It's the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. If you kind of look
deeper at the situation, you know, which I'm sure you will, because
everything that we go through is an experience that we learned from. And Justin
Burke, I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. You'll
be talking to someone and I'll just come in and sit at my desk and
just bust one out real quick. It is the third of January twenty twenty
four, almost that twenty three, but I'm going to do it. It
is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast from the North Studio and Justin Burke is joining
me. How are you justin fabulous? Are you fabulous though compared to this
morning? Yes, I am doing much better, okay, because you're you're
feeling a little better, looking a little better. But this morning, man,
it looked like you might have had some COVID four. Yeah I felt
like it. Yeah. I think I had a little COVID five point oh
last week or a couple weeks ago, right week before Christmas, because like
one thing, when I had COVID the first two times that my wife Martie,
I love you to death, gave me because she got it from her
work, I think, and then they gave it to me, So I
appreciate that. And one thing I noticed, man, is I would have
walked down a flight of stairs and just be out of breath like now walking
up, just walking down. And I had the same out of breathless after
walking up some stairs at the crib the other day, and I was like,
man, and gd COVID five point oh got my ass and I tested
myself for COVID, but it was that stuff that Biden sent out, which
was like leftover from Trump's so it wasn't even working. Like I didn't pick
up my COVID five point zho and think about it. We were talking about
it yesterday because we were all like, man, we all felt like crap.
We all had this thing. One of the signs of having COVID was
they would take your temperature right yeah, before you walk in anywhere, like
let me get your temperature, and you'd be like, okay, Well,
if I was gonna make three point oh four point oh five point oh COVID,
I would make sure that it was undetectable. So I would be in
the little lab with my little beakers and I'd be likeop, boop, little
aspirin in there, boop, little aspirin in there then and then send it
out. That's what I would do. That's what I would do if I
was like an evil chemist. So it deflates the fever. Yeah, so
that way, boom, there's no way to detect it. And then boom
they're a little stupid little Pfizer tests. They don't work. No more boom.
Now what back to another pandemic? Mm hmm. COVID money is two
point zero Mmm. Well see they said they you can do no more COVID
moneys. Yeah. And the only reason why they did COVID money was because
the rich people wanted us to pay them rent exactly. And the banks want
they money, and they all want they money. It's all about money.
Justin once you found out today, Yeah, because you took your little happy
ass, because I told you it was like, hey, man, go
up to that store that sells the drugs over there, the red w want
to go to them they sell Okay, go in there, get you some.
You have to get that stuff that you have to take to the counter,
because that's the stuff that you need and that's gonna make you feel better.
It's gonna like open up your sinuses and you know, do that good's
good on your face, face and your headhead. So you go up in
there and you follow your boys directions and you go in there, and what
happened justin So I go in there and all the good stuff is behind the
counter now, which I guess it has been for a couple of years.
So I tell them what's going on. I'm like, you know, I
just need some really good decongestion to relieve this sinus panem in and she goes,
so, what one do you want? We have multiples. I was
like, just give me a basic, twelve hour one, cheap one,
you know, I don't need a big pack, nothing elaborate. And she
goes, okay, she brings up to the counter scans it rings it in.
Oh I need to see your ID scans. My idea says got yo,
Eh, you've exceeded your daily limit of this medication. And I'm like,
I don't even buy this. How can I exceed it? We'll let
me check again. Comes back says the same thing, got all your asses.
I was so heartbroken at that moment. Wow, because see you in
your previous life that you were living at hardcore gangster shit you got had going
on. You use methamphetamines, yeah, and that was one of your charges.
It's possession of it. Yeah, possession of meth fetamines less than twenty
five grams. You've never made it, no, never try to make it.
Nope and boom, now you're blackbald from getting the medicine. Yep,
So no suitor fed for me. Yeah, well no, you still got
it because you know a guy who knows a guy who can go get it.
Yeah. But me, I just can't go to the counter and purchase
it myself, right, don't even know how to make it. It's a
kitty litter and some a bunch of other crap you don't want to know about.
But that's what I've heard anyway. But yeah, Like, and I
think they've moved away from the Suda fed thing a long time ago. Maybe
maybe not, I don't know, but it's kind of messed up. And
Marnie came in the office and saw the suit of fed on my desk,
allegedly was on my desk, and she's like, you better hide that.
