S4 Ep. 24 - Red Flags, Crocs, and a Bad Connections

S4 Ep. 28 - Baby Jessica Got Arrested and Rachel Got a Book Deal

Then the headlines come in hot: TSA officers at Miami International got caught stealing wallets mid-screening in a coordinated distraction scheme, a nurse wins $300K from Carnival for being over-served tequila over nine hours on a cruise (14 shots, grown adult, still won), Baby Jessica from the Texas well incident grew up and got arrested for domestic assault, a Boca woman crashed into a school bus and asked cops to take her to a church with a pool, and a California man returned Lego boxes filled with dry pasta approximately 70 times before anyone noticed.  To close out the season, Rachel announces she's walking in a swimsuit fashion show benefiting BRCA Strong and POST SWIM, a swimwear company for breast cancer survivors (or anyone looking for more coverage and a confidence driven brand, and casually drops that she signed a book deal. Dale achieved a bucket list thing he cannot talk about yet and a new fashion habit he probably should not talk about, and zero regrets. Rachel is thriving with her TJ Maxx egg drawer and wants you to know that is a completely valid place to be in life. Episode Sponsor: Presented by 1-800 Call Lee — South Florida’s trusted personal injury team. Learn more at calllee.com [https://calllee.com/]. Contact Rachel Sobel: Email: rachel@whineandcheezits.com Website: w [http://www.improv2improvesel.com/]ww.whineandcheezits.com [http://ww.whineandcheezits.com/]Facebook:  Whine and Cheez - its by Rachel Sobel    [https://www.facebook.com/Whineandcheezits/]Instagram: @whineandcheezits [https://www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits/]TikTok: @rachel.sobel.writes [https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel.sobel.writes] Contact Dale McLean: Email: dance715@aol.com Website: dalethehost.com [https://www.dalethehost.com/]Instagram: @UptownDale [https://www.instagram.com/uptowndale/]

S4 Ep. 27 - The Boca E-Bike Incident and Dale's Stingy Instagram Grid

Things kick off with a full breakdown of the e-bike drama taking over Boca. A middle-aged man threw water bottles at a kid, grabbed his phone, and somehow rallied a crowd of neighbors like he put out a bat signal. Rachel and Amy unpack why this guy isn't in handcuffs, what it means for every teen in the community, and why e-bikes in the hands of unsupervised kids are a whole separate problem nobody wants to deal with. Then Rachel makes her case for why Dale is basically a deadbeat podcast dad. Four years in and she has earned exactly one square on his Instagram grid, and only because of a life-threatening health crisis. Dale's defense is weak. The conversation somehow turns into a pitch for a Friends Without Benefits Dating Game episode, courtesy of Rachel's mom Arlyne, who called in fresh off receiving Gucci sneakers from Rachel's dad mid-episode and immediately volunteered to interrogate Dale's future dates. Amy also makes her case for Coachella, the value, the vibes, the one girl who had a breakdown, and why T-Pain deserves way more credit than he gets. The episode wraps with Rachel's PSA about human dog beds (she wants one, she's not sorry) and Amy's desperate plea for someone to tell her early morning parenting has an expiration date. Episode Sponsor: Presented by 1-800 Call Lee — South Florida’s trusted personal injury team. Learn more at calllee.com [https://calllee.com/]. Contact Rachel Sobel: Email: rachel@whineandcheezits.com Website: w [http://www.improv2improvesel.com/]ww.whineandcheezits.com [http://ww.whineandcheezits.com/]Facebook:  Whine and Cheez - its by Rachel Sobel    [https://www.facebook.com/Whineandcheezits/]Instagram: @whineandcheezits [https://www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits/]TikTok: @rachel.sobel.writes [https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel.sobel.writes] Contact Dale McLean: Email: dance715@aol.com Website: dalethehost.com [https://www.dalethehost.com/]Instagram: @UptownDale [https://www.instagram.com/uptowndale/]

