Speaker 1: All right, Team Box special treat for all of you today.
Speaker 1: The man himself, Ted Nugent, joins us. He is a
Speaker 1: rock superstar. He is also an avid outdoorsman, best selling author,
Speaker 1: all around freedom spreader and lover of a good old
Speaker 1: us of a mister Ted Nugent, Sir, thank you well,
Speaker 1: thank you bunking a happy springing time to everybody inspiting
Speaker 1: this crazy, crazy world we're living. Him. Yeah, let's let's say,
Speaker 1: because I have so much I want to ask you about,
Speaker 1: and you're very kind to give us your time to
Speaker 1: philosophize a little bit about freedom. But first, let me
Speaker 1: just get your take on what are we doing right
Speaker 1: now as a country. I mean, we have people being
Speaker 1: told that they can't go into a playground with their
Speaker 1: wife and kid with no one else around. We're being
Speaker 1: told that you can't go to a drive in church,
Speaker 1: you can't go to beaches, although they're starting to change
Speaker 1: that now. What happened? I thought I thought we were
Speaker 1: the you don't give me liberty or give me death people,
Speaker 1: or at least don't tread on me. Doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: that's the way a lot of the government's treating us
Speaker 1: these days. When you smell like truth, logic and common sense,
Speaker 1: just like me. Buck. Then let me tell you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are uncharted territories we're plunging into right now. But
Speaker 1: there's always going to be good, bad, and ugly, and
Speaker 1: I like to focus on the good, and there's unlimited
Speaker 1: good to be focused on. Sure, there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: freaks out there that are violating their oath to the constitution,
Speaker 1: forbidding people to go fishing, forbidding people to plant gardens.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really is like Planet of the Apes
Speaker 1: Cuckoo's Nest time. So those guilty parties know who they are.
Speaker 1: But the good is that I have a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of hunting buddies, a bunch of ranchers and farmers. I
Speaker 1: got military buddies, law enforcement, first responders, teachers, you know,
Speaker 1: the doctors and the nurses, and those of us that
Speaker 1: learn to be prepared and live the boy Scout mantra
Speaker 1: of being prepared. We have always been cocked, locked and
Speaker 1: ready to rock the block dock, and we're helping those
Speaker 1: people who were dumbed down. And will you know, the
Speaker 1: new national anthem for a segment of society is man
Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart. But again, that's the bad
Speaker 1: and ugly and the good I believe is now manifesting
Speaker 1: itself in these protests where we the people are experimenting
Speaker 1: in self individual government and we're raised in hell with
Speaker 1: elected employees who have tread on us. So I don't
Speaker 1: just see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: I see a glaring You know, I singer every day
Speaker 1: of my life because I'm surrounded my band, my crew,
Speaker 1: my wife, my kids, my grandkids, my management. Everybody in
Speaker 1: my life is so in the asset column that we
Speaker 1: will help those who have decided to be in the
Speaker 1: liability column. But I really believe there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: positive that we can cling to, primarily that divine intervention
Speaker 1: brought this great non presidential, non politician to the commander
Speaker 1: in chief Helm. So I'm feeling I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've no, but I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing,
Speaker 1: in spite of the oath violations, the abuse of power,
Speaker 1: and the runaway corruption that is so glaringly identifiable now.
Speaker 1: So I think even the fence sitters are waking up
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to sit on the fence. You
Speaker 1: have to defend the fence. Do you think that there's
Speaker 1: not only a change in the perception about one's individual
Speaker 1: preparation that's not necessary, but also are we going to
Speaker 1: see a whole lot more people really appreciate You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of you know, the the America bumper
Speaker 1: sticker stuff you see out there right. Freedom isn't free.
Speaker 1: And people who serve in the military, for example, they
Speaker 1: know what that means at a very deep and important level.
Speaker 1: But you know, a lot of us come, you know,
Speaker 1: don't trut on me at the gas and flags and
Speaker 1: all this. Is there going to be a renewal of
Speaker 1: that emotional, spiritual bond between millions of Americans and what
Speaker 1: individual rights and freedom means as a result of some
Speaker 1: of the some of the craziness that we were just
Speaker 1: talking about before. You know, I'm the eternal optimist, and
Speaker 1: I hope and pray that that prognosis is accurate that
Speaker 1: comes to fruition. That being said, again, everybody I know
Speaker 1: is in the asset column. Everybody I know works their
Speaker 1: ass off to be productive and to be a benefit
Speaker 1: to their family and neighborhood and country God, family, country boy.
Speaker 1: That's radical. So I'm not so sure that the dumbing
Speaker 1: down of America. I mean, how do you not have
Speaker 1: enough toilet paper for a hurricane or of snowstorm or ice?
Speaker 1: I mean, how do people get that? So we are responsible.
Speaker 1: And again that cheap battle cry that I just, you know,
Speaker 1: painfully shared with you a moment ago. Yes, they're gonna
Speaker 1: wake up. I'm not sure how quick. But more importantly
Speaker 1: than that book is I'm gonna I'm gonna really scold
Speaker 1: my fellow patriots. Those that believe in God, family, and
Speaker 1: country didn't vote in Michigan and they allowed Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: to become governor. For those that are unsure themselves, that
Speaker 1: would be Gretchen Whitner, who is Hillary Clinton. So I
Speaker 1: would like to think that we should just focus on
Speaker 1: the constitutionalist amongst us. And here's the battlecry, vote damn it.
