Wait. That was a generation when you look at it. So, you know, there, you know, and to, and the thing is, when, when you're in a vulnerable position, there's no shortage of people who are gonna try to take advantage of that. No, I, I was actually, I was thinking of that when you, when, and you said that that's incredible. That's why I enlisted in the Marine Corps. But we've all hung with poison from time to time, probably earlier in our lives Yeah. You know, I do remember, and, and I know it's your most iconic song, uh, Iris, but we were sitting on a h site in the Marines. To always pick yourself up by the bootstraps? And he, he was able, he was able to get us. You said music was the only thing you were good at. So there was, there was a brief period of time where I was like, hopping around to friends' homes and things like that. I don't think all shrinks in, uh, psychologists, uh, do that. People leave their differences at the door and we need to find common ground, something as stupid as a few songs, This guy, that girl, these, all these people from every walk of life. You. But if your wife's bitching at you or, or your family's bitching at you or you're in trouble at work, consequences mean nothing to an addict. We have the potential to be so great, yet we shit all over each other.. He has used many variations such as the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jaguar and a "Halfcaster" (a Stratocaster cut in half). I think we can, but, but what is going on inside my mind doesn't even qualify when you, when you've seen someone who has been through battles and who, who who has really been their life has been at risk and, and, and. You know? Like I can't. exclusives, interviews, competitions & more. Um, you know, women who have their own identity. Mike Sarraille: Had I known you guys were playing there, we would've come out. As you're saying that, man, now I'm thinking of my 37 to about 40 until I turned 40, uh, coming off a divorce, leaving the military, uh, hanging with a, and I don't, I want to be careful not to call them poison, but they were a fun group. He is recognized by many for being both talented and handsome. Forget it, I dont need that shit. And then, um, and then I was terrified of swimming. According to Rzeznik, before penning down the song "Iris", he was on the verge of leaving the band because he had been writing songs for the past nine years and it had been a low. Mike Sarraille: Yeah, Yeah. It made me want to drink more. Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Men's Journal Everyday Warrior podcast. And it's like, I love that man. (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa USA) RM Image ID: 2J8PTYP Preview Image details Contributor: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo File size: Mike Sarraille: John Rzeznik: All four of Rzeznik's grandparents were born in Poland. You need to balance it all out. interests, activities, website visits Towards the end, um, when you were 15 and 16, you, you lost your mom or your father and your, your mother, uh, respectively back to back. I am always the bartender. John Rzeznik: He is best known as an American singer, producer, and song writer. So get up and go. ON STAGE: Goo Goo Dolls playing Riverworks his Sunday. The flight was headed to California when it left the gate in . And No, I'm not saying that I love my brother more than I love my sister. My wife and I will go take a look at that and hopefully we will find a way to make one of the, uh, the shows. I mean, it doesn't matter what you're doing, if you have a collective group around you that all have the same sense of purpose. I got defiant toward the people who loved me and were trying to help me. I think I, I try to be careful of it. And it's like, you're sitting there for five years and you're like, What is the end game here? I'm not gonna be cool and important anymore. They broke in through the gate and did some crazy ritualistic shit in my backyard. He briefly attended Buffalo State College, dropping out after his first year. But that's what worked for me because, and, and when I felt uncomfortable, I got up and left and I went back to my room and I called another alcoholic and said, Dude, I was just at dinner, everybody was drinking wine, got a little crazy and slowly it got better. Cuz like I, I've been very lucky and, and, and women have always been, uh, a big source of strength and, and, and, and, uh, trouble . And the problem with therapy now, as I think people just use it as a crutch. I've met, uh, well I lived in Los Angeles for a long time, so there's no shortage of bizarre characters. Rzeznik also performed Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" with Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit for the victims of September 11 as a tribute to the heroes. Failure is the most beautiful thing in life, I think. Yeah. They just internalized. You know, because you. And some of 'em didn't like me. The youngest of his four older sisters moved towards punk music and Rzeznik became interested in bands such as Ramones and The Clash. But you have to believe as human being, we are moving towards, uh, like