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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's
eighty station. What three point one? All right, there's really
no scientific proof to this. It's really just an observation
by someone that writes for the the Wall Street Journal.
There's a guy that writes for the Wall Street Journal
and he's got five kids, and it kind of surprised
him that none of his kids or their friends had
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any nicknames for each other. And it made him wonder
if nicknames we were going the way of the dinosaur,
just on the decline, like no one has a nickname anymore,
you know, like calling your buddy from Austin, calling him texts,
you know what I mean? Or you know they can't.
(00:47):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when you're when you're little, heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, you know what I mean, kind
of kind of going away.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I had growing up, Yeah, through middle school at
least it was Bucky was my nickname because I had
a really bad buck teeth and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't have
much choice. Yeah, I kind of remember. I had a
bad one in high school. It was both blockhead and
block oh. Then that got shortened to block oh because
I was dumb. Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spell.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head, and mailbox.
They tried to call me mailbox two for a while.
I had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
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I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the yousity to fit my head
in high school. In high school, did.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The local news do a feature?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I thought, I think they thought there was something wrong
with me.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But hey whatever, this young man Blocko just wants to play.
But there's one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets. Gye.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He's done that several times. Kids you like size twenty
six foot, he buys them, buys some shoes right Tristan
to girls like our our daughter runs with the crew,
they kind of they don't really go by nicknames, but
they go by last names.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in ROTC. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, I name's Jatricia.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames, like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But you know what, though, it's funny, as I say nicknames,
is that Sandy, which I've always gone by, is a
is the real nickname for Alexander, just like Bob is
for Robert, and Bill is for William and Dick is
for Richard. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
There's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a few that I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's you know. I know one guy and he's worth
a fortune. He lives in LA that I met. I
met him at south By one year and it was like,
you know, maybe i'd like, you know, many people to
go by Dick anymore. And he goes, that's why I
go by it, he goes, It's it's very memorable.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. I have an uncle and he was Uncle Dick
and then had a cousin who was Dick Junior. So
we just called him Big Dick and Little Dick. We
did that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Shouldn't be funny. We're so sure, you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Know, laughing at this, right, this is something you laughed
at when you were twelve. But it's still funny. So, Tricia,
nickname for you? Did you ever have one?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I mean my uncle has called me Tricksy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, I mean I didn't have a like friends giving
me a nickname. I didn't have anything like that. We
call our daughter the fuzz. That's kind of a nickname
for her. You named her that when she was a baby.
You were worried she was gonna staybaled like you are.
When her hair started growing, it with fuzzy, so he
called her the fuzz. But yeah, now I think he's right.
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I think nicknames are slowly being phased out.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, I think they need. I think kids need to
come up with some good nicknames for.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Each Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You and I nicknamed one of Landry's friends, uh.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Super Saucy. Yeah, we call her super Saucy.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
A story.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
She was wearing a white dress for prom and she
ordered extra sauce, extra saucy, extra saucy ribs and spilled
it all over her white dress before prom.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So we just call her extra saucy, which I think
is funny.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
She's a good kid too. It's the Jav and Sandy Show.
And for those of you listening to us on the
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point one. All right, Clearly, clearly we made some bad
choices choosing the radio route to uh a survival in
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the world. And we should have picked to cops because
there's a.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Lot of money in Tacos apparently. Wow, the founder of Torches,
which I think he sold all those to a big
group is where he made a bunch of money, is
selling his place on Lake Austin four wait for it,
twenty five point five million.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Twenty five million dollars. Can you tell me more about
the house?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, it's it's over ten thousands I'm thinking about it. Yeah,
it's over ten thousand square feet made for entertaining. He
bought it in twenty seventeen and redid the place. It
was a little bit dated, I guess. But this also
includes two adjacent lots. Okay, so if you just want
the house in the lot, that's like nineteen million something,
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so you might as well get all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Portract.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But it's on the it's on Island Island Way or
Island Cove or whatever that is. It's below Mount Banew.
They you have that strip there that where man boy,
they're rebuilding some original homes there right now. It's just
on the lake last week.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How do you get to that? But below Mount Banel, up.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
From Mount Banel Road, there's a gated entrance that takes
you all the way down that. Oh okay, yeah, they
don't want us.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Regular folks think it's like a secret knock kind of thing.
