Second Helpings: Telling Cooks They're Terrible, Leaving Cash on Tables, Handling Wet Laundry, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 35 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 telling cooks they're terrible, leaving cash on tables in restaurants, handling strangers' wet laundry, 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:
- How do you tell a friend they’re a terrible cook and they shouldn't bother?
- At a restaurant, is it OK to leave cash on the table and then leave?
- What do I do about my family who jumps on FaceTime with other relatives whenever they're over at my house?
- Is it OK to offer to meet someone “halfway” when I live outside of the city?
- Should you put wet laundry that isn't yours in a dryer?
- Aftermath: An awkward Zoom date turns into a marriage
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- "Aedh Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats
- L'Effervescence Restaurant in Tokyo
- Geocaching
- Previous episode that included question about taking things out of the dryer
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CREDITS
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. 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. Real quick thing before we get going, we are on a break this |
| 0:38.0 | week. Yes, we don't want to do seasons, so we're sprinkling in some break weeks here and there. |
| 0:43.3 | But we wouldn't leave you empty hand this week, so we found the perfect episode from the archives |
| 0:47.4 | just for you. I was rereading all the questions in this episode, and I was like, oh, how did we |
| 0:52.2 | tackle this one? So we have a very provocative question about laundry rooms and taking wet clothes that are not |
| 0:58.8 | yours out of a machine. |
| 1:00.8 | And golly. |
| 1:01.7 | It just seems to keep coming up. |
| 1:03.8 | And we've not solved this problem. |
| 1:05.5 | Society, we have not come to some agreement on this. |
| 1:08.0 | Not at all, especially not in my building. |
| 1:09.9 | So we'll be back soon, but now let's start the show. |
| 1:12.6 | Let's get in it. |
| 1:16.7 | Hey, everybody, it's Nick Layton. |
| 1:18.4 | And I'm Leah Bonava. |
| 1:19.4 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 1:22.0 | Aoo! |
| 1:24.3 | That we have a bonus episode. |
| 1:25.6 | So here we go. |
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