WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:07.400 It's to two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. If you kind of look 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:09.800 deeper at the situation, you know, which I'm sure you will, because 3 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:13.960 everything that we go through is an experience that we learned from. And Justin 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.640 Burke, I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. You'll 5 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:20.679 be talking to someone and I'll just come in and sit at my desk and 6 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:29.559 just bust one out real quick. It is the eighth of May twenty twenty 7 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:34.920 four. My name's Cory Winfield, and with me is Justin Burke. What's 8 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:41.399 up? And this is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast. A week from tomorrow, 9 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:45.600 the sixteenth of May, is the UFAM rally in Lansing, Michigan. 10 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:49.359 Woo woo. Pretty excited. Are you excited? I'm beyond excited because you're 11 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.240 gonna have a different role this year. I know it's quite different. I 12 00:00:53.240 --> 00:01:00.119 don't know how to take in my responsibilities as they evolved sometimes. Are you 13 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:07.159 nervous at all a little bit? Yeah? Because I have no podcasting experience. 14 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.920 I mean, I know how to talk on a microphone, which isn't 15 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:14.439 really hard. I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. 16 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.640 You'll be talking to someone and I'll just come in and sit at my desk 17 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.519 and just bust one out real quick. Yeah. See that's perfect. It 18 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:25.959 sounds good. Yeah yeah, But it's the whole control of the board and 19 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.159 the intro and how to put it together. Like I don't have any of 20 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:37.040 that experience, And lately I'm kind of feeling jealous over other people's abilities and 21 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.640 how they do things. We were talking about it earlier today, like with 22 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:44.120 Adobe, Like I would really like to start learning how to do that stuff, 23 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.040 but at the same time, I don't feel like I have enough time 24 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:56.280 with my current responsibilities. So to make add more to the stack of my 25 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:04.640 responsibilities after being on the road all day to doing Adobe podcast work, it's 26 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.360 kind of hard. It's tough, man. And like during the whole COVID 27 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:13.800 thing when that was happening, I still really wasn't watching TV, so I 28 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.599 would do stuff at home. But I mean, I had twenty yet Radio 29 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.759 Quaer they paying me learn it, so it was pretty pretty fun. But 30 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.159 I didn't know how to make a nonprofit. I didn't know how to do 31 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.759 that, which I was spending time learning, and I was always kind of 32 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.199 in my office doing something. And then Marnie told me one day, like, 33 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.560 honey, I wish you'd spend time with me, just be in the 34 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:43.240 same room with me. I watched TV. Okay, all right, and 35 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.439 do that. But then there's some shows that I do like to watch, 36 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.520 and I realized that that's not healthy either, like the other way of doing 37 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.000 things, like just working work and working all the time. Right, you 38 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.840 have to set some time for yourself. And if you looked at it like, 39 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.520 all right, I'm going to learn this as like a hot as something 40 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.000 that I'm interested in. If you really wanted to do it, if you 41 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.360 really had that desire, you would find a way to do it if you 42 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:13.960 really wanted to just saying I do, but our my teachers schedule doesn't line 43 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:19.000 up with mine. Who I'd like to be my teacher anyways, we're both 44 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.879 really busy guys. Oh yeah, So I mean I'd like to receive the 45 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.680 best education possible without going to college. Well, there's YouTube, there's tutorials. 46 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:31.319 If you wanted to. Everything starts with the desire, justin if you 47 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:35.439 had the desire to do it, you would do it. That's what I'm 48 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.960 saying. But you get home and you're trying to do this new workout routine 49 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.840 and you have other things going on, and you're tired and you need sleep, 50 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.759 and you need to see your lady friend self care. We'll label it 51 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:52.639 self care, We'll label your lady friend's self care, or will label the 52 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:57.240 relationship a lady friend? Or is it? No, it's the lady friend's 53 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.360 self care. Okay, so now hold on. She might be listening, 54 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.960 so you better her answer this one carefully. Is she just a friend, 55 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:11.199 that's a woman. It's complicated. It's complicated. Now are you taking that 56 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.719 from her Facebook status? Or is this your Facebook? Because that's what it's 57 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.959 official. Well, it is on Facebook that we're bowls in a complicated partnership 58 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:23.639 relationship plan. Not talking about this today, but let's get stick into this. 59 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:27.639 Why it's a complicated justice because it's just complicated. Okay, Well makes 60 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.920 it complicated because I don't want to do labels, So it's complicated. So 61 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.959 you, as my mom would say, you want your cake and you want 62 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:39.800 to eat it too, or something like that. No, I mean I'm 63 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.519 committed. Oh but how committed are you? But why would you buy the 64 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:49.639 cow when you're getting them out for free? You know. Oh yeah, 65 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:55.839 tough titties. It is very We were talking about that earlier today. I 66 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.800 don't know why my mom used to say it to me, Oh, tough 67 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.639 titty, and now I can't matter if it's tough titties or tough t tough 68 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.839 titty. That's what my grandma used say to me. Is that because the 69 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:06.920 milk is hard to come out of a tough titty, so it's not really 70 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.439 a titties and or is it the titties at the nipple it would be classified 71 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.560 as a teat. Well, then why don't they say tough teats? I 72 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:23.480 don't know, Like, how would you know if you had a tough titty, 73 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.720 it wouldn't produce. I got soft man titties, it wouldn't produce. 74 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.199 I don't produce. I got soft ones too. Where I believe there's soft 75 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.879 I think it's something to do with like the glands inside of it get tough 76 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:46.120 so it doesn't produce, like they become fatty hard mm hmmm, someone along 77 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.879 those lines. I'm not a dairy farmer. See this is where Marky's mom 78 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:53.120 is right, we do need to call in, but it's section of the 79 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:57.800 show. Yeah, but it does stem from like col Farmers, I know 80 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:04.439 that much. So tough titty yep, I don't know. My mom was 81 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.399 known for using analogies that are horrible, but she was one the other day 82 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.160 that was actually pretty good, and I can't remember it at this moment. 83 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.519 That's a shame. She's trying to tell me how my son's gonna just do 84 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:20.519 stuff that I don't approve of color on walls. I think you've told me 85 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:25.160 the same things I did. I actually advised you to wait. I'm painting 86 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:30.759 in your house till after your son was about five. Yeah, I can't 87 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.079 wait till the first time he goes through with a permanent marker. How is 88 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.360 he gonna get a permanent marker justin because you're gonna leave it laying somewhere. 89 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:41.319 Why would I leave it laying somewhere because you just will. And babies climb 90 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.639 like don't and I'm talking about human, not a cat. Babies climb. 