The Culture War - Tim Pool - SPENCER PRATT IS GOING TO SAVE LA

00:00:00.000 This is what the Democrats do so well, is the reason why they have all of these

00:00:05.100 patronage networks and these, especially with things like the homeless, is they can show up

00:00:09.520 to homeless encampments and get tons of ballots from people. And then, and it's so easy, like,

00:00:16.640 hey, you know, they have all these, all these ways are done unofficially. They're not done

00:00:22.720 through the campaign. And so them giving you money or them giving you food or God knows what

00:00:27.140 they're giving these people it's really easy for them to go into these areas where people just don't

00:00:32.320 vote and just accumulate votes that are legitimate votes but they're like not real votes um this is

00:00:38.060 from nithya ramen obviously this is one of the opponents in the los angeles mayoral race trump

00:00:42.480 this was an article that i think the daily mail reported it donald trump is considering endorsing

00:00:46.500 spencer pratt for la mayor's sources claim as underdog x reality star steamrolls opposition

00:00:50.240 ramen jumps on it right away donald trump is about to endorse spencer tonight is a fun the

00:00:55.900 fundraising deadline and we need to raise more to prove that la doesn't want a maga republican

00:01:00.020 mayor who lives in a bel air hotel donate now unfortunately this is a line that works in los 0.88

00:01:05.240 angeles because uh by and large the population is retarded but some indicating uh some interesting 0.86

00:01:11.420 indicators california early voting now versus this point at this point in 2022 republicans are 0.90

00:01:16.040 at 25 now they're at 37 again a 12 point spike very very interesting stuff compare that to the

00:01:22.840 result from the last gubernatorial election, the Republicans lost by nearly 20 points. So the fact

00:01:27.200 that it's this tight really does give you quite a bit of hope. So I want to discuss all of this

00:01:32.760 and so much more with the great Josh Rayner. So let me get this all fired up. Well, thank you

00:01:39.720 very much for joining me today. Before we jump into all the meat potatoes, all Caltrad related

00:01:45.120 topics, can you maybe give people a quick intro of who you are and what you do?

00:01:47.720 uh yeah my name is josh rayner i'm born and raised in los angeles i've been a used to be a

00:01:55.080 personal trainer i was something of a fitness influencer before the influencer time kind of

00:02:00.820 took off i used to be a tv host uh had a sports training show on espn then the covet happened and

00:02:07.480 my whole life uh disappeared and i decided to go move to colorado for a few years and live on a

00:02:13.080 farm and get closer to uh get closer to the food the source of the food yeah um and then you know

00:02:19.700 series of events happen i'm back back home i moved back to la uh two years ago um and so yeah just

00:02:28.220 kind of trying to use that that interesting intersection of where health and politics and

00:02:33.080 fitness all kind of really seem to cross over for the first time in a really unique way during

00:02:38.040 during COVID and make some changes around here. Yeah. I mean, I think it's fair to say you're

00:02:44.040 one of the more fascinating posters because of that specific angle. I mean, it's a specific

00:02:47.720 angle that a lot of people try to hit on, but they do it in such a sloppy way where it just

00:02:51.120 ends up being like hacky and like they're pile drivers. You do it in a really interesting way

00:02:56.140 where you actually talk about real tangible impacts that health has, again, on like sociology,

00:03:02.140 et cetera, et cetera. But I did want to bring you in here specifically to talk California,

00:03:06.780 As you are a California native, but you also consistently have interesting takes.

00:03:11.060 I guess maybe one way to set the table would just be on Spencer Pratt.

00:03:15.200 I mean, as I understand it, you're a SoCal guy.

00:03:17.880 What's your take on Spencer Pratt?

00:03:19.460 What's your impression?

00:03:20.280 Do you think he has a chance?

00:03:21.520 I mean, how are Los Angelinos responding to him?

