← The Fame Game with Heidi & Spencer
The Fame Game with Heidi & Spencer
Breaking News, Political Noise & the LA Times Story with Matthew Seedorff
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A
Please tell me you didn't get plastic surgery to pull out the alcohol.
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B
Oh, no, that's all glass.
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A
Welcome back to your favorite media in the history of the world, the Fame game again. Clearly my global pop superstar wife, Heidi Montag, that you can stream all her music and purchase it on itunes, is not here today because she has the same flu she had on the last episode. I had it for three weeks. Takes a minute to go away. But we do have one of Los Angeles two best journalists and I can say that now, you know, it's now been a year I've been following him and I can back that he is always on the ground getting stories, breaking news. And as much as I hate on media not trying to expose things, I will say that Matthew Seedorf is out here trying to get the information to the citizens and I'm so grateful to have him here.
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B
Thank you so much. I mean that is such a welcome. I feel almost undeserving of that. So thank you. And I think that, you know, I just try to do my job to the best that I can, holding the powerful will accountable and also just reporting what you see.
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A
And I feel I've never like when I see your clips, I forget, you know, unfortunately to your bosses, I don't see you as like Fox or I just see you as Matthew, like this person that cares about LA and what's going on. So there's never a spin. You don't put a spin to it. You ask the questions people want to know.
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B
Thank you.
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A
And I never feel like it's a biased journalism or you could easily be on NBC, you could easily be on cnn. There's no angle to your reporting, which is.
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B
So I try to be as middle as I possibly can and just ask people questions, you know, that I feel like people are wondering and wanting to know and it would go both ways. You know, anyone who's in power that has done something that maybe people don't like or are wanting to know what happened. I'm going to ask those questions.
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A
What is your background? To just start, how did you. Where did you always want to be a journalist or.
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B
So I actually I wanted to be a baseball player. Didn't work out clearly, but I mean.
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A
It did for a while.
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B
It did. I played college baseball. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. My family's from California. Went to college and played baseball in D.C. and then got a first TV job in, in Wyoming and then Texas for six, seven years. And then I've been in LA for two or three years and, and My wife is from here. So this is home. This is where I've always wanted to be.
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A
And he's a new father, one year old baby. He just raced over here from dad duty. I was just telling him enjoy that piece of a one year old. Even though that sounds.
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B
Yeah, you say it gets harder. I don't, you know, I'm losing my voice because I've got the dad flu thing.
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A
Wait till they yell back at you and then you really lose your voice. But so then you got the TV gig in Wyoming and then you came.
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B
Out to la and so Wyoming, San Antonio, Houston, Louisiana. So you can, in new local news, you have to kind of work your way up to bigger markets. And in LA is where I've always wanted to be. This is my dream come true.
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A
And do you like, I don't know, the hierarchy is. Because you are across the city, everywhere, popping up throughout the. You are the real deal. Because what's changed is you don't need the television van, you got the 4K iPhone and you get the same content level. So I feel like you're, you are in the action quicker than I would say media can usually move because you probably have to allocate budget to get the guy, the camera operator and the sound and.
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B
Well, so I try to do both. Right. So I, my primary focus is TV and getting it out there for Fox 11, but I also have my phone with me and sometimes that's faster. Right. So I can reach people immediately. And I also feel like people can contact me, which is extremely helpful. So people contact me with stories all the time and it gets me out there into the community where people have these complaints, these issues that they have. They feel like the city has done them wrong and I can go and expose them, so to speak, and try to get answers for them. And a lot of times it works.
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A
Oh no, your video. For the rest of my life you will be in my great graces no matter what you do. Because at the mayor's Olympic thing, you went up to the new chief that she installed that's leading her cover up on the palaces fire and you asked the question that every fire victim for the Palisades continues asking and you said just so clearly, well, what do you have to say about the after action report and complaints that it's been watered down and you got him on camera saying just like the mayor said, it's time to move forward and people just want to point fingers and what good in that video, even though it truly has blood boiling out of my veins and Smoke coming out of my ears and nose. It was so important in this journey. And then today with the breaking news at the LA Times. As we're sitting here two hours ago.