91 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:53.720 They start to climb. What is he gonna climb up on your desk, 92 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.959 on my desk. He's not climbing on my desk in the office. He's 93 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.879 gonna have his own office. He's gonna have his own computers, own my 94 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.279 phone, That's what I was telling her. It's like, he's gonna have 95 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.639 his own microphone, his own computer, and she's like, yeah, but 96 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:05.439 yours are better, and I'm like, no, his will be the same. 97 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.920 They still he'll want to play with yours, right, It doesn't matter 98 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.199 what you give him, your yours is always gonna be better. I think 99 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:20.000 Marty named his podcast, did she what's it called from the Crib? A? 100 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:25.600 Yes, Parker from the Crib and then like his first podcast would be 101 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.519 like, ah, wow, well I'd probably be eating the microphone, but 102 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.800 whatever. Speaking of Parker, isn't he supposed to be here in the next 103 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.959 seven hours and twenty two minutes? Well, when I asked him a few 104 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.759 weeks ago, because you know, he was moving around in Marty's belly, 105 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:42.240 so I was like, hey, little buddy, I was like, when 106 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.839 are you coming out? And then May eighth boom just popped in my head 107 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.439 and you see me my psychic ability call a home run and we went to 108 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.800 the Tigers game, oh yeah several times. Yeah, psychic ability has been 109 00:07:54.839 --> 00:08:00.040 able to call some things out. Yeah, and so I'm pretty tuned in 110 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.480 to it, as you know psychics, since you know stuff saying as we 111 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:09.879 say in the in the biz, and so the eighth was today, But 112 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.759 then we found out some other news that were like, oh crap, and 113 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.480 so I asked them, Hey, little Parker, can you stay in mommy's 114 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:24.000 belly for a couple more weeks because day he's got stuff to do, because 115 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:30.399 Mother's Day weekends this weekend, and Marty and I are going to celebrate that 116 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.559 by going to see Kat Williams and Grand Rapids. Gratulations. Thank you. 117 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.720 That's going to be the best Mother's Day present ever. Ye. Well, 118 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.200 actually that's it's just for me. But then we're gonna, like you selfish, 119 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.440 eat some food or something. I'll take her to dinner on Mother's Day, 120 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:54.720 we take our breakfast something and so that's that's already planned. And it 121 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.000 would be nice to just do that one more trip down to Grand Rapids, 122 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.600 but just Martie and I. Yeah, you know, iman Parker will be 123 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.519 with us. But and then, of course, like I said, the 124 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.799 sixteenth, next week, next week, you fham and we're going down on 125 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.000 the fifteenth, and then I have to m c it right, ask me 126 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.919 if I'm nervous. Are you nervous? Hell, yeah, I'm nervous. 127 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.120 You didn't but I don't know why you're so nervous. I don't know, 128 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.679 like you've been on stage in front of thousands of people. I have like 129 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:35.879 probably ten twenty thousand people and introduced celebrities, like real celebrities. Well, 130 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:41.000 I am like icon horrible with names, horrible with names. You know this, 131 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.440 I'm sure you'll have It took me what six months to get Mitchell's name 132 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.480 right? And he works here, Marshall, Yeah, he's on the payroll 133 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:54.320 right Like it's it's I'm horrible with names. And I reached I was talking 134 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.320 to Christian about this. He's the guy who asked me to do the U 135 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.000 fan thing and and I asked, like, all right, cool, when 136 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.000 we show up the day for a couple days before, like we're gonna rehearse, 137 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.200 you got a script? And he's like, no, there's no script. 138 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.120 But I mean there's no script, Like I don't have people's names written 139 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:16.559 down, Like you don't have a time like a run sheet for the event, 140 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:18.000 you know, Like, am I supposed to pull these people off after 141 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.360 thirty minutes? Like how we're just winging it? Like wow? And if 142 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.519 they have that, then I mean I guess that's cool. I'll just wing 143 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.600 it too, but it's just not knowing. But you're pretty, but you're 144 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.720 really good with them brows. Yeah, you really are until I start getting 145 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:41.399 appropriate inappropriate. Sorry, you have to keep it family approved like PG status. 146 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.879 We are in the capitol lawn. Your favorite governor is probably gonna be 147 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:58.879 able to hear you don't see now you give me ideas well? Hopefully it's 148 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.440 a good positive idea. Yeah. And because I've said this before, so 149 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.720 I'll say it again too, just to clear the record, set it straight. 150 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:13.080 Is that I have said I wish Governor Whitmer would put on some rehab 151 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.600 clothes and take a bus to treatment. Yeah, and see how much fun 152 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:18.600 she has with a three hour layover and Grand Rapids are lansing. Actually, 153 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:24.279 I think all of our state senators and representatives should have to do that. 154 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.360 They would get there and being like that is not a good idea. We 155 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.879 have to do something about that. Yep. But you know, since they're 156 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.000 paid well and have good insurance, they don't have to worry about that, 157 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:33.799 you know, even if their kids go to treatment, they don't have to 158 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:39.279 worry about that. But they should have to see how the normal folk that 159 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.919 they service, who they represent in the different districts on how they have to 160 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:50.480 get there by their own district. Act like a normal person and try to 161 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:58.279 get to treatment by using your own PHP, calling them setting it up the 162 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.000 whole nine yards. If you get sick, can go see the doctor. 163 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.879 You don't gotta go through all this hubb of blue to get better. You 164 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:15.120 know it is a medical diagnosis. So just because well you did it to 165 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.600 yourself, well, people get diabetes, I mean too much, Kate, 166 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.159 what are you talking about exactly? They did it to themselves. But like 167 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.639 if somebody who is an alcoholic or drug addict will use those terms going to 168 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.000 the er and they need help, they're gonna see the person who just ate 169 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.039 a bunch of cake, and they probably shouldn't because they're going into some diabetic 170 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.399 situation, and they're gonna see them and be like, oh, okay, 171 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.759 cool. Somebody who I've talked about this before too, climbed a tree when 172 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.519 everybody's like, Gerald, you better get down from there. And he falls 173 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.200 off his house or something stupid breaks his arm, they're gonna see him first. 174 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.000 Wait wait, wait, he did was actually more stupid than someone who 175 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.639 becomes addicted to the alcohol or drugs. We just made a bad decision, 176 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:01.120 sure, absolutely, but the alcohol will sneak up on you and before you 177 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.120 know it, it's got your ass, you know. But typically with a 178 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:13.000 substitute disorder though, Yo, it stems from some sort of trauma along the 179 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.960 way of your life. It doesn't have to be necessarily childhood trauma, because 180 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:22.720 there's people that are affected later in life that don't start until like their thirties 181 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.240 or forties. Yeah, you know, so it could be later in life 182 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.879 that they've experienced this trauma and you know, it goes undone because we don't 183 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:39.320 offer the ability to necessarily get the help we need for mental health. Look 184 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.120 how hard it is to find a therapist, Yeah, just in the area 185 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.360 we live in. And then you find one, and then you start a 186 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.279 company and get some insurance from employees, and then you realize they're like, 187 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.080 yeah, she's not in network, you can't use her. And I'm like, 188 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.360 well, my' user for the last four or five years, Like, 189 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.000 I have a connection with this person. Tell me I need this. You 190 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.600 can't just switch it there. Therapist, Like, the therapist is hard to 191 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.600 find, especially a good one. Yeah, And once you had that connection 192 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.120 with them, right, you don't want to. You can't just switch to 193 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:13.519 somebody else. It's it's not like seeing a foot doctor right now, Like 194 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.279 I almost feel that same connection that I had before, if that makes any 195 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.480 sense, with our old therapist to the new one I got, Like the 196 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.279 connection is starting to grow where I can feel more comfortable opening up about things. 197 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.039 But it took a while, Yeah, like it really did. Like 198 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.639 I've been seeing her since last July. I think it was I finally just 199 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:39.519 start feeling comfortable. Actually got to go back all through that shit again. 