It's the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. Stuff went numb. That
shouldn't go numb, you know what I'm saying. And I was like,
what is he? No? I don't, No, you don't and Cole
holds Marney Windfield. It was kind of an awkward thing. He's like,
would you guys want come along? Can you get away to come to the
island. I'm like, yeah, we just got back from there. It
is Sunday, April twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. My name is Corey
Winfield. My name is Martie Winfields. Man. This is the two seventeen
Recovery Podcast. I can't believe it's almost May. I know, it's insane.
Speaking of May, it's probably gonna be a good month for us.
It's going to be a life changing month. Yes, yes, And we'll
get into more details about May and just a little bit. But first of
all, we're going to be able to claim another person on our taxes,
so it'll really help us out financially. I think a lot of peoples,
Oh no, kids are expensive. Yeah, sends what you're buying them,
right? I don't. I love that. That's where you go with it.
I mean the baby shower that wasn't a baby shower, that wasn't cheap
at all. No, which still blows my mind. Like, I mean,
I guess it's nice to have family around and our ours was a little
different. And we talked about that last episode that we did, but yeah,
since then, I don't think we've talked about going to the Tigers game.
That was a lot of fun. That was a ton of fun.
Everybody was sick and sounded sick. And this is like we've now started actually
for the first time feeling a little better. M hm, So now we're
able to do podcasting again. Yeah, I was. I wasn't feeling well
for like three weeks. It was horrible. So I'm just now kind of
over like over it. Yeah, it was. It was something, man,
it was crazy, And that's why I think that I think it was
a different like form of COVID, maybe because everybody was getting it, Like
the radio station people I listened to in Dallas, we're getting it. Tyrone
got it wherever he is in the world, And it just seemed like like
it was happening to everybody, and it's like, oh, this is like
COVID. But we did COVID testing and it didn't show up. But if
I was going to make a new COVID, I would make sure that the
old COVID tests wouldn't catch it. Just me being the evil genius that I
am, I would do stuff like that. But yeah, so we're feeling
better now. We can actually talk. We sound like people can listen without
going oh, they just sound sick. Man, I got to turn this
off. But the Tiger's game was really cool. We had a lot of
fun down there thanks again to the Detroit tigerstroke and sew with tickets. We
helped the recovery community in Traverse City have a little fun in recovery doing some
normal stuff and to my knowledge, nobody will not to smoke weed or drink
beer. So it was good. Yeah, it's a win when even though
the Tigers didn't win, it was still a good time. And Kim,
who's our employee, she was on a mission to get a ball because our
son, Parker's and your belly, but technically this is what's his first game.
I mean he was present, right, he was there. He was
there, so Kim was like, I'm gonna get him a ball. So
she was on a mission and then at the end she finally got a ball
for him, Yeah, and gave it to us the next we following Monday
or whatever at work. So that was pretty cool a game ball for for
Parker and the fact that she would do that for him, you know,
or for us, you know, that's pretty cool. And that's what happens
in recovery, you know, you start thinking about other people. Yeah,
it was super meaningful and very touching. Yeah, and it was probably very
touching for her too, And like I said, to do something for somebody
else, that's what it's about. Was she was on a mission though.
For sure she made the Jumbo Tron. We made the Jumbo Tron for times
and her like holding the ball up, made the Jumbo Tron. Yeah,
so that was good. So again thanks to the Detroit Tigers, and we
appreciate that. The UFAM rallies coming up on the sixteenth, and that's going
to be Lancing, Michigan. You family're like, what the hell was that.
It's Unite to Face Addiction Michigan. And every year they put on this
rally and we have it We're not we, but they have it at the
Capitol Building in Lancing to kind of show like, Hey, there are people
in recovery, and these could be people that don't or do vote for you.
So when you're up there writing them policies, think of us because we're
in recovery and we're here. Yeah, so it kind of shows them.
Wow, a lot of people showed up for that, like maybe we should
pay attention to this, right, you know. And it's just on a
Thursday, you know. So it's just like, how many people can really
get away for that. I don't know, not everybody in recovery clearly,
but right, if you can, I should. I don't think we ever.
I don't know if we've ever got an idea of numbers. I don't
know how they actually even get that information. But for the most part,
I mean that the whole capital, like front of the build, the building
is full, yeah, I mean not you know, shoulders shoulder, but
it's busy. Yeah, there's a lot of people, and I think there'll
be more this year. I think so too. But it's it's fun.
