Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - The Box of Shame

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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You get to judge us accordingly, and then you get to make fun of us forever. But it's our way of saying that we are a fully transparent show. Usually that affects our personal relationships and personal lives way more than it should. But if it brings you any sort of amusement or enjoyment, then it's, I guess, kind of worth it. Yeah, the amount of times I've come home and been confronted with, why did you talk about X? You shouldn't have talked about that. Now I have a lot of questions to answer from this other person and this other person. By the way, your mom's mad at you.

Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of that that comes out of the box of shame. And then you unscramble all of it over the weekend, and then it starts all over again. So it's fun for us when we turn the box of shame around on you, and we feel like it's a two-way street here. So, yeah, we ask you to listen and vice versa. But if you do share with us your deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets, you could end up at the endless summer kegger. It's time for the box of shame. The box.

Oh, what's in the box? Of shame. Shame. Shame. Shame, shame. Shame. Last week we realized that. Shame.

Omar ditched his own kids at a 5K because they were holding them back. He said, scram, losers. I'm crossing the finish line without you. And I think he feels a little bit bad about that decision, but not really that bad. I just felt really bad when I found out that one of my kids was really dehydrated and she had pain. at the time you know of uh leaving him behind i didn't feel bad at all right afterwards i was like i'm probably should have done that jake was asking us if he had something that was box of shame worthy um we don't think it is good enough but he apparently this uh one of these girls uh

this girl that he was having sex with he doesn't know her last name and he said that they which i don't think it's not i mean the relationship's new ish it's only a couple weeks yeah i know but once you don't know it's like how do you right at that point you just gotta like roach through a wallet or hope that something happens. I've done that before. I'm so bad with names that there's been situations where I have not been confident with the first name

either, with either name. His last name is Lee. We think we can figure out the last name of who Jake's been having sex with, that we gave him some possible options and that's another one we can add to the list. We're not wrong. Let's say good morning

now to Elizabeth and welcome you to the box of shame. If you'd like to be... Elizabeth, is this a fake name or is this your real name? That's my real name. Okay, so you are shameful but not afraid to admit

who you actually are. Go ahead. If you want to be anonymous, just please tell Vanessa anonymous and don't actually give us your real name. What's up, Elizabeth? I wrote two bad checks on purpose

when I moved to California. Oh, man. How much were they for? One was for like $250 for airline. I went back and forth for an interview. I got the job and I spent $500 at a, well, theoretically, I wrote a check for $500 for the car repair because I drove from Florida to California to get here. And I'm very happy I did it. I ended up paying everybody back when I had a job afterwards, but yeah, I wrote too bad. I don't think you can do that anymore.

I think they shut that down, but the idea that used to be able to float around writing bad checks just trying to stay a little bit ahead of those before they because people they bounce and they just go ahead and you write it i mean what a stupid concept right because now they know pretty quickly you don't have any money it's basically a glorified iou i thought her shameful secret was that she wrote two checks that's pretty shameful too but she sounds like it happened a while ago but the fact that she knew going into it i'm gonna write you a bad check this will not clear but and she sounds so trustworthy i know well she claims she paid them back when she finally got the money so it's one of those things where even though technically what you did was shameful

You made right by it. So I don't know if it's quite shameful enough. Yeah, but you knew in the moment that you were robbing from somebody, basically. Yeah, and then eventually a lot of those places will put that check on display. That was the big thing where they'd shame you with your check and let you know you're a bad person. This is all we can do is be mad and put your check in the window. Put it right there. All right, interesting way to start.

It is once again the box of shame. Your turn to share with us your biggest, darkest, deepest, most shameful secrets. And keep in mind on our Endless Summer Kegger, which is happening at the end of the summer, September 3rd, to be exact, was slightly stupid. We do plan on a lot of people probably having shameful moments at the end of that. I would like to know that the box of shame is completely full with new things by the end of that party. Lori, you're on KROG. Good morning and welcome to the interactive box of shame. Hi.

