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Ted Nugent has a voice in America unlike most any other you've ever heard before. And I'm really looking forward to this. Now, one of the great privileges I had members of being a member of Congress and then doing stuff with Fox is I get to meet these really cool people along the way. And one of them that I it's almost surreal for me to meet him, let alone interact with him and trade texts with him and do that kind of stuff is his
is Ted Nugent. Ted loves his country. Now, he also is an incredible musician. He loves his country. He loves Michigan. He loves hunting. He loves the flag. He loves the Second Amendment. And we're going to have a discussion with Ted about growing up, what it was like for him, how he's kind of helped change the world. Because you got to remember,
The guy has sold something like 40 million records along the way. He's done thousands. I think it's 6,700 concerts along the way. And he is still going strong as ever. And, uh,
If you're familiar with his music, then you're going to know Cat Scratch Fever and some of those big hits. If you're not familiar, just go wherever you listen to music and pull it up, listen to a song or two, and you'll find out that guy knows how to play and put together a song. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the discussion with Ted Nugent. But we've got to talk through some things in the news, and there's always somebody doing something stupid somewhere, so we'll highlight that.
and then get to the conversation with Ted Nugent. But let's start with the news. Find it fascinating that Vice President Harris has selected Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, to be his running mate, to be her running mate. And I happen to serve in Congress with Tim Walz. I will tell you on a personal level, if you were to walk up to him, shake his hand, see him in the hall,
Buy a sandwich by a nice guy. And I do appreciate his service in the military. I think that's great. But you'd also very quickly realize that he is one of the most progressive, far left kind of San Francisco type liberals that there is. He's a good fit for
If you're in that progressive ultra left radical model, in many ways, he's kind of a mirror of Kamala Harris. What's interesting about this choice for vice president is normally you do it when you want to expand the map. You want to be able to create a compelling case like this.
Donald Trump did by picking J.D. Vance. You know, J.D. Vance, his deep roots in the so-called Rust Belt of key states that are on the electoral map. J.D. Vance helps make that case. He's a guy who pulled up, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, got this iconic American story. He served as a Marine. He's got he checks a lot of boxes. Tim Walz.
You know, maybe not so much. Seems to be very, very similar to what Kamala Harris is because she is the most liberal person to ever run for the presidency of the United States.
Interestingly, they're very quiet. They're very hidden in the bunker. You never really see them. And let's remember the two times that I can think of off the top of my head where Tim Walz, the governor, has partnered with Kamala Harris. One was the riots. If you go back to the riots in, I believe it was 2020, that were happening there.
It was unbelievable. Minnesota, as much as anywhere, is on fire. And literally, the riots were just tearing apart Minneapolis and some of the suburbs. And they didn't do a whole lot to quash it. They just kind of let it play itself out. And it ruined a lot of people's businesses. People were hurt. The flames, the footage you're going to inevitably see.
And when I say team up with Kamala Harris, because a number of people were arrested and Kamala Harris was over there raising money to bail these, help get these people bailed out and back out on the streets as fast as possible. And then she did this interview with Stephen Colbert, who
And talked about this is not going to stop. We're going to keep going. This is the right thing to do. And that is just so foreign to me here in this country. You have the right to petition your government. You have the right to protest your government, but not violently, which is what was happening in Minnesota. And Kamala Harris was hand in glove with Tim Walz.
The other thing that we saw Tim Walz do is the governor went to the White House. He was part of the group of governors that went and met with Joe Biden for an hour plus and walked out there, walked to the microphone and told us everything's good with Joe Biden.
What kind of lie was that? Was that the truth? Is Joe Biden in good physical condition with a great mental capacity at this point? I think most people would say, no, that's not the case. Yet he met with them, went before the microphones and just told the American people, oh, he's doing great. No issues here.
That turned out to be a total fabrication. So that'll tell you a lot about Tim Walz as you kind of get to know him. That is the big news. There's also major, major problems happening with Iran and what's going on in the Middle East in the attacks. The volatility in the Middle East, you cannot ignore because it is affecting the homeland in a big, big way.
