WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:07.519 It's the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. If you kind of look 2 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:09.880 deeper at the situation, you know, which I'm sure you will, because 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.080 everything that we go through is an experience that we learned from. And Justin 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.719 Burke, I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. You'll 5 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:20.760 be talking to someone and I'll just come in and sit at my desk and 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:28.920 just bust one out real quick. It is the third of January twenty twenty 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:35.359 four, almost that twenty three, but I'm going to do it. It 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:41.039 is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast from the North Studio and Justin Burke is joining 9 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:47.600 me. How are you justin fabulous? Are you fabulous though compared to this 10 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.399 morning? Yes, I am doing much better, okay, because you're you're 11 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.960 feeling a little better, looking a little better. But this morning, man, 12 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.119 it looked like you might have had some COVID four. Yeah I felt 13 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.560 like it. Yeah. I think I had a little COVID five point oh 14 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.879 last week or a couple weeks ago, right week before Christmas, because like 15 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.439 one thing, when I had COVID the first two times that my wife Martie, 16 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.599 I love you to death, gave me because she got it from her 17 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.840 work, I think, and then they gave it to me, So I 18 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:19.120 appreciate that. And one thing I noticed, man, is I would have 19 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.599 walked down a flight of stairs and just be out of breath like now walking 20 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.079 up, just walking down. And I had the same out of breathless after 21 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.680 walking up some stairs at the crib the other day, and I was like, 22 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.879 man, and gd COVID five point oh got my ass and I tested 23 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.120 myself for COVID, but it was that stuff that Biden sent out, which 24 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.439 was like leftover from Trump's so it wasn't even working. Like I didn't pick 25 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.159 up my COVID five point zho and think about it. We were talking about 26 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:49.000 it yesterday because we were all like, man, we all felt like crap. 27 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.280 We all had this thing. One of the signs of having COVID was 28 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.319 they would take your temperature right yeah, before you walk in anywhere, like 29 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.680 let me get your temperature, and you'd be like, okay, Well, 30 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:04.000 if I was gonna make three point oh four point oh five point oh COVID, 31 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.400 I would make sure that it was undetectable. So I would be in 32 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.280 the little lab with my little beakers and I'd be likeop, boop, little 33 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.120 aspirin in there, boop, little aspirin in there then and then send it 34 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:15.840 out. That's what I would do. That's what I would do if I 35 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.159 was like an evil chemist. So it deflates the fever. Yeah, so 36 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.960 that way, boom, there's no way to detect it. And then boom 37 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.360 they're a little stupid little Pfizer tests. They don't work. No more boom. 38 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.000 Now what back to another pandemic? Mm hmm. COVID money is two 39 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.400 point zero Mmm. Well see they said they you can do no more COVID 40 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.280 moneys. Yeah. And the only reason why they did COVID money was because 41 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.400 the rich people wanted us to pay them rent exactly. And the banks want 42 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:46.960 they money, and they all want they money. It's all about money. 43 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.560 Justin once you found out today, Yeah, because you took your little happy 44 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.520 ass, because I told you it was like, hey, man, go 45 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:58.639 up to that store that sells the drugs over there, the red w want 46 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.280 to go to them they sell Okay, go in there, get you some. 47 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:04.520 You have to get that stuff that you have to take to the counter, 48 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.719 because that's the stuff that you need and that's gonna make you feel better. 49 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.439 It's gonna like open up your sinuses and you know, do that good's 50 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:15.879 good on your face, face and your headhead. So you go up in 51 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:21.039 there and you follow your boys directions and you go in there, and what 52 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.960 happened justin So I go in there and all the good stuff is behind the 53 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.199 counter now, which I guess it has been for a couple of years. 54 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:30.000 So I tell them what's going on. I'm like, you know, I 55 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:37.680 just need some really good decongestion to relieve this sinus panem in and she goes, 56 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.280 so, what one do you want? We have multiples. I was 57 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:45.400 like, just give me a basic, twelve hour one, cheap one, 58 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:50.919 you know, I don't need a big pack, nothing elaborate. And she 59 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.840 goes, okay, she brings up to the counter scans it rings it in. 60 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.159 Oh I need to see your ID scans. My idea says got yo, 61 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:08.080 Eh, you've exceeded your daily limit of this medication. And I'm like, 62 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.560 I don't even buy this. How can I exceed it? We'll let 63 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:17.120 me check again. Comes back says the same thing, got all your asses. 64 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:26.600 I was so heartbroken at that moment. Wow, because see you in 65 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.639 your previous life that you were living at hardcore gangster shit you got had going 66 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.600 on. You use methamphetamines, yeah, and that was one of your charges. 