1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:09,080 I am, in the case of Microsoft, probably the most diverse person ever 2 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:15,679 to get a decent amount of responsibility there. That's a big statement. There's 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:23,160 millions of people work there, but Microsoft has canceled its DEI program and move 4 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:26,800 people around or fire them. And I want to talk about this from a 5 00:00:26,839 --> 00:00:31,480 personal perspective of what diversity should actually look like, because you're looking at it. 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,359 In the case of Microsoft, you are looking at it. We'll talk 7 00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:39,799 about this with the help of couple entities. One is Renewed Healthcare in Mexico. 8 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,679 There where I go get to my stem cells ethically gathered, nothing to 9 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:49,920 do with abortion. Always always from the placentas and umbilical cords of women who 10 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:54,240 renew pays to get through their pregnancy process so they're sure that they're healthy. 11 00:00:54,759 --> 00:00:58,240 And of course they can't do their work without the mighty work of God, 12 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,319 Almighty, who also makes this show possible. The Todd Herman show is one 13 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:12,920 disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. Now from the high mountains of 14 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:29,480 Free America, here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman. Today is a day 15 00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:32,159 the Lord has made, and these are the times to which God is the 16 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:41,079 Sadur we shall live. When my company that was called US three Purple Dots 17 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,200 was the company and we had to mind some grandiose ideas three products surrounding media. 18 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,519 We should have gone with the first one, but we went with spin 19 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,319 Spotter, which was Internet famous, and it was a very good idea. 20 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,079 We lacked social media, so it really couldn't be what it could have been 21 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,439 or what we wanted it to be. But that won this demo God Award. 22 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:06,560 And I remember my pr agent at the time, with whom I used 23 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,800 to be friends until Paul has got in between and she just can't stand me 24 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,919 or at all. And she came to me and said, they're calling you 25 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,159 the Rudy of technology. I like, what is that. She goes, 26 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:19,759 you know the movie Rudy. I goes, no, I don't know the 27 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:22,639 movie Rudy. Oh, it's about this guy who shouldn't have been on the 28 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,080 Notre Dame football team, but he made it on the Notre Dame football team. 29 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,159 And I looked it up and he's this roly poly dude. I'm a 30 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:30,240 great I'm Rudy. She said, no, I mean your it's not your 31 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,479 physique. I mean this is where Stilla is pretty heavy, and she said, 32 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:37,800 no, it's like you are the last guy that'd expect to go be 33 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,240 able to win a Demo God award. Why she goes, Well, because 34 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,840 I mean, you're just not from the tech world. I'm not. That's 35 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,319 weird because in my knowledge, I've been in it since nineteen ninety five. 36 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,000 Well, but you're not a coder. Really, I'm not a good coder, 37 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,759 but I taught myself to code so that I could be conversant with the 38 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,919 coders who worked for me. But she don't have a tech background. Really. 39 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:05,439 I built the first actual internet radio network with the first actual ad insertion 40 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,400 platform into which other people could plug their ads. That was based upon an 41 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:15,879 affiliate distribution model that allowed us to mimic national radio prom targeting before there was 42 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,960 geotargeting. We could target vi ISPs. We could run city level ads when 43 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,080 no one else could do that. We had audio ads that customized themselves. 44 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:30,680 So, for instance, we did this at Hoffn State Chicago in sears. 45 00:03:30,759 --> 00:03:32,599 We were at the Series headquarters pitching them on working with our network. This 46 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,199 is what we did. We're in there with the dial playing. We got 47 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:40,080 called back because one of the executives found on one of our affiliates, I 48 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,199 don't remember which one, but found the dial, did the research, figured 49 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:47,159 out we were a company that it wasn't this website's internet radio, it was 50 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,319 us, and they brought us back to hoff and States to pitch them on 51 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:55,560 doing advertising on our platform. And during this meeting, I asked if we 52 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:59,319 could have the dial playing in the background. Now I knew when this was 53 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:02,240 going to happen, so it wasn't a distraction. I was listening through. 54 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,840 I knew after a specific song, I needed to get a vertie's attention. 55 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:09,639 So here we are at Hoffman's State, Chicago. This is back when Sears 56 00:04:09,759 --> 00:04:13,599 was still a big, big deal, and that song came up. I 57 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:15,360 said, okay, listen, just heads up, everybody. At the end 58 00:04:15,399 --> 00:04:18,720 of the song, I want you to listen to something. And one of 59 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:25,439 the executives had logged into his dial account and it was through this affiliate, 60 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,000 so it had his name. Here's what happened. The song is winding down 61 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:32,519 and then an ad comes on and it says this, and it was our 62 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:38,800 most i'd say talented, and I guess in an old sense you might say 63 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,600 seductive female voice. She reallyd a great voice. Simone, and simone voice 64 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,000 comes on and says, hey, Steve, it's Simone with the dial. 65 00:04:46,639 --> 00:04:51,399 Sears has something they want you to know about. And there was shock in 66 00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:57,920 the room. And we ran this test ad for Sears. And then we 67 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,920 had this thing called the go button. Instead of click on a banner, 68 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,759 you clicked on the go button. We did that on purpose because we wanted 69 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,720 to habituate clicking on the go button. So you click on the go button 70 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:11,399 to look at content related to what you were hearing in our fake news. 71 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,360 We had news that was like the Babylon Bee, like just funny news. 72 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:20,079 And he clicks in their boom on the screen there's the response page for Sears. 