[@joerogan] Joe Rogan Experience #2483 - Spencer Pratt

Link: https://youtu.be/pDfm9RaIIv4

Duration: 120 min

Short Summary

Spencer Pratt, a reality TV personality from The Hills running for Mayor of Los Angeles, alleges the Palisades fire was preventable due to empty water reservoirs and budget cuts, claims $24+ billion in homelessness spending produced documented fraud including a federal case against Steven Taylor who allegedly used $27.3 million in taxpayer funds to purchase properties through fraudulent documents, and proposes aggressive enforcement policies on public safety and homelessness while challenging incumbent Karen Bass's 20% approval rating in the June election.

Key Quotes

1. "The fact that the reservoir was empty was criminal mismanagement. I mean, it was just insanity that everybody knew that we had fires, like massive fires, that it was a dry place, and when the Santa Ana winds would blow, if something caught fire, it was a real problem." (00:00:32)
2. "The DEA will tell you 90% of these homeless people have a drug problem. We have a drug addict problem. These aren't people that just like missed a paycheck and we need to get them help and get back. This is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment." (00:15:30)
3. "They're operating a fire department from the 1960s with 50% more calls now. 80% of them are for zombies to overdoses. 30% of the fires are zombie encampment fires." (00:43:53)
4. "Socialism has failed everywhere. I've seen" (00:36:55)

Detailed Summary

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Spencer Pratt's Mayoral Campaign: Background and Entry

Spencer Pratt, a reality TV personality known for The Hills and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, entered the Los Angeles mayoral race after his house burned in the January 2025 Palisades fire, declaring "You don't get to burn my house down" in response to Mayor Karen Bass announcing her reelection campaign. The candidate claims to have a deputy mayor advising him who cannot be publicly identified due to fear of retaliation from city power structures.

• Pratt states his platform aligns with Bill Clinton's 1996 Democratic party platform
• He argues current LA leadership represents "socialism, communism, cartel, and mafia" rather than true Democrats
• A UCLA poll shows Bass has approximately 20% approval while Pratt has 13% with 40% undecided voters
• Pratt claims opponents are coordinating to block him from November by introducing a last-minute candidate
• June 2nd is the election date where the top two candidates advance to November; reaching 51% would result in becoming mayor that same day

Palisades Fire: Alleged Preventability and Cover-Up

Pratt claims the Palisades fire was anticipated and preventable, alleging that US Forest Service Chief Garcia showed him "bright red" maps and photos indicating fire risk before January 7th, with all firefighters already on standby yet the Palisades reservoir sat empty—described by Pratt as "criminal mismanagement." The fire reportedly started on New Year's Eve as an 8-acre fire, with an arson case reportedly pending for Skull Rock.

• State park rangers reportedly photographed a smoldering hillside but took no action
• California State Parks environmental policies allegedly prevented firebreak creation for 50-60 years, with "milk vetch" cited as the reason dozers could not be deployed
• Firefighter Pike's subpoenaed testimony reportedly confirms smoldering pockets were observed but hoses were pulled anyway
• 7,000 houses burned in the January 8th fire when there was no wind

Fire Department Underfunding and Retaliation

Pratt alleges Mayor Karen Bass fired Fire Chief Kristin Crowley 7 weeks before the Palisades fire in retaliation for her memo stating the department was "dangerously underfunded," subsequently cutting an additional $17 million from the fire department while $400 million sat unallocated in homeless services accounts. LAFD operates with 1960s-era resources while handling 50% more calls.

• 80% of LAFD calls are now for overdoses and 30% of fires occur at homeless encampments
• A broken refrigerator at a fire station allegedly costs $50,000 to repair through exclusive city contracts
• Firefighters reportedly pay out of pocket for basic supplies like blinds and paint
• Chief Garcia had US Forest Service resources ready during the Palisades fire that reportedly saved neighborhoods
• CalFire only pays firefighters seasonally despite fires being a year-round problem
• During the 2019 fire, the reservoir was empty and $17 million helicopters spent 66% of their time traveling to Malibu, Pepperdine College, and Irwindale to get water

Homelessness Spending: $24+ Billion and Alleged Fraud

Over $24 billion has been spent on homelessness in Los Angeles, with audits blocked by Governor Newsom who vetoed attempts to track spending. Federal authorities are investigating fraud where individuals allegedly stole $20-30 million in homelessness funds to purchase Bentleys and mansions in Brentwood. The Integrity Project, created by a Westwood resident who discovered property sold from $11 million to $27 million in just 6 days, provided files to the FBI.

• Steven Taylor faces federal charges for allegedly submitting fraudulent documents to borrow private money while purchasing properties with $27.3 million in taxpayer grant funds
• Weart NGO receives approximately $100 million annually and has not filed required federal audits
• Pratt claims most homeless individuals were flown into Los Angeles as part of a "body business" profit scheme
• Governor Newsom vetoed attempts to track homelessness spending

Public Safety and Criminal Justice

The campaign argues the no cash bail system is destroying Los Angeles by releasing violent criminals and repeat offenders back onto streets, with SWAT officers reporting home invaders know they will be released within two weeks even when caught with weapons, and their biggest callouts are now mental health episodes rather than gang activity. Nithya Raman, the DSA-backed mayoral candidate, argued there is no difference between encampments one foot versus 500 feet from a school.

• A proposed two-week enforcement countdown would post advance warnings prohibiting fentanyl, open drug use, and encampments before enforcement begins
• Pratt plans to bring in the CDC to test encampments for diseases like typhoid to trigger federal intervention with decontamination protocols
• He proposes immediate law enforcement action and mandatory medical treatment to clear streets and encampments upon taking office
• Parents reportedly booed Raman at campaign events for her stance on encampments near schools with known gang activity

Pacific Palisades Reconstruction Crisis

Fire hydrants were empty during the January 8th fire and no state water tankers were brought in, with only 14-16 houses rebuilt in 15+ months since the disaster. Pratt claims there will be a $100+ billion tax benefit from rezoning the 7,000 burned properties at new 2027-2028 tax rates, and China is reportedly the number one buyer of Palisades dirt lots operating through New Zealand businesses.

• Insurance companies dropped coverage for 70-year-olds who had paid premiums for 40+ years before the fire
• Pratt is currently suing Governor Gavin Newsom and California State Parks to rebuild in the Palisades
• Karen Bass endorsed Nithya Raman, conducting photo ops a week before the election deadline

Infrastructure Failures

Water rates in Los Angeles went up 17% or 11% in one year, with 7% annual increases planned going forward, while the city eliminated its copper theft task force due to LAPD funding constraints, leaving non-working streetlights throughout the city. Thieves have now pivoted from copper to stealing solar batteries from new installations.

• Mayor Basqui reportedly announced $200 million for solar-powered lights to address copper theft
• City eliminated copper theft task force due to LAPD funding constraints

Landlord-Tenant Crisis

Tenants, including Section 8 recipients driving Range Rovers, can live a full year without paying rent while landlords must spend $100,000 in legal fees to evict them, often settling by paying $40,000-$50,000 to non-paying tenants who are not placed on any list and repeat the scheme at other buildings. The LA City Council gave $170 million to lawyers who sue tenants with no corresponding fund for tenants to defend themselves.

• Non-paying tenants are not placed on any list and reportedly repeat the scheme at other buildings
• Landlords often settle by paying $40,000-$50,000 to avoid extended legal proceedings

Hollywood and Economic Development Proposals

Pratt met with former Sony president Steve Moscow about assembling an "Avengers team" for Hollywood to address permit issues and restore filming incentives, proposing to eliminate filming permit fees in Los Angeles to bring back production business and deferring revenue concerns for six years. Flavored nicotine is currently illegal in Los Angeles, affecting both homeless populations and health-conscious individuals.

• Pratt proposes eliminating filming permit fees to revive production business
• Revenue deferral planned for six years under the proposal

Political Allegations and DSA Influence

Pratt claims DSA members sign contracts to "co-govern" upon taking office, representing DSA interests over their districts, with four DSA members sitting on Los Angeles City Council earning $238,000 annually not including benefits. The LA Times reportedly published a "hit piece" about Pratt's eligibility the same day a UCLA poll showed him leading.

• Palisades neighborhood reportedly contributed more tax revenue than most other areas of the city
• Pratt claims the LA Times published a "hit piece" about his eligibility the same day a UCLA poll showed him leading

Community Initiatives and Civic Response

Juan from Clean LA, who moved from Ecuador, cleans up trash and posts his work online, receiving GoFundMe donations and reportedly doing more cleanup than the city. Community budget advocates presented seven budget initiatives to Mayor Bass that were not implemented; Pratt claims he will implement all seven. When Xi Jinping visited San Francisco, Gavin Newsom cleaned up encampments, leading to criticism about why the city isn't kept clean regularly.

• Community budget advocates presented seven budget initiatives to Mayor Bass that were not implemented
• Pratt claims he will implement all seven community budget initiatives

