1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Bold reverence and occasionally random The Sunday Hang with Clay 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: and Buck podcast and it starts now. 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: I have an update on Bus twenty seven. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 3: Clay. 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait, wait for everybody out there who doesn't know, 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 4: was it when did we talk about Bus twenty seven 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 4: at Miami Beach last week? 8 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: I told everybody that I had a nemesis in my 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: new home. Bus twenty seven was coming by and the 10 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: noise it was making was something along likeee, I mean, 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: it was horrible, making a horrible noise. I'm sorry I 12 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: had to do that to I'll be listening across the country. 13 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: But it was this like screeching sound, and it would 14 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: only make it when it was at a stop. So 15 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: when it's driving, you would never know, but for some reason, 16 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: when it was idling, it would make this terrible noise. 17 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: And so I had my first experience with Miami Beach 18 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: civil administration or whatever. I had to call around and 19 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: call around. I eventually found the people in charge of 20 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: maintenance for the bus. I eventually found the people in 21 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: charge of putting the contractors who actually do the maintenance 22 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: for the bus, and my first go around, Clay, you know, 23 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: they told me sorry, we had it looked at there's 24 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: no problem with that bus. There's no sound, to which 25 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: I had to say, excuse me, sir, that white whale, 26 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: so to speak, is still breaching, It is still spouting. 27 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: It is out there, and I have my harpoon at 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: the ready. So I called them again. I said, I 29 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: shall not be denied. I will not let this go. 30 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: This noise is disrupting me and so many of my neighbors. 31 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: And do you know what they did, Clay, Because I 32 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: am so persistent and so annoying, they had the contractor 33 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: look at the bus again, this time knowing that I 34 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 1: would not accept anything less than the full and sufficient 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: reversal of this ear piercing sound. And they called me. 36 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: They called me today to say, sir, we just want 37 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: to say thank you so much. 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 4: You were right. 39 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: There was an issue with maintenance. They figured it out. 40 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,639 Speaker 1: And now Bus twenty seven is purring like a kitten. 41 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 4: As Bus twenty seven driven past now fixed. Have you 42 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 4: noticed it many times? 43 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: Every time every time it goes by, my heart sings 44 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: just a little. Yes, my civic duty has been done. 45 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 4: I I can't believe so if you had not moved 46 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 4: to this new place. 47 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: And called four times just so you understand, I went 48 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: through four phone conversations about this. 49 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: At least how much. 50 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 4: Time do you think you spent to get the bus fixed, 51 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 4: like total like time on your like time a half 52 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 4: an hour or two probably, Yeah, But it's now fixed, 53 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: forever fixed Bus twenty seven. 54 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: It's it is like a finally it is the it 55 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: is like the Portie nine to eleven of buses, now 56 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: finely tuned machine. 57 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 4: I mean, what do they always say the squeaky wheel 58 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 4: gets the grease. Uh. Here you have proven once and 59 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 4: for all the bus. Uh you managed to get a 60 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 4: bus fix. So everybody out there who's frustrated with local 61 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 4: politics or national politics everything else, Buck Sexton has has 62 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 4: saved the ears of countless Miami Beach residence. 63 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: I am the old man in your neighborhood who gets 64 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: the pothole fixed. My friends, I am the one who 65 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: changes closing hours for the bar so they can't serve 66 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: after one am or whatever that is. 67 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 4: You need me on that wall well, a lot of 68 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 4: support because there's a lot of people out there listening 69 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 4: to us who need as much alcohol as they can 70 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 4: to make it through the world raid now including the 71 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 4: holidays coming up appreciate all of you for hanging out 72 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 4: with us. By the way, Glenn Youngkin and Tim Scott 73 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: both fantastic encourage you to check him out on the 74 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 4: podcast tomorrow, we got Alex Bearnson. I think, am I 75 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 4: totally wrong in that he's coming out with. 76 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: Julie Kelly on Jay six and Trump Trials, Alex Bearnson 77 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: on a little bit of the COVID walk back and 78 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: Vack's update and the risks, and it's gonna be a 79 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: phenomenal show because that's how we roll on. 80 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 4: Clay and Buck, Amen, congrats to everyone. Bust twenty seven 81 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 4: Fixed Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck Buck. There is 82 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 4: a major controversy after yet again, this dispute has gone viral. 