January 29, 2025 • 17 mins
Join JB and Sandy for a laugh-filled episode where we tackle the dread of Texas road trips, from Austin to San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas. Discover the new luxury bus service making commuting a breeze, and get a peek into the contrasting dynamics of car shopping within marriages. Plus, we dive into the art of buying certified pre-owned vehicles and share some humorous, yet practical advice on choosing a first car for teenage drivers. Tune in for stories that resonate with every Texan driver's experience!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Sandy. Thanks for finding the podcast version of
the show. If you're not listening on the iHeartRadio app,
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today's podcast, big news for commuters out of Austin. We're
(00:21):
gonna tell you guys about it in just a second.
Quick question for you guys, which one of these road
trips would you dread the most? Austin to San Antonio,
Austin to Houston, Austin to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Which one would you which is the worst of them?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Dallas by far?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh really, I think Austin to Dallas is the worst
of those three.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
For some reason. I think San Antonio. Austin is San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, that's a bad one. That's the second. To me.
It's just it's short.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
At least it's short, lots shorter. Yeah, there's no accidents.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Right right, but it stays like a skinny highway the
whole time.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You're just white knuckling it, trying not to get hit.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
I feel like on the way to Dallas at least
kind of opens up and gives you a little bit
more room.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
At some point you can breathe.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's a good point. That's yeah. It is white knuckled
all the way to San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I mean, especially by those dang outlet malls. It's just
crazy right there. And I would say the easiest of
those is Austin to Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh yeah, I think it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But now, but until you get to the edge of Houston.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Then once you get in Houston, it's it's on game over,
Like no one is sacred.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like game on. It's as far as driving fast, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They're intense drivers in Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And every time I go to Houston there's always some
guy on a crowd rocket motorcycle doing a wheelie. I
swear every time I get every time I go to Houston,
there's a guy motorcycles doing WHEELI somewhere. I don't know
if that's a Houston thing or what. Boy, by the way,
before we get in to tell you about this, this
new options to mute.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
By the way, shout out to ap D.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, guys, shut down the side shows with the cars.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Remember what we had at both the springs and lamar that.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, they do a takeover.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, street takeover. I thought this was like sign of
things to come in Austin. I thought this is going
to happen on the regular.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, Sir Ap said, not in our city. They got
a task force. They shut it down and arrested all
those people.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
A lot of them were not Austinites. They came in
just to reak havoc here. Yeah, I'm seeing more and
more of that, like the little gangs of four wheelers
and dirt bikes all running around stunt riding. Yeah, downtown.
Because I live close to downtown, I see it more often,
big time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
We see e bikes on that bike on the Cedar
Park trail.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wests baskets and little dogs in their baskets here in Suburbia.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Ringing their bell when they come up behind you on
and shut out.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It doesn't It's scary when you're walking and their bike
goes zooming by you. A little heads up on your
left would be nice, yeah, because it's or up out
of you sometimes, Yeah, zoom up right behind you anyway.
The reason we bring all this up with the commutes
and stuff is because Von Lane, the luxury bus liner
that runs from Austin to Houston and Austin to Dallas
(03:26):
is introducing more routes, Is that right, Tricia?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
They are making daily Austin to Dallas routes available now.
It used to be I think, like three days a
week or you know that kind of I don't know
what the old win was. But now they're doing him
every day Monday, Thursday, and Friday. There's a North Dallas
departure time and a North Austin departure time different than
the ones.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
They have him seven days a week.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You can get a luxury bus seat on von Lane
back and forth Dallas every day.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's interesting to a.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Lot of people that it sounds kind of miserable because
we just talked about how miserable.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That drive is.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, one, you're not driving, but now even to do
like a Austin Dallas flight, which we used to think
nothing of. Right, Right, you don't jump on a plane.
It's pretty cheap. You might get seventy five bucks each way,
no big deal. Now, like you have to get to
the airport two hours early.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You're going to go through security.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You got to deal with boarding the plane, yeah, parking
or an uber or something to get there and these
von Lane thing and Buddy of mine uses all the time.
