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Jerry Garcia: Personal Struggles Behind The Legend [Highlight From Episode 294] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booke Don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis McNally's the author of The Last Great Dream, How
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  Speaker 1: Bohemians became Hippies and created the Sixties. Jerry Garcia. Is
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  Speaker 1: he the person that he appears to be? Fun loving,
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  Speaker 1: sweet guy, humble, big kid.
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  Speaker 2: Just I mean he was all those things and more
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  Speaker 2: and a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, intelligent, among.
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  Speaker 2: Other things, you know, incredibly intelligent, empathic, very curious about
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  Speaker 2: other people. That's why people love to do interviews with him,
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  Speaker 2: because they were conversations and not him selling merchandise, which
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  Speaker 2: is what most rock and roll interviews are about. And
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  Speaker 2: also very sensitive. And when he lost, for instance, his
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  Speaker 2: ability on the road to take a walk because people
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  Speaker 2: would be hitting on him, or go to a museum, diddo,
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  Speaker 2: that hurt. You know, it was just it was too much.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why eventually he turned to you know, self
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  Speaker 2: medicating himself with various drugs. And I might add but
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  Speaker 2: remember what he died of was a heart attack because
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  Speaker 2: he didn't take care of himself because he just he
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to, you know, and he just sort of
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  Speaker 2: put his foot down. So everybody, every guy over forty
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  Speaker 2: has to realize that you've got to you know, at
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  Speaker 2: least watch you diet a little and exercise a little.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he tried, and occasionally he'd try and
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  Speaker 2: then he sluff off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his fascination with Frankenstein, what an interesting guy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it brought him in touch with a
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  Speaker 2: whole new world. That was his first movie. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a great story. I heard from the American
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  Speaker 2: Movie Channel had a show called The Movie That Changed
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  Speaker 2: My Life. And he was diabetic and this is in
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  Speaker 2: the last year of his life, and he was like
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  Speaker 2: down and he wouldn't be running around yelling at people,
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  Speaker 2: but you know he'd have a little dark cloud er
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  Speaker 2: on his head and you just you'd say hi and
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  Speaker 2: then shut up. I mean, but then I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I got this request from them, and I said, I
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  Speaker 2: went in to see him and I said, I think
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  Speaker 2: I've got one for you, and he said, okay, and
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  Speaker 2: I told him and he immediately started doing the interview.
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  Speaker 2: He just the whole that experience of introducing him to
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  Speaker 2: this whole other world was just one of the favorite
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  Speaker 2: memories of his life.