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Today we're diving into a topic that's often overlooked but always relevant, etiquette and manners.  Most of us learn these as we grow up but given all the cultural and technological changes that modern society has experienced it's not always easy to know the best practises to adopt. Here to help navigate these changes I'm joined by Thomas Farley. Based in New York,  Thomas is known as 'Mr Manners' and is America's trusted etiquette expert frequently appearing on national TV and working with clients such as the Walt Disney company, American Express, the  US Army and many more.Thomas's links:https://mister-manners.com/https://www.instagram.com/MisterManners/https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfarley/Connect with Undercurrent Stories:   https://www.undercurrentstories.com/ https://www.instagram.com/undercurrentstories/ https://www.facebook.com/undercurrentstoriesIntro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Bob Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

In an age where a lot of formalized decorum has vanished, the holidays are still a time with rules, traditions, and unspoken expectations. It's also a time of heightened social interactions and increased opportunities to demonstrate warmth, hospitality, and all-around gentlemanly politeness.  Here to help us navigate the many scenarios for practicing good etiquette that the holidays present is Thomas Farley, aka Mr. Manners. Today on the show, Thomas shares the neglected aspects of flying etiquette, how to be a non-annoying houseguest, the paradoxes of party arrival punctuality, whether a dinner party host should accommodate the special dietary restrictions of guests, how to get lingering guests out of your home after a party, how to best navigate an office holiday party, the rules of regifting, guidelines for holiday tipping, and much more.Resources Related to the PodcastThomas' previous appearance on the AoM podcast: Episode #897 — Answers to the FAQ of Modern EtiquetteAoM Article: How to be the Perfect HouseguestAoM Article: How to Be a Gracious HostAoM Article: How to Be the Ultimate Party HostAoM Article: A Gentleman Never Arrives Empty-HandedEsquire's Handbook for Hosts: A Time-Honored Guide to the Perfect PartyThomas' TEDx talk on tipping cultureSinbad's bit about people ordering at McDonald'sConnect With Thomas FarleyThomas' websiteThomas on IGThomas on X

Tommy spends some time going over holiday etiquette with Mister Manners, Thomas Farley

Talking with our friend Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, about office etiquette

Tommy talks with Thomas Farley, Mister Manners, an etiquette expert and columnist

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Tommy talks to Thomas Farley, Mister Manners, an etiquette expert and columnist

PMP 2.05.24 Guest Thomas FarleyAll things Poor Man's Podcast:https://linktr.ee/Poormanspodcast

Tommy talks with Mister Manners himself, Thomas Farley, an etiquette expert and columnist

Tommy talks to Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, an etiquette expert and columnist

The charge to be well-mannered, to treat others with civility, kindness, and respect, is perennial. But the rules for how to carry those manners into action, the rules of good etiquette, change over time.Given all the cultural and technological changes modern society has experienced, it's not always easy to know the best practices for a contemporary gentleman. Here to offer some guidance on that front is Thomas Farley, aka, Mr. Manners. Today on the show, Thomas offers some answers to the frequently asked questions around modern etiquette, including when to send a handwritten thank you note, whether "no problem" is an appropriate response to "thank you," if it's okay to ghost someone, how to deal with our ever proliferating and out-of-control tipping culture, whether it's okay to exclude kids from your wedding, if you should still open a door for a woman, and more.Resources Related to the Podcast Extensive Manners and Etiquette ArchivesHow Manners Made the WorldThe Importance of Good MannersHow to Acquire Good MannersThe Art of Thank You Note WritingThe Unclassified Laws of EtiquetteHow to Accept a Compliment With ClassThe Ins and Outs of Opening a Door for a WomanA Primer on Wedding EtiquetteHow to Tame the Timing Anxiety Around TextingPodcast #718: How to Use Digital Body Language to Build Trust and ConnectionPodcast #162: Digital Manners & Etiquette For the Modern ManPodcast #422: Men & Manners — Tipping, Emojis, and Much MoreConnect With Thomas FarleyThomas' website

Chris, Cheech, and Danii are back at 565 Live for another episode of Poor Man's Podcast. This week we're joined by guest Thomas Farley.  Thomas has a hilarious meme page @huev0srancher0s on Instagram and is always a good conversation. The gang each taste and review a beer from a local brewery.  Liz from Stuff to Do in Pittsburgh tells you about the best events going on around Pittsburgh this week and weekend.  Some of the topics discussed during the show are: Back to the Future Movies with excessive sequels (Rocky, Fast and Furious) Sheep Raider and favorite childhood games Making crack on Drugs Inc. Cheech on drums Memes Drag shows Conspiracy theories Time travel Medication shortage Mormons Tang Stand up on mushrooms in Amsterdam Radiators Bellevue Wendy's Huckleberries Philadelphia accent Cheech the yinzer South side rap video Filming music videos And The New News with Danii Kaufman All things Poor Man's Podcasthttps://linktr.ee/PoormanspodcastStuff to Do in Pittsburgh's Weekend Guidehttps://www.unation.com/stuff-to-do/things-to-do-in-pittsburgh-weekend-guide/

This week we are coming to you live from Kelly's Riverside Saloon in Bridgewater.  Chris, Chey, and Cheech are joined by friend of the show Doug Carpenter and all around funny guy Thomas Farley (@huev0srancher0s). They begin the show trading stories from Kelly's and some of their drunk adventures. Chris rants about Harley Davidson and minutes before a biker gang walks in.  Following that they play a game where they have to debate crowd suggested topics.  In the second half, we play a game with audience members Dan and Scott for a special prize. Be sure to download the audio podcast for a bonus interview with comedian Joey Purse.All things Poor Man's Podcasthttps://linktr.ee/Poormanspodcasthttp://poormanspod.podomatic.net/Poor Man's Podcast Merchhttps://poormanspodcast.secure-decora...Kelly'shttps://kellys-pub.com

This week we are coming to you live from Kelly's Riverside Saloon in Bridgewater.  Chris, Chey, and Cheech are joined by friend of the show Doug Carpenter and all around funny guy Thomas Farley (@huev0srancher0s). They begin the show trading stories from Kelly's and some of their drunk adventures. Chris rants about Harley Davidson and minutes before a biker gang walks in.  Following that they play a game where they have to debate crowd suggested topics.  In the second half, we play a game with audience members Dan and Scott for a special prize. Be sure to download the audio podcast for a bonus interview with comedian Joey Purse.All things Poor Man's Podcasthttps://linktr.ee/Poormanspodcasthttp://poormanspod.podomatic.net/Poor Man's Podcast Merch:https://poormanspodcast.secure-decoration.com/settings?gld=1Kelly'shttps://kellys-pub.com

