Ted Nugent,Rock n Roll Star and Outdoorsman

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Surviving Nuge

So this guy from MTVcalls and asks if I’d be interested in doing a “Survival” type TV show, and I say’s, “Sure, as long as it doesn’t interfere with my hunting time.” I was aware of the genre and its TVsaturating successes, however, I had not, and cannot bring myself to sit in front of the TVset to watch anybody do much of anything, much less grovel for simple survival. I am also acutely aware as to why this type of program would be so highly rated. You see, in the modern world of America’s lifestyle (death-style) of ever increasing dependency, gluttony and apathy, tossing average folk into inhospitable environments and situations would be very interesting if not downright entertaining. To find joy and pleasure in watching people scramble and stumble to fend for themselves, even endure pain and embarrassment, is symptomatic to the dumbing down of America. Boredom comes easy to lazy, fat, apathetic people of limited creativity, I believe. Witnessing others forced into compromised drama allows the more soulless amongst us to rationalize their own undisciplined and often wasted lives. (Don’t get your blubber in a twizzle, as only the guilty need feel guilty.)

How could we, afterall, possibly get by, much less survive, without all those taken-forgranted conveniences in our daily lives? No more light-switches, thermostats, faucets, toilets, showers, shelter, towels, refrigerators, roomservice, washers, dryers, home pizza delivery or any of the gimme cush so many have come to completely rely upon for daily existence. Way too many Americans are so spoiled and take everything in our daily lives for granted, it is a wonder anyone survives power outages at all. If I hear another plucked, painted, coiffed, dyed, stinky wench squawk over a broken fingernail I think I’m gonna puke.

As the last real man in the world of Rock-N-Roll, I see it on a constant basis where the minutest little inconvenience brings about cries of terror and whining. Only a spineless asshole would trash a dressing room. That being said, I also know how the primal scream of rugged individualism and courageous independence runs wild in the heart and soul of mankind in general. Like the ultimate City Kids in New York City on that traumatic 11th day of September, 2001, average citizens instinctively manned-up to the life and death cries of need by their fellow Americans and accomplished miraculous life saving feats when the chips were down. So goes the human spirit. So goes my SURVIVING NUGENTTVShow.

We are in a cultural war for sure. There is an evil wave of liberalism that would gut our US Constitution, eliminate God and those pesky Ten Commandments from our society and from our societal pillars of literature and historical documents that clearly identify this glorious experiment in self-government as the moral and ethical imperative it is. I have been fighting for the right to keep and bear arms, to carry said arms on our persons, and the obvious God given right to hunt, fish, trap, and pragmatically utilize our gifts of life giving renewable resources in a responsible and intelligent manner. It’s not just creation, it’s science. I know that like those warriors in Manhattan on 9-11, most of us will do the right thing given the opportunity and provided honest information for such a decision. I have seen hardcore antigunners and antihunters come full circle in support of these truisms during many a radio talkshow dialog of truth and reason. It is this same force of public relations that will ultimately create a driving voting force for our 2nd Amendment rights and honorable hunting heritage rights that will turn the tide of politically correct tomfoolery around. PR is our ultimate weapon in this cultural war, and intelligent, heart and soul relations with the public, means simply maximizing visibility for the truth. Not my truth or your truth, simply truth.

So immediately upon the MTVdude inquiring whether I’d be interested in such a TV show or not, I began to rant and rave about funny, outrageous, hysterical ideas and scenarios how a gaggle of citykids would grovel in the natural Nugent Ranch American Dream swamp, and entertain the masses by trying to do routine Nuge stuff. Shoveling kennels and horsebarns, fetching decoys from black muck, hauling grain and feed bags into the wilderness, saving wild geese from our swimming pool, slopping hogs, shooting guns and bows, building and using an outhouse, killing, gutting, skinning, butchering, BBQing and eating a wild boar, identifying animal spoor and feces, cutting, splitting and stacking wood, sleeping in the barn, baling hay, you know, everyday fun with Tribe Nuge. The guy went nuts. I was already there.

I knew instinctively that the Nugent Tribe’s warm hospitality and goodwill would cut through the tension and drama of such an escapade, but most importantly, how our everyday lifestyle of hunting, fishing, trapping, shooting, conservation, animal husbandry and resource stewardship would shine through to the masses. Huge, positive, far reaching PR, counterpunching the numbnuts who are against such purity and perfection. And in the enemy’s own foxhole! How cool is that? Let’s git it on!

I conduct more than 1000 media interviews per year, and have done so for more than 30 years. In the liberal world of entertainment media, I understand their desperate need

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to fan flames for ratings. Recording artists and actors who hate guns and hunting are everywhere, and even though there are plenty out there who ideologically support the 2nd Amendment and conservation, it is indeed rare to hear from them. Not so Uncle Ted. I’ve lived a shooting and hunting life my entire life and take great pride in these honorable pursuits. I derive even more gratification in fighting for them and squashing the anti’s. My professional and able assistant, Linda Peterson, fields numerous interview requests daily, and schedule permitting, I accept those most effective. I knew the MTV/VH1 demographic was in desperate need to hear our side, and giggled with excitement knowing I could positively impact tens of millions of viewers in the humorous, entertaining context of such a show. Plus it would be a riot, and riots are my specialty.

