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you got milk together brandy Adam and Amy Smith are on their weekly supermarket run in Portland Oregon there's free-range chicken we love your chicken and it's $5.99 we'll take it Adam graduated top of his class at Business School a go-getter a high flyer but now this father of four is shopping with food stamps Tomatoes no no no that's too much depending on the price and in some ways it feels like I have completely failed from 200 grand a year you're on food stamps yeah my voice is cracking right now because I never thought I'd be there it's humbling he's talking about his spectacular fool for the very first time talking to us we were living in our dream house it was beautiful on three and a half acres Smith lost that beautiful home in Tucson Arizona after he was fired from his job as CFO of a medical device manufacturer two and a half years ago the reason an infamous internet incident spawned by nationwide protests at chick-fil-a now one of the most popular fast-food chains in the country is under fire this morning you may recall the kerfuffle erupted when the chicken chains president took a public stand against same-sex marriage confirming that the fast-food chain is the new Ground Zero in the culture wars over gay marriage and Adam Smith a casualty of that war two minute twenty second YouTube video that started like this well I'm waiting in line our next tonight here I go Smith's humbling experience wasn't caught on camera by someone else no he's the only person who pressed set people will have to have their chick-fil-a anti-gay breakfast sandwich you'd filmed yourself you made the decision now you posted it I did it now we'll get back to Smith and the details of his cautionary tale in just a minute listen hitting the sand button we do it all the time without me thinking sending emails texts tweets selfies video is out into the world it can be life changing career ending just ask these people the school bus driver posting a beer-swilling selfie the woman who came to the office dressed as a Boston Marathon bombing victim and the Northey 10th grade math teacher known as Krunk they're posting saucy pics and drug talk fired fired fired every time I look at hiring somebody I go and gather their digital footprint from every source I can get shark tanks Kevin O'Leary most companies now mine included employ people that specialize in just watching what's happening on all the platforms remember PR exec justine sacco she learned that the hard way when she tweeted go into Africa hope I don't get AIDS just kidding I'm quite yeah she's a PR executive and she kind of chuckled to herself this is a Heathrow Airport best saddened she says it's meant to be a comment on white privilege but didn't get the joke and the tweet went viral while she was in the air heading to Africa she had no idea a hashtag started to trend worldwide has just been landed yet did everybody was so excited about Justin landing and realizing that her life with the same again back now to Adam Smith who in the summer of 2012 decided to protest against chick-fil-a what's wrong with truthful a moment they donated to anti-gay groups there were anti and Rho protests now Smith got in line at his local drive-through long line cars - I don't know if you can see but here's what you know I'm getting the free water right because chick-fil-a is a hateful corporation and then he got carried away I don't know how you live with yourself in and work here I don't understand it this is a horrible corporation with horrible values you deserve better I got emotional about it and said things to the clerk that you regret I don't regret the stand that I took but I regret the way I talk to her I just can't stand the hate you know you got to stop it's got to stop guys Smith pressed send went to bed woke up went to work and the receptionist first thing big eyes Adam what did you do the voicemail is completely full and it's full of bomb threats you were asked to resign yeah he refused and was fired losing his six-figure salary and stock options worth it was over a million dollars and it's gone it was taken when I lost my employment the money that beautiful home all gone they had to super downsize no big house no space for big toys this is sterling helping give all we own goodwill oh is that your EZ Bake Oven is that one of your favorite toys you had a Jacuzzi what are you fishing for we're getting off the point here Smith quickly apologized to the clerk he got angry with I am so very sorry or the way I spoke to you she has forgiven him I do forgive Adam Smith I think he realizes how bad of a decision it was to make that tape but apparently some others have not okay so fired one CFO job Adam applied for another 1,200 miles away in Portland Oregon he got it the family had to move but a job the Fresh Start hooray I hesitate to even ask what happened next oh it was two weeks on the job I got called into the CFO's office and they said that you should have told us about the chick-fil-a video you're fired so he started showing the so-called chicken the incident the video job interviews to get an ad in the open rejection rejection rejection the constant rejection that he's had going forward that's been really brutal wife Amy isn't ad the family breadwinner this might sound silly but change your name dye your hair grow different beard all things that were recommended and some of those things I tried occasionally he'd get an offer then always a call or a voicemail like this I just don't want to see this be a distraction or any backlash some of the others have expressed some concerns Adam Smith's self-made man reduced to nothing his kids even trying to find ways out of his hell making a shark tank like pitch [Music] [Applause] fifteen dollars okay should we put this on TV then huh why would we do that Adams son Sawyer sees a silver lining in all of this you wouldn't have a full time I don't why not okay so this is the benefit is that when he hasn't been working he's been hanging out with you guys that's good right most people eventually can move on from the online faux pas justine sacco of the off-color aids and africa joke eventually landed another PR job but not Adam Smith it's now nearly three years and he's still unemployed he's turned to meditation and the wisdom of Buddha I'm not doing it I just found that to be really helpful he also sent us this video of him and his kids dancing to the song shake it off the wisdom of Taylor Swift how long are you gonna be made to pay for a mistake I don't know I do know that when you watch it for the first time I don't know how you live with yourself and work here I don't understand it it feels like it just happened it's always gonna be there I can't take it down [Music]