1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Cut booms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,159 Speaker 2: It's a clearing house of hot takes. Break free for 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maler and Danny g 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Friday to you the day after the 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 3: big holiday, the Christmas Holiday. Why am I doing this podcast? 14 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 3: I am away from the radio. I'll tell you why. 15 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 3: I'm a glutton for punishment. And a podcast is much 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 3: easier than a four hour radio show. A podcast is 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 3: twenty five or thirty minutes and that's it, and you 18 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: can do it whenever you want to explain this to people. 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 3: I have friends of mine that are doing podcasts and 20 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 3: some of them never did radio, and I try to 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 3: point out. 22 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: That is it a brag? I guess it's a brag. 23 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 3: I just the live radio show is a much bigger 24 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 3: endeavor than a podcast. People get offended by that. Just 25 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 3: the reality of the situation. Nonetheless, it is Boxing Day today, 26 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 3: and so I figured what better way to celebrate Boxing 27 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 3: Day than to do this podcast. And really, every day 28 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 3: is Boxing Day at the Malor Mansion. My wife is 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 3: now pretty much one hundred percent an online shopper, and 30 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: that's it just more convenient, and we have box after 31 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: box after box after box, so many boxes. Every day 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: is Boxing Day. It's time to hop on the bully 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: pulpit because there's a thing happening in the NFL every 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 3: December that drives me absolutely be as. Now I've got 35 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: on this podcast. We've got camel and tuned into PPS. 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 3: Now this is my age old pet people. We're gonna 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: start with this and it's a pretty good jumping up point. 38 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: You've probably seen. Back in the day, there was a 39 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 3: channel called QVC. My problem is QGC, not QVC. My 40 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 3: problem is QGC as in quarterbacks, gifts cameras. It is 41 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,839 Speaker 3: everywhere this time of the year, throwing lights in action 42 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 3: if you want. It's the annual look at me, I'm generous. 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 3: I have a lot of money, I buy really nice gifts. 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: But it's look at me, I'm generous. 45 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: The Bowl sponsored by Ring Lights and brand managers from 46 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 3: c They're shining Sea. Every quarterback in the league turns 47 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 3: into Santa Claus old Saint Nick. But not the small Santa, 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: the kind that you see at the mall or when 49 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 3: I was sitting my fat ass on the back of 50 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: a fire truck. Not the bad Santa image of the 51 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 3: cigarette bray, the depressed, down on their luck, smell like regret, 52 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 3: have sad cup of coffee in their hand. Not that 53 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: this is Santa with the PR department. This is Santa 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: with a social media coordinator. It is Santa with a 55 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: three point lighting setup and a boom bike covering like 56 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: it's an episode they're filming of Hard Knocks, the c 57 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: SE edition Community Service Edition. Ho ho smash that like button. Now, 58 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you right now. I fully blame my 59 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: dearly departed parents. They raised me on the radical, absolutely 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: radical idea that true charity should be anonymous, and I 61 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: blame them. That is, if you're doing something nice and 62 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: immediately have to tell everyone about it, maybe that's a 63 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: weasel word. You're not doing it for the right reasons, dumb, 64 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: dumb your jackwagon. Now, real generosity is doing something nice 65 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 3: for someone who will never find out. Not doing it 66 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: because you want to get likes on Facebook or a 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 3: bunch of views on TikTok, not for Instagram validation, just 68 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: because it's the right thing to do. 69 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: God forbid. 70 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: How will people know that you're a good person if 71 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 3: you don't tell them, You have to show them. 72 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: It's a sickness. This is empty social media friendly generosity. 73 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. 74 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: It's philanthropathy that boosts the giver's social capital more than 75 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 3: the cause itself. It's not PBS, it's PPS. We're all 76 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 3: tuned into PPS. That's performative philanthropic syndrome. These charity events 77 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 3: have better production. I'm telling you, better pressure value than 78 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: half the stuff Netflix screen lights. 