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October 22, 2025 14 mins
 🎙️“What makes a city truly feel like home—is it the local legends, the wild stories, or the tamales you eat on the drive back from the landfill?” In this unforgettable episode of The JB and Sandy Show, Sandy, JB, and Tricia dive headfirst into the wild world of Central Texas, starting with jaw-dropping vape shop robberies that sound straight out of a heist movie. Picture this: a Cybertruck smashing into strip center vape shops in Pflugerville and Cedar Park, thieves making off with disposable nicotine pens, and a security video that has everyone talking. 🚙💨 But the excitement doesn’t stop there! The crew swaps hilarious stories about their favorite (and most creatively named) vape shops, from “Nick-a-Tickler” to “Lung Fu Lounge,” and wonders if there’s a secret vape shop conference where nothing ever gets done. 😂 Tricia brings the “story we love,” celebrating Maynor's transformation from a humble horse track and landfill to a booming city—complete with a massive new HEB that’s more like a Walmart than your average grocery store. The team reminisces about legendary tamales from a roadside convenience store and the quirky joys (and perils) of flea market adventures, including the art of fake IDs and the ultimate test: “What’s your sign?” 🪪♏

Key Moments & Memorable Quotes:
  • “You blink and you’ve gone through Maynard. Now they’re getting a 101,000 square foot HEB!”
  • “The dump just makes me hungry. I don’t know why. It’s weird.”
  • “I was Will Crowley the Third for a while. Now that’s a better fake ID story!”
  • “It’s like playing Frogger on 290 with your kids just to get to the flea market.”
Guest Insights: While this episode is all about the hosts’ personal stories and local color, listeners get a front-row seat to the real-life experiences that make Texas unique—from small-town growth to big-city chaos, and the everyday characters who shape the community.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is Sandy. This is my buddy JB. Hello.
Interests here too, Hi everybody, and we're off and run.
You guys hear about these crazy vape shop robberies in
Vlugerville and in Cedar Park where they It looks like
from the from the video that I saw of it,
the security video, it looks like they're just they're backing
up a cyber truck and just plowing into the building

(00:23):
to gain access to inside the vape shop where they are.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
So they're just in little strip centers and right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
not much protection.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Exactly, and they're just going in and just raiding the
place and then stealing the nicotine pins and all that
kind of stuff, and the drip and rip vape shops
were hit. Their Cypress Creek Creek location in Cedar Park
got got hit at four am yesterday morning. Their location

(00:55):
in Flugerville got hit about a week and a half ago,
just over a week go, uh, just before midnight. You
can see the car just line up and smash into
the into the building and come in. Then they steal stuff.
Disposable nicotine vapes is what they're after. I guess they
can turn around easy to sell. Yeah, easy to sell

(01:17):
on the black market. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You you'd think you could just rob it in broad
daylight with those stoners working and they wouldn't even notice.
Just go ahead and start taking whatever you want. What
are they gonna do?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, you said it was the Dripping Rep in in
Cedar Park.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
They're both their locations, the Dripping Rip there. They got
more than one location, the Dripping Rep.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
As I was worried it might be the one I
go to sometimes, the Nica Tickler that when.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
They get hit it.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, don't have any word of the Yeah, what about mine?
I have a few favorites. I go to Puffing Stuff.
Are they on the list?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
That one used to be puffing stuff? Tobe used to
be vapor it like it's hot.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm not sure if the vape vapealy oh my god,
vape Acalypse now is still open or not that one's
start to say like apocalypse.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh yeah, I go to Glass and Grass sometimes.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, I know that one when I'm easy. Yeah, a
friend of mine goes to that one. Then he told
me about this new one that he found in San
Marcos called the Lung Food Lounge. It's really really, really good,
good one. It's a good one. I go to the
I go to the Manchi's Market, A good one.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
The sucond and see I heard is pretty popular with
the kids.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
There's one not there's one I remember that's just north
of Georgetown. I think it's Georgetown and it's called Inhale
while supplies last cloud Chaser's chuckle hut yo.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah, that one used to be Toka Brain. I
guess it changed. All Okay, we.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Can do this all day, friends, we can do this
all day. I mean, I one I haven't got to
that I really want to check out is the Foghorn Legion's.
That would be a good one too. I hate to hear.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I wonder if they have conferences, Oh, fake shop conferences.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Nothing gets done.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
A buddy of mine had a buddy mine had a
strip center that he was partners in in Houston and
you know, just rents out the space. In one of
his places was a bape shop and he said they
always paid on time and in cash. Really in cash? Yeah,
in cash. So anyway, I don't know. I think you

