Ted Nugent shares his childhood bowhunting roots, inspired by Fred Bear’s anti-industrialization ethos, and contrasts it with factory farming while defending Texas’s helicopter pig hunting as sustainable. He ties archery mastery to discipline like guitar or martial arts, criticizing the ATF’s unconstitutional gun policies and Operation Fast and Furious’s deadly fallout. Nugent slams prosecutors for contradictory deadly force stances—like Waukesha’s diversionary tactics—and blames open borders on leftist agendas, despite Sanders’ 2015 opposition. Distrusting agencies from the CDC to teachers' unions, he links systemic censorship to broader authoritarianism, questioning whether modern America still protects freedom or justifies it through selective justice. [Automatically generated summary]
And there was some Canadian geese on a pond, and we snuck in almost like Ishii, like Org from the year three, sneaking in through the reeds and the nasty shit.
And I drew back and shot that goose, and it flopped all around.
But we got that goose, ran to the fence, climbed over the fence, and took it home.
Well, I think the idea is that it's an artifact and that you're supposed to just leave it there, which I don't understand, because either I'm allowed to pick it up and it should go to some sort of museum or something.
Don't you think the mojo handed from hand to hand from generation to generation would have more spirit I mean, some Native American folks have had a real problem with people picking up artifacts and claiming them as their own.
I think that's the issue with it.
But for me, I mean, we were on a bow hunting trip.
And to find an arrow and to know that someone, some Native American, had been in that same area hundreds and hundreds of years ago and, you know, hunting for their food to feed their family in that same ground.
So I bring you positive spirit and energy and attitude and goodwill and decency.
I'm having the greatest hunting season of my life.
I'm shooting some mystical arrows into some sacred pump stations.
I'm getting a lot of venison donated to soup kitchens and homeless shelters and neighbors and making gifts to the band and the crew since we haven't toured and everybody is horny to unleash the musical beast.
And if they don't bring it up, I make sure I do, because it needs to be promoted and celebrated in the face of stupidity, which, boy, I have a great story for you.
You're going to love this.
You already love me, but you're going to love me more in a moment.
So anyhow, when I do the media and I explain to them about venison, organic, renewable, nutritious, pure, natural, healthy, good, good, win, win, win, win, win, I never get any pushback.
Not since the 60s and 70s where hippies pushed back.
Because it's universally at least understood in its most basic truism.
But whenever I bring up that the Hunters for the Hungry has been going on, Hunters for the Hungry, Sportsmen Against Hunger, various state organizations where they distribute natural harvested surplus venison to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, needy families.
Even to Glenn Beck, he goes, 250 million hot meals a year?
Come on!
That can't be true.
And I go, well, you got Ted Nugent talking to you.
You couldn't pay a helicopter pilot to shoot pigs.
Only government agents were allowed to do it.
In Texas!
I know that sounds like a New York law, but it was in Texas.
And when my buddy Johnson said, you can't pay me for gas, I go, well, it's got to be expensive, the helicopter, cross-collateralization, I can't pay you.
And the game warden go, I hope you're not paying him to do that.
Well, who are you?
How could you possibly think you have the authority to determine whether I pay for the gas in a helicopter as I go up and shoot pigs?
Anyhow, so I called Governor Perry and I said, Rick, You've got to be kidding me, because everybody knows that wild hogs in Texas are an absolute scourge of a liability.
You're craving systems by which we can reduce the population, and then you make the most effective solution illegal.
He goes, well, I had no idea.
I'm like, well, the guitar player will help.
Now, I need to call Greg Abbott.
So on the hunt was Chris Kobach, who happens to be a constitutional attorney.
Really a wise one, a really super one, right up there with Cruz.
And so he Googled the laws and he rewrote them at the camp.
At the helicopter camp, we're slamming hogs from the helicopter.
We're saving farmers money.
We're saving the environment.
We're saving wildlife because hogs kill everything they can finally run into, whether it's eggs or fawns.
That's why we created Hogs for a Cause charity, where we pick up the dead hogs, we process this organic pork, and we feed soup kitchens and homeless shelters.
So don't you see?
It's win, win, win, win, win.
Everything is good.
There's nothing bad about it.
Well, it's not sport.
Well, then you share with me your last helicopter hog hunt where you hit the pigs every time from a moving helicopter and an erratically running hog.
Shut the fuck up!
Anyhow, so after we called Abbott and Perry and Chris Colback, these guys are attorneys and I don't hold it against them, they rewrote it.
Two weeks later, it was legal.
And here's the next win.
We created an enormous new industry that is generating tens of millions of dollars for travel, hotels, groceries, ammo, sporting goods.
If you're against this completely, conclusively, definitively win situation for everything, you're an idiot.
Now take the information I just shared with you and try to eliminate your idiocy.
Now, listen to me.
This is the most important thing we're going to talk about today.
I had a great time with you in LA and we talked about stuff and I talked about a vegan diet.
You corrected me.
I called it vegan.
You said vegan.
My son is one.
And I said, well...
Don't you know if you really wanted to kill the most things possible, you would be a vegan?
Because the plow and the disc kills everything preparing the field for your bean, your tofu.
And then anything that might just be dismembered and slithered out of the way or the disk of the plow, then they come in with Mansanto and poison the shit out of them.
Are you aware, Joe Rogan, that I was bombarded?
And I understand that you heard from a lot of people that never thought of it that way.
That the preparing of tofu is the most genocidal slaughter procedure available on planet Earth.
Because you have to kill animals.
Everything that interferes with the bean production.
Well, last night on Yellowstone, a very popular series, Kevin Costner, playing the boss hog of the Yellowstone ranch, quoted me.
Almost verbatim on that statement as he confronted some animal rights people on the show last night.
And I have been bombarded lately with people going, Costner quoted you from the Joe Rogan interview when he confronted animal rights from hundreds of people who saw it.
The producers, Taylor Sheridan, according to my son Toby, is a big fan of my defiant ballet, my defiance ballet.
And he must have heard our exchange.
And Joe, it was almost verbatim of what I said on your podcast.
The thing is, like, people think of animals dying as like a deer is like if you shoot a deer, you killed an animal.
But they don't think that if you want to grow lettuce, you have to displace wildlife, you have to do what's called monocrop agriculture.
And when you have thousands of acres of soybeans, for example, that's not normal.
It's not normal for the ground to have only one plant for thousands of acres, and it's not sustainable.
The only way they can do that is to kill everything that was there, and the amount of rabbits that they have to kill, gophers, groundhogs, birds, everything, snakes, turtles, voles, shrews.
Anything that's ground nesting gets churned up in the wheels.
They think of it as you're eating plants, but you can do it in a way where you're not going to kill anything if you grow your own.
If you want to grow your own vegetables, you have your own garden, you do it organically, you compost all your waste, and it's possible to do, but most people are not doing that.
Most people are a part of something that's awful, and most people who eat meat are a part of something that's awful too, and I think you and I will both agree that factory farming is fucking disgusting.
It felt like I had tapped in, like I'd opened up a door to some DNA that I didn't know existed.
And the way I explain it to people...
That I've never hunted.
I'm like, do you know that feeling when you catch a fish?
There's a feeling when the fish is on the line.
There's an excitement that doesn't even totally make sense.
But what that excitement is, there's a primal door that opens up where you realize you are now going to feed your family.
You have this fish.
It's on the line.
You're going to pull it in.
This wild animal that you've captured will now...
It will now give nutrients to your loved ones.
It's in there.
It's in your DNA. And when you hunt, the first time I shot that deer and we were sitting there cooking and eating it over the fire, I knew it right away.
I was like, okay, this is how you're supposed to eat meat.
The surplus has to be utilized with reverence, i.e., garlic and butter.
Revenue-generated, family hours of recreation.
Well, how can you enjoy killing an animal?
Because it's a challenge, because it's a fulfilling spiritual experience knowing that God created these beasts, much like the Aboriginal people put the hieroglyphics on the cave wall because they were desperate to adequately convey reverence for this beast that was difficult to get close to with a sharp stick.
They had to dedicate themselves to a higher level of awareness, predator capabilities, reasoning predator, in order to kill it cleanly because the mastodon would kill them if they didn't kill it cleanly.