79 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: I've always hey this. 80 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 3: I remember when I first got on the media business 81 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 3: and I was on the email list for all the 82 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: teams in in LA, and I remember the Lakers would 83 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 3: send out a press release this goes back to like 84 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: the nineties, and they'd be like Nick van Exel's handing 85 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: out turkeys at the shelter. He'll be there from two 86 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 3: to two thirty photo op and then he'll do a 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: ten minute of media availability after that. And they said 88 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 3: this out, I mean all the teams do it. I 89 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 3: just mentioned Lakers, but they all did it because they 90 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: wanted to get on the eleven o'clock news back when 91 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 3: people watch the news. Of course, now that's been taken 92 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 3: to the next level. We're at the point where quarterback 93 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: gift reveal, which goes on all of us. It looks 94 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 3: like a gender reveal party for a Lamborghini QB number 95 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: one playing Santa is not new, all right, it's not new. 96 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: This has been around for generations. Literally, it used to 97 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 3: be quiet, it used to be subtle. It did it 98 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 3: was under the radar. Is it true that Joe Montana 99 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 3: is credited as the innovator In the nineteen eighties, he 100 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: gave his forty nine er offensive lineman Rolex watches. 101 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: I was back in the late eighties early nineties. There 102 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: were no. 103 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 3: Cameras, there was no hashtags, couldn't be There was no 104 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 3: makeup chair. 105 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: They didn't have a sound guy. 106 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 3: Just hey, big fella, thanks for keeping me alive and 107 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: helping the Niners win the Super Bowl. Here's a nice 108 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 3: expensive watch. Now Montana was doing charity like a mob boss. 109 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: Here's your envelope. Just nod walk away. 110 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: That's it. Manila envelope, nod walk away. That's all. 111 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 3: Then came the person who is believed to be Patient zero, 112 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 3: Dan the man Dan Marino, Dolphin's legend from the nineteen eighties. 113 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 3: He was Patient zero, the invasive species, the man who 114 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 3: turned gratitude into attitude and an advertised campaign. And if 115 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 3: you're old that you know of those iconic Isotona glove commercials. 116 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 3: I give them to protect the hands that protect me. 117 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 3: Boom goes to dynamite and now we're selling gloves and 118 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: virtue and you can thank number thirteen in your teal 119 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: dolphin uniform, Dan Marino. That was the moment that charity 120 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 3: jumped the shark right there, Boom, Shaka laka, or put 121 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 3: the shark in branded gloves if you want. 122 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: Since then, we have literally witnessed. 123 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 3: In my lifetime in arms race, not arms, watches, cars, bikes, swords. 124 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: We're talking cutlery, actual medieval weaponry. 125 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: Quarterbacks one upping each other like it's a pissing contest, 126 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 3: and it's like they're yacht owners elbowing each other at 127 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 3: Monaco Happy Hour. I'll see your rolex and raise you 128 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 3: a Toyota Tacoma. What so here as we wind down, 129 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, we reached full absurdity. Brock Party Brock Perty, 130 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: the forty nine er quarterback who I believe is a 131 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: brand ambassador for Toyota handing out trucks now. Last year 132 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 3: he handed out a bunch of cars to his teammates. 133 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 3: This year it's families in Need, which is genuinely kind. 134 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 3: I'm not here to say that that's not kind. It's 135 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: also filmed, edited, packaged, released in a neat bow with 136 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: background music that sounds like a pharmaceutical commercial. Just have 137 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 3: to add to tagline. Ask your doctor if generosity is 138 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 3: right for you. Josh Allen gave the Bills offensive line 139 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: a quarter of a cow. 140 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: We talked about that. 141 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: Spaccoli said, that's one hundred to one hundred and fifty 142 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 3: pounds of meat. Still, why not just buy the whole cow? 143 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 3: Why only a quarter? I bought a cow, or just 144 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 3: say you bought a cow. It's not a gift, it's 145 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 3: it's a ranch. Just give the person the ranch. That's 146 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: not a stocking stuffer. By the way, that's some kind 147 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 3: of agriculture policy. I don't know what it is, but 148 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 3: that cow has more job security than the most NFL 149 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 3: running backs, and we know where that cow is getting 150 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 3: end up. Jared Goff of course had to announce it. 151 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: He gave luxury golf carts to his buddies. There Aaron 152 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 3: Rodgers of the Steelers gave out some kind of luxury 153 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 3: off road vehicle. So nothing says thanks for protecting me, 154 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 3: like a vehicle like that. That golf cart thing like 155 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 3: a vehicle. You use that to walk, you know, to 156 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 3: save twelve steps. I'm going to take my golf cart. 157 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 3: I do love the visual, though offensive linemen for the 158 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 3: Lions riding around like their retired Florida snowbirds in their 159 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 3: golf cart on some little island off the coast of Florida. 