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Chapters:
0:00 Tucker’s Speech
34:02 Tucker Introduces Kid Rock
35:46 Kid Rock’s Election Predictions
43:15 What Is Trump Really Like?
51:43 Diddy Arrest
57:54 How Is Nashville?
1:07:44 Kid Rock’s Secret to Success
1:10:07 The History and Future of Michigan
1:14:15 Politicians Are Not Celebrities
1:17:53 What Really Annoys Kid Rock?
1:21:14 Would Kid Rock Moderate the Next Debate?
1:24:45 Kid Rock’s Favorite Form of Entertainment
This is our 10th city, and we're going coast to coast in the month of September on the theory that it's a beautiful country, and if you live here and plan to die here, you should see it.
And also on the theory that, you know, everything's censored, but you can't censor a live event.
So that has really...
But of all the places we've been, and this is totally sincere, I am especially grateful to be in Grand Rapids.
And so then I wake up one morning and I'm like, who is running that state?
And it really is kind of a metaphor for everything, really for the entire country.
You know, if you read about Michigan, I mean, I come here a lot because of all my wife's family here and all our friends here.
And one of my favorite people in Michigan is going to be joining us in just a minute.
One of the great boosters of Michigan, trust me.
I've been to a lot of places with Kid Rock.
And wherever he is, he is representing the state of Michigan at full volume.
Really, they ought to give him a...
The tourist bureau ought to give him a commission because he is the most loyal son the state has ever produced.
But anyway, if you read about the state, you're like, wow, that place is really screwed up.
And then you come here and you don't meet a single...
Every single person you meet in the state of Michigan is kind and straightforward and nice and loves his family and musky fishing and all the good things.
Who are all these people who are allowing someone like Gretchen Whitmer or Dana Nessel Like, who actually voted for Dana Nessel?
It was like Bill de Blasio in New York, the city of eight million people.
You couldn't find a single one who admitted voting for the guy.
And he got, you may not even know who that is, but he was a spectacularly stupid mayor that they had.
This is really just unbelievable.
People, like Whitmer, like Whitmer, but without the facelift.
But like Whitmer, it's totally right.
I'll never forget during COVID, because I've been a booster of your state, and I can point on my hand where things are, and I know what the UP is, and I am kind of an adopted son of the state.
I've shot a bunch of your birds, I've caught a ton of your fish, I married one of your girls, like I am basically from Michigan.
And I remember someone saying to me once, like, The governor of Michigan, Gretchen something, who I think is actually from Grand Rapids area, amazingly, banned the sale of paint in paint stores, I'll never forget this, during COVID. And I was like, that's obviously an urban myth.
That's a legend.
That's like they're eating the pets in Springfield, Ohio.
Yeah, no planting flowers during a global pandemic.
You knew that!
That's just like basic epidemiology!
So I remember saying, clearly something has been lost in the translation that's not really real.
She didn't really do that.
Because I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, obviously.
No one's that stupid.
And then you wouldn't, like, keep everyone in the state indoors but let your husband go off to your cottage and go fishing at a boat rental that was closed to everybody else.
Like, you wouldn't do that, would you?
Because that would really just be, like, giving the finger to the entire state, the people who vote for you.
And then you look it up and you're like, actually, like the pet eating, totally true.
And so then the question arises, well, how did this happen?
So we learned two things, okay?
The first thing is, the leaders of a place, whether it's a state or a town or a country, do not necessarily reflect the people they lead or who live there at all.
In other words, you can have a place that's amazing, that's great on every level.
It's incredibly beautiful, as this state genuinely is.
You could have, like, the best people in the entire country, and they can be led by, like, a brain-dead robot who bans paint sales in the name of COVID protection.
Like, that happens.
You can't judge a place by its leaders, which itself is a kind of challenge to the idea of a constitutional republic or a democracy.
Because, of course, the core idea is the people rule.
It's their country.
It's their city.
It's their state.
It's their neighborhood.
It's their nation.
And the people who run it aren't kings or queens or archdukes.
It's not even a military junta.
It's just a bunch of ordinary people who are serving at the pleasure of the population.
They're the employees.
It's like you're a housekeeper, but maybe less talented.
But still you're an employee.
And if you catch them stealing or being creepy, you can just can them.
Sorry, you work for me.
Out of here, honey.
You know what I mean?
Learn to paint houses.
