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Spencer Pratt, welcome to the All-In
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podcast.
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>> Thank you for having me.
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>> You had an unbelievable debate
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performance the other night. I have so
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many friends that were texting and
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people obviously were tweeting about it.
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Let's start with that. How are you
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feeling after the debate?
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>> I just wish it had been like 2 hours or
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3 hours because the list of their
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failures that we didn't even get to
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touch on, it's unbelievable. So, it was
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the most fun I've had in years because
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what people don't realize is they're
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pathological liars. So when somebody
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gets to be on the stage with only facts
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and the truth, that's why there's this
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incredible response to because everybody
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that always watches these lying
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politicians, they know they're lying and
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nobody gets to yell, "They're lying."
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But it was very hard to be respectful
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because all the lovely Democrat moms
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that love me, that want to keep
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supporting me, they asked me to please
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stay calm, cool, and collected. So the
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whole time I was doing my best behavior
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hadn't been tasked with that mission, I
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>> A lot of people said they weren't
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expecting such a great performance. Like
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you were so well prepped, so well
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verssed on a lot of the facts on the
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actions you were going to take. How did
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you get ready for the debate? Did you do
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work to get after this? Well, thankfully
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people argue with me all day long in
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every single media hit that I've done
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for months because they don't want me to
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get into the machine. So, every
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interview I do, unlike these
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politicians, it's opposition. It's
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arguing, arguing, arguing. When these,
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you know, Mayor Bass or Councilwoman
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Ramen talk to the media, they can just
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lie and then the media people go, "Oh,
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thank you. Thank you, Mayor Bass. Thank
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you, Councilman." If I say anything, I
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got to have who was there, what they
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were wearing, what they had for
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breakfast. I have to have my information
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so factbased and be bulletproof to beat
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this machine that it's I debate. All I
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do is debate people all day long.
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>> You're held to a higher standard.
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>> Exactly. Challenged all day
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>> and all I live in is facts and the
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truth. And so I called my lawyer who's
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representing me in the case against the
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city and the state and LAWP, one of the
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most famous lawyers in the world. I said
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I said, "Peter, how do you stay so calm
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when you're arguing with these liars?"
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And he said, "Spencer, I always have the
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truth." I was like, "Oo." I was like,
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"Okay, I got that." Good strategy.
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>> Yeah. So that was a great
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>> just message I took into that. Can we
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for people that don't know your story
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and I want to just give you a couple
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minutes to tell it. Let's go back to the
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fires. Where were you and where was your
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family, your wife, your kids? Where were
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you guys when these fires kicked off and
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how did you end up evacuating? And what
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was that evening like?
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>> Well, let's even rewind before the
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fires. It just shows you that our
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emergency situation is not the level it
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needs to be because I didn't even know
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that there was this crazy wind weather
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event. My son had had pneumonia. So, I
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was up every night checking his
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temperature and I'm on my phone a lot.
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I'm a phone person and I didn't even
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know that this was extra dangerous, dry
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weather. So, that just shows you if you
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rewind, we weren't even informed at the
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level you clearly we should have been.
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So, the morning of January 7th, I was
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doing my normal routine, making my
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espresso, about to dance to Taylor
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Swift, Look What You Made Me Do on
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Snapchat, which I've done since the
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Reputation album dropped. And all a
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sudden, I see our nanny running down the
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street. She's comes in with our
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2-year-old at the time. She's like, "The
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workers up the street said there's a
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fire on the hill." Again, this is not
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crazy. Like, Mayor Bass's like, "We
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never knew, but we're well aware fires
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happen. There had just been the Getty
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fire that everyone ran out of their
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houses for."
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>> I grew up in LA.
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>> I've been through the fires. They've
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been going on for 30 years. I mean,
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>> three weeks before all my friends fought
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a fire in Malibu. episode. I was even
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planning on starting my own fire brigade
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like my friends had and I was talking to
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Heidi like we need to get a hose, we
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need to get a truck. And so I was well
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aware of fires no matter what anybody
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says. This isn't a shock. We also know
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about Santa Ana winds. So I run up the
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hill where we hike every day for the
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last nine years. And I see the smoke,
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you know, coming from like the Highlands
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area, which is where Loachman, which we
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now know the fire was really from seven
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days earlier and it had been smoldering
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for a week. And I see the smoke. I
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FaceTime my wife. I was like, "Yeah,
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maybe pack go down to my parents house
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just to be safe." Because my parents
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live in the Palisades. I grew up in the
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Palisades. It's the opposite side of
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where we are. We're at the top of the
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hill next to the state park there by the
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bluffs, next to the ocean. You would
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think that'd be safe. So she loads up
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just diapers, kids clothes, and goes to
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my mom's house. I stay up there, you
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know, facetiming every local, what's
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going on very confident because I assume
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I've been paying I don't have any money
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because all my money goes to taxes. So I
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assume all these tax money is
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firefighters are coming. Got to be going
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somewhere. It's going somewhere. You
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know, I was very naive. And I also live
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next door again in the debate when Mayor
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Bass was like he's lying or that's not
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true. There was only one reservoir that
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was empty. Ma'am, Mayor Bass, I live
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next to the one you don't know existed,
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the Palisades reservoir. 5 million
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gallons next door to my house that the
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fire department would do almost, not
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weekly, but bi-weekly drills. They would
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connect up there. They would make me
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move cars if they needed to to bring the
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hoses. I was always saying to my wife,
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"Well, this is annoying, but gosh, we're
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set. They have a thing where the
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helicopter could dip in there." not the
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San Andreas reservoir that she was
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referencing that she lied about and said
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was for drinking water which obviously
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if you Google LA Times will show you
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when it was made it was for wildfire
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protection that's why it has sistns
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that's why it has helicopter dip sites
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because it's for wildfire so I was very
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confident I have a video of myself
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filming can't wait till the helicopters
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get here not realizing that they drain
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that Janice Quinion the LA DWP drain
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that reservoir in June of 2024. I must
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have been out at Awan when they were
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emptying it or whatever. So I was very
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confident in 2025
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in Pacific Palisades that pays probably
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almost what a quarter of the taxes for
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the whole city. I would guess at this
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point they are not letting the entire
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town burn to the ground. So I didn't
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pack anything. I didn't you know prepare
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for our house to burn down. I call the
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fire department directly because I have
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their number. I say, "Hey, we just see
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one truck up here cuz you know if the
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fire comes around, there's just this one
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place of dead brush and if you put water
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on it, you know, it won't come and hit
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all these houses." And they said, "We
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have no assets available." I'm like,
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"Whoa, that was scary." So then my dad
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comes up, you know, and we got the hose
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and he's hosing a hillside and finally
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I'm like, "Dad, let's get out of here.
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You know, firefighters are probably
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coming." So,
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>> and your wife and kids are gone at this
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point.
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>> They're at my dad's house, which
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>> ends up now the fires come from Tesco
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Canyon and it's crossed over. So, my
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older sister calls like, "What are your
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kids doing there? They better get out of
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there." I'm like, "What is happening?"
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So, now I'm,
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>> you know, what? This is insane. It's
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like a bad movie.
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>> And I never heard any sirens. People
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like real locals will tell you if you
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talk to me, there was no sirens.
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>> Yeah. I've heard this from a lot of
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friends in the past. So that was the if
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I had heard sirens I would have like
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started packing things
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maybe stayed but you don't feel scared
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if you don't hear sirens. There's no
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sheriffs or LAPD or any emergency
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vehicles coming up on the street you
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know everybody get out of the you know
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like in a movie. There was no movie
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stuff and you know so you always think
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everything's like a movie but nothing
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was like a movie. So then I I stay till
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the fire comes down the hill at 5 6:00
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at night. Again, when she was talking
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about this wind, Mayor Bass, I'm
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standing at the top of the palisades. I
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connect to the state park. There was no
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scary winds. It did not go past 40 miles
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per hour and it's now been, you know,
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even CBS did a great debunk post
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yesterday, CBS News, with a journalist
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that was up there that I was correct and
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I wasn't lying in the debate
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>> and there were planes flying.
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>> Yeah. It moved. It was windy, but it
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wasn't.
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>> So, I talked to the chief Bobby Garcia
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at the US Forest Service about what he
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thought went sideways the day of, you
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know, we don't know because the
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afteraction report has been edited
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multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she
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denies, but the LA Times stands by their
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reporting. And he said the initial fire
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wasn't made skinny. You're supposed to
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attack the fire on both sides. And that
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did not happen because, ready for this?
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You know what Mayor Bass brought up?
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like, "Oh, there was no planes, no
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mayor." Bass, you never called in fixed
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air wing support. She never did. You
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know why? She was in Africa. She was in
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Africa.
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>> And you know who was supposed to do it?
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Her deputy mayor, but he was on house
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arrest. So LA city never even called in
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fixed air wing support to drop water.
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Thankfully, LA County Calire showed up
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and the US Forest Service. But that's
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how out of the loop Mayor Bass was on
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this.
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>> So when did you find out your house was
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gone? I watched it burn on my first on
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my security cameras. I watched my son's
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bed burn in the shape of a heart, which
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is the most spiritual crazy like shape
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of a heart coming through the bottom of
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his bed. And then I watched each room
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until
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>> you're watching on the cameras
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>> on my phone in gridlock traffic on like
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where the 405 like where the 10 goes to
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the 405 that one ramp. I'm just stuck in
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traffic watching it. But thank God as
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I'm watching it, I can't reach my dad
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who I'm thinking is dying trying to save
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his house on the bluffs. And I'm calling
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911. I've been trying to get these audio
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calls to just post the level and they
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say they don't have him. But I'm calling
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911 to find out if my dad is okay, if he
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tripped, if So even though I'm watching
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my house burn down, I can't reach my
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dad. So that's taking away the material
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>> connection. I'm like, my dad cared more
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to me than my house burning. So I get on
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911. They're like, "What's the address?"
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Like, "Oh, no emergency personnel can go
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there."
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>> My dad lives on the bluffs. There's like
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>> So you're like losing your mind at that
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point.
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>> There's 12 ways to get to my parents
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house.
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>> So this idea that there's no emergency
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personnel and I'm telling them my dad
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could be burning up. So these 12 people
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that did burn alive, I know firsthand if
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one of their family members or relatives
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or neighbors was calling 911, they were
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told no emergency personnel can go help
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them. So, thank God my dad obviously
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lived and he got out and I was like,
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"Dad, could you get out?" He's like,
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"Yeah, it was I drove all you could
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drive anywhere." So, they didn't even
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brutal. So, in the aftermath, this hits
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you, must have hollowed you, wrecked
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you. How was the next couple of weeks
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kind of trying to put everything back
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together? And at what point were you
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like, man,
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I'm gonna try and figure this out? Like,
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was it an immediate call to action for
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you or was there a period of time there
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where you were trying to put everything
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together? So my wife and I when we were
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very successful in 2009, we spent
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millions of dollars on her pop music
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album with all the most famous music
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producers and writers in the world, but
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it was a it we didn't have the money to
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promote it. It just nobody ever heard
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it, but we did that. The 15-year
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anniversary of that album happened to be
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January 10th. The house burned down
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January 7th. So when I have zero money
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now because everything I ever put into
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was in this house for my sons. All
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everything I own was in this house. I'm
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like, "Oh my god, we have no money.