I was like, I know, and I kind of told her about your
situation. And I was like, you know, that's kind of messed up.
You know, that'd be like saying if someone gets a drunk driving that
I can never go buy alcohol again. It should be the same across the
board. Oh, it would save so many lives. It would save the
person who's having a problem, it would save their life. It would save
people from being in accidents, crashes, it's called them. But that's that's
asi, that's that's cool because because it gets text, the government's making too
much money off it, right, because the government makes money off it when
it's made. They make money off it when it's sold, They make money
off it when you get arrested, They make money off it when people die.
Yeah, all wrong, it's still some money maker. They make money
off it. Where as you, you dirty meth guy, Nope, Nope,
you just can't have access to that. You know. I could see
if I was still on probation or something, I wouldn't be allowed to have
it. Well, I'm not on probation, you know. I got off
early for role model behaviors what they called it. I was working at a
treatment center, just doing good for myself, and here I am still getting
kicked in the shin like you just can't have this six days away from your
four years. Yeah, that's that's nope, you can't buy it. And
some people would say, well, no, that's not the same with all
Corey, that's not the same. You know, they would they would have
to stop you from making alcohol, right, Well, they would do that
too, you know, like if you could just go to the store and
buy some meth, then you caught some charges. Okay, now you can't
buy a meth anymore, but now you still can't go out and buy su
fed, so they would still make it. But alcohol, you can make
potatoes, like I mean, pretty much anything. Yeah, it's so it
would be very very hard, and he starts any sugar to stop someone from
making it. But you know, it's it's one of those things, man,
that really makes you kind of raise your eyebrow. You know, there
was a guy in Michigan or a lady or whoever in Michigan. Somebody just
want the lottery. That lotto got that lot of money and it's like eight
hundred million or something, and if they want to just take the lump sum,
it's four hundred million. So just keep track of the missing millions,
Okay, so eight hundred million, that's the that's the jackpot of all the
people that put in the money, and goes up to here eight hundred million.
Okay, Now, if you take the cash option, which you give
you right away, half so they just took half just by you wanting your
money today, the money that you won, you wanting it today, you're
only going to get half of it. And then you still got to pay
taxes on them. Yeah, so you're really only going to get maybe maybe
two hundred million if you're lucky. So where's the six hundred million going?
Who knows? State? It's not fixing roads, schools aren't getting better.
No, I think I could fix a lot of schools with six hundred million
dollars. That's just the one lottery. That's just the one, right.
How many others went down, you know? And some people say, oh,
you got to split that money with other states, and blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. The state's getting a cut, man, They're getting
get cut every time you buy a ticket, and every time they tell you
it's going to the schools, it's going to the roads. I'm tired of
that shit, and I'm tired of politicians half assed and shit just so that
they can have jobs later. It's like the roads. I'm tired, tired,
and I know people in Michigan you're tired too, tired of the f
in construction all the f in time. Do you know that they could fix
the roads where they wouldn't have to touch them again for like sixty years,
But they don't because they're like, that's great jobs. How about we give
better jobs to people? And how many time you pass a construction site somebody
just standing on a sign, you think that person feels like really like like
he has a purpose in life. No, no, no, he's probably
got an addiction. Who knows. I'm not going that far with it,
but I'm just saying, like, that job sucks, and I'll just say
it right now. I don't care if they're getting thirty dollars an hour and
standing there holding the fucking slow sign with a little walkie talking. Okay,
I'm sorry, your job sucks. Everybody just mean mugging you on the way.
No, why don't we just fix the damn roads? Like for real.
I'm not even mentioning the governor's name because she's not worth it to me,
but her little thing was fixed the down road. No, but really
fix them, yeah, you know, put hey, you know what,
put a little heater in them. You know, they got that technology too.
Make sure there's no ice, you know, like, do it really
good, and them people will be having jobs because we're fixing all the damn
roads, not just the highway. We'll just fix them all. We're actually
going to create more jobs. And then sixty years we'll do it again.
You know. But instead they half assid they get these horrible companies to do
it, to bid whoever BID's the lowest, highest, whoever knows who in
office or whoever does this, and that they're the ones who get it.