200 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.879 Which you're in a good spot now where you can deal with all that stuff, 201 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.679 but like sometimes people can't and to tell someone I don't know, you 202 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.799 can't do that. It's a network. I don't pay anything, not a 203 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.120 network. I haven't really dug into my past yet with her. Is this 204 00:14:56.279 --> 00:15:01.159 more of the current stuff, but still like certain issues like I wouldn't necessarily 205 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.360 feel comfortable talking to someone about what I first mean, I don't know how 206 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.639 they're going to be, how they're going to react, what they're going to 207 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.759 think. You know, it's a whole judgment thing, you know. Yeah, 208 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.799 and when you're going there, you're wearing a mask a little bit. 209 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.320 Yeah, because you don't know this person, and you don't know if this 210 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:22.840 is going to be the person that's going to help you out or if you 211 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.039 can even trust them. Sometimes you'll go in and just because they have a 212 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.840 degree doesn't make them good. Exactly. I can get a degree in whatever 213 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:33.960 right now, and I wouldn't be good at it, probably, But I'm 214 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:39.080 just saying there's some out there that just aren't good and you probably shouldn't go 215 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.679 see them. Some some like to give advice. Here's what you need to 216 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.399 do. And if you ever go to a therapist and then they start telling 217 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.200 you what you need to do, just pay them for that session and be 218 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.879 gone. Well, we'll hold up, because that's not totally true. My 219 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:02.360 therapist did tell me not to Mary said person and told me it was gonna 220 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:06.679 crash and burn in my face. And I didn't ever talk to her. 221 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:11.080 Sons, don't you ask? And what happened exactly what she said was gonna 222 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.000 happen because I was open and honest with her about the situation. Yeah, 223 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.000 she probably told you that kind of off the record type deal. No, 224 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.759 it was very much like in the middle of our session. Well, she 225 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.399 probably, Well, I could see it happening like this, justin, do 226 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:27.840 you think this is gonna last? Well, justin, what do you think 227 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.919 is really gonna happen? Justin? Tell me what do you like about her? 228 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.879 Justin? Tell me this, justin, this is gonna fail because you 229 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.679 probably told her over and over that it was gonna fail, and she was 230 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.120 just like at the point where Okay, Justin, now I have to tell 231 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.960 you you just told me it's gonna fail, but you're not even seeing it. 232 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.600 Probably probably maybe not, You're You're probably right because that's what she does 233 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.840 to me. Yeah, she used to do the same thing to me, 234 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.519 And honestly, I really like her a lot. I still do. I 235 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:03.440 wish I could have won back to seeing her with our insurance. I don't 236 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.519 know why she doesn't take our insurance because as a pretty large insurance company, 237 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.319 Well, it's not that she doesn't take it, it's the insurance that we 238 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.720 have. They don't pay for anything that's not in network, Like we have 239 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.680 to go to in network people and they said that, oh, she's got 240 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:25.920 to get this certain license, and I don't know, it's just one of 241 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:33.240 those deals in America around Yeah, yeah, he said, she said, 242 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.440 and La la lah Da dah. But again, it all starts with desire. 243 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.680 She had a desire to see us. Let she would go do that. 244 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:48.200 But nah, it's cool, and I'm glad that we do have insurance 245 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.079 We're able to do that. And now our insurance stuff's going up. And 246 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.400 then you know, to see a therapist again, we got to pay like 247 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.039 fifteen dollars still cheaper I had to pay through BES place I worked for. 248 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.720 Yeah, but I want you guys to pay nothing. But here's the in 249 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.799 the flip side of this, which has been driving me nuts this whole time. 250 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.480 Because it's great. I already got a whole idea planned after June, 251 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:15.359 after I get back from North Carolina, I'm taking some fmla time, probably 252 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:22.240 like in not August, September, not October, probably November. You got 253 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.920 it planned out there, you go, because I got things I gotta do, 254 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:33.279 like July, August, September. My birthday is in October. That 255 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:40.519 might be a good state for my birthday. Yeah, and it it's good 256 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:44.759 and one in it's a good. Okay. So right now we have Priorty 257 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.759 Health and we have this hospital deal where if you go to the hospital, 258 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:51.240 you gotta pay a thousand bucks that's it. You know, you're you could 259 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.960 be there for three years and all you pay is a thousand dollars. Not 260 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:59.000 bad, you have a child, which Marty and I are having a child. 261 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.200 Some bucks. Not bad? Okay, not bad, I would say, 262 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:03.400 not bad. When I first thought, I was like, oh, 263 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.079 that's not bad. Well, the new policy that starts June first, which 264 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:15.200 my son will be born before then two hundred bucks. Well, hopefully he 265 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.839 can hold out that. I have two microphones, that's a camera. Well, 266 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.680 that's a room we could get painted. We'll just pray for a five 267 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.799 day layover. That's not happening, and hopefully he's born on June first. 268 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:38.599 He'll be before June. You think, what day twenty something, let's say 269 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.920 the last day an maud, You're gonna be like, why couldn't you just 270 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.119 hold on for an extra six hours? And then I was one or two, 271 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.680 like, is it the day that he comes out to the world, 272 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.119 yes, or is it the day that we leave the hospital the day or 273 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.119 is the day that we enter the hospital? Because that wouldn't make sense because 274 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.680 sometimes people will go in the hospital and then they're like, get your ass 275 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:06.279 home. You ain't ready, not for sure, you'd have to ask the 276 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:14.039 hospital m because each hospital might be different. I don't know. It's over 277 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:18.240 my over my pay grade. It's above all our pay We have to turn 278 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:23.119 it over to the man upstairs. Yeah, but it's also good for treatment 279 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.799 if you wanted to go to impatient treatment. Yeah, two hundred bucks or 280 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.920 before it was a thousand and being in the industry we're in. We're a 281 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:36.599 recovery community organization based in Traverse City, Michigan, and we hire people in 282 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:44.480 recovery. So far, everybody's holding strong, everybody's doing great. But the 283 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:49.799 fact that it is any one of us, me included, you go out, 284 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:52.960 you know, you never know, You honestly never know. And I 285 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.960 want to make sure that we have things in place to help us, you 286 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.799 know. So the therapy is one of it. And again in fifteen bucks, 287 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.319 it's not the end of the world. But still it's like, really 288 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.640 it be nothing, especially since the jacked our rates up like eighty bucks a 289 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:17.359 month per person. Yeah, so it's like damn. Of course not eighty 290 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:21.119 bucks for each person, but they said that's the average. But still it's 291 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.880 like damn. And now we got pad of pocket. But if we need 292 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:30.000 to go to the hospital or treatment. Good to go, sweet damn it. 293 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:34.200 I just wish it was two hundred bucks now. I sent him a 294 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.200 message. I'm like, can we change it to do that now? I 295 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:40.799 didn't even read what I replied because it was such a stupid question that I 296 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:48.240 sent. No question is labeled stupid. Yeah, there's some stupid answers, 297 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:53.559 like one of the Costco right. We bought a iPad for our meetings, 298 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:56.559 which you can attend one of our meetings if you've never been to one. 299 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.839 Check out our app. It just looks to seventeen recovery in the app store. 