1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to get 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: right into it because Spencer Pratt is here for the hour. 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt running for mayor Los Angeles against Karen Bass 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: and Nithia Rahman, and he's got some good support already 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: and you can definitely get into the runoff for sure, 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: and he's got a campaign going in all directions. I 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: want to start, well, first of all, I'm surprised you're 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: here because you're missing Jennie Canonia's farewell party at the DWP. 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: They're giving her a big, a big celebration for destroying 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: the Palisades. 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: You know, honestly, it's actually unbelievable that they would have 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: a going away party for somebody who was so responsible 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: and so negligent that led to the deaths of twelve people, 15 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: seven thousand structures burned to the ground. I thought of 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: out going, you know, just some buckets of water just 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: to pour on the ground and say this is more 18 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 2: water than the palaces firefighters had. Then I thought she 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: didn't even deserve the attention. We should just let her 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: go off to Puerto Rico. Until she's subpoenaed back before 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: the judges who are going to rule in favor of 22 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: the victims in the lawsuit. Notice how she ran ouf 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: to Puerto Rico right when the judge let the case 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 2: against LADWP move forward. I would truly love to know 25 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 2: how much her payoff is, which has not come out yet. 26 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: That's the real question. And the other interesting thing is 27 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 2: do you realize Janice Quiniona's seven hundred and fifty thousand 28 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 2: dollars salary is double what her predecessor had. 29 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: Yes, we have talked about that a lot. It's stunning 30 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: and considering the performance, I mean, there aren't too many 31 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: people that could say they had a major role in 32 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: wiping out an entire town and made over a million 33 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: dollars from it. That's what does it tell you, though 34 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: about mentality of the whole ruling class here in LA 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: that they had the balls to give her a farewell party. 36 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,399 Speaker 2: Well, want to forget that even the La Times gave 37 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 2: her a leadership award? Yes, like think about that, a 38 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 2: leadership award. The ultimate failure. As she gets a leadership award, 39 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 2: it almost starts feeling like we're run by the mafia. 40 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just all laughing having parties. 41 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: People can twelve people can die in a fire seven 42 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: thousand structures. We can still have a party for that 43 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: person who is responsible. 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 3: It's shocking. 45 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: I've noticed something just in the last couple of years. 46 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: There is a real dismissive arrogance about everybody in power, 47 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: whether it's bast You see this with newsom, it doesn't 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: matter how bad the news is. Right, Palisades burns down, 49 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: she doesn't care, doesn't talk about it, doesn't answer question, 50 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: basically flips everyone off. It's like, what are they going 51 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: to do to me? I'm bulletproof notice from the same 52 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: thing got billions of dollars. What was this week's atrocity? 53 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: Hospice fraud? Right? Got seven differ investigations come to the 54 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: same conclusion. You're just flipping everybody off online. Ah, you're 55 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: a pedophile. Ah, you're racist, that's his response. They think 56 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: nothing matters anymore, there are no consequences. 57 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 2: And that's why I'm so excited to be running for mayor, 58 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 2: because I'm going to show them there are consequences, and 59 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 2: there are enough angry tax payers they're going to say 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: no more, You're done, mayor vas And it's going to 61 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: be truly, it could change all of California because everyone's 62 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 2: going to start demanding change and accountability once they see 63 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: what I'm able to do, how fast I'm able to 64 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: do it. 65 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: In your campaigning, not only people affected by the Palas 66 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: Hates fire, but what kind of reception are you getting 67 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: and what are they bringing up as far as the 68 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: issues that are making them crazy that they know there 69 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: has to be drastic change on. 70 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: The issue that I believe I will be elected potentially 71 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: on June second, with fifty one percent of the vote 72 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: outright is homelessness. All the other can it's running are 73 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 2: entrenched in the NGO scam. It will be business as 74 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: usual for four more years, whoever it is, whether it's 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: Nythia Ramen, which. 76 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 3: It could actually get worse. 