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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load. The Michael Verie Show
is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well it becomes ours.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
How is that not stealing? I don't think I don't
think that. I'm explaining this very well. The seven eleven. Right,
you take a penny from the tray from the crippled children. No,
that's the job. I'm talking about the tray.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
The you know, the pennies for for everybody, oh, for everybody? Okay, yeah,
well those are whole pennies a right, all right, I'm
just talking about fractions of a penny here, okay. But
we do it from a much bigger tray, and we
do it a couple of million times, so what's wrong
with that?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
In a post on X, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty
facility in West Texas. DOJ also claims Endeavors received its
HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE
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employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit Endeavors.
Government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty
twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty
eight million.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And when you see the people, they are in Tennessee
paying fifty percent of their their income to state, federal,
and local taxes to other ends, you know, through everything else,
fees and everything else, and then they see us sending
literally billions overseased our animation. You know, I'm uncovered forty
million dollars going.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
To the Taliban.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
A guy named Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy
seal podcaster. He and another guy named Legend had brought
this to my attention. And you know, last term, I
could not even get the Democrats to bring it up
in the Senate. Had passing animus in the House, not
even a question because they're going to have to admit
they made a mistake, and they continuously made a mistake,
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and they did it on purpose.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is the worst part about it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
In this graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred
percent what it is, I think you're going to see
a piper trail.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Come back to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And that's why I think a lot of people are nervous,
and you'll see a lot of retirements because they are
stealing from the American taxpayer. And now they got their
handcott in the cookie jar, and all they can do
is attack Elon.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Muss Elon Musk leaving the government last night from the
quasi governmental agency for the DOGE of which he was
the spiritual and I guess ostensible fugitive titular leader, bringing
into question what will become of Doze. The Trump administration
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tends to operate based on a kind of top down,
vision oriented set of POL implementation the likes of which
I've never seen. Everyone in the Trump administration understands the
overarching goals values approach and they execute on that. You know,
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one of the things that President Trump did that I
think was very very effective was or has been, the
televised cabinet meetings. And the cabinet meeting is an accountability session.
It's what it is. Whether you've been part of a
workout group, a project in class, a unit of an
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organization that had to update on you know, sales this week,
or whatever else. We don't like to be held accountable
because it means that we will fall short and it
means that we have to push ourselves harder. It's a
it's a technique. Trump has run large, large organization for
a very long time. Almost nobody who becomes president has.
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And if you've never run a large organization, you have
no idea what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
None.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
You can't imagine, you think, you know, you think. You
just say, hey, we're going to do this, and everybody
does it. But unless you put in place the right
people who share that who understand that vision and share it,
and they are holding people accountable and you are holding
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them accountable. This is the sort of thing that the
average American does not know. Many of you do. The
average American sits in the stands and judges Nick Saban
or Bill Belichick as a coach and what they ought
to do. When these people have never coached anything, They
never coached lill League baseball. They don't know what they're
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talking about, but they think they know. There is a
false sense of confidence in one's own abilities and judgment
at that moment. Trump has this unique ability to implement
across a large organization a set of values that I've
never seen before. It is absolutely incredible. But one of
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the things that's very important is your relationship with Trump.
With Doze now lacking a person who has Trump's ear.
I fear that the efforts of Doge will peter out.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And that's too bad.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
The Big Beautiful Bill, after all was said and done,
did not actually implement the changes that Doze laid out.
And it's going to be interesting to see whether those
people lose heart because they're true believers. They're like a
Ron Paul convention. They're true believers in cutting the waste
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and doing what's necessary, no matter of the cost. Political
that is professional, that is I think Elon is going
to enter into a phase which his companies need at
Space six, at Starlink, at Tesla, at Neuralink, at the
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Boring Company.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I think his companies need when I say.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
His guidance, they need He's He's the face of all
these operations, as Steve Jobs was, as Warren Buffett is.
You know, when Warren Buffett talks about stepping down, immediately
shares a Birther Merkshire hat the way drop, Well, why
the fundamentals are in place. Warren Buffett's not touching every deal,
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he's not making every decision, but there's a general idea
that he's there, and that's important. Great leaders. Jim Collins
wrote in Good to Great create cultures that succeed him.
I don't think Elon was at Doze long enough to
create that culture, and I worry that it will peter
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out and nobody else could have pulled together the young
guns to bring in Aih in that manner and do
what they did.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That that was really special. It was a special moment, and.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Relatively speaking, very little actual cuts came of it. I
do think it's healthy to expose it. You know, the
seven hundred dollars toilet on the airplane from years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
The question is.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Do we become inured to these shocking things so much
so that the next time we're told we who cares
nothing to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Be done about it? It's the Michael Barry Shows. You
know him as the Motor City mad Man.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I know him as Uncle Ted, one of our favorite
guests of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Heck, one of our favorite people of all time.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Leave the music, the hunting, the cooking, the politics, just
an inspiration in life. Ted Nugent, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
You know, Mike, I feel welcome, And from a favorite
people to another favorite people. I'm talking to you from
a beautiful monsoon in Waco, Texas. So happy twenty twenty
five to you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
My friend.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, we got we needed it though, didn't we.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love the rain.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I love mother Nature even when she gives me the
middle finger. I love storms until the damage begins. But yeah,
I've got a beautiful ratch here in Texas and the
vegetation the range is lush and productive. The wildlife are celebrating.
They're growing many new backstraps for the fall harvest. So
I'm a happy, happy rock and roller.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Well, it's always a blast to have you on because
you bring such a message of hope, inspiration, dedication, commitment, motivation.
