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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hey everybody my name is leslie

can you see me i worried myself sick that you would be able to see me over this big podium.

I want to thank Mary C. and Russ B. for asking me, it took a little bit of doing.

They actually, if I'm not mistaken, asked last year and something came up and they

hounded me relentlessly no no I have been blessed with a very big life because of

the things that I learned in these rooms and in other rooms. I'm a double whiner,

as that, no, winner, winner, double winner. And I'd also like to address, you know, we, for our,

no one really stood up as new, but I'm sure there are people who are either not standing up or are

newer and we have creed where we do we we keep Alan on as the focus so we

don't talk about our other programs we don't talk about our job our our religion, this and that.

But I remember when I was a kid, my mother would say to me,

you know, honey, just because it pops into here,

it doesn't have to come out of here.

And so sometimes I may accidentally,

and it's not that I don't have respect, there's reasons for those,

but anyway, because of the years that I've spent, I have 10 years in the program of Al-Anon.

And I have been given this really big life, you know. I want a prize in my profession. I'm an actor and I won an Emmy, okay? No, anyway. But it has to do with me standing here. I thought at that point,

that was in 2006 that I was set career-wise, and it just went in the shitter. I mean, I don't know what happened. But because of that, I had to reinvent what I did and I hit the road you know

I wrote a one-person show which is basically it was called my trip down the pink carpet

and it was basically my Al-Anon journey and I have now

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