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We're done." I'm getting emails because
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January 10th is this anniversary date,
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15 years of her album. So I go on TikTok
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Live and I say, "Anybody please, you
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know, I have no money right now. Our
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house just burned down. Please stream my
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wife's album, buy it, and thank God for
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Planet Earth getting behind me. I think
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maybe 12 countries, put it number one.
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Everyone streamed it. It was the first
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time an album from 15 years went to
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number one on Billboard charts. So, that
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was taking me out of the the dark
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>> trauma cuz I'm focusing on right away
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pivoting into like we're going to
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rebuild. And I was naive to think
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streaming music you could get a house
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back, you know? Thank god I did make
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like $150,000, but if this was 2006, we
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would have made millions of dollars. So,
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it took my mind off it. Obviously, my
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wife is trying to get our kids into new
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schools. She's not even connecting to
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this. This is so positive, honey.
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Everyone's supporting you. So, when that
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wears down and I realize, oh my god,
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this is not enough money to build
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anything. We're we were stuck with
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California Fair Plan because we were
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dropped by farmers after paying for
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eight years and we have no money to
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rebuild. And I start questioning like
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why did our house burn down? It
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shouldn't have burned down. And I call
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up my friend who I just was at a
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groomsman in his wedding and his dad had
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just fought Edison in the in the
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campfire
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maybe. I'm pretty sure it was campfire
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at Paradise and he beat Edison. So I
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call him I was like, "Can you represent
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me? I want to sue the city. I want to
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sue the state. I want to sue L.
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>> So you're a fighter. You go after it.
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>> I'm just done. Case case.
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>> Fast forward a little bit. 5,000 homes
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burnt.
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>> 7,000.
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>> 7,000 structures. Yeah. 7,000 homes.
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Whatever it is. Why are you the guy that
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comes out of the fire and says, "I'm
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going to fight and I'm going to do
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something about it and I'm going to
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change it."
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>> Well, thankfully I had this experience
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of already being like a hated media
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personality. When you put yourself out
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there, especially when you're fighting
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machines like Gavin Newsome and his
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social team and they're calling you a
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conspiracy theory and the LA Times is
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calling you conspiracy theory because
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they're saying this is climate change.
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There's nothing that could happen. Well,
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guess what? The day of the debate, the
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judges overruled the appeal by the state
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and the city of LA. Guess why? Because
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of the negligence that caused the palace
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fire. It's moving forward. Discoveries
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open. So this idea that I was this
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conspiracy theory climate change wind
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guy that a normal person would have, oh
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my god, I'm being attacked by the
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governor of California on social media.
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Most people back down. You burn my house
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down. You burn my parents out.
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>> You've been through it. You've been in
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the public. You've been a fighter in
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public. You've got this character that
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allows you to kind of stand up. You you
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you have this capacity and you have a
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bit of a platform going into it.
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>> So it was on Yeah. And once I got the
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truth, all the LFD whistleblowers were
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coming to me telling me that they were
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told to leave the smoldering lockman
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fire on January 1st. They told me that
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Mayor Bass was fighting the battalion
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chief who's editing the all they're
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editing the afteraction report.
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Obstruction of justice. They're telling
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me that the chief fought her for that 17
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million and warned her that Angelinos
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would not be safe. So I'm getting all
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this information so I don't feel like
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just this fringe social media voice.
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Man, I'm not crazy.
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, you fast forward, the campaign's up
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and running now. You have
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>> Well, let's rewind. So, when I see that
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no one's running against her, I reach
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out to Rick Caruso. I call him. I say,
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"Are you going to run after Mayor Bass
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cuz she's going to guaranteed win June
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2nd, 51%. Totally. And I cannot accept
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this as a human being at this point."
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And I call him and he says, "Go after
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Bass." Implying he's not going after
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Bass. And so, game on. No one else
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stepping up. He told you to do it.
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>> Yes. But I was already doing it. But if
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he was going to do it,
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>> obviously I wasn't going to go against
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>> Totally.
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>> Yeah. I was like, "Okay, are you going
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to do it?" And he said, "Go after."
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>> So, how's the campaign going after this
00:16:22
debate this week? And I want to talk
00:16:23
about the campaign ads because the ads
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have almost elevated you to what I am
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hearing from a lot of people is almost
00:16:30
like a historic campaign. The ads are
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cutting through in a way that people
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have never seen before. Are those your
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ads or are they being produced by a
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third party and put out there? Because
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I've heard from some folks, there's a
00:16:42
guy Charlie Curran that might be
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involved or other folks that that might
00:16:46
be separate from your campaign that are
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putting these out there. They're
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breaking through the mold that
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everyone's like, "This isn't a political
00:16:51
campaign. This is almost emotional. It's
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a movement. People want to like get
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behind you and they don't even live in
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LA." So, the ad that blew up crazy is
00:17:00
when I showed Bass's house, Nitia
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Ramen's million-dollar mansion,
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multi-million dollar, and then my
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Airstream. That one broke every ad
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record in history. That is, if it has my
00:17:12
name on it, it's legally mine. Anything
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like these incredible grassroots ads,
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but I don't put my name on it, it's
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legally not mine.
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>> So, there are people out there doing
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these ads, not in your campaign,
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>> correct?
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>> That are creating this movement.
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Correct. Because people feel the common
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sense.
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>> They feel the emote. Totally. It's
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connecting.
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>> I keep trying to tell everyone that, you
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know, they try to put me in a box. I
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didn't run for to be a political party.
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I didn't run to be a politician. I ran
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because I experienced what city
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leadership failure at the ultimate level
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is. That's why I stepped up. That's what
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cuts through. So the media and everyone
00:17:48
wants to jump on and be like, "Oh,
00:17:49
Spencer is our guy." No. I'm the
00:17:51
citizen. I'm the angry taxpayer. You can
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be a Democrat and love me. You can be a
00:17:57
Republican and love me. The only people
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that don't love me are communists and
00:18:00
socialists and I don't want them to love
00:18:01
me.
00:18:02
>> You know, there was a saying from John
00:18:04
Adams 1776 where he said, "Public virtue
00:18:07
cannot exist in a nation without private
00:18:09
virtue," implying that citizenship
00:18:12
involves sacrificing your personal
00:18:13
interest for the greater public good.
00:18:15
And Thomas Jefferson also spoke at
00:18:18
length about taking a turn providing
00:18:22
civic duty. Everyone has a civic
00:18:24
responsibility to support society at
00:18:25
large, but if you're going to go into
00:18:26
government, if you're going to go into
00:18:27
politics, you do a tour of duty. It's
00:18:30
not a career. It was never meant to be a
00:18:32
career. And it's almost like the local,
00:18:34
the state, and the national level.
00:18:36
There's an entire industry of people
00:18:38
that have built a career in politics.
00:18:41
And then you come along, I would think
00:18:42
Donald Trump's come along. He's almost
00:18:45
like another one of these enigmas that
00:18:47
came out that people it resonated with
00:18:49
people that you're actually standing up
00:18:50
and saying I'm the guy who's on the
00:18:52
other side of the problem with all of
00:18:53
this and this is why this needs to
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change. It seems to be creating a
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movement.
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>> Yeah. I feel like I connect more with
00:19:00
Cenitis. This guy that was a farmer and
00:19:04
>> I actually have Citus written down right
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now. I was I was I was going to mention
00:19:07
I'm like oh it's too esoteric.
00:19:08
>> Oh no. That's who I connect to because
00:19:10
I'm like this guy went and fought this
00:19:12
battle. They wanted to give him all the
00:19:14
power and he's like no I want to go back
00:19:15
to my family and I keep initially when I
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ran I would say I want to do my four
00:19:20
years and then go back. I realize I need
00:19:22
to do the eight years. Lock this in. Get
00:19:25
LA the number one city in the world.
00:19:27
Then I can go back to my family. So I'm
00:19:29
prepared to do the eight. That's my tour
00:19:32
of duty. And when people say, "Oh, this
00:19:33
is your house, this airirst." I go, "No,
00:19:35
that's my forward operating base because
00:19:37
this is a battle against good and evil.
00:19:40
They let seven people die in the street
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every day with our billions of tax
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dollars and they say they need no new
00:19:46
beds." It's a drug problem. 90% of these
00:19:49
people are drug addicts. We need to get
00:19:51
these people mandatory treatment. Then
00:19:54
we can get them beds and also they don't
00:19:56
have to have a bed in on the west side
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or next to people's houses or in San
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Pedro and right next to schools. They
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can have beds in facilities that we
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built out. My friend Matt Hes has a
00:20:07
incredible facility in Bentonville. He
00:20:08
built for veterans. I've been talking
00:20:10
with him where he has veterans come
00:20:12
here. They have all these services. It's
00:20:15
beautiful. I'm like, how do we build
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this incredible compound, beautiful
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possibilities? I guess in Italy, some
00:20:22
billionaire did this for addicts. That's
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my vision where we have all this.
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>> Take care of people the right way.
00:20:27
>> Exactly. All the services that you'll
00:20:29
ever need in a beautiful setting, not in
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a cement brick building that looks like
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a prison. An addict when they're getting
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off drugs, they don't want to be in a
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250 foot little cell, no service. We put
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them out in nature. We're spending $25
00:20:43
billion plus. We have enough money where
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it's actually cheaper to build the most
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incredible facility out in nature that
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bring these services that provide for
00:20:52
these addicts. And you separate people.
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Everybody doesn't go in one building
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like they do right now. If you're a
00:20:57
veteran, you go over here. Single
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mothers with their kids, families over
00:21:00
here. Somebody who's just a hardened
00:21:02
criminal drug addict, you go over here
00:21:04
on this side of the hill. And we need to
00:21:07
build this out. And we have the money.
00:21:08
But guess who doesn't make money if I do
00:21:10
that? than NOS's that are stealing all
00:21:13
of our tax money to increase prom,
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giving these people pipes, giving them
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needles, giving them the Narcan, letting
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them OD 14 times a night.
00:21:21
>> Let me just hit on the NGO point. What
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is the corruption there? Help people
00:21:24
understand because a lot of people think
00:21:26
this is like a MAGA talking point. I
00:21:28
hear this thrown about all the time.
00:21:29
People use MAGA as a term to dismiss
00:21:32
when someone says something that is
00:21:34
factually jarring to you. I've noticed
00:21:36
this on like someone comes along and
00:21:38
they point out something and it's like
00:21:40
oh that's a MAGA talking point as a way
00:21:42
of just dismissing it instead of
00:21:43
actually listening to what the person is
00:21:45
saying. Can you explain what goes on
00:21:47
with these NOS's like how do NOS's
00:21:50
create a system that the more we spend
00:21:52
and in the last 10 years city of Los
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Angeles I think has increased homeless
00:21:55
spending by 10x and the homeless
00:21:57
population has doubled and clearly it's
00:21:58
gotten a lot worse. Why is that
00:22:00
relationship there and what's the role
00:22:02
that the NOS's actually play in this?
