July 18, 2025 • 17 mins
“Do kids even have nicknames anymore?” That’s the question that sparks a nostalgic, hilarious, and heartfelt episode of The JB and Sandy Show. From Tricia’s journey from longtime listener to co-host, to the wild world of Texas toll roads and the decline of childhood nicknames, this episode is a ride through memory lane—with a few speed bumps of laughter along the way.
🎙️ Tricia, now a regular voice on the show, opens up about her surreal journey from waking up to JB and Sandy on her alarm clock radio to sitting behind the mic with them. She even made the top five in a contest to join the show two decades ago—proof that dreams (and patience) pay off.
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🎙️ Tricia, now a regular voice on the show, opens up about her surreal journey from waking up to JB and Sandy on her alarm clock radio to sitting behind the mic with them. She even made the top five in a contest to join the show two decades ago—proof that dreams (and patience) pay off.
💡 Key Themes & Moments:
- Texas Driving Culture: A Reddit post about Austin’s “suggested” speed limits leads to a deep dive into the lawless lanes of Houston, toll road myths, and the rise of wheelie-popping e-motorcycles on South Congress.
- Nicknames on the Decline: The crew reflects on the fading tradition of nicknames—especially the hilariously cruel ones from their youth. From “Blocko” and “Mailbox” to “Bucky” and “Super Saucy,” they explore how humor, identity, and a little teasing shaped their childhoods.
- Tricia’s Radio Origin Story: From contest hopeful to co-host, Tricia shares how she once vied for a spot on the show—and how she ended up with something even better: a mic, a marriage, and a nickname of her own.
- “They had to go to the University of Nebraska to find a helmet big enough for my head.”
- “There’s no way to look cool on a Lime scooter. None.”
- “We called her Super Saucy after she spilled ribs all over her prom dress.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We've got the day off, but we hope you enjoyed
this from earlier this year. First, is this whole thing
weird for you? Like doing the radio show with your
husband and JB.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, I'll good it is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's weird because I started out as.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
A listener twenty something years ago, Like right, just woke up,
y'all went off to the alarm on my alarm clock radio,
and I would lay in bed and listen to y'all
listen to while I got dressed, while I drove it
to work. And so yeah, it's sometimes I'm like, I
can't believe now I'm talking with you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Were you but every one one?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Were you ever one of those listeners that would complain
if we said something wrong? No?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Never, Or we're on vacation for too long?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Remember, we'd get all this kind Yeah we're taking vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like, yeah, maybe I'll talk it about it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, oh, well days gone by? Uh what are you
gonna say?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Team? Now? I was gonna say, what makes it even weirder?
Is that? What I don't know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Twenty years ago, y'all were looking for a sidekick, a
third person, and I entered the contest. It was literally
a contest at that time, and I made it to
like the top five to do to win the contest,
to do what I'm doing with you guys right now.
It's like I just went on that like a twenty
year cycle to get that job.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
You remember the guy that videoed himself sitting on a
toilet in the back of a picup driving around town,
waving everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That was his audition tape.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah forgot. I wonder what he's doing now. I'm guessing
not much he put.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
If this really cute see music to it, I can't
remember what. I can hear this song in my head,
but I don't know what it is. And he was
just sitting on a toilet waving to people.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know what's funny, though, Tristian, knowing you now being
married for seventeen years now and together for over twenty years,
I can't fathom how nervous you were leading up to that.
How antsy you must have been, like when you entered
the contest and when you were going to hear something
and then you got the call, and then just knowing
you now, it's like you must have been a bundle
of mess.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I was really nervous, but I it's you know, my
my huge phobia is standing up in front of giant
crowds and talking.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That makes me feel like I'm gonna poot my pants.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But talking on the radio or just talking to a
couple of guys, like my level of nerves that at
that time when I had to go in an audition
with y'all was not what it definitely could have been.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know why. I just felt kind of comfortable
doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I definitely was nervous, but I wasn't freaking out all right?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And were you just crushed when you didn't get it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was so sad. The package you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Have put together was incredible, Like you got to drive
a dealership sponsored car for a year for free.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
All.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean, y'all have a free apartment too or something.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, it was like a free apartment.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It was this great salary, like it was a big deal.