I count myself lucky to live in the relative calm of the countryside, a safe distance away from the chaos and claustrophobia of city life. 我认为自己很幸运能够生活在相对平静的乡村，远离城市生活的混乱和幽闭恐惧症。However, I have to venture into the urban jungle every day to work and it's then that I realise how rude city dwellers can be.然而，我每天都必须冒险进入城市丛林工作，那时我才意识到城市居民是多么粗鲁。Maybe I'm being unfair. Not everyone comes from the city – many of us commute from somewhere else and, together with a large number of tourists, we are all squeezed into this small space – so it's no surprise that we get irritable and hot under the collar.也许我不公平。不是每个人都来自城市——我们中的许多人从其他地方通勤，再加上大量的游客，我们都被挤在这个狭小的空间里——所以我们容易烦躁和热火朝天也就不足为奇了。Competing for a space on the Tube train or bus is only one of the reasons that makes us grumpy. 在地铁或公共汽车上争夺空间只是让我们脾气暴躁的原因之一。Our rush to get into the office and home again means we have no time to make conversation with other people: we are driven by efficiency. 我们急于再次进入办公室和家意味着我们没有时间与其他人交谈：我们被效率驱动。Thomas Farley, writer and broadcaster explains that, "We're in a rush, we're off to a meeting, to a luncheon… and I don't think it's a bad thing, I just think we need to be mindful that it's not a deliberate disregard or somebody's trying to be rude on purpose."作家兼广播员托马斯法利解释说：“我们很匆忙，我们要去开会，去吃午饭……我不认为这是一件坏事，我只是认为我们需要注意这是不是故意无视或有人故意粗鲁。” So we are not trying to be rude, we just have something important on our mind to think about.因此，我们并不想变得粗鲁，我们只是想着一些重要的事情。Cities can, however, be scary places – especially if you're not used to them and this can make us reluctant to start a conversation. 然而，城市可能是可怕的地方——尤其是如果你不习惯它们，这会让我们不愿意开始对话。We might be hyper-vigilant thinking that the person next to us is going to kill us or worse still, get into conversation with us! Dr Elle Boag, a social psychologist at Birmingham City University, agrees that people can view cities as threatening places. 我们可能会高度警惕地认为我们旁边的人会杀了我们，或者更糟的是，与我们交谈！伯明翰城市大学的社会心理学家 Elle Boag 博士同意人们可以将城市视为具有威胁性的地方。She says, "We're persistently looking for potential threats around us, and this then makes us not give eye contact, this will reduce the likelihood that anybody will say hello." 她说，“我们一直在寻找我们周围的潜在威胁，这让我们不再进行眼神交流，这将减少任何人打招呼的可能性。”She calls this our 'protective mechanism' which is another way that makes us appear antisocial.她称这是我们的“保护机制”，这是另一种使我们显得反社会的方式。Perhaps if we did start talking more to each other we may realise that our fellow train or bus passenger is actually quite normal with the same concerns and that if you have to grin and bear the pressures of city life, at least you can do it together. 或许如果我们真的开始更多地交谈，我们可能会意识到我们的火车或公共汽车乘客实际上是很正常的，有同样的担忧，如果你不得不笑着承受城市生活的压力，至少你们可以一起做.In London, a group called 'Talk to me London' is trying to encourage just that. 在伦敦，一个名为“Talk to me London”的组织正试图鼓励这种做法。They have created 'Tube Chat' badges which you can wear to show you're happy to talk to a stranger.他们创造了“Tube Chat”徽章，您可以佩戴它来表明您很乐意与陌生人交谈。But of course, you may choose to live in the city in order to be anonymous – to blend in with the crowd – and not have to talk to people! 但是，当然，您可以选择住在城里以保持匿名——融入人群——而不必与人交谈！Maybe that's the benefit of living in the city: you can be who you like – and as rude as you like. 也许这就是住在城市的好处：你可以成为你喜欢的人——你可以随心所欲地粗鲁。Do you think people in your city seem to be rude?你认为你所在城市的人似乎很粗鲁吗？词汇表claustrophobia 幽闭恐惧症urban jungle “城市丛林”，都市生活中令人感到不快的部分city dweller 城市居民irritable 烦躁的hot under the collar 恼火的，窘迫的grumpy 易怒的，脾气不好的disregard 漠视reluctant 不情愿的hyper-vigilant 异常警惕的，高度警觉的persistently 执意地eye contact 目光接触，眼神交流antisocial 不合群的，不喜社交的grin and bear 苦笑着忍受，忍气吞声Tube Chat “地铁聊天”活动anonymous 匿名的

Thomas Farley is the former President of the New York Stock Exchange and is the Incoming CEO of Bullish. In this conversation, we discuss Tom deciding to transition to the Crypto industry, Exchange Infrastructure, Bitcoin, Regulation, Liquidity Pools, and Institutional Adoption. ======================= LMAX Digital - the market-leading solution for institutional crypto trading & custodial services - offers clients a regulated, transparent and secure trading environment, together with the deepest pool of crypto liquidity. LMAX Digital is also a primary price discovery venue, streaming real-time market data to the industry's leading analytics platforms. LMAX Digital - secure, liquid, trusted. Learn more at LMAXdigital.com/pomp ======================= The Pod Pro Cover by Eight Sleep is the most advanced solution on the market for thermoregulation. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking. Go to https://www.eightsleep.com/Pomp to check out the Pod Pro Cover and save $150 at checkout. Eight Sleep currently ships within the USA, Canada, and the UK. ======================= The world's 2nd largest crypto exchange, OKEx, has dropped the "E" to become OKX, reflecting its evolution from a traditional crypto exchange to a comprehensive, cross-platform crypto services provider. With OKX's decentralized platform and Web3 wallet, MetaX, you have full custody over your crypto. Explore DeFi, NFTs and play-to-earning gaming with the world's most powerful crypto exchange. Visit OKX.com to learn more. =======================

Before the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus made businesses reconsider plans to return to their workplaces, people who have had the luxury of being able to work at home were beginning to consider the upside and downside of returning to in-person employment. There's no question that the world has changed a lot in the nearly two years since since the pandemic began. If and when folks do return to the workplace, have the rules for office etiquette changed too? Tom's first guest today is Thomas P. Farley, an etiquette expert who writes a syndicated column called “Ask Mister Manners,” and who appears in the media and consults with companies about workplace etiquette. Thomas Farley joins us on Zoom from New York City. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Florida Supreme Court has partnered with the Bar to declare November “Legal Professionalism Month” and is asking members to rededicate themselves to the highest ideals of professionalism and civility in all they do.  To close out the month and as reference going forward, we thought we'd discuss how to navigate the new normal as it pertains to our virtual or socially distanced workplace interactions with colleagues and clients. In today's episode hosts Christine Bilbrey and Karla Eckardt are joined by Mr. Manners himself, Thomas Farley, to discuss all our modern professional etiquette dilemmas.Thomas P. Farley is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, syndicated columnist, and TV commentator. His clients have included the United States Department of Commerce, the Estée Lauder Companies, JPMorgan Chase, the Walt Disney Corporation, Bank of America, the American Automobile Association (AAA), the U.S. Army, Viacom, Toyota, and UPS. Thomas is a regular and popular guest on the NBC Today show, where he fields questions on modern-day manners issues. In 2017, he debuted “Manners on the Move,” a special multi-part Today show series that examined incivility in America. His syndicated weekly column, “Ask Mister Manners,” appears in Tribune publications throughout the United States. His insights appear regularly in other media as well, including the Rachael Ray show, Inside Edition, Dr. Oz, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wired and Money magazines, USA Today, CNN, VH1, and ABC. Thomas is a graduate of New York's Fordham University. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and he edited the anthology “Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces.”This podcast has been approved by The Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Department for 1 hour of General CLE credit including 1 hour of Professionalism CLE credit. Course #5680.REFERENCED RESOURCES:Thomas P. Farley - Mister MannersWorkshopsAsk Mr. MannersThe Florida Bar's Henry Latimer Center for ProfessionalismLegal Professionalism in the Electronic AgeBest Practices for Professional Electronic Communication

The gang is joined by meme creator and all around funny man Thomas Farley ( huev0srancher0s ). We discuss the film industry and his commercials as well as his most hated movie characters. Chey reviews the Butler Fair and Egghead previews Bloomfield's Little Italy Days. Thanks for listening. Please subscribe and share!

