WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.839 Welcome to the two seventeen Recovery Broadcast. If you don't 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:12.240 make mistakes, you won't learn. With your host Corey Winfield, 3 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:14.119 you know how you know fish as bad as you 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:17.359 can't put it on pizza and special guest Justin Burke. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.839 I said something about that to our master radio broadcaster 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:28.920 and he said that he didn't hear nothing. Got your ass. 7 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.799 It is October twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. My name's 8 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.119 Corey Winfield, and that this is the two seventeen Recovery podcast, 9 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.600 which is actually taken today from a recovery Dance podcast, 10 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.079 which we'll get into a little bit more. But Justin 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.600 Burke with me today. How you doing, Justin? 12 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.280 I'm doing fabulous, bro. 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:50.520 Yeah, how's life? Man? 14 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:54.600 Life's been a struggle lately. But I think it's a 15 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:00.679 lot to do within myself, you know, realizing how to 16 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.959 rate raise teenagers. You know, everyone knows that my daughter 17 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.719 recently came to live with me, like about two months ago. 18 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:10.680 Had good job with that. 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.680 Yeah, thank you. I appreciate all the support I got 20 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.400 from everyone I know. But I have to realize where 21 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.719 her standard used to be at and where my standards 22 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.519 at it when she ain't like trying to get there. 23 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:32.840 It really infuriates me. Mmm, you know, because it's like, 24 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.719 I know what you're capable of, and you just choose not. 25 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:39.599 To a lot of it might be too And this 26 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:41.599 is just me just chiming in here. I know you 27 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.079 didn't ask for any advice, but I noticed this when 28 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.079 I came to work today. And Marnie does this at 29 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.879 the house sometimes, and she does it here all the time. 30 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.239 She doesn't reset the microwave. It's a I think it's 31 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.200 a woman thing. Like there's a clock on the microwave 32 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.000 which I like to use use to see what time 33 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.439 it is. Oh, I'm going places, and so if there's 34 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.239 something in the microwave here at work, and I'll come 35 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.919 in and it'll say twenty three seconds. Yeah, this morning 36 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:12.919 sixteen seconds, I'm like, Marnie wasn't even here. And then 37 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:18.680 it hit me, Oh, Corey Smoker uses the microwave. She's 38 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.800 a woman. Maybe it's a woman like that. There's clearly 39 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:24.879 a little cancel button, like after you get your stuff out, 40 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.319 you can hit cancel. Yeah, bring it back to zeros, 41 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:31.680 you know, Like nah, So it could be a little 42 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.520 bit just that she's a girl and some of the 43 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.199 stuff is just naturally built into her brain to well, 44 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.280 why would I hit the cancel button? Yeah, you know, 45 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.159 start leaving the toilet seat up, you know, like I 46 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.759 don't know, like and so be like that bugs me. 47 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.520 Dad. I'm like, well, okay, I said it in a 48 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.439 bowl full of water last night. 49 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:57.879 Let's talk about compromise. I'll put the seat down and 50 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:59.800 you start doing things, you know, it hit the clear 51 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.360 on them. And to be fair, Marti doesn't really do 52 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:06.919 that much at home anymore, but back in the day, man, 53 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.039 she would do it a lot. And she think she 54 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:10.800 still does it here when she does come to work 55 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.840 here and she's in the office, you know, I'll see 56 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.400 some twenty three seconds or thirty six seconds on there, 57 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:17.840 and I'm. 58 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.879 Like, I re microwave at work. I mean it's a 59 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.520 good microwave, but I don't know how to use it. 60 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:27.800 I mean I just hit the little play button on it. 61 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.479 Yeah. 62 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.759 But I mean besides that, like I don't know what 63 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.039 those there's side buttons on it in a dial and 64 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:35.960 I'm like, huh. 65 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:41.240 Yeah, it's not built for like functional functionality. Yeah, it's 66 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:45.800 built for looks. Yeah, aesthetics, because it's like a green, 67 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:48.919 and we got it from best Buy seventy eight bucks 68 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.599 or something that it's like mint green, and it goes 69 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.199 with the retro refrigerator that's mint green that we have. Yeah, 70 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.080 it's not like, hey, let me hit the cook button. 