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October 29, 2025 14 mins
 “Is a golf course just grass and holes—or the heartbeat of a city’s culture?”

That’s the question at the center of this lively episode of The JB and Sandy Show, where we dive into Austin’s indie film scene and the hilarious, heartfelt story behind The Long Shot. Join JB and Sandy as they recount Jamie’s night at the Austin Film Festival for the premiere of this love letter to Austin. Directed by Austin Nichols and starring Ryan Hansen (with whispers of Glenn Powell’s involvement), the film follows a scrappy crew fighting to save their beloved municipal golf course from big-money developers. It’s a comedy packed with quirky characters—think medieval reenactments on the fairway and late-night raves on the greens—that will make you laugh and tug at your Austin pride. Along the way, Sandy shares a surreal airport encounter with someone who looked exactly like Eddie Murphy’s son (and the hilarious inner debate about asking the ultimate question), plus the crew dishes on Austin icons, film industry secrets, and why preserving local culture matters more than ever. And if you’re looking for Halloween thrills, stick around for Trisha’s unforgettable adventure at Scream Hollow—VIP code words, haunted hayrides, and a chainsaw chase that will have you screaming with laughter.

Memorable Quote:
"It’s not about the money—it’s about the culture."

Why You’ll Love This Episode:
  • Behind-the-scenes of The Long Shot and Austin’s indie film vibe
  • Laugh-out-loud stories from JB, Sandy, and Trisha
  • Insider tips for Halloween fun at Scream Hollow
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jab went to a movie premiere that I think you
guys will be interested to hear about.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This was at the Austin Film Festival. Is that right? Yeah?
Over the weekend Austin filmcast was going on. All right, JB.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'll tell you about that in just a second. But
I gotta tell you guys real quick something that happened
to me. I went to Las Vegas last week and
as I was at the airport in Austin. By the way,
I went to Las Vegas for a funeral, but we
had some fun too. But I'm in line at the
airport insecurity and that super secret TSA gate behind the

(00:31):
Southwest counters that they keep real quiet in the middle,
and there was just like three of us waiting in line,
and I start talking to this guy next to me
and we're having a chat. And as I'm looking at him,
I'm like, oh my god, this is Eddie Murphy's son.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Holy crap. He I don't know for certain that.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was, you just think it was.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But he looked exactly like Eddie Murphy. He spoke exactly
like Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And Eddie Murphy's got like seventeen kids and he's about
that age. That he could be one of Eddie Murphy's son,
and he was going to LA. You see where I'm
going to THEA And it took every ounce of me
to not say, is Eddie Murphy your father? Because it
was Eddie freaking Murphy at thirty two, thirty three years

(01:28):
old standing in front of me. We're talking about the flights,
and we were talking about F one from the week
before and the record crowds, the record numbers at the
airport did at F one, and how Thursdays are kind
of a good day to travel in and out of Maybeia.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And he's like, I don't really know, I'm just going
back to LA.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And I was trying my best to make him laugh
because if I could have made him laugh and he
had the Eddie and he had the Eddie Murphy laugh,
then I would have Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was so weird.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I couldn't stop, Like, I just want to go I'm
infinite banana and the tailtop bana. There's a million things
you can say to trigger it.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
The ice cream man got the ice scream because you're
on the welfare. But I didn't say anything, and I
kind of, I mean, it'd just be a weird question. Yeah,
are you is Eddie Murphy your dad? Because it was
like Eddie Murphy standing right now? So strange.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
JB.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Austin Film Festival. You saw a film called The Long Shot.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yeah, and it was it was great. So a friend
of ours produced it and invited us to a premiere,
which they actually did at the Bob Bullock Theater, which
is Imax. Right, that's cool, and it's a really fun
movie that one you will love Sandy being an Austinite
and a golfer. But it's something that it's based on

(02:59):
something Austinite have been clamoring about for twenty years and
it's the whole it's a comedy and the whole premise
is and it's set in Austin is to save the
municipal golf course. So they don't they don't call it
Lions Muni, but they call it like Austin Muni. It's
all based on that and it's hilarious and so it's

