Kid Rock’s Secret to Success, What They Won’t Tell You About Donald Trump, and the Diddy Arrest

ah thank. [Applause]. you thank you for having. [Applause]. me oh I'm really glad to be here I have. to. say thank. you this is uh this is our 10th. City and we're going coast to coast in.

the month of. September on the theory that it's a. beautiful country and if you live here. and plan to die here uh you should see. it and also on the theory that you know. everything's censored but you can't. censor a live event so that has really. um but of all the places we've been and. this is totally sincere I am especially. grateful to be in Grand Rapids I have I. have I've been coming to Grand Rapids. since I was a teenager.

I I grew up I didn't hear what you said. but I think I agree with you um and I. grew up in a totally different part of. the country a beautiful part of the. country but a much less wholesome part. of the country and I wound up dating a. girl when I was 15 right after I turned. 15 whose family was from Grand Rapids. and so I I've had been coming here um. consistently for 40 years uh initially. trying to you know woo her uh make the. sale.

um it's a little harder than it was with. girls where I grew up but worth it um. and I continue to think this is just one. of the greatest places ever and that the. wh and I'll speak totally blunt with you. since no one's listening that the women. Michigan producers really are at a. higher level um I mean that I mean that. just the. nicest and the cutest if I can say um. but just the nicest you know and if.

you're a married man in the state of. Michigan the chances are that you've. been barked at this morning very very. low very low the chances that someone's. just been really nice to you are. incredibly. High um and so it's like wild that your. state is run by like the worst women. I've ever. seen it it's. weird it's so weird I I remember telling. my son when he was like eight I was like.

you have got to marry a girl from. Michigan you just have to it just works. it's incredible hunting seas and I'm. going to be hunting for of course you. are it's understanding kind. warm H the best and so then I I wake up. one morning I'm like who is running that. state and it really is kind of a. metaphor for everything really for the. entire country you know if you read. about Michigan I mean I come here a lot. because of all my wife family here and.

all our friends here and one of my. favorite people in Michigan is going to. be joining us in just a minute one of. the. um one of the great boosters of Michigan. trust me I've been I've been to a lot of. places with Kid Rock and wherever he is. he is representing the state of Michigan. at full volume really they ought to give. him a The Tourist Bureau ought to give. him a commission because he is the most. loyal son the state has ever produced. but anyway if you read about the state. you're like like wow that place is.

really screwed up and then you come here. and you don't meet a single person who. is capable of screwing up anything you. don't meet a single every single person. you meet in the state of Michigan is. kind and straightforward and nice and. loves his family and Musky fishing and. like all the good things loves walleye. you know it's. like who are who are all these people. who are. allowing someone like Gretchen Whitmer.

or Dana. nessle like who actually voted for Dana. Nestle I always wonder that no nobody. there's like nobody it was like Bill. deasio in New York the city of 8 million. people you couldn't find a single one. who admitted voting for the guy and he. got you may not even know who that is. but he was a spectacularly stupid mayor. that they had this is really just. unbelievable wh people like Whitmer like. Whitmer but without the facelift but.

like Whitmer is totally. right I'll never forget during covid. because I'm I've been you know a booster. of your state and I can do like I can. point on my hand where things are and I. know what the up is and like I am kind. of a an adopted son of the. state I've shot a bunch of your birds. I've caught a ton of your fish I married. one of your girls like I am basically. from Michigan and.

I remember someone saying to me once. like the governor of Michigan Gretchen. something who I think is actually from. Grand Rapids area um. amazingly banned the sale of paint in. paint stores I'll never forget this. during Co and I was like that's. obviously an urban myth that's a legend. that's like they're eating the pets in. Springfield Ohio that's not really. true that can't they're not really. eating the pets.

actually they. are she can't really have banned the. sale of. paint is paint a well-known Vector for. Chinese viruses what that's. crazy I know M and what and. seeds yeah no planting flowers during a. global pandemic you knew that that's. just like basic. epidemiology so I remember saying. clearly something has been lost in the. translation that's not really real she.

didn't really do that cuz I want to give. everyone the benefit of the doubt. obviously no one's that stupid and then. you wouldn't like keep everyone in the. state indoors but let your husband go. off to your cottage and go fishing at a. boat rental that was closed to everybody. else like you wouldn't do that would you. because that would really just be like. giving the finger to the entire State. the people who vote for. you and then you look it up and you're. like actually like the pet eating. totally.

true and so then the question arises. well how did this happen so we learned. two things okay the first thing is the. leaders of a place whether it's a state. or a town or a country do not. necessarily reflect the people they lead. or who live there at all in other words. you can have a place that's. amazing that's great on every level it's. incredibly beautiful as this state. genuinely is you could have like the. best people in the entire country and. they can be led by like a brain dead.

robot who bans paint sales the name of. Co protection like that happens you. can't judge a place by its. leaders which itself is a kind of. challenge to the idea of a. constitutional republic or a democracy. because of course the core idea is the. people rule it's their country it's. their city it's their state it's their. neighborhood it's their. nation and the people who run it aren't. Kings or queens or archdukes.

they're not it's not even a military. Hunter it's just a bunch of ordinary. people who are serving at the pleasure. of the population they're the. employees it's like you're housekeeper. but maybe less talented but still your. employee and if you catch him. stealing or being creepy you can just. can them sorry you work for me out of. here. honey you know what I mean learn to. paint. [Applause]. houses so how could it it be that.

leaders don't reflect the essential. character of a place that's. anti-democratic I mean in other words. when you come to Michigan if the. democracy is functioning as intended you. would expect to find Millions upon. millions of little gret and. whiters dumb people with facelifts. saying nonsensical. things but that's the opposite of what. you find so what does that tell you it. tells you the system is not working as. intended okay okay so that's the first.

thing you learn and the second thing you. learn is that there's a reason for that. and that's that people who are not with. the program may be mad but they're not. actually voting they're not actually. voting now why is that well I think I. know and I'm not here to scold anybody I. mean trust me there have been many times. where I'm like I know the people running. for office a little bit too well to vote. for them you know or you just feel like. ah what does it matter the system is. fake obviously you know in 2020 you.

never saw a single Joe B Joe bid didn't. even exist actually you know he's like a. hologram at this point um but in 2020. you're like I never met a single person. who voting for quote Joe Biden and he. got like over a billion. votes he got more votes or maybe more. than that I think he got more votes than. the population of the. Earth and you're like you look at. that and oh don't say fake that's not. allowed by the way that's not on. Wikipedia Wikipedia says it was totally. on the level therefore it must.

be to this day if you go on a Google. product. YouTube um you're not allowed to. question the last election which is. usually a sign whenever someone tells. you you're not allowed to have an. opinion it's pretty near proof that that. opinion is. true they're not Banning lies in this. country trust me there's no penalty for. lying when was the last time someone got. busted for lying do you remember.

that's no longer a crime they lie to you. from the podium every single day the. Biden administration's illiterate. spokesperson you can't understand what. she's saying but you can be certain. because her lips are moving that all of. it is untrue but she will never be held. to account Tony fouchy still has a. secret service. detail do you. have yeah boo yeah the only people. protecting him should be prison guards I. mean. honestly yeah boo boo is right.

