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Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media. What's up, everybody, This is Andrew Gillum.
Speaker 1: I am coming to you live this what morning from Tallahassee, Florida,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately I have not great news, which is some
Speaker 1: of the things you don't consider when you're planning a
Speaker 1: mayor's town hall is that a storm will hit and
Speaker 1: take about half your panel out of mayors. Our mayors
Speaker 1: who we were speaking to today are all currently holding office,
Speaker 1: as well as a lieutenant governor, and are currently being
Speaker 1: impacted by this storm. Folks got lights out and hopefully
Speaker 1: no lives lost, but the storm is still coming across.
Speaker 1: In fact, right here in Tallahassee where I am, we
Speaker 1: are under hurricane warning. I got a text a few
Speaker 1: moments ago We're under a hurricane mornings. I'm not a
Speaker 1: tornado warning, forgive me. So just first heads up is
Speaker 1: that we have we scheduled our conversation with the mayors
Speaker 1: and you will not want to miss it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a really good, I think important conversation. Will revisit
Speaker 1: some of the ice stuff that is still ravaging communities
Speaker 1: here firsthand from the elected officials. I got to deal
Speaker 1: with this in Minnesota, Chicago, Los Angeles and other places.
Speaker 1: For those who are trying to figure out what do
Speaker 1: we do, what powers the locals have, how do we
Speaker 1: protect ourselves? We want to get underneath all of that
Speaker 1: and offer some real saying advice for not just elected officials,
Speaker 1: but members of our community who can help your elected
Speaker 1: officials plan members of our community who quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: think and you'll hear it directly from them. But if
Speaker 1: the folks who were to tell a story of how
Speaker 1: they won or push back the federal government, the mighty
Speaker 1: might of the federal government and Trump's gustapo, they would
Speaker 1: say it was the people showing up. Basically, they were
Speaker 1: first aid, they were triaging, they were they drew together
Speaker 1: as a community and and helped. Uh. The least of
Speaker 1: these help those who were targets and and so doing
Speaker 1: made themselves targets. Uh. We also want to look ahead
Speaker 1: toward the election. What kind of shenanigans can we expect
Speaker 1: and what sort of security might you know? We all
Speaker 1: have that the elections one will occur, and two, when
Speaker 1: they occur, will take place in a fair and honest
Speaker 1: and dignified manner where every vote legally cast is legally counted,
Speaker 1: and I think you all will be surprised to learn
Speaker 1: how much power does exist at a local level to
Speaker 1: to hopefully ensure to UH an uninterrupted federal state local
Speaker 1: election coming up soon. The date for if, if Nick,
Speaker 1: you could just throw that up for our reschedule Mayor's
Speaker 1: Roundtable will be March thirtieth. Please, please please, you will
Speaker 1: not want to miss this again. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be an elected official, you don't have to like politics.
Speaker 1: We want to make sure you get equipped with the
Speaker 1: knowledge and the tools that you need so that none
Speaker 1: of us are caught unawares. This last week, during our show,
Speaker 1: our regular Thursday show, I had mentioned that I had
Speaker 1: heard feedback from people that when we talk about the
Speaker 1: kinds of shenanigans that can take place at the ballot box,
Speaker 1: are we doing the job of the opposition for them
Speaker 1: by basically broadcasting all of the red alerts such that
Speaker 1: people say, you know what, I don't think I want
Speaker 1: to do that, no voting for me this time. And
Speaker 1: the truth is that I actually think that's the strategy.
Speaker 1: I think that's where they want us to believe that
Speaker 1: the barriers are going to be so great, so insurmountable,
Speaker 1: that people just make the decision to sit it out,
Speaker 1: stay home. I take a different position. I think by
Speaker 1: talking about this that we can walk in through them
Speaker 1: at the same time, where complex people get on with
Speaker 1: complex stuff every day of the week, multiple times a day.
Speaker 1: If you, if you're like me, and and we can
Speaker 1: hear truths and then uh, you know, think through them,
Speaker 1: plan through them, and come up with a strategy for
Speaker 1: how we overcome with that is the people who are
Speaker 1: gonna announce that now I've just sit it out, you know,
Speaker 1: won't deal with the hassle. I question whether or not
Speaker 1: they're for planning to truly really vote in the first place.
