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- Hey, what's going on everybody.
Good morning.
Hope your weekend was good.
And welcome to "Marathon Mondays With Mal."
It is a beautiful Monday here in Coburg.
And, I was just over here reading about new employees.
We've gotta a lot of new employees.
Marathon is continuing,
as our production continues to expand.
We are expanding our employee count.
So, we're constantly hiring for many different departments.
So I was just reading and looking at the profiles
of some of our new employees.
So that's exciting.
Always cool to expand and add to the Marathon family.
Anyway, speaking about adding to the Marathon family.
We're gonna look at coach 1342 this morning.
Custom coach X3 Double Slide.
I'm excited to take a look at it.
Let's go inside.
Let's look at the exterior first.
Dave Bash had it all set up for me.
Well, set up for all of us to take a look,
including you guys.
But, really like this paint job.
John, I'll let you just peruse it real quick.
One of the things about setting up a coach for display is
getting the TVs on, getting the lining correct.
What a beautiful coach.
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Everyone staying safe out there.
If you've got any comments or questions.
We got Abigail with us this morning.
So throw us any questions that might pertain to the topic.
Or that might not.
Cause I'll take any questions.
And yes, Ozzie Smith played shortstop for the Cardinals
in the eighties, to answer that question.
Okay, let's go this way.
I'm gonna head on in.
It's so pretty.
So, there's a lot of custom features to this coach.
And I'm gonna hit on a couple of them.
But one thing that really stands out right away
is this beautiful floor and the beautiful ceiling.
So I want John to get some really good shots
of the ceiling.
This ceiling is new to Marathon, fairly new.
Let's just say that it is one of those ceilings.
It's only been out in production for,
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maybe a year at this point.
But, along with this floor, heated floors throughout.
It's just a beautiful, beautiful coach.
So pretty.
And then John, if you can swing around.
You'll be able to see the fireplace down there.
And, the two TVs.
One on the slide out in the salon.
And then of course the one over the cockpit.
Jackknife sofa over there.
Because this is an X3, that co-pilot seat swivels around.
So you have two really nice recliners here in the salon.
And, I wanna show you this dinette.
Because I'm really excited about the dinette.
It's an outward facing dinette.
That is not only set up for dining.
As you can see it's staged for dining.
But also it's a really nice workplace.
It's got these nice pop-up outlets.
Those are really cool.
These chairs actually adjust.
Just by pulling them out like that.
Or pushing them in.
Depending on where you wanna sit.
Lots of room in here as you can see.
I really like it.
It's not the most, well we don't do this a lot.
I guess is what we'll say.
But, when someone says, "Hey, we wanna do that,"
from a custom standpoint.
There it is.
Also, I'm gonna put this cabinetry over here
so you can get that full effect.
There we go.
Look at that.
Beautiful cabinetry in this coach.
One of the things that stood out about this
is look at the lip that is over the entire surface
of this galley.
This ensures that nothing is gonna spill over,
not just liquids.
But, any utensils here are not gonna fall onto your floor.
I really like how that lip is done.
Now, one real custom thing about this coach
that I'm gonna show you, is this pantry.
Look at the size of this pantry.
These are massive drawers.
There's three of them here, because below is a wine cooler.
Nothing to eat.
And across from that.
Sub-Zero.
The new Sub-Zero refrigerator has really good
ambient lighting in it.
It's funny because refrigerators,
you don't think of them having ambient lighting.
But that's exactly what it is.
Real bright LED lights in the Sub-Zero freezer below.
Okay.
I'm gonna let John walk this way.
And take a look at that shower, through that frosted glass.
We're dealing with some Wi-Fi.
Okay.
So hopefully we're not too interrupted.
Sometimes walking through a coach, we've got issues.
Abigail, any better back here?
- [Abigail] I got your audio.
Yes, better back here.
- Okay, better back here.
So here we are in the bedroom.
Apologize, when you walk through a coach,
I mean, remember the Prevost chassis is built
like one big cage.
It's one big monocoque cage.
Built out a stainless.
So, then you add the infrastructure that Marathon adds.
And there's even more so for a Wi-Fi signal to come through.
So apologies for the drop-off.
Big closet in the back.
With the washer, dryer and audio visual below here.
But you've got a big area to put clothing
or shoes or handbags or whatever.
And a lot of a room up there for hangers.
There is tons of storage on the, excuse me, on the curbside.
Which is where the TV is.
Gosh, Yeah.
It's so nice.
This is one of my favorite features.
Is this, in fact John I'm gonna step to the side.
Let's change sides here so I can show you this.
Let me move this pin out of the way.
There we go.
That nice.
Lots of storage, and creative storage.
And that's the key to a good coach.
Is to not forego anything.
Good closet space.
That's very nice.
Very nice.
I'll let you get a shot of that water closet,
with the indirect lighting that's in there.
Cause there's a lot of it all the way down.
There's very good lighting.
So you've got all kinds of options
when it comes to lighting.
Bath and a half.
Gotta love it.
Getting a little spotty as far as our Wi-Fi.
So we're gonna head out here towards the cockpit.
Have you get a good shot of the cockpit.
One of the things that really stood out to me
on this build.
Was, I love the two tone of the steering wheel.
That plays off of all the black features.
All the electronics that are on the dash.
But, I want you take a look at this over here on the side.
This is an accessory panel.
So it matches all of the Corian that
is throughout the coach.
Abigail, you have any questions?
- Yeah.
Someone asked, "Can you watch TV in a bedroom
while traveling?"
- Someone asked if you can watch the bed TV
while you're traveling?
The answer is yes.
Marathon coaches are set up with two satellites.
One for the, when you're operating the coach.