You just get on, like five minutes before departure.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Let's go, yeah, pull.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Up park, get on.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Get some work done. They got snacks, whatever you want, Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Here. It's great and it's close to the equivalent of
a first class airline seat. Don't picture greyhound here, friends,
it ain't gund.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One of my favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Songs, thank God, and Greyhound She's gone that I can't
remember it was one of my favorites. Anyway, that's not
great hot, it's really comfortable, and they've got attendance on
the on the bus, they serve cocktails, they serve mails,
they've got Wi Fi, they got TV's. It's yeah, it's
pretty sweet. But one hundred and twenty five bucks each way.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Yeah, well for the first couple of months, I believe
it's one oh nine, and then it's going to jump
to a standard one twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm not going to pay that, JB. Would you? I mean,
it's great.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I'm just trying to think of what I would spend
on fuel alone and mileage on my car.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
But if you're a business person, you can sit there
and get work done on the three hour trip rather
than if you're just driving.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's why my buddy likes it.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's like, I can catch up on emails and just
be productive.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I think I guarantee you can drive it.
I mean, if you're trying to do the math JB.
You can drive there and back for less than two
hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You know, BUCkies will get you. BUCkies will get you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Doesn't you stop at the Kolachi place in West.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That'd be funny if they had a special you know,
like one trip a week that stopped at Bucky's and
then another one.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's just like you're in a field trip. Your big
bus pulls up.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And on the way home.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Just don't put me on the bus with all those
women that want to go to the the the Waco thing,
the Magnolios.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The silos.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
If I was on a bus with all those women, Oh,
I stopped there with someone just out of curiosity because
it's such a big thing, and it's like, there's nothing
here I want, even if it was if it was free, nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I would walk out of this place with.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
When I went there for the first time, it was
like I was being called home by the mother ship.
I was heard music, the clouds parted and the sun
shone down.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I've never been there, but I just picture a lot
of framed live laugh love type of lots of that.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No, there's not either lift.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Lave tons of etched pieces of wood.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
With cool sayings.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
They're not lift laft life saying did you not see
the bakery?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Did you not go in the bakery?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I don't remember, Oh, JB, why did you worth another?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If I go?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
There's nothing I want here?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh I wanted all of it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This is chipping Joanna Gaines right, yes, yeah, are they
still doing a TV show?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
They have their own network, they started their own Magnolia network.
They're doing anything they want to do. And they just
opened a new hotel. I think it's called the Magnolia
that is apparently supposed to be amazing. I have a
friend who stayed there a couple of times, like every
detail you could possibly imagine, amazing food, amazing grooms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I heard about that hotel is that every guest that
stays there gets a free live left Love magnet when
they leave.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
They do not making that up.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Stick around. We've got more coming up. It's the JB
and Sandy Show in Austin's eighties station one O three
point one. It's pretty funny how different JB and his
wife Aaron's marriage is compared to Tricia and I's marriage,
especially when it comes to acquiring a car.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Right. So JB's going through this with his wife. Just
did it right? Is it done? Yep?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Pretty much?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I just need to go. They were just gonna detail
the car for it and then I'm gonna go pick
it up. That's all it remains. Everything, the deal is done,
all right.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So what's different about it is JB just handled it
for his wife, And if I tried to just handle
it for Tricia, I would get nowhere. I have no
say in the vehicle that she drives, none whatsoever, So
tell everybody what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Happened and how it goes. Was an insurance thing and
all that, right.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Well, she had an accident in total of her car
in August, and we had an extra car. She's just
been driving that for a while because you know, it
was fine, and we didn't really know what she wanted.
And then I decided to sell that car. So it's like, okay,
I need to get you something, and I just started
shopping and sometimes I will show it to her, like
(09:09):
just to get final approval, but I pretty much know
what she likes and doesn't like, and I don't like
including her in the deal because so I'd like to
think I'm a pretty hard negotiator on buying a car,
and she gets too emotionally involved in the deal. Once
she sees something she loves, she cannot detach and I
(09:32):
can walk away easy that you know, the salesperson gets
the little sideways with me or tries to screw me
over once I just walk Yeah, I almost walked on
this deal because I said, look, I've got like an
eight hundred and forty credit score.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You're going to get me the lowest right possible, or
I'll go get it on my own.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And they came back with this higher rate and I
almost walked on the whole deal just because I found
it insulting. Instead, I called my bank and got it die.