Philadelphia discovers the cremated remains of MOVE bombing victims after a city health official's resignation.

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley resigns over cremating and disposing MOVE victims remains without telling their families.

Dr. Thomas Farley, Health Commissioner of Philadelphia, stops by The Pastor's Office to talk about the city's COVID-19 vaccine rollout and plans to innoculate the city's 1.3 million adults.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may have seen posts on Facebook from people announcing a life event such as an anniversary or a birthday, and also asking everyone to send them money via Cash App. WWJ's Brooke Allen spoke with Thomas Farley, a-k-a Mister Manners. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Wondering whether they're safe or when you can get one? What about the new more infectious version of COVID-19. Do we need to worry? Those are just some of the questions I posed to Philadelphia's Commissioner of Health Thomas Farley and I think you'll be interested in what he has to sayFirst there's a hard deadline coming up to sign up for health care and we have a great resource to help you navigate when it comes to choosing health insurance. I speak with Zach Sherman, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Insurance Exchange which is a one stop shop for not only finding health insurance but also linking customers to financial assistance that can lower monthly payments and out of pocket expenses. www.pennie.com

Do you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Wondering whether they're safe or when you can get one? What about the new more infectious version of COVID-19. Do we need to worry? Those are just some of the questions I posed to Philadelphia's Commissioner of Health Thomas Farley and I think you'll be interested in what he has to sayFirst there's a hard deadline coming up to sign up for health care and we have a great resource to help you navigate when it comes to choosing health insurance. I speak with Zach Sherman, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Insurance Exchange which is a one stop shop for not only finding health insurance but also linking customers to financial assistance that can lower monthly payments and out of pocket expenses. www.pennie.com

Prior to Thanksgiving, the city of Philadelphia announced new COVID-19 restrictions to last for six weeks until January 1—some of the strictest recommendations the country has seen since the spring. Health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley talks with Stephanie Desmon about these targeted restrictions the city hopes will prevent the current surge from overwhelming hospitals or killing large numbers of people, what contact tracing data are saying about how and where most people are getting infected, and why there’s more pushback now even though cases are exponentially higher than they were in the spring.

Philadelphia’s annual Christmas Village is open once again this year in Love Park through Christmas Eve. KYW Newsradio’s Hadas Kuznits speaks with Tobias Fischer about what to eat and what Covid precautions they’re taking. In this podcast though, she also includes comments from Philadelphia health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney who were asked this week about allowing this event to go on, albeit with restrictions, while other outdoor catering events have been subject to even more severe Covid regulations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Kelly describes the joy on the streets of New York City when it is announced that Joe Biden has won the electoral count of the 2020 election. Recorded Before The Election results: Thomas Farley of the What Manners Most podcast mediates a dispute between Tom Kelly and his friend Justin over a controversial appetizer order at a birthday dinner.  Before that and perhaps less controversial, Tom shares his opinions on the 2020 election with Chris Abbate of the Abbate Entertainment Group. - Thomas Farley’s What Manners Most Podcast Aripeka Stone Claw Crab Company:   Chris Abbate of the Abbate Entertainment Group  Opus Steak House

Dr. Thomas Farley spent much of his adult life preparing for this moment: leading a large US city through a worldwide pandemic. The health commissioner of Philadelphia is a North Jersey native, a pediatrician and an epidemiologist with a deep background in studying infectious diseases, particularly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Farley and I spoke via Zoom and went back to those early days of the pandemic to discuss what worked, what didn't and whether it was tough to get people on board early on. He also offers optimism about an end to the pandemic and the chance of developing an effective vaccine. Recorded August 28, 2020. In this podcast: Dr. Farley addresses why he seems so calm despite the chaotic nature a pandemic can bring (1:58), offers thoughts on how some people form opinions not based on science and how some even shun advice from medical professionals (2:51), talks about his time with the CDC, what he learned and how it prepared him for this job (3:32), if he feared "the big one" when it came to a fast-spreading virus (4:45), we talk about his comments on February 25, 2020, the day before the United States had its first official case of "local transmission" of the coronavirus (5:45), if he received pushback from his early, stern comments and warnings (6:31), what the most important decision was after Philadelphia saw its first official cases in March (7:07), what he would have done differently with nursing homes, which saw half of the overall deaths early on (8:04), how states that reopened too early impacted Philadelphia (9:30), handling the H1N1 pandemic as health commissioner in New York City (10:50), his reaction to comments from some people that suggest older people are "expendable" when getting life back to normal (12:27), the extended benefits we might see from the social distancing, the mask wearing and better hygiene and the upcoming flu season (14:05) what our chances are in developing treatments or vaccines for COVID-19 (15:25), how he will handle an announcement that a vaccine has been developed (16:12), if he thinks the coronavirus will become endemic in the US (17:25), our speed round begins (18:47), we discuss the economic impact of the shutdown orders (19:47), what Dr. Farley thinks about shaking hands in the future (20:50), if he's received hate mail/email/social media messages (22:10), his vision of the future for Philadelphia, a city hit hard by the pandemic and the shutdowns (22:50), how we might handle the next pandemic (24:53), using South Korea as a model, given its experience with SARS ahead of COVID-19 (24:48), if we will be wearing masks forever (25:19), why he thinks it's still important to focus on general health matters like smoking, salt intake and obesity (25:41), if he is hopeful about the NFL starting its season in September (27:12).

Are we heading toward herd immunity? That’s what Trump’s new COVID-19 “medical advisor” is pushing. Fox News commentator, Radiologist Scott Atlas, has been long pushing herd immunity as a strategy. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, that would mean that about 65% of Americans would need to contract the virus. Assuming a fatality rate of 1%, that would mean over 2 million people in the U.S. will die.  Good thing Trump’s CDC just told the states to get ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by November 1.  Trump visits Kenosha, Wisconsin in order to stir the pot and fan the flames of racism and hate.  Trump tells crowds in North Carolina to vote twice. When pressed on it, he doubled down. Then he heading to Latrobe, PA to say the same thing.  Biden’s lead in new Monmouth University poll tightens to only 4 points, 49-45. The previous version of the poll released in July had Biden with a 13 point lead, 53-40.  Hey, did you see the new Biden speech? Law and Order? Really? Close to 1.8 million Pennsylvanians are at risk of eviction since Governor Wolf refused to extend the moratorium and since Republicans haven’t done a thing to protect renters during this time.  Pennsylvania House and Senate Republicans came back early this week to push Donald Trump’s Voter Suppression agenda through the Assembly.  House Bill 2626 seeks to “reform” the recently passed Act 77 by removing county drop boxes and allow out of county white nationalists to “watch over the polls” and intimidate black and brown voters. If suppressing the vote isn’t your thing, well, then, maybe racism is.  This week Cumberland County District Attorney Skip Ebert made some pretty racist comments on a thread about Jacob Blake being shot in the back 7 times AND Congressman Scott Perry took the time to explain that “systemic racism” isn’t really a thing. The fallout from these racist incidents went far and wide.  The Cumberland County Republicans, the York County Republicans, Skip Ebert, and Scott Perry all doubled-down on their racism.   But there is one shining light.  The former chair of the York Republican Party posted on Facebook that he and his wife made max contributions to Eugene DePasquale over Scott Perry’s racism.  The former county chair explained that he is in a biracial marriage and this was the first time he has ever donated to a Democrat.   Naturally, the current York Republican chair - and disgraced former State Senator - Jeff Piccolla called the old party chair “a traitor.” Outlier PASSHE universities are seeing spikes in cases and are being forced to curb their bravado. Bloomsburg University shuts down in-person classes after cases of COVID-19 explode. Lock Haven University hit the pause button on in-person classes for at least two weeks after a spike in cases. And, Kutztown University, ah, yes, Kutztown University, has seen cases at least triple this week.  Temple University also hit the two-week pause button on in-person classes after at least 103 new cases were reported over the weekend. On Tuesday, Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley told Temple students, "You should assume that anyone around you is infected," Farley said Tuesday, addressing Temple students. "Stay in your room or stay in your apartment unless you have to go out for essential errands. Wear a mask when you're around anyone else. Otherwise, this outbreak could grow quickly, and it could threaten the rest of the campus and the rest of the city." Just as student activists with the Student Coalition for Change have been warning, city officials are now concerns that Temple will be ground zero for a community outbreak.  ESU Food Service workers win their union election. (student solidarity committee, Kyle) Sean cooks butt and gets a new kitchen cart. Kevin has near Internet breakdown. Beer recs for Free Will Brewing and Levante.

