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Speaker 1: California Governor's race, which gets weirder and weirder and weirder
Speaker 1: as we get closer to election day. There are sixty
Speaker 1: one candidates that made the ballot that you can vote for,
Speaker 1: including a guy named Barack Obama Kent. But it is
Speaker 1: always surprising to me the people that were running and
Speaker 1: they dropped out for various reasons, but the fact that
Speaker 1: they were so to use a term that the kids
Speaker 1: love to use, delulu, that they thought they could be
Speaker 1: the governor of the state is just endlessly fascinating. And
Speaker 1: one of those people who was running for governor who
Speaker 1: I am just endlessly fascinated by, is billionaire Stephen Klubec.
Speaker 2: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 1: Stephen Klubec is a billionaire who made his money in
Speaker 1: time shares, So I don't know if that makes him
Speaker 1: less popular than Tom Steyer. Probably does. Stephen Klubec famously
Speaker 1: dropped out of the race to endorse Eric Swalwell, and
Speaker 1: Stephen Klubec actually was giving Eric Swalwell all kinds of money,
Speaker 1: including going on fancy trips to France, and Eric Swalwell
Speaker 1: was staying at Stephen Klubec's house in Beverly Hills when
Speaker 1: the big scandal broke no and then a few days
Speaker 1: later Stephen Klubec kicks Eric Swalwell out of his house,
Speaker 1: says he's no longer a Democrat, and of course.
Speaker 2: Said don't bust the trust.
Speaker 1: But he always seemed like a really strange guy, especially
Speaker 1: considering that Swaalwell was his top choice. This was the
Speaker 1: guy that he really was like, Okay, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to run and I'm going to put all my money
Speaker 1: behind Now we know the accused rapist, but Stephen Klubeck
Speaker 1: also has a very very interesting past. And Stephen Klubec
Speaker 1: is the first person who I believe was running for
Speaker 1: governor who has now been arrested. Swallwell has been shamed
Speaker 1: out of existence, but criminal charges have yet to be
Speaker 1: filed on him for anything yet yet being the important
Speaker 1: word there. But Stephen Kluback was just arrested for witness
Speaker 1: tampering in a case involving his fiance, who is somebody
Speaker 1: that we have actually covered in the past in the
Speaker 1: California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 2: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 1: Because Stephen Klubec's fiance is a woman who goes by
Speaker 1: the fake name of Mia Ventura, and she's the one
Speaker 1: that was romance scamming all these rich guys and going
Speaker 1: on podcasts in Vegas, going into the green room and
Speaker 1: stealing everyone's purses. She's facing all kinds of felony theft counts,
Speaker 1: and allegedly Stephen Klubeck, who again is dating this woman,
Speaker 1: threatened the potential witnesses the victims in her crimes. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, this governor's race gets weirder and weirder and
Speaker 1: weirder with that. Here is Katie La and the update
Speaker 1: on former governor candidate and former Eric Swalwell's supporter Stephen Kluback.
Speaker 3: No, former California gubernatorial candidate Stephen Klubeck is facing felony
Speaker 3: charges accused of witness temper. It is fiance's criminal case.
Speaker 1: So when he was so delulu that he was actually
Speaker 1: running for governor, he was still dating this woman. I
Speaker 1: would imagine he was still engaged. I don't know the timeline,
Speaker 1: but did he expect Mia Ventura to be the first
Speaker 1: partner of California. I have a theory and it gets
Speaker 1: proven right every single day. There is no such thing
Speaker 1: as a normal billionaire. That much money makes you crazy,
Speaker 1: and you see proof of it every single day.
Speaker 3: Authority say the sixty four year old billionaire in real
Speaker 3: estate developer was taken into custody on suspicion of trying
Speaker 3: to prevent witnesses from testifying.
Speaker 4: The case involves accusations that his fiancee, Adva la Vie
Speaker 4: and OnlyFans model stole.
Speaker 1: Why is a billionaire dating an OnlyFans model? Was he
Speaker 1: like the original white whale? But then he fell in
Speaker 1: love and then he decided to support her habit of
Speaker 1: defrauding other rich guys.
Speaker 5: This is so weird.
Speaker 4: The case involves accusations that his fiancee, Adva la Ville
Speaker 4: and OnlyFans model stole from wealthy men across Southern California.
