December 10, 2025 • 24 mins
What would you do if a snake came charging at you while you were tubing on Lake Austin? 🐍💦 That’s just one of the wild stories JB and Sandy unravel in this episode, where childhood phobias, Texas wildlife, and unforgettable family moments collide! From the hilarious tale of a young boy’s “instant classic” shower song (thanks, Tammy Lou!) to the shocking reality of snake-infested rivers in Central Texas, the hosts keep you laughing and squirming in equal measure. Sandy confesses, “There’s never a positive infestation of any kind,” while JB reveals just how many snakes he’s wrangled on his boat dock—without ever telling Tricia (because, as Sandy jokes, “She’d go down and burn the boat dock!”).🔥 But the surprises don’t stop there. Meet Snacks, the pet rat who was destined to be snake food but ended up a beloved family member—befriending both the family dog and pig in a real-life Charlotte’s Web moment. 🐭🐶🐷
The episode also dives into:
The episode also dives into:
- The viral road rage incident on Mopac, complete with dash cam drama and a debate on Texas justice (“That’s a good way to get shot when you road rage in Texas!”).
- The allure (and terror) of the New Year’s Day polar plunge at Barton Springs—would you take the icy leap? 🥶
- A nostalgic look at 80s music, Toto’s billion streams, and Tricia’s band days playing “Africa” on trumpet (“That was the exact moment I was like, I am incredibly cool.”).
- Local guest James Russell, executive director of the Trail of Lights Foundation, sharing what’s new for this year’s festivities. 🎄✨
- “There’s never a positive infestation of any kind.”
- “She’d go down and burn the boat dock!”
- “He’s like a Disney Mouse. He is!”
- “That’s a good way to get shot when you road rage in Texas!”
- “That was the exact moment I was like, I am incredibly cool.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I got several requests.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We got several requests via text, which is again seven
three seven threes or a one ninety six hundred and
asked if we would play that song again and.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, good, like, oh yeah, sure, instant, classic.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, instant.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is a little seven eight year old boy whose
mom secretly records him while he's in the shower. And
the listener that I recall that since the first text
message asking to hear it again is Tammy Lou and
she's an everyday listener, So thank you very much. And
it's good to know, Tammy Lou, that you have the
same sense of humor that we have. And that is
one of a twelve year old boy. Right here's that
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little guy singing the song about his wiener, me.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
My leaders and the ray, my.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
My reason.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I hope with every hope that I have in my
body that they play that at his wedding. So funny,
that's classic stuff. And again I'm glad that you guys
have the same sense of humor that we have. We
can go from uh this is you'll see if you
can pick up on the segway. Here is from wieners
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to snakes and the most snake infested rivers in central Texas.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, not a great not great, not a great thing
to be Jamie, did you have those those rivers?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, I couldn't. I couldn't get access to the news
channel that. I just saw the headline and I tried
to click on it and I cannot get access to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I thought it was a lot of loop in the Colorado.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, unfortunately I did. Look.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm terrified of snakes, but I looked, and it is
the most sneakiest rivers in Texas are the Colorado and
the Waterloop.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They use the word infested.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
There is nothing good that comes before the word infested, right,
there's never a positive infestation of any kind.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
But the Guadaloupe is where a lot of people go tubing, right,
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And then the.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Colorado's tricky because that's our whole highland lake system. That's everything, right, Travis,
Lake Austin into Ladybird. You know what I.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Remember specifically about Lake Austin. I've been on Lake Austin
in so long, but the last time we were there
tubing and a snake was somebody was getting out of
the boat and the snake came from the side and
was charging towards the tube like the person had to
get The snake was basically attacking and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's probably a moccasin because they're the ones.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That'll do it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're very aggressive.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
And the person got in the boat in time, but
the snake went nuts for the for the tube. And
that is that is what I think of when I
think about all these snakes in the rivers that were
just swimming in skiing in there.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You spend a lot of time on Lake Austin. How
many snakes have you seen? Yeah, we've been pretty active
on the lake because my daughter's awake surfer. So since
this is probably almost twenty years. God, now they think
about it. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It is?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But anyway, in that past twenty years, more so the
last fifteen I've we've probably seen a snake twice, yeah,
once once. You rarely see them out in the middle
of the lake the river really because they kind of
scurry away from you. But but you know, back in
the Marinas, that's where you need to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And that's what I need to tell Trisha. Yeah, we
lived on Lake Travis for fifteen years and I never
told Tricia how many snakes I found on our boat dock, because.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
The one that you shot with the shotgun that one day,
there's more than just that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One, many more. Essentially, didn't tell her to suggest she'd
freak out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She'd never go on the boat dock. She'd go down
and burn the boat dock.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I would have burned it to the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She would have lit a match to it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
May I probably in the fifteen years that we lived there,
probably captured, killed, or ran off fifteen twenty stured, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I caught like three of them with a net and
messed around with them a little bit. They weren't poisonous
or snakes don't bother them? Yeah, hell them. Snakes don't
bother me like most people. No, they don't give me
like a lot of people. Just get the hebgb's from
a snake. I picture.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Just seeing a picture of a snake makes my skin crawl.
