Episode 4610: Tony Katz Today Hour 1 - 05/29/26 (Mike Koolidge Guest Hosts)
Hour 1 Segment 1
While Tony is away, Mike Koolidge fills in! Mike starts the first hour of the show talking about the Los Angeles mayoral race between Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Mike talks about an MS NOW reporter trying to breakdown Spencer Pratt.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Mike continues to talk about an MS NOW reporter trying to breakdown Spencer Pratt.
Hour 1 Segment 4
Mike wraps up the first hour of the show talking more about an MS NOW reporter trying to breakdown Spencer Pratt.
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Speaker 1: Why from Vaul Hartbeer and the Crossroads of America. It's
Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. Yes, yes, yes, welcome to Tony Katz Today.
Speaker 1: I am not Tony Katz. I am Mike Coolidge spelled
Speaker 1: with a K k W L I d G E.
Speaker 1: Cats are spelled k at z, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank you. Yes you listening right now? Well? What? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I'm not Tony. You almost said I'll skip
Speaker 1: today show, but no, you stuck around. You are not leaving.
Speaker 1: I know. I have my own favorite radio shows, and
Speaker 1: sometimes when they have, you know, a fill in guest host,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, you know, maybe I'll skip it,
Speaker 1: not a not a you know, not my guy or
Speaker 1: not my gal uh and do other things. But occasionally
Speaker 1: I'll listen. I'm like, huh, this person ain't half bad.
Speaker 1: That's the key, you know, when you're filling in for someone,
Speaker 1: you never want to outshine the main host. So as
Speaker 1: these next three hours will not be as great as
Speaker 1: Tony Katz's radio broadcasts are, they'll be just the smidgeonist,
Speaker 1: less entertaining and informative. That's it. That's that's what we
Speaker 1: strive for. What we fill in seriously I'm very pleased
Speaker 1: that you have tuned in today, this end of the week,
Speaker 1: last day of May, last work day of May. I
Speaker 1: guess right. June is next week, and we've got to
Speaker 1: pack three hours of radio information and entertainment for you
Speaker 1: and the person sitting next to you in yourself driving car.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do something on the show today which we
Speaker 1: haven't done in many years. In the previous times, we've
Speaker 1: filled in for Tony and that has open up the
Speaker 1: phone lines. Yes, write down this number three one seven
Speaker 1: sixty four three eighty seven hundred three one seven six
Speaker 1: four three eighty seven hundred. We're going to open the
Speaker 1: lines of later, not right now, but you know, in
Speaker 1: case you're listening, you're like, yeah, I want to call in.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to this character live on the radio,
Speaker 1: specifically about later on. We're going to bring it up.
Speaker 1: It's a topic that every political event I've been to
Speaker 1: in the last I don't know, six months. I'm very
Speaker 1: involved politically in the state of Illinois, which is right
Speaker 1: west of Indiana. If you didn't know that, I every
Speaker 1: time I speak with someone, what do you think the
Speaker 1: hottest topic is?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Who's going to run for President in twenty twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Is it it ran Is it the Democrats? Is it
Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt? Uh? You know what the hottest topic is. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's not that interesting. You might think, oh, this isn't
Speaker 1: this is boring. Oh no, everyone has an opinion on it.
Speaker 1: Drum roll. Data centers. Yeah, data centers. That to me
Speaker 1: is every time somebody talks at a political event, if
Speaker 1: it's a candidate for office, someone will raise their hand
Speaker 1: and say, what's your opinion about data centers? Well, we
Speaker 1: are going to ask for your opinion about data centers
Speaker 1: later on on Tony Katz today again three point two
Speaker 1: six four three eighty seven hundred will give you some
Speaker 1: data about data centers, and we'll kind of give you
Speaker 1: our opinion about that. We live in rural Illinois, probably
Speaker 1: very similar to rural Indiana and where many of you
Speaker 1: are listening to this show right now. We live in
Speaker 1: red Illinois. Are our county in Illinois is as red
Speaker 1: as any other county in the state. Really. In fact, heck,
Speaker 1: one hundred of the one hundred and two counties in
Speaker 1: Illinois will they used to be all red except for
Speaker 1: two of them that would be Lake and Cook. The
Speaker 1: second biggest county in the country after Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: And but now you know the coler counties outside of
Speaker 1: Chicago are a little bluer than they used to be.
Speaker 1: Of course, you could technically count Indiana as part of
Speaker 1: Chicago Land and Indiana ins those of you who listening
Speaker 1: to the show right now in Indiana might be getting
Speaker 1: a Chicago football team in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: It is a hot topic in my state, for sure,
Speaker 1: and that's actually an interesting one about how that breaks
Speaker 1: down politically too. But point being, this topic is hot.
