How to Calculate the Statutory Maximum Sentences

We have a question from a listener named Zach he says as a longtime listener of your podcast and its predecessors this point has been drilled into my brain regarding the that you know you can't just add up the statutory maximum sentences. What's frustratingly unclear is how anyone without a law degree in several hours to kill can come up with an alternative number or ballpark range if a journalist told you I know that adding up all the statutory maximum is wrong but my editor says I have to put some kind of number of range in this article what would can advise them to do instead so Ken should they ask chat GPT? well that would be entertaining for us certainly.