Jon’s Postlife Crisis: Eli Karp of InsideNU - 2020 Northwestern Wildcat Football

This episode Eli Karp, Editor In Chief of InsideNU joins me to talk about 2020 Northwestern Wildcat football.

Eli and I talk about:

• Last year’s horrible season and what Pat Fitzgerald will do to avoid a bad season this year
• Their new offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian - will we still engage in rock fight games with them?
• The quarterbacks - Peyton Ramsey, the status of Hunter Johnson
• The rest of the offense
• The defense - two starters opted out of the season
• His perspective on Nebraska and this damned virus-plagued season
• Our debate team that’s won the Big Ten every year since we joined

I Have A Book Out!

My memoir - Been Dead, Never Been To Europe - is available for pre-order.

A Story of Resilience

Jon Johnston was an active, healthy adult when he dropped dead suddenly of a widowmaker heart attack. He was not expected to live, after being dead for more than 20 minutes, but if he did survive, his brain would forever be damaged due to oxygen deprivation. Alternating between humor, sadness, and anger at his body’s betrayal, Jon takes us with him as he puts his life back together. At the beginning, he sees the trauma as a minor inconvenience and expects a speedy recovery. As he realizes the damage to his heart is permanent, he is hit with another setback when he is diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, leaving him with memory loss, debilitating headaches, and a loss of identity. Tasks that had been trivial had become onerous endeavors, and his life became an unexpected challenge.

Been Dead, Never Been to Europe offers a real-life view of what it takes to rebuild after a devastating event, to accept an unexpected present and future, and to discover a new identity. Been Dead, Never Been to Europe will appeal to readers who seek memoirs of resilience, and to those whose own lives have been affected by unexpected trauma.

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