Pall check check and check wall two. This is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast
with Corey Winfield. He knows as soon as he gives a tour, he's
gonna give her his heart to her too, and we'll have kids and get
married. That's too far. It is the seventeenth of October twenty twenty three.
My name is Cory Winfield and this is the two seventeen Recovery podcast coming
to you from the North Studio today with a sense of responsibility, compassion and
integrity. Joining me in the studio is Justin Burke Justin, how are you
today? Sir? Fabulous? Also joining me in the studio very special guest
Mitchell O'Brien, how are you today, sir? Amazing? Nice? And
this is our third attempt to start this episode, so welcome, third times
at show. Good thing is we didn't give very far. I remember why
we stopped it the first time. Yeah. Then yeah, this last time,
I thought I heard something weird and it really wasn't off to a good
start. It was like the shimp with the shimp. The ship was sinking
fast, you know. Is that what he calls sprint boat? Yeah?
Scrimp them? Poor Forrest Gump. Well, the last podcast I did with
mister Justin Burke and mister Adam Stevens. Marnie listened to the other day and
she was like, yeah, it was good until it wasn't. I was
like, oh, what was that meaning about? We were joking, we
were clowning around about starting a morning show. Should with you with a name?
We're a podcast. I'm sorry because before the podcast I kind of explained
myself. I'm like, look, before that, we were kind of talking
about radio names and stuff like that and what Billy blows and Jesse jobs.
Yeah, and you put together and that's what you get. But and then
she got my aunt going and yeah that part really wasn't funny. And Martie's
just like, it just sounds immature. I said, progress not perfection.
You know, this is what this is what I do when you're not on
honey like I. It's like you let the dog outside without a leash.
Where you think is you run around the ar like a wild ass dog.
Well, what do you think you're gonna do with the X radio guy When
you give him a microphone, you take the leash off. You know he's
gonna run around the studio with microphone, whatever comes to my mind. I'm
just throwing it out there. Man, you can see that too. Of
course, what do you think you let the dog out without leash and he
goes. I'm just saying, man, just saying. But I had a
rough weekend. I think I'll talked to you guys about it. Yeah,
it was tough. You know. It's it's being on this side of recovery,
which I love, you know, being in recovery. I love that
part, you know. Being in addiction, I did not love that part.
I didn't know how I would ever get out of that. I though
I only happen to other people. And here I am almost, you know,
five years later, a couple months of five years. So it can
be done, you sure can. But now in the old saying, what
comes around goes around. And I'm finding myself in these situations where I'm around
drunk people and they're annoying people. People I just don't want to be around.
And it's not that I don't love them, it's not that I don't
like them. It's just i'd rather not be around them when they're drunk.
You know. It's nobody likes to be around drunk people. Let's just trying
to take advantage of them or something. But that's not cool. It's been
kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen twenty year old. We'll
put a pin in that, Mitch. Yeah, we'll get into the meaning
of that. Sorry I was inappropriate. Oh it's it's okay. I have
to get all up in it, Mitch, stop it stop. I haven't
been on a podcast in a while, so I just, you know,
gotta let it all out. Man, you're on them all the time.
You just don't know it. Still, the story goes, Guys, I
was at my family's. My stepdad had a birthday party, and we went
down there and it was just a lot of drinking and just I found myself
at this point where it's just like, if this is how it's going to
be at family functions, and I'm just not gonna go, you know,
I just didn't find it any fun. It was a lot of arguing,
a lot of bickering. I think a lot of that was brought on by
the drinking. And at one point it was like, Hey, Corey,
why don't you get in the middle of this, And I said, because
I found it easier my life goes easier if I just stick to what is
Corey's problems, you know, like I'm not trying to get into your problems,
or if you have a problem with this person or that person, not
my problem. I'm over here, don't really care. You know, you
guys can figure that out. Why am I gonna interject myself into a situation
that's already like toxic. I don't want anything to do with this, No
thanks, Why this doesn't even sound fun? And so just but just dealing
with it. And I kind of describe it as you know that a train
is gonna wreck because you've been on this train before and you've seen it wreck,
and you know it recks every time. And you see people getting on
this train and you're going, hey, hold on, man, this this
train wrecks every time it goes by whatever station. Didn't you see the sign
that says, you know, tracks ending. It wrecks every time, and
it hurts bad and it sucks, okay whatever. And they get on the
train anyway, and you watch it take off and you're like, but it's
not gonna end well, you know, and some people don't get a chance
to make it off the train. I was lucky enough, I somehow survived.
