Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - Klein's Honey Baked Ham

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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Not at San Bernardino International Airport. And now we send you on a direct flight into our podcast, which starts right now. We don't do celebrity birthdays on this radio show. I know a lot of shows do that. But today is a bit of a show celebrity birthday. Bruiser, my little Bruiser, has now become eight years old today. And she's given us so many wonderful quotes on the show. You f***ing bitch.

I be gay. Like that. You're such a f***ing big chump. Thank you. Talking about you. That's bedtime in my house. Big day tomorrow, go to sleep. And she tells me, shut the F up.

But my favorite of all of hers is when she called Allie the F word. I love that clip. Allie is the F word. Because we're all thinking it. So thank you for saying it, Bruiser. This weekend, I was out. And I rarely listen to the news on this show because even though I believe it is authentically accurate, I still don't believe that it would happen in real life.

And when Allie reported a few weeks back that Stanley from the show The Office was opening up a honey-baked ham store, In Sherman Oaks, I kind of, like most things that she says, I instantly forget about it. And then this weekend, I was driving and I was sitting at some traffic. There was some terrible accident in Encino. Ventura Boulevard was shut down, a giant chunk of it this weekend. So I was moving around and making moves. And I ended up at an intersection killing time in Sherman Oaks. And I look up and I see a sign that says Honey Baked Ham.

And all of a sudden, it hit me. I go, oh, yeah, it's the one that Stanley from The Office opened. And I haven't been into a honey-baked ham in forever because I used to think all they had there was ham. That's what I thought, too. It's rare that I would ever be a— What else do they have? They have honey-baked. I mean, the ability for me, not that I couldn't sit down and eat an entire ham if I really tried, I think I could, but the times of the year—

Do you think you could eat an entire ham by yourself in one sitting? In your words. I think I could eat a honey-baked ham because you can use that honey-baked drip sauce to, like, lube up your throat. Sure. But they're still pretty, I mean, what are they, three pounds? I think you can decide how big they are. They have different size hams. But I know that if I've ever gone to a place that hasn't, I'll park myself over by the honey-baked hams and go to town on it.

But I didn't realize, you know, the amount of times in a year that I would ever, I mean, you're talking, like, Thanksgiving maybe, Christmas. I mean, you're talking major holidays. It's not like a typical Tuesday where you're like, today's a honey-baked ham day. But I drove by, I looked up, I see the sign, and I said, let's see what's going on in there. So I parked and I walked in, and lo and behold, sitting right there at the table, on his laptop, crunching numbers, trying to figure out how to make the business profitable, is Stanley from The Office. He's just sitting right there. I don't even know his real name. He's got a real name.

I know it's not Stanley. But he's sitting there, and I was kind of surprised, to be honest. His name is Stanley. Oh, it is in real life, too? Stanley Hudson. Oh, good. No, that's his character's name. Oh, wait, wait.

Oh, sorry. My bad. Leslie. Yeah, Leslie Baker. Leslie. So I figured, though, he doesn't want to be called Stanley, but I don't know anything else to call him. So I walk in, and there he is, and he just kind of says, hey, welcome to Honey Baked

Ham. And I'm like, oh, Stanley, what's up, dude? And he seemed annoyed by that, but he goes, hey. Was he a character? No. Was he a character? that would be great now he's actually quite the opposite real life he's very pleasant very smiley and very happy but um at that point i realized what i had done where i just went in there not

to buy anything i was just gonna look and see what was going on in there and then um wait you went in there to just check out like what do you think was going to be going on i didn't know the honey baked ham store i know but i have dude i don't know if i've ever been into a actual honey baked ham store ever in my life and I figured when Ali mentioned on the news I can tell you right now off the top of my head they're gonna have hams yeah but well listen I was this is what I was thought as well and I walk in I go he's there and then he starts saying to me hey you ever been into one of these stores before and I said no and he goes well you gotta see man we got you know this was on Saturday so football was on Sunday he goes we got all the things you could

possibly want for football here we got ribs and we have ribs do they have like like like little sandwiches mac and cheese all this stuff i was so anyway i wasn't gonna buy anything the point is i went in there to look then i realized like i was a hams i was just gonna hear to browse hams which is a normal thing to say browse smell some hams shake them and like anyone else you go into a store that's got no one else in there except the owner you do feel instantly at least i do a little bit of pressure to make a purchase because i was not going to buy anything my plan was buy nothing and yet he kind of started doing the uh well he has those puppy dog eyes he's got the puppy dog eyes and he starts and you start looking around and the place is empty and

he's sitting there at his laptop he's got some sort of a chart you can tell he's doing what like a business owner would do where they're sitting there trying to crunch numbers and feel like all right man if we sell this many hams we can stay afloat another month but like it wasn't like there was a lot of foot traffic in there so all of a sudden i start going i feel like i gotta to buy something here and originally i said i'm just going to take a menu and i'll bring it home and show the wife now my wife wants no part of honey baked ham i knew this going in but i said i'll bring the menu home and we'll see and then he's like yo you can't leave empty-handed man you gotta get something so then i go he said it too yeah he kind of started laying it on like you

don't want to leave here with nothing so i said all right my kid likes mac and cheese i'll buy one of the frozen mac and cheeses which is like a low you know it's a ten dollars okay and he goes That's it? Oh, no. And I'm like, God damn it. So then I go, all right. He's like, you know what's really good? Have you tried our ribs?

