WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.160 Paul, check, check and check Paul two. This is the two seventeen 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:09.960 Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield, who knows as soon as it gives a tour, 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:14.240 he's gonna give her his heart to her too, and we'll have kids 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:23.440 and get married. Dad's too far. It is the twenty seventh of November 5 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.519 twenty twenty three. My name's Correy Windfield and this is the two seventeen Recovery 6 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.240 Podcast coming from the North Studio, joined again by mister fabulous Justin Burke. 7 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:39.240 How are you today, fabulous? Nice? How was your holiday? Awesome? 8 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.679 That like one I've had in years. I like that you actually hung 9 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.640 out around town. I did around Traverse City area. I heard you into 10 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:52.200 the shelter I did. How was that fabulous? I got to sit back 11 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:57.200 watch the state game Michigan say it wasn't the Ohio state game. I believe 12 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:03.240 that was the Michigan games there first. Oh wow. You know we do 13 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.159 have one person who listens in Ohio. Oh. I feel sorry for them. 14 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:08.840 I don't know when they got trapped there, what happened if their car 15 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.799 broke down? Not sure, but we wish you the best and getting out 16 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.120 of there. Yeah, please, come back to Michigan. No, no, 17 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.560 I mean, you don't have to do that, but I just wish 18 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.719 them well, yeah, I was wishing them well. Yeah. So you 19 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.359 went to the shelter here in Sherever City. It's called Safe Harbor. You 20 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:32.040 went there and you watch some football and just some stuff. And it's kind 21 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.599 of humbling to go back to those places and realize like you're just a couple 22 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.239 of paychecks away from being a resident, right, you know. I used 23 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.480 to think like that when I was in radio and when I was in Arkansas 24 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.040 and we started doing like these food drives for people and I was having a 25 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:52.280 hard time paying bills and you know, getting myself food with you know, 26 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:57.159 my huge alcohol problem that I had. So I always started looking at things 27 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:04.000 differently when I started helping other people and realizing like bad times happened, hard 28 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.080 times happened, you know, like unexpected things happen. And I always remember 29 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.280 thinking to myself like, I'm just, you know, a couple of paychecks 30 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:14.599 away from being these people that need food, yeah, and they need a 31 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:19.639 place to live, and yeah it is, but it feels good when you 32 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.199 can go there and you're going to go there on the weekends, sometimes, 33 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.159 But when you do go there, you're not really like in there like preaching 34 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.360 like, hey, everybody be in recovery, because not everybody there needs to 35 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:31.879 be in recovery. No, not everybody there wants to be in recovery. 36 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.719 That needs to be in recovery, you know, but it's not something you 37 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.159 can make people do. But for the people that see you come in there 38 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.759 and they're like, wow, that guy's in recovery and he's seems like he's 39 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.520 having fun, Like I'm gonna go talk to him, and you're just the 40 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:50.080 natural. I'm trying to think here, the natural like vibes that you give 41 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.639 off should attract people to like, well, what's that dude doing? How 42 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.360 come he's so happy? Why see he coming here on a Saturday. He 43 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.280 doesn't have to do that. And they see that, and sometimes they'll come 44 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.240 up and say, hey, how do I get the treatment? Or you 45 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.039 know, maybe I do have a problem because a lot of I mean shit, 46 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:12.199 I was like that where I didn't have a problem even though I'm shaking 47 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.159 at three o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon because I'm going through withdrawals, 48 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.960 I don't have a problem, you know, Like that's that's how controlling drugs 49 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.159 are on your brain. They are. You know, I didn't. I 50 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.719 never had a problem. I was only wearing a long sleeve shirt at ninety 51 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.520 degree weather to cover up track marks. But you know I didn't have a 52 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.639 problem. No, not you. Everybody else though, right, but you 53 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.879 didn't have the problem. And there's probably people in there, you know, 54 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.680 that are living at the shelter and if you ask them, no, Well, 55 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.240 the reason why I'm in here is because I lost my job. Right 56 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.400 when you lose you job? Well, because my boss was dick, Okay, 57 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.360 well what happened? Well, I was late for work again, and 58 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.360 he told okay, well, why were you late for work? Well, 59 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.120 it's because you know, and you can come up with a million excuses, 60 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.919 but at the end of the end of the day, it could all be 61 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:00.599 because of alcohol, you know, or drugs. Well, because I was 62 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:06.120 so hungover that I forgot and or I just kept drinking and didn't fly like 63 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.120 coming in that day and so he told me not to be late, and 64 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.719 whatever it is. But you can circle it all back to probably using at 65 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.079 some point, but again not for everybody. Sometimes just bad things happen. 