1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:30,220 Hi. I'm Butch. I'm an alcoholic. Thank you, Ben. Thanks for the 10 minutes. Great job, you know, meat and potatoes. It's good AA. Do the do. We had a saying in my group for a long time, do the deal. The deal. The deal. Do the deal. You're not doing the deal. Gotta do the deal. I'm doing the deal, you know. And, you know, you gotta do the deal. And then if you weren't doing the deal, you were a shirker. Quit shirking and do the deal, you know. 2 00:00:30,220 --> 00:01:00,220 Like a house band, you know, played at all our little parties and stuff. And they were called the shirkers. But it made me think of that. Yeah, I'm in the Pacific group. I'm sorry about that. No, it's been good to me. It really has. It has. And it's, you know, AA is AA, you know. I hope, whatever, if you're new, you just find whatever works for you. I'm an LA native, born and raised in LA. 3 00:01:00,220 --> 00:01:30,220 Ten years sobriety. I have a sponsor. I have a home group. And, yeah, I grew up on the west side. I always say west side's the best side. This is the first time I heard of quality of life. I just wanted to hear everybody say it. I couldn't figure it out what it was. I'm like, is somebody's hair messed up? You know what I mean? So, yeah, I grew up, you know, I grew up really, you know, I'm 67 years old. So, I was born in 59. The 60s were like, I was just a kid. 4 00:01:30,220 --> 00:02:00,220 Dad would say, hey, you guys want to get in the car and drive up to Sunset Boulevard and look at the hippies, you know? But I was just, like, into music, you know, baseball and rock and roll. And, you know, just grew up in Westchester. I actually lived in Baldwin Hills for a while, and then we moved to Westchester. I didn't want to leave, but, you know, my next-door neighbor got murdered one night, and it wasn't a side. My sister saw her, and, you know, my folks got us out of there. You know, it was Baldwin Hills. It was mixed. 5 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:30,220 It was, like, 50-50 black and white. And, but it wasn't, it was a white guy that killed the white lady. I'm not saying anything like that. But then we moved to Westchester, and that was like, it was like, I called it Lily White Westchester. But that was right when busing started in LA Unified. There was a lot of busing going on, you know, so, you know, there was people from my school driving all the, you know, going all the way to Dorsey High School and kids coming, you know. There was guys from Reseda going to Crenshaw and Crenshaw to Reseda, you know. But I, and then, 6 00:02:30,220 --> 00:03:00,220 it was kind of a culture shock, but I had already grown up in a 50-50 community. I'd gone all through elementary school, you know. I had friends in my neighborhood, and so it wasn't a big culture shock for me, but it was different than it is today. It was worse. That's my lived experience. But anyhow, everything, Westchester was a totally different thing for me. It was really, like, clean, and, you know, we were probably the poorest people on the block. 7 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:30,220 We just had working-class parents. They rented a house. Everybody else were homeowners, you know. You know, my dad didn't have a lawnmower. Ours was always the last lawn to get mowed, you know. But they worked, and they provided, and life was okay, you know. I played a lot of baseball, just a lot of sports. I would just leave in the morning, go play baseball. We played baseball all year long. You know, we would shoot bats and everything, but we would just play baseball, you know. But when I was in fourth grade, I was doing really well in school, because I read a lot. 8 00:03:30,220 --> 00:04:00,220 I didn't feel like I was, like, this prodigy or anything. I just read a lot. My mom was from Scotland, and she spent a lot of time in the bomb shelters, and her two brothers died on the beach in Normandy, and she just gave me books about, you know, about World War II, and just continued to give me all kinds of books. So I read. And then I loved baseball so much, I would do all the averages. You didn't have statistics back then. You know, you had to look on your phone and see, you know. They came out, like, once a week, you know. And then they were old. 9 00:04:00,220 --> 00:04:30,220 Three days before for the week, you know. So I always did all the baseball averages. I worked them out myself, all my players. So I was really good at math, and I was a really good reader. So I was finishing all my work really easy. Anyway, I skipped from fourth grade to sixth grade, which I wished I never did. It was like, it wasn't good. I should have stayed where I was. But it was just different. Then I always felt like I had to prove myself to people. 10 00:04:30,220 --> 00:05:00,220 You know, the difference between a 12-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy is, you know, it's like, you're awkward, you know. But I managed to get through there. But I always felt, you know, different. But when I played sports, I played with kids in my grade. I didn't want, like, look, he's playing with the little kid, you know. So I always played. And then, you know, like, it was the 60s, like 69 or something. And you know how, you know, I wasn't at Woodstock, you know. I was, like, everybody was at Woodstock. 11 00:05:00,220 --> 00:05:30,220 Everybody else that was born back then. But I got to keep it tight. 835? 8 what? 25. All right. And then, but, you know, I wasn't the best player on my team. But, I mean, I wasn't the best player in our league. But I was the best player on our team. My last year of playing baseball. And I made the all-star team. And I wasn't the best player on the all-star team. But I was good enough to make the all-star team. And I went in. I was so excited. I thought I made the all-star team. It was a big deal, especially because all the kids were 12 00:05:30,220 --> 00:06:00,220 older than me. And I went in. The coach looked at my hair. I had longer hair. He goes, you know, if you don't get a haircut, you can't play. And you got to cut your hair. And that was the last time I ever played baseball. I chose my hair over baseball. And that was it. And so after that, it was just, like, I don't know. And I went to, you know, I went, you know, I'm in middle school now. They called it junior high back then. It was 7th, 8th, and 9th. LA Unified. You know, high school was, you know. 13 00:06:00,220 --> 00:06:30,220 10, 11, and 12. And it was different. I started smoking pot. You know, I got, you know, introduced to alcohol. There was just a lot of pot around. And I'll talk about drugs a little bit. But I'm an alcoholic. I mean, I have the phenomenon of craving. You know, I have, you know. Everything applies to me in the doctor's opinion and everything in the book. But when you're a teenager back then, it was easier to get weed. And it was easier to get acid. 14 00:06:30,220 --> 00:07:00,220 It was easier to get barbiturates and speed than it was to get alcohol. You can go out, you know, you just, you couldn't get it. And everybody, all