so obviously there's no penalty for. lying so if they're telling you you. can't say something take it to the bank. bet your house what you're saying is. true and that's why they hate it because. it's a threat to their lies right so I. mean this is all very obvious you don't. need to be a political scientist or a. college graduate you know which I'm not. to understand the basic Dynamics in life. which is honest people are not afraid of. different opinions they're not afraid of. your opinion. the only people who are afraid of.

talking are people with something to. hide and what they're afraid of is that. you might expose them that's of course. exactly why they hate trump it has. nothing to do with his program Trump's. like the least radical person in the. world Trump's like completely moderate. actually but that's not what they care. about what they care about is Trump's. irrepressible tendency to say things. that are not on the. script they don't trust Trump not to. tell the truth. you know you can write a 10,000-word.

speech for Trump but you can't be. certain and right in the middle of it he. won't be and another thing and then tell. the truth about. you so if you're trying to hide. something really really obvious like I. don't know you murdered Jeffrey Epstein. or. [Applause]. something as if nobody knows really. Epstein didn't kill himself are you. serious right everybody already knows. that but the people who did it are. really worried and did a million other. things things oh it wasn't safe and.

effective. seriously they're worried that Trump. will just go off script and tell the. truth they are not worried they always. like oh Trump's such a liar he's such a. liar he bragged about his crowd size or. his hands were it's like no no no that's. not why you hate. Trump if he was a liar you'd love him. you'd vote for him no you're worried. that he will accidentally tell the truth. about. you and so.

sorry speaking of getting far a. [Applause]. field and so you know you're not allowed. to question the 2020 election but I. think just like you're allowed to. question the co vax what else you not. allowed to. question I can't hear you I didn't I'm. not endorsing that um just like you. can't question you know human cause. climate change or whatever you can't. question you can't question for a. reason boy this is a this is a.

sporty crowd go Grand. Rapids I love. it but people don't vote because they. look at all of this and they're like you. know what's the point the system is fake. they do think that I find myself feeling. that way at times well of course it's. fake but it doesn't mean your vote. doesn't matter it doesn't mean you. couldn't overwhelm them to such a degree. they couldn't steal. it you could actually. actually and especially now because.

something wild is happening that nobody. is talking about and I almost never talk. about politics because it well I don't. know that much about it to be completely. honest um having spent my life around it. I understand it less than I ever have um. I couldn't tell you how many electoral. votes your state has you know just being. honest 20. 20 16 okay that sounds about right 16. okay um so there are political experts. here but here's what I notice if you get.

it one of the reasons I don't get too. into the weeds or the facts of electoral. politics is sometimes it obscures the. bigger picture and the bigger picture as. far as I'm concerned just as an observer. of it and as someone who's traveled. across the country in the last three. weeks is that there is some kind of. weird and huge realignment going on. massive realignment going. on and it's not your imagination at all. well I mean Kid Rock's coming up on. stage I mean the. guy entertainers didn't used to do stuff.

like this before crowds like this two. nights ago we had Bobby Kennedy. on. and I've always liked Bobby Kennedy. because he's a sportsman you know he's. an Outdoorsman he's a hunter and a. fisherman you know and I like people. like that and that's more important to. me but Bobby Kennedy was always like a. liberal partisan Democrat actually his. name is Bobby. Kennedy um Bobby.

Kennedy um and so you know I I never. thought I'd wind up in a place where he. had vigorously in a heartfelt way. endorse Donald Trump was promising to. work as a part of the Trump. Administration help with the transition. become a cabinet secretary all of which. I hope happens and then be greeted by a. crowd of people who are probably going. aboute for Trump as a. hero. what and what does that tell you it's. not just about Bobby Kennedy who I think.

is is an extraordinary and an incredibly. Brave person it tells you that the. categories that we've grown up with and. that have been used to describe what's. happening in our country are lies and. they're designed to mislead us about the. truth and what they're designed to. convey is the idea that the country is. much more divided than it actually is. that's what I notice if I if I. experience what's happening in America. on my phone which unfortunately I do I. live at the other end of the country in. a really rural area and I don't know.

what's going on in America so I like. look up my stupid phone and I see an. unending Litany of sad stories about how. much Americans hate each other you know. in the basis of politics especially on. the basis of race but gender two men. women hate each other black people white. people hate each other Democrats. Republicans hate each other it's all a. bunch of hate and then you get actually. out into the country and I don't know. where that's taking place but nowhere. I've been this is my 10th City no one. has ever come up to me not one time and. been like I hate you for your skin color. you hate me for your skin color I hate.

you for no one ever says anything like. that everybody's really nice I don't. know where all the hateful people are I. mean I do know they exist I guess. they're all in the Biden. Administration but they don't seem to be. wandering around the strip malls of. America the coffee shops or the hotel. lobbies are all the places I've been I. never meet them at the airport. occasionally if I go skiing in Jackson. Wyoming and there are a lot of Rich. ladies waiting in the lift. line if you're at the main G Mo no that. Main is fine but if you go into the Four.

Seasons for the Elk chili there's always. some like Angry woman with a facei like. mad at you. racist all right so there's like 100th. of the population who are super super. unhappy possibly having an affair with. the yoga instructor who are married to. finance guys who are really really angry. not possibly certainly um and they're. really angry but I don't see that. anywhere else ever and so then you think. well wait a second if the experience.

that I have wandering around the country. I was born in Bears no resemblance to. what I'm told then maybe that's not the. only lie they're telling me and maybe. most people do not hate each other. despite the best efforts of the people. running the country to make them hate. each other for like 60. years all of American History taught. from elementary school through. postgraduate is designed to make you. think that Americans hate each other on. the basis of race that's the whole point.

of it it is I'm not going to use the. naughty word you just use but I endorse. it. completely it was a synonym for false. and that's exactly what it is it's. false that is not true but you think. about it for a second it's like why. would they be telling you that and then. you think about the sort of person who. would want a population to hate each. other and that's like the darkest thing. you could ever want for people and if. you're a parent you know that. if you're a parent the most important.

thing to you is that your children love. each other that's the most important. thing because they're your children. you're in charge of them and when you. die all you leave behind all that. remains of your family all that exists. of your life is the love between your. children that's where your memory lives. is in the love that they have for each. other that's the most important thing. it's the most Al thing you don't need to.

have read a parenting book or be Dr. Spock to want something like that you. just have to be a normal human being. with a normal love for people and that's. true by the way for leaders of all. organizations from the family the. smallest to most important to the. workplace to the military unit to the. state to the country leaders decent. leaders normal leaders want the people. they lead to love each other only a sick. and evil leader would intentionally so. hat between the people he leads period.

That's not. political that's not wrong that is evil. that's the definition of evil inspiring. people to hate each other is the. definition of evil there is no clearer. sign and by the way that's so unnatural. that it's supernatural that's exactly. what that is you are acting on behalf of. unnatural forces if you are convincing. the people you lead to hate each other. and that's exactly what your governor. and particularly your attorney general.

