Yeah, back on the sportsman zone and we'll begin with cricket 14 years after hosting the T20 World Cup for the first time ever. The Caribbean will again welcome the ICC tournament to the region in 2024. Cricket West Indies on Friday, in conjunction with the International Cricket Council, announced the seven Caribbean countries that will join U.S. States, New York, Florida and Dallas as hosts. They are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. To further discuss the latest developments is Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny Grave. Johnny, welcome to the sportsman zone. It's a pleasure to have you for the first time since we've moved into this new space. I hope you are well. I am here. Thank you. On my way to Guyana for the CPL finals. So I've made it halfway and I'm in Trinidad, but yeah, looking forward to a blockbuster weekend of sport. Sounding amazing. Lance and I quite envy you to be honest. We wish we were on our way to Guyana as well for a weekend of carnival and CPL. It doesn't get much better than that. Probably will get better for the Cricket World Cup next year. Even Caribbean territory is selected to be part of the hosting of the event. Can you break down for us in terms of how the process went, the details of the process and how you came to this final decision? Yeah, look, it's a landmark day for us really announcing and confirming those seven host countries is a really important part of the build up and planning to this huge event that we're hosting. We started obviously when we were awarded the co-hosting with the United States of America for this event well over a year ago and the planning has never really stopped. So we've invited all of the governments of the 10 countries that have internationally accredited venues to submit bids and that process of evaluation along with numerous site visits by Cricket West Indies personnel along with those of the ICC. We've been in long and interesting discussions with all the host governments. Seven of our governments put forward compelling bids so much so that all seven have been awarded the opportunity to host matches. So it's a really exciting moment for us and we can't wait really now to the next big announcement which will be the match schedule and then getting on sale with tickets and inviting everyone to flock to the Caribbean in particular to watch this huge event. Yeah Johnny a number of reports coming out well first of all it's set to be a massive event. It has been described as the biggest T20 World Cup ever some 20 teams. There will be 55 matches over the course of the tournament from the 4th to the 30th of June in 2024. I've read a number of reports suggesting that Kensington Oval is the front runner to host the final of the tournament. I've also seen a report that suggested the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad and Tobago is among the contenders to host the final as well. Is there anything that you can give us in that regard in terms of where particular matches will be and specifically the final? I can't give you that exclusive. I'm afraid we're still in discussions with our accounts. Parts of the ICC. But certainly we what we have identified is Guyana Barbados and Trinidad as the three venues that will host those latter stages of semifinals and finals. We hope that within about two months from now we will confirm the exact tournament structure every single match every single time slot. And that really coincides with the ICC board meetings that are taking place around the 50 over World Cup final in mid November. So once the ICC board approved that match schedule will be making an announcement immediately I would imagine following that final in a meta bad in mid November when the 50 over World Cup is completed. So are you suggesting that in a report that we've seen that says the final will be at Kensington Oval or the Brian Lara Cricket Academy is premature. It is as I said Guyana is also in the mix for those latter stages. So between Guyana Trinidad and Barbados they will be hosting those final three matches. We're not going to have a semi final final at the same venue. We've agreed with the ICC that there will be separate semi final venues in a separate venue for the final. Yeah. Johnny the Caribbean hosted 2007 50 over Cricket World Cup and the 2010 T20 World Cup. How much of that experience from all of the hosting territories would have supported them being impressive hosts for this 2024 T20 World Cup. Yeah. Look I think we've got a huge experience of hosting ICC events as well as regularly hosting international cricket and tournaments like the CPL that's currently ongoing. And I think that does put us in a very strong position. We very successfully hosted in recent times the 2018 Women's T20 World Cup and more recently in January 2022 the ICC under 19 men's cricket World Cup. So we have enormous support from all stakeholders but particularly those governments who fulfill all of the obligations that ICC require in order to host events. And yeah the bids that we've submitted through to the ICC have some really important development opportunities as well in terms of upgrading our stadiums and particularly up grading our practice facilities to the level that they need to be to accommodate 20 teams who will all need to need to practice and prepare for this really important World Cup. Yeah. In recent months there were some stories which were refuted that the USA leg of this tournament could have been in some trouble but they were constantly refuted by the ICC and organizers on a whole. Having said that, is there anything impressive that you can tell us about Dallas, Florida and New York, the venues that will be hosting matches in the T20 World Cup? Yeah look I think it's fair to say we probably spent more time trying to identify the venues in the US as we have in the Caribbean because we're blessed with as I said 10 stadiums here that are regularly hosting international cricket and major events whereas the US we've obviously been to the Broward Stadium in Lorde Hill, Florida a number of times and the most recently taking India T20s there so we know that that stadium in Broward County very very well. Grand Prairie is a former minor league baseball ground that was repurposed and redeveloped for Major League cricket that took place in in in both Dallas and Morrisville this summer in July. So Dallas has now hosted top grade franchise cricket in the T20 formats yet to host an international. So those two two grounds I guess are reasonably well known and and have hosted cricket before the stadium in New York is is is not a stadium at the moment it's a park in NASA County and it's had lots of experience hosting major events it's the venue for the 2025 Ryder Cup and yeah that that ground is going to be built between now and June it's going to be completely temporary build looking at 34,000 seats and we have been looking from East Coast throughout the United States and the West Coast and trying to find opportunities and venues for cricket and these are the three that have come through that process so it's exciting that we'll be going to Dallas, Florida and New York and the early part of the tournament before it all moves down to the Caribbean that will exclusively host the super eight stages the semifinals and the final yeah the ICC CEO Jeff Aladise was quoted in in a report today that he expects the New York venue to be stunning that's that's the word that's where he used it's certainly very ambitious and the plans that we've been working on yeah will be you know something that we don't think we've ever seen before we're going to have drop in wickets a completely relayed outfield and then purpose built stands so four giant stands along with four superstructures that will that will sort of host the teams in terms of dressing rooms and media facilities as well as you know the VIP corporate suites and premium seating that clearly in close proximity to New York and Manhattan will no doubt be very very popular as we look to host six matches in New York so first time for New York to be hosting international cricket at this caliber and again a big statement for ICC in terms of trying to grow the sport into new markets and we're hoping as a as a game that will have further good news to come with cricket identified as a sport for the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles Olympic Games. Yeah I know Johnny that St. Kitson Nevis Grenada and Jamaica did not submit bids to host the T twenty World Cup next year. I think most glaringly the the non submission of a bid from Jamaica a regional powerhouse in cricket. First of all as the cricket was in the CEO. How disappointed are you that a bid did not come from Jamaica. Yeah I'm not going to lie. I'm hugely disappointed. You know it's as you say Jamaica is the biggest country in the region. It's subpoena park is an iconic ground. It desperately in need of of improvements and