(03:23):
it's a scrappy group of people who run this muni course,
which you know Munich courses are known for just being
kind of chumpy and fun.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
And then there's regular Jo for the regular Joe, not
the serious golfer and you've got this funny, funny group
of people who run it. They're all kind of slackers,
you know, it's old Austin. It's old Austin, and there's
goofy things that the guy, the head pro doesn't want
to do more than one lesson a day. And then

(03:57):
there's a really quirky character played by Joe Hursley.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't want to give way too much. You would recognize.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Him from TV and film and he grew up in Austin.
But he's in big out time La Night. I got
la guy now, but like he is in character as
a medieval night and likes to do reenactments on the
golf course on the golf course, just to give you
an idea how crazy the golf course is. They're you know,

(04:26):
they're throwing raves in the middle of the night and
stuff like that. I love it, and you know, and
then basically this you know California person comes in and
starts digging into the you know, tweaking the golf course,
cleaning it up, making them behave wear collared shirts, you know,
actually get out of debt. And then and then it

(04:49):
rolls into city council and the I'm not sure if
they should keep it, keep funding it because it's losing money,
and then there's the fear of its selling because it's
worth so many millions. And and the shot that they
intentionally did shots all over Austin that you just go, oh,
that's some Oh, that's deep deep in foray. And they

(05:11):
shot a bunch of the golf scenes at Willie's Course
out in Spicewood and it's just it's a comedy. It's
the scrappy people trying to save the golf course. I
don't want to give away anymore, right, but you will
want to see it. This is like so iconic Austin

(05:31):
what they're trying to do. Again, I don't want to
give away too much, but they're trying to convince this
California business person that it's not about the money, it's
about the culture. And we're trying to save this culture,
right right, And they show her around Austin and try
to show her what this is really all about.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's so fun, very.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Funny, which would be difficult to do with someone until
they've been here for a while. You can't come in
for a weekend and get the culture of Austin. Yeah,
to understand it by just driving around and showing you
got to live it, you got to be in it,
you know. But I want to say, is it going
to be This is not a wide release movie.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
This is an indie film. That's yeah, house somewhere it
could be. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
I guess you know, they hit these film fests and
then if you get I don't know how that industry
totally works, but I think if you get distribution, I
think that's why they go to filmfest is to have
somebody want to pick it up and distribute it.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
That means like Warner Brothers or Universe.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know how all that parts of
the industry work, but you know, somebody gets behind it
financially with distribution and promotion, it could it could be
in theaters everywhere. But at the very least it should
be on the big screen for first run in Austin
when it when it does its official release. Hysterical, I mean,

(06:52):
I really hard laughs. It'll remind you of old Austin.
It reminds you of Austin from the nineties.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I love that. That's yeah. The long shot.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yeah, an actor named Ryan Hansen is in it and
a name you know directed it. You probably met him
in person, Austin Nichols. Yeah, oh he directed it. Yeah,
he's more known for acting, but he directed it and
it was like a love letter to Austin.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Basically how he described it.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Is Glenn Powell in it, because it doesn't seem like
I can do anything without Glenn Powell.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Glenn Powell, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, he's the new Matthew McConaughey and Austin. Yeah, the
guy that was in Top Gun and he's Matthew's side
at the football games.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
He's got a comedy football comedy.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
He was the surprise guest at the Benson Boone concert
one night, like he's everywhere.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, he went to ut Oh.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
He's the new Austin Darling that you can't get away,
up away from.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Gotcha for a long time show you remember? Was Sam
Bullock was the Austin Darling for a QUI.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yes, I miss her. She come back?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Her place closed down, didn't it? The mrcantele fancy.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
That place?

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I feel like it's still there.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Sixty's is that what it's called.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
That was the restaurant. I don't think best is still there.
But then she also had a like a little she
called it a mrcantele a store.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Still there, I think, Oh.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
It is, yeah, something fancy and staple right right right right,
coming up. Stick around because something has surfaced that JB
and I have been longing for and couldn't believe we
didn't have from an incredibly significant moment in Texas longhorn history,