00:03:25.440 You know, is Spencer Pratt's really funny for like my demographic of millennials, especially

00:03:32.700 like from from socal because um we sort of grew up with him as this weird you know tv personality

00:03:40.300 thing and it was just kind of like he's kind of never completely left the news but he was always

00:03:45.980 just like oh yeah his name would pop up every so often and when i heard he was running for mayor i

00:03:52.220 didn't really know what to think of it because i mean obviously you're just like if this is

00:03:56.860 is california so our politics are weird if anyone remembers the the recall election that put arnold

00:04:02.920 schwarzenegger into office there were like you know a hundred candidates or 50 plus candidates

00:04:08.940 that included yes arnold schwarzenegger gary coleman if everyone remembers gary coleman who

00:04:15.660 was the um i don't know what condition he had but it was like that really little black uh kid actor

00:04:21.200 who looked like a child like into like his 40s and 50s um uh what you talking about willis like 0.74

00:04:28.140 he was he was literally one of our gubernatorial candidates um there was also a porn star and you

00:04:37.640 know like so this is california right like so what what trump did like california is kind of

00:04:42.640 the perfect place for like this type of crazy um almost like freak show style politics yeah but

00:04:48.960 Spencer's running a pretty clear-cut standard campaign where it's like, dude, we've got to fix this.

00:04:55.740 My house burned down.

00:04:56.760 My whole town burned down.

00:04:58.520 The whole city is falling apart.

00:05:01.040 I mean, the homeless problem here is – and it's been terrible for a while.

00:05:05.780 But it's crazy how they've enabled it over the last decade plus because I lived in Venice Beach for seven years.

00:05:14.680 And for a lot of people, people don't understand how L.A. works as a city because we have L.A. County, which is like the biggest county in the country by population.

00:05:26.120 And L.A. County is made up of a bunch of little cities, and most of those cities are technically a part of L.A. City.

00:05:33.860 and then some of them like Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, uh, in the South Bay where I live, uh,

00:05:41.020 we're separate for technically our own different incorporated cities. So like, I can't even vote

00:05:46.040 for Spencer, even though I live in LA County and I'm fully surrounded by LA city. Like I cannot

00:05:52.140 leave my city unless I leave by boat or by plane without crossing, um, LA city. Uh, and of course,

00:05:58.580 all the problems, all the problems bleed over. Um, so we have a very kind of interesting form of,

00:06:04.960 of government here. Um, but where I lived in Venice, which is like technically a part of LA

00:06:10.900 city, um, you know, Venice beach, it's kind of a grungy thing. You see people wear these hats

00:06:17.260 to say like, keep Venice weird, which is just like, keep it full of homeless people. Like,

00:06:21.760 what are you, what are you trying to do here? You know? Um, and I lived there for seven years

00:06:27.040 after college. And I had a post that went kind of viral about just like a number of stories. And it

00:06:32.360 was like a fraction of the actual stories of things that I experienced living in Venice. But

00:06:37.200 I mean, people talk about walkable cities. When I lived in Venice, I pretty much didn't even use

00:06:42.760 my car and I walked everywhere. I would encounter hundreds, thousands of homeless people every day.

00:06:48.540 I would talk to them because they're just sort of there. They're on your way. On my path,

00:06:54.540 that would cross the same people every day.

00:06:56.460 And I'm a pretty friendly guy.

00:06:58.320 If they chat up a conversation with me,

00:07:00.280 I'm kind of going to respond.

00:07:02.500 And you see like just the absolute chaos and destruction.

00:07:08.140 Needles everywhere, human feces everywhere,

00:07:12.280 people just laying in the middle of your pathway,

00:07:15.420 things right in front of my doorstep of my apartment.

00:07:18.460 um and covid really saw this explosion in the homeless boom because the foot traffic that

00:07:27.460 would have normally kind of prevented some they just let them all set up their encampments on

00:07:33.120 the venice boardwalk where we would have like the musicians and artists that would sell their

00:07:37.180 little trinkets which is kind of like what people think is like the more endearing part of venice

00:07:41.760 that was all gone and it was just like am i saying encampments i don't mean like they they threw 0.95

00:07:47.180 their shit down i mean they start like building structures yeah they start taking like box springs 0.83

00:07:52.100 and wooden pallets and hammering shit together um and and we also have uh all these like free 0.98

00:07:59.720 food stuff which like okay that's good homeless people need food but it'd be one thing if you

00:08:04.180 like bring them in to some kind of like shelter or soup kitchen thing sure but you're just giving

00:08:09.220 you're just giving this like they would show up every saturday at the parking lot in the venice

00:08:13.400 boardwalk and all these people would wait in line and they'd be getting their free food and then we