71 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.840 There's no cook button. There's just a bunch of like 72 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.000 play and pause and like four. It's almost like it's 73 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.599 a like an iPod or something, you know. But yeah, 74 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.439 and we only have that really because Marty likes to 75 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:12.400 heat up her coffee. 76 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:13.840 Yes, scalding hot. 77 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.600 Yeah, so that's the only reason we have a microwave here. 78 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.600 You know, Miss Smoker thinks it's to actually microwave food. 79 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:22.600 I think Mitch does too. Yeah, it's like, oh guys, 80 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:26.199 that's really not for food. That's just for coffee. But okay, 81 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.040 I think that was our thinking behind getting it too. 82 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:31.800 It's like, hey, then people won't think they can cook 83 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.040 in here, because you know, I mean, if you ever 84 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.600 had an office or somewhere and somebody's making some food, 85 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.800 nine times out of ten it smells gross. Yeah. 86 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.079 The only thing that ever smells good coming out of 87 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.240 a microwave in a workplace studying is popcorn. 88 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.720 Yeah, unless you burn it. Yeah, unless you burn it, 89 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:52.920 then you kissed people off and you're like, dude, what 90 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.360 the fuck you didn't set a time around that. You know, 91 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:57.120 he couldn't stand there next to it. 92 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.160 Yeah, for the two and a half minutes it takes 93 00:04:59.199 --> 00:04:59.800 to pop. 94 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.040 A bay, it clearly was done. Yeah, but that that 95 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:04.800 is the only good thing that really comes out of it. 96 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.759 And unless you're eating it, I guess it can smell okay, 97 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.160 but man, most of the time, it's. 98 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.040 Just, yeah, it smells gross, and I think hot dogs 99 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:15.879 are the worst smell. 100 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:20.160 Yeah, Mitch, we had a George Foreman little Foreman thing here, yeah, 101 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.639 that I bought when we were doing the the mobile 102 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.480 unit with ATS, and I brought that. I'm like, hey man, 103 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.160 we can coax some hot dogs for people or something, 104 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.759 you know, and then it it just brought it back 105 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.519 here to the office when we stopped doing that, and 106 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.879 then Mitch decided it was going to be his personal 107 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:44.040 hot dog maker. Yeah, right next to it, Like, stop 108 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.759 making hot dogs in that at least clean the mfort. Nope, 109 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.680 we started making hot dogs again. So I was like, here, 110 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.439 I'm throwing it away, and I think Kim took it. 111 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:52.879 I don't know what she did with it. But I 112 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.480 was like, get this out of the office now. Yeah, 113 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.279 I know, miss isn't gonna buy a new one. No, plce, 114 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:01.199 I forbid it. 115 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:06.160 There's so many forbidden things around the office. 116 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.079 You're welcome, thanks. Yeah, sometimes you gotta lay it down 117 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:16.279 like that. But nah, So back to the daughter. Maybe 118 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.240 it's just one of those things, you know, like have 119 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.160 you read books? Have you like looked at videos online? 120 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.120 Like how do I deal with a teenage daughter? Do 121 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:23.959 you want to make a video? 122 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.240 Like? No, no, actually I did it. I really talked 123 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:33.240 to Miss Smoker who's had a teenage daughter, and you know, 124 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.079 and it's tried navigating through life with a daughter, you know, 125 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:42.199 and because boys are different than girls when raising them, 126 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.000 they just are Our brain chemistry is not the same. 127 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.519 Some people are smarter. Some people say boys' brains are 128 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.079 mush because there's so much testosterone pumping through their body. So, 129 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:57.480 you know, so I talked to her quite a bit 130 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.959 the other day about it, and you know, that's where 131 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.199 she told me, you know, you know, just in her 132 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.639 bar was so low as long as she went to 133 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.959 school and was out of their hair, they didn't care. 134 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.759 How about your daughter and how it used to be yeah. 135 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.480 To where I am at now, you