"One would say, outside quotes, quote Meta, I'm being serious now unquote."

"Also.  Meta, I'm being serious now.  Please indicate clearly if you're okay with the nonvolatile core salary that you've been offered, pending acceptable shares of income.  Which, to be clear, I am pretty much assuming that I'm going to offer and you're all going to stare blankly at and then trust that I was being fair and take it, but I can truthspell myself about that and use the fair-division spell too if you'd like.  In fact I'm going to do that anyways, once we're done, it's just good practice.  Anyways, hands up if you were okay with the core salary part of your offer pending satisfactory shares."

"One would say, outside quotes, quote Meta, I'm being serious now dequote."

"Also.  Meta, I'm being serious now.  Please indicate clearly if you're okay with the nonvolatile core salary that you've been offered, pending acceptable shares of income.  Which, to be clear, I am pretty much assuming that I'm going to offer and you're all going to stare blankly at and then trust that I was being fair and take it, but I can truthspell myself about that and use the fair-division spell too if you'd like.  In fact I'm going to do that anyways, once we're done, it's just good practice.  Anyways, hands up if you were okay with the core salary part of your offer pending satisfactory shares."

"One would say, outside quotes, quote Meta, I'm being serious now dequote.  Sorry."

"Meta, I'm being serious now.  Please indicate clearly if you're okay with the nonvolatile core salary that you've just been offered, pending acceptable shares of income.  Which, to be clear, I am pretty much assuming that I'm going to offer and you're all going to stare blankly at and then trust that I was being fair and take it, but I can truthspell myself about that and use the fair-division spell too if you'd like.  In fact I'm going to do that anyways, once we're done, it's just good practice.  Anyways, hands up if you were okay with the core salary part of your offer pending satisfactory shares."

"One would say, outside quotes, quote Meta, I'm being serious now dequote.  Sorry."

"Meta, I'm being serious now.  Please indicate clearly if you're okay with the nonvolatile core salary that you've just been offered, pending acceptable shares of income.  Which, to be clear, I am pretty much assuming that I'm going to offer and you're all going to stare blankly at and then trust that I was being fair and take it, but I can truthspell myself about that and use the fair-division spell too if you'd like.  In fact I'm going to do that anyways, before signing the final contract, it's just good practice.  Anyways, hands up if you were okay with the core salary part of your offer pending satisfactory shares."

"One would say, outside quotes, quote Meta, I'm being serious now dequote.  Sorry."

"Meta, I'm being serious now.  Please indicate clearly if you're okay with the nonvolatile core salary that you've just been offered, pending acceptable shares of income.  Which, to be clear, I am pretty much assuming that I'm going to offer and you're all going to stare blankly at and then trust that I was being fair and take it, but I can truthspell myself about that and use the fair-division spell too if you'd like.  In fact I'm going to do that anyways, before we sign a final contract, it's just good practice.  Anyways, hands up if you were okay with the core salary part of your offer pending satisfactory shares."