Spencer Pratt for LA MAYOR

Summary

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Good Guys Podcast: "Spencer Pratt for LA MAYOR"

Date: April 13, 2026
Hosts: Josh Peck & Ben Soffer
Guest: Spencer Pratt
Episode Highlights: A candid, often hilarious, and deeply passionate conversation with Spencer Pratt about his run for LA Mayor—addressing city corruption, emergency response failures, homelessness, animal welfare, and what it means to be an engaged citizen.

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Episode Overview

This episode zeros in on celebrity Spencer Pratt’s bid for Mayor of Los Angeles, with an exploration of the broken promises of city leadership, the aftermath and lessons of catastrophic fires, and a teardown of systemic mismanagement and corruption in the city. With equal doses of levity, outrage, and earnestness, the Good Guys hosts Josh and Ben dive into Spencer’s motivations, campaign platform, and his personal story of loss turned into civic action.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Personal Embarrassments & Icebreakers (00:00–03:00)

• The hosts start with banter over recent embarrassing moments, joke about falling and injuring themselves, and set a playful tone.
• Quote: “I'm a walking embarrassment, Ben. There's very little I can do about it.” – Josh (00:55)

Introduction of Spencer Pratt’s Candidacy (03:00–04:30)

• They hype up their guest, Spencer Pratt, noting his evolution from reality TV personality to serious mayoral contender.
• Pratt is presented as a grassroots solution to LA’s corruption, especially praised for adding “pet-friendly” policies to his platform.
• Quote: “He just wants everything that you want Los Angeles...safe, clean streets, less corruption, accountability, dogs.” – Ben (02:25)

Weird News & Fast Food Rants (04:30–08:00)

• The team riff on the rising cost of fast food and mourn the Big Mac combo’s price hitting $18.
• Extended detour into the cultural importance of dipping sauces and the regional differences between "duck sauce" and "sweet and sour."
• Quote: “What’d I do for nuggets? Even though four piece, child’s play.” – Ben (05:07)

Advancements in Pharmaceuticals & Gender Disparity (08:03–09:31)

• Brief discussion about “female Viagra” (Addyi) and its finally making it to the market, contrasting with decades of male options.
• Light, tongue-in-cheek exploration of whether men and women could swap meds.

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Spencer Pratt Joins: The Campaign, The Tragedy, The Mission (12:53–19:00)

Pratt’s Motivation & The Palisades Fires (13:53–16:44)

• Pratt details how city negligence directly led to his house, his parents’ house, and many neighbors' homes burning down; 12 people perished.
• Shares outrage at lack of emergency response, negligent water management, and political evasion of responsibility.
• Quote: “Unlike just complaining…this has an actual future, which is so empowering.” – Spencer (13:53)
• Quote: “I personally would like my children to be able to grow up in LA that I grew up in—a beautiful LA that had hope and dreams.” – Spencer (14:29)

Animal Welfare: The Crisis for LA’s Dogs (16:44–18:10)

• Pratt criticizes LA for its inability to crack down on dog abuse, negligence in shelters, and wasteful budget allocations to NGOs instead of direct animal services.
• Quote: “How many dogs are being killed a day in Los Angeles or tortured on the streets of downtown LA? It's truly diabolical.” – Spencer (16:44)

The Power of Going Public & Accountability (18:10–21:03)

• Spencer discusses his instinct to document the fire in real-time via social media, “not thinking, oh, this is going to be the end of my life.”
• Details bureaucratic failures: empty water reservoir, no fire trucks available, abysmal 911 response.
• Quote: “They would have just let my dad burn alive.” – Spencer (19:45)

Corruption, Insurance, and Political Rot (21:41–32:00)

• Powerful history lesson on CA wildfire risk exacerbated by state refusal to clear brush for endangered plants (“milk vetch”), insurance companies fleeing the market, and the failure of city leadership to address causes or aftermath.
• Outlines plan to restore and expand firefighting resources, break up the “homeless industrial complex,” and end unchecked encampments.
• Quote: “The first week as mayor, the IRS is coming in and we’re going to put cases on every single one of these NGOs.” – Spencer (15:19)
• Quote: “You're not allowed to break the law on the streets anymore. No more encampments.” – Spencer (28:26)

Homelessness, Corruption (32:02–35:00)

• Hosts rail against exorbitant costs for homeless shelter beds ($750k/bed in Venice), calling out city contractors and developers for profiteering.
• Pratt promises full auditing/transparency for every city dollar.
• Quote: “Every taxpayer dollar, we're gonna have full accountability… We're gonna know where every dime goes—even toilet paper usage.” – Spencer (33:20)

Soft Power of the LA Mayor & Day-One Promises (46:28–49:08)

• Spencer candid about mayoral “soft power”—pledges to decentralize power, empower LAPD and LAFD to do their jobs without political meddling.
• Quote: “I'm actually gonna take some of the mayor's power and give it back to LAPD, give it back to the fire department.” – Spencer (48:19)
• On debate prep: describes his 8-year-old son pretending to be Karen Bass “standing in a trash can while doing [debate practice].” (51:47)

Campaign Tactics, Debates & the Road Ahead (49:35–52:43)

• Upcoming debate with incumbent Mayor Bass scheduled for May 5th on NBC.
• Pratt polling at #2, believes undecided voters are his.
• Election is June 2nd; if winning 51% or more, the mayoral race ends. Otherwise, top two advance to November.

Safety, Antisemitism, and the Hummingbird Logo (52:54–54:10)

• Addresses Jewish voters’ concerns over rising local antisemitism.
• Quote: “You will feel safe in L.A. when I’m mayor. It doesn’t matter what your religion is.” – Spencer (53:10)
• Branding: Hummingbird as official campaign logo—symbolizing resilience and uniqueness for LA (“People were small, but we're mighty.”) (54:03–54:13)

Pratt’s Motivation, Tragedy, and Vision (55:32–56:54)

• Emotional recap: Pratt shares his determination is deeply personal, driven by losing his home and his parents’ home, and frustrations over failed city response.
• Quote: “I'm doing this because I lived city failure, and I don't want anyone to go through what my friends and family went through...” – Spencer (55:32)
• Quote: “I want to go back to feeding hummingbirds and being with my family. But first, side quest mission: save LA.” – Spencer (56:41)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Leadership vs. Complaining: “Ben and I are built for complaining. And you, my friend, you're leveling up.” – Josh (14:12)
• On Mayoral Power Structures: “The mayor can't do LAUSD... the LA mayor is technically soft power.” – Spencer (47:04)
• On Animal Welfare: “Not to mention, I'm going to save all the dogs...” – Spencer (16:18)
• On Bureaucratic Failure: “It takes ten years in Los Angeles to repair a sidewalk. 10 years!” – Spencer (34:14)
• On Why He’s Running: “If God wanted somebody to really come in and make real change in Los Angeles, he burned Spencer Pratt's house down.” – Spencer (55:32)
• On Transparency: “We’re gonna know how much toilet paper they use. And we’re gonna look—wow, that's above average. That's how detailed we're going to be.” – Spencer (33:20)
• On Debate Practice: “I've been having my 8-year-old son... play Basura. He stands in a trash can while doing it.” – Spencer (51:47)
• On What Unites Voters: “This is not Democrat, Republican. It’s Save LA is my party.” – Spencer (59:05)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–03:00: Opening banter, embarrassing stories
• 03:00–04:30: Introduction to Spencer’s mayoral run
• 04:30–08:00: Rising fast food prices, “weird news”
• 08:03–09:31: Female Viagra & gender disparity
• 12:53–19:00: Spencer’s campaign begins, fire tragedy story
• 19:03–25:50: Emergency response failures, public safety
• 26:11–32:00: Corruption, insurance, wildfires, NGOs, homelessness
• 32:02–35:00: Homeless shelter profiteering, accountability pledges
• 35:23–38:26: Bass’ history, campaign style, and debates
• 46:28–49:08: Mayoral soft power, police & fire dept reforms
• 49:35–56:54: Debates, polling, community outreach, Pratt’s personal journey
• 59:05–: Voting/campaign logistics

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Final Reflections (60:01–62:00)

• Host Ben: “If I could vote in the local Los Angeles election, I would vote for Spencer Pratt…Regular guy who is fucked by the city that he loves. And so he wants to fix it for the people.”
• Host Josh: Praises Spencer for “taking all of this goodwill that transpired from this tragic event and tries to inspire some real change.”

