Podcast Exclusive - A Conversation with Ted Nugent

philosophize a little bit about freedom. But first, let me just get your take on what are we doing right now as a country. I mean, we have people being told that they can't go into a playground with their wife and kid with no one else around. We're being told that you can't go to a drive in church, you can't go to beaches, although they're starting to change that now. What happened? I thought I thought we were the you don't give me liberty or give me death people,

or at least don't tread on me. Doesn't feel like that's the way a lot of the government's treating us these days. When you smell like truth, logic and common sense, just like me. Buck. Then let me tell you, Yeah, these are uncharted territories we're plunging into right now. But there's always going to be good, bad, and ugly, and I like to focus on the good, and there's unlimited

good to be focused on. Sure, there's a bunch of freaks out there that are violating their oath to the constitution, forbidding people to go fishing, forbidding people to plant gardens. I mean, it really is like Planet of the Apes Cuckoo's Nest time. So those guilty parties know who they are. But the good is that I have a whole bunch

of hunting buddies, a bunch of ranchers and farmers. I got military buddies, law enforcement, first responders, teachers, you know, the doctors and the nurses, and those of us that learn to be prepared and live the boy Scout mantra of being prepared. We have always been cocked, locked and ready to rock the block dock, and we're helping those people who were dumbed down. And will you know, the new national anthem for a segment of society is man

and it breaks my heart. But again, that's the bad and ugly and the good I believe is now manifesting itself in these protests where we the people are experimenting in self individual government and we're raised in hell with elected employees who have tread on us. So I don't just see a light at the end of the tunnel. I see a glaring You know, I singer every day of my life because I'm surrounded my band, my crew,

my wife, my kids, my grandkids, my management. Everybody in my life is so in the asset column that we will help those who have decided to be in the liability column. But I really believe there's a bunch of positive that we can cling to, primarily that divine intervention brought this great non presidential, non politician to the commander

in chief Helm. So I'm feeling I don't know if you've no, but I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing, in spite of the oath violations, the abuse of power, and the runaway corruption that is so glaringly identifiable now. So I think even the fence sitters are waking up that you're not allowed to sit on the fence. You

have to defend the fence. Do you think that there's not only a change in the perception about one's individual preparation that's not necessary, but also are we going to see a whole lot more people really appreciate You know, there's a lot of you know, the the America bumper sticker stuff you see out there right. Freedom isn't free. And people who serve in the military, for example, they know what that means at a very deep and important level.

But you know, a lot of us come, you know, don't trut on me at the gas and flags and all this. Is there going to be a renewal of that emotional, spiritual bond between millions of Americans and what individual rights and freedom means as a result of some of the some of the craziness that we were just talking about before. You know, I'm the eternal optimist, and I hope and pray that that prognosis is accurate that comes to fruition. That being said, again, everybody I know

is in the asset column. Everybody I know works their ass off to be productive and to be a benefit to their family and neighborhood and country God, family, country boy. That's radical. So I'm not so sure that the dumbing down of America. I mean, how do you not have enough toilet paper for a hurricane or of snowstorm or ice? I mean, how do people get that? So we are responsible. And again that cheap battle cry that I just, you know, painfully shared with you a moment ago. Yes, they're gonna

wake up. I'm not sure how quick. But more importantly than that book is I'm gonna I'm gonna really scold my fellow patriots. Those that believe in God, family, and country didn't vote in Michigan and they allowed Hillary Clinton to become governor. For those that are unsure themselves, that would be Gretchen Whitner, who is Hillary Clinton. So I would like to think that we should just focus on the constitutionalist amongst us. And here's the battlecry, vote damn it.

Don't let the liberals win by you organizing their voting blocks better than we do. But we have a hunt the Vote dot org, Hunt the Vote dot org. What we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, we finally galvanized what I think is the ultimate conservative voting block in America. And those are licensed hunters and fishermen and trappers and outdoors and conservationists that traditionally do not vote. I don't know if it's because it's the rut during November in

their own their trey stand. But embarrassingly and unforgivably, that huge army of conservative voters don't show up at the polls. So at Hunt the Vote dot Org, we are galvanizing those people like we did in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania twenty sixteen,

the top hunting states in the nation. And that may sound confusing to sell people out there, but mark my words, there are tens of millions of hunting families in this country that don't vote, and then they show up in protest because the enemy got into the office of governor in Michigan. And that's damage control instead of just voting God, family,

and country as quality control. So I'm hopeful that that untapped army that already agrees with the truth, logic and common sense that you live by that I live by, that they'll finally wield the ultimate weapon in the history of freedom, and that's the vote in America. What is the Ted Neugion assessment of the opponent for our Donald Trump right now? Joe Biden, have you been seeing some of the bidenisms, which I think the pleasant way that we refer to them. Have you seen some of this stuff?

