Kid Rock
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Kid Rock is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s through his music and lyrics. Kid Rock is also a former Marine who served time in the U.S. Army and served time for his part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. He is a former member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is one of the most successful musicians of all-time. He is also the owner of the rock band Jackhammer Records and has been a long time friend to the Rock family. In this episode, we sat down with Kid Rock to talk about his career, his new album, and how he is changing the culture of music and music in general. We also discuss the recent boycott of Bud Light and the company's response to it, and what it means for the future of the Budweiser brand and the rest of the sports industry. And, of course, we have our Hot Girl Summertime segments of the week! Music: Kid Rock Rockin by Kid Rock and the Rock by Jackhammer Summertime by the Rock & Rollers by The Rolling Stones by Fountains of Wayne by Puff and Steph By Thee Stallion by Dave Chapele by Fat Joe and the Chainsaw Massacre by Suneaters by Jim Carrey by Tanya . Art: Macklemore and Paul Westerberg Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast! and we hope you enjoy the next one! by Mitch Albom Don't Tell Mom & Dad by Don't Get Lost in It's Music: It's Better Than That by The Rock and We'll Figure it Out in the next episode by Darnell by John Rocha Thanks for listening and Share it Out on Social Media: Subscribe to our Insta: Insta! Subscribe, Share it on Insta and Share It Out on Instapaper , Send Us a Review & Retweet It Outro by & Share It On Insta Storytellers: InstaPodcaster: Subscribe To Our Insta & Text Me! & We'll Tell Us What's Your Thoughts On It's Good Or Not Good And We'll Have It Out On The Next Episode? by Insta-Friendship?
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There was a point at which Kid Rock went from being a musician to an icon to a one-man movement,
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and that's a friend of ours, and that was the moment we want to sit down once again with him
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in studio and check in on how he's doing changing America. Great to see you. Great to see you.
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So, I remember doing my text right before bed one night, and I read that Bud Light has decided to go tranny.
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That's kind of distressing. The next day, like 12 hours later, you release the video of you executing the Bud Light with the carbine.
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And then, months later, Bud Light effectively apologizes, doesn't go out of business, closes two bottling plants,
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but it is terrible for the guys who work there, but then comes back and hands the UFC $100 million
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basically to say, we're sorry, we will get better. That seems like a win to me.
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I think it could be. I think they got some work still to get, you know, some of that base that they lost,
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I think, to get them back. Like, you know, I've said a few times I'd love to see them get triple fratty.
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Yeah. Hit it head on, kind of make light of the situation, self-deprecation, you know, but, you know, at the end of the day,
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when you step back and look at it, like, yeah, they deserved a black eye, and they got one. They made a mistake.
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How did you know, you moved so fast on that? I mean, a lot of things going on.
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It was like a lot of people just pissed me off. I was, and I kept, you know, I keep a lot of beer on the property,
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a lot of light beer. Bud Light was one of them. And I was like, I know who my consumers are.
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So I was just doing a little marketing to my folks. You know, that was spot on for me,
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but also a fun excuse to get my machine gun out and have some fun, but also to make a statement like,
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hey, a lot of us aren't cool with this. You know, I believe a lot of people fought and died for
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people's right to be whoever they want. But when you're that type of brand, you know who you consumers
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are? You know how this kind of started, I think, I thought about it. So they moved part of their
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corporate offices from St. Louis to New York City. Yeah, they did. Okay. Then they start hiring these
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Ivy League progressive, you know, people to work for them who don't know shit about working class
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people or middle America in this country. Unhappy women. Yeah. And so somebody wasn't watching the
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hen house. They're riding high and mighty as number one and a fox gets in. Yes, it was a mistake. So
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do I want to hold their head underwater and drown them because they made a mistake? No,
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I think they got the message. Like hopefully other companies get it too. But you know,
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at the end of the day, I don't think the punishment that they've been getting at this point fits the
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crime. It's like, I would like to see people get us back on board and become bigger because that's
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the America I want to live in. Well, it's better to improve than destroy. Yeah. So that seems like
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a win. We were talking with this off camera and you said, what would that say about us as like-minded
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people who were like, hey, cut it out. What's the matter with you? That, you know, if we brought them
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back up, you know, that's kind of the America I want to live in. Like, it's not wrong with giving a
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spanking, you know, the kid does something wrong and tries, you know, maybe he's going to harm
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themselves, but you'll spank them for the rest of their life. You kind of, you know, someone gets
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taught a lesson. They say, we made a mistake. All right, man, let's move on. I mean, we've done
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it for, uh, we've done it for a whole lot worse. Uh, what about Germany? You drop two atom bombs on
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Japan, then you rebuild it. Then you become allies. Can't say it enough. You know, who's getting hurt
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and all this boycotts and stuff when people make mistakes, this cancel culture crap. It's the
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working class people who don't have any dog in the fight. Yeah. It's like, all right, we don't want to hurt
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these people, you know, message sent. All right, let's move on. Here's a bag of ice. Put it on
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that shiner. Let's talk about it. Oh, I noticed that is not a Bud Light you're drinking. I saw
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that getting poured. Have you had one since this all started? Dude, my whole life has become Bud Light.
