Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh six
Speaker 1: in the West live from Las Vegas, It's the John
Speaker 1: Phillips Show. Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John Caltrans is exploring a brand new idea of how
Speaker 2: to get people quickly and safely from Los Angeles to
Speaker 2: San Francisco. They'll look it into high speed buses.
Speaker 1: I love the bus driver. Now, are these buses that
Speaker 1: are expected to go like one hundred miles an hour
Speaker 1: or are these just buses that they anticipate are going
Speaker 1: to get hijacked at some point?
Speaker 2: They say they're looking into buses that can go as
Speaker 2: fast as one hundred and forty miles an hour in
Speaker 2: their own dedicated lanes on existing freeways, and if people
Speaker 2: aren't comfortable with that, maybe eighty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: What could go wrong?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, it takes about forty five minutes to fly from
Speaker 2: melax to SFO. Could you imagine being in a bus
Speaker 2: that's going one hundred and forty miles an hour?
Speaker 3: It sounds super scary.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe this is just because I'm an angel fan
Speaker 1: and a bus accident almost took out our entire team once,
Speaker 1: But being on a bus that goes one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty miles an hour does not seem like a good
Speaker 1: idea to me. When I was in school, I played basketball,
Speaker 1: and we used to go on road games in the
Speaker 1: big yellow school buses. And it's one thing to play
Speaker 1: your crosstown rivals or whatever, but sometimes when you're playing
Speaker 1: your non conference games, you play schools that are out
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere. So we would play the
Speaker 1: school in Big Bear, and we would play the school
Speaker 1: in Ridgecrest, and we would go all over southern California
Speaker 1: playing all of these small schools. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever been in a yellow school bus going up
Speaker 1: the hill to Big Bear in the middle of winter,
Speaker 1: but you take your life into your own hands.
Speaker 2: And if something does go wrong, it's not like you
Speaker 2: even have a seat belt on that thing.
Speaker 1: I am not kidding. There was one time we were
Speaker 1: going to a basketball game in one of those big
Speaker 1: yellow school buses and the bus could not get up
Speaker 1: the hill, and the bus driver had many of us
Speaker 1: get out of the bus to take the weight out
Speaker 1: of the bus so the bus was lighter so the
Speaker 1: bus could get up the hill, and then we were
Speaker 1: allowed to walk up to the bus and get back in.
Speaker 1: I love the bus driver, not me. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two is jellphone number one
Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well,
Speaker 1: we have some new palls out in the La mayor
Speaker 1: race and Randy Spencer Pratt is on a roll.
Speaker 2: It now looks like there is just a three point
Speaker 2: difference between Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt in the latest poll.
Speaker 2: She's pulling around twenty five, he's polling around twenty two.
Speaker 2: Nithia is not looking great if you look at those
Speaker 2: prediction markets which everyone's looking at nowadays. Have you seen
Speaker 2: that since the debate, Nythia went from like a forty
Speaker 2: six percent chance of becoming the mayor to about eight percent?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like betting on the angels.
Speaker 3: She was failure at launch.
Speaker 1: Couldn't happen to a better person.
Speaker 3: But people everywhere.
Speaker 2: My entire feed at this point on social media is
Speaker 2: nothing but people talking about Spencer Pratt.
Speaker 3: This race is getting so much attention.
Speaker 2: Once again, the California governor's race is being ignored.
Speaker 1: And here's something else to consider. People aren't paying attention
Speaker 1: to him because he's a train wreck. People are paying
Speaker 1: attention to him because he is slick. His ads are slick.
Speaker 1: His performance in the debate was slick. His performance when
Speaker 1: he does sit down interviews is slick. For a first
Speaker 1: time candidate, this guy comes off like a pro. I mean,
Speaker 1: he does have a lifetime experience being in the television
Speaker 1: world doing interviews. The guy understands communications, and you combine
Speaker 1: that with a political science degree, he actually has some chops.
Speaker 1: And when he puts out these policy proposals, like he
Speaker 1: just put out this nine minute video explaining his homeless policy,
Speaker 1: it's really well done. Well think about it. Look at
Speaker 1: all of the people who have been successful in politics
Speaker 1: in the modern era. Spencer Pratt came out of reality TV.
Speaker 1: He knows how to frame a story, he knows how
Speaker 1: to give an interview. He's quick on his feet. Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: before he became president cident of the United States, was
Speaker 1: not a senator or a governor, or a member of
Speaker 1: Congress or a big city mayor. He was a television personality.