upgrades that will maintain its status as an international venue. So to lose that opportunity to make those upgrades to subpoena park on the back of hosting this huge event and for Jamaica government not to put forward any submission with them. Yeah very disappointing. We were in very close dialogue with St. Kitson Nevis and also Grenada who have obviously hosted lots of international cricket recently. We've continued to take international cricket to Jamaica over the years and yeah very disappointed that subpoena park isn't didn't even have the opportunity to host matches. Yeah. Has cricket West Indies I mean reached out to the Jamaica Cricket Association or the Jamaican government in any way to get an idea of the challenges and why a bid was not submitted. Yeah we certainly tried. I mean we extended the deadline three times hoping that Jamaica would be able to submit a bid. We know it was and we're told it was being discussed at cabinet but we've never had any feedback as to why bid wasn't coming. You know this is probably the biggest event sporting event that the the West Indies will ever host. It's going to be watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world. We're going to own that month in June in terms of sporting calendar. I think the tournament budget alone is going to be in excess of 100 million US dollars so it's a it's a massive economic opportunity for the host countries and for the region to promote itself for tourism and economic development to the world. So it's it's disappointing that we didn't get a bid from Jamaica but at the same time you know we're delighted that we've got in some respects it made our decision making easier because the seven bids that we did receive have all got games and no one's no one's too disappointed. Well that is a fact. Can you give us an idea of what the marketing of this event will be like now. Know that the host nations have been decided between now and the World Cup. What will the marketing look like. The next sort of big landmark for us is is announcing the match schedule and that's what all the fans want to know. They want to know where their teams are going to be playing and how they can come and watch and follow and experience particularly for us in the Caribbean. You know what we believe is the best place to watch and place play cricket in the world. So as soon as that match schedule is signed off and as again that's another big decision that the ICC board will sign off on in mid November along with the tournament budget. We would then hope that by the end of November we are announcing that match schedule so almost immediately once the 50 Overworld Cup in India is completed will announce the match schedule and then very quickly be on sale with all the opportunities for fans in the West Indies and fans from all around the world to come and watch games. Yeah quickly before we go to break Johnny there was a time maybe a decade ago where it was my understanding that the cricket West Indies or at the time it was West Indies cricket board had been mandated by the ICC to be the governing body that would assist with the promotion and development of cricket in the Americas like the USA, Canada and you know the South American countries that play ICC lower level cricket. Does that mandate still exist? It's not a specific mandate obviously we're the only full member in the ICC Americas region and we take that role very seriously. Growing the sport in this time zone is a major component of our strategic plan because it's effectively the only way that we're going to be able to compete economically with our counterparts around the world who are enjoying you know billions of dollars of revenue. So it's a really important responsibility that we have to grow the sport in the ICC Americas region both North in terms of the USA and Canada and also as you say the growing sport throughout Central America and South America which is growing both from a men's and women's perspective. So hopefully this is a really important opportunity and platform for cricket West Indies in particular as part of the sort of the legacy of this event to ensure that we're doing all we can to get cricket growing throughout the ICC Americas region but we don't have a specific mandate but it's certainly a one that is the full member in the region we take very seriously. Yeah sounds good Johnny hold it right there we go to a break when we return we'll be chatting about the super 50 that's coming up


My name is Vitaly and today I'd like to talk about the current state of Hyper-V emulation in KVM. A few words about myself. I'm a long-time KVM contributor. I'm mostly working on Hyper-V emulation in KVM as well as running KVM on Hyper-V, KVM PV features and master's virtualization in general. Also, we had some changes in KVM maintenance recently and Hyper-V emulation in KVM was given its own subsystem, probably admitting the growing size and complexity and one of the co-maintainers there. So let's get started with the talk. But why do we even want to emulate some ardent hypervisor in KVM? The answer is fairly simple. We want to run some legacy or proprietary operating systems which we cannot change. And not only we would want them to run on KVM, this can probably be achieved by just properly emulating hardware. But we want them to run fast. And to make that happen, we need to emulate something which these operating systems already know about. In case of Microsoft operating systems like Windows and Hyper-V, the choice is fairly obvious. It's Microsoft's hypervisor. How do we do that? Do we disassemble Microsoft Hyper-V to figure out how it works? Well, luckily we don't really need to do that. Microsoft is generally publishing a so-called top-level functional specification. Previously they used to publish a new version with every Windows Hyper-V release. Now it was converted to an online doc and we get updates to it more frequently. 30-minute time slot doesn't allow me to talk about all Hyper-V enlightenment we support in KVM because we already have too many. Here are the ones which I'm not going to talk about today. In case you're interested in these, I encourage you to watch one of my previous talks on the same subject, namely in 2019, I gave talks on both DevCon and FOSDEM. And also in 2018, together with Microsoft employee Tian Yulan, we gave a talk about the other side of Nest about running KVM on top of Hyper-V, where KVM acts as a consumer of the exact same enlightenment. One may wonder where he can read some documentation on these enlightenment. The only doc I currently know about exists in KVM source tree and it gets updated with every new enlightenment we support. Let's get to the newly implemented enlightenment. The first one is so-called HVEVIC and I'm going to use KVM names for the features which you can pass to KVM as CPU flags to enable them. HVEVIC solves a long-standing issue where Hyper-V synthetic timer and Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller in general were incompatible with hardware epic virtualization. The reason for incompatibility is that there is a feature called automatic end-of-interrupt, which is completely incompatible with it. Luckily, there was a feature bit introduced in Hyper-V specific CPU ID which tells Windows to not use this auto end-of-interrupt feature. More than Windows versions obey to the recommendation. Though some older versions like Windows 2008 and older may actually ignore it and in that case the enlightenment won't actually give you much. The next one is enlightened emissary map and it's a nested specific enlightenment which is now supported for both Intel VMIX and AMD SVA. The idea is that there is a PV protocol established between Level 1 and Level 0 hypervisors where Level 1 hypervisor lets Level 0 knows every time it updates emissary bitmap structures in memory. This way Level 0 doesn't need to analyze Level 1's emissary bitmaps every time it's running a Level 2 guest. This speeds things up significantly in my tests I got like 700 CPU cycles cut with the feature. Also it should be noted that this feature is already supported for KVM on Hyper-V. The next one is so-called XMM input and it allows to use XMM registers 128 bit long for Hyper-V hypercode input. This is useful for hypercodes which allow for long parameter released or an array of parameters. Without the feature such long parameter released has to be passed through memory and then hypervisor will have to go and read gets memory to get them. Now we support these XMM registers and it makes these hypercodes faster. It should be also noted that Hyper-V supports using XMM registers for hypercode output too but we don't support any of the hypercodes which would actually make use of the feature in KVM yet. Synthetic debugger. Normally if you would want to debug your Windows guest you'll need to connect to it via nick or a serial port and this is not super fast. With virtual machines there is a better