It would have been amazing to win. I was so
sad when I didn't get it. Well, he ended up
with the big prize, you me.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I listen to this. This is a Reddit post I
think you'll get a kick out of. And keep in
mind there are so many people that have moved to
Texas in the last few years, and there's people moving
here every single day, and there's some stuff you got
to get used to when you move to Texas, and
this is one of them.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
This was on Reddit.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Did I recently moved to Texas and I've been driving
the speed limit, but everyone on the road drives at
least fifteen to twenty miles above the speed limit. Is
this a Texas thing? I never see cops enforcing speed
limit in and around Austin. Answer your question, yes, yes,
(03:40):
it's a Texas thing. The posted speed limit is a
mere suggestion for you.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Though.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I think I've got taken to a new level when
we started adding more toll roads because I don't quote
me on this, but like they, the police don't have jurisdiction.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
To right speeding tickets on a toll road.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's my understanding, which is part of the reason you
see people going in one hundred one.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is that the one out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, that's that's lawlessness out there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it is the wild West. You can do one
hundred and thirty and nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody pulled over.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It only lights I've seen or for res from people
going so fast.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Not for speeding, yeah, but driving in Austin. If you're
freaking out and you're new to Austin and you think
people are driving fast, I'd recommend you stay out of Houston.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
It's on another level in Houston. As soon as you
get into like Katie on your way in, it's just
like what happened. The intensity goes way up and it's
more lanes and they're all going really fast.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's like somebody drop the go flag. It's like you're
in a race.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's flag.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't know what it is with Houston, but the
I don't go to Houston that often, but it seems
like every time I do go to Houston, not only
are people driving fast, but also there's always a guy
on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on the highway. I'm
not kidding. I've seen it several times, just a guy
doing wheelies and on the on the highway.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
We're getting we're getting more of that kind of culture
here in Austin.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
As of late, I see more and more of that.
You see it and you're part of the town, like
South Congress right.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Wele doing wheelies up and down South Congress and a
lot of young guys on the the emotos.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
They're really motorcycles, but they're electric.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh okay, and they can do wheelies on those.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh man, can you imagine having one of those?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I saw some kids buzzing around on it and they're fast,
and I was like, God, what a what a fun
thing to grow up with. Now these these kids are
getting on these electric motorcycles basically buzzing around the neighborhood. Yeah,
having a blast like that would have been so fun.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Was my big will e bikes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And I see a lot of kids on e bikes
and I'm gonna tell you ninety nine percent of them.
I look at him and go, you might want to
get on a real bike the exercise, Yeah, just to
get the exercise. Yeah, I mean it's it's weird. But
you said something about about South Congress and the motorcycle
(06:21):
scene that's down there.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's growing, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You'll see a lot more of these like little meet
up rides, whether it's dirt bikes and they're doing wheelies
all through town, or you'll see some with the quads,
you know, the four wheelers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, buzzing around like a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The three wheeler really interests me because it's kind of
like they want to do something. They don't want a car,
they want four wheels, but I can't handle two.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with three, like the
canams where it's one wheel in the back.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yes, yeah, does always have those, always have over the
top stereos that they're hiring like you would on a boat,
but you're doing it on those three wheelers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah. I see a lot of those too.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And kind of my last thought on this is the scooters,
the lime scooters and stuff that are all over town.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Let me tell you so there.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, there is absolutely no way in the world to
look cool on one.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There's people who, yeah, they think they're really coo.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, no, you really look not great, not great.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one. Text us at seven
three seven three zero one ninety six hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We've got the.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Day off, but we hope you enjoyed this from earlier
this year. All right, there's really no scientific proof to this.
