This is the two seventeen Recovery podcast with Corey Winfield. Corey Winfield, Corey Winfield, Corey, you have a rich person's name, like you should be a billionaire with the name Winfield. Anyway, call me back, Broll. It is the first of December twenty twenty three. Names Corey Winfield to seventeen Recovery podcasts from the North Studio. Today and joining me in the studio is the one and only fabulous Justin Burke Justin, how are you today? Fabulous?
Also joining me in the studio is one Mitch ol O'Brien. How are you, sir? I'm doing great. How are the nineteen twenty year olds? Oh the Yeah, it's been kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen twenty year old. Okay, well, you know we can maybe figure something out out. It hasn't helped you with that yet. They don't. The age span you can't span that far. You know, I go up into the older ages. You get to get up into the seventies for
that good stuff, So you can't. You can't span the age that far. We were talking about and my second ID driver's license when that happened. We're switching subjects. Now we're talking about nineteen twenty year olds. Now you're driver's license. I don't even know what you're talking about. It that's how it all came. Doesn't make sense. I want to transition into the car today. I don't even know what you're talking about. We had the effects, no, but yes, welcome to the studio. We'll talk a little
recovery today and how you guys are doing in your recovery. But I wanted to ask you both a question, and you guys can fight over who wants to answer it first. But give me a moment that was probably at one point your worst moment in your entire life. Take your time, think about it. There's Christmas, but which one? Who's going first? Okay? Four Christmases Ago? Okay, that's a good movie for Christmases, was it? Yeah? I've never seen it. Oh you should watch it. Yeah,
I'm not over to the Christmas movie. So four Christmas is a go, So like this one doesn't count. No, so we're going to be like right before I got sober. Okay, so twenty eighteen, I think, mmmm, that's here? Nor there four Christmases Ago. We'll just say about that Okay. So you're sitting at home and I was, Me and my buddy went to his family Christmas. Okay, he was like your friend. Yeah, he was the plug and I was living in his yard in
a camp. Well, explain what the plug is because a lot of people you're talking about, you're talking about your friend, your friend, and I use air quotes and you hear plug, and of course you got plugs going on. A lot of people use plugs during their let's just say intercourse. Yeah, it's a little bit different, Yeah, you know, so okay, it's very so a drug dealer, a drug dealer, Okay, so
you're hanging out, you went to your drug dealer's f family's Christmas. Okay, but you said he was your quotes friend, yeah, okay, and then that's what happened. We ended up getting kicked out of his family Christmas, okay, because we're high as fuck, not giving a fuck, okay, And it was a horrible I remember jumping out on the lake. I only had like two inches of ice, just because I could do it, and somehow Jesus saved you. Yeah, right that Sometimes you wonder, Sometimes
I do wonder, like why did he say? Man did so much stupid things. Yeah, like I can feel the whole ice on the lake flexcene and stuff. But yeah, we ended up getting kicked out. He got into an argument with his nephew and he was like, oh, you're just getting baby. I'm like always he's doing the same exact thing I'm doing, and here you guys are just baby and caddling some more. Yeah, it's probably like one of the worst experiences I ever had using was getting kicked out
on family Christmas. Sorry, I guess I should have been better on my question. I didn't mean like, what was the worst time using you ever had? I just met like in your whole life, like a real bad
moment. But that's yours, Mitch. There's been so many, but I have one that stands out, and it is right before I got sober so early January, because it would have been in the new year of twenty twenty one, okay, and I had promised so many people I was actually in a waiting list se get into the IOPs that I that I used to to
get sober. And I had promised so many people that I wasn't going to use again, I wasn't gonna drink again, and I was standing at the liquor store, which back then I could barely stay and anyway, But when it came to, you know, getting what I needed from a liquor store, all of a sudden, miracles were happening, you know, and standing in line waiting with you know what I needed from there, and I had like this duality going on in my head, like this is I need this?
I got this, there's And then I had like this other me in my head going you told everybody you weren't going to do this. You promised people that you were going to do this. You weren't going to do this. Why are you doing this? Don't do this? And then I walked up to the counter with a smile on my face and said, hey, how's it going. They have a good New Year's and got my stuff and went home and did my thing. Just let a whole bunch of people down.