67 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.560 It's possession of it. Yeah, possession of meth fetamines less than twenty 68 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.680 five grams. You've never made it, no, never try to make it. 69 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:48.600 Nope and boom, now you're blackbald from getting the medicine. Yep, 70 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:53.680 So no suitor fed for me. Yeah, well no, you still got 71 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.800 it because you know a guy who knows a guy who can go get it. 72 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.959 Yeah. But me, I just can't go to the counter and purchase 73 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.279 it myself, right, don't even know how to make it. It's a 74 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.879 kitty litter and some a bunch of other crap you don't want to know about. 75 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:11.040 But that's what I've heard anyway. But yeah, Like, and I 76 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:13.839 think they've moved away from the Suda fed thing a long time ago. Maybe 77 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.360 maybe not, I don't know, but it's kind of messed up. And 78 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.000 Marnie came in the office and saw the suit of fed on my desk, 79 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:25.839 allegedly was on my desk, and she's like, you better hide that. 80 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:29.000 I was like, I know, and I kind of told her about your 81 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.720 situation. And I was like, you know, that's kind of messed up. 82 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.800 You know, that'd be like saying if someone gets a drunk driving that 83 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:41.199 I can never go buy alcohol again. It should be the same across the 84 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.920 board. Oh, it would save so many lives. It would save the 85 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.639 person who's having a problem, it would save their life. It would save 86 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:54.240 people from being in accidents, crashes, it's called them. But that's that's 87 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.959 asi, that's that's cool because because it gets text, the government's making too 88 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:01.319 much money off it, right, because the government makes money off it when 89 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.680 it's made. They make money off it when it's sold, They make money 90 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:09.439 off it when you get arrested, They make money off it when people die. 91 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.199 Yeah, all wrong, it's still some money maker. They make money 92 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:18.439 off it. Where as you, you dirty meth guy, Nope, Nope, 93 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.680 you just can't have access to that. You know. I could see 94 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.040 if I was still on probation or something, I wouldn't be allowed to have 95 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.360 it. Well, I'm not on probation, you know. I got off 96 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:34.360 early for role model behaviors what they called it. I was working at a 97 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:41.199 treatment center, just doing good for myself, and here I am still getting 98 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.839 kicked in the shin like you just can't have this six days away from your 99 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:49.839 four years. Yeah, that's that's nope, you can't buy it. And 100 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:51.759 some people would say, well, no, that's not the same with all 101 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:56.079 Corey, that's not the same. You know, they would they would have 102 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.639 to stop you from making alcohol, right, Well, they would do that 103 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.360 too, you know, like if you could just go to the store and 104 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.279 buy some meth, then you caught some charges. Okay, now you can't 105 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.199 buy a meth anymore, but now you still can't go out and buy su 106 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.360 fed, so they would still make it. But alcohol, you can make 107 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.720 potatoes, like I mean, pretty much anything. Yeah, it's so it 108 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.360 would be very very hard, and he starts any sugar to stop someone from 109 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:23.480 making it. But you know, it's it's one of those things, man, 110 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.879 that really makes you kind of raise your eyebrow. You know, there 111 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.480 was a guy in Michigan or a lady or whoever in Michigan. Somebody just 112 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:34.959 want the lottery. That lotto got that lot of money and it's like eight 113 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.399 hundred million or something, and if they want to just take the lump sum, 114 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.519 it's four hundred million. So just keep track of the missing millions, 115 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.079 Okay, so eight hundred million, that's the that's the jackpot of all the 116 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.079 people that put in the money, and goes up to here eight hundred million. 117 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.040 Okay, Now, if you take the cash option, which you give 118 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:55.639 you right away, half so they just took half just by you wanting your 119 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.879 money today, the money that you won, you wanting it today, you're 120 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.040 only going to get half of it. And then you still got to pay 121 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.319 taxes on them. Yeah, so you're really only going to get maybe maybe 122 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.199 two hundred million if you're lucky. So where's the six hundred million going? 123 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.800 Who knows? State? It's not fixing roads, schools aren't getting better. 124 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.680 No, I think I could fix a lot of schools with six hundred million 125 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.839 dollars. That's just the one lottery. That's just the one, right. 