Making Small Talk, Eating Pistachios, Recognizing Celebrities, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle eating pistachios, making small talk, telling people they have toilet paper stuck to them, returning dropped calls, correcting incorrect terminology, recognizing celebrities, handling annoying phone calls, 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: Eating pistachios
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Making small talk
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Should you tell someone they have toilet paper stuck to them? When a call drops, who should call back? Is it OK to correct people who use the terms "bug" and "insect" incorrectly?
- VENT OR REPENT: Not recognizing a celebrity, dialing while talking
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Excited fans, new Patreon members
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Judith Martin's "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior"
- Bugs versus Insects
- Our new Patreon account
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
TRANSCRIPT
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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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| 0:14.0 | Well, tap that please. |
| 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 eat pistachios the wrong way? Do you make small talk awkward? Do you correct others? Were you raised by wolves? Let's find out. Here are things 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 Leah Leah Bonema and we're in New York today and let's just get right down to it |
| 1:06.4 | Let's get in it so for our moose bush today |
| 1:09.6 | a moose bush. Leah there is a bowl of something in front of you please for our listeners describe what you see. |
| 1:14.0 | I see two lovely little glass poles and in one glass bowl further from me |
| 1:21.6 | there are pistachios. Okay, Leah, what is the |
| 1:25.0 | correct way to eat a pistachio? With my mouth. Okay. I'm gonna go like |
| 1:29.3 | this and then I'm gonna go like this. She's grabbing a pistachio. |
| 1:33.0 | She broke it apart. |
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