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Lighthearted End Segments

• Moron Mail & Social Gripes: Hosts riff about restaurant etiquette, seeing neighbors naked in the hallway, kids’ behavioral issues, and parenting pet peeves (61:24–71:52).
  • Particularly strong takes about bringing outside snacks to restaurants and children’s playdate illness disclosures.

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Conclusion

This episode distinguishes itself by combining insider political outrage, authentic personal trauma, and witty banter. Spencer Pratt’s quest to become LA’s mayor is rooted in lived experience and frustration with city failure. His populist, transparency-first campaign—rich with outlandish LA absurdity—gets a thorough, grilling but warm examination by Josh and Ben, making the episode both informative and highly entertaining.

If you care about local politics, urban reform, or simply want to hear a reality star’s transformation into a passionate city advocate, this episode is can’t-miss listening.

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Remember:

• LA’s Mayoral Primary: June 2, 2026
• Vote early, as “This is not Democrat, Republican. It’s Save LA is my party.”—Spencer Pratt (59:05)

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Transcript

[A]

Mazda. Morons. Welcome back to the Good Guys podcast, Joshi.

[B]

What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you recently?

[C]

Oof.

[A]

Gosh. I fall a lot. I fall a lot in front of people.

[B]

I stubbed my toe a lot, Josh. I like. Like, it's bad. Should I show you? I don't have to whip out my feet. We'll get flagged on YouTube and we have too good of an episode coming

[A]

up flagged in a good way.

[B]

I have totally. We'll end up on red tube. I have a. I have a bad cut. I have a really bad cut. Like, this was like, not like a bad. Like, oh. Ooh, it hurt. Stubbed my toe. Like I slashed open my second toe. Really fucking bad, and it's embarrassing. My wife just looks at me. I'm looking up at the sky like, why, God? Why me? And she looks at me just, like, big and goofy. I stub things all the time. You fall?

[A]

Yeah. No, no, no.

[C]

I fall.

[A]

I fall. I'm a big faller, and I'm basically one. I'm a walking embarrassment, Ben. There's very little I can do about it. I'm that dude. I'm loud at the wrong times, and I'm quiet at the wrong times. If there's a fire, I'm like, what's everyone upset about? Otherwise, I can't keep my mouth shut.

[B]

Well, speaking of a fire, Josh, we have an insane guest. Not today. You might not think he's insane when you hear that. We have Spencer Pratt on. But you're forgetting that we don't have the Hills. Spencer Pratt on. We don't have Hummingbird. Spencer Pratt on. We don't even have Heidi Montag's number one fan Spencer Pratt on. We have future mayor of Los Angeles Spencer Pratt on. And let me tell you, it's insane. Go to the intro.

[A]

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[C]

Whoa.

[A]

He's gonna be our mayor. I live in a city where Spencer Pratt is the mayor. And I'm lucky.

[B]

I was gonna say, if he's not the mayor. Josh, I'm sorry. Like, I just, like, full transparency. We're recording this intro after being with him. He's great. He just wants everything that you Want Los Angeles? It's with Spencer Pratt. It's sitting right there. You want safe, clean streets, less corruption, accountability, dogs. Friendly dog. That's the most genius move. He's pet friendly, too. Nobody else talks about the pets.

[A]

No one else talks about the pets. And I think that the man has his eye on the prize he's forged. I know he's a hummingbird guy, but maybe the flying animal that needs to represent him is a phoenix. Because from the ashes this guy's forged in fire.

[B]

God, Josh, you have to reach back out. It needs to be a phoenix.

[A]

Phoenix.

[B]

It does. It does. It absolutely does. And his VP needs to be somebody from Harry Potter.

[A]

Yes, Harry Potter. Order of the Phoenix. Maybe he gets Barbossa from the Phoenix Suns, you know?

[B]

Oh, my God. Where is Leandro Barbossa?

[A]

Maybe it's Amari Stoudemire, which was his last scene before he became a full chabadnik.

[B]

Literally. He sells kosher wine.

[A]

Keep reading. Some parsha on IG Live.

[B]

I know.

[A]

He's a better Jew than both of us.

[B]

No, it's amazing. He went all in New York really changed him. But yeah, Spencer was wonderful, and I can't wait for you guys to see it.

[A]

I'm excited. Do you think we should do a quick weird news?

[B]

Yeah, let's do some weird news before we bring in Spencer.

[A]

Well, you know what? We've got plenty of weird news today. And one of those is, can you still eat at McDonald's for less than 10 doll? How to beat rising prices at 5 top fast food chains. Did you know that fast food is up 56%? It's outpaced inflation. Believe this?

[B]

I didn't. And the idea that there's an article saying, how do you eat McDonald's for less than $10, when I think that's very easy to do, must mean I haven't been to a McDonald's recently.

[A]

Did you know that a tummy troubling tail is that $18 is how much a Big Mac combo costs?

[B]

What? $18 for a big Mac combo.

[A]

So if you want to go cheap at McDonald's, you're gonna have to stick to the McValue menu, which, as you know, is a double cheeseburger. Maybe Chicken McNuggets. You could do a four piece nuggets, small fries and a soda for seven bucks.

[C]

Whoa.

[B]

By the way. By the way, that. I mean, it should be a little bit cheaper, but. Sounds delicious. Oh, my God. Maybe I'm just hungry. What'd I do for nuggets? Even though four Piece. Child's play. What the fuck is that?

[A]

Can you put down the 20?

[B]

You can't do anything less than the. I was just about to say, you can't do anything less than a 20 piece. Can I put down a 20? I remember there was a time where I used to get a 40. People were getting 40s at the. Of beer at the bodega. I was getting a 40 at Mickey D's. Two twenties. Two twenties. That's my 40.

[A]

You have Old English, I have Old Ronald McDonald. We're both getting lit.

[B]

I keep it in a brown bag too, so people wouldn't know.

[A]

So.

[C]

Ah, that's classic. We have two different 40 definitions.

[A]

Do you. Okay. Are you doing barbecue sauce on your nugs?

[B]

Okay. I'm so happy.

[C]

Sweet and sour.

[B]

I would drink the sweet and sour back in the day. I'd open a pack, I'd drink it. That was the bee's meals. I would do a dunk on one side. Josh in the barbecue, a dunk on the other side in the sweet and sour, and plop that whole nug in. Okay. One thing that they never got right, their honey mustard. It's not good. It's not as good as it should be.

[A]

They had a.

[B]

But their sweet and sour is top.

[A]

They once had a hot mustard type thing, which was kind of. Hot mustard is really. God, does it pack a punch.

