Vault: Other Forms Of Rage

Summary

The Bert Show — "Vault: Other Forms Of Rage"

Date: December 10, 2025
Host: Pionaire Podcasting
Featuring: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, Listeners

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the various unconventional and surprising forms of “rage” that people experience in everyday life beyond the well-known “road rage.” The Bert Show cast and their callers share humorous, jaw-dropping, and sometimes relatable stories of losing their tempers—or witnessing others lose theirs—in settings like retail stores, meetings, coffee shops, and more. The episode explores how even the most unassuming people can surprise us with outbursts, blending personal anecdotes and listener stories with The Bert Show’s trademark realness and humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Beyond Road Rage: Other Rages in Daily Life

• Laptop/Retail Rage
  • Story: One speaker (C) recounts a friend's meltdown at a laptop repair store after repeated issues.
  • Insight: Calm, demure people can explode under ongoing frustration with customer service.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “She used the word rage... like yelling. And this is a person I would not expect to raise their voice at all. You know, very demure and nice. And she was raging at the clerk.” — C [03:32]
• Coffee Rage (Starbucks Story)
  • Story: A woman loses control at Starbucks over a missed biscotti.
  • Insight: The smallest triggers (even a single missing biscuit) can set people off, especially in stressful environments.
  • Memorable Moment:
    • “That one biscotti was the key between calm day and Nutso.” — C [03:12]

2. Calling Out Workplace and Meeting Rage

• Meeting Rage
  • Story: D describes a former coworker who would get wound up and turn meetings into venting sessions, with everyone in the room becoming victims of his self-propelled anger.
  • Quote:
    • “He would get himself so fired up… his face would turn red and he would go crazy. Meeting rage guy.” — D [05:06]

3. Listener Call-Ins: Rage in Retail and the Workplace

• Walmart Rage

  • Caller (Chris): Shares being repeatedly rammed with a cart by another customer at Walmart—physical escalation over checkout line territory.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “She must have had a bad day or something, but she kept ramming me with her cart.” — Chris [05:38]
  • Cast Response:
    • “You should almost take away your buggy license.” — C [06:18]

• Interruption Rage

  • Cast Story: E remembers being shocked by a typically quiet coworker who snapped for being interrupted during a story.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “Just out of the blue, outburst: 'Please do not interrupt me when I'm speaking.' ... Probably peed on myself right there because I... it scared me to death.” — E [07:17]

• Bum Leg Rage (Physical Workplace Altercation)

  • Caller (Shannon): Describes kicking a coworker’s crutch after persistent harassment—a mix of humor and real workplace tension.
  • Memorable Exchange:
    • “And I took my leg and I kicked his crutch right at him.” — Shannon [08:15]
    • “You had bum leg rage.” — C [08:21]

4. Nightlife Rage and Elder Rage

• Dance Club (Bouncer Rage)
  • Caller (Ayanna): Upset after paying cover to a Detroit club that closed 10 minutes later with no refunds.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “You guys had to know that before we paid to walk in this club… You need to leave now. And he touched me. I was like, you better get your hands off me.” — Ayanna [09:08]
• Elder Rage (Old People at a Convenience Store)
  • Caller (Michelle): Details a crotchety old store clerk chastising and finger-wagging at her for holding up the line.
  • Quote:
    • “He put his finger right up to my nose and was pointing and shaking his finger and saying, ‘You're the one being obnoxious.’” — Michelle [11:16]
  • Cast’s Reflection:
    • "You almost wonder if old people like that... What are you gonna do? You're not gonna slap his hand out of your face." — C [11:33]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “That one biscotti was the key between calm day and Nutso.” — C [03:12]
• “You should almost take away your buggy license.” — C (after Walmart rage story) [06:18]
• “Just out of the blue, outburst: ‘Please do not interrupt me when I'm speaking.’ ... Scared me to death.” — E [07:17]
• “And I took my leg and I kicked his crutch right at him.” — Shannon [08:15]
• "You almost wonder if old people like that... what are you gonna do?" — C [11:33]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:33 – 04:06: Introduction to “other rages”: laptop/retail rage, coffee shop rage
• 04:27 – 05:25: Meeting rage at work
• 05:25 – 06:23: Listener Chris describes Walmart checkout confrontation
• 06:23 – 07:30: Cast shares workplace interruption rage story
• 07:43 – 08:37: Caller Shannon’s “bum leg rage” story
• 09:08 – 10:14: Caller Ayanna’s dance club (bouncer rage) experience
• 10:27 – 11:49: Caller Michelle’s “elder rage” from a convenience store

