Speaker 1: Welcome to the two seventeen when cover of podcast. If
Speaker 1: you don't make mistakes, you won't learn. With your host,
Speaker 1: Corey Winfield, you know there was a reason why that
Speaker 1: didn't work out, and you can look back at it
Speaker 1: and go, yep, I'm glad that didn't work out how
Speaker 1: I wanted it, because I wouldn't been for it.
Speaker 2: Got your ab It is the tenth of October twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. My name is Corey Winfield, and joining me
Speaker 2: in this studio today a couple of smokers, Corey Smoker.
Speaker 3: Corey Jesse smokers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little fun Friday before you giving directions to
Speaker 1: Jesse and how to put that up to his mouth.
Speaker 3: I thought she was gonna tell me, like, no, it's
Speaker 3: here tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I look over and she's like doing I'm like what
Speaker 1: And I noticed. I was like, it's a microphone.
Speaker 5: You couldn't hear.
Speaker 1: It's very inappropriate. This is a workplace. It's now how
Speaker 1: you guys doing.
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, doing good, doing good. Happy Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 6: happy Friday. Yeah, it's a hard happy Friday. And I
Speaker 6: say that because it's gloomy in Michigan. It's a little chilly.
Speaker 6: It is gray it's dark today, beautiful. I love it.
Speaker 1: But for most people it could be it could be
Speaker 1: tough and be like, man, it's not a good day.
Speaker 1: It's dark and gloomy, cold, windy. Wife put up the
Speaker 1: Christmas tree today.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 5: She told me that when we were going to the
Speaker 5: radio station earlier.
Speaker 3: Now, I thought, I thought we came to an understanding
Speaker 3: that we were going to try to wait until least November.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the tenth. I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: be up on the first. Last year, I think the
Speaker 1: last two years it was up on the first of October.
Speaker 5: So the tenth, okay, and we're doing all right, she said,
Speaker 5: because it was cold today and stuff. She needed the
Speaker 5: comfort of the Christmas tree and the lights, and the
Speaker 5: lights are pretty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's another lamp, is what it is.
Speaker 1: It stays on all the time, and yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lamp. It's nice. I I don't know. She does
Speaker 1: it all I have to do it. So I love
Speaker 1: it and it makes her happy, so you know, but
Speaker 1: it's a little early, some would say, I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're maybe hinting at their jesse. But is it
Speaker 1: too early to be in the spirit no spirit of No.
Speaker 1: I just reminding me that I have to put presents
Speaker 1: underneath that tree. And that's that's not free.
Speaker 3: No, that's not free.
Speaker 1: You need to be reminded of that every morning when
Speaker 1: I get up. Now, next sixty some days. This is great.
Speaker 1: I love you, honey.
Speaker 5: Oh you gotta go to work because missus coming.
Speaker 1: Yes, that'll be a good excuse for out the house.
Speaker 1: But sit that over there, that got to go make
Speaker 1: this happen. Oh man, did you like that heat this morning? Yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta go to work. Turn that out like that new
Speaker 1: lamp we got. That's gonna put all your presents. That
Speaker 1: has to work for.
Speaker 5: That's the true meaning of the money tree.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Marty's like, I'm the one that makes the money.
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it is at home right now.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Women need to make more money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: The set me this last grant round. We put it
Speaker 1: in there. And they're like, why does this Marny make
Speaker 1: so much? I said, because she's a woman, that's why.
Speaker 1: D you want to know? Because she's worth it. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you pay your people. If you don't
Speaker 1: like your job, maybe you should look for a new one.
Speaker 5: I was just lapping about the Christmas tree and because
Speaker 5: you know, we have like a Christmas tree that's this
Speaker 5: big that we put up, and I was just like, Yep,
Speaker 5: I got smaller Christmas trees because they're easier to fit
Speaker 5: out the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're not talking about like, oh, a couple
Speaker 1: weeks after Christmas you get written. No, you're talking about like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta talk about your Christmas meltdown. This is great.
Speaker 1: Oh oh god.
