WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:06.280 Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Broadcast. 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:09.759 If you don't make mistakes, you won't learn. 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.160 With your host Corey Winfield, you know how you know 4 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:15.560 fish as bad as you can't put on pizza and 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.079 special guests. 6 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.920 Justin Burke, the thumb nail totally does not dictate. 7 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:23.879 The move at all. Jesse Smoker. I called the string 8 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.839 and take it. Tama Mitchell O'Brien, he goes you recorded 9 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.719 new o sleepig and I was like nope. He goes 10 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:32.600 Winfield dead. 11 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:37.439 You got this terror in his eye and I was 12 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:42.240 like nope, and then he's like it was Smoker, got 13 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:43.240 your ass. 14 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.119 It is the twenty first of September twenty twenty four. 15 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.719 Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Podcast. My name is 16 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:52.759 Corey Winfield. 17 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.799 I'm Justin Burke, Mitchell O'Brien, Jesse Spoker. 18 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:02.600 Hold a string, Oh, hold a string. A surprise. Now 19 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.959 we're all doing a Saturday podcast today because we're hitting 20 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:08.680 the road going to a place in Michigan. There's a 21 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:13.159 city called kel Caska, Yeah, and probably many have driven 22 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.680 through it. Yeah, there's a drive through yeah, yeah. Thinking 23 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:18.920 they were going to go up north to some pretty stuff, 24 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:20.959 and they're like, we'll pass through Kelkaska. 25 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:22.280 Could you see that big fish? 26 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.079 I was about to say, the only thing is that 27 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:25.760 big fish? 28 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.280 I don't know. I went to the Westco. I think 29 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:29.120 they have a Westco there. 30 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.519 They they don't have no Wesco. 31 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.959 Yeah, yeah, they do, don't wear no Westco. Pretty sure. 32 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:36.879 Would you like to bet a paycheck on this? Justin Burke? 33 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:39.480 They have a Westco there in kel Caaska. Yeah, you 34 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:41.439 take it right, have the shell and the west goes 35 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:42.120 on the left. 36 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:43.959 Still betting them. Would you like to make a bet 37 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:45.319 justin Burke on a paycheck? 38 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.519 No smart move, damn it. 39 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.599 So I've been to it. Yeah, been there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, 40 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.400 And I didn't really spend much time other than just 41 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.920 at the Westco. Probably just getting a donut or something, 42 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.760 you know, maybe some gasoline. But that's that's kind of all. 43 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.359 And I think we were invited to go to the 44 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.359 Trout festival, but we would have had to man the 45 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.159 tent all day or something, and I was like, I 46 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:14.759 don't really have staffing for that, especially since I hate fish. Yeah, 47 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.400 let's go to a festival that you hate. Don't go 48 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.000 on pizza? Yeah, yeah, I have a pizza festival. Your 49 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.960 boy's gonna be there, right, I'll be there all day. 50 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:26.719 Don't have at festival. I'm there. Have a Westco festival. 51 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.439 That's what we need to do, Westco. Yeah, I start 52 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.000 at Westco Festival. Yeah, and then like, don't name it Waco. Yeah, 53 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.400 well we'll spell it different. We'll spell it like Gaylord 54 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.759 spells Gaylord. Yeah. Yeah, we'll say no, it's it's not Westco. 55 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.039 It's we see you know. 56 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.840 But I just googled it and there's no West Go 57 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:45.560 in keol Casco. 58 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.000 I should have bet you your paycheck. 59 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:48.800 We'll see when we stop at the Westco in kol 60 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:49.599 Casca today. 61 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:51.400 Yeah, let's do it. They closed down. 62 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.560 There's not one there. I've never The closest West Go 63 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.199 to Traverse City is Benzonia, and then the closest one 64 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.120 south to US is Lake City where Cadillac. 65 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.840 M You could be you could be right. 66 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.719 I didn't take that bet, huh. 67 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.240 I wasn't trying to lose paycheck. I got a kid feed. 68 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.520 They're expensively. Yeah. 69 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.240 Well that's on the recovery and this is kind of 70 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:25.039 this is the recovery ads. Yeah, we're doing two seventeen podcasts. Today. 71 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.599 But yeah, we're going to Kolcska today because they are 72 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:33.639 having it's being called the Talents of Recovery up north. Yeah, 73 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.879 that's going to be good. I'm excited. I don't really 74 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.800 know what we're going to get into, but never know. 75 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.479 It's it's going to be exciting though, a good day 76 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:41.439 whether it looks good. 77 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.800 Yeah, in the inaugural festival that they have, and yeah, 78 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.319 it's one of the coalitions up there they're doing, like, hey, 79 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.680 we want to do something for our area, and they 80 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.800 invited us and they're like, hey, you guys are pretty 81 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.919 fing awesome. Would you crace us with your presence? And 82 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.520 we're like, yeah, sure, nice, will be there do some tomfoolery. 