Meeting Amy Vanderbilt, Acknowledging Mysterious Gifts, Retrieving Lost Phones, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah tackle getting to know Amy Vanderbilt, acknowledging mysterious gifts, retrieving lost phones, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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EPISODE CONTENTS
- AMUSE-BOUCHE: Amy Vanderbilt
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: The power dynamics of scheduling links
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: I received a gift, but I don't know what it is...how should I acknowledge it? What should I do when everyone assumes I'll always be the driver?
- VENT OR REPENT: Retrieving lost phones, Wrist flicks on the street
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Thanks for the lock box, A nice email
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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 |
| 0:04.3 | Wolves Plus? I do, but let's pretend I don't for this for our audience. So Wolves Plus, |
| 0:11.5 | and we say it the French way, because it sounds fancier, is this new thing that we offer on Apple |
| 0:16.1 | podcasts. So you can get an ad-free version of our show that also helps support us. |
| 0:21.2 | 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. |
| 0:41.9 | Do you make people accommodate your schedule? |
| 0:44.2 | Do you give baffling gifts? |
| 0:46.6 | Do you make your friends drive you everywhere? |
| 0:48.2 | We're raised by wolves. |
| 0:49.3 | Let's find out. |
| 0:58.3 | Here are things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 1:01.7 | We can all use a little help. |
| 1:08.0 | Some people don't ask themselves for you raised by wolves. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey everybody, it's Nick Layton. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's Leah Bonema. And let's just get right on to it with our Moose Boosh. How do you keep coming up with them, Nick? I don't even know. So for today's The Moose Poosh, I want to talk about Amy Vanderbilt. Oh, okay. And we reference her quite often. Like, she's in the same pantheon as Emily Post, Judith Martin, Letitia Baldridge. |
| 1:31.1 | But what do you know about her? |
| 1:32.3 | I mean, I know nothing. |
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