I've just put that in contrast to the times of Donald Trump. There were no wars that were started. There was no volatility. We were actually signing peace accords between some usual countries of conflict, and they were signing peace deals with Israel.
The Abraham Accords were doing that, and it happened under Donald Trump's leadership. It wouldn't have happened otherwise, and we didn't have the problem with Russia and going into Ukraine, all of those things. So when you look at the big issues of the day and summarize where we're at, I'm going back to the selection of Tim Walz. We have an inflation problem. We have an economic problem.
You saw the volatility in the markets. We have an international crisis on our hands. We have a border problem. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, between the two of them, is there any experience in dealing with the biggest issues of this day? I don't think so. That, I think, is driving the news as much as anything. It'll be interesting to see the Democrats totally on script. Steven Spielberg literally involved and engaged in making them look like
as presidential as possible. But let's see if we can give these people microphones and answer impromptu questions. I don't think you're ever going to see Kamala Harris even attempt to do that. That's where she's always, always gotten herself into trouble. All right, let's bring on the stupid because, you know, there's always somebody doing something stupid somewhere.
All right. The award this time has to go to none other than Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, the congresswoman from California. Are you kidding me? She thinks that Joe Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in the history of the United States, so much so that she wants to see him on Mount Rushmore.
Joe Biden on Mount Rushmore? Can you, I mean, can you stop giggling with the smile and roll of the eyes? Are you kidding me? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You walk up to most people around the country and say, what's the biggest accomplishment of Joe Biden? Crickets. Crickets. Crickets.
Every single metric on the biggest issues of our day is going the wrong direction. And you're going to tell me that Joe Biden is worthy of being up on Mount Rushmore? I don't think so. That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
All right. Time to bring on Ted Nugent. Ted, an American icon, just an amazing guy. Look forward to this discussion. Let's bring on Ted Nugent. I'm ready. We're rolling. Ted, you ready to roll? Roll it, baby. I'm live. Full disclosure, I texted Ted, said, hey, brother, we got to keep it clean. You know, this goes out on the radio as well as the podcast. And what did you tell me?
Well, it's true. I'm like Mother Teresa with a Glock. Ted, you're as pure American as about anybody I've had the pleasure of meeting and interacting with. Your love of country and God and everything else, it's just like to your core.
Well, thank you for that. My parents raised me to appreciate freedom, and in my world travels, I've seen where people don't have freedom, and they're like zombies. They're incomplete human beings, and only in a...
an experiment in self-government can you be a complete person. And I cherish that every day. And Jason, as you know, I've cultivated and been blessed and humbled and honored to have a relationship with the military heroes since the mid-60s when I discovered how you need to wage war against evil and warriors would accomplish that on our behalf based on the sacred constitutional oath that they take. And so my Nugent family campfires are...
We have the best people in the world and they're the military heroes, the law enforcement I trained with this afternoon, the first responders. So there are warriors. I call them fire breathers. They charge into disasters and dangerous conditions so that we can be free. So I cherish that and I fight for it every day. Well, you've got this energy level that just exudes. I mean, look, you're one of the greatest rockers this country's ever had. For those of you that aren't familiar with the stats,
Ted Nugent sold more than 40 million albums. You've done more than 6,900 concerts. And you pour your passion out every time. I still remember growing up. This is why it's such an honor listening to Cat Scratch Fever and those other songs of yours. It's just you've had quite a life. Yeah, I really have. I attribute that once again to the parenting, my mom and dad. Where did you grow up? Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Detroit when it was the arsenal of democracy right after World War II. I was born in 1948. And a combination between just traditional family values, God, family, country, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments, Golden Rule, Declaration of Independence, work ethic, law and order, you know, all that radical stuff. According to Kamala Harris, you're pretty weird, you know.
Yeah, I'm so weird. I'm like in the image and likeness of God. I'm so weird. So, but growing up, did you have brothers, sisters? What was life like growing up? Well, it was wonderful. I mean, I didn't think so at the time because my dad was such a disciplinarian. We didn't like that because we had to be in when the streetlights went on and the other kids were out playing. But a combination of that loving, nurturing, disciplining, guidance,
raised in a Christian environment, going to Catholic schools and the regimentation, the discipline, again, the big D. It's kryptonite to the left, but it's the quality of life guidelines for the rest of us. And my dad was already a bow hunter. He hunted deer with a bow and arrow based on the escape from the pain and the ugliness of World War II that he served valiantly in.