77 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Marri Bassa may just say consistently as bad, 78 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: but Nythia could make it even horrible, like we can 79 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 2: go to a whole new tier with Nythia. But it's 80 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: homelessness because I'm the only one saying that everyone on 81 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: the streets, We're gonna enforce the law and that means 82 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: treatment first, not this housing first thing where drug addicts 83 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 2: that have drug problems. We're gonna treat addiction where you 84 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: don't have a million dollar bed that you're not even 85 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 2: using because you'd rather sleep in human feces because you're 86 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: high on fentanyl. So we're gonna treat the addiction, which 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: they will not do because they make money off of 88 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: the addiction. All their friends are making millions and then 89 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 2: billions of dollars. So I truly believe once the message 90 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 2: is clear out there that you vote for Spencer Pratt, 91 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: I will enforce all these laws, all these encampments or 92 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: illegal and we're going to get people that belong in jail, 93 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: not just homeless people. I'm not saying all the homeless 94 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: people are going to jail. The craze drug addicts that 95 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 2: are attacking people, they're going to jail no more. 96 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: Just the people with mental problems go for mental treatment. 97 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: One hundred percent, and once we get them in the 98 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 2: program and have success, then they could go live in 99 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: one of these million dollar beds that are already paid 100 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: for us. I don't have to pay for them because 101 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: we're already spent the million dollars to house nobody in them, 102 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 2: so they'll be available for somebody to have a successful story. 103 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 2: It's not compassionate to let six people die on the street. 104 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, Nathia Rahman. 105 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: They have all. 106 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 2: These words care and victimless crimes. These are not victimless crimes. 107 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: The addicts and everybody around them were all the victims 108 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: of the results of the drug addiction, and we have 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: to treat that. We can't just say, oh, they have 110 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 2: the right to They don't actually have the right to 111 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 2: be doing drugs on these public streets. They don't legally 112 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 2: have the right to live. 113 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: The US Supreme Court absolutely they have right. 114 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 2: The craziest thing that's happened the last few days I 115 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: asked everyone to start sending me Instagram videos of what 116 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: their streets look like, what it looks like in front 117 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 2: of their kids' schools, their commutes to work. I can't 118 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: even post most of the content because Instagram would delete 119 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 2: my account. 120 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 3: The amount of. 121 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 2: Nudity just in front of children, grown crazed adult drugging, 122 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 2: the amount of naked people just that are allowed to 123 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: be in front of kids and business as usual is disgusting. 124 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: So Instagram has standards they would block those videos. But 125 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: these people are looking at their front door and their 126 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 1: kids are seeing this every day. 127 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 3: The saddest thing. 128 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 2: Our parents are messaging me that they have to bring 129 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: iPads in the car to the commute to try to 130 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 2: have them looking at the iPads so they don't look 131 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 2: at the window and see the horrors that are going 132 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 2: on the sidewalks. 133 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. 134 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you saw at the California 135 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Post today they unearthed a video of Nythia Rahman getting booed. 136 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: She gave a speech last year and she was making 137 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: the argument that it's not a big deal to force 138 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: homeless people five hundred feet away from a school. You know, 139 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: they passed an order that said the homeless can of 140 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: encampments within five hundred feet. And she talked to the 141 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association last year and she goes, well, 142 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: I don't think a kid's going to be safer if 143 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: they're ten feet or five hundred feet away from a school. 144 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: And she was against the wall. She thinks it shouldn't 145 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: be enforced. She didn't vote for it. 146 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: Not to mention, when the parents all bow her, she 147 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: shrugs her shoulders and rolls her eyes. Yeah, do you 148 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: have the audio that we should hear her? 149 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: Actually we do. I don't know if it's Yeah, why 150 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: don't you play it? I can't guarantee what the audio 151 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: quality are you plugged in with your headphones? All right, 152 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: La Sonithy. You've said that forty one eighteen is just 153 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: simply moving people around, which is one of the reasons 154 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: that you do not support that part. 155 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 4: I mean, it's a complicated law. 156 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: It has. 157 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 4: You know, there's pieces of it that's saying there's no 158 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 4: camping in parks, that you have to have EIGHTYA access 159 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 4: on sidewalks, you have to have a certain distance from 160 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 4: drug no. 161 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's multi parts. 