Cooking Up Change With Andrew Gruel

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So Andrew, being in California, as you and I are, I have a lot of complaints.

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I grew up in a home where my dad taught us if people don't vote, they cannot complain.

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But if you vote, you should expect to see change.

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I'm a big fan of that.

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I've never missed a vote since I was 18.

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That said, there's a lot wrong in the state of California.

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And there's a lot wrong in this beautiful Southern California region where you and I live.

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Am I alone in feeling rather intense about, call it grievances, that I have with the way that my government's taken me?

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You're not alone.

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And the thing is, is it actually transcends party lines.

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That's the craziest part about this is that you can have a conversation with anybody out on the street right now, not knowing what their political persuasion is, and they will agree with all of your grievances, but then they'll vote in a different way.

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Wow.

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Why is this?

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You're right.

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I mean, California's been messed up for 16 plus years.

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Yeah.

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Total Democrat control, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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But they don't vote any different.

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In fact, if you look at things, when we have the opportunity to give ourselves a tax increase, we the people somehow vote for that tax increase.

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We even vote the wrong way.

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But the party itself just continues to repeat the same, and you would not think that they would be rewarded, but it appears that way.

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Yeah.

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What do you think might be different with this election and the election that you're running for?

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And by the way, by the time we come, just so you know, by the time we come to the end of this podcast, I want people to know all about you.

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And I'll frankly say it.

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I want people to support you to get you across the finish line.

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So I'm really biased in this.

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I need you to win.

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I want you to win.

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But I know that you...

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that you think right, you think clearly, you're an established businessman.

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I don't think people need to know much of an introduction regarding your achievements.

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You're so successful.

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But why in the world, why in the world would you...

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Pull back from your businesses and your investment time and beyond city council of the wonderful city of Huntington Beach and to be running again.

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What's with that?

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And sorry, I smiled because I felt like I was my it was my wife talking to me as well.

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Well, wait a minute.

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She couldn't know.

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But it's a question I asked myself.

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I've learned that local everything is local, right?

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Local politics.

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If you want to see change tomorrow, you focus on local politics, school boards, local city council and certain committees and commissions.

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That is where it all starts.

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Everything grows from there.

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Those are the roots.

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You have to plant the seeds.

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And those are the roots.

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You don't change like tomorrow.

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I'm not going to be able to change anything from a federal perspective.

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Yeah.

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So for me, if I, everybody's been asking me for years, you ever going to get involved in politics?

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The answer unequivocally was no.

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Yeah, sure.

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I'm not.

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And then two years ago, when Tony Strickland, who was on city council, moved to state Senate, there was an open seat.

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Michael Gates, who's currently running for attorney general, he came to me and he said, would you have any interest in perhaps taking that seat?

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And I laughed.

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I said, of course not.

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Like, no.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, I went and I told my wife, I said, can you believe this?

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He asked me.

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But that seed was planted.

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And about a month later, he asked me again.

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And he asked me again.

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And finally, I said, you know what?

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I have to go talk to my family about this.

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We need to think about it.

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And then ultimately, I realized if I'm ever going to change anything in regards to politics, this is where it has to start and potentially stop.

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So that's why I'm involved.

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That's why I stopped everything.

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And it was funny because I remember Michael originally told me, oh, it's going to be it's two meetings a month, maybe five, 10 hours.

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But that's not the type of person I am.

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When I do something, I go all in almost to to the point where my wife says, slow down.

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Yeah.

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Pull back.

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So, you know, Huntington Beach is the tip of the spear when it comes to fighting everything that's happening, not just in Sacramento, but nationally.

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Yes.

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Because our federal.

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Here's my biggest problem.

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Our government has gotten way too big, and we know that.

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We see it with the numbers.

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The numbers don't lie, right?

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Let's take all the emotion out, look at the federal deficit, the budget, all of that.

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Now, I'm a food guy, right?

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So what really triggered me 15 years ago was when I looked and I saw that the federal spending on health care was 15%, then 20%, then 25%.

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We've only gotten sicker over the past 10, 20, 30 decades.

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Of course, yes.

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So we're tripling the spend and we're only getting sicker.

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Well, that is...

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emblematic of every single aspect of government.

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The more we spend, the more we insert ourselves, the worse the problem gets or the more problems there are.

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Now let's get back to California.

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That's the formula for California.

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Sacramento, every single time they get involved in a subject, a problem, the problem gets worse or another problem starts that otherwise wasn't there to begin with, and then they increase the size of government to fix the very problem that they created.

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The American way.

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Throw money at it.

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Throw money.

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Surely we can fix it.

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Exactly.

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And as we are learning through various brave people like Nick Shirley and others, where the money, nobody can find it.

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Where is it at?

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Where did it go?

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We may never know.

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But that said...

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Tell our audience a little bit, and then we'll get back to the political thing and hopefully your victory.

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Tell us about Andrew Gruel.

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Tell us about your remarkable career.

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I mean, people recognize you immediately.

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I see you on Fox.

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I see you in all kinds of things, plus your podcast.

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But for those who may not know, who are you and how is it that you...

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got into the food industry and not only got into it, but your multiple restaurants, it's just amazing.

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So who are you?

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Thank you so much.

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So I guess I would say I'm an accidental chef.

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I actually, I grew up in a world with two working parents.

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My mom was involved in politics and ultimately law enforcement.

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My father was politically engaged, but they were both two hardworking parents.

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I did not grow up with home-cooked meals and all those great stories about sitting on grandma's knee and making fresh pasta.

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Norman Rockwell moment.

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Exactly.

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I grew up, it was the microwave generation, right?

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It was SpaghettiOs and microwave pound cake on Christmas morning.

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No culinary background at all.

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But I got my first job.

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My dad said, you're getting a job once you turn 15.

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It was with a friend's mother's catering company.

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Then the next job, I said, well, I know food.

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So I started working for a five-star hotel at 16.

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What?

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And then I continued going through the culinary world through my career.

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But I went to college at 17, 18.

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I actually went up to a small liberal arts college up in Maine studying social and political philosophy and piano performance.

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I mean, I was like one step away from protesting capitalism.

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This is true.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But I started working in restaurants up there, lobstering.

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And after two years, I realized my passion is serving people through food.

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And I'm not going to spend time in college anymore.

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I'm going to go into the culinary arts.

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So I traveled around the world working, cooking, ended up back in culinary school in Colorado after doing some stints, apprenticeships.

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Long story short, went back and worked for the Ritz-Carlton for a while, Marriott International.

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Went back to business school, got food business degree as well.

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I ended up in California after 10, 15 years of working through the restaurant industry when the economy tanked in 2009.

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So there was an opportunity at the Aquarium of the Pacific to start a sustainable seafood program.

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They wanted a chef to connect consumers to seafood because our seafood consumption in the United States is actually one of the most low per capita consumption of any developed country in the world.

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That's why we have so many chronic diseases in our in our in our general kind of

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calculus of health.

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So if we could get people to eat more seafood and more of the right types of seafood, especially California fresh U.S. domestically caught seafood, because 80 percent of the seafood we consume in the U.S. is imported and all the seafood that we catch here is exported.

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Largest trade deficit behind oil and automobiles is seafood.

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So it's this classic government.

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Kind of off, maybe not off,

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How did Trump's tariffs affect that then?

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For the good, right?

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It actually did affect it for the good.

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That's a great point that you make.

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And I harped on that with seafood for a while because it's about fixing that trade imbalance.

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Now, so I did this program for a couple of years and then instead of going back to the East Coast where I'm from, New York, New Jersey, I said, I'm gonna take the thesis of this program, which is getting people to eat more of the right types of seafood, sustainable, well-caught seafood, U.S. seafood, and I'm gonna take the thesis of this program,

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And I'm going to start my own business.

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I couldn't raise any money in 2011.

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So I started as one food truck.

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And I went out and I leased it for a week.

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In California?

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In Irvine.

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I was one of the original kind of gourmet food trucks.

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And it was called Slapfish.

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Fish so fresh it'll slap you.

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Oh my God.

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Uh, I know this.

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And we, we, so, so after one week I went back to the guy that I was leasing trucks, I'd give it to me for another week, but I want another truck.

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So from May of 2011 to December of 2011, we went from one to four food trucks.

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And then I basically shut them down, leased an old bagel shop in Huntington beach, opened my first brick and mortar in 2012.

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And then we, we grew that we opened about 50 restaurants over, uh,

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I more importantly, I got married, have four kids in that time frame.