Now that the dust has settled, our SURVIVING NUGENTshow has been a huge success, (#1 rated VH1 program for the fall books) we are in pre-production for the upcoming ‘04 series, and I wish to expose a few heinous observations about the core of our hunting industry that has plagued the hunting community forever. Sadly, it’s getting worse.

Hunting and shooting television shows have been a dismal failure forever. What the hell happened to The American Sportsman with Fred Bear and Curt Dowdy? Sadly, it’s getting worse. We have The Outdoor Channel now, providing some really good hunting and fishing shows. Some. Unfortunately, it is a small percentage that qualifies as good, none as great, and most, shamelessly embarrassing in their unsophisticated Bubbaness. If they’re not trying to shove God and the bible down our throats with an almost teary eyed James Baker-like transparent cheapness, the really knowledgeable and technically proficient producers are over-editing the most important natural visuals about how we kill our food and that blood and guts are not only OK, they’re real and real good. Add pathetically monotone, hokey, Mr. Rogers type, or worse, sing-songy used-car-salesman narration, and you’ve got a surefire recipe to chase away new viewers, new consumers, and ultimately, new voters for our side. Why on God’s good green earth would the best satellite hunting/shooting TVnetwork insist on airing gold-panning programs at all, much less at prime time? We’re at war here friends!! I don’t get it.

Our TED NUGENTSPIRITOF THE WILD show has twice won the most important award any show could ever aspire to, The People’s Choice Award. We’re not perfect, yet, but we try to keep it honest and real, and the people have responded favorably. (thank you) While I thank and salute TOC team for busting through the PC quagmire with a channel that I can watch for the most part, during this fiery cultural war, I am compelled to push for upgrade.

I could point out a number of TV101 decision failures at TOC, but the obvious, conclusive, monster indictment of all times is the fact that VH1 didn’t hesitate for a nanosecond to show the gutting, skinning and butchering of a wild boar, but amazingly, TOC has insisted on a warning and disclaimer before such footage is shown. On The Outdoor Channel-Real hunting for real hunters!! Say what? VH1, land of hippies, homos, hip hop gangsta bangers, dope fiends and “We Are The World” Michael Jackson creeps, blood, guts, no problem. TOC, “we don’t want to offend anyone.” Huh? Can you say “Leave it To Beaver”?

I watch TOC cancel better than average shows like The Journal of The Texas Trophy Hunter, but continue with gold panning shows and automotive infomercials. I watch The Discovery Channel, PBS’Nova, National Geographic and the like, unhesitatingly air graphic predator programming, no editing of blood, guts, gore or the truth about nature’s cycle of life and death and other such PC reality. Then I see the only real TVchannel our hunting industry has, defanging our honorable Tooth, Fang and Claw culture and lifestyle and neutering the fascinating personalities I know to be the norm out there. It aint right. It is time to encourage the positives, but never settle for denial, compromise or apologies. It’s time to man-up. It’s time for the hunting industry to stand our ground, stand together.

Gun owners and sporters cannot support any limitations on our 2nd Amendment rights just because a certain gun is small, inexpensive, holds more rounds or is black and composite. We cannot cannibalize and inbreed with the nonsense that quail are OK to hunt but doves are too cute or small or peaceful or some such mindless twittle. The people in charge of image decision making cannot live in the 1950’s or pretend that Americans are too stupid to know that a gazillion Thanks Giving turkeys had a gazillion gutpiles and are dead. To show any hesitancy whatsoever to acknowledge blood and guts on a hunting show is to show guilt and fear. That’s stupid and cowardly and I’m not standing for it. When I’m finished here, everybody’s going to have to survive Nugent. It’ll do ya good.

Communicate with Ted at www.tednugent.com or write him at 4008 W. Michigan Ave, Jackson, MI 49202. Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild airs on The Outdoor Channel Thursday nights at 7:30pm Central time, Fridays at 3:30pm and Sundays at 12:30am.

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I guess it is up to us American sportsman to clean up the Canadian snow and blue goose problem, like our troops taking care of the problems in Iraq. But for me to circle a pond where the snows and blues are roosting early in the morning with 20 or so hunters is not on my menu. It is a very effective way of solving the problem and I have heard of 200 to 300 geese killed at one rise. I saw my neighbor at the Shell Station one morning with a whole pick up truck completely loaded with dead snows and blue geese. I don’t know if they eat them or not but I do know they make great barbecue and breakfast sausage. Around here there is a time period of around two weeks in March that the snows and blues migrate back to the tundra but the flocks are so big with so many eyes watching you that they are hard to call them in close enough range to get a shot. Some flocks have from 1000 birds to 5000 birds in them. We would put 500 to 1000 rags out and are lucky to kill 5 or 6 birds.

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