[0:18]Hi there, may I speak to Alexander?
[0:22]It is, I'm sorry, I'm calling from the hospital and these phones are just miserable
[0:27]and I'm sorry if you've got voicemails that are like dead silent, I'm sorry.
[0:32]No, no, no.
[0:33]Oh, no, it's hospital, so I'm in the basement in the operating rooms,
[0:39]it's kind of my only choice these days.
[0:41]Is this number okay for you? Do you have a minute?
[0:44]Of course, whatever I can do, I have to be off the record, unfortunately.
[1:04]I understand.
[1:05]And, you know, I don't know how to best help you and support you,
[1:10]I'm sure that you have plenty to say about Jim,
[1:13]but I'll do everything I can to help support you and your story,
[1:19]I know you need to do your very best to talk about Jim's transition and whatever I can do,
[1:25]but like I said, it really has to be off the record.
[1:29]I understand, I understand.
[1:31]If you want to send me...
[1:35]Any, just because I'll be in surgeries for a couple hours plus minus
[1:39]and then Lord knows, because I'm on call,
[1:42]you can send me stuff via email, except I don't use my AOL very much,
[1:47]I'm always worried it's going to go out of business and so I never check it.
[1:52]But I can give you my...
[1:54]What's the man's email for you?
[1:54]Yeah, I can give you my Gmail, I'm...
[1:57]It's the same first part, it's just at...
[2:01]And I check that as best...
[2:04]Got it.
[2:04]Yeah.
[2:05]And feel free to email anytime and just know I'm in the OR.
[2:08]I mean, the other thing I have is a pager, I know that's kind of 1980s,
[2:12]but you can, you know, happy to give you that too.
[2:16]And so if you can think of any questions and I...
[2:20]If you have, you know, situations that you're thinking about
[2:24]or others that I may be able to provide some background or off the record comments
[2:30]or link you with people who may know things better than me, I'm happy to try.
[2:35]But I'm sorry it took so long to get back to me.
[2:43]The emails that you sent is hilarious.
[2:47]My university emails go to the patient coordinator.
[2:50]And so like on Thursday, she's like,
[2:52]Oh, you have a couple of emails from someone at Yahoo.
[2:55]And I said, Oh my God, thank you for telling me a week later.
[2:58]I'm so sorry.
[3:00]But I'm sorry.
[3:02]No, no, I don't.
[3:03]I just, I'm kind of not in the, you know, real world these days.
[3:07]But I'm sorry.
[3:08]Don't mean to any delays.
[3:09]I'm sure you're working against some kind of deadline.
[3:11]But later this evening is fine.
[3:14]Or you can email me and I'll try my best to be back, you know,
[3:18]between cases as best I can.
[3:22]If it helps you, the hospital, it's, I mean,
[3:54]I just have to call the operator or whatever,
[3:56]but I can get a recorded line and then just send you the, they can,
[4:01]it's a file and then they send it to me and I can email it to you
[4:04]if you want.
[4:05]I do that.
[4:06]It's like a phone call recording, but, um, if that's helpful,
[4:16]because all of our hospital phones, best I understand, I mean,
[4:19]all the ones down here in the operating room,
[4:20]because frequently we have to talk to families and things.
[4:24]And so I can easily have a recorded, they don't listen or anything.
[4:27]They just, it's a recorded line.
[4:29]And then they send me a file and I could do whatever I want with it.
[4:32]So happy to try that.
[4:34]If you want, if that makes it a little easier for you.
[4:38]Yeah, I think at nine, yeah, at nine,
[4:57]I've got to start, but yeah, I mean, I, good Lord,
[5:19]I don't even know what that man's up to.
[5:21]And I can't even guess what you have for all of the things he's done since I've
[5:25]not, you know, been involved in the bank.
[5:27]But I know from the two or three years that I was there,
[5:30]you know, wasn't easy for sure.
[5:32]It wasn't easy on me, but, um, however I can help,
[5:35]I, you know, I appreciate the factual nature of things.
[5:38]And I know when you're a reporter,
[5:40]you got to make sure you have all the facts, but I do know,
[5:43]there are a number of people out there that,
[5:45]um, are good at factual and high integrity that may be able to also help you.
[5:51]So, um, my, just Tom, repeat my email back to me that way.
[5:57]I know I don't want to, I don't want to get wires crossed.
[6:01]It's like my name with an of course, all of the, yeah, of course,
[6:15]all of my, anything that I would call you from here in Seattle would be two or six
[6:19]area code and if it's 744, which it probably will be,
[6:23]it means I'm just at some stupid hospital station phone.
[6:26]So, um, wandering around.
[6:28]So it's 744, thank you.
[6:32]We appreciate you getting back.
[6:33]Okay.
[6:34]Bye bye.
[6:35]Thank you.
[6:36]Bye.