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

25:03This one's like$80 million. So what they do is they take our tax money, they take grants, they take federal and state grants, and 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, the NGOs, get million-dollar salaries, the people below them get 500. Nobody's actually helping anyone because 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.

25:42If 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, costs 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. 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.

26:22How 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 NGOs in a way that's clearly not in the taxpayer's best interest? Well, you can go the conspiracy route or you can just go, look at all these things we're doing. 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.

26:55Oh, they, oh, criminal. They got caught. So then you go conspiracy and you can say, well, are these people helping campaigns? Are they putting, do they have PACs? So there's money going, are they helping? So that's more conspiracy, that's fringe. But in just the sense, it's an easy way out. Oh, 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. it. Here's the hard part about catching these people. They're literally taking money with poker chips, goods and services.

27:33Criminals 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, 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 my criminal investigation team. They'll be able to figure out without the documents, even if they're shredded.

28:09But 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 does not believe that. So the polls are confusing. She has 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 Rahman 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 city council member.

28:56They 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 Rahman, who was about to lose her councilwoman's seat. She door knocked with her to get her in and backed her. So nobody backs Mayor Bass and any of the media that's trapped in 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 Bel Air fire, Mayor Bass was alive for, with the Mandeville Canyon fire, Mayor Bass was alive for, not unprecedented.

29:39So 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 because they already feel so unsafe and I'll let a rando approach them period. So, you know, it's interesting, both candidates, Raman and Bass are, I don't know if Bass is self-declared socialist, but obviously she spent time with Castro's organization in Cuba. She's a Venser Ramos brigade member. She spent 20 times going to Cuba. So when they say, Spencer doesn't have any experience, look, he's a reality star. No, I wasn't training with terrorists that would later bomb the Capitol.

30:19That'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?

30:51Why 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 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.

31:30They'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 bunch of the Dodgers. He's Venezuelan. 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 happened. I was like, I know, bro.

32:02We'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 when you 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.

32:34We'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 hundred restaurants in LA, not because 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 DoorDash. I talked to a mom the other day who works in downtown as a lawyer. I know her because of 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.

33:08That'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 Raman, crime's down. They'll just 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. 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 crazed drug addict.

33:47He pulled over his car, tried to be a Batman hero, jumped out. He's like, stop that. The ladies were so used to it. They're 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 this 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, arrest this guy. Like, well, nobody's here and there's no witnesses.

34:22He's like, arrest this guy. He's arguing with the cops. every cop I talk to wants to enforce a law, but they can't because the power is behind them. They're not taking any of these citations ready because it's culturally insensitive to cite and ticket someone without an address. That's why the dogs are being abused, tortured, mutilated, raped on the side of the street. People are filming this. They know what's happening. But even Stacey Gaines or whatever, Stacey Gaines was head of the animal control or whatever for animal services. She said, oh, we can't. The city mayor's office said, culturally insensitive, don't.

34:56We can't go after people without addresses. Dude, that's unbelievable. It makes me so angry. All right, 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.

35:26They'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, Cross 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 call LAPD they come and they go man no more she'd go walk down the street and she'd go number two in front of Joe's barbershop yeah 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 had this issue in San Francisco where I live and Mayor Lurie 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.

36:17He arrests people. He puts them in jail, but crime has stopped. Car break-ins 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. It just takes a will and someone who can actually manage and organize to get this 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 Lurie in San Francisco.

36:49He said, Spencer, when they tell you you have no experience, you just tell them Mayor Lurie didn't have any experience running a city. What he did, he came in and forced a 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.

37:29But 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 more. No more burning dogs in the street. No more dog abuse. Very on every sign, on every part. 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 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.

38:03And then once we start enforcing the laws, boom, streets will be back. You know who else I'm going to 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?

38:39Who 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.

39:24When I'm mayor, 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've 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.

39:56You bring those people in, but the people that execute the multi-billion, 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.

40:29When 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 Rahman can bring 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 gonna make sure the streets are safe for all the moms, the kids, the dads, everyone that just wants to be a normal human being, 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.

41:02But the list of people is, so again - I'm sure. Because 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. LAUSD spends$23 ,000 per student,$101 ,000 average teacher salary. It's number one in the country. But LAUSD, 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.

