Good Guys

Spencer Pratt for LA MAYOR

73 min
Apr 13, 20266 days ago
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Summary

Spencer Pratt announces his mayoral campaign for Los Angeles, citing negligence by current Mayor Karen Bass during the Palisades fires that destroyed his home and killed 12 people. He outlines plans to audit city spending, eliminate homelessness encampments, restore emergency services funding, and implement 300-foot firebreaks to prevent future disasters.

Insights
  • Outsider candidates with personal trauma from government failure can mobilize voters by channeling anger into specific, actionable policy solutions rather than general complaints
  • Municipal corruption often operates through NGO funding mechanisms that obscure waste; transparency and line-item auditing are emerging as voter priorities in major cities
  • Emergency service failures (fire hydrants without water, no available fire trucks) create cascading liability and insurance crises that affect entire city economies, not just affected residents
  • Grassroots political campaigns can gain traction by focusing on hyper-local, tangible problems (sidewalk repair timelines, permit processing delays) rather than abstract ideology
  • Public safety and quality-of-life issues (street cleanliness, dog welfare, safe pedestrian conditions) resonate across demographic groups and can unify disparate voter bases
Trends
Rise of non-traditional political candidates leveraging personal tragedy and social media documentation as campaign credibilityGrowing voter demand for municipal financial transparency and real-time spending audits as distrust in government increasesHomelessness and addiction crisis framed as symptom of corrupt NGO funding rather than housing shortage—shifting policy debateEmergency preparedness failures driving insurance market collapse and property value instability in high-risk urban areasPermitting and zoning reform emerging as key differentiator in mayoral races as construction slowdowns impact housing and economic growthPet welfare and animal protection becoming unexpected campaign platform issues with cross-demographic appealIncumbent political leaders facing historically low approval ratings (19%) creating opening for challengers in major citiesSocial media-native candidates using continuous documentation and direct voter engagement to bypass traditional campaign infrastructure
Companies
McDonald's
Discussed rising fast food prices; Big Mac combo now costs $18, prompting analysis of value menu options
LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
Primary target of criticism for failing to maintain water in fire hydrants; chief Janice Quinones earned $750k salary
California Fair Plan
Insurance pool created after private insurers dropped coverage; more expensive with less coverage than traditional po...
Farmers Insurance
Dropped Spencer Pratt's coverage one year before Palisades fire; example of insurance market withdrawal from high-ris...
LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department)
Discussed as underfunded due to money redirected to homeless services; proposed to gain autonomy from mayoral control
LAFD (Los Angeles Fire Department)
Lost 45 firefighters after Palisades fire; proposed to gain independence from mayoral hiring/firing authority
Salvation Army
Referenced as shelter option; mentioned as having limited bed availability and check-in procedures
People
Spencer Pratt
Guest announcing campaign for LA mayor after house burned in Palisades fire; criticizes Mayor Bass's negligence
Karen Bass
Current LA mayor criticized for negligence during Palisades fires and failure to resign; polling at 19% approval
Heidi Montag
Spencer's wife; discussed as supportive partner and marketing genius; will not serve as First Lady
Gavin Newsom
Criticized for protecting endangered milk vetch plant that prevents fire breaks; controls state park where fires started
Janice Quinones
Earned $750k salary to maintain water in fire hydrants; failed to do so during Palisades fire
Rick Caruso
Mentioned as using private firefighters to protect Palisades Village while surrounding blocks burned
Josh
Co-host of the podcast; discusses personal experiences and asks questions throughout interview
Ben
Co-host of the podcast; participates in discussion and asks questions about mayoral campaign
Quotes
"I have been filming myself since the iPhone dropped. So it wasn't like I was like, today, I had already started my morning Snapchatting to my Taylor Swift, look what you made me do, dance."
Spencer PrattEarly in interview
"The first week as mayor, the IRS is coming in, and we're gonna put cases on every single one of these NGOs. We're gonna find all the corruption, and LA's not gonna be broke anymore because they're gonna stop stealing LA's money."
Spencer PrattMid-interview
"I'm 100 percent winning. Whether I win on June 2nd with 51 percent of the vote, which that's God's will. It could possibly happen. If not, and God wants me to drag Basura through the gutter for more months, leading up to her loss, then I will be winning November."
Spencer PrattCampaign strategy discussion
"If God wanted somebody to really come in and make real change in Los Angeles, he burned Spencer Pratt's house down. And if you really want to mad, you burn my parents' house down and have me listening to my crime mom every day to motivate me."
Spencer PrattClosing remarks
"I don't want to go do this as a job like these people do. I want to go back defeating hummingbirds and being with my family. But first, side quest mission, save LA."