my friends and my parents included, all their liquor cabinets were watered down already. You know, we had already told, you know, took all the alcohol. And then, but then my mom was working at this hotel. It was called the Penn and Quill. It was on Rosecrans and PCH in Manhattan Beach. And it was in receivership. And she was just there trying to keep it afloat. But the only thing afloat was this 15 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:30,220 nightclub called the Turtle Club. And every night, she wasn't getting paid. And she was just, like, she'd come home. She'd have a case of whiskey. Come home the next night, she'd have a case of vodka. So our house was full of alcohol. And it was a pretty popular, I had an older sister. It was a pretty, my garage was pretty popular. And, you know, for the hangout, you know, we'd smoke weed and drink. But that, you know, later on that kind of, you know, there was just, there was a lot of drugs around. And I just started, you know, and alcohol. And I just, I started hanging out really with 16 00:07:30,220 --> 00:08:00,220 my sister's friends, who now are, like, three years older than me. And then they're, you know, they're telling, you know, they're, a lot of people in the neighborhood were breaking into pharmacies. So one day, I was, like, 15 years old. And these kids that were, you know, like, 17, 18, they took me to this pharmacy and gave me a list of stuff. We broke this window. They took me up there. And I went in and I got everything on the list. And that became my career for a long time. I became a pharmacist at the age of 15. 17 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:30,200 I was a walking PDR. You know, and the quaaludes were popular with the girls. And, and, but, but, yeah, so that, but, you know, along with that came, you know, interaction with law enforcement, you know, so and I'd already been, you know, arrested for just open containers. I mean, they took you to jail for, you know, I don't know how many of you, but I did a year and a day for a joint, you know. So back then, it was, you know, I was a walking PDR. 18 00:08:30,220 --> 00:09:00,200 You know, I was, you know, I was an adult, too. Now, it's like, it's like, I was like, I picked the wrong time to do crime. But, but that pharmacy thing turned into, you know, getting arrested. And then I, you know, I started the jail circuit. Yeah, I know a lot of people share you have the hookers and businessmen. And I'm the convict, you know. But yeah, I started that life that, you know, that vicious circle of the rotating door in and out. And I lived my whole life, just like one release date to the next, you know. 19 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:30,200 And then, you know, I turned from juvenile hall to county jail to state prison, you know, and, and then from state prison, the terms got longer and longer. And then before I knew it, all my 20s were gone. You know, I was, it was not good. And, and, I mean, but it was always someone else's fault. It was, you know, if they, you know, somebody ratted me off, or that's the one thing when you're dealing with a bunch of drug addicts, and mostly I just sold it, they have a tendency to tell, you know, you know, it's, it's, you know, they, you know, because they're all 20 00:09:30,200 --> 00:10:00,180 sick, and they need to get, you know, they're going to kick, you know, they're going to withdraw, and then, you know, we'll let you out if you, you know, give up somebody. And, you know, so anyway, I was getting, just, I didn't even have to deal with my own fault, my own fault. I was, you know, people were giving me up when I got away with stuff. So, yeah, it's kind of rough when you're getting hit by both sides. But there's no honor amongst thieves, you know. I always thought that's, that was the, that was the, that was the definition of a man, you know, if you, if you did your 21 00:10:00,180 --> 00:10:30,160 time, you know, you didn't back down from a fight, and you, and you kept your mouth shut with the police, you know, it was kind of a distorted sense of reality, you know, and pride, this false pride, you know, disrespecting me, and like, I knew, like, I knew what respect was. But, um, but yeah, it was tough. It was, you know, like I said, before I knew it, all my 20s were gone, you know, I'm in my 30s and stuff. And then I got, you know, my brother, I had a brother 10 years younger than me after, you know, 22 00:10:30,180 --> 00:11:00,160 when I was 10, my mom had a kid. I always said, it was like a year later, they legalized abortion. I always told my brother it was a year too late. But, but, but, yeah, so, yeah, and that kept my parent, my mom preoccupied, really, that's when I was doing all my juvenile stuff. She was had a newborn baby, you know, three year old, four year old in the house, and when I was running around, but my brother had got sober, he started getting in trouble, and he went to 23 00:11:00,180 --> 00:11:30,160 the youth authority, and, uh, but he went to the youth authority, got out, and never went back. He, he landed in AA, and then I, I, you know, he picked me up one day. I got out the day before, and he goes, we're going to the yard. I'm like, what do you mean the yard? And he, and he took me to Clancy's house, and I was just like, oh my gosh, what a, you know, I remember that day, I, you know, I went to, went to, to, to, went to the yard, and we played bass, softball all day. Then we went to a meeting at night, and after the meeting, they had a five-year party for someone, where someone turns five, 24 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:59,860 five years, they read cards and thing, and then after the, and the whole time, I'm telling my brother, are the girls that were playing volleyball at the yard going to meet at the party? Because that's the only thing that was on my mind at that time. Yeah, they'll be, and I get there, I'm like, what's going on here? It's after the meeting. I'm like, and then they had the party, I'm like, this is the stupidest party I've ever been to. Then we went to a watch afterwards, you know what I mean? We watched, stood around and watched somebody turn a year sober, and I was like, and then all that time, all these people are coming up to me, how you doing? 25 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:30,140 And I was trying to introduce myself as Alan, because nobody knew me as Alan. I wanted to kind of ditch the prison, the Butch name, and then my brother's just following around, his name's Butch, his name's Butch, you know? And anyway, yeah, but that night, after the watch, we sat around, I remember that night, you know, I was late, you know, I probably drank 25 cups of coffee that day, met hundreds of people, did all those activities. I remember just laying there, all, you know, thinking, you know, you know, I realized, you know, I didn't want to get sober. 