Anchormen with Matt Gaetz & Dan Ball | Episode 4
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Summary
Uncle Ted Nugent joins the Anchor Podcast to talk about his music background and how he became the next Rush limbaugh. Uncle Ted also discusses his love of the iconic rocker, "Stranglehold" by The Muffs.
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now it's time for the anchorman podcast with matt gates and dan ball
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welcome to the anchorman podcast with matt gates and dan ball i am dan ball uh we got a
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very special guest coming up on this what is this the fourth i think or fifth episode of
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the anchorman podcast uh quick programming note for tonight's podcast though mr matt gates is in
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the swamp all week long doing some great investigating for our network oan the one
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american news network so matt couldn't join us tonight so we brought back somebody that you saw
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on last friday's episode our newest anchorman if you will to the oan primetime lineup riley lewis
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the real story host how you doing riley very good how are you dan well i appreciate you uh sitting
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in i'm doing great and i there was a couple reasons i asked you to fill in for matt one you're a team
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member here at oan with matt and i uh you're before my show matt's right after my show but we learned
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something about mr riley lewis on last week's episode and that is besides wanting to become
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the next rush limbaugh which you're working on now you got your dream come true at 26 years old
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you became a prime time host of your own political conservative talk show you're also a huge music
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buff oh yes sir a lifelong passion of mine if i wasn't doing this i'd be doing something with
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music did you tell matt and i last week that you were in your first band in like middle school or
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freshman in high school or something like that yeah high school okay yeah so music has been your life
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next to television yes they kind of blend yeah that's right it's a good thing to put together
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so when matt informed me he couldn't get out of the swamp in time for this podcast this friday
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i was like riley i think you might be excited about our special guest tonight and i figured that
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because matt wasn't here and he's the fire brand that we needed somebody that was a bit oh maybe even
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more fiery than matt gates or myself and since our theme song is stranglehold by a guy that i
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affectionately call uncle ted you know him you love him ted nugent i thought well let's give uncle ted a
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call see if he wants to come on and chit chat on the show for like an hour um and also we can thank
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him for graciously allowing us to use that amazing song which i heard and you can correct me if i'm
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wrong and i'm sure he will when we bring him on here in a sec did that song is it celebrating its 50th
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anniversary this year yes uh still timeless still amazing still rocking people all over the world but
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it's hard to believe it's been 50 years so wait a minute that means i'm going to be 51 this year
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because i think i was like one or something or two when that song came out and my brothers and my
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dad we were rocking to strangled that's why when i knew we were going to get it as our theme song for
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this show i was so pumped and so let's just not waste any more time with the show yeah should we
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just get to it let's do it so iconic rocker uh amazing hunter um patriot also known as the motor
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city madmen that's right the nuge the nuge uncle ted ted nugent joining the anchorman podcast there he
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is uncle ted welcome brother i feel welcome riley you deserve me because if dan ball has determined
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that you're a truth logic common sense guy that actually loves real american soul music then we're
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going to have a fine time tonight dan thanks for having me on i appreciate it man uncle ted we
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appreciate it it's going to be a fun uh hour or so so let's get right to it uh for our viewers
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listeners and for riley we asked this of him when he told us he had a huge music background
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that took me about 10 seconds to explain because i do not no one wants me to play an instrument
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or sing it's never going to happen my wife payton will tell you no i want to know how uncle ted got
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his start because when i was looking up your background to find out things i didn't know
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you got started in like 63 in some band that amboy dukes or amboy is that what the band was called
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back in the day tell us that yeah well i'll tell you i was born in 1948 right after les paul
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electrified the guitar to cleanse our souls and chuck berry and beau diddley and little richard
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and jerry lee lewis and i was born in detroit so i had this unbelievable powerful soulful music
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authority of motown surrounding me along with fred bears bow and arrow and my dad taking me up north
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every year to be a martial arts backstrapper uh the bottom line is i had a band we're celebrating 50
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years of stranglehold but we're celebrating 68 years when i first started performing in detroit
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riley said he started in high school i started when i was like seven or eight years old playing my guitar
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and i played at the michigan now state fairgrounds when i was 10 years old so i've been doing this a
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long time and i'm still craving the next lift i got the best musicians at my side the best audience
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that love real music they pay attention to the work ethic virtuosity of my soulmates my bandmates
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so it's 2025 we're celebrating 50 years of stranglehold which by the way there's a 50 year
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stranglehold commemorative t-shirt at ted nugent.com and people love to stand up for what they believe
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in and stranglehold is the theme song for that which is why you use it yes i mean it just fit right i
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remember talking to you when we were talking about launching this show with matt and we were trying to
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find a song and first obviously came up with the name the graphics whatever and we're like okay matt and i
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live in san diego we're technically talk show hosts but anchorman sounds about right right yeah and
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then i'm like okay well people associate that with the movie which was set in the 70s even though we
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weren't we're not doing that we're not trying to go after the movie we're just like we're anchorman
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and if you go with that 70s theme then obviously i know it you weren't born yet but i'm like that
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song just clicks that opening riff we gotta use it and so ted god bless you god bless you god bless you
