The Trade-Off: I'm Not Running It Through a Filter

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I'm going to say something in real time that reflects my honest instincts. People can tell the difference, but then I'm going to change my mind on one out of a hundred things. That's just going to happen, right? And I just have to be open to that and eat my words. You might make a gaff, basically, because it's less filtered is what you're saying. Do you think Jason caused a banking crisis by using it? Oh, it's when he tweeted. Yes or no? I did not. Go as a bank run? I never said that either. But we did go at it pretty hard. He thinks actually, there's a chance,

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