Spencer Pratt on His Plan to Fix LA as Mayor, Rollin 60s Cookouts, The Homeless Problem & More

0:00No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today we're very, very excited to bring you a former high school classmate of Lush. Elementary. Elementary and current mayoral candidate for the great city of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt. Thank you guys for having me. Yeah, man, it's amazing to have you here. It's been pretty crazy seeing you just rise up and garner so much attention in such a short period of time for your aspirations for the city, man. Well, I only set out on this mission to expose corruption for my own community. I didn't actually think I would end up being the mayor of L.A., which it looks like is God's plan.

0:36I just wanted to have a bigger platform because I knew she would get reelected no matter what after letting my neighbors burn alive. So I just nobody was going to run against her. So I did it right just to oppose to be the opposition. And then what I've now discovered is speaking the truth is so powerful across the whole country. People just resonate because I hate politicians. I'm not trying to be connected to any political party or any of these people. I just want that truth and corruption to stop. Yeah. And from my perspective, even the most hardcore Democrats that I know, it seems like they are very intently weighing the pros and cons of Spencer Pratt being the mayor of Los Angeles.

1:17because I feel like the state of LA and in particular, the homelessness crisis has just driven a lot of people to the brink and they're looking for any possible change of pace and you are presenting change and, and a lot of people are very, very excited about it. Yeah. I had lunch with Biden's, the biggest donor in the democratic party in the whole game on Sunday. She said I was the first, you know, technically I'm not either, but she, she said to me when I heard her, you're the first non-democrat that's ever opened in my house and she's already maxed out like backing me like so i have the you know when they say oh spitzer how are you going to beat the democratic machine the actual people pulling the levers maybe not the the party brand right now but the people on the ground with the write the checks the people in the media these people all back me because i have a common sense message and they know i'm not going to do any of this you know national politics We need somebody who just cares about Los Angeles, the streets, the drug addicts living all over the street.

2:18They're laundering billions of dollars to increase the people living on our street. They don't want to stop this. They say we need more beds, but anybody knows anything about addiction. You could have an empty bed, but you don't care about that bed. You want to get high. Get the Fenty, get the super meth. You're not trying to see where the empty$100 ,000 bed is. Is that the pharmaceutical industry you're talking about primarily? I mean, they're all connected because everyone's profiting. The people that, you know, just right now, last week, it's came out, you know, we pay as taxpayers. We pay for all the needles that they're giving out MacArthur Park.

2:54So, is that needle company? Who are they? I don't know. I'm just saying there's a lot of people connected. The bigger scheme, though, is the real estate developers. They're the ones that do the housing for the, you know, operation. Section 8 and all that? That's a whole other box. But for the homeless, it's inside safe is what Mayor Karen Bass. So last year, she spent$400 million to house. When I say house, we don't even know. This is her number. 1 ,400 people. So with that$400 million, she gives it to developers. So they go buy buildings that should be$250 a square foot. It's$1 ,000 a square foot.

3:33Then they spend five years redoing the building. Oh, it needs a new. Everybody's getting kicked. it's like the mafia. I keep joking, like back in the day, Gotti and these people wouldn't even believe the scam that LA is doing with our tax money. Jimmy Hoffa would be proud. I mean, they would just be shook. It's more than the cartels. It's more money,$24 billion in California, but it's all run out of LA. So yeah. I mean, that's probably one of the biggest criticisms I see of you is that you're capable of like naming the problems, but that you don't actually have that much experience in terms of governing and that in reality, a lot of the same regulation and bullshit that Karen Bass has to deal with is stuff that you're going to have to be able to deal with realistically as well.

4:16Do you think that she's just so corrupt that we have like a tainted idea of what it's going to take to get our city back on track? A hundred percent, because what people have just accepted, like I've lived in LA my whole life. This is not LA. We are light years from, yeah, we always had homeless people. That's society. We have created a drug addiction complex in L.A. because we don't require treatment. When you're naked in front of kids at the park or in front of schools, when I'm mayor, I can enforce the laws we have. And I will remove you from being naked, doing whatever you're doing in front of kids.

4:53These moms, why I'm getting elected, it's a wrap, is because moms are done with the naked drug addicts having sex. the amount of videos I can't post because my account will get deleted of just people having sex on sidewalks in front of kids. Street people of Los Angeles is doing the work for you. I mean, he can't even post what, what's really like it. I'm telling you when my DMS, I can't even open them. It's just like, it's so gnarly. Like Jesus Christ. So no, we have laws. They're choosing not to enforce them because they're deep into an ideology where, Oh, you can't, they're experiencing homelessness.