00:22:04
And I promise not to call you a MAGA guy
00:22:06
for telling me.
00:22:07
>> Well, first off, when you said
00:22:09
homelessness 2x, homelessness 200x, the
00:22:13
count for homelessness, the when Mayor
00:22:15
Bass in the debate was like it's down
00:22:17
17% from like these are the most cooked
00:22:19
numbers. Even the Rand Corporation says
00:22:21
what they're saying is 30% increase. But
00:22:24
they just drive around and they go 1 2 3
00:22:26
4 5 6. They're not going in under these
00:22:29
encampments and bridges and bushes and
00:22:31
unzipping these tents and going into the
00:22:33
sewer. So we don't even know the count.
00:22:35
But let me tell you my first experience
00:22:37
with NOS's after the Palestund
00:22:40
million raised. Every single person I
00:22:42
talked to messaging me, no one's getting
00:22:44
this money, no one's seeing a dollar. I
00:22:46
go to Washington. I ask senators to
00:22:49
investigate this. We open up the case.
00:22:51
Now all a sudden fire aid puts out a
00:22:53
legal letter to defend themselves in
00:22:54
their own legal letter from the law
00:22:56
firm. They say several several of these
00:23:00
NOS's gave directly to fire victims. The
00:23:02
list for the 100 million is 200 plus.
00:23:05
Google sever several it's under 10. So
00:23:08
even in their defense they're telling
00:23:10
you and again I don't believe one of
00:23:12
those 10 gave directly. The people that
00:23:15
they said did like we gave gift cards.
00:23:17
Who' you give gift cards to? I don't you
00:23:20
don't think one fire victim they're
00:23:21
messaging me all day long said hey I got
00:23:23
a $500 gift card. So that's when I
00:23:25
learned firsthand that these NGOs's will
00:23:28
take and right in your face a hundred
00:23:30
million and just steal it. So, back to
00:23:32
it being a maggot thing. The person who
00:23:34
really exposed the details to me is this
00:23:36
incredible Democrat mom, Samantha from
00:23:40
the Integrity Project. She made her own
00:23:43
little charity nonprofit cuz she's now
00:23:46
tapped out of her own money in her
00:23:48
neighborhood in Westwood. Her and her
00:23:49
husband, they're both lawyers. And this
00:23:52
homeless housing went up on their block.
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It was senior citizens. They kic the
00:23:56
senior citizens out and it's wineart.
00:23:59
They I their audit is late. Let's just
00:24:02
put it that way. They're making hundreds
00:24:04
of millions of dollars. This is the best
00:24:05
part. So, the building goes on the
00:24:07
market for $11 million.
00:24:10
6 days later, the city with our tax
00:24:13
money gives Weineart 29 million, $28
00:24:16
million to buy this same building that
00:24:18
was $11 million. There's nobody to this
00:24:21
day, years later, being housed in this.
00:24:24
Weart has developers paying $750 a
00:24:27
square foot. When I've talked to
00:24:29
developers and contractors, this should
00:24:30
be $250 a square foot. So, they make
00:24:33
this money with these developer
00:24:34
kickbacks. They have all these shell
00:24:36
companies that, oh, this is our
00:24:37
developer has nothing to do. Ready for
00:24:39
one of my favorite parts with that $30
00:24:41
million. Who do you think owns that
00:24:43
building in Westwood? Not the taxpayers.
00:24:46
Wineart. So, they This is the Shelby
00:24:49
house. I just went to San Pedro, right
00:24:52
across the street from a school 600 feet
00:24:54
away, right across this beautiful little
00:24:56
nice with old people in this community.
00:24:58
They're kicking senior citizens out of
00:25:00
one in San Pedro and they're going to
00:25:01
put hardened criminals. Same thing. This
00:25:04
one's like $80 million. So what they do
00:25:06
is they take our tax money, they take
00:25:08
grants, they take fake federal and state
00:25:11
grants, and they they cook up a little
00:25:13
plan. Here's this. We're going to house
00:25:16
80 people. Yet they don't tell us that
00:25:19
that's $700,000 a person. But everyone's
00:25:22
making these people NGOs's get
00:25:24
million-dollar salaries. The people
00:25:26
below them get 500. Nobody's actually
00:25:29
helping anyone cuz ready for this.
00:25:31
There's no requirement to house people.
00:25:33
And then in the state of California,
00:25:34
this is the craziest part with the home
00:25:36
key rules. The state won't give the city
00:25:39
a lot of the money if you require the
00:25:41
people to be off of drugs. If you say
00:25:43
you can't do drugs in this housing, oh
00:25:46
well then you can't get access to this
00:25:47
money.
00:25:48
>> That's unbelievable. And just to be
00:25:50
clear, what an NGO is legally, it's a
00:25:52
501c3 organization. Anyone can set one
00:25:55
up. Anyone can file the IRS form, create
00:25:57
this entity. Once you've created the
00:25:59
entity, you've legally created it.
00:26:01
You've got an IRS form. Cost a couple
00:26:03
hundred bucks to do it. Now,
00:26:04
theoretically, someone who might want to
00:26:06
be, I don't know, a crony or a thief, a
00:26:09
criminal, as you might call them,
00:26:10
whatever you want to call them, they can
00:26:12
now use this entity that they've created
00:26:15
to basically get access to all this
00:26:17
money from governments that aren't
00:26:19
necessarily keeping a good eye on the
00:26:22
money. How do the politicians that are
00:26:23
allowing it to happen or the bureaucrats
00:26:25
in the government that are allowing that
00:26:27
to happen, how do they benefit? Because
00:26:28
why would they do this? Why would they
00:26:30
let this money flow out to these NOS's
00:26:32
in a way that's clearly not in the
00:26:33
taxpayers's best interest?
00:26:35
>> Well, you can go the conspiracy route or
00:26:37
you can just go look at all these things
00:26:40
we're doing. You So, there's two ways to
00:26:42
look at it. They get to say, "Oh, we
00:26:45
have this housing and this services."
00:26:47
These people just bring them this easy
00:26:49
out like they're trying to fix something
00:26:51
while still looking good like, "Oh,
00:26:54
that's this NGO. Oh, they oh, criminal.
00:26:57
They got caught." So then you go
00:27:00
conspiracy and you could say, well, are
00:27:02
these people helping campaigns? Are they
00:27:04
putting do they have packs? So there's
00:27:06
money going are they helping? So that's
00:27:07
more conspira that's fringe, but in just
00:27:09
the sense it's an easy way out. Oh,
00:27:11
we're we're solving this. We're working
00:27:13
on this. Two ways you can look at it. I
00:27:16
think they're all criminals. Thankfully,
00:27:17
I've talked to the Justice Department
00:27:19
sources and city officials are going to
00:27:23
go down.
00:27:24
>> They are complicit. Here's the here's
00:27:26
the hard part about catching these
00:27:28
people. They're literally taking money
00:27:30
with poker chips, goods and services.
00:27:33
Criminals are smart now. They're not
00:27:34
just saying, "Zell me the money, right?"
00:27:37
>> But from my sources, we are going to see
00:27:40
actual city officials go down. Not quick
00:27:43
enough because they got to frame these
00:27:45
people up. But again, how does Spencer
00:27:47
stop this when he's mayor? I've met with
00:27:49
the criminal investigation team at the
00:27:51
IRS six times. First week in office, you
00:27:54
bring all of them in. We audit every
00:27:56
NGO, every document that hasn't been
00:27:58
shredded. Now, some people insiders at
00:28:00
city hall have told me, you know,
00:28:02
they're shredding these documents. I
00:28:03
have more faith in the my criminal
00:28:05
investigation team. They'll be able to
00:28:06
figure out without the documents, even
00:28:08
if they're shredded. But that's what's
00:28:09
happening. They're shredding the
00:28:10
documents.
00:28:11
>> So, let me ask Karen Bass. A lot of
00:28:14
people you would assume would feel like
00:28:15
she failed the city with the fire. Why
00:28:18
is she still able to stay in office? And
00:28:21
why is she in the lead in the polls for
00:28:22
running for mayor? Why are people still
00:28:24
voting for her?
00:28:25
>> She's the lowest in the history of the
00:28:27
polls of an incumbent. So she has 20%.
00:28:29
So 80% of LA do not believe that. So the
00:28:34
polls are confusing. She's the worst
00:28:36
record in the history of the city. So
00:28:37
80% of people do not think she's doing a
00:28:40
good job. 20% is crazy bad. That's why
00:28:43
Councilwoman Ramen jumped in the race
00:28:45
one hour before the closing because she
00:28:46
saw I was going to beat Mayor Bass and
00:28:48
her DSA team. For people that don't
00:28:50
know, Democratic Socialist America that
00:28:53
she co-governs with as a as a city
00:28:55
council member, they were like, "Get in.
00:28:57
You can be the fake Democrat and Spencer
00:29:00
will take out Bass and then you'll get
00:29:02
in." She endorsed Mayor Bass two weeks
00:29:05
before she jumped into the race. They
00:29:06
worked together on all these things.
00:29:08
Mayor Bass door knocked to get
00:29:11
Councilwoman Ramen, who was about to
00:29:12
lose her counciloman seat. She door
00:29:15
knocked with her to get her in and
00:29:16
backed her. though. Nobody backs Mayor
00:29:18
Bass and any of the media that's trapped
00:29:21
in this these lies, they are on. It's
00:29:24
not Mayor Bass's fault. It was high
00:29:27
winds. It's an unprecedented disaster.
00:29:30
It's not true. It's precedent. We had
00:29:32
the Bair fire. Mayor Bass was alive for
00:29:34
We had the Mandaville Canyon fire Mayor
00:29:36
Bass was alive for. Not unprecedented.
00:29:39
So, the polls mean nothing. Everyone
00:29:42
that's voting for me is not taking a
00:29:44
spam call. First off, they're not
00:29:46
talking to a stranger on the street cuz
00:29:48
they already feel so unsafe. They're not
00:29:50
letting a rando approach them. Period.
00:29:52
So,
00:29:53
>> you know, it's interesting. Both
00:29:54
candidates, Ramen and Bass
00:29:58
are I I don't know if Bass is
00:29:59
selfdeclared socialist, but obviously
00:30:02
she spent time with Castro's
00:30:04
organization in Cuba. She
00:30:06
>> So, she's a Vener Ramos brigade member.
00:30:09
She spent 20 times going to Cuba. So
00:30:11
when they say Spencer doesn't have any
00:30:13
experience, look, he was a reality star
00:30:15
in Swing. No, I wasn't training with
00:30:17
terrorists that would later bomb the
00:30:18
capital. That's who Mayor Bass is, who
00:30:21
only denounced anything communist when
00:30:24
they were trying to make her the vice
00:30:25
president.
