In a new interview with Danny Stoakes, URIAH HEEP guitarist Mick Box spoke about the progress of the recording sessions for the legendary progressive rockers’ 26th album. “We’ve just finished recording it,” he said. “We just okayed all the mixes from [producer] Jay Ruston. He did [2018’s] ‘Living The Dream’. He’s been doing it. And he’s out in L.A. so he’s been sending the stuff. I just sent around a load of titles for everyone to pull one out of the bag… And then we’ve gotta do the artwork, of course. Once the title’s been delivered, the artwork has gotta come with that, and then all the credits and everything else and lyrics and all that stuff. So that takes a bit of time. Plus with everything that’s happened, and we will release it on vinyl, I think there’s a seven-month run-up before you can get anything — simply because of the state that COVID has left the business in. The bottom line is once we’ve delivered all that, we give it to the record company and they are the people that really decide [when to put it out]. We have no input whatsoever. Because it’s a business — they’ll find the right time for them to benefit.”

Asked if URIAH HEEP will play any new songs on tour even before the upcoming album is released, Box said: “We’d not be allowed to by the record company, as much as we would be tempted. In today’s market, let’s put it this way, if we play a [new] song on stage, before I’ve got the jeans off and showered and poured a drink, it’s recorded and up on YouTube and Facebook and everything else… So it’s highly unlikely — for those reasons. I mean, for us, we’d play them all. But sometimes your hands are tied for a reason. And the record company, they come in and allow us to go in and record and do that, so you have to play ball with them.”

“Living The Dream” was released in September 2018 via Frontiers Music Srl. The LP was helmed by Ruston, who has previously worked with ANTHRAX, STONE SOUR and STEEL PANTHER, among others.

Box is the original guitarist and sole remaining founding member of URIAH HEEP. He, vocalist Bernie Shaw and keyboardist/vocalist Phil Lanzon have formed the nucleus of the band for more than 35 years and released 17 albums together.

URIAH HEEP debuted in 1970 with the release of one of hard rock’s milestones, “Very ‘Eavy, Very ‘Umble”, and has since sold in excess of 40 million albums worldwide. They constantly tour the world, playing up to 125 shows a year to more than 500,000 fans. The band’s live set features the classic tracks from the ’70s and is a musical journey from the band’s beginnings to the present day.

URIAH HEEP is:

Mick Box – Lead Guitar/Vocals
Phil Lanzon – Keyboards/Vocals
Bernie Shaw – Lead Vocals
Dave Rimmer – Bass Guitar/Vocals
Russell Gilbrook – Drums, Percussion

In a recent interview with RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program “Wired In The Empire”, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz spoke about the influence of METALLICA on his musical upbringing. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “James Hetfield has pretty much shaped the guitar player that I am. I grew up on METALLICA, pretty much. Those riffs taught me how to play guitar.

Asked what his introduction to METALLICA was, Adam said: “It was a friend of mine at school. I’m a late bloomer, man. Right when ‘…And Justice For All’ came out [in 1988], that’s when I was, like, ‘What the hell is this? This is so sick.’ And then I kind of worked my way backwards. I feel like the entire catalog, from the ‘Black Album’ back, is just, like, a classic, man.”

When RadioactiveMike Z pointed out that METALLICA’s self-titled album just celebrated its 30th anniversary, Adam said: “Dude, we are old. Well, I don’t know how old you are, but I am old. [Laughs] I remember when that record came out… I was a little upset at the lack of thrash — I’m not gonna lie — but there’s still some killer songs on that record; there’s some thrashier moments.”

Adam previously discussed his love of METALLICA during a July 2021 appearance on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn’s “No Fuckin’ Regrets With Robb Flynn” podcast. Asked to name the first METALLICA song he learned to play on guitar, Dutkiewicz said: “Hmmm… ‘Justice’ just came out. I remember hearing sonically that record for the first time being, like, ‘Holy shit, that’s so…’ — technically, now, I can say ‘scooped.’ But I’m just, like, ‘That’s so fucking balls-tight and heavy. Oh my God.’ It blew my mind. ‘Cause, obviously, ‘[Master Of] Puppets’ didn’t sound that scooped. The kick drum on ‘Justice’ — tick, tick, tick. It’s got more tick than a clock, man. So, yeah, I was, like, ‘Holy crap. This is insanely sick.’ So I think I started learning ‘Blackened’ and ‘…And Justice For All’ and going through that record. I love the riffs.”

