Awesome Etiquette
Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.
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January 12, 2026 • 62 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on first date etiquette, an overly enthusiastic audience member, and being uninvited to a dinner party because your husband can’t attend. For community members, your question of the week is about when someone takes over planning a holiday. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and we hear from you in a feedback postscript segment.
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January 5, 2026 • 63 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on names for mothers and grandmothers, tipping at hotels, and thank you advice for holiday gifts. For community members, your bonus question of the week is about not ordering alcohol at a business meal. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on the origins of etiquette from Margaret Visser’s The Rituals of Dinner.
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December 29, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on someone who gives away your gifts, excessive DJing at a dinner party, and stopping gossip before it starts. For community members, your question of the week is about ordering a family-style dinner. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on gratitude and gift giving.
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December 22, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on saving a parking spot, a birth announcement with a QR code, and prying questions about college applications. For community members, your question of the week is about how to improve one’s communication. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on host and guest manners for the holidays.
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December 15, 2025 • 67 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on finding hair in your food, running with your dog, and how to talk about a family member who’s not doing well. For community members, your question of the week is about when kids innocently call someone else fat. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on holiday tipping.
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December 8, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on who should attend funeral services, too many birthday gifts for a child, and when a host serves something inedible. For community members, your question of the week is about being caught in the gifting loop. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on re-gifting!
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December 1, 2025 • 63 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a doggy escape artist, cleaning up after a guest wets the bed, and divorced parents' protocol at a wedding. For community members, your question of the week is about coworkers who do not get along. Plus your weekly challenge, an etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Gift Giving.
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November 24, 2025 • 70 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on not yucking someone’s yum, watching movie credits, and teaching scouts subway etiquette. For community members, your question of the week is about splitting holidays among multiple families. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Guest Etiquette for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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November 17, 2025 • 64 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a wedding rehearsal lunch snub, when to reply all on an email chain, and not bringing a towel to a pool play-date. For community members, your question of the week is about how to get alone time at a very social dude ranch. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment interview with Emily Post Trainer Dr. Angela Wilson.
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November 10, 2025 • 56 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a Navy retirement ceremony, whether you can ask to hold a stranger’s baby, and when someone seems to forget their offer to help. For community members, your question of the week is about how an introvert can turn down invitations without being rude. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Thanksgiving prep.
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November 3, 2025 • 60 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on who pays the bill for an out-of-town guest, not opening gifts at a baby shower, and teaching kids about kosher. For community members, your question of the week is about when to reach out to someone you know through business. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on inviting from Margaret Visser’s The Rituals of Dinner.
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October 27, 2025 • 56 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on dressing for a gala, rude behavior around Thanksgiving, and a child-free wedding. For community members, your question of the week is about telling people what you want for holiday gifts. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Halloween trick-or-treating etiquette.
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October 20, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on delivering acknowledgments for condolence notes a year after a death, a football party fumble, and serving tea with tea bags. For community members, your question of the week is about guests who bring uninvited guests. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.
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October 13, 2025 • 81 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on feeling left out of an invitation, how long people should talk at a gathering, and an unusual hostess gift situation. For community members, your question of the week is about asking people if they’re going to have kids. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we hear from featured Emily Post trainer, Trina Boos, of the Boost Academy of Excellence.
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October 6, 2025 • 62 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on workplace gossip, nosy questions about a baby, and bringing food to a restaurant. For community members, your question of the week is about uninvited pets at a host’s home. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on cheek kisses.
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September 29, 2025 • 68 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on an uncashed wedding gift check, tipping before you receive the service, and eating corn on the cob. For community members, your question of the week is about a separate kids' reception at a wedding. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on our annual business etiquette train-the-trainer week.
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September 22, 2025 • 54 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on the tradition of clinking glasses during a wedding reception, when people ask you if you’ll baptize your baby, and whether you can uninvite someone from a French practice group. For community members, your question of the week is about the polite time to arrive at a party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on thank you notes.
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September 15, 2025 • 52 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating with a retainer, return addresses for families with two last names, and birthday gifts for kids with two parties. For community members, your question of the week is about the difference between baby showers and baby sprinkles. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on when to talk business at a networking event.
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September 8, 2025 • 46 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on gifting diamonds, overhearing racist comments, and when people ignore you in the elevator. For community members, your question of the week is about hosting your first tea party. Plus your weekly etiquette challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Afternoon Tea from Emily’s 1922 edition.
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September 1, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating nuts with shells, being confused for your twin, and under-ordering at a business lunch. For community members, your question of the week is about sending a birth announcement with a registry. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment wedding gift giving from Business Insider.
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