300 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:03.920 There's links on our website. If that's easier for you, just pull 301 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.480 it up on your phone two seventeen recovery dot com. See the little it's 302 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.480 at the bottom. See the little Apple or Google whatever you have. If 303 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.880 you have an Android, go there, get the app. But then you 304 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:22.599 can look for meetings on our app that we have and tune in. It's 305 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.400 fun. A lot of people do that. So we needed this iPad because 306 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:27.799 we had this other thing that really wasn't working very well. So we got 307 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:32.640 the iPad. Everything was cool, So we got it from Costco. Well, 308 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:37.680 we're registered whatever as a nonprofit, so we're tax exempt, except Costco 309 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.880 says, well, no, no, no, no, because that's an 310 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:45.720 Apple product. What does that have to do with us not paying the federal 311 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:51.559 government taxes? All right, we're state taxes, Like this doesn't make any 312 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:52.519 sense. Well, we have an agreement with Apple, and I'm like, 313 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.000 all right, now, you know what, I need to make a big 314 00:22:55.000 --> 00:23:00.000 deal about it that night, just whatever, I'll call your people and figure 315 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:04.359 this. It's not a coupon, this is tax exempt status R. And 316 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:08.279 so that was in February. So we're finally like getting back around, like 317 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:11.799 okay, what are we going to do because it was like sixty seventy bucks 318 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.720 of taxes and you know, there's people who donate money to us, which 319 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.400 we really appreciate, and we don't want to just waste it on taxes, 320 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:26.240 right state with taxes. So we finally get Costco and they're like, yeah, 321 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:29.519 no, we have an agreement with Apple. And I'm like that just 322 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:33.079 doesn't make any sense, Like what do you what do you mean? And 323 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.480 so I wrote an email to them. It's like tax request at costco dot 324 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.480 com and I was like, what are you what are you talking about? 325 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.200 Like this doesn't make sense, can you please explain this to me? And 326 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.480 then that's what I got back was well, we have an agreement with Apple 327 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:57.640 that says we can't have any reduction in price or exemptions in price. And 328 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:02.279 I was like, okay, well there's no redemption and price exemptions in the 329 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:04.799 tax and I was I called them stupid, and I was like, so 330 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:11.319 if the people who run your company thinks that taxes, not paying taxes on 331 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.839 something is an exemption from the sale price of the item, then they're stupid. 332 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:17.880 And I feel sorry for you that you have to work for a company 333 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:21.480 who has such stupid people in charge. Yep, and didn't bring me back. 334 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:25.359 That's one thing about Apple I really love because no matter where you go, 335 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:30.839 an Apple product is at that price. I can I buy stuff from 336 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:36.599 Apple directly. It's taxes. They don't charge me tax because we're a nonprofit. 337 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:40.039 And the one thing is, like you go to Walmart to look at 338 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.799 for an Apple charger or whatever, an actual Apple charger, not an off 339 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:47.200 brand actual Apple charger, The same charger is going to be the same price 340 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:51.160 from Walmart to Target to best Buy. Now one of them may have a 341 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:56.039 sale because they got authorization through Apple. But the price will never be higher, 342 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.240 maybe cheaper, but never higher than said price. And it's typically the 343 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.359 same said prices on their website and best I had the same sale going on, 344 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.279 but it was a little bit further across town, and I was like, 345 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.200 we'll just get it here, right, But now I'm like, damn 346 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.400 it, and I gotta take it back. Will they even take it back 347 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.720 now? Yeah, like ninety days, so we got like a week. 348 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.720 But I bought a and I don't even care. I'll buy this out of 349 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.480 my own pocket because I bought a screen protector for it. Mm hm, 350 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:33.440 I don't remember what that was, but it could be the same price as 351 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.480 the taxes. But still, like just the principle of it, Like, 352 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.319 I really don't care like that. That is dumb. It doesn't make any 353 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:41.960 sense to me. They couldn't explain it to me except for repeating the same 354 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:47.599 stuff over and over about while we have an agreement with Apple that no, 355 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:49.519 you're agreeing with Apples, you're not going to change the price of their shit, 356 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:53.319 yea, nothing to do with taxes. Like, I'm so confused by 357 00:25:53.319 --> 00:26:00.680 why the tax department doesn't understand this. So were people problems? Man, 358 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:06.079 I'm telling you they're great. So I went to a concert last weekend. 359 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:11.799 Oh yeah, let's let's recap this. Went and seen a demo. They 360 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:17.599 were really good. Seeing Tantric, I think the lead singer for got his 361 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.920 songs because like a few of them he's sang really good, and some of 362 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:26.559 them he like missed half the words, but the rest of the band knew 363 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:33.519 what they were playing. It's kind of weird seeing Trapped, it was all 364 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:38.960 right, he was kind of getting a little messed up on stage. And 365 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:47.640 then I've seen Josie Scott Oldly, singer of Saliva, and he may have 366 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:53.640 been drinking a beer on stage. What yeah, what you beer shaming people? 367 00:26:55.799 --> 00:27:00.279 Well, you know, I did a little research on this. Okay, 368 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:06.799 supposedly Saliva in him parted ways. He claims it was due to have 369 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:11.920 more family time, okay, to raise his kids. Now. According to 370 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:17.599 the Saliva side on things, he needed to step away due to substance use 371 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.839 disorder problem with alcohol and drugs. That's common too, right, so it's 372 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:30.440 pretty common. But he claims that he's in recovery now. But how can 373 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:36.799 you drink a beer and be in recovery defense? So you ask, I 374 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.039 guess beers a day now, he just drinks one. I guess you're in 375 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:45.720 recovery when you say you're in recovery. That's what they tell us. But 376 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:52.319 you know, it's a very slippery slope. If you start with one beer, 377 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.960 it's never going to end with just one beer. It wouldn't for me. 378 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.519 It wouldn't it for me neither. Oh just here, Justin's just one 379 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.920 line. Well, I'm sorry that one line's not gonna be enough. You've 380 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.400 got the rest of the bag for the mirror. I don't know. I 381 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.839 don't know what you want me to do, because that's just gonna tease me. 382 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.920 Yeah, even being four year and a half years clean, it would 383 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:22.279 still tease me and want me to do more. Like, I just don't 384 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.559 get it, Like why I start that, I don't know. Maybe he's 385 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:32.640 like jelly roll jelly rolls like recovery, or I don't take pills no more. 386 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:37.799 But on the back of his jackets like I'm a comb guzlin or whatever 387 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:42.559 it says, blunt smoking drinking. Sorry for the reference of this slom American. 388 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:45.519 Oh yeah, that's what I was thinking of. That's some things for 389 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:49.759 the same there, Justin. Yeah, sorry, mom, but yeah, 390 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:55.279 it's like wait, what, like you can't oh, and he's drinking and 391 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:56.640 doing this. I'm like no, no, no, no, no no 392 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.160 no no no no no no, no recovery. And that's fine. Man, 393 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:02.720 don't be in recovery. Like you don't do drugs anymore, you don't 394 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.319 do pills anymore. That's fine. You know, Like I can say I 395 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:08.319 don't drink anymore, but so I can go out and smoke meth. No, 396 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:11.200 I'm in recovery. It's the same thing. No, it's no, 397 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.200 yes it is. It's the same exact thing. Oh, I just don't 398 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.119 drink anymore, but I smoke weed. Well, some people are like, 399 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.279 well, you're not in recovery. Nope, I'm using a mind off during 400 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.240 substance. Yeah, but man, this this strand, I can make excuse 401 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.079 after excuse, aric excuse about alcohol too. Well. Yeah, but see 402 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:33.319 whiskey doesn't get me as drunk as vodka, right, you know, I'm 403 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.039 only drinking seventy proof stuff. Man, it's way different like this. You 404 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.279 know, if I just drink a wine cooler, I don't even think they 405 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:44.079 make those anymore. But then maybe who knows. I'm the point of this 406 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.880 is, yes, I can make every excuse that the guy who's smoking weed 407 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.119 can. Oh, it's natural. Okay, it's from potato. It's natural 408 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.440 too, bro, Like the weed is not natural. Now, you know, 409 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.880 I stepped up my game and I might have some class. So I'm 410 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.440 gonna start drinking Scotch there you go. Yeah, and I just drink you 411 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.240 know, one one glass a day. Now the glass is as big as 412 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:11.359 a coffee mug. But that's cool. Oh no, it's you know, 413 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.440 and that's what people do. You know. You can make it any excuse 414 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.279 for it if you want. But I can say, yeah, no, 415 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.759 I don't drink anymore, but I don't smoke weed anymore, but I do 416 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.200 heroin on the weekend. Right, wait what, it doesn't make any sense. 