This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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with his story. On the morning of April 30th, I got back into acting after raising a family and. and then on april thirtieth, at five thirty in the morning, While I was putting my boots on getting ready for work. I felt something funny. It wasn't funny like ha ha funny, it was funny like Well that was weird.
So I started to tying my boots. and a little bit of hard feeling in my right hand. It wasn't working very well. I looked in myself in the mirror and I uh still at my tongue out and my right side of my face just sagged and I went, Oh Oh god, I'm having a stroke, so I went upstairs with my right leg starting to dwindle. and I went to tell my wife I I'm having a stroke and I couldn't talk.
So that was uh the beginning of a real tumultuous Journey Yeah. I always knew I was adopted. Always, yeah. from my earliest earliest recollection. my parents made sure I knew that I was adopted, so Hey uh Um I guess it was important, but to me It didn't matter.
I had my mom and dad. And um Well, as I grew up It was I was just a little tyke. And uh I remember um My dad had a affinity t for alcohol. He he drank and uh I remember one time I was oh, just seven. I uh I hit a home run in Little League Baseball.
And that's all I ever had was that one home run 'cause uh By dear Eddie. He sort of staggered out of the uh bleachers and and uh he was from Louisiana. He was a uh southerner and my mother was from Germany. She was a war bride.
Well, he my dad comes staggering out of the bleachers and he goes, You didn't hit no god home run. I'll always remember that, you know, he he said that I was stepping in the bucket and I was just swinging to try to protect myself. That wasn't the only time, I mean, I boxed. Same thing. Um It was kind of a bizarre relationship with my dad.
I think he treated me like his little brother, like I was a sibling. and oh, you know, a silly rivalry over the affections of mom. Hey. He said, let's put the gloves on there. Let's put the gloves on.
Get down in the basement and box a little bit.
So uh He I was again around seven or eight. And man, he knocked me cold. He just Hey. Just bam. Uh broke my nose and ch chipped my front teeth and I woke up and said, No, no, no, don't make it seen Mom won't love spocks anymore.
But that's just the way At that night I really didn't have any sort of a model to to look look to. Uh I kinda mound myself after uh Babel in the movies. That's all I had. By the um were a powerful movement for me when I was growing up and that about that time was uh Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman, and that was a powerful movie for me.
Another one was uh Uh 2001. Then I came out I I thought, Wow That was uh really powerful I didn't understand it, but it was powerful and I thought it was great. And I thought that's where I wanna wa wanna be. I I thought about being in uh in the movies and being an actor and Turn look for something. I was looking for something well I got some weights.
And I started lifting the weights in the basement. And all of a sudden I had something. There was something.
So I went to the Marine Corps out of high school. Again, the weightlifting as You know, I I was made a platoon leader. in uh boot camp. Uh and And uh, they use me to sh show people how to do push ups. Um, you know, and it Just all the way through it turned into a pretty good thing.
And I got out of service. started competing right away, and uh got more and more Now I was you know, people were like asking me how to get ready for a show and and how do I do this, how do I do that. All of a sudden I really developed into somebody that When you mentioned my name, people went, Oh, oh, the the bodybuilder. You know, I got a lot of attention. I felt that people liked me and people liked having me around.
My mom was from Germany. She was kind of a.
Well, she was from Germany. And uh that kinda says it all. I mean, she was very strict and um very forthright with uh everything, with everything, the way you ate, the way you sat. The way you talked. Uh, if you expect uh a certain thing out of people.
And she's expected people to act a certain way and have a certain decorum about themselves too. I got a service and uh I majored in theater. And that was the end of it. That was really the the straw that broke the camel's back with my parents. They were like, oh, theater.
What are you doing? major in business or finance or law. Get in a pre-law, you'd be a good lawyer. And then do some community theater on his side. What's the matter with you?
Anyway As I got older, I ask God. What in the heck did he let those two people adopt me for. Just didn't make any sense. Huh. You know, I mean.
There was nothing there, nothing. No support. But I'll tell you what Weightlifting gave me an identity. It gave me something that I was good at. It gave me something I could.
Be proud of it. It gave me something that people liked me and respected me and would ask me questions. asked me to help them and I thought, well, fantastic. I got something. I really do.
I felt like I was really uh in something good with good people with substantial things to do.
Well anyway After I got through college, and my parents first wanted to go was my mother. She had a cancer of the liver and I was sitting at her bedside when she died. My dad, almost a year to the day later, he had gone back to Louisiana. He had uh lung cancer. I looked at him, And um He was in the living room there.
There's a house coat on. He was down closest. seventy pounds at this time. He was getting really close to the end and and uh I thought for one second I was gonna go over there and Say let's put the gloves on. Come on.
That's for more. and now I just got hit him as hard as I could. Was it just a a straight right hand? Bam! right down in the middle and just say, How do you like it?
Mm-hmm. That's absurd. You don't replay Evil for evil. It's really much more powerful. I just forgave him.
Both of them. But the problems really persisted because when my parents had passed away, I Mistakenly thought, sure.
Now they're gone. Uh my life will be fine. No, no. My first wife, that that ended. My second wife did also.
And because of my shenanigans and because of my bad behaviour. Uh I just could not shed that feeling that was following me everywhere. And that was it I'm worthless. And you've been listening to Joe Quinn share his story. And what a story it is.
It starts with abandonment. and he is ultimately adopted and was told he was adopted from the earliest time. He had a bizarre relationship with his own father, who drank too much. Moreover, it was almost a sibling rivalry between he and his father over his mother. You heard that boxing story.
Just how bizarre. He modeled himself after people in the movies. People like Paul Newman. from the epic classic Cool hand Luke. and in the end he found meaning and identity Lifting weights.