00:08:17.880 passed laws to make um decriminalized shoplifting $950 so homeless people could go into any store

00:08:25.960 anything and steal $950 worth of stuff and if they were to get caught which of course they never

00:08:31.060 would no one would do anything it's just a misdemeanor which just means it's a fine and

00:08:35.040 your home doesn't have an address so nothing's going to happen yeah uh decriminalize open drug

00:08:40.500 use so you can shoot up with needles you can smoke crack meth out on the street nothing happens it's

00:08:46.200 like this is what you do if your plan was how do i make more homeless drug addicts everywhere you

00:08:52.680 know that that's like the only mindset that justifies it well and this is what's so interesting

00:08:56.480 because i mean if you're saying everyone's saying it i mean their interpretation of the reasons for

00:09:00.640 why this is happening obviously very um indicated by your political system but what makes spencer

00:09:05.300 pratt so fascinating i mean the point you hit on i've heard this from other socal guys is he's

00:09:09.380 almost like a west coast poly d in some ways that was kind of the way that people understood him

00:09:13.300 um historically speaking so the fact that he's not just jumped into the race but he possesses

00:09:18.880 that kind of you know reality tv charisma but he actually is running a fairly serious campaign

00:09:24.760 which is really impressive and like that's what people are saying this is the closest thing we've

00:09:28.280 seen to like a 2016 donald trump is like again this synthesis of you know the shock and awe right

00:09:34.100 The theatrics of reality TV, but combined with a very serious policy platform that would

00:09:39.440 actually improve the lives of Angelenos quite extensively.

00:09:43.400 And what's so interesting is like Spencer Pratt, the specific lines he takes on like

00:09:46.420 the homeless, clearly a consulting group didn't get to him first because he'd be taking a

00:09:50.300 vastly different line.

00:09:51.480 And I think this is what's refreshing to people as he's calling balls and strikes here.

00:09:55.160 I made this point.

00:09:56.860 He reminds me of like the guy in your hometown group chat that's apolitical, but just sees

00:10:01.360 the issues independent of the news cycle, and then just concocts his own explanation

00:10:05.500 for it, concocts his own reason why this is happening.

00:10:08.120 And typically, that's going to be a right wing explanation.

00:10:10.080 Because again, if the news can't launder the information to you first, you're probably

00:10:13.320 going to take away a more like conservative approach to these types of things.

00:10:17.080 So Spencer Pratt, what's so refreshing is he's jumping in, he's hitting on these issues,

00:10:20.200 but he's not using these like normie con like talking points of like, you know, they

00:10:24.620 need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

00:10:26.120 He's taking a very pragmatic approach, but it still ends up being fairly conservative

00:10:30.560 just because that is it's almost a cliche to say but it is like common sense approaches so that's

00:10:35.020 what's kind of refreshing about him he's like i want my family to live here i don't want like i

00:10:38.480 have steak here this is hard to watch it's it's just like it's just normalcy right yeah um and

00:10:45.900 and you're right because he's not mired in that kind of political discourse where he gets a lot

00:10:50.800 of like the really corny traditional stuff but yeah honestly so you know this is the thing for

00:10:55.400 those of us who are involved with like uh online right-wing politics we sometimes become too

00:11:00.760 online and we get trapped up in all this really like minutia of stuff that like the average person

00:11:05.400 does not know or care about right and when people try to run these very online campaigns and they

00:11:10.540 get absolutely destroyed and they think because they get a couple like rumble viewers that you

00:11:16.080 know that there's like real voting power here but it's you have to be able to speak to the

00:11:20.600 constituency of like the voting base yeah and like some kind of niche esoteric uh internet stuff is

00:11:27.620 just not what anyone cares about and so this is perfect because like he kind of i'm not like just

00:11:34.120 to say not to say like i'm like spencer pratt but like before 2020 i was very apolitical and i kind

00:11:38.860 of defaulted into something that was like vaguely libertarian but it was just sort of i mean there's

00:11:43.640 a lot of things i didn't understand then but if you don't get all wrapped up in all the kind of

00:11:48.380 craziness that happens online and kind of develop like 17 mental illnesses um you're just like hey

00:11:53.960 this doesn't work this doesn't work this is really clear cut i'll have to do a step outside and for

00:11:59.100 him stepping outside he has nowhere to his house is gone so there's no you know there's nothing