162 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 5: It has. 163 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, there are certain parts of us. 164 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 4: But there's certain parts of it that I support, and 165 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 4: then there are certain parts of it that I've had 166 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 4: more trouble with. 167 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: May I ask a specific question. I'm wondering if you 168 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: support forty one eighteen around schools and daycares. 169 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 4: Pretty voting against it, you know, because it doesn't work. 170 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 4: I mean, it's like, I don't think a kid's going 171 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 4: to be safer because at ten is five hundred feet 172 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 4: away from a school. 173 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: You know, It's like whatever. 174 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 2: So I had parents reach out to me about this 175 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: to tell me about NITHEO and she announced, and they said, 176 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 2: these aren't encampments with just this sad homeless person. These 177 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 2: were two rival gangs selling drugs ventanyl through a hole 178 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 2: in the tent. These were two rival gangs that were 179 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 2: technically warring for that area. 180 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: The idea that. 181 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 2: This woman has no problem with gangs selling fentanyl anywhere 182 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 2: near a school is truly terrifying. That she is running 183 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 2: to be the mayor of Los Angeles if. 184 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: It's the same school. I remember this story was in 185 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Las Feelers and the encampments were on the sidewalk and 186 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: it was little kids. It was an elementary school, and 187 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: they were selling the guns and drugs from a hole 188 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: in the tent. The gangs had taken over the tents 189 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: and they charged homeless people ransom to sleep in the tents. 190 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: And she didn't think it mattered whether it was ten 191 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: feet or five hundred feet. This woman is not suited 192 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: to be on the city council. No, she should not 193 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: be in public service that period. That's in sanity. 194 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 3: She should be having sh pa with their millionaire Hollywood producer. 195 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 2: And that's it. That's about it, and that's how I'm 196 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 2: going to win. Because parents are done with this. They 197 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: want to go to the park. They want to be 198 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: able to go on sidewalks. They don't want to have 199 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: their kids on iPads hiding from naked, drugged out crazy 200 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 2: people on the sidewalks on their commute. People are done. 201 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 2: My message is I can't even keep up thousands and 202 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: thousands on every platform. So the media, you know, maybe 203 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 2: La Times thinks Nithyo is in the league because they're 204 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 2: trying to cook her up as their mondami little dream girls. 205 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: But the actual citizens that live here are sick and 206 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 2: tired of seeing what's happening to Los Angeles. 207 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: All right, more with Specer Pratt, who's running for mayor, 208 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: and he's the only logical candidate. He's the guy you 209 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: have to vote for if you want to change things. 210 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: You cannot do bats or Ramen. We will continue. 211 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 212 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 5: six forty if. 213 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: You've just joined us. We've got Spencer Pratt here since 214 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: the top of the hour, running for mayor and doing 215 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: really well. And he is the guy to vote for. 216 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: No Bass, No, nephew're on. You vote for Spencer Pratt, 217 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: things will change from day one because he's you're really 218 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: really the only one talking straight and talking honestly, and 219 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: the other people are speaking on a foreign language. I 220 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: don't understand them. 221 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 2: Well, it's the same language they've been speaking for four 222 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 2: plus years in the government. So I'm speaking accountability. I'm 223 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 2: gonna be the mayor of accountability, as I keep saying, 224 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 2: and I after the break, I'll show you the text 225 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 2: messages because I can't, you know, put him on on 226 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 2: air from the I r S. 227 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 3: Ready to go. 228 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 2: We're going to audit every dollar in city hall week one. 229 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 2: So all this missing money, we're gonna find it, and 230 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 2: we're gonna cut waste and we're gonna put it back 231 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: into the city where it belongs. 232 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: So the I r S is joining you. If you 233 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: get sworn in, they come in and they start auditing 234 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: the books. 235 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 3: They're ready. 