way. Hyper-V allows for a Hyper-V specific transport where our guest uses hypercodes to send data and we now support this interface for debugging Windows. It's supported both for KVM and KVM enforcing Hyper-V CPU 80. It's not a new enlightenment but rather a change of way how we actually do Hyper-V enlightenment in KVM. It may come as a surprise but once you pass a single Hyper-V enlightenment to your guest your guest will actually be allowed to use all of the Hyper-V enlightenment currently supported by KVM regardless of what it sees in guest-visible CPU IDs. This feature allows you to change the behavior. You may want to do this to, for example, reduce your attack surface. There is a similar feature for KVM PV features. The only caveat is that you need to be careful with dependencies. QEMO as VMM is trying to do good job tracking these dependencies but there is no guarantee that we are doing it perfectly for all currently existing and namely future Windows versions and in case your guest needs some enlightenment which it doesn't have it may try actually using it and with this feature enabled it will likely crash. Okay let's get to current work in progress what you can see on the mailing list. The first and probably the biggest is TLB flash improvements. Initially we did Hyper-V TLB flash in a very simplistic way. Basically from all the parameters of the hypercode we've only analyzed the target VCPU list and we were queuing the request to flash TLB buffer for them. The hypercode has more information. In particular it can specify the exact guest virtual addresses which require flashing. Now instead of just queuing the request to flash TLB buffer completely we've added a queue, a per VCPU queue where we can actually put these individual requests. This is supposed to significantly speed up TLB flash operations from Windows and Hyper-V. The next one is direct TLB flash how Hyper-V top-level specification calls it or level two TLB flash how we call it in KVL and the idea is that level one and level zero hypervisors collaborate in a way that level one gives level zero all the required information to perform TLB flash calls from level two guests directly without the need to exit to level one. This is much faster and the series is on the mailing list. It's part of this bigger TLB flash improvements and you're encouraged to give it a go. Enlightened VMCS got updated with Windows Server 2022 and Hyper-V 2022 releases and it gained some new fields for some pictures which are previously incompatible with Enlightened VMCS. Supporting this for KVM on Hyper-V is fairly easy we just need to add these new fields and remove them from the filter the previously had but supporting them for Hyper-V on KVM is very hard because we never expected Enlightened VMCS to change so our enablement is basically all or nothing and this creates issues in migration. The way to make such changes to the Enlightened VMCS without changing its version is currently being discussed on the mailing list. We are trying to find a way which will be supportable in long term in a variant TSC. Normally in the variant TSC is an architectural bit which tells the operating system that TSC frequency is stable and it's never going to change. The speed cannot be set if we want to migrate our guests between hosts with different TSC frequencies but recently TSC scale was added to Intel CPUs. It was present in AMD CPUs for a while already which makes it possible for Hypervisor to keep guest visibility frequency stable across migrations and Hyper-V enabled it in slightly different ways. They've added a PV MSR and guest has to opt in by flipping with zero of this MSR. Only then this architectural bit appears in CPU ID. We've checked and things actually work with modern Windows versions without this PV enablement. If we just pass this architectural bit from day zero though we will want to be as close as possible to the genuine Hyper-V. So we will enable the feature of the exact same way Hyper-V did. Okay, let's get to our to-do list. What's described in TLFS but no one is known to be working on this feature yet. The first one is unhalted synthetic timers. Normal synthetic timers they run continuously regardless of whether guest CPU is running or not, what how did and not. This timer only runs when the guest CPU is not halted, which means that it's actually running and doing something. The rest is similar but not the same. For example these unhalted timers cannot send VM bus messages, they only inject interrupts. The next one is so-called non-privileged instruction execution prevention and it allows to block certain sensitive instructions from user mode and the guest. The feature is very similar to so-called user mode instruction prevention but it's done using Hypervisor capability so it doesn't require that feature. KBM already knows how to emulate user mode instruction prevention so this feature should be relatively easy to implement. We will use the same mechanism just the interface for enabling it is going to be slightly different. More TLB flash and direct TLB flash improvements. With the series which is currently on the mailing list we've started analyzing guest virtual address argument of the hypercalls. Though there is one more, there is an so-called address space or CR3 of the target vCPU. Normally it matches but sometimes when the request is queued the target vCPU switches from one task to another so flushing TLB there when it actually comes to processing the request is redundant. Now with per vCPU queues we have it should be fairly easy to add this parameter, save it and analyze it on the target vCPU when we get to actually processing the request. This should eliminate some unneeded TLB flashes. TTP flash. There are some hypercalls which allow for flushing mappings derived from second level of translation, EPT on Intel NPT on AMD. We already support these hypercalls for KVM on Hyper-V but we haven't implemented them for Hyper-V on KVM yet. The performance advantage comes from the same fact that it's only the hypervisor who actually knows whether target vCPU is currently running or not, whether it requires an immediate action to flush it back or whether the action can be deferred. Free page reporting. There is a hypercall in Hyper-V where the guest can tell the host whether some pages are being used or not. So pages which are not used can be swapped out, re-bubbered for other guests for example. This makes it more efficient as otherwise hypervisor should just evict some random pages. We already support these for Linux on Hyper-V guests but we don't support it for Hyper-V on KVM or like Windows on KVM because we don't know what to actually do this with this information if we get it on Windows. And now the elephant in the room virtual secure mode. Virtual secure mode is a huge beast. It's a set of capabilities which allows to create additional security boundaries within your operating system by using hypervisor capabilities. This means that for example you can build an enclave and put your secrets there protecting them from kernel level exploits because normally if something is running in your CPL0 it has the highest privilege level and you cannot hide anything from such malware. Windows uses this feature as like virtualization based security for features like device guard, credentials guard and if we don't emulate this virtual secure mode then Windows just adds hyper-v roll underneath which actually makes this nested configuration and then it uses this virtual secure mode from Hyper-V. You may want to avoid that for performance reasons although it's not very easy to implement just because of its size and complexity. That's not not least one additional idea on how Hyper-V emulation can be used for something besides just running Windows and Hyper-V guests on KVM. Currently KVM doesn't implement that many PV features for speeding up KVM on KVM workloads but we already have some features for both KVM on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on KVM basically server and client parts of the same features. These include like Enlightened VMCS and Enlightened MSR Bitmap, Direct TLB flash and others. We can of course try to invent something similar for KVM but what if we just use these features? In fact this is available today. You can hide KVM identification from your hypervisors and hyper-V identification and then KVM will happily use these hyper-V features while running on KVM and your workloads will likely run faster but at the same time you won't be able to use KVM PV features like a synchronous page fault. So the idea is what we if we just add a PV feature with two KVM saying that certain Hyper-V features are available so KVM on KVM workloads can actually go ahead and use these features natively. An interesting idea was trying to have some spare cycles give it a try or I'll try to find some time and maybe try to do it myself. That was it for today. Thank you very much for listening.


