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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This one's for Charlotte Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I was tricking up the highway, mining my only with
some dude in a Prius winn and slipping off gets
my red neck hit him wrong. Seems like everyone these days.
It's a ticking time bob, full of hate for folks
like me who don't agree and ain't ever gone a change.
(00:32):
And it gets me thinking long hair country for a
long and I started singing alonger than lying in the salt,
Sweet Home Alabama, a home million. Well remember a Southern man,
(00:55):
don't need him around in a house.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Ted Nugent with the number one iTunes video WWCDD. What
would Charlie Daniels do with Ira Dean, of course? And
the MotorCity Madman, who you may be see on the
Outdoor Channel or maybe see in one of his many concerts,
is on our radio stage right now. You can see
him on stage throughout Michigan, lest you think he has
(01:23):
abandoned the winter Water Wonderland and the Winter Wonderland for Texas.
You can see him in Lexington August twenty fifth and
twenty sixth, and then the schedule goes on through the
end of August in Saginaw and Luddington and Papa, my
favorite city in the States, and then of course Sterling
(01:43):
Heights in the Detroit area too for tickets and all
things nuge Ted Nugent dot com. Ted Nugent is back
on our radio stage right now. Thank you for being here,
and welcome back to the program, and welcome back to Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, thank you very much, Michael. If feel like my
birth state is sacred ground, so thank you for having
me on the Michigan Big Show. My life is a
Michigan Big Show.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
By the way, that is clear and perhaps even oversized.
One might say, and I read your op ed, but
I have to say it's much more fun to listen
to the testimony you gave at the State of Michigan
than to read it on the paper.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I'm a truth logic, common sense guy. I was
born in Detroit nineteen forty eight, when it was considered
worldwide the work epicenter of the world, certainly the arsenal
of democracy, where goodwill and decency and neighborliness and conscientiousness
and good over evil was the battle cry of the
American dream and it still is. I could be spoiled
(02:42):
between my band and my family and my crew and
my hunting buddies and everybody I hang around with. That
work ethic is still alive and well, even more intense,
I believe today. But when I see the bureaucrats literally
chipping away, and of course in Michigan now we're laughed
across the country is like a suburb of sand for
Cisco politically, and so I fight, fight, fight for God, family, country,
(03:05):
law and order, work, ethic, constitution, build a rights, ten commandments,
Golden Rule, you know all that radical stuff. Michael, I'm
so radical.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, we played your testimony on the radio on thirteen
stations across the state of Michigan, and I'm now reading
that it was radical of you to be armed when
you went to that testimony that seemed to get people
cranked up. Were you packing?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, you know, I got this funny instinct, Actually, it's
rather effervescent masculinity freedom instinct, where I have a first
amendment whether somebody hands me a piece of paper or not,
and I have a second amendment, it's an individual right
from God to keep and bear arms. So call me radical,
call me extreme, but call me armed.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well that I take that as a yes. And you
called the people you.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Were, well, you know I value I value my precious
gift of life. I'm seventy seven years clean and sober,
and if you met my wife and my kids and
my grandkids, I have an intellectual, moral, and spiritual obligation
to get home at night. Now, with engineered recidivism and
the celebration of crime, I'm ready to defend my precious
(04:15):
gift of life. So unarmed and helpless is really a
foolish and irresponsible decision to make. I've never made that mistake.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They didn't much like it when you called them insane.
They said it was insulting.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, isn't that amazing typical bureaucracy when I'm conveying heartfelt
and heartbreaking testimony from people who stop Shamaine and I
everywhere we go with just tragic stories of abuse of
power by game wards enforcing immoral laws. Just literally, it's
not a disagreement to shoot a ribbi in the sky,
(04:51):
a federal migratory game bird, the San Hill crane, which
is overpopulated by any measure. In the great state of Michigan.
The farmers are losing tens of millions of dollars in
agriculture every year to Samuel cranes, and these numb nuts
won't open the season. But if they give you a
piece of paper, you can kill a ribbi in the sky,
(05:11):
but the law forbids you to consume it. That, Michael,
is the definition of insanity and I don't play that game.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
What does that sand hill crane taste like? I know
you said, Rabbi in the sky? Is that accurate?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It is accurate. I mean again, Michigan produces more sand
hill cranes than most of the states that have open seasons.
What kind of fools would be in a room identify
the waste of agriculture and the tax dollar waste reimbursing farmers,
and no, damn well that sand hill cranes are at
(05:46):
an all time population and notably overpopulation, and they won't
open the season. I mean that. I don't know what
makes these people think, but they're wrong. I find it
absolutely abhorrent that you can kill a sandhill crane with
a piece of paper issued by the DNR, but you're
(06:07):
forbidden to consume a ribin in the sky. They're delicious.
