Spencer Pratt, welcome to the All-In

podcast.

>> Thank you for having me.

>> You had an unbelievable debate

performance the other night. I have so

many friends that were texting and

people obviously were tweeting about it.

Let's start with that. How are you

feeling after the debate?

>> I just wish it had been like 2 hours or

3 hours because the list of their

failures that we didn't even get to

touch on, it's unbelievable. So, it was

the most fun I've had in years because

what people don't realize is they're

pathological liars. So when somebody

gets to be on the stage with only facts

and the truth, that's why there's this

incredible response to because everybody

that always watches these lying

politicians, they know they're lying and

nobody gets to yell, "They're lying."

But it was very hard to be respectful

because all the lovely Democrat moms

that love me, that want to keep

supporting me, they asked me to please

stay calm, cool, and collected. So the

whole time I was doing my best behavior

to not interrupt the lying, which if I

hadn't been tasked with that mission, I

would have been like, "Liar, liar." But

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>> A lot of people said they weren't

expecting such a great performance. Like

you were so well prepped, so well

verssed on a lot of the facts on the

actions you were going to take. How did

you get ready for the debate? Did you do

work to get after this? Well, thankfully

people argue with me all day long in

every single media hit that I've done

for months because they don't want me to

get into the machine. So, every

interview I do, unlike these

politicians, it's opposition. It's

arguing, arguing, arguing. When these,

you know, Mayor Bass or Councilwoman

Ramen talk to the media, they can just

lie and then the media people go, "Oh,

thank you. Thank you, Mayor Bass. Thank

you, Councilman." If I say anything, I

got to have who was there, what they

were wearing, what they had for

breakfast. I have to have my information

so factbased and be bulletproof to beat

this machine that it's I debate. All I

do is debate people all day long.

>> You're held to a higher standard.

>> Exactly. Challenged all day

>> and all I live in is facts and the

truth. And so I called my lawyer who's

representing me in the case against the

city and the state and LAWP, one of the

most famous lawyers in the world. I said

I said, "Peter, how do you stay so calm

when you're arguing with these liars?"

And he said, "Spencer, I always have the

truth." I was like, "Oo." I was like,

"Okay, I got that." Good strategy.

>> Yeah. So that was a great

>> just message I took into that. Can we

for people that don't know your story

and I want to just give you a couple

minutes to tell it. Let's go back to the

fires. Where were you and where was your

family, your wife, your kids? Where were

you guys when these fires kicked off and

how did you end up evacuating? And what

was that evening like?

>> Well, let's even rewind before the

fires. It just shows you that our

emergency situation is not the level it

needs to be because I didn't even know

that there was this crazy wind weather

event. My son had had pneumonia. So, I

was up every night checking his

temperature and I'm on my phone a lot.

I'm a phone person and I didn't even

know that this was extra dangerous, dry

weather. So, that just shows you if you

rewind, we weren't even informed at the

level you clearly we should have been.

So, the morning of January 7th, I was

doing my normal routine, making my

espresso, about to dance to Taylor

Swift, Look What You Made Me Do on

Snapchat, which I've done since the

Reputation album dropped. And all a

sudden, I see our nanny running down the

street. She's comes in with our

2-year-old at the time. She's like, "The

workers up the street said there's a

fire on the hill." Again, this is not

crazy. Like, Mayor Bass's like, "We

never knew, but we're well aware fires

happen. There had just been the Getty

fire that everyone ran out of their

houses for."

>> I grew up in LA.

>> I've been through the fires. They've

been going on for 30 years. I mean,

>> three weeks before all my friends fought

a fire in Malibu. episode. I was even

planning on starting my own fire brigade

like my friends had and I was talking to

Heidi like we need to get a hose, we

need to get a truck. And so I was well

aware of fires no matter what anybody

says. This isn't a shock. We also know

about Santa Ana winds. So I run up the

hill where we hike every day for the

last nine years. And I see the smoke,

you know, coming from like the Highlands

area, which is where Loachman, which we

now know the fire was really from seven

days earlier and it had been smoldering

for a week. And I see the smoke. I

FaceTime my wife. I was like, "Yeah,

maybe pack go down to my parents house

just to be safe." Because my parents

live in the Palisades. I grew up in the

Palisades. It's the opposite side of

where we are. We're at the top of the

hill next to the state park there by the

bluffs, next to the ocean. You would

think that'd be safe. So she loads up

just diapers, kids clothes, and goes to

my mom's house. I stay up there, you

know, facetiming every local, what's

going on very confident because I assume

I've been paying I don't have any money

because all my money goes to taxes. So I

assume all these tax money is

firefighters are coming. Got to be going

somewhere. It's going somewhere. You

know, I was very naive. And I also live

next door again in the debate when Mayor

Bass was like he's lying or that's not

true. There was only one reservoir that

was empty. Ma'am, Mayor Bass, I live

next to the one you don't know existed,

the Palisades reservoir. 5 million

gallons next door to my house that the

fire department would do almost, not

weekly, but bi-weekly drills. They would

connect up there. They would make me

move cars if they needed to to bring the

hoses. I was always saying to my wife,

"Well, this is annoying, but gosh, we're

set. They have a thing where the

helicopter could dip in there." not the

San Andreas reservoir that she was

referencing that she lied about and said

was for drinking water which obviously

if you Google LA Times will show you

when it was made it was for wildfire

protection that's why it has sistns

that's why it has helicopter dip sites

because it's for wildfire so I was very

confident I have a video of myself

filming can't wait till the helicopters

get here not realizing that they drain

that Janice Quinion the LA DWP drain

that reservoir in June of 2024. I must

have been out at Awan when they were

emptying it or whatever. So I was very

confident in 2025

in Pacific Palisades that pays probably

almost what a quarter of the taxes for

the whole city. I would guess at this

point they are not letting the entire

town burn to the ground. So I didn't

pack anything. I didn't you know prepare

for our house to burn down. I call the

fire department directly because I have

their number. I say, "Hey, we just see

one truck up here cuz you know if the

fire comes around, there's just this one

place of dead brush and if you put water

on it, you know, it won't come and hit

all these houses." And they said, "We

have no assets available." I'm like,

"Whoa, that was scary." So then my dad

comes up, you know, and we got the hose

and he's hosing a hillside and finally

I'm like, "Dad, let's get out of here.

You know, firefighters are probably

coming." So,

>> and your wife and kids are gone at this

point.

>> They're at my dad's house, which

>> ends up now the fires come from Tesco

Canyon and it's crossed over. So, my

older sister calls like, "What are your

kids doing there? They better get out of

there." I'm like, "What is happening?"

So, now I'm,

>> you know, what? This is insane. It's

like a bad movie.

>> And I never heard any sirens. People

like real locals will tell you if you

talk to me, there was no sirens.

>> Yeah. I've heard this from a lot of

friends in the past. So that was the if

I had heard sirens I would have like

started packing things

maybe stayed but you don't feel scared

if you don't hear sirens. There's no

sheriffs or LAPD or any emergency

vehicles coming up on the street you

know everybody get out of the you know

like in a movie. There was no movie

stuff and you know so you always think

everything's like a movie but nothing

was like a movie. So then I I stay till

the fire comes down the hill at 5 6:00

at night. Again, when she was talking

about this wind, Mayor Bass, I'm

standing at the top of the palisades. I

connect to the state park. There was no

scary winds. It did not go past 40 miles

per hour and it's now been, you know,

even CBS did a great debunk post

yesterday, CBS News, with a journalist

that was up there that I was correct and

I wasn't lying in the debate

>> and there were planes flying.

>> Yeah. It moved. It was windy, but it

wasn't.

