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Guaranteed Human. Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski. Thank you guys for being here. You know, I usually have a process to this podcast. I usually have one story that's linear and connected to the other. And this episode is more like things that aren't connected at all. There was just a lot of news that I wanted to bring to you guys, but they didn't have any threads to kind of connect them. So it's a little bit messier.

The first story and the most important one is what's going on in the Los Angeles mayor's race. Now, for those, I've been sleeping on this race. I haven't been thinking about it because it's L.A. It's so democratic. I honestly didn't really know who was running and if there was a real competition. And I just had heard that Spencer Pratt of a reality star from when I was a teenager was running, but I kind of thought it was nothing. And then I watched the debate. They had the first debate. I don't even know if he's any consultants or anything. I try to reach out of people and say, hey, who is running the show over there? Because I would love to have him on because I thought he was phenomenal. So he does this debate.

And I want to make this preference. In Los Angeles, the law is the way it is, is people who run for mayor,

everyone runs as independent. No one runs Republican or Democrat, but you kind of know which ones

are Republican or Democrat pretty easily, right?

And it's very clear that Spencer is definitely on.

Spencer is definitely leaning on the Republican side.

On the opposition on the Democratic side is Mayor Karen Bass.

She is the incumbent mayor.

She's been there for four years.

And then there's city councilwoman Nithia, Nathia,

Raymond, Ms. Raymond, I'm going to call it because it's easy. years and then there's city councilwoman nithia nithia raymond um nithia uh miss raymond i'm

call that because it's easier um she is an immigrant from india and she is showing how grateful

she is to this country by demanding socialism immediately upon you know being here and uh and saying

you know what we can do? We can just bring socialism to

Los Angeles because it's worked out so great the rest of the world. Anyway, these three debated

on Wednesday night. And it was a rare moment where you see, where you see natural talent in

somebody so quickly. The councilwoman Raymond, she is, she fell apart. I mean, fell apart. I've never really seen. She is actually going into this election, the favorite of all a betting site. So I was really expecting her to be, you know, energetic, and I thought she'd be like Mondani, and I thought she'd have a lot of like quibbs she had nothing she was

horrible and I'm not just saying because I'm conservative I'm saying it because it was overwhelmingly the

consensus pratt absolutely made the most of every single moment I'm sure if you've been on social media

you've seen clips of pratt talking because he was just dynamic he He was so good. Here are some highlights I want to go through. So something Pratt did very well. I want to teach you guys this from the consultant's perspective of what I'm looking at when I'm watching debates like this, right? Because very quickly, Pratt could have been a joke. He could have been someone not worth taking seriously. He's a reality story. He's never run for office before. He's just doing this for attention

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