It was a fun five minutes, and fans learned a thing or two, too. The Boss doesn't like spiders and he's partial to Frank Sinatra's “Summer Wind.” Source Mycentraljersey)
Alas, only 14 questions were asked. Here they are:
1. Best sandwich?
“That's easy, 3 a.m., peanut butter and jelly, big glass of milk,” Springsteen said.
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2. What is the scariest animal?
“The scariest animal used to be shark because I was a surfer when I was younger but I have been bit several times by a brown recluse spider and they leave a nasty necrotic sore,” Springsteen said. “So I would say for me right now a brown recluse spider. Spiders, I don't like spiders.”
Colbert asked where he was bitten.
“On my lower body,” Springsteen said.
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3. Apple or oranges?
“Apples,” Springsteen said.
“That's exactly right,” Colbert said. “You can put peanut butter on an apple.”
“And I love that,” Springsteen said.
4. Have you ever asked someone for their autograph?
“Yes, I was with my son watching the New York Yankees in 1998 ... the '98 Yanks, c'mon!” said Springsteen when only a few audience members cheered for the Yankees. “We had a baseball that the whole team signed — he has the baseball.”
5. What do you think happens when we die?
“OK, individual consciousness, adios,” Springsteen said. “But our souls and our spirits, I think, grow and live on with the people we loved and who loved us, and the people who we think we've had an impact on with our work in our daily experience, so, I'm going with that.”
6. Favorite action movie?
“Well, I actually love a picture that no one is going to know called 'Vanishing Point,' ” said Springsteen of the 1971 car movie.
“I know 'Vanishing Point,'” Colbert said. “The driver never talks, right? And his shifter is a gun handle, I think. At the end he drives right into the bulldozers.”
“You got the end right,” Springsteen said. “I think he talks and I don't remember the gun handle but anyway, that is the movie and I can't believe this many people have seen it. I'm impressed.”
7. Favorite smell?
“My wife Patti," Springsteen said.
8. Least favorite smell?
“Sulfur,” Springsteen said.
9. Exercise: Worth it?
“I'm 72,” said Springsteen to applause.
10. Flat or sparkling?
“Flat,” Springsteen said.
11. Most used app on your phone?
“Siri, how do I get to ....?” Springsteen said.
12. You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life. What is it?
“'Summer Wind.' ” Springsteen said. “Frank Sinatra.”
13. What number an I thinking of?
“Seven,” Springsteen said. “No,” said Colbert.
Recently Aaron Lewis has opened up about his controversial solo track ‘Am I The Only One’, on which the Staind frontman and conservative rallied against Bruce Springsteen, American liberals, and the removal of Confederate-era statues.
Lewis addressed the track in a new interview with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens, appearing on her Daily Wire podcast Candace. He noted that he’d written the track with Jeffrey Steele and Ira Dean as a response to “what we all just had gone through in our own lives with the shutdown and with the craziness that we’ve watched on TV over the last 18 months”.
“I feel like you don’t have to stand on one side or the other to have, at one point during all of this, looked at your television and screamed some profanities at it,” he said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “Like, ‘What is happening to this country?’ We’re one nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Previously Bruce Springsteen has reunited with longtime collaborator and Houserockers frontman Joe Grushecky for an anti-Trump protest song, “That’s What Makes Us Great.” You can purchase the track, which premiered this morning on SiriusXM, on Grushecky’s website. “I had this song, and Bruce and I had been talking,” Grushecky told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Grushecky told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Trump “lost me the moment he started making fun of special needs people. How could a person like that be president of the United States?” Springsteen’s anti-Trump efforts include topical covers in concert and a performance at a Clinton rally. In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, he commented, “The republic is under siege by a moron.”
Springsteen has previously spoken out against President Trump. In January, Springsteen addressed President Donald Trump‘s controversial executive order targeted at immigrants and refugees, declaring that “America is a nation of immigrants.”
Introducing his 2006 song ‘American Land’ (which he called “an immigrant song”) during his performance at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in the Australian city on January 30, Springsteen led a rallying cry for unity and equality in the face of Trump’s ban.
Last September, Springsteen branded Donald Trump a “moron”, saying Trump has the United States of America “under siege”.
