Can Spencer Pratt pull it off? | Hour 3

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On the text line, Beth's favorite Russ says, my assumption on pronunciation is that Pete is correct and everybody else, including the people whose name it is, are incorrect. That is precisely correct us, right, No, I will tell you. One of the reasons. Why I mispronounced names on purpose is so this way, you won't ever know when I accidentally mispronounced someone's name. See, because if I. If I mispronounce everybody's name, then you don't know that I if I did it intentionally or accidentally. H m hm mm hmm. That is some three dimensional checkers going on right there, right, Okay. A person's name that I do know how to pronounce is Spencer Prett. He is a former reality TV I guess star. I guess he's I guess he was a star, Like I knew of his name. I may have seen his picture at some point, but I don't know what show he used. To be on. I do know his well, I know his wife's name. What's it Heidi Montag or something. It's like I know that name and I've seen pictures of her, and so I like, if I had to pick her out of a lineup. I could do so. Well. See, I'm trying to think back before Spencer Prett went into the Mayor's race, I don't know if I'd have been able to pick him out of a lineup. I think I might have, like just because you see their faces on the sidebar of the newspaper when you're on the website and there's like a you know, oh this person did something. Oh this reality starts like I see these people that were over on the side of the screen over there, and it's like, who is that? You know? But I never watched the show they were on. I don't do Nick, do you know the show? No? Nick doesn't know either. Sorry, Look, I try to sample some junk food TV. You know. I watched Jersey Shore not because I liked it, but because I knew it was part of the cultural zeitgeist. So I suffered through all seventeen thousand seasons for the audience. That's why I did that. There's no other reason, but I have so anyway, so I never watched whatever show it was that he was on, and apparently from what I read in the news reports and the reporters that ask him questions during interviews that. He was apparently like a villain of some kind. I don't know how you're a villain on a reality show, but whatever, he was like a villain. So whatever. Anyway, they were on the show together, he and his wife and so they've been married for a long time and they've been out of the public eye for a while. But they lived in Palisades, California, in the Palisades neighborhood, and their home burned down in the Palisades Fire, and they have since they have not been able to rebuild, much like like everybody in Palisades, they have not been able to rebuild. And it's been I feel like it's been over a year at this point, right, And so he became and I think his parents' home burned down as well, and so he launches this run for mayor. And he's just calling himself a common sense campaign. Is camp, it's just common sense. And he's and I think he referred to it as like a look around, just look around. And so it started with the the utter failure of the Democrat leadership that controls Los Angeles to prevent, to prepare, and then to respond to the fire. And it has since picked up a couple of these other major topics for the campaign, which are, you know, rampant homelessness, tent cities, you know, dirty streets, needles everywhere, poo on the sidewalks. Right, it's a quality of life campaign. Basically, and what he's telling the voters in Los Angeles is you don't have to live like this. Okay, good message. What is it what I'm particularly interested in seeing because I've been saying the same thing for a long time, which is that this is a choice. You don't have to live under these conditions, right, And it will stop when you say, if enough people want this to stop, it can be stopped. But you have to vote differently. You have to change the way that you're voting and put somebody else in there that recognizes the problem that you want to see addressed. And if the people that you're voting for don't even see it as a problem, they are not the ones to fix it, because the first step on the road to recovery is admitting that you have the problem in the first place, right, So if you won't even admit it, you can't fix it. So he's identifying these things. And I don't make predictions on elections, obviously, especially from you know, three thousand miles away, but like I am curious and very interested to see if this campaign actually turns into his election, whether he can actually win this thing just speaking a common sense quality of life improvement message. But here's the other thing. His campaign adds. On social media are amazing and they just hammer away and some of them are funny. Other people are putting together AI videos for him, Like there's this massive messaging effort underway, and it's fantastic. You've probably seen some of these ads by now. Like one of the things he did, they walked around with a pressure washer and a stencil and they threw the stencil on the dirty sidewalks. They pressure washed it, pulled it up and it said this sidewalk could be clean. Vote for Pratt something like that. Fantastic idea. Right, So this kind of campaign, I would love to see this thing work, but it's going to be up to the voters of LA. One of the things he's pitching also is a way to address the homelessness crisis in LA. I will play for you a video that he put out where he lays out the plan. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experienced. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. 