[B]

Hot mustard is great. It takes a mature palate to accept that hot mustard is great. Like you used to. I'm sure, like me, you'd order in Chinese takeout. You'd get those hot mustard packets. You'd be like, you can miss me on that. Where's the duck sauce? Right? Like. But a mature palate appreciates hot Chinese sauce.

[C]

Olivia.

[A]

You know, duck sauce.

[B]

Duck sauce, of course.

[A]

Is that in. They have that in Ohio? Oh, yes, absolutely.

[B]

They have it in Ohio.

[A]

West coast, we just call it sweet and sour. Mm.

[C]

No, they've got it. Yep.

[B]

Are those different sauces? I think the sweet and sour is a little more red.

[A]

Yes. The duck. Proper duck sauce is not really a thing in West Coast Chinese food.

[B]

Interesting. It's a shame, by the way. It is. But honestly, I'd probably prefer sweet and sour. Sweet and sour sauces.

[A]

Blame Newsom.

[B]

Both of them. Both of them will kill you. Both of those sauces will kill you.

[A]

There is a difference.

[C]

Duck sauce is more of, like, a plum sauce, so it's used with that base.

[A]

Whereas sweet and sour is typically made with pineapple juice. Wow.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah, there's a slight difference. Nice. And good for anyway.

[C]

No.

[A]

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[B]

Okay, Good for them. They deserve to be horny too now.

[A]

Cool. Imagine I'm on Roe Co and I happen to send the link to my wife. I'm asking Olivia,

[B]

are you offended?

[A]

Am I offended or am I turning

[C]

the finger right back around and saying,

[A]

what are you not doing right? Yeah, I'll answer for me a lot. A lot. So sorry.

[B]

I wonder what would happen, what happens to the man if he takes a pink pill just for fun.

[A]

Right? Because he used to say that if a woman took the blue pill, it would have like a similarly turning on effect.

[B]

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[A]

Let's invite now the great, the future Mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt. Look at it. It's like we're on Charlie Rose before he got canceled. But this is like a political interview right here.

[B]

Wow, it's crazy seating. And Spencer, you look fantastic. I'm loving the suit. Let me tell you, I'm living vicariously through you. All I've done is hated every single mayor of New York. And every year I say I'm gonna run for fucking mayor just like every dipshit. And you, my friend, are actually doing it because there's real problems and you seem to have real solutions. Is now a good time for me to tell you that Karen Bass is a relative?

[C]

Karen Basura.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

You're related to Karen Basura.

[A]

For anyone not bilingual, that means Karen Trash.

[B]

She's not a. She's not a relative. No, she's a rat's ass. That's what she is. What are you nuts? These people. God. We're firing Early Spencer. I'm very excited to have you though. Congrats on what you're doing. It's really awesome.

[C]

You know, it's the best thing I've ever done to channel an elite level of anger that I embody. And it's. It feels so good because unlike just complaining and exposing, this has an actual future, which is so empowering.

[A]

So Ben and I are built for complaining. And you, my friend, you're leveling up, right? Ben and I, we're happy to complain forever, but we want no power. I don't want to make a decision, but you, you said, I've had enough of the complaining. It's time to step in. What, what spurred that for you?

[C]

Obviously for people who aren't aware, which would be challenging at this point because I feel like I'm very outspoken about the leadership in Los Angeles and their negligence causing my house to burn down. Yes. And my parents house to burn down and all my neighbors houses to burn down and allowed 12 people to burn alive while doing so. So that became very emotional for me. And then exposing the negligence and then the COVID up, I was like, you know, is somebody going to step in here and try to take this individual's position that she should have resigned on January 7 when she was in Ghana and everything's burning. You call in, you say, you got me, I'm done, I'm resigning. But she didn't. And she decided to continue on this quest of destroying Los Angeles. And I personally would like my children to be able to grow up in la, that I grew up in a beautiful LA an LA that had hope and dreams. It was just. I had to. There was no other option. And I look forward to being the mayor of Los Angeles to show everyone how easy it is to make all these changes and fix this corrupt system by being an Outsider. The problem with everyone we have in politics, they're all entrenched with these entities and these. All the bit. Literally billions of dollars that run this whole corruption. And I have no connection to any. Nobody gives me any money. So I, I have no loyalty to be like, oh, we're going to keep all these NGOs functioning because it's the way things have to be. No, no. The first week as mayor, the IRS is coming in and we're going to put cases on every single one of these NGOs.

[B]

Hell yeah.

[C]

All the corruption and we're going to LA is not going to be broke anymore because they're going to stop stealing LA's money and profiting off of homelessness, drug addiction and mental crisis. So it's going to be beautiful. Not to mention I'm going to save all the dogs, which, you know, how many dogs are being killed a day in Los Angeles or tortured on the streets of downtown la? It's, it's truly diabolical.

[B]

I want to click into that, what's happening with the dogs?

[A]

It's probably in most cities.

[C]

No, no, it's on a whole nother level in la because we protect the insane dog tortures and they can do it because we can't take their dogs from them. So all over Los Angeles right now, every day, you can drive around and see dogs being literally tortured, burned, burned

[A]

up, like dog fighting.

[C]

This none of just like crazed people with dogs.

[A]

Okay? Yeah.

[C]

And not to mention, if we go to the shelters, we're also killing the most dogs in the shelters everywhere because of lack of funding or resources, because we're busy taking that money and putting it into NGOs, getting people rich. So, I mean, it's simple things that I know I can do. It's not like, oh, how Spencer going to do this? I'm going to stop what they're doing and it's going to fix so many things and it's going to be just so beautiful.

[A]

Can we start at the beginning? If you're cool with it? Like, because the day that your house was on fire and the fire started right. You were pretty immediately on Snapchat, you went public with what was going on with you, which was the beginning of all this and so compelling. Was there ever a thought about being so public about it or you just went right to social media and said, I need to share what's going on. Was there any hesitation at first?

[C]

Not really, because I have been filming myself since the iPhone dropped. So it wasn't like I was like, Today I'm, you know, I already started my morning Snapchatting to my Taylor Swift, look what you made me do. Dance and my birds. Yeah, my routine has, has been document documenting myself since, for instance, Snapchat went from just one photo. You could share two stories. So to me that's been my lifestyle. And I also didn't think my house was going to burn down. So I was just showing, I was chatting like, oh, there's a fire in the state park. Not thinking, oh, this is going to be the end of my life as I know it. So maybe, you know, if I had known the stakes, maybe I wouldn't have been doing. But I thought I was just filming like a fire up in the state park, not that comes down and burns everybody down.

[A]

And was it within three hours?

[C]

Oh, no. So it starts at like 10:25 in the morning and I leave my house. It hasn't started burning down probably by five o' clock at night. So. And the wildest part about all this is I'm waiting for the fire department to arrive because I thought I had 6 million gallons of water next door to my house, which I later find out was they emptied that reservoir in June of 2024. So I'm waiting for them to get their hook up and truly think, you know, I'm, I got so much waters going on my house, we're going to be fine. And then when I call the fire department direct, like, oh no, there's no assets available. I'm like, honey, there's no fire trucks coming. And then it got even scarier when I knew my dad was trying to put out the fire over at his house and I couldn't reach him. So I called 911 this time and the police say, oh, there's no emergency personnel available. I said, excuse me, my father could be injured or dying. This is 911. Oh no, there's nobody going into that area. Think about this. My dad later, thankfully his phone was just dead. He drove out of there. So imagine he did trip and was injured. They would have just let my dad burn alive. Which is obviously happened to 12 people in the Palisades. So the idea that we're so confident in our emergency services right now is the main takeaway because a lot of people don't care that the Palisades burned down. Like, oh, Spencer, he only cares. He fights for the Palisades. And what I try to say is my Palisades is gone. It's not coming back for 20, 30 years and it's not going to be the Palisades that I'm even fighting for. I'm fighting because our entire city government allowed this to happen. And if there's an earthquake, same thing's going to happen if there's another fire in the Hollywood Hills in Altadena which

[A]

was ravaged by horrible.

