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t maybe support a narrative that the argument was well you know forget your statistics. This is our lived life. Our actual experience is this fear, this problems. We see it everywhere. This is our existence. You can't deny our everyday existence with your data. It's not a bad argument. I'm using the same one. What if my data is wrong? It doesn't change the fact this is what I lived. And why would…

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or whatever ESG goals. And I thought to myself that he can do that because he's already the CEO, right? Once you're the CEO yeah you can be really woke about the people who don't get to be CEO because you already got that job. And the next one's going to have to be Black because well you got that job. So you ruined everything. You ruined everything by being the CEO. If the CEO who is saying he wants to fix anything cared about any of that he'd quit his job and give it to a Black man or LGBTQ or something.

By the way how much trouble do you think I'm getting in for even wading into this topic? Because at this point all the controls are off me. You know that I'm a free man. I am a free man because whatever is going to happen to my comic career is going to happen anyway. You know newspapers are going to fall apart. But once you've reached a point where it can't get worse, can't get worse. You know I have enough to retire so it doesn't matter. I get to say what you can't say. Yeah so it's not just even the fuck you money. That's a big part of it of course. But it has to do with also just being done. There's a very big power to being done. Have you ever noticed that in your life there are times when you're like I really should do this. I want to do this but now I'm actually done. I'm done pretending that I have a different opinion than I really do because I've pretended for 25 years. I don't need to anymore. Yeah I just decided exactly. I've decided that I'm going to go down. If I go down it's going to be in flames. It's the only way I want to go. I don't want to scurry away whimpering. All right. If this career is winding down as it is, right I'm at that age where careers wind down, I'm just going to light up everything that needs to be burned. I'm just going to put a match to every piece of gasoline I can get to. But only productively, right? So here's my promise. I'm not going to do it just for fun. I'm going to do it productively. I'm going to only put a match to the gasoline that needs to be torched in my opinion. Yeah productive gasoline is this. You getting bored? Um yes yes. Yeah so that's actually a good question. Somebody asked is my seeming change of attitude about me being bored and the answer is yes yes. But I'd add something to that. It's not having a family. So if I had a you know if I were living with a little family unit I would put 100 percent of my effort into protecting that and whatever I had left might go into the world. But at the moment you own me. All right. I have donated myself to the public and that means I can do what is for the public good and I don't have to worry about anything else. So I'm going to try to do the following things for you. I'm going to try to make fentanyl a lesser problem. I'm going to try to find a way to come together in terms of the division mostly racially. I don't think we need to come together in political parties but racially yes. And the LGBTQ yes and men and women yes, right? So all the personal ways we need to come together we need to do that. But having political parties that are opposed that's probably a useful conflict.

All right. What do you think of this Letitia James coming after Trump? And Trump talked about this on Hannity last night and I don't know all the details but it's sounding like there were two different valuations for different Trump properties. One is what they tell the bank and then I'm sorry I'm so I may have a detail wrong so let me back up. So Trump said that the management estimates, the estimates that management themselves put on the properties came with gigantic disclosures that say these are just for management. Don't depend on them. Do your own research if you wanted to know what we're worth. Which is what you'd say to a bank. Now Hannity said something that I'm so angry at myself for not having thought of the same thing. Just the most obvious thing. Hannity says since when does a bank take your word for what your building is worth? That's never happened in the history of banks. And as soon as I heard that I was like wait a minute how could there possibly be fraud? Because the process requires the bank to look at and look into it on their own. It requires it. It's not even optional. There's no bank who doesn't do their own independent look at the value of property. That's not a thing. Have you ever tried to get a loan on your house? Do you think they're not going to look at the house? Of course they look at the house. That's the most basic thing that any lender would do. And why I never thought of that like why that never occurred to me as the most important fact in all of the story I don't know. It just escaped me. But thank you to Hannity because it took Hannity to surface that fact. And as soon as I heard it I was like oh this is obviously, if you put those two things together that the management disclaimers had more than a page of don't trust this this is management's estimate. If you know that every management values their assets higher than every bank what does that tell you about this case? Every management, there's probably never been an exception. Every management values their own properties higher than a bank does. Why would that be? Because they do it for different reasons. The bank is picking generally there's an argument for a range of value, right? If you're subjectively looking at buildings and saying what are these valued there's usually a range from the lowest this could be worth to the highest it might be worth and

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that could change over time. So you're estimating, right? It's not even so much what it's worth today. You also have to estimate will it still be worth that during the course of the loan because that's your collateral. Now which of those two things the top of the range or the bottom of the range would management naturally and quite reasonably take as their estimate? Management would take the top o…

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