Kid Rock just revealed he owns a one of a kind piece of American history involving the raid on Osama bin Laden. And it actually ties into Pete Hegseth, the current US Secretary of Defense.
Speaking with Bill Maher on Maher’s Club Random podcast, Rock said he knows Hegseth very well and the two used to be neighbors and work out together every morning at Rock’s house in Nashville.
Maher then asked Rock how well he knew Hegseth. Rock said he first met him at Rob O’Neill’s wedding. O’Neill was the Seal Team 6 member who shot and killed Bin Laden.
“The guy who shot Bin Laden? You know who that is,” Maher asked in a surprised tone. “Yes, he’s a very good friend of mine,” Rock replied, who added another shocking reveal to Maher.
“He gave me the sledgehammer which went through Bin Laden’s bedroom. I gave him the [original] lyrics to ‘Born Free.'”
“Wait. You have the sledgehammer they broke into Bin Laden’s bedroom with,” Maher asked. “I hope you have it in a safe, that’s a pretty valuable …”
“I’m actually going to probably put it somewhere eventually,” Rock said. “I’ve been a little selfish with it. I’m going to put it in a museum or maybe my new restaurant.”
Rock said he plans to rebrand Detroit’s Joe Muer Seafood in Nashville and call it The Detroit Cowboy.
Back to the sledgehammer. Rock says he couldn’t believe O’Neill was going to give him a piece of American history for what he said was a crap song.
“Come with me. We went to my car barn. I collect cars. We walked out there, I’m like, pick out any car you want. I mean, I’ve got some pretty high dollar stuff there.”
O’Neill ended up picking out an old restored limo, but Rock says he never picked it up and the car is still in his garage.
Rock also did a recent interview with conservative political commentator Glenn Beck on his podcast.
Rock revealed in four years, he hopes we have a President JD Vance.
On both podcasts with Beck and Maher, he told Maher, who has been a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, he would like to take him to the White House to meet Trump.
“Let’s start at the top where very public figures and the president of the free world could just break bread, have some laughs, take a picture and be like, hey, you know we don’t agree on everything, but we got along.”
Rock also appeared on Real Time in February and said there might be one thing he might have an issue with when it comes to Trump: A third term.
“If he says, ‘I’m running for a third term,’ I’d be like, ‘Whoa, whoa, pump the brakes man. Hold on a second. It would be very tough. Very, very tough.”
Rock is about to go on a short tour with Chris Janson opening in some cities and Uncle Kracker opening in others.
The tour takes him to Omaha in March, along with Minneapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Kansas City.
He is also bringing a two-day music festival to 10 small cities, including Hastings, Michigan, with Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Travis Tritt, Big and Rich, and more.
—Edward Pevos, mlive.com (TNS)
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