Meet the CEO of The Healthier Choice Recovery™, Nick Morgan!

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But besides us, today we have a man behind he's

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doing the Lord's work.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Honestly. I mean, you're gonna hear me bust his balls.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Because I like him already and we've met and I
feel like we're brothers from another mother. I feel like
big brother already to him. But bottom line, he's really
doing the Lord's work out there, you guys.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
He runs a.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Treatment center and he's on a mission to support individuals
in their journey towards recovery by offering personalized treatment plans
that are sensitive to the various factors impacting their lives.
And bottom line, folks, you can smoke weed there. Okay,
let's just let me just jump to the punch line,
which I love the best. I mean, I love this
guy and it's like one of those will get to
everything else that you can do and you can't do

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and all the other stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
But join us in studio is Nick Morgan. Nick Morgan
is you, guys.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is the CEO of the Healthier Choice Recovery, which is
a mental health and substance abuse treatment that prioritizes a
non judgment and evidence based approach, assuring that each patient
receives the tools, resources, and support necessary to make informed

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decisions about their well being.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
And by talking to them.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm going to tell you, guys right now, that's why
he's on because I talked to him and really, you know,
dived into what he's doing and what he's done and
who he is and the dude's legit. And I think
that's one thing about Cannabis Talk one on one that
I love about us is that, you know, we like
to vet out everybody that comes on. And this guy's company,
this guy's gig is legit and what he's doing and

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what he's about. And you're gonna find all this out
and more as we talk to him. Because I already
have an instant love for Nick. And if you are
a loved one needs their help. Well, they're here to
help you guys today, and I want you to pick
up the phone and dial area code eight one eight
five three eight three zero six zero or visit the
website the Healthier Choice Recovery dot com. That's the Healthier

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Choice Recovery dot com. And uh, without further ado, you guys,
please put your hands together.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
For my friend, who I like to call my friend
because he's such a good looking young man. Nick Morgan
is in the building, folks.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
He's good.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
It take me somewich.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Nick, It's great to have you here. I don't know
if you realize I'm standing right now.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Because I'm a lot of pain. I'm a little late
for this interview, and I apologize.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
And the reason why I was late is because I
was working out at the gym. Dude, this is going
to be a crazy quick story. But we're gonna just
move on once.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'm ready. I'm ready for it.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
When I say crazy, dog, this is crazy. I'm in
the gym. I have this workout that I am One
part of my workout, I'll like to do a hundred shitups.
But I for the first time I did these hundred
shitups in the sauna. The ins sauna. The wood grooves
are this way long ways. You know, I just did
a hundred squads and did a hundred lunges. I'm doing
a hundred ships. I put my feet down and I'm

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laying all the way back. I came all the way
up and I did punches. So I'm like doing it
so deep that it's the first time. The first time
you said you crunches.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
When I went Nick's coming in today, I've got stepping
my game.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Up, right, I'm doing full on situps.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
This was like the other day because I was like,
I know he's coming in, So I knew Nick was
coming in and he's gonna give me a run for
my money around here on the look you lose. So okay,
maybe not that far, but the reo was I was
doing the sit ups, right.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I did a hundred of them.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
After I do these sit ups, my ass is like
just killing me and I'm wondering what's wrong with my ass?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Look what happened dog to my butt? This is what happened.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It burned my whole inside of the top my ass,
And this is what I'm dealing.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
With right now. Man, I'm sorry. That makes sense while
you're standing. So he said you worked your ass on fire,
worked your ass off.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
What you said, you worked your I literally were like
a lot of pain, so you know, and I'm not
a friend to share for my son took that picture,
so you know.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
You literally worked your ass off.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh man, I'm trying to trying to find some pieces
freedom around here.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
So you got me beat, bro for sure.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
If you see me moving and squirming, it has nothing
to do with you.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Okay, get to know, but damn, this is what I'm.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Sitting on right now and dealing with dog. So you
came in and that we're a whole lot closer as
you just see. My that's a live closer and everybody
else who just seen that. I'm sorry, but you know
I'm an open book. I live my life for you
guys and say see what I mean. And that's just
part of my recovery because I've been sober twenty five

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plus years. I don't care if you want to judge
me for anything, right, you know what I mean. And
it's kind of like going hand in hand on what
you're doing and what you do at your spot and
in me opening up like this is a judgment to
my character of well, because of who I am, I'm.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
Free of judgment. Absolutely, I don't really care. That's how
we are, man, It's come as you are, you know
what I mean. We're gonna love you until you can
love yourself, and that's that you show us your ass.
We're still gonna love you, bro.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well enough for the ass, Like I said, we can
move on from that.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
But Nick, how did you get involved in this beautiful
recovery center?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I know the story, but the listeners don't.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
So as far as you know, how I got involved
in the recovery industry. I myself am clean eight about
eight and a half years. I'll I'll have nine years
in June, you know, clean from heroin and alcohol and
massive you know, I went through about five rehab centers myself.
You know, I was homeless in the streets of South Florida,

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sleeping under a bridge with a needle in my arm.
And you know, after going through five rehab centers myself,
I really found a passion in, you know, helping other
people do the same. And that's really you know what
I ended up doing, man, And I got involved in
the industry. You know, at a young age, I got
I got clean at twenty two years old. You know,

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I'm thirty now, and you know, I started as a
behavioral health technician and kind of worked my way up
as a housing director, and then I started doing outreach
and you know, traveled the whole country and spoken schools
and prisons and jails and churches and really just sharing
my story and being in the trenches with the people
that were struggling, and I just I really found a

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passion in that. That's really how I got involved in
the industry. And you know, I've kind of been on
both sides. You know, I've been on the side of
being the drug addict and someone struggling with mental health.
And again, I think that's both one and the same
as far as addiction and mental health goes. And I
really I love it, man, I wouldn't do anything else.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
And not only that from your own personal stories of
you dealing with addiction and as myself and doing that,
but you've also lost quite a few people I have.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
I have, man, and you know, I've lost the closest
people to me. What really inspired me to get clean
in the first place. I lost my best friend in
twenty fourteen from a heroin overdose. And you know, before
I got clean, I got a lot worse, you know,
because I didn't know how to handle handle that loss.
And you know, ended up getting clean. And you know,

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he really inspired me to get clean. And you know,
I shared his story as I traveled the country and spoken.
You know, actually when I had about three and a
half years clean myself, you know, I finally after years
of begging my brother.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
To get clean.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
You know, he came down to Florida and I had
got him into a treatment center and you know, got
him clean and uh, you know, he had about six
months sober man and you know, I I like to
put it this way, man is you know, you never know,
you know, tomorrow's never promised. And you know, me and
him had gotten like to like an argument on like

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it was like a Thursday. I was out speaking at
a conference out of out of town, and you know
we're just going back and forth and text messages like brothers, dude,
just arguing and name calling. And you know that that Saturday,
I just didn't like how the conversation left off, you know,
and you know I texted him and I just said
I love you, bro, and he said I love you too.