And then that hunter brought not just food, food, clothing, shelter, medicine, tools, weapons, and more important than any of that—and I'm just a stupid guitar player, but I figured this out by the time I was 12— More important than the tools and the weapons and the food and the protein and the clothing and the shelters, which is what the bison and the mastodon provided.
There is a sense when you're done of eternal spirit that this isn't just tangible physical stuff, that something else happens.
Like you talked about around the campfire, chewing on a mule deer backstrap, when you teach your grandkids how to catch that fish and fillet that beautiful fillet off of that skeleton and fry it up and you eat it.
It's a physical...
Ballet, but it's equal as a spiritual ballet, because if you're a dirtbag, if you're a dunce, and if you don't care, you're going to have to hire somebody else to do it, and that's where the factory farming comes in.
And I got a comment.
God bless the farmers and ranchers, because if we want 10 billion chickens a week, that's how you got to do it.
Isn't that funny that like all this healthcare talk, very, very, very little talk about losing weight and then making sure you eat good nutrition.
Very little talk of it.
Through this whole pandemic, it was an amazing opportunity for the government to say, folks, here is one of the most important things you can do for your immune system.
Well, I would be interested in going to one of those things because, you know, there's a whole conservation effort to try to save those rhinos, and I think it'd be fascinating just to be around them and watch it happen.
But, you know, there was a guy that I had on the podcast many years ago, Corey Knowles.
But it's a very confusing thing to people that don't understand that the whole reason why the animals are thriving in Africa is because people want to pay to shoot them.
And that's like, to a lot of people, that is a real problem.
Because if you just donated to soup kitchens and you donated to any other organization that feeds the hungry, you'd have to spend a fuckload of money to get thousands of meals.
They can get dented cans of beans, they can get four-day-old bread, but they can't get meat.
So the majority of soup kitchens and homeless shelters, I work with Project Caritas in Waco, And we got butchers in Michigan where we donate whole carcasses.
And again, I'm a sweetheart, but I'm not an idiot.
I keep the back straps.
I mean, not all of them, but most of the back straps.
That's what we like.
But anyhow, that system regarding the rhino is a perfect example because it's so controversial.
I killed a white rhino in South Africa in 95, 96. This rhino had killed three rhinos, ravaged entire agriculture operations, and had killed young elephants.
It was a rogue rhino.
He was 20-some years old, and they had to kill him.
Now, there's a choice.
If you want to save rhinos and save other animals, this rogue rhino has to die.
You can take tax dollars or however they do it in Africa, and you can hire people to go kill it.
Or you can sell that tag someone who wants the big five or someone who's fascinated by dangerous game and big giant animals.
And I'd never killed a rhino and as grown up, rhinos were the symbol of like the ultimate dangerous hunt, even though they're not.
something I learned later.
But the money I paid for that rhino paid for years of salaries for anti-poaching squads to save the rhino.
So my killing the rhino saved many rhinos and other wildlife.
And the elephant that I killed in South Africa had already killed people.
It came over from the Thule herd from Botswana across the Lampoper River.
And had ravaged agriculture, destroyed villages, the elephant had to die.
Now, that's not the typical scenario, not like the deer and the elk and the moose and antelope are threatening people, but they produce surplus.
The animals have babies every year.
The ground doesn't expand.
The population increases every spring, but the ground not only doesn't expand, it recedes because of habitat destruction.
When I go to Whole Foods, or I'm at the Starbucks, or I'm in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco, people come up to me all the time that don't look like...
or conservatives or Ted Nugent fans, and they initiate this dialogue with me.
And within minutes, if they have certain questions about assault weapons or shooting in dangerous species, I take a deep breath and I be in the consummate gentleman trying to educate him in a gentle way, but in a non-compromising way.
Because the anti-education system has so efficiently dumbed down such a huge swath of our culture that I feel...
Like I was just going to share, the gal from Starbucks in, is it Mill Valley or Valley Mills, north of San Francisco, confronted me and I just took a couple minutes to explain surplus and value.
And the beautiful thing about that environment, in that ultra-liberal environment, she is aware of the field, the field-to-table Restaurants in that area where they're getting these wild pigs and they're getting the permits to process them and deer meat and wild squirrels and raccoons.
Explained with adequate evidence to support the explanation, I find that it's approaching 100% of the time those hardcore against it literally turn—I literally have seen this happen so many times— Oh, I didn't know that.
They always turn their head and they kind of wince and go, because they want to cling to the fantasy that they can save a life by not killing a moose.
And within minutes, and I do this on our Spirit of the Wild show, you should see the bombardment of emails and correspondence I get.
When I was on your podcast, Jesse James, who builds the guns and the hot rods here in Austin, he said, I fixed his daughters, who were viciously against him hunting and catching fish and not releasing them, until they heard the explanation of how many things die for a salad.
And he said, they never heard it like that before, and quite honestly, neither did I. But I live this stuff.
I've driven a tractor.
I see the seagulls and the crows behind me, and I see the slithering, dismembered creatures that the plow destroyed, and that's why the seagulls and the crows are following the tractor, to eat these wounded animals.
Because in order to get a tofu salad, you've got to kill the shit out of a whole bunch of stuff.
There's a lot of diseases that come from ticks, folks, and Lyme disease is the most notorious one, but this one from the Lone Star Tick, it has something called, it's like alpha-galactose, they're called alpha-gal for short, I believe.
I don't know the exact term of the enzyme or whatever it is that it targets, but that is what is in meat, and when you eat meat, it makes you really sick.
If you get the antibiotics, here's a great, here's a tick story for all you tick hunters out there.
Because if you're hunting, you're going to run into them.
If you're in the outdoors, especially spring turkey hunting, you're sitting on the grass waiting for a bird to come in, you're right there in tick epicenter.
A friend of ours, two brothers in Jackson County, Michigan, this might have been back in the 70s, They both shot deer during the gun season, and when you gut the deer, you cut down the pelvic, and usually on the hams, on that white hair, you can see ticks, especially here in Texas.
Well, they dismissed it because there wasn't much knowledge about that back then.
Well, they both found ticks on themselves, and the one brother had another bronchitis Bronchial infection, so his doctor prescribed hardcore antibiotics to the one brother, but the other one didn't get the antibiotics, and the other one's in a wheelchair now because it metastasized and just crippled him.
Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat.
Other products from mammals in the United States are conditions most often caused by a lone star tick bite.
The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal syndrome.
I think it's a shortened version of the real name, into the person's body.
In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces a mild to severe allergic reaction to red meat, such as beef, pork, lamb, or other mammal products.
Lone Star Tick is found predominantly in the Southeastern United States, and most cases of Alpha-Gal Syndrome occur in that region.
The tick can also be found in the Eastern and Southern Central United States.
The condition appears to be spreading further north and west, motherfuckers.
However, as deer carry the Lone Star tick to new parts of the United States...
You know what's fucking weird?
Have you heard that a large percentage of deer are carrying COVID-19?
But what's interesting is, this was on Rinella's podcast, which is very informative.
Meat Eater podcast.
One of the best hunting podcasts there is.
The best.
He goes back in time, the doctor that was, the scientist that was studying this, and so they had been collecting blood samples on these deer for decades.
So they went back a decade ago and there's none.
And so this is a very recent thing that these deer, and they don't know how, whether it's from the captive cervid industry, you know, people come in contact with these deer, you know, when people farm deer.
They really don't know.
They don't know I don't know why and how, but that's one of the things that they're saying about these viruses, like this idea of stopping the spread of this virus.
There's always going to be animal reservoirs, and it's almost impossible to stop a virus entirely.
And that the best case scenario is the virus eventually mutates to a point where it's not nearly as dangerous.
And they think that that's what happened to the Spanish flu.
And they also think that that's what's happening currently with COVID, that slowly over time, it'll mutate to a point where it's not as dangerous.
And they think that this new one in South Africa, even though everybody's freaking out about this new strain, what's it called?
Well, here's what I think is the most important element of that story, where they're shutting down people coming in from Africa.
First of all, Biden and his sidekicks...
I immediately attacked Trump for being racist for doing that.
And now they're doing it.
I think that's an interesting observation that is very indicative.
But I hear from a bunch of outfitters, huge gazillion dollar industry, billions and billions of dollars that are generated in South Africa, desperately needed revenues.
Some of the highest revenues brought into that country, not just South Africa, but whole Southern Africa.
