Recovery Unfiltered
Taking recovery discussion to a different level. Bringing comedy and the lighter side of sober living along with educating non-alcoholics and alcoholics. Hear real stories unfiltered.
Recovery Unfiltered
The Journey So Far: One Year of Recovery Unfiltered
Fifty-two episodes. One year of sobriety stories. Countless lives touched.
This special anniversary episode takes you behind the scenes of Recovery Unfiltered's remarkable first year. Larry and Rob, joined by their wives Katie and Bonnie, reflect on how a vision born from tragedy—a son lost to fentanyl—transformed into a beacon of hope for those battling addiction.
The journey hasn't been without challenges. From setting up the studio (and carrying a surprisingly heavy tile table upstairs) to navigating sensitive conversations, the hosts share candid memories of building this platform from scratch. But the rewards have been immeasurable: three confirmed listeners entering treatment, guests healing through storytelling, and bridges rebuilt between estranged friends and family members.
What makes this retrospective especially powerful are the honest revelations about which episodes resonated most. Brad and Grace's marriage recovery story continues to draw listeners, while the raw vulnerability of guests like Nathan, whose transformation they've witnessed firsthand, demonstrates recovery's profound impact. The hosts also acknowledge a truth often overlooked—the silent partners who make their work possible, as their wives share perspectives on supporting men dedicated to helping others find sobriety.
As they look toward the future with plans for video content and non-profit status, their commitment remains unwavering: no sponsorships that might compromise their message, just authentic conversations about finding serenity in sobriety. Whether you're new to the podcast or have been listening since day one, this episode captures the heart of what makes Recovery Unfiltered extraordinary—the courage to speak truth and the compassion to help others heal.
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Speaker 2:What's that? Hey, pull that up there. I'm going to ask you questions.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Pull it up to you in case I have to ask you a question. I need to hear you. There you go. That a kid.
Speaker 3:They're much better. You guys never mind you sit on the toilet, don't you Use that as your meditation? Not my wife, not your wife, nor anybody listening to this podcast has eaten a shit sandwich we didn't have a hand in making his favorite welcome recovery.
Speaker 2:I'm filled, I'm there. I'm an alcoholic fuck that. I'm over it. Okay, so when are we going to do? A new one, what the next next?
Speaker 3:so I yes, I, I've got one about three quarters of the way done. Uh, that I I enjoy doing I got no input on it. Apparently, katie, he's in a motherfucker, get your ass over here and sit down with me when I'm doing it just invite you're here enough, you're here enough, you're not. No, no, no. The hold on a second hold on. You are always welcome I got that was very dickish I got a resentment.
Speaker 2:That was very dickish of me. I got a resentment.
Speaker 3:That was very dickish of me. That was what I meant by that is I utilize you enough.
Speaker 3:I mean, you're the only man I know that I could call up and say we're recording in an hour. Okay, I'll be right there, and God love you, bonnie, for letting him do that to you. Ladies, for letting me go from a man son dying of a fentanyl overdose to a, to a dream or a vision or whatever it was vision in Texas, to calling Rob and saying will you do a podcast with me? I feel like I need to do more to episode 53, a year and one week later recording this one. I mean it just. You know the things that have happened in the podcast the, the, the, the. Everything that we've gotten to do. It's been incredible and it's because you women have allowed us to do it, and Katie, for allowing me to utilize this in our home and to be a part of this and just allow and sacrifice the most wait, can you say that again?
Speaker 1:can you repeat the allowed part?
Speaker 3:I like that that you've allowed him.
Speaker 1:Well, you do right you do I mean the way that sounds you.
Speaker 3:I mean never, ever have I, ever, I have never heard him say, well, let me check with bonnie, let me make sure it's okay with Bonnie, and that is that is just allowing him to do this thing that we do. You know, you know, katie, katie has to give up her home, has to give up her time. She has to. I mean, she doesn't have to, she's chose, she's chose to to allow this. She's allowed me to take over this room and God love you, katie, thank you, thank you, thank you for letting me do this, because what it's done in for us right, for me it's. This is my therapeutic, this is therapy for me. Right, it's my way. It's done so much for people.
Speaker 3:I know of three people that are in treatment because of this podcast, for sure. Right, I know of three. There may be more, but I said from the very beginning one is all I want, one is all I want, one soul is all I want, and God laid that on my heart and I'm going to do it as long as I can, and I'll never record without you, rob, I will never record without you. You know so many people said, well, just record one without Rob. No, I'm not doing it. I'm not. This is a Rob and Larry show and it's going to be that till the day we stop the.
Speaker 2:Lamonts, it's actually Larry and Rob. I get second billing, don't. Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 3:You know why I say Rob and Larry.
Speaker 2:I give up why.
Speaker 3:Because your name is shorter. You always say the short name first before you say I didn't know that that's just you learn something every day.
Speaker 2:I'll put that on my smart ass the Rob and Larry show.
Speaker 3:So hey what I want to do real fast, right? I just wanted to catch up on the last year, the last 52 episodes, right? So I'm going to start with ours, yours and I's. That was horrible. You're an, i's beautiful, right beautiful grammar Beautiful grammar Mine and yours, Mine and yours right.
Speaker 2:That kid Mine and yours More yours than mine. Better than yours.
Speaker 3:Our first two right. They come out very first, july 7th and whatever, I'm not going to say the dates, those were fun, right, telling our stories Some of it, we did.
Speaker 3:Some of it. We've told our story over a period of time. The three or four weeks leading up to that was doing our intros, doing our outros, doing our, you know, doing all that stuff getting it set up. And then our first two, jason, and then then, yes, then three and four, jason. Right, jason, was you know when I learned my lesson through those, right? We learned that I didn't want to split up any more episodes, right, when we split that up, well, I think Katie's the one that said because Jason wasn't finished and don't split him up, we got great input, and I think there was still a lot.
Speaker 2:And Miranda gave us great input. Mckenna gave us great input.
Speaker 4:To be said in Jason's story. I mean, there's so many parts of Jason's story which was super sad.
Speaker 2:She won't listen to those either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jason's like an older brother to me.
Speaker 4:I've known him since I was in sixth or seventh grade I knew Tyler, yeah, and we had kind of you know I don't think Larry so much because I don't think that he was paying too much attention to that, but when that happened, you know that was kind of part of Miranda and Eric. They're one of the things that was kind of traumatic per se to happen when they were in high school. So they were kind of living it. Even though they were in a different city, a different high school, it was still an Eric's community.
Speaker 1:The wrestling community.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we kind of knew more about that. And you know Larry was sad for his friend, but I had also worked with Tyler's mom.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love Dina.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:When I was in high school, we had worked at the deli together. She's awesome.
Speaker 4:I hadn't seen her for years either. It was very sad for me to know that they were having to walk this and then, not even knowing the Stillmans, that they lost their son. You don't want that to happen to anybody.
