Using Chopsticks in a Thai Restaurant, Being Prompt, Giving People Personal Space, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle using chopsticks in a Thai restaurant, being prompt, asking people to "watch your stuff" at a café or airport, queuing properly at a supermarket, asking for more bread at a restaurant, honking at cars as soon as the light turns green, giving people personal space when dining, asking people to remember your name, 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: Using chopsticks in a Thai restaurant
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: The importance of being on time
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: What do you say when people ask you to watch their stuff at a café or airport? What is the etiquette when a new queue opens up at supermarket? Is it OK to ask for more bread at a restaurant? When a light turns green and the person in front of you doesn't go, how long should you wait before you honk?
- VENT OR REPENT: Personal space when dining out, asking people if they remember your name
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Nice fan mail, civilized behavior on an airplane
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- King Rama V
- Airport Announcements: The Most Captivating Voice in the World
- Supermarket Sweep
- New York Times: Our Nightly Bread
- Traffic Lights
- Leah Bonnema on "The Late Show with Steven Colbert"
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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. |
| 0:02.0 | Real quick thing before we get going, |
| 0:03.7 | we just want to say thank you |
| 0:05.3 | to everybody who came out to see us live |
| 0:07.6 | for our very first live show. |
| 0:09.5 | It was so unbelievable and I know a lot of you travel from far and wide. |
| 0:14.0 | People flew in to New York City just for us, mind-blown. |
| 0:19.0 | I still can't even comprehend it and we're so delighted. |
| 0:21.0 | I know many of you couldn't make it but you reached out with |
| 0:23.4 | lovely supportive messages and it just meant so much to Nick and I. So thank you it |
| 0:28.3 | really meant a lot to us and hopefully more live shows in the future. |
| 0:31.7 | Ah your support is our whole everything, so thank you. |
| 0:36.0 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's get in it. |
| 0:38.0 | Do you always ask for chopsticks in a Thai restaurant? Do you think that the party starts when you get there? |
| 0:48.0 | Do you ask strangers to watch your stuff? Or you raise by wolves? Let's find out. |
| 0:54.0 | Here at things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 1:02.0 | We can all use a little help. Some people don't ask themselves for you |
| 1:10.0 | raised by wolves. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Leighton. by walls. |
| 1:13.0 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Leighton. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm Leabonema. |
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