Speaker 1: He spent his career on David Letterman's couch. And because
Speaker 1: of that, he knows how to handle himself when he's
Speaker 1: out campaigning. He knows how to keep it interesting. Keep
Speaker 1: it entertaining, and communicate basic arguments with the public in
Speaker 1: ways that they can understand and digest. I think the
Speaker 1: old way of doing politics is almost over, where you
Speaker 1: get elected to your school board or your city council,
Speaker 1: then you move up to the state legislature, and you
Speaker 1: keep moving up the food chain. That's the crowd that's
Speaker 1: running for governor, with the exception of Steve Hilton, who
Speaker 1: comes from cable news. And guess what when they have
Speaker 1: the debates, when he does a sit down interview, that
Speaker 1: guy shines when all of the others look like buffoons
Speaker 1: because this isn't his first time at the track. This
Speaker 1: guy has been doing this for a long time. I
Speaker 1: think we may have stumbled on the new model for politics.
Speaker 2: People are looking for the outsider. You look at Daniel
Speaker 2: Lurry's success in San Francisco. Was just voted the most
Speaker 2: popular mayor in America, and he ran in a race
Speaker 2: against a lot of indoctrinated politicians and wan handily.
Speaker 1: Look at that woman who Nancy Pelosi just endorsed for Congress,
Speaker 1: Connie she could contie chan that's right, Not the one
Speaker 1: that's married to Mary Polvitch, a different one that's Connie Chung.
Speaker 1: Connie Chung, Yes, Cottie chan She can barely string two
Speaker 1: sentences together to form a thought. Absolutely, and this woman
Speaker 1: is going to Congress. Compare that to Spencer Pratt. It's
Speaker 1: like comparing ice cream to horse manure.
Speaker 2: So much of the job of politics is communication, and
Speaker 2: we have a lot of terrible communicators in off this
Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt, Whether whatever you think about him, he is
Speaker 2: a great communicator and unlike almost every other candidate for
Speaker 2: any office, understands social media better than pretty much anybody
Speaker 2: who's doing it.
Speaker 3: And because completely.
Speaker 2: Turning the whole model of how you do a campaign
Speaker 2: upside down, and you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's just like when Trump went on with THEO Vaughn
Speaker 1: and the Undertaker and Rogan and now all of the
Speaker 1: other politicians are trying to copy him by coming up
Speaker 1: with their own formula for the podcast to try to
Speaker 1: benefit from it. Because his ai ads are so slick,
Speaker 1: and they're so in the moment, and they're so timely,
Speaker 1: and the message that they get across is so sharp.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a bunch of politicians try to copy
Speaker 1: him and do the same thing. But it's not going
Speaker 1: to look like his because they're not as smart as
Speaker 1: him and they're not as savvy as him. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like some sort of Russian version of what the
Speaker 1: United States does.
Speaker 2: Also, depending on the candidate, it's not gonna make any sense.
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be totally backwards. So Spencer Pratt did
Speaker 1: a sit down interview with CNN's Alex Michaelson, and, like
Speaker 1: the interview he conducted on this show, boy did he shine.
Speaker 1: Elex Michaelson posted on his YouTube channel the entire forty
Speaker 1: seven minute interview, which I listened to on the way here,
Speaker 1: which I'm gonna tell you two things about that. One,
Speaker 1: the interview is definitely worth your time, and two, it
Speaker 1: took me forty seven minutes to go fourteen miles in LA.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to the beginning of Spencer Pratt's sit down
Speaker 1: with CNN's Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 4: Spencer, welcome to the story is and congrats on the run.
Speaker 5: Amazing. Thank you for having me and for greeting me
Speaker 5: in the parking lot as a first out of any
Speaker 5: media hit I've done. What a gentleman.
Speaker 3: Alex is a class act.
Speaker 4: He is talk to us about.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he moved to CNN, if his
Speaker 2: mom is still making brownies for all the guests, but
Speaker 2: that was his thing on Fox eleven.
Speaker 1: Oh and they were great, and he also sent me
Speaker 1: some for Christmas.
Speaker 4: Talk to us about the most basic question, why are
Speaker 4: you doing this? Why are you running?
