The JB and Sandy Show
by Sandy McIlree
The podcast version of the incredibly popular JB and Sandy Show in Austin, Texas. You can listen live Monday-Friday from 6:00 am-10:00 am on 98.1 KVET. Stream from anywhere on the iHeart Radio App or online at KVET.com JB and Sandy on YouTube
Episodes
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FULL SHOW (Friday, Nov 13): Jeremy Piven, Cam Parker on Texas at LSU, Potluck Season, and Johnny Depp's Scrooge
Friday's full JB and Sandy Show without the music and commercials. Actor Jeremy Piven stops by ahead of his Cap City Comedy Club shows to talk Ari Gold, Arch Manning, and his Austin hangouts. Cam Parker from AM 1300 The Zone breaks down the Longhorns at LSU in Death Valley. Potluck season is...
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Congratulations, Dennis: The Sheet Cake Potluck Plan and Mezcal Explained
What happens if you bring a sheet cake to the office potluck with a name nobody knows? It is the Friday wrap-up, and the crew runs through the things they learned this week. With the potluck spreadsheet nearly full, the plan is a sheet cake from H-E-B that says Congratulations, Dennis, and then…
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Johnny Depp Plays Scrooge, and Dolly Parton's Last Song Is Here
Is a darker Christmas Carol exactly what the holidays need? Steven Presley from Thunderpop TV joins JB, Sandy and Tricia to talk Johnny Depp's first major release in 10 years. Depp plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a darker take on the Dickens classic from director Ty West, who is known for horror, and...
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Potluck Season Survival: Brownie Bites, Narnia Coworkers, and Dad's $2 Ice
Whose potluck dish would you secretly refuse to eat? Sandy declares potluck season open as Thanksgiving gets closer, and Tricia admits she struggles with eating food from certain people's kitchens. The crew breaks down sign-up sheet strategy, where the first person to reply always grabs the…
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Death Valley Under the Lights: Cam Parker Breaks Down Texas at LSU
Can a three-loss SEC team still crash the College Football Playoff? Cam Parker from sister station AM 1300 The Zone joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of the Longhorns' night game in Baton Rouge. Cam calls it the SEC gauntlet: beat Missouri, then head straight into Death Valley against an LSU team...
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Story We Love: Bring a Bottle, Get In Free at Austin Nature Centers
What if one plastic bottle was your ticket to a day outside? Tricia has the Story We Love. In celebration of Texas Recycles Day, H-E-B is covering admission at 20 nature centers across the state. Bring one recyclable plastic bottle or one single-use plastic bag per person and you are in. Around...
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Jeremy Piven, Part 2: Austin Hangouts and the Road to Stand-Up
What does a Hollywood actor do with a free night in Austin? In part 2, new Austinite Jeremy Piven shares his routine: cigars and mezcal at a little bar off Sixth Street, a set at the Creek and the Cave, and the Mothership, the room Joe Rogan designed with low ceilings made for stand-up. In…
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Jeremy Piven, Part 1: 'Are You Ari Gold, or Was That a Character?'
What do you do when people still think you are the character you played? Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven, Ari Gold from Entourage, joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of his stand-up shows at Cap City Comedy Club. Asked which project he enjoyed most, Jeremy points to a film he has been working on…
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Story We Love: The Great Microsoft Outage and the Breakfast Taco Red Alert
Did you think your email was broken just because of you? It starts with theories about a rodent chewing through the cables or a copper thief, and a group verdict that copper and catalytic converter thieves are the lowest of the low. Then Tricia has the Story We Love on what is being called the...
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Care Don't Care: Fajitas at a Birthday Dinner and the 12-Second Wi-Fi Rage
Is it rude to order sizzling fajitas at somebody else's birthday dinner? Tricia brings the great fajita debate to Care Don't Care: people online have argued for years that the sizzle steals the spotlight from the birthday person. Not everyone is buying it, and the conversation detours into…
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Is That Really Jim Carrey? Steven Presley on Clone Rumors and a Superman Comeback
If you could send a stand-in to do one thing for you, what would it be? Steven Presley of Thunderpop TV joins JB, Sandy and Tricia to unpack the latest celebrity conspiracy: did a fake Jim Carrey show up to accept an honorary award in France? Steven walks through the Andy Kaufman influence and…
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Story We Love: Peppermint Parkway Moves Inside Kota Land at COTA
What is the one holiday tradition that really flips on your Christmas spirit? Tricia has the Story We Love: the Circuit of the Americas holiday lights are back, and this year the experience moves inside Kota Land with a new name, Peppermint in the Park. You still get the millions of lights and…
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Swigging Crown Royal on a Private Jet: Sandy's LSU Game Confession
What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever done in a fancy setting? With a big Longhorns road game in Death Valley on deck, the crew teases Sandy that the old him would be most excited about the drinking and the new him about the food. That sends Sandy into a story he has never told on the...
