Paul, check, check and check Paul two. This is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast with Corey Winfield, who knows as soon as it gives a tour, he's gonna give her his heart to her too, and we'll have kids and get married. Dad's too far. It is the twenty seventh of November twenty twenty three. My name's Correy Windfield and this is the two seventeen Recovery Podcast coming from the North Studio, joined again by mister fabulous Justin Burke.
How are you today, fabulous? Nice? How was your holiday? Awesome? That like one I've had in years. I like that you actually hung out around town. I did around Traverse City area. I heard you into the shelter I did. How was that fabulous? I got to sit back watch the state game Michigan say it wasn't the Ohio state game. I believe that was the Michigan games there first. Oh wow. You know we do have one person who listens in Ohio. Oh. I feel sorry for them.
I don't know when they got trapped there, what happened if their car broke down? Not sure, but we wish you the best and getting out of there. Yeah, please, come back to Michigan. No, no, I mean, you don't have to do that, but I just wish them well, yeah, I was wishing them well. Yeah. So you went to the shelter here in Sherever City. It's called Safe Harbor. You
went there and you watch some football and just some stuff. And it's kind of humbling to go back to those places and realize like you're just a couple of paychecks away from being a resident, right, you know. I used to think like that when I was in radio and when I was in Arkansas and we started doing like these food drives for people and I was having a hard time paying bills and you know, getting myself food with you know,
my huge alcohol problem that I had. So I always started looking at things differently when I started helping other people and realizing like bad times happened, hard
times happened, you know, like unexpected things happen. And I always remember thinking to myself like, I'm just, you know, a couple of paychecks away from being these people that need food, yeah, and they need a place to live, and yeah it is, but it feels good when you can go there and you're going to go there on the weekends, sometimes, But when you do go there, you're not really like in there like preaching like, hey, everybody be in recovery, because not everybody there needs to
be in recovery. No, not everybody there wants to be in recovery. That needs to be in recovery, you know, but it's not something you can make people do. But for the people that see you come in there and they're like, wow, that guy's in recovery and he's seems like he's having fun, Like I'm gonna go talk to him, and you're just the natural. I'm trying to think here, the natural like vibes that you give off should attract people to like, well, what's that dude doing? How
come he's so happy? Why see he coming here on a Saturday. He doesn't have to do that. And they see that, and sometimes they'll come up and say, hey, how do I get the treatment? Or you know, maybe I do have a problem because a lot of I mean shit, I was like that where I didn't have a problem even though I'm shaking at three o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon because I'm going through withdrawals, I don't have a problem, you know, Like that's that's how controlling drugs
are on your brain. They are. You know, I didn't. I never had a problem. I was only wearing a long sleeve shirt at ninety degree weather to cover up track marks. But you know I didn't have a problem. No, not you. Everybody else though, right, but you didn't have the problem. And there's probably people in there, you know, that are living at the shelter and if you ask them, no, Well, the reason why I'm in here is because I lost my job. Right
when you lose you job? Well, because my boss was dick, Okay, well what happened? Well, I was late for work again, and he told okay, well, why were you late for work? Well, it's because you know, and you can come up with a million excuses, but at the end of the end of the day, it could all be because of alcohol, you know, or drugs. Well, because I was so hungover that I forgot and or I just kept drinking and didn't fly like coming in that day and so he told me not to be late, and
whatever it is. But you can circle it all back to probably using at some point, but again not for everybody. Sometimes just bad things happen. The best one is probably uh, I was waiting on my dealers. Show up. He's supposed to be there at seven, he didn't show up to eight. May emulate for work. Yeah, I'd be waiting on them dealers though. Right, I'm just right around the corner. Man, I'll be there in like five minutes, promise two hours later, finally show up.