Speaker 4: Kay Tilly's John Finolio joined the slide from West Hollywood
Speaker 4: with the story John.
Speaker 2: Share and Mike.
Speaker 6: Billionaire Stephen Klubec turned himself in here to the West
Speaker 6: Hollywood Share station yesterday. He bonded out the same day.
Speaker 6: Investigators are now looking into whether he used his power
Speaker 6: and influence to intimidate witnesses.
Speaker 5: What is this guy?
Speaker 6: A mobster and a felony case that was already drawing
Speaker 6: headlines across southern California.
Speaker 1: You know I had heard rumors that Klubec was dating
Speaker 1: an OnlyFans model I didn't learn until yesterday that he
Speaker 1: was dating the Only Fans model that was scamming all
Speaker 1: the rich guys in Southern California.
Speaker 6: Former California.
Speaker 1: Also, I don't care how much money you have, look
Speaker 1: at yourself in the mirror, look at the OnlyFans Model. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting into. I don't feel bad
Speaker 1: for any of those guys.
Speaker 6: Former California gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Steven Klubeck walked out
Speaker 6: of custody after posting three hundred thousand dollars on Tuesday,
Speaker 6: but his legal troubles may be far from over.
Speaker 7: You have multiple witnesses that have corroborating statements. That only
Speaker 7: makes the evidence that much more credible.
Speaker 1: The sixty Yes, there are a lot of victims that
Speaker 1: Mia Ventura has defrauded over the years. I'm guessing she's
Speaker 1: been doing this while she's been dating Steven Kluback. This
Speaker 1: guy said that he was going to be our governor.
Speaker 1: This guy spend money running for governor before he dropped
Speaker 1: out and endorsed the accused rapist.
Speaker 6: The sixty four year old real estate magnate is accused
Speaker 6: of trying to dissuade witnesses connected to the criminal case
Speaker 6: against his fiance model at the labby. She also uses
Speaker 6: the name mia Ventura online and is accused of targeting
Speaker 6: wealthy older men and young women through dating apps.
Speaker 5: And young women. What is going on here.
Speaker 6: Gaining access to their homes then stealing cash, jewelry.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's just trying to be friends with the young women,
Speaker 1: or I'll help you get into the Only Fans world.
Speaker 1: I'll be an influencer along with you. But famously, she
Speaker 1: was on some weird Vegas podcast in a club and
Speaker 1: I don't know what her credentials were that she was
Speaker 1: invited to be a guest on a Vegas podcast, But
Speaker 1: she goes into the green room and she got caught
Speaker 1: stealing from everybody's purses.
Speaker 6: Gaining access to their homes, then stealing cash, jewelry and
Speaker 6: other luxury items.
Speaker 1: And you have to ask yourself, why, oh why is
Speaker 1: she doing this when she's dating a billionaire unless you know,
Speaker 1: it's not about the money, it's about.
Speaker 2: The rush prosecutor.
Speaker 1: And are we to believe that Stephen Kluebeck didn't know
Speaker 1: about any of this. No, no, no, no no, Because
Speaker 1: Stephen Kluebag apparently was trying to go after the victims
Speaker 1: for testifying against her.
Speaker 6: Prosecutors say Lavvy's alleged crime stretched across West Hollywood, Beverly Hills,
Speaker 6: and Westlake Village. Earlier this year, a judgement.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with west Lake. Westlake Village is
Speaker 1: near on Thousand Oaks. There's a great loss of gaves there.
Speaker 1: West Lake is where MacArthur Park is. Don't get them confused.
Speaker 6: Earlier this year, a judge ordered Lavvy to stand trial
Speaker 6: on six felony counts, including burglary and grand theft. Now
Speaker 6: investigators are focused on whether Klubec tried to keep at
Speaker 6: least three of her alleged victims from testifying, and.
Speaker 7: He's being charged as felonies or to Swatye Winness staates
Speaker 7: he's posted a three hundred thousand dollars bail. That is
Speaker 7: saying that this is being treated very, very seriously. It's
Speaker 7: a very significant charge. It can carry multiple years of
Speaker 7: state prison if he's.
Speaker 5: Convicted witness tampering.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess you get to a point where you
Speaker 1: think you are untouchable, you are all powerful, and it
Speaker 1: turns out this guy's having a really, really bad twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six drops out of the race. The guy he
Speaker 1: gets behind turns out he's an accused rapist.
