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TQ60: What's the most annoying thing people do in public?

March 31, 2026·42 min·3 clips
Meredith says she would rather sit next to someone with an upset stomach farting the whole flight than someone wearing Axe cologne.
Scott sets the table plainly. The usual guest-story feed takes a pause for an Every Other Tuesday question from the podcast Facebook group archives, so listeners outside the group get the game too. Then Lily wanders into the episode by sitting and staring while Scott works, and Meredith turns it into a goofy dog psychic bit. That little detour lands right where the question is headed: what do people do in public that gets under your skin? The tone stays loose. Scott and Meredith do not turn the answers into a scold; they kick around everyday irritations like two people comparing notes. Dog waste gets the longest run. Someone bags it, then still handles the cleanup in a way that feels careless. Scott is fine with a tied bag going into his garbage can if someone is walking past. Leaving the bag on the sidewalk is the part that makes him stop and ask why. Meredith is with him: doing most of the responsible thing and bailing at the last step is baffling. Speakerphones come next, with Scott setting up listener answers before a sponsor break. The sponsor read slides into a podcast recommendation, then the show comes back home: thanks to Meredith, a pointer to her work, Kiona's producer credit, and a reminder that the firsthand-story episodes keep running every other Friday.

As heard by us

Scott and Meredith field listener gripes about public behavior, with the bagged-and-abandoned dog mess drawing the most repeated attention.

The TQ episodes of What Was That Like swap the show's usual first-person disaster accounts for a looser format: Scott and Meredith pick a listener question, share their own takes, then work through what others sent in.

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You have opinions about people who bag their dog's poop and then just leave the bag there.

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