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  • 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,570 Hey, I don't know if you saw this,

  • but something happened over the weekend on an airplane,

  • and it went viral.

  • It's a video of a man punching the back of a woman's chair

  • because she reclined her seat.

  • Have you seen this?

  • Yeah.

  • OK.

  • If you haven't seen it, I want to show it to you,

  • and then we're going to discuss it, OK?

  • This is-- she started recording this,

  • and he just nonstop punched the back of her chair.

  • He glances up, making sure.

  • 00:00:33,660 --> 00:00:35,080 He obviously said something.

  • You can't tell what he-- anyway, it looks uncomfortable,

  • but Brookstone charges $600 for a chair like that.

  • So--

  • 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:48,920 Anyway, the video started a great debate

  • over who's right in this situation, the man

  • or the woman.

  • I can't even believe that there's a debate over this,

  • but before we take sides on this,

  • I want to make sure you have all the information that I have.

  • Here's what I know.

  • I wasn't there.

  • I don't know.

  • But the man couldn't recline his own seat

  • because he was in the very last row

  • by the bathrooms, which, in my opinion, should be free,

  • but for some reason they cost the same

  • as all the other seats.

  • So he asked the woman to put her seat up

  • while he ate, because he had very little room, which

  • there is on the planes like that, so she put her seat up.

  • But then when he finished eating, she reclined it.

  • Then he started a boxing match with her seat.

  • So how many people vote for the woman that he was in the wrong?

  • OK.

  • All right.

  • How many people vote for the man that he was--

  • 00:01:41,850 --> 00:01:42,839 you raised your hand.

  • I'm just so curious.

  • Why do you think it was OK for him

  • to punch the back of her seat?

  • Well, not punch, but, you know, he

  • should have been asking nicely.

  • He did.

  • He asked her to put it up when he ate,

  • and then she put it back that when she was done.

  • But you still think it's OK that he punched?

  • No.

  • You changed your mind, or are you getting peer pressure?

  • I don't want you to--

  • I'm just curious.

  • I just think it's amazing.

  • I mean, the woman reported it to the flight attendant,

  • and the flight attendant took the man's side.

  • Are you the flight attendant?

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • But the flight attendant took the man's side,

  • and honestly, I just--

  • I don't understand that there's a debate over this,

  • because, speaking just for me, I can't believe anybody is taking

  • the man's side, because to me, the only, only time it's ever

  • OK to punch someone's seat is if the seat punches you first.

  • I think then you can punch the seat back.

  • Otherwise, don't punch someone's seat.

  • It's the first clue that you're doing something

  • that you shouldn't be doing if someone pulls out a phone

  • and starts recording you for evidence.

  • At that point, you know you're going to become a YouTube

  • star, and not the kind where you make a million dollars

  • for opening toys.

  • Also, airline seats are made to recline.

  • She has a right to recline her chair, and I get it.

  • There's not a lot of leg room.

  • You're frustrated.

  • You're hot because of the beard.

  • But you're also an adult, and you have to act like an adult.

  • You're on a plane.

  • Don't pick on her like a third grader,

  • punching the back of her seat.

  • I can't believe anybody would think

  • that's OK to punch someone else's seat.

  • There are a lot of angry people out there right now,

  • but we need to learn more compassion.

  • We need to think about what somebody else might

  • be feeling, what she may be going through in her life.

  • And the same thing.

  • Maybe he's going through something,

  • but he didn't have to punch her seat.

  • Anyway, if you're ever unsure on how to behave on a plane,

  • just remember--

  • I say this at the end of every one of my shows--

  • recline to one another.

  • And--

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • [CHEERING]

  • 00:03:41,430 --> 00:03:43,860 For some reason, people think I'm saying, be kind to one

  • another.

  • I said, recline to one another.

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