73 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,000 And he said, okay, you hardwired that you did that live. 74 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,720 I said, no, no, we didn't. What we'd done is sat 75 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:33,639 down and had our announcers read the most common names in the English language for 76 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,959 men and women, and then we could use that to create special announcements. 77 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,000 This is how good our back end platform was. I didn't build it. 78 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,639 I simply communicated what needed to be built. And it was because I had 79 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:49,560 talented tech people who work for me. So when I go back and I 80 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,480 think about my PR agent saying, well, but you're not from a tech 81 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:57,800 background. Really, it took a lot of companies a lot of time to 82 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,240 catch up with stuff like that, and we eventually sold the company from nowhere 83 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:02,560 near as much as it was worth because we were at the end of the 84 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,399 tech bubble. We should have sold it earlier on. Microsoft had made an 85 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:12,680 offer to purchase our company for about sixty five million dollars. It would have 86 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,920 made me someone worth about nine million bucks. I had a board member refused 87 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:19,959 to back that. I found out later he wasn't voting his own shares. 88 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:24,879 He was voting the shares of another company, another venture capital firm, and 89 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:28,240 he finally admitted that to me. The reason he couldn't vote for the sale 90 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,680 is because they wanted to get their company sold first, which didn't happen, 91 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,720 but they blocked ours from getting sold. I say this all by introducing how 92 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:41,720 I came to go to Microsoft. It was because of that interaction in trying 93 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,000 they were trying to purchase our company and it didn't happen. That I met 94 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,680 a guy who has since become a very dear friend, very dear He was 95 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:56,000 instrumental in getting me a look at Microsoft. I went in as a consultant 96 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,839 and became eventually a full time employee with a field title. This is how 97 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:03,399 I came to be one of the most diverse people in Microsoft. I mean 98 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:08,319 that, look at me, I'm walking breathing diversity. I'll explain that in 99 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:12,959 the second diversity doesn't always look like you would think it would look. There 100 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,079 are diverse series of products for keeping your home fresh. For instance, there 101 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,920 are air filters. Let's go through some other qualities. They take particulate matter 102 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,879 out of the air and they store it in filters. Okay, good enough. 103 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,600 Downside, you don't really own an air filter. They are something you 104 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:33,079 rent. You buy the hardware, you rent the filters, or you rent 105 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:35,240 the hardware. You buy the hardware, but you end up renting it because 106 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:38,959 you have to replace it with these filters for a couple hundred bucks per year. 107 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:43,519 They're allowed, and they do not remove bad smells from the air. 108 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,759 Air purifiers do that. And the best one on the market is the oxy 109 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:51,160 Leaf to Thunderstorm from edenperdeals dot com, where you use code tod three to 110 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,319 save two hundred dollars on whole home coverage. Three of these devices. The 111 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:01,800 big difference is they operate almost silently the ox leaf two and produce ozone in 112 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:05,879 the room, which smells great. It actually smells like the air after a 113 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:11,199 thunderstorm, and it destroys the molecules made up of the bad smelling things like 114 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,360 pet odor or like cigarette order cooking odor, any of these odors. It 115 00:08:15,519 --> 00:08:20,959 also destroys viruses. It's the oxy leaf two. Go to edenprideals dot com 116 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,360 use code Todd three to save two hundred dollars on whole home coverage. To 117 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,920 breathe a breath of fresh air again oxy Pure from edenperdeals dot com enter code 118 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:35,080 Todd three. From that interaction of and some others with Microsoft speaking at some 119 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,080 of their events and getting to know them as I was a consultant for other 120 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,480 companies. After resold Ours, I came in as a consultant, and based 121 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:46,080 upon my work as a consultant, I was offered a job as a full 122 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,879 time employee, starting at MSNBC dot com before it went insane, and ultimately 123 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,559 ending up at Microsoft in the msn division. I am a community college dropout. 124 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,919 I am someone who never made it through the first u of community college. 125 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,200 I didn't want to. I am someone who though I was a class 126 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,200 speaker in school. It was only because I was voted into B class speaker. 127 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:11,360 I didn't have good grades. I had to in order to stay on 128 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:15,720 the football and wrestling teams, avoid anything like a C average. I think 129 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:18,639 I had to get a B average. I was also told if you get 130 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:22,120 in any form of disciplinary trouble, you're off both teams. Those two reasons 131 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:28,000 are the sole reasons initially that I stopped getting in trouble and stopped my process. 132 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,679 I had a policy of not doing homework. I stopped getting d's and 133 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,159 started to get b's and a's. And in my senior year, some of 134 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:39,600 my coaches took me aside and said, look, you're recruitable for small colleges 135 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:43,679 to play small college football. You're recruitable at bigger colleges to wrestle, but 136 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:46,440 not with the grades you have. You have to get straight a's if you 137 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,799 want a shot at this. So I said, okay, I got to 138 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,200 go get the straight a's. I'm not a guy who came out with this. 139 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,639 Then curriculum Batal Spokane Falls Community College for half a year is not going 140 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:01,120 to impress anybody. And when I got to Microsoft, I had to go 141 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:05,480 out and do things to impress people like this. A friend of mine took 142 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:07,840 me aside and said he was the guy who ran my board. He was 143 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,080 the head of my board of directors with my Internet rate of company, and 