He continued: “I know this is kind of strange to say, that could be my favorite METALLICA record, just because of the impact it had on my life at the time. I know it’s a crazy thing to say… It doesn’t get any better, dude. I love that shit. Right there, that’s the soundtrack of me learning how to downpick… There’s not a bad song on that record. [Out of all the METALLICA albums, it] means the most to me because of the way it shaped me.”

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE kicked off its latest U.S. tour on January 28 at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Support on the trek is coming from AUGUST BURNS RED and Jones’s current group LIGHT THE TORCH.

Last fall, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE completed a U.S. tour with SLIPKNOT, FEVER 333 and CODE ORANGE as part of the “Knotfest Roadshow”. The band also appeared at several key festivals.

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’s latest album, “Atonement”, was released in August 2019 via Metal Blade Records in the U.S. and Sony Music Entertainment in the rest of the world. The disc features guest appearances by the band’s former lead singer Howard Jones and TESTAMENT frontman Chuck Billy. It marks the band’s third full-length release since the return of singer Jesse Leach, who rejoined the group in 2012.

In July 2021, Dutkiewicz and Leach released the second album from their TIMES OF GRACE project, “Songs Of Loss And Separation”, via the band’s own imprint label, Wicked Good Records, distributed by ADA Worldwide.

KROKUS vocalist Marc Storace has once again said that he is ready to put his band’s long-running feud with TWISTED SISTER’s Dee Snider behind him.

In his autobiography, “Shut Up And Give Me The Mic”, Snider had nothing nice to say about KROKUS. For an entire chapter, he raged about the band, calling them “Krapus” and stating, “You have no idea how close you came landing on the bottom of a lake.”

The reason for his outburst: KROKUS commissioned Snider’s wife Suzette in 1982 to sew stage outfits for the band’s U.S. tour, but the former KROKUS tour manager refused to pay her for her services.

“These guys ripped off my wife and threatened her,” said Snider, who pointed out that his wife’s mother emigrated from Switzerland.

“I was proud of this rock band from the home country of my mother,” said Suzette. But the pride has turned into rage.

In a brand new interview with Canada’s The Metal Voice, Storace was asked if he and his KROKUS bandmates have “made peace” with Snider. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’ve always made my peace. In fact, I was on this tour [seven years ago], ‘Rock Meets Classic’, with other [well-known musicians like] Ian Gillan and John Wetton, these big guys, and at the end of that tour, we were supposed to play one concert in Wacken [Germany at the Wacken Open Air festival] with this whole orchestra, the band and everything. And I was thrown off because Dee Snider came in to headline, and he said, ‘I won’t do it if Storace is not thrown off.’ And I felt, ‘What a motherfucker.’ Actually, I was looking forward to asking Dee if we could go to the side and have a beer so I could maybe apologize and say, ‘Hey, let’s bury the hatchet. It’s not worth it. It’s a few hundred dollars’ worth of clothes, which your wife [made], whatever, we didn’t accept. We didn’t like those clothes — sorry — stage clothes.’ And it’s as simple as that. I don’t know what had happened — I was not in the room when this thing happened — so I don’t know if there were any dirty words spoken or attitude in which things were said. But I don’t think it’s worth going to the grave carrying a burden like that.”

Asked what he would say to Dee if he had a chance to speak to him directly, Marc said: “Hey, Dee. I’m looking forward to meet you, not to get into big arguments. We know the whole story, but I think now we’re mature. We look forward. You love your wife; I love mine. And let’s just sit down and… I don’t know. Move on. In life, you wanna move on, leave all these negative burdens behind.”

