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Were You Raised By Wolves?

Second Helpings: Tipping at the Holidays, Ordering Too Much at Drive-Thrus, Begging for Gifts, and More

Were You Raised By Wolves?

Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 43 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 tackle tipping at the holidays, ordering too much at drive-thru windows, begging people to buy you presents, 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: Circumambulation at a Buddhist temple
  • A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE: Christmas Tipping
  • QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS: How to respond to unsolicited requests for presents? Should my children have done more to acknowledge our big wedding anniversary? Is there such thing as "too large" an order for a drive-thru?
  • VENT OR REPENT: Intentionally splashed, Interrupting numbers
  • CORDIALS OF KINDNESS: Birthday presents, Best wishes from China


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CREDITS

Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton

Theme Music: Rob Paravonian


TRANSCRIPT

Episode 64

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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 holiday

0:38.2

break. I am in Maine. And I'm in California. But we don't want to leave you empty handed. Of course,

0:44.4

we could never do that. So we found the perfect episode from the archives just for you. It

0:49.2

discusses holiday tipping, which we get so many questions about. Yes, it is a fraught topic. Fraught. And we talk

0:55.9

about drive-thrus. Which is very exciting because when we originally did this question,

1:00.0

I was in New York and I had limited drive-through experience. But now I'm in Los Angeles and I

1:06.3

can't get enough of a drive-thru. I mean, it is convenient. It's also very exciting. Is it?

1:12.4

Yes. I have so much fun. Okay. Well, your bar is very low. And what I like about this episode, too,

1:17.0

is that you tell a story about being splashed in a dirty New York City Street. And I had forgotten

1:21.9

about that because I was recently telling a story about being splashed in Amsterdam by cheesy

1:27.2

bleach water.

1:28.1

And I had forgotten that we have this in common.

1:30.2

That moment when the splash hits you, oh.

1:33.4

Oh, it's a wave of all the emotions.

1:36.5

Disgust.

1:37.3

Yes.

1:37.9

Terror. Confusion.

1:40.1

Rage.

1:40.7

Abject fear.

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