They're all shut down, and all the Safari Club International, Dallas Club Safari, Houston Safari Club, all these conventions that generate billions of dollars per convention, these guys can't come and put on their exhibits and can't book hunters.
And a lot of people would dismiss it as an inconsequential industry.
They think it was found there, and they've also found it in Brazil, they've found it in New Zealand, they've found it in a few other places, and they think someone who is a vaccinated traveler, because in order to go there you've got to be vaccinated, they think a vaccinated traveler went there like from Europe, because to travel from Europe I believe most of the countries you have to be vaccinated.
They think that that's how it got there.
That someone picked it up somewhere else, brought it to South Africa, and then in South Africa, it was identified.
And that's the clusterfuck 2020. They never have had it before.
They never had the ability to tell you you can't work before, and now they do.
And they're using it a lot.
And they're not using it in a rational way.
And they're not using it with...
A real understanding of the consequences of what they're doing to these people that have literally had these businesses through their family for decades and decades.
Florida made completely different choices and Florida's fine.
So it doesn't make any sense.
Like if you look at overall rationally, like if you look at the state of the country and what California did versus what Florida did, right now Florida has the lowest numbers of cases per day.
Florida's economy is booming.
The real estate economy is booming because people are escaping all these states where you can't do anything and they're going to Florida.
And Texas.
Yes, and Texas.
We did the first UFC in Florida in fucking April.
So the pandemic shut everything down in March.
We did a UFC in Florida in April.
I mean, we didn't have a crowd because people were still a little skittish.
But Florida, at least we could go to restaurants.
You know, you had to wear a mask.
I was like, fine, I'll fucking whatever.
I thought it would last like a couple more months and then we'd be over with.
But Florida was the first and they were widely criticized.
But now if you look at it...
I mean, except for times where there's these surges, where people love to capitalize on those moments and say, look, you're killing people, you're killing people.
If you adjust for age, Florida has done as well, if not better, than any state in the country when it comes to what happens with this virus.
They've shown over time that if you look at how this virus works, and if you look at the response to it, lockdowns don't help.
And they definitely don't help these people's lives.
And they definitely don't help overdoses.
They don't help depression.
They don't help people losing businesses that, again, they've worked for decades for.
I firmly believe that you have to let people make their own decisions.
And once we understand what this is, this is not the Black Plague.
It's not killing 50% of the population.
And there's all these remedies that are completely ignored.
That no one cares about.
No one cares about vitamins and vitamin D and the fact that at one point in time they measured, I believe it was 84% of the people in the ICU with COVID had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Sure.
And only 4% had sufficient levels.
And if you look at the country in general, it's more than 70% of the people are deficient in vitamin D. That's a crazy number.
And it's not an expensive thing to get.
Vitamin D, if you can get it outside, it's natural.
You just lay in the sun, you get it, which is the best form of vitamin D. The best way, yeah.
That's the free form.
But you can buy it as a supplement.
But meanwhile, I've never heard that once from these fucking press conferences.
If they want to talk about vaccines and they want to talk about all these other things, say that.
But also talk about these other things.
Talk about quercetin.
Talk about zinc.
Talk about ionophores.
Talk about how important it is to take care of your health and drink a lot of water and lose weight.
There was an article, a peer-reviewed study recently about what is happening with overweight people.
That overweight people, one of the things that's happening with COVID and overweight people is that their body is not producing the antibodies correctly because of the fact that their body is so overweight.
There's a process that goes on while you're obese that doesn't go on with a person who's lean.
And that it's like a significant issue when it comes to your immune system and your immune system's response to COVID. And it's one of the reasons why so many people, at one point in time, 78% of the people in the ICU for COVID were obese.
The study showed the majority of COVID-19 patients with obesity make almost indiscernible amounts of neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting that obese individuals may be at a higher risk to respond poorly to COVID-19 infection.
But I think overall, before we even get into the minutia, I'd like to think that one thing we can accomplish, and you've done so in your podcast, and I salute you and thank you for that, is for people to focus on their lifestyles.
What is Mr. Hand putting in Mr. Grocery Cart, and can you pronounce the ingredients, and is it really something you want your children to eat?
There is a pandemic of blubber in this country that is just inexcusable.
If it says diet or sugar-free, don't buy it.
The best thing you can do is go hunting and have a garden.
And get the sugar and the carbs out of your lifestyle.
My wife, Shemaine, my son, Rocco, my son, the whole Nugent family, hardcore...
Intelligent, caring, conscientious, taking care of sacred temple.
That's another term.
I think we talked about it on our first podcast together, that when I was growing up, this was known as the sacred temple.
When I use that term to anybody under 50, they don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about, just like the term tooth, fang, and claw, that nature isn't cuddly and cute, and it's not Bambi.
It's savagery.
Hardcore blood and guts.
And that's beautiful in its own way, but people have to start paying attention to what Mr. Hand is putting into Mr. Mouth.
And here's another one, Joe.
The chemical warfare that is intentionally waged upon our families with the air fresheners, the chemicals, the downy fabric softeners.
If you open the door to your house, and we've had this happen, where our friends invite us to these beautiful homes, and they open the door to welcome us in...
We can smell the fabric softener.
We can smell the plug-in heated chemical air fresheners.
And I learned that, not just Bo Diddley, but a guy named Jimmy McCarty.
Know the name.
Jimmy McCarty.
1960. My band, The Lourdes, opened up for Billy Lee and the Rivieras, Martha and the Vandellas, and Gene Pitney, who had a hit song called Town Without Pity.
This history.
So I opened up.
I was 12...
Going on 12, my band the Lourdes opened up Billy Lee and the Revere.
Yeah, when I was 14, I opened up for the Supremes and the Bo Brumbles at Cobo Hall because my band the Lourdes won the Michigan Battle of the Bands because we were bad motherfuckers for white boys, I'm telling you.
The whole ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca, it's just made me play so So Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jimmy McCarty, Billy Lee and the Rivieras, by the way, changed their name years later to Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
I talked to Mitch on Thanksgiving.
I still keep in touch with these fucking guys 60 years later.
guitar solo Just this young kid playing all these...
Illegal notes.
And so we were invited down, because there's going to be a Sly and the Family Stone debut, and we were on mainstream records.
I don't know how they invited us, but my journey to this turn of the mind solo was really quite outrageous for back then, because it was so melodic, but it was feeding back.
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Leave your kids behind.
Come with us and find the pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind.
There's a believability factor to that black influence.
I had a tour years ago called Black Power, because every night on stage since the 50s, I've celebrated and thanked Chuck Berry and Bo Diddle and Little Richard and James Brown and Wilson Pickett and the Motown Funk Brothers.
I mean, there is no music that means anything that wasn't inspired by a black guy.
Name me music that moves you that doesn't have a black history.
I spent two nights with Keith Richards at Studio 54 in New York City in 1978. Because I'm militantly anti-substance abuse, and he's militantly pro-substance abuse.
We had such a good time together.
It was just funny because he was a hero of mine.
I mean, all my songs came from Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley.
But remember the first Stones album, the British Invasion, Stones album, Beatles, Kinks, the Yardbirds?
They all had Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Motown songs because that's what I was raised on.
So I was playing that music before the British Invasion.
And so when the British guys did it, and they did it such a good job because they so revered those artists, They presented the Chuck Berry songs, O'Carroll.
Yeah, with Jagger's over-exaggerated bluesy vocal approach and all those great players.
But that was so influential.
So take that influence, which was a bombardment, unprecedented.
And then take it all the way to Jimi Hendrix, and then the next chapter of guitar sucker-punching was Eddie Van Halen.
And I've got to jam with all these guys.
You name the best guitarists I've jammed with all of them.
And to sit there—you don't sit there, you kind of dance there—and you're paying attention to what they express and how they unleash these note volleys and phrases and musical authority.
It settles in your psyche, it settles in your soul, and it's like an arsenal of licks that you can do in your own way, but you're not afraid to do it the way they did it.
And if you have a certain touch of your own, then it comes off as your signature style.
That's what's always so fascinating to me is that out of all the notes that have been played, all the songs that have been written and sang and recorded, that there's still new ways to make a guitar well.
So, I signed with Epic Records, 1974, Tom Worman, God bless him, Tony Reality, the engineer, Derek St. Holmes, Monster Forest, Rob Grange on bass, unbelievable, Cliff Davies, God rest his soul, on drums.