83 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.280 It was a little disappointed that that isn't the annual. 84 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.960 They knew, they heard, they know, yeah, they know, they knew, 85 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.039 knew better put that on their flyer because that's how 86 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.560 people know. Yeah, because I bust their balls. You don't 87 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.720 put first annual. There is no first annual. No, it's 88 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.000 not annual. It has to be annuals to be an annual, 89 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.560 so it's inaugural. So yeah, proud of them for that, 90 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.279 Thanks for listening, Thanks for just knowing twelve to six 91 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:29.399 is with the time they say it's going to go on. 92 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.560 We're going to get there eleven, so maybe set up. Yeah, 93 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.160 it's at the Railroad Square in Kelcaske. And if you 94 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:37.920 listen to this podcast and you're like, damn, I should 95 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:39.279 have went to it, well that's why you listen to 96 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.040 the podcast. When you get the notification that's new, they 97 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.480 listen right away. Drop everything that you're doing, yes, and listen. 98 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.920 But if not, you know, like I said, some tom foolery, 99 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.319 we might do some audio stuff from out there. We'll 100 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.199 see how they goes. We got some new technology, some 101 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.920 equipment got upgraded yesterday. So you probably will have some 102 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.319 videos finally, at least for our Recovery Dad's podcast, because 103 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.160 we're all going to be there, why not take some 104 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.279 videos and some pictures like yeah, the opening and close 105 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:10.279 says that. Go to our website for all the videos 106 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:11.959 and then you go to the Recovery dads dot com 107 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.639 and this is not any videos. 108 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:16.600 You know, we try and we're coming. 109 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:17.240 Yeah. 110 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.000 Yeah, but we'll do that and it'll be a good time, 111 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:23.000 it really will. So look for some pictures and stuff 112 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.319 like that. How was how was your guys? 113 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:25.680 Uh? 114 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.399 Your Friday yesterday it was was It was a good 115 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:32.720 fun Friday for everybody, smashing good Friday. 116 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:34.600 It was a good, pretty good Friday. 117 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.800 Yeah, justin Yeah, it's pretty wonderful. 118 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.319 Yeah yeah, I mean. 119 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:42.879 My boss hooked me up with some new technology. 120 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.439 Okay, yeah, cool boss. 121 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:50.399 My ride was all right, all right, good, went down 122 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.759 to Richmond, very nice. 123 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:55.199 Cool. 124 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.519 I got to exceed some expectations on the recovery rides 125 00:05:59.560 --> 00:05:59.920 that we do. 126 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:00.800 Okay. 127 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.600 Somebody had said, I like to use you guys to 128 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:07.279 transport people because you're there when you say you're going 129 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.319 to be there. That's what we do. And I rolled 130 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.560 in just a couple of minutes early and it felt good. 131 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.639 They're like, this is they literally said, this is why 132 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:16.920 we have you guys transport. 133 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.360 People out communication. Yep, they don't have to wait around 134 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.079 two days. And are they coming here? No, you know 135 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:23.560 exactly when they're coming. Eight pm? 136 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.519 Rolls around, here comes the guy is supposed to be there. 137 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:28.360 At eight a m. Got a hot date, but you 138 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.959 can't go on it because yeah, run a silver living 139 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.639 home and this dude is supposed to come in. You 140 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.720 gotta drop everything to do that. I could see what 141 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:37.560 that would be a pain, the answers. That's why we 142 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.560 communicate with them, why we do what we do. 143 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.240 And my stunt my son stopped by the office yesterday. 144 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:49.160 The stunt son, Yeah, it went good. 145 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.160 Good. We're gonna go out for dinner after we get 146 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:53.079 done at Kolkascar. 147 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.319 Fantastic, nice, any special some fish? 148 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.879 Probably not really, he wanted to go out back. 149 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.639 I told him. I was like, you think I'm rich 150 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:03.160 or something. 151 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.879 Wow, Okay, it's nice though, I mean it is nice. 152 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.560 You get that dark bread and butter at the beginning. 153 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.120 Eat ig eat that and a cup of soup. 154 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.759 Yeah, gotta get a balloom and onion. 155 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.000 Though, Tell your waiter to be like, look, bro, I 156 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.879 got a twenty spot in this for you. If everything 157 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.639 that kid orders that's over nine ninety nine is oh, 158 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:27.199 we're out of that. You say we're out of that. 159 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:31.279 I got twenty spots just for you. I want to 160 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.040 flame out out of that. Oh, I want to out 161 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:34.360 of that. 162 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.759 I think all the garden right now is doing that 163 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.399 endless possible ooh, which is always good. 164 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.199 I don't want that. I want the Trio sampler. Yeah, well, 165 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.399 you know, out of that, out of that Tonight twenty 166 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.680 eight ninety nine yeah, I think we all go through that. 167 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.519 You can't even go to McDonald's now. 168 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:57.879 No, it's like Tony Bucks. 