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Tone & Atmosphere

The episode is lighthearted and relatable, blending everyday frustrations with humor. The hosts and callers share stories candidly, often laughing and riffing off one another’s anecdotes. The panel frequently pokes fun at themselves and each other, maintaining an authentic and comedic approach throughout.

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Final Thoughts

“Vault: Other Forms Of Rage” celebrates the weird, wild, and all-too-human moments when tempers flare in unexpected places. The episode reminds listeners that everyone—whether demure laptop owners, Walmart shoppers, or grumpy elders—can have a breaking point, and sometimes it’s as trivial (and funny) as a missing biscotti or a line-cutter at checkout.

Fans of The Bert Show’s warm, authentic, and funny style will find this episode a relatable and entertaining escape.

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Purchased the Birch show in two different conversations this past weekend, actually within the same day, the word like, you know what road rage is? Obviously you know it's always in the news story because sometimes it gets tried. Like people go nuts and break out guns, but more often than not it's a flip off or a cussing or a cut off or, you know, ends up being a speeding down the highway. And then I heard the word rage in two other conversations this weekend. I was speaking to one person who was having problems with her laptop computer and she's had it for three years and it's been back to the store like six times for service. And apparently there's some sort of like lemon law that this company has that, if that you have to bring it back five or more times, they give you a brand new computer. So with the six times she takes it in, she's like, I, you know, I want a new computer. You know, this is crap. I have it in here every six months, you know, to fix it. And it's obvious it's nothing I'm doing. So, you know, and they said, well, yours doesn't qualify under the lemon law thing. And apparently she lost her mind. When the story was told to me, she used the word rage like she was raging, you know, like yelling. And this is a person I would not expect to raise their voice at all. You know, very demure and nice. And she was raging at the clerk. So that was laptop rage. Yeah, that's laptop rage. Retail rage.

[D]

Retail rage.

[E]

Retail rage.

[C]

And then the next, like less than 24 hours later, I'm having a conversation with someone and I'm standing in the back of. They're at Starbucks and standing in the back of the restaurant and, you know, there's a line of a couple people. And my friend's in line and gets up to the counter and orders whatever, double mocha latte, whatever, you know, and this woman comes in from the back of the line and. And he thought she was coming from the back of line. She actually had stormed in from the store and apparently with whatever she purchased, she got. She was supposed to get two biscottis or whatever, only got one. And this was enough to send her into overdrive, like, whatever. Like that one biscotti was the key between com day and Nutso. She came and went to the front of the line and started talk to the clerk while my friend was ordering. And my friend says, I'm sorry, I'm in the middle of ordering. And she loses it. Coffee rage, like completely Starbucks. And I got to witness this. And I'm not talking about a little. I'm just trying to get my other biscotti here. She went off on him, on other people in line, on the poor guy who, you know, probably wasn't even the one who waited on her, you know, like nuts.

[E]

Right?

[C]

So there has gotta be. I mean, obviously there's road rage. We've heard talk to stories, you know, there's retail raids that happens during the holidays, but where I was trying to think of the last place I really, truly lost it with someone in person. I've gone off on the phone, but usually in person I don't confront people like that.

[F]

Now.

