JOHN JOSEPH - MEAT IS FOR PUSSIES

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🗓️ 17 December 2017

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

John Joseph McGowan is a musician, author and triathlete from New York City, most famous for his work as the lead singer of the Cro-Mags in the 1980s.

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Chapters:
00:00 Trailer.
02:15 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
04:47 Brian’s introduction.
05:26 Incredible London music scene different to New York.
10:15 Abusive and violent childhood in New York City leads to a dangerous drug scene.
19:57 Whatever hell we were going through, music was the salvation.
23:23 A time-bomb waiting to go off is conclusion of his Navy SEAL psychological test.
28:38 No band could ever touch the Bad Brains in a live performance.
31:21 AWOL, fighting for his life in New York, in need of healing.
44:15 Facing racial hatred down south and how John got his nickname Bloodclot.
47:27 How a crazy, drug dealing, scrapping in street guy comes to front a band.
50:25 Honour the music, study your craft; learning a lot from Robert McKee before writing his story.
51:35 It was hard in Evolution of a Cro-Magnon to write openly about abuse he suffered as a child.
53:21 Forsaking drugs and alcohol for eating raw foods and being a fighting Hari Krishna monk.
1:00:53 The hot girl on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii: would applying PMA have changed John’s future?
1:02:47 Return to NY punk scene then realising corruption existing within the Hari Krishna movement.
1:08:41 Why he had to live in crazy, lawless Alphabet City, NY.
1:12:21 Insane stunts at Cro-Mag performances, his lifestyle giving authenticity to song lyrics.
1:16:49 “My history is of being betrayed, so when betrayal happens something inside me breaks”.
1:26:21 Descent to rock bottom, constantly running from the cops with wealthy girlfriend.
1:43:53 Below rock bottom in a crack house. How and who gave the focus to climbing out of the hell.
1:48:21 John’s life now and his relationship with fellow vegans.
1:53:58 Competing the Ironman races. “The mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy”.
2:01:31 What will John being doing in five years-time?
2:02:14 Success secrets.
2:02:49 Is John ready for the ultimate test?
2:07:51 What keeps John away at night.
2:08:07 Advice to the twenty-year old John Joseph.
2:10:00 Best advice ever received.
2:11:41 Advice to the young person listening.
2:14:36 Brian’s summing up.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The mind could be your best friend or your worst enemy. It's up to you.
0:09.0	The first time I ever got on a mic, it just felt like that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
0:17.0	We laid it down every single night, man, we would break bones, be all in.
0:27.0	No matter what hell we were going through,
0:30.0	music was the salvation.
0:39.0	My father almost beat my mom the death several times. The state put us in bad foster home.
0:41.0	We were being molested and beaten.
0:42.8	They were getting money to take care of us and abusing the shit out of us.
0:47.3	Went on the streets, 76, 77, I was hustling.
0:50.8	I got shot, I got stabbed.
0:54.0	I would be up for like three days on crack and then wake up like,
0:58.0	let's go get some wheat grass and my man would be like,
1:00.0	motherfucking, you need a straight jacket.
1:11.0	This is when I hit below rock bottom and then I went to the Harry Christian temple I said if you don't let me move in here I'm going to be dead and that's when I climbed out of the hell.
1:18.1	Purge myself for the drugs and the alcohol I started getting really fit. Studyied martial arts as a Harry Krishna,
1:23.5	so I was like this fighting monk dude.
1:26.7	I went and did the Iron Man with a stress fracture in my foot.
1:30.8	Pain is gonna go away,
1:32.2	but the pain of giving up on something that's going to stay with you for a long time. Oh, I'm going to do. So, This week on the show I have John Joseph who's the musician the author and the triathlete best known as the lead singer of the punk
2:26.0	hardcore band the chromags. John has been there and done that he used to hang
2:31.6	out on the mean streets of the East Village in New York where I used to live,
2:35.6	but he faced child abuse, drug addiction, and he really went big on the Kromags.
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