I'll be m seeing it, which is a huge honors amazing. Yeah.
We did a little practice video the other day which I was going to work
on today, but then I have to learn a whole new program because we're
at the home office today and oh you're one of your funny goofy. Yeah,
I overheard bits and pieces. It would probably be best just made it
to a blooper reel, probably because yeah, too much, too many parts
for Justin to alignes that he had the improv It's cute and I'm glad that
you guys have fun doing stuff like that. We did and it was and
it should reflect that in whatever video we put together. But I can probably
do it from work because like, if I do it from here, it's
like okay, which I'm gonna have to study this program anyway, because the
other program I have is only Windows based, because I'm like, it doesn't
work on this computer I got because it's only Windows based, and I was
like, what, it's stupid. So I can learn it, which I
will have to eventually, but it seems like it'd be easier for me to
put it together on a program I know. But watch for that soon.
The speakers, I think. I reached out to Christian from Lifeboat Recovery and
Lancing and asked him if I could interview the speakers they're going to be speaking,
and he said, I'll get back to you, but he hasn't,
I mean prior to Yeah, that's a good idea. And then oh,
well, my friend Rob, who who was in room two seventeen with me
and on the very first like ten episodes of the podcast he was my co
host. He said he knows Isamora. I went to school with her or
something, he said, but he said he knows her and she's a very
cool person. So she's going to be speaking. I guess she's from Alpina
or lives over there in Alpina, somewhere on the way other cross the side
of the state from us and where we are in Travers City, Michigan.
But it'd be interesting to get her on I think I have friends on our
Facebook too. I don't know. I'm speaking of Facebook. Aren't you glad
that you didn't burn too many bridges on that I had? I really had
no presence on Facebook for the most part. I was not consistent. I
am more consistent with Facebook today than I ever was. And I know Facebook's
like even the uncool social media now apparently i've heard from the younger generations is
that it's like the old people bull social media good. But I never was.
I mean I would post like sporadically and even then like very outdated,
and I never got on there to check anything. I never messenger or anything
like the pictures. This is love that I had a handful of pictures on
there. It's yeah, likely, but it's okay. Though. I don't
think I've ever like what after businesses before, Like there's some one called og
and E which is like Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. Not a fan of
them, and I would say things to them that wasn't very nice, but
I don't really like go F you and stuff like that. Yeah, I
never did any of that. No, I don't even post really today the
student nor im like and I'm saying his name because he tagged me in one
of his posts and he's like f you and then if you Corey Winfield.
But it did none of it made any I really don't understand why he was
saying fu to me. I propostly did not. I mean, I don't
know. I chose not to investigate that just because oh there's an investigating need,
but it just it just posted. It makes sense. But I'm just
saying, like, be careful what you do on Facebook. And I know
when you get drunk when you get all high and not you. I'm just
saying, like people in general, it's hard to remember what you do,
and it's really hard to control yourself and just be careful though, you know,
these are one of them lessons. If that's someone, if you're like
one of those people and you're in and out of early recovery, maybe it's
best to to stay off Facebook, you know, because you'll burn some bridges
down the road. Oh but I was drunk and I was messed up.
You know, it doesn't matter. You're not my friend anymore. I deleted
you. You know, I didn't block him. But like there's other people
I've just had this straight up block because they'll they'll say stuff like that,
and I'm like, dude, I didn't do nothing to you don't even know
he You are like the one guy that was like Corey Winfield's soup with fifteen
thousand women what like that's insane, Like I just I don't know, like
when people do stuff like that, which I again maybe I did. I
know there was one I did that was pretty stupid. But for just going
after somebody, just just be careful. Well, we talked a little bit
about this the other day. And I mean it's something, it's the it's
the addict behavior, and people are not in their right space of mind and
they're not in a healthy space in their life. And I think a lot
of it stems from the shame and gil that they feel about where they're at
right. So it's not feeling good about your actions, and whether it's subconsciously
or consciously, is you want to lash out and be angry, and at
that juncture, it's makes sense to yell at other p people. And that's
why a lot of it doesn't even make any sense usually is because it's not
really directed in any kind of sensible fashion. It's more just like I'm angry
and I'm just going to say f you to whoever it is that is on
the list on the screen in front of me, you know, because I'm
mad at myself and you know, so not that that makes it okay,
but at least it to me. That's kind of like where I try to
make sense of it all. And you know, those people are just sick
and they need to get they need to get better. I love social media,
you know, yeah, it's and it is what it is, but
just be careful if you're out there and you're like, oh, I thought
about posting this. Maybe just stay off your Facebook, you know, stay
after your Twitter. You're old person like me. Staff those things. Now,
TikTok they got to sell the company, which I just this whole thing
is I saw a little bit about that. Yeah, the US government's like,
you guys, your company that you can't operate in the US because you're
in China and you're own by China and you're spine on people. I'm like,
oh, like you do US government. Okay, Like this doesn't make
sense to me, but TikTok for me is very confusing. I don't really
know what I'm supposed to take videos of. Like I've posted some of our
like funny videos on there, but I really don't know. Like I don't
a I don't have time to just like, hey, let me wear this
hat and then like snap my fingers and I'm in a different hat or shirt.
