Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Kate. Hi, Jess. How are you today? I'm good. I'm caffeinated. I'm well fed. Yes,

Hambone our producer fed us. Thank you. Yes. All right. So what are we discussing today?

I think it's time we talk about AA. Yeah. I think we definitely should talk about AA because it's the big one.

You've been to meetings. I've been to meetings. I think we should talk about our thoughts and feelings on the meetings. But before we get into all that, when I was doing a little bit of research on AA for this,

like the history of it and stuff, I was kind of shocked to find out it came to be in

1939.

Yeah, it like hasn't really been updated much since then either.

It's 80 years old.

It's really old.

It's older than the lava lamp.

There wasn't color TV.

Can you imagine that?

But I kind of think that that's what's amazing about it also,

is that it's this 80-year-old, like, grandpa that's still looking out for people.

Yeah. And it's obviously a system that works for many people because since it hasn't changed

that much, obviously there is something that's working for people. Maybe not for me.

Right. I don't hate AA, obviously. I'll go sometimes with friends, just, you know, if I've got time to kill or what have you.

But all in all, it's not my choice of recovery, but it's great from so many people.

And I know a handful of people that have found great success in it.

How about you, though?

I would say I went to AA in the beginning of my sobriety because I felt like that's just what you do.

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