Hour 4 - 9/11 Documentary, Plus, Mayes Mistake Costs Pats Game, Lombard Grand Slam

0:00It's the boomer in Geo podcast from W F A N. All right, boomer and Geo coming alive for the bill for tough studio on the fan and CBS sports network. When you give us a call, you call the red pocket mobile family and brought to you by your new ultimate sell carrier red pocket mobile couple of weeks ago. Boomer came in and said, you got to watch this documentary. It's called the heroism and resiliency of nine 11. You can rent it on Amazon. You can rent it through Apple TV. And we have the filmmaker in of the heroism and resiliency of nine 11. That's Michael Geier in studio with us right now. Michael, good morning. Thanks for coming in today. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Yeah, Michael. It's great to see you today. And obviously the day before this is faithful 25th commemoration tomorrow of what happened 25 years ago. I watch this. I've watched a lot of documentaries. Of course, I was attached to the people up on the 105th floor. Can if it's Gerald, a lot of friends, I lost that day.

1:00And this tells the story from start to finish, so to speak. And it starts with the tragedy and it ends up with the triumph. And it speaks of all the different aspects of what happened that day on nine 11 or all the different things that was that we're going on. And how many things were put in motion? What? What like caught your initial, I guess, attention or what surprised you about what happened on that day and how people were reacting? So I was on the West Coast on 9, 11, 25 years ago. And so, you know, we're very far away from what was taking place here. And Chris Meek reached out to me at the end of 2021 about producing this film, about 9, 11 for the 25th commemoration. And we all have seen the films about the tragedy. And so first, you know, he and I talked about it and we decided what we wanted to focus on were the positive things that came from 9, 11 despite the tragedy. So I then had to do a lot of research to find those positive stories,

2:01which I did, as you saw. And there are so many more. I'm still learning stories, but that film is filled with positive stories. And the reason was the tragedy was just the beginning of the story. And yet most documentaries are all about the tragedy. This film is about the rest of the story, which is how America came together, how strangers were there for strangers and all the amazing stories of heroism and things that took place despite that tragedy. Yeah. And we've seen over the years some of the same stories that need to be told, Red Bandana story, obviously one of the great ones. The one that I had never heard before was the, the EMT who had struggled with addiction and felt the need to go and help at ground zero. So tell me about that story and you wanting to put this in the documentary. So that was Will Hemenos Rescue. He's a Port Authority police officer who was buried 30 feet below the towers with his sergeant, Sergeant McLaughlin. And they were down there for over 10 hours before that anybody knew they were there.

3:02And then three first responders showed up. Well, I should say two Chuck Sharika had been a paramedic in the past, but he struggled with drug addiction and alcohol addiction. He had just gotten out of rehab not too long before. And he woke up that morning because he said he was depressed after a few days. So on TV, it was taking place. He listened to a voice from a sister who said, Oh, you must be down at ground zero helping. And he said, he wasn't thinking about actually going down to help. He didn't want her. He didn't want to disappoint her. That's why he chose to go down and help. And then he ends up being part of this amazing rescuer. He risked his life. He threw on an old paramedic shirt, although he no longer had his license. He's still had his training from years ago. And he went down there with Scott Strauss, the Paddy McGee. They spent hours down there in amongst the smoke and the dust and it was awful. Tiny spaces there. They did not think they were going to come out alive. And so yeah, that's pretty amazing that he has that. And he told me he struggled since, you know, he's had lots of ups and downs in life. Because but that's the one thing I can look back on and be proud of that I was there to save

4:03a man's life. That's one of the triumph stories. Absolutely. You also do a number of reenactments that was reenacted. The flight 93 reenactment also was very powerful. Because a lot of those people that were passengers on that plane actually were calling their loved ones telling them that they were probably never going to see them again. Because the loved ones were telling them what had happened with the previous planes. Exactly. How hard was it to do the reenactments to make sure that they came out the way that they should have come out and really expressed who these folks were? So the reenactments came later. We weren't planning on doing reenactments originally. But after I had most of the film edited, I called Chris and said we really need to add reenactments to help show the story, not just hear it. And so I live in Hollywood. I cast actors all the time. So I put out a casting notice and I already had the story. So I needed to write what we wanted to film that would go along with the stories. And one of the stories I featured was Jack Gran Colis's story about his wife Lauren Gran Colis