I can't do it, Jabie. You know we call the
snakes mister nos shoulders, right.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I love that name.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you have the origin behind that name? You know
the story behind that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was playing golf with my buddy Moore, who hates snakes,
and on the rare occasion that he hit one into
the kind of rough area. He's like, I'm not going
in there, mister, No shoulders lives in there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I learned my fear of snakes from my grandfather, who
was this giant six foot two, towering man, broad shoulders,
deep voice, not afraid of anything except a snake. And
I remember being in the car with them in the
truck and a snake was crossing the road.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He ran over it, stopped, reversed, ran.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Over it again, stopped, reversed, and he was like, yeah,
there's nothing scary in this world than a snake. And
I was all noted, and my phobia began at a
young age.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know what, now I'm remembering we found a couple
copperheads along the Colorado at Drive Away, Austin the Motorsport
complex that I did some stuff with way back in
the day. But we found a couple of copperheads and
they are legit killers.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Yeah, they are copperheads, hot and mouths, rattlesnakes, and coral snakes.
Texas is lucky enough to be home to all four
of those venomous snakes.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I remember when your daughter was young, you guys were
kind of reptile people, but she drew the line at snakes, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I did, and she's had every kind of weird pet
you can imagine. I put my foot down on snakes.
She did want one, oh she did.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I was like, no, I'm not doing snakes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But all right, now that leads us to this. We
will wrap this up. But you got to tell the
story about about the mouse in his name a rat Snacks.
Tell everybody why his name was Snacks.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That was actually probably the coolest pet we've ever had,
better than our dogs. It was my daughter was dating
a guy who had snakes, and this was a pet
store feeder rat that they went and got to feed
to the snake. And you know, it's funny when you
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say a rat, a rat is different from a mouse,
but when you say rat, people picture like those dirty
New York City sewer rats. Pizza rat, the rat dragging
the pizza across the streets. This giant yeah, this one,
you know, really cute, cute brown and white spots. They
just have the long tail otherwise stay pretty cute. And
(07:18):
so anyway, my daughter and a boyfriend went and got
a fear a feeder rat for the snake. The snake
would not eat it, so they were like, usually it's
like happens right away, snake wouldn't eat it. They were like, oh,
let's leave for a while and come back, surely will
eat it. They left for hours, came back, the snake
was all coiled up and the rat was sleeping on
(07:39):
top of it. And my daughter was like, I can't
let him be a feeder rat. Now, he's special. And
so she brought him home, and of course I was
out of town and I was like, no, no, take
it back.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And then and my wife was like, he's really pretty cool,
he's sweet. And she named him Snacks because he was
supposed to be a feeder rat. Love a clever name.
I mean, you could call this rat from across the
house and he would run up and run up your
leg and just sit on your shoulder. Mouse. Yes, And
(08:17):
we had a pretty new h terrier mix which they're
bred to chase off rodents. Yep, they became besties. Wow,
the magic rat. The rat became friends with the dog
and they would play fight, the little rat on his
hind legs, boxing at the dog's nose.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And then and the rat became Snacks became friends with
our pet pig, too, which we had at the time
and it wasn't Carlo.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's web going on over there com Austin dat station
one O three point one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Tristan's got the story. We love.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
An update on that road rage incident that happened off
of Mopak coming up in just a second. Also, we
are going to talk to James Russell in just a
little bit. He's the executive director of the Trail of
Lights Foundation. Tonight's first night of the Trail of Lights
and we're going to talk to jameson just a little bit.
So just remember if you travel northbound on Mopack that
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you're probably going to get backed up a little bit
around the Silker Park Barton Springs exit. It happens every year.