Spencer PrattCampaign motivation
Full Transcript
Mazda Mourons, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. Josh, what's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you recently? Oh, gosh, I fall a lot. I fall a lot in front of people. I stub my toe a lot, Josh. I like like it's bad. Should I show you? I don't have to whip out my feet. We'll get flagged on YouTube and we have two good of an episode coming up. Flagged in a good way. I totally will end up on Red Tube. I have a bad cut. I have a really bad cut. Like this was like not like a bad like, oh, it hurt, stubbed my toe. Like I I slashed open my second toe. Well, really fucking bad. And it's embarrassing. My wife just looks at me. I'm looking up at the sky like, why, God, why me? And she looks at me just like big and goofy. I stub things all the time. You fall. Yeah. No, no, no, I fall. I fall. I'm a big faller. And I'm basically one. I'm a walking embarrassment. But I think there's very little I can do about it. I'm that dude. I'm loud at the wrong times and I'm quiet at the wrong times. If there's a fire, I'm like, what's everyone upset about? Otherwise, I can't keep my mouth shut. Well, speaking of a fire, Josh, we have an insane guest out today. You might not think he's insane when you hear that we have Spencer Pratt on, but you're forgetting that we don't have the Hills Spencer Pratt on. We don't have Hummingbird Spencer Pratt on. We don't even have Heidi Montag's number one fan Spencer Pratt on. We have future mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt on. And let me tell you it's insane. Go to the intro. To Jews, both big and tall, no subject, too small for the good guys. A mother stream, premium podcast team, make it your weekly routine. It's a good guy. And if you don't give us five stars, what are you? What are you? Yeah, we're the good guys. They're not the great guys. We're just a good guy. He is going to be our mayor. I live in a city where Spencer Pratt is the mayor and I'm lucky. I was going to say, if he's not the mayor, Josh, I'm sorry. Like I just like full transparency. We're recording this intro after being with him. He's great. He just wants everything that you want. Los Angeles, it's with Spencer Pratt. It's sitting right there. You want safe, clean streets, less corruption, accountability, dogs, friendly dog. That's the most genius move. He's pet friendly, too. Nobody else talks about the pets. No one else talks about the pets. And I think that the man has his eye on the prize. He's forged. I know he's a hummingbird guy, but maybe the flying animal that needs to represent him as a phoenix because from the ashes, this guy's forged in fire. God, Josh, you have to reach back out. It needs to be a phoenix. It does. It does. It absolutely does. And his VP needs to be somebody from Harry Potter. Yes, Harry Potter order of the phoenix. Maybe he gets Barbosa from the Phoenix Suns. You know, oh, my God, where is Leandra Barbosa? He gets Amari Stadamire, which was his last team before he became a full Chabadnik. Literally, he sells kosher wine. He breathes the parshah on IG live. I know. He's a better Jew than both of us. No, it's amazing. He really he went all in. New York really changed him. But yeah, Spencer was wonderful. And I can't wait for you guys to hear. I'm excited. Do you think we should do a quick weird news? Yeah, let's do some weird news before we bring in Spencer. Well, you know what? We've got plenty of weird news today. And one of those is can you still eat at McDonald's for less than ten dollars? How to beat rising prices at five top fast food chains? Did you know that fast food is up 56 percent? It's outpaced inflation. Believe this, I I didn't. And the idea that there's an article saying, how do you eat McDonald's for less than ten dollars? When I think that's very easy to do, must mean I haven't been to McDonald's recently. Did you know that a tummy troubling tale is that $18 is how much a Big Mac combo costs? What? Eighteen dollars for a Big Mac combo. So if you want to go cheap at McDonald's, you're going to have to stick to the Mac value menu, which, as you know, is a double cheeseburger, maybe chicken McNuggets. You could do a four piece nugget, small fries and a soda for seven bucks. Whoa. By the way, by the way, that I mean, it's it should be a little bit cheaper, but sounds delicious. Oh my God, maybe I'm just hungry. What I do for nuggets, even the four piece child's play. What the fuck? Can you put down a 20? You can't do anything less than that. I was just about to say you can't do anything less than a 20 piece. Can I put down a 20? I remember there was a time where I used to get a 40. People were getting 40s at the beer at the bodega. I was getting a 40 at Mickey D's. Two twenties. Two twenties. That's my 40. You have old English. I have old Ronald McDonald. We're both getting lit. I'd keep it in a brown bag, too. Some people wouldn't know. So. That's classic. We have two different 40 definitions. Do you. OK, that's what you are. You doing barbecue sauce in your nugs? OK, I'm so sour. I would drink the sweet and sour back in the day. I'd open a pack. I'd drink it. That was the bees. Sure, sure, sure. I would do one dunk on one side, Josh, in the barbecue, a dunk on the other side in the sweet and sour and plop that whole mug in. OK, one thing that they never got right. Their honey mustard. It's not good. It's not. It's not as good as it should be. They had a. But their sweet and sour is top. It went to the hot mustard type thing, which was kind of hot mustard. Is really. God, does it pack a punch? Hot mustard is great. It takes a mature palette to accept that hot mustard is great. Like he used to, I'm sure, like me, order in Chinese takeout. You get those hot mustard packets. It'd be like, you can miss me on that. Where's the duck sauce? Right. Like. But a mature palette appreciates hot Chinese. You know, duck sauce, duck sauce, of course. I don't know. They have that in Ohio. Oh, yes, absolutely. They have it in Ohio. West Coast, we just call it sweet and sour. No, they've got it. Yeah. Are those different sauces? I think the sweet and sour is a little more red. Yes, the proper duck sauce is not really a thing in West Coast. Chinese food. Intracecine, by the way, it is. But honestly, I'd probably prefer sweet and sour, sweet and sour sauces. Blame me. Both of them will kill you. Both of those sauces will kill you. There is a difference. Duck sauce is more of like a plum sauce. So it's used with that base, whereas sweet and sour is typically made with pineapple juice. Wow. Yes. Yeah. There's a slight difference. Nice and good for you. You know. Anyway. No, they say that about pineapples. The battle to get female Viagra to market and how Grey's Anatomy played a role. Men have had pharmaceutical options for dysfunction for decades. 