5:03and their unborn child that died on that. Yeah. She was pregnant and she left a voicebound message on their voice recorder at home while he was sleeping because she got on an earlier flight because she wanted to get home to see him. Yeah. And so we played that voice recording in the film, which is so powerful. But yeah, so these people, so that's how I was able to be accurate. We already had their story. And so and Jack was very, you know, he told me what his wife was like. She was a very strong personality. When you listen to that voicebound, you don't hear emotion, you don't hear tears. She was a strong woman. And so I really wanted to make sure I found an actress that could portray that. And when we filmed it, I kept telling her, I want you to show this with strength because I had her mouthing the words, saying the words with Lauren's real voice mouse so that it looked like Lauren. And I cut back and forth between the actor, Jack Gran Colis and Lauren on the plane. I cut back and forth. And I said, we need to see that strength. So when Jack saw the film, he said, you nailed Lauren. And so he was so proud that, you know, we had a wonderful actress that represented her correctly. And I did that with all of the reenactments.

6:04I wanted them to let me know what it needed to be and verify that it was correct. Michael Geier in studio with us, he is the documentarian who made the heroism and resiliency of 9-11. You can find it and rent it on Amazon Apple TV, YouTube. In all seriousness, serious question. Do you have a tough time casting for terrorists when you do these reenactments that people want? I mean, I can't imagine saying casting call out for terrorists. Well, I had some people who turned me down. People I had hired in the past. Yeah. I said, hey, I've got a great, great job for you. It's an important film. And they said, no, you know, I don't want to represent us, my people, you know, basically as terrorists. And no, but I had other actors who are like, absolutely, they understood the mission, you know, what we were trying to portray. And so, you know, I was able to find the actors that I needed. You know, the thing about this is I don't think you're really focused a lot on that part of it. It was really the reactionary part of what was going on. And one of the people that you spoke to quite a bit was Andrew Card. He was the chief of staff for the White House and president George Bush.

7:07And I thought, I thought his interviews were tremendous. I thought they were really enlightening. I learned something from them. Do you think that we teach this enough to our younger generations right now? Or do you think that this has been somewhat forgotten? I believe it has been forgotten. And that's one of the missions of the 9-11 Legacy Foundation, which Chris Meek founded. And that is to educate the next generation. They've actually put together a curriculum because there are most of the states don't even, aren't we required to teach about 9-11? There are a number of states that do, but most don't. And I recently interviewed this Secretary of Education, Secretary McMahon, thinking the federal government had something to do with who teaches what in the states? Well, they're trying to get the states to take more responsibility when it comes to education and get the federal government out of it. Exactly. So she said, I have no poll. She goes, that's a state by state thing. So the foundation is trying to encourage these states to teach it because, yes, the next generation does need to know about 9-11. It's part of her history. You know, it should absolutely be taught. Like anything else that's part of our history. We're one, two, anything.

8:08Bit or more, whatever. All of it. Yes. Yeah, I don't expect you to have an answer for this because I don't know if anybody has an answer, but just after making this film, what is it about humanity that the tragedy happens? We're all together. We're on the same page. And just slowly we start growing and growing and growing apart. And then it takes something else that's tragic to bring us back together. What do you think it is about us as a human race that allows that to happen throughout history and we don't learn from the other instances? You're right. I don't really have an answer. That's a really tough question. Why? That's why. We should all be asking ourselves that because we shouldn't forget. We need to remember, we should be coming together as one. And it's the same thing with life. One of the stories that you saw in the film, this guy was talking about someone he was talking to, a first responder, someone he was talking to, who was the first responder. And that first responder said, I haven't paid attention to my son when I come home. He's always right there by the door wanting to play catch. And I've got my wife. I've got my job. I've got my mistress.

