Jimmy Kimmel is in lockstep with Glenn Beck on this one, and I have a theory on why. Glenn Beck is back in Phoenix, Arizona, and he's got a lot on his plate today. First, he talks about why you should stop funding the radical left with your phone service, and go to Patriot Mobile to get a free month of service. Then, he takes a call from Jimmy Kimmel and gives his opinion on whether or not the mainstream media should be in lock-step with him on this.
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00:08:39.140That's an ABC that most of their TV stations are ABC.
00:08:44.140They're going to air a special a remembrance of Charlie Kirk during the Jimmy Kimmel live segment or slot on Friday, which will probably get bigger ratings that Jimmy Kimmel ever did.
00:08:56.900Um, but they're airing that on Friday because they have, uh, indefinitely suspended, uh, um, Jimmy Kimmel's show and also next star did as well.
00:09:11.820Now, these are two, they're the two largest station groups.
00:09:15.400Um, you know, these giant groups, they have, you know, 25 or 50 stations all across the country.
00:09:21.640And then they say, Hey, ABC will take these shows from you and they become ABC affiliates.
00:09:27.280And yesterday, uh, two companies said, we're not doing it.
00:09:31.900We're not airing the Jimmy Kimmel thing.
00:09:34.300Um, and, uh, you know, that, um, that really kind of, um, is shaking a lot of trees.
00:09:40.780Now, I want you to know, I am not for government involvement in any of this government should not be involved in this at all.
00:09:49.160And the left is saying Brandon Carr, who I hope will be on this program today, uh, Brandon, uh, Brandon is a, uh, is a friend of the program and I have deep, deep respect for him.
00:09:59.980Um, but, uh, they're saying that he was, uh, involved in this by threatening that the FCC will take action or maybe he was just speaking out about it.
00:10:11.480And they, so they implied that the FCC was going to get involved and they were going to start fighting these stations, yada, yada, yada.
00:10:17.320Uh, I don't believe that, uh, especially with Sinclair.
00:10:20.720Sinclair didn't need any help to cancel, uh, Jimmy Kimmel zero.
00:10:27.460Um, but I don't believe that that's what happened.
00:10:29.940And I, even if it was, I want to give you some comparisons here, um, and, uh, and see, and ask you the question, why are they concerned this time?
00:10:41.580So they've decided that they are, they've canceled it.
00:10:44.480And now ABC is having to, uh, look into the plans for the future for Jimmy Kimmel.
00:10:49.960So, you know, Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are awful, uh, awful.
00:10:54.800He's not in, you know, when, uh, when Tucker, when everybody celebrated that Tucker was fired from Fox, everybody on the left celebrated this.
00:11:06.960He was the number two show on all of cable.
00:12:07.000You're worried that just the action, uh, of you not doing something that the president is for, the government might, might judge you differently.
00:12:19.700They might, they might take some sort of action.
00:12:22.160This goes into everything we have found out about Facebook.
00:12:25.260This is everything we found out about Twitter.
00:13:09.280She said, um, he is the person who's most arguably responsible for driving some of the most amounts of death threats, violent threats, not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country.
00:13:21.080I don't know how she, I don't know how she qualified that, but I, I would imagine you could say something like that about Jimmy Kimmel with the vitriol that that guy is putting out.
00:13:31.460Um, supporters, a message to supporters from, uh, Casio Cortez's office obtained by punch bowl news at the time touted her efforts to silence Carlson, who she said was directly responsible for the events of January 6th.
00:13:48.380So here is an example of someone who is in Congress doing the same thing and taking the victory lap saying it was me that put the pressure on everybody.
00:14:01.460Now you could say that maybe these companies, uh, are, uh, afraid of Donald Trump.
00:14:09.220Well, I will tell you that ABC should be afraid.
00:14:38.280And if you can prove that these people acted in malice and these people were lying about you, you can sue them and win.
00:14:45.920And Donald Trump just won a $16 million lawsuit against, uh, ABC.
00:14:50.720That makes sure that that doesn't usually happen again.
00:14:54.700They, they lawsuits tend to focus people.
00:14:58.120Now, how is this lost on an AOC and everybody else who celebrated when Tucker left?
00:15:04.700How is this, how is this, uh, at all unclear?
00:15:09.320When you look at what Jimmy Kimmel said, Jimmy Kimmel got on the air and said lies, absolute lies.
00:15:17.760He said that the right was doing everything they could to cover up that the shooter was one of us, us, meaning MAGA people and conservatives.
