Spencer Pratt on His Plan to Fix LA as Mayor, Rollin 60s Cookouts, The Homeless Problem & More

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[00:00:01]And today we're very, very excited to bring you a former high school classmate of Lush >> Elementary.

[00:00:08]>> Elementary and current mayoral candidate for the great city of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt.

[00:00:14]>> Thank you guys for having me.

[00:00:15]>> Yeah, man. It's amazing to have you here. It's been pretty crazy seeing you just rise up and and garner so much attention in such a short period of time for for your aspirations for the city, man. Well, I only set out on this mission to expose corruption for my own community. I didn't actually think I would end up being the mayor of LA, which it looks like is God's plan. I just wanted to have a bigger platform cuz I knew she would get reelected no matter what after letting my neighbors burn alive.

[00:00:44]>> So, I just nobody was going to run against her. So, I did it right >> just to oppose to be the opposition. And then what I've now discovered is speaking the truth is so powerful across the whole country. People just resonate because I I hate politicians. I'm not trying to be connected to any political party or any of these people. I just want the truth and corruption to stop.

[00:01:06]>> Yeah. And from my perspective, even the most hardcore Democrats that I know, it seems like they are very intently weighing the pros and cons of Spencer Pratt being the mayor of Los Angeles because I feel like the state of LA and in particular the homelessness crisis has just driven a lot of people to the brink and they're looking for any possible change of pace and you are presenting change and and a lot of people are very very excited about it.

[00:01:33]Yeah, I had lunch with Biden's the biggest donor in the Democratic party in the whole game on Sunday. She said I was the first, you know, technically I'm not either, but she she said to me when I you're the first non-democrat that's ever opened the in my house and she's already maxed out like backing me. Like, so I have the you know when they say, "Oh, Spencer, how you going to beat the Democratic machine?" the the actual people pulling the levers. Maybe not the the party brand right now, but the people on the ground with write the checks, the people in the media. These people all back me because I have a common sense message and they know I'm not going to do any of this, you know, national politics. We need somebody who just cares about Los Angeles, the streets, the drug addicts living over the, you know, they're laundering billions of dollars to increase the people living on our street. They don't want to stop this. They say we need more beds, but anybody knows anything about addiction and you could have an empty bed, but you don't care about that bed.

[00:02:30]You want to get high. You got new get the Fenty, get the super meth. You're not trying to see where the empty $100,000 bet is. So, >> is that the pharmaceutical industry you're talking about primarily?

[00:02:41]>> I mean, they're all they're all connected because everyone's profiting.

[00:02:44]the people that you know just right now last week it's came out you know we pay as tax payers we pay for all the needles that they're giving out in MacArthur Park so who's is that needle company who are they I don't know I'm just saying there's a lot of people connected the bigger scheme though is the real estate developers are the ones that do the housing for the you know operation >> and all that like >> that's a whole another box but for the homeless it's uh inside safe is what mayor care and bass. So last year she spent $400 million to house when I say house we don't even know this is her number 1,400 people. So with that $400 million she gives it to developers so they go buy buildings that should be 250 square you know $250 a square foot is $1,000 a square foot. Then they spend five years redoing the building. Oh it needs a new it's everybody's getting kicked. It's like the mafia. I keep joking like back in the day Gotti and these people wouldn't even believe >> the scam that LA is doing with our tax money.

[00:03:48]>> Haf would be proud.

[00:03:49]>> I mean all they would just be shook.

[00:03:50]It's more than the cartels. It's more money. $24 billion in California, but it's all run out of LA. So >> yeah, I mean that's probably one of the biggest criticisms I see of you is that you're capable of like naming the problems, but that you don't actually have that much experience in terms of governing and that it in reality a lot of the same regulation and [ __ ] that Karen Bass has to deal with is stuff that you're going to have to be able to deal with realistically as well. Do you think that she's just so corrupt that we have like a tainted idea of what it's going to take to get our city back on track?

[00:04:24]>> 100%. Because what people have just accepted we like I've lived in LA my whole life. This is not LA.

[00:04:30]>> We are light years from yeah we always had homeless people is that's society.

[00:04:35]We have created a drug addiction complex in LA because we don't require treatment. When you're naked in front of kids at the park or in front of schools when I'm mayor I can enforce the laws we have and I will remove you from being naked doing whatever you're doing in front of kids. these moms. Why I'm getting elected, it's a rap is because moms are done with the naked drug addicts having sex. The amount of videos I can't post because my account will get deleted of just people having sex on sidewalks in front of kids.

[00:05:07]>> Street people of Los Angeles is doing the work for you. I'm assum he can't even post what what's really like I'm telling you when my DMs I I can't even open them. It's like it's so gnarly.

[00:05:17]Like Jesus Christ. So no, we have laws.

[00:05:21]They're choosing not to enforce them because they're deep into an ideology where, oh, you can't. They're experiencing homelessness. They they can live there. No, we need to use this 400 million plus that we have and get these people treatment, medical treatment. And with SB43, the state law, if you can't manage yourself, you're banging your head through a glass window naked, jerking off, doing whatever you're doing, we can take you legally and put you into treatment. Starts with a 5150 hole, goes to a 72-hour hole, can go to a 42-day hole, it can go to a one-year conservatorship. They'll come back.

[00:05:57]Where are you going to put all these people, Spencer? Well, you go to the federal government. And you say, hello, I would like some support here. The resources you have across the country.

[00:06:05]There's medical facilities all over the country. If we have to takes people to a different medical facility, we'll find it. We're just not going to let them die on the street anymore. this idea that we just have to accept this >> that that's the empathetic choice is that we should just let these people rot away in public. That that's what liberals want because that somehow embraces like freedom.