It's really just an observation by someone that writes for
the Wall Street Journal. There's a guy that writes for
the Wall Street Journal and he's got five kids, and
it kind of surprised him that none of his kids
(08:09):
or their friends had any nicknames for each other. And
it made him wonder if nicknames were going the way
of the dinosaur, just on the decline, like no one
has a nickname anymore, you know, like calling your buddy
from Austin, calling him texts, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Or you know they can't.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when you're when you're little, heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, kind of kind of going away.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But I had growing up.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, through middle school at least it was Bucky was
my nickname because I had a really bad buck teeth
and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't much choice. Yeah,
I kind of remembered. I had a bad one in
high school. It was both blockhead and block oh. Then
that got shortened to block oh because I was dumb.
Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spelled.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head and mailbox.
They tried to call me mailbox two for a while.
They had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
(09:39):
I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the university.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To fit my head in high school. In high school
did the local news do a feature?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I thought, I think they thought there was something wrong
with me, But hey, whatever.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Young man block Oh just once the place. But there's
one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He's done that several times.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Kids you like size twenty six foot, he buys them,
buys them shoes right Trician to girls like our our
daughter runs with the crew. They kind they don't really
go by nicknames, but they go by last names.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in Rotc. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, I name's Jatricia.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames, like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But you know what, though, it's funny, as I say nicknames,
is that Sandy, which I've always gone by, is a
is the real nickname for Alexander, just like Bob is
for Robert, and Bill is for William and Dick is
for Richard.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, there's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Few that I can think of.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick's.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know, I know one guy and he's worth a fortune.
He lives in LA that I met. I met him
at south By one year and it was like, you know,
maybe i'd like, you know, many people to go by
Dick anymore. And he goes, that's why I go by it.
He goes, it's it's very memorable.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, Mike, I have an uncle and he was Uncle
Dick and then had a cousin who was all right,
there's really no scientific proof to this. It's really just
an observation by someone that writes for the Wall Street Journal.
There's a guy that writes for the Wall Street Journal
and he's got five kids, and it kind of surprised
him that none of his kids or their friends had
(12:22):
any nicknames for each other. And it made him wonder
if nicknames were going the way of the dinosaur, just
on the decline, like no one has a nickname anymore,
you know, like calling your buddy from Austin, calling him texts,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Or you know they can't.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when when you're little heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, kind of kind of going away.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But I had growing up.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, through middle school at least it was Bucky was
my nickname because I had a really bad buck teeth
and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't have
much choice. Yeah, I kind of remember. I had a
bad one in high school. It was both blockhead and
block oh. Then that got shortened to block oh because
I was dumb. Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spelled.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And mailbox. They tried to call me mailbox two for
a while.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the university to.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Fit my head in high school. In high school did
the local news do a feature.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
They thought I think they thought there was something wrong
with me, but hey, whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But young man Blocko just wants to play, but there's
one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets size.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's done that several times.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Kids you like size twenty six foot, he buys them,
buys some shoes, right Trician to girls like our our
daughter runs with the crew. They kind they don't really
go by nicknames, but they go by last names.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in ROTC. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, my name's Jatricia.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames Like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean, antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But you know what, though it's funny.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
As I say nicknames, is that Sandy, which I've always
gone by, is a is the real nickname for Alexander,
just like Bob is for Robert, and Bill is for
William and Dick is for Richard.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a few that I
can think of.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's you know.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I know one guy and he's worth a fortune. He
lives in LA that I met.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I met him at south By one year.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It was like, you know, maybe i'd like, you know,
many people go by Dick anymore, and he goes, that's
why I go by it, he goes, It's it's very memorable.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have an uncle and he was Uncle Dick, and
then had a cousin who was who was Dick Junior.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So we just called him Big Dick and little Dick.
