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Speaker 1: It's still it still rains, dominant.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: The other one is when our discussion about what the
Speaker 3: hell's going on with the toll tags people? Really, I
Speaker 3: was so happy to know that I wasn't the only
Speaker 3: one that was completely baffled by the toll tags situation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean completely confused by it. So check out the podcast.
Speaker 3: It's available every single day. Search JB and Sandy on
Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. JB found an Instagram video that we're
Speaker 3: going to play for you guys that I think everyone
Speaker 3: anyone that's lived here for any amount of time, we
Speaker 3: have all said this, right JB.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I could so relate to this woman when
Speaker 1: you're driving around Austin just going what yeah, how did
Speaker 1: I miss out on this life? What?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What bad decision did I make that led me to
Speaker 3: where I am versus where these here?
Speaker 2: I'll play the audio for you.
Speaker 3: She's standing a woman standing to top Mount Banell and
Speaker 3: video and looking down onto Lake Austin.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're all the big beautiful homes are.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that section of homes is like referred to
Speaker 1: as the island, right. I think she's on Senior, she
Speaker 1: might be on Mount Banella Scenic Drive, but she's looking
Speaker 1: down at the island. That gated community that looks like
Speaker 1: it's almost floating out on the water, looks man made.
Speaker 2: And here's her reaction while watching the people do for
Speaker 2: a living?
Speaker 1: I mean really, and then what in the hell.
Speaker 4: Do you do for a living? Where you were you
Speaker 4: weren't several part time jobs?
Speaker 1: You work times?
Speaker 4: Are they hiring?
Speaker 2: Are they.
Speaker 4: You work several part time jobs?
Speaker 1: But yeah, included in that area where she's overlooking. We
Speaker 1: just talked about it a couple of weeks ago that
Speaker 1: the founder of Torchies Tacos is selling his place for
Speaker 1: like twenty three and a half million or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, crazy? But who hasn't said that?
Speaker 3: And by the way, I don't think it's a really
Speaker 3: that's not a new attitude in Austin. It's not like
Speaker 3: just in the last ten years. I've thought that for
Speaker 3: the last thirty years. Yeah, driving around, it's like, who
Speaker 3: who could buy these homes?
Speaker 2: What's crazy?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 5: What do you do to make all that money? And
Speaker 5: how do you know you're going to keep making all
Speaker 5: that money? Because you what you committed in this giant house?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't But honestly, would you want to house that big,
Speaker 3: like five thousand and eight ten thousand square feet?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Thanks, only only if you can also afford, which you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be buying it.
Speaker 2: If you can't.
Speaker 1: But if you can also afford the personnel to take
Speaker 1: care of it, the staff to do landscapers and housekeepers
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, because it's a lot to manage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, just I have to feel like
Speaker 3: a home that size something is always in need of repair.
Speaker 4: Right seeing it.
Speaker 5: And I lived in a larger home back in the day,
Speaker 5: and oh my god, it was exhausting and expensive and
Speaker 5: I felt nothing but relief when we sold it, and
Speaker 5: I said, it will never ever live in a large
Speaker 5: house ever again.
Speaker 4: Ever. Like I'm like, the smaller the better.
Speaker 5: I am full on subscribe to like tiny homes, you
Speaker 5: know when they show the teeny tiny ones.
Speaker 2: I love the size of your house, JB. I love
Speaker 2: the size of your head.
Speaker 4: It's exciting.
Speaker 1: I've seen hundred and fifty square feet. I love it,
Speaker 1: you know. But we're we're paying for location close to downtown.
Speaker 1: And it's funny, my, you know, when my wife and
Speaker 1: I well, when she brings up adding on to the house,
Speaker 1: I go, we have a whole living room we don't use.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: It has a kind of a you know, a casual
Speaker 1: family room by the kitchen, and then a formal more
Speaker 1: of a formal sitting room up front. It's kind of
Speaker 1: gone by the wayside, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But we don't even use that room. So no, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're having on Why do we need another one?
Speaker 3: I still I have, on more than one occasion, had
Speaker 3: a dream about buying my old house in Northwest Hills,
Speaker 3: which was nineteen hundred square feet, three bedroom.
Speaker 1: Loved it all that great.