Full Transcript

Show transcript

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>> What's going on, Mr. Mayor?
>> I'm so thankful to be here.
>> My pleasure. Um, so first of all, how
did this idea even get into your head of
running for mayor in LA?
To be clear, I never wanted to run for
any political office or have anything to
do with politicians. What happened was
after spending a year uncovering how my
house and my parents house burned down
and my neighbors burned alive and and
7,000 houses burned and then I realized
there's a a cover up going on, all the
negligence. And I keep posting about it
and I have all the facts. I have all the
whistleblowers. I have all the evidence
and business as usual. and I see that
nobody is stepping up to run against the
mayor who's responsible for this
disaster and so many other disasters.
So, it became to the point where I got
so sick of just being a, as the younger
people say in the comment section, a
yapper. Like, I felt like I was just
yapping. I'm like, I'm making these
videos. I'm telling the the truth. I'm
>> I got a congressional investigation. I
went to Washington. And I met with
everyone possible that I could do as
just a citizen
and I I was like, "Okay, well, game on
now. I'm going to go into your into your
headquarters and just take your job and
then remove all these toxic entities
that are destroying our way of life in
Los Angeles."
>> So, let's start from the fire. Um, so
the narrative was, God, there was a lot
of terrible, stupid, fake narratives and
one of them was climate change. That was
the craziest one. the climate change is
causing the fire. Look, I lived in LA
for
29, 30 years, whatever it was. And I
guess it was, yeah, somewhere around
there, maybe even more, whatever it was.
Uh, when I lived in LA,
fire season happened every year. It this
is not climate change. This is not some
new thing over the last couple of
decades. I was evacuated three different
times. Uh, I used to live in Bell Canyon
and my neighbors, three of the homes
right across the right across the street
from my house burnt to the ground in
2018. The there's always been fires in
Los Angeles, but the lack of preparation
for the Palisades fires was astonishing.
The fact that the reservoir was empty
was criminal mismanagement. I mean, it
was just insanity that everybody knew
that we had fires, like massive fires,
that it was a dry place, and when the
Santa Ana winds would blow, if something
caught fire, it was a real problem. We
had known that forever. And when you
see all these people that are passing
the buck and moving the blame and then
the fund when they had that big charity
thing for the fire and you found out
that hundreds of millions of dollars was
raised, you know, if you're you're
looking at it in like a an a rational
person, a rational person would say,
"Oh, this is great. all these people who
lost their homes will have some funds
from this and they'll be able to
rebuild. And then you find out that the
money was given to what was it like 108
different NOS
>> 200 plus
>> 200 plus where that money got
distributed to these organizations these
supposed nonprofit organizations and
most of that money goes to overhead and
almost nothing goes to the people who
lost their homes. sort of re rewind
reind start with what we thought, right?
>> We were told climate change and with the
climate change because I've spent hours
and hours arguing with people that will
argue with that. I go, "Okay, great. The
climate changes, right? So, we're aware
of this dry weather. It hasn't rained.
So, what should we actually be doing?
Should we just say, "Oh, everybody
should burn alive and houses burn down."
Or should we clear the dead brush?
Should we pre-eploy? Should we make sure
that both reservoirs have water in it?
So the idea that climate change is the
the get out of jail, burn everything
down excuse, it doesn't even add up. So
we know that. So let's make a
difference. And I went and met with the
chief of the US Forest Service and
talked to him for a few hours. This guy,
Chief Garcia, he's one of the most
famous fire chiefs from the Hot Shots.
And I quizzed him and he told me this
was not a surprise. He said they all
have a map. I forget the name of this
map that it goes to all cities and
emergency personnel. They have photos.
You look at them. He showed them to me.
Everything is bright red leading up to
January 7th. Bright red. They knew this
was coming to the point where Chief
Garcia had all of his firefighters on
the tarmac kitted up in their
helicopters. He said his whole team was
standing by their computers because it
was so obvious this fire was coming
based off of if you want to say climate
change because it was it had not rained.
It was record dry. So this idea that
they use that it's it's just an excuse.
And then the big one that everyone falls
for to this day that is the best
propaganda ever is hurricane winds. We
were told you know Newsome's doing the
thing and he's saying that winds were
coming the hurricane. and he lit his
hair on fire. There was no hurricane
winds in the Pacific Palisades. The max
wind speed was 40 mph. And for the first
6 hours when the helicopters, the
initial attack when you put out the the
fire, it was max I think 27 mph. So they
got everyone with it's unprecedented,
it's hurricane winds, it's climate
change, no responsibilities. So now we
go to fire raid. This is this was
another thing that just woke me up to,
you know, we always heard about the
homeless NGO scam and the homeless
industrial complex, but living as a a
fire victim and watching all these
celebrities go on stage. They actually
took fire victims from Aladena on stage
whose houses burned down and they raised
this $und00 million. And as a victim,
I'm thinking, okay, you know, we're
going to get a few thousand dollars.
That's nice. or you know, you break a
hundred million up, there should be a a
grand. You know, even FEMA and these
places, when you get that $1,000 check,
it's helpful. You're like, "Oh, I just
lost everything." Every little thousand
adds up. So when that happened and
nobody I know anywhere got money and Sue
Pascow from circling the news, a local
journalist whose house burned down, she
spent months investigating, calling up
every single NGO. Who did you give money
to? Which which victim? Nobody got
money. And even the the law firm that
they hired to do the, you know, the
cover up for uh the fire aid, the law
firm says in their own little three-page
document where they're defending fire
aid, they say several of the money went
directly to fire victims. Well, I Google
just to see because I know the
definition of several. I want to see
what does Google say. Several is it was
definitely under 10. So out of 200 plus
NOS's their own lawyers are saying
several gave to fire victims and then
you look at the three that they name
like we gave gift cards to victims which
victims which you were just handing out
if you were but it it was that that woke
me up to if they stole the money.
>> Yeah. And if they'll do that to the
people whose houses just burned down of
course they're going to do it to our tax
money with the homeless industrial
zombie complex. So that was a real wake
up that put me into, oh, here's where
the 2530 billion dollars goes. It
doesn't go to solving anything or fixing
it. It goes to scams. Well, I I don't
think before Doge and before Elon
started investigating into a lot of
these NOS's, I don't think anybody was
really aware or most people were not
aware of how this all works and how
there's a whole bureaucracy, like a
business that's set up where a bunch of
people get paid from this money to
essentially make no improvements
whatsoever in whatever the problem is,
whether it's homelessness. The
homelessness is one of the biggest ones
in LA because there was 24 plus billion
dollars spent on homelessness and when
people when representatives have tried
to do an audit to find out where this
money went, Nuome has blocked it. He has
vetoed this audit.
>> So it's it's even worse in the sense
that it's not going to just their
salaries. There's actual cases now with
the DOJ and the feds. are arresting
people who are just stealing 30 million,
20 million, buying Bentleys, mansions in
Brentwood. So, the idea that it's just
going to salaries and people are paying
themsel out, that's one. But there's
also people just straight up stealing
money and and you can't even figure out
how they steal it. For instance, uh this
lovely lady um came on my podcast and
she's she created her own charity type
thing, the integrity project to expose
NOS's because she lives in Westwood and
all of a sudden one day on her block in
this, you know, she invested with her
husband have a nice single family house
on this nice street in Westwood and the
old person home, they were kicking all
the senior citizens out and she's like,
"What's going on here?" And then next
thing you know, the building's on the on
the market for sale and it's for $11
million. 6 days later, that building
sells to a developer for $27 million.
Ends up this NGO, Weart, who's one of
the top I think they're at maybe a
hund00 million just this year. They
haven't turned in their audit to the
feds. It's late right now. But for
instance, no one knows why it went from
11 million to 27 million over the
weekend in 3 days. So people pocket that
money. Here's the craziest part. Guess
who So the grant, you know, weard gets a
grant from the city or the state. Guess
who owns that building?
Not the city or the state. Weart. So our
tax money buys for 20 extra million
dollars of property to have it as a
homeless housing. Each of these beds,
cuz I think there's maybe only 70 beds
in it. It's now six years later
approximately totally not finished not
done more you know construction this or
that they still get paid as operators so
these NOS's not only get the money for
the grants to buy the building then they
get like a million dollars a year to be
operators and here's the best part
there's no mandatory that they have to
actually put a body in the beds so
>> you know so the scam is like I keep
saying this is a cartel this is mafia
this this real mafia criminal stuff
going on. And the problem is, so one
thing I'm so excited to do when I'm
mayor and people in the comment section
like, "Oh, he's so stupid. You can't do
that." I've met with the IRS criminal
investigation team three times in LA,
twice in Washington DC, and they are so
excited for me to be mayor because all
they need is one document from each of
these NOS's and these grants and they
can open these investigations on fraud.
right now they know the fraud and the
and the crimes are happening but if the
city doesn't hand over the document and
the NGO doesn't they say they can't just
open up these cases without that one
document. So first week,
>> sorry there.
>> So for first week as mayor, I'm bringing
in the criminal investigation team, the
IRS. Here's all the NOS's we're working
with. I guarantee you 95% of them
already just call and they're like, "Oh,
Mayor Pratt, oh, we're good. We're
actually going to Seattle. We don't want
to work here." Once they know someone's
coming to stop the cookie jar stealing
and then when people are like, "Oh, LA
has no money. How are you going to do
all this stuff?" LA has plenty of money
that we're just letting our tax money
just be stolen. And to increase a
problem, homeless since our current
mayor Karen Bass has has joined the city
power, she's increased homeless. They
reference numbers. They reference
numbers that she'll be like, "Oh, we
removed 1500 people this year." But she
doesn't say, "Oh, 1,500 were removed
into the cemetery because they owe
deed." Not to mention how much tax money
we're spending on just keeping zombies
alive. I met with firefighters a few
days ago at the Hollywood station and
they were telling me the amount of
Narcan they go through. So in one night
in the at the I talked to a m MacArthur
Park there fire station. He did 17
overdoses in one night.
>> Jeez. So if we they're not there given
the nar where the the amount of people
dying is even more insane. Right now six
people are dying a day in the street and
then they say oh this is compassionate
these people have rights. No these
people do not have rights for to just
die. We need to protect these people as
humans. And again that's why my whole
thing is enforce the law. It is illegal
to just be doing fentanyl on the street.
So, if we come in and we give you
mandatory treatment, not jail, if you're
not, you know, some of these people are
just straight going to jail for animal
abuse. They're torturing animals all day
long on Skid Row. The videos that I get
sent once you see them, you can't unsee
them. Not to mention, now I'm working
with all the rescue ones, the ones they
text me and they're just like, "Spencer,
we have to stop this." And the city
knows. They call the cops all day long.
The cops come and they say, I mean,
LAPD's hands are tied. If the mayor and
the city attorney, they don't have the
like enforce the law, they just get away
with it. So, we're in Mad Max life in
Los Angeles. And people like to say,
"Oh, it's no, it's I'm from LA. I've
grown up." And I keep saying, "I'm
fighting to get LA back to what I grew
up. It was beautiful. It's why I wanted
to be on a TV show and be famous and be
part of Hollywood. It was magical." Not
even mention Hollywood is now gone. The
fact that Hollywood Boulevard should be
the greatest tourist attraction in the
world. You couldn't pay me right now to
go on Hollywood Boulevard, step on a
human feces, the smell of pee, inhaling
fent. Just everyone just can just smoke
fentanyl in the streets now. It's
psycho. So again, why did I once you
start digging in and you spend all your
life now exposing this? Because again,
they burn my house down. They burn my
mom's house down. I have to. They put me
in the game. And once you the bubble's
gone, I just all I have is this energy
to stop this. Not to mention now the
amount of thousands of messages I get
every day from every part of the city
sending me photos. There's parents that
when they drive to school all across the
city, this is not just one unique area.
They have to have their kids in the back
seat staring at an iPad not to look out
the window because meth addicts will
just be having sex on the side of the
street. There's just naked people
everywhere. Now, and when I say people,
naked zombies. And the DEA will tell you
90% of these homeless people have a drug
problem. We have a drug addict problem.
These aren't people that just like
missed a paycheck and we need to get
them help and get back. This is a drug
problem that needs mandatory treatment.
not handing people needles and pipes and
saying, "Oh, here's a million-dollar
bed." If you're a fentanyl zombie
hanging upside down, you don't care
about a million-dollar empty bed cuz
you're just high. You sober up and you
go get high again. But what were we
talking about?
>> Got to be pumped up. Got to be pumped.
>> It's good. It's good to be pumped up. I
mean, there's no other explanation other
than extensive fraud. There's no way
they could be getting that much money
from our taxes and have this big of a
problem with crime and with
homelessness. And it's almost like they
want everybody to feel helpless. They
want you to feel like there's nothing
you do so that it justifies throwing
more money at the problem. Pull that
article up again.
>> So, uh so here it is. This is uh this is
anist homeless deal now under federal
investigation.
Um so even in LA's famously overheated
real estate market, the profit and quick
turnaround on senior housing complex and
what's that word? Chevotach. Chevot, how
do you say that? Chev Hills.
>> Cheviat Hills. Do you know where that
is?
>> Uhhuh.
>> Uh neighborhood seems extraordinary. The
man at the center of the deal since
identified by federal prosecutors as
Brentwood landlord and developer Steven
Taylor bought the property on Shelby
Drive in 2023 for 11.2 million. Purchase
record shows. Okay, so this is this is
exactly what you're talking about. 27.3
million to pay for that acquisition came
from taxpayer grant funds authorized by
city and state officials. According to
grant documentations, LA Mayor Karen
Bass and Governor Nuome touted the
purchase as a key tool in the fight
against homelessness, the fight against
homelessness that they're losing. Um,
the deal called for Taylor's involvement
to be kept secret, according to a
confidentiality clause included in the
purchase contract obtained through a
public records request. That changed
last month when federal authorities
announced criminal charges against
Taylor. He's accused of submitting
fraudulent documents to borrow money for
private lender from private lenders when
he bought this and or and other
properties.
So, uh, news conference region's top
federal prosecutor, Bill, uh,
Asale said the investigation is ongoing.
Taylor was arrested in August when the
case was under seal and pleaded not
guilty. Court records show it's the
first of the two known criminal cases
brought so far by the federal task
