The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 248 ｜ Kid Rock’s WILD White House Dinner Plan to Unite America ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:00:34.180 Today, I sit down with a man who refuses to be put into a box.

00:00:37.680 He's an enigma in some way.

00:00:39.180 He's conservative, but he's also a rock star.

00:00:41.540 He's country, yet he's hip-hop.

00:00:43.820 He loves Jesus, but he drops the F-bomb whenever he wants to.

00:00:48.720 He is whoever he wants to be, and in that way, he is a red-blooded, old-fashioned American hero.

00:00:56.720 I mean, he's a cowboy, except he's not a cowboy.

00:01:00.140 He's from Detroit.

00:01:01.640 He does not comply to any kind of tyranny in any way.

00:01:06.140 He won't be politically correct, and he's not going to stop loving his country, even when it's unpopular, and it costs him friends or even audience.

00:01:13.640 We get into everything today, from the rodeo to rock and roll to his plans to bring his liberal friend, Bill Maher, to someplace you would least expect.

00:01:24.260 And we also talk about Elon Musk and AI.

00:01:26.880 Please welcome the original American badass, Kid Rock.

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00:03:04.480 Hey, kid, how are you?

00:03:05.820 Good.

00:03:06.260 Nice to see you, Glenn.

00:03:07.000 Yeah, nice to see you.

00:03:07.920 I have to tell you, I don't get nervous for interviews or anything, but you're a cool kid, and I've never been the cool kid.

00:03:16.040 I feel like I'm going to be sitting in the lunchroom, and I'm about to be beaten up.

00:03:21.220 No, you got me pegged wrong.

00:03:23.080 I'm not the cool kid.

00:03:24.320 Yeah.

00:03:25.080 Well, you are now.

00:03:26.500 I mean, you have been off and on, obviously.

00:03:30.040 With half the country. 0.52

00:03:31.460 With half the country. 0.52

00:03:32.120 What's the other half?

00:03:33.880 Like, have you lost a lot?

00:03:35.740 Has this cost you anything?

00:03:37.580 No.

00:03:38.300 I was talking to a friend about it.

00:03:39.600 No, I kind of, you know, not really.

00:03:42.340 Not really.

00:03:43.260 It's, I mean, I just, I'm just an honest person.

00:03:48.240 I love my country.

00:03:49.240 That's kind of how simple it is, but so it wasn't really, you know, it came to a point where it wasn't, once you've seen behind the curtain in this business.

00:03:57.120 I know.

00:03:57.320 It's just freaking awful.

00:03:59.360 Yeah. 0.92

00:03:59.560 It's disgusting, and just didn't want to play that game, you know, with the awards, and this, that, and the other, and the politics involved with this, and that, and the radio, and all that.

00:04:07.760 And I'd say for a rainy day, that definitely was a factor in things.

00:04:11.560 Yeah.

00:04:11.720 Where, you know, and I just, you know, I've always said I don't give a F, and that's very true in a lot of ways, but it's kind of thin things out.

00:04:22.960 I'm sorry, to make the point for your question was, it's like, you know, you do something, and your friends, you get this group of friends that kind of turns their back on you.

00:04:31.720 Yeah.

00:04:31.900 You're like, perfect. 1.00

00:04:33.360 I just weeded out the idiots. 1.00

00:04:34.680 Right. 1.00

00:04:35.040 You know what I mean?

00:04:35.580 It makes life so much better.

00:04:37.040 Yeah.

00:04:37.260 You know, because I can talk to anybody from any side of whatever.

00:04:39.860 If they're a little bit reasonable, just be a little bit reasonable.

00:04:43.480 I can sit down and talk to anyone.

00:04:44.700 Because you have done everything with everybody.

00:04:46.840 Mm-hmm.

00:04:47.280 You know?

00:04:47.780 I mean, Sheryl Crow is not necessarily one that jumps to the mind.

00:04:53.960 We don't talk a lot these days.

00:04:56.060 Come to think of it.

00:04:58.980 Yeah, okay.

00:04:59.780 That makes sense.

00:05:00.520 That makes sense.

00:05:01.900 So, we're here at, because you're starting something with PBR and the rodeo.

00:05:07.220 Yeah, Kid Rock's rocking rodeo.

00:05:09.000 So, you grew up in Detroit.

00:05:13.440 There are not a lot of rodeos in Detroit.

00:05:15.280 Zero.

00:05:16.040 The Motown rodeo.

00:05:17.780 I don't think it happened.

00:05:19.220 I like the ring of that, though.

00:05:21.560 What?

00:05:23.940 You know, I grew up north of Detroit.

00:05:27.000 We had six acres and a couple horses.

00:05:29.580 You know, beautiful home, beautiful spread and all that.

00:05:31.640 But, so, no.

00:05:32.600 It was far from growing up as a cowboy or a rodeo.

00:05:35.120 Although, you know, my parents were into that stuff, you know.

00:05:37.160 Yeah.

00:05:37.340 They used to go like to watch this fiddle player, Sneaky Pete, this little dirt floor place.

00:05:41.560 And, you know, dad liked to ride his horse and things like that.

00:05:44.000 But, no, nothing like this.

00:05:44.940 It wasn't until probably 20, I don't know if it was 20, 25 years ago when I started performing at high levels and started doing rodeos.

00:05:52.060 There's Cheyenne Rodeo. 0.93

00:05:54.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:54.440 Rodeos in Canada, Calgary.

00:05:56.060 And, of course, the Houston Rodeo.

00:05:57.440 And so, I was like, man, it's kind of cool.

00:06:00.120 It's kind of badass.

00:06:01.400 Yeah.

00:06:01.680 First time you go to a rodeo.

00:06:02.920 I remember I was on CNN and I used to call myself a rodeo clown. 0.72

00:06:06.060 I'm just a rodeo clown.

00:06:07.480 Until I got the president of the Rodeo Clown Association, wrote to me and said, do you know what rodeo clowns do?

00:06:15.740 And I'm like, okay, you're right.

00:06:17.300 You're right.

00:06:17.720 I mean, it is really badass to use your language.

00:06:21.840 And, you know, it's one of the toughest sports.

00:06:25.020 And I don't mean tough like UFC tough.

00:06:26.680 Right.

00:06:26.860 I mean, like, cowboys and that whole lifestyle, cowgirls, they're just tough people. 1.00

00:06:32.320 I mean, just the way they live, they work so hard.

00:06:35.440 The way they raise their families, the way they love this country.

00:06:37.980 To me, that's tough.

00:06:40.200 It's weird because I think we were on the verge of absolutely flushing all of it away.

00:06:50.900 And there's this renaissance that is going on.

00:06:55.500 You know, I grew up in the West and there's something about those mountains that when you get to the mountains, you know, which one am I?

00:07:03.040 Am I going to be the one in the wagon train that actually crossed those or am I going to be like, I'm out?

00:07:08.840 There's something about the West that is American unlike any other place.

00:07:14.640 Yeah.

00:07:14.780 I think we've seen it in so many picture books and so many different things, you know.

00:07:18.540 It's kind of embedded in our culture.

00:07:20.480 And America owns that, you know, cowboy culture.

00:07:23.480 Yeah.

00:07:23.580 You know, you think, you know, it's the greatest movies, it's the greatest tales, you know, whether it's campfire sing-alongs or, you know, cowboys and Indians, whatever it is.

00:07:31.560 It's just, I just, arguably tough, you know, just the coolest American thing ever.

00:07:38.300 I was here.

00:07:39.000 Rock and roll, give it a good run, but, you know.

00:07:41.560 It comes back down to this, though, that the independent spirit of rock and roll.

00:07:45.980 Yeah.

00:07:46.380 Comes from the cowboy.

00:07:47.420 And I think you just summed it up there, the independent spirit of a cowboy.

00:07:50.520 Yeah.

00:07:50.800 That's really, I mean, that is independence and freedom.

00:07:52.880 Like, the open range, everything with it, a gun on your side.

00:07:55.900 Like, hey, you know, you get out of line and you're really wrong, you just get shot. 1.00

00:08:00.000 But we're not going to have a big meeting about it with a bunch of guys with white hair on and, like, this thing's like, oh, you're just being an idiot and you're an asshole and boom. 1.00

00:08:08.000 Did you watch Yellowstone? 1.00

00:08:10.100 I did.

00:08:10.740 That is what I think everybody.

00:08:13.080 Oh, that had a ton to do with it.

00:08:14.160 Oh, everybody was looking at Yellowstone that, you know, that critics from, you know, back east, whatever, that just didn't understand it.

00:08:23.140 And what it was, was we're living in a time where the bad guys don't pay.

00:08:27.980 It doesn't seem like anybody who's connected, you know, pays for anything.

00:08:34.300 And there's no common sense.

00:08:35.980 And that's what it was.

00:08:37.180 I think the Yellowstone secret was, boom.

00:08:41.220 And we got to thank that guy, Taylor Sheridan, like, because now it's, like, pretty much half the country, you know, I guess we call them as divided as things are.

00:08:49.100 It's like half the country, the girls, like, they're all just dressing up as sexy cowgirls now. 1.00

00:08:53.300 I got no problem with that.

00:08:54.380 No, you know, I got to tell you, women. 1.00

00:08:57.600 It's better than, like, the blue hair and the big nose ring.

00:08:59.680 Oh, yeah.

00:09:01.180 The black goth dress.

00:09:03.140 You're like, whoa.

00:09:06.280 Hey, don't say I don't look good.

00:09:08.180 I used to be a man.

00:09:09.260 I look really great.

00:09:10.240 There's nothing sexier than a woman on the horse with the flag going around and riding around. 1.00

00:09:20.020 3,000%.