26 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:56,380 I didn't want to get sober and everything, but I realized for the first time in my life, you know, prison wasn't really that bad, you know? So I went back. I stuck it out as long as I could, you know, because my case was different, and you didn't understand. You just didn't understand. And that's the worst two things for a new alcoholic, is thinking your case is different, and that, you know, the AA members don't understand, you know? 27 00:12:56,380 --> 00:13:00,140 But I've learned after, you know, some really hard and trying times that, 28 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:29,500 my case isn't different. I heard this guy, Scott Redman, I'm sure some of you, he said at a meeting one night, he goes, for everybody in here that killed a puppy, there's someone that killed two puppies. And for some reason, that resonated with me, like, you know, I just thought, you know, whatever I think I am, you know, a legend in my own mind, you know, there's somebody that's had it worse, or did more time than me, or is tougher than me, or smarter than me, or whatever. But it was a little just baby steps for me, but I, there was punishment involved, you know? 29 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:29,980 So I, 30 00:13:30,160 --> 00:14:00,160 I ended up getting arrested, you know, and going back to prison. I got seven years for, for, for breaking into a garage. And, and by, by this time, I, I, you know, I had, I had went to this, I had, when I, before I came, I was in a halfway house before I got sober and came to the group, tried to get sober. And I learned a plumbing trade. I went to a pre-apprentice school, and I was working as a plumber. And, and so I had a little, you know, I had, so, so I got locked up, you know, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, 31 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:30,160 I got locked up again. And, and then, so I'm in jail, I'm back in prison. I'm doing, I'm doing four years. And, and I got a job as a, as in the prison industries as a, as a plumber. And I did that for four years for 75 cents an hour. And that was good money back then in there. But, yeah, but the whole time I was in there, it was like Monday night, I knew that everybody was there Monday night at Ohio. I knew on Tuesday night, all those people were at the big book study. And Wednesday night, they were at the big meeting. Thursday, they were at the key group. And it's different than when you're in church. And I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, 32 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:34,060 When you have, God, I could have had this life here, but I chose this life. 33 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,480 And then it's different when you're just like, you know, I made a choice. 34 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,480 I don't have to be here anymore. 35 00:14:40,740 --> 00:14:42,820 And, you know, I read the big book. 36 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:44,640 I did the whole thing in there. 37 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:45,620 I couldn't wait to get out. 38 00:14:45,740 --> 00:14:46,840 I did my four years. 39 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:53,720 I had met a girl in AA, and we did the damn, you know, AA boy meets AA girl on the AA campus thing, you know. 40 00:14:54,020 --> 00:14:58,700 I like to say I was just walking at the meeting and eating a chocolate bar, and I bumped into her. 41 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:02,640 She was, you know, eating a jar of peanut butter. 42 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:08,380 And the next thing we know, you know, it was, but she waited for me for four years, left me a few times. 43 00:15:08,420 --> 00:15:08,940 And I got out. 44 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:09,760 We got married. 45 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,460 After I got out, everybody said, don't, don't, don't get married. 46 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:14,840 But we did. 47 00:15:15,020 --> 00:15:18,420 We were married for 20 years, had three kids. 48 00:15:18,660 --> 00:15:25,960 But 10 years into the marriage, she found Jesus, and the dynamic changed as a family. 49 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,540 By now, we have three kids. 50 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:28,400 They're all, you know. 51 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:29,420 Elementary school. 52 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,040 They're young, you know, like two, four, and six. 53 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,080 And that changed a little bit. 54 00:15:34,180 --> 00:15:40,180 And then we had some financial things during the, during the big, the, I had moved out. 55 00:15:40,260 --> 00:15:42,480 We had moved to San Francisco, moved to Vegas. 56 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:44,560 And we went to San Francisco. 57 00:15:44,780 --> 00:15:46,000 I crafted my trade. 58 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:47,280 I really learned how to be a plumber. 59 00:15:47,540 --> 00:15:49,500 I mean, it's a lot of critical thinking up there. 60 00:15:49,580 --> 00:15:51,200 It's not just like build a house. 61 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,660 There's all these buildings right up against each other. 62 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:54,220 They're old. 63 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:55,340 You have to fix things. 64 00:15:55,580 --> 00:15:57,140 And I learned how to do that. 65 00:15:57,180 --> 00:15:58,300 And we had our firstborn. 66 00:15:58,400 --> 00:15:59,400 Then we moved to Vegas. 67 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,420 And I started doing high-rise to hotel work. 68 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,980 Did like a Venetian. 69 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,380 And I did the Wynn Hotel from a hole in the ground to opening day. 70 00:16:07,380 --> 00:16:11,340 I did a, you know, 10-inch water mains, 24-inch train pipes. 71 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,140 And did this big mechanical room. 72 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:16,460 And by then, I was, I was pretty qualified. 73 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,360 And then one day, I was at the Wynn. 74 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,000 And I had 11 years sober at this time. 75 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:25,720 And I fell 15 feet and landed on my butt. 76 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:28,380 And I was in midair going, this isn't going to be good. 77 00:16:28,460 --> 00:16:31,060 You know, I swear I thought that. 78 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,360 I'm like, this isn't going to be good. 79 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,540 And then, bam, I landed on this metal decking. 80 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,880 And I just had this excruciating pain throughout my whole body. 81 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,420 And I was just waiting, you know, for it to subside. 