00:12:04.940 there so there's no more real world um facing the actual ramifications of everything that we've

00:12:11.700 dealt with um but but he like this is not just like kind of like a meme catchy uh cool campaign

00:12:20.100 ad campaign if you listen to his interviews he has incredible recall of data information numbers

00:12:27.820 how the government works so he has done his research he has assembled a team around him

00:12:32.560 and not just that he's done his homework very very well clearly i went to a um a fundraiser for him

00:12:37.800 last week. And I got to see him talk. And right off the cuff, people asking him questions. He

00:12:42.880 knows these things. Yeah. And it's not just like he's memorized, like, oh, there are 40,000. It's

00:12:48.460 like, no, he actually understands exactly the different layers at the government where this

00:12:53.100 is implemented, and that is implemented. And it's very clear that this is not just sort of like a

00:12:57.980 charade. And you know, what's weird is a lot of people say that like someone like Trump

00:13:02.360 is just doing this for his own like self aggrandizement and for his own thing.

00:13:06.460 but someone like trump cares to succeed so much that even if it's purely for his own self-interest

00:13:12.640 his self-interest is i want to be the best president of all time and i want to save america

00:13:17.120 and if pratt is motivated by yes like if you're someone who's in the public world of any kind you

00:13:23.000 are motivated by some level of fame and notoriety and legacy and it's like this guy really seems

00:13:29.160 like he actually wants to fix things yeah and i've never being from california and being in los

00:13:34.820 sandras i've never in my life had a single politician at any level that i even was remotely

00:13:41.100 uh excited by like you know you know that scene in uh uh seinfeld where george takes the bite of

00:13:48.600 mango and he's like i think it moved like just one fraction of movement of excitement you know

00:13:54.080 one just modicum of any hope and all of a sudden it's just like this is the most exciting thing

00:13:57.960 that's like ever happened in my life politically as a californian yeah i mean well i mean to start

00:14:04.460 you made that point where spencer pratt i think most of his political philosophy developed from

00:14:07.580 just walking outside and this is what again kind of reminds me of donald trump because again when

00:14:10.920 donald trump came into the political i mean obviously he'd been like you know broadly

00:14:14.880 politically adjacent for a long time but it's when he really like got serious about a political

00:14:18.240 career um he wasn't canning like sean hannity talking points like he didn't come to these

00:14:23.320 conclusions about the country because of fox news or because of twitter it was the literally literally

00:14:28.360 the fact that he lived in trump tower and when he left trump tower he looked around and saw the

00:14:33.720 state of everything and he said this something's gotta give here something and so spencer pratt

00:14:37.740 reminds me of that where again you can tell that he doesn't think los angeles is bad because someone

00:14:41.520 told him it's bad or because sean hannity was railing on it he thinks los angeles is bad because

00:14:45.920 his house burnt down and he can walk around and he has eyeballs like that's the main reason that's

00:14:50.140 his main takeaway and then to your point i mean i was listening to him on rogan and you know i saw

00:14:54.860 spencer pratt taking off and i was like here we go here's another situation which the conservatives

00:14:58.560 find a hero and they work themselves up into a frenzy and he's ultimately like embarrass us or

00:15:02.640 something. And I listened to him on Rogan. I'm like, oh, this guy's legit. Like he's actually

00:15:06.920 like to your point, like just recalling facts. He has an encyclopedic understanding of how the

00:15:11.660 like city government functions, like very refreshing. It's almost like oxygen. And so

00:15:17.080 that's why it's really exciting. But to the point I made, I mean, you still have the tamper

00:15:21.360 expectations a little bit because you almost don't want to get your heart broken here. I mean,

00:15:25.860 this is my question for you on the ground. I mean, are people talking about Spencer Pratt or

00:15:29.760 are people that maybe would not be typical voters or even Republican voters indicating that they

00:15:35.020 might vote for him? I mean, what is the general mood atmosphere in SoCal right now? I mean,

00:15:39.840 there's, there's an actual buzz, like, without a doubt. There's a Jean Parmesan made a little

00:15:47.420 AI ad about like women at Pilates. And, you know, going, you know, oh, wait, like, actually,

00:15:54.000 I'm voting for Pratt and I'm voting, you know, and it kind of, I mean, obviously, that's completely