Speaker 3:That was rough. That was rough because, like I said, jason is mean. Him and I were inseparable growing up in Waterford right, and his dad and my dad and his uncle Larry I'm named after his uncle, you know and it was just it was, you know, to get to know Jason again after all those years of playing on, when we went from Waterford to Oakdale and he was a year behind me in school, but it doesn't no, two years behind, he's a year ahead of you, isn't he?
Speaker 2:Jason's 55 years old buddy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's the same age as me. He was a year behind me in school though I thought Maybe not, maybe not, but anyways, when I went to Waterford we went to Oakdale, we just went into separate crowds, so it was just a completely different area. So I lost, you know, we just lost that friendship. But we always stayed in touch when I'd see him in town and I knew what was going on with him, blah, blah, blah. But man, to be able to sit down down with him and you know, the studio originally started in my office and but to sit down with him and to walk through that story firsthand, instead of hearing it from my dad or hearing it from Billy Ray or hearing it from his uncle, larry or his cousins or anybody else, right, I mean I got to hear it firsthand from him and it was just, it was, it was, it was, it was nice to hear it directly from him. And I love that man to death. I mean that guy's got a spirit to him. That's just incredible.
Speaker 2:And now we're grappling buddy.
Speaker 3:Huh, I know, now you're beating up on him, poor guy. So then Rob and I, so that was three and four, right. And then Rob and I, and then five was Mary and Matt, right. That's when Mary and Matt came in. Wow, that far back. Yeah, I know, I was kind of shocked when I started going back through these to kind of figure out when we did them right, and I was just shocked that they were right behind it and you know, and I once again going back me learning the studio and learning how to control the mics and that kind of stuff, and Matt was right here. Matt was right here. We moved in. By then we had moved in over here. Yep, right, rob and I.
Speaker 2:This thing is 500 pounds. These are tiles.
Speaker 4:No, you guys were carrying my desk. I had just gotten that desk for what I thought was going to be my office.
Speaker 3:It is your office, if you ever get in there.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm still working, so I'm not. Anyways, that's a whole other story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I originally.
Speaker 4:He was bringing that out here.
Speaker 3:I was taking over her office. I originally set everything up in her office and I sent her a picture of it. She's like so much for my office. And then I was like, fuck, she's right. So I started bringing everything out over to here, cause I knew this was eventually where the studio was going to end up, right, but I wanted to find a table. My original thoughts was just to have big cigarette cigar chairs with stand mics and that kind of stuff. But the more I remember my vision. My vision was sitting around a table with four mics, round table with four mics. So Katie started looking. You know she didn't want me in her office, didn't want me taking over her stuff. So she found this table and Rob and I once again my man, rob, hey, I gotta go pick up a table. When are we going? You know, off, we go Go over to Antioch, and this lady was just a God-fearing woman.
Speaker 2:Tell me that wasn't a God thing.
Speaker 3:Oh, buddy, she was awesome. You know, she's like it's heavy, it's heavy. And Rob oh my God, we're going to do it he gets over and grabs ahold of this thing. He's like, holy shit, we're going to take that thing apart. And we did. Right, this thing was heavy, right. The middle of this is all real tile right here. That's why it's so heavy.
Speaker 4:It's a beautiful Pier 1 round dining table. It is beautiful With tile on the top it's awesome. Tile and wood. It is beautiful. I did not realize how heavy it would be.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, this thing was brutal carrying up here.
Speaker 4:And poor Larry with his broken body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he can barely carry anything, the midget had to do the heavy lifting.
Speaker 4:You ain't lying, he was doing the heavy lifting.
Speaker 3:I think that was before you had your hip surgery too. I think it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no.
Speaker 3:Maybe yeah, no, it was I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, it was yeah.
Speaker 4:You're right. And they had to carry this heavy thing upstairs to the loft where they record.
Speaker 3:Right, and then we had a, so the first, and then we have mixed mass chairs, because the chairs that came with this I loved the white chairs. Well, so do I, but I wanted them to match because you know Larry's anal that way. And then the chairs that came with this. That's your fourth step.
Speaker 2:We swore not to ever talk about it again. Yeah, him being anal, and Abigail, my chicken, can't talk about that shit.
Speaker 3:And the metal chairs that came with this are just, they're throughout the studios here, they're in the corners. And then so we started bringing in still and Katie's chairs out of her office. Then Katie would come up to do her work in her office and she'd be getting mad because they're in here anyways. So then I brought in the acoustic curtains and, you know, it eventually became what it is now, and I'm not done. I still got a couple of things I want to do.
Speaker 4:I just need another thousand dollars.
Speaker 3:Anybody wants to send. Anybody that wants to send it.
Speaker 4:It's like a boat.
Speaker 1:Right, it's like a boat, right, just need a little bit more.
Speaker 3:It's like our RV A little bit more.
Speaker 3:Anyway. So that was five, and then the one that still is on the top of the most downloads or the most listened to. Besides the first one, the first two are always the most, because when somebody starts a new podcast, right, they always go back to the very first one. I'm going to say this to the end of this podcast. It's the reason why mine is still the most. The very first one was my story. Okay, so it's still the most listened to, but it's only because, only because when people go to listen to new podcasts, they start at the very beginning, maybe it's the best too.
Speaker 4:Who the fuck knows?
Speaker 3:Anyways.
Speaker 4:But your story on why you started this. That ties into your story.
Speaker 3:Yes, it does, for sure, wasn't an issue to Rob. No, it's just, it's still. But Brad and Grace was number seven and they, that is. You know people still talk about that one. That was so and because it really was that you know Mary and Matt had a story of loss and and they were both in recovery, but that was the first husband and wife that we had in here. I mean, their story is very amazing, right? Brad's story on how he got into the recovery and how he went and more people can relate to.
Speaker 2:Brad, yes, because not everybody in recovery has lost a son. No, no.
Speaker 3:And Brad and Grace. Their story was just tremendous and it was fun. And you know they they're just, they're wonderful people. I love those two to death and anyways, that was.
Speaker 1:I love Grace.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I love her to death. I love Brad.
Speaker 4:She's just a lovely human. Brad I love I mean Brad, I love him.
Speaker 1:You don't have to wonder what he's thinking.
Speaker 4:No, God's just he doesn't have a filter, but it's in a good way, you know, especially where my husband is concerned.
Speaker 3:He is just. You know him and I think, so much alike. In fact, we went out to dinner one night after a meeting Brad and Grace and Katie and I and Brad, blah, blah, blah, anyways, they were just being stupid. When we got in there, it was about close to closing time and they were being stupid and Brad and I, I was literally right in the verge of being a dick and I was looking at Brad and I think Brad was right there. I think we were thinking which one of us is going to be the bigger dick here, because both of us really wanted just to be a raging dick. But I think we both was like, yeah, we just came from an AA meeting, we're going to be good, but it was just it was a lovely dinner, lovely dinner and they ended up being super sweet to us.