Speaker 2: And then this.
Speaker 5: Money doesn't solve all your problems.
Speaker 6: Kids, the California Post reports.
Speaker 5: Does solve some of them, but not all of them.
Speaker 6: The California Post reports Klubec threatened an attorney connected to
Speaker 6: the case, but authorities have not publicly released details about
Speaker 6: the alleged conduct. Klubec previously ran for governor himself, then
Speaker 6: later through his support behind now former Congressman Eric Swalwell,
Speaker 6: but that campaign unraveled last month when Swawell suspended his
Speaker 6: campaign and resigned from Congress after facing sexual assault allegations,
Speaker 6: which he denied.
Speaker 1: And that's when Klubec kicked Swawell out of his house.
Speaker 1: Matthew Sedor from Fox eleven catches up to him on
Speaker 1: a morning jog, and he said the immoral line.
Speaker 2: Don't bust the trust.
Speaker 5: Don't be busting that trust.
Speaker 6: Now the spotlight has shifted back to Klubec and why
Speaker 6: someone with his wealth and influence would allegedly intimidate witnesses
Speaker 6: in a criminal case.
Speaker 7: Romance is the best explanation for why somebody who is
Speaker 7: not affiliated.
Speaker 1: With I don't know what's going on with Mia Ventura.
Speaker 1: But that must be one magical you know what, because
Speaker 1: she has not only tricked a whole bunch of other
Speaker 1: rich guys into giving her money or giving her access
Speaker 1: so she could steal their money. But Klubec is wrapped
Speaker 1: around her finger.
Speaker 7: Oh boy, romance is the best explanation for why somebody
Speaker 7: who is not affiliated with a high profile criminal case
Speaker 7: and now inserted himself into it in such a level
Speaker 7: that he has been arrested.
Speaker 1: He's so in love with this crazy criminal that he's
Speaker 1: willing to go to prison over it.
Speaker 7: And had to postpond, and now he's going to be
Speaker 7: facing criminal charges of his own.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: So Quebec's lawyers say that these charges are false and
Speaker 6: that he is looking forward to his day in court.
Speaker 1: He's, Oh, I'm looking forward to it as well. Can
Speaker 1: we make sure that that case is televised.
Speaker 6: He's set to be arraigned on August seventh. His fiance,
Speaker 6: Adva Levie is due back in court next week in
Speaker 6: West Hollywood. I'm John Finolio sitting it back to you.
Speaker 1: Just when you thought this governor's race couldn't get any weirder,
Speaker 1: you have Stephen Klobec getting arrested for witness tampering in
Speaker 1: his girlfriend's case where she was defrauding and stealing from
Speaker 1: other gross old rich guys. And this is where you
Speaker 1: look at the sixty one people who made it this
Speaker 1: far and are on the ballot, and you're running for governor.
Speaker 1: And sure some of them are just gadflies. You still
Speaker 1: paid four thousand dollars to get your name on the ballot,
Speaker 1: so that sort seems really irresponsible. But every single one
Speaker 1: of these people, including the top ten that we talk about,
Speaker 1: they all think that they are so important that they
Speaker 1: can run this state. And the more we find out
Speaker 1: about a lot of these people, it is fascinating how
Speaker 1: untouchable Swallwell thought he was with all that baggage, that
Speaker 1: he could run for governor. It's fascinating to me that
Speaker 1: Klubac was ready to run for governor knowing that he
Speaker 1: was dating a criminal. You can say a lot of
Speaker 1: things about the twenty twenty six California governor's race, but
Speaker 1: the one thing that people were saying last year is
Speaker 1: the furthest thing from the truth. This race is anything
Speaker 1: but boring. And even though this specific instance, we're talking
Speaker 1: about somebody that's already dropped out. There is so much
Speaker 1: drama developing every single day on the remaining candidates who
Speaker 1: are on the island and haven't been voted out yet
Speaker 1: that I wonder if the reason turnout is only at
Speaker 1: about two percent is because people are waiting for whatever
Speaker 1: the next shoe is going to drop, whether that shoe
Speaker 1: is on Javier bacheriea scrub it, whether it is on
Speaker 1: KT Porter out of my shop, or whether it's on
Speaker 1: crazy billionaire Tom Steyer. And so there may be people
Speaker 1: that are waiting to cast that ballot because they're not
Speaker 1: totally sure what else is going to develop in this
Speaker 1: completely insane race to be the leader of the fourth
Speaker 1: largest economy in the world. Eight hundred two two two
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Speaker 1: Carl writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com and says, I'm wondering if you guys have
Speaker 1: done a segment on the amazing Spencer pratt Ai advertisements
Speaker 1: that have been showing up good in guerrilla fashion on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I feel like they are the dawn of a new
Speaker 1: era in political warfare. Oh, we've covered it and I
Speaker 1: have seen the videos. Now are they actually showing up
Speaker 1: like as ads on YouTube? Because I got to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I pay for YouTube Premium, which means
Speaker 1: I don't see any ads on YouTube for as much
Speaker 1: YouTube as I do, specifically as show prep for this show.
