This is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. Yeah, it's hard
right now, It's tough, it sucks. You want to call a hole
and die. But this could be the best thing that's ever happened to you.
Justin Burke, then we actould take better care of her than our plants.
Are you're talking about Susan. You're back on that. Yeah, And
Mitchell old Brian. I watered all of the plants, all of them.
It is the twenty seventh of March twenty twenty four. My name is Cory
Winfield, and this is the two seventeen Recovery podcast. Joining me in the
studio, Justin Burke, what up? And Mitchell O'Brien, Hello, get
them plants? All watered up? All watered up. No, he had
a new open for you guys. I liked it at first, but now
I don't. It's time to move on. So give me something in this
episode and I'll use it. There we go. Sometime I I think something,
I hope so cho mode engaged. Speaking of chaos mode, yesterday,
I was a mess, a hot mess. I still feel like I'm a
mess today. Yessterally, I don't know what was going on, man,
getting these twitches in my eye, my right eye just be just twitching.
Stress. And then I was over across the street at Detox yesterday talking to
the people in Detox and giving them some hope inspiration. And I talked to
this woman over there, her name is Marina, and I was in her
office and she has twenty thousand plants in her office. That's accurate amount.
Yeah, yeah, they're everywhere. Like I thought Donald Schwarzenegger was gonna come
out and get down that's behind you. It didn't happen, though. But
what did happen was these bugs started flying around my head like a little gnats.
And she said they're not nats. There flies, But I don't know
what the hell they were. That makes it better? Yeah, I was
like, okay, this is gross. No. And since then I got
back to work yesterday to the office and I just felt them on me.
Man, I'm in here talking to you guys, and I'm swatting my face
and my head and you guys are looking at me like, what is this
dude problem? And you questioned if I had run across maybe a meth yeah
addict, or maybe stumbled across something and touched it and got into my system.
I don't know. And then we're gonna have like a work meeting,
so we were gonna order food for that, and I'm looking on a website
and I'm scrolling down and I'm like, oh, trying to figure out what
pizzas they have. They have their own like specialty pizzas. I'm scrolling down
and I'm like, oh, a Chinese pizza. That sounds horrible because they
got like blt and they have like all these other kinds of like pizzas.
And I just saw that and thought Chinese pizza that that's not even a good
idea, Like that's horrible. And I scrolled down some more and I'm just
like making jokes about it, like who the hell has a Chinese pizza?
Then I scroll back up someone to see it again because maybe it is delicious,
and then I realize it doesn't even say Chinese. It says cheese.
That's pretty standard pizza, Like what in the hell, man, And between
like smacking myself in the face and thinking there's bugs in my ear in the
whole Chinese pizza incident, I mean, it was just it's been a mess,
man. And then today, like puting to work I'm like, all
right, I'm gonna work on stuff today. I got a list of things
and dude, get them done. And that goes out the window real quick,
and I just can't focus anything. And then our friend Nancy calls us
and she's like, hey, there's a guy from the news station and wants
to come and do a story on whatever. It's like, sure, send
him over. So I'm gonna be on the news today. I don't even
know what I was talking about. Some all stupid stuff, just stupid.
These are repeating the same sentence over and over. The guys looking at me.
I'm like, I know, man, this sucks. Finally, I
was like, just like, do the rest of us off the record?
Words English not work today. He's nice, here's a nice guy. Yeah
yeah. He said he's got a few years, like twenty three, that
he didn't put alcohol in his body. Yeah. Wow. So I was
like, good for him. Yeah I heard him say that, which was
cool. Yeah. I was like, I don't know if you got out
of control, but I don't think he did. I think he just was
like, nothing ever good happened to me when I was drinking, So why
am I drinking? Still? Yeah? Not sure what his story is.
But that will happen. When you stop drinking, stop using drugs, you
realize your life does get better and you feel better, absolutely, And some
people don't agree with that. They're like, no, man, I like
being high. I like being messed up. No you don't. Well,
you like it because that's all you know. When you run out, you
freak out, and you have to it's a cycle that you have to keep
going to get it, going to use, going to drink, going to
do whatever. And it gets old real quick, and we're not drinking at
the fun at least at the end. For me, I wasn't using for
fun. I wasn't using because it made me happy. I was using to
escape, you know. And what was I escaping all everything? I didn't
want to deal with anything. I didn't want to feel anything. And you
know, self pity having those little parties, they were the best when I
had them by myself with alcohol. Those those were the best pity parties I
could ever have. And my brain, I blame everybody else is this is
so and So's fault, This is their fault. It was It was alcohol's
fault. And those situations, most of them occurred because of alcohol, if
not all of them. So yeah, having something to go after is a
beautiful thing. But yesterday, I don't know you were going after them.
Fi. Man. Today it's been a little bit better. But man,
yesterday then I had to put like a bookshelf together for the baby. So
I put that together. Why you didn't do the one here? Yeah,
just to do that because I was like, man, I don't know how
good this is going to be. I'm looking at Marty, and Martie's like,
all right, well let me just let me just put most of it
together. Then I said, okay, so your bookshelf didn't require a hammer,
no mind, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mitch came in earlier.