force. Assembled in April to investigate
fraud and corruption around the use of
billions of dollars earmarked to combat
homelessness in Southern California.
These people are just buccaneers.
They're just buccaneers. This is a just
a a gigantic criminal enterprise that
exists under this guise of, you know,
being kind. Like,
>> so that case only exists because of that
mom. Samantha spent did 7,500 of her own
public records requests on that senior
citizen home that and then the FBI came.
She started posting it. FBI knocked on
her door and said, "Can we meet with
you?" And she gave them all of her
files. So, it's back to what I was
saying. The feds wouldn't even got that
story if this woman Samantha from the
Integrity Project didn't do 7,000 public
records request and build this case on
her own because she was, "What's going
on in my next door neighbor?"
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>> Well, this has got to be just one piece
of the puzzle.
>> That's 30 million of 25 plus billion
dollars.
>> This is So, this is an extensive
coordinated effort to to siphon money
>> 100%. And again, there's plenty of money
to stop homelessness. Karen Bass will
tell you, let's use her low number, made
up number. They go around and they
count. They drive. This is a real thing.
They drive around and they do the
homeless count. You can volunteer and
you just count like, "Oh, one, two." So
that that's how they do it.
>> Yes. They just had a count recently. So
the count supposedly is,
let's say, 45,000. The Rand Corporation
will say that count is 30% low. I'll say
that count's 100% low. But even so,
let's say there's a hundred,000 homeless
people in Los Angeles,
$20 billion. Okay, that's California.
Let's bring it down to in the last year
or two, a couple billion dollars. We
can't get people off the street with
that much money. Just today, this DSA
city council member was doing a video.
She's bragging about, "Oh, I just
secured $16 million grant." I love how
they use the grant. I just got $16
million more of our tax money. and she
is putting in little tiny homes next to
somebody like just next to a normal
street where again this shouldn't be
where that is and it's housing
approximately they say 60 people or
whatever I did it was a4 million per
person that they're bragging about
$250,000 a person can get anybody sober
a nice little condo or apartment for a
year potentially whatever job tools you
need. So this idea that takes a4 million
dollars to put a tiny it's everyone's
getting a cut. It's like again it's like
the mafia who's
>> there's a bunch of things going on.
There's a bunch of employees that are
getting paid so and getting paid
substantial amounts of money. You know
my friend Kolon Noir found this out
about San Francisco. So he went up to
San Francisco. He saw all this
homelessness and he's a lawyer but he's
also he doesn't know what's going on
over there. He's like wow what's going
on? Do they need more money? He's like,
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What's
going on is they're actually
incentivized to have more homeless
people because the more homeless people,
the bigger the bureaucracy grows, the
bigger you can have your homeless
foundation, your homeless task force,
whatever it is." And these people are
making4 million dollars a year plus, and
which is insane. And he he showed the
list of the salaries of all these
people. How are you getting paid when
the problem keeps getting worse and all
you're doing is hiring more people and
they're getting paid more money and more
projects and more grants and more
homelessness and it's not getting any
better but the money keeps coming in so
you're incentivized to keep the problem
>> of and increase it.
>> Yes. more money. It's a business,
>> right?
>> And you know, people always talk, I grew
up and I was well aware of the military
industrial complex, but even with that,
they tracked the bombs and the fighter
jets. This it's even it's even crazier
because there's no I think we we serve,
they use the word serve and cared for.
They don't track results. They say, "Oh,
we house 1,400 people for a night, two
nights." You know, it's not like we're
getting people have bracelets and we're
tracking them and they're getting air
tags. We have no idea what's going on.
So, again, I keep saying as mayor, I'll
enforce the laws because you cannot be a
crazed drug addict zombie just running a
muck naked on the street. That is why,
thank God, our amazing Democrats in
California made this year SB43.
And that means if you can't manage your
own mental state, you can come in and
have a hold the site cold for 72 hours.
And if it seems like, oh, this person
needs real treatment, it can go to 45
days. And then it can go up to a year
conservatorship. And as mayor, what I
keep telling people is once you start
enforcing the law, first off, people who
just want to do drugs and live on the
streets, they will leave LA because
they'll see, oh, this mayor is not
playing around. We need to go somewhere
else. or they're so crazy and we're
going to help them get medical treatment
or they're one of these dog abusing type
people and I'm going to put them under
the jail to the point where once they
get from under the jail somehow if they
ever get out they will never come back
to LA cuz now they're been under the
jail and they're going to go under two
times more till they end up in prison
because if you abuse animals once again
once you see what I've seen we're
talking they're stapling dogs eyes
closed light I mean I can't even it's
It's insane. The shelters alone where
it's the city is doing mass murder
because they're not giving these people
enough funding. And I'm convinced now
they must make money off of euthanizing
ju. So there's the street issue with the
the zombies abusing dogs and then the
city just mass murdering dogs because
they're not getting the proper funding
and facilities and they're not spaying
and neutering and enforcing all the laws
to keep, you know, street breeders from
just flooding the streets with the dogs.
So back to you enforce the law and this
isn't impossible. I've met with a lot of
people that have real estate in Los
Angeles and they have real estate in San
Francisco and Mayor Lur came in and he
started enforcing the law and just
saying you can't do this and he has
cleaned up the city pretty well. You
know, there's obviously people that say
he's not doing enough. And again,
>> I'm sorry, what city is this?
>> San Francisco.
>> In San Francisco.
>> And so he he took the call from the feds
and he said, "I'm going to do this." And
he's doing a solid job. Again, I'm going
whole next level because I'm not
concerned about optics. I'm not
concerned about, oh, Spencer's doing
this. He's so mean. No, what's mean is
letting people live on the street in
human poop and dying on the street. And
these people I run against, they're all
the same. They go, oh, we need more
housing. We need more affordable
housing. We need more beds. This isn't
working. We They just keep doubling
down.
>> Well, that's a false narrative.
Everybody knows it's not a housing
problem. It's not That's not what it is.
It's a drug abuse and mental health
problem. That's all it is. It's not a
housing problem. That's a flatout lie.
And anybody who says that should be
shamed when they say we need more
affordable housing. Well, you're [ __ ]
lying. And you're part of the problem.
If you're saying it's just an affordable
housing problem, that means either you
are a part of the propaganda narrative
and you've been told to say this or
you're in on it
>> 100%.
>> And what they
>> at this point it's [ __ ] nuts.
>> Skid Row is 50 blocks. It's It can't
even be called Skid Bro anymore. It's
called Los Angeles. We're every
community. Before my house burned down
in the Palisades, my wife was ready to
move because every morning front of
Palisades Elementary that then burned
down and across the street at my son's
preschool at Methodist. There was a lady
cleaning her private parts in front of
kids at 7:45 in the morning. You call
LAPD, they pull up and they go, "You
don't know her." Cuz they can't enforce
law. She'd go around the corner and
she'd go number two in front of Joe's
Barberh Shop. I would know because I had
to step over the number two cuz I'd
always park right near Joe's Barber
Shop. So, it's not Skid Row. It's
everywhere.
>> So, the police are told not to do
anything about it. Is that what it is?
>> If you don't enforce the law, what are
they going to do?
>> Right. So, this comes down from the
mayor,
>> of course. And then the mayor and the
city attorney. If the mayor is not
telling the city attorney to prosecute
all these misdemeanors, put these people
in mandatory hold. If you're cleaning
your private parts in front of kids and
you're a normal citizen, you are going
to jail. You're going to get be on the
citizens app as a sex offender. But the
consequences for zombie people,
>> they don't have them. crazy.
>> It's not fair for all the normal
taxpaying people in Los Angeles that we
have to abide by laws and then there's a
whole class is like it's like anarchy.
It's like it's psycho.
>> It's so weird to see, you know, uh cuz I
lived in LA for so long and when I first
moved there in the '9s, there was
nothing like this. It was uh it was
nice, you know. I mean, it was a lot of
traffic, but that was it. There was some
crime, but it wasn't that bad. and
everything just keeps getting worse and
worse and worse and it it didn't seem
really bad until well Skid Row was
always bad and Skid Row was bad on
purpose. So for people that don't know
and we we looked into this because we
found out about Skid Row I knew it
existed but I found out about it when we
were filming Fear Factor. So, one day
because we filmed a lot in downtown LA
and a lot of these abandoned warehouses
and buildings and we were in one of
these warehouses and we left the set and
I drove home and I took a wrong turn and
uh I went down near the outskirts of
Skid Row and
it's hard to believe that it's real if
you haven't seen it when you're talking
just blocks and blocks and blocks where
there's nothing but homeless people just
people on the streets camped out
wandering through the streets. There's
no cars driving whatsoever. Garbage
everywhere. And the idea that that's
never been cleaned up is [ __ ] insane.
So, what we found out is that that was
an area a long time ago where they
started moving people. I don't know when
was this. This is the Jerome Hotel,
right? That's what we talked about.
That's what it was. So, there was a
documentary on the Jerome Hotel. And
when we looked into it, it turns out
that what they would do is they would
find vagrants, which is what the old
school term for it. And they would find
them in Beverly Hills or Hollywood, and
they would just move them to downtown LA
to Skid Row and leave them there and
keep them there. The idea was to keep
them there. They had food there for
them. They had kitchens. They let them
camp out on the street, just stay here.
And it ruined all Cecil the Cecil Hotel.
That's right. So, uh, this is where
they, so Cecilo Hotel was like this
beautiful hotel that existed in downtown
LA and now it's just like it's in zombie
land and the whole area is filled with
[ __ ] just everything around it is
homeless. Like the the sheer volume of
it is impossible to describe unless you
go there and see it. And the fact that
that's never been addressed, that no one
does anything about it, and it's it's
gotten to 50 entire blocks of nothing
but homeless people, no businesses, no
nothing, nothing's functioning. It's all
just taken over by zombies.
>> I went to USC and I lived in a loft on
Skid Row at the top of the old bank
district. So in 2003, that was my street
that I would pull in and park. Very good
deal. That's why I was like, this is I
got a entire penthouse. why, you know, I
didn't get, you know, at 20 why it was
so cheap.
>> But so I've seen the progression to the
point where
>> it's insane. And again, this is fixable.
There's so much money. We're already
paying for it.
>> These people in charge don't want to fix
it. It's clear, right?
>> And they'll continue doubling down. They
need somebody to come and say, "Oh,
we're done with this." And that's why
I'm excited to actually be a mayor
that's in these streets. And here's what
they keep saying. Oh, you can't do this
cuz the city council, they're all in on
it, you know, 90% of them. Cuz they have
four of these socialist DSA members on
the city council that actually want to
destroy our way of life in Los Angeles.
>> Why do you think they want to do that?
>> Because they're socialists. Go on the
DSA, Democratic Socialist of America's
website, and they're not Democrats. They
hate Democrats. They use the word to
hide their true agenda of socialism. So
they want to keep taking as much of our
tax money and exact the main lady I was
talking about with that 60 million.
She's one of these DSA people. She's
bragging about taking $16 million of our
tax money to give 40 plus people or 50
people 250,000 each to live in a tiny
home. That is not a working solution. We
need to have a a plan to get these
people back into society, not bankroll
an entire existence of Los Angeles where
we're like, "Oh, you can just be a drug
addict and we're going to pay for you."
Because,
>> yeah, this is the problem with that
narrative that the rich people aren't
paying enough. And this is one of the
things that I I've I've seen progressive
podcasters talk about the wealth tax and
they were talking about imposing a
wealth tax on billionaires and they're
like, "Stop being greedy. Pay your fair
share." Like what is your fair share and
where is it going? Like if you could
show me that an increase in taxes would
fix all the problems. I said this when I
lived there. I wouldn't mind paying more
taxes if they fixed everything. But it
doesn't seem like it fixes anything. Not
one thing gets fixed and they keep
asking for more money, which is crazy.
The solution is cut it all off. One of
the things that Texas has no state
taxes. There's no state taxes. There's
you don't pay state taxes in Texas. In
California, you pay 14%. So, they're
incentivized to take that money and do
with it whatever they want. And so, the
more they can come up with like building
tiny homes or whatever the [ __ ] it is,
the it's just incentives for them to
siphon money.
>> And again, as mayor, I want to have full
accountability and transparency where
that's what everybody that's paying.
There's a lot of good people that are
fine with paying as much tax as they
want if you're helping people get off
the street, if the lights work, if the
streets,
>> if there's less crime, if it's safe, if
it's nice, if it's clean.
>> So, we need to track every single dollar
and make sure that there's no waste and
abuse. And with that type of live dash,
we're not track it with these weird
data. I'm talking anyone can understand
this money goes here and it we're
talking real accounting. They don't want
to do this because everyone's eating,
everyone's getting a cut, all these
people are living off of the scam. So,
you need to come in and really just said
no more of this.
>> Well, so let's talk real world practical
application. So, you get into office
now. You have all these council members
that these Democratic socialist people.
How do you handle that? What do you do?
How do you keep them from blocking all
these things you're trying to do? So
that is what excites me because there's
never been a mayor that comes in and
literally goes to each of their
constituents of these districts. For
instance, this DSA member wants to keep
giving the fentanyl needles and the
pipes. Then I go to that district. I
have a press conference. I bring
everybody. I say, "This so and so wants
to keep these zombies going number two
and having sex in front of your kids."
And put the heat on the city council
members right now. They care about their
jobs. They get 238,000
a year salary. They get not even
including their entourage. Then they
get, you know, our grants and our tax
money for all their little scams they're
running. So they actually want those
jobs. If a mayor comes in and is like,
"Oh, we're I'm going to put the heat on
each one of you." Cuz right now the
mayor Karen Bass isn't calling out each
district and their failures. this, the
constituents, the taxpayers need
somebody to come in and expose each of
these districts and go into their
communities, be like, "This is what
you're voting for." So, at least at the
next election, they're out. So then once
they start feeling the pressure of
somebody on their neck, they're going to
start be like, "Oh, I don't want I want
to keep my job. I like this power."
>> Well, there's been a concerted effort to
put those people in the government,
right? And you know, a lot of people
point to George Soros and he's one of
them and his Open Society Foundation is
one of the people that likes to do that,
particularly for very progressive
prosecutors and DAs. But it's there's
more than just him. There's a there's a
whole machine behind it. And this is
what I don't understand because if you
