December 17, 2025 • 18 mins
“Is there really such a thing as too much money—and what would you do if you won the $1.25 billion lotto?” 💸 This episode of The JB and Sandy Show dives deep into holiday traditions, family quirks, and the wild dreams that come with a billion-dollar jackpot. From the hilarious story of Tricia’s Christmas excitement (“Tricia acts like an eight-year-old at Christmas. She still loves getting the presents!”) to JB’s legendary ‘Fruitcake Song’ tradition, you’ll laugh, reminisce, and maybe even rethink your own holiday rituals.
Key moments include:
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Key moments include:
- The eerie tale of a smart device predicting wardrobe choices (“Sandra, tomorrow is going to be cold. You probably should wear the white sweatshirt you just got.”) 🤖
- JB’s heartwarming backstory behind the iconic ‘Fruitcake Song’—a tradition nearly 30 years old, now finally streaming for all to enjoy. 🎶
- A tribute to Texas music legend Joe Ely, with touching anecdotes and fun facts (“He was recognized by the Texas legislature as the official 2016 Texas State Musician.”) 🎸
- The “Luling” phenomenon—awkward friendships and unexpected bridesmaid invitations that’ll have you questioning your own circle. 👯♀️
- The age-old debate: apples and oranges in Christmas stockings—lame or legendary? 🍎🍊
- “If you win, all you can do is just give it away. That is more money than you would ever be able to spend.”
- “I want the giant check. Which is the biggest mistake you can make. I don’t care.”
- “Don’t forget to get your holiday scratchers too. Hope the people you give them to don’t win big!”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Text us if you want seven threes seven threes zero
one ninety six hundred, speaking of your smart device. I
fell for the UH for the new and improved version
of her. And I don't want to say her name
because it'll she'll start talking talking to me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But you know what I'm talking about, right right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The new and improved more and Better one plus deal
set it up last night, New Voice, New Ever.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You get to choose your voices on this one.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right, seven different voices.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, it chose a sexy girl voice.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Did I took whatever? The first one was? Yeah, right,
But you can now do all kinds of different things.
You can get concert tickets, you can order an uber,
you can send email, you can send text messages. It
gets to the more you talk to it, the more
it gets to know you, your music, all.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That type of stuff. So yeah, whatever. I don't know
why I did it. I guess I was just born.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I have a story about that. This freaks me out out.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The other night, my mom she was making her one
of her Christmas dishes in the kitchen, and I was
sitting at the kitchen table and out of nowhere, her
Amazon goes, Sondra tomorrow is going to be cold. You
probably should wear the white sweatshirt you just got. Oh wow,
what didn't ask it a question?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Just now of the blue. That's what she said to
my mom.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Because she just ordered a white sweatshirt on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Maybe I don't know, but yeah, that's creepy, right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I ordered something yesterday morning at like seven twenty and
it was at the house by nine point fifteen. That's amazing,
crat it is. How Jimmy, how's your Christmas shopping doing?
By the way, the fruitcake salng coming up in just
a second. Jimmy, Christmas shopping, are you done, almost done,
or not started?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I am done, nice, and I haven't started. My wife
does it all. But you gotta get hurt something. Yeah,
she and I, she and I just we don't exchange gifts.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We'll do cards and stockings. Yeah, and that sometimes will go.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You know, if there's some big purchase we've been thinking
about for both of us, we'll call that a Christmas gift.
But yeah, she and I don't do a big exchange.
I did do some. I pick up some things here
there for my daughter, right, you know, just little little things,
not the not the big gifts. But this is our
(02:21):
This is our daughters last year being the kid at
the family get together.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, she graduated up there, she's twenty four.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, when you're twenty five, you get cut off. So
when you're on the kid list, everybody buys you gifts,
Grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a good place.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
She turned twenty five. You go into the white elephant
with the adults. Yeah, this is our last year to
soak it up. Tricia acts like a eight year old
at Christmas. She still loves getting the presence.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I love it so much. Yeah, I love all of it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And I'm like, just can we just don't spend a
lot of money on me this year? Just I've asked
for one thing that I truly want and that's it.