00:09:20.560 I've said that a million times.

00:09:21.520 It is the most beautiful.

00:09:23.040 It is.

00:09:23.540 It's beautiful.

00:09:24.620 It is.

00:09:24.880 It really is.

00:09:25.840 So, Generation X was really responsible in many ways for Trump's win. 0.72

00:09:35.760 You had a big part of that.

00:09:38.380 What is it about Generation X?

00:09:40.500 Which one is that again?

00:09:41.320 The younger one?

00:09:42.460 No, that's the after 60, born 65.

00:09:46.040 Oh, okay.

00:09:46.660 The older one.

00:09:47.820 Yeah.

00:09:48.220 I don't know all those things.

00:09:48.780 Not the old, old one.

00:09:49.780 Not the old, old one.

00:09:50.920 You're Generation X.

00:09:52.620 Hmm.

00:09:53.960 So, my generation.

00:09:54.960 Your generation.

00:09:55.820 Yeah.

00:09:56.240 Got to use layman's terms with me.

00:09:57.640 Yeah.

00:09:58.520 You start confusing me with big words and terms.

00:10:00.560 So, X, what is the, is there something different about that generation?

00:10:09.320 Our generation? 0.97

00:10:11.580 I think we just kind of, I mean, the way I grew up was like, you went into dumb stuff.

00:10:17.140 You got your buddies and your bikes at the gravel pit and you're like, which one's going to go first?

00:10:21.000 You know, go down this huge hill with no helmet on and like, yeah, somebody broke their arm or got hurt, this, that, and the other.

00:10:28.260 And it's such a conundrum, especially, you know, having to raise a son and having a couple grandkids now.

00:10:32.340 It's like, I get it, wearing a helmet.

00:10:35.540 But you're like, man, you got to get some bumps and bruises at the same time.

00:10:39.160 But God forbid something happened to your child or their friend that was horrible. 0.96

00:10:42.900 You're like, you're caught in this, I call it kind of, I don't know how else to say it, but the pussification of America. 0.94

00:10:49.980 Exactly right. 0.89

00:10:50.540 You know, it's exactly how I describe it.

00:10:52.500 Yeah.

00:10:52.840 Well, that's what it seemed like it was.

00:10:55.000 I mean, I'm sitting there watching Trump's speech last night and somehow it came into my head.

00:10:59.500 Like, what if George Washington was sitting here listening to this or like one of our forefathers?

00:11:04.300 And I'm like, can you believe these mofos would be like, I mean, he's like, and there are only two genders, male and female. 1.00

00:11:12.760 And George Washington's like, the hell has been going on here? 0.62

00:11:16.800 Are you kidding me?

00:11:17.720 What are you guys talking about right now?

00:11:20.120 Talking about advancing America and making a great society and living free.

00:11:23.940 And he's like, hey, there's all the men and women.

00:11:27.580 And half the crowd's like, meh. 1.00

00:11:29.480 You're like, this shit is going on, man. 1.00

00:11:32.320 This is bananas. 1.00

00:11:33.200 I know.

00:11:33.760 I know.

00:11:34.480 And you don't have to go to George Washington.

00:11:36.360 You could go to George W. Bush back in the day and say that.

00:11:42.260 He was probably sitting at home laughing along with, like, are you kidding me?

00:11:45.240 We actually have to say this like in a big speech.

00:11:47.960 What the hell is, what is wrong with, you saw them last night.

00:11:51.280 What are they thinking? 0.51

00:11:53.460 And they always just look weird to me, like these far left people.

00:11:56.520 They just look like people you don't like.

00:11:58.180 I mean, I hate to say this, but you can tell.

00:12:00.120 I can usually tell by the glasses they're wearing.

00:12:02.560 Yeah.

00:12:02.960 Red, red frames. 1.00

00:12:04.440 You're like far left idiot. 1.00

00:12:06.580 Yeah. 1.00

00:12:07.160 Like, you know, I hate to stereotype people.

00:12:09.220 It's so fricking fun.

00:12:10.660 So honest to half the time.

00:12:12.600 But, yeah, you can literally, I was talking with a buddy last night.

00:12:14.720 You can kind of see people. 0.68

00:12:15.920 They just look miserable.

00:12:18.100 Like, everyone's not pretty. 0.92

00:12:19.800 I get that. 0.95

00:12:20.840 I look like fricking Brad Armpit. 0.98

00:12:23.060 I get it. 0.98

00:12:24.040 But, you know what I mean?

00:12:24.920 It's something about, and I'm not talking their physical looks.

00:12:27.460 It's just something how they look. 0.99

00:12:28.640 They look miserable.

00:12:30.360 And it's not just now because they lost and they got to take a whooping from the principal 0.79

00:12:34.180 and, like, get one of these.

00:12:35.400 It's just they've always just looked kind of, I mean. 0.99

00:12:37.980 I think they are miserable. 0.93

00:12:39.220 There's women protesting outside of abortion centers. 1.00

00:12:41.040 Like, no one's sleeping with you.

00:12:43.560 Like, what are you doing?

00:12:45.200 Like, you know, who are you protesting for?

00:12:47.340 Like, have you looked in the mirror?

00:12:49.180 And it's not your physical looks.

00:12:50.760 It's just everything about your aura. 1.00

00:12:52.720 Like, yeah, you're just miserable. 1.00

00:12:54.560 You're just a man hater. 0.99

00:12:55.600 It's the opposite of the girl with the flag on the horse. 0.94

00:12:58.920 Complete opposite.

00:12:59.980 The, I was talking about it today.

00:13:03.180 Imagine not being able to clap for the little boy who had brain surgery and brain cancer.

00:13:11.600 Not being able to clap.

00:13:13.560 Actually saying, as Elizabeth Warren did, yeah, five more years of war.

00:13:17.700 I'm looking miserable.

00:13:18.920 Oh, yeah.

00:13:19.480 Yeah.

00:13:20.600 You're like, sir?

00:13:21.840 Ma'am?

00:13:22.520 Ma'am?

00:13:23.060 Sir?

00:13:23.400 She, the, I actually have pity for them because I can't imagine living your life like that.

00:13:33.120 What?

00:13:33.400 The Trump derangement syndrome is real.

00:13:35.340 It's crazy.

00:13:35.760 I know.

00:13:36.240 It's freaking real.

00:13:37.020 You just saw it last night.

00:13:38.280 This poor, just beautiful little boy.

00:13:40.380 I didn't even know he had brain cancer when they first started.

00:13:42.860 Yeah.

00:13:42.980 Like, we're making him a FBI agent or a Secret Service guy or whatever and this, that, and

00:13:47.120 you know, they're like, oh, man.

00:13:48.140 And then they say, his brain cancer is like, oh, you know, God bless him, you know?

00:13:51.980 And these people are sitting there like, nah.

00:13:53.880 I know.

00:13:54.640 What's the matter with you?

00:13:55.760 I know.

00:13:57.040 Find no hope in that.

00:13:59.600 You were just, weren't you just golfing with Trump and Elon Musk?

00:14:03.540 Yeah, Sunday.

00:14:04.700 Oh, Elon doesn't golf.

00:14:06.420 He doesn't golf.

00:14:07.300 No, he came out and hung with us like the last three, four holes or something.

00:14:10.720 We were having a blast.

00:14:11.720 He, one thing is, the age of the president, he's 78, and I don't think I could keep up

00:14:19.680 with him.

00:14:20.740 I can hardly keep up with him.

00:14:22.120 I'm the energizer go buddy.

00:14:23.580 Yeah.

00:14:24.220 I mean, what is that?

00:14:25.660 Is that just genes?

00:14:27.140 What is that?

00:14:29.220 I don't know, because God bless him, like, it's not from like eating the healthiest foods.

00:14:35.220 No.

00:14:36.060 No.

00:14:36.380 God bless me, it's just, I mean, you couldn't pick an American out like bacon. 0.99

00:14:41.460 Yeah.

00:14:42.220 Sausage.

00:14:42.780 Yeah.

00:14:43.340 Diet Coke.

00:14:44.820 And like, you know, a few holes in it, he's like, you want a Hershey's bar?

00:14:47.540 I'm like, yeah.

00:14:49.120 You want a Fanta?

00:14:50.480 Yeah.

00:14:50.920 Then cheeseburger?

00:14:52.060 Fries?

00:14:52.600 I'm like, this is.

00:14:55.260 Yeah, everything that RFK is going to say is bad, he does.

00:15:00.360 Did you know him before, during the first term?

00:15:03.840 I met him, I endorsed him in Rolling Stone, like, as soon as he came down that elevator,

00:15:08.760 I'm like, boom.

00:15:09.920 I want a business guy.

00:15:11.300 Yeah.

00:15:11.440 This dude, I don't care who somebody slept with or what they did, you know, these little

00:15:14.860 things that just blow up your personal life.

00:15:16.740 I'm like, I don't care if they're not like, you know, doing weird stuff with kids or like

00:15:20.560 killing people. 0.87

00:15:21.220 I'm like, whatever. 0.99

00:15:22.200 Live your personal life. 0.99

00:15:23.600 Like, the America of business has sucked. 0.97

00:15:26.820 Yeah. 0.98

00:15:27.020 Decades and decades.

00:15:28.440 I'm like, let somebody who knows how to run a business get in there.

00:15:31.160 So I endorsed him there.

00:15:32.700 Didn't know him, but I was pretty vocal about it. 0.99

00:15:34.400 Of course, it took a ton of crap, which I like. 0.99

00:15:36.900 I could care less. 0.99

00:15:37.780 Like, the last guy that's going to get upset, you know, sticks and stones, I'm the sticks

00:15:41.880 and stones epitome.