Speaker 5: So it was like it wasn't exactly Christmas Eve yet,
Speaker 5: it was a couple of days before Christmas. Even Christmas
Speaker 5: was coming in Mikayla was I don't even know, I
Speaker 5: want to say, maybe thirteen or and she was throwing
Speaker 5: a fit and didn't want to listen, did want to
Speaker 5: just go to her room and throw a fit. And
Speaker 5: it just became meltdown status. And I probably didn't help
Speaker 5: with escalating it, obviously, yep. And so I took all
Speaker 5: of the Christmas presents that were already under there, I
Speaker 5: unwrapped them that I'm taking them back to the store,
Speaker 5: and I took the christ mystery ornaments, lights and all,
Speaker 5: and right out the front door, and I say, Christmas
Speaker 5: is done. And it's over there ain't gonna be none.
Speaker 1: Mama meant it.
Speaker 5: Well, here's what's worse. So then we went to an
Speaker 5: AA meeting that night. Ah, someone had their kids there.
Speaker 5: Well I didn't think about sugar coating any of it,
Speaker 5: or maybe just saving it.
Speaker 1: Why would you ever care about what other people around
Speaker 1: you who think or they are or whatever.
Speaker 5: So I tell this horrific thing I just did to
Speaker 5: my child, and how pissed off I was, and because
Speaker 5: I got an ungrateful child and all the money I
Speaker 5: spend and blah blah blah blah. Well, next thing, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, these kids are concerned to their mom. Did
Speaker 5: she is MICHAELA really not going to have a Christmas?
Speaker 1: D you mean?
Speaker 5: Mom? Well, when you act like a little brat, that's
Speaker 5: what you get.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well merry Christmas this year though, Yeah, marry Christmas.
Speaker 1: So this would be the first Christmas in your new home.
Speaker 3: First, Yeah, excited? First Halloween, just got it all decorated.
Speaker 1: Nice. Oh so you do Halloween. You don't just go
Speaker 1: right to Christmas.
Speaker 3: Now. I'm letting my wife do do.
Speaker 1: Like Thanksgiving too. I think we still do that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just mixed in with the Christmas always there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just let my wife do it now because
Speaker 3: for so many years I'm just like, nah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Because my birthday is in December, I really just wait
Speaker 5: until then to do Christmas. I used to wait until
Speaker 5: December thirteenth.
Speaker 1: You got cheated. Your whole child life, your whole childhood.
Speaker 1: You got cheated. I just want to tell you that
Speaker 1: your parents and other people told you didn't, but you did.
Speaker 1: They purposely gave you your birthday presents that were actually
Speaker 1: your Christmas presents. I just I just want to be
Speaker 1: the person that admits that to you right now.
Speaker 5: No, I already know that rapping.
Speaker 3: So she met her husband, and her husband is made.
Speaker 3: Birthdays and Christmas is separate and amazing because I was
Speaker 3: one two saying you got fucked.
Speaker 5: The best Christmas that we had is they didn't have
Speaker 5: to decorate at all.
Speaker 1: You want know why you were in Orlando.
Speaker 3: Close.
Speaker 5: We were in California Christmas Eve on the beach with
Speaker 5: a sand man instead of a snowman, they built a snowman.
Speaker 5: But aka, it's a sand.
Speaker 1: Man with a little water or something. The sand all muddy.
Speaker 5: No, it was away from the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how'd you do that?
Speaker 5: No, we didn't. Someone else did, like a sand castle.
Speaker 3: But competitive in that sand castle building stuff. They you know,
Speaker 3: take that stuff to a whole new level.
Speaker 1: I was just think gonna be like frolicking out there
Speaker 1: with a little shovel, like make a snowman. Okay, So
Speaker 1: in my mind, you know, it's it's impossible to do this,
Speaker 1: so it just bear with me. There are other things
Speaker 1: I'm good at in life, but that's probably not one
Speaker 1: of them. I don't think.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't foresee you even stepping on
Speaker 5: the sand.
Speaker 1: So Parker's like, when I grow up, Dad, I want
Speaker 1: to build snowmen in California on the beach sand. What Hey,
Speaker 1: you don't need to go to college, so we can
Speaker 1: take that money your mon's been saving and I can
Speaker 1: buy a boat or another camera.
Speaker 4: Perfect well, good luck son the best of coold trying
Speaker 4: to buy Anti Corey and Uncle Jesse. If you need anything, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they'll help you out.
Speaker 5: Sure. Well, I'll be right there helping them build the
Speaker 5: snowman on the beach and go.
Speaker 1: I'll be one hundred years old. Okay, graduation today. Stop,
Speaker 1: don't let me catch you with another.
