Bill W telling a very personal version of his journey to sobriety

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bill W tells some of his story in this speak at the Oklahoma State Conference in Oklahoma City in May of 1951. Many of the speaks from Bill have to do with the creation of AA and its future, this one is much more personnel. Bill gets into his encounter with Ebby and the specifics of the conversation they had that started Bills journey to sobriety and creating AA. This ends abruptly as Bill is telling the story about how it was suggested he should contact John Rockefeller. This audio cleaned up really well, it is one of the best quality recordings of Bill I have heard. 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 1900+ 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 in
0:11.3	podcast format.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.9	Have a great day.
0:27.5	In this fine hour, I know that we are all possessed with a great emotion, and that is
0:37.2	gratitude for the whole sale marathon.
0:43.0	That has to fall on the children of the night, we of the scholarship of our public tonight.
0:53.1	And some kind of thought in these happy days, you're saying, has been how bad can we serve
1:04.9	the ends of this desire?
1:10.4	In gratitude, we pray God whose grace has made this thing possible.
1:19.4	And immediately, we think of the great numbers of people and circumstances who have formed
1:31.7	this scholarship, who have composed this happy conspiracy.
1:39.4	We think of our friends of men, we think of our friends of religion, or as you might
1:48.4	know, as something like a farming tree like it most do, supported in one side by what
2:02.0	we have learned from men, on another corner by what we have grown from religion.
2:09.8	And the other leg, of course, is our own experience of drinking in the cup, a synthetic
2:19.7	truncule that is made all its finest.
2:23.4	So to all of our friends of medicine, religion, or present, we gratefully acknowledge our debt.
2:34.8	And for a chance, there are some of the men and women of the past here who have been
2:41.0	carried over the past years of our message to the world of world, and never a syllable
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