Spencer Pratt | Club Random with Bill Maher

Spencer Pratt joins Bill Maher on Club Random for a conversation that’s equal parts mayoral campaign launch, Los Angeles postmortem, and classic Spencer Pratt reinvention tour. Spencer explains why losing his home in the Palisades fire pushed him to consider a run for mayor, lays out his ideas for homelessness, public safety, and city government, and makes the case that he might be exactly the unconventional leader Los Angeles needs—or at least the one willing to talk about it the most. Along the way, Spencer reflects on life after The Hills, receiving death threats, protecting his family, losing a thriving crystal business during the pandemic, and finding a new sense of purpose while somehow turning nearly every conversation into a campaign stop. Support our Advertisers: -Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/RANDOM #rulapod #ad -Protect your car with CarShield. Get 20% off at http://www.carshield.com with code RANDOM Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher’s Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://billmaher.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/ClubRandom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Buy Club Random Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clubrandom.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There’s a whole big world out there that isn’t about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: [email protected] ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO’s “Real Time,” Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:00Bill Maher?

  While you were remodeling your backyard to make it more, you know, zen-y, we were remodeling our merch store to make it more random. We slapped our new logo on t-shirts, tie-dyes, hoodies, and hats, and all with premium-printed labels. Look, I wasn't kidding. We have it, because tags are like the junk mail of clothing. All merch is available exclusively at clubrandom.com. Once again, that's clubrandom.com.

• 1:32Speaker 02

  All the ones I spent millions of dollars for years...

• 1:34Bill Maher?

  Oh Christ, can't let go of this fire. You know, we've all had a...

• 1:37Speaker 02

  I was just saying, the protection energy, I thought...

• 1:43Bill Maher?

  I don't have to think about that one, no.

• 1:45Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:45Bill Maher?

  I do not want you sending me naked pictures.

• 1:52Bill Maher?

  Hey.

• 1:52Speaker 02

  Hello. I don't know.

• 1:53Bill Maher?

  How are you?

• 1:54Speaker 02

  Rules about getting up. I said, "Sit in my seat."

• 1:56Bill Maher?

  Where in the campaign merch, huh?

• 1:58Speaker 02

  Well, you know, saves me from having to style my hair or anything.

• 2:01Bill Maher?

  Please, you don't have to sell.

• 2:03Speaker 02

  Put some pomade in.

• 2:04Bill Maher?

  You have to sell me on selling.

• 2:06Speaker 02

  Well, thankfully, technically, my merch is a donation. It's not merch.

• 2:11Bill Maher?

  What does that mean?

• 2:13Speaker 02

  Then when you donate, you get the hat.

• 2:15Bill Maher?

  Oh. So you donated to your own campaign? That's how you got that?

• 2:19Speaker 02

  No, this one was a gift.

• 2:20Bill Maher?

  Well, look, I have to tell you. By the way, I'm not gonna light this. I feel naked without it, but I'm a little under the weather. So I'm not. But it's like I can't even do this show without having it in my hand. But I gotta tell you. Whatever happens, everywhere I go, like restaurants when I'm out, and you know, I'm very approachable.

• 2:48Bill Maher?

  People are Spencer Pratt. When you can have Spencer, what do you think of Spencer? I mean, you are on people's minds out here. Nobody can take that away from you. That is just a fact. I am telling you, it's anecdotal, but I'm a good sounding board because people want you on my shows. They want to, and so, I mean, if nothing else happens, you did that. I don't think, we saw that coming a year ago.

• 3:15Speaker 02

  I mean, again, I never planned to be the mayor of L.A. I only ran to have a bigger platform, to expose all the negligence is the reason why I even ran, because this person in charge burned my house down, my mom's house, my neighbors. No, just saying, that's why I ran, to just to talk about it.

• 3:33Bill Maher?

  I know, but you know, honestly, I keep hearing you say that you're making it a little too personal. I mean, she is not a great mayor, I don't think either. And then that is a very common view even among a lot of Democrats. I know her, I once interviewed her for an event, you know, it was a private thing. I like her and, but, you know, she fucked up some things. A lot of people fucked up some things. One person didn't burn your house down.

• 4:00Speaker 02

  Agreed, agreed, but let me. One person who's in charge of all the things that got fucked up that burned my house down. So you have to hold somebody responsible who's in charge.

• 4:10Bill Maher?

  Oh, oh, listen.

• 4:11Speaker 02

  She was in Ghana, so she obviously didn't light the fire, so, you know, so.

• 4:16Bill Maher?

  No, I know, listen.

• 4:18Speaker 02

  But it is personal because I have to hear my crying mom every day. And that lady that crossed through my house burned alive, that lady with the parrots, you know, so it is personal.

• 4:28Bill Maher?

  Well, don't drag the parrots into it.

• 4:30Speaker 02

  I mean, she was, she was trying to save the parrots.

• 4:33Bill Maher?

  I'm an animal lover.

• 4:34Speaker 02

  I can bring the hummingbirds out.

• 4:35Bill Maher?

  It's just not fair. Why don't you start with the fucking parrot? No, like, it's personal to me, too. I live here, too. I remember, I was doing the podcast here on January 7th, 2025. And the guest was Matt Gaetz.

• 4:55Bill Maher?

  And, I mean, I gotta say, you know, we don't see eye to eye on a lot of stuff policy-wise. But this dude like drove through a fire to get here and we taped until they came out of the, uh, somewhere around here, wherever the people who are taping this do this. And said, you gotta bug out. The, you, you, we taped right until we had to fucking go. And I, you know, and this is a canyon. That is, that is a kill zone.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  Didn't this house already burned down once? I thought I was told.

• 5:29Bill Maher?

  Yes, but that was more of a kitchen fire.

• 5:31Speaker 02

  Okay, so it's not a lucky spot.

• 5:33Bill Maher?

  No. L.A. is not a lucky spot. It's a dumb fucking place to have built a city. Look, I'm telling you, I went back on the air 10 days later, it was the first show of our season last year. And my first editorial was, you know, a scathing review of this. Saying, look, there is absolutely truth in the, the wind is the wind. And it's a dumb place to have built a city like this. Um, there's not enough water, uh, and those winds were catastrophically high. But they also fucked up so much and it didn't have to go down that way. I mean, the, the, the, oh, the fire hydrants, the water didn't come out. You know, we're looking into, well, you know,

• 6:18Bill Maher?

  or the power lines, oh, it'll cost a lot of money to bury the power lines. Uh, should we have a bond? No, how about take some of the fucking exorbitant taxes I already give you? And prioritize burying the power lines, whatever. Uh, you know, the, the milk vetch thing, you remember that?

• 6:38Speaker 02

  Oh, I remember.

• 6:39Bill Maher?

  What, no, what?

• 6:40Speaker 02

  So, the milk vetch, which I didn't know what it was until I lost everything.

• 6:44Bill Maher?

  It sounds yiddish.

• 6:45Speaker 02

  Is the ugliest plant you've ever seen. It's not even a plant we should be trying to protect. It doesn't, it's not beautiful. It's, it's literally an ugly bush.

• 6:54Bill Maher?

  But Spencer, we don't just protect the beautiful.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  This plant, it doesn't even have a flower coming out of it.

• 7:00Bill Maher?

  Okay, again, not a good reason.

• 7:02Speaker 02

  It looks like a weed.

• 7:03Bill Maher?

  Okay, well, should we?

• 7:04Speaker 02

  We, we pull weeds.

• 7:05Bill Maher?

  Should we kill all the blobfish? They're really fucking.

• 7:08Speaker 02

  The milk vetch should not be more protected than human beings.

• 7:11Bill Maher?

  That's true. That, I mean, we agree on the real point here, which is, and tell the people what it is, and tell the people.

• 7:17Speaker 02

  So, it's a dumb, a dumb, excuse me, to the, the botanist or whatever, they're gonna be like, it's so important to the root system. I agree. It's a great plant, but we should have 300 feet of it cleaned up. We should have fire breaks around our community. Like you said, we built in a, in a dumb place to build, but we also let 60 years of dead brush surround it. And if you saw last week in Semin Valley, they had a fire break, and that's why all those houses didn't just burn down instantly. And again, rewind, the wind in the Palisades, this is a big thing that we gotta stop saying. The wind in the Palisades, because I was there till my house burned down at the top of the hill. It never was above 40 miles per hour. Planes were flying, helicopters were flying.

• 8:02Speaker 02

  Altadena had the catastrophic hurricane winds. Whole two hours away from the Palisades. We didn't have a wind problem, we had a no water problem, two empty reservoirs, so.

• 8:14Bill Maher?

  No.

• 8:14Speaker 02

  No, no, I'm just saying.

• 8:15Bill Maher?

  The whole thing.

• 8:16Speaker 02

  The wind thing is a conspiracy, like, people are.

• 8:18Bill Maher?

