Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - SHOVERTIME 7-30!

Episode Date: July 30, 2026

In today's bonus pod we go over jake's blow up and how awkward our high school days were

Show of a time. Welcome to a bonus episode of Klein Alley Show. That's why we call it show of a time. Episode number bubba da who cares. In the studio now we've got hormonal Jake. That's me. And Alley's here. She's pregnant but less hormonal than Jake somehow. I don't know. And then me. And I'm sure Johnny will walk in at some point and sit there and look bored. I know. His eyes are always at half mass like he's so high and I know he's not. and i'm like i get offended i'm like are we that boring to you do you even want to be here i wish he was high at least i could understand that be like oh yeah it's just high you know i what i thought about recently and i guess johnny's not here so i can mention this i know jake you're

upset because yesterday we were making fun of your stage appearance and you were like man you know like why can't we just support each other but then i recalled a couple days before that you said johnny was on the air and he did something so stupid he didn't say the name of the prize that He was giving away to the caller. It was just so fucking bad. I wanted to send it to you guys. Jake came in and goes, Johnny was so bad. He didn't say the name of the radio station, his name, or what he was giving away.

And I was like, I guess they wouldn't really be supporting each other either. And then what did I say after that? He's fucking terrible, is what you said. And then what did I say after that? It's fucking bullshit. Now I'm not going to tell him that because I want to try to support him. I'm not going to try to tear him down. I'll say it behind his back and then send it to Clyde and Allie and tell them to say it.

And I never said it to you. Hey, we're the bad guys. i think that we keep each other honest because we're always afraid of being ridiculed so it does uh look i will say that i'm not afraid anymore you're not anymore i think i've lost every ounce of pride i had in my i also think i think to myself whenever i do something uh especially outside of here i go how is omar going to use this audio against me that's my my like and i didn't think about when we would go on those stupid uh access tv shows and like do those one-liners. I didn't feel great

about them, but I felt you know, look, I looked at it like, alright You felt like mid about the Snap, Crackle, Pop joke, and then it just came back. Once again, when you're in that room, you're doing so many things, you don't know what they're going to use. And they never use the things that you think are the funniest. No, it's never the things that I feel good about, so then, and every once

in a while, like those TV shows, the producers will say, do you mind saying like you know, Snap, Crackle, Pop and at that point you're so beaten down you just go, alright, I'll say it. I'm not blaming them for that. I think I wrote that when I said it. It's like a police interrogation. But this is why I had my phone. Like, literally, 30 seconds before

I go on stage, like, can you mention this rock and roll school for girls? I'm like, sure. And then let me try to figure that out. Oh, you had to mention them when you were on stage? Yeah, so I had to, like, mention the record and how many copies. Oh, they told you that right beforehand? That gave me, like, I don't know, 10 minutes before.

But the girls thing happened literally like 30 seconds before I go up. And you don't want to screw that up, but the part that is, quote, the most important thing to say during the announcement is always the part that I know, for me, I will 100% get wrong. Whatever you do, you must mention Orange County Nissan and thank the general manager

and it's never like John Smith. It's like, I'm like, oh my god. Yeah, I know. It is tough, but I think you do have to try and focus up and say it without your phone in front of you. I'd rather get it right than fuck it up and not have my phone.

Yeah, but do you think that if you did not have it as a crutch that you would have gotten through it i think you probably would have i don't think it would have sounded as good i think i would have i just had to glance a couple times better it would have looked better yeah but uh whatever sounded sounded better than it would have without the well the worst thing is screwing up completely and choking up there and so if you have the phone at least you have the and then looking at your phone security of uh yeah because the last thing you want is viral video of uh man man with pants on ruins announcement this is a school for boy girls

are you boy girls are girls i said i said violent fem sold 70 million albums they did not sell that many yeah those like factoids can be tough to get yeah yeah but anyway are you okay now yeah you never sent me a text oh because i pretty much read i'd say what i was gonna send you on air right before at the top of the hour every time my phone buzzed yesterday i go oh boy here it comes It's going to be Jake with either a, I'm sorry, I overreacted, or... Fuck, no way. Well, when you had your meltdown, when I made the joke about you missing work on Fridays... My meltdown.