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for giving us permission to use it because we love it i think it's an awesome way to kick the show off
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every week um and this show wouldn't be the show without it and i hear some freedom loving barking
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back there from ted yeah whenever you mention stranglehold my dogs get excited because they know
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that's the theme song when i bring dead stuff back to the camp well look here ted if i may so
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looking through your catalog including your most recent album detroit muscle it's it's just one
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timeless riff after another wango tango stormtrooper stranglehold cat scratch fever dog eat dog
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paralyzed it just goes on and on so where does the does the music just come to you i mean how does that
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happen riley i'm always surrounded by piss and vinegar and attitude spirit and i had a bumper crop of
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middle fingers again this year so there's no there's a whole lot of freedom demanding in the
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nugent tribe and i've always got guitars and amps i'm surrounded by guitars and amps right now this
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is a custom gibson birdland that was given to me by my manager doug banker and toby keith for my 60th
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birthday a long time ago but it has a life of its own it feeds back it has a very low threshold of
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making really outrageous sexy noises and i was turned on to that in 1962 opening up for billy lee and the
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rivieras and martha and the vandellas so i was bombarded with the inspiration of chuck berry and
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bo diddley and little richard and such musical authority and groove and spirit and and piss and
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vinegar so every day i'm not kidding every day i train with my guns and i hunt varmints and critters
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with my dogs every day of my life i run a trap line i do outdoor ranching farming stuff and every day
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when i get in with still dirt remember the gladiator before we got into battle he would get a little
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bit of dirt in his hand that's down to earth grounded well when i plug in my birdland even at the old age
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of 76 it's like the 10 year old ted it starts making noise and my hands go to a variation of a chuck
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berry or a motown grunting grinding soulful rhythmical centrally stimulating rhythm and those licks they
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i don't write songs i have never had a piece of paper and a pen in front of me i just let these
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licks happen and they have a cadence they they inspire a lyricism and a vision whether it's great
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white buffalo or our favorite love song wang dang sweet poontang no matter what the riff is
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there's an organic instinctual um pursuit of lyrics and theme that go with the grinding rhythm so once
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again i attribute it to my bandmates when i unleash these licks to my bandmates when they come pounding
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in with bass and drums it's it's literally out of body our feet don't touch the ground i played the
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national anthem at mar-a-lago on tuesday and because of the way i play it with that rhythmical grind of my
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right hand that you hear in the opening of stranglehold and all my licks um it's you can't escape it
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unless you're uh unless you're neutered or a democrat which is the same thing we'll get into
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politics in a minute uncle ted hold on they're just they're absolutely spontaneous without any thought
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like the martial arts guy says too many minds i don't think about it i don't plan it i don't have a
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vision or a key or a rhythm or a tempo in mind i just get in from doing outdoor spirit of the wild
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lifestyle and and funk happens it it the grind just comes out i'm a lucky luck i've been clean and
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sober for 76 years so i'm i'm easily stimulated because everything still works pretty good yeah think
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about that folks how many rock and roll stories have we heard of rockers over the decades unfortunately
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falling prey to alcohol and pills and drugs and uncle ted his drug is the music and his patriotism
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riley when you were in bands and you're still in one today right you told me
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can you do it like uncle ted do you put pen to paper or you're like him it just happens
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like the magic happens i think that's it i think like you said it's with the bandmates the other
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musicians you surround yourself everyone brings ideas to the table everyone has a lick or a riff
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maybe it starts with the with the words and then that leads to music or the other way around but
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i think surrounding yourself with other people that just ooze creativity all the time the ideas just
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come to them and there's just a secret sauce that the inspiration strikes when it does it could happen
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when you're in the shower in the morning on your way home driving from work whatever it is it's just
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it's finding people that understand that that are on the same wavelength and frequency that can
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help sort of pull that out of you as a musician putting those creative people around you yes and
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uncle ted got that decades ago it kind of reminds me of a guy named uh who am i thinking of oh donald j
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trump who always says you know yes smartest person in the room you put the smartest people in the room
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around you like trump's doing with elon and doge and so since uncle ted brought up politics even though
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we try to keep our show to pop culture and not dig too deep i knew i couldn't invite you on and not
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go political so here we go uh uncle ted i missed you on tuesday i was supposed to be there uh just
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scheduling and stuff couldn't happen but i saw a cast of characters show up to mar-a-lago and i think
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we pulled a pic off of uh uncle ted's x page if you want to throw it up i saw a cast of characters
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actor russell bram amazing fighter mike tyson um general michael flynn patriot donald j trump
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oh and then yeah that guy named ted nugent holding baseball bats at mar-a-lago having a hell of a good
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time this week i'm so upset i missed that party ted please fill me in on what i missed
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well you know you talk about politics and bring up politics everything comes from politics politics
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in america is the experiment in self-government which means that all responsible accountable
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participating americans should continue to experiment in self-government based on the
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the divine intervention of the founding father's vision of we the people guiding our life instead
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of kings and emperors and and tyrants and furors and and marxists and slave drivers so i figured
