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Noodle Shop Shorts: Bad Things People Do in Saunas

The Dave Chang Show

July 6, 2026

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Speakers: Chris, Ben, Dave
**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Chris** (0:36)
All right, Ben, you're ready to eat?

**Ben** (0:37)
Yeah.

**Chris** (0:38)
I'm Chris. Ben, nice to meet you, come on out.

**Ben** (0:40)
All right.

**Chris** (0:44)
Ben, this is Dave. Dave, this is Ben.

**Ben** (0:46)
What's up, Ben?

**Dave** (0:47)
How are you doing?

**Ben** (0:48)
All right. Here you go.

**Dave** (0:50)
This is some shio chicken ramen.

**Ben** (0:53)
Hell yeah, this looks good.

**Dave** (0:55)
Welcome.

**Ben** (0:56)
Thank you.

**Dave** (0:57)
How are you doing?

**Ben** (0:58)
Good.

**Dave** (0:59)
Where are you coming from?

**Ben** (1:00)
Tuluka Lake. Tuluka Lake. Although I did stop across the way and get a little slice. Saw Chris.

**Dave** (1:06)
Senator Bianco.

**Ben** (1:07)
Yes, exactly.

**Dave** (1:08)
Did you get the sausage and pepper?

**Ben** (1:10)
Oh yeah, incredible.

**Dave** (1:11)
It's the best slice.

**Ben** (1:12)
Yeah.

**Dave** (1:13)
I don't care what anyone says.

**Ben** (1:16)
I didn't know what I was going to be eating, how well this was going to go over. I know you've had some hit and miss with some noodles. I was like, if I got to go back and get another slice afterwards, that's not the worst thing in the world, but yeah.

**Dave** (1:27)
You thought that you were going to have a bad bowl of noodles. You must be an elite yelper.

**Ben** (1:35)
All right, I'm digging in.

**Dave** (1:37)
This guy's already shaking us down for social media.
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**Ben** (2:17)
That's good. I don't need that other slice. I'm good.

**Dave** (2:21)
All right. What's something in your life that you're like, God damn it.

**Ben** (2:24)
Sauna etiquette at the gym. Are you a sauna guy?

**Dave** (2:32)
Continue.

**Ben** (2:33)
I mean, it's an overall selfishness, anti-social behavior.
Going into the sauna, there's usually one of three guys you see in there. The guy who's playing music without headphones on, that's insane to me. There's the guy who's spraying stuff around, which you're in a shared space, you don't get to dictate what everyone else has to smell. Or the guy who's covering the temperature sensor, where there is specifically a sign that says, do not cover the temperature sensor, and these bozos feel like it doesn't apply to them. And what happens is-

**Dave** (3:07)
They're covering the temperature sensor so it gets hotter.

**Ben** (3:09)
So it gets hotter, and then it breaks. So then two weeks later, I'll go to the sauna, it's being repaired. I don't understand the mindset of someone who's like, that printed- I think it's like carved into wood, that sign doesn't apply to me.

**Dave** (3:27)
Well, that's the hardest thing that your life has right now.

**Ben** (3:31)
I mean, I was dealing with that yesterday, and you know, yeah, it's- I mean, I guess I live a pretty privileged life. But like, it's a microcosm of like, no one feels like rules apply to them.
People are just like acting selfishly.

**Dave** (3:49)
What time are you going to the sauna? You're going at the health club gym?

**Ben** (3:53)
Yes. What time? In the morning.

**Dave** (3:55)
What time in the morning?

**Ben** (3:57)
Like, nine.

**Dave** (3:59)
That's too late.

**Ben** (4:00)
Or lunchtime.

**Dave** (4:01)
No, those are all prime time hours.

**Ben** (4:04)
For what? Bozos?

**Chris** (4:06)
Yeah.

**Ben** (4:08)
But the world shouldn't be that way.

**Chris** (4:10)
Well, it is.

**Ben** (4:12)
I reject that. I reject.

**Dave** (4:13)
No, you got to go super early or super late.

**Ben** (4:16)
But I feel like there's going to be super late. That's like the weird crowd there then.

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