And it just drives me nuts. Man. I'm just fing tired of it.
It's just like the whole system is just to just to screw people over.
Man. Would you hear about their row construction plan for next year for
Travers City. No, they're shutting down Parkway m for like all summer,
separate during cherry Fest. Do redo it, don't come to Traverse City.
I don't think it's the Human Rights Commissioner. I'm allowed to say that,
but I don't really care. I really don't you know, like the construction
here is just gonna be horrible. Man, the roads of traffic in the
summer is just a nightmare. Yep, it's not fun. And then to
back it up even more and reroute it to all the side streets. Yeah.
I feel sorry for those residents who pay less than taxes to not deal
with the traffic, and now they're going to deal with traffic. Also be
working from home, dog, Oh yeah, you have to go in the
traffic and drive people into places, unfortunately. But I enjoy my job though.
Yeah, and let's talk positive stuff. It's very rewarding. Yes.
Oh, we forgot to mention in at the beginning of the podcast. We
have a very special guest who wants to make an appearance today. But I
don't have the other third microphone hooked up, so I'm gonna actually let all
right, the person used my microphone. Doesn't look like they're coming in here
just yet, but when they do, I'll just have to, you know,
scooch out of the way and let them talk. They wanted to talk
about a misconception or something like. I don't I don't even know what they
were talking about, but we'll know very soon. But yes, your job,
you do love it and you help people. And we just got some
coins that we ordered, that's what they say in America ordered, and we
thought it'd be a great idea because we could put our website on there and
a lot of times you hands won a business card. It can go in
a pocket and then right into the trash, you know, when they need
it, they're like, oh damn, you know, I really wanted to
call them, but there's so many resources at two seventeen recovery dot com that
we're just like, hey, we'll give them a coin, which is pretty
cool. Yeah, and it has a map of Michigan on it, and
it has like a star where we are in Traverse City, and then it
has fun and recovery because that's what we're about exactly, and bitching about the
government. Yeah, but that was too long to put on the coin.
But then yeah, it has our website on at two seventeen recovery dot com.
So we're like, man, we'll give that out and to give it
to people like when they get out of treatment, you know, when we
take them home, you know, like give them a little pep talk and
you know, do what we do with our recovery, coaching, training and
all that that jazz, and then sometimes even one around the way to treatment
if we can tell the person's like sad and feeling shame and guilt, because
there's a lot of that that goes on, but like to incorporate into like
our at least that's what I did when I would drive people. You know,
it's just like try to get a moving forward, trying to get their
brain moving forward to like what's next, you know, like the stuff in
the past, the stuff that you've told your mom or family or girlfriend,
your wife, whatever. You can't change that, but you can change it
right now moving forward with what you do, you know, and then give
them a coin and be like, hey man, your journey starts now,
you know, Like remember to have fun and recovery and if you ever need
anything, there's a website. I actually talk to the client I took today
about that because he was going back to treatment, and he said something about
having to rebuild relationships and takes time. I was like, yeah, sometimes
it does take time. It was this Christmas marks like nineteen twenty years since
I have been at my aunt's house during Christmas time. A lot of it
was probably due to my own addiction, maybe my smart little mouth when I
was younger, but you know, I mean it all wraps into each other.
