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Missing in Action
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Where I've been the last few months.
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This is no filter, no boundaries. Hey y'all. I'm gonna call this my missing in action podcast. I'm sorry that I haven't published anything in a few months. I've been working on a podcast about my baby brother. Uh Drew, I lost back in 2017, and he was like my best little friend in the world. He was 11 years younger than me. And when he was born, my sister and I thought of, you know, he was like our baby too. So he was very, very, very spoiled rotten, but he was also so loved and so talented. And I thought, well, hey, I could do a podcast about Drew because I'm still friends with a lot of his friends, and it would be great to just talk about him and rehash how talented he was and how funny and how many people loved him. So I started working on that back in January, and I tell you, it's been quite therapeutic. I lost my grandma last year and two of my oldest best friends in the world, and did not realize until I was actually doing this podcast how much I hadn't grieved. I had a new boss that started at work last year, and I hired a new employee in January that already quit in March, and it's just been like brain overload, and I have not had time to process the guilt that I felt for my brother's death. I don't know why. I feel like, you know, when I closed my bakery, that it's really when he went off the deep end. But uh he was a drug addict, and when he died in 2017, it probably been a year since I talked to him. He was homeless, uh living with a girl that he met in rehab, and I just lost all respect for him. All he was doing was stealing from everybody in her family, lying every chance he got. But, you know, his death also has helped me because now I work with several drug coalitions and really, really try to make a difference, and the addiction problem that we have going on in the United States just seems to get worse every year, some new crazy drug. But after talking with my brother's friends, which I'm gonna share with you in the next few weeks, I have really, really been able to put a lot of pieces together as to why why the hell he would ever, ever think about using heroin or sticking a needle in his arm. It just blows my mind. But this is not a bad, you know, being sad and depressed, this is really just letting you all know where I've been. I am alive, and you know, January is always crap anyway, because I hate winter, depresses the shit out of me. February is the month I I was born and my brother, but it's also the month he killed himself. So February's always tough. But just putting these interviews together with his friends and talking to them has been really amazingly therapeutic. So I hope you'll listen in the next few weeks and check out what they had to say about my sweet baby brother. He would have actually been 40 years old this year, kind of hard to believe. But anyway, it is derby week this week, so happy derby, everyone. And I hope you place the right bets and win a ton of money. I'm hoping my trifecta comes in for Oaks and Derby. Have a blessed week, be safe out there, and if you have uh have the chance to get some free Narcan, I suggest you have it with you, especially this week. You never know when you could save a life or save a dog's life. And you are listening to No Filter, no boundaries.