WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.320 Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Podcast. If you don't 2 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:13.320 make mistakes, you won't learn. With your host, Corey Winfield. 3 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.800 You know there was a reason why that didn't work out, 4 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:16.879 and you can look back at it and go, yep, 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:18.839 I'm glad that didn't work out how I wanted it, 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:25.320 because I wouldn't have been fourrible. Got your ass. It 7 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.120 is the eighteenth of February twenty twenty six. 8 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:31.440 My name's Corey Winfield. 9 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:32.960 My name's Corey Smolker. 10 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.520 Right, Yeah, we just missed two seventeen. I wouldn't say 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.439 missed it. Kind of busy, but yeah, I was wanting 12 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:43.119 to do one yesterday. But hey, we're here doing it 13 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.719 today and I have an idea. We're going to get 14 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.719 to that in just a second and involve some AI today. 15 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.240 All right, Yeah, it should be fun. It will be fun. 16 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:54.759 Actually, we're going to make this fun. 17 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.520 It will be. 18 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.880 But I just wanted to talk about Recovery Stories Message 19 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.240 of Hope, Part A, which is coming up tomorrow Grand 20 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.319 Trevis's Event Center in Trever's City, Michigan. 21 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.519 So if you're around Trever City. 22 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.000 Michigan, you want to come an cool doors open at 23 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.760 four thirty, food starts at five and pizza tomorrow. 24 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.200 Yeah, and pizza, pizza and caesar salad. 25 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.040 Yeah, so it'll be good. 26 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.480 And we were going to do pizza at the very 27 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.560 beginning because that was my favorite meal of all time. 28 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.840 And we were like, no, let's do let's work harder, 29 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:31.359 let's make spaghetti, let's make salad, let's do all this ourselves. 30 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:32.959 Like I don't know what we were thinking, but. 31 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.200 Well, it sounds easier like a spaghetti dinner. It sounds 32 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.959 easier than realizing what work really goes into it. 33 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.280 We realized that, yeah. 34 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.120 It was hard, and yeah, we have funding you know 35 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.480 to do that with the pay two funds, So like, hey, 36 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.239 let's do that and let's put on a nice meal 37 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.439 for the recovery community. And that's exactly what it is. 38 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.640 And the recovery community in Trever's City is so amazing. 39 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.200 They come out and they support each other so well, 40 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.519 like you could do anything and they would they would 41 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.599 support you, you know, because they support each other. And 42 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.960 that's the thing. People are like, oh, two seventies. I'm like, no, no, 43 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.000 this is two seventeen. This is the recovery community doing it, 44 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.439 you know, Like we applied for the funding and we 45 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.240 call the places and get the food there. But like, no, 46 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.639 it's it's the recovery community coming together. And that's what 47 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.120 makes it so cool around here in this area about it. 48 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.360 And it is nice to see like all aspects of 49 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.719 the recoveries groups and people coming together one night and 50 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:36.199 listening to different speakers from the different multiple pathways and 51 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.759 then you know, having some fun and intergrading and connecting 52 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.000 along and then you know, Dakowski guys being there and 53 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.439 seeing that this is this is what it is and 54 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:48.520 how you connect and yeah, network. 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.960 Don't worry about it's about breaking a bottle. This way 56 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.719 it works meets you around the back, like, hey, you 57 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.360 don't drink anywhere. What do you know that bottle now? 58 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.280 But you're right, you know, and the people come in too, 59 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.199 because it's not about it's whatever whatever pathway can get 60 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:03.759 you there. Man. 61 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:04.599 That's how I look at it. 62 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.680 And again I've said a billion times podcasting, I would 63 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.199 say that that was one of the tools I used 64 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:11.520 talking about my. 65 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.360 Recovery every day and or every other day, four days 66 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.240 a week. It was a lot. But the speakers tomorrow 67 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:19.919 are gonna be awesome. 68 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:26.879 Sally S, you know, John g and Percy and it's 69 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:28.759 gonna be fun, put together a little fun promo. 70 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:30.520 But see, I'm not a good voice guy. 71 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:32.719 Oh I think it is good. 72 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.719 Well, I don't know, I don't I don't have. 73 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:40.919 That like Saturday that the trucks, you know, like Monster 74 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:43.240 trus Ra and I guess not that I was trying 75 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:44.840 for that, but I don't know. 76 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:45.759 I don't know. 77 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.000 I think it was good your promo video and like 78 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:52.120 your radio voice, it's clear, it's understandable. 