00:15:43.440 Yeah.

00:15:43.500 And then Sarah Palin, I knew her a little bit and the first couple months of him being

00:15:49.360 in office, she got invited to dinner and the president told her to bring some interesting

00:15:53.880 people.

00:15:54.500 So she called me and Ted Nugent.

00:15:57.660 Two very interesting people.

00:15:59.540 I remember, you know, having an awesome time at the White House and it's just what, you

00:16:05.780 know, when you meet somebody and they're just, you could tell they're kind of cut from the

00:16:08.820 same cloth.

00:16:09.520 Yeah.

00:16:10.240 He's definitely got a rebellious spirit.

00:16:12.080 So what is it?

00:16:13.000 What is it?

00:16:14.400 Because he, I mean, you cannot relate to his kind of wealth, Elon, the same way.

00:16:23.520 You just cannot relate to that kind of wealth.

00:16:26.240 And yet, he's not, he's not, he's not what you think he is.

00:16:32.460 He's just a regular guy.

00:16:34.940 I told a buddy yesterday, I'm like, you know, I've got to spend a few times with Elon now.

00:16:38.800 We text a little bit.

00:16:39.560 Like, I'd say we're friends at this point.

00:16:41.600 And I was like, I'm not even thinking about how much money this guy, like, to me, it looks

00:16:48.080 like he doesn't have two nickels to rub together.

00:16:50.100 Like, you know, you just said, dude, we're clowning about this new app he has and we were

00:16:53.780 making jokes at the UFC and it's kind of the same with Trump.

00:16:56.860 You know, of course, all the stuff you're around, you're like, wow.

00:16:59.860 And I love that stuff because this whole Hollywood thing is always like, it's this cool Hollywood

00:17:04.660 thing not to put a picture of yourself in the house, you know, not to have your awards

00:17:08.720 up.

00:17:08.980 And I'm like, I got my stuff everywhere.

00:17:11.260 I'm absolutely proud of what I've done.

00:17:13.880 You know what I mean?

00:17:14.240 I walk into his stuff, I'm like, oh, awesome.

00:17:17.240 He's got him everywhere.

00:17:18.560 Have you seen over, I think it's in the bar of Mar-a-Lago, he's got the picture on the

00:17:26.060 main floor.

00:17:26.920 He's got the picture of him with the tennis racket.

00:17:29.480 He looks like 25 years old.

00:17:31.100 So good.

00:17:31.480 Like, I don't think you ever really played tennis, but I love the idea.

00:17:35.220 So good.

00:17:35.700 It's just fun.

00:17:36.540 You know, I don't think people get sometimes, like, same with me, but sometimes I'm doing

00:17:40.500 stuff I'm like, and people are laughing at me.

00:17:42.860 They don't realize I'm laughing harder at myself than you're laughing.

00:17:46.060 Like, I'm just having a blast and having fun.

00:17:49.020 And there's a fine, you know, there's a fine line there with some of it, but we're just

00:17:54.180 kind of cut from the same cloth on a lot of things.

00:17:56.380 And Tucker Carlson said it, he introduced me at this show, our first year at this festival

00:18:02.180 I do called Rock the Country.

00:18:03.520 And he said one of the most poignant things I've ever heard.

00:18:05.940 He was describing, like, what does a real American look like?

00:18:08.860 And he's describing me, to intro me, and he goes, he would be both disobedient, but decent.

00:18:14.240 And I was like, boom, I love that.

00:18:17.460 I was watching the speech last night, and Trump may have used the word revolution, but it

00:18:27.200 struck me as I'm watching, I thought, this is a revolution without any bloodshed.

00:18:35.900 This is, and I don't think people really understand that yet.

00:18:38.940 Everything is changing.

00:18:40.700 Everything is changing.

00:18:41.380 Cultural revolution, number one, and that really spills over into politics.

00:18:46.220 So do you think that that cultural revolution is lasting or real?

00:18:51.720 I keep, you know, we're only, what, six, seven weeks into it.

00:18:56.880 And so you're kind of like, okay, is this really going to last?

00:19:00.260 Because we were so crazy.

00:19:04.340 Literally, I think we lost our mind as a country.

00:19:07.940 Absolutely.

00:19:08.740 There's no question. 0.98

00:19:09.500 I mean, but they're still crazy.

00:19:12.020 You know, it's just, it's just that pendulum swings and like, does it have to keep swinging

00:19:17.740 so far to each side?

00:19:19.920 Yeah.

00:19:20.360 You know, I'd like it just to be like a little right over here.

00:19:23.920 Yeah.

00:19:24.320 It doesn't have to be way up here, right?

00:19:26.140 Just a little right over here.

00:19:27.340 That'd be my personal preference.

00:19:28.640 But I just hope it doesn't go back and forth and we get in this, you know, boom where it's

00:19:34.400 like, hey, is this...

00:19:35.240 We can't survive as a country if we keep doing that.

00:19:38.000 No, we got to just remember we're all on the same team.

00:19:40.000 We want the same things.

00:19:41.000 We disagree on how to get there.

00:19:42.500 And most reasonable people can have discussions and agree to disagree.

00:19:46.720 I mean, it's the little thing in the book, find common ground, you know, here and there.

00:19:50.220 And just, you know, okay, you're pro-union, somebody had a bad experience with them here

00:19:54.900 and their boss was taking too much money and it got corrupt.

00:19:57.480 And, you know, you can have different points on many things and still be rational and reasonable.

00:20:01.920 It's just unreasonable people, nah, put their heads in guillotines at this point.

00:20:06.760 Okay.

00:20:09.120 There's that.

00:20:09.980 Don't just tell me Pam's not building any guillotines, Pam Bondi.

00:20:13.760 She might be.

00:20:14.600 Yeah, she might be.

00:20:15.880 So you were, weren't you just with Pam on Ticketmaster?

00:20:19.720 Weren't you?

00:20:20.700 You've been trying to.

00:20:21.900 I had dinner with her at Mar-a-Lago before she got sworn in.

00:20:25.120 And it's not really, I mean, I've said this, like Ticketmaster, like they've been bad actors for years.

00:20:30.680 If the DOJ takes them out and makes them sell their company, I will not shed a tear.

00:20:34.720 It does not solve the problem of trying to get concert tickets into people's hands

00:20:39.980 if the prices artists want to set because of the bots, the scalpers, the bad actors.

00:20:44.120 And actually the president just appointed Alina Haba to spearhead my ticketing thing,

00:20:49.760 which is basically there's several things to it.

00:20:51.620 I won't bore you with them all.

00:20:52.680 But the main thing is, and I'm a deregulation guy.

00:20:56.300 I'm a capitalist through or through.

00:20:58.040 There's no other way to do this.

00:20:59.640 I have to do it like France did and a few other people. 0.62

00:21:02.100 We need to cap the resale of tickets at like between 10% and 20%.

00:21:06.780 Otherwise, American people are just getting screwed.

00:21:11.120 And you're just handing money to the bad actors, to the bots, the scalpers, the set, and the other.

00:21:16.000 And the American people, and I told the president, I go,

00:21:18.640 look, this doesn't seem like a top line thing.

00:21:21.640 I get it, but just hear me out.

00:21:23.240 I go, what do people really want after?

00:21:25.420 And this could be number one too.

00:21:27.720 What do people really want after to be safe and to have a good economy,

00:21:31.940 to be making money, to be able to take care of their families?

00:21:34.340 They want to have fun.

00:21:35.320 They want to have fun.

00:21:36.860 Let's make America fun again.

00:21:38.420 You know what I mean?

00:21:39.180 If we can get this done, you're going to be a hero

00:21:40.740 because people are going to not have to decide whether to come to one of my shows

00:21:44.160 or a family vacation.

00:21:46.600 What is the difference that you see your tickets scalped for?

00:21:50.980 What do your tickets go for, and then what do you see them scalped for?

00:21:53.320 Well, you can't put them for what you want anymore.

00:21:56.200 What does that mean?

00:21:57.060 If I think like, hey, I'm going to play for a $100 ticket for these really good seats,

00:22:02.440 then it's going to be $50 for the other ones, the higher seats, this, that, and the other.

00:22:07.400 The bots and the scalper is going to eat those all up, 0.89

00:22:10.000 and those front ones are going to be anywhere from $500 to $2,500 to whatever they can get.

00:22:16.380 They just put them out there.

00:22:17.540 Those high ones, so now you have to do this, what do they call it, price, dynamic pricing.

00:22:24.080 Yeah.

00:22:24.360 So you're trying to cut the scalpers down because, hey, let's face it, like I said, I'm a capitalist.

00:22:29.460 I'm not going to be a good guy and sell my tickets for, you know, whatever, $20,

00:22:32.840 and go make the scalpers millions of dollars.

00:22:35.680 Right.

00:22:35.780 Well, if there's no other way to do it, I'm making the money,

00:22:38.080 and I'm going to take care of the people I want to take care of.

00:22:39.920 Right.

00:22:40.480 And I've had a million ideas.

00:22:41.820 Can we sell them like airline tickets?

00:22:43.320 You don't get to resell your airline ticket.

00:22:45.340 You turn it in.

00:22:46.360 You know, if you can't go, maybe, you know, 48 hours before,

00:22:49.140 you can turn it back into the system.

00:22:50.500 There's all these different plans.

00:22:51.880 We've been trying to solve this for decades, and literally the quickest way right now

00:22:55.460 is to put a cap on the resale, and it's really bad in sports,

00:22:58.780 but I'm not going to take on those guys yet.