66 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:18.680 The best one is probably uh, I was waiting on my dealers. Show 67 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:20.839 up. He's supposed to be there at seven, he didn't show up to 68 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:28.160 eight. May emulate for work. Yeah, I'd be waiting on them dealers 69 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.680 though. Right, I'm just right around the corner. Man, I'll be 70 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:35.399 there in like five minutes, promise two hours later, finally show up. 71 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:41.000 Yeah. Yeah, there was some of that said something that like that similar 72 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.879 similar to something like that the other day, right that I did, And 73 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:46.480 they're like, yeah, I was waiting on my dealer. So I got 74 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.519 tired of it, so I just, you know, decided to go get 75 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.560 some help. Like okay, well that's a good that's a good one, 76 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:58.160 you know. And then the person said that as the like the cops or 77 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.720 whatever showed up in the ambulance amps to take her away. That's when the 78 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.480 dealer showed up. I was like, oh, did you point them out 79 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:11.040 to the cops. But again you bust the dealer. Guess what, there's 80 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.160 another one popping right back up. You know. The only way to beat 81 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.920 the drugs and all that is to a either have a buyback program, which 82 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:23.439 I've thrown out there many times and people can look like I'm crazy, but 83 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:30.079 I think it will work. I would not sell to people who are trying 84 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.079 to buy. Oh give me, give me a nickel. No, I 85 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.879 don't have any because I just sold it all to the cops and they gave 86 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:40.160 me top notch money. I mean, how much would that save? I 87 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:44.519 wonder what if we just did a trial. Well, you know, if 88 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.240 we just stopped them from coming across the border, that would help out a 89 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.600 lot. Yeah, but the government gets money on that. See, it's 90 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.439 all about the money man. And you think that the government wants to stop 91 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.759 all the drugs, they don't. Well, the government ain't gonna buy it 92 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.879 back just to release sit down the street again. No, who knows we're 93 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.319 gonna do with it. Drop it off at some country we hate, you 94 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:11.399 know, just pooh. Instead of dropping h bombs or atomic bombs, we 95 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.519 start dropping like drug bombs. Here go Colombia. I think this is yours. 96 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:21.600 And then they buy it back and then they said we buy it back 97 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:25.639 again. But I don't know. There's something to it where I think it 98 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:31.680 would be less expensive actually, and then when people are it was essentially they'd 99 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:36.560 be turning it in. You would have like what would you have? You 100 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:41.399 would have like gangs of like good guys running around trying to buy up all 101 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:45.639 the drugs so they could sell it back, Like, don't smoke that, 102 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.920 bro, you just smoked one hundred dollars. Give me that money. I'll 103 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.160 give you a hot dog, give me that. You know. I don't 104 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.319 know like what they would do, but it just seems like there would be 105 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.240 something that why not the shit they're doing now is not working, well, 106 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:01.639 not working for me and you no, you know, it's not working for 107 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.759 people out there struggling. Mean, it's kind of working for us now because 108 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.959 if people didn't have addiction problem, then we'd probably be like, well, 109 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.240 this would be there. We wouldn't have a job. Yeah, now we 110 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.680 would be doing other things, making movies. True, a lot of people 111 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.920 who buy drugs and sell them back to the government worry even about comedians that 112 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:24.519 say f you Corey. Yeah, we haven't even addressed that on the podcast 113 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.759 yet. Oh we have Jesus Pete man. We didn't do one at all 114 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.600 last week. What a guy that guy is? I know, TJ. 115 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.240 Miller is his name, right, Yeah, he's a total d bag. 116 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:40.120 I'm not saying that at all, but he was in Traverse City. This 117 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:42.839 comedian TJ. Miller if you want to look him up. But he was 118 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:49.199 in office Christmas party, some other stuff, Deadpool, but you don't know 119 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.560 his character. No, he was in How to Train Your Dragon? I 120 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.839 heard, Okay, even though I said anime, it was an animation. 