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Bobby Hartmann | Founder, Mainstream House | 06-29-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: A big day coming up with me.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: It's the annual Mainstream House, all my brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: in recovery, all the way out there on Riverhead Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters meeting for this great golf tournament,
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  Speaker 1: then an amazing dinner, awards and speeches. I'm there every
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  Speaker 1: year in the past, You've had people like Darryl Strawberry,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Hollywood, Henderson. Today, my good buddy, the former Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay buccaneer NFL player Randy Grimes will be there, and
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  Speaker 1: many many others. Then, of course, you guys all know
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend Bobby Hartman does an amazing job running
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  Speaker 1: Mainstream House, putting together this tournament and awards dinner every year,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always a big thrill for me and an honor.
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  Speaker 1: So on this Monday morning, my first day back if
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  Speaker 1: they're missing twelve days in Israel, Bobby Hartman, good morning, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Great morning, my dear friend, Welcome back home, and thank
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  Speaker 2: you for all you do and your trip and your
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  Speaker 2: induction into the New York Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: You are the man now, thank you for including that.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them to do that boast to see. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that was Bobby on his own and you're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. You're gonna get nauseous a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that the next four or five months before I
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  Speaker 1: am inducted that big big I Guess Luncheon coming up
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  Speaker 1: in October and New York City. So thank you, Bobby.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get to the matter in hand today. This
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  Speaker 1: is a big day for you. You have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of goppers out there today talk about this event and
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  Speaker 1: eventually our big dinner coming up later on tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mainstream House is a sober homes here in Riverhead
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  Speaker 2: Long Island that I've been doing for about twenty two years.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen a lot, a lot of triumphs of men
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  Speaker 2: finding their lives or be finding new lives, getting families
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  Speaker 2: back together, and it's just wonderful and they're recovering from
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  Speaker 2: alcoholism and drug addiction. And I said, we've been doing
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  Speaker 2: it for twenty two eight years, and not everybody that
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  Speaker 2: comes in has money to pay, because sometimes we scholarship
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  Speaker 2: people who are down and out, you know, they burned
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  Speaker 2: through balls and end up on the streets or where
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  Speaker 2: wherever they may be. And when they sway us to
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  Speaker 2: give them a chance. We give them a chance, and
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  Speaker 2: you know this helps the freight the course of them
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  Speaker 2: coming in their spot here also from the incidentals. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we also pride ourselves with this golf outing getting the
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  Speaker 2: word out of recovery. And you do a great job
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  Speaker 2: shit on the radio. You don't hide the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you're in recovery as well. So we have a speaker
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  Speaker 2: of a year. This year's Randy Grimes. And you know
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  Speaker 2: he hit rock bottom and then he got clean and
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  Speaker 2: sober and he's been helping out a few years and years.
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  Speaker 2: So who'll be our speaker today? A lot of more
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  Speaker 2: people are in recovery, but we get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: support from the business community at large that I understand
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  Speaker 2: what we do and want to help out. And if
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  Speaker 2: anybody wants to play golf today and help out there,
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  Speaker 2: they can call me. We have a few slocks left.
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  Speaker 2: Anything you want to find out more, they can go
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  Speaker 2: to the mainstream house dot org and read up about
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  Speaker 2: mainstream House.
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  Speaker 1: Mainstream House dot or a couple of minutes here with
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  Speaker 1: a great Bobby Hartman. I love this guy, and I
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  Speaker 1: love Randy Grimes, who became very friendly down in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: you've got history in Florida, so do I I went
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  Speaker 1: to a halfway house poker house in Florida, after going
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  Speaker 1: to chitchat farms in Warnersville, Pennsylvania, and of course in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, I also went to a rehab which they
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  Speaker 1: did a very good job. Sunrise. But for folks right
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  Speaker 1: now that are driving in their cars on this Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning listening that aren't struggling, you know, Bobby, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks that are on the way to work
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  Speaker 1: this morning that are either still drunk or about to
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  Speaker 1: get drunk, or whatever it is, struggling just to get
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  Speaker 1: through the day. What is your message, as a man
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  Speaker 1: that's been sober a long time and helping addicts all
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  Speaker 1: over the world, what is your message to those folks
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  Speaker 1: listening in right now.
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  Speaker 2: There's no shame of being where you're at. Okay, there
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  Speaker 2: is help. Okay, there is a better way, and we
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  Speaker 2: you know it. Should you're a part of that of
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  Speaker 2: putting the word out that there is help. You can
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  Speaker 2: reach out to most anyways, go to the Yellow Pages
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  Speaker 2: that they still have that go to the hospital, go
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  Speaker 2: to the emergency room, ask for help, Ask that you
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  Speaker 2: want to go to detox or rehab. But there is
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  Speaker 2: a better way if you are afflicted or you're a
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  Speaker 2: family member of the afflicted. There's no shame in this.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be a very dirty secret that people
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  Speaker 2: would hide and what would happen, People would die. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be a secret anymore. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why I pride that what we do here and putting
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  Speaker 2: word out, and that's why they enjoy so much about you.
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  Speaker 2: Should you're unabashedly telling people that there is also a way.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen. Step one is the key. You get there,
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  Speaker 1: you admit your powerless. This is one you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to win. Folks. There are three results, prison, insanity, or death,
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  Speaker 1: and none of those sound attractive to me.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I've been there except to death. I'll wait to God, kid,
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  Speaker 2: it's time for you to come.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tried mainstream house out on Riverheadlong Island, and as
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  Speaker 1: Bobby said, make a phone call and get involved, go
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  Speaker 1: to meetings.
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  Speaker 2: They can call me direct, said too, six three one
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  Speaker 2: seven six four three zero zero three. I will answer
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  Speaker 2: the phone.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good man. Bobby can't wait to see a
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  Speaker 1: letter on this afternoon, all the way out there on
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  Speaker 1: Long Island, and Riverhead really is a wonderful day you
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  Speaker 1: put together, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Should build a second home out here, said, we love
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  Speaker 2: you out here. Yeah, that's right next to the Hampton.
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  Speaker 1: I know it is. I know. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: when I get that later on today. At any rate,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for all the amazing work you do. I
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  Speaker 1: love you to thank you. Bobby Hartman right there, he
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  Speaker 1: runs mainstream house out on Riverheadlong Island. Today the big
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  Speaker 1: annual complement an awards dinner helping all of our brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters in recovery. We'll take a short break, come back.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets need a new manager. And on the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: gonna go see Trump at the White House. Wa and
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  Speaker 1: legend and now Sid Rosenberg weekly contributor, jumpin Ingo. He's
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