Trudge Report

Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. This week we tackle the important stuff right out of the gate; Corey turning 30 and Dan and Shawn's skating rink days.  The recovery topic this week continues to surround the idea of being powerless over drugs and alcohol, stopping on our own power, and what the needed Power really is that gets us sober. Am I an alcoholic or an addict...

Hello good people and welcome back to another week's episode of Trudge Report. At the top of the show we discuss everything from snow in the midwest, fantasy football heartbreak, weird allergies, and viral plane crashes.  We then dive into the recovery topic, surrounding complete powerlessness over our addictions, and how none of us could stop on our own power or by the numerous methods we ha...

Welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. We kick off the show with a Halloween recap and a big shout out to game 7 of the world series. Then we bring you a harrowing, but hilarious, recap of some of the wild, grimy, and dishonest ways we were living in the months and years leading up to us getting sober. From embezzlement to homelessness to botched kidnapping schemes, we share our experie...

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. We welcome our good friend and long time listener officially and indefinitely to the podcast, Danny P. We are pumped to have him as part of the Trudge Crew. We go around the horn with a few quick takes on a variety of things before heading into an Emmet Fox reading, titled “Stake Your Claim." This is easily one of his more f...

Join the show this week as we have a very special guest joining us as part of the TRP lineup. Long time friend and supporter of the Pod, Danny P, is in town and we are so happy he is here to join us. We start off by saying hi to Dan and welcoming him to the show. We go around the horn and recap our weekends. Dan is in town for a friend's wedding that most of us attended. We then go into a bre...

Join the Trudge Trio this week as we have a jam-packed episode. We begin in our usual fashion with our quick hitter around the horn segment. Next we move on to the societal norm of pumpkin patches and each of our families annual tradition. After that we have a very fun segment where each of us brought some kind of interesting topic or humorous but useful invention. From gingers to codpieces, to st...

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of Trudge Report. After we go around the horn we dive right into another prayer. This week it is the Prayer of St Francis, also referred to as “A Prayer for Peace.” Like last week's dive into the Serenity Prayer, this prayer has been a major part of all of our lives since our early recovery. It is a prayer that has layers and deeper meani...

Join us this week for a deeper look into a classic prayer, the Serenity Prayer. This is a prayer that people recovering from alcoholism and addiction have been using for many years and it is the unofficial prayer of most recovery programs. What many people in the rooms of recovery know is the short form of this prayer but the boys at TRP take a deeper look into the original version of the prayer. ...

Join the boys this week for another episode of Trudge Report. We talk a little football and a few remaining thoughts on the Charlie Kirk assassination and his memorial that was held the night before. We then dive into another set of questions surrounding our spiritual lives and how we put these into daily practice. We talk about the role of free will and how we can turn tragic and heartbreaking ex...

This week on Trudge Report we delve into the Charlie Kirk assassination, the surrounding events, potential theories, and the impact that it has on our society. This is not a light topic and we treat it as such. The finality of death and the loss of human life is something that we at TRP feel strongly about and want to get our message and our thoughts out to our listeners. It is not a political epi...

Welcome back to another weekly episode as the Trudge Trio gives a quick around the horn with a few more comments on the Chris McKinnell episodes and the new Conjuring film that just came out. We also have a few takes on the weekend's wild NFL week 1 matchups and results. This week, Corey, Greg, and Shawn, focus heavily on recovery and we talk a lot about God, the afterlife, reincarnation, wha...

Hello friends and welcome back to another very special episode of Trudge Report. This is part 2 of the Chris McKinnell interview. Grandson of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who has been a paranormal investigator for over 40 years himself. In part 2 Chris discusses everything from the Annabelle doll on tour, the sale of the Warren Home, the day his grandmother died, his own...

The Trudge Report takes a chilling turn as Shawn, Bill, Corey, and Greg welcome a very special guest, Chris McKinnell—grandson of legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. In this episode, the guys dive deep into real-life hauntings, the truth behind The Conjuring films, and Chris’s work with the Warren Legacy Foundation. From eerie stories of hospice experiences to the infamous S...