And that was really a tough one. I felt a lot of the like I had lost a lot of trust with people, like most of it, but that one's like really sunk in really hard. So I think that's the one. Okay, So did you drink that bottle that you got? Oh? Yeah, yeah, pissed everybody off. So and it wasn't a
bottle, Are you kidding me? Like, yeah, it was a collection and that was just a I started it back again after I told everybody that I never went to the liquor store at one bottle, like I've talked about it on here before, like it was always I only bought fist because you know, that's not a half galon. But you'd buy three or four of them at a time. It's not as bad as buying a half gallon.
Yeah, then you'd be a real problem. But the other ones, you know, but you were saying, there's different reasons because you had to hide it to get it back in the house and stuff like that, because someone would have saw you just walking in with a couple of counts and like, yo, buddy, where are you going with that? Yep? If that's Adam, If you just heard our bell go off for doing a podcast from like I said, North Studio, I don't think so, it's the two
seventeen Recovery Center. You Oh it's my wife, Hi, honey, would you like to be on the podcast today? I can bust out another microphone. Oh okay, I can't wait to see it. Okay, so it looks so fabulous. I know. Now we got a seventeen recovery center. Christmas Tree got the can of canes for it. I think West we got one or two up there. At least there are some of those spicy ones off the red hots. It's nice. That's probably some people. At least
you quit sugar. Now, let's just not go there yet. We'll get into that in a minute, the whole what I'm battling right now. But so back to this. We were talking about the worst moments of your life, or like the one of the worst moments, and mine came like five years ago today. I was sitting in jail. And that trip to jail wasn't the worst time, I don't think, because I was still under I was still probably drunk. And it was when I got out of there I
really still thought the cops had set me up. Then I hadn't hadn't drove, you know, this is all bs, And they wouldn't tell me what they were charging me with. And I was just like, you can't hold me no more, and they were like, yeah, we don't care. And I was like, I haven't even been found guilty. Why you treat me like a criminal, and they're like, yeah, we don't care, you know, like we really do need some jail reform, you know, because Okay, you kill somebody, you RaSE somebody, you know, steal
stuff, Okay, you should probably do some time. But for someone that's in there for a substitute disorder, you know, there should be some oilar stuff. And then the people say, yeah, but you can always go back to, well, he was high or drunk when he did those other crimes too, Sure you could break that all down. But for someone who has been I don't know, asking for help, wanting help, they should get some kind of help. Yeah. No, but anyway, that's a
whole nother thing. But just how they treat people in there, maybe a different level to it, Like, hey, if you're accused of murder, you go to level four. If you're accused of this, you go to that. If you got caught some on the weed, then you need to go here, you know, like there should be a different level to it.
And that's just my opinion as a professional radio broadcaster. Well, I think you're right about especially about the people who are asking for help and need help, because that's part of the story that I just said, was you know, I was. I was on a waiting list to get into the
program, and I was white knuckling it failing horribly. You know. So I really think that there's definitely something to that second time I went to jail, which was I think the fourteenth, fifteenth something like that of December. Maybe it was seventeenth, I don't know, But anyway, that time was a little different because when I got out this time, I started drinking again. Immediately went back to the house. There's half gallon sitting there. What
was I supposed to do? I was in jail for over week. My booty hurt. It didn't think you're sitting on those cement blocks and stuff. I didn't even get a pad like it was nothing. Wow, I know. I didn't get the shower for like four days, like it was. It was horrible. Man. I had a crowd rock going on and I had a disinfection case thrown up because they didn't offer me a shower within three days. Yeah, I don't caring. Baron County. They treat you like
an animal. And then like there's so many people that die in Barren County jail, and like people don't know about it because they keep it under the here's some hush money, and a lot of them are minorities or people who come from the country from a different country, and they don't really publicize it, so they just hush hush, and people die in there all the time, and they have to pay a millions. So taxpayers of southwest Michigan,
you're you're paying. That happens everywhere. I mean, we just had one a couple of years ago and our local jail, but nobody talks about it. And they're people in there are they're treated in like civil rights are out the window, human rights out the window. You know, the fact they make you drink water out of the thing that's right above a toilet when you when you flush a toilet. You can do an experiment at home if you like. But turd and feces follow like it flows up in the air.