00:15:28.180That's not true in any way, shape or form.
00:15:32.220Now he is either the dumbest person in the world, but you generally don't get to that position being dumb and uninformed.
00:15:38.900And how did you get that past your writers?
00:15:41.940How did, did nobody at ABC and nobody at the Kimmel thing say, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:16:24.820That is the way it has been over and over and over again.
00:16:29.140I don't know how this is, is missed by the left and Brian Stelter who came on yesterday, Brian Stelter was, you know, was saying, oh, this is the worst thing that could happen to democracy.
00:16:51.620If you are again saying that it was Brandon Carr who got on the air and said, hey, we're going to, you know, we're going to look into this ourselves.
00:25:37.220Well, I think you're going to get pushback from both sides probably on it at some level, which, you know, I guess you're used to at this point.
00:25:49.120I think the left is going to say there is pressure from the government here, and they're very upset about that.
00:25:56.440Now, I can't even note how I feel about that because I'm so overcome by rage at the hypocrisy of them complaining about government cracking down on speech.
00:26:17.120The standard we had to hit to prove that that story mattered was like we needed to have Joe Biden pounding on the windows of the office building at Twitter, screaming at them to take off individual conservatives.
00:26:33.360That's the standard we had to hit for that story matter.
00:26:35.880We have all sorts of emails from the government pressuring these companies to say, pull down this speech.
00:27:04.720You know, it's hard to separate the hypocrisy here and how infuriated I am that they would even make these arguments to even come up with what my preferred policy would be, which I think is pretty similar to yours.
00:27:21.360If the left wants to join in unity to work with us to defang all of these three-letter agencies from going through and ruining all of public life, I cheer it on.
00:27:34.040Put a bill on there today, Chuck Schumer.
00:29:29.240This is what we call the weaponization of government.
00:29:32.360And if you don't like it, like Stu said, we will stand with you shoulder to shoulder to defang these things.
00:29:40.500Shoulder to shoulder, I will stand right with you saying the government shouldn't have the power to do that.
00:29:46.320Let's get rid of this agency or let's defang this agency to the point to where it can never target anybody on any side unless you're breaking the law.
00:30:08.900I mean, Glenn, we talked to a man who the Department of Justice sentenced to prison for posting a Hillary Clinton meme.
00:30:21.060They sentenced him to prison for it, not the prison of the Hollywood home of Jimmy Kimmel, where he now has to get paid tens of millions of dollars to stay home because a bunch of the stations that carry him don't want to show anymore.
00:35:59.380That is the same exact – you know, it was the Democrats that killed RFK.
00:36:07.760You know, they're going to do everything they can to make sure that they don't – it's not found out that the shooter of RFK was actually a member of the Democratic Party.
00:36:18.300Johnny Carson wouldn't have done that because there was no evidence of that.
00:36:23.380In fact, all of the evidence went the other way, the exact opposite way on both of those examples.
00:36:35.660What you're doing instead is you are hurting the public and the public's interest and hurting the republic.
00:36:43.120That's stuff you can get sued for, bare minimum, and maybe lose your license.
00:36:50.080Yeah, I mean, and that's, of course, what Trump has done with some other lawsuits when they've lied about this stuff.
00:36:55.160He's sued them directly and won, or at least pressured them into settling, which, again, all this stuff is stuff you could complain about if you're any other party on earth but the modern Democrats.
00:37:08.820And here's what – and here's what – and here's how you solve it.
00:37:13.000This is how I have solved – you know, when Van Jones and the White House came to complain and put pressure on Fox, went into Roger Ailes' office and sat down.
00:37:20.960Roger said to them, look, if he's made a mistake, we'll correct it right now.
00:37:25.300Just give me a list of all the things that he said is untrue.
00:37:28.560They couldn't produce a list because there wasn't anything.
00:37:32.000They came back two weeks later and said that I had said that Van Jones had gone to prison when he only went to jail.
00:46:57.320And the memorial, this makeshift memorial that has happened, it reminds me of when Princess Diana died.
00:47:04.280Just the heaps of flowers and cards and teddy bears and everything else that is sitting right in front of TPUSA, which is not an easy place to find.
00:47:26.880TPUSA, please keep them in your prayers.
00:47:29.100You know, and I worry about them in the next couple of weeks, because after, you know, if you've ever gone through the death of a loved one, once everybody leaves, that's when it really gets lonely and you start to really doubt and question everything.
