WEBVTT - Spencer Pratt comes out swinging at the Mayoral Debate 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.000 And very happy Thursday to you at twelve oh six 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.720 in the West, It's the Phillip Show, mister Randy Weggs 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.200 in Culver City. John, we all get tongue tied from 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.400 time to time, but when you are a public servant 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.680 and a public speaker on live television, you really want 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.880 to make sure you don't confuse your tea's for your f's. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.119 So, yes, there were fire trucks that were broken, but 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.920 there were also fire trucks that were out of use. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:35.800 WHOA. Obviously it was a misspeak, but it happened on 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:41.159 live television and she said fire. You know what, She 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.800 dropped the F bomb during the debate accidentally. But yes, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:47.200 so yes, there. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.880 Were fire trucks that were broken, but there were also. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:57.640 Fire Oh my, well, Katie Porter's working blue too? Why not? 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:05.600 Karen Bass eight hundred two two two five two two 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.160 two is jellphone number one? Eight hundred two two two 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.520 five two two two. Well, last night was the first 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.360 la mayoral debate where you had Nitthiya Raman, the socialist 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:22.759 candidate for mayor, the incumbent, Karen Bass, and Spencer Pratt 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.400 of reality TV fame all on the same stage together 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.600 at the same time. And I've got to say, Randy, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:36.240 it was cathartic to watch that debate because he mopped 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.559 the floor with those two. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.800 I don't know what the expectations were for Spencer Pratt 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.040 going into this debate. I'm sure a lot of people 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.120 who don't pay a lot of attention to what's going 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.560 on just assumed that, you know, he's not really up 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.880 to date on the issues outside of the fire. But 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.400 he knew his stuff and he had a good answer 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:01.400 for pretty much every single question. And not only that, 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.280 but he handled himself really well. And neither Nythia nor 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.919 Karen Bass even thought to try to go after him 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.079 because they were so busy going after each other that 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.160 at one point Spencer Pratt, who is a classy guy, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 goes to the moderators is like, you know what, she 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:25.760 just attacked Karen Bass. Karen Bas should respond, I'll tell you. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.000 When I watched that debate last night, the first thing 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.800 that jumped out of me is that those two, the 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:38.519 two standard politicians, Karen Bass and Nitthia Rahman, walked into 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.720 that debate assuming that he was stupid. They thought that 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.040 they didn't have to do any homework and that he 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.000 would fall on his face because he came from reality TV, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.600 so clearly the guy has to be dumb, which is crazy, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.880 because he's been out doing interviews everywhere, including here when 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.440 he came in studio and I peppered him with questions 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.360 for an hour, and the guy was well read. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.720 The guy had clearly. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.280 Been spending a lot of time thinking about solutions for 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.720 the problems that face the city. I know there's an 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.200 assumption that he's a one note Johnny and all he 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.400 cares about is the fires because his home burned down 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.240 in the Pacific Palisates fire. But you talk to him 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.200 about homelessness, you talk to him about crime, you talk 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.919 to him about the Olympics, you talk to him about 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.040 any of those subjects, and he was up to date 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.000 and well versed on all of it. And those two 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.440 are so arrogant, and those two are so snobbish that 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.960 they just looked down their nose at someone who appeared 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.840 on reality TV in a past life. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.840 And assumed that he couldn't put two words. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.280 Together to save his life, and he showed up and 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.560 made them both look like phones. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.040 The debate was of every debate I've had to deal with, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.400 and we've watched a lot of governor's debate. This was 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.960 the most entertaining debate of the entire political season. I 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.480 don't know if there's going to be another one before 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.440 June second, but it was a thing of beauty. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.000 And you know, it's so funny to me because I 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.080 mentioned before that they thought he was stupid, and I 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.880 went to graduate school, and let me tell you, some 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.680 of the dumbest people I've ever met have advanced degrees. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:38.000 Just because you are educated doesn't mean that you have wisdom. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.800 And speaking of which, and Nathia. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:48.000 Rahman came off looking like she has zero common sense 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.920 at all. She is totally unaware of the world around her. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.960 She came off as completely not ready for prime time. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.080 I don't think she's ever had to do a televised debate. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.080 She's done some small all debates that are inside homeowners associations. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.520 But she looked like a deer in the headlights, and 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.520 at one point got so rattled that she claimed that 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:18.480 Spencer Pratt and Karen Bass were colluding against her. Idiot. So, Johnny, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.960 we got a lot of topics to cover. We're going 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.599 to try to get to as much of this debate 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.960 as we can before three o'clock. You want to talk fires, crime, homelessness, 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:32.000 the budget, housing, reviving downtown Hollywood or other. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.200 Let's start with reviving downtown because that exchange was a humdinger. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.799 All righty take it away. Here is the NBC mayoral 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.080 debate and Conan Nolan did a fantastic job, as he 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.159 always does, and Colleen was also there. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.000 Downtown Los Angeles seems to be in a state of crisis. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.760 The high rises there, the office buildings are worked a 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.239 fraction of what they used to be. That will impact 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.640 the budget. By the way, you have a graffiti tower. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.920 You have a half a billion dollar bridge at six 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.960 Street Bridge where somebody ripped out thirty eight thousand feet 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.559 of copper, so it's in the dark. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.000 Yes, By the way, should just be the campaign at 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.679 right here? Yeah? 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.479 How could you be the mayor of all of this 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.920 chaos and even expect four more years. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.440 You have restaurants Cole's at sixth and Maine, Clifton's at 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.239 Broadway in eighth that survived the Depression, Prohibition and World 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.560 War Two, but they can't survive the human thess outside 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.159 the front door. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:38.640 They're closed. I have said it many times. Conan Nolan 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.480 has zero bleeps to give and he is fantastic for it. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.640 Did I tell you I was on a flight with 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.200 him one time and he wore an Indiana Jones at 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:48.440 that's great. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.839 What is your plan for downtown? Can we afford to 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.320 let it die? And israma will start with you? Oh 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.960 you don't want to do that, all right? Let's see 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.800 drunk man drive down an icy road. Would you agree 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.840 to bring city workers back full time to the office 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.359 in order to help sell the businesses? 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.360 I think we do definitely need to bring city and 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.240 county workers back. We bring in our office. We have 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.600 people in the office three days a week in order 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.720 to be able to address issues. There are some workers 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.880 that should be in the office much more, and there's 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.000 others that can be there three days. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.800 We think we're running out the clock here, Nathea. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.640 I love the fact that she has nothing to say 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.440 about shutting down all the chaos. It's just making sure 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.800 that the city employees still get to work from home 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:36.520 two days. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.480 In the week that can be there three days a week. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.160 But absolutely that is not the only intervention that downtown needs. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.440 And right now, the lack of care that's being demonstrated 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.000 in downtown La is part of our broken status quo. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.920 Downtown LA needs attention and it. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.800 Needs Boy, we're just talking in the most generalities possible. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.800 She's talking about downtown as if it's a child of divorce. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.000 They don't need more TLC. They don't need more attention. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.160 They need someone to go in there and clean it out. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.640 Downtown LA needs an enema. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.120 Real care. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.240 It needs more public safety officials on the streets. It 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.480 needs work with businesses to ensure that businesses aren't just 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.080 fleeing Downtown LA, that they're actually staying there. It needs 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.600 regular cleanups, It needs real maintenance. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:23.640 It needs a strategy. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.040 Instead, what Mayor Bass has done is to dismantle our 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.520 economic development department. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.920 We don't have a strategy to keep. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.719 Businesses here in Los Angeles, and we're watching as they 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.640 walk away from this city instead of investing in it. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.760 That's the kind of investment that I want to encourage 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.640 people to make by actually investing in a real economic 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.000 development strategy for LA. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:51.280 Mister Brett, how do wrong wrong? Let's see if Spencer 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.040 has a different answer. Mister Prett, how do we solve this? 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.080 You want to bring workers back into the city full on? 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.280 I mean, what's the solution for this problem, and he 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.319 mentioned a lot of problems. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.480 What's your plan, Thank you sir. Well. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.960 First off, I was just talking to my friend Rachel, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.480 who works in downtown LA. Downtown is so unsafe now 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.680 that they have to serve the food. All the employees 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.400 have to eat inside. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.640 They can't risk going like the Kaiser in Oakland. Yes, exactly, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:20.920 like the kais are in Oakland. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.560 They can't risk going out. That's why all these beautiful 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.240 restaurants are closing because it's so unsafe. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:27.160 So before we. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.360 Require city workers to go back into Eddie Billies, we 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.920 need to enforce the laws on the street. Council one 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:37.040 Ramen is talking about safety. Yet when animal rescue activists 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.800 Rebecca Corey came in and said the dogs are being 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.560 torturing abuse on the streets of Done and she walked 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:43.760 out of the hearing. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:44.719 She doesn't care. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.880 That is true. And by the way, I've been doing 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.000 a lot of talking with the animal activists that are 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.800 talking about what's going on in skid Row and it's horrifying. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.240 Nithia Rahman at the debate the night before for the 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.360 Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, she was confronted by Joey Tuccio, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.840 who's the guy shooting all those videos in skid row? 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.920 And she said, and she said this honestly, the first 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.600 time I ever went to an La animal shelter was 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:15.360 five days ago. Oh my, she don't care about nothing. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.600 She doesn't care about safety, she doesn't care about anything 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.800 she's talking about. At least Mayor Bass pretends. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:28.960 To care everything I ever wanted in a mayor ol debate. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.000 Oh my god, if I could just inject this into 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.719 my veins, I would, Ma Bas, can we. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.040 Afford And you've got a minute to answer this question? 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.920 Can we afford to let downtown La die? 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.199 Though? Absolutely cannot? 