But she gets just way too emotionally involved, and I
just like, I like the art of looking for it.
I don't maybe when I was younger, I would be
intimidated by a car dealership.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't care anymore. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You just when you process too.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, and when you're willing to walk away.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's just it.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, there was another car I was looking at at
the same time I was looking at too, simultaneously, and
they came back, you know. And this was not the
salesperson's fault. The salesperson is actually a friend of mine.
But these sales manager trying these cheesy tactics. Sometimes they
had the car I was trying to buy had a
five thousand dollars accessory charge on it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's a used vehicle.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh my god, so.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Five thousand over what they had it listed on their
site for.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
So that the salesperson sent over the offer and said, oh,
I got you where you wanted on your trade in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I go, but what's this five thousand dollars? Yes, yeah, he.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Goes, Oh, we can work on getting that removed. I go, No,
I'm done, ye, done with you all. Tell your sales strateager.
They screwed up that, Yes, and it was and you
know it, and I know it. I'm sorry to my friend,
I said, I'm sorry you didn't get the deal. I
would have bought that car today, but they tried to
get cute.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, did you just go down to South I thirty
five and put the big token in the Carvana.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Thing and push it up.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The machine came down and opened up like you get
a bag of Dorito's.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Some kind of like big pee wee Herman Koin goes
in it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I just just so yeah you would have you would?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I mean, you're You're different about cars than my wife is.
She likes a great car, but she doesn't take care
of them.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You are meticulous.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I love cars. I love taking care of it. I
like for my car to like brand new at all times.
I love going and cleaning my car. I get everything
done maintenance. Why is it supposed to be done. I
just have this obsession with cars. So that's why I
could never just say, Santy, I need a cargo, find
(12:11):
me something. I can never do that. But what I
love that you do, JB, is you find Here's what
I told Sandy is like JB gets rich people cars,
but he gets it for regular people prices.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Because we when we met you.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Somewhere recently, we were walking in and there was this
a Range Rover and I was like, oh, I love
the paint on that. The paint job on this Range
River super cool. And then we're leaving and it was yours,
and you're like, you're not going to leave the deal.
Like rich people cars for regular people pricing. That's what
I think is super.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Cools a real trick to it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I try to find higher end cars that have done
most of their depreciation.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, and then I get it. I buy it certified.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So I hear you what that means. What does that mean?
I see that all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, it means it's a used car, but it's still
covered under warranty. So I'll get something that's covered for
two three years, but it's a seven year old car.
And I find something with low mileage, you know, something
maybe under fifty thousand miles, in perfect condition, perfect car facts.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You can could get like a third of the price
that So paid brand new for it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The car I got her new is one sixty five. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I bought it for forty Yeah. Yeah, and it looks
new and it's covered bumper to bumper. That's that's what
I like. Yeah, I love I love those kind of deals.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's starting to sniff around for a car. Mine's just
getting a lot of miles. So I've got like one hundred.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And twenty thousand miles on it, and I'm kind of
getting antsy.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
And you're just asking for TYB.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will you find it for me?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Fun, it's fun, especially if you're willing to search, you know,
farther like Alice Houston.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
There's so much more inventory when it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Comes to a used car. To get the certified pre
owned that has, you have to buy it through a dealer.
You can't just buy it from a guy in Flutterville
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
There's a couple different ways to do that, depending on
the car, the age, the MILEAGEY might be able to
just buy it independently on your own, get some extended
coverage on it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You know you can work the dealers over to throw
it in too, to discount it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right now, Tristan's like, I want to get rid of
my car. You just got it.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I just got it. It's not even a year old.
But I do like my car. I got a Ford.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Explorer, this cool blue color, and I'm like, I like it.