00:23:01.120 So what is the, is it because, or is it just because of the scalpers,

00:23:07.680 or does this have anything to do with, I mean, I remember when Michael Jackson went on tour

00:23:11.800 and he was charging $19 a ticket, remember, for the victory tour,

00:23:15.440 and everybody was like, $19.

00:23:17.100 I didn't make that tour, Glenn.

00:23:18.460 But it was a big deal because his tickets were $19, and that was, I think the highest ticket

00:23:25.320 up to that point was maybe $10.

00:23:27.960 They just wanted to sell the albums.

00:23:29.980 I'm overpaid.

00:23:31.620 I'll be the first one to say it.

00:23:32.600 Trump's like, what'd you say?

00:23:33.780 I'm like, I'm telling you, I'm overpaid.

00:23:36.580 Market value. 0.96

00:23:37.580 It's ridiculous.

00:23:38.960 There's just, you know, I've never had to ride around my windows tinted here and there

00:23:45.820 because I've made an unhonest dollar of a working man's back, and I'm very proud of that. 0.99

00:23:49.660 But at the same time, I'm like, the way the system's set up now, you know, this is why

00:23:53.740 managers who are now have really become record companies, which, by the way, Live Nation owns

00:23:59.500 some of the management companies.

00:24:00.900 They own the buildings.

00:24:01.900 They sell the tickets.

00:24:03.100 Oh, yeah.

00:24:03.380 This, that, and the other is, it's gotten so out of hand.

00:24:07.560 There's just, you know, the managers don't want to solve it because you're making more

00:24:09.940 money than ever.

00:24:11.220 It comes all about this thing.

00:24:12.200 I'm like, there's enough money in here for everybody.

00:24:14.560 There's so much money in this business.

00:24:16.080 If I book this building, the promoter, the building owners, there's plenty of money for

00:24:20.540 them to make.

00:24:21.120 The promoter of the show, there's plenty of them to make.

00:24:23.040 There's plenty of money for us to make as a band.

00:24:25.460 It's all right there.

00:24:26.360 And it's just got, ask anybody who's bought a concert ticket in the last, whatever, decade

00:24:30.340 and maybe two decades, and they'll tell you. 0.82

00:24:32.800 It's a freaking fiasco. 1.00

00:24:34.940 It's garbage. 1.00

00:24:35.720 You get in there. 0.99

00:24:36.240 Now, there is a supply and demand thing that people got to understand.

00:24:38.940 If I'm going on tour and there's 300,000 tickets and 700,000 people want to go, certain

00:24:43.540 people can't go.

00:24:44.800 But that shouldn't stop people.

00:24:46.300 That shouldn't mean you have to pay.

00:24:47.040 But that's dynamic pricing.

00:24:48.480 That's fine, right?

00:24:49.940 Well, that's, no, the dynamic pricing is, you do dynamic pricing to certain levels.

00:24:53.960 The front row is not worth this, but I don't like to sell my front row.

00:24:59.200 But if you do dynamic pricing and you don't have the bots and the scalpers,

00:25:03.060 then that's right, right?

00:25:04.940 Yeah, if you can only, yeah, then it will work.

00:25:07.180 Yeah, right.

00:25:07.860 If you can only sell it 10% over what you paid for it, of the all-in pricing, that's

00:25:11.680 the other thing it's on, the bill or whatever, executive order is going to pass.

00:25:15.200 It's like, you know, you can't get to the, you can't buy a $100 ticket and then you go

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00:25:21.140 Yeah.

00:25:21.420 What happened?

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00:27:17.760 What is the, um, what's the business like now compared to when you first got in?

00:27:27.100 Oh, just as dirty and as evil.

00:27:29.060 It's the most.

00:27:30.180 Why do you say it that way? 1.00

00:27:31.320 Oh, it's just full of scoundrels and scumbags, rip off con artists. 0.99

00:27:36.840 I mean, what business? 1.00

00:27:37.900 Let's take a record company.

00:27:39.080 What business basically could give you a loan.

00:27:42.780 Now, of course they do promotion and artist development and things like that.

00:27:46.820 When you break it down to brass tacks, kind of giving you a loan.

00:27:50.620 And then after that, they basically take 80% of everything you make.

00:27:54.760 Like what business could survive doing that?

00:27:56.720 Now there's a lot of money and there's an argument.

00:27:58.640 You know, I like to argue both sides that, you know, the artists go out and make the money

00:28:01.360 touring where the money's at the gate.

00:28:03.480 That's where the big money is.

00:28:04.680 And, you know, the record companies usually don't share in that.

00:28:07.460 They tried two years ago with these 360 deals.

00:28:10.300 They didn't work.

00:28:11.640 But, I mean, they've been, they were charging artists for years.

00:28:15.960 Like when records were out, certain percentage of those records would get broke in transit.

00:28:20.680 Makes sense.

00:28:21.320 So they had a 10% free goods clause, which means they charge an extra 10% because 10% of those

00:28:26.660 records usually get broke.

00:28:28.300 They kept that through digital.

00:28:30.460 Half the contracts.

00:28:31.920 I mean, just start there.

00:28:32.840 Look at the black artists when they started. 1.00

00:28:34.840 You know the tales there.

00:28:36.240 Look at the payoffs, you know, if you've ever read any of the books of the payola for radio. 1.00

00:28:40.400 The way these award shows work, the Grammys and the Oscars, they're such horse shit. 0.99

00:28:44.480 But you use the word evil. 0.99

00:28:47.100 And when you said that, I think of P. Diddy.

00:28:51.600 Is that real?

00:28:52.840 I have no idea.

00:28:54.520 Never got invited.

00:28:55.160 Do you think it's real?

00:28:56.600 I think there was some, if I had to take an educated guess, there's some freaky stuff going on.

00:29:01.100 Is freaky stuff illegal?

00:29:03.180 No.

00:29:04.120 Involved children? 0.99

00:29:05.340 Screw you. 0.99

00:29:06.560 You know, if there's certain, you know, I don't know. 0.99

00:29:11.220 That's the Epstein thing.

00:29:13.780 I don't know if it's...

00:29:15.040 Yeah, when do we get to see that list?

00:29:17.140 Ask Pam.

00:29:17.860 I know.

00:29:18.520 Ask Pam.

00:29:19.140 But, you know, you look at Epstein, you look at Diddy, and then you go to Pizzagate, and

00:29:25.980 you're like, okay, they didn't have children in the basement of that pizza place.

00:29:30.660 But there's something collectively, I think, in our universal mind that we're like, something's

00:29:36.340 wrong.

00:29:37.000 There are... 0.97

00:29:38.100 There's the marketing and selling of children for sex. 1.00

00:29:41.540 That is freaking disgusting. 1.00

00:29:42.960 It is. 1.00

00:29:43.160 Those people should be lined up and shot. 1.00

00:29:45.300 Period. 1.00

00:29:46.120 There should be no...

00:29:47.360 Nothing for there.

00:29:48.160 We should go to medieval times on that, in my opinion.

00:29:51.500 Pedophiles are like, pfft.

00:29:53.240 No, there's just nothing there. 0.99

00:29:55.040 I couldn't do enough evil things to the pedophiles.

00:29:58.820 Let's put it that way.

00:29:59.780 But, you know, the other stuff, you know, you see a lot of people in business, this,

00:30:03.720 that, and the other, you know, especially when you're younger starting out, everything's

00:30:06.480 crazy.

00:30:07.280 You know, I got money and this, that, and the other, and things are wild, you know?

00:30:10.500 But I said from day one, I was like, you guys realize, you get more girls if you treat

00:30:16.040 them really nice.

00:30:18.160 It's just kind of a...

00:30:19.280 Right.

00:30:19.900 Like...

00:30:20.500 Right.

00:30:21.700 Yeah.

00:30:22.340 I don't have to, you know, MIT to figure that out.

00:30:25.220 Yeah.

00:30:26.060 The lifestyle, did you ever...

00:30:29.420 I mean, I know you did cocaine, but that's not what others have done.

00:30:34.540 Did you live that rock and roll lifestyle?

00:30:36.760 And if so, how did you get out?

00:30:38.000 How did you not...

00:30:39.460 I did, but I was very balanced.

00:30:40.900 I was a single father.

00:30:42.360 I had custody of my son since he was very, very young.

00:30:45.840 I mean, he was dropped off on my doorstep at six months and was raising him.

00:30:48.760 And then, of course, when I got some money, came back looking for, you know?

00:30:51.740 Yeah.

00:30:51.940 So I pretty much had him the whole time, but I had great help with his godmother.

00:30:55.340 My sister, my mother.

00:30:57.600 I mean, just great people.

00:30:59.400 So that really balanced me out.

00:31:01.240 You know, I'd pick my windows and I'd be Mr. Rockstar.

00:31:04.420 But then I had to drive to field trips and, you know, and be dad a lot of time.

00:31:08.860 That really helped me out the most.

00:31:10.600 So it's weird.

00:31:12.200 I didn't know that you were Bob Ritchie.

00:31:14.520 No idea.

00:31:15.920 I was thinking of you, Kid Rock.

00:31:17.400 Never thought Kid Rock was your name.

00:31:18.880 That's what I would like most people to see.

00:31:20.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:20.960 I'm trying to sell this American badass thing.

00:31:23.280 Don't screw it up for me.

00:31:25.340 So can we go down that road for a minute, though?

00:31:28.740 We had to go to court the one time and, like, these people are going to have to get up there

00:31:31.900 and testify, like, you know, he's a great guy.

00:31:33.980 So I'm like, oh.

00:31:36.260 And I'm like, no.

00:31:37.600 No, no, no, no, no.