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B
They'Re saying that the after action report was likely watered down from leadership.
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A
They say Karen Bass. Yes, they say Karen Bass in the LA Times reporting. And from their sources. From their sources. And this is what I was told by firefighter sources on November 1st. I was just looking at my text. I went and got a. I had shout out mackenzie. I had her go meet with a whistleblower at a soccer field hours away and take photos of one of the cooked after action reports. So I knew the one that they posted and I knew one of the original ones.
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B
We've all been getting these rumors, right? I know you get way more DMs on Instagram and X than I do. But, you know, know there's been talk of this, but no one that's been actually able to report on it with, you know, verifiable sources until today.
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A
So connected to your video the day before. It just makes the perfect storm of. It's a, it's a movie scene. Like we're in one of these movies that, you know, that you'd watch and you'd be like, oh my gosh, like Michael Clayton with some Ray Donovan. Like, this is some serious, at the highest level, cover up where 12 people burned alive, 7,000 structures burned. And it's clearly there's a plan to make it.
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B
When I report, I try to feel the energy of the community. Right. And I was in the Palisades the day of the fire and I didn't see a fire truck, I want to say, for two hours. So there was anger I had that day for the people here. And then I also felt like there was this need for answers as to what, what happened. Right. And I feel like we're finally getting a little bit closer to those real answers. But it's taken over a year and I feel like it's the job of journalists to try to push for those answers and try to get transparency and the truth for people that lost their homes and lost their lives, like you're saying.
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A
And even if it's not for us, it's for the rest of the citizens. So this doesn't happen to you because if you don't acknowledge the failures and fire people need to be fired. That's the point. The pointing the fingers is, yes, let's point the fingers at who failed.
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B
Yeah. The fire chief essentially said, why do.
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A
People need to know yeah, that.
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B
Yeah, because when I asked him, because.
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A
We need to fire those people, unfortunately, it's time you failed at your job. Any other jobs in society, you fail catastrophically. You don't just go, oh, you don't have the CEOs, like, oh, we're not pointing fingers.
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B
What would you tell the fire chief if he sees the podcast?
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A
Oh, I've told him many videos. I would tell them the day I'm mayor. Day one, you're fired. So enjoy this, all the little photo ops and figure out, you know, your retirement plan or maybe start transferring to a different agency in Redondo beach, because you are done at lafd. Same with all the battalion chiefs that were involved on the Lockman incident.
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B
Would you have hard time trusting all the leadership within, not just lafd, but.
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A
The LAPD is getting from the top down, all, everybody. If you look at all the people that right now are going to these police commissions and they're yelling and you know, the media is trying to spin it like, these people are the bad guys, but these people yelling are. They're me in a different form because they are asking for accountability for issues that they are very upset with that is affecting them and other citizens of la. So it's the same thing whether it's the fire department or the LAPD at the top. There are. And I asked these people that are in these police commission yelling. I say, if I'm mayor, what can I do to fix these issues? And they say, everything's there. We just need them to do what's on paper that they're not doing. So there's no new, you know, and I just had a homeless. A lady that's exposing the homeless route. Everything's on the paper. They just don't do the mechanisms in play that they're supposed to be doing. So what I would say to all these people is, you're all done. I'm coming into. You know, people are like, oh, Spencer doesn't know how to. How the city works. Oh, let me tell you what I do know. How what doesn't work because I'm living it. Everyone's living it. And there's enough of us that know what doesn't work. So we're going to clean this out.
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B
And you've talked about the IRS possibly.
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A
Oh. So again, let me get my off record quote that, you know, the ones.
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B
I did reach out to the.
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A
They said they can only say so much. But I'll tell you what I can say.
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B
I mean, I know what your point is. Do you want to. You want to, essentially, Doge la, What.