Speaker 1: It's where I find one hundred percent of the content.
Speaker 1: I get irritated when people don't post things on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I could not deal with that app if I had
Speaker 1: to see an ad every time I clicked on another
Speaker 1: news story. So you know, I'd love to actually do
Speaker 1: an endorsement for this someday.
Speaker 5: I really would.
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is that if the ads drive
Speaker 1: you crazy, it's like eighteen bucks a month, and then
Speaker 1: it also comes with the music app, which we use
Speaker 1: to play all the music on this show, so works
Speaker 1: out for me. I very much do like using YouTube
Speaker 1: without the ads. But are you seeing those Spencer pratt
Speaker 1: ai videos as an advertisement? Because I thought they're just
Speaker 1: going viral? But maybe I was under the impression every
Speaker 1: time you click on a YouTube video you see a
Speaker 1: Tom Steyer ad and boy, isn't that getting old?
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Speaker 5: Let's go to Ronnie and Seal Page. Ronnie.
Speaker 8: Hello, Hey, Randy, my brother, what's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 5: Doing great?
Speaker 8: It's been a minute. You're doing a good job. By
Speaker 8: the way, Hey Randy, look at two quick combents. Okay,
Speaker 8: the Democrat I couldn't get my ballot cast its fast
Speaker 8: enough for Steve Hilbey, So so Randy, seventeen years of
Speaker 8: carnage and mayhem from the Democrats. If you know nothing
Speaker 8: about politics, all you have to do is go, hey,
Speaker 8: when was California most prosperous? And you go back in
Speaker 8: time and you'll see that it was under Republican leader
Speaker 8: and there's your answer right there, is it not?
Speaker 5: That is a very strong argument.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of voters are going
Speaker 1: to make that same deduction, but you can definitely point
Speaker 1: to that. Well.
Speaker 8: It's very simple. Like Chad Duppa said the last debay
Speaker 8: or the one before that, you kids are going to
Speaker 8: have to move out of the state because it's going
Speaker 8: to be a hardship for you because you're not gonna
Speaker 8: be able to do it here. And these morons are
Speaker 8: getting ready to vote for the same carnage again. I
Speaker 8: can't believe it. Randy. I'm glad you and John are
Speaker 8: around at least helped school some of these people. And
Speaker 8: my second comment is, you know, with names like swallow Well,
Speaker 8: swallows Well and Porker and clueless, you know you're on
Speaker 8: the wrong side.
Speaker 1: I love you, Randy, Thanks so much for the call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. We have had some very very very interesting
Speaker 1: candidates running for governor this cycle, now onto the LA
Speaker 1: mayors race. Spencer Pratt is getting a lot of attention
Speaker 1: for those AI generated videos of Spencer Pratt is Batman
Speaker 1: and Karen bass is the Joker. Karen bass is Darth Vader,
Speaker 1: and Spencer Pratt is a Jedi. They are starting to
Speaker 1: get a lot of attention, not just locally but nationally.
Speaker 1: Here is an update on all the mayoral ads that
Speaker 1: we're seeing on the TV with Fox eleven.
Speaker 9: Los Angeles Mayor Karen bassays burglaries are down by more
Speaker 9: than thirty percent this year over last.
Speaker 5: Nobody's buying that. Do you know?
Speaker 1: The night after she had that press conference in the
Speaker 1: valley about how there are a bunch of arrests for
Speaker 1: the burglaries, another burglary happened.
Speaker 9: Bass and the LAPD say targeted efforts are responsible for
Speaker 9: the improvement, including more than one hundred arrests made in April.
