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Ask Shmanners: Holiday Edition

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Hello Internet! This week we answer your questions about holiday etiquette and manners! Enjoy and share with a friend!

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0:00.0

The Hello, Internet. I'm your husband host, Travis McElroy.

0:31.7

And I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

0:33.5

And you're listening to Schmanor.

0:34.7

It's extraordinary etiquette.

0:36.0

For ordinary occasions, hello, my dove. Hello, dear. How are you? Yeah. Okay. Cool. You could always lie. But why lie? The people deserve to know the truth. Do they? Yeah. They haven't earned that. Have you earned that? Hey, really think about it.

0:55.7

I want you guys to really do some introspection, look deep in your hearts. Have you learned the

0:59.5

truth about how Trace is doing today? Some of you have. I don't think that you truly understand

1:05.7

what kind of chaos ensues with daylight savings time until you have young children and you know

1:14.1

what our children really aren't that young anymore and yet they're young at heart and yet the chaos

1:20.8

continues i think that there's always a breakdown the moment that they're like but why did we do that

1:26.2

the answer's like I don't know.

1:28.6

I mean, yeah, I know.

1:30.1

It's wild, huh?

1:31.3

We decided we wanted it to be light in the morning and darkening.

1:34.2

I don't know.

1:35.3

We decided that we wanted to have time, control over time itself, like chronos.

1:39.6

So there is something to be said about it is only slightly easier for the fallback, okay, because you are gaining an hour.

1:50.0

Are you sitting here defending today like that?

1:52.4

Instead of the spring forward where you effectively lose probably six hours of your life, I think is what it feels like.

1:59.8

Yeah.

2:00.1

Whereas just with the one hour, the fall back, you only lose one hour of your life, I think, is what it feels like. Yeah. Whereas just with the one hour, the fall back, you only lose one hour of your life.

2:05.3

Because the children, they still get up at the same time, like it's not that time.

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