Speaker 1: Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Broadcast.
Speaker 2: If you don't make mistakes, you won't learn.
Speaker 1: With your host Corey Winfield.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my gosh, I'm going into a place and
Speaker 3: they're going to be people like talking to malls.
Speaker 2: And there was some of that, but it was still pretty.
Speaker 1: Co host Hardy Winfield.
Speaker 4: They don't get that sincere messaging, then they're not going
Speaker 4: to have that conversation on a level where maybe you.
Speaker 2: Can get through to them.
Speaker 1: Special guest Corey Smoker.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear the hero over here, but
Speaker 4: then I know what you're skipping down the street over
Speaker 4: there doing.
Speaker 2: You know, got your abs.
Speaker 3: It is the twenty seventh of May, twenty twenty six months.
Speaker 2: Oh my name's Corey Winfield. I can't talk.
Speaker 4: I'm Corey Smoker's vehn.
Speaker 2: A minute, I guess you know.
Speaker 3: Oh, last one we did, it was I'm still forty
Speaker 3: seven years old, but it was it was like an,
Speaker 3: I think we missed April, didn't he we did? We
Speaker 3: did miss April, and it's we're barely making in May.
Speaker 4: Well. I mean we did sit down to do two
Speaker 4: different ones we did didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was about kratom too.
Speaker 3: One of them was because I kind of wanted to
Speaker 3: get into that because there's a lawmaker in Michigan that
Speaker 3: was like, hey, let's ban and criminalize it, and I
Speaker 3: don't know, it was just like, hey, hold on, let's
Speaker 3: talk about this kind of thing, Like, don't be starting
Speaker 3: to do that stuff without talking to people who know
Speaker 3: what's going on. And it's like in the Michigan Senate now,
Speaker 3: I think, but it looks like they kind of have
Speaker 3: another version of it, and I think they kind of
Speaker 3: adapted it to where it should be, so I don't
Speaker 3: really need to really do much more. So that was
Speaker 3: kind of like one of my things too, is like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to go out here and say all
Speaker 3: this stuff and it doesn't even matter. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of that going on right now in
Speaker 3: the world where people are posting this and posting that.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you know this or not.
Speaker 3: I know you know this, Corey, but if someone's listening,
Speaker 3: but you don't change your community by posting things on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Now you can post like videos of you doing good
Speaker 3: shit and post it on Facebook and you can maybe
Speaker 3: change somebody. They're a Indian or maybe give them an
Speaker 3: idea to help their community or do some of their kids.
Speaker 3: You know. But like saying Trump did this or Trump
Speaker 3: sucks or whatever, it doesn't do anything, you know, it
Speaker 3: really doesn't. I am a judge of character. I like
Speaker 3: to judge people on character. I don't like Trump's character.
Speaker 3: I just don't like him as a person. Is he
Speaker 3: a good president? I don't know. I don't like to
Speaker 3: hear it. Which you turn on a TV show that
Speaker 3: you don't like. No, if you hate, what's the TV
Speaker 3: show you hate?
Speaker 1: Corey?
Speaker 4: The Office?
Speaker 2: The Office?
Speaker 3: So if The Office was playing twenty four to seven,
Speaker 3: you would avoid that room right where the TV was playing, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it, don't want to see it.
Speaker 3: That's what Trump does to me. So I try to
Speaker 3: stay off Facebook. I try to stay off off of
Speaker 3: the news, and which is bad, you know. And it's
Speaker 3: not just the Trump people. I hate the other people too.
Speaker 3: I hate it because they're still talking about the person
Speaker 3: I hate. So it's like, oh, I'm watching a show
Speaker 3: on the Office. Oh, then you can't even watch the
Speaker 3: other show because they're talking about how much they hate
Speaker 3: the Office, and you just want to throw stuff and
Speaker 3: go can I just just walk away? And so I
Speaker 3: wrote a song about It's called a Where. It's a
Speaker 3: very good song. Actually I'm like a lie. It's really good.
Speaker 3: But like you just have to be aware of yourself.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what people get lost in nowadays.
Speaker 3: They get so caught up. It's easy to do. Pick
Speaker 3: up your phone, go on Facebook. You'll get mad in
Speaker 3: two seconds, yep. And that's what they want. And that's
Speaker 3: and that's not the real world is. Look at it, man,
Speaker 3: when you when the record light goes off, people go normal.
Speaker 3: When you go to the story, you see people walk
Speaker 3: around throwing ship Trump Trump, No, because it's it's on Facebook,
Speaker 3: it's on social media. It's the internet world. It's it's
Speaker 3: not it's not a real world people live in. You know,
Speaker 3: you shouldn't base people on on what this is. That
Speaker 3: it's just it is it is, and that's what it is,
Speaker 3: and move on with your life.
Speaker 2: I can't control it. Prison Trump does today.