And we would go north every fall. And of course, I was born right along the Rouge River in Detroit, which was just teeming with wildlife and game, big game and songbirds. I learned all about songbirds. So I was turned on to that natural healing power of nature, along with the healing power of Chuck Berry Guitar Lake.
So it was a combination of my bow hunting conservation life and the uppity, outrageous, dare I say, irreverent, defiant, wonderful soundtrack of the great black heroes that created that great soundtrack. So the discipline of archery, which is a martial art,
You have to not just aim small, miss small, but you have to really become one with your God-given gifts. So your left hand, your right hand, your eyes and your lungs and your spirit and everything God gave you can go to put that arrow or your life wherever you want it. Now you apply that to learning guitar, which is really difficult.
and trying to duplicate Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and the energy of Little Richard and James Brown and Wilson Pickett and the Motown Funk Brothers in the environment I was raised in. And it was really nature, hunting, archery, work. You had to
earn your own way. We all had chores. We all had to work. So it was really such self-evident truth, guidelines that stuck with me. And I'll tell you, Jason, you meet my sons and daughters, my band, my crew, my grandkids, my amazing wife, Shemaine. Holy smokes.
All my inner circle, my guides, I have a guiding, outfitting, hunting operation. All my guides, all the families that share campfires with me every weekend for four months, five months, a year. And the reminder that the truth, logic, and common sense that I salute you for celebrating and forcing into the forefront
That's what we've dedicated our lives to, but it's not your truth, logic, and common sense, Jason. It's not my truth, logic, and common sense. It's self-evident truth, logic, and common sense. So I just answered that question, taking it from birth all the way to the fall hunting season of 2024, and those basic guidelines are still alive and well, even though you wouldn't recognize it in the media, academia, big tech, or the government, or the bureaucracies, but it's alive and well on the not-so-mean streets of America.
Well, well said. It's America is such a great place and so many reasons and your love of the flag and patriotism and fighting for those first responders and people to put their lives on the line to protect this country. I want to talk about I really want to get in and talk about Hunter Nation because I know you've poured your heart and soul into that. And, you know, one of the things I learned along...
well, let's come back to the hunter nation. I want to do a little bit more about growing up. Then I want to talk about a hundred nation and your love of the first amendment, second amendment and our rights as Americans. But I really fascinated by how people became who they became. So when did you first pick up a guitar and say, yeah, I kind of liked that. I mean, you may have liked the sound, but it's another thing that translate that to the talent. I mean,
I mean, you were, what, Detroit's greatest guitar player of all time, according to the readers of MLive. And, I mean, you do know how to strum that guitar.
Well, I think it's those sexy guitar licks that the Motown Funk Brothers, and again, I referenced James Brown and all the black heroes that had so much soul, so much enthusiasm, such a work ethic. Nobody really celebrates the work ethic of our musicians in this world because it takes a lot of work, a lot of sacrifice, and it's a pain in the ass to really learn to play tight and good. So I was raised in a work ethic Christian family.
family love, discipline environment. And the guitar, I first picked it up, I probably heard the Ventures or maybe Lonnie Mack or Dwayne Eddy by the time I was six or seven. So I started pounding on the guitar when I was a little boy, six, seven years old. Then I took lessons when I got to be nine years old from Joe Podorsky at the Capital School of Music on Grand River, Detroit. And he taught me the more enthusiastic guitar parts of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
That's the foundation of all the best music in the world. I don't care what genre you prefer. All the best music has a touch of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddy, Little Richard, the uppity-ness, the energy, and certainly the authority of a James Brown and all things Motown. But I got a guitar when I was about seven, and it was not a very good one. It was very difficult to play because the neck was warped and hard to get my little...
children fingers down on the strings on the fretboard. But my dad set the timer. He said, if you're going to play guitar, you need to get a job. You need to cut lawns, shovel snow, wash cars, paint the fence. You need to do extra chores. I sold night crawlers to help pay off my first guitar. I don't think you'll ever meet anybody that sold night crawlers, a penny a piece. Every time it rained, I'd get out there with a flashlight, all the light, and collect night crawlers. But anyhow, that discipline and drive is
My dad set the timer and he demanded that I practice my guitar 30 minutes every day. And he'd go, and I want to hear something that sounds like music out of that room, young man. It was awesome. He was a drill sergeant, Jason, to the day he died. I mean, literally a drill sergeant at the U.S. Army Cavalry.