Speaker 1: This not in my backyard. This, Why are we eating
Speaker 1: up farmland? This we can't lose to China. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of different aspects to it, so we will break
Speaker 1: that down later on. But because you listening to this
Speaker 1: right now are such a political junkie, we're going to
Speaker 1: get into the second hottest topic right now, which not
Speaker 1: a single one of you listening to this has any
Speaker 1: stake in, and that is the mayor of Los Angeles, Yes,
Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt and Ramen something or other I think that's
Speaker 1: her last name. And then of course Karen Bass running
Speaker 1: for mayor of Los Angeles. I've never in my life
Speaker 1: seen a mayor's race in an individual city take up
Speaker 1: this much oxygen in political talk. I mean, I went
Speaker 1: to college in the nineties, I would say the biggest
Speaker 1: and the biggest mayor's race at that time, and it
Speaker 1: really did change the trajectory of the biggest city in
Speaker 1: the country that would be New York City, was when
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani won the mayorship of New York City I
Speaker 1: believe it was in nineteen ninety three and just completely
Speaker 1: changed New York in a really positive way. Cracked down
Speaker 1: on crime, cleaned up times square. I mean, it was booming,
Speaker 1: the nineties version of New York City, and then of
Speaker 1: course a bunch of Democrats came after him and ruined it.
Speaker 1: They really really did. It's not as bad as Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: So I've heard Los Angeles is an absolute blank hole
Speaker 1: right now, and that has everything to do with the
Speaker 1: Democrat leadership there. But why this has become such a
Speaker 1: national story is not because how Los Angeles goes the
Speaker 1: rest of the country goes. That's not the case at all,
Speaker 1: thank god. But the way that Spencer Pratt, a Republican
Speaker 1: an admitted Republican, is running for the office, and how
Speaker 1: he's treating the media and how he is using AI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, and how he just completely doesn't use talking
Speaker 1: points and is having success. On the other side of
Speaker 1: this break we're going to get into some recent polling
Speaker 1: that shows that what he's doing is working, it's moving
Speaker 1: the needle. And then we're going to play clips of
Speaker 1: an interview he did on NBC recently. It's not going
Speaker 1: to get into the you know, the nitty gritty of
Speaker 1: potholes and the inner workings of you know, Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry that the city of Los Angeles, you know,
Speaker 1: no one cares about that stuff outside of LA. But
Speaker 1: how he handles this smug, condescending NBC reporter on National
Speaker 1: TV again, any politician listening to this, anyone working for
Speaker 1: a politician, anyone wanting to be a politician someday, or
Speaker 1: just political junkies in general. Maybe you're a donor to
Speaker 1: a politician, or maybe we're just a regular citizen. You
Speaker 1: want to hear this breakdown because he is doing it right,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you he didn't study it. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have a dream political alliance. He is listening to political consultants,
Speaker 1: he's doing it really similar to another guy who did
Speaker 1: this sort of thing on the national scale about ten
Speaker 1: years ago. And you know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 1: we'll get into that. We'll get into the situation overseas
Speaker 1: with Christians and people talking about Christians getting thrown in
Speaker 1: jail simply for expressing their viewpoint online. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Joey Pullman from The Federalist is going to join us
Speaker 1: later on during the show to get into that. And
Speaker 1: we have a whole lot of other things to get into.
Speaker 1: So let's rub our hands together, stretch our legs a bit,
Speaker 1: and be right back on Tony Katz today. I am
Speaker 1: Mike Coolidge in for Tony. Stay with us. We're back
Speaker 1: on Tony Katz today, Mike Coolidge in for Tony. And
Speaker 1: I'll throw it out there again those of you on
Speaker 1: X L, I, D G E. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how AI works with listening and posting and all this,
Speaker 1: but I say it each time I fill in for TOO,
Speaker 1: and I say, hey, if you follow me on X
Speaker 1: I'll follow you back. And occasionally I get some great listeners,
Speaker 1: you know, who clearly have been posting and they're real
Speaker 1: people and they've got you know, more than fifty or
Speaker 1: one hundred followers, that's awesome, and yeah, I'll follow you back.
Speaker 1: But then I get people with like zero followers and
Speaker 1: they're following like eight people, and it happens right after
Speaker 1: I do it, and I'm like, how does someone with
Speaker 1: zero followers go on X and then just follow, you know,
Speaker 1: to me saying that they're not a real person or
Speaker 1: they're fake or something. So only if you're real not fake.
Speaker 1: So you robots and fake people out there, please ignore this.
Speaker 1: But you real human beings, if you're listening right now
Speaker 1: and you follow K O O L I d g
Speaker 1: E on X during this broadcast, yeah I'll follow you back.
