08/21/12 – Gigi Bowman – The Scott Horton Show

All right, y'all.
I'm Scott Horton.
This is the Scott Horton Show.
ScottHorton.org is my website.
And I don't think I mentioned yesterday, but I am scared to death.
Because I'm giving a speech this Sunday, right around dinner time, at the Paul Festival in Tampa, Florida.
And I've never given a speech to more than a couple of hundred people, and I got a feeling there's going to be a hell of a lot more people than that at this thing.
But on the line is Gigi Bowman.
She's helping to run it.
She set up the Paul Festival.
Thanks for having me.
Tell us all about the thing.
See if we can get some more people to show up.
Well, Paul Festival is going to be totally amazing.
It is.
It really is.
And we have so many speakers.
I just finished actually making the brochure.
So I could just tell you, we're down to the wire here.
We keep adding sponsors, speakers, vendors.
So it's hard to keep up with the amount of people that are actually coming last minute, which, you know, it happens.
Last minute people always wait until the last minute to get things done.
So I can't even tell you that this is going to be a really packed event with lots and lots of speakers, vendors, anything you could possibly, any speaker you ever wanted to hear is going to be there.
So including Scott Horton.
All right.
So tell us who else is showing up.
All right.
Well, we've got Peter Schiff, Lou Rockwell, Sheriff Mac.
Let me just go there because, you know, I'm getting old now.
And, you know, sometimes I have to look at something.
I'm not young.
I got the early onset Alzheimer's myself.
Don't worry.
I know Anthony Gregory is going to be speaking there.
Anthony Gregory.
We have Tatiana Morose, Jordan Page.
We have Tom Woods, Michael Schuer, Adam Kokesh, Gary Franchi, Walter Block, Larry Pratt, Stuart Rhodes, David Thoreau, Jason Rink.
It just goes on and on.
Judge Jim Gray, Mike Church, Wayne Paul.
We have the Free State Project.
I mean, we've got every facility showing up.
Man, that really sounds awesome.
And the best part, I just want to get this out there.
It's indoors and it's air conditioned and it's in really hot Florida.
So even though I keep hearing that storms are coming, don't worry about it.
We're storm proof.
We're in a building and we're in like a football field building.
So we're not going to be affected by any rain or storms.
So don't let that stop you from coming down.
Yeah.
You know what?
In my imagination, all this took place at some fairgrounds outside or something I thought I'd heard.
Oh, no, no, it's not.
Definitely not that.
It's a fairgrounds, but inside.
So.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
You should make that clear because I think people are thinking mud and hay and maybe that's just my imagination.
I like mud and hay.
I wasn't complaining.
I just thought that's what I thought.
Yeah, but I guess when it's like 110 degrees outside, you like to know that you're going to be air conditioned and nice and cushy inside.
That should be the banner at the top of the website at paulfestival.org.
Air conditioned.
There you go.
I think we're going to do that.
We're going to do that today because I'm with you.
I really think that a lot of people are imagining that this is an outdoor festival.
I mean, when you say fairgrounds, it sounds like grounds.
It doesn't sound like a building.
Right.
So I'm going to I'm going to say that today and I'm going to make sure that we get the word out because a lot of people are hearing, you know, that there's going to be a storm in Tampa.
I think they've been planning that for a couple of months.
They're going to get them a conspiracy theorist.
So, you know, what can I tell you?
So they've been saying there's a storm coming and they've been waiting for this weekend to Mother Nature.
She's a conservative.
There you go.
I don't know about she's a conservative.
She's not going to go to the Democrat convention, but she's coming to the Republican.
I don't know.
So anyway, please don't miss it.
You can buy one ticket, get one free until Thursday.
And that's big because you cannot get one ticket free when you go there.
So buy your tickets ahead of time.
If you need for us to hold them after you pay for them, we will have a will call.
So you're still better off buying one ticket, getting one free, and that goes to the three day pass as well.
Right on.
And now, did you say at the beginning there how many tickets you've already sold or how many you expect to?
We're expecting about five K a day, and I don't know if that's going to even get larger because I know that the Ron Paul sundown sundown rally has they said yesterday sold out.
They have eleven thousand people at that event seating.
They said they sold out.
So I'm expecting that we're going to have a lot of ticket sales at the door that we know that are even more than we're having online.
And a lot of people are also waiting to the last minute.
So this week has been really hectic and ticket sales are coming in like crazy and we're getting last minute vendors.
Now, how exactly is that going to work with the the campaign's event?
Are y'all at least working together on the timing of who's speaking when so that people can go to both?
I don't want to be on at the same time Ron Paul's on over at his thing, you know?
No, Ron Paul's event is earlier in the day and we're not really scheduling anyone when he's speaking.
And we're actually going to help to bring people over there if needed.
And then when his event is over, we have a great list of speakers and bands playing all night long.