It was a tough upbringing because I didn't like the discipline because young people don't like discipline. But if you abandon it, you turn into a dirt bag. And if you adhere to it and learn to benefit from that discipline, you can have a successful life. That's the nutshell. So now a lot of people pick up the guitar. They got disciplined. They're actually pretty talented. Not everybody becomes the rock star that you did. So what was the difference? How'd that happen?
Well, I'm going to tell you, I've been really, once again, blessed and honored to be surrounded by incredible musicians. Even as a 10-year-old, I had a band called the Royal High Boys. We named ourselves after the collars of Elvis Presley's shirts. Don't ask me how we figured that out. We got it from... Anyhow, but we listened to Little Richard, and we could hear that pulse of
We listened to those original artists and there was a real work ethic that brought that authority. But Chuck Berry's music was authoritative because of the musicians and the work ethic that they put to work to create the tightness and the adventure, the arrangements, and just the cadence of Chuck Berry's amazing creation. So the musicians that I was surrounded with in Detroit were just amazing.
world-class even as young boys I mean the first lords we won the battle of the bands in 1964 and we opened up for the Supremes and the Motown Orchestra at Cobo Hall but what what a what a memory and you were how old
I was just turned 15, I think. Wow. But I think what I'm mentioning here that's augmented by my memory, I've been in clean and sober for 75 years, 75.7 years. No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco. No, I do chew on a Cuban when I shoot my machine gun. It just seems to be a Sergeant Rock thing. But I've never poisoned myself.
Plus, my diet is 90% venison and wild game. In fact, my dog Sadie here is barking at me because she thinks, is there a squirrel nearby? It's awesome. But anyhow, so a disciplined life. Come here, Sadie. Get over here.
And the bottom line is that I'm surrounded by the best of the best. I mean, even today, as ugly as the world is, my kids, my wife, my grandkids, my band, we just did my 6,945th rock out. Jason, 6,945 Sunday night at the York, Pennsylvania State Fair, and it was a riot.
And the musicians in my band, Jason Heartless and Johnny Big, my crew, these guys are, if our military today operated like my crew, nobody would mess with us because we'd win the war in about eight minutes. These guys are so attentive, so professional, so observant. And then that goes back to that bow and arrow hunting lifestyle. You're not gonna kill a deer with a sharp stick if you're drunk or stoned or slow.
You've got to be tuned in and to play the kind of music that I play every night, you got to really be on your A game. I say it's cocked, locked and ready to rock the glock around the clock, Dr. Spock. My guys are so tuned in. It's like the SWAT team of rhythm and blues. So this is the excellence that I have always pushed myself for and it's the excellence that I'm surrounded by in every aspect of my life.
Well, where did you get your first break? What was the real like, okay, that opened the door and then you made it happen? Well, you know, a lot of people, what first break, rock star. You know, I've done thousands, maybe tens of thousands of interviews, and you will never find a moment where I mentioned the words rock star except to criticize it. I didn't want to be a rock star. There was no such thing, first of all, when I started out in the 1950s.
But I wanted to play music. I wanted to find out the inspiration of my heroes. Again, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, all these black emotional masters. And so my bandmates, we never thought about stardom. There was no such thing as platinum albums. I didn't know what a tour was. I mean, I just wanted to play. We played at Walt's Malt Shop on Warwick Avenue and Grand River. And I think I got a free malt for the deal.
