Episode Transcript: #1009 - James Damore

And we're live James. What's up? How are you man? Okay? Don't freak out about your your sound of your voice in

The headphones. This is the first time you've ever worn headphones or a podcast definitely the first time I've

Heard myself talk is it weird after a second. Yeah, it's weird you get over it

Pretty self-conscious about it really gonna be alright you take them off you want if it's freaking you out too much

You think you're gonna get through this?

Yeah, just take these fuckers. We don't need these things. Just keep this sucker close to you. Okay, so

First of all, thanks for doing this. You've been on this crazy sort of whirlwind tour

Mm-hmm. Have you gone anywhere? You just been doing it most from mostly from your house mostly from my house just on Skype

Now for people who don't know the story, let's give them the short version of it

You were working at Google and what prompted you to write this memo?

Yes, they would have these company-wide meetings where they just push a lot of this diversity stuff and

Some of it was kind of weird. So I decided to go these

these

secret meetings sort of

That were about a hundred people are completely unrecorded and they would talk about some of the things that they're doing and

It would really contradict what they're saying publicly where oh, no

We're not you know changing any of our hiring practices for these candidates and they said yeah, we basically are

making it easier for some candidates to get in and

You know, I voiced some concerns, but people just chained me. I was like no