83 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 4: I don't know where you stand on this issue. Divides families, 84 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 4: divides husbands, wives, parents from their children. What should happen 85 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 4: with seats as it pertains to reclining on airplanes. I'm 86 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 4: gonna be honest with all of you out there. I 87 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 4: am one billion percent committed to no reclining on seats. 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 4: I'm not huge. I'm six foot you know, one eighty 89 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 4: five or so. If someone reclines to me while I 90 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 4: am in coach class seating, which I fly almost exclusively 91 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 4: on Southwest because there is no first class. I feel 92 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 4: like I am imprisoned. I can't work on my laptop. 93 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 4: I can't even hold my beloved paper newspaper hardly and 94 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 4: turn the pages. I am of the opinion that no 95 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 4: seats on any air plane that is not like an 96 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 4: overnight flight, that you shouldn't be able to recline at all. 97 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 4: I bet for the flight attendants that are listening, I 98 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 4: bet this is like ninety percent of the fights that 99 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 4: they see on a regular basis. Now, so here is 100 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 4: my position. 101 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: I'm anti, you're anti, you're all in on it, and 102 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: I respect all in. I will tell you that I 103 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: think that this is situational. I think there's a little 104 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: bit of situational awareness need to have here. If it 105 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: is a daylight domestic flight, I do not think you recline. 106 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: I think that ever, you know, because people are going 107 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: to be working in either space. I think that if 108 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: they dim the lights in the cabin and you're talking 109 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: about it, like if you're flying coach, you know, the 110 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: red Eye New York to LA or something, you know, 111 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: you do what you can to try to get the 112 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: rest you can. You're not going to sleep very well 113 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: on a coach even with it reclined. But I think 114 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 1: if you're in a dimmed cabin situation and it's clear 115 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: that people are going to be trying to get sleep, 116 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: than reclining is sometimes acceptable. However, my thing is airlines 117 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: need to get far more aggressive about policing seat kicking 118 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people who and when 119 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: I say kicking, I just mean people who are very aggressive. 120 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: First of all, do you ever have this where someone 121 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: sits behind you and they decide they want to get 122 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and instead of using their armrests, they 123 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: use the back of the seat in front of them 124 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: like a catapult, like like they're a medieval lord trying 125 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: to storm the fortress and they want to fire a 126 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: rock over it, and they shoot themselves up into the sky, 127 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: basically using your entire seat as the springboard. That to 128 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: me is a massive party foul and you should get 129 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: a time out for. 130 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 4: I understand, yes that sometimes happens. Those are people that 131 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 4: usually don't with the way that I think about it 132 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 4: is they usually don't have the ability to otherwise get 133 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 4: up like they tend to be like older, out of shape, 134 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 4: like they have difficulty getting up in general. I so 135 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: I agree with that on some level. The other thing, 136 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: I'm still fired up about the reclining seats. If you 137 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 4: aren't very big, like my wife is five to two, 138 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 4: you like you definitely should not. I want someone who 139 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 4: is five to two. How tall is carry? How tall 140 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 4: is your wife? Like five five, five six, something like that, 141 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 4: Like I've five. 142 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: I don't know, she's not listening, she's. 143 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 4: Probably so my wife is five to two. I understand 144 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: when when I'm six foot, I'm not claiming like I'm 145 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 4: six six or something like that. But when there's like 146 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 4: something to be reached on a shelf, if you're short, 147 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 4: you presume that people who are taller than you can 148 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 4: reach anything. Like she'll be like, hey, can you get that? 149 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 4: I'm like, that's nine feet in the air. Like I'm 150 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 4: taller than you and my arms are a lot longer, 151 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: but I can't get up that high. I don't think 152 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 4: short people have any concept for what it's like to 153 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 4: be in coach class seating. And so when some and 154 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 4: a lot of times woman is like five to two 155 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 4: and reclines in front of me, I'm like, you have 156 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 4: an ocean of space already, like this seat is swallowing you. Okay, 157 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 4: so I said five to five. I was close. 