Some people don't. And when you see people on this train and you
just know, like, if it's only gonna end a couple of ways.
You know, jail's institutions are deaf. And when you see somebody and it
looks like they want the deaf part, and here's that's that's a weird situation
too, right, you know. And it's just like nothing I can say
or do to change these people's minds. But here I am in recovery.
So some people look and be like, hey, help them out, and
I'm like, for what, they don't want help. I can't help somebody
who does not want help, And that's hard for some people to fathom or
wrap their brain around. But if there's parents out there listening, or family
members or loved ones or whatever, and you have someone that you love that's
going through it, you know what I'm talking about, you know, and
maybe they're at a spot where they want help, and that's great. Without
that, you really can't start anywhere. But it's just it's tough to sit
with, you know. And then I start thinking of my being judgmental,
am, I being the bad guy, because some people can drink yeah,
some people can, but not people that are getting on that train. You
know, those those people aren't even getting on that train. Those people that
are getting on that train will look at you and call you judgmental too for
not getting on that train. I don't really care what they think. I
just worry about am I really being judgmental? You know? And I don't
know. I don't think I am, because I don't see these people that
often, and they can say, well, I was just letting loose that
one day. But I do hear stories, people talk, I see stuff,
I get messages. Sometimes it don't make sense, and it's like,
this is what I did to people, this is this is the hell I
put people through, and now I'm getting it back. I don't know.
It's a weird feeling, man. You know. Here in Traverse City with
two seventeen recovery, I have my safe comfort zone. I go where I
choose, you know, I hang out and I'm surrounded by people who I
want to be surrounded about by, and you guys are all in recovery,
so it's easy, you know, and like, you step outside of that
zone and I didn't want to drink or anything. Actually did the reverse effect.
It made me not want to drink even more. But it's just weird
when you step outside that bubble that I've been in and you go back to
be around people that are family members and like, these people are supposed to
be you know, loved ones, and I'm supposed to care about them,
But then at the same time, I'm like, I'm not sure if I
want to be even around some of these people. I feel that way on
a weekly basis. With your family, mm hmm, it's tough. Does
it just eat at shit? Does it just make you feel a little sick
or something like? How does it make you sometimes? Like I don't know.
I just like some days I would just rather stay up here and not
even have to worry about it, But that's not possible. Now. You
talk to your family like way more than I ever even tried to mm hmmm
on purpose, only a few of them. Yeah, you type of your
family like you love them or something. What dude, But you know it's
just hard. You know that my mom's a function functional alcoholic. You know,
she goes to work every day and comes home and I can't wait,
no way fucking wait, And you just said something what functioning alcoholic. That's
what they call. My dad called himself a functioning alcoholic once and I was
like, you got do you hy? Bro? That's not functioning. Yeah.
It's like as much as we think we're functioning, we're not. You
know, I don't think I used to call myself that too. I'm a
functioning alcoholic. I go to work and I pay my bills, and I
then I stopped started paying my bills because well, I needed alcohol, and
alcohol is expensive, it's pensive, and for you know it. Now you're
not paying the bill, you're not paying the credit card bill, and then
that's going to be double payment. Now you got late fee, and now
you're like, f and I paying at all. I didn't. I didn't
even like them then, so I stop paying on that one. Then the
other one you stop paying on, and then you're just like, well,
I really just need to pay my house payment in my car payment, and
then that starts getting behind, and then they come take your car and you're
like, well, it's looking on my house, and but it they're on
the train. You know, it's there's no functioning alcoholic. Like you could
be super duper rich and have all some of these celebrities out there. You
know, they'll be super super dupa rich, and I have all the money.