Speaker 5: That is a very simple answer. We can go back
Speaker 5: to when my house burned down and my parents' house burnout,
Speaker 5: and my whole neighborhood burned down, and I started investigating
Speaker 5: how this happened, and I find out the level of
Speaker 5: negligence on our city officials, our state, and when I
Speaker 5: started exposing it with whistleblowers, and then even the La
Speaker 5: Times exposed this, and these same city officials just lied
Speaker 5: and lied and nothing was going to happen. And then
Speaker 5: in two weeks from now, on June second, Mayor Bass
Speaker 5: would have got automatically reelected. And so so I had
Speaker 5: to just get in the race in the sense to
Speaker 5: just counter these like, hello people, this what do you.
Speaker 2: Think this race would even look like? If Pratt did
Speaker 2: not get into.
Speaker 1: It, it would be Nithya versus Karen. Because Rick Caruso
Speaker 1: was the one everyone was expecting to get in Rick
Speaker 1: Caruso was to La what Kamala was to the governor's race.
Speaker 1: A lot of people who could have been viable took
Speaker 1: a pass on it because they thought that a big,
Speaker 1: boldface name would jump in and clear the field. And
Speaker 1: to run for an office like this, it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of planning. You just can't wake up one morning
Speaker 1: and decide you're going to run for governor or mayor.
Speaker 1: You have to work on it for a really long time.
Speaker 1: And because those two took forever to decide, a lot
Speaker 1: of the traditional candidates who could have posed a threat
Speaker 1: to these people decided to do something else with their time.
Speaker 2: Apparently, a week before the filing deadline, Lindsey Horvath was
Speaker 2: texting back and forth with Rick Caruso, being.
Speaker 3: Like, are you gonna run? Are you gonna run? Are
Speaker 3: you gonna run?
Speaker 1: She would be worse than Karen Bass, she would be,
Speaker 1: But she was one of those people considering running, but
Speaker 1: she wasn't gonna do it if Rick Russo ran. And
Speaker 1: then she decided not to do it anyway and keep
Speaker 1: her safe seat in the Board of Supervisors. Oh, it
Speaker 1: would be like having the legally blonde woman as mayor
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles only just as incompetent as Karen Bass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, el Woods is fairly competent.
Speaker 5: This person should be in jails. Twelve people burned alive,
Speaker 5: and you cannot just move on and act like, oh
Speaker 5: I was in Ghana Whoopsie Daisy's like, no, you should
Speaker 5: have resigned, You should have admitted to your failures, and
Speaker 5: you didn't. And so I just had to for my community.
Speaker 5: And then once I got in the game and saw that, oh,
Speaker 5: our whole city is on fire. Literally, I mean, it's
Speaker 5: it's crazy, you know.
Speaker 4: So that's why I mean when you say Karen Bass
Speaker 4: burned down my house, you don't mean she actually threw
Speaker 4: a mat, but you're talking of that this fire you,
Speaker 4: in your view, was preventable.
Speaker 5: Not in my view. And now multiple judges have thrown
Speaker 5: out the appeals by the city's two thousand dollars an
Speaker 5: hour Monger and Tolls lawyers that we have five hundred
Speaker 5: city attorneys on salary with our text mequ now we're paying,
Speaker 5: you know, the people that sue Apple and stuff.
Speaker 2: We have them saying the city is spending and the
Speaker 2: county and the state tons of money on attorneys fighting
Speaker 2: the lawsuits from the victims of these fires, and every
Speaker 2: single time they try to get these lawsuits thrown out,
Speaker 2: they're getting overruled.
Speaker 1: Well, the city doctored up the after action report to
Speaker 1: make it look like they weren't as responsible as they were.
Speaker 1: How could you treat them like they are an honest broker.
Speaker 1: They're not an honest broker. They're part of a cover up.
Speaker 2: And because of these lawsuits, through the process of discovery,
Speaker 2: we have seen all kinds of text messages from on
Speaker 2: the line firefighters on the Lochman fire that show negligence
Speaker 2: at this city leveled the county level, and especially at
Speaker 2: the state level.
Speaker 1: It was really a fight between the city and the
Speaker 1: state because it was an uber driver. Just to go
Speaker 1: over the details, because a lot of people, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: don't know what happened in that fire. An uber driver
Speaker 1: with Trump derangement syndrome went on some sort of screed
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump and then he lit a fire. I
Speaker 1: guess he wanted to be the next Luigi MANGIONI. Well,
Speaker 1: that fire was attacked by the LA Fire Department and
Speaker 1: they were doing a good job at putting it out,
Speaker 1: and then the fire spread to state land. And after
Speaker 1: the fire spread to state land. The state said, you
Speaker 1: don't have jurisdiction to be here, and the on the
Speaker 1: line firefighters said to their political leadership, which goes all
Speaker 1: the way up to the mayor, the fire is not
Speaker 1: fully extinguished. We cannot walk away from this. We need
Speaker 1: to continue fighting this fire or else something bad can happen.
