1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,460 All right, welcome to the Ocean Water Podcast. 2 00:00:05,460 --> 00:00:09,600 This is the voice for indigenous water rights. 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,700 We're going to talk a little bit about that later. 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:15,520 I'm here today with my good friend Bobby Ramsey. 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:20,160 I want to give kind of a professional introduction to him and then also kind of a personal note. 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:25,040 So Bobby was in law enforcement for 30 years. 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,080 The last role that he had was he was the chief of police in the city of Fontana. 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:38,080 What that meant was that he oversaw about 300 law enforcement people that directly reported 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,080 to him. 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:45,680 He also oversaw a budget of about $50 million for the department. 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,000 Bobby lives here in San Clemente. 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,400 He's also a graduate of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,040 So Bobby's learned just a lot of things. 14 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,960 And then on a personal note, Bobby's one of my best friends. 15 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:06,280 There's a crew of us, Brett and Brad and myself and Bobby that surf together all the time 16 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,720 when the waves are good. 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:13,560 Adam Watts is a Thursday Friday guy because he works out 40 hours a week. 18 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,040 But that's kind of our crew of guys that we surf with. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,480 So thanks for being here, bro. 20 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:18,480 Thank you so much. 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:19,480 So stoked to be here. 22 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,880 All right, so to open up, what's your favorite place to eat out here in town, kind of one 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,880 of your go-tos? 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,080 And then what do you order? 25 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:35,440 That's a very, very hard question because I have so many favorites here in town. 26 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:41,180 I'll give a couple, well, I'll give a little list so people can kind of get an idea. 27 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:45,780 So like my favorite go-to place is probably Brick. 28 00:01:45,780 --> 00:01:52,280 So I like to walk over to Brick and then they make an awesome Caesar salad and their meatballs 29 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,240 are pretty on point. 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,360 So Brick is great. 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,760 I love Brick. 32 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,680 That seems like pretty friendly and healthy. 33 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,040 Like if I want to get a little bit dirty, then I will go to like MRK and they have a 34 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,380 fried chicken sandwich that's off-chain. 35 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:14,200 So I like that. 36 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,000 The Brussels sprouts there are really, really good. 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,960 This whole COVID thing's kind of got me down right now because I can't go. 38 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,960 Yeah, everybody's over it. 39 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:28,300 Yeah, you know, you can get takeout, but it's not the same because for me, the experience 40 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,840 and the thing that I love about this town are the people are so amazing. 41 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,360 So to sit down and to, you know, it seems like I have friends at so many good restaurants 42 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:38,360 here in town. 43 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,760 So, but those are some of my, a couple of my favorites. 44 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,880 Well, dude, you did mention that you walked to your house from, so Bobby lives over on 45 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,560 the west side of the 5 freeway. 46 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,400 Everyone knows there's two San Clemente's. 47 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,560 So thanks for coming and visiting us peasants over here on the east side. 48 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,320 This is actually like the Gucci side over here because you guys have, you know, you 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:00,320 guys have it all. 50 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,920 You got trees and all kinds of, you know, greenery and a golf course and stuff over 51 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:04,920 here. 52 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:05,920 Yeah, it's nice, dude. 53 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:06,920 It's nice. 54 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:07,920 It's it right here. 55 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:08,920 All right, dude. 56 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:09,920 So what are you doing these days? 57 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:13,560 What are you, what do you got going on? 58 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,560 I'm out of work right now. 59 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,560 I always tell people I'm an unemployed surfer. 60 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,080 So and not that I'm even a good surfer. 61 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,760 Is that just I'm not working. 62 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,360 And that's kind of a joke. 63 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,160 I retired. 64 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:36,400 God has blessed me more than I could ever even begin to explain. 65 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:44,080 So I am retired, but for to keep myself busy, I work with Ocean Water, which, you know, 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,960 I'm a huge supporter of. 67 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:51,520 And then I also work with another nonprofit that deals with human trafficking. 68 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,320 So the I five Freedom Network. 69 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,280 I was on the Boys and Girls Club for a lot of years and I still am still a board member 70 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,520 for the city of Fontana. 71 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:09,000 So, you know, my life has been service, serving others. 72 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,040 And that's kind of that's where my heart is, honestly. 73 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:33,520 So.