I think happiness is a choice that we make, and
more than happen is contentment, fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Per by golly, you found yours brother.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Well and Michael back at you. I mean, I'm addicted
to truth logic and common sense. Not my truth logic
and common sense, but the evidence drench truth logic and
common sense that you represent so eloquently, so beautifully, and
with the crowbar when necessary. But I listened to Michael
Berry Radio and you represent the heartbeat, the spirit, the attitude,
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the energy, the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hope, the dreams. I mean, I know this gets kind
of mushy, right now, not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We are coming out of enough about you, more about me.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We are coming well.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
We're coming out of a very heartbreaking toilet flush by
the Deep State Uncle Sam Joe Biden gang, and there
is unbelievable hope right now. I'll be seventy seven, and
I've never been more hopeful. I've never been more happy
with the direction of our country. And plus I just
had lunch with a bunch of heartwork in fellow Texas
here and the spirit and the work ethic godfamily country
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is now the battle cry that as ubiquitous across the land,
and my music represents that. You and I talking about
it represents that. So once again, thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's do something we don't do enough of them.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
We'll get back to politics and culture and life and
cooking and hunting. Let's talk about your music. The fiftieth
anniversary of Stranglehold. It's hard to believe. I don't know
if it's hard for you to believe. It's hard to
believe fifty years and I know you've got some very
exciting things for fans planned out for that.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Let's discuss that, well, am I not?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We've talked about this before that.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
My music has power and authority because of the incredible
musicians that have been at my side for the last
sixty five years.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And we recorded.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Stranglehold in nineteen seventy five with Rob Grange and Cliff
Davis and Derrick Saint Holmes, my producers, Tom Wrman and
engineer Tony Reality. Everybody just immersed themselves into the spirit,
the sound, the drum tones, the guitar tones, the bass tones,
the lyric content, the piss and the vinegar, the energy
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of that song. And people have embraced the songs Stranglehold
fifty years and onward, especially Michael, the Navy seals that
call me, the Army Rangers, the Green Beret Delta Force
that used that song during their training end when they're
putting their life on the line. And I can't imagine
a testimonial that gives a guy more confidence and happiness
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than a piece of music represents that to those superhuman beings.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So yeah, the fifty years of.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Straggling, by the way, I played it for a buddy
of mine in my man cave Cuckoo's Nest Arsenal Democracy
this morning, and the hairs on my arm stood up
fully erect because I still love the spirit of that song.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well, it is timeless, It is truly timeless, and I
don't know that we've ever done this. Let's talk about
where that song came from, because I believe that art
floats in the ether and you just grab hold of
it for a moment. But what was going on with you?
How did you first hear it? Were you noodling on
the guitar or did you hear it completely?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, I'm always playing.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
I played my guitar and shoot my bow and trained
with my firearms, literally, Michael, every day. It's just it's
stuff that I have a passion about. They all play
a pragmatic and inspirational purpose in my life. But in
my youth, I was always playing Chuck Berry and Bo
Diddley and Little Richard and Motown Funk Brothers, and the
right hand on my guitar developed a percussiveness, a rhythmical
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kind of a nugent MotorCity version of Bo Diddley's Chuck
A CHUCKA CHUCKA. And just one day I was tuning
my guitar and that happened. That move happened. There was
really nothing I could do about it. It had a heartbeat
of its own, and then the lyrics just flowed. The
lyrics are defiance against the music industry that turned me
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down for all those years because long guitarist Soldo don't
make it anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I need some pop music and disco's coming in, and
I said, yeah, well listen to this song, kids.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
So the song is one of defiance against an industry
that was losing its touch with the original black influences
of soul music and rhythm and blues inspired rock and roll.
So like this morning, Michael, this morning, I was playing
a Gibson Birdland through a Fender twin app and I'm
telling you all these new variations kind of a bastardized
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honky tonk meets boogie woogie, and there's always new topography
to explore on the guitar neck. And because I have
such a passion and a dedication to trying to be
Chuck Berry when I grow up, that all these new
lick patterns happened.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It happens all the time.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
You know, you have talked a lot over the years
in our conversations about Chuck Berry, and I think a
lot of young folks say, will have no idea how
big Chuck Berry was and also how influential Chuck Berry was.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Why is that for you?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Well, I think I've summarized it numerous times in interviews,
and the facts remain that there's not a piece of
music that is a bold, expansive statement, which I'm pretty
good at. But there isn't a piece of music, Michael Berry,
that you really get a kick out of and want
to turn up when it comes on the radio and
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makes your truck go faster that doesn't have an essence
of what Chuck Berry created cadence wise, rhythmically, upbeat, spirit wise, cocky, irreverent, fun.
There is not a powerful piece of music in anyone's life.
And I'd be glad to debate this for anybody that
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doesn't have a direct inspiration from Chuck Berry's catalog. I
don't care if it's country, I don't care if it's blues,
I don't care if it's rock and roll. Even a
lot of pop music they've got that chuck Berry cadence
that when you listen to Johnny Good or Carol or
Roll Over Beethoven or Sweet Sixteen, you listen to those
original Chuck berrysongs and it's a parent that all moving,
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authoritative music comes from that genius and Michael I played
bass guitar with Chuck Berry, which is why I am
like I am today.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Well, you know your life experiences. Of course they didn't
happen by chance. You made them happen. You major experience.
Oh I'm up against brak Hold in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uncle Ted Ted Nugent is our guest.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
You can find out more at Ted Nugent dot com
Ted Nugent dot com if you are a Nuge fan,
he's got some exciting stuff coming up at nuge vault
dot com, nuge vault dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Talk makes Romon Duck, King of Ding and this other guy,
Michael Barry. These are the kind of guys you like
a smack in your.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Uncle Ted Ted Nugent, the MotorCity Madman is our guest,
and normally over the years and it's been many that
he comes on the show, we talk about politics, we
talk about culture, We talk about who he's pissed off lately,
who he what changes he wants or We talk about
hunting and food and family and nature and faith and
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these important things. But today is a treat for me
because I figure he's tired of talking about music all
the time, and there's much more to him than that.
But today we're getting to talk about the music, and
that's a treat because I don't normally get to Uncle Ted.
You have something exciting going on at the nuge Vault,
which is nugevault dot com. Talk about that please.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well again, Michael, thanks bro letting me share my passions and.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
My love of music and the American dream with you.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm just such a lucky guy with all these incredible,
dedicated musicians at my side in twenty twenty five, with
John Koots on drums and Jason Heartless and Johnny Big
on base. We're playing Kenny Storr in Brendham Dextaves next weekend,
and we've been doing these speakes. He's around the state,
and I'm telling you, talking about defying gravity.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I am having more.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Guitar music fun in twenty twenty five doing these gigs
around my home state of Texas than I ever have.
In fact, I will be doing my seven thousandth concert.
And what happened during rehearsals and the barn in Michigan
is my drummer, Jason Hartless saw all these vats and
all these boxes piled sky high around my trucks and
my deer blinds, and he said, what's all that stuff?
