 True Love and I are pledging at least $100 because in addition, every t-shirt, sticker, sweatshirt, and welcome back to the channel, everyone. Thanks for being here. This is going to be a vlog unlike any other vlog that I've published on this entire channel, okay? And if you could, stick with me all the way to the end, okay? So watch the entire way. I would appreciate it so, so much, all right? And also I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of notes. I'm going to be glancing at my computer right here just to make sure I don't miss any details, okay? So if I'm glancing down, that's what I'm doing. Also, usually on Mondays, I talk about marathon training. Not going to do that today, okay? There's more important things that we need to talk about right now. All right, so here we go. See beauty, work hard, and love each other and love each other, okay? So keep that in mind over the next 10 minutes. I tweeted this out two days ago. I said, just curious, has anyone lost their job because of COVID-19? Or maybe your business has had to shut down, struggling to pay your rent or mortgage because of COVID-19 job loss? Email me if you'd like someone to listen. And then I gave my email, okay? So these are very, very, really, I don't even want to say strange times anymore, but frankly, dire times for a lot of people who have lost their job, have shut down their business. And not because people stopped coming to their restaurants or coming to their hotels or whatever. It's like the governments, not just in the United States, but around the world are asking people to shutter their doors, okay? So these are not, it's dire times for many, many people in many different industries and many people who are, yes, part of the demore global running YouTube family that continues to inspire me every single day all over the place. In the comments down below on Strava, on Instagram, and just, not just through running, but through showing how they are helping others during these tough times. So I had this idea come to me that I'm going to share here in one second about two weeks ago, okay? And the situation two weeks ago around the world was frankly different, but every day it's evolving, the cases continue to go up of people who have coronavirus as you all know. And I am now tired of ignoring this idea. And frankly, I want to help people that are part of the demore global running YouTube family around the world, okay? So in my opinion, now it's just my opinion, but food is really critical and housing is really critical, the basic necessities of life. But I personally think that losing your house, losing your apartment is a really big deal. Without that stability of having a place to live is just, I can't even imagine, let's say living out of your car or frankly, or being straight up homeless. It just blows my mind that yes, that is the reality for people. And also as you know, as far as the timeline goes, like April 1st rent is due, mortgages are due, maybe as late as April 5th, okay? So it's like time is of the essence for a lot of people across the United States and yes, around the world. And on this channel, we have people who make a lot of money and they have, they might run a $10 million company and there's people that make let's say under $30,000 a year, okay? So there's, and that's what I love about YouTube, right? Anybody can watch YouTube, anybody can, as long as you have an internet connection, you know, however you get your internet, but that's what like, we can come together on this channel, no matter what, where we are at in our salaries and in our jobs. Now one last point before we dive into my idea is that there's a lot of organizations you can donate money to right now to help fight the coronavirus and that's great, okay? But for me, my approach when I do donations and support people is that I want to be a little more laser focused and make sure I'm helping individual people who are in a very, very difficult situation and are struggling, yes, like I already said, to keep a roof over their head. Like it's really going to be difficult over the next month, two months, maybe three months just to pay the rent or pay the mortgage, okay? So here's my idea and it's two-part, it's two-fold, okay? Is that I want to fundraise $1,500, $1,500, US dollars and donate that to one person, okay? Why $1,500? I was going back and forth between a thousand and you know, 1750, but I landed on $1,500 because at least in Denver and many parts of the country that will cover a lot of people's rent or mortgage. Not, okay, if it's, you know, if you live in a big house or what, you know, I know mortgages can vary, you know, vastly, but it will cover many people's rent at least across the United States. I realize like across the world it's very different, but that's my goal, okay? But here we go. So I'm looking at my notes here. Here's the criteria to qualify for this $1,500. You've lost your job because of COVID-19, okay? That's point number one, point number two. You likely will not be able to pay your rent or mortgage in April, May or June. In other words, your safety net is very thin, very thin. Okay, here's some examples. At the end of the day, I have to decide, I'm going to decide who qualifies for this potential $1,500, okay? Hear me out now. If a single mother of three emails me and tells me her story and then a college student emails me and the college student lost their job but now is living back with his or her parents, I'm going to choose the single mother, okay? Right? Obviously. Now, another example is if a husband lost his job but the mother is still working versus both mother or both husband and wife lost their jobs, I'm going to choose the person that lot like the household where the spouses together, the husband and wife both lost their jobs. What I'm getting at is I'm looking for the situations out there that are the most dire, okay? Where it really is on the brink of we might have to leave and we don't know where we're going to go because whether your extended family lives across the world or across the country or like it's a really serious situation, okay? We really want to drive that point home. Now, trust but verify, okay? So in order to make the list, you're going to have to talk to me on the phone and I'm going to need to talk to your former employer, okay? So your old boss on the phone. That's the criteria because again, trust but verify, okay? Now, email me. Here's my email. Email me your story again. If you lost your job and you don't know how you're going to pay your rent or mortgage in the next one to three months, okay? All right? There's my email and then we'll take it from there, all right? And explain in your story, you know, short. We're talking a paragraph