[D]

I used to work with a guy at an old job that would come into meetings and would run meetings, you know, head of the table, everybody's there or whatever would run meetings. And in the middle of whatever speech he was giving to, you know, the entire group of people listening would get random meeting rage. Like, would get caught up in his own conversation so much that it would turn into a rage. No one had to provoke it. Nobody had to be late to the meeting. Nobody had to, like, say anything wrong or, you know, ask a question in the room.

[C]

Who was the victim? There has to be a victim. Was it everybody at the meeting, Everybody.

[D]

In the meeting became a victim of his rage. Because he would just get. I think he was the type of person that just loved to hear himself talk so much. But because he loved to hear himself talk so much, he would get himself so fired up that you could see in his face would turn red and he would go crazy. Meeting rage guy. Meeting rage. Yeah.

[C]

Hey, Bert, show. Yeah, Rage. And where? Walmart. Walmart rage.

[G]

Walmart rage. Yeah, I was there a few weeks ago, and, you know, it's always a race to the aisle to get to the checkout, right?

[C]

Sure.

[G]

And I came around the corner and I beat this lady there. Well, she must have had a bad day or something, but she kept ramming me with her cart.

[C]

Like, she rammed you with her cart or she was ramming your cart with me?

[G]

No, she was hitting me.

I just kept stepping away, you know, okay, I'll step farther away and farther away. Well, now her cart is blocking me from getting my bags, and I tried to move her cart to grab my bags, and she just kept hitting me with her cart.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[G]

And I finally just turned and looked at her and said, you're rhyming with wick.

[E]

Uh, oh.

[G]

And grabbed my bags and walked off.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

Walmart rage. Walmart rage. That one's crazy.

[E]

Using a buggy is a weapon.

[C]

Yeah, you should almost take away your buggy license. Thanks for the call, Chris.

[G]

Bye, guys.

[C]

Bye.

[E]

I think I'm finding that, you know, one thing that came to mind is kind of similar to Jen's. It's more of a, you know, co worker kind of bizarre outburst where. And this was years ago, but, you know, it's usually the people that you least expect to have these outbursts that, you know, because, you know, yes, I've been accused of being opinionated and I can have a temper, but I don't have these random. Just boom. It's usually the people that are soft spoken and sweet, and then all of a sudden. So a co worker of Mine and I are standing with this third co worker, and she is the type, very quiet, very cool, always, you know, never see her do anything. So we're talking and then she's telling a story about a recent. And it was like a vacation. She's telling a story about a vacation to, like, I don't know where she went. And. And then. And then I was reacting to something she said, and then just out of the blue, outburst, Please do not interrupt me when I'm speaking. And then continued soft spoken with what she's saying. And I probably peed on myself right there because I. Yeah, it scared me to death. But interruption rage, Just interruption rage. Absolutely. And I didn't even realize I interrupted her, but I swore I didn't say another word after that. But, yeah, just yelled in the middle of the sentence.

[C]

That's like interruption rage. Or that's also unexpected. Ra.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Yes.

[E]

That's the type. That man, that makes you afraid. That's like freaky rage.

[C]

Shannon. Also an incident with a coworker.

[H]

Yes.

[G]

I am not a morning person. And I came into the office one morning, and one of the gentlemen who happened to be on crutches at the time started with me right off the bat.

[H]

Couldn't even get in the door.

[G]

Hadn't even set my pocketbook down or anything.

[H]

And I kept telling him, back off, back off. No coffee, back off. Wouldn't leave me alone. So he sat down at his desk.

[G]

And he kept on and on and on pushing me. And I finally told him I was gonna kick his butt if he didn't.

[H]

Stop and leave me alone.

[G]

And he just said some profane things.

[H]

To me, and I took my leg.

[G]

And I kicked his crutch right at him.

[D]

Oh, no. Oh, no.

[H]

Oh, yes, I did.

[C]

You had bum leg rage.

[H]

Yes, I did.

[C]

Do you get in trouble for that?