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And I go, oh, those are old tapes of rehearsals
and jam sessions and recording sessions. He started digging, Michael.
He has unearthed the jam sessions and the songwriting sessions,
and the outtakes and the demos and the unfinished tapes
of all the recordings, thousands of concerts, and it's just
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fascinating history of not just ted neuja rock and roll,
but the origins of rock roll from the founding fathers
that Chuck Berry's and the Motown Funk Brothers, and now
at nuge Vault, it's fascinating a place called nuge vault
dot com. We've got these subscribers that are just doing
double backflips because of the outtakes and the demos and
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the jam sessions and a lot of my very fun
interviews like I do with Michael Berry. But all of
this is available at nuge vault dot com and people
are just getting having a riot with it, and so
am I, because it's really rekindling a lot of the
memories of just unbelievable moments where these songs happened, and
these jam sessions created these new songs, and these amazing
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musicians would collaborate with ideas. So it's nuge vault dot
com and we'll be exposing a lot of that on
a bunch of gigs here in Texas and then up
in Michigan in August.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You know, and I know that special for you.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You're a Texan now through and through, but I know
Michigan holds a special place in your heart. I had
a Sunday school teacher say to me twenty five years ago,
if you want to know who you said to all
of us in the class, We want know who you're
going to be five years from now. Look at your
closest friends, because they're going to pick you up or
they're going to drop you down. They're going to take
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you with them where they're going. That's where you're headed.
And it's interesting. I talk to a lot of musicians.
I'm passionate about music. I can't make music, but somebody
has to consume it, right, And I'm really passionate about
how the art is made and what it means to
people and these sorts of things. And you talk about collaboration,
every time you and I talk and I ask you
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a question about Ted Nugent and what Ted Nugent has done,
you always go to a Chuck Berry comes up a lot.
You always go to the influences and the collaboration. And
I think that's a takeaway whatever you're in, if you're
a financial advisor or a plant worker, the people you
surround yourself with and bounce off of are going to
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make you better or worse. And I hear that from
you every time I talk to you. How playing with
other pe people and their influences and those collaborations is
a thrill for you and has made you who you are.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And I think that's important.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I don't think there's anything more important.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
My dad used to say, as I was growing up,
tell me who you hang with, and I'll tell you
who you are.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I dismiss that in my stupidity of youth, but it
turned out to be true. And I have an inner circle,
quite an expansive inner circle, Michael, which, by the way,
you're a member of a good people of the spirit,
good will and decency, work, ethic, God family, country. Still
conduct our lives based on the Constitution, the build rights
and decoration of independence and commandments, the golden rule, law
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and order, good over evil, self defense, freedom of speech, etc.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Etc.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
And those are the people that I have accumulated in
my family, my friends, my band, my crew, my management,
my hunting buddies. I have a hunting operation called Sunrise Safaris,
and Michael I share campfires with hundreds and hundreds of
families every year. And that's why I salute you, because
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when you talk, you talk just like those families around
the campfire that put their heart and soul into being
the best that you can be. And when you put
your heart and soul into being the best that you
can be as a musician, great music happens. So I've
always surrounded myself with the best rhythm section, the best singers,
the best creators, and you hear that in the music.
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The performance that these guys put into my compositions is
every artist's dream, because there's a passion by the way
we keep mentioning Chuck Berry. Everybody in all of my
bands and all of my crew, everybody references Chuck Berry.
So that cadence, that spirit, that energy, that uppiness, that defiance,
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there's a lot of defiance in that music, and that's
what inspires us. And even though we're old men now, Michael,
when we get in the barn and start jamming, it's
like a bunch of kids. It's like a bunch of
kids that want to play Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley
and play motown hits.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
In fact, we do.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
That's how all of our rehearsals start with those classic songs.
And once you start hitting those rhythms and those movements,
all of a sudden, it can become your own when
you create your own chord patterns, your own melody, jo
own lyrics, and your own arrangements. And that's attributed to
these unbelievable musicians.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That are at my side again.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
John Kutz on drums out of Waco, Texas, Jason Hartless
on drums out of Nashville, Johnny Big out of Waco
here on bass and vocals. I hope you can come
to Brenham on Saturday, the thirty first of May. The
music has never been more tight. James Brown would hire
us as his band. We're so tight and so energetic.
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So these are the good old days of my music.
I'm telling you, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
The Kinney Store is where he's going to be by
the Way, which is a great, great venue owned by
two cops, and they're fantastic people.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They have a.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Very loyal audience there and get there early. The food
is actually amazing. Ted Nugent is our guest. You know,
you inspire me. You talk about your age and in
the number of years you've done this. Two of the
people I admire the most in the world for what
they do and their art and their craft or Hank
Williams Junior and Dan Paserini, both of whom turned seventy
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six on Tuesday this week. I got to tell you,
I bet when you were early in your career, nobody
would have said that Ted Nugent would be an inspiration
for longevity and happiness.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
But by golly, you have been. And that's that's in
and of itself incredible.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm on a mission from God, Michael. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
No, it's about it's about work ethics. It's about dedication
to providing for your family and being in the asset column,
being willing to make risks and sacrifice so that you're
again there's only two columns. There's the asset column and
there's a liability column. And my dad disciplined Slash forced
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us into being in the asset column, the productive members
of our family, our neighborhood, our community, our great nations,
and as a sportsman, as a hunter and a trapper
and a fisherman, an asset to the good earth that provides.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Us quality of life. So can you hold me? Sterious?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Mad Can you hold it this moment? Ted nug is
our guest. Ted Nugent dot com more coming on yest
lot of Buddhist.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Michael Berry, the Motor City Madman is our guest.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
He has stayed extra with us a new project called
the nuge Vault.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can find it.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
A nuge Vault dot Com is described as your front
row seat to submerge yourself in rock and roll history
like never before.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
This is occasioned by Ted Nugent's.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Celebration of the fiftieth five zero anniversary of his iconic
rock album Alan. It's an anthem album. Sorry I Lost
My train of thought, Stranglehold. He's got a speakeasy rockout
gig tour going on. He's going to be at the
Kenney Store this weekend on the thirty first. He's got
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a blank kicker. I'm not allowed to say it, but
it rhymes with pitt kicker speakeasy rockouts in Michigan and
Texas this spring and summer. Uncle Ted played for us
at the RCC, and I will tell you a couple
of takeaways I have from that, folks. Number one is
people love uncle Ted. We sold out just like that.
