Throughout the entire discussion, all the way to the point where it's, the whole thing's ending, the, uh, you make no such offer, and you imply that they have to pay for the whole thing.

Um, again, I offer the thought that you're relying on email conversations that don't reflect the full breadth of the conversations that were being taken.

And if that's what you wanna rely on, then that's entirely your prerogative to come to a conclusion that there was evidence.

And I've acknowledged in my email to you that there was evidence that Nathaniel offered to contribute towards the financial cause.

I'm offering to you that there were verbal conversations between Ben and myself because part of this was a, a relational thing where he asked me to be an intermediary between Gary and himself.

And so I'm offering to you that my point of view, my perspective, my memory is very clear, um, as I have stated to many people, that the $20,000 was offered.

So I'm happy for you to rely, if you wanna rely, on the email, uh, conversation that, um, Nathaniel was prepared to put up money.

If you went to the police and you reported, 'cause you, you, you're like the a- application of like court of law, right? And you reported, uh, "My neighbor has been defrauding people," and they said to you, um, "We are gonna investigate this, but because your neighbor's innocent till proven guilty, Peter, you have to personally pay for the investigation." Would that be-