Speaker 3:It was, it was good. Anyways, that that was a Brad and Grace was a fun one. And then nine, our, our mentor and Chris, the love of my life, Chris, Chris L, You're the love of my home, baby. Chris L saved my life with God. Hey, that man, mine too, yeah, he just he turned me upside down and flipped all this shit out of me and overnight and when we talked about that's when the change in me happened. When you talked about in the podcast before, about when I asked you did you see a change?
Speaker 3:Well, the change happened when they put me with him right, because I was a motherfucker for the first 18 days, trying to tell him how to run the place the lady that was running it at the surprise rise up the lady that was running the place was a complete, total bitch.
Speaker 3:I couldn't stand her and and we just clashed so hard and she was actually my counselor at first, and then she, and then then she put me. They put me with somebody else and that poor lady didn't stand a chance because I was just a dick, so we didn't even last one. And then Sean Monaco, she was, she was just, she just kept after me, just trying to be so positive with me, and I love that woman and Marla, who was there between those two girls. They kept me there. And then they put me with Chris L, who turned me upside down and shook the shit out of me and literally made me want and made me want to be sober, me too. Yeah, it just he. His enthusiasm for life is infectious.
Speaker 2:It's infectious and I did, but when you're in the dark like I was, you were I wanted to punch him in the mouth.
Speaker 3:My first met him because he was just like well he was, yeah, because I never had one, could you?
Speaker 4:he's got that big smile and he's so happy.
Speaker 2:That's what I wanted. I wanted to hit him.
Speaker 4:Didn't you want to have that happiness? No, not until— Not until. But you got it.
Speaker 2:In five minutes afterwards, because he just sat me and he was beaming and I told the story and he came up this was the third day. Three because what I said was I can't live like this anymore. I can help you. That's what he said. Then he got serious. He grabbed my hand, grabbed my arm, and I was. And I looked at him with that big smile Chris is, I can help you. And I believed him. I don't know why I believed him, but then that's when shit switched for me and I was like, whatever you tell me to go stand in the corner with a grapefruit on my head and I won't drink today. Give me two.
Speaker 3:I'm there.
Speaker 2:I did whatever that man asked me to do.
Speaker 3:from that point on, yeah, and when they told I got hope when they pulled me into the principal's office is what I always called it Third time or second time?
Speaker 3:The third time Third time and Shauna Wren was sitting there and you want to talk about a woman? I'd kill people for that woman. Right, there is a saint, Good woman and I sat across. I never met her before, I didn't know who she was, and they sat me there with Marty and Shauna and Sean I don't remember I think Ashton was there and Sean was sitting and I was just going off and the other lady that was running the place at the time was there that I just wanted to throw something at God. Let you know I don't have any resentment to her. Honestly, she was a great path to my sobriety. And, um, anyways, I was just going off and I finally had to look at the poor Sean and Wren and I'm like, ma'am, I don't have no idea who you are and I apologize, you have to meet me like this to begin with. And she sat there and goes I'm the owner. And I'm like, oh, let's go then.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you how you can make this place better. Now. I got the owner's attention come on, and then. I got a little's attention, come on.
Speaker 3:You know, my whole world kind of changed. And then they said we're going to put Chris, we're going to give you another opportunity or we're going to have to ask you to leave. We're going to put you with Chris Lytle. And I was like who the fuck is Chris Lytle? He's your, he's the guy that runs the class. And I'm like I didn't even know he was a counselor. We give Counselor, we give the rough ones to him. I'm like okay, and the next day I just you know, I went in. You guys have all heard me tell that story. It was just anyway. So that was Chris. We got him on here. He still runs a great program and I'm going to think about it. Chris, I want to give you that plug.
Speaker 2:I apologize, but he still runs a good it's called Spiritual Roads.
Speaker 3:Thank you, rob. Thank you, spiritual Roads. I love you, Chris. Yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently, rob loves you more than I do, chris. Spiritual Roads, it's a YouTube channel. He has all the 12 steps, he walks through all the 12 steps on there. It's great. And then my boy, dougie P, my travel partner.
Speaker 2:We've had Doug a couple of times on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had Doug and Brad a couple of times together on here. Yeah, and Dougie P, he's my travel. We're getting ready to leave for Canada. In fact, when you guys are listening to this, we've already been to Canada, you know, for the International.
Speaker 2:Aid Convention and Jason R.
Speaker 3:Yeah, jason R is going with us, him and Kim, and which I haven't. We're coming up to that one, so I'm, I love Doug. You know Doug's, that guy, doug is my sponsor also. We sponsor one another, but he is my sponsor 21 years of sobriety and he actually, once we started doing the men's group he kind of doubled down and got back into it and he's just a light man. You know, I love that man to death Freaking called me today.
Speaker 2:I ain't going to say it.
Speaker 4:Why.
Speaker 2:I got to pray about it, doug asked me for something. I got to pray about it.
Speaker 1:Oh no, he's going to do it. He's going to do it. He's going to be a little flag football coach.
Speaker 3:Are you going to do it? You know what?
Speaker 1:My daughter.
Speaker 3:I think it's sweet.
Speaker 2:Do you know what grade? Apparently, I think you're going to have my grandson.
Speaker 3:I think you're going to have my grandson. If you're doing it, I'm going to help you.
Speaker 2:Well, it's through the-.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 4:It's from your church For Saturdays.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's on Saturdays. It's your church.
Speaker 4:That's Kane's League.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm almost but we might cut this out. But if it's that weekend, if it's the same group, I'll help you. I can't beat them. Miranda asked me to do it and I'm like baby, I'm not going to commit to that.
Speaker 2:But if I know— it's one day a week. I don't know what day it is. It is, it is, and then it's a Saturday game.
Speaker 1:Doug got asked, so he called me coach. Oh God, love God, love you.
Speaker 4:Doug Logan did it when he was little Kane played one year, he just didn't. They didn't get him signed up last year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Logan loves it.
Speaker 4:It was fun. Oh yeah, Kane loved it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, Me and Doug are going to be coaching flag football.
Speaker 4:It's a good league.
Speaker 2:It's fun.
Speaker 3:He stole his bike. He what.
Speaker 1:Logan won a bicycle, did he really?
Speaker 2:And then, because he already had a nice bike, he gave it away to a young boy that didn't have one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. The little kid around the corner. Someone stole his bike.
Speaker 2:So, Logan took the bike he got for free. Where did he learn all that from? It was a nice bike.
Speaker 3:God, glad you didn't say me, god Number 11 was Pat or his mother.
Speaker 4:Pat Two-can Superman.