We did that shouldn't be funny. We're so sure, you.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Know, laughing at this, right, this is something you laughed
at when you were twelve. But it's still funny. So, Tricia,
nickname for you? Did you ever have one?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I mean my uncle has called me tricksy. Yeah, I
mean I didn't have a like.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Friends giving me a nickname. I didn't have anything like that.
We call our daughter the fuzz. That's kind of a
nickname for her. You named her that when she was
a baby. You were worried she was gonna staybaled like
you are. When her hair started growing, it with fuzzy,
so he called her the fuzz. But yeah, now he's right.
I think nicknames are slowly being phased out.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, I think they need. I think kids need to
come up with some good nicknames for each.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
You and I nicknamed one of Landry's friends, uh, super Saucy.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We call her super saucy. A story.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
She was wearing a white dress for prom and she
ordered extra sauce, extra saucy, extra saucy ribs and spilled
it all over her white dress before prom.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
So we just call her extra saucy, which I think
is funny.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
She's a good kid too, He's a good show.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one oh three point one, streaming on the iHeartRadio
app
We've got the day off, but we hope you enjoyed
this from earlier this year. First, is this whole thing
weird for you? Like doing the radio show with your
husband and JB.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, I'll good it is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's weird because I started out as.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
A listener twenty something years ago, Like right, just woke up,
y'all went off to the alarm on my alarm clock radio,
and I would lay in bed and listen to y'all
listen to while I got dressed, while I drove it
to work. And so yeah, it's sometimes I'm like, I
can't believe now I'm talking with you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Were you but every one one?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Were you ever one of those listeners that would complain
if we said something wrong? No?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Never, Or we're on vacation for too long?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Remember, we'd get all this kind Yeah we're taking vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like, yeah, maybe I'll talk it about it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, oh, well days gone by? Uh what are you
gonna say?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Team? Now? I was gonna say, what makes it even weirder?
Is that? What I don't know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Twenty years ago, y'all were looking for a sidekick, a
third person, and I entered the contest. It was literally
a contest at that time, and I made it to
like the top five to do to win the contest,
to do what I'm doing with you guys right now.
It's like I just went on that like a twenty
year cycle to get that job.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
You remember the guy that videoed himself sitting on a
toilet in the back of a picup driving around town,
waving everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That was his audition tape.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah forgot. I wonder what he's doing now. I'm guessing
not much he put.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
If this really cute see music to it, I can't
remember what. I can hear this song in my head,
but I don't know what it is. And he was
just sitting on a toilet waving to people.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know what's funny, though, Tristian, knowing you now being
married for seventeen years now and together for over twenty years,
I can't fathom how nervous you were leading up to that.
How antsy you must have been, like when you entered
the contest and when you were going to hear something
and then you got the call, and then just knowing
you now, it's like you must have been a bundle
of mess.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I was really nervous, but I it's you know, my
my huge phobia is standing up in front of giant
crowds and talking.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That makes me feel like I'm gonna poot my pants.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But talking on the radio or just talking to a
couple of guys, like my level of nerves that at
that time when I had to go in an audition
with y'all was not what it definitely could have been.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know why. I just felt kind of comfortable
doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I definitely was nervous, but I wasn't freaking out all right?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And were you just crushed when you didn't get it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I was so sad. The package you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Have put together was incredible, Like you got to drive
a dealership sponsored car for a year for free.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
All.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean, y'all have a free apartment too or something.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, it was like a free apartment.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It was this great salary, like it was a big deal.