We sold out fast. Number two is we have never
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needed so much sound. There was an entire eighteen wheeler
of speakers that came in.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It was insane, I mean insane.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Number three, this guy's been doing this for more years
than I've been alive, and he does not mail it in.
You pay good money and he gives you everything he's
got on stage and before and after. And as a
venue owner, that mattered more to me than anything else.
And I don't know if I've ever thanked you for that,
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but that was a hell of a night.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Brother, every night.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Thank you for that, Michael. And you're right, there is
an energy level that the real music lovers bring to me,
and the inspiration from the audience is actually dangerous. I mean,
I sweat so much on stage. We have ducks on
the limit to come in because because they expicked to
flush a mallard from my puddle of sweat on stage. Yes,
there's a James Brown work ethic that we deliver every night.
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And I tell my band before we go on, tonight
is the most important concert of our life. And we
say that every night, because every night is the most
important concert of our life. We want to deliver the beast,
the grind, the groove, the fun, the spirit, the piss
and the vinegar, the middle finger against all things evil,
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which I weave into the wonderful, entertaining evening. But yeah, well,
thank you for that, because the people do rave about
our shows because I'm I'm out of control. I mean,
I get on stage. I can't wait to get on
stage and play these songs. As a guitar player, I
just happen to have created some of the most exciting
and fun guitar leaks to ever play. So I'm still
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like a crazy kid back in Detroit nineteen fifty nine
when I get ready to perform every night. And I
think the people have noticed that. They celebrate that, and
the reciprocity from audience to stage is like a tsunami
of energy. So once again, how lucky can I be?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
All Right, I'm going to ask you a series of questions,
but I'm not going to let ted nugent be ted nugent.
I just want you to give the shortest, most succinct
answer you can and without giving it much thought.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Just whatever pops in your brain.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
You're going to walk out right now and pick up
a bow and shoot it. It's the bow that's going
to allow you to be most accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What is it.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
I'm shooting a new Matthew's Lift lightweight, forty eight pound draw.
The mystical flight of the arrow has never been more
accurate with this technology.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So that's the bow of my choice these days?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Is there an arrow of choice? I don't know a
lot about.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Archery, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I'm shooting some gold tip arrows. They've been making the
ten neutent Zebra gold tip arrow for years. But I'm
also experimenting with a bunch of other arrows. That state
of archery and marksmanship, firearms and optics and AMMO is
at an all time high. So it's about what you're
most comfortable with, what feels good to you, and it
is important that that bow or that gun feels right,
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and that's the one you should shoot.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
All right, not your favorite. But if I asked you
right now to lay your hands, and it might be
on your hip, might be in your pocket, it might
be on the table next to you on the nearest handgun.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
What would it be?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
It's the same block model twenty ten millimeters on my
right hip, along with four magazines on my left hip.
Every day, everywhere, once Ted Nugent shows up, it is
no longer a gun free zone.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I probably all right?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
What about what knife you could lay your hands on
the fastest?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Right now, I've got.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
My old Victorianox pocket knife in my left pocket, and
I got a brand new steel Force a folding knife
on my right pocket, and I have a Leatherman tool
on my left hip.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I'm out of like a hardware store.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
What meat did you most enjoy that you ate at
home that you killed within the last week.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I would love the boy.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
A beautiful south pig right here on the North Boski
River with my bow and arrow, and she was just
about seventy five eighty pounds and it was the most
delicious maxtrap with garlic and pepper and honey. I swear
to God, it's the meat of the gods.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Now, will you make chops and bacon and all that
out of her?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Absolutely? Yeah, We use it all man, Good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What do they say that the router to the tutor,
that's the way to do it, especially with it.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Well, yeah, that's called the conservation, the wise use of
a natural resource. And I always say the cuter, the cruitter,
the sweeter the meat.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now is that a Is that a culinary reference?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think it is. That's why I like lamb chops
so much.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I do too. I like the lamb lollipops. I don't
know why that is, but it's.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yes, with the ball and you got to have the ball.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's just like it's it's a built in handle, you know,
it's like a toothbrush you can eat.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I absolutely absolutely love it. All right, tell me a
movie that you have watched in the last month. It
may not be the all time greatest or you're what
you want to be defined by that you really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. I love. I'm a
big fan of Revenge.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yes me to Vindication, very good.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Okay, tell me somebody that you are good friends with,
a celebrity from whatever field that people would be surprised
you're friends with because y'all may not share the same
political views.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Well, There's a gentleman who has a band called Rage
Against the Machine. His name is Tom Morello, and he
plays guitar and occasion with Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen
even though he had his foot in his mouth more
often than necessary. Bruce and Tom and I were all
raised on Chuck Berry and Mitch Ryder music, so I
will overlook the stupid politics and just jam on killer music.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
How's that.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I love it, and I can appreciate that the art
at that moment takes precedence. You know, it's really too
bad because Springsteen has written some really good stuff, and
I love his hard scrabble story, and I love his
truth and his how he stayed true to New Jersey
in the gritty, you know, New Jersey streets. But my goodness,
his mind is warped. It's absolutely warped. When's the last
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time you spoke to President Trump? I know he adores you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
I'm congratulating him, and I'm bringing a lot of important
issues to the forefront. Some people who have been illegally
law fared, like a felon farmer in Michigan who's never
been arrestler or given a speeding ticket, but he's now
a felon because he had a bad muffler on a
tractor according to the jack boot thugs.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Of the EPA.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
So we're seeking a pardon for this good man. Those
are the kinds of issues that I fight for every day,
and the Great Donald Trump, who's a real commander in chief,
he is addressing those.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We got a sheriff pardoned in.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
West Virginia who was law fared, and there's been so
much of that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
We've got a target rich environment out there.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, I think Ed Martin's going to do a great
job at that. Uncle Ted, I'm up against a break.