I'd be fine with that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Suresha Scrooge is all I'm saying. You have a child
for us to buy you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Press and let her chip in on that one big gift.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Christmas is less than just over a week away, and
we've got a long standing tradition of the fruitcake song.
Jab give the New listener a little backstory about the
fruitcake song.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
This song is almost thirty years old. If you can
believe this, it's when I was working in Dallas and
wrote and recorded this song with my friend Rusty. We
knocked it out in a day, and it's become a
tradition like it's it's the last thing standing that isn't
streaming somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I think, well it's about to be, because I'm going
to put it out there. It's just a solo podcast,
just the fruitcake song. That's all I ask. So people
can play it as much as they want, exactly I'm
gonna put it. You can search JB and Sandy on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
A nice job on the little teaser animation. Oh thank you?
Think that was fine? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That was on our social media Jabi, Whose idea was
it to write a song?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't know this about a guy that's in love
with Santa and preparing for his visit.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You know what, I don't remember because it was just
he and I and we would get together and brainstorm
every week, every like every Tuesday, we had a studio
session with access to singers, and so we would write.
I don't remember whose idea it was because he and
I did a bunch of them over the years. Well,
that's a good one, but this is this one was
(04:37):
special because it's the only time I got to sing
is because I can't sing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I hear it as a classic, the fruitcake song. Oh,
it's my favorite time a year. I'd like to serve
up festive cheer.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I have so much unfinished business.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I'll be trimming my big tree while Santa slides down
my chimney.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Because I'm having me a fruitcake for Christmas. This will
toe over the door, just bot some leather from the store.
Everything is looking so precious. I'll be drinking my eggnog
while I'm selling my yule log. Yes, I'm having me
a fruitcake for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My favorite show.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Tunes on the stairy, and I.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Feel that special glow my lovers coming, don't you know?
Just call me a ho ho ho. Well, we met
up at the mall and I said that I would
call and fix up the dinners, the scrumptuous, the special.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Moments near Stan.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
It's gonna come this year. Yes, I'm having me a
fruitcake for Christmas. Oh, I'm having me a fruitcake for Christmas.
Ho ho oh, Jolly Saint Nick little Dickens.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All right, so I am going to put that song
as a just that song is a podcast, okay, okay,
so you can listen whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I just remembered, we we did. We tried a year
or two later to do a follow up to that
and it didn't stick. Oh really, yeah it was you
know it was you remember I saw I saw Mommy
kissing Santa Claus. Yeah, yeah, we did. I saw Daddy
kissing Missus Butters. He was in love with the bottle
(06:29):
and lick the syrup off of her.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
He went to the well one too many times on that, right.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It's that one didn't stay funny Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's as Austin as it gets.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one O three point one.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Firston's got the story we love in just a moment.
We didn't talk about it yesterday. But shocking to see
the Longhorns bounced out of the NC Double A Volleyball Tournament.
I mean they were number one seed, upset, had an
home court and made it to the sweet sixteen and ouch,
yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Actually, it was on ESPN the other night and I also,
by the way, I'm sorry, gonna get some TV. We
talked about pro women's volleyball, how popular that would be.
Got a message from a listener that it already exists
and it's in Austin.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Has a team.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Really yeah, it's a love be to check out. I
think it's love b is the name of the team.
I searched it ran It tickets are available. They believe
they play at the AGB Center. So and they have
some really good players, some Olympians and that type of stuff.