And also in the pursuit. of the arts and in acting. But anger, resentment, and shame, and a feeling of worthlessness prevailed in his life. when we come back. More of Joe Quinn's story, and check out his documentary Diary of a Bodybuilder.
at Diary of a Bodybuilder.com More of Joe Quinn's story. Here. on our American stories. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there.
Check this out.
So how did ashes come together, Diplo?
Well, uh I kind of briefly met Bailey I think a Morgan show, one of them. And I think. He's just a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell, and I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do. I think he's the one guy that could carry it.
I came to his house, I had a show. I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. the record for him, we kinda like got a scratch and then he handled it on his own on the road.
Yeah. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you.
And I was like, okay. And then.
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And we're back with Our American Stories and with Joe Quinn's story. Let's pick up where we last left off. This first therapist I saw it, he goes, Well First of all, you you do know you're an abused child. And I just Burst into tears. I mean I it it was like a flood.
And I mean, it was really a powerful experience, cathartic. In fact, Then I got to my third wife and Oh well, uh that w almost made it. But he eventually the the torment of Of where it came from and fueled by alcohol, it's still. drove me to do terrible things. Eventually two thousand five, February sixth, Um I went to my first uh meeting the program, AA, I Thank God for AE and uh I'm in it today.
I sponsor people and I Closed in higher on 17 years of sobriety, so. I dealt with it. At this point in my life, I feel as though I've I've got a l a handle on things. Uh but from a very different perspective following that stroke I had. in April.
of 2019.
So that that's the biggest challenge I've had in my life. My parents are not my challenge anymore. And uh the weightlifting as it came through the uh The gamut It was solid, it was stable, it was something I could counter and I and I didn't need anybody else. Like, if I was a if I was a boxer, I'd need a trainer, I'd need a sparring partner, you know what I mean? But You you you loved weights.
Yeah. Just go around the basement and Set your dumbbells and your barbell down and Turn some music out and get to work, you know You can do that anywhere. It's always there. whenever you need it, except when you have a stroke. I don't mean that to sound facetious, but it's really hard for me.
I miss it. I miss it terribly. terribly. It's like the death a death uh of of a family member. that I can't work out.
My bodybuilding has been cut short. I was I remember Compaigning Yeah, at the Nationals and in Pittsburgh in twenty sixteen, I remember Being on a stage And looking out over a dark auditorium. with people. and I would say close to 70%, maybe more. were on their cell phones.
They weren't even watching watching my posing routine. And I love posing. I love, I won best poser. at a get some contests. And uh I was uh I didn't feel uh offended or angry.
I felt sad. This is the end. They took some pictures of us, and a friend of mine sent me the pictures after they were developed. I have to tell you. Um I I did not look good in those stupid pictures.
It looked ridiculous in in in those shorts. Those speedos reminds me of of when I used to ride my bicycle out to the end of uh pier over there in the summers and the old men would be out there uh just standing there talking. And one of these speedos looking looks looking ridiculous. When I saw myself, I felt like uh Wow. I look just like those old dudes.
They will hang out. at the end of the uh pier over there uh of North Avenue Beach And yeah. I mean, they look bad.
So I thought was up me looking like that. I mean Aesthetics are gone, they're out the window. I I'm not going to be part of that anymore. No. In my life I I became a Christian when I was 18 years old.
in the Marine Corps. And uh In spite of my struggles, I've always seen that The peace. And uh The power And the real victory and everything. was here. Um In my shrunken and often drunken and uh angry tirates against God.
Um Was At first it it always came to mind that Neither this man Uh sin or is parents sinned is He he was born blind.
so that God could be glorified.
So I was put into that situation. And that uh challenge and that hell End of that uh She says pool for an opportunity for God to be glorified. I think that's His glory is evident, even in spite of those people. I love the Lord. I have grown to understand.
Just how powerful he is Especially through the stroke and through this lightest challenge in life that's Is probably the biggest thing I'll ever undertake, um, aside from my death. And I'm not afraid to die anymore because I was. in the midst of terror after th that stroke, terror, And that word doesn't even do it justice. I hope to God no one has to go through what I did with a stroke. Just what a.
What an awful experience, but On the flip side of all that, Is that God's going to be glorified in that stroke? God's going to be glorified in my life. And that's all that matters, 'cause I was I feel that I was created. to ring him glory in spite of who I am. But Now, in my life, I have God.
I've Beautiful home, a beautiful wife. I have uh I have an absolutely beautiful life. I do, in spite of having a stroke. I feel positive. I feel.
empowered I feel that Because of forgiveness.
solely because of forgiveness. I've been able to release all the Passed. issues and and uh anomalies and things that were just evil uh i in certain instances. That uh brought me up, but it forged me into the exact person, I thank God. Head in mind.
and it's not for me. My life's not mine. My life's his. It's It's to give him glory and that's what I hope I do. And that's what I strive for.
In spite of all the flaws. That I have And a great job on the production, as always, by Craig Hengler. And a special thanks to Joe Quinn for sharing his story. To learn more about Quinn, check out his documentary called Diary of a bodybuilder. at diaryofa bodybuilder.com.
And the damn burst when his therapist told him later in life, you know. You were an abused child. In 2006, we learned he went to his first AA meeting. Thank God for AA, he said. and he's closing in on 17 years of sobriety.
But the biggest challenge of his life It wasn't his parents any more, it was his stroke. He'd lost weightlifting. He'd lost... is identity. but he was searching for real peace and power.
and he found it through his faith walk. I'm not afraid to die anymore. I was created to bring God glory despite who I am. I have a beautiful home, wife, and life. and feel positive and empowered.
and I couldn't have done it without forgiveness. The story of Joe Quinn of his fall and his redemption here. on our American story. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there.
How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool.
He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast.
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