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Shmanners

Telephone Manners

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hello? Is this Shmanners Listener? Hi! This is Shmanners! We're calling today to offer you a wonderful podcast opportunity! We've got a new episode for you today that I think you'll really enjoy. If you're like most, phone etiquette can be a very confusing arena. What does one say in a voicemail? How do you know if a phone call is acceptable or if you need to talk in person? What about wrong numbers? When should you check your phone? All that plus some history! Enjoy and feel free to call back any time!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is your refrigerator running?

0:01.6

Why, yes, it is.

0:03.2

Oh, good. If it wasn't all your food would go bad.

0:05.2

It's manners! Oh, Hello internet. I'm your husband host Travis McElroy and I'm your wife

0:30.1

host Teresa McElroy and you're listening to Schmanners. It's extraordinary etiquette.

0:35.4

For ordinary occasions. Hello, my love. How are you? I'm well, how are you?

0:39.7

I, you know what? I'm doing okay mentally.

0:43.4

Oh good. It's so hot.

0:45.4

Physically, I'm very tired and we've been preparing to move.

0:48.5

Theresa and I are moving back to Cincinnati for our oncoming baby

0:53.6

and you know we've just been packing a lot moving stuff around and

0:57.6

carrying furniture around and it's very exhausting and sometimes it can make you

1:02.3

get very short with people and have bad

1:04.5

Schmanners and you got to really focus on your Schmanners and your hot and

1:08.8

gritty and gross. We can't have bad Schmanners. You can't have bad Schmanners.

1:12.4

My Schmanners! We can't have bad sh manners.

1:13.6

My sh manners.

1:14.6

So I wanted to talk to you, we picked a topic this week,

1:18.3

that I think, you know, throughout time, from the beginning of man no it's for a long time since

1:26.8

the invention of telephones I would say that nobody's been good at it I think that

1:31.3

every generation thinks the next generation is even worse at it than they were, but I think a lot of that is like, you know, looking back.

1:38.0

It's that thing, have you ever seen that picture that made its way around like the internet, where everyone everyone like sitting on a streetcar and

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