John Rzeznik | Beyond the Goo Goo Dolls

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  So, born and raised in Buffalo, New York, John Resnick is the founding member, frontman and guitarist for iconic band the Goo Goo Dolls.

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  He's kind of a legend in the world of music with 19 top ten singles, including mega hits like Iris, which spent twelve months on the Billboard charts, name Black Balloon, and countless others.

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  And like so many who turn to music at a young age as both a way to cope with discord and afford form of expression.

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  He has lived a life of extraordinary artistry and contribution and along with that, a certain amount of darkness and struggle that for many years found him turning to alcohol as a way to get through each day until it all fell apart and he had to make a decision, one he keeps making every single day.

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  Now sober, a devoted dad and husband, he's telling a really new story with his life in music and taking the giant global community of Gugu dolls fans along for the journey.

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  And as you'll hear in our conversation, as we spoke, he was heading into the studio to create something new, something that is truly representative not just of this moment in time, but also of how his own personal lens on life and music and creativity have evolved in really major and profound ways.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.

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  It was fun reading that little bit that you shared just in info with us before that you've been geeking out a bit on Dalton Trumbeau and sort of like the blacklist era stuff.

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  It was funny because when I read that Dalton Trumbo's, his book Johnny got his gun, I read, I think I read in high school and it blew my mind.

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  It absolutely sort of, like, shattered me in these really weird ways.

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  And it's never left me.

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  Yeah, no, it's really, it's.

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  Yeah, that's, that's, that's a heavy, heavy book.

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  And the film, too, is strange.

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  Yeah.

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  To me, I was like, I saw the film and I'm like, why do I feel so uneasy?

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  This is really strange.

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  But, but my favorite thing about Dalton Trumbo is just how beautifully he uses words like, you know, and I have a book by him.

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  It's out of print, but you can still find them online, of course.

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