Yeah. They say that your toothbrush has more poop on it than parts of your toilet does, just because of that. Not mind, but I close the lid when I flush the toilet. I think that I have a case in the local jail here. Toothbrush, the it's it's all one thing. Yeah, the toilet and the drinking water. You have to flush the toilet as the turf comes out your butt. That way yoursel don't stink. But you've never spent really any time in jail though. I have one poop in
jail, one one jail poop. My imagine being in there for months. Yeah, you'd have to do it more than once. Yeah, I think Mitchell get beat up in jail. I think he would. Yeah, the smell alone. Yeah, I almost got beat up by this kid for snoring. But I was like four times this size, so I mean yeah, So anyway, so the jail thing to me was one of my worst moments just in my life, just because I'm like, okay, I'm back in jail again, Like this sucks. I'm gonna get out Christmas Eve. And
it was a real kind of wake up call. But looking back at it, that was probably one of the best things ever happened to me, you know. So, I don't know if I can say that about your guys' stories, like you're getting kicked out of your drug dealer's mom's Christmas, you probably wouldn't look back and go, that's the best thing that's ever happened to me. No, it realized It made me realize what a problem I had though, because my own family wouldn't even accept me at Christmas time. You
know. That's why I was thankful that I even had that, you know, and because my addiction was so bad, and then to get kicked out of a family function that I didn't even belong to, really it was like, may I really am messing up somewhere? For me, it was the I look back on it and appreciate how far I've come now, and it make it's like a preventative memory, going I'm not going back there. That's not going to happen. Like that was low. I was low, the
lowest in my life mentally. I mean, and I've been around when two different family members passed away like in the same like seen it happen. And that was a lower experience for me because because of the mental and emotional just fight that was happening. How many people I let down in that moment all right? Then they don't realize that that was the moment that I really let them down because obviously they didn't know about it until later. But that's when
it hit me. Was then, but I still did it, you know, And to realize that I was in such a bad place that I was basically letting the substance drive everything that I did, and it was on the edge of just dying in general because of my health, you know. So it's it's really it's it's a really good preventative. You know, if I ever had after that, through the struggle of early recovery, i'd go back there and be like, yeah, no, not going back to that.
Hell, not going to happen. Yeah, And you know what's crazy, at least for Mitch and I justin probably not you so much. But and I'm not saying this because it's happen to me. I'm just saying this because it's probably happened too much. But there are people that you probably slept with that you don't remember their faces or names, but you remember the face of the guy at the liquor store or the person that was selling you the the
liquor because we I became friends with them. Yeah, I was Facebook friends with well, damn I didn't need Facebook friends. But like, if I think about the Fort Smith liquor stores, because there was three of them that I would well four if I was hitting them too much. I'd drive across town a little bit further, but I would hit him in a circle,
you know. And Tuesdays I go to this, one, Wednesdays I go to that, and one Thursdays to go over here, and then I get my weekend stuff over here on Friday and then so like they didn't know I had a problem, you know. But I can remember like faces, you know. I don't remember their names or anything, so I don't have the issue that you do with not remembering all of it, but but I remember
their faces though. I remember this, and that's crazy because like like those people I thought were like my friends and I had to like go in there and impress them or something, you know, like, hey, how's it going, y'all? Like I'm I'm drinking. I'm the one in the world that's drinking responsibly today is getting this half gallon, Like I don't know. This is such a weird thing, which will just being the having the nickname, like you're the and then they would say the name of the liquor,
here's the here's the crystal Palace guy. We have more in stock because of you. Yeah, You're like it's like I look back at that, I'm like that is so bad, so bad. What is Crystal Palace? It is the one of the it is. I think it's the cheapest vodka that they sell in Michigan. Wow, I've never seen it. Yeah, that's what I was asking. Hey, what's that bealance me Crystal Palace? Welcome
back crystals me to come out and tay what Crystal Palace was. It's a sep is the stuffed that miser's drink, and it's also may any other Christians, guys, where you're located at located in pin Ta, Ski, mich appreciates Russia. What's your rates? Oh? Well, I don't want at the strip now my main Susan. I'm the two seventeen recovery mouse. You Jo, you clean up dater today for Why didn't you like your ball? Susan? Oh? That boss so heavy? You bought that for me?
