Identifying Salt and Pepper Shakers, Using AI for Thank You Notes, Walking Up Escalators, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle identifying salt and pepper shakers by their holes, using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to write thank you notes, walking up escalators, 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: Salt and Pepper Shakers
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Etiquette
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Is it rude to walk up escalators? How much should you tip the maître d' at a restaurant?
- VENT OR REPENT: Forgetting someone at pilates, Hogging a hot tub
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Thanks to a listener, A nice review
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Toys hanging from the ceiling at the 21 Club in New York
- New York Times article from 1979: "Restaurant Tipping: The Captain, the Waiter, The Sommelier..."
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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, 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. |
| 0:21.2 | 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. |
| 0:28.2 | And check it out. |
| 0:29.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:30.4 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:31.5 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:41.4 | Do you confuse salt and pepper? Do you use machines to write your thank you notes? |
| 0:44.6 | Do you block people on escalators? |
| 0:47.0 | Or you're raised by wolves? |
| 0:48.3 | Let's find out. |
| 0:49.3 | Here are things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 0:59.3 | We can all use a little help. |
| 1:02.2 | Some people don't ask themselves for you raised by wolves. |
| 1:08.6 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Layton. |
| 1:10.2 | And it's Leibonima. And let's just get around to it with our Moose Booch. |
| 1:13.4 | Heavy breathing, heavy breathing, heavy breathing. So for today's a Mooseboosh, I want to talk about salt and pepper shakers. |
| 1:21.4 | You know how I feel about pepper. You enjoy it. You also always have it with you. Oh yeah, I have pepper everywhere. And not just like hot sauce pepper. We're talking like pepper grinder, like black peppercorns. Yeah. Yeah. As one does. That's Leobonima, everybody. That's Leibonimo. So today the question is, we have identical salt and pepper shakers. You cannot see inside of them. One of them has one hole. One of them has two holes. Which is for salt and which is for pepper? You know, as soon as you said, we're going to talk about salt and pepper shakers, I immediately thought, you know, he's going to be asking which one has which holes because it's what I |
| 2:01.0 | always confuse. |
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