82 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,540 Like you bang your funny bone or something. 83 00:16:43,940 --> 00:16:44,600 And I waited. 84 00:16:44,860 --> 00:16:45,420 And I waited. 85 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:46,880 And I'm way up on this roof. 86 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,560 I fell from a roof to a roof. 87 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,700 And I ended up, I had a radio. 88 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,740 I was a foreman. 89 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,860 And I called one of the helpers to come and get. 90 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:56,500 I didn't say it. 91 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:57,980 I just said, bring a scissor lift over here. 92 00:16:57,980 --> 00:16:58,360 I'm up there. 93 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:58,940 I'm up on this roof. 94 00:16:59,040 --> 00:16:59,800 And he took me down. 95 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:00,880 But I broke my back. 96 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:02,920 And they gave me some Oxycontin. 97 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:09,640 And, you know, I mean, get one every four hours. 98 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,860 Why can't you crush it up and come on faster, you know? 99 00:17:14,020 --> 00:17:16,360 So that turned into that spiral, man. 100 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:20,500 I was just home, you know, miserable with a bunch of pills. 101 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,860 And I lost 11 years of sobriety. 102 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,540 And then we ended up moving back to L.A. 103 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:27,960 And I raised my hand. 104 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:29,640 I did, you know, all that. 105 00:17:29,740 --> 00:17:31,580 But by now, she's not in A anymore. 106 00:17:31,860 --> 00:17:33,420 It's church 24-7. 107 00:17:33,860 --> 00:17:35,320 Bible studies, all that. 108 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:36,660 I get home from work. 109 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:38,840 We got three kids now. 110 00:17:38,940 --> 00:17:40,380 It's like, I got the kids. 111 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,480 And she goes right upstairs to her Bible study. 112 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,900 And even though it sounds like I'm resentful, I probably still have a little bit. 113 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:47,680 We're friends today. 114 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,120 I wouldn't be sober today. 115 00:17:49,460 --> 00:17:51,220 I wouldn't have the life I have. 116 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:53,380 I'd be locked up or dead, you know. 117 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,480 So I know that. 118 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:56,420 And she knows it, too. 119 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:58,340 And most of the people in my life know that. 120 00:17:58,420 --> 00:18:02,940 But it just, and then I started going out again. 121 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:04,520 I put four years together. 122 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,440 And I've had some kidney stones and got some medication. 123 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,080 And then I put seven years together. 124 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,740 And by then, I'm miserable in the marriage now. 125 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:15,880 It's just not working. 126 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,260 It's tough. 127 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:18,560 Everything's about Jesus. 128 00:18:19,540 --> 00:18:22,100 And I got to enforce all the rules with the kids. 129 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,620 And it's just a crazy dynamic. 130 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,160 And I wasn't happy. 131 00:18:25,340 --> 00:18:27,080 But I wasn't doing anything about it. 132 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:27,720 That's the thing. 133 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,880 There was a solution to all that. 134 00:18:29,980 --> 00:18:31,700 But now I'm way out in Thousand Oaks. 135 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,440 All my friends are on the west side. 136 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,220 And I'm like, if I can't go to the Pacific Group, I'm not going to a meeting. 137 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,720 So that'll work. 138 00:18:37,860 --> 00:18:40,000 And if it doesn't, I'll die trying, you know. 139 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,180 So anyways, then I went out again with seven years. 140 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,240 And she had warned me. 141 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:49,380 And she asked me to leave the house. 142 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:50,720 And there I was. 143 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,660 That was 10 years ago and like 10 days ago. 144 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:55,140 You know, I'm home. 145 00:18:55,140 --> 00:18:57,700 My kids, I'm out of the house. 146 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:03,360 And not only that, she fished in the court for supervised visits for me. 147 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,340 He's an ex-convict and he can't stay. 148 00:19:06,340 --> 00:19:11,040 So she's played it, I mean, came down really hard, like ruthless. 149 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:16,280 And three and a half years, I had to visit my kid at the bowling alley, at the park, at a restaurant. 150 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,720 It was bad. 151 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,040 But it's a pain I'll never forget. 152 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:20,720 I'll tell you that. 153 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,920 But today, you know, I have a really good relationship with those kids. 154 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,720 They come to my house every Monday night. 155 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,600 They're all coming to dinner every day. 156 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:28,440 Every Monday night. 157 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:29,800 And she's remarried. 158 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,440 And she got everything. 159 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:32,800 I got my plumbing business. 