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The Propaganda Playbook: AI Politics (Spencer Pratt Spent $0 on AI Ads. Will He Beat the Mayor of LA?) | #Marketing - Ep. 132
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- The Russell Brunson Show
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- Jun 15, 2026
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- 630
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Summary
Spencer Pratt — yes, the guy from The Hills — made a campaign ad with AI for zero dollars. No donors, no consultants, no political machine. And it pulled more views than the entire campaign of the sitting mayor of Los Angeles, who’s backed by hundreds of millions of dollars. The political establishment spent a decade building a system to control who gets attention… and a reality TV star with a laptop just broke it. In this episode I break down exactly how — because the same technique works in your business, not just a mayor’s race. These ads don’t land because they look like political ads; they land because they look like movies. I’ll show you the engine underneath: a 130-year-old idea from French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, the false-belief framework I teach in Expert Secrets, and the uncomfortable line I think all of us have to draw now that anyone can deepfake anyone for free. I’ve lived one side of this — I bootstrapped ClickFunnels against an entire industry that said I couldn’t compete — so I’m not watching this one from the outside. Key Highlights: ◼️The “$0 campaign ad” that beat the machine — how Spencer Pratt and a four-person studio pulled more views than a sitting mayor backed by hundreds of millions, using a free (and Chinese) AI video tool ◼️The Expert Secrets move these ads run on — “breaking false belief patterns”: they don’t argue that politicians care, that the system works, or that you need money to win… they shatter each belief with a story instead of a fact ◼️The entertainment-format trick — why mapping your audience’s favorite movies (Star Wars, The Dark Knight) onto their false beliefs turns an ad into something they’ll actually share ◼️Gustave Le Bon’s 1895 warning — crowds aren’t moved by facts, they’re moved by images… and why AI just handed…