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The Storm Is Coming... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh man, I almost forgot about the after show Army.
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  Speaker 1: I put my headphones away. I was closing up shopping
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  Speaker 1: my studio, and I knew I was forgetting something, and
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  Speaker 1: it was you guys, the after show. Because it's a
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  Speaker 1: crazy day. It's Friday. There's a storm coming on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday to Monday. So you know, that's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: for us in the radio world because we're all hands
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  Speaker 1: on deck, meaning we have to show up to work
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  Speaker 1: and do a live show, which is fine, I understand it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what radio is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Right, being live and being in the moment and being
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  Speaker 1: entertaining and informative and all that stuff. So we have
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  Speaker 1: meetings after the show today about the storm and the plans,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we'll be okay. They got some hotel
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  Speaker 1: rooms for us right near the radio station. My dilemma
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  Speaker 1: is if I'm not gonna come too early, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: say I check in at three o'clock and I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the Pats game and listen, I've driven in the snow
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  Speaker 1: a million times, so I'm gonna get up super early
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go very very slow. I may try
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  Speaker 1: to borrow my French truck. I do have an SUV,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to borrow the truck and get here.
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  Speaker 1: But Riley is going to stay in a hotel right
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  Speaker 1: near the radio station because we do not want her driving.
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  Speaker 1: And Billy and Lisa live well, Billy lives near here.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa may take the hotel. Not really sure, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the plan set in place. We'll be okay. I just
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  Speaker 1: take it slow, man, I just get up early. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep up with the snow on Sunday night, get
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  Speaker 1: up at like two am and make the trek down.
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  Speaker 1: I've driven many times in the snow. I know it's dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be okay. And I can't forget about my
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  Speaker 1: taco bell muck Bang on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: For the game. So there's that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be live on the air on Monday morning, so
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  Speaker 1: if you are home, make sure you listen. You can
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  Speaker 1: always listen on your smart speaker, on the iHeart app
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  Speaker 1: on your phone, or you can listen on your radio
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  Speaker 1: the old school way. But we'll be live and giving
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  Speaker 1: you a show. So that's what's going on here. It
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  Speaker 1: was a fun week, busy week on the show. Had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of laughs, a lot of good moments, and
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  Speaker 1: you know that's uh so make this job fun, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is showing up every day and having fun, making each
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  Speaker 1: other laugh and then making all of you laugh, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, making you all a part of this show.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's so important. You know, when you listen
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  Speaker 1: to a podcast, which you're great. I listen to podcasts
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  Speaker 1: every single day. What radio has. The advantage that radio
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  Speaker 1: has is we're live, We're in the moment, and it's interactive.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of podcasts are taped, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I listen to like some fitness podcasts a lot, or
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  Speaker 1: if Joe Rogan has a good guest that I like,
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  Speaker 1: I listen to that.
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  Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't leave a talk back for the for
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that I'm listening to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can send in questions.
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  Speaker 1: Like one of the fitness podcasts that I listen to,
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  Speaker 1: they take questions, so they'll compile them over the week
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll answer them and read them off during
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, and it's one of the best parts of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not as good as leaving a talk back
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  Speaker 1: and hearing a voice, an actual live person ask their
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  Speaker 1: question or make their comment. And that's just what I
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  Speaker 1: love about the talk backs. It's fantastic. But everyone, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you stay safe for the storm.
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  Speaker 2: Go pats. We'll be here Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, hey, justin to Mo, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for that shout out. You're so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to be your sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I look for you at fan zone at flag
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  Speaker 1: Football every week, so I'm hoping that we run into
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  Speaker 1: each other.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have social media at.
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  Speaker 1: All, so I have no way of contacting Riley, but
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  Speaker 1: I know what she looks like, so hopefully I'll find
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  Speaker 1: her and we can meet.
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  Speaker 2: Lovey.