wanted to destroy a city, if you wanted
to destroy society, you would do it
exactly the way they're doing it. So
like, what is their incentive and why
are they doing it this way? Well, they
want to destroy it to then rebuild it in
their vision. The second my town burned
down and it's all dirt. Who's coming in
with the ideas? Oh, we got 100 million
for affordable housing. We're going to
do this. They have a plan. They have a
vision that's not going to work. But
they have their utopia that they would
love to then
>> re how do you say it's not going to
work? Like what's going to stop them
from doing that?
>> Socialism has failed everywhere. I've
seen
>> Well, it's certainly going to fail, but
what's to stop them from ruining the
Palisades?
Well, I did. I stopped them. They can
say that SB79
or whatever their, you know, housing
thing was never going to apply to
Palisades, but after me attacking it all
day for weeks, they added like 13 notes
and made the Palisades a fire hazard
area where you couldn't build high
density. Because what they do, there's a
new state law that just got passed and
if you're, again, these aren't exact,
all the yimies are going to go nuts. I'm
saying it wrong.
>> Yimi
>> your something about your backyard now
my who knows I don't you know they're I
have to block them usually on on social
media but I they have a vision that
everything in California and Los Angeles
should be high density how we need to
build these seven ninestory structures
to have more affordable housing. So they
want to get rid of single family homes
and put sevenstory buildings on. So the
nimbies not in not in my backyard. They
they fight these people on on X. So you
know to be honest I'm not either of
them. They try to I'm fine with more
housing, but I also want people to have
single family homes. And I think the
fact that we lost the idea where we
can't fight for the the California dream
to have a front yard with grass and it's
gotten so expensive and impossible. That
should be the problem. Not that oh we've
given up. Nobody should ever get that.
We need to build these sevenstory
prison-like structures and give anyone
who can't afford just a box to live in.
Let's fight to get the California where
people had a front yard and grass.
>> It's also insane to try to do that with
the Palisades cuz the Palisades has
always been a wealthy neighborhood where
people with a lot of money spent a lot
of money and also paid a lot of money in
taxes and had these beautiful homes. And
the idea that you're going to take that
over with lowincome housing, well, those
people are going to move out of there
and there goes the tax money from those
people. Not only that, those people lost
their homes. Their homes were taken from
them by the fire. And that's not fair.
It's It's not fair at all that you would
just do that. It doesn't make any sense.
>> I like to use the word stolen. The
houses were stolen from all these
people. A misconception though because
I'm from the Palisades and I grew up the
Palisades just became this wealthier
wealthier you know famous people in the
last let's say 10 years but growing up
>> that's it really
>> yeah like
>> 10 years
>> where it's we're talking big you know
$40 million type big house like when I
grew up
>> I thought it was always like that I
thought well it was always nice
>> it was nice but you know lawyers and
doctor you know not Silicon Valley and
movies, you know, hardworking people
passed these houses down generations.
So, they were nice houses, but you know,
your greatgrandfather probably passed
the house down. And, you know, my dad's
a dentist. He came in, he was a surfing
dentist and was able to get a house in
the Palisades. It's a beautiful area.
>> Yeah, it's it's gorgeous area. Amazing
weather.
>> So,
>> and the big people should should know
that a an area bigger than the size of
Manhattan burnt to the ground.
>> So, let's go back. Let's do the fire
because that that's a great we haven't
even you know we just touched on it but
nobody's really talked about what
happened how this fire started you know
why we're on the fire. So people think
about the Palisades fire and they go oh
January 7th well what happened the fire
for January 7th actually started on New
Year's Eve. So there's a case right now
it's kind of fallen through the cracks.
It it may not go forward. There's arson
cases. Supposedly, allegedly, this guy
lit a fire at New Year's Eve with a
lighter or cigarette and there was eight
acre fire. Now, according to witness
testim about 30 people that saw
fireworks go into this site called at
Loachman Skull Rock. So, at New Year's
Eve, 8acre fire starts. LFD responds.
But the issue what people don't
understand when they respond, they can't
come up there with heavy dozers. So
dozer like a bulldozer has a rake type
thing on the front and they clear around
the fire and they make a fire break even
when the fire is going. Ideally you'd
want the fire break before which because
of California state parks and plant over
people policies. We don't have
firereaks. So dead fuels dead brush has
been growing around lots of communities
for 50 60 years. So right now the palace
is burned down but what's next is
Brentwood Hollywood Hollywood Hills
Sunland to Hunga um what else? Belair,
all these are going they're I'm sorry
people you live here. They're all going
to burn down if we don't come in here
make fire breaks up 300 ft because when
I met with Chief Bobby Garcia and I
asked them about fire brakes. The
purpose of the fire break is to give
firefighters a chance to dig in. And
when they drop the retardant, if there's
not a 300 ft break, then then all the
retardant just falls through the
different levels of the foliage and it
doesn't make a moat. So if you have a
break, it creates a moat type situation
and now the firefighters have a chance
to get up there and respond. So back to
January 1st, they couldn't bring their
dozers up. We now have text messages
because again, I'm one of the lead
plaintiffs suing the city of LA, LAWP,
and the state of California state parks.
So I have all the text messages public
now, but we have the texts from the park
rangers, the LAD, and they're joking
about, of course, I'm not bringing any
dozers. I know the rule, you know,
protected plants. Keep in mind, I never
knew about this plant. It's called milk
veetch. Nobody respectfully cares about
milk veetch. But somebody in the
environmental world cares more about
milk veetch than 12 people burning alive
cuz the plant that was protected is the
reason pretty much these people burned
alive. So they do their best, you know,
the LFD puts it out. But now we know
that the fire was still smoldering. We
have hiking footage of the next day and
the day after in the state park, Tanga
State Park. Hikers, tourists. We have a
guy that lived down the street. Of
course, he had his own drone that had
not only a regular drone, he had a
thermal inim imaging drone. So, the
whole hillside is just smoking. And we
now have a firefighter, Pike, on his
subpoena video. He says that he clearly
saw smoldering pockets of coal that he
didn't even want to touch. and he
informed his chief, hey, we can't pull
the hoses. And the chief said, pull the
hoses. Not just Pike, multiple
firefighters have now said that it was
all smoking. But why would they pull the
hoses?
>> After meeting with so many firefighters
since, I've realized the fire department
is so understaffed, so underfunded.
They're operating a fire department from
the 1960s with 50% more calls now. 80%
of them are for zombies to overdoses.
30% of the fires are zombie encampment
fires. So to me now I'm trying to get in
that chief. I spoke with that chief on
the phone and
in my mind it's a budget thing.
Everything's just like oh we don't have
you know clocks ticking. We don't have
the money to stay up here with the
hoses. Because three years earlier that
same area in the highlands I think they
left the hoses up in the palisades for
18 months. You leave the hoses up
because it stays hot and they have them
up. They pull them the next day. So, I
think it's a funding thing. I mean, the
chief, Chief Crowley, who Mayor Bass
fired in retaliation for telling the
truth, 7 weeks before the palace is
fired, she wrote a memo to Karen Bass
and said, "I am dangerously underfunded.
I cannot keep Angelino safe." What does
Mayor Bass do? Cuts another 17 million
from the fire department. So, in my
mind, the chief's like, "I can't I don't
have the money to leave guys up here. We
got to go.
>> So, has anyone asked her what was her
justification for the cuts?
>> Well, the city's broke. The city has no
money.
>> But how do they have so much money to
buy homes and homeless shelters and
spend all that money?
>> Here's the best part. I've now found out
since then, there was $400 million just
in an account that they hadn't even
touched for homeless in literally at the
time she cut the 17 million. There's 400
million that right now is still there
that they haven't used, allocated. 400
million. So it's they got it for the
zombies, not for the taxpaying citizens
public safety. Not to mention back to
the taxpayers. The Palisades probably is
largely at at the time of the fire was
probably the most money in taxes was
going to the city from the Palisades. So
you don't back to back to Lochman. So
they leave because if you listen to
their testimony, the state park rangers
say, "Oh, we got this. We'll keep an eye
on this." D in the subpoenaed
depositions. They ask one of the state
park rangers, "Well, did you see the
smoldering hill?" They say, "Uh, yeah.
What do you do?" "Oh, I took a photo."
"What'd you do with the photo?"
"Nothing." "What do you mean?" "Well,
I'm not a firefighter." So, the state
parks Oh, manual says they're supposed
to close this park to make sure it's not
a dangerous condition, obviously, and to
monitor it. Did they close the state
park? No. Worse. Guess what the state
park rangers asked the firefighters to
do? And there's photos. It's
mindboggling. They asked the
firefighters to take dead brush and fuel
and they carry it and they put it over
the fire break from a day earlier around
where they made the fire break around
that January 1st. They take the dead
bushes and they cover up the fire break.
There's photos of it. It's the craziest
thing you ever see.
>> What?
>> Because they didn't want people to go on
the wrong trails because they look like
hiking trails now. My god. So they take
if you wanted to be cynical,
>> do you think that the having this $400
million and keeping it in there and
keeping funneling money into
homelessness and not into the fire
department is simply because the fire
department is not profitable. You can't
siphon money off of the fire department.
The fire department basically just goes
to fight fires. It goes to equipment,
people's salaries, maintaining the fire
departments. It it you can't steal that
money. You want to know how sick it is
right now? The fire department, LFD,
their union, all the members. H get like
choked up. I feel so because I met with
these, you know, I keep meeting with
these guys and you hear from their
heart, you're like, "Oh, this is so
heavy." They had to take their own money
to get on a ballot measure, a million
dollars. as they all pulled together to
get a ballot measure this coming
election to get a half cent on sales tax
in LA so that they could have money to
fund actual things they need to keep a
half a cent on all the but the point is
>> they need to go out of their own pocket
to get a ballot measure because they
know they will never get funded by the
city to keep Angelino safe that they got
to go out of it and make
>> there's only one way to look at it you
you would look at it like well what
would be the logical reason why they
would allocate so much money towards
homelessness and so little towards the
fire department when the fire department
is I've said this before but if you want
to talk about like socialism that works
the fire department is socialism that
works if you really care about socialism
and that's a thing that you really
believe in there's certain aspects of
socialism that are applicable in a
healthy community. One of them is the
fire department that your money should
go we should pull some of our taxes to
go to make sure that we're all
protected. The fire department doesn't
just protect the rich people, protects
all people. Fires break out, the fire
department comes in. Regardless whether
you have any money or not, we all pull
our money together for the fire
department. It makes sense. But if it's
that, you can't steal that money, right?
So there's no way you can figure the
homelessness is it's vague. It's weird.
You could hide it. It's like you you're
counting bodies on the street. Oh, one,
two, three. Let's write 5,000. like you
don't have like real accounting these
people because it's so chaotic. But fire
department, you know the employees, you
know the fire department, you know where
the trucks are, you know where
everything is. You can't steal that
money. But that homeless budget, boy,
there's a lot of wiggle room in that
homeless budget. And if you wanted to be
cynical, you would say that's why they f
they fund the fire department so little
and they fund the homeless so much.
Well, also these DSA
socialists, they don't want to fund the
fire department. They don't want to fund
the the police market. They want these
type of entities to be defunded. They
don't even want them exist. It's on.
>> So, what do they expect when fires
happen
>> to let Right now, they want things just
to burn. Go. If you look around the
city,
>> how the [ __ ] do these people get in
office? Like, who's voting for them?
>> They're tricky. They have these ground
teams and they go around, they got a
real ground game and they go knock on
old people's doors and they say, "Oh,
we're Democrats. We help the They have
nice words and they got a strong like in
LA, I think there's 5,000 at least
members that can hit the street."
Whereas a normal, you know, for
instance, Spencer Pratt running from
here, I don't have 5,000 people on deck
to go knock on doors. And not to
mention, they're funded. They have
100,000 plus members across the US. They
have outside entities that give them
money. And again, they're sneaky. If you
go watch on YouTube videos, they talk so
much [ __ ] about Democrats, Republic.
They hate all these people. So, they
don't want either party. They want them.
Here's the craziest part. This should be
legal. Like right now, the one who's
running against me, they're Democrat,
you know, socialist champagne queen. She
when you sign up with the DSA, you sign
a like a like a contract to co-govern
with the DSA. How is it legal when you
are what?
>> Yes.
>> Wait a minute. Explain that.
>> So when you become you get like you're a
DSA member. So right now she's a city
council member and when the DSA gives
you an endorsement, you sign a contract
with them to co-govern. So right now
she's not representing her district as
an American citizen, a Los Angeles.
She's representing the Democrat
Socialists of America.
>> Yes.
>> Wow.
>> And that should be
>> co-govern.
>> That should be illegal. I mean, illegal.
>> And so they can just go full ham with
all these radical ideas.
>> Yeah. And their idea is to just come in,
take all of our tax money, and keep
trying to invent this. They've like, for
instance, that lady has had six years in
charge of her city council. Her
thousands of her constituents messaged
me photos. It looks like again Mad Max
in her area. So, we're going to put her
in charge. The only thing worse actually
than the Cuban communist Karen Bass is
actually a socialist DSA. So, I'm
running against worse and worse. It's
it's truly
>> Is Karen Bass running for reelection?
>> Yeah, that's why I stepped in. When I
saw her announce, I was like, "Oh, no.
You don't get to burn my house down."
>> Do people like what what is the general
population like? What? How? I think most
people have jobs and families and
they're busy. They're very busy. So,
it's very difficult to be completely
informed about all this. What is the
general perception of Karen Bass? Like,
what is her approval rating in Los
Angeles?
>> So, she has the record lowest approval
rating in the history right now. So,
UCLA just did a poll about a week ago.
I'm number two to Karen Bass. She has
approximately 20 something%. I think I
have 13% with 40% undecided. Those 40% I
keep saying those are my voters. Those
are people that are fed up. They know
they're not voting for Ken Bass. They
just don't know. There's a guy named
Spencer Pratt that's saying we need
common sense. We need to clean these
streets. No more fentanyl at the park.
Parents need to feel comfortable taking
their kids to school without seeing met
zombies having sex on the side of the
street. We're talking common sense. This
is not political what I'm running on.
Not to mention the mayor is a
nonpartisan race. There's no letters on
it for a reason. The mayor is supposed
to represent all of Los Angeles. Period.
It's not a You'll never get me ever
doing these performative politics,