(08:43):
we didn't have any documentation of and now we do.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
We'll tell you all about it.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Coming up and meat extra cash in your life.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
The thousand dollars pay Day is back this morning at
nine one on three point one AS's eighties station.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's as Austin as it gets.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is the A. B.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
And Sandy Show on Austin's eighty station one O three
point one.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
If you're looking for something to do this Halloween season,
Tricia can fill you in on a great place called
scream Hollow. We had our friend Patrick Stanger who's involved
with Scream Hollow. That's something. Is it Smithville? It's in Smithville.
If you want to go to go out and get scared,
that's place to do it. But first of all, let's
establish something. Tricia would not be a good a good

(09:28):
spy or anything that involves a code word, right. You
know how you go to a speakeasy and you knock
on the door and you're like, what's the code word?
And you're like, banana and they let you, They let you,
they let you in. Tricia, tell everybody what you did.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
The girls roasted me. So Sandy was supposed to go
with us and at the last minute couldn't go. And
he was like, all right, here's the code word, and
I was like, what game me? I was like, I
don't feel comfortable with the code word. But so we
pull or it is for parking and admission. Yeah, parking
and admission. So we're gonna say the code word is banana.
So the girls are in the car and we pull up.
This guy walks up to the passenger side. I roll

(10:03):
the window down, and here's how the girls say. I
sounded when I gave him the code word. I go, Hi,
I'm supposed to ask for VIP parking, and the code
word is banana.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
The girls were like, why are you saying it so loud?

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Every Yeah, like everybody knows a code word down because
I had no chill about the code word right all.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
So Patrick was hooking us up.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, gave us the code word, and Tricia just basically
told everyone.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
I wig out.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I couldn't do it.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
I was like, well, so then we park VIP parking,
we go in, and so I am not going to
participate in the hunted houses. I don't like to be scared.
The girls were like, we're doing them all. We walk
about ten feet in through the gate. We're standing in
this little courtyard because it looks like a town, like
with shops and stuff. And in ten seconds of being there,

(10:54):
I look up and somebody They have people I don't know,
calling him freaks dressed up as crazy scary monsters wandering
around the town, and he ran right up to me
and scared the crap out of me within the first
ten seconds. I grab Jewels, the smallest girl in our group,
and put her between me and the scary guy.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Sacrifice high sacrificing the teenagers instead of you.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, so you're on a high alert the whole time
you're there, because they are wandering around and they will
run up behind you, and it's I mean, it's on
the moment that you walk in.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's super cool. They have four hunted houses.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
They have a little cafe for food and drink, and bar,
and gift shop and a museum. The girls decide to
go in their first haunted house. It's so cool out there.
It's all dark and screaming and banging is going on
all around you. So they go in and I'm standing
at the exit, and about ten minutes after they go in,
I hear more screaming and they come running out of

(11:52):
the exit as fast as they can and a monster
with the chainsaws chasing them.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
They were screaming. It was hilarious.

Speaker 9 (12:01):
I got it on video. And Jamie, your daughter went
the night. She went with a few friends. She my daughter,
Halloween is hands down her favorite holiday. She loves it.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
She has a little house she rents and it's just
loaded down with decorations. She can't wait. It's her first
time in the house. Can't wait to hand out candy
this year. And she went with some friends. She said
she had a great time. Like that's her, that's her scene.
She loves us went out there, and you know, like
Patrick had told us, it's not just an in and

(12:35):
out kind of thing. It's more like a hangout sort
of get together sort of thing. Like small Talent is
how you described a triship. So yeah, Yeah, she had
an awesome time, awesome time, So that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm bummed that I didn't get to go. But it's
still open.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
It's still open. I think it's opened through November. Second,
there's four haunted houses. There's a Haunted hay Ride. We
did that about.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Forty five minutes from Austin, uh, a little well from
Cedar Park.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
It was right at about an hour, so I'd say
from downtown Austin forty minutes something like that.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, it's like you're going to bass Drop, but you
turn before you get to bass Drop.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Turn past Smith Smith Fill's.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's right. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's where Hope floats.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
That's where they that's where they filmed it.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's where they filmed them. Yeah, that movie.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
You got a little past the entrance to Lost Pines Resort. Okay, yeah,
I check it out.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
More information online of course, Screamhallow dot com if you
want to check it out and get out there and
get the bijeeber scared out of you before Halloween.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
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Speaker 1 (13:39):
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Speaker 3 (13:51):
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Speaker 7 (13:52):
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