Speaker 1: And that's not what we want. We want all of
Speaker 1: our family members, all of our friends, all of the
Speaker 1: people of like mind and heart, uh making their way
Speaker 1: to the polls. It is. The threat is existential, and
Speaker 1: I don't think you need me to explain it anymore
Speaker 1: than uh than that frightful word. I'm not gonna hold
Speaker 1: you long today. And I want to invite lolo. If
Speaker 1: there are things that any folks have questions about or
Speaker 1: want to toss out there, get me thinking about it.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions directly from me for a few moments,
Speaker 1: I don't mind responding. But the other point I wanted
Speaker 1: to make was around oftentimes, when we hear about this
Speaker 1: war incursion, ex. Whatever it is that Trump and HEXTFF
Speaker 1: believe they're doing in Iran, that we are somehow not
Speaker 1: connected to it that's happening over there, And I just
Speaker 1: want to focus our attention more on the fact that
Speaker 1: we're all about to be feeling, if we haven't begun
Speaker 1: feeling already. The news has focused a whole lot on
Speaker 1: the straight of her moves and the fact that twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the world's oil flows through that very narrow
Speaker 1: straight and it's effectually closed, holding up the ability for
Speaker 1: ships to make uh uh uh see transit to get
Speaker 1: that oil into critical places. Mostly people have been talking
Speaker 1: about in terms of gas prices, but I want us
Speaker 1: to just think about the fact that petroleum is practically
Speaker 1: in everything we use. I mean, I don't mean that literally,
Speaker 1: but almost literally. When fuel and petroleum, natural gas, when
Speaker 1: those kinds of things are held up, don't make it
Speaker 1: to market, don't well before market to the to the suppliers,
Speaker 1: can't get it to those who are in need of
Speaker 1: it to make the products, produce the products. They end
Speaker 1: up on the shelves when we think about things like, uh, fertilizer, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you call it? Seeds? No fertilizer helps to
Speaker 1: see you grow? Huge, huge, huge impact on US agriculture,
Speaker 1: world agriculture for that matter. Much of that produced from
Speaker 1: I ran from, transited through the strait of her moves,
Speaker 1: and it ends up on our shelves when we need it.
Speaker 1: If this thing were to end tomorrow, the disruption that
Speaker 1: has taking place just over these you know, two weeks
Speaker 1: of Trump's showboating, which has cost lives, numerous American lives,
Speaker 1: of course, but also the lives of innocent children and people.
Speaker 1: But there's another toll, and that is going to be
Speaker 1: the financial toll, and I just want to get us
Speaker 1: ready for it. So I pulled the list here of
Speaker 1: what are some of the products that are likely to
Speaker 1: be financially impactful in your life. Obviously energy and fuel.
Speaker 1: I think oil is already over one hundred dollars a barrel,
Speaker 1: was reading this morning. Some estimates believe that will reach
Speaker 1: over two hundred dollars a barrel before this is done.
Speaker 1: Liqu petroleum, or natural gas. I'll just admit I live
Speaker 1: in a city. I led a city as a mayor
Speaker 1: that was over ninety percent dependent on natural gas. It
Speaker 1: was a great asset for us. It probably still is.
Speaker 1: But the fact that almost all the natural gas comes
Speaker 1: through this region, we're going to be seeing higher energy bills.
Speaker 1: And my guess is is probably many of us going
Speaker 1: to sk higher energy bills. Petro Chemicals and plastics I
Speaker 1: mentioned that sort of at the top, fertilizer, agriculture, manufacturing
Speaker 1: inputs like aluminium, rubber, chemical components essential to automotive and aerospace.
Speaker 1: I got to get some work done on my car now,
Speaker 1: and I better do it like today before the sticker
Speaker 1: shock hits and those parts become unavailable or just too expensive.
Speaker 1: That's not worth doing at the moment. Consumer shipping and
Speaker 1: consumer goods, just general maritime freight again, the straight up
Speaker 1: her Moods is a very very active shipping lane, very
Speaker 1: narrow lane. It is rather that opens obviously up into
Speaker 1: the greater ocean. But tons of materials that I can't
Speaker 1: even name come through that strait that again will be impacted.
Speaker 1: Industrial gases like helium. It's largely exported from Qatar, but
Speaker 1: again the strait becomes critical for the passage of those goods.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to mention that in the context
Speaker 1: of really everything is everything we think because you have
Speaker 1: a military and you're the most powerful, mightiest, the truth
Speaker 1: is is that there are things that it can't quite fix.