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And then that Sunday, you know, I came home and
I found him, you know, passed away from a fat
andyl overdose. And uh, you know, unfortunately I was the
one to find him and try to revive him, but
it was too late. Man, he wanted to use one
more time. I don't know what was going on inside
of him, and you know, he seemed like everything was okay.
And that that really, uh, it sparked something to me,

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you know, after losing my own brother. You know, I
spent years traveling and helping everybody else's kids and family members,
only to you know, come home and find my own
brother passed away. And you know, I could have gone
two directions in that in that moment, you know, I
could have dismantled my life and fell into that that depression,
which again I did fall into a pretty deep depression,

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you know, early on. And you know, and when I
finally came out of that, Man, because of the community
I had around me and the people that I had,
you know, in recovery and people supporting me and pushing
me to continue to help, you know, it sparked a
fire in me, man to just do something different, you know,
And that's really where this whole, cut and dry, you know,

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way of recovery, right that everybody thinks that there's only
one way it gets over, right, there's only one way
to to really find recovery. And I didn't believe that anymore,
you know, because I had seen people like myself that
tried the same process over and over and over and
over again and it not worked, you know, and then

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seeing people in the rooms of alcoholics anonymous and no
disrespect alcoholics anonymous.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
You know, I think the twelve steps are great.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
I think that's an amazing community that works for a
lot of people, but it's not the only way. And
after my brother passed away, I really opened my mind
to other routes of recovery because he tried that numerous times,
over and over and over again, and unfortunately, you know,
he passed away. And there's actually only a seven percent
success rate whenever it comes to abstinence based treatment, you know,

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there's only seven percent of people that actually make it.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
That's an interesting yeah, because they're tracking that now. Yeah,
so they people that are taking medage or explain that
a little.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
More abstinence based that means no mood changing or mind
altering substance that means alcoholics anonymous.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I'll just say, okay, so everybody, there's a seven percent
to go full the absent it's everything all alcoholic.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, seven percent of people that make.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
It seven percent, which is a very very low number,
you know, And I think that, you know, I think.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
About it all the time, as you say that it's
crazy to really think that it is. And there's actually
things for other people out there, and you guys have
an avenue for others.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah, And that's that's really what inspired me to to
really for myself, right, you know, after my brother passed away,
can just played a big part in me being able
to get through that, you know what I mean. It
wasn't something I was going to be able to just
go pray away like they would say in the rooms,
just pray about it, you know what I mean. Like
that my mental health and the state that I was

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in and what I had experienced, praying it away was
just not really an option, you know. So you know,
I did take the route of cannabis and saw that
it could be a safe and effective recovery tool as
long as I did the things that I did in
the first place, right, which was community, mentorship and more
of surrounding yourself with the right people and not around

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the people that are telling you what you're doing is wrong.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right. So, if I was to.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
Walk into an AA meeting today and raise my hand
and say, hey, my name is Nick Morgan. I'm a
person in recovery and I use cannabis, everyone, would you
know what I mean? They turned around and be like,
you can't be here. You're not sober. You're not sober,
you're not in recovery. Or you could choose not to
say that. You could just say I'm sober. Yeah, yeah,
you can't, you can't. But I'm just saying like, that's

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that's really the look that you get.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Right.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Oh if you said that at an.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
You know, yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (15:13):
Didn't hold on Yeah yeah, did you just say some
old time because my ass I would say right here, yeah,
so this is two for one.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah man, yeah exactly exactly. You can't say that here exactly,
but this is a story batter, and if you can't
talk about you know, the other things.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, yeah, like whatever group this group back, they just
get crazy, yeah they do.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Man.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
And it's the same guy, right, The same guy that
would say something like that, is the same guy that's
been going to the same meeting for twenty five years,
sitting in the same seat, that smokes three packs of
cigarettes a day, probably drinks fifteen cups of coffee, might
even take a little sarahquo to go to sleep at
night and take some other non narcotic pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Right, that's okay for.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Our daily something for anxiety as well.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Throwing there yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. So
there's there's it's the same guy that's saying things like that.
But god forbid, there's a kid that comes in, right,
that's a productive member of society, that has a job, family,
relationships are healed, he's happy, he's learning that inner piece
and he's being, like again, a productive member of society.
But he uses cannabis. You're gonna tell that guy like, whoa, whoa,

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you're not sober. You're gonna smoke crack this weekend, you
know what I mean? One would say complete abstinence, and
you know what. To those who want that to do that,
I'm okay with and I applaud you love it, and
I think it's great. To those who say I am
sober from drugs and alcohol, but I use cannabis, as

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medicine to help me with my call it what you want, anxiety, headaches,
pay relief.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Whatever it is. Yeah, choose it if you're going to
choose it.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
And to me, I hate to say this, Nick, but
to me, when somebody says why they're using it, to me,
it's a stupid like I feel like it's so much
of a more of an educated cooler.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I just look at you like, oh, that's dope, Like,
oh why do you use it? You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh oh yeah, man, I use it to eat or
I use it to blah blah blah, Like oh that's
I just find it cool. Yeah, yeah, you realize why
you're using it, right, Yeah, well the fuck it makes
me happier.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Who whatever? Right.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
But when somebody has like an element and they're using
it for that element, that's like that extra level of like, no,
this is real medicine.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
No for sure, and it's it's also a harm reduction standpoint. Right.
So let's just say like.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
I would much rather see a kid, right, And again,
I work with a lot of kids that my demographic
typically is, you know, people from eighteen to twenty six.
You know, we have obviously people that are older than that.
But if you feel like that you're about to go
shoot heroin or smoke crack or do something that's going
to be detrimental to your life, and you go smoke
a joint, you don't want to shoot.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Crack and you don't want to go do heroin anymore,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
I totally agree with that, and I think that you know,
even these days, if people are familiar with suboxin maintenance,
you know what I mean, which is really really for
opioid users, right, and what it does is it triggers
the opioid receptor, so you're high, but you're not going
to die, so right. It's a harm reduction standpoint, kind
of the same thing as methadone and things like that,

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which are pharmaceuticals which are ran by a big farmer,
which you know as a whole other subject, you know
what I mean. But that's even looked at, okay as
far as you know, a rout of recovery these days
and a harm reduction standpoint, But cannabis kind of still
has this stigma against it. And what we've done, you know,
at the healthier choice recovery thag recovery is we don't

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discriminate against medical marijuana patients. Right, We're not going to
tell you that what you're doing is wrong. And we
actually even educate, you know what I mean. We actually
even do plant education so that they do understand you know,
the plant and the pros and the cons and what
works and what products at what times. We have regulations
when it comes to you know, we have Patrick's Purpose
Sober Living, which is where you know, most of the

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guys stay at the Sober Living and there's regulations around
you know, what products at what times and what space
you are in the program, you know what I mean.
So there's it's not a hey, come here and get
high all day and do nothing with your life, because
that's not what we're That's not what we're on is.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
There's just certain times that you can smoke.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
Right, there are there are certain times that you're able
to use flour. There's certain times that you're able to
use you know, a concentrate. And we've kind of just
seen my liquid.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
If I have a little shot one in the daytime
and take ten milligrams.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And I'm actually more of a fan
of that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
That's what I've been finding the best for me. Yeah,
I use a liquid ten milligrams and then before I
go to the gym.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now I'm enhanced. I did it, and I got an aspect.

Speaker 8 (19:57):
Well you get it, you know what I mean. Like, Yeah,
I'm telling you, man, I really did that before that.
And that's what's crazy. I bet that made me not
think so much about it.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, no, bro, Bro, you went so hard you got
to ask for and like, dude, there's no much more.
You don't need any more evidence of going hard, bro, bro.
And that's why I believe, man, Like, that's why that's
why I love Joe.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
Bro.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
This guy goes hard, man, and it's it's it's very inspiring, man.
And the fact that you're sober on top of that,
and you got the energy, man, and you're you know,
like you bring that that that light.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Man, you got a light about you. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
And I mean even just cannabis for you in a
medicinal way, right, is something that's productive. And uh, I
just truly I truly respect that. And I think that's
why we kicked off so so good man. Whenever we
met each other. Man, it's because we're like minded and
it's I think people have the stigma of people that
use cannabis and they're like, oh, yeah, they're just lazy.
They don't do ship Joe's using cannabis and going doing

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one hundred sit ups and getting the hash burn.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Bro Like, come on, like let's go.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
You know, like this why you even use the cannabis
in the first place, Because I have a fucking cut
up my right big toe.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
So my right big toe is injured. Even cars like,
what's going on with your right ankle? You're limping.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm like, it's not my right ankle that I just
had surgery on a year and a half. You think
I'm limping over. It's the cut on my right big toe.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
And now I got that and the ass I'm fucking
looking mess right now, dude. But you're still here and
you're still getting this brok some this morning. But here's
the deal. I didn't take any advioles, I ain't taking
any other.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Painfills a day exactly. I'm just using ten milligrams. I'll
probably do another ten later.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, you're staying away from big farming man.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
And the funny thing is is I'm now opening up
to my closer AA community as you'll understand this. I
can say this to you and you'll understand this. And
because I'm doing my program, I have twenty five plus
years twenty four when I first started using a cannabis product.
But I haven't smoked the joints because I go and