and we will take it from there, all right? Now, how are we going to fundraise this money together as the D'Amour Global Running YouTube family? Of course, I'm going to go run, all right? So this is where it gets exciting because $1,500 is no joke, all right? And well, I'll save what's in my pocket here for a second. So we're going to do two live streams to make this happen. So based on the people that email me, I'm going to require them to record a video, probably two minutes explaining their story and explaining their situation. The people that I select and I have to be the bad cop and make the selections, okay? But that's my job, all right? I got to be the person that draws the line, all right? And I'm okay with that. So we're going to do two live streams, okay? And in that first live stream, you're going to get a chance to meet these people through a video that need help right now, right now. And time is of the essence once again. And in that live stream, you're going to have an opportunity to make a pledge, okay? So let's say you pledge 10 cents per lap. So this is where it gets fun, everyone. This is where it gets fun, everyone. Then there's going to be a second live stream, okay? You can probably already guess what that second live stream is going to be. I'm going to go to a track, a local track, and I'm going to start running. And I'm going to start running. So let's say you pledge 10 cents per lap, and I end up running, let's say, 10 miles on that track. That's 40 laps. So therefore, you would be donating $4 to the cause of helping someone, a member, a family member of DeMore Global Running, okay? Let's say I, let's say you pledge $1 and I run 40 laps, then you would be responsible for giving $40 to the fundraiser, okay? Does this make sense? You following me here? Now just to be really clear here, as far as how you can help someone stay in their house, stay in their apartment, okay? Here we go. Once again. So in the first live stream are the pledges option. That's option number one, pledges. Option number two is during the second live stream when I'm running around the track and around the track, that entire time that I'm running around the track, you will be able to donate super chats, all right? If you've been part of a live stream before, you know about super chats where you can, yeah, you can, you can do any, any amount actually through a super chat in the live stream. Also paypal to me and Google pay to me. Also, so, and I'll talk about in one second here, I'm starting right now. $100, true love and I, $100 on the table to kick it off, okay? So true love and I are pledging at least $100 because in addition, every t-shirt, sticker, sweatshirt that is sold on the day of the second live stream is going toward the fundraiser, okay? So whatever comes in on that day during running around the track is going to the cause, all right? You get, you're picking up what I'm putting down now. Trust, but verify. So after I'm done running around the track, the next day I will film a vlog and I will basically do a, I'll do a screen, I'll do a screenshot of all the super chat that comes in, all the Google pay that comes in, all the paypal that comes in on that day, okay? And all the t-springs, so all the t-shirts that are sold just to verify, okay? So we're all on the same page here. Now, also one more point is that the $1,500, that goes to the first person. If we raise $3,000, boom, two people are taking care of. If we raise $4,500, boom, three people are taking care of, okay? They can pay their rent, they can pay their mortgage, all right? Now, if we raise, let's say $3,500, two people will be taken care of and that extra $500 will go toward the third person, okay? So every 1,500 increments will go to the next person and the next person. You're picking up what I'm putting down? This is going to happen. It's going to, and guess what? It's going to happen now and it's not going to happen after my marathon. I was being selfish, everyone. I was thinking to myself, I'm going to save, I'm going to sit on this idea until after my time trial marathon because I want to be fresh and I don't want to be tired but I don't know how many laps I'm going to run and there's a good chance I could run a long time. But this is of the, this is like, people are, they're going to lose their apartments, they're going to lose their condos, they're going to, I hope they don't lose their houses and I don't know what's going to happen but I'm going to do, we're going to do this now. Like, I'm hope, I don't want to put a date yet on the, the running around the track but it's going to happen really soon. Okay? Question of the day, question of the day. Thank you for listening. These are, so lots of question of the day. Thank you. We're going to do this. We're going to support each other. Okay? Don't give up. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. If you're going to die, okay? We're in this together. Here we go. Part one, do you truly need help? Email me. That's question of the day. Part one, do you truly need help? Email me. Part two, who has other ideas to make this idea a reality of helping others? So if you're a creative person, comment down below. Part three, does anyone have connections to big running publications? I'm thinking runner's world, let's run, flow track, email me. Let's make this, let's spread the word about this because I think we have a huge opportunity here to really make a difference. Yes, you can donate to big organizations. I think that's great but I'm talking about people that are struggling and I will do the verification process, talking to the employer, talking to the person and then you'll get to meet the person through a video. Okay? This is a big deal. Money is a big deal and I realize not everyone is going to be able to donate but I do know you can at the very least spread the word about this opportunity so again, we can help as many people as possible. I love you. Seek beauty. Work hard and love each other. Like if we're just saying this, how many times have you heard me say that and love each other? If we don't put this into action now with coronavirus, frankly, I'm a hypocrite. All right? So let's rock and roll. Let's do this onward and upward. Butter that bread, $100 on it. So we need $1,400. Okay? $1,400, not yet. Don't give it to me yet on the day of the second live stream. You guys are the best. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching. All right. Tossing it back to yesterday's time trial. Thank you. Right there, right there, right there, right there. I'm excited. I'm excited. We're going to do these people. We're going to do this. All right, everybody. Seek beauty. Work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.