For some unknown reason, I've sat on my Ted Nugent transcript.  Here it is;
enjoy!

Dori Zook
Denver, CO


Q:  I doubt I’ll need to ask many specific questions.  Tell us, how do you
feel about Meatout 2001?

A:  Well, Meatout 2001 is just another celebration that sustains the Nugent
family every day.  We pretty much have a Meatout every day, which means we
get the damn meat out onto the table, onto the grill, onto the hot coals,
under the garlic and butter and into our bellies to sustain the Great Spirit
within.  How ‘bout you?

Q:  Meatout relies heavily on help from celebrities, but who should you
trust, a celebrity or a scientist?

A:  You know, it’s fascinating.  I’m just a stupid, old guitar player and I
suppose in between hunting seasons I qualify as a celebrity.  But I conduct
my diet on a pretty simple routine called the self-evident truth boogie, and
the self-evident truth about nature is that it’s tooth, fang and claw and
that there is a natural cycle of life and death.  Quite honestly, we don’t
have any right to an opinion on this because it’s the reality that we have
to embrace and adjust our own lives accordingly.  So the Nugent family
celebrates flesh as a source of sustenance.  And in light of the fact that a
stupid celebrity, like myself, can adhere to the science of sustained yield,
the science of self-sufficiency, the science of tooth, fang and claw and the
scientific cycle of life and death, I’d like to think that some of us
celebrities are not stupid enough not to be swayed by conveniently insulated
ignorant celebrities, God love them all, that are infested with drugs,
alcohol and an ego that would choke a goat.  And of course, after the goat
got choked, I would barbecue him.

Q:  I know this is somewhat rude but let’s just say it; Ed Asner, the chief
celebrity spokesperson of this year’s Meatout, has a weight problem and more
than likely all the health threats can come with it.  A line that pops to
mind is, ‘Physician, heal thyself.’  Does his status as king of the hill
strike you as odd?

A:  You know, there’s a lot of oddness in the world.  I’d like to think that
the Ed Asners and Mary Tyler Moores and the Pamela Andersons and the Paul
McCartneys… you know, I hate to lump Paul McCartney with those other people
‘cuz Paul is just so incredibly gifted and we all owe people like that such
a debt of gratitude for the creative dynamic that they have blessed us with,
with their music and their creative forces, but, that being as it is, I’d
rather they just all shut up, suck tofu and let a healthy, 52-year old
guitar player who celebrates venison at least six days week, let me continue
living a thriving, healthy, dynamic, positive, energized lifestyle, because
I eat what the good Lord provides for me in a renewable resource.  And those
who don’t understand it, you can track down their ignorance to a system of
denial that is almost deliberated to a fake god.  And that’s really what the
animal rights people and the hippie culture, as extreme examples, represent
as a cult.  It’s a cult, a religious cult, that somehow thinks that man was
not supposed to eat flesh.  You have to pick and choose the information, the
direction, from these so-called celebrities that strikes a cord of intellect
and sense and reason, and I seem to be a beacon of light in a wilderness of
slobs.

A:  I may not be correct in my assumption, but it seems you rarely go head
to head with a member of say, PETA.  At least, this is something I have yet
to see.  Is it because this is an argument they know you would win?

Q:  I’ve appeared many, many times against the animal rights extremists, and
I almost feel a bit guilty because it’s like I’m wrestling an armless man.
Mentally, intellectually, certainly morally, these people are all brain
dead.  Their arguments are vacuous and fantasy-based at the very best.  I
have taken them on enough times and made them look so foolish, I think they
consider me the rope man.  As in, he’ll bring rope for us to put around our
neck and jump off stools with.  It’s really kind of embarrassing, but I get
a great humor factor out of these encounters.


Q:  Any personal words for Bill Maher?  I’ve seen you on his show,
Politically Incorrect, and he’s one of this year’s celebrities, as well.

A:  For workin’ hard, playin’ hard, intellectual America, I’d like to send a
resounding, spiritual message of ‘thank you, Bill, you are our favorite
foil.’  When you’ve got guys like Bill Maher that contest you, you know
you’re on the right track.  So if someone like Bill Maher resorts to
personal attacks, which he always does – I’ve been on his show 13 times and
he always plummets into the abyss of personal attack silliness, because he
can not argue the point on its own merits.  Animals can not have rights in
between the barbecues.  It just doesn’t make any sense.  Bill knows this
and, quite honestly, if you or I were to take as many mind-altering drugs as
Bill Maher does on a daily basis, you and I might have an attitude about not
eating things with a face, as well.  Now, if he can only apply that simple
knowledge to his girlfriends, we’d all be in better shape.








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