Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - HOUR 3- Richard Pink from Pink's Hot Dogs, a Dumb Off Tie Breaker and MORE

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

About to get into a brand new episode of Klein Alley Show, but first let's tell you about our good friends at the finest airport that ever was and ever will be. The San Bernardino International Airport. Especially when there's summer travel plans, it can get expensive at these airports. That's why you got to go to this airport where parking is just five bucks a day. Plus you got those easy trips, San Francisco or Provo, Utah. Maybe you didn't plan anything this summer. See how easy it is. Don't be one of those people who has to pack your patience. Go to San Bernardino International Airport. Okay, enough shilling. Now it's time to get into a brand new episode of Klein Alley Show. This is the world famous K-Rock. Good morning. Welcome to your K-Rock. It is BF Thursday.

It is also the pre-Quinn, and it's a thrifty Thursday here with the El Cheapo herself over there. That is Alley on Klein. Jake the Nerd back there. We've got DJ Omar Khan, Audio Sniper extraordinaire in the back, producer Vanessa, and Postmaster Johnny, also known as Gay Leno. Now, if you need us, phone line's full right now. I understand why. We have tickets to give you. Excuse me, passes to give you.

But you can also text the show at 800-520-1067. Lots to get into this hour, including more access to our endless summer kegger, also known as the Clam Slam. And the question we have for you this hour is why are you fun? Everyone's fun for different reasons, but if it's a funner summer, force fun. Fun scores are at an all-time low. We're trying to bring it back. We need fun people at the kegger, so why are you fun?

We'll take those calls later this hour and get you into the endless summer kegger. But first, Caller 20 will be having fun this weekend as we send them to Just Like Heaven with a couple of passes to see the strokes and many others. And we say good morning to, from North Hollywood, California, a man who goes by the name of Will. Hi, Will. Hey, it's Saul, S-A-U-L. Saul. All right, we'll go with Saul. Saul, I don't know how they got that so poorly butchered in the back,

But regardless, Saul, congratulations. You are the 20th caller, regardless of what your name actually is. Enjoy yourself, just like heaven this weekend, all right? Perfect. Thank you so much. You're very, very welcome. Hold on, Saul. We'll write your name down. It's going to be great. Who came up with Will back there, out of curiosity? Anyone?

Anyone want to take credit for that? I said Will, and he's like, Will. And then I was like, all right. You think Saul said Will? I didn't hear him say Saul. The phone was like, and I was like, Will? And he's like, yeah. This guy's got to go on the air.

This is our winner right here. Do you remember when we talked many times about asking them to spell their name just to verify? Gosh. Yeah, his name is Will. That's an easy name to spell. Oh, boy. His name is not Will. Will, Saul, whatever.

I said Will back to him. He said, yeah. Not whatever. Let me try this out. It's not whatever. This makes us look like complete idiots. Johnny, we look like idiots. Will, Saul, tomato, tomato.

That's your defense? We look like idiots without additional help from you guys. It's one syllable. Let me try this. Hi, you've called K-Rock. Who's this? Hey, it's Saul. Saul, I'm hearing Will.

Can you spell your name for me before I tell everyone your name is Will? Please spell it. It's S-A-U-L. S-A-U-L, huh. I'll write that down. The host. That'll be helpful. I'm going to write down that and pass it off to the host so they don't come across like total morons that can't read.

Please hold. Thanks, Saul. See, that was role play right there, but it seemed to work. Huh? So is that helpful, Johnny, or is that like a whatever, I'll move on and keep doing what I'm doing? He's not going to do it because we've told him this 15 times. I mean, this is like the simplest part of the job. It's so great.

Let me see how many of these names that are people that are on hold. They actually did get right. Hold on. Let's see. Is this Jabba? Hello, is your name Jabba? Is your name Jabba? Hi.

Gabby. Gabby. It's Gabby? Yeah, G-A-B-B-I. Okay, that's O for two. Hold on one second. Thanks for spelling it, by the way. I appreciate that.

That's not Jabba, guys. I thought that was Jabba. Let me see if this is the right person. Is this Richard Pink from Pink's Hot Dogs? You bet it is. There we go. Finally, we got one right. Thank God.

