Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back

Spencer Pratt, welcome to the All-In. podcast. >> Thank you for having me. >> You had an unbelievable debate. performance the other night. I have so. many friends that were texting and. people obviously were tweeting about it. Let's start with that. How are you. feeling after the debate? >> I just wish it had been like 2 hours or. 3 hours because the list of their. failures that we didn't even get to. touch on, it's unbelievable. So, it was. the most fun I've had in years because. what people don't realize is they're. pathological liars. So when somebody. gets to be on the stage with only facts.

and the truth, that's why there's this. incredible response to because everybody. that always watches these lying. politicians, they know they're lying and. nobody gets to yell, "They're lying.". But it was very hard to be respectful. because all the lovely Democrat moms. that love me, that want to keep. supporting me, they asked me to please. stay calm, cool, and collected. So the. whole time I was doing my best behavior. to not interrupt the lying, which if I. hadn't been tasked with that mission, I. would have been like, "Liar, liar." But.

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>> A lot of people said they weren't. expecting such a great performance. Like. you were so well prepped, so well. verssed on a lot of the facts on the. actions you were going to take. How did. you get ready for the debate? Did you do. work to get after this? Well, thankfully. people argue with me all day long in. every single media hit that I've done. for months because they don't want me to. get into the machine. So, every. interview I do, unlike these. politicians, it's opposition. It's. arguing, arguing, arguing. When these,

you know, Mayor Bass or Councilwoman. Ramen talk to the media, they can just. lie and then the media people go, "Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mayor Bass. Thank. you, Councilman." If I say anything, I. got to have who was there, what they. were wearing, what they had for. breakfast. I have to have my information. so factbased and be bulletproof to beat. this machine that it's I debate. All I. do is debate people all day long. >> You're held to a higher standard. >> Exactly. Challenged all day. >> and all I live in is facts and the.

truth. And so I called my lawyer who's. representing me in the case against the. city and the state and LAWP, one of the. most famous lawyers in the world. I said. I said, "Peter, how do you stay so calm. when you're arguing with these liars?". And he said, "Spencer, I always have the. truth." I was like, "Oo." I was like, "Okay, I got that." Good strategy. >> Yeah. So that was a great. >> just message I took into that. Can we. for people that don't know your story. and I want to just give you a couple.

minutes to tell it. Let's go back to the. fires. Where were you and where was your. family, your wife, your kids? Where were. you guys when these fires kicked off and. how did you end up evacuating? And what. was that evening like? >> Well, let's even rewind before the. fires. It just shows you that our. emergency situation is not the level it. needs to be because I didn't even know. that there was this crazy wind weather. event. My son had had pneumonia. So, I. was up every night checking his. temperature and I'm on my phone a lot. I'm a phone person and I didn't even.

know that this was extra dangerous, dry. weather. So, that just shows you if you. rewind, we weren't even informed at the. level you clearly we should have been. So, the morning of January 7th, I was. doing my normal routine, making my. espresso, about to dance to Taylor. Swift, Look What You Made Me Do on. Snapchat, which I've done since the. Reputation album dropped. And all a. sudden, I see our nanny running down the. street. She's comes in with our. 2-year-old at the time. She's like, "The.

workers up the street said there's a. fire on the hill." Again, this is not. crazy. Like, Mayor Bass's like, "We. never knew, but we're well aware fires. happen. There had just been the Getty. fire that everyone ran out of their. houses for.". >> I grew up in LA. >> I've been through the fires. They've. been going on for 30 years. I mean, >> three weeks before all my friends fought. a fire in Malibu. episode. I was even. planning on starting my own fire brigade. like my friends had and I was talking to. Heidi like we need to get a hose, we. need to get a truck. And so I was well.

aware of fires no matter what anybody. says. This isn't a shock. We also know. about Santa Ana winds. So I run up the. hill where we hike every day for the. last nine years. And I see the smoke, you know, coming from like the Highlands. area, which is where Loachman, which we. now know the fire was really from seven. days earlier and it had been smoldering. for a week. And I see the smoke. I. FaceTime my wife. I was like, "Yeah, maybe pack go down to my parents house. just to be safe." Because my parents.

live in the Palisades. I grew up in the. Palisades. It's the opposite side of. where we are. We're at the top of the. hill next to the state park there by the. bluffs, next to the ocean. You would. think that'd be safe. So she loads up. just diapers, kids clothes, and goes to. my mom's house. I stay up there, you. know, facetiming every local, what's. going on very confident because I assume. I've been paying I don't have any money. because all my money goes to taxes. So I. assume all these tax money is. firefighters are coming. Got to be going. somewhere. It's going somewhere. You.

know, I was very naive. And I also live. next door again in the debate when Mayor. Bass was like he's lying or that's not. true. There was only one reservoir that. was empty. Ma'am, Mayor Bass, I live. next to the one you don't know existed, the Palisades reservoir. 5 million. gallons next door to my house that the. fire department would do almost, not. weekly, but bi-weekly drills. They would. connect up there. They would make me. move cars if they needed to to bring the. hoses. I was always saying to my wife,

"Well, this is annoying, but gosh, we're. set. They have a thing where the. helicopter could dip in there." not the. San Andreas reservoir that she was. referencing that she lied about and said. was for drinking water which obviously. if you Google LA Times will show you. when it was made it was for wildfire. protection that's why it has sistns. that's why it has helicopter dip sites. because it's for wildfire so I was very. confident I have a video of myself. filming can't wait till the helicopters.

get here not realizing that they drain. that Janice Quinion the LA DWP drain. that reservoir in June of 2024. I must. have been out at Awan when they were. emptying it or whatever. So I was very. confident in 2025. in Pacific Palisades that pays probably. almost what a quarter of the taxes for. the whole city. I would guess at this. point they are not letting the entire. town burn to the ground. So I didn't.

pack anything. I didn't you know prepare. for our house to burn down. I call the. fire department directly because I have. their number. I say, "Hey, we just see. one truck up here cuz you know if the. fire comes around, there's just this one. place of dead brush and if you put water. on it, you know, it won't come and hit. all these houses." And they said, "We. have no assets available." I'm like, "Whoa, that was scary." So then my dad. comes up, you know, and we got the hose. and he's hosing a hillside and finally. I'm like, "Dad, let's get out of here.

You know, firefighters are probably. coming." So, >> and your wife and kids are gone at this. point. >> They're at my dad's house, which. >> ends up now the fires come from Tesco. Canyon and it's crossed over. So, my. older sister calls like, "What are your. kids doing there? They better get out of. there." I'm like, "What is happening?". So, now I'm, >> you know, what? This is insane. It's. like a bad movie. >> And I never heard any sirens. People. like real locals will tell you if you. talk to me, there was no sirens. >> Yeah. I've heard this from a lot of. friends in the past. So that was the if. I had heard sirens I would have like.

started packing things. maybe stayed but you don't feel scared. if you don't hear sirens. There's no. sheriffs or LAPD or any emergency. vehicles coming up on the street you. know everybody get out of the you know. like in a movie. There was no movie. stuff and you know so you always think. everything's like a movie but nothing. was like a movie. So then I I stay till. the fire comes down the hill at 5 6:00. at night. Again, when she was talking. about this wind, Mayor Bass, I'm.

standing at the top of the palisades. I. connect to the state park. There was no. scary winds. It did not go past 40 miles. per hour and it's now been, you know, even CBS did a great debunk post. yesterday, CBS News, with a journalist. that was up there that I was correct and. I wasn't lying in the debate. >> and there were planes flying. >> Yeah. It moved. It was windy, but it. wasn't. >> So, I talked to the chief Bobby Garcia. at the US Forest Service about what he. thought went sideways the day of, you.

know, we don't know because the. afteraction report has been edited. multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she. denies, but the LA Times stands by their. reporting. And he said the initial fire. wasn't made skinny. You're supposed to. attack the fire on both sides. And that. did not happen because, ready for this? You know what Mayor Bass brought up? like, "Oh, there was no planes, no. mayor." Bass, you never called in fixed. air wing support. She never did. You. know why? She was in Africa. She was in.