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that out even though i was a victim of the american anti-education system i learned really quickly when
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i got i was contacted by heroes coming home from vietnam and my dad was a sergeant in world war ii in
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korea and they never talked about it but when the guys came home from vietnam they would hear my radio
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interviews celebrating the second amendment and talking about shooting aim small miss small the
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firearms marksmanship discipline and and and raving about how the mystical flight of the arrow is not
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just an arrow to get dinner and to be accurate and disciplined but the flight of the arrow is your
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life and god gave us everything we need to control the path of your arrow slash life so i discovered
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painfully um that the vietnam war was um illegal and immoral and manipulated and that we did
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on the the bodies of 58 000 heroes and that uncle sam i was starting to figure out was a conniving
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corrupt manipulative enemy of the founding father's vision whether it's the cia or all these alphabet
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super organizations that have been better since the 70s let's be real well it got better on november
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5th and so and so the reason i started raising hell and dan we've talked about this in the music
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entertainment world they would attack me for carrying a gun and eating venison which happens to be the
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two most perfect things a human can do self-defense and conservation so as they would attack me i'd go
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well you've you've got to be kidding me so you don't think your life is worth defending plus you're
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going to want to say that i'm not allowed to and you're going to eat chicken that eats its own feces
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but you're going to criticize my squirrel souffle i mean i realized that the hippies and the people in
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the entertainment the leftists and the democrats were completely brain dead so instead of getting
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defensive i started having fun with it and so the music you've got to have a positive attitude no matter
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what but if you're going to play music like i do the intensity the the the passion the uh the
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uninhibited the defiance the irreverence the the sensual outrage then you got to be free and open
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and uninhibited so i started raising hell for uh people running for office ultimately defined by the
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great donald trump that represented real independent freedom and i guess i can summarize it like this when
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somebody recently again said hey we got constitutional carry and i went to shut up i was born with
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constitutional carry you can't introduce me to a man that can give me the right to keep and bear
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arms i was born with that and i can keep and bear arms wherever i may roam while i'm alive on planet
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earth so take your constitutional carry and shove it up your ass i already had that and no man can go by
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the way i give you constitutional carry i eat so my point is is that i'm very passionate about my freedom
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that happens to define my hunting ranching private property rights conservation trapping fishing self
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defense and the fun of firearms activities and i was attacked for all those perfect things so i stood
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strong and i crushed them every time in fact i discovered dan if you're going to arm wrestle ted
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nugent you might want to bring an arm because they have they're helpless to debate me that's true
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yeah you cannot debate this man which is why i i'm so glad i align with him like i have 12 new
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questions now and everything he just said but riley i'll let you throw one at him because he threw so
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much in there my mind's racing now and what i gotta ask him next so yeah so well dan's news just for a
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moment here uh well here's the thing though it's a lot everything you're saying that the freedom the
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rebelliousness the sort of primal instinct taking care of your own that it's it's that's at the core of
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rock and roll music so what i don't understand as a lifelong rock and roll and blues fan
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is to see so many modern rock groups become so pro-establishment thank you pro-tyranny we
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discussed this completely neutered earlier i think that's such a good way to put it yeah how did we
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get here where did they go because ted and old school rockers used to be anti-establishment and in
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the last four years the biden harris regime all we saw was rockers and even country stars and actors
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and all these people that used to be anti-establishment suck up to the establishment but
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then you got uncle ted who's never done it so why do you think so many of these modern day rockers
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now kiss ass to the establishment instead of kick it like you always have i'm gonna drive our enemies
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completely batty once again because i'm gonna give you the answer why they became sheep and they bought
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the lie of peer pressure because they got stoned and comfortably numb is actually uncomfortably dumb
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and the more dope you smoke and the more you play in intoxicating games the more your brain
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deteriorates and they went from being little richard defiant to being bruce springsteen compliant
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and it's just embarrassing so and i've been and that's not just a hunch i was there keith moon made
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fun of me because i wouldn't smoke his dope jimmy hendrix made fun of me because i wouldn't take his
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acid bon scott made fun of me because i wouldn't drink his jan jack daniels john belushi tried to
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make fun of me because i wouldn't snore his cocaine and meanwhile they got high they're dead i went
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hunting i'm still ted any questions call 1-800-numbnut it that sounds too simple but the more you get high
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the dumber you get and here here for the people that are high out there let me put it in your language
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ted um well this is in the headlines in the last week uh and you and i brought this up uh before we
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came onto the studio today and that's a show i used to love growing up saturday night live because it
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used to be funny and it used to stick it to the man and they had their 50th anniversary show last
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sunday they put up some skits that weren't so funny like the one with tom hanks making fun of mega
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and then i remembered didn't uncle ted get into a little scuffle with snl a dozen years ago or so
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when they were messing with my friend ted would you like to expand on snl and the shit back and
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forth that was going on between you guys well once again uh god bless you know i i knock people to get
