Clinking Glasses, Making Eye Contact on the Subway, Tipping Tow Truck Drivers, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle giving and receiving toasts, behaving properly in New York City, offering guests tours of your home, tipping tow truck drivers, giving aspirational presents to friends trying to lose weight, arriving at exercise classes late, being surprised by unlisted ingredients at a restaurant, buying new luggage, being delighted by a surprise treat, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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EPISODE CONTENTS
- AMUSE-BOUCHE: Toasting Etiquette
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: New York City etiquette, including walking, umbrellas, subways, delis, and taxis
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Should you give guests tours of your home? Should you tip your tow truck driver? I have a friend trying to lose weight and I gave him a shirt that's in the size of his goal...was this OK?
- VENT OR REPENT: Arriving at an exercise class late, a restaurant doesn't disclose ingredients
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Buying new luggage, an unexpected meal
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor"
- Bell method of clinking glasses
- It's Showtime on the NYC Subway
- International Towing and Recovery Museum
- James Beard House
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
TRANSCRIPT
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there it's Nick and it's Leah. |
| 0:02.0 | Real quick thing before we get going, |
| 0:03.7 | we just want to say thank you |
| 0:05.3 | to everybody who came out to see us live |
| 0:07.6 | for our very first live show. |
| 0:09.5 | It was so unbelievable and I know a lot of you travel from far and wide. |
| 0:14.0 | People flew in to New York City just for us, mind-blown. |
| 0:19.0 | I still can't even comprehend it and we're so delighted. |
| 0:21.0 | I know many of you couldn't make it but you reached out with |
| 0:23.4 | lovely supportive messages and it just meant so much to Nick and I. So thank you it |
| 0:28.3 | really meant a lot to us and hopefully more live shows in the future. |
| 0:31.7 | Ah your support is our whole everything, so thank you. |
| 0:36.0 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's get in it. |
| 0:38.0 | Do you raise your glass what a toast is for you? Do you step up to a counter before you're ready to order? |
| 0:49.0 | Do you make people take tours of your home? Where you raised by by Wills. Hey everybody, it's Nick Leighton. |
| 1:14.8 | And I'm Leobonema. |
| 1:15.7 | And we're in New York today and let's just get right down to it. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's get right into it because I didn't know any of the answers to those. |
| 1:20.8 | So for today's a Moosbuch, I want to talk about toasts. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay. And so the toast is very old. |
| 1:26.0 | There are references to it in the Iliad, Odysseus, toasted to Achilles. |
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