Speaker 1: You can cause a lot of damage, but that damage,
Speaker 1: when the whole toll is taken, is damage not just
Speaker 1: done to the place that you might be targeting, but
Speaker 1: really it is a hex on the on the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. And I think that's what's coming to
Speaker 1: fruition here, that every action has a reaction, and we're
Speaker 1: not the only ones with tools in our pocket. There
Speaker 1: are other people with tools, and I think we're about
Speaker 1: to see a lot of that being flexed. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at your note here, Lo Lo to prepare, how to
Speaker 1: prepare for the financial impact well planning, and I know
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of it, but as I
Speaker 1: read through some of the materials that will be impacted,
Speaker 1: you have to make the decision because already prices are
Speaker 1: are showing up on shelves, and certainly our gas stations,
Speaker 1: refueling stations, I think, in utility bills, but those will
Speaker 1: get worse. If you've got an automotive prepare that is
Speaker 1: of crises, you probably need to handle that asap. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: as this war continues on those automotive parts, those materials,
Speaker 1: aluminiums will become harder to access and more costly. They'll
Speaker 1: be accessible, but accessible to those who supply and demand. Basically,
Speaker 1: who can pay the most get it, and those who
Speaker 1: can't just have to wait their turner. So be be
Speaker 1: aware of that, and then just you know, look up
Speaker 1: for yourselves. Materials that flow through the straight of her news,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it will produce, you know, Google gobs
Speaker 1: of things that I haven't even mentioned, and I have
Speaker 1: been thinking about, and I just think we all have
Speaker 1: to individually make the decisions around can I say this
Speaker 1: for later or is it something I got to do now?
Speaker 1: Should I sit on that purchase, or should I go
Speaker 1: out and splurge. I trust all of us, hopefully, and
Speaker 1: I right mind, as we know what we supposed to do,
Speaker 1: and then there's then what we do, So hopefully those
Speaker 1: things come to marry a little bit a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I'm here, but this is going to be my only comment.
Speaker 1: I'm done with American politics from here. On and I
Speaker 1: will vote if we still get to vote. But I'm
Speaker 1: only caring about building a foundation for my community. I
Speaker 1: hear you that that messages from tyrone, Nor would I
Speaker 1: appreciate the comment Tyrone, And really just to say, in
Speaker 1: the spirit of everything being everything, take for instances, war
Speaker 1: not a war of our choosing, but of Donald Trump's choosing.
Speaker 1: And even though I didn't choose it, we're in it now.
Speaker 1: That means sons, daughters, uncles, cousins, relatives, you know, are
Speaker 1: at his whim and obviously at the reflexes of those
Speaker 1: who are at war. With any loss taken there is
Speaker 1: not Frankly, I can't tell that it impacts the president
Speaker 1: yet right his the way he showed up to uh
Speaker 1: see the soldiers as they return, the final return, I
Speaker 1: mean it was. It was despicable, and I think it's
Speaker 1: just an illustration his presentation, his outward presentation. I think
Speaker 1: it's just an illustration of his inward. I think la
Speaker 1: a care, concern, disdain. So just know that there is
Speaker 1: the front line, and of course that impacts that's not
Speaker 1: by our choice, but there's also think about the financial
Speaker 1: impacts of that choice, of of of of of aggression
Speaker 1: and and the fact that it's going weigh on all
Speaker 1: of us. So in the I feel the need because
Speaker 1: I'm very much so resolute about taking care of my household,
Speaker 1: my family, and the people who are closest around to me.
Speaker 1: But I also know, with both eyes wide open that
Speaker 1: the thing that happens over there, while it may not
Speaker 1: be caused by me, I didn't ask for it, that
Speaker 1: it has ripples. You know, the old story of the
Speaker 1: pedal thrown in the water and the ways in which
Speaker 1: it ripples heavily up front and as it goes further
Speaker 1: and further out a little less. Well, this is a
Speaker 1: pretty big pebble and it will have large ripples. So
Speaker 1: I wish it well, taking care of you, your family
Speaker 1: and and and so on, But also recognize that, man,
Speaker 1: everything is everything. What happens there and heavily be impacts us.