Hey, Richard, Pink, how goes it? Terrific. Everything's great. We heard good news. Same here. We heard great news. Yeah, I hope you didn't hear all that stuff behind the scenes. We're a well-oiled machine here at KROQ.

But we did hear some exciting news that Pinks is going global and you guys are taking over Japan. Is this true? Thank you for that. Yes, Pinks is opening in Japan this year. And we've got one item that I told them they have to have on the menu. And it's the one created by Klein and Alley of K-Rock. It is the ham dogger, which has become famous at Pink's in Hollywood and will be soon in Tokyo. So now we can say we're world famous.

We've been saying that as a radio station forever, but no one actually believes it. But now finally, after all these years, I didn't realize of the limited menu you're bringing to Japan. We weren't sure if the ham dog was going to make the cut, but you're saying it is going to make the cut and go to Japan. Well, it's a perfect fit, you know, for the same reason that it was popular, is popular at Pink's, is because for someone that comes in and they can't decide whether they want a hot dog or they want a hamburger, they get both in one bun. In fact, it's what we call twice the fun in one bun. And over in Japan, I think even more so that you'll have a Japanese customer up and says,

You know, I'm more familiar with hamburgers than I am with hot dogs, but I think I'm going to have one of each in one bun. So it's a perfect fit. Now, Richard, do you think you're also going to have some of the other famous L.A. staples like the Rosie O'Donnell and stuff like that? Or are you going to do something that's more tailored to Tokyo? Well, I think we're going to do both. We're going to test out the market with, you know, some of the favorite hot dogs that we have on our menu. And we have over 40 varieties of hot dogs. And we're probably going to scale it back to about 15.

But I expect that some of the dogs will probably have daikon radish. What did you call, Allie? Seaweed. You know, I have to go over this and find out which hot dogs and toppings that the Japanese really like. You can put my picture next to the daikon dog. Yeah, yeah. Make sure you call the daikon dog named after Allie. I want to say something, Richard Pink, because you've been such a friend of ours for a while and since you allowed us to do our show from your location.

If you would like to, and this is because of what Pink's means to everyone in Southern California and now what it will mean to the world. If you would like to, Allie and I would be more than happy to come out to Japan for the big opening of the Pink's in Japan, ribbon cutting, Brisbane cutting, whatever it is you're going to do out there. assuming you would like to have us out there as representation of some of your American fans to introduce the Hamdogger to your new global audience. We would be thrilled to do that if you pay for it. Well, it was all great until you said until I pay for it. But I have to say you're definitely worth it.

And I will consider it because I think it would be a blast to have K-Rock broadcasting from Tokyo. Oh, my God. I mean, that would be a first, and I think everybody in Japan would love it. I don't think. They'd love your music. Yeah, and Omar, correct me if I'm wrong.

You're more of a historian about the station, but has K-Rock ever done a live broadcast from Tokyo before? Does anyone know in the history of this radio station? Have we done this? Has this ever happened? I'm going to go ahead and say no. I'm going to say. I can't imagine.

Omar's going to say Kevin and Bean did it nine times or something, and I'm going to be so disappointed. No, it's never been done. Okay. So, great. Richard Pink, if I'm hearing you correctly, you would like to pay for us to go to Tokyo and do our show from there as we open up Pink's in Tokyo with the Hamdogger, correct? I am going to consider it because you guys are so great. I mean, I'd really miss not having you at the opening, but your Hamdogger will be there.

No charge. Richard, there is a conspiracy going on at the Pink's location. There was a rumor going around that our picture is no longer on your wall. Is that true? Not true at all. I saw it yesterday. Absolutely. It's up.

Okay. I can't believe you took Johnny's word at that. And I will send you a photo of your picture on our wall just to prove it. Johnny says we were replaced by Mario Lopez. Mario Lopez is on our wall, and there was room for you, too. Believe me, you are on the wall. I wouldn't ever take it down. Good.

All right, because remember last time we had that good placement right above James Corden, Ali's arch nemesis. Well, I have to check where you are, but I'm sure it's very prominent, and you're next to some major celebrities. Great. You'll pay for Corden to go to Japan. Are you sending Corden to Japan? Richard, tell us what's going on here. Thank you. I'm so happy the Ham Dogs are still selling well.