00:31:39.140 I'm actually making some money with this thing, man.

00:31:41.340 So is it, A, hard to be one?

00:31:48.720 I mean, there are times when you're like, I know, are you always Bob Ritchie?

00:31:54.900 I'm Jekyll and Hyde.

00:31:56.420 A little bit of both, you know.

00:31:58.680 And I rather enjoy being it. 0.68

00:32:00.740 Sometimes I do, you know, when I'm screwing with people and just trying to get their panties in a bunch,

00:32:04.700 I'm going to post something online. 0.86

00:32:05.860 Like, yeah, it's Kid Rock.

00:32:07.140 Sometimes I'll point something real poignant, and that'll be from Bob Ritchie.

00:32:10.120 And then sometimes I'll post from both of them, and I've kind of enjoyed that.

00:32:13.100 Yeah, the video between Kid Rock and Bob Ritchie after president, yeah, was elected.

00:32:18.280 Exactly.

00:32:19.220 That's pretty much me right there.

00:32:20.520 Completely two different people.

00:32:22.080 Completely.

00:32:23.040 So was the Kid, was that Kid Rock, was that?

00:32:25.920 That was Kid Rock.

00:32:26.760 Like, the media had been messing with me for how many years, you know.

00:32:29.340 He's just a washed up this, that, and the other. 0.99

00:32:30.920 Meanwhile, I'm selling out every show, you know, operating at the highest levels in this business.

00:32:34.700 But, you know, they're trying to create this thing, because I love Trump, you know, in any little thing I do.

00:32:39.820 It's like yesterday, we got contacted by TMZ.

00:32:42.460 Apparently, I was at this little redneck bar Sunday night after playing with the president.

00:32:46.160 We were just stopping by.

00:32:46.920 We had dinner, and then we had some drinks after.

00:32:49.360 So I said, let's stop at this little redneck bar. 1.00

00:32:51.100 You know, just me and my brother.

00:32:52.480 Let's just pop in.

00:32:53.060 There's going to be nobody in there.

00:32:53.980 Pop in there.

00:32:55.220 Having some fun with the few locals that are in there. 0.61

00:32:57.280 Apparently, I told a girl she was kind of fat. 1.00

00:33:00.380 Apparently.

00:33:00.940 She was. 1.00

00:33:01.780 Shut up. 0.99

00:33:03.240 But somebody, then TMZ contacts, and they're like, you know, like, we're going to, somebody got a video. 0.99

00:33:07.800 You know, these people that can't do nothing but video everything you do.

00:33:10.500 And they're like, Kid Rock called a girl fat.

00:33:12.920 And I'm like, and I asked my brother.

00:33:16.120 He goes, how are you going to handle it?

00:33:16.940 I go, I only have one question for you.

00:33:18.420 Was she fat? 1.00

00:33:19.920 And he's like, yeah.

00:33:20.700 I'm like, well.

00:33:21.720 And I was just being honest.

00:33:23.020 I was like, my brother goes, you were actually trying to help her.

00:33:25.700 He's like, because I'm on this huge health kick.

00:33:27.960 And somehow it came up, and I was saying something.

00:33:30.340 She was like, this, that, and the other. 0.97

00:33:31.540 And I was like, you are kind of fat. 0.91

00:33:34.100 Kind of saying it like that. 0.78

00:33:35.240 Like, you could, you know, use my program a little bit.

00:33:37.520 You know, I was trying to, you know.

00:33:38.600 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:38.940 I've been saying this to all my friends.

00:33:40.320 I'm actually getting ready to shoot a video on my health program because a lot of my fans, I think, a lot of people in my circle got on board.

00:33:47.200 It really cleaned up a lot of eating habits and started doing things.

00:33:50.180 And I was like, man.

00:33:51.080 You know, they always say you have influence over people.

00:33:52.920 Yeah.

00:33:53.480 Never really realized it like that to people that were close.

00:33:55.940 So, I was actually trying to help her. 0.99

00:33:57.240 I was like, I don't give a shit about that. 0.95

00:33:59.340 Like, the TMZ is like, so Elon showed me this new AI thing. 0.98

00:34:02.660 I posted this thing.

00:34:03.460 I was like, did you see that?

00:34:04.320 Yeah.

00:34:04.800 That's just fun.

00:34:05.740 Yeah.

00:34:06.160 I'm like, I'm just trolling people.

00:34:07.540 I'm fun.

00:34:08.200 How much of Elon is a troll?

00:34:10.880 Like, I see Grok, and then, you know, what is it? 0.72

00:34:13.980 Insane or something?

00:34:15.800 Unhinged. 0.97

00:34:16.440 Unhinged, Grok. 0.97

00:34:17.680 It's genius.

00:34:18.480 It's genius. 0.96

00:34:19.240 And the balls to do that at that level. 0.96

00:34:20.960 Like, no corporate entity. 0.99

00:34:21.820 No, it's like he's 12.

00:34:24.240 He's the smartest, richest man, and then there are times he's like, I'm just going to screw it.

00:34:28.780 I can relate.

00:34:30.180 It's so great.

00:34:31.820 Nobody does that.

00:34:33.060 Nobody does that.

00:34:34.160 I think it's, you know, I get the trolling thing.

00:34:36.960 I get it.

00:34:37.380 But I think it's, I would call it more non-conforming.

00:34:41.400 Yeah.

00:34:41.600 It's like we're not going to conform to this political correctness.

00:34:44.580 Nobody can take a joke anymore or somebody hurt my feelings.

00:34:48.080 You know, this, that, and the other.

00:34:49.200 It's gone on for, I mean, it's ruined movies.

00:34:51.480 I know.

00:34:51.980 It's ruined comedy shows.

00:34:53.080 I'm a huge comedy fan.

00:34:54.320 I'm like, we're not going to hear Step Brothers again or like The Hangover.

00:34:58.820 I mean, how funny is the guy pulls up. 0.98

00:35:00.380 He's like, paging Dr. Faggot. 1.00

00:35:02.600 You're like, it's hilarious. 1.00

00:35:06.640 Like, none of my gay friends got offended.

00:35:09.100 Right.

00:35:09.200 None of them cared.

00:35:10.080 Right.

00:35:10.320 You know what I mean?

00:35:10.820 It's just funny.

00:35:11.780 Yeah.

00:35:12.940 That's, I think, why I like the Tesla, what is it?

00:35:18.480 Cybertruck.

00:35:18.880 Yeah, I got one.

00:35:19.860 Do you?

00:35:20.620 I love it.

00:35:21.100 I love it.

00:35:21.940 Everybody says it's ugly.

00:35:22.900 And I'm like, that's, I think, part of the point.

00:35:25.200 You know, it's completely different.

00:35:27.300 Perhaps mine is in General Lee.

00:35:28.600 It looks awesome.

00:35:30.200 Oh, that's great.

00:35:31.680 That's great.

00:35:32.760 It's just, he's not conforming ever.

00:35:36.460 No.

00:35:36.820 He's just not doing it.

00:35:37.920 So he's also pushing the boundaries, but in an unbelievable way, he's changing so many

00:35:43.640 things for the better for so many people.

00:35:45.720 I mean, just making lives better.

00:35:48.240 You know, at the end of the day, that's what it is.

00:35:51.020 You mean to tell me you can't have some fun while you're doing that?

00:35:53.220 Yeah.

00:35:53.420 I mean, that to me is when people get too serious and take themselves too serious.

00:35:57.580 It's, I don't know, it just, it looks miserable.

00:36:00.480 How concerned are you?

00:36:01.900 Do you, are you up on the AI, artificial general intelligence or singularity?

00:36:10.020 I don't use Google search anymore.

00:36:11.600 Yeah.

00:36:12.060 You use AI?

00:36:13.280 Yeah.

00:36:14.280 Grok? 1.00

00:36:15.260 I am now.

00:36:16.320 Yeah.

00:36:16.880 I mean, I didn't see that on Hinge thing until Sunday.

00:36:19.540 I was like, he literally just took all, I was using ChatGPT.

00:36:23.280 He literally just took all their users and they're like, what?

00:36:26.520 I know.

00:36:26.900 So I can actually get the info I want, but I can also have some like complete bonkers fun

00:36:32.360 with this.

00:36:33.500 Yeah.

00:36:33.760 I'm like, right there, he wins.

00:36:36.040 I'm like, and I invested in Tesla a while back and I am not the electrician.

00:36:39.840 You're a car guy.

00:36:40.900 I was, I mean, I'm a muscle car, this, that, the other, my car collection.

00:36:44.560 I'm like, I'd get one and I like got that thing and I was like, oh my God, my mind's

00:36:50.740 blown.

00:36:51.060 I told him, I go, I don't think, you know, you created the greatest farm truck ever.

00:36:55.780 I doubt you guys, you and your engineers were thinking of this.

00:36:58.640 I'm like, but as someone who has a farm and likes to hunt and likes the outdoors, I'm

00:37:01.620 like, I don't drive my Can-Am anymore, my Polaris.

00:37:04.660 I'm like, I got a long gun locked in the front.

00:37:07.440 I got my pistol here.

00:37:08.160 If I see a skunk or a coyote that we trapped or something, I go, I drive by wild turkeys

00:37:12.100 or, or, you know, deer, there'd be a 10 point bucks in there.

00:37:15.140 That thing won't even move.

00:37:16.300 It doesn't know what that car is.

00:37:17.720 It makes no noise.

00:37:18.700 It's just sitting there.

00:37:19.440 I'm like, this is, and it goes anywhere.

00:37:21.940 It goes right up and down my mountains.

00:37:23.220 No problem.