I mean, I'm I'm trying to work on Biden personation that doesn't just sound like a ripoff of mister McGoo, But then I realize it's gonna sound something like that because he does seem somewhat confused. Again, I don't think liberals are the same species as you and I. They like they're allergic to truth, logic, common sense and the evidence that is otherwise inescapable. Just examine the history of

abusive power by Joe Biden. I mean from the credit card scams too, is the Hunter Biden scams and oh you mean just a lifetime of rip off and deceit and abusive power. And then watch him struggle to form a sentence and people actually go ask my guy, yeah on him to be the commander at Chief's amazing. I mean, this is like an uptake of a bad Saturday Life

spoof on just how stupid people can be. So again, I know that that ignorance and that apathy and that stupidity exists, but I hope the people that are not stupid and are not ignorant of how we got to this experiment self government. I just you vote out there, go to hunt the vote dot org, and let's make sure all conservatives are registered and we vote God, family, country, Constitution, freedom. Duh. Yeah. Now,

how do you think the Trumpster has done so far? Game? Look, right now, he's in the midst of the most challenging governing situation for any president. I think it's pretty fair to say since World War Two. I don't think anything really, because you've got the infection, the virus and the loss of life and all the fear and the panic, and you also have the essentially induced depression, right, I mean, this is an oppression that the government has walked us

into it said, don't worry, we'll pull you out of it. Well, we'll see. But how has Trump done up to and including this challenge in your mind based on what the promise was from the campaign. But you know, you're one of the few I don't know if you like the term celebrity, but you're a celebrity. You're one of the few celebrities that has been supporting this guy from the beginning and still supports them all the way through. So

you've obviously seen a lot of the crazy. On the other side, how do you think Trump is doing well? Let me put it this way, and I think if we examined my following sentence that the evidence will gag you. Donald Trump is as close to ted nu as you'll ever get in politics. He knows he's on the right course.

He knows about logistics and responsibility and accountability. He knows about the Constitution, that it's a god given guarantee of God given individual rights that are founding fathers wrope down because we didn't believe in kings and emperors and despots and slave drivers, even though we had to get over that embarrassing, horrific chapter. So my card, my, what do you call it a when you get a rating in school? I don't remember that. I I wasn't made attention, poor card.

I never went to as too busy learning stuff. Yeah, when you give Trump or raiding, I give him an a plus just because if you're driving such clear and present idiots that crazy, that's gold in my world. I mean, I do not intentionally drive idiots crazy, but I just stand up for truth, logic, common sense against self evident truth. You know that I have the right to choose my own religion. I have the right to have privacy in my home. I get to keep him bear arms, not

just the king and his henchman, punks, etc. Etc. So I give President Trump an A to a plus just for the fact that he is going into uncharted territory. He's like Lewis and Clark of politics right now, with this pandemic and the abuse of the media, that the unbridled dishonesty and hate from the left. I mean, I deal with it. They call me a pedophile, they call me a draft dodger. They claim I the Native Americans lies, lies, lies, because they can't debate me. They are incapable of debating me.

And all I have to do is google my different debates and watch me eat the face of the idiots to try to tell me that my truth, logic, and common sense ain't accurate. So I love President Trump and his team. I think he is burdened by some of the excess baggage of passive administrations, but he's deshackling that at a real rapid pace. And I pray for the man every day and his family. And I think he was sent here as a non politician to represent we

the people. More accurately than any administration I can remember. We are in a dark time right now as a country because of this pandemic. But you're a guy who seems to be able to find the optimism and things, seem to find the silver lining pretty easily, and certainly have a spiritual and psychological resilience in the face of all this. So what are you going to say to people right now that are really worried that America is

never going to be the same. Well, it just may sound selfish, but it's just a big campfire that I'm humbled and honored to share every day. But go to my Facebook and listen to the millions of people who just reek of goodwill, decency, work, ethic drive to be the best that they can be. This country is wall to wall spiritual samurai producers. I know these truck drivers, and I know these ranchers. I know these beef producers,

