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The Joe Rogan Experience you get these opportunities to like obtain like a piece of wisdom if you can help it you know and um it's always through this the darker things or the things that are [ __ ] annoying yeah and lately I've been so aware of my lineage like my family tree and like my parents my grandparents my great-grandparents and me and then you know my my stepdaughter and you know if we have more kids like where I sit in this line of generational um personalities and habits and and where I see the mistakes and where I want to make Corrections and it's really powerful I mean you really have to look at yourself on the things you don't like and the things you you like or love and um it's a it's a really defining moment lately like I just feel my again responsibility to what is most important and there there's like I'm so proud to be from the family I'm from and like the kind of people and there's so many things I'm like oh God you know um and it feels like a real job to like heal generational wounds and bad habits and uh yeah I'm just like because I if I whatever I can do I want to give the best things to my children you know um [Laughter] yeah you're trying to be a good person but I come from this really long line of hustlers like my great-grandmother was a bookie my great-grandfather was a bootlegger my grandfather was a bookie and a prisoner of war for two years in World War II like he was shot down from an airplane and like he was a waste Gunner like one of the most dangerous jobs you could have and he got captured and and like he survived an 82-day Death March and and like made it back home to Cleveland and like he married my grandmother who was an excellent cook and all the money he had from being a bookie uh they they built this these restaurants in Cleveland with
my grandma's recipes and it's amazing like the food's so good and it's like my family Legacy and I'm just fascinated by those people and I I'm I feel really lucky to to be their granddaughter yeah that's a that's a that's a fascinating [ __ ] story it's pretty wild how did he survive oh man um how did you survive the crash he parachuted out so he parachuted it out and then he gets captured Jesus yeah he so he never talked about his experience until he was almost 80. so he didn't tell like my even my dad like nobody knew what my grandfather went through and he got inspired by somebody to to finally tell us what he like just tell his family and he took a year um doing voice recordings with with his sister I'm pretty sure it was my Aunt Rita um to tell a story and then like one day when I was in LA when I was 22 I got this book in the mail and it was his like he gave it to our family so we could all know about what his experience in World War II was in being a prisoner of war and I mean it was I mean I mean I was bawling like makes me emotional just talking about it like he had finally had this moment where he felt like it was okay to tell everybody and it was like very polite and and sanitized and and then like by the end of his life he really wanted to talk about it more and more in Greater detail but um he carried one of his friends um during that 82 day March because I can't remember where they were moving them but it was you know like you walk for 82 days like you can't stop to take a [ __ ] or pee like you just like he had dysentery he had lice like he was just he was filthy and and I like actually shortly before he died I went to visit him and and he was telling like he just wanted to talk and like tell me these things and um you know I remember him saying to me like and he like looked me in the eye and he was like you do not know filth you don't know filth and just being like if you stopped they killed you so you had to keep going and one of his
friends he carried him and and I remember this old man because my parents used to send us to Florida where like in the Summers where my grandparents lived and we'd spend like two three weeks with them and it was awesome but you know Grandpa was usually uh watching The Sopranos with his headphones on and like doing his own thing but you know they were they were so Italian um but his old friend was all like I remember I think it was I like I don't want to butcher this but I think it was his friend uh Mr dragonetti and like they were friends till they're very old age and you know they had this experience together this horrible experience um but like you know not to like Ramble On unless you want to hear more about it like I'm just so amazed at that sacrifice and courage and bravery and and just Fortune to survive and then to have a life after that and then I think about somebody posting their [ __ ] video about working too long at Starbucks and I'm like [ __ ] you I'm sorry [ __ ] your [ __ ] feelings like you're gonna be fine you know