79 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.319 And you know, maybe just because it doesn't sound like me, 80 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:58.879 because it's like I'm doing an announcer guy, you know, 81 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.960 reading a commercial. You know, we're just like I'm talking 82 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.199 with you right now. It's totally different voice than if 83 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:04.960 I was just going to be. 84 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.080 Like no, But I think it sounds good when you 85 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.120 do it, and you know, your other little videos and 86 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.960 when you talk like it's just clear and crisp and understandable. 87 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.639 I mean me, you know, when I talk, it's just unpredictable. 88 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:20.959 Yes it is. I'm not even going to hit. 89 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:26.279 The drop, so we don't need to. We just we know. 90 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:26.759 Yeah. 91 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.160 And then with the video I put out on Facebook, 92 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.040 I uploaded it through Facebook because if you don't they 93 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.600 won't show with anybody. So I did that, and I 94 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.680 did the edited version because I showed it to you 95 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.240 and Marty, and you guys are both like whoa like 96 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.360 first like oh, that's cool, and then I let it 97 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.040 go keep playing the extended version, and Marny's reaction went 98 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.360 from like oh my god, that's great to like, okay, yeah, 99 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:50.279 that's okay. 100 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.040 I think because she pa she had a pot I 101 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.120 think I think you did pause too long. 102 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:56.519 Well yeah, because you think it's. 103 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.360 Over and then it's not, and then you're hit with 104 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:03.519 like something that something to say is creepy. But I 105 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:05.240 thought it was like cinematics, so I was like all. 106 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.079 Right, or like suspenseal, like oh okay. 107 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.360 Yeah, And it was like showing one of the signs 108 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.360 that I actually made for. I think I made it 109 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.319 for Justin at one point when he was here, and 110 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.839 it was about it's about your goals and are you 111 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:19.879 doing enough to reach your goals or are you doing 112 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.279 enough just to get by? Oh yeah. 113 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:23.879 I always had to make sure put. 114 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.920 That by his office door, and I told him that's 115 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.240 for you, Justin. I don't know. 116 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:29.800 I think one time I had to set it on 117 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:30.319 his desk. 118 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.759 I mean, hey, sometimes it's a little well that's not 119 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.000 a gentle reminder, but yeah, sometimes you just need it. 120 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:39.800 But like, but that's true and sometimes you need to 121 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.079 hear that, and so yeah, I thought it was cool 122 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:43.560 and I just was filming it. I was like, hey, 123 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:44.720 this is kind of cool to add to the end 124 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.759 a little creepy sound, and I thought it was good. 125 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.399 So that one is available you can go to if 126 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.120 you want to jump on our YouTube channel, you can 127 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.399 see it there, go to the Recovery Story's. 128 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.120 Channel and it's on that. 129 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:01.040 But what I want to do now though, is I 130 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.759 thought it would be wonderful. I was updating my page 131 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:05.879 at two seventeen recovery dot com. Still waiting for you 132 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.800 and Marnie to give me those photos so I can 133 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.839 update your guys is oh yeah, yeah, it's been a 134 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.800 couple of months, not weeks, but I don't know. So 135 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.639 I updated my page. It looks way better. Check it 136 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.839 out to seventeen recovery dot com. Corey with E check 137 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:24.680 out my page and then uh, I was like, hey, 138 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.240 write this bio to it doesn't look stupid. And I 139 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:31.040 realized something that reading my bio, it's just and you've 140 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.600 probably already gone through this, ugh, Like I mean, yeah, 141 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:37.639 I was there, I did that, done that, But like 142 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.240 it's so back in the past that I want to 143 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.600 more highlight this is what I'm doing now or these 144 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.519 are my dreams today, you know. Like and I think 145 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.800 that's why I was getting kind of taken back by 146 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:50.680 the bio because I was like, what what am I 147 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.040 supposed to write on here if I'm not trying to 148 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:54.439 be stuck? So I kind of broke it up into 149 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.360 three sections of like, hey, this is this is what 150 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.160 I'm doing kind of working on and this is what 151 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.920 got us there kind of thing. But then I was like, man, 152 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.240 what if I had like question answers. I'm like, man, 153 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:07.759 if I should just had somebody answer me or ask 154 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.600 me some questions? And I thought what about using AI? 155 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.720 So I jumped on the claud Ai and I was like, hey, 156 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.600 ask me some questions. It could be about anything, it 157 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.160 could be about recovery, it could be about whatever. And 158 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.279 it was like, all right, cool, like your idea, so 159 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.519 throughout ten questions and so I want. 160 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.600 You to ask you these questions. 