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December 17, 2025 15 mins
Have you ever wondered, “What’s the last food you ate in your car—and did you regret it?” 🚗🍕 This episode of The JB and Sandy Show is a hilarious, nostalgic ride through Austin’s history, quirky food confessions, and the chaos of holiday traditions. From the mystery behind Zilker Park’s namesake to the sticky aftermath of eating ice cream cones on the go, JB, Sandy, and Tricia serve up stories that will make you laugh, reminisce, and maybe rethink your next drive-thru order.  

Key Moments & Themes:
  • Austin History Unveiled: The crew debates the true founder of Zilker Park—was it Adolf or Andrew Zilker? (“As a child who grew up in Austin and went to Zilker Elementary School, I feel like I would remember if it was Adolf Zilker.”) 🏞️
  • Food Fails & Car Chaos: Tricia’s question sparks confessions about the messiest foods to eat behind the wheel. From footlong chili cheese dogs (“That’s for professionals!”) to JB’s pizza slice sneak attacks and Tricia’s accidental paper-eating at In-N-Out, you’ll relate to every crumb and spill. 🍔🍕🌭
  • Snack Preferences & Local Favorites: Discover why Tricia only eats onion rings at Mighty Fine, JB’s love for McDonald’s triple burgers, and the team’s obsession with Bucky’s butterfly gummies and Amy’s ice cream malts (“What level one to ten do you want your malt to be?”). 🍟🍦🦋
  • Holiday Shopping Hacks: Need last-minute Christmas gifts? Buc-ee’s might just be your secret weapon. 🎁

Memorable Quotes:
    • “If you think you’re going to shame me into not eating a couple of slices on the way home, you’re wrong.”
    • “Girls, got to get it in a cup, ladies.”
    • “I love how In-N-Out puts their burger in its little diaper.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Text us at seven three, seven, three zero one ninety
six hundred. This is the JB and Sandy Show on
Austin's eighty station one O three point one.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, little Austin history lesson for everybody. Everybody knows
about Zilker Park. Of course, that's where acl Festival is,
the Kite Festival right now. You know, I've got trail
of lights going on, and the park's been there for
a long long time. And I somehow, some way, this
audio that I'm about to play for everybody ended up
in my social media feed and I thought it was

(00:31):
kind of interesting. It's pretty self explanatory how old this is,
but you'll tell by the audio quality and the story
that it's pretty old. And it tells you a little
bit about the history of Zilker Park and its namesake.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Zilker Park today is a fact, not a legend, but
it too is a part of our heritage. At off
Zilker came to Austin as a day laborer, acquired well
and left a heritage to all of us. Well he
needed to Austin the sprawling acres of brother now known
as Zilker.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
There's a little bit about Adolph Silkery. That doesn't sound
right to me.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
That doesn't sound right either. What do you mean the
name Adolf? I don't think that's the right I would
remember that.

Speaker 7 (01:17):
I'd worked on a Austin history podcast with Michael Barnes
from The Statesman for three years, and that doesn't sound
like the right name to me.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
I think I thought it was Andrew Jackson Zilker, That's
what I thought. I thought it was Andrew. Definitely an
a name, but not Adolf.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
So you're staying the Texas they got that wrong archives.

Speaker 7 (01:37):
But it's even the old it's even the old guy
voice like this. It's not like a new person voicing
it over. That's old old, like you can tell by
the audience, right, it's old. But so you think that
you think they got that wrong, So they just made
up Adolf. I mean, all the names in the world
you're gonna pick.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Right, why would you pick a really historically peaceful name, right?

Speaker 5 (01:58):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Well, I don't know what, do you have sources or
you just thinking this?

Speaker 6 (02:03):
I mean well, as a child who grew up in
Austin and went to Zilker Elementary School, I feel like
I would remember if we add off Zilker.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
You think it was Andrew.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
I think it was Andrew. It was Andrew.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I think there's a bunch of names all over Austin
that no one knows who they are.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, you know what I mean? Who has been white?

Speaker 7 (02:23):
Yeah, it's funny. We should make a whole list of them.
A lot of them. You look up, we're city officials. Yeah,
like Seahome power Plant. I think they were like council
members and mayors and things like that, a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I always hate it when they like sometimes they'll just oh,
that's an old name. We'll just put someone new name
up there, you know what I mean, Like people have
no idea who that person is or history behind it. Yeah,
so we're just going to name it something else now right.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm not talking about the political stuff for the removal
of like Confederate names and talking about that.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'm just talking about names. They just put new names there,
all right.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
From the Austin History Center Austin Public Library. It is
named for Andrew Zilker came to Austin in eighteen seventy
six to become a businessman and a banker. He operated
one of Austin's first ice factories.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Big ice, big player in Texas. Yeah, definitely. Somebody needs
to tell you.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Ranched a forty acre spread with good water southwest of town.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's where.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
So he did three separate gifts nineteen eighteen, nineteen twenty three,
and nineteen thirty one, which included Barton Springs.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know what everybody was saying in Austin, Texas in
eighteen seventy six, I miss old Austin's.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Getting too big here.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
Yeah, like it was back in thirty one when Andrew
was knocking around.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
What year was the park that it founded? Does it say?
Did you just tell me that?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
It just said?

