Second Helpings: Being Late for Surprise Parties, Sending Provocative Selfies, Lighting Candles, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! This week, Nick and Leah are enjoying a well-deserved break, but they'll be back next week with an all-new episode. In the meantime, here's one of their favorite episodes from the archives in which they tackle being late for surprise parties, sending provocative selfies, lighting candles, 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: Blackening candle wicks
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Using Uber and Lyft
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: What is the best way to handle being late for a surprise party? What do I do about a neighbor who assumes I will always take care of her dog? How can I get my friend to stop sending me provocative selfies?
- VENT OR REPENT: Long-distance moving companies, Holding up the line at supermarkets
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: A very helpful neighbor, Adorable children
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CREDITS
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. 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. |
| 0:21.3 | And you can do that right now in the app. |
| 0:39.1 | So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it. And check it out. Wolves Plus. Wolves Plus. And now let's start the show. Hey, everybody. It's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, it's a holiday, which means we're taking a little break. |
| 0:38.8 | And in case you miss the Labor Day episode, Nick and I decided, because we don't want to do seasons, we can't be away from you for that long, we love you too much, we think about you all the time. So when the post office is closed, we've decided that those are the days we're going to take off. Yeah, it's all about work-life balance, but we cannot leave you empty-handed. We would never! |
| 0:57.4 | So we have one of our favorite episodes, which has one of my favorite amuse booshes. We actually still regularly get screenshots from listeners about, we're not going to spoil it, but about the takeaway from this amoose-bush. Yes, because once you know this, you cannot unknow this. Your life will forever be changed. You will never be able to watch TV or movies or go to someone's house the same way ever again. Also, this episode has one of my favorite nick lines. Oh. And that is, quote, gaslighting is rude. I mean, it's true. |
| 1:28.0 | It is. |
| 1:28.6 | It is. |
| 1:30.7 | So we'll be back next week with an all new episode. |
| 1:33.0 | So don't worry, we'll be back one week. |
| 1:33.7 | You'll be fine. |
| 1:34.4 | I can't wait. |
| 1:35.8 | And now let's start the show. |
| 1:37.0 | Let's start it. |
| 1:46.0 | Do you burn candles at brunch? Do you not tip your Uber driver? |
| 1:48.0 | Do you arrive late for surprise parties? |
| 1:51.0 | Were you raised by wolves? |
| 1:53.0 | Let's find out. |
| 1:54.0 | Here are things that can make it better when we have to live together. |
| 2:01.6 | We can all use a little help. |
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