158 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: I'm close enough that I'm not in any trouble. 159 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 4: So if you're a five foot two, five foot four 160 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 4: woman and you sit in coach class seating, you have 161 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 4: an abundance and a luxury of space. You're like in 162 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 4: first class seating. Compared to someone who is six feet 163 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 4: or bigger, I can't even imagine. Like I sometimes see 164 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 4: guys who are like six ' five or six six 165 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 4: walking past me on a Southwest Airlines flight, and I 166 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 4: just think, you poor bastard, Like you can't even sit 167 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 4: without your knees grinding into people's backs. I'm telling you 168 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 4: seats should not be reclinable because people say, oh, well, 169 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 4: I paid for the seat and I should recline. I've 170 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 4: tried to do laptop work, I've tried to read. You 171 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 4: cannot do it if you're a decent sized man and 172 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 4: someone reclines in front of you. 173 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: So I was also, and there's also the the people 174 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: that recline very rapidly, and sometimes we'll hit your laptop 175 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: or they'll even knock over drinks things like that. That's 176 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: a common, uh shortcoming of the situation. I'm surprised that 177 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: you don't. I will tell you, Clay, there are moments 178 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: where someone is being so aggressive in the pushing and 179 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: hitting of my seat that I have to think to myself, 180 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: I do not want the Daily Mail headline. Right wing 181 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: radio hosts caught on video in scuffle over air, Like 182 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: I have to go through it in my head so 183 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: that I do not turn around and start screaming at it. 184 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 4: What's the worst event that you've had happen to you 185 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 4: on a flight? 186 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: The worst thing that's ever happened to me on it? 187 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, not like the plane, like the the you know, 188 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 4: like the things, but like just interpersonal relationships to your point. 189 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 4: I mean I was I was once sitting next to 190 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 4: a woman and we were you know, I was in 191 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 4: the middle and I was using the seat, you know, 192 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 4: like the being in the middle seat is awful, right, 193 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 4: I mean it is like like you're the dregs of 194 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 4: society if you have to sit in the middle on 195 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 4: a long flight. And like my arm touched her arm 196 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 4: on the on the armrest and she hit me and 197 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 4: she said, if you touch me again, I'm going to 198 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 4: you know, the flight attendant is going to come here 199 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 4: and this is going to be a major issue for you. 200 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm just trying to put my 201 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 4: arm on the arm rest, and I was thinking to myself, 202 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 4: how do I prove that. 203 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: Were you already Clay Travis? Like, was this an MSNBC employee? No, 204 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: I don't think she knew who I was. But I 205 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: was thinking to myself, how do I prove that I 206 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. I'm just in the middle seat 207 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: trying to use part of the armrest right and she 208 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: lost it, and I was thinking I didn't even know 209 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: what to do. I was like, I don't want to 210 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 1: create a scene because I don't to your point. I 211 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: don't want it to be a story like Clay Travis, 212 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: you know, like, and this is why my wife is like, 213 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: you shouldn't be taking Southwest flights, but I I can't. 214 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not ever going to give up Southwest Airlines. 215 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: I'm in the a boarding group. I've spent a lot 216 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: of time I'm here. But she's like, only bad things 217 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: are gonna happen to you in the middle seat on Southwest. 218 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna know you, They're gonna hate you. And they're 219 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: gonna try to turn this into a huge story. But 220 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: that's the for like the armrest thing. I was like, 221 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: oh my god, I might be turned into an awful 222 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: human being and I haven't even done anything. I would 223 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: have backed you up, Clay, I don't worry. You would 224 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: have been okay. But this is probably a while ago, 225 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: though I might not have known you. 226 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 4: So this is like, this is about it was before 227 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 4: we started doing the show, but sometimes pretty recent. Yeah, okay. 228 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 4: Sometimes people are stunned that I'm on Southwest Airlines flights. No, 229 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: I'm on a Southwest Airlines flight Monday. I take them everywhere. 