Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - HOUR 3- Brad Williams, What's Older Than America and MORE

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

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Oh, yeah. It's just after 9 o'clock. Good morning. Look at that. I'm surprised entering the K-Rock studios as we speak. Look at that. Brad Williams is here. Look at that.

I didn't even know. Hey, what's up, Brad? Is my mic on? That mic is on, yes. All right. Hey, guys. Hey, what's up, man? What are we talking about?

What brings you in? Hold on one second. I've got to give away these tickets to a water park. Do you want to go to a water park with Laura, listener Laura? Do I? Yeah. What's their height requirements? That's a great question.

42 inches. You're out. Laura in Southgate. Good morning. You are the 20th caller right now. Congratulations. You're going to a bunch of different water parks in Southern California. Look at that.

Wild Rivers, Not Soak City, and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Los Angeles. Brad will be there with his floaties. Yeah. That's how I survive. Hold on one second, Laura. Thank you. One second. Another chance to win coming up next hour.

What's up, dude? Hey. I heard you were in the building. Yeah. I was talking to one of the greatest short players in Laker history, and that's Derek Fisher, who is 6'1", so that makes me feel like crap. The last six times we've tried to get you to come on this show for different reasons. You've given us reasons why you couldn't be here.

Yes. How many of those were made up, or how many of those were legitimate? What did I say? Do you remember? Well, we always try to get you in here on St. Paddy's Day, and you say you don't leave your house. That's the most dangerous day of the year to be a dwarf. I'm not leaving my house on St. Patrick's Day. That's a different version of the purr.

Allie tried to get you in here when I was not in one day, and you said you were, quote, traveling. Yes, because I'm a traveling comedian. But now I'm taking the summer off, so I'm available. You couldn't get booked this summer? I actually, unlike some comedians, I love my family. I've heard they're good people, so I would like to meet them. So you made a point to take the summer off, or you just didn't get booked?

I wanted to be home. I wanted to be a good dad. I took my daughter to Chuck E. Cheese. I watched her get tossed by another little kid. It was a weird thing. Cool. I had to go fight a five-year-old. You know that Brad released recently, he's not asking me to plug this, but I'm sure he will eventually, but he released a YouTube special.

I did. And it got over a million views in a pretty short amount of time. Yeah. And I'm curious about that. What's this one called? Short and Sweet? Fun Size? What is it again?

Live on Short Street. There we go. That's another short. I thought you told us on the lie detector test in here. Little people, big jokes. You said all of your little puns. You said all of my little joke puns are coming to an end. I've got nothing left.

Well, I thought that I had another name for it. And then we shot it at this amazing theater in Lexington, Kentucky called the Lexington Opera House that is literally located on Short Street. We got there. We looked up like, oh, it's on Short Street. And I thought they were playing a prank on me. I thought they just named it that because I was coming in. I'm like, what do you call this street when Bruce Bruce plays this place? But, yeah, I'm like, all right, well, I got to call it live on Short Street now.

It's too good. And that did over a million. So what does that work out to out of finance? In all seriousness, what does that mean? What do you get paid from YouTube for that? That's the other reason why I haven't been coming in here. Y'all can't afford me. Oh, yeah, I know, I know.

But down the hall, I guess they still can. Well, because they bribed me with memorabilia. Now I've got a Lakers hat signed by Derrick Fisher. Oh, that's why you came. That's literally why I showed up. Did you bring the hat? Yeah. They didn't give you the hat.

That's 20 years. Yeah, I brought the hat. You can tell it's my hat because it's a really large size. We just last hour on the phone. Coincidentally, I didn't know you were coming in the building today. Coincidentally, we were talking to people about the worst part about being short because Vanessa, who's 4'11", says that life sucks because people always try to pick her up. We had a ton of calls from people that try to turn off their smoke alarm with a spoon

and a stepstool, and this one woman said that people try to pet her all the time. Pet her? Like pat on the head. Or use as an armrest. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that. And that happens a lot. Oh, yeah. Really? To the point where I do free meet and greets after my shows.