(03:48):
nailed at JB. That those are They can turn those
disposable nicotine pens over things, sell them on the street, right, Yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Think anybody's going to be like, where'd you get this?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
But given all the fit all that's going around, I'm
not buying anything like that on the street. Nothing right, good,
point crazy. Coming up on the show today, well, you
know what, it's kind of sad for Texas Tech fans.
They're no longer allowed to toss tortillas. JB has done
the research, has the history of tortilla toss in at

(04:17):
Texas Tech. Try saying that five times fast a tortilla
tossin and Trisia's got the story we Love coming up next?
What do you have for us?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
All right, Maynor, listen up, you got a big surprise coming.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
We're so proud of them. They're just growing up so fast.
You should just be a little horse track out there now.
They're turned into a real city, an actual city. All right,
stay with us. The story we Love is next. Neat
extra cash in your Life. The thousand dollars pay Day
is back this morning at.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Nine one on three point one, Austin's eighties station.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Mayner is growing up before our eyes. They're getting a
big this makes them official. What they're getting? Oh yeah,
they we'll get to that in just a second in
the story we love. Let me ask you guys something here.
We are a couple three days moved from some really
big three weeks of NonStop stuff in Austin with Austin
Sea Limits Festival and then the F one race that

(05:07):
happened at the Circuit of the Americas. Do you guys
feel like, hey, we got our city back, We got
a little bit. Yeah, I can go back to normal
and just do our regular things and not have.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
The elevated traffic. Man, boy, it was just everywhere during
F one especial vehicles. Yeah, the festival, they're you know,
they're during a cl fest. They're there the whole time, right,
they go at noon and they don't come home till
eleven o'clock. With F one, you know they're they're in
and around downtown a lot more.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yep. So yeah, we do does feel like we have
our city right and we can take a breath and
not have to you know what I mean. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Do you all remember last year though, when F one
the second week in of ACL and a Texas game
We're all on the same weekend.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, that was crazy. How did we survive anywhere? Hello?
These stories we love all right?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Maynor you guys are number one with AHB because you're
getting a brand new AGBU in Maynor. It's opening on
October twenty second. This is not a normal HIB. A
normal HIB is about a seventy thousand square foot store.
Manor for some reason is getting one hundred and one
thousand plus square feet store. They're going straight to the

(06:24):
top with the size. So I think hib's got a little.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Bit of some of the bigger ones.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like I'm real close to the one at Old Tour
from Congress, which is new and big, but then like
the one on East river Side they sell a lot
of clothing and stuff too, it's much longer.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't know, I do know the one that opened
it or like a Walmart. Yeah, like a Walmart. Feel
maybe that's what they're going for in Maynor. The one
in Georgetown that recently opened one hundred and twelve thousand
square feet. Now I feel like I'm worried about what
size my AGIB is that I work in, that.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
I shot in.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Why do I get one hundred and one thousand square
foot one?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Or Ahib's plenty big? Yeah in deep twenty big.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
So the grand opening's October twenty second, guests can get there.
Doors open at six a m. Normally there's a line
to be the first people in the brand new HBST
to shop.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
The traffic on two ninety is unreal, Like we take
that way. What our daughter goes to camp down near
in Anvinesota and that's the way that we take. It
is unbelievable the amount of traffic that is in that
stretch between.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's the L ninety, all the lights and now they're
going to play have to play ketchup. It was it
was like it was like do you remember, Tricia, we
grew up when one three had this problem. Yeah, it
was just one light, especially out in Cedar park Land.
It was just light, a light light and they've been
playing ketchup for thirty years. Yeah, yeah, it's and they're

(07:49):
going to have that problem and Maynor Man, I don't
know how they get ahead of it.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Maynard just used to be the landfill and the horse trail.
Right much going on out there. You blink and you've
gone through, right, And the best Tomali's I've ever had.
We're at a little convenience shop. When you finally got
back out to two ninety after going to the landfill,
there's a convenience store there. I don't know it's still there,
But it was around Christmas time and I just dropped