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This is from Spencer Pratt, running for mayor of Los Angeles, outlining his plan to end homelessness there. Los Angeles doesn't have a homeless problem, we have a drug problem. The DEA will tell you that over ninety percent of the homeless population in LA are hardcore illicit drug users. How many people are using illicit drugs in the homeless community. Would say it's incredibly twenty percent thirty percent of. The overall problem. Over ninety percent. Cartels are operating in the open, forcing addicts to traffic drugs and murdering them when they don't meet their quota. Dogs are being killed by meth heads and fentanyl addicts test their drugs on these innocent animals. None of my opponents are living in this reality, and all they want is more taxpayer funded housing. You cannot fix a drug problem with more housing. Spencer Pratt is exactly right. If I would have the easiest job in the world at all, all had to do to treat drug addiction was put people. In four walls right right side and they're cured. Oh my god, we're done here. That is an insanity, And finally somebody has the waybost to say it out loud. You cannot fix LA's drug problem with street medical teams. Jammy narcan up their noses and simply propping them up to overdose again and again and again until these poor souls inevitably die in the streets. But it's even worse than that. Currently, Mayor Bass and Nitthia Rahman are increasing the rampant drug use by using your tax dollars to hand out fennyl needles, tourniquits, and crack pipes to addicts throughout. The city, actually the city paying for people to drive around hand. Out needles and pipes and other things to use drugs. By doing this, they are killing six to seven people every day in the streets in full public view of you and your children, and. They pretend they're the compassionate ones. Ask yourself this, What if that addict on your street were your son, the baby boy you love more than anything, unemployed, doing drugs every day, defecating in public, harassing old ladies at the gas station for money. Would you buy him crack pipes? Would you let him continue to degrade himself in public? Of course not. You would stop the cycle. You wouldn't let him defecate and die in the streets. You grab him by the wrist, drag his butt to reab and get him sober, whether he liked it or not. If you brought him into your guest bedroom after reapp you'd demand that he'd do zero drugs and maintain a damn job. Why Because you love him and that's what you do for someone you care about. Karen Bass and Nythia Rahmin don't do this basic compassion intervention because they don't care about these people. They don't care if these poor souls struggle through their addiction and degrade themselves in full public view with no dignity. Karen and Nythia don't care. I do. Here's how I'm going to fix this problem and clean the streets for good, for the betterment of the struggling addicts, and for you, the taxpayer who's been held hostage by these vagrants who ruin your one safe public spaces. Step one, break the cycle. No more distribution of drug paraphernalia. Karen Bass and Nitthia Roman currently pay NGO's millions of dollars to increase. Drug usage and profit up the misery of these drug addicts. I'm putting an end to this profiteering. Currently, street medical teams administer narcan to reverse opioid overdoses. It blocks the opioid receptors in the brain, so the attic can shoot up as much heroin as they want. It won't do a thing. The problem is narcan only lasts for a day or two, and it doesn't break the addiction cycle. So the same addicts end up overdosing and getting more narcan every week as these NGOs and pharmaceutical companies rate in profits. There is a longer lasting anti narcotic drug called vivitrol that does what Narcan does, but it lasts for thirty days, giving a much better chance of breaking the addiction. The problem is the attic must be sober from seven to fourteen days before it can be administered, So we have this donut hole between forty eight hours of protection with the narcan and the two weeks of sobriety needed to administer the vivitrol. This donut hole is the lynchpin for winning this war against addiction. This is where my plant sells. Step two. We have the laws, we just need to use them. Last year, Democrats smartly passed a common sense law amending SB forty three to classify severe drug users as gravely disabled. SB forty three. Gives the city and the county the legal pathway to place any and all street drug users on a fifty one to fifty hold for seventy two hours through a cascading series of wellness checklists. This mandatory treatment hold can be extended for two weeks filling that narcanda vivitrol donut hole and giving a real pathway for recovery. SB forty three gives us the legal. Pathway to hold these gravely disabled drug users for up to a year in a conservative ship if they need more treatment. This isn't jail, this is mandatory rehab. This is what you do for people you care about. Step three end the body brokering. Many of the atticts you see around your neighborhood are busted in from other states in order for local NGOs to profit off their addiction. Los Angeles is ground zero for unscrupulous treatment centers who rake in billions of taxpayer dollars getting paid per head. Remember, every one of these people on the streets has a Social Security number, and once these groups have that social Security number, they get access to unlimited Medicaid funds and government assistants. There's no cap on Medicaid dollars, so as long as these NGOs can claim they are providing assistance, they can rake in thousands of dollars per