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I got to stack to the sea. It says, every one of my friends thinks it's a joke to bring me a 12 pack.
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Oh, so you just got a lot of free beer out of it. Yeah. Or shove, shove them in my golf bag. You know,
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they pop up everywhere. It's like, it's kind of become, you know, a fun thing for my friends to mess with me.
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But, you know, I'll drink, I'll drink any kind of cold, free beer. Let's put it that way.
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So that's like your main criterion, cold, free. Cold and free.
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Trump, you've seen Trump a lot recently. How's he doing?
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Toughest son of a bitch on the earth. He's doing great. It's incredible.
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You know, we just got to spend some time with him. Yeah. But you seem to be having more fun than
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You watch that video back. We're walking to the ring. It was looking all tough. You're like,
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this is the greatest day of my life. I loved it. Which was, that was so much fun. It was amazing.
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I love spending time with him, getting to know him, you know, since he became president the first
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few months, having dinner at the White House with him. And from there on, we've just really hit it
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off. And, you know, I can relate to in a lot of ways as somebody who might speak out of turn a
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little bit, say what's on his mind. But, you know, I think if you look at his track record and who he is as a
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whole, there's a lot more good there than anything. And I think people, you know, I could go both
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ways. I always say with me, you can go on the internet and you can make me out to be some crazy
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wild party animal who just has his middle fingers in the air and doesn't care. Or you can be someone
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who's a single father, loves his family, loves his country, does a lot of philanthropy. It's all there
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for the taking. And, you know, I try to see the good in people. I haven't always executed that correctly
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or, you know, on spot. But, you know, whatever it is, when I give it, it's 100% real.
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Well, so without, like, betraying the details of your conversations, you've been with Trump a bunch
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of times since he got indicted and the world has kind of crashed in around him. How does he see him?
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Oh, I mean, when we're golfing and we're hanging out in different scenarios here and there, it's
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his spirits are always up and he's always talking about this country. He's always talking about
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this country and how he wants to win for it. He likes to win at anything. Yeah, that's true.
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Anything. When we're golfing, like, you know, I won 100 bucks from him at the UFC. I don't
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think he was too happy about it. But what'd you bet on? We were betting on fights. You know,
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we're just picking guys, you know, to make it more interesting. Yeah. And man, somebody that's
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that's in that office, in any office, that wants to win for this country, I'm in. I've
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never seen anybody that wants to win for this country like that guy. And I don't think we'll
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ever see anything like it in our lifetime. To me, he's the greatest president we've had.
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And he's unaffected, in your experience, by everything that's happening.
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I don't want to speak out of school, you know, but, you know, yeah, who's not going to
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hem and haw a little bit about the people that are doing this to him? You know, these people
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in New York. It's a freaking joke. Yeah. I mean, one Google search on Zillow, property
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in Palm Beach, there's like a couple acres that comes up on the water. It's $200 million.