[00:06:27]>> You know, I won't say liberals. I think the socialists, the DSA have hijacked the liberal Democratic party. I think Democrats that support me care about people. They don't want them to die on the street. And they paid their tax money expecting these people they put in office to get these people off the street. We have seven people dying in the street in their own feces a day. We use Narcan all day long using our firefighter, our money resources to let people o die o die maybe. And then you know this cycle that needs to stop. And that's why as mayor when people say he doesn't have the plan. No, you're voting for me to say enough of this. We're stopping this. We're going to find the support these people need. Not to mention over 60% of these people are not from California. You know why? They've been brought in here by scam rehabs, Medicaid hustles, these NOS's. A lot of these people once you get them sober for a minute and they're like, "Can you get me back to Oklahoma? Like, I'm stuck. I got a cousin." You can actually, and there's been success, private people do this where you can get these people home. Cuz if you're an addict, one of the hardest things about recovery is you need support. You need community. You need people that you trust that care about you. The other problem with it being an addict is people give up on you because it's like enough is enough is enough and they let you go. But we can come in help these people and then you know I've talked to a lot of straight up billionaires that would finance scholarships for like your uncle back in Missouri. You break you off to like here's some money we're sending your nephew back to you.

[00:07:59]>> Incentivize them.

[00:08:01]>> Yeah. to give you support and resources to help you help like a family member or a friend and not just give it all in one lump sum. So then then they take it but like break it off. That was one very big billionaire was like I would love to do a program like that. So that we just need to find you know that's my energy.

[00:08:20]We got to find a change. These people I'm running against will tell you they need more beds >> now. We no we're going to get more beds but they need to be able to sleep in the bed.

[00:08:31]>> What about like neighboring municipalities like Santa Monica which has its own infrastructure, its own mayor, but they've been basically allowing homeless people to colonize their city for the past 50 years and stuff like that. Is there like plans to work with the other neighboring municipalities? So why I think I have so much support across the country is because people want somebody to step in and say the community, the voters, the constituents, we're done with this. And by doing that, other neighborhoods like other cities, Santa, they're citizens like if Spencer can come in in LA and clean it up and get people help, show them the working model. And I think it'll inspire because people forget whether they're Republicans or Democrat, they all work for us. We are paying so much money for these people's salaries to fail us. So we need to show like like somebody like me get in and say we're done with this and then other people are going to be like he did it. Why is LA did it? Like my goal is to turn downtown LA into the most popping city in the history of the world. And you know how you do that? Because I've met with realistically 30 billionaires that tell me we want to invest in LA. We want to build affordable housing. We want to build mid-level housing. We want to build top tier housing, but we can't because the city blocks us cuz they just want to put homeless scams into this money and they're not. So, the reality is you say we're done with this. The money is going to come into LA. We're going to build again. There's no cranes in LA. When I was growing up, there was cranes everywhere. I haven't seen a crane in realistically like four years.

[00:10:09]Like, we need to have LA be like Dubai.

[00:10:12]The pe There's creatives here. There's people that love the city and but we've just let the city take over and just be like, "No, you have to live like this and pay up, pay up, tax, tax, tax." I keep saying, you know, cuz people are all hyped on the socialists. They want to give me money. They're going to run out of money to give you because these people we're taxing, they're leaving.

[00:10:31]>> 50,000 a year are leaving LA. These are the people we're taxing. I'm Robin Hood.

[00:10:36]I'm coming in. I'm going to we're already getting taxed, but I'm going to make sure this tax money that's being stolen by other rich people and put into their little scams to increase problems, I'm going to get that money. And the way I'll be a successful mayor is accountability and transparency. We need to know where every dollar goes, not these confusing dashboards like my 8-year-old needs to be able to go on a different version of the government site for kids and it should be laid out.

[00:11:02]every dollar the $15 billion budget you can spend two days on it with cartoons and figure out and that way we can all hold these people accountable. Why you spend, you know, I go to the fire stations, they're charging 50 grand for refrigerators. These city m like, you know, if the fire station refrigerator goes down, there's only one vendor that can come in. It's mafia stuff. We need to know the firefighter doors that open up $250,000 a door. They're like, this door is not $250,000. That's a racket.

[00:11:31]>> Yeah. There's a racket going on in the city. Whether it's trash, whether I just met with, why do we have so many potholes all over the city? Why don't we do the streets? Because when Mayor Bass first got in, she cancelled an over 130-year contract. It's a federal contract. These independent truckers, it was like 82 of these family business, passed down generations. I met them all in South Central. They told me the whole game. She came in, cancelled it, took that $und00 million for our infrastructure, put it into the homeless scam. So that's why they used to do 300 miles of roads fixing the potholes. She does like 90 now. M >> well it seems like there's been a big misappropriation of funds like even like that that $4 million that she got to um reinvigorate MacArthur Park and clean it up. I don't just to build fences like that doesn't make sense. Four $4 million to build fences.

[00:12:24]>> That $4 million should go to help recovery treatment for the people that are living in the park dying on fentinel. We don't need fences. We need to get these everything's fences and putting plants on the sidewalk all like bush. No, these people need help. Like addicts need help. They don't need fences. It's not going to change.

[00:12:43]They'll climb the fence. We just spent $4 million for them to climb a fence.

[00:12:46]So, >> I I I feel like I've actually seen in my neighborhood that a lot of my neighbors have become radicalized potential Spencer voters on behalf of just the fact that a homeless dude just moved into our neighborhood and just posted up right in front of my gate and just managed to live there for like two weeks. people called the cops over and over and the cops would come. They would sit and they would basically like have community uh activists come. They would give the guy food supplies, etc. So, all of a sudden, he's super comfortable posted up in this neighborhood. He's yelling at parents who are walking their kids and stuff. He yelled at this mom who had a baby. All of a sudden, now I'm in the WhatsApp group with the whole neighborhood. And finally, they were able to remove them because of a technicality that it's like a high-risk fire zone. But I think like so many of my neighbors just saw this and just realized how incompetent the city is.