>> So, I talked to the chief Bobby Garcia

at the US Forest Service about what he

thought went sideways the day of, you

know, we don't know because the

afteraction report has been edited

multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she

denies, but the LA Times stands by their

reporting. And he said the initial fire

wasn't made skinny. You're supposed to

attack the fire on both sides. And that

did not happen because, ready for this?

You know what Mayor Bass brought up?

like, "Oh, there was no planes, no

mayor." Bass, you never called in fixed

air wing support. She never did. You

know why? She was in Africa. She was in

Africa.

>> And you know who was supposed to do it?

Her deputy mayor, but he was on house

arrest. So LA city never even called in

fixed air wing support to drop water.

Thankfully, LA County Calire showed up

and the US Forest Service. But that's

how out of the loop Mayor Bass was on

this.

>> So when did you find out your house was

gone? I watched it burn on my first on

my security cameras. I watched my son's

bed burn in the shape of a heart, which

is the most spiritual crazy like shape

of a heart coming through the bottom of

his bed. And then I watched each room

until

>> you're watching on the cameras

>> on my phone in gridlock traffic on like

where the 405 like where the 10 goes to

the 405 that one ramp. I'm just stuck in

traffic watching it. But thank God as

I'm watching it, I can't reach my dad

who I'm thinking is dying trying to save

his house on the bluffs. And I'm calling

911. I've been trying to get these audio

calls to just post the level and they

say they don't have him. But I'm calling

911 to find out if my dad is okay, if he

tripped, if So even though I'm watching

my house burn down, I can't reach my

dad. So that's taking away the material

>> connection. I'm like, my dad cared more

to me than my house burning. So I get on

911. They're like, "What's the address?"

Like, "Oh, no emergency personnel can go

there."

>> My dad lives on the bluffs. There's like

>> So you're like losing your mind at that

point.

>> There's 12 ways to get to my parents

house.

>> So this idea that there's no emergency

personnel and I'm telling them my dad

could be burning up. So these 12 people

that did burn alive, I know firsthand if

one of their family members or relatives

or neighbors was calling 911, they were

told no emergency personnel can go help

them. So, thank God my dad obviously

lived and he got out and I was like,

"Dad, could you get out?" He's like,

"Yeah, it was I drove all you could

drive anywhere." So, they didn't even

brutal. So, in the aftermath, this hits

you, must have hollowed you, wrecked

you. How was the next couple of weeks

kind of trying to put everything back

together? And at what point were you

like, man,

I'm gonna try and figure this out? Like,

was it an immediate call to action for

you or was there a period of time there

where you were trying to put everything

together? So my wife and I when we were

very successful in 2009, we spent

millions of dollars on her pop music

album with all the most famous music

producers and writers in the world, but

it was a it we didn't have the money to

promote it. It just nobody ever heard

it, but we did that. The 15-year

anniversary of that album happened to be

January 10th. The house burned down

January 7th. So when I have zero money

now because everything I ever put into

was in this house for my sons. All

everything I own was in this house. I'm

like, "Oh my god, we have no money.

We're done." I'm getting emails because

January 10th is this anniversary date,

15 years of her album. So I go on TikTok

Live and I say, "Anybody please, you

know, I have no money right now. Our

house just burned down. Please stream my

wife's album, buy it, and thank God for

Planet Earth getting behind me. I think

maybe 12 countries, put it number one.

Everyone streamed it. It was the first

time an album from 15 years went to

number one on Billboard charts. So, that

was taking me out of the the dark

>> trauma cuz I'm focusing on right away

pivoting into like we're going to

rebuild. And I was naive to think

streaming music you could get a house

back, you know? Thank god I did make

like $150,000, but if this was 2006, we

would have made millions of dollars. So,

it took my mind off it. Obviously, my

wife is trying to get our kids into new

schools. She's not even connecting to

this. This is so positive, honey.

Everyone's supporting you. So, when that

wears down and I realize, oh my god,

this is not enough money to build

anything. We're we were stuck with

California Fair Plan because we were

dropped by farmers after paying for

eight years and we have no money to

rebuild. And I start questioning like

why did our house burn down? It

shouldn't have burned down. And I call

up my friend who I just was at a

groomsman in his wedding and his dad had

just fought Edison in the in the

campfire

maybe. I'm pretty sure it was campfire

at Paradise and he beat Edison. So I

call him I was like, "Can you represent

me? I want to sue the city. I want to

sue the state. I want to sue L.

>> So you're a fighter. You go after it.

>> I'm just done. Case case.

>> Fast forward a little bit. 5,000 homes

burnt.

>> 7,000.

>> 7,000 structures. Yeah. 7,000 homes.

Whatever it is. Why are you the guy that

comes out of the fire and says, "I'm

going to fight and I'm going to do

something about it and I'm going to

change it."

>> Well, thankfully I had this experience

of already being like a hated media

personality. When you put yourself out

there, especially when you're fighting

machines like Gavin Newsome and his

social team and they're calling you a

conspiracy theory and the LA Times is

calling you conspiracy theory because

they're saying this is climate change.

There's nothing that could happen. Well,

guess what? The day of the debate, the

judges overruled the appeal by the state

and the city of LA. Guess why? Because

of the negligence that caused the palace

fire. It's moving forward. Discoveries

open. So this idea that I was this

conspiracy theory climate change wind

guy that a normal person would have, oh

my god, I'm being attacked by the

governor of California on social media.

Most people back down. You burn my house

down. You burn my parents out.

>> You've been through it. You've been in

the public. You've been a fighter in

public. You've got this character that

allows you to kind of stand up. You you

you have this capacity and you have a

bit of a platform going into it.

>> So it was on Yeah. And once I got the

truth, all the LFD whistleblowers were

coming to me telling me that they were

told to leave the smoldering lockman

fire on January 1st. They told me that

Mayor Bass was fighting the battalion

chief who's editing the all they're

editing the afteraction report.

Obstruction of justice. They're telling

me that the chief fought her for that 17

million and warned her that Angelinos

would not be safe. So I'm getting all

this information so I don't feel like

just this fringe social media voice.

Man, I'm not crazy.

>> Yeah.

>> So, you fast forward, the campaign's up

and running now. You have

>> Well, let's rewind. So, when I see that

no one's running against her, I reach

out to Rick Caruso. I call him. I say,

"Are you going to run after Mayor Bass

cuz she's going to guaranteed win June

2nd, 51%. Totally. And I cannot accept

this as a human being at this point."

And I call him and he says, "Go after

Bass." Implying he's not going after

Bass. And so, game on. No one else

stepping up. He told you to do it.

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

he was going to do it,

>> obviously I wasn't going to go against

>> Totally.

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

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

>> So, how's the campaign going after this

debate this week? And I want to talk

about the campaign ads because the ads

have almost elevated you to what I am

hearing from a lot of people is almost

like a historic campaign. The ads are

cutting through in a way that people

have never seen before. Are those your

ads or are they being produced by a

third party and put out there? Because

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

guy Charlie Curran that might be

involved or other folks that that might

be separate from your campaign that are

putting these out there. They're

breaking through the mold that

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

campaign. This is almost emotional. It's

a movement. People want to like get

behind you and they don't even live in

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

when I showed Bass's house, Nitia

Ramen's million-dollar mansion,

multi-million dollar, and then my

Airstream. That one broke every ad

record in history. That is, if it has my

name on it, it's legally mine. Anything

like these incredible grassroots ads,

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

legally not mine.

>> So, there are people out there doing

these ads, not in your campaign,

>> correct?

>> That are creating this movement.

Correct. Because people feel the common

sense.

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

connecting.

>> I keep trying to tell everyone that, you

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

didn't run for to be a political party.