417 00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:32.640 So and again, at the end of the day, I'm only talking 418 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:37.640 about me because I don't really care what other people do. But to say 419 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:40.599 that you're in recovery when you're not, you don't have to be in recovery, 420 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.319 man, right, you know, Like that's the thing, and I 421 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.440 think everybody wants people to say they're in recovery. Well, it's like the 422 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:53.400 new bandwagon, it is. And you go, you go to different trainings 423 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.000 and they tell you, like you said earlier, you're in recovery when you 424 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.920 say you are, but you gotta have two years clearfore wait wait what, 425 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.839 oh, don't don't don't don't say clean anymore, say not using abstinence from 426 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:08.279 drug. Okay, well it was abstinence from this drug, but not that. 427 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:12.640 Well that's fine because that's different and your recovery, say, And it's 428 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:15.279 like a big circle that just goes around around because I think they want to 429 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.319 include more people, so they want to say hey, and they don't want 430 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.119 to turn people away before when one day they want to be in recovery. 431 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.200 But I think by I don't want to say like beating around the bush but 432 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:32.519 not just addressing the issue, they're making it easier for them to go back 433 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.200 out and use. And it's like saying, oh, well, relapse is 434 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.599 part of recovery. Relapse is part of the diction. Is it truly is? 435 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.200 But if you start getting people to think that way, like oh, 436 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.559 well I can just go use it this weekend and then just come back and 437 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.079 nothing's nothing's going to be wrong. Yeah, I lost my job and got 438 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.839 kicked out of my house or so we're living. But it's cool because everybody 439 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.680 tells me it's cool. Yes, you know that, That's not a way 440 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.559 I found because again, I want to dream at fifty times, man, 441 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.799 I tried every single thing I could think of to do it my way, 442 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.599 and it's how I was ready to give up. I wasn't having a very 443 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:13.799 good life right and when I was finally like, all right, I'm gonna 444 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.480 do it, I'm not going to drink and I'm not going to do weed. 445 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:20.799 I'm not going to do anything, and I'm going to change my life. 446 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:23.039 I don't know what I'm going to do, but here's what I want 447 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.920 to do. So what do I do to start that? And then we 448 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.640 started to seventeen Recovery and things just kind of went from there. But like 449 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:37.319 you had to be willing to step out and take a leap of faith and 450 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.200 trust that God's got you. And I don't know what I'm doing, Like 451 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:44.519 there's a lot of times where I'm just like, well, We've got to 452 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.799 put it in God's hands now, because I think this is what he wants 453 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:51.160 me to do. I mean, clearly is like Marnie, you know, 454 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:54.400 when here I am wanting a woman that's going to love me like I love 455 00:32:54.480 --> 00:33:00.599 her and someone who I can respect and someone who's intelligent and beautiful and just 456 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:06.079 a good, good person. And I was praying for that and then here 457 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.279 comes to Marty in my life and I'm no. I started making excuses. 458 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.480 I'm not good enough. I don't have a boat, I don't I don't 459 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:13.599 have a job, you know, too busy, Yeah, because I quit 460 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.759 my job. And that was just like all at that end, time was 461 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:20.319 just going to school. But you know, there was some nagging in there 462 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:22.960 when I did. I had two jobs manager of a sober living home, 463 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.559 and it was like the I would say, nagging, you know about and 464 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:29.200 she just wanted to talk to me. You know, it's very innocent, 465 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.240 but I found excuses pushed her away, and then God was like what are 466 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.680 you doing right, Like this is the woman you've been praying for. I 467 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.880 put her in your life and you just push her away. And then so 468 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:43.640 I tried to call her back and was like, hey, I'm not a 469 00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:45.559 booty calls, which she told me. I was like, damn it, 470 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.160 no you're not. But I know I messed this up. But then you 471 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.480 know, we ended up getting back together or whatever. But like that was 472 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.440 a sign from God and if you look back at some of our vehicle issues. 473 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.960 Let's take that for example, Yeah, boom boom boom boom boom boom, 474 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.839 maybe those are signed from gaging. All you might want to look into 475 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.920 maybe trying to get some new ones. And then you know, we're trying 476 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.440 to reach out to different organizations, different people, because the main thing we 477 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:14.559 do really is take people to them from treatment. Well, I mean, 478 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.840 there's so many main things we do at this point, but take people to 479 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.559 them from treatment who have no other way to get there. That's why I 480 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:25.480 mentioned earlier the governor writing a bus to treatment and some treatment clothes, because 481 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.880 getting someone there using a recovery coach is huge. It is such an advantage 482 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.079 for them, it's insane, and it's great for the recovery coach he's driving. 483 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:39.400 And now really that you know, it's even more sad because now we 484 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:47.199 technically only have one vehicle that we have to do rides. Yeah, and 485 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:51.039 it's tough. It is tough. So are we going to sit around and 486 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:52.800 wait for them one to break down and be f e somewhere. No, 487 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:55.000 like, we got to make a move. We gotta do something, and 488 00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.639 like these other organizations are just like oh, with the opioid response money whatever. 489 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:06.519 Whatever. Yeah, I know counties that are spending it. The county 490 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:10.280 we're in, they're holding meetings every month. That's pretty cool. But it 491 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:14.039 was like brought up, Hey, how about we give to seventeen some stuff 492 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.880 and this is immediate. This stuff is immediate. And what they do they 493 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:22.440 can't use their grants to buy vehicles, so let's help. We love what 494 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.880 they do. Everybody agrees, Oh, yeah, that's great. That's great 495 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:28.239 until it comes time to hey, can we give them a little piece of 496 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:32.280 this. Oh hold on, let's vote on this next time. Okay, 497 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.159 never mind, We'll just be because honestly, I think the county is their 498 00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:43.079 number two because after doing the report and so that way we could show who 499 00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:49.119 does what. I think our county that we reside in is number two on 500 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:54.960 our list for the most rides I remember correctly, Like they're in the top 501 00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:00.360 three of the rides that we do. Yep, I'd say they're probably one. 502 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.840 No, no, no, our friends across the street are number one 503 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:13.039 out of the I'm so cred as far as when they're voting on it, 504 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:20.559 you know, but the rides that we offer, we've given our number two 505 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:23.920 slot for most rides that we've done so far has been for the county that 506 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:29.760 we reside in, for Grand Travers County, like the jail yep. Okay, 507 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:35.559 I thought you were saying Ionia County was number one and Grand travisers Okay, 508 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.199 I was saying Grand Travers County is probably number one. We give people 509 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:43.079 rights to and from, but as a county, not the court or the 510 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.079 sheriff, none of them. I just met the county because you know, 511 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.239 technically do rights for the county. Oh yeah, for the county. I'm 512 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.199 sure it's probably right up there is the top county that we do rights. 513 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.320 Yeah. And it's just like one day they're going to call us and they're 514 00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.639 like, yeah, well, all of our cars are in the shop getting 515 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:02.039 worked on because they have two hundred fifty thousand miles on them. M Chevyes 516 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.880 aren't supposed to do that. Neither are Fords, because they're supposed to rust 517 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.800 out way before that. Yeah, Fords will rust out before they ever die. 518 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.719 Yeah, and that's a good thing. And I guess I mean at 519 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:20.920 least the powertrain stays running. Yeah. But then you start getting into because 520 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.880 you know, when our vehicles was twenty twelve and they're to twenty fifteen. 