May 7, 2025 • 8 mins
What are the Top 20 things that annoy most Americans?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, friends, we all need a gentle reminder now and again.
It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. So this is
your friendly radio PSA reminding you don't try to recycle
your old Civil War cannonballs. I don't know how many
times we've had to say it on this show over
and over.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What do I do with all mine?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Though, jeff it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Just keeps on coming up because recently someone in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
tried to dump their Civil War era cannonball at a
disposal center. Guys, that's not.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What the bluebin is for.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's for aluminum cans, glass bottles, and cardboard boxes, not
wartime projectiles of death from the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Wal if the cannonballs made of aluminum, inn.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No dumb question. Yes, you may aren't like, is it
filled with gunpowder or anything?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Or is it just a can?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They're not sure. That's why when they find it, you
have to call the bomb squad out to evacuate the
area and safely remove it, because if it is filled
with gunpowder, it could explode and that's bad, right, Alexis.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, right?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Civil War era munitions experts, are.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You saying we should to just keep them on the
mantle like we always have.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, keep them up in the attic where they're safe.
So the senior bomb tech had to put out another
reminder to residence this week, quote, don't put your cannon
balls in the recycling, don't drop them off at a
second hand store, don't just toss them in the trash.
You can never assume just because it's old, it's inactive.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So wouldn't there.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Be a phone call to the one guy that has
the two cannonballs that lives in town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Does it have to be a PSA to everybody?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Apparently it's happening all the time. If we could just
go one week without someone trying to recycle a cannon
ball out, or use a World War Two era mine
as a door stop, or give a live grenade to
their dog as a chew toy.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You pulled the pin out though.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's smart. It's called being a good dog mom. Anyway,
I feel like we got the message across, so now
we can move on and we can get to our
shot collar question of the day with our digital producer
and number one cannonball diver at his elementary school, Jake
splash us with your tribua.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You may not realize, but today is a holiday known
as the Great American grump Out. Yes, we're all supposed
to stop complaining, be positive, and just let the zolof
take over it.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I thought we get to be extra grumpy opposite.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, but let's be honest. Telling Americans not to grumble
and complain, it's like telling a seagull not to steal
French fries. It's just our DNA. And so that's why today,
in honor of our collective crankiness, we're playing a special
what grinds Our Gears edition? Oh plenty of plenty. I
have a list of the top twenty things that bother Americans.
(03:04):
These can be pet peeves about other people. It could
be annoying things about traveling, frustrating things in stores. A
lot of these are very cliche. A lot of these
are very specific. Could be anything. You just have to
name one to stay in the game. And you know
what grumps me is that we start this game every
single time with Alexis. So you know what, today I'm
(03:25):
gonna switch it up and we're gonna start with Jeff
je top bug Americans.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, apparently I should say people that try to recycle
their cannon balls, buzzal centers, but I think maybe a
little bit more commonplace. Give me number one when people
don't put their shopping carts back in the car corral
and they block the parking space.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Ye, not putting your shopping cart back. Number twenty, Jo,
let's go to Jose. Now we're going oposite around the room. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
As an annoying person, I think I should go with
what I do to annoy everybody talking too loud or
too much. Jakeb getting louder as I.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Say it, Jake talking too loudly. Yeah, Jose, that's number three,
especially people being loud on the phone in public.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's a microphone in front of me.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, Brenda, we all hear about your appointment. Okay, Brook,
it's your turn.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, I'm going to go to driving being annoying, as
in you're driving too slow in the left lane.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeahriving too slow in the left lane.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Number nine on my list, Bro, traffic ms for no reason,
holding up people behind me? Where are you going? Yeah? Okay,
we're three for three. Alexis, it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'm gonna go. When I'm in the middle of watching
a Love Island and an ad comes on that I
can't skip and I just sad through a commercial ADJA
commercial unscalpable ad.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It's number four on my list. Thirty seconds for a
twelve second video. Jeffrey, is your turn.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I personally hate it when people at work put me
onto group text change unnecessarily and start talking about what
we're gonna do the next day. Don't bother me with
stuff that we're gonna do in the future. I'm trying
to enjoy the peace right now necessary group text group
chats number ten annoying.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Jose it's your turn, all.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right, I'm gonna go back to what my pet peeve is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Loud chewing. Chewing is on my number seventeen on my list,
people who loudly the crunch heard around the world. We're
talking about the top twenty things that bug Americans. You
guys have nailed this list so far. Turn.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think something that makes people unreasonably angry is cutting
in line?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh yeah, why is that unreasonably angry?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It doesn't really bother me that much. I don't know,
really cut it in line?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
People who cut in line? It's number seven on my list.