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

because I experienced what city

leadership failure at the ultimate level

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

cuts through. So the media and everyone

wants to jump on and be like, "Oh,

Spencer is our guy." No. I'm the

citizen. I'm the angry taxpayer. You can

be a Democrat and love me. You can be a

Republican and love me. The only people

that don't love me are communists and

socialists and I don't want them to love

me.

>> You know, there was a saying from John

Adams 1776 where he said, "Public virtue

cannot exist in a nation without private

virtue," implying that citizenship

involves sacrificing your personal

interest for the greater public good.

And Thomas Jefferson also spoke at

length about taking a turn providing

civic duty. Everyone has a civic

responsibility to support society at

large, but if you're going to go into

government, if you're going to go into

politics, you do a tour of duty. It's

not a career. It was never meant to be a

career. And it's almost like the local,

the state, and the national level.

There's an entire industry of people

that have built a career in politics.

And then you come along, I would think

Donald Trump's come along. He's almost

like another one of these enigmas that

came out that people it resonated with

people that you're actually standing up

and saying I'm the guy who's on the

other side of the problem with all of

this and this is why this needs to

change. It seems to be creating a

movement.

>> Yeah. I feel like I connect more with

Cenitis. This guy that was a farmer and

>> I actually have Citus written down right

now. I was I was I was going to mention

I'm like oh it's too esoteric.

>> Oh no. That's who I connect to because

I'm like this guy went and fought this

battle. They wanted to give him all the

power and he's like no I want to go back

to my family and I keep initially when I

ran I would say I want to do my four

years and then go back. I realize I need

to do the eight years. Lock this in. Get

LA the number one city in the world.

Then I can go back to my family. So I'm

prepared to do the eight. That's my tour

of duty. And when people say, "Oh, this

is your house, this airirst." I go, "No,

that's my forward operating base because

this is a battle against good and evil.

They let seven people die in the street

every day with our billions of tax

dollars and they say they need no new

beds." It's a drug problem. 90% of these

people are drug addicts. We need to get

these people mandatory treatment. Then

we can get them beds and also they don't

have to have a bed in on the west side

or next to people's houses or in San

Pedro and right next to schools. They

can have beds in facilities that we

built out. My friend Matt Hes has a

incredible facility in Bentonville. He

built for veterans. I've been talking

with him where he has veterans come

here. They have all these services. It's

beautiful. I'm like, how do we build

this incredible compound, beautiful

possibilities? I guess in Italy, some

billionaire did this for addicts. That's

my vision where we have all this.

>> Take care of people the right way.

>> Exactly. All the services that you'll

ever need in a beautiful setting, not in

a cement brick building that looks like

a prison. An addict when they're getting

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

250 foot little cell, no service. We put

them out in nature. We're spending $25

billion plus. We have enough money where

it's actually cheaper to build the most

incredible facility out in nature that

bring these services that provide for

these addicts. And you separate people.

Everybody doesn't go in one building

like they do right now. If you're a

veteran, you go over here. Single

mothers with their kids, families over

here. Somebody who's just a hardened

criminal drug addict, you go over here

on this side of the hill. And we need to

build this out. And we have the money.

But guess who doesn't make money if I do

that? than NOS's that are stealing all

of our tax money to increase prom,

giving these people pipes, giving them

needles, giving them the Narcan, letting

them OD 14 times a night.

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

is the corruption there? Help people

understand because a lot of people think

this is like a MAGA talking point. I

hear this thrown about all the time.

People use MAGA as a term to dismiss

when someone says something that is

factually jarring to you. I've noticed

this on like someone comes along and

they point out something and it's like

oh that's a MAGA talking point as a way

of just dismissing it instead of

actually listening to what the person is

saying. Can you explain what goes on

with these NOS's like how do NOS's

create a system that the more we spend

and in the last 10 years city of Los

Angeles I think has increased homeless

spending by 10x and the homeless

population has doubled and clearly it's

gotten a lot worse. Why is that

relationship there and what's the role

that the NOS's actually play in this?

And I promise not to call you a MAGA guy

for telling me.

>> Well, first off, when you said

homelessness 2x, homelessness 200x, the

count for homelessness, the when Mayor

Bass in the debate was like it's down

17% from like these are the most cooked

numbers. Even the Rand Corporation says

what they're saying is 30% increase. But

they just drive around and they go 1 2 3

4 5 6. They're not going in under these

encampments and bridges and bushes and

unzipping these tents and going into the

sewer. So we don't even know the count.

But let me tell you my first experience

with NOS's after the Palestund

million raised. Every single person I

talked to messaging me, no one's getting

this money, no one's seeing a dollar. I

go to Washington. I ask senators to

investigate this. We open up the case.

Now all a sudden fire aid puts out a

legal letter to defend themselves in

their own legal letter from the law

firm. They say several several of these

NOS's gave directly to fire victims. The

list for the 100 million is 200 plus.

Google sever several it's under 10. So

even in their defense they're telling

you and again I don't believe one of

those 10 gave directly. The people that

they said did like we gave gift cards.

Who' you give gift cards to? I don't you

don't think one fire victim they're

messaging me all day long said hey I got

a $500 gift card. So that's when I

learned firsthand that these NGOs's will

take and right in your face a hundred

million and just steal it. So, back to

it being a maggot thing. The person who

really exposed the details to me is this

incredible Democrat mom, Samantha from

the Integrity Project. She made her own

little charity nonprofit cuz she's now

tapped out of her own money in her

neighborhood in Westwood. Her and her

husband, they're both lawyers. And this

homeless housing went up on their block.

It was senior citizens. They kic the

senior citizens out and it's wineart.

They I their audit is late. Let's just

put it that way. They're making hundreds

of millions of dollars. This is the best

part. So, the building goes on the

market for $11 million.

6 days later, the city with our tax

money gives Weineart 29 million, $28

million to buy this same building that

was $11 million. There's nobody to this

day, years later, being housed in this.

Weart has developers paying $750 a

square foot. When I've talked to

developers and contractors, this should

be $250 a square foot. So, they make

this money with these developer

kickbacks. They have all these shell

companies that, oh, this is our

developer has nothing to do. Ready for

one of my favorite parts with that $30

million. Who do you think owns that

building in Westwood? Not the taxpayers.

Wineart. So, they This is the Shelby

house. I just went to San Pedro, right

across the street from a school 600 feet

away, right across this beautiful little

nice with old people in this community.

They're kicking senior citizens out of

one in San Pedro and they're going to

put hardened criminals. Same thing. This

one's like $80 million. So what they do

is they take our tax money, they take

grants, they take fake federal and state

grants, and they they cook up a little

plan. Here's this. We're going to house

80 people. Yet they don't tell us that

that's $700,000 a person. But everyone's

making these people NGOs's get

million-dollar salaries. The people

below them get 500. Nobody's actually

helping anyone cuz ready for this.

There's no requirement to house people.

And then in the state of California,

this is the craziest part with the home

key rules. The state won't give the city

a lot of the money if you require the

people to be off of drugs. If you say

you can't do drugs in this housing, oh

well then you can't get access to this

money.

>> That's unbelievable. And just to be

clear, what an NGO is legally, it's a

501c3 organization. Anyone can set one

up. Anyone can file the IRS form, create

this entity. Once you've created the

entity, you've legally created it.

You've got an IRS form. Cost a couple

hundred bucks to do it. Now,

theoretically, someone who might want to

be, I don't know, a crony or a thief, a

criminal, as you might call them,

whatever you want to call them, they can

now use this entity that they've created

to basically get access to all this

money from governments that aren't

necessarily keeping a good eye on the

money. How do the politicians that are

allowing it to happen or the bureaucrats

in the government that are allowing that

to happen, how do they benefit? Because

why would they do this? Why would they

let this money flow out to these NOS's

in a way that's clearly not in the

taxpayers's best interest?

