Spencer Pratt On What Fame, Loss, & Starting Over Taught Him About Power And Truth

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38:28I know some of the guys, I know one individual that's around you pretty regularly. I don't think people want to get too close to you. Yeah, so, you know. If he wants to share, but I would say like that would make me sleep pretty well at night knowing you're running around with some of those people. I was watching like, are you concerned or safety? And then I saw him in the back and I go, well, he's probably concerned, but maybe not as concerned with that kind of around. So the other thing that I have new to my life is I wanted to get like an elite police protection dog. And so I reached out to this company and I looked into it.

38:58I was like, oh my God, I can't afford this. You know, and so I didn't. And then like the way the world worked after our house burned down was I get a call from, you know, somebody and they're like, the world champ police dog is too much for the elderly wealthy owners that took this dog. he beat 500 police dogs in europe so i have kobe bryant of police dogs they go if you want him you could go pick him up right now i drove straight there picked him up so i have the most elite police dog right now you have to do to manage that dog because he speaks full i can't say my language he's like he's like a robot but do you have to worry about him around the kids or no oh no he sleeps next to gunner's bed so try it you know wait are these dogs that gnarly i don't know about the dog thing if you don't if your neck like because we had two multi-poos and two pomeranians they went to heaven when you're done with the little dogs and they go to heaven talk to me this will change your life it when i'm in the michael is like when i'm at the gas station now when i'm at the gas station i just crack the window as i'm getting gas and the dog is so smart i swear to god it's checking the whole station if somebody starts coming near me i'm just I'm ready I'm about to just Open the door I'm like It'd be your worst Nightmare Wait I don't know About this kind of dog I mean I know about Police dogs They like scan The premises This dog is smarter Than anything You could be It's scary Why don't we have These dogs These dogs are 120 ,000 dogs Some of these dogs Go to war Oh this is This dog should be With Delta Force Or CL Team 6 How does your dog This is a stupid question But I just wonder How does the dog Know that When you picked him up That you guys Are not threatening And then your kids aren't threatening oh well these dogs are because these are like the elite dogs they're how they in their dogs like four and a half years old it's a fully trained so it like they in europe it was around little kids they do every they build it up in stages so the dog's better with the kids than with anybody so only potty trained ready to go it goes to the bathroom on command you say take a break stop so i don't believe this have you not have you showed this on instagram i had to archive I have a lot of the dog content for a situation that, you know.

41:10So if I came, if I was, if I was coming, if I was entering your. It'll probably be public eventually. Your world. And I was like, and the dog was with you. Do you have to do a protocol to like introduce the dog to the person to make sure that they, or is it, or he just knows. He knows aura. Like for instance, I was at the coffee shop, you know, so many people, he's scanning everything when I first got him and my close friend owns the coffee shop and we're talking to, and then he, we're talking for like 20 minutes. and then he imitates a story of somebody threatening him and he goes something like i'm gonna you know whatever and the dog just on him like and he's like whoa whoa your dog and like the dog sensed the like change in tone so quick he didn't do anything because i didn't give the command but if you give a command like if i if i came was like spencer i'm gonna get and you gave the command that dog's gonna take me out game over i would like one of those dogs i didn't know this kind of dog existed no but i but i imagine it's also a pretty big responsibility to own one of these dogs you got to like really like spend time with it yeah no i've been having it's the best thing i've ever had in my life why didn't you bring oh you left the dog because you want to leave it okay so so i'm good if you could get another dog and bring it with you only have one you only have i almost just got a because this dog had a puppy you know like in the like they were like you want and i tried it i was like we're good you're good you're good it's it's like having a so you feel good knowing that that dog's with the kids you're here you don't have to you don't have to think about what's more gnarly a bodyguard or this dog dog because here's the thing crazy this is why this is what they'll tell you and i've learned crazy people you pull a gun out a crazy person they'll go shoot me so you have to really be ready to kill somebody in a situation now maybe you didn't need to kill that person but you this person could kill you and there's now you're in this weird gray area of self-defense somebody starts coming at you with these dogs you see my Like, for instance, I'll give you a great story.