It's a precious natural resource, a renewable resource, and every
state has laws against wanton waste which is again so
unethical to just kill something and leave it to rotten
the field. That's the law in Michigan. You just got
(06:29):
to be kidding me. I'm not putting up with it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I was intrigued too to read about what you call
the real world healing powers of nature. That was powerful
to me.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It is powerful. I think people are waking up to
what the conservation hunting, fishing, trapping, outdoors, farming, ranching, real grounded,
down to earth families have always known, and what Fred
Barrett quoted the Great, the great visionary. I was born
in Pennsylvania, but came to Michigan at an early to
create bar archery and the mystical flight of the martial
(07:05):
arts aero lifestyle. In bow hunting, nature cleanses the soul again.
I'm an old, crazy, wild rocker. Nobody's wilder than I am.
Nobody's crazier than I am. But I am down to
earth and grounded because I have never missed a hunting season.
And you learn to revere our moral obligation as resource stewards.
(07:29):
And when that sun comes up in the deer blind
or the duck blind, and you've got family and friends
and your loving dogs, next to you. It is perfection personified.
And that's why I've been clean and sober all my life,
because I don't want to fog those magic moments with
my brothers and sisters, my wife, my kids, and my
grandkids in the great outdoors. And that really is a
(07:52):
powerful pulse in the conservation families of Michigan. And the
director of the Natural Resource a Commission was insulted that
I conveyed stories from these families. That's insulting. He should
be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm reading a story in the last minute that we
have of a hunter fifty two years old who was
gored to death by a black death buffalo, three thousand
pounder he was trying to kill on a ten thousand
dollars safari. Sometimes the animals win.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, yeah, that's the challenge. That's why it's called a sport.
Some of these animals are dangerous. I've hunted kpe buffalo
and elephants in Africa, and those people who live with
the elephants and the cape buffalo, and the lions and
the leopards and the grizzly bears and the polar bears,
those are the people that should make the decisions like
our great Michigani acts up in the Upper Peninsula, living
(08:44):
with the overpopulated wolves that are destroying the deer herd,
killing pets, killing hunting dogs.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
God bless you and thank you for your madness and
your passion. Ted Nugent see him in Michigan, hear him
here
This one's for Charlotte Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I was tricking up the highway, mining my only with
some dude in a Prius winn and slipping off gets
my red neck hit him wrong. Seems like everyone these days.
It's a ticking time bob, full of hate for folks
like me who don't agree and ain't ever gone a change.
(00:32):
And it gets me thinking long hair country for a
long and I started singing alonger than lying in the salt,
Sweet Home Alabama, a home million. Well remember a Southern man,
(00:55):
don't need him around in a house.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Ted Nugent with the number one iTunes video WWCDD. What
would Charlie Daniels do with Ira Dean, of course? And
the MotorCity Madman, who you may be see on the
Outdoor Channel or maybe see in one of his many concerts,
is on our radio stage right now. You can see
him on stage throughout Michigan, lest you think he has
(01:23):
abandoned the winter Water Wonderland and the Winter Wonderland for Texas.
You can see him in Lexington August twenty fifth and
twenty sixth, and then the schedule goes on through the
end of August in Saginaw and Luddington and Papa, my
favorite city in the States, and then of course Sterling
(01:43):
Heights in the Detroit area too for tickets and all
things nuge Ted Nugent dot com. Ted Nugent is back
on our radio stage right now. Thank you for being here,
and welcome back to the program, and welcome back to Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, thank you very much, Michael. If feel like my
birth state is sacred ground, so thank you for having
me on the Michigan Big Show. My life is a
Michigan Big Show.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
By the way, that is clear and perhaps even oversized.
