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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Let's get this party rocking.
- 0:02Speaker 1: What up it is?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Just in?
- 0:03Speaker 1: The After Show podcast is on today's Tuesday, January thirteenth,
- 0:07Speaker 1: And as I promised yesterday, the boys are back, Maddie
- 0:10Speaker 1: and Damon Power of Recovery. What's up, guy? Sound a
- 0:12Speaker 1: little bit more excited.
- 0:13Speaker 3: I'm excited. I'm excited to be here.
- 0:15Speaker 2: All right, I'm about as excited as one human can be.
- 0:18Speaker 3: We just had to wake him up. On the right.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Were you sleeping tying?
- 0:21Speaker 2: No, I'm all right.
- 0:22Speaker 1: You're working this guy too much? Man or not enough anything?
- 0:28Speaker 2: Listen, listen this this this, I'm gonna hold back. I
- 0:31Speaker 2: was gonna drop some bombs, but I'll wait. Uh. He
- 0:34Speaker 2: just anytime someone talks about me and work, it's he
- 0:37Speaker 2: just reverts back to me stealing a paycheck. That's all
- 0:39Speaker 2: it comes down to for him.
- 0:41Speaker 1: The money thing.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm standing that, not really the money thing,
- 0:44Speaker 2: don't let don't, let's not get but but just the
- 0:46Speaker 2: fact that essentially he's been giving me a handout for
- 0:50Speaker 2: the last few years, you know what I mean, Like.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Every Friday afternoon, Damon should come into the office with
- 0:55Speaker 3: a mask on.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Wow.
- 0:59Speaker 1: So for people I don't know, right, you guys have
- 1:02Speaker 1: been best friends, best friends, acquaintances, I like to say,
- 1:05Speaker 1: now friends for a lot of time, acquaintances. Yeah, so
- 1:08Speaker 1: did you use together?
- 1:09Speaker 2: No?
- 1:10Speaker 1: No, but got clean together? Well, dame, you have two
- 1:12Speaker 1: thousand and eight.
- 1:13Speaker 2: We go, right, I go two nine years nine.
- 1:17Speaker 3: He's got me by six months.
- 1:19Speaker 2: But the bottom line, have you I have got me
- 1:22Speaker 2: by six months.
- 1:23Speaker 1: It's not a race.
- 1:23Speaker 3: So it's not a race, but it's something he holds
- 1:25Speaker 3: over my head.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I like to have you by sixteen years. Aren't you
- 1:28Speaker 2: just you know, go start a fresh one.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Wow?
- 1:31Speaker 1: Wow, So that's what I wanted to ask you to.
- 1:34Speaker 1: So obviously you're together your best friends, you're in it
- 1:38Speaker 1: together in business, and you're the friend your friendship too.
- 1:42Speaker 1: So do you clash, Like do you ever get to
- 1:44Speaker 1: have a fight where you don't talk to each other
- 1:46Speaker 1: or anything like that?
- 1:48Speaker 3: Yeah? You married?
- 1:49Speaker 1: Yeah there you go? Okay, okay, hey that answers.
- 1:51Speaker 2: It's it's like this, so all right, let me start
- 1:54Speaker 2: with this. We're both this is his so no, no, no,
- 1:57Speaker 2: this isn't a side. This is the truth. We're both blue.
- 2:00Speaker 2: All the guys right, Like that's like we're obviously white
- 2:02Speaker 2: calling out. No one's out shoveling stuff anymore.
- 2:04Speaker 1: But from Chelsea, we both grew up.
- 2:07Speaker 2: In that environment, right, like in a working you know,
- 2:10Speaker 2: shovel and plumbing and all the other stuff. So so
- 2:14Speaker 2: the like a job site, you could be swearing and
- 2:17Speaker 2: almost in a fistfight with your co worker and at
- 2:19Speaker 2: ten am coffee break or whatever it is that you're doing,
- 2:22Speaker 2: you guys are going to the truck together and someone's
- 2:25Speaker 2: got someone's buying the other one calls.
- 2:26Speaker 1: So like that's that's how with my friends.
- 2:28Speaker 2: And yeah, yea one hundred percent how it is the
- 2:30Speaker 2: same thing.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't trickle down to everybody else though.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Okay, well, welcome back, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
- 2:36Speaker 1: I was the holidays good, it was good. Yeah, you
- 2:39Speaker 1: went away with the fam?
- 2:40Speaker 3: I did what did you do?
- 2:41Speaker 2: Damon again? Oh no, I'm sorry, my bad. Yeah no,
- 2:46Speaker 2: I just I stayed home and watched the company. That's
- 2:49Speaker 2: what I did.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So he didn't get a vacation, so now
- 2:52Speaker 1: we're not giving vacations.
- 2:53Speaker 3: So tell no, I had not right back and fix everything.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Made that's funny. I see what you did that, but
- 3:01Speaker 2: not the fell apot. But why don't you tell him
- 3:03Speaker 2: about my vacation time our agreement?
- 3:06Speaker 3: Oh damon, how many weeks? How many?
- 3:08Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 3:08Speaker 3: Endless, unlimited, unlimited.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Way, this is a catch.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Okay, what is it?
- 3:13Speaker 3: He needs to spend every minute with his family? Oh,
- 3:16Speaker 3: machine hasn't taken a day off in fifteen years.
- 3:18Speaker 1: That's not even a day off.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Honestly, four kids. So I said, dude, you take as
- 3:24Speaker 3: much time so humanly possible.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Listen, Nabi clear, I hate he's got a couple that
- 3:28Speaker 2: they're they're just a little bit older, right. So this
- 3:32Speaker 2: is how I feel about family vacation with what I have.