Was that you JJJ because your job was almost gown jested when I got out last time? Oh yeah, and JJG just too hard for me to say, so you JJ. But I appreciate the thought of getting me that ball, But no, it's heavy. It's real heavy. Well maybe you'll grow up one day if you guys would free me some good like Guinea pig food stand a mouse, try to find you some nutsis and nuts and berries right
like nuts? Morning came a fed me nuts with their hands that hair eat these nuts and I did you liked them them faster than your your mouse food. Oh, Mitch, I'd left something on the mouse wheel that you'd appreciate running. I was running the nice thing. I know. Little doody came squirting on my little booty, but it's on the weir I ran on every about two hours today. Yeah, so I just left that for you because because we redo the most doodoos in here. You're so winning a match you
want? All right, Well, you guys had a good time. I just stayed our coming lost your bus on that crystal palace. It was nice, and let her use my microphone. They had to hold her up. You know, she's pretty short. Put her back in the cage now. But yeah, thanks for cleaning that guys. But no, the Crystal palace. He was joking around recovery guys. What are we doing here? Susan's about how we show compassion around here. Yeah, you know we did save
up mouse's life. I was gonna kill it second chance, just like us. But those moments though in our lives when we can look back at and go wow, like in that moment, it seemed like the worst moment in our life, and then where we're at now and just look back and go, hmm, you know, I'm glad that happened, because if that didn't happen, who knows? You know? So, and we should take better
care of her than our plants. Are you talking about Susan? You're back on that, Yeah, okay, so if you know that right after we finished cleaning Susan's okay, we're talking about that. Yeah, I watered all of the plants, all of them. Any other bragging montage you guys want to get together and put up like sure, okay, but three is just get it out whatever it does, no matter what we're talking about, you
just jump right in and start talking. Okay. So the point I'm trying to make is if somebody's listening right now, in that moment, whether like my life sucks, can't get any worse? Yeah it can, then it does. But to be in recovery to actually change and to live a better life. And I don't I don't mean better life like you're a better person because you're in recovery. But your life naturally gets better with everything that that you do and you put the effort in and you see the results, and
you know, like, that's what people need to realize. And I've told the story about my younger brother. You know, he was supposed to get married to this woman. And I can talk about my younger brother because he doesn't listen to the podcast and until he does, and I'll stop talking about him. But the story, though, is for real, and I had a conversation with him. He's married now to a wonderful woman and they have three beautiful daughters, and he would not want to change a thing about his
life. But he almost didn't have this life, you know, if things would have worked out. You know, he was pretty much left at the altar and just thought, oh my god, what had happened, you know, and then they ended up going their separate ways. But if that and if you would have asked him like that day after the marriage didn't happen, he would have been like, this is the worst day of my life.
This is the worst thing that could have ever happened to me. And yeah, it was, but it was also the best thing that's ever happened to him. So just because things aren't going your way, and then that's a tough one to come back from him sometimes. But just because things aren't going your way doesn't mean that that's the worst thing it's ever happened to you. You know, everything happens for a reason, and God was looking out for
my little brother. That's how I look at it, because it was it would have been horrible, like and I told him, I was like, why are you married? Why are you trying to marry that chick? Like, don't And I even told him, I was like, look if your marriage, when your marriage doesn't last a year, you have to pay me back for the tucks that I rented, Like I was making list of everything. And then it was too much to just throw back in his face. But I wanted to. I want to, like here, but I was
like, nah, I don't do that. It's kind of dick move. Like he's in a lot of pain right now. But yeah, example though, that's a pretty good one. And I use a lot when I talk at truma centers because it's just like, look like this might be the worst place that you think you've ever been in, you know, but yes, it can't get worse, but this might be the best thing that's ever happened
to you. I like to, especially when we're over at like across the street, I like to congratulate people and thank them for being there, because, like I think, there's a lot of gloom and doom and the stigma is still so high. It's like, no, you're doing an amazing thing for you right now. Of course, across the street is not this Crystal Palace strip club. No, no, I wasn't sure. Yeah, No,
across the street is Diction Treatment Services. They have a detac center across the street from us, which works out great because we work well with the Diction Treatment Services and one thing we do is take people to them from treatment, which is detox, so works that well. We work, We work really great with them, and we load those people over there, and yeah, it's it's something to see those people like we used to I used to talk and I used to bring you guys a couple times, justin probably more
than anybody else, to the men's facility that they had. And it's a much different conversation that you're having with people while they're in detox. You know, some people go to detox and they think that is treatment, and in a way it's it's a form of treatment, but it's not like you're going through a whole treatment program. But some people think it is, you know, and that's because they're not educated with the whole process of it all.
