The 96th episode and season finale of No Hair, All Heart sits host Mookie Spitz down with Claris "Bud" Hyett, an 81-year-old farm boy turned innovative corporate problem-solver, Marine-raised straight-shooter, cancer survivor, and unapologetic truth teller. Doctors gave him months to live—nine years ago. Instead of folding, he keeps fighting, living, thinking...
And storytelling: from growing up on a hard Midwestern farm to shaping major aerospace projects, from a near-death brush-fire experience to messy marriages, brutal family battles, redemption, love, and ultimately pride in the life he built, Bud doesn’t regret a damn thing.
He talks about grit, American culture losing its backbone, education losing its soul, politics losing its honesty, and what it really means to work hard, stand up, build something, and keep going when life beats the hell out of you. He also talks love, loyalty, Freemasonry, marksmanship, near-spiritual moments, and the strange miracle of still being here after doctors counted him out. Rather than gloat or complan, Bud offers profound perspective from a man who earned it the hard way, while still having his own unfinished business.
If you want a conversation that hits reality square in the jaw—resilience, mortality, family, work, and purpose—this is it. Listen, learn a thing or two, and maybe rethink what “a good life” really means.
Bud's Memoir