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Yeah. And they're like, Mar-a-Lago's only worth $17 million. It's like, well, you are a stupid
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son of a bitch if you say that. Yeah. You know, he gives out, he takes loans from the bank,
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whatever. He pays them all back. Everybody makes money. There's no crime here. Yeah. I just,
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you know, they're just, it's completely, anybody who can't see their fucking women,
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it's just blinded. Yeah. I know the guy speaks out of turn a little bit, says some things. I can
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relate. Yes. I do it myself, you know, quite often because I'm, I just say what's on my mind
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and I can get that, but I don't know how you look at his track record and what he did and how he had
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this country fired on all cylinders when he was in office. Everybody working, you know, military is
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the strongest. He's leading with, you know, strength and, uh, borders, you know, under control,
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just energy independent. You know, he could go on and on. I don't get it. You know, I understand
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because it seems like it's a lot of women like in my life and stuff. They're like, I don't like the
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way he talks. It's like, come on. You're not, you're not putting them in the office to hear him talk
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nice. How many years have we had of that people that it seems like everybody, you know, because
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everything is very polarized. I get it. And speaking of Bud Light, it's like, I wish those guys could take
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this opportunity. Maybe they could start a little civil discourse with the negative that's happened
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to them. Maybe they could figure out a way with that beard to kind of maybe bring people together
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a little bit. I don't know. I don't think they're going to hire me as the head of their marketing.
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They probably should. Yeah. Well, I like my day job. By the way, did they ever call you after you
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opened up on them with a machine gun? No, there's been some distributors who know, you know, who claim
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they know the people at top and this, that, and the other. I said, man, I'll sit down with anybody
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anytime. And, you know, we actually got to talk to the CEO, me and Trump the other night at the UFC
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fight. And I was standing behind me. I recognized, yeah, you were there. And I was like, that's kind
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of funny. I'm sitting there with Trump. And I'm like, hey, that dude behind us is the CEO of Anheuser-Busch.
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He's like, I don't give him some shit. I'm like, ew. Trump's like, let's go. And actually it was a really
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pointy conversation. The dude, that dude, his name's Brendan. He's in the CIA. He was a Marine.
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Yeah. He says when he got the videos of me shooting up the cans, he was hunting in Texas. I'm like,
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you sound like somebody I'd be friends with. Like, how'd you guys get this so wrong?
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And, you know, I, I hate speaking out of turn when I have conversations with people,
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but I don't think, remind this. I was like, when you did that morning show,
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were you coached? And he's like, I was, I was like, fire that fucking person. I was like,
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it's terrible. I was like, they asked you at one point, like, if you had the chance to send that
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can again, would you send it? And you go off on this. We've been supporting the ABCDLGBQ for 25
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years. I'm like, ah, what are you doing? I'm like, you don't have to throw anybody into the bus. All
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you have to do is say, while we want everyone to enjoy our beer, we know who our consumer is,
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and we got that one wrong. We're going to double down. We hear you. Our bad. Just say that.
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Everyone would have been like, okay, you still got to eat a little crow. It's like, it's like,
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you know, if you ever had infidelity in your life, it's like, you can't go to the person and
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just kind of sweep it under the rug and, you know, buy them a new ring or a car and think it's going
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to go, well, maybe a car, a car might work out. You can't just sweep it under the rug, throw money
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at it. I think it's going to go away. At some point, you got to be like, look, I screwed up. I got that
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one wrong. And then you probably still got to eat some crow for a while, which I think they have,
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you know, like I said, it's like, I don't want to be the face of crushing working class people's
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jobs. Not only their jobs, but their livelihoods. Oh, I agree. People's livelihoods.
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They work for that company. They're just like, Jesus, what happened? I know. It doesn't have
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any fight in it. You know, you hate to see people losing their jobs at any level. Two bottling
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plants closed. That's shocking. Because they screwed up. They made a mistake. All right. I'm over it.
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You know, I'm not, I'm like I said, I'm not going to, I don't, I'm not the type of person to kick a
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man when he's down. I agree completely. Completely. How'd you wind up with Dolly Parton?
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Um, you know, I've known her throughout the years here and there, you know, been friendly with her.
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She's just one of the greatest people on earth. Really? Oh, you've never met anybody
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so positive in your life. And you know, speaking of Dolly, we'll get it. She called me about doing
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the song. She'd wrote a song that she wanted to do with me, which ironically is about me
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cheating on her. I'm like, huh? Had you ever cheated on her? No, I haven't had the opportunity.
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I have not been given that opportunity yet. No, she's just the sweetest lady. You know,
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I just read something on her where I've never heard the word hate come out of her mouth.