  The whole, everything that went wrong, but, and I mentioned all these things, I remember going through them, but, you know, like, really vetting it because I wanted to get it right. But it, it is true, that the milk vetch, again, it sounds so yiddish. Um, it, it, it just.

• 8:36Bill Maher?

  By whatever its contribution to the fire was not worth it because the fire for a city that thinks it's so environmentally this and that. The fire is the worst thing for the environment. It set our, we made 20 years of progress with what we did with cars and undid it all in one fire. And I still see, I have this little thing on my desk. I've made fun of it before because at the, it tells you, you know, how the air quality is. And it says on the bottom, you know, congratulations, you've achieved excellent air quality. Like, I fucking need my ass kissed by this fucking thing every day. Okay, but like, I see so many days when it's like, why?

• 9:20Bill Maher?

  Why is, you know, because if, when things are good, the little face of the man is green and smiling. And then many days, he's like, yellow. Does not look happy and then sometimes, well, when I smoke pot in the room, he's orange. He's very angry at the pot. He's like, ah. But, but no, I mean, why so many days? And I think this is it. It's, it's, you know, the smoke is worse than, than, it would have been better to kill the milk veg, I think, is what we're saying. That should be your campaign slogan, by the way. Just use that as, like, you're, you're selling yourself as the common sense guy. Right. Pratt hates milk veg. That's the message you want to get out, you know? Kamala had, we're gonna give prisoners tits. This is your thing, okay?

• 10:05Bill Maher?

  You gotta have something people can hook on to, bro.

• 10:07Speaker 02

  The problem is, there's only certain communities that care about that. There's people that do not care that the Palisades burned down because they don't get, the Hollywood Hills could burn down, Tahunga, Sunland, uh, you know, Bel Air, these people don't care about these places burning down. And that's where all this milk veg and dead brush, people in, you know, South Central and Eagle, these people don't care about the milk veg. So I need to have, I'm stopping naked drug addicts in front of your kids. That's my get behind thing. That's, that's my winning.

• 10:37Bill Maher?

  Well, in that case, those people are your, yes, good to see you.

• 10:40Speaker 02

  Thank you for having me.

• 10:41Bill Maher?

  Yes. In that case, those people are your allies because we're united against the milk veg. I'm telling you.

• 10:48Speaker 02

  No, I'm anti-milk veg. I'm as mayor.

• 10:51Bill Maher?

  You think you are?

• 10:51Speaker 02

  Trust me.

• 10:52Bill Maher?

  I'm a much more of a hawk on the milk veg than you are. Extremism in the defense of killing the milk vetch is no vice.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  Here's the other thing, obviously, if you're an environmental person, you don't care when the house is burned down. You don't care when the people burned down. But do they not care about all the animals? We lost all the coyotes, we lost the lizards, the snakes, the holes.

• 11:13Bill Maher?

  And let's not leave out the parrots.

• 11:16Speaker 02

  And the hummingbirds. All my hummingbirds died too.

• 11:19Bill Maher?

  Uh, okay.

• 11:20Speaker 02

  I mean, like a thousand.

• 11:21Bill Maher?

  I, I, okay, let's not, come on, it's happy camp.

• 11:25Speaker 02

  Oh, I didn't know this was like a serious.

• 11:26Bill Maher?

  I thought you were trying to win this fucking thing. You know, you gotta be like Reagan, sunny.

• 11:31Speaker 02

  Where people are done with sunny, I just.

• 11:33Bill Maher?

  But you were always a Republican, right? This isn't a conversion.

• 11:35Speaker 02

  So, no, this is a great story.

• 11:37Bill Maher?

  Oh, great. Let's hear it.

• 11:41Speaker 02

  So I was a very hated personality. I'm still hated by a big segment.

• 11:46Bill Maher?

  That's what I know about you.

• 11:47Speaker 02

  So that's for sure. So when you're very hated, you get a lot of threats, especially when people didn't know reality TV wasn't real. So I would get a lot of death threats. I will have security to try to.

• 11:58Bill Maher?

  Okay, just, just help me.

• 12:00Speaker 02

  I'm gonna give you this.

• 12:01Bill Maher?

  I know, but I, I gotta, I gotta set it because like I have, I have to admit to you. I, very, before you ran from here, I'm very sketchy. I knew you were, I'm sorry to say this, but here's what I knew. I knew the name douchebag, uh, some reality show. I couldn't have named it with a gun to my head, but I know now, cause I read about you in the paper. It was the OC, no, no, The Hills.

• 12:25Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 12:26Bill Maher?

  Was that a spinoff of the OC?

• 12:29Speaker 02

  Kind of, the OC was a scripted show.

• 12:31Bill Maher?

  Anyway, some douchebag white kids, like in, in those kind of, you know, places in Southern California. Uh, that's what I knew and you were like the king douchebag. This is, I'm just saying what I knew. And by the way, I've been called a douchebag too.

• 12:44Speaker 02

  I, I'm, I'm fine with this title.

• 12:46Bill Maher?

  I know.

• 12:47Speaker 02

  Uh, the lady on CBS said I was actually a douche canoe.

• 12:50Bill Maher?

  What's that?

• 12:51Speaker 02

  I had never heard it until CBS Morning Show.

• 12:53Bill Maher?

  A canoe?

• 12:54Speaker 02

  A douche canoe.

• 12:55Bill Maher?

  I don't get it.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  I didn't either, but that's, I guess it's, it's an upgraded douche, I think.

• 13:00Bill Maher?

  God, CBS is in trouble. Anyway, okay, so that's all I know. So now I, I place you. I never believe anything, by the way. People call me names like, like I, I always say, everybody's a monster till you talk to them. And that's why I wanna talk to you. Because, uh, that's what I knew. And now we have this new you.

• 13:26Bill Maher?

  So tell me what you were gonna tell me.

• 13:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, so rewind. When I was 20, I was at USC studying political science. I see the Osbournes on. They get 25 million dollars. So I call my friend Brody Jenner, whose dad was David Foster. And I said, can I film a reality show about you guys?

• 13:40Bill Maher?

  You went too fast. David, Jody.

• 13:43Speaker 02

  David Foster, the music producer.

• 13:44Bill Maher?

  I know him.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  So he.

• 13:46Bill Maher?

  Who's the kid?

• 13:47Speaker 02

  Brody Jenner.

• 13:48Bill Maher?

  He's.

• 13:48Speaker 02

  Caitlyn Jenner's son.

• 13:49Bill Maher?

  Caitlyn Jenner's son.

• 13:52Speaker 02

  So.

• 13:52Bill Maher?

  When Caitlyn was Bruce married to Chris.

• 13:55Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 13:56Bill Maher?

  I'm glad everything always comes back to the Kardashians.

• 13:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, so.

• 13:59Bill Maher?

  Wouldn't be American if it didn't.

• 14:02Speaker 02

  So they, it happened. So I sold this to Fox at 20 years old. And then that show got.

• 14:09Bill Maher?

  You sold?

• 14:09Speaker 02

  As executive producer, creator.

• 14:11Bill Maher?

  Wow.

• 14:11Speaker 02

  And then Foster advised me to be like Simon Cowell, which I didn't understand. It was like the villain. So I leaned into that. But Simon Cowell got to be the villain because he was telling people how not to sing. And I just was the villain, just as a douchebag.

• 14:26Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 14:27Speaker 02

  So I leaned into that and it was very profitable. But what happened is people took it very real. And obviously I kept leaning in because I was chasing ratings bonuses and I was all in on my character.

• 14:38Bill Maher?

  But this is reality.

• 14:40Speaker 02

  People took it very serious back then. This is pre Instagram. X hadn't even dropped. This Twitter. This was, you're watching the box. 5 million people think that's real. So I was getting all these debt threats. So obviously my security is like, you need to get a gun. So I get a gun. And then as I am a gun owner with my wife in Los Angeles, to have a gun, you need a CCW. So that's a concealed carry weapons for, very hard to get. And the only people that supported a CCW was the Republican Party. All I cared about politically was to protect my wife and then my kids. That's my only political thing I'm connected to.

• 15:17Bill Maher?

  So you're that voter who they always interview, what are the issues important to you? Because the rest of the world can go, fuck it, so. What are the issues important to me? My gun. Okay, so that was the issue important to you. It could have been abortion. It could have been something else.

• 15:33Speaker 02

  It was guns.

• 15:34Bill Maher?

  But to you, it was just a gun.

• 15:35Speaker 02

  To keep my. Wife safe and then kids. Then, people don't realize I'm also, again, from LA. I don't know a single Republican. Every, I went to crossroads, I grew up here from the policies. Every single one of my friends is a Democrat.

• 15:49Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 15:50Speaker 02

  All the people I talked to all day long, my whole life, are Democrats. My older sister is the most progressive Democrat in maybe California. I don't do this party stuff, I didn't care about it, I was trying to be famous. If you talk about polit- politics, from my perspective, respectfully to people who talk about politics, they're trying to be, it's a lose-lose. You're gonna piss off half the people, you're gonna piss, I was just trying to get on shows and just be casted. So I never did politics and I only cared about anything, unfortunately.