9:08And I didn't pay. On 9-11, he said, I don't know what I was thinking. Everything you start to remember, what's really important in life. And he realized, my son's more important. So he dumped his girlfriend. And he went home and he played with his boy from that day on. And those tough times do remind us what's really important. And I think when tragedy happens like 9-11, that's exactly what happened. We remember what's important. We each other. I want to be there for you. I want to help you. And we forget that over time. And that's what's said. I think we're too comfortable. You know? Very good point. Yeah. I mean, to be uncomfortable can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I mean, we have lives that all of us appreciate. But sometimes you need to go into the depths of the dark stuff to really have gratitude. You know, when your partner, Christopher, me, told me that Gary Seneis was going to be the voiceover. I thought the perfect guy. Yeah. He's been so immersed in all these 9-11 charities and has done so much around 9-11.

10:09I couldn't have thought of a better guy to be the voiceover for your documentary. Yeah. We were still blessed that he said yes. I mean, I don't see how he said no to something like that. And he immediately said yes. And then getting to meet him in Nashville where we recorded the narration was phenomenal. And then I heard more of his story. You know, 9-11 changed the direction of his life where he decided to give back even more, using his celebrity to help others, that led to the Lieutenant-Dan band and then also the foundations. So that was another tragedy to triumph story. The tragedy of 9-11 led to what he does today in this foundation that helps so many people all over this country. So do you get asked or you get pitched this project, you end up doing it, you end up immersing yourself completely into all of it. The Pentagon, Shang's Phil, you know, Drank Ground Zero here. What the chief of staff of the White House, what did you learn about all of it? Well, so many stories I hadn't heard, which is what's great about this film. People who were in New York tell me they watched the film and they're like, I had no idea,

11:12many of most of those stories. And I was expecting it to be depressed. Instead, it was inspirational. So I learned a lot of stories. But more importantly, I learned as we were just talking about the best of humanity, it's just amazing to me what took place that day and how people, strangers were there for strangers. The flag was flown everywhere, not only all over this country, every burrow in New York was flying the American flag, which the first responders told me it was unusual. It was, you know, we all came together as well. It didn't matter what your race was, it didn't matter what your politics were, we were there for each other. No, the other one was the maritime rescue. Yeah. I knew that boats got involved, but I had no idea how many people that they had to move off of lower Manhattan and how many people just started to show up. And I just, it was an amazing part of the story that I didn't realize that the significance of it. Yeah, I got to interview Lieutenant Michael Day, who was Lieutenant on 9-11. Now he's a rear admiral who just retired. And he kind of oversaw the rescue. But yeah, over half a million people, that's crazy. And like nine hours that were rescued from the southern tip of Manhattan who had nowhere

12:14else to go. There's just water surrounding that island. Couldn't go north, water to the south. These boats came in from every direction, large and small and rescued all those people on the bottom of New Jersey. Powerful documentary, The Herorism and Resiliency of 9-11, Michael Geier is the filmmaker. You can check it out, Apple TV, Amazon, YouTube. We appreciate you being in here and really, really highly recommend this right around the 25th remembrance of 9-11, 2001. I do have to ask you this off topic in learning about you before you came in. You tapped dance with Gregory Hines. Isn't that crazy? So people don't know our younger listeners. Gregory Hines is one of the great dancers of all time. Yeah. And you got a chance to tap dance with this man. Isn't that crazy? I still pinch myself. Yeah, I get to work with him for five days and I tapped dance with him in Los Angeles. So yeah, it was part of my entertainment career that I did for over 20 years. Wow. Tap dance. I'm tap dance. Wow. I'm a Broadway singer dancer actor.