Speaker 1: Don't let the liberals win by you organizing their voting
Speaker 1: blocks better than we do. But we have a hunt
Speaker 1: the Vote dot org, Hunt the Vote dot org. What
Speaker 1: we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, we finally galvanized
Speaker 1: what I think is the ultimate conservative voting block in America.
Speaker 1: And those are licensed hunters and fishermen and trappers and
Speaker 1: outdoors and conservationists that traditionally do not vote. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because it's the rut during November in
Speaker 1: their own their trey stand. But embarrassingly and unforgivably, that
Speaker 1: huge army of conservative voters don't show up at the polls.
Speaker 1: So at Hunt the Vote dot Org, we are galvanizing
Speaker 1: those people like we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the top hunting states in the nation. And that may
Speaker 1: sound confusing to sell people out there, but mark my words,
Speaker 1: there are tens of millions of hunting families in this
Speaker 1: country that don't vote, and then they show up in
Speaker 1: protest because the enemy got into the office of governor
Speaker 1: in Michigan. And that's damage control instead of just voting God, family,
Speaker 1: and country as quality control. So I'm hopeful that that
Speaker 1: untapped army that already agrees with the truth, logic and
Speaker 1: common sense that you live by that I live by,
Speaker 1: that they'll finally wield the ultimate weapon in the history
Speaker 1: of freedom, and that's the vote in America. What is
Speaker 1: the Ted Neugion assessment of the opponent for our Donald
Speaker 1: Trump right now? Joe Biden, have you been seeing some
Speaker 1: of the bidenisms, which I think the pleasant way that
Speaker 1: we refer to them. Have you seen some of this stuff?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm trying to work on Biden personation
Speaker 1: that doesn't just sound like a ripoff of mister McGoo,
Speaker 1: But then I realize it's gonna sound something like that
Speaker 1: because he does seem somewhat confused. Again, I don't think
Speaker 1: liberals are the same species as you and I. They
Speaker 1: like they're allergic to truth, logic, common sense and the
Speaker 1: evidence that is otherwise inescapable. Just examine the history of
Speaker 1: abusive power by Joe Biden. I mean from the credit
Speaker 1: card scams too, is the Hunter Biden scams and oh
Speaker 1: you mean just a lifetime of rip off and deceit
Speaker 1: and abusive power. And then watch him struggle to form
Speaker 1: a sentence and people actually go ask my guy, yeah
Speaker 1: on him to be the commander at Chief's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like an uptake of a bad Saturday Life
Speaker 1: spoof on just how stupid people can be. So again,
Speaker 1: I know that that ignorance and that apathy and that
Speaker 1: stupidity exists, but I hope the people that are not
Speaker 1: stupid and are not ignorant of how we got to
Speaker 1: this experiment self government. I just you vote out there,
Speaker 1: go to hunt the vote dot org, and let's make
Speaker 1: sure all conservatives are registered and we vote God, family, country, Constitution, freedom. Duh. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: how do you think the Trumpster has done so far? Game? Look,
Speaker 1: right now, he's in the midst of the most challenging
Speaker 1: governing situation for any president. I think it's pretty fair
Speaker 1: to say since World War Two. I don't think anything really,
Speaker 1: because you've got the infection, the virus and the loss
Speaker 1: of life and all the fear and the panic, and
Speaker 1: you also have the essentially induced depression, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is an oppression that the government has walked us
Speaker 1: into it said, don't worry, we'll pull you out of it. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But how has Trump done up to and
Speaker 1: including this challenge in your mind based on what the
Speaker 1: promise was from the campaign. But you know, you're one
Speaker 1: of the few I don't know if you like the
Speaker 1: term celebrity, but you're a celebrity. You're one of the
Speaker 1: few celebrities that has been supporting this guy from the
Speaker 1: beginning and still supports them all the way through. So
Speaker 1: you've obviously seen a lot of the crazy. On the
Speaker 1: other side, how do you think Trump is doing well?
Speaker 1: Let me put it this way, and I think if
Speaker 1: we examined my following sentence that the evidence will gag you.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is as close to ted nu as you'll
Speaker 1: ever get in politics. He knows he's on the right course.
Speaker 1: He knows about logistics and responsibility and accountability. He knows
Speaker 1: about the Constitution, that it's a god given guarantee of
Speaker 1: God given individual rights that are founding fathers wrope down
Speaker 1: because we didn't believe in kings and emperors and despots
Speaker 1: and slave drivers, even though we had to get over
Speaker 1: that embarrassing, horrific chapter. So my card, my, what do
Speaker 1: you call it a when you get a rating in school?
Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I I wasn't made attention, poor card.
Speaker 1: I never went to as too busy learning stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you give Trump or raiding, I give him an
Speaker 1: a plus just because if you're driving such clear and
Speaker 1: present idiots that crazy, that's gold in my world. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do not intentionally drive idiots crazy, but I just
Speaker 1: stand up for truth, logic, common sense against self evident truth.
Speaker 1: You know that I have the right to choose my
Speaker 1: own religion. I have the right to have privacy in
Speaker 1: my home. I get to keep him bear arms, not
Speaker 1: just the king and his henchman, punks, etc. Etc. So
Speaker 1: I give President Trump an A to a plus just
Speaker 1: for the fact that he is going into uncharted territory.
