No Etiquette

Sophia does not say please or thank you while talking with Knowledge Manifest (ChatGPT), Vivian communes with the Wisdom of the Ancestors (ChatGPT), and why AI has made etiquette irrelevant (THESIS?!). Send us your modern etiquette questions about social interaction in post-post-etiquette modern territory (BUZZWORDS?!): [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Sophia thinks it’s been two months since our last episode (nope!), we introduce our new TRUE CRIME segment (popular!), and Vivian confesses why trash reminds her of a dear friend (rude!). Send us your modern etiquette questions about “there is no spoon” (you can admit you still don't know what it means, Vivian did): [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

It’s February!? Are people around you still being extra with their New Year’s resolutions while you can barely think of how to end this sentence? Help yourself to a brilliant alter ego we invented to inspire interlocutors and avoid overstraining ourselves! Send us your modern etiquette questions about being animal-forward: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Sophia - coffee purist, fallen from grace - confesses to the world’s saddest way to make coffee; the way you make your coffee as an indicator of your well-being; the way you take your coffee as an indicator of your soul; what we talk about when we talk about coffee. Send us your modern etiquette questions about burr grinders (but only Sophia will answer them): [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The theory of Friend Ranges, a listener question about how to help two of her friends become friends with each other, and the magic of inherited friendships! Send us your modern etiquette questions about love conquering all: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The spiritual condition of having the brain scramblies (a technical term borrowed from vampires), and how to influence other people with your energy (e.g. to distract them with thoughts of food). Send us your modern etiquette questions about playing chess in plastic prisons: [email protected] Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

What's behind that compliment that made you feel uncomfortable, how to deal with it, and ways to give LIFE-CHANGING compliments instead! #complimentingourselves Send us your modern etiquette questions about oyster sauce: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

What not to say about someone’s beloved rabbits, and pet as envoy, totem, and dæmon (shockingly revealing!). Send us your modern etiquette questions about how to pronounce dæmon: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

How Sophia led her friend Lubaba to believe that she had contact with an alternate universe for years, Lubaba’s ULTIMATE guide to staying over at her place, and what’s your fighting style? #conflictresolution Send us your modern etiquette questions about hosting idiosyncratic overnight guests: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The tragic origins of the unbreakable watch, two competing philosophies of the sidewalks, and everything you need to know about the superhero who takes care of walking etiquette (yeah, we’d never heard of him either). Send us your modern etiquette questions about the worst pedestrian’s compassion and inner darkness: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The shadowy Shadowrun and MFK Fisher origins of this podcast, what doctors want to know about etiquette, and the conversation people WANT to have: what cult would you join? Send us your modern etiquette questions about artful transgressions: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The ultimate pros and cons of asking “how are you?” Plus, wisdom from novelist E. Nesbit on how to handle all manner of dread and drudgery (e.g. your guardian gambles away your inheritance, shades must be removed from your skylight, heavy cases containing bells need transporting). Send us your modern etiquette questions about breaking and entering: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Wisdom from an obscure Christmas song to cut yourself some slack when things are just cursed, becoming a friendship assassin with insert eyeroll here INTENTIONALITY, and how Keanu Reeves, puppy-avenging assassin, led to a serendipitous Magical Friend Date. Send us your modern etiquette questions about arranging spontaneity and joy: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Why you hate setting up friend dates, how to make it faster and less miserable (hint: find out if you like ramen). Part 1 of however many parts it takes to solve our problems and improve our inner lives! Send us your modern etiquette questions about what makes meeting friends so difficult: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

The Matilda (by Roald Dahl) Solution to adjudicating book ownership, and do you have Vivian’s copy of Alone Together (by Sherry Turkle) from 13 years ago?! Send us your modern etiquette questions about not returning books to: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

A listener asks how to hug without making it awkward, and our take on why a hug is not about touching (controversial?!). Real life skills in this episode! Send us your modern etiquette questions about your air-kissing hacks and phobias: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

When you’re baffled by things in another country (or even your own), the etiquette of not smiling, and the top 3 things we couldn’t figure out on our travels through Norway and Sweden. Send us your modern etiquette questions about secret showering methods we should know: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

How to cook with Nordic calm, what to say to change the future when someone is distressed, and why inventing socks is true friend etiquette (trust us on this one). (The audio of us participating in Marina Abramović’s homage to “The Scream” wasn’t great listening and didn’t make it into post-production, but here’s where you can experience it for yourself: https://ekebergparken.com/en/kunst/scream)  Send us your modern etiquette questions about traveling with different enneagram types: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

When you’re on vacation and frightened by Stockholm’s most infested bench and the world’s creepiest boat, how do you graciously convince your travel partner to abandon her stupid plan to limp back to your hotel on a Mesolithic hiking injury? Send us your modern etiquette questions about disturbing zombie pirates: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Firsthand coverage of possibly the world’s first DOUBLE CASTLING (!!) chess cheating scandal, how to have meaningful conversations with strangers in bars, and that time we went on vacation to Norway and gained notoriety as The Cheese Criminals. Hans, if you ate the cheese after we left The Good Knight, you’re welcome. Send us your modern etiquette questions about travel and odd gifts: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

How to maintain composure when a friend keeps talking about HYROX, the irresistible unconscious force of your alligator brain, and a listener asks about talking during shows (rude, but…). Send us your modern etiquette questions and strange reactions your hobby has received: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

How much you should read or watch forwarded content, a listener question about managing your therapists’ jealousy of each other, and secrets of handwriting and personality revealed. Send us your modern etiquette questions and confessions about skipping stuff you’ve been forwarded: [email protected]  Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Mac and cheese trade secrets, a listener laments the travails of splitting the bill, and The Filing Cabinet Theory: or, why reminding people to do stuff doesn’t always work. Send us your modern etiquette questions and tell us which emoji you use to get a job done: [email protected]   Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Losing a blanket, finding something unexpected in your food at a dinner party, a listener wants to know the correct way to eat a hot dog. Send us your modern etiquette questions and tell us your hot dog stories: [email protected]   Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

Finding the power spot in the room, polite vs. obnoxious ways to correct people, and controversial opinions about the most passive aggressive emoji. Send us your modern etiquette questions, nominations for most paggro emoji, and grammar corrections (“in the power seat”?): [email protected]   Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

How to turn down requests to talk from your Uber driver and quests from your barber, when your need is no peaches in your fruit basket, and the best way to ensure THAT THERE IS ALWAYS COFFEE. Send us your modern etiquette questions and how you ask for what you need: [email protected]   Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3

What to do besides rage when a friend texts "how are you" out of the blue, not apologizing for apologizing, and a listener question on how to accept compliments winsomely so as to invite many more. Send us your modern etiquette questions and tell us about texts you loathe: [email protected]   Hosts: Vivian Lee Sophia Bose Themes: Music_Unlimited on Pixabay If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and share! It helps other listeners find the show, and it's VERY good etiquette. <3