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it doesn't appear to be working if. Americans believe the things they hear. about each other in their country they. would have been in a permanent race war. like 50 years. ago you wouldn't be able to drive from. New York to Los Angeles there'd be. roadblocks of people with guns it'd be. Lebanon but it's the opposite of that. and so that tells you just once again. that the country itself which means its. people and its dogs. dogs are a reflection of the people and.

we have the best dogs heck yes we have. we have the best dogs in the. world we do we. do and dogs do take on the characters of. their owners that's. true but the people of this country are. loving good people who are being led by. the worst people who've ever l a country. and that is just true I think that's. true I mean it my loathing my love of. Americans and my loathing of their.

leaders deepens every day that we're on. the road it really really does because. the disconnect so what can you do about. it well you can vote I don't think I've. ever encouraged anyone to vote ever but. I feel like in this state it's. particularly important I'm not a. political person I'm not here on behalf. of a candidate probably guess who I'm. voting for I actually am voting this. year um I am I. am but I do think people should vote in. the state of Michigan because there's. absolutely no reason you should be led. by people who who do not share the most.

basic values of the people of Michigan. and I mean from I always beat up on the. east coast of. Michigan my wife is actually from the. Detroit area I know boo oh I agree I. know I. know I know and whenever I talk about. Michigan I'm like there actually two. sides to it and the west coast is way. nicer um but the truth is there are. super nice people over there too and in. northern Michigan is just like a Wonder.

it's. incredible and none of you deserve none. of you deserve your leaders none of you. I don't care it's true even the people. who vote for them don't deserve them if. I can just say you often hear we get the. leaders we deserve that's a total lie no. you don't no you don't and you see that. around the world I been in plenty of. countries with horrible leaders those. people don't deserve them nobody. deserves leaders like that and so I did. hear of something really cool today I've. never done anything like this I'm going. to do it now there's actually a website.

in the state of Michigan where you can. find people who probably would vote for. the candidate you're voting for but. don't vote and you can look them up the. voter rules are right there it's called. 10x votes and you can go on there and. just contact people you know and be like. hey by the way you don't we don't. deserve this these people are horrible. and we're not horrible we're. great and if you're frustrated with. these people even if you don't think the. system works you think it's all fake you. think they're going to steal it in the.

end that's not exactly true you can. overwhelm their their Mal inent by your. voting and at the very least you can you. can give them the largest middle finger. ever wagged in the face of. anybody by voting against them I do. think it's important yeah that finger. the one you just waved that's. right I'm not going to do that cuz it's. wrong but I do love that gesture because. it's just I don't trust I'm in the word. business and I don't really trust words. anymore I'm not going to do that Kid.

Rock's about to be here he literally has. that painted on the tail of his. plane and I'll let him explain who. that's aimed. at no I I. can't if my if my Michigan born. wife saw me hoisting the middle finger. in front of some of her relatives who. are in this room tonight. she would look at me with a pained.

face in that squeaky and adorable and. honestly kind of sexy Michigan. accent and say to me that's not very. [Laughter]. nice my wife always says to me in her. Michigan accent you don't hate. anybody I don't want to admit that. actually I kind of do but uh.

anyway so before I bring kidrock out I. would just I I have we've actually. thought about even moving here over the. years and cuz that's how much I love. it. and and maybe we will I mean who knows. what's going to happen but if I lived. here I would just I would get. right can you imagine being governor of. Michigan that that would be.

oh that would be a hard. job it would be so great. though I'm telling you we would have. walleye day if. I. um but the two things I would keep in. mind if I lived here the two things I. would keep in mind is that actually the. people of your state are great your. state is great your state is beautiful I.

would not let them tell you otherwise. and even Detroit's a little better than. they say I just had dinner there it is. it is it is it is I've been to a lot of. crappy places around the world and. everyone's like oh Detroit you know the. rensen and the giant Fist and all this. stuff it's like it's actually kind of a. cool City I'm just being honest this is. a cool. state it really it really is from the. top to the bottom it is a cool State and. by the way when Chicago burned.

everyone's like oh Chicago is so cool. where did all the wood come from to. rebuild Chicago does anyone. know it came from Michigan and what does. that tell you it tells you that. everybody wants a piece in Michigan okay. that's the first thing it tells you the. second thing it tells you is have a. little self-respect okay if Illinois. comes knocking and it's like we want all. your stuff so you took it once never. again we're Michigan okay. okay but just remember that what you.

have is awesome it is just awesome it's. people in the landscape is awesome and. it is you know I can understand why. people leave I am in Florida a lot and. you meet an awful lot of people from. Michigan I know and they're like oh yeah. we moved to flor we couldn't deal with. it and you're like I get it I get it but. I don't know stay in fight I guess. that's what I would say it's worth it. okay that's the first thing I would. remember and the second thing I would. remember is that you're not crazy. you're not crazy they spend all their.

time trying to convince you it's such a. scop you're. crazy I'm crazy have you ever seen Dana. Nestle that talk about Crazy Eyes by the. way if you have time like when you get. home tonight you got your iPhone if you. don't know who Dana Nestle is I mean you. should because she has a big effect on. your state type in her face into Google. images and just like expand it and look. at her eyes whoa if you ever trapped a. raccoon in the garage with a.

broom no I'm. serious and like you go through life. like oh raccoons are so cute and their. little hands they kind of have POS. posable thumbs and their little like. robber mask eyes and they're so cute you. ever catch one in the garage eating dog. food at night whoa you realize this is a. vicious animals bite your face off right. and you know from their eyes and Dana. Nestle has those eyes. so for Dana Nestle to be calling you.

crazy are you joking uh no you're not. The Crazy Ones and that is the beauty of. an event like this is you get to be in a. room and you can feel it even if you. don't talk to anybody you can feel the. vibe I can feel this backstage one of. the people I traveled with from Maine. said to me oh do you feel the vibe out. there with good people you can literally. feel. it and what that tells you. is that the things that you. want like decent schools and roads.

without holes in them and the ability to. walk to the grocery store without. getting mugged and like an inflation. rate that's under 12% and maybe a little. cottage you share with your cousins up. north like just sort of normal. things maybe a little continuity maybe. the right to live in a state that's not. completely different from the state you. grew up. in that's a right actually. they're always inventing rights you have.

a right to this you have a right to that. which usually means you're getting. nothing okay shut this [ __ ] State. down yeah oh I'm aware. baby and I'm aware and again you use. profanity but I'm with you. okay but there is a right that every. person has which is to be a little bit. insulated from like having their state. invaded and changed overnight actually. sorry it's just true like you you. shouldn't wake up in a place where you. were born and not recognized.

everything's totally different all the. attitudes different the people are. different the economy is totally. different that's like an act of violence. against you actually that's not the. promise of America the promise of. America is that things get a little. better not maybe radically better but. your kids have a shot at a little better. life than you had that's the American. dream the American dream is not that you. wake up and like you don't even. recognize this. place and you know for a fact that your. kids are not going to be going to little. cotage they share with their cousins up. north they're not going to be able to.

afford a house that's the opposite of. the American dream so I guess what I'm. saying is what you want is totally. sensible and moderate and reasonable and. human and basic it's not crazy it's not. asking for like a fleet of. helicopters or free ice cream they're. the free ice cream. party you just kind of want to go to the. grocery store without getting mugged or. going.

broke and they tell you that you're. insane because you're against like I. don't know castrating children that's. not insane they're. insane so just look. around remember that take heart you are. not the. freak Dana Nestle's the. freak with sharp teeth and raccoon. eyes Gretchen Whitmer is the freak with. the face lift and the paint sales bands.