It's a great car.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
But I dropped our daughter Landry off at school the
other morning, and when I picked her up, she's like, mom,
so and so saw your car, and so your car
is so cool and he's totally a car guy, and
so I was like, high school kid likes.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
My car, right, I really really like it. I really
really like it now.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But we're getting to that point soon where our daughter's
going to meet a car. She's going to be sixteen
at the end of May. So you know, I'll trick.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
You on putting when you put their kids in their
first car. So when my daughter started driving, she was seventeen.
By the time she started driving, I bought her a
three thousand dollars nineteen ninety eight Mercedes Tank.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I knew she was.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Going to wreck it, and she she hit no less
than a dozen things in the first two years and
then totaled it. And I think that helped save her
life because it was a nasty wreck.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But yeah, because it was a big car, big safe car. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I just don't know why people go crazy on their
teenager's first car. Statistically they're going to wreck it in the.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
First till my buddy Moore told me, he said, get
her something cheap because she's got a wreck it, and
you fall in love with the car because it's got
to get wrecked.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, that's comforting.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Even just even just drive away accidents like all of
our corecked when she started driving because she had.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All one of our friends and I'm not going to
say names, but his daughter drove the car through the
garage door. Yeah, and when she was just had her
license a couple of months, drove right through the garage door.
I think got there was another car on the other side.
But yeah, we still laugh about that.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Mary has a couple of high school guy friends who
their first cars. They both got the same first car,
black Mustang, Brandy black Mustang.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
A great friend of mine just got her son a
Mustang and I told her, and this is this is
coming from a guy that drove, you know, muscle car
Mustangs in high school. Yeah, you know, we drove big,
crazy cars. And I said, don't go get them a
Mustang with a V eight in it, as their first
car was too much power for a high schooler, right,
(16:51):
it's just way too much.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Just hit there.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
They're going to get better gas minors.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Let him drive a couple of years, and then if
they want something faster, fine, but not their first car.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Put them in something slow, right, But also.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
The insurance for a teenage boy with the brand new
black Mustang, what.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Is that like right, all right, yeah, well congratulations tell Er,
congratulations on her new car.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, it's just exciting used car, I guess, you know
what I know, you know what a car geek. I
am just getting something different.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Javi's had some cool cars over the years, that's
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Hey, it's Sandy. Thanks for finding the podcast version of
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Open up the iHeartRadio app update and use it. Here's
today's podcast, big news for commuters out of Austin. We're
(00:21):
gonna tell you guys about it in just a second.
Quick question for you guys, which one of these road
trips would you dread the most? Austin to San Antonio,
Austin to Houston, Austin to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Which one would you which is the worst of them?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Dallas by far?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh really, I think Austin to Dallas is the worst
of those three.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
For some reason. I think San Antonio. Austin is San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, that's a bad one. That's the second. To me.
It's just it's short.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
At least it's short, lots shorter. Yeah, there's no accidents.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Right right, but it stays like a skinny highway the
whole time.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You're just white knuckling it, trying not to get hit.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
I feel like on the way to Dallas at least
kind of opens up and gives you a little bit
more room.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
At some point you can breathe.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's a good point. That's yeah. It is white knuckled
all the way to San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I mean, especially by those dang outlet malls. It's just
crazy right there. And I would say the easiest of
those is Austin to Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh yeah, I think it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But now, but until you get to the edge of Houston.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Then once you get in Houston, it's it's on game over,
Like no one is sacred.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like game on. It's as far as driving fast, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They're intense drivers in Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And every time I go to Houston there's always some
guy on a crowd rocket motorcycle doing a wheelie. I
swear every time I get every time I go to Houston,
there's a guy motorcycles doing WHEELI somewhere. I don't know
if that's a Houston thing or what. Boy, by the way,
before we get in to tell you about this, this
new options to mute.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
By the way, shout out to ap D.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, guys, shut down the side shows with the cars.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Remember what we had at both the springs and lamar that.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, they do a takeover.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, street takeover. I thought this was like sign of
things to come in Austin. I thought this is going
to happen on the regular.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, Sir Ap said, not in our city. They got
a task force. They shut it down and arrested all
those people.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
A lot of them were not Austinites. They came in
just to reak havoc here. Yeah, I'm seeing more and
more of that, like the little gangs of four wheelers
and dirt bikes all running around stunt riding. Yeah, downtown.