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My wife is a chef.

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She runs a business because you didn't have enough going on.

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Yeah, exactly.

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That's it.

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Exactly.

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And that, you know, that's kind of the trajectory of my career.

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2020 comes.

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Oh, COVID.

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COVID.

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And I kept my, I kept my mouth shut.

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Yeah.

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Well, okay.

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Keep going.

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Cause you, you come out on top at the end of the story.

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Well, so what's interesting is I'd been doing food network in that timeframe leading up to 2020 and you know, it was kind of horrible shows.

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You've probably never seen them.

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It was awful, but it was fun.

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And when the pandemic hits, I remember I had said to my wife, I said, it's time.

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I can't I can't keep my mouth shut anymore.

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Like all these years of being quiet and everybody knew that, you know, I was very much a small government conservative.

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And I opened up my mouth and immediately it was backlash.

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And I remember to this day, Newsom shut down outdoor dining a week after he was caught dining at the French Laundry.

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I remember.

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And all these people are attacking me online for protesting that.

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And I remember they're all calling me an a-hole.

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And I went out and I went on this tirade.

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I handed my wife my phone.

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We're standing in the kitchen.

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And I remember vividly, I say, record this.

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And I go on this tirade and I end it and I say, I'm not the a-hole.

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Newsom's the a-hole.

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And within...

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I post it and we go to take our kids out to the park.

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And I remember my phone, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

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And then we have this rule.

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I turn the phone off because when would the kids be focused?

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And I turn my phone on a couple hours later, New York Post, Food Network chef called Newsom an a-hole.

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Bam, bam, bam, bam.

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Just going viral.

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Lambesting.

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All over the place.

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Five days later, I get served a labor investigation by the Newsom administration.

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Of course.

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That's how it works.

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Criticize the government and you're going to expect a visit.

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I start getting, we start getting death threats.

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I mean, it just went off.

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And I remember we leave our house, and we go and we say, we're gonna do a staycation.

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We had just had a baby, right?

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So our fourth baby was just born.

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And I remember we're staying at a local hotel and I turned to Lauren and I said, I should probably stop.

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She goes, no.

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She goes, we're in.

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Oh, I like her.

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She said, double down.

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No, you never apologize.

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Okay, this is your wife telling you, keep fighting, fight more.

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Yeah, she said, double down.

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Don't stop now.

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She's like, we're in.

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And it was that.

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So the next morning,

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We get a call from somebody who had lost their job because not only did Newsom close all the restaurants, employees had no way of getting unemployment because, if you recall, $50 billion in unemployment fraud.

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And Lauren said to me, use the attention we're getting right now.

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Let's start our own fund to help these employees.

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That was so incredibly compassionate.

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So that was the start of it.

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We started the next week, 86 restaurant struggle.

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We started a nonprofit and we raised over a half a million dollars and distributed it in $1,000 checks across the country for the next eight months.

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And after that, I got dropped from all the TV stuff I was doing and who was standing there with open arms, obviously Fox News.

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And the rest is kind of ultimately history.

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Remarkable.

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Absolutely.

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And so...

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Living in Huntington Beach, I assume, yeah, because city council.

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I mean, there's some cities.

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I had to ask you that because there's actually some cities I'm aware of that they have people on council that don't live within the city.

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I don't understand how that works.

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I know.

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Okay, that's pretty weird.

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But that said, let me ask you this question that you probably get asked a lot.

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I get this asked a lot.

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When are you going to move?

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When are you going to leave the state?

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I had a chance to talk with Donald Trump, his first administration.

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It was pretty clear that Trump was basically saying the same thing.

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California is gone.

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Get out of there.

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Flee while you can.

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But that's not who I am.

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And that said, why are you still here?

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I look at Huntington Beach as a state in and of itself, right?

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So if you look at the geography of California, that's New England from Maine all the way down.

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you know, past New Jersey, et cetera, how many states are in that geography?

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That's right.

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And each one of those states, or some of those states are more conservative than others.

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So when you look at it from that perspective, I see Huntington Beach, a city of over 200,000 people in a county which has millions and millions of people and drives so much of the economy in California that if we can take back some of that local control, we're fortified.

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That's right.

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Isn't that something?

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Yes, good, by the way.

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And you said something earlier about how important local politics really is.

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I just recently, I'm not going to say the guy's name, but I was speaking with a US federal prosecutor and his job is to examine and investigate election fraud.

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And he spoke, I watched him speak to some people, and he made that so clear that people think, oh, I'll just vote in the general election, or I'll just vote, I'll go to the ballot, or I'll fill out my ballot, and I'll just vote for president, or I'll just vote for governor.

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Not knowing.

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Not knowing.

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that in the grand scheme of things, the governor or the president doesn't have all that massive power over you as much as your local government does.

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And boy, we, I learned that during COVID as well, being a church where our local government and county leaders who are very involved in this

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kept me insulated from Gavin Newsom's attacks because I got a letter from his AG every two weeks for almost two years.

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We're going to shut you down.

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You're out of violation.

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And my local government said, give those to us.

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Don't answer any of his calls.

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We'll take it from here.

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That's awesome.

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What happened?

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Like you said, local government became the most important thing.

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You used a word that I've never even thought about before in this context.

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You guys have been fortifying Huntington Beach.

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And Andrew, I think that might be one of the reasons why, even in a recent debate, the one and only debate between, hopefully, our new governor, Steve Hilton and Javier Becerra.

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Javier Becerra, in the debate, brought up Huntington Beach.

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He said, I sued Huntington Beach.

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Uh...

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Wow.

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Huntington Beach has become the target because you guys have been exercising your constitutional freedoms.

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If our founding fathers were to come back today, and I say this reverently because I read those guys, I know those guys.

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If they were to come back today, they would say, what's wrong with the rest of you people?

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You should do what Huntington Beach is doing because that's what we did 250 years ago.

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You guys have got it.

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So why would somebody, because I want people to see this podcast and vote for you.

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Why should someone get out and vote for Andrew Gruul?

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What is your pitch?

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What's the deal?

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All it takes is one small story.

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Fight, fight, fight.

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I fight on council in Huntington Beach.

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And when other people in cities all across America see that, they'll also continue to fight.

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So often we think that the fight is fruitless and we give up.

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We're exhausted.

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We're tired.

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It's strenuous.

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The endurance it takes to fight past 99% when you're about to give up.

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It's not just a marathon, right?

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It's an ultra marathon.

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But in Huntington Beach, we've learned you fight because guess what?

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You're going to wear them down.

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And the...

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You know, it's a blessing and a curse.

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You have this construct of a power-hungry, overly aggressive, greedy government in Sacramento.

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And we see that everywhere, right?

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We see it in Europe right now.

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It's grown dramatically.

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into its own beast, and now it's eating its own tail, and it's out of control, and it's happening in California, and then Democrats in Washington are saying, that's what we want for America.

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Where California goes, America goes.

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100%.

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But you've got this little...

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You know, David, who's in Huntington Beach, who's fighting, who's fighting and fighting and fighting.

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And they're saying, leave us alone.

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We're trying to deal with all this other stuff.

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We want to be globalists.

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Stop it, Huntington Beach.

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Get in line, will you?

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And eventually they don't realize it, but we've, you know, we've slashed their ankle.

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We're getting up to their knee.

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We're making it so that they can't move forward as fast as they otherwise would.

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And it's all because we just don't stop fighting in Huntington Beach.

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But I will say this.

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There's exhaustion.

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Of course.

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People in Huntington Beach are saying, you know what?

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It's time to give up.

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No.

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We're conservative, but let's just.

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No.

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That's what they want.

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That's what they want.

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Yeah, the Bible says, do not grow weary at well-doing.

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Think about that.

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If you're doing what's right, you got to stay at it.

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In fact, I'll say this, Andrew, if what you're doing is right, you are going to experience opposition.

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You're going to experience hatred directed in your way, and you are going to naturally grow weary because even though truth and good are immutable, it's hard to maintain those things because truth.

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We naturally as humans...

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I'm gonna get mail on this because people are born good.

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That's not exactly true because people are, little babies are born innocent.

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But once, you know, you gotta keep your little kid from stealing cookies out of the cookie jar because it's in them.

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That said, it's easier to go downstream with the crowd.

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It's easy to stop fighting and just say, I'm throwing in the towel.

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That's easy to do.

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But nothing that is valuable has ever come out of what's easy.