144 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:11,720 I sat down with him. I said, John, what do we have 145 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:15,320 to do? He said, no, matter what you do, find a 146 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,519 way to put a revenue number in your head. If you're on a product 147 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,960 team. I said, yeah, I'm on the product team. He said, 148 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,159 okay, you have to put a revenue number on your head because revenue 149 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,960 means everything. So in your commitments, argue to have revenue responsibility. So 150 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,559 I did. In my commitment setting with my boss, Charlie, one of 151 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,440 the best bosses I've ever had, I argued for a revenue commitment. He 152 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,519 said, Okay, if you make this commitment, you're going to be judged 153 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,279 on it. What do you need my support? So he didn't set that 154 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,799 up. I put on a revenue commitment and from there I had a whole 155 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,759 bunch of product control. It was a smart move. Ultimately, how I 156 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:56,759 came to realize how diverse I was wasn't having conversations with people about their backgrounds, 157 00:10:56,519 --> 00:10:58,720 and people would ask me things like, well, where'd you go to 158 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:01,879 call? And I would tell them, oh, I'd drop out, and 159 00:11:01,919 --> 00:11:07,000 the looks in their faces, these quizzical looks. I also started to notice 160 00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:11,639 this that at Microsoft, if you were seeking to get a raise, sometimes 161 00:11:11,639 --> 00:11:15,279 there would open jobs and they would contact you as an employee. I went 162 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:20,279 to LinkedIn and I entered an education in university. I entered streaming media university. 163 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:24,120 It didn't exist, of course, it didn't exist. There was no 164 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:26,360 such thing as streaming media when I started to get into it. But it 165 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,919 got me through the resume blockers because it checked off a box. Oh, 166 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,279 he has a college degree. I didn't say that. I simply said streaming 167 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,559 media you. And when I would sit down with recruiters, internal recruiters at 168 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,159 Microsoft, they'd say, what is streaming media you? Oh, let me 169 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:45,759 ask Let me answer that question for you. Ultimately, Microsoft, based upon 170 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:48,799 my performance of a product that grew from five million in revenue to twenty five 171 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:54,159 million to one hundred million across that period of time. Then then I was 172 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:58,120 somebody because it was shown that I could create these revenue things. Then I 173 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,519 was given a team of direct reports. Then I was given some responsibility. 174 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,600 Then I got this field title. Of Global General Manager of Media Strategy. 175 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,279 It's a great field title. I was really more of a senior director, 176 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:13,120 That's what I was, or maybe a director now a senior director actually level 177 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,840 sixty six senior director. And I had the ability to go out and purchase 178 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,039 companies if Microsoft would say yes. Hence my time in La Los Angeles, 179 00:12:22,039 --> 00:12:26,840 Hollywood and New York. And again people said, well, you don't have 180 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:31,399 an entertainment background. I don't. I worked in radio for a whole number 181 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,000 of years at my internet radio company. I did deals with the record companies. 182 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,879 I did deals with the film studios. We had rights to run music 183 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:41,200 that no one else had. There was a reason why we had so many 184 00:12:41,279 --> 00:12:45,440 channels when other people couldn't have this many channels. There's a reason that we 185 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,360 weren't paying out the teeth to the record labels because we figured out a way 186 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:52,279 to make ourselves valuable to the record labels. We give them data. We 187 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,639 went to their concert promoting entities and said, hey, we can tell you 188 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,039 where the best place for your bands to go play. You might not even 189 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:03,360 know this. We helped them map appearances. We gave them straight data feeds 190 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:07,840 so they themselves could look at the data of how their records were performing and 191 00:13:07,919 --> 00:13:13,480 with who, and with a geographic overlay. I would make these points of 192 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,120 people that I've been in the entertainment business. You don't want to think of 193 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:20,159 it that way. See here's the thing they continually said to me. You, 194 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:22,399 well, goush, you don't work in tech. Well wait, wait, 195 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,960 gush, you don't work in entertainment. Wait, you're the streaming audio 196 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:31,600 guy. What makes you think you understand streaming video because it's the same business 197 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:37,840 model. When this all came very clear to me was two instances. Number 198 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:43,159 one, there was a woman who was pushing diversity at Microsoft, and she 199 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:48,600 came knocking on my door and she said, Hey, I work with HR. 200 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,159 We've been sending some emails to you about helping you diversify your team, 201 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,879 and I haven't gotten any replies. Could we please have a discussion. I 202 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:00,480 just wanted to come by. You've got a smaller team, no offense, 203 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,720 but it's really important that we do this and we can help you grow the 204 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:05,120 number of team members you have. Now do you do you see the ploy? 205 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,759 At Microsoft there were two things that really communicated power. One was a 206 00:14:09,799 --> 00:14:13,240 big revenue number. The other was how many heads did you have. I 207 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:16,080 had a general manager one day tell me, because he was saying I was 208 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,120 trying to move up in the organization. He said, well, you got 209 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,879 to get some management under your belt. I go, Scott, right, 210 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:22,799 I manage people. He goes, Todd, twelve people is not going to 211 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,080 press anybody. You need to manage hundreds of people. That matters. So 212 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,600 what this HR lady was saying to me is I can help you get more 213 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,240 direct reports, therefore more power. And I knew exactly what was on my 214 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,440 bookshelf behind me. I knew it. She came in. I said, 215 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,159 please, yeah, come in, let me shut some things down and sit 216 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:43,080 down and have a conversation. And she sat down facing my bookshelf was behind 217 00:14:43,159 --> 00:14:46,559 me. Wonder it was right behind my head Shakedown, a book about Jesse 218 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:52,159 Jackson. And now Jesse Jackson was a shakedown artist, right behind my head. 219 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,200 I knew she was looking at it. She was a black woman. 