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Friends, going in and out of Rollingwood can be a
challenge forget crossing Barton Springs. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And don't be sneaky because they shut down Stratford too.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think you're going to come around and at it
from the back. They're ready for you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're one step ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But we'll talk to James Russell, the executive director of
the Trail Lights Foundation.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
These stories we love.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So yesterday we talked about that road rage incident that
happened on Mopack and three sixty and for those of
you who haven't heard about it yet, car cut off
another driver. A man jumped out of the car, ran
back the front car, ran back to the car. He
cut off with what looked like a bar or a
(10:11):
short knife. Did you say, jb like a machete.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It looked like a large knife, like larger than a
steak knife, but you know, smaller than a machete. He
busted out the window of the car.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm gonna say, bayon that man. That's really long, No
ban that's smaller than a machete. Really not to make
jokes about this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So, the man smashed in the window of the car
that he had just cut off, and then he jumps
back in his car.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He speeds away. The car whose.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Window was smashed out follows him through traffic. This is
all caught on dash cam. At some point, both of
the cars run a red light and then disappear out
of sight. The police are now involved because this is
an assault with injury case. I'm assuming the person whose
window got smashed out, was also I guess injured, and
(11:05):
it's very clearly road rage, running red lights, dangerous driving
in traffic and at this point the video, if you'd
like to view it to see exactly what happened and
you can maybe be able to identify the man. You
can see his face clear as day, who smashed out
the window, and the license plates of both cars. You
can search for it on Reddit. I'm sure you can
find it in other places. It's already been viewed six
(11:27):
hundred and sixty thousand times.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, wow, that person's going to get caught.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, that person's definitely going to get caught.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
A lot of the comments on TikTok are people saying, yeah,
does that guy realize he's in Texas or that's a
good way to get shot when you road rage in Texas,
which I don't think enough people keep that in mind.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I think, yeah, I think a jury watching that can
put themselves in the place of the car behind sitting
there and someone jumps out and bashes your window open
with a large knife. Not only were they injured, but
that just the threat of death.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Especially did you imagine having a kids in the car,
your wife in the car, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right, So if that person in the second car had
had a gun and took them out, not a jerified world.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Get justified. So you guys, JB do you I know, Tricia,
you don't. I do. Do you have a dash cam
now camera?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I've thought about getting one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Get one?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You have one?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yep, I've got one. And they're cheap. I mean, they're
not expensive at all.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And they just just runs all the time and rewrites
and then you just just save it when you need.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
To exactly if something were to happen, I just tap
a button and go, I want to save that. And
you just put an SD card in there, and I
think it records I don't know, twenty thirty seconds at
a time, and then it makes another file and then
it just it's a continuous loop. It writes over the
ones that are old, you know, when the card is full,
and just creates creates new ones.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Does it record audio from inside the car?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You have an option to either turn the microphone on
or off, and I have mine turned on.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yours on, but you can never have the audio inside
my car on when I'm driving around.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Y'all would think I was a psycho. Well, we're already
think for that, but it's worth it. I mean, I
actually have had one for years and they've gone up
in price and they The thing that I hate a
lot of things that I hate is when they make
you pay for cloud storage, you know what I mean,
Like just it streams up to the cloud and I
can just have it on a card. I don't want
to pay rent in the cloud videos, but I think
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they're worth having just in case you were to have
an accident or a road rage incident or anything like that,
or hell, just a viral video. It's amazing how much
video is out there when the when there's something that needs,
a crime that needs to be solved, and the police
or whoever asked the public for any video that they
may have, it's incredible how much comes up.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And it has a lot of DASHCN video. The Russians
the news because they have all the scammers, yeah, throwing
themselves in front of cars.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I saw a woman driving a minivan. She has her
dash cam on.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
This car full of people comes over, cuts her off
and stops, and she stops, she doesn't hit them, and
then they put their car in reverse and slam into her,
and then they get out of the car. Holding their
necks like they can hurt, and they're looking around all stunned,
and the moment one of them sees her dash cam on,
they freak out, They get back in the car and
(14:31):
they speed away.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, you just kind of got to assume wherever you are,
there's video of you, right, yes, everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You don't be picking your nose out in public people.
You also, people need to know. Yeah, people need to
know that. When you're in your car and we can
see you in your car, when you pick your nose,
it's glass, it's seat through glassy. Can't imagine how many
people I see doing that at stop lights.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But even like this one, even without the dash cam,
there are fifty witnesses.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
True.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah it was. It was traffic, heavy traffic, and they
weren't moving very fast.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That is the story.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We love to stick around James Russell, who is the
executive director of the Trail of Lights Foundation. Trail of
Lights First Night is tonight. We'll talk with James coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
One three one Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hey it's Sandy. Can you believe it? The holidays are
upon us.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
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 think of
all the people who help make my life a bit easier.
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Speaker 1 (15:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
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If your roof needs repair, they'll tell you if you're
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Whatever you call it, Kangaroof does it the right way.
So the next time you think about your roof, call
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
You'll be glad you did.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
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 (16:33):
Hey, if you missed our conversation with James Russell from
the Trail of Lights, make sure you have the podcast
version of it. Just search with JB and Sandy on
the iHeartRadio app. You guys, I don't know why. This
is something that's always interested me. I've wanted to do,
never done. And that's the polar plunge that a lot
of people do on January first. You know who does
(16:55):
it every year, every single year for as long as
I can remember.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Judy Maggieah, Judy Maggio. Yeah, yeah, Barton Springs. Yeah, more
than likely. Yep, Barton Springs. Judy of course, longtime news
anchor in Austin, and she goes down and jumps in
that frigid water on January first.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's funny that the Barton Springs polar plunge is a
little different because it's all contingent on the outside temperature, right,
because that one is always cold. It could be eighty
degrees on January one, like, and the water is the
same temperature. But if you do it, a lot of
people do it when the water's like really cold.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, so what the temperature of Barton Springs is what
in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They always say claim sixty eight, but it's more like
seventy year round.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Some of the other pools, the city pools that are
open all year where you could do the polar plunge,
Bartholomew of course, Barton Springs, Big Stacey, Colony Park, Deep
Eddy and Spicewood you can go on there and do
your own polar plunge. I don't know why I've always
wanted this, and I say I want to do I'll
never do it, you know, but just every year it
(18:00):
comes around, it's like I'd like to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Anybody want to do it with me?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm good, not happening.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
But both of you guys are cold plungers, Like it's
different not mine.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, it's more ceremonial, a nice cleansing in the start
of a new year. And yeah, I'm gonna need more
than cold water. I need to be cleansed.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I feel like scalding water would be better to cleanse
me with.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
If you ever thought of throwing like holy water on
Sandy to see what happened on me?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Either way, either way, I so I haven't been baptized.