So, how could it be that leaders don't reflect the essential character of a place?
That's anti-democratic.
I mean, in other words, when you come to Michigan, if the democracy is functioning as intended, you would expect to find millions upon millions of little Gretchen Whitmers.
Dumb people with facelifts saying nonsensical things.
But that's the opposite of what you find.
So what does that tell you?
It tells you the system is not working as intended.
Okay, so that's the first thing you learn.
And the second thing you learn is that there's a reason for that.
And that's that people who are not with the program may be mad, but they're not actually voting.
They're not actually voting.
Now, why is that?
Well, I think I know.
And I'm not here to scold anybody.
I mean, trust me, there have been many times where I'm like, I know the people running for office.
A little bit too well to vote for them.
Or you just feel like, what does it matter?
The system's fake.
Obviously, in 2020, you never saw a single Joe Biden.
Joe Biden didn't even exist, actually.
He's like a hologram at this point.
But in 2020, you're like, I never met a single person who's voting for, quote, Joe Biden.
And he got over a billion votes.
He got more votes, or maybe more than that.
I think he got more votes than the population of the Earth.
And you're like, you look at that, and oh, don't say fake, that's not allowed.
By the way, that's not on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia says it was totally on the level, therefore it must be.
To this day, if you go on a Google product, YouTube, you're not allowed to question the last election, which is usually a sign.
Whenever someone tells you you're not allowed to have an opinion, it's pretty near proof that that opinion is true.
They're not banning lies in this country, trust me.
There's no penalty for lying.
When was the last time someone got busted for lying?
Do you remember?
That's no longer a crime.
They'd lie to you from the podium every single day.
The Biden administration's illiterate spokesperson, you can't understand what she's saying, but you can be certain because her lips are moving that all of it is untrue, but she will never be held to account.
Tony Fauci still has a Secret Service detail.
Do you have...
Yeah, boo.
Yeah.
The only people protecting him should be prison guards.
I mean, honestly.
Yeah, boo.
Boo is right.
So obviously there's no penalty for lying.
So if they're telling you you can't say something, take it to the bank.
Bet your house what you're saying is true.
And that's why they hate it.
Because it's a threat to their lies.
Right?
So, I mean, this is all very obvious.
You don't need to be a political scientist or a college graduate, which I'm not, to understand the basic dynamics in life, which is honest people are not afraid of different opinions.
They're not afraid of your opinion.
The only people who are afraid of talking are people with something to hide.
And what they're afraid of is that you might expose them.
That's, of course, exactly why they hate Trump.
It has nothing to do with his program.
Trump's, like, the least radical person in the world.
Trump's, like, completely moderate, actually.
But that's not what they care about.
What they care about is Trump's irrepressible tendency to say things that are not on the script.
They don't trust Trump not to tell the truth.
You know, you can write a 10,000-word speech for Trump, but you can't be certain that right in the middle of it, he won't be like, and another thing!
And then tell the truth about you.
So if you're trying to hide something really, really obvious, like, I don't know, you murdered Jeffrey Epstein or something.
As if nobody knows.
Really?
Epstein didn't kill himself?
Are you serious?
Right.
Everybody already knows that.
But the people who did it are really worried and did a million other things.
Oh, it wasn't safe and effective?
Seriously?
They're worried that Trump will just go off script and tell the truth.
They are not worried.
They're always like, oh, Trump's such a liar.
He's such a liar.
He bragged about his crowd size or his hands.
It's like, no, no, no.
That's not why you hate Trump.
If he was a liar, you'd love him.
You'd vote for him.
No.
You're worried that he will accidentally tell the truth about you.
And so...
Sorry, speaking of getting far afield.
And so...
You're not allowed to question the 2020 election, but I think, just like you're not allowed to question the COVID vax, what else are you not allowed to question?
Just like you can't question human-caused climate change or whatever you can't question.
You can't question for a reason.
Boy, this is a sporty crowd.
Go Grand Rapids!
I love it!
People don't vote because they look at all of this and they're like, you know, what's the point?
The system is fake.
They do think that.
I find myself feeling that way at times.
Well, of course it's fake.
But it doesn't mean your vote doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean you couldn't overwhelm them to such a degree they couldn't steal it.
You could, actually.
And especially now.
Because something wild is happening that nobody is talking about, and I almost never talk about politics because it Well, I don't know that much about it, to be completely honest.