[C]

Altadena is horrible. But that's more. And people in Altadena get so upset that I don't fight more for that story. But the issue with that is the winds that they talk about actually were in Altadena. The Palisades never had hurricane winds. Altadena did. Not to mention the electric company has taken responsibility for their 100 year old down wires. So if anyone's fault it's the power company. And technically it was in Gavin Newsom State park where the dead brush was that the, the power lines did hit.

[A]

Right.

[C]

So whereas the difference between the Palisades and Altadena is the level of city failures that created the 7,000 homes burning down. So so it's very different situations. Obviously both horrible. And the emergency response in Altadena was also terrible and period. So sure, you know there's a lot of, a lot of issues with both but the Palisades is a criminal negligence on the Mayor LADWP and Newsom State park like period.

[A]

And as you're driving out of the Palisades and you see Rick Caruso with his private firefighters protecting McConnell's ice cream, do you go Rick, set some trucks up, let the rocky road burn.

[C]

I actually took Chautauqua so I didn't see. And I don't think, I don't think the his private firefighters had arrived yet. I think they come later.

[A]

Gotcha.

[C]

And but that's one of my other favorite parts that I, you know there's people will literally in the comments section will be like even if the fire hydrants had water it would have never been able to put out houses. Go look at the Palisades village and then look at the entire block behind it. All about these village that I water with his private tankers which was like two of them, it's not that much are still standing across the street directly from the crosswalk. That entire block is burned down. So the idea that water doesn't put out fires right now the Internet's fascinating place let me tell you. And it does actually. So water does put out fires. So we should make and who and

[B]

who are they defending? Who are they defending when they say that they're like oh if even if there was water there it wouldn't have Mattered. Who are they defending and why?

[C]

I would think they'd be defending Mayor Basura or they'd be defending the LADWP, Janice Quinones, who got $750,000 a year to make sure that water was in the. In the fire hydrants. And she couldn't do that. So maybe they're defending her. Or I don't know if they'd be defending the fire department, because I'm pretty sure the fire department knows they need water. That's part of their. That's why they have hoses on the trucks, silly.

[B]

Like, on one side. On one side it's fire. On the other side, in New York, it's snow. I don't know if you saw during the first terrible snowstorm, you had mom Donnie making sure that the homeless had the right not to go inside and told people, do not get the homeless off the street. They have a right to not be inside. And 27 of them died. And in the same exact vein, you have people saying that he did the right thing. It's like, how can you rationalize to yourself that you did the right thing when 27 people are dead? Who are you defending and why. Why are you. It's. It's the same thing. And I love that you brought up that you're not only fighting for emergency services in Los Angeles, you're waking people up in general to say, hey, this happened here. But negligence can happen in any city. And I think that's the right way to run a campaign, because if you can change the hearts of people that aren't just in your city, then all of a sudden, you're really gonna galvanize your own.

[C]

And then here's how the Palace's fire does affect all Angelenos. Well, guess what? All your LADWP rates are going up. Insurance is now going up. And then when the city loses the lawsuit to the 10,000 victims, that's your tax money that's being paid out. So you can say, oh, I don't care. Those rich people burned alive, which I always say. There was maybe 60 rich and famous people that moved to the Palisades when the village. It was actually generational families in the Palisades, it's mostly senior citizens to these people that are happy the palace is burned aren't going back to their houses. So, you monsters, these are 90 year olds that you know are falling over and can't get up and dying now. So. Yeah, it's just. It's. It's crazy.

[B]

Yeah, it's.

[A]

It's unbelievable how Things can sort of have this perfect tipping point of falling apart right at the worst moment possible. Can you talk about the insurance part of it and how that was sort of like its own Fugazi thing where people couldn't get insured in the first place for homes in the Palisades?

[C]

So this is going to be like a history lesson in the state of California. Gavin Newsom has an elected board carb or whatever they're called these, these lovely demons and they care more about plants over people's lives. So they protect this plant. I had never heard of milk thistle. Milk vetch.

[A]

Milk vetch.

[C]

Milk vetch.

[A]

Which worse than milk vet 9.5 sounds like Yiddish.

[C]

Nobody knows what a milk vetch looks like. This is not some beautiful. Like this is nothing to protect. So they.

[A]

And these. That's a nice.

[C]

You know, there's a lot of flowers that I'll, I'll let you argue with that.

[A]

We should pretend you see one of my faves.

[C]

Milk veg does not hit that. So no fire department can clear fire breaks. So for communities to be protected, they need a 300 foot fire break. And why that is is it gives the fire department a chance, as they would say, to dig in, to get up there, to do their thing. Not to mention fire retardant. The red stuff the planes drop. If you don't have the fire break that becomes, if it's there, it's a moat so that they can drop it in there and it creates a moat where now the fire hits this, you know, red moat versus if you don't have the fire break, the, the fire retardant just drops into the plants and goes on different leaves and gets all mixed that it doesn't have the impact. So the state of California has protected these endangered plants so that now communities have 60 years of dead brush, or you could call it fuel backed up into their backyards. And the city will find you if you don't cut your bushes around your own yard to make your own house fire safe. Blah, blah, blah. So insurance companies saw this coming obviously because they have fire experts that are probably there talking like, oh, everything's going to burn because there's no fire breaks and there's 60 years of dead fuel. So for instance, I had farmers for like eight years. They dropped us about a year ago and we got on the California fair plan and it sounds like, oh, that must be some. Sounds like a communist California thing. But it's not. It's actually all the insurance companies, private insurance companies got together and they pool the money together and then they are supposedly backed. But it's a weird, very fishy thing that meetings that nobody's allowed to go to and hear about. And so it's actually more expensive for the coverage and you get less coverage. So we got stuck on California fair plan, but a lot of people, senior citizens, again, not rich, famous people, senior citizens were dropped January 1st. The fire was January 7th. There's people that had been paying insurance for 40, 50 years and we're dropped and have no insurance. So again, as mayor, how I can change this is I'm going to take my fire department and we are going to go cut 300 foot firebreaks around everyone's communities. So if you're in Tahunga or you're up in the Hollywood Hills, you're in Bel Air or you're in Brentwood, all these places that you're for sure going to burn out if Spencer Pratt does not become mayor. And it's. I say that and I keep warning people. Do you know there's actually less firefighters after Palisade's fire than there were before? There's 45 less firefighters after. Why is that, Mayor KAREN Basura? Because all of the money that should be going to lapd, lafd, is going to the homeless industrial complex. Billions of dollars. So once I go in and I unplug all that, nobody is going to be making money off of homeless people, mental crisis and drug addicts. And I'm also. You're not allowed to break the law on the streets anymore. No more encampments. Not how Karen Basuda clears an encampment where she lets them go down the block and she does a little, little IG video, just did this, right? No, encampments are illegal. You cannot sleep and poop and pee and do fentanyl on our sidewalks that we pay taxes for. So if you continue to get cited with tickets, you will eventually end up locked up, and that's a fact. And if you have a drug problem, we're going to treat your drug problem where you can't go back on the street and do more drugs and then go back and treatment. We're going to get you sober so that you can actually get back into the real world. We're not going to just have a revolving door, $750,000 bed that you can go in and out of and say, oh, we're housing them for the night as they go back on the block and do fentanyl and then go back if they want. You know, Karen Basuda, when she ran for mayor, she said she was going to remove 15,000 people from the streets of LA. Homeless people. You know how many she's removed? Just last year she removed thousand, I bet. Yeah. No, she actually only removed 1300 last year. Into graves? Yeah. They're dead.

