Speaker 1: Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Broadcast. If you don't
Speaker 1: make mistakes, you won't learn. With your host Corey Winfield, like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm going into a place there need
Speaker 1: to be people like talking to walls, and there was
Speaker 1: some of that, but it was still pretty co host
Speaker 1: Harney Winfield.
Speaker 2: If they don't get that sincere messaging, then they're not
Speaker 2: going to have that conversation on a level where maybe
Speaker 2: you can get through to them.
Speaker 1: Special guest Corey Smoker.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear the hero over here, but
Speaker 3: then I know what you're skipping down the street over
Speaker 3: there doing.
Speaker 1: You know, got yours? It is the nineteenth of June
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. My name's Cory Winfield, and this is
Speaker 1: the two seventeen Recovery podcast, joined by Marney Winfield. Hey there,
Speaker 1: Corey Smoker, Hey are you escaping to where? Uh huh?
Speaker 3: I don't even remember that podcast, but that was.
Speaker 1: A good one though, because you made a good point.
Speaker 1: And next time I speak at an event or something anything,
Speaker 1: I'm going to remember that and I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: you know what they're skipping to the I'll say how
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get it put on a shirt. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but glad you guys are here. Glad you ladies. Women.
Speaker 1: She's your pronouns him's or hers probably hear missus. This
Speaker 1: is okay, and that's that's great. You two before we
Speaker 1: get into because I want to talk about the Recovery
Speaker 1: Friendly Workplace program. But before I do, it was mentioned
Speaker 1: to me that we should talk about the app and
Speaker 1: thank people for listening on the app, and if they
Speaker 1: don't have that app, to get the app and to
Speaker 1: rate us in whatever store, whatever platform they're listening on,
Speaker 1: because the more people and it's not about hey, we
Speaker 1: need to be famous, would be nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: But if there's something on a podcast, maybe from two
Speaker 1: years ago that you like, you know that you heard
Speaker 1: me say, or Chris Goss or maybe Marnie a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, or you maybe heard her say that
Speaker 1: could help somebody, you know, So do the five star
Speaker 1: thing like us and appreciate it. I guess it helps
Speaker 1: us more than we know, is what they told me.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I'll mention it. Yeah damn, Because they're like, man,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good stuff that you have in there,
Speaker 1: but you're just not doing it right, And I'm like, look, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't have time, but maybe we will have time,
Speaker 1: and maybe we can make time, because again, what's what's
Speaker 1: an hour on my day? If we can help thirty
Speaker 1: people or ten people or one person, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's worth it, I would say, for sure. And some
Speaker 1: people will be like, yeah, but you were just doing
Speaker 1: a podcast making a video. I'm like yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: actually said something that somebody can relate to it if
Speaker 1: it helps them click. Guess what because somebody said something
Speaker 1: to me sometime at some point. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think it was a bunch of people, but it clicked
Speaker 1: one day, you know, So I just want that for everybody.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Recovery from the Workplace program is fun.
Speaker 1: You guys are doing pretty good job with it, and
Speaker 1: there's something new to us. Well. The way we're kind
Speaker 1: of attacking it now, I would say, is like full fledged,
Speaker 1: like we want people to sign up for it. And
Speaker 1: you'd said something to me the other day. You're like, man,
Speaker 1: this is kind of tough because it feels like sales
Speaker 1: and you're not selling anything, like as a recovery community.
Speaker 1: We figured, you know, like, how can you break the stigma. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing is we got to teach people. You know,
Speaker 1: when before I was in this chair, I was in
Speaker 1: a chair in Arkansas, sitting on my couch. You know,
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the chair just getting drunk off
Speaker 1: my ass saying I don't have a problem. I'm not
Speaker 1: like those people. My liver was shutting down, and that
Speaker 1: was like, no, I don't have a problem, not alcoholics.
Speaker 1: So until you're educated about it, like, you don't know.
Speaker 1: And I was saying to Corey earlier she was learning
Speaker 1: some new programs, It's like, you don't know what you
Speaker 1: don't know, Like, if you don't you don't do something,
Speaker 1: how are you How are you supposed to know how
Speaker 1: to do it? So when you try something new, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fail and it'll look silly in a year
Speaker 1: from now you look back at it and go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm so much better. But you'll see that
Speaker 1: growth recovery is the same way. So I think for
Speaker 1: people to understand that you can start in schools, you
Speaker 1: can start, you know, by talking with your family. But
Speaker 1: another place is the work the workplace, you know, and
Speaker 1: the workplace is usually our lifeline, at least me. I
Speaker 1: was that was my lifeline to my drug of choice.
