Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Geoff when your house is worth nothing and your pay is cut by 10 grand, it changes your life. Lemonis my job is to help this owner appreciate his staff. This isnt gonna go anywhere good. Hayden its not. Lemonis . And rethink his process. If we dont fix this, this business is gonna go nowhere. Im Marcus Lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. I love investing in american businesses. Woman these people are here because they care. Lemonis its not always easy, but i do it to create jobs and i do it to make money. Do we have a deal . Lets rock and roll. This is the profit. So, i received an application from a company in georgia that has a cooler business. Its called polar bear coolers. The overall cooler business has exploded, and particularly the highend cooler business cause people want to invest in something and hold it forever. And the softsided cooler business is a fastgrowing category. Now i love tailgating and i love the outdoors, and so it fits nicely into my portfolio.
Yeah, look, we have to be careful because there are Many Companies that benefit, but we have been piling into stocks that were meant to be as if there were no vaccine until some time maybe some time late 2021 where then there will be 2022. So, you have the nasdaq futures up way too much. You have the s p, i think, and dow up the correct amount given what is in those stocks because youve got the bank stocks suddenly maybe they get a real break. Travel and leisure are just incredible how bad theyve bipartisan and then youve got, what do you do with a service here now honestly, what do you do with a company like a zoom or a peleton. Thoseniquely price for a belief that covid will be with us for a long time. David, you know a lot of stocks are trading not as if theyre going to be households and everythingen wi en with everyone is going to have them and trading as catastrophic growth in a number of cases. While there still could be for a number of months, element that says, you know what, i
You need brand consistency. His production process is filled with inefficiencies. Eva the issue comes down to the company not having consequences. Thats why none of this works. Lemonis and his relationship with his son, already strained, is only getting worse. Thom theres no right or wrong. Alex no right or wrong, but you will not let anybody else be right. Lemonis if i cant help him to step up as the boss and learn to face his problems headon. Eva were not thriving and working together enough. Lemonis . This business wont only slip, it will fail. This relationship is either going to get better, or you need to go. My name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not going to wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were going to wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everything is going to change everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. This. Lets go to work. Is the profi
Bruce nothing fits right now. We need to tweak it. Lemonis his sales pitch definitely needs work. I think you guys have done a [bleep] job explaining to them why they need to own it. And his Business Plan needs a reality check. I think your numbers are obscenely wrong. If i cant get him to loosen up and work on collaborating. Ethan i think there were a lot of people that were saying the same thing about a car, when henry ford came out with the car. They were happy with the horsedrawn carriages, but i think that, you know, longterm, worked out in a different way. Lemonis . This company may be up a creek without a paddle. Weve got a deal . Ethan uh. Uh, well, i, the. Um. Lemonis my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everythings gonna change. Everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do