I'll be doing one November 19th when I'm playing the Wiltern Theater. Jesus, you've really managed. Unbelievable. Once again, y'all cannot afford me. It's remarkable. This is my charity work. I'm writing this off on my taxes. We'll sign a hat if you want. Yeah, good, Allie.

Good, Allie, to sign that lesbian hat you're wearing, because she will. Lesbian hat. So, by the way, I think Lesbian Hat is playing Coachella next year. Oh, wow. They're the first band announced. Not out of those either, huh? No. Those will never know.

So, I tell my audience before the meet and greet, I go, hey, there will be no picking up, and you cannot put your arm on my head. Oh, so there's a little disclaimer that says, yeah, yeah. I have to every time. I try to tell them, if you pick up a dwarf, it's not seven years, good luck. But they just don't believe me. Because if that's what you would say, if it were true, you'd say the exact same thing. Because you've got to earn the good luck. You're not going to not pick them up if you're given the chance.

Now, another person had called and said it was frustrating to grocery shop. Because if they ever wanted something on a top shelf, they would have to wait for a person that works there to help them out. Now, do you do the grocery shopping in your family? Or do you leave that to your wife? I leave that to my wife. But when I have done it, because I have done it, and I see something on the top shelf, that is when I become a pitcher for the Dodgers because I start grabbing things from the lower shelf and throwing them up to the top and try to hit them. Now, there may be some lawsuits coming because I've thrown several cans of corn over the aisle because I'm not a good arm. I don't have a good arm.

Not a lot of experiences playing competitive sports. She's got like a little lasso Lasso in the cereal box We've got to do a video shopping with Brad It's a fascinating thing to watch if you've seen it How long have you been married now? Because I know Allie and I were at your wedding And we also are responsible for how you met your wife

We take full responsibility there Correct Have you made it 10 years yet? We're 8 years, 10 years together, 8 years married And are you still open marriage? What? Weren't we? She was just in here yesterday and told us that No, is that not true?

No, but you met on a threesome app, and you were kind of open sexually when you guys first started dating. I would say less now, because now we're, like, focused on, you know, being parents and stuff. And we don't want to, you know, we don't want to make an Instagram flyer for an Eyes Wide Shut party and then have that be shown to our daughter, who's... But also, you're too rich now, right? I mean, you can't run the risk of someone else trying to take your money. Once again, you guys cannot afford that. I know. This is a waste of my time.

Brad used to slum with us in Radioland. We used to be all broke together. Then Brad decided to cut us loose and go follow his comedy dreams. And look what happened. And it is really telling that once I left you guys, that then I got a lot of money. I'm saying, Allie, you have a bright future. Thank you so much. You can do so much in this business and other businesses.

I'm saying just kind of cut the dead weight. Okay, thank you. Kind of just get rid of, you know, this little succubus over here. Thank you. Thank you. You're pointing at me. I know who you're talking about. You can go off and do amazing things.

I might wear a hat like that. Yeah. You can wear a hat that makes you look like a lawn jock. Five seconds before the song starts to give one more plug. Go. All right. BradWombsComedy.com to watch my brand new special live on Short Street and then buy tickets for the November 19th show at the Wiltern.

250th birthday party doesn't usually sound like one of them ragers. Usually it would not be one of those party goes from 8 p.m. till question mark, question mark, question mark. But in this particular case, celebrating the birthday of America, lots of ways to do it. Illegal fireworks, a great way to do it. Barbecues in the backyard, another way. Sending you to water parks. In this particular case, monster trucks. What says happy birthday, America, more than monster trucks?

Happy birthday, dear Sally. Happy birthday, salad. Salad's probably older than America. That is great. Oh, that could be one of the questions, Allie. We do have a bunch of things here, and all you have to do is determine is it older or younger than America, celebrating 250 years on July 4th. That is the, of course, anniversary, 1776, if you're keeping track, you historians. Still a very young country.