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She just doesn't exist with her. She's just too sweet, too great. And I saw where she said,
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I hate cancel culture. I mean, that should sum it up right there. I think, I think most people,
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reasonable people, you got your small percentage of extremists on both sides of this thing and they
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make the most noise. They get the most headlines because you know, they're the most polarized and
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get the most clicks and views. I get it. I've played the game a little bit myself. I'm guilty of it.
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But, um, I think most people, you know, level-headed people with the shred of common sense are sick of
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all this stuff, this cancel culture and this, you know, God forbid, if you say something that's a
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little bit wrong or ruffle somebody's, you know, feathers, that you're going to lose your job or your
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social standing. You think it's going away? You think it's like reached its peak? I think it has.
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You know, it's going to be, it's going to be tough with this going into this election year.
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Yeah. Because it's going to get real polarizing again. And I don't think that's a bad thing in
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politics. It always kind of is. Yeah. But everything else, it's like all my friends who
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are Democrats, you know, in my business, I have a lot of them. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm the one that's
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the diverse one. Yeah. Like you're the one that you want inclusion. You know, they don't want to
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include media, people on their talk shows and all this stuff anymore. It's like, I'm the one that
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needs inclusion. I'm the weird one here. I don't fit the narrative and, and in this place of all
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these Hollywood and entertainers and singers and stuff like that.
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Doesn't seem to bother you at all though. No, no. But has it affected your relationships?
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I've never heard you say that it has. No, I think maybe one relationship. That's about
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it. But everyone, anyone I talk to, I'm over for dinner. Hang with the things differently.
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Like we always find more in common. Yeah. I'll be like, I love Trump. I can't stand a guy.
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I'm like, cool. You want to move on? Talk about something else? Yeah. All right. We find
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some other things that are in common. So, I mean, Dolly Parton took some crap for working
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with you. She doesn't seem to care. No. I think she handled it beautifully. She's
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like, I love everybody. Pretty simple answer. I mean, that's what I took away from it. She
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said more than that, but I took away. She said she loved everybody. And I was really proud
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to call her a friend at that moment. I think we need more of that in this country, especially
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coming from people like me, because I know sometimes I am the polarizing one. I am the loudest
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voice in the room. Will you do it with a machine gun? I am. Why wouldn't you? Who are you going
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on tour with this summer? Thank you for asking. So me and Jason Aldean are doing... What's
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he like? Jason, great kid. I've known him for years, since he was first coming up. Great
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guy. Great patriot. Talented singer, musician. So we're going to do seven festivals. I see
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a need when I partnered with these people, Premier Entertainment. It's called Rock the
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Country, rockthecountry.com. I see a need for a big portion of this country that's underserved
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entertainment-wise. And that's pretty prevalent when you see the success of shows like Yellowstone
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and Duck Dynasty, things like that. People are just starving for it. So we wanted to go
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out and give, you know, hardworking people that love this country a music festival, something
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for them. Like, you know, come show your patriotism, just like they do at my shows, but do
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with the force of people. You know, we got different lineups and there's seven small
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towns. What are they? It's places like Ocala, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, Rome, Georgia. There's
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Kentucky and Carolina. Like, rock and roll's not been too kind to my memory. That's pretty
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good, actually. Yeah, it's not bad. But there's seven of them. Rock the Country. And then, you
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know, we have people like Miranda Lambert on certain shows. Hank Williams Jr., Leonard Skinner,
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Bradley Gilbert, Travis Tritt, Nellie, Big and Rich for Gretchen Wilson. Just, you know,
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a whole cast of characters, which, like I said, just trying to provide something for,
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you know, these smaller towns where we have a lot more freedom to do things that we might
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not be able to do in the bigger cities. And especially to work with the local people
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there, whether it could be the police, firefighters, the city councils, whatever. We had all those
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people actually to my house in Nashville. Just all get on the same page because we want
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to make this experience great for these people. And I was, and we came up with the idea,
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let's have people that want to come from these towns, from these states. Some were
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senators, some were police chiefs, like I said, city council mayors. Let's have them
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up and break bread and just talk to them, try to get on the same page so we can try to create
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a great experience for people. Make no mistake, we would like to make some money out of this
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endeavor. Yeah. But, you know, we want it to be a win-win. We want the cities to win,
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you know, try to give back and do something good there. Well, that's going to sell out.