and I know these agricultures. Ares my god, their alarm clock goes off earlier than anybody's and they go to

bed later than anybody. Those are my people. I call them blood brothers, and I share hunting camp fires with them every year because on eight hunts with uncle Ted because I'm so much fun and valuable for different military and children's charities, and I hang out with the most dedicated, down to earth, grounded, smart, dedicated we the people working hard, playing hard families who donate a lot of money to these charities, just to hang out with me and get

some backstraps around the campfire. So I know the hard and soul of every strata of the human experience. I get a call every month Buck from Marcus Latrelle. I speak with Rob O'Neill and Garry O'Neill, the author of an American Warrior bob Blevins who served like twelve years in Vietnam, and a bunch of I actually shared a campfire Buck with a survival of the Baton Death March

and guys that were at Normandy and Iwashima. These guys think of this Buck, How can my haters and critics possibly deter me when I am sought out by that that heroic level of humanity seek out uncle Ted because

they hear me promoting a Second Amendment, unapologetic and unbridled. Well, if they hear me promote conservation and hunting God family, and they find me, they find me somehow, and then they come and share a campfire with me, and I milk their knowledge and their heartship heartbreaks, and their hardships in battle. And I didn't serve officially in the military, but you know what I got behind me and on the mantel over here, I got a bunch of purple hearts,

buck stop, and think that I didn't earn them. I tried to resist. But when a marine or a Navy seal puts a purple heart in your hand and says, I want you to have this, And over a more than twenty or thirty year, forty years, they have given me these purple hearts, and none of them knew each other, and they all said the same thing. I want you to take this, uncle ted, because you fight every day

for what my buddies died for. They all sit almost like it was scripted, but it isn't scripted, because it's burned in their soul. And they know that I'm the only artist, the only celebrity, even though I'm just a deer hunter that gets in the media and promotes God, family, country, freedom, the Constitution. To build a rights, the Declaration have been dependent the tenter manage, the Golden Rule, you know, all

that really radical stuff. And so these old heroes seek out the goofy guitar player and give me their purple heart. And I'm supposed to listen to criticism from Michael Moore, who still hasn't discovered personal hygiene. I mean, my cocky factor is off the charts because of those guys Ted Nugent Rock superstar Hunting. I was gonna say aficionado, but I think we have to go beyond aficionado. How would you self describe? How would you self identify as a hunter? Highly,

highly advanced, semipro? Where do you put yourself on the hunting scale? Like crazy horse with a machine gun. I'm like, I don't know. I'm like what Natty Bumpo and Daddiel Boone and Jeremiah Johnson wish they could be. I literally, I literally hunt and fish and trapped year round. I mean, I don't know if I suppose I could qualify as an expert. I've never bought chicken. I only kill the food that we eat, and it's it's the most pure, nutritious, delicious,

exciting and challenging. Because I so wait, so you were you were essentially doing the carnivore diet before a bunch of CrossFit hipsters in New York and Los Angeles were doing the carnivore diet. I'm the organic czar. Everything in the Newton household is organic. My wife Jamaine is the Queen of the Forest. She got a new book out that is just phenomenal, really changing people's lives. But we've always been organic. That's what hunting, fishing, and trapping is.

There's no petroleum in our produce. I trapped year round and I tan hides and it's the ultimate gift to my grandkids. And I signed some of these furs, the raccoon and the coyote furs. I autograph them and we donate them to fundraisers for charities, and people pay thousands of dollars for a ted nugent coyote hide. And by

the way, it's a renewable resource. And if you want healthy air, soil, and water which gives healthy quality of life, it's going to come from wildlife habitat only if it's balanced. And that's what hunters, fishermen, trappers doing. Now the world should say thank you, Uncle Ted. Well we do, we do. Thank you. I will tell you you know, just just so you know, I know that you're talking to somebody that's a bit of a city slicker, you know, one

of these guys. But I was, at the age of thirteen, a licensed bow hunter in the state of New York. My dad. We grew up hunting, fishing, shooting guns out in nature. Used to go up to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota and then up in the Quidico National Park. Used to go up into the Adirondacks, went fly fishing in Costa Rica, which was amazing by the way. You know, all kinds of really really cool stuff going up and

