Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.

My name is Matt Jay, and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength,

and hope recovering from addiction.

Now, we don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.

And this is episode two, and if you think you have a problem with alcohol or any type of substance, you have come to the right place.

If you're sober and you just want to hear other people talk about their sobriety, you are in the right place too.

And my guest this week is John I.

John I is my grand sponsor.

He's the guy who beats around my sponsor who needs it from quite a while.

He's one of the people I look up to because he's got a type of sobriety that I would want.

And I think that you'll want too.

And I'm looking forward to him sharing his story.

John, how are you?

Not too bad, bad matt thanks for having

me on yeah i'm glad that you're doing this how's re how's uh retirement treating you um

it's my covid and reduced test run at retirement is what i'm calling it yeah but um

for the most part, it's good.

It's interesting.

It can't be boring at times.

But I try to keep myself busy, you know, because there's an old saying around the rooms, you know, when you go upstairs and you want to get upstairs in my head, you better go with a flashlight and a shotgun because a lot of bad things go up there.

Yep.

Yeah, so I got to keep myself busy.

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