Speaker 4: Me neither.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I know we got to fix a lot
Speaker 3: of shit when he's done, but we've had to fix
Speaker 3: a lost ship for a long time. So you can't
Speaker 3: blame it all on him. You can't blame it all
Speaker 3: on Biden. It's a whole system that's just messed up.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Yeah, it's a piss it's a it's
Speaker 3: a piss now. It's a system that's based on money
Speaker 3: and greed. And if they would really look at it
Speaker 3: and look at us, like we're taxpayers like that, like
Speaker 3: they should look at us, they would understand that they're
Speaker 3: actually losing money, you know, by allowing things to happen
Speaker 3: that hurt people and hurt people's health, and they're losing trillions.
Speaker 3: So if somebody is screaming from the roof, hey lost market,
Speaker 3: does country grider, then look at the real facts of
Speaker 3: how you can make this country greed again. Because making
Speaker 3: this country gret again for who? That's a question? You know,
Speaker 3: wouldn't it be beneficial if we put every poverty person
Speaker 3: through college free. You go to college here, you go free.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it because then people, oh, you can't
Speaker 3: just do them? Why you kids can go too? Everybody
Speaker 3: goes free because that would help because then everybody's educated,
Speaker 3: right or is that what we don't want? Because once
Speaker 3: everybody becomes educated, they get better jobs, they make more money,
Speaker 3: they pay more taxes. Right, Oh, because they save my
Speaker 3: life to say to Michigan and medicator whoever, you know,
Speaker 3: by allowing me, which I had to fight for because
Speaker 3: they kept telling me I couldn't go to treatment. So
Speaker 3: you have to fight your way through it. It's not
Speaker 3: as easy as people think, Oh, you want to go
Speaker 3: to treatment. You got a problem, Oh, just call the
Speaker 3: number and go aha, try that today, Try it. You
Speaker 3: just try that and see how easy that is for you.
Speaker 3: But anyway, the money that I paid in taxes since then,
Speaker 3: they've paid for the treatments over and over and over,
Speaker 3: you know, Like that's good. That's how it's supposed to work.
Speaker 3: And now I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 3: But there's people out there that are dying left and right,
Speaker 3: and there are people out there that still want to
Speaker 3: keep this like a secret that you know, these drugs
Speaker 3: are bad, and I'm talking about alcohol is one of
Speaker 3: them too, you know, like alcohol is the major one.
Speaker 2: Like it's bad. Now, Am I saying ban it?
Speaker 3: No? But I do question when they say, well, we
Speaker 3: try a prohibition that didn't work. Well, slow the tape.
Speaker 3: I wasn't there who said it didn't work?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: The next administration that came in talking about, look at
Speaker 3: the money we're losing. Oh, el Capone was running shit,
Speaker 3: killing people. Okay, that's happening right now. Like we could
Speaker 3: easily be like, hey, let's legalize fitanol. Look at all
Speaker 3: this crime going on, Look at all this organized crime.
Speaker 2: Let's legalize it. It's not working.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm I'm willing to bet money that I
Speaker 3: don't have, but I bet at all that. It was
Speaker 3: more the other that the administration came in said, oh
Speaker 3: my god, we are losing billions of dollars, We're gonna
Speaker 3: go ahead and legalize that, because well, we're politicians and
Speaker 3: these people are paying us even probably more money personally,
Speaker 3: whatever president, whatever regime was going on at that time.
Speaker 3: I don't have that at the ready. Sorry, didn't really
Speaker 3: think we're going to talk about the topic today. And
Speaker 3: I'm too lazy to stop the podcast and look it up.
Speaker 3: You can do that on your own. But I'm just
Speaker 3: saying though, like I don't trust it and it needs
Speaker 3: to change so and it will during my lifetime. And
Speaker 3: that's not like a shot on any of it. That's
Speaker 3: not a message to legislation. That's just like message to communities. Like,
Speaker 3: we have to do it. I'm not doing it. I
Speaker 3: can't do it on my own. We have to put
Speaker 3: our foot down and be like, look, you got tobacco,
Speaker 3: you got tobacco with it, you got opioids. Talking about
Speaker 3: the accountability stuff, you know, hey, hold people accountable, But yeah,
Speaker 3: alcohol is dancing around on every big game, every big event.
Speaker 3: Hey to super Bowl twenty eight, brought to you or I.
Speaker 2: Guess to be whatever, seventy two, shit whatever it is now.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl blah blah blah, brought to you by crack Cocaine.
Speaker 3: Get some at you local store, you know, like they
Speaker 3: wouldn't do that. Here's some fetanyl. Hey, get your best
Speaker 3: veetanoyl down. Here is Ventanyl's keep you nice and skinny.
Speaker 4: But it sure is sponsored by bush Light and bud
Speaker 4: Light and Mille.
Speaker 3: Isn't that funny? But yeah, that's that's that's my advice.
