Abandoning Dinner Guests, Running Into Former Students, Singing Happy Birthday, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about abandoning dinner guests, running into former students, singing happy birthday, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- How would you react if a friend invites you to stay for dinner, but then has you eat in the kitchen while she goes to the dining room to eat with her family separately?
- Should I tell my friend that I won’t be attending a Zoom exercise class anymore because of an awkward email exchange with the instructor?
- I’m a middle school teacher…what should I do when I run into former students in public?
- How do we decline food from our overly generous neighbor?
- What do you do when someone is singing "Happy Birthday" to you?
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, Leah, do you know about |
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| 0:16.1 | podcasts. So you can get an ad-free version of our show that also helps support us. |
| 0:21.3 | And you can do that right now in the app. |
| 0:23.4 | So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it. |
| 0:28.2 | And check it out. |
| 0:29.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:30.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:31.5 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:37.4 | It's Nick Layton. |
| 0:38.3 | And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 0:39.3 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:42.3 | Ow! |
| 0:43.3 | That we've a bonus episode. So here we go. |
| 0:48.3 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 0:50.3 | What would be your reaction to this? |
| 0:52.3 | You are visiting a friend, and she invites you to stay for dinner. |
| 0:56.2 | She sets you and your kids up in the kitchen with food and everything, then retires to the dining |
| 1:01.0 | room to eat with her family. |
| 1:03.3 | This is in another room with a closed door between her and you. |
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