Very young, and a little Botox can look even younger, but peptides, we could get this country looking 100 by, you know, middle of next year probably, right? So here's the question. I will just share with you some things, and you just have to determine older or younger than America. So it's not going to be as easy as you think, because in theory, you could go, all right, well, if Klein says that bit about talking to Ali's baby, it may feel older than America. But technically, it's only about three years old, that bit. The joke is probably a quarter of a century old. Probably. Say hi to Manny right now. Everyone who gets theirs right, Ali's going to write your name down.

One of you is going to go to MonsterJam at Crypto.com. And those tickets will be yours for looking at all the monster trucks happening on July 17th. Tickets available at AXS.com. All right, what's up, Manny? Ready to go? Hey, yeah, good morning, Clay Nellie. All right, here we go. Older, younger than America.

Bourbon whiskey. Bourbon whiskey. Delicious drink. Goes great on the rocks or right out of the bottle. But is it older or younger than America? Well, I'm going to go with Tennessee, so I'm going to go younger. Okay, now that's a good guess. Because I think of bourbon whiskey as an American beverage.

Yeah, I do too. But then I also wonder if they started making it here before they really established America as a country. Like as soon as they landed, they were like, let's make some bourbon. I would have assumed it was the exact same age. We're like bourbon, whiskey, and America are twins. But it turns out that bourbon whiskey is almost 100 years older than America. 100 years older? Dating back to the 1700s, early 1700s, early to mid 1700s, they could find bourbon whiskey.

So, I'm so sorry. Not a good place to start. Bourbon whiskey was around... Outside of America, I imagine? Before America. Even if it was made here before this was America. They brought it over? Or they were making it, but it was not American yet.

So, bourbon whiskey, older than America. Who would have thought? What you know. This is all great. These are great factoids to drop at your summer barbecue. Oh, yeah. You'll use one of these. You have to make small talk with a co-worker or some parent of a friend.

You know, this drink is older than America. how old are you honey just shut up shut up and chug it uh we say hi to anthony anthony good morning good morning let's talk about one of the greatest inventions ever the spork the spork is half spoon half fork it's a good thing to have if you're eating cereal and also pasta but the question is is the spork older than america uh we're gonna go younger now what's interesting is the fork alley i don't know if you know this but the fork dates back all the way to the bc time i mean i'm talking before well that's what set us apart from the apes right it's our ability to make tools and not just eat stuff with our hands so forks have been around forever they're

the oldest thing out there i think they're older than earth even but uh the spork itself did not officially come to popular knowledge wasn't even around until 1874 making america almost 100 years older than the spork. But that was created in the U.S. probably, right? Of course it was. That's such a U.S. thing. We're so fat. We needed that.

Yeah, fork or spoon, and then you're like, why choose? Why choose? Who knows what I'll be eating after this. This is America. So congratulations, you got that right. So now we know, as I'm going over some of the greatest things ever, bourbon whiskey, older than America, spork, younger than America, and we say hi now to, this is Alicia. Good morning, Alicia.

Welcome to KROQ as we celebrate America's 250th birthday coming up on a Saturday. We give you this next one now. Okay. Good morning. Good morning. Betty White's mother. Betty White's mother. Is she older or younger than America?

I'm going to say younger. Okay. Now, Betty White, as you know, was one of the greatest old people on the planet for a long time. I wish she'd made it to 100. Lived a good long life. Almost made it to 100. Yeah. And the question is Betty White's mother.

Her mother, I don't know if you knew this, Allie, because I know you're a huge fan. Her name was Tess White. She was born in 1899. Wow, so just a little bit younger. So she is, no, she's a lot younger than America. She's a lot younger than America. Hold on one second. You got yours right as well.

Let me see. I had a Javier in Pomona. So we celebrate America's birthday coming up. Princeton University. Hmm. Javier? Yeah. Allie and I did not go there, but that is the one we give you.

Princeton University. Did not accept either of us. Me neither. Is Princeton University older or younger than America? I want to say older. It's weird. I would have to assume it would be younger just in the sense that Princeton University was, I believe, founded right here in America. At least I would have thought that.