Speaker 3: That's that's what almost killed me. That's my that's that's
Speaker 3: taunting me every day. And that's the worst one. And
Speaker 3: they know it. But yet they're walking around, dance around,
Speaker 3: And that's what I'm saying, Like we all know, you know,
Speaker 3: I know my mom knows. Alcohol is dangerous it can be.
Speaker 3: And again we had this conversation earlier. Is not really
Speaker 3: alcohol's fault.
Speaker 2: It's good. You and I. We loved it.
Speaker 3: And that's the problem is that it is good and
Speaker 3: it is addicting, and they know that it causes cancer.
Speaker 2: They know that.
Speaker 3: So when I reach for that and nobody tells me
Speaker 3: it cast cancer. They tell me it's addictive. But if
Speaker 3: I drink responsible, I'm good. So I was not drink,
Speaker 3: drinking and driving all that much, and I was drinking
Speaker 3: responsibil as I could, so I didn't think I had
Speaker 3: a problem.
Speaker 2: And then my liver fails.
Speaker 4: But it says drink responsibly.
Speaker 2: What does that mean that's what I was doing. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I followed the directions.
Speaker 3: Now I have a problem, and I am an alcoholic
Speaker 3: and now these things are bad and I don't want
Speaker 3: to be that, you know, and so like it puts
Speaker 3: you in this whole little thing.
Speaker 2: But if we just faced it as it is what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: And stopped, I mean, alcohol companies can pay ten billion
Speaker 3: dollars every year to whoever they want, and if they
Speaker 3: want to do that to politicians, okay, But and we
Speaker 3: can vote them out and they'll just pay somebody else.
Speaker 3: But there has to be a time where we put
Speaker 3: a politician in there that doesn't take that money, or
Speaker 3: we just hit them like again, hit them on the
Speaker 3: other side of it, you know them, have them paid
Speaker 3: out because they do owe it to this country and
Speaker 3: the community to help the people that do suffer from
Speaker 3: you know, using their product. And they say the wrong way,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter. You've got tobacco, you've hit them
Speaker 3: with it. You fit opioids. Now it's time for alcohol.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. That's just the way it is. Because last
Speaker 3: time I checked, there's still beds, there's still people can't
Speaker 3: get into treatment centers. That means we need more treatment centers,
Speaker 3: we need more access to them, we need more recover
Speaker 3: We just need more stuff. Quit making us beg for this.
Speaker 3: We are out there doing the work in the community
Speaker 3: that nobody else is doing, nobody wants to do, and
Speaker 3: we're doing it.
Speaker 2: We're saving your kids, We're helping your people too. It
Speaker 2: will help anybody.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you make a million dollars, you
Speaker 3: make zero, you be living on the streets or living
Speaker 3: on a house boat, don't care. You need some help.
Speaker 3: We're going to help you. Yeah, because that's what it's about.
Speaker 3: We I don't care if you're black, white, Native, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: And we try our bust to remove all the barriers
Speaker 4: to get them, get whoever.
Speaker 3: And it's still not enough, and we still are sitting
Speaker 3: here with our hands out baging. And then it's like,
Speaker 3: we're totally going to hire people, but you can't have
Speaker 3: a computer to work on, you know, that's essentially what
Speaker 3: they're saying. They're not saying that, but essentially they are
Speaker 3: saying that in different aspects of what we do. It's like, well,
Speaker 3: you can have a computer, but you can't print what. Well,
Speaker 3: how are we supposed to do all this work and
Speaker 3: get all these reports done?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know what you don't know, you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's very very confusing, and we're working the best we can,
Speaker 3: you know, within the parameters that we are, you know,
Speaker 3: because you can't just like I said, post on Facebook
Speaker 3: and change things. You know, it takes work, it takes time,
Speaker 3: but it takes people willing to do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also too, it just shows something that you know, no,
Speaker 4: look at all the challenges I mean that we've that
Speaker 4: two seventeen recovery has faced since even I've been here
Speaker 4: and I know before that just the things that you've
Speaker 4: had to conquer and overcome just to get to having
Speaker 4: the recovery center and being here and doing the transportation
Speaker 4: at the volume that you were, And you know, I
Speaker 4: think it just still says something for that, you know,
Speaker 4: we continue to just keep showing up every day and
Speaker 4: doing what we can with what we're handed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all you can do, you know, And there's
Speaker 3: so many questions and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but you know what, I still continue
Speaker 4: to just show up, be here and try to help
Speaker 4: to help.
Speaker 2: The next individual.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of just like what I say about
Speaker 4: going to some of these outings for two seventeen. If
Speaker 4: I at least talk to one person today, you know what,
Speaker 4: that's making a difference today. If I'm at least telling
Speaker 4: someone one person knew about two seventeen recovery today, that's
Speaker 4: the best that we can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes and sometimes there's a lot we can do,
Speaker 3: But again, it all kind of comes back to, you know,
Speaker 3: what tools are we giving and what can we do
Speaker 3: because you know, as well as I, if we had
Speaker 3: four people that could take people to them from Truman
Speaker 3: right now, they would be out taking people to them
Speaker 3: from Truman right now. Yes, and hopefully, like I said,
Speaker 3: hopefully some things will work out for us. We have,
Speaker 3: like again, we've been working behind the scenes, doing what
Speaker 3: we're supposed to be doing and.