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And so what you guys have done, Huntington Beach, yes, of course, was the legendary Surf City USA, the American birthplace of surfing, this iconic beach location.

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I grew up in SoCal.

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I remember riding my bike to the beach and having to go around certain areas of Huntington because I wasn't allowed to go down those streets because they were so bad.

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Yeah.

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And those were in the days when there was a different party in charge and it was pretty crazy.

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Now the exact opposite has happened.

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You guys have turned that city around.

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People want to move to that city.

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Yep.

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This is an important thing.

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People don't realize that good government, like Jeremiah 29 verse 7 tells us, that the city that you're in, you should look out for its own welfare.

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And if you do that, it will be at peace.

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And those within that city, they will enjoy the peace.

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What a verse.

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Yes.

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That's what you guys have done.

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Yes.

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And so...

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You've established yourself in city council.

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You're already established, successful businessman.

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For those that are meeting you for the first time, why should they vote for you if they, or contact friends they know in Huntington Beach, vote for you?

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Give us the argument.

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Well, I'm a fighter and the value system is there.

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Every single decision that I make on council, I'd look through a filter, right?

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There's a moral North Star, but then there's also a calculus of removing government from the equation.

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There's a Thomas Sowell approach as well, is that what does this cost?

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Are we creating a bigger problem?

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But I'm not just willy-nilly making decisions.

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There's arithmetic to this, right?

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It is a word problem of sorts and you conjugate it through the right framework, right?

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Other politicians I've noticed, and I'm fortunate on Huntington Beach Council because Pastor Chad Williams is on council, who is also another council member.

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And he's even shown me the way when it comes to make the decision that's right, not based upon how other people are influencing you.

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So voting for me means that I'm going to be voting based on what's right and not voting.

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influence.

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You know, I am on the battlefield right now.

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Of course, if anybody who's watching this has friends in Huntington Beach, spread that good word.

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Or if they're watching and they want to help equip me with more artillery, they can help support my campaign.

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But what happens in Huntington Beach matters across the entire country.

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Because when people read stories about Huntington Beach, they say, wow,

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In a sea of blue, how is this city operating so strong from a financial perspective, right?

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Five to one asset to liability ratio when we've got bankruptcies all around.

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That's right.

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How are we decreasing homelessness at all time rates?

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So true.

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How has our crime gone down so significantly?

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Why, when you drive through Huntington Beach, do you see the cleanest streets, the cleanest parks?

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It's true.

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10 miles of beautiful beaches, 1,100 acres of the most gorgeous parks in the world, and one of the most historic libraries in the heart of Huntington Beach that we've kept clean and pure.

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Perfect.

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They look at that and say, what is the common denominator there?

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Oh, they're all conservative.

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Maybe we should consider voting conservative.

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Yeah.

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What's crazy about what you just said, and it's so hypocritical, everything you just said is so true, but the crazy libtard progressive...

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cultural wrecker, they're not altogether stupid.

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And they're looking for a new home.

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They're going to, we want to move down to the beach.

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And they'll see, they'll go on, like a normal person, they'll go on crime rates.

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Ooh, Huntington Beach is a safe place to live.

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And then if you happen to take a drive, either down PCH or any one of the Huntington Beach streets, you see kids like I was in the 60s, riding bicycles with surfboards on their bikes,

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They're alone.

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They're going to the beach.

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They don't have to have a bodyguard.

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It's awesome.

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It's old school awesome.

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But even the person that is a radical progressive, if they're going to be looking for a home, they'll look for a home in Huntington because good schools, safe community, not realizing that it's the conservative power that's in place that has provided these things where a culture can thrive.

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Well, I would even push that further and say it's not the conservative power.

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It's actually the it's a moral mindset.

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Right.

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And I think that's broader even than conservative versus liberal or neoliberal.

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Right.

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And in that sense, what I mean is, is that in so many of these cities where we see success, one thing we don't see at every corner is government.

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What do we see?

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We see community doing what community does best.

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Churches doing what they do best.

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Nonprofits, NGOs, sports teams, sports coaches, all of those things that make a community a community, you don't see government in there.

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I was at a quasi-debate last night, and it was driven by the Chamber of Commerce, so a lot of the questions were business-focused.

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But in the answers, I was picking up a common denominator, almost an analog for the way in which they think, where every problem, the solution they offered was a government program.

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Oh, well, businesses on this side of town don't do well because nobody can get there.

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Let's create a public transportation program that we fund, right?

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Oh, well, we need more councils and committees so that we can make decisions as a government to drive the marketing.

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And all I keep hearing is government when I'm thinking to myself, we have the greatest community in Huntington Beach.

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Let me tell you a real quick story, because this is emblematic of this.

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So when the fires hit in January of 25, I was laying on the floor putting my son to sleep, and I see that the winds are picking up in the fires, and I tweet out.

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I said, if anybody needs a place to stay, I'm going to go to the restaurant, open it up.

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We have 85 parking spots.

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Come down.

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Bring your RV, whatever.

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I'll be open.

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My wife comes running in a room.

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She goes, did you really tweet that?

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I said, yeah, I'm going to go swing by the restaurant.

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She goes, let's just look on the cameras.

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Cars start coming down, right, from Los Angeles.

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From, yeah, yeah.

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So we start feeding people.

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I'm cooking through the night at the restaurant.

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The next morning, my wife goes, well, let's put out a call for what we need.

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Some diapers, some water, the basic stuff's in the very beginning.

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00:25:30.217 --> 00:25:35.438
I went up to the Pasadena shelter, and then my wife got in touch with guys on the fire line.

466
00:25:35.938 --> 00:25:37.519
So she brings a box over to the restaurant.

467
00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:37.899
I tweet out again.

468
00:25:37.939 --> 00:25:38.879
I'm going to go swing by the restaurant.

469
00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:40.961
Suddenly products start showing up, right?

470
00:25:41.201 --> 00:25:41.321
Yes.

471
00:25:41.341 --> 00:25:45.104
One hour, two hours, three hours, 10 cars, 20, 30, 40, 50.

472
00:25:45.524 --> 00:25:47.266
Fast forward two weeks, all right?

473
00:25:47.586 --> 00:25:49.587
We have shut our entire parking lot down.

474
00:25:49.988 --> 00:25:51.409
We have a full operation.

475
00:25:51.509 --> 00:25:52.710
It's full on working.

476
00:25:52.730 --> 00:25:56.012
There's 75 cars wrapped down the street on PCH.

477
00:25:56.032 --> 00:25:56.433
PCH.

478
00:25:57.093 --> 00:25:58.014
All the way down the street.

479
00:25:58.414 --> 00:26:07.378
We ended up distributing roughly, it was like, I got to go back and look at the accounting, $600,000 in goods to the Dream Center through Matthew Barnett.

480
00:26:07.398 --> 00:26:08.298
I know the Barnetts.

481
00:26:08.438 --> 00:26:10.279
Yeah, so Matthew was my partner in this.

482
00:26:10.299 --> 00:26:10.779
Perfect.

483
00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:12.700
And Matthew and I, so I...

484
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.600
It was great.

485
00:26:13.620 --> 00:26:18.204
I used to do my last drive up with my kids in the back to feed all the volunteers at the Dream Center.

486
00:26:18.624 --> 00:26:20.866
Usually around midnight, we took the kids out of school.

487
00:26:20.886 --> 00:26:23.068
And Matthew would always be standing there.

488
00:26:23.368 --> 00:26:24.629
I'd give him the lobster rolls.

489
00:26:25.009 --> 00:26:26.891
And we had to say, what do we need for tomorrow?

490
00:26:27.411 --> 00:26:29.332
And it was an inspiration.

491
00:26:29.352 --> 00:26:30.994
But here's the point of the story.

492
00:26:31.951 --> 00:26:33.012
There was no government involved.

493
00:26:33.032 --> 00:26:33.653
No, that's why it worked.

494
00:26:33.693 --> 00:26:36.015
This was all of the people in Huntington Beach.

495
00:26:36.495 --> 00:26:37.456
I called at the time.

496
00:26:37.476 --> 00:26:38.317
I was not on council.

497
00:26:38.617 --> 00:26:46.125
I called Gracie Vandermark and I said, hey, Gracie, am I going to get in trouble because we're blocking traffic?

498
00:26:46.345 --> 00:26:50.409
Within 10 minutes, she not only had the police chief over there directing traffic, but she

499
00:26:50.709 --> 00:26:56.451
She pulled three public works trucks offline to load goods up and drive them to the Dream Center.

