Spencer Pratt told Bill Maher he would come after people smoking weed around children in Los Angeles parks if his long-shot mayoral bid turns into a political shocker.
The former MTV reality star joined Maher on the latest episode of his “Club Random” podcast, where the host pressed him on what he would actually do if voters put him in charge of City Hall.
Pratt did not offer a sweeping policy platform. He gave a warning.
“I care about safety, the lights being on, potholes,” Pratt stated. “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 a swing. I’ll be getting you as mayor.”
Spencer Pratt tells pothead Bill Maher that he would ensure potheads weren’t free to smoke marijuana wherever they please, ruining public spaces and places with children.
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The jab landed directly at Maher, who has long been open about his enthusiasm for marijuana.
“No more drugs around kids at parks, in schools, in front of daycares,” he continued.
“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 5 years old.”
The exchange came as Pratt’s outsider campaign has become a surprise subject of conversation in Los Angeles heading into Tuesday’s primary.
Pratt told Maher he never talked much about politics during his MTV years because he was trying to be famous and saw no upside in alienating half the audience.
Spencer Pratt drags Bill Maher out of his liberal bubble and brought him back down to earth.
Maher was annoyed that Pratt didn’t know the specifics about taxes on solar powered energy, but Pratt humbled him with the REAL problems Angelenos care about.
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Maher asked whether that had changed now that Pratt was running for mayor and whether he cared about “all the issues.” Pratt said he did not.
When Maher brought up solar panels and regulatory red tape in California, Pratt made clear he was more focused on crime, homelessness and public drug use.
“We’re about three years from worrying about solar panels,” Pratt remarked. “We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks, and then I can worry about solar panels.”
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Pratt also stunned Maher with his claim about the origins of many homeless people living in Los Angeles.
“Ready for the best part?” Pratt asked the host. “60% of the people in Los Angeles that are ‘experiencing homelessness’ are NOT from California! They’ve been brought here by NGOs that profit off of this homeless industrial complex.”
Maher stopped him there. “Wait, wait, they’ve been brought here?” Maher asked.
“They’ve been brought here,” Pratt answered readily. “Body brokers bring these people here from all across the country.”
“If you’re an addict you can come to LA and get these rehabs and because you can use Medicaid, Social Security.”
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The conversation appeared to leave Maher more impressed than he initially expected.
On Friday’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host told former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that he had interviewed Pratt and came away liking him despite expectations to the contrary.
“You know what? I know I’m supposed to hate him. I don’t,” Maher told McCarthy.
Maher said Pratt’s campaign has become hard to ignore in Los Angeles.
“It’s funny because he’s running as a Republican and doing quite well,” Maher noted.
“Everybody out here is like, ‘What do you think of Spencer Pratt?’ He’s on everybody’s mind. I was asking him about that.”
McCarthy pointed to Pratt’s messaging. “He runs great ads,” McCarthy said.
Maher said Pratt’s lack of a traditional political filter was part of his appeal.
“Yeah, I mean, he’s a nice guy,” Maher went on. “What’s charming about him is he has no advisors. I confronted him on, like, this and this you’re going to have to think about. ‘No, I only care about the issues I care about.’ So, he’s very honest about that.”
Maher also joked that Pratt still has one very California trait.
“He’s very un-Californian in that way for a guy who’s from California,” Maher joked. “But then I found out he’s actually very Californian because he sells crystals.”
During the podcast, Maher repeatedly praised Pratt’s impatience with Los Angeles leadership and his “drain the swamp” posture.
The host agreed with Pratt that Mayor Karen Bass and other local leaders had not done enough after last year’s wildfires.
Maher also praised Pratt after the reality star promised to scrutinize local unions and confront the power they hold in the city.
“You had me at hello,” Maher joked.
“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 s**t. It’s very authentic. You know, you’re just- it’s good,” he went on.
Maher told Pratt to keep leaning into the approach.
“Just keep doing what you’re doing – we’ll see where the chips fall,” he said.
“I mean, you are on people’s minds out here. Nobody can take that away from you. I don’t think we saw that coming a year ago.”
Pratt has also picked up support from “Entourage” creator Doug Ellin, who endorsed him while venting about crime and the condition of Los Angeles.
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Ellin said he used to live without locking his doors but now has “15 cameras, two German Shepherds, three legal guns” after masked intruders burglarized his home.
“But, you say, ‘Oh, Spencer Pratt has no experience!’ … What experience did Karen Bass have?” Ellin said in a video shared on social media.
“We want to fix this place because we want to live here, we don’t want to be forced out.”
Ellin later said on Billy Bush’s “Hot Mics” podcast that even liberals who despise Trump are fed up with Los Angeles.
“So [Trump] has nothing to do with anything I’m talking about. I am not a Donald Trump fan. I did not vote for him,” Ellin said.
“Um, and I’m not going to sit here and tell you Spencer Pratt can save LA. What I can tell you is the status quo is destroying it and we need to try something different.”
He said Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom had spent years denying the city’s problems before suddenly claiming they could solve them.
“They’ve told us there is no problem for years. So, now they want to win again, and we have to just stand up and try to do something else,” Ellin added.
“And do I wish Rick Caruso was running again? Of course I do. But right now, the person who is speaking to me, who is saying the things that I want to hear, um, is Spencer Pratt. Then I have to pray he can implement those things, you know, which is very difficult here.”