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high and you have the right to do that i spent the weekend with uh with keith richards my musical hero
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the literally still had a hand on the chuck berry baton he didn't just hand it off he still
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chuck berry had a hand on one end of the baton and keith richards had his hand on the other so
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they became my musical heroes and i don't think there's been a date keith richards has ever been
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straight but he but i respect the man his work ethic and if you want to get high get high but you
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will be a liability to your family if you're high you're not an asset if there's a fire in the house
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instead of you helping someone out someone's going to have to help you out this is not conjecture these
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are not opinions i've watched it my whole life and so when they were inviting me on these different
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programs and the reason they debate whether i should be in the rock and roll hall of fame and i won't make
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the case for me but that triumph and sticks and ario speed wagon are not in the rock and roll hall of
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fame but grandmaster flash is this is too funny for words it's so offensive it's so it's so dishonest
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they got abba and and and uh i don't even know madonna they got abba and madonna in the rock and
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roll hall of fame but not ario speedway so i rest my case the point being is that whenever my name
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came up the majority of the people in the entertainment industry go i hate that guy like
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murders innocent animals and he thinks everybody should have a machine gun and shoot people that
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that's that's dope talking that's literally so you're saying literally someone on their own
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supply on snl way too much yes funny anymore but you have to admit because they used to be funny
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they were john belushi what a gift but once again they were funny it's not funny when you're dead
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and i i know these guys spent time they would have still been funnier i believe
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funnier if they'd taken good care of themselves to remain respectful to their gifts from god
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staying clean and sober so that all the brain things worked in unison and effectively we needed
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a brain doge back then to make these stoners to be more efficient uh and so it broke my heart
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and i've helped a lot when eddie van halen got out of rehab he called me right away and said that i
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influenced him to get off the poison and off the the mind destroying chemical warfare he was
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inflicting upon himself so i have a great relationship with people from every imaginable
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point of view and lifestyle but i'm i'm having the time of my life and i think we can just all
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take a deep breath and go you know ted nugent has not stumbled on a syllable yet
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meanwhile interview ozzy or interview joe biden or interview some of these guys who can't form a
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sentence and i'm alive and i thank god every day so i put my heart and soul into being his best
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husband the best father the best grandfather the best interview the best patriot the best guitar
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player the best trapper the best hunter the best gut pile guy i try to be the best that i can be
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and you can't be the best unless you're clean and sober period how about that from uncle ted well
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it's just interesting you say that because that like you said there's such a long documented history
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of this especially in rock and roll music look at the 27 club look at jim morrison look at jim
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hendrix it's it happens over and over and over again but so few rockers learn the lesson and that
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applies to so many other entertainers too uh chris farley being one a great snl guy so people would
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learn eventually after watching enough of these guys tragically od that hey maybe that's bad news
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and we should just stay away from but there's enablers all around them that's the thing you get
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into the music industry and ted knows this you get into uh even the sports world you definitely get
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into the acting world and the people around you your agents your talent scouts your publicist your
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personal assistant your damn personal chef all of them nobody tells these people no hey maybe that
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fifth line or 25th line of cocaine tonight is a bad idea maybe that 38th beer before you drive your
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lamborghini or porsche is a bad idea but nobody's gonna tell a celebrity that right ted can't tell them
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that they're celebrities yeah it's unbelievable when i you know when i got an award after selling out a
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couple nights at madison square garden with ac diesel acdc opening up for me we had a big banquet
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with uh bill graham the world's greatest rock and roll promoter and we went to club studio 54 i went
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with keith richards i had a walther ppk on me and he just stuck to me like glue he wanted to be around
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a guy with a gun um what a great story that is but anyhow i wanted to talk to him about his chuck
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berry love affair i wanted to talk to him why the stones had motown bow diddley little richard
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and chuck berry songs which i was in that same whirlwind i wanted to have a conversation with
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him but he couldn't have a conversation i wanted to talk to bond scott i wanted to have a conversation
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because i'm a funny guy and i'd like to talk to john belushi about having fun and being fun but you
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can't talk to these guys now i talked to sam kinnison who was a hopeless chemical warfare guy
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and i influenced sam to get clean and sober and then tragically he got hit by a drunk driver
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on his way to a gig i think yes it was outside of uh palm springs where i used to live i remember
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that story you talked about awards and i know riley you and i were discussing the grammys
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and we were discussing beyonce and other people in different genres and we wanted to get uncle
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ted's take kind of on how the music industry how the grammys are handed out how these people are
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flipping genres and making money or not making money and how all that has changed the evolution
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right of music the awards scene and all that it's a lot different than when uncle ted you were
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rocking it 70s 80s and even 90s it's changed quite a bit in the last 20 years i want to get your take
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on that well and again the music as riley has expressed and you you celebrate dan and everybody
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does music is the sonic guiding soundtrack to the mile markers of our lives this this this special moment
