Chuck C - 36 Years Sober

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Chuck C was from from Laguna Beach California, he was 36 years sober at the time of this speak. Chuck was highly regarded as a speaker over the many years he was an active member of AA, he is also a pretty funny guy. This speak took place at an unknown meeting held in Houston Texas in June of 1982. It is an excellent quality recording. He one of my personal favorites. Chuck is also credited as the author of the book "A New Pair of Glasses" in reality it is a transcript of a speak he gave at a mens retreat in 1975. Sadly the recording is pretty awful, a couple of years ago I attempted to reach Chuck's son to see if he would be willing to grant the rights to have it re-recorded and I was hoping he would be willing to do the recording (if you know who he is you can understand why). Unfortunately as hard as I tried I was never able to reach him, so on the slim chance any of you have his contact info please reach out. If you want to give the book a read it is out of print but lots of copies are still floating around. It is not AA approved literature but its really excellent http://amzn.to/2FKdg9V The "A New Pair of Glasses" audio is also available on Sober Cast but it was posted quite a while ago, if you have any issues finding it please just let me know and Ill repost it. I just added the Crested Butte Montana Conference to the events list, this is a 5 day event and it sells out every year. Details: https://scast.us/cb If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 2500+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:28.7	Thank you.
0:29.5	Thank you.
0:30.5	Thank you. I don't think we lost anybody. I figured we lose half of them, you know.
0:37.0	The pretty part of the family has already hasn't been up here.
0:47.0	My name is Chuck Steele, I'm an alcoholic.
0:52.0	I'm a alcoholic. I'm a alcoholic. I'm glad to be here and I'm glad you're here. I'm in my 37th year without a drink or a pill of any kind
1:20.0	due to the fact that that that there's a program called Alcoholics Anonymous and hope for people like me.
1:40.0	It's been no chore for me to be around here for 36 and a half years.
1:50.0	This is the only easy life I have ever known.
1:57.0	The only good life that's ever been mine.
2:01.0	And I hope I have another 36 years.
2:05.0	And I think it will.
2:10.0	You don't think so, huh? He looks like he was mad at me.
2:23.0	He's not mad at me.
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