FF 225 - Recovering Through Crisis Town Hall Featuring X-Pac of WWE Fame

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🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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For today's show we have a very special episode. Welcome to the Recovery Through the Crisis Town Hall. John is joined by a very diverse group including professional wrestler Sean Waltman aka X-Pac, Christopher Dreisbach the addiction recovery advocate who made this all happen, a police chief, a district attorney, a doctor who is in recovery and a candidate for state rep who is in recovery. Today's panelists: Sean Waltman aka X-Pac. Sean is best know for his days in the WWE. Sean shares his recovery story and how it's transformed his life in positive ways. Christopher Dreisbach is the CEO of BluePrints for Addiction Recovery and the man who brought this panel together. He is also co-founder of Second Chance PA, which is an interdisciplinary team of addiction treatment professionals, law enforcement and government officials, advocates and citizens who are working to establish resources in favor of rehabilitation over incarceration. Police Chief Ed Cunningham. He is the Borough of Elizabethtown Police Chief and co-founder of Second Chance PA! Chief is going to talk about being proactive during these times and all the ways law enforcement attitudes are shifting towards treatment over incarceration! District Attorney of Lancaster County, PA Heather Adams! Lancaster's Law Enforcement leaders are continuing to make substance use and mental health resources accessible throughout (and beyond) the COVID crisis. Dr. Matt Walukonis is the Owner and Managing Director of A New Life Sober Living. He is in long term recovery. Dr. Matt will speak to the challenges posed by social distancing in the addiction and mental health recovery communities. John Padora is a powerhouse individual in long term recovery and is also running for state representative in his home district on a platform of battling the addiction crisis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.
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0:30.1	Hey, hey, everybody.
0:31.7	Before we start today's show, I want to take a real quick minute to tell you all about another great libertarian podcast.
0:40.0	I know you guys think that Lines of Liberty is the only libertarian podcast out there, and we are
0:44.5	great. I mean, it's awesome. What we do hear at Lines of Liberty. But there's other good ones too.
0:49.5	In fact, there's a great one called Good Morning Liberty. It's hosted by our friends, Nate and Charlie, and myself and
0:56.9	Brian, we were on the show a couple weeks ago, and Mark was on after that separately. I highly
1:02.7	recommend going back and checking out those episodes. But also with Good Morning Liberty,
1:08.5	what they do with the host, Nate and Charlie are trying to do is they've taken on the onus of trying to change people's minds of how people view libertarians.
1:19.4	And they're doing this by leading with a message of compassion first.
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1:59.1	So if you need that daily hit of Liberty, please check out Nate and Charlie over at Good Morning Liberty.
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