126 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.560 How many others went down, you know? And some people say, oh, 127 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.000 you got to split that money with other states, and blah blah blah 128 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.240 blah blah blah blah. The state's getting a cut, man, They're getting 129 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.040 get cut every time you buy a ticket, and every time they tell you 130 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.399 it's going to the schools, it's going to the roads. I'm tired of 131 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.200 that shit, and I'm tired of politicians half assed and shit just so that 132 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.399 they can have jobs later. It's like the roads. I'm tired, tired, 133 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.720 and I know people in Michigan you're tired too, tired of the f 134 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.960 in construction all the f in time. Do you know that they could fix 135 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.679 the roads where they wouldn't have to touch them again for like sixty years, 136 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.320 But they don't because they're like, that's great jobs. How about we give 137 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.200 better jobs to people? And how many time you pass a construction site somebody 138 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.960 just standing on a sign, you think that person feels like really like like 139 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.399 he has a purpose in life. No, no, no, he's probably 140 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.000 got an addiction. Who knows. I'm not going that far with it, 141 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.879 but I'm just saying, like, that job sucks, and I'll just say 142 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.240 it right now. I don't care if they're getting thirty dollars an hour and 143 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.080 standing there holding the fucking slow sign with a little walkie talking. Okay, 144 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.200 I'm sorry, your job sucks. Everybody just mean mugging you on the way. 145 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.639 No, why don't we just fix the damn roads? Like for real. 146 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.360 I'm not even mentioning the governor's name because she's not worth it to me, 147 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.320 but her little thing was fixed the down road. No, but really 148 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.559 fix them, yeah, you know, put hey, you know what, 149 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.759 put a little heater in them. You know, they got that technology too. 150 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.559 Make sure there's no ice, you know, like, do it really 151 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.440 good, and them people will be having jobs because we're fixing all the damn 152 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.840 roads, not just the highway. We'll just fix them all. We're actually 153 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.519 going to create more jobs. And then sixty years we'll do it again. 154 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.960 You know. But instead they half assid they get these horrible companies to do 155 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.879 it, to bid whoever BID's the lowest, highest, whoever knows who in 156 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.440 office or whoever does this, and that they're the ones who get it. 157 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.320 And it just drives me nuts. Man. I'm just fing tired of it. 158 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.440 It's just like the whole system is just to just to screw people over. 159 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.759 Man. Would you hear about their row construction plan for next year for 160 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.639 Travers City. No, they're shutting down Parkway m for like all summer, 161 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:33.960 separate during cherry Fest. Do redo it, don't come to Traverse City. 162 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.360 I don't think it's the Human Rights Commissioner. I'm allowed to say that, 163 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.519 but I don't really care. I really don't you know, like the construction 164 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.840 here is just gonna be horrible. Man, the roads of traffic in the 165 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.200 summer is just a nightmare. Yep, it's not fun. And then to 166 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.039 back it up even more and reroute it to all the side streets. Yeah. 167 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:56.000 I feel sorry for those residents who pay less than taxes to not deal 168 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:01.120 with the traffic, and now they're going to deal with traffic. Also be 169 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.960 working from home, dog, Oh yeah, you have to go in the 170 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.039 traffic and drive people into places, unfortunately. But I enjoy my job though. 171 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:16.080 Yeah, and let's talk positive stuff. It's very rewarding. Yes. 172 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.480 Oh, we forgot to mention in at the beginning of the podcast. We 173 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.080 have a very special guest who wants to make an appearance today. But I 174 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.320 don't have the other third microphone hooked up, so I'm gonna actually let all 175 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.639 right, the person used my microphone. Doesn't look like they're coming in here 176 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.600 just yet, but when they do, I'll just have to, you know, 177 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.879 scooch out of the way and let them talk. They wanted to talk 178 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:43.039 about a misconception or something like. I don't I don't even know what they 179 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.000 were talking about, but we'll know very soon. But yes, your job, 180 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.519 you do love it and you help people. And we just got some 181 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:56.000 coins that we ordered, that's what they say in America ordered, and we 182 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.159 thought it'd be a great idea because we could put our website on there and 183 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:01.879 a lot of times you hands won a business card. It can go in 184 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.360 a pocket and then right into the trash, you know, when they need 185 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.799 it, they're like, oh damn, you know, I really wanted to 186 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.399 call them, but there's so many resources at two seventeen recovery dot com that 187 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.879 we're just like, hey, we'll give them a coin, which is pretty 188 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.840 cool. Yeah, and it has a map of Michigan on it, and 189 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.679 it has like a star where we are in Traverse City, and then it 190 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.559 has fun and recovery because that's what we're about exactly, and bitching about the 191 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.200 government. Yeah, but that was too long to put on the coin. 192 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.759 But then yeah, it has our website on at two seventeen recovery dot com. 193 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.720 So we're like, man, we'll give that out and to give it 194 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.039 to people like when they get out of treatment, you know, when we 195 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.279 take them home, you know, like give them a little pep talk and 196 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.120 you know, do what we do with our recovery, coaching, training and 197 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.440 all that that jazz, and then sometimes even one around the way to treatment 198 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:54.480 if we can tell the person's like sad and feeling shame and guilt, because 199 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.720 there's a lot of that that