00:30:26
>> But my point is, we have like a
00:30:27
self-declared socialist mayor in Seattle
00:30:29
and now in New York. What is going on in
00:30:32
cities that people are standing up and
00:30:34
raising their hand or filing a ballot
00:30:36
saying, "I want a socialist to be my
00:30:38
mayor." And now we're seeing this kind
00:30:40
of emerge on a national basis. I've
00:30:42
talked about this a lot. I got my own
00:30:43
perspective on it. But like what do you
00:30:45
think is going on with the people on the
00:30:47
street as you meet with people, as you
00:30:48
get to talk to them? Why do they want
00:30:50
that persona? Why do they want that
00:30:52
policy, the socialist policy?
00:30:54
>> I don't even think they're aware of it.
00:30:56
I think we have such tribal politics
00:30:58
that that people that are against me
00:31:00
just think, "Oh, he's not with us. It's
00:31:03
so gang gang." that they don't even
00:31:06
realize who they're with and what these
00:31:08
people represent. They just think, "Oh,
00:31:09
it's not that group." And that's the
00:31:12
problem when you nationalize politics.
00:31:14
We should be a city. We should be all
00:31:17
together making sure the streets are
00:31:19
safe. The lights are on. There's no
00:31:21
potholes. The sidewalks are there. It's
00:31:24
that basic. But we've gotten to this
00:31:26
nationalized politics where they don't
00:31:28
even care who. They just think, "Oh,
00:31:30
they're not that person. They're not
00:31:31
connected to that party." So, also they
00:31:34
tell these people, "We're going to make
00:31:35
things more affordable. We're going to
00:31:37
give you free money." This idea that
00:31:39
that works. I had this guy Rafa, he
00:31:41
manages a a bunch of the Dodgers. He's
00:31:44
Venezuela. And he came up to me at an
00:31:46
event recently. He's like, I felt like I
00:31:47
was in a scene in Braveheart. It was so
00:31:49
intense. It's like William Wallace in my
00:31:50
face. Big Venezuela dude. And he's like,
00:31:52
"I fled Venezuela because of socialism.
00:31:54
And I fought everything for my family
00:31:56
and I will not let my kids have this
00:31:59
socialism in LA. I know what h" And I
00:32:01
was like, "I know, bro. we're good.
00:32:03
Like, join the team. You're with me.
00:32:04
Let's go door knock. But people who know
00:32:07
what these this idea of giving you
00:32:09
money, giving it does not work. It's
00:32:12
this fake lie. What people forget is
00:32:15
they can't lower the cost of goods. The
00:32:17
only thing you can do to make things
00:32:18
more affordable as mayor, which I will
00:32:20
be able to do, is put more money in
00:32:22
people's pockets. We need to put more
00:32:24
revenue in the city. We're over here.
00:32:25
They're always asking me, "How are you
00:32:27
going to balance this budget, Spencer?
00:32:28
There's going to be no money to do us."
00:32:30
We're the We should be the number one
00:32:31
city in the world. We should have money
00:32:33
shooting out of ATMs. We're Los Angeles.
00:32:36
There will be plenty of money when we
00:32:37
let the systems work. When we let
00:32:39
business work. How can you let business
00:32:41
work if you have drug addicts going
00:32:42
number two and number one in front of
00:32:45
every cafe? We lost over a 100
00:32:47
restaurants in LA. Not cuz they weren't
00:32:48
good food, because you have drug addicts
00:32:51
scaring people to go out. That's why
00:32:52
they're Uber Eatsing. They're doing door
00:32:55
dash. I talked to a mom the other day
00:32:57
who works in downtown as a lawyer. I
00:32:59
know her because of her friend, her kids
00:33:01
are my friend's kids. She said,
00:33:02
"Spencer, we're not allowed to leave the
00:33:05
office building. Our food has to be
00:33:07
delivered in." That's why restaurants
00:33:09
are closing around downtown LA because
00:33:11
the workers that are still trying to
00:33:13
work can't go outside of their buildings
00:33:14
because it's unsafe. The number one
00:33:16
thing in a functioning city that we
00:33:19
don't have is safety. If you don't have
00:33:21
a safe city, and they'll tell you, Mayor
00:33:23
Bass will tell you, Councilwoman Ramen,
00:33:25
crime's down. They'll she'll say the
00:33:27
murder rate's down. Well, that's a
00:33:29
national trend. Please don't try to take
00:33:30
credit for that. But crime's down
00:33:32
because people have given up calling
00:33:33
911. You I talked to a guy today at
00:33:36
lunch. He said he watched a lady the
00:33:39
other day on Wilshire Boulevard right in
00:33:41
front of the federal building, the FBI
00:33:42
building. This nice Latino lady get
00:33:45
punched in the chest by a crazy drug
00:33:47
addict. He pulled over his car, tried to
00:33:49
like be a Batman hero, jumped out. He's
00:33:51
like, "Stop that." The ladies were so
00:33:53
used to like, "Thank you." They get on
00:33:54
the bus and go. He watches this guy get
00:33:56
a PVC pipe, start banging on cars. He
00:34:00
calls 911 and he's like, they just act
00:34:02
like it's no big deal. It's just normal
00:34:04
LA. Finally, he starts ripping a bike
00:34:06
off of the like off of a bus. He calls
00:34:09
911. He's like, he's ripping the bike.
00:34:11
No big deal. Now, the guy's coming at
00:34:13
him. He says he's coming after me and
00:34:15
they're like, "Okay, somebody's coming.
00:34:18
Police come." He's like, "A rest this
00:34:19
guy." Like, well, nobody's here and
00:34:21
there's no witnesses. He's like, "Arest
00:34:23
this guy." He's arguing with the cops.
00:34:24
Every cop I talk to wants to enforce a
00:34:27
law, but they can't because the powers
00:34:29
behind them. They're not taking any of
00:34:32
these citations ready cuz it's
00:34:34
culturally insensitive to sight and
00:34:36
ticket someone without an address.
00:34:38
That's why the dogs are being abused,
00:34:40
tortured, mutilated, raped on the side
00:34:42
of streets. People are filming this.
00:34:44
They know what's happening. But even uh
00:34:46
Stacy Danes or whatever name Stacy Danes
00:34:49
was head of the animal control or
00:34:51
whatever animal services, she said, "Oh,
00:34:53
we can't." The city mayor's office said,
00:34:55
"Culturally insensitive, don't. We can't
00:34:57
go after people without addresses."
00:34:58
>> Dude, that's unbelievable. Makes me so
00:35:00
angry.
00:35:01
>> I That's the problem. They keep on
00:35:02
calling me the angry white guy. They
00:35:05
don't get every race, every gender,
00:35:07
however you identify. If you live in LA
00:35:09
and you're paying your taxes, you are
00:35:11
angry.
00:35:11
>> But most people don't see it is the
00:35:13
other thing. So like Skid Row, most
00:35:14
people aren't there all the time. We
00:35:16
host our all-in summit in downtown LA.
00:35:18
It's our last year. We're doing it in
00:35:19
September. It's a really big event, but
00:35:21
we're not coming back. So most people I
00:35:23
know like don't get down there. We have
00:35:24
people from all over the world, 60
00:35:25
countries come to our event. They
00:35:26
they're like, "What the hell is this
00:35:28
place? We can't be down here." When you
00:35:30
see it, you're like, "What?" Well,
00:35:32
here's the problem. We keep talking
00:35:33
about Skid Row in LA. This is all over
00:35:36
the valley. This is in Westwood. This is
00:35:38
in Hollywood. This is everywhere. before
00:35:41
my house burned down in front of
00:35:42
Palisades Elementary School across the
00:35:44
street, my son's Methodist preschool
00:35:46
where I went to preschool, there was a
00:35:48
lady cleaning her private parts in front
00:35:50
of kids almost every morning at 7:45
00:35:53
a.m. We'd call LAPD. They'd come and
00:35:55
they go, "Ma'am, no more." She'd go walk
00:35:58
down the street and she'd go number two
00:36:00
in front of Joe's Barber Shop. So, it
00:36:02
was coming to the Palisades. It's coming
00:36:03
everywhere. This is not a When I went to
00:36:06
USC, it was Skid Row. So we we have this
00:36:08
issue in LA in in San Francisco where I
00:36:10
live and Mayor Lur came in. I don't know
00:36:12
if you followed what he's done. He's an
00:36:13
unbelievable guy. Old friend of mine and
00:36:16
done an incredible job. He arrests
00:36:18
people. He puts them in jail. The crime
00:36:20
has stopped. Car breakins are down 87%
00:36:23
in the city. 87%. You no longer have
00:36:25
hordes of people walking into stores
00:36:27
stealing everything, walking out. As
00:36:28
soon as you just enforce the law that's
00:36:30
already in place, boom, you're 90% of
00:36:32
the way there. Everything kind of It
00:36:34
doesn't It doesn't take a miracle,
00:36:36
>> you know? It just takes a will and and a
00:36:38
and someone who can actually manage and
00:36:40
organize to get the stuff done. Give
00:36:41
them the votes. Get them there.
00:36:42
>> So, I met with Victor Coleman who owns
00:36:44
most of these studios, a lot of real
00:36:46
estate in LA, and he talked to me about
00:36:48
Mayor Lur in San Francisco. He said,
00:36:50
"Spencer, when they tell you you have no
00:36:51
experience, you just tell him, Mayor Lur
00:36:54
didn't have any experience running a
00:36:55
city." What he did, he's came in and
00:36:56
forced the law. He said, "My portfolio
00:36:58
in San Francisco is booming again. My
00:37:00
portfolio in Los Angeles, it's not doing
00:37:03
as well, let's say." And he said, "You
00:37:05
just need to force the laws that exist."
00:37:07
And a lot of people always say this to
00:37:08
me. They go, "What are you going to do
00:37:10
with all these people?" A great quote, a
00:37:12
famous police chief told me, "Once you
00:37:15
start putting handcuffs on people, watch
00:37:16
how many people leave."
00:37:18
>> 100%.
00:37:19
>> This idea that everyone, if you let
00:37:21
everyone do drugs and do whatever they
00:37:23
want and let the criminals make the
00:37:25
outside asylum and with no guards, if
00:37:28
you let them do that, they're going to
00:37:29
do that. But if you So when I'm mayor,
00:37:31
my plan is first three weeks, signs up
00:37:34
across the city, no more nakedness, no
00:37:38
more drug use, no more robbing, no
00:37:40
worse.
00:37:40
>> No more burning dogs in the street,
00:37:42
>> no more dog abuse. Very on every sign,
00:37:45
on every bird. So that and we're going
00:37:47
to go around. We're going to warn
00:37:48
everybody, hey, got three more weeks of
00:37:50
this. Like clock's ticking. Just keep
00:37:52
telling everyone just to so the people
00:37:54
that are aware, they're like, oh wow,
00:37:56
there's a new mayor in town. They may
00:37:58
start leaving. And then when the three
00:37:59
weeks or maybe we'll even do two weeks,
00:38:01
maybe people will want it faster. And
00:38:03
then once we start enforcing the laws,
00:38:05
boom, streets will be back. You know who
00:38:07
else? I'm gonna bring in the CDC because
00:38:10
there's medieval diseases in these
00:38:13
encampments. They're not swabbing these
00:38:15
encampments. They're not swabbing the
00:38:16
streets. People are just living in feces
00:38:18
and drug use and dogs burning and
00:38:21
bodies. We need these streets
00:38:24
cleaned.