That's so cool, Okay, I don't have a booty like that,
you know, Like that's all I see is a whole on I see a
lot of funny baby stuff that's cute, but other than that, it's just
like booties and dancing and there are some punny kid videos too, but the
baby and the cat I do like those, But you can get those on
YouTube. You can get those every other places, you know. But and
you can waste a lot of time on that. I'm sure you can vouch
for that at the time. But I just don't understand what I'm when I'm
supposed to make, so I'm not a content creator when it comes to that
kind of thing. So that's probably a good thing. M It's one less
thing that would take up your time. Could you imagine me to run around
the office? Hold on, guys, Yeah, we gotta do help these
people get this grant written. But hold on, I'm doing this talk video
real quick. Yeah, I have no interest. And actually, I mean
social media in general is a is a problematic for especially the like teenage generation,
and right now is the importance that they place on that you know,
on social media in general, and the time that they spend on it is
taking away from doing other healthy activities. Literally people can be in adults too,
adults too, but people can literally sit there and be like scrolling through
stuff for hours and hours. That's not productive and in their life, they're
not exercising they're not interacting with other human beings and developing or you know,
working on relationships. It's just but it can we use in your favor if
done correctly. Say example, you're applying for a job. I know for
a fact employers will look at your social media. Now, if you have
a TikTok on there with babies and cats, they'll be like, okay,
or we have some wild as stuff. They're gonna be like, Okay,
this dude's gonna or this woman, this person whoever is going to waste a
lot of time on TikTok looks like so probably you gotta take that conseneration.
You are their Facebook and they're like, F this, F that, F
Corey Winfield. I mean, I wouldn't hire you. Somebody else who's like
F Correy Winfield might. But if you have like just pictures of your kids
and hey, this is you know, a picture from Christmas, if it's
a responsible adult one. And I'm not knock getting a younger generation or younger
people, because the they have some good adult ones. But just keep in
mind that is you want to throw out there to F this and F that
and high Gritch and Whitmer have something to back that up with because I did
leave her a little something today. Well, my thoughts are. My thoughts
are is that your Facebook is a representation of you, and so if you're
putting stuff on there, just be careful because that's how people will. It's
looking at what you what you value, right, So it's showing how you
handle things. It's showing what you value. It's showing what you spend your
time on. You know, it's showing your interests. It's showing your things
you aren't interested in. Maybe, it's showing what you spend your time doing.
Maybe because it'll talk about you know, people will post like recipes or
whatever, and it can show who you interact with. So all of those
things put together is just be mindful of that. Yeah, just be mindful
of it. If you can't repeat it on a podcast, then you shouldn't
do it. So this is why I posted the Big Gretch today because she
posted a picture of herself at the NFL Draft which is in Detroit, and
she's up there whatever Big Gretch is what she calls herself, and she was
like big Gretch reporting for duty, and she was announcing the fourth round draft
pick, not the first, second, third, but their fourth round draft
pick. There's seven rounds, but you're important, big gretch. But anyway,
so I just wrote on there, I said, please take sports betting
seriously, and please get in front of the destruction that's happening in people's lives.
Come on, gretch, governor responsibly. Get it. It's like gamble
responsibly and drink responsibly. Yeah, governor responsibly. Just covered in so that
you're okay with governing, because that's what they say about gambling. Just gamble
enough that you can lose. Just just gamble enough that you're comfortable with losing.
Just gamble responsibly. It's like part of their messaging. And then I
said, or call a number that can't help you if you start having trouble
with governing. You don't seem impressed. But there's one person that liked it.
