238: Ted Nugent Podcast

March 11, 2022

In today’s episode of the ‘Finding your Summit’ podcast, host Mark Pattison, former NFL Player, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Mountaineer who has climbed the Seven Summits, talks with guest Ted Nugent, an American Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, and Activist. Ted shares about his musical journey and the different bands he’s worked with. He also urges people to participate in the campaign launched by hunternation.org, making sure that those who we elect to represent us also are in the asset column.

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Episode Highlights

  • 02:10 – Ted says he graduated from the American Anti-Education System, and he didn’t go to college because he was too busy learning stuff.
  • 04:30 – The discipline of Ted’s dad and the discipline of the healing powers of nature rewarded him with conscientious choices versus numb-nut choices.
  • 07:15 – In Detroit, there was a band called “Billy Lee and the Rivieras” who turned their name into “Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels”. Ted opened up for them with his band “The Lords” in 1960.
  • 08:35 – Ted says he struggled and practiced. It was so frustrating, but he never gave up, and they started recording. He has always celebrated black artists.
  • 10:20 – “My bands have always been the best bands in the world because we remain primal” states Ted.
  • 12:55 – Ted points out that his kind of party includes a campfire with a guitar, some beautiful people, and smart, cocky, funny, uninhibited people.
  • 15:10 – Ted started realizing that, if they’re going to be the tightest, most energized band, then they’ve got to be clean and sober.
  • 17:50 – There’s a weakness inherently in the human species where you can make the mistake of acknowledging that there might be a thing called peer pressure, says Ted.
  • 20:40 – Mark states that greatness is a journey, and you have to always strive for that. You can’t achieve it if you’re depleted.
  • 22:15 – Ted mentions that since he loves his music, that’s why he plays guitar every day to find new expressions of beyond humanity, which he has accomplished.
  • 24:30 – The work ethic of all your favorite bands is one of the most underrated elements of the music industry, states Ted.
  • 26:30 – When you see a huge crowd celebrating your efforts and your musical vision, it can be very empowering and emotional.
  • 28:40 – Ted says he has never sat down in his life with a paper and a pen to write a song. Instead, he does earthly things—like he goes out and checks his traps. He catches varmints and he skins them, he kills a deer, gets it, cools it, cleans it, and skins it. So he is down to earth and grounded.
  • 30:20 – In Ted’s songs, he unleashes the lyricism, instinctive rhythm, live syllables, and lyrics that are in his arsenal of life’s experience.
  • 32:25 – You can pursue your dreams, life, liberty, and happiness, if you dig deep, take a deep breath, and shut up for a minute.
  • 34:10 – Mark reveals that he’s the best version of himself when he leaves his computer, gets away from social media, and goes out and thinks.
  • 37:05 – At heart, Ted is a pragmatist. He needs to go from point A to point B, and he has to chart the best route.
  • 39:25 – Ted thinks that happiness comes from the capability of elevating your level of awareness to absorb all you can. The goal is omnipotence, and unattainable.
  • 41:20 – “My musical cohorts throughout my life epitomized by Greg and Jason in 2022”, says Ted.
  • 43:00 – Mark inquires—everybody loves listening to Elvis, this musical golden era that we had back in the day—why don’t we have these bands anymore?
  • 44:00 – We pummeled people into unconsciousness with the energy in the fire of our music because we were the direct connectors to the original founding fathers.
  • 47:40 – Ted reveals he played Bass Guitar for Chuck Berry and jammed with the greatest guitar players in the world including Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Billy Gibbons and Stix’s Tommy Shaw, one of the most amazing guitars players on the planet.
  • 50:15 – Ted refers to the NFL players and appreciates the kind of work ethic they follow—like they never stop training, working, and perfecting their art.
  • 51:40 – “I play notes that God hasn’t even authorized yet” mentions Ted.
  • 55:00 – Mark thinks he and Ted are in some ways connected.
  • 56:00 – Ted says what he is expressing here today is what is expressed by the hardware store operator that comes to his camp every year.
  • 58:30 – The hunters, fishermen, trappers, and the conservationists—down to earth, grounded families of this country, believe in God, family, country, freedom, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, work ethic, the sacrifices needed to be in the asset column.
  • 60:00 – Ted says Hunter Nation is trying to vet candidates to make sure that they live up to their constitutional oath, and they represent the core values that created the greatest quality of life in history.

Three Key Points

  1. Collage image with mountainous background displaying Finding Your Summit logo, episode number and photos of both Mark Pattison and Ted NugentCelebrity doesn’t help you be a husband, entrepreneur, a positive force in your neighborhood, or provide resources to be a good conservationist to optimize quality air, soil, and water because it comes from humanity, not from a celebrity. Ted says he loves it when people stop him on the street and rave about these wonderful songs he has created because they love his music. But that doesn’t hold merit, humanity does.
  2. The music Ted creates or the songs he writes are spontaneous as the intuition attracts them to the skinny, shapely, Koi beauty across the room. It’s essential, sexual, spiritual, organic, and unfettered. He says he is an old man, but he creates his music the same way as he did when he was 12. He picks up the guitar and his hands go places. His craving has a rhythm and a groove, and he finds and delivers that rhythm in the group.
  3. Ted shoots his bow, plays his guitar, and gets trained with his handgun and his rifle every day, so he enjoys that stuff. He gets to train with Delta Force, Special Ops, and SWAT teams all over the country. He knows what superhumans look like and what they’re capable of. He has also conducted federal rage with the US Marshals in Texas Rangers Texas.

Tweetable Quotes

I understood my relationship with God’s miracle, this creation.” – Ted Nugent

You can’t play killer rock and roll without James Brown and Wilson Pickett, Motown, and the Bump Brothers.” – Ted Nugent

It’s always been a standard statement that Nugent doesn’t party. Oh, I party, but not with drugs or men.” – Ted Nugent

There’s so much life that’s out there that you don’t need to do that.” – Mark Pattison

I’m not susceptible to any mandates from any man, only from Mrs. Nugent.” – Ted Nugent

It’s so easy to be average; it’s hard to be great.” – Mark Pattison

But in my case, I’m humbled beyond measure.” – Ted Nugent

I am so purified every day by humbly participating in God’s healing powers of nature, that my music is pure.” – Ted Nugent

I love to celebrate the things I’m passionate about, so I talk a lot.” – Ted Nugent

One thing I love about you is you’re such a positive and enthusiastic person.” – Mark Pattison

I’ve had some real tough times but, you know, I’m a bull hunter.” – Ted Nugent

The music is a martial art in our world.” – Ted Nugent

Work ethic is the foundation of all happiness.” – Ted Nugent

Because I’m always experimenting, kind of looking at goose bumps, are you?” – Ted Nugent

Truth, logic and common sense isn’t a Nugent hunch. It’s alive and well.” – Ted Nugent

I want people to join me at hunternation.org” – Ted Nugent

If you’re not participating in this blood and guts, a hard-earned experiment in self-government, you’re not in the asset column; you’re in the liability column.” – Ted Nugent

 

Resources Mentioned

Ted Nugent: Website | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter
Hunter Nation: Website

Mark Pattison YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/FindingYourSummitWithMarkPattison/featured

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