But we just wanted to replicate that music that moved us. Before I was a musician, I think this applies to all musicians, we're music fans. We love the music. We're so driven that we're not satisfied just to listen to others do it, but we are driven to pursue our own musical adventure like a Lewis and Clark.
of uncharted musical territory and that's what the Amboy Dukes did. So when I first recorded in '67 with the Amboy Dukes in Detroit, we had a somewhat of what they called a hit record. It was played on the brand new underground FM radio stations and we did a version of Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go" an old blues masterpiece that almost everybody's covered.
and it got a lot of radio play, so all of a sudden instead of playing for a couple hundred people at some clubs in Detroit, all of a sudden it was a couple thousand people, and I started taking care of business, made sure we showed up early, made sure that we learned the music perfectly, and it was adventurous and tight and dynamic, and that everybody was really tuned in to delivering the best that we have every night. And I suppose you could call that a break,
but I really believe my heroes are welders. My heroes are welders and mechanics. And the reason I use certain welders and mechanics and plumbers and electricians is because they're rock stars in that field, which provides me a foundation of quality of life in those aspects. But that's how we approach our music. Even today, I'll
I'll do a jam session, show up at a buddy's club and I'll play for a couple dozen people and people always mention that you played for a couple dozen people with your buddy like you played at Cal Jam for half a million people because it's not really about the environment as much as it is the music. It so owns you.
I'll tell you this. Nobody's ever said this before. My music and the best music that you love is martial arts.
AC/DC, martial arts. The Stones, martial arts. Aerosmith, martial arts. All your favorite music is delivered by musicians who literally become the music. That's how much we love it and we know if you're gonna buy a ticket that you must love it and we're gonna give you the best every night. Jason, every concert is the most important concert of my life. Every song is the most important performance. And again, Jason Hartless on drums, Johnny Big on bass guitar,
Frank on the PA system, we are like a bunch of samurai warriors that are going to deliver this musical beast every night. And even as an old man, I'm an old man, Jason.
As an old man, I still get really excited. I have an overdose of avidity, extreme enthusiasm for the music and for training my dogs and for doing my interviews and for doing our Spirit of the Wild TV show on the Pursuit channel. So that's just the way I was raised. If you're going to do something, go for it the maximum every time. I love it. It's contagious, and there's a lot of lessons in there.
Now, one of the things that I really appreciate about you and something, quite frankly, I had to learn kind of through my life because I didn't grow up in a household that did hunting. I mean, I throw rocks and dirt clods, but that's about it, you know. And so what's fascinating to me, though, is.
is the world of hunting. Because what I've come to find pretty quickly is that the best conservationists in the world are the hunters. And it seems counterintuitive to somebody who's never done it. They're like, wait, what? You're going to go out and kill that deer? How selfish of you. It is so completely the opposite. How do you explain to somebody who's never done it
why hunters are such great conservationists and how they love the earth as much, if not more than anybody else. Well, I'm sure you and everybody has seen a lot of my interviews, how I fixed Pierce Morgan a couple of times before he even knew it. When people ask me about this, because when you are intentionally insulated from the natural world system by which you are sustained,
If you don't have to kill that chicken, you can lie to yourself that the chicken didn't really bleed. And if you don't build your house and get out the bulldozer in the backhoe, you can lie to yourself and say you didn't move all those animals out of their home so you can have a home. Let me synthesize this.
Down to earth. That's the greatest compliment you can have. Everybody always says, I met your son, he's really down to earth. I was with your daughter over the weekend at a party, and she's really grounded. Down to earth and grounded. Well, what does that mean? That means you're still in touch with God's miraculous creation that produces food, shelter, medicine, tools, weapons, and most important,
Spirit. And if you don't partake in the system by which you get water into your home, especially clean water, which is a direct result of hunters, fishermen, and trappers who have safeguarded wildlife habitat, especially wetlands, which is the foundation of quality air, soil, and water. And the animal rights organizations have never increased quality air, soil, and water. In fact, it's all a scam. Because if...