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Steven Presley on I Play Rocky, Adrian's Red Beret and Rocky in Concert
What makes a movie about making a movie worth the hype? It is new jingle week, so Steven Presley of Thunderpop TV gets a brand new one before diving into I Play Rocky, the behind the scenes story of how the original Rocky got made. One of the hosts has a complaint about the Apollo Creed casting,...
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Full Show: Pickup Line Shutdowns, Rapid Fire Q&A, Tricia's DFW Rant, and a Bigfoot Stamp
What does a Thursday morning sound like when Sandy is still in Omaha and Tricia is just back from the worst airport day of her life? This is the full JB and Sandy Show podcast for Thursday, November 12: the greatest pickup line shutdown ever, a coffee bar coming to the old Seaholm Intake, Care...
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I'm Breaking Up With DFW, JB Wants a Truck, and Bigfoot Gets a Stamp
How many times can an airport burn you before you break up with it? In the Thursday wrap-up, Tricia announces she is officially done with DFW after one too many connecting flights in the wrong direction, so the next trip to Omaha might route all the way through Chicago. Denver gets floated as the...
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Should You Stop Raking Leaves? Plus Sandy's Backpack Leaf Blower Adventure
What if the best thing you can do for your yard is nothing? Sandy finds raking leaves oddly satisfying, so he is surprised to learn there is a movement to stop doing it. The case: skip the plastic bags that never break down in a landfill, let leaves shelter wildlife through the winter, and let…
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The Wrath of Tricia: A Missing Plane, Five Delays, and a Very Silent Uber
How do you turn a one hour flight into four hours of rage? Tricia finally gets to vent about her trip home through DFW. A mechanical issue, then no plane at all, a gate change, a wait for catering nobody wanted, and an air conditioning light that came on after the plane had already started to...
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Story We Love: The Bullock Museum Turns the 90s Into an Exhibit
When did your own life become museum material? The Bullock Texas State History Museum is opening an exhibit on the 90s, billed as the last decade before the future. Blockbuster turned everyone into a critic, Beanie Babies were serious business, the Macarena took over every Joe's Crab Shack, and...
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What Is a Pump Track? Bike Buddies, Bactine, and Jeans With a Sailboat Patch
Have you ever pedaled a bike without pedaling? Sandy and Tricia learned a new word from JB: pump track. It is a wavy concrete loop for bikes and skateboards where you pump through the dips and never have to push, and Central Texas keeps opening new ones, from Georgetown to Kyle. Sandy gets…
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Rapid Fire Q&A: JB's Dive Bar Pick, a Deep Eddy Hat, and the Ailment He'd Ditch
Which one thing would you give up for good: the vehicle, the bar, or the ailment? In Rapid Fire Q&A, JB gets quick questions he has to answer on the spot. If he could only drive one vehicle for the rest of his life, the Porsche talk lasts about two seconds before the honest answer lands: a truck....
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Story We Love: Bigfoot Gets a Forever Stamp and Tricia Feels Vindicated
How much more evidence do you need that Bigfoot is real? For Tricia, a postage stamp might be it. The US Postal Service's 2027 Forever stamp line is Mythical Creatures, designed by a tattoo artist at Royal Legion in Austin, and right there next to the jackalope and the squonk is Sasquatch.…
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Care Don't Care: Can You Hide Shaq, and Oscar the Grouch Was Almost Magenta
Does Tricia finally approve of the new Care Don't Care jingle? Our jingle guy picked up on Tricia's lukewarm review and sent a new version, and one surprise at the end seals the deal. Then Care Don't Care: tire slashings near Mabel Davis Park in East Austin and why anybody would do it, plus a new...
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Story We Love: A Coffee Bar Is Coming to the Old Seaholm Intake on Lady Bird Lake
Why does Lady Bird Lake have so few places to sit down with a view? Tricia has the Story We Love: the Trail Conservancy and Austin Parks and Recreation have launched phase two of the Seaholm Waterfront project, turning the historic intake building on Cesar Chavez into a stop along the hike and…
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Thanks, I Keep My Poop in It: The Greatest Pickup Line Shutdown Ever
What is the best way to shut down a bad pickup line at the bar? Tricia's first laugh is an overheard exchange so perfect the whole room loses it, and Sandy has the comeback he wishes the guy had used. JB admits he was never a pickup line guy, tried one once, got shot down, and retired on the…
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Winter Is Coming: The Story Sandy Told at His Father's Funeral
JB asked Sandy to retell one story from his father's eulogy, the one that made the room go quiet. Winter is coming. It is not really about the weather. It is about preparing, staying grateful, and remembering that whatever is coming, we can handle it. Sandy walks back through the church, the...
