The guest
Kid Rock: Musician (Robert Ritchie), founder of the Rock the Country festival, outspoken political figure who became the face of the 2023 Bud Light boycott.
What this episode covers
Kid Rock joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, heavily political conversation that opens with drug culture and the opioid crisis before pivoting to the Bud Light boycott Kid Rock came to symbolize after machine-gunning cases of the beer. He recounts becoming friends with Anheuser-Busch executives and declining a corporate deal to stay uncancellable. The pair cover transgender athletes, election integrity, the national debt, media bias, and Trump at length. Lighter segments touch on Kid Rock's gold-everything mansion, helicopters and plane crashes, hunting elk vs. whitetail, the Cybertruck and Tesla Plaid, and a closing riff on Jesus, aliens, and Sam Kinison.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Kid Rock says he became friends with the Anheuser-Busch CEO after the boycott and visited Nashville together.
- Kid Rock reveals he pitched ideas to Bud Light but declined any corporate deal: 'I don't feel right taking your money.'
- Kid Rock claims he got kicked out of Bohemian Grove for punching a man who turned out to be an infiltrator.
- Anheuser-Busch sent Kid Rock roughly 100 cases of Bud Light for his birthday after the boycott.
- Kid Rock proposes asking Elon Musk for a Cybertruck to review honestly, offering to buy it if he likes it.
- Kid Rock reveals his father passed away the prior week and that Trump posted a tribute about him.
- Kid Rock says he dated late porn star Jesse Jane and spent a Christmas with her family who cared for a baby tiger.
Worth remembering
- Kid Rock stopped selling Bud Light at his Nashville bar because nobody was buying it.
- Kid Rock clarifies the viral 'golden shower' story was actually a fully gold bathroom, not a shower.
- Kid Rock took helicopter flying lessons but quit, fearing he'd fly drunk.
- The pair pull up usdebtclock.org and react to the US national debt passing 34 trillion dollars.
- One of Joe's green-room playlist favorites is Kid Rock's deep cut 'Run Off to LA.'
- Kid Rock says he has never had a number-one song in the US but has had number ones in seven countries.
- Kid Rock describes Rock the Country, a two-day festival he co-owns, with 26,000 tickets already sold in Ocala, Florida.
- They discuss an area of France roughly the size of Paris still off-limits due to unexploded WWI munitions.
- Kid Rock shoots an 80- and 90-pound draw-weight bow for hunting elk.
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