161 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.279 Yes, And it said that I should like really draw 162 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.120 it out, like hey, I got these questions and make 163 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:36.560 it like a week long like thing. But I don't 164 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.399 know when we're going to do a podcast again, so 165 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.600 I think we should just run through some of them. Yeah, 166 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.680 so these are ten questions from AI. 167 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.160 Did you already study these for your No? 168 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:49.040 I looked at the first one. I can't remember. It 169 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:55.040 was about a license plate or something. Maybe not okay, okay? 170 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.920 Question one? All right, what's the one thing people misunderstand 171 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.319 most about being in recovery? 172 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.560 That you can't have fun anymore? 173 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:12.040 Yeah? That was me. 174 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.920 Yeah, Oh, if I can't drink, gonna I'm gonna watch football? 175 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:18.480 How am I gonna do longer? How'm gonna do anything? 176 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.800 How am I gonna go to a concert? But I 177 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.360 have to smoke weed on the way. I gotta get drunk. 178 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:23.519 On the way. 179 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:25.920 Come on, man, you know those beers are like fifteen bucks. 180 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.439 We gotta like hit it before, Like, how would I 181 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:30.480 do that without drinking? 182 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:30.959 What? 183 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.080 But then you realize that it's way more fun without drinking, 184 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.639 way cheaper. I think it's just yeah, all across the board. 185 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.679 Yes, someone told me I had to redescribe my definition 186 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:43.039 of fun. 187 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.720 Yeah, and then think about, wait, when's the last time 188 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:47.879 I had fun when I was drinking. 189 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.320 When did I remember having that fun? 190 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:54.519 All right? 191 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.720 Question two, you started a podcast from a sober house. 192 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:02.360 What did you know then that you didn't know you knew? 193 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.480 What did I know then that I didn't? Wait? 194 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.799 What what did you know then that you didn't. 195 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:12.600 Know you knew? 196 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.080 What did I know then that I didn't know I knew? Oh? 197 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.639 Okay, So it's saying, hey, I had like them hard questions, 198 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.720 So they want to know what I knew then that 199 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:28.759 I knew that. Maybe I thought I didn't know. 200 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.919 Right. Like looking back, I'm like. 201 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.320 All right, you didn't know that you knew? 202 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.919 Yeah, So like looking back at it, you knew it, 203 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.679 but then you didn't think you knew it. 204 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:50.320 With starting the podcast, I would say that my co 205 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.519 hosts would change over the years, but I would still 206 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:55.039 keep going. 207 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.320 I think also, too, I don't think you realized how 208 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.000 much of an I think you knew it was an 209 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:08.519 outlet for you. But I think now you really appre 210 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.720 appreciate that that was your outlet for you. 211 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.200 Yes, yeah, like. 212 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.000 You are, you knew it then, but I don't think 213 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.879 you knew it as well as now when you like 214 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:20.159 you look back at it and. 215 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:20.720 Talk about it. 216 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:25.080 That's true. Yeah, I would say that is correct. Good, 217 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.440 thanks for answering the quest. No, but that is that's yeah. 218 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:29.320 I mean because that's what I hear from, like in 219 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.639 our different conversations and like when you talk to people 220 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.799 and stuff. And then also too, we just been you know, 221 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.440 running the wheels on the cart ear with three wheels, 222 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.000 and so we're not doing the podcast as much. And 223 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.799 how much I think you realize you miss maybe some 224 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:52.519 of that outlet, Yeah I do, okay. Number three all right, 225 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.200 I'm excited to hear this one. If two seventeen Recovery 226 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.639 had a tombstone, what would it say? 227 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:02.600 I would just hope I had like a little date 228 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:06.600 like born twenty nineteen dash and then just. 229 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:10.039 Nothing had fun and recovery bad mother. 230 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:14.600 Yeah, I don't know just the date. 231 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.200 I guess, just the date. What does a bad day 232 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:20.600 look like for you now? 233 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:26.039 And how is it different from a bad day an 234 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.080 active addiction. 