Speaker 1: So Spencer Pratt before the break, we teased it. He
Speaker 1: goes on NBC National NBC not local news, okay, and
Speaker 1: this smug, condescending reporter tries to basically tear them down. Now,
Speaker 1: here's what you have to understand about the legacy media
Speaker 1: and how they operate. You probably know this already, but
Speaker 1: just a reminder. They don't listen to the Republicans or
Speaker 1: conservatives or anyone writer center who they interview. They have
Speaker 1: a list of questions, short ones and an agenda, and
Speaker 1: they ask the questions. They don't listen to the response,
Speaker 1: and if the recipient, if the interview e doesn't answer
Speaker 1: how they like them to, or they don't get what
Speaker 1: they're going for, or they somehow look smart or intelligent,
Speaker 1: or try to make the interview er dumb, they'll just
Speaker 1: go back to the same question again and repeat it,
Speaker 1: and it's like you're like talking to a door. They
Speaker 1: don't listen, and then they'll sneak in a shot at
Speaker 1: the interview that the conservative interviewe specifically to make that
Speaker 1: the news like to get that out there as the news,
Speaker 1: so make sure that their viewers consume that, and hopefully
Speaker 1: the interviewe, the conservative interviewee, will take the bait and
Speaker 1: make a fool of themselves and accept the premise of
Speaker 1: the question, and then boom, they got them. They got something.
Speaker 1: This is done has been done for years. Tim Russer
Speaker 1: did it on Meet the Press. I mean he at
Speaker 1: least was occasionally fair years ago to write a center guests,
Speaker 1: but he would do the same thing that Tuck Chuck
Speaker 1: Todd And then gosh, the woman now on Meet the
Speaker 1: Press is the absolute worst. She's not the best at this,
Speaker 1: She's not that smart. How she asks the questions, but
Speaker 1: she does exactly what I just said, and everyone apparently
Speaker 1: at NBC seems to operate this way. Case in point,
Speaker 1: this guy. So he's interviewing Spencer Pratt, and let's just
Speaker 1: hear some of it and how he starts and how
Speaker 1: it goes.
Speaker 3: Get right into it.
Speaker 2: You're running against several people, including obviously the incumbent mayor,
Speaker 2: Karen Bass.
Speaker 3: And recently she said this, she said, Spencer is just.
Speaker 2: Mad that his supporters are AI cartoons and we have
Speaker 2: real Angelino's.
Speaker 3: It sounds like she's not taking you seriously, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So the whole point here is to get the
Speaker 1: audience to not take Spencer Pratt seriously. That's the whole
Speaker 1: point of this first question. Here, watch how Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: handles it.
Speaker 3: It's not taking you seriously.
Speaker 4: Do you know what that was a response to, we
Speaker 4: should tell the view. Yes, that was me calling her
Speaker 4: out for the mist to meet because she's now facing
Speaker 4: six years in prison for electioneering because she hosted an
Speaker 4: event which is illegal in the state and the city,
Speaker 4: in front of the ballot box.
Speaker 3: You're accuser of that, right, No, No, it's on video.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's been it's with the laped now, so it's
Speaker 4: not accusation.
Speaker 5: She filmed herself because she's so used.
Speaker 4: To not actually caring about the law that she filmed
Speaker 4: her own crime.
Speaker 5: So that is a response to me, say.
Speaker 3: And what did you think about that? Though sounds like
Speaker 3: she's not taking you seriously.
Speaker 1: See he repeats it, not taking you seriously. I think
Speaker 1: he said it three times, right, not taking you seriously,
Speaker 1: You're not serious, not taking you seriously. Spencer Bratt's response
Speaker 1: immediately is brilliant. He and he a deeds Again, he's
Speaker 1: a natural at this. And the reason I'm not just
Speaker 1: you know, because I necessarily care about Los Angeles. I mean,
Speaker 1: it'll be fantastic that he if he were to win.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, take notes, people on the right who are
Speaker 1: running for office, or we're going to run for office
Speaker 1: in the future, or you're advising somebody you're friend is
Speaker 1: in office in the in the state house or locally
Speaker 1: and for school boarder or running for congress. Listen to
Speaker 1: how he does this. This is how you do it.
Speaker 4: She doesn't need to take me serious. It's the LAPD
Speaker 4: that has the case. I'm not so good luck, ma'am.
Speaker 3: Right, but what do you think she's taking.
Speaker 4: Me seriously in your support, I more think she's taking
Speaker 4: me very serious. I think that was a silly little response.
Speaker 4: And again I don't make any AI. All my odds
Speaker 4: are made by a director a shot on a red camera.