goes on, but like to incorporate into like 200 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.000 our at least that's what I did when I would drive people. You know, 201 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.080 it's just like try to get a moving forward, trying to get their 202 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:09.360 brain moving forward to like what's next, you know, like the stuff in 203 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.200 the past, the stuff that you've told your mom or family or girlfriend, 204 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.279 your wife, whatever. You can't change that, but you can change it 205 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.919 right now moving forward with what you do, you know, and then give 206 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.120 them a coin and be like, hey man, your journey starts now, 207 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.000 you know, Like remember to have fun and recovery and if you ever need 208 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.360 anything, there's a website. I actually talk to the client I took today 209 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.840 about that because he was going back to treatment, and he said something about 210 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:37.279 having to rebuild relationships and takes time. I was like, yeah, sometimes 211 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:43.519 it does take time. It was this Christmas marks like nineteen twenty years since 212 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.399 I have been at my aunt's house during Christmas time. A lot of it 213 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.480 was probably due to my own addiction, maybe my smart little mouth when I 214 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:56.360 was younger, but you know, I mean it all wraps into each other. 215 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.639 You know. I put a lot of negative energy out there, and 216 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.679 you know it took time. You know, Like you said, I'm almost 217 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:07.080 four years sober and I finally just got invited back, you know, so 218 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.600 it feels great to finally get those relationships back. My uncle ashtu to talk 219 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:16.200 to me about my job when I was at his house. I actually took 220 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:22.039 a caring note to what I was actually doing with my life, which was 221 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.360 absolutely amazing. You know, Normally he just says hi, by see you 222 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:31.600 later, and I didn't get that response. It's nice. Yeah, it 223 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.320 feels good. It did and people can get that. And I know a 224 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.279 lot of people out there are struggling. It's hard. I don't want to 225 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.600 do it. I don't know what to do. I've done this before and 226 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.919 had a guy tell me that yesterday when I went to the detox to talk 227 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.600 and he's like, yeah, man, but I've been this and I've tried 228 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.879 that. I was like, apparently you didn't try everything, Like there's something 229 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:56.799 in there. And this is what hit me at one point was the relationship 230 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.679 with my father, like I had to. I had to repair that, 231 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.519 had confront it. I had to understand it from his point of view, 232 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.639 you know, Like I remember like a mean text that I had sent him 233 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.159 one of the last times I talked to him before I went years when I'm 234 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.679 talking to him and I was like, dude, how could you have because 235 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.399 I at that time no children. Now I got a baby boy on the 236 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:16.720 way and they can't wait. Yeah yeah, but at that time, no 237 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.600 children, no marriage. Thought I was going to die drunk, and I 238 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.679 thought, how are you going to have two sons? And you just walked 239 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.200 away from us? You know. That was one of the things I told 240 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.039 him, you know, but I had to understand, and I had to 241 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.559 talk to him as an adult, as a man, not as a drunk, 242 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.200 not reacting to situations, but just like, help me understand that, 243 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.440 yeah, you know, to his side of the story. And he could 244 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.080 have been like f off and I would have been like, all right, 245 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.039 cool, you know, but but to hear you know, yeah, like 246 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.159 you said, his side of the story. Now, does that make it 247 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.519 right? Does that heal all the wounds? No? But it can help 248 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.120 me move forward. And one of the letters that I wrote him was like, 249 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.399 I don't know if we're going to have a father son relationship. I 250 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.440 don't know if we're just going to text each other and say, hey, 251 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:02.480 what's up. Have birthday? I have no idea what we're going to do, 252 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:06.559 but I would like some sort of relationship with you. You know, 253 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:11.000 you are my father and whatever happened to happen. But just like all the 254 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:14.360 dumb shit I did in the past, I can't change that. And he's 255 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.320 not perfect either. He's a human. Yeah, we're all human. So 256 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.519 you know, how about a little forgiveness and how about a little understanding and 257 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.240 then to move forward. Whether his reason to me was legit or not, 258 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:27.679 you know, that doesn't matter. But the fact that I had to face 259 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.759 it and confront it and that really helped me move forward with my recovery, 260 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.879 I believe, because there was something in there that was keeping me stuck. 