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I mean, the pre-sales went on sale today. So, seven shows. Does that wear you out?
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We're also doing, first, I did another business deal with the PBR, who does the rodeo.
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Yeah. Professional bull riders, and we're doing Kid Rock's Rockin' Rodeo at AT&T Stadium,
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Stadium in Dallas, where we're going to have rodeo teams compete against each other. And then
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I'm going to do music. I'm going to try, we're still figuring it out, but I want to make it
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more creative than some of the rodeos we played in the past, where the rodeo happens and
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then you play the show. Yeah. I'd like to kick the show off and, like, have horses ripping
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around with American flags, you know, play something in the middle. And, like, I mean,
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I'd like to put, like, midgets on mini bowls. Yes! You know, we'll see what happens.
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Is that allowed in Dallas now? Everything's allowed in Texas. That's true. So, that's what
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we're doing. We're going to play Sturges again this year, which I've played off and on for
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the last 20-some years, and that's my year. I think it's nine shows. That's amazing.
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So, the rodeo, have you ever been on any of the, like, have you ridden?
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I mean, we have horses. I'm not. You're not getting on a bowl?
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Getting on a bowl and I'm not jumping out of a plane. I'm not going up in the F-16.
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It, I mean, just like, big picture, you've not changed your views throughout all this
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last six years. You've been really direct. Have you lost anything? I mean, it's, it's
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It's kind of funny. I always joke. I'm like, I'll do or say something. It's a little outrageous.
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You know, it's people's panties in a bunch. It's a level. And somehow they give me more
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So, you've never, you can't, I mean, you're probably the only person who hasn't changed
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I'm, I'm open to changing my views. You know, I don't know at all. I don't claim
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No, but I mean, you haven't, you don't seem to be moderating your views on anything.
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I say what I think. Yeah. And if I get something wrong, I'm cool enough to go back and be like,
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yeah, I had that one wrong. I remember when it's happened, but I'm not bigger than that.
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But, you know, I've been the same way since I was young and since my, we'll call it my first
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successful, you know, Devil Without a Cause CD came out and I was running my mouth. There's
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metal fingers on the CD that I haven't changed.
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Times have changed, you know, and it's like, now you're not allowed to say that or do this.
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You have to be politically correct and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, that ain't no fun.
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So if you just like ignore it, it just doesn't affect you. Is that the lesson?
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You know, I, I live by my main motto, which a good friend of mine, excuse me, Rev Run,
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one of my heroes in music told me years ago from Run DMC, go where you're celebrated, not
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tolerated. Yeah. And that's what I do. That's where I choose to spend my time. And, you know,
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and thank God, you know, I've always been so big about family and friends because it's
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the oldest cliche. At the end of the day, that's, what's really there for you. And I'm blessed
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every day to have greatest family and greatest friends on earth. And I'm glad that, you know,
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I've really didn't let all this madness get in the way of that. You know, I've always tried
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to be there and take care of them and they've been there for me. And really, that's, that's
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what it is. And I met some of them, and I think that's right, but I judge a man by his
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dogs. I probably can't tell from this camera shot, but you brought a couple of your boykins
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here. Can, can we meet, you've got two spaniels here. Can you introduce one of them?
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This is Delta. I'm here by you. Okay. Dixie, come here. Dixie, come here. Dixie's a little
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one. Come here. Come here, Dixie. So these are boykins. She's a little one. Hey. She's a
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little one. How, how old is Dixie? She's old now. Is she 10? That's amazing. She's 10.
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Do you go everywhere with them? Uh, my fiance Audrey goes everywhere with them. Are you
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bringing them on tour? Nope. No. Select cities, maybe. They don't like the tour. Pyro freaks
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them out a little bit. Well, not Delta. She's trained on birds, so she doesn't mind. Yeah,
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I can tell. They're amazing, amazing bird dogs. Um, if you were to sort of, since you're pretty
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good at calling stuff, the next year, like a year from now will be November, 2024. What
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will things look like? I hope they look like, you know, Trump's back in office and, um, I
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would love that we controlled, you know, Congress and, um, that'd be a perfect case scenario for
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me, but, um, that's so difficult for me. You know, I, I know what I support and my views,
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but I'm really not Nostradamus when it comes to politics or anything. I don't want to act
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like I know it all. You know, I do study it. I probably watched a little more news than I
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should. Yeah. Um, I got my views, but yeah, it's going to be interesting. I, I just don't
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see how, like, you know, everyone's talking about, like, it can't run Biden against Trump.
