Bill W and Lois W - Bills First Recorded Speak and One of Lois Last

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This is credited as Bill W's First Recorded AA Talk in Little Rock Arkansas in 1947, the quality of the recording is pretty remarkable. I have no idea the location or event but from its tone it does not sound like an AA meeting, but Bill speaking about AA at a gathering. Lois W is next speaking at an Atlanta Roundup Al-Anon Luncheon held in July of 1982. Lois was 91 years old at the time of this speak, she died in 1988 at 97 years old. Lois talks about Bills drinking, his inability to get sober and her hope he would. It is also great quality recording, there is a bit of pomp at the beginning and end. Email: [email protected] 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
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0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:28.2	There are two ways of looking at alcoholics and animals.
0:32.7	To our friends seated here among us, alcoholics and animals doubtless scenes, a huge and
0:39.3	spectacular success.
0:42.5	They may be thinking of us as a people who have one brilliant personal victory by fighting
0:48.1	great odds.
0:50.5	But every AA in this audience knows his friends give him too much credit that in actuality
0:58.0	his recovery did not happen that way at all.
1:02.2	Each and his heart knows that he became too weak to fight alone, that he had to confess
1:08.8	his life had to come on men and therefore unbearable.
1:14.2	He remembers how his power of will, who conquer alcohol, was frightened.
1:19.7	How he finally saw he could never win through under his own strength.
1:26.4	Nevertheless, he will tell you that this better admission, the hardest a human being can
1:32.8	make, was the beginning of his new life.
1:36.8	That new life of which this means is such a glowing and grateful testimony.
1:44.5	Hence no AA meeting can ever be a both a personal victory.
1:50.0	That is instead our humble demonstration of that saving great which all of us have found
1:58.7	in a simple reliance on his power greater than ourselves.
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