It doesn't mean that they don't know. Well, I mean, it does mean they don't know, but they're just not there's anything wrong with them. I'm just saying. But it's a different type of thing. You know, someone's who's been in a treatment center for two three weeks, they're feeling better, they're trying to move forward with what they got going on, where someone they're still in a haze, you know, and they're still trying to like
wake up some of them. And it's just much different conversation. But it's a good one for you know, telling my brother's story and about that and how things and justin I think you were kind of in a similar situation sort of not too long ago when I kind of had to bring that up and you were with me, and I think that was the last time that we talked at that treatment center. It was trifling ass hoes. And no, I didn't add an ass on that. I just it's a a trifling ass
hole. But that was kind of why I was explaining that, because you were going through some hard times and it's like, look, yeah, it's hard right now, it's tough, it sucks. You want to call a hole and die. Yep, but this could be the best thing that's ever happened to you, And a lot of times it is. You know, but we want something, and we have expectations of things going this way or
that way, whatever, and they don't happen anything. Even when I was starting to seventeen recovery, I was trying to like get everything together to we could get people to and from treatment, and people were telling me how to do this, and then oh, you got to be a transportation company, and I'm trying to start and keep getting denied, and I'm like why, I was gonna be frustrated, But it's because that's not what I was supposed
to be doing. We're not a transportation company. We're a nonprofit and we help people in early recovery, and that's one of the ways that we help them. And as you're getting denied, you're helping me become a future employee. And didn't even realize it or did I. Oh, it was all a plan from the beginning. It was all a dream, straight up magazine. What was the start, wrapping Biggie Smalls in my basement? It's another rap song, wrapping Biggie Smalls in my basement, don't remember anyway, And
that's my breaking montage. I was wrapping Biggie Smalls in my basement. That's why you were doing that while you're can I have your plan to get justin as your your employee one day, wrapping it all out on the goal sheet the whole time, penn down, head down on you know, pending it out, wrapping in your basement. I did see a good video the other day on goals, did you Yeah, you should share it with all of us and email it to us about to just share it with you right now?
Okay. So it was was the guy who was like, make a goal for where you want to be in a year from now, okay, which is something I did when I was in treatment. All right, And then I always tell people to, you know, and then write down how you're going to get there, you know, like what is a goal that you want to achieve? And the thing I saw on was this video class that I started taking, and it's like, okay, if you want to start a film career, where do you want your film company to be in
one year? It's like, okay, well I would want to make early start on begin filming whatever or movie that we're going to make, So that would be my goal. Okay, well how am I going to get there? You know, it's like, well, I'm going to need to finish this film school stuff and probably need to buy some more cameras and stuff, you know whatever, but the fun part yeah, but pretty much okay, So that's in one year, and then you take it down to okay,
well what I want to do in six months? You know, like you break it, you go backwards, you go okay, one year, six months, you know, you can can go three months, and then you step it back to the point where you get to what do I need to do today to get to that? You know, and then you know, okay, the next day you come in, you know like, okay,
here's what I do tomorrow. So you can break it down to like or maybe just a goal a week, you know, like well I'm going to watch five of the videos or take five of the courses per week, you know, Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. So take five courses, take four courses, and then by the end of that month, I'll be on track to hit my goal, which will be start on the movie in one year. That was way more confused than what it needed to be.