00:37:23.720 I'm like, he goes, yeah, we didn't design it for that.

00:37:28.100 What a surprise.

00:37:29.240 Never know how someone's going to use new technology.

00:37:31.700 I know.

00:37:31.960 You have a car collection.

00:37:32.780 What do you have?

00:37:33.900 I've sold a few.

00:37:35.520 God, I've just sold one.

00:37:37.340 I had a 1930 V16 Cadillac.

00:37:40.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:37:40.800 One of the first, one of the last few left, but it just sat there for years.

00:37:44.600 So I sold that.

00:37:45.900 That's what I love about.

00:37:46.620 I got a lot of Dodges.

00:37:47.580 I love, that's what I love about Leno is he, he's, they have to be driven.

00:37:52.100 Drive it.

00:37:52.720 Drive it.

00:37:53.140 Drive it.

00:37:53.420 Drive it.

00:37:53.540 Drive it.

00:37:53.560 I don't drive.

00:37:54.680 Oh, you don't?

00:37:55.040 I like to drink beer.

00:37:55.980 So I'm always being driven.

00:37:57.660 Okay.

00:37:57.980 Well, that's probably.

00:37:58.900 I drive to the dentist.

00:38:00.020 Yeah.

00:38:00.180 That's probably a good thing.

00:38:01.040 My granddaughter's like dance recitals. 1.00

00:38:05.080 The, I read that you used to say you are socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

00:38:17.100 Yep.

00:38:17.340 Would you still describe yourself as that?

00:38:19.960 Well, until that transgender stuff came up. 1.00

00:38:22.460 Right. 1.00

00:38:22.860 I was like, these people are just nuts. 1.00

00:38:25.220 So you didn't. 1.00

00:38:26.120 I was like, I got gay people in my band, you know, everyone's got gay family members, something

00:38:30.240 like this.

00:38:30.700 I don't know what to make of it still, but I don't care.

00:38:32.740 Yeah.

00:38:33.140 I really don't care what anybody does.

00:38:34.840 Right.

00:38:34.980 I don't want to shove it down our throats.

00:38:36.440 Don't, I don't want to teach them my grandchildren this, like teach them how to write and do arithmetic

00:38:40.540 and stuff, you know, be socially, you know, conscious and, you know, to a certain degree

00:38:44.720 and, you know, want a better world and treat people right.

00:38:47.360 And then it's just, and then it got too far.

00:38:50.260 I'm like, come on, man.

00:38:51.980 It's just, you know, so I'm still socially liberal.

00:38:54.980 I would say I'm like live and let live to a certain extent, but then it just got too

00:38:59.180 nuts.

00:39:00.220 Yeah. 0.98

00:39:00.680 I mean, you tell me that's not a freaking mental illness.

00:39:04.040 I'm like, you know, all these different things that happen with these shooters and 0.98

00:39:07.440 this, that, and the other, there's too many nutty people out there to begin with.

00:39:10.840 Like, you know, Ted Nugent said, and I agree with him.

00:39:12.900 He said that at that dinner, actually at the white house, he's like, you know, we're

00:39:16.680 talking politics a little bit and I'm like, I just shut up and eat.

00:39:19.420 Like, I don't, I don't, I'm not really, you know, self-educated in this where I need to

00:39:25.100 be spouting out stuff right now.

00:39:26.680 You know, what should I do about North Korea?

00:39:28.240 I'm like, but Ted said, he goes, we started talking about, he goes, sir, I need to bring

00:39:33.640 the nut houses back. 0.91

00:39:35.420 He goes, remember they got rid of all the nut houses and those people got nowhere to 1.00

00:39:38.300 go now.

00:39:38.760 And now they're just running around the streets.

00:39:40.660 Or in Congress.

00:39:41.860 Or Congress.

00:39:43.660 True.

00:39:44.380 We saw him sitting on that side. 0.98

00:39:45.920 It's amazing to me how bat crap crazy everybody is. 0.84

00:39:53.900 And then they have switched places with us. 0.90

00:39:57.240 I, I used to be, you know.

00:39:59.380 It was not cool to be conservative.

00:40:00.960 No, no.

00:40:02.080 It is now.

00:40:02.860 It's starting to be.

00:40:03.960 It's starting to be.

00:40:04.700 Trump made the party, wouldn't he?

00:40:06.420 Yeah.

00:40:06.600 You know, it was button up and, you know, this, that, and the other, you know, as someone

00:40:09.380 who made a career out of, you know, using four letter words, you know, pushing the envelope

00:40:14.980 and being a little wild, this, that, and the other, but still had those values from, you

00:40:18.120 know, instilled in me growing up.

00:40:20.580 Yeah, it's completely changed immensely, as you know.

00:40:23.600 He still is buttoned up to some degree.

00:40:27.220 When he has to be, he's buttoned up.

00:40:29.880 Yeah.

00:40:30.700 When he's just a regular guy, he's not buttoned up.

00:40:34.420 And that's, that's what I want out of a president to some degree.

00:40:37.660 I want, you know, he is so unpredictable, if you don't know him, if you don't, if you

00:40:44.380 don't get it, he is so damn unpredictable that he's just.

00:40:49.380 Which the best negotiators are.

00:40:50.920 Right.

00:40:51.340 He's just running circles around everybody and everybody's like, this is crazy.

00:40:54.760 Yeah.

00:40:54.920 You know why?

00:40:55.940 Because you're playing the game the old way.

00:40:58.520 It's over.

00:40:59.320 It's over.

00:40:59.880 I've sold more things off that game for years.

00:41:02.520 Like the press just can't, because now it's a point where they have to get clicks and views,

00:41:06.620 you know, to make money.

00:41:07.660 Yeah.

00:41:08.040 And all this stuff.

00:41:09.160 So I just use them for it.

00:41:10.440 I got something to promote.

00:41:11.480 You know, it used to be, okay, we got to go to Europe for this amount of time.

00:41:14.380 We have to spend a week in New York City.

00:41:15.840 We have to go to LA, blah, blah, blah.

00:41:17.820 Now I just, you know, like, you know, call Oprah a bad name and say, I got a new record

00:41:21.600 coming out.

00:41:24.340 Everybody knows about it.

00:41:25.860 I'm like, that was easy.

00:41:28.240 Because they're panning.

00:41:28.980 You know, if they would, if they would just use the old thing, just he'll tire himself out.

00:41:33.300 Just ignore them.

00:41:34.260 Yeah.

00:41:34.520 They can't.

00:41:35.260 No, they can't.

00:41:35.700 They can't.

00:41:36.300 They can't.

00:41:37.220 They can't.

00:41:38.360 You have no problem letting everybody, you know, the politicians especially, they don't

00:41:46.980 want anybody.

00:41:48.800 They want, I am a small town guy.

00:41:51.580 I grew up in a middle class.

00:41:53.280 If I heard Kamala Harris say middle class family one more time, I was going to hang myself.

00:41:57.980 You're the kind of guy, and I don't, I don't think it's different, but I think politicians

00:42:02.620 would.

00:42:03.960 You're like, I don't care.

00:42:05.080 I got, yeah.

00:42:05.660 I made a lot of money.

00:42:07.200 I made a lot of money.

00:42:07.760 Big deal.

00:42:08.960 American dream.

00:42:10.140 Right.

00:42:10.460 American dream.

00:42:11.360 But you still have the values.

00:42:14.260 I don't think they understand that it's not the amount of money that you have or anything

00:42:20.860 else.

00:42:21.560 Maybe that changes them, but it doesn't have to change you.

00:42:24.480 You can still be the guy who, like Donald Trump, loves people.

00:42:28.340 He just loves them.

00:42:29.360 Incredible.

00:42:29.760 He's, he's got.

00:42:33.380 And wants to be loved.

00:42:34.420 Right.

00:42:35.800 What a, what a concept.

00:42:38.300 And everything is shattering everything that is this bogus plastic, has been bogus plastic

00:42:45.940 world.

00:42:47.760 Do we, do we, what does the world look like at the end of four years?

00:42:53.760 Hopefully it looks like President J.D. Vance.

00:42:55.880 Hopefully to me, that's what it looks like.

00:43:00.700 Do you travel Europe?

00:43:02.660 I hope we can bring, I really hope we can, I'm actually going to try to unite this country

00:43:08.600 and I'm starting the end of the month, taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner.

00:43:14.840 This guy has done nothing but talk smack about the president for, since day one.

00:43:21.000 And, but he's a comedian too.

00:43:22.720 Yeah.

00:43:22.920 And, you know, I can have conversations with him, you know, if you don't get into Trump, 0.98

00:43:27.400 because I'm like, I fucking love him. 0.98

00:43:28.840 Yeah. 0.91

00:43:29.060 He's like, I don't, I'm like, let's talk about other things.

00:43:30.760 We can find common ground.

00:43:32.300 He's actually, you know, more reasonable than a lot of people on the right would think.

00:43:35.840 Oh, I, no, I think.

00:43:36.940 Especially the last, maybe four years or whatever.

00:43:38.540 So I said, so I said to him, I was doing his podcast and I said, if I can hook you guys

00:43:43.340 up, this, that, and the other.

00:43:44.380 And trust me, there's a lot more people deserving at that table, you know, for dinner.

00:43:47.880 So it's a big deal to me to, you know, bring him there and even have the president be like,

00:43:52.420 yeah, do it.

00:43:52.900 Let's do it.

00:43:53.760 I go, man, what would it say to this country?

00:43:56.240 Let's start at the top where you, you know, very public figures, him, television comedian,

00:44:00.560 you president of the free world.