so we were exposed to the outdoors. I had one I had one of those dads, like he was done on the office floor and he's like, let's grab the twelve gages and go shoot some birds. So a little a little more familiarity than one might think just by looking. I mean, right now, Ted's got I could see him. He's got the Camo shirt on, and I look like I just rolled as off, you know, an extra from

the Wolf of Wall Street or something here. But anyway, Ted, I also wanted to ask, because you're mentioning meat, food, the things that you've been hunting if you only were allowed one. I mean like, if this is the quote of your last meal. But I wanted to be that dramatic. But if there's only one wild caught protein that you could have, you only got one, and you're you're limited to that for a year, what would it be? It

would be a white tailed dear fawn backstrap. Now, when I see a faun during the hunting season, the funds are independent, they're already weaned, and they're legal game. And there's nothing more delicious and nothing more beneficial to the herd than shooting the year leans that were born that year. In the meat is candy, especially the way that I kill it, I clean it, I cook it, I age it. I mean block. If I cooked a meal of venison backstrap for you, you'd probably offer a matrimony and I

have to punch you. But our average meal is goal Jerry. It's the best of the bag. How much how much bow hunting versus versus rifle and shotgun would you say you do? I do nine bow hunting. I have so many animals on our Michigan swamp and our Texas property that the animals are so smart. They don't like guitar players with sharp sticks. I kill somewhere about one hundred to one hundred and fifteen deer a year, and all but maybe three or four with the bow and arrow.

I have to harvest a lot of doughs on the Michigan Swamp, and I have to harvest a lot here in Texas, and landowners choose our own bag limit, which is why we have the healthiest deer heard in the world. And I donate tons of pure venison to soup kitchens and homeless shelters every year. But I'm I'm a nice guy, but I'm not an idiot. I keep the backstraps and I kill almost all of them with the bone arrow, but because they're so elusive, I have to kill a

certain percentage, and so sometimes I pull out the sniper rifle. Yeah, And I'm just you know, as I'm sitting here thinking at bow hunting, I remember and I did a fair amount of archery with my dad and my two brothers. Growing up. We had grandparents that had a house upstate, so that was that sort of city you know, urban to rural connection, and we had we had you know,

deer targets, we had deer stands on the property. We had deer targets and things set up, and you know, yeah, the whole Uncle Ted would have been very happy at the Sexton Upstate Upstate facility, let me tell you. But oh yeah, that's one of the reasons that I saluted you a moment ago. That you led a hands on conservation lifestyle. That's hands on, that's down to earth. That's

the ultimate compliment. Grounded. You were raised grounded, and ultimately that means you were in touch with God's miraculous renewable creation, and that gives you a sense of place in nature. It forces us when we participate in God's tooth, fang and claw sustainability, we understand better where life comes from,

like the Native people's. I mean, that's why reference co Chiefe and Crazy Horse and sit in bowl all the time in my music and in my writings, is because that native culture so revered the spirit of the wild, food, clothing, shelter, medicine, weapons, tools, spirit, healing powers. So my hunting lifestyle that I'm attacked all the time for it is another manifestation of cultural deprivation. But my hunting lifestyle is perfect environmentalism, and many people

are waking up to that. Yeah, I was gonna I want to ask about on the bow hunting Saba's real quick, you know, I just I remember when I was living in DC for a while, I was a swamp creature. When I was working at the CIA before I was getting sent abroad to do stuff, and there was I think it was actually in Rock Creek Park, which is a park that extends right into into the downtown of DC. As you may well know, they had to they had

to harvest deer. And they're all these DC liberal yuppie types who are like this is appalled, like what cal we do, and and the people that actually know, we're saying you don't understand. If you don't, they are starving to death and they're spreading disease among the herd. So they had to bring people outside. They couldn't find anyone who was a resident of DC. They had to bring a professional hunter from the outside because otherwise anyway, So

that's your point of rock conservation. I mean, I've seen this time and again play out. But you know, bow hunting there's such a a skill set to it. I mean I even remember learning about you know, if you if you hit the animal in the lungs, you'll you'll find the blood pink with the bubbles in it, the heart and liver, or you know, darker blood that's sort of deep purple blood, and that's important for tracking. Again. Oh no, oh, yeah, I remember this year Papa Sex.