A lot of people hitting us up. We get tagged in pictures all the time. People that stop by Pink's and try it. Richard Pink's, you're a legend. Thanks, dude. Thank you. Good to talk to you. Thanks.

Thanks. That's the great Richard Pink of Pink's Hot Dogs. Big news for the show, that the ham dogger, one of the stupid things that we've come up with here, is now going global and making its way all the way to... Hey, I think that the people in Japan would love to get their hands on this and take Instagram pictures. I think it's something that people will rally around. Someone says, we've sent listeners to Japan before for contests, but I don't believe that K-Rock has ever done a broadcast from Japan.

What's the time change if we were to go do this thing? A whole day, like 12 hours. Before or behind? I think it's more than that. Forward. Forward. So we'd be in the future. Oh, it's so cool.

What time is it? Because if this is a serious thing now, obviously we'd need Richard to pay for that. It's one in the morning there. Our company would not. So I don't know what that would mean. We'd have to wake up. We'd be doing our show, I think, in night. Tomorrow at night in Japan would be today's show.

Yeah, we would have to start the show at 10 p.m. Someone says we couldn't bring Jake with us because he would just explode. You better believe we had you, Sonata, over there. Ew, God. That was absolutely disgusting. That's disgusting. You need to take a break. That is, forget everything you just heard.

Why are you fun? Tell us why you're fun. And we'd love to invite you to our Endless Summer Keg. Our phone's open now, 805-201067. Call in, give us your name, and maybe even spell it. And we'll get you on with us next and bring you to our Endless Summer Kegger after this. That's your inspiration to give us a call right now at 805-201067. Let us know why you are fun, what is the funnest thing about you,

and why we must have you at the Endless Summer Kegger, also known as the Clam Slam. We are getting together one last time this summer. We'd love you to join us. It's going to be at the Back Bay Amphitheater, Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach on September 3rd. Slightly Stupid will be there to provide some music. We're putting together all of the food, the drinking,

and some of the activities that we cannot yet talk about on the air, but from everything behind the scenes, including some limited edition merch that we're talking about bringing. It's going to be a great time, and we'd love you to be there if you're a fan of the show or just want one last good hang. And maybe you had a lame summer. Let's be honest. Summer's winding down. Maybe you didn't do anything that fun. And you're like, this sucks. I look back at summer 2026 and I literally had no fun.

I worked the whole time. I didn't travel. Summer job, summer school. So whatever it may be, this could be your one last hurrah this summer. And we need you there if you are fun. That's the question. What is fun, Allie? Fun means different things to different people. Sex, drugs, access to things. We say good morning to Claudia. Why are you fun as we start the search for someone fun to bring to our Endless Summer Kegger at 800-520-1067? What's up, Claudia?

Good morning, Sweet Dibs, guys. Sweet Dibs. I'm fun because I'm a hoe. Oh. Okay. That's a good place to start. You say a hoe? Certain type of fun.

What makes you a hoe? Let's just say I slam the clam. Oh. so that means that you will have sex with any buddy allegedly allegedly all right well sounds fun enough to me all right contest over put on the song we're giving her tickets moving on uh jonah why are you fun this is the question what makes you fun you have like 10 seconds to sell yourself and what is the funnest thing about you what's up Jonah?

I like to party. I like to do my fair share of heavy drinking, so I carry a couple things. Primarily my plastic barf bag, a flashlight, a rape whistle. I'm not that guy who'll throw up all over your curtains or couch or bushes. Discreetly go somewhere,

barf, rinse, repeat, you know? So wait a minute. You bring with you, you're so fun that you bring with you your own barf bag. Like on an airplane? No, no, no. Just a plastic bag, you know? Yeah, and then you have it with you. How often when you go out drinking do you end up throwing up?

I tend to black out sometimes. That's what the rape whistle's for. So, yeah, I have to bring the barf bag as well. So your items you bring with you when you go out to party are a barf bag, a flashlight, and what? A little whistle, you know, just in case I get lost, I'll blow it. A whistle. A rape whistle. That's a good idea.

What's the flashlight for? This guy sounds fun. Yeah, what is the... I would assume if he wakes up in the middle of the night somewhere. Which line was he on? Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Hey, Jonah, what is the flashlight for? Just in case it gets too dark, I don't throw up on your bushes or I don't miss the bag.