Speaker 7 (03:57):
Three separate gifts to the city in eighteen, nineteen twenty three,
and nineteen thirty one, and this final gift was in
nineteen thirty four, which now includes what is what includes
what is now known as this Girl Scout Clubhouse.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I have a feeling, Jim, I think you probably know
a little bit more about more about this than I do.
I think a lot of the quote unquote gifts to
the city were wrangled from them for certain concessions, certain
beings that they would overlook if you did you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Like well, Austin. I mean, just ask anyone who's ever
developed in Austin. They put a gun to your head
and like, what are you going to give us? That's
what It's usually involved. Some parkland, right, Yes, yeah, there
is a lot of that.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Austin has a rich history that. Okay, what are you
gonna do for that?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'd like to I'd love to talk to the Covert
family that donated the land at Mount But for Mount Banelle,
what was the real reason behind?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Right?

Speaker 6 (05:02):
That?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Probably is the probably is it's not just out of
the goodness of your heart.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Andrew Zuker's like, I've got some land right over here
that's got some springs on it.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
You guys want that.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, there's there's strings to that. I think. I don't know.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
I mean, I'm sure there was a lot of value
in Barton Springs, but I mean back in the day,
south of the river, which was really a creek bed,
that's where they that was where the city dumps were,
that's where the garbage was, that's where broccoli.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Farms were farms.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah, it was. It was like north of the river
was cool and south was jumped really and then we
could grow broccoli here.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
That was always my go to line in the bars.
When I met a girl they asked me what I
did for a living. I always said broccoli farmer. They
always looked at it. I had no idea that broccoli
was actually grown just south of the river, no clue.
My line after that was, yeah, chances are if you've
eaten broccoli in the last one hundred years, it's come

(06:04):
from my broccoli farm. And they would just look at
me like wow.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
They're in their brain, They're all calculating, can you get
rich growing Brockley?

Speaker 5 (06:14):
This guy have the money. That's what's happening.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Stay with us, We've got more coming.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Up Austin dot com.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one O three point one.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Tricia had a funny idea funny thought for something for
us to kick around. She'll ask the question in just
a moment. Thanks for being with us. It's the JD
and Sandy Show.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
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Speaker 2 (06:39):
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(07:01):
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Speaker 4 (07:10):
All right to ask your question.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Okay, let me tell you why I came up with
this question. Our daughter came home the other day. She
and her friend had been out and they came in
and they both had to go in the bathroom because
they had been eating ice cream cones driving home and
they were melting too fast and they had ice cream
all over them. I was like, you quickly learn what
food you can and can I eat in your car.
Got to get it in a cup, ladies. So I thought,
what's the last food you ate in your car? There's

(07:34):
some you don't mess with, right.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh yeah, foot long chili cheese dog from Sonic. Do
not do it unless you are highly highly trained. If
you're only that's for professionals. Also the steak finger basket
oh from Dairy Queen Flaming Hot. When they handed tea,
I mean you got gravy, you got steak fingers.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
You got to be professional for that, right, right, so
that even Pete Terry's is hard in the car, or
whatever juice they put on there just leaks.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
You gotta does put like three or four napkins in
your lap.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
It's they got to work. The last thing that I
ate in the car was pizza.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Oh you do that.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
That freaks me out.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
When you go and pick up pizza, you don't wait
until you get home to eat it.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
You just open up the box.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Does that? I does that?

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Heat does it every time?

Speaker 6 (08:20):
So then when he brings the food in for the
family that he is hunted and gathered, you open the
pizza box and there's like two pizzas gone.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, I want it piping hot. I go pick up
the pizza ja because I'm cheap and I don't want
to pay the whatever four dollars it is.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I did it, say, I go to drive less than
a mile.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
But do you eat it on your way home or
do you wait till you get home?

Speaker 7 (08:41):
No, it's there, it's the presentation when you come home.
You look what I got. She opened it up, frowned
and intact.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
If you think you're gonna shame me into not eating
a couple of slices on the way home.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
You're wrong.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I take a napkin with me and I'm ready.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
You do not take a nap you. I know you
well enough to know you do not take a napkin.
He takes a parmesan shaker and some red pepper anchovies.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I have a salad on the way there, and then
have my pizza on the way home.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
It's weird.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
TB. What's the last thing ate in the car?

