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David Pakman: Well, it happened, Louis. At the Talkers New Media Seminar over the weekend,
I got a kiss on the cheek from talk radio hostess Stephanie Miller. What do you think
about that?
Louis Motamedi: That's fine.
David: We... [laughs] We got a... this picture is up on our Facebook channel, along with
a bunch of other pictures from the talk radio conference, and people just seem up in arms
by it. I don't even know what the big deal is, but a lot of inappropriate comments, emails
about this picture. I don't really see what the big deal is. And people saying, you know,
Stephanie Miller getting a little touchy-feely with me, but I think it's just... it's just
her personality. I mean, let's be honest, she's 49 and she's into women, so I don't
know what people are making a big deal out of.
Louis: Yeah. Maybe that you look like you just took three hits of ***, maybe that's
what... maybe that's what the outrage is about.
David: Do you think that's the problem? It was really hot in there, and it was just...
I don't know, I think it was... it was a good conference. There's a bunch of pictures, including
with Alex Jones, who I'll tell you about his appearance, which was, speaking of appearing
to be hopped up on something... a lot of stuff I want to mention.
So this conference is organized by "Talkers" Magazine, which is really the major, maybe
even the only talk radio magazine that's left at this point. And there was a presentation
from a radio financial adviser, and he was talking about a lot of different things. And
at one point, I'm sitting very close to J.D. Hayworth, former Arizona Congressman, and
we've talked about him a lot on the show, you remember.
Louis: Yep.
David: And at one point he was involved in one of these free money scam infomercials.
And at one point after the presentation, it was opened up for questions, and J.D. Hayworth
raises his hand, and he says hey, can you tell me about precious metals? I mean, you
know, given all of the uncertainty that you're talking about, shouldn't people be putting
money into precious metals like gold?
Louis: Oh, no.
David: So you know what goes through my mind. I'm thinking this guy must be doing...
Louis: He's pitching something.
David: He must be doing a gold commercial. And you know what? The presenter actually
said actually, there is really... the reason we hear so much about gold now is that it's
at an all-time high, and there's a lot of scams out there, maybe even one that J.D.
Hayworth at the time I thought was involved in. And I don't really recommend getting into,
in any significant way, getting into precious medals.
And J.D. Hayworth just kind of like didn't say anything. He clearly didn't like the answer.
He was kind of like, "Hmm." And when I got home, I actually looked up to see if he's
doing any of the gold infomercials or gold scams or anything; I actually didn't find
anything. So maybe it was an honest question from J.D. Hayworth. I don't know.
Louis: I doubt it.
David: You think there was something... an underlying motive, personal interest there?
Louis: No doubt.
David: If there is, I haven't found it.
And then Alex Jones did a... he was one of the speakers, he was a keynote speaker, and
he went up there and, you know how Alex Jones goes on these rants on his show.
Louis: Oh, I know.
David: And we've seen a bunch of them, and the speech he gave was basically like one
of those rants. I mean, he was there to talk about the success of his multi-platform show
and how he's doing so well on all of these different... the different platforms, YouTube
and podcasts, so on and so forth, but instead he went up there and he basically gave like
the most epic conspiracy theory rant that I've ever witnessed, to the point where he
was yelling. I mean, it literally sounded like the Justin Bieber rant, which I'll play
a little bit for you, and imagine that you're just sitting there and like Neal Boortz is
in the back of the room listening to this. He doesn't know what hit him.
And I was compelled by it. I just couldn't tell if it was for real or not. I mean, it
basically sounded like this:
Alex Jones: ... Nikola Tesla, or looking up to Magellan. I mean, kids, Magellan's a lot
cooler than Justin Bieber. He circumnavigated with one ship the entire planet. He was killed
by wild natives before they got back to Portugal. And when they got back, there was only like
11 people alive of the 200-and-something crew, and the entire ship was rotting down to the
water line!
David: All right, so that's basically what his speech was. And he went on this rant about
he doesn't care about his own life, he just cares about moving... you know, making people
aware, New World Order. And then afterwards, I was just talking with him with a few other
people, and I think he might even actually think that it's a little bit... in other words,
he's exaggerating, because he said was my... I didn't want to go too over the top, I think
I could've really freaked these guys out if I had tried.
And if you looked around that room, I mean, people were stone-faced. They didn't know
what happened. It was like when Alex Jones went on "The View". So again, I don't know.
Looking at the video, maybe this is, it's overacting, because he wasn't anything like
that after the speech.
And then I'm trying to think what else went on there. Stephen Baldwin was there, of course
Alec Baldwin's brother, he's now a born-again Christian. He's doing some kind of radio show,
and I was standing next to him for a couple of the presentations, and he just had this
look on his face like he just is not impressed with anything that's going on, which, honestly,
is the look I had on my face when Sean Hannity showed up. I just, I don't, I...
Louis: Oh, boy.
David: I just was acting like yeah, hey, I'm not impressed. Just pretending not to be impressed,
obviously, as the conservative... the young conservatives I was hanging out with there,
basically members of the Young Republicans Club that you would imagine at Northwestern,
just swooning over Sean Hannity.
Louis: I bet.
David: But I played it cool, you know? I wasn't impressed.
Louis: Pakman's a cool cat.
David: Also, after the last show, when I mentioned some people want Louis to get on Twitter...
Louis: I mean, how cool is that tie? Look at that thing.
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