236 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, sixty thousand street lights are out. She claims 237 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: she's gonna get solar lights put in, but they're going 238 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: to charge a one hundred and twenty five million dollar 239 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: tax on homeowners for the street lights. Now, she defunded 240 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: the police department, as you know, so the police can't 241 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: keep up with all the copper thefts. The copper thefts 242 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: means sixty thousand lights are out in LA, which is staggering. 243 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: I can't even imagine see her idea instead of enforcing 244 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: the law, putting these guys in prison, stop defunding the police, 245 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: just care about some She said, well, we're gonna buy 246 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: solar lights and one hundred and twenty five million dollars 247 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: in taxes. 248 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: Well, she probably doesn't want any lights in the city 249 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: of LA so people can't see what's happening. 250 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 3: I think that's probably real truth. Yeah, keep it as 251 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 3: dark as possible so they can't get everything on video. 252 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 2: But I just spoke with one of my law enforcement 253 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: sources today and he was talking to HP and AT 254 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: and T and just in the last year, just in 255 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 2: South LA, they've lost eighty seven million dollars in this 256 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 2: copper theft. When people ask, well, how are you going 257 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 2: to suff this? It goes back to enforcing the law. 258 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 2: If Karen Bass didn't allow crazy drug addicts running the street, 259 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 2: forty thousand plus of them, where do you think they 260 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: buy the money for their where they make it the 261 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 2: money buy the fenanyl. They're stealing all anything they can possible, bikes, 262 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 2: copper wires. So if you enforce the law, put the 263 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: people that belong in jail and jail, people that belong 264 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: in mental health facilities, in mental health facilities, and people 265 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: that just need some mandatory treatment to help them get 266 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 2: sober and then into one of these hundred, you know, 267 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars beds. These people won't be on 268 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 2: the streets stealing everything. Not to mention, when I'm mayor, 269 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 2: I'm bringing back the Metals Task Force, which I don't 270 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: think will be needed because I'll already have all the 271 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 2: criminals not on the streets stealing the copper, so right there. 272 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: Also we need to be enforcing the recycling places big time. 273 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: Where are they taking this copper? That should be a 274 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 2: major priority for the mayor and the LAPD because they're 275 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: taking it somewhere and getting the money for it. 276 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's another big scam. A lot of people are 277 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: getting big money off this. 278 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: But Nythia Rahman's suggestion is the car companies should not 279 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: make the Cadillac converters. They it's so easy to take 280 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: a part, even though you have to put the vehicle 281 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: on the lift and it's not easy. But that's her 282 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 2: suggestion is to take the cars and to rebuild them. 283 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: Everything that they say is insane. That's what That's what 284 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: fascinates me in a morbid way. It's like they're consistently insane. 285 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: Every time I open the news in the morning. They 286 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: said something like nobody would even contemplate this five or 287 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: ten years ago. 288 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 3: And yeah, here's my fair part. 289 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 2: So we spend one hundred and twenty million and it 290 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 2: takes two years to put the solar panelies. Oh so 291 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: these drugged out crazy people aren't gonna climb up the 292 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 2: pole and rip the solar panels off and figure out 293 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: a way to sell the solar panels and the batteries. 294 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 2: There's not gonna be a market for that. 295 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: Let me we come back because we got to this 296 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: was a short segment. We're gonna do the news. We 297 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: come back. I want to talk about the band Whole 298 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: Cover and these people crawling out from underground in South 299 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: LA living in the sewer system. 300 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 2: Well, Mayor Bass and Nithie Rumman, they brag about their 301 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: inside safe. 302 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 3: So there it is. 303 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that Spencer Pratt running for mayor 304 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. That's who you got to vote for. There's 305 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: there's no other choice. There's only one choice on the ballot. 306 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: Trust me. 307 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 5: All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 308 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 5: KFI Am six forty. 