Yeah. Yeah, there was some of that said something that like that similar similar to something like that the other day, right that I did, And they're like, yeah, I was waiting on my dealer. So I got tired of it, so I just, you know, decided to go get some help. Like okay, well that's a good that's a good one, you know. And then the person said that as the like the cops or whatever showed up in the ambulance amps to take her away. That's when the
dealer showed up. I was like, oh, did you point them out to the cops. But again you bust the dealer. Guess what, there's another one popping right back up. You know. The only way to beat the drugs and all that is to a either have a buyback program, which I've thrown out there many times and people can look like I'm crazy, but I think it will work. I would not sell to people who are trying
to buy. Oh give me, give me a nickel. No, I don't have any because I just sold it all to the cops and they gave me top notch money. I mean, how much would that save? I wonder what if we just did a trial. Well, you know, if we just stopped them from coming across the border, that would help out a lot. Yeah, but the government gets money on that. See, it's all about the money man. And you think that the government wants to stop all the drugs, they don't. Well, the government ain't gonna buy it
back just to release sit down the street again. No, who knows we're gonna do with it. Drop it off at some country we hate, you know, just pooh. Instead of dropping h bombs or atomic bombs, we start dropping like drug bombs. Here go Colombia. I think this is yours. And then they buy it back and then they said we buy it back again. But I don't know. There's something to it where I think it would be less expensive actually, and then when people are it was essentially they'd
be turning it in. You would have like what would you have? You would have like gangs of like good guys running around trying to buy up all the drugs so they could sell it back, Like, don't smoke that, bro, you just smoked one hundred dollars. Give me that money. I'll
give you a hot dog, give me that. You know. I don't know like what they would do, but it just seems like there would be something that why not the shit they're doing now is not working, well, not working for me and you no, you know, it's not working for people out there struggling. Mean, it's kind of working for us now because if people didn't have addiction problem, then we'd probably be like, well, this would be there. We wouldn't have a job. Yeah, now we
would be doing other things, making movies. True, a lot of people who buy drugs and sell them back to the government worry even about comedians that say f you Corey. Yeah, we haven't even addressed that on the podcast yet. Oh we have Jesus Pete man. We didn't do one at all last week. What a guy that guy is? I know, TJ. Miller is his name, right, Yeah, he's a total d bag. I'm not saying that at all, but he was in Traverse City. This
comedian TJ. Miller if you want to look him up. But he was in office Christmas party, some other stuff, Deadpool, but you don't know his character. No, he was in How to Train Your Dragon? I heard, Okay, even though I said anime, it was an animation. Every video was funny. So yeah, So he was doing a show in Travis City, which I would have loved to go on too. I think he's funny dude. Yeah, me too, all the way back to watch him. But was in the case our friend Kim and Mitch, our very
own Mitch. He it's been kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen twenty year old. Yeah, that Mitch. Yeah, he somehow got let in and great, Yeah, and got to meet him to hang out with them, watch both of his shows, not just one, but hung out with both shows because they had a late show in the early show. He watched both. Yeah, we didn't get a text, We didn't get a call of hey, why don't you come down here? Corey? Look what I got? You know, get you in compleet tool bag, nothing
to the sort. So we were kind of a little better. But he did come back with the video on Monday, and I guess TJ Miller took Mitch's phone and recorded a little message and he was like, hey, Corey, what's up. You know they said they wouldn't believe that, you wouldn't believe them that they're hanging out with me, but here mf or or so I don't know. And then he like the like the other eight people in there were like, yeah, f you Corey. Yeah you can go to
YouTube and watch it. Yeah, so I had to make a response video. So I did, and it kind of explains the whole situation, and you know, you were sad and very saddened as well, very saddened thing you weren't invited. And we actually played the clip of the video in there and then I kind of talk about it a little bit. But it's all in fun. I have no enjoy left in my life, but the video
is pretty funny. It's on YouTube, it's on our Facebook. Well, it's on my Facebook because I was like, should I share this with two seventeen recovery people? Because I didn't share it to two seventeen Recoveries page? You should? I don't know, because I because I love I bleeped his f bombs but I left mine then on purpose? You know, because it was more about telling a story, right, But it is on YouTube and it's like TJ Miller, Corey Winfield Beef or something like that. But check
it out. You'll enjoy a lot of people do enjoy it. I know, one per and left to comment and they're like, can you imagine wanting to shirt? This is sober? And then one person was like, yeah, they might have to take you to treatment. Ah. So I'm assuming that was one of TJ. Miller's friends who thought that was funny that he would be going to treatment. But you never know, never know, you know, bad things happen sometimes. But yeah, so that was that was