I get it. You had it can be reflective of the gambling,
yeah, sports betting. Yeah, because I want to get more in not
into sports sports betting, but I wanted to get more into helping those people,
man, because that's something that that's an addiction, and that's a real
thing and it kills people, you know, it drives people to take their
own lives. But the game of football is so much bigger than sports betting.
So but I see what you're saying depends how you look at that,
because money wise, sports betting there's more money that goes into that than football.
You look like you're surprised by this. No, I'm just saying,
is I can see how she's probably not going to turn down an opportunity to
represent. No, I'm telling her, like, yeah, people will like
football. And there's like seven hundred thousand people that attended the draft as just
the spectators. It's huge. Football is huge, But at least keep in
mind that sports betting is huge too. I mean, she knows. She's
one who signed the thing to let people do sports betting here in Michigan.
You know, she's the one that set the rate that like Yahoo which refused
to pay, but like fan Duel and all these other ones, they had
to pay a fee, and she was the one that's set that up.
You know. So she can take her a little four million from these companies,
but she's got to do what she needs to do to give back to
the people that fall into these these traps because it's very easy to do and
to my knowledge, there's zero being done to help these people. They flash
eight hundred number and that's it. And I'm telling you, I have called
that eight hundred number and said I need help. I was just seeing her
would go yeah, because I was applying for a grant, because I thought,
well, they keep putting out there like include must include eight hundred number,
mostly like that was some magical thing, and so I was like,
what does this eight hundred number do? So I called it and that's when
I was met with sheer terror of Wow, there's no help for people.
Imagine if somebody you know, drank or heroin or whatever you want to call
it whatever, if they're calling a number, Hey, this is going to
help me and get help from my substance use disorder. And they were like,
okay, well, I know you want to talk to somebody right now,
but I'm gonna go ahead and take your info and within a week or
so someone's going to try to try to try to call you back. But
we only have two people in your area, so just just hang in there.
Yeah, Gambler's anonymous, I think that they had. And that means
there's there's different kinds of there's different just like there's different kinds of substance use
disorder. But like, there's people who are addicted to casinos. There's people
that are addicted to the tables at casinos. There's people that are addicted to
lottery tickets, scratch off lottery tickets. There's people that are addicted to the
regular lotto, the numbers game, right, and then there's people that are
addicted to sports betting. And it's a I mean, it's gambling in general.
And I think when we tried to look into it, the closest meeting
that was actually currently active, like met once a week, and it was
over an hour away from where we live in Traverse City. There's a family
member that I I've told this story before. I was trying to trying to
learn more about it. You know, this is probably seven years ago.
And I saw they had a meeting and it was an hour and a half
away, and I get there. It was just me and the swarm other
guy, and then one other dude did show up, but he's like,
yeah, usually it's just us two, and he's like sometimes it's just me,
And then I ended up just going home. He's like an shut it
down, and I was like, wow, I'm glad. I didn't drive
away here from that, you know, I drove all the way there and
then they weren't even having one, and it's like my gosh, but yeah,
it's it's a problem. And that was my point to her, and
hopefully she reads that and does something about it, because just you know,
playing commercials saying got a gambling problem called this number. It's not enough,
you know, throw up the billboard. It's not enough, you know.
And I had a billboard discussion yesterday about what a waste of money it is.
I mean, billboards can be effective, but other times it's just a
waste of money and people I think are stuck in the hole. Well that's
what we've done before. So we did last ten years as we put this
billboard up and it told people not to drink and drive. Well, if
you look at all that money that was spent, I can guarantee you I
will have eight ideas that are better and would be more effective than throwing a
billboard up. And it's just getting people out of that way of thinking.
Like that's just how we've done things. This is what we do. It's
what we've always done. Stop that unless you're winning, unless you're killing it,
like man, we're really like, nobody's addicted anymore, Like until you're
at that point, stop because sadly that's never going to happen. No,
it's not. But the more help we can give people in, the easier
we can get people connected, so they don't have to lose their life,
they don't have to lose their house, they don't have to lose their marriage,
you know, And it's going to be on them ultimately, just like
it was on you and I, you know, to flip the script on
life and take ownership of what we wanted and how we're living and what we
wanted to be and what we want to become. It's hard and there's no
hope there sometimes, but figuring out where you can get that hope. It's
different for everybody, but it's out there and it can't happen. And just
don't make them feel like there is nothing to help them, right, you
know. That's that's the big thing there in my opinion. As a professional
radio broadcaster, that's what I have. I remember the one that was like
basically talking about do UIs cost you like ten thousand dollars? Do you remember
that one? It's talking about And I'm like Okay, so let's threaten people
who have issues with drinking, right. I mean that is not it's not
empowering, it's it's not supportive. It's not making them feel like they have,
you know, an opportunity to change. So there's all these pieces that
they go into actually you know, getting people in a place where they can
be like, yeah, you're right, I have a problem, and I
feel like now's a time when I can deal with it. Threatening them,
with them, with the amount is going to cost them when they do get
caught, you're only threatening poor people. Really, lots of money went into
that billboard. Yeah, and the money that they spent on that, and
like it's not encouraging people. I just want to be like they're kicking ideas
around. I just want to be in that room to just say that's stupid.
