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he's raised the money and it looks like they could make a deal. Twitter and Elon Musk today. So there might actually be an announcement today that Elon Musk is buying Twitter and it's going through. Now I'm a little skeptical. It seems a little too easy. Were any of you expecting it to be this easy? And it could be that the threat of lawsuits was big enough that the board just said we're out, whi…

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Well, a grapefruit doesn't get a good deal, so why does Disney? It wouldn't make any sense. Just because they're a corporation and something else is a corporation, that doesn't mean they should be compared for everything.

Here's the comparison you should make. How many gigantic corporations who could credibly go to a state and say we can bring in 60,000 employees and millions of travelers to your state, which you want to be a destination for travel, so our business is right on point with what you want to be? It will bring in gigantic revenue for you. And what we would like in return for the efficiency of building it, primarily just for efficiency so that you and I can get our benefits as soon as possible, how about we have some autonomy? And that autonomy will have a certain length deal in the beginning. This will be really good for us but also really good for you because you're getting all this economic development. So and on and on.

So the correct comparison is this: Disney and what they asked Florida for compared to the other company they asked Florida for the same thing and could offer the same benefit in return. That's the only comparison. If you compared anything else, then you're not well trained in comparing. Because if Florida would have said no to another company that offered something similarly as awesome, well then you'd say okay, well why is Disney getting the special deal? If somebody else made the same offer, shouldn't they get the same consideration? And the answer is yes. Yes they should. That's exactly what they should get. So if two companies had made this offer to Florida, Florida should have accepted both. If three companies made that offer, Florida should have accepted all three.

Have I sold you that? Everybody who said other corporations didn't get this deal, just—they're not right or wrong. It's not a question of right or wrong. It's not even the right comparison. It's like comparing it to a grapefruit. It has no relevance whatsoever.

Okay, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the useful part of our program. We're now to the part where I either have to tell you an interesting story, possibly one that you prompted me for, or we may be ending early, which would be a tragedy for all of us, I think you'd agree. And while you're thinking what you would like me to tell you in terms of a story or possibly if you'd like me to heal anybody from any problems, I will be taking this gratuitous extra sip and watching your comments.

Mushrooms is the question. Am I mad at you? No, I'm not mad at you. More about mushrooms. Well, that does seem to be the issue of the day, doesn't it? But I worry that I've talked about it too much. I'll just give you the basic idea, which is I thought I tried some re

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cently but I don't think they were actually—they were either inert or something. So I don't have any recent experience with it. My first experience I thought changed me forever. So I don't know what's going on. I don't know why once it was a profound life-changing experience and the second time it wasn't. But one possibility is that I'd already changed. I worry about that. I mean, I don't worry ab…

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