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JB and Sandy Full Show Wednesday Nov 11: Winter Is Coming, a Space Force Coin, and 10 Years Sober
Have you ever heard a eulogy story that made a hard week feel lighter? The whole Wednesday JB and Sandy Show is right here. We open on Veterans Day with First Laugh email sign-offs, then Story We Love hits Texas at number eight and a night game in Baton Rouge. JB makes his first trip to Omaha for...
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Dad Held On Long Enough for a Free Plot
If you missed Winter Is Coming earlier, it will have its own segment, and the whole show will be there too. JB asked Sandy to retell that eulogy story because a lot of people need a kick in the butt to be a little more grateful for what they have. Things We Learned recaps a beautiful service, a...
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10 Years Sober Through the Hardest Week, and a Gin Martini He Will Never Drink
What would have cracked you? JB commends Sandy on 10 years sober after a week that piled on all at once: his dad going from hospital to hospice and passing within 24 hours, his mom Apple rushed in the next night, and Bridget, her little Shih Tzu, ripping out a toenail so badly Tricia, Landry, and...
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Dad's 1980s Space Force Coin and the Captains at Phone Number One
Have you ever eavesdropped on a conversation that made you feel 10 steps behind? Sandy sat down at Phone Number One, a Vietnamese spot near Offutt Air Force Base, and two young captains at the next table started talking about moving over to the Space Force and mechanical orbiting. He can barely...
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Dress Blues, Crackerjacks, and Story We Love: Project Bolo
What uniform is your favorite? Sandy puts Tricia on the spot, and she goes with the Marines in their dress blues, then the Navy in those crackerjack sailor whites. They all make her feel a little funny, and she almost forgets the one Sandy knew she loved. Then it is Story We Love: Project Bolo…
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The Safety Vest Was Too Small, So I Needed an Extender
Did you love going to the dump as a kid, or was that just Sandy and Tricia? JB does not remember a single childhood dump run. He figures his family just ate everything. As a young adult in Austin, the 290 dump was a different animal, and the fear of being sent home with an uncovered load is real....
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Story We Love: Austin's Light Rail Finally Points at the Airport
Story We Love: the city has officially started design work to connect light rail to Austin-Bergstrom. That is the piece everybody actually wants, downtown to the airport. Then the catch lands: the first extension is a three-mile stretch from Yellow Jacket Station on East Riverside to the airport....
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Care Don't Care: Chipotle Tattoos, Portland Toilet Rats, and Hootie
Tricia rolls out a new Care Don't Care jingle, then three very different cares. First, Chipotle is giving a buy-one-get-one burrito or bowl on Friday the 13th from 3 to 4 if you have a tattoo, even a temporary or drawn-on one. Last time they did it, it was the biggest sales day in company…
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JB's First Trip to Omaha: Brick Streets, Cascio's, and John Hughes
It is JB's first trip to Omaha after decades of hearing Sandy talk about it. The brick streets in the Old Market feel like home, a mix of Atchison, Kansas, and Kansas City, and the steak at Cascio's, a family-run Italian steakhouse that has not been remodeled in 60 years, does not need any sauce....
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Story We Love: Texas Is No. 8 and a Night Game in Baton Rouge
Story We Love starts with a 34-20 Longhorns win at Missouri and a jump to number eight in the AP Top 25. Georgia is still number one, and the only ranking that really matters is whoever is sitting at twelve, because that is the College Football Playoff line. Then it is Saturday night in Baton...
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I Sign My Emails With Best, Which Is Short for I Am the Best
Sandy is back after a couple of days off for his dad's funeral, and he opens Veterans Day by saluting the people this station was named for. KVET was founded for veterans, and the desk will keep recognizing them throughout the morning. Then it is First Laugh. Tricia signs her emails with best,...
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JB and Sandy Full Show Friday Nov 6: Holmes Documentary, Cybertruck Ugly Baby and Things We Learned
Ever spent three hours whispering through an Elizabeth Holmes documentary with your kid? The whole Friday JB and Sandy Show is right here. We open with Christmas gift cards and First Laugh, then Story We Love hits a secret beach robbery and later Waymo ending its Uber partnership. Care Don't Care...