00:44:02.960 You know, we could just break bread and have some laughs, take a picture and be like, hey,

00:44:06.240 you know, we don't agree on everything, but we got along.

00:44:08.680 Like, does that send, does that start to send a message to people or do they just think 1.00

00:44:12.060 I'm an idiot? 1.00

00:44:12.840 Yeah. 1.00

00:44:13.320 You know, does Bill Maher look soft for going?

00:44:15.680 Does Trump look weak?

00:44:16.880 Like, I'm like, man, I think we just got to start somewhere like there and be like, look,

00:44:21.040 man, we just had dinner.

00:44:22.140 We had some laughs.

00:44:23.180 We had fun.

00:44:23.600 Like, maybe call that family member that you got into it over politics or that person,

00:44:29.060 you know, at the school that, you know, you don't like to talk to anymore that you

00:44:32.800 used to have a coffee with in the morning.

00:44:34.480 Maybe just get back with him and be like, look, man, it's okay.

00:44:36.980 Everybody calm down a little bit.

00:44:38.680 Anybody that is not pushing that is anybody who is saying, don't talk to your family member.

00:44:45.740 That's evil.

00:44:46.240 You've heard the stories.

00:44:47.500 Yeah.

00:44:48.200 But it's just evil.

00:44:49.700 Yeah.

00:44:50.180 I had one person do it.

00:44:51.400 One person.

00:44:52.020 I could really, me and Cheryl just got into it over like uncontrolled and we've had some

00:44:55.820 honest conversations about it and things.

00:44:58.300 And then I was just like, no, it's not, I still love her to death.

00:45:02.440 You know, she's like a sister to me, you know, but it's like, yeah, she's not first call

00:45:07.820 anymore on the dinner list, you know, on the dinner invite.

00:45:10.300 Yeah.

00:45:10.920 That's too bad.

00:45:11.660 And I'm not, I'm not on hers.

00:45:12.960 I don't believe you.

00:45:14.820 I would, I would.

00:45:16.200 But I know we can still be cordial and have some laughs in the room.

00:45:18.280 Yeah.

00:45:18.580 You know.

00:45:19.020 Are you, do you travel to Europe very often?

00:45:21.620 No.

00:45:22.480 Did you see what happened with J.D. Vance over in Europe a couple of weeks ago?

00:45:25.400 What, his speech?

00:45:26.140 Yeah.

00:45:26.800 I saw his speech, thought it was awesome.

00:45:28.340 Awesome, right?

00:45:29.260 Yeah.

00:45:29.960 Did you see the foreign minister of Germany after it was over?

00:45:33.920 No.

00:45:34.160 He openly wept and said, I learned a lot this week after listening to his speech.

00:45:42.900 We no longer have as much as we thought we had in common with the Americans.

00:45:49.800 And I thought, if that's actually what you believe, I don't want to be a NATO.

00:45:55.560 I don't, I don't, why, you're on the other end.

00:45:59.700 As soon as the red flag went up and it was crying, you're like, yeah, especially a German. 1.00

00:46:05.680 Yeah.

00:46:06.160 Yeah.

00:46:06.360 It's supposed to be tough, stoic.

00:46:07.880 Right.

00:46:08.100 You know, like we don't laugh at anything.

00:46:09.800 Right.

00:46:10.480 Right.

00:46:12.480 But do we have, do we have stuff in common?

00:46:16.480 Do we have enough in common?

00:46:19.040 Because it seems to me that we're in a.

00:46:22.160 It gets drowned out by the media a lot.

00:46:24.140 Yes.

00:46:24.340 Yeah.

00:46:24.500 We all have a ton in common, but you know, they like to keep us polarizing that media on all

00:46:29.300 sides.

00:46:29.900 You know, to be fair, to be fair on all sides, a lot more on the left side.

00:46:34.220 But I mean, everything's become this social media freaking media nightmare.

00:46:40.560 It's just like, it's just, there's too much information.

00:46:44.240 Yeah.

00:46:44.720 I don't, all me and my friends do is send memes to each other.

00:46:47.560 And I love that.

00:46:48.660 That's great.

00:46:49.400 I'm like, I don't want to hear about your trip.

00:46:51.320 I don't want to see it on Facebook or, you know, the tweets or whatever.

00:46:55.140 Like, and we get together and we golf, we have dinner or whatever.

00:46:58.260 We got something to talk about.

00:47:00.300 We can catch up on old times.

00:47:01.940 I was like, don't text me.

00:47:02.900 Happy birthday.

00:47:03.720 Merry Christmas.

00:47:04.600 Happy Thanksgiving.

00:47:05.580 Happy 4th of July.

00:47:06.580 If it's really that big of a deal, send me a card.

00:47:09.120 Otherwise, I'm not worried about it.

00:47:10.680 I was like, I just don't need 300 texts coming in.

00:47:13.120 Like, happy birthday.

00:47:14.020 I'm like, come on, man.

00:47:15.780 It's, you know, it's just, it's annoying.

00:47:20.280 Tell me about the concert coming up this summer.

00:47:24.180 I'm doing 19 shows.

00:47:26.780 And, you know, I've usually been like, not, not, not too big on politics in the show.

00:47:31.160 Just try to entertain people.

00:47:32.320 This is the exact opposite.

00:47:34.480 These are MAGA rallies.

00:47:36.240 Really?

00:47:36.780 Yeah.

00:47:37.460 A thousand percent.

00:47:38.240 That, I put together a whole new show.

00:47:40.320 I'm only doing 19.

00:47:41.260 I'm doing seven arenas, which are going to be a blast.

00:47:44.640 And then I do this Rock the Country Music Festival, which just, no one had ever started

00:47:49.360 a music festival for hardworking people who love this country.

00:47:53.040 Yeah.

00:47:53.340 Like, that's simple.

00:47:54.300 It used to be, I mean, Hank Williams, Leonard Skinner, I mean, that's, that's, that was

00:48:02.360 for hardworking Americans.

00:48:04.040 We do those in very small towns, middle of fields or, you know, public places like these

00:48:08.360 very, I mean, you don't know where these towns are.

00:48:10.380 I know.

00:48:10.740 Why?

00:48:12.520 We did them our first year last year.

00:48:14.460 I have ownership in that.

00:48:15.520 So I really got to help shape and mold it.

00:48:17.480 And it's literally, I mean, our lighting rig out by the soundboard is a cross.

00:48:22.160 You know, just some really cool stuff.

00:48:24.300 There's thousands of American flags we put up everywhere.

00:48:27.920 It's just, it's just a celebrating America, listening to music.

00:48:30.520 And like, these people are the greatest people.

00:48:33.320 I don't just say that because they're paying money to come to my stuff.

00:48:36.100 I'm not that shallow, but I mean, literally I've heard this from everybody.

00:48:39.340 You can walk through this rock and roll outlaw country crowd with 30,000 people there.

00:48:44.960 Excuse me.

00:48:45.900 You can walk right through to the bathroom, walk back.

00:48:49.140 No static.

00:48:50.060 Yeah.

00:48:50.300 No fights.

00:48:51.340 I think we had a couple drunk drivings.

00:48:53.220 Like, it was just, these things don't, we have more problems than my honky-tonk in Nashville.

00:48:57.200 I know it's a couple thousand people.

00:48:58.380 I know.

00:48:59.280 It's, it's, we have that with our audience.

00:49:01.760 We did an event in Washington.

00:49:03.400 Remember, these people are partying.

00:49:05.340 They're partying hard.

00:49:06.260 Right.

00:49:06.560 They're, they're drinking.

00:49:07.980 They got their campers.

00:49:08.800 They're carrying on.

00:49:09.540 Usually when you add alcohol to any situation, you know, somebody's going to get into it.

00:49:14.540 But it's still, there is something about the American that everybody in the media has forgotten.

00:49:23.600 That we generally, I mean, I think.

00:49:25.900 And we felt forgotten.

00:49:27.620 Yeah.

00:49:28.500 That's why he won in the first place.

00:49:31.240 Absolutely.

00:49:31.620 And I think that's why he's doing so well, uh, right now.

00:49:35.980 He's, I've never seen a president who said, I'm writing down everything.

00:49:41.340 Remind me.

00:49:42.120 I said on stage.

00:49:42.980 And then I'm just going to start not checking them off in priority order.

00:49:46.460 Never seen that.

00:49:47.260 Have you ever seen that?

00:49:47.900 No.

00:49:48.280 Never seen that.

00:49:49.320 Talked about that with a million friends too.

00:49:51.100 Yeah.

00:49:51.240 Same thing.

00:49:51.980 Yeah.

00:49:52.140 It's like, he's just checking that list off like.

00:49:54.960 And that shows for the first time, a politician who does not,

00:50:01.160 uh, forget.

00:50:03.040 He's not using you.

00:50:04.920 He's not coming out and saying, I'm just like you.

00:50:07.000 And I'm going to do these things.

00:50:08.080 And then you get in and you forget it.

00:50:09.300 You like my shiny ring.

00:50:10.580 Right.

00:50:11.300 Right.

00:50:11.840 It's, it's, uh, I've never seen anything like it.

00:50:14.020 And this is the first guy that's, you know, the first administration that started like,

00:50:18.900 Hey, let's look where our money's being spent.

00:50:21.980 I mean, that is bananas.

00:50:23.840 I know.

00:50:24.100 You know, especially supporting politicians through the years, this, that, and the other.

00:50:27.140 I'm like, why don't you mother, why don't you people look for this?

00:50:30.180 Like, what are you, what are you doing?

00:50:31.800 Yeah.

00:50:32.080 Like, this is the, the, like, it's.

00:50:34.460 But I don't know if we could have done it as, at least as effectively as Musk can do

00:50:38.100 it because of AI.