220 00:14:56,279 --> 00:15:00,960 I knew she was offended, but she wouldn't say anything. And I said, 221 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,279 can we start on a baseline here, what does diversity mean? She 222 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,159 goes, what does diversity mean? Well, it means hiring people who are 223 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:13,399 diverse. It's right but what does that mean diversity? She goes, well, 224 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,080 people of different races. We were underrepresented with races. Oh oh, 225 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:20,519 oh, okay, okay, so we want to have more? What maybe 226 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:22,480 help me? Hear? Black people, Asian people, mostly black people. 227 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,559 Okay, I'm in. So how do we go find black people who are 228 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,840 great at coding and great at business in tech and bring them in or have 229 00:15:31,879 --> 00:15:37,120 great promise intellectual prowess. How do we find the very smartest, high IQ 230 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:41,519 malleable, smart, adaptive black people? I'm in? What do I need 231 00:15:41,559 --> 00:15:43,399 to do to help? She goes, well, that's not really the point. 232 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,559 The point is that we need we need more black bodies. I said, 233 00:15:48,559 --> 00:15:50,559 but you mean the right black body. She goes, well, right 234 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,879 now, we're behind the curve, so we really just need black people. 235 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:56,759 I said, But you don't mean that we would hire people without promise or 236 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:00,320 talent? Right? Oh no, no, but that's not the first thing 237 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:07,559 we'd look at. Oh I don't think I'm comfortable with that. The look 238 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:15,720 on her face was insane and instructive. The insanity was she sat there with 239 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:21,120 her mouth open. I mean, I'm literally looking at her teeth. Then 240 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:26,879 her eyes glanced to the Jesse Jackson book, and she knew. I told 241 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:30,159 her, if you can come here with a plan to help us find the 242 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:37,919 smartest, most promising, brilliant, malleable, curious, humble black people, 243 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,559 I am in. I will do anything to help with that. But if 244 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,799 you're telling me you simply need black people, I can't do that. That's 245 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:52,720 unethical. That was one thing that indicated to me my diversity. Another came 246 00:16:52,759 --> 00:16:59,159 in a meeting that was hilarious and instructive. When I was in that meeting, 247 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,440 I remember looking around the room and understanding something that I was going to 248 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,319 say. It was going to blow people's minds. It was. So. 249 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,839 I was in a yet another meeting, and this was one I voluntarily went 250 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,720 to because I was alerted to the move to diversify Microsoft. It was a 251 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:19,160 response, I think to my interaction with this woman that I got invited to 252 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,200 a discussion group, and I think the play was here to put some peer 253 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,519 pressure on me. It didn't work to have someone from HR come and say 254 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:30,440 this, now, by the way, had I not taken a product, 255 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:32,599 not me, but my team, if I'd not if our team had not 256 00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:34,720 taken a product from five million to twenty five million to one hundred million in 257 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:37,880 revenue. She simply could have gone upstairs, we've got a troublemaker over here. 258 00:17:38,519 --> 00:17:44,160 Well, when that product eventually became a billion dollar contributor to Microsoft, 259 00:17:44,319 --> 00:17:47,960 I wasn't there for that. That sort of troublemaker thing didn't matter as much. 260 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,000 So I got asked to go to this meeting, and I said, 261 00:17:51,039 --> 00:17:53,400 yeah, I'd love to attend this meeting. So we sat in one of 262 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,759 the conference rooms in Microsoft with the door closed, and there was a whiteboard, 263 00:17:56,759 --> 00:18:00,160 and there was a lady leading this and she was a love Asian lady. 264 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,920 And is there a call? She was from Yale or Harvard. There's 265 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,920 a reason I'm saying Yale or Harvard. The beginning began and she discussed that 266 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,759 we were here with leaders of small to medium sized teams because it was based 267 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:17,880 upon us a new generation of leaders. They wanted to build a workplace of 268 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,200 diversity. So when we talked through diversity, and again everybody gave their backgrounds. 269 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,759 This is what you did at Microsoft. Hi, my name is Alyssa. 270 00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:29,720 I'm from this business unit we concentrate on this. I reported too, 271 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:33,279 this executive. I went to school an undergrad here. I got my graduate 272 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:37,400 degree here and we were around the table, and it comes up to me. 273 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:40,319 I go, hi, I'm Todd, and I'm the most diverse person 274 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:44,759 here in the room. I'm the only college dropout. I barely made it 275 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:48,440 out of high school. I learned what I learned by working in radio and 276 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,240 then teaching myself to write some code and hiring people smarter than me, and 277 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:55,440 learning how to go to Silicon Valley and raise money, and learning how to 278 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:00,519 make technology to replicate the greatest forms of media. I'm very forte to work 279 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:03,319 at Microsoft under this boss. I won't say the boss's name, I'll say 280 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:07,599 his first name. I'm very fortunate to work here at Microsoft under John and 281 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,480 I'm gradually really blessed to be here as the most diverse member of the room. 282 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,039 And again the look of shocks in the faces, and the lady said, 283 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:15,599 what do you mean the most diverse? I said, no, I'm 284 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:22,160 just thinking of it. I'm sitting here Yale, Yale, Harvard, Stamford, 285 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:30,400 NYU, Yale, Harvard college dropout. And the lady who ran the 286 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:38,480 meeting, this very nice Asian lady read the room laughed, first nervously and 287 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:47,079 then genuinely. She said, he's right, he's actually right. I mean 288 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,680 all of us are coming at things from one direction. Academia, she got 289 00:19:52,720 --> 00:20:00,319 it. Actual diversity is something Microsoft used to do. They used to take 290 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,839 