Eating Lobsters, Leaving Group Texts, Bashing Hometowns, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle serving guests, eating lobsters, bashing hometowns, cutting birthday cakes without permission, leaving group texts, 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: French, Russian, and American service
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: How to eat Lobster
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: What do you say to someone who criticizes your home town? Should a birthday person wait until friends are gathered before cutting the cake? What do you do about a group text you no longer want to be on?
- VENT OR REPENT: Standing in doorways without a mask, repeating voicemail messages
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: An encouraging audience member, hand-delivered lemon bars
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there's Nick and it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, please |
| 0:03.7 | subscribe to our show and follow it in whatever platform you're listening to us |
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| 0:15.4 | Just a quick little and it makes such a big difference for us. |
| 0:18.4 | We would really appreciate it. |
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| 0:20.7 | So please do that and thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:23.4 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:24.8 | Yay! |
| 0:25.8 | Do you confuse French and Russian service? Do you crack lobster with your teeth? Do you cut |
| 0:37.8 | cake without permission? Were you raised by wolves? Let's find out. Here are things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 0:50.0 | We can all use a little help. Some people don't ask themselves for you |
| 0:57.8 | raised by walls. |
| 1:00.8 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Leighton and I'm Leibonemaema and we're in New York today and let's just get right down to it. Let's get in it. So today I want to talk about French, English and Russian service and this is something that you have experienced but you may not have known |
| 1:15.6 | what it was called and I wanted to talk a little bit about this world and open |
| 1:20.0 | the door because I find it very fascinating and I hope you do and maybe it will |
| 1:25.3 | inspire you to go deeper down this path and learn more about it. So what am I |
| 1:29.9 | talking about? I'm talking about the way food makes it from a kitchen to your plate in a |
| 1:36.0 | formal situation. So let's talk about French service. Service of the |
| 1:40.5 | Francis. And so this is the kind of the oldest version of service and basically this was going on I think middle ages maybe maybe a little later |
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