[00:13:39]And when you talk to the cops, you realize how handcuffed they feel in these situations and they wish that they could be a little bit more aggressive, but they feel like they just can't do anything without getting in trouble or violating some kind of law at this point. So, and you combine that with the fact that my neighborhood has had like a huge amount of burglaries going on, people breaking into houses and stuff.

[00:13:59]So, it feels like even just regular uh uh Los Angeles citizens are just getting unbelievably fed up.

[00:14:06]>> No, there's people I've talked to that have been robbed in their house three times. They're putting signs out like nothing left on the front yard because criminals, this is like Disneyland now.

[00:14:17]You can do anything you want in LA and get away with it. When I was growing up in LA, obviously there's crime and everything, but I was concerned about throwing something out a window. Like, I would be like littering. I'm going to be hit with the you know there was just that mindset. Now you can just like >> I'm not saying there aren't great artists. You know I don't I have no problem trickster family friend great graffiti artist but now you can literally just do any any you can spray paint on anything in front of a like there's nothing.

[00:14:46]>> Yeah. We we know some of these graffiti artists and they are not worried. They talk about the ' 80s back when they used to prosecute this kind of thing. Like that was the the the the craziest thing imaginable cuz now we're in the golden days where nobody gets prosecuted for graffiti anymore.

[00:14:59]>> And I'm not like I just feel like we need to set up areas. Like how do you fix this? We need to have there's a lot of property in Los Angeles. Graffiti designated zones where if you're doing a dope piece, you get, you know, maybe you could beat it and almost have like a level where if it's bad, you could catch a misdemeanor, you know. But we need to for instance street race uh street takeovers we need to designate places where you know the youth who feels inspired want to make Tik Toks and do the thing but it can't be where small businesses are getting destroyed and these people forget they think they're just going against like the cops. You're hurting these community small business these mom and pop shops making it not safe. So, we need to have like for instance the other day that I don't know some metal I don't know if it's metal or anarchy or hard >> dead city punks.

[00:15:48]>> Yeah. there should be a place and as a mayor I'll find a a dope spot whether it's in a river where we give you like you want to do this thing here's your spot and we coordinate it and give you the opportunity to have city property but not where you know hardworking moms and nurses are trying to get up in the morning like we have to as society respect everybody but also work with some people want to you know get wild and mo and bang each other in the head but give them that opportunity but not just waiting till night hit them with the pepper balls, but we got to, you know, as a mayor, I want to work with these type of people in the society and figure out like >> because they're really a response to the lack of resources. Those things wouldn't even happen. If they if they were had a designated area, this never would even come to fruition.

[00:16:35]>> Exactly. So, I got to be the mayor that works with all types of the city to make it because we want dope music. We want artists. We want creators. We want people making good, but we just got to have boxes where these check. And it's back to what you're saying about your neighborhood. One of my opponents, I have moms sending me the emails who's running the the councilwoman Ramen. They had a like a perve living on their street all summer looking in on the windows of like moms and kids. They kept on telling the councilman like nothing we can do about it. I got I saw all the emails blah blah. So these parents got together and they figure out that this person is has broke parole is a sex offender on the run living on their block in front of all their kids in the windows. So they track down the parole officer from Riverside, that person's now in prison because they were a straight sex offender that the city council woman who's running for mayor was just nothing we could do. Like I'm going to be the mayor that talks to the constituents. Like I don't ever want to be in the office in city hall. I want to be the voice because that's all I got.

[00:17:39]People like what's your experience? I'm a fighter for the truth now because you burned my life down, my house, my parents house down, all my neighbors.

[00:17:46]You put the Spencer these people think they know is not who they know. January 7 made a new version of me and I just want to be the mayor that fights for communities and all the communities I go to, I hear the same thing. No matter, you know, people go, he's only here. I'm everywhere. A lot of communities don't want to post because of retaliation because they're scared. their city council member who already is not listening to them or the mayor like oh you know retaliation the city of LA in politics and the city it's for real it's like when the fire chief told the truth she got fired they really come after people so what they keep telling me is what they say the city council members ignore them the mayor ignores them to be a successful mayor I just need to be the voice of these people because if I get elected it's the people that put me in I went against the full machine and that's my whole duty is to be like I'm going to be out here in these streets with the people.

[00:18:37]>> Have you been cultivating relationships with the constituents in like some of those other districts like in South LA and East LA and places like that that are kind of further away from where you you typically be at?

[00:18:50]>> Yeah, I just had a a cookout on 10th in South Central with the Rolling 60. So, you know, they back me. You know, I think they're going to the voter polls.

[00:18:59]Um, I'm going to the jungle on Saturday, even though the jungle is not what we think it is anymore. It's ever since it's, you know, it's a little nicer, but I think some of the OGs are coming through because these are community leaders. As much as people think like gang gang, the reality is these people know how the city's failed them and the community needs a mayor that like gets in at the ground level cuz we got to stop at the youth from these people getting on drugs. Get I had this lady, this mom come up to me crying in South Central. She goes, "My daughter's not homeless. I love her. She's got a home, but she's on Skid Row right now addicted to meth, but she's not homeless. I hate when they say these people are homeless." So, here we go. Back to my thing. It's a community issue. There's a there are a lot of people from out of state, but a lot of people in the city are now people don't get how crazy fenol is and super meth. These aren't drugs that aren't like the drugs we grew. This is like scientific mad matt like >> and and and even now they have like synthetic drugs there. New York Times actually dropped a big piece about it today that are like 10 times more powerful than fentanyl. And they're they're coming up with new drugs by the day that are able to skirt around regulations, whatever. As soon as you tell China that they can't process fentanyl the same way, they're going to find another way to do it. So that the crisis seems like it's only going to get worse >> significantly.

