Hey, up great listeners. This week we're bringing you a very fun recast called How to Deal with Rude People with Danny Wallace. Danny's a comedian, radio host, and author of the book, FU Very Much, Understanding the Culture of Roodness and what we can do about it, which came out in 2018. It's a fun conversation, and I'm sure as the election draws near and we continue to cope in this weird pandemic time, you're all

dealing with your fair share of rudeness. So we hope this episode brings you some relief and possible

tips and tricks and handling it all. Hope improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's deputy editor-ed.

And today we're talking about rudeness.

Whether we're rage tweeting at strangers, talking over our coworkers, or flipping fellow drivers the bird, we're becoming complete and total barbarians.

Why are we treating people like garbage?

Why do we clip our toenails on public transportation?

Why do we all feel so entitled to be a-holes? And what can we do about it?

Melissa? Yes? Shut up. Our guest today is Danny Wallace, comedian, radio host, and author of the book,

FU Very Much, understanding the culture of rudeness and what we can do about it. He was a BBC comedy producer, and he's also the author of Yes Man, which was turned into a movie starring Jim Carrey.

So, Danny, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for letting me be here.

My pleasure.

Very good response.

Very polite.

So tell us about the incident that prompted you to write this book.

Well, yes, the dark and disturbing moment that happened to me. It was all about a hot dog. I just wanted a hot dog.

And there was a place that sold hot dogs and my son also wanted a hot dog. So, you know, this seemed to be working out

pretty well. And I've bought them before. You go to a place that sells them and you say I'd like

one please. And that's pretty much as hard as it is. And yet, when I walked into this hot dog place,

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