521 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:28.440 Oh yeah, they don't make that part anymore, right, Like we don't 522 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:30.639 have a backup camera now, right, because they went in to look at 523 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:36.239 something else and they're like, oh that for the switch. Yeah, and 524 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.760 they tried unplugged or it was broken. They don't make it anymore. But 525 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:43.000 in reality, all they had to do was unscrew some bolts, pop the 526 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:47.239 whole panel down, take out the switch, unplug the switch from the wiring 527 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.840 harness they disconnected. Why they disconnected that part of the wiring harness is beyond 528 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.320 me, but yeah, some people's kids. Yeah, that was like eleven 529 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:01.159 hundred bucks just to look at that and then give it back to us with 530 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:07.760 more broke shit right again, No license plate lights don't work, like we 531 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:13.599 lost power across the whole lift gate. Yeah, thanks, yep, but 532 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.679 yeah, so call us for a ride. Let's don't see what we can 533 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.679 do, right. Well, that's that's the frustrating thing, is like the 534 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.760 people that we help have nothing to do with this, no, you know. 535 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:28.000 And it's the same thing when the treatment center up north left me left 536 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.199 only like five grand and they ended up paying like twenty three hundreds or something, 537 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:34.840 and it's like wait, hold on, like, so you guys are 538 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:39.000 actually getting tons of money from people from them being there, but yet and 539 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:43.639 because they didn't turn the paperwork in, that's the reason why we didn't get 540 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:47.960 paid. Failure to do their job, their job. And I can sit 541 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.239 here and be like I hate them whatever, blah blah blah. I think 542 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:54.039 it's really petty of them to not step up and do the right thing. 543 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:59.199 But again, it's not about them, right, I don't think that person 544 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.480 works there anymore. I don't know, man, But it was just it 545 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.239 was very frustrating. But again, my beef with them or my beef with 546 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.239 another treatment center doesn't matter. I'm taking this person where they need to go, 547 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.280 and that's the bottom line. And that's that's what it is. You 548 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.800 know, Like when I take people to treatment centers and I'm just like they 549 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.960 owe me money, I'll say that, I say, this is a good 550 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.119 place, here's the stuff that you can do, and you know, work 551 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:27.800 on yourself, do whatever, blah blah, And depending on what they're saying 552 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.800 too, you know, but I don't. I don't bash them because it's 553 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:35.800 not about that. It's about this person making it to a place and feeling 554 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.559 safe and feeling confident when they walk in. Then you know they could change 555 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.480 their life if they want to. I've actually referred to a lot of people 556 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:47.480 to them after meeting some of their employees. Yeah. Actually, I'd like 557 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:52.440 to take a day aside to go up there and actually tour their facility to 558 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:59.440 feel still a tease up there, you know, because I think to actually 559 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:02.320 see what they do on one side for the males and then see what they 560 00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:07.480 do on the female slash family side would be really awesome to actually be able 561 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:12.159 to see what they do when. Because I do, I'm like, hey, 562 00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:15.559 this place is really great. You guys are gonna like it. They 563 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.199 really care. All their employees really care. They put forth their best effort 564 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:23.039 into making sure you're taken care of. Yeah. I like other people there, 565 00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:28.400 except for the well maybe the one guy who was like word and asked 566 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.880 for none of them riotes. I was like, it's funny you did, 567 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:35.119 because everybody who called me one of your employees, their name is on that 568 00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.519 right as the one who called the requests the right. So don't tell me 569 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.880 that put me a petty because you guys didn't file it. You didn't, 570 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.480 you didn't you didn't send it off to get reimbursed. But we don't have 571 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:47.920 to worry about that anymore either, you know, because we're getting reimbursed from 572 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.880 the PHP, which is great, makes a lot easier. And they've they've 573 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.559 just been a godsend to NMRI. Yeah, up here, we've for the 574 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:01.760 services we provide for their clients, period has been a godsend because how many 575 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:07.159 lives are we saving, how many er visits are we saving the insurance company, 576 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:12.639 you know, by taking this person to actually go get the treatment they 577 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.880 need versus leaving them at their home until a friend calls nine one one. 578 00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:21.760 Well let's get an ambulance, you know, let's ship them to the hospital. 579 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.679 All well, from there they spend how many days in the detax in 580 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:31.159 the hospital? That's expensive. Yeah, I had to take a ambulance from 581 00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:37.239 Buchanan to Grand Rapids. It's pretty far. Yeah, I bet, and 582 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.440 I had Medicaid, you know, and it was just like, oh, 583 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.599 I have no other way to get there, you know. And that's that's 584 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:47.960 a swim of thing. That's Southwest Michigan bayor Health or the PIHP there. 585 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.440 Not a big fan, no, not a big fan of any of them. 586 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.119 Except for Mr. Right. Neither of am I because they're they're so 587 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.599 set and telling you no. It's like they have like a meeting before they 588 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.440 start their day, you know, on Mondays will come in here and do 589 00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:05.440 a weekly check in. I think they do that daily. We're like, 590 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:10.320 okay, no, ha Bob, No, all right, everybody's got their 591 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.400 nose and let's go. No Ah, it's the phone. No Ah, 592 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.599 I don't stop playing. You really have to answer that now, stop it 593 00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:21.199 with the nose, you know. I think that's a little game for them 594 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.719 or something. They act like it's coming out of their pocket. Yeah, 595 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:29.199 their personal Let me get my check book out and one person that Swimba, 596 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:30.400 you know, they told me like, what are we going to waste our 597 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:34.840 money on you again? Sending you to an impatient treatment center? You obviously 598 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.599 don't learn anything. Oh, thanks, appreciate it. I feel like I 599 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:42.599 just got hit by a truck. You know. I'm shaking and I can't 600 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:47.280 stop. The only way to stop is to go drink more. I'm I'm 601 00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:51.719 tired. It was a bad idea. I thought I could hide a It 602 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:54.039 was like a twenty two ounce something and I don't remember if I found it 603 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:59.119 under the bed, or if I stashed it under the bed, like oh, 604 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.719 couple relapses before, I think that's what happened. And I found it 605 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:08.199 and I was like, oh I could probably drink that. Nope, I 606 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:12.119 couldn't, you know, speaking with drinking that. I went and got some 607 00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.159 more and then I never stopped, Like after I moved back in with my 608 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.920 current roommate, Like I went through the whole apartment, every little nook and 609 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:24.800 cranny. I'm like, what's all in here? Bro, Like we're not 610 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:30.079 we're not playing this game again, Like we're gonna find all the empty ones 611 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:35.960 now throw them all away. So that way there is none there's no desire 612 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:40.039 saying oh well I found it and it looked tempting, so I just went 613 00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:44.119 and bought more. You know, I've had a good couple of months. 614 00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:47.360 Why not reward myself. And that's the way that our addiction will speak to 615 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:50.679 us. You know, well, we've had a good couple of months, 616 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.599 you deserve one. Well, we know it don't stop at one, especially 617 00:43:53.599 --> 00:44:00.440 with bench drinkers, and you know, it's it spirals out of control really 618 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:07.159 fast, and it's it's sad. You know, I really like my roommate. 