[00:20:17]>> 100%. And as mayor, they're like, "Oh, you can do this. We need to work with the DEA and to really go after these drugs that kill people. You know, these drugs kill people. I know people are like, "Oh, I love drugs. They're cool."

[00:20:29]Yeah, but that Xanax you thought you were taking is going to have fenolon, you're dead. Like the amount of just kids that I've talked to, their parents that are dead because they got Xanax or Narco off of Snapchat and are dead at 15 cuz they were just want to experiment with. They thought they're just going to get a little warm and fuzzy and are dead. So that's what people like, oh, he's like anti-drug. No, I'm anti- getting you dead. Like, like that's what people need to wake up. These are not the drugs you get high off anymore.

[00:20:56]These are the drugs that kill you and your friends and your loved one or your little sister or your nephew. So, we need to work with the DEA, get them out here and go after these cartels that do not care about killing us Angelinos.

[00:21:10]>> Yeah. Do you have a specific plan for Figareroa? Because I know that at least on this podcast, we're like pretty concerned about the prostitution epidemic. You got to give it to Karen Basta. has set up a lot of cameras, facial recognition around there. We're actually friends with this guy, Smack, who worked directly with her to help take down some of the gangs in that area who've been dealing with child prostitution and stuff like that. Is that something that you have a specific plan for?

[00:21:33]>> For me, if you're selling your body, you have an addiction problem.

[00:21:38]>> So, >> n 99% of the time over there, for sure.

[00:21:41]>> So, we got substance abuse or otherwise.

[00:21:43]So my my heart is helping addicts get these people on a path where they don't need to sell themselves for their addiction.

[00:21:53]>> So it's difficult because now with the new state law, you can't even if it's a minor and it's clear, you can't just be like, "Hey, you're a minor being trafficked." That's how crazy our laws are. But we need to again work with the community leaders, figure out how we get to these people and offer them. These people want treatment. They just don't want what's offered to them, which is a cell square box with scary people in a prison-like structure. That's why my plan working with the billionaires and the federal government and building a beautiful place in nature on the federal land with trees that actually looks like somewhere you show, hey ma'am, we can get you out here three meals a day. We have a chef. They got sound bulls and yoga. And you know, we need to treat these people like if you're a rich celebrity going to a Malibu treatment.

[00:22:41]>> Is that tangible? Like is there a way to to execute that financially?

[00:22:45]>> I met with a billionaire quote unquote like f like they already put 300 million into a place in New York just as like a family. He offered me $500 million to help people. The thing is these billionaires want to make sure it's helping people cuz right now everyone's just griing and scamming. Not to mention our current state and our current leadership has a terrible rel relationship with the federal government. I'm going to work with Democrats, Republicans, however we help people. That means going to Washington and saying this is how much it costs right now to have people dying on the street. This is what we're paying. This is how much it's going to cost to get these people on your federal land.

[00:23:25]Here's the plan. Working with FEMA and HUD. You know, this is not an overnight.

[00:23:29]I'm planning on being the mayor for eight years, but we got to build out a structure where we have this place where they go, we're already spending the money. This idea that >> we've spent $24 billion in California to increase it. So why can't we say we're done getting scammed, let's put this into a real and then when you get sober, we also have to have trade craft like this billionaire in Italy did does it with addicts where you learn how to, you know, well, I don't know what they're actually making over there. all his pasta or whatever. But they're teaching you how to once you come back in a site.

[00:24:01]For me, I think we need to teach if they want to stay in California how to clear dead brush. We had a really we have a really successful program with the prisons where they come out and they work with the firefighters to clear dead brush and has a really good results.

[00:24:14]That's the type of thing we need in California. So, we train, get you sober, get you on a path, start teaching how to do brush clearance, which we have enough of that for California to, you know, have a job for a long time. Come back to you want to come back to Calary, get in with the fire department and be part of a new program where we do dev fuels around community brush clearance. We have a lot of trash in LA. My friend Juan from Clean LA, let me tell you how much trash is.

[00:24:40]There's opportunity to bring people how to train people out and we're going to actually clean all this trash and come back and help give you a job cleaning.

[00:24:47]If you want to come back to LA, I think a lot of these people that we're going to help are going to want to go to where their homes are and they have friends and memories. I think they're just stuck in this vicious cycle of hell. These people are in hell and they try to be like, "Oh, Spencer hates homeless people. He calls them zombies."

[00:25:05]>> We have zombies right now. Let me tell you, it's I'm not going to do I see them daily.

[00:25:10]>> I'm not going to do the nice lingo because yes, they're human. They go, "You don't care about human." I do. But even a zombie, you got to get unzombieed. So, we have to acknowledge what we're dealing with. These aren't just like the single mother who lost a check. These are people deep in a level of like, we got to bring you out if we can. You may just need to be in a in a in a mental facility. Like Dr. Phil will tell you, like I've talked to him, there's some people that just need psychiatric medicine and psychiatric help. That's a real >> because he lives around the corner from MacArthur Park. So, he gets to see it on a daily basis of just how bad it's gotten. And even me and my wife like recently went to a Lakers game. We ended up kind of routed through that area. And I used to live there in 2016 in Ktown and we're driving down the street and I'm seeing, you know, hundreds of dudes slumped over doing the the famous Fentine, >> the monster mash, >> yo. And I mean, I just couldn't believe it. Like this was an area where uh when Pokémon Go was released famously in 2016, we were walking around at at midnight playing Pokémon in the neighborhood and now and and it was a little sketchy then, sure, but now it's on a completely different level. Like what are your concerns in terms of like what you think could really help that community that you're so embedded in?

[00:26:24]>> I I think that my my biggest primary concern the whole time I've been there is like the actual community that lives there. Like you know, like I see everything that we're discussing. I see.