00:38:24
>> Yeah.
00:38:26
What about the building of the team to
00:38:28
execute? You're looking to sit in this
00:38:30
executive role. Have you ever had a role
00:38:32
where you've overseen tens of thousands
00:38:33
of employees before? I'm assuming not.
00:38:36
I've read your bio, but like how do you
00:38:38
execute? Who do you bring in under you
00:38:40
that actually knows how to manage the
00:38:43
system, manage the people, deliver the
00:38:45
message? you can form strategy and set
00:38:47
objectives and so on, but walk us
00:38:49
through how you're actually going to
00:38:51
deliver as mayor operationally when you
00:38:54
step in on day one.
00:38:55
>> So, the great news about running for
00:38:57
mayor of LA is everyone wants to save
00:39:00
LA. Everyone wants LA to be number one.
00:39:03
the meetings I'm taking every week now,
00:39:06
the lunches, the brunches, the dinners
00:39:08
of beyond successful people that are
00:39:11
willing to work for a dollar a year,
00:39:12
pause their companies to come in. People
00:39:15
are telling me just with algorithms
00:39:17
alone, they have we can 100x the
00:39:21
bureaucracy of the city and building and
00:39:23
development. What I'm going to do,
00:39:25
there's so many cranes in the city
00:39:26
because we're going to be rebuilding the
00:39:29
amount of money. Just last week, I
00:39:32
probably met with 10 billionaires that
00:39:33
are ready to come in and build LA up to
00:39:36
be the number one city in the world. So,
00:39:38
when they say, "Oh, you have no
00:39:39
experience." Well, what I do have is
00:39:41
humility. I'm humble. I know I have
00:39:43
never ran the second largest city. I
00:39:44
know smart people who have done it. We
00:39:47
need to be bringing in the CEOs that
00:39:49
have ran the biggest corporations in the
00:39:50
world to come in and work with, you
00:39:53
know, because they'll tell you, "No, you
00:39:54
need to know the city at a certain
00:39:56
level." You bring those people in, but
00:39:58
the people that execute the
00:40:00
multibillion, like they say, they say,
00:40:02
"Oh my gosh, Spencer, this is a $15
00:40:04
billion budget." Well, there's people
00:40:06
I'm meeting with that have $50 billion
00:40:08
budgets that are going up that go up.
00:40:11
So, these people exist that I will
00:40:14
surround myself with. I already have a
00:40:15
deputy mayor that I can't say because of
00:40:17
fear of retaliation in the city of LA
00:40:20
that will make sure the most important
00:40:21
thing we do because all this talk
00:40:23
doesn't work if you don't enforce the
00:40:24
law. So, I have a deputy mayor that will
00:40:27
help me enforce the law, and that's the
00:40:29
priority. When we enforce the law, now
00:40:30
all these creative ideas on execution
00:40:34
work, but if you don't enforce the law,
00:40:36
Mayor Bass could bring in all the same
00:40:37
people I'm meeting with, but she won't
00:40:39
enforce the law. Councilwoman Ramen can
00:40:41
bring in all the same people that I'm
00:40:42
meeting with. It won't work if you don't
00:40:44
enforce the law. No one's putting money
00:40:45
into the city of LA until they know
00:40:47
there's a mayor that's going to make
00:40:48
sure the streets are safe for all the
00:40:50
moms, the kids, the dads, everyone that
00:40:53
just wants to be a normal human being
00:40:55
that just pays their taxes, goes to the
00:40:57
park, go to dinner. So until you do that
00:40:59
part, all this who's going to be this is
00:41:02
irrelevant. But the list of people is So
00:41:05
again,
00:41:06
>> for sure cuz I hear I hear it from a lot
00:41:07
of executives I'm friends with, they're
00:41:09
like, man, this message resonates.
00:41:11
People want to get involved. They want
00:41:12
to step up. Like I said, people not from
00:41:14
LA want to step up. Outside of keeping
00:41:16
the streets safe, outside of building a
00:41:19
reasonable fire suppression
00:41:21
infrastructure, getting back to basics.
00:41:23
What about education? We have young
00:41:25
kids. LA USD spends $23,000 per student.
00:41:30
$101,000 average teacher salary. It's
00:41:32
number one in the country. But LA USD as
00:41:35
a school district ranks 170th in the
00:41:38
state of California. and only 46% of
00:41:41
students are meeting or exceeding
00:41:42
standards in English, 37% in math. What
00:41:45
is there to do about education in the
00:41:47
city to give all of the next generation
00:41:49
the opportunity to progress, to realize
00:41:51
their potential, and to not fall into
00:41:54
the traps of socialism and communism
00:41:56
because they're despondent and they
00:41:57
don't have opportunity in front of them.
00:41:58
How do we get that generation to
00:42:00
succeed? Well, for my own experience
00:42:02
with my son who was in LA USD and it was
00:42:05
even a charter with PAL. This is
00:42:07
supposed to be the best version at all
00:42:09
times. Every parent is just trying to
00:42:11
fund raise fundra for books for learning
00:42:14
for teach for an extra teacher and it's
00:42:16
like what is going on? If I'm going to
00:42:18
spend this much money, I'm going to put
00:42:20
my kid in a private school. How would
00:42:21
these schools So, first off, we got to
00:42:23
back to auditing. The biggest issue I've
00:42:26
learned with the city of LA, whether
00:42:28
it's the school systems, everyone needs
00:42:30
to be audited. Where is all this money
00:42:32
going to first off at the fire
00:42:34
department, the police department, the
00:42:36
waste of this taxpayer money? So, let's
00:42:39
figure first out where the money is
00:42:41
going because if it's cost this much for
00:42:43
each student, yet as a dad, I'm trying
00:42:44
to always donate, have fundraisers. We
00:42:47
got to we got to track the money. And
00:42:48
that's another thing that when we talk
00:42:50
about what's Mayor Pratt, it's
00:42:51
accountability and transparency. Every
00:42:54
dollar of tax money in the city of LA
00:42:57
needs to be on very easy cliffnotes
00:43:01
level dashboards so we can track and get
00:43:03
results of where all of our tax money is
00:43:05
going. But back to how we make kids know
00:43:08
socialism and communism doesn't work is
00:43:10
we give their parents hope again and we
00:43:13
make the parents demand. I have kids I
00:43:15
have parents right now that are pulling
00:43:16
their kids out of a school, public
00:43:18
school that my kids are in right now
00:43:19
because of that messaging. There's no
00:43:21
more pledge of allegiance. There's no
00:43:23
more America's, you know, good. We just
00:43:26
need to go back to having pride in being
00:43:29
Americans. We've gotten so far off of
00:43:31
just America's awesome because
00:43:33
everyone's fighting with political and
00:43:35
it's like, oh, American flag is like, I
00:43:37
can't put that up. Like, we need to get
00:43:39
back to the basics of where our
00:43:41
grandparents were when they were
00:43:42
fighting World War II and had pride in
00:43:45
being Americans. But to me, it's the
00:43:48
money. Where's the money going? Like if
00:43:51
you want things to be better, we got to
00:43:53
stop wasting money. The fire stations
00:43:55
that I meet with, they're charging
00:43:56
$250,000 for doors, $50,000 for
00:43:59
refrigerators. So I think tracking money
00:44:02
is the source of all of this. I have a
00:44:05
buddy, his house burnt down,
00:44:06
unfortunately as well. So I was like,
00:44:08
I'm going to meet with Spencer Pratt.
00:44:09
Any questions? He said, what about this
00:44:11
stupid ass $3 billion expansion of the
00:44:14
convention center? My favorite part
00:44:15
about the convention center is like a
00:44:17
month ago, less than a month ago, it's
00:44:18
just a dead body in the bushes in front
00:44:20
of the convention center. So that the
00:44:22
idea that we're going to put billions of
00:44:24
dollars into something that has dead
00:44:26
bodies in the bushes in front. Why
00:44:29
aren't we putting the billions of
00:44:30
dollars in getting the dead bodies from
00:44:32
stopping to be on the streets every day?
00:44:34
But I don't want to say, initially I was
00:44:36
like, stop that. But now I'm in this
00:44:38
like LA's got to be the number one city
00:44:40
in the world. So maybe we don't need to
00:44:42
use LA money, but let's do private
00:44:44
partnership. Who's going to come in with
00:44:46
money to do something right now we can't
00:44:48
afford? But I don't want to be the one
00:44:50
now that's like, we don't want to stop
00:44:52
building. I actually like the idea of
00:44:54
having a convention center cuz the LA
00:44:56
that I'm about to build when I destroy
00:44:58
40 blocks of drugged out zombies that
00:45:01
are taking all these empty buildings. So
00:45:03
much business and commerce is going to
00:45:04
come in. We're probably going to need
00:45:06
that convention center. Currently, there
00:45:08
makes no sense with the current
00:45:09
administration. Mayor Bass is elected is
00:45:12
the dumbest thing you ever heard. If
00:45:13
Councilwoman Ramen's elect is the
00:45:14
dumbest thing, Mayor Pratt goes in and
00:45:17
we're putting billions of dollars of
00:45:19
money back in LA. Restaurants are back.
00:45:22
We're probably going to need that
00:45:22
convention center. So, initially when I
00:45:25
was first fighting this fight, my
00:45:27
message was let's get back to LA I grew
00:45:29
up in. I was like started taking on this
00:45:31
meeting with billionaires ready to give
00:45:32
me $500 million. I met with a
00:45:34
billionaire anonymous billionaire that
00:45:37
agreed to be the funar. He said, "My
00:45:40
family gave $300 million to New York for
00:45:42
a project. We'll give you $500 million
00:45:45
to bring fund back to Los Angeles." I
00:45:47
was like, "Can I tell people about you?"
00:45:49
He's like, "No, no, I'll be the
00:45:50
anonymous." This person is for real. So
00:45:53
to me, when I hear there's $2 billion,
00:45:55
if I make that convention center a
00:45:56
little bit more fun, I have a $500
00:45:58
million now, then we can make it the fun
00:46:01
convention center, and I just I just cut
00:46:02
that cost in half. So yes,
00:46:07
right now it makes no sense. Have you
00:46:08
met with union leaders?
00:46:09
>> No, they all they all back Mayor Bass.
00:46:11
So, they're all going to love me because
00:46:14
everyone's going to have more revenue.
00:46:15
Everyone's going to have jobs. LA's
00:46:16
going to So, when they're like, "You're
00:46:18
not going to win because you don't have
00:46:19
the unions. I don't need the unions to
00:46:21
win. I have the moms. I have the animal
00:46:24
lovers. That's more than any union.
00:46:26
That's you can't get that endorsement.