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Things We Learned: Waymo App Split, Holmes Quirks, and Cam's Nail-Biter Pick
Ready for the Friday wrap of everything that stuck? Things We Learned closes out The JB and Sandy Show. Waymo and Uber are heading for a split after the Waymo CEO called rider assignment a crapshoot, and by January 2028 Waymo plans its own app so you can always request a driverless car. JB is...
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Steven Presley: Chaparral Well Bleeding Hearts and Nic Cage as John Madden
What happens when a country duo falls in love for real and Hollywood casts Nic Cage as John Madden? Steven Presley from Thunder Pop TV swings by The JB and Sandy Show with the latest. Chaparral Well just screened their documentary Bleeding Hearts at the Austin Film Festival and play Central…
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Cybertruck Ugly Baby and the Austin Gigafactory
If you are in the market for a brand new Cybertruck, none of you are. Tesla is winding down Austin Gigafactory production for the truck that was supposed to sell 250,000 a year and is shifting space to Cybercab robotaxis. JB calls it an ugly baby, Tricia notes you never see a woman riding…
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Trisha Funeral Shopping, Size-12 Shoes, and Joseph A. Bank
Payday means guessing what Trisha spent her DJ check on. This week it is a green funeral dress, a necklace, shoes for Sunday dinner, and a facial, while Sandy tries to sneak size-12 dress shoes into her carry-on. JB swings by Joseph A. Bank for a suit that briefly goes missing, then leaves with…
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Cam Parker: Longhorns, Missouri, and the Playoff Rankings
Cameron Parker, also the play-by-play voice of the Texas State Bobcats, breaks down the first College Football Playoff rankings that matter and the Missouri trap game in Columbia. Early road kickoff, LSU next, and a 23-21 Longhorns lean. Plus Backport Social in Round Rock if you are watching from...
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Omaha Neighborhood Reveille, Cold Weather, and Hallmark Snow
Sandy is in his childhood bedroom near Offutt Air Force Base, where reveille, the anthem, retreat, and taps still roll across the neighborhood every day. Then Texas blood meets a 40-degree Omaha sidewalk chat with Mr. King in a T-shirt, and Tricia's Hallmark-movie snow fantasy takes a hit from...
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Story We Love: WKRP Turkey Drop Comes to Life
Story We Love: the real WKRP in Cincinnati is recreating the sitcom turkey drop with rubber birds, firefighter sponsors, and cash prizes for numbered turkeys. Les Nessman, bags of wet cement, and as God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly. The desk rolls into why big radio stunts died after...
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Steven Presley: Justin Timberlake Club and Spelunker TV
Steven Presley from ThunderPop TV joins with two Austin/culture hits. First, Justin Timberlake's 1230 Club is headed for the old federal courthouse on 6th - speakeasy, members-only, dinner-and-a-show - and JB is protective of Austin not turning into LA. Cue the old Rock and Roll Cafe and House of...
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Elizabeth Holmes and The You Can See Everything Documentary
JB took his daughter to The You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary. It is three hours of quiet close-talks, a director who may have fallen for his subject, and a boyfriend in Austin who comes off as the real villain. Turkey jerky from the prison commissary is the unexpected...
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Story We Love: Waymo Peels Off From Uber in Austin
Story We Love digs into Waymo's plan to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber after riders got tired of the crapshoot. You never knew if you were getting an autonomous car or a human driver, and JB has been begging for the option to just order the Waymo. In January 2028, Waymo plans to...
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Steven Presley: Movie Hypnosis, Godzilla, and I Play Rocky
Thunder Pop TV's Steven Presley joins the show for a packed movie weekend. First up is a Dutch theater chain trying hypnosis so thirty people can temporarily forget a favorite film and watch it like the first time, with Matrix, Seven, La La Land, and Interstellar on the menu. Then it is Godzilla...
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Care Don't Care: Social Media Mystery, Powerball, and a Rabid Bat
Tricia rolls into Care Don't Care with three that should not live together and somehow do. First, the sweet spot for guys on social media if they want a date: a survey of thousands of women says barely posting beats documenting every detail of your life. Then it is Powerball. A New Jersey winner...
About this show
The podcast version of the incredibly popular JB and Sandy Show in Austin, Texas.
You can listen live Monday-Friday from 6:00 am-10:00 am on 98.1 KVET. Stream from anywhere on the iHeart Radio App or online at KVET.com
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Hosted by
Sandy McIlree