That taught me, well, what makes my blood brother? Yeah? What makes a great bow hunter? What makes somebody a really excellent and successful bow hunter? Conscientious stealth, definitive situational awareness because God created these animals to avoid people, especially when they're carrying a bow and arrow, and we are as such a disadvantage because the deer can hear and see and smell in sense changes in the pulse of

the air. It's really a fascinating art form. It's the ultimate samurai forcefulness of using your gifts from God in the ultimate application. So to be a good bow hunter, you don't want to be like the motor city madman. You want to learn your calm down and shut up and sit still for many, many, many hours. Buck. I hunt every day. If I during it when the ducks are coming in, I take the three amigoes out and we duck hunt in the mornings, but I'll deer hunt

in the afternoon. We'll squirrel hunt in the middle of the day. We got pheasants and woodcock and grouse and rabbis, and we got turkey. We got sand hill cranes. By the way, Michigan, sandhill cranes, they're ribbis in the sky Michigan. Here's you think it's nuts that Michigan won't allow you to plant a garden right now, Michigan will allow you to shoot the overpopulation of sand hill cranes ribby in the sky, but they won't allow you to eat them.

That's immoral. Sandhill cranes ribi in the sky delicious. I divert. But to be a great bow hunter, or any bone or even with a rifle or a shotgun or a handgun, a higher level of spiritual stealth is mandatory. Now you might bumble into one once in a while. I never have.

I've never bumbled into a deer. But if you dedicate yourself to that predator spirit, what like the Native Americans, the Aboriginal tribes of Africa who I've hunted with since nineteen seventy eight, you learn so much from these people who live down to earth, ground, in touch with nature.

And I've learned from them and I'm pretty effective. I don't kill deer very often with my bow, but like I said, I hunt September, October, November, December, January, and February, and even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. And I can shoot real good. I'm shooting a Matthew's bow that I can. I can hit a heart on a deer out to seventy yards if everything

is perfect and I'm super tuned in. But ultimately you're you give me an EO Tech site ted, and uh, you know, maybe maybe at seventy yards I'll actually hit the deer. So I'm pretty impressed with a you know, a five five, With a five five six and an EO Tech, there's a decent chance at seventy yards I hit the deer. But sure of that, my friend, I don't know how you're hitting any of the bow and arrow twenty yards. Twenty yards is the battle cry for

a bow hunter. But if you practice out to one hundred, like I do every day, those closer shots get a little bit easier. No, I'm just amazed that you could ever hit a deer at seventy yards. I mean, that's the level of skill that I understand having fired enough bows at a very amateur, very young level, a very very young age. It's a whole different ball game from rifle ry. I'm just gonna say it, a whole different world.

Well buck, let me insert here to our listeners. Right now we're talking about the fun of archery, the mystical flight of the arrow, the handi spirit, coordination of the samurai archer, the origins of zen. By the way, the samurai spirit comes from being one with the path of your life. Slash arrow. You can put that arrow where you want if you are totally focused and become Bruce Lee momentarily. But right now, during this pandemic, I have

turned on on my Facebook. By the way, thank you Facebookers. The ten judged Facebookers are the greatest people that ever walked the earth. The funny, funny smart people archery. Get yourself a real graceful bow and arrow. Go find one, even if it's an old long bowler recurve. But right now I have turned on so many people to the escape perfection of the mystical flight of the arrow. When you learn to hold that bow and grasp that spring string and draw back under your own power and envision

the path of your spirit. You can put that arrow precisely in the bull's eye or the pump station of a herbivore. And right now, Buck, mark my words. I know you respect your elders, but respect this. This is written in stone. When you become an archer and you discover the form, you will naturally ergonomically align yourself with your hand eye spirit, right hand, left hand coordination. Everybody

listening to Buck Sexton and uncle Ted right now. When you get to full draw in archery, there's no pandemic. There's no hate, there's no Hillary Clinton, there's no Nancy Pelosi, there's no lying media, there's no negativity. I'm telling you it takes you. I shot over one hundred arrows already this morning, and you can see that I'm not stumbling for syllables. I'm not trying to come up with a

point of view. I live this stuff. And if you get a bow and arrow, even in your living room at ten feet, into a cardboard box full of pillows or paper, and you discover where you can put that arrow, you will become one with your gifts from God to apply to any endeavor, and you will be better at that endeavor. After just a couple days of archery, mark my words. Remember I'm clean and sober for seventy one years.