619 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:13.239 I think it's a really great person, you know, but occasionally it'll 620 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:19.639 relapse. Once you do, it's it's tough to stop, and you can 621 00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:23.760 tell yourself you're not gonna drink it one hundred days in a row, that 622 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:28.440 one hundred and first when you're like, at today's the thing, it's it's 623 00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.639 gonna happen. It's done. It's over, and you won't stop it. 624 00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.719 And if you do, okay, if you're lucky enough to just I'm just 625 00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:37.480 gonna do it tonight, it's gonna do it this weekend, that next weekend, 626 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.679 you're going back harder than before because you made it. And I'm telling 627 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.159 you, like that's I've tried it so many different times. He calls me 628 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:50.079 as a little bloodhound because I can smell olchol from a mile away. I 629 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:54.760 swear like OA call has always been kind of gross to me, but I've 630 00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:59.400 always had a nose for it. And I remember when I lived with him 631 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.039 before I walked in and he's laying on the couch. I walked into the 632 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.920 bathroom, all I could smell was alcohol, and I walked back out there. 633 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:08.679 He's like trying to act like he's passed out. So I wait till 634 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:12.599 the next day. I'm like, there's no way in how you were sleeping 635 00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.000 at seven o'clock last night. You were drunk, you were passed out. 636 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.760 I could smell it in the apartment as soon as I walked in. He 637 00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:22.000 was like, no, you couldn't. I was like, yeah, I 638 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.000 could. You're busted, dude. He was like, man, there's nothing 639 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:31.320 getting past you hung I was like, nope, you know, I can 640 00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:36.480 just smell it. I don't know what it is. The smell just kind 641 00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.960 of turns me off. Like I enjoy going to concerts and stuff, but 642 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:43.960 the biggest thing I hate is the smell of alcohol. I could be around 643 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.280 one hundred people smoking weed, be fine, be around a hundred people drinking, 644 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:52.519 and I'd just rather walk away. I don't know what it is. 645 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:58.400 Well, that's how it makes people first, And I don't know. Like 646 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.440 the weed thing is a little much for me sometimes. But if I'm at 647 00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:06.320 the store and somebody walks past me and I skip the whiff of alcohol, 648 00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:09.519 and I'm just like, really, dude, right, But you don't see 649 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:12.440 that as much as you do the weed. You know, people think they 650 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.159 can just smoke weed and drive around, which no, they got a woman 651 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:22.039 reach out to us, or a person reach out to us and ask for 652 00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:29.559 some help about, you know, stopping weed. And I sent a message 653 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.079 back, didn't hear anything back, and then I sent another message with some 654 00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:38.159 videos about like what marijuana does to you and the steps that happen in your 655 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:43.599 brain and in your body when you do stop smoking weed. And it was 656 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.599 pretty interesting, and I hope they took that to heart and realized, like, 657 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.079 it's it's not gonna be the easiest thing. And you know, weed's 658 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:54.800 not as oh it's just harmless, man, it's it's legal again, stop 659 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:59.679 it. If you think the state or government cares about you, then they 660 00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:04.320 don't. This is all about making money. It's why they come up with 661 00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:08.039 recreational weed. So that way, it's the most tax thing in Michigan, 662 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:14.800 the highest tax. They're breaking all this money off of it. And then 663 00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.519 they got the alcohol tax. They breaking all this money off alcohol tax too, 664 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:24.280 cigarette tax. Everything bad for you is tax to death and the state 665 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:28.840 just makes tons of money on it. And all they got to do is 666 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:34.360 say, oh, well, you're responsible for putting out these commercials, say 667 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:38.920 please drink responsibly. Yeah, well, if I could drink responsibly, I 668 00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:45.199 wouldn't be in the situation I'm in. You know, it's just a snowball 669 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:49.679 effect. It's a money. It's a numbers game to them. It's nothing 670 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:57.679 else strictly numbers. Yeah, that's how I kind of look at it. 671 00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.639 And when you look at it, if you took it away, like if 672 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:09.199 if people didn't do if people stopped committing crimes for a whole month, that 673 00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:16.199 would cripple the system. You know, crime sometime, I would drug everything. 674 00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:21.880 If you just if people just stopped for a month, the jails are 675 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:28.639 empty, it would It would be nuts and then he is not a crime. 676 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:30.840 But if you stop, if everybody just stopped drinking, stop smoking weed, 677 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:37.559 stop smoking cigarettes, stop vaping for a month, crippled it would? 678 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.760 It would? Because they depend on that money. It's ten dollars. It's 679 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:46.000 ten dollars now for a pack of cigarettes. Their schools are nice, aren't 680 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:54.000 they. Man that saw this sad because I saw what the state gave, 681 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:59.920 because they got billions of dollars or whatever, and they gave like it's like 682 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:06.119 one point five million of the schools. Oh good job, Northern schools. 683 00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:08.480 Like that may help out Detroit's public schools, But what about the rest of 684 00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:15.119 the state nothing. And I was at a grocery store the other day and 685 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:19.039 I was reading they had like a little lotto thing up there, and they 686 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.000 kind of want to make you feel better about giving the money to them, 687 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.800 and they're like, we've spent twenty three billion dollars on schools. Let's pump 688 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.679 the brakes on that, because they're I think they're including all the states that 689 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.679 run that lottery, right, which, okay, Texas they might have given 690 00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.840 eight million, you know, but they're combining it all to make it seem 691 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:39.000 like this huge number. It's like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, 692 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:45.639 whoa whoa. That was me stopping it like an old record player. But 693 00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:49.679 yeah, as Michigan's where's the rest of that money going? Right? Oh, 694 00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.639 well, we put the rest in which is this is the funniest part 695 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.199 of it. Well not really. It goes to the EMS workers' pension fund. 696 00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.239 That's weird the fuck, like what And it goes to help them pay 697 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:13.119 their deductibles for their health insurance what sense. And that's another one I didn't 698 00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:15.599 touch on. Out of all the taxes, like you have the gambling tax 699 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:22.320 in the state, Like there's that going Justin. It's going to help people 700 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:27.199 with the commercials and billboards, right right, m h call that number. 701 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.599 I'm telling you call that eight hundred number. I need to one of these 702 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.199 days. You can be so let down. Also, just were you in 703 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.360 here? When you were in here? When I called it was I? 704 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:38.800 Was it Mitch? I think it was Mitch. I don't think I was 705 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:43.119 here for that one. I'm gone a lot, and you get me confused. 706 00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:46.719 Like we see each other some days, but in other days it's just 707 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:52.519 in passing and we crack jokes on each other, you know, Adam, 708 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:55.360 Adam, And then you tell me you quit breaking stuff as you were walking 709 00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:59.559 out the door, like, please don't break nothing tomorrow, would you please? 710 00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:02.199 It doesn't help me telling you that. It's not like I do it 711 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:08.440 intentionally. I can't control when the liftgate motor is just going to pop off 712 00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:15.119 its little balls attached to Yeah, I don't know. Justin. Then the 713 00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:19.360 TV wasn't working here earlier. I was like, did Justin have anything to 714 00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:25.280 do with this? In your office? No? In the meeting room. 715 00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:32.400 Oh dang, it got my new TV, thanks Justin. You know what 716 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.239 I got big shoulders. I can handle a lot of things. Yeah, 717 00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:43.119 and it's okay for you to blame me when something breaks. I'll give you 718 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:47.239 the outlet. Yeah, we got to wrap it up before we do though. 719 00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:52.920 Oh yeah, we got to talk about some events. Yes, yes, 720 00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.639 of course you fam. We talked about this next Thursday, Lancing. 