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When leadership fails: Wildfires, Hollywood, and political power · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:14
  Well, hello, everyone.
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  I'm reporting here from Washington, D.C.
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  Right now.
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  And I say reporting because there's so much breaking news happening.
• 0:23
  I didn't even know what to speak about today, but I thought, let's start with the good things that are going on in the country that made me happy this last week.
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  The most important thing that happened to me is the reality star Spencer Pratt running for the mayor of Los Angeles.
• 0:49
  To me, that was the most incredible news I've heard in a very long time.
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  And for a lot of reasons.
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  Today I'm going to be speaking about local government overall, because there's so much people don't know about when it comes to local government, unless you live in that city or that state or what your local mayor is doing, and there's always scandals around those things and local politicians, especially in New Jersey where I live, it's from the top to the bottom, all kinds of things going on locally in our local politics that affect the bigger picture.
• 1:31
  And I learned that from many friends of mine who work in research who have shown me that when things are done at the local level, a lot of change can happen, a lot of awareness and then accountability that we may never hear about because it's not our territory, our home.
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  It's buried in the news.
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  The mainstream media, we've talked about that many times.
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  But this news about Spencer Pratt, I really want to talk about today because it was something I've been following ever since the Palisades fire in California.
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  Now I'm sure many of you have heard of what happened there in in bits and pieces because it was again a huge story, obviously, but there was so much other horrific things going on, newsworthy things going on.
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  It didn't quite stay in the news cycle as many tragedies do, but the victims are still left behind.
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  It actually gets worse because there's no awareness of the story when the cameras go away.
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  But let me give you a little background about the Palisades, California terrain first for people who do not live there, have never been there, only seen pictures.
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  So if you live in Hollywood, California, I lived in Hollywood for many years.
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  If you wanted to get to, let's say Malibu, California, which we always did a day trip here and there, you'd have to go through the Calabasas area, which is where the Kardashians are from.
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  And then you'd go further out and you'd go through the Pacific Palisades to get to Malibu.
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  And the Pacific Palisades is this small area in California that has a lot of history.
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  Um Hollywood actors often lived there because it was out of the mainstream.
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  It was away from the darker areas when I say what was going on in Hollywood and the crime or whatever.
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  It was just uh very family-oriented, and celebrities would often gravitate there because it's near the ocean, but it also had this great shopping area, and it just had a bit of a rural feel to it than Hollywood.
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  And it's a beautiful area.
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  But, you know, some of the homes are large, some of them are smaller.
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  Yeah, they're there, it's beautiful.
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  And they've had fires out in California for forever.
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  It's, you know, you're basically in a desert pretty much in California anyway.
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  And Malibu has had several fires.
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  I've been out there a few times during those fires, and even a friend of mine had her husband was out in the backyard with the hose, you know, keeping the the is as wet as possible the border of their home, which was thankfully unharmed by one of the fires, one of the bigger fires in the last five to ten years.
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  But it's it's an expected event.
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  The Santa Ana winds come in when I tell you that is unbelievable.
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  It's it's dry, it's your eyes hurt.
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  It's just it's predictable as that's what I'm trying to tell everybody.
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  So when the Palisades fire happened, it has come to light that the governor and mayor bass were delinquent for the for the the least uh most simplistic word I can use for their crimes.
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  I say crimes because they people died in this the Palisades fire.
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  They knew that this was coming because it always does.
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  There's always fires and some extreme regulations regarding plants that couldn't be taken down.
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  So it became like embers to get the fire going.
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  I mean, people lost everything, everything, everything.
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  Their homes were burned to the ground, people died, there was no evacuation plan.
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  The mayor of of what may Bass was in another country when it happened, wasn't on site, the reservoirs were not filled, the firefighters would come and there was no water in the um reservoirs to to pump from fire hydrants were empty.
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  I mean, it was a it was an absolute disaster from top to bottom.
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  And if you went to Malibu or on the water where these houses burned down right there off the Palisades, you have to understand it's one house next to another.
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  It's not an area where there's a big development on the water.
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  So this whole area in front of the ocean burnt down to the ground.
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  So you you're driving on the Palisades on the highway there, and you just see water.
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  The helms are gone.
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  Devastating, devastating the entire region.
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  One of the homes that was burnt to the ground was Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montaug.
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  I'm gonna mispronounce probably her name.
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  I'm sorry, I'm not a I was not a I did not watch their reality show in the 90s.
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  Uh I was not a ra reality show watcher.
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  I was one of those anti-reality show people because it really destroyed our industry and the scripted space.
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  Plus, the generation of watching those shows was not mine.
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  Uh I would see them as a couple here and there, and then they had children, and I guess Heidi had a musical career.
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  I mean, it was a reality show supercouple.
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  And the thing about the two of them is that they sustained that marriage and that relationship, which again, hats off to them.