Speaker 1: And Karen Bass did not want to fight with Galvin
Speaker 1: Newsom because the state was telling them to stand down.
Speaker 1: So the city leadership, the political leadership in the city,
Speaker 1: told the firefighters to stand down. The fire was never
Speaker 1: fully extinguished, and then the winds picked up on New
Speaker 1: Year's and that's what burned down the Pacific Palisades. Well,
Speaker 1: of course she doesn't want that storyline out there because
Speaker 1: that makes her look bad. It makes the city look bad,
Speaker 1: it makes the state look bad, it makes Gavin look bad.
Speaker 1: So let's doctor up the report to make it climate change.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we have no responsibility, and multiple judges have
Speaker 5: now said, oh no, this is moving forward. We have
Speaker 5: full discovery, so it's not Spencer saying it. The evidence
Speaker 5: is there of the negligence, just adding up so long
Speaker 5: the list. We can spend an hour and I will
Speaker 5: if you like it. I know you have a lot
Speaker 5: of questions, but I will break down exactly how she's responsible.
Speaker 4: In your view, then what does accountability look like for
Speaker 4: those involved with the fire. If you're a mayor, what
Speaker 4: does accountability look like?
Speaker 5: Well, accountability is moving forward to make sure all these
Speaker 5: other communities don't catch on fire, because right now we
Speaker 5: have accountability where the mayor will say we're ready for
Speaker 5: the next fire.
Speaker 1: We are not not even clothes.
Speaker 5: We have forty five less firefighters right now than we
Speaker 5: did January seventh. That's a lie. Go on the website
Speaker 5: and look at the list of all the things the
Speaker 5: firefighters ask for in this last budget. Deny deny, deny,
Speaker 5: deny denied. So for me, accountability as the mayor is
Speaker 5: actually making sure of it was safe. We can't get
Speaker 5: the accountability except for in court with actually Mayor Bass,
Speaker 5: State Parks LADWB. That's the only accountability there. But everybody's
Speaker 5: already lost everything. So I can't go back in time
Speaker 5: and undo the failures of Mayor Bass. But I can
Speaker 5: prevent this because all this is preventable. Yeah, I'm fine
Speaker 5: with saying that climate change like they'll blame it, but
Speaker 5: we knew the climate that has been changing, and we
Speaker 5: didn't prepare. We have sixty years of dead fuels surrounding
Speaker 5: all these communities. We knew for three months that this
Speaker 5: was the driest weather event, no rain anticipated. All the
Speaker 5: maps show bright red.
Speaker 1: The fire chief.
Speaker 5: Warren Mayor Bas about this and didn't even Maybas didn't
Speaker 5: even tell the fire chief she was leaving the country.
Speaker 2: And remember Karen Bass deleted her text messages when she
Speaker 2: got back from Ghana.
Speaker 1: And her liaison, the public safety including fire was out
Speaker 1: on administrative leave for making fake bomb threads.
Speaker 5: She lied and since she was leaving this out of
Speaker 5: the state and the chief said this is in the
Speaker 5: Chief Chief Crowley's lawsuit against Marybach, she said all this,
Speaker 5: this is not the time to leave, and we didn't predeploy.
Speaker 5: We just found out this week the LEDWP CEO this
Speaker 5: Mickey seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Jidis
Speaker 5: Quinionas didn't even know the reservoirs were empty.
Speaker 1: Apparently those reservoirs are empty again, by the way, YEP.
Speaker 5: In the extreme fire season. So the list of just
Speaker 5: failures is so crazy. And you know it was always
Speaker 5: so hard for me to watch before I was ever running.
Speaker 5: You know, these people would come on your show, your
Speaker 5: past show, and they just lie to you, lie to you.