Speaker 3:Two-can Superman Pat.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You know you want to talk about it. I had never met another man that knew the book as much as Rob did until Pat started coming in right and I had a real aversion to him at first. You've never met Pat. She's met him a couple of times, but it's super at the grocery store. Yeah, I just, I had a real aversion to Pat at first because to me he was competing with my boy, rob, to to see who knew the most. And I'm like, I'm like, motherfucker, ain't nobody know more than my Rob, you know. And then, but the more I got to know the man, I love that guy man, I love him, love him, love him, love him, the knowledge that he has and his story.
Speaker 2:But the way he lives, he's an incredible. We live at the same time. Yes, yes, he's just.
Speaker 3:I love him to death. He's just a great man. Doug was back Meditation on the Shitter on the 13th and then number 14 was. My favorite man of all time is Jason Ryan.
Speaker 1:I can't argue that no that is, I love him and Kim.
Speaker 3:My God, him and Kim. They're dynamic. I love listening to their adventures and what they do. He's another one that I get to sit with in Canada and I'm so excited. Enjoy that. I was so excited to be with him and Kim in Canada. You know, I wanted to ask him if he's, you know, because the guy runs every morning.
Speaker 2:He's him. If he's, you know, because the guy runs every morning, he's pillar of health and I would wanted to ask you the way his back is from bull, right, right, but he doesn't feel any of it.
Speaker 3:He's screwed up from yeah, no, he yeah from cattle, from, uh, but, as god blessed it, he's right, he just keeps, he just keeps fighting through it and, yeah, he's awesome. I mean he works over in the on the coast where I go every once in a while.
Speaker 2:No, we don't.
Speaker 3:I hate it, I get to run into him every once in a while. We don't get to see him as much no, we don't, and I hate it. I get to run into him every once in a while. We'll go to dinner over in um, over at Monterey, when I get over there. So, yeah, I get to see him, not nearly as much as I want to, because that that man is an inspiration to me.
Speaker 4:I think that's one thing that you don't necessarily get portrayed through the microphone is I don't want to say personality, because sometimes people's personalities does come out on the mic, but both Jason and his beautiful wife Kim are just full of joy and there is no question when you get a hug from them it's the most genuine. They're just infusing you with their love and they're just lovely people.
Speaker 3:Jason. When Miranda and Eric were buying their new place, I called Jason and I said hey, can you come take a look at this place? And him and Kim came right out.
Speaker 2:When I got diagnosed with cancer, we had started doing some home to floor and we wanted to get the bathroom done, and I didn't. He came over on his time, but that was before he got shipped down there, did all the work. I mean he would take me shopping, show me what to buy, what to do, and he did everything just to get me just before my cancer started. And he did it all. You know, and Just just, I can't.
Speaker 3:I can't do. And then number 17 was um. So when I went to primary purpose my very first day, dawson Both Mike and Dawson, right. So when I first pulled up, I remember you know how they sit around outside. Well, I pulled up and Mike was the first one to greet me, dawson was the first one right there next to him and those two guys. So Mike was 17 and-.
Speaker 2:My wife has a great affinity for Dawson because when she got to listen to him speak and when she drank in high school for Dawson, because she got to listen to him speak.
Speaker 1:And when she drank in high school, Dawson's father invented Boone's Fairy Heel.
Speaker 4:Oh, I love Boone's Farm. That's a very cool drink.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dawson was 22,. Right, that's the best wine ever. That was $500.
Speaker 1:You can get it for 99 cents. 99 cents, not anymore.
Speaker 3:Right, right, number 18 was $500. You can get it for 99 cents. 99 cents, it's awesome, not anymore, right? Right, number 18 was we did the only reason why I bring this up, because this is when we brought Doug and Brad in together and we did the California Sober, which is what we talked about before. You know, there was a little controversy there. We went through that, but it was fun. Right, we've done a lot of topics, right? I'm only talking about the ones that the guests that we had on Rob and I has done a ton of just one-on-ones, right, I mean the one-on-ones where Rob and I just pick a topic and go do are some of my funner ones, because we- we just like to fucking wind me up.
Speaker 2:I do and go.
Speaker 3:I love fucking winding you up and in fact, I'm going to mention that one here pretty soon, because it was one of my funnest ones because he even came in here and I'll talk about it here in a minute. So number 20 was a fun one because that's the one Katie kept after me and after me after Jason. Jason Allen, she kept Larry. It's not finished, it's not finished, it's not finished. You've got to get the rest of it. And yes, so we brought Jason.
Speaker 4:Well, just because, how far Jason has come in his life and the blessings in which he has now as well, which I mean. How lucky is he that you know he walked through such a horrible situation by having to watch his son deteriorate and not want to live watch his son deteriorate and not want to live, and now he's got these younger ones that he gets that not a second chance, because he still has his other children from his first marriage as well, but he has this blessing.
Speaker 2:But it is a second chance, it is.
Speaker 4:But he has this blessing of being able to really be present and to love these boys, and he's very lucky.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's taking every advantage.
Speaker 3:Every ounce of it. And Jenny, his wife, you know she came on and then From the block, yeah, jenny, from the block. And now she's got the. I mean she's doing awesome with her sobriety stuff. I mean the Sober Shit Show is her podcast and she's got all kinds of stuff. I mean every time I get onto.
Speaker 2:Instagram-.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she does her lashes the glow up. Yeah, she's got a bunch going on. God love her.
Speaker 2:She's she's a hustler man.
Speaker 3:Her and Jason. Both are just hustlers. They don't, they don't settle down to the word. Oh yeah, they. They just constantly moving, constantly moving. So then when I talked about number 22, which was Dawson, and then I think this next one is you know, katie's got a cousin that lives down in LA and she's by far our biggest fan right. When I, after these podcasts, land, I always wait for Laurel to text me back.
Speaker 2:She texts me every every podcast she just gives me. She's like one of my favorite guests, Laurel.
Speaker 3:Because it was different. Right, we've been wanting to get a Celebrate Recovery, which we tried, and we tried to get a couple different Celebrate Recoveries, and I wanted to get NA on here.
Speaker 2:And they just run from us.
Speaker 3:Right. I don't know why and I've said this from the very beginning Rob and I are AA fanatics. Right, that's the way we got sober, but we're not affiliated with AA. For me, I don't care how you get sober, I really don't Get it. Find it, work it, find the serenity, find the peace. Because, I've said this so many times, doing what I do is not to stay sober anymore. It's not at all If I'm missing a meeting, if I'm getting anxious. That's what I worry about more. Is that anxiety coming in, that anxiousness, when I don't have my serenity and that peace. You know Rob talks about that first drink, when that is and your body goes yeah, I get that. That's what I look for, right, and I get that every time I see Katie, or every time I talk to my daughters, or every time I get to touch my grandkids. I get that from them, right, that's where I get that that peace and that serenity.
Speaker 2:I go to meetings to give back what I've been given.