Storace previously discussed the Snider beef during a 2013 interview with “The Metal Voice”. At the time, he called Dee’s comments “so childish. We gave [his wife] a chance,” he said. “I mean, how do you do?! Before you buy a truckload of wine, you wanna taste a bottle. So we just wanted to have samples… to see some clothes. And our tour manager, he sent off the sizes and… I can’t even remember the details; it’s ridiculous. In the end, she came with the stuff, we tried it on, and it looked horrible. I’m sorry. I mean, I’m sorry. And they got so offended, and it was such a great insult to them. And they wanted their money. And [our tour manager] said, ‘Hey, we’re not buying. Keep the clothes. Sorry. No deal.'”

KROKUS bassist/producer Chris Von Rohr also weighed in on the incident, recalling a decade ago: “The clothes did not match at all our expectations. Too much harlequin style. So we made a bonfire of it.”

Many years have passed and the members of KROKUS are older and wiser. “If we have not treated his wife with due respect, we are sorry,” Von Rohr said.

In 2013, Von Rohr proposed to Dee and his wife to bury the hatchet and drink a beer or two together at a festival where both bands were supposed to perform in reconciliation of an event that happened four decades ago.

Swiss newspaper Blick reached Snider by phone and submitted KROKUS’s peace offer. “If they are serious, I think it’s a nice gesture,” Snider was quoted as saying at the time. “But I have to ask my wife first if she is ready to forgive KROKUS.”

Four years ago, Snider stated about his request to remove Storace from the billing of the “Rock Meets Classic” at the 2015 Wacken Open Air: “‘Rock Meets Classic’ is an amazing thing. I don’t know who is on the bill, but the day before I’m ready to head there, I find out that the singer of Krapus is on the bill. No, no, no, no, no. I call my people and tell them, ‘Kick him off the bill or I’m not playing, I don’t care. They don’t have to kick him off. I won’t play. I’ll go home because I have no problem with not playing.’ The most dangerous person in the room is the person with nothing to lose. I don’t have to do a show. I do a show because I want to. Needless to say, the singer of Krapus was kicked off the bill and nobody cared.”

No krapus. It was Motorhead, ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult, Whitesnake, Twisted, Thin Lizzy and…? https://t.co/G0FkMto3DP
— Dee Snider?? (@deesnider) July 11, 2020

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Sammy Hagar kicked off his 2022 “Sammy Hagar & Friends” Las Vegas residency at The STRAT Hotel, Casino & SkyPod on Wednesday (February 9), entertaining fans with a high-energy performance of some of his greatest hits, including “There’s Only One Way To Rock”, “Right Now” and “Finish What Ya Started”, and gave fans a preview of a handful of songs that will be on his upcoming album.

His Las Vegas Strip residency continued Friday night (February 11), with subsequent shows on Saturday, February 12, Wednesday, March 23, Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26. Fans can expect to hear songs from his MONTROSE, VAN HALEN and CHICKENFOOT days. Every night delivers a different show and in the first six shows, alone, the “Sammy Hagar & Friends” residency performed more than 100 different songs.

Sammy is joined at the shows by his supergroup THE CIRCLE, featuring Hagar’s fellow Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer and former VAN HALEN bandmate Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson.

Last month, Sammy told FOX 5’s Heather Lake about his critically acclaimed Las Vegas Strip residency: “Well, last year, when we first started, Bob Weir from THE GRATEFUL DEAD came [and jammed with us]. He’s my good buddy and we do this all the time. He lives close to me. And Stephen Pearcy from RATT was in town; he came and sang a few songs with me. Rick Springfield, who’s my partner in the Beach Bar Rum, he came to town and he came up and sang with us. So, yeah, my friends always do that. At Cabo Wabo birthday bashes, I’ve had every person in the planet, has come down to my birthday and jammed, so everybody knows I’m a jammer. And the place is bigger than the Cabo Wabo, but it’s still small enough so it’s really intimate. It’s 900 seats, but the stage is a semi-circle and a ramp. I can stand right in the middle of the room. It’s awesome. The sound is great. We decorated it completely like the Cabo Wabo with all these neon paintings and murals and stuff that we had made and draped the whole place. So when you come in, the lights go down and you go, ‘Woah. Wait a minute. It’s the birthday bash.’ That’s what I think a residency has to be.”

