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Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back

May 10, 2026 / 01:11:19

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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

00:16:02

Bass." Implying he's not going after

00:16:06

Bass. And so, game on. No one else

00:16:09

stepping up. He told you to do it.

00:16:10

>> Yes. But I was already doing it. But if

00:16:13

he was going to do it,

00:16:15

>> obviously I wasn't going to go against

00:16:17

>> Totally.

00:16:17

>> Yeah. I was like, "Okay, are you going

00:16:19

to do it?" And he said, "Go after."

00:16:20

>> 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

00:16:25

have almost elevated you to what I am

00:16:28

hearing from a lot of people is almost

00:16:30

like a historic campaign. The ads are

00:16:32

cutting through in a way that people

00:16:34

have never seen before. Are those your

00:16:36

ads or are they being produced by a

00:16:39

third party and put out there? Because

00:16:41

I've heard from some folks, there's a

00:16:42

guy Charlie Curran that might be

00:16:43

involved or other folks that that might

00:16:46

be separate from your campaign that are

00:16:47

putting these out there. They're

00:16:48

breaking through the mold that

00:16:50

everyone's like, "This isn't a political

00:16:51

campaign. This is almost emotional. It's

00:16:53

a movement. People want to like get

00:16:55

behind you and they don't even live in

00:16:56

LA." So, the ad that blew up crazy is

00:17:00

when I showed Bass's house, Nitia

00:17:03

Ramen's million-dollar mansion,

00:17:05

multi-million dollar, and then my

00:17:06

Airstream. That one broke every ad

00:17:09

record in history. That is, if it has my

00:17:12

name on it, it's legally mine. Anything

00:17:15

like these incredible grassroots ads,

00:17:18

but I don't put my name on it, it's

00:17:20

legally not mine.

00:17:21

>> So, there are people out there doing

00:17:22

these ads, not in your campaign,

00:17:24

>> correct?

00:17:25

>> That are creating this movement.

00:17:26

Correct. Because people feel the common

00:17:29

sense.

00:17:29

>> They feel the emote. Totally. It's

00:17:31

connecting.

00:17:31

>> I keep trying to tell everyone that, you

00:17:33

know, they try to put me in a box. I

00:17:35

didn't run for to be a political party.

00:17:37

I didn't run to be a politician. I ran

00:17:39

because I experienced what city

00:17:42

leadership failure at the ultimate level

00:17:44

is. That's why I stepped up. That's what

00:17:46

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

00:17:54

be a Democrat and love me. You can be a

00:17:57

Republican and love me. The only people

00:17:58

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

00:18:56

change. It seems to be creating a

00:18:57

movement.

00:18:58

>> 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

00:19:05

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

00:19:18

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

00:19:42

every day with our billions of tax

00:19:44

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

00:19:58

or next to people's houses or in San

00:20:00

Pedro and right next to schools. They

00:20:02

can have beds in facilities that we

00:20:04

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

00:20:17

this incredible compound, beautiful

00:20:20

possibilities? I guess in Italy, some

00:20:22

billionaire did this for addicts. That's

00:20:24

my vision where we have all this.

00:20:26

>> 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

00:20:31

a cement brick building that looks like

00:20:34

a prison. An addict when they're getting

00:20:36

off drugs, they don't want to be in a

00:20:37

250 foot little cell, no service. We put

00:20:40

them out in nature. We're spending $25

00:20:43

billion plus. We have enough money where

00:20:45

it's actually cheaper to build the most

00:20:47

incredible facility out in nature that

00:20:49

bring these services that provide for

00:20:52

these addicts. And you separate people.

00:20:54

Everybody doesn't go in one building

00:20:55

like they do right now. If you're a

00:20:57

veteran, you go over here. Single

00:20:58

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,

00:21:15

giving these people pipes, giving them

00:21:17

needles, giving them the Narcan, letting

00:21:19

them OD 14 times a night.

00:21:21

>> Let me just hit on the NGO point. What

00:21:23

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

00:21:54

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.

00:23:54

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.

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