I mean, it was. It was a meltdown. And yes, there was something, obviously, that was building. Obviously, we needed to have a fight. Compare meltdowns. Was mine bigger than Jake's? it was not bigger but it was bigger and like jake gets pissed a lot right you don't get pissed like that often no so when you did it did feel like a mid i was like what the fuck is going on all right

did you apologize no but i think i did i don't think you did no but you just stand by whatever i did i mean but you explained why you know we talked out why that happened and all that stuff but you have that reaction like the times I've gotten pissed I don't think I've ever said like I'm sorry because you react the way you react. Yeah and also I don't really need an apology from Jake. I just wish that Jake understood

that we are trying to support him in the way that we support each other around here. Which is to tear each other apart. Which is to tear each other apart. And I think when it comes to stand up it's a different thing. When you make fun of the

jokes i make on air that doesn't take any effort that's just us riffing and doing stuff in the moment this other thing i do i think it's a massive amount of effort and if you think it's shit you think it's shit but don't say you think it's shit and then be like well no it's actually good but that pisses me off also the thing you're saying took you a massive amount of effort you said i just wrote it three seconds before i'm talking about stand-up but uh and that is also like it took a little bit of like finessing and try to find beats and fight and try to write some joke i don't think we made fun of your i'm trying to think if we ever made obviously your origin story in my bone old stand-up but we made fun of each other's old made fun of all you make fun of

my old decline tapes me on the radio uh oh yeah when we were on stage doing stand-up too yeah yeah yes but it goes on johnny's here by the way johnny hi johnny but i don't think you're wondering who looks bored in the corner that's johnny yeah but this is also what you want to do right this is what you want to be doing over a radio no no no no i like uh i like radio a lot it's just a different creative oh damn ollie i thought he told me i mean i do have chase your dream goodbye um i i still like doing it it's still a lot of fun um but it's uh especially when i only do it a couple times a year it's a massive amount of work and even a 10 minute set was pretty easy but it's still like

fuck I gotta relearn all the shit that I haven't done in four months and it's just that's why I never really pursued stand up

I think it was I was like this is so this is so hard when we touched on air the hardest part for me was the grind of going out every night and not performing

but just trying to mingle and talk and I can't fucking do that shit I was like I don't fucking have it in me I fucking did it I didn't do any open mics

open mics were death I got I felt worse and I didn't work out anything it was just a bunch of comments you know what's fascinating

is that every successful anyone every band that's successful every comedian they all went through that cringy phase of like i gotta sit around a coffee shop and hope i get three minutes to go tell jokes in front of two people and if they didn't do that and then do it again and do it again then they wouldn't be where they are now you know it's like oh shit look at these fucking multi-millionaires selling out venues and sure and they and they all went through that that part of it which is the shitty part of it but at least that meant that you put in your reps whereas now it feels like everyone's figured out

the cheat code, which is just figure out a way to get something that goes viral, and then go ahead and bask in the glory of that. Or bask in the glory, yeah, crowd work. Or don't even be a comedian, just be someone that, if you're able to get a bunch of people watching your cooking videos, you could still go sell out a comedy club,

probably, because you have enough people there. I think I have all those types of people. Who's that porn star who fucking blew Trump? Porn star that blew Trump? Stormy Daniels. She does shows, she does, I don't know if you saw it. I'm sure she does do shows. I know, but like, she does shows at flappers and shit. Like a line of horses I thought this was a vaginal repair place remember you guys are upset when that uh one podcast I've

got a show after this at gapers I gotta finish this up that one podcast girl that sold out the will turn uh call her daddy girl you guys were like what the fuck these fucking like comedians are like well look I'm not surprised about that but that once again you know comes down to there's There's that guy, that food review guy that used to do a morning radio show, too. I forget his name. Oh, Corey B. Oh, yeah. And he wasn't great on the radio, but it didn't really matter because he did this food review show

where he basically recreates recipes and goes, oh, my God, did I do that? Or he's got some line like that. Yeah, they'll do a recipe and he's like, no, no, they didn't do that. Yeah, right. We've got to try that. It's crazy, but I used to hate on all that shit, but apparently I'm wrong and 90 other million people are right because they watch it

and that guy will go sell out and then he goes into stand-up now. I don't know if stand-up's any good or not. But I think everything's gray area now. Like, it's not, if you're standing up on a stage with a microphone, it's not necessarily because you're a stand-up comic. Like, I'm a podcaster

and I have interesting things to say that are sometimes funny, so I'm going to do a tour. And if you can make a room full of people laugh or be entertained. Or just want to watch you. Just want to watch you, great. I mean, that's,

well, we did the, you know, we don't do the shows live in front of people often, but we did that thing at the casino you know, where we had Blind Charlie shave Jake's head, you know, and they filled that place. Those were people that just wanted to come out and see us. And we were doing, I guess, technically a live podcast,

but that was not really even, it was the show, it was this dumb podcast, it wasn't a real one. And people still showed up. And at the end of it all, I said, that was a real waste of everyone's time. And people were like, that was so much fun. I was like, it was? But I think also the ridicule or the ribbing or whatever,