160 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,480 By then, I had started my own business. 161 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,120 She had the kids, you know, I paid the child support. 162 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:39,360 I paid the alimony. 163 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,000 And it was hard. 164 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,840 It was more money than I was making. 165 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,800 I had to really, like, I couldn't make it. 166 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,240 I was broke every week. 167 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,360 And with the court, I just, I didn't win with the court. 168 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:52,800 And every time I went back, every six months to ask to see my kids, they would say no. 169 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,680 And finally, I go, you know what, you're treating me like a child molester. 170 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,540 And I said, you're honoring a child molester. 171 00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:59,460 A child molester has more rights than me, you know. 172 00:19:59,460 --> 00:20:02,540 And then she finally goes, all right, be careful what you ask for. 173 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:03,540 The kids are free. 174 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:07,180 You know, she ordered the kids were free to see me if they wanted to. 175 00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:09,560 She didn't make any orders or anything like that. 176 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,700 But you know, I just, I just stayed the course. 177 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:13,700 You know, that's all. 178 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:15,920 That's all my sponsor told me during all that. 179 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,220 Stay the course. 180 00:20:17,220 --> 00:20:18,420 Stay the course. 181 00:20:18,420 --> 00:20:23,780 So I just stayed the course, you know, and, and, you know, and I went to meetings and 182 00:20:23,780 --> 00:20:26,380 I, you know, and I remember that first meeting. 183 00:20:26,380 --> 00:20:27,380 Am I? 184 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:32,360 I was with my pastor, who was really good guy, really wise, has 40 years sober. 185 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,780 He told me the whole time he called me one time, he goes, Hey, but you know, your life's 186 00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:37,540 doing, you're doing, I was thinking about you. 187 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:39,820 And you know, your life's doing, you're doing really good. 188 00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:42,000 You got all this stuff. 189 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,240 And this is the time you usually get into trouble. 190 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,160 And then I'm thinking, yeah, you're about four days too late. 191 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:54,420 You know, I had got these kidney stones again and anyways, so he, you know, I had kind of 192 00:20:54,420 --> 00:20:55,540 violated that relationship. 193 00:20:55,540 --> 00:20:57,340 And he says he didn't fire me. 194 00:20:57,340 --> 00:21:00,920 But I knew, you know, I probably needed, and I was standing in the back of the Wednesday 195 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:01,920 night meeting. 196 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:02,920 No, and I got it. 197 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:03,920 I got one day sober. 198 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:04,920 I got to go and raise my hand. 199 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:10,060 I go, and I just said, just go down there, raise your hand and be a newcomer. 200 00:21:10,060 --> 00:21:11,060 You know? 201 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:15,940 So, you know, I had, I had the 11 years, I had the four years, I had the seven years. 202 00:21:15,940 --> 00:21:16,940 Now I got 10 years. 203 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:21,080 And if you add it all together, it comes out to 10 years, 10 years. 204 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,080 That's what it comes out to. 205 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,080 That's what I have. 206 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,340 And I love my 10 years. 207 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:32,820 Um, and, uh, so, so now, um, you know, lately, so that, that all happened, I had to start 208 00:21:32,820 --> 00:21:33,820 all over. 209 00:21:33,820 --> 00:21:36,680 I had nothing but my truck and my tools. 210 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,560 She made sure I had that, um, and, um, but she's the mother of my children. 211 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,860 Like I said, I, you know, I wouldn't be sober today and slowly that's worked itself out. 212 00:21:45,860 --> 00:21:47,960 You know, I'm always have love for her. 213 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:52,600 She's, you know, she, she was the mother of my children and all that, but she's remarried. 214 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,820 I'm so happy for her. 215 00:21:53,820 --> 00:21:55,200 She's got a great guy. 216 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,200 He's taking care of her. 217 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,420 She's not, I don't have to worry about it. 218 00:21:58,420 --> 00:22:01,700 I don't have to pay child support or alimony anymore. 219 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:07,580 And then, and then I was kind of just, you know, settled on, um, just, I was getting 220 00:22:07,580 --> 00:22:08,580 used to being single. 221 00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:13,640 I tried the dating scene and stuff and, and, you know, I was like just working so hard 222 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,060 and I was more worried about just building my relationship with the kids. 223 00:22:17,060 --> 00:22:22,300 And it just, uh, it, I just pretty much did that and just did a lot of AA and just hung 224 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,300 out with the boys. 225 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:29,540 And then I did more AA and then COVID happened and, and my sponsor at the time, Nathan started 226 00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:33,320 a meeting in his backyard, like the day after the shutdown. 227 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:38,580 And we started a little meeting called the COVID Conspirators and we met every Tuesday. 