Oh, the flashlight is to make sure you puke in your barf bag. Oh, wow, so you're holding a flashlight as you puke into a bag. That's talent. That's fun. I think that you're a good multitasker, but also you come prepared because you know what to expect of yourself. You expect fun to happen Maybe some too much fun situations But you're prepared for them

Do you think that that is I'm just trying to figure out Does that make him fun Or does that make him a liability I mean gosh remember when he threw up in the bag But he brought his own flashlight and a rape I mean that's the guy you talk about Where you're like this guy is all prepared over there

With a bunch of like apocalyptic drunk supplies I like the idea of him walking around With like a Batman style utility belt With all of his things on it I don't touch that That's my puke bag. I'm going to need that. It's my blackout kit.

I'm going to need that for later. All right. Well, that's interesting. David, why are you fun? Listen, everyone can be fun for different reasons. Want to make sure there's fun people? What's up, David? Yeah, two easy reasons.

One, I work in the cannabis industry, so I can bring the weed. Two, I play rugby for Santa Monica Rugby Club. You know what I think about rugby players? We can drink pretty well and we'll have a good time. Rugby players are drinkers. In fact, I almost think rugby is like an excuse more for the drinking that happens afterwards. They're pretty hardcore, right? Hardcore, but they will throw.

I mean, I've known a few. You've known a few rugby players? Yeah, yeah. We used to work with a rugby player. Was he footy? He was rugby, right? That was footy. Dead Eyes was footy?

Yeah. Oh, I take it back. But he did like to drink. You think that guy was doing rugby? Probably not. That guy's footy. He was so sickly all the time. I assumed that was one of the effects.

No way. I thought he had a blood clot because of all the rugby. Rugby people are, like, built. Oh. Well, look, this guy likes to, he works, we're all sidestep, forget about the rugby thing, guy works in the cannabis industry, so that's a fun, that's a great, fun person to know. And, you know, sometimes you can hear fun in the voice. I can hear fun in this guy's voice.

It's weathered. It's been through things. Jackie, why are you fun? 800-520-1067. Want to make sure we have fun people with us at the Endless Summer. Kegger, what's up? Hello? Hi, Jackie.

Hi, yeah, my name is Jackie, and I am a cosplay content creator. what kind of cosplay um mainly i'm a juggalette i do a lot of clown cosplay but it's october so i'm starting my horror content as well you're a juggalette yes oh man i feel like we need to have a juggalette here don't you ali as long as she has a name tag that says juggalette i mean i think it'll be clear she's a female juggalo is she one is she willing to provide some food My cloud name is Jackpot. Answer Omar's question about the foot juice. My foot juice?

Foot juice. All right, hold on. That's Jackie. She's a juggalette. That's interesting. That's a very niche type of fun. Yeah, and she obviously plans ahead for the season, so she's gearing up for Halloween. So she has tailored fun depending on the season.

I respect that. Hey, Mark on KROQ, why do you believe you're fun? I'm a torta pounder. Nice. Oh, man. Got a lost pound in tortoise. I'm a torta. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Should put you in touch with that chocolate we just met a moment ago. There's probably a few people on this phone line that you can have sex with. Do you guys all know each other already? I feel like we're now going to your party. What's going on here? Let me say hi to Brendan on KROQ. You believe you're the most fun.

Why? What's up? Yeah, I'm the funnest guy, guys. I can't wait. I got through. I can't wait. I'm the hype guy over there. I get everyone all pumped up, and during the shows, I just jump around and let everyone know they're having a good time.

Everyone loves to just have a great time, right? And it's summer, so I just want to make it the most fun it's time to get out. He's got a good vibe in his voice. He's got a good energy to that voice, right? Yeah, I mean, he's a hype man who's having a little trouble finding his words sometimes. Right. He's too excited. He's an illiterate hype man.

I'm just, just jump around and hype. I like what he's saying. Brendan, when's the last time you got really excited in life? uh last time i got really excited in life is uh what happened uh i got a free what did i get oh i won the lotto just like 20 on scotia but man that 20 came in handy i was just so excited and just wanted to just i don't know i put it in gas that wasn't fun but won the lottery and spent it on gas not fun yeah you got less fun as that call went on which is It's too bad because I liked you.