[00:26:35]But I also see at 7:30 in the morning when the kids are walking to the elementary school down the street, you know what I mean? And these are just people trying to coexist in this hellish community when they really are trying to forge like a strong identity. There's a big uh Central American presence right there and there which is a huge part of like the fabric and lifeblood of Los Angeles. And and to see them have to deal with not only the drugs but the gangs and all the issues that plague the neighborhood, that's kind of my primary concern. I was at uh Langanger's Deli with Norm on Saturday morning and he's a fighter. He's like I could have given up but he's he wants to fight for this community. The park he said is for the kids. MacArthur Park is for the kids. When him and his dad had when he was growing up his dad had norm that was for the kids. You would go on boats out there. We need to fight to get LA back for the kids so they don't grow up. I didn't see growing up naked drug addicts. these kids now that's a daily thing. I met a mom the other day. She said, "My kids play homeless." Like it's a we are creating with Yeah. Like it's a game. We need to fight for our the future of LA with these kids. And that's why I keep saying if I win, it's obviously it's God and then the moms because moms don't want their kids growing up in this. If you also when you just see that, oh yeah, they're on drugs. They're on drugs. Oh, he's on drugs. They have to tell their parent.

[00:27:57]You just, you brain is gonna say, oh, we do. That's society. You just do drugs.

[00:28:02]We need to get kids off of drugs. Drugs are like >> 100%.

[00:28:06]>> Well, and on top of that, by the way, I'm paying $2,000 a month to live next to this in supposedly a luxury apartment building. So, >> that's another inherent problem right there.

[00:28:18]>> Well, that's back to all the developers I meet. They don't want to build anything in LA anymore because out front of it, they know this investment is ting. They're sitting on so much property right now and so much stuff that they don't put money in. If we enforce laws, we get people off the street and get them treatment. Now, developers can put money into LA, we can build, prices go down, there's more opportunity, there's more jobs. We're losing over 100 restaurants a year minimum in LA. And when people hear that, that's not Chipotle. Even though the Chipotle just closed in the Palisades this week, so even so even Chipotles can't even stay open anymore.

[00:28:56]But you're losing these family businesses. This is like then you're losing the busers, you're losing the servers potentially if it's a nicer spot of valet. You when you hear over a 100 restaurants, these are huge pieces of the Los Angeles economy. And then we bring back to Hollywood. You know, right now all of a sudden, Mayor Bass and Councilman Ron, we got to get Hollywood back. We got to get Hollywood. These people have been combined in power for 10 years now when they they got somebody calling them out. Now, let's do it. They already let it fail. We got to bring it back. Red alert. or Mayor Bass would be like, "Oh, I cut the price to film at uh the Observatory to $30,000." These indie film productions or pop podcast, nobody has a budget for $30,000 to get a shot of an observatory back. We need to support independent creators and artists as a city cuz that's the lifeblood. Like when I was growing up, the only reason I wanted to be famous or being like cuz Hollywood was here, the energy, whether it's music or or film or TV, that's gone. It's in Georgia now, England, all these. It's not even here. We need to fight to bring it back because people think when it's Hollywood, they think about like Tom Cruz and these people.

[00:30:04]No, it's the guys building the set. It's the light. It's the grips. It's the glam people. People forget the hair and makeup people are hurting now cuz all these jobs, they like work in the salon, but now all the Hollywood shoots, whatever's left Hollywood out of the state, they don't get to go. So, these are their clients that leave. Now that was their side second check.

[00:30:23]>> Now they're on Only Fans.

[00:30:25]>> You know, it's so crazy about Only Fans.

[00:30:28]Like my friend who's like a, you know, he's like, "Bro, this she's like a lovely girl. He was ready to like wifey up." And I'm like, "Oh, what happened, bro?" He's like, "She couldn't afford here. This is a very attractive girl that back in the day she could do bottle service, be a server, and go on auditions." Even the attractive people in LA can't afford to live in here.

[00:30:48]That's LA is supposed to be where the attractive people could go work, do the move, that's gone. Like we've lost even what the like shiny part of LA is. And then yeah, all due respect to any woman on whatever the thing, but who knows how many of these people wouldn't go that way just because they got they got to pay rent. They got this and I don't judge anybody's. But my point is we need to may have more opportunities. So if you don't want to do that platform, there's other routes. But slowly but surely, we're just cutting off all the routes to feed yourself, have a nice outfit, pay your bills. And that's the problem with the socialists. They get everybody thinking, "Oh, they're going to give me more money." All the people they're taxing are going to leave the city. They're leaving the state. Who are they going to get the money from?

[00:31:35]They're coming after each tier goes down. So that formula, it's a nice little dream that fails in Venezuela, fails in Cuba. You can't. So, we need the only way to make more things affordable is put more money in your pocket. And the way you do that is more opportunity, more business. But the way we have it set up with LA that we are not getting more business, they make it hard to have a business. They overt tax you. They allow stuff in front of your streets that is hurting the the restaurant or hurting the there's so much. They're like, "How Spencer has no experience." All the people I talk to are the ones fighting this city who are on the outside that know exactly what we just got to change. And it'll always be a fight because these people are a lot of these people are crazy, >> right? Well, that's the the stuff they throw at you. They always want to say Spencer has no experience and then like people always want to tell me Spencer uh like lost all his money on crystals.

[00:32:28]Like what was the deal with the crystals? I I haven't been in the Spencer Pratt hive long enough to know about this.

[00:32:33]>> So, to be clear, my crystals went up more money than Bitcoin. They all burned, but they were all great investments at the time. So, I bought them in like 2007, 2008. These are the crystals you see in museums. These are collector. These things like they were going to go into the natural history museum. I was going to say collection by the Pratt family.

[00:32:54]>> People were trying to lead me to think that you were like a psychic or something that you have like healing crystals or something.

[00:32:59]>> You know, I was tapped into the matrix.

[00:33:00]So, you know, I'm not going to say I didn't >> certain property crystals exist.