Speaker 2: Trying to go in the right path.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, you know, there's got to
Speaker 3: be some give and other people in the communities need
Speaker 3: to say this stuff too, not just me. I can't
Speaker 3: just get on a podcast and say it again. I
Speaker 3: started this going on saying post on Facebook doesn't change anything.
Speaker 3: You know this me, even doing this episode is not
Speaker 3: going to change anything. It's going to take people in action.
Speaker 3: You can hear this episode, Oh, turn it off, take
Speaker 3: a shower, just forget about it and go on about
Speaker 3: your day, which most people probably will. Or you can
Speaker 3: sit down and buy all right, well, who do I write?
Speaker 2: Who do I say?
Speaker 3: We need to get more recovery supports up in here.
Speaker 3: You know, that's how you change things. You can sit
Speaker 3: here and watch TV all day and Mitch about Trump this,
Speaker 3: Trump that, hate them, love them, It doesn't matter. What's
Speaker 3: going on in your community. Is what you actually can matter?
Speaker 3: Is or is that what you can change? And those
Speaker 3: are those are things that matter in your community, So
Speaker 3: kind of look at it that way. If you really
Speaker 3: want to change stuff, do it.
Speaker 2: Do it like that. Yeah, start start small, and are.
Speaker 4: You showing up and supporting the recovery community.
Speaker 3: If you really want to be involved in politics, be
Speaker 3: involved in politics. Find out who's running for what, vote
Speaker 3: somebody in, vote somebody out. Whatever, whatever you need to do,
Speaker 3: but be involved that way. Don't just keep posting. It's
Speaker 3: just it's it's old, man, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: I clicked on the wrong thing and then now it's
Speaker 3: it's all I see. I used to see booties and titties,
Speaker 3: and now I'm just see Trump. I want to go
Speaker 3: back to the good old days. I gotta start clicking
Speaker 3: on more titties. Like sorry, honey, I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: look up porn. I just want Trump offer here either
Speaker 3: Trump of titties.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: She'd say to.
Speaker 4: That, she's gonna hear it once she sees the notification
Speaker 4: that it.
Speaker 2: Was a new episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see if she if she's we're just laying
Speaker 3: in bed, she's like, oh honey, like what she's like,
Speaker 3: the titties are okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, what are you going about what what am
Speaker 2: I doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's game, because you're gonna done forget that we
Speaker 4: did this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's yeah. Two minutes after you leave it,
Speaker 2: I'll be like, forget about it.
Speaker 4: Oh man, these days. We're going to have to do
Speaker 4: a podcast with her as well.
Speaker 3: Because I know it's just so busy. You know, Parker,
Speaker 3: he's two now. Yeah, it'll still a little recap. We
Speaker 3: haven't recapped in a while, I guess. But Parker's two
Speaker 3: just turned to last Friday. And Beckett, which I don't
Speaker 3: think we've announced this yet, but I'll do it as well.
Speaker 2: Honey. I'm not sure when you'll be on the podcast again.
Speaker 3: But no, we have another child on the way, another son,
Speaker 3: baby boy, Beckett, So that's breaking news.
Speaker 2: I guess it's so awesome. I'll work at the middle
Speaker 2: of the episode.
Speaker 3: But hey, yeah, yeah, Beckett Avery Winfield and he'll be
Speaker 3: here in September. Parker will have a little brother. So,
Speaker 3: I mean, look at this recovery life. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just amazing, it really is. I was talking to a
Speaker 3: buddy of mine last night and I was telling him
Speaker 3: it's like, dude, he drinks, and if you drink, I
Speaker 3: don't it's your thing. I'm just saying as a friend.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I told him it was like, dude, I want you
Speaker 3: to feel what I feel in this recovery life. It
Speaker 3: is so good, like it's life.
Speaker 2: I never had this before, you know.
Speaker 3: And I was telling him, it's like, I don't want
Speaker 3: you to quit drinking because I think you're an asshole,
Speaker 3: or because it's bad. You know, it is killing you,
Speaker 3: I told them, But like, dude, I just want you
Speaker 3: to feel this recovery life like this is good, Like
Speaker 3: it's amazing, dude, the stuff that you can do and
Speaker 3: put your mind to and yeah, you'll fail, that happens,
Speaker 3: but you'll get back up and you can keep going
Speaker 3: and that's how we learn. But I was just telling
Speaker 3: him that, man, and he's just like, you know, he's
Speaker 3: going through some things. And you know, again, I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to make anybody get in recovery, especially my friends,
Speaker 3: but I do want them all to have this life.