[A]

Now, what if you're. Now what if you're a drug addict but you're sober 18 years? Because I could use a rest, you know, Can I get a bed? I gotta get away from my family

[C]

for like 24 hours. You know, Overwhelmed. I'm exhausted. There's a hotel that they have right now in Venice. No, no, no. It's a la homeless hotel. Right now, I think it's 750,000 a bed right in Venice. And they have 33 people.

[A]

Three hots in a car, baby.

[C]

No, these are nice.

[A]

I keep trying to check into the Salvation army, but they're like, check inside later. Sorry, Ben.

[B]

What? It's just so. It's just so interesting. There's no better price per square foot than when developers are developing homeless shelters. Like, it's the same exact thing in the city. The guy who makes the homeless shelter has a guaranteed tenant for life. At price per square feet that do not match the fact that it's a homeless shelter. You're paying, you're saying $750,000 a bed. I don't remember exactly what it is in New York. I just know that you are renting out again, it's a bed, and you're charging as if it's an apartment and the city is paying it. And this idea that this is the only way that it can happen, you're pointing out things that are wrong with every city. There has to be corruption. I don't know if it goes down to the construction workers or the companies or the developers or the politicians. I don't know where the corruption starts and stops. I just know that paying that amount of money for a single bed that is the same as an apartment next door when you are a guaranteed tenant for life is corruption.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And as mayor of Los Angeles, every taxpayer dollar, we're gonna have full accountability. Every dollar will be audited, full transparency. We're gonna know where. If this place has toilet paper, we're going to know how much toilet paper they use. And we're going to look. Wow, they're going, number two. That much in that building. That's above average for how much number two should be going on. That's how detailed we're going to be. And that's what all of L. A should want for Their tax money. Not just, oh, here's all our money. Do whatever you want with it. And then let's have no sidewalks. You know, it takes 10 years in Los Angeles to repair a sidewalk. 10 years in Los Angeles. Wow.

[A]

My friend Stevie LaGuardia.

[B]

It's the same thing.

[A]

My friend Stevie got a blowout on his tire and LA paid for it on a pothole.

[C]

If. If you can reach them.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

How many. Let's ask Stevie how many times he called to get that replaced. I don't know. I would. I would.

[A]

He likes a nice little corner cut.

[C]

Yes, Stevie. Stevie did a lot to get.

[A]

You don't become Stevie Mack without figuring out a couple angles.

[C]

You know, that's. But back to potholes. They don't even. They haven't repaved the street in over a year. Wow. It's mindboggling. So when I. When people say, oh, why would somebody vote for Spencer Pratt for mayor? Go drive around the city, you will guarantee get four more years of exactly that. And worse. I go in and I'm stopping all of this. It's that easy. They will continue it. And I'm stopping it. It's done. No more corruption, no more fraud.

[A]

Now, we originally thought that Karen Bass should do like a collab with Bass Pro Shop, right? Karen Bass Pro Shop. Maybe they fund her, you know, because the great outdoor shop of America and Karen Bass, synonymous. What do you think? What is there? Is there. Who are we gonna enlist? Right? And is there room in the cabinet for Brody Jenner?

[C]

Uh, well, Karen Bass doesn't need the Bass Shop because she has Cuba. She has the communists. So, yeah, funding. That's what's her backstory. That's why she actually didn't get. She was. Biden almost had her be a potential vice president. And then they looked at her history and she may be a Cuban spy. Karen Bass spent every summer in Cuba

[A]

working for each other.

[C]

Working with Vanessa Romas Brigade, which is truly, we could say, a terrorist organization. That's.

[B]

I'm voting for Spencer, Josh. I'm voting for him. I can't vote for him. I'm voting for him. I have a question. What you described, and this is a tough question because I don't know the answer here. You described that we are going to see every single dollar that goes in and out. The current administration tried to do that with a little thing called Doge. And I don't know what the fuck happened with Doge. It seemed like we were off to a hot start. We were talking about all these random Things that people were spending money on and then I never heard of it again. If the Trump administration can't do something like that, when he was really passionate about it, cuz it sounds amazing. You get to see exactly where every dollar goes. Why do we think he stopped doing it and how are you gonna do it?

[C]

Yeah, I can't speak on Trump and national politics. What I do know is, is the city controller, current city controller in Los Angeles, started doing this and auditing and posting all this information. And what did Karen Basuda do? She tried to take away the city controllers position and they went to the city charter, tried to literally take away this guy's office. So he's doing it so as mayor, city controller won't be having any issues auditing the city. So I don't know what went wrong on a national level, but the city can definitely tell you where all the money they're spending is going. That's a fact.

[A]

So if you win the election.

[C]

When, when you win. Yes.

[A]

Within a week he had Mom Donnie to the White House. Right. If he doesn't have Pratt to the White House within a week, you go, Donnie T. Not cool. I'm mayoring here. I want to come to, I want to, want to, you know, rub elbow, shake hands.

[C]

Yeah, I don't think I need to go to the White House because I know what I need to do in la. I need to clear the streets. So week one, I'm not going to be in Washington, I'm going to be on the streets, la, getting rid of all the encampments, returning public safety, making sure that women with their little dogs can walk on the sidewalk and not fear getting attacked, punched in the face by a crazed lunatic. Because that's the most common thing that people come up to me and they say, I just want to walk my little dog on the sidewalk. So there's nothing I need. He needs, he needs to figure out money, Mandami. That's I think why he went. We have our money, I know where it is. So I don't need to leave the state, I need to just go clean the streets. Because as soon as I have the streets shining, washed off and everyone's sees that, people right away are going to feel the hope that my, my future is bringing la. So I can't be leaving week one, you know, maybe I'll go, you know, and after four years as just like celebrate, you know, probably there'll be a new president in office, but I'll go and maybe get an award, like a freedom award, hopefully like this third.

[A]

No, hopefully runs for a third term.

[C]

Yeah, it's a hot take.

[B]

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[A]

Now obviously you're. You have a beautiful family. I don't know as far as mayoral goes, but does your wonderful wife Heidi, does she have to be the first lady? Is that a role that she's ready to inhabit?

[C]

You know, as mayor? I want to be. Get us away from political influencers where, you know, the like new semester, the first partner and the first partner office. Nobody wants to that. They just want clean streets. They don't want their tax money being wasted. You know, I don't want it to be where the content is what it is now, where it's just these performative. Look at me cutting this stupid scam thing. So no, Heidi won't be part of the political office and be part. She'll do her thing, do the pop music. But we're not going to turn this into, you know.

[A]

Well, I give you a lot of not to get away from the political stuff, but I think Ben and I both give you so much credit for being like the most supportive husband for being such a fan of your wife, which I think is so cool and refreshing and definitely something that you don't always see enough of.

[B]

And a marketing genius. The way that you blew up that song. Like it just like it was amazing to watch.

