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Were You Raised By Wolves?

Second Helpings: Crashing White House Weddings, Stealing Flowers From Neighbors, Charging Phones In Public, and More

Were You Raised By Wolves?

Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

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

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 50 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 crashing White House weddings, stealing flowers from neighbors, charging phones in public, 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: Judith Martin and the Nixon Administration
  • A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Repetition
  • QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: Is it OK for my neighbor to take flowers from my yard without my permission? Is it rude for a woman to keep eating after her partner has finished?
  • VENT OR REPENT: Blocking traffic, Charging phones
  • CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: A custom t-shirt, A nice email


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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. Wolves Plus. And now let's start the show. Hey there, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, we are on a break this week. But we will be back next week. We will with an all new episode, of course, but we wouldn't leave you empty handed today. We would never. Who are we? Not people who did that. So we found the perfect episode from the archives just for you. And let me tell you, Nick suggested this one. I re-listened. I was like, oh, this one's got a real doozy in the middle. Oh, that question. Yeah, there was a story about a neighbor who does something and you're like, oh, that's rude. And then there's a twist at the end and you're like, whoa. Whole other level. And I think this episode is from a time before we started labeling these things as bonkers. Because, like, we didn't call this out as a bonkers question. And, like, it is. It's a bonkers. It's so is. Well, this is great that we're bringing it up now so we can relabel it in advance. Yeah. You got a bonkers coming. You got a bonkers. Also, I think this bonkers

1:28.2

might be like top five still. Oh, I've had people bring it up to me in, you know, because people listen, everybody's listening in a different. Right. People are dipping into the catalog at different points. Yeah. So people will message me on Instagram and when they get to this one and go, what? Yeah, no, it's a good.

1:45.3

It's, yeah, I mean,

1:46.5

we still have our work cut out for us. There's also a lovely story about Ms. Manners, my etiquette

1:52.8

hero. And it is so fascinating. Just the life she's lived and the things she's done. And so

1:59.4

there's kind of a fun story about her.

2:01.1

And so there's that. There is that. And then also a friend of mine, I made friends with him

2:07.1

through wolves through the podcast. And then we met in real life when I moved here, came to a

2:12.3

comedy show. This came up in this episode wearing an FSR shirt. Oh, yes. And he actually just came to our Los Angeles live show.

2:19.7

I met him.

2:20.7

Yes.

2:21.1

I saw this T-shirt because he was wearing it to our live show.

2:24.7

And yes, I have to follow up with my attorneys to see if they have done anything about this.

2:31.4

It's so funny because Chris said to me when we took pictures and he goes,

2:35.2

Nick is going to say this isn't legal. And I was like, he for sure will. And then we laughed.

2:39.7

Yeah, no, I love that. We have bootleg merchandise. So we will be back next week with an all new

2:44.0

episode. But for now, let's start the show. Let's get in it.

2:54.0

Do you crash people's weddings?

2:56.5

Do you steal people's flowers?

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