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All I've done is hated every single mayor of New York, and every year I say, I'm gonna run for fucking mayor, just like every dipshit, and you, my friend, are actually doing it, because there's real problems, and you seem to have real solutions. Is now a good time for me to tell you that Karen Bass is a relative? Karen Bassura. Wow. Wow. Wow. You related to Karen Bassura? For anyone not bilingual, that means Karen Trash. She's not a relative, no. She's a rat's ass, that's what she is. Who do you nuts, these people? God, we're firing early, Spencer. I'm very excited to have you, though. Congrats on what you're doing, it's really awesome. You know, it's the best thing I've ever done to channel an elite level of anger that I embody, and it feels so good, because unlike just complaining and exposing, this has an actual future, which is so empowering. So Ben and I are built for complaining, and you, my friend, you're leveling up, right? Ben and I, we're happy to complain forever, but we want no power. I don't wanna make a decision, but you said I've had enough of the complaining, it's time to step in. What spurred that for you? Obviously, for people who aren't aware, which would be challenging at this point, because I feel like I'm very outspoken about the leadership in Los Angeles and their negligence causing my house to burn down, and my parents' house to burn down, and all my neighbors' houses to burn down, and allowed 12 people to burn alive while doing so. So that became very emotional for me, and then exposing the negligence, and then the cover-up. I was like, you know, is somebody gonna step in here and try to take this individual's position that she should have resigned on January 7th when she was in Ghana and everything's burning? You call in, you say, oh, you got me. I'm done, I'm resigning, but she didn't, and she decided to continue on this quest of destroying Los Angeles, and I personally would like my children to be able to grow up in LA, that I grew up in a beautiful LA, an LA that had hope and dreams. It was just, I had to. There was no other option, and I look forward to being the mayor of Los Angeles to show everyone how easy it is to make all these changes and fix this corrupt system by being an outsider. The problem with everyone we have in politics, they're all entrenched with these entities, and all the literally billions of dollars that run this whole corruption, and I have no connection to any, nobody gives me any money. So I have no loyalty to be like, oh, we're gonna keep all these NGOs functioning because it's the way things have to be. No, no, the first week as mayor, the IRS is coming in, and we're gonna put cases on every single one of these NGOs. Hell yeah. We're gonna find all the corruption, and LA's not gonna be broke anymore because they're gonna stop stealing LA's money and profiting off the homelessness, drug addiction, and mental crisis. So it's gonna be beautiful. Not to mention I'm gonna save all the dogs, which, you know how many dogs are being killed a day in Los Angeles or tortured on the streets of downtown LA? It's truly diabolical. I wanna click into that. What's happening with the dogs? It's probably in most cities. No, no, it's on a whole other level in LA because we protect the insane dog torturers, and they can do it because we can't take their dogs from them. So all over Los Angeles right now, every day, you can drive around and see dogs being literally tortured, burned, burned up. Like dog fighting, this is like crazy. No, no, just like, crazed people with dogs. Okay, yeah, and not to mention if we go to the shelters, we're also killing the most dogs in the shelters everywhere because of lack of funding or resources because we're busy taking that money and putting it into NGOs, getting people rich. So, I mean, it's simple things that I know I can do. It's not like, oh, house spits are gonna do this. I'm going to stop what they're doing, and it's going to fix so many things, and it's gonna be just so beautiful. Can we start at the beginning, if you're cool with it? Like, because the day that your house was on fire and the fires started, right? You were pretty immediately on Snapchat, you went public with what was going on with you, which was the beginning of all this and so compelling. Was there ever a thought about being so public about it, or you just went right to social media and said, I need to share what's going on? Was there any hesitation at first? Not really because I have been filming myself since the iPhone dropped. So, it wasn't like I was like, today, I had already started my morning Snapchatting to my Taylor Swift, look what you made me do, dance. And my, yeah, my routine has been documenting myself since, for instance, Snapchat went from just one photo you could share to stories. So, to me, that's been my lifestyle, and I also didn't think my house was gonna burn down. So, I wasn't just, I was Snapchatting like, oh, there's a fire in the state park, not thinking, oh, this is gonna be the end of my life as I know it. So, maybe, you know, if I had known the stakes, maybe I wouldn't have been filming, but I thought I was just filming like, a fire up in the state park, not that comes down and burns everybody down. And was it within three hours? Oh, no, so, it starts at like 10, 25 in the morning, and I leave my house that hasn't started burning down probably by five o'clock at night. So, and the wildest part about all this is I'm waiting for the fire department to arrive, because I thought I had six million gallons of water next door to my house, which I later find out was they emptied that reservoir in June of 2024. So, I'm waiting for them to get there, hook up and truly think, you know, I got so much water going on my house, we're gonna be fine. And then when I call the fire department direct, like, oh, no, there's no assets available. I'm like, honey, there's no fire trucks coming. And then it got even scarier when I knew my dad was trying to put out the fire over at his house, and I couldn't reach him, so I called 911 this time, and the police say, oh, there's no emergency personnel available, I said, excuse me, my father could be injured or dying, this is 911, oh no, there's nobody going into that area. Think about this, my dad later, thankfully, his phone was just dead, he drove out of there. So, imagine he did trip and was injured, they would have just let my dad burn alive, which is obviously happened to 12 people in the valesins. So, the idea that we're so confident in our emergency services right now is the main takeaway, because a lot of people don't care that the palisades burned down, like, oh, Spencer, he only cares, he fights for the palisades, and what I try to say is, my palisades is gone, it's not coming back for 20, 30 years, and it's not gonna be the palisades that I'm even fighting for. I'm fighting because our entire city government allowed this to happen, and if there's an earthquake, same thing's gonna happen, if there's another fire in the Hollywood Hills, same thing's. For in Altadena, which was ravaged by, horrible. Altadena is horrible, but that's more, and people in Altadena get so upset that I don't fight more for that story, but the issue with that is the wins that they talk about actually were in Altadena. The palisades never had hurricane wins. Altadena did, not to mention the electric company has taken responsibility for their 100-year-old down wires. So if anyone's fault, it's the power company, and technically, it was in Gavin Newsom State Park where the dead brush was that the power lines did hit. So whereas the difference between the palisades and Altadena is the level of city failures that created the 7,000 homes burning down. So it's very different situations, obviously both horrible, and the emergency response in Altadena was also terrible, and period. So there's a lot of issues with both, but the palisades is a criminal negligence on the mayor, LADWP, and Newsom State Park, period. And as you're driving out of the palisades, and you see Rick Caruso with his private firefighters protecting McConnell's ice cream, do you go, Rick, set some trucks up, let the rocky road burn. I actually took Chautauqua so I didn't see, and I don't think his private firefighters had arrived yet. I think they come later. Gotcha. And that's one of my other favorite parts that I, there's people will literally in the comment section and be like, even if the fire hydrants had water, they would have never been able to put out houses, go look at the palisades village and then look at the entire block behind it. All the palisades village that had water with his private tankers, which was like two of them, it's not that much, are still standing across the street, directly from the crosswalk, that entire block is burned down. So the idea that water doesn't put out fires, no, the internet's fascinating