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14 and he's the reason I got one of my favorite jobs.

So just clamp that little nugget as you will.

But he texted me a few years ago when he was an assembly member and was on a hunger strike with the New York City taxi workers for debt forgiveness.

And he was just like, hey man, will you come down and just sort of say hi to the

The folks are on the hunger strike with me, you know, would sort of help with morale and we're hoping to put a lot more pressure, whatever.

And I was like, oh, you're actually on a hunger strike.

Like I read your Twitter that said you were doing it, but you're like actually living there for this.

Yes, of course, I'll come by.

And I had texted a guy I knew in Mayor de Blasio's office at the time and just doing one of those things privately.

That's like, hey, I'm going to go see my friend who's on a hunger strike.

Maybe somebody from the mayor's office could come out and that would kind of help

get this taken, put a little pressure if you can privately.

And the response I got was like, yeah, we're aware of the hunger strike.

Obviously, we're not doing anything about it.

There's not going to be any debt forgiveness, but thanks for letting us know that you're going.

I was like, well, that's gross.

And then I go.

It was very inspiring to see Zoran with all the taxi workers and cut to a few weeks later and they achieved this debt forgiveness plan against all these odds.

And I was just so proud of him

and was following all of his, whether it's his human rights advocacy or this free bus pilot program.