500
00:26:56.751 --> 00:26:57.652
That's government.

501
00:26:58.112 --> 00:27:02.834
That's, I mean, that is to me, if you could use government to help as opposed to get in the way.

502
00:27:02.854 --> 00:27:03.874
That's how it's supposed to work.

503
00:27:04.054 --> 00:27:04.734
It's amazing.

504
00:27:04.994 --> 00:27:09.316
The only reason we need government is to help facilitate the good that our community members do.

505
00:27:10.076 --> 00:27:13.958
Man, I don't want to get off Andrew Gruel because I want you to win this race.

506
00:27:13.978 --> 00:27:14.378
Yeah.

507
00:27:15.340 --> 00:27:16.921
But I would just say this very quickly.

508
00:27:17.482 --> 00:27:20.685
When Hurricane Katrina, you weren't even born yet probably, I don't know.

509
00:27:20.745 --> 00:27:26.170
But when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, that was so devastating.

510
00:27:27.051 --> 00:27:31.695
And a friend of mine, Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, knew the governor, Bobby Jindal, at the time.

511
00:27:31.815 --> 00:27:32.035
Okay.

512
00:27:32.716 --> 00:27:38.201
And they had great needs, but FEMA and OSHA and everybody was there.

513
00:27:38.962 --> 00:27:40.163
And the FDA...

514
00:27:40.763 --> 00:27:42.965
And they people showed up with foods.

515
00:27:43.045 --> 00:27:50.389
People had brought their Texans had barbecued their beef or their pork and they were trucking it on over.

516
00:27:50.869 --> 00:27:53.851
And I literally got a phone call saying, Jack, can you put out the word?

517
00:27:53.871 --> 00:27:54.612
Can you do something?

518
00:27:54.632 --> 00:27:56.513
Because we can't feed these people.

519
00:27:56.573 --> 00:27:57.554
The food is prepped.

520
00:27:57.674 --> 00:27:58.154
It's there.

521
00:27:58.574 --> 00:28:00.355
But they don't have a health permit.

522
00:28:00.816 --> 00:28:02.737
The federal government's not allowing this to happen.

523
00:28:03.237 --> 00:28:04.178
And this is unbelievable.

524
00:28:04.238 --> 00:28:05.379
You know what we had to do, Andrew?

525
00:28:05.959 --> 00:28:07.380
I'll just I'll divulge this now.

526
00:28:08.921 --> 00:28:13.423
We had some people from this church who owned ranches up in central and northern California.

527
00:28:13.843 --> 00:28:15.723
They started slaughtering cattle.

528
00:28:16.263 --> 00:28:16.524
Wow.

529
00:28:16.904 --> 00:28:26.327
And they put it all into whatever that's called, where you've got your burger and you've got your steaks and you've got your whatever you do with a cow.

530
00:28:28.368 --> 00:28:29.788
They trucked it down here.

531
00:28:30.048 --> 00:28:33.169
We wound up getting two refrigerator trucks.

532
00:28:40.885 --> 00:28:41.505
It's illegal.

533
00:28:41.785 --> 00:28:42.965
The feds are going to confiscate it.

534
00:28:43.165 --> 00:28:43.306
Yep.

535
00:28:44.606 --> 00:28:45.566
So do you know what we had to do?

536
00:28:45.966 --> 00:28:46.886
I called Tony Perkson.

537
00:28:46.906 --> 00:28:53.228
I said, we can't, we got, we got a bunch of cows to send you on two full blown 18 wheelers to feed these people.

538
00:28:53.508 --> 00:28:55.848
We can't do it because we can't cross the state line.

539
00:28:56.468 --> 00:29:02.429
The governor of Louisiana called the states, the governors where I-40 ran through.

540
00:29:03.270 --> 00:29:03.650
And got.

541
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:06.570
And said, can you let these trucks through?

542
00:29:07.190 --> 00:29:09.631
Every one of those governors said, we'll have our troopers.

543
00:29:10.605 --> 00:29:11.965
Make sure those trucks get through.

544
00:29:12.866 --> 00:29:16.327
Our trucks got into Louisiana with the needed food.

545
00:29:17.267 --> 00:29:21.369
We had to fight the federal government to get those people fed.

546
00:29:21.669 --> 00:29:22.169
It's amazing.

547
00:29:22.489 --> 00:29:23.889
That's government in the way.

548
00:29:24.750 --> 00:29:29.131
That's what government does when it's too big because it's got to get its hands into everything.

549
00:29:29.451 --> 00:29:34.453
And again, our founding fathers would not even recognize what this nation does like that.

550
00:29:34.733 --> 00:29:38.174
They would look at our government today and think that it was a huge corporation.

551
00:29:41.212 --> 00:29:42.033
What are we doing?

552
00:29:42.053 --> 00:29:44.075
I'll tell you what Sam Adams would have said.

553
00:29:44.435 --> 00:29:45.556
That's a foreign entity.

554
00:29:45.756 --> 00:29:45.916
Yeah.

555
00:29:46.277 --> 00:29:46.837
It's an enemy.

556
00:29:47.077 --> 00:29:47.478
There we go.

557
00:29:48.178 --> 00:29:48.759
That's intense.

558
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.420
But that's real.

559
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:49.900
Yeah.

560
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:50.681
That's how it works.

561
00:29:51.181 --> 00:29:51.702
So, um...

562
00:29:53.234 --> 00:29:54.995
Where do people go to give you money?

563
00:29:55.055 --> 00:29:58.215
I want people to give you money so that you win because it matters.

564
00:29:58.275 --> 00:29:58.996
It actually matters.

565
00:29:59.036 --> 00:30:01.936
In fact, can you talk about the opposition money?

566
00:30:02.216 --> 00:30:09.838
Yes, they're right now in the Huntington Beach race, both city council as well as the assembly and some of the other periphery races.

567
00:30:09.858 --> 00:30:12.339
There are millions of dollars coming in from the California Democrats.

568
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:13.039
To stop you guys.

569
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:23.528
to stop us on council in addition to stopping some of the other former council members that are going up, trying to go to assembly, District 72, which is in Huntington Beach, and then there's the supervisors races as well.

570
00:30:23.868 --> 00:30:26.190
But millions of dollars are coming in.

571
00:30:27.611 --> 00:30:28.512
To the opposition.

572
00:30:28.612 --> 00:30:29.293
To the opposition.

573
00:30:29.313 --> 00:30:29.573
Not you.

574
00:30:29.673 --> 00:30:30.454
Millions of dollars.

575
00:30:30.494 --> 00:30:31.855
So we're fighting, right?

576
00:30:32.055 --> 00:30:32.595
I'm fighting.

577
00:30:32.695 --> 00:30:35.438
I'm out there on front lines fighting.

578
00:30:35.458 --> 00:30:35.558
Yeah.

579
00:30:36.158 --> 00:30:47.287
And I need resources in order to continue fighting the millions of dollars because California Democrats have so much money that they've taken from the interestingly, the hard workers of California.

580
00:30:47.367 --> 00:30:47.547
Right.

581
00:30:47.768 --> 00:30:51.170
That union money that people have to spend into the machine.

582
00:30:51.190 --> 00:30:51.791
That's right.

583
00:30:51.851 --> 00:30:54.473
Off of the backs of the hard workers in California.

584
00:30:54.553 --> 00:30:54.953
Forced.

585
00:30:55.214 --> 00:31:01.539
Gets then jammed into these races to perpetuate the policies that make it worse for the workers.

586
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:01.799
Right.

587
00:31:02.179 --> 00:31:04.181
People say that the Democrats are the workers' party.

588
00:31:04.281 --> 00:31:06.102
No, the Republicans are the workers' party.

589
00:31:06.122 --> 00:31:06.562
That's right.

590
00:31:06.742 --> 00:31:08.203
We are always here to help the workers.

591
00:31:08.283 --> 00:31:09.484
And right now I'm struggling.

592
00:31:09.504 --> 00:31:12.906
I'm flapping out there like one of those things at a car dealership going like this.

593
00:31:13.546 --> 00:31:23.973
And I'm so used to giving in my life, giving food, feeding people, helping people, that it's not going to lie, it's hard for me to ask for help to equip myself so that I can continue feeding.

594
00:31:23.973 --> 00:31:25.013
Well, I appreciate that about you.

595
00:31:25.033 --> 00:31:28.534
And that comes across in people who are logical, pick up on that and sensible.

596
00:31:28.954 --> 00:31:30.335
That's why I'm happy to have you on.