that, and that was fun. We had fun making the video. So that was Yeah, that was last week. And then of course this was a short week because the holiday. Yes, I had a five day weekend you as well, Yeah, Christmas came early to the office. Yeah, so we really didn't have a five day weekend because we had to both come in on Wednesday. Yeah, but we ras this shit out of Mitch, Yeah we did. Yeah. That was not a good mood because the fun
Like, okay, so it started out in a great mood. Yeah, because the technology that's out there now it makes sense for us to have the best technolog to when it comes to communicating, you know, and telephone is a great way to do that. And now that we all have the same device, we can like message each other back and forth when we need something right away. Yeah, and so that really will make you know, when you guys are out driving or taking people's treatment, whatever, it'll it'll make
communicating a lot easierility. Yeah, So that's kind of what we were thinking of that. And the order that I had placed was not the order that had arrived. Well, no it wasn't, technically it was. But I didn't want these big gas phones. I didn't want the big ass ones. I wanted just the regular ones. And they said up big gass phones and like all the other like things I ordered for, the phones are going to be here, which we now have to ship back and wait two weeks to
get reimbursed for through Amazon all that crap. Oh my god. And so now I have to go down there today and just a little bit. Probably why you're listening to this, I'm actually there with them, right That depends when you listen. I guess if you're listening right now, it's after one pm. On the twenty seventh. I probably already met with them, so you can email me and ask me how that went. But I have to go meet with them and be like, look, man, like what do
we do? Like take these little phones back and they're gonna tell me taking about the post office? I don't feel like it, or to the UPS store and I'm like, how about you? How about you do that? Wasted enough time up here because we went in there the other day. We wasted like hour, good hour and a half because you go in and you have to put your name on a list, and then you wait and wait and wait and wait. Meanwhile, we see people who coming after us getting
helped after people take Dodoo's. Yeah, this one woman, well I'm not gonna mention sex or gender, but this one person like checks the dude in, then hits the bathroom, then fifteen minutes later comes out and starts helping the dude. And I was like, Okay, it works for me, I guess right, But I don't know. The manager is not there today, which I was kind of disappointed about because I was like, I want to be with the manager, and then they were like, oh, yeah,
he's not coming in today. That's sad. Yeah. I had fun playing with all the technology. Yeah, you like it. Yeah, I was just trying not to touch it. I don't want to break it or nothing. Like. Well, you know what I'm really sad about. They don't have the new motorol erasor phone in there. Oh at the story. Yeah, is that the flip phone or something. They brought the motor razor back. I wonder why they did that. I don't know. They made it into a flip phone smartphone, kind of like the Samsung Fold. I
don't know. Oh that one phone that they had that you flip open. Yeah, I don't think that would be a very good phone. It's just like a little square Oh that one. Yeah, No, I don't know. Well, they had one that I think you were Adam are playing with that was like same, like a check book. Open it and then it's like it's huge. Yeah, but what would you I don't understand. And it has like a big crease in the middle. It just looks stupid. I don't know. It'd be fun for some things. Yeah, you could
adjust it, Lili in bed watch it. That's what my TV's for, bro. Some of us don't have that pleasure. In life, you have TV. I do, okay, but some of us don't. Oh you know, well, when you live in certain places, you can't have a TV in your room. That's true, bed and watch it. Yeah. Back when I was in sober living, I didn't have TV. Right, we weren't allowed. Not even video games. Nope, aren't you glad?
Yeah? Me too. I see some people they come in and these other places and they're like, yeah, I'm bringing my PlayStation with me, and I'm like, from what look because I like to play Police Station. Okay. So you're trying to live sober like I did. Get ingenius when I was at Nathan's house in the five man room. I have no idea. You don't know in the house we were at ingenius. What does that mean? System? No. I bought a projector and we would set it up
in the room and watch movies in our room. Then we would put it away, so it was never really out except for late at night. Thank god. Man, So you're breaking rules. I don't know if there was a rule on that. I don't know if he would have. He probably like whatever, if you're spend your money on that, then you should probably
pay me more. So we're living expenses or whatever. I don't know what he would have said with that, but yeah, but some people though, it's just like no, like you can go hit a meeting, you can go find other things to do. Right, service work, yeah, go volunteer. Jason was big on that, and she's sitting around the house. He's like, Oh, we're gonna go do service work today. Come on, let's go. What are we doing, doesn't matter, We're gonna go
do something. Yeah. I like my only day off that week, I was working at little gas station up there, and he was like, come on, justin, we're gonna go do some service work. What are we doing? Don't worry about it. Yeah. We ended up going up and powerwashing the BVA hall where they do the meetings at. Yeah. Yeah, it was a fun day. It probably was. It was we laughed a
lot, yeah, and had fun. That's what you wouldn't have experienced when you were just sitting there and watching TV and shirt was your day off. But like you got healing inside. You got to go help other people.