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then what and then But I'll do a pin.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
If I'm in pain, if I need medicine, I will
get me some medicine.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'm looking not in pain and I'm not hurting. I'm fine,
I'm smoking the gar I'm good. I'm just hanging out exactly.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, I mean, but if I need some medicine, but
you know, that's for that.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
But on a daily I'm using that's for THAC.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
On a daily I'm using the CBDs period, no matter
what I mean in the CBB in the morning, CBN
at night, and you know, I mean, so I'm using those.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm using different creams and rubs.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
But it's like funny, how now because of the program
and a lot of guys and I go to meetings
and I've called me on the side and just recently
had a conversation with another brother, as you would really understand,
and I broke down my scenario to him, I go, Dude,
when I'm in pain now because I was in so
much pain before, I'm eliminating my four advils that I'm

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popping and I'm using cannabis.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Yes, And there's no argument around that, you know what
I mean. They could come up with one, but it's
like you're using with intent, brother, you know what I mean.
And that's what we really try to push and educate on,
is like why are you using it?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (23:18):
And honestly, even in the beginning with some of the
guys that are coming straight out of a detox residential
program that we're just shooting fetanol. And I've seen guys
that have literally been to thirty plus rehab centers come
to our center and come to just our program in general, right.
And it's not just the Healthier Choice Recovery, which is
the outpatient center, but we have a whole community called

(23:39):
Go Green, Stay Clean, Right, and we have a meeting
every Thursday night at seven thirty, and it's just like
an AA meeting, you know what I mean. We have
a speaker, we have steps now that we've created, and
we've got our own community man, and it's Go Green stay.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Clean because at the end of the day of that,
we can't do.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
It alone, you know what I mean. And I can
only speak for myself. I'm sure you can say the
same thing, right and you're still involved in in AA.
Is the fact that like we can't do it alone,
like you need community. And I think a lot of
people when they start to take these different routes and.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
If as being one of them, is they step away
from the community.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
You know what I mean, They step away and they
feel like they need to hide and they can't talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And you know what that'll get you fucked up?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Excuse my coach, Well, if it chooses too it could
it could be something that you're hiding running from. And
now I'm to the point where, like you know, I
don't care about anybody's.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Program top minute exactly.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
About somebody else's expectation should never back.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
We cope. I'm not going crazy. It's Cannabi's Talking one
on one. We're going to come back. Nick's got the
hell tore Choice Discovering Center, walk me through it, I
call it, and I go online.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
We're going to do that.

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Speaker 3 (25:17):
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I can give them a call at eight twenty.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Eight five three eight two three.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Zero six zero and Nick walk me through what happens
if I decide to take my drinking problems, heroin problems,
mocks A silent problems, Vicodin problems, pick the problems to.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Your recovery center and sex addiction. When I'm to them,
we do we do do mental health as well any addiction.
How do I get in order the requirements to walk
me through a poose?

Speaker 6 (25:57):
So typically whenever somebody reaches out and they call all
you know ninety percent of the time and someone that's
struggling within that moment, you know, we are a phb
IOP program, so it's partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and then
we have obviously a separate entity which is Patrick's purpose
sober living that you know, I'm named after, you know,
my brother that passed away. But when somebody calls in,

(26:20):
typically they need to be detoxed, you know, just depending
on the substance that they're coming off of, heroin, you know,
benzo diazepams, you know, alcohol, This can be a lot
of you know, rough things to to really come off of.
So what we'll do is we have a couple of
detoxes that we like to work with that we refer to.
So they go through a seven to ten day detox,

(26:42):
typically do another four days of stabilization once they're cleared
at that level of care, you know, that's whenever they
come over to us, you know, and we put them
in our housing entity, and then you know, they come
into the outpatient you know, as far as the outpatient goes,
we do group therapy. Again, I think a lot of
treatment centers traditionally do a lot of just you know,

(27:03):
relapse prevention and you know, like a lot of just
you know, white walls and type of you know, treatment center.
But We're not like that. You know, We've got a
cool treatment center. We've got a lot of art going on.
We do music therapy. We have a recording studio actually
in the treatment center. So music is a big thing
for us. We tend to attract a lot of artists

(27:25):
as well. You know, I've had the pleasure of, you know,
helping some artists in the past, like Little Zen help
DMX before you passed away, Rest in Peace, And I've
always really had like that music vibe as well. So
we have an engineer that comes in twice a week
and we do music therapy, and we encourage the guys
to write and you know, jump on tracks and you know,

(27:45):
guys that wouldn't even typically you know, jump on a track,
We got them jumping on the track.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
It's fun to just recover and get into something.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's cool, man. And music is very therapeutic.
We do a lot of sound bats, which I don't
know if you're familiar with what a sound bath is.
More so a sound bath is typically you know, we
have a lady that comes in and she has a
lot of you know, sound bowls or they all relax.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
We have a bunch of bean bags and she'll do
sound bowls and a rain.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Stick and she has a tuning stick and you know,
align your chakras and vary zen you know, almost like
a meditation, which which we do that actually three times
a week, which is very good for calming people, you
know what I mean, because I think that's a big issue,
you know, is learning how to calm yourself and being present.

(28:33):
And we do yoga, We do do some We have
a licensed marriage and family counselor that does cognitive behavioral therapy.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
We do a lot of like gratitude meetings, and then
we do one on one therapy as well. So we
do family sessions. You know, the guests themselves and I
like to I don't like to call them clients. I
like to call them guests. They get to do family therapy,
they do their one on one sessions with their therapists.
We have a psychiatry that they see. We have a
medical doctor that they see because obviously some people do

(29:05):
need medications, you know what I mean. So we do
do medication management, but we really stare away from you
know a lot of the hardcore medications and like psych meds,
which again not against it. I think a lot of
people are in need of it. So we do do
medication management and that's something big as well, but I
think it's really more of our you know, our community

(29:28):
and our vibe and just the energy that we have
that is just completely different than any other treatment center.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
How do you deal with a patient friend client that
comes in there and thinks that they have a cannabis problem.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
Well, to be completely honest with you, man, I think
that if it was somebody that thought that they had
an issue with cannabis, we might not be the best
treatment center for that person, you know what I mean,
Because again, we do look at it as a safe
and effective recovery and whenever it comes to the Gold
Green Stay Clean community, you know, we look at that

(30:06):
as something that is productive. And you know, somebody that
has a cannabis problem, I would probably refer them to
more of an abstinence.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Based AA whatever.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah, your traditional program might work for them, you
know what I mean. But you know what's crazy is
like these days is you'll have a mom that since
their eighteen year old son that is smoking weed, to
a rehab center, to detox residential.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
And now they're in do and now you know what
I'm saying. They throw them in there.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Heard that, you know, because we're in recovery, like we
hear those stories over and over and you've seen them
excel so bad to where I fully agree Nick with
what you're doing in the concept of I'm not the
guy that got sober. And let's just face it, I
went through the program and I'm even the guy that
doesn't like to even say those letters out loud of
what I did because I respect the core principles of it, right,

(30:59):
So I don't say it to say I'm sober.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I mean, how do you do it? You could talk
to me after, but you know, look at my key chain.
You're gonna figure it out.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, you don't even need to say the words. There's
two words that I don't need to say. I go
to because I don't need to say it. But I mean,
we all know what it is, and I'm cool with
it either way. And I smoke on Panels on it
because I was on the radio. You know, it's crazy,
Like I think about it. When when I got sober,
it was a Thursday, because I went to this meeting.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
It was a Thursday, for sure.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Then Friday I'm on the air, meaning I'm talking to
millions of people every day.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, every day.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
I talk to millions of people in San Francisco, did
the morning show every day.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
I'm talking to a million of people. I'm partying, I'm loading,
I'm smoking.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
What are you doing that? Every night of drink every
night and part of my stick, Yeah, you tell your stories.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
On Friday, i quit and it was like, huh so
there's no anonymity.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no what are you doing? You know,
where'd you go? What are you doing? Monday?