Speaker 3:And when I could see another man react with be successful on something that we do.
Speaker 2:When they get it, when the lights turn on.
Speaker 3:I love that. You know yesterday, and yesterday, or not, wasn't yesterday? A couple of weeks back, there was a guy that had less than 24 hours sitting in the meeting and as we were kind of going around the room, you know anybody less than 30 days want to mention their names, not not to embarrass you, just so we can help you out. Right, there was a guy sitting down at the end of the table. He says I got less than 24 hours and he looked like it. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 3:And you know what, robin? You know I have such empathy for that because I still still so fresh in me that I can still I know right where he's at.
Speaker 2:You feel that you can feel, feel that brokenness.
Speaker 3:Feel the brokenness, I can feel the anxiousness. I can just see it in his heart and in his mind and in his eyeballs. I could just see it. I just I wanted to reach in and grab it and pull it out and say, let me hold onto this for a little while till you figure it out. You know and I, you know and I, when I was my time to share is all to him. Right, this, it's going to get better. Bud, it's going to get better. Not everybody in this room has gone through what you have, but Laurel. Laurel came in. I went down that road sidetracked, but Laurel came up for Thanksgiving. Laurel and Scotty, which is Katie's cousin, came up. She calls him Richard, I call him Scotty, and Robert.
Speaker 4:Robert, sorry, robert their son is Richard.
Speaker 3:Sorry. Anyways, he's Scotty to me.
Speaker 4:Scotty.
Speaker 3:And, uh, she was sitting downstairs and I go, you know the podcast, the studios, because this is we call this our Airbnb up here. And I go, you know the studio is sitting right outside the Airbnb. I bet I can call Rob and we can record. And she's like, really I go, yeah, you want to record, Because you know she battled depression, Her dad was an alcoholic, she had a rough one growing up, but her biggest thing, she battled some deep depression and Katie and I were dating during that period of time and and um, and she did, she did said yeah, and I called Rob. I said, hey, get it. This is one of those times, man, I called him, I said, hey, let's, let's go. And he's like on my way, and it was one of my favorites and it was one of Rob's favorites. I mean, Rob dug into that one a lot more than what I thought you were going to and it was a fun one. That was number 23.
Speaker 2:Well, she's special, she's real special Dude.
Speaker 1:I love her. She is very special.
Speaker 3:Yeah, her and Cassie, besides my daughters, you know her and Cassie Laurel and Cassie Laurel and Cassie got my wife through those 30 days that I was gone, but they picked up where I couldn't be and God love them. I love Laurel, love you, laurel. And number 25, and this was what was so ironic to this one right, number 25 dropped on December 25th, on Christmas day, and it was Brandon who had 90 days right, that was 25 ago, that was 25.
Speaker 3:That was number 25. And it dropped on December 25th. It dropped on Christmas morning and, uh, we haven't missed a Wednesday for 52 weeks when that one dropped.
Speaker 2:It was crazy, just well on Saturday, me and Brandon's son, justin, went to because Brandon had to work, so I took Justin with me to watch the fights To watch Logan yeah.
Speaker 4:We had a great time and Brandon's doing well oh he's amazing.
Speaker 3:Oh, he's doing awesome, he's doing awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, we gave him the treatment here, right.
Speaker 3:He was in a. You know, I still remember him at Matt and Mary's wedding, right, I mean, he was so green, he was so angry. Good God, he was angry.
Speaker 2:But he's got through. I mean he's doing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's got it. But see, and that's why we do this right yeah, that right there. I love watching that stuff To watch.
Speaker 2:another man, you know Mike's, another one but the family, because I'm at a two-hour talk with Josh on the way back and just to talk with and how the family's oh yeah, it's just God is so flipping good, right, right, I mean when we're not, but he is when you let him do it.
Speaker 4:Right saw this in the last couple of weeks with both of the girls recording as well is you hear these stories of kids who are super angry because their parents are or were alcoholics. But there are some where they do have the ability to forgive their parents for those. And you know, and both of our girls they really have. I mean McKenna very much embraced it at Larry's sobriety and was a cheerleader for him, huge cheerleader for him. But again she was still living at home and Miranda had a family of her own but she was still very supportive and cheering from the sidelines. So your kids are deep down happy for you because they want you to get better. They really do. Or even if you have that broken, fractured relationship, hopefully that will mend.
Speaker 2:They do.
Speaker 3:I know that Miranda and I's Miranda being on the episode was huge for her and I's relationship.
Speaker 2:And I think eventually those two are going to take over the top spot. I really do.
Speaker 3:I'm going to tell you right now they're already. I can tell you those two episodes are not too far behind Brad and Grace. I've got a lot of.
Speaker 2:I got a lot of response on those Right. And one of the ladies on Thursday. She loved the doctor or the soon to be doctor.
Speaker 3:So so here we go, right, that's number 28. Which I loved, dr Rachel Berry Right.
Speaker 2:And I told her Well, hold on.
Speaker 3:Hold on, was just Rachel Berry, right? She was not a doctor yet Almost. So I reached out to her two like a month ago and I said and she answered the call right away and I go doctor, yet she goes not. Yet I got, she had six more weeks. I said, when you get that doctor, we want you back on. And she says, absolutely, I'm going to come back on in person, right?
Speaker 3:In person back on in person, right in person. So I'm so excited for her loved that episode a lot, right, in fact, we were just talking about it. The lady that's coming on in september, the the lady yeah, she brought it up again.
Speaker 2:She's like he's the one that brought it up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she loved that yeah, she said one of my favorite episodes was the doctor that you had on, because she, she had such a different outlook and a different perspective and it was the. You know, it was the first person that had more brains than anybody that we'd had on this podcast that had a Except for you, of course.
Speaker 2:Well, I you guys were. You're a close second, larry I was above and beyond.
Speaker 3:You know, above and beyond. It took a lot to get up to me, so it took doctor to do that. You know which was. And hers was so much fun because we did get. What was so fun about that and that's why I got this big monitor behind me now is because we did hers on Zoom and Rob couldn't see her face, so Rob kept trying to talk as she was talking.
Speaker 2:I asked a question and then or I'll say something I didn't know there was a delay. There was a delay.
Speaker 3:Because I could see Rachel here but rob couldn't see her. That's why I ended up putting this on for up here before those zoom calls, and it was just funny could have just made him sit in this chair right. I didn't think that it was why would they want him? Right, it was just too funny. Anyways, that was number 28.
Speaker 1:Get a whole new TV.
Speaker 3:Number 29. $50,000,.
Speaker 4:Katie.
Speaker 3:We're going video first.
Speaker 4:No but I know that she's all. No, I'm telling you. I said can this studio make a little bit of money before we put out more?