Let's talk about why it's stupid and put a bill I'm sure there's a
lot of people with a lot of great ideas that would be support that are
very simple and could be words of wisdom or words of encouragement and support that
at a juncture somebody read it, would read it who's struggling at that time,
and that can sink in and be like and be meaningful. Maybe not
at that moment they might not be like I'm going to go get some help
now, but you know what I mean hearing that message again and having it
mean something to them, even if they pretended they were going to put up
a billboard and hear me out, like if they went to junior high said
we want everybody, this is requirement for everybody to design a billboard about drinking
and driving or something. I don't know, but if you got them thinking
about it to where like high school kids had to do this, see what
think tank what they came up with, that'd be freaking if you use them.
Cool if not, but at least you're getting the messaging to the kids,
you know, and you can put facts on there, like this is
how many people die, you know, and here's the number where you can
call to get help, you know, like really give them the tools and
let them think they're designed in this great Grand Wizard billboard, which hey,
maybe they will, but if not, at least you're giving them information get
submitted to NBAHS like here here's some ideas, he says. But if we
made that something like all schools had to do, I think that'd be a
great idea because you're getting that information to the kids while they're young. They're
reading this, they're like, oh wow, this is how many people got
killed in drunk driving accidents. Oh wow, okay, you shouldn't drink and
drive. That's that's pretty bad. You know, it's not just about people
that themselves either. It's you can take other people's lives. I think that's
the consider it, Like, that's the one thing that can I think might
sink in a little I don't know, up, Yeah, we need to
have I mean, that's the kind of messaging. That's the kind of conversations
that need to be had. Though, It's like, this is not just
about you, Like obviously you need to be concerned about your own substance use
disorder. But you know, people when you get behind the wheel, it's
like having a gun in your hand and here's the number you can call,
and here's whatever, and here's the process. So that way they know it.
And yeah, they think it's just a fun billboard design, but really
they're learning information for themselves. And just a minute ago, I said,
that's what woke me up. And I didn't take anybody's life, thank god.
But just the fact that I drove blacked out, you know that I
wasn't thinking about a billboard. I don't remember driving, and that's scary.
And that's what really like the scared shit out of me. Like I could
have taken someone's life, and there are people right now in prison that don't
remember it. Yeah, and you think they wanted to take someone's life.
Absolutely not right. And yeah, I'm just I'm lucky, I'm fortunate,
and I know this and I'm blessed every day. But it wasn't like I
was like, oh, I only had ten beers, I can run down
to Bob's real quick. No, I don't remember it at all, and
there was no reason for me to go anywhere like that. I mean,
it just doesn't make any sense. And so again, those billboards don't drink
and drive or whatever. Yet. Okay, that's cute and all, but
I think people already know that, you know, I mean, I still
see some buckle up. It's the law signs. That's funny because clearly someone's
not wearing their seatbelt. They don't give a shit about getting a ticket.
They just don't care, you know. And for us, it's kind of
saying nature because We're part of the generation that you had to wear a seat
belt all time, so it's just second nature now for us. But the
generation before us, they were the ones that were real piste about it.
I wear a seat belt, Like I tell people in the back seat put
one on. They're like, why, yeah, not going to fly out.