talking about national issues, doing the
bait and switch stuff where, oh, talking
about over here, why I destroy your
actual local government. That's the
problem. Everyone gets caught up in the
media and they follow what's going on in
different states and different politics
and the and the federal government. When
the people that really affect your life
who are destroying your way of life are
your local government, your mayor, your
city council, your fire commission, your
police commission. When I'm mayor, I'm
wiping out this fire commission. We're
putting actual experts that know what
they're talking about, not these rando
political pointy lunatics. Same with the
police commission. You need to have
people that pride themselves in law
enforcement and want accountability and
want the best from the police
department. You know, the police
department is the lowest it's been in 30
years in Los Angeles. And here's my
favorite thing.
>> In terms of staff, in terms
>> in terms of police officers,
>> 30 years.
>> 30 years. Here's the best part. They
will tell you, the mayor said, crime is
down. I have truly because I spend all
day long just reading DMs. Read
>> it's down in terms of its reporting.
>> Thank you. Every message I get, they
say, "Call 911. You'll be on hold for
God knows how long. If they ever pick
up, if it's literally not like a
somebody's getting shot at that moment,
you know, if you're trying to report
crime or this, they're not coming.
Nobody's filing it. They don't have the
staff to be doing that." So, the real
crime numbers are so insane. Not to
mention Karen Bass will brag about
homicides are down. First off, that's a
national trend. She taking credit for
the whole United States down. But I even
have another angle on that. I'd have to
go probably to some emergency hospitals.
But I think Los Angeles has such good
trauma nurses and trauma doctors. The
amount of stabbings and shootings, they
probably keep people alive. That's the
real number. You know, maybe 30 years
ago before we were so good with quick
clot and you know, and you know, God
knows we have so much stuff now, right?
that keeps people alive. Just on the
metro alone, the stabbings are
everything is double last year. So these
people are living, but everyone's
getting stabbed everywhere. I keep
joking that everyone loved that guy in
New York, Mandami or whatever his name
is, because he said everything's going
to be free. Well, as mayor on on the
metros in Los Angeles, Mayor Pratt will
make sure you're going to be free from
stabbings. So there you go. You're
welcome. Yeah, that's a that's a good
point. It's like just because the actual
murders are down, it doesn't mean that
the actual violence is down. New
analysis by LA city controller says that
at least 513 million meant to help
homeless went unspent.
>> This was just 2024. That's about 400
plus in 2025 also.
>> Good lord.
>> Yeah, the the 400s for sure. Like and
just last
>> and where's that money go?
Just last week, the federal government
paused a $400 million payment that was
coming because they said all these
federal audits aren't you're not showing
the books. So, just the money is just
coming and that's we're just talking to
LA, which is the epicenter of the whole
state of California. You know, all this
fraud that you keep hearing about
everything, it all comes from LA and
then goes out to California. It's like
LA is the death star, you know, and
that's why I'm coming in. and Luke
Skywalker. I'm like,
>> well, Nick Shirley started doing
investigations into all sorts of other
fraud that's all around Los Angeles with
hospices and all these different things.
And they're finding hundreds and
hundreds of millions of dollars of
fraud,
>> but not for much longer because he could
be facing a $10,000 fine according to
the new uh California bill yesterday.
>> So, this is a new bill. Instead of
saying, "Wow, thank you for uncovering
this fraud," they passed a bill that if
you film things and you go to a place
and identify that place and then somehow
or another those people what get
harassed or something because of it, you
could get fined.
>> Yeah. So, I was already saying on my own
podcast my plan as mayor because
everyone kept being like, "Oh, you need
Nick Shirley." No, what I need is all of
Los Angeles to be a Nick Shirley. I as
mayor am going to offer cash bounties.
If you film any fraud, city workers
doing something suspicious, any type of
scams and you bring it to the mayor's
office and we check it out, I'm going to
pay you. So now I got to deal with the
state, you know, if that passes. But I
was already going to just make the city
become these nickts
response. What an insane response.
Instead of thanking someone for
uncovering criminal fraud, you make a
new law where you turn them into
criminals.
>> These people are laundering more money
than El Chapo.
>> Yeah.
>> Like this. That's what I keep trying to
say.
>> Billions. Billions and billions of
dollars.
>> Real criminals. Like the Gotti, all
these people we used to think were
mobsters at the Italian shops back in
the day. They couldn't even comprehend
what's going on right now. And then even
on the city level, like when I went met
in a fire station, they were telling me
about how if a refrigerator, this is
mafia stuff, if a refrigerator breaks
and you know firefighters, they know how
to take the refrigerator and they put it
out. The city person comes in, they go,
"Oh no, put that back in. You can't have
that taken in." So they make them put
the the broken thing back in before the
next person comes. And then it costs
like $50,000. And this only this one
city contract can fix it. It's not for,
you know, up for bid and that is where
all this extra money that isn't going to
actually getting these firefighters
within. The fire station I was at, they
had a fire truck that should have been
in retired in Mexico 10 years ago and
instead they like pay to put a new back
bumper on it and they just it's these
guys have to pay out of their own pocket
for the blinds, the paint, and they do
it because they live here. It's so sad
where LAFD used to be the symbol of
great like the goat firefighters that
everyone looked to how we've just let it
fall apart. Same with LAPD. We have just
no pride. And what's happening is the
Olympics are coming. And what I keep
telling everybody is we are going to
have a terrorist attack. It's cuz we're
not even safe for our streets right now.
They're not even protected. If we do
fires alone, all a terrorist cell needs
to do is get five of those black ebikes,
and they need to go on a windy day
leading up to the Olympics, go around
with road flares, tossing them out on
all the 50 years of dead brush. The
entire city will look like a nuclear
bomb went off. Look at the palisades.
>> Yeah.
>> One area, five bad guys, bad actors go
around and do that. It's it's done. And
by the way, there's a lot of evidence
that a lot of the fire in the Palisades,
not just the initial fire, but
subsequent fires were caused by arson.
In fact, my friend Andrew filmed some
guys doing it. He filmed guys lighting
things on fire. He filmed it in his car.
He was watching these vagrants filming
them lighting things on fire.
>> Two days ago, there's photos of a
vagrant homeless zombie in the Palisades
trying to light a fire right now.
Thankfully, the area has no hasn't grown
back yet, but they're two days ago.
These pe zombies, people don't like the
word zombie, but they are zombies. What?
Yes, there's different boxes of
homelessness. There's there's people
that need help and down on their luck.
They're lost their job quick boom. That
is one box. It's a very small box, but
we I am aware of those. Then there is a
95% box that are people that are just
>> fentinyl zombies.
>> Fentinel zombies, meth just want to live
on the streets and be a drug addict
right now. Maybe some of those people
get help, they get sober, get proper
treatment, now they get a new chance of
life. Then there's another box that are
just people that want to do drugs and be
a bad person. We have to acknowledge
there's actually just bad people that
are in a different box. So,
>> well, there's also people that want
everything else to fall apart because
their life is in the [ __ ] They live in
[ __ ] Their their life is hell and they
don't want to see you drive by an
Alexis. They don't want to see you go to
your nice house. They don't want to see
any of that. They want to light things
on fire.
>> Well, that's how also these DSA people
get support because they've destroyed
the city so much. You look around and
you think, "Oh, the American dream is
broken. Capitalism is broken." But
they're the ones that broke it. So, if
you're just like a young 20-year-old
looking around, you're like, "Oh my god,
there's zombies everywhere, rents so
much, all the restaurants are closing.
This system doesn't work." But what
they're not looking at is who's breaking
the system that did work. The one that I
grew up in that was so beautiful. Over a
hundred restaurants in LA have closed
this year. Over a hundred. And these
aren't chains. These are people that put
their, you know, life into this. These
are chefs. And they can't make it in a
place that was a go-to food spot.
>> Well, where I used to do comedy in Los
Angeles on Sunset at the comedy store,
if you drive down Sunset, now everything
is for lease. It's [ __ ] nuts. It used
to be very difficult to get a property
on Sunset cuz it was so valuable in the
'9s and the early 2000s. Like, everybody
wanted to have a restaurant on Sunset.
Everybody wanted to have a bar on Sunset
because that's where everybody went.
There was always cars and it was nice
and you could walk on the street. We
would walk down to get food. We would go
to the stand after we would or the the
standard rather after we would go to the
car. I would [ __ ] never walk down
that street now. It was normal.
>> And that's you trained up, you know,
ready to go with the sidekick. Imagine a
lovely lady that just wants to walk her
little dog. The amount of people that
just
>> are just dog walkers. They're like, I am
scared to walk my dog. I had I won't say
which newscaster, but I had a newscaster
off camera recently and said,
"Everything you're saying is true." She
goes, "Every morning I have to get up at
5:00 a.m. because it's the safest time
for me to do my morning run. Every day
naked zombie run." She said, "I'm
running by a naked zombie trying to Can
you imagine? Not, you know, you and I
don't want to go walk on the street, but
just like a woman with their little dog
or mom's with strollers and it's not,
it's across the entire city. I watch
news in Spanish where these underpasses
in South Central or East LA. These
families have been coming to the news
and they're like, "Please, cuz they're
having to take their kids under these
underpasses with encampments to get to
the schools. It's not just like a
Hollywood thing or a valley." It's
everywhere.
>> It's everywhere.
>> And I don't think people understand it.
Can we show some videos? Let's show some
videos of some of the the real chaotic
homelessness in Los Angeles so people
can get a look at it because uh you know
I've had some friends send me videos
like my friend Whitney Cummings. She
went uh through Los Angeles a couple of
months ago and she sent me a video and I
was like this is [ __ ] nuts cuz I I
haven't been I don't go there anymore
man. I [ __ ] avoid that place like the
plague. I used to love it. I used to
love it. I never even thought until the
pandemic hit. I I was like, I'll be
probably be here forever. And now it's
just nuts.
>> It's the Street People of Los Angeles
Instagram account. They show this stuff
all the time.
>> Street People of Los Angeles Instagram
account.
>> This is a dad and a son walking by.
>> Yeah. Well, this is a small
>> That's in the valley. No, but the point
is, yeah, I posted this also in the
sense that
>> look at these little kids. They got to
go by. This is
>> We used to have our studio in Woodland
Hills and we used to have guys that were
camping out right in front. Look at
that. Even Perez Hilton is on your side.
Pratt is the path. What Los Angeles
needs. You see that?
>> You know, he's Perez. God bless Perez.
>> You might be the only person saying
that.
>> No, he had a he had near-death
experience and came to Jesus and Yo,
he's all he's locked in.
>> Sticks. Oh,
>> was that somebody dying?
>> No, he he died twice pretty much. So,
>> from what? What happened? He had uh he
took antibiotics
without food when he which I didn't know
was a thing. That's why they say to take
food and then again I'm going to say
this wrong, but whatever that creates
some situation. Boom. Now he has sepsis
and he's
>> next to death for 30 days and then we
just got out of the hospital. Then he
has a blood clot. No. So he's like Bible
all day. He had he talked to God when he
was like dead. So I think he's for real.
For real.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. Well, that would be nice.
>> Oh, he's we
>> He's another nice person in the world.
>> He's a powerful prayer warrior now.
>> So, you know,
>> um, show me some skid row. Some skid row
footage is the nuttiest.
>> Okay. Uh, Skid Row footage is the the
real That's the real red pill where you
>> I mean it.
>> You're like, how? It's just there's no
better way to describe it than how you
described it earlier. It's literally
like a criminal cartel. It's a criminal
cartel that's siphoning money off of
people. Look at that guy. Just needs a
job. These these people just need a
home. Come on, man. This is This is not
that bad. This is This is very minor.
Like, if you There's certain areas of
Skid Row. Like, look how they have
tents, which is so crazy.
>> Well, you paid for that. You didn't. I
did.
>> Oh, look at this. This guy's protecting
against vampires.
>> Yeah.
>> These are nice clips.
>> That guy just needs a job, dude. Relax.
>> Poor dog.
>> I know. I see dogs with homeless people.
I just want to I'm I'm such a dog lover.
I can't go to the dog pound. If I went
to the dog pound, I'd have a hundred
dogs and my wife would never let that
happen. But I that drives
>> So that right there and the fend all
these fendol hangs. They don't need
beds,
>> right?
>> That's not a bed issue. It's not a
housing.
>> They need to get cleaned up.
>> And for people that don't know, this was
not like this. This was not like this a
decade ago. This is a rapid decline in
what this city looks like.
>> Oh, there's some nice people. Oh,
>> it's just crazy.
It's a This is not as radical as it
could be. Skid Row is really If you
could find some
>> I mean, there's there's innumerable
videos. I can't click uncheck them all
fast enough, but
>> try this one. Skid Row. Right. Right
there.
>> 600 views. I was going to try to find
one.
>> What's below that? Right there. That
one. I spent a day on Skid Row. There
was a a a comic in um the early 2000s
that went undercover and lived on Skid
Row for a couple of days to film things
and it was pretty astonishing even back
then. But again, this is a created
environment that they created because
they didn't want to deal with the
homeless people and they're like, you
know what we should do? We should just
take these people and put them in one
spot and don't let them leave. And
that's how they created Skid Row. And
you know, decades later, you have 50 50
blocks of nothing but this kind of [ __ ]
where it's just [ __ ] chaos. It's just
homeless people everywhere. And it's so
sad. All lost lives. You know, as a
father, you know, you're a father. These
are this is someone's children. This was
someone had a baby and that baby they
loved more than anything. Like, oh my
god, they're so precious. That precious
person is now in the middle of an
intersection hunched over on fentanyl.
Well, the amount of people that that
message me and say, "Thank you. My so
and so brother, daughter, son died of
fenol overdose." These people need
mandatory treatment. They don't need
just, "Oh, if you want, we have these
needles for you. We have we have street
med teams where we can come and, you
know, it's it's crazy." And it's back to
being a dad. I'm only running for mayor
to do one last Hail Mary to try to save
the city I love and grew up. So God
willing out
>> well they already burned my down my
house. That's what the LA Times was.
That's the funniest. Did you see this?
So they tried to do a hit piece LA Times
and say that I wasn't eligible to run
for mayor because my house burned down.
This is this was last week. No, I'm not
I'm not kidding. This is real. So and
they were like, "Oh, he's living in
Santa Barbara right now." I thought the
LA Times had become more reasonable when
that guy owned it.
>> That was completely not true. And the
funniest part is the LA Times is in Elsa
Gundo for the last 8 years. So they're
the ones that should be worried about.
So what happens is they say, "Oh, it's
up in the air cuz he's in San." So I
call the city clerk and I say, "Hey, the
LA Time is reporting that I I'm not I
know I'm eligible. Everybody knows."
It's like saying that 7,000 people's