You know. I put a lot of negative energy out there, and
you know it took time. You know, Like you said, I'm almost
four years sober and I finally just got invited back, you know, so
it feels great to finally get those relationships back. My uncle ashtu to talk
to me about my job when I was at his house. I actually took
a caring note to what I was actually doing with my life, which was
absolutely amazing. You know, Normally he just says hi, by see you
later, and I didn't get that response. It's nice. Yeah, it
feels good. It did and people can get that. And I know a
lot of people out there are struggling. It's hard. I don't want to
do it. I don't know what to do. I've done this before and
had a guy tell me that yesterday when I went to the detox to talk
and he's like, yeah, man, but I've been this and I've tried
that. I was like, apparently you didn't try everything, Like there's something
in there. And this is what hit me at one point was the relationship
with my father, like I had to. I had to repair that,
had confront it. I had to understand it from his point of view,
you know, Like I remember like a mean text that I had sent him
one of the last times I talked to him before I went years when I'm
talking to him and I was like, dude, how could you have because
I at that time no children. Now I got a baby boy on the
way and they can't wait. Yeah yeah, but at that time, no
children, no marriage. Thought I was going to die drunk, and I
thought, how are you going to have two sons? And you just walked
away from us? You know. That was one of the things I told
him, you know, but I had to understand, and I had to
talk to him as an adult, as a man, not as a drunk,
not reacting to situations, but just like, help me understand that,
yeah, you know, to his side of the story. And he could
have been like f off and I would have been like, all right,
cool, you know, but but to hear you know, yeah, like
you said, his side of the story. Now, does that make it
right? Does that heal all the wounds? No? But it can help
me move forward. And one of the letters that I wrote him was like,
I don't know if we're going to have a father son relationship. I
don't know if we're just going to text each other and say, hey,
what's up. Have birthday? I have no idea what we're going to do,
but I would like some sort of relationship with you. You know,
you are my father and whatever happened to happen. But just like all the
dumb shit I did in the past, I can't change that. And he's
not perfect either. He's a human. Yeah, we're all human. So
you know, how about a little forgiveness and how about a little understanding and
then to move forward. Whether his reason to me was legit or not,
you know, that doesn't matter. But the fact that I had to face
it and confront it and that really helped me move forward with my recovery,
I believe, because there was something in there that was keeping me stuck.
And probably some of here trauma too, yeah, the abandonment issues, you
know, to feel like I never really had a dad. My stepdad's great,
but he's not that dad. He's not you know, my father,
my biological father, you know, And to have that bond with somebody,
you know, I just feel like I missed something. But now, like
I said, I can set it up moving forward with this. This is
what I have now, and when my son is born, I can do
my damnedest to make sure that I'm there for him. You know, in
the perfect world, i'd sit here and be like, oh, yeah,
Martie and I we're gonna die together at one hundred and forty five years old.
Sounds good old, But you never know, you know, you never
know what's going to happen. And she could be like, where, I'm
tired of your ass, get out, Like, no, I got right
married. You're getting rid of me that easy? But but no, you
know, it's like, but I want to be there for my son,
and I want to, you know, do things with my son, and
I don't know, I just can't wait, you know, to get in
there and change diapers and just watch a little person grow up. That's so
yeah. I enjoyed it. You know. When I first got sober,
I was like, you know, I'd like to have another one, to
be able to do it all over again, do it the right way this
time, and then, like, I don't know, within like the past
year or so, I was like maybe not like my daughter's thirteen. Now,
maybe I don't want to be tied back down. You know, I'm
not saying that you're never not tied down after they turn Eighteen's ridiculous because they're
still gonna need you. They're still gonna need stuff. But you know,
they're typically not living in your home. They moved on to college trying to
become a person themselves, and you're still trying to guide him. Or they're
living at home with a couple of kids. Maybe never know, Grandpa justin,
oh triplets, don't put that on me. He had to see his
face. It just is like his jaw dropped and he's like the fear look
of fear was on his face. But speaking of fear, we do have
our guests. We're gonna welcome in and she's been on the podcast before you
maybe you'll recognize her, maybe not, but I'm gonna get out of the
way and make way for our guest, Susan. Welcome Susan. Everybody.
How you doing today, Susan ain't justin? What's up? J dog?
Amen? How are you doing? A little suit of fed not buying and
effort? You got jokes? Then I'm going fabulous? Yeah, hell of
jokes. But now, man, i'm'a here cause I want to clear the
air. I heard some speculating going on by my existence in the two seventeen
recovery center. Yeah, how's that? Yeah, well you were kind of
here the day that I will hell you call my ass? You got me
any Corny? He said, come here, little mouse, I'm gonna squish
your little guts out. And ain't Corey saved me? He said, justin,
just put him in the trash can. I'm gonna go get it.
Get a little house for the mouse. Yeah. Yeah, I love Cory.
