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August 31, 2025 14 mins

Airplane etiquette. Buck’s baseball question. Clay’s movie review. The power of positivity. Shout out to Buck’s grandfather-in-law. Don’t be an energy vampire; be an energy transfuser.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Etiquette stuff, which I think is unfortunately maybe I'm just
I'm just old and grumpy now, which is probably true
irrespective of how this conversation goes. I think that etiquette
in public places is on a steady decline, and I
think increasingly the barbarians feel like they can act poorly

(00:38):
and then then then be outraged and intimidate people when
anyone tries to say, hey, can you actually be considerate
and respectful of those around you. The best example of
this is I really think that the speakerphone conversation and
public people are winning right now, like that they should
be losing. They should be if we were in you know,

(00:58):
ancient times, like they would be ostracized from our city state,
like they should be banished forthwith, And yet they increasingly
are like, what what, it's just like having a conversation.
It's not just like having a conversation. Actually, you're shouting
and we're all hearing this mechanical voice coming out. Okay,
So anyway, I could go on this stuff all day,
but tell me the situation of the plane. The plane

(01:21):
line cutting lady, that's getting so much attention, right, it's
gone megaviral. And I don't know if we have a
short segment of the conversation, but I think it went
megaviral because to your point, there is no sort of
common behavior. And I would say, on an airplane, and

(01:42):
everybody who has ever been on an airplane at some
point in time you probably have experienced this. The plane lands, okay,
you're allowed to stand up people who try to rush
past you and gain like five rows in overall exiting
of the airplane earnestness. You get out faster if you

(02:05):
don't have a flight that you have to rush to,
and if you do, you're being like, hey, I'm so sorry.
My flight is going to take off in ten minutes.
The flight's the lake. Could I please go past? And
you can talk to people around you in advance, and
you can. Everybody kind of gets a sense for that.
Sometimes even the flight attendants will say, hey, when everybody
stay seated, we've got a few people who have to
get to a flight that.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
But jumping people is infuriating. Don't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
If you are listening to us, do not walk in
front of people in the rows in front of you.
It is a savage, indefensible move. But for the limited exception,
I said, where you're trying to rush to catch a flight,
there's not enough room for everyone to take down their
overhead luggage, so people wait, and there's not enough room

(02:50):
for everyone to stand in the aisle, so you have
to be orderly and civilized and allow the people ahead
of you to go. You know, I've seen both ns
is going to Recently, I was running lad for a
flight and I asked a couple of very kind people
if I could cut them in the security line. But
I showed them my ticket and they're like, you are
going to miss your flight, Like you gotta get your
get your button gear. And then it's funny because a

(03:12):
week later, sayding happen to me. Some guys showed me
and I'm like, yeah, of course you can cut me
in the line or you know whatever, and everyone in
the line let them go because you could prove that
there's a need. Same thing with the connection. If somebody
has a connection, they have to get we're all cool
with that, but I'm you know, this is not nom
There are rules like I don't I don't know why
people can't act like their civilized when they're on planes.

(03:34):
It drives It drives me nuts. Don't skip just like
when you're waiting in line for a roller coaster if
you actually like fun, unlike Buck, don't cut people in
the roller coaster line. Producer Ali says, when you're leaving church,
don't skip the pew in front of you, don't jump
in line and communion. Just behave like a decent, civilized

(03:56):
human being. Wait your turn when the plane lands. Making
America better and more considerate every single.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Day Sundays with Clay and Buck.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
If a major league pitcher, and maybe there's a viral
video in this play, maybe you could ask somebody if
a major league pitcher said, I'm gonna throw full heat,
but I'm gonna throw them down the middle. I'm not
gonna try sliders or any of that stuff. Do you
think you could make fair ball contact if you had

(04:26):
ten pitches. No, I don't because I think, first of all,
I would be so scared I could. This is this
is a rare time. I'm the arrogant one apparently on this.
I don't think you realize how insanely fast the ball
would get to the plate, even if they're saying they're
gonna throw strikes. I mean, I haven't played since Little League,