43:01We had the dog. Heidi was recording a song over on Butler in Santa Monica Boulevard. Biggest, scariest dude. No shirt starts coming at us saying, you know, I don't know what he was on. This is like crazy guy. Crazy guy. Last person I'm trying to wrassle, stab, shoot. You know, I don't want anything to do with this person. He doesn't know that I got the dog in the car. So he's coming through the middle street, coming right at Heidi and I. I just open the door, take the dog. He just sees the dog. the dog just gets in his thing you know bolts the other side of the street wait are dogs this scary what can the dog kill yeah i mean they can if it bites your neck or i did not know about this kind of dog instinctually we know as humans you don't want to fuck with like big scary animals you know like we're not you're not equipped to like handle that kind of thing i don't want to fuck with the i would rather fuck with a person than a big scary dog i didn't know 100 okay a person you kind of know like oh i've wrestled before i know i could fight it i don't know my whole childhood has been like warm fuzzy dogs it's a warm fuzzy dog but he's a trained he doesn't think he thinks it's a game he's been trained so much like when i take him to his like training whether we do like the attacks on the like the guy right it's his favorite thing to do in the world like we're going to disneyland tail wagging so because he's his it's like playing football or bad he's a professional athlete get the bad what's the dog's name yoki yoki do not fuck oh no so so that's the other thing god it's when signs and symbols i'm always like connected to the multiverse like this i should have never had this dog i can't afford this dog you you don't there's only one world champion a year this is the 2023 world champion everybody wants that dog from europe and it ended up with my family that's the sign you know oh when you decided to write your second book i've read your first one when you decided to write the second one and you decided to just lay it on the table what was the pushback that you got from behind the scenes i didn't really i don't talk behind the scenes to anybody so i don't think i didn't i didn't check in with anybody what about like lawyers when you write at the publisher there's no pushback they were like go for it i did my i spent a lot of time every day with lawyers now suing la and the state so and ladw so i might as well be i might as well have a law degree whatever Kim K has, I have that too now.

45:26So we did our best to anything a lawyer would not want in the book to legally make sure that could be in the book. So you just got, I feel like it's right there. Like, cause how I read stuff that you legally usually couldn't get away with. I feel like we legally got it in there. Can you give us a juicy nugget from the book or maybe give us some, like what we're going to learn in this book? Cause you're not holding back. I can tell, you know i think the not nuggets or like gotcha moments ago i think the coolest part about the book is the goal was to like really describe an era of fame and this new modern world of attention fame that i aspired to be that paris hilton started i would say and then i took just talked to her yesterday funny enough we were just talking all about this so that world from my perspective obviously she has her own she was set up differently i had to come from a very different route to build what now so many influencers content creators so i think the coolest part about the book is like the roadmap to where we are now and i i truly believe that you know at usc film school you could teach this book or a chapter out of it so less of the you know obviously there's so much juice or whatever like us weekly is already putting these quotes up that i didn't think were anything about people I thought was, you know, tame-ish.

46:47And people are like texting me like, well, I can't believe you said this. I felt like that was chill. So they're just pulling all the, I mean, here's the thing that I think our generation understands for whatever reason, you and Heidi specifically, and maybe people forget this era, you guys were on every fucking tabloid and magazine every week. Like you could not escape Spidey. Like there was, it was everywhere. And I think that like we were talking again, like to Paris yesterday, that level of attention and fame doesn't exist anymore. And we talk to people on this show all the time. And I always say like, like that era is over.

47:22Right. And I don't think it's ever going to come back because it can't. What's the new era to you? Like, what do you think is about to happen with social and the landscape? I mean, God, I hope we get a new era because right now it's not looking hot. back to something i think is interesting about the book and and the nelk boys were so lovely how they tweeted about me and i found it so ironic because in my book the my i told everyone in summer school at call me cute in malibu the goal was to get on the cover of us weekly in life because at that time when i was 16 only person's on there is brad pitt tom cruise just goats It's legends.

48:02So that's the Stanley Cup or whatever achievement. So that is a clear through line in my book. And here the Nelk boys are tweeting, calling me a washed up reality star. That same day, I got my first full cover by myself with no Heidi, no drama. Spencer Brown, the cover of Us Weekly. So in their modern world of fame as YouTubers, I'm washed up. in my OG what fame is to me and what I my heritage I have my peak day of of fame interesting perspective the same day they are they think I'm washed up like to me I just I think my jersey just went on the wall it's gonna be a New York Times bestseller I let's manifest it I I think it will be a bestseller once I save Los Angeles because then they're gonna look back and be like how did he do this?

