This it's the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield. If you kind of look deeper at the situation, you know, which I'm sure you will, because everything that we go through is an experience that we learned from. And Justin Burke, I come right in. I am very sneaky about it. You'll be talking to someone and I'll just come in and set up my desk and just bust one out real quick. Yeah. It is the twentieth of December twenty twenty three. My name is Corey Winfield. What your name is,
I'm Justin Burke. Justin Burke. Yes, it is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast. And today is our huge office parties, the first ever office party for the holidays. We call it the Slaying It Christmas Party. Right then it's like some people don't believe in Christmas. Yeah, okay, well then come and call it a holiday party then whatever. Right, We're doing
meetings like much whenever. Like we had one ra and we're gonna play some games cards and I brought up to Kim who's here, that I want to do the newly Went game really, and she looked at me like mm hmmm. Because she thought that, oh, because a certain individual might be coming
later, oh, that we were playing this just for that. And I said, no, no, no, no, no no, it's just fun to say, like, hey, answer ten questions and then I would have to answer like, Okay, what did Justin say about his dream car? Of course the questions are going to be way more messed up than that, but what would Justin say? The answer was, you know, and you have to match him and it could be pretty fun. Yeah. And then Family Against Narcotics the Traverse City chapter gave us backpacks. Yeah, that
was very pleasant. And in the backpacks they have toilet tries and some basic supplies for people. And I thought, man, what a great way to let other people give back. So there were a couple people that came for a meeting earlier and I gave them some backpacks of here, if you need this, this is great use it. If not, find someone to give this to. And they thought that was pretty cool. They're like, oh wow, great, and it kind of helps spread the holiday cheer, you
know. So thanks again to Fanises Against Narcotics, the Traverse City chapter, they said, donated those to us. I think they've been sitting on them. For a while, and then marched out and said, hey, can you guys provide those? And they said yeah, absolutely, so good looking out, What are your plans to do today? Like I let a group earlier, probably another group, Yeah, what are you gonna You're gonna do anything crazy for it? I don't know, call it the Reindeer Games group.
Yeah, we'll play pictionary. Oh nice, yeah, like Christmas pictionary of course. Okay, nothing X rated. No, no, this is a treatment center. This is a healing center. Right, that's totally inappropriate. Yeah. I can't sure I would get an HR violation for that. Yeah I probably would. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to be pushing it right to the line with the newlywed game. Yeah yeah, fabulous, just letting you know. And earlier this week, I thought I had the covids.
Yeah, it turns out you did it. Yeah. Maybe I'm not sure yet. I don't know if I did the test right or wrong. But no, I'm feeling a little bit better today. Marnie suggested that maybe had too much cough syrup. Oh so thought, well maybe so Like yesterday, I didn't have any of that, But I've been having real bad headaches and sore throat and just all the sinus stuff. And maybe it's just the science infection. I've been eating moltrom like crazy. You want to talk to
something about it? No, I just felt like the past few days, I got ran over by a mac truck. Dang, Yeah, Justin got ran over by a mack truck. And coming to the Christmas party on the twentieth, they may say that Justin Nerver believes in Santa. I don't really know what thing I lost the song, Yeah, but we're having fun though. Today I told the story of when Ryan Beakman did the whole Rednecker than
You song. That was hilarious. Yeah, And it's good to hear feedback from people that actually come to meetings here and how welcome they feel, Yeah, coming to the two seventeen Recovery Center, And that's what it's about. We're not trying to replace AA or Ana and everything like that. You know, there's there's totally those meetings are out there for people to attend. And you know, I went to AA's and I love a lot of people that go there, you know, And and that's cool. Whatever works for you
is my motto. Like if it's baking cookies, if that keeps you sober, then let's have a meeting about baking cookies. Right, Let's help other people stay sober. And that's what it's all about. And the feeling that the people don't great when they come in here, there's just like wow, you know, it's clean, it's nice, it's welcoming. You know, I've heard all these these great things. And I'm like, oh God,
my guys are learning. The staff's doing what they're supposed to. Because what I said, you know, the whole time, I'm just like, look, wanted to be welcome, want to be warm, want to smell good, and yeah, and just be a clean place where people can come in and get their recovery on and get some stuff off their chest and you know, just kind of connect with the community and not feel pressured into doing twelve steps or anything really like that. And if they want too, sure going
you know, talk all about it. But we're not collecting money for anybody. We're not doing anything like that. It's just a place where you can come and have good meetings. And of course the list of our meetings are on line at two seventeen recovery dot com. And I was gonna jump on the zoom. But our zoom is actually being used by someone else today. Yeah, who's using our zoom? Take starts? Oh my wife, Marnie.