He's pretty cool. But when I showed up here, y'all thought I
was living in your walls or something, right, Yeah yeah, I said,
uh, wasn't your white idiots? You fat white guys and cracked me
up. Yeah. So what happened was how I got caught was I came
cause I was tired of living where I was living. See. So what
I did justin is I saw this lady. She had this like big old
bag that she didn't use for gym stuff, but she just took it with
her wherever she went. And I was only like six days old, and
I seen her take this bag everywhere, and she come back to me with
good like food and nuts. So I said, I'm gonna get up in
that bag and I'm gonna go see where these food and nuts is. So
I creeped in that bag, I got down rich fo me myself lived anymouse,
and then then I hid and then I hid, and then there was
some big loud mur I think that's what they called the bus. So I
knew I was going places right because I was on the bus. That's when
you know you made it. So I get up in here and I start
smelling good stuff and nuts and I jump out that MFM bag and then I
just hid in the corner. And then I waited for everybody to leave because
they was talking about recovery and all kinds of stuff for like an hour,
and I said, how long I waited in that corner? And then that
uh one fat oh Cory, Yeah, the fat white guy, he came
in and he was looking for something. They was trying to fix a camera
or something, and he said, oh my god, he screamed, my
good girls up here. Then really there's a mouse, Mitch hell. And
then big Mitch comes in. I'm like, oh, they get bigger,
So that, my guy, this is nuts, And so I ran kind
of across the table underneath it, and I ran back around it, and
then Corey and Mitch just standing there looking all stupid, and Cory come out,
well, we gotta catch it. And by we, I mean you,
Mitch. I knew if it's just on Mitchie Corey, I'm getting past
these fools. You know. Cory's all scared, trying to stand on a
chair, just pointing and shit. And then Mitch goes, oh, I
got an idea. So he goes and he gets his bowl, not like
a bowl, but like you know, if you like went home, I
had some sketty tonight and then you have some stuff that like just you didn't
eat, so you want to keep it for tomorrow, so you put it
one of them bowls. It was a bowl like that. I think some
caught like a little tough ware dishes, you know what I'm saying. So
that's what he grabbed, and I'm like, what the hell you gonna do
with that? So then Cory says, no, no, you need a
bowl, So he grabs like a candy dish or something. And I thought
this up be cool to do, like a halfpipe one you know, like
if you're in the escape, you know I'm talking about. So I said,
well, shit, I ran behind the door, and ain't Corey's like,
I got it this way. And then Mitch gets on the other side
of the door inside of the room, and he's just like leaning down trying
to eat me or something, and I says, it's time to do some
tricks. Shall So I ran out and I hit that bowl and I ran
up and almost did like a like a three sixty, and I shine backking
Corey's office and that smells good in there, and I was under the couch
just chilling, and ain't Corey come in screaming talking about kim me in off.
It's bad. I don't even like Mice. I'm afraid Mitch saved me.
And then he jumped in Mitch's arms and Mitchell was like, hold,
I'm saying it's gonna be o k boss man. We gonna get that outside
of here. And I got an idea, and so Corry said, please
Mitch put me down. He's scaring me. So Cordy got down, moved
the couch and I was like, all right, well, I'm not gonna
mess with Cory because he seemed like a cool dude. So I shot out
of Cory's office and then I went back in the little room that I smelled
all that goot food in, and then I said, well, I start
threw my wine be in. So then Mitch at used to making noises like
sauce or hot sauce. I don't know what he was saying. So I
said, okay, I'm a run back. So I went in and you
aren't AM's office. I skeezed under the door and then Mitch comes up.
We was just playing this and the dumbest white man crap I'd ever seen in
my life. He built. He had a chair, then he had chipped
over and then he put like like a yard stick on it, like I
was supposed to crawl up this chair and then like scooter loongless stick to get
this fo they old donut. I don't even like donuts, justin I like
nuts, So I was like whatever, Like this dude must be tripping.
I just sat in the corner. Washington put it all together. Then it
wasn't an idiot, and he thought I was gonna do all that and then
get the donut and then Blue fall in the trash. But I didn't.
I was just waiting and you can and you got my ass. You got
my ass, Justin. And yeah, and Corey saved me because he was
gonna just kill me, Justin. I can't believe he was gonna kill me.
I'm sorry, Susan, But that's okay because you bought me some good
nuts. You got me nuts. It has nuts and more nuts and some
seeds. Yeah, it's got some little red nuts, the little yelling nuts.
