Trudge Report

Hello everyone, we welcome you back to another episode of Trudge Report. In this week's episode we tackle a little bit of football talk as playoff season is upon us. We go around the horn and Greg gives a little constructive feedback to the toy manufacturer, Mattel. We also mention the touching but sometimes overlooked moments of being parents. We discuss a little more about financial fears a...

100th episode!!!! Hello everyone and welcome back to Trudge Report. The whole crew is back in action this week as we are all home and settled in post New Year. After a quick around the horn and recap of our holiday and New Year travels and escapades we do some brief sports talk before getting into the main material of the show. We pay homage to Shawn's long time mentor in recovery of over 14...

Welcome to this week's episode of Trudge Report. Greg and Corey are holding down the ship while Dan and Shawn have the night off. The dynamic duo discuss how their Christmas holiday went and Corey talks about his holiday travel nightmare but with a good friend helping out along the way and a not so bad ending after all. Greg shares a genuinely heartfelt moment from his soon-to-be stepson and...

Join the Trudge Trio this week as Corey is either missing in action and on the run from the FBI or traveling for the holidays. We go around the horn and discuss everyone's final Christmas preparation plans. Dan has a wild discovery in a rental vehicle.  The recovery portion of the show surrounds the understanding need for moral inventory and self-examination. The boys discuss the power of res...

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Trudge Report. To kick things off Danny goes on a quick rant about people from snowy and cold states that annually act like they've never seen snow once it arrives, especially on the roadway. Greg gets in on the rant as well. We then have a spirited but brief debate over professional wrestling and how real or fake it really is. Shawn manages to...

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Trudge Report. Join us this week as we recap our weekends and do a little favorite and least favorite Christmas movie around the horn. Greg has a new house guest and let us not forget that Corey almost became a national hero at a Christmas parade.  The recovery segment surrounds the idea of what can or cannot define our Higher Powers? We share some...

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. We kick off the show with a quick recap of how everyone's Thanksgiving was, along with some underrated and overrated takes on Thanksgiving food. The bulk of the episode surrounds the message we are sharing in recovery groups. Is it a message that should instill hope and courage in the newcomer or warning the newcomer about h...

Hello everyone and welcome back to a very special Thanksgiving episode of Trudge Report. This week we take a break from the normal routine and welcome Rebecca Morgan to the show. Rebecca was a former foster care youth, current and long time child welfare professional, and someone who has addiction that runs rampant in her family. We first dive into her role as a child welfare professional and how...

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...