Having spent my life around it, I understand it less than I ever have.
I couldn't tell you how many electoral votes your state has, you know, just being honest.
20?
16?
Okay, that sounds about right.
16, okay.
So there are political experts here.
But here's what I noticed.
One of the reasons I don't get too into the weeds or the facts of electoral politics is sometimes it obscures the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture, as far as I'm concerned, just as an observer of it, and as someone who's traveled across the country in the last few weeks, is that there is some kind of weird and huge realignment going on.
Massive realignment going on.
And it's not your imagination at all.
I mean, Kid Rock's coming up on stage.
I mean, the guy...
Entertainers didn't used to do stuff like this before crowds like this.
Two nights ago, we had...
Bobby Kennedy on.
And I've always liked Bobby Kennedy because he's a sportsman.
You know, he's an outdoorsman.
He's a hunter and a fisherman, you know, and I like people like that.
But Bobby Kennedy was always like a liberal partisan Democrat.
Actually, his name is Bobby Kennedy.
Bobby Kennedy.
And so, you know, I never thought I'd wind up in a place where he had vigorously, in a heartfelt way, endorsed Donald Trump, was promising to work as a part of the Trump administration, help with the transition, become a cabinet secretary, all of which I hope happens, and then be greeted by a crowd of people who are probably going to vote for Trump as a hero.
What?
And what does that tell you?
It's not just about Bobby Kennedy, who I think is an extraordinary and an incredibly brave person.
It tells you that the categories that we've grown up with and that have been used to describe what's happening in our country are lies.
And they're designed to mislead us about the truth.
And what they're designed to convey is the idea that the country is much more divided than it actually is.
That's what I notice.
If I experience what's happening in America on my phone, which unfortunately I do, I live at the other end of the country in a really rural area, and I don't know what's going on in America, so I look at my stupid phone, and I see an unending litany of sad stories about how much Americans hate each other.
You know, on the basis of politics, especially on the basis of race, but gender to men.
Women hate each other.
Black people and white people hate each other.
Democrats and Republicans hate each other.
It's all a bunch of hate.
And then you get actually out into the country, and I don't know where that's taking place, but know where I've been.
This is my tent city.
No one has ever come up to me.
Not one time.
I've been like, I hate you for your skin color.
You hate me for your skin color.
I hate you for your...
No one ever says anything like that.
Everybody's really nice.
I don't know where all the hateful people are.
I mean, I do know they exist.
I guess they're all in the Biden administration.
But they don't seem to be wandering around the strip malls of America or the coffee shops or the hotel lobbies or all the places I've been.
I never meet them at the airport.
Occasionally if I go skiing in Jackson, Wyoming, and there are a lot of...
Rich ladies waiting in the lift line.
If you're at the Mangy Moose, no, that Mangy Moose is fine, but if you go into the Four Seasons for the Elk Chili, there's always some, like, angry woman with a facelift, like, mad at you.
Racist!
All right.
So there's, like, one hundredth of the population who are super, super unhappy, possibly having an affair with the yoga instructor, who are married to finance guys who are really, really angry.
Not possibly, certainly.
And they're really angry, but I don't see that anywhere else.
Ever.
And so then you think, well, wait a second.
If the experience that I have wandering around the country I was born in bears no resemblance to what I'm told, then maybe that's not the only lie they're telling me.
And maybe most people do not hate each other, despite the best efforts of the people running the country to make them hate each other.
For like 60 years.
All of American history taught from elementary school through postgraduate is designed to make you think that Americans hate each other on the basis of race.
That's the whole point of it.
It is.
I'm not going to use the naughty word you just used, but I endorse it completely.
It was a synonym for false, and that's exactly what it is.
It's false.
That is not true.
But you think about it for a second, it's like, why would they be telling you that?
And then you think about the sort of person who would want a population to hate each other.
And that's like the darkest thing you could ever want for people.
And if you're a parent, you know that.
If you're a parent, the most important thing to you is that your children love each other.
That's the most important thing.
Because they're your children.
You're in charge of them.
And when you die, all you leave behind...
All that remains of your family, all that exists of your life is the love between your children.
That's where your memory lives, is in the love that they have for each other.
That's the most important thing, and it's the most natural thing.
You don't need to have read a parenting book or be Dr. Spock to want something like that.
You just have to be a normal human being with a normal love for people.