48:56So I think it's going to even, you know, because the publisher is so concerned that right now what I'm doing is like preempting the book. But I actually think what I'm about to do is going to make the book so much more interesting and it all connects to this journey. So it's like this hard thing because they want, which I understand, they're my partners. They want book, book, book. I'm like, the book is my life. This is my life. It all is to where we are now. Yeah. What's interesting is like, and I've sent you a couple of DMs and personal messages, just admiring what you've been doing. But I think what's interesting about what you're up to now is I think it's a culmination of your experiences and life's lived that have put you in this position uniquely now.

49:39And I think we've talked over the years, you've looked at different things, different projects. I feel like you've really found your footing. And as you found it, I've watched the attention and engagement really ramp up around you again. Do you feel that way? Like, I just feel like you're in your lane. Like, I feel like - You're in your flight. I don't think like, I think not anyone could just step into doing what you're doing now. Like all of the experiences that you've had and all of the things that have happened to you put you in this lane to do this uniquely. Well, to go back to my preacher wife, she referenced a bunch of people in the Bible.

50:13I don't know that God always picks like the most opposite people to do like his plan so people say that like i'm not like i don't have the background for this like well god will give me what i need to do and so clearly what they'd understand if they read my book i do have i have 20 years of preparing for now politics they're trying to do what i did in 2006 well the smear campaigns are going to work on you oh no all the clickbait headlines and the tweets and the stunts. They read your first book. Yeah. They read How to Be Famous. So, but there's a whole thing that was PG-13 version. They don't know how to really be famous.

50:55But a lot of people can't, especially in politics, like you see these people crumble. They can't handle the heat in the kitchen when it gets ramped up and scrutiny gets put on. And I feel like what can people really do or say about you that hasn't been done or said throughout your entire career? You know what I mean? Like what kind of smear campaign exists that hasn't been rolled over and investigated 18 times? There's no, there's no like, let's find the extra dirt on Spanish. You've been out there. So here's the ironic thing about the mayor saying that, oh, he's using this book as per, if I was running for mayor, like if I was an actual like candidate, the way they think of it, my book would be the last thing I would launch before my campaign.

51:31This book was like, I'm putting everything in this to have sales before any of this happened. And it wasn't anyone that reads it is going to be like, oh my God. you know it doesn't i'm not i looked at my book as if i was trying to like take spencer pratt down you know as somebody you know some books people write about people like you almost think i wrote my book about me like it's not like i'm i don't feel like i'm the good guy in my book it's not a hero story it's a tragic dark tale of fame that you wouldn't write this book to like be like, I'm running for office now. It's not a marketing. It's not a fluffy.

52:10I think people though in politics right now are looking for authenticity because that's what's been missing from it. They want to know who we can trust. You're incredibly refreshing and authentic. And I feel like you're at this moment in time where people are looking for someone like you. I also think people in this country specifically now are tired of like the polish, but not the real like niceness behind the polish. like listen I'm no fan of Newsom that's known and it's like if you look at a very polished dialed in but like he looks like that guy but then you see a lot of the things that they've done and even like you know my last thing we don't have to bring up the French laundry thing but that was like that was absurd at the time like especially with as you're like changing people's lives and how they got to live them doing that it's like people are done with the two face like you look real good you say the right things but then you do the opposite you're like perfect right now I would rather have a very crass t-shirt nodders but like someone that's gonna do what they say they're gonna do and mean what they say so that's the other thing like i had a friend yesterday call me this is a close friend i grew up with and he was you know he's always backs me he's like i talked to another person we got the best plan for you how you could be like the mondami of la i'm like what they're just you know i listen to everyone and you know and he goes you just gotta tell everybody that the bus tickets are gonna be free that's what he did it's not even true and then they don't have the money i'm like that's exactly the opposite of what I'm doing.

53:34Everyone just tells everybody to vote. I'm literally going to tell people exactly what I can do as mayor. I'm going to find out and all the things you can do as mayor and here are all the things I can't do. So I'm not going to sit here and be like, we're going to do this. What I know I can do is go arrest people selling fentanyl to homeless people. I know I can enforce clearing streets. I know I can stop all the NGO money laundering with the homeless industrial complex and stop all these. But here's my biggest strength that they think is a weakness. I don't have 40 years of political favors and relationships and all these things that look at the city.

54:12You don't know anybody, anything in this world. Whatever Karen Bass is doing, I don't want her qualifications. I want the opposite in which I have. I have nothing of that. And you don't go to Ghana. I'm never leaving LA. So especially when I'm mayor, the farthest I'll go is obviously Santa Barbara to go to the Rosa of Miramar. I'm a skinny margarita if I'm so loud when this is all over. That is why I think I will win because people also are like, you know, people are very into like rigged votes, no voter ID, all this stuff. I truly believe there's like 3.9 million registered voters in LA. I think only 600 ,000 of them voted for Karen Bouse to win.