41:45What 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, from my own experience with my son, who was in LAUSD, and it was even a charter with PALS, it's supposed to be the best version at all times, every parent is just trying to fundraise, fundraise for books, for learning, for an extra teacher. And it's like, what is going on? If I'm gonna spend this much money, I'm gonna put my kid in a private school.

42:21How would these schools, so first off, we gotta 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's going because if it's cost this much for each student, yet as a dad, I'm trying to always donate, have fundraisers. We gotta 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, Cliff Notes level dashboards so we can track and get results of where all of our tax money is going.

43:05But 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.

43:47But to me, it's the money. Where's the money going? Like if you want things to be better, we gotta 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, hey, 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 was just a dead body in the bushes in front of the convention center.

44:21So 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 to 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 city because 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.

45:07Currently, there makes no sense. With the current administration, Mayor Bass is elected. It's the dumbest thing you ever heard. If Councilwoman Rahman is elected, it's 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. And 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 fund czar.

45:39He 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 czar. 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 that we can make it the fun convention center. And I just cut that cost. So yes, right now it makes no sense. Have you met with union leaders? No, they all back Mayor Bass. So they're all going to love me because everyone's going to have more revenue.

46:15Everyone's going to have jobs. 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. 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 Boyle Heights, not moms in Eagle, everywhere. Moms don't feel safe. The city is unsafe. No matter what, how much crime stats, the feeling of unsafe is resonating. And my message of, I will be the guy that's fighting to get safety back is gonna get me elected.

46:54And I keep telling people I'm gonna win on June 2nd with 51 % of the vote. November is there. They're fighting for November. I win June 2nd. But the unions, obviously people think it's this big issue. You won't when your city's amazing. How are you gonna 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 the 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.

47:29We're going to 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 going to 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 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 to make sense for all evangelists. We can't have everything just for this small percentage because they're cooking votes.

48:01But don't get me wrong, unions. I'm gonna make so much money in this city that we're gonna have plenty of money that you're paid what you're supposed to be paid. Law enforcement is gonna get paid what they're supposed to get paid. We cannot lose law enforcement because they're getting paid more, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, in Orange County. So we can't risk, 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.

48:35And 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 that's. 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. They're still hardworking people. I meet with, I've gone almost, I'm going to a lot of fire stations. LAFD union for sure endorses me. They just are scared to do it publicly for retaliation.

49:11LAPD, 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, Mayor Bass currently writes their deals, their checks, that's real. I don't judge them for that, it's the system they're in. But the membership, 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? 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.

49:46I 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 Angelenos 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 what do you do about it? So when I was 20 years old, I sold the first, the youngest ever. So the first reality show to Fox as the youngest executive producer ever.

50:23And I sold it to Peter Chernin when he was the co-chair at 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 Chernin up a few weeks ago. I said, Mr. Chernin, PDC, how do I save LA? It's one of the smartest human beings on earth. He said, Spencer, as mayor, you're not going to be able to change the bigger picture of Hollywood. That's more governor, you know, uncapped. What you can do to really bring back jobs, bring back Hollywood is bring back independent filmmakers, independent production, independent artists.

51:00You 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, because I grew up 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 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 fricking movies.

51:35We'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 bring the city, enable, give them the support, get rid of these fees, the clearance, make it easy. Right now, like I said in the debate, I talk 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 going to have it so safe that an indie crew can pop out with all their cameras and gear and not think it's stolen.

52:11So again, someone like Peter Chernin, I said, Peter, when I'm mayor, can I keep calling you? And he is exactly, I'm always here to make you smarter, Spencer. So these are the type of people that 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.

52:42I've reached out to Ted Saranis. 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 post-production uncapped. Nobody should be going to UK. Nobody should be going to Canada. With the respect of 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. He has 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.

53:14You give me bodyguards to fight these people. Trust me, we're 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?

53:51What are those kind of priorities for you? So I just went to the new opening of the D-line today just to troll, to get some Yimby's to yell at me. And 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 3-1-1. I see what LA looks like. These people go, how do you know this information? My phone, I can't even open it anymore because 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.

54:32But if drug addicts are smoking fentanyl next to your kid, you're not going to the moon on it. So first off is back to safety. We need these Metro, the subway, whatever you want to ride. Bicycles aren't even safe. The Yimbees want more bicycle. You couldn't even pay me to get on a bicycle. A drug addict zombie will hit me 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.