I mean, that's that's what it's about. And a lot of people don't want to do that, and sometimes either they don't know how or we get that lazy bug in us, you know, and it's just like, ah, but I don't feel like it right, Well, no, you don't feel like it, but get out there and do it and you'll realize you
enjoy it. Yeah, it was really nice. Got to sit in on some meetings and people are very thankful that the building got washed look better, and I remained humbled about it, and it was like, oh, yeah, that was me. You know. It's just sat there and enjoyed the compliments. If you really want to change your life, start doing those things, because if you're not doing them already, which chances already probably not, it'll be something that really goes a long way. Like I said, it
heals your soul a little bit. Yeah, here's your purpose. Yeah, and you make friends and you never know who you're gonna meet. Look at Kim, you know, she did some volunteering for us and then she ended up getting a job at the place. Yeah, that was very awesome. So it's just you never know who you're gonna meet or what's going to happen
at these these places, these situations. But you're putting yourself in situations where you're going to meet people who actually have opportunities for you as opposed to sitting on the college playing PlayStation. What are you going to meet? Well, it might be somebody online. Okay, doubt it is. The online pool has not gone so well for me. No, No, well, let's
talk about it. It's unpacked us unpacked. Yeah, I'm unpacked that justin Well, I've had a few different girlfriends over the years I've met online and it's just never ended well. Like plenty of fish Facebook dating, it just it ends horribly great to the people that have had success with it, but me not so much. How have you How did you meet your current lady
friend? We actually started talking over Facebook online? Okay, so, but but funny story is, but I've seen her in meetings before, just never talked to her, so like I knew she was actually like real and that type of stuff. She was real. Yeah, like seems like a person. Right. It's been kind of hard trying to find a like a nineteen twenty year old And Mitch, he's out there in the dating world, but he's not on the podcast to defend himself. No, be sure, right,
I had to wrote a blog about it last week. If you care to go read it. Oh he did. I didn't read that. He didn't, No, he should. It's two seventeen recovery dot com. And then you go to blogs. It's at the bottom where you just go right to Mitch's page. I believe it was right there, something about how tender is bad for his recovery. M he said something about his preacher something reddit. I guess really he wasn't sure how he felt about that. Wow,
maybe you should start thinking about that. If you put out in the world, what what would your mama say? He made me, He had me. He gave me the topic of chasing around Susan's what it's like in my life for recovery or something like that. I had to really dig deep and open up and bury that little mouse nous. Yeah, because Susan is our is our mouse? Have you checked on Susan today? I haven't seen her in her cage. Just think about cleanness. It's really not a cage,
it's a habitat right. I don't want to say we're caging up animals here because I gonna get pee dug and knocking down our door. Yeah, Mitch's blog title was Tinder is really bad for my recovery that's what I gave him last week. He gave me how my life is like chasing around Susan. Yeah, because you guys cleaned her habitat out and you decided, hey, I'm gonna let this little mouse go run around the office a little bit more. I thought I was fired. Yeah, it's close, but you got
her back. So that's why did what counts? She's quick. Can you imagine going to your next employer and the being like, so, what happened with two seventeen recovery? Why they let you go? Let the mouse go our office? Pot? Wait, they fired you because you let a mouse go? Yeah, it's like expensive mouse. No, it was free. It was found in the office. I caught it in the actually the one who caught it. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna let it go outside
where euthanize it. And I was told no, the mouse needed a second chance at life like we have gotten. Then I kind of felt bad for it a little bit. Showed a little passion. Yeah, we're trying to do more of here. Yeah and now second chance Susan. Yep. And she even inspired a blog and she did it was a good block too, It really was. I'm serious. If you're into reading blogs and stuff like that, take two minutes out of your day go read some of our blogs
at two seventeen recovery dot com. You can get there through the app as well. Yeah, which is free app and there's like nine hundred people thousand people remember or something like that. I've downloaded the app. I don't know if I want to keep the app why. I don't know. It's pensive. Does it really cost you that much money? It's like sixteen hundred a year? What? Yeah, you just look at me like like why do we have an app? Dude? Yeah, like our website's good enough then
yeah, I don't know, like it just it seems cool. It's easy for people to get to listen to the podcast, but you can pretty much listen anywhere, you know, like Pandora, Apple, iHeartRadio, Spotify, I mean, it's every single one you can get it on. So like, I don't know, I don't know. If you feel some kind of way and you love listening on the app, let me know. You know, but been sending five dollars yeah, and tomorrow's Giving Tuesday? Yes it