5:28They can live there. No, we need to use this 400 million plus that we have and get these people treatment, medical treatment. And with SB 43, the state law, if you can't manage yourself, you're banging your head through a glass window, naked, jerking off, doing whatever you're doing, we can take you legally and put you into treatment. Starts with a 5150 hold, goes to a 72 hour hold, can go to a 42 day hold. It can go to a one year conservatorship. They'll come back. Where are you going to put all these people, Spencer? Well, you go to the federal government and you say, hello, I would like some support here.

6:03The resources you have across the country. There's medical facilities all over the country. If we have to, takes people to a different medical facility, we'll find it. We're just not going to let them die on the street anymore. This idea that we just have to accept this. That's the empathetic choice is that we should just let these people rot away in public. That's what liberals want because that somehow embraces like freedom? You know, I won't say liberals. I think the socialists, the DSA have hijacked the liberal democratic party. I think Democrats that support me care about people. They don't want them to die on the street and they paid their tax money expecting these people.

6:41They put an office to get these people off the street with seven people dying in the street in their own feces a day. We use Narcan all day long using our firefighter, our money resources to let people oh die oh d die maybe and then you know this cycle that needs to stop and that's why as mayor when people say he doesn't have the plan no you're voting for me to say enough of this we're stopping this we're gonna find the support these people need not to mention over 60 percent of these people are not from california you know why they've been brought in here by scam rehabs medicaid hustles these ngos a lot of these people once you get them sober for a minute they're like can you get me back to Oklahoma.

7:23Like I'm stuck. I got a cousin. You can actually, and there's been success, private people do this where you can get these people home. Cause if you're an addict, one of the hardest things about recovery is you need support. You need community. You need people that you trust that care about you. The other problem with it being an addict is people give up on you. Cause it's like enough is enough is enough. And they let you go, but we can come in, help this people. And then, you know, I've talked to a lot of straight up billionaires that would finance scholarships for like your uncle back in Missouri, break you off to like, here's some money.

7:57We're sending your nephew back to you. Incentivize them. Yeah, like to give you support and resources to help you help like a family member or a friend and not just give it all one lump sum. So then they take it, but like break it off. That was one very big billionaire was like, I would love to do a program like that. so that we just need to find you know that's my energy we gotta find a change these people i'm running against will tell you they need more beds now we know we're gonna get more beds but they need to be able to sleep in the bed right what about like neighboring municipalities like santa monica which has its own infrastructure its own mayor but they have been basically allowing homeless people to colonize their city for the past 50 years and stuff like that is there like plans that work with the other neighboring municipalities.

8:48So why I think I have so much support across the country is because people want somebody to step in and say, the community, the voters, the constituents, we're done with this. And by doing that, other neighborhoods, like other cities, Santa Monica, their citizens are like, if Spencer can come in LA and clean it up and get people help, show them the working model, and I think it'll inspire, because people forget whether they're Republicans Americans are dumb. They all work for us. We are paying so much money for these people's salaries to fail us. So we need to show like, like somebody like me get in and say, we're done with this.

9:27And then other people are like, he did it. Why is LA did it? Like my goal is to turn downtown LA into the most popping city in the history of the world. And you know how you do that? Because I've met with realistically 30 billionaires that tell me we want to invest in LA. We want to build affordable housing. We want to build mid-level housing. We want to build top tier housing, but we can't because the city blocks us because they just want to put homeless scams into this money and they're not. So the reality is you say we're done with this. The money's going to come into LA. We're going to build again.

10:03There's no cranes in LA. When I was growing up, there was cranes everywhere. I haven't seen a crane in realistically like four years. Like we need to have LA be like to buy the people. There's creatives here. There's people that love the city, but we've just let the city take over and just be like, nah, you have to live like this and pay up, pay up, tax, tax, tax. I keep saying, you know, cause people are all hyped on the socialist. They want to give me money. They're going to run out of money to give you because these people were taxing. They're leaving 50 ,000 a year are leaving LA. These are the people we're taxing.