Speaker 3: But it would have been a ton of money because
Speaker 3: it needed updates everything every Yeah, and anyway, I just
Speaker 3: I think it's random that I dream about, literally dream
Speaker 3: about going back to your first house, about going back
Speaker 3: to that house, and.
Speaker 5: I asked dreams about that big house we had, and
Speaker 5: there in my dream I'm like, oh my god, am
Speaker 5: I in charge of this again?
Speaker 4: Anxiety. It's not happy dreams.
Speaker 3: I literally get sad when I like, I exit one
Speaker 3: eighty three going on the three sixties south and drive
Speaker 3: by the Arboretum and drive by my old neighborhood on
Speaker 3: the left, and I literally have a sad feeling in
Speaker 3: my heart in my heart. But then you think about it,
Speaker 3: but everything works out for a reason. Right we moved
Speaker 3: out to the lake. We may we had a lot
Speaker 3: of great memories, made a lot of lifelong friends, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So it all kind of happens
Speaker 3: for a reason. It's a wax poetic here on the
Speaker 3: j Sanday Morning Job. Thanks for being with us, Tricia.
Speaker 3: Are you going to report some news for us? That's
Speaker 3: what you're hired for.
Speaker 4: That's what you guys pay me the big bucks for.
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about an Austin staple that is
Speaker 5: turned forty years old, and I cannot believe that it's
Speaker 5: already been around that long, and it will, as far
Speaker 5: as I'm concerned, probably never get old and never go away.
Speaker 4: Wait till you hear what it is.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you about something that's been
Speaker 3: gone for twenty years and I can't believe it's been
Speaker 3: twenty years. All right, stay with us. It's coming up
Speaker 3: on Austin's eighty station one o three point and Austin
Speaker 3: Business celebrating forty years in business. Tricia's got the story
Speaker 3: in just a second. But first I saw a Instagram
Speaker 3: reel of a place. As soon as I say the
Speaker 3: name of it, you're going to recognize it. But I
Speaker 3: don't know if this is true. They say it's been
Speaker 3: closed for twenty years. You're late Austin guy.
Speaker 1: The Pier, the Pier, I almost blurted that out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know the whole story. There's a weird story
Speaker 1: behind that property, and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Something weird happened. But yeah, back in the day. Let's
Speaker 1: give people an idea. So City Park City Park Road
Speaker 1: off twenty two, twenty two takes you all the way down,
Speaker 1: you know, down by uh. If you stay left, you
Speaker 1: go to Ski Shores.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: If you go right, stay right, you go down to
Speaker 1: City Park. Across from that more in the Couernavaca area
Speaker 1: down River Hills Road was a place called the Pier
Speaker 1: and they had live music, good bands. One of the
Speaker 1: best burgers in town. Yeah, and they used to have
Speaker 1: gas pumps yep, on Lake Austin. So it was back
Speaker 1: in the day. It was a thing for sure, right.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it's been gone twenty years. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what surprised me. But I mean still yeah, Ski Shores.
Speaker 1: So it changed hands about ten years ago. Friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Rick Ingel, bought it and then he sold it to
Speaker 1: the McGuire Mormon group. Oh, a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So you know, now you can get a twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars Hamburger, but it's good.
Speaker 5: Why from the Left Home studio there rich shop. So
Speaker 5: an Austin staple that has been around for forty years.
Speaker 5: All the things that have changed in Austin in the
Speaker 5: last forty years, this place has stood strong and I
Speaker 5: don't think anything could happen that could make it go
Speaker 5: away because it is an Austin favorite. They celebrated their
Speaker 5: fortieth birthday and it is Amy's ice Cream fortieth birthday.
Speaker 4: Forty years they've been around.
Speaker 5: So for people who might not be familiar with the Amy's,
Speaker 5: which I don't see how you've been in Austin any
Speaker 5: length of time and you don't know. You go into
Speaker 5: Amy's ice Cream there, people get you a big scoop
Speaker 5: of ice cream and then the fun begins because they're
Speaker 5: flipping your ice cream scoop in the air, they're slamming
Speaker 5: it down, they're mixing in the toppings and the fold ends,
Speaker 5: and the ice cream is incredibly good. So, yeah, forty
Speaker 5: years of people enjoying Amy's and making.
Speaker 1: Sure Yeah they're Mexican vanilla, yep.