Here's no no, I like it because I actually like how you explain it, like you like tracking it backwards. Yeah, like you have a and I think before and this is kind of like a before recovery after recovery thing. Before recovery, whenever anybody ever wanted to talk about goals, it was like where you want to be in the year, where you want to be in five years, where you want to be in ten years, And they're
tracking it back in these big chunks. And that's actually a big part of my recovery story was people would say, you know, you get your life together and you need to do this, Well, this would have to be a goal. It'd be too much for me. I just saw Jordan Peterson talk about this as well. We're talking about cutting it up into smaller things, which is kind of like what you hear in twelve step programs when one day at a time, one hour time, one minute at a time.
But tracking it back like that, I think it's it's a lot more helpful. And I've been noticing that in a lot of different areas where people are starting to show these paradigm shifts of this is how you can do it, and if you don't understand it this way, well let's say it this way. You know, it's just people understand things a little bit more, you know, a little differently than you know everybody else. And so I like that that track back on it. You know, one year, six months,
one month. You know, that's neat you can really break it down. So like if I want to say by May, if I want to lose forty pounds by May, okay, that's my goal, all right. So and this would be a little different because weight is as much you can lose weight really quick, and it depends if you're male, female, you know, just under your body type or whatever. If if my body doesn't burn fat as quick as other Like at him, I don't know, he could eat. Yeah, that guy, he's something. It hangs out every
once in a while. He's been wearing the same The dude's forty. He's been wearing the same pants since he's in high school, right, They can't gonna get his high school jeans and put him on. I'm like, dude, that's ridiculous. Yeah, why do you still own jeans from high school? That's another question I have for him too, But then little about it. I'm just holding on habits. But but just the way his body works, whatever, you know, but not le he'st forty. That shit won't
change. We should start getting breakfast sandwiches every morning. Here you go at him, he does, he gets his own. He already does that, does he? Yeah? Got your ass? Like literally got your ass? But so so okay, So okay, So I want to lose forty pounds, you know, and six months or whatever. So in three months I will have in theory, I have lost twenty, you know. So it's
like, okay, well, how am I going to lose twenty? And then you break it down, it's like, okay, so I want to lose two pounds a week whatever it is, you know, it's probably not even that many. But how do I get there? Well, I'm on. This would be day five of no ice cream. That's what's up? Congratulations, thank you? It was last night? Was hard? Was it? Oh? Man? I wanted to just go dive into it and just it. But I had like a little mini KitKat thing. I have some
TUTSI rolls that you just have ice cream in your house. Yeah, that's reservations, I know, but just because I can't eat strength, me and my wife can't the strength that's exercise. Yeah, but it would be a lot easier if it was gone. And one way to get it gone is eat it all. But know, but like even this morning though, like I could tell like a little bit like I'm not as bloated or something or I don't know, it just seemed like I'm already starting to feel a little
bit, you know. And we got a treadmill. It looks great in the basement. Nice. Yeah, it looks. It's just there. The cats, I think, have gotten on it more than I have. But I need to like turn it on, but I think there's something wrong. I plugged it in, I got out of the box, put it up, plugged it in, and then it didn't work. But our house is so I don't know who wired it. I don't know. They probably don't have jobs anymore. I don't know. It's so weird, like light switches
do whatever. Man yeah, like three ways. Yeah, but they did it wrong. So an electrician come out and tell me that, and I was like, oh, I think it was my uncle Rob. He might have told me that they did it wrong too, but it's like, okay, they didn't know how to wire a three way switch or something, he said. So anyway, whatever it was, it's pain. And I guess
is it a pain to flip a switch? T I don't know. No, I just really hope that it just works, because it was a bitch to get downstairs and get it out of the box, and I don't know how to send it back. So I'm just open it works. You didn't even have us do any government work to get it down there. No, I didn't. Impressive. Thanks, you're really showing dedication. Well TV was a hell a lot bigger. I needed help for that, but but that But that's what I can do, though, is okay, Well, I'm