Speaker 5: I don't have one AI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I want to ask you, Pep.
Speaker 2: We're going to be watching this and this is a
Speaker 2: national audience, right, and they may be asking themselves what
Speaker 2: is Spencer Pratt from the Hills doing running for the
Speaker 2: mayor of Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: How is he qualified?
Speaker 1: Again, the narrative that this NBC smug reporter has here
Speaker 1: is he's a joke, Spencer prole. He's clearly not a joke.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a neck and neck in the polls
Speaker 1: with his two opponents according to the most re one
Speaker 1: and clearly Los Angelinos take him seriously. But this kind
Speaker 1: of late in the game, because the election is this Tuesday.
Speaker 1: This NBC reporter National News is trying to make news,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, get his millions of viewers. This is
Speaker 1: a national audience and probably a lot of them in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, probably a lot of them are voting to say,
Speaker 1: you know this, this Spencer practice a joke. He was
Speaker 1: a reality TV star twenty years ago. That's his qualifications,
Speaker 1: and of course that's what he brings up, is is
Speaker 1: he a or why are you qualified to be mayor? Again,
Speaker 1: listen to how Spencer Pratt handles it.
Speaker 5: Would you say, well, thankfully? Mayor.
Speaker 4: Vasa's failure was a national story when she let seven
Speaker 4: thousand homes burn to the ground when she was out
Speaker 4: of the country in Ghana, and twelve people my neighbors
Speaker 4: burned alive, and when nobody ran against her, I had
Speaker 4: to stay up up so that she didn't just go
Speaker 4: in to get four more years after being an utter
Speaker 4: failure for Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So I think the national story is actually.
Speaker 4: Why I'm surging across the country because they say, finally
Speaker 4: someone is stepping up against these politicians that canvern your
Speaker 4: whole down down. Let your tax money all going to
Speaker 4: increasing drug addicts in front of your the kids at
Speaker 4: the park or moms going to school with their kids.
Speaker 5: Enough is enough?
Speaker 3: You know that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear the guy in the background, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: he's not listening. He's like, no, no, no, you're not
Speaker 1: answering it. How I need you to answer it? Is
Speaker 1: what the smug NBC journalist quote unquote is doing here.
Speaker 1: He needs to show that Spencer Pratt is not to
Speaker 1: be taken seriously. Spencer Pratt if he took the bait,
Speaker 1: and what most politicians are, just anyone being interviewed or
Speaker 1: national TV would be is they'd be deferential to this host.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, thank you so much for putting me
Speaker 1: in front of all of your your viewers. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm qualified. Yeah, I mean I've been a business owner
Speaker 1: and done some things like they would answer the question directly. No,
Speaker 1: you don't need to do that, especially to a smug
Speaker 1: reporter like this. You don't have to answer the question
Speaker 1: at all. You have to respond to the question. And
Speaker 1: the response Brad gives here is about the current incompetent
Speaker 1: mayor and the specific things that are affecting the voters
Speaker 1: watching this that they can change if they vote for him.
Speaker 2: Awesome, So your persona is a reality star villain. It's
Speaker 2: always been all about Spencer, at least in front of
Speaker 2: the cameras. So how do you convince people that you
Speaker 2: really care about your neighbors, you care about other people,
Speaker 2: you just.
Speaker 3: Don't care about yourself, Because the last decade, more than that,
Speaker 3: it's been all about Spencer.
Speaker 4: Well, technically it's been about my wife.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: Always fighting for my wife and who I'm now almost
Speaker 4: twenty years happily ever after, or my kids. I was
Speaker 4: just doing that to make money to pay for my family.
Speaker 4: But for these people, thankfully, I'm the look around candidate.
Speaker 4: I had to say, look around, use your own eyes.
Speaker 4: Do you see what I'm talking about? They don't need
Speaker 4: to worry about what I was before my house burned
Speaker 4: down and before I got in the race, because why
Speaker 4: because they look around. They see what I'm running on.
Speaker 4: I'm running on making the streets safe. I'm running on
Speaker 4: actually getting the drug addicts dying on the sidewalks seven
Speaker 4: a day, that our councilwomen and our mayor who have
Speaker 4: been in charge of that for combined ten years almost
Speaker 4: now they are in charge that.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, you're voting for me.
Speaker 4: As a mandata change, So I don't need to convince
Speaker 4: anybody about my past.
Speaker 5: I'm living in the.
Speaker 4: President and I'm speaking about what everyone sees with their
Speaker 4: own eyes. I don't need to convince any of my
Speaker 4: voters because I'm telling them exactly what we all see together.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yi, it give it.
