Our 4th season and the guys stumbled and fumbled their way into the New Year's End Zone into the new year in an act of sheer luck, perseverance, motivation... and a touch of class. Spoiler alert: the texting shorthand vernacular for bc is not British Columbia. It was a good show, the team were in rare form after and very long, and very trying bit of peak season podcast. Talkin' Trash runs twice a week. It's a podcast at its baseline, but we're producing crazy stuff.

We touch on relationships early on in recovery. Even though the conversations need to be had, they to be had at the correct place and time. Checked on some of our listeners by answering some e-mails on the pod, always a good time.

We played shorthanded tonight so we had a special guest fill in for Nick as he had a commitment elsewhere. Tim's dad, also named Tim, graced us with his presence on the pod. He's been through it, and Tim's put him through it. But its clear that all the struggles made everyone that much stronger for it.

Episode 20! We kept it light but addressed some serious issues in a delicate way. People first. Helping others first. Podcast, Personalities, the Numbers... all a secondary priority. We're here to help others with addiction. We offer an open forum for listeners to reach out and be a part of the show. That's what it's all about. Tim's dad made a cameo appearance and recalled what it was like to be interviewed in the last episode. Powerful.

What a great episode. We had Nick back, we checked in with our guest from last week Tina C and revisited the heart wrenching story from Tim's dad. We went long, but we had to answer important listeners in our e-mail segment. Well worth the length of the episode.

Back from a little hiatus as Mike was on a tropical beach and Tim was in the hospital eating pudding. Great guest appearance with Tommy Wilkes joining the podcast right as he's starting a true recovery journey.

Where there's a Will, there's a way. Except tonight, there was no Will, which is a tremendous loss. The other two dummy's managed to chop it up hibachi style, breaking news... Will's coming to work on Wednesday looking sharp rocking his new headset and all is well. The holiday's are coming to a close in just a few days, we hope our efforts enhanced your day in some small way. The hard truth is that many addicts will repeat the same behaviors and aren't reached in time. We have to be active participants in our recovery, however that looks. We gotta' put some work into it like, journaling, praying, 12 step-meetings/sponsor, church etc. The help is there, and it's probably closer than you think.

We celebrated Christmas Eve together by having a fun episode and looking at "The art of Losing". As we get older, we learn how to fall gracefully. The art of losing is about how we land. Whether we have a good landing or not is all about how we fall. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and when we fall are we prepared for the landing? It's all about having a good landing. Minimize the collateral damage, life is going to happen, if need be, we lean on one another when the weight is too heavy to bear. We dusted off the board games and played Christmas Recovery Jeopardy by light of our Christmas Trees and counted ourselves grateful for the moment. Merry Christmas everyone.

We kicked off our holiday shenanigans tonight as we gratefully welcomed a recored number in viewership for this show. The Canadian influence continued as we invited fellow brother in recovery, Brad the Canadian. The panel all identified with some part of his story and he had a great way of telling it. Dennis Leary made his yearly appearance. As did Tim's dad. Brad Mansfield from Wawota jumped in the trenches with the guys and told a story we all connected to on some level.

Episode 165 marked show host Tim's 900th day of recovery. We don't count the days, we make the days count. That being said, it's something that says "I'm here for real" and can change the way we look at sobriety and the difference between sobriety and recovery. Two very different things. You ask a recovering addict that's put multiple years together how they did it, all unanimously say, "One day at a time". Speaking of which, we invited our old friend and "OG" Manny Vitale back on the program. Manny has his own recovery show "My Fight Our War" and has almost a cult following which both shows share in, and share to. Different show formats but ultimately we find ourselves with recovery at the forefront of both ventures and corporately we feed off each other, sometimes without knowing it. Manny's a legend and we're grateful for his dedication and friendship.