WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:07.280 This it's the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. If you kind of 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:09.560 look deeper at the situation, you know, which I'm sure you will, 3 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:12.960 because everything that we go through is an experience that we learned from. And 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.320 Justin Burke, I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. 5 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:20.480 You'll be talking to someone and I'll just come in and set up my desk 6 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:27.440 and just bust one out real quick. Yeah. It is the twentieth of 7 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:33.920 December twenty twenty three. My name is Corey Winfield. What your name is, 8 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:38.079 I'm Justin Burke. Justin Burke. Yes, it is the two seventeen 9 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:43.880 Recovery Podcast. And today is our huge office parties, the first ever office 10 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:50.399 party for the holidays. We call it the Slaying It Christmas Party. Right 11 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:55.240 then it's like some people don't believe in Christmas. Yeah, okay, well 12 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.600 then come and call it a holiday party then whatever. Right, We're doing 13 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.039 meetings like much whenever. Like we had one ra and we're gonna play some 14 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:08.120 games cards and I brought up to Kim who's here, that I want to 15 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:14.640 do the newly Went game really, and she looked at me like mm hmmm. 16 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.760 Because she thought that, oh, because a certain individual might be coming 17 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.640 later, oh, that we were playing this just for that. And I 18 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.519 said, no, no, no, no, no no, it's just 19 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.640 fun to say, like, hey, answer ten questions and then I would 20 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.760 have to answer like, Okay, what did Justin say about his dream car? 21 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:34.120 Of course the questions are going to be way more messed up than that, 22 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.920 but what would Justin say? The answer was, you know, and 23 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.799 you have to match him and it could be pretty fun. Yeah. And 24 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:45.920 then Family Against Narcotics the Traverse City chapter gave us backpacks. Yeah, that 25 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.760 was very pleasant. And in the backpacks they have toilet tries and some basic 26 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.079 supplies for people. And I thought, man, what a great way to 27 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:57.519 let other people give back. So there were a couple people that came for 28 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.560 a meeting earlier and I gave them some backpacks of here, if you need 29 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:07.239 this, this is great use it. If not, find someone to give 30 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.280 this to. And they thought that was pretty cool. They're like, oh 31 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.560 wow, great, and it kind of helps spread the holiday cheer, you 32 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.960 know. So thanks again to Fanises Against Narcotics, the Traverse City chapter, 33 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.360 they said, donated those to us. I think they've been sitting on them. 34 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.719 For a while, and then marched out and said, hey, can 35 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.919 you guys provide those? And they said yeah, absolutely, so good looking 36 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.520 out, What are your plans to do today? Like I let a group 37 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.680 earlier, probably another group, Yeah, what are you gonna You're gonna do 38 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.639 anything crazy for it? I don't know, call it the Reindeer Games group. 39 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:45.719 Yeah, we'll play pictionary. Oh nice, yeah, like Christmas pictionary 40 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:51.759 of course. Okay, nothing X rated. No, no, this is 41 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.400 a treatment center. This is a healing center. Right, that's totally inappropriate. 42 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.400 Yeah. I can't sure I would get an HR violation for that. 43 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.719 Yeah I probably would. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to be pushing it 44 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:08.680 right to the line with the newlywed game. Yeah yeah, fabulous, just 45 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:14.159 letting you know. And earlier this week, I thought I had the covids. 46 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.039 Yeah, it turns out you did it. Yeah. Maybe I'm not 47 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.319 sure yet. I don't know if I did the test right or wrong. 48 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.199 But no, I'm feeling a little bit better today. Marnie suggested that maybe 49 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:29.520 had too much cough syrup. Oh so thought, well maybe so Like yesterday, 50 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.400 I didn't have any of that, But I've been having real bad headaches 51 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:35.560 and sore throat and just all the sinus stuff. And maybe it's just the 52 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.400 science infection. I've been eating moltrom like crazy. You want to talk to 53 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.199 something about it? No, I just felt like the past few days, 54 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:47.680 I got ran over by a mac truck. Dang, Yeah, Justin got 55 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:53.800 ran over by a mack truck. And coming to the Christmas party on the 56 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:00.879 twentieth, they may say that Justin Nerver believes in Santa. I don't really 57 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.879 know what thing I lost the song, Yeah, but we're having fun though. 58 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.879 Today I told the story of when Ryan Beakman did the whole Rednecker than 59 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:12.439 You song. That was hilarious. Yeah, And it's good to hear feedback 60 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.319 from people that actually come to meetings here and how welcome they feel, Yeah, 61 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.680 coming to the two seventeen Recovery Center, And that's what it's about. 62 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.279 We're not trying to replace AA or Ana and everything like that. You know, 63 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.920 there's there's totally those meetings are out there for people to attend. And 64 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.199 you know, I went to AA's and I love a lot of people that 65 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.360 go there, you know, And and that's cool. Whatever works for you 66 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.519 is my motto. Like if it's baking cookies, if that keeps you sober, 67 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.879 then let's have a meeting about baking cookies. Right, Let's help other 68 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:45.000 people stay sober. And that's what it's all about. And the feeling that 69 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.199 the people don't great when they come in here, there's just like wow, 70 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.279 you know, it's clean, it's nice, it's welcoming. You know, 71 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.639 I've heard all these these great things. And I'm like, oh God, 72 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.199 my guys are learning. The staff's doing what they're supposed to. Because what 73 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:58.879 I said, you know, the whole time, I'm just like, look, 74 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.439 wanted to be welcome, want to be warm, want to smell good, 75 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:08.160 and yeah, and just be a clean place where people can come in 76 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.319 and get their recovery on and get some stuff off their chest and you know, 77 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.360 just kind of connect with the community and not feel pressured into doing twelve 78 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.480 steps or anything really like that. And if they want too, sure going 79 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.000 you know, talk all about it. But we're not collecting money for anybody. 