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  But you know, I was not interested in their day-to-day.
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  I I didn't, it didn't interest me when it came to a reality show.
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  It wasn't one that I was drawn to.
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  Well, their home burned to their ground to the ground.
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  The schools where their children went to and their friends burned, it's totally devastated.
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  And here's where things took a an interesting turn for me.
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  Uh as someone who's been through something extremely difficult and having to be an advocate and speak out.
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  I started to see Spencer Pratt calling out Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom for their think of the word.
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  It's just they're uh being complicit in this fires and what they didn't do and what they were trying to do to handcuff the people who live there to rebuild to they were ticketing people who were coming back in to their homes to try to clear them out.
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  They're they're not giving permits, they're holding things up.
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  You know, the whole conspiracy theory was that they were burning this entire town down so that they could put in high density housing, which again, if you had been to California and been to the Palisades, it is not that type of location in a sense that it's it is flat.
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  You know, it is kind of this uh small town, and there was a lot of old generational, I wouldn't even say wealth there.
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  I would say people who had grown up there and then they lived in their families' houses and then you'd have blended in Hollywood actors and producers and television people, movie people, but they weren't their houses were not like the mansions of Beverly Hills.
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  So it was very quaint.
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  Uh it it didn't have that feeling of uh this obnoxious.
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  In your face wealth.
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  Let's just put it that way.
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  And there's this development in the Pacific Palisades with stores and uh it's just like this this little area where you could go shopping and this and that.
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  And the owner, and again, I'm not, I don't know his name, but the man who developed that property put in sprinkler systems when he built that property, and I believe his own kind of fire department for I maybe misspeaking there, but someone like a private company to protect that space.
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  And guess what?
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  When the fires came, it did not burn down.
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  It it stood, it stood and still standing because he was prepared, right?
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  It's that's what you're supposed to do.
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  You know the terrain, you know the space, you have to prepare.
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  And when you have empty reservoirs and fire hydrants that are empty, and people are being told to stand down and not come to help, and you you know, there's still something really shady going on, and there's nobody more shady than Gavin Newsom.
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  I'm he's he's the he is he is beyond, he is beyond for so many reasons.
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  But so Spencer Pratt starts calling these people out, he's got evidence, he's got paperwork, he speaks to Congress.
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  He's in DC, he's he's doing all the things that you should be doing when you want to be an advocate, but he's not just an avid, he's a victim, and he's been doing these podcasts from his burnt out piece of land with his wife, and it's been very powerful.
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  And then I couldn't stop watching because I was like, yes, he's he's pushing back, and I'm thinking, wow, they're not gonna like this at all.
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  Because he has a platform, a huge following, and he's far and beyond what most of the residents that live there or lived there have, and he's using his platform to bring awareness and accountability and calling out these politicians immediately when they lie, which I love, like in real time.
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  It's it's been fantastic to watch.
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  I encourage you all to follow him.
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  And then as time has gone on, I his voice got louder, and then the politicians started pushing back on him, like, oh, if he's not saying anything that's of value, why do they care?
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  Why are they responding?
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  So I don't know Spencer Pratt.
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  I don't know anything about him, but I could imagine that someone in his space said, you know, something, why don't you run for mayor?
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  He's thinking, well, why would I want to do that?
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  Why would I want to do that?
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  Get into politics.
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  And maybe some time went on, and there was still nothing happening, and people were still suffering, couldn't rebuild their homes.
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  Uh, there's a there's an a other uh celebrities that live there that have spoken out, but you don't hear it about it.
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  You don't see them constantly speaking about it, or if you do, the platform is small, so it kind of gets lost, and there's been really it's been over a year, and they've haven't done anything out in the Palisades to remedy these issues.
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  So, like they wouldn't give them permits for clearing their property, and then they'd have to just pick it up three months, six months, eight months.
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  So, what they're trying to do, come on, let's be real.
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  What they're trying to do is just break these people and buy their property for pennies on the dollar, and the people are so frustrated and had enough, they just do it.
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  And there'll be a success, they will be successful.
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  I mean, they will definitely be successful.
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  But in the meantime, Spencer Pratt's like, hmm, maybe I'm going to run for mayor, and that's exactly what he did.
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  So when the day came that he did that, I was so happy because a couple reasons.
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  From the personal standpoint, I love the fact that he's taking something, this experience that he had, this horrific experience that he had and turning it into something positive.
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  Because he has no choice.
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  He said, I have no choice, I have to do this.
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  It's I have to help the people of my state of this city that I love so much.
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  But from the entertainment side from me, that was I wouldn't say equally exciting, because that's you can't put what they've done lost and the lives that were lost anywhere in the same category as what the entertainment industry has lost in Los Angeles, which is everything.
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  I mean, everything.