54:52If my message about what everybody wants to pay taxes in LA that things are unaffordable to then live in a piece of SHIT everywhere, these people will show up and they'll vote. So I don't care if it is rigged and you got all these Cook ballots. So I think there's going to be a million extra people that want LA. I have hardcore Hollywood, liberal Democrat, people I'm not going to name coming in the big time game. Do you need help writing scripts? Do you need speeches like heavy hitters that they want LA back? They want to live here. They know I, they're not, you know, the media tries to put me in a box because I like guns or whatever, you know, certain things that other people don't like.

55:37My sister, my older sister is the most hardcore liberal ever. I talked to her all day long. I don't do the, I want the same, a lot of the same stuff as everybody else. I'm in the, I guess somebody called me a populist. I don't know if that's what I am. Sounds like I am. I'm very popular. So, you know, that's where they're going to try to get me with all these things. And, you know, the biggest thing Karen Bass does is she sits there and yells about ICE and this. I can promise you if Karen Bass is the mayor for three more years, for sure, more ICE raids will happen under Karen Bass than maybe any other state.

56:13And she'll keep making posts and yelling about it. But if you really don't want ICE in LA, then you'd vote for Spencer because I can go make a deal with the federal government and the president and say, look, you stop ICE in LA, my buddy Shrek and I and SWAT and the sheriff's department with the new sheriff, Alex, we will give you more felons, rapists, drug dealers, child traffickers, murderers than any state, any city with using ICE. I will go lead the task force. and it worked with the mayor of San Francisco. He made a deal with the federal government and they don't have what Karen Bass has.

56:50So you can get caught up in the performative yelling about things or you figure out what you got to work with and make a deal and I can do that. So that's all she has is to yell about that. I will go fix it. What does your life look like right now in Santa Barbara running for mayor and promoting your book? Are you waking up and going straight to social? Are you being a dad? Is it all the things? What does it look like? I think I've done one post to promote the book. That's the problem. You know, like I'm supposed to take two weeks off of this. Ideally, the publisher would like. And I'm like, how about I just mix them together?

57:25And the people want to buy the book. And, you know, the message is the same message. This is me. If you wanted to vote for me, you should definitely read my book. So it works, you know, as. But my life is no promo, unfortunately. I mean, no shade to your publisher. but like what you're doing right now and the attention you're getting in the way you know like people are gonna people what people forget audiences and customers and consumers are smart enough to be like oh you're doing this and that and i'm gonna go now because you're doing this i'm gonna go for that they're not gonna be like oh he's mayor so i can't read the book like they're gonna connect the dots i need to read the fucking book now right you're getting attention regardless you know i what am i what i'm doing today i'll tell you yeah i so i already did you did you wake have your espresso do you have your espresso i went to lucky llama i got a lucky llama acai bowl even though it's too much sugar and i'm trying to you know twice in my life i had depression with emotional eating and you'll read in my book after the hills was canceled i became a pie addict fudge brownie chocolate brownie walnut so i gained like at least 30 pounds then and then after the house burned down, I became a skinny margarita, Mexican food addict and gained at least 35 pounds.

58:38So I am now trying to manage. So when you get upset, it's the eating that provides the comfort or the drinking or whatever. Yeah. The food. How did you lose weight working out GLP one? No, no. The treadmill. I got Woodway. Give me a good, nice treadmill. Did you stop with the food? No, no. I'm just trying to do more miles. I'm trying to out eat my miles. You told me the best Mexican food you told me is the place in LA. Well, Don Antonio's is going to be where my campaign kickoff is on February 4th. Hopefully I'm going to, this was this morning. I went to Malibu and I did my video about, so I didn't post this because I rushed it because I didn't want to be late.

59:17I usually try to do maybe two takes and it didn't hit as hard as it should. And that video is I was in Malibu and I stopped because Kamala Harris just bought a house in the Palisades, Malibu burn area. Her defenders will say, it's not part of the burn area. Go drive on PCH. It is a literal apocalypse. I do it every day. You drive 23 miles per hour in one lane. So let me tell you, she just got an$8 million house. That house before the fire was 10 million. So we have Kamala Harris coming in. She didn't do anything for fire victims for a whole year, except for go get a great deal on some fire victim property.