- 3:35Speaker 2: I have four children, an amazing, beautiful wife who's the
- 3:39Speaker 2: absolute glue that holds the family together. And hi, Katie, yes,
- 3:44Speaker 2: the kids are fourteen, nine, five, and four.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 3:49Speaker 2: So when I vacation with my whole family, all I'm
- 3:52Speaker 2: doing is taking a giant problem from where I'm comfortable
- 3:55Speaker 2: at my home in Massachusetts to a random destination where
- 3:58Speaker 2: I'm super uncomfortable in an unknown area. So I plan
- 4:02Speaker 2: on doing a little bit more of that stuff as
- 4:03Speaker 2: we get a little further along. I try to make
- 4:06Speaker 2: sure I do at least one something every year.
- 4:09Speaker 3: I mean, then you should just take Katie away for
- 4:11Speaker 3: a long weekend though, what's wrong with that?
- 4:13Speaker 1: That would be fantastic.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I would love to see that nice long weekend you
- 4:18Speaker 3: and kkan our babysit.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, you've got the kids.
- 4:24Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll come on, we're this weekend. I don't even
- 4:27Speaker 3: know their names.
- 4:28Speaker 1: But no, yeah, I don't know his kid's name.
- 4:31Speaker 3: No, I learned them after they're like ten or twelve.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Yeah, he wants to make sure they make it through
- 4:35Speaker 2: the beginning pot before he really gets to know them.
- 4:37Speaker 3: But he's got a little one and they still missing teeth.
- 4:40Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what he has. He does have
- 4:42Speaker 2: one best friend in my family.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Actually, what's how old is that one?
- 4:46Speaker 2: Maggie's How old is out? Maggie's nine too, said Magpie.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I didn't know.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my dude.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Absolutely the boy.
- 4:56Speaker 2: No, no ude, Okay, I'm what has happened in here?
- 5:01Speaker 2: He doesn't know the psycho paths name. The youngest one
- 5:04Speaker 2: is Maxine.
- 5:05Speaker 1: She's crazy. Let me tell you it's it's there's always one,
- 5:09Speaker 1: There's always one.
- 5:10Speaker 2: But I'll be taking her out just so you know.
- 5:12Speaker 2: I'm taking her out this weekend. We got Katie's birthdays
- 5:14Speaker 2: on Saturday. I think we're going on Encore nice for
- 5:18Speaker 2: the night, Yeah, Maddie. Maddie looks at me funny because
- 5:21Speaker 2: I'm a degenerate game.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Oh, then don't go to fucking Encore. What's wrong with you?
- 5:24Speaker 3: He's gonna say, oh, you gotta take Katie there. I'll
- 5:27Speaker 3: be good, my wife's there and everything will be fine.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Can I give you a hot tip? One Encore?
- 5:32Speaker 2: I love one.
- 5:32Speaker 1: The Spa is one of the.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Best spot Okay, so yeah, real, real deal. I may
- 5:38Speaker 2: have to take a mid day work week or something like,
- 5:41Speaker 2: because I know. I literally went on and I booked
- 5:44Speaker 2: a room and the first thing I did was like,
- 5:45Speaker 2: let me check out the spa. They I tried to
- 5:48Speaker 2: book a couple of massage. I try to do that
- 5:50Speaker 2: that we just yeah, dude, and like the weekends. I
- 5:53Speaker 2: don't even think on a Saturday Sunday you can do
- 5:55Speaker 2: a couple of massage. I'm not sure, but it just
- 5:56Speaker 2: keeps saying unavailable, unavailable.
- 5:58Speaker 1: That's how popular it is.
- 6:00Speaker 2: If I had Maddie's money, i'd have probably a casino
- 6:02Speaker 2: host and they'd get me in there.
- 6:03Speaker 3: But I don't go to the casino.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Good for you.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Are you a degenerate too?
- 6:08Speaker 2: No? Okay, so you don't have a DraftKings account right now?
- 6:12Speaker 3: I have a Draft Kings. Oh he's doing since Octo.
- 6:14Speaker 3: I love October baseball and about football. Yeah. I dabbled
- 6:19Speaker 3: in the football little bet. I haven't all right. The
- 6:21Speaker 3: last bet I placed was the twenty eight.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Morning on Chinese ping pongking.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so crazy you say that I
- 6:29Speaker 1: have Chinese ping pong. No, no, not me, not me.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I have a friend this weekend on the game Sunday.
- 6:35Speaker 1: He was at my house watching it. He banned himself
- 6:37Speaker 1: from DraftKings. You can do that, right and for five years.
- 6:40Speaker 1: And he was explaining to my friends and I why
- 6:42Speaker 1: And he said it got so bad he was waking
- 6:44Speaker 1: up at three in the morning to bet on Chinese
- 6:47Speaker 1: ping pong.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Dude.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll laughing and joking and bring it back gamblings
- 6:53Speaker 3: and the diction it was just as strong as heroin
- 6:55Speaker 3: or alcohol, yea food or any of it. Yeah, it's
- 6:59Speaker 3: all the Sorry again myself. If I let that, just
- 7:04Speaker 3: like anything else, I have the disease of addiction. It
- 7:08Speaker 3: could get out of hand. It's not my thing. But
- 7:12Speaker 3: neither is pizza at midnight and I'll eat a whole
- 7:14Speaker 3: pizza at midnight or anything that change.
