Jason

It didn't go the way it wanted to last time.

Let me ask you a question.

I appreciate that very much.

I love what I do.

And if you go to the root of what we do as a company and you ask anybody in the company, what is your business?

Everybody in our company is going to say to bring joy and enrich people's lives.

It sounds corny.

But if you do that, it gives you a platform in business that gives you permission to do things that your competitors are not allowing themselves to do.

It gives you permission to build a place called the Grove, which you and I talk about.

And you get to run a trolley through the middle of it.

My competitor is building an indoor mall with no trees or light and an escalator.

So you're just shaking your head like, how is this even possible?

Well, don't you want to be in a place that feels good, makes you happy?

You see trees, you have water, you have flowers, there's nice music.

So that's where that platform gives you this incredible power and authority to go do things.

I mean,

you look at the rosewood miramar our resort we have a full train running through it everybody stayed away from that property and when i announced we're going to build a five-star hotel everybody said you're crazy got a train running through it we made the train an amenity right we built a bar next to it with a bell that gets rung when the train comes by and people celebrate it yeah so that's enriching lives i i just love watching people

enjoy their life.

And that's what fuels my public service.

And it's what I really enjoyed when I worked for three mayors, when I worked for Tom Bradley and Dick Reardon and Jim Hahn.