And that's true, by the way, for leaders of all organizations, from the family, the smallest to most important.
To the workplace, to the military unit, to the state, to the country.
Leaders, decent leaders, normal leaders, want the people they lead to love each other.
Only a sick and evil leader would intentionally sow hatred between the people he leads.
Period.
That's not political.
That's not wrong.
That is evil.
That's the definition of evil.
Inspiring people to hate each other is the definition of evil.
There is no clearer sign.
And by the way, that's so unnatural that it's supernatural.
That's exactly what that is.
You are acting on behalf of unnatural forces if you are convincing the people you lead to hate each other.
And that's exactly what your governor and particularly your Attorney General Dana Nessel are doing in this state.
And that's what the Biden administration is doing.
It's what all of our leaders are doing and have been for a long time.
And it's not working!
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It doesn't appear to be working.
If Americans believed the things they hear about each other and their country, they would have been in a permanent race war like 50 years ago.
You wouldn't be able to drive from New York to Los Angeles.
There'd be roadblocks of people with guns.
It'd be Lebanon.
But it's the opposite of that.
And so that tells you just once again that the country itself, which means its people, And it's dogs.
Dogs are a reflection of the people and we have the best dogs.
And whenever I talk about Michigan, I'm like, there are actually two sides to it, and the West Coast is way nicer!
But the truth is, there are super nice people over there, too, and Northern Michigan is just like a wonder.
It's incredible.
And none of you deserve your leaders.
None of you.
I don't care.
It's true.
Even the people who vote for them don't deserve them, if I can just say.
You often hear, we get the leaders we deserve.
That's a total lie.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
And you see that around the world.
I've been in plenty of countries with horrible leaders.
Those people don't deserve them.
Nobody deserves leaders like that.
And so I did hear of something really cool today.
I've never done anything like this, but I'm going to do it now.
There's actually a website in the state of Michigan where you can find people who probably would vote for the candidate you're voting for, but don't vote.
And you can look them up.
The voter rolls are right there.
It's called 10X Votes.
And you can go on there and just contact people you know and be like, hey, by the way, we don't deserve this.
These people are horrible.
And we're not horrible.
We're great.
And if you're frustrated with these people, even if you don't think the system works, even if you think it's all fake, even if you think they're going to steal it in the end, that's not exactly true.
You can overwhelm their malintent by your voting.
And at the very least, you can give them the largest middle finger ever wagged in the face of anybody by voting against him.
I do think it's important.
Yeah, that finger, the one you just waved.
That's right.
I'm not going to do that because it's wrong.
But I do love that gesture because it's just, I don't trust, I'm in the word business and I don't really trust words anymore.
I'm not going to do that.
Kid Rock's about to be here.
He literally has that painted on the tail of his plane.
If my Michigan-born wife saw me hoisting the middle finger in front of some of her relatives who are in this room tonight, she would look at me with a pained face.
In that squeaky and adorable and honestly kind of sexy Michigan accent.
And say to me, that's not very nice!
My wife always says to me in her Michigan accent, you don't hate anybody!
I don't want to admit that actually I kind of do.
Anyway, so before I bring Kid Rock out, I would just...
We've actually thought about even moving here over the years.
I'm telling you, we would have walleye day if I... But the two things I would keep in mind if I lived here, the two things I would keep in mind, is that actually the people of your state are great.
Your state is great.
Your state is beautiful.
I would not let them tell you otherwise.
You know, even Detroit's a little better than they say.
I'm in Florida a lot, and you meet an awful lot of people from Michigan.
I know.
And they're like, oh yeah, we moved to Florida.
We couldn't deal with it.
And you're like, I get it.
I get it.
But, I don't know.
Stay and fight.
I guess that's what I would say.
It's worth it.
That's the first thing I would remember.
And the second thing I would remember is that you're not crazy.
You're not crazy.
They spend all their time trying to convince you it's such a psyop.
You're crazy!
I'm crazy?
Have you ever seen Dana Nessel?
That?
Talk about crazy eyes.
By the way, if you have time, like when you get home tonight, you got your iPhone, if you don't know who Dana Nessel is, I mean, you should, because she has a big effect on your state, type in her face into Google Images and just, like, expand it and look at her eyes.
Whoa!
If you've ever trapped a raccoon in the garage with a broom...
And, like, you go through life like, oh, raccoons are so cute, and their little hands, they kind of have opposable thumbs, and their little, like, rubber mask eyes, and they're so cute.
