Eco-shaming Friends, Giving Gifts in China, Visiting a Hospital, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle giving gifts in China, visiting people in a hospital, eco-shaming friends, falling asleep on the subway, using "san" in Japanese correspondence, getting people sick, choosing the right fork, sending us calligraphy, leaving out cookies, 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: Gift giving in China
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Hospital Etiquette
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: How to respond when you've been eco-shamed? What do you do if someone falls asleep on you on the subway? What does "san" mean when it's attached to someone's name in Japanese?
- VENT OR REPENT: Getting people sick, choosing the correct fork
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Calligraphers, cookie plates
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Green Hats in China
- How to say "thank you" in Mandarin
- The problem with plastic straws
- Adding "san" to a name in Japanese
- Artist falls asleep on people on the subway
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CREDITS
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 |
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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. |
| 0:20.1 | We really would. |
| 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 give thoughtless gifts? Do you fall asleep on people on the subway? Do you tell people you're using the wrong fork? Were you raised by wolves? Let's find out. Here I think 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 Leobonemaema and we're in New York today and let's just get right down to it. |
| 1:05.6 | Let's get in it. So for today's a moose moose I want to talk about gift giving in China. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh wow. So and this is a brief overview. This is a minefield. There is so much nuance and |
| 1:16.7 | subtlety and rules and variation that we cannot possibly go through it all. But I want to give some broad principles. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm very excited about this. |
| 1:26.0 | So first of all let's talk about some bad gifts. |
| 1:29.0 | You do not want to give in China. |
| 1:31.0 | These include things like knives. Although sidebar, I think |
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