Bill W telling his story and how it led to the creation of AA

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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AA founder Bill W speaking at an unknown event in Des Moines Iowa in Nov of 1948. Many of the recordings of Bill are him speaking on a specific topic, this one is not, he simply tells his story and how it leads to the creation of AA. This is a great quality recording for 1948. Repost Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:21.7	basket.
0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.7	A wondrous spirit is rising in this place.
0:34.5	It is, of course, the spirit of gratitude, and that spirit could be, would thank God for
0:47.7	this wholesale miracle of regeneration that has been falling out without the Holy
0:54.7	Sinai.
0:57.7	And then the spirit of gratitude would look about and see seated here, our friend, friends
1:06.7	of science of medicine of religion, our friends of the press, and without this group of specialists,
1:17.7	AA could never have been what it is.
1:21.7	To them, our gratitude goes up.
1:28.7	Someone once said, fittingly, enough that alcoholic synonymous is like a farmer's three-legged
1:35.7	milk stew.
1:38.7	And we might suppose one leg to be medicine, another religion, and the third our own experience,
1:47.7	and drinking, and in recovery.
1:52.7	And where we would take out one of those pegs, it would fall down immediately.
2:00.7	So our debt of gratitude to the friends who have seen us along is beyond worth.
2:12.7	Someone nearly everyone in this audience who has suffered alcoholism, there is some particular
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