One might say, and I read your op ed, but
I have to say it's much more fun to listen
to the testimony you gave at the State of Michigan
than to read it on the paper.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I'm a truth logic, common sense guy. I was
born in Detroit nineteen forty eight, when it was considered
worldwide the work epicenter of the world, certainly the arsenal
of democracy, where goodwill and decency and neighborliness and conscientiousness
and good over evil was the battle cry of the
American dream and it still is. I could be spoiled
(02:42):
between my band and my family and my crew and
my hunting buddies and everybody I hang around with. That
work ethic is still alive and well, even more intense,
I believe today. But when I see the bureaucrats literally
chipping away, and of course in Michigan now we're laughed
across the country is like a suburb of sand for
Cisco politically, and so I fight, fight, fight for God, family, country,
(03:05):
law and order, work, ethic, constitution, build a rights, ten commandments,
Golden Rule, you know all that radical stuff. Michael, I'm
so radical.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, we played your testimony on the radio on thirteen
stations across the state of Michigan, and I'm now reading
that it was radical of you to be armed when
you went to that testimony that seemed to get people
cranked up. Were you packing?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, you know, I got this funny instinct, Actually, it's
rather effervescent masculinity freedom instinct, where I have a first
amendment whether somebody hands me a piece of paper or not,
and I have a second amendment, it's an individual right
from God to keep and bear arms. So call me radical,
call me extreme, but call me armed.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well that I take that as a yes. And you
called the people you.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Were, well, you know I value I value my precious
gift of life. I'm seventy seven years clean and sober,
and if you met my wife and my kids and
my grandkids, I have an intellectual, moral, and spiritual obligation
to get home at night. Now, with engineered recidivism and
the celebration of crime, I'm ready to defend my precious
(04:15):
gift of life. So unarmed and helpless is really a
foolish and irresponsible decision to make. I've never made that mistake.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They didn't much like it when you called them insane.
They said it was insulting.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, isn't that amazing typical bureaucracy when I'm conveying heartfelt
and heartbreaking testimony from people who stop Shamaine and I
everywhere we go with just tragic stories of abuse of
power by game wards enforcing immoral laws. Just literally, it's
not a disagreement to shoot a ribbi in the sky,
(04:51):
a federal migratory game bird, the San Hill crane, which
is overpopulated by any measure. In the great state of Michigan.
The farmers are losing tens of millions of dollars in
agriculture every year to Samuel cranes, and these numb nuts
won't open the season. But if they give you a
piece of paper, you can kill a ribbi in the sky,
(05:11):
but the law forbids you to consume it. That, Michael,
is the definition of insanity and I don't play that game.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
What does that sand hill crane taste like? I know
you said, Rabbi in the sky? Is that accurate?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It is accurate. I mean again, Michigan produces more sand
hill cranes than most of the states that have open seasons.
What kind of fools would be in a room identify
the waste of agriculture and the tax dollar waste reimbursing farmers,
and no, damn well that sand hill cranes are at
(05:46):
an all time population and notably overpopulation, and they won't
open the season. I mean that. I don't know what
makes these people think, but they're wrong. I find it
absolutely abhorrent that you can kill a sandhill crane with
a piece of paper issued by the DNR, but you're
(06:07):
forbidden to consume a ribin in the sky. They're delicious.
It's a precious natural resource, a renewable resource, and every
state has laws against wanton waste which is again so
unethical to just kill something and leave it to rotten
the field. That's the law in Michigan. You just got
(06:29):
to be kidding me. I'm not putting up with it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I was intrigued too to read about what you call
the real world healing powers of nature. That was powerful
to me.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It is powerful. I think people are waking up to
what the conservation hunting, fishing, trapping, outdoors, farming, ranching, real grounded,
down to earth families have always known, and what Fred
Barrett quoted the Great, the great visionary. I was born
in Pennsylvania, but came to Michigan at an early to
create bar archery and the mystical flight of the martial
(07:05):
arts aero lifestyle. In bow hunting, nature cleanses the soul again.
I'm an old, crazy, wild rocker. Nobody's wilder than I am.
Nobody's crazier than I am. But I am down to
earth and grounded because I have never missed a hunting season.
And you learn to revere our moral obligation as resource stewards.
(07:29):
And when that sun comes up in the deer blind
or the duck blind, and you've got family and friends
and your loving dogs, next to you. It is perfection personified.
And that's why I've been clean and sober all my life,
because I don't want to fog those magic moments with
my brothers and sisters, my wife, my kids, and my
grandkids in the great outdoors. And that really is a
(07:52):
powerful pulse in the conservation families of Michigan. And the
director of the Natural Resource a Commission was insulted that
I conveyed stories from these families. That's insulting. He should
be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I'm reading a story in the last minute that we
have of a hunter fifty two years old who was
gored to death by a black death buffalo, three thousand
pounder he was trying to kill on a ten thousand
dollars safari. Sometimes the animals win.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, yeah, that's the challenge. That's why it's called a sport.
Some of these animals are dangerous. I've hunted kpe buffalo
and elephants in Africa, and those people who live with
the elephants and the cape buffalo, and the lions and
the leopards and the grizzly bears and the polar bears,
those are the people that should make the decisions like
our great Michigani acts up in the Upper Peninsula, living
(08:44):
with the overpopulated wolves that are destroying the deer herd,
killing pets, killing hunting dogs.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
God bless you and thank you for your madness and
your passion. Ted Nugent see him in Michigan, hear him
here
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