235 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:28.960 I would say a bad day. 236 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.399 Is I get behind a school bus on the way 237 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.399 and I don't know, like sober people problems. This is 238 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:38.879 something I say all the time to people, you know, 239 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.679 like is even when I'm taking my car into the 240 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.080 shop or we're doing something else. You know, it's just like, ah, 241 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.039 that's something that's gone my way. And I go, well, 242 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:49.559 you know, I know that I'm complaining about this, but 243 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.320 this is still way better than the life I used 244 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.120 to have. And you know, these are sober people problems 245 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.879 what we call, you know, it's nice to have those. 246 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:01.279 The bad day on the other end of it. 247 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.039 And oh, I was just talking to my friend John 248 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.559 and I was complaining to him about this software that 249 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.679 I'm using called fade in. And I used to love 250 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:12.399 the software. It's like eighty bucks. It was great, and 251 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.879 he used it to write films and scripts and stuff. Well, 252 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.039 I upgraded it and now it doesn't work. So I'm 253 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:19.960 like I on the phone with John and I'm mentioning 254 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.200 him about it, and He's just like, what are you 255 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.279 even talking about? And I'm like, I know, dude, these 256 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.399 are so people problems. I remember a day when I 257 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.039 was I was like, I don't know when my electro 258 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.679 is going to get turned back on, and I don't 259 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:31.799 think I have the gas to drive to my mom's 260 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.080 house to ask her because she want to answer the phone. Great, 261 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:37.759 this is wonderful, Like those are the problems I had 262 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:42.639 before and so, yeah, going to complain about my car 263 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:44.399 not getting as clean as it was supposed to do, 264 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.919 or I don't know, whatever you wanted to complain about, 265 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.799 you know, like this red light's taking too long. 266 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:57.399 That's just patience, all right. Number five? You're a filmmaker, 267 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.720 a broadcaster, a nonprofit under in, a podcaster? 268 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.840 Which one are you? When nobody is watching? 269 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.639 I would say I'm stressed out? The guy that's trying 270 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.440 to play doctor, but not the good kind, the guy 271 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:16.879 that's kind of the guy that's trying to. 272 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.480 Figure out what's going on with my body and what 273 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.759 is really going on? And how can I just pull 274 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:23.639 my stuff together? 275 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.600 What's a story from northern Michigan that the world needs 276 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:33.559 to hear but hasn't. 277 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.559 It's not a bear trap. I don't know which way 278 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:37.600 do you want to go with it? You know, do 279 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:39.159 you want to go like what people would be like 280 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:40.960 upset if they knew about or like. 281 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.000 A good story. 282 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.799 Of like a guy who's you know, putting in the 283 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:48.919 work and getting things done, because Kim Hopkins Walker is 284 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:49.399 a great. 285 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.919 Story of that. A very own cheers. 286 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.440 You know, somebody who's come through left treatment, went back home. 287 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.879 Because you're going to do it whatever, and then realized, Nope, 288 00:13:58.919 --> 00:13:59.559 I can't do it. 289 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:00.000 Came back. 290 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:02.919 You know, some would say with egg on your face, 291 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.840 you know like that, it's harder to get back up 292 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:06.559 the second and third time. Sometimes, you know, in the 293 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.720 fourth and fifth it's harder. Every time it gets harder. 294 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.639 It's not easier just because you know the ropes. It's harder. 295 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.759 So come back and then do it and in the 296 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.679 face and do recovery. So we're living in a place 297 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.480 that you don't even know like and then to get 298 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.440 your own play. I mean, I don't know, she's she's 299 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:25.159 a success story. 300 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.559 I would say, so there you go that story, then 301 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.080 keep it positive. I like it. 302 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.240 If you could go back and sit with yourself in 303 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:40.039 the hospital bed in January of twenty and fifteen, what 304 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:49.399 do you say. 305 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.159 I'll probably just cry like you just even thinking about it, it's 306 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:53.200 making me cheer up a little bit. 307 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.440 What would you say to yourself? 308 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:17.200 Yeah, I don't even know. I don't know. Just thinking 309 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:18.320 about it makes me tear up. 310 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:26.840 Yeah, I don't think i'd tell as if anything, glad 311 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.360 we weren't roaming video on that one. 312 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:30.960 Jeez, that's right. 313 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.799 What do you believe about God that you couldn't have 314 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:46.440 said out loud five years ago, five years ago, Man, 315 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.720 these are some deep they just get deep AI. 316 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.519 What the hell? Man? I wish I had fans. They 317 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:54.879 could write me letters. 