person every single month. Thirty percent or more of the forty five thousand plus street addicts in LA are from out of state. Most of them want to go home. Their families want them back, but many of them are stuck here with no way out. I love my parents and I'm happy to go home. And now twenty one year old woman living on the streets of LA finally going home or burying her face for safety, with her story too painful to fully just. Are you happy to get away from the people you're with? Yeah, she's been lost in La, you know, on the streets, been homeless for years. The woman's parents and Idaho overjoyed about to leave for the airport. I'm just so exciting afterrvis their. Daughter ran away as a teenager, ending up in La stuck. She's been through a lot of traumatic experiences out there, though. We're just so thankful found or back in safe. What a wonderful day. Yeah. Then they don't feel safe. They're being used by drug cartels and the NGOs anchorrupt local politicians profiting off their misery. Don't let them believe and refuse to help. As soon as I'm mayor every addict who was traffick here from outside LA is getting a free ride home back to their families. That immediately resolves a third of the problem overnight. Step four, bringing the DEA. We have international cartels operating in the open on our streets. They occupy abandoned buildings Section eight housing, local business fronts, and even set up fake ten encampments to use as drug markets. I will bring in the DEA to dismantle the rampant transnational cartels that are terrorizing our city. There's a new sheriff in town. Step five a modern treatment facility. I've already made plans with several high profile developers who want to donate resources to build a large, modern and safe campus where we can administer rehab outside of our residential neighborhoods. Places with children in schools, and businesses like San Pedro cannot be expected to bear the burden of hosting drug rehab facilities in these clinics. We will rapid build modular, low cost housing, exercise facilities, and we will not only provide drug rehab, but civil rehab. Addicts will be given job training, they will provide community service, cleaning up trash, cutting fire brakes, they will serve the communities they transgressed upon, and they will be set up for success to reintegrate into society with job skills and a sense of purpose and accomplishment. Many of the addicts on skid row are able bodied people, fully capable of working and earning a living. The only thing blocking them is the drugs. We don't have a housing problem, we have a drug problem. We cannot solve a drug problem with more overpriced housing scams. Some of these folks do need to go to prison. The violent offenders, animal abusers, and sex offenders will do time, but many of them simply need to be given a chance to recover. But they only have a chance if. We confront their addiction, not just dump them in an apartment and give them a box of needles. Three men in their forties that were. Found unresponsive at this apartment building in Downtowatellite Spring and Seventh Street we now know Alipriy confirming that they died due to a possible fence andyl overdose. One of the officers that were spotting to the scene was exposed to the fencinil. He was transported in an ambulance to a local hospital. I'm the only candidate with a real plan. I'm the only candidate who actually cares about these poor souls dying on our streets. If you care about someone, you don't let them degrade themselves in public. You grab them by the hand and you pull them away from the darkness. We don't have to live like this, and when I'm mayor, we won't. I gotta say, I hope that that is a blueprint for every city that just can't seem to figure this out. I mean, there is a There was a response to this video from a woman named Gabrielle Clark, who is a trained Yeah, she's trained in addiction recovery, and she said, quote, this is the absolute best plan I have ever heard. The lie that we have been told that you can't help people who don't want help is apathetic. Bs. I help people all the time who don't want it. If they can get out of the addicted, of the addicted mindset, they can come back, get them clean, teach them a skill, show them a purpose, and cut the supply. And here's the thing. I know he was a reality TV show star or actor, whatever they're called, but he has he has a skill that he is able to deliver this message, which is tough, fair and compassionate. He is exactly right. Compassion You know, treating people humanely is not to let them just degrade themselves. In public, to not let them live outside in the element, standing at a street corner begging for money, so they can just stay in this cycle of addiction until they overdose. That's not behaving in a humane fashion. That's not compassion. Right. These programs that the Left has instituted and these big cities have all resulted in this same sort of problem. And they claim to be the virtuous ones, and they are not. They're absolutely not. And he outlines the problem with the NGOs, the nonprofits, right, all of these entities that are making all of this money not solving the problem because their paychecks depend on not solving the problem. I got an email that says not to be read on air, but wondering someone something weird is airing on WBT about drug programs someone running for office. Yes, that was Spencer Pratt. Was his pitch to voters of Los Angeles about how to fix the homeless problem, which he says is not really a homeless problem, it's a drug addiction problem. And so how do you do that? How do you get at that problem? And he lays out his five points