Joe Rogan - Ted Nugent Denies Draft Dodging & Adopting His Girlfriend!

Right? This time just flew by. That's because it's a love fest of truth, logic, and common sense. Well, listen, man, it's been a pleasure to meet you. I'm glad to be able to sit down with you and have a good conversation here. My friends were right. You do deserve me. And I think it's a good opportunity for people to get a chance to see you in a long-form conversation rather than these sound bites they could just choose to hate. Yeah, especially when these sound bites are edited and manufactured. Yes. And let's make it perfectly clear. I did not avoid the draft. I did nothing. Oh, let's go to that. I am not a... Kill that music real quick. I am. Because that was an old-school story of an interview, supposedly, that you shit all over yourself and took time to mask. And by the way, Joe, you know me pretty well in the last three hours. If I had shit on myself to get out of the draft, do you think for a minute I would deny it? No. I would have a riot with it. What was that about? I went in and got my draft physical. And by the way, when I went in 1969, I was Superman. I literally would hurdle Volkswagen bugs. I was all muscle and sinew. I was Superman. I was the most athletic, running, jumping, gazelle known to man. And I went in for my... I didn't know anything about Vietnam. I didn't know anything about war. My dad was a war hero, but nobody talked about it. I never heard of the Bataan Death March. I graduated from the American education system. So I knew nothing. And there was all protests around me, but I wasn't really tuned into the protests because I was making music every day. I mean, just obsessed with the Amboy Dukes and playing gigs every day. And I didn't pay attention. I never watched a newscast in my life. But I was given a draft notice and I went down. I went down and I had my draft physical. And I passed with flying colors. And I got a draft card in the mail a couple months later from my mom and dad's house and one Y. Not a deferment. It was a designation. I was in Oakland Community College at the time. So I was... Why was a student designation, I believe. But I was ready to rock. I didn't want to go. I didn't understand any of them. My buddies were going. John Brake, my singer, had to go. Rob Leonard from Amboy Dukes had to go. So the only way you could have gone is if you dropped out of school. Is that what it is? No. It wasn't a deferment. I would have been called any time. So you could have been called but you just weren't. Sure. And then the Wikipedia claims I got a 4F. 4F! What is a 4F? 4F means you're physically incapable. I've never been physically incapable of anything. So they make this shit up. So who? So I did an interview with High Times, which by the way, let's make it clear. I've done this so many times that people ignore my actual statements. So I had been doing interviews all because the Amboy Dukes were on fire and I was just an outrage on stage with the loincloth and the bow and arrow and feedback and these killer songs and the band was so good. Greatest musicians in the world. So I did interviews all the time talking about the music I loved. And they never got anything right. These stone dirtbag hippie writers got the guys in the band's names wrong. They got the facility wrong. They mentioned songs we didn't perform. They got nothing right. And every time I'd read the interview, I'd go, God, we were talking about my music. It didn't even get the song titles right. So I started having fun with these interviewers, much to the entertainment of my bandmates, who would break out in hysterics when I'd make up stories because I'm not going to even try to be accurate anymore. It was an ongoing maneuver of mine. We'd have these hippie writers come in to take notes and I'd say, yeah, I play this Fender Stratocaster as I hold up my Gibson Birdland, which I was known for, and they'd write down, he played Gibson Stratocaster. There's no such thing as a Gibson Stratocaster. So I was having fun with dirtbag anti-journalists. So now I'm invited to do High Times Magazine, and I was hardcore anti-drug. So I go in and this guy is, you know, these interviews typically, you know, so, Ted, so tell me about this Amboy Dukes. What is it? Is it like a band? I went, yeah, it's like a band. It's almost exactly like a band. The fuck kind of question is this? So how did this conversation get started about the draft? So anyhow, we started talking about when I'm with the MC5 and the Stooges and we would party and I go, yeah, man, I was snorting something. I don't know what it was, but man, I just got hired in a kite and he goes, wow, you think I might have been a crystal meth? And I went, yeah, that's what they called it. I never snorted crystal meth. So you just made up some shit. I just went nuts and I, we went into the war thing and I go, I don't know anything about war. I'm a guitar player, but I went down for my draft physical and when I went into the booth to give my urine sample, I made sure I ate Mexican food all week. So instead of pissing in the urine cup, I took a big dump in it. It was green and went all over the place. And the guy went, wow, really? Yeah, really. And so I made up this story for High Times magazine, you know, the great magazine of good information. And then it turned out that my drummer, KJ Knight, God bless him, he actually admitted this and testified that that's what he did. We thought it was the funniest thing in the world. We're teenagers and this guy went into the draft physical just an absolute near death lump of shit to get out of the draft. And we thought it was funnier than hell. We weren't paying attention to important things in life. And so the Ted Hating liberal press started quoting the High Times magazine and quoting an ex-girlfriend who claimed that I adopted her, that I adopted my girlfriend. Have you read that one? I did read that one. I forgot about it. What the fuck? So this kind of stuff. Yeah, it was like you adopted her so you could take her on tour with you? No, so I could fuck her. That's what the story was. That's absolutely absurd. I don't think that's how it works. That's not... I don't think it makes it easier to fuck them once you adopt them. I didn't adopt anybody. I never shit my pants since I was, I think, eight months old. I've never been with an underage girl since I was underage. I'm not a racist. And what else they say? Oh, and they claim that I made Courtney Love blow me when she was 12. I think she claimed that, right? Yeah, I never met Courtney Love. You can tell I don't have a rash. You just got to be kidding me. They just make this shit up because they know I'm so good at bringing my basic conservative agenda forward that they have to go full Saul Alinsky and lie and lie and lie. And if you go to Wikipedia to find out about Ted Nugent, they will repeat these lies, their lies. And every one of those things, if I had done it, I'd go, yeah, it was awesome. But I didn't do any of those things. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. It's unbelievable. It's very strange. I think she might have edited it. So I'm glad we got that out of there. So this thing has just persisted forever. Obviously, it's stuck in your craw because you wanted to bring it up at the very end. No, it doesn't stick in my craw. It's a fascinating example of the dishonesty and the anti-journalism, agenda-driven, anti-American, anti-Ted, anti-Second Amendment, anti-freedom buffoonery that exists. I think it makes for an interesting podcast exchange. I think so, too. It's not in my craw. It's not even in my universe. All right. But I notice it. It's hysterical. Ted Nugent, ladies and gentlemen. There you have it.