We always appreciate your time. Ted nugent dot com. You
can go to the nuge Vault nuge vault dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Love you, brother, I love you.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Back to Michael God's Feet, buddy, m HM
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load. The Michael Verie Show
is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well it becomes ours.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
How is that not stealing? I don't think I don't
think that. I'm explaining this very well. The seven eleven. Right,
you take a penny from the tray from the crippled children. No,
that's the job. I'm talking about the tray.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
The you know, the pennies for for everybody, oh, for everybody? Okay, yeah,
well those are whole pennies a right, all right, I'm
just talking about fractions of a penny here, okay. But
we do it from a much bigger tray, and we
do it a couple of million times, so what's wrong
with that?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
In a post on X, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty
facility in West Texas. DOJ also claims Endeavors received its
HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE
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employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit Endeavors.
Government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty
twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty
eight million.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And when you see the people, they are in Tennessee
paying fifty percent of their their income to state, federal,
and local taxes to other ends, you know, through everything else,
fees and everything else, and then they see us sending
literally billions overseased our animation. You know, I'm uncovered forty
million dollars going.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
To the Taliban.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
A guy named Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy
seal podcaster. He and another guy named Legend had brought
this to my attention. And you know, last term, I
could not even get the Democrats to bring it up
in the Senate. Had passing animus in the House, not
even a question because they're going to have to admit
they made a mistake, and they continuously made a mistake,
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and they did it on purpose.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is the worst part about it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
In this graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred
percent what it is, I think you're going to see
a piper trail.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Come back to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And that's why I think a lot of people are nervous,
and you'll see a lot of retirements because they are
stealing from the American taxpayer. And now they got their
handcott in the cookie jar, and all they can do
is attack Elon.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Muss Elon Musk leaving the government last night from the
quasi governmental agency for the DOGE of which he was
the spiritual and I guess ostensible fugitive titular leader, bringing
into question what will become of Doze. The Trump administration
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tends to operate based on a kind of top down,
vision oriented set of POL implementation the likes of which
I've never seen. Everyone in the Trump administration understands the
overarching goals values approach and they execute on that. You know,
(03:14):
one of the things that President Trump did that I
think was very very effective was or has been, the
televised cabinet meetings. And the cabinet meeting is an accountability session.
It's what it is. Whether you've been part of a
workout group, a project in class, a unit of an
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organization that had to update on you know, sales this week,
or whatever else. We don't like to be held accountable
because it means that we will fall short and it
means that we have to push ourselves harder. It's a
it's a technique. Trump has run large, large organization for
a very long time. Almost nobody who becomes president has.
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And if you've never run a large organization, you have
no idea what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
None.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
You can't imagine, you think, you know, you think. You
just say, hey, we're going to do this, and everybody
does it. But unless you put in place the right
people who share that who understand that vision and share it,
and they are holding people accountable and you are holding
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them accountable. This is the sort of thing that the
average American does not know. Many of you do. The
average American sits in the stands and judges Nick Saban
or Bill Belichick as a coach and what they ought
to do. When these people have never coached anything, They
never coached lill League baseball. They don't know what they're
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talking about, but they think they know. There is a
false sense of confidence in one's own abilities and judgment
at that moment. Trump has this unique ability to implement
across a large organization a set of values that I've
never seen before. It is absolutely incredible. But one of
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the things that's very important is your relationship with Trump.
With Doze now lacking a person who has Trump's ear.
I fear that the efforts of Doge will peter out.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And that's too bad.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
The Big Beautiful Bill, after all was said and done,
did not actually implement the changes that Doze laid out.
And it's going to be interesting to see whether those
people lose heart because they're true believers. They're like a
Ron Paul convention. They're true believers in cutting the waste
(05:57):
and doing what's necessary, no matter of the cost. Political
that is professional, that is I think Elon is going
to enter into a phase which his companies need at
Space six, at Starlink, at Tesla, at Neuralink, at the
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Boring Company.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I think his companies need when I say.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
His guidance, they need He's He's the face of all
these operations, as Steve Jobs was, as Warren Buffett is.
You know, when Warren Buffett talks about stepping down, immediately
shares a Birther Merkshire hat the way drop, Well, why
the fundamentals are in place. Warren Buffett's not touching every deal,
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he's not making every decision, but there's a general idea
that he's there, and that's important. Great leaders. Jim Collins
wrote in Good to Great create cultures that succeed him.
I don't think Elon was at Doze long enough to
create that culture, and I worry that it will peter
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out and nobody else could have pulled together the young
guns to bring in Aih in that manner and do
what they did.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That that was really special. It was a special moment, and.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Relatively speaking, very little actual cuts came of it. I
do think it's healthy to expose it. You know, the
seven hundred dollars toilet on the airplane from years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
The question is.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Do we become inured to these shocking things so much
so that the next time we're told we who cares
nothing to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Be done about it? It's the Michael Barry Shows. You
know him as the Motor City mad Man.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
I know him as Uncle Ted, one of our favorite
guests of all time.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Heck, one of our favorite people of all time.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Leave the music, the hunting, the cooking, the politics, just
an inspiration in life. Ted Nugent, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
You know, Mike, I feel welcome, And from a favorite
people to another favorite people. I'm talking to you from
a beautiful monsoon in Waco, Texas. So happy twenty twenty
five to you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
My friend.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, we got we needed it though, didn't we.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love the rain.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I love mother Nature even when she gives me the
middle finger. I love storms until the damage begins. But yeah,
I've got a beautiful ratch here in Texas and the
vegetation the range is lush and productive. The wildlife are celebrating.
They're growing many new backstraps for the fall harvest. So
I'm a happy, happy rock and roller.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Well, it's always a blast to have you on because
you bring such a message of hope, inspiration, dedication, commitment, motivation.