>> Well, you can go the conspiracy route or

you can just go look at all these things

we're doing. You So, there's two ways to

look at it. They get to say, "Oh, we

have this housing and this services."

These people just bring them this easy

out like they're trying to fix something

while still looking good like, "Oh,

that's this NGO. Oh, they oh, criminal.

They got caught." So then you go

conspiracy and you could say, well, are

these people helping campaigns? Are they

putting do they have packs? So there's

money going are they helping? So that's

more conspira that's fringe, but in just

the sense it's an easy way out. Oh,

we're we're solving this. We're working

on this. Two ways you can look at it. I

think they're all criminals. Thankfully,

I've talked to the Justice Department

sources and city officials are going to

go down.

>> They are complicit. Here's the here's

the hard part about catching these

people. They're literally taking money

with poker chips, goods and services.

Criminals are smart now. They're not

just saying, "Zell me the money, right?"

>> But from my sources, we are going to see

actual city officials go down. Not quick

enough because they got to frame these

people up. But again, how does Spencer

stop this when he's mayor? I've met with

the criminal investigation team at the

IRS six times. First week in office, you

bring all of them in. We audit every

NGO, every document that hasn't been

shredded. Now, some people insiders at

city hall have told me, you know,

they're shredding these documents. I

have more faith in the my criminal

investigation team. They'll be able to

figure out without the documents, even

if they're shredded. But that's what's

happening. They're shredding the

documents.

>> So, let me ask Karen Bass. A lot of

people you would assume would feel like

she failed the city with the fire. Why

is she still able to stay in office? And

why is she in the lead in the polls for

running for mayor? Why are people still

voting for her?

>> She's the lowest in the history of the

polls of an incumbent. So she has 20%.

So 80% of LA do not believe that. So the

polls are confusing. She's the worst

record in the history of the city. So

80% of people do not think she's doing a

good job. 20% is crazy bad. That's why

Councilwoman Ramen jumped in the race

one hour before the closing because she

saw I was going to beat Mayor Bass and

her DSA team. For people that don't

know, Democratic Socialist America that

she co-governs with as a as a city

council member, they were like, "Get in.

You can be the fake Democrat and Spencer

will take out Bass and then you'll get

in." She endorsed Mayor Bass two weeks

before she jumped into the race. They

worked together on all these things.

Mayor Bass door knocked to get

Councilwoman Ramen, who was about to

lose her counciloman seat. She door

knocked with her to get her in and

backed her. though. Nobody backs Mayor

Bass and any of the media that's trapped

in this these lies, they are on. It's

not Mayor Bass's fault. It was high

winds. It's an unprecedented disaster.

It's not true. It's precedent. We had

the Bair fire. Mayor Bass was alive for

We had the Mandaville Canyon fire Mayor

Bass was alive for. Not unprecedented.

So, the polls mean nothing. Everyone

that's voting for me is not taking a

spam call. First off, they're not

talking to a stranger on the street cuz

they already feel so unsafe. They're not

letting a rando approach them. Period.

So,

>> you know, it's interesting. Both

candidates, Ramen and Bass

are I I don't know if Bass is

selfdeclared socialist, but obviously

she spent time with Castro's

organization in Cuba. She

>> So, she's a Vener Ramos brigade member.

She spent 20 times going to Cuba. So

when they say Spencer doesn't have any

experience, look, he was a reality star

in Swing. No, I wasn't training with

terrorists that would later bomb the

capital. That's who Mayor Bass is, who

only denounced anything communist when

they were trying to make her the vice

president.

>> But my point is, we have like a

self-declared socialist mayor in Seattle

and now in New York. What is going on in

cities that people are standing up and

raising their hand or filing a ballot

saying, "I want a socialist to be my

mayor." And now we're seeing this kind

of emerge on a national basis. I've

talked about this a lot. I got my own

perspective on it. But like what do you

think is going on with the people on the

street as you meet with people, as you

get to talk to them? Why do they want

that persona? Why do they want that

policy, the socialist policy?

>> I don't even think they're aware of it.

I think we have such tribal politics

that that people that are against me

just think, "Oh, he's not with us. It's

so gang gang." that they don't even

realize who they're with and what these

people represent. They just think, "Oh,

it's not that group." And that's the

problem when you nationalize politics.

We should be a city. We should be all

together making sure the streets are

safe. The lights are on. There's no

potholes. The sidewalks are there. It's

that basic. But we've gotten to this

nationalized politics where they don't

even care who. They just think, "Oh,

they're not that person. They're not

connected to that party." So, also they

tell these people, "We're going to make

things more affordable. We're going to

give you free money." This idea that

that works. I had this guy Rafa, he

manages a a bunch of the Dodgers. He's

Venezuela. And he came up to me at an

event recently. He's like, I felt like I

was in a scene in Braveheart. It was so

intense. It's like William Wallace in my

face. Big Venezuela dude. And he's like,

"I fled Venezuela because of socialism.

And I fought everything for my family

and I will not let my kids have this

socialism in LA. I know what h" And I

was like, "I know, bro. we're good.

Like, join the team. You're with me.

Let's go door knock. But people who know

what these this idea of giving you

money, giving it does not work. It's

this fake lie. What people forget is

they can't lower the cost of goods. The

only thing you can do to make things

more affordable as mayor, which I will

be able to do, is put more money in

people's pockets. We need to put more

revenue in the city. We're over here.

They're always asking me, "How are you

going to balance this budget, Spencer?

There's going to be no money to do us."

We're the We should be the number one

city in the world. We should have money

shooting out of ATMs. We're Los Angeles.

There will be plenty of money when we

let the systems work. When we let

business work. How can you let business

work if you have drug addicts going

number two and number one in front of

every cafe? We lost over a 100

restaurants in LA. Not cuz they weren't

good food, because you have drug addicts

scaring people to go out. That's why

they're Uber Eatsing. They're doing door

dash. I talked to a mom the other day

who works in downtown as a lawyer. I

know her because of her friend, her kids

are my friend's kids. She said,

"Spencer, we're not allowed to leave the

office building. Our food has to be

delivered in." That's why restaurants

are closing around downtown LA because

the workers that are still trying to

work can't go outside of their buildings

because it's unsafe. The number one

thing in a functioning city that we

don't have is safety. If you don't have

a safe city, and they'll tell you, Mayor

Bass will tell you, Councilwoman Ramen,

crime's down. They'll she'll say the

murder rate's down. Well, that's a

national trend. Please don't try to take

credit for that. But crime's down

because people have given up calling

911. You I talked to a guy today at

lunch. He said he watched a lady the

other day on Wilshire Boulevard right in

front of the federal building, the FBI

building. This nice Latino lady get

punched in the chest by a crazy drug

addict. He pulled over his car, tried to

like be a Batman hero, jumped out. He's

like, "Stop that." The ladies were so

used to like, "Thank you." They get on

the bus and go. He watches this guy get

a PVC pipe, start banging on cars. He

calls 911 and he's like, they just act

like it's no big deal. It's just normal

LA. Finally, he starts ripping a bike

off of the like off of a bus. He calls

911. He's like, he's ripping the bike.

No big deal. Now, the guy's coming at

him. He says he's coming after me and

they're like, "Okay, somebody's coming.

Police come." He's like, "A rest this

guy." Like, well, nobody's here and

there's no witnesses. He's like, "Arest

this guy." He's arguing with the cops.

Every cop I talk to wants to enforce a

law, but they can't because the powers

behind them. They're not taking any of

these citations ready cuz it's

culturally insensitive to sight and

ticket someone without an address.

That's why the dogs are being abused,

tortured, mutilated, raped on the side

of streets. People are filming this.

They know what's happening. But even uh

Stacy Danes or whatever name Stacy Danes

was head of the animal control or

whatever animal services, she said, "Oh,

we can't." The city mayor's office said,

"Culturally insensitive, don't. We can't

go after people without addresses."