121 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.600 Every video was funny. So yeah, So he was doing a show in 122 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.560 Travis City, which I would have loved to go on too. I think 123 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.240 he's funny dude. Yeah, me too, all the way back to watch 124 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:13.920 him. But was in the case our friend Kim and Mitch, our very 125 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.680 own Mitch. He it's been kind of hard trying to find a like a 126 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.480 nineteen twenty year old. Yeah, that Mitch. Yeah, he somehow got 127 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.839 let in and great, Yeah, and got to meet him to hang out 128 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.199 with them, watch both of his shows, not just one, but hung 129 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.519 out with both shows because they had a late show in the early show. 130 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.039 He watched both. Yeah, we didn't get a text, We didn't get 131 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.879 a call of hey, why don't you come down here? Corey? Look 132 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.799 what I got? You know, get you in compleet tool bag, nothing 133 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:46.279 to the sort. So we were kind of a little better. But he 134 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.960 did come back with the video on Monday, and I guess TJ Miller took 135 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:54.200 Mitch's phone and recorded a little message and he was like, hey, Corey, 136 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.360 what's up. You know they said they wouldn't believe that, you wouldn't 137 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.200 believe them that they're hanging out with me, but here mf or or so 138 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.600 I don't know. And then he like the like the other eight people in 139 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.639 there were like, yeah, f you Corey. Yeah you can go to 140 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.320 YouTube and watch it. Yeah, so I had to make a response video. 141 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.320 So I did, and it kind of explains the whole situation, and 142 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.519 you know, you were sad and very saddened as well, very saddened thing 143 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.799 you weren't invited. And we actually played the clip of the video in there 144 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.360 and then I kind of talk about it a little bit. But it's all 145 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.240 in fun. I have no enjoy left in my life, but the video 146 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.840 is pretty funny. It's on YouTube, it's on our Facebook. Well, 147 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:33.840 it's on my Facebook because I was like, should I share this with two 148 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.759 seventeen recovery people? Because I didn't share it to two seventeen Recoveries page? 149 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.440 You should? I don't know, because I because I love I bleeped his 150 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.399 f bombs but I left mine then on purpose? You know, because it 151 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:52.000 was more about telling a story, right, But it is on YouTube and 152 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.919 it's like TJ Miller, Corey Winfield Beef or something like that. But check 153 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.559 it out. You'll enjoy a lot of people do enjoy it. I know, 154 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.039 one per and left to comment and they're like, can you imagine wanting 155 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.440 to shirt? This is sober? And then one person was like, yeah, 156 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.639 they might have to take you to treatment. Ah. So I'm assuming 157 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.919 that was one of TJ. Miller's friends who thought that was funny that he 158 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.240 would be going to treatment. But you never know, never know, you 159 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.960 know, bad things happen sometimes. But yeah, so that was that was 160 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.039 that, and that was fun. We had fun making the video. So 161 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.240 that was Yeah, that was last week. And then of course this was 162 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.919 a short week because the holiday. Yes, I had a five day weekend 163 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:39.080 you as well, Yeah, Christmas came early to the office. Yeah, 164 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.639 so we really didn't have a five day weekend because we had to both come 165 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.639 in on Wednesday. Yeah, but we ras this shit out of Mitch, 166 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.559 Yeah we did. Yeah. That was not a good mood because the fun 167 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.320 Like, okay, so it started out in a great mood. Yeah, 168 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.320 because the technology that's out there now it makes sense for us to have the 169 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:03.399 best technolog to when it comes to communicating, you know, and telephone is 170 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.960 a great way to do that. And now that we all have the same 171 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.240 device, we can like message each other back and forth when we need something 172 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.799 right away. Yeah, and so that really will make you know, when 173 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.799 you guys are out driving or taking people's treatment, whatever, it'll it'll make 174 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:24.279 communicating a lot easierility. Yeah, So that's kind of what we were thinking 175 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.120 of that. And the order that I had placed was not the order that 176 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.960 had arrived. Well, no it wasn't, technically it was. But I 177 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.759 didn't want these big gas phones. I didn't want the big ass ones. 178 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.279 