228 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:39,580 We met every Tuesday. 229 00:22:39,580 --> 00:22:44,240 Then we met every Friday and there was like a rotating thing of seven to 20 people every 230 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,240 Tuesday and Friday. 231 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:51,160 And we did, we just did the 12 and 12, 12, we read the 12 and 12, once every, every week, 232 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,340 every meeting we did one step. 233 00:22:52,340 --> 00:22:53,180 And then on the next day, we met again. 234 00:22:53,180 --> 00:22:56,460 We went on to the next step and then we do the traditions and we did that. 235 00:22:56,460 --> 00:23:00,260 And then once COVID opened up, there was a group in Ohio street on Tuesday night that 236 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:01,940 didn't want to go back. 237 00:23:01,940 --> 00:23:03,380 They wanted to stay on zoom. 238 00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:07,540 And we, we took the Tuesday night meeting and then we called it the COVID Conspirators 239 00:23:07,540 --> 00:23:12,660 and everybody had a, you know, the, had a fit that we couldn't call it that they wouldn't 240 00:23:12,660 --> 00:23:13,660 put us in the directory. 241 00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:14,660 They wouldn't do it. 242 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:16,660 And everybody was like, you got to change the name. 243 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:20,020 And I'm like, you know, in one year, nobody's going to care about that. 244 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:21,180 It's going to be so insignificant. 245 00:23:21,180 --> 00:23:22,180 And it is. 246 00:23:22,180 --> 00:23:23,180 Yeah. 247 00:23:23,180 --> 00:23:27,940 There's a little sign that hangs in our PG 12 and 12 group is, is we have a little COVID 248 00:23:27,940 --> 00:23:28,940 Conspirators sign. 249 00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:34,560 And yeah, we got a bunch of t-shirts that say COVID Conspirators, but that, that was 250 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,000 a, I never wanted to go to men's stags. 251 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,140 I'd spent enough time around men, you know, I don't, I'm not going, I'm going to hang 252 00:23:40,140 --> 00:23:44,500 out a bunch of lame dudes talking about, you know, stupid stuff. 253 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:49,940 I'm like, you know, and, but, but that, that was a, it was a men's, it turned into a men's 254 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:50,940 meeting. 255 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:52,940 He sent an email out, you know, every, you know, the first day of the week, you know, 256 00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:56,480 if the first 10 people can come every day, and then it just opened it up, but it was 257 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,120 all men that showed up. 258 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:03,200 And then, and, and I knew all the, most of the guys for a long time from, you know, they 259 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:08,400 had seen me come from prison twice, you know, some of them, I knew these guys and they knew 260 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,400 my story. 261 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,440 They knew my, you know, I knew their wives. 262 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,200 They knew my, you know, I knew them all before any of us got married and had kids and stuff. 263 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,960 And then, but we were just friends, but just slowly, you know, we started opening up about 264 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,320 our lives, which, you know, we had never done. 265 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:22,820 It was. 266 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:24,380 I just didn't know these guys in the meeting. 267 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:25,600 I knew them outside. 268 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,120 We did stuff together for, for years. 269 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,960 And that was the turning point of my life, really. 270 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,360 That's when AA, I just, I got it, you know, I got it that my case isn't different. 271 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:39,560 And you do understand a couple of the guys in the, in the meeting dot, you know, one 272 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560 kid overdosed. 273 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,720 Another one, another guy, these guys, kids were like, he was like 25 or something, man, 274 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,680 from Chicago in a recovery house. 275 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,880 And you know, we, we, and it was a, but we did that. 276 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:52,880 And then. 277 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,900 And you know, I mean, some of the, a lot of the guys from that group were in this fantasy 278 00:24:56,900 --> 00:24:58,020 football league together. 279 00:24:58,020 --> 00:25:02,260 We have been for like, we've, I think I've been in there for 26 years. 280 00:25:02,260 --> 00:25:03,540 Like we just picked teams. 281 00:25:03,540 --> 00:25:04,920 It was before they had fantasy. 282 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,120 We had our own little thing and best record of our combined teams and stuff. 283 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:15,060 And Genevieve was the first woman that got, I've known Genevieve 23 years. 284 00:25:15,060 --> 00:25:21,520 So and then and we've been friends for 23 years and we're in the, she's on another team 285 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,520 during football season. 286 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,500 And we talk smack back and forth and all that, and we have our meetings and we have a Super 287 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:28,500 bowl party. 288 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,760 And that's just a tradition outside of PG. 289 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:35,580 If I don't know if you're the one thing about Pacific group, man, you can stay busy. 290 00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:40,500 If you, if you need to stay busy, you know, you know, you go there and you'll stay busy 291 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,020 and it keeps you out of your head and action is a big thing there. 292 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:46,020 So we, we do that same kind of stuff. 