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Was always the story from the weekend the week So
what happened is I went to a men's stag media.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I've been to those.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Doing a razer that was, you know, in the fricking hills, blah.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Blah blah, tell fire the morning, you mean, what did
you do next? I went to a convention. I know this
shit all do well.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
It's like I went from living this crazy life to
that life, and it's like there's no secrets about it
for me, like everybody had to live.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
My life through it because it was such a fun, big,
crazy time. And I just share that story recently and
I just wanted to share what the listeners to going
it's just funny. So if you're going through something, folks,
you know you can do it.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
And I really truly believe to the moral of my
story here, there's more than one way, absolutely, just because
this is the way I used to do it, and
this is and I'm four canvas.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I just expect and earlier how I use it, right,
you know what I mean. And if you're hard hard,
you're not gonna do what I.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Just said you do Nope, nope.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
And that's why I come clean on it going to
I'm out open now and I'm not on the green
closet about how I do it.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
What I do it. I'll explain it because I believe
it wholeheartedly.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And I think that's just a big
part of like being able to be pure, just like
in your life, right, like when you get clean, when
you get sober, it's like you're not supposed to hide anymore, man,
you know what I mean, You're not supposed to have
to duck in the.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
California Clean comment about it, it's like it's become cannabis California Clean.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, yeah, you know what.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
It's kind of funny and it makes me think of
the whole TV show and everything else, And I'm like,
you know what, I can see it, I get it,
but everybody needs to understand it's I was going through
a lot of anxiety when I was twenty three twenty
four years sober, and I remember getting on and was

(33:58):
taking an anxiety kill and I'm still doing it. When
what if I stepped up my THC level and I'm
actually speaking to my doctor on it next week, going
I really want to look at taking off this pill
that I'm taking daily, which at the time I felt
like I needed, but now I'm feeling like, eh, but

(34:18):
I got a little more control of my reactions with
my emotions at home. Now I'm a little calmer now.
But my point is when people can use cannabis for that,
but it's okay for some doctor to prescribe any fucking Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
No, I was.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
I was on an SSRI for you know SSR as
an antidepressants, you know, anti anxiety medications. I was on
one for since my best friend passed away in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
I was on it for probably eight years. You know
what I mean? Do you have best friend and brother? Yeah? Yeah, jeez, yeah,
and that's that's just the yeah, yeah, the best friend.
So he.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Was supposed to come to my house that night, and
I was like sleeping in his grandmother's basement at the
time because this is like my best friend that like
we just function it up together.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Bro, we did.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
We just absolutely if I had a terrible idea, he
was like, yes, let's do you know, yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
You know what I mean, like ideas come up in
you know.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
And uh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
And at the time I was more exactly that was
my guy.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
That was my guy man since diapers, you know, and uh,
he was just always down to do that and he
uh you know, at the time, I was trying to
actually do better, you know, and I wasn't into them.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Do better for you, not Heroin on Tuesday, yeah, like
just for you, because I what was better for me,
what was better for you?

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Better for me was like I'm just gonna drink some
drink some booze and like not go like do dope
and uh.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Cocaine crank or crystal, Like what's dope? Dope to me?
Then was like massive amounts of cocaine. You know.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
I was popping a lot of benzos, you know, xanax
things like that popping some like viking In and percocets
at the time, and uh, I wasn't necessarily heroin.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so it eventually got there. Oh yeah, yeah,
it eventually got there. So what did you guys do
some heroin? Man? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, yeah, dude, he was.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
He was definitely on that, you know what I mean.
And I hadn't like made it there yet. And that's
like the insanity right of like drug addiction is. Like,
you know, when he passed away, you know, I was
actually at his grandparents' house, just like grabbing some of
my clothes out of the basement, and a police officer
came to the door and uh, you know, asked if
if he lived there, and we said yeah, and he

(36:45):
said he had passed away from a heroin overdose.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
And I was there with this whole family whenever we
got the news.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
And it was just it was bad man, And like
I had never used heroin until after he passed away.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Great idea, you know what I mean. That's when the
greatest ideas come right, and.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
Only people like me and you understand that, you know
what I mean, Like, oh, your best friend just passed
away from.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Her Yeah yeah, yeah, like that's how he did it is.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, So if you're thinking, how can we talk about
it so easily because we've recovered god willingly from it,
knowing that we can go back there any second of
the day like that, you know what I mean? Thought
processes are so fucking crazy. He's such an idiot, and
he's looking at me going, he's such an idiot. We
are just faking being fucking two, you know, responsible men,

(37:37):
because lord.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Knows, if we're one bump away from fucking losing it
all straight up man, and they can go quick. You know, it's.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Nutty how much you think about what goes on in
a situation like that.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Nick, don't even worry about it. But when I look
at how so many people can get judged by it.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
And we were listening to this show too, I'm sure
smoking this and that, But the community out there are
people who get sober like I'm happy that those places
like yours. And I didn't know that you had a
part of this, but a guy that I grew up
in the business with, Steve Lobel, Yeah, the mentor of yours.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm assuming, yes, partner of yours. We're to take a break.
We're gonna come back. How did you meet Steve LaBelle?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
If people out there have heard the name, I mean
he's been in the entertainment game forever and it's a year.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Old friend of mine and I love him to death.
We're going to hear the story because it's random that
a guy.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
From Chicago, if I'm not mistaken, Illinois, right me?

Speaker 2 (38:40):
My illinor man? Where you from Southern Illinois? Old Sunday Illinois? Yeah?
Not so a boy from Illinois. It's a big wig
like Steve Lobail. How the hell does that happen? And
look at this big old Egyptian Canada talk what I want.
We'll be right back after this break. Make sure you
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Speaker 3 (40:36):
Nick Morgan, we're closer than probably we realize. As during
the break, you're really zooming in on my picture on
your phone and I don't know if I was offended or.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
I felt honored. Either way.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
You asked me if I can get you a scratch
and sniff photo, and I can't. I'm gonna look into it,
but unbelievable. It's kind of that you asked.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
I really wanted it. There's nothing to do with.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
The recovery center. But Nick, I want to ask you this.
I don't know if you have any cream on you,
but no, no, if you have any stories because walking
in any brother diyan and only I can talk to you, Soji,
I don't know if only I can, but I mean

(41:24):
maybe anybody else can. But I feel close enough to
talk so demented and just crazy to you because we can.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
We come from that block of walk.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
But I would imagine that's probably the craziest of like
moments because I'm thinking going you got to.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Have the ones that you lived through.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
That were just nutty, and that's where I want you
to take me, probably because the brother just is Oh,
there's nothing worse that's more therapeutical and more help that
you need than that.

Speaker 6 (41:58):
I mean, you know what I mean, like like that's
just yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
But what else? Though?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Here we go, let's go to like do you remember
when you partied so hard it was eight hits? Then
then the period of that and then then we were
at this rave where we were at this Give me
a good one, Yeah, a fun one that's not so crazy,
but one of those ones that's orderline braggadociaus.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I mean, I got fun, raggeddocis I can make a party.
So I'll tell you some story, you know what I mean.
I definitely doing lines o case here JoJo's private jet
and then we came here and there. But you know,
give me a good one before we get in. And
maybe you're.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Braggadocious because you got in the back of the sticks
out there, isn't braggadocious because what I want to get
to is, hell the hell there's a guy who doesn't
come from a braggadocia's background.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I can't braggadocis background party me and the guy like
Steve Lobell. Yeah, that's what I was getting to. Behind
that whole little hoop.

Speaker 6 (42:55):
Yeah, I mean, man, I got stories for days from again.
I'm from southern Illinois. Man, I'm from you know, not
a not a big area.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
You know.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
I was adopted, you know, as a kid. So you know,
I realized that, you know, I came from a pretty
good family. So like I can't say that, like.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
You do you know anybody else had in your family?