597
00:31:30.355 --> 00:31:49.060
We wanted you on because I want to be the one that says for people, please send your support to Andrew because I would even go so far as to say this, somebody might be watching right now and they are in, they're in Montana and in their particular County or city, it's good.

598
00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:50.120
They got it good.

599
00:31:50.861 --> 00:31:51.601
Everything's fine.

600
00:31:52.808 --> 00:31:53.749
They don't have to.

601
00:31:53.849 --> 00:31:59.133
You don't have to reach into your pocket to keep your local government healthy.

602
00:31:59.153 --> 00:31:59.933
It's already healthy.

603
00:32:00.734 --> 00:32:09.080
So what I'm saying is, why don't you consider this like a war and that you're going to be sending armaments to Huntington Beach?

604
00:32:10.040 --> 00:32:16.925
Because Andrew said it earlier, what happens in Huntington and or California is exported to 49 other states.

605
00:32:17.766 --> 00:32:18.507
A wise man.

606
00:32:19.415 --> 00:32:27.311
general would say, if you've got it good in these other areas of America, and you see Huntington doing the right thing,

607
00:32:28.627 --> 00:32:31.689
You don't have to invest in your local town because it's upright.

608
00:32:31.849 --> 00:32:32.370
It's working.

609
00:32:32.430 --> 00:32:32.870
It's fine.

610
00:32:33.330 --> 00:32:34.851
Help these guys out.

611
00:32:35.892 --> 00:32:37.053
I'm a big fan of that.

612
00:32:37.393 --> 00:32:40.175
And so where would people go to support you?

613
00:32:40.235 --> 00:32:41.356
Where do they send in help?

614
00:32:41.556 --> 00:32:47.660
So it's www.gruel, G-R-U-E-L, just think Gruel the porridge, forcouncil.com.

615
00:32:48.040 --> 00:32:49.942
So gruelforcouncil.com.

616
00:32:50.282 --> 00:32:53.484
I'm surprised you haven't made a joke yet about the irony of my last name.

617
00:32:53.524 --> 00:32:56.026
So I appreciate that because that's how the left is insulting me.

618
00:32:56.446 --> 00:32:56.826
Are you serious?

619
00:32:56.846 --> 00:32:57.367
A chef named Gruel?

620
00:32:58.027 --> 00:32:58.848
You remember the old porn?

621
00:32:58.868 --> 00:33:00.029
No, no, yes, of course.

622
00:33:01.050 --> 00:33:01.810
But, well, they would.

623
00:33:01.850 --> 00:33:03.672
They would because didn't they recently?

624
00:33:04.753 --> 00:33:10.097
There's something out there that caught Karen Bass talking to some people.

625
00:33:10.297 --> 00:33:11.718
And they're talking about Steve Hilton.

626
00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:13.760
And this is the Democrat Party in California.

627
00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:18.284
And they said, how could you vote for somebody who has a foreign accent?

628
00:33:18.384 --> 00:33:18.584
Yes.

629
00:33:18.604 --> 00:33:18.784
Yes.

630
00:33:20.090 --> 00:33:20.450
Yep.

631
00:33:20.951 --> 00:33:21.712
Oh, excuse me.

632
00:33:22.193 --> 00:33:27.239
They're the ones that want to open up the floodgates of the borders to have people come in with foreign accents.

633
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.783
They turn around and say, how could you vote for somebody with a foreign accent?

634
00:33:31.063 --> 00:33:34.307
I thought it was incredibly, of course, incredibly sweet.

635
00:33:34.428 --> 00:33:36.650
Well, there's their xenophobia is okay.

636
00:33:36.690 --> 00:33:37.832
Yours is bad.

637
00:33:38.473 --> 00:33:39.614
That's always the way that it is, man.

638
00:33:39.614 --> 00:33:52.719
And I'll draw this other analogy for the gentleman who, or the family that's in Montana, is that bad government is a sickness, a disease, a cancer that metastasizes so rapidly and spreads and goes viral like any other disease.

639
00:33:52.799 --> 00:34:00.422
So what we're trying to do is that we're actually lopping the dead branches off the tree so that it can't metastasize into areas like Montana.

640
00:34:00.783 --> 00:34:03.944
And we want to go viral with good as opposed to going viral with bad.

641
00:34:04.404 --> 00:34:09.646
In addition to the fact that we're family operation, I've got four young kids right now between the ages of five and 15.

642
00:34:10.007 --> 00:34:11.827
I've got their endorsement just recently.

643
00:34:11.927 --> 00:34:12.528
That was a hard one.

644
00:34:12.548 --> 00:34:14.569
That's a big if you can get family endorsement.

645
00:34:14.589 --> 00:34:14.749
Yep.

646
00:34:15.069 --> 00:34:16.029
That's that's it.

647
00:34:16.329 --> 00:34:18.791
And my wife, who is my business partner, she runs the restaurant.

648
00:34:18.831 --> 00:34:20.631
When I'm at these events, she's in the kitchen.

649
00:34:20.651 --> 00:34:21.412
She's on the floor.

650
00:34:21.452 --> 00:34:22.752
She's picking the kids up from school.

651
00:34:23.072 --> 00:34:25.534
I fly back to New York every two weeks for Gutfeld and Fox.

652
00:34:25.574 --> 00:34:26.534
So I'm on the road a lot.

653
00:34:26.814 --> 00:34:29.336
bring the kids with me, bring them to the campaign events.

654
00:34:29.636 --> 00:34:34.681
But I'll tell you what's the greatest thing about this is that the kids are learning about civic responsibility.

655
00:34:35.401 --> 00:34:39.965
I had my son out the other day, my, my five-year-old on his bike and he had yard signs.

656
00:34:40.265 --> 00:34:41.726
He was driving around knocking on doors.

657
00:34:41.766 --> 00:34:42.847
Can you put my dad's yard sign?

658
00:34:42.867 --> 00:34:43.928
That's old school.

659
00:34:43.948 --> 00:34:46.090
So we're driving around the neighborhood and I said,

660
00:34:47.353 --> 00:34:48.453
Why is that yard sign out there?

661
00:34:48.513 --> 00:34:48.994
I know that.

662
00:34:49.194 --> 00:34:50.214
That's a huge.

663
00:34:51.014 --> 00:34:52.115
They're a very liberal family.

664
00:34:52.135 --> 00:34:52.595
And I love them.

665
00:34:52.615 --> 00:34:53.575
I love everybody, right?

666
00:34:54.115 --> 00:34:57.136
And my son, my five-year-old goes, I told her she had to put it there.

667
00:34:57.437 --> 00:34:58.977
I said, you are changing minds.

668
00:34:58.997 --> 00:34:59.897
That's the guy.

669
00:34:59.998 --> 00:35:00.598
That's the guy.

670
00:35:00.618 --> 00:35:01.698
Isn't that great?

671
00:35:01.778 --> 00:35:02.618
It's amazing.

672
00:35:02.638 --> 00:35:06.560
But that is so good, down-home, old-school way of living.

673
00:35:06.660 --> 00:35:10.341
Well, I tell that story because people are so scared to get involved politically.

674
00:35:10.361 --> 00:35:11.942
They're scared to say something.

675
00:35:11.962 --> 00:35:12.322
Why is that?

676
00:35:12.662 --> 00:35:17.485
Because the left is so aggressive, they want you to be afraid to say what's right.

677
00:35:17.885 --> 00:35:20.387
Because then they can infiltrate.

678
00:35:20.407 --> 00:35:21.067
They scare you.

679
00:35:21.087 --> 00:35:21.727
It's intimidation.

680
00:35:22.148 --> 00:35:23.428
It's intimidation, right?

681
00:35:24.069 --> 00:35:27.651
And I spoke the other day to a business owner, and he said to me, I love what you're doing.

682
00:35:28.371 --> 00:35:30.031
I wish I could do the same, but I can't.

683
00:35:30.131 --> 00:35:30.732
I have a business.

684
00:35:30.932 --> 00:35:34.993
I said, I've got multiple businesses, and my family's here in town.

685
00:35:35.313 --> 00:35:36.113
You gotta fight.

686
00:35:36.273 --> 00:35:44.375
Like, enough, and it was that aha moment of, that's why so many conservatives say, well, I'm just gonna do my own thing, and I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.

687
00:35:44.455 --> 00:35:54.537
So when people see me out there with my family, my four kids, my wife, and they know, this guy's standing up, and his business, I'll tell you what, my business has doubled since I got on council.