>> Dude, that's unbelievable. Makes me so

angry.

>> I That's the problem. They keep on

calling me the angry white guy. They

don't get every race, every gender,

however you identify. If you live in LA

and you're paying your taxes, you are

angry.

>> But most people don't see it is the

other thing. So like Skid Row, most

people aren't there all the time. We

host our all-in summit in downtown LA.

It's our last year. We're doing it in

September. It's a really big event, but

we're not coming back. So most people I

know like don't get down there. We have

people from all over the world, 60

countries come to our event. They

they're like, "What the hell is this

place? We can't be down here." When you

see it, you're like, "What?" Well,

here's the problem. We keep talking

about Skid Row in LA. This is all over

the valley. This is in Westwood. This is

in Hollywood. This is everywhere. before

my house burned down in front of

Palisades Elementary School across the

street, my son's Methodist preschool

where I went to preschool, there was a

lady cleaning her private parts in front

of kids almost every morning at 7:45

a.m. We'd call LAPD. They'd come and

they go, "Ma'am, no more." She'd go walk

down the street and she'd go number two

in front of Joe's Barber Shop. So, it

was coming to the Palisades. It's coming

everywhere. This is not a When I went to

USC, it was Skid Row. So we we have this

issue in LA in in San Francisco where I

live and Mayor Lur came in. I don't know

if you followed what he's done. He's an

unbelievable guy. Old friend of mine and

done an incredible job. He arrests

people. He puts them in jail. The crime

has stopped. Car breakins are down 87%

in the city. 87%. You no longer have

hordes of people walking into stores

stealing everything, walking out. As

soon as you just enforce the law that's

already in place, boom, you're 90% of

the way there. Everything kind of It

doesn't It doesn't take a miracle,

>> you know? It just takes a will and and a

and someone who can actually manage and

organize to get the stuff done. Give

them the votes. Get them there.

>> So, I met with Victor Coleman who owns

most of these studios, a lot of real

estate in LA, and he talked to me about

Mayor Lur in San Francisco. He said,

"Spencer, when they tell you you have no

experience, you just tell him, Mayor Lur

didn't have any experience running a

city." What he did, he's came in and

forced the law. He said, "My portfolio

in San Francisco is booming again. My

portfolio in Los Angeles, it's not doing

as well, let's say." And he said, "You

just need to force the laws that exist."

And a lot of people always say this to

me. They go, "What are you going to do

with all these people?" A great quote, a

famous police chief told me, "Once you

start putting handcuffs on people, watch

how many people leave."

>> 100%.

>> This idea that everyone, if you let

everyone do drugs and do whatever they

want and let the criminals make the

outside asylum and with no guards, if

you let them do that, they're going to

do that. But if you So when I'm mayor,

my plan is first three weeks, signs up

across the city, no more nakedness, no

more drug use, no more robbing, no

worse.

>> No more burning dogs in the street,

>> no more dog abuse. Very on every sign,

on every bird. So that and we're going

to go around. We're going to warn

everybody, hey, got three more weeks of

this. Like clock's ticking. Just keep

telling everyone just to so the people

that are aware, they're like, oh wow,

there's a new mayor in town. They may

start leaving. And then when the three

weeks or maybe we'll even do two weeks,

maybe people will want it faster. And

then once we start enforcing the laws,

boom, streets will be back. You know who

else? I'm gonna bring in the CDC because

there's medieval diseases in these

encampments. They're not swabbing these

encampments. They're not swabbing the

streets. People are just living in feces

and drug use and dogs burning and

bodies. We need these streets

cleaned.

>> Yeah.

What about the building of the team to

execute? You're looking to sit in this

executive role. Have you ever had a role

where you've overseen tens of thousands

of employees before? I'm assuming not.

I've read your bio, but like how do you

execute? Who do you bring in under you

that actually knows how to manage the

system, manage the people, deliver the

message? you can form strategy and set

objectives and so on, but walk us

through how you're actually going to

deliver as mayor operationally when you

step in on day one.

>> So, the great news about running for

mayor of LA is everyone wants to save

LA. Everyone wants LA to be number one.

the meetings I'm taking every week now,

the lunches, the brunches, the dinners

of beyond successful people that are

willing to work for a dollar a year,

pause their companies to come in. People

are telling me just with algorithms

alone, they have we can 100x the

bureaucracy of the city and building and

development. What I'm going to do,

there's so many cranes in the city

because we're going to be rebuilding the

amount of money. Just last week, I

probably met with 10 billionaires that

are ready to come in and build LA up to

be the number one city in the world. So,

when they say, "Oh, you have no

experience." Well, what I do have is

humility. I'm humble. I know I have

never ran the second largest city. I

know smart people who have done it. We

need to be bringing in the CEOs that

have ran the biggest corporations in the

world to come in and work with, you

know, because they'll tell you, "No, you

need to know the city at a certain

level." You bring those people in, but

the people that execute the

multibillion, like they say, they say,

"Oh my gosh, Spencer, this is a $15

billion budget." Well, there's people

I'm meeting with that have $50 billion

budgets that are going up that go up.

So, these people exist that I will

surround myself with. I already have a

deputy mayor that I can't say because of

fear of retaliation in the city of LA

that will make sure the most important

thing we do because all this talk

doesn't work if you don't enforce the

law. So, I have a deputy mayor that will

help me enforce the law, and that's the

priority. When we enforce the law, now

all these creative ideas on execution

work, but if you don't enforce the law,

Mayor Bass could bring in all the same

people I'm meeting with, but she won't

enforce the law. Councilwoman Ramen can

bring in all the same people that I'm

meeting with. It won't work if you don't

enforce the law. No one's putting money

into the city of LA until they know

there's a mayor that's going to make

sure the streets are safe for all the

moms, the kids, the dads, everyone that

just wants to be a normal human being

that just pays their taxes, goes to the

park, go to dinner. So until you do that

part, all this who's going to be this is

irrelevant. But the list of people is So

again,

>> for sure cuz I hear I hear it from a lot

of executives I'm friends with, they're

like, man, this message resonates.

People want to get involved. They want

to step up. Like I said, people not from

LA want to step up. Outside of keeping

the streets safe, outside of building a

reasonable fire suppression

infrastructure, getting back to basics.

What about education? We have young

kids. LA USD spends $23,000 per student.

$101,000 average teacher salary. It's

number one in the country. But LA USD as

a school district ranks 170th in the

state of California. and only 46% of

students are meeting or exceeding

standards in English, 37% in math. What

is there to do about education in the

city to give all of the next generation

the opportunity to progress, to realize

their potential, and to not fall into

the traps of socialism and communism

because they're despondent and they

don't have opportunity in front of them.

How do we get that generation to

succeed? Well, for my own experience

with my son who was in LA USD and it was

even a charter with PAL. This is

supposed to be the best version at all

times. Every parent is just trying to

fund raise fundra for books for learning

for teach for an extra teacher and it's

like what is going on? If I'm going to

spend this much money, I'm going to put

my kid in a private school. How would

these schools So, first off, we got to

back to auditing. The biggest issue I've

learned with the city of LA, whether

it's the school systems, everyone needs

to be audited. Where is all this money

going to first off at the fire

department, the police department, the

waste of this taxpayer money? So, let's

figure first out where the money is

going because if it's cost this much for

each student, yet as a dad, I'm trying

to always donate, have fundraisers. We

got to we got to track the money. And

that's another thing that when we talk

about what's Mayor Pratt, it's

accountability and transparency. Every

dollar of tax money in the city of LA

needs to be on very easy cliffnotes

level dashboards so we can track and get

results of where all of our tax money is

going. But back to how we make kids know

socialism and communism doesn't work is

we give their parents hope again and we

make the parents demand. I have kids I

have parents right now that are pulling

their kids out of a school, public

school that my kids are in right now

because of that messaging. There's no

more pledge of allegiance. There's no

more America's, you know, good. We just

need to go back to having pride in being

Americans. We've gotten so far off of

just America's awesome because

everyone's fighting with political and

it's like, oh, American flag is like, I

can't put that up. Like, we need to get

back to the basics of where our

grandparents were when they were

fighting World War II and had pride in

being Americans. But to me, it's the

money. Where's the money going? Like if

you want things to be better, we got to

stop wasting money. The fire stations

that I meet with, they're charging

$250,000 for doors, $50,000 for

refrigerators. So I think tracking money

is the source of all of this. I have a

buddy, his house burnt down,

unfortunately as well. So I was like,

I'm going to meet with Spencer Pratt.