So check that out if you got to get your
volleyball fix, because the Longhorns are out all right.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The stories we love.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Texas music legend Joe Neely He died at the age
of seventy eight on Monday. The singer, songwriter and guitars
passed away at the age of seventy eight at his
home in New Mexico due to complications from Louis body dementia,
Parkinson's and pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh it's uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He is most well known for a Robert Earl Keen
song Right here it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is Sonny's playing eight ball. That's a John where cherry
works whins.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Some drunken out at sounder, put.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
His hand up Sherry's skirt.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Sonny took his boop cute, laid the drunk out on
the floor, stuffed his daughter in her tipped jup, walked
on out the door.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
She's running around behind him, reaching for his hand. The
road pulls on.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Forever, the party never again.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We know that's a Robert old King song, but Joe Lee,
it was a staple in his concerts.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And how old did you say, joey seventy eight, seventy
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Speaking of Robert old King's playing Friday night at the
at the Moody, Well, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
A big deal because he's trying. Yeah, he is winding
down his performances. This is like his retirement tour, right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's doing very limited dates. But that's one of them,
and it will be packed. Yeah, hey, so that'll be
a who's who in Austin. It'll be one of those
pretty people crowds I don't fit into. I hate those.
I hate when I end up at something that's the
pretty people crowd, like we were at one last week
our Buddy Morris is Celebration of Life, and that was
the pretty people crowd and I did not fit in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I get to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I think, as long as you go out.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
A couple of funny Joe Eely stories is I saw
him once at a roller.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Derby really event, yep.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I was just getting into radio in Dallas and a
mutual friend of ours today, Jimmy Steele, who was a
programming and radio he said, hey, he knew I was
really into music and he would give me all the
CDs I could eat, is what I said. When I
was twenty twenty one years old, and he's like, hey,
(09:56):
you want to go see Joe Eely?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And I didn't know who. I'm sure I'd lied and
faked out like of.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Course, and it was he was playing at like a
break at a at a roller derby event. I've been
like Garland or Mesquite outside of Dallas, and oddly enough,
that same guy, Jimmy mutual friend of ours, has since
moved to New Bronfils, and I thought about him when
(10:25):
I found out he moved to New Bronfles and I
bought something I swear just thirty days ago as a
gift for him, and it's a pair of Joe Elee Sachs.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They've they've been sitting here on my desk.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I've been waiting for a chance to run into our
mutual friend Jimmy and give him these socks.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's a nice gift. That's cool.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I got my buck Well and he's one of those
guys like he loves music and you know he's got
everything because he was a big industry, big dog, right,
It's like, what kind at him?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And I was like, oh, I wonder what joe E
Lee has. And I went on and I was like, sucks.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That reminds me it would be to suck if he
was like, oh, I've already got him, right because I
gave So this is a funny story. I produce a
podcast for Chancellor Kent Hands and if you Texas tech
red Raiders, you guys know that name. He's a former
US congressman who's a state senator. He ran for governor
and he does a podcast called the Best Storyteller in Texas.
(11:27):
I recommend it. Check it out on the iHeartRadio app.
So a few years ago for Christmas, I got him
a pair of cuff links that were microphones.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Right. I thought kind of a cool gift for a
guy doing now that he's a podcaster.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Right, So I got him the cup links and I
gave him to him and he opened him up and
he les me. He said thanks, and then he goes.