00:50:49.820Let me talk to you a little bit about Antifa.
00:50:51.980Antifa has finally been put on the terror list as a terrorist organization.
00:51:00.020I want to get into this, what it takes to be a terrorist organization, but terrorism is a word that just chills you to the bone, or it should.
00:51:09.320The Department of Homeland Security lays it out clearly.
00:51:12.420Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence or threat of violence to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence government policy, or affect the conduct of government through destruction, chaos, or fear.
00:52:39.880No, that is the textbook definition of using intimidation and violence to advance an ideology and intimidating the government to do what they want it to do.
00:52:54.900Now, DHS says that terrorism does not require an international connection.
00:52:59.400Homegrown extremists fall under it as well.
00:53:06.880Now, Antifa's stated mission is to dismantle systems of oppression.
00:53:14.300But the tools they use are firebombs and street beatings.
00:53:18.860Targeting systems, civilians, officials, or institution.
00:53:24.960Well, they've assaulted journalists, shopkeepers, police officers, and city employees.
00:53:29.480In Portland, they surround the federal courthouses night after night with the explicit goal of driving the government authority out and burning the place down.
00:54:42.580What does the CEO of ISIS have to say?
00:54:46.960Lone wolf jihadists who pledge allegiance on, you know, a telegram channel still gets classified as terrorism because that's the tactics and the outcome that matter.
00:54:58.860Antifa operates as a network, but a decentralized network, but connected by shared symbols, shared targets.
00:56:34.500And if we can call January 6 terrorism, and DHS did, then intellectual honesty demands and requires that Antifa, through the same lens, is viewed the same way.
00:56:50.680Violence is violence, coercion is coercion, fear is fear, and the people of Portland and Seattle and countless other cities have lived through nights of terror at the hands of Antifa.
00:57:03.360So all that Donald Trump is doing now is just stop pretending.
00:57:09.020That's the only thing that has changed.
00:57:11.380He hasn't come up with some grand plan or anything else.
00:57:14.340He's just like, let's stop pretending it's not a terrorist group.
00:57:21.560You can't defeat an enemy if you can't name it.
00:57:26.440You know, we would have never defeated the Nazis if we said, well, the Nazis, I mean, it's just kind of a ragtag group, and it's an ideology, and it's not really.
00:57:36.600We would have never defeated the Nazis.
00:57:38.720We had to name the Nazis what they were, evil, evil.
01:00:55.280I want to take you to North Carolina here for just a second.
01:01:07.240I want to take you to North Carolina in the mountains where the hum of the cicadas, you know, and the rush of the, I think it's the Nantalahala, something like that.
01:01:19.420All of these sounds of nature just drown out the noise of the modern world, except on September 6th.
01:01:30.380A, a Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled to a stop on the roadside.
01:01:34.780And we have video of all of this driver stepped out, not with curiosity of a traveler, like this is so peaceful at night, but with malice of a vandal.
01:01:43.940Right in front of him was a banner that just said Trump 2024.
01:01:51.260It's a canvas of political allegiance that fluttered in the wind for months and months and months.
01:01:55.780And it belonged to the mother of Mark Thomas.
01:01:57.940He was the owner or is the owner of Paddle Inn Rafting.
01:03:05.560The man rolled back his sunroof, raised a firearm, a gun of his own, and fired not into the air, but toward Thomas.
01:03:14.020The man standing on his own property under his own flag, defending nothing more than his own property, defending something that was so terrorizing.
01:03:27.820It was a piece of fabric, proclaiming his belief in the current president of the United States.
01:03:34.700Bullets crack out, hit right behind Thomas.
01:03:39.280Minutes later, the suspect circles back, making another pass, squeezing off more rounds, and then fleeing into the night with his license plate concealed.
01:04:00.840And Thomas said, you know, he took my property.
01:04:04.000I was telling him to knock it off, and he was trying to kill me.
01:04:10.180This is what's happening in our country.
01:04:14.260And by the way, you know, Jimmy Kimmel will tell you today, we're trying to do everything we can to make sure that we understand that the guy who tore down that flag was a MAGA supporter.
01:04:23.660It's, again, the same kind of terror that is happening.
01:04:28.580Florida man, arrested by the FBI, he received a, the FBI received a tip from the man's high school friend about something that this guy was posting on social media.
01:05:13.260Now, he was arrested on September 10th.
01:05:17.160The same day we were all talking about Charlie Kirk by that afternoon, this was going on in Florida.
