- Alright,
I think it's going.
Gang?
Can you--
You guys there?
You got Kyle on the phone.
- Am I...
Oh.
Oh!
- Kyle, good to see ya. - I'm seeing ya.
Kev, I'm seeing ya.
This is Kevin.
Kyle.
- Can you see me?
- I see ya.
Yeah, no I don't want it.
Well give it to sometone else then,
I don't know.
- Hey!
- Oh microphone?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me now?
- Toliver!
I knew it was you.
- Hello?
- Anyone there?
Oh hey!
Ed!
How are ya, Ed?
- Really good.
Super!
- Uh, Toliver,
looks like somebody didn't
uh, chose not to
put on the suit this morning.
Huh?
- Casual Monday over there.
- Casual Monday through Friday.
(laughs)
- We're just waiting on Mark,
but it looks like he's trying to sign on
with his iPad,
in typical Mark fashion.
(laughs)
- Now he's gone.
- Alright, well let's just proceed
without Mark.
Screw him.
- Yeah I don't think we'll be missing much.
- The new--
the new normal, huh gang?
Yeah, I dunno about you guys
but uh...
You know,
I've kinda been losing my mind over here.
- Got my gardening going,
I got uh,
books I've wanted to read,
it's a positive to me.
- Yeah, I've actually read three books.
Uh,
three separate Larry Bird biographies.
- Yeah,
I think the thing that we wanna do now
the thing, ideally, that we would
you know, end this meeting with
Is just get everyone looped in,
circle the wagons--
- Get on the same page.
- To the point where we could sorta
set a roadmap for a dialogue
going forward.
- You know,
we can have a granular approach
or, you know,
we can look at everything from 35,000 feet.
- Yeah I think we outta go to the tippy top
of the building here,
take the elevator--
- Kinda look over the top
and, you know,
think what it would be like to jump.
- Why not?
- Just do it.
Jump.
- Might as well jump.
- Just jump.
- If you are gonna jump though,
make sure you pack your own chute.
- I mean, if you don't pack your own chute,
that's like showing up to,
you know,
a gunfight with a knife.
I mean, you're just unprepared
and that's on you.
You know, and at the end of the day--
- Seth?
- You know, our core values--
- Seth?
Can you run that by me again?
- Seth?
- I just wanna circle back
to the point you just made
about briging your own chute,
you know, coming prepared--
- Well that's like coming to a gunfight
with a knife.
- Big Ed!
Well said, Big Ed
- Well said.
- Winning isn't everything,
it's the only thing.
By the way, Vince Lombardi
didn't say that.
He didn't say that originally.
- Really?
- I've been a lot,
a little bit on Vincent Lombardi.
He's a very famous football coach.
- I thought he invented pasta?
Am I thinking of the wrong--
- No, no, no
You're thinking of someone else
He did a lot of--
a lot of
high-end motivational things.
- Well he was a guy that was willing
to open the kimono,
show everyone what he's got,
what he's working with--
- Toliver and I were talking
and prior to this uh...
This nasty bug that's going around.
We were just saying,
we felt like we were on the
five yard line.
- When you peel the onion back,
you gotta whale tail
at the beginning.
It's flopping in the ocean
and it's just like,
it's hitting water,
and it's splattering out.
- And just to whale tail onto
what Toliver was saying
about the whales tail,
I think we gotta get into
the belly of the beast
to be honest with you--
- I would love to.
- I think we gotta
open it up, pry the jaws open
and see what's inside.
- Listen, when you stare into the abyss
you become the abyss
and I think we need to embrace
sort of the dark side...
You know, our inner dark sides
to find light.
- Hey, we're all pulling on
the same oar here, guys.
You know?
- Here we go.
- And uh..
Mark, do you have any thoughts?
- Everyone but Mark, that is.
Everyone but Mark.
- What is up with him?
- Come on, Mark!
- Yeah, this guy's stuck in the stone age.
- Ya ever heard of Fios?
I'm running Fios,
and I got no issue.
- I've been very happy with Fios.
- Fios is great.
- Now Ed, you actually
were one of the first people to tell me
about Fios.
Oh yeah, I've been bullish on Fios,
uh,
for, oh gosh...
I wanna say seven years now.
- You were ahead of the curve on that
- I was...
I was talking to some of the Fios guys
before they were even Fios
- Really?
- They--
I just knew them individually
and then they put their heads together
and were like,
"Hey!"
"We're thinking about this thing"
"called, Fios."
I'm like,
hey, cut me in.
- Now it's the wires
that makes Fios special, right?
The wires that glow?
- Optics.
- It's the wires, it's the optics,
it's uh...
it's...
Kind of the whole built-in apparatus.
But really
what makes Fios deliver at all times
is that they're a family.
You know?
- Absolutely,
and that touches on
what our core values are
and should be.
I think we could all
learn a lot from Fios,
Especially in this time of crisis.
- Should we try to get the Fios guys
in on this chat?
- I'd love to loop them in,
if you're able to extend
an evite, Ed.
- I'd love to bend the ears
of somebody at Fios.
Maybe we just bring in one or two...
- Love to blue sky with those guys, yeah.
- Now Seth, let me ask you this,
If we were able to sort of jettison
Mark from this call
would that free--
Would they interested?
Is it a space issue in the call?
'Cause we could easily, sorta...
Drop him.
- Mark is useless.
- That's an interesting idea
I feel like that's more of a Mark question.
'Cause he is sort of the...
- Ironically.
- Yes, um...
- I hate to be the fly in the ointment here
but can I just raise a question?