So, what’s the deal with high fructose corn syrup? People talk about it a lot. Some say it is horrible for your health while others claim it is fine. But do you know what it actually is? Without stepping into the controversy, this episode begins with an explanation of what it is exactly and how it is different than regular corn syrup or sugar for that matter. http://www.finecooking.com/item/24865/corn-syrup-vs-high-fructose-corn-syrup Why do you do the things you do? Everything you do has a reason. You go to school to learn and you go to the doctor get healthy – right? Well, what if the reason you THINK you do things is not the real reason? I want you to listen to Robin Hanson an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the book, The Elephant in the Brain (http://amzn.to/2F4Vvk8). He explains that often the reason we THINK we do things is not the reason at all – and why it is important to understand all of this. I bet you’ve wondered how good a memory your dog or cat has. How long do they remember an event or a command or the last time you played with them? Listen and I think the answer will surprise you. https://www.su.se/english/research/research-news/new-findings-on-animal-memory-1.222566 You might think etiquette is kind of an old-fashioned concept with little relevance in the 21st century. But you’d be wrong to think that. Etiquette is as valid today as ever – maybe more so. Thomas Farley, editor of Modern Manners: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Social Graces (http://amzn.to/2F1x), answers some common etiquette questions people have about social media, weddings, cellphones and more. His website is www.whatmannersmost.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final episode of Season 1, we discuss how professional baseball and basketball are making their long-awaited returns—albeit to empty stadiums and arenas. For insights, Mister Manners speaks with sports aficionado Daina Falk (also known as "The Hungry Fan") about what pro ball will look like in this new normal as well as the role competitive sports plays in nurturing the national psyche.Subscribe now so you won't miss a single episode of "What Manners Most" as we return for Season 2 in September 2020.For more on Daina:Website: https://www.hungryfan.com/Newsletter: https://www.hungryfan.com/newsletter/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehungryfan/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHungryFan/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehungryfanAlso Mentioned in this Episode"Let's Go, Mets Go" by Shelly Palmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N4VIXM1RJkConan O'Brien and Andy Richter Talk Korean Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbayaqG9u0Marble League: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoELkuqx8Ug"With No Fans and New Safety Protocols, Baseball in 2020 is Ultimate War of Words" by Bob Nightengale, USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/07/25/cubs-brewers-rivalry-trash-talk/5512272002/For more on Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, please visit www.mister-manners.com and follow the show @WhatMannersMost on Instagram and @MisterManners on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Thanks so much to "What Manners Most" producer Martin Burgess. Follow Martin @MartinXBurgess on Instagram.Stay healthy, safe and mannerly, everyone, and see you in September for Season 2! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of the many repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic has been the drastic financial impact it's had on millions of Americans and billions of others around the globe. What lessons will we learn from a worldwide lockdown that led us to the economic brink? How will we be smarter and shrewder about our finances and careers going forward?For answers to that, Thomas turns to his friend Farnoosh Torabi, author, podcaster and commentator on all things money-related. Her insights provide both a dose of reality and a dash of hope as we navigate the continued fallout from the shutdowns.For more on Farnoosh, visit here:Website: https://farnoosh.tv/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarnooshTorabiInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/farnooshtorabi/Podcast: https://podcast.farnoosh.tv/Also Mentioned in this Episode"The Gold Diggers' Song" ("We're In the Money") as performed by Rosemary Clooney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBCbRj_F8NEYou Deserve a Break Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqRH8wEsaVQFor more on Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, please visit www.mister-manners.com and follow the show @WhatMannersMost on Instagram and @MisterManners on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Thanks so much to "What Manners Most" producer Martin Burgess. Follow Martin @MartinXBurgess on Instagram.Stay healthy, safe and mannerly, everyone! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you decided where you'll be going on vacation this summer? Will you be going anywhere at all? For the latest advice on how Americans are choosing (and not choosing) to spend their holiday, we turned to Pauline Frommer, of the famed Frommer travel family and publisher of the highly respected Frommer's travel guides.From which airlines to fly on (and which ones to avoid) to what's happening with cruises, and from where in Europe you can still travel without restriction to which destinations Pauline recommends once the pandemic is safely in the rear-view mirror, this is an episode that will help get you on your way. And if a staycation is the only "trip" in your future for now, Pauline also recommends a slew of virtual excursions that may prove to be the next best thing to being there.For more on Pauline, visit here:Website: https://www.frommers.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrommersTravelGuidesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/frommers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/frommersPodcasts: https://www.frommers.com/podcastAlso Mentioned in this EpisodeTWA ad: https://youtu.be/v6rZQdzQevsPan Am ad:https://youtu.be/bKqQgNZylLwNational Lampoon's Vacation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085995/For more on Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, please visit www.mister-manners.com and follow him @MisterManners on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Thanks so much to "What Manners Most" producer Martin Burgess. Follow Martin @MartinXBurgess on Instagram.Stay healthy, safe and mannerly, everyone! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In conversation with New York-based wedding planner Mikie Russo, a man who has overseen wedding soirées for celebrities including NSYNC member Joey Fatone; Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers; and Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec, Mister Manners explores the fascinating world of coordinating nuptials.Hear Mikie's thoughts on how to make couples and their families happy, along with his strategy for handling the inevitable facets of the special day that go wrong.And yet, a wedding program with a typo or a centerpiece with wilty flowers are child's play at a time when couples getting married are hanging on every bit of news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a fair bet that planning a wedding has never been this challenging. There are so many unknowns in the mix that a day meant to be among the most joyous any of us ever experience has become a source of confusion and frustration. Tune in for the advice Mikie has been giving to his clients—all the while bearing in mind the inevitable etiquette issues associated with both postponing and not postponing.For more on Mikie, visit here:Website: https://www.michaelrussoevents.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRussoEventsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikierusso/Also Mentioned in this EpisodeFather of the Bride (1950): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042451/Father of the Bride (1991): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101862/The Wedding Planner (2001): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209475/For more on Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, please visit www.mister-manners.com and follow him @MisterManners on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Thanks so much to "What Manners Most" producer Martin Burgess. Follow Martin @MartinXBurgess on Instagram.Stay healthy, safe and mannerly, everyone! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As cities and countries around the world settle into the realm of a "new normal" that includes working from home, schooling from home and in general seeing a whole lot more of our immediate families than most of us are accustomed to, Mister Manners, Thomas Farley, interviews relationship expert Andrea Syrtash.Among the issues they explore in this episode include how to keep the peace at home--and how to keep the romance alive, too--along with ways that those who are living alone can keep in contact with their community.If you have questions for Thomas or suggestions for future segments, please drop Thomas a line on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or via his website.Please consider following @AndreaSyrtash on social media as well, and check out her excellent books, which can be found on her website.Thanks, as always, to producer Martin Burgess. Follow Martin on Instagram.And thanks to you for listening, subscribing and sharing--and for putting a priority on What Manners Most. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

