Giving Red Envelopes, Reseating in Theaters, Cancelling on Friends, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle giving red envelopes in China, reseating people in metaphorical theaters, cancelling on friends, 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: Red Envelopes - (Hóngbāo - 紅包)
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: The theatre metaphor
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Was it rude for friends to cancel on us and then go and host a party of their own on the same night? What do I do about people who keep giving me clothing donations for a charity I no longer volunteer for?
- VENT OR REPENT: An uncomfortable car ride, A dinner nobody wanted
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Thanks to the parents, A happy baby
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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, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, Leah, do you know about |
| 0:04.3 | Wolves Plus? I do, but let's pretend I don't for this for our audience. So Wolves Plus, |
| 0:11.5 | and we say it the French way, because it sounds fancier, is this new thing that we offer on Apple |
| 0:16.1 | podcasts. So you can get an ad-free version of our show that also helps support us. |
| 0:21.3 | And you can do that right now in the app. |
| 0:23.4 | So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it, and check it out. |
| 0:29.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:30.4 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:31.5 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:41.6 | Do you put crumpled money in red envelopes? |
| 0:44.1 | Do you lie about your party plans? |
| 0:46.4 | Do you give people your garbage? |
| 0:48.2 | Were you raised by wolves? |
| 0:49.2 | Let's find out. |
| 0:58.3 | Here are things I can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 1:01.8 | We can all use a little help. |
| 1:08.0 | Some people don't ask themselves for you raised by walls. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Layton. |
| 1:13.2 | And I'm Leah Bonema. And let's just get right down to it with our moose-bush. |
| 1:19.4 | Let's get in it. So for today's a moose-bush, I want to talk about Hong Bao. Do you know what this is? |
| 1:30.1 | No. Okay. So this is the Chinese tradition of giving people money in red envelopes. And Hong Bao literally means red envelope in Mandarin. |
| 1:34.1 | And so you see red envelopes at the most auspicious occasions in China. |
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