[H]

Well, he said. Well, he said. He said, I'm gonna tell the boss on you.

[G]

And I said, not if I get to him first.

[C]

Ooh. Hey, Shannon. Thanks for the call.

[G]

Okay, thanks.

[E]

I mean, is there limits? There's kind of limits. You can't kick a crutch.

[C]

Crutches don't kick something like that.

[E]

It's like pushing a wheelchair down, you know?

[D]

She said he was harassing her, and if he's harassing her, then if you're in crutches, the kick crutch.

[C]

Nah, if you're on crutches, you're allowed to harass people.

[D]

No, he was using that as an excuse to harass her.

[E]

Is that kind of like old people rage. Like they're just, you know, just let them go.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Hey, Michelle, don't hang up. Could we have some elder rage coming up? Michelle's got a old person at a convenience store. But first, Ayanna.

[H]

Yes.

[C]

Did I say that right? Go ahead. Yes, Ayanna, with your dance club rage.

[H]

Well, I'm from Michigan and I was at a club in Detroit one year and I paid $20 to get in the club. And we saw police when we walked in. And not about 10 minutes after, we had got these guys to buy us a drink. They told everybody we had to leave the club. And I'm like, you guys had to know that before we paid to walk in this club. They didn't give us a reason. There was no fight, there was no nothing. So I told this bodyguard guy that was like, you need to leave. I said, you guys are going to give me my money back. Are you going to give me a coupon to come back or something? And he was like, no, you need to leave. You need to leave now. And he touched me. I was like, you better get your hands off me. Come on, come on, just leave. I'm like, no. They knew before we paid $20 to come in this club, they were going to shut it down. And now they're not going to give us anything to come back.

[C]

The lights are on, people are mopping around you, and you're still sitting at the club.

[H]

Everybody was leaving and this bodyguard guy was like, come on, you have to leave. Just come back and ask for me. I'm like, yeah, right. Don't give me that crap. Like you told me, I'm not come back. I was mad.

[C]

Thanks for the call. All right, all right. And here we go.

[D]

That was more like bouncer rage, right?

[C]

That was bouncer rage, elder rage. Old people at a convenience store. Michelle, the floor is yours.

[G]

All right. I lived in Nebraska and I went into a little convenience store to buy just, you know, a few items, went, was, waited in line, got to the front of the line. There's this little old man, crotchy, grumpy old man behind the counter grumbling at everybody. And I looked at my wallet and realized that I didn't have any money. And so I laid down one of those little scratch down lottery tickets, you know, the little scratch off tickets. And I said, well, can I use this real quick rather than holding people up for the atm. And he just started going, and then I have to rehear everything up again. And he's like grumbling. So I Ran over the ATM and. And I hurried up and I got money out, and I came back and I ran. I said, you know, here's your money. He's like, damn, kids.

[H]

And.

[G]

Finally I said, you know, sir, I'm sorry, but I really don't appreciate the scolding. And no kidding. He put his finger right up to my nose and was pointing and shaking his finger and saying, you're the one being obnoxious.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[H]

I didn't even know what to say. I just grabbed my stuff and left.

[C]

You almost wonder if old people like that, if they're like, you know what? I've been around 82 years.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm gonna do this just to see how much I can get away with because what are you gonna. You're not gonna slap his hand out of your face?

[H]

Well, no, I just did that.

[G]

I think my jaw was probably on the floor, but I couldn't believe it.

[E]

Somebody who's older, I mean, they got aches, they got pains, they got things that they're mad about. And I mean, this is their. I think, to me, this is kind of their warped way of fun. You know, it's like Jeff fun. You know how he always picks and prods at people to get him mad. That's what old people do.

[C]

Because, yeah, those reality TV shows are too complicated to follow. You know, Janet's boobs not as exciting to an old person as everybody else. So they need to torture youngsters, Right?

[B]

Right.

[C]

They need to torture the whippersnappers. What they need to do the Burt Show.

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