is, so you have them pocketbooks. You gave some money already someone else did I seen. Oh really, yeah, nice, I just gave a little bit. They gave a lot more than me. Maybe we'll make a video. Well you will be driving, but I will be tomorrow. Maybe we make a little one today and be like, hey, I gotta take the longest drive that we do tomorrow. Yeah. I hope the ups really nice and pleasant and not scary. It's just going to speed limit and mutch
for slick spots. Of course, in northern Michigan, it's we got snow, right, don't you know. I heard the ups getting a lot of snow. Hopefully their plow systems out and working rather properly, or their plow just leave it there. They don't have a system. They have a plow. I swear to you. I had to go up there a couple times. They just had one plow. I was like, this is the up, Like it seems like they would have like overstock of big plow trucks,
but they don't. Really, they might have two the whole up. I swear to you, it is the craziest thing. I was like, and the is going on here, Like, you're not helping my comfortability with driving tomorrow. I'm just saying being honest, bro, it's an honest program. I'm working. Sometimes I choose selective honesty. I wasn't seen it in our concert? Yeah, Pop Evil? Yeah, now you mentioned you were going to that Ran Rapids intersection. How was that show? Probably one of the
best ones I've seen. I would say Disturbed was number one, Pop Evil was number two. They didn't have the pyrotechnics, which is good. I think they outlawed those since they're Great White concert. But people dying is are not that funny? Why people died at a Great White show? Yeah, I've never heard about that. How old are you of a baby? You know you're thirty seven years old, Justine, and you should have known about
this. Yeah, it was a big thing. Like I had just hung out with Great White at the Venetian Festival that's summer prior, so I kind of knew. Some of the dudes in the band had their emails and phone numbers and stuff. And one of the band members, Ty Longley, he was a guitarist, and he was just he's just a little guy. He's like five to one, about one hundred pounds. And then like they set
off these pyrotechnics and it burned the place. Down in like minute, like it was yeah, because the guy's the bar owner had like stuff in there that wasn't up to code and it was bad. Yeah, the intersection was a little small. Yeah, pyrotechnics, So that's that's probably a good thing. And I'm pretty sure after the Great White Thing, a lot of people were like, yeah, I don't really need dose in here anyway, But
yeah, it was. It was a bit cluster and they were talking about how creepy it was, like because there was just cars just out there because so many people died and like their cars were just in the parking lot. I don't know if they left them there it's like to pay tribute to the people, or if the bank came and repod them. I wonder if the make would do that if somebody died in there and they're like still owe a car note, you know, and they're like, well, we got to
get our car back, so we're gonna take them. Like, hey, that's we're leaving that there because that guy's dead. Oh they still take it. Well, he's still own his money, so we're gonna take it. America is greedy like that or is there like a death policy in your insurance m. I don't know how that works. I've never really I think I've bought one new car in my life and it wasn't really new. It was
only a couple of years old. Well. Still, it doesn't mean you still have some kind of I did have GAP insurance and stuff on it. That was nice. Did you have WAP insurance? No Gap? There's a song called them or maybe it's wap w Yeah, I think that's how it was pronounced. Yeah, what does that mean? Again? It's not for the air quality? Fabulous had Meghan Stallion in it, and I think, yeah, Collins, say you want some WAP insurance? All right, we
got It's a little slippery around here. Favorite drop. Well anyway, giving Tuesday, we'll try to do some kind of video. But I'm glad you had a good weekend. Yeah. I actually had a fabulous weekend. I went hung out, met my girlfriend's parent, her mom. That went really well, sad watching the football. Her cat wouldn't leave me alone, sat on me the whole time. I did see a picture of that on Facebook.
Yeah did that annoy you? No? No, you felt like, hey, this cat loves me. Right, it was cuddly, it was quiet. They have claws. Yeah, good, it didn't snore? Why it slopt? So that was great trying to make fun of my cat. Why does your cat snore when it sleeps? Well, Nico is a little bigger, you know, it's like your daddy. Yeah huh. Anyway, we'll wrap it up though, but I'm glad you had a good time. Marnie and I were supposed to a podcast yesterday, but sticking around to it.
But we will soon and we'll kind of maybe explain why we've been busier than normal. You should, yeah, we should, yeah, hey, we will. So listen for that soon and enjoy the rest of your day. But do check out those blogs at two Simpson Recovery dot com and feel free to comment down them. Yes, please comment. Thanks for listening to two seventeen Recovery podcast. We hope you come back for our next episode.