00:24:19.340
there was a song attributed to that moment there was a musical relationship with that girl with
00:24:25.820
when why when you meet your wife when you my wife when your dog dies yep when when you when you welcome
00:24:31.500
a baby when you say goodbye to a loved one i mean there's music that coincides with the most human
00:24:36.980
motion emotions and time in our life the best of the best and and the most painful of the painful
00:24:43.020
true yes so i was discussing it with uh my buddy calvin ross lone star music we're doing these ted
00:24:49.680
nugent shit kicker speakeasies in texas and michigan this year i'm not going on tour because the dogs
00:24:54.800
won't let me spend the night anywhere except with them and so we do these michigan gigs where i can get
00:24:59.460
back to my cabin at night and do the texas ones where i can get back to my ranch and we're talking so
00:25:04.600
what's your favorite killer guitar driven band today there ain't any there isn't any i guess if
00:25:11.340
you think ain't none right love the fool fighters but they've been around for 30 years and they don't
00:25:15.900
have any guitar solos i mean they're supposed to be a crescendo i mean whether it's junior walker on
00:25:20.780
the sax or or eddie van halen on guitar or billy gibbons or or the great tommy shaw that there's a
00:25:27.740
crescendo when the guitar solo happens gone that's these poor these poor people right now
00:25:34.420
trying to think of new bands in the last five years let's just say yeah that rock out like ted
00:25:38.860
and the old rockers that i grew up with right listening to being 50 years old i can't think of
00:25:43.440
any like new bands no well i think that is a lot of a lot to do with the political landscape now i
00:25:47.580
think people are just so depressed and they're so just i don't know what it is but that sense of
00:25:51.380
rebellion and that primal freedom chasing after that again that's what every rock and roll group had in
00:25:56.280
common they were completely uninhibited and you just don't find that kind of spirit and and
00:26:00.900
restlessness well now they're created by the record labels and then they're auto-tuned and then they're
00:26:04.880
stuck out on these shows and some of them are lip-syncing any damn way and they don't have that
00:26:08.860
damn talent yes or they have songwriters for them that just write all their stuff it's like you used
00:26:12.720
to have bands we had people that came everyone in led zeppelin came to every studio session with a
00:26:17.080
clear set of ideas musically jimmy page has the music for stairway to heaven robert plant writes the
00:26:21.300
lyrics in one single sitting with them john bonham has the the groove every everyone is
00:26:26.020
contributing to that now you have these pop star sensations that have a whole team of writers and
00:26:30.380
songwriters and producers it's all digital they don't have to actually create in order to become
00:26:34.760
a creative icon it's a problem i want to know who ted's inspirations you mentioned a few of the
00:26:40.220
older ones are no longer with us but who today that's still out there playing rocking whether it's
00:26:45.860
country rock whatever genre but who do you think today is still doing a great job like one of my
00:26:51.340
favorites is a rocker turned country star because i think he's amazing at writing and singing and
00:26:57.680
that's my buddy aaron lewis i love aaron so i want to hear uncle ted's monster right thank you i think
00:27:03.300
he's one of the beasts today who else he's a dear friend of mine he's i know he said we should all go
00:27:07.940
hunting ted you me and aaron let's go but who's telling three of the guys that you like well first
00:27:14.140
of all we should celebrate in 2025 as we uh get teary-eyed that there's no new bands coming on
00:27:20.280
that really kick our ass the sticks and ario well it's kevin cronin now but ario speed wagon music
00:27:25.760
sammy hager's out there billy gibbons is easy top is still out there um they're still great great
00:27:31.200
classic rockers that are still absolutely on fire even for being old men i i know that tommy shaw and
00:27:37.940
his band sticks are still playing as if it was 1975 they still got the fire and the passion the
00:27:43.440
piston vinegar and the reverence for their chuck berry little richard soulful black musical authority
00:27:50.840
influences so i can't i cannot list all the black heroes that all the bands i just mentioned i talked
00:27:57.380
to sammy hager we we know that we would not be musicians if it wasn't for james brown just something
00:28:02.760
happens when the hardest working man in music who delivered such inescapable groove and grind and
00:28:09.900
tightness and musical adventure and movements this just an etude of music outrage and that and that
00:28:16.480
goes back to the kinks and the who and certainly stones and the beetle and the dave clark five um
00:28:21.900
and zeppelin eventually of course but that influence is still alive and well my band the ted nugent band
00:28:28.640
with jason heartless and johnny biggan here in texas with john kutz we get up there and i'm telling you
00:28:33.580
it's like a bunch of horny teenagers that can't wait to grab that cheerleader's ass we just can't wait
00:28:39.360
to play stranglehold we can't wait to play cat scratch fever it's such a grind and then the girls
00:28:44.740
all of a sudden elevate and you go i'm even further inspired now so so that you talk about primal scream
00:28:52.300
primal authority the primal uh groove that is still the grinding motivation for all of your favorite music
00:29:02.500
if there's we're still out there playing even though i'm 76 i should be limping especially with
00:29:08.940
these fake knees i got um the point is is that the stuff that turns you on is still available and people
00:29:14.940
should get out there and see them every chance they get awesome you know what turns me on besides that
00:29:19.280
when uncle ted talks about hunting i grew up in northwest ohio only about an hour and 40 minutes
00:29:25.760
from d town uncle ted so i know detroit very well i'm a red wings fan just like you even though i'm a
00:29:32.500
buckeye i grew up at five years old a mile man putting a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun in my hand
00:29:37.940
my first gun was a breakdown single shot 410 and we've been out hunting squirrels and coons and deer
00:29:45.640
and you name it since i was a little kid and something that ted and i've talked about on the talk show
00:29:50.720
that i wanted to expand here on the podcast is his love for conservation because too many people out
00:29:57.380
there on the left and even some i would say in the right don't understand the importance of hunters
00:30:03.680
yes because if we're not out there thinning the herd and i'll let uncle ted take it from here
00:30:08.960
you would have people die not people pardon me animals critters dying of disease starvation it would
00:30:14.380
be horrible they would be in way worse shape than they are if we weren't out there thinning the herd plus
00:30:19.560
as ted said some of that stuff tastes damn good uncle ted well one of the reasons shemaine and i are
00:30:26.280
so healthy and we started make america healthy again a long time ago we've been married for 36 years and
00:30:31.040
we started raving about the the obscene demonic chemical warfare is perpetrated upon american citizens
00:30:37.780
by the fda and the usda and the who and the cdc and the uncle sam gangsters man santo and big pharma it's
00:30:45.040
just an absolute horror story what americans are being put through because of uncle sam's chemical
00:30:51.260
warfare upon us however i have been raised on venison and squirrel and ducks and geese and quail and
00:30:58.400
woodcock and grouse and doves and and and and woodchucks i eat woodchucks like a little cow i think
00:31:05.840
the cuter the critter the sweeter the meat the point is is that woodchucks yeah no you got to do it
00:31:12.000
hunt what do they eat they eat clover and grass really same as a good cow groundhog i've had all
00:31:17.320
the others you mentioned yes you know growing up in a small farming town you get the squirrel gravy
00:31:21.680
on top of the rabbit legs with the mashed potatoes and it's good yeah really but groundhog
00:31:28.380
i haven't done that one big squirrel they're delicious anyhow but you got to handle it right
00:31:34.160
just like you have to handle all game properly but yeah the bottom line is the irrefutable science
00:31:39.260
truth is thank you that hunters have brought back more deer more cougar more bear more geese more turkey
00:31:46.480
than ever in recorded history because not only have we safeguarded the habitat critical to the survival
00:31:53.680
and expansion of those species but by harvesting the surplus every year we generate trillions of
00:32:00.400
dollars to manage wildlife based on the true science of sustained yield habitat carrying capacity
00:32:07.380
winter severity index and to mitigate the slaughter on the highways which is still out of control because
00:32:13.860
we err on the side of caution but it's not rocket science it's science science and if you're against