I think we were talking about your voiceover for your podcast, or we're about
to, and I still have a question about that. That's why I guess
coming here, I just I just hear this hammer going to town, and
it occurs to me that I've now I've been hearing this hammer for a minute
now, but it just occurred to me that Justin's out there putting this bookshelf
together with a hammer, and I've put together a desk, a crib,
like a bunch of different things in the last week, and a half,
not one time that I use a hammer, and so I'm looking at it
just occurred to me like, wait, I'm pretty sure what Justin's putting together
out there does not require a hammer. For people who don't know you personally,
it's pretty easy to read on your face certain expressions and what you're thinking.
Oh yeah, I'm told you looked at me and I'm like, oh
yeah, I guess I don't know why there's a hammer. You need to
say anything because you're like, what, want to be fair, Like your
but case that you have here in your office that you fill with cameras has
a groove that you side the backing into. This one did not, So
it required nails. I know that. I mean eventually we did find that
out, Like Justin, what are you there hammering away at? You know?
And you came in a lot of breath and ship I was a little
sweaty. You just had to bend over to do it. It was hot.
Puts up like are you using a hammer? Yeah? Because it has
these little nails. Wasn't that bad? Exaggerating lasted fifteen minutes. I was
like, we just start going for walks. I was like, we all
can just go around and we're like, look, we're all over weight,
we're all fat, whatever you want to call it. You know, people
are like, oh fat, shame yourself. Okay, but we're all out
of shape, you know, and we should take an hour just go walk
around the block some Yeah, you know, close this baby down for an
hour. I think that'd be really productive because we would feel better. And
then when Justin has to put together a bookcase, he's not coming in here.
I think I found out that it was either two or maybe three traverse
city blocks. I don't know if they're different in different areas, but two
or three. If you go around, it's one mile. Figured that out
a couple of years ago. So we just half it at first. We
just go halfway, then we come back walk to get a mile or do
you just finish it? No, it's like if you go around. So
I think it's like if you have a two blocks, you walk the rectangle
and that's one mile. I'm pretty sure. So if we just would to
walk a quarter of the rectangle, it would be half a quarter half mile.
You have to get all the way. Well, yeah, I guess
if you walked up a quarter and back, yeah, it would be a
quarter of a mile. It would be half a mile, half a mile.
It would be smaller than a half because you got your two little it
would be like a third of a mile. You don't pay me to do
math here, man, like a third of a mile. I'm pretty sure
it would be half a mile. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well a
little less because you got multiple like like I can see you guys started like
the stuff moving in your brain, you know, the brain mageology. Yeah,
what we were talking about earlier. I was like, justin it's called
science. I can't remember what it was. Oh was it the fat person
belt? Yeah? I found this best belt, and man, I should
have bought it a long time ago because as a fat person. Again not
shaming myself, I'm just saying, as people would say, there's body fat
on my body. That is fat. That's what we are. Yeah,
So when we wear a belt, it's a pain, not an ass,
but in a gut because there's a belt buckle. It don't matter how small
belt buckle you have, it doesn't matter. It's going to rub into your
shit. So it's very irritating and we don't like to wear belts. And
I found this belt that it just clips onto your or snaps on whatever you
want to call it, to your belt loop and it goes around, so
it leaves the front empty. But it's yeah, it hooks around. And
I'm sure other people know how I'm talking about, but this is I think
I've seen him a long time ago. I know I have, but to
actually buy them for myself for the first time, and I'm wearing pants that
I wouldn't need a belt, and I threw that on this morning game changer.
I know I went and bought one too, So I'm dealing with that
that front the front discomfort right now. And unless you talk about it,
nobody knows. If I didn't come and say, guys, check out this
belt I got. It's great for fat people, you would have known,
you know, if I just would have been like, oh, I'm not
telling anybody about it. No, I wanted to help everybody. I've seen
those side ones and they just look dumb, like they just kind of pull
your butt, and I'm like, those are just gonna rip my belt loops
off. But then you're like, no, this really works and it's good.
So it's like personal reviews. Yeah, what got me? Told me?
Nobody's paying me. But they should to talk about these belts because I'm
telling you they're not a small game changer. And and justin you were saying
something about I can't remember you were what were you saying? Like you were
trying to dispute them, so they weren't good, which is what he does
when we say anything. No, I didn't say that. I said I've
seen some that are like bel crow and he said, no, these ones
have snaps. Yeah, yeah, but you're saying something else. And I
just remember saying that. It was like, it's just as science. I
think you were trying to figure out how they worked or something there. Well,
well I asked that question because like I have no butt told up like
I have a back and just straight, like you can put a board up
there. There's no indentation or whatever. You know, there's nothing for the
belt to grab a hold of. And you're like, I was like,
so how does it work if you like have that problem? Like it's science.