Any questions? He said, what about this

stupid ass $3 billion expansion of the

convention center? My favorite part

about the convention center is like a

month ago, less than a month ago, it's

just a dead body in the bushes in front

of the convention center. So that the

idea that we're going to put billions of

dollars into something that has dead

bodies in the bushes in front. Why

aren't we putting the billions of

dollars in getting the dead bodies from

stopping to be on the streets every day?

But I don't want to say, initially I was

like, stop that. But now I'm in this

like LA's got to be the number one city

in the world. So maybe we don't need to

use LA money, but let's do private

partnership. Who's going to come in with

money to do something right now we can't

afford? But I don't want to be the one

now that's like, we don't want to stop

building. I actually like the idea of

having a convention center cuz the LA

that I'm about to build when I destroy

40 blocks of drugged out zombies that

are taking all these empty buildings. So

much business and commerce is going to

come in. We're probably going to need

that convention center. Currently, there

makes no sense with the current

administration. Mayor Bass is elected is

the dumbest thing you ever heard. If

Councilwoman Ramen's elect is the

dumbest thing, Mayor Pratt goes in and

we're putting billions of dollars of

money back in LA. Restaurants are back.

We're probably going to need that

convention center. So, initially when I

was first fighting this fight, my

message was let's get back to LA I grew

up in. I was like started taking on this

meeting with billionaires ready to give

me $500 million. I met with a

billionaire anonymous billionaire that

agreed to be the funar. He said, "My

family gave $300 million to New York for

a project. We'll give you $500 million

to bring fund back to Los Angeles." I

was like, "Can I tell people about you?"

He's like, "No, no, I'll be the

anonymous." This person is for real. So

to me, when I hear there's $2 billion,

if I make that convention center a

little bit more fun, I have a $500

million now, then we can make it the fun

convention center, and I just I just cut

that cost in half. So yes,

right now it makes no sense. Have you

met with union leaders?

>> No, they all they all back Mayor Bass.

So, they're all going to love me because

everyone's going to have more revenue.

Everyone's going to have jobs. LA's

going to So, when they're like, "You're

not going to win because you don't have

the unions. I don't need the unions to

win. I have the moms. I have the animal

lovers. That's more than any union.

That's you can't get that endorsement.

Moms across the city of LA. Not moms

just in the valley. Not moms just in San

Pedro. Not moms in South Central. Not

moms in East LA. Not moms in boil

heights, not moms in Eagle. Everywhere

moms don't feel safe. The city is

unsafe. No matter what how much crime

stats, the feeling and unsafe is

resonating. And my message of I will be

the guy that's fighting to get safety

back is going to get me elected. And I

keep telling people I'm going to win on

June 2nd with 51% of the vote. November

is their fighting for November. I win

June 2nd. But the unions obviously

people think it's this big issue when

you won't when your city is amazing.

>> How are you going to work with them? So

you win on June 2nd. All the union

leaders call up your deputy mayor say,

"I want a meeting with Mayor Pratt."

They come into your office one at a

time. They sit down across a table from

you. What's the message?

>> The message is we're going to work with

you to make sure you get these benefits

that you want, but they need to make

sense right now at our trajectory. We're

gonna get to where what you need to feel

comfortable in your city role is great,

but there may be a minute here where we

got to tighten things up. I'm gonna find

all these homeless NGO billions that are

being laundered, but we need to get real

accounting. Right now, we don't have

outside budget advocates that right, we

don't look if we're increasing a union

10% salary even though everybody else in

the private industry isn't getting

increased. We need to have a balance. We

need it makes sense for all evangelists.

can't have everything just for this

small percentage because they're cooking

votes. But don't get me wrong, unions,

I'm going to make so much money in this

city that we're going to have plenty of

money that you're paid what you're

supposed to be paid. Law enforcement is

going to get paid what they're supposed

to get paid. We cannot lose law

enforcement because they're getting paid

more in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach,

Norwich County. So, we can't risk lose.

We're already losing too many law

enforcement. We're losing too many

firefighters. So, we cannot make it

where they don't want to work. And a lot

of the issues where people see these

salaries that are so crazy, it's

overtime. But if you don't get the

hiring up to speed, then you have to pay

this crazy these salaries in overtime.

And even that, these people that do get

paid, these crazy things you read on

Google, those top little it's a niche

amount of people and they've sacrificed

their family. They're working 32 days.

These people are crazy. So they've given

everything they have to be that

firefighter or whatever. for that. So

again,

>> the unions aren't your enemy. You're

going to find a path to working with

them. Even though they're not here for

you right now, they're worth Mayor Bass.

You're there for them.

>> They're still hardworking people. I meet

with I've gone almost I'm going to a lot

of fire stations. LFD union for sure

endorses me. They just are scared to do

it publicly for retaliation. LAPD for

sure, the members all endorse me. I

promise you. the interaction, who's

messaging me, who's calling me, who's

texting me, the union power, they, Mayor

Bass currently writes their deals and

their checks. That's real. I don't judge

them for that. It's the system they're

in. But the membership, they they want

to feel safe. Most of the firefighters

can't even live in California anymore.

60% of these guys fly in. And I say,

"Well, why don't you guys live here?

Like, it's not safe for our families. I

want them to move back. I want that tax

money."

>> One of the other stories about LA over

the last decade or two, you know, I grew

up here. I have a lot of friends who

grew up in Hollywood in the industry and

it's been gutted. There's no business in

LA anymore. And that's a huge employer

for so many Angelinos working in

Hollywood and all of the ancillary

supporting industries. Do we rebuild

Hollywood in LA? Is Hollywood done

because of AI and YouTube and

independent production and studios don't

matter anymore? No one does broadcast.

What's the future of Hollywood? Is there

a future for Hollywood in LA? And and

what do you do about it? So when I was

20 years old, I sold the first the

youngest ever sold the first reality

show to Fox as the youngest executive

producer ever. And I sold it to Peter

Churn when he was the co-chair of News

Corp. It was with David Foster who's

actually hosting my fundraiser on

Monday, full circle. Shout out David

Foster, legend. But I called Peter Churn

up a few weeks ago. I said, "Mr. Churn,

PDC, how do I save LA? It's one of the

smartest human beings on earth." He

said, "Spencer, as mayor, you you're not

going to be able to change the bigger

picture of Hollywood. That's more

governor, you know, uncap. What you can

do to really bring back jobs, bring back

Hollywood, is bring back independent

filmmakers, independent production,

independent artists. You prioritize the

indies, you could have Hollywood booming

in a tier that people didn't see coming.

And all my friends who haven't given up,

that are still, cuz I grew up in in LA.

I went to Crossroads. All my friends are

creators. They're artists. They're still

fighting. They're not giving up. When I

talk to them, they've all doubled down

on the indie route. When I talk to them,

they say, "This is what we need to hear.