1:00:00So that was my video this morning. My next video, when I leave here, I'm going to the Palisades Elementary School because all the parents have informed me that the state has actually gone back on their word and taken funding from the rebuild and teachers are not going to be able to have their jobs coming back. So I'm going to stop at the Palisades. I'm going to do my video about - It's just like whack-a-mole. no you just it's like but how much oh and then my other video i gotta do i gotta go do this video in front of the burnt out starbucks in palisades that's my background i don't think like i'm like again like grew up out here but don't la was not home family still in san diego all that but like i i don't think i listen my job is attention in media right like that's the world i'm in i don't think people are seeing the groundswell that's right and i can imagine the people that are reaching out to you and the things they're asking you to say and the things they're asking you to bring attention to, you've literally become a champion for people of the city and they're using you as the mouthpiece because it's effective.

1:01:01And I think that's what people are going to underestimate with your campaign is that groundswell of these people wanting this out there. Because a lot of people, to your point, they don't have the courage to get out there and say, this is the thing, especially in this city. And I'm not bashing some of our fellow entertainers, but people are concerned about jobs. They're concerned about reputation. They're concerned about taking sides. They're concerned about saying what they really want to say. I imagine you're seeing a lot of that come through you. Well, I lost this week a$75 ,000 campaign for three TikTok posts because they don't want to be connected to anything political.

1:01:40I also got a phone call from a major production company that I was supposed to host and executive produce a major format from Europe that was a hit for a dating show. They're now concerned about the optics. So the celebrities aren't wrong. I did reach out to some of these celebrities that houses burned down. I said, hey, could you just be part of this without being political and just help bring attention? Ghosts. So there's also, there's a balance. You can also come help victims in a way, But again, Heidi defends them and says, you can't be in their shoes. So I don't name them all. Paris Hilton stepped up to the plate.

1:02:20She gave, didn't she give a million dollars? You know, I would have to. One thing I've learned being involved with lots of lawyers and researching everything and seeing where everything goes and vetting things, I wouldn't respond to you say, oh, yes, that's great. Because unless I spoke with the fire victims that receive those funds, unfortunately for celebrities like Paris, there's a lot of scamming NGO nonprofits that maybe they did. Maybe the intention was right, but the money didn't go to work. That is what happens with a lot of people. And that's what I'm going to clear up in LA because a lot of people want billions of dollars to solve homelessness, but it's increasing homelessness.

1:02:57So what's going wrong here is these homelessness NGOs, their salaries are a million five million two bonuses, the lower end people, 500 ,000, 700 ,000. Do you think they want to solve homelessness if I... One of the biggest problems, and like, there's, listen, there's this big debate in this country about raising the taxes on the rich. The problem is, is like, as we've gone through and increased more and more taxes, like, I don't think there's, that these politicians have been able to prove that this money has been put to good use. And again, speaking as a former California resident, I saw tax revenues increase, increase, increase the longer I lived here and the state and the cities get worse and worse and worse.

1:03:34Like, that's just, that's the story. So So for me, it's like any rational person is going to say, well, clearly just raising taxes and collecting more money is not solving the issue. Right. So there's obviously like an underlying, there's a foundational issue that needs to be cleaned out and rethought because if it was just throwing, California has some of the wealthiest people in the world. If it was a matter of just like putting money into it and fixing it, it would have been fixed. So here's my favorite thing. People will fight, like Newsom will be like, the federal government's not giving us emergency aid for the fire victims.

1:04:04And in his letter, everyone can go look at it. You can read the list because it's broken down. He initially asked for$40 billion from the feds for the fire victims. Now I think it's maybe down to$35. Don't quote me exactly on that. When you read the list of where this money they want to go, it's just like fire aid. It's for this grant. It's for this NGO. It's for$100 million for mental health, blah, blah, blah. if you want a$35 billion for fire victims, it needs to literally have the names and addresses of the people that were underinsured by how much, if they were insured, what California Fair Plan didn't provide to clean their toxic stuff out of their house, the senior citizens that can't move in, the mobile home park that all these people can't go in, put all them back, give them money.

1:04:50So they put all this number, they want$40 billion, but it's never going to fire victims. This is how scary it is right now this week. The LA Fire Department just funded with their own unions a ballot measure to add to our sales tax money to go directly to the firefighters. The city of LA doesn't have the money to fund the fire department. The LA Fire Department right now is running a fire department that should be the fire department for 1964. The fire department, almost 80 % of their calls, all the money that they use, guess what it goes to? Overdosing, going Narcon fentanyl addict, hitting them with the Narcon in their nose.