I'd like to thank the Muslim Community Center of the East Bay for having me, may Allah bless all of you, Amin. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is reported to have said, and this hadith is recorded by Bukhari al-Muslim, he said, peace and blessings of God be upon him. Islam is built on five, i.e. pillars or supports, to witness that there is no God but Allah ﷻ and that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is messenger of God and to establish the prayer, to give charity, to make pilgrimage to the house and to fast the month of Ramadan. So the analogy is of a bunyan, of a building or an edifice. If one of the support columns is weak or missing, then the entire edifice is in danger of collapse. So the first support, shahada has two meanings. Number one, to simply testify or affirm on your tongue and in your heart that there is no God but Allah ﷻ and that the Prophet ﷺ is the messenger of God. That's the basic meaning. But shahada also means to literally witness, shahada yushahidu, that is to see, that is to experience and understand that there is only one God. That's the higher meaning, to see divine unity in the multiplicity. This is called tohid, which is usually translated as oneness or unicity or even monotheism, but it literally means to make one, to unify. And all of us do this intuitively to a certain degree.  In other words, you recognize a unity among them. When the Sahaba looked at the natural world, when they looked at the phenomenal world, what's known as the aalamu shahada, they would see nominal or spiritual realities that all pointed to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They would see Allah's mercy, Allah's wrath, Allah's power, Allah's knowledge in all things. Sayyidina Ali, Karamallah wajah, who in Sunni tradition is known as the quintessential wali of God, saint of God. He said, I never look at a thing except that I see Allah beforehand. He sees Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in all things. This is the actualization of Tuhid. But what does he mean by that? So when Sayyidina Ali looked at his wife, for example, as Sayyidina Fatima Ali, did he see Allah? The answer is yes, but what does he mean by that? You see when the true Mushahid looks at his wife, for instance, his basar, his physical eyes sees her physical person, but his basira, his inner sight, or his mind's eye, right? That sees the nima of Allah, the rahma of Allah, the karam of Allah, the blessing of Allah, the compassion of Allah, the generosity of Allah. When a Mushahid looks at the ocean, his basar, his physical eye sees water and waves, the horizon, but his mind's eye sees the qudra, the omnipotence, the power of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. When the Mushahid looks at the earth and realizes that the earth were just a little closer or farther from the sun, or if the gravitational constant affecting the earth were just a little bit off, there would be no life on earth. His basira sees the ilm, the omniscience, the incredible knowledge, the endless knowledge, the perfect knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Everything is a manifestation of the will, knowledge, and power of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an, We do not look at the camels and how they were created, and at the heaven or at the sky and how it was raised, and at the mountains and how they are set up, and at the earth and how it is spread out. So remind, you are indeed someone to remind that of course here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking directly to the Prophet ﷺ, but by extension to the ummah of the Prophet ﷺ. It's interesting here in this passage, all of the verbs in the first four verses of this passage, this is some Sulat al-Rashiyah, all of the verbs are in the passive voice. This is an aspect of the Balara, the unmatched eloquence of the Qur'anic discourse. You see, the point of that is that the Qur'an wants us to think about who did these things, who created the camels, who raised the heaven, who set up the mountains, who spread out the earth, and of course the answer is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You see, the Qur'an wants us to see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in all things. We will continue with our reflections in the next session, inshallah. Until then, As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi


Hello everyone. I am here with 2020 US Senate candidate Kimberly Graham who is taking on Joni Ernst in the state of Iowa in a very Flippable state. She can actually win this. She's been endorsed by brand-new Congress and he's here to talk about her campaign at Kimberly Thank you so much for coming on the program. Hi. Thank you so much for having me It's really exciting to have another Senate candidate on I believe you are the second Senate candidate that I've brought on the show The first one was Paula Jean Swarajan and you are a Senate candidate number two so many fantastic brand-new Congress members that I've talked to And you're running such a dynamic campaign and I want to get to a quote from you because I think it's so fantastic So everyone knows Joni Ernst for her infamous make them squeal commercial back in 2014 Or was it I'm not sure I think it was 2014, but this is a quote from you So Joni Ernst's campaign on a promise to make them squeal in Washington, DC and get rid of corruption But the only people squealing are Iowans harmed by her votes Explain that to us because I think it's such a fantastic tweet that tweet that really encapsulates. What's wrong with Joni Ernst, right? So, you know her whole campaign really started to get traction with that infamous famous Make we're gonna make them squeal in Washington, right? So Which which kind of ties in so ties into Something important about this race, which is which is ironically or interestingly tied to why I think we can win I think Joni Ernst got elected in large part not so much because people were interested in voting for a Republican but because Iowans were interested in getting corruption out of Washington and I think that they believed her Yeah, they believed her even, you know that hey, I think that's we're a firmly purple state Right, we got about half Republicans or a third Republicans a third Democrats and a third independence in Iowa And I what I've seen is Iowans will give somebody a chance that they trust that, you know They believe and that will stand up for them and that is how Joni Ernst portrayed herself, you know And when that make them squeal commercial hit I of course, I mean, it's of course. It's so catchy it gained a lot of traction and Simply that slogan honestly was a huge part of when her campaign really started gaining traction and what I mean by the only people Squealing our Iowans harmed by her votes is You know, she's voted I think seven times now to repeal the Affordable Care Act Which which if she wanted to repeal it and give universal single-payer health care I'd be I'd be saying great repeal it all you want, right? If we have something better in store, but she's repeated voted to repeal the ACA with absolutely no viable plan in place to You know protect pre-existing conditions to keep kids on their parents insurance till they're 20 You know 26 years old and a few of the other things that that were great and that are great about the Affordable Care Act that we Were able to achieve with that You know, she she voted she's voted to confirm everyone from Betsy DeVos to the head of the EPA to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh to Hundreds I believe now over a hundred Federal district court judges that will be there until they pass away because those are lifetime appointments You know and as an attorney like I am you know, I Really understand and and maybe a lot of other people do but as an attorney Knowing how important court decisions are to to what then happens with various areas of the law The fact that we now have well over a hundred Federal district court judges confirmed Many of whom are entirely Unqualified regardless of their political You know political side, right? If you will they're just unqualified and the fact that they're sitting there now is going to be damaging To Iowans and to all Americans for years and years and years to come I think recently there was something like a 36 or 38 year old Person Confirmed to the federal bench who had never set foot in a courtroom Never But because they were recommended by the Federalist Society They they got through and with a Republican dominated Senate They got through and they they simply regardless of political ideology. They simply were unqualified as have been Cabinet, you know appointments Betsy DeVos and on and on and on Yeah, yeah, and you know one thing that I think you speak to is there is really I think a popularity and kind of this populist appeal to this idea of draining the swamp or making them squeal But you're actually offering people a real anti-corruption message.  