Joe Rogan says he would ‘vote for’ LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt

Joe Rogan has signaled he backs Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles as he sat down with the reality TV star on his hit podcast.

The former kickboxer turned podcasting phenomenon made his preference clear early into their two-hour sit down that was published Wednesday.

In the opening sequence, he said: “What’s going on, Mr. Mayor?” The Texan, who fled California for Austin, later added: “Listen, man, I’m voting for you.

“[Well] I can’t vote for you, but I’m rooting for you. I mean, if I lived in Los Angeles, no question whatsoever, I would vote for you.”

Pratt said in a subsequent social media post that he hopes to sway Rogan back to LA.

“An honor being on with the GOAT, @joerogan,” he wrote on Facebook. “My goal is to make LA so awesome, we can win him back from Texas.”

Pratt is hoping to unseat Karen Bass in this year’s elections.

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He blames her for mishandling the Palisades fire last year, in which he lost his home. Some controversy has swirled over his temporary residency in Santa Barbara County, but he maintains a presence in the vacant lot where his home used to be.

The mayoral candidate chatted with Rogan — who supercharged Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — on a variety of topics including the fires, Bass, Democratic socialist Nithya Raman, and homelessness.

Pratt said he decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles because he grew tired of just being a voice against Bass.

“It came to the point where I got so sick of just being a yapper. Like I felt like I was just yapping, like making these videos,” Pratt said.

“I went to Washington, I met with everyone possible that I could do as just a citizen, and I was like, OK, well, game on.”

“Now I’m going to go into your headquarters and just take your job and then remove all these toxic entities that are destroying our way of life in Los Angeles,” he added.

The mayoral candidate also slammed the LA Times for their alleged “hit piece” on Pratt alleging that there were questions about his eligiblity.

“It’s like saying that 7,000 people’s houses burned down now can’t vote… because Karen Bass who you’re not supposed to vote for because she burned your house down,” he said. “It was just a full hit piece.”

He said the lack of preparation for the Palisades fires was “astonishing.”

“The fact that the reservoir was empty was criminal mismanagement. I mean, it was just insanity that everybody knew that we had fires, like massive fires, that it was a dry place,” he said.

Pratt also dished on Raman.

“She’s in charge on the City Council. She’s the chairperson of the homeless plan,” Pratt said, shifting Rogan into a chuckle.

“What’s she going to change? She’s had six years. The best part is she’s had six years to not say any of these problems until she’s running for mayor.”

The pair also discussed the rampant homeless crisis in LA. Pratt said Skid Row is so large that it should be “called Los Angeles.” He said his family was disturbed at how the homeless crisis has expanded to most parts of the city.

“My wife was ready to move because every morning in front of Palisades Elementary across the street at my son’s preschool, there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids at 7:45 in the morning,” he said.

A UCLA poll last month showed Pratt trailing Bass 11% to 25%. Raman took third with 9% support.