230 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't want to you know, 231 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: some people maybe eating their lunch and also you know, 232 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: I just but if you ask me, like the roughest 233 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: thing that I can remember be exposed to on a plane, 234 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: and now I know that there's the you know, whoever 235 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: smelt that dealt it? 236 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 2: Okay. 237 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: I understand that there are rules that people think apply 238 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: to this, but I am just I was next to 239 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: somebody who was having clear gastro intestinal distress to the 240 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: point where to the point where I started laughing because 241 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: it kept happening, and it smelled so stupid. 242 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 4: Did you all so bad? 243 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: It's smelled so bad that it was like I was 244 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: starting to worry if like methane. 245 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 2: Poisoning could be a thing you can't die coach a lot. 246 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was really hoping those HEPA filters were 247 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: working overtime. 248 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: And it was clear to me who they was. A 249 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: guy you knew, you know. 250 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 5: Like upper middle age, heavy and you know the thing 251 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 5: about bo I'm gonna tell you this right now, because 252 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 5: I've been on flights where there's there's a lot of 253 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 5: bo action going on, body armpit stuff. 254 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: You get a little bit used to over time because 255 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: it's constant. So if you're in and I've been in 256 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: countries my former life as a CIA as often there's 257 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: not a lot of well there's no deodorant usage basically. 258 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: That's so you get that. 259 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: But but in the and I've been in long car 260 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: rides with folks and you can kind of get used 261 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: to that. The intermittent the intermittent smell. Yeah, exposure is 262 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: very because you never acclimate to it. And yeah, I 263 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: remember I. 264 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: Just sort of like I kind of just bust that laughing, 265 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: and it was it wasn't a very long flight, but 266 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: it was highly unpleasant. 267 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 4: It's like the difference between a dull roar and an 268 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 4: intermittent sound. Right, It's like you could get used to 269 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 4: a sound that's annoying as long as it's consistent. Right. 270 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 4: So you might say that's the radio show. 271 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: BBO is like a white bo is like a white 272 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: is like white noise. But I'm talking about like the 273 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: thunder was you know, we don't know, but I mean 274 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: this is why. For instance, it seems to me that 275 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 1: fire alarms only go off in the middle of the 276 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: night at like two am. You're sleeping great, and it's 277 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: by the way, the batteries out, and so then you've 278 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: got to figure out how to replace it. You're climbing 279 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: on a ladder, you feel like you're. 280 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 4: Gonna die because you're gonna fall off and hit your 281 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 4: head and won't start. It's the intermitten, right, It's the intermittent. Oh, 282 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 4: the little chirp, that little little chirp beep that just sleep. 283 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 4: Clay lives in a castle. So it's fun because I 284 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 4: get lost sometimes when I visit him, and I'm like, 285 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 4: I'm like yelling for Laura. 286 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: I'm like I'm in the south wing and. 287 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: There's like a drawbridge that has to so Clay's house 288 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: is enormous, and and uh, I can imagine. The thing 289 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: about that little chirp noise is that if you have 290 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: where it's coming, you'll never know where it is. So 291 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: then you start to lose your mind, like then you 292 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: start to turn into Jack Nicholson in the Shining because 293 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: each one of those little things could. 294 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 4: Be the amount of time that I have spent walking 295 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 4: around in the middle of the night in my underwear 296 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 4: trying to figure out where the fire alarm is that 297 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 4: is chirping. By the way, fire alarms have thankfully never 298 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 4: gone off for any reason that we've needed them, right, 299 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 4: and I don't even know what the rules are. There 300 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 4: are some parts of our house where we have fire 301 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 4: alarms that are separated about like five feet, so you 302 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 4: talk about like even if you're narrow. I don't know what. 303 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 4: I guess maybe one room is classified one way and 304 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 4: the other way. I don't know why they do that, 305 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 4: but I'll stand there literally between the two trying to 306 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 4: determine which direction it's going. It's two thirty in the morning, 307 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 4: and this was even worse buck when I used to 308 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 4: get up at four twenty in the morning. You know, 309 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 4: for my morning radio show for five years, there's nothing 310 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 4: worse than getting up at four twenty. I know a 311 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 4: lot of you out there get up early in the morning, 312 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 4: you know what I'm talking about when that alarm goes off. 313 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 4: The only thing worse than that is when the fire 314 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 4: alarm starts chirping at two thirty and you're like, I 315 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 4: got to be up, and you know in an hour 316 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 4: and twenty minutes, I'm only sleeping like four hours. Anyway, 317 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 4: all of that said, none of it compares on the 318 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 4: airplane to all of you infidels out there. You know 319 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 4: where some people see some people where I live, have 320 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 4: they they've heard the stories of my triumph over bust 321 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 4: twenty seven, for example, So you know, maybe you're now 322 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 4: a hero of the community. 