Africa. >> And you know who was supposed to do it? Her deputy mayor, but he was on house. arrest. So LA city never even called in. fixed air wing support to drop water. Thankfully, LA County Calire showed up. and the US Forest Service. But that's. how out of the loop Mayor Bass was on. this. >> So when did you find out your house was. gone? I watched it burn on my first on. my security cameras. I watched my son's. bed burn in the shape of a heart, which. is the most spiritual crazy like shape.

of a heart coming through the bottom of. his bed. And then I watched each room. until. >> you're watching on the cameras. >> on my phone in gridlock traffic on like. where the 405 like where the 10 goes to. the 405 that one ramp. I'm just stuck in. traffic watching it. But thank God as. I'm watching it, I can't reach my dad. who I'm thinking is dying trying to save. his house on the bluffs. And I'm calling. 911. I've been trying to get these audio. calls to just post the level and they. say they don't have him. But I'm calling.

911 to find out if my dad is okay, if he. tripped, if So even though I'm watching. my house burn down, I can't reach my. dad. So that's taking away the material. >> connection. I'm like, my dad cared more. to me than my house burning. So I get on. 911. They're like, "What's the address?". Like, "Oh, no emergency personnel can go. there.". >> My dad lives on the bluffs. There's like. >> So you're like losing your mind at that. point. >> There's 12 ways to get to my parents. house. >> So this idea that there's no emergency. personnel and I'm telling them my dad.

could be burning up. So these 12 people. that did burn alive, I know firsthand if. one of their family members or relatives. or neighbors was calling 911, they were. told no emergency personnel can go help. them. So, thank God my dad obviously. lived and he got out and I was like, "Dad, could you get out?" He's like, "Yeah, it was I drove all you could. drive anywhere." So, they didn't even. brutal. So, in the aftermath, this hits. you, must have hollowed you, wrecked. you. How was the next couple of weeks. kind of trying to put everything back. together? And at what point were you.

like, man, I'm gonna try and figure this out? Like, was it an immediate call to action for. you or was there a period of time there. where you were trying to put everything. together? So my wife and I when we were. very successful in 2009, we spent. millions of dollars on her pop music. album with all the most famous music. producers and writers in the world, but. it was a it we didn't have the money to. promote it. It just nobody ever heard. it, but we did that. The 15-year.

anniversary of that album happened to be. January 10th. The house burned down. January 7th. So when I have zero money. now because everything I ever put into. was in this house for my sons. All. everything I own was in this house. I'm. like, "Oh my god, we have no money. We're done." I'm getting emails because. January 10th is this anniversary date, 15 years of her album. So I go on TikTok. Live and I say, "Anybody please, you. know, I have no money right now. Our.

house just burned down. Please stream my. wife's album, buy it, and thank God for. Planet Earth getting behind me. I think. maybe 12 countries, put it number one. Everyone streamed it. It was the first. time an album from 15 years went to. number one on Billboard charts. So, that. was taking me out of the the dark. >> trauma cuz I'm focusing on right away. pivoting into like we're going to. rebuild. And I was naive to think. streaming music you could get a house.

back, you know? Thank god I did make. like $150,000, but if this was 2006, we. would have made millions of dollars. So, it took my mind off it. Obviously, my. wife is trying to get our kids into new. schools. She's not even connecting to. this. This is so positive, honey. Everyone's supporting you. So, when that. wears down and I realize, oh my god, this is not enough money to build. anything. We're we were stuck with. California Fair Plan because we were. dropped by farmers after paying for. eight years and we have no money to.

rebuild. And I start questioning like. why did our house burn down? It. shouldn't have burned down. And I call. up my friend who I just was at a. groomsman in his wedding and his dad had. just fought Edison in the in the. campfire. maybe. I'm pretty sure it was campfire. at Paradise and he beat Edison. So I. call him I was like, "Can you represent. me? I want to sue the city. I want to. sue the state. I want to sue L. >> So you're a fighter. You go after it. >> I'm just done. Case case. >> Fast forward a little bit. 5,000 homes. burnt.

>> 7,000. >> 7,000 structures. Yeah. 7,000 homes. Whatever it is. Why are you the guy that. comes out of the fire and says, "I'm. going to fight and I'm going to do. something about it and I'm going to. change it.". >> Well, thankfully I had this experience. of already being like a hated media. personality. When you put yourself out. there, especially when you're fighting. machines like Gavin Newsome and his. social team and they're calling you a. conspiracy theory and the LA Times is. calling you conspiracy theory because. they're saying this is climate change. There's nothing that could happen. Well, guess what? The day of the debate, the.

judges overruled the appeal by the state. and the city of LA. Guess why? Because. of the negligence that caused the palace. fire. It's moving forward. Discoveries. open. So this idea that I was this. conspiracy theory climate change wind. guy that a normal person would have, oh. my god, I'm being attacked by the. governor of California on social media. Most people back down. You burn my house. down. You burn my parents out. >> You've been through it. You've been in.

the public. You've been a fighter in. public. You've got this character that. allows you to kind of stand up. You you. you have this capacity and you have a. bit of a platform going into it. >> So it was on Yeah. And once I got the. truth, all the LFD whistleblowers were. coming to me telling me that they were. told to leave the smoldering lockman. fire on January 1st. They told me that. Mayor Bass was fighting the battalion. chief who's editing the all they're. editing the afteraction report. Obstruction of justice. They're telling. me that the chief fought her for that 17.

million and warned her that Angelinos. would not be safe. So I'm getting all. this information so I don't feel like. just this fringe social media voice. Man, I'm not crazy. >> Yeah. >> So, you fast forward, the campaign's up. and running now. You have. >> Well, let's rewind. So, when I see that. no one's running against her, I reach. out to Rick Caruso. I call him. I say, "Are you going to run after Mayor Bass. cuz she's going to guaranteed win June. 2nd, 51%. Totally. And I cannot accept. this as a human being at this point.".

And I call him and he says, "Go after. Bass." Implying he's not going after. Bass. And so, game on. No one else. stepping up. He told you to do it. >> Yes. But I was already doing it. But if. he was going to do it, >> obviously I wasn't going to go against. >> Totally. >> Yeah. I was like, "Okay, are you going. to do it?" And he said, "Go after.". >> So, how's the campaign going after this. debate this week? And I want to talk. about the campaign ads because the ads. have almost elevated you to what I am. hearing from a lot of people is almost.

like a historic campaign. The ads are. cutting through in a way that people. have never seen before. Are those your. ads or are they being produced by a. third party and put out there? Because. I've heard from some folks, there's a. guy Charlie Curran that might be. involved or other folks that that might. be separate from your campaign that are. putting these out there. They're. breaking through the mold that. everyone's like, "This isn't a political. campaign. This is almost emotional. It's. a movement. People want to like get. behind you and they don't even live in. LA." So, the ad that blew up crazy is.

when I showed Bass's house, Nitia. Ramen's million-dollar mansion, multi-million dollar, and then my. Airstream. That one broke every ad. record in history. That is, if it has my. name on it, it's legally mine. Anything. like these incredible grassroots ads, but I don't put my name on it, it's. legally not mine. >> So, there are people out there doing. these ads, not in your campaign, >> correct? >> That are creating this movement. Correct. Because people feel the common. sense. >> They feel the emote. Totally. It's.

connecting. >> I keep trying to tell everyone that, you. know, they try to put me in a box. I. didn't run for to be a political party. I didn't run to be a politician. I ran. because I experienced what city. leadership failure at the ultimate level. is. That's why I stepped up. That's what. cuts through. So the media and everyone. wants to jump on and be like, "Oh, Spencer is our guy." No. I'm the. citizen. I'm the angry taxpayer. You can. be a Democrat and love me. You can be a. Republican and love me. The only people. that don't love me are communists and.

socialists and I don't want them to love. me. >> You know, there was a saying from John. Adams 1776 where he said, "Public virtue. cannot exist in a nation without private. virtue," implying that citizenship. involves sacrificing your personal. interest for the greater public good. And Thomas Jefferson also spoke at. length about taking a turn providing. civic duty. Everyone has a civic. responsibility to support society at. large, but if you're going to go into. government, if you're going to go into. politics, you do a tour of duty. It's.

not a career. It was never meant to be a. career. And it's almost like the local, the state, and the national level. There's an entire industry of people. that have built a career in politics. And then you come along, I would think. Donald Trump's come along. He's almost. like another one of these enigmas that. came out that people it resonated with. people that you're actually standing up. and saying I'm the guy who's on the. other side of the problem with all of. this and this is why this needs to. change. It seems to be creating a. movement. >> Yeah. I feel like I connect more with.