This is a people-powered movement and you actually would make them squeal for lack of a better word because you Have an anti-corruption platform like you want to publicly finance elections and get money out of politics So for people in Iowa, we're actually looking for someone who will root out corruption Talk about your plan for campaign finance reform Right. So yeah, that's absolutely true And I think what's important for people to understand and I'm speaking out of people who may be Considering supporting or who are supporting the DSCC backed candidate in Iowa and here's what I want those people to know So her name's Theresa Greenfield. She's a very nice person You know, we speak at a lot of the same events. So are all of the other people running for this seat I mean, and I'm not saying that just to give lip service. Oh, they're nice people They really are nice people and I like them and I think they have good intentions but Theresa Greenfield so far has taken I think it's approaching $40,000. It's the the Washington Free Beacon I know but they did do their research The Washington Free Beacon did an article on July 23rd about Theresa Greenfield's Money that she's taken from lobbyists for corporations So all of us in this race are saying I'm not taking corporate PAC money and that's great But a lot of centrist Democrats establishment Democrats are saying that I'm not taking corporate PAC money and People that don't know that there's also massive amounts of corporate lobbyist money Don't know that their candidate is taking corporate lobbyist money and in my opinion that is just Sort of a technicality and end-run right and end-run around. I'm not taking corporate PAC money so Theresa Greenfield has taken I believe it's approaching $40,000 but anyone can look that up on open secrets on the FEC reports She's taken money from lobbyists for pharmaceutical industry From health care industry lobbyists and big tobacco lobbyists to name a few and if we are saying that lobbyists and corporate PAC money Incorporations are the problem that they have been over represented and influencing our government And that's why the most of us are not being represented Then I don't think that it's right that we are taking corporate lobbyist money So this is not like these are all individuals. I want to make that clear like One this one person of particular that that we researched and looked up is a partner in a lobbying firm And you know, you have to give your your occupation right when you give a donation like that And so we looked up the name of the lobbying firm and it's a lobbying firm for tobacco pharmaceuticals in the health care industry So you have to do a little Research to find this stuff out. It's not that difficult though. And I just think you know There's there's a saying in the Bible. I'm gonna paraphrase it. You can't serve two masters. Yeah and That's just as kind of a life saying I think right you can't you can't sort of people hold into some people and and then you know Say you're not beholden to this. It just doesn't work that way. So I think when you start out and If if if somebody gets elected who's already taken thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars From representatives of particular industries I would find it really difficult to believe that the people from those industries are not going to expect you to be doing something for them once you are elected and I Only want to do things for For lack of a better shorthand for the people.  Those are the people when I say the people That's that's what I'm talking about talking about Everybody except those top 10 percent of well-being come earners and corporations because they're gonna be just fine I promise no matter whether their taxes go way up. They're gonna be absolutely Okay, I was talking to a Des Moines businessman a few months ago very wealthy businessman who donates a lot of money to Democrats and He Said tell me a little bit about your key. No, you're your philosophy your platform your campaign and I was talking to him and I got to the part where I was gonna say and I think we should appropriately tax the very wealthy because frankly, they're gonna be fine even if they're taxed way more than they are now and we Need to have that money to invest in the rest of everybody else and for a split second before I said that I thought This is a really wealthy person. Maybe I shouldn't say that to him But I did it anyway, like I said for a split second and then I thought oh, that's ridiculous You believe what you believe say what you say, you know, it is what it is And I said that and when I was done talking he said I really like one thing you said and I'm thinking hmm what I said What he said you're right. I'm gonna be just fine Even if my taxes go up a lot more than they are now and he said enlightened business people should know That when their workers are happier and doing better at our financially stable their businesses will do better Yeah, yeah, and that's actually someone who Understands, you know the contradiction of capitalism so to speak because you know you Want to increase profits. So what do you do you cut? You know the pay of your workers you reduce benefits, but at the same time if everyone does that Well, collectively people are going to not have as much purchasing power and we can't buy the things that Capitalists want us to buy so people have to acknowledge that if you truly believe in Capitalism like these business people do then working people have to have money to purchase the goods and services that are produced You know so it's nice to see some of them at least acknowledge that and and one thing You know I get a sense from you that you're so much different because it's really really popular to Talk the talk right now and talk about how we want to drain the swamp and Republicans and Democrats say this because this really is a Nonpartisan issue. We know that money is a corrosive influence in American politics That's that's obvious to any political observer But everyone wants to talk about you know how they're going to get you know corruption out But they don't actually walk the walk and as you said you really have to look at the fine print, right?  Who's money you're taking because that's what people don't get like it's really easy and I get it because you know We have information shortages in this country. We don't have the mainstream media covering these Senate races So if somebody says i'm going to drain the swamp or make them squeal We just kind of take them at the word because it sounds nice But when they get an office change doesn't happen and we still are left feeling this satisfied Still wondering why change isn't happening and it's because we are electing people who aren't living up to that promise You actually are because you're you're walking the walk right now like you're not taking corporate back money Which is so important So talk about your platform as well because you have a really robust platform and you really are Someone who is you know going to facilitate change because your platform is incredibly robust and progressive Yeah, well, um, yeah, I think that that I think it's important too that we look at how somebody Okay, what somebody's done with their life up until the time they did they they ran for senate, right? What did they what's the demonstrated history? what have they been doing and You know have they have they been in some kind of public service? I you know, I think it's really interesting that senator tom harkin who If you just say that word in the state of Iowa Everybody smiles because he was he was progressive and he was He was a champion for children's rights. He was a champion for protecting elderly, you know our elders He was a labor champion. He was the primary architect of the americans with disabilities act and You know, he was elected for 30 years here in the state of Iowa He retired in 2014 and that's the seat that senator Ernst ended up, you know winning um and What I've done for the past 20 years is primarily represented abused or neglected kids and parents in the juvenile court system Here in Iowa. So I have For the most part I I've been a mediator and I've done some collaborative work But that's been the majority of my career in the last two years I've been the attorney and guardian at litem for all of the kids of participants in a drug court program So these are people who you know Most of them are in poverty. Most of them don't have sufficient education Most of them don't have sufficient health care, especially mental health mental health health and addiction treatment available to them They don't have sufficient affordable housing. They don't have sufficient Pay when they do go to work, you know, they want to work. They don't have sufficient child care They want to work But if they work since they don't make a high salary All of their money basically is going to child care if they make over About 30 000 a year which for you know for a mom with two kids or something is is very little money. Anyway, I mean and So there's I've seen with my own, you know eyes for the last 20 years What we need to do to lift people up in this country because I see what they don't I've I've watched for 20 years how the lack of investment in people harms them and harms all of us And we've invested really hard in the top 10 percent or so of people in this country for the last 40 years And it's paid off great They are doing better. We've invested in them by invested I mean we've given them tax break after tax break after tax break after subsidy after subsidy after subsidy We've put our money into Helping the already wealthy And it's it's it's gone great for them. They're wealthier than ever before, you know 30 40 years ago the top 10 percent controlled about a third of the wealth in this country today They control about 75 percent