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🗓️ 22 December 2022

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Burns B tells his story at the 1994 Huntsville Round-Up. Burns was a very popular circuit speaker all through the 90's. Christmas Alcathons List: https://sobercast.com/online-meetings/alkathons-xmas Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: Three Rivers Bigbook Weekend IV: September 22nd-24th 2023. Location: Richland WA. Eastern Washington's Woodstock of AA at the Riverfront Hotel & Convention Center. This 3 day event will be focusing on the 12 Steps. Details: https://www.threeriversbigbookweekend.org If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ 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 and podcast
0:11.8	format.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.8	Have a great day.
0:28.8	My name is Burns and I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.8	I appreciate y'all asking me to come and let me clear up something before I start.
0:37.7	I'm a little nervous today and I travel and do a lot of speaking.
0:42.5	I've cut back on it in the last five or six years for a lot of reasons but I almost never
0:48.1	get nervous but I'm a little nervous today and I was asking myself as I was sitting there
0:52.7	listening to y'all talk while I was a little bit nervous and I realized this is the first
0:57.2	time that I've ever spoken before a group that speaks a different language for me.
1:05.2	And so what I've done is I was going to ask Kevin to interpret for me but I've listened
1:11.8	him talk here.
1:12.8	I don't think that'll work.
1:15.4	So I'm going to ask Bud to interpret for me because he still speaks my language.
1:19.9	It's bad enough to be from the United States but I'm from Kentucky and that makes a huge
1:24.5	difference even if you're in the United States if you're from Kentucky and the only
1:28.4	way I know that I'm close to home is when we say the Lord's Prayer at the end we finish
1:33.0	it the same time and many places that's not true.
1:37.5	You've asked me to come and share with you my experience, strength and hope and what
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