Speaker 4: Slice strawberries.
Speaker 2: They just get it just right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: That's hard to believe. My daughter used to babysit for
Speaker 1: Amy Simmons. Really wow, Yeah, yeah, I mean she feels sweet,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's wild you think I want
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that she still owns it all, she and
Speaker 1: her husband, but you know, you think they could just
Speaker 1: cash out, yeah, retire, like sell all of them. One
Speaker 1: of the things I like the way that she or
Speaker 1: whoever does business with her. I don't know if her
Speaker 1: decisions are what, but you know, if a place isn't working,
Speaker 1: she just shuts it down and moves and opens another one,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It seems like I mean
Speaker 1: they're like some of the staple ones had been around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you'll see one for a while, then it shut down,
Speaker 1: then another one opens, like if it's not working. I
Speaker 1: think they just are really proactive on that, like yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: shut that down, Let's try this location.
Speaker 2: That's smart. Why stay there and just lose money? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I'm near the one on South Congress, which
Speaker 1: it regardless of the weather, has a line, a line, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is there is the one they still have the one
Speaker 3: at the airport in the airport, I think.
Speaker 2: So they do in there. Yeah, I would imagine so
Speaker 2: forty years.
Speaker 3: That's pretty amazing to think you started out a business
Speaker 3: that lasts for forty years and grows and grows and grows,
Speaker 3: like Amy's ice Cream has. I mean, it's become a
Speaker 3: staple in Austin. It's like you get barbecue and Amy's
Speaker 3: ice cream. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of barbecue, Tricia and I stopped
Speaker 3: at Terry Black's Barbecue when we were driving back from
Speaker 3: Kingsville over the weekend, the original one in Lockhart.
Speaker 2: We went to it. It's good. It was. It was.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe my expectations were super duper high, but
Speaker 3: I think it's so hyped. Yeah, it's so hype. It's
Speaker 3: good barbeca it's good. But I'm like, is it you know,
Speaker 3: travel from Europe good?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Right? Is it? It was really good. The sides that
Speaker 3: were great. The bar the brisket was great. That's the
Speaker 3: test is the brisket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's my favorite.
Speaker 2: And a great vibe in there too. It's like it's
Speaker 2: going back in time.
Speaker 4: M hmmm.
Speaker 2: That was good.
Speaker 1: So is it like it's been a while. It's it's
Speaker 1: like downtown Lockhart right off the road off of the highway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a few good places in Lockhart. I must
Speaker 1: be thinking of something different, right, there's several on the
Speaker 1: I always get Elgin. What's the worst south side? If
Speaker 1: that's an Elgin?
Speaker 5: Right, south side is right, Harry Blacks and crewits.
Speaker 4: In Lockhart.
Speaker 1: That's the one I'm thinking of. Downtown is right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, Jamie. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You used to need to go to a Lockhart to
Speaker 1: get good barbie, like the best barbecue, like the best.
Speaker 1: And it's like they're all popping up in Austin.
Speaker 3: Now Here's the question I had for Tricia when it
Speaker 3: was like because it said, like what year they opened,
Speaker 3: Like it's like nineteen fifty three or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: And I said that Trista, go, do you think like
Speaker 3: before let's say nineteen fifty three, like they didn't eat barbecue?
Speaker 2: Like right?
Speaker 4: Is it new?
Speaker 2: Was busy new thing that you know landed here? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: I was like, I feel like that's all they ate.
Speaker 5: There was nothing other than barbecue to eat, like giant
Speaker 5: pieces of meat.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, Amy's ice Cream forty years and Austin, stop in
Speaker 3: and get yourself a Mexican vanilla and strawberry crush.
Speaker 2: Is it's a crush in right.
Speaker 5: They can do the crushing. Sometimes it's just the slice strawberries. Man,
Speaker 5: it's good. That combo to me is perfect.
Speaker 3: And I've never seen one of the ice cream people miss,
Speaker 3: like when they toss it up in the air.
Speaker 2: They're highly trained professionals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't work there if they're going to miss.
Speaker 1: How much ice cream did they go through till they
Speaker 1: are trained professional? A lot?
