Geico puts together a video each year to play at the company's annual employees meeting this one features Warren Buffet. Credit Geico
It's time to short Berkshire Hathaway. How else to interpret a Geico video going viral today that features Warren Buffett looking like a septuagenarian Axl Rose? For here is the Oracle of Omaha, a business legend for never taking his eye off the ball, acting like a guy who just realized he's a multibillionaire and can therefore do whatever the hell he wants.
In the 2:30 minute power ballad titled "All For You," Geico employees, who work for Mr. Buffett via Berkshire's ownership of the insurance company, sing of their unending dedication to customers:
"You make it all worthwhile / For you we'll go the extra mile / You get great customer service. We are available day and night / We help you make it right," they croon, standing amid the bland cubicled landscape of a Geico office.
As they do, we catch brief glimpses of a mysterious man alone on a stage, lit from behind by a single Rock God spotlight, who finally emerges in the final 45 seconds to throw a tattooed arm toward the camera and sing (in a vocal styling that sounds to our ears like a drunken Neil Young), "You bring out the best in me / You can always turn to me." His attempt toward the end at squeezing a triplet into a four-four beat is a wonder to behold. Or something like that.
The video was reportedly made for Geico's annual employee meeting, for which Mr. Buffett has made a cameo each of the last four years. We just wonder if he is trying to tell us something by the way he's rocking the '80s-era fashions, including a purple bandanna, plaid kilt, and long red hair. That was, after all, the last time the music industry was in growth mode. Or maybe that's just the last time he listened to popular music. In which case, we can't wait to see his Boy George.