In this week’s episode of the Upgrade, we spoke with Danny Wallace: comedian, radio host, and author of the book F You Very Much: Understanding the Culture of Rudeness—And What We Can Do About It.
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Discussed in This Episode
- Why we’re all becoming such total a-holes
- How noise can make us less polite
- Why we seem to love rude people on television (and in politics)
- How rudeness can spread like the common cold
- How we can cope with rudeness
- How Danny is British, and thus can get away with using a term like “tickety-boo.” (We may not have discussed this, but certainly thought it.)
And so much more.
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