ESH: Angie P speaking in Akron for Founders Day in 2008

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Angie P speaking in Akron for Founders Day in 2008. She is one of my favorite speakers, very funny and a powerful message. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] 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 2900+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody my name is angi p and i'm an alcoholic
0:29.9	and let me tell you something if you are happy about your sobriety let me hear you make some noise up in here.
0:43.3	That's what I'm talking about.
0:49.3	Like Dane said, if you're not finished with your nap, you finish with it now.
1:01.0	Man, I'm so grateful to be here. What an honor it is to be able to be up here. And you'll hear from my story how, man, this is amazing.
1:05.0	This is amazing for somebody like me to be able to be in Akron at Founders Day carrying the message of
1:12.3	alcoholics and idols.
1:14.1	I'll be forever grateful for all of you guys.
1:24.4	I want to thank the committee for having me here and I really want to thank the people from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky who came here to support me, man.
1:32.3	I love you, man. I'm so glad you guys are here.
1:35.3	I got to thank my friend Jack C. If you guys, I'm sure some of y'all have heard, and this man is just off the chain and I love him to death.
1:42.3	My friend's from Chicago. Boy, I'm so glad to see y'all. I don't know what to do. Man, this is it right here. I don't know about y'all, but it don't get no better than this right here. If I die tomorrow, I'm cool with that. I'm cool with it. Now, I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself. I'm going to qualify here. I'm from
2:02.1	Greenville, South Carolina. And back home, we lived in a little white house on the red clay road.
2:08.8	We got our water out of wells. We took baths and steel tubs. We drank buttermilk and ate cornbread
2:15.2	on a regular basis. And that was delight. Life was simple.
2:20.3	We picked blackberries for fun.
2:22.3	I didn't even wear shoes until I got to Cincinnati.
2:25.3	That's how country we were.
2:27.3	And, you know, I had flaming red hair and freckles, and nobody else in my family did.
2:32.3	Imagine that. And my brother one day out at the
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