309 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: Subscribe to YouTube. We blew past the five thousand subscriber 310 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: mark yesterday. It is YouTube dot com. Slash at John 311 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: cobelt Show, a little different slash at John Cobelt's show, 312 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: and later today you'll be able to see a video 313 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: of a Spencer Pratt who's here in the studio right 314 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: now for the hour. And Spencer has been publishing some 315 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: pieces on substack describing some of the tools he's going 316 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: to use. He's running for mayor Los Angeles against Nthea 317 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: Rahman and the evil Karen Bass. And one of the 318 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: things you wrote about that I read just this morning 319 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: is everyone thinks that if you have a crazy person 320 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: in the street whacked out on drugs, you can only 321 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: hold him for seventy two hours if they're a danger 322 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: to themselves and others. But as you researched the law, 323 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: because there was an addition, there was Senate Bill forty 324 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: three that passed January first, or went into effect January first. 325 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: Now we could get a hold of them for forty 326 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: five days. Could you walk us through the new law 327 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: and why you would use this law to help get 328 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: a lot of the mentally ill and the drug addicts 329 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: off the street and keep them off the street for 330 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: at least a month and a half. 331 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. So what's happening right now with Mayor Bass and 332 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman is they're fine with atticts just o ding. 333 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 2: They give them the Narkhan and then back to the streets. 334 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 2: We need to stop that where we're just enabling people, 335 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: just keeping them alive, torturing them in a sense through 336 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 2: this addiction where they're potentially going to die next week. 337 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 2: I spoke with a police officer who said they know 338 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: a week out, oh that person will be dead next week. 339 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 3: They know, they see. 340 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: It, and they don't the mayor lets that happen. So 341 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 2: what I will do is when you know the fire department, 342 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: which takes most of their calls, giving them the narcan, 343 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 2: from now on, when they od, they will be put 344 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: on a fifty one fifty psychiatric hold. 345 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 3: How is it? 346 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 2: For instance, the Britney Spears back in the day shaved 347 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 2: her head and they put her on a fifty one 348 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 2: to fifty cycled and then a conservatorship for years. The 349 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 2: same type of system that they put Britney spears through. 350 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,479 Speaker 2: We're gonna put these homeless drug addicts through. So when 351 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: instead of just giving them narcan they go right back 352 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: in the streets stealing copper to get more fentanyl to 353 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 2: od again, they're gonna go to a medical facility and 354 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 2: we're gonna treat them. And there's this new drug, vivitrol, 355 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 2: where it's an injection into their their buttocks and it 356 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 2: makes it so for thirty days they won't have any 357 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: opioids wouldn't work there. 358 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: It helps. 359 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 2: It's proven science, so that way, if they did heroin 360 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: or fentanyl, it wouldn't work. And we're gonna monitor them 361 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 2: and we're gonna give them proper treatment, and if it 362 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 2: becomes a situation where it's clear they're not able to 363 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 2: take care of themselves, it can extend up. 364 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 3: To a year. 365 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 2: Conservativeship, and that is what some people need that are 366 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 2: really struggling and spiraling and at the lowest of their life. 367 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: It's not to just throw them back onto the sidewalk 368 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: because we gave them narcan and they overdose, but we 369 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 2: brought them back to life. Here you go back to 370 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 2: your cammon. That is not the compassionate thing to do. 371 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 2: Mayor Bass and Nitia act like they're being good, nice people. 372 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 2: These people deserve to live in human fee season. Od, No, 373 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 2: they don't. 374 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 3: We need to. 375 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 2: Take care of these people and give them the treatment 376 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: they need. 377 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: Right because after they take the Narkhan, an hour later 378 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 1: they have the cravings for the heroin and the fentidel, 379 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: so they're going to run out and get some more, 380 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: and fire department will come back to the same guy 381 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: a few hours later if he's odeed. I mean, it's nuts. 382 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 2: No, it's a spiral, twisted spiral of darkness. It's evil 383 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 2: that we're just letting this happen to our fellow humans, 384 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 2: our citizens, that they let this happen nowt for years, 385 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: they've increased homelessness. Karen Bass keeps bringing up, Oh, homelessness 386 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 2: is down. She's comparing it to one of her better 387 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 2: years of her four not since when she started not 388 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 2: to mention. The RAND Corporation says the loss of numbers 389 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: are probably thirty percent lower than they are, so god 390 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 2: knows how many homelessness people really are on the streets. 391 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 3: Well, just use your eyes, they say it. 392 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: I don't need their fake numbers. I don't believe their 393 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: numbers exactly. I know what I see all the time. 394 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 2: It's disgusting and I will not tolerate it. 395 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 3: And that's the difference. 