Can Spencer Pratt Save Los Angeles?

The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Meghan's guest is Spencer Pratt, candidate for Los Angeles mayor. Yes, that Spencer Pratt — the producer-crafted villain from The Hills who later blew a fortune on moldavite crystals and Birkin bags before settling into a quieter life raising a family in Pacific Palisades. That house burned down in the Palisades Fire in January 2025, and what followed was a political awakening that has put him in second place in the June 2 primary.

Meghan sat down with him at his burned lot to talk about the fires, the homelessness crisis, the billions in homeless services funding that a federal audit couldn't account for, animal abuse on Skid Row, and why he thinks an outsider with no political debts is the only person who can fix a city that's been broken for decades.

This version includes a short introduction. For the full ten-minute introduction with additional context, find the Substack version at theunspeakablepodcast.com.

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0:00.0	National politics has nothing to do with why we're sitting in my dirt lot.
0:10.0	Local politics, city leadership, you're the who's the head of your LADWB.
0:15.0	These are the things that concern me. Welcome to the Unspeak Easy podcast. I am your host, Megan Dom. This episode is unlike any I have ever done. My guest is Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles. That is right. You're about to
0:40.5	learn a lot more about him and the whole situation here. We've recorded this on April 24th at Spencer's
0:47.4	property in Pacific Palisades, where his house burned down in the 2025 wildfires. He's living in
0:54.0	an airstream trailer on the lot while he
0:56.2	rebuilt. If you want a visual, I strongly encourage you to go to YouTube and watch the video
1:01.8	version of this conversation or to my substack at the unspeakablepodcast.com, where you could also
1:08.2	find the video as well as a much longer introduction, where I provide
1:12.5	more context about this interview, why I'm doing it, what I think of this whole thing.
1:21.4	In my six years of doing this podcast, I have never had a political candidate on, and I've
1:26.4	never really focused on local politics.
1:29.4	But this election is different. Pratt is a compelling candidate, not because he is the most
1:36.4	obvious choice. He certainly is not. But because he is willing to describe out loud what everyone here can see with their own eyes, and yet our
1:46.9	elected officials consistently deny or dismiss. And that is that this city is in crisis. Our streets are
1:55.2	inhumane, and the people running it have failed us. Spencer sometimes speaks hyperbolicly, but he is saying
2:03.4	things that need to be said, in my opinion. So I hope you will hear him out, and I hope you
2:08.5	enjoy the episode. So here's my conversation with Spencer Pratt.
2:22.1	Spencer Pratt, welcome to the unspeakasy podcast.
2:24.6	Thank you so much for talking with me.
2:28.0	You are running for mayor of Los Angeles.
2:32.1	You are an unconventional candidate to say the least.
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