I'm like, I don't care what you're gonna do. What you do,
but one thing you're not going to do is fly up here and hit
me, because that shit happens. I remember. That was like one of
the first things that I remember about you is like you wouldn't like even move
the car until I had my seatbelt bubble. And I'm like, I'm doing
it. I got purses, I got winter jackets on. Like this takes
a second, right, and you're just like waiting Like I'm like, he
literally is waiting for me to bumble my seat belt before he persisting this vehicle
and drive like that's cute. Yeah, that's what I do. Like,
we're not going anywhere until you're buckled up. You're not flying over here knocking
my teeth out. This is not gonna happen, you know. But when
I was taking people a lot to treatment, people be like, oh my
cheat belt. I'm like, yeah, do you understand what happens in a
wreck? Well, I might flow out of the car, no dipshit if
you're lucky, But no, you're gonna fly away up here, because that's
what happened to me when I was in my car accident when I was fourteen
or whatever. I went flying all the way to the front wham with the
dash. That sucked. But yeah, but yeah, So anyway, the
billboards in the seatbelt, Yeah, that kind of cracked me up because it's
like, I think people are pretty good on that. Now, like how
much did you spend on that? Like, do you really have that much
money that you just don't know what to do with? You're just like I
was just slapped out on a billboards. That's what we've always done. They're
expensive, you're expensive. Yeah. I watched the show the other day,
well the other night on Hulu. It was a magical show. It was
called thank You good Night. It is the bon Jovi documentary. It's like
a four I guess maybe it's a docuseries. I'm not sure how that goes,
but four episodes. They're pretty long episodes, but it just goes through
bon Jovi's career and the whole band, and it was sad. Well,
I mean it was. It was interesting, it was fun, it was
cool. I've kind of liked bon Jovi as I got older, they kind
of got older too, and so they wrote more love songs, more chill
songs, and as they would put it, which is true, more meaningful
songs. But it was it was a good little documentary. But John bon
Joviy I remember hearing about six months ago that he can't sing anymore, and
I heard audio of it, and it's just like, oh geez, what
happened. Well, they go through it and his voice box is kind of
messed up where it doesn't shut all the way. I don't know, some
something's messed up with his voice, and so he like had this surgery.
But it goes through that in the documentary or whatever. But it's it's just
sad because he wants to sing and that's what he's done his whole life.
And he kind of starts talking about Tiger Woods and Tiger Woods, his car
accident, how he had to get his like leg or something, his ankles.
He hit something fused, and you have something fused, it means it
doesn't move anymore, pretty much like you're welding it together. Right, So
Tiger Woods is still trying to learn how to play golf again, you know.
And I think John bon Jovie should just learn how to sing a little
differently. He doesn't have to hit the notes that he was hitting when he
was twenty, you know. He should just try to do a different,
different version of his voice, because he can sing some parts, but then
when he would try to hit the high it was like me, he's trying
to sing some songs, so it made me made me feel bad for him.
And then just how old he looks now? Yes, that's what happens.
Funny. There's a big difference between fifty and sixty. I'm gonna tell
you that right now. Huge difference because if you looked at him when he
was fifty, he looked young. They had an album all everything was cool,
and this was two years ago, this documentary, and he just turned
sixty two now, But he was sixty when they made this, and it's
just like whoa, like just ten years ago when about the other album,
he didn't look that old and now he's got gray hair and like he just
i mean even kind of had some gray hair before. Yeah, but now
it just looks like old person gray hair. Fun, so you shave your
head's kids. No, I caught little bits and pieces of that, but
yeah, I'm sure you were. You were very interested in that. Yeah.
Well, being a radio guy, you know, playing thousands and million,
I wonder how many times I did play a bon Jovie song. Lots,
probably five, no, probably more than probably ten thousand, No,
probably more than that, because you get a five six hour shift going,
I'm going to have at least two bond Jovie songs in there at some point,
I would assume. Yeah, that's a lot. I played a lot
of bon Jovie songs and I didn't mind them. You know. I think
when I was in ninth grade, eighth grade, I know, the New
Jersey album came out or whatever, and I and my stepdad got it and
I stole it. I had still it. I just took it that I
listened to that. It's like, how I just justified did you borrow it?
Did you ask permission? I don't remember. I probably did, and
that's fine. There was yeah, yeah, but I love that tape.
I like that tape. I liked it a lot, and I just just
hope Bnjovi can make it, and you know, just the the drug addiction
in his band. After they got doctor to the Rockahall Hall of Fame,
their one guy died who was real bad that they kick him out, and
then Richie Sambora he I don't know, he still looks like he's out there,
but the drummer and the other guy ended up I think going into rehab.