What did you do? Okay, so many, many years ago, I accidentally ran over my mom's dog. i know i forgot until right now my daughter and i were brainstorming on what i could call in for and i was like oh wait i never even told you this so i was leaving her house and she lived on like a busy street and i had to back out and i didn't know her dog had got out her little poodle that she adored and i didn't even realize i hit it i and then i was driving home and she called me hysterical junior is dead in the street and then you realized that was me yeah did you ever tell her? There was a little

thump when I was pulling out. No, there was no way I could tell her. That's a rough one right there. I know. I wasn't trying to work a pun on it. Oh, really? I wasn't trying to be funny. I was trying to

really bask in the severity of that thing. I mean, that is running over your mom's dog. And when it's the mom, it's like, it really is her baby. And the mom calls in hysterics, and she's like, oh my God, that's terrible, and then realizes she's responsible for it damn it's tough and poodles are so easy to run over that is rough that time that time i meant to do it oh that's funny uh wow matthew good morning welcome to

the interactive box of shame hi good morning good morning guys happy friday happy friday what'd you do so uh in high school i used to work at a country club and they used to make us write our own time cards and we never had a supervisor there it was always i worked in a tennis pro club and no supervisor so i'd write 40 hours work week probably work seven hours a week seven hours oh that's amazing i wrote down 40 hours for the put a little overtime in for me no one's here to approve this and did you start with like 10 15 20 and then went up from there or you just went right out the gate with 40 i had to ease into it i didn't know yeah yeah And you're like, no one can tell.

I'm just going to add another 10 this week. I mean, it's a country club, so someone's got money, right? It's like, you know, someone here is paying money here. Eventually someone's like, what? That's a nice little thing you've got going for a while. I think about, I feel like those scams, those little things are harder to do these days now. Oh, absolutely. But I wouldn't feel bad about ripping away.

Hey, Tommy, fill out your hours. We'll just pay you at the end of the week. You sure about that? Yeah, put it over there with the forms. Yeah, and back then we really just had trust, didn't we? Yeah, sure did. checks, hours in, fill outs. I mean, if you think about even like the way

the honor bar system used to work, you used to take it and you'd have to like let them know, hey, I drank a soda, charge me for it. Now they're like, we don't trust anyone. We've got to put scales in this thing and send someone in every five times a day to monitor it. Yeah, I know. It's bad. We suck. We don't trust each other. We used to have

a lot of trust in this world. Lynn on KROQ, welcome to the Interactive Box of Shame. What's up? Guys, what's up? Sweet dibs. Sweet dibs. Yeah, my hoarder neighbor died last week and i am absolutely thrilled about it oh so you feel guilty that you're happy about someone's death i'm like ready to party yeah yeah it's funny i uh i have a hoarder neighbor you guys you guys got a chance to see my hoarder neighbor i think that's why a lot of your animal

problems are happening the roaches the skunks convince all the rats they're all starting in the hoarder's yard but uh you know everyone knows it's a it's a good thing bad thing when you live next to a hoarder because you are in many ways kind of rooting for their end so that finally that place but you also know pretty soon after they and it's that place is going to be demolished and then you're going to be living next to a construction site yeah so you kind of don't want them to but i also think that it's a hoarder neighbor is kind of good because then you never you're never gonna have parties never gonna have a lot of noise you're never gonna see them most of the time because they're holed up in their house every frisbee and ball and softball and

and baseball that has gone into that yard, I've never gotten back. It's like I live next to the sandlot, so it sucks. Keisha, Keisha. Keisha, how you doing? What's up, Keisha? Welcome to KROQ, sweet titties. If I was saying tomato, tomato.

That's right, appreciate that. So about 20 years ago, I worked at a dental office, and when the doctors were gone for lunch, me and a colleague, we would take the laughing gas. That's so awesome. Wow. You had access to nitrous. So you're always like, hey, Dr. Smith, long lunch today, I see.