of the wealth in this country And there's that's not going to slow down until we get kind of regular working people You know into congress So that there's a critical mass of people there when this stuff's trying to be back room deal then wink wink nudge nudge To stand up and say No, I'm not going to vote for that because that's not going to help the people, right? So our platform kind of has all those things I just talked about when I'm talking about the people I represent, you know in court It will help not only them, but all of us, you know the universal single payer healthcare program, you know Similar to canada's where the doctors and hospitals are still private But you have one insurance, you know, you go to the doctor you go to your hospital whatever one you want to go to and Gets billed to that one entity done There's none of this appeal denial back and forth. We're not going to pay for that medication blah blah blah, you know that that's that's kind of this the system and that's um I think that's close to like the sanders medicare for all bill um, I Would really want to make sure the reimbursement rates though are high enough and I I've looked through that bill and I don't Specifically see something about reimbursement rates. It may be there and I've missed it, but that's my sometimes, you know Being a progressive you get attacked by the center, but you also get attacked by other progressives.  So When people say are you for medicare for all well, yes And I want to make sure those reimbursement rates are high enough because if we're not reimbursing healthcare providers high enough And I assume that that bill would do that. I mean center Sanders is not a dummy I assume that that bill does that I just haven't seen the fine print and as a lawyer it's like I want to see the fine print Is this really going to be what I believe and hope it is? If it is perfect, um So there's that there's education, you know, we fund our schools on property taxes, which means the schools in the wealthy areas There's a lot more property taxes. So there's a lot more money going to those schools So our public schools have sadly in spite of the best efforts of our teachers are awesome public school teachers of which I'm a product of public schools And um our staff in public schools in spite of all their best efforts The funding is so disparate, you know from a very uh a neighborhood with a lot of poverty and low property values To a neighborhood with a high property values because that's where we fund our schools from So we need to do whatever it takes to equally fund our schools And in fact, I would argue we need to Give those schools in the more impoverished areas with lower property values even a little boost to help them because Those families typically have experienced the trauma of poverty and multiple other traumas that tend to coexist with poverty and so Those schools especially need school nurses school counselors, you know a lot of a lot of tutors, you know extra help to bring those kids up and you know We just have to got to stop funding our schools unequally because schools should be an equalizer And they're not schools have become basically um, you know They do the opposite they they created an unequal opportunity because what school did you go? To what opportunities did you have but I will say this that This also circles back to income the the biggest um indicator or or um indicator for academic success in children So I sometimes when I'm giving a speech I'll have people guess like what do you think is the biggest indicator of academic success in children And people will guess all kinds of things It's household income household income So it's it's not how educated were the parents. It's not your neighborhood per se. It's not it's household income And so to that end, you know, we need bare minimum 15 dollar an hour minimum wage federally here in the state of Iowa The minimum wage is seven dollars and 25 cents per hour I know some states have increased it and some municipalities have increased it, but here it's still 7 25 Uh, we actually have some cities here in Iowa Iowa city in particular who raised it and the republican governor said no, you can't do that made them reverse it And then they went around and voluntarily got a lot of businesses to sign on to do it on a voluntary basis But basically our republic or republican leadership in this state Um wouldn't wouldn't allow this city of Iowa city to do that But we need at least a 15 dollar minimum wage with index for inflation, you know, so it continues to rise um, you know healthcare That includes mental health and addiction treatment. So here in the state of Iowa, we had Medicaid which um, then got privatized by our republican governor and It would take three hours to talk about the mess that Medicaid is in Iowa right now But the shorthand is people are being denied things that treatments they need drugs. They need procedures. They need um And there's a lot of irregularities. Let's say that About what's going on with these private medicaid providers. We have a great auditor here. Um, who got elected in 2018 rob sand Uh, he's the only democrat in the in the you know in the hierarchy of of our You know upper leadership, you know governor's office a secretary of state all those positions rob is the only democrat And he's the auditor and so he is taking a really hard look at the privatization of medicaid Here in i1 doing a good job at starting to figure out where all the Where all the money's going basically Um, but I used to be able to get clients of mine the parents Um into drug treatment for as long as it took for them to Get well and get on their feet. There was a really great, um Drug treatment place here in Iowa called clarity recovery that I've had many clients go to and leave successfully and go on To be successful with getting their kids back in their care and I see them years later and they're still doing well It's a really great inpatient, uh drug treatment program. That's more like a home environment. It's wonderful. Well Starting I think about a year ago Uh, the private medicaid providers said we're only going to pay for 30 days of treatment at clear view 30 days to kick a methamphetamine addiction addiction is nothing Nothing they might as well have said we're just not going to pay for drug treatment anymore Because 30 days is so woefully insufficient and I see that I've I've seen personally the results of only being able to get my client 30 days worth of treatment versus Four months five months six months, you know, whatever it used to take for them to stabilize and and be on a really good secure stable path to leave their inpatient treatment facility So it you know, it just goes it just goes on and on and off Yeah, your your platform is huge and we'll have you know a link to your website on the screen so people can check it out But what really makes you different from other candidates is you're so focused on like the policy details and policy outcome So I love the way you talk about healthcare and you you really describe Single payer because now there's so many people who are democrats who say well, you know I support Medicare for all or the spirit of Medicare for all or something along those lines when they don't actually mean single payer Which is frustrating so I like that you're like glued to the details of it and and to your point about the reimbursement rate I I read something not too long ago. I don't know if it was in regards to the 2019 iteration of Medicare for all or Bernie Sanders 2017 version But I believe that once you take into account the administrative costs reduction Then it would be about the same although I'm not sure But I'm glad that there are people like you who would push Bernie on this because what we want is a robust healthcare system That is Great that is not going to have any issues like we want it to function and be stable Because the point is not just the past Medicare for all and check it off of our list We want it to be you know able to stand the test of time And what I like is that people like you will be in the Senate and push Bernie further because I actually I've criticized Bernie Sanders version of the bill because it actually has a four-year roll as as opposed to a two-year roll out Which I don't like So we need people who are willing to push the envelope and there's really even though like We have some people who I think would vote for Medicare for all in the Senate like Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley I don't think that they would push the envelope further like push that bill Further to the left So I kind of wanted you to actually talk about that dynamic because we have an increasing block of progressive Democrats within the house of representatives But there's basically a small handful in the Senate and that's being really charitable Like you can count all the progressives on one hand and I use the word progressive loosely, right? So how do you think you would be able to influence your colleagues? Because you don't have that much backup unless you and apology and get elected together In the Senate that's sweet and that's sweet you guys like if we don't get all three of you You're either going to be like standing alone Trying to influence Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley to kind of push further Uh, so I mean like how do you affect change when your block is super small