00:15:57.200 fake at ai ad but like i have heard some of the areas that i you know i i live near the beach so

00:16:02.780 i walk along the beach and uh i go to the gym and so i kind of just hear like ambient conversations

00:16:09.020 and i can i know for sure like i've seen people wear his hats and i've heard chirps right i just

00:16:17.580 like i've overheard conversations where i hear people say his name right i don't know what the

00:16:21.640 content of those i don't know how many people are saying but all i know is like there's something in

00:16:26.400 the air for sure. And, um, you know, he has a very legitimate chance. People are like, he stands no

00:16:32.760 chance. The only no chance factor is of course, how much they cheat with everything when it comes

00:16:38.540 to voting. Um, but I would say that it's like damn near guaranteed that he's going to make it

00:16:45.280 to the November runoff, but there's a very legitimate chance that he clears this right now

00:16:50.740 by June 2nd. And I think part of that is because they're not going to have all of their stuff in

00:16:56.900 place for the primary part of the election as much as they would for the November runoff.

00:17:03.780 And, you know, to kind of go back to the Trump thing, because I think this is a really interesting

00:17:07.420 kind of important part of where the state of politics are now. Having a, you know,

00:17:12.420 when people are like, we want to go return to like a reasonable Republican thing. It's like,

00:17:17.200 How did Mitt Romney do? If you try to be the reasonable guy, it just doesn't work with the dynamics of the Democrat and just general liberal left-leaning domination of our culture and the way that they have all their political systems entrenched.

00:17:33.600 So in 2022, our election for mayor was between Karen Bass and Rick Caruso. Rick Caruso was a lifetime Republican who had gone independent a few years prior and ran as a Democrat.

00:17:46.360 and what's crazy is if all you do is put a d next to your name or like you know that changes so much

00:17:53.080 with the way that californians and angelinos think but rick crusoe was a businessman he's like a real

00:17:58.940 estate billionaire um or multi multi multi hundred millionaire um but you know extremely rich right

00:18:05.100 and he actually like built a lot of lot he was kind of like a west coast trump in the sense that

00:18:10.920 he was a real estate developer but of course with none of the persona at all yeah and and he ran he

00:18:17.480 ran a fully practical campaign he self-funded his campaign i think with like 120 million dollars i

00:18:24.200 believe and he got like 46 of the vote he was he was winning going into the night of election night

00:18:32.620 when all of a sudden there's massive ballot dumps and all that so i mean i think that he actually

00:18:37.320 won last time but if you understand that the game means not just winning the election but out out

00:18:43.420 kicking the um uh uh taking into account the the cheat zone right you have to too big to ring type

00:18:51.640 it yeah um so like i i don't remember seeing anything about him and it's not that you need

00:18:59.780 to run a super online campaign but what he didn't understand is he put all that money into um just

00:19:06.420 generally campaigning when on a local election like this it's all about ballot harvesting

00:19:11.240 can you get those ballots in yeah so all this buzz is amazing and unless that translates to

00:19:17.680 people on the ground being able to go and get ballots because this is what the the democrats

00:19:22.200 do so well is the reason why they have all of these patronage networks and these especially

00:19:27.900 with things like the homeless is they can show up to homeless encampments and get tons of ballots

00:19:33.540 from people and then and and it's so easy like hey uh you know they have all these um

00:19:40.740 all these ways are done unofficially they're not done through the campaign and so them giving you

00:19:45.860 money or them giving you food or god knows what they're giving these people it's really easy for

00:19:50.100 them to go into these areas where people just don't vote and just accumulate votes that are

00:19:55.300 legitimate votes but they're like not real votes and so that is like the ground game in that sense

00:20:01.060 is really what this is going to come down to um i know people are really really motivated and this 0.97

00:20:05.460 is one of the things that like women are so good at this because women are very uh social and um 0.90

00:20:11.460 kind of work in these little these little kind of hubs of people where they know all the neighborhood 1.00

00:20:18.100 people they know their neighbors names and they they walk their neighborhoods and they kind of

00:20:22.660 knock on the doors and they're you know a nice woman and they're very unassuming you know like

00:20:26.340 if a bunch of like big dudes just like knock on the door like hey vote for pratt you know it

00:20:31.680 kind of doesn't hit as well but um there's there's that's kind of really going to be what

