Chuck C Speaking in Atlanta at 35 Years Sober

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Chuck C from Laguna Beach California speaking at Recovery Atlanta in December of 1980. Chuck was sober 35 years at the time of this speak and he was one of the more popular speakers around back then. This is a very good quality recording for as old as it is. He became sober in 1946 and by the time he passed away in 1984 at 39 years sober he had given hundreds of speaks all around the world. The book - A new Pair Of Glasses - was a transcript of his speak at a mens retreat. Email: [email protected] 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 1400+ 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 and podcast
0:11.8	format.
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0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.5	I don't usually rate such a flowery introduction, only the Irish can put on a show like that,
0:55.6	but I'm very very happy to be with you and unless I forget it, the most important thing
1:03.2	I'm going straight to you tonight is that I love you.
1:10.7	I came all the way down here to tell you I love you and I do and I love the program
1:19.2	about Harley Quinnonomous and I love it's people, better than anything in the world.
1:27.4	It's been my happy privilege now to live almost 35 years without the necessity to take
1:38.6	a drink or stay in your time for life until of any kind.
1:47.1	If I get through until the middle of January I'll get me a cake with 35 candles on.
2:05.5	We have an old boy at home that talks a little faster than I can listen and he says that
2:13.8	he might not impress you down a bit, but it impresses me a lot of me and it does.
2:22.6	For a tongue-tune babbling idiot that ain't bad.
2:32.6	I drank for about 28 years I guess.
2:47.8	I had what I called 15 years of good drinking and I thought it was 15 years of good drinking
2:56.9	until I'd been around a while and then I decided that it was 15 years of good drinking
3:05.0	when you compared it with the last 12.
3:16.4	In sitting here now I can't go over the whole period of my drinking time and find
3:26.7	one occasion in the whole 28 years when I could honestly say that alcohol had added to
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