They're building them on this side of that steep.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Cliff off twenty two right the new houses.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh, I don't know. Maybe there's a really cool Probably
a lot of people don't know it. I'm just always
on the lake. There's a down below Mount Banel. There's
island way and an island cove or whatever that this
house is on. And then there's what's the other street,
doesn't matter. There's a cool like by boat. There's a cool,
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very venice like waterway that goes behind those homes. Oh really,
it's really neat, and your boat will just bear with it,
like with a tower, will just barely fit under these
little bridges get access to it. It's a little it's
just this little canal. And sometimes, you know, if people
are give him a tour of Lake Austin a little bit,
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if you take them through there, it's really cool. You
just don't want to be a jerk and go through
their you know, fast or blaring music or anything. Just
kind of sputter through it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This guy selling his twenty five million dollar house and
he made his fortune in tacos. Yeah, you would have thought, Rightaco,
I mean, Tacos had pretty good run. If you think.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
About it, you know, it's funny, he said. It's I
go to the torches by me a lot on South Congress.
Their flagship, I guess, is what they call it. But
if you're in Austin, I, You're you're either a Torchies
person or a Taco Deli person.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Rarely both.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, they're both very, very different. Would you think you
wouldn't think you could make tacos all that different.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Right, because it's all the same ingredients, right, unless you
can something random.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm a Torchies girl through and through, love it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Taco Deli, I'm really more of a Taco about It
guy on South Congress. You know what I'm talking about?
More of a Taco about it guy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, you know what, now that I think about it,
I do like Guak and Roll. Have you been there?
That's on the East side, right, Yeah, it's I mean
it's not as good as Holy guacamally.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But their sisters stories walk this way.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, they're pretty good too.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Have you been Have you been to Nacho average taco.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I was just about to listen. That's that's on Barton Springs. Yeah,
Nacho average taco.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah yeah, I heard recently about a new one taco
source rex that yet?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Have you been to show?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
If I'm feeling a little frisky and feeling a little wild,
I'll get my taco at talc Orgasmico. Oh that one's
on South Lamar's. Have you been to?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Uh taco the town talk about tasty? Where's that one
that's up north? I just know it's up north?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
All right, you've got the Do we have a pink
taco here? No?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't think so. I went to one of those
in Vegas. Was it good?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was good? Yeah, all right, we don't have a
pink taco in Austin. Probably. She said, well, hell man,
you make that kind of money slinging tacos.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's pretty good for him. Huh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Really a lot of a lot of marketing, right, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They just seemed like they were all just there one
day and everybody knew to go there, right, And then
there was the memo.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's kind of like the in a similar thing It's
kind of like one day every high school girl in
the world got an email. It said by Chuck Taylor's Yeah,
they're all wearing them. Then gradual, all of a sudden,
they quit wearing them. But there's something else I was
gonna say about that, but I can't remember what it was.
So helped me out about the tacos, I don't know.
(11:45):
We have one in Cedar Park and you've got that, Yeah,
torches everywhere, so they're good. I was never a taco
deli guy.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, no, Deli's good, but you got to get it
fresh otherwise you're going to eat some foil. That's like, yeah,
something about the way the foil congeals with the tortilla. Yeah,
it's like there's no separating it, and I just give
up and eat the foil.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The taco also had a really good social media run,
like it was super cool to talk about tacos on
social media. So congratulations. Not many people. I mean, your
pool is very very small when selling a twenty five
million dollar home.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right right, Yeah, I know. I was thinking about that
the other day. Do you remember when Michael Dell built
his house and city of Austin wanted to praise it
at like thirty million, and he fought it. And I'm
paraphrasing this whole thing. This was a long time ago, right,
twenty five years ago at least, and he was making
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the case, and it was a strong case at the time,
not today. He said, you can't value it that because
there are no buyers at that price. There's no buyers
or my home compound. Well now there are. Yeah, yeah,
there are plenty of people who could afford that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, you're right. What do we say? Eight billion? How
many billionaires did we say we're in Austin. We just
it was more than you think.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's like a dozen Yeah, yeah, it was more than
you think, right billionaires?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Incredible, crazy. Maybe one of them will buy the Torches mansion.
Who knows? All right, thanks for being with us. It's
the JB and Sandy are We do it every day
from seven until eight o'clock. Man, who knows. If we
play our cards right, we may be on longer. Who knows?
