Returning Wedding Gifts, Paying for Birthday Parties, Locking Out Relatives, and More

Were You Raised By Wolves?

Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

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

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this bonus episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about paying for your own birthday party, picking the right urinal, bumping into passengers on an airplane, distracting relatives, trying to exit a crowded bus, choosing between the banquette and the chair, sending wedding gifts back after a wedding is called off, refusing to eat at a dinner party, bringing opened food to a dinner party, 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 rude to not pay for your birthday party?
What should you keep in mind when using a urinal?
Is it rude to bump into people when boarding a plane?
What do you do if an older relative is distracting you at work?
How do you get off a crowded bus if you're far away from the doors?
Who should get the banquette and who should get the chair?
The wedding was called off and I already sent a gift...should they send it back?
What do you do if you simply cannot eat something at a dinner party?
Is it OK to bring something that's opened to a dinner party?

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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton

Theme Music: Rob Paravonian

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0:00.0	Hey there it's Nick and it's Leah.
0:02.0	Real quick thing before we get going,
0:03.7	we just want to say thank you
0:05.3	to everybody who came out to see us live
0:07.6	for our very first live show.
0:09.5	It was so unbelievable and I know a lot of you travel from far and wide.
0:14.0	People flew in to New York City just for us, mind-blown.
0:19.0	I still can't even comprehend it and we're so delighted.
0:21.0	I know many of you couldn't make it but you reached out with
0:23.4	lovely supportive messages and it just meant so much to Nick and I. So thank you it
0:28.3	really meant a lot to us and hopefully more live shows in the future.
0:31.7	Ah your support is our whole everything.
0:35.1	So thank you.
0:36.0	And now let's start the show.
0:37.4	Let's get in it.
0:38.4	Hey everybody, it's Nick Leighton, and I'm Leoponema. And we're Leoponema and we had so many great
0:44.6	questions come in from the wilderness amazing questions that we have a bonus
0:48.4	episode so here we go so our first question is am I rude for having an expensive birthday dinner out with several friends?
0:54.6	Is it rude not to pay? I have an upcoming birthday and my friend who booked it said it'll be a fun night out
0:59.8	But I feel a little diva.
1:02.5	So, is this rude?
1:04.4	What's the right thing here?
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