So this is going to be a really long day.
So get your Wheaties and get ready to do it all.
See Ron Paul and see all of our speakers and grand finale that we're having on Sunday night.
Also, just know that Ron Paul actually called us yesterday and he's going to be making a video for us to show.
I think it's either going to be for us to show at our event or put on our website.
So he is working with us.
Oh, that's good to know.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of hard.
It seems like there's got to be a way.
I guess it's too late now, but there should have been a way to combine the two things together into one big thing.
What's the deal?
Well, we wanted to do that.
That was what we had hoped would happen.
We did offer them our fairgrounds for Sunday, but I guess they wanted to be more in control of it somehow.
So they are having an event scheduled basically at the same time as ours.
So we've really been trying to work with them.
It hasn't been easy, I have to say.
There's been a lot of wrenches thrown at the people running PaulFest, but these are the most amazing, selfless people I've ever worked with.
We've got some of the most wonderful people working with this organization, and you will remember them, because they're the ones that ran the Ron Paul March in 2008.
And I think that, to me, was the kickoff to the whole Ron Paul revolution.
So I feel like, you know, we're coming around now to the end of the second time we've tried to get Ron Paul in the White House.
We still have hope that that could happen, but this is now a kickoff to where we go in the future.
We have to figure out what we're going to do from here, and that's a really important thing.
We need to come together now, and we need to work on what we're going to be doing.
We can't put this all in one man's hands.
It's got to be in our hands.
We've got to figure out where we're going.
So all these speakers are going to help us do that, including you.
Well, and just having a thing like this, it's like the Pork Fest or anything else, where you can get Libertopia that they have out there in LA every year, to get as many people as possible just to meet each other in person, you know, all these Facebook friends and whatever, and actually meet each other and network, activism-wise, business-wise, whatever, you know?
Get it together.
I think we have a lot to think about for our future, where we're going to take this.
I mean, are we going to take it to the party?
Well, that's what my speech is going to be about.
That's what my speech is going to be about, is what happens from here.
We need more of that.
We need the speakers to talk about that, because that, to me, is the most important thing.
What are we doing?
I mean, I run the organization Liberty Candidate.
I think that is one of the things we have to really think about, that all these people stepped up to run for office because of Ron Paul, and we now have to put our hopes in these people who are awake and aware, who are non-interventionists, who are people that we know came from the Ron Paul revolution and want to continue his message.
So it's time for us to all step up and either support people running for office on that same message or do it ourselves.
So I'm going to be talking about that.
I'm also speaking on Saturday.
Okay, right on.
Well, I'm not opposed to that necessarily.
There's certainly a place for that, but it seems to me like Ron Paul's message is that you can't be him, that nobody can.
That's why there's only ever been one of him ever, is because he's that unique of a character.
He's that good on all these issues, but at the same time, he's that ingratiated with the population of his local district.
He has that perfect of personal history, as far as being a very square, leave it to beaver father type character, without not being a real ambitious lawyer type or that kind of thing.
He's a very, very unique character, and he's taken, for decades now, he's gone to Congress just to give speeches and just to have that soapbox to stand on, basically, where people can get a chance to hear that message.
And I worry that that part of it ends up getting lost, and we're going to end up having a bunch of Republicans calling themselves Ron Paul types, when they're just Paul Ryan types, and who's keeping track of how good they are on which issues and in which order.
Well, I'm going to be a little bit more positive than that, because I spend my days getting people who fill out this application.
I don't know if you've ever looked at my application on libertycandidates.com.
It's a pretty good application.
We ask pretty well-rounded questions about everything, and it's not like yes or no.
They have to give us essays.
And my committee is made up of about 130 to 150 people, who are all past Liberty Candidates, people from all different Liberty-minded movements who have signed on to do this, not for any other reason than because they care.
So everything is voluntary, and everybody's a non-interventionist.
We really thoroughly check these people, and we've had some amazing people running for office.
The thing that's different is that we don't ask what party anybody's in, because we really don't care what party anybody's in.
That's not the important thing.
It's where they stand on the issues.
So I do know that there are some wonderful people out there running for office.
The thing is that you don't hear so much about them because they don't have money.
And that's the hard part, is needing money to run for office.
And I wish it weren't so important.
You know, I mean, if you have one good man who's going to knock on 100,000 doors, you know, it can be done, but that's not likely.
So we need to now turn to these people and to check them out ourselves, and to now donate our time and or money to them, because if we just start locally and get people to run for office in our communities, you know, for county executives or, you know, assembly, our communities need to start from the bottom up getting these people in office.
A lot of people ask us, you know, why are you asking me about federal questions when I fill out your application?
I'm only running for a county job.
And we're like, because we want to know where you stand, whether or not you're running for a county office or a state office or a federal office, because you're not likely to change your position if you start out being a non-interventionist or start out, you know, being an Austrian economist.