So Sandy and Landry think that if our daughter think
that if we even drive past a church that I'm
gonna burst into flames, so they they're more concerned about
throwing holy water on me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
There was one time when Landry was going through her
CCD and first Communion and all that stuff. JB remember
that when you grew up and there was one thing
I can't remember what it was. I think it was
first Communion And I'm getting dressed and getting ready to go,
and Trish was getting dressed and I go, what are
you doing? She goes, I'm getting ready to go to
Landry's first Communion. I like, oh no, no, no, no,
(19:07):
this Catholic's only don't get you don't get to go
to And she's like, what are you killing me? I
don't know you're going to sit this one out?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
But I do remember sitting in Catholic a Catholic service
a mass one time, and they're like, now is the
time that everybody comes done for Communion?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And so I got up and Sanda's like, you can't go.
I was like what?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And I couldn't go. I can either not go or
just get the blessing right, And but you could go
at like other church like Episcopal, Lutheran.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There always gone up for communion.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
At all the other churches that I had gone to,
Catholic was the only one that they're like, you don't
get it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Very private club.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No free bread for you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Nobody's Christ for you. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no for you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Priest once there was someone went up and took communion
and they went all the way back to their pew
with that in their hand.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
And you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
No, you don't do that, right, And the priest like
stopped and went went to him and it was like
acted them, yeah, and took it here. You're old enough
to remember before you took it in your hand. You
just open your mouth.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah yeah cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Other places if you wanted Polar Plunge the Austin Aquanot's
Dive Club that's at Mansfield Damn on Lake Travis.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Also in Leander, you can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The Polar Plunge starts at ten o'clock at Robin Bledsoe
Pool Park and Trisha Park that we're familiar with in
Cedar Park Veterans Excuse me, I thought it was Veterans Park.
It's Veterans Memorial Pool, which is right next to Veterans
Park out on New Hope in Cedar Park. That's at
ten o'clock on January first, if you want to get
out and do the Polar Plunge.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one text Us seven three
seven three zero one ninety six hundred.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Pretty interesting concert coming to Austin in some a blast
from the past. If you like this radio station, you
like eighties music, You're gonna love this show. They're coming
to the Germania Amphitheater, which is out at the Circuit
of the America. Tell me, when I read this, I
was like, this is really a random trio for a show.
Got the Romantics right?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Toto and Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It sounds so cool. It does sound like a good show.
Who headlines that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Total, although Christopher Cross had more his.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I would not want to follow Christopher Cross because you
got such a long way to go to the point.
I mean, you got to ride like the wind. I
would not want to follow Christopher Cross. I think that
Romantics could headline, any one of them could really.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Right, Well, I'm going to say probably it's Toto headlining
because there is a fact here in this announcement that
they have had one of their best years so far,
that in their forty eight year history, in twenty twenty
five alone, their music garnered more than a billion streams.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
A billion streams. Yeah, Africa Toto wow? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Somebody one of the guys from Toto had a lot
to do with the Michael Jackson Thriller album too.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Really yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I can't remember exactly what it was. He was a
session player or something like that. But Tricia, every time Toto,
I hear Toto, I think of you and Austin huh
or was it no Junior high school?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Oh, Henry Junior High Uh huh? Yeah, I was in
seventh grade. It was a tiny Tricia. I'd just got
in my trumpet. I was in band and the very
first song that we learned in summer band was Africa
by Toto. And that was a song that was currently
playing on the radio. And I will let you know
that that is the exact moment that I was like,
I am incredibly cool that moment that I was playing that.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Song, it was also playing on the radio. I will
never forget that song.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You've gone from playing scales and stuff to play in
a song that was on you guys, don't I don't
have the date on this show, do any do you
guys anyone have the date of that?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I know it's a Germanian amphitheater a Circle of the
America's Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm going to have it. It starts in July
and uh let's see, I'm trying. It's a thirty two
stop tour and they're in Austin on August eighth of
next year.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Dressed comfortably August eighth, notity. I know. I went to
a Willie's picnic Unjuly out there and it's just.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Be prepared for it, A little toasty, special, kind of special,
kind of hot, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I think it's Benny here.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
It says the reason Christopher Cross has paired up with
Toto is because they're longtime friends, so they feel like
they were just like, Hey, you want to tour.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Doesn't Christopher live here? He does? It's weird? Is it
weird that we've never ran into him? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I don't know if I would know if I did, Like,
do we know what he looks like now?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Does he still have the super curly hair like he
did back in the seventies and could land easily.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, you walk by him and just not even know
you walk by you. I mean, would you know if
you saw one of the guys from Toto? No, right either.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm at HB and the bread Lane. You have no
idea that that's the dude from Toto. Right, that'd be
a great way to live.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, right, Yeah, to be a hit maker, famous but
still be able to just cruise around but tell people
mobbing you that. Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The best example of that, Sandy we've talked about is
Elton John's partner Bernie to Tobin.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Tobin.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah's written all those songs and nobody could identify him
if they too, and.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He gets all that money. Yeah, write those songs. Well
that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
to this episode and send it to a friend or two.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Thanks for listening.