Yeah! Unleaded, please. Tara, why are you fun? I always bring the party with me. So I'm that loud friend. I'm always bringing some mushrooms with me. Nice. Having the drinks.

I also just saw Slightly Stupid at the Padre Stadium this year. So huge fan. So yeah, love to party with you guys. And you would be taking mushrooms? Of course. Always. We keep them up. And you will stay the whole time?

Yeah. You might lose me a little bit, but yes, I will stay there. I like that person that goes missing. Oh, you do? Yeah. It's like, where is this person? And then they just show up again. And you're like, oh, my God, where have you been?

Hold on. She sounds fun. There's some fun. The person that randomly gets lost. I'm getting some funness there. August, it is your month. Why are you fun? you know i uh i'm going to my 10th dodger game of the season on sunday with blind charlie

oh all right next seems like a real waste of a seat right there uh that's that's great uh okay that sounds fun too for different reasons we have somebody on the text line that is a swinger fun that's a different type of fun different type of fun but fun carina hi good morning um buzz balls hello i always keep them in my purse i will make sure everybody has one at the door i will make sure that everybody's chugging one you have a buzz ball in your purse right now i do have a buzz ball in my purse right now it's actually an eggnog one an eggnog oh my god man seasonal fun all of those are so thick anyway To have an eggnog one is pull.

This is tough now because there's so many different types of fun people that are calling. We also have 323 who says that they are a fire performer. Oh, man. I want a fire performer at our endless summer event. That's fun. Hold on. I think Vanessa dropped her down. Oh, did they call?

Yes. Is this Felicia? Yeah, hi. Hi. What type of fire performer do you mean? Like a pyromaniac or an actual fire performer? No, like an actual fire. Like, I have a fire staff, like, a double staff.

Like, I have a staff. Like, it's in my car right now. I take it with me everywhere. And then you dance around with, like, a flaming stick or whatever? Yeah. And you would do that if we had you? It's like a bow staff, like a martial arts bow staff. But, like, either end is wicked, and you light it on fire.

And do you do tricks like you spit fire? Do you put it in your mouth? Like, what's your big trick? Oh, no, no, no. I definitely don't spit fire. I will not put lamp fuel in my mouth at all. I can dance with it, and I'm pretty good at it. I can do a lot of fireballs.

You creep them fireballs? Come on. Have fun. I like what she's doing. I'm sorry that I was so... I like what this woman's doing, and I think a fire dancer is definitely an international sign of fun. I agree.

You're in, Felicia. Yes. So can you bring your fire stick to the party? I sure will. Are we in charge of security? I don't know. What? Probably not.

Why would they put us in charge of security? Well, because if we're not, can we get a fire stick in? Yeah, yeah, we'll sneak it in. Can you gerbil that or something? I mean, no one else can touch the stick but me. Yeah. Ooh, hot. Yeah, if she walks in like she's using it as a cane, right, then they'll just...

Hey, you! Yeah, they'll just... Oh, she's a funny clown. Come on in. Yeah, yeah, hold on one second. Felicia, write down her number. We need to have one of them people there. All right, well, listen.

Vanessa, I hope you got everyone's numbers, because I want to call back most of those people and tell them they're as good as in. Especially that torta pounder. Yeah, we've got to get that torta pounder. Excuse me, tortas were running around not getting pounded. Leave that guy there, for sure. He's going to be here to pound these ladies. Just a sampling of what you could run into if you join us at the Endless Summer Kegger here. Many people are asking if the finals of the Dumb Off are happening today, and the answer is they are not.

They're going to happen tomorrow, the last day of the week. However, we now are in a situation where we have three people heading to the finals. So once again, as expected, it's Johnny and Allie because it seems to be they're always in the dumb off finals. Vanessa and I had an interesting back and forth battle. And after everything was looked at and all the answers were listened to again and everything was reviewed, Vanessa is technically in the finals as well, which means you're down to three people in the finals of the dumb off Vanessa, Johnny and Allie. And I did have one elimination question that we could ask right now to eliminate one of you from having to go to the finals. By the way, I think that it was kind of a wash, but on paper, Vanessa was the one to move on,

but also I think nobody wanted me to write questions anymore. Yeah, that's really what pushed us over the edge. That's really what had you not moving on, so that you couldn't take the questions back over again. Thank you, everyone. In fact, there was so much heat about this, and some guy is really attacking you, Allie, as a person. Oh, sure, go for it.