318 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.960 Ask me questions, But you gotta use AI when you 319 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.840 don't read the question what do. 320 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.080 You believe about God? That you couldn't have said out 321 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:07.279 loud five years ago? 322 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.320 I guess that your relationship with God can can get better. 323 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:13.360 You know, like when you have like two years clean 324 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.279 and you're like, man, things are going great, and people like, oh, 325 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:17.559 it gets better and you're like okay, and then two 326 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:19.240 years later it gets better and you're like, oh my God, 327 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:19.639 this good. 328 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.240 It's kind of like that, yeah, or it's like even 329 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.600 in the beginning, right, you don't it's almost like this, 330 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.759 I had this like conformed thing about God and like 331 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.320 you just don't never know where you can talk about 332 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.120 it or what it is. And you know now today 333 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.000 like to I'm free out loud to say that I 334 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.240 believe in God or my my own power of my 335 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:46.960 understanding and what He does for me. But I mean 336 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.480 for me if you would ask me this almost eleven 337 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.960 years ago, I would sometimes question if. 338 00:16:55.799 --> 00:17:00.440 God had the best interest for me? All right? 339 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:05.400 Number nine, what's the most dangerous lie the recovery industry 340 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:06.799 tells people. 341 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.519 Boxing's not addictive, can get high on it? 342 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.359 Yeah, very true? Okay. 343 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:20.640 Number ten, Claude AI is asking you these questions. Does 344 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:24.000 that feel strange and what does it say about where 345 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:24.720 we are headed? 346 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.160 Well, no, it doesn't feel strange because I asked it 347 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:33.279 to and it means that I don't have any fans. 348 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.359 I guess I have a couple of friends, but I 349 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.079 guess fans. 350 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:38.640 I mean, you never gave me an assignment. I've come 351 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.799 up with some questions. Ask you. 352 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.200 You're busy right now? 353 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:46.319 I don't know. 354 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.039 I think this is cool, though I don't know. 355 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.680 I think it's kind of deep in some spots. But 356 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.119 that's where I mean. That's why we're here though, right 357 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:56.160 is it? Yeah? 358 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.359 Anyways, I went from hey, this will be a fun 359 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.920 little thing to like, I'm crying and tear up stupid. 360 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.359 I'll never do that again. I'm glad we didn't video 361 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:06.960 tape for that. That's horrible. 362 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:09.000 Glad this wasn't my idea. 363 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:14.279 Don't share this one stop, but please do share it 364 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.519 because Recovery Stories Message of pop Part eight is tomorrow 365 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:20.920 and we would love to see. 366 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:21.400 Yeah. 367 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.839 No, I did get an email from a guy, not 368 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.000 that he's a fan, but it was on Facebook to 369 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.240 two seventeen and he was talking about recovery stories and 370 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:29.839 he was like, hey, can I share it. I was like, no, Like, 371 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.279 we're pretty structured on time and how we do it 372 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.240 and we got to get out of there by a 373 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.440 certain time, you know, And I was like, you know, 374 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.720 we we can kick it and I can talk to you, 375 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:39.960 get to know your story, you know, like you can't 376 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:41.200 just throw people on stage. 377 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.759 Sure, buddy, get up there, you know, and they start 378 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:43.720 selling knife or something. 379 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:46.039 Hey, for nine ninety nine, you're gonna wait, what what's 380 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:47.599 happening right now? 381 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.640 My luck, yes, that would happened. 382 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.519 But but no, So that was kind of cool that, 383 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:54.440 you know, he said his brother shared it with them, 384 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:56.680 I believe, and it's like, all right, cool, Like that's 385 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:58.279 that's awesome, you know. 386 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.559 So what's awesome is that means that's that it the 387 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.519 word is getting passed around or shared in the community. 388 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.359 And also or maybe even they've seen the flyers somewhere 389 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.200 up you know, and so that's that's awesome. That means 390 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.519 words getting out there, and I think also too, you know, 391 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:17.759 more people as I hear when people come in, what 392 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:18.519 are you doing your. 393 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.039 Next recovery stories? You know, and. 394 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:24.559 Sometimes it's hard to remember who all says that to 395 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:26.960 make sure either flyers they get the memo. 396 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:28.880 And then every time we're like, we're going to email 397 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.200 everybody next time, uh huh, and we don't. 398 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.079 Sorry, we're trying the best. 399 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.519 One day we're going to spam people. I mean one day, 400 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:39.160 We're going to do. 401 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:44.000