John Mellencamp
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No, I see myself as a... Here.
Thanks, partner.
You're welcome, partner.
Yeah, it's one of the first cigarettes I smoked.
Oh, okay.
How old were you when you first started smoking?
Do you think that's because of the cigarettes?
Probably.
I'm the shortest guy in my family.
Right.
I wasn't like a full-time smoker, but my uncles smoked, my grandfather smoked, my dad didn't smoke, but all those guys smoked.
If you knew me and I knew you at 20, in 1970, 71, 72.
Okay, I was 15 in 71.
Okay, so let's say that you were, okay, if you were 15, you would have been afraid of me.
I'm afraid of you now.
You're a crazy liar.
You would have been afraid of me, but you could have probably whipped me.
Because my bark was really big, but my bite, I lost every fucking bite.
Yeah.
No, my uncle was the toughest guy in Seymour.