Because I live close to downtown, I see it more often,
big time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
We see e bikes on that bike on the Cedar
Park trail.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wests baskets and little dogs in their baskets here in Suburbia.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Ringing their bell when they come up behind you on
and shut out.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It doesn't It's scary when you're walking and their bike
goes zooming by you. A little heads up on your
left would be nice, yeah, because it's or up out
of you sometimes, Yeah, zoom up right behind you anyway.
The reason we bring all this up with the commutes
and stuff is because Von Lane, the luxury bus liner
that runs from Austin to Houston and Austin to Dallas
(03:26):
is introducing more routes, Is that right, Tricia?
Speaker 6 (03:29):
They are making daily Austin to Dallas routes available now.
It used to be I think, like three days a
week or you know that kind of I don't know
what the old win was. But now they're doing him
every day Monday, Thursday, and Friday. There's a North Dallas
departure time and a North Austin departure time different than
the ones.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
They have him seven days a week.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You can get a luxury bus seat on von Lane
back and forth Dallas every day.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's interesting to a.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Lot of people that it sounds kind of miserable because
we just talked about how miserable.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That drive is.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, one, you're not driving, but now even to do
like a Austin Dallas flight, which we used to think
nothing of. Right, Right, you don't jump on a plane.
It's pretty cheap. You might get seventy five bucks each way,
no big deal. Now, like you have to get to
the airport two hours early.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You're going to go through security.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You got to deal with boarding the plane, yeah, parking
or an uber or something to get there and these
von Lane thing and Buddy of mine uses all the time.
You just get on, like five minutes before departure.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Let's go, yeah, pull.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Up park, get on.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Get some work done. They got snacks, whatever you want, Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Here. It's great and it's close to the equivalent of
a first class airline seat. Don't picture greyhound here, friends,
it ain't gund.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One of my favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Songs, thank God, and Greyhound She's gone that I can't
remember it was one of my favorites. Anyway, that's not
great hot, it's really comfortable, and they've got attendance on
the on the bus, they serve cocktails, they serve mails,
they've got Wi Fi, they got TV's. It's yeah, it's
pretty sweet. But one hundred and twenty five bucks each way.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Yeah, well for the first couple of months, I believe
it's one oh nine, and then it's going to jump
to a standard one twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm not going to pay that, JB. Would you? I mean,
it's great.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I'm just trying to think of what I would spend
on fuel alone and mileage on my car.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
But if you're a business person, you can sit there
and get work done on the three hour trip rather
than if you're just driving.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's why my buddy likes it.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's like, I can catch up on emails and just
be productive.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I think I guarantee you can drive it.
I mean, if you're trying to do the math JB.
You can drive there and back for less than two
hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You know, BUCkies will get you. BUCkies will get you.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Doesn't you stop at the Kolachi place in West.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That'd be funny if they had a special you know,
like one trip a week that stopped at Bucky's and
then another one.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
It's just like you're in a field trip. Your big
bus pulls up.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And on the way home.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Just don't put me on the bus with all those
women that want to go to the the the Waco thing,
the Magnolios.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The silos.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
If I was on a bus with all those women, Oh,
I stopped there with someone just out of curiosity because
it's such a big thing, and it's like, there's nothing
here I want, even if it was if it was free, nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I would walk out of this place with.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
When I went there for the first time, it was
like I was being called home by the mother ship.
I was heard music, the clouds parted and the sun
shone down.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I've never been there, but I just picture a lot
of framed live laugh love type of lots of that.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
No, there's not either lift.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Lave tons of etched pieces of wood.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
With cool sayings.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
They're not lift laft life saying did you not see
the bakery?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Did you not go in the bakery?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I don't remember, Oh, JB, why did you worth another?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If I go?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
There's nothing I want here?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh I wanted all of it.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This is chipping Joanna Gaines right, yes, yeah, are they
still doing a TV show?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
They have their own network, they started their own Magnolia network.