people on based upon talent or promise. Bill Gates dropped out of college and 291 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,920 now we know he's a worldwide expert on vaccines and food. Right, and 292 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,640 the sociopath probably, but he had a saying smart people are malleable. Give 293 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,720 them a task and they will adapt. That's how you could take someone like 294 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:26,920 me who came in as a SMEE that means subject matter expert, a SMEE, 295 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:33,559 and turn me into someone they were grooming to have a much bigger management 296 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,839 role, including offering to have me to pay for me to go get my 297 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,160 MBA, something maybe I should have done. They offered to fly me to 298 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,640 London, let me live over there and run a team in London, and 299 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,839 in exchange for that, give me money, in fact, pay for an 300 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,359 entire education. I told him I don't have an undergraduate degree. They said, 301 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,279 we can help you with that. We can help you accelerate that process 302 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,559 very very quickly, get you an MBA and you can come back with a 303 00:20:57,559 --> 00:21:02,559 full MBA having got in National Business experience living in London. Maybe I should 304 00:21:02,599 --> 00:21:10,079 have done that. Microsoft practiced DEI in the greatest possible sense, with me 305 00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:12,640 a guy who shouldn't have made it through the recruiting process. If I had 306 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,599 just submitted a resume, it would have been kicked out of the resume bought. 307 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:19,200 If I didn't have friends like Brad to help me get into Microsoft, 308 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,000 I wouldn't have gotten into Microsoft. If I didn't have people like Matthew who 309 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:26,759 had worked for me. It is my dearest lifelong brother who went to Microsoft 310 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:30,519 to back up that I should be there, or people had met at industry 311 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,400 events saying, hey, this guy's smart. He gets this streaming media stuff 312 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,599 really really well. If I didn't have those things, I wouldn't have gotten 313 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:41,599 in the door. But once in the door, I wasn't a diversity hire. 314 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,680 I was a white dude just like any other white dude on campus. 315 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,240 And I was well aware of the fact that I came from behind because I 316 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:52,880 did not have the education to stand on. Therefore, I had to come 317 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,720 in and be smart about how I developed a what's called a portfolio. I 318 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:00,119 had to be smart and intentional, starting with that great advice to go build 319 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,160 revenue and then to get great reports people who work for me, and I 320 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,480 really was a true believer in hire people smarter than yourself. That mattered to 321 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:12,200 me. Everybody on my team was smarter than me in every possible capacity. 322 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:19,799 When Microsoft fired it's DEI head or has fired its team, they're not really 323 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:26,000 doing away with diversity, equity and inclusion. They're doing a way with the 324 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:30,279 people who are the opposite of that. That theory get me black bodies has 325 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:37,720 cost good people their careers. There's a guy kept in touch with at Microsoft, 326 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,319 and we'd see each other from time to time. He was in Washington, 327 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,119 d C. We crossed over there and we'd have dinner from time to 328 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,359 time. He actually called me because he knows what I do for a living 329 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,359 and he knew I would get this. He lost a dream job at which 330 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:57,079 he had excelled in a core business area of Microsoft. They're a zero product 331 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:02,160 the cloud thing, which was a huge strategic thing he was on. He 332 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:03,960 was making a ton of money, had a great, big team, he 333 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:08,960 was traveling globally. This was the key to becoming a partner. Base salary 334 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,400 for partners or a millionaire year or used to be. You get these sabbaticals 335 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,279 every six years. I think. I think it's like a twelve weeks sabbatical. 336 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:19,079 You get massive, massive stocks. It is a huge jump. This 337 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:25,920 makes you you're mobbed up. He was on that path when HR called him 338 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,279 and said, Hey, this is going to be kind of a hard discussion, 339 00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:30,519 but we need to have it with you. So he went and had 340 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:33,559 this discussion. I'll tell you about this in a second. It made him 341 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:37,799 absolutely sick. It makes me sick, and I have a question for Microsoft. 342 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,759 Does he get his gig back. Don't let yourself get sick. If 343 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:45,920 you're one of one hundred million Americans with fatty liver disease, please do not 344 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,680 let that come become liver disease. Please don't let that happen. If it 345 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:53,039 happens to you, that can lead to of course turning yellow, which no 346 00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:59,319 one wants. And it's so utterly preventable. How do you know if you 347 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:03,200 have fatty livered this disorder? Well, there's this. If you are obese 348 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,279 or really heavy, you probably have it. It's one hundred million Americans have 349 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:11,079 it, and that maps about to obesity. What is it? There's all 350 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:15,119 this fat that gets around your liver. It puts pressure on it so that 351 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,079 your liver is less efficient. Why does that matter, Because your liver removes 352 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,519 toxins from your body. If it's not operating efficiently, the toxins remain in 353 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:29,519 the body. What are some of the symptoms feeling sluggish and slow and sleepy 354 00:24:29,519 --> 00:24:33,960 and having trouble even motivating yourself to do even mild forms of exercise. So 355 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,799 what's a solution. Well, the prime solution is to drop body fat. 356 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,119 That's the best way to get rid of fat your liver disorder. 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So the phone call goes 365 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,559 like this, Hey, we need you to come in and have a discussion. 366 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,440 So he's thinking, have I done something wrong? Did I offend? 