Jerry Wells

But anyway, as I was sitting there and we were eating our weirs, I looked across and one of the members of the team went and licked the knife.

Executive producer Ruta, licking a knife.

Now, maybe things have changed, but when I was growing up,

That would have had you, in my family, licking a knife was tantamount to laying a cable in the middle of the dinner table.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

Licking a knife was such a no-go zone.

Nobody ever dared to get their tongue anywhere near a knife.

It's dangerous.

Well, my dad, John Wells, was running a very strict manners regime at the table.

It was very much knives and fork.

I was eating with a knife and fork, I think, when I was about one.

And we were scooping our soup backwards.

Silver spoons.

I remember as a kid, maybe I was five or six, I remember the standards dropped for some reason, and then he implemented the wooden spoon at the table.

So the wooden spoon was brought to the table and sat beside him.

It was sitting there as a threat.

It was like, the standards have dropped around here.

Yeah.

And I'm not happy with how things are going.