My name is Sandy, This is my friend JB. Hello,
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This is my wife. Her name is Tricia.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hi, everybody, Trisa?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Is this whole thing weird for you? Like doing the
radio show with your husband and JB.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, I'll good. It's weird because.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I started out as a listener twenty something years ago,
right just woke up, y'all went off to the alarm
on my alarm clock radio, and I would lay in
bed and listen to y'all listened to while I got dressed,
while I drove it to work. And so yeah, it's
sometimes I'm like, I can't believe now I'm talking with
you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Were you but every one?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
One?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Were you ever one of those listeners that would complain
if we said something wrong? No, never, Or we're on
vacation for too long? Remember, we'd get all this kind
Yeah we're taking vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It was like, yeah, maybe i'll talk it about it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, oh well days gone by? Uh what are you gonna say?
Team now?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I was gonna say, what makes it even weirder? Is that?
What I don't know?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Twenty years ago, y'all were looking for a sidekick, a
third person, and I entered the contest. It was literally
a contest at that time, and I made it to
like the top five to do to win the contest,
to do what I'm doing with you guys right now.
It's like I just went on that like a twenty
year cycle to get that job.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You remember the guy that videoed himself sitting on a
toilet in the back of a piccup driving around town
waving everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That was his audition tape.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, yeah, forgot.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I wonder what he's doing now. I'm guessing not much.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But if this really cute, see music to it. I
can't remember what. I can hear that song in my head,
but I don't know what it is, and he was
just sitting on a toilet waving to people.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You know what's funny, though, Trisian, knowing you now being
married for seventeen years now and together for over twenty years,
I can't fathom how nervous you were leading up to that.
How antsy you must have been, like when you entered
the contest and when you were gonna hear something and
then you got the call, and then just knowing you now,
it's like you must have been a bundle of mess.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I was really nervous, but.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
It's you know, my huge phobia is standing up in
front of giant crowds and talking. That makes me feel
like I'm gonna poot my pants. But talking on the
radio or just talking to a couple of guys. Like
my level of nerves that at that time when I
had to go in an audition with y'all was not
what it definitely could have been.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know why. I just felt kind of comfortable
doing it.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I definitely was nervous, but it wasn't freaking out all right?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And were you just crushed when you didn't get it?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yes, I was so sad. The package you guys.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Had put together was incredible, Like you got to drive
a dealership sponsored car for a year for free all
I mean, y'all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Have free apartment too or something.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Yeah, it was like a free apartment. It was this
great salary, like it was a big deal. It would
have been amazing to win. It was so sad when
I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, you ended up with the big prize.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, you right, you me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I listened to this. This is a Reddit post I
think you'll get a kick out of. And keep in mind,
there's so many people that have moved to Texas in
the last few years, and there's people moving here every
single day, and there's some stuff you got to get
used to when you moved to Texas, and this is
one of them. This was on Reddit. Did I recently
moved to Texas and I've been driving the speed limit,
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but everyone on the road drives at least fifteen to
twenty miles above the speed limit. Is this a Texas thing?
I never see cops enforcing speed limit in and around Austin.
Answer your question, Yes, yes, it's a Texas thing. The
posted speed limit is a mere suggestion for you, though.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I think it got taken to a new level when
we started adding more toll roads. Because I don't quote
me on this, but like they the police don't have
jurisdiction to write speeding tickets on a toll road. It's minunderstanding,
which is part of the reason you see people going
in one hundred on one.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Is that the one out to the airport. Yeah, that's
not a lot. That's lawlessness out there. Yeah. Yeah, it
is the wild West. You can do one hundred and
thirty and nobody cares.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody pulled over. It
only lights i've seen or for res from people going
so fast, not for speeding.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, but driving in Austin. If you're freaking out, you're
new to Austin and you think people are driving fast.
I'd recommend you stay out of Houston.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's on another level in Houston. As soon as you
get into like Katie on your way in, it's just
like what happened. The intensity goes way up and it's
more lanes and they're all going really fast.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
It's like somebody drop the go flag. It's like you're
in a race that flag. Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't know what it is with Houston, but the
I don't go to Houston that often, but it seems
like every time I do go to Houston, not only
are people driving fast, but also there's always a guy
on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on the highway. I'm
not kidding. I've seen it several times, just a guy
doing wheelies and on the on the highway.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We're getting we're getting more of that kind of culture
here in Austin.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
As of late, I see more and more of that
and you're part of the town. Like South Congress right.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Were doing wheelies up and down South Congress and a
lot of young guys on the the e motos they're
really motorcycles, but they're electric, oh okay, and they.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Can do wheelies on those.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh man, can you imagine having one of those? I
saw some kids buzzing around on it and they're fast,
and I was like, God, what a what a fun
thing to grow up with. Now these these kids are
getting on these electric motorcycles basically buzzing around the neighborhood. Yeah,
having a blast like that would have been so fun.