80 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:26.040 We're not doing anything like that. It's just a place where you can 81 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.839 come and have good meetings. And of course the list of our meetings are 82 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:30.800 on line at two seventeen recovery dot com. And I was gonna jump on 83 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:36.600 the zoom. But our zoom is actually being used by someone else today. 84 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:47.720 Yeah, who's using our zoom? Take starts? Oh my wife, Marnie. 85 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:50.199 Yeah, she's doing her some wrongs. I was like, oh, 86 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.399 let's get this meeting online, and I was like, oh, no, 87 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.720 there's one going already, so we can't. So I'll have to remind the 88 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.600 other guys that if we do meanings now, we will have a meeting later 89 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.879 mine for sure. But yeah, if you are in the Travers City area, 90 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.079 I want to check out some good times, come on by. You 91 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.279 want to give a backpack away to somebody who might need it, you know, 92 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:14.319 feel free to come by the office. The meeting is called Life and 93 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:20.920 Recovery with Gary. Oh that's a five or six, okay. And then 94 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.600 there's like an art group going on. We're gonna make Christmas cards stuff like 95 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.639 that, and we sent out like one hundred Christmas cards. And I apologize 96 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:32.720 if we sent a Christmas card out and we'd missed you. Sorry, my 97 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:36.399 mom got hers, she laughed. Yeah, we sent them mostly to businesses, 98 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:41.040 but yeah, I just sent one of my mom someone to your mom, 99 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.120 mother in law, stuff like that. Yeah, but mostly there were 100 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.360 like businesses and people that we do, you know, stuff with in relationships 101 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.680 with. But that's like a hundred I was like, wow, yeah, 102 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.120 and that's a lot of places, you know, courts, to other treatment 103 00:06:53.199 --> 00:07:00.439 centers and to just other r CEOs. I had fun look in all one 104 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.800 hundred envelopes. Yes, he did. Let me tell you. I should 105 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.879 have filmed it. We should have. Yeah, but hopefully everybody got their 106 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.519 Christmas cards. They seem to go out really fast. Yeah, they did. 107 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.800 I was kind of surprised. I doesn't joke around with you and on 108 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.680 Monday tell you I forgot to mail them out, and you're like shooting me 109 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:21.519 a text. My mom got a Christmas card already. I'm like, shoot, 110 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.439 I wasn't in play a sick joke, say, oh, we're was 111 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.839 I supposed to mail those cards out on Friday night? Well it's kind of 112 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.600 ironic sort of too, because we sent one to the President of the United 113 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.800 States of America. Yeah, Joe Biden. Yeah, did you hear what 114 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:42.439 happened to him? No, Well, he was at his little campaign headquarters 115 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.519 whatever, him and the wife and they were leaving and they went out and 116 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:47.519 they like, there's video of it, and they're like leaving, and they 117 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.079 go out and they get in their car, and they got like twenty other 118 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.279 cars around there. You know which one is the president in they want to 119 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:59.399 play that game. Well, then all of a sudden, you hear this, 120 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:05.120 this crash. No way, drunk driver crashed into the President's motorcade. 121 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.920 Yeah. So hopefully when old Prez gets the Christmas card we sent him, 122 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.680 he can say, you know what, organizations like these needs to exist. 123 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.160 Yeah, they need to do good, more good, more good for people. 124 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.040 Know what I'm saying. You know what, man, hey man, 125 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:28.360 these people need to do more good for us. Man, you know what 126 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.199 I'm saying, Buddy, that's cool, man, Yeah, all right, 127 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:35.919 buddy. So yeah, I thought that was kind of a coincidence that we 128 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.200 just mailed a card and then like some drunk drivers going to crash into us 129 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.120 motor Kate like, that's a oops, right, big oops. Yeah, 130 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.720 And you know, thank god that this's never happened to me, but could 131 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:54.399 have, right, Yeah, kod me too. There's been multiple times I've 132 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.879 woke up places and like, how did I get here? Don't remember? 133 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.120 How'd you get sober? Well, I crashed in my car and to the 134 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:11.919 President's metricade and I'd interview on five years in prison and right, that's how 135 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.919 I got sober. They're probably writing it up as a terrorist attack. Yeah, 136 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.799 I don't know, because they were saying, like the people I watched 137 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.840 talk about the film or whatever or the video, they were saying that they're 138 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.240 surprised that they just didn't start unloading on the guy, right, because it 139 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.480 seems like that's something that would have happened. Somebody just would have drove in 140 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:37.320 there. It seems like it would have been so he's very lucky. And 141 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.440 then that's kind of crazy that they didn't, Like, I don't know why 142 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.559 they wouldn't have. Yeah, maybe it's with the whole defund the police system. 143 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:50.159 You know, they don't have the ammunition anymore to just spray bullets. 144 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.440 Yeah. Anyway, well this is the first of probably a couple of podcasts. 145 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.480 I always say that, and then we ended up not doing anymore. 146 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.919 But just wanted to kind of kick the day off with it, just a 147 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.320 little light hearted podcast, reminding people that we're having at Christmas party and we'll 148 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.600 probably post videos on our Facebook page or something on our website, so it 149 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.360 would be fun. I just wanted to let everybody know what was going on 150 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.080 and welcome and invite everybody out. So yeah, all right, well, 151 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:24.120 thanks Justin and we'll talk to you later later. Thanks for listening to the 152 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:30.440 two seventeen Recovery Podcast. We hope you come back for our next episode.