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Speaker 2: Let's get to Spencer Pratt. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I am doing okay, I'm doing amazing. You know. I

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Speaker 3: feel like this is the best thing that's ever happened

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Speaker 3: excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: And Spencer is running for mayor against Karen Bass. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: poll comes out only nineteen percent support for Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: You're second with ten, but the big Stunn was fifty

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Speaker 1: one percent undecided and these are likely voter Everybody knows

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Speaker 1: what Karen Bass is and you got fifty one percent

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Speaker 1: saying I don't know because they're looking and I know

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Speaker 1: this just from talking to people. Everyone's looking for an alternative.

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Speaker 1: They were sure Rick Caruso is going to run Austin

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Speaker 1: Butner would have been okay, both of them dropped out

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Speaker 1: for personal reasons. You're the man standing here. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be you and Karen Bass largely Nathana Rahman is

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Speaker 1: Tell people, I'm gonna ask you that gavinknew some question

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Speaker 1: that he completely whipped on the other day.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what my brand is? I could have helped him

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Speaker 3: with that, Yeah right, scamming?

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Speaker 2: Yeah right. So why you're running? What do you want

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Speaker 2: to accomplish for your.

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Speaker 3: Listeners who aren't aware. I'm running because what happened to

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Speaker 3: my experience in Los Angeles watching total failure? My community

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Speaker 3: burn to the ground, my neighbors burn alive, and then

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Speaker 3: why the city cover it up after and nobody's stepping

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Speaker 3: up to go into this city hall and get rid

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Speaker 3: of all. In my mind, these criminals in power that

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Speaker 3: burn alive. So it's a life mission destiny. I don't

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Speaker 3: have a choice but to stop what happened to me

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Speaker 3: so it never happens to any other Angelinos, and it

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Speaker 3: will when at the earthquake comes the terrorist attack. These

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Speaker 1: And I live that spencer For those who don't know,

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Speaker 1: on social media now. And as soon as your house

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Speaker 1: it transformed you in to now candidate for mayor. We've

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Speaker 1: what it did to you psychologically and made you say

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because a lot of people don't care about the Palisades,

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Speaker 3: And what I try to tell people is the Palisades

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Speaker 2: No, that sounds about right. That's they're building.

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Speaker 1: They're building million dollar apartments now for the homeless.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the homeless first because we'll to fire

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Speaker 1: stuff later because this stuff is affecting everybody in the city. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so the homelessness, they have spent billions of dollars. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're still probably forty forty five thousand homeless people living

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Speaker 1: You want to stop the scam where the money or

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Speaker 1: tax money goes to the nonprofit agencies, the nonprofit agencies,

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Speaker 3: No, it does change. It increases, it increases, let's be clear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I got to keep themselves in business.

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Speaker 3: Of course, this is a great business.

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Speaker 1: So you take over, You're dealing with the city council.

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Speaker 1: What do you how are you gonna change the funding mechanism,

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Speaker 3: Well, first off, the issue with the encampments and everyone

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Speaker 3: because Mayor Karen Bass and the city Attorney choose not

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Speaker 3: to enforce the law. It's actually illegal to be on

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Speaker 3: bigger problem is the drug problem. If it's okay to

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Speaker 3: having these are a mental crisis. Yes, so we're gonna

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Speaker 3: not this care. We're not doing care, which is their

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Speaker 3: how many of those people are still housed, probably ten

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Speaker 2: Right, stop supplying the drugs.

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Speaker 1: It's I mean, the city pays for the ability for

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Speaker 3: So Karen Bass when she ran for mayor, you can

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Speaker 3: easy fifteen thousand people. But yesterday she's bragging that the

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Speaker 3: You know why it's down ten percent is because all

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Speaker 3: to drive around all day long and give them the narcan, right,

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Six people a day, yeah, die on the

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Speaker 3: Everything they're not doing and they've had Karen Bass says

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Speaker 3: The difference is if you put a mayor like me

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Speaker 3: is your money. It's not a game. Yeah, Oh, they're

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Speaker 3: good at making social media posts. The reason the city

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Speaker 3: fund all their little initiatives. They're all their friends, They're

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Speaker 3: and I'm unplugging it all.

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Speaker 1: We're spending more money. I think I saw numbers that

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Speaker 1: we we spend about one point three billion dollars on

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Speaker 1: which spends the day running around putting out homeless fires.

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Speaker 1: Because you just said all that the billions dollars we

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Speaker 2: They're putting out homeless fires.

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Speaker 3: So another thing I'm going to do back to fires

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Speaker 3: because most people again don't care about the palaces. But

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Speaker 3: you live in Sunland, there's dead brush everywhere. That the

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's many Karen bass fans. But they

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Speaker 1: We continue now with Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt is running

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And I always love that because, first off, I

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Speaker 1: I have garbage. Talk about the guardbitation.

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Speaker 3: Don't even We're not even talking encampments because you can't

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Speaker 3: He said to me, Spencer, when I moved to LA,

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Speaker 3: Why don't we all just do what that I did,

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Speaker 1: We were talking about exactly what I wanted to discuss.