you're a freak dude if you had a cousin. like that growing up and she came over. to Thanksgiving people would talk very. quietly around her cuz who knows once. she has a fork in her hand who knows. what she'll do with it everybody has a. relative like that how did yours become. governor I don't know but don't let her. convince you that she's the normal one. she's. not. sorry and so with that let me introduce. somebody who needs no introduction.

whatsoever the only thing I will add to. this I called him the most faithful. loyal son of the state of Michigan and. he is I will also just add one humble. brag by saying he's also my friend. ladies and gentlemen Kid. [Applause]. [Music]. Rock speakers the G with the 4S and the. ch.

oh. yeah so. dude uh I'm I'm in the dressing room you. mind if I start this off oh dude it's. all yours I literally this is how. twisted I am I'm in the dressing room. and it's very nice got some cold beer in. there ashtray a little meat and cheese. tray and snack tray and so you know I'm. looking at snack tray I'm like yeah got. Doritos Fritos M&M's and stuff and and I. go [ __ ] Twinkie right from the 80s.

yeah well so I asked one of my my friend. Corey I'm like dude when's the last time. you had a. Twinkie he's like man I remember and I'm. like I remember my mom used to like put. him in our lunch in elementary school. like on a special occasion I go I when's. the last time you had a. Twinkie I I had I had one in 1987. twinky so last time I had a Winston.

cette so I thought about it again I'm. like can't remember when the last time I. had a Twinkie and no one else can either. I was like they should rename these. things. [ __ ] I didn't hear what you said. um I'm working clean. tonight seriously are there children. here I don't want to be using curse. words if there's children here. so you're a busy man and this.

is only my sister-in-law calls me tuck. it's hilarious she's from Michigan. actually so great um what what do you. think is going on with the election. right. now I think Trump's going to kick their. ass. honestly I don't it reminds me of 2016 I.

mean I literally went to bed like a lot. of people that night you know pulling. for Trump on his team you know being. very vocal I was like I'm going to bed. and without a lot of faith I mean all. the polls told you this they had you. convinced if you looked at any. television like there's no way he was a. joke since he came down the elevator you. know and so were a lot of us that. supported him since he came down that. elevator and still been getting [ __ ]. till this day which is fine I kind of. like it but it reminded me of that and.

then woke up the next morning like Trump. one I'm like. what I you know and I it it just has the. same feeling to me I'm not a viby. person but uh it just has that feeling. to me what's going on I mean I don't. know how you can look at this I mean did. you see that Oprah thing. yesterday I I I did but I would for. those I don't know how many faithful. Oprah Watchers we have in this in this. but um tell us about.

it I think everybody's I don't know at. least I didn't watch it but I caught. wind of it you know on you know the. morning news and stuff it was a joke it. was a complete joke well well well in. the in the interview that you're. referring to KLA Harris like the big. fact of the debate from my perspective. was the fact that KLA Harris owns a. gun and yeah but nobody has what how why. is she let have a gun but nobody not. nobody body and that she's done her. little interviews with or anything that.

says what kind of gun do you own yeah. exactly you know just start there you is. it a Red Rider BB. gun do you have a shotgun you know what. size caliber bullet do you shoot you. know do you practice with your arm piece. is it for self-defense at home she just. says I have a gun and everyone go oh my. God she's so middle she's so in the. middle and then you got this i' like to. watch her clean it and then while we're. at it then you got this ass clown Tim. Walsh right oh my. [Applause].

god oh I'll get him I'll get. him it don't mess with a songwriter or a. comedian so I'm listening to this guy. and he honestly reminds me of like I. think of a few Junior High and high. school teachers that I absolutely hated. right Mr self-righteous Hey guys you're. going to do it this way you know blah. blah blah I'm right I'm right you know I. coach football this that and the other. and then he's you know um you know. wearing a camo hat like I I'm the best. shot I like to hunt I'm a Hunter I'm.

like yeah what do you hunt [ __ ] and. dicks I don't know why and I I don't. want to be unfair or whatever but every. time I see him talk I think of that. scene from airplane where the Pilot's. like ever seen a grown man naked. Johnny I'll tell you this much that Tim. Wallace has seen one up close if you. know what I. [Applause]. mean I can't confirm deny I told Trump. actually when you know we more have fun.

together I'm not the big policy guy I'm. I'm happy to give my opinion if asked or. whatever but you know I'm not a. political scientist I'm an average. person when it comes in regards like. that like most people but you know we're. always looking for a I like the fun name. game you know this that and the other. and I was like uh got something for Tim. walet I was like how about Tamp Pon. Timmy. right and I think I think even Trump. said it might be a little too. far I got all sorts of them you know I'm.

like you know one of his my favorite. policies of trump is you know. um uh without starting Wars it's um what. do they call it again. uh strength through strength uh peace. through strength peace through strength. I think that's Genius of course if it. was my policy I'd call it [ __ ] around. and find. out I think it's a similar principle. most of us well actually all of us go. through our daily lives using all sorts.

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docomo get yours today highly. recommended so um you are like often. photographed with Trump I just happen to. know for a fact I don't know if it's. widely known that you're like. legitimately close to like you know. Trump very well and I've known him for a. long time and I've heard you describe. what he's like would you. mind he's the greatest he's. he's well well just you know you don't. hear a lot of people talk about is is a. friend of course you know when I really.

got to know him he was president that. was very enamoring very nerve-wracking. like it would be in any situation at. first and I mean after you know our. first I had dinner with him in the White. House and that was great and then you. know our first time golfing it's like. it's when he's a president it's it's a. [ __ ] show you know it it's you know. you're trying to tea off you're like. Jesus Christ like it's just you can. imagine everything going everywhere and. I swear by the second hole it's like. this guy's one of my oldest friends like. he's just like my dad's out there with.

us God bless him and he's like don't. smoke or drink around the president he's. like don't light up that cigar and don't. drink beer around the president and like. third home like Mr pres you mind smoke. cigar he's like no smoke cigar I'm. like any cold beer on this course he. like you want some beer you want I got I. got Hershey bars. these keeps these huge Hershey bars in.

his what he he's just such a downto. earth fun guy you know and I've SE him. with his grandkids with his children a. lot of people don't like before we go to. golf sometimes he's like hey guys I got. to push back a few minutes I'm to go hit. some balls with my granddaughter or. something like that a lot of people. don't see that um I mean just when I was. I was just in Detroit introducing him. for a National Guard event right and I. took my mom with me. and it was really great my mom out all. these years i' never got to meet him.

it's my dad that always went with me and. my brother and all that but so I took my. dear sweet mother she loved it was great. but right before I'm getting ready to go. introduce him he's got an orange soda. like a fan right and you know and. someone's introducing me he's like you. want to. sip I'm kind of like and I I really. didn't and I'm like I'm like no sir he's. like remember when people used to drink. out of of the same.

bottle just normal [ __ ] like it's not a. weirdo they make them out to be some. crazed freak in the press and like you. know what I'm and they've done that to. us all they've done that to you they've. tried to do it to me I I rather like it. myself you know like go for it. like but he's just he's just a terrific. human being man and he's he's so much. fun to be around so much fun to be. around I I I think if there's one thing. I'd say about Trump that I don't think.

