1:26:01
Ted, good answer.
Sit right down.
1:26:03
All right. Leo,
you be the timekeeper.
1:26:07
Norman, give me
your watch.
1:26:10
Let me know when a minute ends
and when it begins.
1:26:15
You got it.
Ah.
1:26:17
Okay.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
1:26:26
Begin.
Okay, Ted, pay attention here.
1:26:29
I'm gonna make two piles here
on the bar. One pile which is yours.
1:26:31
And another pile
which could be yours.
1:26:34
And what you have to realize
is we're gonna do this thing...
1:26:36
one way or the other.
1:26:40
Whether it's you who holds
the axe or a Mexican maid...
1:26:44
or some bum
we yank off the street.
1:26:47
You can buy a whole lot
of soup with that pile.
Shh! I'm the closer here.
1:26:50
All right. I'm a little me--
Um, l've lost count.
1:26:52
How much is on the bar here?
Six hundred.
1:26:54
Okay. Ted, do you know how long it takes
the average American to count to 600?
1:26:59
It's a rhetorical question, Ted.
No, sir.
1:27:03
About one minute less than
it takes to count to 700.
1:27:06
Now, Ted, a person's life is filled
with a zillion little experiences.
1:27:10
Some which are insignificant, have no
meaning, and, you know, you forget them.
1:27:13
Others which you remember for
the rest of your natural life.
1:27:18
Now, since what we're proposing
here is so unusual,
1:27:22
so outside the norm,
1:27:25
that this is a good bet
that this is going to be one
of those incidents that sticks.
1:27:29
So, since you're gonna be
stuck remembering this
for the rest of your life,
1:27:33
you have to decide
what that memory will be.
1:27:36
So, Ted, are you going to
remember for the next 40 years,
1:27:40
give or take a decade,
1:27:42
that you refused $1,000
for one second's worth of work?
1:27:46
Or that you made $1,000
for one second's worth of work?
1:27:51
Time!
1:27:53
So, Ted, what's it gonna be?
1:27:57
Okay.
Yes!
1:27:59
Always be closing!