So he's always been on the straight and narrow. Yeah, he just
said that he was a singer, you know, like smoking stuff, and
he said he had a real bad experience with drugs. He didn't really say
too much about it, but just that when he was young, before he
even started the band, really he had a really bad experience with it,
so he didn't really mess with it. I think he might drink from time
to time, but he doesn't want to do anything. And this is what's
kind of sad. And I wouldn't say I ron, but the fact that
he can't sing now, and like he always wanted to protect his voice,
you know, like he didn't want a drink too much or you know,
he wouldn't go crazy on stuff because he had to save his voice. Right
then, Now here's sixty two and can't sing wow. You know. He
even had surgery to fix it, and as start as the documentary, when
they stopped at it, it wasn't any better. So I don't know if,
but it's just sad. It made me feel old too, because I'm
like, man, I remember that, and he was a good looking young
man, John Bonjobi was, and to see him now, it's just like,
oh, man, he posted some on Facebook today and I was like,
it's so weird be the same age as all these old people. I
saw that because it's freaking me out now because I got what fourteen years left,
because I'll be forty six soon fourteen years and I'll be sixty and I'm
thinking, like, what's Parker going to think? Like, that's why I'm
going to hit the grandpa age when he's like getting ready for high school sports
or whatever he's doing. So I'd be like, Oh, your grandpa's here,
that's my dad. Oh what if we just tell Parker we're like twenty
years younger than we are. Oh, I have the foundation of the relationship
with our child be based on lies. How old are your dad? Shut
up? Don't you house? No? You like standing in that corner,
ask me one more time. No, we're like superheroes. We can have
children at older ages. This is great. Yeah, I don't know.
I think he's going to be the youngest podcast ever. I'm not sure what
age is the youngest, but I think he's gonna be pretty young. When
he gets his first episode out, it'll just be guy Got Go Go stuff,
but will be in the record books. Yeah, you just see me
like trying to teach him how to read every day. What do you think,
like, honey, like stop what teaching? Wait? Would you say
like if you came home and he's like, I don't know, five months
old and I'm like trying to teach him how to read, would be too
much? Well, you kind of do that, right, is that's why
we read to him all the time. We're going to read to him all
the time. It's really important. He's sitting them down and going, ah,
no, we're not You're not gonna be he can't even Yeah, right,
he's got some ules and you're like, what do you guys do all
day? I'll be lucky on like Parker be like daddy. That's what we
did, got him to say daddy today Tomorrow I'm working on pizza. Yeah,
it's it's coming up here. I'll be his arrival. I swear he
told me May eighth, but I know his due date's the twenty sixth of
May. Yes, so we'll see in the new fans the sixteenth, we'll
see you know, they do have a backup in case I can't make it.
And then we're supposed to see a comedian in Grand Rapids on the eleventh
of May. There's just so much coming in May. Just see how see
how it rolls out. And as far as two seventeen goes, we have
a cooking demonstration sort of right what you call it demonstration and class. It's
a class, so it's it's a pretty it's a pretty simplified cooking class.
It's more like meal preparation and so it's encouraging, like it talks about a
little bit about like nutrition, content and what have you. But they are
going to have the ingredients to put together I think three different dishes and and
they're going to do that all there with the attendees and then everybody needs to
eat and talk about their experience. And yeah, it's held at the local
grocery store, Oreana, which is very focused on like organic and nutritional nutrition.
It's like it's like, how do you describe that? Natural foods?
Natural food store? There you go, there you go. Yeah. I
was gonna say you have to go in somewhere with California, but it wasn't
coming around here. But yeah, maybe not whole foods, but maybe yeah,
kind of like whole foods. So if you're interested in going to that,
we're actually giving away tickets or seats or whatever you want to call it.
Yeah, two seventeen Recovery dot com. You can sign up for that
if you're in Traverse City, do that And it's on May thirteenth, yep,
and we're gonna have one of our people go I'm not sure who,
but somebody will be there from two seventeen. And I already mentioned the UFAM
rally on the sixteenth, and I need to put info on our website about
that. And then May or June there's a free fishing it's like the eighth
and ninth, but I mean free fishing is you don't have to have a
license in Michigan to go fishing that weekend. And we teamed up with well,
we reached out to Jay Sporting Goods. Yes, and they're in gay
Lord and they have another location too, but we reached out to Gaylord location
and we're like, hey, we're a nonprofit. I think that well I
don't think you said it like that, but yeah, I wrote a whole
letter and they agreed, Yeah, we'll hook you up some fishing poles.