I wanted just the regular ones. And they said up big gass phones and 179 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.200 like all the other like things I ordered for, the phones are going to 180 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.919 be here, which we now have to ship back and wait two weeks to 181 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:56.960 get reimbursed for through Amazon all that crap. Oh my god. And so 182 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.440 now I have to go down there today and just a little bit. Probably 183 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.919 why you're listening to this, I'm actually there with them, right That depends 184 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.679 when you listen. I guess if you're listening right now, it's after one 185 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.960 pm. On the twenty seventh. I probably already met with them, so 186 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:16.200 you can email me and ask me how that went. But I have to 187 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:18.320 go meet with them and be like, look, man, like what do 188 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.200 we do? Like take these little phones back and they're gonna tell me taking 189 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.559 about the post office? I don't feel like it, or to the UPS 190 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.159 store and I'm like, how about you? How about you do that? 191 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.919 Wasted enough time up here because we went in there the other day. We 192 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.120 wasted like hour, good hour and a half because you go in and you 193 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.200 have to put your name on a list, and then you wait and wait 194 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.159 and wait and wait. Meanwhile, we see people who coming after us getting 195 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:43.960 helped after people take Dodoo's. Yeah, this one woman, well I'm not 196 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:50.519 gonna mention sex or gender, but this one person like checks the dude in, 197 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.559 then hits the bathroom, then fifteen minutes later comes out and starts helping 198 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.399 the dude. And I was like, Okay, it works for me, 199 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:03.000 I guess right, But I don't know. The manager is not there today, 200 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.240 which I was kind of disappointed about because I was like, I want 201 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.039 to be with the manager, and then they were like, oh, yeah, 202 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:13.200 he's not coming in today. That's sad. Yeah. I had fun 203 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.120 playing with all the technology. Yeah, you like it. Yeah, I 204 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.759 was just trying not to touch it. I don't want to break it or 205 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.639 nothing. Like. Well, you know what I'm really sad about. They 206 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.879 don't have the new motorol erasor phone in there. Oh at the story. 207 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:35.440 Yeah, is that the flip phone or something. They brought the motor razor 208 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.000 back. I wonder why they did that. I don't know. They made 209 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:45.639 it into a flip phone smartphone, kind of like the Samsung Fold. I 210 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.039 don't know. Oh that one phone that they had that you flip open. 211 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.519 Yeah, I don't think that would be a very good phone. It's just 212 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.519 like a little square Oh that one. Yeah, No, I don't know. 213 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:58.559 Well, they had one that I think you were Adam are playing with 214 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.480 that was like same, like a check book. Open it and then it's 215 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:07.039 like it's huge. Yeah, but what would you I don't understand. And 216 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.320 it has like a big crease in the middle. It just looks stupid. 217 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:16.080 I don't know. It'd be fun for some things. Yeah, you could 218 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.600 adjust it, Lili in bed watch it. That's what my TV's for, 219 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.480 bro. Some of us don't have that pleasure. In life, you have 220 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:31.080 TV. I do, okay, but some of us don't. Oh you 221 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.559 know, well, when you live in certain places, you can't have a 222 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.679 TV in your room. That's true, bed and watch it. Yeah. 223 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.679 Back when I was in sober living, I didn't have TV. Right, 224 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:43.120 we weren't allowed. Not even video games. Nope, aren't you glad? 225 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.360 Yeah? Me too. I see some people they come in and these other 226 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.799 places and they're like, yeah, I'm bringing my PlayStation with me, and 227 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.960 I'm like, from what look because I like to play Police Station. Okay. 228 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.919 So you're trying to live sober like I did. Get ingenius when I 229 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.039 was at Nathan's house in the five man room. I have no idea. 230 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.159 You don't know in the house we were at ingenius. What does that mean? 231 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:13.840 System? No. I bought a projector and we would set it up 232 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:18.919 in the room and watch movies in our room. Then we would put it 233 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:24.799 away, so it was never really out except for late at night. Thank 234 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.759 god. Man, So you're breaking rules. I don't know if there was 235 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.559 a rule on that. I don't know if he would have. He probably 236 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.399 like whatever, if you're spend your money on that, then you should probably 237 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:41.159 pay me more. So we're living expenses or whatever. I don't know what 238 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.960 he would have said with that, but yeah, but some people though, 239 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.120 it's just like no, like you can go hit a meeting, you can 240 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.279 go find other things to do. Right, service work, yeah, go 241 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.039 volunteer. Jason was big on that, and she's sitting around the house. 