00:32:20.900
hunting and you influence game departments those animals will not be saved your tax dollars will
00:32:27.060
hire some usda guy to go in and clean up the mess that we weren't allowed to manage and they will kill
00:32:34.700
the animals after they get sick after they get diseased after they kill people not just killing animals on
00:32:40.600
the highway we kill hundreds of people a year with wildlife vehicle collisions right so i'm on a war path to
00:32:48.580
get game departments to be honest about science-based game management here in texas the texas parks and
00:32:54.400
wildlife there's some bad bad dishonest people they're anti-hunters michigan department of natural
00:32:59.520
resources illinois department of natural resources wisconsin resources the pennsylvania game commission
00:33:04.400
connecticut these are animal rights hunter haters right nature haters and we have to figure enough game
00:33:13.240
to make room for next year's production you they're not going to survive during the winter that's why
00:33:18.960
it's called the death of winter so we manage and harvest a surplus the hunters for the hungry program
00:33:25.920
distributes 250 million quality nutritious natural organic meals of venison every year across this
00:33:34.860
country 250 million i know you do that personally right hunters when you have your hunts if you guys
00:33:41.200
can't uh eat everything because i know you you people hire uncle ted they go out on hunts either at the
00:33:46.720
ranch up in detroit uh outside of detroit rather or down in texas and if you guys don't eat all your
00:33:51.060
meat i've seen you post before you were always donating to the hungry i think that's amazing and so
00:33:55.540
hunters get this horrible rap that we're just killers of little bambi that's bullshit it drives me crazy
00:34:02.860
you were talking about the science of it and you know how these podcasts go uncle ted we got to pay
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to uncle ted and we'll talk some more hunting uh because that's one of the main reasons besides the
00:35:43.400
music was the hunting that i wanted to get him on and you know that we were talking about ahead of time
00:35:47.300
uh you're not a big hunter you're the music guy i don't think matt is i've been hunting since i was
00:35:51.300
a kid here he goes he's gonna get the bow and arrow boom and so i do appreciate this though about it
00:35:57.180
because you're living off of the land and you're eating food that was made by god not by man all of
00:36:01.800
the junk and highly processed food going around it's making people sick so even seeing that with the bow
00:36:05.960
it just connects you to nature you're actually providing food for people that is nutritious that has
00:36:10.860
real value for them as opposed to the kind of junk food that so many people live on and it makes them
00:36:15.600
sick and ultimately it kills them it takes their life prematurely well bobby kennedy's gonna clean
00:36:20.120
that up and i bet ted's a fan of bobby's now that he's in with trump and gonna clean up hhs to look
00:36:25.700
at what's in the food in the water and in the damn vaccines right ted yeah but robert kennedy jr is a
00:36:31.640
visionary when it comes to being healthy because uh once again the fda and the usda people remember
00:36:37.920
this they're waging chemical warfare on americans the poison the trash the garbage the chemicals
00:36:45.440
in all the food out there almost all the food produced in america is against the law in all
00:36:51.900
other countries and we're supposed to be the best country in our government the fda does not protect
00:36:57.660
the quality and healthiness of our food and drugs there they make sure because it's the same man santo
00:37:03.360
chemical warfare monsters that now run these governmental agencies but the bottom line is
00:37:09.140
i gotta tell you yes the venison is the ultimate rocket fuel for the soul it really makes you healthy
00:37:14.660
and elk it's the it's the best there is and it's so simple to prepare properly everybody i turn on to
00:37:19.800
wild boar or venison or pheasant or ducks or geese they taste it and they go this is incredible
00:37:25.540
because they actually have taste but more important riley is the higher level of awareness especially with
00:37:32.440
the bow and arrow because it is a martial arts the higher level of awareness awareness absolutely
00:37:38.480
essential to bring venison home is so good for you because you pay attention to the accountability of
00:37:46.240
each step you take on the hunt because if you take it conscientiously and accountably god will reward you
00:37:54.260
with getting close to game and if you have put your heart and soul into being an efficient archer or marksman
00:37:59.960
then that gift of sustenance will be the reward for that dedication hunting is very difficult it's
00:38:07.540
with a bow and arrow it's almost impossible you got to be so stealthy you got to be so tuned in you got
00:38:14.580
to really be able to make the shot in the presence of the beast that was designed not to let you do that
00:38:20.860
and i've been doing this since i could walk following my dad and fred bear and the people that we've turned
00:38:26.440
down with our ted nugent camp for kids it's a non-profit 501c volunteer charity for 36 years
00:38:32.360
we have kids we taught about archery and marksmanship and safe gun handling and being clean and sober
00:38:38.180
and turning precious wildlife into family size portions those kids from 20 30 years ago are now
00:38:45.460
bringing their kids to the ted nugent camp for kids and we're literally saving these young americans lives
00:38:51.500
from the alternative outrage that's out there so people should go to ted nugent.com and see what
00:38:57.200
we're doing with the ted nugent camp for kids it's literally teaching people that hunting fishing and
00:39:02.640
trapping is the most beneficial activity for environmental upgrade available to mankind if
00:39:10.260
you want clean air soil and water learn to hunt fish and trap because your money's going to go
00:39:16.000
to safeguard that habitat which produces clean air soil and water like duh amen so let's talk about
00:39:22.960
some of the animals and and the hunts that you do at the different properties if people want to sign up
00:39:27.300
and go on one of them i know obviously deer wild boar pheasant depending on season and depending on if
00:39:32.980
you're up detroit or you're down in texas but just fill them in on those hunts and what you do and what's
00:39:38.140
the difference too ted some people go on these hunts that are for yuppies where everything's all well
00:39:45.100
they are rightly they're yuppies they've never barely shot a gun in their damn lives all their
00:39:48.980
hunting gear looks all clean it's a brand new carhartt woke company anyway and they go out there
00:39:53.580
and it's all in just a couple acres and they're fenced in and they're farm raised animals and
00:39:57.260
they're feeding them versus if you're getting wild kind of like with fishing people you know if you go
00:40:01.460
buy something it says farm raised or caught in the wild i want uncle ted's opinion on that farm raised
00:40:07.700
stuff that wild caught those those uh ranches in texas and elsewhere where they got everything
00:40:13.360
combined and you're guaranteed to get something versus how uncle ted hunts and how we should be
00:40:18.080
hunting well it's fascinating uh how it all developed because whenever i would do an interview
00:40:23.440
about a tour or a new record or just raising hell about my love of rock and roll i i didn't
00:40:29.540
intentionally start talking about hunting but they'd ask me where i get my inspiration and i would tell
00:40:34.520
them about the spirit of the wild and that when i cleanse my soul from this outrageous sonic bombast of
00:40:41.040
my musical unleashing that the peace and the quiet of the outdoor especially with the bow and arrow
00:40:47.160
because you're not going to shoot much but you're going to learn much and so people started asking me
00:40:52.420
well how can i get into it that sounds exciting ted nugent really gets excited about this bow and arrows
00:40:56.500
and killing deer i'd like to try that so i started sunrise safaris she's almost over 55 years ago
00:41:03.060
and we started guiding and outfitting now we do hunt in michigan we have wild boar and we have
00:41:08.640
white-tailed deer okay and we have a lot of small game hunting and again you go to ted nugent.com you
00:41:14.100
can find out how to book it but we sell them out every year every week and i personally guide and
00:41:18.640
campfire and we track and gut and butcher it's it's really the most organic primal scream available to
00:41:25.200
mankind i don't think bon jovi does this but the point is is that that we hunt even on a high fence
00:41:31.360
operation if you wanted an easy deer to kill you would hunt a farm in in illinois next to a forest
00:41:37.660
preserve where you're not allowed to hunt and the deer are used to pick nickers and campers and
00:41:41.860
hikers and they're not afraid of man all the wildlife on my property are scared to death
00:41:47.360
they're so elusive they're afraid of their own shadow so it's it's a true challenge some animals
