American adverts were always a little weird/jarring to me, especially the medicine ones, or the ones like the old Carls Jr. ads that were trying to just lean heavily into sex. I get it, sex sells, but it was still weird for me. I got used to it for a while, but then I cut cable and I've long had an adblocker so I didn't see them anymore. Now when I do see them they're always jarring/annoying to me. Luckily with podcasts I'll just skip ahead. Honestly I stopped listening to the downtown Rams podcast because it feels like they have an ad break every 5-10 minutes, and it's such a short podcast. I know they upload every day, but I'd rather they broke it into once or twice a week so they could go longer without hearing ads. The latest 11 Personnel podcast was longer and thus had a long break and it was annoying to skip through.
Ireland's road safety ads are something of legend here though, they're fecking brutal. Imagine watching your show and being hit by one of these.