396 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 2: What I keep telling everybody and why I will become 397 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 2: mayor is because I will stop this. I actually do 398 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 2: have compassion. These people who are in power clearly don't. 399 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 2: They will let six people die in the street and say, well, 400 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 2: they have the right to die in the street. 401 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 3: No they don't. 402 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: We have the right to protect these people. And it's 403 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 1: six people a day dying. Yeah, it's a couple of 404 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: thousand a year dying in the streets. Can you imagine 405 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: if there was some kind of plane crash and somehow 406 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: two huge jumbo jets you couldn't fit two thousand. You 407 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: have to have four jumbo jets to have two thousand 408 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: people die. Imagine that four jets crash into each other. 409 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: Two thousand people die. That's what we have dying on 410 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: the streets every year. 411 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: And we're talking about overdosing. You know a lot of 412 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 2: people are upset last week week, a few days ago, 413 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 2: even with the LAPD and their stings during the crosswalk situation, 414 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 2: and the LAPD said back to the people that were upset, well, 415 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: there's a record amount of people dying from car related accidents. 416 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 2: Guess who that record number of people are. Yes, yes, 417 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 2: I'm homeless, homeless drug addicts, just zombie across the street. 418 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 3: That's who's getting hit by these cars. 419 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 2: So we we're gonna save not only lives from overdosing, 420 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 2: we're gonna save lives from traffic collisions. Not to mention 421 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 2: the people that die that get hit by the car, 422 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 2: the homeless drug addict that can't take care of themselves, 423 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 2: but how many people. What if there was a family 424 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: that hit that person, You just changed that whole family's life, 425 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 2: the driver's life. They now killed somebody that we should 426 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: have taken care of and put in treatment. So there's 427 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 2: a lot of people that get affected by just leaving 428 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: homeless drug addicts to be wandering like zombies on the street. 429 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: I looked at the maps when when some council people 430 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: were crying about all the people getting run over, and 431 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: it was in the districts with the most homeless had 432 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: the most little blue dots shown you that pedestrians had 433 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: been rolled over, And it was like a little was obvious. 434 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: It was all the drunks and the drug addicts and 435 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: the crazy people we talk about they stand in the 436 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: middle of the street. We had an encampment on my 437 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: side of town for four years in front of the VA, 438 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: and I'd be driving home from work and they'd be 439 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: running across, dancing in the street, waving a whiskey bottle 440 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: in the air, and at twilight it would be really 441 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: easy to run them over and not even know. And 442 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: that explained the increase. And no manhole cover. That story 443 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: video of one guy going in and out, and then 444 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: when the crew came yesterday, the work crew came to 445 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: seal the manhole shut because somebody stole the cover. There 446 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: was a second guy that was climbing out. They almost 447 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:49,959 Speaker 1: sealed him underground. 448 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 2: Well, you know your former guests who I speak with 449 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 2: wand from cleaning with La, he found the person. The 450 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 2: people in the store wasn't even the city. And that's 451 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 2: what inside Safe has become. And that's the point. We 452 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 2: have five hundred thousand dollars beds and we have addicts 453 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 2: and mental health crisis individuals that are choosing to live 454 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 2: in the sewers instead of these vacant five hundred thousand 455 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 2: plus dollar beds. These beds are empty, and that tells 456 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 2: you there's a problem. 457 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: Here. 458 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 2: These people have addiction issues and mental health issues that's 459 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 2: making them want to live in the sewer instead of 460 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 2: the five hundred thousand dollar bed. 461 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: Did you see the woman that crawled out of the sewer? 462 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: I think it was Matthew Sedoor from Fox eleven tried 463 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: to talk to her and she just mumbled. She made 464 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: no sense. She literally couldn't speak English anymore because her 465 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: brain was so far gone. 466 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 2: Well. The saddest part about that, also not sadest, but 467 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 2: as sad is when Matthew asks some neighbors, well, what 468 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 2: do you think about this, and they. 469 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 3: Say, we're used to it. 470 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, how have we accepted people living in the sewers? 