Speaker 1: What do we do as black people to secure our
Speaker 1: finances with a high unemployment rate among us that is
Speaker 1: so real, you know, the black unemployment is now three
Speaker 1: times that I think of white folks. We all experience
Speaker 1: live through the trauma of watching Trump lay off black
Speaker 1: people and droves at the federal government level, which was
Speaker 1: you know the toll of its impact will not be
Speaker 1: fully felt in the moment. I know it's tough being
Speaker 1: without a job and having to really resituate yourself and
Speaker 1: your life unexpectedly. But the I think the real toll
Speaker 1: of that loss of middle class black incomes will have
Speaker 1: a generational impact. I hate to say it, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to carry on too long about it because
Speaker 1: I don't want to sow bad seeds, but I really
Speaker 1: believe that they're going to be They're going to be
Speaker 1: generational ripples to the kinds of actions that this administration
Speaker 1: took that they've been you know, conservatives have been wanting
Speaker 1: to take for a long time to push us out
Speaker 1: of the workforce, you know, the hard working, qualified, experienced
Speaker 1: ones for the underqualified, unqualified frankly ridiculous by every by
Speaker 1: every corner and definition of that word, people who could
Speaker 1: not qualify for their jobs. And so they had to
Speaker 1: get waivers from the President of the United States to
Speaker 1: assume some of the highest uh and most influential roles
Speaker 1: in the United States government. And we'll see how that's going, right,
Speaker 1: not well served. Yet they were real free to let
Speaker 1: us go. And so in the weak of the financial
Speaker 1: impacts that it's obviously harvesting in so many households. I
Speaker 1: think we all just have to be a lot more
Speaker 1: stratinct one. Let's find new strands of independent income. Might
Speaker 1: be a good opportunity to flex your legs on your
Speaker 1: own entrepreneur entrepreneurism by seeing what the need is and
Speaker 1: figuring out if you have an idea something you can provide.
Speaker 1: Then always have to be a widget. It could be
Speaker 1: in your own thinking, your strategic thinking that can be
Speaker 1: offered up to help people navigate things that quite frankly,
Speaker 1: you could do in your sleep based off your experience.
Speaker 1: There's always, you know, there's always a market out there.
Speaker 1: We just have to go real hard in the paint
Speaker 1: scratching for it. And I don't have a doubt my body.
Speaker 1: Corporate America understands what our community has brought to them
Speaker 1: and continues to bring to them, and our absence is noticed,
Speaker 1: so you know, and those are the folks who are very,
Speaker 1: very much so particular about the bottom line. The politics
Speaker 1: be damn it's about how do I, you know, keep
Speaker 1: keep the money coming. So of course I encourage people
Speaker 1: on the independent strands of income. I think there are
Speaker 1: markets out there, still open and available to us. These
Speaker 1: are also good times when economics for us don't look
Speaker 1: on the upswing to deepen into our education, whether that
Speaker 1: be through university system, community college system, or through trades
Speaker 1: apprenticeships skills building in the artificial intelligence field where there
Speaker 1: obviously appears to be a lot of deep pocketed investment.
Speaker 1: Hope it didn't balloon on them. But the thing is here, right,
Speaker 1: we can't fight that. The thing is here, and now
Speaker 1: we got to get our fingernails, you know, dirty, and
Speaker 1: get up under it so we know how to not
Speaker 1: just survive in it, but how we how we use
Speaker 1: it to our advantage to thrive. Y'all, I've gone too long.
Speaker 1: I've so suggest announced that we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: with mayors in just a few days. But I thank
Speaker 1: you all always for your It has never lost on
Speaker 1: me how you spend your time as a choice, and
Speaker 1: we are honored every week when you tune into Native
Speaker 1: lampod it is it is, yes, work for us, but
Speaker 1: it is ministry. It is also a catharsis, you know,
Speaker 1: being in fellowship with our community, hearing from you, you
Speaker 1: all participating us, giving feedback. We appreciate you choosing us
Speaker 1: obviously many solo pods, all that stuff to go along
Speaker 1: with it. I don't do these on the regular because
Speaker 1: y'all already tell me I'm verbos. I need to shut
Speaker 1: up so you'll hear from me when I have something
Speaker 1: to say. Aside from that, I'll just say, please, please
Speaker 1: please throw the flyer up one more time. Join us
Speaker 1: for our March thirtieth Mayor's round Table. We will cover
Speaker 1: turf that you will want to hear, you will want
Speaker 1: to know. In fact, while watching the federal government is
Speaker 1: distressing right now, locals is where it's at, and so
Speaker 1: I want to invite you back to be part of that.
Speaker 1: On March thirtieth, there'll be an updated flyer that will
Speaker 1: come out with greater specifics RSVP and we'll see you them.
Speaker 1: And until then, thank you to Nick and Lolo and
Speaker 1: the team for your help with this broadcast, and to
Speaker 1: all of you who are listening, watching, hearing. Welcome Home.
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