ESH: Bob D from Las Vegas

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Bob D (sober in 1978) is from Las Vegas Nevada and is one of the more popular circuit speakers, he spends a good portion of every year leading workshops all over the US. Today he is not leading a workshop but telling his story at the 39th Annual Las Vegas Roundup held in Las Vegas Nevada in 2005. If you are free on 4/06 there is a 12 Step Workshop & Speaker happening in person and on zoom (Visalia California). Details: https://scast.us/event 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/event (link fixed) Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:24.6	My name is Bob, I am alcoholic, I'm sober only through the grace of a God that I was
0:34.7	afraid to believe in and have access to maintain my life through a process outlined in a book
0:40.7	entitled Alcoholics Anonymous, the ability to remain sponsorable and a persistent and
0:47.2	consistent effort in our primary purpose of trying to forget ourselves and help others
0:52.6	and consequently having had a drink or any mind or emotion altering medication since
0:58.0	October 31st, 1978.
1:06.8	Sometimes when they say that I'm startled, I mean it's like, I want to thank Mark where
1:16.3	everyone, oh there he is, for picking me up at the airport and hosting me and I got a
1:24.1	couple of members of my home group here, Hunter and Tiffany from here from my home group
1:29.9	and they know everybody I know and so all the really good stories of how wonderful I am
1:37.9	in Las Vegas have been destroyed now that they're here and I want to welcome the newcomers
1:44.3	especially Mike, Mike, less than 24 hours, man, wow.
1:56.4	So if you never drink again the rest of your life, Mike, because of me, basically make
2:03.0	a little mental note of that, you can just tie that every year to me on your birthday
2:08.9	or something, you know, I want to welcome anybody else, it's new, I'm glad you're here.
2:14.6	I can't wait to hear what I'm going to say because I just was on like a 30 hour flight
2:21.8	right to cross the world 12 times zones and so I'm not, I'm a little goofy, my friends
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