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Speaker: Welcome to My American Hero. Here is Roger Short looking back on his mother's greatest achievement. Music
Speaker: A lot of people think compressed air is one of the best tools to clean a computer keyboard. However, according to my mother, the most optimal approach to keep your computer keyboard clean is to never get it dirty in the first place.
Speaker: I'm proud to say, mother invented the silicone keyboard cover, but unfortunately, she never made money from it. What happened was, Mom saw her co-worker Fang Chen struggling to clean her keyboard by removing each and every key and then blowing compressed air on the circuit board.
Speaker: Mom thought, there has to be a better way for Fang Chen to clean her keyboard. That night she came home, and when she walked in my room to kiss me goodnight, she accidentally kicked my silly putty egg across the room.
Speaker: That's when the idea hit her. By 4am the next morning, she had mocked up the first silicone keyboard cover prototype using Silly Putty. She took her prototype to work and showed it to her co-worker Fang Chen.
Speaker: Fang Chen loved the idea, and my best guess is she shared it with her uncle Wei Chen. I think Wei Chen used his connections to mainland China and sold the concept to Hexiong Silicone.
Speaker: What happened next will be no surprise to patriotic Americans. The Chinese dominated the silicone keyboard cover market, and my amazing mom was forgotten forever.
Speaker: Senator Ted Cruz likes to say, China is the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States. That's not lip service to me. Ted Cruz understands that Chinese people rob many wonderful white people of the American dream.
Speaker: If Ted Cruz met my mother's co-worker Fang Chen today, he'd say, Never again, Mrs. Chen. Ted Cruz is my American hero, and he will always have my vote.