They're doing anything they want to do. And they just
opened a new hotel. I think it's called the Magnolia
that is apparently supposed to be amazing. I have a
friend who stayed there a couple of times, like every
detail you could possibly imagine, amazing food, amazing grooms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I heard about that hotel is that every guest that
stays there gets a free live left Love magnet when
they leave.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
They do not making that up.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Stick around. We've got more coming up. It's the JB
and Sandy Show in Austin's eighties station one O three
point one. It's pretty funny how different JB and his
wife Aaron's marriage is compared to Tricia and I's marriage,
especially when it comes to acquiring a car.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Right. So JB's going through this with his wife. Just
did it right? Is it done? Yep?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Pretty much?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I just need to go. They were just gonna detail
the car for it and then I'm gonna go pick
it up. That's all it remains. Everything, the deal is done,
all right.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So what's different about it is JB just handled it
for his wife, And if I tried to just handle
it for Tricia, I would get nowhere. I have no
say in the vehicle that she drives, none whatsoever, So
tell everybody what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Happened and how it goes. Was an insurance thing and
all that, right.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Well, she had an accident in total of her car
in August, and we had an extra car. She's just
been driving that for a while because you know, it
was fine, and we didn't really know what she wanted.
And then I decided to sell that car. So it's like, okay,
I need to get you something, and I just started
shopping and sometimes I will show it to her, like
(09:09):
just to get final approval, but I pretty much know
what she likes and doesn't like, and I don't like
including her in the deal because so I'd like to
think I'm a pretty hard negotiator on buying a car,
and she gets too emotionally involved in the deal. Once
she sees something she loves, she cannot detach and I
(09:32):
can walk away easy that you know, the salesperson gets
the little sideways with me or tries to screw me
over once I just walk Yeah, I almost walked on
this deal because I said, look, I've got like an
eight hundred and forty credit score.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You're going to get me the lowest right possible, or
I'll go get it on my own.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And they came back with this higher rate and I
almost walked on the whole deal just because I found
it insulting. Instead, I called my bank and got it die.
But she gets just way too emotionally involved, and I
just like, I like the art of looking for it.
I don't maybe when I was younger, I would be
intimidated by a car dealership.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't care anymore. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You just when you process too.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, and when you're willing to walk away.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's just it.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, there was another car I was looking at at
the same time I was looking at too, simultaneously, and
they came back, you know. And this was not the
salesperson's fault. The salesperson is actually a friend of mine.
But these sales manager trying these cheesy tactics. Sometimes they
had the car I was trying to buy had a
five thousand dollars accessory charge on it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It's a used vehicle.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh my god, so.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Five thousand over what they had it listed on their
site for.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
So that the salesperson sent over the offer and said, oh,
I got you where you wanted on your trade in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I go, but what's this five thousand dollars? Yes, yeah, he.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Goes, Oh, we can work on getting that removed. I go, No,
I'm done, ye, done with you all. Tell your sales strateager.
They screwed up that, Yes, and it was and you
know it, and I know it. I'm sorry to my friend,
I said, I'm sorry you didn't get the deal. I
would have bought that car today, but they tried to
get cute.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, did you just go down to South I thirty
five and put the big token in the Carvana.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Thing and push it up.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The machine came down and opened up like you get
a bag of Dorito's.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Some kind of like big pee wee Herman Koin goes
in it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I just just so yeah you would have you would?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I mean, you're You're different about cars than my wife is.
She likes a great car, but she doesn't take care
of them.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You are meticulous.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I love cars. I love taking care of it. I
like for my car to like brand new at all times.
I love going and cleaning my car. I get everything
done maintenance. Why is it supposed to be done. I
just have this obsession with cars. So that's why I
could never just say, Santy, I need a cargo, find
(12:11):
me something. I can never do that. But what I
love that you do, JB, is you find Here's what
I told Sandy is like JB gets rich people cars,
but he gets it for regular people prices.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Because we when we met you.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Somewhere recently, we were walking in and there was this
a Range Rover and I was like, oh, I love
the paint on that. The paint job on this Range
River super cool. And then we're leaving and it was yours,
and you're like, you're not going to leave the deal.