*Re Broadcast from 2017 Cloverleaf Radio's host The Host with the Most Jimmy Falcon welcomes Actor/Singer/Stand-Up Comedian/Composer/Production Designer, Kevin Farley! Farley was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Mary Anne (née Crosby), a homemaker, and Thomas Farley, who owned an oil company, Scotch Oil. He is the younger brother of Chris Farley and older brother of actor John P. Farley. Like his brother Chris, Kevin Farley attended and graduated from Marquette University. Farley portrayed Doug Linus in the fictional boy band 2ge+her. He has appeared alongside many of Chris Farley's Saturday Night Live castmates, such as David Spade and Adam Sandler. He was credited in Tommy Boy and Black Sheep as Bouncer, then in Beverly Hills Ninja as Police. He also appeared in The Waterboy and in Dirty Work as an employee of a cinema. He played a cop in the 2001 film Joe Dirt starring David Spade. In 2005, Farley appeared in the Lifehouse video for the band's single "Blind". He portrayed a neglectful father who brings different women home, where he lives with his daughter, played by Tina Majorino. Farley appeared on the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm as an exterminator in the episode "The Rat Dog". Farley was also in a Dairy Queen commercial advertising the Kit Kat Blizzard, commercials for Hertz Rent-A-Car, and portrayed Felix the limo driver on Disney's That's So Raven. He also starred in the parody movie An American Carol with Kelsey Grammer and Jon Voight in 2008. Farley appeared on The View (September 30, 2008) to promote the movie. In 2007, Farley was featured in the web serial Two Guys Drinking at a Bar. Farley appeared at the 2008 Republican National Convention, and during an interview with 97.1 FM Talk's Jamie Allman he identified his politics as mostly conservative. Farley appeared as the kidnapped beer truck driver in the 2010 music video for "This Afternoon" by Nickelback. In May 2010, Farley appeared as a guest on Tom Green's House Tonight where he performed a section of his new stand-up routine. Farley directed the film Hollywood & Wine, which was released in 2011. On May 9, 2013, Farley was a featured guest for Sirius/XM radio on the Jason Ellis Show. In 2013, Paranormal Movie, a spoof film of Paranormal Activity, was released. Farley directed and also co-stars in the film alongside Carly Craig, Nicky Whelan, William Katt, Tom Sizemore, Maria Menounos, his brother John P. Farley, Kevin Sorbo, Quinton Aaron, Deep Roy, and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts. The same year, he also starred in an episode of Rules of Engagement. In 2015, Farley appeared in the documentary I Am Chris Farley alongside his brother John and many other stars such as Adam Sandler and Dan Aykroyd which documented the life of his brother Chris Farley. He also filmed independent film Crowning Jules[9] in South Bend, Indiana.[10] In 2015, Farley, along with Jaleel White & Pauly Shore, have appeared on the series Hawaii Five-0 in the Season 5 episode "Hoʻamoano" "Chasing Yesterday" on April 24, 2015. In 2016, he made a guest appearance as 'Turkey' in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "The Gang Hits the Slopes. " He also made a guest appearance as the NRA card-carrying, gun-toting protester, 'Eric,' in the Superstore episode, "Guns, Pills and Birds". In 2017 Farley appeared in the Rascal Flatts music video as Earl, for their new song "Yours If You Want It" alongside Kristy Swanson --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jianetwork/support