Speaker 1: He's like Lewis and Clark of politics right now, with
Speaker 1: this pandemic and the abuse of the media, that the
Speaker 1: unbridled dishonesty and hate from the left. I mean, I
Speaker 1: deal with it. They call me a pedophile, they call
Speaker 1: me a draft dodger. They claim I the Native Americans lies, lies, lies,
Speaker 1: because they can't debate me. They are incapable of debating me.
Speaker 1: And all I have to do is google my different
Speaker 1: debates and watch me eat the face of the idiots
Speaker 1: to try to tell me that my truth, logic, and
Speaker 1: common sense ain't accurate. So I love President Trump and
Speaker 1: his team. I think he is burdened by some of
Speaker 1: the excess baggage of passive administrations, but he's deshackling that
Speaker 1: at a real rapid pace. And I pray for the
Speaker 1: man every day and his family. And I think he
Speaker 1: was sent here as a non politician to represent we
Speaker 1: the people. More accurately than any administration I can remember.
Speaker 1: We are in a dark time right now as a
Speaker 1: country because of this pandemic. But you're a guy who
Speaker 1: seems to be able to find the optimism and things,
Speaker 1: seem to find the silver lining pretty easily, and certainly
Speaker 1: have a spiritual and psychological resilience in the face of
Speaker 1: all this. So what are you going to say to
Speaker 1: people right now that are really worried that America is
Speaker 1: never going to be the same. Well, it just may
Speaker 1: sound selfish, but it's just a big campfire that I'm
Speaker 1: humbled and honored to share every day. But go to
Speaker 1: my Facebook and listen to the millions of people who
Speaker 1: just reek of goodwill, decency, work, ethic drive to be
Speaker 1: the best that they can be. This country is wall
Speaker 1: to wall spiritual samurai producers. I know these truck drivers,
Speaker 1: and I know these ranchers. I know these beef producers,
Speaker 1: and I know these agricultures. Ares my god, their alarm
Speaker 1: clock goes off earlier than anybody's and they go to
Speaker 1: bed later than anybody. Those are my people. I call
Speaker 1: them blood brothers, and I share hunting camp fires with
Speaker 1: them every year because on eight hunts with uncle Ted
Speaker 1: because I'm so much fun and valuable for different military
Speaker 1: and children's charities, and I hang out with the most dedicated,
Speaker 1: down to earth, grounded, smart, dedicated we the people working hard,
Speaker 1: playing hard families who donate a lot of money to
Speaker 1: these charities, just to hang out with me and get
Speaker 1: some backstraps around the campfire. So I know the hard
Speaker 1: and soul of every strata of the human experience. I
Speaker 1: get a call every month Buck from Marcus Latrelle. I
Speaker 1: speak with Rob O'Neill and Garry O'Neill, the author of
Speaker 1: an American Warrior bob Blevins who served like twelve years
Speaker 1: in Vietnam, and a bunch of I actually shared a
Speaker 1: campfire Buck with a survival of the Baton Death March
Speaker 1: and guys that were at Normandy and Iwashima. These guys
Speaker 1: think of this Buck, How can my haters and critics
Speaker 1: possibly deter me when I am sought out by that
Speaker 1: that heroic level of humanity seek out uncle Ted because
Speaker 1: they hear me promoting a Second Amendment, unapologetic and unbridled. Well,
Speaker 1: if they hear me promote conservation and hunting God family,
Speaker 1: and they find me, they find me somehow, and then
Speaker 1: they come and share a campfire with me, and I
Speaker 1: milk their knowledge and their heartship heartbreaks, and their hardships
Speaker 1: in battle. And I didn't serve officially in the military,
Speaker 1: but you know what I got behind me and on
Speaker 1: the mantel over here, I got a bunch of purple hearts,
Speaker 1: buck stop, and think that I didn't earn them. I
Speaker 1: tried to resist. But when a marine or a Navy
Speaker 1: seal puts a purple heart in your hand and says,
Speaker 1: I want you to have this, And over a more
Speaker 1: than twenty or thirty year, forty years, they have given
Speaker 1: me these purple hearts, and none of them knew each other,
Speaker 1: and they all said the same thing. I want you
Speaker 1: to take this, uncle ted, because you fight every day
Speaker 1: for what my buddies died for. They all sit almost
Speaker 1: like it was scripted, but it isn't scripted, because it's
Speaker 1: burned in their soul. And they know that I'm the
Speaker 1: only artist, the only celebrity, even though I'm just a
Speaker 1: deer hunter that gets in the media and promotes God, family, country, freedom,
Speaker 1: the Constitution. To build a rights, the Declaration have been
Speaker 1: dependent the tenter manage, the Golden Rule, you know, all
Speaker 1: that really radical stuff. And so these old heroes seek
Speaker 1: out the goofy guitar player and give me their purple heart.