Hey, guys, I'm listening to the podcast. Ali, such a whiny little bitch making those questions up for Klein being unfair giving Vanessa a softball come on I know Klein gives all those riddles one thing he does not do

is give an advantage to the other person Ali, you're being a a real bandera fair is fair and this man called you a a slur in another language yeah and he may have not given one-sided questions this time but you do so

most other times so here's what we can do right now we can eliminate one of you from traveling to the finals i mean you guys are all one step away from wearing the sash of stupidity which will be your official outfit at the endless summer kegger embarrassing to walk around with a sash that says biggest dummy on it uh you've won it before it fits you well i think it was custom fit for you johnny's worn it's a little tight on him uh once again we've said if ali loses again this year or wins the dumb off she will have her jersey retired into the rafters here at k-rock because that's how good she is. You keep saying that, but Johnny has won more than me.

Yeah, but it's much more rare to retire. I was at a WNBA Sparks game, and they only have like three or four jerseys up in the rafters for the Sparks players. You know how many Lakers jerseys they have up there? Tons. It's very rare to have a woman's jersey retired. Oh, so it's because I'm a woman? That's right.

Got it. So I will give you Johnny, Vanessa. Yeah, let's do it. You guys ready for one question now? Yes, let's do it. Okay, this will eliminate one of you from having to compete tomorrow. What if we all get it wrong? Then you're all going to be competing tomorrow.

If you face north right now. Oh, God, shut up. I'm out. I'll just go to the finals. Come on. I haven't said anything. I've said nothing. You're facing north.

I don't know where north is. It doesn't matter. You're facing north. Okay. You turn right, and then you turn right again. and then you turn left which direction are you now facing?

Right? Right? Left? Yep. Simple. Write down your answers. Let's figure out right now once and for all who's going to the finals of the dumb off. Allie said after she heard the word north, that's it. I'm going to the finals. Forget this. And how far right are you turning?

That doesn't matter. It kind of does. It does not matter, Jake, for the purpose of this question. You assume that everything is a... You're traveling north. Now, you're facing north. You turn right. Ah, you're facing north. I'm facing.

Show your face, you stupid face. I got you. The face is the mother. You're facing north. The face is my mother. You turn right. Then you turn right again. Then you turn left.

Which direction are you now facing? Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Say it. You're facing north. You're facing north. Omar, is this tricky at all? I bet you almost got the answer already figured out. I turn right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You turn right. Yeah. Then you turn right again. That's right. Then you turn left. That's right. Okay.

Everyone have an answer? Yes. Okay. Johnny, what did you write down? I'm going to go third. Cool. What? Moving on?

No, third? Let the girls go first. Ladies first, and then I'll give my answer. Oh, I thought that was his answer. It was third. No, I said... No, we have to make sure you guys aren't cheating back there. I need your answer.

I don't know. You're not cheating. I'm ready. I'm looking at her, and I need your... And I can see Vanessa. What's your answer? Just say your... I'm not going to say you're right or wrong yet.

What's your answer? I put east. Vanessa? I put west. Allie? East. Hmm. Oh, man.

Am I right, Klein? Two east, one west? It's probably going to be something stupid like, well, you're still facing north, so you're still north. Well, and how right are you turning? Are you turning two? That's what Jake asked. Two faces right?

I'm proud to say. What? Oh, my God. That Vanessa is very wrong. Okay. Let's start with that. So she's going on. Oh, man.

Okay. Back to work. You and Johnny have tied with an answer. Okay. So now what? That is the right answer. Okay. But we can't have a finals of the dumb off with just one person.

So we're back to three. So then this is what I'm talking about. So I guess Allie and I are out. So we're good then. No, no, no. Congrats, Vanessa. Vanessa can't compete against herself. You and Johnny, since it's a tie.