Speaker 9: Just last week, as suspect link to twenty five residential
Speaker 9: burglaries was taken into custody, police said.
Speaker 1: That's right, he broke into twenty five houses before he
Speaker 1: was caught, So you have what a four percent chance
Speaker 1: of getting caught.
Speaker 9: Please say that suspect is linked to a South American
Speaker 9: crime crew. Bas says, while the data is encouraging, the
Speaker 9: priority is ensuring all residents feel safe in their neighborhoods.
Speaker 5: And let me tell you, as a resident of the valley,
Speaker 5: we don't.
Speaker 9: New Tonight New attack ads in the LA mayoral race
Speaker 9: are raising some eyebrows tonight.
Speaker 10: Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs
Speaker 10: for mayor. Pratt opos is using taxpayer money to build
Speaker 10: brand new houses for unhoused neighbors.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, do you know what that is?
Speaker 1: That is a good old fashioned elevate the other candidate ad.
Speaker 1: Specifically the way that it is framed, it almost sounds
Speaker 1: like the same consultant that was doing that for ads
Speaker 1: about Eric Early or Steve Garvey. But it sure seems
Speaker 1: like there is some consultant out there that wants to
Speaker 1: make make sure it's best Pratt in the runoff and
Speaker 1: not Bass Rahman in the runoff.
Speaker 9: Funded by the LA County Federation of Labor, this ad
Speaker 9: criticizes mayoral candidates.
Speaker 1: That's right, union dues are going towards paying for that
Speaker 1: kind of a hacky ad.
Speaker 5: We've got to get all the money out of politics.
Speaker 9: Criticizes mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt's plans to boost police, cut
Speaker 9: local union power, and reduce homeless housing projects. But rival
Speaker 9: LA Council Member Nthia Rahman tells The LA Times it's
Speaker 9: a quote cynical attempt to help Pratt appeal to conservatives
Speaker 9: and face mayor Karen Bass in the November runoff. Spencer
Speaker 9: Pratt himself shared a new Bass attack ad today using
Speaker 9: artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: And again, I don't know if you can really call
Speaker 1: it an AD because you can't actually use those for advertising.
Speaker 1: It would be violating so many different kinds of copyrights,
Speaker 1: including one of them had you know, a very popular
Speaker 1: EDM song in them.
Speaker 5: That they're not ads.
Speaker 1: They are videos that are being produced on social media,
Speaker 1: I think by one guy, and they're going everywhere, so
Speaker 1: they are videos, but they are not political advertisements. You
Speaker 1: can't go to ktla and do an ad buy for
Speaker 1: Spencer prattis Batman.
Speaker 5: You would get so sued.
Speaker 11: I've addressed the homeless problem now most of them won't
Speaker 11: stab you.
Speaker 1: This is the AI generated Karen Bass standing in front
Speaker 1: of a burned down Los Angeles talking about her accomplishments.
Speaker 4: As long as you don't make eye contact.
Speaker 12: Almost none of the needles in children's playgrounds have aids
Speaker 12: on them.
Speaker 1: I mean, whoever's producing these, they've got their subject material down.
Speaker 12: If you like the last four years, you're going to
Speaker 12: love the next four.
Speaker 9: Pratt claims both mayor. Bass and Nathia Rahman are working
Speaker 9: to sideline him as he surges in the polls. Milan
Speaker 9: ballots are already out ahead of the primary on June second.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Marla.
Speaker 1: Now, the other thing that happened in the Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: world yesterday is bizarre complaining about how is Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: really living twenty four to seven in the airstream on
Speaker 1: his burned out lot. He even had to go on
Speaker 1: TMZ to defend himself. And whoever decided that this was
Speaker 1: going to be the attack for Spencer Pratt, it's blowing
Speaker 1: up in their face.
Speaker 5: Ohlets here is CBSLA.
Speaker 12: Olletsaw talk politics. Now we are twenty days out from
Speaker 12: the primary and the race for La mayor.
Speaker 1: That's right, All this nonsense is going to be over
Speaker 1: until we start talking about the November election, although most
Speaker 1: of the interesting race are happening in the primary. Although
Speaker 1: if we're in a Bass Pratt runoff, this thing's going
Speaker 1: to be fun all the way until November.
Speaker 9: Spencer Pratt has been searching in the polls and tonight
Speaker 9: there's more controversy over where he lives.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 12: Cbsla's Nicol Comstock is live in the Pacific Palisades. So
Speaker 12: explain the issue of temporary housing, Nicole.