Speaker 1: So it's a It's like a race. If I were
Speaker 1: to run from here to the front door. By the
Speaker 1: time I hit the front door, I'm gonna be if
Speaker 1: I even make it to the front door. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Some people could use this as a
Speaker 1: mile racer. I can run for twenty miles and in
Speaker 1: nineteenth mile. You're it's kind of the same way when
Speaker 1: at least the way I look at it in my
Speaker 1: active addiction, I was running out of gas and then
Speaker 1: finally it just on my liver and kidney shut down.
Speaker 1: I was in the housepal I couldn't hide it anymore.
Speaker 1: Work was affected, you know. I called them and told
Speaker 1: them I had taken the wrong pill or they gave
Speaker 1: me something that you know, I completely lied, But I
Speaker 1: wasn't a doctor. I didn't know that they had told
Speaker 1: me it was because my drinking. The doctors told me that.
Speaker 1: But the way I told it to my work is
Speaker 1: not a better But I heeart media. They were so understanding,
Speaker 1: and I wish I would have been more honest with
Speaker 1: them at the time because then I ended up going
Speaker 1: like three or four months later, I ended up going
Speaker 1: to this place in California, but I was only there
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, and then the ninety day thing.
Speaker 1: I still stayed off of work ninety days, even though
Speaker 1: I flew back to Arkansas and hung out the house
Speaker 1: and I think I started drinking again. And then my
Speaker 1: mom had to fly back and dark and saw. I
Speaker 1: think it was an answer to my phone. She showed
Speaker 1: up my door. I'm like, Okay, I guess we're doing
Speaker 1: something else today. But anyway, my point here is to
Speaker 1: have a workplace understand or at least have people understand
Speaker 1: in the places that you guys are training. They could
Speaker 1: take it home to their grandkids, they could take it
Speaker 1: home to their husband, thinking it's it's very valuable information. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming in. Thanks. Well, I'm gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about Oh no, I'm just sorry. I'm just no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I was kidding. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: And that's something like I was even just saying yesterday
Speaker 3: to a company that we did a little orientation zoom
Speaker 3: meeting with about moving forward in the next step for
Speaker 3: the training is that you know, not a lot of
Speaker 3: employers want to admit that maybe their employees are dealing
Speaker 3: with SUD and OUD. But like I tell them, I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: if you think that it's not in your workplace, at
Speaker 3: least this information and training for your staff and your
Speaker 3: employees can be information to help them with either the
Speaker 3: people that they're serving or their family members, or just
Speaker 3: having that knowledge of knowing like maybe they have a
Speaker 3: friend that has a child that's suffering, and so then
Speaker 3: they can have the they have these outlet of resources
Speaker 3: now where they know they of people they can turn
Speaker 3: to to ask instead of just not knowing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean, just to recap the whole initiative
Speaker 2: in general is so this this initiative is fairly new
Speaker 2: to the State of Michigan in terms of like popularity
Speaker 2: and I hate to use that word, but I mean
Speaker 2: people are unfamiliar with it in general. So it's kind
Speaker 2: of even the people that have been presented with it
Speaker 2: kind of are like, what does that even mean? Tell
Speaker 2: you know, tell me more about it. And so that's
Speaker 2: kind of where we are at that starting point where
Speaker 2: we need to even explain what it is that we're
Speaker 2: going to be training them on before people even consider
Speaker 2: going through the designation process, which is fair, you know,
Speaker 2: and so and essentially it's it's a lot of just
Speaker 2: substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, one on one stuff.
Speaker 2: It's really kind of like general knowledge about what substance
Speaker 2: use disorder is, it's prevalence, and more so being a
Speaker 2: what part you can play as a business owner or
Speaker 2: agency operator or staff lead management position, what have you
Speaker 2: in your operation to be supportive of people who are
Speaker 2: either struggling with substitute's disorder or in early recovery, right,
Speaker 2: being supportive of people in that recovery process. Because as
Speaker 2: you and I and all of us know that, it's
Speaker 2: a lifelong decision. So every day we wake up and
Speaker 2: we commit ourselves to, you know, a life of sobriety,
Speaker 2: and what does that mean for me? What do I
Speaker 2: need to maintain that sobriety? It's different for me, then
Speaker 2: it's different for Corey than it's different for Cory, and
Speaker 2: that's different for everybody else. Maybe it's meetings, maybe it's therapy,
Speaker 2: maybe it's the gym, maybe it's you know, walks, maybe
Speaker 2: who knows what so and if there's your work life
Speaker 2: takes up so much of your actual you know day
Speaker 2: in general, like what seventy percent of your wake time
Speaker 2: or something like that yeah, some crazy percent. So if
Speaker 2: you think about that, you know there's going to be
Speaker 2: an overlap and maybe your needs for your sobriety might
Speaker 2: conflict with some of those work hours, and so the
Speaker 2: things that you need you'll need to be you're having
Speaker 2: your employer be flexible with those needs and for you
Speaker 2: to feel comfortable to vocalize those needs is really kind
Speaker 2: of where where this training is trying a piece of
Speaker 2: what this training is trying to to have everybody kind
Speaker 2: of be on the same page.
