Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - A Preggo Pickle Party

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

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It's a good friend of the show. He is a friend of all pickle enthusiasts. And now, look at that, Alley, he's got his own book right here. For the love of pickles, please welcome back Scott Kalin, the founder of Kalin and Kalin Pickles, at the original Farmer's Market, where we first discovered, which was originally a little tiny stand, has now expanded because our love of pickles has grown. And in a few moments, you are going to have your toughest critics, and that is a room full of pregnant women. I'm ready.

Welcome back, Scott. I think we were very excited last time you visited because you left us with jars and jars of differently flavored pickles. And I think it only took us a couple weeks to go through them all. Less than that. In fact, we all got into fistfights over some of our favorites, like I think your honey mustard ones. The spicy honey mustard. I believe those are probably your most popular, but they're great. And I love going by the farmer's market for the pickle tasting.

And why do you think, and in a moment we'll get into the pregnant women, it's a panel of pregnant women pickle eating. But why do you believe that pregnant women love pickles so much, crave them? well i was just heard about the scientifics behind it but i i think it's one of those things that you know there's certain traditions that have lasted for hundreds and hundreds of years and every time you talk about a pickle somewhere in the conversation somehow a pregnant woman comes up you know when we open someone's a pickle well you see we're saying off the air before we came on that you have met more pregnant women women now that you are doing this pickle job i mean there's two things i always say i've met

more pregnant women than an obstetrician once i became the pickle man and also we have given away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of five-month-olds first pickles that they've ever had really because that's when you can start eating pickles i guess well you have to wait it's cold it's a lot of times they're teething it's good to gnaw on it and then you get a lot of moms that are like oh god i hope my kid loves pickles because i've eaten so many pickles from my pregnancy well and this recipe book and you're not usually a big fan of books no i don't like books but i plan on eating this regardless even though it's not edible you obviously have a lot of fans out there because you have a foreword on this book written by jb smooth himself

he said that's dedication and that's scott a dedicated damn pickler and you know what i met jb because of my pickle business and we've become really good friends and he just stops by the pickle shop and talks yeah and i've been to his home many times there's a lot of contributors in that book i you know i've been very humbled by this business in all aspects this i mean full imposter syndrome right now to be very honest with you the fact that i even have a recipe book and you know we there's a lot of really cool contributors in there that wanted nothing more than to just say thank you and for me doing the pickles that i do and supporting the first time you came here we did a high voltage food review i believe i was the lucky one who got to eat the

sandwich that was going viral it was you making the sandwich the pickle sandwich and there's a bunch i've had since and some of them are crazy and have nutella on them remember he brought the caviar pickle too the world's most expensive pickle i mean we've uh we've gone to town on those now we actually have a reason to have you here uh previously we just wanted pickles now ali's pregnant and we want pickles even more and she's demanding pickles and then we've got all these listeners that are pregnant now that are also going to be in here in a moment you're going to feed them and i think there's probably that's going to be a real honest feedback because uh they they crave this stuff but also as you know with pregnant people uh their their cravings can turn

on a dime they can be like i was craving a pickle this morning and now if i hear the word pickle i'm gonna throw up yeah but there's something about the pickle that is consistent with the cravings that i've had because i've had craved sweets and salty things but it's the sour mixed with the salts and that you get electrolytes from it and you also get that like sour craving that that thing that can actually really help with nausea too. So eating a pickle can really help with pregnancy nausea. I mean, I had a woman the other day come up to the booth

and she was probably at least seven, eight months pregnant. And she looked at me, I go, are you okay? She goes, I'm just so sad. And I'm like, why? She goes, I ate pickles my entire life. I love pickles. One of my favorite things. She goes, since I got pregnant, I cannot. Wow. That's the

weirdest thing that happens to you. That's something you know you like, that you've always loved. That you're now disgusted by. And you hope it comes back because you don't know she said that she goes i pray that i could eat pickles again after i have this kid i will resent this child scott's origin story is rather fascinating for a few reasons because you moved you were living somewhere obviously from new york originally where everyone loves pickles you took for granted the fact you get good pickles everywhere then you moved somewhere i think it was nova scotia or something vancouver and they had no good pickles

there none so you had to start making them and then all of a sudden you realize they like it too they just never had a good pickle before and i didn't realize that when you would have first opened at the farmer's market because i remember walking by there and seeing the stand because i I used to live right next to there, and now I go there from time to time, but that you were one of the businesses that was considered not essential. So as soon as COVID hit and they said only essential people could show up, apparently pickle people are not essential people. Disagree.