know, where I 136 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.600 do actually care. At home, I check her grades all 137 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.160 the time, and it's like, well, you're capable of doing this, 138 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.920 just do it and just get it done, you know. 139 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.439 And she's like, but you have to meet somewhere in 140 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.079 the middle, because you just can't go from someone not 141 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.480 totally not giving a shit about somebody to someone that 142 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.920 does actually care about you. How well do you think 143 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.439 that's gonna work? You know when we see that a 144 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.680 lot in recovery too. You know, when someone dives head 145 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:50.720 first into something because they start getting attention or whatever. 146 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.040 Then it's just like, well, the other person's standard wasn't 147 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.639 where you thought it was at, and it's a letdown, 148 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.000 a huge letdown, like crush somebody. Yeah, And you know, 149 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.160 in some aspect, I did feel crushed by my own daughter, 150 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.519 you know, because she wasn't before being the way I 151 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:14.480 wanted her to. And I just have to realize the 152 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.639 shithole that she came from. 153 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:21.399 Yeah, and you know, and not to like bash excess 154 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:28.959 or anything. You know, maybe the situation it was different 155 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:34.440 for the mother too, you know, maybe I don't know, 156 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.279 we don't know what they were going through either. You know, 157 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.679 so we can't really put ourselves in their shoes because 158 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:41.879 we don't really know. But all we know is he 159 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:46.320 here's the attitude, and here's the expectations that she has, 160 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.759 and they're very low. And that's not how daddy plays 161 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.120 the game, you know, Like that's not how we do it. 162 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.240 That's not how I was raised. Like my bar was set. 163 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:01.080 Here's the bar. You do this where you go above it, 164 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.559 you go blow it. You're getting your ass probably whooped. 165 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:10.279 We're doing some hard work around the house something. You know, 166 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.120 you're gonna lose your dirt bike, your snowmobile, You're gonna 167 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.519 lose all your fun lit toys that you have. And 168 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.960 some people think may think I was spoiled, but you know, 169 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.840 it's not like my dirt bike was brand new. It 170 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.480 was something from the seventies, so it was like thirty 171 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.039 forty years old when I got it, you know, same 172 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.279 day with my snowmobile. It's not like I mean, they 173 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.320 were good running machines when my mom bottom, but it's 174 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.320 not like they were brand new like Stay of the 175 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.639 Arc where I could take them out on the trails 176 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.200 and go ride them. I just lived in an area 177 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.039 where we could ride them and not have to worry 178 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.960 about stickering them because we didn't have registrations to none 179 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:51.840 of them. You know. The dirt bikes were bought from 180 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.159 some dude down in Scottville, Michigan. He had a full 181 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:00.120 barn full of like old dirt bikes and motorcycles he 182 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.279 would sell parts off of. And my mom went to 183 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.039 him and said, well, I need two dirt bikes for 184 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.039 my boys. He goes, well, I got titles for these, 185 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.879 but they run really good. And we bought them, you know, 186 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.000 and they ask no questions. We took up home and 187 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:16.279 drove them until they puked. 188 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.120 Yeah, and got them taken away if you did bad shit, right, 189 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.919 But I wish we could go back to the school 190 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.960 with our children. Is there like a day where you 191 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:31.320 can do. 192 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:34.399 That, Oh, like going to the class with your child? 