Speaker 1: With and the range of businesses that you've registered so far,
Speaker 1: from churches to bars to tattoo parlors, pizza places. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy, and it takes that, you know, to
Speaker 1: kind of spread the word and break the stigma, you know,
Speaker 1: of addiction. So you guys are doing great work, is
Speaker 1: what I wanted to bring up. And people listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast are probably, I would assume, familiar with recovery,
Speaker 1: you familiar with addictions. So if you're working at a place,
Speaker 1: if your owner, manager, whatever, is this something you want
Speaker 1: to explore, I would say do it, you know, and
Speaker 1: I wish there was a way to do it that
Speaker 1: you guys didn't feel like salespeople. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: something we got to tell people about. And yeah, when
Speaker 1: you call businesses, we get called all the time and
Speaker 1: we know how annoying that is, but you know it's
Speaker 1: also important too. But two seventeen, recovery dot com slash
Speaker 1: r FWU is the page you can learn more and
Speaker 1: register if you're interested. Yeah, so what else up with y'all?
Speaker 3: Me and Jesse We closed and moved in on our
Speaker 3: new house. Nice congratulations obviously that's been amazing journey to
Speaker 3: start and end the townhouse and the running and storage
Speaker 3: unit and now have like kind of everything is on
Speaker 3: one spot again and just kind of weeding through things
Speaker 3: and figuring out what it is we want to keep
Speaker 3: and hang up in place. And so that's been good.
Speaker 3: Since we had a last podcast, we did a pre
Speaker 3: fishing weekend. We did a fishing event down at Sunset
Speaker 3: Park that was a lot of fun. We had a
Speaker 3: good little turnout. I think like twenty three people.
Speaker 2: Now it's like a blast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did have fun. We had some good laughs
Speaker 3: and played Cornhall as well.
Speaker 1: And this hung out zero Fish zero fish, Yeah you
Speaker 1: didn't have to mess with him fish and Nasty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was good. Hey, I got some bait for them.
Speaker 3: I set it down. I was like, I'm done.
Speaker 2: There was fishing that happened, there was just no fish part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the next event?
Speaker 3: We're gonna have volunteer at the cherry Festival.
Speaker 2: Yep, right, Cherry Festivals. First week of July. It starts,
Speaker 2: is it the first?
Speaker 3: No, So it starts I think like on the last day.
Speaker 2: Of June, okay, and then I want to.
Speaker 3: Say the first is persibly on Monday, Tuesday. Tuesday is
Speaker 3: the first okay. Yeah, So it's like that couple end
Speaker 3: dates in June and then into the first of July.
Speaker 3: We have three different shifts that will be as two
Speaker 3: seventeen and some volunteers here will be down there working
Speaker 3: in the Farmer's market in the Pepsi tent.
Speaker 2: And that's always been so much fun. I hadn't been
Speaker 2: able to make it. I wasn't able to make it
Speaker 2: last year. But it's always a good time and people
Speaker 2: are so nice and like people ask questions about what
Speaker 2: two seventeen is, and I think where it feels like
Speaker 2: we're really supported by the community.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have a game night coming up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the game night is on Thursday, June twenty, from
Speaker 3: five to eight, We're gonna have pizza, soda, fun, cornhole
Speaker 3: connect four.
Speaker 1: Like a big connect for or just regular big connect
Speaker 1: for Nice. We gotta be fun. And how can people
Speaker 1: find out more about that?
Speaker 3: So they can go on our website at ww dot
Speaker 3: two seventeen recovery dot com And we actually today just
Speaker 3: posted a new like little community bulletin board on there.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: You can also go on Ray Smoker's Facebook and I
Speaker 3: made a video invitation.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, you gotta check this out. And this is
Speaker 1: so cool. And this is again what I was talking
Speaker 1: about earlier about learning new things, and you did. You
Speaker 1: learned something new and you did something new today? And
Speaker 1: how'd that make you feel?
