JACK JOHNSON: THE WHALEBONE INTERVIEW
This is Jack. Jack likes music. Jack does not like plastics. The good news for most of us is that Jack is good at the things he likes and that has allowed him to approach ways to eliminate the things he does not like.
Whalebone Magazine was fortunate enough to spend some time with Jack when he was in Hawaii just getting back from a surf at Haleiwa. The following interview should help on more of the good stuff and show ways to have less of the bad.
WB: If you could exchange all your talents and successes to be as talented and successful in another field or category of life what would that be?
Jack: I think navigator. I like to sail a little. My dad had an interesting life where he did a lot of journeys on different ships and sailboats between islands and across oceans. That was something I always kind of, in my heart, wanted to do more of. I feel like I missed my chance.
WB: When putting this piece together we learned about how you approach touring and what you bring to an event, what you leave behind, and how that plays into the values of you and your touring mates. Where did that come from?
Jack: Being somebody who loves the ocean, there's a lot of different ways you can support the health of the sea. For one thing, when we tour, we try to make those connections between the waste that our industry is making and how it can be better for people, especially young people, who are coming to the shows [...]
Personally, I'm interested in all kinds of environmental issues, but we try to find the ones that a resort of specific to what we are doing, and that's how we ended up on plastic elimination. But it has been one I've become more interested in.
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This is Jack. Jack likes music. Jack does not like plastics. The good news for most of us is that Jack is good at the things he likes and that has allowed him to approach ways to eliminate the things he does not like.
Whalebone Magazine was fortunate enough to spend some time with Jack when he was in Hawaii just getting back from a surf at Haleiwa. The following interview should help on more of the good stuff and show ways to have less of the bad.
WB: If you could exchange all your talents and successes to be as talented and successful in another field or category of life what would that be?
Jack: I think navigator. I like to sail a little. My dad had an interesting life where he did a lot of journeys on different ships and sailboats between islands and across oceans. That was something I always kind of, in my heart, wanted to do more of. I feel like I missed my chance.
WB: When putting this piece together we learned about how you approach touring and what you bring to an event, what you leave behind, and how that plays into the values of you and your touring mates. Where did that come from?
Jack: Being somebody who loves the ocean, there's a lot of different ways you can support the health of the sea. For one thing, when we tour, we try to make those connections between the waste that our industry is making and how it can be better for people, especially young people, who are coming to the shows [...]
Personally, I'm interested in all kinds of environmental issues, but we try to find the ones that a resort of specific to what we are doing, and that's how we ended up on plastic elimination. But it has been one I've become more interested in.](https://prod-meuguru-guruia-assets.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/DEDXitKYBj3C6NS-9tRmzv9Fj?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQXTC4KK6UQ4LUUIN%2F20250831%2Fsa-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250831T204154Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEJj%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXNhLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQC2bLbe03IF3Y95ybEFysSbZkFFImI4iM3y%2F11cln6R2gIgLH777Fe4CWcLmmzO7b%2Fv5NbA4StCjLXiVZyfj4nXUugq7gMI8f%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARACGgwwNTA2NzMyNDI4MTMiDHyjXvg5QDyRV0WtqirCA9a37PKerNTffBxWVcrr3Wx55BSGI9CmTMTCn4rg2qheR01s59qBhnJ610AAHVnJjv%2FkaxSmWJlw5F%2FXbWaGYEU0dnIaYD4p%2BfoAnKKKUZOEdd1OQzZ%2FDxvk0KgM0E0%2Fn6T8JtULH5fzXAXHoiZDN6wSe9EhSl058uglXVp72jNZyyp1K0gg1rwV1zBFFDk64AK%2FWS4ybkInbfEnYc8AGFhHu5WeUfY7kR3tgrhNWvVqsws2y3BoiO2eqLpeEq%2B9CIR3sV02xkRnZyKxMKQm6Pn1tnSEW%2Fw5L7XR04didyLdVDT8erXMJR0S81XxaHH6HM3TnhCtlHqG2HJgcfzgUkOYCoNWaPbProdbwqwq%2FpLgTBH4KNlADfK4QK0ck4WyT9y0HQekS0wn5cGD3yvS15XPqioeQeyTRQwMCc0Si2yeDmak%2FhO16mblgWwPeC%2BOh0O8GWbeFLfi7jMtSpsmm595YyTskxJ%2B32BWbQs%2F1fqQiOUnEjZIpf2ntLenq5Fo%2FiCJkFfL0PYUAakEjSpqyCh4lm3LZL7eG8zHkDAqCqeUne%2BhFV2afDClYi0mUvxjSTnM%2F7pAte2NVxSNYeD7Er8CrTCJ29HFBjqlAbZRE9fxQ2YKInt8bdaPZ0ZO7BnF8Q1ocmQ3Uwa4OGxGHr0Ia432Lxs6tmp1XGxpftXui327FqoeXIVnH%2BRa6WUIrW5WN8SjngiZxenkrF2yR2dZ9%2FgJ8AP3M1mV0i3cl5pHSsdGxVN6D%2BMEX5gBICSpgBnxtvGb5R%2BJnT%2FWwJ93mU8eBKyxDxBrIDoBUCPn%2FpskOh%2FD7VTkYcEnOkCQJHLmXttHhg%3D%3D&X-Amz-Signature=ab1a20c4ca19202467c6df1e249d991bc8ec36ee41d1ef63ad8619fb48c4a7a3&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject "JACK JOHNSON: THE WHALEBONE INTERVIEW
This is Jack. Jack likes music. Jack does not like plastics. The good news for most of us is that Jack is good at the things he likes and that has allowed him to approach ways to eliminate the things he does not like.
Whalebone Magazine was fortunate enough to spend some time with Jack when he was in Hawaii just getting back from a surf at Haleiwa. The following interview should help on more of the good stuff and show ways to have less of the bad.
WB: If you could exchange all your talents and successes to be as talented and successful in another field or category of life what would that be?
Jack: I think navigator. I like to sail a little. My dad had an interesting life where he did a lot of journeys on different ships and sailboats between islands and across oceans. That was something I always kind of, in my heart, wanted to do more of. I feel like I missed my chance.
WB: When putting this piece together we learned about how you approach touring and what you bring to an event, what you leave behind, and how that plays into the values of you and your touring mates. Where did that come from?
Jack: Being somebody who loves the ocean, there's a lot of different ways you can support the health of the sea. For one thing, when we tour, we try to make those connections between the waste that our industry is making and how it can be better for people, especially young people, who are coming to the shows [...]
Personally, I'm interested in all kinds of environmental issues, but we try to find the ones that a resort of specific to what we are doing, and that's how we ended up on plastic elimination. But it has been one I've become more interested in.")
