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Oh yes i know that one! Its True? well YEAH aren't THEY ALL!!!
Only Kid Rock.
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/02/22/i-just-went-at-him-kid-rock-says-he-punched-someone-during-a-trip-to-bohemian-grove/

Today, he’s the guest on Joe Rogan the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and it’s a fascinating three-and-a-half hour conversation that I’m still working my way through.

But one story that immediately jumped out was Kid Rock’s tale about visiting Bohemian Grove, an exclusive men’s club in Monte Rio, California, that has hosted everyone from former Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, to Clint Eastwood and even Mark Twain.

The nature of what goes on there is very secretive, and plenty of people had try to infiltrate it in the past as it’s members only (and their guests) in terms of who can visit. Naturally, many people have long-been curious about it due to how private it is and the rumors about crazy rituals that go on there.

Rogan discussed going down rabbit holes researching things like 9/11, and Bohemian Grove, when Kid Rock told him he’s been there before:

“I went once… it ain’t that cool.”

He recalls sitting out by the fire and how they were surrounded by different campsites that had treehouses, which is more like “glamping” by what he describes seeing as they all had a really nice setup and private chef.

Possibly the funniest part of the story is that he shared one with the Jimmy John’s founder, Jimmy John Liautaud. What a pairing… anywho, as they were all sitting around the fire one evening, Kid Rock recalls that some random person started sh*t talking, and he wasn’t gonna have it:

“I can’t remember, the kid’s talking around this fire and starts popping that sh*t and I just f*ckin’ went at him. Gave him a couple, helped him up, like ‘Hey, we good?’ We weren’t on great terms, but I think we had an understanding.

It was one of those things, you know, and I couldn’t go to the concert that night… I had to sit home like I was in f*ckin’ timeout and I was like f*ck this place.”

Rogan goes onto to say Kid Rock basically shouldn’t have been at fault because the kid he hit wasn’t vetted properly, and shouldn’t have been there in the first place:

“There’s gonna be a certain percentage of people that are just out of their f*ckin minds.”

Amen to that…

Kid Rock also admitted, though:

“For all I remember it could’ve been drink sh*t. It wasn’t the end of the world… it was a little tussle, a little hit the ground, maybe a punch here and there and then it was done.”

He went onto describe some of the talks he witnessed while there, which wasn’t anything like what he expected, thinking he was gonna hear some crazy stuff about aliens and thinks of that nature:

“I’m there one day one, we’re drinking beers, it’s pretty laid back. There’s some cool talks. I remember this dude talking about shooting asteroids out that might hit the earth in so many years, sh*t like that. I’m like, this is cool.

But the first day, it was the first evening, you gather around, whatever the owl by the lake, if I remember correctly, which could be a little hazy… it was a long time ago. I’ve heard about this place, I’m like, this is some real secret ass sh*t. I can’t believe I’m f*ckin here, right.

It’s just a trove of celebrities f*ckin everywhere you turn, it’s just f*cking celebrities. So you go there, I’m thinking we’re gonna hear some sh*t, right, they’re about to introduce the first speaker…

And no offense against this guy, we have very good mutual friends, but they’re like, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, tony Danza.’ And I’m like, ‘What? Come on, man.’ I was like, I came all the way for this secret ass sh*t for, and I love Tony, but come on, man. I was like, they brought Reagan back from the dead, and he’s going to speak or hologram or some sh*t.”

Expecting something much more sinister, he admitted that Tony Danza was a good speaker, and he also met Paul Pelosi (husband of Nancy Pelosi) and Chris Matthews, which had to have been fascinating to witness. To have been a fly on the wall for those conversations…

Kid Rock also told Rogan that it was an unspoken rule that he entertain everyone by the fire, which he obliged to stay in their good graces:

“It was kind of like an unspoken requirement, like, wink, wink. You need to take your guitar over there if you want to be in good graces or be a team player type deal.”

Kind of disappointing that it doesn’t sound like it was all it’s cracked up to be and he didn’t have any wild information to share with the world about the elusive Bohemian Grove club.

Feb 22, 2024 #2106
Taken from JRE #2106 w/Kid Rock
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Category: History & Society
Date: 1872 - present
Headquarters: San Francisco
Related People: Ina Donna Coolbrith Mark Twain Ronald Reagan Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger
The Bohemian Club, an elite invitation-only social club founded in San Francisco in 1872 by a group of male artists, writers, actors, lawyers, and journalists, all of means and interested in arts and culture. Since its founding, the club has expanded to include politicians and affluent businessmen. The club is known especially for its annual summer retreat at what is known as Bohemian Grove in the redwood forest of California’s Sonoma county, an event that continued into the 21st century. Notable members over the years have included Clint Eastwood, Henry Kissinger, Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Charles Schwab, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and Jack London.

The Bohemian Club was founded by a group that included journalists who wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. The term bohemian was meant to conjure the cultured intellectual urban bohemian, as opposed to the impoverished type. They chose an owl as the club’s totem and gathered regularly to socialize, drink, and put on and enjoy theatrical and musical performances. The club inhabited temporary locations until it established its permanent headquarters in the early 1930s on Taylor Street in downtown San Francisco.

The annual trip to Sonoma began in the summer of 1878. In the 20th century the members’ retreat garnered a reputation for involving highly secretive and cultish rituals, the most well-known of which was the “Cremation of Care,” instituted in 1881—an opening ceremony whose purpose was to make the club members “carefree” from the outset of the retreat. That performance took place in front of the large concrete owl (built 1929) in the centre of the camp at Bohemian Grove.

Over the course of more than a century, the Bohemian Club has grown to a membership of approximately 2,500, including several former United States presidents and high-ranking politicians and military officials. The site for the club’s retreat covers approximately 2,700 acres (1,093 hectares), and it has become increasingly inaccessible, which lends further mystery to the events and their participants. It is thought that the 16-day “encampment” (as it is called) involves, among other things, concerts, theatre, informal lectures (called “Lakeside Talks”), parties, and casual networking and government policy review—all taking place out of the public eye.

In the 21st century the Bohemian Club maintained its reputation for being highly exclusive with a predominantly Caucasian membership composed of the richest and often most politically conservative men in the United States. Journalists have occasionally infiltrated the confines of the encampment and have succeeded in exposing details about club activities, members, and famous guests, and activists have staged numerous protests outside Bohemian Grove, pointing to economic inequality and other social justice issues.

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