Speaker 1: And I'm supposed to listen to criticism from Michael Moore,
Speaker 1: who still hasn't discovered personal hygiene. I mean, my cocky
Speaker 1: factor is off the charts because of those guys Ted
Speaker 1: Nugent Rock superstar Hunting. I was gonna say aficionado, but
Speaker 1: I think we have to go beyond aficionado. How would
Speaker 1: you self describe? How would you self identify as a hunter? Highly,
Speaker 1: highly advanced, semipro? Where do you put yourself on the
Speaker 1: hunting scale? Like crazy horse with a machine gun. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like what Natty Bumpo and Daddiel
Speaker 1: Boone and Jeremiah Johnson wish they could be. I literally,
Speaker 1: I literally hunt and fish and trapped year round. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I suppose I could qualify as
Speaker 1: an expert. I've never bought chicken. I only kill the
Speaker 1: food that we eat, and it's it's the most pure, nutritious, delicious,
Speaker 1: exciting and challenging. Because I so wait, so you were
Speaker 1: you were essentially doing the carnivore diet before a bunch
Speaker 1: of CrossFit hipsters in New York and Los Angeles were
Speaker 1: doing the carnivore diet. I'm the organic czar. Everything in
Speaker 1: the Newton household is organic. My wife Jamaine is the
Speaker 1: Queen of the Forest. She got a new book out
Speaker 1: that is just phenomenal, really changing people's lives. But we've
Speaker 1: always been organic. That's what hunting, fishing, and trapping is.
Speaker 1: There's no petroleum in our produce. I trapped year round
Speaker 1: and I tan hides and it's the ultimate gift to
Speaker 1: my grandkids. And I signed some of these furs, the
Speaker 1: raccoon and the coyote furs. I autograph them and we
Speaker 1: donate them to fundraisers for charities, and people pay thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars for a ted nugent coyote hide. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it's a renewable resource. And if you want
Speaker 1: healthy air, soil, and water which gives healthy quality of life,
Speaker 1: it's going to come from wildlife habitat only if it's balanced.
Speaker 1: And that's what hunters, fishermen, trappers doing. Now the world
Speaker 1: should say thank you, Uncle Ted. Well we do, we do.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I will tell you you know, just just
Speaker 1: so you know, I know that you're talking to somebody
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a city slicker, you know, one
Speaker 1: of these guys. But I was, at the age of thirteen,
Speaker 1: a licensed bow hunter in the state of New York.
Speaker 1: My dad. We grew up hunting, fishing, shooting guns out
Speaker 1: in nature. Used to go up to the Boundary Waters
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and then up in the Quidico National Park.
Speaker 1: Used to go up into the Adirondacks, went fly fishing
Speaker 1: in Costa Rica, which was amazing by the way. You know,
Speaker 1: all kinds of really really cool stuff going up and
Speaker 1: so we were exposed to the outdoors. I had one
Speaker 1: I had one of those dads, like he was done
Speaker 1: on the office floor and he's like, let's grab the
Speaker 1: twelve gages and go shoot some birds. So a little
Speaker 1: a little more familiarity than one might think just by looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, Ted's got I could see him.
Speaker 1: He's got the Camo shirt on, and I look like
Speaker 1: I just rolled as off, you know, an extra from
Speaker 1: the Wolf of Wall Street or something here. But anyway, Ted,
Speaker 1: I also wanted to ask, because you're mentioning meat, food,
Speaker 1: the things that you've been hunting if you only were
Speaker 1: allowed one. I mean like, if this is the quote
Speaker 1: of your last meal. But I wanted to be that dramatic.
Speaker 1: But if there's only one wild caught protein that you
Speaker 1: could have, you only got one, and you're you're limited
Speaker 1: to that for a year, what would it be? It
Speaker 1: would be a white tailed dear fawn backstrap. Now, when
Speaker 1: I see a faun during the hunting season, the funds
Speaker 1: are independent, they're already weaned, and they're legal game. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing more delicious and nothing more beneficial to the
Speaker 1: herd than shooting the year leans that were born that year.
Speaker 1: In the meat is candy, especially the way that I
Speaker 1: kill it, I clean it, I cook it, I age it.
Speaker 1: I mean block. If I cooked a meal of venison
Speaker 1: backstrap for you, you'd probably offer a matrimony and I
Speaker 1: have to punch you. But our average meal is goal Jerry.
Speaker 1: It's the best of the bag. How much how much
Speaker 1: bow hunting versus versus rifle and shotgun would you say
Speaker 1: you do? I do nine bow hunting. I have so
Speaker 1: many animals on our Michigan swamp and our Texas property
Speaker 1: that the animals are so smart. They don't like guitar
Speaker 1: players with sharp sticks. I kill somewhere about one hundred
Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifteen deer a year, and all
Speaker 1: but maybe three or four with the bow and arrow.
Speaker 1: I have to harvest a lot of doughs on the
Speaker 1: Michigan Swamp, and I have to harvest a lot here
Speaker 1: in Texas, and landowners choose our own bag limit, which
Speaker 1: is why we have the healthiest deer heard in the world.
Speaker 1: And I donate tons of pure venison to soup kitchens
Speaker 1: and homeless shelters every year. But I'm I'm a nice guy,
Speaker 1: but I'm not an idiot. I keep the backstraps and
Speaker 1: I kill almost all of them with the bone arrow,
Speaker 1: but because they're so elusive, I have to kill a
Speaker 1: certain percentage, and so sometimes I pull out the sniper rifle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm just you know, as I'm sitting here thinking
Speaker 1: at bow hunting, I remember and I did a fair
Speaker 1: amount of archery with my dad and my two brothers.