So he said, so they basically said, you don't get to come in and open your stand, and you were on the verge of collapse, and now you're probably at the strongest you've ever been. The height of your pickle career. And I will say society has finally caught up because pickle has been the flavor of everything now. Jake's eating sandwiches with pickle mustard. There's pickle potato chips. There's pickle. Everything's gotten pickled.

People on the text line, too, saying they're starting to make their own pickles. It's like sourdough. Well, that's the best part about the book. He's got wacky recipes in here like pickle pizza and stuff, which is cool. But I just think the concept of how to make your own pickles, it's not that hard to do. It's not hard. It's hard to make a good pickle. Yeah, but you feel great about it when you eat it.

And what I do, I cheat. I'll take the leftover leavens from his pickles, and then I'll just put cucumbers in there. Oh, yeah. you just pour the sauce and the juice in there? And soak up and I'll be like look what I did

and my wife you didn't do anything. You just took his Kalen and Klein. Yeah you took you took his leftovers you just added cucumbers to it and waited a week.

Hey great artist Steele. Right. I want you to remember what you actually just said before the show we've never said that before. I want you to remember that statement

and you'll see why. Okay. Alright so we're going to bring in these pregnant women in a moment. Of the foods you have you'll be presenting them in a moment.

Allie will be on we've got some listeners as well there are different stages of pregnancy. What is the thing you're looking forward to most giving our pregnant listeners, our panel of pregnant people? Well, the most obvious one, we brought mini boat flights for everyone.

So there's three different boats on there. Not yours, mine. I'm pregnant. Don't touch. I'm not pregnant. Jake's been hovering over the pickle table since you arrived. And there is a peanut butter,

Nutella, and pretzels. That's the one thing that everyone talks about. So get ready. Get ready. I did a pickle sushi. Okay. Which pregnant women aren't allowed to have regular sushi so this may be the only sushi they get and that'll be after

nirvana on k-rock we come up with a lot of dumb ideas on the show we said let's get a room full of pregnant women and then let's get the pickle guy in here and we'll figure out if the pregnancy cravings are as strong as we've always been led to believe ali of course as you know is pregnant right now with a gender we do not yet know we have two other women in the studio that are aware of the gender of their babies and i'd like to welcome to the k-rock studios right now ashley is 12 weeks pregnant you already know you're having a boy huh i do congratulations that's very exciting you just found out i well i did ivf and ali and i had almost i think the same exact transfer date and a month before i had a field transfer at the same time as you oh man you went through all of

that ali share a mic with her that mic's not working for some reason i don't know why they put her on green but that one's not working uh hold on swap out mics there so you but you live So you've been through all the ups and downs of Allie. Literally the same exact timeline. Like when Allie cried, I shared in your heartbreak. When you announced you were pregnant, I had the same exact excitement. So I just feel such a connection. I'm so excited to be here.

I'm glad we get to eat together. And do you smell the strong, the smell is very strong in the air of pickles right now. Is that making you excited or nauseous? I'm both excited and nauseous. Like I heard maybe there's tuna fish, and I was like, that might make me vom. Right. Everything else, though, you're excited about. There's a lot of stuff that we're going to try in a moment, and all these are from the cookbook.

The brand-new book out, For the Love of Pickles. By the way, if you want to meet Scott and have him sign this book and dip this book in brine for you, you can do it at Barnes & Noble at the Grove tomorrow at 7 p.m. Tickets for the book signing at eventbrite.com, and you can get your book at Amazon or wherever you get books. And it's good. Not a lot of words in it, which is why I like it. Wherever you get books. You have no idea.