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  When I tell you that, first of all, Hollywood is a dump when it comes to the what has happened and what the visuals that I've seen the last time I was there, as far as the homelessness and the verbal assaults and this used to be the epicenter of glitz and glamour, and yeah, of course, you'd go down Hollywood Boulevard sometimes and see something that was a little off, but that was kind of the I wouldn't say charm of it, because that's the wrong word, but I would definitely say the the one of the more uh interesting parts of it, right?
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  Uh the sightseeing part of it, but you could go to the Chinese theater, you could go to all these things and really just enjoy seeing the uh walk of fame.
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  Now when you go to Hollywood, it's so depressing, it's so depressing.
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  I I lived there for years for about three years in the center of West Hollywood, which was always known for the partying and the Sunset Strip, and it was that was part of the culture of the town, the Chateau Marmont, where it was just Hollywood history of the good and the bad and the ugly of it all, but it was still this iconic place where deals were made and bad things happened, bad decisions, but it was all part of the Hollywood story, and you could walk up into the Hollywood Hills.
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  My friend had a home in the Hollywood Hills where he could walk right down to the Sunset Strip and to the comedy store and and see a great comic of the, you know, you could go to the comedy store on Sunset Strip and you would see movie stars, SNL stars trying out their material.
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  Like it was every night there was something going on.
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  They had a place called the Formosa Cafe, which when I was living there was this tiny little bar restaurant where every Hollywood actor, young Hollywood actor would hang out and just hang out and talk.
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  The early days when I I would go there and Matthew Perry, who would just done a series that didn't go before Friends, you know, like that kind of generation, um, you know, the show entourage was based on the goings-on of Hollywood, and again, crazy, but it was filled with creativity, filled with artists, and it was a unique time, and now because of very poor decisions on the part of not just the state not allowing uh filmmaking to be done there because of the tax credits, but it's like a ghost town, and it's a ghost town that is so sad to drive down Hollywood Boulevard or or you know, again, it was never the uh the fancy road that you would think of, but it was definitely iconic in its sense of uh what was going on there creatively, and now it's boarded up buildings and homeless encampments and the the governor and the mayor, they have failed the human species in that city and state.
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  So you know, when Spencer Pratt, not only does he coming back saying that he's going to face these issues head on, he's a victim of it.
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  And I truly believe he will win.
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  And what happens if he wins?
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  Everything changes.
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  Now, again, he's gonna be up against the same issues that anybody would be up against.
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  But the difference is he has a platform that most people don't.
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  And the what I love about that is, you know, when actors or celebrities, whoever, when they become part of the uh political scene, they get a lot of attention.
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  Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, California, as he would say, talk about the American dream.
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  Unbelievable.
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  Movie star, Hollywood, glamorous when it came to his family and the what we love to watch, but it it goes deeper than that.
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  It's as a country, we need escapism in our storytelling in our entertainment, and when the central town of Hollywood, which creates.
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  Entertainment for global audiences is dead.
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  I mean dead when it comes to production.
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  What that means is people are out of work.
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  Costume designers, set designers, makeup artists.
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  You name it.
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  It's it's a trickle-down effect in the industry that is in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of affected people.
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  And everyone's leaving.
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  I've known actors, producers, directors, who moved out a long time ago.
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  Moved out first out of Los Angeles, sometimes to Palm Springs, sometimes Montana.
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  Away.
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  Maybe it was because of their children in the school.
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  Maybe it was because the culture, they didn't want to raise their children there.
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  Maybe it was their second home that they wanted to just work in Los Angeles.
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  It was happening a long time ago.
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  But what happened now is there's no work.
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  So here you have it's so interesting to me.
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  Is that a reality star.
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  Those shows took out so much of the scripted world.
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  They destroyed so now that's not Spencer Pratt's fault that there was an audience that made him very wealthy and very famous.
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  It's not his fault.
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  But look what's happening.
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  If he wins, the city changes.
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  First of all, he needs to make it safer.
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  It's just make it safer for the Palisades, the crazy regulations and rules and restrictions on businesses.
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  I mean, people can't afford to open a business in Hollywood anymore.
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  There's all these codes that you have to follow.
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  I mean, it is it is almost impossible to run a business in California now.
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  Because of all the regulations.
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  Now, I'm not saying he's going to solve everything.
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  That that, you know, that that's there's there's no magic sauce to that.
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  But it gives me hope.
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  It really does.
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  And I think because I've been a part of the political scene in the last few years, uh reluctantly, and have been asked to run for office, and I have no interest whatsoever.
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  None.
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  I'm I'm tired of it.
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  And I see how slowly things work here, and I'm not going to spend the next 10, 20 years of my life trying to roll that boulder up the hill, but I would definitely help support the people who are trying to do that.
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  The good people that are trying to do that, and Spencer is definitely one of them.