I got this rock and roll band from hell.
We're playing all over the country 300 nights a year.
Cultivating this musical relationship with music lovers that love the dynamic and the crescendos and the experimental and the outrageous uncharted territory musical mayhem, but mostly the intensity of a Detroit piss-and-vinegar band, which I define.
And so they signed me because they liked the songs.
You got Stranglehold and Stormtroopin', just great licks, great song.
Motor City Madhouse, just all these great songs.
Derek's got this ungodly voice.
So we get in the studio, and we're setting up equipment, and they had heard Stranglehold, but they called a meeting.
And I didn't know why they called a meeting, but the production company, the engineer, the management company, the band, the producer, all the record company, A&R, artist relations, all want to have a meeting.
I go, all right, maybe we should have a meeting before we start recording to make sure it's like a team energy thing, like a pre-fight gathering.
So there was a moment where those lyrics to that song, Stranglehold, came to fruition in a meeting where they all voted that it shouldn't be recorded because it's a long jam, nobody likes long jams, and there's no chorus.
And I said, we play this every night.
I've been unleashing this song.
The people go nuts every night.
I'm going with the people's vote.
Not only that, but even if the people didn't like it, it's my statement.
I've always been surrounded by the best musicians on the planet.
They're dedicated to their craft.
They have a work ethic.
They're smart asses.
They're adventurous.
They're critical thinkers.
They're gifted.
Michael Lutz on bass, the author of Smoking in the Boys Room for Brownsville Station.
Gunnar Ross, a drummer from Detroit of just super thunder.
And when I played that song, I cried through the whole thing.
I was completely out of control because Fred had died and my mom had died.
And that pattern had a life of its own.
I didn't play it.
I facilitated it.
But Michael and Gunnar immediately grasped my emotion for Fred and what the song meant.
And what you hear on the song that The Navy Seals play when they come home with flag-draped coffins and people bury their children or have an anniversary.
The song, every day I get people testifying what the song Fred Bear means to them.
Well, this morning Gunnar Ross died, my drummer on Fred Bear, 67 years old, and he died this morning.
And that moment when he embraced my pain and love for Fred, the pain of the loss, just a smart-ass Detroit drummer monster, but my people, they They own the spirit of every song that we play.
They become one with it.
And Gunner did that day and it was take one.
I played it for him and then we pushed the record button at Pearl Sound in Canton, Michigan.
And Gunner and Michael I loved Fred.
They didn't know who Fred was, but they knew what it meant to me, and they put their heart and soul into that performance, and Gunner just died this morning at 67. Will you tell everybody who Fred Bear was?
Fred Bear is the essence of American entrepreneurial man in the arena in the swirling dust of the Industrial Revolution, born in Pennsylvania in 1906 or thereabouts.
And was a hunter, farmer, trapper.
You know, lived on the land.
And he moved to Detroit during the Industrial Revolution to be a wood carver for the FOMOCO, Ford Motor Company, making cabinets for the radios and the dashboards and the woodies, the vehicles.
And he had become so proficient with the.30-30 that he was looking for more of a challenge.
If he saw a deer with his.30-30, he'd kill it.
He'd learn stealth.
You'd get within 100 yards with an open-sight rifle, you should be able to kill it.
And that's great.
That's how you get venison.
But he was looking for something else.
So he started making his own bows in the 1920s.
And a couple buddies, Nels Grumley.
I can't believe I remember all this shit.
Nels, that was his name.
Nels Grumley was his boyer.
It takes a real art craftsmanship to make a bow from a stave and pick the right grain and the right hickory or the yew or the Osage orange.
And pick the right tree and know that that core is going to make a good bow.
And then know what the resistance and the flexibility of those wood limbs will produce what they call cast.
How it would cast an arrow.
It's quite an art form.
And so Fred Bear and Nels Grumley had a little shop in Detroit, and when they weren't making cabinets for their business, the FOMOCO and the radio industry, he was making his own bows, he and Nels.
And it was catching on a little bit, but then up in Oroville, California, I think in 1908 maybe, they found an Indian cowering in a corral.
And they determined that this was from the Yanni, Y-A-N-I, the Yanni Indian tribe.
And back then, if you killed one of them, you'd get 25 bucks.
So anyhow, so instead of killing this guy, they determined that his name was Ishii, and they wanted to study him.
He's the last survivor of the Yanni tribe, Northern California, Oroville.
I just heard a story in Oroville, California this morning on the radio.
And I said to Rocco and Shemaine, I go, that's where they found Ishii.
So this guy Ishii, his whole life was based on the bow and arrow.
Getting close to game, taking a freezing river bath before the hunt to deserve an encounter with the beast that would provide life, food, clothing, shelter, tools, medicine, weapons, spirit, deep into the spiritual realm.
And so the sheriff's department put him in a jail and they said, let's call some anthropologist or one of these scientist guys.
So Saxton Pope came down and tried to figure out what tribe and language and started communicating with Ishii, and then he called his buddy, Art Young, who was also a professor, I believe.
I'm probably getting some of the details a little misconstrued here, but this was the proceedings that took place.
And so they were so fascinated, they took Ishii out into his native lands in Northern California, And he showed them how their life pivoted on effective bow hunting.
And so Saxton and Pope became fascinated—how could you not?—as their world was developing better ballistics for longer-range killing.
Pope and Young went, yeah, this is fascinating, trying to get close to that Columbia blacktail with a sharp stick.
I gotta try that shit.
Because there was already this maniac movement of sophistication, so they called it, away from the land and to be more cidified and more educated and have other people kill your shit for you.
But they discovered there was something powerful about Ishii.
Well, Ishii eventually died from white man's germs, as so many did.
But Saxon Pope became dedicated to the bow hunting lifestyle.
And they went on to go bow hunting in Yosemite and Yellowstone, went to Africa and hunted and filmed it all.
And so meanwhile, Fred Bear and Howard Hill in California and Ben Pearson down in Arkansas were fancying bow hunting as a little sideline fun thing.
Well, back then, the only vehicle of promotion for any given entity or endeavor were newsreels.
And they don't go to the theater and play a newsreel on a trip to the Arctic in a boat or how to build a canoe.
Well, Saxon Pope and Art Young created newsreels about this fascinating rediscovery of the mystical flight of the arrow and how to kill game with it.
Real primitive, real...
Port Orford cedar shafts that they'd have to heat up to straighten out by the eye, how to cut turkey feathers to fletch with a helical to steer the air.
Les Paul hasn't even electrified the guitar yet, but my dad came back from World War II, and Fred Bear already had enough influence in Michigan that my dad became a bow hunter, and I still have his bow from 1945. So Fred Bear from working for the Ford Motor Company and then starting becoming a bowhunter had influenced so many people that young men in that area were taking up bowhunting for the first time.
George Nichols in Michigan, owner of Jackson Archery, who Fred contracted to build Fred's Arrows because Fred was experimenting with the lamination invention of laminating thin sheets of foam.
From fiberglass to thin sheets of woods to build up that beautiful recurve artwork.
And it increased the cast.
That's how they identified the delivery of an arrow.
It was the cast.
How well a bow of certain wood would cast an arrow.
That's why they used Port Orford cedar, because it was controllable.
And it had a grain conducive to straightness, even though effort had to be applied to perfectly straighten them, though never perfect.
So anyhow, so Fred now, he's so enamored, he saw the Pope in a young video and he goes, holy shit, to hell with FOMOCO, man.
Let's build bows and arrows.
So he moved from Detroit to Grayling, Michigan, up in the middle of the state, up in the north country, where the only deer were.
There were no deer south of Clare.
All the deer were north because after they cut down every tree in Michigan except for the Hartwick Pines, land of the Kirtland's warbler.
I got all this.
I register all this information.
So after the denuding of the Michigan forest, I mean, white pines as big around as this room, Joe.
You see their stumps today.
And these guys cut the entire state down with hand saws.
But shockingly, not so much if you know a little bit about botany, what does that do?
It lets the sunlight hit the ground and the habitat exploded to such supportability, such sustainability for wildlife that animals can only use what they can reach.
And now this explosion of low growth provided sanctuary, shelter, thermal cover during the severe Michigan winters, and escape.