Hello friends and welcome to another episode of Trudge Report. We kick things off with a quick around the horn segment. Corey is alive, Greg saw Beetlejuice on Broadway and Shawn III is here.  We apologize to our listeners because we planned on having a recovery segment on the back half of the show but the boys got passionate and in-depth about NFL preview, rule changes, quarterback controversy, a...

The guys cover everything from kids’ football bruises and horror movie reviews to the left-lane offenders that make your blood boil. Corey relives his nightmare blood draw saga, Port St. Lucie gets roasted, and everyone weighs in on first-day-of-school chaos and whether kids should hand over their phones. Then it’s a deep dive into recovery — the heartache of watching friends relapse, why some nev...

Welcome to this week's episode of Trudge Report. We have a quick around the horn segment where we all check in and tell how our weekends were. Greg and Corey spend some time discussing the epic SummerSlam 2025 from WWE. Bill has some hot seat on the spot questions for Shawn. We touch on the Happy Gilmore 2 movie, mislabeled energy drinks, and more.  The main segment surrounds the spiritual an...

This week on Trudge Report, the crew (minus Shawn) dives into a wild ride of memories, hot takes, and cultural farewells. We pay tribute to two larger-than-life icons: Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan. From heavy metal mayhem to the golden age of wrestling, we reflect on their pop culture impact, personal stories and whether Ozzy or the Hulkster juiced harder, boosters included. But it doesn’t stop th...

Welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. After a brief around the horn segment we take a moment to remember how cunning, baffling, and powerful the disease of addiction is. Reminding ourselves that we must always stay vigilant and that while we have fun on this podcast talking about recovery, our brothers and sisters are out there sick and suffering. It puts into perspective and makes the...

Join us this week on another great episode of Trudge Report. The boys have a full recap of our friend's wedding that three out of four us attended in Pennsylvania over the weekend. There were some wild stories and antics that get discussed. Corey, still upset he didn't attend the wedding, dives into his concert going experience that took place this weekend and a new and first time experi...

The Crew is back in full swing with all four of us on the pod. Tonight we welcome Bill back from gallivanting around Italy with family. He shares some of the sights, food, and experiences from his trip. Janine pops on and shares one of her most embarrassing but hilarious personal stories from her honeymoon in Florence, Italy.  The main portion of the episode deals in part 2 of the Karen Read case,...

Join us this week on a very special episode of Trudge Report. We dive into the complex and intriguing case of Boston police officer John O'Keefe's January 2022 death, exploring the investigation, strange details, and the highly publicized trial of his girlfriend, Karen Read. From the night of the incident, all the strange details, to the courtroom drama, we'll examine the evidence,...

Join the Trudge Report duo this week as Shawn and Greg bring you a wonderful guest speaker to the show. TRP welcomes Timmy Mac. Timmy has been a long time friend of all of us since each of us got sober, spanning over 15 years. Timmy brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, faith, and good vibes as the three of us discuss a variety of topics surrounding life and recovery. From topics such as being...

Join the boys this week for another episode of Trudge Report. We go quickly around the horn and talk about our Father's Day and what each of us did. We jump right into the main event topic and have a lively discussion about “triggers" in recovery. Are they real? Are they fake? Are they a made up notion by the treatment industry or do they have any validity in our lives as people in recov...

On this week's episode we pay homage to all of the fathers in recovery and outside of recovery. To the stepfather's, soon to be stepfather's, father figures, and our own fathers. It is our annual Father's Day episode. Each of us go around the horn and talk about the plans we may have for this year's Father's day as well as what the ideal Father's Day looks like t...

Take a trip back in time this week with the boys of Trudge Report. We go back to March of 2020 when the covid pandemic hit. Each of us talk about what we were doing in our lives, our families, where we were living, and working etc. We discuss the impact that covid had on our families, ourselves, as well as the recovery community around us. How the presence of online recovery group meetings was bot...