gonna sorry. You know, say, if I start walking for twenty minutes a day and I'm not hitting my goal, well then I can kick that up, you know, and then I could even Okay, let's let's cut out the TUTSI rolls. Let's do more protein, you know, there's things that I can do to get on track. But if I just sit here and go, yeah, I'm gonna lose forty pounds, I may Okay, that sounds good. Yeah, But if I don't have anything behind it,
no action, you know. And if you're writing them down, And that was another thing that guy said, to write it down, it's like something
about it. And he went on to explain, like this Harvard class of whatever, nineteen something, fifty sixty set whatever it was, out of the one hundred and five of them, said that they write down their goals, and then when they came back for their reunion whatever, twenty thirty years from now, the people that had written down their goals had more money than all the rest of the one hundred people or whatever in the class put together,
Like all the rest of the ninety five people put all their money together, and those five still had more money. And we're doing bigger things than those other people. It's a spiritual practice too. Well, lot of spiritual leaders will tell you to do that. Yeah, So write it down and track your goals that way, and then send your donations to two seventeen recovery. Well it becomes yeah, and it makes sense. But you are writing it
down, so you're kind of like making a deal with your off. When you write it down, you see it, so yeah, you make it real s. What's your goal? What's my goal? You have a goal every week for you to succeeding pretty well in my blog writing and coming out more with my feelings and in herself. Even if you have to use chat GPT, that's fine. What's that? What even if you have to use AI to write your blog, because it's not going to just write a blog
for you. It'll go through and change your words and switch things around. No, but you have to start with it. If you just threw a bunch of stuff down. But no, your blogs have gotten a lot better. Man. Remember you're getting one stars and getting yelled at yeah for two little lines. I don't know. Whatever Martie said to you is the way to go, because my way wasn't working because she didn't yell at me. She talked to me like I was a normal human being. Positive reinforcement.
It's weird how that work. It shouldn't make sure you guys get paid every couple of weeks, sometimes on time, yeah, sometimes on time early day days and now lately are we getting paid today, or maybe I was buttering you up with the whole remember before, and I'm like, what if I just forgot to pay you people. I was already prepared for it because I
knew one day was coming. I was all right, how we worked on grants, Yeah, because yeah, that's the thing because we're paid up to date, you know, so like we don't get reimbursed sometimes till like the middle of the month now, and it's like, whoa, some other people weren't all right though? What was that? I won't say, No names, tender is more important. Oh Adam's on tender. No, that would be you man. Now he's saying that he's throwing him out there with Susan
back in here. Oh yeah, so I did get you guys a gift today. Did you guys appreciate it? Yeah? Ye thinks you're welcome. You want to elaborate on what you got? Not really, some jokes have to stay inside. I was born with mine, but I'm but I can identify it now. Yeah, me too. I'm just glad that I mailed at the Tyrone today too, because Justin got us all the same gift. He mailed it to Tyrone. Wow. I know he should get it tomorrow. I'm pretty excited to see his reaction. I told him. I was
like, remember it's from Fabulous. Tyrone calls justin Fabulous. That's awesome. He mailed it up for him. Yeah, that story. I still love the fact that I'm the one that kind of started the fabulous thing after you said it, I got it rolling and now it's actually like your name. Maybe we should start. We should have done it today because my film career that I'm starting, I need to make more videos. And I saw that video and did we talk about it a running in the pocast? I don't
think we did video. Well. I saw a commercial for like some cologne and I had the dude from Dune in it. Oh yeah, we did talk about it the other day, but not on a podcast. And it was just so cheesy. And the dude's like, look in this way and he looks at the camp at the end and they're like dijianni whatever but whatever whatever the perfume was or colone, and I'm like, man, he has a little leather jacket on and like jean jacket. He got the story.
I think he looked at the camera with his little jean jacket on and like I was like, oh no, I was leather. Sorry, that's an xbody. They started thinking like maybe we should spoof this, and until morning, I was like, I want to spoof that, like I want. All the guys that worked almost all have our own cologne, like commercial.