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A
I can say is I've established a relationship with the IRS Criminal Investigation, and I understand the work they do. And with the recent super case in la, I would invite the IRS Criminal Investigations to partner with the city to investigate all the allegations of fraud currently circulating in la. So, yes, just to make sure the wording's right there, as mayor of la, that's the first thing I would do, because I don't trust the city attorneys, I don't trust who's auditing, I don't trust any. What I do trust is the criminal investigators at the IRS who have like a 93% conviction rate to come in here. All the documents I can legally show you, because there's experts online. He can't do that. There's probably. What I know from speaking with this team is there's enough documents that I can show that can then open up as many cases as we need. So that's everyone across America. You even have Gavin Newsom now trying to point the fingers at, look at fraud in this state. Look at fraud. Don't worry, pal. I'm going to find plenty of fraud as mayor in la. And that's what people want, Everyone, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, antifa, I don't care what, however you identify, you don't want fraud.
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B
Exactly. And no one, no one's happy with fraud.
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A
So as mayor, as a priority, I'm bringing in the big dogs so that there's no, oops, that person was connected to fraud. So they're not, they're going to hide that, because that's the problem. They're all so entrenched.
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B
Well, we've been talking about the homelessness, right. And I feel like everyone's focused on that because there's so much hundreds of millions of dollars that's been spent on homelessness. Wasa claims that the numbers have decreased citywide. Two years in a row, I'm out on the street speaking with people that are homeless, and they say they don't experience that, that's not their reality. I would argue that a lot of the people you speak with across LA would agree with that. They don't trust those numbers.
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A
Well, like I said yesterday when I was doing the media thing at the County Clerk's office, Karen Bass will literally brag about, we've removed this many people off the street. I think she said, you know, roughly 1500, maybe it's 1400, but she doesn't.
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B
Say, where do they go?
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A
She doesn't say 1300 people died on those streets. Six people die roughly a day on the streets, which is horrible. Which. So what am I gonna do as mayor? Focus on making people stop dying on the streets? Because clearly that's. I'm hearing about the Olympics. I'm hearing about the World Cup. The state of the union should be about. We have six people dying a day in L. A. This is.
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B
It shouldn't matter if the Olympics are coming or the World cup or the Super Bowl.
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A
And if we remove these people dying, that's going to help the Olympic plan. But we can't be bragging about, oh, we're going to do this, and blah, blah, like.
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B
So as mayor, how do you. How do you make that happen?
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A
Well, thank God, I just had an expert that spent the last year and a half doing 7,000 public record requests, and she broke down exactly the homeless industrial complex on how the city will just literally give somebody like a. Like for instance, Weingart, in this case, give them. Here's $60 million. Go buy a building. Even if the building was on the market for 11 million, we're going to. We don't care if you spend 27 million. And we don't know where that extra money goes. So as mayor, first off, every building that we're going to use for homeless housing, the city will own. There's no more. We're going to give you a grant to go build something. We're going to let you be a. You're going to run it, and if you fail at it, you're done. And we'll put a new person in it. They're letting these people, they're taking money from us taxpayers to buy buildings. That one that I'm talking about is three years later, there's not a single homeless person in that house. So they've took 60 million of our tax money.
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B
Yeah, it's frustrating.
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A
Homeless has increased. How many of these are going on? So again, with the IRS as my plan, they're going to really get to see. I'm going to say, hey, in the last four years, can I see all of Karen Bass homeless here? Give me all those papers where all that money goes. Here are all the businesses. Can you check all their accounting here and see? Let me know what's going on. I'm going to start there on how much money the city is just burning to fail at homeless.
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B
One thing I've been curious is we are out there a lot of times when they do these encampment cleanups. I was just at one a couple weeks ago in Westwood. In Westwood, in Santa Monica. And hypothetically, there's 20 people out there. I think I'm probably underdoing it. But ten agree to go and get help. Right. The other ten have tried it. It didn't work. Maybe they'll tell me things like, it's not safe. You know, why do I want to go there when the shelter sucks? It's dirty. I can't. I have to be sober. Whereas if I'm on the street, I can do whatever I want. I don't have to be sober, and I feel safer than I do in these shelters. So there. There are people out there that are choosing to be on the street because they don't like the shelter situation.
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A
Well, as mayor. As mayor, what do you do with those? Mayor, you're being removed.
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B
Where do they go?