The residency, presented by Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co.’s sparkling rum cocktails, Santo Tequila and Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, brings Hagar’s signature beach vibe to The STRAT Theater with Cabo San Lucas-themed décor and themed cocktails.

“Sammy Hagar & Friends” is produced by industry leader SPI Entertainment and Hagar’s manager, Tom Consolo of TC Management.

GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash, who has not smoked since 2009, was asked in a new interview with Germany’s Antenne Sylt what advice he had for millions of smokers who are trying to quit. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I’ve ever quit. I can think of a lot of stuff that was hard to quit and smoking was the hardest. You just have to make that decision and then stick to it.

“I have to admit, when I quit, I had pneumonia, so for two weeks I couldn’t breathe, let alone smoke, so that got me over the hump,” he continued. “And then, from that point on, I used the patch and then I used Nicorette and then I was doing snus [a moist form of smokeless tobacco which is usually placed under the upper lip] and then regular gum. And I’m still chewing regular gum. And it’s been [more than] 12 years. So you just have to make the decision and then you have to do it. But it’s not easy.”

Back in 2018, Slash said that watching Cher perform in concert helped him quit smoking more than a decade ago. “When I did it, I had pneumonia, and pneumonia is what helped me quit smoking,” he told “WTF With Marc Maron”. “That, and I saw Cher the night before, and that’s when I caught the pneumonia. So Cher helped me quit smoking. Anyway, I couldn’t smoke. I tried — I couldn’t breathe — so I had two weeks on my back. So I quit, and then I used the patch to sort of get the edge off. Then I started doing the snus [smokeless tobacco] thing, and I was doing that for years. My significant other talked me out of doing it, and so I started doing the [nicotine] gum. And I sleep with the gum.”

Slash — who has two sons with his ex-wife Perla Ferrar — did not find it difficult to give up smoking once his mother lost her battle with cancer. “She was one of those smokers that always said, ‘I’m gonna quit one day,'” he recalled. “But while she was in the hospital, I would literally sit with her, go outside and smoke a cigarette, come back and sit with her. And then the Cher thing happened, and that’s when I said, ‘You know what?'”

The guitarist said that he was “dragged” to the Cher concert in Las Vegas by his ex-wife and “her buddies,” and was less than impressed by what he saw. “I had to leave for every song and go outside and smoke,” he said. “And I think I’d worn myself down from smoking so much, and Cher just took me over the top. Every time she revisited one of those periods [during the concert]… She had a closet on stage and she’d go in the closet and she’d come out and she’d be the Indian. Every single thing that she’s been over her career… When she started with the Sonny & Cher thing, it just killed me — I couldn’t take it. So I would smoke… I just didn’t have any fond memories of that show or any of the other stuff.”

Slash, who has been open about his previous battles with drugs and alcohol, went on to say that staying smoke-free is “tough.” He explained: “You’ve got these triggers all the time. They only last for maybe two seconds or so, but they’re really, really potent. And you can just get it watching somebody smoke on TV. I saw somebody smoking at a bus stop, and I said, ‘Ohhh…’ It happens at least once a day every day.”

Slash, who had a 60-cigarette-a-day habit, described himself as “a compulsive smoker. I chainsmoked,” he said. “And I couldn’t handle — this is not why I quit smoking — but I couldn’t handle not being able to smoke wherever I wanted.

“I was in Calabasas one time,” he recalled. “It was one of the first times I’d ever actually been there. And there’s some sort of outdoor mall-y kind of thing with a theater — it was like a pavilion of something — and I got out of the car and I lit a cigarette and I was walking wherever we were walking to through the parking lot. And they said, ‘You can’t smoke in here.’ And I said, ‘We can smoke in here. We’re fucking out here. This is out here.’ And it was, like, there’s a rule — you can’t smoke on the street. So enough of that kind of stuff [happened].”

Slash said that his cigarette habit affected his live performances, especially after a smoking ban was introduced in enclosed work places in the U.K. back in 2007.