1:05:33So first off, you clean up the street, you get all these drug dealers giving the drugs to the drug addicts. You have way less overdoses. So last year, I think 1 ,300 people overdosed in LA. Karen Bass will brag about removing 1 ,500 people from the streets of LA when 1 ,300 of them went into the ground in the freaking dirt dead. So for Yeah. So, but they don't say that in the numbers. They don't say of the 1400 we removed, 1300 of them are dead. So we all have some anxiety around pregnancy prep. I know this with my last three and you want to make sure you're doing everything right, which is why it's so important when you're choosing a prenatal.

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1:12:53Well, I'm going to win in May outright because in May, if you have 51 % of the vote, she's done. She's like over. I don't even have to have a runoff. Can we be the first podcast that you come on after you win? Big commitment. Well, I'll talk to the team. We'll be one enough. You'll definitely be there at the inauguration. Can you bring the dog on the show? you know the dog is a lot of work okay you know i can't it's not that easy to just you know because like she moves too fast over at me you know you know you if you're their handler okay so you just gotta okay and i wouldn't hopefully we'll be everyone signs a release the first show he loves women though so i haven't which by the way if you were to try to kill me you'd have to send a our release is with your legal team and normally i would not start an interview you had to sign that thing and so this can go on i told i said i said we're gonna be good it'll be forget what What is Heidi working on?

1:13:48Well, thank you for asking. First off, continue to stream and download. Streaming does not help. So if you want to help Heidi buy music, because that's the other funniest part. Oh, I went and downloaded her songs. I still have to also have to buy it. That's the trick. You think you're downloading because you're in Apple Music and you're just adding it to your library. I did it on Spotify. You gave her zero, zero, zero, zero, one penny. But thank you. All the pennies add up. I'm being clear. Okay, but I have to go buy it. if you really want to support if you can you purchase music on itunes or amazon music or got it you know i gotta go on itunes you have to literally buy it because that's the craziest part when i was like pumping heidi's music i was like we're gonna rebuy a house you're number one everywhere you're on the billboard it came out publicly billboard posted it all that was 150 000 which again is a miracle amazing but i need a million two for pilings or caissons so back to what heidi's doing she has the best album coming out in six weeks okay a full album and heidi wood was incredible that album but what we learned from heidi wood is new relationships almost 70 percent of this album is from all the top writer producers in sweden so it's like a real pop masterpiece like norway is gonna hit people are gonna be like oh my god and then the other part almost every record I think on it was vocally produced by this guy Sean who does all Kid Leroy he's one of the most famous vocalists so he really was able to get a whole new level out of Heidi so that's exciting she's just really trying to survive being a mother of these two savages they're savages I don't know if we give them too much meat and they're just like barbarians but they are the three-year-old is convinced he can beat up the eight-year-old and it's almost real so it's you have to stop combat we always joke because heidi certain movies four christmases and it's like those two the two kids in four christmases that people get the reference but they're like hunching the people i don't know but it's it's a lot so she's really are you guys done with kids oh my god forever and ever and ever and that's how much work two boys is i was fine with one boy you know heidi really wanted the second i'm glad we did it but two is a lot you know we're not there yet because our oldest son is three and a half but our youngest is seven months so i don't think we've experienced yeah i have two boys and a girl i don't think we've got to the point where the boys are the boys yeah when do we get i think you'll be you'll be fine i see i see anything with more than two kids i'm like give you and some people will be like it's just added to the bill i'm like oh it's an expensive bill you got but um so yeah she had a great call with a like a parenting therapist because she's like i'm being a bad mother i can't control and i was listening to this and i actually felt like she was in a comedy she was saying just talk in one word sentences like if the one child's grabbing the other child's arm just say arm and then i watch Heidi when it's like full mortal comment she's like arm they're just like yeah lady ain't gonna work honey but it was so does anything work you know she said she had the best day ever yesterday so you know days change have you seen that meme where it's like hey kids I'm just gonna be on a call for business call pretend just be quiet and then the next it's like a Steven Seagal where he snapped their arm and throws him through an armhole like the glass I'm gonna do I'm gonna be right back i'm going to japan you know literally like i always say and people always like oh my god you have the best marriage thank god i married heidi because if i didn't marry heidi and she wasn't like such a good mom and so patient and it was too spencer like for size these poor children are you romantic as a husband you know lately it's very challenging you know because were you know i now get when older people used to always be like oh yeah enjoy your sex life now you know you have to fight for for a sex life now like you know i used to be on box because oh the second kid took it nobody wants to hear about him in sex lives but you just have to like figure it's it's like a real tactical existence now no we got to we got to la and the kids aren't with us i'm like this is the time this is the moment we're in a hotel nobody's around no you truly, you only can have a hotel.