• 16:18Bill Maher?

  But now do you care about all the issues?

• 16:20Speaker 02

  No, no, no, I don't.

• 16:22Bill Maher?

  Wait, spent a cut, that's wrong answer, okay, we gotta, we gotta, now the candidate, the candidate was, uh, had a rough night and...

• 16:30Speaker 02

  I care about safety, for the safety, the lights being on, potholes, whatever mayor should care about. If it's legal, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be enforcing, I mean, you can't be smoking, I don't want you smoking in front of kids at the park. You know, I'll be enforcing, if you're smoking that in front of a kid at the swing, I'll, I'll be getting you as mayor, you know? No more drugs around kids at parks and schools in front of daycares. Even if it's illegal pot, we need to have a society of consequences again. I never thought, growing up, I could smoke a blunt in front of a kid at the park. Now that happens. Moms do not want their kids that are like five years old.

• 17:08Speaker 00

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• 17:52Speaker 00

  Learn more at gethumana.com. See any doctor who accepts Medicare and is willing to bill Humana. Humana PPOs may not be available in all areas. Benefits and costs share may vary. Humana is a Medicare Advantage PPO organization with a Medicare contract. Enrollment in any Humana plan depends on contract renewal.

• 18:08Bill Maher?

  It's interesting to talk to somebody who didn't take an interest in politics until recently. And I've encountered this phenomenon before. You know where? Strip clubs. You ever talk to a stripper about politics? It's awesome because they don't know what the right answer is supposed to be. And they, and you know what they come out very often? More conservative. They're like, you know, why should I give my, I work hard for my money. Why should that be, you know, it's like, and I'm like, you know, that's what conservatives say. Oh, no, I'm a liberal. You think you're a liberal, but you just don't know about anything. You don't know the issues. You don't know stuff like that. And you're just, this is just your reaction to stuff. Taxes, no taxes on tips? I'll vote, I'll vote for Trump tomorrow because that's the issue that's important to them.

• 18:53Bill Maher?

  You can't blame people for that. People are, we're all just trying to live our own lives. And the issues that are important to, you just have to hope that these, and I think you're on to something. This is why everyone's asked me about you. People are having the same feeling. You know, you, you're not a guy who overthinks this and they're not. And, and that works better. This is the state that is constantly overthinking everything and over regulating everything. Trust me, I know. I did whole bits about how I took me three years to get the solar turned on. Solar is something they want you to have.

• 19:29Speaker 02

  But now they're taxing you, I think, for having it.

• 19:32Bill Maher?

  They are?

• 19:33Speaker 02

  I think so.

• 19:34Bill Maher?

  What do you mean you think so?

• 19:35Speaker 02

  I think, you know, there's, I don't need to know about solar, you know? I need to focus on making sure the moms are safe and the animals are not being abused. That's, that's my party.

• 19:44Bill Maher?

  I know, but if you're the mayor.

• 19:45Speaker 02

  The solar panels, that's going to be somebody I'm hiring. That's my deputy mayor is going to worry about the solar panels.

• 19:51Bill Maher?

  No, Spencer, I got bad news. If, if you're the mayor, you are going to have to learn. Some of these issues more.

• 19:57Speaker 02

  Solar panels, we're about three years from worrying about solar panels. We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks and then I can worry about solar panels.

• 20:04Bill Maher?

  But we can't, we can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  With the state of LA right now, the solar panels, you spit that gum out. I love the idea of getting the drug addicts treatment and giving them job opportunities. And if we need more solar panels, personally, I think we gotta investigate the LADWP. Why you even need a solar panel? You pay so much money for regular electricity. Then we gotta check why our rates are going up 10% plus every month and we're not getting better electricity. Alkaline water is not coming out of our tap. So I'll get back to you on the solar panels, but it's a little, my totem pole is make sure people don't have home invasions every single night.

• 20:41Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 20:42Speaker 02

  Make sure you're not losing your pole suspension because we haven't fixed a road. I'm basic. That's why I'm resonating. Common sense, basic stuff. People that are struggling to live in LA right now because it's so expensive and they're stepping in human poop. They don't care about your problem with the solar panel right now, but they may, once I get rid of the poop and I make it more affordable to live, then they may want solar panels. But like my schedule, I'm gonna do this for eight years. So we got a lot of time to learn about your issues.

• 21:11Bill Maher?

  Eight years?

• 21:11Speaker 02

  I'm gonna be mayor for eight years.

• 21:12Bill Maher?

  Oh, I see. We're looking ahead.

• 21:15Speaker 02

  Uh, once I, I'm gonna be the best mayor ever for four years. Then they're gonna just be like, please Spencer, come back for four more.

• 21:22Bill Maher?

  You're a guy who knows his priorities. You know, in a general sense, I don't think you're wrong. And again, lots of people agree. I mean, anytime any polity is ruled by one party, it's not good. Not, even if you are a Democrat, you have to understand that it's not good because you need the check on the other. People do tend to get drunk with power when they have all of it and they just go way toward one, the ship just tilts one toward one, two, one side too many. And that's what has happened with the state of California. I mean, it's funny because this state, you know, look, I've lived here since 1983. I fucking love it. I've said it many times. This, this city sucked my dick on the first date.

• 22:08Bill Maher?

  It just did. I just fell in love with it right away. Grew up on the East Coast, but you know, and I get very chauvinistic about it. You know, when I, when I hear people, oh, California, you're this and you're that. Like, fuck you. You know what? First of all. We are in an industry that you patronize probably more than anything else. Without us, you'd have to talk to your family at night. We make the things you watch. Shut the fuck up, eat your popcorn. You know, we're also an industry, by the way, that never is asking for any help from the government. You know, we make our own money. You know, we're not like corn farmers. You know, or the oil people when they're having a bad year, or the auto industry, or the whole fucking state of Alaska.

• 22:53Bill Maher?

  We never ask for a dime because our product works, especially overseas.

• 22:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, and I would say that's one of the problems with this business is we should have fought for these tax credits, these post-production tax credits. Why is people in England getting uncapped tax credits or Massachusetts? So, yes, that's true, but we should have been saying, hey, no, we need these tax credits here, we need the support of the government. We bring the cool to LA. We make people, tourism comes to LA because they saw Baywatch or they saw... That was the problem, we were so as entertainers, entertainers. We should have been more, give us a piece of the pie because we let them make it so the business did get hijacked.

• 23:40Bill Maher?

  I have heard that it's cheaper to shoot LA, anywhere but LA. You have to find a city that can double as LA because with the taxes and the regulations and the unions and, you know, extras have to be, you know, whatever it is, they just made it... And many businesses have left this state. Do you have a plan for that? I mean, all the business...

• 24:04Speaker 02

  Well, you ready for this?

• 24:05Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I am ready.

• 24:06Speaker 02

  It goes back to my, we have a totem pole now, I didn't call it a totem pole. But the reason why everyone's leaving...

• 24:11Bill Maher?

  I'm not sure you're supposed to say totem pole anymore. Anything with the Indians is always very touchy.

• 24:16Speaker 02

  Native Americans.

• 24:17Bill Maher?

  Even if it's a compliment, you know, the Braves. How dare you!

• 24:21Speaker 02

  Pyramid, can't do pyramid, maybe.

• 24:23Bill Maher?

  Yeah, that's the Egyptians. Jesus Christ, don't you have a fuck...

• 24:25Speaker 02

  On my chart. So, when you start with safety, you make things safe again. Right now, all, because now, you know... Everyone's coming to meet with me because they, there's a lot of people believe I'm winning.

• 24:37Bill Maher?

  Like who?

• 24:39Speaker 02

  People that are, don't want me telling you who they are.

• 24:42Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 24:43Speaker 02

  They're all coming to meet with me and the problem with.

• 24:45Bill Maher?

  You're talking business leaders?

• 24:46Speaker 02

  Anybody you would think would never meet with me is now meeting with me. The list is mind boggling.

• 24:52Bill Maher?

  Suddenly the douchebag is the big man on campus.

• 24:55Speaker 02

  I'm fine. I don't, I have no judgment. You didn't like me before. You still don't like me? You want LA to be number one? That's great.

• 25:01Bill Maher?

  It takes a douchebag to kill a milk fetch. That is what I always said. And there you go. There it is. There it is.

• 25:09Speaker 02

  And it's the bureaucracy of this city that does not want to put, that let these people put their money in here and they don't want to invest in LA because we allow the naked drug addicts in front of the hotels.

• 25:22Bill Maher?

  Wait, you keep saying that.

• 25:24Speaker 02

  You gotta realize.

• 25:24Bill Maher?

  Are they really naked?

• 25:26Speaker 02

  Butt naked. If you give me your phone number, I will send you a thousand naked drug addict videos a week.

• 25:31Bill Maher?