169 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.480 Yeah, a bacon or a sausage, egg of cheese, McMuffin. 170 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:06.279 It's almost five dollars for just that. 171 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:07.279 So I don't get the egg. 172 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:09.680 Wow, So how much is it without the egg? 173 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.240 I get two or halfs I I get. 174 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:16.839 Two of them and it's like three seventy five. 175 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:19.160 Oh no egg. 176 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.160 Yeah, the bread and the meat, ye, meat and cheese. 177 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.319 You're getting your protein from the sausage. 178 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.199 It's very unhealthy protein from them. 179 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.199 I need to I need to double protein. 180 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.360 I don't know. I'm not a protein it's not a 181 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.200 neurologist nutrition. I'm not one of those people. 182 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:37.399 I was. 183 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:41.320 Protein ologists, could be it could be anything. I wouldn't know. 184 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:42.960 I'm gonna make a bet on it. 185 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.200 Well, if you know something about anything, you're just an 186 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:48.279 ologist of that thing. 187 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:50.440 I'm glad. I'm glad that you guys had such a 188 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.759 great Friday, though, did you? Oh, thank you, thank you 189 00:08:53.799 --> 00:09:03.720 for asking Friday yesterday. It was twentieth September twenty twenty four. 190 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:08.000 It was tough for the Winfield family. The little Parker 191 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:12.840 included he was there with us on Thursday, the nineteenth 192 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:19.000 of September twenty twenty four, roughly four thirty pm when 193 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.480 we walked out of the vet as I had to 194 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:35.360 put my precious Nico to sleep for Equid. So it 195 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.919 was a tough day yesterday, you know, coming back from 196 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.320 that and waking up and looking over to where Nico 197 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.120 normally sleeps, kind of down by my bed, in between 198 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.360 the bed and the wall. We had this little bed 199 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.039 for that and where she refuses to lay on, but 200 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.919 she would just lean on it like a pillow, and 201 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.679 like during the night Thursday night and a Friday morning, 202 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:57.399 I just kept waking up looking over there where I'd 203 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:58.919 always see her, and she always look up at me 204 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:04.399 and go, I'm like, you're being good. She was gone. 205 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.639 She was in there. So it's just weird starting my 206 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.120 day trying not to trip over her, trying to have 207 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.320 to step on her. She was in there, step on 208 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.639 and I missed those days that I used to have 209 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.759 to work myself out of bed. It's hard for a 210 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:21.879 fat guy because you can't just like where you gotta roll. 211 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.960 It's a process, especially with back problems. You know, you 212 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.639 gotta kick your legs over and you go. So it 213 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.399 was tough. It was a tough day, man. Yeah. My 214 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.279 cat Andico, who was with me through some really dark, 215 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.360 terrible times man. And when I first got her, it 216 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.000 was in twenty ten, and right after my grandma had 217 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.639 passed away, and my boss at the time, because I 218 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.519 was like, I got to go to my go back 219 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.480 to Michigan for this funeral, and he's like, well, fourth 220 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:47.159 of July is right next weekend, you need to be 221 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:49.000 back here for the July in case there's an event 222 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.440 we're doing. So I had to leave the family early 223 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:55.200 after burying my grandmother to come back to fucking Arkansas, 224 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.679 and there was no event to fucking go to. So 225 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.600 I just sat there. We can sew. I ended up 226 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.320 looking through the paper and getting a cat. It's free kittens, 227 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.360 and so I drove over and I picked this cat 228 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.960 up and lady said, oh, yeah, no, it's never been outside. 229 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.120 A'm I doesn't have fleas, no, And it's good. I'm 230 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.039 all right, we'll get home just fleas everywhere. So I 231 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.559 give her flea bath and stuff. But like that was 232 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.039 kind of like a healing thing for me from losing 233 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.759 the grandmother, and so she kind of helped me with that, 234 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.759 and then I bought a home down there, and she 235 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.720 moved in, obviously, moved over from the little duplex I 236 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.600 was renting for three hundred and seventy dollars a month. 