Cenitis. This guy that was a farmer and. >> I actually have Citus written down right. now. I was I was I was going to mention. I'm like oh it's too esoteric. >> Oh no. That's who I connect to because. I'm like this guy went and fought this. battle. They wanted to give him all the. power and he's like no I want to go back. to my family and I keep initially when I. ran I would say I want to do my four. years and then go back. I realize I need. to do the eight years. Lock this in. Get. LA the number one city in the world. Then I can go back to my family. So I'm. prepared to do the eight. That's my tour.

of duty. And when people say, "Oh, this. is your house, this airirst." I go, "No, that's my forward operating base because. this is a battle against good and evil. They let seven people die in the street. every day with our billions of tax. dollars and they say they need no new. beds." It's a drug problem. 90% of these. people are drug addicts. We need to get. these people mandatory treatment. Then. we can get them beds and also they don't. have to have a bed in on the west side. or next to people's houses or in San.

Pedro and right next to schools. They. can have beds in facilities that we. built out. My friend Matt Hes has a. incredible facility in Bentonville. He. built for veterans. I've been talking. with him where he has veterans come. here. They have all these services. It's. beautiful. I'm like, how do we build. this incredible compound, beautiful. possibilities? I guess in Italy, some. billionaire did this for addicts. That's. my vision where we have all this. >> Take care of people the right way. >> Exactly. All the services that you'll. ever need in a beautiful setting, not in.

a cement brick building that looks like. a prison. An addict when they're getting. off drugs, they don't want to be in a. 250 foot little cell, no service. We put. them out in nature. We're spending $25. billion plus. We have enough money where. it's actually cheaper to build the most. incredible facility out in nature that. bring these services that provide for. these addicts. And you separate people. Everybody doesn't go in one building. like they do right now. If you're a. veteran, you go over here. Single. mothers with their kids, families over.

here. Somebody who's just a hardened. criminal drug addict, you go over here. on this side of the hill. And we need to. build this out. And we have the money. But guess who doesn't make money if I do. that? than NOS's that are stealing all. of our tax money to increase prom, giving these people pipes, giving them. needles, giving them the Narcan, letting. them OD 14 times a night. >> Let me just hit on the NGO point. What. is the corruption there? Help people. understand because a lot of people think. this is like a MAGA talking point. I. hear this thrown about all the time. People use MAGA as a term to dismiss.

when someone says something that is. factually jarring to you. I've noticed. this on like someone comes along and. they point out something and it's like. oh that's a MAGA talking point as a way. of just dismissing it instead of. actually listening to what the person is. saying. Can you explain what goes on. with these NOS's like how do NOS's. create a system that the more we spend. and in the last 10 years city of Los. Angeles I think has increased homeless. spending by 10x and the homeless. population has doubled and clearly it's. gotten a lot worse. Why is that.

relationship there and what's the role. that the NOS's actually play in this? And I promise not to call you a MAGA guy. for telling me. >> Well, first off, when you said. homelessness 2x, homelessness 200x, the. count for homelessness, the when Mayor. Bass in the debate was like it's down. 17% from like these are the most cooked. numbers. Even the Rand Corporation says. what they're saying is 30% increase. But. they just drive around and they go 1 2 3. 4 5 6. They're not going in under these. encampments and bridges and bushes and.

unzipping these tents and going into the. sewer. So we don't even know the count. But let me tell you my first experience. with NOS's after the Palestund. million raised. Every single person I. talked to messaging me, no one's getting. this money, no one's seeing a dollar. I. go to Washington. I ask senators to. investigate this. We open up the case. Now all a sudden fire aid puts out a. legal letter to defend themselves in. their own legal letter from the law. firm. They say several several of these.

NOS's gave directly to fire victims. The. list for the 100 million is 200 plus. Google sever several it's under 10. So. even in their defense they're telling. you and again I don't believe one of. those 10 gave directly. The people that. they said did like we gave gift cards. Who' you give gift cards to? I don't you. don't think one fire victim they're. messaging me all day long said hey I got. a $500 gift card. So that's when I. learned firsthand that these NGOs's will. take and right in your face a hundred.

million and just steal it. So, back to. it being a maggot thing. The person who. really exposed the details to me is this. incredible Democrat mom, Samantha from. the Integrity Project. She made her own. little charity nonprofit cuz she's now. tapped out of her own money in her. neighborhood in Westwood. Her and her. husband, they're both lawyers. And this. homeless housing went up on their block. It was senior citizens. They kic the. senior citizens out and it's wineart. They I their audit is late. Let's just.

put it that way. They're making hundreds. of millions of dollars. This is the best. part. So, the building goes on the. market for $11 million. 6 days later, the city with our tax. money gives Weineart 29 million, $28. million to buy this same building that. was $11 million. There's nobody to this. day, years later, being housed in this. Weart has developers paying $750 a. square foot. When I've talked to. developers and contractors, this should.

be $250 a square foot. So, they make. this money with these developer. kickbacks. They have all these shell. companies that, oh, this is our. developer has nothing to do. Ready for. one of my favorite parts with that $30. million. Who do you think owns that. building in Westwood? Not the taxpayers. Wineart. So, they This is the Shelby. house. I just went to San Pedro, right. across the street from a school 600 feet. away, right across this beautiful little. nice with old people in this community. They're kicking senior citizens out of.

one in San Pedro and they're going to. put hardened criminals. Same thing. This. one's like $80 million. So what they do. is they take our tax money, they take. grants, they take fake federal and state. grants, and they they cook up a little. plan. Here's this. We're going to house. 80 people. Yet they don't tell us that. that's $700,000 a person. But everyone's. making these people NGOs's get. million-dollar salaries. The people. below them get 500. Nobody's actually. helping anyone cuz ready for this.

There's no requirement to house people. And then in the state of California, this is the craziest part with the home. key rules. The state won't give the city. a lot of the money if you require the. people to be off of drugs. If you say. you can't do drugs in this housing, oh. well then you can't get access to this. money. >> That's unbelievable. And just to be. clear, what an NGO is legally, it's a. 501c3 organization. Anyone can set one. up. Anyone can file the IRS form, create. this entity. Once you've created the. entity, you've legally created it.

You've got an IRS form. Cost a couple. hundred bucks to do it. Now, theoretically, someone who might want to. be, I don't know, a crony or a thief, a. criminal, as you might call them, whatever you want to call them, they can. now use this entity that they've created. to basically get access to all this. money from governments that aren't. necessarily keeping a good eye on the. money. How do the politicians that are. allowing it to happen or the bureaucrats. in the government that are allowing that. to happen, how do they benefit? Because. why would they do this? Why would they.

let this money flow out to these NOS's. in a way that's clearly not in the. taxpayers's best interest? >> Well, you can go the conspiracy route or. you can just go look at all these things. we're doing. You So, there's two ways to. look at it. They get to say, "Oh, we. have this housing and this services.". These people just bring them this easy. out like they're trying to fix something. while still looking good like, "Oh, that's this NGO. Oh, they oh, criminal. They got caught." So then you go.

conspiracy and you could say, well, are. these people helping campaigns? Are they. putting do they have packs? So there's. money going are they helping? So that's. more conspira that's fringe, but in just. the sense it's an easy way out. Oh, we're we're solving this. We're working. on this. Two ways you can look at it. I. think they're all criminals. Thankfully, I've talked to the Justice Department. sources and city officials are going to. go down. >> They are complicit. Here's the here's. the hard part about catching these. people. They're literally taking money.