Speaker 1: Growing up. We had grandparents that had a house upstate,
Speaker 1: so that was that sort of city you know, urban
Speaker 1: to rural connection, and we had we had you know,
Speaker 1: deer targets, we had deer stands on the property. We
Speaker 1: had deer targets and things set up, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole Uncle Ted would have been very happy at
Speaker 1: the Sexton Upstate Upstate facility, let me tell you. But
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's one of the reasons that I saluted
Speaker 1: you a moment ago. That you led a hands on
Speaker 1: conservation lifestyle. That's hands on, that's down to earth. That's
Speaker 1: the ultimate compliment. Grounded. You were raised grounded, and ultimately
Speaker 1: that means you were in touch with God's miraculous renewable creation,
Speaker 1: and that gives you a sense of place in nature.
Speaker 1: It forces us when we participate in God's tooth, fang
Speaker 1: and claw sustainability, we understand better where life comes from,
Speaker 1: like the Native people's. I mean, that's why reference co
Speaker 1: Chiefe and Crazy Horse and sit in bowl all the
Speaker 1: time in my music and in my writings, is because
Speaker 1: that native culture so revered the spirit of the wild, food, clothing, shelter, medicine, weapons, tools, spirit,
Speaker 1: healing powers. So my hunting lifestyle that I'm attacked all
Speaker 1: the time for it is another manifestation of cultural deprivation.
Speaker 1: But my hunting lifestyle is perfect environmentalism, and many people
Speaker 1: are waking up to that. Yeah, I was gonna I
Speaker 1: want to ask about on the bow hunting Saba's real quick,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I remember when I was living
Speaker 1: in DC for a while, I was a swamp creature.
Speaker 1: When I was working at the CIA before I was
Speaker 1: getting sent abroad to do stuff, and there was I
Speaker 1: think it was actually in Rock Creek Park, which is
Speaker 1: a park that extends right into into the downtown of DC.
Speaker 1: As you may well know, they had to they had
Speaker 1: to harvest deer. And they're all these DC liberal yuppie
Speaker 1: types who are like this is appalled, like what cal
Speaker 1: we do, and and the people that actually know, we're
Speaker 1: saying you don't understand. If you don't, they are starving
Speaker 1: to death and they're spreading disease among the herd. So
Speaker 1: they had to bring people outside. They couldn't find anyone
Speaker 1: who was a resident of DC. They had to bring
Speaker 1: a professional hunter from the outside because otherwise anyway, So
Speaker 1: that's your point of rock conservation. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: this time and again play out. But you know, bow
Speaker 1: hunting there's such a a skill set to it. I
Speaker 1: mean I even remember learning about you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you hit the animal in the lungs, you'll you'll
Speaker 1: find the blood pink with the bubbles in it, the
Speaker 1: heart and liver, or you know, darker blood that's sort
Speaker 1: of deep purple blood, and that's important for tracking. Again.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, yeah, I remember this year Papa Sex.
Speaker 1: That taught me, well, what makes my blood brother? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What makes a great bow hunter? What makes somebody a
Speaker 1: really excellent and successful bow hunter? Conscientious stealth, definitive situational
Speaker 1: awareness because God created these animals to avoid people, especially
Speaker 1: when they're carrying a bow and arrow, and we are
Speaker 1: as such a disadvantage because the deer can hear and
Speaker 1: see and smell in sense changes in the pulse of
Speaker 1: the air. It's really a fascinating art form. It's the
Speaker 1: ultimate samurai forcefulness of using your gifts from God in
Speaker 1: the ultimate application. So to be a good bow hunter,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be like the motor city madman.
Speaker 1: You want to learn your calm down and shut up
Speaker 1: and sit still for many, many, many hours. Buck. I
Speaker 1: hunt every day. If I during it when the ducks
Speaker 1: are coming in, I take the three amigoes out and
Speaker 1: we duck hunt in the mornings, but I'll deer hunt
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. We'll squirrel hunt in the middle of
Speaker 1: the day. We got pheasants and woodcock and grouse and rabbis,
Speaker 1: and we got turkey. We got sand hill cranes. By
Speaker 1: the way, Michigan, sandhill cranes, they're ribbis in the sky Michigan.
Speaker 1: Here's you think it's nuts that Michigan won't allow you
Speaker 1: to plant a garden right now, Michigan will allow you
Speaker 1: to shoot the overpopulation of sand hill cranes ribby in
Speaker 1: the sky, but they won't allow you to eat them.
Speaker 1: That's immoral. Sandhill cranes ribi in the sky delicious. I divert.
Speaker 1: But to be a great bow hunter, or any bone
Speaker 1: or even with a rifle or a shotgun or a handgun,
Speaker 1: a higher level of spiritual stealth is mandatory. Now you
Speaker 1: might bumble into one once in a while. I never have.
Speaker 1: I've never bumbled into a deer. But if you dedicate
Speaker 1: yourself to that predator spirit, what like the Native Americans,
Speaker 1: the Aboriginal tribes of Africa who I've hunted with since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, you learn so much from these people
Speaker 1: who live down to earth, ground, in touch with nature.