10:35I'm Robin Hood. I'm coming in. I'm going to, we're already getting taxed, but I'm going to make sure this tax money that's being stolen by other rich people and put in their little scams to increase problems. I'm going to get that money. And the way I'll be a successful mayor is accountability and transparency. We need to know where every dollar goes, not these confusing dashboards. Like my eight-year-old needs to be able to go on a different version of the government site for kids. And it should be laid out every dollar, the$15 billion budget, You can spend two days on it with cartoons and figure out.

11:08And that way we can all hold these people accountable. Why you spend, you know, I go to the fire stations. They're charging 50 grand for refrigerators. The city may like, you know, if the fire station refrigerator goes down, there's only one vendor that can come in. It's mafia stuff. We need to know the firefighter doors that open up$250 ,000 a door. They're like, this door is not 250 ,000. That's a racket. Yeah, there's a racket going on in the city, whether it's trash, whether I just met with, why do we have so many potholes all over the city? Why don't we do the streets? Because when Mayor Bass first got in, she canceled an over 130 year contract.

11:47It's a federal contract. These independent truckers, it was like 82 of these family business passed down generations. I met them all in South Central. They told me the whole game. She came in, canceled it, took that$100 million. It's for our infrastructure. put it into the homeless scam. So that's why they used to do 300 miles of roads fixing the potholes. She does like 90 now. Well, it seems like there's been a big misappropriation of funds. Like even like that$4 million that she got to reinvigorate MacArthur Park and clean it up. I don't, just to build fences, like that doesn't make it$4 million to build fences.

12:24That$4 million should go to help recovery treatment for the people that are living in the park, dying on fentanyl. We don't need fences. We need to get these everything's fences and putting plants on the sidewalk. All like Bush. No, these people need help. Like addicts need help. They don't need fences. It's not going to change. They'll climb the fence. We just spent four million dollars for him to climb a fence. So, you know, I feel like I've actually seen in my neighborhood that a lot of my neighbors have become radicalized potential Spencer voters on behalf of just the fact that a homeless dude just moved into our neighborhood.

13:01and just posted up right in front of my gate and just managed to live there for like two weeks. People called the cops over and over and the cops would come. They would sit and they would basically like have community activists come. They would give the guy food, supplies, et cetera. So all of a sudden he's super comfortable posted up in this neighborhood. He's yelling at parents who are walking their kids and stuff. He yelled at this mom who had a baby. All of a sudden now I'm in the WhatsApp group with the whole neighborhood. And finally they were able to remove them because of a technicality that it's like a high risk fire zone.

13:34But I think like so many of my neighbors just saw this and just realized how incompetent the city is. And when you talk to the cops, you realize how handcuffed they feel in these situations. And they wish that they could be a little bit more aggressive, but they feel like they just can't do anything without getting in trouble or violating some kind of law at this point. So, and you combine that with the fact that my neighborhood has had like a huge amount of burglaries going on, people breaking into houses and stuff. It feels like even just regular Los Angeles citizens are just getting unbelievably fed up.

14:05No, there's people I've talked to that have been robbed in their house three times. They're putting signs out like nothing left on the front yard because criminals, this is like Disneyland. Now you can do anything you want in LA and get away with it. When I was growing up in LA, obviously there's crime and everything, but I was concerned about throwing something out a window like i would be like littering i'm gonna hit with the thing you know there was just that mindset now you can just like i'm not saying there aren't great artists you know i don't i have no problem trickster family friend great graffiti but now you can literally just do any any you can spray paint on anything in front of a there's nothing we know some of these graffiti artists and they are not worried they talk about the 80s back when they used to prosecute this kind of thing like that was the the the craziest thing imaginable because now we're in the golden days where nobody gets prosecuted for graffiti anymore and i'm not like i just feel like we need to set up areas like how do you fix this we need to have there's a lot of property in los angeles graffiti designated zones where if you're doing a dope piece you get you know maybe you could beat it and almost have like a level where if it's bad you could catch a misdemeanor you know but We need to, for instance, street race, street takeovers.

15:21We need to designate places where, you know, the youth who feels inspired want to make TikToks and do the thing. But it can't be where small businesses are getting destroyed. And these people forget they think they're just going against like the cops. You're hurting these communities, small businesses, mom and pop shops making it not safe. So we need to have like, for instance, the other day, I don't know, some metal, I don't know if it's metal or anarchy or hardcore. Dead City Punks. Yeah, like there should be a place. And as a mayor, I'll find a dope spot, whether it's in a riverbed where we give you like you want to do this thing.