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  Speaker 1: So this is Mo's follow up. If you listen to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. A couple of days ago, MO left a
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  Speaker 1: really nice pot talk back about me, and I've made
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  Speaker 1: the comment that she should be my sponsor and make
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  Speaker 1: me feel better when I'm feeling down because she's always
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  Speaker 1: so positive, always so supportive. And yes, does live in Salem,
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire. I've met MO before a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I will be at flag Football tomorrow, Mo.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the time. If I do, let me
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  Speaker 1: look in my email real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that. Oh, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: So tomorrow the game is on at five o'clock. I
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  Speaker 1: will be at fan Zone in Hampstead, New Hampshire for
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  Speaker 1: my son's flag football game at five o'clock, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're there. I know it's like our blocks, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what time you'll be there, but maybe you'll
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  Speaker 1: see me. And speaking of sponsors, I have to call
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  Speaker 1: my a sponsor today. Actually he hit me up last
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  Speaker 1: night because I haven't talked to him. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: a good sponsor does, is he reaches out, Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: have been talking in a while, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: check in on what's going on in your life. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll be calling him funny enough, as soon as I
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  Speaker 1: leave this podcast. They call it checking in, so you
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  Speaker 1: don't check out. You know, it's kind of like it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a therapist, but not in an official sense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my sponsor isn't a medical professional. He's not
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  Speaker 1: trained in school. He's chained in one thing, active addiction
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  Speaker 1: and recovery. You know, any somebody that I can talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about things that I'm going that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through or things that are going on in my life,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know he relates that to recovery, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, recovery is the number one thing in my life.
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  Speaker 1: It always has to come first. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: saying in the recovery world. You know, everything that you
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  Speaker 1: acquire in recovery after you get clean can fit into
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  Speaker 1: a cooker.
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  Speaker 2: It can fit into a spoon.
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  Speaker 1: I know that sounds a little like aggressive, but things
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  Speaker 1: need to be said like that for some of us,
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  Speaker 1: like myself, you know, like this.
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  Speaker 2: Cool job and my cool house.
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  Speaker 1: And all my cool things that I have and everything,
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  Speaker 1: even my family, my wife, my kids, my mom, my dad,
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  Speaker 1: everything in my life, everything that I've gotten back and
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  Speaker 1: acquired in recovery from getting clean can fit into a cooker.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know what a cooker is, that's
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  Speaker 1: like what you when you inject drugs like heroin, a cocaine,
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  Speaker 1: they call that a cooker. You put the potter in,
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  Speaker 1: you mix it up, you heat it up up, and
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  Speaker 1: you put it in the syringe and you inject it.
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  Speaker 1: And so all those things can go bye bye if
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  Speaker 1: my recovery is not number one. Basically, so you see
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. I've seen it in a million times.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost happened to me where your recovery goes on
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  Speaker 1: the back burner and you don't keep it up front,
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  Speaker 1: and you forget because we have a disease that wants
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  Speaker 1: us to forget, and it wants us sick and suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we forget and we don't put recovery first,
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  Speaker 1: we put these other things first. They're all just get
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  Speaker 1: packaged up, putting to the cooker or the spoon, and
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  Speaker 1: off you go, and that's a relapse. So I love
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  Speaker 1: taking you guys into the recovery world. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: such a big part of my life. So I thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for listening to me and listening to my nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what it does mean something.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, justin I'm not gonna say my name, but I've
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  Speaker 3: just want to let you know that over the past
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  Speaker 3: probably six months, I recognize that I was drinking way
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  Speaker 3: too much and it was becoming a problem. And I
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  Speaker 3: have been sober for a few weeks now and you
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  Speaker 3: played a really big part in it, and hearing your
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  Speaker 3: stories was so helpful. Just wanted to let you know that,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for me.
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  Speaker 2: Dookay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just warms my heart. It warms my heart
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  Speaker 1: so much. It just means so much to me.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I heard that obviously before I played it, but
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  Speaker 1: listening to it again, I mean, listen, all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I do on the radio, and you know, funny
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  Speaker 1: clips that I play are things that we say or
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  Speaker 1: do is great. But the fact that I can relay
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  Speaker 1: some kind of message and have some kind of effect
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  Speaker 1: on people that may have a problem and may want
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  Speaker 1: to get help and then do something about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's meaningful. That is impactful stuff. So good for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: It's like that can happen too, Like there's different layers
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  Speaker 1: to this thing. You know, you can be a bottom addict.