Speaker 1: You mean, because his house burned down and he can't
Speaker 1: even get the funding to rebuild it, and the city
Speaker 1: won't even actually give him the permit to rebuild it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we were sent to the Palisades tonight to see
Speaker 13: what people here think about Spencer Pratt once again being
Speaker 13: questioned about where exactly he's been living since his home
Speaker 13: burned down in the fire.
Speaker 1: And mostly you could ask that question about the thousands
Speaker 1: of residents that lost their home because they're not back
Speaker 1: in the Palisades, because the Palisades is still not rebuilt.
Speaker 5: We're not even close.
Speaker 1: Only four hundred homes are under construction out of the
Speaker 1: six thousand that burned down.
Speaker 13: And most people we spoke with say they think it's
Speaker 13: unfair and, quite frankly ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Hey, we got one. It's been a while.
Speaker 1: I feel like if there's any small thing that I
Speaker 1: contributed to society, was just pointing out how often people
Speaker 1: say the phrase that pays, quite frankly, because once you
Speaker 1: realize it, you stop. Now the other.
Speaker 13: One, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to check themselves and realize how much they
Speaker 1: are saying that, including if you can find really old
Speaker 1: episodes of my old podcast when I was in my twenties.
Speaker 1: I think I said that word all the time, but
Speaker 1: I've grown out of that, and I don't think you
Speaker 1: can find those podcasts anywhere.
Speaker 13: And most people we spoke with say they think it's
Speaker 13: unfair and quite frankly ridiculous, since they too have been
Speaker 13: in and out of friends and families, homes and in
Speaker 13: and out of hotels as they continue trying to re
Speaker 13: build this community.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, I feel like Burgers.
Speaker 13: It's a shell of what it used to be. The
Speaker 13: Pacific Palisades property that reality TV star turned to La
Speaker 13: mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt calls home.
Speaker 2: This is where I live.
Speaker 5: They let my home burn down.
Speaker 13: But some are calling into question if he really lives
Speaker 13: here in the airspace.
Speaker 1: Well, it's still his home, and it is still an
Speaker 1: empty lot. It's got the airstream in there, but it
Speaker 1: is still a burned out home. That is his home.
Speaker 1: Who decided this is how you go after Pratt. You
Speaker 1: can maybe say that you don't agree with some of
Speaker 1: his policy solutions. You can try to go after his
Speaker 1: lack of experience, but you want to really bring the
Speaker 1: conversation back to that the reason he's running is because
Speaker 1: his house burned down, thanks in a major part to
Speaker 1: the incompetence of the city and County of Los Angeles.
Speaker 13: In the airstream trailer featured in his campaign acts.
Speaker 10: Are you saying you live in that trailer?
Speaker 5: I don't live anywhere, is what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 5: have a house.
Speaker 2: They burned it down. Harvey.
Speaker 1: Also, were you aware that TMZ was still a thing
Speaker 1: we are now today?
Speaker 13: Pratt went about with TMZ after they questioned his recent
Speaker 13: stays at the hotel bel Air, Pratt saying he's only
Speaker 13: stayed there a few times recently, doing part to receiving
Speaker 13: death threats.
Speaker 6: I'm at a hotel because he's psychopaths.
Speaker 2: Our message never did.
Speaker 8: They're gonna kill me because Nitthya Rahman is calling me
Speaker 8: a fascist because I don't want people to have their
Speaker 8: kids next to drug addicts at the park.
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty damn fascist to me, or stepping a human.
Speaker 5: You know, as you look.
Speaker 1: At the political spectrum and you have normal people in
Speaker 1: the middle, I consider Spencer Pratt to be a pretty
Speaker 1: normal voice, and there's nothing that I've heard him talk
Speaker 1: about that is extremely partisan one way or another. It's
Speaker 1: mostly common sense the things that we see right in
Speaker 1: front of us, and confronting government corruption and failures. But
Speaker 1: what's funny is as you go to the extremes of
Speaker 1: the political spectrum, whether it's the far left or the
Speaker 1: far right, both of those kinds of people call each
Speaker 1: other fascist all the time.
Speaker 8: Or stepping a human poop when you get.
Speaker 13: Your macha, adding that criticisms about is temporary lodging sense
Speaker 13: or exercises in samantics.