688
00:35:54.877 --> 00:35:57.198
My business has tripled since I started speaking back.

689
00:35:57.458 --> 00:35:58.659
Thank you for saying that.

690
00:35:58.879 --> 00:35:59.799
People need to know that.

691
00:35:59.859 --> 00:36:06.423
Pastors need to know this because some pastors think, oh, I could never encourage our people to register to vote.

692
00:36:06.743 --> 00:36:08.104
I don't want to lose people.

693
00:36:08.825 --> 00:36:21.572
Well, that's a really weird way of looking at church, but you'll find out that if you do do that, which is legal, by the way, you'll find your church will grow because people actually want to live their Christianity beyond the walls of the church.

694
00:36:21.812 --> 00:36:22.973
They actually want to live it every day.

695
00:36:22.993 --> 00:36:24.574
Who would have thought?

696
00:36:25.194 --> 00:36:25.755
But yeah,

697
00:36:26.737 --> 00:36:28.818
No, no, that's awesome.

698
00:36:30.258 --> 00:36:47.405
So with the race that's coming up and Huntington Beach being deliberately, systematically singled out by the Democrat Party because you guys just won't obey, you're going to exercise your constitutional rights and freedoms.

699
00:36:48.505 --> 00:36:53.907
Who has been, I should put it this way, have you been getting

700
00:36:55.535 --> 00:37:01.139
support from good citizens, from even churches, from people?

701
00:37:01.359 --> 00:37:02.220
How about immigrants?

702
00:37:02.600 --> 00:37:06.884
I would think that immigrants that have come here, that they wanted to start a new life.

703
00:37:07.464 --> 00:37:09.305
They see you guys fighting for their freedoms.

704
00:37:09.346 --> 00:37:09.966
Do they get it?

705
00:37:10.126 --> 00:37:10.646
Yes, they do.

706
00:37:10.747 --> 00:37:11.087
100%.

707
00:37:11.107 --> 00:37:11.687
Tell us about it.

708
00:37:11.727 --> 00:37:12.528
Please encourage us.

709
00:37:12.568 --> 00:37:13.969
Well, I'm a restaurant owner.

710
00:37:14.089 --> 00:37:15.250
90% of all the immigrants that have

711
00:37:15.570 --> 00:37:20.233
especially come here from Ecuador, from Mexico, are in the restaurant or hospitality to some degree.

712
00:37:20.273 --> 00:37:20.833
This is true.

713
00:37:20.973 --> 00:37:22.714
And I will tell you something fascinating.

714
00:37:23.234 --> 00:37:25.555
They don't love California, and here's why.

715
00:37:26.196 --> 00:37:30.278
Guess what none of them have been able to do, and I've hired these people.

716
00:37:30.718 --> 00:37:32.939
None of them have gotten any help from California.

717
00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:34.500
They've been used as a political pawn.

718
00:37:35.140 --> 00:37:41.445
So many of these people who did immigrate here and they came across the border undocumented, came in, got jobs.

719
00:37:41.485 --> 00:37:47.850
And then when Biden got in control, they went and they said to the state of California, please help me become legal.

720
00:37:47.870 --> 00:37:51.072
And they said, no, we're not helping you at all.

721
00:37:51.272 --> 00:37:56.336
A lot of these people are actually getting more help under this current administration than previous administrations.

722
00:37:56.516 --> 00:37:57.337
You mean that word Trump?

723
00:37:57.357 --> 00:37:57.637
Trump?

724
00:37:58.998 --> 00:38:00.259
Yeah, exactly.

725
00:38:01.100 --> 00:38:02.481
That's the funniest thing about it.

726
00:38:02.921 --> 00:38:07.284
And what he's saying is, you know, we ignored the problem for 10, 20 years.

727
00:38:07.344 --> 00:38:13.409
Obama was bragging about the fact that he was exporting so many people that he was deporting.

728
00:38:13.429 --> 00:38:15.771
I say exporting, but he was deporting so many people.

729
00:38:15.911 --> 00:38:16.772
People don't realize this.

730
00:38:16.952 --> 00:38:18.013
Oh, by the way, the cages?

731
00:38:18.033 --> 00:38:18.113
Yes.

732
00:38:19.385 --> 00:38:19.826
Guess what?

733
00:38:20.026 --> 00:38:20.546
I was there.

734
00:38:21.367 --> 00:38:24.311
I was eyewitness, Andrew, at the border.

735
00:38:24.832 --> 00:38:25.913
Obama administration.

736
00:38:26.173 --> 00:38:27.515
Obama administration.

737
00:38:27.755 --> 00:38:29.317
You want to talk about putting kids in cages?

738
00:38:30.218 --> 00:38:31.960
It was Obama's administration, folks.

739
00:38:32.661 --> 00:38:37.687
When I went back with 35 pastors, Trump was taking the cages down.

740
00:38:38.188 --> 00:38:38.368
Mm hmm.

741
00:38:39.385 --> 00:38:40.806
You don't hear that on CNN.

742
00:38:41.407 --> 00:38:42.047
Oh, of course not.

743
00:38:42.167 --> 00:38:42.668
Of course not.

744
00:38:42.828 --> 00:38:47.832
And, you know, I think the hardest thing for me, and we tried for years.

745
00:38:48.292 --> 00:38:53.496
I knew guys in the restaurant industry that had worked for me at one point or worked at neighboring restaurants because it's always a community.

746
00:38:53.536 --> 00:38:54.657
And these are good people.

747
00:38:54.697 --> 00:38:58.159
And they were saying, okay, I went back to Mexico because that's what they told me to do.

748
00:38:58.179 --> 00:39:01.542
But I really need to get some sort of a green card, citizenship, X, Y, and Z.

749
00:39:01.982 --> 00:39:04.624
And there was no help from anyone in California.

750
00:39:04.644 --> 00:39:05.345
It's so broken.

751
00:39:05.365 --> 00:39:05.585
Yeah.

752
00:39:05.905 --> 00:39:06.786
None at all.

753
00:39:07.347 --> 00:39:11.792
So, you know, now they're being used as pawns, political pawns, but then they're chewed up and spit out.

754
00:39:11.852 --> 00:39:12.212
That's right.

755
00:39:12.532 --> 00:39:26.607
In Huntington Beach, the key when it comes to not just immigrants, but all of the low wage workers, right, because that's a huge problem in California is the depression of certain wages and certain industries up against an affordability crisis, which is frankly manmade, especially in California.

756
00:39:26.647 --> 00:39:27.088
That's right.

757
00:39:27.108 --> 00:39:27.408
Right.

758
00:39:27.588 --> 00:39:31.209
And they're saying, okay, well, the great thing about Huntington Beach is that it's safe.

759
00:39:31.450 --> 00:39:33.390
We can bring our children here and we get paid more.

760
00:39:33.650 --> 00:39:37.132
Why do we get paid more at restaurants and retail and hotels in California?

761
00:39:37.392 --> 00:39:38.552
Because the economy is stronger.

762
00:39:38.872 --> 00:39:46.235
And the reason the economy is stronger is because we're getting the lion's share of the economy, of the people who are going to come into Orange County.

763
00:39:46.455 --> 00:39:47.495
They come to Huntington Beach.

764
00:39:47.636 --> 00:39:47.936
Why?

765
00:39:48.156 --> 00:39:48.756
The basics.

766
00:39:49.156 --> 00:39:49.657
It's safe.

767
00:39:50.077 --> 00:39:50.737
It's clean.

768
00:39:51.118 --> 00:39:54.721
It's got the lowest tax rate, 7.75%, which they're trying to jam up.

769
00:39:54.781 --> 00:39:57.663
If we lose this election, it will be 8.25% on sales tax.

770
00:39:58.103 --> 00:40:01.566
I have people that drive in from Long Beach, from Los Angeles.

771
00:40:01.786 --> 00:40:06.370
My restaurant on weekends is 60% L.A. County because people don't want to pay 12%, 13%.

772
00:40:06.470 --> 00:40:07.871
Of course.

773
00:40:07.931 --> 00:40:08.451
It's insane.

774
00:40:08.551 --> 00:40:13.915
And they don't want to spend money on a meal and have people laid out and doing the Fent dance in front of them.

775
00:40:13.935 --> 00:40:14.776
That's right.

776
00:40:14.916 --> 00:40:22.727
Kids alone, I mean, anytime I drive into L.A., I get nervous about where I'm going to be with my kids, what I'm going to do, making sure they're protected.