If you don't harvest the surplus of these renewable wildlife resources for one year, you will get disease, you will get waste and slaughter on the highways, you'll get crop and agriculture deprivation. That's why the sustained yield scientific model of harvesting the surplus of each year
game species, it benefits the songbirds. I own a fen, Jason, that's a unique wetlands where a marsh transitions into a swamp. I have 1600 acres of the most fantastic swamp marsh fen agriculture forest
And the botanists and the biologists come and study my fen and they say you have the healthiest fen in the world because you kill enough deer so they don't denude the biodiversity of which the Mitchell's Satter butterfly, an endangered species, but not on my fen,
because the deer have not overgrazed the Christmas tree ferns, which they claim is critical for the production of Mitchell's Satcher butterflies. Now, I don't eat Mitchell's Satcher butterflies. I've never killed a Mitchell's Satcher butterfly, but by harvesting adequate numbers of turkey, small game, and deer,
and sandhill cranes, ribeye in the sky, Michigan, and doves, the number one game bird in the world, Michigan. The reason I mention that is because they lie and claim otherwise. The point being is that without hunting, fishing, and trapping,
Your tax dollars will be absolutely wasted to do damage control if you're so stupid and ignorant and irresponsible and disrespectful to God's miraculous creation that you don't allow the science-based proven methodology of the annual season of harvest
hunting fishing and trapping we bring balance and health to the world and that's where your clean air soil and water comes from so that the wildlife do not destroy the system that produces that quality of life it's so simple jason and by the way how about that this the last
few minutes statements from me have never been uttered in a school in America because they have intentionally dumb people down to pretend that Bambi will live forever if Ted Nugent would just stop whacking and stacking them, which is, it's such a, such a lie that it's, you got to laugh at it. So by the way, 2024,
The best hunting, fishing and trapping in my lifetime because we've managed it to such a perfect balance. There's more deer, more turkey, more geese, more black bears, more cougars than ever in recorded history. Who doesn't want to celebrate that? Well, and that's the point, right? So you're very involved with what's called Hunter Nation. I encourage people to go look at it, Hunter Nation, because people...
People have to realize this. The other thing I really appreciate is you're out there, you're doing this, but when you harvest these animals, you're also feeding your family, which is, I mean, people, it's just, it's so, there's so much ignorance on this topic because, and I'm glad you mentioned this, you never talk about this in schools. Now, some schools actually do this. Some schools do it, but very few of them. And I wish they'd do it more in the inner cities and other places because
Rural America, they get this. They understand it. They live it. They breathe it. They practice it. And it's so healthy for the environment.
We have a 35-year running Ted Nugent Camp for Kids charity, a nonprofit, totally volunteer charity. We get a lot of inner city kids over the last 35 years that come to our camp with the Nebraska bow hunters, the Iowa bow hunters, Colorado bow hunters, the National Field Archery Association, great volunteers. And they learn about being clean and sober, being the best that you can be, the mystical flight of the arrow that God gave you everything you need to guide your arrow and to guide your life.
safe firearms handling, hunter safety, the importance of balancing the wildlife each year before the winter sets in. And even the inner city kids who come in, they're kind of resistant, Jason. They don't think it's cool to shoot a bow and arrow until they shoot the bow and arrow. You can't get it out of their hands. So we created Hunter Nation not just to celebrate the perfection
the perfection of the science-based, sustained yield hunting method in America that the whole world envies because our wildlife is thriving so wonderfully. But there's another important message here. We discovered that the most down-to-earth, grounded people, the farmers, ranchers, hunters, fishermen, and trappers, we found out, and this is very painful, that there's not a state in the nation, Jason, that when we discovered this five years ago,
Not a state in the nation had 50% of licensed hunters that ever voted.
Now, I'm not going to get into the insanity of excuse making because, well, it's the rut and I'm in a tree stand during the voting time. No, shut up. Everybody has to vote. God, family, country, constitution, bill of rights, law and order, work ethic, man in the arena. And in the absence of those grounded down to earth conservation, constitutional, conservative hunting families, in the absence of their vote,
I give you the toilet flush of America in 2024. This is an embarrassing time for America. So we created with the great Keith Mark and Don Paye and Mark Geist and a bunch of Mark DeYoung. We got a bunch of warriors that went crazy.
50% of the hunters have never even voted. No wonder you lost, because that's an army of conservatives that would have changed the outcome of every election in every state. So we created a nonprofit, HunterNation.org. I beg everybody, please go to HunterNation.org
Find out what we're doing, and if we can get that army of heretofore non-participating conservative hunting families to vote, Jason, we win for God, family, and country. And I'm not even going to say who we recommend because we're a nonprofit, but if we're voting for God, family, country, law, and order, you know who we're not voting for.