Ronald Reagan gave me a pair of cup links once
Ronald Reggae, and I was like, oh wow, so much
for my sad little microphone.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Get there, Coleen.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He was like any other real nice. They got the
presidential seal on him. They're real wow. Sorry I couldn't
do that for you. Yeah, just your microphone.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Do you want a couple more cool facts about Joe Ee?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
You got Joe Ely facts. You did your homework.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
He was inducted into the Austin City Limit Hall of
Fame in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But this is super cool.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
He was recognized by the Texas Legislature and they named
him the official twenty sixteen Texas State Musician.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Oh that's cool right now.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I think that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A lot of them to choose from.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I know he chows him.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
He's pretty good again. Seventy eight, eight years old. Rip
to the Joe yep more coming up one O three to.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
One Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Big Lotto drawing tonight one point two five billion dollars
is up for grabs in the lotto? How long has
it been since there was a winner.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think we're on our maybe fortieth draw with no
winner tonight, right, And.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I got into a little group pool at work where
we pulled all our money together from the last drive
and we won eight dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And then Tricia got so we're reinvesting. Yeah, we decided
to reinvestt.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're putting our eight bucks back in.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But what's funny is the conversation that Tricia and I
had the other night about the lotto. And I was like,
you know, really, honestly, someone's got to win, right, Why
not us?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
We have just as much of a chance as anybody else, right?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I was like, you know what I think. I
think God is probably wants us to win. He's just
gonna go, okay, all right, enough stop taking here here
it is? Will you please shut up? Please God?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Every day with the lotto, you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Are wearing me out with these prayers for winning the latto.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Here it is, go away. That's what we think.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
If I give this you will you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Exactly, That's what God is saying.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's what the lotto gods are saying to us, Oh,
dear Lord, just give it to them, please, the love
of all things.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They're driving me nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I think if you win, let's say there's one solo
winner of that, it's like five hundred million bucks, is
really all you can do is just give it away?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean that is more money than you would ever
be able to spend.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, I mean, not to mention if I mean even
conservative investment, you could double that in a decade and
give that all away.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Right, right, But I mean you would have you know,
that's that's what like, that's like Bezos' is x mackenzie.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
That money's growing so fast she can just keep giving
it away because it's just accumulating compounding.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, Michael Dell just giving away six and a half
billion dollars. But I think if you won that kind
of money, you'd have to hire people to give your
money away.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Maybe you'd just be but man to do the research
as to who's the best people to give it to.
If it's stuff like one of your passion projects or something,
you get to check stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Boy, But if you did have that kind of money,
I'd have a lot of fun too. Oh right, take
your friends on trips and stuff, you know what I mean,
take them. Hey, guys, let's go skiing, all right, right
right now, I'll have a Jets pick you up. Right,
there's gonna be thirty five degrees in Austin. Let's go
to the beach. Yeah, let's go. Let's uh, let's you
(15:34):
know what, guys, Let's go play golf at Pebble Beach today.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
I want pizza. Let's fly to Italy. Yeah, yeah, I
mean it's crazy to think that. I mean, Tricia is
of the mindset that she wants to get her picture.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Made with the big check.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I want the giant check.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Which is the biggest mistake you can make. Don't care
you can't.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I would think that one of the best things you
could by yourself is a a nice plane and hire
a pilot, like they just said, Like you know, a
nice house would would be a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You wouldn't have to go too crazy on that.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But the ability to travel privately would be insane.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That would be the greatest perk of it, right, And
that and doing it with all your buddies, your friends,
right right, yeah, man, So that's kind of why you
hope that your friends win too right to induce you.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, I've already told the lotto gods soume like, if
I win, I'm helping all my friends out, helping all
my people out.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, my girls, my close people.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Family, you're going to find out that you think that
you've got a lot more close people than you actually think,
because they would be.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Lolings hanging on to me.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Lolings is that word we use for someone who thinks
they're a better friend with you than you think you
are with them.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Like the person that asks you to be the bridesmaid
you've known them for three days. Happen to a friend.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Happened to my friend in Loling. That's why we call
they're a Lulin.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Tell that story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, my friend was Sean.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
She said that there was a girl that had started
working where she worked, and like, I don't know, six
weeks into them knowing each other and being work friends,
she told her she was getting married and asked her
to be her.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Brites or a maid of honor. She was all okay, yeah.
And it was in Luling, Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So that's why we anybody who's like they were like,
oh they're Alluling.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, they think they're much better friend.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, it's awkward, it's very wee sited. I hope I'm
not illuling with somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Don't forget to get to get your from the Texas Lotto.
