How California Is Failing Its People w/ Andrew Gruel

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ben opens this week’s show with a viral chart that reveals just how far family formation has collapsed since the 1950s. He unpacks the economic pressures, housing policies, and cultural forces driving this historic shift. Then, Chef Andrew Gruel joins to expose California’s failures in rebuilding after devastating wildfires, how nonprofit funds are being wasted, and the crushing regulations that punish small businesses. From housing mandates to labor lawsuits, Gruel explains why California’s system is broken, and why he still believes local reform can spark change. Instead of relying on algorithms during summer travel, Ben closes with a reminder to dig deeper and share classic 90s and 2000s movies with your kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of The Big Ben Show.
0:40.6	I'm your host, Ben Dominic.
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0:53.6	or large of The Spectator at
0:54.6	the Spectator.com. And today I want to talk to you a little bit about a graphic that went
1:00.0	viral, something that you don't typically see when it's referring to different data about the way
1:05.4	that we're living. But it was shocking, I think, to a lot of people to see something that illustrated
1:10.3	how big of a change has happened in America from the not so distant past.
1:16.6	What's going on there?
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