00:46:29
Moms across the city of LA. Not moms
00:46:32
just in the valley. Not moms just in San
00:46:34
Pedro. Not moms in South Central. Not
00:46:36
moms in East LA. Not moms in boil
00:46:38
heights, not moms in Eagle. Everywhere
00:46:40
moms don't feel safe. The city is
00:46:42
unsafe. No matter what how much crime
00:46:45
stats, the feeling and unsafe is
00:46:47
resonating. And my message of I will be
00:46:50
the guy that's fighting to get safety
00:46:52
back is going to get me elected. And I
00:46:54
keep telling people I'm going to win on
00:46:55
June 2nd with 51% of the vote. November
00:46:58
is their fighting for November. I win
00:47:01
June 2nd. But the unions obviously
00:47:04
people think it's this big issue when
00:47:07
you won't when your city is amazing.
00:47:09
>> How are you going to work with them? So
00:47:10
you win on June 2nd. All the union
00:47:13
leaders call up your deputy mayor say,
00:47:15
"I want a meeting with Mayor Pratt."
00:47:17
They come into your office one at a
00:47:18
time. They sit down across a table from
00:47:21
you. What's the message?
00:47:22
>> The message is we're going to work with
00:47:23
you to make sure you get these benefits
00:47:25
that you want, but they need to make
00:47:26
sense right now at our trajectory. We're
00:47:29
gonna get to where what you need to feel
00:47:32
comfortable in your city role is great,
00:47:34
but there may be a minute here where we
00:47:35
got to tighten things up. I'm gonna find
00:47:38
all these homeless NGO billions that are
00:47:40
being laundered, but we need to get real
00:47:42
accounting. Right now, we don't have
00:47:44
outside budget advocates that right, we
00:47:47
don't look if we're increasing a union
00:47:49
10% salary even though everybody else in
00:47:52
the private industry isn't getting
00:47:53
increased. We need to have a balance. We
00:47:55
need it makes sense for all evangelists.
00:47:58
can't have everything just for this
00:47:59
small percentage because they're cooking
00:48:01
votes. But don't get me wrong, unions,
00:48:03
I'm going to make so much money in this
00:48:05
city that we're going to have plenty of
00:48:06
money that you're paid what you're
00:48:08
supposed to be paid. Law enforcement is
00:48:10
going to get paid what they're supposed
00:48:11
to get paid. We cannot lose law
00:48:12
enforcement because they're getting paid
00:48:13
more in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach,
00:48:15
Norwich County. So, we can't risk lose.
00:48:18
We're already losing too many law
00:48:20
enforcement. We're losing too many
00:48:21
firefighters. So, we cannot make it
00:48:23
where they don't want to work. And a lot
00:48:25
of the issues where people see these
00:48:26
salaries that are so crazy, it's
00:48:28
overtime. But if you don't get the
00:48:30
hiring up to speed, then you have to pay
00:48:33
this crazy these salaries in overtime.
00:48:35
And even that, these people that do get
00:48:37
paid, these crazy things you read on
00:48:39
Google, those top little it's a niche
00:48:41
amount of people and they've sacrificed
00:48:43
their family. They're working 32 days.
00:48:45
These people are crazy. So they've given
00:48:48
everything they have to be that
00:48:50
firefighter or whatever. for that. So
00:48:52
again,
00:48:53
>> the unions aren't your enemy. You're
00:48:55
going to find a path to working with
00:48:56
them. Even though they're not here for
00:48:57
you right now, they're worth Mayor Bass.
00:48:59
You're there for them.
00:49:00
>> They're still hardworking people. I meet
00:49:01
with I've gone almost I'm going to a lot
00:49:03
of fire stations. LFD union for sure
00:49:07
endorses me. They just are scared to do
00:49:09
it publicly for retaliation. LAPD for
00:49:13
sure, the members all endorse me. I
00:49:16
promise you. the interaction, who's
00:49:18
messaging me, who's calling me, who's
00:49:19
texting me, the union power, they, Mayor
00:49:21
Bass currently writes their deals and
00:49:23
their checks. That's real. I don't judge
00:49:25
them for that. It's the system they're
00:49:26
in. But the membership, they they want
00:49:29
to feel safe. Most of the firefighters
00:49:31
can't even live in California anymore.
00:49:33
60% of these guys fly in. And I say,
00:49:35
"Well, why don't you guys live here?
00:49:37
Like, it's not safe for our families. I
00:49:39
want them to move back. I want that tax
00:49:40
money."
00:49:41
>> One of the other stories about LA over
00:49:43
the last decade or two, you know, I grew
00:49:45
up here. I have a lot of friends who
00:49:47
grew up in Hollywood in the industry and
00:49:50
it's been gutted. There's no business in
00:49:52
LA anymore. And that's a huge employer
00:49:55
for so many Angelinos working in
00:49:59
Hollywood and all of the ancillary
00:50:00
supporting industries. Do we rebuild
00:50:01
Hollywood in LA? Is Hollywood done
00:50:03
because of AI and YouTube and
00:50:06
independent production and studios don't
00:50:08
matter anymore? No one does broadcast.
00:50:09
What's the future of Hollywood? Is there
00:50:11
a future for Hollywood in LA? And and
00:50:13
what do you do about it? So when I was
00:50:15
20 years old, I sold the first the
00:50:18
youngest ever sold the first reality
00:50:20
show to Fox as the youngest executive
00:50:23
producer ever. And I sold it to Peter
00:50:24
Churn when he was the co-chair of News
00:50:26
Corp. It was with David Foster who's
00:50:29
actually hosting my fundraiser on
00:50:30
Monday, full circle. Shout out David
00:50:32
Foster, legend. But I called Peter Churn
00:50:35
up a few weeks ago. I said, "Mr. Churn,
00:50:38
PDC, how do I save LA? It's one of the
00:50:40
smartest human beings on earth." He
00:50:42
said, "Spencer, as mayor, you you're not
00:50:46
going to be able to change the bigger
00:50:47
picture of Hollywood. That's more
00:50:49
governor, you know, uncap. What you can
00:50:52
do to really bring back jobs, bring back
00:50:54
Hollywood, is bring back independent
00:50:57
filmmakers, independent production,
00:50:59
independent artists. You prioritize the
00:51:02
indies, you could have Hollywood booming
00:51:05
in a tier that people didn't see coming.
00:51:07
And all my friends who haven't given up,
00:51:09
that are still, cuz I grew up in in LA.
00:51:12
I went to Crossroads. All my friends are
00:51:14
creators. They're artists. They're still
00:51:15
fighting. They're not giving up. When I
00:51:17
talk to them, they've all doubled down
00:51:19
on the indie route. When I talk to them,
00:51:21
they say, "This is what we need to hear.
00:51:23
We want to make this work." And you you
00:51:25
work with them. Mayor Bass brags about
00:51:27
like, "Oh, now you can film at the
00:51:28
Griffith Conservatory. Instead of
00:51:31
70,000, it's 30." No. When I'm mayor,
00:51:33
I'm going to help you produce these
00:51:35
freaking movies. We're going to get
00:51:36
We're going to have whole blocks and
00:51:37
we're going to use the restaurants to
00:51:39
keep them alive and we're going to use
00:51:41
the crews. We're going to eat out of
00:51:42
there. We're going to use all the city
00:51:44
resources to almost be in production
00:51:46
with the Indies, but making money
00:51:48
together. You know, not like a communist
00:51:50
or socialist, but in bring the city
00:51:53
enable, give them the support, get the
00:51:56
rid of these fees, the clearance, make
00:51:57
it easy. Right now, like I said in the
00:51:59
debate, I talked to producers. If you
00:52:00
want to film on the streets of LA, it's
00:52:02
so unsafe. You got to pay gang members
00:52:04
off to get We're gonna have it so safe
00:52:06
that an indie crew can pop out with all
00:52:08
their cameras and gear and not get
00:52:10
stolen. So again, someone like Peter
00:52:12
Churnin, I said, "Peter, when I'm mayor,
00:52:14
can I keep calling you?" And he his
00:52:16
exact quote, "I'm always here to make
00:52:17
you smarter, Spencer."
00:52:19
>> So these are the type of people when
00:52:20
they say, "Oh, you have no experience."
00:52:22
These are the people that are going to
00:52:24
make LA number one.
00:52:25
>> But that is the future. I mean, everyone
00:52:27
is all about independent production. If
00:52:28
you work for a big studio or work for
00:52:30
Netflix, you're getting paid cost plus
00:52:32
10%. You're better off producing on your
00:52:34
own. There's definitely a flourishing
00:52:36
happening. It's just happening
00:52:37
everywhere else. It's not happening in
00:52:38
LA. And obviously I've reached out to
00:52:41
David Ellison's team. I've reached out
00:52:43
to Ted Sranos. I've reached out to
00:52:44
everyone because I don't just want to be
00:52:46
the indie guy. I want to figure out how
00:52:48
I go fight whoever the new governor is.
00:52:50
Get uncapped. Get postp production
00:52:52
uncapped. Get as nobody should be going
00:52:55
to UK. Nobody should be going to Canada.
00:52:57
With the respect these countries, I love
00:52:59
you guys, but we're not sending our
00:53:00
filmmakers there anymore. So whatever I
00:53:02
can do as a mayor, you know, last the
00:53:04
other night in the debate, they're like,
00:53:05
we're going to do it. You guys have had
00:53:06
10 years combined. You haven't done
00:53:08
anything. I love fighting these people.
00:53:10
I will I've been fighting Sacramento
00:53:13
since my house burned down. I You get me
00:53:15
bodyguards to fight these people. Trust
00:53:17
me, we are going to a whole new level of
00:53:20
fight. So again, I don't want to not
00:53:22
have studios come back. We have all
00:53:24
these empty lots. I would love big
00:53:26
productions to come back, but initially
00:53:28
as mayor, I can fight for indies. But
00:53:30
don't get me wrong, I want Hollywood to
00:53:32
be top gun three right here. Take off
00:53:35
from LAX. Tell me how you address
00:53:38
transportation in LA. There's always a
00:53:40
new scheme or a new system being
00:53:42
developed. What's your view on what's
00:53:44
wrong about transportation in LA? And
00:53:47
how much are we wasting on things that
00:53:49
don't really matter that we could recoup
00:53:50
and reinvest elsewhere? What are those
00:53:52
kind of priorities for you?