You ever catch one in the garage eating dog food at night?
Whoa.
You realize this is a vicious animal.
Just bite your face off, right?
And you know from their eyes, and Dana Nessel has those eyes.
So for Dana Nessel to be calling you crazy, are you joking?
Uh, no.
You're not the crazy ones.
And that is the beauty of an event like this, is you get to be in a room and you can feel it.
Even if you don't talk to anybody, you can feel the vibe.
I can feel it.
Backstage, one of the people I traveled with from Maine said to me, oh, do you feel the vibe out there?
We're good people.
You can literally feel it. - And what that tells you is that the things that you want, like decent schools and roads without holes in them, and the ability to walk to the grocery store without getting mugged, and like an inflation rate that's under 12%, and maybe a little cottage you share with your cousins up north, like just sort of normal things.
Maybe a little continuity.
Maybe the right to live in a state that's not completely different from the state you grew up in?
That's a right, actually.
They're always inventing rights.
You have a right to this, you have a right to that, which usually means you're getting nothing, okay?
Yeah.
Oh, I'm aware, baby.
And I'm aware.
And again, you use profanity, but I'm with you, okay?
But there is a right that every person has, which is to be a little bit insulated from having their state invaded and changed overnight, actually.
Sorry.
It's just true.
You shouldn't wake up in a place where you were born and not recognized.
Everything's totally different.
All the attitudes are different.
The people are different.
The economy is totally different.
That's like an act of violence against you, actually.
That's not the promise of America.
The promise of America is...
That things get a little better.
Not maybe radically better, but your kids have a shot at a little better life than you had.
That's the American dream.
The American dream is not that you wake up and you don't even recognize this place.
And you know for a fact that your kids are not going to be going to the little cottage they share with their cousins up north.
They're not going to be able to afford a house.
That's the opposite of the American dream.
So I guess what I'm saying is what you want is totally sensible and moderate.
And reasonable and human and basic.
It's not crazy.
It's not asking for like a fleet of helicopters or free ice cream.
They're the free ice cream party.
You just kind of want to go to the grocery store without getting mugged or going broke.
And they tell you that you're insane because you're against like, I don't know, castrating children.
I think Trump's going to kick their ass, honestly.
I don't...
It reminds me of 2016. I mean, I literally went to bed like a lot of people that night, you know, pulling for Trump on his team, you know, being very vocal.
I was like, I'm going to bed.
And without a lot of faith.
I mean, all the polls told you this.
They had you convinced if you looked at any television.
Like, there's no way.
He was a joke since he came down the elevator.
You know, and so were a lot of us that supported him since he came down that elevator and still been getting shit till this day.
Well, in the interview that you're referring to, Kamala Harris, like the big fact of the debate, from my perspective, was the fact that Kamala Harris owns a gun.
I don't know why, and I don't want to be unfair or whatever, but every time I see him talk, I think of that scene from Airplane where the pilot's like...
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I think if there's one thing I'd say about Trump that I don't think he gets credit for and really deserves credit for, I think he's one of the funniest people I've ever met in my entire life.
Everything that comes out of my mouth or the decisions I make, I take responsibility for it all.
It's me.
There's no filters in there.
But when it came, it was like, you know, there's going to be no corporate deals to set any other.
And I'm like, good.
I'm like, I'm so sick of dealing with those.
I'll try not to curse so much, you know.
And the BS that goes on in these corporate things, and I've only aligned myself with...
You know, things that Coors Light had to deal with them.
Had to deal with Jim Beam.
Had to deal with Harley Davidson and Chevy Trucks.
It's like these are all things that, you know, I was involved in.
But still, even though I used all those things like dealing with the corporate bullshit, I was like, yeah, if I never see that again, I could care less.
And there's no amount of money on the face of this earth, because I've turned down tons of it, that would ever get me to be vocal or be somebody I'm not.
And then people would see somebody different than who I really am.
Like, it was some straight hip-hop shit, like, you know.
And I was really this nerdy little kind of...
You know, white skateboarding kid, you know, that came from a really nice middle-upper-class family from Romeo, Michigan.
But I'm like, you know, thank you.
I'm very proud of that.
And my friends would kind of be like, man, what's the matter with him?
That boy's confused.