Speaker 6 (43:15):
Yeah, it was actually an open adoption, so like I
had contact with them.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
They actually all live in England.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
And my biological vessel as I call her, she vessel
because she's the.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Farthest thing from a mother, but whole another story, man,
another interesting Uh.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
I hope you're working on that. Yeah, no, no, for sure, man.
I mean there's certain relationships in your life that are
productive and certain ones that aren't. I was adopted. My mother,
my adopted mom is my mom. She's my rock, she's
my best friend. I she she's the best man. And
she's one that never gave up on me through my
drug addiction. But yeah, like like I said, I come

(43:56):
from a small area. You know, I had had numerous seizures.
Man ended up in the hospital probably twenty plus times,
you know, from drug addiction, and ended up in the
psych word and all all types of stuff like that
man had had seizures at music festivals from doing too
much fucking.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Acid molly, and yeah you was that guy. Yeah, yeah,
one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Guy that's fucking doing too much over.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Them yea, yeah, no, for sure. It was like, yeah,
somebody off, he's.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
Got to six back because you've been doing gym.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
For a way.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Yeah no, back then, Back then, I was like one
thirty five, probably soaking wet man, you know what I mean,
I see yeah, yeah, no, for sure.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I mean I was just a big heavy Yeah, I
see the pictures. I see the picture to make sure
double kicking it with biggie. You know, I'm like, I
have to eat food if I want to party harder.
I can't collapse. And I'm like I'm gating.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Yeah right, I've had long benders, man, for sure. Just
you know, they got it got clean man, after like
I said, five rehabs in and got involved in the
industry and started using cannabis in my recovery and was
really like, get.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Over here, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
I started using started using cannabis in my recovery, and uh,
you know, I I kind of had to hide it.
There for a little bit, you know, and I kept
like kind of like praying to this like higher power, right,
whatever you want to call yours. And I think everybody
has their different ones, but just kind of looking for
a direction on like, Okay, what's next? Because all this

(45:31):
time before I could be pure, I could speak openly,
I could be who I was, And I got aligned
with a friend of a friend aligned me with a
gentleman that I had been in the treatment industry for
a very very long time, like thirteen years and had
centers all around the country, and you know, I kept
thinking to myself like that, what if there was a

(45:53):
rehab center that didn't discriminate against cannabis? Right, Like what
if there was a place And again, mind you, this
is five years ago, what if there was a place
that we'd be able to allow people to use cannabis?

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Right?

Speaker 6 (46:07):
Because this is productive and I see it working for
myself and other people that didn't want to talk about it.
But I met and a friend of a friend introduced
me to a man named Frank Said, and Frank was
best friends with Steve Lobell. They grew up together and
Steve was managing Scott Storch at the time, and they

(46:30):
kind of had this same idea, right Like he said,
you know, I'm thinking about opening this this rehab center
out in California, and you know, my friend Steve Lobell
and you know, Scott Storch is going to be involved
in I'm like, okay, cool, Like this sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
I need to get out of Florida and my brother
just passed away.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
I just found my brother dead and I needed some change,
you know, And you know, I shipped my life out
to California and Steve. I didn't know anybody when I
came out to LA, and you know, Steve kind of
took me under his wing and really looked out for me.
It was just like in the middle of COVID and
you know, I was going out to Steve's house and

(47:10):
you know, we're eating food and just chopping it up
and like getting ready to open this treatment center. And
next thing, you know, we we we just became like
really good friends before anything, you know. And uh, I
really learned a lot from him and the way that
he moved and the way that you know, Frank moved
as well, which was his best friend. And uh, you know,

(47:31):
I started running around in LA and I'm going to
these events and and again, mind you, I'm a kid
from selling Illinois, man like I'm from the fucking sticks,
you know, And.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
I have no idea who these guys are.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah, I mean, he's the biggest, big time, big time man.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
And anywhere that we went, you know what I'm saying,
it's everybody moves out the way.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
You know.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
We don't stand in lines like you know I'm going.
We're going in the artists entry into any any show.
I mean, some of my favorite artists I'm on stage
with and you know, in front of twenty plus thousand
people and going places and meeting people and.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Boy, because your boy was his boy, Yeah, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
But but Steve more than anything, Like she's a great dude,
very humble man that that really taught me a lot
and and really kind of like protected me in the
sense out in LA and a lot of the fake
shift going on, you know what I mean. And and
uh introduced me to a lot of amazing people. And
again we're still friends today. But him and Scott had

(48:27):
a lot to do with the first treatment center, which
was called the Heavenly.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Center that got a lot of press. Yeah, yeah, no, I.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
Mean TMZ picked it up, hip hop d X. You know,
like Steve again, Steve is just a music guru, you
know what I'm saying, He's a very big icon. He's
you know again like he's the one that you know,
brought Nipsey Hustle out of the hood, you know, like
he's you know, Buone Dugs and Harmon.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And exactly that's why I mean, I go back to
both them.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
Yeah, bone thugs, you know what I mean, Fat Joe,
Sean Kingson, all these people that you know, he really
you know, gave opportunity to and just anywhere that we
went nothing but respect for for him, Run DMC. I mean,
those were his mentors, you know what I mean. Like
he's just, uh, he's a g bro, you know what
I mean. And uh, he's been nothing but you know again,

(49:13):
like I said, a very great individual to me. And
he had he didn't have to do what he did
for me when I first came out here and didn't
know anybody, and uh, we just became really really good
friends and even kind of did some stuff with you know,
some of the artists that we did help get clean.
And he's the one that kind of lined up you know,
dm X getting clean and you know, kind of connected

(49:33):
with will Zann and some of the other artists that
we had the pleasure of helping, you know, through the
treatment center, and you know, we just stayed good friends.
They ended up actually, you know, selling to a big
company as far as that that treatment center went. And uh,
you know he again like he's doing his music things
these days. He's just you know, he started his own

(49:55):
label now, you know, Lobel Music grew.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
You know, he's doing on here soon. He's a dude.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
I mean, he's just one of those great guys and
he is industry big in the cannabis industry. He knows
everybody in the music industries. Now, I mean you talk
to Jay Z's the biggest, I'm the biggest, the best
the guys.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
The guy's that guy.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
And he's just so down to earth, busy down ever
since I've known him, and I randomly ran into him
in Vegas and then I see him and I lost.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Joe Bronne Belly. Yeah, I mean it's me.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
I love the dude the way he realizes the relationship
because I was three hundred when when he used to
see me, and now I'm not and He's just always
been a pleasant dude. He is ticking with and I'm
glad that he's was such an instrumental part of your
life with this recovery and showing you because like those
guys starting that, you envisioning that, wanting that for you

(50:52):
to align yourself with it, it just feels so God sense.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, yeah, for your journey.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Like as I hear it, I look at you as
a so to speak, you know, out there sating the
good work. Like I said at the beginning of the show,
you're doing the Lord's work.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Yeah, man. And and he he was on the same
type of time man, you know what I mean. He
wanted to help, you know, and like he he one
thing that Steve, Steve taught me was about time, right,
and a lot of missed time that he had worrying
about everybody else right, and managing these artists and traveling
the country and just work, work, work, work, work, work,

(51:27):
work right. And you know, something that he really taught
me was like, you know, like you got to do
what's right for yourself sometimes.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
And like you, there's not a lot of time on
this planet, and he felt like he wasted a lot
of time waiting on other people and making you know,
bringing success to other people. And that's what really, you know,
inspired me to go and and finally, you know, open
my own program and open my own stuff and and
do what you know again I do today. And he's
somebody that really like pushed me to to do that, man.

(51:58):
And and and one thing that he taught me is
just that you know, what you're good at is what
you're good at, you know what I mean, what your
talent is is what your talent is. And it's not
up to anybody else but yourself, you know what I mean.
It's not up to anybody else to bring you that
success but yourself. And you need to harbor that, you know,
be careful, like what who who you give your energy to?