Speaker 2:money, but when we do, it's going to be for like an A13C.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've talked about that a little bit. I've actually cut it out. My ultimate goal is to get to where this is. I've said this from the very beginning I'm not taking donations, or I'm not taking no, I'm sorry, I will take donations. I'm not going to take sponsorship. I'm not, you know, donations, or I'm not taking no, I'm sorry, I will take donations. I'm not going to take sponsorship, right, I'm not going to be sponsored. I'm not going to have somebody else tell us what we can or cannot. Say I won't do it.
Speaker 2:I won't do it at all if I want to talk about something we're going to talk about it like a silent sponsorship yeah, I mean, if somebody well and that's what I'm talking about going into the 503c and going through and opening up it's like what just happened with uh, I mean the young man that we got very helped with, sean, or in getting the young man of the maynards right oh yeah, I mean I didn't have insurance right and he was like ready, what we thought he was. He turned out to be right. He's doing good. No, doing great so sunday, um.
Speaker 3:so I I'm gonna open up a non-profit, we're gonna turn this into a nonprofit and I'm kind of excited for that. There's a lot of work to do, but felt that they wanted to do something that they could sponsor someone themselves, like they could send money to me. Absolutely, they do do that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sean, sean I mean, that would be amazing.
Speaker 3:Sean or once.
Speaker 4:Sean, sean, I mean she's going to come on. God bless her because Larry makes a phone call and if she doesn't answer it, her because Larry makes a phone call and if she doesn't answer it she calls him very quickly. And Larry's worked with her and Rob and Rob through Larry to her and whatever way it happens but she makes it happen for someone.
Speaker 3:She's awesome, she cares about.
Speaker 2:She cares about the person more than she does the money by by a long shot, but it is a business, absolutely it's a business.
Speaker 3:Right. So the next two, 29 and 30, was was yeah, west side John is dude. I love me some West side John. He's one of the biggest. He's one of the biggest fans I got and I love that man to death. He rides with me to the Monday.
Speaker 2:Monday mornings or the Monday evening meetings.
Speaker 3:Do we have John on, then John and Heather? No, no, no. So we had Westside John on, so John came back right. So we had John on and then Heather right behind her. And if you haven't listened to Heather's number, eight's a bitch. That woman battled. She battled some serious stuff and that was a great episode. I love that one. Yeah, she. You know. What was so fun about that one is I started seeing her in meetings. She started going back to meetings after that one because I encouraged her. She has such a good story. I really do want her to have be more involved. And then, uh, then John came back in after that because he felt like he had some stuff left over. So let's see he, that was 29, 30. He came in and 36, I think, is when he came back. And then 38 is our 38 and 39 was Nathan. Right, Nathan, God, what. What a joy that has been to watch.
Speaker 3:It was since, even since then, oh my gosh, just when he was here on 38. And then how he just propelled after that Back in with his wife. They're getting married, from what I'm understanding. Oh yeah, and just watching all that Saw him.
Speaker 2:This weekend they came to the fights and Nathan, we got to help, because I was sitting there watching Logan too much and Nathan did some videos for me. Right, I sent them to you.
Speaker 3:Just watching, that has been, I know.
Speaker 2:Nathan said you know he would come to our house with TJ and Jason and watch fight nights. When he was a little kid, you know, 16, 17 years old. He remembers the Jack Daniels.
Speaker 1:I think he was older than that, though he was 17 when he started working with TJ Really.
Speaker 3:He was that young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, baby.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, he's been. Watching him come out is just, you know him and I had a little bit of a disagreement in the very beginning, you know, when we first started a little bit, just a little bit of clash, and then, you know, it was kind of weird. He disappeared for a little while. And then, you know, when he came in here and he started telling his story and I was able to watch him, you know I have so much respect for that man to watch him struggle and go through that emotional, emotional and sober and just emotionally just struggling through that and just working through that.
Speaker 3:And just, you know, he'd been sober for seven years before he's six, right Before he started down this, this path. And now seeing him, I mean he's cut his hair, he's. Just look at him, I mean he's just working out all the time. He's just, he's just so it's fun to watch. He's just a different bird man. Um, let's see.
Speaker 3:Then that was Nathan and then Mike, and so then 40 and 40, 41 and 42 was Mikey Stillman and Jason A together. Right, that was the first time that they had sat across from each other in 18 years and talked about and talked about. That's the first time they had talked about the wreck together in the same room at the same time. And it was. It was incredible to watch. And Mikey Stillman is just, and he's not afraid to say his last name Watching him, or he's at right now. Once again, he's another one of those guys that we've had the privilege of watching him come out, oh my gosh, and see him and to hear him say I love you and to give you a hug, and to watch just that bright light. You know what and I listen to him do the AA logos and the stuff that he says in the AA it's just so fun to listen to because he gets it right. He gets it.
Speaker 3:And then 45 was Mike and his wife Kim, when they came in together to talk about the recovery afterwards right the family afterwards and to watch that and to hear Kim talk about her struggles with her. You know, her attempt at committing suicide and what Mike didn't even realize that was coming to right. I told Katie this before we started, before we started recording 52, that you know we get to talk and we forget these mics are there, right, and so many of these episodes that we go through that we just the people that we're interviewing, they just get so comfortable behind the mics and I think it's a lot to do with me, though I think I may be, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3:Oh, maybe Rob a little bit. No, it ain't me. You know they're kind of impressed that somebody so small can move like he can. That's what I think they're impressed with, and they just come out.
Speaker 1:I feel like you're jealous of his muscles.
Speaker 3:I really impressed with and they just come out. I feel like you're jealous of his muscles. I really am, bonnie.
Speaker 1:I bonnie, I really am always bring up. You're jealous, he's the hot one.
Speaker 3:I am very jealous, that comes from true wife. Right there, you got the hot wife. I know stop anyway. So that was 40, 45 and then, uh, 49 was christy and blake. Which Blake was my sponsee, my very first? Well, no, he was my number four, but he's the only one I didn't kill.
Speaker 2:Right or chase out of your house.
Speaker 3:Chase out of my house. Oh my God, blake's awesome Again.
Speaker 4:Larry is 0 to 100.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:If you're not also 0 to 100.
Speaker 3:Get the fuck out. He doesn't want to mess with you. Get the fuck out.
Speaker 2:And there are certain people and God brings me certain men that are broken enough. They're ready, right, they're ready to go the way you know.
Speaker 3:I just I move at the speed, I move at the speed of pain and we should yes, because that window of willingness closes.
Speaker 4:Okay, but let's give Blake you know a shout out because he put up with Larry.
Speaker 2:Oh no, hey that man. But you can tell Katie the level of desire for sobriety someone wants when they're ready to do that, blake wants it.
Speaker 4:He wants it like fucking breath. He was so desperate that he used Larry.
Speaker 2:All right, I'll take it.
Speaker 3:We beat the shit into him.
