Interesting comments by the interviewee.
I live in LA (in fact, I work in the building that's about an inch to the viewer's right of the interviewee's left ear), and, I will tell you that gold is being pushed very heavily here in Southern California. Almost every financial show, or even the twice-hourly business news updates on the local news radio stations are sponsored by gold dealers. The ads are as ubiquitous as the mortgage ads, but they are getting up there.