S3 Ep203: Weird Victorian Etiquette & An Angry Millennial Mall Rat

An Acquired Taste Podcast

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Philosophy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Relationships

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🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Quick! If your beau crosses a slippery plank before you, should you call off the engagement? If you see your BFF Charlotte in church, can you bow to her? And why is there sit-down service at the mall sushi place? Bethany and Kathleen are FULL of questions today. First, Bethany gives you a pop quiz on Victorian manners, then Kathleen ruminates on her recent shopping mall experience and why it’s causing her to spiral. Cover up those ankles, ladies! Take off your silk hats, gentlemen! It’s time for a new episode of An Acquired Taste!

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Bethany’s Source:

Erbsen, Wayne. “Manners & Morals of Victorian America.” North Carolina: Native Ground Books & Music, 2009. Print.

Kathleen's Source:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/503966/8-fabulous-facts-about-shopping-malls

Transcript

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0:00.0	When you join Tinder, you might not have been looking for answers, but there were some good
0:05.0	clues, like in the way they smiled with their eyes. Like how they didn't reach free
0:09.6	hand before you'd reach for theirs. And when the time was right, they popped the question,
0:15.1	Will you keep a toothbrush at my place?
0:18.0	From toothbrush proposals to non awkward silences, there's a world of possible connections on Tinder.
0:24.2	Whatever you're looking for, it starts with a swipe, explore the possibilities on Tinder.
0:29.0	Hello today.
0:30.0	I'm bleeding by the way. This is a good SNL skit. I think we should write a whole skit about
0:35.5	two mountain tops in a plank in the Victorian era.
0:39.2	Stop laughing. This is erotic. I'm on a new medication and I think it's making me
0:43.6	confuse me. I would have been a Ted Bundy victim. Yeah, I had no idea that so many people out there
0:50.0	felt the same way I did. Now I want a peanut colada and a quail taste. This is an acquired taste
0:57.2	podcast. I'm Bethany, your black nail polish wearing, iced tea drinking, over worried about my
1:02.8	cat's friend. And I'm Kathleen, your nip of red wine late night walks in the park,
1:08.0	taste test fro yo thief friend. And every week, Kathleen and I meet up to discuss our lives
1:12.7	and what's weird in the world and we invite you to join us this week, Kathleen. What are we talking
1:16.7	about? I went to the mall. Oh, fun for you. And it hit me really hard that my mall days,
1:23.2	now in my 30s, are way different than they used to be. Really? And I have some gripes about
1:28.6	the mall and I have some wonderful discoveries about the mall that I would like to share with you.
1:32.2	Wonderful. I am also keeping it light and frothy and fun today. I got this amazing book when I
1:38.4	visited the James J Hill House with my sister in Minneapolis over the weekend. Come again.
1:43.2	Manners and morals. History nerds. A Victorian America. Oh, sounds like a real page turner.
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