I think happiness is a choice that we make, and
more than happen is contentment, fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Per by golly, you found yours brother.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Well and Michael back at you. I mean, I'm addicted
to truth logic and common sense. Not my truth logic
and common sense, but the evidence drench truth logic and
common sense that you represent so eloquently, so beautifully, and
with the crowbar when necessary. But I listened to Michael
Berry Radio and you represent the heartbeat, the spirit, the attitude,
(09:24):
the energy, the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hope, the dreams. I mean, I know this gets kind
of mushy, right now, not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We are coming out of enough about you, more about me.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We are coming well.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
We're coming out of a very heartbreaking toilet flush by
the Deep State Uncle Sam Joe Biden gang, and there
is unbelievable hope right now. I'll be seventy seven, and
I've never been more hopeful. I've never been more happy
with the direction of our country. And plus I just
had lunch with a bunch of heartwork in fellow Texas
here and the spirit and the work ethic godfamily country
(09:58):
is now the battle cry that as ubiquitous across the land,
and my music represents that. You and I talking about
it represents that. So once again, thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's do something we don't do enough of them.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
We'll get back to politics and culture and life and
cooking and hunting. Let's talk about your music. The fiftieth
anniversary of Stranglehold. It's hard to believe. I don't know
if it's hard for you to believe. It's hard to
believe fifty years and I know you've got some very
exciting things for fans planned out for that.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Let's discuss that, well, am I not?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We've talked about this before that.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
My music has power and authority because of the incredible
musicians that have been at my side for the last
sixty five years.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And we recorded.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Stranglehold in nineteen seventy five with Rob Grange and Cliff
Davis and Derrick Saint Holmes, my producers, Tom Wrman and
engineer Tony Reality. Everybody just immersed themselves into the spirit,
the sound, the drum tones, the guitar tones, the bass tones,
the lyric content, the piss and the vinegar, the energy
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of that song. And people have embraced the songs Stranglehold
fifty years and onward, especially Michael, the Navy seals that
call me, the Army Rangers, the Green Beret Delta Force
that used that song during their training end when they're
putting their life on the line. And I can't imagine
a testimonial that gives a guy more confidence and happiness
(11:27):
than a piece of music represents that to those superhuman beings.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So yeah, the fifty years of.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Straggling, by the way, I played it for a buddy
of mine in my man cave Cuckoo's Nest Arsenal Democracy
this morning, and the hairs on my arm stood up
fully erect because I still love the spirit of that song.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well, it is timeless, It is truly timeless, and I
don't know that we've ever done this. Let's talk about
where that song came from, because I believe that art
floats in the ether and you just grab hold of
it for a moment. But what was going on with you?
How did you first hear it? Were you noodling on
the guitar or did you hear it completely?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, I'm always playing.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
I played my guitar and shoot my bow and trained
with my firearms, literally, Michael, every day. It's just it's
stuff that I have a passion about. They all play
a pragmatic and inspirational purpose in my life. But in
my youth, I was always playing Chuck Berry and Bo
Diddley and Little Richard and Motown Funk Brothers, and the
right hand on my guitar developed a percussiveness, a rhythmical
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kind of a nugent MotorCity version of Bo Diddley's Chuck
A CHUCKA CHUCKA. And just one day I was tuning
my guitar and that happened. That move happened. There was
really nothing I could do about it. It had a heartbeat
of its own, and then the lyrics just flowed. The
lyrics are defiance against the music industry that turned me
(12:56):
down for all those years because long guitarist Soldo don't
make it anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I need some pop music and disco's coming in, and
I said, yeah, well listen to this song, kids.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
So the song is one of defiance against an industry
that was losing its touch with the original black influences
of soul music and rhythm and blues inspired rock and roll.
So like this morning, Michael, this morning, I was playing
a Gibson Birdland through a Fender twin app and I'm
telling you all these new variations kind of a bastardized
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honky tonk meets boogie woogie, and there's always new topography
to explore on the guitar neck. And because I have
such a passion and a dedication to trying to be
Chuck Berry when I grow up, that all these new
lick patterns happened.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It happens all the time.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
You know, you have talked a lot over the years
in our conversations about Chuck Berry, and I think a
lot of young folks say, will have no idea how
big Chuck Berry was and also how influential Chuck Berry was.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Why is that for you?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Well, I think I've summarized it numerous times in interviews,
and the facts remain that there's not a piece of
music that is a bold, expansive statement, which I'm pretty
good at. But there isn't a piece of music, Michael Berry,
that you really get a kick out of and want
to turn up when it comes on the radio and
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makes your truck go faster that doesn't have an essence
of what Chuck Berry created cadence wise, rhythmically, upbeat, spirit wise, cocky, irreverent, fun.
There is not a powerful piece of music in anyone's life.
And I'd be glad to debate this for anybody that
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doesn't have a direct inspiration from Chuck Berry's catalog. I
don't care if it's country, I don't care if it's blues,
I don't care if it's rock and roll. Even a
lot of pop music they've got that chuck Berry cadence
that when you listen to Johnny Good or Carol or
Roll Over Beethoven or Sweet Sixteen, you listen to those
original Chuck berrysongs and it's a parent that all moving,
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authoritative music comes from that genius and Michael I played
bass guitar with Chuck Berry, which is why I am
like I am today.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I promise you.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Well, you know your life experiences. Of course they didn't
happen by chance. You made them happen. You major experience.
Oh I'm up against brak Hold in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uncle Ted Ted Nugent is our guest.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
You can find out more at Ted Nugent dot com
Ted Nugent dot com if you are a Nuge fan,
he's got some exciting stuff coming up at nuge vault
dot com, nuge vault dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Talk makes Romon Duck, King of Ding and this other guy,
Michael Barry. These are the kind of guys you like
a smack in your.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Uncle Ted Ted Nugent, the MotorCity Madman is our guest,
and normally over the years and it's been many that
he comes on the show, we talk about politics, we
talk about culture, We talk about who he's pissed off lately,
who he what changes he wants or We talk about
hunting and food and family and nature and faith and
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these important things. But today is a treat for me
because I figure he's tired of talking about music all
the time, and there's much more to him than that.
But today we're getting to talk about the music, and
that's a treat because I don't normally get to Uncle Ted.
You have something exciting going on at the nuge Vault,
which is nugevault dot com. Talk about that please.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well again, Michael, thanks bro letting me share my passions and.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
My love of music and the American dream with you.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm just such a lucky guy with all these incredible,
dedicated musicians at my side in twenty twenty five, with
John Koots on drums and Jason Heartless and Johnny Big
on base. We're playing Kenny Storr in Brendham Dextaves next weekend,
and we've been doing these speakes. He's around the state,
and I'm telling you, talking about defying gravity.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I am having more.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Guitar music fun in twenty twenty five doing these gigs
around my home state of Texas than I ever have.
In fact, I will be doing my seven thousandth concert.
And what happened during rehearsals and the barn in Michigan
is my drummer, Jason Hartless saw all these vats and
all these boxes piled sky high around my trucks and
my deer blinds, and he said, what's all that stuff?