13:15I've done Broadway music all over the country, starring in them. And that was my background in the past. That is. Rob and research. Very, very, very cool. Michael, thanks for being here. We really do appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Thanks Mike and good luck. Good luck with the show. It's the Boomerangio podcast from WFAN. Hi, Boomerangio on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Jerry Reko is here. He's got another update and a moment of the day for us. What is up Jerry? All right, well, good morning. We start with the NFL week one that began last night in Seattle, the defending champion Seahawks were the successful start as they knocked off the Patriots. Patriots down by three, 26 seconds to go. Shackens have to make. Moved out of the pocket throws a pass and so intercepted in the end zone. Was he in bounds? Intercepted by job. Seattle is picked off me. They've done it again.

14:16They did Kevin Harlan with the call on Westwood one. Third pick of the fourth quarter as he did struggle drew lock on the other hand. 16 of 22, 187 in a score. If you're wondering why drew lock didn't watch the game. That's because Sam Donald left early with a hip injury. MRI expected today, though, the first tests did not show any fracture or break. As for lock and this team that coaches Mike McDonald, the team battled through. We lost Sam's first time play caller. I thought Florida did a great job of adjusting on the flyer off to staff. Drew Locktzer's a gigantic shout out for playing clean football and one proof of our operation. In talking about clean football, John Harbott was talking about that yesterday too, just making sure you go out and do the things you have to do. Back to May for a minute, he knows he was not good enough. He didn't run from it. Put his hand up and said, my bad. Yeah, lost patients and costed us. I think it just, you know, decisions that cost us the game, you know, on my part and

15:16lying. And, you know, I've asked myself to be better and realize it's, you know, it's a long season, but the same time can't have those. And he's obviously going to be a talking point today with the way he played. We start at least this hour with Chris Sims pro football talk. May simply not good. The guy that was one vote away from within the MVP made mistakes that, you know, again, I'm not trying to be too harsh to hear, but there was, those were like rookie mistakes. They were like a gregious, rookie mistakes where you're like, what? He would go on to say, how does something like that happen so quickly, we'd won. We were agressed from two years ago. That's what, that's, that's the, like, what are you looking at? What were you thinking in that moment? And that was the bad thing. And furthermore, if you think it was just the three interceptions, no, it was more than that. Hello. There was more than the three interceptions. He's coming up. I didn't think Drake man as a whole through the ball very well at all last night. It was a lot of wobblers. He didn't drive the ball with great accuracy, as you know.

16:16He's an incredible athlete, but it still wasn't the Drake man we saw last year in the prime. So, there you go. He's going to. Any old look for it and he'll hurt until the next time he gets on the field. And, you know, Romeo Dobbs didn't help with me, though, you know, Romeo Dobbs was one of their big offseason acquisitions, along with AJ Brown. AJ Brown out with an ankle injury last night in this game. I mean, you know, so he had a bad game. It's going to happen. Yeah. And he took ownership of it, I think. He did. Very much so. No doubt about it. So, not a good start for the page. It's good start for the Seahawks. And as you can imagine, the, um, Vray Bull Diana Rossini stuff is all over social media this morning, which I let your imagination. Well, yeah, go where it needs to go. I mean, of course. I've seen some of it. Yeah, some clever, some not so clever. Yes, exactly. Yeah, it's out there. Right on. Um, Niners Rams tonight in Australia. So I want to play these from John Harbohm from yesterday. One that we played earlier and a new one that I just found.

17:19So, um, you got the Giants Cowboys, something I football. This was John Harbohm. So we played earlier for you. Uh, the clip where he was talking about Malik neighbors is going to play. Maybe he'll play. He could play good to go. Don't know. And then I guess the questions kept coming and he had had enough. And this was one of what turned out to be a couple of testy exchanges with reporters. This one on neighbors. I'm just say this right now. We put stopped all these questions because I'm not going to tell you who's playing in the game. I'm not going to tell you who's starting. I'm not going to tell you what package you have in. I'm not going to tell you what plays we're running. I'm not going to tell you any of that. Okay. So we can make it great and have a great press conference or we can make it uncomfortable. But I'm not going to tell you because when you know the Cowboys now or every other team we play knows. And that's not the competitive interest of our football teams. That makes sense. So I think you can respect that. All right. So in week one mode like you just say, Jerry, Brian Chattin, Hamer, saying thing about who's playing for their team. Uh, well, I told us that the Tyler Smith broke his nut broke.