Speaker 4:There had to be a right fit somewhere in there, and God bless him for it.
Speaker 3:It was awesome. You know, the best thing about that one is he wanted to do the plain language, which I still have right here. Fuck that book. And you know what? Listen you fucker, you prejudiced son of a bitch. You stop it. That book has brought a lot of people to sobriety and we've talked about this.
Speaker 4:Fuck that book.
Speaker 3:You fucker.
Speaker 4:But that's about like talking about the King James Bible versus the. Niv or the NAS or something like that.
Speaker 2:The NIV-84 is not bad. The new NIV sucks, but the NIV-84 is not bad.
Speaker 3:And I've said this from the very beginning. But you're right.
Speaker 4:Whatever gets you through it.
Speaker 2:You're right, katie, but hey, if it helps people, god bless it.
Speaker 3:Step four when we were going through four and five, he started bringing his other big book. I can promise you that because he realized that the hammer right that the big book the original big book has is not the same as that. They soften it up way too much.
Speaker 2:That's the only problem I have with it Right. It's too soft. You don't need to soften it up for the alcohol. He needs to be kicked in the fucking ass, Right. I mean, pat him on the back when he needs it, lift him up when he needs it, but more times than not they need to see own their shit, Right. And that one doesn't.
Speaker 3:No, it just doesn't.
Speaker 2:It doesn't have the same purpose it sugarcoats it, it sugarcoats it way too much, just like two wives Right.
Speaker 3:Stupid chapter. Fuck Now Ryan. Hey, I thought Ryan got you past that?
Speaker 2:No, overall it's a prick chapter because the dude wrote it and he should let his wife write it, in my opinion. But there are some nuggets, and Ryan brought out another perspective, right, right, and there's a gal at the Thursday night meeting named Stephanie. She brings her daughter. She also brought it because she was a woman who had that husband and now she's in the rooms and she's been that wife, wow. So she gave me a different perspective. So there are, anyway.
Speaker 3:But it's not as bad as I thought it would. So, 50, 51, and 52, baby McKenna, miranda and then Katie and Bonnie yeah, those are the last three. So that's our year and I'm so glad that blessed right, that we got to finally have Katie and Bonnie in here, because you know, the wives behind us are amazing right, and I said it from the very beginning you two ladies allowing us to do this and take time away from you. Thank you, babe, for allowing me.
Speaker 1:It's no problem, I aim to please.
Speaker 3:Generous mother, I just but it's given of your time, it's still that admonition that you are allowing him it's giving.
Speaker 4:Are you going to allow?
Speaker 1:him to do something else If he asks, nicely.
Speaker 4:In a very vanilla way.
Speaker 1:I'll blow you a kiss, I'll wave to you out the door.
Speaker 3:Bye bitch. It's just. You know you're given of your time. The same way we give up our time, you have to give that time to allow us to go do this. And you know the rewards have been amazing, you know.
Speaker 2:And my wife above all I mean above anybody else that I've seen yet has really given me. I guess she knows, and there's times she's like can I have a day? Yeah, because God will never give you more. Yes, he fucking will.
Speaker 3:Yep, he will.
Speaker 2:It's up to us to say yes or no. It's up to us, and I have a hard time saying no, because when I reached out for help, no one told me no.
Speaker 1:And I have no problem with him working with people. I actually love it. I want everyone to have what I have. The only thing that pisses me off is when they don't take it serious. They stop showing up Okay you just took two hours. We had plans.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:But he was going to go help you because you needed that help. You didn't show up, so I just lost out on. So as long as they take it seriously and make an effort, I don't mind.
Speaker 2:Goes back to your rules. That's a rule for you. She's talking about one specific person and I, babe and uh, on last monday I brought that up.
Speaker 4:So we, you know, we talked and I brought that up to that person because normally, but you also, celebrate his sponsee successes as well I mean you don't know what's what he and Rob are talking about or any of those things, but you celebrate those sponsees or you know somebody Larry will mention. They become part of the life. You know if they become part of the family, like we drove by, the construction company right here.
Speaker 2:My first sponsee is Max.
Speaker 1:I love Max. He's the cutest little kid. He's so cute.
Speaker 2:But then he comes and he's like you know.
Speaker 1:He come and do. He carved pumpkins with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he made. It was, you know, 14 years ago, right.
Speaker 1:Christmas stockings Just becomes part of your family.
Speaker 2:Yeah it just. But you can't Number one. That's anonymity.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Number two, my rule number two what you say to me and what I say to you stays between you, me and God. It ain't my wife's fucking business. That's how I tell them King Right, and it ain't your. Us right, and I don't want your. I don't know, it's not, they don't want, but it's. It's an also level of trust. Trust for sure. I have to get that level of trust.
Speaker 3:I get to order the coins, yeah is it okay that I bring up the 13th though?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean what his my tiara? That you had the wrong year on this just recently you know what sucks is?
Speaker 1:I had it in my phone, right. I had it on the calendar, right. But for some reason, when I ordered stuff and not only that me and Emily were so excited Me and Emily are the ones that did it we were so excited. Emily came home so we could start decorating the house. And I'm like, dude, it's next month, it's not even this month. She's like like, are you sure? And I'm like, no, I wasn't, but I was informed that's next month, so then the next month comes. I gotta put it up. He's like you didn't even get the year right and I'm like does it really matter?
Speaker 2:and he's like, actually, yes you know, and then that was on my head. I had the sash instead of 13. I said what's? What's? This shows you're not going to let me take a picture. I said if it's in the right year, fuck yeah, you can take a picture. I look good.
Speaker 1:I've been in this thing lately.
Speaker 4:I like to buy in stupid shirts. You know how big you're going to have to go next year. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Just wait, just wait, I'll have you over Next year is oh, you're getting a ball gown. You're getting a big old ball gown. If it says the right shit, I'll wear it. It's going to be so sparkly. It's a big ceremony too. Have you seen us?
Speaker 4:wear that dresses. Yes, we just went to one.
Speaker 1:They're so fancy. They are so fancy You're going to look lovely, but then he has to have his friends dance with him.
Speaker 3:I'll dance with you, rob, I know I bought this prick a nice freaking coin for his birthday and he sits there and goes. I want you to give it to me at the birthday night, at primary Right, so that which was the 21st. I have this all set up where I'm going to go. So I actually give him the coin on the podcast because I wanted to give it to him, because I think it was your actual day of your birthday. We were recording.
Speaker 4:It was a great episode. You had people call in. Yeah, it was a great.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right, I didn't write that in there. That was super fun. Yeah, that was a Rob birthday one.
Speaker 2:June 1st.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:June 1.
Speaker 3:June 1st 2011,.
Speaker 2:Which means I have 14 years Another birth. See what I get from birth hey and then, I'm getting ready to go.
Speaker 4:Wait, June 1st is your non-belly birthday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, december 13th is my belly birthday.
