Second Helpings: Gaslighting Bosses, Addressing Postcards, Trashing Swag, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 36 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 soon 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 showing up for parties that aren't happening, addressing postcards to households, trashing promotional swag, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we had your address.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- What do I do about my boss who invited me to a BBQ and then was surprised I showed up?
- When sending postcards, do you have to address them to everyone in a household?
- What is the polite way to decline beverages?
- What do we do about unwanted promotional merchandise we were given?
- How long before a Zoom meeting should I log in? And how long should I wait if someone doesn't show up?
- Vent: Guests who call your apartment an "unacceptable standard of living."
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nick. |
| 0:00.9 | And it's Leah. |
| 0:01.9 | Real quick thing before we get going. |
| 0:03.7 | Did you know that we have a new benefit on Patreon? |
| 0:07.1 | I did know. |
| 0:08.1 | Yes. |
| 0:08.5 | So if you want an ad-free version of our show, you of course can continue signing up for Wolf's Plus exclusively on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:15.7 | But you can now get the same benefit when you join us on Patreon as a moon howler or higher. |
| 0:38.1 | A moon howler. I just want to be a moon howler. I am a moon howler. You are a moonhaller. Yes. Yes. You are the very definition. You're the model moonhauler. Boy, do I moon howl. Also, you're not only getting the ad-free version. You're also getting all of our Patreon content. Oh yeah. I mean, there's tons of bonus content, which you've never seen if you haven't joined us on Patreon. So please either join us |
| 0:42.6 | on Wolves Plus through Apple Podcasts or join us on Patreon. Come Moon Howl. Hey there, it's Nick. |
| 0:49.1 | And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, we are on a summer break. And we're taking a little summer break because we don't want to do seasons because we feel like we'd be gone for too long from you all and we'd miss you too much. |
| 1:01.5 | We would. |
| 1:02.0 | So we just do a few breaks here and there scattered throughout the year. |
| 1:05.5 | A little touch. |
| 1:06.3 | Just a smidge, a smattering, a dusting. |
| 1:09.6 | And so one of those breaks is going to be our summer break, |
| 1:12.9 | which is now. Because happy Independence Day. And we hope everybody's having a great holiday. |
| 1:18.9 | And what is more Independence Day-e than a barbecue, which is one of the questions in this |
| 1:23.8 | very special bonus episode that we pull from the archive just for you. And this barbecue scenario, I think about our letter writer on the regular. |
| 1:33.2 | It will just pop up into my head because I felt so bad for them. |
| 1:37.5 | It was egregious what happened. |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah, my favorite quote from this episode is, do words not mean words. |
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