18:20Had the finger injury and it's surgery. So he's out. Has he given us the starting lineup? No, not yet. Okay. But I also don't know that they had those questions about an injured player going into week one now. This one, Ramiya, so I also put in the system. So this is about Darius Slayton. It's 40 seconds, but it's on purpose because you got to hear the two questions from the reporters to understand what he's talking about at the end. So and I don't know if it was before after neighbors. Doesn't matter, but he was annoyed about the neighbor's questions. And then here you have the Darius Slayton questions. Why do you guys cut Darius Slayton? We always make all of our personal decisions about what's best for the team. Immediately and in the long term future, it gives us the best chance to be the best team we can be and that's the choice I would make. Why do you cut him then? Why wait until the week one? Uh, there's no strategy to it. There's a lot of, there's a lot of factors. I mean, maybe you can get a train. Maybe try to weigh as long as you can to see if you work out a contract. Change, right?

19:20There's a lot of reasons to it, which I really don't feel obligated to explain. I appreciate the questions. You kind of asked them kind of in a sharp way like your mad or something about it. I really get the emotion in the emotion coming from you two guys. I don't know what's going on over there. They haven't lost the game yet. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure he got used to the same media guys in Baltimore for many years. Uh, ramp it up to the season. He's jacked up. Everybody's jacked up and he's going to have to learn, you know, how these guys operate. Just like they have to learn how he operates. But, you know, why did you cut him? Well, because we thought all the players were better and maybe he didn't play special teams and we needed somewhere else. We like our four tight ends. I mean, there's, it's a numbers game. You can do, you can only have so many guys on our roster. I thought to say why wait till the very end though, no? Well, because, well, first of all, maybe they wouldn't have waited to the end if what's as they didn't get hurt in the middle, uh, in middle of train camp. The other wider receiver that got hurt. Maybe Calvin Austin. Yeah. Calvin Austin. Who knows? Maybe he would have been let go then earlier.

20:20That's true. You do not know. A very good point. Baseball last night at the stadium Yankees and Rockies Yankees. If they're going to try and catch the race who don't seem to lose, they can't lose either. And last night they got a home run from Luis Garcia, junior, a home run late from Cody Belinger and in between the Grand Slam. That's swing on to hit the right. Feel it? Hit well. Carrey. Carrey. Get him. Baby. Get him. God a grand slam for the kid. George Lombard Jr goes up. Well, a grand slam and the Yankees have a five. Nothing. And how about this kid going opposite directions that great power? 353 feet used to park. That's why it's here. And look at the green he gets for the captain and rightly so, meaning Aaron. George that was Dave and Susan right here on the fan Yankees win six to one good start for Will Warren. Here was Lombard Jr. on Yes with Meredith just talking about that at bat in the moment. Just get something up in the zone. Get something that I can drive and see if I can bring in some runs.

21:20Obviously there's there's guys on base. Guys that are down front of me and I just had to find a way to get him home. And that was on Yes. Here was Cody Belinger talking about judge being back night number two. How to couple the singles in this game offensively. He's going to help us a ton defensively just having them, you know, on the field. And, you know, he's best player player in the game. So he makes everyone better around. Oh, that's the idea. Jazz Chisholm Jr. to the injured list with a thumb injury. Anthony Volpe being recalled. So he should be back tonight and you will have Max Fried on the mountain. As the Yankees go for the sweep in advance of taking on the mits this weekend, starting tomorrow night. Yankees stay four games behind Tampa in the ALEs because in Atlanta, the raise beat the braves yet again. There's a liner to base it into center field. Symptom is scored. Volaceos will score. But they all comes through and makes it about three nothing. I mean, it is now September, what's September 10th? And this team just keeps winning and winning. They're in Atlanta winning games.