777
00:40:22.928 --> 00:40:26.152
Andrew, frankly, I think the last event that we went to was...

778
00:40:27.512 --> 00:40:29.153
Sports-wise, it was a Dodger game.

779
00:40:29.513 --> 00:40:31.514
And I said, that's the end of it.

780
00:40:31.814 --> 00:40:34.575
I mean, once you got into Dodger Stadium, it was fantastic and beautiful.

781
00:40:35.195 --> 00:40:37.036
But God forbid, on the way in and the way out.

782
00:40:37.516 --> 00:40:38.896
And I said, that's it, I'm done.

783
00:40:39.176 --> 00:40:41.017
My grandkids were with me, never again.

784
00:40:42.498 --> 00:40:50.021
And then the other thing was, we went to a sporting event, a music event, excuse me, a music event, just recently, a Forrest Frank concert.

785
00:40:50.621 --> 00:40:53.542
And man, it was sketchy getting there.

786
00:40:53.662 --> 00:40:54.742
To a brand new arena.

787
00:40:55.023 --> 00:40:55.823
Fantastic.

788
00:40:55.863 --> 00:40:56.543
What was it?

789
00:40:57.003 --> 00:40:59.284
The Intuit Dome Center.

790
00:40:59.384 --> 00:41:00.445
Fantastic venue.

791
00:41:01.025 --> 00:41:03.886
It's just getting in and getting out alive.

792
00:41:04.106 --> 00:41:04.506
Tragic.

793
00:41:04.806 --> 00:41:06.267
That said, you said something.

794
00:41:06.327 --> 00:41:07.427
I want people to know this.

795
00:41:09.428 --> 00:41:18.072
During COVID, there was a business, and maybe you know, I'm not too familiar with it, although I should be, because we deliberately drove there to eat.

796
00:41:18.752 --> 00:41:18.992
Why?

797
00:41:19.012 --> 00:41:21.373
It was an Italian restaurant.

798
00:41:22.578 --> 00:41:25.198
off of Victoria and Bouchard, maybe?

799
00:41:25.399 --> 00:41:26.239
Yeah, Basilicos.

800
00:41:26.319 --> 00:41:26.959
Basilicos.

801
00:41:26.979 --> 00:41:27.499
Noni Roman.

802
00:41:27.899 --> 00:41:30.659
They wouldn't close their doors.

803
00:41:31.420 --> 00:41:32.540
And we heard about it.

804
00:41:32.620 --> 00:41:33.180
Let's go.

805
00:41:33.580 --> 00:41:34.240
We went there.

806
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:35.000
We were eating.

807
00:41:35.460 --> 00:41:36.961
I have to, I mean, this is between us.

808
00:41:37.141 --> 00:41:39.241
But I was so impressed.

809
00:41:39.361 --> 00:41:46.022
I think I lift a tip as big as the food bill because I was so happy for them and I wanted to bless them.

810
00:41:46.442 --> 00:41:49.823
And then we went back the second time and it was full of cop cars.

811
00:41:49.843 --> 00:41:49.943
Yeah.

812
00:41:51.020 --> 00:41:55.069
And I didn't realize all the Huntington Beach cops were eating there.

813
00:41:56.535 --> 00:41:58.136
That was what happened with us as well in Huntington.

814
00:41:58.296 --> 00:41:59.477
Yes, it was fantastic.

815
00:41:59.617 --> 00:42:01.859
Police, fire, all of them.

816
00:42:02.479 --> 00:42:03.400
It was hilarious.

817
00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:06.302
And I remember the first time we were like, we're staying open.

818
00:42:06.522 --> 00:42:08.504
And these two police officers walk in.

819
00:42:08.544 --> 00:42:09.604
I'm like, here we go.

820
00:42:09.664 --> 00:42:10.305
Here it is.

821
00:42:10.325 --> 00:42:11.626
They walk up to the counter.

822
00:42:11.666 --> 00:42:15.048
Yeah, let me get two lobster rolls, grilled fish taco.

823
00:42:15.309 --> 00:42:16.790
We're just, oh, that's good.

824
00:42:16.970 --> 00:42:17.870
Okay, I'll throw one in.

825
00:42:18.010 --> 00:42:19.351
Yeah, yeah.

826
00:42:19.371 --> 00:42:20.592
I mean, it was eye-opening.

827
00:42:20.612 --> 00:42:22.634
But I tell people this about the business.

828
00:42:23.592 --> 00:42:33.160
So when everybody was losing business during the pandemic, when we started our fund, 86 Restaurant Struggle, and then we started raising money and became more nationally known for being open, I thought that was it.

829
00:42:33.581 --> 00:42:34.982
I thought we were going to go down.

830
00:42:35.022 --> 00:42:35.462
That was it.

831
00:42:35.863 --> 00:42:37.844
Our sales tripled, quadrupled.

832
00:42:38.505 --> 00:42:42.548
I mean, the most busy we have been, and at that point, that was Slapfish.

833
00:42:42.568 --> 00:42:43.850
I ultimately sold Slapfish.

834
00:42:44.477 --> 00:42:47.799
Frankly, whole nother story, but because of the COVID controversy.

835
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:52.922
But at that time, everyone came in, as you just described, because guess what?

836
00:42:53.182 --> 00:42:54.143
People love courage.

837
00:42:54.183 --> 00:42:55.083
Courage tastes good.

838
00:42:55.804 --> 00:42:57.065
Courage is respectable.

839
00:42:57.145 --> 00:42:58.445
Tragically, and it's rare.

840
00:42:58.565 --> 00:42:59.446
Tragically, it's rare.

841
00:42:59.466 --> 00:43:01.107
So when people see it, they run to it.

842
00:43:01.307 --> 00:43:08.696
It is rare, and I just even told you anecdotally that it was my wife who had to and say double down because I started even second guessing myself.

843
00:43:08.716 --> 00:43:09.798
And look what that did to you, though.

844
00:43:09.818 --> 00:43:10.939
That was a wonderful thing.

845
00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:12.040
It was a wonderful thing.

846
00:43:12.080 --> 00:43:17.567
Now, granted, at that time I was 6'8", 290 pounds, but, you know, this has worn me down a little bit.

847
00:43:19.538 --> 00:43:26.102
Nonetheless, it certainly gave me another, you know, it's that nitro boost, right?

848
00:43:26.122 --> 00:43:26.702
Yeah, absolutely.

849
00:43:26.722 --> 00:43:27.683
And so we watch other people.

850
00:43:27.723 --> 00:43:31.805
So that's kind of the analogy with Huntington Beach is what we're doing here, anybody can do anywhere.

851
00:43:31.825 --> 00:43:31.985
Yeah.

852
00:43:32.200 --> 00:43:33.441
And I talk to people all the time.

853
00:43:33.461 --> 00:43:33.981
They write to me.

854
00:43:34.001 --> 00:43:34.462
They call me.

855
00:43:34.482 --> 00:43:36.563
They say, I'm thinking about running for city council school board.

856
00:43:36.603 --> 00:43:37.084
I'm scared.

857
00:43:37.364 --> 00:43:37.944
How do I do it?

858
00:43:38.205 --> 00:43:38.825
Approach it through.

859
00:43:39.285 --> 00:43:41.988
There's no rubric to this, right?

860
00:43:42.228 --> 00:43:43.329
It's very simple.

861
00:43:43.909 --> 00:43:48.733
The only role of government is to do two things, provide public safety and infrastructure.

862
00:43:48.873 --> 00:43:49.473
That's right.

863
00:43:49.493 --> 00:43:49.874
That's it.

864
00:43:50.646 --> 00:43:55.468
Anything beyond that is discretionary and it's redundant, most likely duplicative and unnecessary.

865
00:43:55.548 --> 00:43:56.209
Unnecessary.

866
00:43:56.669 --> 00:44:02.992
The third role is to get out of the way to then allow the economic development that funds number one and two.

867
00:44:03.352 --> 00:44:04.152
That is government.

868
00:44:04.172 --> 00:44:04.813
It's so simple.

869
00:44:04.873 --> 00:44:06.954
It's American, uniquely American.

870
00:44:07.754 --> 00:44:09.475
And for 250 years, it's worked just fine.

871
00:44:09.635 --> 00:44:12.096
It's worked for actually technically for 400 years.

872
00:44:12.176 --> 00:44:13.917
If you think about it, it's worked just fine.

873
00:44:14.137 --> 00:44:17.738
And everyone will say, well, you know, our democracy is on the line.

