Hello everybody. Welcome to a mindful metal jacket. My name is Joe List and I am

happy you're here, happy you're listening and or watching and I'm just very

grateful for your attendance and support.

Today's episode is a special episode.

We put together, I'm taking a little bit of a hiatus host of a highatus due to, well, a very busy schedule

and a whole bunch of, a whole host of things,

and I appreciate everybody that has reached out

to ask where the new episodes are. They are coming.

We're working on it right now. We've got a whole bunch of exciting new guests,

professionals, comedians, musicians, all kinds of good stuff coming your way.

In the meantime, in May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so we wanted to give you some good

stuff from the past show, some of if you will and today's

episode focuses on sobriety and addiction which if you're a fan of the show you

know we've talked about a lot and some of the producers here at

Laugh Button were kind enough to put together some of the best of those

conversations on those topics and it's really a great episode here it's sort of a condensed version of the

the episodes with sobriety and diction as the main focal point and some of the guests today include Ian Fy Dance, a

wonderful comedian and friend who I love Rose Bud Baker and Patrick Holbert who

were all fantastic comedians who came on the show in the past and were kind

enough and giving enough to talk about their own experience with addiction and recovery

and sobriety. And I think there's a lot there, even if you're not addiction and

recovery and sobriety and I think there's a lot there even if you're not in recovery or an addict

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