Speaker 1: And I've learned from them and I'm pretty effective. I
Speaker 1: don't kill deer very often with my bow, but like
Speaker 1: I said, I hunt September, October, November, December, January, and February,
Speaker 1: and even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in
Speaker 1: a while. And I can shoot real good. I'm shooting
Speaker 1: a Matthew's bow that I can. I can hit a
Speaker 1: heart on a deer out to seventy yards if everything
Speaker 1: is perfect and I'm super tuned in. But ultimately you're
Speaker 1: you give me an EO Tech site ted, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe at seventy yards I'll actually hit
Speaker 1: the deer. So I'm pretty impressed with a you know,
Speaker 1: a five five, With a five five six and an
Speaker 1: EO Tech, there's a decent chance at seventy yards I
Speaker 1: hit the deer. But sure of that, my friend, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you're hitting any of the bow and
Speaker 1: arrow twenty yards. Twenty yards is the battle cry for
Speaker 1: a bow hunter. But if you practice out to one hundred,
Speaker 1: like I do every day, those closer shots get a
Speaker 1: little bit easier. No, I'm just amazed that you could
Speaker 1: ever hit a deer at seventy yards. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the level of skill that I understand having fired enough
Speaker 1: bows at a very amateur, very young level, a very
Speaker 1: very young age. It's a whole different ball game from
Speaker 1: rifle ry. I'm just gonna say it, a whole different world.
Speaker 1: Well buck, let me insert here to our listeners. Right
Speaker 1: now we're talking about the fun of archery, the mystical
Speaker 1: flight of the arrow, the handi spirit, coordination of the
Speaker 1: samurai archer, the origins of zen. By the way, the
Speaker 1: samurai spirit comes from being one with the path of
Speaker 1: your life. Slash arrow. You can put that arrow where
Speaker 1: you want if you are totally focused and become Bruce
Speaker 1: Lee momentarily. But right now, during this pandemic, I have
Speaker 1: turned on on my Facebook. By the way, thank you Facebookers.
Speaker 1: The ten judged Facebookers are the greatest people that ever
Speaker 1: walked the earth. The funny, funny smart people archery. Get
Speaker 1: yourself a real graceful bow and arrow. Go find one,
Speaker 1: even if it's an old long bowler recurve. But right
Speaker 1: now I have turned on so many people to the
Speaker 1: escape perfection of the mystical flight of the arrow. When
Speaker 1: you learn to hold that bow and grasp that spring
Speaker 1: string and draw back under your own power and envision
Speaker 1: the path of your spirit. You can put that arrow
Speaker 1: precisely in the bull's eye or the pump station of
Speaker 1: a herbivore. And right now, Buck, mark my words. I
Speaker 1: know you respect your elders, but respect this. This is
Speaker 1: written in stone. When you become an archer and you
Speaker 1: discover the form, you will naturally ergonomically align yourself with
Speaker 1: your hand eye spirit, right hand, left hand coordination. Everybody
Speaker 1: listening to Buck Sexton and uncle Ted right now. When
Speaker 1: you get to full draw in archery, there's no pandemic.
Speaker 1: There's no hate, there's no Hillary Clinton, there's no Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: there's no lying media, there's no negativity. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: it takes you. I shot over one hundred arrows already
Speaker 1: this morning, and you can see that I'm not stumbling
Speaker 1: for syllables. I'm not trying to come up with a
Speaker 1: point of view. I live this stuff. And if you
Speaker 1: get a bow and arrow, even in your living room
Speaker 1: at ten feet, into a cardboard box full of pillows
Speaker 1: or paper, and you discover where you can put that arrow,
Speaker 1: you will become one with your gifts from God to
Speaker 1: apply to any endeavor, and you will be better at
Speaker 1: that endeavor. After just a couple days of archery, mark
Speaker 1: my words. Remember I'm clean and sober for seventy one years.
Speaker 1: I've been bow hunting since I could well. I was
Speaker 1: on a ball hunting trip in October of nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 1: I was ten months old, and I've never missed a
Speaker 1: season since. That's why my music is so ferocious, because
Speaker 1: I understand the world. I understand the dynamic, I understand
Speaker 1: the spirit of the wild, and I apply it to
Speaker 1: my guitar jamming collaboration with the world's greatest musician. Okay,
Speaker 1: so thank you, Thank you for the perfect transition that
Speaker 1: I was going to have to make, or else my
Speaker 1: audience was going to yell at me. Here, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to Ted Nugent about political philosophy COVID nineteen, which is
Speaker 1: inescapable everywhere, a lot about hunding bo hunting, which I
Speaker 1: think a lot of my audience will really appreciate. But
Speaker 1: you can't talk to the MotorCity matman and not talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about music and culture today. Let's start
Speaker 1: with this, man, I mean my parents. You know, there
Speaker 1: are a few areas of culture where your parents get
Speaker 1: to say, and a lot of people and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in my late thirties. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: folks whore around my age would agree. Your parents get
Speaker 1: to say, you know, our music was just better than yours,
Speaker 1: and at least at least when they're talking about rock
Speaker 1: and roll, I know, I really know very few people.
Speaker 1: And then let's put aside, you know, hip hop and
Speaker 1: techno and all this other stuff when they're talking about
Speaker 1: rock and roll. I feel like there's really not much
Speaker 1: of an argument. So the first question I have for
Speaker 1: you before I get to ask, you know, if you
Speaker 1: could play in any band? And we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: some of that fun stuff, what happened to rock and roll? Tad?