160 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 3: And then there's Patrick Mahomes, who what a humdinger, Good 161 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 3: old Patrick Mahomes. Here Mahomes went full black Friday at 162 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 3: the Mall of America. Luxury watches were with more than 163 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 3: some people's homes, e bikes, indoor golf simulators, headphones, AI, sunglasses, 164 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 3: I'm not done suitcases. It looked like the prize table 165 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 3: backstage at the price is right, we can bring back 166 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 3: Bob Barker and it's like he had a Super Bowl 167 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 3: ring or something like that. But everyone pretends that this 168 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 3: is about gratitude and not about branding. And this is 169 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 3: another one of those parts of the story that makes 170 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 3: me a little. 171 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: Itchy and scratchy. 172 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 3: Itchy and scratchy, because none of this, none of these things, 173 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 3: is really for the linemen. They're already rich, they can 174 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 3: buy whatever they want, they're already set. This is not 175 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: back in the old days in the NFL when guys 176 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 3: had jobs in the off season. They're already driving nicer cars. 177 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 3: And I'll ever even put my nose in. This isn't generosity. 178 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 3: It's pageantry. It's gratitude, kabuki theaters what it is. It's applause, farming, 179 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 3: all of that. It's charity, wearing shoulder pads and yelling. 180 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 3: Don't forget to tag me. If you want to do 181 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 3: something meaningful, if you really do, and it's great, you 182 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 3: should do that, do it quietly. Pay off someone's mortgage 183 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 3: you got the money, help a family who will never 184 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 3: know your name, write a check, and don't tell the internet. 185 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 3: That's real generosity. It can be done, it was done 186 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 3: for hundreds and hundreds of years. 187 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: That's doing the right thing. When there's no scoreboard. 188 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 3: That's how that's how you get it done instead, Well. 189 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: What about the algorithm. I get rewarded by the algorithm. 190 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: You wouldn't reward me with the algorithm. I want to 191 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: be rewarded by the algorithm. That's the problem. 192 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 3: We've turned kindness into content, compassion into a clip on 193 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: the internet, a highlight reel. Every good deed needs a 194 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 3: drone shot and a slow motion hug. Now, no one 195 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 3: is more egregious in this department than Russell Wilson. Now 196 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 3: Russ is no longer a starting quarterback, so I assume 197 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 3: he doesn't have to worry about getting gifts. But Russ, 198 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 3: he always had a camera crew. 199 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: He used to go to the. 200 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 3: Children's hospital all the time. And how do we know that? 201 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 3: Because he always had a camera guy. He had a 202 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 3: lighting guy, a sound guy, a makeup team. 203 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: So it seemed, and. 204 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 3: You want to do that, but you want people to 205 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 3: hear about it because of word of mouth. Like Kobe 206 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: Bryant when he died burned up in the helicopter crash, 207 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 3: all these stories came out that Kobe would quietly go 208 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 3: to hospitals around southern California and elsewhere to see kids. 209 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 3: He did not have a camera crew. He didn't post 210 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: about it on social media. Ninety five percent of the time, 211 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 3: he just did it. It was a good deed that 212 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 3: needed to be done. You didn't need to get a 213 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 3: drone shot and a slow motion hug shot. 214 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: You didn't need that. 215 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: Santa Claus Force now has an agent. And look, I'm 216 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 3: not saying. I'm not saying these quarterbacks are bad people. 217 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 3: I'm not, and you can take me out of context 218 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 3: if you want. They're not villains. They are just products 219 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 3: of the zeitgeist of the times. This is the system 220 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 3: that confuses attention with impact. And it's not just in sports, 221 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 3: but we do a plausibly a sports show where it's 222 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 3: where charity without witness doesn't count. These guys have been 223 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 3: raised that way. I was raised differently. Who knows who's right. 224 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,359 Speaker 3: I believe I'm right they were raised. We're giving quietly 225 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 3: feels like a missed opportunity in today's NFL. If a 226 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 3: good deed happens and nobody posted, did it even happen? 