(04:48):
so my version of baseball in my head, and I
was in the eighth grade. I think, so my version
of baseball is not I think like a camp. Just
because they say they're gonna just hummet right down the
middle for you, they still might pitch a little bit inside,
like I think, seeing they all throw one hundred miles
an hour now, I don't think most people know what

(05:11):
one hundred miles an hour feels like just to stand
I don't think I've ever seen I don't think I've
ever been standing at the plate and seen a ball
going more than like fifty or sixty. I think probably
that's not I'm just telling you it would be the
intimidation factor of hearing that. I think the number of
people they could make you basically just have to start
swinging as soon as the pitch is thrown. I mean,

(05:32):
I think, Clay, we just get you to ask one
of these major league pitchers, hey, can I get into
like the practice area or whatever. I need ten pitches
on video and if you know what I mean, and
like we do something for like I don't know a
tunnel the tower, I'd rather you try it than me. Actually,
this is one of the rare like I all right nervous.
I don't want to get hit by one hundred mile
an hour fastball. I don't even want to, like, I

(05:53):
would be terrified.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I was pretty wimpy about that too, probably why
I stopped playing.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Baseball Sundays with Clay and Buck.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I did Buck want to give a positive movie review
because I know we talked about Superman. I still have
not seen Superman. I imagine many of you have because it's
one of the biggest movies of the summer. But I
did go see another big movie of the summer. And
I am not a crazy knowledgeable F one racing expert.
So please, I'm sure many of you out there that

(06:24):
love F one are going to tell me the things
you didn't like about the realism associated with the movie.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I thought F one was really good.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Brad Pitt, fun engaging, no like political agenda other than hey,
let's just try to make a fun movie. Had elements
of days of thunder Elements of the Top Gun Maverick movie,
Older Race Car Driver, Younger Race Car Dynamic and it
was super cool, well done, enjoyable summer movie if you

(06:55):
need enjoyable summer movie reviews. My brother saw it too.
You see Friday, I think you guys Saturday. Yes, he
saw it this weekend. He agreed with you. He thought
it was good and he said that you would like
the movie. And I said, great, I will watch it
at home where I do not have to be around
other human beings because they always ruined the movie by
talking and being on their phones and doing annoying, rude things.

(07:18):
So and he said, ah, yes, I forgot that. I
was talking to the grumpiest forty three year old ever.
But I at least told you it's a good movie.
You'll appreciate this. So they had all the movie previews
running beforehand, and some of them were like The Conjuring,
which is one of the scariest movies ever. But then
they also show Downton Abbey Downton and I turned my
wife and I'm Downton Abby, Downton Abbey. I was like,

(07:40):
why would they be advertising that? She said, Oh, every
woman in here loves Brad Pitt and uh, and that's
why they're showing this. And I said, oh, that's interesting.
So I said, Brad Pitt's a little bit like me.
Men want to be him and women love him. And
my wife just laughed. I actually she did not have

(08:01):
a lot of respect for my Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Analogy Sunday Drop with Clay and Buck.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Something pretty cool over the weekend that just popped up
on my radar. I didn't show this out an account
called Turbine Traveler, which is about twenty five thousand followers.
He shared a video from nineteen sixty three of Lieutenant
James Flatley making history by landing a KC one thirtyf hercules,

(08:34):
the largest and heaviest aircraft ever to perform unarrested full
stop landings and unassisted takeoffs on the USS Forestal. So
Lieutenant James Flatley, test pilot, Naval ace and now Admiral Flatley,
I just want to tip my hat to him. Clay,
he is my grandfather in law, my wife's grandfather, and

(08:55):
I hope he might be listening and we'll send him this.
But pretty cool. People didn't realize this. This video up at
Clayandbuck dot com of then Lieutenant now Admiral Flatley landing
on a on the USS Forestal with a seat one
thirty hercules, the first and only aviator to ever accomplish that.