get gets credit for and really deserves. credit for I think he's one of the. funniest people I've ever met in my. entire life hands down hands hands. down funny I wonder if I should tell. this story I think you should. [Applause]. ah oh it's so. good I I hate to speak out of school you. know what I no you're you're in School. we're in Michigan ah [ __ ] it it's fun.

all. right so one the first times when the. White House was having dinner was Sarah. Palin um Trump invited Sarah this is. very early when he just gotten into the. in the White House and. um and Trump said invite some. interesting people so she called me and. Ted Nan. right pretty. interesting dinner party so so we go in. the Oval Office to meet him and he's.

just wide open like kid like blah blah. blah we set and the other and then we. conversate take some pictures like. anybody want to wash their hands I'm. like I do kind of a germ freak so we go. in this little room and we're like we're. little like sharing a bar of soap and. I'm like man this is weird weirdly. awesome right and then he goes Rock come. here we walked down to this other room. left of the Oval Office we're stand. there's some papers and like. Fox News and a picture of George. Washington he goes you know what this.

room is like no sir he's like this is. the Monica the winsky. room I'm. like and I'm literally I felt like I was. in Step Brothers I'm like did we just. become best. friends like and so I yell down the. hallway through the Oval Office I'm like. Audrey Sarah Ted come here come here. they come down to get in the room and. I'm like do you guys know what room this.

is and and they're like no and I'm like. sir and he's like it's the Monaco. Lewinsky room I'm like. yes that's just. fun that is so great I mean and I've. been in I've been in I've been fortunate. to be in the White House a lot of times. through the Kennedy Center Honors when. you go there and do things you get to. come to the White House and Ben invited. Ed for different things here and there. and pretty much got to be around every.

living president at some level like. actually spend a little time with him. and that first time we're in there. having dinner he's. like have you ever seen uh have you ever. seen upstairs private residents I'm like. no he's like do you want to I'm like. yeah and his his knowledge of American. History every painting in there he's. like this is Andrew Jackson and he did. this this this and this like every it. like a history lesson the doctors were. great he walks by the doctor he say.

doctors are great he's like hey guys if. I drop of a heart attack could you bring. me back they're like yes sir he's like. they're the best they're the. best like we're just having fun I'm. drinking a beer we're going through we. go upstairs he's like there's a. gettysburger dress I'm like holy [ __ ]. that's like Lincoln bed we're in the. Lincoln here's a queen's bedroom I'm. just like oh my gosh this is. mind-blowing but that's you know just. how down toe he is you know I guess I. don't think I'm anybody more special of. any other friend than he has uh and just.

that type of guy he's like and and the. one thing he said about that when he's. showing us around I go I can't believe. you're showing us all this he goes this. is the people's house this is your. house man that says it all right there. that says it all and there's been a. million other instances that I that I. probably can't recall right now and uh. rock and roll has not been too kind to. my. memory I think you're doing pretty well. considering the road.

miles so why do you think uh why do you. think a certain sort of person hates him. so. much I can't understand that it's. because it's a level of hatred I've only. gotten it one time and was a kid that. was drunk I had a Maga hat on somewhere. and actually you were involved now that. I think of it naturally the kid comes up. at this restaurant we have in Nashville. and he's like. and he's kind of standing there and I. like there's some politicians in there I. he looked like he might have been a.

military kid and lot people come up and. say hello pick life life's turned into a. picture as you know this and the other. and I'm kind of looking he's. like [ __ ] Tucker. Carlson [ __ ] your Trump. hat I'm like all right I'm like. okay like you done yet. yeah that's that's like literally one of. the only times but why people hate him.

so much um I don't know I guess they. hate winners jealousy. Envy. um I I can't figure it out you know they. I've heard I've talked to my Democratic. friends I have a lot of liberal friends. obviously in the business I'm in you. know it's kind of what it is and and I. could be friends with anybody they can. think differently than me that's fine. you know and I'm happy to give them my. side and they can give me theirs and we. can crack a beer and it's it's all good. it's no.

problem but you know they they're like. he lies he does this he does that I'm. like what channel are you. watching because it's it's it's honestly. it's different on Fox News and I watch. them all you know I watch billah I've. been on billah show I watch CNN I watch. Fox News you know I'm a little bit of a. news horror I mean not sure how healthy. it is you'll watch anybody you just like. to watch well honestly I don't I don't. know the what what' you say sorry I'm.

not calling you P didy just kidding um. whoa whoa. who sorry working blue for a minute um. well that's crazy a th000 bottles of. lube that's a lot it's a lot it's ous. but I did think of that and I'm like I. always try believe it or not to try to. find the positive and anything you know. I at least search for it before I turn. into Negative Nancy and I'm like. you know sometimes Costco just has a.

good. sale you can't pass it up you got to get. the pallet yep I got. it I did that with styrofoam cups one. year they're still in the garage um a. little different. uh so um you are in this business you've. been in this business entertainment. music among artists your entire life and. I bet there are some who who agree with. you but there are very very few who've. been as honest about having the views.

that you have was that a tough decis I. mean it's got to be a decision you're in. a. business why did you make that. decision I mean part of it was you know. I got older and wiser but to be honest. like I had the money in the bank and at. the end of the day I when I really. thought about it I just sounds hokey but. I just care about this country too. much and. [Applause].

and I said you know I kind of said you. know and it wasn't really a conscious. thing I just started kind of doing it. you know getting involved and one thing. led to another and it was it was like. you know it was kind of you know had a. couple talks with just friends I'm not. one of these people that has this big. machine team have this big team around. him where you know every clearly every. tweet's not screened yeah I picked up on. that comes out of my mouth or the. decisions I make it's I take. responsibility for it all it's me. there's no filters in there but it when.

it came I was like you know there's. going to be no corporate deals this that. and the other and I'm like good I'm like. I'm I'm so sick of dealing with. those I'll try not to curse so much you. know and the BS that goes on and these. corporate things and I've only aligned. myself with you know things that cor. light how to deal with them had to do. with Jim Beam had to do with. Harley-Davidson and Chevy trucks it's. like these are all things that you know. I was involved it but and still even. though I used all those things like.

dealing with the corporate [ __ ] I. was like yeah if I never see that again. I could care less and there's no amount. of money on the face of this Earth cuz. I've turned down tons of it they would. ever get me to be vocal or be somebody. I'm not and then people would see. somebody different than who I really. am he I I just got to say you make it. sound easy I know a lot of people in. your business in the entertainment. business obviously um and they don't.

reach the same conclusion you did. actually I think it's a harder decision. than you're. admitting like I said I had the money in. the bank so it was you know a lot of. people don't want to mess with their. bottom line a lot of people anybody this. goes for anybody they don't you know. they're scared of their social standing. you know God forbid mom drops off the. kids at school with a Maga hat on you. know what I mean you're like oh. you know all of a sudden you know you're. this this polarizing you know divisive.

person because you said I want to make. America great again I was like how dare. you you know it's just it's people are. scared I'm I one thing I've been a lot. of things one thing I've never been as. scared that's for sure amen so has it do. you do you think it has cost. you. no I was planning on it probably you. know like hey you have the potential to.