I think is a very popular thing in the world of comedians, right? Is like kind of giving each other shit or criticizing each other's jokes or giving each other feet. yeah roasting each other or giving people feedback on their jokes like a lot of comedians will perform jokes for their friends and be like is this stupid is this funny is this you know like i think having those moments where you're failing or you're uh you know a joke doesn't work that's what gets you better right you can't expect to have everything go mildly good and then you're like okay cool on to the next show and i think some big comedians probably miss those days where

they could go to a room with you know just a few people and actually have to fucking work for their laughs uh i mean i'm sure it's nice to be on easy street they're like i'm just gonna tell a mildly entertaining story and because i'm you know fluffy everyone's gonna laugh and see it but i'm sure if they have to you know the times where they actually had to fucking grind and really win over an audience that wasn't on their side at the beginning that's a really satisfying feeling yeah but i mean as long i always just said i i don't really care how many people are in the audience i mean this is i don't need it then you'll be more than satisfied just as long as they're like quiet and attentive that's all i fucking quiet yeah this is all you're listening

and attentive like i'll they're not disruptive they're like not making a fucking noise in the background it's not a bunch of shit going on um you know as long as i can get like an honest reaction from the stuff i'm doing that's all i he brought up something interesting on the show today which i think we should touch on i think the show over time podcast is a perfect place to do it And that is that high school for you was not, you don't look back with fond thoughts of high school. So let's talk origin stories now. Johnny, since you were just in high school a few years ago, you had a fond recollection of high school days? Freshman year and senior year, the greatest.

Sophomore year and junior year, worst years of my life. Very formative though, but very like the worst. Why were they the worst? Parents divorced one year. My grandmother, who was like my second mother, died of cancer on Christmas morning. Those were the worst, the lowest point of my life. but it also reshaped my life to put me on the path

to like where I'm at now and your senior year why was that one of the best years because everybody just like was so happy and I had just gotten back to like

old Johnny and it was like great again and I could feel like this new coming of me like becoming actually right so overall you look back at high school

positive or negative it was two great years two bad overall positive Jake we had a lot of friends and everything yeah yeah

you friends you were in the group of what the weirdos or the jocks no the athletes yeah I played sports in high school So, Jake, your high school experience, all negative you look back on?

Not all negative, but I mean, I'm glad I'm not in high school anymore. And I compared it to like trying to go to the cafeteria and trying to figure out which table to sit and eat lunch at. I never ate lunch in the cafeteria. Oh, were you one of those kids who ate lunch in the bathroom? No. Is that why you're going home every morning when you shit? It's sadder.

I'm so hungry when I sit in the toilet. I worked on, I was the cartoonist for the student newspaper, and so I would eat my lunch in the newsroom and the news office. Even the bathroom kids are making fun of him. At least I'm not in the newsroom. Get the fuck out of here, loser. This is my stall. So I never went to the cafeteria, ever.

And did you have to draw cartoons during lunch, or you could have done that, or you chose to? Well, no, I only had to do one cartoon a week or whatever it was. But it was just better. I didn't have to try to pretend to talk or be liked or like someone. It's very funny that you talk about the analogy of the lunch table thing, because the lunch table that I sat at was a hodgepodge of leftovers from all of the other lunch tables.

The one I was at was like the outcasts from the, like he was good at sports, but like not like on the straight and narrow. It was like, oh, we had the weird like Bermuda Triangle lunch table. We were the outliers. It was like the outliers from all of the different groups.

And that was where I sat. And I always felt like, I looked back at high school, probably not overwhelmingly positive in the sense that I didn't like school at all and I had a lot of teachers that would constantly tell me I was a failure and a lot of meetings with parents

and all that shit, which I hated, but... The social aspect. Well, socially, though, not really either because I had people that I got along with. I was able to hang out with the different groups and I was embraced by the groups, but also I didn't feel like I was a first-round draft pick in any of the groups.