Speaker 3: It made me feel good? But the vulnerable Yeah, But
Speaker 3: then I was like, I know it's not Cory Winfield approved,
Speaker 3: but I just had to keep telling them, you know
Speaker 3: what you told me, go for it, do it. And
Speaker 3: then I just keep saying He's like, well, we could
Speaker 3: just do it with dark camera and I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: you told me you're gonna let me do it and
Speaker 3: let me post it and then I can learn and
Speaker 3: critique later. And I said, anything on there is better than.
Speaker 2: Nothing exactly, and I think it's great. I think you
Speaker 2: did a great job. And that is the kind of
Speaker 2: thing that you just like I was just like when
Speaker 2: I was talking about when I was faced with stuff
Speaker 2: like that, you know, and you're just like put it
Speaker 2: off and put it off, like oh man, Like it's
Speaker 2: not worried about it being what it's going to be
Speaker 2: like or is it going to be good enough? You
Speaker 2: just need to do it. Just do it, be done
Speaker 2: with it, and you know what, And like he's saying
Speaker 2: about anything that we try to do, or especially when
Speaker 2: you're learning stuff, you know, it's you can only make
Speaker 2: it better, you know, And I don't know stuff like
Speaker 2: some people are more comfortable in front of the camera
Speaker 2: and in front of the microphone than others and have
Speaker 2: more experience, so you know, it's kind of hard to compare.
Speaker 3: See I'm the kind of person like if I can
Speaker 3: just go and wing it and do it and people
Speaker 3: take pictures and stuff like that, like then I'm photogenic.
Speaker 3: But then it's like all of a sudden, now you
Speaker 3: want me to sit in film the camera and smile
Speaker 3: or talk. Then I'm like or like where do I
Speaker 3: look at?
Speaker 2: What am I looking at because I'm not looking at people,
Speaker 2: so you're looking.
Speaker 3: At yeah, you know, but hey, you know what I
Speaker 3: did it. I posted it and it's out there, yep.
Speaker 1: And you've done it, and now you know how to
Speaker 1: do it and now you can just make them better.
Speaker 1: And then when you did do it, I say you
Speaker 1: in link, I'm like, hey, look at this, because these guys.
Speaker 1: It's some professional film thing I signed up for and
Speaker 1: it's classes and whatever. But they're only two to five
Speaker 1: minutes long, these little videos that they but they teach
Speaker 1: you and tell you a lot of important things. And
Speaker 1: I was like, here, I'm gonna share this with you
Speaker 1: because now you're going to be interested in how to
Speaker 1: make it better. So now you'll learn and you'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if you didn't have any interest, then I would
Speaker 1: have shared it with you. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: if I don't know, that's a whole nother thing. But
Speaker 1: that is cool that you did that. And speaking of videos,
Speaker 1: we went on vacation and we brought all of our
Speaker 1: video equipment, all the podcast stuff. We used it zero times.
Speaker 1: The only time I touched it was loading it into
Speaker 1: the car out of the car to the airbnb, then
Speaker 1: back into the car and then out of the car again.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Yeah, we did. Didn't get to use
Speaker 1: it at all on the vacation. It just I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be home. There's a family vacation to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: not a don't see a trip to Tennessee in my
Speaker 1: future ever. Again, nothing against Tennessee. There are some good
Speaker 1: people there. I lost my wallet, I didn't know, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: and the lady at the store, you know, called.
Speaker 2: The tracked you down.
Speaker 3: You know, she actually called here.
Speaker 1: Yeah I do, yeah, because she was like hear.
Speaker 2: She tried to like facebook me, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know this person. I mean like I don't ever
Speaker 2: check it normally. But then I think I maybe popped
Speaker 2: up or something, and I was like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: where this person is. So I didn't even pay attention.
Speaker 3: Well, they called here, Mitchell told them to call you,
Speaker 3: and then we were like just sitting here. We've been
Speaker 3: waiting and waiting to hear the story of the lost
Speaker 3: wallet because we're like Quardy's on vacation. It's were no
Speaker 3: phone calls.
Speaker 1: That's funny, I mean, it's it's a quick story. We
Speaker 1: were going out to dinner, I think the second night
Speaker 1: or something, and I reached in my pocket or I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, make sure you have everything. I
Speaker 1: do the pocket check, so I feel my pockets and like,
Speaker 1: I don't have my wallet, and I'm like, well, Marty's
Speaker 1: got the card for paying with everything for if I
Speaker 1: get pulled over whatever. I think like twenty four hours
Speaker 1: or something that's probab of I have ID whatever. So
Speaker 1: we just left and I just figured I left in
Speaker 1: the airbnb. So the next morning I get a call
Speaker 1: from this Tennessee number and I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this number? Like I called me yesterday? So I just
Speaker 1: answered it Hello, and we had some problems with their airbnb.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, okay, maybe it's them. Nope, it's a
Speaker 1: lady at the store saying, hey, I got your wallet.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, huh is that where that is? Just
Speaker 1: like what you didn't know was lost. I was like, nah,
Speaker 1: thank God, because I would have lost my mind probably.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I would have went back to the store,
Speaker 1: but I would have been like, where did I have
Speaker 1: it last? I guess it probably wouldn't have been that
Speaker 1: big a deal, but.
