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Were You Raised By Wolves?

Ignoring Spouses on Airplanes, Sipping From Cocktail Straws, Using Napkins Outdoors, and More

Were You Raised By Wolves?

Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Comedy, Relationships, Education

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about ignoring spouses on airplanes, sipping from cocktail straws, using napkins outdoors, 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:

  • Is it bonkers to not sit with your partner on an airplane and to not acknowledge each other for an entire flight?
  • Is a cocktail straw for sipping or stirring or both?
  • Is it rude to send RSVP reminders for a wedding before the RSVP deadline?
  • When dining outdoors at a restaurant and given utensils wrapped in a napkin, when should we put our napkins in our laps?
  • What does it mean when a party invitation says the dress code is "Dress Your Best"?
  • How long do you have to keep an anniversary card from your significant other?


THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW


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CREDITS

Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton

Theme Music: Rob Paravonian


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TRANSCRIPT

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's Nick.

0:01.0

And it's Leah.

0:01.9

A real quick thing before we get going, would you please follow our show in whatever app you're using to listen to us right now? Yeah, you don't even have to listen. You could just hit follow and it would really mean a lot to us. Yeah, there's probably like a follow button or maybe there's a bell or a plus sign. Like there's some symbol somewhere and then you'll get notified whenever we have a new episode. We would so appreciate it.

0:22.7

We really would.

0:23.3

It makes a huge difference for our show. like there's some symbol somewhere and then you'll get notified whenever we have a new episode.

0:21.4

We would so appreciate it. We really would. It makes a huge difference for our show. So please do that.

0:25.9

Thank you so much. And now let's start the show. Let's get in it.

0:32.1

Hey everybody. It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness.

0:38.2

Aoo!

0:40.8

That we've a bonus episode. So here we go. Our first question is, quote, I recently was on a five-hour

0:47.0

flight and booked late. So I had to take a middle seat in the back of the plane. When I took my seat,

0:52.6

I immediately became suspicious that the two people in the aisle seat and the back of the plane. When I took my seat, I immediately became suspicious that the two people

0:55.5

in the aisle seat and the window seat were actually a couple, because they were dressed similarly,

1:01.3

and they were both wearing the same mask, and they were both doing the same type of reading

1:05.4

on an iPad. But for the entire flight, neither of these people spoke one word to each other or acknowledged

1:12.3

each other's presence. Even at the end of the flight, the man took his own bag out of the overhead

1:17.1

bin and walked all the way off the plane to a spot like 30 feet from the gate without ever

1:22.1

acknowledging the other person sitting to my left at the window seat. So, here's my question.

1:27.7

Is it bonkers if you're a couple to book the aisle and the window in hopes that nobody's

1:32.4

going to book the middle and then strand a stranger in the middle seat between the two of you

1:36.9

while you pretend not to be together?

1:39.1

By the way, I was only able to confirm that.

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