535 - "There's More to Life Than This.": Run-D.M.C.'s Iconic Rapper, Joseph 'Rev' Simmons & Wife Justine Simmons on "Old School Love," How to Do It & Why it Makes a Happier Love Life

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Joseph ‘Rev’ Simmons is Run D.M.C.’s iconic rapper. He just wrote a book with this wife Justine Simmons called “Old School Love: And Why it Works.” I like this interview because they’re relationship is on full display here. You see they argue and work through it. You hear them banter and talk over each other the way real couples do. And then you see how caring they are for each other. So you’ll get the advice and the examples all at once. And in real-time. AND of course I asked Rev all about his rap career, fame, rising to the top, letting go of drugs, excess, gluttony and finding God. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.7	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.7	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.3	Well you mentioned in the book, there was this moment in your life and you even refer to
0:20.4	it as often your top as your bottom.
0:23.0	And so I want to explore that sentence for a second but you were, uh, had been performing
0:28.0	your own top of your career.
0:30.1	Like you, everybody knew, run the MC.
0:32.3	You had rolling stone magazine coming to see you to interview you for the cover.
0:36.9	You had your weed dealer coming to see you and you had room service coming to see you.
0:41.2	They all show up at the same time and you just, you broke down.
0:45.5	I was, I was, um, excessive as a kid.
0:47.7	Like, a lot of, uh, people that become very successful, they don't know any better.
0:54.4	I wanted every piece of the sun in California, every set it in a book, every piece of pleasure
1:00.3	that I could find and people find out early on that the successes that you close success
1:08.5	could become, uh, glutton towards it and then you crash and you realize there's more to
1:14.6	life than being number one rapper, French toast, weed, girls, rose voices, whatever.
1:23.4	So what, what do you think it was though about that specific moment, right?
1:27.8	Because you probably had a lot of these moments.
1:36.4	So I'm here with Reverend Joseph Simmons and his wife, Justine Simmons.
1:42.8	Rev is also known as run from run DMC.
1:45.8	Uh, welcome to the podcast.
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