Hand Gestures

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

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

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hello Internet! Whoa whoa whoa! You can't wave like that! Don't you know what that means in Uruguay? You see, the same hand gesture can mean different things in different cultures. Where did these gestures come from? What are some of their meanings? Has mooning someone ever saved lives? All these answers plus the story of the hardest Travis has ever been flipped off. Thanks to Amy W. for the topic suggestion! Enjoy and don't forget to share with your friends!

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0:00.0	Theresa, I think this episode is going to be A-O-K.
0:03.0	You shouldn't do that gesture.
0:04.7	We might have listeners in Brazil.
0:06.7	It's Schmanners! Oh, Hello internet I'm your husband host, Travis McElroy. And I'm your wife host, Theresa McElroyroy and you're listening to Schmanners.
0:34.9	It's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasions.
0:38.0	Hello my darling how are you?
0:39.7	I'm doing well how are you?
0:40.7	You know what?
0:41.7	Have a real good day oh good slept good I
0:44.3	woke up my hair looks really good today well not right this that because I just
0:48.0	look at that but I went to e3 it's been a wonderful day e3 is filled with people
0:52.2	hustling and bustling around with no sense of how much space they take up or if anyone's trying to walk behind them.
0:59.0	It is a world filled with people who think that they're amateur videographers and just
1:04.8	stop right in the middle of everything so I got to observe the need for
1:09.8	Schmanners in its natural habitat. Oh boy.
1:13.2	I don't think anyone was being intentionally rude.
1:15.5	I don't think those are the people that we're making this show for.
1:18.1	I think that we make this show for people who are like,
1:20.0	I didn't know that, I didn't know you weren't supposed to do that,
1:22.3	I didn't know that was didn't know you weren't supposed to do that I didn't know that was the thing
1:23.8	and going along with the idea of I didn't know that was the thing our friend Amy suggested an
1:30.4	episode on hand gestures and I thought that that was brilliant because I know for
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