in that plan, and. Like that is the. Most cohesive, comprehensive, and achievable plan that I have heard. The guy has the it, the pizazz or something, whatever that thing is when people running for office. Look, Obama had it, Clinton had it right, Trump's got it. There's just something about them that they get up there and they're able to articulate these messages and break things down in relatable, understandable ways. And he has that. That's what I've seen. I've seen several interview clips of his that he has done where reporters are trying to, you know, gotcha question him and stuff like oh, like TMZ. He's like, oh my gosh, Spencer Pratt doesn't even actually live in Los Angeles. They did this whole hit piece on him because he doesn't live in Los Angeles anymore, and he's like, dude, my house burned down. They burned my house down. He is still registered to vote in Los Angeles. He is still registered as a Los Angelino. But there's nothing on his lot. There's no more home. He lost everything except his wife and two kids, and they've got a trailer. And then like he's not even really living in the trailer. We saw him living at the bel Air Hotel and he's like, because of death, threats. I am out in the open in a tin trailer in an airstream and he's had death threats against him, and his security people are like, we can't protect you in this airstream. So he's over living in the hotel, or he's going and his kids and wife are living with his parents and forget where some other town near LA and like the things that they are going after him on just make them look stupid and him look better. It is the most amazing thing he does. Like he's he is a he's a pretty good candidate. Like the skill set that somebody needs in order to do this gig, he apparently has it. That's what I've seen now regarding the the Democrats who are running LA in California that have allowed this stuff to occur. If we're being charitable, we could call it misguided empathy. This is an excerpt from a guy named Gad Sad. He's got a new book out called Suicidal Empathy Dying to be Kind. He says empathy misfires, akin to how a wide range of human emotions can also malfunction, for example, anger, It could be a useful emotion when deployed at the right moment, and in the right amount. If somebody attacks you in an alley, you will experience an autonomic effective response. He is an evolutionary psychiatrist. Like, I don't know what some of these words mean, but you get fear, you get anger right, and that'll permit you to mount an appropriate defensive behavioral pattern. But if you become insanely angry in an otherwise innocuous situation, you might need to enroll in an anger management class, he says, quoting another British history, and he says civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. The general argument is that societies decay because of the self inflicted failures of their elites in a myriad of different ways. The collective suicide of the West is occurring via the orgiastic misfiring of one of our most noble virtues, empathy, which of course is deeply anchored within the ethos of progressive liberals. Again, emotions exist because they help us solve evolutionarily important problems. This holds true whether we're dealing with positive emotions or negative ones. That said, our emotional system can go awry in several ways, resulting in shall we say, suboptimal outcomes. First, our emotions can lead us astray when they are deployed in contexts when it would serve us best to invoke our reasoning faculties. Suicidal empathy is a manifestation of a system failure, whereby a noble virtue is hijacked and used to make policy decisions that are best tackled via a sober analysis rooted in our reasoning faculty. Emotional disregulation is a feature of many psychiatric disorders. Suicidal empathy is a manifestation of that disregulation of an otherwise noble virtue. The misfiring of an otherwise adaptive emotional response is a common feature of the human condition, For example, crying. Generally speaking, crying serves as an honest signal of distress that activates parental support or social support from whoever. Receives that signal. But remember, there's a classic episode of Seinfeld called the Understudy, where Seinfeld gets annoyed by his girlfriend who has a habit of easily crying for minor issues that should otherwise not trigger that response, and he's forced to repeatedly console her. In other words, even an otherwise in otherwise honest signal of our emotional state can be Cooper did deceptively or in a disregulated manner, and the same occurs with suicidal empathy, unless, of course, all of that's happening in Los Angeles is intentional, which I'm not ruling now that out either. What we always do on a Friday afternoon this segment is pregaming with Brett winterbol Brett how Art thou. Oh, I'm great, How are you? I am great as well. I played some Spencer Pratt audio. So the reaction from listeners here. John from Jersey says Dennis Quaid was asked why he was supporting Pratt, and he laughed and said why look around. Jack says, Spencer Pratt is amazing. He's exactly right. Jennifer says Pratt is a marketing genius. His ads are fantastic. Yes, very powerful and viable. Way forward, says Jim, and Da says Democrats don't fix these problems because they have zero incentive to fix them. Homelessness is big money for the NGOs, who in turn send money back to the Democrats and campaign contributions and get out the vote work. The NGOs also have zero incentive to decrease homelessness for the same reason, which is money. Yep. So just looking at. Spencer Pratt as a political candidate and campaigner, Yeah, right, set