And then you just go back there and huff that tank. Well, and you know that they're going to take that lunch. They're so religious. Doctors love a lunch break. Boy, do they. About this on their time and needing to take their lunch, especially with long procedures. Did it ever come down to a situation where they had to have like a staff meeting? They're like, we're not pointing fingers here, but we are going through a lot of nitrous in this office.

No, no one ever found out. Do you think you've had long-term brain effects of all of the nitrous you had sucked down during lunchtime? Probably a little bit, but it's all good. Yeah, that's fine. We had a lot of oxygen. We cleaned it out. We cleaned the airways out. And how often was this happening?

Was it like once a week or once a day? Yeah, like about once a week, maybe every other day. It's funny that she was hooked on the laughing gas, and she's got a great laugh. She's got a great laugh. Totally. All that laughing gas. It helps you work on it. She knows.

Listen to that. Yeah. Yeah, imagine being next to that. That's how we like to make him giggle. Yeah. Just imagine that on Nitro's here. Oh, yeah, we were. All right, Keisha, hold on.

I would do that, too. That's a good shame story right there. That's great. Oh, man, Danny just hung up. I was going to take him next. Quickly, we give, this guy wants to go anonymous. So, anonymous, you get the last word, and then we have to pick someone to join us

at the end of this summer kegger. What's up, anonymous? Oh, hello? Anonymous? Uh-huh. Hi. Do you want to be anonymous? Yeah.

Hello? Yeah, what's up? Hello? Yeah, I'm talking to you. All right, brother. Yeah, I took a big dump in my pants in the middle of LAX at 4 o'clock in the morning. LAX has so many bathrooms. Why did you do that?

Well, I was flying to the Philippines to meet my daughter for vacation. I hadn't flown in decades. Certainly, I had never flown like, you know, 14 hours like that. and the person I was supposed to travel with backed out at the last minute, and so I was all alone. I hadn't slept in two days. Nervous wreck.

Anxious as hell. Had to catch that stupid blue bus we used to have, those airport shuttles at 4 o'clock in the morning. I'm standing in line. It's probably like 4 or 5 at LAX. Everything you've set up until now

would be an appropriate place to crap your pants, but you ended up making it to the mecca of toilets. I know. There's just so many. I mean, crapping your pants at the very end, too.

It seems like it's like passing out and falling asleep right before the finish line of a marathon. You were there, man. You got it. Kim, we give you the final word. We can't end with that guy. What's up? Hi, guys. So, my box of shame is that I have an autistic son.

So, when we go out. That's normal. I make him, I tell him to act a little more autistic. And we get free stuff most of the time. What? Hold on. You have a legitimately autistic son, and you tell him to amp up the autism so you can get free stuff? Yeah, so, for example, let's say we go to, like, Dave & Buster's, and I tell him just to stand.

Go eat that skee-ball. He'll get extra, like, points on his card, or he'll get free stuff at, like, the rewards section, or they bring him free dessert. Would you say he's got mild autism, and you're telling him let's... No, so they categorize him in three different levels. He's level two, so he has, like, high, like, motor skill delays. Is that what Jake said, Allie? Where's Jake at? Jake's a one or a two, I think, yeah.

He's definitely a two. Jake, okay. He's definitely a two, she says. Great. Okay. Well, Jake, start being a three so you can get free stuff. Can you tell your son, crank it up to level three, Red Dave and Busters? Yeah.

Okay, all right, all right, all right, I got it. I can't believe they're like, oh, that guy's a three. Let's give him some free dessert. That's crazy. We heard a lot of, that's a lot of shame. By the way, no judgment here,

but all varied shame. I'm going to talk this out in a moment. I mean, I'd like all those people to come to the endless summer kegger. Except for the crab guy. Yeah, I don't know about the crab guy. Vanessa's going to call one of you back,

give you the good news. You're coming to the endless summer kegger. Wait for the call from Vanessa in moments. It's Kayla.