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Many policies have been proposed and enacted to help improve public health by changing their diet and preventing obesity. Among the most prominent, our efforts to reduce consumption of sugary beverages, ranging from programs that educate consumers about risks to the most dramatic approach: taxing such beverages. Evaluating these other policies is critical and understanding how governments can best move ahead. Leading the charge was such evaluation as our guest today on the Leading Voices in Food Dr. Christina Roberto from the University of Pennsylvania. About Christina Roberto Christina Roberto joined the faculty at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 having served previously on the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health. She's a highly productive scholar, having done pioneering work on, for example, evaluating the impact of placing calories on restaurant menus in front of package labeling schemes and other policy interventions and has another entire body of research on eating disorders. Christina received joint Ph.D. Degrees in psychology and epidemiology from Yale University. Interview Summary You run the Psychology of Eating and Consumer Health (PEACH) Lab at Penn. Would you explain some of the work you're doing with your students and colleagues? Sure, so the mission of the PEACH Lab, as we call it, is to identify policies and interventions to promote healthy eating. And we work across six broad areas. We think a lot about the psychology of eating and along the lines of how do you design nutrition information so that it's really accessible to people. We do work on the economics of eating - so thinking about beverage tax policies and the influence they have some work around culture and eating. Issues like why does a country like Japan have a 4% obesity rate and other countries have 30%, and then some work around mental well being with a focus on eating disorders. And, we're moving more and more into questions around planetary health - so win/wins like reducing red meat consumption, it's good for people's health, but it's also good for the planet's health. So we really work across a broad range of areas. You received a large grant to study sugar-sweetened beverage intake Guatemala. So it's well known in the United States about the high risks of sugary beverage consumption and the high rates of consumption, but what's the picture in other countries and why would Guatemala be of particular importance? Guatemala is a really, it's an interesting country. So it's a classic example of the double burden of disease. So, on the one hand, you have 47% of kids have childhood stunting that's due to malnutrition. And then you've got 30% of kids increasingly struggling with overweight and obesity. And so Guatemala is a country where they're on this really worrisome upward trajectory where you get these rising rates of obesity, even in the context of malnutrition. And so people are really concerned and really starting to think about policy changes there to try to prevent them from continuing on this. And in terms of sugar-sweetened beverages, there's not a lot of data from Guatemala, but there is some survey research that suggests that about 80% of kids drink a sugar-sweetened beverage at least once per week. So it's obviously a prime target to want to change behavior around that on the sooner side. So what does your project involve? We've been working with a team in Guatemala, a terrific group led by Joachim Barnolia, and the project has two goals. So the first one is to do a field experiment where we would test a policy of placing warning labels on sugary drinks in school stores. So we would randomize different schools, two different kinds of labels and then try to understand how those labels would influence the types of drinks kids are purchasing at the school store. And we're testing labels like text-based warning labels that literally would say something like drinking beverages with added sugar, contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. And then we're using some graphic images. So what happens if you display the teaspoons or sugar cubes of sugar. And then we're going to test a symbol that's very similar to the symbol being used in Chile--sort of a stop sign like symbol that would just alert consumers to the high amounts of sugar. We'll be able to look at kids' purchases, and we'll also do some survey work with them to see if this is a policy that might really be able to move the needle on behavior. So there are a lot of things one could possibly do to reduce sugary-beverage consumption. You're talking about warning labels. One could also imagine broad education campaigns through the media. One could imagine taxes. Why have you chosen the warning labels as a place to start? So it was a combination of, um, something that we did think would be impactful but also feasible. If you ask me right now to list the number one policy you could pick to try to move the needle, I would tell you taxes. But I think working with local partners has been really critical and they felt like there might be an opportunity policy wise around labels and that we'd really need an evidence base. And I do think something like a warning label has different psychology to it than just a typical food label. We've learned that the word warning really comes with a sort of an extra, an impactful punch when you're trying to get a message out there. So I'm quite curious about these labels and think they could be pretty promising. So is there a certain segment of the population you think might be most responsive to labels? Would it be parents, older adults, younger adults, children? What do you think about that? The Devil's in the details with labels. There are definitely ways to design labels where they can have a broader reach across the whole population. It's pretty well established that when you're talking about a label, like the standard nutrition facts label we see in the US, that has lots of numbers and percentages and lots of information, you tend to get higher socioeconomic status folks using them and then lower socioeconomic status folks not using them. And so, the wave of new kinds of labels where you're talking about traffic lights or stop signs or these really intuitive symbols - the hope, we don't have very good on it yet, but the hope is that that's going to cut across a broader segment of the population and really resonate with most people. You mentioned some numbers about how frequently beverages, sugary-beverages are consumed by children. But why pick sugary beverages as the target for warning labels? Are there other parts of the food supply that would have been logical candidates as well? I think sugary beverages are really a special product and there's a special case to be made to focus on them specifically. So certainly in the US, we see that they're the largest source of added sugar in the diet. There are data to suggest that when you drink calories in liquid form, it doesn't keep you as full than if you eat the same number of calories in solid form. And so I think that makes them uniquely problematic. And they just have no nutritional value, right? So, it's pretty much all coming from sugar where you could imagine even some candy bars have nuts in them or sort of other redeeming qualities. So I think for all those reasons, plus the really strong scientific evidence base that links them in particular to weight gain suggests that it just makes a boatload of sense to focus on them. Has the industry in Guatemala, the beverage industry, started in the mobilize against these policies? It's interesting. I mean, these are multinational companies, and so they're obviously working across the globe in a variety of ways to try to, for all intents and purposes, undermine these policies. I think part of the reason you haven't seen much action in Guatemala is some worry about that. But I will say Latin America is a really interesting place right now for food policy because some of the most progressive, interesting work is happening on the policy front. And Chile is a good example of that where they've done food marketing restrictions and taxes and really aggressive labeling. So a lot's happening there, and we really need to pay attention to what they're doing and evaluate it. So a little closer to home, another major project you have underway is the evaluation of the soda tax in Philadelphia. In an earlier podcast, we had Dr. Thomas Farley, the health commissioner in Philadelphia, as a guest and he explained the rationale for the tax and answered some of the same questions you have on why soda for example. He outlined the structure of the tax and the industry response, which has been considerable. What are you learning about the impact that tax? We've been doing this fairly large evaluation that's funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies where we're able to study the tax from a bunch of different angles. And the first component is looking at what's happened to tax beverage sales and large chain retailers. So supermarkets, fast merchandisers, and pharmacies where beverages are being sold. And we have some really, I think important and exciting results. So there are two issues to think about with the tax. The way it's structured in Philadelphia is that the tax is on distributors. And so what that means is that a distributor and makes a decision of how much of tax to pass on to a store and then the store decides how much of that tax to pass onto the consumer. And the store could absorb all of the tax, or they could pass it all on, and there would be really considerable price increases. And so the first thing we've learned from our evaluation is that that the passthrough has differed based on the store types. So in supermarkets, about 43% of the tax has been passed on. It's 58% of mass merchandisers, and pharmacies have actually passed on 104% of the tax. So we're seeing the biggest price increases there. Now what we're really interested in is how that translates into volume sale reductions. And so what we're seeing in our data is that overall there's been a 51% reduction in the volume sales of tax beverages in Philly. And this is when you do a natural experiment. So we have a control site in Baltimore so we can be really confident in these results. Now there is one other piece to this story, which is something called cross-border shopping, right? So when you tax things, they're going to be some people who hopped the border and try to buy products over there. And we do see some of that. But only about a quarter of the taxes offset by that. So at the end of the day, we see reductions over the city of about 38% of tax beverages. And the last piece is you get some variability across store types. So the biggest effects are in supermarkets. It's a 59% drop there. It's 40% mass merchandisers, and then a little bit smaller, it's 13% in pharmacies. So that's counter-intuitive because the pharmacies passed along more tax than the other places. Why do you think that's happening? Yes, exactly. So when we dig into the data, what we see is that the real action here, and what's really changing, are the larger size beverages. So your 2-liters, your 12-packs or 24-packs--that's where, and it makes sense, their price increase is more salient. And so that's what's driving a lot of this effect. And pharmacies are selling many fewer of those types of large-sized beverages. You see that much more in supermarkets. And so we think that's what's explaining that difference. With the tobacco companies, as tobacco taxes have been raised a number of times, over the years, there have been occasions where the tobacco companies have actually passed along a higher increase in price than what the tax would dictate. Like the 104% you mentioned for pharmacies. Why don't you think the soda industry has done that? Do you think that deferring taxes across venues will even out over time because consumers will just learn where the soda is cheaper? We've got one year of data, and obviously, it's curious to see what happens beyond that. We're going to look at two-year results. We know the past through occurs pretty early on, sort of very soon after January 1st and starts then. And so at least our one-year long term data suggests they are holding pretty stable at these price increases. So I don't know if that would even out over time. And yes, you do sometimes see this over shifting in economic terms where some places capitalize on it, and they just raise prices even more. It is interesting on the ground in Philly because a lot of retailers have put signs up basically saying to consumers - 'Look don't blame us, this isn't our fault. Your soda is more expensive because of the tax.' And so I think part of the reason they didn't pass all of it on all of the tax is there was a real worry of losing customers, of losing revenue, and that they were a little hesitant to do that. I do think there's kind of a potentially interesting effect of the signage that it actually makes the tax more salient. And so I wonder if that might boost the behavioral impact of it. Something that some individuals had predicted would happen has come true, according to Tom Farley in that the soda industry has not been able to fight the taxes in the courts and in other ways. So they are now putting money into political campaigns so they can try to shift over the composition of the city council in hopes that they can vote down a tax. Do you have any sense of where that stands, how the public is reacting? Is it clear who the soda companies are supporting and not, and how's that playing out? I don't have a sense about how it's ultimately going to play out. So certainly, you know, that's happening, and there's a worry about it. I do think it's mixed. It really depends who you talk to, right? So there are store owners who really don't like the tax, but we do survey work with people, and oftentimes when they hear that their revenue is being used to expand Pre-K, that can really shift people's thinking on the tax. So their first reaction is, oh a tax, I don't like it. Oh wait, this is being used to really help some very low-income areas in Philadelphia and expand education opportunities? And people tend to get behind it for that reason. And so I think that's part of the reason it passed, that there is a lot of support and enthusiasm for that particular goal. And that might really help people running for city council to make that case for the importance of this tax sort of irrespective of this other public health effect that it likely has. So then there could be a strong political price to pay for anybody who wants to repeal the tax if the consumers and the citizens are valuing the use of the revenue. Yes, absolutely. I think that's right. As you think ahead to the future of policies to prevent obesity and to improve diet overall, what do you think are some of the ways things might go? If you could fast forward five years, what do you think the picture might look like? I think there's a lot of promise and a lot to be hopeful for because I think we're starting to see action. Particularly if you look at this in a global way. I think everyone who works in this space feels like there is no one policy that's going to solve this problem, and that we really need a suite of policies. And I think you have examples of certain countries which are now finally doing that. And so I think as you get some success stories like a country like Chile, as some of these beverage taxes have success, I think that kind of data could be very persuasive. And we'll start to see ripple effects of lots of places doing labeling, doing these kinds of tax policies. And also, not just the policy front but sitting down with industry and making plans around reformulation. We've got the national salt reduction program in this country. The UK has done some of this and engaging across sectors. I think we just hope that something like beverage taxes that has stalled out a little bit in the US, and so I hope that once some more evidence comes out that that'll pick up again. I think there's a lot to be excited about, you know, and, and happening in the next five years. You mentioned reformulation. Do you think if a food industry, for example, gradually reduced the salt across a number of products or within a category like soup, for example, do you think consumers can get used to having less salt, less fat, less sugar, and things? Oh, absolutely. I mean, I think it's pretty well documented that with sodium, in particular, consumers can get used to it. And then there are benefits to not necessarily advertising that it's happening. It was funny, I was talking to a colleague in the UK where they have lower sodium levels, and he says every time he comes over here, the food is just so salty and he can't stand it. I do think there are exciting ways to do this and there are folks also working on the sugar front to figure out can we do it with sugar as well. Do you think it's best to let consumers know these shifts are happening or not? I think the advice I would give a company is not to advertise it. Because you know, as someone who studies the psychology of eating, we do make all these sorts of inferences and can be influenced by marketing and things we think about a product. And so I think, the term is stealth health, that doing this in a way that doesn't overly advertise it probably benefits everyone.