Get your holiday scratchers too. Oh I got one of
those too. I haven't scratched it yet. You got to
get out and get those and put them in stockings
and all that kind of stuff, and hope that the
people you give them to don't win big.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I will only give scratchers and lotto tickets to immediate
family members, right, I won't give them to people who
I'm not one hundred percent sure won't be bound to
share any winnings with me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Jamie, you give Texas Lotto tickets to uh for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
No, I have in the past, and now that that's
that makes a real fun stocking stuffer, So yeah, I'll
probably pick some of Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Do you guys know this is dumb that I know this,
but I'm gonna tell you anyway. Do you know where
the tradition of getting an apple or an orange in
the bottom of your stocking comes from?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Why that's now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They used to do that to stretch them out so
you have some weight in the bottom of it, so
you could get more stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
In it that's lame apple or an orange in your stock.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It was the Dark Ages. Fact, it was before color
TV A long time ago.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Come on three Austin dot com
Text us if you want seven threes seven threes zero
one ninety six hundred, speaking of your smart device. I
fell for the UH for the new and improved version
of her. And I don't want to say her name
because it'll she'll start talking talking to me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But you know what I'm talking about, right right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The new and improved more and Better one plus deal
set it up last night, New Voice, New Ever.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You get to choose your voices on this one.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right, seven different voices.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, it chose a sexy girl voice.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Did I took whatever? The first one was? Yeah, right,
But you can now do all kinds of different things.
You can get concert tickets, you can order an uber,
you can send email, you can send text messages. It
gets to the more you talk to it, the more
it gets to know you, your music, all.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That type of stuff. So yeah, whatever. I don't know
why I did it. I guess I was just born.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I have a story about that. This freaks me out out.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The other night, my mom she was making her one
of her Christmas dishes in the kitchen, and I was
sitting at the kitchen table and out of nowhere, her
Amazon goes, Sondra tomorrow is going to be cold. You
probably should wear the white sweatshirt you just got. Oh wow,
what didn't ask it a question?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Just now of the blue. That's what she said to
my mom.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Because she just ordered a white sweatshirt on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Maybe I don't know, but yeah, that's creepy, right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I ordered something yesterday morning at like seven twenty and
it was at the house by nine point fifteen. That's amazing,
crat it is. How Jimmy, how's your Christmas shopping doing?
By the way, the fruitcake salng coming up in just
a second. Jimmy, Christmas shopping, are you done, almost done,
or not started?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I am done, nice, and I haven't started. My wife
does it all. But you gotta get hurt something. Yeah,
she and I, she and I just we don't exchange gifts.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We'll do cards and stockings. Yeah, and that sometimes will go.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You know, if there's some big purchase we've been thinking
about for both of us, we'll call that a Christmas gift.
But yeah, she and I don't do a big exchange.
I did do some. I pick up some things here
there for my daughter, right, you know, just little little things,
not the not the big gifts. But this is our
(02:21):
This is our daughters last year being the kid at
the family get together.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, she graduated up there, she's twenty four.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, when you're twenty five, you get cut off. So
when you're on the kid list, everybody buys you gifts,
Grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, everybody.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a good place.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
She turned twenty five. You go into the white elephant
with the adults. Yeah, this is our last year to
soak it up. Tricia acts like a eight year old
at Christmas. She still loves getting the presence.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I love it so much. Yeah, I love all of it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And I'm like, just can we just don't spend a
lot of money on me this year? Just I've asked
for one thing that I truly want and that's it.
I'd be fine with that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Suresha Scrooge is all I'm saying. You have a child
for us to buy you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Press and let her chip in on that one big gift.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Christmas is less than just over a week away, and
we've got a long standing tradition of the fruitcake song.
Jab give the New listener a little backstory about the
fruitcake song.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
This song is almost thirty years old. If you can
believe this, it's when I was working in Dallas and
wrote and recorded this song with my friend Rusty. We
knocked it out in a day, and it's become a
tradition like it's it's the last thing standing that isn't
streaming somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I think, well it's about to be, because I'm going
to put it out there. It's just a solo podcast,
just the fruitcake song. That's all I ask. So people
can play it as much as they want, exactly I'm
gonna put it. You can search JB and Sandy on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
A nice job on the little teaser animation. Oh thank you?