Speaker 3: If somebody is working with their insurance company to get
Speaker 3: reimbursed for the rebuild of their house and they're planning
Speaker 3: to come back and live with their house.
Speaker 5: I think Pratt was on the fair plan.
Speaker 7: They're entitled to vote in that election in that district,
Speaker 7: and they're allowed to run for office.
Speaker 13: Zavy O Roslovsky is the director of the LA Initiative
Speaker 13: at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He says
Speaker 13: prance postfire living arrangements are a non issue legally. The
Speaker 13: LA County Registrars Office confirms inside.
Speaker 1: Is anybody actually challenging if Spencer Pratt is an LA
Speaker 1: resident because he's home burned down.
Speaker 13: The La County Registrars Office confirms in situations where a
Speaker 13: candidate has been temporarily displaced, such as the twenty twenty
Speaker 13: five wildfires, their eligibility to run for office is not impacted.
Speaker 13: Temporary relocation during rebuilding or recovery does not by itself
Speaker 13: change a person's domicile and may not be an issue
Speaker 13: with voters either.
Speaker 4: We were displaced Manhattan Beach for a year because my
Speaker 4: cousins lived there.
Speaker 13: Many people in the Palisades have been in Pratt's shoes,
Speaker 13: having to relocate elsewhere for over a year after the fire. No,
Speaker 13: I don't think it's fair.
Speaker 9: Until you've lived what we've gone through, you shouldn't criticize
Speaker 9: what anybody is doing.
Speaker 14: They lost everything and they need to be doing what's
Speaker 14: best for their family.
Speaker 1: And yeah, a lot of these people and to this
Speaker 1: day they're still dealing with the trauma from this. They
Speaker 1: didn't just lose the place that they lived, the place
Speaker 1: that they sleeped. They lost everything they own, all their clothes,
Speaker 1: all of their memories, all of their photo everything.
Speaker 13: And we also reached out to Spencer Pratt's PR team
Speaker 13: this evening to see if he had time to speak
Speaker 13: with us individually. We were told that he wasn't available
Speaker 13: this evening. We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 12: All right, thank you, Nicole. A new poll out today
Speaker 12: shows Mayor Bass in the lead with thirty percent. Spencer
Speaker 12: Pratt also gaining momentum with twenty two percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that poll, the Emerson poll had him in March
Speaker 1: at eleven percent. Now he's up to twenty two percent.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty interesting. Although the Paul Mitchell people will say,
Speaker 1: don't take that poll too seriously because that poll polled
Speaker 1: about three hundred people, which is like trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how many people are listening to a radio station
Speaker 1: in a market like Los Angeles with twenty million people
Speaker 1: by giving out two thousand beepers.
Speaker 5: That's a real thing.
Speaker 12: Councilwoman Nithia Rahman at nineteen percent, followed by Adam Miller
Speaker 12: with seven percent, and sixteen percent of voters.
Speaker 1: Oh Ray Hwang doesn't even get a mention. She's the other.
Speaker 1: There's two socialists on the ballot in LA.
Speaker 12: And sixteen percent of voters are undecided. That's down dramatically
Speaker 12: from fifty one percent of undecided voters in March.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the latest on the goings
Speaker 1: on in the LA Mayor's race. If you'd like to
Speaker 1: email us, you could do so at Johnny don't like
Speaker 1: show at gmail dot com. Getting a couple of people
Speaker 1: that say they are seeing those AI things on Facebook
Speaker 1: ads or YouTube ads. I'm going to guess the rules
Speaker 1: and regulations for buying a digital ad on a social
Speaker 1: media website are very different than radio and broadcast television
Speaker 1: because we have a whole lot of rules we.
Speaker 5: Have to follow.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, I'm sure someone would try to do an add BI,
Speaker 1: although I don't think they would work that well on radio.
Speaker 1: Maybe the city of Los Angeles is filthy as somebody
Speaker 1: that just spent the weekend in San Francisco. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you, as long as you're not in the three
Speaker 1: neighborhoods that are big problem areas right now, Soma, the Mission,
Speaker 1: and the Tenderloin. For the most part, San Francisco was
Speaker 1: surprisingly clean. And maybe I'm just think that because I
Speaker 1: live in LA and LA looks dirty all the time.