I've been bow hunting since I could well. I was on a ball hunting trip in October of nineteen forty nine. I was ten months old, and I've never missed a season since. That's why my music is so ferocious, because I understand the world. I understand the dynamic, I understand the spirit of the wild, and I apply it to my guitar jamming collaboration with the world's greatest musician. Okay, so thank you, Thank you for the perfect transition that I was going to have to make, or else my

audience was going to yell at me. Here, I'm talking to Ted Nugent about political philosophy COVID nineteen, which is inescapable everywhere, a lot about hunding bo hunting, which I think a lot of my audience will really appreciate. But you can't talk to the MotorCity matman and not talk a little bit about music and culture today. Let's start with this, man, I mean my parents. You know, there are a few areas of culture where your parents get to say, and a lot of people and you know,

I'm in my late thirties. I think a lot of folks whore around my age would agree. Your parents get to say, you know, our music was just better than yours, and at least at least when they're talking about rock and roll, I know, I really know very few people. And then let's put aside, you know, hip hop and techno and all this other stuff when they're talking about rock and roll. I feel like there's really not much

of an argument. So the first question I have for you before I get to ask, you know, if you could play in any band? And we're gonna get into some of that fun stuff, what happened to rock and roll? Tad? Where is it? There's a number of there's a number of dynamics at play. First of all, the more spoiled we get, and this horrible condition we're in right now

where people are scrambling for basic survival. And again that's just a I say, lunatic fringe, but it's a lunatic segment, and they are learning some lessons, and I love the lunatic segment, but they do have to learn to be prepared and be more responsible. But as goes the softening and the dependency in our culture. You got these spoiled brats that never built a highway, they never built a home. They wouldn't know which end of a hammer to grab.

They've never done anything independently except squawk and wine like a bunch of cry babies. And remember where luck, I'm gonna blow your mind, which I'm really good at. So why did Chuck Bury and bow Didley and Little Richard take with Howland Wolf and Muddy Waters, Mose Allison and lightning happens? Those black authoritarians of the most vicious heartbreak in the history of the human experienced slavery. Why were they so emotional because they were enslaved, they were controlled

by other men. Just think of the savagery of that heartbreak, the spiritual shackle that went with the metal shackles, and

then Emancipation Proclamation and they threw them off. And instead of the heartbreak and the torment of the blues and the gospel dreaming of freedom, now they had Chuck, Bryan, bow Didley, Little Richard went it sounds like this, and they went nut with grinding rhythms and sexuality and declaring their independence musically, and it's so touched the inner soul of people who were already free, that these guys were celebrated with such authorities, such defiance, that it touched the

defiant soul, which were we are defiant souls Concord Bridge, UM, Boston Team Party, UH, Lancene protests, etc. Etc. And so what Chuck Barrian bod did in a little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and no, I'll let you tell him he's not black with those rhythm and blues creators of this loud, abrasive guitar dominating they I mean, my god. It was just an orgy of emotional outrage. And that was from that era where they unleashed it originally, and then over time people got softer. People didn't have to

work for a living. They didn't they squatted if they didn't get you know, healthcare. They didn't care about their health, but they want someone else to pay for their healthcare. Dirt mags. Anyhow, So there was a defiant era. It doesn't exist Animore. Now what are they squawking about. You got guys that oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars for student loans and they're drinking six dollars cups of coffee. Yeah, well you're in debt, take any sense. So that's what

happened to rock and roll. If you lose your balls, and if you lose your spirit, you'll start playing this nonsense. That's all Saturday Morning cartoon pablum. Now I'm gonna force you in to give me some I'm gonna force you to make some tough choices here, ted all right, And I don't don't deal what people do with these things where they start dodging. No, no, no, no ducking, no weaving,

you know, no Bob and weave. Here. I want to know if you get to be lead guitarist for one night for one band or act right, so you know, could be Elvis, or it could be the Beatles, or you know whoever, one night, one act all time, what band or act who would it be? You're dead, living or dead, no question, James Brown. I want to stand next to that man and those funky dogs because I played all that James Brown music. I didn't have any I didn't play any white music. And think even today

my music is so soulful. I'm like a funk brother in heat um. So James Brown, he's the god. He influenced everybody. There would be no Beatles or Stones or Yardbirds or Kinks or Who or anybody without James Brown because he taught us how to play tight Dad, I mean, that's how we play. I got Jason Heartless on drums,

