John Mellencamp
👤 Speaker
1985
total appearances
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Podcast Appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
Do you know what that is?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
That's where you have a hole in your spine and the fluid and all of your nerve endings, like on me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
I was born with, you're born with spina bifida.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
Well, they had to, well, here's the story.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
I was, my parents were only 20 years older than me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
So I was born deformed.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
And my parents didn't know what the fuck to do.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
You know, what are we going to do with this kid?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
So they just went like that to my grandmother.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
And so I was in the hospital.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
And there were four other kids.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
And there was a young doctor named Heinberger who was just a young neurosurgeon.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
Don't forget, neurosurgery in 1951 was in its peak.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
So he just said, well, we've got to try to do something with these kids.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
And so he operated on all of us.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2438 - John Mellancamp
I was on when it lived.