The Joe Rogan Experience - #2243 - Julian Lennon

Julian Lennon is a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, photographer, author, and filmmaker. His new fine art photography coffee table book, “Life’s Fragile Moments," is available now, as is the Spike Stent remix of his 1998 song "I Should Have Known." www.julianlennon.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 54m
Broadcast on: 16 Dec 2024
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[Music] I go to see this dermatologist and a little excision here because it had been bothering me a bit and a couple of years ago I had a bit of a cancer scare on my head because I have a birthmark here that you don't really see and there was a mole there and I kept, as my hair got a little thinner, I would use a comb and it caught it one time and it opened it up and so I kind of kept picking at it when it became a scab and I kept picking over the course of like six months and then I went to see this dermatologist for the first time in LA and I said yeah I've cut a little bit of a, you know, I've been trying not to scratch it now but I'm a bit worried about it, it's been like six months of me being an idiot because it just was really irritable and so she you know cut it out and sent it off and I was at a pretty serious meeting with a whole bunch of people and she called me up at the end of it and she said listen I sorry to tell you this but it's cancerous, you know, oh we got to cut it out, we got to get it and yeah I just went completely numb at that point and freaked out because I just thought what does this mean in the bigger picture and I you know a lot of friends that have passed from cancer, various kinds over the years and so it really did freak me out anyway I got the all clear, it was cleaned out and so just anything that just looks or feels a little odd, it was something I was, I'd been scratching here a bit and something here as well so she just did a little cutting and no doubt I'll hear from her in a few days once she gets the results. That's scary because it was in a spot that you don't check, you know it's covered in hair, you know what's going on back there. Yeah but it was because of the birthmark and you know I just kept when the thinning it thin a hair and so I just kept you know brushing it with a comb and it caught it and then it scabbed and then I it became itchy and so I stepped kept scratching it you know pulling it off like a kid you know as you do as you just, anyway I'm happy to be here. One piece for the moment you know. I got one of those comprehensive blood panels, screens for cancer recently and then you know you wait a while for the results and you're like geez like what if I'm one of those people? Yeah I have anything but yeah I have the I have you know I go for a proper checkup like twice a year you know just on every front just to make sure I'm gonna be around because I like living. I want to be around for a long time. That's good for sure. Yeah it's a weird thing because you know how old do you know? 61. Yeah I'm 57 and we're getting up there fella. I don't like to think about it. I don't think about it too much. I'm completely in denial. Absolutely. I refuse you know because I just remember seeing my uncles you know my on my mother's side what they were like in their fifties alone you know and they'd be sitting there with a big belly in front of the TV with you know a couple of packets of cigarettes and drinking tea or beer and watching the TV all day and that was their life in their fifties and sixties until they had a heart attack and died and I went no I'm not doing that one and I've just always been not that I'm a health freak in any way shape or form but I certainly you know my regime is try to eat as healthy as you can and do a bit of power walking a couple of times a week. That's good and that does the trick for me. Nothing wrong with that. Walking is one of the best forms of exercise if you can get it in every day you'll be much healthier than if you don't. Absolutely. That's not hard to do. No it's not. Listen to a book on tape go for a stroll. Yeah exactly. It's great for the body. Yep. You don't have to fucking kill yourself. No I've also in my time dealt with a fair amount of depression as well and anxiety I get pretty anxious still even you know coming here today it was a bit. Breathe. Yeah yeah so I went for a nice little power walk around there whatever the lake is down there. The one where the bats are. Yeah yeah yeah. I had no idea about that. Have you seen them come out? No. No it's cool. No idea. I've never even heard of it. That's really cool. The biggest bat population in the world. That's true. That's what they're saying. I don't know if that's true. I think the biggest bat population in the world is in Africa. I would say. I believe. Or the Amazon. But yeah I think it's a really large population though and it's cool to see. They come out that's what it looks like when they come out. Yeah no they claim there's the signage down there. Oh really? Oh yeah that says it's the biggest bat population in the world.

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