Today's guest has had a fascinating career and has made significant contributions to public health in Louisiana, New York, and in Pennsylvania. He says he learned the true value of public health investigating syphilis and legionnaire's disease outbreaks while working for the Center for Disease Control's epidemic intelligence service. He's worked on the front lines to prevent and control infectious diseases such as HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, and his research on obesity led him to see the obesity epidemic in our country as an outcome of an unhealthy environment. Dr. Thomas Farley is the health commissioner for the City of Philadelphia and he led work to pass a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, seen widely as a significant success in health policy. About Thomas Farley Tom Farley's career includes serving as the Commissioner of Health for New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He's the coauthor of a book entitled Prescription for a Healthy Nation: Improving our Lives by Fixing our Everyday World, and a popular history of public health in New York City during the Bloomberg years called Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for 8 Million Lives. Interview Summary Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages now exist in a number of cities in the US and more than 25 countries. But Philadelphia made history of bypassing the largest tax in the United States. Can you explain the rationale for taxing sugary beverages? Sure. We know that sugary beverages are a major source of added sugar in the diet. And there are now a large number of studies that show an association between consumption of sugary drinks and obesity weight. And there has been this very parallel major increase in consumption of sugary drinks in parallel with the rise in obesity in this country. A lot of reason to believe from all of that that sugary drinks play a major role in the obesity epidemic in the country. Not the entire problem, but a major role. So that therefore there are appropriate targets to really turn around this epidemic. So why think about using taxes to decrease consumption as opposed to other possibilities like education, let's say? Well we don't think that there's an either or decision there. We think that we should be educating people about the risks of sugary drink. We also think that taxation makes sense. We've run mass media campaigns to educate people about the risk of sugary drink in New York City and elsewhere. And when we started people didn't recognize how risky these were. We've made a lot of headway there. But we also know from our experience with smoking prevention that taxing a specific item could really make a big difference in terms of consumption. And so we think the tax is an appropriate companion with the education. How high is the tax in Philadelphia and what did you choose to tax? The tax is one and a half cents per ounce. So that means if you get a 20-ounce bottle of soda, that would be about 30 cents. Or if you get a two-liter bottle, which they tend to sell cheaper on a per ounce basis, it might add as much as one dollar to the overall price. The proposal from the mayor's office, when this tax was first proposed in Philadelphia, was they would tax beverages with added sugar or added regular sweeteners. But the City Council wanted to also include artificial sweeteners. So the tax includes any beverage that includes sugar or high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia's previous mayor, came close to getting into tax passed but was not successful. But when Philadelphia's current mayor, James Kenney took office, he used a different approach and the tax was passed. What did the two mayors do differently from one another? Mayor Nutter actually took two tries at this. One time he proposed that the purpose of the tax was for health benefits--for people's own health. Another time he tried to say that he had a major deficit and this would help with that deficit. Neither one of those really got a lot of public support. They didn't like the idea of having taxation just to fill a deficit or I think there was a lot of skepticism about the value of the tax for people's health. When Mayor Kenney came in on the third try, to a certain extent that groundwork had been laid--people understood the risks of sugary drink. But he tried a very different approach and he emphasized that the revenue would go towards things that people really cared about. Typically for expanded Pre-K for low income children and for rebuilding the city's parks and recreation centers and libraries, which really needed a lot of additional renovations. And the public really responded to that. I was with him in the community meetings and talked to folks and people continued to have skepticism that this would have a real impact on obesity. But they saw that it made sense if it funded those things that they cared about, and they care very much about these centers. You have been around this soda tax discussion for a long time and to say that the beverage companies are opposed would be an understatement. What have the company's done in Philadelphia to try to fight the taxes? Oh Gosh. Where to start? Every technique you can imagine. First they lobbied very, very hard. They mobilized the Teamsters, which are the people who drive the trucks that delivered beverage. They became their ground forces who held rallies. Teamsters took their trucks, and they did loops of city hall blaring their horn and shut down traffic there. They distributed flyers and mailings. Soda companies also brought in a variety of partners to do the speaking for them, particularly the grocery stores. Where the grocery stores were calling it a grocery tax and they were claiming that it was going to reduce the employment in the grocery industry. Soda companies also produced a series of a pseudo-scientific studies, and pseudo-economic studies about how ineffective and damaging this would be for the city. They wrote op-eds in the paper. They sued the city over the tax. They are now funding an effort to preempt the tax at the state level in Pennsylvania. And in the upcoming election, they're funding opposition candidates to challenge the mayor and city council members. All this is costing them certainly in the millions, maybe tens of millions of dollars. It's hard to reconcile their arguments that the tax won't work with how much money they're spending the fight it. Yeah, and it's hard to reconcile their argument that this is somehow bad for the economy. If they took that, whatever it is: 10, 20, $30,000,000, and just employed people, Philadelphia would have a huge employment boom in the city. With tobacco and also soda taxes elsewhere, it's been common for the industry to create front groups with wholesome sounding names to be the spokespeople for these efforts to challenge the taxes. Does that happen in Philadelphia as well? Yeah, absolutely. You don't hear it being spoken on from the beverage company themselves--not from Coke and Pepsi. They created a group that I've forgotten its name, it's something like that People For No Grocery Taxes or something like that. But it's the beverage companies that are doing this. And they're the ones coordinating all the efforts of all the other groups that are most prominent. But the voices that you hear the most from are the grocery stores. And that has gotten some success in persuading people in Philadelphia that the tax has been damaging to the grocery industry. Which it has not been. They managed to make some headway with that. You mentioned one of the challenges the industry has filed is to stop the tax by challenging it in the courts. On what grounds did they challenge the tax and what was the outcome? Well, the central claim was that this was effectively a sales tax. And the City of Philadelphia does not have the legal authority to pass a sales tax. But it's not a sales tax. It's a tax on the distributors of sugary drinks, and those distributors can choose to do what they want with it. They could pass the tax on in the prices that they charge their retailers. The retailers can choose, or not, to pass the tax on to the price to their customer. A sales tax is something that you apply right at the retail store and a customer says hey, this is different. But that was their claim, that this was effectively a sales tax. They also argued that this tax was not uniform, and it's a principle in Pennsylvania and probably other laws that any tax has to be fair. You can't say, well, I'm going to tax your house, but not the house next door. And you know, uniformity is in the eye of the beholder, but this was a tax on all sugary drinks in the city. They did not make any headway on the uniformity argument. And the sales tax argument went all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Supreme Court ruled in the city's favor. This was not a sales tax. The city had the authority. So is it too early to know what the impact of the tax has been on consumption of these beverages? Now we're getting a number of studies that are coming out that are giving a very consistent picture. First, in the work that we've been collaborators on, we see that sales of sugary drinks in the large grocery stores--the ones that have electronic scanners--have fallen by about 50 percent. Then in surveys that have been done with people on the street and through telephone surveys, self-reported consumption is down 35-45 percent. There is no question that this caused a big reduction in sales and consumption. So what about the industry predictions that people would lose jobs and that consumers would flee across the Philadelphia border to buy their soda elsewhere? Philadelphia has a long border and geographically it's not a very large city. So it is easy for people to travel a few blocks to get into the suburbs. And the studies of grocery store sales suggest there are a small number of people that are making a small increase in grocery stores sales right at the border. But the overall grocery sector in the city has shown no loss of jobs and the overall food and beverage sector in the city has had continued job growth during this period. So again, there are many false claims that this has hurt the grocery store industry, but stores are doing just fine. So what do you think the future of taxes will be? I expect that this is something that other cities are going to see the success of Philadelphia and want to do. Now, the beverage companies clearly are fighting this not just for Philadelphia's sake, but also to scare off other places. So there will be continued conflict. But, there's no question that you can get through the conflict and it achieves at least the short term goal of reducing sugary drink consumption. And I'm very optimistic that it's going to achieve a long term goal of helping to slow if not turn around the epidemic of obesity. So I believe you're going hear a lot more about this. You've been a real public health pioneer, not only was sugar beverage taxes, but in other areas as well. So it's very nice of you to share the history of this story. And it'll be interesting to see how it gets written as time goes forward. And I know that you're going to be a central figure in those efforts, so thank you so much for joining us today.     Produced by Deborah Hill at the World Food Policy Center