721 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.480 We have a link on our website and we made a video which is kind 722 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:07.559 of cute. Two seventeen Recovery dot com. Check that out, and we 723 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:10.800 have Reeling in Recovery. Yes, that would be our next event. Well, 724 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:15.559 we have another one coming up Monday, but that's yeah, making meals 725 00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:20.760 in May with Loreana West in Traversity, I learned how to cook healthy hell 726 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:27.880 yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. And yeah, Reeling in Recovery yep. 727 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.119 Which we're gonna go fishing June eighth and ninth. It's free fishing weekend 728 00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.679 in Michigan. I can't wait to see the promo video for that and Jay 729 00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:37.880 supporting it. Yeah, we've been doing some silly stuff at the office. 730 00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:43.440 Jay sporting good in gay Lord. I don't call it gay Lord, f 731 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.960 YI, Gaylord. They hooked us up a couple of fishing poles and a 732 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:50.400 little bit of gear, and we went out and got some more, but 733 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:54.480 appreciate them for doing that and supporting people in recovery, because fishing is what 734 00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.519 I've heard people say, I don't know how much if it's sober, Yeah, 735 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.400 fish drink. How am I going to do this sober? We're gonna 736 00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:04.840 take some people out. We're going to fish. But since we have a 737 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:08.039 limited amount of poles, we were like, we're gonna definitely get more than 738 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:12.360 this signing up, so we're gonna have to break it up into shifts the 739 00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:15.960 way people can take turn with a pole. So eight to nine on the 740 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.000 eighth, I'm going to run a team out there. Nine to ten, 741 00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:22.400 You're going to be the guide, and then Mitch is going to do ten 742 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:24.880 to eleven guy, And then we're gonna have like a little picnic or whatever 743 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.000 at the park too, so that'll be fun. And I sent you a 744 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.119 bunch of fishing pictures. You did, you asked? They're going in there, 745 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:32.960 they're going on the pro so you can see a lot of my trophies 746 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:38.360 that I've caught over my life span, and you'll see mine winter on the 747 00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:45.360 river on the lake. Mitch in any No, he's fishing by himself. 748 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:52.199 He doesn't. I don't believe that because even when I went fishing by myself, 749 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.199 like you still take pictures of your fish. It's kind of like one 750 00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:58.920 of those things. If you don't take pictures, then it happened, right. 751 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:04.519 And another thing we got coming up in June is Recovery Stories Part three, 752 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.280 Yes, with Sober Eats being a food truck. Yeah. Yeah, 753 00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:13.440 I've been NMRI is helping us out with that because the last two events we 754 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:16.719 did it on our own and everybody was like, hey, you know and 755 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:24.960 Dave. I got Dave, David Freeman, he was like, hey, 756 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:28.320 you know, this could be possible that we can help you with this. 757 00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:32.960 So like okay, cool. So they're helping us, so big things to 758 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.400 them. Yeah, and it's going to help people in early recovery. And 759 00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:42.000 it's a fun event. Like you said, food truck. He doesn't love 760 00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:45.920 some tacos sober Eats. And we are also doing a couple of events for 761 00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:52.199 cherry Fest. Yeah. Following that, if you are interested in helping us 762 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:54.639 at cherry Fest, please come in and sign up at the office. See 763 00:54:54.719 --> 00:55:00.559 Mitch, he's having that little division this year. I was a shot that 764 00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:01.599 was going to work and I was like, probably shouldn't commit to that. 765 00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.599 And next thing I know, he's running around with a volunteer sheet form and 766 00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.360 he's like, nope, I got it. We can get them because he 767 00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:13.559 went last year. It was fun. You know. I drove sometimes people 768 00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.679 back and forth, all the times you drove us. One day, I 769 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:20.079 showed up on time to work and you're like, you're supposed to be here 770 00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:23.480 a half hour ago. Where were you at? And I was like, 771 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:30.679 oh, sorry, I forgot about that, but it was needed. You 772 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.639 know. There's a lot of traffic, crazy stuff going on. So yeah, 773 00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:37.199 we have some events coming up. It'll be pretty cool. The fishing 774 00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:45.559 thing will be fun. And recovery stories Message of Hope Part three. We 775 00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:54.840 got Luke telling her story right, yep, Sorry, Marnie's texting me about 776 00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:02.199 coming home or the office. And then we got Tim right, who's confirmed? 777 00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:06.400 Now I got two thumbs up, So I don't know what that means, 778 00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:10.440 but I'm a man named Tim. I'm pretty sure that's confirmed then. 779 00:56:12.039 --> 00:56:15.840 And who's given the stories? Because those are our Messages of Hope, our 780 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:23.639 very own Matt re Becky sweet and our friend Corey Smoker. Awesome, I 781 00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.599 can't wait, I said, friend. Yeah, Now she's gonna be with 782 00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:31.039 us at the U family to helping out her and her husband. Yes, 783 00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:37.480 it'll be fun. And who's I'm seeing the recovery stories this time? Big 784 00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:44.000 bear Mitch? Big Bear Mitch. Can we make him wear the bear mask? 785 00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.199 We can? We should, oh, because he'll be like, I'm 786 00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:51.159 not looked nothing over eight pounds, and he'll start telling us what he's gonna 787 00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:52.440 do, but he won't mention the mask. So hit him with the mask. 788 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.679 Oh, yeah, you gotta wear the mask. Yeah, we should 789 00:56:54.719 --> 00:57:00.320 definitely make him wear of the mask and the jean jacket. Yes, yeah, 790 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.000 yeah, But it'll be fun and there'll be more details on the fishing 791 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:08.119 trip probably will be up tomorrow, because how you're going to get into that 792 00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:13.960 is you're going to sign up and then you're gonna pick whatever guide you want 793 00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:15.840 or maybe whatever time you want. Right, maybe you're like, I'm an 794 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:17.840 eight to nine kind of guy. I think that'd be great. Well, 795 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:22.199 then you want to be fishing with me. You don't have to bait your 796 00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:27.440 hook, you won't have to get the fish off the hook. It sounded 797 00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:31.639 bad and maybe some drone I don't know, is it a legal official drone? 798 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:36.280 I don't know, you find find out where they're at. And did 799 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:38.280 that at the in the bay the other day. Well, it'll be in 800 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:44.480 the video. A good scouting tool for you. Yeah, you know, 801 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.039 we'll do high tech stuff. Me on the other justice going in like Captain 802 00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:52.000 Kate Man, Yeah, I put on I don't take your fish off the 803 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:57.000 hooks. I don't either. I ain't doing none of that stuff like you 804 00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:00.800 have to bail the man your own stuff. He's throwing right back in right 805 00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:04.480 on the hook and catch a turtle. That's how you do that. That's 806 00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.639 how you catch pike. You catch your turtles too, and sharks. Let's 807 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:14.239 how you catch a big pike. The big pike I showed you. There 808 00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:17.320 you go. I have bluegill about three three or four inches. He's gonna 809 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:21.519 get him some numb numbs. And oh he sure did. Justin got him 810 00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:24.159 some numb numbs. Yeah, I think it was huge. But look at 811 00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:28.519 our website the next few days if you're interested in the fishing thing, and 812 00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:31.119 maybe it is a few days already. This is being recorded on the eighth, 813 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:37.360 so you know it's a little couple days past. Check out our website. 814 00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:39.920 Look at Justin's fishes. Check out our video. If we have that 815 00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:44.679 up and sign up. If you want to fish with us, all right, 816 00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:46.960 you don't need nothing. You don't need nothing. We got the poles, 817 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:51.320 we got the bait, we got the food woman, and my daughter 818 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:57.840 there. Justin's daughter will be there, Mitch's son won't. Maybe be there, 819 00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:01.239 who knows who. It'll be a good time even if you not fishing. 820 00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:04.000 If you want to come and hang out and has some fun, we'll 821 00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:07.840 be around later. So check out two seventeen recovery dot com and as Justin 822 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:14.800 said, uh yeah later. Thanks for listening to the two seventeen Recovery podcast. 823 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:17.960 We hope you come back for our next episode.