place, let me tell you. And it does actually, so water does put out fires. So we should make sure. And who are they defending? Who are they defending when they say that? They're like, oh, if even if there was water there, it wouldn't have mattered. Who are they defending and why? I would think they'd be defending Mayor Basura or they'd be defending the LADWP, Janice Quinones, who got $750,000 a year to make sure that water was in the fire hydrants and she couldn't do that. So maybe they're defending her or I don't know if they'd be defending the fire department because I'm pretty sure the fire department knows they need water, that's part of their, that's why they have hoses on the trucks. It's so silly. Like on one side, it's fire, on the other side in New York, it's snow. I don't know if you saw during the first terrible snowstorm, you had Mamdani making sure that the homeless had the right not to go inside and told people, do not get the homeless off the street, they have a right to not be inside and 27 of them died. And in the same exact vein, you have people saying that he did the right thing. It's like, how can you rationalize to yourself that you did the right thing when 27 people are dead? Who are you defending and why? Why are you, it's the same thing. And I love that you brought up that you're not only fighting for emergency services in Los Angeles, you're waking people up in general to say, hey, you know, this happened here, but negligence can happen in any city. And I think that's the right way to run a campaign because if you can change the hearts of people that aren't just in your city, then all of a sudden you're really gonna galvanize your own. And then here's how the Palace of Fire does affect all Angeline knows. Well, guess what all your LADWP rates are going up, insurance is now going up. And then when the city loses the lawsuit to the 10,000 victims, that's your tax money that's being paid out. So you can say, oh, I don't care, those rich people burned alive, which I always say there was maybe 60 rich and famous people that moved to the Palisades when the village, it was actually generational families in the Palisades, mostly senior citizens to these people that are happy the Palisades burned aren't going back to their houses. So you monsters, these are 90 year olds that are falling over and can't get up and dying now. So yeah, it's just, it's crazy. Yeah, it's unbelievable how things can sort of have this perfect tipping point of falling apart right at the worst moment possible. Can you talk about the insurance part of it and how that was sort of like its own fugezi thing where people couldn't get insured in the first place for homes in the Palisades? So this is gonna be like a history lesson in the state of California, Gavin Newsom has an elected board, carb or whatever they're called, these lovely demons. And they care more about plants over people's lives. So they protect this plant I had never heard of. It's like milk fissile. Milk vetch. Milk vetch. So milk vetch, which worse than milk vetch. 9.5 out of 10. This is gonna say sounds like Yiddish. Nobody knows what a milk vetch looks like. This is not some beautiful, this is nothing to protect. This is not a... So they... P&E's, that's a nice flower. There's a lot of flowers that I'll let you argue with that we should protect. Do you see one of my faves? Milk vetch does not hit that. So no fire department can clear fire breaks. So for communities to be protected, they need a 300 foot fire break. And why that is, is it gives the fire department a chance, as they would say, to dig in, to get up there, to do their thing. Not to mention fire retardant, the red stuff, the planes drop. If you don't have the fire break, that becomes, if it's there, it's a moat so that they can drop it in there and it creates a moat where now the fire hits this red moat versus if you don't have the fire break, the fire retardant just drops into the plants and goes on different leaves and gets all mixed and it doesn't have the impact. So the state of California has protected these endangered plants so that now communities have 60 years of dead brush, or you could call it fuel, backed up into their backyards. And the city will find you if you don't cut your bushes around your own yard to make your own house fire safe, blah, blah, blah. So insurance companies saw this coming, obviously, because they have fire experts that are probably there talking like, oh, everything's gonna burn because there's no fire breaks and there's 60 years of dead fuel. So for instance, I had farmers for like eight years, they dropped us about a year ago and we got onto California Fair Plan and it sounds like, oh, that must be, sounds like a communist California thing, but it's not, it's actually all the insurance companies, private insurance companies got together and they pool the money together and then they are supposedly backed, but it's a weird, very fishy thing that meetings that nobody's allowed to go to and hear about. And so it's actually more expensive for the coverage and you get less coverage. So we got stuck on California Fair Plan, but a lot of people, senior citizens, again, not rich, famous people, senior citizens were dropped January 1st. The fire was January 7th. There's people that had been paying insurance for 40, 50 years and were dropped and have no insurance. So again, as mayor, how I can change this is I'm gonna take my fire department and we're gonna go cut 300 foot fire breaks around everyone's communities. So if you're in Tahunga or you're up in the Hollywood Hills, you're in Bel Air or you're in Brentwood, all these places that you're for sure going to burn out if Spencer Pratt does not become mayor. And I say that and I keep warning people, do you know there's actually less firefighters after Palisades fire than there were before? There's 45 less firefighters after, why is that? Mayor Karen Basura, because all of the money that should be going to LAPD, LAFD is going to the homeless industrial complex, billions of dollars. So once I go in and I unplug all that, nobody is gonna be making money off of homeless people, mental crisis and drug addicts. And I'm also, you're not allowed to break the law on the streets anymore. No more encampments, not how Karen Basura clears an encampment where she lets them go down the block and she does a little IG video, just did this, right? No, encampments are illegal. You cannot sleep and poop and pee and do fentanyl on our sidewalks that we pay taxes for. So if you continue to get cited with tickets, you will eventually end up locked up. And that's a fact. And if you have a drug problem, we're gonna treat your drug problem where you can't go back on the street and do more drugs and then go back in treatment, we're gonna get you sober so that you can actually get back into the real world. We're not gonna just have a revolving door, $750,000 bed that you can go in and out of and say, oh, we're housing them for the night as they go back on the block and do fentanyl and then go back if they want. You know, Karen Basura, when she ran for mayor, she said she was gonna remove 15,000 people from the streets of LA homeless people. Do you know how many she's removed? Just last year, she removed. 