(09:16):
Pretty cool the video, Yes, I saw the video. The
video is really really cool. If you want to to
check that out, it's up at clayanbuck dot com. Uh.
And uh, you're gonna have to I mean, all the
men you're gonna have to learn how to fly. I mean,
all the men in your carry side of the family
are super badass navel and and and fighter pilots and

(09:39):
everything else. And meanwhile, I mean you're just sitting back
in the plane, no idea what's going on? I don't.
I don't even like when I'm on commercial and the
seats touching my knees in front of me, you know
what I mean. I'm not really I'm not really made
for like real real daring do up in the sky.
That's not really my thing. So I'm very appreciative of
those who do it. Though. Kk Dan wants to ask

(10:01):
you a question. I don't know the answer to this
good question, Hey bus, how did Flatley get that airplane
backed off the carrier?

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Just curious?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I do not know how Lieutenant Flatley carries Grandpa. I
don't know did he take off, I mean to get
I mean that's or did they just have to go
into into harbor And like that's a great question, but
now you've got a question to follow up with. Yeah,
how you could land that thing? I mean, just keep
in mind sometimes it's tricky to land and incredibly nimble,

(10:34):
you know, like F F sixteen or F fourteen Tomcat
or F sixteen or F eighteen, you know, aircraft carrier landings.
I've obviously never done one, but from the various members
of my in laws who have done this, it's not
an easy thing. When you've got a small, nimble plane.
The biggest plane in the world at the time would
be quite a challenge. And your their margin for air

(10:57):
very small. Haven't we lost like just three airplanes on
aircraft carriers that accidentally went off and some Oh yeah,
I mean in recent history here, just recently, and the
people people lose their lives because of aircraft, particularly on landing,
is really tough. So yeah, Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck.

(11:20):
I do think this is going to be one of
the lessons of Trump. I think Trump has a steel spine,
and maybe he understands innately media better and saw through
the BS earlier than a lot of other people did,
because Buck was saying, Hey, you know, if you had
said I think there's probably maybe some truth to it,
you know, a decade ago, Hey, I think Michelle Obama

(11:43):
is an entitled, spoiled brat bitch, people would have been like,
oh my god, We've got to cancel this guy. That's
not an opinion you can actually have. And I think
one of the real lessons of Trump that other people
are learning, and I had to learn it because people
came and tried to cancel me all the time for years,
is you cannot slow down when you share an opinion

(12:05):
and tiptoe up to it. And the analogy that I
always had was, if you're an athlete in football, the
best thing that somebody can say about you is you
play downhill on defense like you would see a play,
you diagnose it, and you just go balls to the
wall and try to wreck the opposition. If you tiptoe up,

(12:26):
you get beat. You cannot win going half speed. And
I think Trump has recognized with what I would say
is Trump speed, Hey, I'm not going to be perfect
in everything, but I'm going to go with such speed
in mostly the right direction that people are going to
fall off of me, and ultimately we're going to move
the country in a better direction. I think that should

(12:47):
be a lesson for everybody out there in larger public sphere.
If you have a take own it, go full speed
through it. It's when you tiptoe or apologize that you
get wrecked. And I think there's a football analogy there,
and I think a lot of guys out there there
who were linebackers or safeties that played downhill to attack.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's the way you have to live.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
So there's a little bit of a ted talk for everybody.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Today.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
It was inspiring stuff. Well, I'm filled with gratitude. I'm
like Michelle Obama who only wants to wine. Every day.
I wake up and I'm like man one another another
awesome day. I'm filling so much joy. One of the
most important things I think people find as they get
older is surrounding yourself with people who choose to be
positive day in and day out. Is one of the

(13:31):
best ways to improve your life in the day to
day and to limit to the greatest extent possible people
who choose to be negative and complain all the time
because you can always find things to come. There's endless
things to complain about. Everyone can find them. Great phrase
on that energy vampires. They suck all of the good energy.

(13:52):
There's tons of them. Everybody's got them in their lives,
their their circles. To the extent that you can eliminate
energy vampires. They just come and they feast, and they
take everything good and they devour it. It really is
a huge portion of the population. Unfortunately, we try to
give the opposite of energy vampire, what would be the
we're blood transfusers here.

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