Speaker 3: And if they're not living it, and I hear them
Speaker 3: and I hear it in their voice, you know, and
Speaker 3: it's just like I hope they can get it. But
Speaker 3: it is a great life and things that I once
Speaker 3: thought were impossible things that I have never thought I
Speaker 3: could do, write a movie, make a soundtrack to it,
Speaker 3: like just crazy stuff. It's start a nonprofit, help people
Speaker 3: get to treatment. I think there's other stuff in there too, father, husband, husband, be.
Speaker 2: A boss, be a boss.
Speaker 4: Yeah that selling a home and buying a home, yeah,
Speaker 4: with a yard for your kids.
Speaker 3: I really can't wait to make the movie though. I'm
Speaker 3: really excited about that. It's getting close to where I
Speaker 3: don't want to do one more polish of the script yet,
Speaker 3: but like I think I have to go through one
Speaker 3: more time and just claimp the action lines. But then
Speaker 3: but like it's I'm confident now where it is to
Speaker 3: like start building a pitch deck and start, you know,
Speaker 3: finding the director of photography for it, and moving to
Speaker 3: like really making this thing. Man, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: I know on the soundtrack, the soundtrack is going to
Speaker 2: be lit.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm telling you it's really good and
Speaker 3: people are like, oh whatever, but no, I'm just like
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 4: I mean I haven't I've heard some of the songs
Speaker 4: that you've tested and I like them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember the first one. I said, You're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, that's like to your movie. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, and you're like, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, that's my favorite one of all seven or
Speaker 4: Light comes first one that you sent me.
Speaker 2: That's I played that one a lot, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That one.
Speaker 3: Or is it the that end that's the late light one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's not the country version, right no. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's and that's cool too, Like it's like different
Speaker 3: versions of songs and I don't know, but they are
Speaker 3: good and it's pretty cool and it's interesting.
Speaker 2: And we started writing.
Speaker 3: I started writing the songs for the movie, and I
Speaker 3: was just like, wow, this is kind of because after
Speaker 3: spending I don't know how many months writing this movie
Speaker 3: and other movies and other scripts, now like I don't
Speaker 3: feel like I'm not a writer like the first one.
Speaker 2: I was doing it. Like you asked me a year
Speaker 2: ago and you're like, oh, you're a writer, i't of
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: If you're like, hey, you write movies, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do want to talk about it, you know, Like
Speaker 3: I feel that confident now, like I can do that,
Speaker 3: you know, because it just comes natural almost, And so
Speaker 3: what I I kind of approached writing songs kind of
Speaker 3: the same way, and it was just like, oh wow.
Speaker 3: And then it's just about opening up and having this
Speaker 3: third eye. I guess you could call it. I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's like a weird. But so then I started writing
Speaker 3: something for myself, you know, like from personal experiences, and
Speaker 3: some of them were crazy deep and some of them
Speaker 3: were like messing me up in the head, you know,
Speaker 3: because going back to those places it wasn't fun.
Speaker 4: No, but you did make an awesome song for your
Speaker 4: wife for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: I did, And that's like one of my favorite ones
Speaker 2: now too. Yeah, that one. There's like four or five
Speaker 2: of them that I think are really really good, and
Speaker 2: I think it's cool.
Speaker 4: When I bebop in the office here and I.
Speaker 2: Hear them playing, I'm like, roh and yesterday. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's crazy how it will happen too, because like if
Speaker 3: I sit down and like I'm gonna write a song,
Speaker 3: if I would like to sit down to try to
Speaker 3: write a song with you right now, I just want
Speaker 3: to happen. But it's like when I'm waiting and I
Speaker 3: think one of the best songs I wrote when I
Speaker 3: was waiting for Marnie was in her Eye Exam. I'm
Speaker 3: sitting in the car and Parker's sleeping in the back,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what am I supposed to do? And
Speaker 3: I was like, I started thinking about I needed one
Speaker 3: more song for the time for the movie, for the soundtrack,
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, well I need one more.
Speaker 3: And I started thinking about I never wrote a goodbye
Speaker 3: letter to my drug of choice. And when you're in
Speaker 3: a treatment, they're like, hey, write a goodbye letter and
Speaker 3: they go outside.
Speaker 2: And they burn them. What if I if I write
Speaker 2: that real quick?
Speaker 3: So I just started doing it, you know, and it
Speaker 3: was just kind of flowing, and then it just yeah,
Speaker 3: it came out pretty well.
Speaker 2: And I finished it up later. I mean I didn't.
Speaker 3: I wrote some of it then, but it takes a
Speaker 3: minute to tweak it and finish it. But I did
Speaker 3: it within like a night or whatever. But I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's awesome. I think, I know you want me to
Speaker 3: write one for you, or you didn't, you know. Actually,
Speaker 3: let me rewind that, because that is not the case.
Speaker 3: I volunteered to write one for you because I thought
Speaker 3: it would be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're gonna let Corey take his creative thoughts.
Speaker 4: He volunteered himself to make me a song so I
Speaker 4: can't wait to see how this goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be also, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 4: I know, I'll probably be either laughing or.