367 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,160 Somebody walks into the room and they sit down and they say, hey, 368 00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:36,000 this is a take one for the team moment. There's a woman who's gonna 369 00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:40,000 come in and take over your role, and we're sorry to say that, 370 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:44,039 We're gonna help you find another role. It might involve a lateral transfer into 371 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:48,680 another division. Now at Microsoft there are core business divisions like Azure, and 372 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:52,839 there are non core. Non Core always get laid off for its Core are 373 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,759 always last to get laid off. Non Core get the leftovers. Core get 374 00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:00,240 the first fruits. He knew this, and he said, okay, so 375 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:06,480 what if my performance reviews are four point zeros to four point five's Sometimes five 376 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:10,119 o's hard to get a five os five to five is a perfect And so 377 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:12,400 I haven't had any disciplinary issues, I had no lack of performance. I've 378 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,160 met all my commitments. Wise this happening, This is a diversity move. 379 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:21,359 The decision has been made, it is irrevocable. We're going to help you 380 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,279 find the lateral transfer somewhere else, same level. He ended up getting transferred 381 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:32,240 into a non core business unit and had no reports. In other words, 382 00:26:32,319 --> 00:26:37,519 he was stripped of all influence at Microsoft, even though at that time there 383 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:42,359 wasn't an international business deal that could get done, any international business deal that 384 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,079 could get done out of the Azure unit without going over my friend's desk. 385 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,200 He had to review every single deal. That's power. He didn't have any 386 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:56,119 in this other job gone. The woman who came in to replace him was 387 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,440 Hispanic and had never worked in that field. She'd never done in a national 388 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,400 business. She had never worked in business development. She had never written or 389 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,759 reviewed contracts of this level ever once in her life. She came from a 390 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:18,240 communications dash PR background. When she was brought under the team and was doing 391 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,400 the first team call, believe it or not, it was another female who 392 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,960 addressed this very issue. She virtually raised her hand in the meeting and said, 393 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,880 I have a question, and this lady said yes. She said, 394 00:27:30,079 --> 00:27:33,240 you do know that you're here replacing a great talented manager with all sorts of 395 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:37,160 experience in this business and in this business unit, and you're coming in with 396 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:42,079 absolutely no experience, and you expect us to accept this you're actually accepting this 397 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,599 job knowing it's because you're an Hispanic woman, right, You're doing this? 398 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,839 And the lady said, yeah, yeah, I am. I'm doing it. 399 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:55,240 I'm taking this and I'm going to need you guys to teach me this 400 00:27:55,319 --> 00:27:57,559 business. I'm smart and talented and I'll learned, but I need you to 401 00:27:57,559 --> 00:28:03,519 teach me. That woman who made that challenge to the new boss wrote an 402 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:08,279 email later and said, I will not sit and provide on the job training 403 00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:12,039 for a person at this level of our business who has never worked in this 404 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:17,920 division, has never worked in core tech, is a communications person, because 405 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,880 what this means is do my job for me while I get to have the 406 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,279 title. She transferred herself out of that core business unit. Does she get 407 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:32,599 her job back Microsoft? Does my friend that you openly moved out of the 408 00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:37,279 way because he was too white? Does he get his job back? Now? 409 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:41,000 Revenge is the province of God. It is, It's not the province 410 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,319 of mankind. I'm not seeking revenge, I'm seeking justice. It is the 411 00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:48,559 Lord Jesus who tells us in the body of Christ, there's no servant nor 412 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:55,640 master, no Greek nor Jew. He invented all the so called races of 413 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,000 people. He made us all and wants to view us all equally. So 414 00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:03,960 do I. So my question to Microsoft is, now that you've made this 415 00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:08,599 change, are you going to rectify the change? The R and C is 416 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,480 taking a run at diversity. They are, and what they're trying to do 417 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:18,759 is diversify the people coming into the committee and on stage. We saw this 418 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,720 last week. Now, there are two people I want to spotlight in this. 419 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:26,200 One is David Sachs and the other is Amber Rose. Why the connection 420 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:30,680 Because they're connected. You may not think so, but they are. The 421 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:38,599 Republican base is an embarrassment to Washington, DC. Professional Republicans. We embarrass 422 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:45,799 them, Guns embarrass them, Obsession with the Second Amendment embarrasses them. But 423 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:52,960 nothing embarrasses them more than having to talk about the social issues such as biblical 424 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:00,359 marriage, such as same sex attraction. They had to be absolutely shamed into 425 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,960 defending children against gender ideology. As one of the guys who shamed them early 426 00:30:04,039 --> 00:30:10,000 on and was talking about gender ideology eight years before it became a cause celeb 427 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,279 I know this because I had Republicans tell me this. It makes us so 428 00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:18,880 uncomfortable to discuss these things. So we see events like Amber Rose speaking at 429 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,160 this committee. Now, Amber, I don't know. I don't know her 430 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,920 heart. I don't know if the Lord has called her. I don't know. 431 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,720 But what I do know is she's made a living with her body. 432 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:32,440 I do know she's made a living with sexuality. These are the things I've 433 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,599 learned. And I don't know that she's not a smart woman. Again, 434 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,359 I don't know, but I do understand the play. This is part of 435 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,799 Amber Rose's speech at the Republican National Committee. But I'm here tonight to tell 436 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:49,279 you, no matter your political background, that the best chance we have to 437 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:55,000 give our babies a better life is to elect Donald Trump president of the United 438 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:07,880 States. Now you may be wondering why I'm up here telling you this. 439 00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:11,799 I'm no politician, and I