237 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.720 Wasn't running so amazing, dude, just. 238 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.480 An Arkansas a loan. I mean she was cheap. Yeah, 239 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.200 I mean, it's it's insane. Like they were like, hey, 240 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.879 you can get this. You guys would be like, let's go. Yeah, Like, 241 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.399 I mean, it wasn't big, but damn it was nice 242 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.759 hardwood floors and stuff. Roaches every once in a while 243 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:51.720 all the time, but that's all right. They caught the 244 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.440 water bugs down there's a water bug. I'm like, that 245 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.759 thing is as big as my cat. Like nikos. She 246 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.799 would get them for me. She got into getting bugs. 247 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.639 And then like when I went through the whole kidney 248 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.679 failure thing, like it was the first time I were 249 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.039 really laid on the couch because before I would just 250 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.279 sit up and then I would pass out, you know, 251 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.200 like just pass out drunk. And so when I got 252 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:17.840 home from the hospital, I had to keep my feet 253 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:22.519 elevated because my legs were still swollen. And she like 254 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:24.840 would jump up and then like really started cuddling with me. 255 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.679 And if I would say, hey, Nico, you want to cuddle, 256 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.360 she would jump up like let's go. You know. She 257 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.039 was a very smart cat. And you know, moving home 258 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:39.000 and then leaving radio, having to go back to live 259 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.440 with mom and dad, you know, and all that stuff, 260 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.480 and Nico was just in this little room when I 261 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.080 went to treatment last time. You know, she was in 262 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.039 this little room because I ended up moving out and 263 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.440 get my own place, but then she had to go 264 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.759 back and she was just like stuck in this little room. 265 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.919 And I think my mom and step dad for least 266 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.480 allowing that, and for my stepdad for getting attacked every 267 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.240 time he would try to feed her. I appreciate it. 268 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.440 Yeah I don't believe it because she was a sweet 269 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:08.279 baby kitty, but yeah she was. But just to leave 270 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.039 her there for five six months because I went to 271 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.720 treatment for three months or two months, and then I 272 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.919 went to sober living from their six months. So all 273 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.240 that time Nico just was just hanging out by herself 274 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.799 in this little last room and I felt bad for 275 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.279 I remember one time I came home for something to 276 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:22.720 my mom was like, you're gonna go see your cat? 277 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:25.440 And I said no, because it was too hard, and 278 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.240 I don't think my mom understood that, you know that 279 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.080 it was very frustrating for me. But I've seen so 280 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:31.840 many people use that, oh, I can't go to a 281 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.080 sober living because I got a dog, can't go because 282 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.799 I've got a cat. And I did not want that 283 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.559 to be an excuse. I didn't want to have excuses. 284 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.519 And I looked at the bottom line, like, yeah, I 285 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.440 love my cat, but at the end of the day, 286 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.080 I gotta love me, I gotta be there for me, 287 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.320 and I got to figure this shit out. It hurt 288 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.320 me to know that she was up there in that 289 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.320 room and she probably could hear me and knew I 290 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.039 was there, but it was too much emotionally for me 291 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:57.679 to deal with. And I knew, like I couldn't go 292 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:59.000 up there to do that. My mom was just like, 293 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.200 you didn't even see your cat, you know, and she's 294 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.480 going to tell you that. She didn't say it like that, 295 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.279 but she said it just like that. Oh yeah, absolutely. 296 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.720 So when I was able to go to a sober 297 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.200 living house and manage the house, that was one of 298 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.399 the things. I'm like, well, I need to have my cat, 299 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.600 and they're like, okay, that's cool. I'm like, I straight. 300 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.200 So then she went from that little room to a 301 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.720 different little room, but at least she'd see me. Yeah, 302 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.360 and the guys in the house kind of liked her, 303 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:23.840 and she didn't really try to go out of the 304 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:27.039 room too much, and it was a good time. And 305 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.039 then you know, Marnie she kind of knew like, oh, 306 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.840 the cat's part of the package too, you know. So 307 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.080 I was like, if you want all this man right here, 308 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.759 you gotta have that little kiddy too. And Nico wasn't 309 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:41.080 a huge fan of other people, and she kind of 310 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.320 grew to love Marnie too, and it was just kind 311 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.919 of magical how that kind of bond happened. And we 312 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:48.960 had like this beautiful picture and I'll show it to 313 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:50.399 you guys if you haven't seen it. But it was 314 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.879 around Christmas time and Marnie was decorated Christmas tree and 315 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.320 Nico loved Christmas and she's putting this ornament up. I 316 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.240 took a picture and Nico was just looking at her like, 317 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.679 you know, I'm knocking that down right. 