Oh wow, we call them nuts where I'm from, so because we
just like nuts, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, so that's
that's the story. But a lot of people think that I just come here
and then Corey went out and bought them them traps. Yeah, is that
what they called traps? Man? I ain't seen nothing so inhumane. It's
said documentary The Green Mile. You ever see that movie, just Y,
Man, My granddaddy was in that movie All jingles. Yeah, it's a
good documentary. You know. It shows how people kill us for no reason,
just squish our little guts out, just st all over the place.
Yeah. So that kind of scared me, just you know, seeing them
traps around. But that's why I'm like, what they trying to do.
Like do they I hear record to my oldest family must delivered in the walls.
Humm, no, idiot. I came from the house down the road
for I'm a traveler. Yeah. I think there's a song like traveling Man
or something, but I'm a woman. Nope. Yeah, the pop singer
got one too about traveling, doesn't he. Yeah. I like Bob's her
he used to be on the road with him. Really. No, but
I dream, you know. Sometimes I get in my little mouse wheel and
I just run, run, run, run, run, and I pretend
that I'm just running out of here. Yeah, you've been out a lot
more lately. Yeah. I like chilling. I like chilling. You guys
got the Christmas lights here? Those are so pretty. Yeah, and you
bought me a new ball. Yep, they'll be here Friday. Oh.
I can't wait to heard you talking about it. Maybe it won't be so
heavy, hopefully not the other ball you got. Just it's too big,
it's so healthy. I can't move it. No. I try my little
mouse to ask you. It's skinny up speed, and it just don't move.
No. I think that's Friday like a rat. I think so.
I misjudged it or that's what happens when your shop at Walmart. You got
one size. It's all. I had nothing but nice thing to say about
Walmart, justin they support recovery, and I support you guys in your recovery.
They do support recovery. I appreciate the second chance of life. But
hey, I gotta get out of here though Mitch's coming. I gotta make
sure I drop some voodoos. Yeah, you gotta get my wheel. I
buttered up, you know what I'm saying. But all right, I want
to tell Cory he's cool and I appreciate coming on to tell my story of
how I came to be at the two seventeen recovery Center. Well think Susan,
all right, that was fun. Yeah, yeah, I heard a
little bit, but it's hard to hear her because she's got to talk like
into the microphone. So yes, it was stuff. What was she saying
that I heard her say? My name said I something. Yeah, she
said, he screamed like a little girl, dropped up on some chairs.
Maybe he didn't do that, jumped to Mitch's arms. Oh that clearly didn't
happen. I think you were feda story. What they call it a tall
tale, a tall tail, yeah, to the Tale of Susan. Yeah,
but it was entertaining. Nonetheless, I have fun and recovery only.
Yeah. So we're going to have Recovery Stories Message of Hope Part two on
February twenty ninth at the Grand Travers Event Center here in Traverse City, and
you are going to be telling a story, yeah, three to five minutes
about what was No. It's weird because, like we took the training Megan
Perry, who's like a bunch of different things. She has a bunch of
different titles, but she has this u's like drama therapy, and it really
does help you kind of work through some some problems. But we were doing
it yesterday and it's the same training that Adam and I took, and it
pretty much tells you how to take one point in your life during your recovery
journey and just kind of go into more detail about it and just focus on
that one story as opposed to, hey, here's my story for a half
hour or for an hour, you know. And it's it's pretty cool because
we all have like a billion stories that we could tell, you know,
I mean, from even being at treatment from the ride away from treatment,
you know you laughed at Yeah, yeah, I mean those are all points
that you remember, you talk about them, you know, so like to
get them out of your brain and in front of other people. I think
it's going to be fun. And Mitch he's going to do it too.
And one thing I said was like, don't write anything down, because that's
what Megan told us. She's like, it's it's making sure it doesn't have
to be perfect, you know, we're just trying to relate to somebody in
the audience to let them know, like, this is a real story and
it's not rehearsed. I mean it is rehearsed, but it's not like written
down on a piece of paper and you're not pretty much reading it, you
know, from memory. It's just like, hey, this is what happened,
and it will change every single time you tell it. Mitch's writing it
down. I'm like, dude, you can't do. I've been working on
mine with detecs like over there to go speak about how it came to about
to recovery and my little entry journey and it yeah, just more details.