It would have been amazing to win. I was so
sad when I didn't get it. Well, he ended up
with the big prize, you me.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I listen to this. This is a Reddit post I
think you'll get a kick out of. And keep in
mind there are so many people that have moved to
Texas in the last few years, and there's people moving
here every single day, and there's some stuff you got
to get used to when you move to Texas, and
this is one of them.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
This was on Reddit.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Did I recently moved to Texas and I've been driving
the speed limit, but everyone on the road drives at
least fifteen to twenty miles above the speed limit. Is
this a Texas thing? I never see cops enforcing speed
limit in and around Austin. Answer your question, yes, yes,
(03:40):
it's a Texas thing. The posted speed limit is a
mere suggestion for you.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Though.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I think I've got taken to a new level when
we started adding more toll roads because I don't quote
me on this, but like they, the police don't have jurisdiction.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
To right speeding tickets on a toll road.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's my understanding, which is part of the reason you
see people going in one hundred one.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is that the one out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, that's that's lawlessness out there.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, it is the wild West. You can do one
hundred and thirty and nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody pulled over.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It only lights I've seen or for res from people
going so fast.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Not for speeding, yeah, but driving in Austin. If you're
freaking out and you're new to Austin and you think
people are driving fast, I'd recommend you stay out of Houston.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
It's on another level in Houston. As soon as you
get into like Katie on your way in, it's just
like what happened. The intensity goes way up and it's
more lanes and they're all going really fast.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's like somebody drop the go flag. It's like you're
in a race.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's flag.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't know what it is with Houston, but the
I don't go to Houston that often, but it seems
like every time I do go to Houston, not only
are people driving fast, but also there's always a guy
on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on the highway. I'm
not kidding. I've seen it several times, just a guy
doing wheelies and on the on the highway.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
We're getting we're getting more of that kind of culture
here in Austin.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
As of late, I see more and more of that.
You see it and you're part of the town, like
South Congress right.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Wele doing wheelies up and down South Congress and a
lot of young guys on the the emotos.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
They're really motorcycles, but they're electric.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh okay, and they can do wheelies on those.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh man, can you imagine having one of those?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I saw some kids buzzing around on it and they're fast,
and I was like, God, what a what a fun
thing to grow up with. Now these these kids are
getting on these electric motorcycles basically buzzing around the neighborhood. Yeah,
having a blast like that would have been so fun.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Was my big will e bikes.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And I see a lot of kids on e bikes
and I'm gonna tell you ninety nine percent of them.
I look at him and go, you might want to
get on a real bike the exercise, Yeah, just to
get the exercise. Yeah, I mean it's it's weird. But
you said something about about South Congress and the motorcycle
(06:21):
scene that's down there.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's growing, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You'll see a lot more of these like little meet
up rides, whether it's dirt bikes and they're doing wheelies
all through town, or you'll see some with the quads,
you know, the four wheelers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, buzzing around like a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The three wheeler really interests me because it's kind of
like they want to do something. They don't want a car,
they want four wheels, but I can't handle two.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with three, like the
canams where it's one wheel in the back.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yes, yeah, does always have those, always have over the
top stereos that they're hiring like you would on a boat,
but you're doing it on those three wheelers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah. I see a lot of those too.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And kind of my last thought on this is the scooters,
the lime scooters and stuff that are all over town.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Let me tell you so there.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, there is absolutely no way in the world to
look cool on one.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
There's people who, yeah, they think they're really coo.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, no, you really look not great, not great.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
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Speaker 2 (07:48):
We've got the.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Day off, but we hope you enjoyed this from earlier
this year. All right, there's really no scientific proof to this.
It's really just an observation by someone that writes for
the Wall Street Journal. There's a guy that writes for
the Wall Street Journal and he's got five kids, and
it kind of surprised him that none of his kids
(08:09):
or their friends had any nicknames for each other. And
it made him wonder if nicknames were going the way
of the dinosaur, just on the decline, like no one
has a nickname anymore, you know, like calling your buddy
from Austin, calling him texts, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Or you know they can't.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when you're when you're little, heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, kind of kind of going away.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But I had growing up.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, through middle school at least it was Bucky was
my nickname because I had a really bad buck teeth
and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't much choice. Yeah,
I kind of remembered. I had a bad one in
high school. It was both blockhead and block oh. Then
that got shortened to block oh because I was dumb.
Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spelled.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head and mailbox.
They tried to call me mailbox two for a while.
