GETTING CURIOUS | Is Guaranteed Income America’s Next Top Model? with Mayor Michael Tubbs

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Since Stockton, California, Mayor Michael Tubbs was elected in November 2016, he’s launched an innovative Guaranteed Income pilot program and created a runway for his city’s success. Mayor Tubbs joins Jonathan to discuss the program, how cities across the country are implementing similar initiatives, and why it’s so important for local governments to invest in their communities. Mayor Tubbs is the co-founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, and the subject of the new HBO documentary “Stockton On My Mind.” Follow Mayor Tubbs on Twitter @MichaelDTubbs and Instagram @michaeldtubbs. Stream Stockton on My Mind on HBO and HBO Max. Learn more about Stockton’s Guaranteed Income pilot program at www.StocktonDemonstration.org. And keep up with Mayors for a Guaranteed Income at www.mayorsforagi.org and on Twitter @mayorsforagi. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Stockton, California, Mayor Michael Tubs, a leader in the movement for
0:16.0	Guaranteed Income and the subject of the new HBO documentary, Stockton on my mind,
0:21.3	where I ask him, how do you mayor?
0:26.0	Welcome to getting curious,
0:27.0	this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:28.0	On this week's episode, we have an incredible guest
0:31.0	and I'm just so excited to welcome you, so I don't want to build it up too much.
0:33.8	Welcome Mayor Michael Tubs. How are you?
0:36.6	I am so good. Thanks for having me.
0:38.8	So you, I just got to watch your new documentary on HBO. I just have like chills on my legs and my
0:46.2	forearms just thinking about about your story and just how much changes you're making as
0:51.7	the mayor of Stockton, California.
0:53.6	So welcome.
0:55.6	Oh, no pressure, Jonathan.
0:57.0	Thank you.
0:58.5	So, I mean, we've spent a lot of time on getting curious thinking about down ballot races and about how important those are to, you know, to community and to our local lives in a way that is so much more meaningful than a lot of like national politics in
1:16.0	ways that we don't often get to think about and a lot of those policies
1:20.4	you are really on the cutting edge of one of them being guaranteed income.
1:27.7	What does investing in a community look like to you?
1:32.1	And that's really kind of where I wanted to start.
1:34.0	Well, thank you for the question.
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