  I don't have to think about that one. No.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  No.

• 25:33Bill Maher?

  I do not want you sending me naked pictures.

• 25:37Speaker 02

  I can't even look at my phone anymore because the whole city sends me their naked drug addict content.

• 25:42Bill Maher?

  Again, I don't mean to be the campaign manager, but just don't offer to send naked pictures to anybody.

• 25:48Speaker 02

  Their videos.

• 25:49Bill Maher?

  At least until the campaign is over. Then send all the naked pictures you want. Look, Eric Swalwell came to me once. No, I'm kidding. Uh, okay.

• 25:59Speaker 02

  So.

• 25:59Bill Maher?

  So.

• 26:00Speaker 02

  So, if you make the streets safe and clean again and you welcome investment. So these, let's say this group of very successful people that want to invest in downtown LA. They offer to buy up 40 blocks, put affordable housing, mid-level housing, nice. And they come to Mayor Bass with this deck that now I've been presented. Mayor Bass says, "Oh, well, you can put all the homeless people in these buildings." "No, we want to put the working people in the city of LA. Oh, no, we're not going to do that." "The homeless drug addict people do not need beds. They need treatment, mandatory treatment." You cannot, I have grown up in LA. I know about addicts. I know about addiction. You cannot give a drug addict a bed and say, "Here's this bed." You could offer them any bed in the city. They don't want a bed. They want a new.

• 26:44Speaker 02

  High, they want some new fentanyl, they want some new super meth. We need to get these people help to get them sober. Then we get them the beds and the sheltering and the community and the rehab. But this program that's cost 24 billion of our tax money has increased homeless. So that's how I win because I say, hey, everybody. This isn't working. We all know it and we're paying for the destruction of our own city. But they can't say it because they won't get reelected because they're deep in this failure. They would be better off to just say, hey, this didn't work. We're going to pivot. We we tried this one, but we have a new plan, but they can't. My opponents will say, we need more beds. We need more beds. These beds cost a hundred thousand dollars a bed.

• 27:27Bill Maher?

  So I I've said this before and I I feel like the conventional wisdom answer to it that I get is that it's for this reason unfeasible. For this reason unfeasible, blah, blah, blah. Tell me why, as someone who's running and is going to inherit this problem for eight years. Tell me why it's not feasible to this is for the homeless. Uh, answer to be one, you can't stay on the streets. I'm sorry. You just can't because the streets are public and the people need that. And it's just for a million reasons. It's disease and it's just not right. You we just it's just not your right. This is this is not a alternative home uh lifestyle homelessness.

• 28:11Bill Maher?

  Okay. Which is how the woke have turned it into. Um, like I always say, old school liberals. We thought the compassionate thing was to get them off the street, not to enable them to stay on the street. Like they're an endangered species and their natural habitat. It's fucking ridiculous. Okay, so that's A, you can't stay on the street. B, why can't there be barracks for lack of a better word? But yes, barracks and they say, well, it's unsafe in there. Hey, how much would it cost to hire a security guard for literally every row of the barracks? Is that going to cost 24 billion dollars? I know some guys who will do it for like 28 dollars an hour, you know? Uh, just make it safe. Why is that?

• 28:54Bill Maher?

  So impossible to make a homeless shelter safe. Because you have to put people somewhere where the doctors can come in. Or the specialists, whoever's gonna wean them off the drugs. You're right, treatment. But we can't treat them on the street and we don't wanna give them hotel rooms. That's crazy. You have to go to a place, a humane place. This is not some sort of Nazi program. You're off the street, you have a roof over your heads. We will make it safe, feed you, get you back on your feet. We can watch you and make sure you don't do. There's no drugs getting in here. Again, this is something that's impossible in prisons, impossible to stop.

• 29:34Bill Maher?

  I bet they could do it in Saudi Arabia because they'd cut your hands off if you did it. Not that I'm suggesting that, but you could.

• 29:40Speaker 02

  So you just described, which I know you have not watched, my eight-minute video describing exactly my plan. You go to the federal government, you say, there's so much beautiful nature with these trees. You take a big piece of land. Right now, Mayor Bass will say there's only forty-two thousand people living on the street. The Rand Corporation will say it's thirty percent. Let's say it's seventy thousand people. Right now, it's cheaper to literally build an entire facility. They'll go, it's a concentration. No, they have insane, cheaper, prefabricated homes. They actually look like houses with little fences. You could build enough of these. You could build miles of these. You put the facilities with the medical people. Some people are veterans. That's their corner of this beautiful place.

• 30:25Speaker 02

  Where, of course, the media's gonna come watch and try to be like Spencer's doing this. Come look. They can be riding around in golf carts. They can be eating airwahn there. There's, we have enough money to have combo plates. For home, no, that's how much we spend. No, I'm just saying.

• 30:40Bill Maher?

  Airwahn.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  My, but my point is, my point is, there's that.

• 30:44Bill Maher?

  So far.

• 30:44Speaker 02

  My point is, we spend that much money to have them live in their own species and die. That we can have them living up like kings and there, we get them sober. We give them, we teach them how to clear the milk beds. They come back and they're gonna, they're gonna do fire breaks with the fire department. We're gonna teach them how to. Help come clean the trash, they can work with sanitation. We need to get people off the street. Get them sober and give them the opportunity then have a job. Ready for the best part? Sixty percent of the people in Los Angeles that are experiencing homelessness. They're ready, no, they're not from California. They've been brought here by NGOs that profit off of this homeless industrial complex.

• 31:28Bill Maher?

  Wait, wait, wait, they've been brought here?

• 31:30Speaker 02

  They've been brought here.

• 31:31Bill Maher?

  Who did that?

• 31:31Speaker 02

  Body brokers bring these people here.

• 31:33Bill Maher?

  From where?

• 31:34Speaker 02

  All across the country. If you're an addict, you can come to LA and get these rehabs and use your Medicaid. You have a social.

• 31:41Bill Maher?

  It's also, if you're gonna be, uh, shall we say outdoors your whole life? It's better to be here than in Minneapolis.

• 31:48Speaker 02

  One hundred percent.

• 31:49Bill Maher?

  You know, I think that's part of the attraction. I don't know if this is a big plot. You think this is a big?

• 31:53Speaker 02

  There's a, there's a big part where this is, I talked to these people who are now sober, off fentanyl, off meth, and they say they got literally brought here through rehab, trying to get out drugs. Their money runs out, boom, left on the street. This is multiple stories of this, so.

• 32:09Bill Maher?

  Boy, that's, that's Tim Walz. He never stops being evil.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  So.

• 32:13Bill Maher?

  A fucker, sending the fucking people.

• 32:16Speaker 02

  I don't know what state they're from exactly, but they're not from LA. So again, whether they go to this amazing facility that we have that has all these resources for treatment, not let you die in your feces on fentanyl, but you may wanna go back to Oklahoma. And we help facilitate getting you now that you're sober. You probably have a mom, you probably have a, cuz if you don't, I was in South Central the other day, this mom came up to me crying, she goes, my daughter is not homeless. I hate when people say that. She has a home, my fa- our family loves her, but she's addicted to meth right now on Skid Row. She needs help to get off the meth so she can come home. There's a lot of these people that if you get off the drugs, they have a place to go.

• 32:57Bill Maher?

  And they would go back to Oklahoma.

• 32:59Speaker 02

  Maybe it's not Oklahoma, but.

• 33:00Bill Maher?

  Georgia.

• 33:01Speaker 02

  Hers was South Central, this lady.

• 33:02Bill Maher?

  Remember this song, Midnight Train to Georgia? He's leaving on that midnight train to Georgia. You know why? He came out here to be a big star, didn't work out, but Gladys Knight is sticking by him. But he's leaving on that midnight train to Georgia.

• 33:18Speaker 02

  I don't know about that train, but I'll tell you.

• 33:19Bill Maher?

  She'd rather be with him than to live here in LA, she says.

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• 33:53Speaker 02

  L.A. is amazing if you are...

• 33:55Bill Maher?

  It is amazing.

• 33:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, it is. And that's, I'm fighting because I love this place so much.

• 33:59Bill Maher?

  Me too.

• 34:00Speaker 02

  I only wanted to be famous. Again, let's rewind. Because when I grew up, being famous in L.A. was the greatest thing you could do in the world. The restaurants, the red carpets, the club. All that's gone. Anyone that I know that obviously doesn't say they know me... The clubs are gone. The restaurants are closing 100 at a time a year.

• 34:19Bill Maher?

  There's no clubs.

• 34:20Speaker 02

  There's 50% less club. I mean, I was with, last night with one of the biggest club promoters at the Dodger game since we were 20 years old. He's been in the game. I know the club game. It's my douchebag expertise, nightlife.

• 34:33Bill Maher?

  Let me tell you something.

• 34:34Speaker 02

  It's struggling.

• 34:35Bill Maher?