Speaker 1: This city looks dirty all the time, and the city's
Speaker 1: about to get a lot dirtier with the new budget,
Speaker 1: because the city council wants to kill the coastal cleanup
Speaker 1: people that we have that are supposed to making sure
Speaker 1: that people who go visit the Venice Boardwalk are stepping
Speaker 1: in a bunch of garbage. For more, here's NBCLA.
Speaker 11: The teams keeping LA's coastline clean could be on the
Speaker 11: chopping block. Good evening, once again, everyone, I'm Colleen Williams.
Speaker 2: And I'm Michael Browley.
Speaker 1: The city may eliminate funding for the Care plus Coastal
Speaker 1: Area teams.
Speaker 2: Now that's a group addressing try.
Speaker 1: Nothing is more LA than in a budget deficit. What
Speaker 1: are we cutting trash pickup, trash and sanitation issues from
Speaker 1: around the Port of La to Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 11: NBC four is Alex Rosier joins us live from Venice
Speaker 11: to explain why this has some city leaders very concerned.
Speaker 15: Alex, Colleen and Michael, people like council Member Tracy Park
Speaker 15: are concerned about cutting these clean up teams because these
Speaker 15: teams have really helped keep places like Ocean Front Walk
Speaker 15: in Venice nearly spotless. I'll give you a live look
Speaker 15: at it.
Speaker 1: Well spotless from trash, not spotless from the weirdos that
Speaker 1: are on the board walk all the time. But I
Speaker 1: guess that's part of the point nearly spotless.
Speaker 15: I'll give you a live look at it tonight from
Speaker 15: our live truck camera.
Speaker 2: Ocean Front Walk.
Speaker 1: You want to see a random guy who's shirtless on
Speaker 1: a skateboard playing the accordion.
Speaker 15: Go to Venice Walk looks great and the council member
Speaker 15: here really wants to keep it that way.
Speaker 2: Ocean Front Walk.
Speaker 15: In Venice is one of the most popular tourist attractions
Speaker 15: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Scotty, this is why there's not that much fun stuff
Speaker 1: to do in LA. If the Venice Boardwalk is one
Speaker 1: of the top destinations, we've got problems.
Speaker 15: Scotty Todd's worked as a street artist here for more
Speaker 15: than two decades.
Speaker 2: I came down here October.
Speaker 1: I guess that's because all of the theme parks are
Speaker 1: not actually in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: I came down here October two thousand and five.
Speaker 15: Scotty said he left temporarily in twenty twenty one, when
Speaker 15: he says the homeless and trash became a big problem.
Speaker 2: During the pandemic. They allowed the tants and everything down here.
Speaker 15: But in recent years the city launched care plus Co
Speaker 15: Stilaria teams that address trash and sanitation issues from around
Speaker 15: the Port of Los Angeles to the Palisades where.
Speaker 1: You would want clean up because the last thing we
Speaker 1: want is all of that trash and garbage going into
Speaker 1: our oceans.
Speaker 14: They at work five days a week to cover our
Speaker 14: coastlines and sensitive waterways and environmental habitat areas.
Speaker 15: Now, Council Member Tracy Park, who represents Venice and the Palisades,
Speaker 15: is concerned that funding for this coastal program may be eliminated.
Speaker 14: We are very, very concerned that this was left out
Speaker 14: of the proposed budget.
Speaker 15: LA Mayor Karen Vass's office said. The Care and Care
Speaker 15: Plus program, designed to clean streets is a fifty million
Speaker 15: dollar program that's still in the budget, with an additional
Speaker 15: eleven million dollars proposed to address issues like street sweeping
Speaker 15: and illegal dumping city wide. The proposed budget just eliminates
Speaker 15: the specific extra funding focused only on coastal care.
Speaker 5: Where you might want some extra people, Parks.
Speaker 15: Team says that's an extra two million dollars. Council Member
Speaker 15: Katie Yaroslavsky is the budget chair.
Speaker 11: I don't think we can have specialized geography specific care
Speaker 11: Care Plus teams given that we just don't. We don't
Speaker 11: even have enough that are citywide.
Speaker 1: This is equity in the city of Los Angeles. We
Speaker 1: can't make Venice look clean. It should be as dirty
Speaker 1: as the rest of the city. LA is a giant
Speaker 1: pile of filth. I'm born and raised here, I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to say so. It's Randy Wang here on The John
Speaker 1: Phillips Show.