[C]

Well, thankfully the song had already blown up in China. I was just helping America get to the Chinese Level. Whoa. You know, I'm bringing freedom to China. I'll do it. Yeah, sure, sure. So, you know, fair. It's. Don't tell them. Don't tell them the secret. Thankfully, they can't watch this podcast because.

[A]

But hello to any of our followers on a VPN right now.

[C]

Yes. No. Heidi is amazing. And if I wouldn't hype Heidi up if she wasn't the most incredible mother and wife, I don't. So people are always like, oh, what's your advice to a perfect marriage? Like, marry somebody's really awesome. Yeah, yeah, that'll help, you know. Yeah, it's a good starter.

[A]

Man, what a love. A love story for the ages, huh, Ben? I mean, how long? 15 years? 20.

[C]

20? Ish.

[A]

Unreal. And what do we think? All right, so we know on. On day one what we're gonna do. Here's the one thing that me as a father of three kids and Angelino for life. I. I love this city. Everybody complains about the schools, and I think that's hard because public schools in la. LA is gigantic because they're a bigger city in. In the country.

[C]

We're the second county. We're the second biggest city in the nation.

[A]

In the nation. Compared. Who's bigger?

[C]

I would guess New York.

[A]

Well, I guess LA City, right?

[C]

But.

[A]

Oh, you're the mayor of LA City, right?

[C]

You're not the mayor of a county, Correct.

[A]

Oh, bro, I don't even know if I'm gonna get the.

[C]

Well, no, you can't. Yeah. If you're not LA City, you can't.

[A]

That's all right.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Don't worry. We have our ways. They don't ask for id. Joshua's downtown.

[C]

We want registered LA City voters. Okay, let's be clear here.

[A]

Okay? Registered LA City.

[C]

But the mayor can't do lausd, so I can. I can be on the sideline and, you know, chirping with, you know, the fancy suit office, but that's a. They have their Orioles. They have their own whole.

[A]

For the county.

[C]

No further. The school system. The mayor doesn't do LA USD. At the end of the day, the LA mayor is technically soft power. There's certain other mayors in other cities that have hard power.

[A]

That's what my wife says when her and I lay in bed at night,

[C]

you know, soft power.

[B]

Okay. Soft power. I was gonna ask, like, what's, like, the most, like, crazy or fun? I guess it could be fun thing that you could do as mayor. Like, what could you do? Like, even if it's outlandish like, what do you have the power to do?

[C]

Well, what I'm gonna do as mayor, which no other mayor would do, is I'm actually gonna take some of the mayor's power and give it back to the lapd. Give it back to the fire department. Right now, the fire department chief is a puppet of the mayor. It can help with COVID ups. It can do whatever the mayor asked because the mayor hires and fires the fire chief. When I'm mayor, that power is going back to the fire department. No longer will the mayor get to control the chief of the fire department or the chief of lapd. These positions should feel that they have their power to make the choices for Angelenos, not choices for the mayor and how the mayor looks. So actually, I'm going to make the mayor's power even softer.

[A]

Yeah, you know, the people go soft with Pratt, you know.

[B]

Ooh, that's good.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

No, no, that's the one.

[B]

Pratt makes you soft.

[C]

We are not gonna get their slogan on this podcast. I don't know. You know, think practical. So that is the best one.

[A]

Let's prepare. Okay, so when are the debates? And how are we going to debate prep? And then when's the election? I should know this.

[C]

So the debate Against Basura is May 5th on NBC. And you will debate every day. Tell.

[A]

No, I know you will. Do you have to have any, like, usually, like for the the New York mayoral race. Right. Like, you have to hit at certain levels of. Well, I'm qualify.

[C]

I'm this in polling right now. I'm this behind Mayor basura. I'm number two.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow. She's 19%. I'm 10. And for an incumbent to be 19%, I'm winning this. I'm plotting. And there's 50%. There's 50% of undecided voters. Those are my voters. They're not undecided.

[A]

True.

[B]

They know.

[C]

They just don't want to talk to the random polling person. Like, yeah, that's a real voter they are not caring about. So they go and they hang up. Yeah. So I'm 100% winning. Whether I win on June 2nd with 51% of the vote, which that's God's will. It could possibly happen. If not. And God wants me to drag Basura through the gutter for more months leading up to her loss, then I will be winning November.

[A]

Wait, why? What's the difference between.

[C]

So the top June. The top two people from the June 2nd date go to November.

[A]

I see.

[C]

But in LA, if you have 51% on June 2nd, you win outright.

[B]

I see.

[C]

So I believe there's enough people just in the Valley alone that I will win from. Oh, I go in the Valley right now, it's like, oh, no, I'm telling you, I got Valley.

[A]

I got a bunch of Armenians today.

[C]

Every single Jewish mother coming up to me crying, or cost. Yeah, the problem is Glendale. The problem is Glendale is not part of LA city. And that is where my, all of my Armenian family is, in Glendale. So we got, there's some, you know, some, we got some Tarzana. But so I went on, I think I win June 2nd. That's what I'm feeling.

[A]

And who's your David Axelrod? Do you have like a campaign manager? Like are we doing, are you going to have someone play Karen Bass when you're doing debate prep?

[C]

I've been having my 8 year old son. He's as qualified as Karen Bas. So Gunner is actually been playing basuda and he stands in a trash can while doing wow, okay. So it's got me sharp.

[A]

So you're ready, you're ready for the debate.

[C]

I was ready as my house was burning down 14 months ago. You can't. When somebody has a track record that is only failures and then all they can do is do performative lies where the stats don't create truth. It's going to be a very hard to debate, which I know they're confident because they think, oh, he's a reality star. You know, I was a long time ago and now I'm just an Angelino.

[A]

Yeah. And you know what? Maybe we need a little reality.

[C]

Right? Big reality.

[B]

Another slow.

[C]

There's the slow. We'll own it. It's gonna be a particular I.

[A]

We wait, Ben, what were you gonna say?

[B]

I don't know. Do we take this in even more serious? You said the Jewish mothers are coming up to you nonstop. Like, what do you have to say to your Jewish voters in Los Angeles with anti Semitism at an all time high? Like, talk to them. We have a ton of Jews. We have a ton of everybody, but a lot of Jews listen to this podcast. Specifically Los Angeles Jews.

[C]

Well, what I said to all these mothers that come to me crying on the sidewalk, hiding their Star David necklace. That's how real it is in the streets. LI say they go, what are you going to do for us? And I say the same thing. You will feel safe in L. A when I'm mayor. Whether it's anti Semitism or to walk your little dog, no one is not going to feel safe on streets in L. A. It's, it's bottom line.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It doesn't matter what your religion is. You will feel safe in L. A.

[B]

We're running on safety. This is good.

[A]

And what about. Are the hummingbirds going to have any?

[C]

Well, it's my logo. Yeah.

[A]

Sick.

[C]

So you know how Katniss had her thing? Yeah, I got the hummingbird.

[A]

Yeah, a mayoral hummingbird. Maybe like a, you know, an official la. I don't know. I like it.

[C]

I like that.

[A]

I love it.

[B]

We have a bald eagle. LA has a hummingbird. It's good.

[A]

That's perfect. Right?

[C]

Because. Yeah, la.

[A]

You know, like, people were small, but we're mighty.

[B]

Yeah, totally.

[A]

Yeah. And everyone's an Adderall. Okay. Anything else, Ben?

