Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - Relationship Gaps

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. KROQ, finally show, Relationship Gaps. I think in L.A., Southern California, we started this concept of Relationship Gaps, and that was usually when some old rich guy would start dating some really young girl. And that still happens now, and it's flipped around, and now they've got old women dating young guys as well, and no one cares. But there's a new type of Relationship Gap that's getting a lot of attention,

and it has to do with when you sit down to eat with the person that you are dating or married to, and one of you eats your entire meal in about 30 seconds. inhales the meal. That's what I'm guilty of doing. And then the person that you're eating with is one of those slow eaters. And at the end of it all, you could be done with your meal in under a minute and they could take like closer to an hour. And I think it's a weird thing. And maybe the argument would be guys like to eat quickly and women like to take their time. That's probably the stereotype. But the reality is that some therapists have looked at this and said, that's not necessarily a deal breaker. In fact, there's quite a few opportunities in relationships where

you guys could have these relationship gaps and that could be good for the relationship. Now, I don't know when it comes to eating. I would imagine, Omar, you probably inhale the food, right? Oh, my God, dude. I'm done. I'm just like waiting around for everybody to finish. That's how I feel, too. It's so annoying.

It is. And sometimes I've finished everything before people have all even sat down. If there's going to be one of those things where we all sit down together, which doesn't happen as often as it should, but if it's one of those nights, and I've oftentimes either made the food or been a part of it, I will make it. I'll put it down. I'll sit down. I'll be like, all right, guys, it's dinner.

Then I'll start eating, and I've realized that before even the last ass has hit the seat, I've already finished my dinner. I'm done. And now it's just me sitting around waiting for everyone to, you know, take their sweet ass time. I need to sit down sometimes. Well, yeah. I mean, if you're just dating, why even sit? Just eat. But if you're at a restaurant and you both order food and it arrives at the exact same time, more often than not, I mean, I've always been of the mindset,

that, especially maybe since having kids, but you got to eat quickly. You never know when something could happen. Tantrum could take loose. You're out of... The food hits the table. My job is to eat as quickly as possible. And I also, I enjoy my food at the temperature that it's supposed to be at. You know, it's like women,

they just don't care, I guess. It's just there. It's getting on cold. The slowly nibbling. Sometimes it's like a nibble. I don't think it's all women. Well, I'll tell you one thing. If I ever am at dinner with my mom, I have to allow... I feel bad if they ever say, like if a restaurant ever says to me, we're going to need that table back in an hour and a half.

I always tell them, you'll have it back in a half an hour. I will be done. I'll be out of here so quickly you'll be able to do another turn. If I go out with my mom somewhere and they say, we're going to need that table back in an hour and a half, I say, that's not going to happen. There's no mathematical way that could happen. It is the slowest eating process ever. The slowest eating process. And it's always been that way since I was a kid.

And to the point where I really hated going to restaurants because the waiters would start hovering. Is there anything else? and she's like still working on it still working on it i'm like oh my god and then they would start coming by you still working on that yep like oh jesus christ someone help so the question is it may not be food it may not be age but what is the biggest gap in your current relationship we've got tickets up for grabs and we say hi to george george what's going on buddy hey i'm with you on the food thing but me and my wife uh are polar opposites on sleep like i have a normal you know day job, but she

sleeps during the day and stays up all night watching TV. For the longest time we resisted having a TV in the bedroom, but I finally gave in to that. So you guys have zero, there's zero, your sleep gap is the biggest in the relationship. You rarely ever

overlap on sleep, ever? Yeah, like she's a night owl and I'm an early bird. When do you guys, you have time to bang ever or no? Oh yeah, yeah. It's a regular thing.

Good for you. Sounds believable. Let me say hi to Karina. Karina, what is the biggest gap in your relationship? Hi. The party gap. He likes to party. He has FOMO. He has to always go do something. Now I'm lazy. I like to hang out. I already did that

in my early days. I don't want to keep partying every weekend. But the moment you give him an event, he's there. So he's one of those guys he'll go to anything. If anyone's having anything he will go to it engagement party birthday party even a co-worker's like hey it's my friends you're like you're not even that close yeah but it's a party i don't want to miss it and you will stay home almost always um about 70 percent of the time i will tag along depending on what it is but other than that i'm just go do your thing dude goodbye or we argue about it

that's interesting because that is that's a that's almost a social gap where you have someone that loves going out and someone that loves staying in that i feel like you need to be a little bit more compatible about or else when do you ever really actually get to spend time together the sleep thing is interesting too there's all sorts of different relationship gaps one of you will go ahead and try to figure out if in and out and the sound space here at k-rock can go ahead and solve that gap jasmine what is the gap in your relationship hi hi so the gap in my relationship is that my husband is 5'10", and I am 4'7".

