#1741 - Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Somebody gave me this recently, check that out.

Ted Nugent (0:15)

Real McCoy?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

That's a real McCoy.

Ted Nugent (0:17)

They find these on my property, outside of Waco.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

They're all over the place in Texas. I mean, this land was occupied for a long time by Native Americans.

Ted Nugent (0:25)

Think it's obsidian?

Joe Rogan (0:26)

I don't know what it's made out of. I don't know much about rocks, but it's something special about holding one of those, isn't it?

Ted Nugent (0:31)

Always. I killed a goose with a Port Orford cedar arrow, real natural turkey feathers built by George Nichols at Jackson Archery in the 30s, the arrows.

The head I found on the Rouge River in Detroit, and I was shooting a U Longbow. I might have been eight.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

So you found a Native American arrowhead, and you use a 1930s wooden arrow with real turkey feathers.

Ted Nugent (1:05)

High-profile shield cut that George Nichols made, who I eventually got to hunt with, who made all of Fred Baer's arrows. There's much mojo that emits from my spirit because I've been in such unique environments. But anyhow, I went to the, what was the name of the cemetery? Wildwood Cemetery on Grand River and Six Mile Road in Detroit, right off the Rouge River. There's a cemetery there, and the geese always landed in the ponds and the little cricks that ran off the Rouge River. And I snuck in there with my cousin Mark Schmidt. And I still have that U-wood longbow. I ended up putting electric tape around it because it started to split a little bit from 1955, maybe.

And there was some Canadian geese on a pond, and we snuck in almost like Ishii, like, like, Oreg from the year three, sneaking in through the reeds and the nasty shit.

And I drew back and shot that goose, and it flopped all around, but we got that goose, ran to the fence, climbed over the fence, and took it home.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

I think it's amazing, but I would feel so nervous to lose one of those heads. There's something about those heads, like, I don't think you're supposed... There's a lot of places where you're not supposed to pick them up, which I find to be very bizarre.

Yeah, when I was in Nevada, we were hunting mule deer. I was with Steve Ronella, and I found one there. And they informed me that you're not supposed to pick it up.

Ted Nugent (2:32)

Huh. What man has the authority to tell you that?

Joe Rogan (2:35)

I don't understand. Well, I think they...

The idea is that it's an artifact, and that you're supposed to just leave it there, which I don't understand, because, like, either I'm allowed to pick it up, and it should go to some sort of museum or something. I don't know where they would keep them.

Ted Nugent (2:53)

I would like to think that...

Joe Rogan (2:54)

But to leave it there.

Ted Nugent (2:55)

Hand-me-downs continue the mojo, pass the mojo on. Don't you think the mojo handed from hand to hand, from generation to generation, would have more spirit production, spirit productivity, than leaving it on what they might call sacred grounds?

Joe Rogan (3:15)

Yeah. Is that the theory? I mean, the Native Americans, some Native American folks have had a real problem, with people picking up artifacts and claiming them as their own. I think that's the issue with it. But for me, I mean, we were on a bow hunting trip, and to find an arrow and to know that someone, some Native American had been in that same area hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and hunting for their food to feed their family in that same ground, and that I had picked up a part of their weapon. It was pretty amazing.

Ted Nugent (3:48)

Well, it might not be historical artifact, but I come bearing gifts. You've got a lot of stuff.

Joe Rogan (3:53)

Those are the flags. What do you got there? Come and Take It?

They have one at the exact, oh, it's a sign.

Ted Nugent (4:00)

Except this one's autographed.

Joe Rogan (4:02)

Yeah, all right, I like it. They have one just like that at the range in Austin, signed by our governor.

Ted Nugent (4:07)

Yes, put that. And also, just because I ran out of the garage with them, also a Come and Take It hat.

Joe Rogan (4:15)

Oh, Come and Take It hat sign.

Ted Nugent (4:17)

Also, a Barry Joe Rogan I Will Not Comply autographed hat.