They could buy alcohol until they die, and they do sometimes, but
they're not functioning and then they get fired from jobs and it's all in the
press. You know, Like look at Ben Affleck, you know, and
he's come back pretty strong. You know, he's in recovery. And I
really wish he'd make a movie about him in his life because that would be
interesting as hell. And he played a coach in a movie. Did you
guys see that? He was a basketball coach, Basketball coach Ben Afflack.
I think it was the name of the movie. I don't know. He
got Game Part two or something or not, I don't know, but he
was a coach and it was a really good movie if you just google Ben
Affleck basketball movie coach or something, and he plays a guy that is battling
alcoholism and it's really good. And I put a comment on his Facebook thing
about it and it was like, Ben, it'd be great if you actually
made a movie about your real life, bro. And then that was like,
I don't know two years when I wrote that, and not that I'm
name dropping or nothing, but about a month ago, Ben Afflac liked my
comment from a while ago. Yeah, NICs mm, not that I'm name
dropping, but I'm just I'm friends with the ben Affleck now because he likes
a comment that I put on his blue check. Baby. No, no
X. I think we're still on X. But I don't know, not
ecstasy. I'm just saying that the Twitter new Twitter's X. They call it
X or something extra exhibit. Oh yeah, no, no, No,
we're gramming though, Yes, got the Graham. We don't have the TikTok
though? Why can these all be turned into drug terms? I don't know,
Graham, we're not on X, but we got to grant. The
movie you're talking about is called The Way Back. That's what I said.
Did you hear him? That's what I said? Bro Man, No,
well, you guys should watch that movie. It was pretty good, justin
you probably would like people aren't doing grams and X and stuff. Just facebooking
on there. Funny, but I think you'd appreciate it. Mitch, you
know it's about the drink. I haven't watched a good coach movie in a
while. It's a good one. Is it better than what's his Name's coach
movie? Where he coached a bunch of the Special Olympics kids the ringer.
No, I thought you liked that movie? It was al right, it
was horrible stupid? Was it better the Colomba Junior High School film editing crew
putting that together? Man, that was stupid. Yeah, way better than
that one. Whatdy Harrelson stole them people's money? Oh, Mitch, if
you're going to do that, you can be like, hey, and there's
a button that can mute your microphone. See can't even hear he's talking right
now, but we can hear. So if you cough, it's even better.
But I hit the button this time. Yeah. Yeah, So these
boards are bootylicious. I was learning how to. I was trying to learn
how to put the drops in them, and I found swear mode. Fabulous
swear mode. There's a swear mode enlighten us. Well, it mutes whatever's
being said and then it does the sensor sound. Got your yeah more than
one? Yeah? Three? Let me probably only imagine what the laser one
I haven't heard is two times? Ah got your ass two times because you're
head rot the special one going out to her homeboy JD. But uh,
I just couldn't say that seeming funnier, it wasn't when it was originally recorded.
Now, let me tell the story about the got your Ass drops,
because I know Marnie was like, I didn't explain to her even but we
pull up some of my old demo and I started going through these disses.
And I used to have a weatherman back in the day called the Chief,
and probably couldn't do that in twenty twenty three, but back in whatever,
two thousand and four, two thousand and six, whatever it was, I
had a weather man and I didn't like to do the weather because I was
like, people can look outside, people can look on their phone, people
can get the weather however they want it. Nobody's waiting for me to come
out of this commercial break to tell them what the weather is. He's like,
we got to do the Weather Experiance sponsor, you know, And I
was like, all right, whatever. So I had the Chief doing my
weathers and he was supposedly this was his character was he was related to the
guy who ran the radio station somehow, and somehow he got a job because
of that, and he sucked and he would just do these over the top
weathers that sometimes it would be like a minute and a half long and he's
just acting a fool. Well then he just was like, I can't do
that anymore because it did take a lot of time. So my intern at
the time, the Cowboy Tyler, he was always helping at the station and
stuff, and I liked him, and he was just wanting to do the
weather. So I was like, all right, man, you can do
the weather. So he would call in every night and do the weathers and
he didn't like the chief, and the chief didn't like him. So the
chief just came in one day and just did a bunch of disses for the
cowboy, and he was just like like one of them was like, hey,
cowboy, why don't you send a pe to the moon? Or I
don't know something. Then it's something silly like hey, you know your girlfriend's
ugly, got your ass. He was just ended with that. But they're
much worse than when I'm These are some very PG stuff, but the other
stuff is not PG. And I was playing that in the radio back in
the day because it was funny, I thought so and uh and so yeah.