And I got several requests.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We got several requests via text, which is again seven
three seven threes or a one ninety six hundred and
asked if we would play that song again and.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, good, like, oh yeah, sure, instant, classic.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, instant.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is a little seven eight year old boy whose
mom secretly records him while he's in the shower. And
the listener that I recall that since the first text
message asking to hear it again is Tammy Lou and
she's an everyday listener, So thank you very much. And
it's good to know, Tammy Lou, that you have the
same sense of humor that we have. And that is
one of a twelve year old boy. Right here's that
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little guy singing the song about his wiener, me.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
My leaders and the ray, my.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
My reason.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I hope with every hope that I have in my
body that they play that at his wedding. So funny,
that's classic stuff. And again I'm glad that you guys
have the same sense of humor that we have. We
can go from uh this is you'll see if you
can pick up on the segway. Here is from wieners
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to snakes and the most snake infested rivers in central Texas.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, not a great not great, not a great thing
to be Jamie, did you have those those rivers?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, I couldn't. I couldn't get access to the news
channel that. I just saw the headline and I tried
to click on it and I cannot get access to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I thought it was a lot of loop in the Colorado.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, unfortunately I did. Look.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm terrified of snakes, but I looked, and it is
the most sneakiest rivers in Texas are the Colorado and
the Waterloop.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They use the word infested.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
There is nothing good that comes before the word infested, right,
there's never a positive infestation of any kind.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
But the Guadaloupe is where a lot of people go tubing, right,
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And then the.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Colorado's tricky because that's our whole highland lake system. That's everything, right, Travis,
Lake Austin into Ladybird. You know what I.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Remember specifically about Lake Austin. I've been on Lake Austin
in so long, but the last time we were there
tubing and a snake was somebody was getting out of
the boat and the snake came from the side and
was charging towards the tube like the person had to
get The snake was basically attacking and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's probably a moccasin because they're the ones.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That'll do it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're very aggressive.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
And the person got in the boat in time, but
the snake went nuts for the for the tube. And
that is that is what I think of when I
think about all these snakes in the rivers that were
just swimming in skiing in there.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You spend a lot of time on Lake Austin. How
many snakes have you seen? Yeah, we've been pretty active
on the lake because my daughter's awake surfer. So since
this is probably almost twenty years. God, now they think
about it. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It is?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But anyway, in that past twenty years, more so the
last fifteen I've we've probably seen a snake twice, yeah,
once once. You rarely see them out in the middle
of the lake the river really because they kind of
scurry away from you. But but you know, back in
the Marinas, that's where you need to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And that's what I need to tell Trisha. Yeah, we
lived on Lake Travis for fifteen years and I never
told Tricia how many snakes I found on our boat dock, because.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
The one that you shot with the shotgun that one day,
there's more than just that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One, many more. Essentially, didn't tell her to suggest she'd
freak out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She'd never go on the boat dock. She'd go down
and burn the boat dock.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I would have burned it to the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She would have lit a match to it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
May I probably in the fifteen years that we lived there,
probably captured, killed, or ran off fifteen twenty stured, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I caught like three of them with a net and
messed around with them a little bit. They weren't poisonous
or snakes don't bother them? Yeah, hell them. Snakes don't
bother me like most people. No, they don't give me
like a lot of people. Just get the hebgb's from
a snake. I picture.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Just seeing a picture of a snake makes my skin crawl.
I can't do it, Jabie. You know we call the
snakes mister nos shoulders, right.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I love that name.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you have the origin behind that name? You know
the story behind that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was playing golf with my buddy Moore, who hates snakes,
and on the rare occasion that he hit one into
the kind of rough area. He's like, I'm not going
in there, mister, No shoulders lives in there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I learned my fear of snakes from my grandfather, who
was this giant six foot two, towering man, broad shoulders,
deep voice, not afraid of anything except a snake. And
I remember being in the car with them in the
truck and a snake was crossing the road.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
He ran over it, stopped, reversed, ran.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Over it again, stopped, reversed, and he was like, yeah,
there's nothing scary in this world than a snake. And
I was all noted, and my phobia began at a
young age.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know what, now I'm remembering we found a couple
copperheads along the Colorado at Drive Away, Austin the Motorsport
complex that I did some stuff with way back in
the day. But we found a couple of copperheads and
they are legit killers.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Yeah, they are copperheads, hot and mouths, rattlesnakes, and coral snakes.