But apparently this is one of those ones that's weird because Princeton University claims it was founded in 1746. which makes it older than America. And was it just the first school? I don't know if that's what it was. Everyone got in back then. It was the only one. I guess it was easy. If someone brags about going to Princeton,

you should be like, what year, though? Because if you went to the same... I went to pre-K at Princeton. If you went to Princeton Day School, like anyone... I was five. It was just the first thing with a roof on it. Whoa.

So, hold on one second. You got that right as well. This is the final one now. This is going to be tough. Older, younger than America, 250 years celebrating and we ask let's go to

Relly in Seal Beach. Hey Relly good morning and welcome to K-Rock. It's Riley. I was going to say that doesn't sound right at all. Riley will go with that. The client is really dumb. The piano. The piano. As an instrument.

Older, younger than America. Well you said it was really tough. I'm going to go with younger younger the piano has got to be centuries old many centuries old only one of the first instruments i think everything was just blown into horns for a while no way rip toss off elephants and blow into them that was music other than like yeah tusk or a horn i feel like piano is the first she said younger but the piano has been around since 1700, which

makes it super old. And, well, Allie, a couple people got theirs right. Who's going to go celebrate America with monster trucks? All right, that would be Javier. Congratulations. Javier, my man. Monster trucks in your future. Congratulations. Happy birthday, America.

What's that? All right, that didn't go well. Again, he did not get into Princeton. That's right. We're not a bunch of Princeton people. Hold on one second for your tickets to Monster Jam. I'm going to hang tight when we get back. Uncomfortable moments happened yesterday. A couple of real in-the-flesh name butchers.

Who had the bigger faux pas yesterday? Was it me in front of a famed KTLA reporter, Alina Abovian? Or was it Ali insulting the future of America? It was the greatest. It was really the greatest thing I've ever witnessed here at KROQ. We'll get to that next on KROQ. KROQ on Ali's show. You guys seem to like it when we embarrass ourselves.

Lucky for us, we do it every day. It happened yesterday two different times. You will decide which one of us made a bigger faux pas. I believe it was you without even a shadow of a doubt. Well, I didn't do it on camera. Yeah, but it doesn't matter because the way that you made the other person feel was so funny. We were sitting in the office after the show yesterday. Okay, to be fair, I've only met this person one other time.

Well, we're sitting in the office, and it's Vanessa, and it's Johnny, it's me. I think Omar's there. Jake's there. I don't know if Jake was there or not yet. I don't remember if it smelled yet. We're all sitting around. And then this intern that we have is sitting there as well. Not even really an intern.

A shadow intern. It's a college student that's going to be sitting in on a few of the shows. I feel so bad for these people. All they can do is observe. Yes. Because of the rules. Right. The rules are so ridiculous.

We're not allowed to have them do anything because we can't pay them. It's built-in awkwardness. So she's shadowing. And Vanessa says, hey, do you guys mind if... Do you remember her name? It doesn't matter. Yes, you... For the point of this story, it doesn't matter.

I know her name. Okay. Vanessa, what did you say yesterday? Say it. I didn't say it either. Say it. Hey, guys, can we let our interjoin you for this interview? No, you didn't say that.

And then I said, what's her name? No. It's not what happened. It's not what happened. It's not what happened. Actually, yeah, I don't remember. You don't know how the stories go. So Vanessa goes, do you guys mind if Campbell comes and follows you downstairs for the interview?

And Allie, and this girl's sitting right between Vanessa and Allie, and Allie looks up and goes, who the hell's Campbell? No, I said, who? Yeah. She goes, who? And this girl, this poor girl. She was like, me. Yeah, what is she, 20, 21?

Yeah, she's 20. Her face goes red. It's so sad. She was so embarrassed. She goes, that's me. But Allie goes, who the hell? Like, she said who, but the face Allie gave us, who the hell is Campbell? And this girl's sitting right there and goes, that's me.

And she's come in multiple times. Multiple times. Yeah, she even told her her nickname is Soup. Yeah, but the way that Vanessa said it, I thought she was mispronouncing something. So I thought she was saying something different. And I was like, who? What? And then I realized she was talking about the intern whose name is Campbell.