[00:33:04]>> Again, they all burn down. So my everything I ever spent money on, they act like I didn't have it.

[00:33:10]>> So yes, I spent all this money. I was also 22, 23 years old, was planning on being Kim Kardashian, rich and famous.

[00:33:17]So I wasn't hoarding my money like this was my one run at the game. You know, if I didn't get unplugged, which that's the game, like the Kardashians Comcast stayed with them. Viacom said, "Oh, this this crew is too expensive." So I wasn't wrong and I wasn't right. But that idea, again, that's my money. It wasn't tax money. So if we're going to say he spent 10 million of his own money when he's 23, this lady Karen Bass just spent $400 million last year of our money to house allegedly 1,400 people. And that's just one of her little boxes of spending our money. So if we're going to do the who spends more reckless money, and mine wasn't reckless. I had great dinners. I treated a lot of friends. It's not even fair to hold you accountable to that in my opinion for like because really it hasn't you you weren't spending that money with like some type of political ambition or anything like that. This this is just you being young and flexing >> actually being insanely successful for your age and the fact that you were even able to blow that much money. I think that should say something.

[00:34:21]>> My dad who's a dentist called me my dad called me up because that you know he hears all this stuff and he goes when they say you spent over $10 million. He goes, "You ask them how many other people have made $10 million on their own with no connect." Like as the bad guy, >> you know, doing all my own hustle. You ask them how many people can do that.

[00:34:40]>> Like that's that's what people forget how hard it is to make a million dollars, let alone loss a million dollars. And again, I was the home. Like I was supporting people. I was funding, you know, rappers, MMA fighter. I have so many people I was taken care of with that money that you go ask them right now buying my friends suits so they could go try to be real estate a like I was a very good person to be friends with like >> with that money so >> there's people still wearing Spencer Pratt Air shirts from like 2007 >> 100% >> even in my BMX group chat a bunch of the dudes in the group chat had like positive stories from like partying at Spencer's house back in the day and stuff like that just kind of >> bring worlds together.

[00:35:24]>> I felt like every dollar I spent was for the good of lots of people to have fun.

[00:35:30]And I I mean, again, I'll run it back right now. This is what's going to stop me from be mayor. Like those decisions.

[00:35:35]I would have done all those decisions again. I learned so many life lessons to get to this point about human nature, about people, about different cultures.

[00:35:45]Like they act like, "Oh, he's from the pallet." I'm from LA. I knew everybody, you know, at one time, you know, I know this person that was uh part of this podcast. I've seen clips on TikTok when I was managing a fighter. His music manager at the time was Big U. So, I spent a lot of time in that world like Big You and his friends, we all would go to fights in different states. And >> again, I'm 23 years old, exposed to a whole part of LA at that time. You know, whatever is happening. I'm not a celebrity at the time as well too. It was like, >> so my point >> has been charged with murder and you're running for mayor, >> you know. So I didn't know, we didn't know each other at that time.

[00:36:24]>> Different paths, different paths.

[00:36:26]>> But my point is like >> I've been a part of all LA just being supporting people in different, you know, cuz I love rap. You know, we tried to sell before they even did it. We were trying to do rap battle show before it was even trending. I was in it got stolen.

[00:36:40]>> Got stolen. So, I mean, I was deep in the rap battle culture all day long and he's sending me this is the guy. Like, anything you can think of, I've like tried that hustle.

[00:36:50]>> I could see you two in a rap group.

[00:36:52]>> Yeah, for sure. Like the Migos. Maybe I'll join too. We need three, >> you know.

[00:36:56]>> Yeah, you can be the third.

[00:36:57]>> I just did my last rap song hopefully with my uh Fresh Prince of Bair video last >> Oh, yeah. No, you know.

[00:37:04]>> Yeah, that was amazing. What do you think Gavin Newsome is going to be willing to work with you or you think he's going to be so agrieved by the idea of LA having a a non-liberal mayor, Republican mayor that he he might try to stonewall you?

[00:37:15]>> Well, thankfully as a mayor, it's a nonpartisan race and it's a nonpartisan seat. That's what LA needs to keep.

[00:37:21]They've hijacked it and made it a political position. There's no letter next to my name and there's no letter next to Mayor Bass. My name just says Spencer Pratt, community advocate. So that idea of like who's they've made that in it's not supposed to be it's not designed that way.

[00:37:36]>> But Nome's gone. He's done in his terms up. So actually as mayor I'll be exposing his fraud with our tax money. So I'll probably actually eliminate him from being the president because I'm going to bring in the criminal investigation team of the IRS to go back in time and get all the documents. So all the people that have jacked all of our tax money, we're going to find their Bentleys. We're going to find their house. We're going to put them up to sale and we're going to figure out how to put that money back into neighborhoods, the parks and the kids, the Boys and Girls Club after school cuz these people are stealing our money and it's not going to our the kids in the communities.

[00:38:11]>> Yeah. And I mean Gavin Newsome's already screwed with the presidency because even the the most low information voters when they have this conversation, they end up saying if his business card right now is the current state of California, there is absolutely no way that America as a whole is going to get behind him. Bro, I wish that was true, but my experience being deep in this battle, people just believe lies, lies, lies. Like they're so Especially a good, even though he's not a good liar, he's like a smooth, snaky liar. And who he's targeting, it's they just go, "Oh, he's better than the other side." It's like we got to get past the other sides and who's actually got the the the results. That's what >> he's been capping since he was the mayor of Frisco. Like, oh, it's crazy. So, I wish that was true, but I have to fight people all day long. Now, they're like, "Oh, I'd rather have Bass because she wasn't on a reality show." Yeah, but you know what Bass was doing when she was 20? She was in Cuba training with terrorists to go bomb the US capital.