227 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 3: That's the silliness of this. Because generosity should not sound 228 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 3: like a press conference. It shouldn't need graphics a chiron, 229 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 3: it shouldn't trend. The best charity doesn't spike engagement, it 230 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 3: changes lives in silence, less ring lights, and more heart. 231 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: The loudest kindness is usually the emptiest and the real 232 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 3: good stuff that happens off camera when no one's watching. 233 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 3: We know we are in the minority, but that's just 234 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 3: my position turning the page. So by request, several of 235 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 3: you emailed me this week saying, can you tell me 236 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 3: more about the party? I like the photos. We did 237 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 3: post some photos. Thank you for liking the photos. A 238 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: few of you took shots at me. That's fine, but 239 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: we did post some photos on Instagram and Facebook, so 240 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: check that out. But it was that time of the 241 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 3: year when the calendar exhales, when the days feel like 242 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 3: a jukebox stuck on nostalgia, and when grown adults convinced 243 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: themselves that calories are merely a suggestion. We must celebrate 244 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 3: good times. Come on now, gota celebrate. So as twenty 245 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: twenty five wobbled towards the exit and just memory like 246 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 3: a barb patron wobbling out who insists he's fine to drive, 247 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: and we decided to throw a party now, not just 248 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 3: any party, a rebrand because if you don't evolve, you fossilize, 249 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: someone said somewhere along the way, and nobody. Nobody wants 250 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 3: to be a pain in the tukis and be a 251 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 3: dinosaur in an ugly sweater. So thus the malar ugly 252 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: Sweater Christmas Party was officially retired to mothballs. Its number 253 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 3: was raised to the rafters high above the garden, replaced 254 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: by the Mallard Christmas pajama jam, which is a fancy 255 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 3: way of saying, show up dressed like you've already given 256 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 3: up on the day. Pajamas. Now I've seen kids today 257 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 3: they go to school in pajamas. That was not allowed 258 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 3: back in my day. Pajamas. If you want in pajamas, 259 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 3: they'd send you home. Now they encourage it. Pajamas are honest. 260 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 3: Pajamas tell the truth. Pajamas say I am here for comfort, 261 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 3: not for your approval. Ugly sweaters were so twenty twenty 262 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 3: four and before pajamas are the future soft forgiving the 263 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 3: elastic waistband comfort when you eat too much. Leading up 264 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 3: to last weekend, it was part already prep Central, which 265 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 3: means activating Benny the Baker, a man who treats dessert 266 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 3: like Michael Angelo treated marble. Benny the baker obsessed with baking. 267 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 3: Now we went deep in the recipe bag, the one 268 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 3: that has flour stains and emotional support. Butter turning the 269 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 3: butter cookies in the air, ev or you wear homemade 270 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 3: chocolate chip. We had sprinkles, the Christmas and Hankkah varieties, 271 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 3: Honeka for the tribe, white chocolate, macadamia nut Mallard style. 272 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: Those are my favorite. 273 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 3: Blueberry blast cookies with real blueberries that looked innocent but 274 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 3: packed a surprise, like a trick play on a third 275 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: and short, the old hook and ladder, and the crown 276 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: jewel of the cookie parade, the malar Oui gooey cinnamon 277 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 3: roll cookie, which is essentially a cinnabn. It's basically cinnabon 278 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 3: after grad school, little chunks of the middle part of 279 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 3: the cinnamon. 280 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: Role mixed in the cookie. 281 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 3: And these weren't cookies so much as a baked philosophy 282 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 3: chunks at just those matching those ooi gooey chunks of 283 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 3: cinnamon role mixed right from the center. 284 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: Man' is that good? 285 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 3: That's not subtle, that's not apologetic, that's decadence with its 286 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 3: chest out brownies followed, because sometimes you just need a 287 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 3: classic rock song to balance the playlist, and there's nothing 288 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 3: quite as classic then A big plate of delicious Giridelli 289 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 3: brownies from Danny's family business, and just absolutely wonderful, just 290 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 3: absolutely great. Now for the main food event, I did 291 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 3: what any rational middle aged person would do. 292 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: I left early. 293 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 3: I hopped into the malamobile and went turbo time and 294 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 3: drove until I reached the Holy Land, the mecca raising canes, 295 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 3: ding ding ding, ding ding, And I returned in the 296 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 3: malamobile with not one, not two, but three bags the 297 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 3: size roughly, I don't want to be too dramatic here, 298 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 3: the size of the state of Rhode Island, filled with 299 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 3: chicken fingers, so pleasant and so plentiful, they made everyone smile. 