Speaker 2: Laughing. Yeah, it's gonna be a funny one. It's not
Speaker 2: gonna be Yeah, I happy too much.
Speaker 4: Oh man.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we did go to you fam. We did go
Speaker 2: to you Fam.
Speaker 4: We didn't do a podcast.
Speaker 2: We did not do a podcast.
Speaker 4: But this year was just kind of, oh, we did
Speaker 4: something a little different. We interviewed some people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 3: And I still haven't reviewed the audio, but just from
Speaker 3: what I could hear when we were doing it, it
Speaker 3: was so windy May fourteenth and Lansing, Michigan. And we
Speaker 3: did have Scott Barry, who is a filmmaker here in
Speaker 3: Traverse City. He came out with us and we were
Speaker 3: doing like a side project with him. And yeah, we
Speaker 3: had other people coming up because we were trying to
Speaker 3: do this recovery coaching services that we offer, you know,
Speaker 3: to try to promote that they're free, you know, through
Speaker 3: our CEOs. And it was so windy. We had people
Speaker 3: come up and you know, talk to us and stuff.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if I'll be able to use
Speaker 3: any of it. And Scott had, because he's a big
Speaker 3: professional guy, had like some big old It looked like
Speaker 3: the biggest microphone you've ever seen, but it was really
Speaker 3: just like a cage to the microphone was onthing like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, it works.
Speaker 3: They sent me some of the stuff that he had
Speaker 3: because one of the guys that's running for governor was there,
Speaker 3: and he came by and I kind of asked them
Speaker 3: a couple of questions and it was kind of more
Speaker 3: for them to use because we can't really use it
Speaker 3: because we're nonprofit and they would make us look like
Speaker 3: we're leaning towards him.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 4: So he did take some clips too of me asking
Speaker 4: some one a couple people questions.
Speaker 2: Did you get that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So well, I've put together some kind of video and
Speaker 3: I just haven't hit save yet, just a little snippets
Speaker 3: of our time at you FAM.
Speaker 2: So look for that on our website too.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 4: June eleventh is Recovery Stories Messages of a Whole Part
Speaker 4: nine and.
Speaker 2: You're gonna m see that?
Speaker 3: I heard, yeah, because I heard it was either you're
Speaker 3: gonna m see it but you told your story before, right,
Speaker 3: or was it I just told the message of hope.
Speaker 3: M interesting because I had a good idea earlier, but
Speaker 3: you were on the phone and I have a chance
Speaker 3: to talk to you about it. But hey, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about that off the air, because you know, okay, air
Speaker 3: a dirty laundry. But I think Cory Smoker might be
Speaker 3: talking and recovery story is nine oh no.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, it's oh cool, So everybody stay home.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be a called other good speakers, but them
Speaker 4: are surprise until they're on the flyer and that comes out.
Speaker 2: That is uh well, I don't think now, I think
Speaker 2: we can talk about.
Speaker 4: It, okay. Ricky McCollum and Rob Compo Okay, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to get up with them too. Okay, maybe
Speaker 4: I don't know. They got good stories. Ricky came in
Speaker 4: a little bit after me, so okay, all right, it's
Speaker 4: like one of my what do they call them littermates?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but that's that's cute, Corey.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 4: Are we doing Free Fishing Day weekend?
Speaker 2: Obviously?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that's on the Saturday after Recovery Stories?
Speaker 2: So was the Father's Day? No, it's Father's Day the
Speaker 2: next weekend.
Speaker 3: The next wait, so the next weekend, after the next weekend,
Speaker 3: or the next weekend after Recovery Stories.
Speaker 2: The next weekend after Recovery Stories, isn't that the fishing weekend.
Speaker 4: No, the fishing weekend. So the eleventh is on a Thursday.
Speaker 4: That's Recovery Stories.
Speaker 3: Thirteenth, thirteenth Saturday, and thirteenth is free fishing. Free fishing
Speaker 3: weekend in Michigan. So you don't need a license. Let's
Speaker 3: go out there and go get you some food.
Speaker 4: So stay tuned on two seventeen Recoveries website or on
Speaker 4: our Facebook to see if we might be having a
Speaker 4: free fishing contest.
Speaker 3: I tell you something or to Anyboddy. Yeah, when I
Speaker 3: was little, and then this is why I probably hate
Speaker 3: fish so bad. We'd have to wait for free fishing
Speaker 3: weekend and they would take you this with mouse, just
Speaker 3: a kid four or three, and they would take me
Speaker 3: down to the public access down a water of eat Michigan,
Speaker 3: a forest beech road there, and I'd have to sit
Speaker 3: out there and it was the I think what it
Speaker 3: might have been like the whole weekend. I can't remember
Speaker 3: the details because I'm the trauma, but I had to
Speaker 3: sit out there and fish, to get everybody's weight in
Speaker 3: fish in bluegill so that our family could eat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's tough, but could you imagine doing that? No,
Speaker 3: do you think families do that?
