#2483 - Spencer Pratt

**Joe Rogan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience. Shrain by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
What's going on, Mr. Mayor?

**Spencer Pratt** (0:15)
I'm so thankful to be here.

**Joe Rogan** (0:17)
My pleasure. So, first of all, how did this idea even get into your head of running for mayor in LA?

**Spencer Pratt** (0:26)
To be clear, I never wanted to run for any political office or have anything to do with politicians. What happened was after spending a year uncovering how my house and my parents' house burned down and my neighbors burned alive and 7,000 houses burned. Then I realized there's a cover up going on, all the negligence and I keep posting about it and I have all the facts, I have all the whistleblowers, I have all the evidence and business as usual. And I see that nobody is stepping up to run against the mayor who's responsible for this disaster and so many other disasters. So it became to the point where I got so sick of just being a, as the younger people say in the comment section, a yapper. I felt like I was just yapping, like making these videos, I'm telling the truth, I got a congressional investigation, I went to Washington, I met with everyone possible that I could do as just a citizen.
And I was like, okay, well, game on now. I'm going to go into your headquarters and just take your job and then remove all these toxic entities that are destroying our way of life in Los Angeles.

**Joe Rogan** (1:38)
So let's start from the fire.
So the narrative was, hey, God, there was a lot of terrible, stupid, fake narratives. And one of them was climate change. That was the craziest one. The climate change is causing the fire. Look, I lived in LA for 29, 30 years, whatever it was. And I guess it was, yeah, somewhere around there, maybe even more, whatever it was. When I lived in LA.,
fire season happened every year. This is not climate change. This is not some new thing over the last couple of decades. I was evacuated three different times. I used to live in Bell Canyon and my neighbors, three of the homes right across the street from my house burned to the ground in 2018 There's always been fires in Los Angeles. But the lack of preparation for the Palisades fires was astonishing. The fact that the reservoir was empty was criminal mismanagement. I mean, it was just insanity that everybody knew that we had fires, like massive fires, that it was a dry place. And when the Santa Ana winds would blow, if something caught fire, it was a real problem. We had known that forever. And when you see all these people that are passing the buck and moving the blame, and then the fund, when they had that big charity thing for the fire, and you found out that hundreds of millions of dollars was raised, you know, if you're looking at it like a rational person, a rational person would say, oh, this is great. All these people who lost their homes will have some funds from this and they'll be able to rebuild. And then you find out that the money was given to, what was it like, 108 different NGOs?

**Spencer Pratt** (3:33)
200 plus.

**Joe Rogan** (3:35)
200 plus, where that money got distributed to these organizations, these supposed non-profit organizations, and most of that money goes to overhead. And almost nothing goes to the people who lost their homes.

**Spencer Pratt** (3:51)
So to rewind, let's start with what we thought.
We were told climate change, and with the climate change, because I've spent hours and hours arguing with people that will argue with that, okay, great, the climate changes, right? So we're aware of this dry weather. It hasn't rained. So what should we actually be doing? Should we just say, oh, everybody should burn alive and houses burn down? Or should we clear the dead brush? Should we pre-deploy? Should we make sure that both reservoirs have water in it? So the idea that climate change is the get out of jail, burn everything down excuse, it doesn't even add up. So we know that. So let's make a difference. And I went and met with the chief of the US Forest Service and talked to him for a few hours. This guy, Chief Garcia, is one of the most famous fire chiefs from the hot shots. And I quizzed him. And he told me this was not a surprise. He said they all have a map. I forget the name of this map that it goes to all cities and emergency personnel. They have photos. You look at him, he showed them to me. Everything is bright red, leading up to January 7th, bright red. They knew this was coming to the point where Chief Garcia had all of his firefighters on the tarmac, kitted up in their helicopters. He said his whole team was standing by their computers because it was so obvious this fire was coming based off of, if you want to say, climate change, because it had not rained. It was record dry.