Yeah, it's funny because when you started telling yours, like we gave you
three minutes and then you told it like a minute and a half, so
we just waited and then it's like, okay, now you get a minute
to tell it because that's how we had to do it, and you finished
in twenty seconds. It's like okay, Like that's not ye. I wasn't
given a lot of detail as is hitting like key factors with no detail.
There was no like set in the mood. You're going to feel what I
was feeling at that time because I wasn't telling you right, I was leaving
you clueless. Yeah, but the more you'll think about it, the more
you go into detail, the more you tell it, and then you know,
we'll give you two minutes to tell it, and then we'll go back
to you know, three minutes and then you get to tell your whole thing
and see if you can get it in there. But I think it's going
to be really good. Adam and I are going to tell a story as
well. Nice And then there's a couple of people I'm thinking about asking,
but I got to get the nomination for him up at two seventeen recovery dot
com because we're asking people to nominate people they know in the area that would
be a good speaker that would want to tell the message part of it because
it's recovery stories, message of hope part two. Like the recovery stories is
what we're doing and then the message of hope is that that whole part.
Yeah, you know, And I'm actually finishing the video from the first one
we did. I put the recovery stories out there as individual ones, the
four that we did with Lenny Kendro and myself and Adam which on our website
two seventeen recovery dot com. So feel free go check those out if you
need to be inspired by something. But I'm want to put the whole thing
together as like a whole movie. And I'm hoping we can show it next
week at stream at Center here in town. That would be awesome and go
over there and be like, hey, we want to do like a world
premiere here with you guys. But that stuff's cool though, and then that's
fun and recovery. That's the stuff that we do and that's what we are
looking forward to. And I know people were looking forward to the second one
so like it was a big hit, Like I heard about it all over
the place. Yeah, and for a couple of knuckleheads like us. One
of us can't even buy suit of fed nor. I don't like to come
up with this kind of stuff and to do it and to put it on
and to make it happen, you know. And there's a lot of steps
involved. But at least we have more time to prepare for this one like
that. We'll see when they were probably gonna screw it up even more.
I'm sure the more time you had to prepare. I'm kind of a last
minute guy. Yeah, I think we should be doing this a week before
Christmas. We should maile lot some Christmas cards. Let's design them. Yeah,
let's design them. Don't get pretty uh adhesive envelopes. You guys gotta
look them all. Hey see, you can take a rag and just that's
pain. It was easier just to look them all. That's gonna be a
drop. I hope. It's easier just to lick them all. I hope.
So it's gonna bust them out. He's talking about his blogs and the
open but yeah, but they but it gets done, and we feel good
when things get done. I mean, Mitch was saying he became a notary
and he's going through those steps to become a public notary. Yeah, and
that was one of his goals back last June, right after we open.
He talked about it and then just put it on the back burner. Put
it on the back burner and kept reminding him of it, but just never
materialized until here recently is like, oh, yeah, I should probably do
that. I said I was going to do it, and I need to
stick to that commitment. Yeah. It feels good when you finish things,
and even if you think about something as simple as doing laundry or mowing your
yard, you know, like when you're done with that task, you feel
good. You know, your brain releases some of that dope. Meine,
Yeah, that's what it's about, you know, finishing things and giving people
opportunities. So we're gonna have volunteer opportunities for sure, And like I said,
the nomination form will be up on the website. Not sure when you're
hearing this podcast, but look at two seventeen recovery dot com. If you
know somebody, or if you're in the Travis Heary area, just stop on
by our office nine forty five East eighth Street, Travers City, Michigan.
You can find us on Google as well. Come by we got nomination forms
and get those to me and then we'll start calling people and seeing their down.
Yeah, for sure, but I'm looking forward to it. Well,
justin thanks for coming on to a bitch about the government and chat with Susan
for a minute. That was nice. Yeah, I appreciate it, and
I'll talk to you again all right the time of our choosing later. Thanks
for listening to the two seventeen Recovery podcasts. Win a bunch of free from
to seventeen recovery. Go to the on the website two seventeen Recovery dot com.