00:20:36.620 it's going to come down to but you need someone like a trump like a pratt who understands the

00:20:42.640 the practical game of all this but can put can can kind of angle things where he's just cutting 0.75

00:20:47.840 through all the political jargon bullshit right like if you watch the debate he just destroyed

00:20:52.940 them because they're one he has the advantage because they're both incumbents right she's the 0.97

00:20:57.720 mayor uh ramen is a council member who's like her whole thing is focused on homelessness in la which 0.99

00:21:03.680 is like perfect um and he's just like you guys suck you guys have screwed up you guys have been 0.98

00:21:09.200 in office for like 10 combined years the whole city burned down there's homeless people everywhere 0.99

00:21:13.080 there's crime everywhere and back to what you were saying about you know just kind of walks

00:21:18.140 his neighborhood we remember what it was like when it was when we were younger yeah it wasn't

00:21:22.840 this bad it was much cleaner there were still areas that were really bad like i went to usc

00:21:27.780 and uh my gym was uh next to skid row so like you know this was like 15 years ago and it was still

00:21:35.440 still skid row was bad um but but the thing is this is bleeding all over the city they're like

00:21:42.540 the areas that were the worst were probably always like skid row and then of course you have like

00:21:47.020 south la which was always just like the hood and then places like venice beach this bleeds into

00:21:52.460 everything where like santa monica's bad there are drive-by shootings in beverly hills now

00:21:57.060 you know what i mean right so when people say uh i've seen people say you don't actually live in

00:22:02.260 los angeles you live in santa monica it's like dude what do you think there's a border wall

00:22:06.380 right there yeah you think all this field like where i live i live in like a really quiet little

00:22:12.700 beach town manhattan beach there was a uh jewelry store robbery a few years ago where a big group of

00:22:18.680 teens you know pull their car up and they all run into the store at one time so now there's an armed

00:22:22.800 guard outside the jewelry store we never had that one time not a single time we never had any home

00:22:28.840 we had one homeless person in my entire hometown my entire life and everyone knew who he was he was

00:22:35.180 like the son of some like you know local wealthy guy who just kind of got screwed up on drugs

00:22:39.820 and he just walked up and down the strand by the beach and like didn't really bother anybody he

00:22:45.180 just had this big hair and big beard and a big belly and he just kind of walked up and down all

00:22:48.840 day yeah and you know it's just sort of like okay that was like our one guy and he was kind of like

00:22:53.780 a i mean it'd be preferable if he wasn't homeless but he was kind of like everyone understood sort

00:22:58.380 of he's totally fine they're they're just random i see homeless people like sleeping in the in the

00:23:03.360 park when i go for a walk there's a little trail here they're like sleeping in a bench underneath

00:23:07.360 the tree they're they're dragging their um shopping carts along the along the beach along

00:23:12.640 the strand that was just never a thing there and you go you don't live in la it's like dude

00:23:16.800 it's all bleeding over we're still in la county it's all the same thing and again just back like

00:23:21.840 it didn't used to be like this it doesn't have to be like this yeah if you enforce it so this is

00:23:26.880 like what spencer's doing so perfectly because peep some people even on our side they want him

00:23:31.680 to like lean more right wing right they want him to like oh dude say the base talking point or be 0.97

00:23:37.440 more aggressive on this like this is los angeles and you know republicans are like a disease like 0.68

00:23:44.160 uh what's the like leprosy right they're lepers right no one wants to touch republicans yeah um 0.66

00:23:49.600 and he's just like i'm going to enforce the laws that are already on the books if you just enforce

00:23:54.960 the laws yeah none of this is like it's not legal to sleep on the street but what they do is they

00:24:00.880 They just refuse to do their sweeps like just what mom Donnie did.

00:24:04.680 I was actually in New York that weekend when they had that really bad storm in January and like 13 homeless people died because he said we were not going to sweep the homeless people off the street.

00:24:16.200 That's already there.

00:24:17.260 It's already like all on the books of how you do things.

00:24:19.900 Yeah.

00:24:20.380 And all it takes for the incompetence is just like not enforce stuff.

00:24:24.060 Yeah.

00:24:24.240 So we have we have you know everyone understands that it comes down to district attorneys which is of course what Soros understands really well.