  Let me tell you something, pal. When I was in the club, and I mean the club, that's, I would say those were my douchebag years. Because if you're in the club, you are probably engaging in douchey behavior. It's just a douchey place.

• 34:48Speaker 02

  I'll never hate on the club. I met my wife in the club. So you can, you can have luck.

• 34:53Bill Maher?

  Oh, I, I met...

• 34:54Speaker 02

  We met on the dance floor in the club.

• 34:56Bill Maher?

  I met a lot of good times in the club. I'm not saying you shouldn't be in the club.

• 35:00Speaker 02

  You can find your wife in the club.

• 35:01Bill Maher?

  You find your wife in the club?

• 35:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, I had privilege, club privilege, on the dance floor.

• 35:06Bill Maher?

  Club privilege. Where was that one?

• 35:07Speaker 02

  On Sunset.

• 35:08Bill Maher?

  What year is this?

• 35:11Speaker 02

  2007, 2006?

• 35:14Bill Maher?

  Okay, I was probably out of the clubs by then. Not by a...

• 35:18Speaker 02

  This is my lunch and dinner, thank you very much.

• 35:20Bill Maher?

  Oh, good.

• 35:21Speaker 02

  Let's take cheer.

• 35:21Bill Maher?

  Well, I'm having a good time. I hope you are too.

• 35:24Speaker 02

  I, when your producer sat me down, he's like, "Here's your filtered water we poured for you. Here's your favorite organic tequila." I was like, "Where am I?"

• 35:32Bill Maher?

  You're a club random, bro.

• 35:33Speaker 02

  This is the best podcast I've ever done.

• 35:35Bill Maher?

  It is.

• 35:35Speaker 02

  It's great.

• 35:36Bill Maher?

  Thank you. But, yeah, no, I mean, that's the other thing I know about you is your wife. Is and and at one time, I mean, look, I hate to put it this way, but what I remember about this story was huge tits. Either she got.

• 35:50Speaker 02

  She's had three, they are now regular size.

• 35:54Bill Maher?

  What is this, what is the state of the tits?

• 35:56Speaker 02

  They're they're not, they're not what you'd call huge.

• 35:59Bill Maher?

  But they were at one point.

• 36:00Speaker 02

  At one time, they were.

• 36:01Bill Maher?

  So what happened there?

• 36:03Speaker 02

  I think when you go, when you, I've witnessed it as firsthand, when you're talking to a plastic surgeon, their version of minor, like, oh, this is a mi, they use the word minor. I don't think how Chat G P T or Claude would say minor is. So I think that was the miss, the disconnect with the word minor.

• 36:24Bill Maher?

  Why are we using words like minor in a medical situation? Don't we use words like centimeter? Shouldn't we be using?

• 36:31Speaker 02

  What I've learned from witnessing, being around plastic surgery, is there's no such thing as a minor surgery. And that's, that's the like, life lesson I can pass on.

• 36:40Bill Maher?

  If you're going to a plastic surgeon who's using vague, flowery words like that, this is a quack. I mean, even bras have sizes, A cup, B cup, C cup, D cup, right? I mean, if they, if they can do it with bras, this guy is more vague than a bra.

• 36:57Speaker 02

  R I P, he's, he passed away.

• 36:59Bill Maher?

  If I was getting my tits done, I would know exactly how, what they were going to look like and and how big they would be. And it reminds me, I have an appointment.

• 37:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, I was gonna say, I am sure we can get you a good deal.

• 37:12Bill Maher?

  Um, okay, but so then she had breast reduction?

• 37:15Speaker 02

  Yes, she did.

• 37:16Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 37:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I don't think you, you respectfully would notice anything.

• 37:20Bill Maher?

  I respectfully wouldn't comment or believe me.

• 37:24Speaker 02

  Well, you brought it up, so I just tell you.

• 37:25Bill Maher?

  Well, I just, just because I, I just, I'm telling you, I, I, this is like my history of you.

• 37:32Speaker 02

  Your algorithm is unique.

• 37:34Bill Maher?

  No, but my history of you is like, two thousand seven douchebag, and then years of nothing. You're kind of like Jesus. We know about his birth, and then suddenly he's on his ministry. We know nothing about his teenage years. I think he was a very awkward teenager, bad skin, that Jufro he had, you know.

• 37:53Speaker 02

  Jesus or me? I was gonna say, I used to get a lot of facials, I had great skin.

• 37:56Bill Maher?

  Probably bad at sports, but, um, yeah, but we, that whole swath of time disappears. What happened between, like, when the show went off and the mayor run?

• 38:09Speaker 02

  How long is this podcast? So, my most successful thing of my career is I started the number one crystal business online. And I was making a quarter million a month selling beautiful gemstones.

• 38:22Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 38:22Speaker 02

  And then the pandemic hit. And I was no longer an essential business. And I had to close up my 18 employee, you know, it was a life changing thing because this was, this was it for my family. So that-

• 38:36Bill Maher?

  Pandemics are so rough on crystals. You know what I mean?

• 38:40Speaker 02

  On families.

• 38:41Bill Maher?

  It's just like, it's the first thing to go. You know, and, and isn't it a health thing?

• 38:47Speaker 02

  I had to, I tried to fight it, say, this is medicinal for some people.

• 38:51Bill Maher?

  No, but aren't they? Don't people-

• 38:52Speaker 02

  There's people that definitely believe-

• 38:54Bill Maher?

  But you don't? You were just selling it for aesthetically?

• 38:57Speaker 02

  You know, I love them and I always like to believe they have energy, but when they all burned in my house, all the ones I spent millions of dollars for years-

• 39:03Bill Maher?

  Oh Christ, gotta let go of that fire. You know, we've all had our-

• 39:06Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, the protection energy I thought they had. I had a lot of black tourmaline by the front door. I had the tiger's eye. So, the fact they all went up, I said, these didn't protect anything.

• 39:17Bill Maher?

  It's asking a lot of a crystal to protect from a fire about something. So I'm just saying, you're asking-

• 39:22Speaker 02

  I had a lot of them.

• 39:23Bill Maher?

  And did you say tiger's eye?

• 39:25Speaker 02

  Tiger's eye is a protection energy.

• 39:26Bill Maher?

  That's one of them?

• 39:27Speaker 02

  It's definitely, yeah.

• 39:28Bill Maher?

  What is tiger's eye? Is there a specific thing that it does?

• 39:31Speaker 02

  Protection energy.

• 39:32Bill Maher?

  But just protection, but others do other things like-

• 39:35Speaker 02

  Of course, like kunzite, which is one of my favorite crystals. Kunzite?

• 39:38Bill Maher?

  I'm not saying it. Okay.

• 39:41Speaker 02

  K U, K U N Z I T E.

• 39:44Bill Maher?

  You can spell it any way you want. I am not spending any political capital on that.

• 39:49Speaker 02

  It's for your heart chakra.

• 39:50Bill Maher?

  Oh, I'm sure it is.

• 39:51Speaker 02

  So it opens up your heart?

• 39:51Bill Maher?

  Oh, I'm sure it is. It'll open up Twitter is what it'll open up.

• 39:56Speaker 02

  That's, that's my favorite.

• 39:57Bill Maher?

  So what is this, what does it do for you?

• 39:59Speaker 02

  It opens your heart chakra. Again, this is what they say.

• 40:04Bill Maher?

  Okay, but you're selling them, you don't sell them.

• 40:06Speaker 02

  No, I don't sell them with the "I let you..."

• 40:08Bill Maher?

  Oh, I see, I see.

• 40:08Speaker 02

  There's also people that love them because they're rare earth minerals. So, the same person that loves a fossil loves stones because... Like, my collection would have been in a museum when I died. It would have said "The Pratt Family at the Natural History Museum." That's the type of collection I had.

• 40:24Bill Maher?

  So, do you just keep them near you, or do you put them up your ass?

• 40:29Speaker 02

  There's definitely people that put them up their behinds, that's a thing for sure.

• 40:33Bill Maher?

  Oh, I'm so glad, now that you're running for mayor, we're not saying ass. Of all the things, Spencer, to draw the line. Ah, I don't, not counting this sort of depravity.

• 40:43Speaker 02

  You know, I know my algorithm, and if I say that, we won't, we'll get, you know, it won't hit the feed.

• 40:49Bill Maher?

  That's the smartest thing you've said. No, you're so right.

• 40:53Speaker 02

  It's true.

• 40:54Bill Maher?

  Always look ahead to what those assholes in the media will cover. Because they never cover the right things. They are just so craven. And they, what's worse is, they know better. They very often know what's important, and sometimes they don't because they're also stupid. So, they're going to cover the stupidest, lowest fucking thing to get the most amount of clicks. So, you're very wise to do that, to go, "No, I'm not gonna give you that."

• 41:25Speaker 02

  I give them enough.

• 41:26Bill Maher?

  You give them enough.

• 41:27Speaker 02

  I give them enough.