Speaker 5 (09:24):
I chocolate covered gummy bears chocolate.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's weird. That's right.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
I was meeting uh with my wife at my daughter's
house after work to help her with some stuff, and
she goes, I got you a little surprised. She knows
I love gummy bears chocolate underpants. But before that, like
real food. For just a few days ago, I was

(09:52):
craving at McDonald's burger I saw I saw someone post
on so that if you know, this is sort of
like you remember how that?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Uh that? What was that?

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Larry North used to say, better bad choices, better bad
better bad choices. So if you're gonna make a better
bad choice, if you're gonna this influencer, I guess a
fitness influencer was saying, if you're gonna make a bad choice,
you can get the triple burger at McDonald's. So it's
three patties and not a lot of bond and it's

(10:28):
like one hundred and fifty calories and a lot of
protein from McDonald's. The triple burger from McDonald's. And it's
it's the it's basically the junior cheeseburger with three patties.
And there was the trip I was. I was, I
know it's that you won't see it on the menu,
and I thought it was gonna be like big quarter
pounder patties and it's just a little.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Junior one, so you might even want two of them small.
But man, every now and then it's just.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
I'm with you. I crave a big Mac sometimes.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
Also, McDonald's has the best fountain coke.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, it's always perfect.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
But if you want a Sunday Nope or an.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
Extreme cone, yeah, Lizard never broken, never were always broken.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Tricia, what's the last thing you ate?

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Last thing?

Speaker 6 (11:12):
I ate my car and in and out Burger, in
and out Burger, even though I think they have big fries.
Our daughter and her friend wanted to go there, and
so we're driving. I remembered this time to remove the
paper wrapped around the So there's paper that comes wrapped
around it. You take that off and surprise, there's another

(11:33):
piece of paper. One time I didn't know that. Again,
I was driving it dark and I ate half the
paper half the second paper before I realized it.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I love how In and Out puts their burger into
little diaper, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
A little diaper, and in the tray put a little
diaper on it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, but I will say that Landry and her friend
they got those animal fries.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Have you ever had those?

Speaker 6 (11:54):
In and Out? No, It's like it's s fries and
then it's sauteed onions chopped up real small with some
kind of seasoning, and then they put the sauce on
top of it.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
So the onions and the sauce are on it.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
And those girls must have been flipping it around in
the back seat because I got in the car and
my car weeks of onions. Like you went to water Burger,
Like I went to water Burger and left it in there.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
YEAHJB.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Do you have a place like Tricia I just learned
this about her last week. We went to Mighty Fine
and got a burger and that's the only place she
eats onion rings. Yeah, like nowhere else do you have,
like a certain place where you only eat that.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
I do not.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yeah, my wife likes the ice cream at Sandy's on
bird spikes.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Yeah that's yeah, that's it. We don't get it anywhere else.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Or like or a shake, sorry, a malt or shakee
getting a shake, chocolate shake.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I had someone at Amy's.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
She doesn't get them anywhere else, but every now and
then we got And that's a tough place to pull
in and out.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Yeah, you get to really want it, Trician.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I went to Amy's ice Cream last week and I
got I ordered a malt, and I've never been asked
to question when ordering a malt in my life.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
What level one to ten do you want your malt
to be?

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Level malt? Do you want want thickness?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I guess on how much malt they put into it,
the scoops yeah stuff.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
I'm like, I don't know three.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Have no idea. I've never been asked that question before.
I was like, are you punking me? I mean, like
didn't Amy teach you how to make a malt?

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Just on the phone.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Call Amy up and ask her because she's clearly the
ice cream professional. The thing about Amy's that always I
love Amy's, Don't get me wrong, I just never liked
the show that they put on sometimes with them.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
I asked him. I was like, look, there's an Amy's.
You want to go there?

Speaker 6 (13:47):
And he's like, I just don't feel like watching this
show that it's wrong with you playing the co weird malt question.
I feel like that was your last time to ever
get a.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Oh no, I love Amy's Amy's.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
You ever see those videos of street vendors with the
cones and they're messing with people like I would not
stand there and take that. They put it in their
hand and out of their hand and the scoops on it.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
That's gone.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
You see it, right, You'll not stand for that, And
I think you would be the same thing. You would
grab that guy by the shirt and him You're right.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I would, so pizza for me in and out and JB.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yours was McDonald's dad McDonald's burger. I won't count the
gummy bears.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, one last thing on this whole thing. JB.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Have you ever had from Trader Joe's the Sweetish Swimmers
the gummies.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh they're great.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
It's they're sweet fish.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
They're so good.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
I recently determined that the best gummy I've ever eaten
are the butterfly gummys from BUCkies.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Those are good too, soft, velvety.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
They're good.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I feel like I need to make a Bucky's run
soon for Christmas presents. It's a great place to get Christmas.
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Speaker 5 (15:11):
O three one Austin dot com.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
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Speaker 4 (15:20):
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