This post originally appeared on Business Insider.
We’ve seen some crazy things on earnings calls before, but this has to take the cake.
During Ruby Tuesday’s second-quarter earnings call, an unidentified caller posed as Bud Fox, Charlie Sheen’s character from the movie Wall Street, and asked CEO JJ Buettgen if the burger chain’s business had been affected by the death of Harambe.
Harambe was the gorilla living at the Cincinnati Zoo that was shot and killed after a child fell into its habitat. The gorilla has since become a popular meme.
The caller even said they worked for the Geneva Roth Holding Corporation, a fictional company from Wall Street.
Here’s the exchange (via Seeking Alpha’s transcript of the call):
Operator: “Our next question comes from Buddy Fox with Geneva Roth Holding Corporation.”
Buddy Fox: “I just have one question. Do you think your revenues are negatively impacted by Harambe’s death and if yes, do you have any plans to mitigate it?”
JJ Buettgen: “Excuse me, can you repeat your question please? Impacted by what?”
Fox: “By Harambe’s death and if yes, do you have plans to mitigate it?”
Buettgen: “I am sorry. I don’t know we have a bad connection. I couldn’t quite hear the question.”
Operator: “He has lost ”
These calls are usually pretty dull affairs, where sell-side analysts from various banks and financial institutions ask questions regarding the company’s quarterly results and, occasionally, the macroeconomy.
Typically there is some sort of sign-up procedure to get onto these calls, but apparently Ruby Tuesday was unable to stop this prankster.
We’re not sure if the connection was actually lost or if the caller disconnected after they got their joke in, but either way, it makes for a bizarre exchange.