• 41:28Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 41:29Speaker 02

  But I also, I'm not gonna give them...

• 41:31Bill Maher?

  But, boy, am I in trouble tonight. But I'm in trouble every night, I don't care.

• 41:36Speaker 02

  I don't think so, you're sitting with the, "I'm gonna be the mayor in seven days."

• 41:40Bill Maher?

  Is that when the election is?

• 41:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's done.

• 41:42Bill Maher?

  Oh, I think we're dropping this right before. So, they'll get to see this. It'll be like your final...

• 41:48Speaker 02

  This is it, you're done, cheers.

• 41:50Bill Maher?

  Yeah, you know, that's the one that matters. Trump, in 2016, spent nothing. Hillary outspent him by a zillion. And the day before the election, because he knows people don't pay attention until the day before. They do it like Christmas shopping. You know, the Christmas Eve, they're out in the store, at the last minute shit, and... He just dropped that hour special. It was like, you know, an hour-long ad. And it was all about how, you know, it was his spiel. It was his original spiel. And it fucking worked, especially in places where people were feeling, you know, the economy was not working for them. And, you know, it was all the, it's so ironic now since he's led

• 42:33Bill Maher?

  the biggest grifter kind of administration ever. But, you know, it was all about how the Wall Street types and who, and they are backers of Hillary and the Democrats. You know, how they were taking advantage, and they have. But, you know, that's also capitalism. I mean, we don't want to go to, you know, I mean socialism to a degree that I would say is very close to communism. I'm talking about Mandami. I'm talking about, I think, the mayor in Seattle, maybe now.

• 43:04Speaker 02

  One of my opponents.

• 43:06Bill Maher?

  And one of your opponents.

• 43:07Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 43:07Bill Maher?

  Exactly. And again, I'm not, look, communism is a form of government. You're allowed to back it. You're allowed to be it. You're allowed to vote for it. Let's just pretend that, one, we haven't tried it a lot around the world, and it's a disaster. And, two, that if you are, you know, for like seizing personal property and certain other things that Mandami or his very close lieutenants have said outright, you know, homeownership is racist. If you are believing these radical things, yes, you are communist. So, so what is the status? That's interesting. So it's a three-person race.

• 43:49Speaker 02

  Well, not anymore. After the debate, the one lady, the communist socialist, she went from six, Councilwoman Rahm, she went from sixty, she went from sixty-four percent on Kalshi to eight percent. So she got bought. She's done.

• 44:03Bill Maher?

  Is that, after one debate?

• 44:05Speaker 02

  With me, yeah.

• 44:05Bill Maher?

  But she wasn't at sixty-four percent. She wasn't leading.

• 44:08Speaker 02

  She was.

• 44:09Bill Maher?

  She was leading Karen Bass?

• 44:10Speaker 02

  Yes. So that's

• 44:13Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 44:14Speaker 02

  This, you can

• 44:15Bill Maher?

  Oh, I, okay.

• 44:16Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 44:17Bill Maher?

  I don't remember seeing that, but

• 44:18Speaker 02

  Yeah. Well, Calci's, again, that's not a poll. And there's no polls. Again, let me, let's talk about polls for a second. Cause I'm technically 22% in the poll they just put out and Bass is 25%. The people that are voting for me, they're not picking up a spam call and they're not talking to a stranger coming up to them.

• 44:35Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 44:36Speaker 02

  Can I talk? They're running from these people.

• 44:38Bill Maher?

  So So true.

• 44:40Speaker 02

  So I don't even go off of that. But

• 44:42Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 44:43Speaker 02

  Again, with Calci, I didn't even know respectfully what these betting apps were until I'm in this race. I'm like, why are they always tagging me in this? The normal, excuse me. The average person doesn't have enough money to be betting on every single thing you can think of.

• 44:57Bill Maher?

  Oh, well, I don't know about that. There's an awful lot of crazy, I mean,

• 45:01Speaker 02

  I, I don't know about gambling.

• 45:03Bill Maher?

  Yeah, I

• 45:03Speaker 02

  I've never gambled.

• 45:04Bill Maher?

  Well, it's a huge issue. Polly market and

• 45:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, now I get it now, but my point is my voters aren't gambling because they're trying to stay, they're trying to pay their bills.

• 45:13Bill Maher?

  Exactly. And some of their, or some of them are behind in their bills precisely because they're on DraftKings. You don't think that that's a thing? That is a thing.

• 45:24Speaker 02

  Again, I'm getting elected with moms though. I don't think moms are on these.

• 45:28Bill Maher?

  Moms, no.

• 45:29Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 45:29Bill Maher?

  No, it's douchebag guys.

• 45:31Speaker 02

  Hopefully I can appeal. I was gonna say, well, I just found a new section of my

• 45:36Bill Maher?

  Your core audience.

• 45:37Speaker 02

  I guess I have more voters than I realized.

• 45:40Bill Maher?

  Your core audience.

• 45:41Speaker 02

  I, I totally forgot about them.

• 45:43Bill Maher?

  You must own the bros. First of all, they, the bros are Republican.

• 45:47Speaker 02

  Well, here's what's happened. Socialism has captivated people because everyone has, this is my

• 45:55Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 45:55Speaker 02

  This is my thought.

• 45:56Bill Maher?

  Sure.

• 45:57Speaker 02

  I feel like people are all hyped on socialism because they're like, everything's so expensive. America's failed. Give me money. But what they're forgetting is all the people that these socialists are saying they're taking the money and giving it, they're gonna leave and then they're not gonna have any money to take from these people to give to you. I keep telling people, the way we get you money is stopping the socialism, letting that successful, rich people Build businesses, build restaurants, put money into your pocket because there's more jobs. There's more opportunity. That's how we actually get you more money. To lie to you and tell you, "We're gonna tax these rich people." "We already taxed so much in L.A. in California. I can't even comprehend taxing more."

• 46:38Speaker 02

  What's happening is we tax these people and then other rich people, this champagne socialist scammers, steal that money because they're all connected to the people taxing them. And then the people that should see the money, the communities, the after, the boys and girls' clubs, the parks, the, the, the actual infrastructure doesn't see that money because different rich people stole the money that was being taxed from the rich people. So I actually feel like Robin Hood because I'm coming in and I'm gonna say, "Where's all this money?" "We're done with everyone stealing the tax money. We're gonna actually put it to the people that have turned to socialism because they say, 'America doesn't work.'" "It doesn't work if we let people steal all the tax money and we have no accountability and transparency."

• 47:23Bill Maher?

  And you know, I mean, look, I mean, you're not the first guy to say these kind of things. It's all who can actually do it. Who can stand up to what is going to come up against you when you actually try to implement? I, but really, I mean, this state-

• 47:41Speaker 02

  I promise you, I'm the one.

• 47:42Bill Maher?

  Okay, and I hope you are.

• 47:43Speaker 02

  I am the one. I, I hate these people so much.

• 47:48Bill Maher?

  I know.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  When you said, "Don't be so personal," it's personal for me.

• 47:51Bill Maher?

  And look, it's, it's kinda good in a way that you are the douchebag because like you're, if you're already hated, then you don't have to, because, trust me, what you're going to go up against is a state that is just full of special interests, all of which are very, very powerful. I mean, it, it, you can't do anything in this state without like getting a license or an inspection. I bitched about this many times. I wanted to change my garage door. It was built as a three and it really is only for two. I'm a humble man. It's not a three-car garage. You ever built that, wanted to big themselves up and tell some chick, "I got a three"? You don't. You have a two-car garage.

• 48:31Bill Maher?

  And that's fine. I have one car. I'm a simple man. One car, one house, one plane. Simple person. No. So, just to get my garage door changed, took three inspections. First of all, why are you inspecting it all? I'll handle it. I'm a homeowner. I'm an adult. I don't need you looking over my shoulder because I'm changing a garage door or throwing a frisbee or braiding hair or anything else. They want to get their beak wet, charging a fee for a license or some bullshit. This state is all these fucking pigs at the trough.

• 49:09Speaker 02

  Let me give you a perfect example. My house burns down. Back to my favorite thing. Ready? No, watch, watch, no, watch, watch.

• 49:15Bill Maher?

  I'm gonna fucking burn down the next one if you don't shut up about the fucking house.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  Watch, watch this. Ready?

• 49:19Bill Maher?

  Oh, boo, your house burned down.

• 49:22Speaker 02

  Look at this.

• 49:22Bill Maher?

  You know, but your campaign is fire.

• 49:24Speaker 02

  Let me.

• 49:26Bill Maher?

  Good night, everybody.

• 49:27Speaker 02

  So, look at this. They are in court telling me they had no legal responsibility to make sure my house doesn't burn down.

• 49:34Bill Maher?

  Who said, who said?

• 49:35Speaker 02

  The city.

• 49:36Bill Maher?

  The city.

• 49:36Speaker 02

  So, but yet, the city, if I want to rebuild right now with my California Fair Plan, one million dollars I got, they want to put a million two into caissons into the dirt because now to be up to the zone for the hill I live in, these caissons weren't there.