1:18:19Like I almost, I have a best Western discount. I'm a best Western member now. No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, it's, it's a lot. One other thing I wanted to talk to you about before, and you touched on this a little bit, and I think I just, you know, a lot of, we talk a lot about health and wellness on this podcast and our buddy Shervin was on your show. We love Shervin, but there was an article that the Wall Street Journal put out and I think it kind of like went below the radar. And it was, what I was reading was like all of these illnesses have now come through and they're starting to see things because of the respiratory issues from the people that are fire victims, skin issues, things that complications that people are, were not associating with the fire that are now like literally being proven.

1:18:59I feel like that article came out and then people kind of swept it under the rug. Well, if you watched our podcast with Shurveen, he then left and threw up for like two days. Well, he like, if he gets exposed to like, cause it's Shurveen and he's too sensitive, you you know he was so funny my camera operator when he heard this or like whoever was like wouldn't his immune system be like better and i'm like no he's so pure here that it's like you know it's like the devil choking him but shout out to him he did just send me the new creatine that he's very excited about i had it last night it's all i got to eat after no no i did have i did have no food before but not that much because i'm on a budget margarita no i actually i stopped with margaritas it's just tequila it's just plain tequila it does not work for me i'm kidding i'll give you a real thing because shrek told me in combat they used to drink delta force and i'm like you guys would drink before not because you can't be drunk in a gunfight i'm like what do you mean he's like the second the gunfight starts the adrenaline washes the fight he's like you are sober i swear to god i live such gunfight like energy all day long i'm like drinking tequila i'm like this shit does not work you know like obviously it eventually gotta be careful with that you know eventually it works just have to find that where it works no i've i've cut down on the drinking unfortunately no but a lot of people are yeah so no what happened to me i got staff for my lot i had was i've never had been on antibiotics i'm like anti-antibotics for like i want to say 20 years i had to do like four different rounds of crazy antibiotics.

1:20:36I had holes in my skin. Wait, how did you get it? Because my dumb ass was digging around in my toxic rubble looking for crystals when everybody else was in those white hazmat suits. And I thought, oh, how stupid do they look? Yeah. So wait, so you were digging around. He was in the debris looking for like crystals. Looking for your crystals and the debris gave you staph? Well, obviously like had like a little scratch and it got into my blood. So I spent, god knows how many hours and money spending every day for like two months in a hyperbaric chamber eventually i got rid of but it's like i still now have like this form of eczema that they had to cut out one of these things to like do a biopsy because dr wu just school and she like did found all this research this happened to fire victims in san francisco like a big problem with this extreme eczema you know we thought it was so bad she thought maybe it was psoriasis so that's why we had to cut out a piece of it get labs but it wasn't so 100 and then that movie star forget her name i'm sorry she died of like a lung thing like pneumonia in lungs and you read her quotes i don't want to say a name and somebody's still alive but whoever died from the palace is a big time movie star if you go back she talks about how she was like coughing so much post fire and then like a few months later she dies of like a pneumonia lung disease so he has been sending me so much products and i am like you guys like a bootleg version of how healthy you guys are you know like the amount of supplements and stuff peptides i'm injecting and i just don't have as much time to work out so i don't look like it but i i am about to get on a crazy protocol because i'm working with this guy chris duffin who just did all heidi's labs and her thing of like i'm like i need this what he just looks at everything look at all your blood work like i've always looked at my blood work like we always work with chris talley who does you know all the superstar athletes but he doesn't he's not into peptides where i am so we then went to chris tuffin who's like an expert in peptide science and got new labs done just for hormones and peptides and he did heidi's whole thing i was and i saw them i was like so i have mine coming up so whatever you see now there will be a new look when i'm mayor i'm going to be in fancy suits that i got half off well shout out boss before they stop responding to my emails like no i learned this too oh you go boss is different than boss but is it the same like same look it's different brand no okay so boss okay you know they sent me a lot of very nice clothes when i was cool and then they stopped because i i think i was like well i need a new wardrobe i can't filter these two suits and I think 40 emails later I'm blocked.