with poker chips, goods and services. Criminals are smart now. They're not. just saying, "Zell me the money, right?". >> But from my sources, we are going to see. actual city officials go down. Not quick. enough because they got to frame these. people up. But again, how does Spencer. stop this when he's mayor? I've met with. the criminal investigation team at the. IRS six times. First week in office, you. bring all of them in. We audit every. NGO, every document that hasn't been. shredded. Now, some people insiders at.

city hall have told me, you know, they're shredding these documents. I. have more faith in the my criminal. investigation team. They'll be able to. figure out without the documents, even. if they're shredded. But that's what's. happening. They're shredding the. documents. >> So, let me ask Karen Bass. A lot of. people you would assume would feel like. she failed the city with the fire. Why. is she still able to stay in office? And. why is she in the lead in the polls for. running for mayor? Why are people still. voting for her? >> She's the lowest in the history of the. polls of an incumbent. So she has 20%. So 80% of LA do not believe that. So the.

polls are confusing. She's the worst. record in the history of the city. So. 80% of people do not think she's doing a. good job. 20% is crazy bad. That's why. Councilwoman Ramen jumped in the race. one hour before the closing because she. saw I was going to beat Mayor Bass and. her DSA team. For people that don't. know, Democratic Socialist America that. she co-governs with as a as a city. council member, they were like, "Get in. You can be the fake Democrat and Spencer.

will take out Bass and then you'll get. in." She endorsed Mayor Bass two weeks. before she jumped into the race. They. worked together on all these things. Mayor Bass door knocked to get. Councilwoman Ramen, who was about to. lose her counciloman seat. She door. knocked with her to get her in and. backed her. though. Nobody backs Mayor. Bass and any of the media that's trapped. in this these lies, they are on. It's. not Mayor Bass's fault. It was high. winds. It's an unprecedented disaster.

It's not true. It's precedent. We had. the Bair fire. Mayor Bass was alive for. We had the Mandaville Canyon fire Mayor. Bass was alive for. Not unprecedented. So, the polls mean nothing. Everyone. that's voting for me is not taking a. spam call. First off, they're not. talking to a stranger on the street cuz. they already feel so unsafe. They're not. letting a rando approach them. Period. So, >> you know, it's interesting. Both. candidates, Ramen and Bass. are I I don't know if Bass is. selfdeclared socialist, but obviously.

she spent time with Castro's. organization in Cuba. She. >> So, she's a Vener Ramos brigade member. She spent 20 times going to Cuba. So. when they say Spencer doesn't have any. experience, look, he was a reality star. in Swing. No, I wasn't training with. terrorists that would later bomb the. capital. That's who Mayor Bass is, who. only denounced anything communist when. they were trying to make her the vice. president. >> But my point is, we have like a. self-declared socialist mayor in Seattle. and now in New York. What is going on in.

cities that people are standing up and. raising their hand or filing a ballot. saying, "I want a socialist to be my. mayor." And now we're seeing this kind. of emerge on a national basis. I've. talked about this a lot. I got my own. perspective on it. But like what do you. think is going on with the people on the. street as you meet with people, as you. get to talk to them? Why do they want. that persona? Why do they want that. policy, the socialist policy? >> I don't even think they're aware of it. I think we have such tribal politics. that that people that are against me.

just think, "Oh, he's not with us. It's. so gang gang." that they don't even. realize who they're with and what these. people represent. They just think, "Oh, it's not that group." And that's the. problem when you nationalize politics. We should be a city. We should be all. together making sure the streets are. safe. The lights are on. There's no. potholes. The sidewalks are there. It's. that basic. But we've gotten to this. nationalized politics where they don't. even care who. They just think, "Oh,

they're not that person. They're not. connected to that party." So, also they. tell these people, "We're going to make. things more affordable. We're going to. give you free money." This idea that. that works. I had this guy Rafa, he. manages a a bunch of the Dodgers. He's. Venezuela. And he came up to me at an. event recently. He's like, I felt like I. was in a scene in Braveheart. It was so. intense. It's like William Wallace in my. face. Big Venezuela dude. And he's like, "I fled Venezuela because of socialism. And I fought everything for my family. and I will not let my kids have this. socialism in LA. I know what h" And I.

was like, "I know, bro. we're good. Like, join the team. You're with me. Let's go door knock. But people who know. what these this idea of giving you. money, giving it does not work. It's. this fake lie. What people forget is. they can't lower the cost of goods. The. only thing you can do to make things. more affordable as mayor, which I will. be able to do, is put more money in. people's pockets. We need to put more. revenue in the city. We're over here. They're always asking me, "How are you. going to balance this budget, Spencer? There's going to be no money to do us.".

We're the We should be the number one. city in the world. We should have money. shooting out of ATMs. We're Los Angeles. There will be plenty of money when we. let the systems work. When we let. business work. How can you let business. work if you have drug addicts going. number two and number one in front of. every cafe? We lost over a 100. restaurants in LA. Not cuz they weren't. good food, because you have drug addicts. scaring people to go out. That's why. they're Uber Eatsing. They're doing door. dash. I talked to a mom the other day. who works in downtown as a lawyer. I. know her because of her friend, her kids.

are my friend's kids. She said, "Spencer, we're not allowed to leave the. office building. Our food has to be. delivered in." That's why restaurants. are closing around downtown LA because. the workers that are still trying to. work can't go outside of their buildings. because it's unsafe. The number one. thing in a functioning city that we. don't have is safety. If you don't have. a safe city, and they'll tell you, Mayor. Bass will tell you, Councilwoman Ramen, crime's down. They'll she'll say the. murder rate's down. Well, that's a. national trend. Please don't try to take.

credit for that. But crime's down. because people have given up calling. 911. You I talked to a guy today at. lunch. He said he watched a lady the. other day on Wilshire Boulevard right in. front of the federal building, the FBI. building. This nice Latino lady get. punched in the chest by a crazy drug. addict. He pulled over his car, tried to. like be a Batman hero, jumped out. He's. like, "Stop that." The ladies were so. used to like, "Thank you." They get on. the bus and go. He watches this guy get. a PVC pipe, start banging on cars. He.

calls 911 and he's like, they just act. like it's no big deal. It's just normal. LA. Finally, he starts ripping a bike. off of the like off of a bus. He calls. 911. He's like, he's ripping the bike. No big deal. Now, the guy's coming at. him. He says he's coming after me and. they're like, "Okay, somebody's coming. Police come." He's like, "A rest this. guy." Like, well, nobody's here and. there's no witnesses. He's like, "Arest. this guy." He's arguing with the cops. Every cop I talk to wants to enforce a. law, but they can't because the powers. behind them. They're not taking any of.

these citations ready cuz it's. culturally insensitive to sight and. ticket someone without an address. That's why the dogs are being abused, tortured, mutilated, raped on the side. of streets. People are filming this. They know what's happening. But even uh. Stacy Danes or whatever name Stacy Danes. was head of the animal control or. whatever animal services, she said, "Oh, we can't." The city mayor's office said, "Culturally insensitive, don't. We can't. go after people without addresses.". >> Dude, that's unbelievable. Makes me so.

angry. >> I That's the problem. They keep on. calling me the angry white guy. They. don't get every race, every gender, however you identify. If you live in LA. and you're paying your taxes, you are. angry. >> But most people don't see it is the. other thing. So like Skid Row, most. people aren't there all the time. We. host our all-in summit in downtown LA. It's our last year. We're doing it in. September. It's a really big event, but. we're not coming back. So most people I. know like don't get down there. We have. people from all over the world, 60. countries come to our event. They. they're like, "What the hell is this. place? We can't be down here." When you.

see it, you're like, "What?" Well, here's the problem. We keep talking. about Skid Row in LA. This is all over. the valley. This is in Westwood. This is. in Hollywood. This is everywhere. before. my house burned down in front of. Palisades Elementary School across the. street, my son's Methodist preschool. where I went to preschool, there was a. lady cleaning her private parts in front. of kids almost every morning at 7:45. a.m. We'd call LAPD. They'd come and. they go, "Ma'am, no more." She'd go walk. down the street and she'd go number two.

