Removing Socks on Airplanes, Splitting Bills at Brunch, Hosting Weddings on Grass, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle using wooden Japanese chopsticks, asking people "What do you do?", cleaning your host's filthy home in the middle of the night, removing your socks on an airplane, splitting the bill at brunch, disclosing environmental hazards to your wedding guests, being too folksy in a restaurant, giving bad directions to strangers, 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: The correct way to use wooden chopsticks
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Asking people "What do you do?"
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Can I clean my host's filthy home in the middle of the night? Is it OK to remove your socks on an airplane? What's the right way to split the bill at brunch? Should you disclose environmental hazards to your wedding guests?
- VENT OR REPENT: Being too folksy in a restaurant, Giving bad directions to strangers
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Japanese Chopstick Etiquette
- McGill University, the Harvard of Canada
- Columbia University, where there's always one admission mistake every year
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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's Nick and it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, please |
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| 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 scrape your chopsticks together at a sushi restaurant? |
| 0:31.0 | Do you ask people what they do for a living? Do you take your socks off on an airplane? |
| 0:35.8 | Were you raised by wolves? Let's find out. Here are things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 0:48.0 | We can all use a little help. |
| 0:51.0 | Some people don't ask themselves for you raised by walls. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the show. I'm Nick Leighton. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Leibondama. And we're coming to you from New New York today and let's just get right down to it with our |
| 1:05.1 | moose boot. Get in it. So at a Japanese restaurant if you're given a pair of |
| 1:09.5 | wooden chopsticks what's the first thing you do? Take them out of the paper. |
| 1:13.0 | All right, and then? |
| 1:14.0 | I feel like I'm not supposed to be |
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