WEBVTT - Podcast Exclusive - A Conversation with Ted Nugent 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.400 All right, Team Box special treat for all of you today. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.360 The man himself, Ted Nugent, joins us. He is a 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:12.800 rock superstar. He is also an avid outdoorsman, best selling author, 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.440 all around freedom spreader and lover of a good old 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.439 us of a mister Ted Nugent, Sir, thank you well, 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.400 thank you bunking a happy springing time to everybody inspiting 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.560 this crazy, crazy world we're living. Him. Yeah, let's let's say, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.360 because I have so much I want to ask you about, 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.600 and you're very kind to give us your time to 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.080 philosophize a little bit about freedom. But first, let me 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.919 just get your take on what are we doing right 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.920 now as a country. I mean, we have people being 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.199 told that they can't go into a playground with their 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.120 wife and kid with no one else around. We're being 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.720 told that you can't go to a drive in church, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.839 you can't go to beaches, although they're starting to change 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.840 that now. What happened? I thought I thought we were 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.640 the you don't give me liberty or give me death people, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.320 or at least don't tread on me. Doesn't feel like 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.360 that's the way a lot of the government's treating us 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.200 these days. When you smell like truth, logic and common sense, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.080 just like me. Buck. Then let me tell you, Yeah, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.160 these are uncharted territories we're plunging into right now. But 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.319 there's always going to be good, bad, and ugly, and 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.560 I like to focus on the good, and there's unlimited 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.120 good to be focused on. Sure, there's a bunch of 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.080 freaks out there that are violating their oath to the constitution, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:29.039 forbidding people to go fishing, forbidding people to plant gardens. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.120 I mean, it really is like Planet of the Apes 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.840 Cuckoo's Nest time. So those guilty parties know who they are. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.960 But the good is that I have a whole bunch 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.560 of hunting buddies, a bunch of ranchers and farmers. I 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.640 got military buddies, law enforcement, first responders, teachers, you know, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.480 the doctors and the nurses, and those of us that 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.720 learn to be prepared and live the boy Scout mantra 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.320 of being prepared. We have always been cocked, locked and 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.760 ready to rock the block dock, and we're helping those 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.920 people who were dumbed down. And will you know, the 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.200 new national anthem for a segment of society is man 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.040 and it breaks my heart. But again, that's the bad 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.280 and ugly and the good I believe is now manifesting 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.839 itself in these protests where we the people are experimenting 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.680 in self individual government and we're raised in hell with 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:25.880 elected employees who have tread on us. So I don't 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.880 just see a light at the end of the tunnel. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.639 I see a glaring You know, I singer every day 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.240 of my life because I'm surrounded my band, my crew, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.520 my wife, my kids, my grandkids, my management. Everybody in 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:42.040 my life is so in the asset column that we 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.360 will help those who have decided to be in the 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.680 liability column. But I really believe there's a bunch of 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.440 positive that we can cling to, primarily that divine intervention 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.480 brought this great non presidential, non politician to the commander 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.640 in chief Helm. So I'm feeling I don't know if 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.160 you've no, but I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.560 in spite of the oath violations, the abuse of power, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:12.000 and the runaway corruption that is so glaringly identifiable now. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.760 So I think even the fence sitters are waking up 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.480 that you're not allowed to sit on the fence. You 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.080 have to defend the fence. Do you think that there's 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.320 not only a change in the perception about one's individual 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.239 preparation that's not necessary, but also are we going to 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.560 see a whole lot more people really appreciate You know, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.440 there's a lot of you know, the the America bumper 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.080 sticker stuff you see out there right. Freedom isn't free. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.800 And people who serve in the military, for example, they 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.160 know what that means at a very deep and important level. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.400 But you know, a lot of us come, you know, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.160 don't trut on me at the gas and flags and 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.160 all this. Is there going to be a renewal of 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:52.680 that emotional, spiritual bond between millions of Americans and what 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.920 individual rights and freedom means as a result of some 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.400 of the some of the craziness that we were just 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:04.800 talking about before. You know, I'm the eternal optimist, and 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.760 I hope and pray that that prognosis is accurate that 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:14.280 comes to fruition. That being said, again, everybody I know 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.800 is in the asset column. Everybody I know works their 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.760 ass off to be productive and to be a benefit 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.960 to their family and neighborhood and country God, family, country boy. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.680 That's radical. So I'm not so sure that the dumbing 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.080 down of America. I mean, how do you not have 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.679 enough toilet paper for a hurricane or of snowstorm or ice? 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.200 I mean, how do people get that? So we are responsible. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.640 And again that cheap battle cry that I just, you know, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.200 painfully shared with you a moment ago. Yes, they're gonna 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.120 wake up. I'm not sure how quick. But more importantly 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.039 than that book is I'm gonna I'm gonna really scold 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.160 my fellow patriots. Those that believe in God, family, and 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.640 country didn't vote in Michigan and they allowed Hillary Clinton 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:10.240 to become governor. For those that are unsure themselves, that 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.080 would be Gretchen Whitner, who is Hillary Clinton. So I 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.720 would like to think that we should just focus on 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:25.320 the constitutionalist amongst us. And here's the battlecry, vote damn it. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.920 Don't let the liberals win by you organizing their voting 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.599 blocks better than we do. But we have a hunt 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.200 the Vote dot org, Hunt the Vote dot org. What 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.159 we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, we finally galvanized 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:47.239 what I think is the ultimate conservative voting block in America. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.120 And those are licensed hunters and fishermen and trappers and 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.800 outdoors and conservationists that traditionally do not vote. I don't 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.960 know if it's because it's the rut during November in 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:02.159 their own their trey stand. But embarrassingly and unforgivably, that 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.640 huge army of conservative voters don't show up at the polls. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.680 So at Hunt the Vote dot Org, we are galvanizing 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.880 those people like we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania twenty sixteen, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.280 the top hunting states in the nation. And that may 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.080 sound confusing to sell people out there, but mark my words, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.960 there are tens of millions of hunting families in this 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.039 country that don't vote, and then they show up in 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.640 protest because the enemy got into the office of governor 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.720 in Michigan. And that's damage control instead of just voting God, family, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:41.520 and country as quality control. So I'm hopeful that that 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.080 untapped army that already agrees with the truth, logic and 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.400 common sense that you live by that I live by, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.400 that they'll finally wield the ultimate weapon in the history 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.760 of freedom, and that's the vote in America. What is 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.120 the Ted Neugion assessment of the opponent for our Donald 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.000 Trump right now? Joe Biden, have you been seeing some 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.120 of the bidenisms, which I think the pleasant way that 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.920 we refer to them. Have you seen some of this stuff? 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.320 I mean, I'm I'm trying to work on Biden personation 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.320 that doesn't just sound like a ripoff of mister McGoo, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.600 But then I realize it's gonna sound something like that 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:23.480 because he does seem somewhat confused. Again, I don't think 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.920 liberals are the same species as you and I. They 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.280 like they're allergic to truth, logic, common sense and the 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:36.320 evidence that is otherwise inescapable. Just examine the history of 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.720 abusive power by Joe Biden. I mean from the credit 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.800 card scams too, is the Hunter Biden scams and oh 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.560 you mean just a lifetime of rip off and deceit 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.800 and abusive power. And then watch him struggle to form 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:59.600 a sentence and people actually go ask my guy, yeah 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.280 on him to be the commander at Chief's amazing. I mean, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.679 this is like an uptake of a bad Saturday Life 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.640 spoof on just how stupid people can be. So again, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.680 I know that that ignorance and that apathy and that 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.360 stupidity exists, but I hope the people that are not 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.400 stupid and are not ignorant of how we got to 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.800 this experiment self government. I just you vote out there, 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.520 go to hunt the vote dot org, and let's make 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:35.160 sure all conservatives are registered and we vote God, family, country, Constitution, freedom. Duh. Yeah. Now, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.960 how do you think the Trumpster has done so far? Game? Look, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.280 right now, he's in the midst of the most challenging 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.280 governing situation for any president. I think it's pretty fair 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.640 to say since World War Two. I don't think anything really, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.040 because you've got the infection, the virus and the loss 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.320 of life and all the fear and the panic, and 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.160 you also have the essentially induced depression, right, I mean, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.360 this is an oppression that the government has walked us 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.280 into it said, don't worry, we'll pull you out of it. Well, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.160 we'll see. But how has Trump done up to and 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.480 including this challenge in your mind based on what the 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.440 promise was from the campaign. But you know, you're one 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:12.800 of the few I don't know if you like the 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.080 term celebrity, but you're a celebrity. You're one of the 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.280 few celebrities that has been supporting this guy from the 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.400 beginning and still supports them all the way through. So 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.880 you've obviously seen a lot of the crazy. On the 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.280 other side, how do you think Trump is doing well? 