That was my big will the bikes.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I see a lot of kids on e bikes
and I'm gonna tell you ninety nine percent of them.
I look at them and go, he might want to
get on a real bike the exercise, Yeah, just to
get the exercise. Yeah, I mean it's it's weird. But
you said something about about South Congress and the motorcycle
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scene that's down there. It's growing, right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, You'll see a lot more where these like little
meet up rides, whether it's dirt bikes and they're doing
wheelings all through town, or you'll see some with the quads,
you know, the four wheelers, Yeah, buzzing around like a
lot of that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The three wheeler really interests me because it's kind of
like they want to do so they don't want a car,
they want four wheels. But I can't handle two, so
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Three, like the can AM's where it's one wheel in
the back. Yes, yeah, those always have Those always have
over the top stereos that they're hilary like you would
on a boat, but you're doing it on those three wheelers.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I see a lot of those too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And kind of my last thought on this is the scooters,
the Lime scooters and stuff that are all over town.
Let me tell you something there. Yeah, there is absolutely
no way in the world to look cool online. There's
Austin dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's
eighty station. What three point one? All right, there's really
no scientific proof to this. It's really just an observation
by someone that writes for the the Wall Street Journal.
There's a guy that writes for the Wall Street Journal
and he's got five kids, and it kind of surprised
him that none of his kids or their friends had
(00:27):
any nicknames for each other. And it made him wonder
if nicknames we were going the way of the dinosaur,
just on the decline, like no one has a nickname anymore,
you know, like calling your buddy from Austin, calling him texts,
you know what I mean? Or you know they can't.
(00:47):
Maybe it's PC or people get triggered, whatever the hell
word it is nowadays when you're when you're little, heavy set,
buddy called him tiny, you know what I mean, kind
of kind of going away.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I had growing up, Yeah, through middle school at
least it was Bucky was my nickname because I had
a really bad buck teeth and then I got him fixed.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But that had to sting a little bit, didn't it.
I guess I just rolled with it. You don't have
much choice. Yeah, I kind of remember. I had a
bad one in high school. It was both blockhead and
block oh. Then that got shortened to block oh because
I was dumb. Idiots couldn't remember blockhead or spell.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But because I have a very I guess I still
have a big head, I mean bald, square head, and mailbox.
They tried to call me mailbox two for a while.
I had to go to It was funny in high
school playing football when I was a sophomore, they had
to go to the University of I was in Nebraska.
(01:55):
I had to go to the University of Nebraska and
get a helmet from the yousity to fit my head
in high school. In high school, did.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The local news do a feature?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I thought, I think they thought there was something wrong
with me.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But hey whatever, this young man Blocko just wants to play.
But there's one thing preventing it. They don't make any helmets. Gye.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That's like when Shaq then steps in and buys you
a giant helmet, like you bought giant shoes for kids.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He's done that several times. Kids you like size twenty
six foot, he buys them, buys some shoes right Tristan
to girls like our our daughter runs with the crew,
they kind of they don't really go by nicknames, but
they go by last names.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well because they're an ROTC and they're all called by
their last name in ROTC. But there was a while
that it wasn't that her crew had nicknames. It was
that they had different names, like whatever their actual first
name was they had. Remember when you were a kid,
you're like, I wish my name was this, and you'd
ask your parents to call you by a different name
and they'd say, nope, I name's Jatricia.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's what we're calling you.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Well, they used whatever names they really wanted at school
and not their actual real names. But it wasn't really
a nickname back when we were kids. Nicknames, like you
were saying, we're kind of rooted in being mean antagonizing
a little bit, and you just can't get away with
that anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But that's what made him funny.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But you know what, though, it's funny, as I say nicknames,
is that Sandy, which I've always gone by, is a
is the real nickname for Alexander, just like Bob is
for Robert, and Bill is for William and Dick is
for Richard. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
There's a lot of nicknames for Alexander, right, I guess,
so Xander alex alex Yeah, it's a few that I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But my other I have a theory that there are
no men left under the age of fifty named Dick.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's you know. I know one guy and he's worth
a fortune. He lives in LA that I met. I
met him at south By one year and it was like,
you know, maybe i'd like, you know, many people to
go by Dick anymore. And he goes, that's why I
go by it, he goes, It's it's very memorable.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah. I have an uncle and he was Uncle Dick
and then had a cousin who was Dick Junior. So
we just called him Big Dick and Little Dick. We
did that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Shouldn't be funny. We're so sure, you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Know, laughing at this, right, this is something you laughed
at when you were twelve. But it's still funny. So, Tricia,
nickname for you? Did you ever have one?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I mean my uncle has called me Tricksy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, I mean I didn't have a like friends giving
me a nickname. I didn't have anything like that. We
call our daughter the fuzz. That's kind of a nickname
for her. You named her that when she was a baby.
