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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Buck D - Sober 31 Years

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Buck D from Arlington Virginia was sober for 31 years at the time of this speak in Salem Oregon sometime in 1985 at an unknown event. For you history buffs he was a pilot with the Flying Tigers. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3000+ 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 good morning ladies and gentlemen

0:29.1

my name is buck and i'm an alcoholic how you all whenever i have the privilege speaking by the way

0:37.4

congratulations for what a great sober fest this 85 has been. I've had a great time, and it's a great privilege to be asked to talk at any time in AA, but particularly at a big festive occasion. I love it. And what I do when I talk is I do two things. I use as an outline

0:58.9

out preamble to the best of my ability so that I will remember that my primary purpose of

1:06.1

being up here is to keep buck-a-sober. And then, having achieved that,

1:12.5

to help the new person to find this program.

1:17.9

And a new person in my book is that person,

1:21.6

as we sort of stood up in treatment centers,

1:25.1

the first day, first week, first month, first year.

1:30.6

There have been some people that have been around AA longer than I have been in AA.

1:37.1

There's a little different.

1:39.0

So they're all new.

1:40.6

And get this spiritual program started.

1:43.8

That's the furthest out west I've ever been invited,

1:46.5

so maybe my favorite AA story will be all right.

1:53.0

However, Johnny Carson did get a hold of it one time

1:56.0

and published a national, ruined it.

2:00.1

But it goes like this

2:02.0

there was a

2:02.8

fellow that was talking

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