Rescuing Lost Chips, Taking Over Parties, Correcting People's Pronunciation, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about rescuing lost chips, taking over parties, correcting people's pronunciation, 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:
- What should you do if you break a chip in a salsa bowl?
- What should I do about a guest who tried to change the location of my party?
- Is it OK to inquire about an acquaintance's divorce?
- What should I have done when my friend corrected my pronunciation in front of a waiter?
- Should I have left a buffer seat at a Japanese steakhouse counter?
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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. And you can do that right now in the app. So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it. And check it out. Wolfs Plus. And now let's start the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Hey everybody. It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 0:39.3 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:42.3 | Aoo! |
| 0:43.3 | That we have a bonus episode. So here we go. |
| 0:47.3 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 0:49.3 | What do you do if you're sharing dip or salsa with friends and your chip breaks? Leave it there or try to fish it out. It's a great question. Great question. Happens to all of us. Happen to me this weekend. Okay. So let's talk about it. I'll tell you what I did. Okay. We'll see if that was correct. I went in with a lifeguard chip. Okay. We went with a lifeguard chip. Because it broke really small. |
| 1:11.7 | If I was going to go in to get it, I would have to touch dip with fingers, which felt |
| 1:16.0 | inappropriate. |
| 1:16.8 | Correct. |
| 1:17.2 | So I sent in another chip to do the job. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | I think the general idea here is that we do not want to sully the dip or the salsa. |
| 1:25.2 | We need to maintain and respect the sanctity of the salsa. And so we cannot |
| 1:32.4 | touch it with our fingers. We need to make sure that we're not double dipping. Like that rescue chip |
| 1:37.3 | cannot be a bitten chip. It has to be a new chip. This is a fresh chip. Yeah, has to be fresh to the scene. |
| 2:18.5 | I do think, though, it matters how much of the chip is below the surface. You know, is it sinking? Is it going down? This one is very buoyant. Very buoyant. Okay. And how big was this chip in comparison to the rescue chip? It was much smaller than the rescue chip. Okay. It's still visible, though. It didn't go all the way down under. Because I think that's a consideration. I think if it is fully gurgled to the bottom. Fully submerged. You know, cement shoes in the East River. I think if that's what has happened, I think we might leave it, right? Maybe we abandon it. Well, because we don't want to have to get like wrist deep in there. Right. I think if |
| 2:23.9 | the move is you can get a rescue chip and scoop under it the way you would have any way to get a bit |
| 2:31.6 | of salsa on the chip, then I think it's fine because you're just like catching |
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