MCMANUS #06 The Nature Of Belief
MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus
Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Aaron McManus and Erwin McManus discuss the recent Los Angeles mayoral race, focusing on Spencer Pratt’s unexpected loss to Nithya Raman and the questions it raised for voters across the city. Aaron reflects on Pratt’s campaign, the policies that resonated with people, and the way his run drew attention from voters who may not normally engage in local politics. Together, Aaron and Erwin explore the frustration many feel toward Los Angeles leadership, election transparency, and the deeper history of corruption, racism, police brutality, and institutional failure in the city.
In this episode, Aaron and Erwin examine concerns around voter harvesting, mail-in ballots, vote discrepancies, and the integrity of the election process, while also debating the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates involved. Erwin argues that Pratt’s lack of political experience may have been outweighed by his genuine concern for Los Angeles and his willingness to challenge the status quo. The conversation also expands into the role of ideology in city politics, the limits of political parties, and the disappointment many people feel when systems seem unable to solve issues like homelessness, crime, and civic decline.
The discussion moves beyond Los Angeles into broader questions of faith, freedom, creativity, wealth, entrepreneurship, and personal responsibility. Aaron and Erwin reflect on the tension between pastors speaking openly about culture and politics, the need for deeper intellectual conversations in faith spaces, and the role entrepreneurs can play in shaping the future. Ultimately, they explore what it means to build a meaningful life through freedom, hard work, creativity, and responsibility rather than dependence on broken institutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, how you doing? |
| 0:01.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:03.0 | A couple fun things have happened in Los Angeles the last couple weeks. |
| 0:05.5 | We have to dive into it. |
| 0:06.7 | All right. |
| 0:08.1 | I was a big fan of Spencer Pratt running for the mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 0:12.3 | What a surprise. |
| 0:13.2 | What a surprise. |
| 0:15.4 | A couple of funny things, though, because we were flying back from New York the last trip, I guess last month. |
| 0:26.9 | And they're, you know, like the preloaded TV shows and movies on on the airplane and I decided you know let me see what's on the TV side of it and there was the hills which was the reality |
| 0:31.1 | show he was on which I have never seen thank God and no one should see but one it was like |
| 0:36.4 | so old school reality he was so bad too he's he's, you know, he's atrocious on it. He's such a monster. He's also not real. It's reality TV, but it's not real. It's scripted or produced and guided. But I watched that and was like, oh, I shouldn't keep watching this. This is making me lose faith. But okay, so he was in second place. |
| 0:56.2 | And then all of a sudden, he loses to Nintia Rahman. |
| 1:01.4 | And now he's out of the mayoral race. |
| 1:03.7 | I thought he ran a brilliant campaign. |
| 1:05.5 | I thought he did a really strong job of getting across the points that he wanted to run on the topics, the policies. |
| 1:13.7 | As a disgruntled Los Angeles Angelino whose house had been burned down, he blamed Karen Bass. |
| 1:20.6 | He ran a strong campaign. |
| 1:22.0 | He was up. |
| 1:22.5 | It seemed like eight to 11 points on Nthia Raman, in third place and somehow some way she she grew her |
| 1:32.4 | her ballot I guess admission by 80% I think it was it's pretty significant and she beat him and knocked |
| 1:41.3 | him out and in California it's the top two which is a weird way to it. And we have a lot of mail-in ballots. And there's some discrepancies there. But it feels like there's corruption in L.A. Let's talk about it. Well, I mean, if you're looking at it historically, L.A. was born out of corruption. So I don't think L.A. has become corrupt. I think Los Angeles, |
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