323 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 2: I am. 324 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 4: I am kind of a You might be able to 325 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 4: get elected to the local Miami Beach Board of Directors 326 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 4: or whatever they have there, just based on your triumph 327 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 4: over bus twenty seven. 328 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: I'm kind of like the Robin Hood of annoying sounds 329 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: and there you go. 330 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 2: So just tell it everybody we have. 331 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: I wanted to take this out actually because people get 332 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: it's funny is and if people get fired up about 333 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: the day to day things. We didn't talk about this 334 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: the restaurant, I forget where it was, but they find 335 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: parents they added a fifty dollars poor parenting fee onto 336 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: their check because their kids were so poorly behaved during 337 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: to dinner. I don't know if this is like really 338 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: enforceable for a restaurant to do, but I like the 339 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: spirit of it, and people got very, very mad at me, 340 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: although I will admit that right now this puppy is 341 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: kicking my butt maning my hand. 342 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 4: Ideas for all buck young children takes to be collated 343 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 4: and brought together, because when Buck has young children, I 344 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 4: think all of these perspectives will rapidly change. In general, 345 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 4: I agree that you should try to get your kids 346 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 4: well behaved at restaurants, and I like to think, having 347 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: raised three that for the most part, we've never really 348 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 4: ruined any buddies that I can remember, restaurant or meal 349 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 4: I have had. Every one of my kids has I'm 350 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 4: not even kidding about this, has thrown up with me, 351 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 4: has thrown up on me on an airplane when they 352 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 4: were young. Every single one of them that's rough threw 353 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 4: up on me on an airplane, so at some point 354 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 4: when they were young, like lap children, legit throw up 355 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 4: like that's a lot of parents out there have experienced it. 356 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 4: So my general reaction is I just feel bad for 357 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 4: the parents when a kid loses it, because I know 358 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 4: there are lots of good parents that have kids lose it, 359 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 4: and so you gotta step out. I have sympathy there, 360 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 4: I don't. 361 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: I don't think you can ruin everyone else's linguini. I 362 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: think you got to step outside. 363 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 364 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: Dara in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a flight attendant wants 365 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: to weigh in on the seat reclining. 366 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 3: What's up, Dara, I just want to say that I 367 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 3: love you two. You guys are great. My first time calling. 368 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just getting over the flu, so I'm 369 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 3: a little bit rasty here. But yeah, I would have 370 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 3: to say that the majority of the arguments that are 371 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 3: on the plane is definitely putting your seat back, and 372 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 3: especially if you're over six foot and if you don't 373 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 3: get the bulkhead or if you don't get seated in 374 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 3: the emergency exits, and yeah, you have a huge problem. 375 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 4: So what how do you handle that? Then? I bet 376 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 4: it is like a major. I would bet you know. 377 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 4: Masking obviously was incredibly difficult for you guys to handle. 378 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 4: But what do you say, do you try to relocate 379 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 4: people because it's it's kind of like the fight's not 380 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 4: going to get better during the course of the flight, right. 381 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 3: Right, I do. I don't know about the other flight attendants, 382 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 3: but I do. I always, I always try to re 383 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 3: see them. I mean it's a little you know, if 384 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 3: they're by themselves, then it's a little bit easier. If 385 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 3: they're with a family, it's obviously a little bit harder 386 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 3: if they want to stay with their family, But yes, 387 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 3: I always try to re see them, and then I 388 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 3: always try to tell them that they should book either 389 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 3: at the bulkhead or at the emergency exits. 390 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 4: No doubt, would you prefer as a flight attendant if 391 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 4: seats did not recline. 