.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Me, and oh yeah, keep updating us because I I
love that series.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
All right. I'm just gonna be watching for inappropriate and
it's like shaking the picnic the lyric and just leave
it there. Well, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
to this episode and send it to a friend or two.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Thanks for listening.
Let's jump right into it. Kind of sad news. Another
restaurant closing on South Congress, and it's one that's been
in Austin forever. El Mercado.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
El Mercado, Yes, shutting her down, shutting her down.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The South Congress location has been there for forty years.
That one is shutting down. You have until Wednesday to
go and eat it that location. But it's not all
bad news because their Burnet Road location is going to
continue to operate.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, yes, we're not losing it completely.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And you can buy their salsa in grocery stores. I know,
I got AHV and it's good to have it home.
I'm sure that dirt was just worth too much money.
Oh yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
So it's a big footprint and it's going to be condos.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right if the IHOP can hold on to the twenty
eight million dollar piece of land downtown, why didn't couldn't
El Mercado hold on?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I go sell more tacos. Torchies took all the taco people.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah maybe so, right?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Was it JB that you said you're either a torchy
taco person or a taco deli person.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it's you.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Rarely does someone go, oh, I like them both just
the same people are one or the other.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, but those aren't restaurant tacos to me, you mean,
I'd like they're not. You go to El Mercado or
or Chewy's Mats or Harding Corona or anything of those places.
You get your regular old all American taco, get it
all American taco, you know. But those are fancy tacos
(01:31):
at torchies, you know, And and and the other one
I just mentioned. Taco Deli.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, I have a theory with with Taco Deli tacos.
It doesn't matter how slowly you open it, how careful
you are, how meticulous you are, You're gonna eat a
little bit of foil.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You're exactly right. Okay, it's not just right. It's so frustrating.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Something and the way they do it, the floy the
flower just tears to the foil.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Same way if you go to In and Out Burger,
you're gonna eat some paper.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh I hate paper. I ate paper.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And I took our daughter there one night and we
were eating it driving home and I was so hungry.
So it's dark in the car too, and I took
the outer paper off. But I was halfway through the
burger before I realized there was still an inner piece
of paper, and I'd eat in half of it. You
could see my teethmarks and what was left of it
didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So I was so hungry.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You're an animal, basically animal, what you're saying. So when
is Elmrcado shutting down?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Do you have the date for the Wednesday of the seventeenth?
This Wednesday is the last day for that location.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, So there's probably gonna be some regulars there
that are going to go say goodbye like we did
at the Catfish Parlor. Yeah, went away, And we weren't
even really regulars at the Catfish Parlor. We were just
kind of sad that it was going away.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Because it been there forever right on one eighth heree, Yeah, yeah,
we went for its last night.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh it was fun. It was cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, it was fun, and it was real tape tasty.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Real tasty. That's a moving place a moving company.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I know, which is I guess to have a restaurant
that big. It was huge, Yeah, right, so they moved
up a moving place there. Now, do you guys enjoy
the cold weather over the weekend? Sunday temperatures in the
wind chills never got out of the thirties.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh so happy, Oh miserable, miserable.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Let me tell you this. Do not trust Alexa. Okay, because, uh,
yesterday morning, I got up and I was getting I
wanted to I was getting ready to go out to
the trail to go my watch. So I asked her
what the temperature was. She told me just fifty six,
So I dressed accordingly. It was forty six.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh did you shoot and just mishear her?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I don't think so. I think I heard her pretty right.
And anyway it was I was fine. I just it
was an hour outside and was out there, and the
wind is what makes it so cold.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's what's bad about it. Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Maybe it really was, but it's just the wind chills
that are making it feel colder than it is. That's
what the problem is. On Sunday, when chills run the thirties.
Maybe Trius is so weird. She loves the cold weather,
but she never went outside yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, because it's cold. You like the coziness with the
heat on. Maybe do y'all have a fireplace?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We do not. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, And I don't even I'm not even sure if
I went the heat. I mean, he's got to be
pretty cold to turn the heat on. We've got some
incredible heater that you will be in an oven in
the house like that. Yeah, but I like the knowing
it's cold and whin they outside and all overcast, and
then inside you have like sweats and a sweatshirt and
socks and blankets.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, thanks, I'm ready for it to be hot again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's gonna be seventy five on Thursday. I just find
it depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It's so weird. People are so different. You probably like
to bust out hot chocolate.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hot chocolate yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I didn't even want to just drink it because
I felt like.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I had to.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I just think there's something wrong with making hot chocolate
and the kirk cur I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It's just just just as chocolatey.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It doesn't seem right to it. Coming up on the show,
I started watching a television show. This is not a
new television show. It's a show that came out years ago,
and so I'm late to the party. But it's still
with streaming and everything you can, it's still kind of okay.