[00:39:12]>> So, that's what people forget. I'll take my hated every dumb thing I've done in my life background, but I was never trying to blow up America. Anti I love America. So, if you really go and look at the past, my my past goes against hers all day long.

[00:39:28]>> And, you know, like us growing up in like the far west side of LA and all that, it's predominantly very liberal.

[00:39:34]You know what I mean? It's like a you're surrounded in a sea of of blue. Would you say that um your family was particularly liberal or Democrat or you?

[00:39:45]My older sister is the the most progressive Democrat you could. And of course all of her friends, they're all backing me cuz I don't talk politics. I talk common sense. Basic. Everyone I know from high school. Everyone I grew up with is a is a liberal Democrat.

[00:40:02]>> 95% I guess there's I guess I heard there's a couple little Facebook groups from I don't even remember them in high school. They're like, I knew him. You can't vote for him. I'm like that's how crazy it's got. There's like different graduation years beefing to like back me. I'm like this planet is crazy right now. But yes, I don't know any Republicans. I don't know any. And then like I said on CNN, they go, "Why are you Republican?" Well, when you're the most hated person in America, beating OJ Simpson, beating Casey Anthony, like straight alleged murderers. I don't know the cases, but maybe they did, maybe they didn't. And you're beating these people. I had cops that were bodyguards.

[00:40:37]I had, you know, Delta Force bodyguard.

[00:40:39]You know what they'd all tell me? You better get your own gun for when we're not here. So, what did my wife and I do?

[00:40:44]We got guns. And then when you get a gun and you train and you learn and you're properly and I'm not just winging it here once you know how to operate it and have a safe handle of a gun, what do you learn? Oh, I need a CCW concealed carry weapons for. Do you know how hard that is to get? So, you know who hates that?

[00:41:00]Were the Democrats. So, that's the only time I ever connect. I'm like, "Oh, the Republicans are down with me having a CCW to protect my wife and kids cuz I can't afford security anymore." So like that is my and you know >> we should be able to have straps more easily and stuff >> unless they make I would love the streets where you don't need them but if people are getting home evasion three three times a night people are getting you need to be able to protect yourself.

[00:41:22]It's a foundation of the American identity of being American. You got to have be able to protect yourself. So if Democrats all of a sudden flipped in were like CCWs I would have been a registered Dem. That's my only thing that's political is keeping my wife safe and my kids safe. And if you try to mess with that, like I don't do any of the other I don't care about anybody's other party stuff. Like that's my You don't >> Yeah. Cuz that's life or death. And I know a lot of people, myself included, who are liberaless was definitely put to the test once you realize how difficult it is to get a CCW or even just get a gun in the first place in in Los Angeles. And I feel like that is one thing that is just it's hard to justify from our perspective cuz it's the city feels so dangerous. Like both things can't be in place at the same time.

[00:42:11]>> Yeah. And you know, like a Democrat mom will hear this and be like, "Oh my god, he doesn't like guns." And what I'll tell them is, "No, but I'm going to be the mayor that every school in LA, there's going to be one patrol unit that's got a pin for that school." Even though LASD supposedly, there's some little drama with that. They have their own police on campus. I'm going to make sure the LAPD keeps that block >> on patrol. So, we need to make sure kids are safe at school. That's going to be my one of my number one priorities. So, most people hate guns. You know, the people hate cuz they're concerned about kids in schools. My priority is to make kids safe, whether it's at the park, walking to school, or in their school.

[00:42:50]So, that's I'm more aware of the dangers of guns than somebody who's anti-gun.

[00:42:55]So, I will be fighting for these moms who are concerned about guns in society to make sure their kids are safe at school to a whole new tier that we've ever experienced in LA. But again, the whole point of everything is safety. If you don't have safety, you can't have a functioning city. That's the foundation of a successful city. So, like something I've always wanted to ask you, Spencer, um because we both grew up uh with a lot of the same kids. And uh something I realized is drug addiction is not mutually exclusive to socioeconomic status or race or gender or preference or anything like that. As evidenced by the fact that these kids we grew up with, some of the best schools in America and all that, they're dropping like flies. You know what I mean? I know we both know like five or six kids that grew up within two uh within a half mile of uh of 26th Street in Santa Monica that are all dead from overdoses and things of that nature. Um to the point where it's like Brentwood Park is damn near as bad as MacArthur Park, but is there's a lot of per capita these kids are still having a hard time with addiction. What do you think is the cause of that and what could we do to address that? Well, first off, I would be dead because when I was a freshman in college, zany bars had just dropped. And I thought, "Oh, these are safe. These are from like a doctor. I'll be dead now with the way they mix whatever." You know, that's the point. We have created a society where they can feel safe doing drugs without like one time you're dead.

[00:44:31]Like that's a new that was very rare.

[00:44:34]Like in the movies we're growing up, if like you got a hot dose of heroin and you shoot up, you could OD. Like that's a movie scene. Now that could be anything you take. So I think the problem is I don't think kids have enough dare commercials with the stakes.

[00:44:48]So even if you know, you're never going to not have kids experiment, but they need to know how dangerous it is now.

[00:44:54]And it's back to when I meet with the fire station guys. They tell me when they were growing up even they would teach you how to when to call 911. All of our resources of the fire department, they go to these houses for toothaches, ankle spray. We need to have a real marketing campaign to the youth, whether it's when to call 911, h how dangerous these drugs are. You know, your friend on Snapchat tells you try this Vicodin, you could die. I just don't think when you're 15, you think, "Oh, no. This dealer is good. My friend gets it." Like, we just need the public's awareness. You know, people who know know because they know somebody who's died. But I just don't think when you're 15, 16, like the real death reality and the choices are put on the youth. But kids are always going to want to experiment. We just need to make it a lot safer by stopping the cartels from getting this, you know, danger. You know, we need to target the cartels.

[00:45:52]They they don't care if they kill us.