Like, you know, and then when I would kind of just be myself and I'd kind of have on my nerdy painter's cap and my skateboard gear and I'm doing my DJing, like...
Okay, so you now spend part of the year, obviously you're still in Michigan a lot of the year, but you're also in Nashville, which is really the center of the music business.
And everybody in the business seems to live there.
I said for years, there's no way I will ever live out of Michigan.
Ever.
Right?
I live in Nashville now, and I'll tell you why.
I'm still up in Charlevoix all summer long.
But, you know, I never thought I would have another residence from Michigan.
I figured, you know, I'd die a Michigan resident.
That's just the way it was.
And, you know, have other homes because I've worked hard and been blessed.
My son, you know, went to school.
I raised him in Clarkston, Michigan.
He went to Orchard Lake, St. Mary's.
And then he went to college at a small Christian school called Belmont.
Had my granddaughter while in college with his eighth grade sweetheart.
They eventually got married.
I have my second grandson now.
But after he finished college, he was in Nashville for several months.
And I'm like...
And I always had a condo down there, kind of like a little party house.
And it was no fun.
And so I finally, you know, I'm like, well, son, I'm like, when are you coming back to Michigan to, you know, learn how to sweep the floors and maybe figure it out and work your way up and run one of these businesses?
He's like, I'm not coming back.
I'm not coming back to Detroit.
I'm not coming back to Michigan.
I'm like, you're not coming back to the Mecca of Detroit?
I'm like, hmm.
I'm like...
Okay.
Alright, I'll be right there.
So, my son and my grandkids, Robin in Nashville, and it's been great, but there's nothing but Michigan in my heart till I die.
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I mean, Nashville's a lot more conservative, obviously, from the country music scene.
But honestly, I mean...
I hang out with everybody.
I could care, you know.
I mean, there's a short movie thing.
I don't know if anybody's seen it.
Did it years ago with Sean Penn.
It's called Americans.
It's on YouTube.
And it's about, you know, thinking differently, having completely different political views, and how basically thinking differently is what made this country great.
You know, I'm still going to hold my views, you're going to hold yours, but we can find more in common at the end of the day.
You know, there's some things I'm just not going to budge on, and some people, you know, like, old Democrats didn't scare me, blue dog Democrats, we called them.
You know what I mean?
Like Al Gore's from Nashville.
Like Robert Kennedy Jr., if he would have ran and got elected.
It doesn't scare me.
It's these frickin' weirdos.
far-left Marxist, borderline communist freaks, socialist weirdos that creep me out.
Are there still, I mean, sincere question, I don't know the answer, but there used to be, you know, for generations, 100 years, Union Democrats in the state of Michigan who were like pro-America, hunters, fishermen, Union Democrats in the state of Michigan who were like pro-America, hunters, fishermen, masculine actually, and they were Democrats because that's what the UAW did.
The problem with the common sense laws is, like, I'm a common sense person.
Like, I can talk to some of my, call them left-wing friends, and they, like, suggest these things.
I'm like...
Okay, that makes sense, right?
You know, about being responsible to lock your gun up or keep it out of the reach of children.
Like, I get it.
Absolutely.
Problem is if they implement that into law.
The way I see it, these dumb shit attorneys that draw up all these bills, they'll flip this wording so freaking bad around that they'll take advantage of these laws and it will keep going like this and take and take and take.
If we had sensible people, Everything would be fine.
But, you know, you got people that scam on everything.
They scam on their insurance.
They scam on this.
It's the guy that, you know, when you're in line to get off and he comes around and cuts right in.
It's these people, you know.
There's tons of them everywhere and they screw everything up for everybody.
You know what I mean?
So you just can't have so many just decent common things, you know, in line.
You know, looking over your shoulder, scared about what you said, you know, might offend somebody and they might kill you.
I mean, it reminds me, like, when my sister, you know, when I got money and she controls a lot of my business stuff, was like, you have to get rid of your diving board.
I'm like, what?
She's like, the insurance won't, you know, I'm like, that's enough.
I had enough of this shit.
Kids want to jump on diving boards and out of pools.
Someone might crack their head and if they sue me and take everything I got, fuck it.
So I do want to ask you, I've thought this of you many times, but you've been in this like 30 years.
And most people who've been in your business, the rock and roll business, touring entertainers, artists, I mean, if they're still alive, they're in worse shape than you are.
You know, my son kept me very grounded being a single father.