Think that was fine? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That was on our social media Jabi, Whose idea was
it to write a song?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't know this about a guy that's in love
with Santa and preparing for his visit.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You know what, I don't remember because it was just
he and I and we would get together and brainstorm
every week, every like every Tuesday, we had a studio
session with access to singers, and so we would write.
I don't remember whose idea it was because he and
I did a bunch of them over the years. Well,
that's a good one, but this is this one was
(04:37):
special because it's the only time I got to sing
is because I can't sing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I hear it as a classic, the fruitcake song. Oh,
it's my favorite time a year. I'd like to serve
up festive cheer.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I have so much unfinished business.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I'll be trimming my big tree while Santa slides down
my chimney.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Because I'm having me a fruitcake for Christmas. This will
toe over the door, just bot some leather from the store.
Everything is looking so precious. I'll be drinking my eggnog
while I'm selling my yule log. Yes, I'm having me
a fruitcake for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My favorite show.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Tunes on the stairy, and I.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Feel that special glow my lovers coming, don't you know?
Just call me a ho ho ho. Well, we met
up at the mall and I said that I would
call and fix up the dinners, the scrumptuous, the special.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Moments near Stan.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
It's gonna come this year. Yes, I'm having me a
fruitcake for Christmas. Oh, I'm having me a fruitcake for Christmas.
Ho ho oh, Jolly Saint Nick little Dickens.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All right, so I am going to put that song
as a just that song is a podcast, okay, okay,
so you can listen whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I just remembered, we we did. We tried a year
or two later to do a follow up to that
and it didn't stick. Oh really, yeah it was you
know it was you remember I saw I saw Mommy
kissing Santa Claus. Yeah, yeah, we did. I saw Daddy
kissing Missus Butters. He was in love with the bottle
(06:29):
and lick the syrup off of her.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
He went to the well one too many times on that, right.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It's that one didn't stay funny Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's as Austin as it gets.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighty
station one O three point one.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Firston's got the story we love in just a moment.
We didn't talk about it yesterday. But shocking to see
the Longhorns bounced out of the NC Double A Volleyball Tournament.
I mean they were number one seed, upset, had an
home court and made it to the sweet sixteen and ouch,
yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Actually, it was on ESPN the other night and I also,
by the way, I'm sorry, gonna get some TV. We
talked about pro women's volleyball, how popular that would be.
Got a message from a listener that it already exists
and it's in Austin.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Has a team.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Really yeah, it's a love be to check out. I
think it's love b is the name of the team.
I searched it ran It tickets are available. They believe
they play at the AGB Center. So and they have
some really good players, some Olympians and that type of stuff.
So check that out if you got to get your
volleyball fix, because the Longhorns are out all right.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The stories we love.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Texas music legend Joe Neely He died at the age
of seventy eight on Monday. The singer, songwriter and guitars
passed away at the age of seventy eight at his
home in New Mexico due to complications from Louis body dementia,
Parkinson's and pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh it's uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
He is most well known for a Robert Earl Keen
song Right here it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Is Sonny's playing eight ball. That's a John where cherry
works whins.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Some drunken out at sounder, put.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
His hand up Sherry's skirt.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Sonny took his boop cute, laid the drunk out on
the floor, stuffed his daughter in her tipped jup, walked
on out the door.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
She's running around behind him, reaching for his hand. The
road pulls on.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Forever, the party never again.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We know that's a Robert old King song, but Joe Lee,
it was a staple in his concerts.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And how old did you say, joey seventy eight, seventy
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Speaking of Robert old King's playing Friday night at the
at the Moody, Well, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
A big deal because he's trying. Yeah, he is winding
down his performances. This is like his retirement tour, right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's doing very limited dates. But that's one of them,
and it will be packed. Yeah, hey, so that'll be
a who's who in Austin. It'll be one of those
pretty people crowds I don't fit into. I hate those.