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  Speaker 1: You know I was a bottom addict. But then you
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  Speaker 1: have people that live good life, meaningful lives. They're functional,
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  Speaker 1: they go to work every day. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: then they find that they're drinking a little bit too much,
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  Speaker 1: or smoking a little bit too much weed, or using drugs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit too often, and it can
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  Speaker 1: just take over you. You know, you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bitter ends to find recovery. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've probably shared this before, but when I got clean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had this crazy story, right, So that's
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  Speaker 1: what I identified with. I identified with these addicts who were clean,
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  Speaker 1: who went through what I went through. Who injected drugs,
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  Speaker 1: who went to jail, who were homeless, who had hepatitis. See,
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  Speaker 1: these were the things that I identified with right and
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget. There was a guy who had several
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  Speaker 1: years clean when I first got clean, several years and
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  Speaker 1: he would raise his hand and he would share his
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  Speaker 1: ass off. And I used to listen to him at
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  Speaker 1: every single meeting and be like, man, that guy's got
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  Speaker 1: to going on. He had such a good, strong, powerful
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  Speaker 1: message that I connected with just the way he talked
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  Speaker 1: about not so much as using, but recovery. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was in that kind of transition where I
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  Speaker 1: was going from, you know, the addict guy to the
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  Speaker 1: recovery guy. That took a while to let that identity
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  Speaker 1: go of, you know, the attict guy.
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  Speaker 2: So I remember listening to him, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't until probably six months a year later. He was
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  Speaker 1: the main speaker at this event that I went to,
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  Speaker 1: and he told his whole story. He had never told
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  Speaker 1: his whole story. You know what his fucking story was.
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  Speaker 1: He never picked up a drug at alcohol, weed, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: never did a drug until he was I think twenty
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  Speaker 1: five or twenty six years old and he started smoking weed.
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  Speaker 1: He smoked weed for six months.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Never did anything else. Six months his life became unmanageable.
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  Speaker 1: He went to meetings, he got help, and he's been clean,
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  Speaker 1: had been clean ever since. I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: ten plus years. He had never done cocaine, heroin, never
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  Speaker 1: had a drinking problem. He smoked weed for six months,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And he had such a powerful message. So
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  Speaker 1: it goes to show you there are different, different layers
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  Speaker 1: to this. Not everybody goes to the bitter ends.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The end goal is recovery, and everybody finds a different
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  Speaker 1: path to get there, you know. And when I talk
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  Speaker 1: about the addict man thing, that's something my sponsor speaking
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  Speaker 1: of him, who I'm gonna call very shortly. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the things he says in his story when he
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  Speaker 1: shares is he's been three different men in his recovery.
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  Speaker 1: When he first got clean, he was addict man, right,
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  Speaker 1: Meaning you want to tell everybody all the drugs you used,
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  Speaker 1: every time you got arrested, all the times, all the
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  Speaker 1: bids you did in prison, that was your identity because
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  Speaker 1: you know you're coming off the street, that's who you were.
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  Speaker 1: And then you find recovery and you become recovery man.
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  Speaker 1: Now this takes over your life. Now you want to
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  Speaker 1: help every addict. You want to speak at every meeting,
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  Speaker 1: you want to take every service position. You become recovery man.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually you go through that phase and you
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  Speaker 1: just become human.
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  Speaker 2: You just become who you are, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And when he shared that, I'm like, wow, because I
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  Speaker 1: was right in the recovery man phase and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand what he said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm still human. I'm just helping people, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I had I had jobs in every single recovery group.
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  Speaker 1: I was speaking every night of the week at detoxes
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  Speaker 1: and facilities.
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  Speaker 2: I was going back.
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  Speaker 1: Into prisons and speaking. I mean I was out there
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  Speaker 1: to help every single person. I was recovery man. And
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  Speaker 1: then eventually you kind of you're still doing that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but just not as much. You know, other things start
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  Speaker 1: to enter your life, like marriage and kids and jobs
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  Speaker 1: and always keeping recovery first. But you're just human men,
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  Speaker 1: that's who you are. You just live in recovery as
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  Speaker 1: a recovery addict. So I don't know a little tangent there.
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  Speaker 1: I just went on, But if you are a home
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. If you're you know, snowed in with the storm,
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  Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast, leave a talk back. We
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  Speaker 1: will be live on Monday. That means there will be
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  Speaker 1: an after show, so check in and be safe. Go
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  Speaker 1: Pats and we'll talk Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Peace,