give up a lot and I'm like I don't care. it's like whatever this tells me it's. the right thing to do this is what my. Lord and Savior Jesus Christ tells me is. the right thing to. do and I'm going follow my heart. and you know it's crazy cuz there's some. times where it goes like this and it's. you know very vocal last however many. years and the last full tour did a few. years ago the only thing I did to. promote it was the thing I did with you.

that was it I didn't do one piece of. present we sold out every city on that. tour and you know it just goes to show. you if if if you speak your truths and I. mean they have to be your truths not. something you heard not something you're. repeating to get somewhere to get to a. certain stature but if it's really your. truths you your families your friends. things you believe in like good things. will. come that is where I I I love hear.

hearing you say that I think it's true. where did you learn. that I don't know um Detroit you know. that's what I'm saying you know where I. learned a lot of that when when I was. very young I was like the white kid that. hung out in the in the black areas and I. was a DJ and I break dance and all this. stuff and I remember back then like if I. would try to fit in like back then wear. like a troop suit and have on like this. cool hip-hop stuff what's a what's a.

troop suit it like LL Cool J used to. wear him it was this big thing in the. 80s like it was some straight hip-hop. [ __ ] like you know and I was really this. nerdy little kind of you know White. skateboarding kid you know that came. from a really nice middle upper class. family from Romeo Michigan but I'm like. you know thank you I'm very proud of. that and um and my friends are kind of. be. like man what's the matter with him that. boy's confused like you know and then. when I would kind of just be myself and.

I'd kind of have on my nerdy painters. cap and my skateboard gear and I'm doing. my DJ and like people responded more. that I was just myself they people could. see people can see through you they can. tell if you're real or not and so I kind. of learned that through that experience. young at least that's one of. them that's so smart so how okay so you. now spend part of the Year obviously. you're still in Michigan a lot of the. year but you also in na. which is really the center of the music. business um and like everybody in the.

business seems to live there how do they. treat you well I feel I have to I feel I. should just tell the people of Michigan. that I I said for years there's no way I. will ever live out of Michigan ever. right I live in Nashville now and I'll. tell you why I I'm still up in charoy. all summer long. and but you know I never thought I would. have another residence for Michigan I. figured you know die a Michigan resident. that's just the way it was and uh you. know have other homes because I've.

worked hard and been blessed um my son. you know went to school and raised him. in Clarkston Michigan he went to St. Orchard Lake St. Mary's and then he uh went to college at. a small Christian School called called. Belmont um had my granddaughter while in. college with his eighth grade sweetheart. they eventually got married I have my. second grandson now um. but after he finished College he was in. Nashville for several months and I'm.

like and I always had a condo down there. kind of like a party house and uh it was. no. fun and so I finally know when I'm like. well son I'm like when you coming back. to Michigan to uh you know learn how to. sweep the floors and maybe figure it out. and work your way up and run one of. these businesses he's like I'm not. coming back not coming back to Detroit. not coming back to Michigan I'm like. you're not coming back to the mecca of. Detroit I'm like hm I'm.

like yeah okay all right I'll be right. there so so my son and my grandkids. brought me to Nashville and it's it's. been great but there's there's nothing. but Michigan in my heart till I die the. most interesting and newsworthy. television show of the year is coming. here to TCN we are not bragging that's. actually. true the president's been shot I repeat. the president's been shot so our. longtime producer Justin Wells and a.

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sitting around your house you have. people over your studio you're. dinner wow what a. lighter that's serious speaking of. the'80s that's an 80s. later. um did I mean do you ever have like. political I mean are they on your side. secretly do you think who's that the. other artists in Nashville I mean. Nashville's a lot more conservative. obviously from the country music scene. um but honestly I mean I mean I I hang.

out with everybody I could care you know. I mean there's a short movie thing I. don't know if anybody's seen it did it. years ago with sha Penn it's called. Americans it's on YouTube and it's about. you know thinking differently having. completely different political views and. how basically thinking differently is. what made this country great you know. I'm still going to Hold My Views you're. going to hold yours but we can find more. in common at the end of the day you know.

there's some things I'm just not going. to budge on and some people you know. like like the old Democrats didn't scare. me Blue Dog Democrats we called them you. know what I mean like Al gor from. Nashville like Robert Kennedy Jr if he. would have ran like and got elected it. doesn't scare me it's these freaking. weirdos you know these far-left. Marxist borderline communist freak. socialist weirdos that creep me out. [Applause]. are there still I mean sincere question.

I don't know the answer but there used. to be you know for Generations 100 years. Union Democrats in the state of Michigan. who were like pro-america Hunters. fishermen you know masculine men for. example um actually and they were. Democrats because that's what the UAW. did do those people still. exist I mean obviously the lines have. been blurred big time in a good way. because they've taken so much for.

granted I mean look at Trump had. minorities you know working better wages. than anybody else and and ever in the. history you know what I mean and it's. like and everyone's like that guyy a. racist Nazi you're like what are you. talking about you know what I mean and. and you know I I think people get. complacent they always do you know with. the top of anything and Democrats. clearly I hate to sound like you know. broken record repeating talking points. we hear all the time on the news but you. know they they take the black vote for. granted they take the union vote for.

granted you know they just they just you. just think these are like you don't we. don't have to say anything these are. just you know we're pro and we're going. to like you know give you money it's you. know the big pork thing in DC and and. it's when when you hear Kel Harris say. that if the government knows you have a. gun they have the right to barge into. your house and inspect it well they can. they can barge in they're going out in a. body.

[Applause]. bag last time last time I checked the. Second Amendment means something yeah. and by the. way it know brings it to the point of. the First Amendment like how important. is that and you know what it is you. can't protect the First Amendment. without the. [Applause]. second so you don't think barging in. your house and conf skating your weapons. is common sense gun gun. reform yeah probably.

not I the problem with the common sense. laws is like I'm a common sense person. like I can talk to some of my call them. left-wing friends and they like suggest. these things said other I'm like okay. that makes sense right you know about. being responsible to lock your gun up or. keep it out of the reach of children. like I get it absolutely problem is if. they imple imple Implement that into law. the way I see it. these these dumb [ __ ] attorneys that. drop all these bills they'll flip this.

wording so freaking bad around that. they'll take advantage of these laws and. it will keep going like this and take. and take and take if we had sensible. people everything would be fine but you. know you got people that scam on. everything they scam on their insurance. they scam on this it's the guy that you. know when you're in line to get off and. and he comes around and cuts right in. it's these people you know there there's. tons of them everywhere and they screw. everything up for everybody you know. what I mean so you just can't have so.

many just decent common things you know. in line trust me there's ways to have. fun lots of fun without being an idiot. name three what name. three um rock and roll playing in a. band hell when I was younger I I I did. drugs and I wasn't an idiot I mean. there's times when I got vocally like. like H maybe I shouldn't have said that. one like there have been times I've seen.

the videos there have been quite a few. times. absolutely I was like sh drunk man's. words are sober man's thoughts. like but you when you were on stage I. think it was in your bar attacking. Hillary Clinton did you ever think I. could wind up like. Gaddafi that's the most confusing thing. I've ever what was. that you could I could wind up like. Jeffrey I've seen like maybe there are. certain people I shouldn't criticize. because they could hurt.