We want to make this work." And you you

work with them. Mayor Bass brags about

like, "Oh, now you can film at the

Griffith Conservatory. Instead of

70,000, it's 30." No. When I'm mayor,

I'm going to help you produce these

freaking movies. We're going to get

We're going to have whole blocks and

we're going to use the restaurants to

keep them alive and we're going to use

the crews. We're going to eat out of

there. We're going to use all the city

resources to almost be in production

with the Indies, but making money

together. You know, not like a communist

or socialist, but in bring the city

enable, give them the support, get the

rid of these fees, the clearance, make

it easy. Right now, like I said in the

debate, I talked to producers. If you

want to film on the streets of LA, it's

so unsafe. You got to pay gang members

off to get We're gonna have it so safe

that an indie crew can pop out with all

their cameras and gear and not get

stolen. So again, someone like Peter

Churnin, I said, "Peter, when I'm mayor,

can I keep calling you?" And he his

exact quote, "I'm always here to make

you smarter, Spencer."

>> So these are the type of people when

they say, "Oh, you have no experience."

These are the people that are going to

make LA number one.

>> But that is the future. I mean, everyone

is all about independent production. If

you work for a big studio or work for

Netflix, you're getting paid cost plus

10%. You're better off producing on your

own. There's definitely a flourishing

happening. It's just happening

everywhere else. It's not happening in

LA. And obviously I've reached out to

David Ellison's team. I've reached out

to Ted Sranos. I've reached out to

everyone because I don't just want to be

the indie guy. I want to figure out how

I go fight whoever the new governor is.

Get uncapped. Get postp production

uncapped. Get as nobody should be going

to UK. Nobody should be going to Canada.

With the respect these countries, I love

you guys, but we're not sending our

filmmakers there anymore. So whatever I

can do as a mayor, you know, last the

other night in the debate, they're like,

we're going to do it. You guys have had

10 years combined. You haven't done

anything. I love fighting these people.

I will I've been fighting Sacramento

since my house burned down. I You get me

bodyguards to fight these people. Trust

me, we are going to a whole new level of

fight. So again, I don't want to not

have studios come back. We have all

these empty lots. I would love big

productions to come back, but initially

as mayor, I can fight for indies. But

don't get me wrong, I want Hollywood to

be top gun three right here. Take off

from LAX. Tell me how you address

transportation in LA. There's always a

new scheme or a new system being

developed. What's your view on what's

wrong about transportation in LA? And

how much are we wasting on things that

don't really matter that we could recoup

and reinvest elsewhere? What are those

kind of priorities for you?

>> So, I just went to the new opening of

the Dline today just to to troll to get

some yimies to yell at me. And my

funniest the funniest part about

transportation to me is it's a beautiful

idea when there's no human urine, human

poop on there, a drug addict's butt

hanging out. People forget every single

person in LA sends me their photos. I'm

now 311. I see what LA looks like. These

people go, "How do you know all this

information? My phone, I can't even open

it anymore cuz it's just naked drug

addicts. It's the craziest thing you've

ever seen." Who cares how many lines

that Metro connects to where it could

connect to the moon right now, but if

drug addicts are smoking fentanyl next

to your kid, you're not going to the

moon on it. So, first off, it's back to

safety. We need these metro, the subway,

whatever you want to ride. Bicycles

aren't even safe. The yims want more

bicycle. Like, I you couldn't even pay

me to get on a bicycle. A drug addict

zombie will hit me with a with a crowbar

when I'm riding by. We need to get

safety back. And of course, I love these

transportation ideas. I hate sitting in

traffic, but I've grown up in LA. I'm

aware of traffic is a part. So, yes, we

need this, but we also need the money

for it. We need to build LA up. Right

now, I think 15% of the budget goes to

the metro if 5% people use it. Again, I

feel like if I made it safe, I could

give 15% to use it and we could even

that out. We got to make sure that

nobody's hopping any turn style. We need

to make sure you're paying to be on it

so that it's safe people on it. again.

Back when I clear downtown LA for you

can drive for 40 blocks. When I clear

all these empty banned buildings that

the drug addicts are burning down and

using all our firefighter resources and

risking their lives. When we clear that

all out and we use these 3D printing. I

I talked to an architect today, one of

the most famous architects in the world.

He has a crew of like 12 architects.

They're all They already did all these

designs for these buildings that nobody

listened to them. They met with Newsome.

They met with Bass. Of course, I'm like,

"Let's do it. Set me over the decks.

We're going to have LA so beautiful. No

more of these high density SB79

prison-like structures. We need to bring

art deco back. All the architects that

moved out of here because it was so hard

to build. Takes 8 years. They're going

to be moving back cuz we're going to

speed up building. It's not going to

take eight years. We need LA to be the

most beautiful architecture in the

world. I don't want to go to Venice. I

don't want to go go look at Venice. I

want to go to Venice, downtown LA. I'm

going have a canal and then the Yimi

people, they can have all their bike

lanes going through the sky through

tunnels and things. We need to get

creative with LA.

>> Can you address the regulatory and

permitting problem with construction and

building in the city? As mayor, do you

have enough authority to do this? So,

can you talk a little bit about the

actions you would take to unleash this

kind of wave of building that you want

to see happen that everyone talks about

wanting to see happen in LA, but there

just seems to be so many layers of

permitting, so many processes, so much

approval, but it's statutory. It's

written into the law of the city. Do you

have the authority as the mayor to

actually be able to go in and address

that and unleash this without getting

these folks that are the assembly people

and whatnot to work with you? So, I had

a lunch today with he volunteered to be

the new head of LA building and safety.

I said, "Well, you're the first

volunteer of somebody who does this at

the highest level for right now in

private business for Los Angeles knows

every we'll add them to the website back

to like my team. The goal here is to put

the whole team listing their bios." He

said, "Spencer, we could do this so

easily. We can fix all these things. I

know all the errors cuz private business

is the ones fighting this city all the

time. They know where all the stops. I

met with this affordable housing

developer Carlos on Monday. He said when

Mayor Bass announced her initiative, she

was going to rush it 6 months. He's at 2

and 1/2 years in the permit process. He

said Spencer that we can fix this so

easy and build beautiful affordable

housing. He said they're getting these

tax incentives to build cells for

people. Cells. He said because they get

more incentives to put more people in

the building. We need to change that. We

need to make it where he's saying

twobedroom, a nice two-bedroom, he can

do for $250 a square foot versus $750

square foot. These other developers are

using the tax incentives, charging the

city, and then putting more bodies in

there. So, yes, we can do all this stuff

when we take these people out. Perfect

example, my Airstream. It took weeks

weeks for LWP to put one wire to my

Airstream from a pole across the street.

That's the cut the red tape town. That's

this is the fastest

>> operationally you can address that. But

all of the permits that are required

design review like

AI. I know people don't like AI but you

know even Caruso he was trying to with

initially he had this whole thing. He

put the money up was steadfast and he

offered this AI program to Mayor Bass

certain zoning situations if it meets

all this boom you right now there's like

a it's like out of a bad movie some guy

comes he's like he misses three and he

has to do like one checkbox he's like oh

I'll come back and do that like it's out

of a bad movie they say it's truly and

if you go to the nobody's even in these

offices you have to set an appointment

you can't just go into these places they

all work remote is maybe co they're

still

>> yeah they work three days a week don't

they

>> we're in crazy land so again all these

meetings I keep having with very

successful heads of companies that tell

me Spencer when people say you don't

have experience you tell them these are

people that have multiple companies I'm

they say I'm never the most experienced

person in any of the rooms of my

companies but everyone in my company is

the most experienced person in what they

need to do in that role and I'm well

aware of I don't know any of this stuff

But I know I want LA to be the number

one safest, most beautiful. How do we

get there? Who are you? What's your

resume? What's your background? Oh, wow.