And so the deer herd exploded in the 1950s.
So Fred's up there.
So now I'm born in 48. My dad's already a bow hunter and every kid in Detroit, every kid in America was fascinated with the bow and arrow.
I live right next to the Rouge River.
I was in Detroit, but right next to the Rouge River.
All industry came by waterways for transportation of goods.
And so even I didn't know who Fred Bear was.
I just knew that my dad would shoot his bow, and every kid got a little kid's bow.
And I probably shot stuffed animals with, you know, suction cup arrows in the living room by the time I was two.
And according to my parents, I was a high-energy maniac.
Borderline dangerous.
But I always shot my bow and arrow, so by the time I'm four or five, we're going north every year in the Ford Country Squire station wagon with our bows and arrows, and we'd stop in this town called Grayling and go to this little cinder block shack that said Bear Archery over the front.
I still didn't know what was going on.
I just knew that I loved bows and arrows, but in this little shack in Grayling, Michigan, We're lots of bows and arrows, and this tall, lanky guy named Fred Bear, who my dad would bullshit with, we'd go to the Graylin' restaurant and have chocolate milk and cherry pie, and by the time I was seven or eight, it registered.
Holy, this is the guy in the cover of True Magazine with a polar bearer?
This is a guy, an American sportsman, eventually, with Kurt Gowdy shooting moose and caribou and hunting with the Maharaji and shooting chittle deer and nil guy on the estate of the Indian ruler.
And I'm fascinated.
So now this is my Chuck Berry of bow hunting.
I was already gung-ho guitar, gung-ho bows and arrows.
We all got Daisy Red Ryder BB guns.
We all made our own slingshots.
I started out with bows and arrows.
I made myself out of reeds and saplings along the Rouge River.
So just a natural inclination.
Projectiles.
They've always fascinated mankind.
How can you control the projectile?
How good of a marksman can you be?
I was put in charge of sparrow control with my Daisy Red Ryder BB gun in my garage because the sparrows were shitting on the country squire station wagon window, so I would kill the sparrows in the garage.
So I was deep into shooting.
And so I met this Fred Bear guy, and eventually I realized that's Fred fucking Bear.
Well, he was funny, kind, big, tall, six foot six something, lanky, and just a natural killer.
It's a natural, stealthy, sneaky bowhunter.
Real slow talking, not to be confused with me, and real easy going, which makes for a great bow hunter.
So I have to turn the corner before I go bullhunting.
So anyhow, so Fred Bear invited me into his life.
And from this little shack, my dad was transferred.
Every year, I couldn't wait to stop in Grayley and meet old Fred.
Every year we'd stop there, and most years he was there.
For the opening October 1st Michigan bow season, which is why Michigan is the number one bowhunting state in America to this day, because of Fred Bear's influence.
So I fell in love with Fred Bear as a mentor, as a hero, and he welcomed me into his life wholeheartedly, even though he told me that his buddies, I don't know about this rock and roll guy, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, I don't know if you want to associate with Nugent.
But his buddies, Fred told me, he says, no, my buddies said, no, no.
Nugent, I've heard him on the radio.
All he does is promote clean and sober.
All he does is promote the mystical flight of the arrow and being one with your projectile management.
And this guy's high energy and is getting bow hunting promotion to people who will never hear of you.
And Fred Bear actually said every sporting event he went to, everybody under 40 always asked him, do you know Ted Nugent?
Because I'd shoot my bow on stage every concert with the Amboy Dukes.
I'd always promote hunting.
Every interview was supposed to be about a new record.
I'd promote my weekend with my mom and dad hunting with a bow and arrow.
So I was constantly countering the animal rights lie by promoting conservation, especially the discipline of archery.
And so Fred embraced me.
Long story short, and I can keep you here for 100 days, in 1987, I did my annual hunt with Fred.
I'd go every year up to a place called Grouse Haven up in Rose City, Michigan, the gateway to the North Country.
And we'd be around the campfire and around the fireplace with just all the old guys.
Bob Munger, who we went to Africa with so many times and all his buddies, and I just sit around the campfire just sponging the stories from these guys because they were pioneers of the new bow hunting challenge versus what Roy Weatherby was developing.
You kill a deer at four or five, six hundred thousand yards, which is a discipline unto itself.
That's marksmanship.
If you dedicate yourself.
But bow hunters were looking for something more challenging, more difficult, and more spiritual in understanding your relationship with the animal that the Native Americans always proclaimed, rightly so, that if you dedicate yourself to conscientious, stealth, reasoning predator, that the Great Spirit will provide a shot at the game.
Which means if you dedicate yourself, you can earn that shot.
Powerful lesson in the industrial explosion to go back to a primal scream.
So then in April of 88, after our last hunt in 87, and Fred, I didn't even go hunting.
I just stayed with Fred because he was on an oxygen tank.
He carried it around.
I just hung out with Fred, very emotional, because he was so powerful in all of our lives.
He's a huge force.
And he told me to keep doing what I do, promoting hunting in a rock and roll way, because he got the word out to people who would never hear it at the SHOT Show.
And then that next April he died.
And it was a force wave of heartbreak.
He meant so much to so many people.
And so one morning I was going out to do my chores.
Like I do every morning, but instead I stopped and I came in the house and that song happened.
If you want to find the beast of your spirit, and when I say beast, I mean the best of the best of you, get a bow and arrow.
Find a bow that is comfortable and graceful.
Even if it's in your living room at 10 feet with the proper backstop—I train my children—do not underestimate the power of spiritual growth available just by— Getting Mr. Left Hand to be one with Mr. Right Hand as guided by the oneness of Mr. Brain and Mr. Eyeball and see if you can put the arrow of your life in the spot
of your...
I swear to God, Joe, I don't care if you're a cop or a teacher or a butcher or a mechanic or a plumber or a carpenter or a radio dude, I don't care what you do in life.
Whatever point you're at today, within a few days, Of really discovering your arrow control.
Whatever you pursue, you will be better at incrementally as you become one with the mystical flight of your arrow, especially young people.
Especially in the field under hunting conditions because form goes to shit.
It's not the Olympic range, but you have to discover how you can control, manipulate...
Manage that form in an awkward field position so that from the waist to the face, from your waist to the face, you can control your form no matter how awkward the position may be.
And that's the trick to consistent accuracy with a bow and arrow.
And it doesn't matter whether it's a compound or a long bow or an old recurve bow.
To become consistently efficient with an old-fashioned long or recurve bow is one of the most joyous, fulfilling, gratifying accomplishments in life because it's a bitch.
And I'm not dismissing, I shoot a compound 99% of the time.
I shoot a Matthews that's lightweight, 50 pounds, it's graceful, it feels like a recurve because I'm at full draw under, you know, graceful conditions.
And I know that Cameron and you shoot heavy bows because you're strong, but archery has to be graceful.
It's not weightlifting.
It's stealth and grace.
You need to find a bow that is easy to draw, easy to come to full draw and make sure that your full draw stops at your face, not back here.
If it's too long of a draw, especially the compound because it has a let off, and if it's let off too far back, you'll never have form because it's supposed to be hand-eye coordination.
And if you're anchoring back here, your eye is out of the equation now.
So in Texas, there's a lot of great archery shops all across America.
But what Matt McPherson of Matthews has done is he's taken engineering to a mad scientist level where the finite measurements of the wheels and the cams, they're so efficient.
It's just incredible that anybody figured this out, that this guy figured this out in 1966. When you look at that bow right there that he's got in his hand...
Like, look how crazy that contraption is with all those strings and pullies and reels.
My buddy Brian Shootback, just a guru of archery, runs a little – actually quite a sporting goods store in Jackson, Michigan.
Shootback Sporting Goods.
People come from hundreds of miles to let Brian and his team set up their bows because they're – dedicated archery craftsman engineers, because on a compound bow, it really is a mechanical beast.
And everything has to be timed really specifically.
The wheels, the cams, the tiller between the limbs and the string, the way the cables connect, where the arrow comes out, where the rest allows the arrow to come out straight.
And so Brian Shupak, I would call him and say, I missed a fucking buck this morning again.
He goes, let me set you up a bow with a peep sight.
Especially the Michigan ones, because they've been hunting since they were born.
