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Jonathan Metcalf

Marine Corps combat veteran, Estacada City Councilor and 2026 mayoral candidate in Oregon, and founder of Barbarian Creative.

Oct 22, 2026

30:53
Yeah.
30:54
I mean, there's that.
30:55
And then there's also people have, you know, whether they... want to admit it or not, or they want to label it as this, they have wholesome values, you know, and family values, and people are trying to escape to whatever that nostalgic sensation is to them, right? So I would say there's a really large...
31:14
And I'm just speculating from what I see, right? I don't have official data on this, but I would imagine just because of the way my mind works that you would see this trend somewhere that...
31:24
There's this overwhelming sense of like our generation that's like trying to move back more towards that late 90s, early 2000s.
31:37
community feel in person kids playing on the streets underneath the stray light street lights getting kicked off their devices playing sports our community is very very sports heavy you know i love this by the way you know hunting fishing riding dirt bikes rafting paddling i mean we're an outdoor community so it's got all the things and then also we have a boundary and that's what a lot of people forget as well.
32:06
I know that we could get into like the context of like urban growth boundaries and what that is is essentially that you can't build outside of it, right? That's what your city limits are.

9 MINS LATER

41:30
Did you find that success for you meant doing more calling or doing more listening in your interactions with elk? And is that different from how you expect to operate as mayor of Estacada?

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