in front of Joe's Barber Shop. So, it. was coming to the Palisades. It's coming. everywhere. This is not a When I went to. USC, it was Skid Row. So we we have this. issue in LA in in San Francisco where I. live and Mayor Lur came in. I don't know. if you followed what he's done. He's an. unbelievable guy. Old friend of mine and. done an incredible job. He arrests. people. He puts them in jail. The crime. has stopped. Car breakins are down 87%. in the city. 87%. You no longer have. hordes of people walking into stores. stealing everything, walking out. As. soon as you just enforce the law that's.

already in place, boom, you're 90% of. the way there. Everything kind of It. doesn't It doesn't take a miracle, >> you know? It just takes a will and and a. and someone who can actually manage and. organize to get the stuff done. Give. them the votes. Get them there. >> So, I met with Victor Coleman who owns. most of these studios, a lot of real. estate in LA, and he talked to me about. Mayor Lur in San Francisco. He said, "Spencer, when they tell you you have no. experience, you just tell him, Mayor Lur. didn't have any experience running a. city." What he did, he's came in and. forced the law. He said, "My portfolio. in San Francisco is booming again. My.

portfolio in Los Angeles, it's not doing. as well, let's say." And he said, "You. just need to force the laws that exist.". And a lot of people always say this to. me. They go, "What are you going to do. with all these people?" A great quote, a. famous police chief told me, "Once you. start putting handcuffs on people, watch. how many people leave.". >> 100%. >> This idea that everyone, if you let. everyone do drugs and do whatever they. want and let the criminals make the. outside asylum and with no guards, if. you let them do that, they're going to. do that. But if you So when I'm mayor,

my plan is first three weeks, signs up. across the city, no more nakedness, no. more drug use, no more robbing, no. worse. >> No more burning dogs in the street, >> no more dog abuse. Very on every sign, on every bird. So that and we're going. to go around. We're going to warn. everybody, hey, got three more weeks of. this. Like clock's ticking. Just keep. telling everyone just to so the people. that are aware, they're like, oh wow, there's a new mayor in town. They may. start leaving. And then when the three. weeks or maybe we'll even do two weeks,

maybe people will want it faster. And. then once we start enforcing the laws, boom, streets will be back. You know who. else? I'm gonna bring in the CDC because. there's medieval diseases in these. encampments. They're not swabbing these. encampments. They're not swabbing the. streets. People are just living in feces. and drug use and dogs burning and. bodies. We need these streets. cleaned. >> Yeah. What about the building of the team to. execute? You're looking to sit in this.

executive role. Have you ever had a role. where you've overseen tens of thousands. of employees before? I'm assuming not. I've read your bio, but like how do you. execute? Who do you bring in under you. that actually knows how to manage the. system, manage the people, deliver the. message? you can form strategy and set. objectives and so on, but walk us. through how you're actually going to. deliver as mayor operationally when you. step in on day one. >> So, the great news about running for. mayor of LA is everyone wants to save.

LA. Everyone wants LA to be number one. the meetings I'm taking every week now, the lunches, the brunches, the dinners. of beyond successful people that are. willing to work for a dollar a year, pause their companies to come in. People. are telling me just with algorithms. alone, they have we can 100x the. bureaucracy of the city and building and. development. What I'm going to do, there's so many cranes in the city. because we're going to be rebuilding the. amount of money. Just last week, I.

probably met with 10 billionaires that. are ready to come in and build LA up to. be the number one city in the world. So, when they say, "Oh, you have no. experience." Well, what I do have is. humility. I'm humble. I know I have. never ran the second largest city. I. know smart people who have done it. We. need to be bringing in the CEOs that. have ran the biggest corporations in the. world to come in and work with, you. know, because they'll tell you, "No, you. need to know the city at a certain. level." You bring those people in, but. the people that execute the.

multibillion, like they say, they say, "Oh my gosh, Spencer, this is a $15. billion budget." Well, there's people. I'm meeting with that have $50 billion. budgets that are going up that go up. So, these people exist that I will. surround myself with. I already have a. deputy mayor that I can't say because of. fear of retaliation in the city of LA. that will make sure the most important. thing we do because all this talk. doesn't work if you don't enforce the. law. So, I have a deputy mayor that will. help me enforce the law, and that's the. priority. When we enforce the law, now.

all these creative ideas on execution. work, but if you don't enforce the law, Mayor Bass could bring in all the same. people I'm meeting with, but she won't. enforce the law. Councilwoman Ramen can. bring in all the same people that I'm. meeting with. It won't work if you don't. enforce the law. No one's putting money. into the city of LA until they know. there's a mayor that's going to make. sure the streets are safe for all the. moms, the kids, the dads, everyone that. just wants to be a normal human being. that just pays their taxes, goes to the. park, go to dinner. So until you do that. part, all this who's going to be this is.

irrelevant. But the list of people is So. again, >> for sure cuz I hear I hear it from a lot. of executives I'm friends with, they're. like, man, this message resonates. People want to get involved. They want. to step up. Like I said, people not from. LA want to step up. Outside of keeping. the streets safe, outside of building a. reasonable fire suppression. infrastructure, getting back to basics. What about education? We have young. kids. LA USD spends $23,000 per student.

$101,000 average teacher salary. It's. number one in the country. But LA USD as. a school district ranks 170th in the. state of California. and only 46% of. students are meeting or exceeding. standards in English, 37% in math. What. is there to do about education in the. city to give all of the next generation. the opportunity to progress, to realize. their potential, and to not fall into. the traps of socialism and communism. because they're despondent and they. don't have opportunity in front of them. How do we get that generation to.

succeed? Well, for my own experience. with my son who was in LA USD and it was. even a charter with PAL. This is. supposed to be the best version at all. times. Every parent is just trying to. fund raise fundra for books for learning. for teach for an extra teacher and it's. like what is going on? If I'm going to. spend this much money, I'm going to put. my kid in a private school. How would. these schools So, first off, we got to. back to auditing. The biggest issue I've. learned with the city of LA, whether. it's the school systems, everyone needs.

to be audited. Where is all this money. going to first off at the fire. department, the police department, the. waste of this taxpayer money? So, let's. figure first out where the money is. going because if it's cost this much for. each student, yet as a dad, I'm trying. to always donate, have fundraisers. We. got to we got to track the money. And. that's another thing that when we talk. about what's Mayor Pratt, it's. accountability and transparency. Every. dollar of tax money in the city of LA. needs to be on very easy cliffnotes.

level dashboards so we can track and get. results of where all of our tax money is. going. But back to how we make kids know. socialism and communism doesn't work is. we give their parents hope again and we. make the parents demand. I have kids I. have parents right now that are pulling. their kids out of a school, public. school that my kids are in right now. because of that messaging. There's no. more pledge of allegiance. There's no. more America's, you know, good. We just. need to go back to having pride in being. Americans. We've gotten so far off of.

just America's awesome because. everyone's fighting with political and. it's like, oh, American flag is like, I. can't put that up. Like, we need to get. back to the basics of where our. grandparents were when they were. fighting World War II and had pride in. being Americans. But to me, it's the. money. Where's the money going? Like if. you want things to be better, we got to. stop wasting money. The fire stations. that I meet with, they're charging. $250,000 for doors, $50,000 for. refrigerators. So I think tracking money.

is the source of all of this. I have a. buddy, his house burnt down, unfortunately as well. So I was like, I'm going to meet with Spencer Pratt. Any questions? He said, what about this. stupid ass $3 billion expansion of the. convention center? My favorite part. about the convention center is like a. month ago, less than a month ago, it's. just a dead body in the bushes in front. of the convention center. So that the. idea that we're going to put billions of. dollars into something that has dead. bodies in the bushes in front. Why. aren't we putting the billions of.

dollars in getting the dead bodies from. stopping to be on the streets every day? But I don't want to say, initially I was. like, stop that. But now I'm in this. like LA's got to be the number one city. in the world. So maybe we don't need to. use LA money, but let's do private. partnership. Who's going to come in with. money to do something right now we can't. afford? But I don't want to be the one. now that's like, we don't want to stop. building. I actually like the idea of. having a convention center cuz the LA. that I'm about to build when I destroy. 40 blocks of drugged out zombies that.