And please shoot me down immediately
if you don't agree, but...
Do we need Mark?
- Well I'm glad
you brought that up actually--
- I've been thinking this for a while, so...
- I think that's a fair question.
- If we're able to be lean and mean,
- Especially while this thing's going around.
- Right.
- I say we kinda just....
ya know,
trim the fat as much as possible.
- I feel like we got ourselves
a sexy sport car here
and we're stuck in 2nd gear.
- It's not so much Mark with me,
it's that damn iPad.
I mean, talk about washing your devices.
This guy--
I saw Mark just the other week
eating chicken wings,
mashing the screen on this thing.
Didn't wash his hands.
- He always gets stuff all over on his face
when he eats,
he's a slob.
He's a slob!
- In his beard.
- I think it's a health issue for the company.
- Marks kinda like a office jester
in a lot of ways.
- If you saw Mark in the airport
and you didn't know who he was,
you'd be pointing at him
and laughing at him.
- Kinda elbow the guy next to you
and say,
"Hey, look at that fool."
You know, that's--
- That's Mark.
- Seth, Kyle, Ed, Kevin,
shame on you!
Do you even hear yourselves right now?
- This is a man who's the lifeblood
of our organization,
he's been with us since day one.
He's one of the brick and mortar guys.
He's one of the initial bricks.
Bricks are built on other bricks
and he is one of the first bricks!
Yeah, he's got outdated equipment.
But we're all a team here,
we're a family!
- Just to dovetail onto what
Toliver was saying,
I've kinda always thought
Mark was essential
and um...
- And I've said this before,
Mark deserves more.
- Not to mention,
you know, I forget,
Mark has nine kids.
- We might even actually wanna
move into the territory of thinking about
promoting Mark
to be honest with you
during this time
I mean, I don't know if we can maybe even
give him a little more responsibility or...
- Mark's a lizard
who's gonna grow his tail back.
- That's--
I couldn't have said that better myself.
- Hey we're just trying
to build the best business
we can build.
- And to that end,
you gotta pull back the skin
if you wanna take a look at the skeleton.
- No bones about it.
- Get into that sinew
and tissue
and really uh...
Really kinda get our hands
around the cartilage
and chew the fat.
- And not just chew it, but trim it.
- Look you're gonna have to
crack a few eggs
to make an omelette.
- Speaking of trimming the fat,
have you guys been putting on weight
during this time at home?
'Cause I have just been eating like a seal.
- Woah.
- I'm eating mostly Entenmann's
over here.
That's kinda what--
My wife is sorta quarantining
over at her mom's,
um...
- There's a special on the History Channel
about the Battle of the Bulge
I said,
"Hold on,"
"Is this about WWII"
"or my waistline?"
- Yeah, I think I'm a veteran
of that battle.
- I told that joke to all my kids
and they left the room, but...
But it's true.
I've really been putting it on.
- Well children are a tough audience,
you know, they're a tough audience--
- But the smile of a child,
it's...
You're never gonna beat that.
- Nothing like it.
- I line up my three daughters
every morning
and I just have them smile at me.
- Hey I line up your three daughters
each morning
and have them smile at me.
(laughs)
- Toliver, you dog, you!
(laughs)
Naughty and nice!
- Oh my dog's uh...
This is Ross,
this is my older dog.
(bark)
(claps)
- Come here, Ross!
(calling dog)
- Ross, come here!
Come here, buddy.
- Wait a second.
- Come here, Ross!
Here, boy!
- Get up here!
Are you guys calling from the same house
right now?
Are you in the same building?
Oh yeah.
- You got us.
- So you're kinda shacked up jointly?
- Toliver's being an excellet,
excellent buddy
and uh...
Looking out for a friend.
Uh...
Just some cost-saving measures
and we'll leave it at that.
- Do you guys wanna maybe...
Get together, I mean.
You guys are there,
maybe we could come over,
you know I don't--
sorta...
- I'd love to get away from my
wife and three daughters for--
- You know what we could do?
We could do something like,
we all get on here,
we get our alcohols of choice.
sit down, pick any TV show,
say we pick, Jane the Virgin.
- Okay.
- Link up to the right...
the right episode at the right time
- Just press play at exactly the - Start it at the
- Same time. - Same time.
- Exactly.
- And experience it,
and keep it on our face though
'cause we can see what's happening
on the screen with our own eyes.
But we keep it on our face
so we can look down and see
how you guys are also reacting.
- I wanna see how you guys react
to the jokes
and the tender moments too.
- Well that sounds like a plan to me, I'll...
I can, you know,
talk to my guys and get
everybody looped into the same
streaming platform and we can all
press play on Jane the Virgin
at the same time.
- And whoever's handling the streaming
my one request,
let's make it Fios.
- I was just gonna say,
we'll loop in my contacts
over at Fios.
Hey I'm gonna be..
I'm gonna be up front with you
and tell you that I am
going to get Mark on board here.
- That's fair
- Absolutely.
- If he can get that--
If he can get that dang iPad working.
- I just hope he can stream on that iPad,
but, you know.
- I'd love to break his iPad
over on my knee.
- Mmhmm.
- Guys, I'm feeling really good
about our position in the marketplace
right now.
- I personally feel like we're
in a good position to start a dialogue
about getting, you know,
our ducks in a row, so--
- Make a move.
- Yeah.
- Alright, well we'll touch base--
- See you soon for Jane.
- Ten minutes.
- Alright, ten minutes.
- Okay. - Alright.
- Toliver, I'll come down.