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:28.880 Let me put it this way, and I think if 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.080 we examined my following sentence that the evidence will gag you. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.680 Donald Trump is as close to ted nu as you'll 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.440 ever get in politics. He knows he's on the right course. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:46.440 He knows about logistics and responsibility and accountability. He knows 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.480 about the Constitution, that it's a god given guarantee of 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.360 God given individual rights that are founding fathers wrope down 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.360 because we didn't believe in kings and emperors and despots 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.439 and slave drivers, even though we had to get over 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:04.320 that embarrassing, horrific chapter. So my card, my, what do 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:09.960 you call it a when you get a rating in school? 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.240 I don't remember that. I I wasn't made attention, poor card. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.360 I never went to as too busy learning stuff. Yeah, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.960 when you give Trump or raiding, I give him an 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.360 a plus just because if you're driving such clear and 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.199 present idiots that crazy, that's gold in my world. I mean, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.040 I do not intentionally drive idiots crazy, but I just 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.319 stand up for truth, logic, common sense against self evident truth. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.040 You know that I have the right to choose my 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.440 own religion. I have the right to have privacy in 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.880 my home. I get to keep him bear arms, not 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.040 just the king and his henchman, punks, etc. Etc. So 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:50.160 I give President Trump an A to a plus just 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.200 for the fact that he is going into uncharted territory. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.600 He's like Lewis and Clark of politics right now, with 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.719 this pandemic and the abuse of the media, that the 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.640 unbridled dishonesty and hate from the left. I mean, I 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.920 deal with it. They call me a pedophile, they call 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:12.560 me a draft dodger. They claim I the Native Americans lies, lies, lies, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.440 because they can't debate me. They are incapable of debating me. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.040 And all I have to do is google my different 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.920 debates and watch me eat the face of the idiots 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.800 to try to tell me that my truth, logic, and 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.640 common sense ain't accurate. So I love President Trump and 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.600 his team. I think he is burdened by some of 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:37.760 the excess baggage of passive administrations, but he's deshackling that 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.320 at a real rapid pace. And I pray for the 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.640 man every day and his family. And I think he 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.400 was sent here as a non politician to represent we 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.560 the people. More accurately than any administration I can remember. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.480 We are in a dark time right now as a 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.600 country because of this pandemic. But you're a guy who 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.720 seems to be able to find the optimism and things, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.560 seem to find the silver lining pretty easily, and certainly 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.920 have a spiritual and psychological resilience in the face of 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.200 all this. So what are you going to say to 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.120 people right now that are really worried that America is 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.640 never going to be the same. Well, it just may 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.800 sound selfish, but it's just a big campfire that I'm 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.960 humbled and honored to share every day. But go to 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.120 my Facebook and listen to the millions of people who 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:31.480 just reek of goodwill, decency, work, ethic drive to be 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.880 the best that they can be. This country is wall 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:41.080 to wall spiritual samurai producers. I know these truck drivers, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.800 and I know these ranchers. I know these beef producers, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.480 and I know these agricultures. Ares my god, their alarm 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.160 clock goes off earlier than anybody's and they go to 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.440 bed later than anybody. Those are my people. I call 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.800 them blood brothers, and I share hunting camp fires with 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.160 them every year because on eight hunts with uncle Ted 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.920 because I'm so much fun and valuable for different military 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.040 and children's charities, and I hang out with the most dedicated, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:17.160 down to earth, grounded, smart, dedicated we the people working hard, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.360 playing hard families who donate a lot of money to 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.520 these charities, just to hang out with me and get 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.520 some backstraps around the campfire. So I know the hard 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.920 and soul of every strata of the human experience. I 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.720 get a call every month Buck from Marcus Latrelle. I 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.320 speak with Rob O'Neill and Garry O'Neill, the author of 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.400 an American Warrior bob Blevins who served like twelve years 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.840 in Vietnam, and a bunch of I actually shared a 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.880 campfire Buck with a survival of the Baton Death March 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.280 and guys that were at Normandy and Iwashima. These guys 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.160 think of this Buck, How can my haters and critics 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:01.160 possibly deter me when I am sought out by that 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.720 that heroic level of humanity seek out uncle Ted because 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:10.000 they hear me promoting a Second Amendment, unapologetic and unbridled. Well, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.440 if they hear me promote conservation and hunting God family, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.240 and they find me, they find me somehow, and then 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.640 they come and share a campfire with me, and I 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.800 milk