Speaker 2 (52:17):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (52:18):
And like you've worked very hard for the contacts that
you've acquired, the relationships that you have, you know what
I mean, you can't just give those away, you know,
Like he's he's really he's really taught me a lot, man,
He's a g Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Cool nook.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
We've heard how you come in, we've heard how they stayed,
We've heard it's a program?

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Is it twelve steps?

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Where is exactly. I know you said you guys put
some steps together. Explain a little bit more of that process,
because that's changed since the first time we talked, and
I think the listeners could benefit from hearing from that.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
So, I mean the program itself, you know again, like
I said, we just opened about two years ago.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
I want to say, and I try I like about
this with you, Doc. I feel like I'm watching it
from the Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, man, we a
good conversations about like, oh this is awesome.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
Yeah no, I mean we went from you know, I
had to open the sober living first, Patrick's Purpose Sober Living,
and you know, had my whole family come out for
that grand opening, and we started with about twelve beds
just with the sober Living, and then we moved to
opening the outpatient center, and then within the last year
we've grown from twelve beds to thirty beds and we're

(53:26):
just like we're flourishing, man, And it's like everything is
just aligning the way that it is supposed to, and
we're growing the way that we're.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Supposed to, because like this shit is so meant to
be bro.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
You know what I mean, And it really is groundbreaking
and it's the community that we built.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Man.

Speaker 6 (53:43):
Like I love being at the treatment center with the guys, right,
I love being at the Sober Living on Sundays whenever
we got football over there. Sure it's just men right now.
So as far as the housing goes, as far as
the transitional living, it's just men. But as far as
the healthier choice recovery, go is outpatient. If you know,
it's somebody coming from me. Every Thursday night at seven

(54:05):
thirty we have our Go Green, Stay Clean meeting, which
again I really want you to come speak at and
that's open to the public.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
We have male female.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
It's in Sherman Oaks and it's at four one three
two Woodcliffe Road in Sherman Oaks and that is open
to the public. Which it's it's an amazing meeting. Again,
like I said, it's non discriminational, Like come as you are,
speak about what you want to speak about. We're still
going to give you a hug, We're still going to
tell you to keep coming back. No one's going to
be like you can't say that in here, you know

(54:35):
what I mean, Like sit down and shut up, Like
we don't do all that, bro. You know what I mean,
like let it out, come in. We have an amazing
speaker every single week. We've had some pretty pretty awesome people.
I mean, sometimes I'll have clients themselves that are further
along in the program speak. Sometimes I'll have you know,
a celebrity come speak. We just had Rene Graziano for
mob Lives come speak, you know, we had Jimmy Shan,

(54:58):
you know, a comedian come speak.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
You know.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
So we just have different speakers every week, man, And
it's it's a cool community. But it's open to everybody
that that meeting on Thursday nights is. But yes, we
do have steps that we've just revamped right that you know,
same concept as as.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
AA, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
So it's twelve yeah, twelve steps, but just you know,
revamped in a way that fits you know the fact
that people do use cannabis in their recovery, you know. So,
And I think that's the one thing that we were
lacking in the beginning is like, Okay, we have this
treatment center, we have this community, but what got me
sober in the first place, right, what got me sober
in the first place was twelve steps, you know what

(55:39):
I mean, and a sponsor and somebody keep me accountable
in a community and mentorship, and we kind of like,
you know, it's not just.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
You want to do it.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
And if you don't have a problem doing it, well, man,
just part of them the good God bless you.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
It's not for you. Yeah, no, no, for sure, I
think you have a problem. If you think you do,
you might. Yeah. No, if if part of you was
telling you that you got a problem, problem, you got
a problem. If you made the question, yeah, exactly, Yeah,
what do you think? Yeah, I mean you know what
I mean always, but I only got to du Yeah, man,

(56:13):
I only you know what I mean. Like I snorted cocaine,
but it's like not a lot of cocaine because I
was hot. Yeah no, bro, I've heard it all. Man,
I've heard it. But I don't know what a problem is.
I don't know what I mean. Is that a problem? Yeah,
be to jail to jail problem. Yeah. I don't know
what a problem means to you.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
But if it does and you're looking for recovery, I
know what no problems meaning.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
I've had a lot of problems in a long time. Say, man,
isn't it crazy? Bro?

Speaker 6 (56:43):
Like whenever you actually get your ship together like bad
ship stops happening, you know.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
What I mean. I don't either, man, I don't run
into any problems too traumatic, you know, dramatic situations anymore,
you know what I mean. Like I really don't, like
I don't go to jail anyone where.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
You Using in my life was crazy, yeah, bro, I mean,
stupid shit happens, right Like when you're using, you get
a flat tire, fucking somebody hits you in traffic. Like
it's just the the energy around it, you know what
I mean, It's just just.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Yeah, it's so good. I love what you're doing. Also, Nick,
one of the biggest things people are coming in there
for right now.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
Right now, I'd say, like the biggest problem in our country,
and what we see a lot of is is fetanol.
Is fetanol and you know, in in California specifically fetanyl
and methamphetamine is really what what I'm seeing a lot of.
You know, obviously, there's alcohol, you know, you got people
that have a lot of alcohol problems. But where I
see you know, cannabis being like very beneficial is for

(57:41):
people with that are struggled with opioids and and methamphetamine.
I mean sometimes you know what I mean, and again,
this isn't for everybody, bro, Like cannabis is not. This
rotter recovery is not. I'm not saying this is for
every single person, because it's not. People react differently whenever
it comes to cannabis, you know what I mean, if
you've been diagnosed with schizophrenia, have been schizo effective, which again,
methamphetamine can can really cause that sometimes when you use cannabis.

(58:05):
Like next thing, you know, they're talking about Marley in
the corner, you know what I mean. Like, it's not
it's not for everybody, you know, or there's people that
they don't.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
You know what I mean, Like it's dude, it's crazy. Man,
I've seen a lot, you know, but dude, it's so
funny and true. It's just not for everybody. Like, you know,
I've seen people just smoking weed. They're idiots. Yeah, No,
I've met people where I'm like, you should not smoke weed, bro,
like that ass Like I don't. I don't think we're

(58:37):
the right program for you.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
And that is still the big one now crank and
coke and yeah, yeah, yeah, they're still yeah.

Speaker 6 (58:45):
I mean, really, the epidemic is the phatanyl man the fatanyl,
the opioids. I mean, they say that, you know that
the main cause of death between the ages of eighteen
and forty five are opioid overdoses, you know what I mean?
And I think that I don't know if anybody caught
that jelly roll his speech that he did in front

(59:06):
of Congress, I believe, but that he made a good
point that like I think they say that ninety I
think it's like I want to say, like, there's a
couple hundred people that die every single day from fetanyl overdoses,
you know what I mean. And the point that he
made is like that's enough people to be on like

(59:27):
a seven fifty seven aircraft.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Right, Like if an aircraft crashed.

Speaker 6 (59:33):
In the United States today, right, if an airplane crash,
the commercial airline crash, it would be horrific.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Everyone would just be.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
Mourning and they would have memorials and they were just
the whole entire country would just be devastated.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Right, But that happens every single day with fetanl overdoses.
It does. And do you see people doing much about it? No,
there's not many people that talk about it.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
Man, There's not many people that are really like MA
making that a point because that's a huge epidemic.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Man, are they snorting it, drinking it, snorting and shooting it, shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
It, poofing it? Whatever? Really?

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
You know, yeah, they say that's the best way in
a pill form. I mean there's powder. I mean really
these days you get the they.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Are saying it the butts probably the best way to
kill it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
That's everything, that's what, that's everything. They say it's the
best way to do anything.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
But I thought, you just want to see my burn picture?

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Joking picture again, how can I get that to my
text message? But it's really the Connor you got him.
He's as we all have it sheared into our brains.
I can't forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
It's just like this piece of jerky anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Everybody wants jerk that shits burned Chris Man.

Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
Yeah, it's it's I think right now, like the what
people think are percocets these m thirties, they're just press
veetanyl pills and people know it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:01:12):
You know what's crazy is in the beginning it was like,
oh no, be careful, your heroin might have fentanyl in it.
You know, like that was five six you know, I
mean six seven years ago, like whenever the fetanyl really
started to come around. And now it's like literally like
I asked people whenever they're doing their intake at the
treatment center, like what's your drug of choice? And they
say fetanyl. Like they look for the fetanyl, you know

(01:01:33):
what I'm saying. Like they're literally on the hunt for
the federal They're like, fuck a percocet, I want the fetanyl,
you know, which is bizarre to me, you know, because
you know, after my brother passed away, I found one
of the capsules, you know, under after they took his body,
and I had a friend come over that had to
test it, and he tested it and it just came

(01:01:54):
back to straight fetanyl, you know what I mean. And
my brother wasn't somebody that was like searching for fetanyl.
You don't even hear anyone say these days, like oh,
I'm I'm on heroin, like it's not even a.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Thing, and even wanting to be on heroin a few times.
You know, she just she's coming off it lately.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
See she will Nobody will tell you because it's not
the thing. She wants to go old school beastie boys
like black tar heroin. Yeah, she's a youngster that has
an old soul. So yeah, fucking there's no more heroin here.
Okay that Nick swalks and it just plays the part
and such. She's like, yeah, I'm looking for it. She's

(01:02:31):
such a cool ship. I know that those new girls
and I just love so much. Like I know a
treatment center. It's called the Healthier Choice Recovery I let
you smoke. We there. Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
There's rules and times that you can smoke, Nick, and
it's not afraid. Places just so well organized.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
I can't wait to go out there and speak folks
once again. If you want to get involved with the
Healthier Choice Recovery Center, is the spot or give them
a call? Eight one, eight, five three, eight threes are
six zero. We'd like to do the high five with
everybody that comes in here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Nick.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
So, how old were you the first time he smoked cannabis?
And where did you get it from?

Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
I was twelve years old and I got it from
one of my friend's moms. And I'll never forget I
smoked some weed. It was snowing outside, and I ended
up laying in the snow outside Angels. Yes, yeah, exactly,
on the front porch, and I was spinning.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Were they yellow angels? I hope not the little pissy
ones that just twelve years old?

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Friend of alle, How beautiful is that? What's your favorite
way to use cannabis?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Neck?

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
For me personally, I really enjoy a concentrate pen. I
like live resident. I've got a lot going on during
the day, you know what I mean. Like I'm always
like go go go, go, go go go. So sometimes
flower can kind of put me out too much. So
I really like to stick to my pin and just
tap my pin everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Convenience Question number three of the High five the Healthier
Choice Recovery Center CEO Nick Morgan, Where's the craziest place
you ever used?

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Are done drugs? Period? Yeah? We can do it like that,
like that, I'd say, the craziest crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
I was ripping lines on the on the on the
airplane on my way to England one time in the
in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
What are you going to England for?

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
I was going to visit my biological family for the
first time. Next thing you know, I get there, right,
I'm stored in cocaine with my biological mother the whole
time I'm there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Dog, we're in England, We're in England, Bradford, England. I
lived in Leeds for two years from yeah. Yeah, man.

Speaker 6 (01:04:44):
It's like it's like probably seventy five percent Pakistani people
there and that's where I got.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
My cabab Yeah yeah, yeah. They got good food over there.
I'm telling you the whole time, I have never met
you in the first time, never met ripping lines of
cocaine the whole time I'm there.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
I was supposed to be there for like two weeks.
I called my it was so bad. I called my
parents back here with him, like I was in my
seven days and I was like, hey, I need a
fly home right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
I swear to God. Did you did you go carty
out in Leeds?

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:05:16):
Yeah, I went to Leeds. I went to Newcastle for sure. Yeah,
and over there. I was eighteen years old at the time.
The drinking ages. Eighteen drink man.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Dude, that is so nutty. Did you meet your biological
dad as well?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
No? No, no, I I don't even know where he's at. No. No.
But you meet your mom first time you meet her?
How does that even happen? Like you mentioned it? She
mentions it, like, how does that come up? Dog? I
mentioned some weed? Right? I mentioned some weed, like, hey,
I smoke some weed, you know, because the conversation came, Oh,
I'll get you some weed. Okay, I'm like cool.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
But then I noticed the guy that brought the week
came back like three different times, and like she's fucking,
you know, wiping her nose and I'm like, hey, what
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Uh it's like, you know, how party too. I mean,
you know what I'm saying. Next thing, you know, she's sucking.

Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
The driver comes back fifteen more times, bron.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Because she's your biological mother. This is the first time
she's meeting her fucking son. So she's doing lines because
she can't even handle the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I think she's just doing line because she had a
co problem. Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Oh that's a very potential po Yeah, probably doing drugs
and that's why she lets you go film.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Pretty sure I was adopted because she was sixteen when
she had me. She was like a stripper and you know,
yeah she was.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
She was good looking. She was good. Your mom's got
she was good looking back in her to day. She was.
She was good. She showed me some pictures. I mean,
don't fall from the we got.

Speaker 6 (01:06:48):
Identical eyes, like she she was definitely good looking back
in the day, but she definitely yeah, yeah, yeah, no
dead ass, you're not or not you're not credit crazy
story for you, Nick. Yeah, she like I wanted her,
like beat the beat the crap out of her, her sister.

(01:07:10):
She threw a bottle in my head. I ducked and
shattered on the wall. Yeah, first time, bro. I have
a half brother over there. I was actually just FaceTime
with him the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
We still we still get what age did you guys
meet and know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Of each other?

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
We always had contact, me and him, and actually when
I went over there for my we always spoke right.
It would be in and out with her because she was,
you know, doing her thing or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
But I always probably just found out when you finally
met her. I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
But like my my mother, my bottle or my my
adopted mom would hinted that she never wanted to talk
crap on her right, but it was tough to say.
I couldn't she didn't, but she would like hinted that
without saying it. And uh, when.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
You see her and she got said, are you sure
you want to go? What do you say? You sure
you want to go there? I don't want to tell
your mom. Yeah, she might be yeah, yeah, no, you're
not bullshit my mom my Adoctor.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
Mom is such a sweet lady that she would never
flat out say it. But I just had questions I
wanted answered. I wanted to see people that like actually
looked like like like me, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
I never experienced that before.

Speaker 6 (01:08:23):
So but yeah, my biological brother he uh, he had
some some issues himself and uh, you know, and God
bless him for growing up over there. And that's why
I'm so grateful I was adopted. Man, I'm so grateful
that at what stage.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
After you met him, after your mom gave you a
languy better than I have my other you know what?

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Now just solidifies it, Like that he's drinking he was
like he was like nine, ten years old. He's drinking
beers with us over there.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
Like like they put me in a box, like because
me and he always wanted to meet me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
When I flew over there, they put me in a box.

Speaker 6 (01:08:57):
Like and at a party, I like a family party, right,
put me in a box and he walks outside and
I'll pop out the box and he just starts crying. Bro,
It's the coolest thing ever. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
It's like my yeah, yeah exactly, and then shortly after
we're drinking beers and snort and cocaine.

Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
That's all the first Yeah, man, what a trip. I
got a tattoo on the back of my leg. I
got there. It's dumb as fuck. It's as you want
to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Of course I do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Come on now, I showed you my ass for God's sakes, Like,
I don't want to see this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
I want to take off your shirt. Is that pop eye?

Speaker 6 (01:09:41):
So it's a peace sign with rossa colors, but my
friends called a gay chicken foot because there's no circle
around it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
It's pretty bad. Perfect. You get that outed in Bradford too.
I got that Newcastle. I can't believe you've been the man.
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
The best part about that, So you're gonna have half
remember it's such a great.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Story, Like I don't even want to cover it up, man, Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's perfect. The way it is. That is
when you did your first rip with your mother. Yeah yeah,
you finally met her and it's like, wow, hey, it
was a trip. Remember the first time we met and
we did bumps?

Speaker 6 (01:10:23):
Yeah, seriously, man, the meeting tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Yeah, Morgan's got a fucking store for you guys. That
means nick yeah, wild ones, bro wow.