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A
I'm pretty sure legally you can't have encampments. They changed that law now where we can remove encampments. So you're just. We're gonna play that game. And eventually we need to have. You're gonna have to go somewhere that you don't want to go. Back in the day. You would get 51, 50. If I go do what some of these people do.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Spencer Pratt's getting 5,000, 150. Britney Spears got 5,000, 150. And I could take you down skid row, and there's a thousand worse than Britney Spears. So we need to.
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B
You're saying either you. You agree to get help or you can't be homeless in this spot.
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A
100%. We're. We're. The streets are not just for people to live with fentanyl needles, smoking. Also, I'm not. As mayor, there's no more handing out clean needles, no more pipes. My police will arrest you if you're handing paraphernalia to drug addicts. So that's done. Also, drug dealers, they're not pulling up in Teslas and Escalades on skid row, doing their thing. It is going to be the hardest place to sell drugs in la. It'll be known. You want to sell drugs, you better go out of LA and go meet up with your dealer and then hop on the Metro, whatever, and come back.
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B
Another thing that residents tell me is frustrating is they'll be, you know, parked outside of World Market and they're running in for something real quick. And there's an encampment right there. They'll be five minutes over on their parking meter. They have a ticket. The encampment is fine.
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A
This goes across. This happened in front of Palisades elementary every morning, a lady, a homeless lady was cleaning her private parts in front of kids every day. If somebody I know who was dropping their kids off chose to do that, they are getting arrested. They are going on sex offender apps, they're spending, they're going to literal prison maybe, but you can do all. You can. You can. If this, the city doesn't do anything because they're like, oh, there's no money in these people, that, that game's over. Everyone's being treated the same way. So if I go set up whatever and I start smoking fentanyl and I get arrested, you get arrested, whatever. There's no, oh, but that person doesn't have a house. They should be able to break the laws that the taxpayers are having to live under. We all, we're all Americans. We're all going to follow the laws of Los Angeles, the laws of California. And I'm going to work to make sure that's done. And I think there's a big, from the city council to the mayor, they're all just, let's, we don't want any job. I won't be operating like that.
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B
I guess their argument is it's, they would say it's heartless to, you know, remove these people and push them out.
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A
You know, I would say it's heartless letting people continue to live like that and die on the streets. So, you know, your version of heartless is different than my, you know, not your. So I don't agree with that logic. There's, nobody should be living on the streets. And, and even if you want to live on the streets, we as a society can't allow you to do that because we have to pay all these taxes to have our streets so we can walk on them, so kids can ride bikes, so kids can go get ice cream from the ice cream truck without being hurt. The girl just got punched in the head at the bus stop. The six year old girl on Main street last week, that's done. If I, you know, I know I'm not going to be the mayor of Santa Monica, but I will set such a precedent that everyone's going to be like, we want what he's doing around la, so Santa Monica will have to follow suit. Our people are going to demand that because everyone's just accepting this. People are just like, that's what drives.
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B
Me crazy is it is accepted, right? I'll go to MacArthur Park. And it's like, well, that's been happening for years. Skid row. It's been happening for years. People are just like, all right, that's just the way it is.
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A
I'm done with that. And that's why I truly think I'll get elected. Because people know my frequency is done with the corruption, done with the lies, done with the scam. People want that. We'll figure out the plan. I went and met with a really successful business person yesterday, and he said, you know, when people come at you with your lack of experience, you should tell them this, because this is my reality. I'm the least experienced in all this is this guy. I'm the least experienced person in every one of my successful businesses, company's rooms. And why they're so successful is the teams that I have in those rooms. And that's why this guy's one of the most successful business people. It's not from his experience in it, it's from his understanding of good people, common sense. And there are so many people that aren't politicians that reach out to me across LA that want to get involved. They're like, if you need me, I'm there. But they're not part of the system usually, so they can't be involved in. In these type of ideas. So that's the least of my worries. Somebody like a Lindsay Harvard, like, he doesn't have any experience where they see, look what Lindsay Horvath has done. Look what. Whatever their experience is, nobody wants that anymore. You are failures. So you're alleged how to run a city. It doesn't work. Look at our city. I've lived here. Lindsay Horvath is from Ohio. She doesn't know what the LA I grew up with look like. Lindsay, it doesn't look like the. The LA that you push. I want the LA that I grew up, the LA that I'm gonna fight for my kids.