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.280 Here comes mother Goose cannot. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.720 But is it a crisis situation at this point? 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.320 Even Colleen's done? By the way, Karen Bass, I know 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.880 that you're a mayor of a big city, but don't 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.640 outdo my girl. Absolutely, absolutely, there's only one die. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.600 We absolutely cannot situation. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.360 It's absolutely it seems to be going the wrong way. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.160 So let me just tell you that we absolutely cannot. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.840 That's three times whoa. It's like machine gun fire. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.840 Downtown is the center of our city. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.200 Look, this is a very different situation than that debate. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.720 Between her and Crusoe four years ago. Because she is 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.000 now a known entity. All of this happened on her watch. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.400 Downtown is the center of our city and it isn't. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.800 It really shouldn't be. It's a dump. Yeah. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.439 Whenever tourists come to La and stay with me, not 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.960 one has ever said, take me to downtown LA. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.520 And it is an economic engine that absolutely needs. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:56.600 Again, you know what, she's flustered. She's flustered, and that's 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.120 a crutch. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.280 You know absolutely that it absolutely needs to be attended to. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.040 We have a strategy that is working. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.320 We are working. No, it's not. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:12.720 On what planet is your strategy working? They're bums everywhere. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.240 It's like they're falling out of the sky. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.160 That is working. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.400 We are working with the downtown business associations. We are 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.440 increasing public safety there. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.480 No, you're not another lie. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.720 That's why I did the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, which allows 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.000 for the office buildings that are vacant to be converted 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:33.720 into housing. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.880 She did that last week, and she did it because 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.880 she's running for mayor and she wanted to say she's 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.960 doing something about the empty office spaces. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.160 And those conversions are taking place right now. That is 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.920 why we have to deal with the street homelessness that 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:48.400 is there. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.320 Skid Row's worse than it was three years ago. What 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:58.360 planet is this dizzy broad living on the planet de Lulu? 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.760 There needs to be massive intervention there. And then, of 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.720 course there is the convention center and the convention center. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.080 Is nobody's going down to the convention center that's parked 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.040 on Figaroa. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.160 And the convention center is a long term investment. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.600 Imagine you're a business, and are you're an organization, a 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.719 trade organization, like let's say that you represent all the dentists, 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.000 and you have to decide where are you gonna have 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.800 your California convention? Are you gonna have it in Anaheim 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 next to Disneyland or are you gonna have it in 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:38.560 downtown LA next to murder in skid Row? Yeah? 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.600 How long do you think it would take before all 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.080 of the laughing gas was stolen out of the trunk? 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.199 This is a true fact. Fresno does more convention business 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.960 than the city of LA and making the building look 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.840 prettier isn't going to solve that. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.480 And the convention center is a long term investment that 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.240 we have to make in our city because the more 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.160 people you have downtown, whether it's a convention, Are people 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.920 coming downtown for concerts? 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.480 Is they're all going to Englewood. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.960 Have you noticed that she has the algore affliction here 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.280 where she talks to adults as if the assumption is 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.560 that we all have brain damage. Well, she really talks 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.360 down to us, doesn't she. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.760 She understandably does, because in order for her to be 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.800 elected as mayor, a good portion of the electorate in 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.840 La had to have had brain damage. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.760 If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:37.440 help for you. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.600 That is quite something the way, and that would explain 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.640 how she got elected in the first place. If every 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.160 voter in the city of La was carried to term 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.960 by Courtney Love, then the voting patterns would make sense. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.360 Is the way to make the city more safe and 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.200 downtown more safe, and my number one obligation is to 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.640 keep our city safe. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:05.120 Downtown is absolutely critical. Thank you all right? 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.760 Moving toward I don't remember Ramen, would you like to 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:10.440 respond to that? 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.200 So Colleen had a brain fart there, and she's so 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.320 used to just asking Ramen to respond because Ramen gets 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.640 attacked by both of them every single time, and she 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.200 has no good answers. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.280 To the mayor and what she's talking about that. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.680 I mean, look, I feel like we're having a theoretical 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.520 conversation here about the direction of our city, which is 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:32.400 being led. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.680 Currently by our mayor. Our mayor is. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.840 The CEO of the city. She sets the direction of 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.920 this city. And if you are satisfied with the status quo, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.680 then I've got great news for you. The incumbent is on. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.160 The ballot, and so is one of the top members 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.200 of the city council. Yeah, what do you do is 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:51.480 your day job? Lady? 