Speaker 2: That was the first grocery trip, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we had driven like an an insane amount of
Speaker 2: hours to get to finally get to Tennessee, and then
Speaker 2: we got there at this weird gap time where it
Speaker 2: was like it was too early for us to go
Speaker 2: directly to the airbnb. But so we were like, let's
Speaker 2: go to the grocery store. And where were we going
Speaker 2: to put the groceries? I don't know, we were going
Speaker 2: to cross it version we got to it. So then
Speaker 2: we have Parker, our baby who's one years old, who's
Speaker 2: just like over it all. So we drag him into
Speaker 2: the store. I got him, I'm kind of got a
Speaker 2: list going get the stuff, and then I'm like unloading
Speaker 2: things onto the you know belt thing, and he's like
Speaker 2: we're taking turns trading holding him and me figuring out
Speaker 2: how to pay for it, and him getting you know,
Speaker 2: some of this whole thing ends up. He probably just
Speaker 2: put it up on the register and then just didn't
Speaker 2: put it back in his pocket.
Speaker 1: I think you had to use the bathroom or something,
Speaker 1: or you had to take Parker in.
Speaker 2: No, I had to change his diaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you left and you left all your paperwork,
Speaker 1: her important like planner at the very end of the
Speaker 1: aisle with the belt. You know, I guess you walk
Speaker 1: up and you start putting stuff on the guys in
Speaker 1: front of you. You get that little corner that's where
Speaker 1: she put that, and you know, the guy's like, is
Speaker 1: that yours? I'm like, oh shit, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: why they didn't do that with my wallet because I
Speaker 1: sat there and I was talking to him about how
Speaker 1: cool I was and stuff like that, you know how
Speaker 1: I normally do, and so I mean it was probably
Speaker 1: a good ten minutes after like I had checked out. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe two minutes, but still enough to the guy behind
Speaker 1: me in line was like, carry up.
Speaker 3: But I got it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It could have been worse, much worse. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody could have taken it, and it could have been
Speaker 1: just you know, my twenty eight thousand credit cards, millions
Speaker 1: and trillions of dollars of credit I got and had
Speaker 1: to call every one of them like, hey, sorry, we
Speaker 1: didn't make the mansion payment in Florida this week, and
Speaker 1: I got my card.
Speaker 3: Still well, just trying to get a new ID.
Speaker 1: I don't think rich. I don't think rich people pay
Speaker 1: with their condo rent or mortgage with credit cards? Though,
Speaker 1: do they? I think no. Anyway, one day when I read,
Speaker 1: I'll sound like I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I don't even think you can pay a mortgage payment
Speaker 3: with a credit card.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's move on. So little Parker, though, was cute.
Speaker 1: We went to Cincinnati and we toured pay Court Stadium
Speaker 1: the Bengals play, and he ran to the end zone.
Speaker 1: I didn't film it. He was dancing, he spiked his bottle.
Speaker 2: We did film it.
Speaker 1: I didn't film the good one where he liked it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was dancing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. It was so funny. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But you know what part of it is, though,
Speaker 3: is I'm glad you were just living in the moment
Speaker 3: of that with your family.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Birthday was great. We chilled at the house birth
Speaker 1: the airbnb we had in Cincinnati, and we door dashed
Speaker 1: some diapers. It was great, ordered a pizza. The pizza
Speaker 1: would have been a lot better if it was warmer,
Speaker 1: but it was still pretty good, and we just chilled.
Speaker 1: I think I went to bed. It was eight thirty.
Speaker 1: It was great. It was the best birthday.
Speaker 3: Weren't traveling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was freaking awesome.
Speaker 2: He literally didn't. I don't think we left it.
Speaker 1: Well, we toured the oh that was stadium, Yeah that was,
Speaker 1: and then we just chilled.
Speaker 3: That Airbnb was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he had He just loved it. Parker
Speaker 2: could just go from one into the house. I guess
Speaker 2: I want to call it to the other. You just
Speaker 2: hear his little.