And then for the next three minutes, Allie sat there with a really like, oh, I feel like such an ass face. And this girl looked really uncomfortable as well. And then she was like, it's okay. I forget my name all the time too. It was so funny. She tried to make Allie feel better. So then we go downstairs and waiting for us, unbeknownst to us is. She gets to awkwardly stand and watch what happened as well.

She was downstairs during the interview. We go downstairs. We're going to be interviewed by Alina Bovian. Alina. And apparently I was calling. You instantly become a blithering idiot whenever you're on Hot Women. It was apparent. It was crazy.

It's crazy to me. I got to maybe dig up some tapes. Do you have any tapes from the topless women that you would interview on Playboy TV? I'm sure I do. I need some of that audio because I can't imagine you were smooth. No, probably not. But with Abovian, you know, she was sitting there and- And she's also next level.

Next level. She is gorgeous. She gives us a nice hug, and she smells nice, and she's going to chat with us, and we're talking. And I thought I was doing a decent job. Congratulations. I knew you'd find a job in no time. Anyway, if you still ever want to come in here, it's an open-door policy. I don't know if you know this.

Can we interview you, by the way, since you're interviewing us? We're doing an interview. It's on camera for L.A. Magazine. I didn't know you were jealous of the seat I took. Allie, of course, immediately boxes me out and takes the good seat right next door, so I'm off to the side. I never want to be all the way on the outside because the camera is not a good angle for me. It makes my legs look big. That's not the camera's problem.

I just like to sandwich myself in the middle. We're talking, and a few times I guess I mentioned her during the chat, and I'm like, Elena, you're the reason she's asking about this. She said, when did you know that things were turning around for the better? And, you know, we're talking about a few different milestones for the show, and then Klein decides to bring up, well, Elena, when you joined us. that was a real turning point because we realized a legacy journalist like yourself was willing to join us and cross-pollinate these audiences and she just looked so flattered oh my goodness wow ali is saying stuff that is so well you can check the tape when it comes out yeah check the tape but apparently i did call her oh i don't know her elena a couple

of times yeah elena elena tomato tomato and i said you know you are the front runner to replace me when i go on maternity leave and then klein said yeah you know elena you're you've been our number one pick and she said well if you're gonna pick me at least learn to pronounce my name right but vanessa said maybe that was flirty right vanessa i would say that's as flirty like learn how to say my name you know what i mean like i'm being sassy playful yep also just pissed so also just kind of angry also pissed get my goddamn name right right so we uh so both of us proving that we're not good with names yesterday and then we went upstairs finished the interview it was harmless it was it was very nice of her to chat with us and then klein as we're leaving goes

oh i forgot my backpack downstairs i was like okay yeah you forgot it on accident oh no i gotta go downstairs again by myself you think i left my bag you think i left my bag down there on purpose Of course you did Why would you even take your bag downstairs If you're going to come back up So he could leave it down there No exactly Sorry this big heavy backpack

I've got to get it Is my kettlebell in here Sorry I left my dumbbells Allie and I were going to go to the car And that picture by the way Klein's totally trying to flex his muscles So shut up You guys are so funny

You see his little vein right there That's so ridiculous. Allie and I were going to go to our cars first and drop our bags off before we went downstairs to chat. And then for whatever reason, I don't know. Well, because Campbell was with us, and I thought it would be awkward for us to just walk out to our cars. Yeah, and Allie says, who are you? She goes, it's Campbell again. It's a weird shadower.

So we said, let's just go down there. Yeah, these interns are really good at shadowing. They really do shadow pretty closely. Well, they have to follow you because they can't get anywhere in the building without you. So we went downstairs, and then I left my bag. When I went back down there, you'll be happy to know she was long gone. I don't care. She was gone.

I hope you did have the opportunity to flirt with her a little more. I didn't flirt with her at all. And there was no flirting going on there. But thanks. Did you actually leave your bag? No. No, I did. I left my bag.

My bag was down there. And Secky put it outside. Yeah, and then Secky was like, let's get some pictures. And so we got pictures of the three of us. And then he said, now I want one with just Klein and Alina. For when Alina replaces you. Yeah, that's what he said to Allie. Oh, that's a funny line.