242 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.159 He's like, Oh, we're gonna go do service work today. Come on, 243 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:02.320 let's go. What are we doing, doesn't matter, We're gonna go 244 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:06.320 do something. Yeah. I like my only day off that week, I 245 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.120 was working at little gas station up there, and he was like, come 246 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.080 on, justin, we're gonna go do some service work. What are we 247 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.120 doing? Don't worry about it. Yeah. We ended up going up and 248 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:22.200 powerwashing the BVA hall where they do the meetings at. Yeah. Yeah, 249 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.159 it was a fun day. It probably was. It was we laughed a 250 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.919 lot, yeah, and had fun. That's what you wouldn't have experienced when 251 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.320 you were just sitting there and watching TV and shirt was your day off. 252 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.759 But like you got healing inside. You got to go help other people. 253 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.639 I mean, that's that's what it's about. And a lot of people don't 254 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.320 want to do that, and sometimes either they don't know how or we get 255 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:47.559 that lazy bug in us, you know, and it's just like, ah, 256 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:49.360 but I don't feel like it right, Well, no, you don't 257 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.639 feel like it, but get out there and do it and you'll realize you 258 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.440 enjoy it. Yeah, it was really nice. Got to sit in on 259 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:00.879 some meetings and people are very thankful that the building got washed look better, 260 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.559 and I remained humbled about it, and it was like, oh, yeah, 261 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.400 that was me. You know. It's just sat there and enjoyed the 262 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:15.319 compliments. If you really want to change your life, start doing those things, 263 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.279 because if you're not doing them already, which chances already probably not, 264 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.400 it'll be something that really goes a long way. Like I said, it 265 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.000 heals your soul a little bit. Yeah, here's your purpose. Yeah, 266 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.400 and you make friends and you never know who you're gonna meet. Look at 267 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.160 Kim, you know, she did some volunteering for us and then she ended 268 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.200 up getting a job at the place. Yeah, that was very awesome. 269 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.000 So it's just you never know who you're gonna meet or what's going to happen 270 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:44.640 at these these places, these situations. But you're putting yourself in situations where 271 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.640 you're going to meet people who actually have opportunities for you as opposed to sitting 272 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.720 on the college playing PlayStation. What are you going to meet? Well, 273 00:17:52.759 --> 00:18:00.319 it might be somebody online. Okay, doubt it is. The online pool 274 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.759 has not gone so well for me. No, No, well, let's 275 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.720 talk about it. It's unpacked us unpacked. Yeah, I'm unpacked that justin 276 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.799 Well, I've had a few different girlfriends over the years I've met online and 277 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:22.279 it's just never ended well. Like plenty of fish Facebook dating, it just 278 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:27.279 it ends horribly great to the people that have had success with it, but 279 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:33.319 me not so much. How have you How did you meet your current lady 280 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:41.519 friend? We actually started talking over Facebook online? Okay, so, but 281 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.960 but funny story is, but I've seen her in meetings before, just never 282 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:53.000 talked to her, so like I knew she was actually like real and that 283 00:18:53.200 --> 00:19:00.960 type of stuff. She was real. Yeah, like seems like a person. 284 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:06.160 Right. It's been kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen 285 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.279 twenty year old And Mitch, he's out there in the dating world, but 286 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.960 he's not on the podcast to defend himself. No, be sure, right, 287 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.799 I had to wrote a blog about it last week. If you care 288 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:17.400 to go read it. Oh he did. I didn't read that. He 289 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.519 didn't, No, he should. It's two seventeen recovery dot com. And 290 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.519 then you go to blogs. It's at the bottom where you just go right 291 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:29.359 to Mitch's page. I believe it was right there, something about how tender 292 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:37.279 is bad for his recovery. M he said something about his preacher something reddit. 