“I was smoking at gigs, and I was on tour in the U.K., and they told me, ‘The smoking ban’s coming,'” he said. “I said, ‘You guys are gonna have some serious problems.’ It was in Ireland. [I said] ‘You know they’re gonna riot. It’s not gonna work.’ And so we finished the tour, and I came back maybe six months later, and they had passed this thing. And it was people sitting outside all smoking their cigarettes with their cocktails, and they were sitting on benches. And some hotels had put monitors outside so you could watch TV and smoke, and they just went down quietly. And it was, like, ‘Wow!’ No repercussions whatsoever — no violence, stoning or anything.”

He added: “They were trying to fine me for every cigarette I smoked on stage. So it was, like, a hundred quid for every cigarette. So we had to make up a bunch of stories, and we got out of it. But I couldn’t believe it had gotten to that point.”

Back in 2010, Slash said that he quit smoking once before, only to start lighting up again. “The first time I quit smoking was because me and my wife just had a baby and she claimed the baby smelled like an ashtray,” he said. “So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll give it a shot.’ So I quit for a year and then I started again.”

Slash is promoting the new album from SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS, titled “4”, which was released on February 11 via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG. “4” is Slash’s fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass, vocals) and Frank Sidoris (guitar, vocals).

Fan-filmed video footage of SOULFLY’s February 10 concert at Strummer’s in Fresno, California can be seen below.

FEAR FACTORY’s Dino Cazares is once again playing guitar for SOULFLY on the Max Cavalera-fronted outfit’s current U.S. tour. He previously performed with SOULFLY on the group’s last U.S. run of dates, which took place in August and September of 2021.

SOULFLY kicked off its 35-date U.S. tour on February 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The trek will make stops in Seattle, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Baton Rouge before concluding in Gallup, New Mexico on March 19. Joining the band for select dates are SHORT FUSE and 200 STAB WOUNDS.

Prior to the launch of the tour, Cavalera commented: “SOULFLY would like to welcome back our brother/legend Dino Cazares to share the stage once again with us! Round One was amazing! The Tribe in other cities will now get the chance to see this epic lineup, playing classic trax and some surprises from our new record!”

Cazares added: “I will reenter the riff vortex with the SOULFLY Tribe! I look forward to rejoining Max and La Familia on their U.S. tour, destroying stages with an avalanche of classic anthems and brand new songs.”

Last month, Max told Zippo Encore’s “Art Of Rock” livestream series: “It’s so cool that we have amazing friends like [Dino] in the industry. That you can call Dino up and he’s available. So [it’s] just really great… [Touring with him last year] was so much fun, man, because Dino… We grew up together. I was a huge FEAR FACTORY fan. I helped them get signed [to Roadrunner]. And then, of course, he plays on ‘Eye For An Eye’ on the first SOULFLY [album]; he plays guitars on it. So when we invited him to do that tour, it was a perfect match. And the fans, they lost their shit. It was so cool. Sometimes I would stay on the bus and I’d watch Dino get out of the bus and he’d just get mobbed; 10 kids would just surround him. I was, like, ‘Oh, this is cool, man. This is what’s up. This is some true metal shit right here.'”

In August, SOULFLY parted ways with longtime guitarist Marc Rizzo due to personal differences.

Rizzo joined SOULFLY in 2004, and appeared on all of the band’s subsequent records, including “Prophecy” (2004), “Dark Ages” (2005), “Conquer” (2008), “Omen” (2010), “Enslaved” (2012), “Savages” (2013), “Archangel” (2015) and “Ritual” (2018). In 2007, Rizzo became a member of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, the side project of SEPULTURA co-founders, brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, and has performed on all CAVALERA CONSPIRACY releases including “Inflikted”, “Blunt Force Trauma”, “Pandemonium” and the critically acclaimed 2017 LP “Psychosis”.

Max and his bandmates have spent the last few months working on the follow-up to 2018’s “Ritual” at Platinum Underground in Phoenix, Arizona with producer Arthur Rizk, who has previously worked with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, POWER TRIP and CODE ORANGE.

