Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - How Often Should You Visit a Friend Who Lives Far Away?

Episode Date: July 30, 2026

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If you need us, phones are 800-520-1067. You can call, you can text, you can join the show lots of ways. A little bit later this morning, one of the greatest humans to ever live, Chicken Charlie, is making his way from the OC Fairgrounds to the K-Rock Studios with his latest concoction. This is the man that invented the deep-fried Oreo. He's the guy that decided Kool-Aid isn't just for drinking, it's for deep-frying. He's the king of the fair circuit. He is the king.

He has created. He's been oftentimes imitated by many other, you know, you go to the fair because you want to eat deep fried butter. I get it. But Chicken Charlie is the inventor of many of these items. He's dedicated his life to finding new items to fry. Local legend. He says every year he brings friends and family into his backyard. He's got that giant bucket of boiling oil, and they just throw stuff in it and see what tastes good,

and then they put it on the fair menu. So he'll be stopping by the KROQ Studios a little bit later today. It's all part of our goal to make Ali fat again, MAFA, and we'll be giving away some Maffa hats as we celebrate the Chicken Charlie coming by later this morning. I have a question. I have a friend who, you know,

we met each other in California, lived in the same city for many years, got close, came to my wedding, you know, all that stuff. I get it. You're upset I didn't come to your wedding. Well, I have this other friend that came to my wedding.

Great. Must have been nice for that person. Should I be mad about that my other friend didn't come? Yeah, I'm sorry. Once again, apologies. Five years ago, I'm really sorry. That steak is still sitting there in Portland, Oregon.

I'm sure it is. No, my friend, a few years ago, moved away from California. She decided to be one of those people who moves out of California, and she moved to the East Coast all the way to North Carolina. Good riddance. Goodbye. Look, she was able to get a great house. She works remote, so she can work anywhere. She's living a great life, right?

I don't like the people that leave here and then try to really rub it in our... It's fine. She's not one of those, I will say. But already how you're setting this up is, oh, my God, I left. I got this beautiful house, which would have been paying what I paid for a studio apartment in Hollywood. She did say it was too big. Right. I mean, the people that always leave.

I can't keep up with it. If you want to leave, and there's a bunch of reasons to leave. I get it. There's family stuff. It's expensive as hell to live here. Barely just trying to survive. All that. I get it.

But if you leave, just leave and be happy. Don't rub it in our faces if we're still here. Oh, she is. I know someone like that, too. I know a few people like that. She's got money to travel. She just got back from Bali. Two weeks in Bali.

You know what I paid for dinner last night? $11 for a whole dinner. I get it. Things are expensive here. It sucks. So we visited her once after she set up shop, got her house and everything. I think it was about a year after she moved. We flew out there, spent a few days with her in North Carolina.

We also went to Boston and a couple other places. Katie brings up yesterday. it's time for us to go visit this friend again and i'm like what she's like well it's our turn she's come to see us a couple of times and she's been to california she comes every year to visit other friends and do things just because she travels a lot well she used to live here so she's got multiple reasons to come back here you don't have any we don't know anyone in north orline except for her so i would argue it's like a four to one ratio of visits right okay so that was my question is is there a requirement for how many times you should visit a friend if they move

away if my family member like my mom moved out of california too i gotta still visit my mom she's my mom or like you moved away from your hometown you gotta visit your family that's your obligation right there's an obligation and usually this one it feels like it's a two because ever since i got kids when i was single and it was just me it the expectation was that i would come home more often once a year probably it was just me at least once a year because it was just me and i would fly back once i outnumbered them then the obligation became uh either a 50 50 split or they come every two times for every one time i go there okay but it changes as your family gets bigger sure right because it's more expensive it's harder to visit and people have schedules and stuff right you

can't just randomly you know pull kids out of school you know go see their grandparents so i think now we separate the fact that it's not a family member it's a friend a very good very close friend and a very uh a friend that we that visits often but what is the requirement for us or the expectation right she hasn't said anything she's single she's uh no she has a boyfriend now right but no kids no kids no but and she's also and she can work anywhere so that's what i was saying to my wife i was like well if it's much easier for her to visit she already visits on her own on a regular basis i don't understand why you're saying like this is the right thing to do we have to go out there not that i don't want to when people move you know especially friends you