My mom kept me in check, making me be...
As good a father as I could be, also helping me out.
But, you know, her and his godparents, my sister, our cleaning lady, my production manager's mother, who had so many good people around to help me raise my son.
You know, it chokes me up.
But that right there, that only allowed me to be an idiot from, like, Thursday to Sunday morning.
Whatever it was back then, you know, people, man, we can go work up there and make money and be treated pretty decently, you know, even though it was pretty horrible in those factories back then to a lot of these people coming from the South after this time, you know, dark period in our history.
And they came up here and, you know, you get off the plant at 3 o'clock or whatever, you go play the bars, you know, or vice versa.
Get off at a certain time.
And you had all this melting pot of people come from everywhere to come from this industrial revolution.
I think the combination of that, you know, from having, you know, jazz and blues here.
Oh, man, this is a tough one, too, to be talking about family, but...
That's like, most of these people are, like, divorced, overweight, pissed off at the world, angry at every man alive, and my gut tells me those are the women that voted for her.
I'm sick of every politician on every side thinking they're a fucking celebrity.
You know what I mean?
When the celebrities should really be the people who fight and die for this country, who keep their mouths shut and do their job, go to work every day.
And then you got these politicians who are like, well, I just got an office and I wrote a book and, you know, I got a job at Fox News now and I'm on CNN and I'm over here and I think I'm a big deal.
Want a selfie with me?
It's like, you're supposed to be doing a service to your country.
And the reason we can't get any good people is because it's like when people say about Trump, he said, grab him by the pussy.
Whatever.
We're not electing the deacon of the church, alright?
You want someone who's going to keep you safe, going to lower your taxes?
You know what I mean?
It's going to protect you and your family values?
And there's nobody in here.
Cast the first stone.
He has no sin.
You know what I mean?
We all got some dirt somewhere.
You know, you run for office and they're going to dig it up and they're going to drag you through the mud and punish your family and your friends.
Who would want that job?
We have some of the smartest people, the smartest people in this country that I guarantee you would give two, four, six years, eight years of their life to make this a better place.
To say, like, I've been very successful.
If I can sacrifice, which I think Trump has done.
Didn't take a paycheck when he's in office.
He's a freaking billionaire.
He's got a hot wife.
He's got real estate all over the world.
And he's like, no!
Let me run for president!
Somebody take a shot at me!
You know what I mean?
Try and kill me because I want to help this country out.
I mean, if that's not conviction, I don't know what is.
No, and I think he said that the other night on Gutfeld, which I thought was great.
I actually told him, I actually told him, I said, sir, I go, in that setting with several people, you know, that are smart, funny, I go, you shine like a diamond.
You know what I mean?
It's just not talking policy over and over again.
I go, you were funny, engaging, you still had your points.
I mean, if you don't know what Trump's policies are right now, you must live in a freaking cave.
You know what I mean?
We understand what he wants to do.
This is the first time, I know I'm getting off track, but I tell people, I was talking to some people in my band today at rehearsal.
Some of them are Democrats.
Some of them are gay.
I don't give a shit.
I'm like, but it's fun to have discussions.
And the way I broke it down to one of my band members was like, You know, just think of it like this.
This is one of the only times in our lifetime, certainly, and I think it's only happened twice before.
I have to fact check me.
But where you have, forget, you don't even need these people, Kamala Harris or Trump, to say anything.
Well, if you'd like to see, you know, how it really goes, I should moderate a debate.
I mean, can you imagine if we just talked like everyday people And I know everyday people don't all use curse words, but I mean, my mom says the F word at this point.
Like, you know what I mean?
And that was a word, if you said at my house growing up, you were running out.
Because if not, you were touching your toes and getting the paddle.
You know, if you could just sit there and you're like, that's horse shit!
The first ten minutes I thought about it, I go, I've never been on a stage this long with a microphone with this many people and not been covered in sweat from head to toe.
you like them both alright before you go tell us I mean what you do for pure entertainment I I mean, I haven't seen video of you shooting consumer products.
Dining room that's elevated, and my house overlooks the whole city of Nashville, and I put this floor in, and it spins, like one of them hotels, you know, I used to go to, and I'm like, I'm like, what the hell am I going to do with all this money?
I'm like, I got it.
The floor that spins.
Like, bam!
Nailed it.
And so we call it the spinner dinner.
And friends or family come over, and it's only eight seats.