Like rich people cars for regular people pricing. That's what
I think is super.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Cools a real trick to it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I try to find higher end cars that have done
most of their depreciation.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, and then I get it. I buy it certified.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So I hear you what that means. What does that mean?
I see that all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, it means it's a used car, but it's still
covered under warranty. So I'll get something that's covered for
two three years, but it's a seven year old car.
And I find something with low mileage, you know, something
maybe under fifty thousand miles, in perfect condition, perfect car facts.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You can could get like a third of the price
that So paid brand new for it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
The car I got her new is one sixty five. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I bought it for forty Yeah. Yeah, and it looks
new and it's covered bumper to bumper. That's that's what
I like. Yeah, I love I love those kind of deals.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's starting to sniff around for a car. Mine's just
getting a lot of miles. So I've got like one hundred.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And twenty thousand miles on it, and I'm kind of
getting antsy.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
And you're just asking for TYB.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Will you find it for me?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Fun, it's fun, especially if you're willing to search, you know,
farther like Alice Houston.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
There's so much more inventory when it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Comes to a used car. To get the certified pre
owned that has, you have to buy it through a dealer.
You can't just buy it from a guy in Flutterville
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
There's a couple different ways to do that, depending on
the car, the age, the MILEAGEY might be able to
just buy it independently on your own, get some extended
coverage on it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You know you can work the dealers over to throw
it in too, to discount it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right now, Tristan's like, I want to get rid of
my car. You just got it.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I just got it. It's not even a year old.
But I do like my car. I got a Ford.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Explorer, this cool blue color, and I'm like, I like it.
It's a great car.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
But I dropped our daughter Landry off at school the
other morning, and when I picked her up, she's like, mom,
so and so saw your car, and so your car
is so cool and he's totally a car guy, and
so I was like, high school kid likes.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
My car, right, I really really like it. I really
really like it now.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But we're getting to that point soon where our daughter's
going to meet a car. She's going to be sixteen
at the end of May. So you know, I'll trick.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
You on putting when you put their kids in their
first car. So when my daughter started driving, she was seventeen.
By the time she started driving, I bought her a
three thousand dollars nineteen ninety eight Mercedes Tank.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I knew she was.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Going to wreck it, and she she hit no less
than a dozen things in the first two years and
then totaled it. And I think that helped save her
life because it was a nasty wreck.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But yeah, because it was a big car, big safe car. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I just don't know why people go crazy on their
teenager's first car. Statistically they're going to wreck it in the.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
First till my buddy Moore told me, he said, get
her something cheap because she's got a wreck it, and
you fall in love with the car because it's got
to get wrecked.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, that's comforting.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Even just even just drive away accidents like all of
our corecked when she started driving because she had.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All one of our friends and I'm not going to
say names, but his daughter drove the car through the
garage door. Yeah, and when she was just had her
license a couple of months, drove right through the garage door.
I think got there was another car on the other side.
But yeah, we still laugh about that.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Mary has a couple of high school guy friends who
their first cars. They both got the same first car,
black Mustang, Brandy black Mustang.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
A great friend of mine just got her son a
Mustang and I told her, and this is this is
coming from a guy that drove, you know, muscle car
Mustangs in high school. Yeah, you know, we drove big,
crazy cars. And I said, don't go get them a
Mustang with a V eight in it, as their first
car was too much power for a high schooler, right,
(16:51):
it's just way too much.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Just hit there.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
They're going to get better gas minors.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Let him drive a couple of years, and then if
they want something faster, fine, but not their first car.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Put them in something slow, right, But also.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
The insurance for a teenage boy with the brand new
black Mustang, what.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Is that like right, all right, yeah, well congratulations tell Er,
congratulations on her new car.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, it's just exciting used car, I guess, you know
what I know, you know what a car geek. I
am just getting something different.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Javi's had some cool cars over the years, that's
for sure. Hey, thanks for listening to the podcast. We'll
see you on the radio every morning from six until
ten on Austin's eighty station what O three point one,
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