houses burned down now can't vote,
>> right? they can't vote because you have
a house because Karen Bass who you're
not supposed to vote for because she
burned your house down you can't vote
for her. So he's like of course you can
run. I said anybody can call and ask
this like yes it's on our website. So it
was just a LA Times who was the person
who wrote that story
>> this guy Noah Goldberg and why is cuz
he's pushing the Nitia Ramen. There's a
video of him at the bar with her like
yay they want
>> and she's a Democrat socialist.
>> Yes. And LA Times wants their own
clickbaity Mandami. They try to make
their Mandami is a customuilt Manurion
candidate 20 years in the making. He's a
star. That's why he's got the smile. You
can't take this bootleg wannabe and try
to cook her into it. So they drop this
fake hit piece on me the day the UCLA
poll comes out that has me in the lead
and not the one that they had just run
some fake DSA, you know, BS poll that
nobody believed. It it was movie scene.
>> How is this person doing in the polls?
This person that you're running against,
>> they're at 9%, I think. But again, the
polls, I'm in number one. Anybody, they
know this. She's in charge on the city
council. She's the chairperson of the
homeless of the homeless plan.
Okay. She wants to What's she going to
change? She's had six years. So, we're
going to we're going to put And then
she's tweeting or exing whatever we call
it like my new plan homeless is not
working. Oh, so you just announced
you're running for mayor. The best part
is she had six years to not say any of
these problems until she's running for
mayor. These politicians are just it's
the problem. Back to the problem is
people have jobs. People aren't paying
attention like me. They just hear the
little fake I care. This isn't working.
Oh, she's a city council member. Oh,
she's a Democrat. No, she's not. She's
not a Democrat. I'm the one who's been
fighting for Democrats for the last year
and a half to expose all of this fraud,
our literal city letting our town burn
to the ground. So that's when I really
stepped up. So I watched this movie Hot
Shot, a documentary on, you know, fires.
And I see in this documentary 100 mile
hour, I think it was the oak the oak
fire, I don't know, in the in the film.
and you see 100 mph wind and the
firefighters are just standing there
with like garden hoses and you're seeing
that 100 mile per hour wind does not
mean everything burns down because this
community have fire breaks. So then I
like see who this guy who like lived
with these these hot shots for 6 years.
So I find him on X and he's live
streaming talking about how the Palaces
fire before anybody was not started on
January 7th, but a rekindle from that
first fire when the LAD, this is where
it gets so conspiracy Chinatown movie
type [ __ ] Um, they hired a crisis PR
firm, the lead company. Here's the best
part. Guess where they got the money?
the the mayor's office where they got
the money to hire the crisis from the
LAD
Foundation. They used charity money to
hire a crisis team to alter the
afteraction report that says all these
things that went wrong to make the mayor
Karen Bass look good.
>> Oh my god.
>> I find this out because I start, you
know, posting about what this this
director Gabriel Man is saying about,
you know, the Palisades fires. I'm
posting now. I got info. So now
firefighters start coming in my DMs as
whistleblowers. So I Hey, just so you
know, the afteraction report that went
out, that was the ninth version and the
battalion chief that wrote it wouldn't
put his name on it because they changed
it so much. So I do a post about that.
Three weeks later, the LA Times obvious
everything I post 3 weeks later they
would steal my thing and be like,
"Purprise guy." It's like I posted that
three weeks ago cuz the firefighters
were coming to me and telling me what
was going on behind the scenes. So, also
as mayor, I'm going to make sure that
the fire department, the fire chief has
uh civil protections again. So, right
now, the fire chief is like a puppet.
They have to do whatever the mayor says,
cover up for the mayor. They're just
another politician. They need to be
responsible for the Angelinos, the
public, and they don't have that
protection. The mayor can just get rid
of them. So you got to give them these
civil protections back like they have.
The mayor can't just get rid of the
police chief for instance. But that's
when I was like, "Oh, these people are
>> it's organized crime."
>> Thank you. Like like
>> it sounds like the mob.
>> Here's where the best part. You know
when the mayor was in Ghana as
everything was burning down.
>> Do you know who she left in charge?
>> Her deputy mayor. Do you know where the
deputy mayor was?
The deputy mayor, mayor Karen ambassador
deputy mayor was on house arrest because
he was arrested for calling in a bomb
threat to city hall. This is real life.
This is this is the person that's
supposed to take the call because she's
an African.
>> Why did he call in a bomb threat to city
hall?
>> Great question. I
I you know, so that's who the type of
people we're dealing with. So when
they're like, "Oh, Spencer, you don't
have the experience to be mayor." Well,
I promise my deputy mayors that I have
on deck, they aren't calling in any bomb
threats to city hall. So, we're already
starting ahead of the curve. Also, I'm
not going in to steal taxpayer money.
I'm going in to stop all this. So,
again, I really believe there's enough
common sense people that see that I'm
not doing politics. I don't want to do
any of this. Politics are it's a job.
These people are career politicians. I
never wanted to be a career politician.
Before my house burned down, I was
selling my healing crystals. They, just
to be clear, they have no magical
powers. They all burned in my house. So,
anybody, you know, you're buying them,
they uh you know, I thought that had
protection energy. They don't. So, uh,
you know, and feeding hummingbirds that
and taking my kids to school, that was
my dream life, and they burned it down.
And now they have their worst nightmare
coming to just undo the whole thing.
Former Los Angeles deputy deputy mayor
of public safety agrees to plead guilty
to threatening to bomb LA city hall last
year. Now, what was the reason? Brian K.
Williams, 61 of Pastine, is charged in a
single count information with threats
regarding fire and explosives.
>> It doesn't have a reason, but it says
what he did.
>> You know, I don't think there's ever a
good reason.
>> Well, I mean, I would like to hear his
reason.
>> Uh, bomb threat. I received a call on my
city cell phone at 10:48 this morning.
The mail caller stated that he was tired
of the city support of Israel and he's
decided to place a bomb in city hall. So
that's it. It might be in the rotunda. I
immediately contacted this. So it was
about Israel. Wow.
>> I think he made it up here. It says that
he used his Google voice application on
his personal cell phone to place a call
to a city issued cell phone.
>> Wow. He then left the meeting and called
the chief of staff up.
>> Doesn't say why.
>> What a [ __ ] idiot.
>> I will say, mayor,
>> is that guy still employed?
>> Find out if that guy's still employed.
>> I I would I think not. I would imagine
he's going I mean facing 10 years.
>> I think he's going to federal prison.
>> Oh, he's facing 10 years.
>> Yeah, I think so.
>> I wonder if he has paid leave.
>> Probably federal prison.
>> Oh god. But notice he at least uh Mayor
Bass with her cell phone the whole week
of the Palisades fire. She deleted all
her text messages where oh you know
>> this is they're like a terrorist cell
breaking burner phones.
>> How the [ __ ] do you are you even allowed
to do that? Former LA deputy mayor
sentenced to probation and $5,000 fine.
That's it. Just probation.
Well, in his defense, his mayor was
spending I think she went to Cuba 30
times to learn how to build bombs and
bomb America when she was part of the
Venice Roma Venice Venice Ramos brigade.
So, Carass,
>> how old was she when that
>> 1920? And she never ever said she had
any problem with being like a Cuban uh
communist terrorist until Biden was
going to pick her as VP and then they
made her say, "I denounce that I was
trying to blow up the capital with my
with my terrorist cell when I was
younger." But for all those years, she
never said anything. When Fidel Castro
died, she said something like, "Rest in
peace, El Kadante." Like, what?
>> What? Yes.
>> No way. Yes, you can. And then it gets
even better. So,
>> oh, but hey guys, relax. Williams was
just suffering from stress and anxiety
when he called in a threat.
>> Ah, you know, poor guy. No big deal.
>> Poor guy over work.
>> Stress and anxiety. And somehow or
another, it was about Israel.
>> Not to mention these people would just
get away with all of this. They keep
getting away with it. That's the problem
with the media. What I've learned from
being part of the television world. And
you notice, why do they let the mayor
and the city councils get away with all
of, you know, talking about this? At the
end of the day, that's their talent.
It's like a soap opera. They got to keep
filming with the mayor and the city
council. If they just air them out,
they're not picking up the call. It's
like a production.
>> Exactly. Then they don't have content
anymore.
>> Exactly. So the local news needs to like
keep it
>> right. Right. They don't have access
anymore.
>> Yeah. So that's why I'm like, why? Cuz I
talked to these people off camera and
they're all like
>> like an organized crime organization.
>> They're like please, you know, I'm like,
why aren't you, you know, but
>> it's organized crime?
>> Yeah. It's
>> I mean, it's like they pay people off.
They've got little deals. You wash my
back, I wash yours. Come on.
>> Yeah. So, thankfully, people are like,
"Aren't you scared of these people?" I'm
like, "What? Are they going to burn my
house down again? Are they going to burn
my mom's house down again?" So, it gives
you like a confident, what are they
going to do?
I mean,
>> the crime in Los Angeles, when you talk
to average people, like the people that
I know that live there, they're [ __ ]
terrified. They say breakins are just
commonplace now where they it used to be
very rare. You get home invasions
constantly. I mean, Ted Sarandos, his
mother-in-law was killed in a home
invasion and they're they're happening
all the time. It's because there's no
police response and they know there's
not going to be a police response. So,
more people are hiring private security.
It's very difficult to get a gun or at
least a concealed carry permit. It's
very difficult
>> in defense of LA County Sheriff and
LAPD. They have gotten better.
>> Yes.
>> At CCWs now because of this the law
>> because of the crime. I mean, it's not
the sheriff's fault. The sheriff wants
it.
>> Yeah. And they don't have the staff even
to process it. So, it just takes up to a
year. But I know they all That's the
thing. I talked to so many sheriffs, so
many LAPD, so many firefighters.
Everybody is just broken. Their spirits
are broken. Why are we doing this? Why
don't we just go to Newport Beach or
Huntington? There's or any you just
>> Yeah. Just leave the state.
>> What am I doing? They they keep saying
and
>> well, this is the thing that Newsome
always chimes in about how much money
California brings in, how much many
venture capitalists are in California,
how much money in tech is in California.
Right? But it has nothing to do with
your government. It has in spite of your
government, they're doing that
>> and they're leaving. Hollywood was the
greatest thing. The amount of money
Hollywood made for Los Angeles from the
grips to the camera operators to the
glam people to the costume. People don't
understand like you know people hate
like oh Hollywood you know stupid movie
stars are so rich.
>> They forget about the ecosystem that
connects to that. say Tom Cruz that
makes the amount of money is gone. And
for instance, just last week they
finally got Baywatch to come back to LA.
Baywatch starts shooting for like two
days and then they kick him off the
beach. There's all these permit
problems. So I write a Substack calling
this out, calling out the mayor. Next
thing you know, they come back and the
mayor makes a deal. What's funniest
thing right now is whatever I post and
do, the mayor is now doing. Like I said
the other day, I'm getting rid of the
whole fire commission. This fire
commission has been there for like 10
years, I think, after I do this post or
whatever. Boom. Four out of five of the
fire commission resign. So they're
trying to just get ahead of all the
things of what I'm saying, which is fun
cuz it's already I'm like the mayor. So
I'm like, this is great.
>> Well, it's also they can't possibly do
enough without completely undermining
their entire organization. They're
always going to have so much fraud and
waste that your your case will always be
solid. There's no way. There's no They
would have to literally like tank
everything they're doing that got them
into position.
>> And if they talk about
how much of a failure, then they're
definitely not keeping their job,
>> right?
>> Which is that's the problem with all of
they're all in a ready for this. The
lady Janice Quinion that was in charge
of the LWP
that drained. So in the Pacific
Palisades, there was the Sanz reservoir.
It had 117 million gallons of water when
it was created. The engineer, he's on
the cover LA Times back in the day, and
he's talking about he built this for
wildfire protection. Now, in their
defense, the city in LAWP says that was
drinking water. Was no one was drinking
this water. I promise you. So, there was
a tear on this drinking water. They
allegedly the firefighting water. So
they drain the entire
reservoir because of a little tear that
would have cost $120,000 to repair for
over a year. This woman was making
$750,000
a year as the head of LWP, twice her
predecessor that Mayor Bass brought in.
Keep in mind, if you make that much
money, do you know what the people below
her are making? 500, 400, six. These
people get so much money and they spend
over a year to fix a tear and it's back
to the mafia thing. Oh, I'm sure it's
like, "Oh, we got to use this contractor
because we don't have an open bid. Oh,
that's too cheap." You know, who knows
the conspiracy to why they didn't tear
it. So, while that's drained, next door
to my house that I watched weekly, the
the local LFD would do training. They'd
hook up to it. I had a 5 milliongal
reservoir for firefighting. So, while
they're doing that one, they're like,
"Oh, we should fix this one, too." They
drain that one and they're like, "Oh, we
drained it." When we refill it, there's
some issues. We can't refill it. They
leave two reservoirs empty. Back. Rewind
what I told you in a season that's the
driest ever that they've actually had a
fire I think in 2019 where there wasn't
water in the reservoir and they
thankfully there was no wind and they
had to drive t water tenders up onto the
hillside for the helicopters to dip
because that's the key what people don't
understand is like oh this nothing could
have stopped this fire you know people
that defend these people if the
reservoir had the water in it the
helicopters these 17 million helicopters
that Newsome loves to do the photo
shoots in front of how fast they are
would have had to fly less than 30
seconds from the origin of the fire
again when the winds were fine for 6
hours in the initial thing. But instead,
those helicopters had to fly all the way
to Malibu to Pepperdine College and all
the way to Inino to get the water for
the helicopters to fly all the way back
to where the fire was next door to where
the empty reservoir is. So they spent
66% of their time not fighting the fire
going to get the water.
>> So it's back to like why I say it's
Chinatown like with Jack. Listen, we
have this LWP that
>> these people get all this money. They
increase everyone's rates this year.
Everyone's rates went up 17 or 11%.
They're going to go up 7% annually for
no reason. You're not getting alkaline
water out of it. I'm convinced. We used
to joke like, "Oh, there's fluoride in
the water." How much fentanyl is in our
damn water right now? I mean, we're not
getting better water for that 7%
increase. They're doubling everyone's
trash even though the entire city has
more trash. I talked to this guy Juan
from Clean LA. He goes around, he's from
Ecuador. He he does these minggas where
he moved here from Ecuador and he said
it's the dirtiest thing he's ever seen
his whole life. So, he just started
cleaning up trash and posting it and now
people will give him GoFundMe money and
he cleans more of the city than the
city. And I had him on my podcast. I
said, "What's the problem here, Juan?"
And he said, "People don't care,
Spencer." And I said, "So I'm mayor, I
hire you or we're going to get the city
clean." He's like, "Spencer, they want a
billion dollars next year to for the
trash." He's like, "I can do this for
easy $500 million." I said, "Okay,
you're hired one." I said, "What are we