- 7:17Speaker 2: The way you're feeling, as we do in this addiction
- 7:19Speaker 2: field understanding. I think one of the scariest things with
- 7:22Speaker 2: some of those things that you mentioned, and especially addiction,
- 7:25Speaker 2: is it's it's open, it's welcome, it's legal, it's it's
- 7:28Speaker 2: not necessarily frowned upon, like, oh my god, that guy
- 7:32Speaker 2: is missing work because of a substance use issue or
- 7:37Speaker 2: addiction or alcohol. Like you know, it's it's everyone's talking
- 7:41Speaker 2: about you know what prop bet they got and they
- 7:43Speaker 2: you know what, guy's doing this, who's gonna get yattage?
- 7:45Speaker 2: And and they cover like all that stuff like you
- 7:47Speaker 2: know what I mean? And and he is right, you
- 7:49Speaker 2: know I I've been off the deep end with it
- 7:52Speaker 2: and and I actually banned myself from all gambling platforms.
- 7:57Speaker 3: For a year.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Really see a sports gambling is your thing, or anyambling.
- 8:00Speaker 2: I mean, dude, if you want to if there are
- 8:02Speaker 2: two cockerroaches on here. Yeah, I was just gonna say,
- 8:05Speaker 2: if you want to bet to see if someone comes
- 8:07Speaker 2: to the window in the next forty five seconds, I'm
- 8:09Speaker 2: in Wow.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I'll bet you twenty dollars I can get you to
- 8:12Speaker 1: gambled by the end of the day.
- 8:13Speaker 2: That's cute. I'm not an idiot.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I don't want to shameless plug on your podcast, but
- 8:18Speaker 3: that's what that's what sets us a pot a power
- 8:21Speaker 3: of recovery. We uh where I'm blessed with the disease
- 8:26Speaker 3: of addiction because it gave me what I have today,
- 8:28Speaker 3: and we're able to work other people through their problem.
- 8:31Speaker 4: Right.
- 8:31Speaker 3: I'm not saying that I don't have any or he
- 8:33Speaker 3: don't have any or three quarters of the staff have it.
- 8:36Speaker 3: We know what to do with it, right, do you
- 8:38Speaker 3: know what I mean? We know how to combat it,
- 8:39Speaker 3: so you're not alone.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Right, and our personal experiences right.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Well, Also, that's one of the things you'll teach anybody
- 8:45Speaker 1: that comes to Power of Recovery is that drugs are
- 8:47Speaker 1: just a symptom. The alcohol is just a symptom. That's it.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Tip of the iceberg, man. And if you don't understand that,
- 8:52Speaker 2: if you think about it, when they talk about tip
- 8:53Speaker 2: of the iceberg, it's because you see what you think
- 8:56Speaker 2: is this giant thing, and it's really just it's just
- 8:59Speaker 2: the little of it. There's so much more underneath the
- 9:01Speaker 2: surface that you have to get to and you have
- 9:03Speaker 2: to stop working on and even understand that it exists
- 9:07Speaker 2: below the the the symptoms that you see.
- 9:11Speaker 3: And that's why I like we sit in the background
- 9:14Speaker 3: and watch what's going on at Power of Hope in Danvers.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Now, this is the youth mental health facility that's separate, I.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Mean totally separate. Yeah, it's a totally separate function and facility.
- 9:26Speaker 3: And I get to watch these people work with the
- 9:29Speaker 3: adolescents and just changing them so before they run into
- 9:33Speaker 3: grown adults sitting here talking like we do and we're
- 9:38Speaker 3: laughing and joking about stuff now, but it turns into
- 9:41Speaker 3: seriousness when you're sitting at home on your couch crying.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Now we get to work with these adolescents and you
- 9:48Speaker 3: can actually see it in them. Yeah, it's crazy, it's good.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Well, no, I wanted to say for people that that
- 9:55Speaker 1: don't know, Power of Hope is in Danvers. Yes, and
- 9:58Speaker 1: it's a youth day facility.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Yeah, so patient mental health, all patients.
- 10:02Speaker 1: What are the age what are the age ranges?
- 10:05Speaker 2: So eleven eighteen and we do have that's our standard
- 10:08Speaker 2: we have. If there's somebody younger, we absolutely have some
- 10:11Speaker 2: some hopen availability, but you know, just depending on the
- 10:14Speaker 2: census and different things like that. So you know, we've
- 10:16Speaker 2: we've had patients as young as nine. Wow.
- 10:19Speaker 1: So if you're a parent listening to this podcast right now,
- 10:22Speaker 1: know a lot of parents do, and maybe there's some
- 10:24Speaker 1: issues with your team, you can go to where Power
- 10:27Speaker 1: of Hope.
- 10:28Speaker 2: The Power of Hope m A dot com, m A
- 10:31Speaker 2: dot Com, Power of Hope, m A dot.
- 10:33Speaker 3: And I know at the beginning of this podcast I
- 10:35Speaker 3: sounded like the worst babysit in I promise I will
- 10:40Speaker 3: not be working with you a child now. I'm a
- 10:42Speaker 3: very good quarterback though. And the people we have in
- 10:45Speaker 3: that facility, I don't know how they do it. They're amazing, right, Yeah,
- 10:50Speaker 3: it's amazing.
- 10:51Speaker 2: And just a touch on it too, like the like
- 10:53Speaker 2: you know, the focus for the kids that age is
- 10:56Speaker 2: on mental health and we're we're trying to impact their
- 11:00Speaker 2: lives in a positive way before some of that self
- 11:03Speaker 2: medication happens and it could potentially turn into the addiction
- 11:06Speaker 2: portion of it. And I know, I'm sure the three
- 11:09Speaker 2: of us can attest. I'll definitely speak for myself. We
- 11:12Speaker 2: had no idea about this stuff when we were younger,
- 11:14Speaker 2: and no idea like the potential of you know, some anxiety,
- 11:18Speaker 2: depression or trauma that impacted us to lead us to
- 11:20Speaker 2: this point of picking up a substance and walking down
- 11:24Speaker 2: the pathway. So you know, when we had this opportunity
- 11:27Speaker 2: to dive into this portion of it, you know we
- 11:30Speaker 2: ran too it. We ran too the opportunity. And like
- 11:33Speaker 2: Maddie always says, the one thing that we're super super
- 11:35Speaker 2: good at is knowing what we don't know and putting
- 11:38Speaker 2: the right people in the place that know it. So
- 11:40Speaker 2: the team over at Power of Hope is just unbelievable.