Welcome to The Turquoise Table Podcast with Kristin Schell. Kristin’s guest in our debut episode is Thomas Farley, better known as Mister Manners. Thomas is an etiquette expert, speaker, and author who inspires audiences across America. He’s perhaps best known as the beloved guest in his role as Mister Manners on NBC The Today Show. Kristin and Thomas talk about what it means to be a good neighbor and Thomas gives tips on simple ways to get around barriers that keep us from knowing the people who live near us whether home is the upper West Side of NYC or suburban America. Emphasizing that face-to-face communication is always to be prized over digital connection, Thomas encourages us all to put “people over pixels,” and that life is much sweeter when we are in community with each other. In Kristin’s Kitchen segment this week, sponsored by Shipt!, Kristin shares her grandmother’s delicious and easy chocolate sheet cake recipe. While she whips up the decadent cake, Kristin invites you to think about the rhythm of your neighborhood and shares a story from a Turquoise Table in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

So, what’s the deal with high fructose corn syrup? People talk about it a lot. Some say it is horrible for your health while others claim it is fine. But do you know what it actually is? Without stepping into the controversy, I’ll explain what it is exactly and how it is different than regular corny syrup or sugar for that matter. (http://www.finecooking.com/item/24865/corn-syrup-vs-high-fructose-corn-syrup)Why do you do the things you do? Everything you do has a reason. You go to school to learn and you go to the doctor get healthy – right? Well, what if the reason you THINK you do things isn’t the real reason? I want you to listen to Robin Hanson an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the book, The Elephant in the Brain (http://amzn.to/2F4Vvk8). He explains that often the reason we THINK we do things is not the reason at all – and why it is important to understand all of this.I bet you’ve wondered how good a memory your dog or cat has. How long do they remember an event or a command or the last time you played with them? Listen and I think the answer will surprise you. (https://www.su.se/english/research/research-news/new-findings-on-animal-memory-1.222566)You might think etiquette is kind of an old-fashioned concept with little relevance in the 21st century. But you’d be wrong to think that. Etiquette is as valid today as ever – maybe more so. Thomas Farley, author of Modern Manners: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Social Graces (http://amzn.to/2F1xpHf), answers some common etiquette questions people have about social media, weddings, cellphones and more.His website is www.whatmannersmost.com

When we are surrounded by people why do we tend to shun them? Why do we refuse to make eye contact or say hello? And, why do tempers flare on busy city streets? More and more of the world's population are moving to cities. As they swell in size our behaviour changes and not always for the better. It is a familiar scene, a busy metro carriage with people pushing and shoving but never saying hello or even making eye contact. Why do cities make us act this way? To find out we speak to social psychologist Dr Elle Boag about what is happening inside our heads. We ask Marten Sims of the organisation Happy City Lab if buildings can make us rude. We perform the Lost Tourist test to find out just how rude London is. Olivier Giraud tells us why Parisians never give up their seat to pregnant women on the metro. And, Manhattan manners expert, Thomas Farley defends the city and explains the reason we often have to act the way we do. (Photo: Man and woman arguing on street. Credit: Shutterstock)

On March 3rd The New York City Food Policy Center and The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute join forces to sponsor Transforming Food Policy: Can New York City Become a Model for Smart, Fair Municipal Food Policy for the Nation? At this session of the Changing New York series, four experts who are at the frontlines of changing food policy in New York will consider what we have learned from Bloomberg-era food policy initiatives, what are the likely food policy priorities of the current city government, and what New York can learn from other cities? Panelists: Dr. Thomas Farley, Former Commissioner of Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy at Hunter College Melony Samuels, Executive Director, Bed Stuy Campaign Against Hunger Caitlin Salemi, Coordinator, NYC Food Forum and Food Systems Network NYC Ben Kallos, New York City Council Member, District 5 Moderated by Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY School of Public Health and Hunter College, and Faculty Director, NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College This event is co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College.

For those that missed Dr. Mike on Martha Stewart’s Radio Living Today, with host Thomas Farley; here it is: Martha Stewart Living Today with Thomas Farley       The post Living Today appeared first on Dr. Mike.

Gary Kalkut, M.D., professor of clinical medicine (infectious diseases), introduces keynote speaker Thomas Farley, M.D., M.P.H., New York City Health Commissioner. Dr. Farley presents “Research for Public Health Policy and Practice” at the 2010 “Translating Clinical Research Into Better Health” symposium hosted by the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). (November 12, 2010)

Gary Kalkut, M.D., professor of clinical medicine (infectious diseases), introduces keynote speaker Thomas Farley, M.D., M.P.H., New York City Health Commissioner. Dr. Farley presents “Research for Public Health Policy and Practice” at the 2010 “Translating Clinical Research Into Better Health” symposium hosted by the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). (November 12, 2010)

Know Your Candidates is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Dane County and Madison City Channel. The candidates for Madison School Board, Seat 4 Thomas Farley and James Howard square off in this episode.