And then when you stop at wherever your location is.
You have an up and rotate.
That's gonna give you a more high depth feed.
But, definitely.
When you are on the road there is a satellite
so that you can have TV on any of the TVs
except the cockpit TV.
Of course you wouldn't want that down.
Or couldn't have that down when you're driving.
So yes, definitely.
Good question.
Let's go this way.
Since we had a drop off.
We're just gonna kind of move around here.
And I'm gonna show you a good idea of what's going on
on the production floor.
We've got a couple of coaches in audit.
We just moved a coach out to a show on the east coast.
On the east coach.
East coast.
Coach 1343 just headed out to a show.
It's been completed.
And so we're pretty excited to see that.
Whether it be with my man Kasey Hess out there.
And I see someone coming right now.
Who I wanna say hello to.
We're gonna see if we can pull them in.
Here he comes everybody.
Hey Dennis.
- Hey, how are you doing?
- Good.
I'm gonna hold my mic here, so everyone can hear you.
- Hello everybody.
- Everybody this is Dennis McBride.
He's from our Texas location.
And I'm so glad to see you here.
I don't get to spend enough time with you.
What are you doing here at the world headquarters?
- Well, I have a customer that I sold a new coach to
a couple of years ago.
- Excellent.
- And now he's ready for another one.
- That's great.
- And we just have a couple online.
So we're here looking at them.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
- That's good.
- And come, make sure you guys are doing
what you're supposed to be doing.
- And checking up on us is definitely something
that needs to happen.
So I'm glad Dennis is doing that.
And Dennis brings up a good point.
There's a lot of you who are out there
who are watching that are coach owners.
Reach out to your sales people.
If you wanna talk about upgrading.
We're a year and a half or longer out on customs.
So getting into a custom coach or even as you see 1343.
And I think you probably know this, headed out east
to go see Kasey.
- Right.
- So these coaches are selling so quickly.
So I'm glad you got your customer in here.
Dennis, tell us about what's going on at the Texas facility?
- A lot of heat.
I thought I came up here to get away from it.
- No.
- But I don't think I did.
But, sales are good.
Service is doing great.
We're doing a lot of remodel jobs now.
Things are going really good.
The technicians down there are doing a great job.
As well as the service manager.
So, anybody that needs service or remodeling.
We're ready there to help.
- And I'm glad you touched on that Dennis.
Because the, it's not just Coburg that does the remodels.
- Right, right.
- I've seen some really great work coming out
of the facility here, and in Dallas.
And it's right in Dallas, isn't it?
- Right, Grand Prairie right by DFW Airport.
But, we've got a couple of guys,
and service has been there 20 years or better,
do a fabulous work.
So yeah.
Everybody is pleased.
- That's great.
- Doing a lot of remodeled floors as well.
- Good, yeah.
And floors, that's one of the most popular upgrades
that you can make.
- Right, right, exactly.
And they've got some good flooring guys down there.
How about audio visual?
You do a lot of audio visual?
- We do.
We got a good guy down there doing that as well.
So, we've got it handled all the way around.
And sales.
- And sales, absolutely.
And I know you're busy.
So we'll let you get back to your customer.
But, if they're in the Dallas area
or they're coming through.
How do they get ahold of you?
What's the best way?
Should they email you?
- Email me, phone my cell phone.
- What's your email?
- Email is dennism@marathoncoach.com.
Phone number, (214) 300-5415.
- There it is right there.
If you're coming through Dallas,
if you're gonna be coming through,
and you wanna see the latest from Marathon,
you wanna see some pre-owned, cause I know Dennis
has a couple of pre-owned down there.
- Yep.
- Or you wanna talk to him about servicing your coach
or getting your coach remodeled or re-imagined.
Email or call Dennis.
Because it's a great facility.
And that's one of the big benefits of working
and owning a Marathon.
Is because we have more than just this facility.
- Right.
- We've got Dallas.
And we've got Florida.
- Right.
And if you're just coming through town
and wanna stay a day or two.
You're more than welcome to do that as well.
- That's a good point.
You've got room there.
- We've got room.
And Prevost is five minutes away.
So, if you've got a work for Prevost,
two for one.
- That's a good point.
There's a Prevost service center five minutes away.
- Five minutes away, yeah.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
- Dennis thank you so much.
Appreciate your time.
It's so good to see you.
- Good seeing you as well.
- So stop by and say hi to Dennis
when you're in Dallas you guys.
- Bye-bye.
- Thanks, Dennis.
It's always great for my co-workers to come up here.
And I love seeing them.
There's so many of them that I don't get
to spend enough time with.
But anyway, you heard that bell.
It's recess time here at Marathon Corporate,
the world headquarters.
So we are gonna get outta here too.
Apologies for the Wi-Fi issues.
We can't say what's gonna happen with the Wi-Fi.
We can just show you what's happening with Marathon.
And I hope we did that today.
Before we get outta here.
Is there any comments or questions?
- [Abigail] I mean people loving the color scheme
of that coach over there.
- Yeah.
- [Abigail] And just happy to see you.
Very, very happy to see you.
- And I'm happy to see all of you guys.
Be yourself and do good things.
We're gonna have some pre-recordings coming up.
John is gonna be out of town, our videographer.
I've gotta go out of town for a week.
So, over the next couple of weeks,
we'll have a few live and a few pre-recorded.
But still I'll be able to show you a transparent version
of what's going on at Marathon, wherever I may be.
That's what we do.
And as you can see, we're building a ton of coaches.
So, we've got new coaches coming your way for a good chance.
And he's got this GoPro over here.
So let me check in.
Be yourself and do good things.
I'm outta here.
Have a good week everybody.
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