me. [Applause]. nah I mean there's no way to live. life no way to live life you know. looking over your shoulder scared about. what you said you know might offend. somebody and they might kill you I mean. it reminds me like when my sister you. know when I got money and she controls a. lot of my business Stu was like you have. to get rid of your diving board I'm like. what she's like insurance won't you know. I'm like that's enough I had enough of. this [ __ ] all right kids want to jump on.

diving boards around a pool someone. might crack their head and if they sue. me and take everything I got [ __ ] it I'm. like I don't care I'm like I'm not going. to live life like. that do you still have the diving. board well I have I have a new. [Laughter]. house it's way worse than a diving board. it's a Vanishing edge pool with with no. protection that goes down a mountain. wow that sounds like the world's most. dangerous swimming pool or.

awesome so I I do want to ask you I've. thought this of you many times but. you've been in this like 30. years and most people who've been in. your business the rock and roll business. touring entertainers artists I mean. they're if they're still. alive they're in worse shape than you. are what do you mean. well yeah so what's your. secret you know my son kept me very.

grounded being a single father um my mom. kept me in check making me be as good a. father as I could be also helping me out. but you know I us you know her and his. godparents my sister our cleaning lady. my production manager's mother who lived. had so many good people around to help. me raise raise my son you know it chokes. me up um but that that that right. there that only allowed me to be an.

idiot from like Thursday to Sunday. morning rest I had to you know parent. teacher conferences had to drive to. school and field trips you know and and. this that and the other and everything. else and um and then finally you know. years back you know I just figured it. out that let's replace those bad habits. with good habits I still it's Friday. night I've worked my ass off all week. just came from rehearsals I'm going to. have a beer like it's just I'm I'm not. the weird one you know what I mean I. don't do this every night anymore 5 days. a week I'm on a strict Health regiment.

this that and the other I took my bad. habits and I replaced those with good. habits and that's really what I did. amazing do you know other people in your. business who've done that who are still. around like guys you started with few of. them yeah few of them yeah. um a lot of them it was well I think. Scott stab changed his life around. he was pretty messed up for a while. trust me and I hear you know Creed's.

back doing great stuff. um I know so you know it is possible. it's not a story you hear very often a. lot of time it's like you know you know. the band breaks up you know like screw. you screw you we all hate each other. and blah blah and then 10 years later. like you got any money they're. like no do you they're like I don't. either they're like. we're getting the band back together. reunion. [Laughter].

tour we we are driving from Detroit to. Ana Michigan last summer and Ana Portage. Lake and it's like what three or four. hour drive and we had we had played this. game in the car we can only listen to. music from. Michigan you were on there must have. been an awesome ride it was but that's. my question. okay and and that not even mentioning. town like you can just go I mean you. could drive from here to Fairbanks and. just listen to Michigan music drive from.

here to China put your put your car so. why why has this state produced so much. good music well I think it was you know. the migration from the. south you know and. and all the everyone came to work in the. industrial revolution in the Auto. industry some people stopped in Chicago. that's where you got like the blue scene. that formed and then other people kept. going because you could get this wage. and you could work and get off at 3:00. and you could play at the bars at night. it's where you got so the sadder people. stopped in Chicago made the.

BL whatever it was back then you know. people man we can go work up there and. make money and be you know be treated. pretty decently you know even though it. was pretty horrible in those factories. back then to a lot of these people. coming from the south after this time. you know dark period in our history and. they came up here and you know you get. off the plan at 3:00 or whatever you go. play the bars you know or vice versa get. off at a certain time and that and you. had all this Melting Pot of people come. from everywhere to come for this. Industrial Revolution I think the.

combination of that you know from and. having you know Jazz and Blues here. everything you know the oldest Jazz Club. is in Detroit uh Baker's Keyboard Lounge. thank you yes Bakers Keyboard Lounge and. you know John John Lee Hooker writing. those songs down in haston street oh. mama had a dream last. night and know and then it just goes on. and on from there spis into Soul music. and mowtown and you know rock and roll. and house music and you know hip-hop and. it just you know it hasn't stopped you.

think you think the leadership of. Michigan will get better I [ __ ] hope. so Jesus Gretchen. Shimmer so that's not an. endorsement do you know anyone who voted. for yeah it was an extended family. member what did did the extended family. member explain why. I don't know. but ah man this is a tough one too be.

talk about family. but that's like most of these people are. like. divorced overweight uh pissed off at the. world um you know angry at every man. alive and I my gut tells me those are. the women that voted for. her I think that's probably the deepest. thing ever uttered on this stage and the. truest um. um my personal research on the question. confirms what you just said uh so it.

would be good to have a happy governor. with happy voters in a happy State. someone shouting Kid Rock for governor. would you run for governor of Michigan. what's. that that's actually why I came tonight. was to announce my. candidacy you know you the funny thing. thing is you'd probably win and you'd. probably be. great yeah that was messed up when I was.

doing that little Senate bit by the way. Trump asked me about that for like 3. years after it was done and I came out I. was like hey man I was just screwing. around and I was winning like actually. my brother saw Debbie stabing out like. backstage at one of my shows I know boo. and uh and she's like and my brother's. like what are you doing here she's like. I just wanted to thank your brother he. raised me so much money with that little. Senate stunt and I'm like oh [ __ ] I I I. wouldn't planning on that that backfired.

a little. [Laughter]. bit don't you think you'd have fun doing. it though no I don't think any I don't. think anybody should have fun doing it. I'm sick of every politician on every. side thinking they're a [ __ ]. celebrity you know what I. mean when the celebrities should really. be the people who fight and die for this. country who keep their mouth shut and do. their job go to work every day and then. you got these politicians who are like.

well I just got an office and I wrote a. book and you know I got a job at Fox. News now and I'm on CNN and I'm over. here and I think I'm a big deal want a. selfie with me it's like you're supposed. to be doing a service to your. country and the reason we can't get any. good people is because it's like when. people say about Trump well he said grab. him by the [ __ ] and like this and it's. like whatever we're not electing the. Deacon of the church all right you want. want someone who's going to keep you. safe going to lower your taxes you know. what I mean it's going to protect you. and your family.

values and and there's nobody in here. cast the first stone you know he has no. sin you know what I mean we all got some. dirt somewhere you know you run for. office and they're going to dig it up. and they're going to drag you through. the mud and punish your family and your. friends who would want that job we have. some of the smartest people the smartest. people in this country that I guarantee. you would give 2 four 6 years years. eight years of their life to make this a. better place to say like I've been very.

successful if I can sacrifice which I. think Trump has done didn't take a. paycheck when he's in office he's a. freaking billionaire he's got a hot wife. he's got real estate all over the world. and he's like no let me run for. president somebody take a shot at me you. know what I mean try and kill me because. I want to help this country out I mean. if that's not conviction I don't know. what is.

you know that was pretty close I would. say just drinking beer on a Friday night. with Tucker and some. [Laughter]. friends I know you've talked to him in. the last month that didn't even if if. someone shot me in the face it would. give me pause I must say he didn't even. seem to slow down no and I think he said. that the other night on Gutfeld which I.