15:56Here's your spot. And we coordinate it and give you the opportunity to have city property. But not where, you know, hardworking moms and nurses are trying to get up in the morning. Like we have to, as a society, respect everybody, but also work with some people who want to, you know, get wild and mosh and bang each other in the head. but give them that opportunity, but not just waiting until that night, hit them with the pepper balls. But we got to, you know, as a mayor, I want to work with these types of people in the society and figure out like. Cause they're really a response to the lack of resources.

16:29Those things wouldn't even happen if they were, had a designated area, this never would even come to fruition. Exactly. So I got to be the mayor that works with all types of the city to make it. Cause we want dope music. We want artists. We want creators. We want people making good, but we just got to have boxes where these check. And it's back to what you're saying about your neighborhood. One of my opponents, I have mom sending me the emails who's running the councilman of ramen. They had a, like a perv living on their street all summer, looking in on the windows are like moms and kids. They kept on telling the councilman saying nothing we could do about it.

17:08I got to sell the emails, blah, blah. So these parents got together and they figure out that this person is as broke parole is a sex offender on the run living on their block in front of all their kids in the windows. They tracked down the parole officer from Riverside. That person is now in prison because they were a straight sex offender that the city council woman who's running for mayor was just nothing we could do. Like, I'm going to be the mayor that talks to the constituents. Like, I don't ever want to be in the office in City Hall. I want to be the voice because that's all I got. Be like, what's your experience?

17:40I'm a fighter for the truth now because you burn my life down, my house, my parents' house down, my neighbors. You put the Spencer these people think they know is not who they know. January 7th made a new version of me. And I just want to be the mayor that fights for communities and all the communities I go to. I hear the same thing. No matter, you know, people go, he's only here. I'm everywhere. A lot of communities don't want to post because of retaliation because they're scared. their city council member who already is not listening to them or the mayor's like oh you know retaliation the city of LA in politics and it's for real it's like when the fire chief told the truth she got fired they really come after people so what they keep telling me is what they say the city council members ignore them the mayor ignores them to be a successful mayor I just need to be the voice of these people because if I get elected it's the people that put me in I went against the full machine and that's my whole duty is to be like i'm gonna be out here in these streets with the people have you been cultivating relationships with the constituents in like the some of those other districts like in south la and east la and places like that that are kind of further away from where you typically be at yeah i just had a a cookout on 10th in south central with the rolling 60s so you know they back me you know i think they're going to the voter polls.

19:00I'm going to the jungle on Saturday, even though the jungle is not what we think it is anymore. It's ever since. It's becoming a little bit gentrified. It's, you know, it's a little nicer, but I think some of the OGs are coming through because these are community leaders. As much as people think like gang, gang, the reality is these people know how the cities failed them. And the community needs a mayor that like gets in at the ground level. Cause we got to stop at the youth from these people getting on drugs. I had this lady, this mom come up to me crying in South Central because my daughter's not homeless.

19:30I love her. She's got a home, but she's on skid row right now, addicted to meth, but she's not homeless. I hate when they say these people are homeless. So here we go back to my thing. It's a community issue. There's a, there are a lot of people from out of state, but a lot of people in the city are now, people don't get how crazy fentanyl is and super meth. These aren't drugs that aren't like drugs. We grew up, This is like scientific, mad, mad. And even now they have like synthetic drugs. New York Times actually dropped a big piece about it today that are like 10 times more powerful than fentanyl.

20:04And they're coming up with new drugs by the day that are able to skirt around regulations, whatever. As soon as you tell China that they can't process fentanyl the same way, they're going to find another way to do it. So that crisis seems like it's only going to get worse. 100%. And as mayor, they're like, oh, you can do this. we need to work with the DEA and to really go after these drugs that kill people. You know, these drugs kill people. I know people are like, oh, I love drugs, they're cool. Yeah, but that Xanax you thought you were taking is going to have Fendon, you're dead. Like the amount of just kids that I've talked to, their parents that are dead because they got Xanax or Narco off of Snapchat and are dead at 15 because they were just wanting to experiment.

20:43They thought they were just going to get a little warm and fuzzy and are dead. So that's what people like, oh, he's like anti-drug. No, I'm anti getting you dead. Like, like that's what people need to wake up. These are not the drugs you get high off anymore. These are the drugs that kill you and your friends and your loved one, your little sister, your nephew. So we need to work with the DEA, get them out here and go after these cartels that do not care about killing us Angelenos. Yeah. Do you have a specific plan for Figueroa? Because I know that at least on this podcast, we're like pretty concerned about the prostitution epidemic.