aside the reality TV background all that stuff. Sure, how do you assess him as a quote politician? I think he's doing exactly what you need to do because he's addressing the issues that are important. And I think you can do an ab comparison with say AOC right, AOC the squad whoever that is. They're not listening to the people they intend to go out and push the agenda on them. What Spencer Pratt is doing is he's meeting the moment and I. Think that's incredible. And really, when you think about this, You've got Pratt and you've got the the governor who's who's running there, and they they would be a very dynamic duo if they can pull that off. Oh yeah, Steve Hilton, Hilton, if he were to win. Pratt's like marketing his political ads and then the stuff. I mean, there's a bunch of AI stuff that people are doing, like in support of him, but he's his campaign is not doing that. But like some like the marketing the ads are really they're not like any ads that I have seen in Like he's like he's he's walking around talking to people, and those conversations they don't feel like a politician's conversation that sometimes you see, you know, making making it into these ads. There's just something different in the way he's talking to the people that are in these ads. And look, he's had death threats, he's had people threatening him, he's had all that sort of stuff. But what is he doing. He is working to try to get people up off the sidewalks and taking drugs. And this is not new because before Gavin Newsom was the governor, you had Jerry Brown who was the governor, and you had terrible areas of Los Angeles, you had rough areas of San Diego and all that sort of stuff, and they wouldn't do anything about it. They'd be like, hey, just let them free range. When they're tripping on drugs and all this other stuff. They would bang their heads against the windows. And all that. But back then, in like two thousand and thirteen or something like that, it wasn't so bad. Now it is so bad. Think about the best neighborhood in all of Charlotte. Okay, think about whatever that is in your mind. All right, that's what burned down with Spencer and his family. Yeah, and he has no place to go. So you know what. A desperate man is a good thing. Right, and is a dangerous opponent in a political campaign. Amen, speaking of dangerous people, did you see the interview with Jill Biden? Sorry doctor Jill, doctor Jill Biden. From people who haven't heard this clip, let me play it real quick. You horrified as you saw it unfold the debate. It wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or. Since, never since, yes, or is never seen never? No, we happened. I don't know what happened. I mean when I as I watched it, I thought, oh my god, he's having a stroke. Oh and it scared me to death. Nobody ran up there to check him, right? And then why did you go to the waffle house right after? Why did you go to the rally? Why'd you tell him afterwards? You answered all the questions correctly, Joe, You did such a great job, Like if you were very worried he had a stroke on stage, wouldn't you like rush him to you would think the hospital or something. And look, with all honesty, President Trump was nice to him about it when he said, well, I don't know what he was saying, but he. Was and I don't think he does either. Right, but he could, but he could, but he could have like really smashed him. And I think he felt a little bit like embarrassed for the guy. Yeah, and all that, And who the heck knew that Rita Braver was still around? I mean, my gosh, I mean she from CBS exactly. Yeah. So what's interesting to me is why is she doing this now? Why is doctor Jill? Why is she coming forward with this book? Now? She's the bread She's the breadwinner. Oh yeah, Joe Biden does not have any kind of bread to win or anything like that. So she's she's got to get that mixture. I guess by Christmas, maybe maybe just after Christmas, you'll probably see another book coming out from somebody else in the family. I'm sure, because it's all you can do is tell secrets. Yeah, I think she's trying to tank the Democrats. She because I'd sign on for that, sure. I mean, that's the theory of mine. I think it's a great theory. Because why are you out here rehashing this Why? Well, they had a coup. Data, they threw a coup. They threw an Obama coup, right and uh, and they just pushed him right out. Of the out of the way, right. And so she's still salty about that, yes, right. We heard reports at the time that she was very angry at that and she was like the leader of the protection racket around him and uh. And so I think this is her trying to get payback, to force all of the Democrats to have to answer for this stuff and their role in the cover up and have to say, like, did you because there's no way that what she just said there was true, of course not, because we all saw Joe Biden acting like that for a year prior. Yeah, I mean catatonic at times, right, I mean absolutely. And and the thing is is, when you look at the other stuff that's going on, I mean, it's pretty remarkable. She's got to get another paycheck and that's probably what's happened. And this is just the beginning of the book tour, yes, and so the tour is going to be lasting all summer. It will and beyond. That's what I think, Like, this is not this is not coincident. Well, yeah, I mean remember the remember the books that he was writing and all this sort of stuff, and I. Just left it right there. Hold on, let me go find it. I wonder if she's got intel in hers I bet you did. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the. Show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.