- 11:43Speaker 2: They're amazing, you know, using all sorts of cutting edge
- 11:49Speaker 2: techniques in pathways to make sure these kids are getting
- 11:52Speaker 2: the help and the services that they need.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Well, you do that at both right Power of Recovery
- 11:56Speaker 1: and Power of Hope. You want to put the best
- 11:57Speaker 1: people there. And I love that Maddie hired a sponsor.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Yeah that's the best thing man. Well, because he's still there.
- 12:05Speaker 3: Ye, because people get it twisted that you're in this
- 12:09Speaker 3: for different reasons or whatever. So now if somebody comes
- 12:13Speaker 3: to me, the people at Power of Recovery get the
- 12:16Speaker 3: same treatment I get personally. That's my treatment. You get
- 12:21Speaker 3: the same as I do. So nobody's treated any different.
- 12:26Speaker 3: And my motto is everybody's treated different but the same.
- 12:29Speaker 3: That's what separates us. Everybody's different. So what works for
- 12:33Speaker 3: you don't work for you. So we need to find
- 12:35Speaker 3: what works for you and treat you that way. Remember
- 12:38Speaker 3: going away back in the day that it was cookie
- 12:40Speaker 3: cutter and you had to follow with certain set of
- 12:43Speaker 3: rules and if you didn't follow them rules, you were
- 12:45Speaker 3: thrown out immediately. Yep, that's not life, and every person
- 12:49Speaker 3: is different.
- 12:49Speaker 1: I was in they don't even have them anymore. I
- 12:52Speaker 1: was in a TC, you know what. That was, therapeutic community.
- 12:56Speaker 1: I used to have to clean the stairs when I
- 12:58Speaker 1: made like a mistake, I messed up with a toothbrush
- 13:02Speaker 1: that was part of my own.
- 13:02Speaker 3: When you put your cup down, I'm aware of my cup.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh my god. Yeah. Do those even exist?
- 13:08Speaker 2: Yeah, they still have. They still have the Meridian host
- 13:12Speaker 2: n East Boston.
- 13:13Speaker 1: That's not a TC, is it.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 13:14Speaker 3: Of course. Now I went to turn About in Weymouth.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Okay, project turn About Yeah, yeah, so I needed it.
- 13:22Speaker 3: Though I needed it, there was no way I needed
- 13:26Speaker 3: to be locked into a facility, somebody making my decisions
- 13:31Speaker 3: for me. It's the best thing that I've happened.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't be if you did that.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Change kid's life, change Yeah, I mean listen. They definitely
- 13:39Speaker 1: do serve a purpose and they do help. There were
- 13:40Speaker 1: things that I learned in those facilities, but some of
- 13:43Speaker 1: the stuff I look back, like, I remember one time
- 13:45Speaker 1: grading it wasn't me when someone else in the group
- 13:47Speaker 1: was being disruptive and they put them in the corner
- 13:50Speaker 1: and they had to face the wall in the corner
- 13:52Speaker 1: like a four year old, and the dude was like, thirty.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I made Maddie do that last Friday.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Yeah right, it's when he was stealing his pay chest.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 14:03Speaker 3: He even had a mask on when he made me
- 14:05Speaker 3: do it.
- 14:06Speaker 2: See this circle back, there's that's very very good comedic
- 14:09Speaker 2: time of Yeah.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Well anyway, welcome back guys.
- 14:11Speaker 5: Oh Justin. I was just catching up to the podcasts
- 14:14Speaker 5: and I love listening to the Power of Recovery Team,
- 14:17Speaker 5: and it just made me think that we're so grateful
- 14:21Speaker 5: to have their expertise and all the services, not just
- 14:24Speaker 5: for adults, but kiddos too, and for.
- 14:27Speaker 1: All of us.
- 14:28Speaker 5: There's at least someone in our circle that's impacted, and
- 14:32Speaker 5: it's great that they can come back on a frequent
- 14:35Speaker 5: basis too. So I love, love love hearing them.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I get a lot of great feedback from Maddy
- 14:40Speaker 1: and Damon. I mean they're friends of mine, right, and
- 14:42Speaker 1: so you guys come in once a month.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully she feels the same way after she heard
- 14:47Speaker 3: what a babysitter I am.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh no, I'm not gonna lie. The whole expert
- 14:52Speaker 2: terminology doesn't usually get tossed around with me and my
- 14:54Speaker 2: buddy over here where semi decent semi decent guys over here,
- 14:59Speaker 2: but you know, well you're my experts. Yeah, listen, we're
- 15:02Speaker 2: grateful and honestly, like in so many ways we do
- 15:05Speaker 2: have all that experience. It's just still is humbling when
- 15:08Speaker 2: when we're viewed in that manner, you know what I mean,
- 15:11Speaker 2: like just but we've just taken what we've learned and
- 15:14Speaker 2: trying to help people apply it to their lives.
- 15:15Speaker 1: By the way, my wife is an NP school to
- 15:18Speaker 1: be a psychond.
- 15:19Speaker 2: All right, she's higher doing that.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Let's go, let's see.