300 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: They actually required their own sensus. They were so big. 301 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 3: And you know it's a big party when you're dusting 302 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 3: off the credit card for hundreds of pieces of finger 303 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 3: licking Sorry, KFC, this is finger licking chicken. Of course, 304 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 3: it's chicken fingers. Now, Cane sauce flowed like a river 305 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 3: of dreams. I'm pretty sure that they gave me a 306 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 3: lifetime supply, or at least enough to survive a mild apocalypse. 307 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 3: So if we have another pandemic, you all are on 308 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 3: your own. You can go get your water, and you 309 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 3: tore the paper and your little mask and knock yourself out. 310 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna enjoy my lifetime supply of Caine's Caniac sauce. 311 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: Now. 312 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 3: My wife, meanwhile, she executed her signature move at these parties. 313 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: The nacho bar. That's our fastball. 314 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 3: That's the gas tortilla chip stacked as tall as the Himalayas, 315 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 3: toppings everywhere, a choose your own adventure of melted cheese 316 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 3: and optimism. Add in random snacks such as m and 317 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 3: ms and pretzels orbiting the room like asteroids, and suddenly 318 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: the house felt like a cruise ship. 319 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: Now I've never actually been. 320 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 3: On a cruise ship other than the Queen Mary, but 321 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 3: in my head from those that have gone, they tell 322 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 3: me that it's just gluttony. 323 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: It's just gluttony, and so we had that. 324 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 3: It was like a cruise ship buffet where discipline goes 325 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 3: to die, goes to die. The alcohol situation, let's call 326 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,479 Speaker 3: it what it is. It was temptation island is what 327 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 3: it was. You got whiskey to the right vocular the left. 328 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: You got gin in the middle and bourbon in the air. 329 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 3: Everywhere there was beer stacked like sandbags. In case there 330 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 3: was a flash flood. You had mixers standing by like 331 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 3: cranberry and orange for support. 332 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:57,719 Speaker 1: Of course. 333 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 3: Now radio people those are my people, and law enforcement 334 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 3: those are my wife's people. 335 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: They don't just sip. They commit all. 336 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 3: They go for it. Our party philosophy is simple. It's 337 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 3: carved into the stone tablets, Eat, drink and be merry 338 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 3: for tomorrow we may die. I still intermitte fast, even 339 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 3: over the holidays. 340 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: I do. I don't pause that. I still do it. 341 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 3: However, I do believe in the mantra are aa mantra 342 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 3: rare and appropriate. Rare and appropriate feasting isn't just allowed, 343 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: it is encouraged. 344 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: You gotta do it. It's like, you know, everyone's a babushka. 345 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 3: You got to eat your finish your food, finish your 346 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 3: enjoy life before the pearly gates start checking ideas. All 347 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 3: right now, the guest list was a beautiful melting pot, 348 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 3: not cheese fondue. 349 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: Not cheese fondu. Something better, something better. 350 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 3: We've had a bunch of different eras of my career 351 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 3: been at Fox Sports, radio for over twenty five years, 352 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 3: and all of these different eras of Fox Sports Radio 353 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 3: blending together like a playlist on shot. 354 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: You had the radio lifers like me. 355 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 3: You had people that are no longer in radio, that 356 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 3: used to be in radio, people that did their time, 357 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,679 Speaker 3: are retired now old friends, relatively new friends. People who 358 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 3: I've done shows with, people I've never did shows with, 359 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 3: people who I've shared studios. As I said, microphones, dead air, cockroaches, 360 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: parachuting down, parachuting down from the ceiling. One of the 361 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 3: highlights was Bobo on the radio, who drove from what 362 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: felt like a million miles away. I haven't seen Bobo 363 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 3: in a while, despite having a newborn baby a at home. Now, 364 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 3: let me tell you something. I want to bring this up. 365 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 3: That's commitment. Most people have kids. I'm convinced specifically to 366 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: avoid parties. I would do it too. It's the nuclear option, 367 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 3: It's the get out of party free clause. And Bobo 368 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 3: went above that. I remember Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. 