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B
I can tell you're fired up about it.
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A
Well, these people are just get me infuriated. So people keep on saying that I have so much anger. It's actually passion.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Mixed with anger. Well, I mean, come together.
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B
To be fair, I'm looking out at your beautiful property right now, and I would be mad. I would be angry.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I think you have every right to be mad.
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A
Yeah.
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B
What room was. What room is this?
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A
You were in Heidi's closet right now, Right? It wasn't it this little. Oh, yeah, closet.
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B
It's so pretty. I mean, it's a very pretty.
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A
You may be sitting in a sink. You could be literally sitting in a sink. But yeah, and just back to just. It's across the city. And that's why I love your reporting. Because if it's not the prostitution that's just going on, that are potentially minors that are being trafficked, and it's just.
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B
That makes me. I mean, residents have been complaining about that for months, and it was another one of those situations where they felt like nothing was being done. They were finding used condoms outside their property. And I honestly, I don't want to go into the details of what these condoms were like. And everything associated with sex was a F was found with all of these things. We're a block from an elementary school, and residents are finding people and seeing people having sex on their porch, essentially on a nightly basis. And they have signs out front saying, you're on surveillance camera. We're going to turn this over to police. We're watching you. Nothing was being fixed, and they felt like no arrests were happening. So what do you do?
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A
Oh, you go arrest everyone. You literally park police cars where everyone's having sex and be like, jail, jail, jail. You know?
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B
But from the residents perspective, they felt like nothing was being done. Like, what do they. What do they do?
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A
They. They vote for Spencer Pratt. People need to demand change. I was so, you know, not that I voted for Karen Bass, but I was never passionate because I felt like if you're passionate about these things, then you're political. But then I realized it's not being political if you demand accountability for basic human taxpayers. The, oh, don't have sex prostitutes in front of kids. Like, that's not political as. As 101 Quality of life for Los Angeles. So I demand everybody now to get as excited about the. The real, basic things. Everyone's so caught up. And that's the problem with celebrity politics versus local politics. That's how they get you with, you know, worrying about what's going on in these other states or worrying about what's going on you. Everyone is a worry about what's going on on their block, in their town, in their city, with their police department, with their fire department. You know, once we get all this figured out, we could you watch the.
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B
State of the city speech?
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A
Of course not. Of course not. Like, no, for real. It's just lie, lie, lie, lie. Truly, I don't listen to anything. I know these people just lie. Obviously. I'll see if you post a clip of a lie. That's as much as I need. I need one sentence. And because I know it was 20 minutes of lies, there was a lot.
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B
Of attention focused on immigration, you know, from a mayor Perspective. I'm just curious what you think about that.
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A
So.
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B
And I appreciate your transparency in letting me have this opportunity.
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A
100%. What I will continue to say, and I. I have to say my opinion because people will say that's not true, in my opinion. Karen Basura loves ice. I mean, ICE is the best thing that's happened to Karen Bass and her entire political career.
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B
Just from, like, a media perspective.
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A
Karen Bass has failed every single person in Los Angeles, but all she gets to do is look like she's this warrior fighting the feds, which everything she said she legally. Just like she lied about having the ability to get rid of the fire permits or waive the permits. She lied and went on the news knowing that it's the city council. It's the same thing. She lies to Los Angeles. I'm doing. You're doing nothing. These are federal laws. You can't change what that is. You can make posts, you can encourage people to burn down cities and loot. Whatever you want to do. You can do that. But the best thing that happened to Karen Bass after the Palisades burned down and 12 people burned alive and homelessness increasing, 1500 people dying on the streets, dogs being tortured every day on the streets. They're not doing anything. But was ice. Because she can tell everybody that she's this fighter for them, she cares about them, when all she's actually doing is increasing ice. She, because of her, more ICE is coming. And it is what it is. You can say blame whoever she's responsible. Whereas I, as mayor of la, can get rid of ice. Just like the mayor in San Francisco made a deal with the federal government, and he said, hey, I'll hand over the rapists, drug traffickers, the human traffickers. I'll give you the people.