Speaker 5: I think this Christmas will be fun for you guys
Speaker 5: with little Parker.
Speaker 1: Too, it'll be that'll be interesting. See how he actually
Speaker 1: the tree. Marney said, he started grabbing one of the lights,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't come off. It's like in the tree
Speaker 1: because cats and we learned that lesson. So she said
Speaker 1: he kind of gave up trying to pull it off
Speaker 1: or whatever, and hadn't really messed with it too much.
Speaker 1: But you look over there and he's over here, and oh,
Speaker 1: he'll have his way with that tree. He'll do whatever
Speaker 1: he wants, and he knows it, and that's why he waits. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's like a little grimlin or something. No,
Speaker 1: he waits for you to sleep, he kicks you in
Speaker 1: the head. He just waits for you to operate on
Speaker 1: my face, I don't even know about.
Speaker 5: He waits until you don't pay it attention.
Speaker 1: My dad nought, I'm calling the law out there because
Speaker 1: Marnie was away. So my dad came and stayed with
Speaker 1: me for a minute. And Parker has this little I
Speaker 1: don't even know what it is. It's like a pole,
Speaker 1: white pole and has like a red bass bottom and
Speaker 1: you put little rings on it, but it spins. It's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It's like it has threaded, so you put
Speaker 1: it on there and just spins all enough. Well, he
Speaker 1: had all of those off there, so he just has
Speaker 1: the weapon, which is the white pole, which is now
Speaker 1: the handle, and then the red bass is now the hammer.
Speaker 1: And he went up to my dad just wow smacked him.
Speaker 1: The next day, I'm looking at my dad, I'm like, Dad,
Speaker 1: we can't be on public like this, like people are
Speaker 1: gonna think I beat you up. I was like, what
Speaker 1: happened to your face? And he explains He's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's your son. He's like, he smacked me a little damn.
Speaker 1: But it was all it was like it was so bruised,
Speaker 1: it was like yellow. And I was like, Dad, it
Speaker 1: looked good. Man, Like just tell people you fell okay.
Speaker 1: He's like, I can't use that anymore. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean anymore? What's going on at home?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you blaming my son for something
Speaker 1: that it's not even his fault? I want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, you know, something you want to unpack. You
Speaker 1: got the whole week, you know. But he never did
Speaker 1: open up.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so you more worried about Parker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like when am I raising here, you know, like
Speaker 1: should we call a police out or are they going
Speaker 1: to take us in. I'm like, I don't have any
Speaker 1: physical stuff like that. You can see. I have pains,
Speaker 1: I have, you know, other things that he's done, but
Speaker 1: nothing like my dad's bruise. And Marnie's face is always
Speaker 1: jacked up, and I'm always worried about going to public
Speaker 1: with her. Like man, people are thinking like, oh, this
Speaker 1: asshole beats her up.
Speaker 3: That's a real thing. It is because Corey had a
Speaker 3: black guy from our dog, our dog head budded Corey
Speaker 3: and I walked around in the mall with her and
Speaker 3: people were like, poor girl. I'm like, dude, I not
Speaker 3: hitting my wife.
Speaker 1: She fell downstairs.
Speaker 3: It's not They're like, yeah, well, this was funny.
Speaker 5: One day, we were walking from our apartment. It was
Speaker 5: a nice day out, so we walked down the family
Speaker 5: Fair and Jesse someone had called on my watch, so
Speaker 5: he had his arm around me, and I have, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of leaned into him and he was
Speaker 5: talking to someone on my watch. Well, some lady stopped
Speaker 5: and asked if I was okay because it was like
Speaker 5: the way we were walking, it looked like he was
Speaker 5: kind of like headlocking me and.
Speaker 3: Respect to that lady though I thought it was cool.
Speaker 3: She pulled over and she's like, man, are you okay,
Speaker 3: which I thought was that was nice, you know, and
Speaker 3: she put her nose in other people's business. But I
Speaker 3: could have saved someone's life, could have No, I was,
Speaker 3: I was tickled laughing, but it was funny.
Speaker 1: I just think I just inappropriate things that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say, yeah, could have or could have not
Speaker 1: been funny for you to do at that moment. But well,
Speaker 1: we did want to make it a little quick podcast,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, I did want to talk about something.