261 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.799 And probably some of here trauma too, yeah, the abandonment issues, you 262 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.279 know, to feel like I never really had a dad. My stepdad's great, 263 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.120 but he's not that dad. He's not you know, my father, 264 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.000 my biological father, you know, And to have that bond with somebody, 265 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.960 you know, I just feel like I missed something. But now, like 266 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.159 I said, I can set it up moving forward with this. This is 267 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:00.759 what I have now, and when my son is born, I can do 268 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.559 my damnedest to make sure that I'm there for him. You know, in 269 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.319 the perfect world, i'd sit here and be like, oh, yeah, 270 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.480 Martie and I we're gonna die together at one hundred and forty five years old. 271 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:15.319 Sounds good old, But you never know, you know, you never 272 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.240 know what's going to happen. And she could be like, where, I'm 273 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:23.240 tired of your ass, get out, Like, no, I got right 274 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.720 married. You're getting rid of me that easy? But but no, you 275 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.720 know, it's like, but I want to be there for my son, 276 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.640 and I want to, you know, do things with my son, and 277 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.440 I don't know, I just can't wait, you know, to get in 278 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.359 there and change diapers and just watch a little person grow up. That's so 279 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.279 yeah. I enjoyed it. You know. When I first got sober, 280 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.400 I was like, you know, I'd like to have another one, to 281 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.400 be able to do it all over again, do it the right way this 282 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:55.720 time, and then, like, I don't know, within like the past 283 00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:00.640 year or so, I was like maybe not like my daughter's thirteen. Now, 284 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.160 maybe I don't want to be tied back down. You know, I'm 285 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:14.079 not saying that you're never not tied down after they turn Eighteen's ridiculous because they're 286 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.359 still gonna need you. They're still gonna need stuff. But you know, 287 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:22.400 they're typically not living in your home. They moved on to college trying to 288 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:27.400 become a person themselves, and you're still trying to guide him. Or they're 289 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:34.960 living at home with a couple of kids. Maybe never know, Grandpa justin, 290 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:44.519 oh triplets, don't put that on me. He had to see his 291 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:47.920 face. It just is like his jaw dropped and he's like the fear look 292 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.400 of fear was on his face. But speaking of fear, we do have 293 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:56.079 our guests. We're gonna welcome in and she's been on the podcast before you 294 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:00.000 maybe you'll recognize her, maybe not, but I'm gonna get out of the 295 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.680 way and make way for our guest, Susan. Welcome Susan. Everybody. 296 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:10.839 How you doing today, Susan ain't justin? What's up? J dog? 297 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:17.119 Amen? How are you doing? A little suit of fed not buying and 298 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:22.279 effort? You got jokes? Then I'm going fabulous? Yeah, hell of 299 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.559 jokes. But now, man, i'm'a here cause I want to clear the 300 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:33.640 air. I heard some speculating going on by my existence in the two seventeen 301 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.559 recovery center. Yeah, how's that? Yeah, well you were kind of 302 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.880 here the day that I will hell you call my ass? You got me 303 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.440 any Corny? He said, come here, little mouse, I'm gonna squish 304 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.880 your little guts out. And ain't Corey saved me? He said, justin, 305 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.599 just put him in the trash can. I'm gonna go get it. 306 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.880 Get a little house for the mouse. Yeah. Yeah, I love Cory. 307 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:03.200 He's pretty cool. But when I showed up here, y'all thought I 308 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:11.759 was living in your walls or something, right, Yeah yeah, I said, 309 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.799 uh, wasn't your white idiots? You fat white guys and cracked me 310 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:25.000 up. Yeah. So what happened was how I got caught was I came 311 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:29.799 cause I was tired of living where I was living. See. So what 312 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:34.960 I did justin is I saw this lady. She had this like big old 313 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:41.319 bag that she didn't use for gym stuff, but she just took it with 314 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.799 her wherever she went. And I was only like six days old, and 315 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.559 I seen her take this bag everywhere, and she come back to me with 316 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.599 good like food and nuts. So I said, I'm gonna get up in 317 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.319 that bag and I'm gonna go see where these food and nuts is. So 318 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:02.279 I creeped in that bag, I got down rich fo me myself lived anymouse, 319 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:06.599 and then then I hid and then I hid, and then there was 320 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:14.079 some big loud mur I think that's what they called the bus. So I 321 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.599 knew I was going places right because I was on the bus. That's when 322 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.200 you know you made it. So I get up in here and I start 323 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:26.519 smelling good stuff and nuts and I jump out that MFM bag and then I 324 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:33.559 just hid in the corner. And then I waited for everybody to leave because 325 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:38.160 they was talking about recovery and all kinds of stuff for like an hour, 326 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:45.279 and I said, how long I waited in that corner? And then that 327 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.240 uh one fat oh Cory, Yeah, the fat white guy, he came 328 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.720 in and he was looking for something. They was trying to fix a camera 329 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.599 or something, and he said, oh my god, he screamed, my 330 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:04.039 good girls up here. Then really there's a mouse, Mitch hell. And 331 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:07.880 then big Mitch comes in. I'm like, oh, they get bigger, 332 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:12.480 So that, my guy, this is nuts, And so I ran kind 333 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:17.440 of across the table underneath it, and I ran back around it, and 334 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:22.000 