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🗓️ 6 December 2025
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Flying used to be special. Now we’re debating whether bathing suits, crop tops, and F-bomb merch belong in the boarding line. With the DOT begging passengers to “dress with respect,” maybe it’s time we ask ourselves how the skies got this sloppy.
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| 0:00.0 | We spoke in ad nauseum about the idiots on the extremes who caused chaos on airplanes because, as I said, well, they're idiots. |
| 0:11.2 | And in some cases, winding up, tied down, or duct tape to their seats. |
| 0:16.7 | Man, that's crazy, I swear. |
| 0:20.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, I wonder about a minute. |
| 0:23.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:26.3 | But the real story, many of us can be better air travelers. |
| 0:31.0 | We can just do better by growing up and perhaps even dressing up. |
| 0:35.1 | Let's look at some headlines. |
| 0:36.6 | Why the Transportation Department |
| 0:38.6 | wants you to dress with respect at the airport. Here's another one. D.O.T., that's Department |
| 0:45.7 | of Transportation, ushers in Golden Age of Travel with New Civility Campaign. Another headline, |
| 0:52.4 | dress up. Trump administration official bashes sloppy fashion on |
| 0:57.1 | airplanes. Now, why does somebody want you to dress up? Are they trying to be condescending and |
| 1:03.0 | tell you to dress like maybe they do? No, but the fact of the matter is, |
| 1:10.1 | psychologically, when people dress up and put on their nicer clothes, |
| 1:15.5 | they do tend to behave better. |
| 1:17.9 | If you're in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops, you really don't hold yourself to the same |
| 1:23.6 | standard as you do when you put on the clothes you wear to Sunday school or church. I mean, |
| 1:28.3 | you know that. Come on. You may think the government should have bigger air travel issues than |
| 1:35.2 | becoming the fashion police. I mean, we've seen all the problems with ATC. We've seen midair |
| 1:40.5 | crashes. We've seen all sorts of things. It seems like do they really need to be getting |
| 1:45.4 | into my closet? They need to be fashion police. You can't wear white shoes after Labor Day. |
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