have to do the whole hell well don't we're gonna stay in touch we're gonna see each other all the time i i've said that to people that move to the west side of la i've never seen them again oh yeah there are friends that i had past tense because they moved to silver lake yeah that's not happening friends that live in the valley and they're like uh we're moving to brentwood and i said hey it's been real i wish you the best yeah i'll never see you again though or we have uh i have a family I have a cousin who lives in Huntington, and we probably see each other. Oh, my God. My friends have moved to Orange County.

We've always talked about it. I thought it would be the moon. And then when we do visit each other, it's like we're like, look what we did. I know. Look what we did for you. Look what we accomplished. Sat in traffic. What were you saying, Vanessa?

One of my super best friends moved to Vegas, and I visit her at least once a year. I go to Vegas. Once again, Vegas. That's easy, though. I put Vegas in a different category for a few reasons. That's like going to Orange County. Like you guys were mentioning There's more to do in Vegas

In Vegas there's a reason To always go there regardless And that's why I actually talked to someone That moved to Vegas too and they said They see so many more people now Because every other weekend there's someone That's in Vegas for whatever and they get to see them Yeah great so you can just be a part of their visit

Because they're probably going to be visiting anyway But you're talking about just planning a special trip And in North Carolina Right exactly I have a friend who moved to Kentucky and I've never seen him again What's the best friend scale here? Like, is she a 10 of best friend, or is she, like, a friend? No, she's a best friend.

I'm a little from 1 to 10. How special? Like a 9, 8 or 9? Oh, yeah, you have to visit. God, man. What if I said a 6? But I don't... It's just 6.

You don't have to see her that often. And she would be happy... If we said we're going to fly out there, she would be happy to have us. She would be happy to entertain us and all that stuff. But I'm like, do you know how much more expensive it is for three people to visit? 5-6-2 says my boyfriend's family lives in San Bernardino. He hasn't seen them since December. I mean, that's technically like we're all in the same area.

We're still all in, you know, it's all technically Southern California, but forget that. And even my dad is like, hey, we're going to visit soon. No expectation for you to visit us. You've got a family. We're just retired old people. We can visit. If you're asking, if you're asking what is the obligation, then clearly, Allie, this is no friend of yours. No, no.

Because you should be excited about going to see them. Not that I wouldn't like to visit. I would like to visit. But if I'm going all the way across the country, I'm not doing that over a weekend or a three-day. Katie was going, we should do it over a three-day weekend. I'm like, what? And the average person, if you're working a job, maybe you get, let's just call it two weeks a year of some variety. One around the holidays.

One of those is going to be sucked up by family obligations. Exactly. So you get one. So you've got one maybe floater. And then you've got to decide, now, is this friend so much of a friend? That it's going to be a week visit? And you've got to tell them, look, I've crunched the numbers. I don't think you're worth it.

And you're out. You're out. You've just got to say. You're a nine. Yeah, tell them if they move back to somewhere near you, then maybe you'll see them more often. Move to Silver Lake and maybe I'll see you. Yeah, that's a bit of a hike, though. You've got to deal with that.

That's traffic. I don't like that either. So a lot of thoughts on this. Everyone's got their own opinions about it. But regardless, we have to take this quick break. We're back in a moment. We've got news next. Then we have your tickets if you want those.

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Show. I just want to point out, Ali, because this is coming through on the text line right now. You're pregnant right now. And if you just wait it out, there'll be an obligation on her to come out and meet the baby. Ah, I've got to wait out so the obligation switches. If you, yeah, if you just wait it out a little bit, then she, because then we'd not be. Why didn't you meet my baby? It will not be expected of you.

That's another, that's a great trump card you can play is that, oh, by the way, you got to come out and everyone's got to go meet the baby. Well, it's funny because my, because Katie said, no, you got to do it now before you can't. No, no, you're smart. It's good. Good texture. It's very smart. You got to read this text line. We'll be right back.

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