22:21So they stay four games up. We'll see if the Yankees can gain a game today. If they can win and maybe the braves can help them out just a little. Put the ball in play, Jerry. That's what they do. Yeah, I know you're absolutely right. And they play good defense, I guess. And they pitch well enough. Will it translate to the postseason? We'll see. But right now they continue to lead by four games. Mets held off the Marlins for the sweep 15, 14 home runs in this game for Francisco, Lynn Doer, Christopher Morelle, Hallmord, Mets of one seven of nine down the straight cheer with not many more to go. Off today and then take on the Yankees over the weekend. The Dodgers beat the Reds 14 to one. As we mentioned, Shohe O'Connie on the injured list with an injured right arm, former NHL player coach and ESPN analyst Barry Milrose passed away. He was 70 years old. You had the news of Steve Pichel from Rutgers announcing. He has been diagnosed with cancer treatment already underway and very did speak to him yesterday and very good spirits. Hopefully doing well and back as soon as possible. At the US Open, you had Alexander Jarav beat Boteague von der Zürschm.

23:23Josh Hart was at that match. Now I played the one clip talking about they were asking him in the booth about you know, you guys are the defending champion. You can have an X on your back. He says no because no one thinks we're going to win again. He would then go on to also reference that this team right now has one thing on their mind and one thing only. The next goal is to get another. So what a hunter's and you know, we like playing that game. Well, they certainly did a good job at it this year. And then there's also the news of Jalen Brunson hosting Saturday night live coming up in late September and then the season begins. I think they said October 20th. There were only out. We are only six weeks away from the start of the NBA. When did they start playing NHL for a preseason game? Sure. Yeah, very soon. So I think prospect can't be there opens today or tomorrow. Then next week the veterans show up. All right. There we go. And then they'll start playing games right after that. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, it's pretty good. 21 9 19 something like that. Yes. An American Coco Gough has reached the semi final. She had a three set win over at Mira Andreva, the young and Dreava.

24:24Any positives from the loss right now? I don't know. If I can say anything about that, maybe in the couple of days. But now it's hard. Very difficult. Poor Andrew. It's a tough one. Yeah. It's a tough one. Yes, Mira is her first time. For Mira. It's very hard. Poor me. Exactly. Get out. She had a good run. JFK's that way. Time to. I guess. Time to get out. All right. A moment of the day is a little long. So I'll get to it now. Earlier, Boomer and Fanatics gifted us all. Very nice gear from our favorite teams. G's wearing his Vikings sweatshirt. I got mine on. Alan Romney or where were all those? Romney. Now Romney was. Oh, perfect. So like all of us got this stuff. It was very cool. And yes, I mentioned Al. The very picky and petty. Aldukes. Oh, that is nice. Oh, sweet. Wow. That is really cool.

25:24Yeah. That's the old Bruce. Yeah. That's nice. Oh, you got the new engine. That's new. Thank you, sir. Todd Bolz is going to wear that. You and Todd Bolz. Me and Todd Bolz. Yeah. Pretty cool. How's the quality of that t-shirt there, Al? Good quality. I was going to say, yeah. I know he's very picky with his fabric. You know, I was on your fabric. Yeah. OK, on your skin. You are very picky with the fabric. Are you going to wear the cardboard undershirt to protect your skin? No, no. It's a nice fabric, Jerry. You can see this on eBay in about a half hour. I mean, you all wear it. What t-shirt are you wearing today? This is the raiders. The raiders. Classic raiders, how long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? How long have we got? I want to say, the material in that hoodie. I like it. Very comfortable. It's synthetic. That was your criticism of that hoodie. So I know he's very, very picky with his materials. Sometimes he out. You're in complete nutter cycle. I have a lot of time to think about something during the day.