293 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:42.720 I guess really he wasn't sure how he felt about that. Wow, 294 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.920 maybe you should start thinking about that. If you put out in the world, 295 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.000 what what would your mama say? He made me, He had me. 296 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:59.680 He gave me the topic of chasing around Susan's what it's like in my 297 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.039 life for recovery or something like that. I had to really dig deep and 298 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:08.680 open up and bury that little mouse nous. Yeah, because Susan is our 299 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.920 is our mouse? Have you checked on Susan today? I haven't seen her 300 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:18.079 in her cage. Just think about cleanness. It's really not a cage, 301 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.839 it's a habitat right. I don't want to say we're caging up animals here 302 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.880 because I gonna get pee dug and knocking down our door. Yeah, Mitch's 303 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.119 blog title was Tinder is really bad for my recovery that's what I gave him 304 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.319 last week. He gave me how my life is like chasing around Susan. 305 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:40.680 Yeah, because you guys cleaned her habitat out and you decided, hey, 306 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.240 I'm gonna let this little mouse go run around the office a little bit more. 307 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.759 I thought I was fired. Yeah, it's close, but you got 308 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:52.640 her back. So that's why did what counts? She's quick. Can you 309 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:55.480 imagine going to your next employer and the being like, so, what happened 310 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:59.359 with two seventeen recovery? Why they let you go? Let the mouse go 311 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.839 our office? Pot? Wait, they fired you because you let a mouse 312 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.440 go? Yeah, it's like expensive mouse. No, it was free. 313 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.759 It was found in the office. I caught it in the actually the one 314 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:15.480 who caught it. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna let it go outside 315 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:19.400 where euthanize it. And I was told no, the mouse needed a second 316 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:25.920 chance at life like we have gotten. Then I kind of felt bad for 317 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.960 it a little bit. Showed a little passion. Yeah, we're trying to 318 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:37.680 do more of here. Yeah and now second chance Susan. Yep. And 319 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.279 she even inspired a blog and she did it was a good block too, 320 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.480 It really was. I'm serious. If you're into reading blogs and stuff like 321 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.200 that, take two minutes out of your day go read some of our blogs 322 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.720 at two seventeen recovery dot com. You can get there through the app as 323 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:59.400 well. Yeah, which is free app and there's like nine hundred people thousand 324 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.039 people remember or something like that. I've downloaded the app. I don't know 325 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.480 if I want to keep the app why. I don't know. It's pensive. 326 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.400 Does it really cost you that much money? It's like sixteen hundred a 327 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.200 year? What? Yeah, you just look at me like like why do 328 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.440 we have an app? Dude? Yeah, like our website's good enough then 329 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.640 yeah, I don't know, like it just it seems cool. It's easy 330 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.759 for people to get to listen to the podcast, but you can pretty much 331 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:32.680 listen anywhere, you know, like Pandora, Apple, iHeartRadio, Spotify, 332 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.799 I mean, it's every single one you can get it on. So like, 333 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.680 I don't know, I don't know. If you feel some kind of 334 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:44.519 way and you love listening on the app, let me know. You know, 335 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:51.720 but been sending five dollars yeah, and tomorrow's Giving Tuesday? Yes it 336 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:56.000 is, so you have them pocketbooks. You gave some money already someone else 337 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.519 did I seen. Oh really, yeah, nice, I just gave a 338 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.079 little bit. They gave a lot more than me. Maybe we'll make a 339 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:08.279 video. Well you will be driving, but I will be tomorrow. Maybe 340 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.039 we make a little one today and be like, hey, I gotta take 341 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:18.200 the longest drive that we do tomorrow. Yeah. I hope the ups really 342 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:22.599 nice and pleasant and not scary. It's just going to speed limit and mutch 343 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:26.039 for slick spots. Of course, in northern Michigan, it's we got snow, 344 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.480 right, don't you know. I heard the ups getting a lot of 345 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:37.559 snow. Hopefully their plow systems out and working rather properly, or their plow 346 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.240 just leave it there. They don't have a system. They have a plow. 347 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:42.759 I swear to you. I had to go up there a couple times. 348 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:45.559 They just had one plow. I was like, this is the up, 349 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:51.519 Like it seems like they would have like overstock of big plow trucks, 350 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:56.400 but they don't. Really, they might have two the whole up. I 351 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.200 swear to you, it is the craziest thing. I was like, and 352 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:04.279 the is going on here, Like, you're not helping my comfortability with driving 353 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:10.480 tomorrow. I'm just saying being honest, bro, it's an honest program. 