Ted: Has anything changed? Nothing.  Just my underwear.

Redbeard: Thank god too.

T: And I do every day.  That's exactly who i thank every day.  I'm a lucky, lucky man.  You're looking at a happy, happy lucky, lucky ultra alive man.  Even more so than that little whipper-snapper son of a bitch that you interviewed a hundred and five years ago.  So I do.  I get on bended knee and thank god every day.  And you're here the vapor trail today. After three days of what the Nugent family and the Nugent band and all my friends, and all my cohorts, we dedicate ourselves to here in that chair that you're sitting in, and here on this sacred ground, were a couple dozen of the greatest warrior that ever lived that had their faces blown off and their limbs blown off, some barely alive from the brooks army medical facility, who we do everything in our power to host and to thank and to celebrate and to load machine guns for and to start barbeques for to bate hooks for to go fishing to go four wheeling. So what we've done on the opening volley of the rolling thunder rehearsal is once again to host the heroes the wounded warriors, the salute to the uh heroes, the uh, uh men and women of the united states military who have sacrificed so that I can be this happy.  So that's why my uppidiness does not gently weep.  My uppidiness just increases in uppidiness every day in appreciation of the American dream that those heroes have provided.  That's why I'm like this, Redbeard, there's nothing to deter me.

R: That's just amazing.  It's wonderful to hear you uh, be so appreciative of uh, of the blessings that you've got.  It's great, I was talking to my brother yesterday as we watched your new DVD Sweet and Rocks, and I told him, ya know I've always liked this guy.

S: The energy.  And it's the energy that yeah, I celebrate the good, good, good, good, there's so much good, it's all good if you're prioritized.  If you're genuine and sincere in your dedication to prioritize, honestly, and with a conscience.  I.e. do good..  Be good. Be an asset,  get up early.  Be a benefit to your fellow man and the good mother earth but, when you identified that the good can be measured by how effectively we identify and crush the bad and ugly.  And there is no more dynamic, demonstrable, example, demonstrative example of that than those heroes I the united states military who are brighter, statistically, more educated, statistically, that you and I or the average American, and who dedicated that intellect to investigate the war on terror.  Conclude that it is worth volunteering for, in the face of their blood brothers returning in flag-draped coffins.  First, I don't know what that courage looks like.  I'm a pretty tough guy, i try to be courageous for my family.  And I try to be brave in the face of danger, um, and, and, and obstacles, but I'm stunned awe at the men and women of the military and again, it's not a new dynamic in my life we're talking about my visiting with and spending time with vets back in the 60s, and 70s, and 80s and 90s, and now more than ever, i, being on the front lines in Falusia, sweeping up the blood of private first class Todd Balding, saluting the flag draped coffins of lieu tent colonel Eric McCray, returning home with a, a transport aircraft full of flag-draped coffins and just having my emotions tested beyond and I've got imagination, I can imagine the, I wrote Wang Dang Sweet Putang, my imagination is unlimited, but I can't begin to imagine the uh, the primal spiritual valor that each of the se heroes exudes as they count the flag-draped coffins and then volunteer again! And go forth so, so I celebrate the good and I can be as goofy, did I say as goofy, I can be goofier than anybody I, I at 60 years of age I am giddier that the 20 year old uncle Ted who's ass I would kick if he'd of shown up.  But I just say damn it if they're willing to do that and they are going after guys that lop your head off if you don't agree with them.  They're, they're going after people who lop, who strap dynamite to children, so I don't even want to get into the discussion of who is right and who is wrong.  We're right!  They're wrong!  And the warriors are going after them. That's all I need to know.  And when you spend time with them in Falusia or at spirit wild ranch, and you eat barbecue ad you catch a bass and you play rock and roll, you sing a song like raw dogs and war hogs, or great white buffalo and above the canyon walls strong eyes did glow, it was the leader of land it was the great white buffalo and when he found the battered heard and he led ‘em across the land that with the great white buffalo we can make a final stand!  That's their song.  I didn't even know it when I wrote it.  I was too young and stupid.  It was their song.

R: That's right.  That was a few years ago.

T: That was their song.  They found the battered heard and they led them across the land.  So when you're when you're prodded in the depths of your emotion, in Falusia in ________________, in ___________________ uncharted, unnamed mountain paths in Afghanistan, hanging with these guys, shooting the breeze with them, talking hunting and fishing, first amendment rights, second amendment rights, tenth amendment rights, it doesn't matter.  Rights.  God given rights.  My god, it's never been more powerful in my life.  And to be able to perform for them, shoot machine guns with them, and absorb their spirit. How can, how could I do anything but live the best American dream that I can possibly live to show thanks for them providing that opportunity.  Which is why I'm so angry with the criminals in America.  Why I'm so angry that Americans will get this morning and get meth and sell meth and do meth.  These guys have died so that you can have an American dream and that's how you're, that's how you're using the opportunity?  That an American is going to rob a fellow American today, that's how you say thank you to the guy with no legs?!  That's why I am such and activist and that's why so many people think that I'm an extremist.  Cause they're pay attention.  I am an extremist.  I am extremely alive. I am extreme American, I extremely love my family, I extremely insist on freedom and I extremely appreciate those who sacrifice so that you and I can be here today secure in our over-gunned ranch, celebrating that spirit.  And though I'm articulating in a more pointently than I did 35 years ago, is that or is that not that you sat down with in our youth, to discuss my passion for my music… and um…. I'm the same guy!

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