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We Must Have One Leg Up on Maui Wildfires and the NYC Migrant Crisis; Thank a Trucker with Zach Miller · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Right off the bat. Here on the
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  Alex Garrett Podcast Network. We have a special Saturday sit down with Zach Miller
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  coming up. But right off the bat, I wanted to take you to
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  what's actually being reported in Maui as the tragedy of the wildfires continues to spread
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  and the death toll continues to rise. Here's Katie Fang of ms NBC.
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  Take a listen. It's on earth. A town rich with Hawaiian history has
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  been tragically reduced to ashes. As of this morning, some of the most
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  horrific wildfires continue to tear through both western and southern regions of Maui. The
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  death toll has now climbed to eighty people, making displays one of the deadliest
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  ever in the United States history, and sadly as expect that number to continue
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  to rise. So far, the active Lenia Fire and a second fire in
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  Kanapali have burned down many of the town's historic landmarks. Right now, search
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  and rescue efforts continue as an estimate of more than one thousand people remain missing.
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  NBC News pretty bad stuff and that Katie Fang with that reporting on an
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  MSNBC News But You know, with every tragedy there are organizations stepping up,
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  and with every tragedy, I like to mention, hey, here's our wee
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  can help. First of all, the toll is going to rise. Also,
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  so too is the financial cost of this horrific wildfire, not one but
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  two. In fact, efforts could top five from point five billion dollars to
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  rebuild, according to officials on the ground in Maui. You know, we
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  deal with crises every day in our lives. And I think because Maui is
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  all the way in the West and on the other side of the world,
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  it feels like Hawaii still have fiftieth state and we have to honor them and
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  we have to, you know, help them. And maybe if you have
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  a family in Hawaii, read you out to them too. But here are
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  the ways you can help the efforts the Lahui Foundations, LAHNYA, Maui fire
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  recovery efforts. Donate Hawaiian miles. Donate to the American Savings Bank, Donate
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  to the Maui Fire Disaster Relief Hawaii Food Bank, Kokua from Maui Oahu,
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  donations from the Hawaii Restaurant Association, the Maui Disaster Response and recovery support form
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  and more. Just go to m Maui Lui strongto that's m a ui in
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  and Ui Strong dot info that you can find the link in the description below
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  and then on the feature today for the Saturday sit down with Zach Miller who
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  has the website New York Trucks dot dot com, and you'll find the link
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  to that interview. It is International Truck Driver Day. Did you know that?
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  So thank a Trucker, Thank a trucker for continuing that supply chain,
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  for doing fourteen fifteen hour hauls and for really just keeping things moving behind the
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  wheel of a truck. And what they do is master for We talk about
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  the skills cut as well. But while we're dealing with how we help Maui,
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  how do we help the migrant crisis in New York City? Does Zach
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  have an answer for that? Listen to this. We'll snip it from my
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  conversation with Zach Miller. Could the trucking industry look at this migrant crisis and
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  say, hey, you want to help us out? Is there a possibility
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  that employment could be happening here? I am so glad you asked that.
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  I really really hope so I really, really hope there is a pathway to
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  careers for people to move through transportation and really move through trucking. And it
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  does kind of circle back to the truck driver appreciation, right Our industry needs
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  more truck drivers. We do. We have a shortage, and we also
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  have a truck driver population that is on the older side. You know,
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  they're they're gearing up for retirement. So how great an opportunity it really is
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  to have people who are who are in the country, who want to be
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  here, who want to roll up their sleeves and work hard and live a
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  life that they've you know, dreamed of. Sure they grew up hearing stories
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  of the American dream, and it's like there's a pathway to do it here.
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  And I think it's really something to be cognizant of and to work with
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  government agencies and you know, educational institutions, particularly trade and tech institutions to
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  get people trained up and staffed up and move them into careers and transportation I
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  think eventually with the goal of getting a commercial driver's license. So there are
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  always solutions to this. We don't have to just keep venting about my goodness.
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  The Roosevelt Hotel that's on the other Now it's time to find solutions because
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  the migrant crisis is not going anywhere. The migrants might actually still be coming
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  up here through Texas Governor Greg Abban and whatnot. So instead of bitching and
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  moaning about it, put them to work. They want to come here for
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  a better life. Let's put them to work. I love Zach's response to
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  that. And in the migrant crisis, the idea now is that we build
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  shelters, and we build ten Cidential Park, and we put him in Staten
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  Island and we dedicate all his money. Because again President Biden won't answer Adams's
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  phone call. How else do you explain the liaison from the White House to
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  New York City. Oh, by the way, President Biden, that's one
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  of your biggest cities in the world. You're not going to deal with this
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  directly. The New York Posts had a rite when he said, Biden to
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  NYC, drop dead. Remember when they said that about Ford two Ford being
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  Gerald Ford. But we don't have to drop dead in this city. We
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  don't have to lay down and let our livelihoods crumble under this crisis. And
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  as some migrants are actually touting how great the shelter is and that gets me
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  a little frustrated because well, Okay, if they can get help, why
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  can't the average veteran get help also? But that's discussion for another day.
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  We're dealing with two crises now, one on the national front with Hawaii and
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  the wildfires, and how I gotta check it here. If we're sending any
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  firefighters over to Hawaii right now to deal with the Maui wildfires while we try
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  and deal with our own crises at home. We hope that they're they're in
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  a solution. We hope that officials can rain this in. Apparently emergency sirens
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  weren't activated ahead of the deadly Maui blaze. How does that happen? But
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  thank god there are organizations that want to help. Thank god, there are
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  people out there that want to help. And I would say on both fronts
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  there should be a silver lining and that help is on the way. Maybe,
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  just maybe, but again check out my number was act Miller in the
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  link below, and again follow me on photo Phi Photophies, a new app.
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  I still call it the disruptor of the instagrammer world. Photo Fi I'm
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  again at Alex dot Garrett twenty one or alex g NYC one find us there
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  photo fi and the link below as well. But if you feel called to
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  it, support Hawaii, support our state of America Hawaii and call family and
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  friends are there to make sure they're okay. And of course if you are
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  on the tru industry, thank you on truck driver Day. And what you
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  do for us can't be uh I only can be described if that if that
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  makes sense, what you do for us is special to keep the supply chain
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  moving, to keep our packages going, to keep cargo from going from one
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  place to the other without spoiling even food. Dare I say that's a that's
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  labor right there, And I would say, if you're a trucker, if
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  you're in the industry, it sounds like Quentina Zach Miller a labor of love.
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  So find out more in the link below with Zach Miller. And yes,
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  we have that one leg up on both the migrant crisis and the Mali
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  wildfires. We cannot forget about both as we try as a nation to contain
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  both. Don't we have a great night on the alex Scirt podcast Network.