WEBVTT - Spencer Pratt is moving up in the polls 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.080 It is the John Phillips Show at Johnny's on vacation. 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.040 He'll be back on Monday. It's Randy Wang here and 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.280 the phone number to join us is eight hundred two 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.479 two two five two two two. You can email us 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.400 at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com. You 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.160 could subscribe to the podcast by searching for the John 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.360 Phillips Show wherever you get your podcasts, and while you're 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.200 at it, subscribe for free to my substack so you 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:24.759 can see my daily show prep. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.280 I call it the California Report. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.520 All the stories we talk about, all the links to 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.440 all the YouTube pages are right there. You can watch 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:33.400 them in your own time, share them with your friends, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.080 your family, your social groups. Randy Wang Radio dot substack 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.599 dot com. We have a new poll out in the 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.360 LA mayors race and it's looking like we're seeing an 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.760 increase in support for Spencer Pratt. According to the Tavern 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.680 Research poll from May first to the fourth, they have 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:57.480 Undecided in first place at twenty nine percent, Karen Bass 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.840 in second place with twenty two percent, four points behind 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:08.160 her Spencer Pratt, two points behind Spencer Pratt sixteen. Spencer 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:13.520 Pratt being at eighteen percent might be why Karen Bass 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.480 and Nythia Rahman decided to pull out of the debate 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.440 that was supposed to happen this week on Fox eleven. Now, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.880 Spencer Pratt already wasn't available for that debate, but it 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.399 sure seems after the debate that aired on NBC four 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.240 that Karen Bass and Nythia Rahmen have realized the less 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.080 opportunities for them to be in a debate environment, whether 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.120 Pratt is there or not, is not going to be 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.440 a very good look for them because they did not 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.759 go very well. Meanwhile, Spencer Pratt did a whole lot 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.680 of interviews over the weekend, including one with CBS News 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.520 is Adam Yamaguchi, he's the guy that's been doing all 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.000 of the hospice fraud stories. He sat down for a 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.400 thirty minute interview on Spencer Pratt's burned out lot and 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.680 apparently what was originally posted was a small package for 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.160 CBS Mornings that he didn't really care for. He thought 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.120 they inserted way too many clips of the reality show 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.640 and he considered it to be a hit piece, and 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.160 he said, you know what, CBS release the full interview, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.520 And to CBS's credit, they released the full interview and 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.000 I listened to it, But of the interviews that Spencer 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.560 Pratt did over the weekend, I would argue the better 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.799 interview was him sitting down with NBC Force Conan Nolan. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.760 And now this is where I subscribe. You know, you 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.960 get an extra benefit of subscribing to the YouTube channels 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.920 of all of these news stations because Conan Nolan has 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.639 a weekly local political news show. It's the longest running 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.600 one in Los Angeles called news Conference. But it's only 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.680 an hour and so even if you go eighteen to 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.680 twenty minutes in an interview, only eight to ten minutes 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.080 of that is going to make the air. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.440 That's the beauty of YouTube. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.240 They put the whole unedited thing on there ready for 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.400 you to go because all of it is newsworthy. So 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.400 without further ado, and by the way, this is one 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.360 of those videos that you can listen to watch share 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.360 by checking out my substack Randy Wangradio dot substack dot com. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.960 Let's hear what Spencer Pratt had to say over the 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.919 weekend with NBC four's Conan Nolan. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.000 Good morning, and welcome to the Tom brok On News 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.320 Center here at Universal City. I'm Conan Nolan. Thanks for 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.120 joining US with US. Spencer Pratt, candidate for mayor of 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.440 the Great City of Los Angeles. You know him as 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.880 a former reality show star but also a media entrepreneur. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.080 Mister Pratt, thank you very much for coming. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:41.000 Do I have that right? 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.960 I mean, you're in you've been in media for pretty 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:44.880 much your entire life. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.640 Absolutely, but I once. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.240 Oh boy, it's contagious. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.480 Absolutely absolutely, But I once the city let my house 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.640 burn down. I pivoted quickly into a community advocate, and 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.839 I've received two Community Advocate awards. So when you vote 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.960 for Spencer Proud in your ballot today or tonight, it'll 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.000 say Spencer Brack community Advocate. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.480 Hey, look at that a call to action. You can 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.800 be voting right now. And that is true. Everyone in 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.000 the state of California should have their ballots. If you 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.040 live in the city of Los Angeles, well, then you 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.880 are able to vote in this election. And apparently I 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.000 haven't opened mind yet. I'm going to vote probably this week. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.640 But if you open your ballot, Spencer Pratt is the 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.880 first name on there, and it says community advocate. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.359 Community advocate, because that's how I identify now I'm no 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.160 longer a reality star. And also It's funny I keep 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.400 being called a reality star. I'm the only candidate living 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:40.440 in reality too. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.239 Okay, Right, and I saw that you gave an interview 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.160 where he said, hey, another community activist was a guy 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.200 named Barack Obama when he ran for the US Senate. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.320 That is accurate. When Obama ran for Senate, he was 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.560 a community organizer. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.000 Yeah, people give say you don't have the experience. I said, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.800 I have two awards for my community. President Obama actually 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.280 didn't even have awards when he was a community organizer. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.599 He was able to become a senator and then a 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:06.640 president for a or so. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.960 I feel like, look, when it comes to the job 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.000 specifically of a mayor, being a good communicator is a 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.200 big part of the job, and he's got that one 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.080 figured out. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.719 Him and I have the same experience. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:18.000 Okay. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 The other part is being trustworthy, and I think he 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.760 has shown that he is way more trustworthy than Karen 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.160 Bass and Nithia Rahman combined. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.719 Him and I have the same experience. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.480 Okay, we're going to get into some of the issues. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.000 But it's been several days since the debate. I think 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.479 a fair assessment indicates you did well. What's been the reaction. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.279 Well, according to your incredible NBC poll after the debate, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.600 I think I won by eighty seven percent. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.440 I know it was like, I don't know if anyone 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.320 could watch that thinking that Nithia won, maybe they can 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.000 come on thinking Karen Bass didn't do too much damage 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.160 to herself. But the takeaway from everybody, whether you're biased 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.919 or not, is that you know, even if you didn't 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.680 you know anything about Spencer Pratt, even if you didn't 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.040 even know that he was on a show called The 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.479 Hills twenty years ago, you'd know that he was on 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.440 his subject material. The guy had an answer for every 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.000 single question and they were real answers. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.080 I know it was like eighty two I posted that 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.240 and then it went up to eighty seven, so I 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.600 had to do two posts. But it was the most 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.400 fun I've had, maybe you know, besides my two sons 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.640 being born. It was that much fun because it finally 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:32.240 felt like truth was forced onto power. And after the debate, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.240 this high school kid that was in the crowd, he 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.200 came up and he shook my hand. He couldn't have 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.600 been older than fourteen years old. He said, thank you, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.400 sir so much for being the only one up there 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.520 speaking the truth. You can tell when somebody's telling the truth. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.080 And I said, thank you God, because that was my 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.239 only goal is to just be true and authentic. People 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.839 are tired with politicians lying about what we see every 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.040 day in LA and what we feel. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.240 Right So before the fires, someone get to that, I 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.080 know you have a degree in political science from usc That. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.560 Is true, so he does know a little bit about 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:05.120 this world. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.599 What was your attitude towards Minisuba government or city government 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.880 back then before the conflagration that was the Palisades place. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.480 You know, I was a naive tax paying citizen. I 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.440 always believe that you pay your taxes. The firefighters will 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.160 show up, LAPD will show up, your. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.720 Water comes out of the scene. I was I have 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:26.480 blinders on. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.760 I wanted to just be an entertainment business, provide for 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.600 my family, make money. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.640 You know, this is maybe one of the most real 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.360 answers that you can give for a question like this. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:37.520 This is the. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:43.320 Average, especially an LA voter. Like first off, the majority 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.800 of people don't vote, and the ones that do, some 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.840 of them are fully engaged, but a lot of them aren't. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.160 They got their own stuff going on, They got their 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.120 own lives going on. People that listen to shows like this, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.720 you are so much more tuned into what's going on 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.440 than everybody else. But there are a whole lot of 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.200 people that just they don't pay attention to any of it. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.000 They got their own stuff going on. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.760 And I just didn't get that. I needed to be 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.280 an advocate. I needed to be questioning everything. And now 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.920 after you lose everything because of the failures as city leadership, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.640 you realize how important local government is. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.280 What happened to Like talking about the mission statement of 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:22.400 this show, you. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.880 Realized how important local government is. What happened to America 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.120 is we all got caught up with phones and national 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.679 politics and the celebrity politics, when what really affects all 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.560 of our day to day lives are our ladwp CEO, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.720 our chief of police, our chief of fire, our mayor, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.480 our city council members. All these things I truly was 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.360 not paying attention to because I was just like, I'm 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.520 paying lots of taxes, that everything's figured out. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.560 So I really love that answer because it is it is. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.360 It is how we are today. People are so focused 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:02.360 on what is going on nash and internationally, and yeah, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.360 there's a lot of crazy important stuff going on there. Yes, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.880 I'm a little nervous about all the war stuff going 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:12.320 on in Iran, but you only have so much attention span, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.560 and it is just it is something that we all 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.920 have to deal with. It is so important to pay 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.079 attention to what is going on in our local offices. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.400 If you are not paying attention and we have low 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:29.000 voter turnout, that's when the special interest groups are the 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.680 ones that are able to get their people in there, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.120 the ones that are supported by the union so they 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.679 know they're voting, or the DSA block, that's how they 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.720 get their people in there. But the average person, if 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.560 they're not engaged and they're not paying attention, that's how 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.880 the fringes end up in there. And one thing that 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.000 we always have tried to advocate here is it's so 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.240 important to pay attention to what is going on locally. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.680 Having a competent mayor makes a big difference. Just look 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.480 at the turned around in San Francisco in the last 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.400 couple of years. London breed originally was a disaster. Now 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.560 she pivoted and she realized about halfway through that she 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.440 needed to change because San Francisco was getting out of 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:15.200 control and. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.920 Less tolerant of all the bulk that has destroyed our city. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.600 But ultimately the voters decided that her pivot towards public 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:27.240 safety was too little, too late, and Daniel Lurry got 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.120 in there. Danie Lurry, by the way, somebody that had 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.080 no political experience, He just had a lot of money. Well, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.720 a new poll has shown that Daniel Lurry is the 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.920 most popular mayor in America, with a seventy four percent 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.400 approval rating. He is getting support from Democrats, Republicans, and 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.920 independents because of his efforts to revitalize downtown, his efforts 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.839 on public safety. Are there still a lot of problems, Yes, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.200 the Tenderloin is a disaster, so much has a lot 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.400 of problems, has a lot of problems. But the other neighborhoods, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.760 it is crazy how beautiful and clean. Later on in 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.600 the hour, I'm going to tell you about my trip 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.760 to San Francisco. I stayed in Union Square and I 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.520 was so pleasantly surprised of how safe and clean it was. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.320 And you know what Daniel Lurie did that that that 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:25.080 is how important these elections are. It can all change, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.360 just with the right management and the right ideas and 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.960 somebody that cares about the most important local issues. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.600 Never before until a lost everage. Well you lost your home. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.720 Very sorry about that. Your parents lost their home. How 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.040 are they doing? I should ask? 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.839 My mom cries all day long now for what is 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.720 it eighteen months? 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:47.760 It feels like forever. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.520 But she can't take herself out of this because everything 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.520 she's ever known was gone. She didn't even get like 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.440 they say, get your go bag. She didn't even get 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.200 a goat, shed even get her passport. So my dad 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.800 has more hope than my mom because my dad sees 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.840 me becoming the mayor and making these changes. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.800 And you know, he grew up in la He was the. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.400 Picture at Inglewood High So he is like some positivity. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.040 But my mom, plus her heart, is just struggling. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.560 Right. So, at what point did you say I'm going 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:17.680 to run for this office? 