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And I go, oh, those are old tapes of rehearsals
and jam sessions and recording sessions. He started digging, Michael.
He has unearthed the jam sessions and the songwriting sessions,
and the outtakes and the demos and the unfinished tapes
of all the recordings, thousands of concerts, and it's just
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fascinating history of not just ted neuja rock and roll,
but the origins of rock roll from the founding fathers
that Chuck Berry's and the Motown Funk Brothers, and now
at nuge Vault, it's fascinating a place called nuge vault
dot com. We've got these subscribers that are just doing
double backflips because of the outtakes and the demos and
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the jam sessions and a lot of my very fun
interviews like I do with Michael Berry. But all of
this is available at nuge vault dot com and people
are just getting having a riot with it, and so
am I, because it's really rekindling a lot of the
memories of just unbelievable moments where these songs happened, and
these jam sessions created these new songs, and these amazing
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musicians would collaborate with ideas. So it's nuge vault dot
com and we'll be exposing a lot of that on
a bunch of gigs here in Texas and then up
in Michigan in August.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You know, and I know that special for you.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You're a Texan now through and through, but I know
Michigan holds a special place in your heart. I had
a Sunday school teacher say to me twenty five years ago,
if you want to know who you said to all
of us in the class, We want know who you're
going to be five years from now. Look at your
closest friends, because they're going to pick you up or
they're going to drop you down. They're going to take
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you with them where they're going. That's where you're headed.
And it's interesting. I talk to a lot of musicians.
I'm passionate about music. I can't make music, but somebody
has to consume it, right, And I'm really passionate about
how the art is made and what it means to
people and these sorts of things. And you talk about collaboration,
every time you and I talk and I ask you
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a question about Ted Nugent and what Ted Nugent has done,
you always go to a Chuck Berry comes up a lot.
You always go to the influences and the collaboration. And
I think that's a takeaway whatever you're in, if you're
a financial advisor or a plant worker, the people you
surround yourself with and bounce off of are going to
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make you better or worse. And I hear that from
you every time I talk to you. How playing with
other pe people and their influences and those collaborations is
a thrill for you and has made you who you are.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And I think that's important.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I don't think there's anything more important.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
My dad used to say, as I was growing up,
tell me who you hang with, and I'll tell you
who you are.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I dismiss that in my stupidity of youth, but it
turned out to be true. And I have an inner circle,
quite an expansive inner circle, Michael, which, by the way,
you're a member of a good people of the spirit,
good will and decency, work, ethic, God family, country. Still
conduct our lives based on the Constitution, the build rights
and decoration of independence and commandments, the golden rule, law
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and order, good over evil, self defense, freedom of speech, etc.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Etc.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
And those are the people that I have accumulated in
my family, my friends, my band, my crew, my management,
my hunting buddies. I have a hunting operation called Sunrise Safaris,
and Michael I share campfires with hundreds and hundreds of
families every year. And that's why I salute you, because
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when you talk, you talk just like those families around
the campfire that put their heart and soul into being
the best that you can be. And when you put
your heart and soul into being the best that you
can be as a musician, great music happens. So I've
always surrounded myself with the best rhythm section, the best singers,
the best creators, and you hear that in the music.
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The performance that these guys put into my compositions is
every artist's dream, because there's a passion by the way
we keep mentioning Chuck Berry. Everybody in all of my
bands and all of my crew, everybody references Chuck Berry.
So that cadence, that spirit, that energy, that uppiness, that defiance,
(21:54):
there's a lot of defiance in that music, and that's
what inspires us. And even though we're old men now, Michael,
when we get in the barn and start jamming, it's
like a bunch of kids. It's like a bunch of
kids that want to play Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley
and play motown hits.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
In fact, we do.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
That's how all of our rehearsals start with those classic songs.
And once you start hitting those rhythms and those movements,
all of a sudden, it can become your own when
you create your own chord patterns, your own melody, jo
own lyrics, and your own arrangements. And that's attributed to
these unbelievable musicians.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That are at my side again.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
John Kutz on drums out of Waco, Texas, Jason Hartless
on drums out of Nashville, Johnny Big out of Waco
here on bass and vocals. I hope you can come
to Brenham on Saturday, the thirty first of May. The
music has never been more tight. James Brown would hire
us as his band. We're so tight and so energetic.
(22:55):
So these are the good old days of my music.
I'm telling you, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
The Kinney Store is where he's going to be by
the Way, which is a great, great venue owned by
two cops, and they're fantastic people.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They have a.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Very loyal audience there and get there early. The food
is actually amazing. Ted Nugent is our guest. You know,
you inspire me. You talk about your age and in
the number of years you've done this. Two of the
people I admire the most in the world for what
they do and their art and their craft or Hank
Williams Junior and Dan Paserini, both of whom turned seventy
(23:29):
six on Tuesday this week. I got to tell you,
I bet when you were early in your career, nobody
would have said that Ted Nugent would be an inspiration
for longevity and happiness.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
But by golly, you have been. And that's that's in
and of itself incredible.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm on a mission from God, Michael. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
No, it's about it's about work ethics. It's about dedication
to providing for your family and being in the asset column,
being willing to make risks and sacrifice so that you're
again there's only two columns. There's the asset column and
there's a liability column. And my dad disciplined Slash forced
(24:11):
us into being in the asset column, the productive members
of our family, our neighborhood, our community, our great nations,
and as a sportsman, as a hunter and a trapper
and a fisherman, an asset to the good earth that provides.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Us quality of life. So can you hold me? Sterious?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Mad Can you hold it this moment? Ted nug is
our guest. Ted Nugent dot com more coming on yest
lot of Buddhist.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Michael Berry, the Motor City Madman is our guest.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
He has stayed extra with us a new project called
the nuge Vault.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can find it.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
A nuge Vault dot Com is described as your front
row seat to submerge yourself in rock and roll history
like never before.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
This is occasioned by Ted Nugent's.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Celebration of the fiftieth five zero anniversary of his iconic
rock album Alan. It's an anthem album. Sorry I Lost
My train of thought, Stranglehold. He's got a speakeasy rockout
gig tour going on. He's going to be at the
Kenney Store this weekend on the thirty first. He's got
(25:26):
a blank kicker. I'm not allowed to say it, but
it rhymes with pitt kicker speakeasy rockouts in Michigan and
Texas this spring and summer. Uncle Ted played for us
at the RCC, and I will tell you a couple
of takeaways I have from that, folks. Number one is
people love uncle Ted. We sold out just like that.