Anyhow, so I respected Brian's recommendation, but it was difficult for me, because instead of the smoothness of looking at my target and coming up muscle memory, let go now, I'd have to find the pin in the peep and hang on for a second, which is really contrary to my shooting system.
But within a couple days, I stuck with it, and boy, I was zapping them right in there, because once that pin and that peep is there, if you can control Mr. Right Hand and Mr. Trigger Finger, like a rifle shot.
Right.
Breathing, sight acquisition, pin in the peep, on the spot, okay, do it.
He's got a really good website and he used to be, I think he still does, he works with SWAT teams and he trains people in the difference between open loop and closed loop thinking.
I always fuck these two up.
I believe open loop is like swinging a baseball bat.
Like the ball comes and you swing and at no point in time can you stop it.
Like you're just swinging, right?
You're not going to check it.
But a closed loop is like you're in complete control of every movement through the entire process and you're thinking yourself through it.
And what he does is he has like a mantra that he talks you through.
And the idea is to keep your mind conscious and to keep yourself from just working on reflexes, just like hitting anxiety and then punching the trigger.
Instead of doing that, you work through your shot process and you achieve a surprise shot.
And one of the ways you do that is by keeping your mind on a mantra and talking.
Yeah, the idea is that the release comes from the movement of your hand, right?
And there's like a little click.
I hear it like when I get to like right here, I'm pulling my fingers back, I hear a little click, and I know all I have to do is just pull with my back muscles and it'll go off.
And I have no idea when it's going to go off.
But it's going to go off.
That's it right there.
I love that damn thing.
And I shot the biggest elk I've ever shot in my life this year with that hinge.
Where it goes on the top of the limb, and you come to full draw, but there's little...
This little spring steel piece of steel is against the string, and you have to finish your draw with the same back tension, and when you hear that little click come off the string, you let go.
Well, I've studied all the shootings, and typically in a shootout between good guys and bad guys, You get this tacky psyche, where the whole world is towards the weapon.
When you are shooting a target, whether it's an elk or whether it's a target, just a 3D target, are you looking at your pin or are you looking at the spot you want to hit?
And in the hotel room or in your living room, you can do archery.
When you first start, you might want to get a big backstop.
But my kids learned archery and marksmanship in the living room with Daisy Red Ryder BB guns shooting at clothespins in the fireplace with a bunch of cardboard behind it.
Why not?
Archery will only be optimized, repetition, repetition, I think anything in life.
Guitar for sure, music, all the important things like welding and mechanics.
I mean, Afghanistan is a huge place where they get lithium.
Afghanistan is a massive supply of lithium, but a lot of it is taken from...
Africa has a lot of it.
There's a lot of different areas where people are mining for lithium, and there's a finite amount of it, too.
They were worried about running out of oil, which they never did, but they were worried at one point in time before they figured out how to do fracking and a lot of other stuff, and then they figured out that there was...
More reserves than they thought there were.
But they kind of run out of minerals, too, I'm sure.
Well, back then, everybody lost their fucking mind when they had to wait in line for gas.
During that whole gas crisis era, America fell apart.
The golden age for American muscle cars, in my opinion, is between 65 and with a Barracuda, you can get to 71. After 71, things start getting real slippery.
You could get a Mercury Comet Caliente with a 411 rear end, 427 that rated it over 450 horse with a hearse four-speed on the floor for like three grand.
When I go on tour next summer to make up for last year and this year, goddammit are we horny to play.
Again, Jason Hartless on drums, Greg Smith on bass, my crew, Linda, Doug, Bobby, my crew.
If the military operated like my rock and roll machine, we'd win every war and we wouldn't go to any illegal ones.
I have the best band, the best crew, the best team, the best management.
So efficient.
Their job description, I was telling your buddy Jeff here, that's my brother's name, I was telling Jeff, I asked him what he does, and he goes, a little bit of everything.
I went, you could work with me, because everybody in my life, the job description is, yes, I can do that, and if I can, I'll figure it out and be able to in three minutes.
Now, when you talk to a guy like you that's been doing something like playing music for as long as you have and you still love it as much as you do, that makes me very happy.
And I know these people, and I am so humbled and honored that I've been able to pursue my cravings, not just my preferences.
I couldn't not play music.
It's who and what I am.
I couldn't not go bow hunting.
It's my heartbeat.
But a lot of people bust their ass to be a good checkout guy, and a good mechanic, and a good janitor, and they're not really in love with it, but they do it every day.
And as I come here today driving down 35, which, by the way, You must know how much I love you, because I would not do this.
And around my camp, you can tell that there's no inhibitions.
Nobody hesitates to tell me anything they believe, whether it's conflicting, suspicious, out of character, out of line.
So I get such beautiful feedback, raw, unvarnished feedback.
honest feedback about every imaginable from the good, the bad, the ugly, especially with all the bad and the ugly that the world is producing right now.
So I know these people and I know that that hardware store clerk saved money to go hunting with me And he tells me about his truck and his new rifle.
And he's a hardware clerk.
I know how these people operate.
They're frugal.
They're smart.
Their work ethic is godlike.
And they're at my campfire and they share what Fred Bear means, what Stranglehold means, what my music means to them, what freedom means to them, what the First Amendment means to them, what the Second Amendment means to them, how distrusting the government is, how they love their family, how they love their daughter at the volleyball.
I mean, I get such a totality of input from people.
Just great, shit-kicker Americans.
That when I speak, it's not Ted Nugent stuff.
It's the accumulation of this raw, honest, unvarnished evidence that goes into my psyche.
So when I comment about something, it's not, well, my presumption would be...
Yeah, and particularly today, it doesn't even have to be controversial.
I was talking to this guy, Dr. Mike Hart from Canada, a guy who's been on my show before in the past, and he was telling me that he posted something on LinkedIn, and it was just a study showing how people should take vitamin D, and it was associating high levels of vitamin D with positive COVID-19 outputs.
There is evil in this world, and when you have someone recommending an upgrade procedure for quality health, and someone bans it, the people who bans that recommended upgrade for quality health is pure fucking evil!
It's strange in America because it's never been this horrible.
But historically, this level of evil and rot has existed, if you're aware of the Trail of Tears or the Bataan Death March or the rape of Nan King.
If you're not aware of that stuff, then this would be shocking to you.
But if you're aware of the depth of evil and cruelty and demonacy of mankind, then this is nothing different than the history of evil and cruelty and demonacy of mankind.
Throughout history, if you talk to people in the 1990s from the left and you ask them, do you trust the pharmaceutical companies, they'd be like, fuck no.
If you talk to people in the 2000s that were dealing with the opioid crisis and all the other issues, if you watch that show, Dope Sick, if you see the depths that these pharmaceutical companies have gone to in order to sell poison to people and to talk to people and lie to them, to tell them this poison is not addictive and to trick politicians...
And I have a friend who used to be a sales rep.
And he and I were talking about this the other day.
And he used to be a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
And he said they would tell him, you are going to be best friends with that doctor.
You're going to know his fucking kids' names.
You're going to show up at his kids' games.
You're going to get them free tickets to baseball games.
You're going to get them free meals.
You're going to do whatever you can to get inside their good graces and the idea is to get them to prescribe as much of our drugs as possible.
I knew that he had done something in the pharmaceutical industry, but I didn't know how deep it was.
But when he was explaining how this guy makes this amount of money because he sells this amount and he has this, and they had a list down of all the doctors that prescribe the most drugs and all the doctors that'll prescribe the most SSRIs, the most painkillers, the most anxiety medication, and that they're just fucking handing this shit out like candy, and they're being encouraged to do this from these pharmaceutical companies.
Paid.
Sort of paid, but not really.
A lot of it is influence.
A lot of it is influence through giving them free things, giving them free meals.
It is, but it's also like they develop this reputation and this relationship with these doctors and these nurses, and they take everyone to dinner.
And then when someone comes along, they go, well, Pfizer's your friend.
Pfizer's my friend.
And the next thing you know, they're prescribing whatever the fuck Pfizer's selling.
Brian Terry was the Michigan border agent that was killed with the guns that Barack Obama and Eric Holder gave to the Mexican drug cartels that killed Brian Terry with.
Explain what that was, because it was one of the craziest things.
To imagine that they thought this was a good idea, they Legally, I mean legally according to them, sold guns to the Mexican cartels because they wanted to be able to track them.