their knowledge and their heartship heartbreaks, and their hardships 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.920 in battle. And I didn't serve officially in the military, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.000 but you know what I got behind me and on 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.480 the mantel over here, I got a bunch of purple hearts, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.480 buck stop, and think that I didn't earn them. I 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.880 tried to resist. But when a marine or a Navy 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.640 seal puts a purple heart in your hand and says, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.880 I want you to have this, And over a more 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.640 than twenty or thirty year, forty years, they have given 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.240 me these purple hearts, and none of them knew each other, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.080 and they all said the same thing. I want you 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.360 to take this, uncle ted, because you fight every day 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.880 for what my buddies died for. They all sit almost 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.920 like it was scripted, but it isn't scripted, because it's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.880 burned in their soul. And they know that I'm the 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.240 only artist, the only celebrity, even though I'm just a 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.200 deer hunter that gets in the media and promotes God, family, country, freedom, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.400 the Constitution. To build a rights, the Declaration have been 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.560 dependent the tenter manage, the Golden Rule, you know, all 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:26.120 that really radical stuff. And so these old heroes seek 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.520 out the goofy guitar player and give me their purple heart. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.480 And I'm supposed to listen to criticism from Michael Moore, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.840 who still hasn't discovered personal hygiene. I mean, my cocky 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.520 factor is off the charts because of those guys Ted 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:47.360 Nugent Rock superstar Hunting. I was gonna say aficionado, but 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.800 I think we have to go beyond aficionado. How would 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:55.000 you self describe? How would you self identify as a hunter? Highly, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.880 highly advanced, semipro? Where do you put yourself on the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.600 hunting scale? Like crazy horse with a machine gun. I'm like, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.920 I don't know. I'm like what Natty Bumpo and Daddiel 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.400 Boone and Jeremiah Johnson wish they could be. I literally, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.640 I literally hunt and fish and trapped year round. I mean, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.080 I don't know if I suppose I could qualify as 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.720 an expert. I've never bought chicken. I only kill the 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.960 food that we eat, and it's it's the most pure, nutritious, delicious, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.840 exciting and challenging. Because I so wait, so you were 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.480 you were essentially doing the carnivore diet before a bunch 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.520 of CrossFit hipsters in New York and Los Angeles were 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:39.840 doing the carnivore diet. I'm the organic czar. Everything in 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.440 the Newton household is organic. My wife Jamaine is the 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.800 Queen of the Forest. She got a new book out 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.400 that is just phenomenal, really changing people's lives. But we've 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.280 always been organic. That's what hunting, fishing, and trapping is. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.840 There's no petroleum in our produce. I trapped year round 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.360 and I tan hides and it's the ultimate gift to 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.960 my grandkids. And I signed some of these furs, the 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.359 raccoon and the coyote furs. I autograph them and we 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.240 donate them to fundraisers for charities, and people pay thousands 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.080 of dollars for a ted nugent coyote hide. And by 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.800 the way, it's a renewable resource. And if you want 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.800 healthy air, soil, and water which gives healthy quality of life, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.360 it's going to come from wildlife habitat only if it's balanced. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.960 And that's what hunters, fishermen, trappers doing. Now the world 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.399 should say thank you, Uncle Ted. Well we do, we do. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.639 Thank you. I will tell you you know, just just 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.800 so you know, I know that you're talking to somebody 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.600 that's a bit of a city slicker, you know, one 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.399 of these guys. But I was, at the age of thirteen, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.960 a licensed bow hunter in the state of New York. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.200 My dad. We grew up hunting, fishing, shooting guns out 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.080 in nature. Used to go up to the Boundary Waters 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.400 in Minnesota and then up in the Quidico National Park. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.880 Used to go up into the Adirondacks, went fly fishing 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.840 in Costa Rica, which was amazing by the way. You know, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.280 all kinds of really really cool stuff going up and 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.280 so we were exposed to the outdoors. I had one 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.080 I had one of those dads, like he was done 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.280 on the office floor and he's like, let's grab the 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.280 twelve gages and go shoot some birds. So a little 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.879 a little more familiarity than one might think just by looking. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.919 I mean, right now, Ted's got I could see him. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.439 He's got the Camo shirt on, and I look like 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.600 I just rolled as off, you know, an extra from 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.240 the Wolf of Wall Street or something here. But anyway, Ted, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.160 I also wanted to ask, because you're mentioning meat, food, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.680 the things that you've been hunting if you only were 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.520 allowed one. I mean like, if this is the quote 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.240 of your last meal. But I wanted to be that dramatic. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.119 But if there's only one wild caught protein that you 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.679 could have, you only got one, and you're you're limited 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.600 to that for a year, what would it be? It 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.880 would be a white tailed dear fawn backstrap. Now, when 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.280 I see a faun during the hunting season, the funds 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.720 are independent, they're already weaned, and they're legal game. And 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.840 there's nothing more delicious and nothing more beneficial to the 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.680 herd than shooting the year leans that were born that year. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.840 In the meat is candy, especially the way that I 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.000 kill it, I clean it, I cook it, I age it. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.280 I mean block. If I cooked a meal of venison 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.320 backstrap for you, you'd probably offer a matrimony and I 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:17.680 have to punch you. But our average meal is goal Jerry. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.120 It's the best of the bag. How much how much 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.040 bow hunting versus versus rifle and shotgun would you say 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.240 you do? I do nine bow hunting. I have so 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.359 many animals on our Michigan swamp and our Texas property 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.480 that the animals are so smart. They don't like guitar 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.119 players with sharp sticks. I kill somewhere about one hundred 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.080 to one hundred and fifteen deer a year, and all 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.040 but maybe three or four with the bow and arrow. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.399 I have to harvest a lot of doughs on the 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.600 Michigan Swamp, and I have to harvest a lot here 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.800 in Texas, and landowners choose our own bag limit, which 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.720 is why we have the healthiest deer heard in the world. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.600 And I donate tons of pure venison to soup kitchens 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.400 and homeless shelters every year. But I'm I'm a nice guy, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.320 but I'm not an idiot. I keep the backstraps and 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.760 I kill almost all of them with the bone arrow, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.240 but because they're so elusive, I have to kill a 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.399 certain percentage, and so sometimes I pull out the sniper rifle. Yeah, 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.200 And I'm just you know, as I'm sitting here thinking 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.400 at bow hunting, I remember and I did a fair 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.400 amount of archery with my dad and my two brothers. 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.640 Growing up. We had grandparents that had a house upstate, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.280 so that was that sort of city you know, urban 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.719 to rural connection, and we had we had you know, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.720 deer targets, we had deer stands on the property. We 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.120 had deer targets and things set up, and you know, yeah, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.800 the whole Uncle Ted would have been very happy at 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.440 the Sexton Upstate Upstate facility, let me tell you. But 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.520 oh yeah, that's one of the reasons that I saluted 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.960 you a moment ago. That you led a hands on 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.520 conservation lifestyle. That's hands on, that's down to earth. That's 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:57.520 the ultimate compliment. Grounded. You were raised grounded, and ultimately 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.000 that means you were in touch with God's miraculous renewable creation, 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.600 and that gives you a sense of place in nature. 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.960 It forces us when we participate in God's tooth, fang 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:14.560 and claw sustainability, we understand better where life comes from, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.240 like the Native people's. I mean, that's why reference co 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.480 Chiefe and Crazy Horse and sit in bowl all the 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:22.359 time in my music and in my writings, is because 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:31.560 that native culture so revered the spirit of the wild, food, clothing, shelter, medicine, weapons, tools, spirit, 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:38.160 healing powers. So my hunting lifestyle that I'm attacked all 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.600 the time for it is another manifestation of cultural deprivation. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:49.120 But my hunting lifestyle is perfect environmentalism, and many people 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.399 are waking up to that. Yeah, I was gonna I 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.520 want to ask about on the bow hunting Saba's real quick, 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.560 you know, I just I remember when I was living 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.359 in DC for a while, I was a swamp creature. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.840 When I was working at the CIA before I was 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.920 getting sent abroad to do stuff, and there was I 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.119 think it was actually in Rock Creek Park, which is 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.680 a park that extends right into into the downtown of DC. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.040 As you may well know, they had to they had 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:16.000 to harvest deer. And they're all these DC liberal yuppie 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.640 types who are like this is appalled, like what cal 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:20.960 we do, and and the people that actually know, we're 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.159 saying you don't understand. If you don't, they are starving 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.800 to death and they're spreading disease among the herd. So 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.840 they had to bring people outside. They couldn't find anyone 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.520 who was a resident of DC. They had to bring 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:37.720 a professional hunter from the outside because otherwise anyway, So 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.040 that's your point of rock conservation. I mean, I've seen 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:41.840 this time and again play out. But you know, bow 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.159 hunting there's such a a skill set to it. I 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.119 mean I even remember learning about you know, if you 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.480 if you hit the animal in the lungs, you'll you'll 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.720 find the blood pink with the bubbles in it, the 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.760 heart and liver, or you know, darker blood that's sort 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.360 of deep purple blood, and that's important for tracking. Again. 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.600 Oh no, oh, yeah, I remember this year Papa Sex. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.720 That taught me, well, what makes my blood brother? Yeah? 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.760