193 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.320 Yeah, because they say, you know, you want to walk 194 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.000 a mile in her shoes, you know, put yourself on 195 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:42.720 her shoes. Because you remember back in the day it 196 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:47.320 was so much pressure when the teachers would start talking 197 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.159 about well, once you get out there in the real world, 198 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:50.799 once you get a job, you know, boss is going 199 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:52.519 to let you come in three minutes late. Blah blah, 200 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:54.120 blah blah blah and what are you gonna do? And 201 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:55.519 it was so much focus on what are you going 202 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.759 to do next? And I didn't have a clue. Man, 203 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.200 I wanted to go home and play Nintendo, right, you know, 204 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.240 but the people were making us make portfolios. And then 205 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.159 as we got closer to graduating graduating, it was like, oh, 206 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.960 what are you going to go to do college? I'm like, 207 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:10.639 I don't know if I want to go to college, 208 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.039 you know. And then the school I went to we 209 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.000 had a tool and die program machine shop and there 210 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.200 were a lot of toolande places in the area, so 211 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.039 he could be a mold maker, even a die maker 212 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:27.120 or whatever. But that's what they kind of pushed you to, 213 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.120 you know, and you can make you know, sixty grand 214 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:31.279 a year or something. You know, they're oh, wow, that's 215 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.720 a lot. And look at all these new trucks these 216 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:36.159 guys are driving, and you're like, wow, that's pretty cool. 217 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.919 I didn't really want to do it, and it wasn't 218 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.360 until I was fired from my BS high school job. 219 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.240 I was working at a store in Coloma called the Hilltop, 220 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.519 but I was in radio shack department, which whatever we 221 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:56.240 sold radio shack batteries, but they also rented videos, and 222 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.240 I didn't even like, normally you would have to get 223 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.480 hired in as a bagger because it's a gcery store. 224 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:05.320 It's called Hartings now. But they I knew somebody and 225 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.679 they're like, hey, I'm looking for a job. They're like, okay, cool. 226 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.960 So I kind of got hired into the video department 227 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.679 and that pissed a lot of people off. My friends 228 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.320 who had been working there for months as baggers, were 229 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:16.879 waiting to get transferred to the radio shack department. Here 230 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:21.440 I just come inop you know, all Corey style free 231 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:26.559 pass a Corey might as well. And it was pretty 232 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.799 cool job, you know, brinting movies to people on the weekends. 233 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.799 It was fun. Friend of mine, Jamie Riley, he lived 234 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.759 in the next city over in Watervliet, and he was 235 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.759 like their class clown and I was the class clown 236 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.000 of Global. So put us together. It was trouble. We 237 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.600 did so much fun stuff and oh my god, it 238 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.320 was it was too much. And then we had a 239 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:49.840 contest of who can rent the most free videos. Sounded 240 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.279 like genius to us. It's called embezzlement to the company, 241 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.919 and so they fired us and I'm like wow, because 242 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:58.879 when they call us in because we were playing football, 243 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.679 like with we had a tape ball and then we 244 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.879 had like a roll of paper towels that were unopened 245 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.080 and he would go down Aisle four and I would 246 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.440 chuck it up. He would catch it, you know, or 247 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.840 right hear it hit some stuff, you know. I'm like, oh, damn, well, 248 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.639 this one lady. We were playing tape ball, but it 249 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:19.200 was kind of a fastball and we were going through 250 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:24.240 the movie aisles and we maybe had hit this woman 251 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.159 with the tap ball in their head, and we thought 252 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.159 that's what we're getting fired for. So we were kind 253 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.080 of surprised and it kind of relieved. And they're like, no, 254 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.600 this is embezzlement and I'm like huh. They're like, but 255 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.519 we're not going to press charges, but you're fired. I 256 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.720 was like, oh, okay, because I thought this was about 257 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:39.200 the tape ball incident, because I thought they were going 258 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.279 to show me the tape, which I was kind of 259 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:45.279 interested to watch. But nah, So they got fired from that, 260 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.600 and then I didn't know what I was going to do. 261 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.240 My mom was like, look, you got three months left, 262 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.919 pore you graduate. How about you just focused on that 263 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:58.600 make sure you graduate and think about what you really 264 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.320 want to do in life. What do you want to do? 265 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:04.200 Corey and I really thought about it. And it was 266 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.600 before spring break, I remember, because I was going to 