Texas is lucky enough to be home to all four
of those venomous snakes.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I remember when your daughter was young, you guys were
kind of reptile people, but she drew the line at snakes, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I did, and she's had every kind of weird pet
you can imagine. I put my foot down on snakes.
She did want one, oh she did.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I was like, no, I'm not doing snakes.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But all right, now that leads us to this. We
will wrap this up. But you got to tell the
story about about the mouse in his name a rat Snacks.
Tell everybody why his name was Snacks.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
That was actually probably the coolest pet we've ever had,
better than our dogs. It was my daughter was dating
a guy who had snakes, and this was a pet
store feeder rat that they went and got to feed
to the snake. And you know, it's funny when you
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say a rat, a rat is different from a mouse,
but when you say rat, people picture like those dirty
New York City sewer rats. Pizza rat, the rat dragging
the pizza across the streets. This giant yeah, this one,
you know, really cute, cute brown and white spots. They
just have the long tail otherwise stay pretty cute. And
(07:18):
so anyway, my daughter and a boyfriend went and got
a fear a feeder rat for the snake. The snake
would not eat it, so they were like, usually it's
like happens right away, snake wouldn't eat it. They were like, oh,
let's leave for a while and come back, surely will
eat it. They left for hours, came back, the snake
was all coiled up and the rat was sleeping on
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top of it. And my daughter was like, I can't
let him be a feeder rat. Now, he's special. And
so she brought him home, and of course I was
out of town and I was like, no, no, take
it back.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And then and my wife was like, he's really pretty cool,
he's sweet. And she named him Snacks because he was
supposed to be a feeder rat. Love a clever name.
I mean, you could call this rat from across the
house and he would run up and run up your
leg and just sit on your shoulder. Mouse. Yes, And
(08:17):
we had a pretty new h terrier mix which they're
bred to chase off rodents. Yep, they became besties. Wow,
the magic rat. The rat became friends with the dog
and they would play fight, the little rat on his
hind legs, boxing at the dog's nose.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And then and the rat became Snacks became friends with
our pet pig, too, which we had at the time
and it wasn't Carlo.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's web going on over there com Austin dat station
one O three point one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Tristan's got the story. We love.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
An update on that road rage incident that happened off
of Mopak coming up in just a second. Also, we
are going to talk to James Russell in just a
little bit. He's the executive director of the Trail of
Lights Foundation. Tonight's first night of the Trail of Lights
and we're going to talk to jameson just a little bit.
So just remember if you travel northbound on Mopack that
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you're probably going to get backed up a little bit
around the Silker Park Barton Springs exit. It happens every year.
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Friends, going in and out of Rollingwood can be a
challenge forget crossing Barton Springs. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And don't be sneaky because they shut down Stratford too.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think you're going to come around and at it
from the back. They're ready for you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They're one step ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But we'll talk to James Russell, the executive director of
the Trail Lights Foundation.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
These stories we love.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So yesterday we talked about that road rage incident that
happened on Mopack and three sixty and for those of
you who haven't heard about it yet, car cut off
another driver. A man jumped out of the car, ran
back the front car, ran back to the car. He
cut off with what looked like a bar or a
(10:11):
short knife. Did you say, jb like a machete.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It looked like a large knife, like larger than a
steak knife, but you know, smaller than a machete. He
busted out the window of the car.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm gonna say, bayon that man. That's really long, No
ban that's smaller than a machete. Really not to make
jokes about this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So, the man smashed in the window of the car
that he had just cut off, and then he jumps
back in his car.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He speeds away. The car whose.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Window was smashed out follows him through traffic. This is
all caught on dash cam. At some point, both of
the cars run a red light and then disappear out
of sight. The police are now involved because this is
an assault with injury case. I'm assuming the person whose
window got smashed out, was also I guess injured, and
(11:05):
it's very clearly road rage, running red lights, dangerous driving
in traffic and at this point the video, if you'd
like to view it to see exactly what happened and
you can maybe be able to identify the man. You
can see his face clear as day, who smashed out
the window, and the license plates of both cars. You
can search for it on Reddit. I'm sure you can
find it in other places. It's already been viewed six
(11:27):
hundred and sixty thousand times.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, wow, that person's going to get caught.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, that person's definitely going to get caught.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
A lot of the comments on TikTok are people saying, yeah,
does that guy realize he's in Texas or that's a
good way to get shot when you road rage in Texas,
which I don't think enough people keep that in mind.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I think, yeah, I think a jury watching that can
put themselves in the place of the car behind sitting
there and someone jumps out and bashes your window open
with a large knife. Not only were they injured, but
that just the threat of death.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Especially did you imagine having a kids in the car,
your wife in the car, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right, So if that person in the second car had
had a gun and took them out, not a jerified world.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Get justified. So you guys, JB do you I know, Tricia,