So his name is Aaron, Aaron mckelrath. He's funny, funny dude.
But he was the one that did that, and it was so damn
funny. We were just dying listening to him, and I actually had to
leave the room at one point and he's in there cracking himself up at some
of them. And when you showed me those for the first time, I
thought this was not like an act he was putting on or a voice,
and you're like laughing, and I'm like, this is an actual person.
This is kind this is terrible, Like does this person exists? Because you're
just laughing like you are right now and harder this one after another after another,
and some of the stuff he was saying, I'm like this, that's
you met. This man got your ass. Then finally you're like oh no,
no, no, no no. This was like he did it for
fun and that's not how he talks. I was like, thank god.
And then I played you Cowboy and you're like again, I'm like, no,
no, he's really like he really does well. And I think that's
why I thought that, because I think you played Cowboy first and he's not
acting. You can tell he's gonna be cloudy. And then I have him
to do it beat like, who do you want me to impersonate tonight.
I'mber really good at impressions, you know. And he was and I'm like
Jackie Channing, he's like cloudy. Then Michael Jackson, he was like and
sixty eight. Sometimes he'd be mad because I'd be like, do cheating Shong.
He'd be like something to sniping heart. He'd be like, I don't
know how to do that one. I'm not doing it, man, do
excuse me? Do? People were like the weather, what is going on
here? Man? Like? People got coming to me. He's like circus
going on up there? Like what's going on? Then the one lady that
showed up and like it could have been a circus, And I don't know
what was I let her do the weather. This cowboy was off doing the
football game or something. And she comes up there the next day or the
next week after that, Monday or whatever. She did that on Friday.
She comes up Monday. She just walked up there, and my boss Jane
comes and gets me. I was in the jock area, you know,
doing my show prep. And he's like, hey man, you got a
visitor here and you got to get rid of her. And I was like
what. He's like, Yeah, back door and I'm like okay. It's
like I'm like, oh, ship like dunk behind the thing. I'm like,
who is that? This one guy from the KFR we call him Bubba,
and he was like, I'm gonna find out. And he's like the
part time guy. So he goes from an out there and he's like comes
in. He's like, that's Lizzie, dude, that's her. Lizzy is
your classic. Yeah, what's going on? Like spankings and whipped cream and
I'll do you good boy? Yeah? She was was. She was real
too. Put whipped cream on you, nick it off. It was And
my mom was like, I hate her. I'm like that's a real person,
Mom, i hate her. That's character, mom. That's why I
thought the chief was real. Tell me all these people that are just like
real TV shows like a Lizard Lick movie or whatever it is. It's crazy.
And then Bubble comes from the back. He's like, she's got a
beard and like I saw that. I saw that and I was like I
am not going out there, man. That makes she's here to do the
weather again tonight. I was like that that was only one time. He's
like okay, he was like loving it. And he's like, she wants
to even give a ride home that she walked up here and she's sweating.
It's hot out and I was like, nope, the only thing I smoked
for like four hours that night because I don't always go out every hour and
smoke cigarette. Nope, I'm gonna showing behind this dark out now three stations
down, like this road. It's just like at the end of a road
and just to feel out in the middle of nowhere, you know, it's
like, well, like I can't identify the part of this podcast that some
people are gonna enjoy. And then and that was from the same station,
the same demo tape. Oh that was when I had the Pooh Fighter contest,
which I thought was a great idea at the time. They're like,
oh, some got food Fighter tickets for giving away. Well, let's have
a poo Fighter contest. And guy called up was like, Winfield, I
can help you. I was like, okay, how He's like, well,
working apartment complex. I'm like okay. He's like, and I pick
a ball the dog ship and I was like okay. He's like, I'll
bring it back. I was like, all right, man, let's go.