That was a great line. And then just because of a formality, I took one with Alina. Yeah, yeah. And now I guess you guys can take a picture. Yeah, that was the weirdest part. It looks like it could be Clyde and Alina. Yeah, yeah. And then she made a joke about pushing me down the stairs.

It was really funny. Thank you for the text line calling me a simp. I really appreciate that. It's a good response. We've got to take a quick break. We're back in a second. Simp! In 15 minutes, we get you into all them water parks all over again,

and then we'll do some clickbait and more show after this. KROQ, we're a Klein Alley Show. Let's find out what's happening in the world together. Then we've got a brand new hour of the show to get into. Will it be the greatest hour of your life? Only one way to find out. Got to keep listening and be ready to interact with us. 800-520-1067 to call and to text.

But first, there's this. Grab your Adderall. It's time for ADD News. We've seen plenty of movies about rescue missions in space. And there is one happening finally in real life. I will say it's not as exciting as Armageddon or The Martian or really any other space movie. Because they're not rescuing a person, they're rescuing a telescope. It's a very expensive telescope.

It is hurling down to Earth right now. It's worth about half a billion dollars. It's been orbiting Earth for over 20 years, collecting data. And they've gotten a lot of cool footage from the telescope over the years. But it is starting to fall out of orbit. So as it falls out of orbit, it hurls down to Earth. They don't want it to burn up in the atmosphere because obviously it's expensive. They don't want a debris hitting anybody.

So, they're launching this rescue mission. It was supposed to launch this morning, but they've rescheduled it due to weather. This rescue mission will cost $30 million, by the way. They're going to try again tomorrow. But basically, they just launch this, you know, like rocket launcher thing. And then they're going to push the telescope higher. Back into orbit. Just back into orbit.

Let me ask you. And then it just kind of resumes. How much is this telescope worth? It's worth more than $30 million? It's worth, well, yeah, $500 million. Oh, okay. Yeah, I guess it's worth $30 million to say $500 million. Right, exactly.

But did they know when they put it up there it was going to fall out of orbit eventually? I think eventually it was going to start dwindling, right? I don't know how orbit works. But it's funny, how much longer is it going to last if they just push it back up there? Is that going to buy them another five years, ten years, twenty years? And wouldn't you think there's better technology out there now that they should just go ahead and let that one burn up and put a new one up there? Think about your phone from five years ago versus now. So many more megapixels.

I think, you know, when you really start thinking about buying a new device, you can't stop thinking about it. You're like, this thing is a piece of crap. It takes forever for this thing to load. What am I doing? I should buy a new one. It's been hovering around Earth for I don't even know how many years. 22 years. Yeah, the technology's got to suck at this point.

What are they getting, black and white grainy photos? Yeah, but I think to make a new one, because it cost them $200 million just to make this one. So it probably costs now with inflation like a trillion dollars to make another one. I'm sure Timu has a version that's cheaper. Put that one up there. T-Moon NASA telescope. They've got to have one they can put up there. It's $3.50 and I got a bath cannon.

Yeah, they've got like a dupe. It looks like, I see all these people walking around. They have the expensive Apple headphones on, but they're like the dupes that they got for $30 in the TikTok show. They do look exactly like the original ones. Yeah, get one of those TikTok shop telescopes and put it up there. I'm sure it'll be still better than the one that's up there right now. The $5.95 telescope I bought for my kids. Yesterday, I thought, because we talked about that story for a bit, but I thought that the concern was that it was going to crash down to Earth.

But even if it were, even if they can't rescue and get it back in orbit, it will burn up before it hits us? Yeah, I think most of it. I don't think it's a threat to humanity. Okay. I think it's mainly a threat to just destroying the telescope and having to make a new one. I'll tell you, they're very good at these headlines to get you to click, saying like, you know, where is the falling satellite going to crash telescope when it hits Earth? And then you're like, I should probably check that out, make sure it's not right there in the valley. Yeah, but I think that even if something's that big, I think when it's hurling down to Earth, there's so much, like, I think it just burns up.