So we're gonna get together some kind of fishing event that weekend because it's free
and thanks to Jay's Sporting Goods for hooking us up with the poles that we
can give people. And then you hit late June. By late June,
I mean the twentieth, we're having Recovery Stories Part three, which we're gonna
have a food truck this time, so that'd be a little more interesting.
And I really should probably get a hold of the speakers that we're gonna have
speaking. Yes, maybe we shouldn't have that be our focus for this week,
Yeah, because we should lock that down as we going to May and
then July, of course we have the Cherry Festival that Mitch and the volunteers
are going to go out and we'll see how we're doing with coordinating us in
the In the child, right, you might be losing your mind, like
I need out of this house. Be like, I will go volunteer for
the shift please, and then the Mike Tyson, Jake Paul fight. I
want to do something for that, just some watching party or something up at
the office, I think, or maybe at a different location, who knows.
But my fear in that is it says it starts at eight and they're
going to have three fights before that next thing. You know, it's two
in the morning. And yeah, no, we're not doing that. No,
that's that's my only fear of it. But it should be an interesting
event. Mitch was making a flyer for it the other day because I told
him to, So, thanks Mitch. And then August I heard some Aboudy
also have the volleyball tournament too. This is July. Yeah, it's not
ours, it's ats. We have a presence there. Yeah, usually in
helpout they invite us. Yeah, they should, hope and yeah, and
I'll guess something about a boat or something. Maybe that's tentative. We're seeing
how that can roll out, but seeing if we can possibly get a pontoon
boat to go out on the water and two sandwiches and catch some rays.
You know. Yeah, I'll be home with Parker teaching them how to say
daddy. Yeah. So I don't know, but there's a lot of stuff
coming up with my point, and we're doing what we can to have fun
in recovery. Yeah. So if you ever need anything to seventeen recovery dot
com, you can reach out for a recovery coach. You can watch some
cool funny videos, you can listen to podcasts. It's all right there for
you. So yeah, well I appreciate you coming on to do a podcast
today. We are going to take pictures of your belly, yeah me and
yes, because we have pictures of your belly, but we just haven't thrown
them out there or anything like that. But that's the one piece of advice
that I'd gotten from moms is there, like you are going to kick yourself
if you don't capture moments that that you need to you know, down the
line. It takes like three seconds, you know, take some pictures.
And we made it a point to take pictures of me in the pregnancy and
they turned out great. I'm like, but we kind of need pictures of
you in it. Yeah, so I'm doing that for you. But yeah,
your your pictures are awesome and it's easy to take pictures of beautiful people.
It really is. It's making the ugly people look good as with stop
it. This is going to be great, it's going to be adorable.
Hard part we have we have a great idea. Yeah, so I want
to do a drone picture. But whatever, we can try to do that.
I mean, we still got like maybe four weeks before he gets here
exactly to the day. Are we going to do any exotic locations like her
backyard? Yeah, deer run around out there all looking sickly, I know,
Dear, they need something, they need some nutrients. Yeah, yeah,
they do well. I appreciate you coming on though, Martie. It
really does help because we did one at the office the other day and it
was totally off point that I didn't even publish it, that's how. But
it wasn't bad. It was just so I have a challenge for you.
Oh no, for me. Yes, it's not just for you, okay,
but what if you actually had next time that you do a podcast in
the office. We're like went into it with intention of having it being on
spot okay, like staying true to talking about topic of recovery. Maybe keep
keeping it like PG okay, or about there staying true to topic and having
it be like twenty five minutes and have it be inspirational talking about experience,
strength and hope and see what you come up with. Feel me to do
a whole new, different podcast, just call it Experience, Strength and Hope.
No, I want you just saying be intentional about it being being productive
and meaningful and having the message be something people can walk away with like they
just went to a sat down with a pure recovery. Oh maybe I don't
even know what you're saying to me right now. You're speaking different language.
Now. We are going to do the Recovery Dad's podcast, probably within the
next week or two, and we're gonna start that up. So and that's
going to be a totally different podcast. I don't know, it's probably gonna
be the same thing, just with a different name. Who knows. Sure
it will be structured more, at least that's the thought of it all.
At least we'll all have topics and stuff that we're going to bring up as
being a recovery Dad. You know, I'm in a different spot that Mitch
is at. Mitch is a different spot than Justin's at, so we can
kind of take all that in and then you know, to have maybe a
guest or two on or something. But yeah, that's great. Yeah,
so that's coming soon and I'll have challenge accepted. Okay, that's what's up,
you know what I'm saying. Great, till next time. Thanks for
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