Second Helpings: Demanding Birthday Cake, Putting Time Limits on Meals, Getting Nosy at the Pharmacy, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 33 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 answer listener questions about demanding birthday cake, putting time limits on meals, getting nosy at the pharmacy, 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 ask for birthday cake before the guest of honor blows out the candles?
- Is it OK to be salty for not receiving any thank you for helping at my friend's wedding?
- What is the time limit for someone to finish their meal?
- How do I get people to not send an RSVP to my BBQ invitation?
- Bonkers: Nosy at the pharmacy
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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. 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. Wolves Plus. And now let's start the show. Hey, everybody. It's Nick. And it's Leah. A real quick thing before we get going. We are on a break this |
| 0:38.2 | week. This is our final week of summer vacation. We will be back next week. We will, but we |
| 0:43.2 | will leave you empty hand at this week. So we found the perfect episode from the archives just for you. |
| 0:47.5 | And I would say that this episode has one of our most talked about questions ever. Yes, I still think about it all the time. |
| 0:56.8 | It just comes out of the blue sometimes I'll be thinking about this. |
| 0:59.3 | Me too. |
| 1:00.4 | I also have people randomly DM me about it. |
| 1:04.7 | Also, I'm pretty sure we met this person. |
| 1:08.1 | We did, yes. |
| 1:09.1 | So when we had a live show in D.C., this person showed up. And it was like seeing a celebrity. It was like seeing a celebrity. It was like, it was kind of amazing. Yeah. They say never meet your heroes, but I'm glad I did. Me too. And when I say I'm pretty sure we did, I knew we did. I was just trying to tease it out. I wrote the question. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm both thinking I were like, ah! So that's amazing. And that would be enough. That would be enough for this bonus episode. But then there's all these other amazing questions, too. So get in there. Enjoy. And we'll be back next week with an all new episode. And it's just one week. You will be fine. We are emotionally torn, but you guys are doing okay. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm actually fine. |
| 1:45.7 | But I'll be delighted to bring you an all new episode next week. |
| 1:48.4 | But for now, let's start the show. |
| 1:49.8 | Let's get in it. |
| 1:55.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:56.3 | It's Nick Layton. |
| 1:57.1 | And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 1:58.3 | And we got so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
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