Yes, they were so anti-gun, Barack Obama and Eric Holder, two of the biggest punks that ever slithered the earth, that they were going to provide as much firepower to the most evil people, the child molesters, the child traffickers, the drug importers, the fentanyl producers.
They provided guns to the Mexican drug cartel devils.
To show that those types of weapons will end up committing crimes in America because they also had the borders open where they could bring the guns that Eric Holder and Barack Obama gave to the drug cartels, American guns, mostly ARs in 1911, 45s, and 10 millimeters, a lot of Delta elites.
They provided them.
In fact, Mike...
Mike, the FFL in Prescott in Phoenix that the FBI and the DEA used to provide all these firearms to the Mexican drug cartels knowingly.
Claiming, Eric and Holder, Barack Obama, claiming, well, we need to track these guns to show you where they go so we can get the guys that use them illegally.
No, that's not what they were doing.
They were doing it so that they would use them illegally so they could pass more restrictive gun laws in America.
In other words, providing firepower to the Mexican gangs would somehow support the theory that gun control in America would make our streets safer.
So in documents that surfaced that showed a direct connection between them selling the guns and wanting to pass more restrictive Second Amendment laws?
He had cameras in his house filming and recording the DEA and the ATF. By the way, let's take a little side trip here, shall we?
Okay, Mr. Government bureaucrat.
We decided the different bureaucracies that we need another bureaucracy to maybe milk some more tax dollars out of the American public and bloat it to such a degree that we have 10,000 people doing the job of nine.
Follow me on this.
So they had a little meeting one day in a room.
We need another bureaucracy.
We could probably make it really over bloated and expansive and waste a lot of tax dollars.
But I don't know what the bureaucracy should be about.
Somebody in the back of the room went, alcohol!
Well, now we don't really need...
The government doesn't really have anything to say about alcohol, not since the prohibition.
So somebody else went, well, that doesn't matter.
Let's just have an alcohol bureaucracy.
So the bureaucrats in the room went...
Yeah, why not?
Let's have the Bureau of Alcohol.
Somebody in the back of the room went, tobacco!
Tobacco!
Throw tobacco in there.
And they went, well, what does the government have to do with tobacco?
It's just a fucking agriculture crop.
We don't have any say in that.
Somebody in the room went, yeah, we don't need to.
Just throw alcohol in tobacco.
So these bureaucrats went, yeah, we could create a giant, bloated, wasteful, arbitrary Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco.
Great.
Somebody in the back of the room went, Skateboards!
Skateboards!
Skateboards.
They went, that's a little fun.
I don't think we'll ever convince anybody we need to control alcohol, tobacco, and skateboards.
So somebody in the back of the room went, guns!
Throw guns in there!
Well, that doesn't really make...
What is really alcohol, tobacco, and firearms?
That just...
There's really...
The Second Amendment, there's no reason to have a bureaucracy.
And the people in the room went, the fuck does that matter?
Let's just create a fucking bureaucracy that deals with alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.
How do you not challenge your boss that your agency is against the law in the United States of America?
And I know some of these guys, and some of these guys are pretty good guys, but if you were a pretty good bass player, you couldn't be in my band, because you have to be a really good bass player, you have to be the best bass player, and you have to be honest!
And you have to stand up for what you believe in.
And all you ATF agents and DE agents and FBI agents, you took an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America.
You punks!
Every day you violate that sacred oath.
How can you live with yourselves?
How can you face your children knowing that you support an agency that has to do with alcohol, tobacco, and firearms?
Don't you know deep in your soul that that is so stupid and so anti-American that you must have bouts of guilt?
And I would recommend that you implement those bouts of guilt and you fight with good Americans to eliminate These illegal, immoral, anti-American, anti-freedom, oath-violating bureaucracies, I rest my case.
And now if you come after me because of my Joe Rogan rant, bring it the fuck on!
So he's talking about the Second Amendment not that long ago, recently.
And he goes, well, you've got to be kidding me.
I mean, you can keep and bear arms, but what are you going to do?
We have nuclear weapons.
Let's stop and take a moment and examine the thought process Of the President of the United States, instead of supporting the people's God-given individual right as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms, instead of voicing compassionate,
freedom-loving support for that self-evident truth, he threatened us that our Second Amendment will do no good against the atomic nuclear power of that prick.
Subhuman prick squirrels his way up to the commander-in-chief position, and then instead of voicing support for the self-evident truth that God gave us the right to freedom of speech and keep and bear arms, instead of stating that as a representative of the American experiment in self-government, he took the enemy's perspective and said your Second Amendment won't do any good because we have nuclear weapons.
I might add, the Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people who could own a gun.
What?
What type of weapon you could own.
You couldn't buy a cannon.
Those who say the blood of patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we're going to have to Move against the government.
Well, the tree of liberty is not water in the blood of patriots.
What's happened is that there never been, if you wanted to think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.
The point is that there's always been the ability to limit, rationally limit, the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it.
5% of gun dealers, it turns out, in the study we did, showed that 90% of illegal guns were found in the crime scenes sold by 5% He's already made the statement that our Second Amendment won't do any good unless we have F-15s and nuclear weapons.
And in the atmosphere of potential tyranny from a corrupt government.
And if you don't think that it's possible for a corrupt government, Just look to the past.
It just doesn't mean it's happening right now where you have to take arms against the government, but there could...
And I think until COVID came around and until we saw what's going on in Australia and some other parts of the world where you do see unarmed populations who are being controlled by police states, like look what's happening in Hong Kong, right?
Look what's happening in other parts of the world where they don't have any weapons, they don't have any control, and they're being controlled by these totalitarian regimes.
And I communicate with wise people who do know history.
And I got to tell you, stuff like the Discovery Channel and the occasional Nova special, when they delve into the history, and even a guy like Tucker Carlson who brings forth unlimited evidence to support his statements, and whether it's footage like the footage of Fast and Furious, Or whether it's footage of the president claiming that our Second Amendment won't help against the government unless we have F-15s and nuclear weapons.
I don't need to know anything more than what I hear from the mouths of suspicious people that are executing tyranny and control over innocent lives.
How about the ATF clusterfuck of the Branch Davidians?
I mean, there's no accountability.
How about the heartbreaking, tragic, oath-violating clusterfuck of Benghazi?
So that's water under the bridge, really?
So if someone rapes your daughter, since she's already raped, we don't have to get the guy that did it?
No.
It's not done until you get the guy that did it, and he's eliminated one way or the other.
There is no justice in America, and our court systems, until Kyle Rittenhouse, I didn't think there was any justice left.
Thank God for Kyle Rittenhouse.
I think you probably read I'm sending him a lifetime supply of good ammo.
That was a moment in time for America where we can take a deep breath and go, Thank God a jury in Kenosha still has a soul, a conscience, and they understand glaring right over glaring wrong, glaring good over glaring evil.
Is there a story in our lifetime that has had more misrepresentation in the media in terms of, like, what the narrative is versus what actually happened?
I remember that, the Pierce Morgan thing was fascinating.
Because he tried to equate, he was talking about gun violence, but he didn't understand that when he was quoting those numbers, so many of those people that died were killed in the process of committing crime.
Or that the riots were based on the claim by CNN that the guy that the cops shot was dead.
They didn't kill him.
The cops murdered an unarmed black man, the Blake guy or whatever his name was that the cops were called in Kenosha, which was the impetus of the riots.
Fascinating, too, though, that what happens during a lot of these riots is people that are already bad people use these riots as an excuse to do violent acts.
And that's what you saw with the one guy that he shot that was a multiple offender pedophile.
I don't know if anybody told you that, but I gave a shout-out to Michael Berry and Joe Paggs and Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and Lars Larson and Mark Davis, all these conservative talk show people.
There's a term I beseech you, to begin parroting.
And it is at the core of all heartbreak, tragedy, and victimization, engineered victimization in America.
And the term I coined in a recent, well, that's not recent, it was years ago, is that based on many uniform crime reports by the FBI, one of the rare moments where they can be trusted, Is that upwards of 96% of violent crime—that's a huge number.
It's as good as 100% as far as I'm concerned.
If you're 96% likely to kill an elk on that hunt, you're going to probably kill an elk.
96% of violent crime is committed by repeat offenders.
What we are living in today is the scourge Of engineered recidivism.