00:50:39.020 True.

00:50:39.660 I mean, you know, in three years from now, the AI we have going over the budget.

00:50:43.740 Oh, it's going to be.

00:50:44.820 Yeah.

00:50:45.280 We're going to know everything about these politicians.

00:50:47.900 Even doing my ticketing thing.

00:50:48.640 You know, I've been doing research for years, have hired attorneys at certain points, you

00:50:52.700 know, people to get info, this, that, and the other.

00:50:54.560 Sometimes I always don't give it to you in their yearly reports.

00:50:56.940 Yeah.

00:50:57.100 Yeah.

00:50:57.240 Yeah.

00:50:57.420 This, that, and the other.

00:50:59.580 Not now.

00:51:00.180 AI.

00:51:01.740 It's all there.

00:51:02.360 You worried about art with AI?

00:51:04.820 Not really.

00:51:05.600 Do you know that?

00:51:06.240 Everybody else is.

00:51:06.880 There, there's a, a group that has tested 500,000 songs and ranked them.

00:51:14.600 Out of the top 10, the top five are AI songs.

00:51:19.100 Yeah.

00:51:19.300 We better get better as songwriters.

00:51:20.780 Yeah.

00:51:21.220 I mean, that's crazy.

00:51:22.500 Well, the way I figured, I actually met with a young man that, um, and had some other prominent

00:51:26.780 musicians and record heads to have an off the record conversation about AI and music.

00:51:31.600 And the app's called Suno and it's bananas because it's pretty dang good.

00:51:36.600 And, um.

00:51:36.960 For writing music?

00:51:37.880 For, it produces music.

00:51:39.380 See, what Spotify's doing is a lot of their, you know, they have to pay money every time

00:51:43.260 they play one of our songs.

00:51:45.120 They're creating tons.

00:51:46.260 You put on a, a beach, a beach playlist that has a hundred songs.

00:51:50.380 20 of those songs might be by some artists you never heard of because AI created it.

00:51:54.060 They don't got to pay anybody.

00:51:55.580 Wow.

00:51:56.240 But are they using our stuff to make it?

00:51:58.600 Yeah.

00:51:58.660 But the way I looked at it is I looked at like Napster when that started and I was like,

00:52:02.820 what's going on?

00:52:03.700 And, you know, all the artists were up in arms and the record companies wanted us to

00:52:06.900 get behind, you know, they're stealing, they're pirating music.

00:52:09.360 And I'm like, hold on.

00:52:11.640 Are they stealing from the record companies?

00:52:13.020 Like stealing from everybody.

00:52:14.240 I'm like, huh, good.

00:52:16.640 I care less.

00:52:17.820 I make all my money live.

00:52:18.900 But now with, with AI, I'm like, so I'm asking this guy and I'm like, so I can give

00:52:24.240 you some acapellas of my vocals and you can model my voice and then you can put it on your

00:52:28.940 system and however many people want to write songs for me with my voice can write them.

00:52:33.260 He's like, yep.

00:52:33.860 I'm like, that's kind of cool.

00:52:35.640 So I could have like a hundred thousand people writing.

00:52:37.360 Now there's going to be some funny ones and they're like, you know, Kid Rock, Joe Biden.

00:52:40.520 Like, I get it.

00:52:42.160 I'll laugh at those.

00:52:43.040 But let's say I got a million people writing songs for me.

00:52:45.640 If one of those person nails it and they come up with this, you know, with this life changing

00:52:50.640 song.

00:52:51.180 It's great.

00:52:51.700 I go play it live.

00:52:53.160 Yeah.

00:52:54.060 I'm like, I don't, I'm not seeing the evil in here yet.

00:52:57.740 You know, the record companies and managers get all the artists up in arms about, we're

00:53:02.200 not going to stop it.

00:53:03.340 I know that much.

00:53:04.060 No.

00:53:04.460 You are not going to stop it.

00:53:05.900 No.

00:53:06.980 So it's like, let's figure out how we use it as a new tool the best, like anything else

00:53:11.080 in life.

00:53:11.840 Who, who is the, um, the influence in your life musically?

00:53:17.160 I mean, you've worked with almost everybody and you're, you're weird.

00:53:21.260 You're, you, you break all of the rules.

00:53:24.080 You've rap country.

00:53:25.800 Isn't that what rock and roll is supposed to be?

00:53:27.920 Yeah, it is.

00:53:29.180 But nobody does that.

00:53:30.520 Nobody does that.

00:53:31.340 So what was your musical influence?

00:53:34.360 It was everything.

00:53:35.680 I mean, the real big ones at the top was, you know, my parents' record collection when

00:53:40.260 I was young.

00:53:40.740 That was just all great classic rock and, you know, um, not real country, more outlaw country

00:53:46.880 music, whether it's like I said, the Waylands and things like that, the Eagles and stuff

00:53:50.700 like that.

00:53:51.060 Of course, Bob Seger's, you know, religion growing up and still is in my household.

00:53:55.320 So proud to call him a friend.

00:53:56.380 But then when I got into hip hop, that changed everything for me.

00:53:59.680 You know, the early stuff, but it was really like, and when stuff went mainstream, like

00:54:03.640 Run DMC and everything from that era.

00:54:06.520 And then I didn't figure it out until I was older.

00:54:08.260 I was like, this has literally been, you know, outside of, you want to go back to like

00:54:11.100 Celtic music, which created, you know, this and that and the other, but American music

00:54:14.600 is like basically jazz and blues spawned everything, everything until hip hop came along.

00:54:20.400 And once rap came along, it was like, that has its fingerprints on every form of music

00:54:27.000 now since then.

00:54:27.960 So we've, I didn't get to witness the birth of the blues or really, you know, the fifties

00:54:31.720 and sixties and stuff, but I got to witness that.

00:54:33.820 And to me, it kind of aligns, it has a lot of parallels with blues and jazz, like what

00:54:38.140 hip hop's done.

00:54:39.180 Do I like a lot of the new hip hop?

00:54:40.540 No, I don't.

00:54:41.100 I'm a more old school hip hop guy, but that's because I'm old.

00:54:44.480 I would assume.

00:54:45.580 Right.

00:54:46.020 What is the, what are the parallels?

00:54:47.900 That blues and jazz spawned everything up until hip hop.

00:54:51.520 And now hip hop has its fingerprints on everything.

00:54:54.420 I don't care if it's country music, you know, rock and roll music, whatever.

00:54:58.440 There's tinges of hip hop all over it.

00:55:00.380 Just like any of those records up until, you know, up until the late seventies or wherever

00:55:05.520 when hip hop started, eighties started coming in.

00:55:07.540 They were all had, had the touches of jazz and blues on them.

00:55:10.360 Whether it was soul music, whether it was rock and roll, whether it was country or whatever.

00:55:13.540 So you, but you, were you into that?

00:55:15.660 What's that?

00:55:16.260 Blues and.

00:55:18.020 I was, I mean, I would listen to those records.

00:55:19.880 Just, I would listen to music all the time.

00:55:22.620 Um, but then when hip hop really came, I started more to emulate it.

00:55:26.200 You know, even though I had that rock and roll, we had a piano and there was an old guitar

00:55:29.220 laying around.

00:55:29.740 I would noodle here and there and then started, screwed up my mom's aerobics turntable, trying

00:55:34.120 to scratch records.

00:55:35.800 So my parents had no clue what I was doing with any of this, you know, in Romeo, Michigan,

00:55:40.260 there was not.

00:55:41.240 Right.

00:55:41.360 Did you, did you have the, uh, talk with your parents or anybody in your family of this

00:55:46.340 isn't really a career?

00:55:47.880 It's, I mean, it's a good little.

00:55:49.340 My whole life.

00:55:49.960 Yeah.

00:55:50.320 Yeah.

00:55:50.560 I didn't go to college.

00:55:51.680 I barely made it out of high school.

00:55:53.260 I was so focused on music.

00:55:55.180 Yeah.

00:55:55.360 I was, well, it was, can't, can't you just do this as a hobby on the weekends?

00:56:00.200 I got the same thing.

00:56:01.340 I got the same thing.

00:56:02.600 I was doing radio when I was 13 years old and I got the speeches.

00:56:06.780 13.

00:56:07.420 Yeah.

00:56:07.780 I got the speeches from my family and you know, this is a nice hobby, but you know, it's

00:56:12.360 probably not going to work out for you.

00:56:14.320 I'm like, well, sometimes the best motivation is not exactly right.

00:56:18.680 Exactly right.

00:56:19.420 Um, it has been great to talk to you.

00:56:21.820 Great to talk to you too. 0.52

00:56:22.560 Thank you for, uh, thanks for having the balls to stand up and just be who you are. 0.56

00:56:29.500 Thank you.

00:56:29.980 I get that compliment a lot and it, it, it, it's one of the best ones I get that and how

00:56:34.600 wonderful my son is.

00:56:35.780 Those two compliments mean a lot.

00:56:37.320 I love this song.

00:56:38.360 I love this. 0.98

00:56:38.960 And this concert was great, but it's like, thanks for having the balls to stand up.

00:56:43.160 It means a lot now, especially where we've, where we've come to now, it's been a long

00:56:48.480 journey and, and I have a terrific son and grandchildren.

00:56:52.040 Good.

00:56:52.540 Great talking to you.

00:56:53.360 Thank you.

00:56:53.900 Thank you.

00:56:54.280 God bless.

00:57:00.460 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend

00:57:06.100 so it can be discovered by other people.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 08, 2025

Ep 248 ｜ Kid Rock’s WILD White House Dinner Plan to Unite America ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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