It just works. So he has to use that double stick titty tape
that people were at the or shows so they don't slip out. Yeah,
that's why he puts on every single one of his pants every morning. Dang,
stick to his ass. Yeah, it's pains, it is, yeah,
pull him off it hurts. Yeah, have bald spots where there was
what happened here, don't worry about it. Flash back to the four year
old vision and if you want to see a photo of Justin's ass, we
actually have video probably somewhere from the u FAM rally a couple of years ago.
Was putting up the ten or taking it down. I can't remember which
one. I think taking it down and there's just ass crack bam, and
then like people are pointing at it. And I got that on video too,
Like nobody's saying, hey, Justin, you feel that, No,
nobody. Everybody's just laughing, buying his back. You see this little porky
pick tattoo. It's not a porky pig. It tracks, it's just a
pig. Yeah, So there's that the videos on YouTube. Go check it
out here. Really inclined. I just hang around the office long enough.
If he makes coffee or takes the garbage're as, this is how works.
But I gotta be careful too, because you're mine too. But I tried
to try and pull him up as much as possible. Did you get any
of these belts. No, he only uses drawstrings, man, like this
only thing he's had for the last probably four or five months. Yeah,
we just had that discussion, well sort of loss of his damn mine,
I need to bonus. I need to get some work shirts and burn it
editor. And he's got these ones picked out, which I remember buying one
myself and then when they're just horrible, so I sent them back. But
there's some reason I didn't like it. But yeah, I don't know.
And I don't think Work should buy you a belt either, But I think
you should buy these belts. I think you'll like them that way, if
you're you fam This year it was sixteen dollars for two of them. Yeah
you can do this. Sweet you ordered too, so you can gift one.
You spend twice that much on Chinese food, Chinese pizzas, Chinese pizzas.
But if that's the best thing ever lit Maine noodle on there noodle and
some peanut butter chicken. Probably not. It's so stupid Chinese pizza, just
like, oh that does sound gross. It's gotta be some. It's gotta
be somewhere. Somebody has done it somewhere, And I look up oh,
I'm sorry. That wasn't even Chinese cheese. Sorry, guys, I was
like, that's not just the first thing on every single pizza pizza. Yeah,
it looks I came clean. I could have been like, oh ship,
no, that wasn't Chinese. I'm just gonna keep that to myself.
You guys been like, do you guys know that Jets Pizza is a Chinese
Chinese pizza? I'd be looking for it in like a month. Where's the
damn Chinese man like pizza? But I can't like Chinese? You know,
get on jets dot com. Hold on, i'mtna be texting that Chinese pizza.
It was. It was like only like a month thing, just March
they were doing that. What was going on? You call them up like,
hey, what happened that Chinese pizza? You guys had what for Women's
Months or whatever? It was mid from two seventeen recovery. I'm calling about
that Chinese pizza. It's on your website. We saw it. Are you
okay, buddy center? What's going on? I'm gonna talk to somebody.
This isn't the number I think you want to text. Man, we got
cheese pizza. That's closest thing to the Chinese that we got. But okay,
get you want to write up we gotta try that BLT one of these
times. Soy sauce on that some duck sauce bad with you fan rally though
that Justin showed his booty at a few years ago. This coming up again,
and you guys gonna have a big role this year. Yeah, you
guys do want a podcast? I mean I thought that was part of the
plan. We're gonna have to do mobile doing the podcast, do the the
microphones walking around. Yeah, Justin doesn't know how to podcast, so I
get to make him do stuff Justin doesn't mind doing. It's really going to
be busy this year, so, I mean, we don't have the staff
to be able to do everything like we would normally do because normally Marnie's there
to help You're normally the one they're podcasting. We had Mitch last year,
we had Adam Tyrone was with us. Yeah, so like we had substantial
amount of people to help people explain our organization and then still have fun and
then switch, you know throughout the day you're MCing it. This year,
I am so fabulous. That is fabulous. Yeah, so it's just gonna
be me, Mitch and Kim. Well, you're not gonna be up there
the entire time. Yeah, I'm trying to fly my drone a little bit.
Yeah right, I'm gonna do that. And we're gonna have to do
a podcast because last you do what four five of them something like that.
Yeah, I know we had Justin on the last dude buy I want to
buy a shirt classic line. But you can go back to if you want
to go back to Last May, you can go back in our app,
which you can get free from the App Store and Google play Store. But
yeah, go back to Last May May of twenty twenty three, and you
can listen to them. And when Justin at the end of one, this
lady is like, so sincere about was she talking about her family and how
you know she came to terms with it. She was in recovery and she
had a hard time admitting it to herself, going through this whole story,
and then Justin just like, yeah, you want to buy a shirt ten
bucks too? Yeah, so now you have a shirt that's even has the
thing out of that says want to buy a shirt that's on a T shirt.