I hate when I end up at something that's the
pretty people crowd, like we were at one last week
our Buddy Morris is Celebration of Life, and that was
the pretty people crowd and I did not fit in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I get to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I think, as long as you go out.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
A couple of funny Joe Eely stories is I saw
him once at a roller.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Derby really event, yep.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I was just getting into radio in Dallas and a
mutual friend of ours today, Jimmy Steele, who was a
programming and radio he said, hey, he knew I was
really into music and he would give me all the
CDs I could eat, is what I said. When I
was twenty twenty one years old, and he's like, hey,
(09:56):
you want to go see Joe Eely?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And I didn't know who. I'm sure I'd lied and
faked out like of.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Course, and it was he was playing at like a
break at a at a roller derby event. I've been
like Garland or Mesquite outside of Dallas, and oddly enough,
that same guy, Jimmy mutual friend of ours, has since
moved to New Bronfils, and I thought about him when
(10:25):
I found out he moved to New Bronfles and I
bought something I swear just thirty days ago as a
gift for him, and it's a pair of Joe Elee Sachs.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They've they've been sitting here on my desk.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I've been waiting for a chance to run into our
mutual friend Jimmy and give him these socks.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's a nice gift. That's cool.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I got my buck Well and he's one of those
guys like he loves music and you know he's got
everything because he was a big industry, big dog, right,
It's like, what kind at him?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And I was like, oh, I wonder what joe E
Lee has. And I went on and I was like, sucks.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That reminds me it would be to suck if he
was like, oh, I've already got him, right because I
gave So this is a funny story. I produce a
podcast for Chancellor Kent Hands and if you Texas tech
red Raiders, you guys know that name. He's a former
US congressman who's a state senator. He ran for governor
and he does a podcast called the Best Storyteller in Texas.
(11:27):
I recommend it. Check it out on the iHeartRadio app.
So a few years ago for Christmas, I got him
a pair of cuff links that were microphones.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Right. I thought kind of a cool gift for a
guy doing now that he's a podcaster.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Right, So I got him the cup links and I
gave him to him and he opened him up and
he les me. He said thanks, and then he goes.
Ronald Reagan gave me a pair of cup links once
Ronald Reggae, and I was like, oh wow, so much
for my sad little microphone.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Get there, Coleen.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He was like any other real nice. They got the
presidential seal on him. They're real wow. Sorry I couldn't
do that for you. Yeah, just your microphone.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Do you want a couple more cool facts about Joe Ee?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
You got Joe Ely facts. You did your homework.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
He was inducted into the Austin City Limit Hall of
Fame in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But this is super cool.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
He was recognized by the Texas Legislature and they named
him the official twenty sixteen Texas State Musician.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Oh that's cool right now.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I think that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
A lot of them to choose from.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I know he chows him.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
He's pretty good again. Seventy eight, eight years old. Rip
to the Joe yep more coming up one O three to.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
One Austin dot Com.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Big Lotto drawing tonight one point two five billion dollars
is up for grabs in the lotto? How long has
it been since there was a winner.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think we're on our maybe fortieth draw with no
winner tonight, right, And.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I got into a little group pool at work where
we pulled all our money together from the last drive
and we won eight dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And then Tricia got so we're reinvesting. Yeah, we decided
to reinvestt.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're putting our eight bucks back in.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But what's funny is the conversation that Tricia and I
had the other night about the lotto. And I was like,
you know, really, honestly, someone's got to win, right, Why
not us?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
We have just as much of a chance as anybody else, right?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I was like, you know what I think. I
think God is probably wants us to win. He's just
gonna go, okay, all right, enough stop taking here here
it is? Will you please shut up? Please God?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Every day with the lotto, you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Are wearing me out with these prayers for winning the latto.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Here it is, go away. That's what we think.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
If I give this you will you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Exactly, That's what God is saying.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That's what the lotto gods are saying to us, Oh,
dear Lord, just give it to them, please, the love
of all things.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They're driving me nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I think if you win, let's say there's one solo
winner of that, it's like five hundred million bucks, is
really all you can do is just give it away?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean that is more money than you would ever
be able to spend.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, I mean, not to mention if I mean even
conservative investment, you could double that in a decade and
give that all away.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Right, right, But I mean you would have you know,
that's that's what like, that's like Bezos' is x mackenzie.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
That money's growing so fast she can just keep giving
it away because it's just accumulating compounding.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, Michael Dell just giving away six and a half
billion dollars. But I think if you won that kind
of money, you'd have to hire people to give your
money away.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Maybe you'd just be but man to do the research
as to who's the best people to give it to.
