Second Helpings: Faking Wedding Start Times, Asking for Gifts Back, Clipping Nails in Church, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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 faking wedding start times, asking for gifts back, clipping nails in church, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
Have a question for us? Call or text (267) CALL-RBW or visit ask.wyrbw.com
QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- Is it rude to put a fake start time on a wedding invitation?
- What's the polite way to tell someone "when" to stop pouring wine?
- How do I politely decline someone's offer to share a hotel room?
- Is it OK to ask for a gift back after someone dies?
- What do you do if you only remember a dog's name but not the owner's?
- Etiquette Crime Report: Clipping nails in church
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO...
- Support our show through Patreon
- Subscribe and rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts
- Call, text, or email us your questions
- Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
- Visit our official website
- Sign up for our newsletter
- Buy some fabulous official merchandise
CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
ADVERTISE ON OUR SHOW
TRANSCRIPT
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 there, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, we are on a break this week. It's just a shorty-p-torty. It's one week. Shorty-patority. Indeed. But we wouldn't leave you empty hand, so we found the perfect episode from the archives just for you. I honestly, at this point, Nick, can't believe how much archive we have to choose from. Oh, we have an enormous archive. And so it's actually very fun to try to find the right episode for the moment. |
| 0:57.7 | So weird to think about how long we've been together. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.8 | It's my longest relationship, Leah. |
| 1:06.0 | And this episode is great. |
| 1:07.4 | One of the questions is, is it okay to ask for a gift back after someone dies? |
| 1:12.3 | And this question has our shortest answer ever. Yeah, there's just like no conversation. |
| 1:16.1 | And like, spoiler alert, now. Now. It's actually, I think the other one that we did that with |
| 1:22.5 | was when they asked if there was a polite way to tell somebody's son's girlfriends to wear a bra. That is probably the shortest. Yes. Where we're just like, No. Next question. Yeah, this I think maybe have been a full sentence or two. And then another great question of this episode is, what do you do if you remember somebody's dog's name, but not their owners? Which is, I think, the life at least 50% of us are living. Yeah, for sure. So we'll be back next week with an all new episode. It's going to be so fresh, so fresh, so fresh, fresh, fresh. It will. Is that too much, Nick? I mean, that's the kind of energy we have after a week off. You know what I'm saying? Yes, that's true. That's the post-vacation energy we're giving. Absolutely. So look forward to that. |
| 2:06.8 | But now, that's true. That's the post-vacation energy we're giving. Absolutely. So look forward to that. But now, let's start the show. Let's get in it. |
| 2:14.6 | Hey, everybody. It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonima. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. Ow! |
| 2:19.7 | That we have a bonus episode. |
| 2:20.7 | So here we go. |
| 2:22.4 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 2:25.4 | I'm attending a wedding of a close coworker. |
| 2:29.8 | The invitation says that the festivities begin at 3.30 p.m. |
| 2:31.7 | It is now the day before the wedding, |
| 2:34.5 | and I just received a text message from the bride and groom, saying that even though their invitation has a 3.30 start time, they are accounting |
| 2:39.6 | for members of their family who are notoriously late in showing up to events up to an hour |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