then Corey and Mitch just standing there looking all stupid, and Cory come out, 335 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.200 well, we gotta catch it. And by we, I mean you, 336 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:30.039 Mitch. I knew if it's just on Mitchie Corey, I'm getting past 337 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.079 these fools. You know. Cory's all scared, trying to stand on a 338 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.920 chair, just pointing and shit. And then Mitch goes, oh, I 339 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:45.039 got an idea. So he goes and he gets his bowl, not like 340 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.119 a bowl, but like you know, if you like went home, I 341 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.400 had some sketty tonight and then you have some stuff that like just you didn't 342 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.920 eat, so you want to keep it for tomorrow, so you put it 343 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.079 one of them bowls. It was a bowl like that. I think some 344 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.000 caught like a little tough ware dishes, you know what I'm saying. So 345 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.359 that's what he grabbed, and I'm like, what the hell you gonna do 346 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.440 with that? So then Cory says, no, no, you need a 347 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.880 bowl, So he grabs like a candy dish or something. And I thought 348 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.880 this up be cool to do, like a halfpipe one you know, like 349 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.519 if you're in the escape, you know I'm talking about. So I said, 350 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:21.440 well, shit, I ran behind the door, and ain't Corey's like, 351 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:23.119 I got it this way. And then Mitch gets on the other side 352 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:27.000 of the door inside of the room, and he's just like leaning down trying 353 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.359 to eat me or something, and I says, it's time to do some 354 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.839 tricks. Shall So I ran out and I hit that bowl and I ran 355 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.920 up and almost did like a like a three sixty, and I shine backking 356 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.400 Corey's office and that smells good in there, and I was under the couch 357 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.720 just chilling, and ain't Corey come in screaming talking about kim me in off. 358 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:51.880 It's bad. I don't even like Mice. I'm afraid Mitch saved me. 359 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.240 And then he jumped in Mitch's arms and Mitchell was like, hold, 360 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:59.359 I'm saying it's gonna be o k boss man. We gonna get that outside 361 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:03.720 of here. And I got an idea, and so Corry said, please 362 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.000 Mitch put me down. He's scaring me. So Cordy got down, moved 363 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.440 the couch and I was like, all right, well, I'm not gonna 364 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.279 mess with Cory because he seemed like a cool dude. So I shot out 365 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:18.559 of Cory's office and then I went back in the little room that I smelled 366 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:21.240 all that goot food in, and then I said, well, I start 367 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:26.279 threw my wine be in. So then Mitch at used to making noises like 368 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.880 sauce or hot sauce. I don't know what he was saying. So I 369 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:32.319 said, okay, I'm a run back. So I went in and you 370 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:36.640 aren't AM's office. I skeezed under the door and then Mitch comes up. 371 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:41.319 We was just playing this and the dumbest white man crap I'd ever seen in 372 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.359 my life. He built. He had a chair, then he had chipped 373 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:51.640 over and then he put like like a yard stick on it, like I 374 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:59.400 was supposed to crawl up this chair and then like scooter loongless stick to get 375 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:03.079 this fo they old donut. I don't even like donuts, justin I like 376 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.079 nuts, So I was like whatever, Like this dude must be tripping. 377 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.480 I just sat in the corner. Washington put it all together. Then it 378 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:14.720 wasn't an idiot, and he thought I was gonna do all that and then 379 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.119 get the donut and then Blue fall in the trash. But I didn't. 380 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:22.000 I was just waiting and you can and you got my ass. You got 381 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:27.319 my ass, Justin. And yeah, and Corey saved me because he was 382 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.200 gonna just kill me, Justin. I can't believe he was gonna kill me. 383 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.599 I'm sorry, Susan, But that's okay because you bought me some good 384 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:38.759 nuts. You got me nuts. It has nuts and more nuts and some 385 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:45.680 seeds. Yeah, it's got some little red nuts, the little yelling nuts. 386 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:51.640 Oh wow, we call them nuts where I'm from, so because we 387 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:53.680 just like nuts, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, so that's 388 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:56.200 that's the story. But a lot of people think that I just come here 389 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:03.119 and then Corey went out and bought them them traps. Yeah, is that 390 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:10.359 what they called traps? Man? I ain't seen nothing so inhumane. It's 391 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:15.039 said documentary The Green Mile. You ever see that movie, just Y, 392 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:21.839 Man, My granddaddy was in that movie All jingles. Yeah, it's a 393 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:26.559 good documentary. You know. It shows how people kill us for no reason, 394 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.559 just squish our little guts out, just st all over the place. 395 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:37.720 Yeah. So that kind of scared me, just you know, seeing them 396 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:40.079 traps around. But that's why I'm like, what they trying to do. 397 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:44.799 Like do they I hear record to my oldest family must delivered in the walls. 