- 15:22Speaker 3: What see people think expert this that the third all
- 15:25Speaker 3: we do, honestly, is wake up in the morning and
- 15:28Speaker 3: live our lives. Somebody asked the question. We answer it
- 15:31Speaker 3: to the best of our ability. It's just life experiences
- 15:34Speaker 3: that we hand down. And I didn't invent every quote
- 15:38Speaker 3: or thing. My sponsor taught me this. Everything you hear
- 15:41Speaker 3: from me is regurgitated from me learning from somebody else.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Correct that came before me. Correct. So we're not special.
- 15:48Speaker 3: We're not doing any People have been doing this for years,
- 15:52Speaker 3: for years. Somebody had to show us how to do this.
- 15:55Speaker 3: Now we're just taking that. It's in a building in
- 15:58Speaker 3: Revere and we can show you how to do what
- 16:01Speaker 3: we did.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I love you. Guys always post
- 16:04Speaker 1: like the success success stories like at Chelsea's house. You
- 16:06Speaker 1: own sober houses too, Yeah, but I always see them
- 16:08Speaker 1: on Facebook, you know, like this person two years clean.
- 16:11Speaker 3: I it would be an act of Congress to figure
- 16:15Speaker 3: out how much clean and recovery time we have in
- 16:19Speaker 3: the houses right now. But it's a lot. Yeah, it's
- 16:22Speaker 3: a lot.
- 16:23Speaker 2: And even the ones that have like came through us
- 16:25Speaker 2: and like you know, continue to remain sober and clean
- 16:29Speaker 2: and just it's it's it's unbelievable the impact and honestly,
- 16:33Speaker 2: you know, it seems like forever when you're in those
- 16:36Speaker 2: moments of being in treatment, of being in a sober house.
- 16:38Speaker 2: But him and I know, we're just like a blip
- 16:40Speaker 2: on your radar of life, right like literally in the
- 16:42Speaker 2: overall scheme of things, you come to uh, either you know,
- 16:46Speaker 2: live at one of our houses or come to one
- 16:48Speaker 2: of the programs, you spend three months, six months, nine
- 16:50Speaker 2: months somewhere you know, sometimes a little longer when it
- 16:53Speaker 2: comes to the living side of things. But that think
- 16:55Speaker 2: about that in the overall amount of time that you're
- 16:57Speaker 2: on this planet, and and like that, it's just a
- 17:00Speaker 2: impact that that has on your life, and that all
- 17:02Speaker 2: we're doing is providing that space for you and you're
- 17:05Speaker 2: doing the work, but just in the beginning, you have
- 17:08Speaker 2: no idea that you're even capable of doing it, or
- 17:11Speaker 2: that there's anybody else here that's willing to help you
- 17:13Speaker 2: do it. And that's what you find it power.
- 17:15Speaker 1: But you know what, you know, what makes it even
- 17:17Speaker 1: more special is we all know the rate of relapse
- 17:22Speaker 1: and of not making it. And I'm sure you guys
- 17:24Speaker 1: see that side of it sometimes more than the good,
- 17:27Speaker 1: you know, the relapsing the bad. They can't get clean,
- 17:30Speaker 1: get clean, relapse, over and over again.
- 17:32Speaker 3: It's yes. And we tell the people that just sign
- 17:36Speaker 3: on and they're coming into work and they're all excited
- 17:38Speaker 3: to come in and you're gonna see failure more than success. Yes,
- 17:42Speaker 3: but when you see that success, you had a little
- 17:45Speaker 3: pot in that person's life. When a woman gets her
- 17:48Speaker 3: child back, when a guy's able to go on visitation,
- 17:51Speaker 3: when somebody gets their first apartment, God job, wear a
- 17:55Speaker 3: pot of all of that. Yeah, it blows you away.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. You guys are really making it impact here.
- 18:00Speaker 1: And for anyone that missed this mention on THEIAH, this
- 18:03Speaker 1: was during the Billy and Lisa show. I believe it
- 18:04Speaker 1: was last week or the week before. I forget, but
- 18:07Speaker 1: I pulled it. I sent her to these guys. But
- 18:09Speaker 1: if you missed it, I'll play it here.
- 18:10Speaker 4: I have one thing to say though, with the upcoming
- 18:12Speaker 4: mon years, I hear sometimes on the video someone saying
- 18:17Speaker 4: sober is a new sexy. I just want to say,
- 18:19Speaker 4: I'm eighteen and six months sober. If you're young and struggling,
- 18:23Speaker 4: you can do it. It's possible. God is great and
- 18:27Speaker 4: you can get sober if you really want it.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Oh, my god, she's my new favorite person. Yeah, sober
- 18:31Speaker 1: is the new sexiest power of recovery. Yeah, that was
- 18:34Speaker 1: really cool. So she was calling in about something about
- 18:36Speaker 1: the Patriots, and I think she works at you Let Stadium,
- 18:39Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, thank you so much for the call,
- 18:40Speaker 1: and then she just dropped that in.
- 18:42Speaker 3: Wow.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I was like I almost fell off my chair, Like
- 18:44Speaker 1: that's the impact that we're having, you know, eighteen years old.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Six months sober, that's unreal.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Like, you're never too young, You're never too old if
- 18:52Speaker 1: you're still breathing, you ever shot.
- 18:54Speaker 3: If she's hearing this, what I suggest to Doud call
- 18:56Speaker 3: in or get in touch with Justin and come down
- 18:59Speaker 3: a power of reco talk like a group with us.
- 19:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that'd be.
- 19:03Speaker 3: That would be at eighteen. I want to hear how
- 19:06Speaker 3: she did it?
- 19:06Speaker 1: Fuck were you doing it at eighteen?