So, you're both short. Yeah, well, he's 5'10", and 102, like, no, sorry, 250 around there, and then I'm, like I said, 4'7", and weigh 100 pounds.

Oh, so you have a height-slash-weight gap. Pretty big gap. Yeah, yeah. Like, we look like that couple from King of Queens. If you're sitting on his lap, it looks like a ventriloquist act or something? Pretty much. Yeah, all right. Hold on one second.

That's interesting. That's a classic one. Old school. Kevin on KROQ, what is the big gap in your relationship? Hey, Klein. I have a degree in business systems, and she has a GED going to school now. Oh, education gap. So you have a master's.

You have a master's degree? I have a BS. BS. I got a degree in business systems, which is finance and consumer information systems. Right, right. And she is a GED. She is a GED. Do you bring that up a lot?

Like, are you guys going to do an argument? I think the argument stems from daily operations where, say, I have things to do. I kind of go two birds, one shot. Whereas she kind of singles things out, almost like the average person does. But it's inefficient. Like, you earn time, unnecessary time doing things that don't really have importance sometimes. And then maybe you give it that importance, but sometimes it's not that simple. Do you hang your diploma in the bedroom to rub it in her face?

I don't rub it in her face. I really try to find the angle. It'd be funny if Kevin just walked around the house in a cap and gown all the time. It was sticking to her. Sorry, your opinion doesn't count here. All right, that's an education gap. It's another one. What is the biggest gap in your relationship?

apparently there's gaps doesn't necessarily mean bad things anymore what's up Jessica hi um so I am late to everything um I've been late to work like hundreds of times I'm late to the doctor's appointment you've been late to your job hundreds of times yeah I mean luckily I had a really cool manager um at the time but um like my husband's like he likes to be on time for everything he's strictly he needs to have everything on schedule and I'm just completely

not on that yeah that's an interesting one as well because I think you that at least checks out in a lot of relationships where someone is the on time person and the other person is late and then you have to figure out a way to it keeps it interesting because you always have somebody yell at each other about

how are you not possibly ready there's nothing worse than me sitting downstairs waiting to go somewhere and Omar I know you pulled this move as well where you'll just say you'll lie about whatever time the reservation is because you have to do the math and you have to figure out

if you're going to say we need to be there at 8 in her mind that means she'll be trying on her third outfit at 8 and you want to be out of the house yep so I always say it's like at 6.30 we got to be there at 6.30 and then when you roll in at 8 it's all good because that was the time Russell what is the biggest gap in your relationship

talking about relationship gaps up for grabs you get tickets to not one not two not three but the next four shows happening here at the in and out burger sound space at k-rock which includes dexter the moon rocks fontaine's dc the beaches and the paradox all those shows will be in your future and you can come there with your mismatched relationship what happened to you russell sweet divots so um yeah so uh me and my lady have a social media i would say gap so uh she has a great presence great following um yeah nearly and i'm more down to person i'm kind of a ghost you know just low-key um but i guess that gap is just i feel like sometimes they come from two different worlds

because uh you know so i'll be scrolling through social media have a fun time laughing and then um i know where it's kind of stopping me and she's like what i'm working yeah that's an interesting gap right there too where you go like i've got seven followers and the person i'm dating has millions of followers and then uh what could you possibly communicate about at that point Mark? Hey, sweet dibs. What's going on? What's up, bud?

Yeah, me and my wife, I will drink the bar dry when she's sipping her martini to begin with. Ah, so it's similar to the eating one where you'll be on your fifth or sixth drink and she's still working on that first one? Oh, yeah, sipping it. Oh, it drives me nuts. Yeah, it's really annoying, too, because you're like, are you drunk enough to find me attractive? And she's like, I'm just sipping this martini. Yeah, it's a tough one right there. Hey, Chewy, welcome to KROQ.

Hi. Hi, Mr. Kevin. What's up, buddy? That's a good callback. What's up? My biggest chore gap is the... Well, my biggest relationship gap is the chore gap. Well, that seems to be a number one thing people fight about,

where you feel like you do more or not. I assume if you're calling, you're going to say you do all of them and she does nothing? No, no, I do almost nothing. I take out the trash. She does the cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids, everything. Oh. Is she a stay-at-home mom, or does she work as well?

No, she works as well. She makes more money than I do. Oh, my God, man. What the hell? She's a saint, brother. Dude. So she does the cooking, the cleaning, the kids, the laundry, and she works more and earns more than you do?

Yeah. And you do the trash? Yeah. And that's it? I mean, I take care of her, you know what I mean? Yeah, well, now that you made that noise, I know what you mean. Man, you should give that guy's wife the ticket. She earned him.

All right, we'll think about it. One of you is going to get access to all four of these shows. We will go ahead and talk about this behind the scenes here at KROQ during Oasis, come back and announce the winner, give them tickets away, and then more after this on KROQ. Good morning.