Speaker 4:Can I point first?
Speaker 1:is your sobriety.
Speaker 3:Bonnie's coming back here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Can I point something out? Knock it out, Jen. Sorry I don't have, but I do have a belly button birthday that has been forgotten two years.
Speaker 2:October 20th. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:But the day came and gone and I didn't hear nothing from you and the kids and I tried to keep it really quiet. I was like hiding the phone calls from my mom and my aunt just because you know the throat and their faces, but I rarely forget. When the day went by.
Speaker 3:Obviously you've forgotten twice. Yes, I have. So that ain't rarely because they, Because they only come around once a year.
Speaker 1:The whole family.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:All of them. And then Logan comes in that night and he's all mom, happy birthday, and I was like thanks. I was like you remember? And he's like, well, I know you and Emma have the same birthday and they just posted happy birthday pictures for Emma on Instagram or whatever.
Speaker 2:But my mother-in-law texted me something. I was like, oh shit, and I, my mother-in-law, text me something. I was like, oh shit, and I go, okay, hold on. But in my fucking defense, why?
Speaker 3:why you gotta go there, why you go there you?
Speaker 2:own your shit, own your shit. I forgot, but there we go but? But from the first umpteenth years of our marriage. Who was the one that remembered dates?
Speaker 1:oh, I never remember dates. He always remembers dates, I never remember I forgot two out of 25 I get my kids birth dates right because you always have to give it at the doctor. I always had their birthdays down, but everyone just like a woman.
Speaker 2:She's gonna remind me of the two that I forgot but not the 23, that I fucking remembered hey, step forward, let me finish.
Speaker 3:My fucker, go ahead. You asked me to fucking give you your coin a birthday night at primary. I'm getting ready to fucking go and I go. I texted him. He's like no, I'm not going, I'm like I'll go to jiu-jitsu, jiu-jitsu. Motherfucker, I'm dressed, get ready to go to primary to give you your fucking coin.
Speaker 1:You prick I'd have showed up at the jiu-jitsu place and been like, stop, stop, I have something to do.
Speaker 3:If I hadn't already given him his actual coin, I would have no shoes on the mat so anyways, yeah, there's a. This has been fun and I'm excited to do it again. Rob has signed on for another one year contract, so you allowed it. Thank you, bonnie. I love you. Ladies love you, rob.
Speaker 4:I may allow you to buy something else for FFF Studios maybe.
Speaker 1:I may allow Rob to throw in on it.
Speaker 3:I am hoping.
Speaker 1:I forgot to allow before I love it.
Speaker 3:I'm actually. I do want to go to video, right? The video may be most of the time, just Rob and myself, right? Because a lot of times our guests most of the guests so far are perfectly fine with being on the video. I'd refuse it no, you wouldn't yes.
Speaker 1:I would. No, yes, I would.
Speaker 3:But there is a lot of Well we have pretty people on.
Speaker 2:We got to have that.
Speaker 3:We have especially me, right? I mean, I'm the prettiest one here, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2:So, but you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3:I'm going to have to comb my hair and stuff if we do go video, but the biggest thing is you ain't got none. I think the biggest thing for me why I want to go video is because you see the sincerity of people's face and their body language. I just think it's just people are missing sincerity. You fucking guy man, You're an idiot.
Speaker 2:You're an idiot.
Speaker 3:I'll leave a dumbbell right over here.
Speaker 4:You really have done some good work, though, honestly.
Speaker 3:Thank you for joining us. What was that, katie, throw that back. I'm not cutting that off.
Speaker 2:You really do some good work, sometimes despite Larry's fuck-ups, and I say, katie, thank you very much. That's very thoughtful, appreciate you.
Speaker 4:Can you tell where Larry's ADD ADHD kicks in? Because I can. Sometimes I'm like Larry. There was more to that and you just shut it down. I think he sees.
Speaker 1:When he's done, he's done.
Speaker 4:Yeah, seriously, there should be a sticky note on top of the minutes the time there, because I know that you can see that and you're like oh, we've got to shut this down.
Speaker 3:This is normally on right here. I don't know why I didn't want to connect today, but that's normally on where everybody can see it.
Speaker 2:I do the same thing sometimes. My wife's favorite sentence Right, I guess I was done talking.
Speaker 3:Oh, Katie does it to me all the time. Katie does it to me all the time and I'm working on it.
Speaker 1:I'll wait for you to finish. Did I interrupt you? I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:You know what I think with their thoughts, those ADD, adhd thoughts. They're like got to get it out because they're going to forget about it. It's going away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've moved on to the next one. It's interrupted the beginning of yours.
Speaker 3:You know what, out of respect to you, katie, you're not the only one I do it to, oh.
Speaker 2:I know I promise you yeah, but she's the last one you should do it to. No, I hear it on here.
Speaker 3:I'm like Larry, my boss is as bad as I am and if people and we get each other, but we get each other right. So he interrupts me and I interrupt him. It's fine, we just shift gears and go on to what he's talking about, because we match each other's craziness on our ADHD and if you were an outsider to listen to him and I talk, you would be fucking lost, lost.
Speaker 1:Oh, why Does he jump from one subject to the other and then go back to the first and can't figure out why? You don't know what he's talking about yep, just like I do or he'll come in there and tell me something. Huh, what are you talking? Oh, I must have been talking to someone else did I talk to you about this?
Speaker 4:I, I do. I don't have it. I had a thyroid issue, or have a thyroid issue, I should say. So that affects me on my like train of thought too. Oh yeah, and some days it's bad Even grasping your word. I'm like.
Speaker 3:I love watching Katie get locked.
Speaker 2:I don't know what your problem is.
Speaker 3:I love watching Katie get locked up because I'm like you did it.
Speaker 4:It's bad.
Speaker 2:Bonnie doesn't get locked up, she just runs into shit. That's been in our house forever.
Speaker 1:You would think we have like a huge house, right? No, walk into the hallway. I run into the same wall. It catches me in the corner in the hip every time.
Speaker 3:And we all get to see it. Katie's got a picture that hangs in the kitchen. I knock that thing off all the time.
Speaker 2:I cut the corner too fast and if Bonnie's going to throw something at you, don't duck or move, because she's a poor shot. If you duck or move, she'll hit you. Stand still, that fucker's going right by you.
Speaker 3:I think it's funny, she's throwing shit at you.
Speaker 2:Should we test that that? Can you step away a little bit?
Speaker 1:No, there was one time I did not miss.
Speaker 4:And then you get a like Go hide real quick and he just gives you that Were you stunned that you actually hit him yeah.
Speaker 2:But she aims at the face though all the time.
Speaker 4:Oh, there he goes again. Love you guys.
Speaker 3:Love you guys Love you guys.
Speaker 4:Oh there he's gone. Thank you for joining us today Did I.
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