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Speaker 3: where people have to wake up early and go to work.

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Speaker 3: There's no more circles and don out and some parties

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Speaker 3: in this.

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Speaker 1: They're all over the valley. Funding the police department properly

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Speaker 1: there Goesa had ten thousand cops when he left, it

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Speaker 1: was down to eighty three hundred under Jim McDonald. He's

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Speaker 1: snuck in four hundred that the city didn't have the

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Speaker 1: money to pay, but they needed another four hundred. So

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Speaker 1: we're at supposedly eighty seven hundred. We got the World Cup,

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Speaker 1: we got the Olympics coming up. He said, we need

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Speaker 1: twelve thousand. How are we going to get there?

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Speaker 3: Well, it goes back to the city is going to

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Speaker 3: have plenty of money when we stop the homeless scam.

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Speaker 3: So once we get all that money, which I'm going

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Speaker 3: to get real quick in that first week, when I

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Speaker 3: bring the IRS Criminal Investigation Team into City Hall, let

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Speaker 3: them have any documents I'm legally allowed to show them

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Speaker 3: so they can put cases on everyone who's been stealing

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles' money that they're aware of. But they need

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Speaker 3: that one document to open the case. I'll give them that.

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Speaker 3: And once we have that money, I am going to

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Speaker 3: bring hiring back to the LAPD. Twenty five years ago,

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Speaker 3: the LAPD hired their own officers. Then the rampart incident

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Speaker 3: happened and they took the hiring away. LAPD is going

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Speaker 3: to hire their own officers again. And why that's important

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Speaker 3: is because we lose the best people. Right now, the

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Speaker 3: same people that are hiring the sanitation people are in

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Speaker 3: charge of hiring our law enforcement and it takes over

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Speaker 3: a year. We're going to have a way more efficient

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Speaker 3: version of what's going on. So these good law enforcement

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Speaker 3: officers don't go to other stations, whether it's in Laguna Beach,

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Speaker 3: new Port, Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: They're leaving.

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Speaker 3: They're not staying around for a year to get the job.

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Speaker 3: So we're going to bring back the hiring. Also know

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Speaker 3: Karen Bass and also the other people running, they say

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Speaker 3: we need more civilians in you know what, It's called

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Speaker 3: the police department for a reason. We need more badges.

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Speaker 3: So if there's an emergency like what happened on the

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Speaker 3: palastase fire, when the earthquake comes, the World Cup, the Olympics,

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Speaker 3: when you need in a real emergency cracks off, you

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Speaker 3: can't have an office at the Police Department full of

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Speaker 3: civilians behind the computers. Those are your extra backup. So

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Speaker 3: everyone turn the computers off, get in your patrol cars,

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Speaker 3: and that's our backup. So yes, there's a role for civilians,

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Speaker 3: but it's not it's the police department for a reason.

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Speaker 3: And I also want to bring in limited use AI

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Speaker 3: for the detectives. The detectives have too much work. Of course,

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Speaker 3: they're not able to solve all these crimes and there's

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Speaker 3: too much in LA But we're going to find the

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Speaker 3: right AI tools to help them do that backlog research

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Speaker 3: so that they can come into these cases and not

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Speaker 3: have piles this high and use the AI where it needs.

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Speaker 2: To hold on.

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Speaker 1: We got one more segment coming up, and I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about how you're going to pull this off.

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Speaker 1: The campaign touch you never run a campaign before. You

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Speaker 1: got enough money for this, You got enough ways to

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Speaker 1: get support from the key people. You know, the whole

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Speaker 1: mechanics are running the campaign. We'll talk about that when

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Speaker 1: we come back, because that's the other question people go,

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Speaker 1: could he actually win if he ran? We got Spencer

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Speaker 1: Pratt on here. I got to keep reminding he's the

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Speaker 1: reality star running for mayor. He's second place in the polls.

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Speaker 1: Bass's numbers are horrible. She's only got nineteen percent of

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Speaker 1: the vote and her approval ratings twenty four percent. So

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Speaker 1: she can be taken out here and Spencer Pratt can

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Speaker 1: do it. Over half of the voters don't know who

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Speaker 1: they're going to vote for, and it's only ten weeks away.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Just a few more minutes with Spencer Pratt running for

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Speaker 1: mayor Los Angeles, second in the polls behind Karen Bass,

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Speaker 1: who has abysmal voting numbers of visible abysspal approval numbers,

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Speaker 1: so Spencer could pull this off. He can do it.

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Speaker 1: Former reality TV star if you're not familiar with him,

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Speaker 1: and let's talk about you got long term plans for

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Speaker 1: la I mean, you become mayor you want to set

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Speaker 1: the city up for what.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back a second. You know every time people

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Speaker 3: refer to me as former reality TV star, which obviously

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Speaker 3: is on Google, but that was in twenty ten that

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Speaker 3: I was on a reoccurring show. It's been a long

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Speaker 3: time since then. I I will always be a native Angelina.

