Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

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 in the show, Thomas shares the neglected aspects

of flying etiquette, how to be a non-annoying

house guest, 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.

After the show is over, check out our show notes at a.com.

I.S. slash holiday etiquette. All right, Thomas Farley, welcome back to the show.

Brett, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me on.

So you are Mr. Manners. You're an etiquette expert. We had you on last year to talk about etiquette and manners in general.

I wanted to bring you back on because it's the holiday season. And with the

holiday season, there's a lot of opportunities to practice good etiquette. There's traveling,

being a guest in someone's home, holiday parties, gifting, tipping. So we're going to just dig

into holiday manners and etiquette. So let's start off with traveling for the holidays. And we're

going to talk about two ever-burning questions of travel-related etiquette. So let's start off with traveling for the holidays. And we're going to talk about two ever-burning questions of travel-related etiquette.

The first one is if you're flying on a plane, who gets the armrest in the middle seat of an airplane?

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