293 00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:49,540 Like we're going to Yosemite, like 30 of us, you know, I've, this is the fifth year I've 294 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:50,540 gone and my kids are gone. 295 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:51,520 We're all going up there. 296 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,520 Some of the same things. 297 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,420 Some of the same guys from the COVID conspirators and from the, from the DDFs for our football 298 00:25:56,420 --> 00:25:57,420 thing. 299 00:25:57,420 --> 00:26:00,700 But then one of the guys on our football thing said, I got two tickets to the Dodger game. 300 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:01,700 Anybody want them with parking? 301 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:04,400 And then we know he's got tickets behind home plate. 302 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,640 And then I'm thinking, I'm like, nah, I'm in my pajamas. 303 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,800 I'm like, I'm staying in my pajamas all day. 304 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,440 I need, got billing to do. 305 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,440 Just one of those Sundays. 306 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,440 I didn't have to do anything. 307 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,380 Just going to do paperwork and probably watch the game. 308 00:26:14,380 --> 00:26:16,140 And then Genevieve said, I'll take them. 309 00:26:16,140 --> 00:26:17,140 And I'm like, lucky Genevieve. 310 00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:20,520 Another while later, she comes back like, does anybody want to go with me? 311 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,080 Because once you take the tickets, you got to go. 312 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,520 You can't say I'll take the two tickets in parking and not go to the game, right? 313 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,120 So not if you're working a good program. 314 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:31,760 And then she's like, will anybody go? 315 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,420 And then I felt bad for her because I know, you know, I did and then I, so I said, I text, 316 00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:40,420 I go, call me in an hour, text me in an hour because I'm figuring if I get some paperwork 317 00:26:40,420 --> 00:26:45,540 done, like I got to drive all the way from West Hills to Santa Monica, pick her up, go 318 00:26:45,540 --> 00:26:50,320 all the way to Dodger Stadium, take her back to Santa Monica and then go back to West Hills. 319 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,440 I'm like, you know, no, but I felt bad for her and I'm a, I'm a sucker for real. 320 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,040 But anyway, she called me and she goes, please, you know, I thought she just wanted me to 321 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,240 go on a date to the game. 322 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,080 She was begging me for a date, but no, I'm kidding. 323 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,000 She was just like, she took the tickets and she called all her friends and I'm like, all 324 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 right, I'll go with you. 325 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 And then I thought about it. 326 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 I go, you know what? 327 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 I'll make it a practice date. 328 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,000 All joking aside. 329 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000 That's what I thought. 330 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,880 I went with her because I knew she had the tickets and I could do it. 331 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:19,880 And you know, that's what we do. 332 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,760 I go, you know, so I picked her up and I opened the door for her. 333 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,760 She went and got food. 334 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,920 I didn't even know you could take food in Dodger Stadium. 335 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,360 She got me a big clear plastic container full of meat and potatoes and veggies and I was, 336 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,140 and then we went to the game and then the whole time, you know, like this is fun. 337 00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:40,980 And then I took her home and, and, and I went home and a couple of days later I was thinking 338 00:27:40,980 --> 00:27:45,940 about it and she, she's got, you know, at the time she had like 20 years and I had, 339 00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:48,280 you know, like seven years or something. 340 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,280 But then I just text her. 341 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:49,780 I go. 342 00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:50,780 I was, I had a lot of fun. 343 00:27:50,780 --> 00:27:54,780 Let me know if you ever want to hang out, you know, I said that in a way where she could 344 00:27:54,780 --> 00:27:59,020 reject me without rejecting, she could say, I would love to, but I'm so busy. 345 00:27:59,020 --> 00:28:00,020 Oh yeah. 346 00:28:00,020 --> 00:28:01,020 I totally get it. 347 00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:02,720 Or she could say yes. 348 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,860 So as I thought she was going to say one or the other, she's like, what do you mean by 349 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:06,860 hang out? 350 00:28:06,860 --> 00:28:07,860 So then, yeah. 351 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:08,860 So I didn't know what to say. 352 00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:09,860 You know, cause I'm awkward. 353 00:28:09,860 --> 00:28:14,100 I've been, you know, I've been in with, you know, you know, I'm just awkward. 354 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:15,660 I'm not dating scene guy. 355 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,580 I'm, I'm a, you know. 356 00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:18,780 One thing about all my character defects. 