thought was. great I actually told him I actually. told him I said sir I go in that that. setting with several people you know. that are that are smart funny I go you. shine like a diamond you know what I. mean it's just not talking policy over. and over again I go you were funny. engaging you still had your you know. your points I mean if you don't know. what Trump's policies are right now you. must live in a freaking cave you know. what I mean we understand what he wants. to do and we we this is the first time I. know I'm getting off track but I tell. people like I was talking to some people.

in my band today at rehearsal some of. them are Democrats you know this said. some of are gay they said I don't give a. [ __ ] I'm like but it's fun to have. discussions and the way I broke it down. to one of my band members was like you. know just think of it like this this is. one of the only times in our lifetime. certainly and and I I don't I think it's. only happened twice before I have to. fact check me but where you have forget. you you don't even need these people KLA. Harris or Trump to say anything they. both have four years of a track record.

period you don't need to look any. farther just check their homework okay. KLA Harris D minus Donald Trump A+ boom. I'm going to vote for the guy that got. the. A+ you said that you watch uh all kinds. of media yeah who drives you. craziest who drives me.

craziest man there are a lot to choose. from. obviously yeah not really media but um I. mean none of them drive me crazy I just. I just laugh it off you know like I. don't let people get in my skin like. that I could in case you haven't noticed. I could give a frog's fat ass. like nobody's getting under my skin like. that how much time do you spend watching. The. View you know sometimes I watch the.

morning programs and then I get done my. workouts coming here and when I come. back down it'll be on you know because I. didn't change the I like to watch vanney. on Fox Business I love vanney I do too. um but if you know if I didn't flip it. before I went up to the house do my. other workout and like come out it'll be. on and I'll be like you pop a bag of. popcorn be like I see what these [ __ ]. got to say today like. um yeah they annoy me they they but but.

at the same time I'm just laughing at. them you know what I mean I'm not you. know like oh my gosh they ruined my day. I'm like look at these. [Laughter]. hoes CNN doesn't make you. mad I. mean it's more fodder than mad yeah I. mean you know makes me mad it's like. every time I go to the fridge I open. something up and it's got like a little.

plastic label I got get that thing off. all right then I'm unscreen like can I. got get this thing off it and I'm like. God son of a [ __ ] I'm like that pisses. me off I'm like why because there's some. fruit cakes running around that want to. put weird stuff in your food I'm like we. should just execute these people like. get them out of the Jean Pool. like that's what pisses me. off food so food packaging is your top. issue would you. say. yep I'm in my 50s too man I I feel you.

why does every Apple have to come with a. little plastic sticker on I stick you. get a piece of fruit you're like you're. wash your like oh [ __ ] somebody put a. sticker on this. thing like but that's never brought up. in a single presidential debate and I'm. wondering. why well if you'd like to see you know. how it really goes I should moderated. [Applause].

debate I mean can you imagine if we just. talked like everyday people and I know. everyday people don't all use curse. words but I mean my mom says the FW at. this point like you know what I mean and. that was a word if you said at my house. growing up you were running out because. if not you were touching your toes and. getting the paddle um you know if you if. you could just sit there and you're like. that's horseshit like what are you. talking about like this is clearly. stated right here like you going to. answer the question or not if you're not. going to answer it just say no well I.

feel you know the world needs a new VI. that's not the. question would would you offer to. moderate the next debate between K. Harris and Donald Trump. absolutely could could we do it at the I. would exactly call it moderating we. might have to come up with a new word. more be like. referee Trump would do that in a second.

he does any of that in a second this guy. goes I've seen him in Detroit in black. churches I've seen him in the South. Bronx I've seen him you know in. different neighborhoods you know. Hispanic neighborhoods here he'll meet. with anybody I took some of my boys from. Detroit to meet him last time he was. here like guys who are real prominent in. the city like kind of grew up Gangster. hipop now we're community community. leaders influencers. and they're like they're like dog you. might have had that one right you know. like this like you know um he he's he's.

you know I find a similarity us like. that and like I will sit down and talk. to anybody let's have a beer is somebody. I said the worst things about this that. and the other somebody I've thrown under. the bus they've thrown me under the bus. I'll be like let's have a beer uh on. occasion it's happened here and there. and like I'm telling you you always like. you always end up with a hand hand shake. and a laugh you know isolation is what. really breeds hate in my mind when.

you're isolated from from everybody like. Co that bred a lot of hatred and people. you know you're just isolated up you're. like [ __ ] the person you live with. you're like I didn't want to live with. you 24 hours a. day it's kind of nice going to. work you know I mean to to get out and. just when you see other people you. understand their views and there's some. things where you're like look I just. can't can't get down with it you know. what I mean do you want to cut your. penis off like I'm going to draw the. line there all right like that's like.

you know you want to playing you know. the whole Sports things of men and. bathrooms like n no I'm it's a hard. [Laughter]. no a hard. no I mean that should be a reality show. who will cut their penis off first. dancing with no. [Laughter].

penis that's so good I don't think we're. allowed to laugh at though it's deadly. serious I mean this is a personal. [Laughter]. Journey I've never been on stage this. long with a microphone honestly God I. love it I have another beer and speak. without being. like the first 10 minutes I thought. about I go I've never been on a stage. this long with a microphone with this.

many people and not been covered in. sweat from head to toe like I'm like. kind it nice isn't it's easier than what. you do I honestly I'd rather have my. band to be playing music no. offense just cuz I'm better at it so I. noticed you're drinking Coors Light I'm. drinking whatever you put here oh we did. my dad told me there's two types of beer. this world cold there there's there's. there's there's well. [Laughter].

[ __ ] as I'm drinking. beer there's two types of beer in this. world Coors Light and free you like them. both all right before you go tell us I. mean what you. do for pure entertainment I mean seen. video of you shooting consumer products. I love to have my friends and family for.

dinners really. yeah yep that's pretty great where God. at your house I got. this I'm going to brag a little bit but. whatever you'll en you'll enjoy it I got. this dining room that's elevated and my. house overlooks The Old City Nashville. and I put this floor in and it spins. like one of them hotels you know you go. to and I'm like I'm like what the hell. am I going to do with all this money I'm. like I got it a floor that.

spins like bam nailed it and so we. called it the spinner. dinner and and friends or family come. over and it's only eight seats well. that's like a tilto world does anyone. get sick it don't go that. [Music]. fast but you know it's only eight people. so it's intimate you you spend time with. we have some cocktails and stuff before. we have dinner and then Shenanigans. after whatever happens you know and.

that's honestly my favorite thing to. do. so you've been on stage for 30 years. you're one of the most famous people in. the country but when it comes down to it. what you really want to do is have. dinner with the people you love Yeah. spend time with the people I love. amen well that kind of says it all it. says everything about you and it says. everything about the the purest human. design tiers and I hope that we can keep. doing that in this country amen Amen Kid.

Rock ladies and. gentlemen thank you Michigan we love. [Applause]. you the big tech companies censor our. content I hate to tell you that it's. still going on in 2024 but you know what. they can't censor Live Events that's why. we are hitting the road on a fall tour. for the entire month of September Coast. to Coast we'll be in cities across the. United States we'll be in Hershey. Pennsylvania with JD Vance Reading. Pennsylvania with Alex Jones for Worth.

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