00:24:30.880 So whenever like Elon does a tweet, like, wow, it's like, dude, Elon, you had a trillion

00:24:35.600 dollars, man.

00:24:36.360 Like, can you, can all of you tech, can all of you tech billionaires who like, you know,

00:24:40.780 you see all these guys, cause now we're California trying to pass a billionaire tax.

00:24:44.240 It's like, you guys funded Democrats all these years and now they're trying to take

00:24:48.360 your money.

00:24:48.740 Like, okay, we're going to Texas.

00:24:49.760 It's like, dude, can you not, can you not, can you just, can you, can you spend some

00:24:54.000 of your money?

00:24:55.280 Do you realize like people understand how cheap politics are?

00:24:59.240 And by that, I mean, like, for people who are really rich, your return on investment when you get the politics that you want, if that billionaire tax passes, that is so much more expensive than if you just given millions of dollars to these various campaigns.

00:25:14.360 It's not hard to shift things.

00:25:15.940 I don't even think Spencer Pratt's raised a million yet.

00:25:17.920 Like, if you just dumped literally pocket change in the sky, you could change California forever.

00:25:23.340 Yeah, absolutely.

00:25:24.080 And that's like – that's the thing that – what I think we're going to find is like the future of the GOP or whatever the right is now is a lot of people who found themselves on the – and I don't like this thing that we should be taking all the leftover liberals, but people who were never truly liberal, they just found – because of their personality types, they might have been more artistically – because the Democrats are totally people-focused, right?

00:25:50.600 and and republicans are all like like process and like outcome focus right so uh uh right wing

00:25:57.500 rich people don't donate money they want an investment right they don't understand that like

00:26:03.000 there's this whole game that's being played with all these people so the left understands people

00:26:06.900 and the right understands these kind of processes if you take people who don't politically actually

00:26:11.860 they don't actually believe in the stuff on the left they're just people driven people

00:26:16.100 that's how they're focused like a trump who is you know a builder a businessman but he's he's a

00:26:22.600 media mogul right he's on tv he did miss universe he did apprentice he understands people and

00:26:28.140 spencer pratt is someone who's like my whole family's democrat again people also don't

00:26:31.940 understand like california los angeles our democrats and republicans are not like other

00:26:36.860 cities democrats and republicans for the most part i mean i was like a karen bass is a literal

00:26:41.540 communist right like she trained you know ramen is little communist like for especially like you

00:26:47.320 know the majority of the white population and even like the more uh entrenched like older uh 0.97

00:26:52.920 hispanic population that didn't come here in the last like 30 years illegally uh to be a liberal

00:26:58.960 in california still is very aesthetically like right-wing yeah like all of my liberal like you

00:27:05.820 know like spencer pratt says like all of my friends i grew up with for the most part have always been

00:27:09.720 liberal and i was like kind of one of the odd ones out just kind of you know in in 2000 in my

00:27:15.440 mock election i voted for george bush you know like in the fourth grade um but uh they're all

00:27:22.020 but like they're all just like normal white people who have like don't have weird hair colors and

00:27:27.680 aren't covered in tattoos and have like normal jobs and families and they just go the republicans

00:27:32.420 are the bad guys though like they just there's no there's no interest beyond that so you get a lot

00:27:38.220 of people who are just like oh wait like i actually kind of have this disposition that um finds me on

00:27:44.240 the left because i'm people focused but uh i got mugged you know like a reality punched me in the

00:27:49.900 face and i actually don't believe in these politics at all yeah i was just kind of saying it because

00:27:53.660 i felt left out it's the drew pavlu political consciousness yeah right mugged right into right

00:28:00.340 wing extremism yeah literally well i mean we're we're are running a little bit out of time so

00:28:04.580 before i let you go i do want to go bigger picture here i mean because you pointed out you know what

00:28:08.040 happens in LA. I mean, that directly affects like Orange County, Riverside, etc. But even the whole

00:28:12.420 state, obviously, the gubernatorial election seems like it's in play as well. I mean, we had for a

00:28:17.340 while two Republicans topping the jungle primary now swabble drops out and looks like, you know,

00:28:21.700 that those voters are getting absorbed into other Democrats. But what is your take on this

00:28:26.060 gubernatorial? Just real quick, what is your take on this gubernatorial race? Do you think Steve