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  I hoped I get to meet him.
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  I love his personality.
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  I love how he tells the story.
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  He gets right to it.
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  He doesn't sugarcoat it.
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  He calls him out.
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  It's what I've been doing for my family for for five years.
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  And I don't have a hundredth of the following that he has.
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  I don't have that kind of interest.
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  Reality television stars have a much more uh feverish support for them because there's so much behind their stories that are filled with supposedly kind of real angst and and energy and fighting and you know, drama, and which, you know, a lot of it's manufactured.
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  But there's only been a handful that have come over to the other side of success.
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  And and Spencer and Heidi are two of those people.
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  And here they are just trying to live their lives with their children, raising them in the Pacific Palisades, sending them to school, trying to have normal lives for Hollywood, which is so hard, and then tragedy strikes, and their lives are changed forever.
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  But like myself, it's it takes you into a new normal that you never asked for.
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  And you have two choices.
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  You could either lean into it, put a period on it, move on, which is all fine, or you can be an advocate and take it to the next level, which is what he's doing.
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  I really pray that he wins.
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  I think it sends a big message to the country, similar to what's going on in New York.
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  It's the polar opposite of what happened in New York and the mayor of New York.
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  I mean, there is no more opposite type of peep personas than Spencer Pratt and Mondami.
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  Now, not because of politics.
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  I'm not saying that, just personality-wise what the drive is to have that kind of power.
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  And I really think that Spencer Pratt has the right message and the right mission for the American people.
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  I do not think Mondami has anything close to that.
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  And I know that will be proven to be so in the as he continues to do whatever he attempts to do in New York City.
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  But strangely enough, there may be hope in Hollywood with the happy ending to the story where you go off into the sunset of the Malibu shores with Heidi and Spencer hand in hand as he rebuilds what has been literally burnt down by people who knew better, could have done something, and just let it burn.
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  So if you let it burn, someone has to rebuild it.
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  And I really believe that Smutser is that person.
• 25:51
  And coming up, we're going to talk about the opposite of that.
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• 25:58
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  This time I I started with the good news.
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  The positives that I see with Spencer Pratt running for governor.
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  Running for maybe someday.
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  Maybe that was a slip for mayor of Los Angeles.
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  But I try to sometimes take what appears to be bad news and look at it as good news.
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  I'm a glass half full person.
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  So I that's how I live my life.
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  It's worked for me, even though I'm sometimes lying to myself, it's easier to easier to lie to myself than sometimes accept the realities of some situations.
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  And but when it comes to politics and it comes to what the state of the world is today, I think we all have to look for the positives in the darkest times.
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  It does help.
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  But you know, you have this.
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  I I said earlier this dichotomy of Mandami in New York City.
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  Who I again, that that's a whole show.
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  That's a whole series I could go and do and talk about, but I really don't want to because I think it will take care of itself.
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  And I say it, I mean the it's already happening.
• 32:12
  I mean, I I can see it already that there's no real power in Mandami's hands, and he's starting to realize it pretty quickly out of the gate that it who's in charge after what happened in Venezuela, and Mondaro was plucked, let's say the plucked out of the country and then brought to New York City the day after Mondami says he's gonna, you know, he has all this power.
• 32:37
  It's like, no, you actually don't.
• 32:39
  The president of the United States has the power, and it's best to remember that it's not about you.
• 32:46
  You are not the king of all things, sir.
• 32:49
  There is someone who is your boss and who has the purse strings.
• 32:52
  This is how this works in reality.
• 32:54
  So I that first of all, what happened in Venezuela, it was unbelievable.
• 33:00
  Coming from a family of military, I understand what that entailed, the dangers, how impactful it will be for our world and our country.
• 33:11
  I'm so sick and tired of the keyboard warriors thinking they know X, Y, and Z about A, B, C, and I've given up on that and trying to I hate to use the words educate, but it's just tell the truth.
• 33:28
  But if the truth doesn't fit what someone wants to believe, they're not gonna believe it.
• 33:31
  I mean, I'm done with that.
• 33:33
  Done.
• 33:34
  The proof will be where it leads in the future, and that's what we'll see.
• 33:40
  That the results will come, and if it's successful, the people who hate Trump will ignore it.
• 33:45
  If it's not, they'll just use it as an example of why they hate him, why he's horrible.
• 33:49
  Anyway, that's that that's the pattern.
• 33:52
  And then what happened in Minneapolis with the ICE agent and that situation, and I say situation because unfortunately, I was married to a police officer who was run off the road by a car who almost killed him during a police chase.
• 34:14
  So I understand the realities of what law enforcement face because my husband was shot at many times.
• 34:22
  He was assaulted many times.
• 34:24
  He was run off the road at 50 miles an hour by a perpetrator in a car who had 19 felonies.