And that's what I said, is when I when I made the spoof poster of Justin's fabulous thing, I was going for a perfume ad, like walking by a perfume counter, you'd see like this poster up there, and and that's what I had in mind. The Fabulous by Justin Justin Burke. But he made me look real creepy on the little poster. I just used your picture picture. We'd have to call you like Burke or something like. That was the way he positioned me on it, Justin Burkey, It doesn't matter
how you church it up. But then like started thinking like different names for our fragrance. What it was, Adam, He was like, mine would just be would or something was just what do we call it? I don't even remember? Yeah, but what was it all? I don't know? Mmm, you guys said mine was farts pray, Yeah, for Surete by Mitch Michelle, Oh, what did you get? What was mine? I can't remember. I can't even remember. It was crazy. The whole thing
was crazy. Yeah, having fun in our cooveries what it's about. But we really should start working on those videos. I only remember Adams for some reason because the other one was mildew and he smelled that you could get in like a trailer, some trailer backwards trailer and cokaskar. It's like, what will we be wearing, particle? I want justin. I was wearing the jean jacket though, because I'm a fingering with Adams. Would you only be able to find one? Probably just fit at him? Well, yeah,
what am I wearing again? One of your track suits? Bro? He's about to be a mobster, so he's just like the Sopranos. You pimp you pimping fabulous. That was my favorite day. It's like it's comfortable when on that to him. The only days I've worn sweatpants to work. Where when I was having my little issue there a couple of weeks ago. Oh when you're shock grow was black. Yeah, it's been kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen twenty year old. I'll always change the subject
like that. Some people enjoy my Yeah, people, but yeah, I don't know. I mean, should he wears track suit? I think you have to? Yeah, what else you got? You have a couple of nice buttons button ups that you've worn doing like I think I got one. I gave most of them away. You bought your track suits and then you gave away all your other clothes. Yeah, that's really just a burkeet thing to do. Got you away? I got too fat? They want to fit me? No more, body shame me some more fabulous. Yeah,
you are catching up to me. Anyway. I'm going the other week. I got a goal to and I'm working on that goal. That's what we're talking about. To my new place where I can actually cook and things like that, I mean cook rom at Now I just would rather wait, fabulous nice. What if Justin had like I can just picture with that beard just has kind of a longer beard right now, if you just had like just
shit just glistening, fabulous, just dripping off this beard. They have those like those things you can put in them that like like light up the Christmas lights for beards. Just so you probably don't know that about coming to America and call it like shimmering by fabulous fabulous. Yeah, familous would be your name, Justin Justin Burke collection Bark. I don't know anything for me that other than the butt stuff. You guys always talk about Woods Woods next with
disc golf course. Sometimes you have to go the video. Have you walked right past I walk right past it. It was different. You just don't there we're seeing it trunks. People think, oh, he's got weapons, roll to paper. There were weapons, but I was going to paper. The person I had with me was a felon and I didn't know I couldn't have my own guns in the trunk. Well, no, you can't. Like the shot would be like you first see the tree and then that the
camera would cut it behind the tree. There's like squatting. It has to be likes to be like me from behind, but it's like you can see me on two sides of a tree, cuts up and just give that face of like relief, Like it's like the moon Daryn clip. It does happen in the woods. Bear that's writing it down. So we have to right now by the time t. J. Miller gets wind of the the video that we did for him, we're gonna have all this other ship on there
and she needs to be like no with him. The fact guy shop in the woods, this gather out there. Literally that was oh good stuff. Tramp Is Friday man there it is no but you gotta laugh and you gotta have fun in recovery. That's what we do here the most. Yeah. Say, anyway, we got got some videos to go work on in a video storyboard. So if anybody had some bear ears, let me know I need that for a video. Email them at Mitch at two seventeen Recovery Mitchell
Mitchell. I tried to get Mitch, but I was like ten minutes too late for that. I remember. I was like, damn it. I mean I could change it with a few clicks. But email Adam. Yeah. That was great for the grand opening. He had his regular cards. Though. I'm done with my identity crisis. I'm good now. Thanks for listening to seventeen recovery dot com. Read the blogs that justin Mitch and Adam Wright. Rate them. You can leave a comment if you'd like. But
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