15,000, I bet. Yeah, no. She actually only removed 1,300 last year into graves. Yeah, they're dead. Now, what if you're a drug addict but you're sober 18 years, because I could use a rest. You know, can I get a bed? Oh, I gotta get away from my family for 24 hours. I'm overwhelmed. They're Austin. There's a hotel that they have right now in Venice. No, no, it's an LA homeless hotel right now. I think it's 750,000 a bed right in Venice and they have 33 people, three hots and a cot, baby. No, these are nice. I keep trying to check into the Salvation Army but they're like checking until later. Sorry, bed and work is sick. It's just so interesting. There's no better price per square foot than when developers are developing homeless shelters. Like it's the same exact thing in the city. The guy who makes the homeless shelter has a guaranteed tenant for life at price per square feet that do not match the fact that it's a homeless shelter. You're paying, you're saying $750,000 a bed. I don't remember exactly what it is in New York. I just know that you are renting out. Again, it's a bed and you're charging as if it's an apartment and the city is paying it. And this idea that this is the only way that it can happen, you're pointing out things that are wrong with every city. There has to be corruption. I don't know if it goes down to the construction workers or the companies or the developers or the politicians. I don't know where the corruption starts and stops. I just know that paying that amount of money for a single bed that is the same as an apartment next door when you are a guaranteed tenant for life is corruption. Yeah, and as mayor of Los Angeles, every taxpayer dollar, we're gonna have full accountability. Every dollar will be audited, full transparency. We're gonna know where, if this place has toilet paper, we're gonna know how much toilet paper they're using. We're gonna look, wow, they're going number two that much in that building? That's above average for how much number two should be going on. That's how detailed we're gonna be. And that's what all of LA should want for their tax money, not just, oh, here's all our money, do whatever you want with it, and then let's have no sidewalks. You know what takes 10 years in Los Angeles to repair a sidewalk? 10 years in Los Angeles. Wow. My friend Stevie Matt got a- Have you seen LaGuardia? It's the same thing. My friend Stevie got a blowout on his tire and LA paid for it. On a paddle. If you can reach them. How many, let's ask Stevie how many times he called to get that replaced? I would. I would be like, the nice little corner cut. Yeah, Stevie did a lot to get that. You don't become Stevie Mack without figuring out a couple of angles. But back to pottles. They haven't repaved the street in over a year. Wow. That's mind boggling. So when people say, oh, why would somebody vote for, splits the prep for mayor? Go drive around the city. You will guarantee get four more years of exactly that and worse. I go in and I'm stopping all of this. It's that easy. They will continue it and I'm stopping it. It's done. No more corruption. No more fraud. Now we originally thought that Karen Bass should do like a collab with Bass Pro Shop, right? Karen Bass Pro Shop. Maybe they fund her, you know, because the great outdoor shop of America and Karen Bass, synonymous. What do you think? What is there? Who are we gonna enlist? Right? And is there room in the cabinet for Brodie Jenner? Well, Karen Bass doesn't need the Bass Shop because she has Cuba. She has the communists. So yeah. Cuba funding for Karen Bass? That's her backstory. That's why she actually didn't get, she was Biden almost had her be a potential vice president. And then they looked at her history and she may be a Cuban spy. Karen Bass spent every summer in Cuba working. Who might, you got your men for each other. Working with her. You're your best. Vanessa Romas Brigade, which is truly, we could say a terrorist organization. That's her. I'm voting for Spencer. Josh, I'm voting for him. I can't vote for him. I'm voting for him. I have a question, but you described, and this is a tough question because I don't know the answer here. You described that we are gonna see every single dollar that goes in and out. The current administration tried to do that with a whole thing called doge. And I don't know what the fuck happened with doge. It seemed like we were off to a hot start. We were talking about all these random things that people were spending money on and then I never heard of it again. How do you, like, if the Trump administration can't do something like that, when he was really passionate about it, because it sounds amazing, you get to see exactly where every dollar goes. Why do we think he stopped doing it? And how are you gonna do it? Yeah, I can't speak on Trump and national politics. What I do know is the city controller, current city controller in Los Angeles started doing this and auditing and posting all this information. And what did Karen Basura do? She tried to take away the city controller's position and they went to the city charter, tried to literally take away this guy's office. So he's doing it. So as mayor, the city controller won't be having any issues auditing the city. So I don't know what went wrong on a national level, but the city can definitely tell you where all the money they're spending is going. That's a fact. So if you win the election, when you win. Yes. Within a week, he had Mum Donnie to the White House, right? If he doesn't have Pratt to the White House within a week, do you go Donnie T? Not cool. I'm mayoring here. I wanna come too. I wanna rub elbows, shake hands. Yeah, I don't think I need to go to the White House because I know what I need to do in LA. I need to clear the streets. So week one, I'm not gonna be in Washington. I'm gonna be on streets LA, getting rid of all the encampments, returning public safety, making sure that women with their little dogs can walk on the sidewalk and not fear getting attacked and punched in the face by a crazed lunatic. Cause that's the most common thing that people come up to me and they say, I just wanna walk my little dog on the sidewalk. So there's nothing I need. He needs to figure out money, Mum Donnie. That's why he went, we have our money. I know where it is. So I don't need to leave the state. I need to just go clean the streets because as soon as I have the streets shining, washed off and everyone sees that, people right away are gonna feel the hope that my future is bringing LA. So I can't be leaving week one. Maybe I'll go, and after four years, they'll just celebrate. They'll be a new president, novice, but I'll go and maybe get an award, like a freedom award. Hopefully, run for third term. Yeah. That's a hot take. Josh, stop cosplaying. 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I don't know as far as Mayoral goes, but does your wonderful wife Heidi, does she have to be the first lady? Is that a role that she's ready to inhabit? You know, as mayor, I want to be, get us away from political influencers where, you know, like New Semester, first partner in the first partner office, nobody wants that. They just want clean streets. They don't want their tax money being wasted. You know, I don't want it to be where the content is what it is now, where it's just these performative, look at me cutting this stupid scam thing. So no, Heidi won't be part of the political office and be part of the show-do-thing, the pop music, but we're not going to turn this into, you know. Well, I give you a lot of, not to get away from the political stuff, but I think Ben and I both give you so much credit for being like the most supportive husband, for being such a fan of your wife, which I think is so cool and refreshing. Definitely something that you don't always see enough of. And a marketing genius. The way that you blew up that song, like it just like, it was amazing to watch. Well, thankfully the song had already blown up in China. I was just helping it, America, get to the Chinese level. You're putting it on the screen. You're putting it on the screen. Whoa, you know, I'm bringing freedom to China. I'll do it. Yeah, sure, sure. So, you know, it's, don't tell them. Don't tell them the secret. Thankfully they can't watch this podcast. But hello to any of our followers on a VPN right now. Yes, no, Heidi is amazing. And if I wouldn't hype Heidi up, if she wasn't the most incredible mother and wife. So people are always like, oh, what's your vice to a perfect marriage? Like, Marry someone is really awesome. Yeah. That'll help, you know. Yeah. That's a good starter. Man, what a love story for the ages, huh Ben? I mean, how long? 15 years? 