To talk about. And JB, you watched the entire thing
and I remember you loved it. So we'll get into
(05:36):
that a little bit later on. And Tricia's story we
Love is coming up next. What do you have?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Let's talk about the Austin City Council approving the Southwest
Airlines expansion into Abia.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh that knows happening.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh yeah, it's a huge expansion. And I have to
tell you all. The thing that jumps out at me
is the median salary that people who get hired to
work there are going to make I feel like, am
I jump ship?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
All right? Stay with us. The story we Love is next.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
One three one Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Streaming on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty station.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
One oh three point one. Chrisa's going to update this
on the Southwest Airlines expansion at the airport and she
says the amount of money that they're paying makes her
want to jump ship. That is just a moment away. Uh,
don't forget. The Trail of Lights is underway, and uh
the Pioneer Woman came out and put that on her
list of top Christmas light attractions in America. Yep, she
(06:35):
kid the who what's her real name? Read Drummond, Read Drummond.
She has a show's on the cooking She has.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A cooking show called The Pioneer Woman.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's on a food network. Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So you know a lot about her, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well, I've been around. I know that you love her.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I love her everything I've tried. I'm a terrible cook,
and every one of her recipes that I've ever tried
has turned out great.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, and both of them. Tricia watches a lot of
cooking shows, but not much ends up on the kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Isn't it weird that I can't do it? But I
love watching it?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It is strange the stories we love.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Last Thursday, the Austin City Council approved an economic development
agreement with Southwest Airlines in the Austin In Bergstrom International Airport. Basically,
they are going to be bringing roughly two thousand new
jobs into the city out to the airport.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Here's the part that is amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The average wage clocking in for each of these two
thousand new people hired is one hundred and eighty thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What is people going to be doing Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I know, I know absolutely they basically, if you'll recall,
we've always had Southwest Airlines flying out of Abia, but
then when the expansion started, they're like, yeah, no, we're
not going to stay. Apparently, now they've come to this agreement,
they're gonna have a huge footprint at Abia again. And
they're saying that it's going to develop about fifty one
(07:59):
hundred new low goal jobs indirectly through like construction, transportation, food,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well I wonder if that means we'll get more NonStop flights.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Right, This could be really good for traveling in and
out of Austin.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I was doing some research on this story trying to
figure out I was like, what is Dallas scaling down?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Not at all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Actually Dallas is still growing, but Southwest is looking at
it for a couple of reasons. One, Austin's now a
major city. Yeah, we weren't ten years ago, right, and
so they want more boots on the ground here. And
they didn't have any Austin based flight crews. Oh yeah,
that's true, So you always had to get back to
(08:41):
Dallas or Houston or something.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you were a crew member, you don't. They weren't
based here.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So starting and finishing crew here, I guess is a
big money savings for them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I don't know, but that's part of the reason too. Yeah,
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Like, oh, so you're talking about like the people who
work the flight tendants.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And the people that fly the airplane.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, they're there, they don't.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Some people call those pilot.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's what I was looking for, pilots. So they're gonna
be Austin based.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, they want they want more Austin based crew. That
makes it because that's an extra thing you're trying to get.
You ever been on Southwest and there's just people they're
they're their crew members, but they're not working. They're just
trying to get back to home base, right, gotcha after
a full day. And so that probably saves them a
lot of money in the long run. But to your
point at the beginning, Sandy, this might be good for
(09:37):
more flight options out of.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Austin direct flights. Yeah, cheap flights.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Right, because right now I know you can go Austin
to Denver on Southwest is not stop. I think everything
else it seems like you have to go through Dallas
love Field, Yeah, to get anywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you guys know that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, first of all, Southwest is operated in Austin for
nearly fifty years, but they are one the most popular
airlines for traveling in and out of Austin. They say
that estimates more than forty percent of passengers playing to
and from Austin use Southwest.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Woow, I didn't know that. I like it. I like it.
It's it's usually on time, independable, and cheaper.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And now they're going to reserve seats, right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Guy, that'll be interesting. That'll be so much less stressful.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, well, the jockeying for your seat, all right, that
is the story we love.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
One three one Austin dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Hey, it's Sandy, can you believe it? The holidays are
upon us. Christmas and New Year's in Texas mean family
and friends, and it means enjoying life with those you
care about. As we close out twenty twenty five, I
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Find them online at call kangaroof dot com. You'll be
glad you did. All right, everybody, let's jump in the
Wayback Machine with Sandy. Okay, buckle your seatbelt, Tricia, Okay,
(11:40):
you're in the way Back Machine.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Your hands and legs in the car at all time.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
We're going to go back a little bit to a
TV show that was hugely popular. I don't even know
how many years ago, but it's been a while that
I just recently started watching and JB you love the show.
We'll get to that in a sec just a reminder
to grab the podcast version of the show. Search JB
and Sandy on iHeartRadio app. We'd love for you to
follow us on social media Instagram and TikTok at JB
(12:04):
Sandy at X. The show is mad Men.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I feel like AMC runs it all the time like
a marathons. I've been rewatching it all Okay, so I'm
watching it on Netflix. I think it's Netflix, one of
the streamings. I can binge it. I don't have to
sit to commercials either. I've seen it streaming on AMC
and I'm not streaming but running on AMC.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm not sent through the commercials to watch it. But
I just started watching it. Never got into it in
the beginning, and now I'm about four episodes into.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It at the beginning of season one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yes, season one.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh you haven't seen much yet? No, awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm still figuring out old Don Draper. There's something going
on with him. He's got a past life that he's
hiding or something going on, and I don't know what
it is, but they there's something that.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The swapped identity.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, so here's my guest, and don't tell me if
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You don't know any of the details of how this
sends or anything. No, No, that's kind of nice. You've
managed to stay away from knowing the series plotline.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, I have. But what I think is that Don Draper,
who is the John Hamm, the main character of it.