We have an unspoken social contract and people choose not
to obey it sometimes. Alexis it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I thought when you said, I mean, this is reasonably mad.
But people get so mad with like customer service reps
on the phone. Some are bad, some are bad customer service.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That'd be a good one, calling customer service.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, bad customer service.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's number five on this How are we just witting?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know. This is incredible. No one's gotten one wrong.
Jeffy're back to you.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, what about another frustrating one? People who give unsolicited
advice on how to fix your life when you didn't
even ask them for their help or their input.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What like, gosh, yes, bro't what you're.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Talking about about your family?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't know? Can be someone here?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, advice Jeffery is out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I'm gonna go with something very specific.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
When you're walking around a corner and your belt loop
catches the freaking handle over and I'm just trying to
walk here and now I'm jerking almost thrown to the
ground catching your belt loop on a corner of a handle?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Does that happen through like every door you offered?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I am guilty of doing this because I'm terrible with names.
I think it's when people mispronounce your name.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I did not make the list, and so even though
we didn't start with her, we end with plenty of twenty.
Some of the things that bug Americans, you guys miss
slow internet was number one. Not using turn signals was
there at two.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Fees was six Yeah. Being put on hold forever was
number eight. People who reclined their airplane seats abruptly, misleading
food packaging when half the bag of chips is air,
auto playing trailers on streaming apps, needing help at the
self checkout machine every time, companies that raise prices but
shrink products, and neighbors who mow their lawns at five
(08:08):
am on the week.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Your husband, probably Alexis. You are the winner of this round.
You get to choose who gets shocked. They're gonna be
singing Pink Pony Club by Chap Jeff.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I think some good life advice would be that you
should sing this song today.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Pink Pony Club. I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club. That is your shock collar question of
the day. We got your phone tap coming up in
just a few
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Minutes frooking Jeffrey in the morning,
Hey, friends, we all need a gentle reminder now and again.
It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. So this is
your friendly radio PSA reminding you don't try to recycle
your old Civil War cannonballs. I don't know how many
times we've had to say it on this show over
and over.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What do I do with all mine?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Though, jeff it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Just keeps on coming up because recently someone in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
tried to dump their Civil War era cannonball at a
disposal center. Guys, that's not.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
What the bluebin is for.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's for aluminum cans, glass bottles, and cardboard boxes, not
wartime projectiles of death from the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Wal if the cannonballs made of aluminum, inn.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No dumb question. Yes, you may aren't like, is it
filled with gunpowder or anything?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Or is it just a can?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They're not sure. That's why when they find it, you
have to call the bomb squad out to evacuate the
area and safely remove it, because if it is filled
with gunpowder, it could explode and that's bad, right, Alexis.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, right?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Civil War era munitions experts, are.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You saying we should to just keep them on the
mantle like we always have.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, keep them up in the attic where they're safe.
So the senior bomb tech had to put out another
reminder to residence this week, quote, don't put your cannon
balls in the recycling, don't drop them off at a
second hand store, don't just toss them in the trash.
You can never assume just because it's old, it's inactive.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So wouldn't there.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Be a phone call to the one guy that has
the two cannonballs that lives in town.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Does it have to be a PSA to everybody?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Apparently it's happening all the time. If we could just
go one week without someone trying to recycle a cannon
ball out, or use a World War Two era mine
as a door stop, or give a live grenade to
their dog as a chew toy.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You pulled the pin out though.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's smart. It's called being a good dog mom. Anyway,
I feel like we got the message across, so now
we can move on and we can get to our
shot collar question of the day with our digital producer
and number one cannonball diver at his elementary school, Jake
splash us with your tribua.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You may not realize, but today is a holiday known
as the Great American grump Out. Yes, we're all supposed
to stop complaining, be positive, and just let the zolof
take over it.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I thought we get to be extra grumpy opposite.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, but let's be honest. Telling Americans not to grumble
and complain, it's like telling a seagull not to steal
French fries. It's just our DNA. And so that's why today,
in honor of our collective crankiness, we're playing a special
what grinds Our Gears edition? Oh plenty of plenty. I
have a list of the top twenty things that bother Americans.