in the Senate? Because the dynamic there is super different like in the house We have a growing vocal block as I alluded to but in the Senate like I don't know how to do that strategically so What do you think would be the best way to really push the narrative? You know just in general in the overton window rather to the left in the Senate, right, right So, uh, you know to state the like the obvious like, you know, we have to get some of us in there, right? Right like more than just Sanders and Warren and maybe Merkley, you know Um, I think once you start to get a critical mass of you know, what's a critical mass? I don't know, but you know more than a couple. Um, then you'll start to see that and I and here's the other thing So I've done a lot of mediation as well. I mediate people's divorces And and yes, that's not easy And um, and um, I'm told anyway people have told me over the years I'm I'm pretty good at it And I I I rarely have people walk out of my mediation and not have settled their their case And it might take hours and hours and hours, but we almost always get there And I think there's a couple of things to that that that are applicable to to Influencing others in the United States Senate So the first is you have to establish some kind of relationship and connection to people Even to people that maybe you normally wouldn't You know, I've mediated cases for Probably hundreds of people that I would never like choose to be friends with right like I wouldn't pick them out of a lineup And say oh, I have so much in common with you. I want to be your friend, right? No but I'm there to get something done and I genuinely want to help Them move their families forward and so you have to create some kind of relationship number one and I am I think pretty good at creating relationships with people Even if we have a lot of disagreements and I think that's really important as a u.s senator and and And that's another one of those things that sometimes draws fire from the very progressive left is you know, how would you even How would you even speak to them? You know, well You know what do you want to get something done or don't you well to be fair? I will say in their defense Like usually when we hear like bipartisanship or like reaching across the aisle it usually means to screw us So I get the cynicism but for someone like you you're not going to compromise So when you say it those negative connotations aren't actually attached to it because when when you say that like the way that I hear it is Okay, you're going to bring them to your side and not go to their side, which is the key difference Exactly exactly. So that's exactly right. So You have to develop some kind of relationship with them. However, you do that, you know, whatever you find in common It could be they have a 20 year old son. I have a 20 year old son, you know, whatever could be anything. I have a dog I have a dog whatever You have to find those really human connections with people, you know, um I think I don't know if the chicken or egg happened first I don't know but I know there used to be like lunches of senators not just democrat lunch not just republican lunch But there used to be like lunches with senators It didn't matter, you know what I mean people would sit down and you know break bread together, right? We hear about the importance of breaking bread I don't think that happens anymore the last I heard there were literally like the g.o.p. Lunch every week and the den lunch every week. Well, okay, I get that I get the reason for wanting to be around just your people That's a human thing and Like I said, if we can't create any relationships How are we progressives ever going to bring anyone? You know even start to bring anyone over to our side. How I don't think I don't think that's a non starter So you start to create relationships and you listen Again, it doesn't mean that you're going to do what they what they think that you know that they want to do But when you listen to people Something very interesting happens They start becoming interested in listening to you But you have to first listen to them So so there's that and then there's just being very persistent and and giving them real reasons And you know, is it going to happen in a day? No a week? No a month? No, but if you're persistent and you Really are interested in creating change or getting people to see your your side You create relationships you listen to them you tell stories Yeah, and and you and you tell real stories like You know my friend Robin stone who was the Delaware Here in Iowa the Delaware county party democratic chair She was diagnosed about Somewhere about six weeks ago. I think now With thyroid cancer and it was a very rare type of thyroid cancer Not like the usual one from what I understand is reasonably easy to to cure They remove your thyroid and you know probably most of the time I think people have a very good prognosis with with most thyroid cancers This was a very rare very aggressive very deadly one She wanted to go to Mayo Clinic, which is not very far from here. It's in southern Minnesota It was out of her network They wanted sixteen thousand dollars to even have her walk in the front door Now Will we ever know if she would have survived it or had a longer quality better quality of life for as long as she had lived Had she gone to Mayo? We'll never know because she didn't go there She went to a different hospital, which is a really good hospital here in Iowa But they did not have those Specific experts in that type of rare thyroid cancer that she really wanted to go see And she passed away a couple weeks ago very quickly after her diagnosis I'm sorry to hear that Yeah, thank you. Um, it was a huge loss for for everyone for her family Of course a horrible tragic loss and for all of us who knew her she was amazing and quite a force for change and brilliant and she She had a trachea me last several weeks of her life, which was just really horrible and hard to deal with She had it replaced several times And a couple a week or a week and a half two weeks somewhere in that window before she passed away She was in the emergency room And she messaged me on facebook from the she says i'm in the emergency room I want you to have my endorsement I want you to keep talking about me And don't ever stop fighting for a universal single-payer healthcare system And so robin I'm talking about you again Um, and so I do and those are the kinds of stories That you tell colleagues that maybe don't see it the way you see it right now You know you tell real stories about the young man in Dubuque Who in 2018 lost his life from rationing insulin and now his mother is going around talking about The the amorality of this in a wealthy nation and it is amoral you know and And if it doesn't move those people well, hopefully those kind of stories will move their voters Exactly, and it's not like that. I'll end up gone Exactly exactly and I think that building rapport is so important Like you're not going to get them on your side for everything But this strategy, I think if you're a senator you really have no choice And there has been a degree of success like my favorite example is bernie sanders. He got a tea party Senator mic lee to get on board with his um his plan to enact the war powers act To stop us complicity to Saudi arabia's genocide in yemen now it passed the house and the senate It was vetoed by donald trump But I mean these are the things that you can do and when like when you hear the way that republicans talk About bernie sanders they think he's a communist they think he's crazy But they still say well, you know, at least bernie sanders is honest, you know, they'll they'll say something like that So they kind of understand him at least from a human level And I think that when you have 99 other colleagues, and that's it you don't really have much of a choice But to kind of try to humanize each other and try to get them to your side not, you know To capitulate but get them to your side now When it comes to someone else like let's say There's another senator like ron wyden if he wants to work with a republican my senator Um, I cringe because I wonder how much is he selling me out? um, but when it's someone like you or bernie sanders, then I think Okay, they're trying to bring people to our side and not the other way around So that's such a key difference and it's so important I'm glad that you kind of thought this through because like I genuinely don't know what I would do if I were a senator And I never want to be in that position But if I were like I don't know what to do, especially with the block being so small But I mean the point that you made was we have to elect more progressives in the senate So with that being said I'm sure that everyone is enthusiastic about your campaign and at this point We're just preaching to the choir. So if we want to help elect you, what can we do? So you can go to kimberley for iowa.com. That's our website and there's donate and volunteer buttons there We by the way, if you think well, I don't live in Iowa. I can't volunteer. Oh, no, no So this is for those of you who followed or knew about better or works campaign. No, we're not follow We're not, you know, we're not on better or works platform But but his campaign though for us senate Was amazing. Okay. He got he had supporters and volunteers all over the country And that's what it was