471 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 2: This is unacceptable in Los Angeles? 472 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, why do you think that is? Because I again, 473 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: I send this over and over again. It's like ten 474 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, it would be unthinkable for people to 475 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: put up with this stuff. And then something happened. I 476 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: don't know what it was, but everybody's like, yeah, it's 477 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: like everybody's under some kind of mass hypnosis. 478 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: Well, they continue to tell you there's nothing we can do. 479 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 3: People have the right to know, they don't have the 480 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 3: right to live in encampments and do drugs and be 481 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 3: naked on the sides of the street doing god knows 482 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 3: what we enforced. 483 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 2: Ut we stopped enforcing the law, so everyone got used 484 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 2: to thinking, Oh, the mayor says, there's nothing we can do. 485 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 2: These people can just do this. Let's they drop off 486 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 2: tens for them. 487 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they tell you crime is down statistically. 488 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, across the whole nation. 489 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 2: That's a mayor Bass is also responsible for a national trend, right, Well, 490 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 2: homicides are down so bract across America. Mayor Bass, you 491 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 2: have nothing to do with that trend. 492 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 3: Thank you. 493 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: All right, hold on, we gon't one more segment coming 494 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: up with Specer Pratt running for mayor of Los Angeles 495 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: against Bass and Raman. We'll have another segment with him next. 496 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 497 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 498 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: P If you for just joining us. We've had Spencer 499 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: Pratt here for a whole hour, so that's the first 500 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: thing you want to listen to once we release it 501 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: at six o'clock. You know, with with the media so splintered, 502 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:31,120 Speaker 1: social media splintered, and people's attention spans so scattered, it's 503 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: hard to get a gauge on the on the race, 504 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: like how campaigns are going? What is your campaign day 505 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: like typically if there is a typical day, like, how 506 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: are you reaching people? How do you know that things 507 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: are clicking, that you're winning converts. 508 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 2: Well, since unlike Mayor Bass, I don't have the machine 509 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 2: with millions of dollars behind me, I'm a true grassroots campaign. 510 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 2: So for me, it's social media, it's the people that 511 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 2: I reach out to and they tell their friends, and 512 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 2: just really a real organic grassroots campaign and just trying 513 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 2: to get my message out as much as possible and 514 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: have people spread that that I'm here to change what's 515 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 2: happened to La. I want in LA that my kids 516 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 2: can grow up in, not this La. 517 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 3: This La. 518 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: Everyone I talked to, they're scared for their kids to 519 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 2: go to parks, They're scared for their kids to walk 520 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: to school. 521 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 3: We need to stop this. 522 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 2: So the key for me is just to continue doing radio, 523 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: TV hits, every podcast possible. And you know, obviously I'm 524 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: out in the streets and you can only talk to 525 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 2: so many people, but I'm talking to a lot of 526 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 2: people and everyone I interact with wherever I go, it's 527 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: thank God for you and what they all know is 528 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 2: I didn't want this. I didn't want to run for mayor. 529 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: I don't want to be a politician. I had no choice. 530 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 2: If it wasn't me, it was Karen Bass again. And 531 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 2: if I didn't start going after Karen Bass, then Nitthya 532 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 2: Ramin wouldn't even have hopped into the race in the 533 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 2: last two hours, so she didn't even exist in this race. 534 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 3: It was for sure going to be carabaths. 535 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 2: So that's why I'm running from mayor to stop this, 536 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 2: because somebody had to. If somebody else had been on 537 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 2: the radio and saying we need to stop what's happened 538 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: to La our kids and need to feel safe going 539 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 2: to school, these type of just common sense things, I 540 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 2: wouldn't know. 541 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: It's crazy, that's the thing. It's not like we're expecting 542 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: you to go back to the nineteen fifties. I'd want 543 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: to go back to like to the early twenty tens 544 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: or the two thousands. It wasn't that long ago. I'm 545 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: nostalgic for things, for the way life was fifteen years ago. 546 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: I have three sons, ages twenty five to thirty. They're 547 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 1: nostalgic for La from their childhood, which was in this century. 