They had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
(09:39):
I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the university.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To fit my head in high school. In high school
did the local news do a feature?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I thought, I think they thought there was something wrong
with me, But hey, whatever.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Young man block Oh just once the place. But there's
one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He's done that several times.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Kids you like size twenty six foot, he buys them,
buys them shoes right Trician to girls like our our
daughter runs with the crew. They kind they don't really
go by nicknames, but they go by last names.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in Rotc. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, I name's Jatricia.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames, like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But you know what, though, it's funny, as I say nicknames,
is that Sandy, which I've always gone by, is a
is the real nickname for Alexander, just like Bob is
for Robert, and Bill is for William and Dick is
for Richard.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, there's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Few that I can think of.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick's.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know, I know one guy and he's worth a fortune.
He lives in LA that I met. I met him
at south By one year and it was like, you know,
maybe i'd like, you know, many people to go by
Dick anymore. And he goes, that's why I go by it.
He goes, it's it's very memorable.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, Mike, I have an uncle and he was Uncle
Dick and then had a cousin who was all right,
there's really no scientific proof to this. It's really just
an observation by someone that writes for the Wall Street Journal.
There's a guy that writes for the Wall Street Journal
and he's got five kids, and it kind of surprised
him that none of his kids or their friends had
(12:22):
any nicknames for each other. And it made him wonder
if nicknames were going the way of the dinosaur, just
on the decline, like no one has a nickname anymore,
you know, like calling your buddy from Austin, calling him texts,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Or you know they can't.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when when you're little heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, kind of kind of going away.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But I had growing up.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, through middle school at least it was Bucky was
my nickname because I had a really bad buck teeth
and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't have
much choice. Yeah, I kind of remember. I had a
bad one in high school. It was both blockhead and
block oh. Then that got shortened to block oh because
I was dumb. Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spelled.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And mailbox. They tried to call me mailbox two for
a while.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the university to.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Fit my head in high school. In high school did
the local news do a feature.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
They thought I think they thought there was something wrong
with me, but hey, whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But young man Blocko just wants to play, but there's
one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets size.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's done that several times.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Kids you like size twenty six foot, he buys them,
buys some shoes, right Trician to girls like our our
daughter runs with the crew. They kind they don't really
go by nicknames, but they go by last names.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in ROTC. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, my name's Jatricia.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames Like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean, antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But you know what, though it's funny.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
As I say nicknames, is that Sandy, which I've always
gone by, is a is the real nickname for Alexander,
just like Bob is for Robert, and Bill is for
William and Dick is for Richard.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a few that I
can think of.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That's you know.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I know one guy and he's worth a fortune. He
lives in LA that I met.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I met him at south By one year.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It was like, you know, maybe i'd like, you know,
many people go by Dick anymore, and he goes, that's
why I go by it, he goes, It's it's very memorable.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have an uncle and he was Uncle Dick, and
then had a cousin who was who was Dick Junior.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
So we just called him Big Dick and little Dick.
We did that shouldn't be funny. We're so sure, you.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Know, laughing at this, right, this is something you laughed
at when you were twelve. But it's still funny. So, Tricia,
nickname for you? Did you ever have one?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I mean my uncle has called me tricksy. Yeah, I
mean I didn't have a like.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Friends giving me a nickname. I didn't have anything like that.
We call our daughter the fuzz. That's kind of a
nickname for her. You named her that when she was
a baby. You were worried she was gonna staybaled like
you are. When her hair started growing, it with fuzzy,
so he called her the fuzz. But yeah, now he's right.
I think nicknames are slowly being phased out.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, I think they need. I think kids need to
come up with some good nicknames for each.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
You and I nicknamed one of Landry's friends, uh, super Saucy.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We call her super saucy. A story.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
She was wearing a white dress for prom and she
ordered extra sauce, extra saucy, extra saucy ribs and spilled
it all over her white dress before prom.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
So we just call her extra saucy, which I think
is funny.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
She's a good kid too, He's a good show.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one oh three point one, streaming on the iHeartRadio
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