going to take to get rid of ted cruz and darn it if he didn't come close um That's kind of that that model of having volunteers all over the nation is what we are building out right now So if you want to let's and especially if you live in like a solid blue state, right? If your senators are already democrats that you're okay with Or or there's no progressive challenger and you want to find a flippable u.s Senate seat and help that person in the primary to help a real progressive We would love to have your help you can you know volunteer to do text banking volunteer to do Lots of different things remotely. So you don't have to physically be here in the state of Iowa physically knocking on doors to help So there's a volunteer button on the kimberley for iowa website that you can go to and sign up to volunteer And there's a field for your state so we know, you know, physically where you are um donating of course and I would say this too I totally get that impulse to say at least for a lot of people maybe not for really true progressives But for a lot of people to kind of hang back and say I'm gonna wait until the after the primary And then I'll give some money to whoever our democratic nominee is right I get that impulse because I used I used to be that person Okay, I used to be that person where I would just like You know, I'm a single mom. I don't make a ton of money as an attorney for kids I have massive student loan debt myself. I still do I'm not going to donate until you know after the primary Well, if we all do that We're going to keep getting the congress we have now with a few exceptions of Progressives that are in there meaning we're only going to get People who are either already wealthy or very connected to wealth Into positions of power at the federal, you know, representative level So if you're okay with keeping the congress we have by all means don't donate to any campaigns until after your primaries But if you want to get progressives into office progressives like aoc and ilhanomar and presley and You know, we know them all then please please please donate now because Sometimes, you know, I didn't used to understand either. Why do you need so much money to run for office? Just run Okay, my campaign manager My events coordinator and fundraising coordinator my digital outreach person because I can't be on twitter and facebook all day But I need somebody to be so that we can amplify the message of the campaign across the state and across the nation A finance director Gas to drive all over a really really big state. I was huge You know and on and on yard sides campaign materials Um Tables like to go to certain events. They charge us a couple hundred dollars to like have to be there Like to be there and to connect with a few hundred voters So, I mean the bare bones of this campaign as of as we sit here today Is in excess of ten thousand dollars and the vast majority of that per month ten thousand dollars per month to keep my campaign going And that's mostly staff salaries and by the way, I don't get a dime.  I'm not you know overpaying them but they deserve those salaries and they they should be paying them but Just so people know that's where all this money goes to is mostly salaries people To do all of this organizing. We need to hire a field organizer asap. We're looking for one now That's going to be another several thousand dollars per month Somebody to organize the volunteers to organize the boots on the ground the door knockers canvassers You know the the tax bankers all of those people that all takes people and people should be paid, right? You know, there's volunteers, but you also have to have a certain core staff that has to be paid um, so Donate donate donate donate donate and also we have a new tool that we think is the first time that anyone running for office has ever used it Which is peer-to-peer fundraising So if you go to our website, hopefully there's more information on it there I've looked at the website a little while since we got it up and running But what that means is you know how like you'll see people post a fundraiser on their facebook page like i'm raising money today for you know um puppy protection or Like like save the puppies or whatever um Well, we have that same thing now where people can sign up and like put of do a fundraiser Maybe they can't give a lot of money But maybe they can get their friends to each pitch in five bucks and then together you can send our campaign a couple hundred bucks, right? Or five hundred bucks or whatever from your friends in your contacts that you know And so a lot of nonprofits use that Um, we actually reached out and had the the platform that does this modify their platform a little bit So that we could collect the information that we need to comply with fc regulations So we think we're the first campaign to ever do this kind of fundraising But you got to get creative when you don't have those corporations to go to so um So we have that too. So we just say donate volunteer Spread the word retweet share on facebook Because all of that helps just to get the word out because that the the biggest uphill battle here is going to be funding We've been to 49 of our 99 counties so far and we're keeping on going We actually got a great deal on a supporter renting us an rv that we're getting probably next week So we're going to have that wrapped and we're going to be driving all over iowa like all over iowa To talk to people and listen with people Um, so that'll be really helpful because you can't miss it when it rolls into a town of 500 people everybody will be talking about Yeah So yeah And on your website too I will say I'll give you credit because when you go to that website on your front page You have like four steps for things that you can do to help out the campaign And I love that you did the peer to peer fundraising thing because I'll tell you someone who like I don't Never really go on facebook that often but when I see the the pictures of sad puppies Speaking of like puppy fundraisers. I feel compelled to donate right? It's it's so simple. It's easy So that's a really I think innovative way to uh raise awareness about your campaign and raise money So kudos to you. So look, let me just say this. Um, let me make my pitch for kimberley We need a senate that is more progressive We're making some progress in the house of representatives But we have not made that much progress in the senate So this is a down payment for actual structural change if you donate to Kimberley and there's a lot of people who are great progressives running for the senate You brought up bettoe and that reminded me that I also had sema hernanda's on the show running in texas against john Corden who's a phenomenal progressive. So we have her we have betsy sweet. We have polygene swearington and kimberley Graham imagine if all four of you got elected like the amount of change That that would make and there could be other senate candidates that i'm missing and I apologize to those people I uh if i'm missing you but like this really is a national movement and we have to participate either by Donating or putting in the time if we can't you know, uh contribute monetarily we can contribute our time That's really important and judges and judges The senate confirms judges y'all so important So it confirms judges. So if you want different judges confirmed down the line You got to get more progressives into the senate. Yeah, this is crucial So I think that 2020 is going to be the year when progressives actually start Taking on the senate because we you know, we we got our foot in the door in the house Now it's time we conquer the senate and kimberley. Thank you so much for uh starting that movement Or joining it with brand new congress and whatnot and thank you for coming on the show to talk about your campaign Thank you so much mic. I appreciate your time


Folks, do you realize that over the second most common reason for divorce centers around money? And it's naive to think that money isn't part of an equation in the dating process. And yet we have been so conditioned from these gender roles expectations. And yet the reality is most people, the average human here, at least the average person in the United States doesn't make enough to support two families. Most families need two incomes to get by. So in the early stages of dating, unless you're dating a millionaire, it's rather important to discuss if you're exploring a relationship with one another to have deeper conversations and coming up with agreements. And then Jay Shetty goes on to establish some rules.


My goal right now is just to have one million people impacted through our technologies, through our frequency technologies, and we're going to get there very soon. And just imagine how that would affect the frequency of the world. There's a scientist who said that you only need the square root of the number of people, one percent of the people of a population to affect the whole. So for example, if we take the seven billion people that we have, take one percent of that and take the square root. We actually only need about 10,000 people to do the same thing and to be at a certain frequency to affect the entire population of Earth by the means of a rippling or we call it butterfly effect. But the more the merrier, right? So we already have 10,000. Next goal is we want to hit a million people with our frequency technologies.