#2438 - John Mellencamp

Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan experience. Join my day. Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Okay. Cool. Why why would I hate my tattoos? Because you get older and they get all smudgy and Mine are getting kinda smudgy. Yeah. Well, look at them. Look at this one. It's pretty smudgy. Pretty fucking smudgy. I I owned a tattoo parlor in, I don't know what year it was, mid eighties, and they were illegal in Indiana. But because it was me, they said, okay. Leave them alone. Really? Mhmm. I remember when they were illegal in New York. I used to I went to Connecticut to get my first tattoo. Yeah. I, I didn't know him as illegal, but I met this guy in LA, and, he worked at Sunset, you know, where the Hyatt House is, and there was a tattoo parlor right across the street. Anyway, he was there. And, so I brought him to Bloomington because he wanted to get out of LA. And guess why? They closed me down. Why? Fucking guy was a heroin addict. I know. And he did this tattoo one time, and I went over I just went over to the shop. I said, hey, let's do this little, and he was all fucked up. And it was just like, what's wrong with it? You know? Because I didn't know. I don't know anything about heroin addicts. So There wasn't a lot of heroin addicts back then. That was a rare thing. Now, we think about how many people are because of the Sackler family, think of how many people are hooked on opiates today. I mean, it's gotta be. Lots. It's off the charts in comparison to what it was like in, you know, the nineteen eighties. There's I mean, I knew one guy that, had a friend who did heroin. That's it. Why was it a the first time I saw somebody do heroin was, I was in college, and there was a place called Bull Island that tried to imitate Woodstock. And me and my then wife and my kid and my little girl and, and my roommate who lived with us, we're just walking down and we see this guy shooting up. So we just thought, well, we'll watch. Because he was just sitting right there. And I mean, there was, like, 200,000 people there. And he shot, and he went out. And I looked at the guy I was with, go, we won't be doing this. We're not gonna do this. I had a friend who was a longshoreman, and he worked with this guy that every lunchtime, he would go and score and sit in his truck and shoot up. And that's what he did every lunch. He was a functional heroin addict, And he would show up for work every day, and he did his job. But, during lunchtime, during his hour, he would do heroin and just fucking find …