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Chasing Life

Why Am I So Angry?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As one of the few female rockstars of the 1970s and ‘80s, Joan Jett was frustrated by the misogyny and disrespect she experienced ... but rather than be consumed by her anger, she channeled it into her music with hits like “Bad Reputation.” And she’s not the only one who’s felt that experience of seeing red, especially now. There’s so much to be angry about in the United States: political divisiveness, an ongoing global pandemic, racial injustice, and even just everyday life not going as planned. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with Joan Jett and anger expert Brad Bushman about why we experience anger in the first place and how we can make our anger work for us instead of against us. Plus, Dr. Gupta finds out one of the anger management strategies he’s been using his whole life is actually making it worse. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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And I can tell it wouldn't be long

0:03.0

There's with me and me

0:05.0

It's again I love all the love

0:08.0

Does that voice sound familiar?

0:11.0

That's rock star Joan Jet

0:13.0

Famous for songs like I Love Rock and Roll

0:16.0

So when I was 13 I wanted to play guitar

0:19.0

Electric guitar

0:20.0

So when I started being told that I

0:23.0

You know, girls don't play guitar

0:25.0

It's like wait a minute

0:26.0

Luckily for fans like me and my daughters

0:30.0

And a lot of people I know

0:32.0

Joan Jet didn't let those naysayers stop her

0:35.0

She toured the world and performed sold out concerts in the 1970s and 80s

0:40.0

But I have to tell you

0:42.0

Not all the audiences were quite so adoring

0:46.0

People took great pleasure in screaming

0:49.0

You know just trying to throw us off our game

0:52.0

And it was every kind of swear word that you could call a woman

0:56.0

And then when that wasn't working

0:58.0

They'd throw things at us

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