So I got the intern she was going to help with it, and
everything was getting set up and had all the contestants there, and I had
this little paddle that you paddle a boat with, you know, like just
showed me the picture. There's a little paddle, and uh, we will
spons We were doing the donation, and then it was, uh the rain.
The rain came poured and it was just a pour. It was pu
mud and all the poo was in like this clear bag, you know they
put leaves in or something, but it was open, so like all the
rains just going in the side of it, and it's getting all the poo
just yeah, and the smell that somebody should call Lizzie and do a wrestling
in there, and that's okay. I don't know what she would have said,
but they still fought the poo off. And then like I was just
like trying to throw these gloves on and it was just just shit going everywhere.
And I walked around the corner and I was like, all right,
well, I'm gonna go back in and do something. I think because I
was my own boardop, so I'd start the song, the song would stop,
and I'd start my mic, I'd start talking on the handheld and I'd
walk around to go outside, and then when I was done, I had
to go walking all the way back in and then hit the commercial break because
I couldn't get a board out for it, so I had to do it
myself. So I was walking back in and I those melle It hit me
and it was my sexiest sound I've ever made on the radio. Oh man,
yea. So those seems so drops. You know, we're talking about
drops, and these are the story behind the drops. Fabulous, of course,
Justin's fabulous is classic and you want to buy a shirt went to the
uh the UFAM rally last year and I don't know, Justin just decided,
uh, fabulous, It's gonna be his new word for everything, and everything
became fabulous and now he's got his own fabulous shirt line out. And I
still appreciate the fact that I had something to do with making that line famous.
Nobody really picked up on it until I started to push it a little
bit, and now it's the only name. Tyrone will call you so fabulous.
I don't mind it, match, I love it. Yeah. But
your podcast, though, Mitch, I talked to Adam about a little bit
last week, but not in too much detail, but I was asking about
the name, is it going to change? You guns find the website?
You know, all the questions that he didn't know the answer to because I
was putting him on the spot. He's like, I don't know, man,
I'm sure, man, Yeah, asking those questions is that I don't
want to change the name. I like it. If I type in,
can I plug it? Yeah, it's only I'm kind of hard trying to
find a like a nineteen twenty year old. That was episode two. We
found one. I have to get all up in it. That was episode
three. After we found him, WHA got you away? That was episode
four, didn't let him go? But I don't know, Like, if
you type in, type in redacted, were over your mind and google it,
pops it right up and I like it? This is my secret is
I like it because it's it's searchable. And what that means is when somebody
in the se O world, when somebody types in redacted for something else,
I might be in their research results. Is that a little slimy in the
se O world kind of Do I care? Not really, But I'm just
saying, if you go to yeah, we're redacted recover your mind. Go
to Mitch dot com for you know, like that. That's my thing is
like it would be easy to find it, oh dot com. And we're
very young, so I haven't gotten the the website yet. And that's where
it's just it's it's a little expensive, a little expensive. I'm not there
yet. Well, we're learning how to fundraise, so not that I want
somebody to run out and buy this, but redacted, Okay, what rea
not doing it? It just tricked to me. Oh, I think if
I hit this button, nobody can else hear. I don't know how to
eve work this board yet. But yeah, there's there's there's something that you
might be able to get that that could be pretty cool. But the podcast,
but what was the last episode about. I'm listening to it tonight.
So we talked about what's going on over in Israel and how it could line
up biblically with prophecy and stuff like that. WHOA didn't even think about that?