I don't know where books come from, but apparently there's places you get them. Also on our pregnancy panel right now, Kimberly, who just went viral days ago while allowing us to do her gender reveal live on K-Rock. Was that a great moment for you? It looked amazing looking at that footage on Klein Alley Show's Instagram. It was, actually. I know my family didn't seem excited,

but my mom is over the moon. She's already talking about buying cribs, buying onesies, buying everything. Perfect. Let her keep thinking about buying stuff. Don't talk her out of that. You found out with us you would be having a girl, and you were confused because we played Beastie Boys, but the song was Girls, and that threw you off,

and you didn't know what you're having now. I am so excited I'm having a girl, because I have two boys, so I'm done. And you said that, you know, before we came on, you said you've been nauseous this entire pregnancy. All my pregnancy. But you're excited to eat the pickles today. Yes.

How many pickles have you had so far in your pregnancy at this point, Kimberly? Damn. I made my husband go to Sprouts, and he bought me two of the crunchy pickles in the jars. And I had to tell him. Yeah, I did. Awesome. How about Ashley?

Has pickles been a big part of your pregnancy so far? I have been eating anything and everything in sight. I mean, just this morning, 5 a.m., we started off with a Chinese chicken salad. Oh, nice. It's aggressive for 5 a.m. By 8 a.m., I was on to the bagel with cream cheese. So this is like my third breakfast of the day. Why not?

It came on. Allie, you've been eating a lot of pickles, too. I've been eating a lot. I'm like Ashley. I've been eating a lot of everything. And it's one of those things where I don't know I crave it until I see it. and then I'm like, I need to be eating that immediately. But I usually don't crave sugar, and I've been on a big sugar kick,

but I like the salty and the sweet, which it seems like they're both on this plate. People are accusing me on the text line of rage-baiting the pregnant women by immediately cutting the songs every time I'm about to give them pickles, and then I say, pickles on the way. Can we eat now? We'll be right back. All right, so what is the first thing? Scott, you are the pickle man.

You are the pickle master. Talking to your mic right there, what is the first thing the pregnant lady should be eating? The first thing is going to be a bagel, so we'll start with breakfast. Now, why is this a pickle bagel? So, it's got very special cream. It's not pickle-flavored cream cheese. It's literally infused with my honey mustard pickles. So, the brine and the actual pickles are in the cream cheese.

Oh, my God. That's actually really good. This is fantastic. You're listening to three pregnant women eat. This on a burger would be amazing. Let's do that. Oh, my God. You can tell they're pregnant when they've already combined it with other foods.

I put this on a hamburger, too. That's called the flavor chain. Yeah. So this is actually second bagel of the morning, if you're keeping track, watching down Allie. Allie, you were so excited about the pickle day today. And the pregnant women are all, because I think, listen, you can get reviews from food critics all day long. But pregnant women reviewing your pickles has got to be the ultimate. The ultimate thing.

Yeah, I would imagine. Something weird about it, sure, yes. But also, I think it's important, and it's honest feedback. No, and the chopped, like, pickles on top really complement it. So the difference is, we were talking before about everything's pickled. There's pickled popcorn, pickled potato chips, but they don't have pickles in them. It's just a seasoning. Everything we do has actual Katelyn and Katelyn pickles in whatever we cook.

I'm going to raise a glass. You ladies know how to have this because I think there's alcohol in this, but this is a pickle martini. That is a K&K street dirty martini because you can't see through the glass. It's delicious, man. Oh, that's good right there. I'll tell you, the pickle flavor is strong. I think it could replace the dirty martini.

Having a pickled martini. Yeah, and I'm an olive guy, but I think this may be a better look, too. 50% alcohol, 25% jalapeno brine, and 25% pickles. You look sophisticated drinking that. Do I look smarter when I hold this up? You do. Pregnant women, are you turned on at all looking at me like this? Someone bring that to me at the hospital.

Literally. All right, now moving on now. It's a pregnancy pickle panel here at KROQ. These are pregnant women trying pickle recipes from the new For the Love of Pickles cookbook. What's next? Very choked up now. There's a lot here. Okay, so this is a flight of mini boats, which actually was originated at our top bar, but it's a big part of the boat.

