Second Helpings: Ordering Espresso in Italy, Asking for a Raise, Deflecting Rude Questions, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 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 ordering espresso in Italy, asking for a raise politely, deflecting rude questions, 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: "Dinner for One" and Ordering espresso in Italy
- A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: How to ask for a raise
- QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: What's the best way to respond to rude inquiries that begin with "Can I ask you a question?" How can I decline to give out my phone number to someone who asks for it?
- VENT OR REPENT: Not returning shorts promptly, Trouble eating ramen
- CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Thanks for the free meals, Thanks for a nice lunch
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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. |
| 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 still on a break this week. But we're |
| 0:53.8 | going to be back next week with a brand new episode. |
| 0:57.8 | That's right. But for today, I wanted to actually give you a little bonus, Amo's Boo. |
| 1:02.9 | Special for New Year's Eve. |
| 1:05.5 | Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. |
| 1:07.2 | Right? So this is called Dinner for One. Have you ever heard of this? Is it a movie? It is a short comedy |
| 1:14.6 | that appeared on television. Okay, I knew it was something you watched, so I'm glad that was in my brain somewhere. |
| 1:20.0 | Okay, yes. So it is from the UK, and it's from 1963, and it's black and white. |
| 1:34.4 | And long story short, it was a live show that was then recorded for German television. |
| 1:45.2 | And basically, the plot is that there is this woman, Miss Sophie, and she's 90, and she's invited her four closest friends to dinner, but unfortunately, |
| 1:50.3 | all of her friends have passed away. She's outlived them all. Oh. But what she's done is she's asked her trustee Butler, James, to play all their parts and give toasts as if they were all |
| 1:57.3 | these four friends. And so there's a multi-course dinner that happens, and there are toasts for each course, |
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