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Speaker 3: I was born and raised here. I'm a father of two,

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Speaker 3: and I've had my own successful small business that I've

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Speaker 3: had to deal with through COVID, through everything, which was

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Speaker 3: my which is you know, everyone has a unique business,

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Speaker 3: but it was a crystal business. But my point is

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Speaker 3: when people hear reality TV, they just think, oh, it's

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Speaker 3: a negative connotation. But what they don't understand is I

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Speaker 3: care about this city like somebody who was born and

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Speaker 3: raised here. My parents were from here. This is where

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Speaker 3: we've all lived, so I care about the city. I'm

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Speaker 3: not doing this as for fame. These politicians that we have,

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Speaker 3: their career politicians. If I wanted to be a politician,

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Speaker 3: I would have done this a long time ago, when

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Speaker 3: I was peak famous, back in two ty eleven, I

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Speaker 3: would have started running for things. So I just always

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Speaker 3: want people to know when they hear that, they think, oh,

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Speaker 3: we can't have a reality TV star as mayor. Now

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Speaker 3: I'm a concerned Angelino taxpayer that lost everything because of

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Speaker 3: the failure of our city. So obviously you got to

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Speaker 3: introduce me that. But every time I hear it, I'm like, now,

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Speaker 3: I'm more than that. I'm a fighter for LA.

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Speaker 1: You talk though off the air about wanting to set

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Speaker 1: LA up for the future.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So the one thing that worries me is I

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Speaker 3: know I can do all of these changes, but you

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Speaker 3: know in four years, eight years, but I want to

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Speaker 3: set LA up for forty years. I want LA each

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Speaker 3: mayor after me to be like, wow, Spencer changed this city.

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Speaker 3: Why would and the citizens never let a mayor undo

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Speaker 3: what I've done because the progress the city's had, and

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Speaker 3: get it on such the right track, prepare us for

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Speaker 3: real emergencies that are coming, make sure all of our

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Speaker 3: emergency communications services are set up for the few. So

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Speaker 3: not just a mayor for a quick run, but a

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Speaker 3: mayor that has history for Los Angeles, And back to

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Speaker 3: your first question, how am I gonna get elected?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's lect I only got a minute and

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Speaker 1: a half here. Okay, Uh, you're running up against the

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Speaker 1: bass machine millions. She's got a lot of money. How

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do that? Are you going to get

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Speaker 1: the money? You got another unique way? I mean, you

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Speaker 1: can do things on social media now that you could

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Speaker 1: in a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: So to be clear, all her money pretty much comes

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Speaker 3: from unions. So all these people that are in these unions,

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Speaker 3: they have to live in LA they don't have to

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Speaker 3: vote for Karen Bass. And when they go to vote,

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Speaker 3: they don't like Caaren Bass. They don't like what the

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Speaker 3: city is. So even though she's got this money, she

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Speaker 3: can have these fake ads her everything she says is

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Speaker 3: a lie. Everybody lives her life. So you could have

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Speaker 3: twenty million dollars, you gotta have a one hundred. But

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Speaker 3: if everything you've done in four years is failures, what

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Speaker 3: does that money do? So I don't need a bunch

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Speaker 3: of money to tell you that I'm gonna stop doing

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Speaker 3: everything she's done and we're gonna actually have change. And

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Speaker 3: anybody listening, even five dollars will help this mission. So

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Speaker 3: you go to Mayor Pratt dot com and it's a

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Speaker 3: grassroots I don't. I'm not seeking out, you know, powerful

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Speaker 3: people that control me. I have no nobody's behind. I'm

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Speaker 3: just as I'm a real grassroots organization, not like these

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Speaker 3: socialists or communists that actually get money from other countries

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Speaker 3: to fund these little fake grass movements that are really

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Speaker 3: machines putting these people in power. I'm the real deal

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Speaker 3: grassroots movement. I'm also gonna get out in the streets

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Speaker 3: and I'm gonna go talk to every voter the second

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Speaker 3: they get their ballots. May fourth, you'll see me in

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Speaker 3: your neighborhood for thirty days straight, and I will get

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Speaker 3: more ballots than anybody in LA has ever gotten leading

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Speaker 3: up to June.

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Speaker 1: Second, Spencer, You're welcome to come here anytime, stay as

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Speaker 1: long as you want, Okay, because this has to be done.

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Speaker 1: You gotta win, there's no choice.

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Speaker 3: So I'll see you next week. Okay, You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Come come back in Spencer Pratt running for mayor Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and doing pretty well, but we only got ten

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Speaker 1: weeks to go.

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Speaker 2: When we come back.

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Speaker 1: Another another pedophile has been given elderly parole by Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom's Parole Board, and we're going to talk to former

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Speaker 1: Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert about Gregory Vogelsong, who

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Speaker 1: was sentenced to three hundred and fifty five years to

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Speaker 1: life for sexually assaulting children and is getting out. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk with an Mariy Schubert next. Hey, you've been listening

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Speaker 1: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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Speaker 1: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one

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Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,

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