Yeah, you've seen these viral all over the place now. I think millions and millions of views, especially the Hot Cheetos one, which is in the middle. And then I think we've tried, once again, if you want to, Allie is not even waiting for us to describe them. She's already. Cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning. You think this is a pickle boat. Allie's about to be a pickle boat if she houses these really quickly. So, Allie, grab that mic right there.

And the one you're eating right now, it's the pickle filled with the cream cheese and the everything seasoning. Yeah, I just thought this would be a good transition from bagel with cream cheese to pickle with cream cheese. I would like pregnant woman number two, Ashley, if you don't mind grabbing. Which one looks better to you, the Flaming Hot Cheetos one or the one with Nutella and pretzels? I think I'm like 80% Flaming Hot Cheeto already, so I'm rotating towards that one. Grab that one and take a bite of it. This is the pregnancy pickle panel. They're reviewing some of the recipes that are in the cookbook right now.

What's on the top? They're very pregnant. Nacho cheese Nacho cheese on top Oh yeah Something that you would eat Maybe if you were Stoned in a kitchen right now

It's a pickle Oh my god That is awesome Flaming cheetah That is The best one Oh my god Look at the pregnant women

The one question I always get about this Is how stoned was I When I came up with this idea And I was not You were not I just spent too much time On social media The next one though

He was very stoned for And that one is the one That I'm going to let I think the pregnant women Are going to say This is their favorite one Even though the combination Is strange

It is a pickle With Nutella and crushed up pretzels on it. And this has become one of your best sellers, correct? Yeah, this is the one right now. So whenever you're ready, pregnant women, lift the pretzel, the bagel, excuse me, the pickle. I just want to point out that Ashley has put

the Flamin' Hot Cheeto Dust on this pretzel. Oh, she's added more Flamin' Hot Cheeto Dust. She's really pregnant, guys. She's combining them. There's no denying it. All right, this one I think is going to be the thing that's going to set the women over the edge. Could one of them go into labor right now?

is it possible? We're either so excited about this one. Grab ladies, toast perhaps, to the health of your unborn, soon-to-be-born children. And now they are eating right now, what is the pretzel? With the hot Cheetos, it's not bad. You know what?

I'm not a big peanut butter fan, but I do like the combo, the salty and the sweet with the pretzels on top. It just cancels out. Or any of your babies kicking? My baby has been kicking but that's because I know she's hungry.

And right now she's like completely still. Satisfied. Yeah. This is great. And if they have time to try one more thing, one more thing. Pickled sushi. All right, this is it.

This is where we're going to end it on, guys. It looks like a full sushi roll, but it is not. Okay, now I know the one thing that sucks about getting pregnant, in addition to the fact that it will ruin the rest of your life, ladies, is that you cannot have sushi for nine months.

And that is a big loss for women that love sushi. So he has created and described this as Allie's picking it up using her chopsticks. Describe the pickle sushi, what you've done here. So I hollow out a jumbo pickle. You can stuff it with a lot of different things. This one happens to be tuna salad. And then it has flaming hot Cheetos and nacho cheese on it.

That is not bad at all. You can put anything in the middle. I was scared of this one. It's very good. Pregnant women, are you satisfied? Very satisfied. Wonderful. Everyone says watching Johnny standing in the corner

looking at the pregnant women eat the food is the funniest part of this entire thing because he looks so left out. Johnny, would you like to come and eat some pickle stuff? Yeah, he sure does. Hey, Scott, we appreciate you. What's going to happen after we go off the air is the pregnant women are going to fight with fists for this last jar of pickles. Look at this.

Oh, look at that. A limited edition. Allie, do you see these? He's made some Klein Alley Show pickle jars. I'm going to tackle him. Limited edition. Oh, my God. Klein Alley Show.

We've officially made it. We're on the reject pickles that we couldn't sell in the store anymore. I stole pickles from Lamar's class. I will steal this. Oh, okay. We take a quick break. We're back in a moment. We have more news, more show to get to with your ADD news after this.

Ladies, thanks for being here. Enjoy your pickles. Thank you, Scott. Congratulations. All the details about the pickle book signing will be going up on our Instagram and Klein Alley show. Back with more show after this on KROQ.