Yeah, she's doing her some wrongs. I was like, oh, let's get this meeting online, and I was like, oh, no, there's one going already, so we can't. So I'll have to remind the other guys that if we do meanings now, we will have a meeting later mine for sure. But yeah, if you are in the Travers City area, I want to check out some good times, come on by. You want to give a backpack away to somebody who might need it, you know, feel free to come by the office. The meeting is called Life and
Recovery with Gary. Oh that's a five or six, okay. And then there's like an art group going on. We're gonna make Christmas cards stuff like that, and we sent out like one hundred Christmas cards. And I apologize if we sent a Christmas card out and we'd missed you. Sorry, my mom got hers, she laughed. Yeah, we sent them mostly to businesses, but yeah, I just sent one of my mom someone to your mom,
mother in law, stuff like that. Yeah, but mostly there were like businesses and people that we do, you know, stuff with in relationships with. But that's like a hundred I was like, wow, yeah, and that's a lot of places, you know, courts, to other treatment centers and to just other r CEOs. I had fun look in all one hundred envelopes. Yes, he did. Let me tell you. I should have filmed it. We should have. Yeah, but hopefully everybody got their
Christmas cards. They seem to go out really fast. Yeah, they did. I was kind of surprised. I doesn't joke around with you and on Monday tell you I forgot to mail them out, and you're like shooting me a text. My mom got a Christmas card already. I'm like, shoot, I wasn't in play a sick joke, say, oh, we're was I supposed to mail those cards out on Friday night? Well it's kind of ironic sort of too, because we sent one to the President of the United
States of America. Yeah, Joe Biden. Yeah, did you hear what happened to him? No, Well, he was at his little campaign headquarters whatever, him and the wife and they were leaving and they went out and they like, there's video of it, and they're like leaving, and they go out and they get in their car, and they got like twenty other cars around there. You know which one is the president in they want to play that game. Well, then all of a sudden, you hear this,
this crash. No way, drunk driver crashed into the President's motorcade. Yeah. So hopefully when old Prez gets the Christmas card we sent him, he can say, you know what, organizations like these needs to exist. Yeah, they need to do good, more good, more good for people. Know what I'm saying. You know what, man, hey man, these people need to do more good for us. Man, you know what I'm saying, Buddy, that's cool, man, Yeah, all right,
buddy. So yeah, I thought that was kind of a coincidence that we just mailed a card and then like some drunk drivers going to crash into us motor Kate like, that's a oops, right, big oops. Yeah, And you know, thank god that this's never happened to me, but could have, right, Yeah, kod me too. There's been multiple times I've woke up places and like, how did I get here? Don't remember?
How'd you get sober? Well, I crashed in my car and to the President's metricade and I'd interview on five years in prison and right, that's how I got sober. They're probably writing it up as a terrorist attack. Yeah, I don't know, because they were saying, like the people I watched talk about the film or whatever or the video, they were saying that they're surprised that they just didn't start unloading on the guy, right, because it
seems like that's something that would have happened. Somebody just would have drove in there. It seems like it would have been so he's very lucky. And then that's kind of crazy that they didn't, Like, I don't know why they wouldn't have. Yeah, maybe it's with the whole defund the police system. You know, they don't have the ammunition anymore to just spray bullets. Yeah. Anyway, well this is the first of probably a couple of podcasts. I always say that, and then we ended up not doing anymore.
But just wanted to kind of kick the day off with it, just a little light hearted podcast, reminding people that we're having at Christmas party and we'll probably post videos on our Facebook page or something on our website, so it would be fun. I just wanted to let everybody know what was going on and welcome and invite everybody out. So yeah, all right, well, thanks Justin and we'll talk to you later later. Thanks for listening to the
two seventeen Recovery Podcast. We hope you come back for our next episode.