I felt like I was the same way. Well, let's not... No, we're just like... Hey, we're show bros. You were doing cartoons in a newsroom. I'm not saying anything like you, man. As a chameleon, I felt like I could kind of be friendly with all sorts of groups. Because I ran track.

I was an athlete. I was track captain two years in a row. But then I also was like some punk kid. And I would hang out with the weirdos. And I used to like the skateboard and write BMX and shit. The problem is I started going to ska shows. And then people, they tried so quickly. They go, oh, that's the ska.

And all of a sudden, they start calling me ska. You have a chain on your wallet? They start calling you ska. Yeah, like all of a sudden, I show up. Hey, what's up, ska? I'm like, how did I get that name? How long was the chain on your wallet? Probably most of 11th grade.

No, no. I mean, how long was the chain? Oh, how long was the chain? To the knee. To the mid-knee. Damn. It was double chain, actually. Oh, wow.

But the first one, I couldn't actually get my parents to get me a chain wallet, so I took the choker collar off my dog. I took his collar off, and I just wore that. So much of the prongs in them? Yeah. It was a chain. It was like, you know, dogs wear the chain collars, and I took it off my dog. And I remember for a while, my parents were like, where's Domino's collar?

And I'm like, I don't know, man. I got a little scotch. Shout out Domino's. I only had like two friends in high school, two close friends. And one of my best friends, instead of the chain, he got one of those big white plastic chains. It was like a joke and wore that as a chain wallet. I thought it was so fucking funny. And Allie, you look at high school as positive or negative?

Yeah, I guess it was kind of neutral. Like, I mean, I was very busy. do i mean i was kind of one of those people who floated around different groups too depending on the year like freshman sophomore junior year and senior year i was always with different groups but i was also one of those people who like sat with one group but then i would get up and float around to other tables right and stuff and i had i but i always had like one friend that i was with all the time i was kind of like i would latch on to one person i was just with that one person most of the time so that was different every single year but i was also always doing theater so i

had that group and then there was like some popular girls that I was kind of friends with and there were some weirdos I was kind of friends with were you gay or straight back then I was in the middle like I hadn't come out yet and I was I mean I was dating guys freshman and sophomore year sophomore and junior year I had a boyfriend like a longer term boyfriend in in high school and then one of my best friends junior year I was like so obviously in love with and then there were like rumors that we were together and then there were like some comments being made that we were lesbians and stuff and i remember feeling humiliated about that but i was also like it's true i was like i wish it was true i am in love with my friend so that was happening behind the

scenes which was uncomfortable and then by senior year i just didn't care i just was like at stoner at that point and i just didn't want to did anybody else have like really bad acne i have terrible acne uh especially my first couple years of high school yeah freshman year i was uh i was bad i was like a pepperoni face kind of oh really i mean yeah like it was greasy and like my face used to be a lot fatter, and I had really short black hair. Like, I didn't have long black hair. Please post that picture on Instagram. I want to see that. I gotta find it.

I gotta find it. I want to see that. Vanessa, how do you think high school will go for you? High school was good for me. No, high school was great for me. Really? Yeah. What was your group? My group was like a lot of everyone, and I was sincere.

I remember that. And I literally, any group were you top of the pyramid well I wasn't like popular popular but no one hated me no I mean on cheer when they made the

human pyramid were you top of it oh yeah I was a flyer sometimes yeah the flyers and a bass believe it or not I was pretty strong

I would not let her catch me so I didn't have a bad time in high school that's a bass yeah so you had a good time so you look back positively positively

and it was good that I had twin cousins above me because if anyone said anything mean to me right I literally would be like John this dude

and you know Vanessa's connections they'd fucking be dead the next day yeah I know they're like just be nice to her i don't know she's from columbia yeah but do you still another student was found in a duffel bag

none of them none of i know what you're gonna say that's my thing is katie and i argue about this sometimes because she's so into like going to her fucking high school reunions and having still knowing the people from her high school and what is maddie mulery doing and who did this person marry and this girl got divorced and i'm like why do you fucking care but i know that her high school specifically had this like kind of iconic old san francisco legacy to it so like the families that went there were like important san francisco family you know yeah it was kind and she wasn't rich she was like a middle class kid in kind of an upper middle class or upper class environment so i think she feels like this connection like i can't lose like this part but

like she's amazed that i don't talk to anybody from high school that i don't give a fuck about going to high school reunions and that i'm like i moved on from that part of my life yeah so nostalgic about her high school years i wish i was more nostalgic the only thing my buddy nick hill who was my best friend from high school he's the guy who got me into pretty much all the music we play on camera he was you know he was a guy i got the new green day album dookie you got to listen it's all weezer and every time i have a moment with those bands i think about him i haven't spoken to him in years but i think to myself like oh man like nick would think this was so cool because like you know he'd be the guy it's like you gotta come i got the new green day or like