Yeah, oh we've been thinking. Adam and I identified that we need
to be more educated about what we're talking about. But then we also talked
about we shifted gear and started talking about giant ancient trees Okay, a lot
of people are saying that there are some mountain tops and quote unquote volcanoes that
are actually petrified giant tree stumps, and if you look at them in their
structure, it looks kind of similar. And there's myths about giant trees and
multiple different belief systems. The Bible brings it up, which Adam and I
both have kind of a basis in that, so we always bring that up
and we try to pull out some of the other some of the other belief
systems to get all up in it. Yep. And we capped off the
talk with cryptozoology, you know, mister Foot, Bigfoot and Lockness heard there
was a really bad video that just came out that's usually big waiting by a
train or watching the train go by, or I haven't seen that one,
but it's probably the train you were talking about earlier. No, no,
it's a it's a video like I heard him talking about on the ticket and
they're saying something about it and with this new Bigfoot video, and is it
really grainy because that seems to be the thing with them. But you know,
there's a lot of theories about that stuff. And I was asking Adam
like what's his what's his favorite, or which one does he think is actually
possible. We pondered for a little bit, so Adam thinks that if any
of them could be real, he thinks it's a bigfoot. That's a little
Mexican creature. We we talked about that a little bit. It's actually in
the the episode art right in the middle and uh so because the original myth
made it like this little devil creature that sucks the blood out of goats and
chickens. But it's kind of changed recently because they actually found a creature that
they think it could be, which is actually like this weird hairless dog thing
down in Central America, Mexico, Southwest America. It found it looks like
a big like if a chohuaba went Hulk, but black and not green.
So it's interesting. So I talked about those because that's something that really exists.
But is it actually what people were seeing back in the day, or
we just put like swapping it into the myth because we think it's fun.
Or we talked about a couple other little little beliefs about it. And I
don't want to give away everything, so people have to go listen to the
podcast Little Mystery. I'm trying to look for your website on here. It's
supposed to have it RSS dot com, slash redacted, Recovery your Mind or
something like that, right, But isn't there supposed to be a link to
your website here? No? I already said, like, we don't have
an actual thought. They gave you a free website. No. That's the
one thing that I actually was a little perturbed about with going to RSS because
it says that you get a free customizable website. It's not a thing.
The website that you get is RSS dot com, and the customizable part is
you can add links and buttons to certain things, like if you have your
own website, you can add a link to it, and that makes it
customizable. The rest of the experience has been pleasurable. I like it.
Yeah, so I do like it, But that one was just a slight
bit miss leading. But I kind of go, you know, we're getting
that free six months, So I forgave them. Yeah, they I don't
know. I found them because I was looking for a different place to go
besides Spreaker, because Spreaker is damn expensive and once you become a customer,
they don't care about you, and they just charge your credit card me.
You tell them I want to end it, and then they charge you anyway,
and I go, no, you send me that shit back and they
go nope, and you get new credit card information and then they still do
it. Yeah, and I'm like, how is this happening? Like magic?
It's irritating. Yeah, And I said, well, I'll cancel it
and then I'll become a new member again. They're like okay. I'm like,
why don't you just give me the fucking fifty percent off, you know,
quit planning. But so I looked at this one and it seemed all
right. And then I reached out and they're like, hey, we have
a plan for nonprofits. I'm like, all right, that's even sweeter.
And they're like, well, if we do that, then you won't get
the six months free. And I'm like what, Okay, this sounds like
a real deal. You're cutting me since I'm a nonprofit. Now you're gonna
charge me and like the free stuff for six months okay. And then it
became an issue of like they figured something out with that, and then it
was like, okay, well, I have like seven hundred episodes I'm gonna
transfer over there. Oh yeah, not gonna be to do that, not
that nonprofit rate. Okay, well whatever the rate is. I mean,
I have seven hundred I'm bringing over. Oh, well that's gonna be a
problem. I'm like, wait what. It was a bit of a process
with eight episodes, and then I got the guy that worked like the night
shift later responding to another different email, Oh, we can do all that,
that's not no problem, and we can get you a discount for the
nonprofit stuff. I'm like, what is going on? And then the next
day fireback with the guy who didn't know what was going on, and I
couldn't have anything, and I just got real tired of it. And then
it was like, you know, now we have like eight hundred and whatever
episode, So it's yeah, stuck. And if you said it eight was
problem, it wasn't really a problem. But it was a process like it
took four or five days before they're like, all right, you're good,
you can start podcasting again, and which seems a little I mean, it
was a couple back and forth emails. I do think some of their integration
distribution stuff is a little bit easier, a little bit easier I like that
Pandora. We talked about that. Yeah, it was a process I had
had to reach out directly to them. We did not. It was pretty
easy set up. I had a little bit of a hiccup with with getting
it switched over on Apple because they just they like duplicated us. So like
there's two of them, one from the like ones that we did on Spreaker,
and then RSS got involved, and then we got like another one with
the updated information. It's had all of our your episodes and all of our
new episodes. So it was a little interesting. But the Pandora one was
easy. Sending them over to YouTube is a lot easier. I had to
Like, I thought you had background music totally welling up aplane my airplane drop,
but no. And then the YouTube one like it, I had to
get in and put in some information and passwords and stuff. But there's just
a button now, and for some reason YouTube doesn't part where with them saying
the right way, so you can't just publish it and it'll automatically go out.
