207. PSA: How to Not Be an A-hole

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today, Abby, Amanda, and Glennon learn new ways not to be assholes. In this follow up to Episode 191 Why Etiquette is B.S. & New Rules for Living, we share Pod Squad wisdom about ways we can all make the world a less annoying place. Join us as we learn how to deepen our conversations with people by not saying the first thing we think of, spreading “tell me more” energy instead of “let me tell you about me” energy, and not asking “surface” questions that aren’t surface at all. Plus, we debate holding the door open for strangers, embracing bodily noises in public, and using “but” in apologies.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things, Pod Squad. We are super excited for this episode
0:16.1	because we had so much fun with the first etiquette episode. We talked all about how to
0:24.4	be a person who is not horrifically annoying among other people. We talked about etiquette
0:30.4	in episode 191 as not just a signal of superiority or manners, but a kind way of being among other
0:42.8	people. It went wild. Everybody loved this episode. We asked you, the Pod Squad, to send
0:50.7	us your ideas about how to act and how not to act among people. And the responses were so good
0:58.4	that we decided to create this episode giving you more ideas about how not to be annoying, inadvertently.
1:08.4	If you want to be annoying, inadvertently, you knock yourself out, but if you don't want to
1:13.8	inadvertently offend people, here you go. Yeah, I mean, either way you should listen closely
1:18.8	because there are some good ideas in this one if you want to be annoying. Yes, that's true.
1:23.7	It's a win-win. Right. It's a win-win this one. And I just want to say again, we haven't obsessed
1:28.5	with you. The things you call in and say, the things you write in and say, always make us laugh,
1:33.9	make us think, make us plan whole new episodes. You all are just brilliant. Actually, let's just jump
1:40.3	in. Let's hear from charity on etiquette, new etiquette, how to treat each other, what not to say,
1:47.0	what to say, all the things. Let's hear from charity. Hi, ladies. I'm just kidding. Matt, ladies.
1:53.4	Hi, y'all. I just listen to your etiquette pod. This is charity. And I am calling to just agree
2:03.1	with your etiquette about telling people they look like other people. And I want to kind of
2:09.7	double down and let you know some red hair etiquette. I have red hair. And there's some etiquette
2:17.8	that needs to be established relative to red hair. One, we don't look like every red-headed
2:23.5	celebrity. I've been told I look like people like Nicole Kidman. Thank you, but I don't.
2:30.1	All the way to like, Ed Sheeran, say to you, but I don't. Number two, you don't need to touch
2:36.9	our hair. You don't need to ask us where our hair came from. Our hair came from our hair follicle,
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