267 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.360 Arizona to see my dad, and I thought, you know, 268 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:15.960 I want to be an entertainment I want to be 269 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.240 on TV. I want to be on radio. And there's 270 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.360 a radio station Ben Harbor. So I remember I called 271 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.440 up the radio station and I talked to this guy. 272 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:25.559 He was on the air. His name was Chad West, 273 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.759 and he answered, you know, and I was like, hey, man, 274 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.159 I'm in high school right now, but I really I 275 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.600 really want to work in radio. You know, could you 276 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.639 give me some advice? And he was like yeah. He's like, first, 277 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.159 you know, you have to call the program director. His 278 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.399 name's Mike Thomas. You know, call two six nine nine, 279 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:46.000 two five eleven eleven. Asked for Mike, and you know, 280 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:49.120 see if there's anything opening like board op, because you 281 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.679 can start out as a board op and kind of 282 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:52.320 work your way up, but that that's how you get in. 283 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.320 And Chad was really cool with me on the phone. 284 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.519 So I was like, all right, great, So I called 285 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.799 and I think I talked to Mike Thomas, like right away, 286 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.759 and he told me call back in a couple of weeks. 287 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.639 He might have something coming open. There's a lot of 288 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.360 remotes going on in the summer where people go out 289 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.200 and broadcast and someone needs to be at the station 290 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:15.840 run the board. And that's how it worked back in 291 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.759 the nineteen ninety six, and I was like, all right, cool. 292 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.799 So I went out of vacation or whatever, I went 293 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.120 to spring break, came back and I was all kind 294 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.200 of pumped about it, and I called him back and 295 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:31.720 went to voicemail, called him back the next day, went 296 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:33.679 to voicemail, called him for like two weeks straight, went 297 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.519 to voicemail, and I remember getting so pissed, like is 298 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.919 this guy gonna freaking call me back? But I'm like, hey, Mike, 299 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.440 it's Cory again. Just just call him check in. And 300 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.000 then he finally calls me back and I get it 301 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.200 home and there's a message on my answering machine, so 302 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:48.639 I have online in my room. 303 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.039 Really now, that's being spoiled, girl. 304 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.840 Call my mind and yeah, because that back in the day, 305 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.159 man he had to like wait for someone to go 306 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:05.000 off the phone, and I wasn't trying to do none 307 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:05.360 of that. 308 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:07.120 I bet not no. 309 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.480 So I'm like he had to take the phone with 310 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.679 the cord and you'd be in the kitchen because that 311 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.000 usually had the longest one, and you'd been trying to 312 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:16.559 like I had nobody to hear you, and you go 313 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.960 sit on the steps and nah. I just was like, 314 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.799 can I just get my own phone? I'll pay for it. 315 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.799 Things, But it was h. 316 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.159 It was then, you know, when I finally called him, 317 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.799 he was like, hey, seems like you really want a 318 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.639 job pretty bad once you come in. So I did. 319 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.759 I came in and in school made me make this 320 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:39.080 portfolio and a stupid picture on the front. Here's my achievements, 321 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.759 which I don't even know what was in there. And 322 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:43.840 I handed to him like here's my portfolio. He just 323 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:45.240 looks at it, throws it to the side. It's like, 324 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.679 all right, so here's the deal, you know, like la 325 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.360 da da da da. It seems like you really want 326 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.039 a job here, And I was like I do, and 327 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:53.919 he's like, well, board op consists of this and you 328 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.639 can come in Sunday mornings at six am to run 329 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.200 boot scoot and Boogie nights or days or I think 330 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.840 Bootgooting Nights is on Saturday Nights or something anyway. I 331 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.400 was like, whatever, yep, I'll do it. I ain't care. 332 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:09.119 I hated country music, but here I am playing like 333 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:16.160 Bob Kinksley's Top forty Country Countdown. But it got me 334 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.319 in the