398 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.200 Humm, no, idiot. I came from the house down the road 399 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:56.960 for I'm a traveler. Yeah. I think there's a song like traveling Man 400 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:02.559 or something, but I'm a woman. Nope. Yeah, the pop singer 401 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:06.880 got one too about traveling, doesn't he. Yeah. I like Bob's her 402 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.079 he used to be on the road with him. Really. No, but 403 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.240 I dream, you know. Sometimes I get in my little mouse wheel and 404 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:17.799 I just run, run, run, run, run, and I pretend 405 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:22.279 that I'm just running out of here. Yeah, you've been out a lot 406 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.279 more lately. Yeah. I like chilling. I like chilling. You guys 407 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.200 got the Christmas lights here? Those are so pretty. Yeah, and you 408 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.279 bought me a new ball. Yep, they'll be here Friday. Oh. 409 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:36.759 I can't wait to heard you talking about it. Maybe it won't be so 410 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.359 heavy, hopefully not the other ball you got. Just it's too big, 411 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.640 it's so healthy. I can't move it. No. I try my little 412 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.000 mouse to ask you. It's skinny up speed, and it just don't move. 413 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.519 No. I think that's Friday like a rat. I think so. 414 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:59.359 I misjudged it or that's what happens when your shop at Walmart. You got 415 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.440 one size. It's all. I had nothing but nice thing to say about 416 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:08.839 Walmart, justin they support recovery, and I support you guys in your recovery. 417 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.119 They do support recovery. I appreciate the second chance of life. But 418 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.279 hey, I gotta get out of here though Mitch's coming. I gotta make 419 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:22.279 sure I drop some voodoos. Yeah, you gotta get my wheel. I 420 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.039 buttered up, you know what I'm saying. But all right, I want 421 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:27.279 to tell Cory he's cool and I appreciate coming on to tell my story of 422 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:33.160 how I came to be at the two seventeen recovery Center. Well think Susan, 423 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.160 all right, that was fun. Yeah, yeah, I heard a 424 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.200 little bit, but it's hard to hear her because she's got to talk like 425 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:42.119 into the microphone. So yes, it was stuff. What was she saying 426 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:45.440 that I heard her say? My name said I something. Yeah, she 427 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.119 said, he screamed like a little girl, dropped up on some chairs. 428 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.880 Maybe he didn't do that, jumped to Mitch's arms. Oh that clearly didn't 429 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:57.119 happen. I think you were feda story. What they call it a tall 430 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:02.640 tale, a tall tail, yeah, to the Tale of Susan. Yeah, 431 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.359 but it was entertaining. Nonetheless, I have fun and recovery only. 432 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.839 Yeah. So we're going to have Recovery Stories Message of Hope Part two on 433 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:17.519 February twenty ninth at the Grand Travers Event Center here in Traverse City, and 434 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:21.839 you are going to be telling a story, yeah, three to five minutes 435 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.480 about what was No. It's weird because, like we took the training Megan 436 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.720 Perry, who's like a bunch of different things. She has a bunch of 437 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:37.039 different titles, but she has this u's like drama therapy, and it really 438 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:42.200 does help you kind of work through some some problems. But we were doing 439 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.480 it yesterday and it's the same training that Adam and I took, and it 440 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.960 pretty much tells you how to take one point in your life during your recovery 441 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.640 journey and just kind of go into more detail about it and just focus on 442 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.440 that one story as opposed to, hey, here's my story for a half 443 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.799 hour or for an hour, you know. And it's it's pretty cool because 444 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:03.279 we all have like a billion stories that we could tell, you know, 445 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.440 I mean, from even being at treatment from the ride away from treatment, 446 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:12.240 you know you laughed at Yeah, yeah, I mean those are all points 447 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:15.200 that you remember, you talk about them, you know, so like to 448 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.599 get them out of your brain and in front of other people. I think 449 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:21.119 it's going to be fun. And Mitch he's going to do it too. 450 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.039 And one thing I said was like, don't write anything down, because that's 451 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.119 what Megan told us. She's like, it's it's making sure it doesn't have 452 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.640 to be perfect, you know, we're just trying to relate to somebody in 453 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.839 the audience to let them know, like, this is a real story and 454 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.079 it's not rehearsed. I mean it is rehearsed, but it's not like written 455 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:40.759 down on a piece of paper and you're not pretty much reading it, you 456 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:42.079 know, from memory. It's just like, hey, this is what happened, 457 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:47.200 and it will change every single time you tell it. Mitch's writing it 458 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:48.480 down. I'm like, dude, you can't do. I've been working on 459 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:55.400 mine with detecs like over there to go speak about how it came to about 460 00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:02.599 to recovery and my little entry journey and it yeah, just more details. 461 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.720 Yeah, it's funny because when you started telling yours, like we gave you 462 00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:11.599 three minutes and then you told it like a minute and a half, so 463 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.559 we just waited and then it's like, okay, now you get a minute 464 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.279 to tell it because that's how we had to do it, and you finished 465 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.240 in twenty seconds. It's like okay, Like that's not ye. I wasn't 466 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:27.039 given a lot of detail as is hitting like key factors with no detail. 