Speaker 5: They would tell you about you know, this one hundred
Speaker 5: mile per hour wins and this is all not true,
Speaker 5: and they just keep that because if they tell everybody
Speaker 5: there was one hundred mile prior wins, it's climate change. Oh,
Speaker 5: it's unprecedented. No, it's not the reason why there was
Speaker 5: no fixed wing aircraft ready Lacit never called in fixed
Speaker 5: wing because they couldn't reach Mayor Bass. And that CBS
Speaker 5: journalist just reported this week that when they told Mayor
Speaker 5: Bass in Ghana that there was a Palisades fire, she
Speaker 5: was then not a They couldn't We could reach her
Speaker 5: for an hour because she was having drinks in Ghana.
Speaker 3: At the party.
Speaker 1: I want to know how obliterated she was over there
Speaker 1: and what was her bac M.
Speaker 2: There is a lot more of this interview and it
Speaker 2: is pretty damn good and it's getting featured all day
Speaker 2: on CNN.
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Speaker 2: The first hour is going to be a replay of
Speaker 2: your interview with Spencer Pratt, No Kidding, and the third
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Speaker 2: Tijuana River.
Speaker 1: You really are putting together a holiday treat. You call
Speaker 1: it a best of for nothing? Oh, I think the
Speaker 1: one o'clock hour is Tom Steyer when he went on
Speaker 1: Real ninety two to three is a good one. All right.
Speaker 1: Right now we're going through the sound of Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: and to sit down, we'll see it ends. Alex Michaelson,
Speaker 1: this is a This comes from Alex posting the full
Speaker 1: unedited forty eight minute video, which I the prop. I
Speaker 1: love the idea of putting out full unedited videos, but
Speaker 1: he's also putting clips of this up online and it's
Speaker 1: going everywhere. Let's continue to listen to Spencer Pratt with
Speaker 1: CNN's Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 5: And they never called in fixed wing air support to
Speaker 5: drop water. It was never called.
Speaker 6: This is factual, right, and so it wasn't because of
Speaker 6: the win well, and she said during the debate that
Speaker 6: the winds were so high that they couldn't have planes
Speaker 6: come in, which is not true, and so that is
Speaker 6: not actually what happened.
Speaker 4: And what you said in the debate was true about
Speaker 4: what happened in that situation.
Speaker 5: I received at least one thousand videos of everyone showing
Speaker 5: the planes, the helicopters. I even posted the shunook that's
Speaker 5: you know, these helicopters can't fly in a certain level
Speaker 5: win that she's describing. They're all flying. The issue that
Speaker 5: people don't realize the reason the policies fire got so
Speaker 5: out of hand. First, let's forget the state parks and
Speaker 5: the dead brush. For the first six hours of the fire,
Speaker 5: that's the crucial time. Like everybody saw yesterday, how they
Speaker 5: were able to contain that fire. First in Semi Valley
Speaker 5: they have the fire bricks, so that helps. But they
Speaker 5: were able to get to the water. Since the Palisse
Speaker 5: reservoirs again maribasklid and so there's only one, there's two.
Speaker 5: I live next door to one Palisades Reservoir and there's
Speaker 5: Sandy and As Reservoir. Since there was no water in those,
Speaker 5: the helicopters had to fly to Pepperdine and Malbu and
Speaker 5: do Encino to get water. They spent sixty percent of
Speaker 5: their time in the air instead of flying little thirty
Speaker 5: seconds from the Sandy and Nez reserve over to Lockman
Speaker 5: drop drop, That's when they have the chance to put
Speaker 5: out the fire.
Speaker 2: He is spitting out facts that can make Karen Bass
Speaker 2: have to relive how much of a failure this city
Speaker 2: was during that fire.
Speaker 1: And these facts are easy to understand, indigestible. We're not
Speaker 1: getting stuck in the weeds here. This is just the basics.
Speaker 3: And if they would have pulled out the weeds, that
Speaker 3: would have helped.
Speaker 5: So this isn't like, it's not a conspiracy. You know,
Speaker 5: I used to when I was younger, I used to
Speaker 5: believe in conspiracies. You realize it's they're not conspiracies, they're
Speaker 5: just negligence. They're people that we pay with our tax money.
Speaker 2: See now I know he really has learned. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of people that assume all kinds of conspiracies
Speaker 2: in government, but our government is too stupid to pull
Speaker 2: any of those off.
Speaker 1: Oh. The older you get and the more you observe things,
Speaker 1: the more you understand that these are a bunch of
Speaker 1: fools playing around with smoke and mirrors.
Speaker 5: And we expect them to do their jobs and they don't.