Well, you know, it is amazing to me that people love their country so much. They fight for the freedoms and then it comes time to vote. They're like, I didn't register. I didn't know how to do it. I couldn't get out there and do it. Are you kidding me? For all the effort you put into hunting and fishing and protecting your property and your rights, that is the number one thing you need to do is be involved and engaged and take the 10 minutes that it takes to actually go out and vote.
Yeah, Jason, you can see behind me here, I've got literally tens of thousands of challenge coins and flags and patches from the heroes of the military for the last 50 some years, because I have a big mouth, because the founding fathers wanted everybody to be just like you and me, to raise hell, to question authority and demand constitutional accountability from our elected employees. That's how radical I am. And these military heroes have tracked me down. You see the letters I get.
Let me put it in the most dynamic, graphic visual. I've saluted hundreds of flag-draped coffins. Toby Keith and I went to Iraq and Afghanistan, and we sat on that, we stood on that tarmac saluting a procession of flag-draped coffins. We didn't stop crying for days.
Those flag-draped coffins represent the ultimate sacrifice for the heroes of the US military based on their constitutional oath that we owe them to vote constitutionally. They died for the Constitution, which is again, is just a self-evident truth document telling kings and emperors and furores and despots and slave drivers that we're not going to let them control our lives anymore. That's what the Founding Fathers did.
We owe it to those flag-draped coffins and those heroes that have given up their arms and their legs and their skin and their eyeballs for our freedom based on their willing to die for their constitutional oath. We, the people, owe them to vote constitutional. And everybody knows what that means because we see bureaucrats across this country
I'm going to say once great country because yeah, we're hanging on by a thread. But if you are down to earth and grounded and believe in God, family, country, law and order, vote those principles because that guy died so that we can. And I've done so many benefits and cried with so many families that I will never give up
demanding to the best of my ability that my fellow Americans vote for the Constitution that this guy died so you can. How dare we not pay him back with a simple vote? You're listening to Jason in the House. We'll be right back with Ted Nugent right after this.
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Well said, well said. I know it comes from your heart. And if you want to learn more, you can go to HunterNation.org and you can also go to TedNugent.com. TedNugent.com. I got just a few more questions, Ted, if you have just a moment. Did you laugh out loud when you saw it? Did you ever see Ocean's Eleven when he said, hey, Ted Nugent wants his shirt back? Did you remember that moment? No.
I thought it was kind of cute. Yeah. There've been a few moments like that. Um, I'm not much of a TV or a movie guy, but whenever my name is referenced anywhere in pop culture, believe me, I hear about it. So kind of cute. Cause I, uh,
On stage, I've always worn snakeskin stuff. I just like snakes. It goes back to the Native American bows, these old Indian longbows where they put the backing with snakeskin. And so I've always been fascinated by the graphics of snakeskin. Plus, I like to shoot snakes because I don't want them rattlers to bite my dog. So I've got quite a relationship with snakes all my life. In fact, I keep in touch with my senator. My point being is that...
I've always worn snakeskins. So in that movie, Ocean's Eleven, I guess it was, when what's-his-name came out with a snakeskin shirt. It was either Brad Pitt or it was George Clooney. It was pretty funny. Anyway, okay, a couple more questions. I mean, you've been in the public light for so long, but I did think that was so funny. What's the first concert that you went to? Well, I've been...