467 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.559 There was no like set in the mood. You're going to feel what I 468 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.960 was feeling at that time because I wasn't telling you right, I was leaving 469 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.799 you clueless. Yeah, but the more you'll think about it, the more 470 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:41.880 you go into detail, the more you tell it, and then you know, 471 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.759 we'll give you two minutes to tell it, and then we'll go back 472 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.279 to you know, three minutes and then you get to tell your whole thing 473 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.000 and see if you can get it in there. But I think it's going 474 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.240 to be really good. Adam and I are going to tell a story as 475 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.039 well. Nice And then there's a couple of people I'm thinking about asking, 476 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.759 but I got to get the nomination for him up at two seventeen recovery dot 477 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:07.119 com because we're asking people to nominate people they know in the area that would 478 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.440 be a good speaker that would want to tell the message part of it because 479 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.680 it's recovery stories, message of hope part two. Like the recovery stories is 480 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.200 what we're doing and then the message of hope is that that whole part. 481 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:24.400 Yeah, you know, And I'm actually finishing the video from the first one 482 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:28.759 we did. I put the recovery stories out there as individual ones, the 483 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.400 four that we did with Lenny Kendro and myself and Adam which on our website 484 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:37.519 two seventeen recovery dot com. So feel free go check those out if you 485 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.720 need to be inspired by something. But I'm want to put the whole thing 486 00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.359 together as like a whole movie. And I'm hoping we can show it next 487 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:47.720 week at stream at Center here in town. That would be awesome and go 488 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:51.599 over there and be like, hey, we want to do like a world 489 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:57.920 premiere here with you guys. But that stuff's cool though, and then that's 490 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.480 fun and recovery. That's the stuff that we do and that's what we are 491 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:02.480 looking forward to. And I know people were looking forward to the second one 492 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.400 so like it was a big hit, Like I heard about it all over 493 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.960 the place. Yeah, and for a couple of knuckleheads like us. One 494 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.680 of us can't even buy suit of fed nor. I don't like to come 495 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:17.000 up with this kind of stuff and to do it and to put it on 496 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:20.839 and to make it happen, you know. And there's a lot of steps 497 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:24.640 involved. But at least we have more time to prepare for this one like 498 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:28.440 that. We'll see when they were probably gonna screw it up even more. 499 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:35.319 I'm sure the more time you had to prepare. I'm kind of a last 500 00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:38.640 minute guy. Yeah, I think we should be doing this a week before 501 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.119 Christmas. We should maile lot some Christmas cards. Let's design them. Yeah, 502 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:49.839 let's design them. Don't get pretty uh adhesive envelopes. You guys gotta 503 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:55.240 look them all. Hey see, you can take a rag and just that's 504 00:33:55.319 --> 00:34:00.839 pain. It was easier just to look them all. That's gonna be a 505 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.160 drop. I hope. It's easier just to lick them all. I hope. 506 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:09.400 So it's gonna bust them out. He's talking about his blogs and the 507 00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:15.000 open but yeah, but they but it gets done, and we feel good 508 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.920 when things get done. I mean, Mitch was saying he became a notary 509 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.000 and he's going through those steps to become a public notary. Yeah, and 510 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.639 that was one of his goals back last June, right after we open. 511 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.599 He talked about it and then just put it on the back burner. Put 512 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:37.639 it on the back burner and kept reminding him of it, but just never 513 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.840 materialized until here recently is like, oh, yeah, I should probably do 514 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.639 that. I said I was going to do it, and I need to 515 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.519 stick to that commitment. Yeah. It feels good when you finish things, 516 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:52.440 and even if you think about something as simple as doing laundry or mowing your 517 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.280 yard, you know, like when you're done with that task, you feel 518 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.320 good. You know, your brain releases some of that dope. Meine, 519 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.599 Yeah, that's what it's about, you know, finishing things and giving people 520 00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:08.800 opportunities. So we're gonna have volunteer opportunities for sure, And like I said, 521 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:12.320 the nomination form will be up on the website. Not sure when you're 522 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.079 hearing this podcast, but look at two seventeen recovery dot com. If you 523 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.800 know somebody, or if you're in the Travis Heary area, just stop on 524 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:22.239 by our office nine forty five East eighth Street, Travers City, Michigan. 525 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.920 You can find us on Google as well. Come by we got nomination forms 526 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:31.480 and get those to me and then we'll start calling people and seeing their down. 527 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:37.079 Yeah, for sure, but I'm looking forward to it. Well, 528 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.880 justin thanks for coming on to a bitch about the government and chat with Susan 529 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.119 for a minute. That was nice. Yeah, I appreciate it, and 530 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:50.760 I'll talk to you again all right the time of our choosing later. Thanks 531 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:57.239 for listening to the two seventeen Recovery podcasts. Win a bunch of free from 532 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:05.199 to seventeen recovery. Go to the on the website two seventeen Recovery dot com.