354 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:15.400 I'm working. Sometimes I choose selective honesty. I wasn't seen it in our 355 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.880 concert? Yeah, Pop Evil? Yeah, now you mentioned you were going 356 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:23.279 to that Ran Rapids intersection. How was that show? Probably one of the 357 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:29.000 best ones I've seen. I would say Disturbed was number one, Pop Evil 358 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.640 was number two. They didn't have the pyrotechnics, which is good. I 359 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:38.640 think they outlawed those since they're Great White concert. But people dying is are 360 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:42.640 not that funny? Why people died at a Great White show? Yeah, 361 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:48.559 I've never heard about that. How old are you of a baby? You 362 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.160 know you're thirty seven years old, Justine, and you should have known about 363 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.559 this. Yeah, it was a big thing. Like I had just hung 364 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.200 out with Great White at the Venetian Festival that's summer prior, so I kind 365 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.480 of knew. Some of the dudes in the band had their emails and phone 366 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.400 numbers and stuff. And one of the band members, Ty Longley, he 367 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:10.279 was a guitarist, and he was just he's just a little guy. He's 368 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:15.559 like five to one, about one hundred pounds. And then like they set 369 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:19.839 off these pyrotechnics and it burned the place. Down in like minute, like 370 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:25.759 it was yeah, because the guy's the bar owner had like stuff in there 371 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:30.680 that wasn't up to code and it was bad. Yeah, the intersection was 372 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.599 a little small. Yeah, pyrotechnics, So that's that's probably a good thing. 373 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.079 And I'm pretty sure after the Great White Thing, a lot of people 374 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:40.799 were like, yeah, I don't really need dose in here anyway, But 375 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:42.599 yeah, it was. It was a bit cluster and they were talking about 376 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:51.119 how creepy it was, like because there was just cars just out there because 377 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.759 so many people died and like their cars were just in the parking lot. 378 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.079 I don't know if they left them there it's like to pay tribute to the 379 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:02.319 people, or if the bank came and repod them. I wonder if the 380 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:06.039 make would do that if somebody died in there and they're like still owe a 381 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:07.440 car note, you know, and they're like, well, we got to 382 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:10.680 get our car back, so we're gonna take them. Like, hey, 383 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:15.039 that's we're leaving that there because that guy's dead. Oh they still take it. 384 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:18.480 Well, he's still own his money, so we're gonna take it. 385 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.960 America is greedy like that or is there like a death policy in your insurance 386 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:27.839 m. I don't know how that works. I've never really I think I've 387 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:32.559 bought one new car in my life and it wasn't really new. It was 388 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:34.599 only a couple of years old. Well. Still, it doesn't mean you 389 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:37.880 still have some kind of I did have GAP insurance and stuff on it. 390 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:47.920 That was nice. Did you have WAP insurance? No Gap? There's a 391 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:57.119 song called them or maybe it's wap w Yeah, I think that's how it 392 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:03.480 was pronounced. Yeah, what does that mean? Again? It's not for 393 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.720 the air quality? Fabulous had Meghan Stallion in it, and I think, 394 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:21.400 yeah, Collins, say you want some WAP insurance? All right, we 395 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:30.680 got It's a little slippery around here. Favorite drop. Well anyway, giving 396 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:34.000 Tuesday, we'll try to do some kind of video. But I'm glad you 397 00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:38.319 had a good weekend. Yeah. I actually had a fabulous weekend. I 398 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:45.200 went hung out, met my girlfriend's parent, her mom. That went really 399 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:51.079 well, sad watching the football. Her cat wouldn't leave me alone, sat 400 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:52.680 on me the whole time. I did see a picture of that on Facebook. 401 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:57.720 Yeah did that annoy you? No? No, you felt like, 402 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:03.160 hey, this cat loves me. Right, it was cuddly, it was 403 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:08.680 quiet. They have claws. Yeah, good, it didn't snore? Why 404 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:15.480 it slopt? So that was great trying to make fun of my cat. 405 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.920 Why does your cat snore when it sleeps? Well, Nico is a little 406 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:26.000 bigger, you know, it's like your daddy. Yeah huh. Anyway, 407 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.640 we'll wrap it up though, but I'm glad you had a good time. 408 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.200 Marnie and I were supposed to a podcast yesterday, but sticking around to it. 409 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:40.440 But we will soon and we'll kind of maybe explain why we've been busier 410 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:45.359 than normal. You should, yeah, we should, yeah, hey, 411 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.720 we will. So listen for that soon and enjoy the rest of your day. 412 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.759 But do check out those blogs at two Simpson Recovery dot com and feel 413 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.720 free to comment down them. Yes, please comment. 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