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
And then actually I flew her over here when I
was about twenty, and I don't know what the fuck
I was thinking with that flew her over from England.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Let's put it this way.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
I ended up in the psych word, right because I
had said some stupid shit in front of some e
mts because I had a seizure. That's the wrong thing
in front of the right person. And they put me
in the sech word. And she starts to go, this
is how crazy this one is. It starts to go
funding to get me to the States to my six son,
raises a bunch of money. In like a week, bro
flies over.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Here, right.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
I drive all the way up Chicago five hours to
go pick her up, drive her back down to me
and my girlfriend's house.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
At the time. First thing we do is get the
cooke boy on the way. Okay, we're ripping lines, we're
getting drunk. She's starting to turn my girlfriend against me,
and she's screaming and yelling in certain fights. She calls
the cops on.

Speaker 6 (01:11:26):
Me in my own own a house, yes, my biological
but then this is why I call her my biological vessel.
Like we said earlier, right, she screened. She she calls
the cops on me. The cop the cops come to
the house, like, dude, this guy lives here. You're from
another fucking country. Okay, all of his stuff's here, you
know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, yeah, he's not going anywhere.

(01:11:47):
What are you talking about. Then we end up at
a bar later on in the night, right, and I'm
I will yeah, ripping lines again, just keep ripping lines, man,
And yeah, yeah, exactly, just like that, just like that,
like that, Yeah, just like that. Then she actually, I

(01:12:11):
was I was fucked up out of my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
We ended up at a bar and I was just
completely obliterated and I'm trying to fight people and stuff.
She calls the cops on me again. Okay, calls the
cops on me. The cops come and get me. They
take me to my They're like, look, we're not going
to take you to jail, but you got to go somewhere, bro,
So take me to my brother's house. She hops on
a train the next day minus mind you, this is
the first twenty four hours of her being there. Hops

(01:12:36):
on the train the first the next day, goes up
to Chicago because she has friends there, parties the next
five days in Chicago, and then flies back to the UK.
Get me to my six sons in the States, Bro, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Telling you, dude, my yeah, yeah, I want to beat
this lady show.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Yeah, like we got to do a good bunm to
just get your mom out here to party with us.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
To just do a fucking three day. She's the media
event in.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
The fucking three day, like fucking old school, fucking candy
Lady comes out of retirement.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
Yeses, dude, she goes hard like I thought I went hard, Bro,
But I saw where I get it from, you know
what I mean. I'm telling you to the max, and
I saw where I got all my my mental health
issues from two bagging days. Thank god I got those
under control.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
Thank you for your vulnerability. That story was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Yeah, man, anytime, I'm an open book brother.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
That right there, folks, is how you cannot have to
go back and use another drink or hard drug. Because
when you can talk about your life and the craziest
ship that's happened, that's dark, demented, and you think it's
a secret Nah, put your cards on the table and
let them be what they are are.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Absolutely, Absolutely, that's all about recovery.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
That's about what the Healthier Choice Recovery Center is about.
That's what this man who the CEO is about. You
just heard the stories. You know what he's doing. You
know how he's living. He's vulnerable, he's honest, he's great.
You got a problem, go take yourself to the Healthier
Choice Recovery Center. Question number four of the High five

(01:14:24):
as that was the longest craziest smoked Canadists. That was
the longest in between fucking segments.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
That was one of the best show. I know, it's
better remind you, like dog, we gotta finish that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Your mom.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
I was, Yeah, where do you follow with your marrow?
I lived there. I've seen it all so completely like
envision what like the whole setting was. I've been there
and I can get it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
You know, I've been up provincially and I know I
haven't know a few places there in London's Gotland Whales.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Yeah, I hated it over there, man, I went.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
For leadership conference that kind of liked it. But either way,
before Nick, fuck, that was a great story. What does
your go to munchies after you get high. You healthy motherfucker.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
Uh well, I'd have to say I get unhealthy after
I get high, and uh my go to munchies would
probably my ass chip be chocolate chocolate covered strawberries.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
White or dark? Damn they make white ones.

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
They got the white chocolate strawberries, and I always gotta
get I mean you to see him randomly, but those
are my favorite. When I think chocolate covered strawberry is
my favorite, white.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
I love white chocolate better. So shoot me when I
see them. Why take a picture of energy next time?
I say him run that. Oh those were just bomb. Yeah,
I like that. Chocolate cover strawberries is a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
Question number five of the High five, Nick Morgan, It's
been great.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
I love talking with you and hanging out as we
could see. But if you can smoke cannabis with anyone,
dead or alive, who would it be?

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
And why dead or alive?

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
If I could smoke cannabis with anyone, I'd have to
save my brother, you know, I'd have to say my brother.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
My brother would be the person I don't want to
smoke cannabis with.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
And again, I wish he would have got this opportunity
of this route that we really created and that maybe
he'd still be here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
So did he smoke wead er? You just go hard?
He just went hard, bro hard, just went hard hard. Bro.
When I say like hard, you gotta go far.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
He shouldn't have.

Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
Made it as long as he did, you know, Oh yeah, man,
Oh yeah, for sure. I'm I'm really surprised that we
even he put together six months of sobriety as mostly
ever had in his entire life, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
So he'd go harder than you, and you thought you
were going hard. Oh yeah, Like what are you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, because I got clean years before, you
know what I mean. And I always begged him to
get clean. But even back when we were getting high together,
like he was on a whole nother level, bro, speedballing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
He's banging heroin, sniffing lines of coke, banging cocaine aroin
at the same time, you know what I mean, Like
just fucking doing it, big man, and then you're falling back. Yeah. Yeah,
you didn't give a fuck about weed, So that's what
I'm saying. Yeah, he went hard. Wish we could have
just smoked some weed together, bro, when you're speedballing, when
you're going hard like that. Bro. Yeah, he just fucking yeah,

(01:17:49):
arguing with everybody, and when the benzos came in meeting
him be fist fighting. It's just all that.

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
What do you want exactly?

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
You're just so tweaked out you just don't even know.
You're just a mess absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Oh yeah, oh Nick, it's always great to talk drugs
with you, and yeah, say and makes you want to
take a ship now because I feel like I've done
some drugs.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
And be careful wiping your ask. Oh, thank you for
bringing it up, just saying, bro, you got the butt.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Something we'll never forget. You know, this show is very memorable.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
I like the show period because we're just chopping it
up and talking recovery and this and that and cannabis.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
But my ass is a whole.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
Different got the butt scuff going on, bro, It's like
I got dragged.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Yeah no, seriously, it's a scuff on your butt. Terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
I wish this paint on no one. It's like so
miserable and think about it. Something inside you send me out,
but still push it like no matter what. Yeah, no,
I mean as I'm breathing it, you know, you lay down,
you gotta get it like no matter.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
It's a worse spot to have have that. It's sick
in the middle of the backbone.

Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
Like bro, if I put like my finger in my
back bone.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Yeah, wait to you web your ass? Well wait till
you web your ass.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
It is so raw, Daniel, I need your help. It's
kind of a top one on one Nick, Is there
anything you forgot to mention? No, it's about you and
the company before we let you get out.

Speaker 6 (01:19:19):
Of there, and if anybody wants to reach us, like I said,
the Healthier Choice Recovery dot Com my Instagram's Nick Morgan Recovery.
I do a lot of motivational videos. I have a
podcast by Voices of Redemption. I try to, you know,
keep keep the social media platform pumps with motivational stuff.
So if you ever need just like a daily pick
me up, go to my page, Nick Morgan Recovery reach
Out twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
We're always here to help. Always great to have him here.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
God bless you for doing the Lord's work. Brother, It's
a pleasure, and that story is just it's hard work
and your vulnerability.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Absolutely helps you go out there. You're going through something
and listening to Nick tell your story. Make sure you
tell yours because your story may help somebody else out
there too. That's your story, it's helping so many. Cannabis
Talk one on one. If nobody else loves you, we do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
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