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B
That was my question. So the Trump administration is essentially saying we won't have to do these roving patrols, as they call it, if we're allowed in the jails and to go after those that have been arrested.
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A
They won't even have to go into my jails. ICE doesn't have to come into Los Angeles. I will go out of the city limit and drop all these illegal murder, criminal felons off out in the desert for them. So you don't even have to bring your ICE vehicles in the city. I'm going to handle that.
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B
How would you do that?
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A
I would do the job that a mayor is supposed to do. I would take the elite metro division, LAPD detectives, and I would say we have a priority now. Add illegal murder, felons that you're also looking for non illegal murder. Add them as a priority. I would work with the new sheriff who's hopefully Alex Villanueva, who I've already talked to. And we'd have two special Enforcement Bureau with the Metro and we'd have our own no mask because that's obviously nobody wants masks. We don't need masks because we're going to get the same people that hard working illegal immigrants want off the street. We're going to get them. So no one's going to be concerned. They're going to. When I'm mayor, people are going to be calling me saying, hey, there's an illegal murderer, can you come get that person? Because we're going to go do it so politely and nice.
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B
Yeah, you really want to focus on the criminal aspect of it.
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A
That's what everybody wants. And we'll start, we'll do such a good job that we won't need to get anybody else because I'm going to turn in more illegal felons than any other city.
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B
I just want to, I want to play the other side of this argument. So there are people out there that would say, you know, local law enforcement would lose the trust of the undocumented community if they're working with ICE or dhs.
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A
Again, I'm not going to be working with ICE or dhs.
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B
I mean the local law enforcement perspective.
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A
I don't care about anybody that has a problem with murderers being arrested.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So again that's people I'll never connect to. If you have a problem with a murderer, rapist, child trafficker being taken out of your community, then you should maybe go with that person out of the community also. So the people I'm targeting, they are across the board. Anyone with a brain wants them gone. So I don't think that's going to be an issue. And again, I'm not going to have to work with ICE or I'm going to do it. I'll, I'll go myself and go do it with the SWAT guys. Let's go. So LA will handle it. She's not handling it. And that's why, it's, why it's all happening. Crazy. Because she wants this, this division because then she can be like, look over here, look over here while she's destroyed LA and getting to do it for four more years because she's going to have you believing she's going to fight ice. She's not going to stop ice.
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B
A mayor saying stop, stop, stop.
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A
It's not stopping it. It's actually. She's provoking the federal government. If you really want to go these people, that's. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. You start doing this with anybody in society and in politics, you start playing that game, it's only going to get heightened. I am de. Escalating the situation, saying, hey, we're good. I'm going to handle this. Stay out of here because I'm going to do better than your. Respectfully, you're even able to do because nobody wants what you're doing. I'm going to do it how everyone wants it. She's not ever going to do that.
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B
Have you watched the protests and stuff taking place downtown?
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A
I mean, I mean, I'm scrolling all day long.
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B
You see the video? Yeah.
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A
Again, I'm, I'm all for people protesting if their legal right. I'm all for people. Second Amendment, you having a firearm at a protest, all for that. When I'm mayor, they're not going to need to protest. That's the point. Yeah, that's over. So I'm not gonna be managing a city with protests because people are like, oh, he's handling everything because it's. Do your job, you know, and also.
- [29:11]
B
At the state of the city. I don't know if you're familiar with clean LA with me. He's an Instagrammer, he goes out, he cleans street corners.
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A
He's gonna be out of the job when I'm there because the city and our billions of dollars should be going to clean streets. If he wants to do it for fun moving forward. I appreciate what he's doing and the idea, but that's done.
- [29:32]
B
How do we get those streets cleaned? I mean, he is so overwhelmed, he.
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A
Can'T even keep up because clearly, once we get into these books where all this money goes, we're going to find it. And the money should be going to our streets being clean. The electric freaking lights working, the metro safe where you don't get stabbed, where you're not sitting in Europe. Like, quality of life is coming back to la. And that's what, that's what I'm running on. It's. It's. So, yes, he can keep doing his thing if he wants, but that's done.