Speaker 1: Feat yeah, you know, being one and learning how to walk,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's it was. It was perfect
Speaker 1: for him, and it was it was an interesting design
Speaker 1: of a place, but yeah, it was. It was cool
Speaker 1: and we sort of watching movies with him, and we
Speaker 1: did a lot of chilling and one movie that we
Speaker 1: know that there was parts of this movie that he
Speaker 1: he laughs at really loud and just out loud. I
Speaker 1: remember the first time he did it. He might have
Speaker 1: been five months old, six months me. He was, he
Speaker 1: was little, and I remember thinking, did that just happen?
Speaker 1: He was watching Boss Baby and he just starts laughing
Speaker 1: out loud, and it was for some time I had
Speaker 1: ever heard him do that, you know, just like I
Speaker 1: wasn't tickling him or nothing, you know, just for him
Speaker 1: just to be sitting there and just I'm like what that.
Speaker 2: Okay, First it wasn't like five months old.
Speaker 1: He light have been six.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was before Christmas.
Speaker 2: At last, was smiling big and like you.
Speaker 1: Go no no he ha ha. Laughed out loud at
Speaker 1: this movie six months Yes, and he did the same thing,
Speaker 1: remember with the baby gate, so whenever we put that
Speaker 1: up right when he was crawling telling you So anyway,
Speaker 1: this movie still gets them. And we haven't watched it
Speaker 1: in a while. So we're watching it and there's a
Speaker 1: part where he just laughs out loud again. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so we watch it over and over and every single
Speaker 1: time he laughs out loud at this part. So we
Speaker 1: decided we were going to record it. So Marty, you
Speaker 1: recorded this first part and then you'll hear me. I'll
Speaker 1: introduce the part where I recorded. But now we're in
Speaker 1: a cute battle, which one sounds cuter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there were two separate occasions the game.
Speaker 1: I don't eve want to play because I think they're
Speaker 1: both cute. But let's just give a listen.
Speaker 2: You love that part every time, And here's.
Speaker 1: The one that I recorded. Pretty cute.
Speaker 3: You can't not.
Speaker 2: Let know that and just be like grinning ear to ear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's when he takes the bot the robot that's
Speaker 1: like a transformer or something, and he's like, oh, and
Speaker 1: it smashes his lamb lamb or whatever. He starts doing
Speaker 1: that and Parker just loses it. Man, he just laughs
Speaker 1: every time. And then if you laugh with him, because
Speaker 1: like a couple of times where I'll just laugh out
Speaker 1: loud with him because it's funny to hear him laugh,
Speaker 1: and then that gets him going and he laughs twice
Speaker 1: as hard. But there we're just trying to get his reaction.
Speaker 1: But maybe we'll record those ones too, because those are
Speaker 1: pretty funny when he starts laughing. And yeah, having a
Speaker 1: kid is something that's just been amazing and it's it's
Speaker 1: truly a blessing and being in recovery and you know,
Speaker 1: being able to go home and spend time with the
Speaker 1: family and just see a little, q little baby and
Speaker 1: just to see the joy in his face, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's awesome, really is.
Speaker 3: And his little his smile. Man, it's just sometimes he
Speaker 3: cheese is so big and his little teeth.
Speaker 1: Hanging out, and yeah, he's he is a cutie. And
Speaker 1: he was a trooper on the trip. Man, I felt
Speaker 1: so bad because it's just a lot of car travel
Speaker 1: and he's a trooper, but.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I know, there's some talk about going back to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati pretty cool city. People in Detroit were nicer. I
Speaker 1: we still we haven't really talked about that because we
Speaker 1: all kind of went to Detroit. Well not kind of did.
Speaker 1: We went to Detroit. Yeah, and for a baseball game,
Speaker 1: and thanks against the Tigers for you know, giving us
Speaker 1: tickets to allow us to take people into our recovery.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. But Detroit people were so nice. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it was nice, so awesome they were.
Speaker 3: They were very welcoming.
Speaker 1: I remember guys from the ticket because they had the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft there a couple of years ago, and the
Speaker 1: guys that I listened to from the ticket come from
Speaker 1: Dallas and they were talking about people in Detroit being
Speaker 1: so nice, and I was like, what are they talking about?
Speaker 1: And then we go there and I'm like, yeah, from
Speaker 1: the ballpark to the parking garage to the restaurant, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. So a big shout out to Detroit on that.
Speaker 2: The hotel staff like everybody.
Speaker 1: Sincerely, yeah, like shady, yeah, Yeah, it was very cool.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't been to Detroit in a while,
Speaker 1: maybe you might want.
Speaker 2: To go back, man, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: It really was a very cool trip.