door man. And then doing the two Way, 335 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:22.440 I'm like, hey, Mike, he got thirty seconds and he'd 336 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.359 be like, okay, you know you let him know, Hey, 337 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.279 thirty cents should be talking. And he's like, hey man, 338 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.160 you got a real good voice on the two Way? 339 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.720 Do you want to do you ever think about being 340 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.839 on the air. I'm like, of course, dude. He's like, 341 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.160 all right, won't you come in and do overnights on 342 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.839 the weekend. You can start talking at two am. I'm like, 343 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.480 oh my god, okay, so I going at like eleven 344 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:44.480 or midnight and then at two am for like that 345 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.559 first weekend, like I went live and oh my god, 346 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.839 I was so scared. It sounded similar to this irak 347 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:55.279 on O seven best rocking Hits Corey White. So that's 348 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.160 why I called myself at first, and they only lasted 349 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.519 that one day, and I'm like, nah, just use your 350 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.200 real name, like too many people are going to know 351 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.920 you and using a fake last name, and just it 352 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:06.799 didn't feel right. It felt like I was trying to 353 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:11.160 be somebody else. And yeah, if I want to talk 354 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.319 about my mom or my dad or my brother or 355 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.000 my sister, I want it to be real. I don't 356 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.039 want it to be like, oh yeah, I got this 357 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:18.960 fake name and I'm this fake person. I'm just like 358 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.720 now I'm telling real life stories here. And that helped 359 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:26.599 me establish like my personality on the radio. But back 360 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.960 to the whole setup of this is and tell my 361 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.000 mom really asked me that question and let me think 362 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.400 about it. You know, I didn't have teachers tell me 363 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:40.039 what I should do, schools pushing their agenda on you. Hey, 364 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.279 be a tool and die maker, you know, like all 365 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.519 these other things, Like when I could just sit back 366 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.559 and real, like what do I want to do? Well? 367 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.279 I want I love entertaining people, I love making people laugh. 368 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.839 Let let me do that. And what resources are around? 369 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:55.680 You know, It's like, well, there's a radio station ten 370 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.839 miles away, Like, let me pick up the phone and 371 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.279 call and Chad us was cool. He ended up getting 372 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.240 fired right away after I started, but I hope he's 373 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:09.079 doing well. But it was cool that he answered the phone. 374 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.279 If I would call another one, there's two or three. 375 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:12.519 If I would have called, they just want to hung 376 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:14.920 up by me. You don't want to do this, dude, 377 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.279 There's no money in it, and they would have hung up, right. 378 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:23.559 But Chav is really really cool. And Phil Becker, who 379 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.000 like own some radio stations now, I guess in Indiana, 380 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.039 and he was one of the guys that taught me 381 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:32.079 a lot of stuff too. And I would come in 382 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:37.359 when I wasn't working and he would let me. I 383 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:39.480 would go in the production room and make fake tapes 384 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:41.559 and I would go give him to him and he'd 385 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:43.480 be like, Nope, that sucks. Do this. Don't say it 386 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:45.359 like that. Do like this. This is how you structure 387 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:46.880 your brakes. This is what you need to do. And 388 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.839 he phil Becker really helped me a lot, just with 389 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:54.400 the very simple basic stuff right and the rest, you know, 390 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:56.880 I just kind of worked on. But it was cool. 391 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.000 I phil Becker told me how to wrap a chord. 392 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:01.200 You know, She's like, no, don't do it like that, man, 393 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:03.079 you gotta do like this like this. I'm like, oh, okay, 394 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.119 But just like those little things, man, And it does 395 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:08.000 take help along the way where you need to go. 396 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.000 But you know, maybe sit down with your daughter and 397 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:12.359 be like, what do you really want to do? And 398 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:14.559 she might not have a freaking clue. 399 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:17.279 She's fourteen, she has no clue what she wants to 400 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:18.000 do yet, you know. 401 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:20.680