It was so pro shirt. Yeah, and we had like I fell
out laughing immediately because I was like, you do it just then? So
but that was beautiful. That's that's the fun that that happens when you go
alive with a microphone sometimes and then send a time run out. He couldn't
ask the questions I wanted him to, which was probably tabbed. Oh he
could this last year. He just wouldn't want to ask him. He walked
up to the one person and I was like, hey, tell him you've
been in prison too, you know. He wouldn't do it, Like,
come on, i't tell him that I was wearing all red, wasn't he
Yeah, he walked up to dude. I'm like, hey, tell that
dude was all blue, ask him what gang he's in. He wouldn't do
it. He's just laughing. I wouldn't feel funny. No, I'm not
doing that good times. And then that one chake just came up, grabbed
the mic and just started running around with it. She was oh, yeah,
yeah, I almost forgot about her. It wasn't the same ship chick
that I asked if she wanted to buy a shirt? No, no,
no, no, shoot, what was her name? Oh it's terrible if
we go by the podcast were having on there. Let's let me pull it
up here. Pulled up on the old phone. I got new mail from
JP. I don't think so. Someone in prisons writing me. I keep
up with my peeps like that podcast. Cool story, bro, Olivia,
I'm a pom pulling up on the app Whitney go back to May Whitney.
Okay, d m X do it for the kids. That's trick, he
says it too. I have the song on my playlist. Trick does it?
Put do it for the kids? Look back at you fam live with
Lifeboat at Upham. Those guys are one live from U FAM for Joseph Salmac.
They call apparent. They're like, let's know, from Lifeboat and I'm
like, yeah, so I don't know like you guys, just like yeah,
I don't Noah. I was like, oh, oh cool, Well,
brother's name like Christian or something like that. Christian I remember from doing
the doing the podcast. But he didn't say like, hey, it's Noel
from Lifeboat. We're the guy who did the podcast and you family, and
I would have been like, oh, it was like no one from Lifeboat,
Like I don't know you bro, missed your cough signal there. Yeah,
I think justin want to talk to Noah and sort of asking him about
this or what's what's wrong with your mustacher? Not like you said something about
beard now it just says the first timer takes the mic and doesn't say her
name. For sure. I think you're pretty close with that. Yeah,
anyway, find out start with me if you're listening. We're sorry. We
could play it, could we We could A long will take to get into
it. I'm pretty good at finding stuff. It times like you're telling me
to find stuff and I don't and he's like, it's right here, right,
and he shows you up and makes you feel like an inch tall.
Yeah, yeah, he loves it. It's one of the tavy things to
do. I don't know it anywhere. Sometimes I can't find things, just
so you can do that for him. I never do this. That's never
happening forever, history of anything. Right, Okay, here we go.
I see you know. I do love this open and it's gonna suck because
iron I mean, maybe we can put them together for this year. But
listen to this open though. This is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast, Live
from the twenty twenty three, you found rally in Lancy, Michigan with Marti
Winfield, Adam Stevens, Mitchell Old Bryan, Justin Burg, Me, Tyrone
Patrick, and your host Corey Winfield. Yeah we're back. Yeah, a
lot of them having fun. Justin had that awkward moment with that woman a
little bit ago and they were just messing around with people and whoa, that's
a little too close staring over your shoulder. Yeah, how you doing?
And if the woman was really going off like saying what she did, and
it was like, right now, what about payball? I'm playing paintball this
weekend at House Survivors. I'm part of the doom platoon. We are than
ask him about payball, about his mustache works? All right? So the
man in the blue shirt over here, we'll start easy with our own guy,
Tyrone. Okay, I'm pretty good. Now you're the wireless I have
to go ask people question the microphone. That's the time you do, hand
it to something back. Definitely, all right, So you get to go
on with Justin or how you just want to be on the microphone somehow,
or what the first podcast you'll ever do. I'm professional, I'm like that
bold, Yeah, stepping out, I won't be on pile. Let's do
this. I've been hearing about it for years, right, all right,
okay, well all right, well I guess justin give her the microphone.
That's the time you do hand it to someone. Okay, So all right,
oh, yes, she can be the well she has the wireless,
so she's the wireless person. Wireless and you have to go ask people questions.
Oh okay, this is how this works. Questions. All right,
So the man in the blue shirt over here, we'll start easy with our
own guy, Tyrone. Okay, okay, go up to him and we'll
tell you what to say. All right, say, hey, excuse me,
Tyrone, Tyrone? How you doing her lab? About you? I've
heard so many things about you. Yeah, yeah, my dad was in
jail with you. I think I think my dad was in jail. I
wasn't jail. What you did? Ask me? I'm glad you've seen hm,
because I haven't. They want enough to make your shirt and man size
with people with muscles and stuff like with like muscles on it, muscles muscle
man over there? Is that? So tell me what my dad was talking
about. Candy on the pillow. They get my hat. Thank you.
They said something about candy and a pillow. Why was my dad always talking
about that? I tried, but it wasn't expecting an answer that. I
wasn't expecting an answer in my head voice. Okay, so let's go something
dangerous now, all right, all right, thank you, I refresh you.