Speaker 1: See, everything is confrontational with this reporter, and it's adversarial
Speaker 1: the entire time. If he was a normal human being,
Speaker 1: like and I'm just throwing his name out there because
Speaker 1: he's probably the best at conversations in the world right now,
Speaker 1: which is why it is the number one podcast that's
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan actually listens, Joe Rogan actually has curiosity.
Speaker 1: Tony Katz does too. I am not Tony Kats. I
Speaker 1: am Mike Coolidge filling in for Tony Katz. More coming
Speaker 1: up after this on Tony Cats Today. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Yes I do, Yes.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: We're back on the Michael COOLi whoa rewind, We're back
Speaker 1: on Tony Katz Today. I am Michael Coolidge in for
Speaker 1: Tony Katz. Yes. I was a radio host on my
Speaker 1: own right for fifteen years, host of the show called
Speaker 1: The Michael Which Show. And that's definitely is an old habit.
Speaker 1: It dies hard, you know, all right. So before the break,
Speaker 1: we were playing some of this Spencer Pratt interview with
Speaker 1: this character on NBC for the purposes of showing you
Speaker 1: how it's done, both how the left sets up right
Speaker 1: of center people, conservatives, anything that is pro Republican or
Speaker 1: pro Trump, or anything that's really anti woke or anti
Speaker 1: left worldview. The whole setup and the whole purpose of
Speaker 1: it is to diminish it, mockt try to make it
Speaker 1: not be taken seriously because it's so foreign too them,
Speaker 1: you know, even though we're more than half the country.
Speaker 1: But also to show you how it's done in the
Speaker 1: how to do it, since from what Spencer Pratt is doing,
Speaker 1: how he is handling, and he's so good at it. Naturally,
Speaker 1: you don't take the premise of the question down. You
Speaker 1: don't answer the question, especially if the whole point of
Speaker 1: the question is to make you look bad and you
Speaker 1: realize who you're talking with. It's not this smug reporter,
Speaker 1: it's the millions of people watching it. Yes, legacy media
Speaker 1: is dying and it doesn't have the influence it used to,
Speaker 1: but they still reach millions of people. NBC Nightly News
Speaker 1: still has millions and millions of viewers three four, five
Speaker 1: six million viewers on any given night, and probably hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of those viewers are Los Angeles voters. So
Speaker 1: he is trying to reach voters he doesn't care about
Speaker 1: any stupid reality show. That's another thing I like about
Speaker 1: this guy. He already was on a reality show. He
Speaker 1: already made millions of dollars on a reality show. He
Speaker 1: was already famous when he was young. He's been there,
Speaker 1: he's done that. He's feeding his family still off of
Speaker 1: that fame. He doesn't need to, like see what it's
Speaker 1: like to be famous. He's already done it, and he's
Speaker 1: been you know, made fun of, mocked up, all the
Speaker 1: things that go with, you know, being famous on a
Speaker 1: reality show. So there's not a whole lot they can
Speaker 1: do to him. Again, the similarities with Trump are so many.
Speaker 1: There's just so many. Back to some more clips here,
Speaker 1: this is I could play this for the whole show.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to, but it's just again, so textbook
Speaker 1: on how to do.
Speaker 4: This seven a day that our councilwomen and our mayor,
Speaker 4: who have been in charge of that for combined ten
Speaker 4: years almost now they are in charge. That I'm saying,
Speaker 4: you're voting for me is a mandata change. So I
Speaker 4: don't need to convince anybody about my past.
Speaker 5: I'm living in the.
Speaker 4: President and I'm speaking about what everyone sees with their
Speaker 4: own eyes. I don't need to convince any of my
Speaker 4: voters because I'm telling them exactly what we.
Speaker 5: All see together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you need a majority of voters eventually, right
Speaker 2: June second, You're gonna have to win a majority of
Speaker 2: those votes. What about people that might say, is this
Speaker 2: just about self promotion? Is this just about to get
Speaker 2: your brand? And man, your brand is hot right now,
Speaker 2: It's probably hotter than ever right now. How do you
Speaker 2: convince those people that you say, no, I really want
Speaker 2: this job.
Speaker 3: I want to change the city.
Speaker 1: Have you convinced these people? Is anyone thinking that other
Speaker 1: than you and your ilk small GNBC reporter?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's rewind. Everything I've ever worked for burned in
Speaker 4: my house. Everything my parents ever worked for, burned in
Speaker 4: their house.
Speaker 5: I got on this mission. It was never to run
Speaker 5: for mayor.
Speaker 4: I started this to expose the corruption and the negligence
Speaker 4: of our city leaders. And when I got to the
Speaker 4: farthest distance I could, where I proved they were obstructing justice,
Speaker 4: altering after action reports, after the fire, and there was
Speaker 4: nothing more they could do. That's when I organically got
Speaker 4: on the race. Because no one else was going to run.