going to do with them?" He's like, "We
got to fire all these people, Spencer.
They don't care." He said, "It's dirtier
than any third world country he's ever
been. So they're doubling our trash
rates. They're doubling our sewage. So,
more money, more money. It's back to
taxes. Oh, the the rich need to give
more. If the quality of life just keeps
getting worse and worse, why would
anybody with money stay in California or
Los Angeles? Exactly.
>> When they know the fraud, the waste, the
corruption, people that are rich,
billionaires, whoever they are, if the
city lights all work right now, this the
two mayors I'm running for let you know
about the copper theft. There's no
working lights in the city of LA because
they let they got rid of the copper task
force because they obviously have can't
fund the LAPD. So they let everyone
steal all the copper. So there's
everything's dark in the whole city. So
Mayor Basque goes last week and makes a
press conference. I solved it. I'm gonna
spend $200 million and we're going to do
solar power lights. You think these
thieves aren't going to then pivot to
stealing solar batteries and slaying
those? No. We got to stop the criminals.
The best video right now, I think
there's a couple good ones. this Nthia
Ramen, the Democratic Socialist who's
running for mayor. She is asked about
all the Cadillac converters that are
being stolen. She said, "Well, Toyota is
making these too easy to steal. It's
like leaving your your MacBook on the
front seat." This is real talk. They are
not kidding. This Toyota's fault that
people
>> Toyota's fault that people are stealing
catalytic converters.
>> Yes. Here's Get
>> That's hilarious. Every [ __ ] car has
a catalytic converter. Just sits
underneath. You can just saw off the
exhaust and take it out. If you know
anything about cars, it's not [ __ ]
Toyota. It's every car.
>> Oh, here's another great one of her
lines. Um, she's at our city council
meeting. She's the city council member.
All these moms and parents are saying,
"We don't want these encampments where
there's two known gangs selling fentanyl
through holes in the in the tents. The
zombies are everywhere. These parents
are saying, "We don't want these
encampments, which are illegal." They're
asking them the city council member to
enforce the law. and she argues with the
parents and say there's no difference.
The encampments one foot or 500 feet
from the school. All the parents boo her
and she goes whatever. And rolls her
eyes. These are the people that are
going to show up and vote for me. These
moms dads are done. There's a giant
amount of people in California that have
been redpilled that dis just realize
like whatever you thought your
government was when you thought you were
voting for a progressive, kind,
compassionate government, that is a
sheep outfit over a wolf. It's not what
you have. It's not what you're getting.
What you're getting is organized crime.
What you're getting is organized crime
that is using this filter of
compassionate, caring, inclusive
government. And it's not real. It's not
real. What you're getting is more
homeless, more crime, more murder, more
chaos, more maybe not more murder, maybe
just more shootings. Almost maybe more
shootings and stabbings, but better
medical care is keeping them alive. But
the idea that crime is down, it's like
anecdotally, you ask anybody in LA, they
would not agree to that. Most people
think crime is up. Home invasions are
[ __ ] ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
>> So, I spoke with these SWAT guys the
other day. And I said, you know, are you
guys having a lot of, you know, gang
stand up? He said, actually, no. The
gangs is business as usual. They know
when we show up that, you know, the
hands up. They're going to get out in a
week. They're professional. They're just
for the money. He says, "Our biggest
call outs now are mental health, you
know, episodes that the person doesn't
know where they are or whatever." And I
said, "But what about all these like
home invasion crews and that are coming
in robbing everyone's house?" He goes,
"There's nothing we could do." He says,
"These people all know they're getting
out in two weeks." I said, "What do you
mean? Isn't that a felony? They're
coming in with guns." He said, "Nope.
You can go break into a house with a gun
while people are there, families, rob
them, tie them up, and get out.
>> Not only that, if you shoot those people
while they're in your house, you'll be
prosecuted.
>> Yeah. You got to prove you are fearing
for your life.
>> You're supposed to leave your house
rather than defend your house against
people with weapons that enter your
house. I personally would advise to to
lock yourself in in a closet and have
your firearm and have a strong point.
>> Yeah. But even that like where you're
going to just let someone break into
your house and steal your childhood's
you whatever whatever they're stealing
whatever steal your [ __ ] jewelry and
>> you have to
>> heirlooms and what whatever you've
worked your whole life to earn.
>> Yeah.
>> That's [ __ ] insane. That's insane.
And the fact that you have this no cash
bail situation and just letting these
people out on the street that are
violent criminals, repeat offenders,
it's like if you wanted to destroy LA,
that's how you would do it.
>> They're doing it. And that's why I get
so my hardest thing every day now is
just staying not too pumped up because
now that I'm in this fight and I have
all the messages all day long,
everywhere I go on the street, people
old ladies hugging me, crying like,
"Please, I'm sc the the pressure I feel
to get in here and just undo this,
unplug this." And I met with a lot of
business owners and they said the mayor,
the city, they all know what needs to be
done, but they don't want to push the
buttons. Somebody needs to just come in
and push my if there's one thing I know,
I will push these buttons and we're
gonna get the city under control because
it just starts with enforcing the law.
So, I have a deputy mayor that I can't
say who he is because of fear of
retaliation at this point because of
issues with the city right now who's in
power. But this deputy mayor who will
help me enforce the law made it very
clear once you start enforcing the law,
criminals leave. They know, oh, this the
gig's up. They will go somewhere else.
you once you started making arrests,
people will leave. This idea, oh,
there's no room in the jails. Where are
you going to put all these people? Once
you start enforcing law, they will
leave. And it's as simple as that. He
was suggesting for two weeks, you go
around the city, you put up signs, no
more fentanyl at the park, no more open
drug use, no more encampments, you have
two week countdown, you tell every you
give them a warning. So if you want to
leave in advance, you know, most of
these people, which is what I hear the
most from law enforcement, are not from
Los Angeles. They have been flown in,
bust in back to the business. There's a
body business where they bring homeless
people to the city to make the money off
them. They're from all over the country.
They're brought here because this is the
epicenter where they're making all the
money. So, you don't think these NOS's
when they hear Spencer Pratt, the new
mayor, he's got the IRS criminal
investigation team, they're going to
take this scam, I'm sorry, to other
states and cities on the the show is
going to go on the road and they're
going to open up shop where there's a
mayor that lets this go down and it will
stop in LA and this trickle down effect
when restaurants don't have zombies in
front of them. You can go back to having
outdoor seating because it doesn't smell
like human poop. The whole town smells
like the whole city smells like human
poop and pee. It's It's crazy. So, when
you get rid of that, not to mention,
you're in my best plan.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm bringing in the CDC. Los Angeles
love the white suits and during COVID,
they love They love CDC. I'm bringing in
the CDC because do you know how much
typhoid and medieval diseases are in
these encampments that nobody's
swabbing? Mayor Pratt is bringing the
CDC in. We're going to swab all of them.
And once we get those test results back,
I promise you, the federal government
will be shutting down streets with white
tents and hosing things down with
chlorine, god knows what, because people
are living in the sewers. I don't know
if you saw last week that lady pops out
of the sewer, that Juan from Clean LA,
he did a video, it went viral. She's
living in like in the sewer, a whole
full thing. What is what's with poop and
pee? You know what type of diseases are
going on in there? CDC will clean these
streets. And again, people are like,
"Oh, Spencer is not going to have the
resources." With the Olympics coming, we
have Homeland Security. We got DEA.
Another thing we're just letting I
talked to the dog rescue people. They
say you stand on Skid Row or any street
in LA, you can watch the drug dealers
just pulling up in Escalades, Teslas,
all the nicest cars just slanging. No
problem.
Mayor Pratt, DEA's coming in, ATF, we
have so much funding when you bring the
feds in to enforce the law to get the
streets ready for the Olympics. The
current administration, they want to
play pretend, get that money to launder.
Oh, we need that billion dollars. We'll
we'll clean the streets. No, no, no. You
come do it. Help me out. So, it's not
like I won't be able to do this. And
people when they hear me say that like
it's our guy.
>> So, let's let's
>> We haven't even talked jiu-jitsu, too.
Are we going to put on geese or what?
>> Let's talk about day one. So, day one,
realistically, what can you do and how
do you implement all these ideas that
you have?
>> So, right now, what I've learned is all
the smartest, brightest people would
never want to come work in LA cuz they
know any of their ideas are not going to
be used. The system is in play. the
amount of private industry,
like for instance, a CEO's house burned
down who sold his company to Warren
Buffett. We're talking big legit CEO. He
said, "I'll come in. I'll work for a
dollar a year." You know, there's people
like this that want to get LA back, that
I'm going to surround myself. People
like Rick Caruso, he wants to get
building. You lean on these people that
they talk about it. They just don't want
to go into this toxic environment that
you can't a cartel. They know there's
only so much they can do unless there's
a mayor like me that's gonna let them do
it. I I just got off the phone with
Steve Moscow. He was the president of
multiple studios. Sony going to bring
him in with an like an Avengers team for
Hollywood. How we clean up all these
permit issues and get Hollywood back and
make the incentives make it. My idea is
literally not charge. You want to shoot
in LA? There's no we need we're gonna
charge you no we need work and then we
can in six years we could come back and
worry about that but bring the business
back so meeting with the Ted Sarandos
putting these actual commissions not to
mention I already met with the there's
the community budget advocates they're
like LA budget experts they presented
seven budget initiatives to Mayor Bash
didn't do one I'm going to do all seven
these type of budget things where you
don't just increase all these payments
to city unions or whatever with if the
budget doesn't have the money. There's
going to be a commission that looks
everything publicly for 30 days. Right
now, it's just her CEO. It's like having
your accountant and and check your taxes
like from the IRS. It's all we need to
have outside independent people checking
all this stuff. So, it's more of again,
I'm talking with Chief Garcia, who's
retiring, who's the goat firefighter to
be one of my deputy to be one of my
deputy mayors of fire and public safety,
not a deputy mayor that calls bomb
threats into the city. So, it's just
using experienced people that want to
get LA and surrounding myself. One thing
I know I have is common sense. Now, all
the things that I need, the
professionals, you bring them in and
they'll want to work with me because
they know they hear my message. Oh, he's
going to undo all this. You're telling
me for $750,000
I couldn't find a better LWP
CEO to make sure there's waters in the
reservoir, figure out how to get rates
down. We have plenty of money. We're
paying these jobs. We're clearly not
getting the proper talent. Obviously,
look at the city. So,
>> you're getting talent that's
ideologically aligned.
>> That's Yeah. Exactly.
>> And it's a part of this whole cartel.
>> Exactly. So,
>> and they know what they're doing. They
know the game. They play the game. They
listen to whatever the top dogs say. And
they follow business as usual. And the
money keeps getting moved around
>> to the point where I can poach talent
from other major cities that are
successful at these jobs. I can pay them
more clearly than other places. Be like,
"Wow, you did this here. Come out to LA.
Don't worry. The zombies will be gone by
the time you get here." But there are
these people. There's tons of cities
around America that don't look like LA.
This is not some rocket science I have
to figure out.
>> You're in one of them right now.
>> There we go.
>> Yeah. Drive around Austin. There's a
homeless problem, but it's minor. It's
very small in comparison to Los Angeles.
>> Again, there will be homeless problems
always
>> everywhere. Always.
>> But the drug addiction, crime where they
run the streets, that's a problem that
can be
>> and encampments can be fixed. Look at
what they did in San Francisco when Xi
Jinping was visiting San Francisco and
Gavin Newsome literally said when
someone comes to your house to visit,
you clean up your house. How about just
keep your [ __ ] house clean? Like what
are you saying? If you have the
resources to clean it up when a foreign
dignitary comes into town, why don't you
just keep your town clean?
>> And we're the ones that own the house,
the taxpayers.
>> We already pay to keep the house clean.
Now,
>> back to Newsome and fires. One other
thing we need to touch upon back to
climate change and him going to Munich
and he talks about the fires is 365 days
a year it's climate that's interesting
for somebody whose fire service the
Calire he only pays them seasonal when
the palisades fire hit all most of the
Calire was down for the season if it's a
364 and that's why the only reason
Brentwood exist and didn't burn all the
way just like the Palisades is that
Chief Garc IA he was ready with the US
Forest Service cuz he fought the feds to
make sure he has a real fire service
that's 365 cuz he understands it could
pop off whenever. So he had all his
tankers and helicopters they came to
Palisades and saved the day. So this
idea they just talk talk oh I spend all
this money on all these things but then
you don't and then he cut their
salaries. I mean we don't we could do a
whole episode on Newsome. got to stay
focused and it's back to
>> it's amazing that that guy thinks he
could be president.
>> Not when I'm mayor of LA cuz I'm going
to cook him.
>> I just don't understand how anybody
could think that he was he would do a
good job. He ruined San Francisco then
he ruined California and now he wants to
ruin the country. Like what what how the
[ __ ] do they think because he talks well
and he doesn't even talk well. He just
talks well for people that are in that
position. There's just a lot of people
that talk way better than him that
aren't interested in the job.
>> Well, that's what we need to get past.
And the audience, the taxpayers
audience, whatever you want to call
them. We need to stop falling for
performative politics. The mayor of LA,
she's so good at it. That's she gets
everyone riled up like she's Chavara
fighting for freedom just when she can
do nothing. She literally as mayor
cannot stop anything with the federal
government. It's all just an act. And
same with Nuome. They're they're like in
like social media influencers. Do your
job. We're paying our tax money for you
to make sure our houses don't burn down.
Zombies aren't attacking our families on
the way to school. Everything that's the
basic quality of life you're failing at.
But what you're good at is just yelling
on social media. And that was back to
why I ran because I didn't want to be
one of these just they're just yappers.
Just yap. You don't do anything.
>> Yeah. Well, it's uh it's refreshing.
It's refreshing seeing some but I think
this is how it has to be done. I think
it has to be someone from the outside
that all these people that have a career
in politics. They know what feathers
they can't ruffle. They know that if you
want to make it, you have to be aligned
with whatever the party's doing. And if
you go against them, you get in trouble.
And everyone knows this. So they all
just sort of stay the course and hope
that their time comes. hope that they'll
look the right way and say the right
things and somehow or another it'll
allow them to elevate their career and
become a mayor somewhere or become a
governor somewhere.