55:05Right now, I think 15 % of the budget goes to the metro with 5 % people use it. Again, I feel like if I made it safe, I could get 15 % to use it. And we could even that out. We got to make sure that nobody's hopping any turnstile. 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 abandoned buildings that the drug addicts are burning down and using our firefighter resources and risking their lives. When we clear that all out and we use these 3D printing, I talked to an architect today, one of the most famous architects in the world.

55:42He has a crew of like 12 architects. They already did all these designs for these buildings that nobody listened to them. They met with Newsom. They met with Bass. Of course, I'm like, let's do a semi 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 eight years. They're going to be moving back because 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.

56:13I 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 to have a canal. And then the Yimby 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.

56:51It'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 can do this so easily.

57:25We can fix all these things. I know all the errors because private business is the ones fighting the 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 gonna rush it six months. He's at two and a half years in the permit process. He said, Spencer, 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.

58:02We need to make it where he's saying two bedroom, a nice two bedroom. he can do for$250 a square foot versus$750 a 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 LADWP to put one wire to my Airstream from a pole across the street. That's the cut the red tape town. This is the fastest we're covering. Absolutely. Operationally, you can address that. But all of the permits that are required, design review, like electrical - We've got to bring in AI.

58:40I know people don't like AI, but even Caruso, he was trying to, initially, he had this whole thing. He put the money up with Steadfast and he offered this AI program - Auto-approved. ...to certain zoning situations. If it meets all this, boom. Right now, it's like out of a bad movie. Some guy comes, he's like, he misses three and he has to do like one check box. 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 because maybe COVID they're still.

59:17Yeah. 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. They say, I'm never the most experienced person in any of the rooms of my company, 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.

59:49Who are you? What's your resume? What's your background? Oh, wow. Okay, come on. Keep in mind, Janice Quinonez, who is the CEO of LADWP, 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.

1:00:35Hello, talent will come here. 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 Maron County, I don't even know where they are, wherever you guys are, 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 beach.

1:01:09You'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?

1:01:47And what can be done there to accelerate, to fast track, 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 frigging 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 fast track 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 neighbor, just bought the local bodega that's been there forever.

1:02:22And he was telling me they're about to give up. It's been a year. He said they're not going to be selling alcohol. There's no food. There 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 results based. How many turns a week? Yes, nobody like if you don't get this many permits.

1:02:57For 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 profit to incentivize bringing production. So they are getting, they're active. 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 from all the trash.

1:03:29He'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. And he said, well, Juan, what's going on? He said, 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 all 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 so Spencer?

1:03:57I will help run sanitation because it's supposed to be a billion dollars because I could do it for easily 500 million. So I'm thinking I just saved 500 million dollars 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 incentivize.

1:04:32Greenlight. This 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. I 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. That's why I'm fighting. People don't get it. I want my sons to grow up in LA. You cannot grow up in LA. You're done. You listen to the debate.

1:05:07They're talking about more beds. 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 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. Bel Air is going to burn. Mandeville Canyon, Sunland, Tujunga, Hollywood Hills. All these are going to burn. It's guaranteed.

1:05:44And 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 Chinooks that LA County uses to work with the fire hawks that we have with LA City and Cal Fire. We can bring insurance back, which is the biggest problem right now for people building. We're going to get rid of this ULA.

1:06:15I 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 gonna stop letting these tenants be squatters, criminals, make it so landlords have to pay them 50 grand cash to leave and then they go to a new landlord. I'm gonna stop the Section 8 scam so that real people that deserve Section 8 get it. Veterans, families that need it, not just drug dealing criminals that are abusing the system with fraud. But yet, if I lose, we're done. I'm trying to tell people, this is like out of a movie.

1:06:53This is Independence Day. The aliens have attacked. They got, it's an invasion is here. And then as mayor, I have to fight all these DSA city council members and 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.

1:07:26That'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.

1:07:57And 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. 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.

1:08:27I'm going to give you, it's a four-year term, right? 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 enforce 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.

1:09:01Families 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.

1:09:39parents are telling me they have to have their kids glued to an iPad in the backseat of their cars driving to them in the 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 has 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.

1:10:12They're feeling supported. 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 in 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 an LA person. These people that I'm running against aren't even LA people.

1:10:48So 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.

1:11:11I'm going all in