- 19:07Speaker 3: Not what she's doing.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I didn't even know. I didn't even know that. I
- 19:11Speaker 2: didn't even have the idea or thought that that. Like
- 19:14Speaker 2: I had a problem, let alone trying to be sober
- 19:16Speaker 2: like that, and I already had a problem at that time.
- 19:18Speaker 2: I just didn't know it, you know what I mean.
- 19:20Speaker 1: I went to uh Vermont they have this recovery event
- 19:23Speaker 1: every year. I went in November, and I think you
- 19:26Speaker 1: know who he is. I grew up with him and
- 19:27Speaker 1: mald His name is Peter. Yeah, he lost so he
- 19:30Speaker 1: grew up the next street over from me. So I
- 19:32Speaker 1: told him this. When I saw him, I go because
- 19:34Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew this. He was the
- 19:35Speaker 1: first person I ever knew that got clean.
- 19:37Speaker 2: No way.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Yes, when we were younger, and like obviously like OC's
- 19:41Speaker 1: oxy cont and hit Hit and then Heroin hit or whatever,
- 19:43Speaker 1: and you know, he was into all that stuff. And
- 19:45Speaker 1: then in two thousand and four he's like, I gotta
- 19:47Speaker 1: go to detox, and he went to details. Many of
- 19:49Speaker 1: us went in and out of detoxes, but he went
- 19:50Speaker 1: to detox. He never fucking came back.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Wow.
- 19:52Speaker 1: And then I saw him or heard about him, like
- 19:54Speaker 1: a year or two later, and he had like two
- 19:56Speaker 1: years clean, and I couldn't believe it. He was the
- 19:58Speaker 1: first person I remember thinking, if this dude can do it,
- 20:01Speaker 1: I could too.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:02Speaker 1: So and he works in recovery, right, so he's all.
- 20:05Speaker 2: His wife does. Yeah, he's unbelievable.
- 20:07Speaker 5: Dude.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a great dude.
- 20:09Speaker 2: But I hope he knows he's in the podcast today.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Oh I'll have to uh have to have to let
- 20:14Speaker 1: him know, have him listen. But yeah, really good dude.
- 20:16Speaker 1: So what else? What else is going on?
- 20:18Speaker 5: Guys?
- 20:18Speaker 1: You got anything else popping?
- 20:20Speaker 2: There's always so yeah, never end. We gotta get you
- 20:24Speaker 2: back over there. We're gonna get you back the time.
- 20:26Speaker 2: I know, I know you've come a couple that. It's
- 20:27Speaker 2: been amazing, the people, the the when you so Justin
- 20:32Speaker 2: will come in and basically, you know, run a group,
- 20:34Speaker 2: but by that he'll come in, share a story and
- 20:36Speaker 2: just kind of like, you know, let people know about
- 20:39Speaker 2: some of his successes and it goes such a long way,
- 20:41Speaker 2: like like you're out here doing the same work, man,
- 20:43Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So we got to get
- 20:45Speaker 2: you back into like the whole buildings enthralled in the group.
- 20:48Speaker 2: It's the only time we get people to put all
- 20:49Speaker 2: their phones down and everyone paying attention at the same time.
- 20:53Speaker 2: It's it's it's a lot, but it's it's definitely something
- 20:55Speaker 2: we gotta.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I noticed that, Uh you have a podcast
- 21:00Speaker 1: over there. Invite into that.
- 21:02Speaker 3: Oh you want to do it. I'm just saying that
- 21:06Speaker 3: hasn't been invited to do it. No way, I've never
- 21:08Speaker 3: done it. He's never done it.
- 21:10Speaker 1: That's our girl, Lauren fucking first guess huh, you should
- 21:13Speaker 1: and him should have been the first.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Tell her right now on the podcast. Me and Damon
- 21:17Speaker 3: should have been doing the podcast.
- 21:19Speaker 1: I will not if I'm ever asked, I will not
- 21:21Speaker 1: do it until you two do it.
- 21:23Speaker 3: I think now she's gonna flip it honest and say
- 21:25Speaker 3: if Justin does it, I'll let you do it. So
- 21:27Speaker 3: you might have to bend the knee.
- 21:29Speaker 1: You have to do it first, Lauren.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Runs that ship over there, You're gonna have to bend
- 21:33Speaker 3: the knee.
- 21:34Speaker 2: No, she does fantastic. To be honest with you, like, so,
- 21:36Speaker 2: I'll show you in a little secret that there's there
- 21:39Speaker 2: may be a couple of blips or clips somewhere. The
- 21:43Speaker 2: very first time that we shot it, I did it
- 21:46Speaker 2: with her and we figured out very quickly that yeah,
- 21:49Speaker 2: it wasn't gonna.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Work you as a host.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Damon is anything.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Why why wouldn't you work with it?
- 21:56Speaker 3: You can't curb his language and.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Be so like like so this is fine with you
- 22:00Speaker 2: and how we do it, but like you know, that
- 22:02Speaker 2: was the idea for Lauren was having, like, you know,
- 22:05Speaker 2: some recovery stories and things like that, and and I
- 22:09Speaker 2: don't I yeah, staying on path for that and not
- 22:13Speaker 2: being a little or a lot inappropriate road whatever that
- 22:17Speaker 2: means from any any kind of you know, windo to
- 22:19Speaker 2: other stuff.
- 22:20Speaker 1: How do I think about it? Maybe it's a good
- 22:22Speaker 1: idea that you two are on the podcast, on that podcast.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Yeah, unlike Damon, I am a grown up. Okay, I
- 22:27Speaker 3: can actually.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Since when did you wake up a grown up today
- 22:30Speaker 2: or something?
- 22:31Speaker 3: I can hold back?
