John Mellencamp

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2438 - John Mellencamp · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

Do you know what that is?

I don't.

That's where you have a hole in your spine and the fluid and all of your nerve endings, like on me.

That's 1951.

I was born with, you're born with spina bifida.

Well, they had to, well, here's the story.

I was, my parents were only 20 years older than me.

So I was born deformed.

And my parents didn't know what the fuck to do.

You know, what are we going to do with this kid?

So they just went like that to my grandmother.

Here, you take him.

And so I was in the hospital.

And there were four other kids.

And there was a young doctor named Heinberger who was just a young neurosurgeon.

Don't forget, neurosurgery in 1951 was in its peak.

So he just said, well, we've got to try to do something with these kids.

And so he operated on all of us.

I was on when it lived.

Oh, boy.

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