Dr Bob co-founder of AA speaking about his first 14 years.

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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I was thinking of adding a forum or discord so folks can discuss the speaks or whatever sober related. It would be private, I want to know if you would be into that? I put a one question survey up to get your opinion and I would be very grateful. https://scast.us/discuss Dr Bob the other founder of AA is our speaker today. He is telling his story about his first 14 years in AA, this was recorded in 1949. The end if this speak (about 6 min) is a bit of Dr Bobs last talk in 1950. There are no where near as many recordings of Dr Bob as there are of Bill W and the ones that are around are generally fairly bad, this one had a nasty hum, but it cleaned up really well and is one of the best I have heard of Dr Bob. Repost from 2018. I just added ISCYPAA 41 Young Peoples on the event list, its taking place in Illinois at the end of March https://scast.us/iscypaa41 The Southern States Women's Conference is coming up in Florida at the end of this month and space is still available. https://scast.us/sswc I also just added the South Carolina State Convention to the event list, coming up in March. https://scast.us/regscstate Also 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 2400+ 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 Soebokast where we provide a speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format. We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.1	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day. I had a article written about the inception of A.A.
0:35.0	There are probably some who haven't.
0:39.0	And from that brief story, there are some things she loved.
0:45.0	So, even that risk of repetition, I would like to relate,
0:52.0	just exactly what did happen in those very early days.
1:01.0	And I feel there is a lesson to be learned and one that we must never forget if we wish to maintain
1:11.6	paid up insurance policies against drinking.
1:15.0	You recall a story about Phil having been having had some spiritual experience, having been sold on the idea of attempting to be helpful to others.
1:36.0	You will undoubtedly recall the fact that he had been working quite hard at it for
1:40.8	around five months or so almost in patent it, and Phil had not created, if you
1:50.3	please, a single converse.
1:59.0	Not one, as we expect that no one has gill.
2:10.0	But he had worked tirelessly, there was no thought of saving his own strength or time or anything. But nothing seemed to register.
2:15.0	When he came off to act on this
2:25.0	turned out to be quite a plot,
2:30.0	although he hadn't seen neglect but didn't know it.
2:38.0	He was tempted to drink and he was pacing up and down the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel.
2:47.0	Wondering whether he better buy those two fists of gin
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