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It's impossible. Of course. And if God forbid something did go wrong here in Biden, it would
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be for no other reason than just people's hatred for Trump. Yeah. You know, why don't
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people just give out policies? You know, I, I don't need my president to be a saint to
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get the job done. We haven't had any of those. I don't think. No, no, I don't think so. I
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don't know. But you said that if you were Bud Light, you would run a campaign bringing
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people together over your product. Hey, maybe they should make a blue hat that says make
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Bud Light great again. No, good point. But do you, I mean, do you see like the division
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getting better or worse? I, I honestly, I, I would, I would hope that it gets a little
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better. Yeah. I see that with my friends. Like I said, I haven't, I don't go around bragging
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about it. I probably got the most diverse band out there. Yeah. We have white people,
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hillbillies, we have black people, we have gay people. We, we got it all. Females, men.
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White people and hillbillies in two different categories. Yeah. But, you know, I see it
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just with, with my band where we all get along. We all joke about each other's backgrounds,
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our colors, our sexual preferences. Like we just give each other shit all the time and we
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get along. We're like family. We're not one of these bands that just sit each other
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whose throats fight. We all love each other and always have. We accept that we're all
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different and we're all just cool. And so I keep saying this, it's like, no one cares
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if you're gay anymore. We all got gay family members, friends, coworkers. It's like, just
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shut up about it. Like, I'm not going to like, Oh, you're gay. I'm not going to clap louder
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for you. All right. Just be cool. Be gay. Shut up. It's fine. Like, you know, no one cares.
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You know, the transgender thing is just a weird one. I don't, you know, it's like leave
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our kids out of it. Number one. But I, you know, to me, it looks like a mental illness.
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Yeah. You know, that's what I see. But at the same time, like that's, that's who you
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want to be. A lot of people fought and died for it. Go for it. We can exist in, you know,
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the same public spaces. So be it, you know, you're not going to be my first call to take
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out for a night out on the town probably, but I'm probably not yours. It's fine. Yeah.
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That's okay. And if you're different and you're weird, make no mistake. You get treated
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differently. When I was young, I had my hair up to here and my pants sagging, running around,
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you know, talking junk, you know, people gave me crap all the time, you know, but I was
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trying to be seen. If you want to be seen and you're going to go out and be different
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like that and dye your hair blue and put a bunch of nose rings. Some people are going
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to look at you differently. Some people are going to tease you a little bit, you know, whatever
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happened to sticks and stones. Yeah. You know, everyone's like, he teased me. I'm going to cancel
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you and sue you. And I'm going to tell on you. I just freaking, it's like we're racing
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it. Pardon my life. We're racing like a complete, you know, generation of fucking pussies.
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No, the pendulum always swings. I've seen that, you know, at 52 years old, I've seen that
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Yeah. So last question before we go get a cigar with your friend, John Daly. If you were
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to give advice to, you know, a 22 year old trying to enter the public sphere right now,
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what would it be? What sphere? Entertainment-wise? Either one. You know, you're the guy who wants
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people to look at you. Okay. Well, number one, work your ass off and be good at what you
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do. Be the best at it. And that takes a lot of time. You know, it took me 15 years, you
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know, in the trenches. Riding around in vans with U-Haul trailers, playing every little
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gig for, you know, 50 people. This, that, and the other. You know, it's the old cliche
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Work your butt off and try to be the best at what you do. Study your craft. Be knowledgeable
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about it. Be knowledgeable about it. Surround yourself with good people. Don't hang out with
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knuckleheads. That doesn't lead too many good spots. No, it doesn't. So, you know. So, work
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hard. Don't hang out with shitheads. Yeah. And be good at what you do. Be the best at what
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you do. Bobby, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Turner. Good to see you, man. Pleasure. I'm coming