Okay, come on. Keep in mind Janice

Quinionz, who was the CEO of LWP, who

drained two reservoirs leading into a

known year of the driest fire weather

season, took out the water with no plan,

no backups, no tankers. She was getting

paid $750,000 a year plus her benefits.

There are people across the United

States, running water and power in

functioning cities that we can go

recruit and say, "Hey, come to LA. It's

going to be safe and clean and we're

going to get you a nice place. You take

over." People want to live in LA. I'm

not trying to give people jobs with

respect to Antarctica.

Hello. We talent will come here,

>> right? There's people all over the world

that are telling me, "Hey, we want to

make LA the Silicon Valley of the world.

LA should be the tech center of the

world." With respect to San Francisco or

wherever these people are and Marin, I

don't even know where they are. Wherever

you guys are, you're coming you're

coming to LA. LA is way doper and you're

going to have a beautiful safe place and

way more room to build all your tech

companies and robots and drones.

Whatever you want to build, we're going

to build them. pretty nice up there,

too. But,

>> you know, they don't have the they don't

have the beach. You're going to be able

to swim without poop in the water. It's

going to be incredible.

>> Well, I grew up in the valley and you go

down Ventura Boulevard, it's all strip

malls. These are all small businesses

that are owned by families. They have

been typically for one, two, three

generations. Armenian, Persian, Hispanic

populations, folks that grew up in the

valley. Small business, I think, is the

lifeblood of this city. Like, it's such

an important part of the city. We've

never had major corporations that

everyone works for. There's a couple of

them, but generally it's a small

business town. How much have you looked

at the regulatory permitting, all the

nonsense that goes into opening up a

nail salon, starting a coffee shop,

getting the permits required to open up

a new store, and what can be done there

to accelerate, to fasttrack, to enable

all these folks, a lot of them first or

second generation immigrants, that want

to come here and build, that want to

start businesses, that want to have

their own company. How do we get them?

Because the complaint is it's just so

faking hard today. It's so expensive. It

takes so long. Have you gone through

this and figured out what are the things

you can just delete as mayor and what

are the things you can just fasttrack as

mayor to make it so much easier for

people to start and run small businesses

in the city?

>> So my friend in Venice, his his neighbor

just bought the local bodega that's been

there forever. And he was telling me

they're about to give up. It's been a

year. He said they're not even selling

alcohol. There's no food. It was just

going to be this basic bodega. And the

list of things that it's taken in a year

is so crazy. They'll make them put in

one thing and then they come in and they

say, "Oh, no, actually that it's like a

maze. We need to just streamline all

these things." And what I keep learning,

whether it's transportation, sanitation,

there's no accountability. People get

paid no matter if they're a failure.

It's not resultsbased.

>> How many turns?

>> Yes. Nobody like if you don't get this

many permits. For instance, somebody

called me yesterday. They go why is film

LA a nonprofit which like you need they

have to come to set. I was like what do

you mean? He's like this should be for a

profit to incentivize bringing

production. So they are getting they're

actively we don't care. It's this idea

that oh I'm getting paid no matter what.

Nobody cares. There's no checks and

balances. Mayor is fine as long as she's

driving to go to the airport to go to

Ghana to have a cocktail party. There's

nobody that cares, right? Because I met

with this guy Juan from Clean LA who

cleans the streets of all from all the

trash. He's from Ecuador. He came over

here and he said, "What is this,

Spencer? I'm from a third world country.

It's so much more beautiful. I can't

live here with my family." So he started

cleaning trash on his own. I said,

"Well, Juan, what's going on?" He's

like, "Spencer, nobody cares. They don't

care." He says, "I watch these trash

truck things." He said, "They pick up

the trash and it just throws it like out

of a meme and it just goes back on the

street." He says, "They're sleeping in

the cars. There's no accountability.

There's no responsibility." I said,

"Juan, well, when I'm mayor, can I hire

you?" He said, "Spencer, I will help run

sanitation." He goes, "It's supposed to

be a billion dollars." He goes, "I could

do it for easily 500 million." So, I'm

thinking, I just saved $500 million for

taxpayers because Juan cares. And he

says, "I'll bring in people that care."

As mayor, you can probably auto stamp a

lot of stuff too that today they're just

delegating down to people who take a

long time getting things done that

probably you don't need to spend a lot

of time looking at. Just auto stamp the

bodega license and let them run. You

really need to have the guy go in and

figure out where everything is.

>> This is back to if it meets these

criteria, we need to

time

>> like here's the auto green light.

>> LA needs to be like annoying how many

cranes we see for the next eight years.

It needs to look like we're in China

where they're building these bridges in

like two weeks. We need all these

cranes. There's no cranes. You can't

even see a crane. My kids probably don't

even know what crane looks like.

>> If one of the other two candidates win,

what happens to LA?

>> Well, I will have to move to Bentonville

or

I'm done. You know, that's why I'm

fighting. People won't get I want my

sons to grow up in LA. You cannot grow

up in LA. You're done. You listen to

them in the debate. They're talking

about more beds. They don't even They

don't even accept that LA is in a

nightmare. Yes, I love LA. It has the

potential to be the greatest place on

planet Earth. But we need to acknowledge

we are in a scary part right now in LA.

The lights don't work on the street.

They don't fix roads within a year. They

have they don't every pothole is

breaking everyone's tires. You can't get

311 to fix anything. We don't have

enough cops to call 911. There's not

enough firefighters. towns burn down.

Bair is going to burn. Manavville

Canyon, Sunland to Hunga, Hollywood

Hills, all these are going to burn. It's

guaranteed. And like I said in the

debate, I'm going to put these dip sites

mile from everyone's how they're all

going to connect. They're going to

connect to private owners swimming

pools. I'm going to work with the

insurance companies so we can bring

insurance back to California first LA

because we're going to show them the

model because if they have these dip

sites for these helicopters, we bring in

more of these shinooks that LA County

uses to work with the the fire hawks

that we have with LA city and and

Calire, we can bring insurance back,

which is the biggest problem right now

for people building. We're going to get

rid of this ULA. I know I can't do it

myself, but I'm going to fight to make

sure these communist type things don't

ever happen to development. so people

can sell their properties, build

housing. I'm going to stop letting these

tenants being squatters, criminals, make

it so landlords have to pay them 50

grand cash to leave and then they go to

it to a new landlord. I'm going to stop

the section 8 scam so that real people

that deserve section 8 get it. Veterans,

families that need it, not just

drugdeing criminals that are, you know,

abusing the system with fraud. But yes,

if I lose, we're done. I'm trying to

tell people this is like out of a movie.

Like this is Independence Day. The

aliens have attacked. They they got it's

an invasion is here. Yeah.

>> And then as mayor I have to fight all

these DSA city council members. Make

sure they're never reelected. So not

only do I have to do all that, but I got

to fight to make sure that my next four

years there's never a DSA fake Democrat.

They're not Democrats. Democrats love

Spencer Pratt. All my friends are

Democrats. All my supporters are

Democrats. These people I'm up against,

they use the word Democrat in front of

the word socialist. Go look at the

Democratic Socialist America's website,

people. Go look at it. That's not a

Democrat. Bill Clinton was a Democrat.

>> It's not an American.

>> Thank you. It's even worse. These aren't

even Americans. And when you say that,

people are like, "Oh my god, this

country was founded because people fled

tyranny in Europe and then everywhere

else in the world." And this was the

bastion where you could find hope and an

opportunity to be free, to choose how

you want to behave, what you want to do,

how you want to pray, to have freedom

that the government doesn't tell you

what to do and how to do it. And that

tyranny existed all over the world. And

that's why this country was started. And

socialism is the most tyrannical form,

the most tyrannical system that humans

have ever come up with. And so you got