[B]

No, I mean, any, Anything else you want to plug? I guess we're plugging. Voting. We're plugging, watching. This is like pay per view. It should be pay per view, the debate. You can make so much money.

[A]

I know. I mean, and I will say this, Spencer, I give you a lot of credit. I don't know if you remember, but we met each other at Monster Jam,

[C]

which is in two weeks. Again, you're gonna go, I'll see you there.

[B]

I'll see you there.

[A]

I sure will. I'll be sitting next to the future mayor. You brought your beautiful family. And we were chatting and I think I, I, I, I was a little blind in saying this because I went up to you and because you had turned this tragic thing into this amazing moment. Right. And, and, and supporting your wife and her music and, and you guys being put back into the spotlight in such a big way and so beloved by the world watching this. And I kind of went up and I was like, dude, congratulations on all the success and everything. And you kind of looked at me and said, yeah, but I still don't have a house. Like, my parents still lost their house. And it reminded me of how difficult and tragic that was. And so seeing you now saying, like, I'm going to take all of this goodwill that transpired from this tragic event and try to inspire some real change, I give you a lot of credit. I think it's awesome.

[C]

Yeah. I think what people don't realize is how real this is for me. And that's the difference between me and these other politicians. I'm doing this because I lived city failure, and I don't want anyone to go through what my friends and family went through in any part of Los Angeles. And I know from living it how serious I will take these changes that need to happen. And I think that's how I keep looking at the whole situation as like a God's plan thing. I'm like, if God wanted somebody to really come in and make real change in Los Angeles, he burned Spencer Pratt's house down. And if you really want him mad, you burn my parents house down and have me listening to my crying mom every day to motivate me to go out and make change. And that's what these people do this for jobs. I don't want to be a politician after I go make these changes for LA and not changes for 4 years, for 40 years. So future mayors come in and like, oh, this guy Spencer Pratt. Why would we touch anything he did? The city is functioning phenomenally. Everyone's happy. That's my goal. I don't want to go do this as a job like these people do. I want to go back to feeding hummingbirds and being with my family. But first side quest mission. Save la.

[A]

Vote for Spencer Pratt. This is unbelievable.

[B]

It's the practical solution. It's.

[C]

We can. We can leave with that one.

[A]

That's hot.

[C]

We can.

[A]

Listen, I'm trying to get a. I'm trying to build an ADU on my property. I'm trying to get the plan to prove. Maybe you get any, but.

[C]

Well, it won't be just. It won't be just Josh. The problem with all of LA is our permitting system. And we need to come in. We have all. Everyone loves AI. Where is. Where can we use AI to speed up the current system? Because if we fire victims who the. The idea is get them back in their house as fast as possible. If in 14 months there's less than 14 houses being almost done from being rebuilt, what does the rest of the city take? Does that mean it takes three years to build Joshi Poo's adu? It's unacceptable. So we need to figure out how to speed up permits across the board and we need to stop taxing everyone with all these as many taxes. I can get away from building and zone all this.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

So that we have more building. That's the plan. Not tax, text, tax. Stall, stall, stall. We have less things getting built in the last year than things like 55% less than the path. Like it's so it's the craziest number. When I grew up, you drove around, you'd see cranes everywhere. You can't even see a crane. You have to go to a museum to go see a crane. Now it's like Demolition Man. Yeah.

[A]

Can we bring back smoking in Restaurants

[C]

that one doesn't know, you're gonna have to know. No smoking. No.

[A]

Can you imagine you're at Craig's ripping a dart, eating a chicken parmesan.

[B]

Could the mayor do that, though, or no?

[C]

Do you know that 100 restaurants or more have gone out of business in LA City within the last year? Over a hundred.

[A]

Let me answer your question with another question. Have you ever smoked a parliament in a Chili's?

[C]

You know, I'm not a smoker, so I can say I've never smoked cigarette anywhere, so. Dude, you're the man. I appreciate it. Make sure you register to vote.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

You know, that's the big thing. People think they're ready. You're not registered. And when you do, it takes two seconds. Just go search how to register. Right? And then you do that. And when your ballot arrives May 4, you fill it out. Spencer Pratt. There'll be no letter next to my name because it's a nonpartisan race. This is not Democrat, Republican. It's Save LA is my party. Okay? Angelino's party. So you're going to write in Spencer Pratt, click, blowbox. And you put it in the mail. You go stick it in the mail. Don't wait till June 2nd. We win on June 2nd because we already sent in 500,000 ballots. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

[A]

All right, thanks, dude. That was awesome.

[B]

Awesome. Thanks so much. Great to see you. That was fun.

[C]

Wow. Unreal.

[A]

Radical thinking.

[B]

Unreal.

[C]

I. Josh is sweating.

[B]

Josh is in there. He's like, am I being caught up in a condition conspiracy? Josh was sweating, but let me tell you, he was great.

[C]

He.

[B]

If I could vote in the local Los Angeles election, I would vote for Spencer Pratt. There's nothing there that he said that I considered a red flag. Regular guy who is fucked by the city that he loves. And so he wants to. He wants to fix it for the people. His house burned down, his family's houses burned down. He got to the root cause of why and sees negligence and wants to change it. Like, I don't know what's a more compelling reason to run for mayor. He's not saying I want to run for president or I want to run for governor. He's talking local office because the local officer in charge and the people surrounding her didn't do right by him. And I'm not gonna lie, it's a very compelling story, and I think he could win. I don't know if there's any money behind him. I don't know if people have donated to his campaign. You asked him if he is a campaign manager. I don't know if he answered that question. Like, it's very grassroots right now, but I think that somebody should really put a little money behind him and blow this thing up. You never know.

[A]

Then should we get to moron mail?

[B]

We should. We should, Josh.

[C]

Moron mail.

[B]

Let's remember, speak pipe. Dead. Dead. Now it is goodguyspodcast onemail.com you are going to email us and we are going to read aloud. Just some wonderful moron mail. It's gotten so much better, folks. Hey, guys, One of my friends has started bringing snacks to restaurants. What are you, nuts, nuts? Subtle snacks either full Ziploc bags, almonds, pretzels. One time, even grapes. He'll order a drink and then just casually start eating his own food at the table like it's completely normal. One time, the waiter actually told him no outside food, and I wanted to disappear. What am I supposed to do? Oh, my God. Never go to a meal ever again with that person. Like, that's awful.

[A]

Simply unacceptable.

[B]

It's simply unacceptable. Honestly, there's nothing more to say about it. We'll go on to the next one.

[A]

And you know what else I don't like? I don't like. You know, it's not uncommon for people to have, like, a drink when they're walking into a restaurant. Like, oh, I got a latte and now we're stopping for lunch or whatever. Throw that latte away before you walk into the restaurant. Don't put another drink on someone else's table ever.

[B]

Totally. I couldn't agree more. Back when my dad had that cafe at the JCC in the city, he would always tell me, people are coming into the caf with their own food, sitting down and opening their laptop. He pays rent.

[A]

It's nuts.

[B]

Like, what do you think is happening here? It blows my mind. Go and get a $4 coffee and then you've rented the table for two hours. It's the cheapest table rental ever. But for you to walk into a space that somebody else owns and pays for with your own food is like. It's terrible.

[A]

Terrible.

[B]

So, so weird. All right, Josh. Hey, guys. The other night, I opened my door to take the trash out and caught my neighbor completely naked in the hallway. Not shirtless, not underwear, fully naked, holding a trash bag. The second he saw me, he panicked and scurried back into his apartment. Clearly, he was trying to take the trash out naked without anybody noticing. Oh, my God, Josh. I do this.