You know, people, you know, if they're aware and awake about these things, they're going to probably stay that way, especially since they were inspired by Ron Paul, as opposed to people who, you know, put on a suit and say, I'm going to run for office because, you know, I'm a lawyer.
You know, we got to stop supporting people like that.
Start supporting the real man, you know, the real men and women that have come from this revolution.
Yeah.
Well, look, I don't think I could come up with the vocabulary terms to describe the greatness of what Ron Paul has accomplished here with both of these presidential runs and the amount of, you know, I hate to paraphrase the army, but the hearts and minds won over to, you know, old liberalism, libertarianism, this moral and political philosophy that is so far superior to liberalism and conservatism in every way right now and makes just a mockery of the corruption of those two political philosophies that have been so dominant in American political culture.
And I think he really, as Rick McGinnis would say, he's just completely changed the political conversation in America and forever.
And there's just no going back from it.
And it'll be a little while before things really start changing our way.
But it's a whole new generation of kids.
I mean, think about all the college kids who are Ron Paul people who they could all just read a people's history and become, you know, progressives and been a whole new generation of just, you know, whatever the opposite of Republicans is, I guess I'm a left winger.
Right.
But instead they go out, whatever the opposite of a Republican is, I'm a Ron Paulian, you know, that the not the not the evil, conservative, corrupt form of Republican, but the real old school Jeffersonian kind, you know?
Yeah, I mean, you got different ways to go.
There are some people in this movement who are looking to go to the Republican Party and get in through that door.
I'm not one of the people that that thinks that's the right thing to do, because I think you got to sell your soul a little bit to to be in the Republican Party, although Ron Paul managed to do it without really selling his soul.
So, you know, but he's but he's he's different than other people.
I mean, I'm looking at his son.
I don't I still don't know, you know, where he stands.
All right.
Well, so let's talk about the great lineup at the Paul Festival.
I know we didn't get off track here, but yeah, Paul Festival is going to be definitely a tribute to the man.
And everybody there is definitely for liberty and going to talk about where they're going.
So I'm excited.
I can't wait to be there.
All right.
Now read us that list of all star speakers again, Gigi.
OK, let's see.
Peter Schiff, Gary Johnson, Lou Rockwell, Chuck Baldwin, Tom Woods, Michael Shuler, Adam Kokesh, Gary Franchi, Walter Block, Timot, Larry Pratt, Stuart Rhodes, Gigi Bowman, Sheriff Mack, Scott Horton, David Thoreau, Jason Rink, Judge Jim Gray, John C. Goodman from the Independent Institute, Anthony Gregory from the Independent Institute, Wayne Paul, Patricia Patricia Wheat from the Campaign for Constitutional Money, Mike Church, Carla Garicki, and a lot more, believe it or not, more.
Awesome.
And that's about the music.
So now it's just, what's today, Tuesday morning, right?
So you still got two days, everybody, to buy one, get one free tickets to the Paul Festival.
Right.
So don't don't wait till you're there to say, oh, I thought I could buy one and get one free.
We can't do it there.
It will be too hectic.
And we're not the ones that are doing the money thing.
So we've got to sell those tickets before we get there.
If you want to buy one, get one free.
Well, I still regret to this day, I didn't go to the one in 2008 there, the kind of counter convention.
And I saw the videos of that.
And it was like a Slayer concert or something.
There were 70,000 people there or something.
Oh, that was great.
Because you know what?
We do put on we do put on good stuff.
You know, we all.
I wasn't lying.
I'm scared to give a speech to a crowd like that.
I've only ever talked to like 200 people at a time in person, you know.
Oh, wait a minute, Scott Horton, you were at Liberty Fest last year in New York City, where I distinctly know there was between seven and eight hundred people and you spoke there.
So no, no.
So you've spoken to bigger crowds than you might think.
But we're doing that again this year, too.
So come on down.
All right.
Well, yeah, let me know.
All right.
I will.
All right.
All right.
Everybody, that's Gigi Bowman, Paul Festival dot org.
Buy one, get one free tickets.
Lou and Tom and Peter Schiff and Anthony Gregory and everybody is going to be speaking there about the greatness of Ron Paul.
And then also their special project point of view.
They want to explain.
I really can't wait.
I'm sorry I can't be there on Saturday to see Lou and Tom and everybody.
But I'll be speaking Sunday night on the future of the movement.
And I appreciate your time on the show and the invitation to be a part of this thing.
It's going to be world history.
I'll see you on Sunday.
Goodbye, everybody.
And see you at Paul Fest.
Great.
Thanks.
Remember, it's indoors and air conditioned.
Indoors and air conditioned.
You heard it right there.
Paul Festival dot org.
Thanks.
Bye bye, guys.
Bye.