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:18.360 Yeah? 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.560 What point was enough enough? I can't take this anymore. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.439 I'm getting in. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.760 I mean, did people come up to you and say 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.160 we need somebody You're in? 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:26.920 No? 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.520 So I just kept on whistleblowers from the LAFD. We're 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.240 giving me the information of all the negligence by Mayor 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.120 Bass and the city's failure. And I was posting this 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:37.680 all this information. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.560 You're getting You're getting information from the fire Department. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:39.800 Yeah. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.080 I mean so much of this was so organic, where 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.400 most politicians everything they do is fake and doesn't seem authentic. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.800 He has a real reason to be pissed off. His 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.239 home burned down, his family's home burned down, his neighborhood 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.440 burned down, And because he does have a social media platform, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.320 he was trying to get out the information about what 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 was really going on because we had so much obfuscation 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.800 from the La City Council, from the DWP, from leadership 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.840 at the Fire Department, the after action report, all of that, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.360 And at that point he really became kind of this 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.400 emblem of Okay, this is the guy on the scene 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.440 people inside the government that are afraid of getting retaliated against. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.679 We're giving him the real scoop on what was going 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.360 on with the Lockman fire that then became the Palisades 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.439 fire and so many other failures that the city does 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:31.360 not want to admit. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.920 You're getting information from the fire department, Yeah, about the 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.520 level of failure across the board. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.400 And I'm posting this. I go to Congress, I get 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.640 a congressional investigation set up with Center Scott and I'm thinking, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.800 oh my gosh, Mayor Bass is going to jail. She caught, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.120 this is criminal negligence. Twelve of my neighbors burned alive. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.280 And so if we could actually arrest politicians for criminal negligence, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.839 we'd need to build a whole lot more prisons. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.880 And so I started having more positivity. There'll be hope. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.880 And La Times then reported that she hired this literal 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.439 crisis pr firm with charity money to alter the after 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.000 action report proving her negligence, like, oh, she's definitely going 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.320 to jail, obstruction to justice, and nothing was happening. She 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.280 announces she's rerunning when to me, I truly believe she 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.320 would have resigned from Africa when she was on the 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.200 flight from Ghana. I thought she would just send a 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:23.840 letter like. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.160 Just cancel a return ticket. I'm going to stay here. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.520 That would have been what I would expect. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.120 So I'm just complaining on social media, as the kids 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.320 would say, I'm yapping. I'm just saying, how is this acceptable? 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.920 And I see no one is running against her. So 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.800 I call Rick Crusoe and I say, I'm going to 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.320 run after Mayor Bass if you're not doing this, And. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.640 Okay, this is the first I've heard of this. Before 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.440 Spencer pred announced he was running, he checked with Caruso, 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.800 who was constantly doing the will they won't they will? 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.400 I won't they Maybe I'll run, Maybe I'll run for governor. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.720 Maybe I'll run for mayor. I don't know. And now 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.200 Rick Caruso is like a full time social media influencer, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.880 but this is interesting against her. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.880 So I call Rick Crusoe and I say, I'm going 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.280 to run after Mayor Bass if you're not doing this, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.960 And he obviously made up his mind he said go 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.680 after Bass. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.480 So that when I hung up, I said, Okay, no 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.240 one else is going to do this. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.040 I have to do everything I can to try to 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.680 fix LA and get it back on track. La should 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.440 be the most beautiful, best place on planet Earth. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.120 What has happened? So that's why, right, So. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.520 I have to point out the mayor has denied the 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.880 allegations in the La Times article. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.080 And they stand by their report. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:34.560 They do. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:35.960 That's right. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.880 Is Rick Kruso in your camp if you got elected mayor, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.600 would he have a role in your administration? 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.720 Rick Cruso cares about LA as much as all of 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.160 these top business leaders that I'm talking to I'm meeting 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.400 with everybody wants what I want. They want LA changed 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.280 big time. My two opponents. You heard them for an hour. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.640 They just make up. They're talking about beds and blah blah. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.760 They don't even say how horror things are. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.040 Things are horrible, well, because they can't then they'd have 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.200 to own it. But yes, if you live in the 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.640 city of Los Angeles, which for some unbelievably stupid reason 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.160 I still do, this city is a disaster. Even when 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.400 things looked like they were getting a little better when 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.160 Best first took over, it's all back. You go onto 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.760 Haskell at Van Owen to get on the four or 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.240 five freeway, the street is once again covered in RVs. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.960 And that's after they took away a metro parking ride 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.760 lot that was supposed to be for all the RVs. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.720 We still have all the RVs. It's a nightmare. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:38.800 Things are horrible. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.800 And they try to say I'm the angry guy the 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.640 LA times like always an angry white guy. No, everyone's angry, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.600 all genders, all races. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:46.800 All. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.800 Let's talk about that for a second, because one gets 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.160 the impression, and you would know better than I that 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.560 had started with a fire and then people started saying, wait, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.480 it's not just the fire, and there's a there's a 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.400 grievance much of it. An argument can be made it's 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.160 justified over over homelessness, over drug addiction, over the fact 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.320 that the streets still have too many encampments, and that 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.840 is what has fueled your campaign. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.360 Well, it connects it. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.000 Well, and it connects to the fire in a lot 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.080 of ways, including that the LAFD is stretched so thin 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.280 because the majority of the calls they have to go 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.120 on are about the homeless. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.000 Well, it connects to the fire because I learned firsthand 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.119 how diabolical these NGOs were because with the. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.680 Fire aids scam and governmental organizations. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.440 Thank you, with the fire aid scam, one hundred million 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.800 dollars was supposed to go to fire victims in Altadena, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.000 Pacific Poliicades. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:44.560 Nobody got that money. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.000 Yeah, if there was really all of these payouts to 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.879 the fire victims, which we're not talking about that many people, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.200 Spencer Pratt didn't get a check. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.520 It went to these non governmental organizations that have salaries 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.760 of over a million dollars. They have all these employees 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.720 making five hundred thousand dollars. This money went to random initiatives. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.919 People can again research this all even fired when they 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.080 defended it with their law firm, they said, several of 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.159 these organizations gave directly to fire victims. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.080 Let's go along with that, Google several. It's under ten. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.000 There was two hundred and fifty non government organizations that 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.840 took the soul. When I learned that versand I was, oh, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.480 here's what they're doing with the homeless billions of dollars. Yep, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.480 there's billions of dollars coming into California, specifically Los Angeles 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.040 to stop this horrible tragedy of people living on the street. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.080 What's happening with that money? It's being increased Mayor Bass 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.440 I didn't want to interrupt her with because that's trying 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.560 to be very respectful. But her number about homelessness being 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.960 down seventeen percent, let's talk about real quick. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.840 First off, when Mayor Bass ran. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.840 For office, she said she was going to remove fifteen 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.760 thousand people from the street. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.600 She did say that that has not happened since when 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.320 she ran. Even the numbers with insight and say if 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.119 it's like three forty percent of them went back to 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:04.120 the streets. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.159 When she opened office. Start office, homelessness has increased. She 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.280 her made up numbers. She's talking about seventeen percent is 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.960 year to year. That's not even true. The way they 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.160 count homeless people or drug acts whatever. They just go 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.080 around and they go one, two, three. They're not going 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.360 in the sewers, They're not opening up the tents, they're 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.840 not going in the camp Some of these encampments. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:24.240 Are so dangerous. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.560 I talk to LAPD, like when I was telling Cancel Raman, Yeah, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.960 go try that volunteer timent and you'll get stabbed in 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.600 the neck. The LAPD will say they can't go down 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.080 there because they will get shot at. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.160 They're not counting homeless people. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:38.280 He's damn right about this. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:39.880 The RAND Corporation, and I. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.440 Gotta tell you it is very refreshing. And this might 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.800 be striking while the irons ho it. You have a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.840