26:27You know what I mean? You know what I mean? I have a lot of time to think about something during the day. What do you do? You have hormones. Barely any. I just like my test. I feel like Jerry got more shirts than I did. He did. They make more cowboy stuff than they do buck stuff. Yeah, he did. He got three. You got two. I thought so. How many did Ramy get? I checked two. He was hoping I only got one. There you go. Moment of the day. He's leaking microplastics right into your skin. It's just like, it's the Boomerangio podcast from WFAN. I'm Boomerangio on the fan and CBS Sports Network. You getting ready to watch tonight's game tomorrow morning? Yeah. I mean, it's going to be really interesting. I mean, we're not going to know if the Niners or Rams travel plan played into it a lot unless the players are like, man, I was exhausted. This was stupid. I don't know what's going on.

27:28Or, you know, the Rams go out there and win 35 to six. And all of a sudden, you know, they're like, we've felt never felt better. Totally fresh. We stayed on our clocks and we're great. But I'm not sure. I'm excited for the game though. I'm definitely very, it would have been more excited if Aaron Donald was playing, but I was definitely excited for this one. Yeah. Hopefully it's a little bit more interesting. It gets off to a quicker start than last night's game did. And yeah, there's no major injuries that factor into the storyline. You know, I think about last night you have two defensive head coaches. Tonight you have two offensive head coaches. So, you know, who knows, maybe the offense will show up tonight and put up some points. So we will say, I mean, this will, I mean, at least last night's game was competitive. And it came down to an unfortunate mistake by Drake Matthew. The game this game could have went into overtime. Yeah. No, it did very, it should have. I thought it was going to. All right. This is a guy. This is kind of many, many views.

28:29You know how we play baseball, play by play from around the country. And you know, guys have that, you know, play by play voice. So this is a guy in his car. And he's he tagged it. This is what every major league baseball play by play guy sounds like. And so the audio is not totally clean, but it's just from like, you know, his ticktock. But I've watched it several times. And I think he absolutely nails it. So I wanted to play it for you and see what you thought.

29:31Oh, that's great. He's got the cadence just perfect. Oh, God. You see, a guy in Instagram that always does the the voices and is actually doing the game. Oh, yes. Recreating the voices and the lip sync. Yeah. Yes. Very, very good. There's so much talent out there, man. I don't know if anybody's making money doing it, but there's so much talent. You know, that's crazy. See, that's the stuff that I'm getting on ticktocks making me laugh. You know, that's why I keep it there. I don't get involved in anything else. Yes. Just let me just see the fun stuff. By the way, you see that president Trump say he's going to send every American $5,000 of the Republicans when the midterms send him my way, man. Let's go. I mean, that would be unbelievable. It's like, prime in your kids. Well, he's already cut taxes and everything. So I just was like, what we're going to look at $5,000 checks? Hey, your kids get, well, I don't know about your kids, but the kids born in the year can get $1,000 Trump account. No, okay. That's already happened, Ronan.

30:32Yeah, I don't think I don't know if it's eligible for that. Yeah. It's got that $5,29 cranking. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You told me about that. Got that then cranking. You got it. Now, if you get that $5,000 check, we got to give like half of it to the government back though, right? I hope not. So you're telling me that it's going to be tax-free income for us? Yeah, I haven't really looked into it yet. That'll be amazing. You probably said a lot of stuff yesterday. I guess they had some midterm kind of convention down to Dallas. Is that right? Yeah. I just love how it means essentially like, bribing your children to do something. It's like, listen, if you clean your room, I'll go get your ice cream. It's like, if we win the midterms, I'll give you $5,000. I don't know if it'll affect enough people to go to the voting booth and be like, listen, that $5 grant sounds pretty good. I mean, that's, if you want to change somebody's mind, a little mullile, do that. Do a lot of that.

31:32Yeah, of course. Which I guess is the idea, right? Yeah. I mean, essentially. I mean, that would be the only thing that I think would change somebody's mind. It was on the fence. There are two different eligibility rules for the Trump account. A child generally qualifies that they are under 18. At the end of the year, the account is elected to be open. Okay. Okay. And $1,000 federal contribution is a little bit narrower of a requirement. The child must be a U.S. citizen born between January 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2028. Okay. So that means the twin boys are eligible. Oh, nice. There you go. How are they doing? Still beating us, not out of each other? Oh, yeah. Yes. We get pushed around by the big sisters a little bit. Oh, really? Yeah, you know how that works. Oh, man, oh, man. It's going to be something else. That's going to be one hell of a dynamic there, huh? That will be.