(03:04):
These can be pet peeves about other people. It could
be annoying things about traveling, frustrating things in stores. A
lot of these are very cliche. A lot of these
are very specific. Could be anything. You just have to
name one to stay in the game. And you know
what grumps me is that we start this game every
single time with Alexis. So you know what, today I'm
(03:25):
gonna switch it up and we're gonna start with Jeff
je top bug Americans.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, apparently I should say people that try to recycle
their cannon balls, buzzal centers, but I think maybe a
little bit more commonplace. Give me number one when people
don't put their shopping carts back in the car corral
and they block the parking space.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Ye, not putting your shopping cart back. Number twenty, Jo,
let's go to Jose. Now we're going oposite around the room. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
As an annoying person, I think I should go with
what I do to annoy everybody talking too loud or
too much. Jakeb getting louder as I.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Say it, Jake talking too loudly. Yeah, Jose, that's number three,
especially people being loud on the phone in public.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's a microphone in front of me.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, Brenda, we all hear about your appointment. Okay, Brook,
it's your turn.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, I'm going to go to driving being annoying, as
in you're driving too slow in the left lane.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeahriving too slow in the left lane.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Number nine on my list, Bro, traffic ms for no reason,
holding up people behind me? Where are you going? Yeah? Okay,
we're three for three. Alexis, it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'm gonna go. When I'm in the middle of watching
a Love Island and an ad comes on that I
can't skip and I just sad through a commercial ADJA
commercial unscalpable ad.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It's number four on my list. Thirty seconds for a
twelve second video. Jeffrey, is your turn.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I personally hate it when people at work put me
onto group text change unnecessarily and start talking about what
we're gonna do the next day. Don't bother me with
stuff that we're gonna do in the future. I'm trying
to enjoy the peace right now necessary group text group
chats number ten annoying.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Jose it's your turn, all.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right, I'm gonna go back to what my pet peeve is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Loud chewing. Chewing is on my number seventeen on my list,
people who loudly the crunch heard around the world. We're
talking about the top twenty things that bug Americans. You
guys have nailed this list so far. Turn.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think something that makes people unreasonably angry is cutting
in line?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh yeah, why is that unreasonably angry?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
That's I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It doesn't really bother me that much. I don't know,
really cut it in line?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
People who cut in line? It's number seven on my list.
We have an unspoken social contract and people choose not
to obey it sometimes. Alexis it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I thought when you said, I mean, this is reasonably mad.
But people get so mad with like customer service reps
on the phone. Some are bad, some are bad customer service.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That'd be a good one, calling customer service.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, bad customer service.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's number five on this How are we just witting?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know. This is incredible. No one's gotten one wrong.
Jeffy're back to you.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, what about another frustrating one? People who give unsolicited
advice on how to fix your life when you didn't
even ask them for their help or their input.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What like, gosh, yes, bro't what you're.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Talking about about your family?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't know? Can be someone here?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, advice Jeffery is out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I'm gonna go with something very specific.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
When you're walking around a corner and your belt loop
catches the freaking handle over and I'm just trying to
walk here and now I'm jerking almost thrown to the
ground catching your belt loop on a corner of a handle?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Does that happen through like every door you offered?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I am guilty of doing this because I'm terrible with names.
I think it's when people mispronounce your name.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I did not make the list, and so even though
we didn't start with her, we end with plenty of twenty.
Some of the things that bug Americans, you guys miss
slow internet was number one. Not using turn signals was
there at two.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Fees was six Yeah. Being put on hold forever was
number eight. People who reclined their airplane seats abruptly, misleading
food packaging when half the bag of chips is air,
auto playing trailers on streaming apps, needing help at the
self checkout machine every time, companies that raise prices but
shrink products, and neighbors who mow their lawns at five
(08:08):
am on the week.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Your husband, probably Alexis. You are the winner of this round.
You get to choose who gets shocked. They're gonna be
singing Pink Pony Club by Chap Jeff.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I think some good life advice would be that you
should sing this song today.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Pink Pony Club. I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club. That is your shock collar question of
the day. We got your phone tap coming up in
just a few
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Minutes frooking Jeffrey in the morning,
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