Okay, Yeah, just walk out in the crowd and you can go
up to somebody. If you've got somebody in mind, you can just walk
up to him. But just let us know where you're going. Hey,
what's your name? Ryan? Ryan? Ryan? But hey, did you
see that center fielder fuck that ketch up yesterday? Did you see uh,
the centerfielder. The center fielder fucked that ketchup? He sucked the ketchup yesterday?
Yeah right, No nobody saw it. Oh, I thought you were
a Tiger, saying you weren't a Tiger's jacket, But I didn't see the
game year she got there. It looks good on you at least. Oh
well, the last time he been to a Tiger's game she him probably last
year. I went once, I'm a player. She's going rogue. Yeah,
she's senting bullshit from this guy that you think he's a Cubs fan.
No, what next time you know, you wear a shirt you should know
the team go cups? Knowing the other guys laughing, she called you out,
bro. All right, Oh, ask this lady over here. I
got a question for her, the one that's sitting down right over here.
She's picking her sweatshirt pink? Is it cool that they people are say?
Don't say that. That didn't make any sense. Ask her cool? If
people fly drones here? And ask her if that's what she's doing on her
phone? Excuse me? Is it okay if people fly Jones here? I
don't know. Maybe? Oh I thought you were flying on on your phone.
Oh I thought you were flying them on your phone? Ask her about
Okay? Would you care if we fly Jones are on here? Okay?
So we have her permission, she's the authority. Yeah, I think that's
good. We can blame it on her. You asked for her name then,
so if you get in trouble with say that she told us it was
okay, okay, Angela. So if you fly Jones, we're gonna blame
Angela. Okay, because you gave permission, that shall take responsibility. Great,
guys, she must know Whimer, Thank you so much, Angela,
we need her to get a psychic reading. You want to do a podcast?
Oh yeah, well there's probably a huge line. Right, it's like
four people, four couple. Where's the psychic? It's right there, right,
it's right there. Do you see it? The purple purple hair?
Okay? Also the people behind her? Okay, yeah, so oh no,
somebody just jumped in line. You should ask somebody in line that one
psychic if that lady behind her will punch you if you cut her in line?
Yes? She should know that. If I cut this woman, if
she punched me, your psychic? Right, do you think she'll punch me?
Yes? Okay, yeah, what about the other person? What about
if I cut her she'll punch me? Yes? Probably probably should we when
you asking the psychic this, would you punch me if I cut you?
In line? No? Everybody else? So the people behind you are not
psychics? Yeah, obviously No, that's why they're there. They get there
reading. What are they hoping to learn to? Exactly what are you guys
hoping to today? Awareness? Awareness? Awareness? Ok like umbrella perfect timing.
I'm going to call from Woodland, Michigan, or watch just Whitney right
and not the voicemail. But yeah, so it was a lot of fun
though. And I guess her name was Stephanie is what I took from that.
Okay, so Stephanie was the one. I still think. I don't
know. I thought she said her name. I didn't think she did.
I'm going to review it after this recording. You're going to review the review
of the review. Yeah, I love it. Radio expert, just going
straight to the source material. Yeah, I guess you. Fam. They
sent out the ufim ralliot is in May May sixteenth at the Capitol Building in
Lansing, YEP. And they sent out an email telling people like, hey,
here's kind of who's gonna be there, and they put your boys picture
on there. Oh yeah, we're on top the front top. You know
it's an EMC Corey Winfield. So then like three people send me messages,
Hey, you're gonna do great, good job, buddy, I'm so proud
of you. And I'm like, yeah them some haters like they're just like,
wait to see Cory there and its falling on his face. It's awesome.
Second, dude, if you can like run an event where you're literally
throwing dog feces at each other, that's true. You can do wi fam
hold on because I don't think that worked out so well. Oh yeah,
that should be as new open. I do have audio from that event there,
running back inside after getting done with a break, and that's just because
the smell. It sounds like they're being the same recording as like the Wilhelm
scream or whatever that everybody uses as a side effect. That was actually you,
yeah, gagging the dog because you know, I do smells not very
good when it started to rain so much of it. It's horrible, horrible
ideas, so much better than Pooh fighters fighting the poo with a little like
canoe handle. It wasn't even like a big or roll or whatever you want
to call them. Maybe like this long about three ft long. Maybe that
was the bat that they were fighting the poo with, and it just came
out of her hand and just just all over them. There's no poo to
fight is. Yeah, was a good show, I'm sure it was.
But did the concert No, No, they couldn't after that, but they
whoever won the tickets, they had a good time. I guess it's better
than the fried worms I made people eat stupid. Don't have a fried worms
ever, it was horrible. It's like the whole station for like two three
weeks. Peop were so pissed at me. They can't even cook hot right,
yeah, worms steam? Oh my god. Again, I didn't know.
I just know that Fried Worms movie came out or at one point did
something. And I don't know those Metallica tickets. What are you gonna do?
Obviously worms, I mean they ate them outside. They were like,
we're not eat them in here. Okay, Well they should have been like,
better not fry them in here. They whatever they want. It's the
frying part that. Oh my god, it was disgusting. I'm glad I
didn't work with Corey fifteen years ago. Pooh is discouraged now and we're not
allowed to cook anything here, right, let alone things that shouldn't be Yeah,
that was like twenty years ago. Well he learned from past mistakes.