• 34:29
  But he didn't know that.
• 34:30
  My husband didn't know that.
• 34:31
  He was just getting this bad guy who had beaten up his girlfriend.
• 34:34
  Next thing you know, my husband's hitting a telephone pole of 50 miles an hour because some perpetrator wanted to kill him with a car.
• 34:41
  So I have a very personal position on that because I understand that if someone's not committing a crime, another crime would not have happened, which means the attempted murder on my husband.
• 34:55
  One goes with the other.
• 34:56
  If you weren't there, it would never have happened, if not for X, Y, and Z.
• 35:01
  It doesn't mean you can have an opinion about that.
• 35:04
  That's fine.
• 35:05
  But the reality is what goes on on the day-to-day with law enforcement cannot be surmised in even one clip or one of view of a camera.
• 35:17
  It's there has to be an investigation into any kind of crime, any kind of incident.
• 35:32
  That's just how it works.
• 35:34
  It's supposed to work, but in our culture today of all of it.
• 35:40
  You know, the these these it's it's insane, right?
• 35:43
  So I can weigh in on that all day long too and have conversations, but today I wanted to talk about the politics of that.
• 35:55
  Like before that incident happened in Minneapolis.
• 36:00
  We had the Mundami effect, we had all these things going on, and then Spencer Pratt, which was interesting, just this totally different personality running.
• 36:10
  And then there's always Tim Waltz.
• 36:12
  I mean, come on.
• 36:14
  So I want to give you a little insight, my own insight into what happened in Minnesota with Tim Waltz.
• 36:26
  So Tim Waltz was this.
• 36:34
  It was a guy, how do I even start?
• 36:36
  It was a man that the majority of the country really wasn't aware of.
• 36:42
  We heard about him in 2020 when he was hard on COVID, shutting things down, taking, I think it was the National Guard, screaming at people to stay in their homes.
• 36:54
  They were one of the worst lockdown states in the country, and we know why.
• 36:59
  It's all about control, it's all about politics.
• 37:01
  Let's never forget the burning down and the summer of love of 2020 and and his state.
• 37:08
  Um, I again I I highly recommend you see the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis about the uh George Floyd case.
• 37:17
  Again, there's the evidence.
• 37:19
  You watch it, you decide.
• 37:20
  It's fantastic to watch.
• 37:22
  It's very upsetting, but I think it's important.
• 37:24
  But here you go again.
• 37:26
  You have this documentary which shows all the evidence, and it still is a narrative throughout the country, throughout the world that has really not changed.
• 37:36
  It's slowly starting to change because you can't ignore the facts eventually.
• 37:42
  But in the meantime, the city burned.
• 37:45
  Waltz just ran with it with this, and then he brings it to the Congress, and oh, it was it it it it was this not just literal ball of flames, but it inflamed an entire country and the world.
• 37:59
  So shame on Tim Waltz from the beginning.
• 38:02
  Everybody knew that he was an extremist.
• 38:07
  But not only that, he was doing all these other radical actions that was destroying their state.
• 38:20
  And you'd hear about it a little on Fox News and you know, he's signing that you, you know, you can have driver's license, illegal immigrants can have driver's license, which means they can, I mean, it's a whole sh the whole thing.
• 38:32
  And you know, he did get the nickname Tampon Tim for a reason.
• 38:38
  Uh, you know, that that whole thing, what is ridiculous.
• 38:44
  It's just ins there's insanity.
• 38:47
  It's insanity.
• 38:48
  But that's my opinion.
• 38:50
  Um, unfortunately, there was not enough outrage at his actions that he kept getting under the under the radar.
• 39:00
  He never was truly called out, and then he's picked to be the Kamala's vice president candidate, and you think, all right, maybe now's the time we're gonna find out about it.
• 39:13
  Nope.
• 39:14
  He goes on and he's going out there and he's jazz-handing it, and he's uh doing the rallies and I it was the usual show.
• 39:30
  And they wanted him to be a manly man, he goes out and he can't shoot a shotgun or load a shotgun.
• 39:35
  He's pretending he's hunting, he's he's not there's nothing authentic about that man.
• 39:40
  Nothing, zero zilch, nothing.
• 39:42
  So they have to create it, which politicians they do anyway.
• 39:44
  I mean, it's a creative thing.
• 39:46
  It's a created usually it's very few authentic politicians, usually the ones that don't take any money, who just do their job, uh, which again, those are the ones we should gravitate towards and support.
• 40:00
  Whether you like all their positions or not, if they're doing it based on the fact that it's what they believe to be the right thing for their constituents, we should support them.
• 40:07
  Tim Waltz is not that person.
• 40:10
  Now I can sit here and say that because throughout my years of investigating my husband's case, there have been just opportunities to see other cases and fraud and money laundering, whatever the heck is going on across the country.