548 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: I mean, how crazy is that. Usually you don't start 549 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: feeling that way until you're past fifty. But they're in 550 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: their twenties and they're going, Wow, I remember when it 551 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: was so I mean, that's how far gone this place 552 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: has went in just a few years. 553 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 2: And that's why I know I will become the mayor, 554 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 2: because I'm the only one that once it's a be 555 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 2: normal again. It's insane. The streets are insane. And they 556 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 2: won't even say that. They just keep with these crazy 557 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 2: little words. I guess they care and this and combet 558 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: just made up words. They just have sentences that make 559 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 2: no sense. Instead of we're going to stop this, we 560 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 2: are going to enforce the law. We're going to clear 561 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: the streets. We're going to get people treatment first, not 562 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 2: this imaginary billion dollar empty housing that clearly work. 563 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: They're all making money off of. 564 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 5: Uh. 565 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 1: That answers all the questions everybody goes, why why are 566 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: they doing this? Why do they want us to live there? 567 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: Because they are profiting. I am certain that most of 568 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: those in government and the elite class are getting kickbacks 569 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: from all this government money that's being shoveled out to 570 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: the nonprofits and the NGOs. That's the only answer. And 571 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: I would explain why this goes on and. 572 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: It gets them reelected. Yeah, because their career politicians and 573 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: they want to stay in office. Any other job in 574 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: the history of the world. If you're in Africa while 575 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 2: an entire town of seven thousand homes burns to the ground, 576 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 2: twelve people die, you just resign, You say I failed. 577 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: You don't wait to get fired. You send in an 578 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 2: email say I'm good. Not Carabas she runs for reelection, 579 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: how dare she? That's truly the bottom line. She shouldn't 580 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 2: even be running for mayor right now? 581 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: All right, I just got another minute, minute and a half. 582 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: You win later this year the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. 583 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: What's la like in twenty twenty eight to welcome the 584 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: Olympics if you're the mayor. 585 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty four people still talk about was the greatest 586 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: Olympics ever. I'm bringing nineteen eighty four back. It's going 587 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: to be beautiful. The streets are gonna be clean. There's 588 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: gonna be no homeless encampments, no crazy drug addicts attacking tourists. 589 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 2: It's very simple, and I'll be able to do it 590 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: right away by enforcing the law, and I can't wait. 591 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna be like, this is the greatest Olympics ever, 592 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 2: because LA is beautiful. When it doesn't have people like 593 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 2: this running it, it's the greatest place on the planet. 594 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 2: Otherwise I wouldn't be fighting for it. I would have 595 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 2: moved like most people do right now, one hundred thousand 596 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 2: plus a year, just move out of the state because 597 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: they've given up, because they don't think it can change. 598 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 2: I believe we can change. It's not too far off. 599 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: Now is the time we step in and say we're 600 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 2: sick of this, we're gonna stop this, and we're gonna 601 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 2: get the LA we all want back and go Dodgers. 602 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: If if you can motivate the sane people to vote, 603 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: I still think that the sane voters outnumber the insane 604 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: voters who go for people like Karen Basser Nathia Romi. 605 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 3: One d percent. 606 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 2: The undecided voters just don't know there's somebody like Spencer 607 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 2: Pratt that's saying we're going to stop this. So if 608 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 2: everyone that has a functioning brain tells their functioning brain friends, hey, 609 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 2: this guy Spencer Pratt is going to stop these people, 610 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 2: and he's gonna have full accountability for all of your 611 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 2: tax money, every dollar, and stop all this waste and corruption. 612 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 2: Of course I'll be mayor, but everyone needs to do 613 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: their part and tell everyone they know, and it needs 614 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 2: to be their true grassroots mission. 615 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 1: Your website, people want to contact you, donate money to 616 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: your campaign. What's the name of it? 617 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 3: Mayor Pratt dot com. 618 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: Mayor Pratt dot com and read the stuff he's written 619 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: on his substack. Thank you for coming and you will 620 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: come in again soon. All right, see you next week. 621 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: All right, Spencer Pratt running for mayor Los Angeles and 622 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: when we come back. I haven't heard this audio, but 623 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: apparently Kevin Newsom started crying while introducing a jobs program 624 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: and not making this up either. Debra Mark Live in 625 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 626 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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