01:05:24.680Now, this guy's attorney, Whitehead's attorney, says, well, that, I can see it can be misconstrued, you know, especially with politics, you know, there's a fever out there.
01:05:35.380Well, there wasn't a fever out there on, on September 10th in the morning.
01:22:58.960Now she's been rehired, but the doctor has lost his gig.
01:23:03.720She's going to be joining us here in about half an hour because really the topic today is, at least on social media, the big trending topic is how, oh, Donald Trump is starting to use the government to target his enemies.
01:23:19.880But they're talking about Antifa now being called a terror organization.
01:23:25.880Also, Jimmy Kimmel losing his his place on, you know, probably 80 stations of ABC and ABC has suspended him indefinitely, not fired him, just suspended him.
01:23:38.660And they're saying, you know, now the government is suppressing free speech, yada, yada.
01:23:44.260Well, let's talk to somebody who understands oppressing free speech, shall we?
01:23:50.800I went to prison so you don't have to.
01:23:53.960What happens when the American justice system is weaponized against you?
01:23:58.500Peter Navarro, a guy who knows what it's like to have the government weaponized against you firsthand.
01:24:04.000We'll be here and I'm interested to hear his take on what is happening to Jimmy Kimmel and how oppressive this government is being to Jimmy Kimmel, of all people.
01:24:15.460And by the way, I have stood up for people on the right and the left relentlessly on freedom of speech.
01:26:25.120Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program from KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona, as we spend the week with TPUSA and remembering Charlie Kirk here in Arizona.
01:26:39.960I'm so glad that you have joined us today. Thank you, KFYI, for your hospitality.
01:26:43.900Today we're talking about freedom of speech and the weaponization of government because those are the two topics that are trending today.
01:26:52.900Because, of course, the New York Times and the left just think what has happened to Jimmy Kimmel is just the worst tragedy to our republic.
01:27:04.760And the worst violation of freedom of speech in modern history.
01:27:14.000I mean, forget about the Japanese internment camps.
01:27:17.220Forget about, you know, the McCarthy era.
01:27:19.780This is the biggest, the biggest violation in modern history of freedom of speech.
01:27:27.900No, actually, what Jimmy Kimmel was doing on television was lying and then not apologizing.
01:27:34.460And you had a corporation that was just sued for lying and not apologizing.
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01:30:19.760And, you know, all this stuff, Kimmel and this, that, and the other thing.
01:30:24.360I mean, I went to prison so you won't have to.
01:30:27.480The book is really a treatise on how the left is basically engaged in a sustained attack on Donald Trump, his associates, and the MAGA movement.
01:30:45.340And interestingly enough, I don't know if you know the full story, but for me, it started with a raid at Reagan Airport where the FBI came.
01:30:58.000She's the first chapter of I went to prison so you won't have to.
01:31:01.480It started where they cornered me in the gangway, me and my fiancé, dangerous hombres that we are, five armed FBI agents.
01:31:14.480Well, Bonnie, her name is Bonnie Clyde, I'm just saying.
01:31:23.460All four foot 11 and 95 pounds of her, you know.
01:31:26.940And I'm like, I'm 74 years old at the time.
01:31:30.640And the only thing I'm packing is a sandwich for the ride, you know.
01:31:35.220It's kind of like, but what's interesting about this is the agent who took me, it was a guy named Walter Giardino, FBI agent.
01:31:46.400And it's come out subsequently because of the efforts of Senator Chuck Grassley that Giardino was part of every attempt to stop Donald Trump from getting elected in 2016, 2024, and 2020.
01:32:06.520And when Donald Trump was in office, he was one of the insurrectionists.
01:32:12.060And he was the guy who originally helped greenlight the Steele dossier, allegedly, as reported by whistleblowers.
01:32:21.920The Steele dossier was the fake dossier, that's undisputed, that was manufactured by Hillary Clinton's campaign to promote the Russia hoax.
01:32:32.520And this guy Giardino was one of the agents who said it was real, not fake, and that started the whole ball rolling.
01:32:43.000And we go through eight years of endless operations.
01:32:46.800And my point here is that they put me and Steve Bannon in prison.
01:33:22.100And now Charlie Kirk with a bullet in his neck by some left-wing guy groomed in the dark corners of the Internet by ideology.
01:33:34.340And this, I went to prison so you don't have to, is a story about the dangerous and disturbing asymmetry between this relentless war on us by the left and how we're not really responding.