You were worried she was gonna staybaled like you are.
When her hair started growing, it with fuzzy, so he
called her the fuzz. But yeah, now I think he's right.
(05:05):
I think nicknames are slowly being phased out.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, I think they need. I think kids need to
come up with some good nicknames for.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Each Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You and I nicknamed one of Landry's friends, uh.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Super Saucy. Yeah, we call her super Saucy.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
A story.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
She was wearing a white dress for prom and she
ordered extra sauce, extra saucy, extra saucy ribs and spilled
it all over her white dress before prom.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So we just call her extra saucy, which I think
is funny.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
She's a good kid too. It's the Jav and Sandy Show.
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(05:57):
the world. And we should have picked to cops because
there's a.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Lot of money in Tacos apparently. Wow, the founder of Torches,
which I think he sold all those to a big
group is where he made a bunch of money, is
selling his place on Lake Austin four wait for it,
twenty five point five million.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Twenty five million dollars. Can you tell me more about
the house?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, it's it's over ten thousands I'm thinking about it. Yeah,
it's over ten thousand square feet made for entertaining. He
bought it in twenty seventeen and redid the place. It
was a little bit dated, I guess. But this also
includes two adjacent lots. Okay, so if you just want
the house in the lot, that's like nineteen million something,
(06:54):
so you might as well get all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Portract.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But it's on the it's on Island Island Way or
Island Cove or whatever that is. It's below Mount Banew.
They you have that strip there that where man boy,
they're rebuilding some original homes there right now. It's just
on the lake last week.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How do you get to that? But below Mount Banel, up.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
From Mount Banel Road, there's a gated entrance that takes
you all the way down that. Oh okay, yeah, they
don't want us.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Regular folks think it's like a secret knock kind of thing.
They're building them on this side of that steep.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Cliff off twenty two right the new houses.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh, I don't know. Maybe there's a really cool Probably
a lot of people don't know it. I'm just always
on the lake. There's a down below Mount Banel. There's
island way and an island cove or whatever that this
house is on. And then there's what's the other street,
doesn't matter. There's a cool like by boat. There's a cool,
(08:02):
very venice like waterway that goes behind those homes. Oh really,
it's really neat, and your boat will just bear with it,
like with a tower, will just barely fit under these
little bridges get access to it. It's a little it's
just this little canal. And sometimes, you know, if people
are give him a tour of Lake Austin a little bit,
(08:25):
if you take them through there, it's really cool. You
just don't want to be a jerk and go through
their you know, fast or blaring music or anything. Just
kind of sputter through it. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This guy selling his twenty five million dollar house and
he made his fortune in tacos. Yeah, you would have thought, Rightaco,
I mean, Tacos had pretty good run. If you think.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
About it, you know, it's funny, he said. It's I
go to the torches by me a lot on South Congress.
Their flagship, I guess, is what they call it. But
if you're in Austin, I, You're you're either a Torchies
person or a Taco Deli person.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Rarely both.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, they're both very, very different. Would you think you
wouldn't think you could make tacos all that different.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Right, because it's all the same ingredients, right, unless you
can something random.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm a Torchies girl through and through, love it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Taco Deli, I'm really more of a Taco about It
guy on South Congress. You know what I'm talking about?
More of a Taco about it guy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, you know what, now that I think about it,
I do like Guak and Roll. Have you been there?