357 00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:26,080 I've always been faithful and loyal to, in a relationship, probably one of the only qualities 358 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,080 I ever had. 359 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,260 Then I turned into a pretty good father and business owner, but I learned all that from 360 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:35,600 people in the group, you know, all the guys that had contractors licenses, all the guys 361 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,580 that had kids, all the, you know, and I, you know, you know, I just started doing what 362 00:28:40,580 --> 00:28:43,580 they were doing and I got what they got. 363 00:28:43,580 --> 00:28:47,780 And anyway, so me and Genevieve started dating and it's been over two years now. 364 00:28:47,780 --> 00:28:48,780 And. 365 00:28:48,780 --> 00:28:53,400 And then one day we were in Thanksgiving and meet of your Arizona bought, saw this little 366 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,400 house for sale. 367 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,880 And I said, I wanted to, I looked at something years before and it was really Arizona prices. 368 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:04,400 It was kind of off the grid, you know, and I ended up getting it like, you know, so that 369 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,680 we go to Arizona a lot. 370 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,060 And then I've been renting this house for nine years and my landlord died. 371 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:13,980 She was in a assisted living and they used the money and then she wasn't even had her 372 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:18,480 funeral and, and the kids were looking through the house and I said, Hey, you know, before 373 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,380 you sold the house, we think we can maybe talk and maybe we could work something out. 374 00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:24,480 And by then I had already made some phone calls. 375 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:29,020 My sponsor ran mortgage division of bank of America with like a hundred people working 376 00:29:29,020 --> 00:29:30,020 for him. 377 00:29:30,020 --> 00:29:31,640 So he knew people he's retired. 378 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,160 So anyways, you know, you know, I, last month I closed on the house. 379 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,160 I bought the house. 380 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,780 They never even listed it and it's just crazy. 381 00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:42,600 I can't even believe, you know, we have a really good relationship. 382 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,100 We got in a little fight today. 383 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:46,360 Okay. 384 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,360 Yes, we did. 385 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,640 No, not a fight, but we had a little disagreement, but there was no, yeah, little, I think elevated. 386 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,640 But you know what? 387 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,140 We sat down and, and, and we talked it through and we, at the end of the day, we said, well, 388 00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:02,980 we just built some more muscle, you know, we worked out and we built a little muscle 389 00:30:02,980 --> 00:30:07,100 and on the way in driving here, I'm like, aren't you glad we talked that through today? 390 00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:08,100 And she's like, yeah. 391 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,360 And it's like, that's just like this mature behavior that I'm not perfect at it, but I'm 392 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,960 willing to go the extra effort and think how I can be a better person and be better 393 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,180 in the relationship and not just about me and be of service to other people. 394 00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:22,760 And I had my 10 year party. 395 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:23,760 We had the party. 396 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,020 I had a 10 year party in my buddy's backyard. 397 00:30:26,020 --> 00:30:27,780 There was like 150 people there. 398 00:30:27,780 --> 00:30:33,760 He got a big burger smash, burger truck, and they had a pizza oven, they had a coffee maker 399 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,240 and they brought this other lady had a 55 year party. 400 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,860 But when I looked around the meeting, most of the people were there for me and I'm not 401 00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:41,860 saying that because. 402 00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:45,580 Because I've known these people forever and she's got 55 years, but she left the group 403 00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:46,580 for like 40 years. 404 00:30:46,580 --> 00:30:51,560 But anyway, they were there for us, but there was a lot of people I knew that they weren't 405 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,500 there because their sponsor told them to be there, you know, and, and my kids showed up, 406 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:00,420 you know, and they were there and yeah, and I couldn't hold it together. 407 00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:01,420 I'm doing it now though. 408 00:31:01,420 --> 00:31:03,620 You know, I can, I'm not jerking no tears out. 409 00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:06,020 So I gotta get control of that, man. 410 00:31:06,020 --> 00:31:07,020 You guys think I'm soft. 411 00:31:07,020 --> 00:31:08,020 I'm a convict. 412 00:31:08,020 --> 00:31:09,020 Show me some respect. 413 00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:10,020 I have a good life today. 414 00:31:10,020 --> 00:31:11,020 I really do. 415 00:31:11,020 --> 00:31:11,820 I'm a convict. 416 00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:14,760 I owe it all to AA, you know, I do, man. 417 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:21,110 And I know it and I'm willing to work hard, you know, I'm willing to ask people for help 418 00:31:21,110 --> 00:31:27,990 and I'm willing to fight through difficult things without, you know, going off. 419 00:31:27,990 --> 00:31:31,470 So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 420 00:31:31,470 --> 00:31:32,850 All right. 421 00:31:32,850 --> 00:31:33,850 Thank you. 422 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:34,850 Thanks for having me. 423 00:31:34,850 --> 00:31:35,850 Great, great group of people here. 424 00:31:35,850 --> 00:31:36,850 It's a good meeting. 425 00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:37,850 Thank you. 426 00:31:37,850 --> 00:31:38,850 Thank you. 427 00:31:38,850 --> 00:31:39,850 Thank you. 428 00:31:39,850 --> 00:31:40,850 Thank you. 429 00:31:40,850 --> 00:31:41,850 Thank you. 430 00:31:41,850 --> 00:31:42,850 Thank you.