But it's as easy as publishing it. It automatically goes out to all
the other ones, and then you just hit an extra button and then shoots
it to YouTube before you and now, because one thing I hate about Spreaker
is when we publish it to YouTube, it has like this ugly like Spreaker
background. Have you looked at our YouTube? No? So I didn't like
the background either through Spreaker and it's there's still a background through RSS, but
it's much more pleasing to the eyes. I would say, kind of goes
with whatever. It picks kind of a color scheme that you have in your
art in the middle and does the background with that. But it it just
looks smoother. I like it more. So. Guess if I knew coding,
I understand how to open it and change it. But I don't know.
I don't even know if that's could you do that? I don't know.
Probably not Speaker. I wouldn't guess that they make that changeable, but
I really don't know. They told me, I know, we can't do
that. Oh yeah you can, because you added that to it. Take
that off and add my thanks. Yeah, that'll be an extra you know.
Seven Yeah, because I don't like them back up, like, I'll
change I have to change the thumbnail because the thumbnail is stupid, So I
have to change the thumbnail because it has their little speaker thing on there,
and I change into whatever you know I'm talking about. Usually today it'll be
hot Buttons. Well that's what I say when I say the podcast art.
That's a thumbnail. But it's easy, like I usually make an image or
find one. I've made a couple of them. Some of them are kind
of obvious, and I do that on purpose because it's kind of silly.
You know, we talk about a couple of different things, so I'll hoshpodge
them together. But there was one that I made that looked like it really
came that way and it was pretty neat. So so if you're recommending someone
who's out there is like, man, I'm gonna start my own podcasts.
These idiots can they did podcasts on Hot Buttons, you know, like the
stupid I'm gonna start my own. Would you recommend a different one? Would
you recommend spreaker or RSS? Like, I think it depends on what you
have. What might recommendation would go. If you have a board and you
can do it that way, I would recommend RSS first. Don't get excited
about the free website, but the rest of it seems to work pretty well.
If you aren't doing that using US B mics and you would like a
a studio or maybe you can afford Adobe or whatever the whatever it is,
UH, speakers studio isn't terrible. It's kind of like having a board right
on your right on your your or your you know, PC laptop, whatever
you're using, and it's not hard to use, and then it integrates right
into two speaker and it's easy to post and stuff. So I think if
you're just starting out, speakers a good idea. And the cool thing about
that is RSS always kind of has this deal going on. I don't know
how long it's gonna last, but it's like what you wanted us to do,
where if you're transferring from a different platform, you get six months free,
and so it kind of makes sense to do that anyway. I didn't
want to do it because I was so I get worried about starting new things
and it gives me anxiety. So I was just like, we'll just do
it and just pay it and not worry about the free because it's affordable too.
There are other platforms out there that I haven't tried, but RSS is
pretty affordable and it works pretty well with what it does for how much you
pay for it. There are other ones out there. I don't know if
they smell better or something, but they're like three four times as much.
I know how that works and what it comes with. Maybe they have somebody
to do it for you. I don't know, but it works really well
and I think it actually is just a little bit less expensive than Speaker on
the normal. Yeah. But yeah, so beginners probably safe go with Spreaker.