you don't. I do. Do you have a dash cam
now camera?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I've thought about getting one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Get one?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You have one?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yep, I've got one. And they're cheap. I mean, they're
not expensive at all.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And they just just runs all the time and rewrites
and then you just just save it when you need.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
To exactly if something were to happen, I just tap
a button and go, I want to save that. And
you just put an SD card in there, and I
think it records I don't know, twenty thirty seconds at
a time, and then it makes another file and then
it just it's a continuous loop. It writes over the
ones that are old, you know, when the card is full,
and just creates creates new ones.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Does it record audio from inside the car?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You have an option to either turn the microphone on
or off, and I have mine turned on.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yours on, but you can never have the audio inside
my car on when I'm driving around.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Y'all would think I was a psycho. Well, we're already
think for that, but it's worth it. I mean, I
actually have had one for years and they've gone up
in price and they The thing that I hate a
lot of things that I hate is when they make
you pay for cloud storage, you know what I mean,
Like just it streams up to the cloud and I
can just have it on a card. I don't want
to pay rent in the cloud videos, but I think
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they're worth having just in case you were to have
an accident or a road rage incident or anything like that,
or hell, just a viral video. It's amazing how much
video is out there when the when there's something that needs,
a crime that needs to be solved, and the police
or whoever asked the public for any video that they
may have, it's incredible how much comes up.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And it has a lot of DASHCN video. The Russians
the news because they have all the scammers, yeah, throwing
themselves in front of cars.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I saw a woman driving a minivan. She has her
dash cam on.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
This car full of people comes over, cuts her off
and stops, and she stops, she doesn't hit them, and
then they put their car in reverse and slam into her,
and then they get out of the car. Holding their
necks like they can hurt, and they're looking around all stunned,
and the moment one of them sees her dash cam on,
they freak out, They get back in the car and
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they speed away.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, you just kind of got to assume wherever you are,
there's video of you, right, yes, everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You don't be picking your nose out in public people.
You also, people need to know. Yeah, people need to
know that. When you're in your car and we can
see you in your car, when you pick your nose,
it's glass, it's seat through glassy. Can't imagine how many
people I see doing that at stop lights.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
But even like this one, even without the dash cam,
there are fifty witnesses.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
True.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah it was. It was traffic, heavy traffic, and they
weren't moving very fast.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That is the story.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We love to stick around James Russell, who is the
executive director of the Trail of Lights Foundation. Trail of
Lights First Night is tonight. We'll talk with James coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:22):
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upon us.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
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and it means enjoying life with those you care about.
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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 (16:33):
Hey, if you missed our conversation with James Russell from
the Trail of Lights, make sure you have the podcast
version of it. Just search with JB and Sandy on
the iHeartRadio app. You guys, I don't know why. This
is something that's always interested me. I've wanted to do,
never done. And that's the polar plunge that a lot
of people do on January first. You know who does
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it every year, every single year for as long as
I can remember.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Judy Maggieah, Judy Maggio. Yeah, yeah, Barton Springs. Yeah, more
than likely. Yep, Barton Springs. Judy of course, longtime news
anchor in Austin, and she goes down and jumps in
that frigid water on January first.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's funny that the Barton Springs polar plunge is a
little different because it's all contingent on the outside temperature, right,
because that one is always cold. It could be eighty
degrees on January one, like, and the water is the
same temperature. But if you do it, a lot of
people do it when the water's like really cold.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, so what the temperature of Barton Springs is what
in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They always say claim sixty eight, but it's more like
seventy year round.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Some of the other pools, the city pools that are
open all year where you could do the polar plunge,
Bartholomew of course, Barton Springs, Big Stacey, Colony Park, Deep
Eddy and Spicewood you can go on there and do
your own polar plunge. I don't know why I've always
wanted this, and I say I want to do I'll
never do it, you know, but just every year it
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comes around, it's like I'd like to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Anybody want to do it with me?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm good, not happening.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
But both of you guys are cold plungers, Like it's
different not mine.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, it's more ceremonial, a nice cleansing in the start
of a new year. And yeah, I'm gonna need more
than cold water. I need to be cleansed.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I feel like scalding water would be better to cleanse
me with.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
If you ever thought of throwing like holy water on
Sandy to see what happened on me?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Either way, either way, I so I haven't been baptized.