Speaker 4: So, you know, so, from a policy perspective going forward,
Speaker 4: what changes to prevent that? You already talked about the
Speaker 4: idea of more firefighters, But is there anything else from
Speaker 4: a policy perspective, that changes when it comes to fires.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think people missing the debate what I said
Speaker 5: that is will change not just Los Angeles, it will
Speaker 5: change insurance in California. I've had multiple meetings with Wayne Colson,
Speaker 5: who does the chinnooks for LA County. He provides the
Speaker 5: quick reaction for us his three of them. We would
Speaker 5: add a fourth and we'd do a mutual aid with
Speaker 5: his chinnooks for Los Angeles City would probably buy another one,
Speaker 5: and we'd put twenty dip sites around these communities because
Speaker 5: right now, if we have these dip sites, they hit
Speaker 5: the water, boom, hit the water, and then we also
Speaker 5: connect pools. You know, there's a lot of big pools
Speaker 5: in La You go to these communities, say a lot
Speaker 5: of these are also second homeowners, a lot of people
Speaker 5: who don't even live here. They would have no issue
Speaker 5: connecting pools. To then fill a dip site, Say the
Speaker 5: water system goes down again and we can't connect it.
Speaker 5: So we have twenty these dip sites one mile from
Speaker 5: each other. So now we have water all around these communities. Then, obviously,
Speaker 5: as mayor, I am clearing dead brush and whoever the
Speaker 5: new governor is if they have a problem with it.
Speaker 5: My citizens' lives are more important than milk vetch. So
Speaker 5: I will make sure we have fire breaks. And we
Speaker 5: saw yesterday in Semi Valley, how amazing a fire break. Yes,
Speaker 5: people will argue, you know the embers. Still, you talk
Speaker 5: to any firefighter, they say, the firebreak gives us a
Speaker 5: chance to dig in and before we just get overwhelmed
Speaker 5: with the fire hitting onto the structures.
Speaker 2: I do really love the idea of I don't care
Speaker 2: whose jurisdiction it is, I'm cleaning this up because so
Speaker 2: much local government wants to just blame well, I can't
Speaker 2: do that. That state land just do it. You're all
Speaker 2: on the same freaking team.
Speaker 1: When you talk to people who were in the room,
Speaker 1: and we've done this with Don Knabi and others who
Speaker 1: were there when the ten freeway went down after the
Speaker 1: north Ridge quake, and it became a crisis in southern
Speaker 1: California because so many commuters are dependent on that freeway
Speaker 1: to get to work and to get home from work,
Speaker 1: and they realized that this could end up in a
Speaker 1: bureaucratic black hole. They decided very early on that they
Speaker 1: would not allow that to happen. And they had all
Speaker 1: of the shot callers. They had the Secretary of Transport,
Speaker 1: they had the governor, they had the mayor, they had
Speaker 1: the lead from the board of supervisors, they had all
Speaker 1: of their top aides in the same room every single morning,
Speaker 1: and whatever it was that they had to do, they
Speaker 1: did it. And they finished that project ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: And it was the developer or I guess the construction
Speaker 1: company that got a huge bonus because of that. I
Speaker 1: think it was a company based out of Sacramento. The
Speaker 1: guy just died. He played poker with Dan Walters. Too bad.
Speaker 1: We could use that company these days. But they got
Speaker 1: it done and they got it done ahead of schedule
Speaker 1: because there was a sense of urgency. Karen Bass and
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom have no sense of urgency. They believe in
Speaker 1: all of this bureaucratis and you don't want to step
Speaker 1: on anyone's toes. And they're not even really that interested
Speaker 1: in the power of local government anyway. All they want
Speaker 1: to do is talk about Trump. So nothing gets done. Well,
Speaker 1: we've tried nothing getting done. It's time to try the alternative.
Speaker 5: I mean fire breaks, having water, actually funding the fire department,
Speaker 5: because again we can look at Chief Crowley's case against
Speaker 5: Mayor Baths because when she spoke the truth, mayorbas fired
Speaker 5: her for retaliation. So she asked to no sue her
Speaker 5: for the truth and in it I think it was
Speaker 5: seven weeks before the policies fireus. She went to Mayerbaths
Speaker 5: and said, I cannot protect Angelino's. What does Maribas do?
Speaker 5: She cuts the fire department by seventeen million, and again
Speaker 5: people will say, oh, there's no money in the city
Speaker 5: of la While she did that, there was four hundred
Speaker 5: million dollars sitting in an inside safe account that's still
Speaker 5: there to this day, right now, almost two years later.