Speaker 1: And I think the real reason I haven't doing the
Speaker 1: podcast lately is some would say time okay, I haven't
Speaker 1: really been feeling that well and I just haven't been
Speaker 1: a good headspaced or like I want to talk about
Speaker 1: fun stuff. And I fear like I did a couple
Speaker 1: on my own and I just didn't publish them because
Speaker 1: it was just bitching almost you know, And it didn't
Speaker 1: start out that way, but it just ended into like
Speaker 1: just aw, just just rant bitching. So I was like, eh,
Speaker 1: that's I just don't do them. But I'm glad we
Speaker 1: did one today though, and we'll have to start doing more.
Speaker 1: I had a goal in mind of hitting episode one
Speaker 1: thousand before the end of the year, but that'd be
Speaker 1: like sixty podcasts. We'd have to do.
Speaker 3: How many how many days is it? Tell the new year?
Speaker 1: We got ten Fridays, well nine after today, we can
Speaker 1: do it. I should probably just do one a month
Speaker 1: to start small again now, at least one a week,
Speaker 1: because I've been saying one a week for a long time.
Speaker 1: But now I think we're gonna have some time where
Speaker 1: it can actually do that. And then with the other
Speaker 1: project that we're gonna get involved in two.
Speaker 5: I don't see why we can't at least do one
Speaker 5: a week, whether it's just I mean, even if we're
Speaker 5: just getting on there, checking.
Speaker 1: In and you know, yeah talking about Christmas trees and yeah.
Speaker 5: Ever, that's recovery for us, because I wasn't thinking about
Speaker 5: Christmas trees or decorating or any of that when I
Speaker 5: was using.
Speaker 3: Really I did Christmas decorations. I saw her at the
Speaker 3: bar and at Christmas parties, and I made ass of
Speaker 3: myself at very many.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, I don't miss those days at all.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: I just don't have Christmas parties. But we should we
Speaker 1: should we do we haven't here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, yeah, we do fun exciting things here. Make
Speaker 3: Christmas cards and should do Christmas cookies this year. Decorate
Speaker 3: Christmas cookies. That'd be fun.
Speaker 1: Take them to people, Take them to people, you know,
Speaker 1: take them to all the lawyers in town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take them to the Takosky guys, Phoenix ladies, you know,
Speaker 3: Christmas spirit, all the doctors, doctors. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 3: was all the politicians.
Speaker 1: See. There I go again, There I go again. It
Speaker 1: can't do one fun this kidding, but yeah, we'll do
Speaker 1: some fun stuff. But it's good to get this fun
Speaker 1: stuff out there and end the smile and the laugh
Speaker 1: and to enjoy to go into the weekend with like
Speaker 1: a good mindset too. You can enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because really, I mean a lot of my problems,
Speaker 3: high class problems today. Really, when I look at it,
Speaker 3: I mean, got a home, families, healthy house, got food,
Speaker 3: got water, got heat.
Speaker 1: That fancy stuff.
Speaker 3: We gotta washing the dryer, you know, like I can
Speaker 3: wash my I could wash clothes or sheets or anything
Speaker 3: at any time, you know, so real grateful not to
Speaker 3: go find the quarters or or any of that. You know,
Speaker 3: so real grateful this year.
Speaker 5: You know, and sometimes when you I mean, when you
Speaker 5: get further along in sobriety, it is hard to think
Speaker 5: about you know that our problems are higher class now, right,
Speaker 5: we don't have the problems like we did when we
Speaker 5: first came in or even in our using. That's kind
Speaker 5: of nice because to go back to living into those
Speaker 5: problems in that chaos how exhausting.
Speaker 3: So I love hearing the newcomer. M love I love
Speaker 3: hearing the fresh person. Just it's eight hours, man, I'm like, yep,
Speaker 3: just hold on, just hold on.
Speaker 1: That calls sober people problems, but we're talking about the
Speaker 1: new people, and I just don't want to go there, buddy. No,
Speaker 1: there's a I'm just not gonna do it because we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep it positive. But no, there was a I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, this is not There was a situations
Speaker 1: where this guy and it was so frustrating because he
Speaker 1: couldn't get help with the right of treatment and he
Speaker 1: was just like, I'm just gonna give up and I'm
Speaker 1: just probably not even gonna go now. And I just
Speaker 1: think about it. I'm just like, did that dude ever
Speaker 1: make it?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 1: And the transportation is what stopped him from going, and
Speaker 1: it just sucks. Yep, it does anyway, That's what I
Speaker 1: was thinking about. Sorry, Debbie Downer, have a great weekend. Everybody.