00:53:53
>> So, I just went to the new opening of
00:53:55
the Dline today just to to troll to get
00:53:58
some yimies to yell at me. And my
00:54:01
funniest the funniest part about
00:54:03
transportation to me is it's a beautiful
00:54:05
idea when there's no human urine, human
00:54:09
poop on there, a drug addict's butt
00:54:11
hanging out. People forget every single
00:54:14
person in LA sends me their photos. I'm
00:54:16
now 311. I see what LA looks like. These
00:54:19
people go, "How do you know all this
00:54:20
information? My phone, I can't even open
00:54:22
it anymore cuz it's just naked drug
00:54:24
addicts. It's the craziest thing you've
00:54:25
ever seen." Who cares how many lines
00:54:28
that Metro connects to where it could
00:54:30
connect to the moon right now, but if
00:54:32
drug addicts are smoking fentanyl next
00:54:34
to your kid, you're not going to the
00:54:35
moon on it. So, first off, it's back to
00:54:37
safety. We need these metro, the subway,
00:54:41
whatever you want to ride. Bicycles
00:54:43
aren't even safe. The yims want more
00:54:45
bicycle. Like, I you couldn't even pay
00:54:46
me to get on a bicycle. A drug addict
00:54:48
zombie will hit me with a with a crowbar
00:54:50
when I'm riding by. We need to get
00:54:52
safety back. And of course, I love these
00:54:54
transportation ideas. I hate sitting in
00:54:56
traffic, but I've grown up in LA. I'm
00:54:58
aware of traffic is a part. So, yes, we
00:55:01
need this, but we also need the money
00:55:03
for it. We need to build LA up. Right
00:55:05
now, I think 15% of the budget goes to
00:55:08
the metro if 5% people use it. Again, I
00:55:11
feel like if I made it safe, I could
00:55:13
give 15% to use it and we could even
00:55:15
that out. We got to make sure that
00:55:17
nobody's hopping any turn style. We need
00:55:20
to make sure you're paying to be on it
00:55:22
so that it's safe people on it. again.
00:55:24
Back when I clear downtown LA for you
00:55:27
can drive for 40 blocks. When I clear
00:55:29
all these empty banned buildings that
00:55:31
the drug addicts are burning down and
00:55:32
using all our firefighter resources and
00:55:35
risking their lives. When we clear that
00:55:36
all out and we use these 3D printing. I
00:55:39
I talked to an architect today, one of
00:55:40
the most famous architects in the world.
00:55:42
He has a crew of like 12 architects.
00:55:44
They're all They already did all these
00:55:46
designs for these buildings that nobody
00:55:48
listened to them. They met with Newsome.
00:55:50
They met with Bass. Of course, I'm like,
00:55:51
"Let's do it. Set me over the decks.
00:55:53
We're going to have LA so beautiful. No
00:55:55
more of these high density SB79
00:55:58
prison-like structures. We need to bring
00:56:00
art deco back. All the architects that
00:56:02
moved out of here because it was so hard
00:56:03
to build. Takes 8 years. They're going
00:56:06
to be moving back cuz we're going to
00:56:07
speed up building. It's not going to
00:56:09
take eight years. We need LA to be the
00:56:11
most beautiful architecture in the
00:56:13
world. I don't want to go to Venice. I
00:56:15
don't want to go go look at Venice. I
00:56:17
want to go to Venice, downtown LA. I'm
00:56:19
going have a canal and then the Yimi
00:56:21
people, they can have all their bike
00:56:22
lanes going through the sky through
00:56:24
tunnels and things. We need to get
00:56:27
creative with LA.
00:56:28
>> Can you address the regulatory and
00:56:30
permitting problem with construction and
00:56:32
building in the city? As mayor, do you
00:56:34
have enough authority to do this? So,
00:56:35
can you talk a little bit about the
00:56:36
actions you would take to unleash this
00:56:39
kind of wave of building that you want
00:56:41
to see happen that everyone talks about
00:56:43
wanting to see happen in LA, but there
00:56:45
just seems to be so many layers of
00:56:47
permitting, so many processes, so much
00:56:49
approval, but it's statutory. It's
00:56:51
written into the law of the city. Do you
00:56:54
have the authority as the mayor to
00:56:55
actually be able to go in and address
00:56:57
that and unleash this without getting
00:56:59
these folks that are the assembly people
00:57:01
and whatnot to work with you? So, I had
00:57:03
a lunch today with he volunteered to be
00:57:06
the new head of LA building and safety.
00:57:08
I said, "Well, you're the first
00:57:09
volunteer of somebody who does this at
00:57:12
the highest level for right now in
00:57:13
private business for Los Angeles knows
00:57:16
every we'll add them to the website back
00:57:18
to like my team. The goal here is to put
00:57:20
the whole team listing their bios." He
00:57:23
said, "Spencer, we could do this so
00:57:25
easily. We can fix all these things. I
00:57:27
know all the errors cuz private business
00:57:30
is the ones fighting this city all the
00:57:32
time. They know where all the stops. I
00:57:34
met with this affordable housing
00:57:36
developer Carlos on Monday. He said when
00:57:39
Mayor Bass announced her initiative, she
00:57:41
was going to rush it 6 months. He's at 2
00:57:43
and 1/2 years in the permit process. He
00:57:46
said Spencer that we can fix this so
00:57:49
easy and build beautiful affordable
00:57:51
housing. He said they're getting these
00:57:52
tax incentives to build cells for
00:57:55
people. Cells. He said because they get
00:57:58
more incentives to put more people in
00:58:00
the building. We need to change that. We
00:58:02
need to make it where he's saying
00:58:04
twobedroom, a nice two-bedroom, he can
00:58:06
do for $250 a square foot versus $750
00:58:09
square foot. These other developers are
00:58:11
using the tax incentives, charging the
00:58:13
city, and then putting more bodies in
00:58:15
there. So, yes, we can do all this stuff
00:58:17
when we take these people out. Perfect
00:58:19
example, my Airstream. It took weeks
00:58:23
weeks for LWP to put one wire to my
00:58:27
Airstream from a pole across the street.
00:58:29
That's the cut the red tape town. That's
00:58:32
this is the fastest
00:58:34
>> operationally you can address that. But
00:58:35
all of the permits that are required
00:58:37
design review like
00:58:39
AI. I know people don't like AI but you
00:58:42
know even Caruso he was trying to with
00:58:44
initially he had this whole thing. He
00:58:45
put the money up was steadfast and he
00:58:47
offered this AI program to Mayor Bass
00:58:51
certain zoning situations if it meets
00:58:54
all this boom you right now there's like
00:58:56
a it's like out of a bad movie some guy
00:58:59
comes he's like he misses three and he
00:59:02
has to do like one checkbox he's like oh
00:59:05
I'll come back and do that like it's out
00:59:07
of a bad movie they say it's truly and
00:59:09
if you go to the nobody's even in these
00:59:11
offices you have to set an appointment
00:59:12
you can't just go into these places they
00:59:14
all work remote is maybe co they're
00:59:16
still
00:59:16
>> yeah they work three days a week don't
00:59:18
they
00:59:18
>> we're in crazy land so again all these
00:59:20
meetings I keep having with very
00:59:24
successful heads of companies that tell
00:59:27
me Spencer when people say you don't
00:59:28
have experience you tell them these are
00:59:30
people that have multiple companies I'm
00:59:32
they say I'm never the most experienced
00:59:34
person in any of the rooms of my
00:59:36
companies but everyone in my company is
00:59:38
the most experienced person in what they
00:59:40
need to do in that role and I'm well
00:59:42
aware of I don't know any of this stuff
00:59:44
But I know I want LA to be the number
00:59:47
one safest, most beautiful. How do we
00:59:49
get there? Who are you? What's your
00:59:50
resume? What's your background? Oh, wow.
00:59:54
Okay, come on. Keep in mind Janice
00:59:56
Quinionz, who was the CEO of LWP, who
01:00:00
drained two reservoirs leading into a
01:00:02
known year of the driest fire weather
01:00:05
season, took out the water with no plan,
01:00:09
no backups, no tankers. She was getting
01:00:12
paid $750,000 a year plus her benefits.
01:00:15
There are people across the United
01:00:17
States, running water and power in
01:00:20
functioning cities that we can go
01:00:22
recruit and say, "Hey, come to LA. It's
01:00:24
going to be safe and clean and we're
01:00:26
going to get you a nice place. You take
01:00:28
over." People want to live in LA. I'm
01:00:30
not trying to give people jobs with
01:00:32
respect to Antarctica.
01:00:34
Hello. We talent will come here,
01:00:36
>> right? There's people all over the world
01:00:38
that are telling me, "Hey, we want to
01:00:40
make LA the Silicon Valley of the world.
01:00:44
LA should be the tech center of the
01:00:46
world." With respect to San Francisco or
01:00:48
wherever these people are and Marin, I
01:00:50
don't even know where they are. Wherever
01:00:52
you guys are, you're coming you're
01:00:54
coming to LA. LA is way doper and you're
01:00:57
going to have a beautiful safe place and
01:00:59
way more room to build all your tech
01:01:01
companies and robots and drones.
01:01:04
Whatever you want to build, we're going
01:01:05
to build them. pretty nice up there,
01:01:07
too. But,
01:01:07
>> you know, they don't have the they don't
01:01:09
have the beach. You're going to be able
01:01:10
to swim without poop in the water. It's
01:01:12
going to be incredible.
01:01:13
>> Well, I grew up in the valley and you go
01:01:15
down Ventura Boulevard, it's all strip
01:01:16
malls. These are all small businesses
01:01:18
that are owned by families. They have
01:01:20
been typically for one, two, three
01:01:21
generations. Armenian, Persian, Hispanic
01:01:25
populations, folks that grew up in the
01:01:26
valley. Small business, I think, is the
01:01:28
lifeblood of this city. Like, it's such
01:01:30
an important part of the city. We've
01:01:31
never had major corporations that
01:01:33
everyone works for. There's a couple of
01:01:35
them, but generally it's a small
01:01:36
business town. How much have you looked
01:01:38
at the regulatory permitting, all the
01:01:40
nonsense that goes into opening up a
01:01:42
nail salon, starting a coffee shop,
01:01:45
getting the permits required to open up
01:01:46
a new store, and what can be done there
01:01:49
to accelerate, to fasttrack, to enable
01:01:52
all these folks, a lot of them first or
01:01:53
second generation immigrants, that want
01:01:55
to come here and build, that want to
01:01:56
start businesses, that want to have
01:01:58
their own company. How do we get them?
01:02:00
Because the complaint is it's just so
01:02:02
faking hard today. It's so expensive. It
01:02:04
takes so long. Have you gone through
01:02:06
this and figured out what are the things
01:02:08
you can just delete as mayor and what
01:02:10
are the things you can just fasttrack as
01:02:12
mayor to make it so much easier for
01:02:14
people to start and run small businesses
01:02:15
in the city?
01:02:16
>> So my friend in Venice, his his neighbor
01:02:19
just bought the local bodega that's been
01:02:22
there forever. And he was telling me
01:02:24
they're about to give up. It's been a
01:02:25
year. He said they're not even selling
01:02:27
alcohol. There's no food. It was just
01:02:29
going to be this basic bodega. And the
01:02:32
list of things that it's taken in a year
01:02:34
is so crazy. They'll make them put in
01:02:36
one thing and then they come in and they
01:02:38
say, "Oh, no, actually that it's like a
01:02:41
maze. We need to just streamline all
01:02:43
these things." And what I keep learning,
01:02:45
whether it's transportation, sanitation,
01:02:48
there's no accountability. People get
01:02:50
paid no matter if they're a failure.
01:02:52
It's not resultsbased.
01:02:54
>> How many turns?