318 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:00.200 You know. 319 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.559 It's just a perfect like Christmas picture, you know, and 320 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:06.080 we're gonna have that forever, and you know, you never 321 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.039 know why people or things come into your life. But 322 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.960 I believe pets have souls. I really do. Oh yeah, 323 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.799 and you know, she got me through a huge part 324 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.000 of my life that you know how many times I 325 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.720 was laying in bed withdrawing and she would just come 326 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.519 up there and just lay by my feet, and just 327 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.279 to know that she was there was very comforting. So Nico, 328 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.000 love you, girl, and I'll see again one day. But 329 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.000 I'm so glad that you guys had such great fridays. 330 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.559 Though it's pretty cool. 331 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:36.159 I'm sorry yours is so sad. 332 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.200 I that you guys had going. Hey man, not to 333 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.480 take away from you guys, just praide nothing, but no. 334 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.080 Obviously I understand. 335 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.639 Wow, you have had Nico a long time though, fourteen 336 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:48.240 out of the. 337 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.679 Newspaper fourteen and a half years, you know, Yeah, twenty ten, 338 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.639 that's a long time down in Arkansas. I still think 339 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:56.440 that's how they communicate with newspapers. 340 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.080 It's how long I've had my kid. 341 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:02.240 Yeah, you imagine that, having to put them to sleep 342 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:02.679 too and. 343 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.240 Put them in the newspaper up for sale. I did that. Yeah, 344 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.919 that was part of my day yesterday, my Friday. Probably 345 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.000 she could do that, No fleas no tics in indoor 346 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:18.120 child true facts. 347 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.759 We took her to the bet though, because before she 348 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.720 had this huge kidney stone and I thought she just 349 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:24.960 hated me because I would change her litter and she 350 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:26.960 would just ship right next to the little box. I'm like, 351 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:29.519 I just changed it. Like, what are you doing inside? 352 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.320 Chase around? I'm like, no, don't shoot on the floor, 353 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.799 and and I feel so bad, and again, uneducated as 354 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:37.519 a pet owner, to know like that is a huge 355 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.559 sign that something is wrong with your cat. Something's not 356 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.200 something's not right. So finally, after like a year or 357 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.360 two or five, I don't remember how long, but we 358 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.080 took her to the vet and they're like, oh, she 359 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.320 had this kidney stone about the size of a baseball. 360 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.399 I'm like what They're like, if this was a male, okay, 361 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:54.120 you trust me, you would be knowing. But since the 362 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.120 female organs are different, whatever, she can live with it. 363 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.320 But it's still very, very painful. And so we had 364 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.279 dealt with that, and so I'm like, okay, cool, Well, 365 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.519 all of our cats, I don't know that if they're 366 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.440 like bleemic or what it is, but they have an 367 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:11.480 eating disorder I think because they're all thrown up and 368 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.319 so we're seeing this throw up and the upstairs, downstairs 369 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.759 everywhere just cat throw up, you know, cleaning it up. 370 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:18.960 And the other day I saw a cat throw up 371 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.359 and then poop. I'm like, all right, which some bitch? 372 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:30.000 Is it? Three of them? And then I just days 373 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:31.319 go by and I see more throw up in the 374 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.599 bedroom and I'm like, what the hell. And we're thinking 375 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.359 it's a little one because he just runs around his 376 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.799 puke and everywhere like that that's his game. And so 377 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:39.680 I pick it up and I go to walk in 378 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.359 my bathroom. They go throw the puke away and I 379 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.279 step on something and I knew better to put my 380 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.119 toe all the way down. I was like, oh, hold on, 381 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.279 flip on the light and there's turds. And then I 382 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.799 see like where I kind of kicked it. It was 383 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.680 like a string of like mucus and blood. I said, 384 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.880 that's not good. So I pick it up. I look 385 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.519 at it, and I flush it, and I thought I 386 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.559 should have took picture of that, but I didn't it. 387 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:04.359 So I just kind of like, eh, let's just pretend 388 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.440 that didn't happen. But I knew that that's bad. I 389 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.200 start googling it and then it's just like, oh no, 390 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.640 that's bad, and if there's puking involved, then this and 391 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.759 this shit. So then like a couple days later, I 392 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.000 see another puke spot in the bedroom and then right 393 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.680 behind that, like she was doing double duty, like it 394 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:24.000 was puking and pooping at the same time. And I 395 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.440 picked that up again with some toilet paper, looked at 396 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.480 it and blood and I took pictures and then I 397 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.519 sent that to the vet and they're like, yeah, bring 398 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:36.640 your cat in. Yeah. So I did that on Wednesday night, 399 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:38.000 and then Thursday they call and they're like, can you 400 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:39.319 bring her in like now? And I was like, yeah, 401 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:41.039