Like, we have to listen to this, like, Green Day's dropping some new thing, and now, like, don't take for granted the fact that we, you know, have the opportunity to hang out with these bands some of the times. And then I thought to myself, he probably doesn't give a shit about, like, in my mind, like, in my, yeah, but in my mind, I think he'd be like, that's so cool, and he's also going to be like, ah, I'm a lawyer, or whatever, I'm fucking, I'm not thinking about Green Day right now. I know, and you're like, this is still cool, man.

Yeah! Like, he's, like, got a real job. I think I did send him a text, like, the first time that we actually hung out with Weezer. I was like, hey, just to let you know, dude, I'm going to see Weezer now. And he was like, OK. Yeah. I was like, all right. Good catch it up.

Good catch it up. Yeah, I know. That's the other thing, the catch up. Like, I had lunch with a friend from high school that actually listens to the show. She was like, oh, my gosh, I listen to this show every morning. I didn't even put together that, like, I went to high school with you. And we were friends, you know, freshman year. And then, like, you know, we were friendly, but we weren't, like, best friends or anything.

She was like, you know, I was like, oh, let's grab lunch. and so we grab lunch and then it's just kind of like so how's your life going i know do you have kids oh wow and then it's like well i blocked up see you later like you know i guess for like what i argue about with katie i was like what does it get you like when you're all reconnecting like is it because you all have a connection or is just because you want to see what everyone's doing yeah i blocked off all those people like as soon as i started working here now all of a sudden everybody who didn't give a shit about you before starts hitting you up starts dming you hey john remember me teachers too yeah teachers yeah like

people like fuck you john no they want it looks like your acne's gone i like your brown hair i wish man when they hit me up they're like they're like come speak at our school come do this hey come be at this or like we'd love to have you host this and i'm like wow fuck off you to give a shit about me when I was failing your fucking classes and shit or like yeah you showed them

even kids too Nate don't know what a plum is you fucking showed them yeah you hit up for donations and they're like what the fuck are you talking about pull that plum song today I hope we use it

oh the plum song's been pulled yeah Johnny's plum song great let's get that ready to go we gotta I think your driving instructor is here guys so I think Vanessa's

trying to wrap this up you gotta go through your driving test Allie versus Jake results Friday morning which car are you guys driving whose car I think it's his car

the instructor's car he's got a car I'm sorry what Oh, yeah, because he's got that second set of brakes in case he has to stop you guys. Stop it. I thought you were driving your car. No, you can't drive your own car.

I thought you could drive your own car. No, it's his car. It's his car, Vanessa says. Well, what kind of car does he have? It's probably like a shitty Toyota Corolla or something. Oh, fuck. I'm dead. Yeah.

It's got to be a Corolla. All right, let's start. Yeah, it's his car. It's a stick, and it's going to be great. Drive his stick. Man, goddamn. Well, I've got to watch this now. Ah.

So we're going to go down to the garage and watch which one of you loses the bet. Fuck. Can we ride in the back seat or do we got to- Only one person. Oh, fuck. Justin's got to go film it then. Yeah.

You could film it if you want. You could do it. I asked Justin, but- Can you guys not crash if I go with you? Well, he's got the emergency brake. They're trying to win the competition. They don't know who's going to- They're not going to lose it.

I thought we're racing. It's not a race. I thought we're doing laps. Those cars are always just a Corolla. Yeah, it's got to be a Corolla. It's just the most basic car. I feel like they went Prius for a while. I see a lot of those Prius driving instructor cars around too.

But you have to, like, get used to it, like, the acceleration and all that. I don't think most of what I think he's going to test you on is not the things you think. I think it's, like, all of the basic shit that we take for, like. I know. I have to look at it. There's so many words on it. You got to, like, it's, like, put your seatbelt on. Look both ways.

Check your mirror. Like, that's the shit that you get dinged on. The stuff that you kind of don't do. What I got to say, though, it's good to see you. I was just thinking about you. You're so you. You're so you. All right.

Thanks for listening to us for some extra time. We'll do it again next time. And that's it. Whee!