Speaker 4: I was never going to be the mayor, but nobody
Speaker 4: was going to run against her that could beat her.
Speaker 4: I had to step into this again. Being running for
Speaker 4: mayor is not fun. Let's be clear. I have to
Speaker 4: have twenty four hour security with the amount of death threats.
Speaker 4: My kid now to have a security next to him
Speaker 4: when he goes in the ocean because Psycho's come to
Speaker 4: the beach to This is not like, Oh I get
Speaker 4: to be on a new show. I'm like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise. I'm in Top Gun three with Miles Teller.
Speaker 4: This is not fun. Fighting DSA socialists in the city
Speaker 4: of La So anybody that really is paying attention politics
Speaker 4: is not fun. And now I'm deep in politics, fighting
Speaker 4: a machine that is against the truth, a machine that
Speaker 4: is against stopping somebody exposing twenty four plus billion dollars
Speaker 4: of cartel level money laundering.
Speaker 5: I promise you is way more fun.
Speaker 4: When I have my house and I was feeding hummingbirds
Speaker 4: is selling healing crystals. I would like that life back,
Speaker 4: but I can't get that.
Speaker 3: And I want to talk about the crystals.
Speaker 1: So of course you want to talk about the crystals
Speaker 1: because it sounds a little weird, right, sounds a little negative. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got a whole list of questions about the crystals,
Speaker 1: because we want to make you look stupid. That's the
Speaker 1: goal here, that's the point and the narrative that this lefty,
Speaker 1: smug NBC reporter is pushing. And he's like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna help me that. Thanks for mentioning them the crystals. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get on that. God forbid. This guy mentioned
Speaker 1: the homeless problem, the incompetence of Mayor Bass, the absolute
Speaker 1: blank hole that Los Angeles has become with the drugs
Speaker 1: and the poop everywhere, and the absolute insane debt that
Speaker 1: the city has. The incompetent mayor like, forget about all
Speaker 1: that stuff. No, no, no, no. The point of all these
Speaker 1: questions is to make Spencer Ratt look stupid and not
Speaker 1: take them seriously and mock him about you know, this
Speaker 1: crystal thing, which, as you'll see or hear, I should say,
Speaker 1: he hits out of the park as well. Spener Pratt,
Speaker 1: you've made.
Speaker 2: The case why Karen Bash should lose. What's the case
Speaker 2: why Spencer Pride should win?
Speaker 1: Okay, how he answers that is as follows.
Speaker 2: You've made the case why Karen Bass should lose. What's
Speaker 2: the case why Spencer Pridde should win.
Speaker 4: There's no case. It's a fact because we need change
Speaker 4: in LA. We can't do four more years of Karen Bass.
Speaker 4: There won't be in LA. We lose fifty thousand people
Speaker 4: last year, over one hundred businesses close. I meet with
Speaker 4: people now that have a lot of investment in La.
Speaker 4: If Karen Bass were to get reelected, they're all leaving.
Speaker 4: They're cutting their losses.
Speaker 1: LA will sounds like Chicago.
Speaker 2: But what Spencer Pracket and you somebody else could do
Speaker 2: that too? Who somebody else could win? I'm asking you
Speaker 2: who right.
Speaker 4: Now in the polls it's Spencer prad or Caravas So
Speaker 4: we don't get to play imaginary savior coming in. You're
Speaker 4: either stuck with caravass Is throwing LA or you have
Speaker 4: a new candidate. Yeah, we're stopping this direction of the city.
Speaker 1: Do you follow politics there? NBC report? Elections are binary
Speaker 1: in this case. You know, after a runoff is over,
Speaker 1: you either vote for her or you vote for him.
Speaker 1: There's still what not's someone else? There's only two choices,
Speaker 1: dummy said anymore?
Speaker 4: People are again voting for me because I'm the mandate
Speaker 4: in change. That's why they're voting for me, not because
Speaker 4: I'm Spencer Pratt, not because what I did twenty years ago,
Speaker 4: not what I did two years ago. It's because what
Speaker 4: I'm saying right now, no more.
Speaker 5: Stop.
Speaker 2: Governor Gavin Newsom just endorsed Karen Bass today, saying, quote,
Speaker 2: the work Karen Bass is doing in LA's making our
Speaker 2: entire state stronger with an eighteen percent decline in homelessness
Speaker 2: while it grew nationally historic drops in violent crime, boosting
Speaker 2: film production in LA, and protecting our communities against ice.
Speaker 2: She has my full support for re election. Do you
Speaker 2: think that endorsement is going to help careen Bass?