Speaker 1: I bet you.
Speaker 2: I bet you somewhere there's a family doing I can
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 4: That I was drug as with my family to go
Speaker 4: out ice fishing, perch fishing, and then watch them cut
Speaker 4: off their head.
Speaker 2: Did you have to eat them?
Speaker 4: I would not.
Speaker 2: Why how do people eat fish?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Some people say it's so good.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it, Like my dad, I don't. Is
Speaker 3: it something like maybe they fell and they hit their
Speaker 3: heads or something?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We should we should have a law of banning fish, obviously, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna write that. I'm gonna I would have like this.
Speaker 3: Like prestige looking official document. I'm gonna send it in
Speaker 3: and it's going to be the band fish like, not
Speaker 3: not eating them, just ban them. I want them all killed.
Speaker 3: I want fish gone from the earth. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: what good did they do?
Speaker 4: It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: Tell me they're building dams and stuff, Like what did
Speaker 3: they eat bugs or something? I don't know what a
Speaker 3: fish do?
Speaker 2: Well, what role do they play?
Speaker 3: And this is very uneducational, but actually it's educational at
Speaker 3: the same time because now somebody's looking it up.
Speaker 4: Well, some eat the algae and help keep the keep
Speaker 4: that water clean.
Speaker 2: That we don't swim in, right, So I mean, what
Speaker 2: is the point of them?
Speaker 4: I don't know. The bears eat them?
Speaker 2: Well again, there are they want to eat us?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't even I don't have a bare jack.
Speaker 4: I don't go fishing, and I don't eat them. So
Speaker 4: I just help put on this event.
Speaker 2: No, but the free fishing it is and what it is.
Speaker 3: It's in Traverse City and we're gonna be out there
Speaker 3: again doing it this year, and we grow up some
Speaker 3: hot dogs. It's just a good time, you know, a
Speaker 3: few hours of rain can hold off.
Speaker 4: Last year we had the Cornhall boards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just a good time. Play some Hey,
Speaker 3: you can hear some of my music. We'll bring the
Speaker 3: bow speaker and jam out on some Corey Winfield tunes.
Speaker 4: We watched Kim get Dizzy on the mirrygor Round.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll have we'll have video for that too.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 3: if you're rob Taverish City, either you want to check
Speaker 3: it out or do something, or if you're just out
Speaker 3: and about and want to grab some friends and your recovery.
Speaker 3: And in Michigan, just remember free fishing weekend is the
Speaker 3: thirteenth of June, So it's actually just that day, right
Speaker 3: you think that in our f with you if you
Speaker 3: came out on the fourteenth and you're like, look, man,
Speaker 3: I had.
Speaker 2: To work late, I think it is the whole weekend.
Speaker 2: We just do it on that Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be lazy, I'm not lazy. We don't have
Speaker 3: all the time in the world to go free fishing, and.
Speaker 4: You don't need to eat fish, and it's a time
Speaker 4: for us to just kind of come together and connect
Speaker 4: and recovery and eat beef.
Speaker 2: We just have watched people fish as we're eating beef
Speaker 2: hot dogs, you know, like it should be.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One more thing I do want to mention is I
Speaker 4: did open to women.
Speaker 2: So we're living home and es you did do that.
Speaker 2: See our branches of Hope yep for six.
Speaker 4: Women right by the hospital and it's peer lead pay.
Speaker 4: They pay rent and they got a job. You're going
Speaker 4: to recovery meetings and seems to be running pretty.
Speaker 3: Well right now, so little house, Marnie and I went
Speaker 3: over and checked it out. It's going proud of you
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's some.
Speaker 3: People that owned some sober livings that closed them and
Speaker 3: then they kind of left a huge void here in
Speaker 3: Diriver City and then kind of suck because then they
Speaker 3: put out this housing grant that whatever. But since this
Speaker 3: area it wasn't a priority, like it's kind of pointless.
Speaker 3: So it's a real kind of Yeah, but you went
Speaker 3: on your own and did it with your own moneies
Speaker 3: and your own they call it elbow grease.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of all yourselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was worth it, you know, just trying
Speaker 4: to continue to help people in recovery.
Speaker 3: And I mean you didn't just post on Facebook a
Speaker 3: bunch about how they're this area needs one just opening
Speaker 3: one would pop up. Yeah. No, now you're the one
Speaker 3: that actually did it. Yeah, that's that's what we need sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's not for everybody. Some people that's
Speaker 3: not how they can contribute. You know, some people it
Speaker 3: can be financially like maybe they don't have the time
Speaker 3: to like physically get down up in it. But that's
Speaker 3: why people like to do the financial donations and that
Speaker 3: stuff helped too. But if you can't get out there
Speaker 3: and do it, do it, you know, or just stop
Speaker 3: posting it on Facebook, like stop buying into the hypes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're trying to feel how people are trying to tell
Speaker 3: you how to feel well, and I.
