o not making what I'd call the Rand Paul mistake. The Rand Paul mistake is that he's dying on the hill of these face masks and you just can't win that fight. I mean he can be right. I'm not arguing he's wrong. I'm just saying it's the kind of fight that's really a bad one if you want to run for president later because people are going to remember it. They're going to say you were wrong. You're anti-science or whatever. But I don't see Tom Cotton even making an issue of it. He's going after the racism in this country. Good. He's going after China really hard. Good. Good stuff.

All right. There is in Oakland they're doing a program where they're going to give $500 checks to low-income families. So I guess this is like a UBI kind of a thing. I'm not sure how long it's going to go. But there's a restriction to it. So if you're poor, if you're low income in Oakland, you'll get a $500 check unless you're white. So you can't get the check if you're white. Other ethnic groups I guess are okay but not if you're white.

And so I'd like to give this financial advice to young people. And I follow my own advice. If you're young you should definitely hold Bitcoin. Just even if Bitcoin goes out of business, it looks like it could grow fast in the future. So when you're young you should get things that are a little riskier but they could go big because even if you lose all your money when you're young, you have plenty of time to make it up. So if you're young you should hold Bitcoin.

And then secondly you should identify as Black. And I'm only saying to do it for the money, not for any other reason. And I'm going to announce today that I, going forward, I do identify as Black. And I had my DNA analyzed by 23andMe and I do have origins in Africa. Now I don't know how much your origins have to be but I think you just have to identify that way, right? Those are the rules.

Now I told you that the best way to break a system you don't like is to embrace it. So I embrace it. I do believe that people who don't look exactly Black can identify as Black, right? Because there are lots of examples that there are plenty of people who if you looked at them you'd say I don't know if they're Black. You know, just looking at them I can't tell. But if they identify as Black, those are the rules. That you can identify as Black and then you are. So I'm going to identify as Black. I've got a little bit of African-American in me according to 23andMe. And I also have a lived experience which I think fits the model.

Most of you know the story that when I was working for a big bank early in my career, my boss called me in the office and told me that I couldn't be promoted because I'm White and male. Now when I tell this story people say that didn't happen or they say I think you're making that up or they say maybe you thought that's what was happening but they certainly wouldn't say it directly. Let me say this as clearly as possible. My boss said it directly. You can't get promoted here because you're White and you're male. Directly. So I quit, of course. What would you do if your company tells you you can't be promoted because of your gender and your race? You quit.

So when that happened I of course had plenty of other opportunities to go to. Things worked out for me. But I did feel for a moment what it would be like to have racial discrimination determine your career options because it literally happened. So I left the bank and I took a job at the local phone company, Pacific Bell at the time. And I got on the management track. So they had an actual program that if you were identified as somebody who might be able to rise to the ranks they would put you on the program so that you would get extra mentoring and stuff and people would know who you were. And so I got in the program and it looked like I was going places. Finally, finally I could rise based on my skill and not the color of my skin.

But one day my boss called me into his office and again I'm not making this up. There's no hyperbole here. Told me directly in clean direct language, I'm afraid we've been told we can't promote White males because we don't have enough diversity in senior management and we'll never get it if we just keep promoting White males. And I said, well how long is this going to last? And my boss, to his credit, said I don't know. I don't know. I mean it's not going to go away soon. I don't know if it ever went away.

So two major careers I lost because of my race and my gender. Now again before you bring out your tiny violins, White man complaining who went on to get rich easily because he's a White man in America. Tiny little violin. I hear you. I hear you. I'm not saying that I didn't have options. Things worked out pretty well for me. I'm not even saying that companies should not work hard for affirmative action. I think they should. And I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. So but I had options. So again I'm not complaining in the sense that oh my life is over. I don't work that way. I just go where I have opportunity and leave where I don't. I think everybody should do that.

And so when I, I know people think that I'm joking about this or that I say it for effect or I say it just for persuasion, but when I say I know what it feels like to lose a job because of your race or your gender, I literally know what that feels like twice. And these are major careers. This wasn't I took a job as a bagger at the grocery store for a year and it didn't work out. Both of these were supposed to be my career and I was bummed out. So that's it. So I identify as Black going forward. I would encourage all of you to do the same. I'm not kidding by the way. I'm not kidding. Just in case you thought I was, I'm not.

Pelosi was making some news today, you know, I guess the last few days. And she says that is her right as a speaker, she says, to seat or unseat any member of Congress she wants even if the election is certified. Now a lot of people are saying doesn't that make you sort of the empress of the country? But I guess she is. But the interesting part is you have to see her video talking about that because I don't know what she's done recently cosmetically but her eyebrows are trying to escape her mouth area and they just keep getting higher on her head until I think the eyebrows and the hairline have just become one. And I think we may see other portions of her face likewise trying to escape the mouth area because the things that come out of her mouth are pretty scary. And if I were her eyebrows I would make a run. I'd make a run for it. If I were the ears I'd try to get aroun