I think that he's a deserter from the military, and
because there's hints to it, like they showed as a
purple heart, they showed a guy on the train that
knew him from the army. Right then they showed a
(13:41):
long lost brother showed up and talked to him and
he's like, that's not me, that's not me. So I'm
just I'm wondering what's going on with with Don Draper
because there's a lot there. He's a dirty dog.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Dirty like sexy dirty.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh, he's got girls and all over.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yes, I can't, I can't remember, you know, the chronology
and when things happen in the first four or five episodes.
But have you seen him do an ad pitch like
at work? He's so good?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen him do like for
Bethlehem Steel.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, one Lucky strikes becomes a big one.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's like in the first episode. Yes, they got all
the regulation from the health Department. Yeah, kind of change
their ads and.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Series is so good, I'm rewatching a bunch of it
whenever it's on. It's like I do that with Uh,
there's a few series. Why am I going blank on
the main tailor sharedan thing?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh? Oh Yellowstone, Yellowstone.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If Yellowstone's on episode, like, it's so weird, You'll just
watch one after another, even though I've already seen him,
mad men, I could watch again and again. You always
pick up something different. And the isn't it amazing? The
the sets and the decor and the attire and the
smoky everything. Yeah, there's they're porn of cocktail every five minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. And the smoking. It's been unbelievable in the office, yeah, anywhere,
they'll smoke anywhere, back when you could. I did have
a flashback though, because they showed Don Draper laying in
bed with his shirt off smoking a cigarette. Reminded me
of my childhood dad. My dad smoking a cigarette in bed.
(15:24):
It was He has since quit, but still it's uh,
it's wild. And then the one guy makes seventy five
bucks a week, you know what I mean, Just the
context of the time, late nineteen fifties.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Trying to live in New York.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, yeah, and just the way they treated women. Yeah,
I mean I got to talk to someone that came
up in that eras was it really like that? Because
I mean, you're just a bad person the way, I mean,
really crude jokes around their female coworker. Right, it was
like I can't imagine that today. But I'm hooked on it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You got seven seasons commitment, Trosh. I know that's a
big commitment. I feel like you can't to sit down
and have a little talk with yourself, like can I
do it?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah? Because I was going back and forth between that
and rewatching Game of Thrones and I just can't do
Game of Thrones again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, that's that's a different kind of commitment.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But you know there's a prequel coming out for Game
of Thrones, right JB. No, Yeah, there's a prequel. It's
called The King of the Seven Kingdoms I think, and
it's set a century before Season one of Game of
Thrones timeframe.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Loved Game of Thrones, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Now I feel like I need to rewatch Game of
Thrones to be ready for the prequel.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But man, oh, how great would it be if they're
one hundred years before Game of Thrones. If there's another
short stature, like it's a hereditary thing to get at
a short stature.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I don't know. Maybe they gotta do that. Are they
going to be dirtier one hundred years before?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How they could be?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How could they possibly be their yer than they were
in regular Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They really set the table in episode one of the
Game of Thrones with Lanister and his sister.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Was it okay?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Back to mad Man? I just popped in my head.
Wasn't there a scene in the first four or five
episodes where they went and had a family picnic?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Is a string of bell?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And so they have a family picnic and then they
just get up and just shake off the picnic blanket
and leave all the litter there. There's a lot of
that type of right. There's so many little touches like
that where you're just going, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And then is Christina Hendricks in it at the season one?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yes she is, but but here's the thing, she's too
too skinny in season like Skinning Earth Again, it wasn't
I mean, I like Christina, you know what?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean yeah, I mean I think you would watch
series just to watch her.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes, yeah, but I hope say that in front of
your wife right here.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
She knows that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I totally know.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But I'm hoping is the season carry on, there's more
of her because right now it's just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Now, there's more of her down the roads shared all right.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
She's a strong character.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And I'll tell you they've come a long way in
lingerie over the years too.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Back then, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Some of the pointing stuff was kind of hot back then. Yeah,
real pointy, real well pointing. Don Draper's wife laid down
in bed and it was like she had Mount Everest
on each side.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
They were like the Egyptian Pyramid, That's what they were like. Yeah,
they're very perky. Yeah, I hope that comes back. You
know what I'm gonna get for Christmas. I'm gonna get
you a vintage Brazier.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Oh I don't know if that's necessary.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know, so point they're very very pointing.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Anyway, thanks for getting on the way back machine with.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Me, and oh yeah, keep updating us because I I
love that series.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
All right. I'm just gonna be watching for inappropriate and
it's like shaking the picnic the lyric and just leave
it there. Well, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
to this episode and send it to a friend or two.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Thanks for listening.
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