you said, a beautiful outcome. I, I think, yeah, I think I, I think our, our lives were just, just going in different directions, but we were getting further and further apart and there was always a great still the love, there was a lot of love and we stayed friends for a long time, um, after that. And so they just stay in the victim right. Podcast's a lot. Yeah. But you also bring up something that I think is the, and it's not a pandemic cuz it's not global, but I think within the United States, there's this epidemic of victimhood that, so you talk like people just want to talk for five years about their problems. John Rzeznik has taken part in a great number of music projects, one of which is in his popular band Goo Goo Dolls. It's like we all have potential. You know, Mike Sarraille: Yeah. But, you know, interesting times are not always good times. I realise we need to be safe, but weve given up a lot of our rights and civil liberties in the name of security. Johnny Rzeznik and the Goo Goo Dolls share the harrowing story of surviving a 1999 plane crash. So it's like I'm putting a leather jacket over my head and like, okay, so the leather jacket's gonna protect my face from the fire and I'm gonna like get outta the, And it was just, it was chaos. There has to be a point. [9], Rzeznik's father died at the age of 53 on February 2, 1981, from a diabetic coma when Rzeznik was 15 years old. And I know it's heavy for a five year old, but I just want to keep instilling that in her mind, that she's got to do the work. But you gotta learn to swallow it and accept it as a stepping stone to success or acceptance. John Rzeznik: Yeah, yeah, that is. airplane, interview | 71K views, 921 likes, 37 loves, 39 comments, 69 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Howard Stern Show: The Goo Goo Dolls told Howard about the time their plane crashed on the. Politics in America is just shit, Rzeznik sighs. And yeah, when it was like, you know, all my friend's dads, they were like, you know, Korea, Vietnam, those kind of things. Category. Mike Sarraille: concert in New York, Rzeznik performed a duet version of the song Iris with Canadian pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne. We went to war for close to 20 years, but that generation faced a level of combat that far exceeds what we saw in the battlefield. Cheers. I flunked out. " I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme) ". John Rzeznik: You've gotta reframe the way you look at failure, it's part of the process. Um, but everyone, you know, even Isis, Al-Qaeda, Hell's Angels also offers a form of homecoming and belonging to, to a young impoverished kid who, who's never been part of a group to, to them that's, that's like a drug. He performed three touch-and-go landings before heading out over the Pacific Ocean. So what do they do the next week? I was born with it because I never took any music lessons really, except for accordion. Mike Sarraille: Yeah. Um, well, it was, I, I was, um, when that happened with my mom and I actually was holding her in my arms when she passed. That's my tribe, you know? And he would tell me, it was like he was preparing me. But I think with social media today, people can just sort of stay a victim. Um, it in, we just, well, I, you know, George Silva who helped coordinate this and that guy's like my right hand man, a guy named Jason Belay and a guy named Brian, uh, Gordon, uh, we just finished up a book. But, but it is, it is fun, you know? I, yeah. You gotta learn to take care of yourself. Mens Journals Everyday Warrior With Mike Sarraille is a podcast that inspires individuals to live more fulfilling lives by having conversations with disrupters and high performers in all walks of life. Um, okay, next one is, what are those like one to three tenants? He is best known as an American singer, producer, and song writer. You are there because people have enabled and supported and coached and mentored you. Under Celluloid, they released their first eponymous album on a $750 budget (later the re-prints would be referred to as "First Release"). You know, the end game is, is to have a better life. You're, you're, you're, you're out. John Rzeznik: Mike Sarraille: John Rzeznik: And it, and it really was. But they just came home. I'm gonna teach you how to take care of yourself. And you are, I don't know how you mean, you know, we're very into self-reliance, but we are, But the interdependence between you and your fellow soldiers warriors, that's something that's, that's a bond that's so important. And you're, you know, where, where you were, you brought up an interesting point. When, when, when, uh, when does the tour go till. I think that's my biggest fear in life is rejection. And it's great to see it because people are doing it themselves and they're finally getting a little help from, from the, the local government and, and all that, you. And you had a sense of purpose. Because they all wanted to go out to the bar and drink. Well, I think, I think in general, yeah, I think in general now that, that is kind of the thing. "I had to get a restraining order after someone broke into my house. Get outta