Speaker 3: There was no hotel, was amazing people.
Speaker 1: Since they are right, you know, but I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it was that same kind of No.
Speaker 2: We did find a good restaurant there though, and the
Speaker 2: leader there. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool. It was It was a cool
Speaker 1: little city.
Speaker 3: And they're little splash pads.
Speaker 1: I like those. Yeah, I just don't know if I
Speaker 1: can drive it again. Man, I'm done with driving after
Speaker 1: the trip to Washington.
Speaker 2: Make Corey drive.
Speaker 3: Drive just because I was thinking that too. You know,
Speaker 3: if we did go down there, that like we could
Speaker 3: kind of swing up and around on our way back
Speaker 3: and go to Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 2: There you go, work trip.
Speaker 3: Like where.
Speaker 1: Well, I gave when I came back, I gave myself
Speaker 1: a challenge because I've lost a couple of pounds so
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little better. I gave myself a challenge
Speaker 1: that I will sleep in my bed for three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five consecutive days. NICs.
Speaker 2: Did you tell your wife about this challenge?
Speaker 1: Well? This is this is the thing. Man. My wife
Speaker 1: and I we have this relationship where we're going to
Speaker 1: make each other better, and to do that, you got
Speaker 1: to make yourself better and you got to challenge yourself.
Speaker 1: So we know that our goals sometimes, you know, have
Speaker 1: to be self fulfilling because we can't really put all
Speaker 1: that weight on the other person because we have great marriage.
Speaker 2: Like that, is there like a small print like an
Speaker 2: ax stix down there where it's like excluding minor getaways.
Speaker 1: I'll go back and watch the vows to seventeen recovery
Speaker 1: dot com slash wedding. Watch that again real quick and
Speaker 1: we'll see if.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, because we have got another thing we're
Speaker 3: trying to play with you.
Speaker 2: Two camping.
Speaker 3: We want to go?
Speaker 1: Why would you want to go? We can?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. Here's why we knew. Listen, we
Speaker 2: have recognized.
Speaker 1: That why would we do this?
Speaker 2: Because Corey Winfield has opened up this new He's challenged himself.
Speaker 1: Because I lost a couple of pounds because you.
Speaker 2: Got in a public swimming pool.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Well, oh so that means because I swim with
Speaker 1: people's pee in kids pee, that I now can go camping?
Speaker 3: Yes? With me and Jesse?
Speaker 1: How did it go last time he went camping? Was
Speaker 1: that fun? Time?
Speaker 3: Was haright time? Yeah? Obviously, and I think with you
Speaker 3: and Jesse together it would be we would have a great.
Speaker 1: Time obviously, and Parker obviously.
Speaker 3: And you don't even know, you don't even know you're
Speaker 3: camping situation yet.
Speaker 1: Lamping, Yeah, clamping. I can't even talk, so you can't
Speaker 1: even call it camping If we're glamping. It's what kind
Speaker 1: of big RV are going to be in, like the
Speaker 1: one that rock Stars Too are on.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We were just that's different.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's an avenue. We could look at
Speaker 3: it to me like that was that wasn't okay? I
Speaker 3: think that was an approval we were also looking at
Speaker 3: They're like, I can't say the word right.
Speaker 2: Yerts, yerts.
Speaker 1: And they're like, won't we just stay at our house?
Speaker 1: We can go in the basement, we can look outside.
Speaker 1: You got trees out there, and what does this just be? Like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're camping.
Speaker 3: That's not as fun.
Speaker 1: How do you know it could be even more fun?
Speaker 1: We have bigger Jesse and I have bigger TV with
Speaker 1: play video games on.
Speaker 3: Well, then you know what he's going to come from
Speaker 3: the weekend with you.
Speaker 1: And we're camping, Like, what do you do when you
Speaker 1: camp What do you mean?
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Good question?
Speaker 2: One year old who absolutely loves.
Speaker 1: Just he loves to eat dirty, right, Okay, so he
Speaker 1: wakes up. Okay, so let's just walk and walk me
Speaker 1: through it. Okay, I'm not there's types of people that
Speaker 1: can like walk into a house. I'm not one of
Speaker 1: these people and just go, oh, imagine this over here
Speaker 1: in this there, it's a name for it. But I'm
Speaker 1: not that person. I walk to the house and go
Speaker 1: this is ugly and it will always be ugly. I
Speaker 1: can't picture like my stuff anyway, So you got to
Speaker 1: walk me through this. We wake up camping. I'm on
Speaker 1: what bed? Queen king sized bag?
Speaker 2: Probably Queen.
Speaker 1: Turn the air downs cold in here right right right?
