Announcer: The David Pakman Show at www.DavidPakman.com.
David Pakman: Welcome to the show, David Pakman
here, Louis is here, the whole gang, really.
I was at that Free Press conference over the
weekend, Louis, you know I did some interviews
for Free Speech TV.
Louis Motamedi: Right, right.
David: And I was there... I was only going
to do it Saturday, and I was there Friday
and they sent me a text saying hey, we've
got a couple people that need to be interviewed,
do you want to do it? I said sure. So I go
up there and I assume, you know, they'll give
me some material and I'll have information
about the people I'm interviewing, but literally
they had one packet of information. So there
were two minutes between the interviews. So
I go over there and I literally just get,
you know, about 30 seconds to actually review
the information.
And not to... they were obviously doing the
best they could to get everything prepped,
but some of the suggested questions were a
little bit bland for my taste, you know? I
mean, I don't like to go with the, "Tell me
about the biggest challenge you've had over
the last years." To me, that's kind of a boring
question.
Louis: Right.
David: So it was a lot of improvisation. I
think it came out well, though. I know...
did you see any of it?
Louis: I didn't.
David: No. OK.
Louis: Do we have any footage of that?
David: We don't. We don't yet, but I appreciate
the support. I know that it was... it was
a big thing for us, I'm glad that you were
able to check it out. It was a huge conference,
I mean, like 3000 people. And Nancy Pelosi
was there, she was incredibly boring. I--
actually, I left Nancy Pelosi's speech between...
I think she was just upset about the potential
government shutdown, which we'll talk to Bill
Scher about later, but it was the most boring
Pelosi speech that I've ever witnessed.
Louis: You think that's why she was boring?
David: Maybe she was tired. I don't know.
I really don't know. I met Dave Zirin, though,
who's been on the show. He's... you're a big
fan of his. "Edge of Sports", and he was in
MEF's movie "Not Just a Game". Anything sports-related
you can basically ask him about. I met Amy
Goodman from "Democracy Now!". She was...
a lot of people interested in talking to Amy.
No surprise, I guess.
Louis: No.
David: So it was a good experience. I mean,
I think that we need to... we're glad to be
on Free Speech TV, and their production was
great. It was just, two minutes to prep for
an interview, I mean, I like to take at least
three or four, usually, or at least even look
at the book that the guest has written.
Louis: Well, usually it takes you like about
three hours to prepare for when we do an interview
on the show.
David: Yeah, it takes me hours. And...
Louis: Which is why he does it so well.
David: I also want to say that Louis's band,
Krakatoa, metal band, which in the case of
any copyright issue will be renamed God-Eater,
will be playing on May 13th at McFadden's,
which is where Louis bartends. I'm committing
to going to this one.
Louis: Well, you committed to going to my
last show and you didn't show up.
David: No, I didn't commit. I... that was...
I said if I'm not... if I don't have a certain
commitment to something else I will come.
[Laughs]
Louis: Very vague. Very, very vague.
David: I'm going to go to this one. And the
press that is surrounding this guy is unbelievable.
There was just an article in the local paper
here called "The Valley Advocate", and I have
to say, it was a good article, but if you
were to parody a heavy metal band and write
an article about it, it would be indistinguishable
from what was published, would it not?
Louis: I mean, that's perfect. That's what
we're going for.
David: There's a line in here, "The band is
a big proponent of concept albums, which it
insists keeps the writing process focused
and free of dull rifts. Its self-released
'Microbellum', an opus about insect life last
year, is the band's latest release." So people
who think I kid around when I say you have
an album about the brutality of the insect
world, that's... it's completely legitimate.
That's... it really is what you have.
Louis: 100% true. It's very metal, and it's
very good stuff.
David: I was thinking you could have a song
maybe like "Mosquito Drive-By", would be a--
I don't think you've covered... because you
do fire ants and burning churches, and what
else is there? Wasps, right?
Louis: Maybe we'll do a concept album about
The David Pakman Show.
David: [Laughs] Is "Mosquito Drive-By" that
bad of an idea?
Louis: It's terrible, David.
David: What about a song about the brutality
of silkworms?
Louis: Are they brutal?
David: I think they are, I don't know.
Louis: I think the conditions in which the
silk is collected by workers might be brutal,
but silkworms themselves? No.
David: I have one other idea. You could have
your singer, who growls, between songs, he
could say, "Have you ever experienced the
wrath of being trampled by a centipede?" I
think that that's good material for you guys.
Louis: Well, this is why you're not in a metal
band.
David: OK.
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