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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Cactus Jack got sober in 1956 (Native American)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Native American Cactus Jack of Omack WA got sober in 1956 he is speaking at this unknown event at 20 years sober. Great sound quality for as old as this recording is. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? 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 2700+ 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 and podcast

0:11.8

format.

0:12.8

We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.0

silvercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.

0:22.3

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.3

Thank you very much so and my name is Jack and I'm an alcoholic.

0:33.2

Also affectionately or sometimes not so affectionately known around Omaque is cactus jack from Omaque

0:39.3

and whoo, about this time of the night I feel about as green around the gills as I did earlier

0:47.5

this summer when I took my first deep sea fishing trip out of Westport.

0:55.0

I'm like I never have been sick, I haven't puked that much since I quit drinking and that

1:00.7

day I was sick and it's sort of like the little wineo that walked into the bar one day

1:08.2

and he was just brutally shaken and he ordered a double in the bartender look at him.

1:13.9

He says geez mister do you drink much and he said nope, nope, spail most of it.

1:19.4

I feel a little better.

1:25.2

Thank you so much so and for your kind hospitality this evening and Wally and Randy and Jim and

1:33.6

Bonnie and Bernice and Richard and the other folks that I've forgotten and of course what

1:41.4

an outstanding pleasure again to meet Dr. David A who'll be the speaker tomorrow evening

1:47.6

here.

1:49.4

He doesn't of course remember it but I do.

1:52.5

The first time I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. David A was I had 30 days to bridey and

1:59.3

it was a little over 20 years ago and he was the main speaker at a roundup in Stockton,

2:03.5

California and I don't want to say that it's all entirely due to your efforts David but

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