Speaker 1: Where is it? There's a number of there's a number
Speaker 1: of dynamics at play. First of all, the more spoiled
Speaker 1: we get, and this horrible condition we're in right now
Speaker 1: where people are scrambling for basic survival. And again that's
Speaker 1: just a I say, lunatic fringe, but it's a lunatic segment,
Speaker 1: and they are learning some lessons, and I love the
Speaker 1: lunatic segment, but they do have to learn to be
Speaker 1: prepared and be more responsible. But as goes the softening
Speaker 1: and the dependency in our culture. You got these spoiled
Speaker 1: brats that never built a highway, they never built a home.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't know which end of a hammer to grab.
Speaker 1: They've never done anything independently except squawk and wine like
Speaker 1: a bunch of cry babies. And remember where luck, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind, which I'm really good at. So
Speaker 1: why did Chuck Bury and bow Didley and Little Richard
Speaker 1: take with Howland Wolf and Muddy Waters, Mose Allison and
Speaker 1: lightning happens? Those black authoritarians of the most vicious heartbreak
Speaker 1: in the history of the human experienced slavery. Why were
Speaker 1: they so emotional because they were enslaved, they were controlled
Speaker 1: by other men. Just think of the savagery of that heartbreak,
Speaker 1: the spiritual shackle that went with the metal shackles, and
Speaker 1: then Emancipation Proclamation and they threw them off. And instead
Speaker 1: of the heartbreak and the torment of the blues and
Speaker 1: the gospel dreaming of freedom, now they had Chuck, Bryan,
Speaker 1: bow Didley, Little Richard went it sounds like this, and
Speaker 1: they went nut with grinding rhythms and sexuality and declaring
Speaker 1: their independence musically, and it's so touched the inner soul
Speaker 1: of people who were already free, that these guys were
Speaker 1: celebrated with such authorities, such defiance, that it touched the
Speaker 1: defiant soul, which were we are defiant souls Concord Bridge, UM,
Speaker 1: Boston Team Party, UH, Lancene protests, etc. Etc. And so
Speaker 1: what Chuck Barrian bod did in a little Richard and
Speaker 1: Jerry Lee Lewis and no, I'll let you tell him
Speaker 1: he's not black with those rhythm and blues creators of
Speaker 1: this loud, abrasive guitar dominating they I mean, my god.
Speaker 1: It was just an orgy of emotional outrage. And that
Speaker 1: was from that era where they unleashed it originally, and
Speaker 1: then over time people got softer. People didn't have to
Speaker 1: work for a living. They didn't they squatted if they
Speaker 1: didn't get you know, healthcare. They didn't care about their health,
Speaker 1: but they want someone else to pay for their healthcare.
Speaker 1: Dirt mags. Anyhow, So there was a defiant era. It
Speaker 1: doesn't exist Animore. Now what are they squawking about. You
Speaker 1: got guys that oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars for
Speaker 1: student loans and they're drinking six dollars cups of coffee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you're in debt, take any sense. So that's what
Speaker 1: happened to rock and roll. If you lose your balls,
Speaker 1: and if you lose your spirit, you'll start playing this nonsense.
Speaker 1: That's all Saturday Morning cartoon pablum. Now I'm gonna force
Speaker 1: you in to give me some I'm gonna force you
Speaker 1: to make some tough choices here, ted all right, And
Speaker 1: I don't don't deal what people do with these things
Speaker 1: where they start dodging. No, no, no, no ducking, no weaving,
Speaker 1: you know, no Bob and weave. Here. I want to
Speaker 1: know if you get to be lead guitarist for one
Speaker 1: night for one band or act right, so you know,
Speaker 1: could be Elvis, or it could be the Beatles, or
Speaker 1: you know whoever, one night, one act all time, what
Speaker 1: band or act who would it be? You're dead, living
Speaker 1: or dead, no question, James Brown. I want to stand
Speaker 1: next to that man and those funky dogs because I
Speaker 1: played all that James Brown music. I didn't have any
Speaker 1: I didn't play any white music. And think even today
Speaker 1: my music is so soulful. I'm like a funk brother
Speaker 1: in heat um. So James Brown, he's the god. He
Speaker 1: influenced everybody. There would be no Beatles or Stones or
Speaker 1: Yardbirds or Kinks or Who or anybody without James Brown
Speaker 1: because he taught us how to play tight Dad, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how we play. I got Jason Heartless on drums,
Speaker 1: the world's greatest drummer, Greg Smith on bass guitar. They
Speaker 1: could both be in James Brown's band or the Beatles
Speaker 1: or other Stones, or the Who or the Lens Zeppelin
Speaker 1: and my guys have always been the best in the world.