Yeah, so I guess. I don't know. But I had a nightmare
though the other night about it, and I I was up there and I
was trying to like tell jokes. My jokes weren't landing. And I don't
think I'm out there to tell jokes though, I mean maybe a little bit,
but that's definitely an anxiety dream that you should talk to your therapist about.
Oh I emailed her today our lady. No, no, Susan,
Oh my therapist. No, it's actual therapist, is Susan. Yeah,
she didn't run me back in my eyes going crazy again? That's stress,
is it? Yeah? Damn? Email you back something. I don't know.
Do some human rights commissioned stuff today to Traverse City Human Rights commissioner.
Yeah. A lot of people think would be a fun job. Not so
much. It's not really a job. I don't get paid for it,
so it's kind of like one of those things now. But it's cool to
be up there into the kind of direct different things to go in different directions
that probably should be going. And and I don't know. Human rights is
so vast and it could be from water to shelter to how you know,
Like it's so many different things. You know, racism you can even throw
that in there. Sexism in today's society probably, yeah, I'm not sure
what that means, Like, well, you have females, you have males,
and then you have the transgender people, like with that whole salon thing,
Oh yeah, in the donut shop. Yeah. Ukraine yeah, those
are the same thing. Was it not at all? What do you guys
think about sexism? What you just based on sex? It was good or
not? No? Do you guys see the terrorist attacks in Russia? No,
I have not see them, but I heard about them. I did
hear about it. Yeah, Isis claimed responsibility, but the Russians are saying,
no, it was Isis who did it. But it was back behind
back by Britain and America. But they're the ones who gave him the plans
on how to do it. I could see that. Honestly, I don't
even know. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna rule it out. But they're
saying they got the information from the terrorists that they captured. And when you
get captured in Russia killed some people. Yeah, they're gonna take out your
eye. They made they caught off one dude's ear and made him eat it,
and then the like the next day they wheeled him into court. Did
they fry his ear? I don't think so. I think they just made
him eat it like raw And the other guy they had a car battery and
they hooked it to his testicles. And one guy was like, when you
hook a car battery to someone's testicles. They're going to pretty much admit to
anything. Yeah, so you can't really take that for what it's it is.
And the guys that did all the torturing over there in Russia, they
got metals and they said that they would they say that they had fun.
They had as much fun as they could with the terrorists. A job like
that of negativity, you really got to keep fun in the mix, otherwise
it's going to bring you down. And I'm sure that therapists aren't as easy
to get to and in Russia, and you just got to you gotta think
about it, you know, Well, being from that part of the earth,
I figure some of my roots are from there, you know, And
I kind of get why they would do that, because they want to show
everybody else don't do this to us. Yeah, not gonna end well,
but some of the terrorist text they build themselves up, so they don't really
give a ship anyway. So what's their official job title? Interrogation specialists?
That what it is. They're really just serving up people's own ears to them
to eat and clipping their nuts with those dudes that coming into movies, and
they like rip out all those things, and yeah that those people exist over
there be terrible really at least Nile. But as a human rights commissioner,
should I draw up something to be that, say, Traverse City is outraged
about it about Russia. Yeah, because they violated those people's human rights.
I'm gonna bring it up at the next meeting. You should look through the
meeting notes. It'll be pretty good. I remember what you're getting at because
somebody brought up a different international thing and like, what are we gonna do?
Well, trum you know, Biden will really step up. Once you
hear Traverse Cities something like that will really motivate them. Well, these guys
are gonna take the cherryes away. Oh shit, Traverse City is upset.
Wow, let's go ahead and make this right. Yeah. I don't think
that's gonna I don't think it's happened. I think they signed it a couple
of weeks ago. There's still bad stuff going on, so damn it.
We tried, you know, I don't know. It's like in like like
that's all I got that sound effect. That's all I do at those meetings.
Well, on the good side of things, we do have some events
coming up, Yeah, we do, which tell us about them. We
have the Asylum Tour, yes, Friday, we're gonna meet at six fifty
at one of the buildings, yep, the people that are going. And
then we have the Pines clean Up yep. On April eighth Ye, anybody,
nine o'clock. And then we have Tigers tickets Detraite Tigers. Yes,
yeah, I thought you're just going with Tigers. Yeah Tigers. Yeah,
yeah, Detroit Tigers April eighteenth are taking on the World Series champion Texas Rangers
in game times at like one to ten or something. I just put one
on a flyer. But yeah, we're going to try to get the people
who live and sober living around the area, going to give them a little
something fun to do. Yeah, well, I think it's worth letting people
know that the tour and the Tigers are limited tickets. Well, the tours
already sold out. Yeah, the tools then that's what I'm trying to say.