• 49:51Bill Maher?

  What are caissons?

• 49:52Speaker 02

  That go into the bedrock. This house was 60 years old. I didn't have these.

• 49:56Bill Maher?

  What's a caisson?

• 49:57Speaker 02

  They're like circular things that go into the ground, deep down to like hold the house together. Because now they care.

• 50:04Bill Maher?

  Well, they sound important.

• 50:05Speaker 02

  They, well, they sound, they didn't care that my house burned down and they don't, and they say. So, now they've changed the zoning that I need a million two in, things that go down the dirt that weren't there for 60 years.

• 50:17Bill Maher?

  But was your house in a place, because a lot of houses in LA are in places that are precarious because, I mean, that's probably why the caisson is down there because.

• 50:26Speaker 02

  They weren't there.

• 50:27Bill Maher?

  I know, but like.

• 50:28Speaker 02

  Now they want them?

• 50:29Bill Maher?

  No, but because they've. Oh, the, the casings.

• 50:32Speaker 02

  They were never there. For sixty years, this house was there.

• 50:35Bill Maher?

  And they were supposed to be?

• 50:36Speaker 02

  No. This is the new thing. So like you're saying, with your

• 50:40Bill Maher?

  But without?

• 50:41Speaker 02

  Three people come in, showing up. It's just more money, more money. How can we tack? How can we bill you more? How can we have more red tape?

• 50:48Bill Maher?

  Yes.

• 50:49Speaker 02

  How can we stop building?

• 50:50Bill Maher?

  No, it's

• 50:51Speaker 02

  That's why these Yimby people, I keep telling them, I'm gonna be the savior of the Yimby people. Do you know what a Yimby is?

• 50:57Bill Maher?

  Not in my backyard.

• 50:58Speaker 02

  No, no, that's a NIMBY.

• 50:59Bill Maher?

  Oh, what's a Yimby?

• 51:00Speaker 02

  Yimby, yes, in my backyard.

• 51:01Bill Maher?

  Yes, in my backyard.

• 51:02Speaker 02

  So these people think I, I'm anti them because I stopped, I tried to stop the Yimby people from putting

• 51:09Bill Maher?

  You're not anti them, you're pro them.

• 51:10Speaker 02

  I want building. Don't, don't There's a confusion. I want to build all across LA in all the space we have. I don't want it to be in a street where you can't put a seven-story building because of everyone needs to evacuate, there's no parking. They think everyone rides bikes. People don't, not everybody rides bikes. I wish, this sounds like a, woo, yay, Wizard of Oz, we all ride bikes. No, we don't. People have cars. And there's no parking now. So we need to find where you can put these beautiful buildings, art deco buildings. I'm gonna work with some incredible architects all across the city, but not next to the single-family house. So I'm all about building and cutting red tape and stopping this bureaucracy.

• 51:55Speaker 02

  But they think, because I didn't want a seven-story cement building on a street that you can't even park on in a high-fire severity zone, and I was like, no, we can't do that here. Like, oh, he's a NIMBY. I'm like, no, I, let's build. We need things to be more affordable. We need more housing. But it needs to be where all the naked drug addicts are that we're gonna move and put to beautiful nature with the Air One combo plates.

• 52:18Bill Maher?

  Stop talking about the naked drug addicts. Naked pictures, naked drug addicts.

• 52:22Speaker 02

  They're all naked. They are all naked. I have to tell the truth.

• 52:25Bill Maher?

  Really?

• 52:26Speaker 02

  They are all naked.

• 52:27Bill Maher?

  How do you know this?

• 52:28Speaker 02

  I'm gonna say, you said you don't want the videos.

• 52:30Bill Maher?

  I don't.

• 52:30Speaker 02

  They're coming your way.

• 52:31Bill Maher?

  I'm asking.

• 52:32Speaker 02

  They're coming your way.

• 52:33Bill Maher?

  Tell me verbally.

• 52:34Speaker 02

  Verbally, for some reason, when you're on super meth and fentanyl, you end up naked.

• 52:38Bill Maher?

  Oh.

• 52:39Speaker 02

  And these people are on that, and they are butt naked in the middle of the street, in front of schools, in front of parks.

• 52:45Bill Maher?

  No, it's, it's

• 52:46Speaker 02

  This is not made up.

• 52:48Bill Maher?

  No, no, no, I agree. And look

• 52:49Speaker 02

  It's gonna get me elected because I'm saying the truth.

• 52:51Bill Maher?

  Right. And you, you, you absolutely

• 52:55Bill Maher?

  Do not sound like someone who has been massaged in the least by consultants, campaign managers.

• 53:02Speaker 02

  I don't have one consultant or a campaign manager.

• 53:04Bill Maher?

  And keep it that way.

• 53:04Speaker 02

  A hundred percent.

• 53:05Bill Maher?

  I'm telling you, you either, you should either live or die with exactly what you're doing.

• 53:09Speaker 02

  Facts.

• 53:10Bill Maher?

  The thing about the bikes, I love it. Keep that in.

• 53:13Speaker 02

  No, but again, I will make bike lanes in downtown where the zombies were. They're gonna have, I say we're gonna build bike lanes in the sky, like Dubai, they're gonna go through tubes.

• 53:23Bill Maher?

  It's just, it's just a great metaphor for one of the liberals' bad qualities, which is like, they imagine what the world should be and then just pronounce that it is. Like, no, we're not there. And you, you just can't, you just can't decree.

• 53:37Speaker 02

  My favorite other thing that the people love to attack me, like, he's never been on a metro or the train. Everybody that sends me videos of the drug addicts in the fentanyl, pooping on the, on the metro. I'm gonna make people actually wanna use public transportation, cuz I'm gonna make it safe and I'm gonna take the human poop off of it. So, they're gonna love me. These people that think that they don't love me, give me a couple of years, you're gonna be wearing shirts with my face on it, like, NBA Spencer, he, he loves transportation. Nobody's gonna go on the transportation if you have drug addicts that are doing drugs, pooping on the seats, attacking the nice old ladies. We need to make it safe and clean. This is a society.

• 54:21Speaker 02

  This is not breaking news. You have to have a safe, clean society, to have functioning transportation, to build, to put money. We have lost the plot so crazy, and again, let's rewind. The only reason I'm even in this running is because these people failed me. If they had been Republicans, if Newsom was Republican, I would've gone against Newsom. If Mayor Bass was a Republican, I would go, I didn't say, oh, I'm going after them cuz they are part of the Democratic Party.

• 54:48Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 54:49Speaker 02

  No, they failed me as a taxpaying citizen.

• 54:51Bill Maher?

  You're right.

• 54:52Speaker 02

  That's it. I don't go, I will smoke you if you're a Republican and you burn my mom's house down.

• 54:58Bill Maher?

  Right.

• 54:59Speaker 02

  Like.

• 54:59Bill Maher?

  Again with the house burning.

• 55:01Speaker 02

  This is.

• 55:02Bill Maher?

  Okay.

• 55:03Speaker 02

  It's the real, you know, I'm telling you, it's very real for these old ladies that cry in my arms.

• 55:09Bill Maher?

  No, I remember a friend of mine's house burned down in one of our other many fires. And I never talked to somebody about, and he said, it's so interesting, interesting charitable word, but he had a good attitude about it. He said, you know, I don't even have any clothes. Like I have nothing to wear. So you know, you're all you're, you never think about that. All his clothes were in the house, the house burned down. And it's like, suddenly you're like, okay, we're better off than a lot of people. We're not in a FEMA camp. We were rich enough to stay at a hotel, but yeah, I have no clothes now, like, and you can imagine.

• 55:42Speaker 02

  So when I first started running for mayor, I would go to meetings and I'm wearing my wife's merch as a shirt. And people would say.

• 55:48Bill Maher?

  Wife, big tits or smaller tits?

• 55:50Speaker 02

  They're lovely. They're lovely.

• 55:52Bill Maher?

  I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

• 55:53Speaker 02

  They're, they're, they're a beautiful size. I'm very blessed to be married to her. So I'm wearing her shirt and I'm in, all I have is these shirts. That's all I had. And people would go, you gotta dress in suits. I said, I had suits. They all burned down.

• 56:07Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 56:07Speaker 02

  People can't come in. I don't have a photo of my entire life before an iPhone, maybe five, when I, iPhone six, cause my parents' house also burned down. There's not a single thing from my life, period. So that like this idea that when people go, oh, he's that guy from the reality show. I referenced the fire, cause the guy from post-January 7th has nothing to do with the guy trying to be famous, being the famous douchebag to get checks, to get clickbait. That's a different human being. They don't connect.

• 56:41Bill Maher?

  By the way, the reality show guy thing, that is a complete non-issue. We are so far past that. Trump is twice elected president. He was a game show host and a businessman and Reagan was a bad actor. And you know, we are so far past where the public gives a shit if you went to Harvard. In fact, they'd probably more likely hold it against you. And they're kind of right. I mean.