S4 Ep. 26 - The $500 He Never Asked For Back

Dale has been sitting on a $500 loan for almost a year, has seen the guy in person, and still hasn't said a word. Rachel and Amy Lundy — creator of MOABs, the Mother of All Baby Showers, and today's in-studio guest — talk him into sending a Venmo request like a normal person. He won't. Meanwhile, Rachel's daughter crashes the call-in line, reports on the missing hair dryer, eats fruity pebbles, and gives the room a masterclass on throwing it in a circle. Amy survives all of it for her very first podcast appearance. Rachel's best friend Marni calls in from her Uber mom afternoon to settle the funniest-friend debate once and for all (she loses), bond with Dale over Friends trivia, and pitch everyone on scoring media passes to Bruno Mars. Summer concert season comes up — Usher, Chris Brown, Lionel Richie, Yacht Rock at a Marlins game — and somehow it all connects back to white people and Teslas. The episode closes on a sinus infection waiting room rant, a teaser about e-bikes that's going to get heated next week, and a Two Live Jews sponsorship read that nobody saw coming. Episode Sponsor: Presented by 1-800 Call Lee — South Florida’s trusted personal injury team. Learn more at calllee.com [https://calllee.com/]. Contact Rachel Sobel: Email: rachel@whineandcheezits.com Website: w [http://www.improv2improvesel.com/]ww.whineandcheezits.com [http://ww.whineandcheezits.com/]Facebook:  Whine and Cheez - its by Rachel Sobel    [https://www.facebook.com/Whineandcheezits/]Instagram: @whineandcheezits [https://www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits/]TikTok: @rachel.sobel.writes [https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel.sobel.writes] Contact Dale McLean: Email: dance715@aol.com Website: dalethehost.com [https://www.dalethehost.com/]Instagram: @UptownDale [https://www.instagram.com/uptowndale/]

S4 Ep. 25 - Bring Your Child to Work Day With a Nine Year Old Who Has No Filter

Rachel's youngest crashes the pod on Bring Your Child to Work Day, and the nine-year-old wastes zero time fact-checking adults, interrupting tangents, and quietly stealing the episode. The trio covers Justin Bieber's Coachella laptop loophole, why he couldn't legally sing his own songs live, and whether Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter's collab was genius or just a little too forced. From there it's a full sweep of the cultural moment: Miss Thailand breaking from pageant choreography to pop and lock in a bikini, the fake-or-real beef between Alex Earle and Alex Cooper, Dr. Miami's former social media manager finally spilling why she left, and the red light camera ticket Dale got for a license plate that hadn't been on his car in six months. Dale also finally caved and got Hulu just to watch Sky King, while Rachel cannot quit Love After Lockup, and Summer House gets a full breakdown that may have just recruited a new viewer. The episode closes with a confession that has apparently been weighing on someone for a while — they genuinely cannot tell Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman apart — and Sienna's shoutout list, which included approximately every child at her dance studio. Episode Sponsor: Presented by 1-800 Call Lee — South Florida’s trusted personal injury team. Learn more at calllee.com [https://calllee.com/]. Contact Rachel Sobel: Email: rachel@whineandcheezits.com Website: w [http://www.improv2improvesel.com/]ww.whineandcheezits.com [http://ww.whineandcheezits.com/]Facebook:  Whine and Cheez - its by Rachel Sobel    [https://www.facebook.com/Whineandcheezits/]Instagram: @whineandcheezits [https://www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits/]TikTok: @rachel.sobel.writes [https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel.sobel.writes] Contact Dale McLean: Email: dance715@aol.com Website: dalethehost.com [https://www.dalethehost.com/]Instagram: @UptownDale [https://www.instagram.com/uptowndale/]

S4 Ep. 24 - Red Flags, Crocs, and a Bad Connections

Rachel posted what she thought was a hilarious reel of her daughter breaking every rule at a dog adoption event — finger in every single cage — and one pointed comment was enough to put a pit in her stomach and make her take it down. Dale gets it. The whole thing spirals into a real conversation about how one contrarian comment can ruin your day even when you know it's just someone looking for attention, and why "thank you for your feedback" is the only weapon worth using. From there, things move fast. Dale gets ghosted on a first date by someone who "might have a doctor's appointment," which launches a full dissection of red flags, last-minute excuses, and why people who show up halfway on date one never magically improve. Then Dale debuts a new segment — Why So Much Hate For — and the two go back and forth on Tom Cruise (Scientology, couch jumping, Katie Holmes blinking twice), Carrot Top's confusing gym era, Crocs on anyone who isn't a nurse or a toddler, pineapple on pizza (Dale converted Rachel), veganism discourse, and cats. Strong feelings on cats. The call-in segment is technically a disaster — Andrew from Dale's Survivor podcast attempts to join four separate times with increasingly bad reception while Dale insists it's not his phone — and it is genuinely chaotic and genuinely funny. Episode Sponsor: Presented by 1-800 Call Lee — South Florida’s trusted personal injury team. Learn more at calllee.com [https://calllee.com/]. Contact Rachel Sobel: Email: rachel@whineandcheezits.com Website: w [http://www.improv2improvesel.com/]ww.whineandcheezits.com [http://ww.whineandcheezits.com/]Facebook:  Whine and Cheez - its by Rachel Sobel    [https://www.facebook.com/Whineandcheezits/]Instagram: @whineandcheezits [https://www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits/]TikTok: @rachel.sobel.writes [https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel.sobel.writes] Contact Dale McLean: Email: dance715@aol.com Website: dalethehost.com [https://www.dalethehost.com/]Instagram: @UptownDale [https://www.instagram.com/uptowndale/]