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B
On the videos aren't going to be as impressive.
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A
The mayor is not going to be like, thanks, let's all, no more volunteer Saturday photo ops. Taxpayers already are paying for the city to have clean streets. Go to these other states with way less tax money. Their streets don't look like our streets. So we're clearly doing something wrong over here in the budget plan and the who's getting what. And I think it'll be real easy to find when you don't have the entrenched powers that be that have been doing it. Still doing it.
- [30:29]
B
So I know you hear the prout that the Pratt doubters out there, I guess you could call them, you've talked about them a little bit today in terms of the things that they say about your experience and stuff. But they also say that you can't connect with certain sections of la. How do you. How do you respond to that?
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A
I mean, I actually haven't heard any doubters. So that must be on your algorithm. Mine is very catered to supporters. But in this alleged algorithm, you see, I would say I have one, I see both. I'll just be honest, I don't have. They're feeding me just gas, you know. So I've grown up in la. I love every parts of la. I will fight for every LA native.
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B
I guess my point is there's people out there that associate you with like just the Palisades. And I know that you're from LA and you lived in la.
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A
What I would say to those people, and I'll keep saying, I learned in the Palisades, these people will burn your house down, lie on it and cover it up. What are they doing in South Central? What are they doing in east la? What are they doing where there's not people with platforms to expose if they'll do this to the people that just gave them palace? Probably 92% of people probably put the most money in Karen Bass election if she'll let your entire town where she, they bankrolled her, burned down. You think she cares about people that don't give a dollar to her campaigning, to her political career? So I'm not running for mayor. The Palisades is cooked. I'm not running for mayor. It's 20 years till the Palisades, back 25. I'm not like, oh, I'm going to run for Meridale, get the Palisades up and running again. I'm running so the rest of LA has a chance to not end up like the Palisades.
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B
And there are so many people across the city that sense that same frustration. They see the homelessness, they see the crime and they're mad.
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A
So again, I'm not concerned because my campaign starts tonight. So anybody that's doubting has only heard me fighting for the Palisades. And that because I Wasn't running for anything until tonight is the kickoff. So they'll see all the messaging as it expands to the entire Los Angeles. Because they're destroying the city of la. The Palisades they already destroyed. So I'm actually not fighting for the palaces is gone.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It's literally I'm fighting for accountability for them already destroying the Palisades. So now I'm actually fighting for the future of LA that they. We're barely hanging on.
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B
Do you think we're better prepared for a fire than we were?
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A
Of course not. Go the DEB rush. They already let the debt rush grow back. It's already ready to go. It could cook off right now. If there was some wind. This imaginary hurricane wind came back. Bel Air. They haven't trimmed any dead brush. They haven't trimmed any dead brush in the Hollywood Hills Sunland. It's all still there. They haven't. It's not like they have more money for the fire department. They actually have less money. That's why the fire department has their own ballot measure asking, please, can you give us some more tax money to go directly. Because none of the. None the of Mayor Bass's money for us goes to us. So. No, they're not.
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B
So much of the resources from LAFD are devoted to homeless.
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A
I've heard 80% police. And when you say homeless, that's to go. Give them Narcon people. So if Narcon didn't exist, we're talking. I was going to say hundreds of people, 20 people are dying a day. Maybe 15 if six are dying with the Narcon. There's no Narcon. And 80% of firefighters driving around giving them the Narcon on their noses. God knows how many people are just dying.
- [34:01]
B
I love la. And I think I feel like so many of us, we love la. You drive through sections of the city and you almost have to put your blinders on. And people have done this for so long that they have to act like this is not their la. You know, Skid row, you know, it's. It's unfortunate that, like we've been saying, it's. It's something that people are just used to and accept at this point. Point.
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A
Yeah. But like you're reporting, I wouldn't even know it was skid row. But now my favorite place. I used to go every Friday with my dad to the Man Village in the Bruin to go see a movie. It looks like Skid Row and Westwood.
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B
It's expanding.
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A
It's. That's. Yeah, it's and then like you showed you, they move the encampment. It's back in three hours.
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B
Not even less than that, two hours.