the world's greatest drummer, Greg Smith on bass guitar. They could both be in James Brown's band or the Beatles or other Stones, or the Who or the Lens Zeppelin and my guys have always been the best in the world. And James Brown imprinted on us and I don't ever want to lose that. And are there any are there any of the of this? Uh? When I say this generation of rock rock bands that are out there, I'm gonna give you you know, I'm talking to anything in

the last twenty years. Let's say, is there anyone who at least strikes you as they're kind they're kind of tapping into they're kind of tapping into the old school here, you know, any band that comes to mind? And if the answer is no, it's no, it's but there is there anybody who's doing that at a level We're like I could have back in the day been right on stage with these guys and we would have vibed absolutely

you got. Everything Dave Grohl does is authentic. I love it, miss good aspendo of guitar virtuosity in a solo section, which was always the peak of the best music. But everything Dave Grohl does is really authoritative. This Greta Van Fleet from Grand Rapperds Michigan. Who would have thought they're the real McCoy? Even Green Day is politically deranged and communists as they are, Green Day play like sons of bitches, man,

they really really play. And even again, I can't align myself with the left wing, you know, socialist communist politics of a lot of these bands. But if you'll listen to the Chili Peppers with Chad Smith on drums and Fleet on bass, these guys were as good as any musicians that ever lived, and their music has pulse and pissing vinegar. So yeah, and even all the best bands in the world are still in the road. I mean, Sammy Hager's out there, he's incredible. Zz Top is out there,

Errol Smith is out there. There's killer, killer bands of your But I think Greta Van Fleet and I guess Green Days old now too, So I don't think there's anything really now now I must say, my son Roccoll Winchester Nugent, he has blended. Now take this buck, my son Rocco Winchester Nugent has blended everything from John Coltrane and motown and James Brown into almost I don't want to say the words, but I will hip hop and

the other goofy music that I can't stomach. But because he gets some of these super soulful musicians in his music that he creates, my son Rocco is a brilliant artist and a creative adventure on the keyboards and in vocals and melodies and in sounds and noises. So I still respect and admire and enjoy some of this very eclectic music. But when I want music, I want I want to see some forehead veins popping. I want to see twelve tambourines broken pur song like Mitch Rider Detroit Wheels.

And that's what Jason and Greg and I do every song, every night, every tour. And I pray the pandemic is over so everybody heals. But I pray the pandemic is over so I can tour this summer. If I don't

play my guitar, I might hurt somebody. My gu what is the tour supposed to be, so that the folks can know, and assuming that I do think that by June most states my prediction, and this will see if I'm write or not, most states will be allowing for you know, businesses to be open, concerts, large gatherings that I don't now right, So we got to see. But let's hope what's the tour going to be? Assuming that it's that it's the all clear from the authorities, Well,

stop and think. I've been doing this since the fifties. I started with a great band called the Royal High Boys in Detroit nineteen fifty eight, and then we had the Luards in sixty that we opened up for the Supremes and the Bull Rumbles and Mitch Ride of the Detroit Wheels and the music was just a powerhouse. And then I started the amboy Deuce in sixty five. But last year Buck It's a Miracle twenty nineteen, it was called The Music Made Me Do It, named after my record.

Last year it was the best tour of my life. It was the tightest, most ferocious fun music in the history. My guitar tone is just to die for what Jason and Greg do but this year, we already have a book. We had a bunch of sold out dates July and August, and this tour was going to be called the greatest tour of my life. I can't say those words on your program, but I guarantee if we are unleashed in July and August, this will the way the band sounds

right now, the sound of my Gibson bird Lands. If I wasn't in this bad buck, I'd buy a ticket to the front row every night, because my guys are the best. So I prayed that we hit the road in July and August. Mister Ted Nugent. It was exactly as I'd hoped for and expected to get a chat, to finally sit down and have a real chat with you. So thank you so much for giving us your time.

Thanks for standing for freedom. Keep doing what you're doing. Hey, if that concert is happening in this summer and you know I'm coming, you gotta tell me where I gotta show up. I'm coming to the concert. You gotta witness my band. You will dance like an absolute animal and a NonStop breeding ritual. Thank you for your time, bucking again, thank you for your truth logic. And common sense celebration. You are the voice of the real Americans in the

asset column of this country. So never give up, never back down. Everybody, stay safe, healthy, well secure, cocky, defiant and hopeful. Fantastic, mister Ted Nugent, Thank you, sir, gotcha Bee, Live it up.