That's on the East side, right, Yeah, it's I mean
it's not as good as Holy guacamally.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But their sisters stories walk this way.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, they're pretty good too.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Have you been Have you been to Nacho average taco.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I was just about to listen. That's that's on Barton Springs. Yeah,
Nacho average taco.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah yeah, I heard recently about a new one taco
source rex that yet?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Have you been to show?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
If I'm feeling a little frisky and feeling a little wild,
I'll get my taco at talc Orgasmico. Oh that one's
on South Lamar's. Have you been to?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Uh taco the town talk about tasty? Where's that one
that's up north? I just know it's up north?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
All right, you've got the Do we have a pink
taco here? No?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't think so. I went to one of those
in Vegas. Was it good?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was good? Yeah, all right, we don't have a
pink taco in Austin. Probably. She said, well, hell man,
you make that kind of money slinging tacos.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's pretty good for him. Huh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Really a lot of a lot of marketing, right, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
They just seemed like they were all just there one
day and everybody knew to go there, right, And then
there was the memo.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's kind of like the in a similar thing It's
kind of like one day every high school girl in
the world got an email. It said by Chuck Taylor's Yeah,
they're all wearing them. Then gradual, all of a sudden,
they quit wearing them. But there's something else I was
gonna say about that, but I can't remember what it was.
So helped me out about the tacos, I don't know.
(11:45):
We have one in Cedar Park and you've got that, Yeah,
torches everywhere, so they're good. I was never a taco
deli guy.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, no, Deli's good, but you got to get it
fresh otherwise you're going to eat some foil. That's like, yeah,
something about the way the foil congeals with the tortilla. Yeah,
it's like there's no separating it, and I just give
up and eat the foil.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The taco also had a really good social media run,
like it was super cool to talk about tacos on
social media. So congratulations. Not many people. I mean, your
pool is very very small when selling a twenty five
million dollar home.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right right, Yeah, I know. I was thinking about that
the other day. Do you remember when Michael Dell built
his house and city of Austin wanted to praise it
at like thirty million, and he fought it. And I'm
paraphrasing this whole thing. This was a long time ago, right,
twenty five years ago at least, and he was making
(12:47):
the case, and it was a strong case at the time,
not today. He said, you can't value it that because
there are no buyers at that price. There's no buyers
or my home compound. Well now there are. Yeah, yeah,
there are plenty of people who could afford that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, you're right. What do we say? Eight billion? How
many billionaires did we say we're in Austin. We just
it was more than you think.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's like a dozen Yeah, yeah, it was more than
you think, right billionaires?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Incredible, crazy. Maybe one of them will buy the Torches mansion.
Who knows? All right, thanks for being with us. It's
the JB and Sandy are We do it every day
from seven until eight o'clock. Man, who knows. If we
play our cards right, we may be on longer. Who knows?
My name is Sandy, This is my friend JB. Hello,
(13:37):
This is my wife. Her name is Tricia.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hi, everybody, Trisa?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Is this whole thing weird for you? Like doing the
radio show with your husband and JB.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, I'll good. It's weird because.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I started out as a listener twenty something years ago,
right just woke up, y'all went off to the alarm
on my alarm clock radio, and I would lay in
bed and listen to y'all listened to while I got dressed,
while I drove it to work. And so yeah, it's
sometimes I'm like, I can't believe now I'm talking with
you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Were you but every one?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
One?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Were you ever one of those listeners that would complain
if we said something wrong? No, never, Or we're on
vacation for too long? Remember, we'd get all this kind
Yeah we're taking vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It was like, yeah, maybe i'll talk it about it.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, oh well days gone by? Uh what are you gonna say?
Team now?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I was gonna say, what makes it even weirder? Is that?
What I don't know?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Twenty years ago, y'all were looking for a sidekick, a
third person, and I entered the contest. It was literally
a contest at that time, and I made it to
like the top five to do to win the contest,
to do what I'm doing with you guys right now.
It's like I just went on that like a twenty
year cycle to get that job.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You remember the guy that videoed himself sitting on a
toilet in the back of a piccup driving around town
waving everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That was his audition tape.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, yeah, forgot.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I wonder what he's doing now. I'm guessing not much.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But if this really cute, see music to it. I
can't remember what. I can hear that song in my head,
but I don't know what it is, and he was
just sitting on a toilet waving to people.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You know what's funny, though, Trisian, knowing you now being
married for seventeen years now and together for over twenty years,
I can't fathom how nervous you were leading up to that.
