Brandon Novak
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first heard Nov 2024
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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Ep 530 - Novak's House (feat. Brandon Novak) · 22 Nov 2024
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But I think it is, like, a serious, like, sign of mental strength to, like, And people do, like, Sober October, which that must be kind of funny. Like, the whole world's like, we're going to be sober for one month. You're like, all right. But I've seen me do that. So, like, fuck yeah. I'm all about it. True, true. But it's got to be funny. You have, like, 10 years.
Like, oh, I'm glad you're having fun. For sure. There is something, I think, that is, like, especially the older you get, it's like, it does take mental strength to, like, sit with yourself, you know, not being able to kind of leave your consciousness, like, a little bit by, you know, doing, like, oh, I want to get a little high. I want to do this, blah, blah, blah. Totally.
And I think it's like it's a genuine virtue that I think gets skipped over. People are kind of like, yeah, dude, fuck off. I'm going to have a couple of beers. Fuck that. People kind of dismiss it a lot, especially when you're drinking. But I always thought it was like a – it's hard to do. It's like it's very hard to do.
And it takes like – you know, when you can't kind of jump out of yourself for a little bit, it forces you to work through, you know, the kind of, you know, whatever, broken gears in your head.
Right.
Sure. Yeah.
No, it's pretty sick, man. Yeah. I'm happy for you, man. That's awesome.
Yeah, and I always, like you were saying, the service thing's big because especially when you're like, you know, if you're in a, even with the route drugs, if you're just like living a negative existence, you're usually convinced like in order to conquer my own negative existence, I have to achieve at some level that just somehow like shuts all this down and people will realize and they'll like me.
Whereas like in recovery, it's like, or you can just like help people. Yeah. And it gets the same thing. If you're like lonely, it's like, well, rather than trying to be the man, just go volunteer. Yeah. And you'll get that. Like, it's like a quick route into kind of like a social, a nice social existence. And everyone is just like, no, I have to conquer the world. Yeah. It's too easy.
It's too simple. It's really funny. I always thought it was kind of funny.
I'm sure that's got to be like, it's really rewarding too. Like you were saying, having the groups and seeing like even a couple people
kind of take off because i guess if you really look at the recovery homes it's like if this doesn't work for me this whole place is bullshit or it'd be like for sure you gotta someone's got to do some things what is it is there is like the opiate with overdoses going down are they still going up or like i'm not a big stats guy i don't look at numbers i just kind of fucking remain ignorant to it and live in my own world yeah well you don't hear about it as much anymore it like dominated everything for a while after covid alcohol became a big thing
Wow. Come back.
Yeah. You know, I've heard that I've, I've known people who have like off the heroin meth comes into the picture and they're like, damn, I'm actually super productive.
You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
Do you think they should legalize drugs? Do you think that'd be easier to help people or do you think it would make things worse?
Yeah, I don't think it would. I think they did this in London or Britain, whatever.
Exactly. You're under like—you're in like a doctor's bench. Yeah.
For sure, for sure. So there's two sides to every fucking coin. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, then, you know, with that, you're going to have people, like, pop a door handle and all that shit. It's like, yeah, because you're, like, not here. Straight up.
That makes sense.
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