Speaker 2: Yep, there's air conditioned.
Speaker 3: Guess what. We're gonna have a real coffee pot.
Speaker 1: So you walk out to go get some coffee started
Speaker 1: from ournie and some milk for a little it has
Speaker 1: it has.
Speaker 2: Yeah outlet's right electricity, so we just bring the cure
Speaker 2: eg that's ready plugged in.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm up. Oh man, got all that stuff. Go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. Yep, take a dump, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: or whatever I do in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not in the that's not in the You're
Speaker 2: just like they.
Speaker 3: Have like.
Speaker 2: Quality, they have high quality restrooms.
Speaker 1: Got cold gold. That's why I gotta get dressed and
Speaker 1: put on a bunch of clothes and run to.
Speaker 2: You always have clothes on.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this sounds horrible. I think you just you don't
Speaker 1: even how what do you do in the morning, Like
Speaker 1: everybody just runs to the bathroom to fight over poop
Speaker 1: in time or like you got poop after somebod else
Speaker 1: poo oops? Like what if you have the pooper bands?
Speaker 1: What else is pooping? You just got weight.
Speaker 3: I think you and Jesse are the ones that we
Speaker 3: fight over the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Make it sound do you make it sound like like
Speaker 2: you've not never experienced any type of camp.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't compete with him, So.
Speaker 3: It sounds like there will be no fight for the
Speaker 3: bathroom for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, out by the bumper, like, well, wait, as long
Speaker 1: as we could, like should I not do this?
Speaker 2: Anyway? It sounds like it sounds like, oh we could
Speaker 2: play you gurt.
Speaker 1: Okay, So after we find where we're pooping and then
Speaker 1: we come back, then we shower. We have shower together
Speaker 1: with the vagrants.
Speaker 2: I mean we have cereal bananas.
Speaker 1: Or is good come back a shower?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Then we have blueberries and bananas.
Speaker 3: Where you pre make like breakfast sausage burritos that you
Speaker 3: warm up over the fire or the grill.
Speaker 1: I just have protein shake, okay, cool after breakfast. Are
Speaker 1: you guys in the same what are we in a
Speaker 1: cabin or are we in r V? What are we
Speaker 1: in yurt? Are you guys in the same yurt? Are
Speaker 1: you guys next door? How big are these yur I
Speaker 1: thought they were just like bubbles that people like live in.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't know yet. There's there's all sorts of options.
Speaker 2: Where there's yurts.
Speaker 1: Where's this at? There's different down the street.
Speaker 2: There are some there are some that are like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, it's worse. Do not say Tennessee.
Speaker 2: No, okay in the state. Yeah, yeah that's bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking like a Friday to a Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 3: nothing long, javity.
Speaker 2: A whole down time and then we could do podcasts
Speaker 2: from there. There you go. You can take me to
Speaker 2: use your drone all over the place, me.
Speaker 1: Packing up his equipment again, not using it, no what not.
Speaker 2: Your photo stuff, just your drone, your drone and that
Speaker 2: portable podcast stuff.
Speaker 3: So we can have a podcast around a campfire.
Speaker 1: Well okay, but it has to be a video podcast.
Speaker 2: And then we can take parkers swimming.
Speaker 1: And we have to ghost hunt. Okay, is it near
Speaker 1: a ghost location?
Speaker 3: We'll find you. Got it?
Speaker 2: That was that was a commitment, And.
Speaker 1: I have to find a poop spot.
Speaker 2: You think like we're going to be like we're putting
Speaker 2: a tent up for ourselves in the middle of the woods.
Speaker 2: This is not like girl Scouts and boy scouts. We're
Speaker 2: trying to glamp glamorous camping.
Speaker 1: Can we do that someplace nice.
Speaker 2: Resort or something nice that's not far I mean like
Speaker 2: down the street from our house or our house I
Speaker 2: don't know, well.
Speaker 3: Even camp close enough so then you can just drive
Speaker 3: home and go to bed up.
Speaker 2: Take a shower, don't give him that out what.
Speaker 3: It and then Jesse will outcamp you. He's a non camper,
Speaker 3: so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1: That's like saying someone's gonna out golf me. Anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it later, and we gotta make a way
Speaker 1: for people coming into the office now. So anyway, it
Speaker 1: was good catching up. Glad that we could do a
Speaker 1: podcast today.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, a big.
Speaker 1: Shout out to our Jim, our friend, Jim friend. He's
Speaker 1: a big fan of the podcast and listens to every
Speaker 1: single one of them except all of them, But thanks
Speaker 1: Jim for the support. That next time, yeah to take care.
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