(08:13):
off a load at the at the landfill and I
dealt with the oh so pleasant person at the front
entrance of the landfill. Why are they others so joyous?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Ash up, they're not going to be an Here's the
thing with the landfill, guys, girls that work out there,
you need to understand something.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
There are a lot of people that go to the
landfill once every blue mood. We don't know the proceeding
the rules.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
You act like it has to be covered and it
can't go above the lid of your truck.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And is that what you're talking about. You need to understand.
We don't do this every day. We're not there all
the time. So back to the tamalis. There was a
convenience store there, and I was around Christmas and I
was hungry and the dump just makes me hungry, I
don't know why. And there were these tamalis in a
crock pot we're sitting there. I grabbed like six of them,

(09:08):
and I don't know if it's just because I was
just so hungry, or if they were the best Tomali's
I've ever had in my life, but eight, all six
of them between the dump and manor and my house
at three sixty. It's just sitting there eating Tamali's while
I'm driving home. You're also the guy who'll eat a pizza.

(09:29):
Go get a pizza and bring it home and just
eat a pizza while he's driving. I don't know who
does that. You know what else is?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
There's one other thing you forgot that was in Maynor
for a long time. There's the track, there's the dump.
In between the two. Is that weekend flea market. Oh yeah,
the where the parking overflows. So everyone parks on this
road on this on two nineties and they're crossing the
highway with their children.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
They're playing Frogger.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yes, it's it's one of the crazy It's been
a minute since I've done that, but I would. I
remember going this is like one of the most unsafe
things I've ever.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Seen in my life.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
And I remember going to that flea market, stopping and
like prepared to be wowed kind of thoughts. Again, people
risking their lives to get there, and it's just like
any other flea market that you go to.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, there were used to be able to get like
legit fake IDs at flea markets. Oh oh, I forgot
about that.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Like they were really good, like in the back yep,
in the corrugated wall they erected in their tent.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
You got one. It was like from North Dakota. Yeah,
nobody in Texas knew it had North Dakota driver's license.
Looked like you know what I mean, we passed before
they get put a red scan on it.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know how I got busted with my The guy
the bouncer found out that I had a fake ID.
Didn't know your I didn't know my sign for the
month that was born trying to get into a bar
on Sixth Street.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
He was like, what's your sign? I had no idea.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I mean, while he probably didn't know what the sign
was for the month either, I could have just said anything.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
But that's how I got busted to keep the ID yep, yep,
not cool. Cool.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I got a couple of a couple of fake these stories.
If you want to servant dren uncle, I had a
really good one. I had a really good one in college.
It was a real license with my picture on it.
What different name what it was issued by the state.

(11:29):
So yeah, so, uh, you know how they used to
send out that in the mail, your reminder to renew it.
It used to come almost like a postcard, like a
voter registration card. It was a card. And I was
at UT and I'm at the fraternity house. It's the holidays,
and something gets mailed to, you know, one of my

(11:51):
fraternity brothers who's since graduated, he's gone, and it was
a renewal notice. And so I did all my research
i could on this guy. He was from Missouri and
he graduated in like eighty five and h and I
just took it in and I just went out. It
was it was an older woman working there, and I said,

(12:15):
I have this renewal card and it's the best thing
that happened because my wallet got stolen a week ago
and I've been without and thank goodness this showed up.
It's been a pain not having a license. And she said,
and I thought I was in trouble. She said, hum,

(12:35):
when did you get your first license? And I was like,
I did the math on the guy right. His name
was will Crowley the third and I said, I said,
oh it was when I was a freshman. That was
fall of eighty two and she goes, and I got

(12:55):
it right. I got it right, and she was like, yeah,
sorry about that. To be careful with this, you know.
And so I got in the mail a license like
with my picture and everything. Wow, okay, yeah, and I
was Will Crowley the Third for a while now a
better fake ID. My friend Larry had like a dorm mate,

(13:20):
you know, they shared the same bathroom, sweet mate. And
he was from Houston, born and raced in Houston, put
Asian background, and he had this thing. It looked so bad.
It looked like a bad state ID card. It wasn't
a driver's license. He was again born and raced in Houston.

(13:41):
And he would go in to buy to buy beer
for us, and then he would pull out this really
bad state ID and they would always say, I'm sorry, sir,
you need a proper Texas ID or I'm sorry, you
need a proper Texas driver's license.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
And he would go, well, uh, how don't drives? And
they were just like whatever, and they.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Would let him go every time with the beer.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
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