Maybe there'd be tiny pieces, but I don't think it'd be anything big enough to hurt anybody or kill anybody. But you hear about those giant blocks of airplane ice poop that fall out of the airplane toilets and crash through people's roofs all the time. Yeah, but they're not going through the Earth's atmosphere. Yeah, but they're still falling a long distance. They are. 30,000 feet's a lot, Allie. It's a lot. You know what?

We should call NASA and let them know. How often is that happening? It feels like once a week, dude. It feels like it's happening all the time. It really does. Because of the recent earthquakes, people in California are panic buying earthquake preparedness kits. And yes, there were several earthquakes in Venezuela. There's also been some in Japan.

There were even a couple in California, northern California. So it's triggering this big surge of orders for disaster supplies across California. One of the earthquake preparedness companies said that their kits are now flying off the shelves and families and individuals are driving the demand and panic buying. And it's it's what we do. You know, we've always felt like, yes, an earthquake could happen at any time. And still, after all these years of living in California, I'm not prepared. You have a kit? No. Omar, you have a kit, right? Yeah, I have this little red bag that I bought about 15 years ago. I'm sure none of that stuff in there is, you know, maybe just like the water bags are good.

But all the food and all the powder and stuff has got to go bad, right? That's the other thing is that you have to be newly prepared. Because we talked to Dr. Lucy, who is the earthquake expert, and she has earthquake stuff in her car that she replaces every couple of years. She has something in her garage. You have different ways of preparing, and you have to be refreshing every couple of years. We can barely do it once. She said that most of us are not prepared,

and then most of us that actually are prepared are the wrong type of prepared. because, like Omar, I also have that bright red backpack. Yep. It weighs a ton, and inside of it, it's got, like, a whistle and a bunch of other crap. It's got radio. It's got a radio. It's got, like, hand-cranked radios.

Crank radio. It's terrible. It is really, like, and then... When the earthquake hits, all of us are just going to be standing around with red backpacks that are totally useless. Useless red backpacks. Does anyone need dry, dehydrated sauce?

And everything in there is going to expire for a long-ass time. We're all going to get so sick. I had. I told you. Remember that time I did have that Duck Dynasty branded survival kit that was somehow branded by the guys

in Duck Dynasty. It was a giant food bucket that was going to last me for Is that what they were selling at Costco? I don't remember how I got it or where I even got it from, but I know that my wife went through the menu and she threw the whole thing out and she goes, we will never eat any of this.

I go, if the option is this or cannibalism, trust me when I say this bucket of food is going to look great. I don't know. But it was like all of this dehydrated grits and all these other things. She's like, we're not eating this stuff. I'm like, this is emergency stuff. You're not making decisions at that point on what I feel like. Your wife would rather starve than eat dehydrated grits?

100%. 100%. I think she would look at you and be like, you have to sacrifice yourself for this family. Yeah. If you care at all, you'll let us eat your arm. But we're not eating that Duck Dynasty grit. We're not eating that grit stuff. Here's a company that's doing great right now, Biscoff Cookies.

Those little cookies that you normally only eat when you're at 35,000 feet is having one of the best years of their lives. And they've solidified their place as a top five cookie in America. This is largely due to a viral TikTok cheesecake recipe trend where you put vanilla yogurt, layer it over the Biscoff cookies, put some honey, some other kind of variations. There's a bunch. You let it sit, and the yogurt absorbs into the cookie, and it makes this moist, cakey consistency that basically is like a healthy, high-protein cheesecake. Well, that cookie by itself is trash. I think it's a good cookie. The cookie butter they got, the Biscoff spread, that's where it's at.

Well, that's another recipe is you put that on top of this as well. It needs to spread. I mean, in the same way that, you know, blue cheese needs buffalo wings to survive in this world. It's a similar situation going on over there. It's kind of like a prison cheesecake. Yeah, I could understand. But it's fascinating that some brand that's been around forever and was doing fine but not great. It just has a whatever cookie.

All of a sudden has a viral recipe and now they're having the greatest year of their life. The greatest year ever. Well, there you have it. Some of the stuff happening in the world. We get into a brand new hour of the show in a moment.