And I'm like, I have not tried your ribs because all I've ever had from you is ham. And he goes, man, you got to try the ribs. So I'm like, all right, I'll take the mac and cheese and one rack of ribs. Just one? Well, so it's funny you say that. So then I go to the register, and there's a person at the – it's not him. There's a person at the register, and she goes, you know, we're running a current promotion. Buy a rack, get a rack for half price, a second rack.

That's a deal, man. You're losing money if you don't buy it. So I say to her very loudly, I'm good, I'm good. And then he goes, Stanley goes, oh, man, no one's passed that up. Because no one's bought ribs in the first place. So I go, all right, throw in the second rack. So now I'm in for the mac and cheese and two racks of ribs. How much is that?

Once again, there's no prices on anything, so I don't know. Mac and cheese, I knew it. That was the first thing she scanned, $10. So I felt okay leaving there going, I supported a local business. I supported Stanley from the office. And then I start to pay, and he goes, have you seen our dessert selection? Oh, my God. He's a salesman.

And I go, oh, man. I go, yeah, I'm not really a pie guy. He goes, oh, man, pie, we got chocolate tortes, and we got lemon this, and we got a whole freezer full of desserts. And I said, dude, I think I'm tapped now. I got the two racks of ribs, and, you know, and he goes, and we got these little sandwiches. You know, you don't want to wait for these ribs to thaw. You're going to have to eat something. And then he almost, like, knew he was speaking my language because, like, you don't want to eat anything while you're driving back.

And I'm like, God, he knows I love driving and eating. Right. So then they had these little sandwiches there, too, like little finger sandwiches, like on the Hawaiian bread, the good-look Hawaiian bread. So I was like, all right, well, what's the best ones of these? He's like, I can't play my favorites. You should probably try them all. Great. And I'm like, God damn it.

You get a variety pack of finger sandwiches? I'm getting hustled by Stanley from the office now. And I think to myself, this guy played a paper salesman for years, and he must have picked up some of that ability because he's selling me. if you can sell paper even as an actor you better believe you can sell ham and ham related products so i end up leaving this place now and then they start ringing me up ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching and now i'm into the ham place i was gonna go in there just to look and get the menu i'm in there for 96 before i get out of there and and then i say and i wasn't gonna ask for a picture because i feel like you know i'm not gonna bother but at this point i'll go i'm in for

$96. Yeah, you're going to go to a picture. So I say, hey, man, good luck. I'm happy you opened up a honey-baked ham store. You know, big fan of The Office and everyone I work with at K-Rock is, you know. And I go, you mind if I get a quick picture? And he goes, all right. He's like, let's hold up some of the stuff you bought in the picture.

And I go, oh, God damn it. So now I just want to take a picture with him. And the next thing I know, I'm, like, holding up, you know. You're doing marketing for him. Two racks of ribs. But congratulations to Stanley for the off. Nice guy. Leslie is his name.

Nice guy. And now, so I'm going to bring, anyway, the good news is, Jake, tomorrow. Yeah. I thought it out overnight. So tomorrow I'm going to bring it all in here and we'll eat the ribs. Can I have a sandwich too? Yeah, I got a lot of leftovers. I mean, I haven't tapped any of it yet.

So I've got it all. So that's exciting. And I know that Johnny, I think. Johnny, are you the big fan of The Office? Is that you? Yeah, man. I can't believe Stanley's not selling pretzels. That's what he loved in the show.

Yeah, I think, I want to say he had, listen, I didn't want to ask because there was a lot of stuff that I didn't buy, but I feel like anything I would have asked a question, I would have gotten sold, he would have tried to sell to me. But I don't know. You think, if you go to my back-to-back weekends, Magic Johnson randomly in the wild and Stanley from The Office, I don't know if there's been a better back-to-back weekend of celebrity run-ins ever. I feel like it's all coming up Klein these days, which is incredible.

And I got multiple racks of ribs in the freezer now. So we'll be bringing those in tomorrow. So, Jake, get ready for that. We got to take a quick break. Someone says the honey-baked ham sandwiches are amazing. Hold on. I didn't realize. I'm in for a treat.

All right. Well, I got suckered into all that stuff. Someone says they'll give me $100 if I can actually finish an entire honey-baked glazed ham bone-in. How much is that way? Because they're different sizes. Give me an idea before I take on this challenge. An entire honey-baked ham bone-in. I can't eat the bone, but I can eat the spiral ham around it, I'm sure.

And would I have an entire show to finish it, or would I have to do it? Yeah, an whole show. Give me an idea what that would weigh, Jake. Any idea? I'm looking at it right now. It says here 10 pounds. No, not 10 pounds. That's the lightest one?

Yeah. 10 pounds, but the bone has got to weigh 2 pounds of that. Okay, there's a bone-in. And there's a half. No, we can't do the half. Yeah, three to ten pounds. Three to ten pounds? Yeah, you get a three one.

You get a three pounder. There's no way you can do it. You don't think I could eat three pounds of ham? Three pounds of ham, man? Is that with bone weight or is bone separate? Small boneless ham, three pounds. I feel like I could do it. I feel like it's doable, too.

You could do it, man. But I think a lot of people have probably said it's doable and haven't been able to do it. But it all comes down to that little sauce they put in. That's everything, that glazed stuff. you're gonna get sick of it after half of it for sure i don't know man i think if i wait or if i wait just a little bit until the season start to be feel like thanksgiving i can go ham on that ham i can see that all right well make that vanessa make a note make a note of it we're gonna take a quick break we're back in a second we have ad news to get to after this then

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