don't want to be, but I do care 440 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,440 about the truth. And the truth is that the media has lied to us 441 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:27,799 about Donald Trump. I know this because for a long time I believe those 442 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,480 lies. So I'm here to set the record straight. The first person I 443 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:37,920 knew who supported Donald Trump was my father. I was shocked. My entire 444 00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:44,519 family is racially diverse, and I believe the left wing propaganda that Donald Trump 445 00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:48,799 was a racist. My father said, no, he's not, Amber, 446 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,359 what are you talking about? And when I insisted, he said, prove 447 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,519 it. So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked 448 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:07,160 into all things Donald trum Trump people have to do their research. I watched 449 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:13,400 all the rallies and I started meeting so many of you his red hat wearing 450 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:23,799 supporters. I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don't care if you're black, 451 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:37,319 white, gay or straight. It's all love. And that's when it hit 452 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:49,720 me. These are my people. This is where I belong. This is 453 00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:51,799 my people, This is where I belong. But these are my people, 454 00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:54,359 this is where I belong. Well, welcome, Amber, And maybe it 455 00:32:54,440 --> 00:33:01,240 truly is concern for your kids, in which case you need to drop any 456 00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:07,119 connection to anything related to the sex business. You cannot have concern for kids 457 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:15,400 and embrace the business of sex. You can't because it totally departs the word 458 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,039 of God. This is one of the things against which we're fighting. Why 459 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:22,680 am I saying this is DEI well, because the Republicans have been told you 460 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,200 need to expand the number of African Americans have on stage. Black people, 461 00:33:25,519 --> 00:33:31,599 black women get it, young faces get it. But who are they Why 462 00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:36,279 are they there. She's photogenic, she's a pretty lady. She's a good 463 00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:40,640 speaker, she's convincing. Why is she there? She's there to draw people 464 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:46,079 like David Sachs. See, we the base of the Republican Party, and 465 00:33:46,119 --> 00:33:52,480 I'm not a Republican, but I can't vote for Democrats. We embarrass them 466 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:57,200 by talking about same sex marriage as something that we should not outlaw. We 467 00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:01,519 can't. That is inconsistent with the constant. But it's something we should discourage 468 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,880 because it goes against God law. God's law, just like we should discourage 469 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,400 adultery because it poisons families, and it poisoned souls, and it shakes a 470 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:20,119 part of society. Those positions embarrass professional Republicans, and they deeply embarrass a 471 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,400 certain class of donor. That doesn't mean that amber Rose didn't say some things 472 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,960 of value. This is a second portion of amber Rose's speech at the Republican 473 00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:32,400 National Committee, So again, I'm not saying that she didn't provide some value. 474 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:37,480 When I met the President and Melania for the first time, he was 475 00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:43,800 kind and generous and funny as hell, very funny. The first lady was 476 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,280 gracious and smart, with a smile that will brighten up any room. If 477 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,119 you're watching this tonight, you know our country is in trouble, just like 478 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,519 me. When you go to the store and buy food for your family, 479 00:34:54,559 --> 00:35:00,079 you're shocked. When you fill up your gas tank, you're pissed. I 480 00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:10,199 know I am, And when you turn on the news, you are just 481 00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:15,960 exhausted. Inflation is out of control, and you know in your heart it 482 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:23,679 was not like this under Donald Trump. Those things are all true things. 483 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,760 And that's enough of what Amber said. So, Okay, we're pissed about 484 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,360 gas prices. Is it really the gas prices we're pissed about. I promise 485 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:37,840 you this. Pursue all the low gas prices you want while pursuing social liberalism, 486 00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:44,000 and you'll end up back at the same place because social liberalism always ends 487 00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:49,599 in destroying truth, because it cannot stand with truth, because it departs truth. 488 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,800 Truth is a person, God himself is truth. Again, I don't 489 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,119 know Amber Rose, and I don't mean to criticize her because they don't know 490 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:04,880 her criticizing the play the plays being done to bring money people to the table, 491 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,119 because Silicon Valley executives have told us the same things for years. When 492 00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:14,719 I was at the committee, the Republican National Committee. I had many, 493 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:20,280 many executive meetings on the West Coast with Hollywood types and with Silicon Valley types, 494 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,480 and I was told the same thing, till your party drops its social 495 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:30,119 issue stances, we cannot give you money. And abortion now is a made 496 00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:36,800 decision. Apparently they're okay with that made decision, but not on same sex 497 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:42,119 marriage, not on the so called transing of kids. Republicans were forced to 498 00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:45,079 stand up against the transing of kids. But they want to have people like 499 00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:49,119 David Sachs on board. And I get it. David Sacks is a brilliant 500 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:52,920 man. David Sacks is brilliant in the ways of this earth, in the 501 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,400 ways of this earth, and he's got a lot of money, and money 502 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,800 makes a lot of calls. Just ask my friend Zach Abraham at BULWARDT Capital. 