Speaker 1: And James Brown imprinted on us and I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to lose that. And are there any are there
Speaker 1: any of the of this? Uh? When I say this
Speaker 1: generation of rock rock bands that are out there, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you you know, I'm talking to anything in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years. Let's say, is there anyone who
Speaker 1: at least strikes you as they're kind they're kind of
Speaker 1: tapping into they're kind of tapping into the old school here,
Speaker 1: you know, any band that comes to mind? And if
Speaker 1: the answer is no, it's no, it's but there is
Speaker 1: there anybody who's doing that at a level We're like
Speaker 1: I could have back in the day been right on
Speaker 1: stage with these guys and we would have vibed absolutely
Speaker 1: you got. Everything Dave Grohl does is authentic. I love it,
Speaker 1: miss good aspendo of guitar virtuosity in a solo section,
Speaker 1: which was always the peak of the best music. But
Speaker 1: everything Dave Grohl does is really authoritative. This Greta Van
Speaker 1: Fleet from Grand Rapperds Michigan. Who would have thought they're
Speaker 1: the real McCoy? Even Green Day is politically deranged and
Speaker 1: communists as they are, Green Day play like sons of bitches, man,
Speaker 1: they really really play. And even again, I can't align
Speaker 1: myself with the left wing, you know, socialist communist politics
Speaker 1: of a lot of these bands. But if you'll listen
Speaker 1: to the Chili Peppers with Chad Smith on drums and
Speaker 1: Fleet on bass, these guys were as good as any
Speaker 1: musicians that ever lived, and their music has pulse and
Speaker 1: pissing vinegar. So yeah, and even all the best bands
Speaker 1: in the world are still in the road. I mean,
Speaker 1: Sammy Hager's out there, he's incredible. Zz Top is out there,
Speaker 1: Errol Smith is out there. There's killer, killer bands of
Speaker 1: your But I think Greta Van Fleet and I guess
Speaker 1: Green Days old now too, So I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anything really now now I must say, my son Roccoll
Speaker 1: Winchester Nugent, he has blended. Now take this buck, my
Speaker 1: son Rocco Winchester Nugent has blended everything from John Coltrane
Speaker 1: and motown and James Brown into almost I don't want
Speaker 1: to say the words, but I will hip hop and
Speaker 1: the other goofy music that I can't stomach. But because
Speaker 1: he gets some of these super soulful musicians in his
Speaker 1: music that he creates, my son Rocco is a brilliant
Speaker 1: artist and a creative adventure on the keyboards and in
Speaker 1: vocals and melodies and in sounds and noises. So I
Speaker 1: still respect and admire and enjoy some of this very
Speaker 1: eclectic music. But when I want music, I want I
Speaker 1: want to see some forehead veins popping. I want to
Speaker 1: see twelve tambourines broken pur song like Mitch Rider Detroit Wheels.
Speaker 1: And that's what Jason and Greg and I do every song,
Speaker 1: every night, every tour. And I pray the pandemic is
Speaker 1: over so everybody heals. But I pray the pandemic is
Speaker 1: over so I can tour this summer. If I don't
Speaker 1: play my guitar, I might hurt somebody. My gu what
Speaker 1: is the tour supposed to be, so that the folks
Speaker 1: can know, and assuming that I do think that by
Speaker 1: June most states my prediction, and this will see if
Speaker 1: I'm write or not, most states will be allowing for
Speaker 1: you know, businesses to be open, concerts, large gatherings that
Speaker 1: I don't now right, So we got to see. But
Speaker 1: let's hope what's the tour going to be? Assuming that
Speaker 1: it's that it's the all clear from the authorities, Well,
Speaker 1: stop and think. I've been doing this since the fifties.
Speaker 1: I started with a great band called the Royal High
Speaker 1: Boys in Detroit nineteen fifty eight, and then we had
Speaker 1: the Luards in sixty that we opened up for the
Speaker 1: Supremes and the Bull Rumbles and Mitch Ride of the
Speaker 1: Detroit Wheels and the music was just a powerhouse. And
Speaker 1: then I started the amboy Deuce in sixty five. But
Speaker 1: last year Buck It's a Miracle twenty nineteen, it was
Speaker 1: called The Music Made Me Do It, named after my record.
Speaker 1: Last year it was the best tour of my life.
Speaker 1: It was the tightest, most ferocious fun music in the history.
Speaker 1: My guitar tone is just to die for what Jason
Speaker 1: and Greg do but this year, we already have a book.
Speaker 1: We had a bunch of sold out dates July and August,
Speaker 1: and this tour was going to be called the greatest
Speaker 1: tour of my life. I can't say those words on
Speaker 1: your program, but I guarantee if we are unleashed in
Speaker 1: July and August, this will the way the band sounds
Speaker 1: right now, the sound of my Gibson bird Lands. If
Speaker 1: I wasn't in this bad buck, I'd buy a ticket
Speaker 1: to the front row every night, because my guys are
Speaker 1: the best. So I prayed that we hit the road
Speaker 1: in July and August. Mister Ted Nugent. It was exactly
Speaker 1: as I'd hoped for and expected to get a chat,
Speaker 1: to finally sit down and have a real chat with you.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for giving us your time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for standing for freedom. Keep doing what you're doing. Hey,
Speaker 1: if that concert is happening in this summer and you
Speaker 1: know I'm coming, you gotta tell me where I gotta
Speaker 1: show up. I'm coming to the concert. You gotta witness
Speaker 1: my band. You will dance like an absolute animal and
Speaker 1: a NonStop breeding ritual. Thank you for your time, bucking again,
Speaker 1: thank you for your truth logic. And common sense celebration.
Speaker 1: You are the voice of the real Americans in the
Speaker 1: asset column of this country. So never give up, never
Speaker 1: back down. Everybody, stay safe, healthy, well secure, cocky, defiant
Speaker 1: and hopeful. Fantastic, mister Ted Nugent, Thank you, sir, gotcha Bee,
Speaker 1: Live it up.