If you've got all the the like a board and a little bit more
equipment. RSS is probably a way to go. But you mean you got
to mix it down yourself and stuff like that, so do your editing.
Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I would say Spreaker. I like their
app on their phone, Like if we're driving or something, then I usually
stop, of course to start. It's this one dude, to be safe.
Yeah, And I have like little clip on mics, their little USB
mics or whatever, and I can plug it right into my iPhone and record
it as I'm all right. I mean, it's nothing too crazy, but
I do like that. But yeah, the speaker at the price. Once
they got you, there's no like, hey, we want to thank you
for being with us, with us for five years and there's none of that.
There's like, hey, cool, we're just gonna take your money.
Thinks that blows. Yeah, that does blow, and it's it's quite expensive,
so I would say, but yeah, you know, try speaker out,
try being cast or pop Bean or whatever it is, and just try
them all out, you know, especially if they have a free trial.
Do that. And like Mitch said, there's the RSS dot com. They
will give you six months free if you switch over, so you have to
have your podcast going for like a month on a different platform. I have
a question, is RSS like the og podcast platform because podcasts they're like,
they're called RSS feeds and that's RSS dot com. Did they do that to
make themselves more popular or were they the first I haven't read their Wikipedia page.
I'm not sure. I'll jump on Potpedia later, and yeah, I
don't know the story behind I haven't watched them behind the podcast on them yet.
It got me thinking and I was like, maybe these guys are like
the original, But I don't know. It's all relatively what someone wants and
what they have and what they have access to. But I appreciate you coming
on today to talk about podcasting. Mentioned talk about your podcasts. I can't
wait to kind of help you with a little bit more. And I think
you guys are going get you got headphones. I'm so excited. Like game
changer, right, it was so much different, Like the whole I think
you'll be able to tell if somebody comes to our podcast down the road and
starts listening from the beginning, they'll be able to tell. And like those
guys got new headphones that day. The whole feel and vibe of everything was
just more laid back and less. We were thinking about less and trying to
listen and do less. There's there's less anxiety involved, so you get to
really just kind of sit there and do the podcast, which was nice.
And even before this podcast, it's like gotta go grab the headphones, you
know, like that what's up? That's what's up? So Justin's a week
over there. Yeah, okay, we gotta go get your hair did,
so you should wrap it up. Yeah, hear in about thirty minutes.
Yeah, it takes you a while to get there rush hour traffic. I
mean a five minute walk. Which one is it justin five minutes? Say
if you're doing five miles in five minutes, pretty fast. It's a jet
fighter jet that sasquatch blood in you. But thanks for listening. I don't
know. We started off about recovery and we have fun and recovery, so
that kind of works for us, and well, doing these podcasts and stuff,
it helps. It helps me in recovery. I know it does,
Adam, and and you like, it's the whole reason you did it.
And I get to tell people that when I go out to like meetings and
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you in recovery. And for some reason, I don't like to say what
keeps you sober, because it's not just about being sober, it's really about
being in recovery, and that encompasses more than just your sobriety. So find
that thing, find it and to seventeen. Recovery dot com is our website.
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but it should be fun. And then we have our event coming up
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Part one. Spaghetti Dinner. Yeah, it's free. It's at the Traverse
Grand Traverse event Center or is it the Traverse City Events Center. There's the
Traverse City Event Center. That is what I thought. It's the Grand Traverse
Then that's gotta be event Center. No, it's the it's really the Comedy
Club. Is it's on South Garfield seven thirty eight. But yeah, five
o'clock doors open. We're gonna start slapping some sketty on people's plates about five
thirty. And it's not just any spaghetti. This is Mama's Spaghetti. Now
my mom's spagetti. Just somebody's spaghetti. Spaghetti. Yeah, that's what.
But it it'll be pretty good. We got a little stylid maybe and some
red sticks and maybe some cookies or something. I don't know, but it'll
be a good time. So I'll come out to that if you're interested.
Justin promised a whole bunch of stuff when we're out talking about that. Yeah,
we're gonna be doing it twenty four seven. Yeah, we're gonna be
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