Speaker 1: On that note, well, kick this baby off, you luck
Speaker 1: with your fantasy stuff. Wow.
Speaker 5: I do want to say we do have an upcoming event.
Speaker 1: Oh we do, that's right, Recovery Stories. Yeah, Message of
Speaker 1: Hope Part seven.
Speaker 3: Yes, that will be a good time. So all come.
Speaker 5: It's on Thursday, October twenty third. Doors open at four thirty,
Speaker 5: dinner served at five.
Speaker 1: Who's speaking, Tim.
Speaker 5: Chandra Shannon.
Speaker 1: Oh, she's the secret one. You got jokes, you're kidding, haha,
Speaker 1: Corey always joking. And then the other one is Adam Stevens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you know his last name.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to, I know, I can't.
Speaker 1: Probably you can put him on blast. Yeah sorry Adam,
Speaker 1: Yeah sorry Adam.
Speaker 5: Oh just so you know, Adam, I invited your brother
Speaker 5: in law. Hu. Well he's catering the food.
Speaker 3: Oh who's doing the food?
Speaker 5: Steve smoking barbecue?
Speaker 3: Oh nice, they're good. They are good. It just takes
Speaker 3: proper they're on time, like the good.
Speaker 1: She shouldn't have happened like it. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Hold on, Adam, we'll get
Speaker 1: back to you. And to submitute, Adam had to pipe
Speaker 1: in there for a second. It's something. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what he was talking about, but anyway, Yeah, so Adam's
Speaker 1: gonna be there and yeah, yeah, sorry, what were you
Speaker 1: guys talking about.
Speaker 5: I invited his brother in law today when we dropped
Speaker 5: off her recovery stories flyers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve smoking barbecue. Yeah, you guys are like that, smokers.
Speaker 3: It's it's good. And they do a good job too.
Speaker 1: They really do. The friendly people, yeah they are and you.
Speaker 5: Know what, it eliminates a lot of stress.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They did the first two recovery stories and yeah, we
Speaker 1: missed them ever since we had to because we didn't
Speaker 1: know that it was an opportunity for us to get
Speaker 1: funded for that to throw these events. So we were
Speaker 1: just throwing events because we were just like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have fun and that's what we do. And so we
Speaker 1: were making spaghetti and salad and it was a lot.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of work.
Speaker 5: This last time, Kim did some stuff and we got
Speaker 5: we got roasted chicken from Family Fair.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 1: Chicken though I do want Traverse City. That was good chicken.
Speaker 1: Like every time we've gotten that, people like, where's that chicken? Frog?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good family fair. I made Traverse City, Michigan
Speaker 3: when I open a business.
Speaker 5: But me and Jesse about died when we get there
Speaker 5: and they're like, yep, we got fifteen pans of chicken
Speaker 5: coming your way.
Speaker 1: Really yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, somebody did the math wrong. What do
Speaker 3: you mean fifteen fifteen boxes? Oh, you meet like a
Speaker 3: little styrofunk. No, we mean boxes.
Speaker 5: Like tomato flat box was at There was a lot
Speaker 5: of chicken flaying around Travers City.
Speaker 3: There was want some chicken, but it was good.
Speaker 1: There was no hunger people that day.
Speaker 3: No, it was good chicken.
Speaker 1: Though if there was, they didn't know us, but yeah
Speaker 1: it was. And the barbecue, it's just it's nice. And
Speaker 1: then I'll take care of everything and it's it's really good.
Speaker 1: And it's cool that we can put that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff on and that we're funded through that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know what, it's good.
Speaker 5: It's a good opportunity supporting them and what they do.
Speaker 5: And then it's a shoe on the other foot, the
Speaker 5: recoveries and people that and their families that come there
Speaker 5: that maybe haven't tried it or been there. Ever, it's
Speaker 5: a chance that they get to have a little taste of.
Speaker 6: Something I know.
Speaker 1: And there's other restaurants too that we want to try.
Speaker 1: Spanglish is one of them, and there's a few other
Speaker 1: ones that we want to have hopefully do our next
Speaker 1: Recovery Stories Part eight. But this one it was kind
Speaker 1: of like where were we gonna get funded for it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's wait, wait, wait wait, And then
Speaker 1: when it's like okay, we get the okay, then it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we can move forward in such short time. And
Speaker 1: I was just I was glad they were able to
Speaker 1: do it because I was kind of freaking out, like
Speaker 1: what do we do?
