Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1138 - Ted Nugent
Uploaded: 2018-06-29T00:02:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1138 - Ted Nugent' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-06-29. Transcript available. Ted Nugent is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, hunter and activist.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1138 - Ted Nugent' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-06-29. Transcript available. Ted Nugent is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, hunter and activist.

Joe Rogan Experience #1138 - Ted Nugent

I'm Morgan. The masters are out there.
I use one, three, two, one, boom.
And we're live. We're just talking about target panic, ladies and gentlemen.
Most people don't know about all that.
It's like erectile dysfunction for archery.
It's panic, right?
It's because you want that arrow to go so bad.
By the way, thanks for having me on here.
My pleasure.
I understand from all the input I get from all my intelligent friends that you
deserve me.
Oh, I'm excited about this.
So we'll have a good time.
Well, your assistant reached out and said...
My people reach out, yeah.
She said, I think you'll have more in common with Ted than you realize.
That was her pitch.
Truth, logic, common sense, spirit, physics of the American dream.
Perhaps controversial and misunderstood people?
Yes. Boy, we're surrounded.
Maybe both of us.
Clusterfuck, ring any bells?
Yes, indeed.
So, yeah, so target panic.
I got lucky in that I got hooked up with John Dudley early before I developed
target panic.
He's the master.
And he explained to me tension releases.
Yeah, shot sequences.
Yeah.
And let's make this available universally to all of our podcast friends out
there.
Okay.
In life, the clusterfuck to omniscience is what we aspire to.
Yes.
Maximum level of awareness on all fronts.
I don't care if you're a welder, a podcaster, a guitar player, or a butcher.
Right.
Maximum efficiency, being the best that you can be, clear mind, clear
conscience, true north compass.
Because, in the world of archery, because it does consume you, and here I am 70
years clean and sober, because I'm currently and forever consumed with the
mystical flight of the arrow, which is the origins of Zen, the Japanese
religion of not shooting an arrow, not being an arrow, but being the path of
your life.
And if you use the gift from God to the ultimate application of efficiency and
effectiveness, you can put that fucking arrow right where you want it to.
And the baggage that all humans have to deal with, and it's most painfully
manifested in the pursuit of archery, is too many minds.
You can't think about it.
If you've got to think about playing wang dang sweet pun tang, you ain't going
to play it.
It better just be you and unleash.
And with an arrow, because you want to let that arrow go, because you're
shooting an arrow.
It's archery.
I need to put that arrow down there in that bullseye, or in that pump station,
or in that crease of the buffalo.
And so, you want it to go, because that's what you're here for, is to let the
arrow go.
So, you've got to tell yourself, you can't let the arrow go.
You have to shoot so many arrows throughout your life that no too many minds,
subconscious, physics of spirituality, ingrained deep within your origins and
aboriginal ancestry.
There it is.
If ever there was an aim small, miss small, perfection, it's archery.
And let me, I don't mean to monologue here, but this is so much of my life.
I know.
No matter what you do, and I've done this since the 60s, when the hippies were
trying to get me stoned, and I'm going, no, that's not what you want to do.
What you want to do is get a bow and arrow.
What you want to do is escape what you're trying to escape, the pressures.
The pressures, fuck those pressures.
You be the source of pressure, not the receiver of pressure.
And my dad raised me.
My dad was a drill sergeant.
God bless that son of a bitch.
He was awesome.
I hated him.
Discipline, discipline, discipline, discipline, especially at the archery range.
And so, I learned archery, and when I'm playing guitar, and I'm playing all
this outrageous Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard stuff, and everybody's
getting high and drunk, and they're really great musicians, and the more high
and the more drunk they got, they became less great musicians until the point
where they weren't even musicians anymore.
And so, I would escape that.
And I was 11, 12, and there was no hippies.
It was beatniks.
And I'd get back to my little house in Redford on the Rouge River in Detroit,
and I'd get that little bow and arrow, and I'd go down to Skunk Hollow, and
there's a river rat.
And even as a stupid, mushy-brained, idiot child, I was able to...
A little longbow, no recurve yet, you know.
I could shoot a rat in the eye because I had no baggage yet.
I haven't developed any social baggage, and that has served me so...
The many minds.
Well, too many...
No minds.
Right.
Spirit.
That's the baggage.
Yeah, too many minds.
And I think...
What is there?
You think that that's the thing that people who don't shoot arrows, when you
start talking about this, they don't really understand what you're saying.
I know exactly what you're saying, but for a lot of people, this is a very
misunderstood subject, right?
Yep.
That this is a meditation.
There's a meditation involved in this.
It's an absolute meditation.
It's out of body.
The ultimate arrow, like the ultimate guitar lick.
I suspect a comedian on stage, which I qualify, you can't be thinking of your
routine.
It's got to flow.
I mean, I was in the presence of Sam Kinison for 50, 60 spontaneous
performances.
And Robin Williams at the Comedy Store.
And Richard Pryor.
See, remember I mentioned a moment ago, I've been on the mountaintop with Bill
Strop and the Broncos and Parnelli Jones taught me to race.
I played bass for Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
I mean, I married Mrs. Nugent.
I mean, I've been to the peaks available to mankind.
I hunted with Fred fucking Bear.
When did you do that?
How old were you?
I was five or six.
I met him.
He started the brand new archery shop in Grayling, Michigan.
My dad was already a follower before I was born.
Explain to people who he is.
Fred Bear.
People who are uninitiated.
Powerful story.
He's like the Richard Pryor of archery.
Yes.
I was expecting his afro to catch fire any moment.
It was awesome.