20? 20, yes. Unreal. And what do we think? All right, so we know on day one what we're gonna do. Here's the one thing that me as a father of three kids and Angelina for life, I love this fucking city. Everybody complains about the schools. And I think that's hard because public school is in LA. LA is gigantic. Because they're a bigger city in the country. We're the second biggest city. In the nation. In the nation compared, who's bigger? I would guess New York. Well, I guess LA city, right? But oh, you're the mayor of LA city. You're the mayor of a county. Correct. Oh, bro, I don't even know if I'm gonna get the point. Well, no, you can't. Yeah, if you're not LA city, you can't. It's all right, I got a lot of influence. Don't worry, we have our ways. They don't ask for ID. Josh wins downtown. We want registered LA city voters. Okay, let's be clear here. Okay, registered LA city. The mayor can't do LAUSD. So I can be on the sideline and chirp in with the fancy suit office. But they have their own hold for the county. No, for the school system. The mayor doesn't do LAUSD. Then at the day, the LA mayor is technically soft power. There's certain other mayors in other cities that have hard power. That's what my wife says when her and I lay in bed at night. Soft power. Okay, so soft power. I was gonna ask, what's the most crazy or fun, I guess it could be fun thing that you could do as mayor. Like, what could you do? Like, even if it's outlandish, like, what do you have the power to do? Well, what I'm gonna do as mayor, which no other mayor would do, is I'm actually gonna take some of the mayor's power and give it back to the LAPD, give it back to the fire department. Right now, the fire department's chief is a puppet of the mayor. It can help with cover-ups. It can do whatever the mayor asks, because the mayor hires and fires the fire chief. When I'm mayor, that power is going back to the fire department. No longer will the mayor get to control the chief of the fire department or the chief of LAPD. These positions should feel that they have their power to make the choices for Angelenos, not choices for the mayor and how the mayor looks. So, actually, I'm gonna make the mayor's power even softer. Yeah. You know, go soft with Pratt, you know? Ooh, that's good. Yeah. No, no, that's the one. Pratt makes you soft. We are not gonna get this vlog in this podcast. I don't know. I am not. Think practical. So, that is the best one. Let's prepare. OK, so when are the debates and how are we gonna debate Pratt? And then when's the election? I should know this. So, the debate against Basura is May 5th on NBC. And you will debate. Every day, tell. No, I know you will. Do you have to have any like, usually, like for the New York mayoral race, right? Like, do you have to hit at certain levels of... Well, I'm this in polling right now. I'm this behind Mayor Basura. I'm number two. Yeah. She's 19 percent. I'm 10. And for an incumbent to be 19 percent, I'm winning this. I'm poxing. And there's 50 percent of undecided voters. Those are my voters. They're not undecided. They know they just don't want to talk to the random polling person. They're like, yeah, that's a real voter. They are not caring about it, so they go and they hang up. Yeah. So, I'm 100 percent winning. Whether I win on June 2nd with 51 percent of the vote, which that's God's will. It could possibly happen. If not, and God wants me to drag Basura through the gutter for more months, leading up to her loss, then I will be winning November. Wait, why? What's the difference between June and November? June, the top two people from the June 2nd date go to November. I see. But in LA, if you have 51 percent on June 2nd, you win outright. I see. So I believe there's enough people just in the valley alone that I will win. From the valley. If I go in the valley right now, it's like, oh, no, I'm telling you. I got a bunch of Armenians. Oh, Camping Prisons today. Every single Jewish mother is coming up to me crying. Grigor Kostya. The problem is Glendale. The problem is Glendale is not part of LA City. And that is where my all of my Armenian family is in Glendale. So we got some out, you know, some we got some Tarzana. But so I went on. I think I win June 2nd. That's what I'm feeling. And who's your David Axelrod? Do you have like a campaign manager? Like, are we doing are you going to have someone play Karen Bash when you're doing debate prep? I've been having my eight year old son. He's as qualified as so gunner is actually playing basura. And he stands in a trash can while doing well. OK. So it's got me sharp. So you're ready. You're ready to debate. I was ready as my house is burning down 14 months ago. You can't when somebody has a track record that is only failures and then all they can do is do performative lies where the stats don't create truth. It's going to be a very hard to debate, which I know they're confident because they think, oh, he's a reality star. You know, I was a long time ago and now I'm just an Angelina. Yeah. And you know what? Maybe we need a little reality. Right. She's a reality. A reality. A reality. Big reality. Another slow. There's a slow. Yeah. We'll own it. It's going to be a particular. I am. We. Um, wait, Ben, what were you going to say? I don't know. Do we take this in even more serious? You said the Jewish mothers are coming up to you nonstop. Like, what do you have to say to your Jewish voters in Los Angeles with anti-Semitism at an all time high? Like, talk to them. We have a ton of Jews. We have a ton of everybody, but a lot of Jews listen to this podcast, specifically Los Angeles Jews. Well, what I said to all these mothers that come to me crying on the sidewalk, hiding their star, David Necklace. That's how real it is in the streets. So I say, they go, what are you going to do for us? And I say the same thing. You will feel safe in LA when I'm mayor, whether it's anti-Semitism or to walk your little dog. No one is not going to feel safe on streets in LA. It's it's bottom line. Yeah. It doesn't matter what your religion is. You will feel safe in LA. We're running on safety. This is good. And what about are the hummingbirds going to have any offense? Well, it's my love dog. Yeah. Sick. So, you know how Katniss had her thing. Yeah. I got the hummingbird. Yeah. A mayoral hummingbird, maybe like, you know, an official LA. I don't know. I like it. I like the hummingbirds. I love it. We have a bald eagle. LA has a hummingbird. It's good. That's perfect, right? Because we're LA, you know, like people were small, but we're mighty. Yeah, totally. Yeah. And everyone's an Adderall. Okay. Anything else, Ben? No. I mean, anything else you want to plug? I guess we're plugging voting. Yeah. Give us a plug. We're plugging watching. This is huge. This is like pay-per-view. It should be pay-per-view, the debate. You can make so much money. I know. I mean, and I will say this, Spencer, I give you a lot of credit. I don't know if you remember, but we met each other at Monster Jam, which is in two weeks again. You're going to go? I'll see you there. I'll see you there. I sure will. I'll be sitting next to the future mayor. And you brought your beautiful family. We were chatting. And I think I was a little blind in saying this, because I went up to you and because you had turned this tragic thing into this amazing moment, right? And supporting your wife and her music and you guys being put back into the spotlight in such a big way and so beloved by the world watching this. And I kind of went up and I was like, dude, congratulations on all the success and everything. And you kind of looked at me and said, yeah, but I still don't have a house. Like