369 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 3: It is that famous things that you can't question the 370 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 3: kid card, right, Oh, I have a kid, can't go 371 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 3: to the party, right, And so for Bobo to have 372 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 3: that in his pocket and I don't even see him 373 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: on a day I don't work with any and for 374 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: him not to play it Hall of Fame Bobo on 375 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: the radio Hall of Fame. 376 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: Seriously, I was like, so cool. 377 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 3: So many people I know that I can't go, I 378 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 3: got a kid, whatever, and I'm like, what. 379 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: I'm fine, But here's Bubba's I want to go. I 380 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: want to hang out. 381 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 3: So the competitive peak of the night came courtesy of 382 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 3: a game called Left Right Center. I've talked about it before. 383 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 3: Left Right Center a game so pure it laughs. At Intelligence, 384 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 3: we busted out old poker chips like sacred artifacts. Now, 385 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if you're sober, sober, little tipsy, little tipsy, 386 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 3: or floating somewhere above the room. You could have an 387 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 3: IQ of forty or be the valed Victorian of Harvard. 388 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. The game does not discriminate. Chaos is 389 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 3: the great equalizer. So we played that. We had a 390 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 3: we had a good game. Rob Parker was there, Jason Smith, 391 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 3: Mike Harmon, Bobo, a bunch of people, and the Clipper 392 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 3: game was flickering on the TV in the background noise 393 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 3: until it wasn't The morbid Clippers having a miserable season. 394 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: Throwback Season took care of business. They silenced the Laker 395 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 3: fans who have been chirping so much this year. Purple 396 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 3: and Gold historians left with nothing but excuses and empty cups. 397 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 3: I kind of enjoyed that, not that I paid much 398 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 3: attention to the game now, as an introvert by nature, 399 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 3: a social camel. That's right, I am a camel, a 400 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 3: social camel who prefers small SIPs. This is an awkward night. 401 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 3: The malar used to be ugly sweater party. Now it's 402 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 3: the pajama jam. However, for a few hours I shell 403 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: that and became a pinball. I bounced from conversation the conversation, 404 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 3: rickocheting off memories, telling old radio stories that range from 405 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 3: safe harbor for some, safer broadcast, and absolutely not can 406 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 3: never be told into a microphone. We time traveled salad 407 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 3: days many people call them. Not for me, no salad, 408 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 3: No salad was consumed mine where the drive through days, 409 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 3: KFC Burger King, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, in and Out, Wendy's 410 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 3: beef ball, cheese steaks everywhere, A culinary resume built on 411 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 3: asphalt and ambition. 412 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: Back in my big eating days. 413 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 3: So the night ended the right way, sobering up, doing 414 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 3: the responsible thing, driving my friend Artie back to his 415 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 3: hotel so he could crash for a few hours and 416 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 3: get ready for the NFL. Because closure matters. So the 417 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 3: first ever Malard Christmas pajama jam thingamajig or what you 418 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 3: ma call it was a roaring success, a reminder that 419 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 3: community beats perfection, that comfort can be revolutionary, and that 420 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 3: sometimes sometimes the best memories are made in pajamas, holding 421 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 3: a chicken finger in one hand, rolling the dice in 422 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 3: the other and laughing like tomorrow is not guaranteed. 423 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: I cannot wait. 424 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 3: For the twenty twenty six version, although we have to 425 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 3: wait roughly a year. Same philosophy, right, same chaos, same sauce. 426 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 3: Will it have the same name? Developing hot dot dot dot. 427 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 3: Stay tuned, all right, have a wonderful Friday. Don't forget 428 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 3: about Benny Versus the Penny. We are doing this show. 429 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 3: There are obviously games on Saturday. That's one episode. There'll 430 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 3: be another episode up later today that covers all the 431 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 3: games on Sunday, every game against the spread. It's Benny 432 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 3: Versus the Penny. It's on YouTube global platform. Myself and 433 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 3: Tom Looney. We hope you'll consume the product and enjoy 434 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 3: the product. It was a lot of fun doing the 435 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 3: shows this week with Looney and again have more Fifth 436 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: Hour podcast over the weekend, and have a wonderful day today, 437 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 3: and we will catch you tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'm told it's 438 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 3: another day. I'm told it's another day. So what's Danny's Oh, 439 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 3: that's right, asta pasta later skater, But I'm not a skater. 440 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 3: I like the extended wiener. 441 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: I'm not all right. We'll catch you next time. Gotta murder, 442 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: I gotta go.