We sold out fast. Number two is we have never
(25:49):
needed so much sound. There was an entire eighteen wheeler
of speakers that came in.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It was insane, I mean insane.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Number three, this guy's been doing this for more years
than I've been alive, and he does not mail it in.
You pay good money and he gives you everything he's
got on stage and before and after. And as a
venue owner, that mattered more to me than anything else.
And I don't know if I've ever thanked you for that,
(26:20):
but that was a hell of a night.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Brother, every night.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Thank you for that, Michael. And you're right, there is
an energy level that the real music lovers bring to me,
and the inspiration from the audience is actually dangerous. I mean,
I sweat so much on stage. We have ducks on
the limit to come in because because they expicked to
flush a mallard from my puddle of sweat on stage. Yes,
there's a James Brown work ethic that we deliver every night.
(26:47):
And I tell my band before we go on, tonight
is the most important concert of our life. And we
say that every night, because every night is the most
important concert of our life. We want to deliver the beast,
the grind, the groove, the fun, the spirit, the piss
and the vinegar, the middle finger against all things evil,
(27:09):
which I weave into the wonderful, entertaining evening. But yeah, well,
thank you for that, because the people do rave about
our shows because I'm I'm out of control. I mean,
I get on stage. I can't wait to get on
stage and play these songs. As a guitar player, I
just happen to have created some of the most exciting
and fun guitar leaks to ever play. So I'm still
(27:29):
like a crazy kid back in Detroit nineteen fifty nine
when I get ready to perform every night. And I
think the people have noticed that. They celebrate that, and
the reciprocity from audience to stage is like a tsunami
of energy. So once again, how lucky can I be?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
All Right, I'm going to ask you a series of questions,
but I'm not going to let ted nugent be ted nugent.
I just want you to give the shortest, most succinct
answer you can and without giving it much thought.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Just whatever pops in your brain.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
You're going to walk out right now and pick up
a bow and shoot it. It's the bow that's going
to allow you to be most accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What is it.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
I'm shooting a new Matthew's Lift lightweight, forty eight pound draw.
The mystical flight of the arrow has never been more
accurate with this technology.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So that's the bow of my choice these days?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Is there an arrow of choice? I don't know a
lot about.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Archery, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I'm shooting some gold tip arrows. They've been making the
ten neutent Zebra gold tip arrow for years. But I'm
also experimenting with a bunch of other arrows. That state
of archery and marksmanship, firearms and optics and AMMO is
at an all time high. So it's about what you're
most comfortable with, what feels good to you, and it
is important that that bow or that gun feels right,
(28:46):
and that's the one you should shoot.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
All right, not your favorite. But if I asked you
right now to lay your hands, and it might be
on your hip, might be in your pocket, it might
be on the table next to you on the nearest handgun.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
What would it be?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
It's the same block model twenty ten millimeters on my
right hip, along with four magazines on my left hip.
Every day, everywhere, once Ted Nugent shows up, it is
no longer a gun free zone.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I probably all right?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
What about what knife you could lay your hands on
the fastest?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Right now, I've got.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
My old Victorianox pocket knife in my left pocket, and
I got a brand new steel Force a folding knife
on my right pocket, and I have a Leatherman tool
on my left hip.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I'm out of like a hardware store.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
What meat did you most enjoy that you ate at
home that you killed within the last week.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I would love the boy.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
A beautiful south pig right here on the North Boski
River with my bow and arrow, and she was just
about seventy five eighty pounds and it was the most
delicious maxtrap with garlic and pepper and honey. I swear
to God, it's the meat of the gods.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Now, will you make chops and bacon and all that
out of her?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Absolutely? Yeah, We use it all man, Good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What do they say that the router to the tutor,
that's the way to do it, especially with it.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Well, yeah, that's called the conservation, the wise use of
a natural resource. And I always say the cuter, the cruitter,
the sweeter the meat.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now is that a Is that a culinary reference?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think it is. That's why I like lamb chops
so much.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I do too. I like the lamb lollipops. I don't
know why that is, but it's.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yes, with the ball and you got to have the ball.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's just like it's it's a built in handle, you know,
it's like a toothbrush you can eat.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I absolutely absolutely love it. All right, tell me a
movie that you have watched in the last month. It
may not be the all time greatest or you're what
you want to be defined by that you really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. I love. I'm a
big fan of Revenge.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yes me to Vindication, very good.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Okay, tell me somebody that you are good friends with,
a celebrity from whatever field that people would be surprised
you're friends with because y'all may not share the same
political views.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Well, There's a gentleman who has a band called Rage
Against the Machine. His name is Tom Morello, and he
plays guitar and occasion with Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen
even though he had his foot in his mouth more
often than necessary. Bruce and Tom and I were all
raised on Chuck Berry and Mitch Ryder music, so I
will overlook the stupid politics and just jam on killer music.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
How's that.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I love it, and I can appreciate that the art
at that moment takes precedence. You know, it's really too
bad because Springsteen has written some really good stuff, and
I love his hard scrabble story, and I love his
truth and his how he stayed true to New Jersey
in the gritty, you know, New Jersey streets. But my goodness,
his mind is warped. It's absolutely warped. When's the last
(32:04):
time you spoke to President Trump? I know he adores you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
I'm congratulating him, and I'm bringing a lot of important
issues to the forefront. Some people who have been illegally
law fared, like a felon farmer in Michigan who's never
been arrestler or given a speeding ticket, but he's now
a felon because he had a bad muffler on a
tractor according to the jack boot thugs.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Of the EPA.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
So we're seeking a pardon for this good man. Those
are the kinds of issues that I fight for every day,
and the Great Donald Trump, who's a real commander in chief,
he is addressing those.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We got a sheriff pardoned in.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
West Virginia who was law fared, and there's been so
much of that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
We've got a target rich environment out there.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, I think Ed Martin's going to do a great
job at that. Uncle Ted, I'm up against a break.
We always appreciate your time. Ted nugent dot com. You
can go to the nuge Vault nuge vault dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Love you, brother, I love you.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Back to Michael God's Feet, buddy, m HM
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