• 40:26
  And Minnesota was one of those places that you would hear about it.
• 40:32
  You would hear, oh, and you'd read about it and you'd see in the stories, but like really nobody else knew about it.
• 40:40
  And then a YouTuber named Nick Shirley came along and exposed it all on a YouTube channel.
• 40:47
  This was all being done already.
• 40:49
  There were people that were arrested, and we called it low-hanging fruit.
• 40:52
  So the low-hanging fruit, they would arrest people under investigations, checking the box, and that gave Tim Waltz and anybody else, it's called plausible deniability to say, well, we got the guys.
• 41:06
  We got the, you know, we we've been looking at the looking at this.
• 41:09
  We've been looking at this for years.
• 41:10
  We've been looking at this, we've been looking at this.
• 41:12
  And meanwhile, it goes right to the top.
• 41:15
  And it's about donors and it's a mess.
• 41:20
  It's an absolute mess.
• 41:22
  So, you know.
• 41:25
  When Nick Shirley, his report came out with, and again, I I'm I the the man who actually did the did the years and years of documenting all this was with him.
• 41:37
  It was kind of put to the top of the food chain, meaning it started to get some traction.
• 41:43
  And it was undeniable.
• 41:45
  They couldn't hide from it anymore.
• 41:48
  Now, meanwhile, there were other YouTubers who were talking about these things for years.
• 41:52
  There were other organizations.
• 41:54
  There were there was there, it was out there, whatever there is, but the internet is so vast that it's it can get lost and forgotten very quickly.
• 42:07
  So why did this one stick?
• 42:10
  Well, I'll tell you.
• 42:13
  A few reasons that I've learned is that usually there's something behind it, meaning there's someone or something, some entity that wants it to be exposed.
• 42:24
  That's number one.
• 42:26
  Two, you had to have the person who wants it to be exposed on the such a global scale and such a huge scale on a viral scale that they have a vested interest in that.
• 42:35
  Now, that interest could be just our country.
• 42:40
  And trust me, there's plenty of people on the internet on X and maybe very few other platforms that can it put these kind of stories to the top of the food chain and the top of the pile for consumption and repeated consumption.
• 42:54
  Now, Nick Shirley had done some incredible work before this and exposing the on Canal Street in New York, all the horrific canal street was it was it was horrific.
• 43:07
  It was a horrific place to walk down the street.
• 43:09
  There was people selling things all over the place.
• 43:12
  You felt don't feel comfortable.
• 43:13
  It's the city has really since I'm sorry, it is really has changed to a place again that is so sad.
• 43:23
  Not all of it.
• 43:23
  I'm just saying there, they're the broken windows theory, which is you know, you're supposed to protect uh you you keep a city safe by arresting or ticketing people for the broken a broken window or sort of public intoxication to keep the quality of life at a in a way that it doesn't incentivize other crimes.
• 43:46
  And the broken windows has gone out the window a long time ago in New York City.
• 43:52
  Place smells reeks like pot all the time, and it just kind of sad to see kind of how it how it's it's going back, you know.
• 44:00
  So here we have this kind of mess uh going on with Tim Waltz.
• 44:09
  Well, why Tim Waltz?
• 44:11
  Well, he's the governor.
• 44:13
  And not only does he come out and and start kind of trashing Nick Shirley, he's really he's just turning it on its head in his own way, but it doesn't work anymore.
• 44:28
  It's done.
• 44:30
  No one believes him anymore.
• 44:34
  Elon Omar.
• 44:38
  Multimillionaire now.
• 44:40
  What was her role?
• 44:41
  If any, we don't know yet.
• 44:43
  But there's investigations, there's people coming to town, there are people who are looking into it.
• 44:48
  Look, it's sometimes it takes one person to shed the light on something for complete change.
• 44:53
  And I think Spencer Pratt is doing that in California.
• 44:57
  I think him exposing the fraud and the corruption based on the Palisades fire will change the entire scope, potentially politically in that state.
• 45:10
  Similar to what's happening in New York City, where you have a socialist who doesn't understand the game of politics.
• 45:22
  He was pushed to that position, and whoever was behind his campaign, obviously, you know, kudos to you for somehow getting people to vote for him after what's been online and the rhetoric that he has done and how he it's all out there.
• 45:39
  The proof is out there about who that man really is.
• 45:41
  And people's just believed he's going to give them free buses.
• 45:44
  And now he said, Well, by the time I'm out of office, that will happen.
• 45:47
  But come on, guys, he lied to you.
• 45:48
  Let's he scammed you.
• 45:50
  I'm sorry.
• 45:52
  Nothing's free.
• 45:53
  He doesn't control it.
• 45:54
  I mean, I just I don't know.
• 45:57
  I don't know why people believed him, but that's that.
• 45:59
  It's not my city.