392 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 3: Well, I was listening to that about the night flights, 393 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 3: and that was hysterical. Yeah, And that was hysterical because 394 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 3: I wish we did have planes like that, but unfortunately 395 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 3: are planes that we use for overnighters, like maybe in 396 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 3: LA to New York. There are planes that we also 397 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 3: used during the day, so we can't do right. 398 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for the call. By the way, appreciate 399 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 4: all the work she does. Don't recline your seats. Be 400 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 4: a good human. Sunday draw with Clay and Buck. If 401 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 4: we bring in now my friend and country music superstar 402 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,360 Speaker 4: John Rich and John we've gotten to know each other 403 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 4: quite a bit over the last few years. Would you 404 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 4: have ever believed that the country would get as crazy 405 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 4: as it is right now and we'd be talking about 406 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 4: you know, guys winning women's championships and war everywhere, and 407 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 4: it just feels like chaos has descended across the nation 408 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 4: and frankly around the world. 409 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 6: No, I would not have believed we would actually see 410 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 6: it to this degree. I did, however, believe there were 411 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,479 Speaker 6: people that intended for these things to happen, but for 412 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 6: many years, they were pretty careful on not allowing us 413 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 6: to really see their intentions play out in front of 414 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 6: our faces, you know, because once, once it plays out 415 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 6: where you can see it, there's only nowhere for them 416 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 6: to hide. So it's pretty it's pretty shocking to see 417 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 6: what's going on. And I don't know about you, but 418 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 6: it feels like we are in a momentum pattern right 419 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 6: now of more and more things, bad things coming for 420 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,719 Speaker 6: this country. It's a very concerning time to be an 421 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 6: American right now. 422 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: John, do you get the science it's back? And I 423 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: appreciate you being here with us on the show. 424 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 2: You can get the sense. 425 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: That that creatives, so to speak, whether in you know, 426 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: obviously country music, but more broadly just the music industry. 427 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: Are are people starting to recognize that the shackles they're 428 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: under because of wokeness or political correctness or whatever are 429 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 1: really contrary to the ethos of creativity and really the 430 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: ethos of America and freedom, Like, are you. 431 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 2: Seeing it happening more? 432 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: Are you talking to people behind the scenes or is 433 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: it still status quo for the most part. 434 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 6: Well, I think the artists, the songwriters, you know, the creators, 435 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 6: we all know what we're looking at. And yet, I mean, 436 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 6: the current culture in this country is not conducive to 437 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 6: free thought or wide open creativity, artistic creativity. It's just 438 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 6: not the problem is most of your artists that are 439 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 6: currently on the radio, they all have record deals. The 440 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 6: record labels are run by you know, giant corporations that 441 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 6: are heavily leftists, and they know that. And if I 442 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 6: say the wrong thing, I do the wrong interview. I 443 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 6: put out the wrong song, I'm probably done, you know, 444 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 6: I might lose my record deal, might not get played 445 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 6: on the radio again. And so it's really hard thing 446 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 6: to ask those artists to do it anyway, because a 447 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 6: lot of them this is their American dream. They work 448 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 6: their asses off to get to that point, to get 449 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 6: a record deal and be heard and be on country 450 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 6: radio or pop radio or whatever they're on, and now 451 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 6: they're looking at turning the whole thing upside down over 452 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 6: freedom of speech. For me, I think it came at 453 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 6: a good point in my career because I don't need 454 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 6: the music industry anymore. As a matter of fact, I 455 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 6: look at it like this, if the music industry thought 456 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 6: well of me, I would not think well of myself. 457 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 6: It would bother me if they liked me at this point. 458 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 6: But I do empathize with a lot of these artists guys, 459 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 6: because what are they supposed to do. Al Dean is 460 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 6: big enough that he's able to come out and say 461 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 6: what he wants to. You can't cancel Aldan. There's a 462 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 6: few of us, but not many. 463 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 4: I'm curious when you're out and about what kind of 464 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 4: response you get from fans, because there's some people out 465 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 4: there who say, as you point out, oh man, I 466 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 4: don't want to really rock the boat. I don't want 467 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 4: to say exactly what I think. You have come through 468 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 4: on the other side and you just say exactly what 469 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 4: you think. I Actually, my experience, I think people are 470 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 4: just looking for authenticity and as long as you're being 471 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 4: honest to yourself, they're fine with that. I'm curious if 472 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,679 Speaker 4: you found that in your experience with your music. 