>> Well, if you look, smart people will
come up to me and they'll be like,
"You're doing what the founders of
America wanted. Real people part of the
communities getting into politics, not
this job where I'm going to do this for
30." It was supposed to be your
neighbor, your somebody who understood
what everyone was going through.
>> Exactly.
>> And and and I feel that. And again,
>> I'm going in there to stop these people.
Not Not I don't have a new utopia of
what LA should be. I want LA back.
>> I want the LA I grew up in. I want my
two sons to be able to once we win all
our lawsuits against Gavin Newsome in
his state park to rebuild in the
Palisades and grow up in the city of LA
that I grew up in that it was you could
dream.
>> Have you thought about a timeline of how
all these ideas that you have like how
long it'll take to actually implement
them?
>> Once you start enforcing the law, things
are going to move quick. It's it's as
simple as okay, I'm mayor of LA. I got
my new my new deputy mayors. We have my
new police commissions. We're going
around and we're just arresting people
and the people that aren't getting
arrested, we're getting to mandatory
medical treatment and we're just going
to start clearing the streets, clearing
the encampments. And then from that, it
just everything's going to come to first
off, imagine the communities like the
how pumped people are going to be in
these neighborhoods when I come in and
I'm like, "This is done." What is this
other person, this Democratic socialist
lady, what what is her solution to all
these problems? Crime, homelessness, all
these things. What is she saying? She is
she admitting that they're issues and
does she have a solution that she's
proposing?
>> And she just posted it yesterday. I
didn't read it. Somebody just tagged it.
It was so funny. One of the quotes was,
"We're going to have a street medical
team." A street medical team. We already
have that. It's called the LAD. and
they're spending 80% of their calls
responding to these overdoses and we're
also paying for that in our no they they
because they're so deep in it they can't
say mandatory treatment
>> because these people have rights to die
on the sidewalk. They have rights to
attack. So we need more housing. This
isn't these beds aren't working. We need
to get more beds. So yes, she needs more
affordable beds. More It's not working
as she's running it.
>> As she's running it. Yeah. So, she just
wants to keep business as usual, just
with more funds.
>> No, she wasn't even running until 3
hours before the last where you have to
fill it out. But when everyone saw I was
going to win and be the mayor, they So,
the real conspiracy is is my conspiracy.
I don't know if it's real. That Karen
Bass and they are working together just
to block me to make sure because it's a
jungle runoff. So, June 2nd, the top two
numbers go to November. I was one
billion percent going to November until
one hour before she just pops up after
she had already endorsed Mayor Bass.
They were doing photo ops together a
week before. They're close. Mayor Bass
endorsed this Nthia lady. They're like a
team. So two hours before that last
minute where you have to sign to where
they announced the final candidates.
She's had a year to run for mayor plus
you could have announced. It's just to
block me from going to November. But
what they don't understand is people
that will vote for me would never vote
for her or Karen Bass. They're actually
picking off their own stats. If
anything, what they're doing is making
me the mayor on June 2nd. Because if you
have 51% of the vote, I just become the
mayor on June 2nd. And I think they're
in for a big surprise. And they're
underestimating how angry everybody is
in the city of LA. And I think I become
mayor June 2nd. And it won't even go to
November. I think they really are
underestimating how angry everybody is
because uh there's people that I talked
to that used to be just hardcore
Democrats, hardcore leftist progressives
that are really saying like in hush
tones, we really need a Republican. We
really need like some nononsense Rudy
Giuliani person. I hate to say that. I
hate to say it, but that's what we need.
We need someone who's going to be really
tough on crime and clean everything up
and stop all these people from having
tents on the street. There's so many
people like that that are just quiet
about it. They don't want to talk about
it openly and publicly because they're
afraid of being shamed.
>> I grew up in Palisades. I went to
Crossroads High School. I don't think
I've ever met a a Republican. No, I mean
for real. Like all the people I know,
all my family and everybody I know is a
Democrat. And all the people that are
supporting me, all the people I talk to,
they're Democrats. We are This is not
the Democrat party that's running LA.
The other day I posted the like the the
commandment list of I think it was 1996
Bill Clinton's Democratic party. It
looks like what I would say right now.
>> Yeah,
>> that's the dem No, this is socialism.
This is communist. This is cartel. This
is mafia. This is not Democrats love me.
They they want all the same things. They
want to feel safe.
>> It's really amazing how they can hide it
by just pretending to be compassionate.
They they can hide all this money that
they're just siphoning off because it
really is just organized crime.
>> Well, they say to people there's nothing
we can do.
>> That's that's that's people in my
comments section be like there's nothing
you can do. It's like they are so good
at just keeping this these people have
rights. First off, it is illegal. Just
this is blow people's mind. It's illegal
to live on the sidewalk,
>> right?
>> It's it's a that's a Democrat law. All
the laws I want to enforce are Democrat
laws. I am the Democrat law enforcer.
Mayor I should be every it's I'm
actually excited because I I finally
feel like there's like hope cuz when
your house burns down and your mom's
crying cuz her house burned down every
single day. Everyone you know's house
burned out. You go through a dark just
all my tax money like I should be a
millionaire. The you know cuz I got some
big checks. People always say, "Oh, he
burned all of his money." They don't
understand. Living in LA in the
entertainment business with a manager,
an agent, a business manager, your taxes
in LA, your state taxes, it's very hard
to keep all that money. So, they're
like, "Oh, we burned the No, I
regardless the amount of money I put in
to the city of LA and the state, my
house should still be here." So, it's
very sad moment. And then it then you
start uncovering, oh, no, this is almost
strategic. this is this, you know, a lot
of people reached out after with the
Lina and they're like, "Oh, they lined
you. This is a land grab." And I was
like, "No, no." And then you start going
down, you're like, I'm not even argue
with these people anymore because of how
the writing was so on the wall. It's so
on the wall. The entire insurance
industry dropped everyone in the palace
leading up to the fire. It was that
flagrant. There was 70year-old people,
70-year-old plus. I talked to 80 year
olds that got dropped by their insurance
January 1st, been paying 40 plus years,
didn't even get to reup, lost
everything, no insurance. If all the
insurance companies are dropping an
area, it's very clear that they know
what's about to happen. So, your city
leaders, your mayor, everybody, your
state, they should be getting ready or
saying, "Oh, wow. Everyone's dropping
this. What can we do? Oh, we need to
clear the dead brush. We need to make
the water and the reservoirs there. Just
obvious things. So, I don't even argue
with the land grab things because here's
a crazy thing that I never did the math
for. This this hurts. So, your house
burns down, you lost everything. Now you
got to buy stuff over again. Now you're
paying the city sales tax. So, the
people who just let your house burn
down, now you're giving them tax to reby
underwear, reby shoes, reby. So, they're
making money now off of your house
burning down. Not to mention, you got to
start buying things to actually maybe if
you're lucky, not only 14 people in 15
months have built a house. So,
>> it's only 14 people have built a new
house.
>> Let's max out at 16 just to be like,
"Oh, no. It's 16 piece of
misinformation." Yeah. Like it's less
than 20.
>> Yeah. Less than 20 and 15, which is
crazy. And how many houses burnt down?
>> 7,000.
>> Wow.
>> So, now you got the sales tax. God,
that's so crazy. That's such a crazy
number. 7,000 houses is so crazy.
>> What's even crazier is most of these
houses burned down on January 8th when
now there's no wind and they just didn't
figure out let's drive water in from all
again when you're on Lahina, you're on
an island. I'll start arguing. Oh, it's
hard to get resources. When everything's
burning down on January 7th and you
already realize you effed up and now
you're hearing the fire department
saying, "Oh, the fire hydrants are
empty. There's no water. It's red alert.
Get enough water tankers from the whole
state, every city. Drive in water. I
have videos from January of moms walking
in front of my son's elementary school.
It's totally there. My son's preschool
12:00. Totally there. By the afternoon,
all this is gone
cuz there's no they didn't bring water
in. It's crazy. So, back to the the land
grab thing. So, for instance, all these
properties that burn down, like I said,
it's years of passed down family
property. So, when you pass that, you
pay that old tax rate. Now, these 7,000
dirt lots in the next couple years,
guess what the new tax rate is? They're
going to have a when somebody buys that
and they're now paying 2027, 2028
Pacific Palisades tax rates, not 1970,
you know, your grandfather's tax rate
cuz, you know, you still lived in the
house. So there's like a 100 plus
billion they're going to make just in
taxes. So the idea that oh why would
they ever let that happen? You start
thinking oh well they don't care because
not only do they make a lot of money
they can rebuild it. They can try to put
you know affordable housing and do this
these complex. It just gets it gets
fishy. You know
>> it does get weird. But you don't want to
accuse people of land grabs, but at the
very least, they're capitalizing on a
tragedy.
>> Well, you know, the number one buyer
right now of Palisad's dirt lots,
>> China.
>> No way.
>> Yeah.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. Well, they do it through New
Zealand or it's a New Zealand business
owned by the Chinese, so you know, it's
it's all movie stuff. I keep saying to
people,
>> watch the movie Chinatown. I I watch it
once a week just to like stay locked in,
you know. But it's it's exciting because
I feel this window of change where the
stars are aligning where an outsider
comes in and just blows up their whole
spot. Not the way the deputy mayor calls
him bomb threats, but energetically. And
so it gives me hope. And then again, if
it goes if it's not God's plan, my wife
is very on the, you know, prayer warrior
Bible Jesus. So, you know, I check in
with her. I'm like, "What's Jesus
saying, honey?" And uh, you know, I
talk, but I think she has a better path.
And her thing is, if it's God's will,
it's going to go down. And if not, then
I'll probably end up with some of my
former Palestinians that moved to
Bentonville, Arkansas. And it is what it
is. But I will
>> Well, there could be no doubt that Los
Angeles needs a radical shift. They need
a radical change. And it sounds like
that's exactly what you're proposing.
big time and it's exciting, you know,
because most people are scared. They
have fear of this system. They have fear
of being attacked. The the I get why a
normal person that's just has a good
heart that's smart doesn't want to go
into politics. They will You'll have the
LA Times writing hit pieces. They got
machines to keep the system. You got the
comment sections. You got people making
videos. They're trying to expose bots.
You feel that. But thankfully I have
experience from being hated in in
television for many years that you know
now the flip is I have so much love
energy. I was able to maintain with
negativity for so many years and just
stay in the game because it was business
as usual and I knew they wanted a
villain on all these shows. I will you
know shout out David Foster who to put
me on this path many years ago. He said
you got to be like Simon Cowl and I
leaned into that and and it worked for
many years. But the point is being hated
for so many years now having so much
love
obviously I'd much rather be loved.
Let's be clear. Anybody that wants to
being loved is a lot more fun.
>> For sure. For sure. Listen, man. I'm
voting for you. I can't vote for you,
but I'm rooting for you. I mean, if I
lived in Los Angeles, no question
whatsoever I would vote for you.
>> You have time to get one of these
affordable beds. I can put you I could
probably connect you in one of these
beds. You know, you know,
>> I don't think that's legal. I think I'm
a Texas resident.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, I'm a Texas resident. I think I
can only vote.
>> Look, did you see what they're doing
right now with the cigarettes and the
ballots in LA? Have you seen this?
>> What?
>> They caught all these people signing
ballots, trading the zombies for
cigarettes.
>> Oh, I did see that.
>> So, I need the DOJ, if you're watching
the feds, we need No, we need
>> Come to LA for my election. We need to
make sure we get a real election. I
can't believe we didn't do an hour on
though. That really is gross what
they're doing with giving people
cigarettes to sign up for things.
>> Do you know how many people are like in
the jiu-jitsu game if you don't shout me
out? Like I need to just like end with
like a list of people. No, no, I'm just
kidding. But guys, we didn't talk
jiu-jitsu. So
>> Well, I talk jiu-jitsu so much.
>> I know. I know. But
>> here's another thing. Like flavored
nicotine is illegal in Los Angeles. Just
think about how many people are camped
out on the streets. How many people are
intense? Open fentinel use. You can't
buy flavored zins.
>> Well, even the cleanest ones that like
my health biohacker friends allegedly
may or may not access it, but you can't
have those.
>> Like fitness people can't even
>> like athletic
>> peptides are technically, you know.
>> Yeah. Well, they're working on that
nationwide and hopefully that'll get
passed soon. But
>> there's so many regulations in
California that make [ __ ] no sense.
Like no sense. particularly in Los
Angeles, they make no sense. And it's
just they just want to keep you like a
child and they are the people that are
supposed to be the overseers of
everybody and they're looking out for
you and it's gross and they it's just
business as usual. They want to keep
moving in a direction of more
regulation, more rules, less rights,
more restrictions.
>> One last thing that speaking is this is
so crazy. Do you know right now in LA if
you're just a mom and pop landlord not
you know not they always like to say
landlords are like cruel deville level
like you know just like a mom and pop
maybe you own one apartment building
with units. If you have like a drug
addict crazy person living in there most
of them now also with the section 8
scammer and Range Rovers have two cars.
if you want to get them out, they can go
a whole year with not paying these
landlords and then they have to pay a
100 grand in legal fees to try to get
them out. So then they settle with this
criminal that's just abusing this
loophole in this system. They'll give
them 50 40k to just leave. That person's
not put on any list and then they go do
it to another apartment building. So a
lot of these apartment buildings, they
don't even want to rent out to people
because they can't afford to then have
one of these people. So again with this
housing and then ready for this the city
council if it was not 170 million it's
200 million just gave $170 million to
the lawyers that sue the tenants for
these people but there's no fund for the
tenants to then defend themselves.
>> Jesus Christ.
>> It's it's so crazy.
So again, it's about these people coming
around me that know that are living this
nightmare and be like, "How do I help
you stop these things?" And putting
these people that know the the game cuz
they're living it.
>> Yeah.
>> And undo it. We got to stop this.
>> Well, I'm glad we could help you get
your message out and I really, really
hope it helps. And I really, really hope
you win. It would be fun. And it'd be
fun to watch you shake it up. And boy,
if you could really change Los Angeles
and turn it around, I mean, I mean, that
would be absolutely fantastic. It would
be a great story. It would be really
amazing and it would give hope to a lot
of other cities that are experiencing
similar situations where I think a lot
of other people would follow your path.
>> I'm I'm I'm doing it. Just come here in
the game. Vote for mayor.com.
>> Vote for Mayor Pratt.
>> There it is. Thank you so much.
Appreciate it. All right. Bye,
everybody.