If it's stuff like one of your passion projects or something,
you get to check stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Boy, But if you did have that kind of money,
I'd have a lot of fun too. Oh right, take
your friends on trips and stuff, you know what I mean,
take them. Hey, guys, let's go skiing, all right, right
right now, I'll have a Jets pick you up. Right,
there's gonna be thirty five degrees in Austin. Let's go
to the beach. Yeah, let's go. Let's uh, let's you
(15:34):
know what, guys, Let's go play golf at Pebble Beach today.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
I want pizza. Let's fly to Italy. Yeah, yeah, I
mean it's crazy to think that. I mean, Tricia is
of the mindset that she wants to get her picture.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Made with the big check.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I want the giant check.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Which is the biggest mistake you can make. Don't care
you can't.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I would think that one of the best things you
could by yourself is a a nice plane and hire
a pilot, like they just said, Like you know, a
nice house would would be a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You wouldn't have to go too crazy on that.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But the ability to travel privately would be insane.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That would be the greatest perk of it, right, And
that and doing it with all your buddies, your friends,
right right, yeah, man, So that's kind of why you
hope that your friends win too right to induce you.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, I've already told the lotto gods soume like, if
I win, I'm helping all my friends out, helping all
my people out.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, my girls, my close people.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Family, you're going to find out that you think that
you've got a lot more close people than you actually think,
because they would be.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Lolings hanging on to me.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Lolings is that word we use for someone who thinks
they're a better friend with you than you think you
are with them.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Like the person that asks you to be the bridesmaid
you've known them for three days. Happen to a friend.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Happened to my friend in Loling. That's why we call
they're a Lulin.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Tell that story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, my friend was Sean.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
She said that there was a girl that had started
working where she worked, and like, I don't know, six
weeks into them knowing each other and being work friends,
she told her she was getting married and asked her
to be her.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Brites or a maid of honor. She was all okay, yeah.
And it was in Luling, Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So that's why we anybody who's like they were like,
oh they're Alluling.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, they think they're much better friend.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, it's awkward, it's very wee sited. I hope I'm
not illuling with somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Don't forget to get to get your from the Texas Lotto.
Get your holiday scratchers too. Oh I got one of
those too. I haven't scratched it yet. You got to
get out and get those and put them in stockings
and all that kind of stuff, and hope that the
people you give them to don't win big.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I will only give scratchers and lotto tickets to immediate
family members, right, I won't give them to people who
I'm not one hundred percent sure won't be bound to
share any winnings with me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Jamie, you give Texas Lotto tickets to uh for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
No, I have in the past, and now that that's
that makes a real fun stocking stuffer, So yeah, I'll
probably pick some of Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Do you guys know this is dumb that I know this,
but I'm gonna tell you anyway. Do you know where
the tradition of getting an apple or an orange in
the bottom of your stocking comes from?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Why that's now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They used to do that to stretch them out so
you have some weight in the bottom of it, so
you could get more stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
In it that's lame apple or an orange in your stock.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It was the Dark Ages. Fact, it was before color
TV A long time ago.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
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