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.880 What I'm here to say is that we need more 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.640 urgency to respond to the issues right now. We need 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.280 real plans, we need real efforts to make sure that 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.320 we're keeping businesses here, that we're keeping workers here, that 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.960 we're keeping residents in downtown LA. That is the strategy 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.680 and effort that I want to bring to this role. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.320 Two weeks before she ran fact check true. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:20.440 YEP for election, two hours before the candidacy closed, she 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.760 adorsed mayor of Bath. So, all of a sudden, now 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.000 she's has all these problems with mayorbaths. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.240 They do photos together. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.520 We have so many more topics, and you know what, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.560 I know we're passionate. You're passionate about what we're talking about, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.520 but voters really want some concrete evidence here and they 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.440 want people. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.440 To direct So she references me, I need to that 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.560 that's supposed to be part of the rules. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.000 Debates are getting ugly this season. Oh I love it. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:55.080 Go ahead. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.000 I haven't been offered that that in a lot of 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.160 this Nithia. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.640 You've got a chance respond to every single question debate. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.600 Well, I'm joining you there. Absolutely the. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.440 Absolutely the status quo and breaking up the status quo 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.280 and dealing with the bureaucracy is exactly why I ran. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.360 And why she sounds exactly like Shang. Now the bureaucracy 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.360 is real. She's checking all the boxes. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.480 And I started doing that by addressing homelessness, but also 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.960 by bringing coalitions together to make sure that we can 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.040 deal with downtown. Did you know that we are the 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.520 only major city that does not have a comprehensive infrastructure plan. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.800 You're in charge. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.200 She's acting as if that's some sort of profound point. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:52.840 So it's been charge here. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.959 So it's been haphazard up until now. Left to the 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.520 wishes of every single council member. I have instituted and 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.440 started a comprehensive infrastructure plan and moving right away into 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.920 replacing sixty thousand solar life. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.520 Thank you yeah and sending me a bill for them. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:18.560 Good job, Karen, eight hundred two two two five two 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.040 two two. Easy telephone number one eight hundred two two 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.080 two five two two two. 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Listen 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.679 to the podcast while you're frothing at the mouth watching 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.159 heated rivalry on the couch. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.760 Why do you have to watch porn in the living room? 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.159 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.359 telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.000 two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.160 guest to the program. He is the opinion page editor 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.000 for the California Post. You can follow him on x 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.960 at Joel Pollock. Joel Pollock, Welcome. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:52.960 Thanks for having me on. Good to be here. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.040 Well, I've got to say, after watching last night's mayoral 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:03.400 debate and the performance of Spencer Pratt compared to the 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.879 incumbent mayor Karen Bass and the Socialist councilwoman Nitia Rahman, 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.840 Spencer Pratt cleaned their clocks and it occurred to me 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.720 as I was watching it unfold that the two standard 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:22.600 politicians walked into that room with two beliefs that led 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.480 them down the wrong road. One was that he was stupid, 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.960 which he clearly is not. He's done more reading on 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.359 the subject matter than they have. He's clearly thought about 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:39.719 solutions more than they have, and he certainly was perfectly 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.719 fine on his feet defending his positions on that debate stage. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.800 I also was of the belief that they walked into 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.880 that room with the assumption that he was a one 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.280 note Johnny who could only talk about the fires and 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.000 had no knowledge about any other subject, which was clearly 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.159 not true. The two things, the two assumptions that they 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.960 bought into last night, I think caused them to get waxed. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:14.920 Your thoughts, well, I think the three Cannis did very 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:19.280 you know, you could say they turned in very different performances. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:24.480 As you mentioned, Spencer was outstanding and for a number 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.359 of the reasons you've suggested. One is that he showed 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.480 knowledge of a variety of subjects in addition to the 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.960 fire which you mentioned as well, very very impressive. He 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.240 talked about policing, he talked about homelessess, and he had 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:42.320 some very common sense solutions, which is that you simply 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.960 enforced the law. You do not allow homeless people to 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.040 camp out on the street, and you do not allow 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:53.840 non citizens to vote. Very, very straightforward and comprehensive. He 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.080 looked like he could be the mayor. That was the 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.240 big hurdle he had to overcome because people had seen 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:05.000 him as this scruffy social media guy, podcaster trying to 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:09.440 sell a book, reality TV star, wears a T shirt 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.399 and funny shorts, hanging out with his wife all the time. 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.720 And here he puts on a suit, gets a shaven 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.560 a haircut, stands behind a podium and he looks like 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.440 a big city mayor. And it's not just looking the part. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.960 It's talking about a wide range of policies. The other 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.560 thing he did, which was really important. I think this 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.399 is sort of implied, and some of what said, he 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.359 came at it with an intensity that made it absolutely 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.359 clear if you were watching that debate, that he is 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:42.840 the candidate for change. And it's interesting because Nitchia Rahman 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:44.359 on the left, we'll get to her in a minute, 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.360 but she is claiming she's the candidate for change. She's 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.159