• 57:05Speaker 02

  My opponent went to Harvard and she can't even talk in a debate.

• 57:07Bill Maher?

  Harvard is.

• 57:08Speaker 02

  And MIT. She can't, she's holding the microphone like this.

• 57:11Bill Maher?

  It's, look, some great people have come out of.

• 57:13Speaker 02

  I'm not shading the universities. I'm just saying, it doesn't mean you can run anything though.

• 57:19Bill Maher?

  I'll be happy to shade them.

• 57:20Speaker 02

  Like you could read a book.

• 57:21Bill Maher?

  No, some great people have come out of Harvard, but it's also an asshole factory. The kids are chanting for Hamas. We don't have to get into that issue, but like, please.

• 57:32Speaker 02

  This is an issue, I will go here because I grew up in LA. All my best friends are Jewish. I grew up going to crossroads. I've been to more bar and bat mitzvahs than I had been to church till I was maybe still tied. To the point where, of course, when I'm running for mayor, I'm going to temples. I'm supporting my Jewish friends. The level of psycho-Nazi lunacy that came at me to just say that I want my friends and family to feel safe in LA, to feel safe if their kids go to UCLA. I had to see, if the only thing that came out of this whole experience, there's a lot of things, if I, God forbid, or God's plan, I don't win, to see what people experience right now just because of their religion is diabolical.

• 58:16Speaker 02

  And again, I don't care if you're Muslim. I don't care what, I don't care how you identify, I don't care if you're trans, I don't care, whatever you do, but you should have the right to do that and feel safe. Wherever you are, whether it's going to school, going to your popping trans bar, whatever it is. You should feel safe and not feel in danger. And that's my, back to my common sense.

• 58:39Bill Maher?

  Right, and again, this is a California conservative. You're not some fire breather from the church of blah blah in Kansas who's saying like, "Trans is not in the Bible." We're Californians, even when we're conservative, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, we're not, they're not, and I'm not a Republican for sure, but they're not crazy people. In fact, the most popular people in this country, political wise, you know who they are? Republican governors of blue states. Because it's a blue state, so the people bend liberal. But they don't want the craziness that this state has in its one-party rule. So, you know, Larry Hogan in Maryland.

• 59:21Bill Maher?

  I think the dude in Boston for a while, in Massachusetts for a while. Like, you elect a Republican governor, they can't be like fire-breathing conservatives. But they have to be practical and smart and be cool again with trans and gay and all these social issues that most of America is over now. Most of America isn't racist, there's polling on this. They're cool with interracial marriage, they want to live in mixed neighborhoods. Of course, there's assholes out there still, and there will be forever. But, you know, just, I always say, "Let's live in the year we're living in." And in that year... Like, the old way here is not working. You know, look at our numbers. This, I mean, this is your speech you should be making, not mine.

• 1:00:05Bill Maher?

  But, you know, the numbers are not good. Facts don't lie. We, we spend a lot more trying to educate a kid in this, in this state, and do worse than places that spend way less. And part of that is because the teachers' union is so strong. Are you, are you, there's a great question for you, Mr. Candid. Are you strong enough to buck the unions? Because-

• 1:00:28Speaker 02

  So thankfully, this is the biggest thing that I go against. Because, you know, my opponent, Mayor Bass, says every single union endorses her. And they go, "How are you gonna win with the unions?" Every person that comes in, up to me in the streets, they're connected to some union. And they say, "We all love you." But it's the leadership, political powers, whether it's the police department, the fire department, the, any union. The Longshoremen, I was in San Pedro this weekend with the Longshoremen. These people all support my message. The union leadership never reflects actually what the people who have kids and the community, they don't connect. That's the backroom dealing that, as mayor,

• 1:01:12Speaker 02

  I will do whatever I can to make sure the membership. Because with the disconnect from the membership to then the politicians, because even the people in the unions, they're politicians. Even the police department that's at the high, politician. The chief of the fire department, politician. The people below him, politicians. We need the people that are actually the ones in the, on the ground level to get their say connecting to what the mayor or the city council. That's the disconnect. People think these unions reflect with the leadership. I'm talking to the members. They're all voting for me. They don't agree with the, the little backroom dealing, the little, they want the same things as the rest of Los Angeles. The Angelinos want. Even though it's that small percentage,

• 1:01:56Speaker 02

  they're still moms, husbands, hardworking people paying their taxes, having to go to these same parks, go to the street. So, as mayor, I'm not anti-union, but I'm gonna make sure the union leadership actually connects to the people that are in the unions. Not this, you know, we're just being scammed.

• 1:02:16Bill Maher?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:16Speaker 02

  We're being scammed, across the board.

• 1:02:20Bill Maher?

  You had me at hello.

• 1:02:21Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:02:22Bill Maher?

  I'm just saying, on this, I mean, on so many of these things, and you just have the exact right, I didn't know until I talked to you, honestly, today, but you have the exact right impatience with this shit. It's very authentic. You're impatience with it, and you know, and you're just, it's good. Just keep doing what you're doing. We'll see when the chips fall. I know you gotta run to another meeting. Your schedule must be crazy these days.

• 1:02:49Speaker 02

  It is a blessing.

• 1:02:51Bill Maher?

  But you must like, love it, right?

• 1:02:52Speaker 02

  I got in this. I got in this.

• 1:02:54Bill Maher?

  On a personal level, everywhere you go, it's like, ooh, we love you.

• 1:02:57Speaker 02

  No, no, there's a lot of middle fingers. There's crazy people.

• 1:03:00Bill Maher?

  There is?

• 1:03:00Speaker 02

  Oh, there's.

• 1:03:01Bill Maher?

  But where are you going now? You're going to some...

• 1:03:04Speaker 02

  Every now and then, like, I was in Koreatown, even though she wasn't Korean, she was Filipino. She flicked me off with the N95. And the Koreans were all like, she's not with us. But my point is...

• 1:03:14Bill Maher?

  I saw the video of you're, David Foster is playing the piano. It's a fundraiser for you. Catherine McPhee, his wife, is singing. What is, what's the song? You're the best, you're the top, or something? I mean, this has got to all feel very good.

• 1:03:30Speaker 02

  It does, but you gotta realize, I haven't seen my kids now in months. My kids cry on FaceTime, where's our dad? My wife...

• 1:03:37Bill Maher?

  Okay, don't say this.

• 1:03:38Speaker 02

  No, this is real.

• 1:03:39Bill Maher?

  No, no, no, no.

• 1:03:40Speaker 02

  So, this is, you gotta realize.

• 1:03:41Bill Maher?

  I think what you mean, Spencer.

• 1:03:43Speaker 02

  No, I'm saying...

• 1:03:44Bill Maher?

  Spencer, what you mean is family comes first.

• 1:03:47Speaker 02

  That's my point. I mean, obviously, I drive all the way to go see them, but it's not this, I'm not Tom Cruise getting to promote Top Gun 3.

• 1:03:54Bill Maher?

  Tom Cruise doesn't see his kid at all because she's a suppressive person.

• 1:03:58Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, this idea that this is like, they try to say, ooh, Spencer loves this, he's getting all this clout.

• 1:04:05Bill Maher?

  I put something in his drink. It's just what I do.

• 1:04:08Speaker 02

  I'm just saying, fighting these people is less fun than you would think.

• 1:04:12Bill Maher?

  I love it, that you're more politically incorrect than me.

• 1:04:16Speaker 02

  It's not as like, oh, yay, you know. And I'm fine, I don't know who's judging me. I had two hours, for sure.

• 1:04:23Bill Maher?

  Trump proved it. You don't, you don't have to, like, play the political game. You can just talk exactly like you talk. And people love it. They had enough of politi-- you know, these politicians. Never do this one. Like, we can do better if we just, you know, and it's like, oh.

• 1:04:46Speaker 02

  No, I will say, this is the funniest part about this journey. The last thing is, I didn't know what a stump speech was. So when I started going to these events, they go, did you prepare your stump speech? I go, what are you talking about? Like, you're speaking, I go, I can't remember a speech. So every one of my events is just, you don't know what you're getting.

• 1:05:06Bill Maher?

  Yeah, but you must say the same thing. Yeah, you can't.

• 1:05:08Speaker 02

  I'm no more human poop, no more naked zombie, you know. It's very foundation.

• 1:05:14Bill Maher?

  Keep the thing about the bike. We don't ride bikes.

• 1:05:17Speaker 02

  That's breaking news. I never dropped a bike till today, so I'll bring it.

• 1:05:20Bill Maher?

  Thank you.

• 1:05:20Speaker 02

  All right, thank you.

• 1:05:26Speaker 02

  Do I get to keep this bottle?

• 1:05:27Bill Maher?

  Yes, absolutely. Yes, the club random can get fucked up on their own.

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