Speaker 4: I think that endorsement. These two are co conspirators. They
Speaker 4: are criminal partners in the negligence that led to seven
Speaker 4: thousand houses burning down.
Speaker 2: You think Governor Gavin Newsom is a criminal?
Speaker 4: In my opinion, it's criminal negligence when you fail ale
Speaker 4: your taxpayers and they burn alive because of choices you
Speaker 4: made with your state park that you're responsible from. Same
Speaker 4: with Mayor Karen Bass. Again, it's my opinion, I believe
Speaker 4: if you let people burn alive because of your negligence,
Speaker 4: that becomes criminal negligence. So again, of course he's endorsing her.
Speaker 4: They're both responsible for this. And let's talk about that.
Speaker 4: A homeless number. That is the most made up number
Speaker 4: in the history of California, and he makes up a
Speaker 4: lot of numbers.
Speaker 5: The homelessness from when.
Speaker 4: It was actually started tracking with Karen Bass has actually increased.
Speaker 4: She's talking about last year if that's a real number,
Speaker 4: But it's increased since she got in. Not to mention,
Speaker 4: you know how they count. They drive around one night
Speaker 4: of the year and they go one, two, three, Maybe
Speaker 4: there's somebody in the sewer. Oh, we can't look in
Speaker 4: that ten. It's the most Even the RAND Corporation says
Speaker 4: that number is thirty percent low. And I would say
Speaker 4: the Rand Corporation number is low.
Speaker 5: And then what else was that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Crime crime rates here, I looked at La Police Department, cropt.
Speaker 4: Know you to look at I don't need to look
Speaker 4: at anything because I live in our crimes crimes. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you homicides are down across the country since COVID.
Speaker 4: That's not because of Karen Bass. That's a national trend.
Speaker 4: But ready for this even from last year. But yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: Mayor Bass won't acknowledge that the forty two thousand people.
Speaker 5: She says forty two thousand.
Speaker 4: I say, there's seventy thousand naked drug addicts, shooting up,
Speaker 4: smoking funnel, defecating on the street, peeing on the street.
Speaker 4: These are all crimes.
Speaker 1: You've said that they added out something here, but the
Speaker 1: you could just tell by the way this is playing.
Speaker 1: But the smug NBC reporter shaking his head while we're
Speaker 1: saying this again, it's adversarial the entire time, trying to
Speaker 1: argue with him on behalf of Carabas. That's what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's saying crime's down, everything's honky dory in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You're like making this stuff up. He's not, and he
Speaker 1: clearly no what he's talking about. And the thing I
Speaker 1: go love the most about Spencer Pratt, and again, take
Speaker 1: notes if you're ever in this position, or you're advising somebody,
Speaker 1: or you're running, you want to run for office, or
Speaker 1: you just want to next time you see somebody you
Speaker 1: support at an event and you want to give them
Speaker 1: some piece of advice, remain confident and don't accept the
Speaker 1: premise of these questions. He with Spencer Pratt is just
Speaker 1: like he's talking to him normally, he's listening to him normal,
Speaker 1: he's not thinking in his mind. Wait, what's the talking
Speaker 1: point that my advisors said, I need to spit out
Speaker 1: here we're for working families or you know, enough is enough?
Speaker 1: Like he's not doing that. He is on the fly,
Speaker 1: extemporaneously speaking. Remind you of anyone, Remind you of anyone
Speaker 1: else who uh doesn't do talking points, who just thinks
Speaker 1: and responds. When you when you know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: when you're living it, and when you're thinking and listening,
Speaker 1: you can actually have a conversation and instead and this
Speaker 1: again is we're watching in real time the way that
Speaker 1: politics and communication is changing. And I'm here for it
Speaker 1: and I love it. It is you have two sides.
Speaker 1: For years it was, I mean for decades it was
Speaker 1: both sides had talking points. The you know journalists, these
Speaker 1: legacy media types, they have their questions. They don't listen
Speaker 1: to the response of the recipient, you know, usually a
Speaker 1: politician in a case like this, and then the politician
Speaker 1: has the talking points, so there's no actual thinking or
Speaker 1: the you know, human interaction discussion going on. It's questions
Speaker 1: that they're going to ask and put out no matter
Speaker 1: what and then the talking points just recited back and forth.
Speaker 1: But when you have at least one of them listening
Speaker 1: and one of them talking like a normal human being,
Speaker 1: you can actually get somewhere. And that's what Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: is doing here. There's one more part of this where
Speaker 1: he asks him, Oh, you got you got to ask
Speaker 1: him this, got to ask him about Trump, you know,
Speaker 1: because that might hurt him. In a super blue city
Speaker 1: like Los Angeles, it's definitely going to hurt him. And
Speaker 1: listen to how Spencer Pratt handles that. On the other
Speaker 1: side of this break, this is Tony Kats Today. I
Speaker 1: am Ike cool which in for Tony. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We're back with Tony Kats today. Mike Coolwich in for Tony.