So Sandy and Landry think that if our daughter think
that if we even drive past a church that I'm
gonna burst into flames, so they they're more concerned about
throwing holy water on me.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
There was one time when Landry was going through her
CCD and first Communion and all that stuff. JB remember
that when you grew up and there was one thing
I can't remember what it was. I think it was
first Communion And I'm getting dressed and getting ready to go,
and Trish was getting dressed and I go, what are
you doing? She goes, I'm getting ready to go to
Landry's first Communion. I like, oh no, no, no, no,
(19:07):
this Catholic's only don't get you don't get to go
to And she's like, what are you killing me? I
don't know you're going to sit this one out?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
But I do remember sitting in Catholic a Catholic service
a mass one time, and they're like, now is the
time that everybody comes done for Communion?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And so I got up and Sanda's like, you can't go.
I was like what?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And I couldn't go. I can either not go or
just get the blessing right, And but you could go
at like other church like Episcopal, Lutheran.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There always gone up for communion.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
At all the other churches that I had gone to,
Catholic was the only one that they're like, you don't
get it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Very private club.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No free bread for you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Nobody's Christ for you. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no for you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Priest once there was someone went up and took communion
and they went all the way back to their pew
with that in their hand.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
And you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
No, you don't do that, right, And the priest like
stopped and went went to him and it was like
acted them, yeah, and took it here. You're old enough
to remember before you took it in your hand. You
just open your mouth.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah yeah cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Other places if you wanted Polar Plunge the Austin Aquanot's
Dive Club that's at Mansfield Damn on Lake Travis.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Also in Leander, you can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The Polar Plunge starts at ten o'clock at Robin Bledsoe
Pool Park and Trisha Park that we're familiar with in
Cedar Park Veterans Excuse me, I thought it was Veterans Park.
It's Veterans Memorial Pool, which is right next to Veterans
Park out on New Hope in Cedar Park. That's at
ten o'clock on January first, if you want to get
out and do the Polar Plunge.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one text Us seven three
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Speaker 2 (20:57):
Pretty interesting concert coming to Austin in some a blast
from the past. If you like this radio station, you
like eighties music, You're gonna love this show. They're coming
to the Germania Amphitheater, which is out at the Circuit
of the America. Tell me, when I read this, I
was like, this is really a random trio for a show.
Got the Romantics right?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Toto and Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It sounds so cool. It does sound like a good show.
Who headlines that.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Total, although Christopher Cross had more his.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I would not want to follow Christopher Cross because you
got such a long way to go to the point.
I mean, you got to ride like the wind. I
would not want to follow Christopher Cross. I think that
Romantics could headline, any one of them could really.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Right, Well, I'm going to say probably it's Toto headlining
because there is a fact here in this announcement that
they have had one of their best years so far,
that in their forty eight year history, in twenty twenty
five alone, their music garnered more than a billion streams.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
A billion streams. Yeah, Africa Toto wow? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Somebody one of the guys from Toto had a lot
to do with the Michael Jackson Thriller album too.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Really yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I can't remember exactly what it was. He was a
session player or something like that. But Tricia, every time Toto,
I hear Toto, I think of you and Austin huh
or was it no Junior high school?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Oh, Henry Junior High Uh huh? Yeah, I was in
seventh grade. It was a tiny Tricia. I'd just got
in my trumpet. I was in band and the very
first song that we learned in summer band was Africa
by Toto. And that was a song that was currently
playing on the radio. And I will let you know
that that is the exact moment that I was like,
I am incredibly cool that moment that I was playing that.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Song, it was also playing on the radio. I will
never forget that song.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You've gone from playing scales and stuff to play in
a song that was on you guys, don't I don't
have the date on this show, do any do you
guys anyone have the date of that?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I know it's a Germanian amphitheater a Circle of the
America's Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm going to have it. It starts in July
and uh let's see, I'm trying. It's a thirty two
stop tour and they're in Austin on August eighth of
next year.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Dressed comfortably August eighth, notity. I know. I went to
a Willie's picnic Unjuly out there and it's just.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Be prepared for it, A little toasty, special, kind of special,
kind of hot, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I think it's Benny here.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
It says the reason Christopher Cross has paired up with
Toto is because they're longtime friends, so they feel like
they were just like, Hey, you want to tour.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Doesn't Christopher live here? He does? It's weird? Is it
weird that we've never ran into him? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I don't know if I would know if I did, Like,
do we know what he looks like now?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Like?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Does he still have the super curly hair like he
did back in the seventies and could land easily.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, you walk by him and just not even know
you walk by you. I mean, would you know if
you saw one of the guys from Toto? No, right either.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm at HB and the bread Lane. You have no
idea that that's the dude from Toto. Right, that'd be
a great way to live.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, right, Yeah, to be a hit maker, famous but
still be able to just cruise around but tell people
mobbing you that. Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The best example of that, Sandy we've talked about is
Elton John's partner Bernie to Tobin.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Tobin.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah's written all those songs and nobody could identify him
if they too, and.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He gets all that money. Yeah, write those songs. Well
that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do us a solid and copy and paste the link
to this episode and send it to a friend or two.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Thanks for listening.
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