• 46:00
  So here's what I want to talk about, which is good.
• 46:07
  When you look at the exposure of the corruption in Minnesota, I'm gonna give you a tell that this is just the beginning.
• 46:20
  That this is like the Jenga puzzle where the the one on the bottom, which is kind of holding it up 90%, and it you put we've all played that game.
• 46:30
  You pull out what that one piece and it's teetering.
• 46:33
  That's where we are right now.
• 46:35
  And before that piece was pulled out, there were a lot of other people, investigators doing the work, getting the documents, and those are the other the original Jenga pieces on the bottom.
• 46:52
  Because it was so deep, so dark and so corrupt that they had to go into this the deep roots of the fraud and the corruption to get evidence.
• 47:05
  And it's taken years to do that.
• 47:07
  Now, meanwhile, you're like, well, why did this happen?
• 47:09
  Why did anybody do anything?
• 47:10
  Why would we?
• 47:11
  We don't know the answer to that.
• 47:14
  But the people that were doing it were smart enough to know that nobody was paying attention, so they kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing it.
• 47:21
  But I want to give you the tell.
• 47:26
  So I'm watching the press conferences, and the mayor, the mayor of Minneapolis, who's insufferable.
• 47:36
  He's just he was the guy kneeling at George Floyd's casket in a mask, crying.
• 47:43
  I mean, heaving and crying and kneeling and crying, and that guy didn't.
• 47:48
  There was so much that happened in his city that was no tears, no emotional reaction.
• 47:58
  Here he is, heaving and crying on his knees, you know, at this casket at George Floyd's casket.
• 48:05
  And you think, wait a minute, okay, but you have to think back to that because that's who he is.
• 48:10
  That's he showed you who he is a long time ago, and he's dancing with the Somali flag, and he's speaking Somalian, he's he's you know, he's leaning into it.
• 48:19
  Let's just leave it at that.
• 48:20
  And now he's become the spokesperson for what happened with the ice agent and the shooting.
• 48:26
  And we haven't seen Tim Waltz.
• 48:30
  Now, first he says he's not going to be running for governor again.
• 48:35
  That was a huge win for transparency, accountability.
• 48:41
  I don't think people grasp the enormity of that.
• 48:45
  Here you have a YouTuber who finally holds this guy to accountability.
• 48:53
  Can't dead to rights.
• 48:54
  He has them dead to rights.
• 48:55
  So he says, I'm not going to run again.
• 48:59
  But he won't resign.
• 49:01
  He's not resigning.
• 49:03
  He's not there yet.
• 49:05
  Okay.
• 49:08
  And people want him to resign.
• 49:10
  Now people are turning on him.
• 49:11
  And that's not, he's not used to that.
• 49:13
  It's not that it's not his norm.
• 49:16
  But he stops doing press conferences.
• 49:18
  And they have the mayor out now going all over the place with his.
• 49:21
  I mean, I see him looking off camera.
• 49:23
  I can see he's got his notes.
• 49:24
  He's reading his notes.
• 49:26
  He's he's he's making horrific statements about the ice agent.
• 49:30
  Like, oh, it's just like he bumped into a refrigerator door.
• 49:33
  That's all that happened.
• 49:34
  I mean, these people really are sick, okay?
• 49:38
  There's this sickness.
• 49:40
  Um, but it all goes down to money.
• 49:42
  It's not it, it's not that they believe X, Y, and Z.
• 49:45
  It's that there's this, there's so much fraud uh and so much lining of people's pockets that they are beholden, they have sold their souls.
• 49:53
  I mean, they they really have sold their souls.
• 49:55
  So they have no choice but to say these things based on what they've already said in the past.
• 50:00
  And how they behave.
• 50:00
  There's this pattern.
• 50:02
  So he's now stuck holding that microphone.
• 50:06
  But that's his job.
• 50:09
  But Tim Waltz has kind of disappeared.
• 50:11
  And we did appear.
• 50:12
  He looked very thin.
• 50:13
  He's clearly under a lot of stress.
• 50:16
  And then he went to the site of the shooting in Minneapolis at the car, you know, with the ice agent.
• 50:22
  Renee Good's the site with the flowers and this and that, and with the car, the impact and X, Y, and Z happened, and you know, it's tragedy.
• 50:31
  I mean, this is a tragic situation.
• 50:33
  You have a woman who has been completely.
• 50:42
  Brainwash is not the right word.
• 50:44
  It is this like gotten to a point that she's become this, but she thinks she's doing the right thing.
• 50:51
  You know, she's she's convinced by the the leaders that she follows that this is what she should be doing.
• 50:57
  I mean, you literally had someone in in a politician say, use your body, use your use yourselves to stop this.
• 51:04
  I mean, this is so irresponsible.
• 51:06
  This woman clearly had mental issues.