[A]

I know. I had a feeling. You do

[B]

not Completely naked. That's insane. Like, why are you completely naked? But I will scurry outside in my underwear, throw away my trash and run back in. I'm sure that other people can relate to doing that, too. If you live in an apartment building, there's shared trash. There's a trash chute in a shared apartment building, completely naked. That's sick. He should be thrown out of the building.

[A]

I would do that in a T shirt.

[C]

And.

[A]

And just, like, a pair of black Calvin Klein's. Like, yeah, boxer briefs. But I would assume you're okay with this. But, like, my wife would. I. I would maybe be okay with it 10% of the time, but my wife's like, no, no, this is never okay. Never once. It's like if in the morning someone comes over, or, you know, we have someone who helps watch Meyer during the day, or her parents or whatever. Like, there is no world in which someone should be in their underwear in front of company in any respect. Whereas, like, nine out of 10 times, I would agree. But, like, here or there, I might be like, ah, they came so early. But she'd be like, no, no. No underwear will be worn in front of company ever.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, I'm 1,000% with you. I totally understand her. That is Claudia to a T. And by the way, Josh, they're right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Without question, they're right. Nobody should see me in my underwear but my wife. That said, everybody does, and everybody will, because I don't care, okay? I don't care. I'm saying this publicly. I don't care. I also want you to know that it's not a sign of disrespect. In fact, it's the opposite. I'm so comfortable with you. So comfortable that I'm sitting here in my underwear. And let me tell you, my underwear, it's different if you're wearing tighty whities. First of all, throw them away, okay? Throw them away. If you're wearing black boxer briefs, Josh, and they're not so tight, they're, like, a little loose. I wear beautiful Gildans now. I have to tell you, I don't know if you've tried Gildan Ice V Co, Calvin Klein guy. They're great, for sure. The cotton brief Gildan makes an incredible pair. Significantly cheaper on Amazon. I'm just saying, I've been wearing them for a while. They're great. Plenty of room to tuck. You know how I do to tuck? Pull them up a little bit higher, Josh. I'm. I'm sitting in my underwear. Because I'm comfortable.

[A]

That's it.

[C]

You gotta stop.

[B]

I said the same thing to the nurses at the hospital.

[A]

That was unacceptable.

[B]

I'm sitting in my underwear here.

[C]

It's so unacceptable.

[B]

I think I should stop. I think I should.

[A]

Yeah, you can't. And I wear skims. Shout out skims.

[B]

But I'm too old.

[A]

I should stop 100%. We can't do it. It's never acceptable anywhere. And it's. It's not enough.

[B]

It's.

[A]

Whenever I see someone in their underwear, whether I like it or not. And I swear I love women. No matter what the Internet or my Grindr account says, if anyone around a man is in their underwear around me, like, I'm. Like, my eyes are going to drift for a second and you can always see the outline. Always. And no one should have to see that.

[B]

Totally. Unless there's no outline to see.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I go micro phallus, elevator button, ground floor.

[C]

Should we get to.

[A]

What are you nuts?

[B]

Our what do you nuts? Moment of the week are gripes with people, places and things. But big and tall. Whatever's sticking in your crack craw, Josh, you got.

[A]

Yeah, I always have one. Because it's a part. It's a segment of the show. Okay. I have one for, you know, you're gonna find this, you know, with the great Ruby and, and God willing, all the beautiful kids to come when they enter school in sports and all these things. You know, I really have a lot of understanding and compassion for. For kids and parents of kids who have, like, behavioral problems. And every kid is different. Some kids have issues. No kid is perfect. Everyone is, is, you know, fighting their own personal battles. But some kids are going through something more public. So you'll find that your kids on a sports team, they're in a club at school, they're. They're, you know, in a theater, kids, group, whatever, and inevitably there will be a kid who acts out. Right? But here's the thing. If you are the parent of that kid and you guys have made a plan, you have a strategy that you've made with your wife and professionals or whatever, be like, we're going to, you know, we're not going to completely try to hover over them. We're not going to correct everything. We're going to kind of like be a little bit hands off. You gotta get the other parents on the same page. Because all I'm doing is watching your kid while out and then I'm looking at you and judging you for not saying Anything. And I know this kid needs some special attention and, like, love and care, and I'm down to clown, but tell me that, like, let's all get on the same page to best serve your kid. But if you keep us all in the dark, all we think is that you have a kid who's really misbehaved and a parent who lets it go. What are you, nuts?

[B]

What are you, nuts? No good, Josh. Absolutely no good. Mine is also about children. And I ask you how we solve this problem, Josh, because I don't think that there's a good solution. But it's what are you nuts? That you're not telling other parents that your kid is sick. Like, kids get sick all the time. It just would be really awesome to know that Your kid had 101 fever last night and is really sick. It would be really nice to know that before he's near my child. It would be really nice. I'm not saying that people got to do what they got to do. I'm not saying that you have to keep him home. You got to go to work, so you send him to school. You got to go to work, so you send him to class or to daycare, whatever it is, but in a optional play date capacity. Right, Optional. I think it would be nice to give a heads up that way. Okay, I'm not saying that we can't watch your child, too, but perhaps we keep distance. Perhaps we don't let hands touch hands or. I don't know, I just think it's kind of. What are you nuts? And again, I'm not saying I totally understand. Life goes on. You can't keep people in the house just because they're sick. Life goes on. You could warn someone. Little warning. What are you, nuts?

[A]

Yeah, I think the optional play date is valid. And then I think as you have more and more kids, it's just gonna get so hard.

[C]

It just, I'm sure, so darn hard.

[A]

And then, like. And then if you do agree to let them hang out, but keeping them from touching each other is impossible. Like, keeping them distant. I hear you. I think it's valid.

[B]

I think it's different when the child can't walk. Like. Like Ruby doesn't have the option, for example. Like, you're the only one who can walk and come up to him. So if you're sick, stay away. Like, it's. I'm sure it's the same thing with Meyer. Like, you do your best. Of course things happen. Whatever. Kids are going to get sick, and then they're going to get better again and they're going to build strong immune systems because they were sick, all this stuff. I'm just saying it would be nice

[A]

to know before we say goodbye. I'm on a show, which I'm really bad at doing any self promotion. I'm on a show called Cross on Amazon right now. I'm in it. I'm on a show, guys. I'm not just a podcaster. I. I'm a reoccurring guest star too. So treat me different.

[B]

Yeah, let's freaking go. You're also. I'm just saying Spencer needs a vp. You're right there. I mean, it's pretty sweet. Who's gonna be his vp?

[A]

Brody Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner. I mean, you know what I mean.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

What a duo. Pratt and Jenner would be Caitlyn for sure.

[A]

Caitlyn would be amazing because I feel

[B]

like her politics kind of mirror his A line. What a freaking ticket. Are you kidding me? Pratt Jenner. Wow, folks. This episode's five stars. Otherwise, what are you freaking nuts?

[A]

Generation Stop smoking. Generational.

[B]

Generational practicality.

[C]

We did it. Vote now, guys.

[B]

Vote now. Or. Or don't. I mean, whatever, but like, yeah, I think you should. Like, it's. I'm not. If you're there, you like. It seems logical, but I don't know. Whatever you want to do. Five stars. Otherwise, what are you, nuts? Mondays and Thursdays, we're not reading any reviews anymore because Josh doesn't like it. So screw you. Not you, Josh, the people. No, I shouldn't say that.

[C]

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