Speaker 2: As mayor, if we have bankrupted the city with all
Speaker 2: of these nonsensical homeless programs that have had zero impact.
Speaker 1: And they don't have money for the basics.
Speaker 5: As mayor, if I knew there was four hundred million
Speaker 5: in a different account that we don't even know what
Speaker 5: to do with our scam we're running over here, I
Speaker 5: would say, oh, we're going to take seventeen mili out,
Speaker 5: go meet with the city council. Where are we got
Speaker 5: to meet with and say Angelino's need to be safe.
Speaker 5: Our fire chief is saying we need the seventeen million
Speaker 5: to get all these engines. So if there is an emergency,
Speaker 5: we have a thousand extra firefighters that can respond. When
Speaker 5: Marabath lied on the debate the amount of firefighters, the
Speaker 5: message me and said, I showed up to my station,
Speaker 5: left my family, and you know when I wasn't even working,
Speaker 5: and we didn't have kit, we didn't have gear, We
Speaker 5: just couldn't even respond. So she just it's actually scary.
Speaker 5: You know, these politicians how they can just I don't.
Speaker 5: I honestly am to the point where maybe they don't
Speaker 5: know the truth, and so it's not lying. Nobody tells
Speaker 5: them the truth because they just you know, let's give it.
Speaker 5: Let's give her the benefit out. Maybe she has no
Speaker 5: clue about the truth, so those aren't lies. She just
Speaker 5: doesn't know. Everything she's saying is a lie.
Speaker 3: And for the reck that is also possible.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jonathan in Los Angeles. Jonathan, Hello, oh guys.
Speaker 7: Well you know I've heard what you said. You know,
Speaker 7: the state is on the hook, excuse me for the
Speaker 7: for the rest there, the state is on the hook
Speaker 7: for the damage, even every dead dog and cat. So
Speaker 7: he was talking about climate change, Sorry, he was talking
Speaker 7: about climate change. Everyone knows it's a problem. That's what
Speaker 7: Spencer Pratt just said on your show. And we are
Speaker 7: not prepared, right, So when was Spencer Pratt going to
Speaker 7: get prepared to put a sprinkler system on his home? See,
Speaker 7: he didn't protect his own home. He had all that money.
Speaker 8: He bought those two vans and put this Spencer Pratt
Speaker 8: for mayor on the He bought that. He has all
Speaker 8: that money, and he talks about other people sourcing their
Speaker 8: pools for water and that protected their home. How comes
Speaker 8: Spencer Pratt since he's so smart, guys, that's what you think.
Speaker 8: I think he's stupid. He had all that money, he
Speaker 8: has all this knowledge, but he didn't put a sprinkler
Speaker 8: system on his own home.
Speaker 1: Who are you voting for? For Mayer? Sarah?
Speaker 8: Well, oh, by, I would have to vote for Nicia
Speaker 8: and I know how.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're a socialist. You're a socialist. You're voting
Speaker 1: for a socialist candidate. So you believe the government should
Speaker 1: own the means of production and you don't like him
Speaker 1: because he's rich. Well, guess what your candidate of choice
Speaker 1: was on the city council and was there when the
Speaker 1: budget got cut for the fire Department and they were
Speaker 1: all warned about it.
Speaker 3: And shut up.
Speaker 1: And your candidate for mayor of Los Angeles also supported
Speaker 1: this train wreck disaster mayor before she saw an opportunity
Speaker 1: to jump in the race and win. But she has
Speaker 1: a room temperature IQ and went and debated with this
Speaker 1: reality show moron or whatever it is that you referred
Speaker 1: to him as, and he cleaned her clock. He made
Speaker 1: her look like a complete fool and a buffoon that
Speaker 1: she is. And everyone in town is now realizing that
Speaker 1: that's why she tanked in the betting markets, that's why
Speaker 1: she's tanking in the polls, and that's why she's not
Speaker 1: gonna be the next mayor of Los Angeles, and she
Speaker 1: is gonna finish behind this reality show idiot or whatever
Speaker 1: it was that you called them.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. So is Nitthia Pang people
Speaker 2: to call the radio station? Probably, I'm sure that's legal.
Speaker 1: Now. You know I forgot my blood pressure medication on
Speaker 1: this trip too, Did I tell you that? Oh boy?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna do some tai chi. We'll be
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Speaker 1: a glorious SmackDown that Rick Flair would be proud of.