01:02:54
>> Yes. Nobody like if you don't get this
01:02:56
many permits. For instance, somebody
01:02:58
called me yesterday. They go why is film
01:02:59
LA a nonprofit which like you need they
01:03:02
have to come to set. I was like what do
01:03:04
you mean? He's like this should be for a
01:03:05
profit to incentivize bringing
01:03:07
production. So they are getting they're
01:03:09
actively we don't care. It's this idea
01:03:12
that oh I'm getting paid no matter what.
01:03:14
Nobody cares. There's no checks and
01:03:16
balances. Mayor is fine as long as she's
01:03:18
driving to go to the airport to go to
01:03:20
Ghana to have a cocktail party. There's
01:03:22
nobody that cares, right? Because I met
01:03:25
with this guy Juan from Clean LA who
01:03:27
cleans the streets of all from all the
01:03:29
trash. He's from Ecuador. He came over
01:03:31
here and he said, "What is this,
01:03:33
Spencer? I'm from a third world country.
01:03:34
It's so much more beautiful. I can't
01:03:35
live here with my family." So he started
01:03:37
cleaning trash on his own. I said,
01:03:39
"Well, Juan, what's going on?" He's
01:03:40
like, "Spencer, nobody cares. They don't
01:03:43
care." He says, "I watch these trash
01:03:45
truck things." He said, "They pick up
01:03:46
the trash and it just throws it like out
01:03:48
of a meme and it just goes back on the
01:03:50
street." He says, "They're sleeping in
01:03:51
the cars. There's no accountability.
01:03:53
There's no responsibility." I said,
01:03:54
"Juan, well, when I'm mayor, can I hire
01:03:56
you?" He said, "Spencer, I will help run
01:03:58
sanitation." He goes, "It's supposed to
01:04:00
be a billion dollars." He goes, "I could
01:04:02
do it for easily 500 million." So, I'm
01:04:04
thinking, I just saved $500 million for
01:04:06
taxpayers because Juan cares. And he
01:04:09
says, "I'll bring in people that care."
01:04:11
As mayor, you can probably auto stamp a
01:04:13
lot of stuff too that today they're just
01:04:15
delegating down to people who take a
01:04:17
long time getting things done that
01:04:18
probably you don't need to spend a lot
01:04:20
of time looking at. Just auto stamp the
01:04:22
bodega license and let them run. You
01:04:23
really need to have the guy go in and
01:04:25
figure out where everything is.
01:04:26
>> This is back to if it meets these
01:04:28
criteria, we need to
01:04:32
time
01:04:32
>> like here's the auto green light.
01:04:34
>> LA needs to be like annoying how many
01:04:37
cranes we see for the next eight years.
01:04:39
It needs to look like we're in China
01:04:41
where they're building these bridges in
01:04:42
like two weeks. We need all these
01:04:44
cranes. There's no cranes. You can't
01:04:47
even see a crane. My kids probably don't
01:04:49
even know what crane looks like.
01:04:50
>> If one of the other two candidates win,
01:04:52
what happens to LA?
01:04:53
>> Well, I will have to move to Bentonville
01:04:55
or
01:04:56
I'm done. You know, that's why I'm
01:04:58
fighting. People won't get I want my
01:05:00
sons to grow up in LA. You cannot grow
01:05:03
up in LA. You're done. You listen to
01:05:06
them in the debate. They're talking
01:05:08
about more beds. They don't even They
01:05:11
don't even accept that LA is in a
01:05:14
nightmare. Yes, I love LA. It has the
01:05:17
potential to be the greatest place on
01:05:19
planet Earth. But we need to acknowledge
01:05:20
we are in a scary part right now in LA.
01:05:23
The lights don't work on the street.
01:05:25
They don't fix roads within a year. They
01:05:27
have they don't every pothole is
01:05:29
breaking everyone's tires. You can't get
01:05:30
311 to fix anything. We don't have
01:05:32
enough cops to call 911. There's not
01:05:35
enough firefighters. towns burn down.
01:05:38
Bair is going to burn. Manavville
01:05:39
Canyon, Sunland to Hunga, Hollywood
01:05:42
Hills, all these are going to burn. It's
01:05:44
guaranteed. And like I said in the
01:05:45
debate, I'm going to put these dip sites
01:05:47
mile from everyone's how they're all
01:05:49
going to connect. They're going to
01:05:50
connect to private owners swimming
01:05:52
pools. I'm going to work with the
01:05:53
insurance companies so we can bring
01:05:54
insurance back to California first LA
01:05:57
because we're going to show them the
01:05:58
model because if they have these dip
01:06:00
sites for these helicopters, we bring in
01:06:02
more of these shinooks that LA County
01:06:04
uses to work with the the fire hawks
01:06:06
that we have with LA city and and
01:06:09
Calire, we can bring insurance back,
01:06:11
which is the biggest problem right now
01:06:12
for people building. We're going to get
01:06:14
rid of this ULA. I know I can't do it
01:06:16
myself, but I'm going to fight to make
01:06:18
sure these communist type things don't
01:06:20
ever happen to development. so people
01:06:22
can sell their properties, build
01:06:24
housing. I'm going to stop letting these
01:06:27
tenants being squatters, criminals, make
01:06:30
it so landlords have to pay them 50
01:06:33
grand cash to leave and then they go to
01:06:34
it to a new landlord. I'm going to stop
01:06:36
the section 8 scam so that real people
01:06:38
that deserve section 8 get it. Veterans,
01:06:41
families that need it, not just
01:06:43
drugdeing criminals that are, you know,
01:06:45
abusing the system with fraud. But yes,
01:06:48
if I lose, we're done. I'm trying to
01:06:51
tell people this is like out of a movie.
01:06:53
Like this is Independence Day. The
01:06:55
aliens have attacked. They they got it's
01:06:57
an invasion is here. Yeah.
01:06:59
>> And then as mayor I have to fight all
01:07:00
these DSA city council members. Make
01:07:02
sure they're never reelected. So not
01:07:04
only do I have to do all that, but I got
01:07:06
to fight to make sure that my next four
01:07:09
years there's never a DSA fake Democrat.
01:07:12
They're not Democrats. Democrats love
01:07:14
Spencer Pratt. All my friends are
01:07:16
Democrats. All my supporters are
01:07:17
Democrats. These people I'm up against,
01:07:19
they use the word Democrat in front of
01:07:21
the word socialist. Go look at the
01:07:22
Democratic Socialist America's website,
01:07:24
people. Go look at it. That's not a
01:07:26
Democrat. Bill Clinton was a Democrat.
01:07:28
>> It's not an American.
01:07:30
>> Thank you. It's even worse. These aren't
01:07:32
even Americans. And when you say that,
01:07:34
people are like, "Oh my god, this
01:07:35
country was founded because people fled
01:07:38
tyranny in Europe and then everywhere
01:07:40
else in the world." And this was the
01:07:42
bastion where you could find hope and an
01:07:44
opportunity to be free, to choose how
01:07:47
you want to behave, what you want to do,
01:07:49
how you want to pray, to have freedom
01:07:51
that the government doesn't tell you
01:07:53
what to do and how to do it. And that
01:07:54
tyranny existed all over the world. And
01:07:56
that's why this country was started. And
01:07:57
socialism is the most tyrannical form,
01:08:00
the most tyrannical system that humans
01:08:01
have ever come up with. And so you got
01:08:03
the word socialist in there. You've
01:08:05
already made the mistake because you've
01:08:06
revealed yourself. My opinion. Sorry, I
01:08:08
had to rant on my own show. just I I
01:08:10
took advantage of the opportunity.
01:08:12
>> I have very smart friends that are from
01:08:14
LA and I say they're DSA. They got foot
01:08:16
soldiers and they go, "What's a DSA?"
01:08:18
So, it's a sneak attack. It's like Ninja
01:08:20
Turtles. They're in the sewers. They're
01:08:22
like, they're like Shredder and Company.
01:08:24
So, fast forward eight years. You've
01:08:26
been mayor for eight years. I'm going to
01:08:27
give you It's a four-year term, right?
01:08:29
Two two terms.
01:08:30
>> You're sitting down with your sons and
01:08:32
they're saying, "Dad, what did you do to
01:08:34
save LA?" What do you tell them? Tell me
01:08:36
about that journey in retrospect. I
01:08:38
would say thank God people voted for
01:08:40
laws sons and I enforced the laws that
01:08:44
are there. I did what everyone did
01:08:46
before the current leadership. So I keep
01:08:49
telling people the experience I don't
01:08:52
need to invent anything. I don't need to
01:08:53
come up with this utopia of how a city
01:08:55
works. You make a city safe and people
01:08:58
will put money into it. They'll want to
01:08:59
live here. Commerce comes back. Families
01:09:02
will be able to go to parks and go to
01:09:04
the beach and not live in fear. So to my
01:09:06
sons again, I'm showing them you can
01:09:09
fight evil. These people are evil that
01:09:12
let every innocent person that pays
01:09:15
their taxes feel unsafe on their streets
01:09:17
that they pay taxes for. A lot of people
01:09:20
don't have money to do things because
01:09:21
they pay all their taxes like me and
01:09:24
then the city and the government fails
01:09:26
them. And whether your house burns down
01:09:28
or you got a screaming drug addict in
01:09:30
front of you, a naked drug addict in
01:09:32
front of your kids causing trauma.
01:09:34
There's people having literal drug
01:09:36
addicts having sex on meth in front of
01:09:38
kids. Parents are telling me they have
01:09:40
to have their kids glued to an iPad in
01:09:42
the backseat of their cars driving to
01:09:44
them into school. Some parents don't
01:09:45
have cars. In other communities, they
01:09:47
have to walk under these underpasses and
01:09:49
walk past this. So, I'll be able to tell
01:09:52
my sons, "Thank God America have laws."
01:09:55
and your dad said, "Hey, breaking news.
01:09:58
Let's enforce them." And we did it and
01:10:00
it worked. And then people came in with
01:10:02
tons of money and we got businesses
01:10:04
booming, more jobs. Hollywood, we're
01:10:06
making even better movies than we've
01:10:08
made in 10 years because the independent
01:10:10
creative artists are inspired again.
01:10:12
They're feeling supported. It's it's the
01:10:15
vision is so real. And that's my fight.
01:10:18
I go back to if God is burning
01:10:20
somebody's house down to fight these
01:10:22
people, you're burning my house down and
01:10:24
then you burn my mom's house down and
01:10:26
you have me listening to my crying mom
01:10:28
every day for 18 months. I don't do this
01:10:30
to be a politician. I do this to fight
01:10:32
evil and this is evil that has taken
01:10:34
this beautiful city that I loved. I
01:10:37
didn't even want to travel to go visit
01:10:39
my wife's family in Colorado because I'm
01:10:41
like, can they come to LA? That's how
01:10:43
much I'm a LA person. These people that
01:10:45
I'm running against aren't even LA
01:10:47
people.
01:10:48
>> No.
01:10:48
>> So, I'll tell them the law, son.
01:10:51
>> Spencer Pratt, thank you for joining me
01:10:52
on the All-In interview.
01:10:53
>> Thank you. What a blast.
01:10:55
>> That was awesome.
01:10:56
>> Thank you. I'm going all in.
01:11:12
I'm going all in.