This is what I'm saying. Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? You just got more content out of it right now. You just won the dumb off. But the question that's, if we both get it right, then there's nobody eliminated. Now, you quote said in your quote, North, forget it. I'm going to the finals.

She did say that, actually. Yeah. She said, North, shut up. She yelled at a direction, a general direction. What did North ever do to you? and I know that in the Civil War Ali was a big fan of the South but in this particular case

we gotta take a break when we get back we have news to get to the Dumb Off that was just a tease for what tomorrow will be like so nothing's been decided we've decided nothing

yet again a giant waste of time there's the theme BF Thursday good morning Klein Ali Show let's find out what's happening in the world

and then we get into a brand new hour of the show if you need us phones, text line everything open now 800-520-1067 and now to learn about your news someone who's a finalist

in the Dumb Off Grab your Adderall. It's time for ADD News. So robots are getting closer and closer to taking over the world. We know this. Yet humans continue to work on them, improve them, and turn them into better and better soldiers. Not really sure why we keep doing that. But one company has made a huge development.

They've created a new humanoid robot that can not only do karate and withstand sub-zero temperatures, It can also now outrun Usain Bolt. Unitree has put their robots through extreme tests, walking through deep snow in northwestern China, freezing Arctic-level temperatures 53 degrees below zero. That same robot on rollerblades and on ice skates. Oh, my God. Is it a gay robot? I don't know if we need those skills in battle, but still.

I mean, it seems like we're testing it in the, you know, you want to test it in the hardest possible conditions. If it's straight or gay, it should have skills. Yeah, the rollerblading thing just seems weird at this point. Doing flips It then performed martial arts And dance moves too Oh man The future is looking bright

I know eventually we're all laughing now Because it's rollerblading and doing karate and dancing And pretty soon it's going to be Taking all of our jobs And killing us all But still for the time being We'll look back at this chunk of time in 2026 And go this was funny when we weren't really sure

We were kind of scared of the robots But also they were dancing I mean, when they're on our side, just, you know, twerking in a corner and making our beds, that's exciting. But it just takes one little switch for them to turn on us, and then we are screwed. Well, tonight, that same company unveiling their latest robot they call Superman. They say it can jump more than six and a half feet in the air. Watch it run a top speed of 28.3 miles per hour, faster than Olympic champion Usain Bolt. The people at that conference in China mesmerized.

That is something. The race sure is on. I'm David Muir. I'll see you right back here tomorrow. No robot, just me. At least not yet. That guy is the most robotic human out there, by the way. Absolutely. Pretty sure that guy. He just rips his face off and it's Skynet.

100% one of those robots that's sneaking in to kind of like normalize robots. Like that dude's face doesn't move, man. Right, he is. That guy's more robot than it. By the way, that speed he's running at, 20, whatever he said, 20 miles an hour. 28. Seems fast against a human time, sure. But for a robot time, that seems kind of slow.

That's like Omar with the 5K. And it looks so strange while it's running because it does this really intense crouch and it's just like, it seems so scary. If something was running at me, it's like the ring. It's just running at a non-human pace. But I guess my theory is cars are robots to a certain extent, right? And cars can go 120 miles an hour easy. Some of them are even faster than that. Yeah, but they're not humanoid robots.

They're not running on legs. But I would think if the thing can rollerblade, why can't you get those wheels spinning a little faster and make that robot go 75 miles an hour? It's already been done. Well, regardless, I mean, I'm impressed by most of the stuff that robot can do. Less impressed by the speed it runs at. I'm more impressed with what, the rollerblading part? Yeah, the dance moves, the karate. Yeah, but what I think they can eventually do is merge all these together and have it be like a transformer.

Well, right, and that's going to be... Like it's a human, and then all of a sudden it's like... Army tank. We are less than a year away from that, I believe. Although, you know, I don't know if you saw the video that went viral. The woman who had the drone delivery, and they dropped it right in her pool. that was going on yesterday. So the good news about that

is the robots are still kind of stupid. Like, they're cool. I mean, a drone brought... It'll drop a whole battalion of army robots in a pool. It just dropped it right in the pool.

So that's all we need. Water is our friend. Take that, robots. Speaking of battle, joining the army and putting your life on the line for our country, it's a noble thing.