473 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean when I travel around the country. You 474 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 6: know we did, uh we did close to forty big and. 475 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 3: Rich shows this year. 476 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 6: So you do meet in Greece before all the shows, 477 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 6: and you know, you meet everybody before the event, and 478 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 6: pretty much across the board, people will come up to 479 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 6: me and shake my hand and say, hey, thanks for 480 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 6: saying what we would say if we had the microphone. 481 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 6: Like you know, John, you've got you've got the microphone, 482 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 6: you've got a platform. You're saying exactly how we feel 483 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 6: about this, and thank you keep doing it, and so 484 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 6: that makes you feel great, you know, giving up the 485 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 6: music industry. They they blackballed me, well, I blackballed into 486 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 6: you know, I don't care to work with them either. 487 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 6: And so when that happened. Though. A few years ago, 488 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 6: I thought, well, that's that's it. No more award shows, 489 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 6: no more number one songs, that's over with. I wonder 490 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 6: what's gonna happen going down the road, And I can 491 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 6: tell you what happened, man, is tens of millions of 492 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 6: Americans that keep up with what I do now have 493 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 6: my back. They feel they feel like I'm one of 494 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 6: them because I am, and that we speak the same language. 495 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 6: So it's become a much bigger conversation for me out 496 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 6: there with the fans than just the music. It's it's 497 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 6: very dimensionalized at this point, and a great feeling for 498 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 6: me to have. 499 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: We're speaking to country music superstar John Rich and John 500 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: you know, Clay's in Nashville, so he's he's closer to 501 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: the world of country music. You know, certainly physically that 502 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: I am as a guy who grew up in New 503 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: York City. But it would seem to me that if 504 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: there's any place where pro American values, traditional values, you know, freedom, 505 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: the flag, all that would be totally welcome in that 506 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: creative space, specifically in the music industry, it would be 507 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: country music. But you get pressure, you know, if you 508 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: were if talking about like Top forty or some of 509 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 1: the other genres I would understand. So to an outsider 510 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: to me, isn't country music like the safe space for 511 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: loving America? Or is there really pressure on artists not 512 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: to be able to express themselves that way? 513 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 6: No, it's not a safe space. Listen, man, you're talking 514 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 6: about Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers. Between those three companies, they 515 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 6: own eighty percent of all the record labels. So you're 516 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 6: not dealing with some good old boy in Nashville, some 517 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 6: good old country girl in Nashville. You're dealing with elite, 518 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 6: mega corporate you know, oligarchs basically of these companies, and 519 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 6: so that when they put the downward pressure and they 520 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 6: tell their A and R departments, their publicists, everybody, Hey, 521 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 6: this is how we do it. This is how we 522 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 6: don't do it. You know what Clay was saying earlier 523 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 6: that of course that kills artistic expression. You listen, Charlie Daniels, 524 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 6: Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, all of our favorites, if they 525 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 6: were writing those songs today in this current climate, you 526 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 6: would never here any of it. It would never be 527 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 6: allowed to get to the public. Seiers. 528 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 4: We're talking to John Rich I know, in addition to 529 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 4: country music, you are a monster college football fan, and 530 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 4: we did some of people have watched this. We were 531 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 4: on Big Noon together. I know you're a Longhorn fan 532 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 4: for all the Texas listeners out there, But your show 533 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 4: was on College Game Day on ESPN. For your song 534 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 4: was on College Game Day, which a very popular pregame 535 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 4: show for a long time, and then they took your 536 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 4: version off. I'm curious why you think that happened, and 537 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 4: a positive story here. Your song is going to be 538 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 4: on Big Noon, which is going to air on Fox 539 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 4: Sports tomorrow. Kind of take people through the background story 540 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,959 Speaker 4: of how that happened, both at ESPN and now at Fox. 541 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 6: Well, so coming to your city was the theme for 542 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 6: College Game Day on ESPN for fifteen sixteen seasons something 543 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 6: like that. I mean basically people had grown up listening 544 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 6: to that. That was a Saturday morning tradition and for 545 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 6: a lot of people, when you hear it coming to 546 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 6: your city, you know it's time for college football. Well, 547 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 6: for whatever reason, ESPN decided, hey, we still want to 548 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,719 Speaker 6: use the song, we just don't want you guys to 549 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 6: be the one singing it anymore. 