are taking all these empty buildings. So. much business and commerce is going to. come in. We're probably going to need. that convention center. Currently, there. makes no sense with the current. administration. Mayor Bass is elected is. the dumbest thing you ever heard. If. Councilwoman Ramen's elect is the. dumbest thing, Mayor Pratt goes in and. we're putting billions of dollars of. money back in LA. Restaurants are back. We're probably going to need that. convention center. So, initially when I. was first fighting this fight, my. message was let's get back to LA I grew. up in. I was like started taking on this.

meeting with billionaires ready to give. me $500 million. I met with a. billionaire anonymous billionaire that. agreed to be the funar. He said, "My. family gave $300 million to New York for. a project. We'll give you $500 million. to bring fund back to Los Angeles." I. was like, "Can I tell people about you?". He's like, "No, no, I'll be the. anonymous." This person is for real. So. to me, when I hear there's $2 billion, if I make that convention center a. little bit more fun, I have a $500. million now, then we can make it the fun.

convention center, and I just I just cut. that cost in half. So yes, right now it makes no sense. Have you. met with union leaders? >> No, they all they all back Mayor Bass. So, they're all going to love me because. everyone's going to have more revenue. Everyone's going to have jobs. LA's. going to So, when they're like, "You're. not going to win because you don't have. the unions. I don't need the unions to. win. I have the moms. I have the animal. lovers. That's more than any union. That's you can't get that endorsement. Moms across the city of LA. Not moms.

just in the valley. Not moms just in San. Pedro. Not moms in South Central. Not. moms in East LA. Not moms in boil. heights, not moms in Eagle. Everywhere. moms don't feel safe. The city is. unsafe. No matter what how much crime. stats, the feeling and unsafe is. resonating. And my message of I will be. the guy that's fighting to get safety. back is going to get me elected. And I. keep telling people I'm going to win on. June 2nd with 51% of the vote. November. is their fighting for November. I win.

June 2nd. But the unions obviously. people think it's this big issue when. you won't when your city is amazing. >> How are you going to work with them? So. you win on June 2nd. All the union. leaders call up your deputy mayor say, "I want a meeting with Mayor Pratt.". They come into your office one at a. time. They sit down across a table from. you. What's the message? >> The message is we're going to work with. you to make sure you get these benefits. that you want, but they need to make. sense right now at our trajectory. We're. gonna get to where what you need to feel.

comfortable in your city role is great, but there may be a minute here where we. got to tighten things up. I'm gonna find. all these homeless NGO billions that are. being laundered, but we need to get real. accounting. Right now, we don't have. outside budget advocates that right, we. don't look if we're increasing a union. 10% salary even though everybody else in. the private industry isn't getting. increased. We need to have a balance. We. need it makes sense for all evangelists. can't have everything just for this. small percentage because they're cooking.

votes. But don't get me wrong, unions, I'm going to make so much money in this. city that we're going to have plenty of. money that you're paid what you're. supposed to be paid. Law enforcement is. going to get paid what they're supposed. to get paid. We cannot lose law. enforcement because they're getting paid. more in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Norwich County. So, we can't risk lose. We're already losing too many law. enforcement. We're losing too many. firefighters. So, we cannot make it. where they don't want to work. And a lot. of the issues where people see these. salaries that are so crazy, it's. overtime. But if you don't get the.

hiring up to speed, then you have to pay. this crazy these salaries in overtime. And even that, these people that do get. paid, these crazy things you read on. Google, those top little it's a niche. amount of people and they've sacrificed. their family. They're working 32 days. These people are crazy. So they've given. everything they have to be that. firefighter or whatever. for that. So. again, >> the unions aren't your enemy. You're. going to find a path to working with. them. Even though they're not here for. you right now, they're worth Mayor Bass. You're there for them.

>> They're still hardworking people. I meet. with I've gone almost I'm going to a lot. of fire stations. LFD union for sure. endorses me. They just are scared to do. it publicly for retaliation. LAPD for. sure, the members all endorse me. I. promise you. the interaction, who's. messaging me, who's calling me, who's. texting me, the union power, they, Mayor. Bass currently writes their deals and. their checks. That's real. I don't judge. them for that. It's the system they're. in. But the membership, they they want. to feel safe. Most of the firefighters.

can't even live in California anymore. 60% of these guys fly in. And I say, "Well, why don't you guys live here? Like, it's not safe for our families. I. want them to move back. I want that tax. money.". >> One of the other stories about LA over. the last decade or two, you know, I grew. up here. I have a lot of friends who. grew up in Hollywood in the industry and. it's been gutted. There's no business in. LA anymore. And that's a huge employer. for so many Angelinos working in. Hollywood and all of the ancillary.

supporting industries. Do we rebuild. Hollywood in LA? Is Hollywood done. because of AI and YouTube and. independent production and studios don't. matter anymore? No one does broadcast. What's the future of Hollywood? Is there. a future for Hollywood in LA? And and. what do you do about it? So when I was. 20 years old, I sold the first the. youngest ever sold the first reality. show to Fox as the youngest executive. producer ever. And I sold it to Peter. Churn when he was the co-chair of News. Corp. It was with David Foster who's. actually hosting my fundraiser on.

Monday, full circle. Shout out David. Foster, legend. But I called Peter Churn. up a few weeks ago. I said, "Mr. Churn, PDC, how do I save LA? It's one of the. smartest human beings on earth." He. said, "Spencer, as mayor, you you're not. going to be able to change the bigger. picture of Hollywood. That's more. governor, you know, uncap. What you can. do to really bring back jobs, bring back. Hollywood, is bring back independent. filmmakers, independent production, independent artists. You prioritize the.

indies, you could have Hollywood booming. in a tier that people didn't see coming. And all my friends who haven't given up, that are still, cuz I grew up in in LA. I went to Crossroads. All my friends are. creators. They're artists. They're still. fighting. They're not giving up. When I. talk to them, they've all doubled down. on the indie route. When I talk to them, they say, "This is what we need to hear. We want to make this work." And you you. work with them. Mayor Bass brags about. like, "Oh, now you can film at the. Griffith Conservatory. Instead of.

70,000, it's 30." No. When I'm mayor, I'm going to help you produce these. freaking movies. We're going to get. We're going to have whole blocks and. we're going to use the restaurants to. keep them alive and we're going to use. the crews. We're going to eat out of. there. We're going to use all the city. resources to almost be in production. with the Indies, but making money. together. You know, not like a communist. or socialist, but in bring the city. enable, give them the support, get the. rid of these fees, the clearance, make. it easy. Right now, like I said in the. debate, I talked to producers. If you.

want to film on the streets of LA, it's. so unsafe. You got to pay gang members. off to get We're gonna have it so safe. that an indie crew can pop out with all. their cameras and gear and not get. stolen. So again, someone like Peter. Churnin, I said, "Peter, when I'm mayor, can I keep calling you?" And he his. exact quote, "I'm always here to make. you smarter, Spencer.". >> So these are the type of people when. they say, "Oh, you have no experience.". These are the people that are going to. make LA number one. >> But that is the future. I mean, everyone. is all about independent production. If. you work for a big studio or work for.