Speaker 1: This smug NBC reporter asks Spencer Pratt of course, about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and tries to drag it out as long
Speaker 1: as possible to try to get him to, you know,
Speaker 1: still stay to him with the president who has a
Speaker 1: low approval right ringing right now in a deep blue city. Again,
Speaker 1: this is the whole point here that he's trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Everything, as you may or may not know, in politics
Speaker 2: these days, is seen through the prism of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Do you think President Trump is a good president?
Speaker 4: I again, the only prism I see anything is what
Speaker 4: I live my town, Bernie downas will go in the race.
Speaker 5: I'm in a local race.
Speaker 4: The president has nothing to do with why my streets
Speaker 4: have naked drug addicts, my streets don't have lights in
Speaker 4: the polls, my streets have potholes all over, my town
Speaker 4: burned down.
Speaker 5: My race is a local rist.
Speaker 4: I don't care what's going on in the in the
Speaker 4: national politics in other states.
Speaker 5: I am running for a local position.
Speaker 3: So right, but you need to have a relationship with
Speaker 3: the federal government.
Speaker 2: You just said a two minutes ago you were going
Speaker 2: to move homeless to the federal lands.
Speaker 3: You gotta have a relationship with the federal government. So
Speaker 3: what is your take on President Trump?
Speaker 2: You gotta say, John Olympics in two years, you're gonna
Speaker 2: take Trump here of that city.
Speaker 3: Maybe, what's your relationship going to be like with President Trump?
Speaker 1: I'm to have a relationship with three times. He says,
Speaker 1: they got to say Trump to.
Speaker 4: Presidents and they're gonna be the same. I'm gonna work
Speaker 4: with the president the same way I'm going to work
Speaker 4: with the city council members or my state reps, or
Speaker 4: the lieutenant.
Speaker 5: Governor or the new governor.
Speaker 4: I'm going to work with whoever I need to work
Speaker 4: with to execute the best for Angelino's period.
Speaker 3: Do you want his endorsement?
Speaker 5: I don't need anyone's endorsement.
Speaker 4: But mothers. That's who's getting me elected. People keep forgetting
Speaker 4: it's democratic moms that do not feel safe that are
Speaker 4: putting me in office in five days.
Speaker 3: Can you explain to me something because you don't.
Speaker 2: You're not afraid of anything, You're not afraid of giving
Speaker 2: your opinion or anything.
Speaker 3: But you won't give me an opinion on President Trump.
Speaker 2: And I get it that his endorsement, his blessing may
Speaker 2: may not be good for you, likely isn't good for
Speaker 2: you in LA.
Speaker 5: But if you're fearless.
Speaker 3: But if you're fearless, what do you think of President Trump?
Speaker 1: You're Republican?
Speaker 5: Right again? This is this right here, where you're doing I'm.
Speaker 4: Just as I'm telling you, this conversation is what's destroyed
Speaker 4: local election exactly. People don't care in LA. They want
Speaker 4: to feel safe, they don't want to step in humid poop.
Speaker 4: I don't need to have personal opinions. About anybody that
Speaker 4: doesn't affect them stepping in human poop.
Speaker 5: It's not being scared.
Speaker 4: I'm just not falling in for this tribal politics back
Speaker 4: and forth. It's local election. I'm not running for presidents,
Speaker 4: so it doesn't matter my opinion on any presidents.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh my gosh, this guy thinks this, you know,
Speaker 1: smug NBC reporter thinks that he's got him here. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's going to get him. He's going to get Spencer
Speaker 1: Pratt to give some kind of quote saying I like
Speaker 1: President Trump or I have no problem with President Trump.
Speaker 1: That was the bait. That's what he wanted him to say,
Speaker 1: so that that can, of course be clipped and put
Speaker 1: in a Karen bass ad and tie him with Trump
Speaker 1: in a deep blue city where you know, the approval
Speaker 1: rating of Trump in a deep blue city, of course,
Speaker 1: is very low. All these people were voting, but Pratt
Speaker 1: didn't take the bait, turned it right back on that smug,
Speaker 1: condescending reporter, and you see what you're doing. This is
Speaker 1: why local politics and the media coverage of it is
Speaker 1: so terrible for me, because the people like you, the smug,
Speaker 1: condescending you know what, Well, when you're right back on
Speaker 1: Tony Kats Today, I am Mike Coolidge. Stay with us.