503 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,559 You know Zach from the show. He's been with us multiple times because 504 00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:07,679 he was in Idaho. He's with us nearly every Friday. Chief Investments Officer 505 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,440 Bulwark Capital Management at No Your Riskradio dot com. He's seen it all. 506 00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:15,039 He was there for the housing collapse, the first one, and he warned 507 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:19,280 his bosses, we need the short housing stocks. And just like anybody who 508 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,840 said that at the time, he was laughed out of the room. Kids, 509 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,760 you don't get it. They're too big to fail. That's so so 510 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:29,760 long ago. Now Bulwark Capital Management has been blessed to steward the moneys of 511 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,239 many, many people, and that's how Zach sees It's stewarding. As a 512 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:38,360 consequence, he is doing now a regular series of workshops highly focused on inflation 513 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:45,079 as the silent assassin of retirement portfolios, and another one coming up the twenty 514 00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:50,119 fifth of this month at three thirty Pacific. It's free, but you have 515 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,360 to have to register to attend. If you intend to retire in five, 516 00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:59,599 ten, even fifteen years, understand that the money you have now is predicated 517 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:05,400 upon inflation. Now, if inflation goes up five, ten, fifteen points, 518 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:12,039 what happens to your ability to keep not working? It can evaporate again. 519 00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:15,119 This workshop is free, but you have to register to attend. Go 520 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:20,440 to Know your Risk Radio dot Com. That's kN ow Know your Risk Radio 521 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:22,719 dot Com. Space on these things are always limited, so do it today. 522 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:28,039 Know your Riskradio dot Com. Investment advisory services offer through Trek Financial LLC 523 00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:31,239 and SEC registered Investment advisor Investments involve risk, you could lose money, and 524 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:37,719 past performance doesn't necessarily guarantee future results. Truck twenty four DESH two four four 525 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:44,199 Go to Know Your Risk radio dot com. David Sachs is pretty legendary in 526 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,480 technology and technology investing, and he was at the Republican National Committee giving his 527 00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:54,039 speech. By the way, you can purchase speaking slots with certain amounts of 528 00:38:54,039 --> 00:38:57,440 donations. I'm not saying that David Sachs did this. And by the way, 529 00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:02,360 David Sacks has been incredibly helpful, incredibly helpful with Republicans in San Francisco. 530 00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:06,440 He's been incredibly helpful in putting pressure on them. I want to give 531 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,199 him all the credit in the world. This isn't to knock against David Sacks. 532 00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:15,199 David is who he is. But amberrows in positions and platform changes are 533 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,480 meant to draw people like David Sacks to the table. This is part of 534 00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:22,760 David sacks statements at the Republican National Convention. In my hometown of San Francisco, 535 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:30,199 Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cessful of 536 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:37,000 crime, homeless encampments, and open drug use. Democrats led by Borders are 537 00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:44,840 Kamala Harris have allowed millions of illegal migrants to invade our country. They tasked 538 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:51,320 homeland security notwith stopping the illegal aliens, but with busting them all over our 539 00:39:51,400 --> 00:40:00,920 country. Democrats have recklessly spent trillions of dollars of wasteful and unnecessary govern programs, 540 00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:07,000 setting off the worst inflation since Jimmy Carter. Well, it's not a 541 00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:12,519 Barnberger's speech at all by any regard, but he's not a barn Burner speaker, 542 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,519 but inflation got it. Just talked about it with Zach. Find me 543 00:40:17,679 --> 00:40:23,559 a way to have a non inflationary economy when you have people running the economy 544 00:40:23,679 --> 00:40:30,159 who pretend that math doesn't exist, who pretend that binaries aren't real, that 545 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:35,519 there's not man and woman, who pretend that a debt of three hundred trillion 546 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:38,679 is actually just a debt of thirty trillion. You can't find me a way 547 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:45,400 to have truth in a socially liberal environment. It cannot be done. This 548 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,639 is the rest, not the rest, but another portion of David Sach's speech. 549 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,079 Again not a barn Burner of a speech. But worst of all, 550 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:59,039 the Bien Harris administration has taken a world that was at peace under President Trump 551 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:08,760 and they lit it on fire from pausing here. No one cares. He 552 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:15,159 was pausing to get applause. They lit it on fire. The international relations 553 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:21,239 in Ukraine, no one cares. David Sachs, we should care about the 554 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,320 human life. Jesus weeps. We should, But that is not what's going 555 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:30,119 on in the Republican national community's heart, not the grassroots people to restart. 556 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:37,840 First, President Biden bossed the Afghanistan withdrawal, displaying incompetence and weakness to the 557 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:44,599 whole world to see. Then he provoked, yes, provoked the Russians to 558 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:55,519 invade Ukraine with talk of NATO expansion. No one cares. He rejected every 559 00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:01,840 opportunity for peace in Ukraine, including all to end the war just two months 560 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:07,519 after it broke out. Now, man, the lack of response to this 561 00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:09,079 guy's speech is making me uncomfortable. I feel itchy. I feel itchy. 562 00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:14,559 It's rude. David Sachs is a brilliant guy, drawn to the table because 563 00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:19,400 he is deeply affected by what's going on in San Francisco. His companies are 564 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,360 affected, his safety is affected. And I respect that decision. But to 565 00:42:23,639 --> 00:42:30,440 change the platform to draw people like David Saxon by departing God's word will simply 566 00:42:30,519 --> 00:42:34,440 mean that you go down the same exact path that democrats went down. You 567 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,920 cannot get your country back this way. You could only get your power back. 568 00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:44,440 And guess what power in an earthly sense is so temporary it is ash. 569 00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:47,239 There is no real power except that which comes from God, and there 570 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,079 is no real home except for the eternal home. You make the decision to 571 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:58,239 choose up or down. It is up to you entirely. But thinking this 572 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:04,000 stuff's going to rescue us is just like thinking skin color is diversity just different 573 00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:09,199 lies from the same liar. Lord, thank you for reminding us that you, 574 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:15,119 and fearing you, fearing disappointing you is in fact the beginning of wisdom. 575 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,119 That we don't have any wisdom on our own. I'm sure the true 576 00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:20,679 source of that. This is the Todd Hermann Shaw. Please go, be 577 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,280 well, be strong, be kind, and make every effort to walk in 578 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,119 the light of Christ.