Netflix, you're getting paid cost plus. 10%. You're better off producing on your. own. There's definitely a flourishing. happening. It's just happening. everywhere else. It's not happening in. LA. And obviously I've reached out to. David Ellison's team. I've reached out. to Ted Sranos. I've reached out to. everyone because I don't just want to be. the indie guy. I want to figure out how. I go fight whoever the new governor is. Get uncapped. Get postp production. uncapped. Get as nobody should be going. to UK. Nobody should be going to Canada. With the respect these countries, I love. you guys, but we're not sending our.

filmmakers there anymore. So whatever I. can do as a mayor, you know, last the. other night in the debate, they're like, we're going to do it. You guys have had. 10 years combined. You haven't done. anything. I love fighting these people. I will I've been fighting Sacramento. since my house burned down. I You get me. bodyguards to fight these people. Trust. me, we are going to a whole new level of. fight. So again, I don't want to not. have studios come back. We have all. these empty lots. I would love big. productions to come back, but initially. as mayor, I can fight for indies. But.

don't get me wrong, I want Hollywood to. be top gun three right here. Take off. from LAX. Tell me how you address. transportation in LA. There's always a. new scheme or a new system being. developed. What's your view on what's. wrong about transportation in LA? And. how much are we wasting on things that. don't really matter that we could recoup. and reinvest elsewhere? What are those. kind of priorities for you? >> So, I just went to the new opening of. the Dline today just to to troll to get. some yimies to yell at me. And my.

funniest the funniest part about. transportation to me is it's a beautiful. idea when there's no human urine, human. poop on there, a drug addict's butt. hanging out. People forget every single. person in LA sends me their photos. I'm. now 311. I see what LA looks like. These. people go, "How do you know all this. information? My phone, I can't even open. it anymore cuz it's just naked drug. addicts. It's the craziest thing you've. ever seen." Who cares how many lines. that Metro connects to where it could.

connect to the moon right now, but if. drug addicts are smoking fentanyl next. to your kid, you're not going to the. moon on it. So, first off, it's back to. safety. We need these metro, the subway, whatever you want to ride. Bicycles. aren't even safe. The yims want more. bicycle. Like, I you couldn't even pay. me to get on a bicycle. A drug addict. zombie will hit me with a with a crowbar. when I'm riding by. We need to get. safety back. And of course, I love these. transportation ideas. I hate sitting in. traffic, but I've grown up in LA. I'm. aware of traffic is a part. So, yes, we.

need this, but we also need the money. for it. We need to build LA up. Right. now, I think 15% of the budget goes to. the metro if 5% people use it. Again, I. feel like if I made it safe, I could. give 15% to use it and we could even. that out. We got to make sure that. nobody's hopping any turn style. We need. to make sure you're paying to be on it. so that it's safe people on it. again. Back when I clear downtown LA for you. can drive for 40 blocks. When I clear. all these empty banned buildings that.

the drug addicts are burning down and. using all our firefighter resources and. risking their lives. When we clear that. all out and we use these 3D printing. I. I talked to an architect today, one of. the most famous architects in the world. He has a crew of like 12 architects. They're all They already did all these. designs for these buildings that nobody. listened to them. They met with Newsome. They met with Bass. Of course, I'm like, "Let's do it. Set me over the decks. We're going to have LA so beautiful. No. more of these high density SB79. prison-like structures. We need to bring.

art deco back. All the architects that. moved out of here because it was so hard. to build. Takes 8 years. They're going. to be moving back cuz we're going to. speed up building. It's not going to. take eight years. We need LA to be the. most beautiful architecture in the. world. I don't want to go to Venice. I. don't want to go go look at Venice. I. want to go to Venice, downtown LA. I'm. going have a canal and then the Yimi. people, they can have all their bike. lanes going through the sky through. tunnels and things. We need to get. creative with LA. >> Can you address the regulatory and.

permitting problem with construction and. building in the city? As mayor, do you. have enough authority to do this? So, can you talk a little bit about the. actions you would take to unleash this. kind of wave of building that you want. to see happen that everyone talks about. wanting to see happen in LA, but there. just seems to be so many layers of. permitting, so many processes, so much. approval, but it's statutory. It's. written into the law of the city. Do you. have the authority as the mayor to. actually be able to go in and address. that and unleash this without getting. these folks that are the assembly people.

and whatnot to work with you? So, I had. a lunch today with he volunteered to be. the new head of LA building and safety. I said, "Well, you're the first. volunteer of somebody who does this at. the highest level for right now in. private business for Los Angeles knows. every we'll add them to the website back. to like my team. The goal here is to put. the whole team listing their bios." He. said, "Spencer, we could do this so. easily. We can fix all these things. I. know all the errors cuz private business.

is the ones fighting this city all the. time. They know where all the stops. I. met with this affordable housing. developer Carlos on Monday. He said when. Mayor Bass announced her initiative, she. was going to rush it 6 months. He's at 2. and 1/2 years in the permit process. He. said Spencer that we can fix this so. easy and build beautiful affordable. housing. He said they're getting these. tax incentives to build cells for. people. Cells. He said because they get. more incentives to put more people in.

the building. We need to change that. We. need to make it where he's saying. twobedroom, a nice two-bedroom, he can. do for $250 a square foot versus $750. square foot. These other developers are. using the tax incentives, charging the. city, and then putting more bodies in. there. So, yes, we can do all this stuff. when we take these people out. Perfect. example, my Airstream. It took weeks. weeks for LWP to put one wire to my. Airstream from a pole across the street. That's the cut the red tape town. That's.

this is the fastest. >> operationally you can address that. But. all of the permits that are required. design review like. AI. I know people don't like AI but you. know even Caruso he was trying to with. initially he had this whole thing. He. put the money up was steadfast and he. offered this AI program to Mayor Bass. certain zoning situations if it meets. all this boom you right now there's like. a it's like out of a bad movie some guy. comes he's like he misses three and he.

has to do like one checkbox he's like oh. I'll come back and do that like it's out. of a bad movie they say it's truly and. if you go to the nobody's even in these. offices you have to set an appointment. you can't just go into these places they. all work remote is maybe co they're. still. >> yeah they work three days a week don't. they. >> we're in crazy land so again all these. meetings I keep having with very. successful heads of companies that tell. me Spencer when people say you don't. have experience you tell them these are.

people that have multiple companies I'm. they say I'm never the most experienced. person in any of the rooms of my. companies but everyone in my company is. the most experienced person in what they. need to do in that role and I'm well. aware of I don't know any of this stuff. But I know I want LA to be the number. one safest, most beautiful. How do we. get there? Who are you? What's your. resume? What's your background? Oh, wow. Okay, come on. Keep in mind Janice. Quinionz, who was the CEO of LWP, who.

drained two reservoirs leading into a. known year of the driest fire weather. season, took out the water with no plan, no backups, no tankers. She was getting. paid $750,000 a year plus her benefits. There are people across the United. States, running water and power in. functioning cities that we can go. recruit and say, "Hey, come to LA. It's. going to be safe and clean and we're. going to get you a nice place. You take. over." People want to live in LA. I'm.

not trying to give people jobs with. respect to Antarctica. Hello. We talent will come here, >> right? There's people all over the world. that are telling me, "Hey, we want to. make LA the Silicon Valley of the world. LA should be the tech center of the. world." With respect to San Francisco or. wherever these people are and Marin, I. don't even know where they are. Wherever. you guys are, you're coming you're. coming to LA. LA is way doper and you're. going to have a beautiful safe place and. way more room to build all your tech.

companies and robots and drones. Whatever you want to build, we're going. to build them. pretty nice up there, too. But, >> you know, they don't have the they don't. have the beach. You're going to be able. to swim without poop in the water. It's. going to be incredible. >> Well, I grew up in the valley and you go. down Ventura Boulevard, it's all strip. malls. These are all small businesses. that are owned by families. They have. been typically for one, two, three. generations. Armenian, Persian, Hispanic. populations, folks that grew up in the. valley. Small business, I think, is the. lifeblood of this city. Like, it's such.

an important part of the city. We've. never had major corporations that. everyone works for. There's a couple of. them, but generally it's a small. business town. How much have you looked. at the regulatory permitting, all the. nonsense that goes into opening up a. nail salon, starting a coffee shop, getting the permits required to open up. a new store, and what can be done there. to accelerate, to fasttrack, to enable. all these folks, a lot of them first or. second generation immigrants, that want. to come here and build, that want to. start businesses, that want to have. their own company. How do we get them?