my parents still lost their house. And it reminded me of how difficult and tragic that was. And so seeing you now saying like, I'm going to take all of this goodwill that transpired from this tragic event and try to inspire some real change and give you a lot of credit. I think it's awesome. Yeah, I think what people don't realize is how real this is for me. And that's the difference between me and these other politicians. I'm doing this because I lived city failure and I don't want anyone to go through what my friends and family went through at any part of Los Angeles. And I know from living it how serious I will take these changes that need to happen. And I think that's how I keep looking at the whole situation as like a God's plan thing. I'm like, if God wanted somebody to really come in and make real change in Los Angeles, he burned Spencer Pratt's house down. And if you really want to mad, you burn my parents' house down and have me listening to my crime mom every day to motivate me to go out and make change. And that's what these people do this for jobs. I don't want to be a politician after I go make these changes for LA and not changes for four years, for 40 years. So future mayors come in and like, oh, this guy spends her Pratt. Why would we touch anything he did? The city is functioning phenomenally. Everyone's happy. That's my goal. I don't want to go do this as a job like these people do. I want to go back defeating hummingbirds and being with my family. But first, side quest mission, save LA. Vote for Spencer Pratt. This is unbelievable. It's the practical solution. We can leave with that one. That's hot. Listen, I'm trying to get a, I'm trying to build an ADU on my property. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to prove maybe you get any, but. Well, it won't be just you. It won't be just Josh. The problem with all of LA is our permitting system. And we need to come in. We have all everyone loves AI. Where is, where can we use AI to speed up the current system? Because if fire victims who the, the idea is get them back in their house as fast as possible. If in 14 months there's less than 14 houses being almost done from being rebuilt. What is the rest of the city take? Is that mean it takes three years to build little Joshy Poo's ADU? It's unacceptable. So we need to figure out how to speed up permits across the board. And we need to stop taxing everyone with all these as many taxes I can get away from building and zone all this. Yes. So that we have more building. That's the plan. Not tax, tax, tax, stall, stall, stall. We have less things getting built in the last year than things like 55% less than the path. Like it's so it's the craziest number. When I grew up, you drove around, you'd see cranes everywhere. You can't even see a crane. You have to go to a museum to go see a crane now. It's like demolition man. Yeah. Can we bring back smoking in restaurants? That one's a no. You're going to have to know. That's hot. No smoking. No. You imagine you're at Craig's rip in the dark. Even at Chicken Parmesan. Could the mayor do that though? Or no. Do you know that a hundred restaurants or more have gone out of business in LA city within the last year? Over a hundred. Let me answer your question with another question. You ever smoked a parliament in the Chili's? You know, I'm not a smoker. So I can say I've never smoked a greener just a cigarette anywhere. Dude, you're the man. Oh, I appreciate it. Make sure you register to vote. Yes. That's the big thing. People think you're not registered. And when you do, it takes two seconds to go on search how to register to vote. Right? And then you do that. And when your ballot arrives, May 4th, you fill it out, Spencer Pratt. There'll be no letter next to my name because it's a non-partisan race. Love that. This is not Democrat. It's Save LA is my party. Angelino Party. So you're going to write in Spencer Pratt, click the little box, and you put it in the mail. You go stick it in the mail. Don't wait till June 2nd. We win on June 2nd because we already sent in 500,000 ballots. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. All right. Thanks, dude. That was awesome. Awesome. Thanks so much. Great to see you. That was fun. Wow. Unreal. Practical thinking. Unreal. Josh was sweating. Josh was in there. He's like, am I being caught up in a conspiracy? Josh was sweating, but let me tell you, he was great. If I could vote in the local Los Angeles election, I would vote for Spencer Pratt. There's nothing there that he said that I considered a red flag. Regular guy who was fucked by the city that he loves. And so he wants to fix it for the people. His house burned down. His family's houses burned down. He got to the root cause of why and sees negligence and wants to change it. Like, I don't know what's a more compelling reason to run for mayor. He's not saying I want to run for president or I want to run for governor. He's talking local office because the local officer in charge and the people surrounding her didn't do right by him. And I'm not going to lie. It's a very compelling story. And I think he could win. I don't know if there's any money behind him. I don't know if people have donated to his campaign. You asked him if he is a campaign manager. I don't know if he answered that question. Like, it's very grassroots right now. But I think that somebody should really put a little money behind him and blow this thing up. You never know. Then should we get to more on mail? We should. We should, Josh. More on mail. Let's remember Speak Pipe dead. Dead. Now it is Good Guys Podcast 1 at gmail.com. You are going to email us and we are going to read aloud. Just some wonderful more on mail. It's gotten so much better. Folks, hey guys. One of my friends has started bringing snacks to restaurants. What are you, nuts? Nuts? Not subtle snacks either. Full ziploc bags, almonds, pretzels, one time even grapes. He'll order a drink and then just casually start eating his own food at the table like it's completely normal. One time the waiter actually told him no outside food and I wanted to disappear. What am I supposed to do? Oh my God. Never go to a meal ever again with that person. Like, that's awful. Simply unacceptable. It's simply unacceptable. Honestly, there's nothing more to say about it. We'll go on to the next one. And you know what else I don't like? I don't like, you know, it's not uncommon for people to have like a drink when they're walking into a restaurant like, oh, I got a latte and now we're stopping for lunch or whatever. Throw that latte away before you walk into the restaurant. Don't put another drink on someone else's table ever. Totally. I couldn't agree more. Back when my dad had that cafe at the JCC in the city, he would always tell me people are coming into the cafe with their own food sitting down and opening their laptop. He pays rent. It's nuts. Like what do you think is happening here? Like it blows my mind. Like go and get a $4 coffee and then you've rented the table for two hours. It's the cheapest table rental ever. But for you to walk into a space that somebody else owns and pays for with your own food is like, it's terrible. Terrible. So, so weird. All right, Josh. Hey guys. The other night I opened my door to take the trash out and caught my neighbor completely naked in the hallway. Not shirtless, not underwear, fully naked holding a trash bag. The second he saw me, he panicked and scurried back into his apartment. Clearly he was trying to take the trash out naked without anybody noticing. Oh my God, Josh, I do this. I know, I had a feeling you do. Not completely naked. That's insane. Like why are you completely naked? But I will scurry outside in my underwear, throw away my trash and run back in. I'm sure that other people can relate to doing that too. If you live in an apartment building, there's