• 51:10
  And the politicians knew that.
• 51:14
  They know that they have a vulnerable audience.
• 51:17
  And that these people will be the last people to say that they're vulnerable.
• 51:20
  They'll never understand that they were taken advantage of and used.
• 51:23
  They were used, they're still being used.
• 51:27
  It's a tragedy all around.
• 51:29
  It's a tragedy for Renee Good, the ice agent, our country, you know.
• 51:36
  But this is this is this is fueled by greed and corruption from top to bottom.
• 51:43
  But here's the the set the good news is that it's beginning to be the onion is being peeled away, and the perpetrators are being exposed.
• 51:55
  There's a few other incidents that happened in the last week or so where I'm starting to think things are turning around.
• 52:02
  There's a reporter that was using leaked information, sensitive information, and she was using it and putting it in stories illegally, and she was just arrested by the FBI or the DOJ.
• 52:16
  Thank you.
• 52:17
  Finally.
• 52:19
  This has been going on for years.
• 52:22
  The judge who let the illegal immigrant escape in the back door.
• 52:26
  Arrested.
• 52:30
  She just voluntarily just gave up.
• 52:35
  I mean, this is progress, people.
• 52:37
  This is progress.
• 52:39
  One step at a time.
• 52:43
  So we have to take the wins where we have them.
• 52:46
  We want the we want the Hollywood ending.
• 52:48
  You know, like I said, off into the sunset and the Palisades hand in hand.
• 52:52
  But the bottom line is the Jenga buzzle is crumbling.
• 53:00
  The last piece of the Minnesota puzzle is coming.
• 53:04
  It's going to be taken out.
• 53:05
  But I'm telling you, what's behind it is massive.
• 53:10
  Massive.
• 53:14
  China is heavily involved.
• 53:17
  I mean, Minnesota and China are and Tim Waltz are like.
• 53:24
  Wait.
• 53:27
  Just wait.
• 53:31
  But a lot of times things have to get burnt down to be rebuilt.
• 53:36
  Now on the other side, when they actually burn cities, that's their motivation, too.
• 53:44
  We have to burn it all down.
• 53:46
  To build up what?
• 53:48
  In our case, when I say our case, I mean the American people who love this country and are sick of it.
• 53:55
  We're talking about burning down the fraud and the corruption, holding people accountable.
• 54:04
  Turning off the gas on the funneling of all this money to different countries around the world to fund terrorism.
• 54:16
  That's what it was going on in Minnesota.
• 54:17
  I mean, they're finding it out.
• 54:18
  It's horrify, it's horrific.
• 54:21
  So we talk about Hollywood on the West Coast is I have hope.
• 54:29
  On the East Coast, I still think that in the end, New York City's the greatest city in the world.
• 54:37
  It survived worse.
• 54:39
  I remember it when it was the worst it has ever had ever been in the 80s, and it flourished again.
• 54:47
  But look what happened.
• 54:48
  It took so long to do that.
• 54:49
  But we're wiser now.
• 54:51
  We have social media now.
• 54:53
  The truth gets out quicker now.
• 54:56
  The lies are getting debunked faster now.
• 55:00
  People are starting to understand the media is not our friend and they lie to us every day.
• 55:07
  So the American people will take this country back.
• 55:13
  I really feel that way.
• 55:16
  I believe Tim Waltz will resign.
• 55:20
  I pray that he is investigated, and if necessary, arrested.
• 55:26
  If it comes to be that he was involved in this fraud and participating in it, and is held accountable for actual crimes if he did commit them.
• 55:39
  And that's how you change things.
• 55:41
  That's how you send the message.
• 55:42
  This is no longer acceptable in our country.
• 55:46
  And Republicans and Democrats, independents, I don't care.
• 55:49
  It doesn't matter.
• 55:50
  If you are committing crime, committing fraud, you're involved, goodbye.
• 55:56
  The American people saw a guy on a YouTube channel, a kid.
• 56:00
  But I say, kid, my son's 23 years old too.
• 56:03
  And I'll tell you, he I put him up against any politician with his smarts.
• 56:10
  And his ability to break down to the truth.
• 56:13
  So I have faith in our youth.
• 56:15
  I have faced in this country, and God bless America, it's gonna get better.
• 56:18
  But watch.
• 56:20
  Just watch, watch Tim Waltz.
• 56:22
  Look at his eyes.
• 56:23
  Eli Omar Eyes.
• 56:26
  Watch them.
• 56:27
  They're scared.
• 56:29
  And they should be.
• 56:30
  Because if they've done the wrong thing and they know about it, either tell the truth, own it, or pay the consequences.
• 56:40
  That's how this works.
• 56:42
  So have hope, everybody.
• 56:44
  Tomorrow's a new day, and you never know what's coming next.
• 56:47
  God bless.