1:23:23But shout out them for the couple looks. I do have two nice looks that I wore to Washington. What a podcast. That was a lot of range, Spencer. We went from a lot of different subjects. I feel like we always have fun talking. I mean, yeah. I mean, I wanted to do this for a while. You got a lot going on, man. I know I wanted to do it at your hotel in Montecito you love, but I understand it's hard to, you know, set up there. Yeah, why can't we go to San Isidro? We could. We could definitely. I'm available always. Wait, so if you win and we go to San Ysidro Ranch? I think once I win, I'm literally going to be firing so many people that we'll have to do it in City Hall.

1:23:57Where can everyone follow you, support Heidi, all the things? Buy your book? Yeah, the book. We're here for the book. Obviously, the book. I have 40 of them in my car, so I'm holding invisible ones. They're very beautiful. Ideally, if you're a wealthier listener, you can download and buy the audiobook, which is very unique because, ready for this? I am the only audio book to have a famous vocal producer take my voice. I use Heidi's famous. So he did that and it gets better in the book. There's this person, Jason Joshua, who when Heidi did her first album in 2009, he was a young guy, a mixer, and he worked on most of Heidi's superficial album cuts.

1:24:40And now he has 17 Grammys. He's one of the most famous mixers in the world the Beyonce's Lemonade so I was like I want my audiobook mixed by and the publisher's like nobody does this it's a compressed file I'm like he could make a voice memo sound like a Grammy you're wrong and like we don't have the budget for this so I hit him up like yo you gotta mix my audiobook they're saying they'll have the budget for you he's like I got you bro so I wrote back to the publisher he's got me like oh my god so my audiobook has 17 Grammy mix behind it, which nobody in the history of audiobooks has done. Can Taylor, our producer, walk?

1:25:19I thought you were going to say Taylor Swift. And I was going to say, yes, Taylor Swift loved audiobooks. She just went on the news and said she loves listening to them. So Taylor, I know we've been going back and forth on emails where they don't come back, but I need a little promo. Taylor, our producer, can he walk down to the car with you and get me a book that's signed so I can take pictures of it? I bought the book. I bought it on pre-order the second you got it, but can I get a signed Spencer copy that I can take pictures of? Probably we'll need$30 cash. That's fine. $30 cash. Done. I'll Venmo you.

1:25:54No tax. Done. Done. No, don't Venmo me. Now there's all these campaign things. Actually, no cash. We're good. It's great. How do I get it? Oh my God. Money. Who knows? Thank God I have famous treasurers and campaign lawyer. I'm bulletproof. One of the most interesting things about running for mayor guess how much is a max donation how much for mayor of la millions of people you're how much yes i said 300 for a hundred dollars yeah thank god not 300 no a max yes i'm gonna say a hundred thousand million eighteen hundred dollars so okay so i'm not that crazy but like yeah 300 i think god is not i thought but like say there's very rich people that want to get rid of it.

1:26:40When you gave me the reaction of 300, I'm like, oh man, it must be in the millions. But now that's what I'm saying. I figured it would be out. Well, because the fact that anybody would think you can be mayor of LA with getting 300. Well, I was trying to think about how many people are allowed to donate and then also like the whole population, like how much money that could be and could you end up with a war chest of - You have to give it back. That's what I'm saying. Okay. So, but what if you had, like say you were worth a hundred million dollars, could somebody ran and spent a hundred million dollars and lost?

1:27:06And so you, but if you had - I'll give my own money as much as you want. Okay. Here's the craziest thing. As mayor, though, the first thing I'm going to... One of the first. I got a lot of firsts. They're all in the same. Do you know? You don't, because I didn't know. You'd have to run for mayor to know this. For every dollar I raise, could be wrong by$1. So for every dollar I raise, the city will give me$6. So Mayor Karen Bass, when she ran last, she got$2 million from the city for her own campaign. So obviously, I'm going to use that now running. but once I'm mayor, we're done. We're not using taxpayer money - That seems really strange.

1:27:41For people to run for office. You can do what I - So like when I was a California resident, my tax money went for people to run to potentially become mayor when they weren't mayor. Correct. Regardless of - She can use it as mayor. So like if Lauren donated to you, but I wanted another candidate to win and that person, like potentially my tax dollars would still go to the candidate that I wasn't looking for. So I'm getting rid of that I'm going to use it first Take advantage of the system So buy Spencer's book It will not disappoint I can tell you that The guy you love to hate Out now everywhere check it out guys It's so funny now so many people are messaging me I never hated you I'm like okay You know I actually didn't I know but a lot of people are saying that It's hard to believe I don't remember this much love Back in the day