A play about the creation of the Big Book (December of 1981)

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This one is not an AA meeting, so if you need one please choose something else from our list. This is a play about the creation of the Big Book written by Homer D and performed on Unity Day in San Jose California in December of 1981 by an unknown group. Please keep in mind this is a dramatization about the creation of the Book and should be taken as such, its historical accuracy should not be taken as absolute fact. I particularly enjoyed the arguments about the wording of the steps presented in the second half. The audio quality of this is okay if a bit trying at times, it had a very nasty buzz that I was able to remove however it does occasionally sound a bit fuzzy or slightly hollow, the sound quality improves as it progresses. For those of you that might want to learn more about AA history I suggest a visit to the leading international webgroup for the study of Alcoholics Anonymous history and archives. AA History Lovers: https://groups.io/g/AAHistoryLovers Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1400+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Soebokast, where we provide a speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:22.1	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	My name is Grusa Ew and I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.1	And I'll be introducing Maud who's going to explain what is going to be happening up here.
0:37.0	Roughly we go back to March of 1938 when they're in the process of writing the 12 steps in the book Alcoholics Anonymous and
0:45.6	how a program of Recovery came about.
0:47.8	So without further ado, I'm going to turn it over the module and get out of the plate. Good evening.
0:55.0	I mean, good afternoon.
0:58.0	My name is Maude and I'm an alcoholic.
1:02.0	This afternoon we present a play in the 12 steps by Homer D and our purpose
1:09.3	in presenting this play is to reenact the occasion of the writing of the 12 steps of the program of Alcoholics
1:14.8	Anonymous.
1:15.8	A.A. was founded in June 1935 as a result of a call for help from Bill W. from the Mayflower Hotel in Akron, Ohio, culminating in his
1:26.0	meeting with Dr. Bob. Three years later, in the year 1938, definite action was taken for the writing and publication of what was to become known
1:36.0	as the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
1:39.4	By the month of March 1938, Bill W had begun to write the first two chapters of a book
1:46.6	to formulate the principles and philosophy of the infant organization.
1:51.8	At this time, the New York Group was meeting in the home of Bill W at
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