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A
So this idea of there's they have a plan that's working and they running the city great. Is complete.
- [34:51]
B
I actually think the council member in that that instance said that they were going to go to the council and say that that area is a, a no camping zone and then they were going to vote on it before. So they couldn't do anything about the people that came back is what they were arguing.
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A
It's. It's mindboggling. So there's a red alert that we're. That Mayor Bass would be like, oh, you know, we're doing this and this. Go drive around la. That's why I keep telling people like, well what are you going to do? Like whatever she's doing, we're going to stop because it's not where we cannot do four more. She also hasn't gone on the news and said I failed at this. This is not working. I've actually increased that. She will sit there and say that they've actually there's less homeless people.
- [35:31]
B
So she actually, her office got back to me minutes ago on the after action report and she's essentially denying it. She's saying that she only wanted to change and draft the budget and things relating to the weather.
- [35:47]
A
She also deleted all her text messages from January 7th and January 8th. So we don't. That's the level of we're dealing with.
- [35:56]
B
And we're all trying to get these answers as well from a journalistic perspective. It's.
- [36:00]
A
I mean we're dealing with somebody at one time you can look in the New York Times was bragging about the fact that all the Korean liquor stores during the riots burned to the ground. That's who this person is. She'll say she fights for immigrants, but she clearly didn't care about all these Korean. They may have been liquor stores but they were Korean owned small businesses. And she is in the New York Times bragging about the fact how thankful she is they burned to the ground. That's her character. You can keep going back and look, you know, she does the smiling all day long while she lets you burn alive, you know. So I don't care what her team says they'll get keep all these people do is lie because there's no consequences.
- [36:37]
B
I appreciate your transparency and being willing to sit down and have this conversation. And I would say any elected official that is out there that sees this, I would have this same conversation with them. And I hope that if you're mayor that you would continue it with me as well.
- [36:51]
A
So the one thing as mayor that I already want to make sure I don't do is I'm not going to be an influencer politician. Every single politician I see, they're posting in the photo ops like they're Spidey from 2006 doing like, so no more TikToks. Not as mayor. You know, like I don't. People don't want that. They just want results. So everything is like, this is what's happening. Look at this. It's like, nah, that's so again, I'll post if it's something successful or a failure. But nobody wants this like daily Alex Earl of, you know, la.
- [37:26]
B
Yeah, I guess I'm saying I appreciate the transparency, being willing to answer questions.
- [37:30]
A
Oh yes.
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B
Because I've been asking the mayor since before Christmas for a one on one interview. Still hasn't happened.
- [37:37]
A
No, you're never gonna get it all their answer, everything is pre rehearsed. It has to be approved. They have their talking points. That's why they get to keep going along because they're career politicians that are protected, that have PR teams.
- [37:52]
B
Like I still want to do that interview by the way.
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A
Which interview with her. Yeah, of course. Do it. I hope you get to also. But I think you're better off continue running up on people and be like getting your. You know. But she'll ignore you just like she ignored the British.
- [38:10]
B
I mean unfortunately those are only chances that we can get to ask questions.
- [38:15]
A
Because it's all rigged. All right, well I got to go to my kickoff. Breaking news. You are sitting with a New York Times best selling author. So congrats. Just got the call. So huge. Everybody who puts purchase the guy you love to hate keep purchasing it because we are number seven and the six in front of us are some of the biggest books that stay on the list. We gotta, we gotta knock them out.
- [38:40]
B
Are you Harry Potter status?
- [38:41]
A
I mean we're. The six in front of us are big titles that we're gonna have to.
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B
That's awesome.
- [38:47]
A
Get behind. But thank you to everyone. And the audiobook is trending like it's going to hit some major top list that, that takes a month. But it's tracking as a huge audiobook. So if you're not a reader, I narrate the audiobook. The guy you love to hate and make sure you follow Matthew Seedorf on Instagram X was right. And TikTok.
- [39:09]
B
Yep. Yeah, I appreciate that I take any. Any tips that come into me are huge. It really helps me a lot, and I can go out there, dig, ask questions, and maybe expose some stuff. So it's really helpful.
- [39:21]
A
Boom, Sam.