21:17makeup you got to give it to karen bass that she has set up a lot of cameras facial recognition around there we're actually friends with this guy smack who worked directly with her to help take down some of the gangs in that area who've been dealing with child prostitution and stuff like that is that something that you have a specific plan for for me if you're selling your body you have an addiction problem so nine 99 of the time over there for sure so we got substance abuse or otherwise so my my heart is helping addicts get these people on a path where they don't need to sell themselves for their addiction so it's difficult because now with the new state law you can't even if it's a minor and it's clear you can't just be like hey you're a minor being trafficked that's how crazy our laws are but we need to again work with the community leaders figure out how we get to these people and offer them these people want treatment they just don't wants what's offered to them, which is a cell square box with scary people in a prison-like structure.

22:18That's why my plan, working with the billionaires and the federal government, building a beautiful place in nature on the federal land with trees that actually looks like somewhere you show, hey, ma 'am, we can get you out here. Three meals a day. We have a chef. They got sound bowls and yoga. And, you know, we need to treat these people like if you're a rich celebrity going to a Malibu treatment. Is that tangible? Like, is there a way to execute that financially? I met with a billionaire, quote unquote, like fact, like they already put 300 million into a place in New York just as like a family.

22:54He offered me 500 million dollars to help people. The thing is, these billionaires want to make sure it's helping people because right now everyone's just grifting and scamming. Not to mention our current state and our current leadership has a terrible relationship with the federal government. I'm going to work with Democrats, Republicans, however we help people. That means going to Washington and saying, this is how much it costs right now to have people dying on the street is what we're paying. This is how much it's going to cost to get these people on your federal land. Here's the plan. Working with FEMA and HUD.

23:28You know, this is not an overnight. I'm planning to be the mayor for eight years. But we got to build out a structure where we have this place where they go. We're already spending the money. This idea that we've spent$24 billion in California to increase it. So why can't we say we're done getting scammed? Let's put this into a real. And then when you get sober, we also have to have tradecraft like this billionaire in Italy does it with addicts where you learn how to, you know, well, I don't know what they're actually making over that office pasta or whatever. They're teaching you how to once you come back in a safe.

24:01For me, I think we need to teach if they want to stay in California how to clear dead brush. We have a really successful program with the prisons where they come out and they work with the firefighters to clear dead brush and has a really good result. That's the type of thing we need in California. So we train, get you sober, get you on a path, start teaching you how to do brush clearance, which we have enough of that for California to, you know, have a job for a long time. Come back to, you want to come back to California, get in with the fire department and be part of a new program where we do dead fuels around community brush clearance.

24:33We have a lot of trash in LA. My friend Juan from Clean LA, let me tell you how much trash is. There's opportunity to bring people, how to train people out. We're going to actually clean all this trash and come back and help give you a job. If you want to come back to LA, I think a lot of these people that we're going to help are going to want to go to where their homes are and their friends and memories. I think they're just stuck in this vicious cycle of hell. These people are in hell and they try to be like, oh, Spencer hates homeless people. He calls them zombies. We have zombies right now.

25:07Let me tell you. I'm not going to do the nice lingo because, yes, they're here. They go, you don't care about humans. I do. But even a zombie, you've got to get unzombied. So we have to acknowledge what we're dealing with. These aren't just like the single mother who lost a check. These are people deep in a level of like, we got to bring you out if we can. You may just need to be in a mental facility like Dr. Phil will tell you. Like I've talked to him. There's some people that just need psychiatric medicine and psychiatric help. That's a real. Because he lives around the corner from MacArthur Park.

25:44So he gets to see it on a daily basis of just how bad it's gotten. And even me and my wife, like recently went to a Lakers game. We ended up kind of routed through that area. And I used to live there in 2016 in K-Town. And we're driving down the street and I'm seeing, you know, hundreds of dudes slumped over doing the famous Fentuline. Doing the monster mash. Yo. and I mean I just couldn't believe it like this was an area where uh when Pokemon Go was released famously in 2016 we were walking around at at midnight playing Pokemon in the neighborhood and now and it was a little sketchy then sure but now it's on a completely different level like what are your concerns in terms of like what you think could really help that community that you're so embedded in I think that my my biggest primary concern the whole time I've been there is like the actual community that lives there.