01:33:54.860And I don't know if you know this, maybe you saw the speech, but the day I got out of prison, I wound up on the stage of the Republican National Convention in support of then-candidate Trump.
01:34:09.560I went to prison so you won't have to, it was a tagline from the speech.
01:34:16.720But the rest of it is simply that I'm a wake-up call.
01:34:21.740What they did to me is a wake-up call for this country that we have to do one thing, okay?
01:34:29.380The five stages of grief now have one additional, and that's accountability, okay?
01:34:35.540And if we don't hold these people accountable for what they did to me, to Bannon, to Trump, to Giuliani, to the Christians who protested at abortion clinics,
01:34:51.320to the school board people, the parents who, I mean, if we don't hold these people accountable, and they have names, and I can give you their names, then they'll do it again.
01:35:04.400I mean, make a moment to think about it.
01:35:05.880If we lose the House in 2026, and you put wackos like Kroc, Jasmine Kroc, and AOC, and Maxine Waters in charge of that insane asylum, otherwise known as the House of Representatives,
01:35:24.080they will start issuing subpoenas again.
01:35:30.860Even though I did my time in prison, and there's no personal reason for me to pursue the appeal,
01:35:36.800I'm pursuing that appeal because my case, U.S. v. Peter Navarro, is a landmark case in the constitutional separation of powers and executive privileges.
01:35:49.060And the Department of Justice has already withdrawn their opposition to my appeal
01:35:55.740and gone back to what was 50 years of support for what I was forced to do by Congress in that subpoena.
01:36:05.700So these are dark times, but we do have Trump in the White House.
01:36:10.780We're getting good stuff done for the American people.
01:36:13.460But we've got to solve this lawfare problem, Glenn, or they're just going to keep doing it.
01:36:19.160Well, you know, I said today, Peter, that the left is saying,
01:36:25.120we don't want the government to be able to regulate and tell people they can be on the air or off the air.
01:36:30.240And I'm like, I've done broadcast my whole life.
01:36:33.300I'm the first to say, you want to abolish the FCC?
01:40:53.040What Giuliani made famous is the idea that if you allow graffiti on the walls and broken windows and all sorts of petty crimes going on and you don't crack down on it, then it gets worse.
01:41:07.960And Giuliani came into New York City at its low point and forced the broken window theory, started cleaning up the small stuff, and the big stuff went away.
01:41:19.060And I think we've got the same thing you're talking about, Glenn, which is that the speech on the Internet, it's like they started small years ago.
01:41:29.960And now it's just they'll say anything.
01:41:34.180And I've watched these ICE agents with tremendous respect for it.
01:41:39.240It's like, why are we even letting people with masks get within 12 inches in screaming these people's face when they're holding, like, bats or other kinds of weapons?
01:45:17.280But we just live in a crazy, crazy world.
01:45:19.540And, you know, it's even more crazy is I believe the guy who identified the guy who made the threat and left the package in front of TPUSA yesterday.
01:45:31.360I believe the guy that did that was a New York Times writer and a really, really good guy.
01:45:41.200I met him yesterday for the first time and I was shocked.
01:45:44.880Like, wait, the New York Times, New York Times.
01:45:47.020I mean, the one in New York that writes the paper that New York Times really nice guy.
01:45:53.000And I believe he was the one who who said that's the man who left the package.
01:45:58.760But luckily, there wasn't anything in the package, but a bomb squad had to be called and everything else.
01:46:03.700We just live in crazy, crazy, crazy times.
01:46:09.780I am amazed at how things have changed.
01:46:14.140You know, while things I think on our side are getting better, that people are more in touch with God and the spirit and are trying to be peaceful and loving and united, the left is going the opposite way.
01:46:30.280And the threat that people in the public eye on our side are under now is remarkable.
01:46:39.640And so please pray for all those who are who are just trying to tell the truth.
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01:49:31.280She posts about this and the doctor on her private Instagram.
01:49:34.760And just about an hour later, she gets a phone call from her union representative saying she needs to look for another job.
01:49:44.480And then she was pulled into a meeting at the hospital, and she was suspended without pay pending an investigation.
01:49:51.280Now, she does not want to come on and talk about the hospital by name or the doctor or anything else by name.
01:50:00.140And I highly recommend that as well, because she's already having to spend a lot of her own money, I'm sure, on litigation and just trying to keep her head above water.
01:50:11.520But she's been a nurse trained at the Catholic University of America.
01:53:16.680I mean, what if a patient comes into the hospital and, you know, they're wearing, you know, a Charlie Kirk shirt or any type of shirt that the doctor does not agree with?