32:32And you know, once at any chill season to star more than Matt. He's like, wow. And we're all sitting here like, wow, that off season was so short. And he's like, no, it's not. You know, I really wanted the great benefits of having Matthew Schaefer live with them. Yeah. And I think that, you know, when he now, do you remember his mad playing? All he doesn't. But now they'll be able to go to the games and they'll see Schaefer. Yeah. You know, and they'll kind of understand it and be around it and be a part of it. And that's great. And I'm much better to watch than Matt. So it's a little more exciting for, you know, what he was doing out there. I don't know when dad's dropping the gloves. Well, it's a little scary though. I think that one of the more interesting psychological things that I think that has happened in your family is that Sydney was traumatized when she watched you fight a man when she was a young girl at a men's league game hockey game and then ended up marrying a gun in the shell.

33:35So you think that night was what provided the impetus for all of this. I do. Yeah. Apparently, I mean, she came on and talked about how she, that was one of those like seminal moments in her childhood. Yeah, it was because she came as a teenager taking pictures of our team. This was, I think, one of our last games. Yeah. And some, you know, jerk quad. Yes. And it was going to attack me from behind. And I couldn't believe that he did it and the rest is history. Yeah. Well, you had to go for it. Did you know that she was like, I totally embarrassed her. That's what she said. Well, I mean, what do you, you can't do anything that doesn't embarrass a teenage daughter from what I hear for those that have. Yeah, I would do it on purpose a million times over here. Of course. Yeah. Make it a bit uncomfortable. Yeah, deal with this. Make sure, you know, dad's still in charge. Yeah. Man, I tell you, it really does. I mean, third grade already for Sabrina.

34:37So basically, she was born a month after we started together. So, you know, we have a human that is the same age as the show. So it's sort of interesting to see that. But when, you know, when summer got on the bus and now she's got a full day at kindergarten, Yeah. She knows just ball and she couldn't handle it. Well, I'm glad I wasn't there because I wouldn't be able to handle. I'm crying more than ever. I'm crying at Chris Stable's and dog songs these days. You know, yes. I'm in play and have for people too to make them cry. That's what I'm doing. I did it. I swear, I did it a couple times over a Labor Day weekend. Well, yeah, this is trying not to cry. Yeah, how many of, you know, transfusions that you have in you? Oh, you know, not too bad. Or your spike date. Yeah, that's right. Well, several. But I just, I wanted to see if it got, like I just want to make sure that it got everybody like it got me. And it did. Did it? Yeah, 100% conversion rate. 100% tier rate. Bang, bang, bang. Yeah, you know, it's amazing.

35:38I mean, Al, we were in the car yesterday. Gio and I were talking. Is it, Gio, do you realize that when I started with Al and Craig and Jerry and Eddie, I was older than you are right now? I started this when I was 45. What are you 42 now? 44. 44. Yeah. Yeah. Which is really crazy. What do you think about it? Yes, I remember your 50th birthday party. Yeah. In the city. Oh, wow. And was that fun, Al back then? I don't think so because it was like during the day and had to get back home. It was a lunch. It was a lunch. It was a lot. It was very lovely lunch. Yeah. I think Billy Hindsley picked it up, didn't he? I think so. Oh, no, I remember, maybe I think I remember Craig talking about how he had a chip in and he thought someone else was paying for the lunch. Oh, he thought somebody else was going to pay for it. For everything. Yeah. I think I recall that. Okay. Man. Yeah. That's not, I mean, 21, you're 21 years older than me. So just to think about you at like my age doing this show is like a mind-blower to me.

36:41I don't know why, but it is. Yeah, well, it's a mind-blower to me too. So I'm still here. Yeah. And then, Romney was what? How old were you when Boomer started? Nine or ten.