Speaker 4: Think that just it just starts amping them up into
Speaker 4: something that is so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, why am I going to get in the
Speaker 3: fight between two people publicans democrats? I don't care the
Speaker 3: other fighting over is money and power and control because
Speaker 3: one wants to do this with all their money and
Speaker 3: get their money here. The other one wants to take
Speaker 3: all the money in good of it here. It's not
Speaker 3: even their money, it's our money, you know. And they're
Speaker 3: just playing this stupid game and we need to change that.
Speaker 3: If you're like, oh, you can't change that, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't it from the inside.
Speaker 4: Part of me, I don't even get I can't watch
Speaker 4: any of it.
Speaker 2: See are the same as me?
Speaker 4: Then like yeah, I just have I avoid it in
Speaker 4: a way because it's like I just keep doing what
Speaker 4: I know I can help every day to try to
Speaker 4: help change or advocate for, stand behind and the rest
Speaker 4: of it. I just I can't even try to go
Speaker 4: down the rabbit hole and co sign some of it
Speaker 4: because it's like what is the truth? What is not?
Speaker 4: And I don't have time to filter out all that.
Speaker 4: And my bottom line is is like what I know
Speaker 4: for me is like, no matter how high the gas
Speaker 4: prices are, I still have to fucking excuse my language,
Speaker 4: I still have to put gas in my car and
Speaker 4: go to work. Groceries. Yeah it's higher, but guess what,
Speaker 4: I still need groceries in my house. I still have
Speaker 4: to pay my electric bill. I still you know. So
Speaker 4: it's like I just these are what I know. I
Speaker 4: have to still pay and do, so I just have
Speaker 4: to get up and go to work to pay all
Speaker 4: that to do it.
Speaker 3: Bottom line, Yeah, sometimes Wow, now you do and you
Speaker 3: bust your ass and I'm very proud of you, so
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: World needs more people like.
Speaker 4: You, more coarries like us.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like me, Yeah, I think that people
Speaker 3: would say no on that, but yeah, definitely, just more
Speaker 3: more people like you I think would help communities out tremendously.
Speaker 3: So that's that's the stuff I'm talking about anyway, we
Speaker 3: did our podcast for the year. We're going to get
Speaker 3: to a thousand episodes one day.
Speaker 2: I don't. We're just added one more today, Hey.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember. I used to remember how many,
Speaker 3: but we I don't know. I used to think like
Speaker 3: just making a run of just like just knock them
Speaker 3: out one to day. But it's just I don't even
Speaker 3: have that time, man. I mean I do, but I don't.
Speaker 4: I do think we needed to try to get one
Speaker 4: more this month with Marnie on there.
Speaker 3: That's a couple of days. You know what, Maybe we'll
Speaker 3: do back to back episodes that blow people's minds. They'd
Speaker 3: be like, I didn't even have a chance to listen
Speaker 3: to the first one, hit me with the second.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: But we're still good, man. I'm still in recovery. Corey
Speaker 3: still in recovery. Like everything's still good. Just time, you know,
Speaker 3: just time management.
Speaker 4: Well we've been I mean, we've been busy doing It's
Speaker 4: a good thing. It's a good thing behind the scenes things.
Speaker 4: I've been doing this over Libvy. Marnie's passed all of
Speaker 4: her testing and now she's the msl W and she's
Speaker 4: doing her stuff at Mental Wellness as well. We have
Speaker 4: Tim Glucky who now works for us, which is amazing.
Speaker 4: He's been an awesome part of the team and I'm
Speaker 4: glad to have him. He's also now certified as a
Speaker 4: peer recovery coach through i'm d HHS. Well, he has
Speaker 4: to take his test.
Speaker 2: But if you can pass that test, I believe that
Speaker 2: he can.
Speaker 4: I believe he ken.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of ship yesterday, like so and
Speaker 2: so past it. Everybody passed it. If you don't pass it,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I have done with that.
Speaker 4: Look Tim fritting about it. Yeah, he'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully, hopefully Tim obviously make it.
Speaker 4: If anything, remember June eleventh, Recovery Stories doors open at
Speaker 4: four thirty, dinners served at five, speakers start at six.
Speaker 4: It's at the Traver's Events Center.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if you're listening to this and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's June twelfth, well, pictures and video aren't up yet,
Speaker 3: but they will be in months. And Behavioral Health here
Speaker 3: in Trevers City they actually sponsor us to do the videos,
Speaker 3: and we still haven't done all of them.
Speaker 2: We will.
Speaker 3: It's again a time thing. And yeah, but there are
Speaker 3: videos up and thanks to Monthson for doing that and
Speaker 3: you'll be seeing more months and videos from the recovery
Speaker 3: stories from the past year two coming out very soon.
Speaker 2: If there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: People that we haven't published, we haven't had time to you, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's coming.
Speaker 2: It will be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Check out two seventeen recovery dot com for that
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