The violent offenders that are guaranteed to repeat their crimes are let out by the courts, the judges, the prosecutors, the parole boards, and the negotiation of early release or plea bargaining.
Well, I know we shot a guy, but maybe we can get him to testify against the guy who drove the getaway car.
If I was a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist person, I would say that too.
And I'm resisting it with every fucking fiber of my being.
As do I. But when I look at shit like what's going on in Los Angeles in particular, where they are letting people out left and right and you've got armed robberies all over the place, it is nationwide.
But I know what LA used to be like because I used to live there.
Listen to the words out of the prosecutorial team at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.
Listen to the words out of their mouths and don't give yourself a headache.
You'll get an aneurysm if you pursue the question, why would they say that?
Why would that prosecuting team say that when someone is attacking you with a gun and a skateboard that we all have to put up with a beating once in a while and there's no reason to...
People in charge of justice are claiming that you must take a beating with a guy with an oak skateboard and a Glock pointed at your head that you just need to bend over, spread your cheeks and take it.
That's what the prosecuting team said.
That's what the Chicago prosecutor said.
That's what the New York prosecutor said.
That's what the Portland prosecutor said.
That's what the Seattle prosecutors said.
That's what the Atlanta prosecutors said.
One week before the cop shot the guy that was running, he was on parole already, stealing a Mercedes, and he turned the taser gun on the cop, the week before that event, the prosecutor said, "Yes, when faced with the deadly force of a taser gun, deadly force is justified." when faced with the deadly force of a taser gun, Now, since the guy with the taser was black and the cop was white, now the same prosecutor said, there's no reason to shoot a man with a taser gun because it can only cause temporary harm.
a little too late and now there's such an influx of people coming in from the Mexican border that they're trying to do something about it but they're moving these people to all these different states at the same time they're trying to say that having an ID to vote is racist which at the same time they're saying you have to have an ID to show that you've been tested for COVID at the same time or that you've been vaccinated for COVID but at the same time they're not vaccinating these people who they're letting into the country it is wild Which is why I never ask why.
But don't you think that there's something to asking why because if you can at least show the path of corruption that led to these district attorneys that are willing to let out violent criminals that threaten everybody's health and safety and if you could show that to people that have been in support of more lenient policies in terms of like prosecuting criminals and you could show them that this is what's going on and that this is somehow or another It's almost
like it's engineered.
But this will cause people to question things and maybe make people more aware of how fucked these people are that are making these laws are, the people that are enforcing these laws or not enforcing these laws.
Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation-state.
And I don't think there's any country in the world which believes in that.
If you believe in a nation-state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, You have an obligation, in my view, to do everything we can to help poor people.
What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy.
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Bring in all kinds of people who work for two or three dollars an hour.
I mean, what's happening now is certainly the way people are looking at it now is a direct result of this idea that to not have open borders is somehow racist, to want to stop people that are coming in here.
And I want people to do better.
I want people that want to come into this country and work hard to be able to have that opportunity.
It's just fascinating that ideologically things have shifted so much, like what the parameters are of what is acceptable points that you could talk about and the way you could say it.
If someone tried to talk like that on the left today, they would say, this is an alt-right person.
Social media and these echo chambers with these fucking kids that get right out of universities or in universities right now and then get out and they're in these social justice warrior echo chambers and they just spout out this shit.
And they do it without any understanding of what the ramifications are of what they're doing.
When he's saying that this is a Koch brothers idea, if you tried to say that today, people would laugh in your face.
They'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
But they have to go to that outrageous, dishonest misrepresentation to make their point, because Bernie is a communist.
And I don't care if he supported buying me ammo, he'd still be a communist.
It was probably just a tactic to try to weasel his way into a believability factor, because overall, All of these leftists, the media, academia, big tech, when they censor the recommendation of how people can get healthy, when it's been proven from a doctor, I don't need to ask why.
So, Joe, if I was in charge, and I am in charge of my life, I'm in charge of my life.
I'm the authority.
Nobody has authority over me.
Now, I obey the laws, but I like to think that the laws that I obey came from we the people for safe, secure, compassionate, pleasurable, quality of life perspectives.
My son Rocco, all my kids, my grandkids, my brother and sister, my incredible wife, Shemaine.
Shemaine, I love you so much.
It's deep into the realm of stupid I love you so much.
My band, my crew, my Linda, been my personal assistant for 33 years.
What's your experience, and you invited me, I'm them.
I'm the mouth and effervescence, dare I say, of the positive, quality, smart, cocky, hardworking, critical thinking, buoyant, It energized people in my life.
All the people in my life.
All my friends.
I'm doing a Ted Nugent greasy speakeasy at Tucker Hall in Waco on Saturday, December 4th with Johnny Kutz on drums and Johnny Big on bass with Calvin Ross, Lone Star Music.
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of shout-outs.
Because my life would be meaningless without the people I'm shouting out to.
But what I do mean is, if you could argue your position freely without any worry of being pulled from the internet, because that has happened to so many people.
There's so many people whose voices have been completely silenced.
And there's people that are famous that have had their voices silenced, and there's people that you've never heard of that, for whatever reason, they said something that someone didn't agree with, so they just banned them.
It's fascinating because, just like with Mike Hart, this thing with it's just vitamin D. Unbelievable.
There's things like that.
You know, there was a thing called the Unity 2020 Project that Brett Weinstein tried to put together, and the idea was to bring people from the left and the right that were sensible people, the idea was to bring someone like Dan Crenshaw and Tulsi Gabbard, bring them together and create this third party, a unity party, right?
There was no threats, there was no violence, there was no spamming, there was nothing.
It was just a position that they thought could endanger the chances of the Democrats winning, and so they justified polling them and censoring them from the internet.
What would it be like if people could have these free conversations, just talk about things?
I think, you know, we could find a lot of fucking common ground if we could do that.
I think he calls himself a democratic socialist, and the idea is doing better for the people, the working people and the working families, and making sure that people can't take advantage of these people by not paying them a fair wage.
Yeah, but his position is to look at things like speculative trading and take a small percentage of that, less than a fraction of a penny off of these crazy stock deals that they're doing where they're using algorithms.
Take that and using it for infrastructure, using it for education, using it for healthcare.
Just like where I was saying my friend who was working for these pharmaceutical companies and he would get deep in with these doctors and deep in with the nurses and know their families.
It's like this weird sort of legal corruption.
This way that they can infiltrate these people's lives.
To influence them.
And that's the problem.
The problem is the size of government.
It's just so big.
And it has so much fucking power.
It has way more power than it ever had in the past.
And again, people have to really think for a minute.
What this perspective is.
We're working hard, playing hard American shit kickers.
Just people who bust their ass.
The people in the arena, the swirling dust of battle, the ups and downs of life, and they stumble and they dust themselves off and get back up and try again.
Maybe they wanted to be a musician, but they couldn't make it, so they became a plumber.
But they're a great plumber.
And so they didn't get their dream dream, but they still bust their ass To be in the asset column.
There's two columns.
There's the liability column and the asset column.
So my perspective is from, and again, not just this year's, but this year it was really quite voluminous, quite heated.
Good American families don't trust anybody.
Any of the bureaucracies.
We don't trust the CDC. We know that the WHO is an arm of the Communist Party.
We don't trust the FDA. We don't trust the USDA. And I could give you examples in every instance how they're not trustworthy.
In Michigan, if you use a feeder, you'll cause the transmission of chronic wasting disease.
So we must ban the use of feeders.
But since the deer hunters didn't get enough deer because they weren't able to use attractants, the USDA comes in with big giant feeders that says USDA! Who could possibly trust that glaring dishonesty and hypocrisy?
My favorite one is the recent decision of the FDA where they tried to stop the Freedom of Information Act releasing information about COVID for 55 years about the vaccines.
It's like the guy, not the Attorney, I guess it is, the U.S. Attorney General, who's got his fingers in the books that goes to the education system.
His son-in-law runs the books that are being sold to the education systems across America, and he's banning alternative education material because his son-in-law has a deal with the teachers' union.
In my heart I hear that man sing So I climb up his mountain And I shout it out loud Cause I got a dream I swear to God And I never stop believing And I can't Stop dreaming And
I know Many gave all On my knees I humbly fall I see the crosses And old glory And that's why nothing Will ever stop me.