The tours sold out, and we're going to be talking to people about
going to the Tigers game soon. The Pine is clean Up, which arguably
is going to be the most fun for me out of me. Yeah,
anybody can show up to that. If you don't yeah, if you mean
by the dumpster, eleventh and Division, everything about it, just yep,
yeah, I love it. Nine am. I believe that's the Veterans Park.
It's close to it. It's about maybe a little less than a block
away. It's closer to the actual pines. It's like right across the street
from what used to be called like the Women's Toil or something. I don't
know that. I think if you get like six volunteers, you don't have
to go yourself. Now that works. So that's how the Windfields are going
to do it this year. You'll see me out there. Somebody's got to
take video and cameras and pictures and stuff. Yeah, I think we should.
We will. I wrote your name on the sign up PLA. Yeah.
I don't know why, because I mean, I'm already going on.
Someone wrote the I did because you wanted to make sure your name was on
there, because you're going. I wrote because you send an email all staff
email saying we should do this, this is something we need to do.
We need to be out there. I did, yep, after your wife
send it to us first. I just responded, okay, yep, just
how that we're helping our community trying to just show them a better way of
life. I hope it's kind of like those old that's what it's showing them.
Just then theah, they're clean up people's ship, and you're they're gonna
be like, you know what, this is a better way of life.
Those Looney Tunes or anything. They're like cleaning up the forest or something.
They'd have the like sticks with the like what I'm doing. Yeah, that's
what I want. I want to stick with the needle at the end of
it, and so I can just case I'm trying to Hey, what are
you doing? That's my Snickers bar? I don't know, there's gonna be
a lot of Snickers bars, probably unwrapped. Sometimes gotta be their film it,
you know, we gotta tell the story somehow. Yes, I definitely
need nothing says clean up the pines like drone footage before and after they'd be
like what they trying to do up there? People trying to throw sticks at
it and see who has guns? Were trying to shoot it down. Well,
I am trying to get a few more volunteers. So if we listen
to this and they're in the area, I'm trying to get a few more
volunteers go with us, and it's it's going to be a good time.
It's it's not probably the top three of volunteering things that I wanted to do
this year, but it's great to meet your future wife there. And that's
what that's what I'm telling myself. I'm going to meet my future wife who
would have she's living there. Now, I'm going to put my cape out.
I mean that too. Yes, we should all wear capes. And
people are listening in California or Colorado or wherever. Connecticut, the Pines is
a place where the houseless people live. As I'm like all the house yeah
on house people live. Some people will understand, understand, understand the term
tense city. Yeah, and like in Traverse City is it's kind of a
it's a mixed deal, man, because there are people who are just hard
on their luck, man, and there's not enough housing. Everybody knows that.
But there's people out there too that have mental health issues like severe and
beyond just the person who has a substitute disorder. There's those people too.
But then there's just flying out criminals out there, you know, like straight
up criminals. They're praying on women, praying on everybody, you know,
and like that's that's the part that I'm not a big fan of. But
it's they have their own little society out there, and they have their own
little mayor and they have different things, and they just try to run themselves
and this America got paid taxes. Bro. That's honestly really disheartening all the
way around, no matter which way you look at. Yeah, you know,
because like I was tell them, Marnie, I've said it to you
guys probably many times too, Like if everybody that lived there came running out
and said helped me, we would have nowhere to put these people. No,
we don't have enough places to help these people. And I think that's
like that all over the country. Yeah, you know, And there's like
these little I was looking into it. There's like these little I don't even
remember what they're called. Because some lady that was on Traders UK so she
was living in one, and I was like, what the hell is that?
All those like little hut things that yeah, just crawling and sleep and
no power outlet in them from charger phones. I don't know if they crawling
them. I think it had a door, but it's like a shed,
a shed home or something. But yeah, it has the power all that,
it has the water, so it has a toilet and you can flush
it. But they say you can put them up within it one day you
can build one. Put it up yep. And they were like twelve grand.
You know, it wasn't a lot, but it was like twelve grand.
But a lot of people like, where are you gonna get that money
from? Well, I don't know. You tell me it's out there.
How much did we just send the Ukraine? Or should I stop with that?
No? I don't think. You know, we support a lot of
other countries into doing but we don't take care of our own people. Should
I run a video and like by airtime in like different countries like Australia and
England and be like support American homeless spot? We should? And you're be
like, yes, what should I have a video of the pines clean up?
Like support Trevor's City just a dollar a day? You're gonna get a
black suv pull up here with guys and sunglasses being like you have to take
that down. People would be like confused of ship just sitting at home watching
Australian traders and here comes my commercial. What support Trevors City, Michigan with
the pines help you can with just two dollars a day, you can buy
a ship home. What like? What do you know the worst part about
it is I was having this conversation with someone the other day and I don't
remember what it was though, but they're talking about like doing drug busts.
You know how the county typically gets the house if it's been busted for delivery
manufacturing, like a dope house. Like, why don't we take those houses
instead of selling them, turn them into like sober living houses and things like
that for the community. The county owns them at that right, So why
don't we turn them into something to help the community versus allowing another one just
to poperate back in its spot. Well, I would say the quick answer
to that would be because the community doesn't know what a sober living home is.