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Ted Nugent has once again blasted Neil Young for pulling his music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan.

Young demanded that his catalog be removed from Spotify in response to “fake information about vaccines” being “spread” on the platform via Rogan’s podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Young delivered an ultimatum, adding, “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” Spotify announced a few days later that it would pull Young’s music catalog from its platform.

Nugent weighed in on Young’s position during yesterday’s (Friday, February 11) “Friday Free For All” edition of “The Nightly Nuge”, a news-style clip in which Ted offers his take on the news of our world every night “in a concise, fiery fashion that [is] totally Ted.” He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, Neil Young, God bless him. I’m sure that there’s many people that appreciate Neil Young’s creativity and his talents and his creation of wonderful music for those people who love that kind of music. I’m not a big fan. I happen to know that he’s got a lot of soul… But now that I’ve praised him for all the positives, the guy is a complete punk.

“If you’ve done that much mind-altering chemicals throughout your life, then you can proudly claim in one moment that you should be rocking in the free world but then in the next moment witness all the evidence supporting everything that Joe Rogan’s been saying, that I’ve been saying, the truth, logic and common sense, the indisputable evidence to support it, and then claim that we’re guilty of misinformation when actually the stoner birdbrain punk, he delivers misinformation,” he continued.

“So this is a funny moment because he made an ultimatum to Spotify — whatever that big tech is — and he said, ‘If you don’t take Joe Rogan off Spotify, then you have to take my music off Spotify.’ That’s a pretty decision, Neil. Thanks for making it so simple, because Neil Young on Spotify — adios, mofo. Now Joni Mitchell’s doing the same thing, and, again, God bless her. I can’t stand folk music, but I know there are a lot of people that love that kind of stuff and I salute them and thank them. And I appreciate any music that makes people happy and fortifies their American Dream, or whatever dream they might have. Is there another dream? I don’t think so. The Mexican Dream is to get the hell out and go to America.”

Ted went on to claim that Young and Mitchell “are saying things that are just stupid. And again, with all due respect… I’m sure Joni… I’ve seen Joni Mitchell do interviews; she’s a smart gal, and her musical dreams she literally has perfected. And on behalf of those people that love that kind of music, I can only salute them and celebrate the happiness that Joni Mitchell and Neil Young’s music brought them.”

In the days after Neil had his music from Spotify removed, a handful of notable artists have pulled their music from the streaming giant, blaming the platform for spreading false information about coronavirus via Rogan’s podcast.

Neil’s wife and acclaimed actress Daryl Hannah took to Twitter to express criticism for Rogan’s podcast and the eventual choice Spotify has made regarding Neil’s ultimatum.

Daryl wrote: “sad to see some confuse censorship & free speech with the choice a private company has in deciding what they profit from a podcaster is free to say whatever they want Just as Neil is free to NOT have his music on a platform that makes $$$ of disinformation that harms folks”.

In response, Rogan promised to “do my best, in the future, to balance things out,” while Spotify said it would add content advisories to podcast episodes with information about COVID-19. In an almost 10-minute-long Instagram video, Rogan said he would “try harder to get people with differing opinions on” on his show, which averages 11 million listeners per episode.

“The Joe Rogan Experience” became a Spotify exclusive in 2020, when Rogan signed a multi-year exclusive licensing deal with the streaming giant.

Spotify’s company’s chief executive Daniel Ek has defended Rogan in the past, including after an episode that featured the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in 2020.

“We want creators to create,” Ek told The Financial Times at the time. “It’s what they do best. We’re not looking to play a role in what they should say.”

Spotify Stands Firm Against Neil Young’s Call For Censorship Against Joe Rogan

Ted Nugent has been “banned” and “censored” more than almost any artist so you might be surprised to hear the good things he has to say about Neil Young and Joni Mitchell after they tried to get Joe Rogan’s podcast “cancelled”. Of course, he also has some scorching takes on their outlandish stand that goes against everything America stands for.

Posted by The Nightly Nuge on Tuesday, February 8, 2022