So I'm already into bows and arrows.
I didn't know who Fred Bear was.
I really was just getting, you know, baptized by the Chuck Berry Bo Diddley
electronic guitar orgy.
And in that late 40s, early 50s, it was a firestorm of defiance and rebellion
musically manifested.
But Roy Weatherby was going beyond the 30-30, which everybody used for deer
hunting.
And it was a good 100 yards.
And if a real marksman, real Zen marksman could shoot a 30-30, 200-plus yards,
whether open sights or scope.
And marksmanship and sniper discipline was a powerful force in a hunting family.
And in all families, every family I knew, we all shot every weekend.
Pistols, shotguns, rifles, .22s, hunting woodchucks in Freiburg, Pennsylvania,
with the Target Master Remington single shot bolt 22, 22 shorts, 25 cents a box
at the dry goods store.
It was awesome.
And my dad taught me to shoot them in the eye.
Aim small, miss small.
Breathe.
Sight acquisition.
You have a responsibility to kill that animal outright.
If you're going to utilize that precious gift of flesh and fur, body fluids and
bone, you better kill him clean because you're a reasoning predator.
You have a moral, intellectual, and spiritual obligation to kill your dinner
humanely and cleanly.
Duh.
And so that marksmanship routine was developing with ballistic, Ted Nugent,
ballistically maximized firepower.
Is that what that stands for?
I thought it said bad motherfucker.
You know, that has a ring to it.
Maybe that's what it could say.
All right.
Anyhow, so Fred Bear.
Fred Bear.
So Roy Weatherby was extending long-range marksmanship and developing the
famous Weatherby magnums with more powder, more efficient burning powder,
better primers, better designed ballistic bullets that would cut air better and
go flatter longer, better trajectory and velocity.
And so it was fun to shoot that deer or bullseye at 100 yards.
That takes a lot of trigger control and discipline.
But now Roy Weatherby was creating Weatherby magnums, the 300 Weatherby magnums
shot a 180-grain bullet at 32, 3400 feet a second, which was unheard of.
And so you could aim small, miss small.
And if you really got that really intricate, meticulous, triggered smoothness,
you could shoot 1,000 yards once you learned the trajectory of your gun.
However, 1911, the last of the Yanni Indians, Ishi, was discovered in Oroville.
I can't believe I remember all this.
In Oroville, California, Northern California.
And there was a bounty on Indians back then.
You could shoot a man Indian and get 25 bucks.
In 1911?
Yep.
They had bounties on them.
And instead of shooting this Yanni, this last Indian, they called the local
sheriff and they took Ishi into custody.
And they called some scientists and palanteologists from California University
by the name of Saxton Pope.
And Saxton Pope came and studied Ishi as an Aboriginal.
Saxton Pope of Pope and Young?
That's right.
And then he contacted his buddy, Art Young, who also studied in that genre.
And they discovered Ishi and they were fascinated by his stealthy awareness of
the wilderness and his archery control with his funny little style of shooting
the bow with his thumb and getting close and doing ice-cold river bathing
before the hunt to cleanse himself to be worthy of the beast.
So Fred Bear witnessed the film that Pope and Young eventually made of them
becoming consumed with the mystical flight of the arrow.
Now, this was in the 20s and 30s.
And they put a newsreel out and went all over the country and showed this newsreel
of hunting with the bow and arrow by Saxton Pope and Art Young.
Shooting grizzly bears in Yosemite and going to Africa, filling lines full of
arrows.
They weren't really as good as Ishi, so they'd fling a lot of arrows.
And these animals were pretty relaxed, almost tame, because they'd never been
hunted like that before.
And so Fred Bear come from Pennsylvania around that time to work at the FOMO
company building cabinets for the new radio they just invented and the wood
dashboards for the Ford Motor Company.
And he was also making bows, handmade yew wood and Osage orange bows in his
little archery shop with Nels Grumley.
I can't believe I remember this.
Nels Grumley, one of the greatest boyers of all time.
So my dad got the archery bug because Fred defied the trend of easier hunting,
easier long range.
You didn't have to be very stealthy to shoot a deer at 500 yards.
They don't even know you're there.
All you have to do is be a disciplined marksman, which is a discipline and a
great accomplishment unto itself.
And it was a new challenge for long range ballistic capability.
Well, Pope and Young and a handful, Fred Bear and Nels Grumley, went and saw
this newsreel of these guys, these doctors, these professors hunting all over
the world with these handmade bows.
And Fred was already into it, and he was, I'll be damned.
I didn't realize you could do that.
And so now people, after seeing the Pope and Young newsreel, started asking
Fred to make bows, and it spread.
So he started the Bear Archery Company, late 20s, early 30s.
And he moved to Grayling up in the northern part of Michigan, where the
wilderness was, and they had cut down all the trees.
So there was this new growth of ideal wildlife habitat, because not many
animals can live in an old growth forest, an owl or two.
But you need low-level escape sanctuary and browse that the animals can access.
And so Fred was now promoting archery in Michigan, won all the National Field
Archery Championships, along with Ann Marston.
It's awesome.
And so my dad was a follower because he'd come back from World War II, and he
needed that escape.
He needed that cleansing to get away from that horror, which is why they never
talked about it.
And so we'd go up north every year, October 1st, the Nugent family and the Ford
Station wagon, and I had my little bow and arrow with the suction cups, and I'd
shoot stuffed animals off the couch.
But my dad would walk the woods with his real bow, and we'd stop at this little
brick shack that said Bear Archery, and I had no idea.
And so I was already into bows and arrows shooting all the time.
I was obsessed.
I was down the river every day.