Going to my concert since I was like 11, but I was fascinated and everybody should look this up In fact, we've got a new tribute album Carmine Aposy the original drummer for vanilla fudge one of the most revered drummers in the history of music He's done a tribute album to the band cactus
and it has two members of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Jim McCarty, my guitar hero that I first saw at the Wadley Casino in Novi, Michigan in 1960, where my band, The Lourdes, opened up for Martha and the Vandellas and Billy Lee and the Rivieras, who turned into Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
And I was so fascinated by the tightness of Johnny Bananjic on drums, just a god of thunder. Billy Levice, Mitch Ryder on lead vocals, destroying 10 tambourines per song. Joe Kubrick on a Gibson 335 through a Fender Twin. Earl Elliott playing a Rickenbacker bass through a
B-18, an Ampeg, and Jim McCarty playing a Gibson Birdland through a Fender Twin. And the tightness, the authority of Mitch Ryder's overall musical delivery was so inspiring that I studied everything that they did. And then when they changed their name to Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and my dad was relocated to Chicago where I started the Amboy Dukes in 1964, I
I bought a ticket, the only ticket I've ever bought to a concert to go see Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels because I've been performing all my life and I get to go to concerts. I have the greatest bands in the world that I perform with. So I get to see the best of the best every night when I'm on tour. But I bought a ticket to Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and they just floored me. They were so good. And now on this Cactus tribute record,
Carmine and Tim Bogart from Vanilla Fudge and Jim McCarty, my guitar guy. By the way, I was voted the number one guitarist in Detroit. Jim McCarty is the number one guitarist from Detroit. Believe me when I tell you, I learned, everybody learned everything from him. And Rusty Day, who was the singer with the Amboy Dukes, there's a Cactus tribute album that I was honored to play on with Doug Pinnock of King's X and Carmine. So people should look up the new Cactus tribute album with
Great musicians playing those old cactus songs. Oh, that would be so fun. You know, I hope at some point I get to see you perform live because I've listened to so many songs. I can't even imagine how many times I've listened to those. But for you, good music. Yeah. And it's just and it's just so energetic at the way you are. All right. Two more questions and then we're done. Pineapple on pizza. Yes or no?
I don't care. I mean, whenever anybody asks me what I want, I go, whatever you want, honey. I've had pineapple on pizza, and I thought it was okay. I mean, I'm a big Hawaiian axis deer hunter with Gelikoski over there in Maui. So I like pineapple. I like all food. And if there's venison on the pizza, I don't care what else you put on it. It's going to be great.
All right. And you've given us a lot of advice and things you've learned along the way. But if you had to summarize it for a young person today, what's the best advice you ever got that you could share?
Well, there's no question with our Ted Nugent Camp for Kids charity, people go to tednugent.com and see how we've literally saved these kids' lives. We get a lot of special needs kids and kids that have been abandoned downtown, and we change their lives. I mean, they cry. They're so happy when they see that bobber go down in the pond and they catch their own fish and see how to turn it into food. The battle cry of Ted Nugent Camp for Kids and my life is,
You will not have an American dream complete unless you're clean and sober. God gave you a sacred temple gift. Do not poison it, which means you can't eat or use anything from the FDA or the USDA. We can get into that. But ultimately, clean and sober is the starting point for the ultimate happiness. That's my battle cry.
Well said. Ted Nugent, I really appreciate you taking the time and sharing your thoughts and your perspective and just the energy and love of country. It's contagious, and I'm honored that you would join us on this Jason and Alice podcast. Thank you so much. I really do appreciate it. Well, Jason, on behalf of the whole Nugent family and my band and all my inner circle, which is quite vast,
A big salute to you because we watch you raising hell out there. We watch you spotlighting the cockroaches out there which we're surrounded by. Thank you for not being afraid. Thank you for using your God-given gifts in this wonderful American dream to go after the violators that are violating their constitutional law. So stay on course. We support you. We pray for you. And we're praying for Donald Trump and his family because we know that what happens this coming November is going to be the decision between America really being
the great, great experiment in self-government that God intended, or the final flush of the toilet at the hands of the demons that control our government right now. So thank you for your energy and your sacrifices. I'm with you all the way, Jason. Thank you. I'm honored. I really do appreciate it. It means a lot to me. So thank you.
And I'm going to have you on my Real America's Voice Spirit Campfire ASAP because we do this every week. I'm an active guy. I'm trying to pay back to those flag-draped coffins and make America great every way that I can. Keep it up. Keep it up. Ted, thank you so much. Really, that was just wonderful. So thanks again. Thanks, man. God bless you. Okay. Take care. Bye-bye. All right. I can't thank Ted enough. Man, is he full of energy. It's contagious, right?
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