01:53:29.520You know, now we raised the question, is this patient going to be treated the same?
01:53:34.020I have to tell you, I've, I've had to go to the hospital, et cetera, in New York City.
01:53:40.300And I've had that very thought because, you know, I don't, what am I wearing?
01:56:44.540I mean, this person's supposed to be on my side and, and I don't even know how this is helping me at any point to just tell me to look for another job.
01:56:57.020And you, and you wonder too, because it's a union, you wonder if that union, like the teacher's union is on your side or they're actually for, you know, freedom of speech for everybody and, and neutral, or if they have a political bent to them, I would imagine that's what I would think.
01:57:12.740Exactly. That's exactly what I thought. I mean, I'm not, I'm not stupid.
01:57:18.760Yeah. Yeah. Um, do you can, do you know what happened to the doctor since I, cause I've heard the doctor doesn't have a job now and you do have a job at the hospital.
01:57:28.740Yes. So they offered me my, they said, you know, we'll lift the suspension and that doctor has resigned.
01:57:36.920Um, and that's really all that I know.
01:57:42.060Okay. Um, well, that's, that's at least a somewhat of a happy, um, ending, uh, to this.
01:57:51.240Um, I, I am so proud of you and so pleased to be able to say good job.
01:57:58.760Um, I mean, that took real guts. You, I mean, you already, you already did your first tour of duty, uh, on COVID and now you do a second.
01:58:08.980Was it easier to do it the second time or harder?
01:58:13.220I have to say, I think this one was definitely harder.
01:58:17.760Um, you know, it's, it blew up overnight and it became very public and it makes you think, you know, had this not been so public, maybe today I, I wouldn't have a job as a nurse.
01:58:38.420How are things going with you now at work? Is it back to normal?
01:58:44.140Um, I haven't gone back yet. My first shift back will be on Monday.
01:58:50.460So, you know, I've had some really good people in my corner. I've, um, you know, I had Jodi O'Malley reach out to me.
01:58:58.640She's, um, a professional whistle, whistleblower, and I've had nurses out loud contact me and they've given me some really good advice.
01:59:07.280I've also, I've also had the support of so many coworkers, which has been amazing.
01:59:12.240I mean, I'm obviously, I'm very, very anxious to go back to work.
01:59:17.900Um, but I have to go in with my head up and stand on my beliefs and my faith.
01:59:23.820And I've gotten a message from one of the security guards.
01:59:27.580Actually, it was very nice. He said, you know, thank you for speaking out.
01:59:32.900Just know that you have, the staff here is on your side, a hundred percent.
01:59:38.480So I guess we'll see, um, you know, we'll see going back how it is, but.
01:59:44.000Well, I hope that, um, you know, the, the hospital is continues to be behind you and there's no ramifications, uh, and that everybody welcomes you with open arms.
01:59:56.060I cannot imagine how it couldn't, you cannot have doctors or nurses, um, saying things like that, um, uh, and, and, and, and, and feeling that way.
02:00:09.880I mean, if you feel that way, you feel that way, I guess, but I expect you to be professional enough, not to say those things, you know, at work in front of patients and front of the nurses, you cannot spread that kind of poison.
02:00:24.000You, your job is to save lives and to look at everyone equally and say, I don't care who they are, what they believe that's a human being.
02:00:35.320It is my job to save them. And you just can't have that kind of poison, you know, with somebody that we trust to take care of us.
02:00:45.660Exactly. I mean, everyone knows that's what they teach you in nursing school. You treat everybody the same.
02:00:51.920I mean, I've had patients who have been in drunk driving accidents who have, you know, harmed other people and, and you have, and you treat that patient as if it was any other person.
02:01:03.520You can't let beliefs or thoughts of any type of, you know, discrimination get in the way of treating the patient.
02:01:11.920That's really what this is about is treating everybody the same and with respect.
02:01:18.920Lexi, it's an honor to talk to you. Thank you so much for being on the program. I appreciate it.
02:01:22.720And you call us if there's a problem, you, you call us. All right.
02:05:09.420I don't remember even who I'm quoting, but I'm willing to play by the old rules, but I'm not willing to play by the old rules while you play by the new rules.
02:05:19.380I am totally fine living constitutionally and doing it, but not to the detriment of everything I believe.
02:05:27.860Because you've reinvented the rules, because you've reinvented the rules, and so we'll do nothing because we're on the old rules.