00:41:54.420
are a little bit more attuned than others but yeah we we hunt uh all august september october into
00:42:00.600
november in michigan every week and i guide hunters we sell out every year we just it's just the
00:42:05.080
greatest campfire the greatest people fun people smart successful cocky people that want to learn
00:42:12.200
about this incredible excitement of an outdoor hunting fishing trapping lifestyle and then we
00:42:18.000
do a birthday hunt and a new year's hunt here at our spirit wild ranch in texas and it's really
00:42:22.980
fascinating we have in texas you have all kinds of asian and african animals that are free ranging
00:42:29.240
from scimitar horn oryx to uh axis deer and fallow deer and psyched deer and all of that um sheep from
00:42:36.460
africa peat ranchers brought them in back in the 1930s and you never know what you're going to bump
00:42:42.180
into guys go opening day of deer season and shoot a zebra because there's a zebra loose on their
00:42:47.420
it's it's really and by the way zebra is delicious and don't get excited about shooting a zebra it's a
00:42:53.160
striped deer um and and so we we kill the surplus every year we have a limit we have a bag limit based
00:43:00.000
on the herd size and the habitat necessary to support that herd and we just have a great time
00:43:05.860
and i've turned i've turned lots and lots of people in combination with our spirit of the wild tv show on
00:43:11.560
the pursuit network and the most watched hunting show in the history of hunting shows we're on eight
00:43:16.560
times a week ted newton spirit of the wild on the pursuit network and what shemaine does with her real
00:43:21.640
america's voice uh faith and freedom she has become the most deadly bow hunter if shemaine grabs
00:43:27.280
her matthew's bow i sharpen my knife because something's gonna die um it's very exciting she's so
00:43:34.060
more deadly accurate than you with the bow i'm telling you she can out shoot me and and something
00:43:39.540
about i give off kind of a death ray where the deer scatter when i even think about going hunting
00:43:46.440
but something about shemaine she doesn't scare him away i will hunt 10 15 20
00:43:51.500
days before i get a shot shemaine gets a shot in the first hour of the first hunt there's something
00:43:58.880
electric going on here she's convinced i walked by a trailer hitch last week and got it pregnant
00:44:03.520
so there's something about my aura that causes the animals to run in fear but there's something
00:44:09.980
about shemaine's aura she literally is a buck attractor obviously she got the ultimate buck so
00:44:15.480
so there's a different level of challenge for everybody but with the bow and arrow it's so
00:44:20.840
difficult because you have to move you don't have to just take the safety off and squeeze the trigger
00:44:26.000
which doesn't take much movement but with the bow and arrow you've got to move in the presence of
00:44:31.840
the beast so you got to time it know when to move and your your conscience and your ethical barometer
00:44:39.020
drives us to be efficient to kill that game cleanly and the average deer i shoot over 100 deer a year
00:44:45.920
with my bow donate tons of venison to soup kitchens and homeless shelters they think i'm mother teresa
00:44:50.820
with a sharp stick um that that i kill so many deer that i make sure i only shoot when i know i'm going
00:44:58.000
to kill them right now and there's not a quicker more painless death in nature than a razor sharp broadhead
00:45:05.940
they die they don't even know they're hit most of the time when you dedicate yourself to proficiency
00:45:11.920
they literally will jump because it's like a razor cut it goes through them and they look around like
00:45:16.600
what was that and then they tip over it's really magic it's it's mystical yep i got i have no problem
00:45:22.740
with it i think that's mother nature and the way god intended and there is nothing wrong at all with
00:45:28.840
that no it's perfect and the thing that you're not wasting any of it either i mean everything gets used
00:45:33.000
absolutely whether it's the skin and the fur or anything else the meat donating it yourself
00:45:36.340
everything is getting used so it's completely there's no waste in that it's no it's the circle
00:45:40.280
of life that's a beautiful thing that animal gives its life for you so that we can have and we and
00:45:44.260
that's for sustenance it's not just junk food there's real value to that so there's a symbiotic
00:45:48.380
relationship there i think yeah and to spirit i love hearing about what uncle ted you do after the
00:45:55.280
hunt with the folks that purchase a ticket to go on one of these hunts you have these fireside
00:46:00.660
cookouts and chats right and you hang the people you and the wife make the game that day in different
00:46:06.040
dishes and you get to sit around the fireside with uncle ted and shoot the shit now who doesn't want
00:46:10.660
to do that i'm telling you my campfires are the best campfires and again i attribute it to the
00:46:16.280
quality of people that come people from every imaginable walk of life from all around the world
00:46:20.700
they want to see what makes this goofy guitar player tick and it is the spirit of the wild when you kill
00:46:26.660
your own game it is the physics of spirituality because that is a living creature that you're
00:46:32.360
taking the life you're not actually taking the life based on the native american lore god when you
00:46:38.220
dedicate yourself to proficiency god is actually providing the gift for your dedication and that's
00:46:45.480
the way we look at but the campfires there we i whip out the guitar and i'll play fred bear and i just
00:46:50.700
want to go hunting and my bone arrow and occasional stranglehold and cat scratch fever and we actually
00:46:55.060
change it to can't trap beaver but we what we do is we just i'm a fun guy if you don't have fun with
00:47:01.860
me you might be a michael moore fan the point is we just have a ride around the campfire so go to
00:47:07.840
ted nugent.com we're booking next falls hunts now and my son toby my son rocco shemaine is there uh
00:47:14.340
jim knapp up in michigan uh bob bohannon here on spirit wild ranch we just the best the best fun people
00:47:21.620
kind loving giving cocky funny people we have the best campfires in the world i'll tell you
00:47:28.460
we have got to get out whether it's michigan because that's close to my hometown in ohio or
00:47:33.880
down to texas i know that aaron lewis said let's go i was talking to him a week or two ago at one of
00:47:38.680
his gigs here in southern california i don't know that mr gates has been on a lot of hunts but maybe
00:47:43.920
we could drag matt along riley you've been on many hunts in your life no sir none at all no but would
00:47:49.240
love to wow love to change that we might have to break i can't say pop two never mind we might
00:47:53.720
have to break in two non-hunters uncle ted matt and riley i'll tell you most of in fact i think
00:48:00.120
every one of our campfires remember it's every weekend august september october november and then
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here in texas in december every hunt has a number of brand new people who want to find out what this
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thrill is that i'm always celebrating and promoting and so we we guide them on what kind of equipment to get
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how to prepare themselves how to practice and become proficient you need to be accurate and
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knowledgeable with that firearm there's only one gun law needed on planet earth and that is to never
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point it towards anything you're not willing to destroy boom and exactly and all other all other
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regulations are infringements all other gun laws are illegal amen and i and i defy all of them the point
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is is that a lot of brand new guys come and we take our time we'll go to the range with them even
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though they have to put in range time before they arrive they have to be familiar with their bow
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familiar with their weapon they need to know it intimately you have to know it intimately like a
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guitar um a gun and a bow is should be an extension of you just a muscle memory natural connection the
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point is is that these people come and they get teary-eyed whether they kill an animal or not
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that they're the camaraderie that the caliber of people that you find in a hunting camp they're just
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the best of the best and these guys when they're done with their two or three day hunt with me
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they go i had no idea that such incredible experience was available and it's only available