They think, oh, now you're going to bring in druggies. They
don't understand that sober living homes do people mess up, absolutely, but they're
trying to learn how to live sober, you know, And that's that's the
point that I think the community misses. You know, they hear sober living
home and they think, oh great, you know, a bunch of druggies
moving in, which they don't understand the word sober, I guess, you
know, And yeah, do all stay sober? Absolutely not. I wasn't
one who got kicked out half, but I was also when one that worked
out great, and I stayed there six months and I ended up moving out
and I am where I am today, you know, because I stayed at
Nathan's house in Boyne City. Me too. You know. There was some
strict rules and I had to learn to live by them. I didn't like
all of them, and that's part of the process, you know. I
didn't get my way every time, right, and learning how to kind of
maneuver that and still stay on point with what I needed to do. But
a lot of people don't understand that. They hear sober living home and they
think, oh great, a bunch of drugies moving in. The Drugg's already
moved in. So yeah, they were already there, and there was fifty
of them living in that house where the state regulates only eight are allowed to
live in that house. Yeah, so let's take the ratio here of eight
people trying to better themselves were fifty people making your neighborhoods look more like trash.
So it's the county who owns the homes then, or I believe so
you should go to a county commissioner meeting then talk to the county commits,
staring to email them like what's up? How come we don't do this with
these houses? But that's the thing. They probably don't know what we're gonna
do these houses. Well, they have repurposed some homes. And I kind
of spaced from what you were saying because I was laughing at what I could.
I had Sarah McLachlan sla up in the little Boy's eye. But they
have, so I didn't hear everything you said because I was distracted. But
they do have times they've done drug busts and taken houses and repurposed them for
actual like the Grand Travers drug something owns one out on Keystone, yeah,
the Hunt Tea. Yeah, that's where they kind of stay and I hear
they run their operations. Yeah, And so it would be cool if there
are other ones that have been taken like that that they could turn them into
something like this, especially just a direct repurpose, because I think that's really
cool when something can be considered what people would call a drug house. And
it was all of a sudden we were talking about one of the ones down
not far from here just the other day that it was a known quote unquote
dope house at one time and now it's a sober living home. That's awesome.
When you call the county commissioner and you talk to him about this or
her, I'm not sure if it's that I should know because of them,
but whatever them. Yeah, when you talk to them about it, I
also ask about vehicles because we can use some more of those two. Yeah,
well they confiscate vehicles and drug busts. Throw that in the mix,
but like, hey, trying to figure out how we get our hands on
those. Yeah, they used to be sneaky and just like put little police
lights like in the grill and stuff, so you didn't know. It was
just some old forward explore a. Yeah, they pull your ass over,
so find out. Justin you can be our procurement officer. Procurement office,
make this sign and justin I'm like, what else you can give me?
You have to use an accent when you talk to him. Seventeen things,
Dang, I didn't do the seventeen game on the news. I was joking
about that, especially since he showed up so quickly. Yeah, we just
got the office clean. When behind the scenes, Justin was out in the
hall putting the bookshelf together. I don't know. Mitch was working out something.
I don't remember what I was doing, but I had cameras everywhere,
tripods everywhere. The office guy cleaned really fair. I didn't even know,
so he puts us away. They're just like, oh, yeah, right,
they're not there anymore. Somebody told me leave them up and it looked
cool, and I was like, oh, are you signing off on my
bullshit laziness. Okay, I'll leave them up because it looks cool. That's
why I'm doing it. This is where we sell cameras. This is shot.
Yeah, they call me tripod because you no, no, because I
have tripods up everywhere. Oh, I'll do it for today. Get my
mind right from this Human Rights commissioned thing I had to do. But I
appreciate you guys taking the time they come in here get I really want you
to play a Sarah maclachlin at the end of this out to the outro.
I have that between that and then I'm not even gonna say it because it's
bad and people like you're what You're a human rights commissioner. How do I
bring up the terrorist things? We've gotta fight for their rights. I guess
that's not my job to bring things up. Well, no it is,
I guess. I don't know. Yeah, this is funny. Thank you.
I can't wait for you, fam. That's gonna be interesting. I'm
gonna be freaking out about you. Guys like the tent better not blow away?
Well knows, Kim will be Kim have sandwiches everywhere Everybody likem no,
that's their new table cover, that's our new tent, Like, just leave
it alone. Gives us hot dogs? Right? Are they doing that again
this year? I don't know. Is it last year? Yeah? Water
have chips, hot dog? Yeah, it was like a dollar or something
like that. You get hot dog for a dollar. I don't know.
They gave us tickets last year. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it
wasn't. I don't know we paid. I know. I'm just bottling out
of control lately, the same giving away twenties all the time. He's dropping
names like I don't know what we had the story it came up the other
day? Can I help you in last game of twenty here? Wait what
you didn't need that? Just looking like like this really happened. You have
a tire. This isn't going to help all right until next time. We
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