Charlie B: the 6th member of AA (48 years)

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Charlie B the 6th member of AA speaking on his 92nd birthday in NY in 1982, he was sober 48 years at the time of the speak, he got sober in 1935. Unfortunately this ends abruptly in the middle of a thought he is expressing. Repost from 2017. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ 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 podcast
0:12.0	format.
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0:22.6	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, had a great day.
0:28.9	I'm sorry I can't see you.
0:32.2	I had a stroke at 79.
0:35.2	I've heard the price of losing my sight.
0:40.7	These are dark glasses, I'm sure.
0:47.7	And the reason I removed them, I want to show some of the widows how handsome I am.
0:56.3	I'm very grateful to people who thought of bringing me here and also grateful for the
1:20.8	ones that dropped me here today Bill and he had an honor guard with him, two women to
1:32.7	guard me.
1:34.5	Anyway, I'm very grateful for that and my name is Charlie B. Last name I'm not supposed
1:48.9	to say but I will, I'm not ashamed of it anymore, nor afraid of anonymity.
1:56.2	My full name is, yeah, it's a hell of a language name to hang on an Irishman.
2:08.9	By the grace of God I am, sober alcoholic, for many life years ago, you would have to
2:22.1	know my dear friend and please bear with me, I'm going to accept that I was sober 48 years
2:37.1	which is true and they didn't think I was old enough.
2:42.5	Well, it depends how they look at it, but last September 25th I chalked up to my life
2:52.9	band, today I am 92.
3:07.8	Now don't worry widows, I'm self-supporting.
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