00:28:28.920 Hilton has a chance? I think I think he has a very real chance. You know, and this is the kind of

00:28:34.600 thing with strategic politics is like is is bianco hilton has the advantage over bianco is bianco

00:28:40.220 going to siphon some of hilton's votes right um it'd be it you know so there's a very real

00:28:45.040 possibility that we have two republicans in the uh in the runoff and newsom's already saying i'm

00:28:50.460 gonna pull out stops to prevent that right so just understand how rigged the game is but like that

00:28:55.260 doesn't mean that it's hopeless we have a very very real chance of winning both uh la mayor and

00:29:01.840 um and california governor like it's very very real i think hilton stands the best chance this

00:29:07.640 guy tom tom steyer is billionaire dude like he's the one who kind of came in and is swooping up

00:29:12.480 all the votes i think it's very very realistic that it's hilton steyer uh runoff and again like

00:29:18.360 it always just comes down to ground game it comes down to the polls because they're the ones who

00:29:25.000 count the votes they're the ones who handle all this stuff and until people who are republicans

00:29:30.600 are right-leaning can get involved in those levels we're always going to be playing this like

00:29:35.140 too big to rig type game but i like people need to know that this is not hopeless it's very very

00:29:41.300 real all it takes is like one election to shift things you get the people in power and that's one

00:29:47.000 of the things that pratt's talking about is like because la is the biggest city uh your second

00:29:51.600 second biggest biggest city in the whole country so obviously the biggest city in california

00:29:55.000 if he can wrangle the voting, the voting corruption in LA, he can actually change the

00:30:01.160 course of total California politics. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and then beyond that,

00:30:05.800 I mean, even with early voting, we're seeing some, some promising indicators that the Republicans

00:30:09.180 actually have a shot statewide. Oh, the turnout is way in our advantage right now. Absolutely.

00:30:13.700 Yeah, it's huge. So we are at a time, I mean, like just Spencer Pratt alone, I think we could hit on

00:30:17.560 for hours, but there's, there's so much there. I don't know what to bring you back on soon as the

00:30:21.320 race kind of comes out of the wire so josh thank you very much for joining me today where can

00:30:25.440 people find you for more uh at josh rainer gold so rainer spelled r-a-i-n-e-r twitter uh instagram

00:30:33.520 youtube mostly talk health fitness with health and fitness with some you know political shit

00:30:38.380 posting and fun memes and all that kind of stuff awesome well it's a privilege to have you on man

00:30:42.020 you're one of the best i appreciate it we'll catch you next time yeah thank you so much tate yep see

00:30:46.480 Yep. All right. Well, that was great. Josh Reiner was great. It's great to finally get him on because he's he's I would say a leading expert on California ground game as far as like what's happening, you know, on the ground talking Angelenos.

00:30:57.920 What are people seeing? What are people feeling? I second it. I do think Spencer Pratt has a chance.

00:31:03.460 I really do. I really I know everyone's like trying to tamper expectations and don't get their heart broken.

00:31:07.320 But it's like, dude, I mean, I'm not saying that there's going to be a great awakening among Californians.

00:31:12.280 I'm just saying that depressed Democrat turnout, high Republican turnout.

00:31:15.720 There's still a lot of Republicans in California.

00:31:18.740 And then, yeah, to this point, I mean, a lot of these people that are just culturally liberal, a lot of magic can happen, folks.

00:31:25.440 Politics is a crazy, crazy place.

00:31:27.620 So we're going to go grab DeVorey Darkins.

00:31:30.760 He should be live right now.

00:31:32.460 I'm going to send you guys his way.

00:31:35.260 Boom, boom, boom.

00:31:37.600 You can follow me on X and Instagram at Real Tate Brown.

00:31:40.740 Come give me a follow.

00:31:41.620 make sure you go follow josh as well i gotta find my mouse here here we are uh yeah excellent

00:31:47.380 instagram realtape brown will be back tonight for timcast irl at 8 p.m it's gonna be a great show

00:31:51.080 tonight so make sure you come hang out and uh with that i'm gonna send you guys to the great

00:31:54.560 devory darkins and i will see you guys tomorrow thank you very much for watching

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - May 18, 2026

SPENCER PRATT IS GOING TO SAVE LA

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