Because the complaint is it's just so. faking hard today. It's so expensive. It. takes so long. Have you gone through. this and figured out what are the things. you can just delete as mayor and what. are the things you can just fasttrack as. mayor to make it so much easier for. people to start and run small businesses. in the city? >> So my friend in Venice, his his neighbor. just bought the local bodega that's been. there forever. And he was telling me. they're about to give up. It's been a. year. He said they're not even selling. alcohol. There's no food. It was just. going to be this basic bodega. And the.

list of things that it's taken in a year. is so crazy. They'll make them put in. one thing and then they come in and they. say, "Oh, no, actually that it's like a. maze. We need to just streamline all. these things." And what I keep learning, whether it's transportation, sanitation, there's no accountability. People get. paid no matter if they're a failure. It's not resultsbased. >> How many turns? >> Yes. Nobody like if you don't get this. many permits. For instance, somebody. called me yesterday. They go why is film. LA a nonprofit which like you need they.

have to come to set. I was like what do. you mean? He's like this should be for a. profit to incentivize bringing. production. So they are getting they're. actively we don't care. It's this idea. that oh I'm getting paid no matter what. Nobody cares. There's no checks and. balances. Mayor is fine as long as she's. driving to go to the airport to go to. Ghana to have a cocktail party. There's. nobody that cares, right? Because I met. with this guy Juan from Clean LA who. cleans the streets of all from all the. trash. He's from Ecuador. He came over.

here and he said, "What is this, Spencer? I'm from a third world country. It's so much more beautiful. I can't. live here with my family." So he started. cleaning trash on his own. I said, "Well, Juan, what's going on?" He's. like, "Spencer, nobody cares. They don't. care." He says, "I watch these trash. truck things." He said, "They pick up. the trash and it just throws it like out. of a meme and it just goes back on the. street." He says, "They're sleeping in. the cars. There's no accountability. There's no responsibility." I said, "Juan, well, when I'm mayor, can I hire. you?" He said, "Spencer, I will help run. sanitation." He goes, "It's supposed to.

be a billion dollars." He goes, "I could. do it for easily 500 million." So, I'm. thinking, I just saved $500 million for. taxpayers because Juan cares. And he. says, "I'll bring in people that care.". As mayor, you can probably auto stamp a. lot of stuff too that today they're just. delegating down to people who take a. long time getting things done that. probably you don't need to spend a lot. of time looking at. Just auto stamp the. bodega license and let them run. You. really need to have the guy go in and. figure out where everything is. >> This is back to if it meets these. criteria, we need to.

time. >> like here's the auto green light. >> LA needs to be like annoying how many. cranes we see for the next eight years. It needs to look like we're in China. where they're building these bridges in. like two weeks. We need all these. cranes. There's no cranes. You can't. even see a crane. My kids probably don't. even know what crane looks like. >> If one of the other two candidates win, what happens to LA? >> Well, I will have to move to Bentonville. or. I'm done. You know, that's why I'm. fighting. People won't get I want my.

sons to grow up in LA. You cannot grow. up in LA. You're done. You listen to. them in the debate. They're talking. about more beds. They don't even They. don't even accept that LA is in a. nightmare. Yes, I love LA. It has the. potential to be the greatest place on. planet Earth. But we need to acknowledge. we are in a scary part right now in LA. The lights don't work on the street. They don't fix roads within a year. They. have they don't every pothole is. breaking everyone's tires. You can't get.

311 to fix anything. We don't have. enough cops to call 911. There's not. enough firefighters. towns burn down. Bair is going to burn. Manavville. Canyon, Sunland to Hunga, Hollywood. Hills, all these are going to burn. It's. guaranteed. And like I said in the. debate, I'm going to put these dip sites. mile from everyone's how they're all. going to connect. They're going to. connect to private owners swimming. pools. I'm going to work with the. insurance companies so we can bring. insurance back to California first LA. because we're going to show them the. model because if they have these dip.

sites for these helicopters, we bring in. more of these shinooks that LA County. uses to work with the the fire hawks. that we have with LA city and and. Calire, we can bring insurance back, which is the biggest problem right now. for people building. We're going to get. rid of this ULA. I know I can't do it. myself, but I'm going to fight to make. sure these communist type things don't. ever happen to development. so people. can sell their properties, build. housing. I'm going to stop letting these. tenants being squatters, criminals, make.

it so landlords have to pay them 50. grand cash to leave and then they go to. it to a new landlord. I'm going to stop. the section 8 scam so that real people. that deserve section 8 get it. Veterans, families that need it, not just. drugdeing criminals that are, you know, abusing the system with fraud. But yes, if I lose, we're done. I'm trying to. tell people this is like out of a movie. Like this is Independence Day. The. aliens have attacked. They they got it's. an invasion is here. Yeah. >> And then as mayor I have to fight all.

these DSA city council members. Make. sure they're never reelected. So not. only do I have to do all that, but I got. to fight to make sure that my next four. years there's never a DSA fake Democrat. They're not Democrats. Democrats love. Spencer Pratt. All my friends are. Democrats. All my supporters are. Democrats. These people I'm up against, they use the word Democrat in front of. the word socialist. Go look at the. Democratic Socialist America's website, people. Go look at it. That's not a. Democrat. Bill Clinton was a Democrat. >> It's not an American.

>> Thank you. It's even worse. These aren't. even Americans. And when you say that, people are like, "Oh my god, this. country was founded because people fled. tyranny in Europe and then everywhere. else in the world." And this was the. bastion where you could find hope and an. opportunity to be free, to choose how. you want to behave, what you want to do, how you want to pray, to have freedom. that the government doesn't tell you. what to do and how to do it. And that. tyranny existed all over the world. And. that's why this country was started. And. socialism is the most tyrannical form,

the most tyrannical system that humans. have ever come up with. And so you got. the word socialist in there. You've. already made the mistake because you've. revealed yourself. My opinion. Sorry, I. had to rant on my own show. just I I. took advantage of the opportunity. >> I have very smart friends that are from. LA and I say they're DSA. They got foot. soldiers and they go, "What's a DSA?". So, it's a sneak attack. It's like Ninja. Turtles. They're in the sewers. They're. like, they're like Shredder and Company. So, fast forward eight years. You've. been mayor for eight years. I'm going to. give you It's a four-year term, right? Two two terms.

>> You're sitting down with your sons and. they're saying, "Dad, what did you do to. save LA?" What do you tell them? Tell me. about that journey in retrospect. I. would say thank God people voted for. laws sons and I enforced the laws that. are there. I did what everyone did. before the current leadership. So I keep. telling people the experience I don't. need to invent anything. I don't need to. come up with this utopia of how a city. works. You make a city safe and people. will put money into it. They'll want to. live here. Commerce comes back. Families.

will be able to go to parks and go to. the beach and not live in fear. So to my. sons again, I'm showing them you can. fight evil. These people are evil that. let every innocent person that pays. their taxes feel unsafe on their streets. that they pay taxes for. A lot of people. don't have money to do things because. they pay all their taxes like me and. then the city and the government fails. them. And whether your house burns down. or you got a screaming drug addict in.

front of you, a naked drug addict in. front of your kids causing trauma. There's people having literal drug. addicts having sex on meth in front of. kids. Parents are telling me they have. to have their kids glued to an iPad in. the backseat of their cars driving to. them into school. Some parents don't. have cars. In other communities, they. have to walk under these underpasses and. walk past this. So, I'll be able to tell. my sons, "Thank God America have laws.". and your dad said, "Hey, breaking news. Let's enforce them." And we did it and.

it worked. And then people came in with. tons of money and we got businesses. booming, more jobs. Hollywood, we're. making even better movies than we've. made in 10 years because the independent. creative artists are inspired again. They're feeling supported. It's it's the. vision is so real. And that's my fight. I go back to if God is burning. somebody's house down to fight these. people, you're burning my house down and. then you burn my mom's house down and. you have me listening to my crying mom. every day for 18 months. I don't do this.

to be a politician. I do this to fight. evil and this is evil that has taken. this beautiful city that I loved. I. didn't even want to travel to go visit. my wife's family in Colorado because I'm. like, can they come to LA? That's how. much I'm a LA person. These people that. I'm running against aren't even LA. people. >> No. >> So, I'll tell them the law, son. >> Spencer Pratt, thank you for joining me. on the All-In interview. >> Thank you. What a blast. >> That was awesome. >> Thank you. I'm going all in.

I'm going all in.