874
00:44:17.798 --> 00:44:18.498
We're not a democracy.

875
00:44:18.518 --> 00:44:19.318
We're not a democracy.

876
00:44:19.698 --> 00:44:20.118
Exactly.

877
00:44:20.138 --> 00:44:21.518
We are a constitutional republic.

878
00:44:21.578 --> 00:44:34.240
And that's the key, is that with things, with what I just described to you being as simple as it is, one would imagine, well, hypothetically, how does that broad interpretation of the role of government not get misinterpreted?

879
00:44:34.720 --> 00:44:35.181
Guess what?

880
00:44:35.321 --> 00:44:36.681
Because we have a check and a balance.

881
00:44:36.721 --> 00:44:37.701
It's called the Constitution.

882
00:44:37.981 --> 00:44:38.201
Boom.

883
00:44:38.401 --> 00:44:39.281
The greatest system ever.

884
00:44:39.501 --> 00:44:39.681
Yeah.

885
00:44:39.761 --> 00:44:40.641
That's why they're against it.

886
00:44:41.082 --> 00:44:42.022
That is why they're against it.

887
00:44:42.042 --> 00:44:43.082
They really are against it.

888
00:44:43.762 --> 00:44:44.823
All right, man, this has been amazing.

889
00:44:44.843 --> 00:44:45.603
We've got to wrap it up.

890
00:44:45.623 --> 00:44:54.348
But I want to tell everybody before we do close this out, will you please, if you live anywhere in the Southland, or if you're planning on a vacation, make it Huntington Beach.

891
00:44:55.248 --> 00:45:12.158
I don't know of any other place in the world, and I'm not exaggerating, I don't know any other place in the world where you could go down to, for example, PCH, Pacific Coast Highway, and Main Street, stand at the iconic Huntington Beach Pier,

892
00:45:14.231 --> 00:45:21.575
And see families walking about or young couples or people riding bikes, skateboards, whatever it is.

893
00:45:23.055 --> 00:45:26.157
Living life, having a great Saturday or whatever day it is, doesn't matter.

894
00:45:27.678 --> 00:45:31.679
And watch our freedoms in action.

895
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:32.920
And what I mean by that is this.

896
00:45:33.580 --> 00:45:38.803
At the pier, you might have somebody with a sign that says, I hate Donald Trump.

897
00:45:39.940 --> 00:45:40.480
It's possible.

898
00:45:40.660 --> 00:45:42.561
I don't think I've seen that, but it's possible.

899
00:45:43.201 --> 00:45:52.604
But you will find people quite regularly waving American flags, especially the Vietnamese or Cambodian Asian culture.

900
00:45:53.464 --> 00:45:54.564
It's beautiful.

901
00:45:55.245 --> 00:45:56.845
Honk your horn if you love freedom.

902
00:45:57.225 --> 00:45:58.205
They're standing on the side.

903
00:45:58.646 --> 00:46:00.386
And you say, what event's going on?

904
00:46:00.666 --> 00:46:01.266
No event.

905
00:46:01.826 --> 00:46:04.247
It's a Saturday and they're happy to be here.

906
00:46:04.927 --> 00:46:06.708
But here's what's amazing as a Christian.

907
00:46:07.976 --> 00:46:18.000
You can go to Huntington Beach and at that corner, there will be people either sitting down quietly, privately with a cup of coffee, reading the Bible in public.

908
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:23.321
Or you'll see people preaching the gospel of Jesus in public.

909
00:46:24.982 --> 00:46:27.683
And there's people walking right by that are total atheists.

910
00:46:27.703 --> 00:46:28.183
They don't care.

911
00:46:28.203 --> 00:46:28.543
It's beautiful.

912
00:46:29.484 --> 00:46:30.204
It's beautiful.

913
00:46:31.564 --> 00:46:34.186
That is a slice of actual America.

914
00:46:34.286 --> 00:46:47.314
And to keep it that way, for those of you who know somebody who lives in Huntington Beach, if you live in Huntington Beach, I'm asking you to send support now to Andrew to get him across the finish line.

915
00:46:47.554 --> 00:46:51.136
He's going up against the California DNC.

916
00:46:52.077 --> 00:46:55.099
It's a merger of let's destroy Huntington Beach.

917
00:46:55.399 --> 00:46:56.640
The Democrats want to kill it.

918
00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:03.845
because it's not goose step in line with what they want to have happen.

919
00:47:04.706 --> 00:47:05.907
They're independent thinkers.

920
00:47:06.407 --> 00:47:08.409
They're constitutionalists.

921
00:47:08.849 --> 00:47:11.171
They love freedom, and they live it.

922
00:47:11.211 --> 00:47:12.733
You can feel it when you go there.

923
00:47:13.453 --> 00:47:15.113
So send your support.

924
00:47:15.374 --> 00:47:21.115
Please pray about that and then send it and then pray for Andrew's victory.

925
00:47:21.595 --> 00:47:27.577
It's Gruel, G-R-U-E-L, number four, council.com.

926
00:47:28.317 --> 00:47:34.178
And right now you've probably already gotten your ballots mailed out to you.

927
00:47:35.259 --> 00:47:39.880
But we encourage you and also to take your ballot out.

928
00:47:41.860 --> 00:47:52.689
If you don't vote in person, if you vote early, take your ballot to an official ballot collection site, which there's some churches that are doing that.

929
00:47:53.730 --> 00:47:55.632
The church that I pastor, we're doing that.

930
00:47:56.593 --> 00:47:58.614
But Andrew, we need you to win.

931
00:47:58.835 --> 00:48:02.157
We need you to come across that finish line, keep the city going.

932
00:48:03.739 --> 00:48:08.743
And again, if people, if you just take the time to drive to Huntington,

933
00:48:10.060 --> 00:48:10.700
Park your car.

934
00:48:11.361 --> 00:48:12.021
Walk around.

935
00:48:12.702 --> 00:48:13.142
Feel it.

936
00:48:14.703 --> 00:48:16.824
There's more than just fresh air in the air.

937
00:48:17.525 --> 00:48:18.445
It's quite remarkable.

938
00:48:19.326 --> 00:48:20.406
So, brother, it's great having you.

939
00:48:20.667 --> 00:48:22.088
Listen, give us some closing words.

940
00:48:22.768 --> 00:48:27.471
Give us some closing words why we need people to vote for you.

941
00:48:27.711 --> 00:48:29.152
You're all about common sense.

942
00:48:29.172 --> 00:48:30.273
You're all about hard work.

943
00:48:31.125 --> 00:48:35.627
I know the word that I want to put in when you're done saying why, but go for it.

944
00:48:35.647 --> 00:48:37.988
You got like 10 seconds to drop this bomb.

945
00:48:38.268 --> 00:48:44.250
I'm representative of all of the goodness in our communities, and there's so much good in all of our communities, and people are trying to hide it.

946
00:48:44.270 --> 00:48:52.273
There's shadows right now out there that are trying to grow larger to hide the good, but I will represent that good, and I will be the voice of hundreds of thousands of people.

947
00:48:52.553 --> 00:48:53.033
It's simple.

948
00:48:53.213 --> 00:48:54.253
It's easy to digest.

949
00:48:54.333 --> 00:48:56.134
There's nothing overly intellectual here.

950
00:48:56.454 --> 00:48:58.415
Just good community equals good government.

951
00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:01.301
Number one to that, he's been doing it.

952
00:49:01.481 --> 00:49:02.742
He is on the city council.

953
00:49:02.822 --> 00:49:03.743
This is re-election.

954
00:49:03.943 --> 00:49:04.243
Correct.

955
00:49:04.483 --> 00:49:06.004
Number two is this.

956
00:49:06.685 --> 00:49:10.368
What they're doing, what he's doing, is called America.

957
00:49:11.148 --> 00:49:13.590
Far too many people can't even recognize it when they see it.

958
00:49:14.431 --> 00:49:15.412
This is America.

959
00:49:16.052 --> 00:49:22.157
And this is the kind of a country, this is the kind of a city that causes people to want to be in it and to be a part of it.

960
00:49:22.698 --> 00:49:23.598
Again, Andrew, thank you.

961
00:49:23.618 --> 00:49:24.179
God bless you, man.

962
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:24.399
Thank you.

963
00:49:24.419 --> 00:49:24.759
Love you.

964
00:49:24.819 --> 00:49:25.179
Thank you.

965
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:25.760
I appreciate it.