- 22:31Speaker 1: So well, we all have stories. I'm telling you are
- 22:36Speaker 1: your stories that crazy that I don't.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Think there's so it's not always the stories out of
- 22:39Speaker 2: that crazy. It's just how I will just travel down
- 22:43Speaker 2: a path and in this place I can say fuck,
- 22:46Speaker 2: I can do stuff like wearing that podcast that you can't.
- 22:49Speaker 2: But like again, I think the tone that was the
- 22:52Speaker 2: thing we were unsure. Lauren was unsure of the tone
- 22:55Speaker 2: that we're trying to set, and I wasn't helping with
- 22:57Speaker 2: it being far more of a like a serious recover
- 23:00Speaker 2: related story, like let people organically have their fun stuff
- 23:03Speaker 2: and instead of my organic turn this thing into an
- 23:06Speaker 2: absolute fucking nightmare, which you know is easy for me,
- 23:09Speaker 2: we would all laughed and had fun. But I think
- 23:11Speaker 2: it was taken away from what her idea was for.
- 23:14Speaker 2: So I was like, hey, I'm not I'm not gonna
- 23:16Speaker 2: sit next to you again. And then she can't keep
- 23:18Speaker 2: a straight face when I'm sitting in the chair next
- 23:20Speaker 2: to her either.
- 23:21Speaker 1: So it was like, because you make her laugh, probably
- 23:23Speaker 1: you know every day.
- 23:24Speaker 2: Dude, You know what I mean? I think more because
- 23:26Speaker 2: she thinks I'm a clown than i'm funny. But whatever
- 23:28Speaker 2: is whatever. As long as I'm getting the laughs, I
- 23:30Speaker 2: don't care how they come.
- 23:31Speaker 1: You are funny, You've always been funny.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Funny how no like a clown?
- 23:35Speaker 3: Like I'm here to I'm putting you guys on a
- 23:37Speaker 3: group text. You're going to do that part? Yeah?
- 23:39Speaker 2: Yeah, she'll be honestly, she'll She'll rarely be pumped. She
- 23:41Speaker 2: probably will yell at us for not having to come
- 23:44Speaker 2: up with this already.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Call her right now, call her out see if she is.
- 23:50Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it unless you two do it.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Though first I don't think we all should do it.
- 23:54Speaker 1: No, but you as a guest, not as a host.
- 23:57Speaker 2: You think it's gonna go well, lot to.
- 24:00Speaker 1: Say, I know your story. I've heard it a million times.
- 24:02Speaker 3: It's a good lar in. You'll live on Justin's podcast
- 24:08Speaker 3: on Kiss Wanta Wait right now.
- 24:09Speaker 2: It's technically not live, but y'all live.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Well, yeah, everybody can hear you? Are you there?
- 24:16Speaker 2: Can you?
- 24:17Speaker 3: Like cal Donahue calla so with just talking and Justin
- 24:23Speaker 3: brought up your podcast.
- 24:24Speaker 2: He's a little offended, to be honest.
- 24:27Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, don't listen to them.
- 24:28Speaker 2: I was.
- 24:28Speaker 1: They were trying to get me to come back, which
- 24:30Speaker 1: I would to Power Recovery and do a group. And
- 24:32Speaker 1: I just said, hey, I invite you guys to my
- 24:34Speaker 1: podcast every month, and I've never been invited to the
- 24:37Speaker 1: podcast you have there. I was just making the point
- 24:40Speaker 1: there's no anger.
- 24:41Speaker 2: He's calling you out long and you are you know.
- 24:43Speaker 3: It's a valid point. Huh. So what are we what
- 24:46Speaker 3: are we doing here? Because I told him we have
- 24:49Speaker 3: nothing to do with run that.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Right, and we need to back it up a little
- 24:52Speaker 2: bit because he says he's he says he's refusing it.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Come on unless Maddie and I guess we try to
- 24:57Speaker 2: explain to him that that's not even Really.
- 25:00Speaker 1: They should have been the first guests.
- 25:02Speaker 2: I think they're not allowed on Lauren, I explained to
- 25:05Speaker 2: them the very first one we shot that there might
- 25:07Speaker 2: be a couple of clips that we immediately knew we
- 25:10Speaker 2: could know. I could not sit in the chair next
- 25:12Speaker 2: to you and do this podcast. It was not gonna
- 25:14Speaker 2: work for multitude of reasons. Right, So they're they're officially
- 25:19Speaker 2: not allowed.
- 25:19Speaker 3: But anytime that you when you can schedule for let's
- 25:22Speaker 3: schedule it. Oh she put you on the spot.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Now, well, when do you record on Wednesdays?
- 25:28Speaker 3: Are foible?
- 25:29Speaker 2: We're flexible for you.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Okay, like, could you do earlier in the day.
- 25:33Speaker 2: Yeah, she'll take her work time while she's current. Yeah,
- 25:36Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Absolutely. Still a group room, so.
- 25:40Speaker 3: That not only is justin doing a podcast, I am.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Getting costing you money. Yeah, he in that day. You're
- 25:47Speaker 2: gonna have to make sure because we usually have the
- 25:49Speaker 2: two group rooms running at that time.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Well, I could do both, right, Can I do both?
- 25:55Speaker 2: That would be perfect?
- 25:56Speaker 1: That and the podcast. Okay, so this is good. This
- 25:58Speaker 1: is great, Lauren, because the have to show listeners that
- 26:00Speaker 1: are listening now when I do the podcast, they can
- 26:02Speaker 1: come check out your podcast.
- 26:05Speaker 2: You are amazing dude. So, Lauren, you'd have to so
- 26:08Speaker 2: for them to check it out. You'd have to let
- 26:10Speaker 2: them know that it's called Mended and stuff like that.