550 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 4: Do you think that was by the way, a political 551 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 4: decision by them, or what do you attribute it to? 552 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 4: They had somebody else record the song, right right? 553 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 6: I mean it would be me speculating about that, But 554 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 6: why else would you do it? Maybe there's another reason. 555 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 6: I'm sure that having a guy, especially like me that's 556 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 6: as outspoken as I am as a conservative, there was 557 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 6: bound to been somebody in the ranks of ESPN going, 558 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 6: you know what, we don't really want to look at 559 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 6: his face every Saturday morning. Now, that was never told 560 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 6: to me. I can't prove that, but that's kin. That's 561 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 6: what my assumption is, but it is only an assumption, 562 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 6: so I don't really know. In any case, we weren't 563 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 6: real happy that we don't get to sing our own 564 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 6: song anymore. I mean, we weren't really happy about that. 565 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 6: So this opportunity comes along from Fox Sports and they said, hey, 566 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 6: we love Big and Rich and Cowboy Troy. You guys 567 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 6: want to do something with us, Like, of course, we 568 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 6: want to do something. Let's go. We love college football. 569 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 6: So we actually took Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy, 570 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 6: which is the biggest song we've ever had. We took 571 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 6: that music and wrote an entire special piece of music 572 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 6: for big noon kickoff. It's going to air tomorrow, man, 573 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 6: and we are absolutely pumped to have graduated to a 574 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 6: major network like that and have our voices heard again. 575 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 4: That's awesome. It's gonna be fun. It'll be on tomorrow 576 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 4: from ten to noon Eastern all over the country. They'll 577 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 4: be playing your new song on the Fox Sports pre 578 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 4: game show. 579 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 6: Yeah it's rocking, dude. I'm so happy and thank you 580 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 6: for you were instrumental man and kind of connecting those wires. 581 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 6: And it's been a blast working with everybody. Easy people 582 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 6: down there is people and yeah, tomorrow, my two sons, 583 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 6: Cass and Coach the like. We're getting up extra early, man. 584 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 6: I know it's Saturday, but we're gonna watch. We got 585 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 6: to see you on there, man, We got to check 586 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 6: it out, so we'll have it cranked at our house. 587 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 4: By the way, you also played for Donald Trump at 588 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 4: his most recent fundraiser. I saw you there. You came 589 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 4: out and played a song for people who don't know 590 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 4: Donald Trump. Why are you such a big Trump supporter? 591 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 4: What has he been like for you? 592 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 6: Because the entire system hates him, and the entire system 593 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 6: is corrupt, and so you are known by your enemies, 594 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 6: and that's what I think, and I think that's what 595 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 6: most Americans think. Is Donald Trump a perfect human being? 596 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 4: No? 597 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 6: Is he the perfect role model for everybody? Absolutely not. 598 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 6: He's a very flawed individual. But the entire system despises 599 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 6: Donald Trump. Republicans hate him, Democrats hate him, Tech hates them, 600 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 6: the media hates them, business hates them, the banks hate him. 601 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 6: All the systems in our country that keep their boot 602 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 6: heel on the neck of the American people hate Donald Trump. 603 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 6: And for me, that's all I need to know that 604 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 6: he's the right guy to step back forward and try 605 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 6: to put this thing back into Our country is literally 606 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 6: catching on fire and it's just getting started. Who's the 607 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 6: only one holding the fire extinguisher. Who's the only one 608 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 6: that can reverse this mess? Name somebody other than Donald 609 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,959 Speaker 6: Trump that you think would have a chance at least 610 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,479 Speaker 6: of reversing the destruction we see going on in this country. 611 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 6: I personally can't name anybody else, and so that's why 612 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 6: I support him. 613 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 4: John Rich Country music superstar, Love you man, see us soon. 614 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 6: Thank you guys, take care, Thank you.