my house, I'm gonna get loaded. But what, I mean, we've all heard the, the quote from medicine, Hey, I didn't, uh, discover the, uh, light bulb. You know, because, because of circumstances surrounding our relationship, it, it, the, the situation just became untenable and, and it was like, we were not, we were growing apart and we were doing, we weren't doing good for each other anymore. [25] Rzeznik and his family reside in Westfield, New Jersey. If, if, if, if you don't see it, okay, I gotta walk away that my biggest regret was stalling my creativity out. We have to release the kinetic energy inside ourselves. And, um, you know, and I think that, that, you know, Robbie is one of the guys, he won't give up. And now I'm, now I'm fine in a swimming pool, you know what I mean? I'm not always gonna be here. Mike Sarraille: John Rzeznik: And we had, wherever there was a swimming pool, I would, I would throw myself into the deep end of the pool, but I would always have my hand against the wall. And I know I have this five year old little girl, and I go and I tell her all the time, because I wish somebody would've said this to me. That, that, that was Well, what was, I mean, that was, that's the way that generation was though. I will say that post-traumatic stress can lead to growth, though post traumatic growth. Get back after it? But what I had to do, because I'm like, Well, wait a minute. In episode 28, we spoke to John Rzeznik, guitarist and frontman of the American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. You know, I had, I was having a bad time in high school and, and, uh, or whatever. 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He said, Sometimes things happen where, uh, someone gets, as he said, fucked, but, uh, it was never his intent. Now, Robbie grew up in a house where his dad, who's an awesome guy, he was a, a a, he was an mp. There are a lot of sick people in the world and a few of them happen to gravitate towards me. Yeah. This is not your life. Men's Journal 's Everyday Warrior With Mike Sarraille is a podcast that inspires individuals to live more fulfilling lives by having conversations with disrupters and high performers in all walks. Mike Sarraille: And, and luckily someone saved me and I was a little kid. It's like, my, my favorite alcoholic in the world said this to me. And that, that's, that's what growing up in a place like Buffalo is like, you take care of your family no matter what, you know? And um, you know, and I had, I had a, I had a therapist I was smoking pot with and, and like going over to his house and I'm just like, well, what is the end game here? But, uh, we, I attached that memory as I said earlier, Wow. Um, and I was quite honestly, I was, was like, you know, we were broke. Did your parents raise you that way? John Rzeznik: I highly recommend it to anybody. I, I just hope that I left my little corner of the world just a little bit better than I found it, you know? Um, and then, and then we were flying back and we had to go through Sicily and the plane crashed, like legit crashed. And, and you know, it's, it's a bit of trauma, you know, in a way. What, what does Robbie mean to you? And, um, and then we're picking up in the fall, we're gonna do, uh, a theater run in smaller cities across America. And, uh, your song probably came on more times, uh, and I was joking with one of my old recon buddies, is we, we had a little, uh, you know, radio receiver with a little speaker and, uh, he's like, Dude, I remember that song coming on, uh, way too often. Whitney Newell It's pretty well-known that the Goo Goo Dolls are from Buffalo, New York, but lead singer John Rzeznik now lives in Westfield, New Jersey -- and he's using his musical talents to help support the local businesses in the town that are in financial straits due to COVID-19.. On Friday, Johnny performed a 15-minute Facebook Live "porch performance" to raise money for Westfield's We . And guys, thank you for joining The Everyday Warrior. They're like teaching me survival skills, you know? We were all tribes, but so is the Hell's Angels, So is Isis, so is Al-Qaeda, those are tribes as well. 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We, we sort of, my heart broke over and over and over again for, uh, you know, for my town, you know, because cuz the bills are like everything, you know, and the city, you know, I love my city and it's always gonna be my home and my whole family still lives there. And that's why I think it's, it's the, you know, people who really are suffering with PTSD and things like that, they really need to be cared for by people that can be trusted. Being a bartender is the greatest job. Um, but I think there has to be a solution focused, you have to aim towards, towards a solution. Cuz it's like, screw you. I've gotta go to the gym every day. It's like really trying to, and I'm getting older, so it's kind of like, Oh man, just gimme that bed. And then come Friday, that person went their direction with their circle of friends. John Rzeznik: I apologize. John Rzeznik: I would be more nervous stepping in front of a crowd. Oh, I, I went to Colorado for school.