- 26:12Speaker 2: That's what you do.
- 26:12Speaker 1: By the way, what's the podcast.
- 26:15Speaker 2: That's what I just la Lauren. It's called Mended.
- 26:20Speaker 4: We we drop a new episode every Wednesday on Apple, YouTube, Spotify.
- 26:27Speaker 2: All the platforms.
- 26:28Speaker 3: No, can I ask something?
- 26:31Speaker 1: Sure?
- 26:32Speaker 3: Damon messed up, right, he messed up, and we we
- 26:38Speaker 3: I've never even been asked to sit in the chair.
- 26:42Speaker 3: I feel some kind of way.
- 26:44Speaker 2: Her boss said, has big feelings, subject big feelings. There
- 26:49Speaker 2: we go with that's okay.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Maybe she's worried about what you would say, probably right, right, Lauren, Yeah,
- 26:55Speaker 1: I am.
- 26:56Speaker 2: After sitting with me and she knows we're essentially having
- 27:00Speaker 2: copies of each other. She was like, yeah, no, that's dead.
- 27:03Speaker 2: We're not doing. I want to have a podcast that
- 27:05Speaker 2: like actually laughs and stuff. Successful. Yeah, I explained to Justin.
- 27:10Speaker 5: We can fear that would break the incident.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Which you know he might. He might, But I can
- 27:16Speaker 1: censor myself. I work on the radio, so I'm pretty
- 27:18Speaker 1: good at that. So you don't go to worry about
- 27:19Speaker 1: that with me.
- 27:21Speaker 2: I don't think she even minds other people.
- 27:24Speaker 1: You'd be too busy Oh, never that big No, never
- 27:29Speaker 1: too busy, never too busy. We can make time.
- 27:31Speaker 3: See, Justin's like he's a personality. He is the guy
- 27:35Speaker 3: we think of him as Justin Yeah, because he's USA.
- 27:40Speaker 3: But Justin you're like, you're like Denzel.
- 27:43Speaker 2: Lauren, I will him.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Better recognize David. All right, I'll have Damon and Maddy
- 27:52Speaker 1: give her my number and just text me.
- 27:54Speaker 3: I'll do that. Hey, should I be worried that my
- 27:56Speaker 3: kid tells me you're you're not the main character, dad?
- 28:00Speaker 2: Yeah, that's hey, Lauren. Just to just to double back,
- 28:04Speaker 2: I think this whole thing started because Justin was Aura
- 28:07Speaker 2: farm and so that's that's why we're now he's just
- 28:09Speaker 2: jumping podcast the podcast? What's that? What's Aura? L Aura
- 28:14Speaker 2: Foman is when you're trying you know what I mean,
- 28:16Speaker 2: you're trying to yeah, you know, you're trying to increase
- 28:18Speaker 2: your area. You're trying to, like, you know, grow, It
- 28:22Speaker 2: is related to her to Lauren.
- 28:24Speaker 3: No, no, no, Lauren, I'm going to hang up. You
- 28:28Speaker 3: go back, and I'm sorry to disturb you.
- 28:30Speaker 1: We'll talk to Lauren.
- 28:32Speaker 3: I'm going to put you guys on a group chat
- 28:34Speaker 3: right now, and you could do whatever he is doing.
- 28:36Speaker 3: Thank you bye, Look at that. That was good.
- 28:40Speaker 2: That was solid, big guy, he is it was solid
- 28:43Speaker 2: for you bringing up and mentioning the fact like that's
- 28:45Speaker 2: how the started. You literally mentioned the fact that you know,
- 28:47Speaker 2: there's a podcast over the Lawrence hosting, and then the
- 28:49Speaker 2: big guy followed up with with getting it right on
- 28:51Speaker 2: the lines.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Get her on.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, I see the podcast.
- 28:55Speaker 3: That it should go when she should get some more viewers.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Well, I just think, like, you know, I'm a part
- 29:00Speaker 1: of the family.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you think that you are. You've been a
- 29:03Speaker 2: part of the family before we even built this new family.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Dude, I know when I first came.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let's thank the real boss his wife. Yeah together,
- 29:11Speaker 3: come on, yeah yeah. If it wasn't for her, this
- 29:15Speaker 3: don't happen.
- 29:16Speaker 2: She has straight queen energy, dude, so she does.
- 29:19Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
- 29:20Speaker 1: We should do a we should do a double date.
- 29:23Speaker 1: Let's you and Michelle.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm good, guys. You guys have a good night. No,
- 29:26Speaker 2: you won't take you you don't.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Want to go to.
- 29:31Speaker 2: I do with all the time?
- 29:32Speaker 1: No, no, no, you have a little bit of a gambling problem.
- 29:34Speaker 2: No, it's totally fine. I get it. You guys could
- 29:36Speaker 2: probably use my points and eat for free, but you
- 29:38Speaker 2: but if I have your money, I fucking burn mine.
- 29:40Speaker 2: You know what.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be all set. We'll be all set, all right, boys.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Once again, Power Recovery dot org yeap for addiction, power
- 29:48Speaker 1: al ready for this power of hoopem a dot com
- 29:52Speaker 1: for mental health UH eleven adolescents eleven to eighteen. You said, Okay,
- 29:57Speaker 1: thank you boys for coming in and I appreciate it.
- 30:00Speaker 1: And again they'll be back next month. Or any questions
- 30:02Speaker 1: that you have, any comment you have towards them, addiction,
- 30:04Speaker 1: mental health, anything. They are the experts and they don't
- 30:07Speaker 1: think so, but they are. You can always hit us
- 30:09Speaker 1: up on the talkback. All right, we'll talk tomorrow.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Bye guys, Bye guys,