[00:45:54]They, you know, >> do you feel like there was any progress made in the recent MacArthur Park operation? No, I was just down there. It was the whole new bag of Fenty gets dropped off by the plug the next day.

[00:46:05]They get one out. The volume of this stuff. Not to mention, ready for this?

[00:46:09]Did you see what the DOJ did? We pay for those needles, right? They just busted one of the city workers, the path guys.

[00:46:16]Not only did we pay for the needle, he got caught slanging the drugs to the addicts. So, our tax money is giving them the needles and then he's slanging the drugs. M.

[00:46:26]>> So, no, we need to be like DEA needs to be there every day till there's gone.

[00:46:30]But the problem is there will always be the consumer. The dealers will always we need to get the consumer off the streets and get them help. And it's funny because it's like they're programmed to go there. You know what I mean? Like they people have been going to that same corner since we were kids. You know, like what's going to stop it? There's there's no instruction manual. It's like they're instinctually just >> There was eras I've talked to certain law enforcement people. There was eras where they cleared the park for real, like not cleared it for like a day and it was back to the community and the family. So, it's doable. Like I know the specific air. I know the captain who was in charge of it. I talked to him. It's been done. The idea that we can't take our parks back for the communities. It's been done. And I can't wait to be the mayor that fights for the kids and the moms and and they go, "Oh, like Spencer." I'm like, "You don't realize who's behind me. If I get elected, that means the people were enough." And I'm again, I'm fine if I don't get elected.

[00:47:24]It's not God's plan. If I'm right here this close, God is putting me into play.

[00:47:29]And if I don't get elected, I'm gonna go back to selling healing crystals and be with my family. And >> hummingbirds, baby.

[00:47:35]>> Hummingbirds will be back. I'll just be eating my tacos at Don Antonio. So, I only have the pressure of doing my hardest effort so I can look like it was not God's plan. Because once you lose everything, your family lose everything, your parents, and you look to God, you're like, "Why?" And then everything lines up like this. I'm like, "Okay, is this my path? Is this where God wants my destiny? I don't know. But I will do everything so that when I look back to tell my kids like I was almost the may I put it in the work and the energy and I fought but it wasn't for me." I'll be able to have that on my heart and I won't be like, "Oh, I should maybe God did set me up, but I didn't do the work." Because a lot of people forget that, you know, God or angels can get behind you, but if you don't do everything in your power to deliver, then it's not on God. You got set up and you didn't follow through. And I've and I've learned that in my journey about consistency and regret. I'm going to put in a every bit of my DNA into this until the election and then if I'm not mayor, I'm not mayor. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep fighting, exposing these people that destroyed my life and my community. But I'm just not going to be that wasn't God's plan to have me do it from the inside.

[00:48:44]>> Sure. Um I know you got to go. Uh can we just get your pitch to the No Jumper fans out there who are largely young, probably largely not terribly uh politically devoted to one side or the other. Tell them why they should want you to be mayor of Los Angeles.

[00:49:01]>> You know, my pitch is even broader. I think from the experience I have in this journey, my close friends who love me, people don't even vote. Your vote should matter. So even if you're not voting for me, go vote. Like be involved, care about who the city council member, don't go off of like a a lot of these influencers you see, they're paid ops without the, you know, I got a civics uh civic what violation. I'm just going to sue my opponents because they're paying the ops to make videos to cook on me.

[00:49:29]So, a lot of things you see, they don't have the proper little tag on it. The clippers need to have the don't just believe what you see on your algorithm.

[00:49:39]And just do the work. Like, I wish I had done the work in my community. Found out both the reservoirs were empty, found out the fire department was underfunded by our mayor, found out that they let all this dead brush. Like, my pitch is just like, be a concerned citizen because you are paying taxes. You may not realize it, but you're paying sales tax on all your matcha or whatever you get on your blunt wraps, your cush.

[00:50:03]Everything's got everything's got taxes.

[00:50:05]So, you are paying for the failure at the Country Mart now.

[00:50:10]>> So, I would say I'm more concerned about people like doing their own due diligence. Don't go off of what I'm saying on this. Go investigate where your money's going. Go investigate what all their cook numbers. I'm going to win if it's God. I don't need to convert voters. I don't go out and try to like hustle people to like vote for me. I my message is going to connect to the people who want what I'm saying, just the truth, accountability, transparency.

[00:50:36]But if that's not for you, then just vote though. Vote against me if you have to. But just vote. That's the key. How we're failing as Americans and citizens.

[00:50:44]We've let the people that vote who are actually against our own what we want like humanity. the people that are really voting are are the a lot of these people are bad like evil. I'll say straight up evil. They're like people who are really they're the it's for the destruction of America. So if you know you could be on this and already be all hyped as a socialist like I hate America. Good luck with that. It does not work and it's a lie. They're lying to you. So I would say research socialism and stop believing you can mix socialism with the it's all that's all like no. We got to work hard. We got to make sure that people aren't stealing our money and we not hold them accountable. But yeah, there's no pitch.

[00:51:26]It's just like I'm I'm with God. So if I'm going to win is the Holy Spirit.

[00:51:30]>> You're with God. You got a beautiful family supporting you. Like clearly like your your wife's behind you, your family's behind you. You're good.

[00:51:38]>> I've had to leave my family the most I've since I've had a wife and had kids.

[00:51:43]This is like people like, "Oh, he's doing this for clout." This ain't fun clout.

[00:51:46]>> Political clout is scary. I got to have now armed cops with me, 24-hour security on my kids. People are crazy. This is not like fun. I'm doing this like for the real like for my heart. Like I'm risking a lot to do this. I'm not doing this like I want to be the man. No, I want to make a change. So again, >> you got my vote.

[00:52:09]>> Yeah, I'm rocking.

[00:52:09]>> Let's do it. Spencer, man. Appreciate you so much.

[00:52:12]>> Thank you.

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