shared trash. There's a trash shoot in a shared apartment building. Completely naked. That's sick. He should be thrown out of the building. I would do that in a t-shirt and just a pair of black Calvin Klein's box or briefs. I would assume you're okay with this, but my wife would, I would maybe be okay with it 10% of the time, but my wife's like, no, no, no, this is never okay and never once. It's like if in the morning someone comes over or we have someone who helps watch Mayer during the day or her parents or whatever, there is no world in which someone should be in their underwear in front of company in any respect. Whereas like 9 out of 10 times I'd agree, but like here or there, I might be like, ah, they keep so early, but she'd be like, no, no, no underwear will be worn in front of company ever. Yeah, I mean, I'm a thousand percent with you. I totally understand her. That is Claudia Tuati. And by the way, Josh, they're right. Yeah. Without question, they're right. Nobody should see me in my underwear, but my wife, that said, everybody does and everybody will because I don't care. Okay. I don't care. I'm saying this publicly. I don't care. I also want you to know that it's not a sign of disrespect. In fact, it's the opposite. I'm so comfortable with you, so comfortable that I'm sitting here in my underwear. And let me tell you, my underwear, it's different. If you're wearing tighty whiteies, first of all, throw them away. Okay. Throw them away. If you're wearing black boxer briefs, Josh, and they're not so tight, they're like a little loose. I wear beautiful gildens now. I have to tell you, I don't know if you've tried gilden. I used to be a Calvin Klein guy. They're great for sure. The cotton brief. Gilden makes an incredible pair, significantly cheaper on Amazon. I'm just saying I've been wearing them for a while. They're great. Plenty of room to tuck. You know how I do to tug, pull them up a little bit higher. Josh, I'm, I'm sitting in my underwear because I'm comfortable. That's it. You got to stop. I said the same thing to the nurses at the hospital. That was unacceptable. I'm sitting in my underwear here. It's unacceptable. I think I should stop. I think I should stop. Yeah, you can't. And I wear skims, shout out skims. But. I'm too old. I should stop. Yeah, 100%. We can't do it. It's never acceptable anywhere. And it's not, it's whenever I see someone in their underwear, whether I like it or not. And I swear I love women no matter what the internet or my grinder account says. If anyone around a man is in their underwear around me, like I'm, like my eyes are going to drift for a second and you can always see the outline. Always. And no one should have to see that. Totally. Unless there's no outline to see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I go micro fallow elevator button ground floor. Should we get to what do you know? All right. What are you in at some moment of the week are gripes with people, places and things, but big and tall, whatever sticking in your craw, Josh, you guys. Yeah, I always have one because it's a part, it's a segment of the show. Okay. I have one for, you know, you're going to find this, you know, with the great Ruby and, and God willing, all the beautiful kids to come when they enter school and sports and all these things, you know, I really have a lot of understanding and compassion for kids and parents of kids who have like behavioral problems and every kid is different. Some kids have issues. No kid is perfect. Everyone is, is, you know, fighting their own personal battles, but some kids are going through something more public. So you'll find that your kids on the sports team, they're in a club at school, they're, they're, you know, in a theater kids group, whatever. And inevitably there will be a kid who acts out, right? But here's the thing. If you are the parent of that kid and you guys have made a plan, you have a strategy that you've made with your wife and professionals or whatever, be like, we're going to, you know, we're not going to completely try to hover over them. We're not going to correct everything. We're going to kind of like be a little bit hands off. You got to get the other parents on the same page. Because all I'm doing is watching your kid while out. And then I'm looking at you and judging you for not saying anything. And I know this kid needs some special attention and like love and care. And I'm down to clown. But tell me that, like, let's all get on the same page to best serve your kid. But if you keep us all in the dark, all we think is that you have a kid who's really misbehaved and a parent who lets it go. What are you nuts? No good, Josh. Absolutely no good. Mine is also about children. And I ask you how we solve this problem, Josh, because I don't think that there's a good solution. But it's, what are you nuts that you're not telling other parents that your kid is sick? Like kids get sick all the time. It just would be really awesome to know that your kid had 101 fever last night and is really sick. It would be really nice to know that before he's near my child, it would be really nice. I'm not saying that people got to do what they got to do. I'm not saying that you have to keep him home. You got to go to work, so you send him to school. You got to go to work, so you send him to class or to daycare, whatever it is. But in an optional play date capacity, optional, I think it would be nice to give a heads up. That way, okay, I'm not saying that we can't watch your child too. But perhaps we keep distance. Perhaps we don't let head to head. Perhaps we don't let hands touch hands or, I don't know, I just think it's kind of, what are you nuts? And again, I'm not saying I totally understand life goes on. You can't keep people in the house just because they're sick. Life goes on. But you could warn someone. Little warning. What are you nuts? Yeah, I think the optional play date is valid. And then I think as you have more and more kids, it's just going to get so hard. It's just, it's so darn hard. And then if you do agree to let them hang out, but keeping them from touching each other, is it impossible? Keeping them distant? But I hear you. I think it's valid. I think it's different when the child can't walk. Ruby doesn't have the option, for example. You're the only one who can walk and come up to him. So if you're sick, stay away. I'm sure it's the same thing with Meyer. You do your best. Of course, things happen, whatever. Kids are going to get sick and then they're going to get better again. And they're going to build strong immune systems because they were sick, all this stuff. I'm just saying it would be nice to know. Before we say goodbye, I'm on a show, which I'm really bad at doing any self promotion. I'm on a show called Cross on Amazon right now. I'm in it. I'm on a show, guys. I'm not just a podcaster. I'm a recurring guest star too. So treat me different. Yeah, let's freaking go. You're awesome. I'm just saying, Spencer needs a VP. You're right there. I mean, it's pretty sweet. Who's going to be his VP? Rody Jenner, Caitlin Jenner. You know what I mean? Yeah. What a duo Pratt and Jenner would be. Caitlin for sure. Caitlin would be amazing because I feel like her politics kind of mirror his. Align. What a freaking ticket. That's hot. Are you kidding me? Pratt Jenner. Wow, folks. This episode's five stars. Otherwise, what are you freaking nuts? Stop smoking. Generational. Generational practicality. We did it. Vote now, guys. Vote now or don't. I mean, whatever. But like, I think you should. If you're there, it seems logical, but I don't know. Whatever you want to do. Five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? Mondays and Thursdays. We're not reading any reviews anymore because Josh doesn't like it. So screw you. Not you, Josh, the people. No, I shouldn't say that. We'll see you next time. Bye.