How antsy you must have been, like when you entered
the contest and when you were gonna hear something and
then you got the call, and then just knowing you now,
it's like you must have been a bundle of mess.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I was really nervous, but.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
It's you know, my huge phobia is standing up in
front of giant crowds and talking. That makes me feel
like I'm gonna poot my pants. But talking on the
radio or just talking to a couple of guys. Like
my level of nerves that at that time when I
had to go in an audition with y'all was not
what it definitely could have been.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know why. I just felt kind of comfortable
doing it.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I definitely was nervous, but it wasn't freaking out all right?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And were you just crushed when you didn't get it?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yes, I was so sad. The package you guys.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Had put together was incredible, Like you got to drive
a dealership sponsored car for a year for free all
I mean, y'all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Have free apartment too or something.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Yeah, it was like a free apartment. It was this
great salary, like it was a big deal. It would
have been amazing to win. It was so sad when
I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, you ended up with the big prize.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, you right, you me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I listened to this. This is a Reddit post I
think you'll get a kick out of. And keep in mind,
there's so many people that have moved to Texas in
the last few years, and there's people moving here every
single day, and there's some stuff you got to get
used to when you moved to Texas, and this is
one of them. This was on Reddit. Did I recently
moved to Texas and I've been driving the speed limit,
(16:57):
but everyone on the road drives at least fifteen to
twenty miles above the speed limit. Is this a Texas thing?
I never see cops enforcing speed limit in and around Austin.
Answer your question, Yes, yes, it's a Texas thing. The
posted speed limit is a mere suggestion for you, though.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I think it got taken to a new level when
we started adding more toll roads. Because I don't quote
me on this, but like they the police don't have
jurisdiction to write speeding tickets on a toll road. It's minunderstanding,
which is part of the reason you see people going
in one hundred on one.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Is that the one out to the airport. Yeah, that's
not a lot. That's lawlessness out there. Yeah. Yeah, it
is the wild West. You can do one hundred and
thirty and nobody cares.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody pulled over. It
only lights i've seen or for res from people going
so fast, not for speeding.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, but driving in Austin. If you're freaking out, you're
new to Austin and you think people are driving fast.
I'd recommend you stay out of Houston.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's on another level in Houston. As soon as you
get into like Katie on your way in, it's just
like what happened. The intensity goes way up and it's
more lanes and they're all going really fast.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
It's like somebody drop the go flag. It's like you're
in a race that flag. Yeah, it's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't know what it is with Houston, but the
I don't go to Houston that often, but it seems
like every time I do go to Houston, not only
are people driving fast, but also there's always a guy
on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on the highway. I'm
not kidding. I've seen it several times, just a guy
doing wheelies and on the on the highway.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
We're getting we're getting more of that kind of culture
here in Austin.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
As of late, I see more and more of that
and you're part of the town. Like South Congress right.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Were doing wheelies up and down South Congress and a
lot of young guys on the the e motos they're
really motorcycles, but they're electric, oh okay, and they.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Can do wheelies on those.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh man, can you imagine having one of those? I
saw some kids buzzing around on it and they're fast,
and I was like, God, what a what a fun
thing to grow up with. Now these these kids are
getting on these electric motorcycles basically buzzing around the neighborhood. Yeah,
having a blast like that would have been so fun.
That was my big will the bikes.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I see a lot of kids on e bikes
and I'm gonna tell you ninety nine percent of them.
I look at them and go, he might want to
get on a real bike the exercise, Yeah, just to
get the exercise. Yeah, I mean it's it's weird. But
you said something about about South Congress and the motorcycle
(19:55):
scene that's down there. It's growing, right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, You'll see a lot more where these like little
meet up rides, whether it's dirt bikes and they're doing
wheelings all through town, or you'll see some with the quads,
you know, the four wheelers, Yeah, buzzing around like a
lot of that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The three wheeler really interests me because it's kind of
like they want to do so they don't want a car,
they want four wheels. But I can't handle two, so
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Three, like the can AM's where it's one wheel in
the back. Yes, yeah, those always have Those always have
over the top stereos that they're hilary like you would
on a boat, but you're doing it on those three wheelers.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I see a lot of those too.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And kind of my last thought on this is the scooters,
the Lime scooters and stuff that are all over town.
Let me tell you something there. Yeah, there is absolutely
no way in the world to look cool online. There's
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