Eckart is part of iO's Harold Commission, a group of volunteers who, along with Charna, more or less decide what teams stay on the schedule and in what form.

Eckart: I'm a softy. Some people always want to cut teams and I'm one who always wants to save them. Or, "Hey, let's switch some people around instead of cutting them." I mean, yeah, sometimes teams do need to be cut but it's tough. Every new schedule I kind of feel like the end of 'Schindler's List.' "This watch... this watch could have been another Harold team."