Speaker 3: And it's not even woo Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Who let's go to Cardi in Lancaster. Cardi, Hello, hy John,
Speaker 1: how are you good?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 9: Uh, it's simple, get rid of the leadership we have
Speaker 9: vote for Spencer Prant and all these naysayers, Oh, he
Speaker 9: doesn't have any experience. The rest of these clowns didn't
Speaker 9: have any experience, John. And you know the guy that
Speaker 9: called before said, you know, climate change for Pratt And
Speaker 9: why didn't he put sprinklers in? What a buffoon? What
Speaker 9: did what did? What did Karen Bass do? These people
Speaker 9: are I got I don't even want it done.
Speaker 1: Well, here's a question, and I guess I didn't have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to ask it because I got a little heated.
Speaker 1: But let's just say he did have sprinklers on the house.
Speaker 1: There was no water, That's my point.
Speaker 9: There was nothing, zilch. They let that place burn down
Speaker 9: to the ground.
Speaker 1: And his candidate was on the council. His candidate endorsed
Speaker 1: Karen Bass. The city is responsible for making sure there's
Speaker 1: water in the reservoir. They're in charge of the Department
Speaker 1: of Water and Power. As a reality show actor, how
Speaker 1: would he have any control over whether or not there's
Speaker 1: water in that reservoir. That's the city's responsibility, not a
Speaker 1: private resident, not a homeowner.
Speaker 9: You know, John, I'm going to roll the dice and
Speaker 9: I'm voting for him. Can't get any worse, right, That's right.
Speaker 1: What do you have to lose?
Speaker 9: Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. Let's go to Sherry in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Sherry, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 10: There, how are you?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 10: I know how you are? You come down? So I
Speaker 10: like that last caller with the one Jonathan before this
Speaker 10: last guy, because number one, it shows that even stupid
Speaker 10: people are listening to your show. And number two, I'm
Speaker 10: glad he's voting for Nicea because that takes a vote
Speaker 10: away from Bass. If he's not voting for our guy,
Speaker 10: he's voting for one of them. And I love listening
Speaker 10: to this interview about Spencer's talking. All of the interviews
Speaker 10: you play. He's smart, he's articulate, he's right to the point,
Speaker 10: he knows his stuff. He's young, which Bass is not.
Speaker 10: And unfortunately, I live in Kadi Rslavsky's neighborhood. The fires
Speaker 10: that go on there and she does nothing about it,
Speaker 10: the amount of money they waste. I'm putting out fires
Speaker 10: from the homeless on the Robertson on and off ramps
Speaker 10: to the ten Freeway, which I know you said you
Speaker 10: drive by all the time. It is ridiculous. They set
Speaker 10: fires every other day. They've burned property, The brush hasn't
Speaker 10: been cleared in years. It's a Third World country down there,
Speaker 10: it is.
Speaker 1: And we don't have to live like that. We choose
Speaker 1: to live like that. And we have an election coming up,
Speaker 1: and we can choose to live a different way if
Speaker 1: we want to.
Speaker 10: Yees, But there's so many stupid people that are going
Speaker 10: to vote for her. It's just done. But you know
Speaker 10: they have the Trump syndrome, it's now the Spencer syndrome, all.
Speaker 1: Right, thank you for the call. Let's go to Sal
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood shall hello?
Speaker 3: Sal? Hung up? All right, here's what we got to do.
Speaker 2: Because we've only scratched the surface of this interview, and
Speaker 2: right now it's all been about the fires. What Pratt
Speaker 2: had to say about the homeless is even more damning,
Speaker 2: and his solutions for it are kind of fascinating. So, Johnny,
Speaker 2: I think we got to hear what Spencer Pratt has
Speaker 2: to say on the crisis that everyone's been complaining about
Speaker 2: for decades.
Speaker 3: Homelessness in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Another complete and total failure associated with Karen Bass and
Speaker 1: her administration and the callers candidate Nitia Raman, because before
Speaker 1: Rahman got on the council, she worked for one of
Speaker 1: those phony boloney homeless services organizations, and that's how she
Speaker 1: enriched herself. She enriched herself off of making our city
Speaker 1: look like a toilet.
Speaker 2: We're only one hour into today. You got all riled
Speaker 2: up and you're supposed to be in vacation mode. You're
Speaker 2: in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Well, what are you gonna do? We're here today, We're
Speaker 1: here tomorrow.