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 1: And then they hooked it up. So yes, good time
Speaker 1: twenty third here in Travers and I'm gonna have probably
Speaker 1: maybe this weekend. The videos from the last one Recovery
Speaker 1: Story is most vote part six done.
Speaker 5: I know there's a couple of people waiting for those
Speaker 5: probably sorry, okay, she knows you're busy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to it. But you'll be able to
Speaker 1: watch the other videos too. If you can't make it
Speaker 1: we do also too.
Speaker 5: Just want to throw it out there. Recovery Friendly Workplace
Speaker 5: Initiative two seventeen Recovery is host in a half day
Speaker 5: boot camp where you can become designated and recognized by
Speaker 5: MDHHS as a recovery friendly workplace. We're going to be
Speaker 5: having that on Monday, October twentieth at Faith and Faith
Speaker 5: Reform Church from ten to two. You can go on
Speaker 5: our website or on Recovery FRIENDLYIMI dot com submit your
Speaker 5: letter of interest and attend that day. Or you don't
Speaker 5: have to do anything and you can just show up
Speaker 5: that day and we'll.
Speaker 1: Take care of you, take care of you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's two seventeen recovery dot com slash RFW. There's
Speaker 1: that page too. But yeah, of course I said get involved,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of people get it confused, and
Speaker 1: just the name kind of sounds like, wait, I don't
Speaker 1: need you telling my company what to do about no
Speaker 1: drug policy if we don't want no drug people working here.
Speaker 1: It's not like that. It's education for people. So imagine
Speaker 1: the HR director at your normal business. I picture this
Speaker 1: older lady, little perm going on some glasses. She is married,
Speaker 1: has a couple of kids, whatever, her life. She has
Speaker 1: a dogs, but she just comes to work, she goes home,
Speaker 1: she talks to her kids on the weekend, you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of life. She doesn't know anything about addiction,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't know that Pete and Mark down the
Speaker 1: hall are struggling, you know. But or maybe one day
Speaker 1: her grandkids are going to have a problem, and because
Speaker 1: she took this training, she'll understand it more. It's not
Speaker 1: about this is right or that's wrong, or don't do
Speaker 1: this do that? No, No, it's about understanding it. And
Speaker 1: I think the more that people understand addiction, and especially
Speaker 1: with SUD, it goes a long way with compassion and
Speaker 1: them understanding like, Okay that this person isn't just being
Speaker 1: an a hole. This person's obviously drunk or whatever, but
Speaker 1: there's a reason that they're drinking. And it's not because
Speaker 1: it's Friday and it's fun. It's they're hurting, you know,
Speaker 1: and we need to help these people somehow, And they
Speaker 1: might not even know how they're hurting. I didn't know
Speaker 1: how it was hurting. I buried it so deep I
Speaker 1: didn't even know. And I'm a man, I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to have those kind of feelings. You know, and so
Speaker 1: it's tough, it really is.
Speaker 5: It is in the Recovery Friendly Workplace too. It's just
Speaker 5: it's an educational piece that can help reduce the stigma
Speaker 5: and it can help. It can introduce you to a
Speaker 5: whole networking of just even the resources. So when that
Speaker 5: time comes that maybe you a family member, you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna want to know that stuff. And it's just like
Speaker 1: the suicide prevention training and stuff that we do. I
Speaker 1: don't ever, I'm glad that I learned that stuff because
Speaker 1: I'm I would feel horrible if I didn't.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And there's some stuff that just happened recently, like two
Speaker 1: people I know, you know, I'm just like, what what's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: But it's just it's tough. But this knowledge can help
Speaker 1: a lot of people too. So if you own a
Speaker 1: business or you just work out of place, tell your
Speaker 1: business about it. It doesn't have to be us that
Speaker 1: does it. But just checking the Recovery Friendly Workplace program
Speaker 1: because I think it will educate a lot of people.
Speaker 1: And it's free to get out of work for a
Speaker 1: few hours.
Speaker 5: There's a lunch provided at the book game.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a good time anyway. Enjoy your weekend to
Speaker 1: have a good one. Thanks for listening, and until next
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