Speaker 3: You're right, that's the story we love. At the risk
Speaker 3: it sounded like your grandpa. Have you guys seen the
Speaker 3: weather forecast for the next week, have you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I geeked out about it. I was looking
Speaker 1: at it and talking to my wife about it. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, look at this week.
Speaker 3: I mean the next ten days, the next week, I
Speaker 3: mean we're only the high.
Speaker 2: It is only ninety.
Speaker 3: It's rest one day and then the rest of it's
Speaker 3: in the eighties and.
Speaker 1: A lot of rain and a lot of extently.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, I won't believe that till I see it.
Speaker 4: They've tricked us a lot so far this year.
Speaker 1: I think it's also we basically accepted our phones as
Speaker 1: our meteorologists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Yeah, yeah, I still like to hear
Speaker 3: it from the local, the local weather person, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 2: I want to hear it from.
Speaker 4: Chicago on Ji, Kristin Curry.
Speaker 3: Or Kristen Curry, one of them. So I can't keep
Speaker 3: track off all the ones over at KX and anymore.
Speaker 3: It was Jim Spencer, and then one guy was there
Speaker 3: that everybody loved, David Yeomen. And now they've got a
Speaker 3: new guy, Tricia. What's the verdict on him?
Speaker 4: Okay, so he's good, you guys.
Speaker 5: When we had the tornadoes a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: I was tuned in on him. He knows this stuff,
Speaker 5: so I mean, he's pretty good. I'm going to give
Speaker 5: him a chance. He's no Jim Spencer. I don't think
Speaker 5: anybody is.
Speaker 2: But that's all he asked for is a chance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just needs a chance, I know.
Speaker 3: So here's an idea that Tricia gave me. Tricia right
Speaker 3: now is wearing a blue T shirt with white letters.
Speaker 3: The white letters spell out the word salty s a
Speaker 3: L t y, which perfectly describes Tricia's personality. It's a
Speaker 3: little bit salty, but Tricia is Queen of the funny
Speaker 3: T shirt. That's like everyone knows, give her a T
Speaker 3: shirt with something somewhat a cerbic on it.
Speaker 4: You know, yesterday I had one on that said eye roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I thought, and if you guys want to
Speaker 3: do this might be fun if if we drew names
Speaker 3: and each of us had to buy a T shirt
Speaker 3: that said something on it that described that person's personality.
Speaker 4: That's a good idea, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean? So I will.
Speaker 3: I wrote the names all down in a hat, and baby,
Speaker 3: I'll draw yours first, okay, and this is who you're
Speaker 3: buy the.
Speaker 2: T shirt for? Okay, gotcha? All right?
Speaker 3: Okay, you got Tricia. That means I've have you and
Speaker 3: and Tricia has me, all right. So it's really funny
Speaker 3: when because right now my my Instagram feed is full
Speaker 3: of T shirts because I bought my daughter a T
Speaker 3: shirt that's.
Speaker 5: One he wants a million, right, And all the shirt
Speaker 5: said was progress on it right.
Speaker 2: Oh. I liked it, and I.
Speaker 3: Got it for her as she was training for this
Speaker 3: mile run timed mile run. And now all I see
Speaker 3: in my in my feed is T shirts with like
Speaker 3: different sayings on him.
Speaker 1: It's hijacked your social media. It really has.
Speaker 3: It definitely has and there's some kind of funny ones though,
Speaker 3: But apparently the standard for a T shirt now delivered
Speaker 3: is thirty bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tough. I can't get one less. I looked her out.
Speaker 4: I was like, thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: That's a good margin if they're if they're buying them
Speaker 1: in volume, that's probably costing them eight probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a pretty good margin. T shirt game's pretty
Speaker 3: rough though, But there was one that I want to order.
Speaker 3: I just can't bring myself to spend thirty bucks on it.
Speaker 3: It says sometimes violence is the answer.
Speaker 4: That would have been a good one to give you.
Speaker 3: I was like, I looked at it. I was like,
Speaker 3: that is so true. Sometimes violence is the answer. But
Speaker 3: so we're down with that. Let's give ourselves. I don't
Speaker 3: know a week to do it, you know, because a
Speaker 3: lot of these are going to come from the land
Speaker 3: of China.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got to wait till they arrived China ready
Speaker 5: to send us stuff anymore.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a little while to get the end
Speaker 1: of China.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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