But when Grand Theft Auto comes out, that bravery needs to be put on hold. And one battalion, and this is in Georgia, is offering an interesting perk. If you re-enlist

for two more years in the army, You will be guaranteed four days off to do nothing but play Grand Theft Auto 6 when it comes out. This is also part of a lot of perks that people get when they reenlist in the Army. Sometimes they do cash bonuses, payouts, education benefits. You can pick your duty station if you want. But a lot of people have already signed up for this. They say hundreds of people are interested in just taking four days off solely to play a video game.

But the tradeoff is two additional years. Well, if you were planning on reenlisting already, this is a huge bonus and perk for you. You have four days that you can just sit around and play Grand Theft Auto. If you were planning on it, that's the big difference. If you were planning on it. If you were planning on leaving and all of a sudden you get roped back in because of four days of uninterrupted video game playing, you've got to question the priorities. I mean, it is kind of a dumb decision, but I'm sure there are people that are obsessed enough to say, hey, I'm getting enlisted in the army for four days off. No, no, no.

Just play GTA for four days. Yeah. Right. We've been waiting like 13 years or like 15 years for this game to come out. I bet there's going to be a lot of neglected children. Oh, yeah. And pets. Oh, my God.

I think it's going to be a great, it should be one of those national holidays. We add that to the list of things that should be holidays. It's going to be like the World Series where it's just as if there's a game on, it is understood that no one is working. $12 billion of work was not done the days following the release of GTA, which was promised to us every three years for the last, whatever, it's been decade now. There's no way it could live up to the hype at this point. I kind of agree. There's no way. People are going to be let down.

I know that Netflix is showing some extended preview of it right now on Netflix. And, of course, it looks cool when you're watching the best of best of reel of what you can do. Just because the animation and all the effects are way better than the last one. But I'm kind of like Omar. I'm nervous now because you're right. It's been such a thing that's been talked about for so long. how could it possibly live up to the hype?

That's crazy. I didn't know it was that long ago. That's crazy. It came out when I was a freshman in high school and that was 13 years ago. Well, I better be able

to do a lot of raping and pillaging. All right. Hold that clip. Hey, yo. Hold that clip. Because that's what it should be.

Doing illegal things. Johnny's probably one of those nerds that actually try to do the missions. Well, I is because for a minute, but then after a while,

I was like, no, I just want to hijack this jet and crash it into buildings and stuff. Dude, I tried. So I downloaded the last one because I don't think I had ever played it. And I tried to do the missions

and I did like four of them and then none of them, like no new ones ever came. So I was like, what am I doing? I guess I'll just rob some people. Yeah, you gotta really go hunt for them. It's really tough. Yeah, I was like, this is too hard.

I don't want to have to seek this out and work. Seven massage parlors in the San Gabriel Valley have been busted for happy ending massages. This was a week-long enforcement operation. I'm sure all those officers worked really hard to make sure they could find these places. What a gig that is. And it resulted in many people being detained.

So if you went to the San Gabriel Valley for happy ending massages, one of your massage parlors could be gone today. Sorry about that. And I know the police are not supposed to allow them to do the full massage. I think once they have an agreement as to what they'll do, that's enough for them to go ahead and do the bust. But also, if you're in that room and the curtain is shut and you want to do it in the middle of things, you want to do a thorough police investigation. Who's going to stop that? I mean, come on. How many of those cops were letting that thing happen a little bit more than it probably should, right?

We heard an interesting happy ending story from someone we work with recently. We did? Yeah. Who was that? Remember the person whose kid got a happy ending massage? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. It was such a strange story.

Someone we work with accidentally bought their adult child a happy ending massage. I thought it was a regular massage place, and the child said, thanks for that, Mom. Yeah, no one was talking about that, by the way. A mother who works here bought her adult son a happy ending massage. Great story. Did it say that in the fine print, or how do you know it was a happy ending massage? He told her eventually. I think he said after the fact.

Oh, she showed us a photo. Well, not of the happy ending massage. Why? She showed us a photo of the sun. Oh. It was like, you look like a porn star. Where is this place? Yeah, he did have a big smile on his face.

It was the biggest smile I've ever seen in a picture. What a great mom. Yeah, so we get into a brand new hour of the show in moments. Greatest hour of your life.