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at a hunting camp because there is a physics of spirituality to participate as a reasoning predator
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in god's miraculous creation balancing the herd and it goes right to your spirit it's it's magic
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stuff it is i agree and you know what you'll find out riley when you go with other uh men and women
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that have the same love you will because i've gone by myself and i'm sure ted probably has too it's a
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different feel when you're out there in northwest ohio in the flat fields standing up next to a tree at
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5 30 in the morning freezing your ass off for hours all alone waiting for that hopeful big buck to come
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walking through your little woods it's it's amazing it is it's thrilling but there is something about
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camaraderie having the guys out there like i was just in iowa a few weeks back ted and i got taken i
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was giving a speech and the folks that flew me in said hey one thing we do in iowa all the time is
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pheasant hunting and because you're coming in we want to take you on a hunt with some of the local
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leaders and business leaders and whatnot and we got about nine folks out there and let me tell you it was
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two or three gals young and old four or five guys young and old and when those birds flutter and those
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dogs are popping them up let me tell you what by the way i shot more anybody else um i'm pretty deadly
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with that gun it was it's just that camaraderie and then with the with the with the critters as i like
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to call them when you see them drop and you know you nailed that shot and the dog did his job and
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you did your job and the dog brings it back and you see that beautiful bird and then you go and cook
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that tasty pheasant and it's better than chicken it's something you just can't explain unless you've
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done it uncle ted well i think in other in other areas of life too just having that sense of
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accomplishment like you worked for your own yes the food that you're eating comes from you it's it's so
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simple it's something we take for granted now you just go to the store and it's all there for you but
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there's at some point in the way somebody actually has to produce something it has to come from
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somewhere so being that that self-producing entity thinking i actually went i hunted this i was patient i had
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to work for i had to earn it i think it just makes that much more rewarding oh it does there's a real
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sense of just innate accomplishment and you're living as god intended so it's a double whammy
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yeah i want intended amen amen yeah we only got a couple minutes left with uncle ted and the whole
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show and there was three things that i told riley i wanted to touch on with ted nugent and that was
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music hunting and patriotism and so when we got two three minutes left i think the producers are telling me
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ted has and is so passionate about our flag about this nation and about his patriotism too i just
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want the last two minutes of the show for uncle ted to be able to go off and and tell especially these
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lefty a-holes who are anti-american these days why we all need to get in line love this country
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love this flag and stand by her and i thought the best way to end is just give the mic to uncle ted and
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let him go about the flag and patriotism with about two minutes left on this podcast ted
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well dan thank you very much and ronnie it's great sharing a campfire with you and the anchorman here
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uh i'm proud to share truth logic and common sense with you but i was uh baptized into the reality of
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good over evil when those heroes of the military welcomed me into their lives coming back from vietnam
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and then a very emotional high of my life was when a survivor of the baton death march said he wanted
00:52:49.480
to meet me before he died wow and then a survivor of pearl harbor 104 year old guy in michigan wanted
00:52:56.420
to meet me before he died because they both they both were unaware of each other but they both said
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the same thing marcus luttrell said it to me mark geist from benghazi said it to me john wayne walding
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from uh fallujah said it to me greg stewby said it to me these heroes say the same thing to me
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thank you for fighting for the freedoms my buddies died for because i got a big mouth because the
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founding fathers wanted everybody to be like ted nugent to be suspicious of all authority and to
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demand a constitutional accountability from our elected employees so i raised hell because i've
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saluted too many flag draped coffins as a sheriff deputy for 40 years now i take a sacred oath to the u.s
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constitution and those words have iron they are the soul yes of existence of freedom of independence
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so god bless america and i i'm done apologizing to the heroes of the military and law enforcement for
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joe biden because now we have a real commander in chief and we're on a true north compass setting now
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and dan you've played a big role in that with your truth logic and common sense crowbar so god bless you
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for that riley thank you and uh yes pursue that rush limbaugh dream because he was a great friend and a
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great american so truth logic common sense god family country constitution builder race 10 commandments
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golden rule declaration of independence law and order we're radicals amen damn right we are uncle ted
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nugent everybody uh ted i will get with your people let's get this hunt happening later this year we'll
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bring our cameras out and then we'll have you back on the podcast all three talk shows and we'll see
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who's got the best damn aim probably none of us as good as uncle ted but i'm going to try and give you a
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run for your money come on dan thank you very much god bless the anchorman hey god bless you thank you
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ted nugent everybody wow so riley was it all you thought it'd be oh and more i told you really you
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get uncle ted on a show and tell him he's got a open microphone and let me tell you what you are
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going to have a hell of a good time and i told you you only had to discuss like three things like
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that's it right start with music that's right go into hunting and then go to patriotism and and
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uncle ted will have fun fill the time but be informative yes he's passionate about all three
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things yes and so many things it's i mean it was so great so i want to thank ted nugent his entire
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team i want to thank riley for filling in matt's chair matt will be back next week don't forget you
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